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| ESTABLISHED 1850 .
{J. H. ESTILL, Editor and Proprietor \
GEORGIA ASP FLORIDA.
thk news of the two states
TOLI) IN PARAGRAPHS.
UitrDMVille Possessed of a Hideous
Monstrosity Half Hog and Half Human
lndictment Papers Stolen in Pike
County—Complaints of Unjust Tax
Assessments Again Cropping Out.
UEORGIA.
1. -. ph B. Bond is an applicant for the
Damn post office.
v i.i gro woman, aged 13s years, died at
Drum- 'tation last week.
Th.- llill City Cadets, of Rome, will elect a
f • aiii next Monday night.
i: .. Mr. QuUliaa, Carrolton's new
Maker, is a practical printer.
Work on the Altamaha river has lieen re
tuu:i lat Beard's Bluff above Doctortown.
T re i* a negro in Washington now who
;.,ak. - #2 50 a day as a landscape gardener.
This year 1.. M. Mitchell, of Wilkes county,
j, :. -id pounds of lint cotton on one acre.
TANARUS: •• engineers have been at work surveying
1 .- r.o r -tween Hanen and Doboy during
the past week.
Tiie Athens negro who sold a droveof cattle
, ... :bv Bo.th Bros, and lied, is being close
j.r, seed by detectives.
i . one postal note issued from the Wash
ingl“U offiee ha= ever been lost, so far as
1., ,r ! from. It was payable at Lexington.
In i- vim county only 133,741 acres of land
nr. returned as liable for taxes. This is said
: he hut ;t very small portion of the county
H n. Mark A. Hardin, the present Clerk of
WMtliim, lias employed
K-veral la iv >ierks under the resolution of
Ji • Martm V. Calvin.
The a : aimed term of l’olk Superior Court
n nv in pr> gross has been iletotedliocivil busi
: . The dockets have been relieved of a
n i inls-r of old cases that have burdened them
for some time.
A prominent teacher and a gentleman who
has studied the different systems of public
s n...,-I - tys that the city of Athens can es
t„ - thr.-e good public schools for the small
dint of #5.00J per annum.
T. M. Green, of Washington, is prepared
h r irj. irs, having purchased the large bank
1 had u moved into his counting room.
TANARUS! ■ ora ' was 1550. The safe originally cost
1.. -has a time lock on it that cost S4OO.
There will be two papers published in
1 .r; n next year. S. .V Carpenter will
continue the publication of the Sew South,
f u g punliaseil anew outfit. Messrs. Butler
A Grogan will publish anew paper with the
material now used by the Xeic South.
I tempted to set lire to Kev.
.1 tint- Bush’s gin house at Barneaville one
r .'lit la-: week. A burning brand was stuck
into a pile of seed cotton near the door about
dark, s me of the family discovered the eot
t. on lire, and it was extinguished without
serious loss.
In the case of Cant. George W. Haynes
against the Central Railroad and Banking
i on. panv. suit for damages sustained by the
tteamer George W. Wylie,
which has been on trial at Kufaula, the jury
returned a verdict of $2,5C0 in favor of the
p .mtiff. The suit was for 525,<X10.
iorty-six hundred dollars, in round
numls-rs, was the amount on hand to be paid
out in Wm-liigton last Monday, to the public
sell i teacher.-, and the County School Com
■r. Rev. K. T. sunpson. About two
thirls of this amount was drawn on that dav,
the balance not yet being called for.
A lady in Wilkes county said she had two
dozen egg- that she had been saving since Oc
; to s< i hristmas. but told her neighlior
if . would pay her a Christmas price (35c)
ire them. The neighlior tested
them m water and found only four good ones
in the two dozen. All the others boated on
the water.
A negro boy was accidentally shot near
Malh'rvsville. in Wilkes county.'one day last
week. He had climbed a tree after a squirrel,
when a !>v on the ground struck his gun
hz vinat something and caused it to discharge.
The boy in the tree took his wounding calmly
and came down. The load took effect in his
breast, but did not penetrate deep.
At Burrell Carroll county, an old negro
woman, supposed to be 00 or 100 years old,
blind and almost entirely helpless, living
With her grandson, Clark Smith, near the
colored church, Pinetuckey, fell in the fire
Monday and was burnt to death, during the
aii-encenf Smith and his wife, and with only
a little girl with her. She was buried Tues
day.
Thomaston’s taxable property was about
J2r,im l"t it increased to something
over f with the probability of its leing
at suit #350.000 in 1887>. several new ‘Swellings
have U-en completed, others improved and
some expected to lie built the coming year, and
there is now a good demand for comfortable
homes for families desiring to m nc to Thom
aston to get the benefit of her splendid educa
tional facilities.
Grnlin Sett*: X short time ago we recorded
the theft of the t‘allot-box in the contested
election case in I‘iWe county. The precedent
then set seems to have inspired other parties
to act in a similar manner. At the last term
of Pike Superior Court the grand jurv in
dirted some parties for furnishing whisky on
election dav. and Judge Stewart ordered that
these eases be transferred to the docket of the
• ountv i "iirt. **n application by the County
Court to the Clerk of the Superior Court for
these indict- ents we learn that they could
not he found. Without the indictment the
court is powerless to proceed with the cases.
These proceedings not onlv show great
wickedne— on the part of some citizens of
Pike. Si' great carelessness on the part of the
offi-iai* m whose keeping the documents were
placed.
The Washington Gazette thus pietures a
Georgia cotton scene: Wagoners who haul
cotton to the depot have exciting races for po
sition most every day. In unloading cotton
they have t.. form in line and wait their turn.
There is a large open space just before thev
get to tin depot, and when two or more wag
“Bs are driving np the temptation to race is
to.* great to be resisted. Sometimes the wagon
in front is going so fast it cannot stop in posi
tion. and by tile time it can tie turned round
three or four other wagons have taken posi
tion ahead of it in the line. At other times
four and six mule teams become entangled in
their gear. Some kick, while others run, and
the results no ma -in tell till it is all over.
Two or three mules kick out of harness and
leave the wheelers to carry- the load by
themselves. Altogether it beats a circus two
to one, because of the zest with which the
wagoners and mules contend for their rights.
Bamesville Xeics : Last Tuesday Mr. A. C.
Adam- brought to town and laid on our desk
a great curiosity. Its face resembles more
the face of a human !>eing than it does an an
imal. It - perfect in all its foru: save its faee.
Here, b—idi being featured somewhat like a
ma . it i. is growing out just above and over
it-. -a -nont or prolioseisexactly rc-em
“’■'•ag an el -phant. At first glance it seemed
t ‘i iv.■ two eyes and in each a pupil: but
I'.;- - cl-e examination it has three eves and
in ‘ pupil. Two of the eyes look natu
r . <•• • zb. but between the two andconnect
lng th. ra -o that one runs into the other is an
mil in its centre is also a pupil,
instead of being prominent, re
“ .. h more like the underlip of an ele
ch nit. Now, we have t>een thus particulann
" eg this pig for the reason that we are
not writing a snake storv, and you may be
• very word of it. We thought so much
“f R that we had it preserved in alcohol, and
■ '■■in t>e seen by any doubting Thomas by
tailing at our office.
FLORIDA.
T .roe mall vessels brought 20,000 fish to a
te iar Ki t firm last Monday.
" da hasn't a house to rent, and the de
mand fur them is growing everyday. *mall
house-■ ommand from #lO to S2O tier month
nd larger ones from #23 to #4O.
An orange grown tear Tocoi measured 15
i< i>. - ;n circumference and weighed 1 pound
ounces. Another orange measured 14*4
; • ! -e-. and was grown in Clay county by
Halt Wilson.
Tue school trustees of lireen CoTe Spnnas
iv. again amended their plans for a school
t after consultation with the Town
C‘lined, and have decided upon a two-storv
l idding :iix2> feet, with a capacity for 120
scholars.
Journal'. Comptroller General
Harr.. remit,- .1. M. Barco $3,345 40 for taxes
I . T. A P. It. K. for
ti. years t-s-t-vt. This is entire y for countv
par,. Gen. Barnes writes that ho will
femn flic remainder about Jan. 1.
.. I. Is .rdrnan. representing the Southern
fc t i tione Company, has been at Cedar
aey form past two weeks taking down the
HapUJ in be trans
.trr. -t ii i harleston, S. C., the central office.
*r. B lar.lmau alleges that the reason of this
L’lion on the part of the company is because
i -s does not pay int edar Key.
Mr. Sherman, of Sanford, has just returned
D in a trip to the Kuchre or bird roost in
Brevard county. This locality covers an
*-"c of some Vi acres, and here numerous
*. r -of the wild fowl come for mauv miles
**” •* I to roost. It is also their breeding
Race, and their deposits. lalien nests, etc.,
“ ITC caused an accumulation of debris suffi
t ent to raise the waters of a large lake sev
tral feet.
•o n. Abe sawyer, of Key West, who. it is
' 1.1-the smallest man of his age in the
mted Mates, was a delegate to the Baptist
' • ‘ uti. n m Orlando. Although a midget
cralhasafullstockofindepen.
-u i scorns the idea of making an ex
'.uor. of himself for the purpose of gain,
prefers rather, to make a living in a
- uate on-mess pursuit and by habits of
‘S'lllHlT.
-’ "hn McDonald is about laying out
•' i"'*n on his fine propertv, through
n the south Florida Railroad runs, eight
- southi of Bapford. a noted curiosity on
'• bordering on tsoldier creek, is a
:I, ‘ent cypres# tree 14 feet in diameter,
jVJ' * 44 a [‘ arrow and some 0 feet to the
;■ . Near br are immense whitewood
t.V ' in f r trte *- His timber lands are said to
, > nnest m the country, and he is looking
. ini ture manufacturer to locate there
* mate a fortune.
Sr-i" , Florida Argus is the name of a
m. 1 *4* r published at Hanford. It is a
Ihi f . •’*? nt *d, well gotten up journal,
b t-, et i at * u merits are appreciated
n . IS CT *denced by its having to
- a "'column supplement with its second
•'■'r' ..V*. **‘ a * 11 will get out another of
• of! s l le ***** week. If business keeps
' - *- manner it is not im
: 1 i**l ere will be a semi-weeklv,
** ! * ore long 4 dally Argus, to
,h ' t -f an *® °f the increasing population
Mr - 5 - A - Adams is the
. of the Argus.
