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I ESTABLISHED 18S0 . I
| .1. H. BSTILL, Editor and Proprietor. |
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE \KWS OF THK TWOSTATES
TOLl) IN PARAGRAPHS.
.V Boy Maimed for Life While at Play
Athens—Franklin County Well-
Pleased With the Working; of Her
Prohibition Law—Judge Me Cay at
Baltimore.
GEORGIA.
I < n Point will probably receive 500 bales
t , ~tton more this year than last,
sixteencandieates have announced them*
, - fur county offices in Taliaferro county.
Sit.ral people suffered slight injuries by
t the icy pavements of Atlanta >unday.
■j ,e father of Ir. Camac, of Athens, was
;r-t Prc-ident of the Georgia railroad.
i town of t amak was named tor him.
Workmen are now engage<l in ereeting a
■sent over the grave of ex-Gov.
j'j, tid V.’Johnson in the cemetery at Lou
,i hn 'ullivan died at his home, six miles
j r ,.in livron. Friday, in the 7t)th year of his
lie had been a school teacher in that
. r ~i, f,,r thirty-live years.
', ioral candidates in Clarke county have
i, i their willingness to accept Lary
i, ;f- proposition and bind themselves not
. :my votes at the coming county elec
tion.
Hon. K. 1.. Fulton, the present Mayor of
~,-t..u, Texas, was formerly a citizen of
p n-on. Ills administration of the city’s af
r. n -p,,ken of as of the most satisfactory
. haracter.
\ mountain wagon last week passed
t : _.i franklin county, selling cabbage at
per head and giving a gallon of corn
w. kv #- a chronio. The owner drove off
], fore an arrest could he made.
Aiiicricue Re, order: Cotton receipts, as
, H,l with the last two seasons: To date,
. i . same date 18*3, 21,*76; same vlate
:< 1 ; giving an excessovrr 1883 of 452
la k ng 1,888 of being up to 1882.
.n Pratt, the ls-vear old colored boy who
p and David Mitchell, a colored man of ma
x. . r . years, at Atlanta. Saturday uight in a
.. r, I. the origin of which is a mystery, is
, and f,,r trial, but refuses to say much about
tin kilimg.
\mi i, us Recorder z Thursday the City
j , met to destroy a remnant of city
r pt. Three hundred and thirty-two and a
* dollar.-, were consigned to the flames.
1 , ity i- now riclwenough to use Uncle
- , - greenbacks, consequently the old city
currency was destroyed.
'in.titvdie EnUrprite: We learn that there is
on foot to build anew academy just
:t of the old one. We liope the citizens
ad | tr.m- of the school will take an active
,r. -t in this matter and soon have an
a iu . that will is* an ornament to the city
iii-fcad of an eyesore, as the present struc
li.,- lair ground project at Athens is pro
grc—ing linely. Men whom the committee
- .no id* a would subscrilie a dollar, are
ind caking shares very liberally.
1:, Hire* gentlemen who were ai>|K>inte<l to
ii -al>-* riptions are doing their whole
duty, and w ilt raise the necessary amount if
<> l hur- lay night last the stables of S.
ought the Milton place, op
. 'il.- K**rt Lamar, in Franklin county, were
ii .ril' and bv an incendiary, and he lost tw o
ii. - aid two flue milk cows in the flames;
a -o, all of the forage. It was the work of an
,ii,, udiary.antl A. F. Miller has Iteen arrested
rime, having been heard tir tlirrstfinJ
to mini out anyone vvho bought the place,
i.rc, n-l-oro Journal: fir. J. K. WalkcrjAt
oi, i- premises a peach tree which carro dKiir
* s ...fni. The Doctor first noticed IhuKrcc
icaring fruit iu 1*37; but even at that tpie it
.mist have been somewhat aged. li<^lß77 —
ah r—the -amt tree boresrsplen
i r'. i,.,f fruit. This tree is certainly one
tL. ..dest bearing fruit tree's we have ever
. ,r : of, aid the species should not be lost.