Ivi r.iuifL KuU * tl *\ The election on the
feietlv [‘! n P—cd Off last Monday very
Aeoi&qiJSLV'EI ‘‘FtGt vot* was polled,
iuence <ff the very bad weather that
ITb JlJominq JfJem
unanimous!? *??.?,? /r"™ the Gay almost
for\he , '^ ed a2^y^and^rranged
cnZtaßlWcr,? waa coßTicted upon cir
b? huno 1 V In.ll r 06 ’ J* nd was sentenced to
cutlon wai oi??. g i toC . k ?' But a stay of exe-
SSffESSEM Su P r enie Court
coui.i pass upon the case. The murder wis
:.n aggravated one, the object money New!
ton is a young Englishman of g” I ai/wmr-
Wl vet thrL. ib ‘’'enty of wealthy friends.
•il . f'the h ,rc..,n t 0 Wer ° m<>Bt fa miiiar with
Heve the Caße flrmlv b ‘"
tiou w a a r ß | K a?fed^vM^V- Th, ‘ f ? Ilowin * resolu
i .? • 'he Connell at its last meet
rendered P \!L U,e a * BeMnle nt as
froilMl .J y . the ssesaor be returned to him
vv ith instruction to make an assessment in ac
eorjlance with the ordinances of the town,
and have said assessment ready aid lav the
same before the Council at the regular meet?
January. For the past three or four
years the town authorities have simply been
copying the state and county assessment of
property. This year Mr.. Wooldridge, the Tax
Assessor, upon examination of the list fur
nished him by Mr. Appel, finds that a large
amount of the most valuable property in Ce
•lar Kev is not assessed. This fact induced the
Council to pass the above resolution. If the
assessment is at fault for the town, it is also
imperfect for the State and county, andshouid
be made right.
Orlando Reporter: The Florida Baptist
State Convention held in this place a few days
since gives evidence that the bodv of Baptists
in this State has had a wonderful growth,
r ive years ago only about adreen represented
fi- least 150 attended this year. More
than twenty missionaries have been employed
during the year. During the meeting over
J 1,200 were pledged for the coming year to
support them, and just at the close, in order
to be sure to have enough, 5500 were raised in
addition to clear up last year's work. Rev.
H. N. Chaudoin was re-elected moderator
and I'. Willis clerk. The Woman's Mission
ary Department is growing under the efficient
management of Sirs. N\ A. Bailey. The Wo
man's missionary- meeting on Saturday after
noon. inaugurated bv Mrs. Bailey, was par
ticipated in by Mrs. l.eavitt, of Jacksonville;
Mrs. Telford, of DeLand, formerly a mis
sionary to China, and Mrs. Farr, the pastor’s
wife, of this place. All the meetings mani
fested great talent, earnest piety and great
enthusiasm The sermons preached were all
good, and the discussions of important ques
tions evinced great ability and wisdom in
Plans and purposes for Christian work. Revs.
Langley, of Greenwood; Curry, of Leesburg;
Leavitt, of Jacksonville; Ford, of Quitmau,
Ga.; Maoh, of Ocala, liesides others, at the
colored churches on Sunday, with Dr. I. T.
Tiehenor, of Atlanta, Ga., in the evening at
the opera house, preached during the ses
sions. All were highly pleased and edified by
them.
A suit brought by the First National Bank
of Jacksonville against the Jacksonville Pub
lic Library Association to recover a debt bal
ance of 5300 will come up in oourt in .Jackson
ville this morning. Saturday’s Herald savs:
“AUnit a year ago the library borrowed for
necessary improvements some 53,500 from the
Urst National Bank, Joseph M. Schumacher,
President. For this a note was given signed
by the entirely responsible names of the Di
rectors. This note hfts been one*
or twice renewed. During the time of
its continuance the Direesors and Ladies
Auxiliary Society of the Library have made
heroic efforts in its behalf, add have succeed
ed in putting some handsome improvements
and additional liooks in the building. Be
sides this, they . have ; steadilv and
vigorously reduced the debt! to the First Na
tional Bank until there retrained onlysSoo
due. About this time the bank began to be
pressing, and the directors earnestly consult
ed as to the best means of . meeting its de
mands. It was determinejd to issue eight
•finds of 5100 each for the I payment of the
debt. This was done, but bdfore it was com -
pleted, the bank, through its attorneys, sued
the library for the remaining] 5800. There are
now 5300 of this in the han<|ls of Mr. Schu
macher. Col. Burbrtdge weiit this morning
or yesterday with 520 i (the sale of two other
lioinG and proffered it to th*J bank, which re
fused to take it a? matters hfivd progressed so
far. Col. Burhrutge expressed great surprise
and indignation that the hatnk should have
pressed the Library to the wall when it was
faithfully and successfully trying to raise the
money demanded. Asa mat'oer of fact. 5500
“f the ssuodue is now in handlreadj- to be paid
over, and there only remains S3OO due. which
is secured by the names of [men good any
where for 520,000 each, and wihich Col. Bur
bridge was willing to guarantee would be
paid inside of 90 days.”
BUSINESS FAILfURES.
Bradstreet’g Budget of .Trade Embsr
rassments i
There were 305 lailuresj in the United
States reported to firad&treet’s during the
week, against 316 in the /preceding week,
and 2XO, 236 and 145 in the corresponding
weeks of 1883, 1882 anfl 1881, respect
ively. Additional comparisons are given
in the following table: /
isSi fp Corretp’g vieeks.
P'l*t fiwiv ' .
State*. week. v/cf.i 1883. 188 t. 1881.
Middle 81 62 I 63 <7 39
New England... 30 43 37 32 9
Southern 61 75/61 64 37
Western. 107 119 j 96 72 49
Pacific and Ter- }
rilories 28 17 j 33 21 11
Totals 305 316 i 280 236 145
Canada 26 22 I 33 26 7
Alout 87 per cent, werb those of small
traders whose capital vwas less than
$5,000. In the principal trades they were
as tollows: General storeta 42, grocers 41,
liquors 19, clothing and/cloth IS, manu
facturers 17, shoes 11, drtigs 11, drv goods
11, tobacco and cigars 101, grain 9, tancy
goods 9, hardware and/agricultural im
plements 8, hotels ant I restaurants 8,
millinery 8, harness 7, i aen’s furnishing
goods 7,’ produce and p revisions 7, car
penters and builders 6, furniture 6,
jewelry 5, plumbers an and gas titters 5,
hooks, printing, etc., 6, lumber and ma
terial 4. bakers and confectioners 3,
crockery 2, butchers 2.
ALABAMA .
Camp IliU. —It. M. Pallia m, general store,
failed.
E u fault.—k Slaughter, t bacco and cigars,
failed and sold out his entir e stock.
LineeiUe —Manning & S< in, general store,
failed.
Montgomery. —lSldor Dreyfus (A Cos.), gen
eral store, failed and sold o' it.
FLORIDA.
Jaektonrill*. —William P . Spiers, grocer,
assigned to G. M. Elliott Aa Cos.
gkorgiaX
Atlanta.— J. C. Morrison J saloon, receiver
appointed.
Augueta. — Solomon St iigman, picture
frames, reported left town tnd stock in hands
of a receiver. S. B. Wrig ht. U iuors, mort
gaged ins stock for $6,459 and transferred all
his real estate to his wife . Liabilities about
$6,000; assets about the san le.
Rom*. —Austin A-'arnochi in, harness manu
facturer, closed by Sheriff.
ThomaewOU.—' William M Langford, general
store, failed.
SOCTII CARO LINA.
Orangeburg. —W. A. Joht son, general store,
failed and offers 10 cents. Liabilities $6,300,
of which $5,200 is secured liv mortgage; nomi
nal assets $5,200.
Stafford* —W. P. Ellis Brother, general
store, failed. ;
Fees on Foreign \tnnsy Orders.
The fees on money orders to Great Brit
ain and British India will be reduced on
and after Jan. 1, 1885. The fees on all
international money orders will be uni
lorm and as follows: On orders not ex
ceeding $lO, 15 cents; on sums exceeding
$lO and not over $2O, 30 cents; on sums
exceeding $2O and not over $3O, 45 cents;
on sums exceeding $3O and not over $4O,
60 cents: on sums exceeding $4O and not
over $5O, 75 cents.
Orders will lie issued payable at any
money order office in the following named
countries: Great Britain, British India,
Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Italy,
France, New Zealand. Now
South Wales, Victoria, Belgium, Portu
gal, Tasmania, Hawaii, Sandwich Is
lands, Cape Colony, Cape of Good Hope;
(Queensland, Australia; British office in
Constsntinople, Turkey; Windward Is
lands. viz: Barbados. Grenada, St. Vin
cent, St. Lucia, Tobago.
No single order can be issued for more
than $5O, but there is no limit as to the
amount that can be sent.
She Longed for Love in a Cottage.
Detroit Free Dree*.
“My dear,” he said as he entered the
house, “who is that gentleman across the
street?”
“I am not sure, but I think he is an old
beau of mine.”
“How lone has he been waving his
handkerchief?”
“Oh, more than half an hour.”
“Is he trying to flirt with you?”
“That’s just what annoys me. He
mean it for me, or for the lady in th eJFy
window above. If it’s for me I ougyto
know it, and if it’s for her I’ll never, #enk
to the sh-me-faced thing again as
I live! Oil, George! you don’t how
vexatious and uncertain it eW to have
roomers above you! I wish weHad a little
cottage of our own.” ok
It teems, according to the
Miss Mackey, who is to marry a
of the Italian Colonna family, is transoOdflM
ently beautiful. Her features, her com pie vnJ
ion, her figure, are absolutely ravishing. But
then did anybody ever kuow a man as rich as
Mackey to ’ have a daughter whose beauty
and form were not ravishing? Homely rich
girls are as rare as stupid and vulgar Sena
tors’ wives in Washington. If one may trust
to the Washington correspondents, a Sena
tor's wife is always intelligent, full of tact,
and the real author of her husband's great -
watts.—Detroit Free Ptem,
LEGISLATIVE PROSPECTS.
THE SENATE VERY AFT TO BE
LEFT WITHOUT A QUORUM.
Members of the Upper House Consider
ably Disappointed at the Failure to
be Released for the Holidays—The
Two Naval Appropriatiou Bills Await
ing Action.
Washington, Dee. 21.—1 tis the general
opinion of the members of the House of Re
presentatives that when that body meets on
Wednesday next it will immediately adjourn
for throe days, and that succtssive similar
adjournments will take place until Jan 5,
unless in the meantime the Senate shall
amend and pass the concurrent resolution
providing for a holiday recess. The failure
of the conferees upon the naval bill to reach
an understanding so that the holiday recess
might begin last night, was a disappointment
to many Senators who had made arrange
ments to leave the city, and although the
senate meets to-morrow, it may be without a
quorum, and therefore unable to transact
any business except by ignoring the fact. If a
quorum is present the Senate inter-State
commerce bill, the bill to forfeit the land
grant to the Oregon Central Railroad, and
the Hill silver resolution, are the unfinished
matters upon which speeches may be made,
but it is unlikely that action will be taken in
respect to any important question during
the absence of so many Senators as are sup
posed to have already left the city, not to re
turn until after New Year’s day.
THK TWO NAVAL BILLS.
Two temporary naval appropriation bills
are pending, one providing for the naval es
tablishment, during the last half of the cur
rent fiscal year, and one tnakitig provision for
the month of January alone. Either may be
taken up and passed, but in view of the action
of the Senate last night, and the temper of a
majority of the Senators at that time, such a
course seems improbable. The informal dis
cussion of the Nicaraguan treaty, which was
begun yesterday, the pretext being the pend
ency of Mr. \ est’s resolution, declaring that it
was inexpedient to send a surveying party to
Nicaragua, may be contiuUed upon the same
basis, the treaty itself not having
been reported back from the Committee
on roreign Relations. In any event it is un
likely that important action will be taken
u l*on legislative or executive matters during
the week. 6
COLUMBIA’S JUDGESHIPS.
Legrand W. Pierce, or Chicago, Being
Pressed for au Appointment.
t\ ashington, Dec. 21.—Representative
Davis, of Chicago, presented to the President
yesterday a petition signed by Senators Logan
and Cullom and all the Republican Repre
sentatives from Illinois, as well as all the
leading Republicans of Chicago, asking the
appointment of Legrand W. Pierce, a well
known Chicago lawyer who formerly repre
sented a Chicago district in Congress
as Associate Judge of the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia.
Representative Davis expects to sec
two ol' the Associate Judges of the Supremo
Court of the district retire this winter, and
hopes to see his friend, Mr. Pierce, appointed
to one of tiie vacancies. It is intimated that
Mr. Pierce will succeed Judge McArthur
who was ap|H>inted from Wisconsin. The
other Associate Judge eligible to retirement
is Andrew Wylie, who tried the star route
eases. I: was .Judge Wylie who issued tiie
habeas corpus writ in the case of Mrs. Sur
ratt. Chief Judge D. K. Cartter is also eligi
ble to retirement.
CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE BUTTER.
I'he Dangerous Symptoms of His Illness
Disappear and Fear Flees.
Washington, Dec. 21.—Chief Justice Waite,
who has been seriously ill for a week past,
and whose condition yesterday and on Friday
was such as to cause his family and friends
much uneasiness, is much better to-night. He
rested easily and slept well to-day, and the
alarming symptoms in his case have entirely
disappeared. The Chief Justice has been
suffering from the effects of over
work lately, and a week ago contrac
ted a severe cold, which was the immediate
cures of his prostration. Early last week
erysipelas set in in his face, and he suffered
much from neuralgic pains. Erysipelas was
a dangerous symptom, but to-day this en
tirely disappeared, and to-night his condition
has improved so much that his son, who was
summoned here from Ohio early in tiie week,
left for home.
HOARDING LEGAL TENDERS.
Silver Certificates Less Valuable and
Consequently More Plentiful.
Washington, Dec. 21.—Secretary McCul
loch has received numerous inquiries from
New York, Boston, other
legal
responding increase in the current
silver certificates. Ilis explaflltiou is that
the legal tenders are popularly regarded as
the equivalent of gold when the silver certifi
cates are simply regarded as the representa
tives of deficient *ilver dollars, and so the
former are being hoarded just as so much gold
would be in preference to the silver certifi
cates.
FLORIDA ON THE WIRE.
Wreck of a Construction Train with
Fatal Results.
Orlando, Fla., Dec. 21.—A construction
train was wreeked on the South Florida Rail
road, seven miles south of here, at 3 o’clock
yesterday afternoon. John Griffin was killed
outright. A. Cormarty and Isaiah Wright
were badly injured and will probably die.
Five others were badly hurt . All the victims
are colored. Kngiueer Kahl and Fireman
Harvy junincd for their lives and escaped.
The train consisted of one coach and six flat
cars. The fiats were loaded with about ’.50 1
negro railroad hands. The engine, which
was ruuning, reversed and four flat cars were
ditched. Medical aid was promptly sent to
the scene of the disaster by the officers of the
road.
FOUND DEAD IN BED.
Sanderson. Fla.. Dec.2l.—An aged woman
was found dead in her bed this morning. She
had retired apparently in perfect health. No
inquest was held.
CLEVELAND’S CABINET.
New Jersey Will Probably be Repre
sented by Ex-Senator Stockton.
Washington, Dec. 19.—1 t is thought that
New Jersey's chances for securing a Cabinet
office under the new administration are im
proving. Ex-Senator Stockton will be made
Secretary of the Navy if the influence of New
Jersey Democrats can accomplish his appoint
ment.
If Bayard be made Secretary of State New
York will probably have the Secretaryship of
the Treasury, aiid. on the other hand, if
Bayard is given the Treasury portfolio, a New
Y'orker in all probability will be put at the
head of the State Department. The question
for Gov. Cleveland to decide then is whether
he will select three members of his Cabinet
from the Atlantic coast States. If he decide*
to do so, Stockton is reasonably *ure of ap
pointment; if not, neituer New .Jersey nor
Connecticut will be represented in the Cabi
net. southern and Western politicians argue
if the State and Treasure Departments are
given to the East, the War, Navy, Interior
and Post Office Departments and the Attor
ney Generalship should go to the South, the
West and the Northwest. The Pacific slope
will probably not be recognized by the Presi
dent-elect in the formation of his Cabinet.
The Uncertainties of Cabinet Making.
Washington, Dec. 17.—The politicians are
all busy making Cabinets, but the enterprise
in this respect does not *ecm to have been at
tended with much success. There is perhaps
as much information here on this matter as
thete isat Albany, outside of Gov. Cleveland’s
own mind, which iskuown to be undecided.
No President in more than fifty years has
ever been able to carry out his original inten
tion in making up a Cabinet. Even Gen.
Jackson, with all nis force of character and
his resisting power, had to give up his own
choice of persons when he came to confront
the party leaders with opposing views. This
example has been followed through the sne
ce*si ve terms of Van Bure", Harrison, Folk,
Taylor, Pierce, Buchanan, Lincoln Grant,
Hayes, Garfield and Arthur. There is no ex
ception among them.
Garfield’s Cabinet was not completed on the
day of inauguration, owing to the retreat of
Mr. Allison, who had accepted the Treasury
in the evening and who renounced it early
the next morning. Many interesting exam
ples might be cited of sudden changes from
the first casts of different administrations.
Mr. Cleveland will be more embarrassed
than most of his predecessors in making up a
Cabinet, from the want of personal acquaint
ance with the prominent men of his own
party. He will necessarily have to rely on the
advice of others, and that advice, however
disinterestedly given, may come in conflict
with the wishes and interests of rivals, who
will surely not take it in good part.
Declared Tranquil.
Dec. 21.—Reports of a massacre
otAjy/n-tians by Mussu’maus in Macedonia
>cen circulated lately. The Turkish
JlPgation here officially denies the truth of
these statements, ami says that the reports
emanate from agitators who are interested in
the subversion of public order in the province
of Salonica where the most absolute calm and
tranquillity prevail.
President Arthur’s Christmas.
Washington, Dec. 21.—The President pro
poses to eat his Christmas dinner at the White
House with his son Allan, his daughter Nellie
and his niece, Miss McElroy. No other guests
expected. Mrs. McElroy is expected at
Me White House the day after Christmas.
he will be the guest of the President during
rthe social season.
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Germany’* Decay Seen.
■Berlin, Dec. 21.— Die Germania (Ultramon
tane) in a pessimist article compares the posi
tion of the German Empire to a dance upon a
volcano, and says that the electoral snccesses
of the Socialists, the searches of barracks by
the police and tue trial of Anarchists at
Leipsic indicate that the State is beginning to
decay.
SAVANNAH, MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1884.
STALWART AND HALF BREED.
Indications that the Old War Between
the Factions will be Continued.
Albany, N. Y., Dec. 21.—The interview of
Chairman B. F. Jones charging President
Arthur and his Cabinet with infidelity to the
national ticket in the late election, is regarded
here as Blaine’s proclamation that the old
stalwart and half breed war in this State
shall be reopened. The feeling between the
State Committee, controlled by President
Arthur’s friends, and the National Com m ittee,
was never harmonious, and since the election
the officials of the State Committee have not
concealed their indignation against Jones and
Elkins because they spent 590,L00 on Butler's
canvass in spite of the protest of the State
Cominitee and the pledge that if that sunt
were given to them, instead of to Butler, they
would carry New Y ork for Blaine. Mr. Jones’
letter is tending to consolidate the stalwart
sentiment in President Arthur’s favor, in the
belief that the .war upon the stalwarts is to
be resumed, and that for self-protection they
must elect their Senator. The Legislature is
stalwart. The Morton men also begin to show
unmistakable signs of qnger and apprehen
sion at the Evarts movement, which, though
small, is cutting into their strength. The
feeling against Mr. .Jones in the State has
been strong, and even half-breeds express
surprise at the admission of his statements
into the New York Tribune after Wliitelaw
Reid’s personal inspection.
SOUTH AMERICAN TRADE.
This Government’s Commission Reaches
New Orleans from its Work in Mexico.
New Orleans, Doc. 21.—The South Ameri
can Trade Commission, composed of Gov.