It. F. Ivy, of * uthbert, an inventive genius,
- aim ; ,r Sew Orieaaa with
one of his patents in the form of a buggv
• xhibit it and si ll the right if pos
- c. The patent is a good one, and no doubt
i,c will sod. Mr. Ivey -avs he has an offer al
r adv from an extensive Western buggy f.v
b,r . and if he *loes not sell at New Orleans,
lie will thou sell to the above named factory.
Thursday night at an early hour Anna Bai
lee. a re'pectabie colored girl of Columbus,
w bile passing through the park in that city,
was a costed bv Milledge Johnson, colored, in
the employ of King A Daniel, who attempted
a r.ip on her |*cr-on. Being very strong she
-u ceded tn baffling his fell purpose until
-•me parties, attracted by her sc reams, catnc
to tin* rescue. The scoundrel then fled and
succeeded in making good his escape.
t he Northeastern Railroad i now building
a private telegraph line from Tallulah Falls
h* Athens. It will l*e connected with the
W.-tern Union, and they will par a royalty
on at) message* sent by them over this'line.
The ra Ir.ia l has already purchased the wire
and instruments, ami have commenced dig
ging the holes for the telegraph poles ami
distributing them down the track. The line
will lie owned ami managed by the North
eastern Company.
While Dr. W. A. Howard, of Ccntreville.
pad gone to the spring for some water some
.ii,- entered his oflice and stole a pockelliook
m vvb,. t, was $65. That evening a negro
• r.zi.t ~is.ut fill worth of goo*ls from Sir.
Gotttn liner, a mile below that place, and was
seen to have an unusual amount of money,
which aroused suspicion and tic was arrested,
and was found to have the purse and the bai
rn • of the money, together with the goods
ought, which were returned to Mr.
Gottbeimer and the money procured.
Augusta was paved with ice Sunday morn
ing Mrs. O'Hara slipped while leaning over
the banisters feeding chickens in the yard be
-1 vv. and fell over the banisters from a second
.-lory piazza, she dropped almost lifeless in
the yard, injured internally, and is now at
tic point of death. Several other accidents
happened in falls on the ice. The Hill car
■ unmanageable Saturday night, the
brakes refusing to clamp the wheels. The
•rs>- were detached ami the car slipped
down tli* hill on the track at a rapid rate.
The Komu Bulletin narrates that Daniel
Trammell, who had been out hunting ami was
a*,-turning home, met with a colored man who
had aso been huntiug. The colored man had
i savage dog along with him, and the dog
* barged tipin Trammell. The darker was
to ! to keep bis dog back, but did not do so.
an ! Trammell was bitten. He then turned
aid emptied his gun in the dog. and the
darkey then wheeled and fired upon Train
sneil. Ill'gun being empty he retreated into
the residence of Rev. J. A. Clement, and be
fore he reloaded his gun the darky vamoosed.
Athens Conner- Watchman: Several months
Franklin county adopted the prohibitory
law- on li'iiior. In conversation yesterday
with a gentleman from Carnesville, the home
of “Billy Patterson,” we asked him how the
prohibition worked in his county. He an
- were*l that it had largely diminished crime
at, t had proved a great bene tit to tde people
of Franklin. Carnesville, before the adoption
*f this measure, was at time* very disorderly
many shooting and cutting scrapes oceur
r -,g—but now they did not need the services
I, and the place was noted for
!* me an*l g■ *d order. So much for the de
struction of the liquor traffic.