Thomas C. Reynolds, of Missouri; Hon. Solon
O. Thacher, of Kansas, and Secretary W. K.
Curtis, of Illinois, arrived here Saturday
morning direct from the City of Mexico,
where they were in session two weeks.
They conferred with President Diaz and other
members of the government and leading
business men. I’resident Diaz, who appeared
personally before the body, rendered them
valuable assistance in obtaining in information
and more important suggestions regarding
their work. President Diaz assured the com
mission that his government was disposed to
do everything possible to build -up the trade
and to facilitate the commercial relations of
the two countries. Mexico is disposed and
prepared to go as far in this direction as the
government of United States. The result
of the conference has so far proved highly
satisfactory. The Commissioners’ report will
he submitted to this session of Congress
i 8 s <J°. n as their work is completed in
New Orleans. They will remain in this city
perhaps two weeks and Will then sail direct
for Central America.
CONGO NEUTRALIZATION.
France the Only Determined Opponent
of the International Association.
Beklin, Dec. 21.—England, Germany, Hol
land and Italy are now in accord upon the
proposition to neutralize the territory of the
A'rican International Association. The en
tente cordiale between Germany and France
is tendiog to a rupture. France persists in
her opposition to the neutralization of the
association's territory.
hie Cross Gazette, in a semi-official article
expresses astonishment that France, which
until recently has shared in the good will
toward the International Association, now
wishes to ileiqioil tiie association of its terri
tory. The Gazetts declares that Germanv w ill
defend the intcres.s of the International
Association, which are those of all Germany,
knowing as she does that German traders will
find in the territory of the association a better
welcome than they would liud in French
territory.
BISMARCK AND HIS FOES.
The Chancellor Fiuds Fucouragement
gin the Expressions or Sympathy.
Berlin, Dec. 21.—A letter from Prince
Bismarck is published iu which the Chancel
lor gratefully acknowledges numerous ad
dresses of devotion and support which lie has
received from all parts of the Empire.
Against the adverse vote of the Reichstag, he
says, are to be placed these numerous proofs
of confidence of Germans in his foreign policy.
The national feeling pervading the people en
courages him, even with ins failing
strength to persist in liis struggle against the
parties whose internal disunion and unaniin
ity against all guidance of tiie government
are impeding the progress of the empire and
endangering the unity bought with many
sacrifices and struggles.
CAUGHT WITH A BOMB.
An 18-Year-Old Italian Tries to Blow
Up tiie Milan Police Station.
Milan, Dec. 21.—A young man named Ger
vasini, 18 years of age, was arrested yester
day while in the act of placing a bomb under
the police station. He confessed that he had
been instructed to fire a fuse with a cigar.
He is a member of the -‘?ocieta del 20 Dicim
bre,” which was founded in memory of Ober
dank, the Austrian anarchist. He refused to
disclose the names of liis associates. Ten
other men, who had in their possession proc
lamations glorifying Oberdank, were also ar
rested.
5,000 FORGED NOTES.
The Remarkable Career of a Pennsyl
vania Grocer.
Lancaster, Dec. 19.—Financial circles
were startled this morning by rumors of ex
tensive forgeries of names of prominent citi
zens to notes for Urge amounts, and involv
ing not only the banks of the city, but also
many citizens. The affair culminated this
afternoon in the arrest, shortly after 2o’cloi k,
of Joseph Herzog, grocer, of' this city, who
last Monday made an assignment of his prop
erty for the benefit of his creditors, after
having confessed judgment in favor of his
father-in-law, Dana Graham, for 514,000, and
(execution issued.
examination of the outstanding claims
\jkiinst Herzog developed the fact that forged
p.’Jffir, aggregating thousands of dollars, was
atleNkbearing the name of Herzog as maker
and numbers of friends and relatives as in
dorbersSNifter making the discovery Mr.
Wilson visited all the city banks
and infornicßßhem that notes held by them,
purporting been indorsed by'various
individuals, Among.the notes
held by tiie County Rank were two
indorsed liy JacoUzJkwere, a wealthy retired
grocer of this city. Sue, for 51,300, was dated
Nov. 14, and the (&cr, for 5200, was dis
counted by the bank rV Dec. 15. The notes
were made payable to and purported
to have been indorsed TK Bowers. It was
learned this morning that 'fWvvers’ signatures
were forgeries, and the baifJWshier immedi
ately made complaint before Barr.
Herzog was arrested at his Mt where he
was confined to his room by illnilw^
It will be impossible, of some
days yet to tell the exact amount
paper extant. There are at present limank
maturing $72,000 of notes, the greater pf
which are forged. In addition to this
at least 525.000 outside in tiie hands of privfffe
holders. The notes are iu every bank in the
city except that of Amos S. Henderson. Tiie
Farmers’ National Bank holds between $25,-
000 and $30,0e0 of the paper. The Lancaster
County National holds over 525,000, and all the
others hold between 55,000 and 510,0 0. It is
believed that the two national banks men
tioned above will be the heaviest losers, tiie
banking house least affected being that of
Loclier & Son. who say that all the notes they
hold are genuine, and in this they are proba
bly correct. A peculiarity of the case was the
fact that all the banks supposed that Herzog
was dealing with them alone, the jealousy ex
isting lie'ween them preventing such inveeti
gations and discoveries as would probably
ave saved them thousands ofziollars.
It is charged that Herzog began hisforgeries
between nine and ten years ago, and lias
•ontinued them up to the present time. His
favorite plan was to issue sixty and ninety
day notes, and as these matured, he would
forge another to meet them. He constantly
had between 100 and 150 notes running, which,
being renewed ever; two or three months,
would make over 500 forgeries a year, or con
siderably over 5,000 since he began his re
markable career. His favorite indorser was
his father-in-law. Dana Graham, a well-to
do comb manufacturer of this city, and at the
present time the banks of this city hold sixty
one notes of his indorsement, all of which,
witli three exceptions, are forged. The imi
tations of Graham’s name, which was the
favorite indorsement, is said to be nretty
cleverly done, but not with such exactness
that a person familiar with the correct sig
nature would have been deceived.
Selling Mrs. Fillmore’s Jewelry.
Henry English, an auctioneer, says a
Buffalo (N. Y.) special of Dec. 19, stood in
room 54, White building, this morning.
Around him were gathered a number of ladies
and gentlemen. Piled up in front of him
were the jewelry and personal effects of Mrs.
Millard Fillmore. The articles were to be
disposed of to enable the executors of the
estate to pay in full her bequests to the
Buffalo Orphan Asylum, the General Hospi
tal and the Home' for the Friendless. The
bidding started off lively, and the first
batch of lace and camels’ hair shawls were
disposed of at a handsome price. A beautiful
S3OO camels’ hair shawl was then put up. Af
ter a lively competition it was knocked down
to C. W. McCune, of the Courier, for #IOO. An
o|ien-faced gold watch was sold to King A
Ersele for $6. A pair of gold bracelets, val
ued at #SO, were sold for #l6. Mr. English
then put up two pieces of camels’ hair shawl,
remarking that thev could be cat up for
quilts. They were sold for $2 75. A Nardian
watch, valued at S2OO, was sold for $8 50. The
remainder of the articles, which included
bracelets and other small articles, were sold
at fair prices. The amount received was far
below what was expected.
Alexander’s Fearless Foes.
Berlin, Dec. 21.—Letters from St. Peters
burg give a few details of the recent attempt
upon the life of the Czar. The attempt was
made upon the occasion of the recent fete of
the Chevaliers of St. George. The rails on the
Gatzchina line, over which the Czar’s train
had to pass, were found loosened at a certain
spot, and a soldier on guard at the place
where the train was expected to leave the
rails was found murdered.
Durkee’s Salad Dressing and Cold Meat
Sauce is made from Jhe freshest, purest
and choicest condiments obtainable. In
using it waste, labor, anxiety, and disap
pointment are prevented.
SEETHING SEAS OF FIRE.
FEA RFUL BURSTING OF A NAPH
THA TANK AT WILLIAMSBU RG.
Rivers of Blazing Oil Rushing in Every
Direction—Small Boats Contained in
the River—The Loss Between •500,000
and 9000,000 —Fires Elsewhere.
New Y'ork, Dec. 21.—Aliout 20 minutes after
12]o’clock to-day one of the naphtha tanks sit
uated nearest the river at Pratt’s Astral Oil
Works, which occupied the entire block at
the foot of Twelfth street, Williamsburg, ex
ploded frith a deafening report, and its frag
ments were sent high and far. The burning
oil scattered in every direction, and although
a prompt alarm was sent out the entire works
were imminently threatened with destruction
before the engines arrived. Three more
alarms and the special brought every availa
ble engine in the city to the scene. After tiie
first explosion another tank burst. These
two 6ent 10,000 barrels of flaming
oil pouring into every nook and crevice where
it could make its wav about the yard. The
burning oil flowed over front the vard on the
north side into Bushwick Creek a"nd contin
ued to burn ou the surface of the water, giv
ing the appearance of a river on fire. Several
small boats that were in the creek were
enveloped in this unusual element and
burned. AU the buildings and tanks at the
works, excepting a large brick building, in
which the cauning is done, were destroyed,
besides the long docks on the creek. "The
loss will reach between 5500,000 and 550,000.
FIRED WITH AN INFERNAL MACHINE.
Lonon, Dec. 21.—Fire broke out in the
office at the Windsor railway station on
Saturday and burned quite rapidly for a
while, but was soon extinguished. Among
the debris were found a number of brass
wheels and a bottle supposed to contain an
explosive substance. They are supposed to be
the remains of an infernal machine. No
clue to the person who left the machine has as
yet been found. A foreigner was noticed
loitering about the station on Friday. It is
believed that the culprit, finding that lie was
unable to enter the royal palace, and that the
Queen had gone to Osborne, and thinking
that his designs were frustrated, took the
machine to the railway station in ord. r to rid
himself of it. The affair has caused great
excitement.
A TWO-TON SILVER BRICK.
Arrival at the Exposition of Mexico’s
Famous Contribution.
New Orleans, Dec. 19. —Much interest was
excited this afternoon by the unloading of the
famous silver brick from Mexico. A gang of
men equipped with pulleys and ropes dragged
the monster across the main building between
files of admiring visitors. The brick proper
is 6 feet long, feet wide and 6 inches thick.
It® upper surface is almost entirely covered
with a model 3 feet in height, tapering to a
point in imitation of two hills in the State
of Chihuahua where the metal was
mined. The sides of the brick bear each
tiie inscription, ‘-Mexico Etado Chihuahua
I’ara la Exposicion Nueva Orleans, 1884,” to
gether with a medallion head inscribed “Hi
dalgo.” The whole is of solid silver, and is
valued at $200,000. It will be placed in the
iron Mexican building on a massive pedes
tal of amethyst and onyx, a symbol of the
barbaric wealth of the country from which it
comes. It arrived this morning via the Mor
gan line from Galveston and proved to be an
interesting problem to the railroad people
nearly ail day, obstinately refusing un
loaded except at great peril to the men and
considerable wear and tear to the machinery
employed. No less than three trucks gave
way under its ponderous weight of 4,200
pounds.
DUDES DISAPPOINTED.
A Cruel Fox and the Cruelty Society to
Blame.
Y'esterday morning, says a Washington
special of Dec. 17, a party of the jeunesse doree
assembled at the Arlington for a fox hunt.
The meet was to be at Beales’ farm, a few
miles from town. The fox, a small, grey and
low-spirited beast, had been captured a week
ago, and confined in the show window of an
avenue restaurant. The idea was that the
fare at the restaurant would render him vio
lent and reckless, and that the hunt would
therefore, be exciting. When the party ar
rived at the appointed place they found nn
agent of the Cruelty Society and two police-
M*n. *
The agent said the projected hunt was
cruelty to animals, and he was there to en
force the law. The policemen sastained this
position. The hunters pointed to the hounds
and asked if they- looked cruel. They were a
measley lot and the society agent was stag
gered. He rallied, however, and said he had
seen the unfortunate fox in tiie restaurant
window. He was satisfied that the fox was
alarmed and uneasy. The hunters then pro
ceeded to produce tiie fox in evidence, de
claring that he was fat and sassv and quite
capable of taking care of himself.
Looking arouml at the hounds and hunters
the agent thought so, too, but he had come to
perform a solemn duty, and he insisted on
seeing the fox. The fox, however, had
escapnd. They had bronght him out in abate,
and ne had gnawed a hole and got away. The
general opinion was that he would have eaten
the bag as a grateful relief fr#in the diet of a
Washington restaurant, if he had had time.
But he couldn’t wait to eat a gunny bag when
escape was imperative and he probably knew
where he could find a chicken later in the day.
So the hunt reached an inglorious end. and
the dudes and dudines returned disconsolate.
This is only the first of a series of hunts.
There will be others during the season.
THE SOUTHERN POOL.
Did the Meeting at Chattanooga Break
Up in a Row ?
The New York Herald'* Chattanooga special
gives a rather different account of the recent
meeting of the Southern Railway and Steam
ship Association from that which was sent
out to the Associated I’ress Friday night. It
is as follows:
The meeting of the Southern Railway and
Steamship Association, afier a sessio'n of
twenty-four hours in this city, broke up in a
row to-day. and it is likely that the bitterest
war of rates ever known in the South will be
commenced. The meeting was attended by
thc Presidents of the Queen and Crescent,
I>ouisville and Nashville, East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia, and all other leading
.Southern trunk lines. About a month ago
the Cincinnati Southern Railway made a cut
on grain and provisions to Memphis from
Cincinnati. Tlte Louisville and Nashville
met this cut, and the East Tennessee followed
suit. This inaugurated a war of rates, and
since then rates have been entirely
demoralized to all points in the
South. In some instances cuts of
sixty and seventy-five per cent, were made,
and each line begun to adopt a system of arbi
trary rates, disregarding all pool contracts.
Grain, proyisions and flour were the chief ar
ticles affected. The meeting was called to
adjust this condition of affairs and re-estab
listi a uniform rate. The meeting was stormy.
The Cincinnati Southern felt that they had
bean mistreated by the Louisville andNash
vilrc and East Tennessee, Virginia and Geor
gia. ana would make no concessions or agree
ft any adjustment. President Scott, of the
incinnati Southern, was present in person.
Another meeting will be held in January, and
if no agreement is then reached it is likely
the Southern pool will be dissolved.
EFFORTS TO KILL OFF BAYARD.
A Falsehood That was Quickly Denied.
That there a/e some persons, says a Wash
ington special of Dec. 19, who do not want to
see Senator Bayard given a place in Mr.
Cleveland’s Cabinet is evident from the sort
of alleged news that has lately been sent out
from New York. Oae of the latest efforts in
this direction was the publication of the as
sertion that when recently in New Y'ork Sen
ator Camden, of West Virginia,
had delared that Mr. Bayard
was trying to play the schoolmaster,
both to the Democratic party and to Gov.
Cleveland, and had become overbearing and
dictatorial to a marked degree. To those who
know of the cordial relations between Messrs.
Bayard and Camden the latter’s positive de
nial, which he made to-day, was not needed
as proof that the story was without founda
tion. In speaking of the report to-day Mr.
Camden said; ’’The dispatch is a falsehood
from beginning to end, and I have told Bayard
so. Why, my relations with Bayard are of
the most friendly character, personally as
well as politically. There is no man for whom
I have higher esteem.”
GRANDFATHER’S TEETH.
Mr. 81 inm on a’ Hasty Demand on the
Resources of St. Vincent’s Hospital.
Henry Simmon6, of 51 Carmine street,New
Y'ork, wears a set of false teeth which his
grandfather wore for thirty years before him.
He is naturally proud of them. On Thursday
night they did not sit casv, and he did not
sleep peacefully. Yesterdav morning he felt
queer pains in his stomach and head, and
these were aggravated when he discovered
that he had lost his family inheritance.
•Tve swallowed grandfather’s teeth,” he
cried, and he ran as fast as he could to St.
Y’incent’s Hospital. The doctor procured
► rapling irons and other instruments, and
was about to make search for the molars,
when Mr. Simmons cried out again. This
time he exclaimed:
“Why, here they are, in my vest pocket.”
And so they were. Then the old gentleman
trotted home again, relieved of all anxiety.
Daniel YVebster, when he pronounced his
eulogtum in the Senate on John C. Calhoun,
said, half wonderingly and half admiringly;
“He had no recreation—never seemed to fail
the necessity of amusements.” So it was
with Gov. Anthony, savs the Washington
correspondent of the Providence Journal. He
never, while here as a Senator, went on fish
ing or shooting parties; he never kept or drove
fast horses, or attended the Jockey Club
races; and although he was a member of the
Club, he was never to be seen
at its card tables or in its billiard room or
bowling alley. Occasionally he would, while
waiting to go out to dine, take a pack of
cards and occupy a few leisure moments tn a
game of solitaire, but I don’t believe that he
understood the first principles of poker or
euchre, those favorite game* of many Con
gressmen.
A TRIP TO MONTGOMERY.
Wayside Observations Notes About
Montgomery and the Lonisville and
Nashville Railroad.
Montgomery, ala., Dec. 14.—1 left Savan
nah on the morning train on the Central Rail
road on Dec. 8. The day was fine and the
trip to Macon was very enjoyable. Of course
it is useless for me to say aught of the country
traversed by the Central Rai’road from Sa
vannah to Macon, as that is the former city’s
natural territory.
Leaving Macon by the Southwestern Rail
road at 8:15 a. m. I had a chaut-e to view the
country by daylight. From Macon to Kufaula
the country seems (to one reared on the sea
coast) to have been exhausted of every
vestige of its natural fertility. I ju tged of
tins by the cotton stalks, which looked to be
only about 15 inches high. Tiie lauds and
crops must be very poor to be cultivated in
the way they are, the average distance be
tween the rows of cotton being, as 1 am told,
only about 32 inches apart. Yet, with all these
disadvantages, there seems to be no end to the
cotton produced. Old-fashioned cotton gins
are to be seen everywhere along the route,
run by mule power. Agents of fertilizer com
panies are to be met with all along the line,
making collections for the past season’s sup
ply of guano and taking orders for the next,
and so it goes on from year to year.
But what must the farmers do on these poor
hillside lands') The agricultural editors have
bowt trying to do the farming on paper. I
shall leave the question unargued. Such is
the appearance of the cotton belt as seen along
the Southwestern Railroad until you reach
Eufaula, Ala. Leaving Georgia, and getting
well into Alabama, the most casual observer
caunot but note the evidence of better lands.
It is nignt before we reach Montgomery, how
ever, and my chances for observation were
poor.
Montgomery is a beautiful, interesting and
business-like city. Its chief commercial ar
tery is the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.
It would perhaps interest some of your read
ers to know something about this great road.
The company owns absolutely 1816 miles of
road, operates under lease 260 miles, operates
for account of the South and North Railroad
188 miles, owns a majority of stock in 855
miles, jointly leases 679 miles, and operates
80 miles additional, making a total of 3,697
miles, all equipped with the latest improved
rolling stock. $
The Louisville and Nashville was the out
come of a stage road or turnpike (so I am
told), which was operated between Louisville
and the capital of Tennessee. The road was
commenced somewhere about tiie year 1850.
The trip from Louisville to Nashville then
took from nine to twelve hours, the distance
being 187 miles.
MONTGOMERY HAS INCREASED VERY
RAPIDLY
in population during the last few vears and
now contains about 25.000 inhabitants. It is
the market for a large belt of rich cotton
country and does a heavy business in planta
tion supplies. To accommodate the trade
there are 2 national banks and 5 private
banks. There are at present in opera
tion 1 cotton factory, 1 soap factory,
3 iron foundries, 2 cotton seed oil mills, 1 oil
refinery, 2 factories of sash, doors and blinds,
several large steam brick-yards, 1 cracker
factory, 2 flouring mills, machine works, gin
factory, extensive railroad shops, carriage,
wagon and furniture factories, 2 cotton com
press s, and many smaller enterprises too
numerous to mention.
The situation of Montgomery and its exten
sive and numerous railway connections, and
the fact of its being the capital of a great
State, secures for it an advantage whicli it is
taking care to profit by. The- city is built
upon a commanding eminence overlooking
the Alabama river. The streets ave wide amt
hard. There are many very fine business
houses and some elegant private residences.
IVhat shall 1 say of her people? Well, I can
pay them no higher compliment than to say
that the ladies are the fairest of the fair, and
the men are temperate, enterprising and gen
erous, and all are hospitable to a fault. And
now I will quote DeSoto, and say “Here I
rest.” . S. B. T.
A FLORIDA BOAT BURST.
The Queen of St John's Rung Through
Hergelf.
The Queen of St. John’s ran through her
self yesterday, near Sugar Creek, Ky., say-i a
Louisville, Ky., sjjecial of Dec. 19, breaking
one cylinder and cracking the other. She
was landed with difficulty and will lav at
Sugar Creek uatil her repars are completed.
The engineer has gone >o Madison to get
new cylinders cast, which will detain her
several days. She had 250 tons of freight. 67
cabin and 10 deck passengers. Several of her
passengers came down on the City of Madi
son this morning. She had passengers from
Cincinnati and Dayton, Kv.
The Queen of St. John's is anew boat of the
propeller pattern, built at Cincinnati during
the past summer, and left that city day be
fore yesterday for St. John’s river, Florida,
where she is to rnn.
THREE TIMES A DESERTER.
Adventure* of a Providence Boy Who
Objected to the French Army.
A boy belonging to this city named
Henry Henon, says a Providence special
of Dec. 9, has had and is still having an
experience in foreign lands, which reads
like romance. He is the son
of Simon Herion, a Prussian, who came
to this country fourteen years ago, and is
now a naturalized citizen of the United
States. His wife was a native of Switzer
land. About three years ago Henry, who
was 17 years old, and his brother John,
two years younger, started to revisit their
native land. After a year John returned
home, but Henry stayed a while in Prus
sia, and then went to' France in search of
employment. Fortune did not smile upon
him, and as he was too proud to appeal to
his Irieuds lor help he enlisted in the
French army, w here he found that the
pay was only a lew pence a day, and the
fare abominable.
Unable to stand the hard fare and ill
usage Henry deserted; but, through the
treachery of a man to whom he told his
story, he was arrested and sentenced to
three years’ imprisonment in a military
fortress near Toulon. He escaped and
was recaptured, and his imprisonment
lengthened to live years. Again he
escaped and made his way to Algeria,
w here he found employment'with afarmer
and wrote home for money. The father
provided the younger boy John with
money and return tickets for both boys
and John started for Liverpool two
months ago. Arriving there, John found
that no steamers were running to Medi
terranean ports owing to cholera. He
then proceeded to Marseilles by rail.
There, while asleep, he was robbed of his
ticket and valise. The boy earned or
begged enough to telegraph 'to an aunt in
Switzerland, who sent him money to pay
his fare to her home, where he obtained
money to prosecute his search for his
brother.
John finally landed in Algeria and went
into the country to find Henry’s employer.
The farmer was away, and the traveler
was detained a day "or two. W hen the
farmer returned, John was told that
Henry was at a town on the coast. The
persevering lad lost no time, but arrived
at the place indicated just in time to see
his brother led away by a French officer.
The poor fellow was so emaciated that
John did not recognize him. Henry’s
sentence was lengthened to fifteeen years,
and he will undoubtedly suffer severe ad
ditional punishment. After his last deser
tion he was kept 120 days in an under
ground dungeon on bread and water with
a little soup once a week. Had John not
waited two days for the return of the
Algerian farmer he might have reached
his brother in time to enable him to
escape.
John at once started for home, and ar
rived in this city to-day, having “left
Algeria, Nov. 22.’ As Henry Herion is
yet a minor, being only 20 years of age,
his father’s admission to citizenship
naturalized his sons. Secretary of State
Frelinghuysen will therefore be urged to
use the government influence to get young
Herion out ol a French prison.
A Musical Gander.
Popular Science Monthly.
A lively air on a violin will sometimes
set a whole flock of geese wild with de
light. On one occasion, at a country
wedding, there was a curious perform
ance. After dinner a lady entertained
the guests assembled on the lawn with
music from an accordion. A flock of
geese were feeding in the road just below
the house, and with outstretched necks
answered back with loud notes of satis
faction. Soon a white gander commenced
dancing a lively jig. keeping good time to
the music. For several minutes he kept
up the performance to the great delight of
the company. The experiment was tried
several times for a week or more, and the
tones of the accordion never failed to set
the old gander into a lively dance. A
bobolink, placed in a cage with some
canaries, exhibited great delight at their
songs. He did not sing himself, but with
a peculiar cluck could alwavs set the
canaries singing. After a while he began
to learn their songs note by note, and in
the course of a few weeks mastered the
entire song.
A Cockroach has 300 Teeth.
This seems a great many; but we must
remember that the cockroach eats a little
of everything he picks up, and has need
of a tremendous digestive apparatus.
Our digestive apparatus is altogether
different. First we chew our food with
the teeth; then send it to the*stomach to
be disposed of. If the stomach is not in
gjrfect working order, take Brown’s Iron
itters and make it do its work proper
ly. Mrs. Sophia Tobert, Georgetown,
Del., says: “I used Brown’s Iron Bitters
lor dyspepsia; it greatly improved my
, digestion.’
TALMAGE’S LAMP A BIBLE.
HOW SINNERS MAY BE LIGHTED
INTO A BRIGHT ETERNITY.
The Tabernacle Again Echoing With
the Voice of the Famous Preacher—
The Great Book a Light for Every
Occasion and Every Vocation—lts
Rays In the Sepulchre.
Brooklyn, Dec. 21.— Dr. Talmage has
just returned from his Southern tour,
during which he delivered the opening
prayer at the New Orleans Exposition.
He preached this evening in the Brooklyn
Tabernacle on the subject, “Illumina*-
tion.” The opening hymn was:
“How firm a foundation ye saints of the Lord
Hath lie laid for your faith iu his excellent
word.”
After expounding appropriate passages
of Scripture Dr. Talmage gave out the
text troui Psalm cxix, 105: ‘*Thy word is
a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.”
Dr. Talmage said:
From 6 o’clock last evening until 6 o’clock
this morning darknsss rested ou our part of
the eartti, and every few hours there rolls a
wave of natural night all over the nations
With lamps and chandeliers and torches and
lanterns we try to drive out the night from
houses and churches and stores and shops. He
who invents anew kind of light invents his
own fortune and the fortune of his children.
But there is a night of sin and suffering and
shame which needs another kind of illumina
tion. Ancient philosophy made a lamp, but
it w<* a dead failure and the people kept
crying out, “Give us a light! Give us a light!”
After awhile prophet and evangelist and
apostle made a lamp. A coal from heaven
struck it into a blaze, and uncounted multi
tudes of people, with an open Bible before
them, cry out iu raptures, in love, “Thy
word is a lamp;”
When, some years ago, there was a great
accident in Hartley colliery, England, and
200 persons lost their lives, the Queen tele
graphed down to the scene of disaster: “Can
we give you any help? Will you be able to
get the men out? How many are lost? Give my
sympathy to all the bereft.” What consola
tion it was to the families who stood amidst
the consternation and the terror, that the
throne of England throbbed in sympathy with
their disaster! But 1 have to tell you a more
glorious truth, and that is: from the tnrone of
God the King of heaven and earth telegraphs
down through this Bible into the dungeons of
our sin and suffering a message of pardon, of
love, of sympathy, of comfort, of eternal life.
Like some lighthouse ou high promontory,
blessed by ships passing through darkness and
storm, so on the heights of God’s love and
grace there flames forth a light upon the great
sea of man’s wretchedness and of God’s pro
vidence, so that angels on their way earth
ward, and ransomed spirits on their way
heavenward, and deuls ou their wav hell
ward pass through its Wash, crying, “M v word
is a lamp.”
Y ou have four or five Bibles in your house -
perhaps ten, perhaps twenty. They are such
common property you do not appreciate them.
If you had only one Bible, and for that you
had paid ssoo—the price that was paid in olden
time for a copy of the Scriptures—then vou
would more thoroughly appreciate it. I was
onee a colporteur for a'few months in a vaca
tion, and I came into a house ol destitution,
i saw a woman there 85 years of age, and I
said to her: “May I give you a Bible?” “Oh,”
she replied, ‘-a Bible would be of no use to me.
I can’t see to read. I used to read, but for 20
years I haven’t been able to read a word.” I
pulled out of my satchel one of the copies of
the Psalms of Davlu and the New Testament
in great, large, round types, and I said: “Now
put on your spectacles and see if you can’t
read this.” She wiped her spectacles and put
them on. “Oh, yes,” she said; “why, I can
see, after all! I am very thankful to you?
Why, yes, i see it: -I love the Lord because
He hath heard my voice and my—’ Oh yes, I
can read it! i can read it!” i wish that God
to-night would make tiie Bible as new and
fresh to us as it was to her.
I want to show you that the Hi ole is a lamp
—a parlor lamp, a street lamp, a store lamp, a
church lamp, a sepulchral lamp. In p .rlor.i
all aflash with gaslight and gleaming mirror
and blazing chandelier and candelabra, there
maybe Egyptian darkness; while in some
plain room, which a frugal hand has spread
with hospitality and refinement, this one
lamp may cast a glow that makes it a fit place
for heavenly coronations. We invoke no
shadow to fall upon the hilarities of life. We
would not iiave every song a dirge, and every
picture a martyrdom, and every step a funer
al pace. God’s lamp hung in the parlor would
chill no joy, would rend no harmony, would
check no innocent laughter. On the contrary,
it would bring out brighter colors in the pic
ture; it would expose new gracefulness in the
curtain: it would unroll new wreaths from the
carpet; it would strike new music from the
harp; it would throw new polish into the
manners; it would kindle with light
borrowed from the throne of God, all
the refinements of society. Oh that the Christ
who was born in a barn would come to our
parlor. We need his hand to sift the parlor
music. We need his taste to assort the parlor
literature. We need his voice to conduct the
parlor conversation, We are apt to think of
religion as being a rude, blundering thing,
not fit to put its foot upon Axminster, or its
clownish hands on beautiful adornments, or
lift its voice amidst the artistic aud refined;
so, while we have Jesus in the nursery when
we teach our children to pray, and Jesus in
(he dining-hail when we ask his blessing upon
our food, and Jesus in the sitting room when
we have family prayers, it is a simple fact
that from ten thousand Christian homes in
this country Christ is from one end of the year
to the other shut out of the parlor. Oh, that
nousekeepers understood tnat tiie grace
of God is the greatest accomplishment,
and that no seat is too luxuriant for religion
to sit in and no arch too grand for religion to
walk under, and no circle too brilliant for re
ligion to move in! If Christianity at last is
to walk up the streets of heaven with sera
phim and archangel, it is good enough to go
anywhere where you go or where I shall go,
to purify the heart; to cleanse the life, to cul
ture the taste, to expurgate all hypocrisy and
falsehood and sham we must have the Bible in
the parlor. When Christian people come to
spend an evening they talk about the weather
and they talk about the scandal and they
talk about the crops and they talk about the
markets; but they do not tals about God and
Christ and heaven. The thing we most want
in all our parlors is the lamp of the Bible.
Still further, the Bible is the street-lamp.
When night comes down on the city, crime
goes forth to its worst ach evements. Not
only to show honest citizens where to walk,
but to hinder the burglar, and assassin, and
highwayman and pickpocket we must have
artificial lights all over the city. I remem
ber what consternation there was in Philadel
phia when one nignt the gas works were out
of order and the whole city sat in darkness.
Between eleven o’clock at night;and three
o’clock in the morning in the dark! unlighted
places of the town crimejhas its holiday. If
Uie lampligbter.ceased his work for one week
the towu would rot. But there is a darkness
beyond all power of gaslight. What is the
use of police Jstation, and almshouse and
watchman’s club if there be no moral and re
ligious influence to saqction the law and to
purify the executive, and to hang over legal
enactment the fear of God and an enlightened
public opinion. When in a city crime runs
rampant and virtue is at a discount and jails
are lull and churches are empty and the nights
are hideous with the howl and the whoop of
drunkards, snd the saloons boil over with
►cum, and public officials think more of a
bribe than they do of their own consciences,
and when great tides of wickedness set down
the streets—the first want of such a city as
that is the street lamp of the Bible. Did you
ever stand in a church tower and look dawn
upon a city at night? It is overwhelming.
But you feel that beneath all that brilliancy
ol gaslight there is a surging sea of want and
suffering and woe. History says that Dyo
nysius had a great cave built for his prison
ers. He was a cruel man. and he used to go
to the top of the cave, put his ear to the open
ing and listen, and the groans and the sighings
of the prisoners came up into his ear and made
music for him. God stands at the head of our
world, but for a different purpose and. with a
different heart. He puts his ear to thedmn
geon, and every sigh comes up stirring his
sym| athies and every groan wounding his
heart; and he listens and listens all night
long. There is hut one lamp that can throw
light into the dungeon where the prisoner
groans, into the novel where the beggar
pines, into the cellar where the drunk
ard wallpws, into the alley where the lib
ertine putrefies, into the madhouse where
the maniac raves. Travelers in Africa tell
us that they have seen serpents —a vast num
ber of them—coiled together and piled up in
horrid fold above horrid fold; and then they
would hear hundreds of them hissing at once,
and the sight and the sound were appalling
and unbearable. But if you should take the
wickedness of our best of cities and bring it
all together in one place and pile it up, fold
above fold, it would be a hissing horror and
ghastliness that no human eye could look at
without being blasted, and no human car
could hear without being stunned.
Now, how will all these scenes of iniquity in
our cities be overcome? They will not be
overcome until the church and the school and
a,Chrlstian printing press kindle all around
about us God’s street-lamp of the Bible.
Send the Bible down that filthy alley if you
would have it cleansed. Send it against those
decanters if you would have them smashed.
Send it against those chains if you would have
them broken. Send it through all the igno
rance of the city if you would have it illu
mined as by a flash from heaven’s morning.
The Bible can do it, will do it. Gather all the
ignorance and the wickedness and the vice
of our cities in one great pile—Alps above
Alps, Pyrenees above Pyrenees, Himalaya
above Himalaya—and then give one little
New Testament full swing against the side of
that mountain and down it would oome, Alps
after Alps, Pyrenees after Pyrenees, Him
alaya after Himalaya. What is the
difference between New York and Pe
kin? What is the difference between London
and Madras? What is the difference between
Edinbueh and Canton? No difference save
that which the Bible makes. Oh, city mis
sionary! Oh, philanthropist! Oh, Christian!
Go everywhere and kindle up these great
street lamps of the gospel, and our city, puri-.
fled and cleansed, will proclaim what the
Psalmist so long ago declared, “Thy word is
a lamp.”
Still further, the Bible is the best
lamp. Blessed is the merchant who undsgvw
glow reada his ledger and transacts his<Aj-£J
ness an 1 poqkets his gains and miff*
losses. It may be well to have a fine-
light, to have a magnificent glass snow
dow, by night to have bronze brackets sphuf**
ing fire in a very palace of merchandise
if you have not this eternal lamp yon had bfftten
quit keeping store. What is the reason so
many who started in merchandise with good
principles and fair prospects and honorable
intentions have become gamb’ers and de
frauders and knaves and desperadoes and
liars and thieves? They did not have the
right kind of a store lamp. Why is it in
our day merchandise is smitten with
uncertainty, and three-fourths of the business
of our great cities is only one huge species of
gambling, and society is upturned by false
assignments, and repudiations, and imperilled
trust funds, and fraudulent certificates of
stock, and wild schemes in railroads without
any track, and banks without any capital, aud
cities without any houses, and joint stock
companies without any consciences? And why
are ten thousand of our business men ridden
with a nightmare enough to crush Hercules
and Prometheus? It is the want of a right
kind of store lamp. What ruined the mer
chant princes of Tyre—that great city of fairs
and bazaars and palaces; her vessels of trade
with cedar masts and embroidered sails and
ivory benches driven by fierce blasts ou north
ern waters and then dropping down on glas-y
Indian seas; bringing wine from Helbon, sml
chariot cloths front Dedan, and gold and
spices from Kahmah. and emerald and
agate from Syria; her waters foam
ing with innumerable keeis, her storehouses
bursting with the treasures of all nations—
that queen of eities on a throne of ivory aud
ebony, under a crown of gold and pearl and
diamond and carbuncle and chrysephrase?
The want of a right kind of store lamp. It
the principles of religion had ruled in her
trade, do you suppose that dry rot would
have suuk the ships, and that vermin wouhi
have eaten up her robes, and that God’s mills
would have ground up the agate, and that
fishermen would dry their nets on rocks which
once were aquake with the roar and tread of
a great metropolis? Oh, what thrones have
fallen, what monuments have crumbled,
what fleets have suuk, what statues have been
defaced, what barbarisms have been created,
what civilization retarded, what nations
damned, all for the want of the right kind of
a store lamp!
Still further, the Bible is the best church
lamp. I care not how many chandeders there
may bo in a church, how many brilliant
lights there maybe, the word of God is tie z
best church lamp. Oh. is there anythiu-'l
more beautiful than an audience J]
the Sabbath for Christian worssW The
may be nodazzle of theatric asseni-™ge, the il
may be no glitter of foot-lights, there may i(£
no allegoric images blossoming from foot <CJ
dome; but there is something in the place*
and in tiie occasion that makes it super
natural. In the light of this lamp I see your
faces kindle with a great joy. Glorious
church lamp, this Bible! Luther found it in
the cloister at Erfurt, and he lifted it until
the monasteries and cathedrals of Germany
and 'talyand France and England, and the
world saw its illumination. It shone under
the breastplateof sacerdotal authority; and in
the mosques of Turkey and in the pagodas
of India, and in the ice ltut9 of Greenland,
and in the mud hovels of Africa, and in the
temples of China, God’s regenerated
children, in sweet Italian, and na
sal Chinese, and harsh Choctaw, cried out:
•‘Thy word is a lamp.” It throws its light on
the pulpit, making a bulwark of truth; on
the baptismal cup, until its waters glitter
tike the crystals of heaven. It strikes peni
tence into the prayers and gladness into the
thanksgiving, it changes into a church John
Kunyan’s prison, and Covenanters’ cave, and
Calvin’s castle, aud Huss’ stake, and Hugh
UcKail’s scaffold of martyrdom. Zwinglius
carried it into Switzerland, and Jock Wick
field into Englgnd, and John Jinox into Scot
land, and Jeliudi Ashtnum into Africa.
Begone ye scoffers! Down to the lowest
pit ye emissaries of darkness! for by the
throne of an omnipotent judgment I declare
it that all iniquity shall fall, and all bondage
be broken, and all wounds be healed and all
darkness be dispelled when God’s truth shall
go forth “as a lamp that burneth.” We want
tio sappers or miners to level the wall; we
want no axmen or engineers to prepare the
way; we want no glittering steel or booming
gun or howling Hotchkiss shell to get us the
victory, for the mountains are full of horses
and chariots of fire. Hallelujah! for the king
doms of this world are become the kingdoms
of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Still further, the Bible is a sepulchral lamp.
You know that the ancient Egyptians used to
keep lights burning in the tombs of their
dead. These lights were kept up for scores,
even hundreds of years. Friends would come
from generation to generation and put oil in
the lamps, and it was considered a disaster if
those lamps went out. You and I will some
day go down into the house of the dead. (Some
have looked upon it as an unknown land, and
when they have thought;of it their knees have
knocked together and their hearts fainted.
There were whole generations of men that
had no comfort about death, no view of the
eternal world; and whenever they brought
their friends and put them away into the
dust, they said without any alleviation:
‘•This is horrid! This is horrid!” And it wae.
The grave is the deepest, ghastliest pit that a
man ever looks into, unless the lamp of God’s
word Hashes into it. For whole ages men
t hought that the sepulchre was a den where a
great monster gorged himself on human car
casses. ‘‘l will put an end to that,” said Jesus
of Nazareth. “I will with mine own voice go
down and make darkness flee,” and as he
stepped out from the gate of heaven all the
graveyards of earth cried: “Come! come!”
and he came down bringing a great many
beautiful lights, and above this babe’s grave
he hung a light, and over this mother’s tomb
he hung a light, and over this wife’s grave he
hung a light; |then he uttered his voice
and it ran along under the ground
from city to city, ami along under the
sea from continent to continent, until
mausoleum and sarcophagus and sepulchre
throbbed with the joy: “I am the resurrec
tion and the life; he that believetli in Me,
though he were dead, yet shall he live.” And
now, if Greenwood and Laurel Hill and
Mount Auburn could break their beautiful
silence and should speak, their lips of bronze
and granite would break forth in the strains
of my text: “Thy Word is a lamp.”
O, ye bruised souls! O, ye who have been
cutting yourselves among the tombs! O, ye
who have been sowing seed for the resurrec
tion day! O, ye of the broken heart! I come
out to-night and put in your hand this glori
ous gospel lamp. It will throw a glow of
consolation over your bereft spirit. “Weep
ing may endure for a night, but joy cometh
in the morning.” “They that sow in tears
shall reap in joy.”
liabbi Mier went off from home to be gone a
few days and left two beautiful boys. While
he was gone the two lads died. Kabbi ifier
returned not knowing that anythiughad hap
pened. His Christian wife knew he would be
overcome with grief, and she met him at the
door and said to him: “Mv husband, I once
had two beautiful jewels loaned to me. I had
them fora little while. And, do you know,
while you were gone the owner came for
them. Ought I to have given them?” “Of
course,” said Kabbi Mier, “you ought to have
given them up; you say they were only
loaned.” Then she called her husband to the
side room and removed the cloth that covered
the dead children. After Rabbi Mier had for
a few moments given way to his grief, he rose
up and said: “Now I know what vou meant
by the borrowed jewels. “The Lord gave and
the Lord hath taken away. Blessed lie the
name of the Lord.’ ” And so Kabbi Mier was
comforted.
Let this sepulchral light gild all the graves
of your dead! May this lamp of the text be
set in all your parlors, in all your streets, in
all your stores, in all your churches, in all
your sepulchres! Amen!
THE ALABAMA’S FIGHT.
Another Alleged Reminiscence of the
Famous Battle with the Kesraarge.
I have a “reminiscence” of the Ala
bama fight, says W. J. Stilman, of New
York, in the Evening Post, which does
not agree with “Lord Burgoyne’s” story.
In 18661 was American Consul in Crete,
and was making a voyage in the Levant
on an English schooner, and noticed
among the crew a characteristic Western
profile, to which I paid artful attention,
seeing that the man did not want to notice,
or be noticed by me; but some slight at
tention in the way of fruit, of which I had
a private stock on board, brought him
over, and we made a pleasant acquaint
ance and made a quarantine together on
board. He was a Tennessee man, a
devoted follower of Semmes by land
and sea, and was Captain of the
forecastle gun during the fight with the
Kearsarge. The fight, he said, was from
the beginning a hopeless one—the eleven
inch shells of the Kearsarge burst about
their ears in a most demoralizing way; it
was “hell let loose,” in his own words,
and the Alabama did her best to keep
away, while the Kearsarge continually
neared her. Semmes went down into the
cabin and prepared for submergence, see
ing which, my friend did the same.
“What was good for him was good for
me,” he said, and got on a life belt. The
English gunners on the Alabama had
their guns sighted for 1,000 yards and
never changed their sight through the
whole fight, in consequence of which the
shot all went over the Kearsarge.
When the Alabama went down, the
boat of the Deerhound appeared and came
to the men struggling among the floating
wreckage, asking every man “who he
was.” He was among the first accosted,
and replied: “Never mind who I am. I
shall be a dead man soon if you don’t
pick me up.” The men in the boat want
ed to know if he was an officer; but he
Insisted on being taken in, no matter
what his rank, and when finally they
picked up Semmes they pulled off with
all haste for the Deerhound, leaving num
bers of the crew, who were all English
men, struggling in the water, to drown
or be picked up by the boats of the Kear
sarge, and, as is well known, the Deer
hound sailed at once for England to keep
Semmes out of the hands of the American
commander.
Arranging for the Wedding.
Chicago News.
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at the wedding?”
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BJoon>i'nt et hist, has
she hasn’t answered
WT are you going to marry
silence give consent?”
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SUNDAY AT NEW ORLEANS
DIVINE SERVICE HELD IN MUSIC
HALL.
‘A Sacred Concert Follows In the Af
ternoon—A Moderate Attendance of
Visitors—Fall of 300 Feet or Iron
Frame Work of a Hotel In Process of
Construction—One Man Killed.
New Orleans, Dec. 21.— There was a mod
erate attendance at the exposition to-day.
Divine service was held in Music Hall, and
was followed by a sacred concert by the Mex
ican Band this 'afternoon. The weather was
partly cloudy and warm, the mercury stand
ing now at 70 degrees.
FALL OF A HOTEL.
This morning 300 feet of the iron frame
work of a large hotel in course of erection di
rectly west of the main exposition building
fell with a terrible crash. A number of men
were working on the structure.
Frank Green, colored, of Nashville, was in
stantlv killed.
Albert Freeze, a native of Michigan, was
ba lly and perhaps mortally injured.
James Carrol, of Chicago, received internal
injuries.
Kiter ami Connelly, of Pittsburg, are the
contractors constructing the building, and are
heavy losers by the accident.
The foreman iu charge’of the building, Mr.
Mider, said that it was the narrowest escape
from death he had ever witnessed in his
life on the part of Hie forty and odd workmen
who were on the building. The structure is
some 500 feet long by 100 feet wide.
THE FIRST ELECTION
■ "l'ltml with the last —Washington
the Inauguration in a Boat.
WThe contrast between the last and the
■rst election, says a New York letter to
Troy Times, is Indeed impressive.
W hen the first Presidential election took
place the Union contained only ten
States, for the other three had not accept
ed the constitution. The Senators and
Congressmen assembled in New York,
and it was tp|uly a month before a
quorum was .jßined. This took place
on April 6, 1786, and the first step was
the election ot a President, Washington
receiving the 6!) votes. The scene of this
grand national event was the old City
Hall, corner of Wall and Nassau streets,
the site being now occupied by the Treas
ury. The election ot Washington (both
terms) was the first and probably will
be the last unanimous vote on such an oc
casion.
Avery embarrassing question was the
title which the head of the nation was to
receive. In the Senate it was first pro
posed that he should be called “His Ex
cellency.” This, however, was by some
considered hardly of sufficient dignitv,
and it was then determined that the ad
dress should be: “His Highness, the
President of the United State and the
Protector ot Their Liberties.” The Lower*
House objected to this as Inconsistent
with American simplicity, and held that
he should be addressed merely as “The
President.” The Senate lor a while ad
hered to its method, but eventually gave
way to the Representatives. Twenty-four
days after election Washington was in
augurated, and then a procession was
formed marching to St. Paul’s Church in
order to ask the divine blessing on the
newly formed government.
If the election of Washington was
unique, his arrival was no less so. He
was the first President and probably will
Ik> the last to reach the seat of govern
ment in an open boat. Congress sent one
of its members to notify Washington,
and, as it was a four days’ journey, the
messenger reached Mount Vernon by the
11th. Washington was soon ready, and
made the journey on horseback attended
by his suite, which included Tobias Lear,
his favorite Secretary. He was wel
comed everywhere with the highest hon
ors, and his route lay through Trenton,
which was the scene of his first victory.
On reaching New Brunswick he found a
barge of state awaiting him, each of its
rowers being the Captain of a ship. In
addition to the crew was the Committee
of Reception, which included the mag
nates of the nation, and on this barge the
first President was conveyed to this city.
It was a rather slow voyage, but, slow as
it might be, it was better than land car
riage, and six hours after leaving New
Brunswick the first President landed at
the foot of Wall street. The same dis
tance is now made by rail in less than an
hour. He reached this city just seven
teen days after his election, and his in
auguration took place just a week after
his arrival. He was the only President
elected and inaugurated in this city, and
New York has responded to the honor by
erecting a statue to the Father of His
Country on the very spot where he took
the oath of office.
Photographing Parts of Bodies.
New York Mirror.
The craze for photographing sections ot
the human form divine has not yet
reached New York, but it’s bound to
come. 1 have been looking over an Eng
lish collection.
There were hands—some of them stuck
through holes in a dark screen and
clasped and raised; others were taken
singly, holding a flower; others, again,
exhibited the palm in such a way that a
fortune teller could “read the lines.”
There were bare feet. If any one ever
saw a bare foot that was pretty on any
thing but a baby, then they have seen
LizzieWeathersby’s (Airs. Nat Goodwin).
She has a beautiful loot without a blem
ish, and might be justified in having hers
photographed. But the English feet that
bad been subjected to this process that I
saw were something wicked. One, be
longing to Ladj; Gladys Londsdale, was
handsome; but it was as big as the foot of
a bill at Christmas.
Then the backs that are taken—just
simple, plain backs, with moles perhaps,
or without; and sections of shoulders and
napes of necks, scruffs of necks—scrags
of neck, the mutton sellers call’m—or an
ear, just one detached ear, for that ear is
stuck through a slit in a sheet of velvet.
The British crown is not the property of
Queen Victoria, but of the nation. All the
crown jewels are kept in the Tower of Lon
don. The room in which they are kept is a
ground floor apartment, with sombre stone
walls eight feet in thickness. It is small, and
in its centre stands a huge, iron-barred cage
oblong in shape and rising nearly to the cell
ing. Within this cage is a stand, terrace
topped, and covered with velvet which was at
one time white. At the extreme top is the
crown made for Victoria. Below it, on od-d
side, i the crown of the Prince of Wales, and
on the other that of the last of the Stuarts,
the four Georges and William IV. One crown
had served very well for all these men, but
when, in 1837, the royal headgear had to be
put upon a woman’s bead, it was of course
much t oo large, and anew one had to be
made. Beside the crowns there are in the
collection the royal wand, a solid gold stick
three feet seven inches in length, the royal
communion service, three large fonts, all of
solid gold, out of which the royal children are
baptized, besides numerous other valuable
presents that have in times past been pre
sented to the State by friendly sovereigns.
The entire collection is valued at $15,000,000,
much of which sum is represented in the rare
stones that grace the crowns and sceptre, the
famous Koliinoor, the second largest diamond
in the world, being one of them.
The biggest goose ever raised in the West—
we here refer strictly to fowl—weighed 25
pounds and grew to the usual toughness in
Sioux City, la.
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