Athens Banner- Watchman: Wednesday,
while little Freddie Moon, son of the late John
Moon, was playing with some other hoys near
, - home, he happened to a very serious acci
■ o ;it. It seems that the boys had been play
with a e irt. hauling eacn other down the
mil. and when Freddie’s turn came several of
tin larger boys took hold of the cart and be
s *n rutiking very rapidly down the steep in
• vv ii, u the vjhi le overturned, throw ing
-v .:an and striking the arm with
rii fore.- as to literallv shatter the bones of
c u;*-m!*er. The doctor says the use of that
-'Will be destroyed for life. This is indeed
a-. i blow to this already stricken family,
- ; i they base the sympathy of our people.
Athens Bann-r- Watchman! Col. Charbon
b:cr received small ailditions to the college
■ paraf us list the other day- It was a little
strument for making very small measure
e -its of thicknesses, and is called a spereom
r it is very delicate and accurate, occu
! -about as luorh space as a 6-incb cube,
it|S). With ii measurements as small
a tw.v millionth pari of a metre may lie
>■ * :or we can tietter appreciate what it is
"-*• we know that with it tan be measured
* h* i! n-kncss of a sheet of gold leaf, of a flv’s
" g. or ,-ven the thickness of the lead in
* pencil marks which we make while
v ‘ 'g ih There is no college in the >outh
’ st ' --uch apparatus as there is to be found
at the L'nivcrsity.
*' K il . .Vs*r*; For some time past parties
- is-ar Wallace’s Mill have been troubled
win thieves. Bits of harness would be taken
* r I.* their stables, corn from their cribs,
' kens from their coops, and all went wtth
_ a trace of the light-fingered
i-iiitho abstracted them. Last week Mr.
g. tv. Hollingsworth went to a small patch
-tame from his dwelling bv gather the
hat ho expected to find there on the
-nr what was his surprise to find that
I- ry .ar nail been removed. About the
me a colored man living on his place
v- r.-d that at least half a wagon load of
' tn had been taken from his crib. He
* '• rot forthwith a reward of 15 to the person
w ! tr-iiM point out the thief. Theofferwas
pte*J by a young negro standing near
1 i promise that be would not be troubled,
t- 1 that the rogue was an old negro liv
- near bv. and through bis evidence the
was arrestetl and is now in jail.
-V Baltimore special to the Cincinnati En
■ •r has the following tidings of Judge Me.
Judge H. Kent McUav, of the United
- District Court of Atlanta. Ga., whose
la ' 1 has become deranged, arrived in Balti
! id.es iay evening, ana was taken to the
of his brother, Prof. Charles Mc
* ty. on North i h.-.rles stre-t. Last night,
img the terrible snow-storm, the Jutlge
tvas , icked up by the police and taken to
! n -tat*.tn house. He was found sitting in the
:< r cola on the steps of the Baltimore d*i
*'! -Railroad building. It has lieen ascer
tain. -1 the Judge evaded his watchers and es
' •iped from home. He sold his valuable gold
watch for $1 an l bought a bottle of whisky.
A' the Judge is a strictly temperate man. this
[alter act is very singular. The police turned
b;m over to h s brother, and to-night he was
taken to Philadelphia, where he will be placed
man asylum. An impression that the Judge’s
trouble Was caused by drink is without foun
dation. His brother says he was always averse
to iujnor, ami would not allow any intoxicat
>sg liquor in his house.
FLORIDA.
7 ,1 e Umatilla school numbers about 10 pu
pils.
T. f. Myers, of Tallahassee, will erect a
s-.'jMj resilience at that place.
Long cotton shipments from Madison up to
•rev-13 amount to 2.144 bales. This is com
!’■."**> f the sea island crop exclusively.
Madison will ship about one-ninth of the
World’* tea island crop.
es 4 le the.lifferentroa.la
a ,l f , ar , ‘"Vk Tangerine at least.
oramren hu M comparatively few
"r t ?ees K' rom , t l ni as yet. as the old
en fruTt. Keneraily q ,ite full of the gold
widu' rne'nnVm *7® l ' ,^e l ,oul|( ' against two
murde? of 5?n ed Stokes for the
muruer or Schmidt, Sar Orlando omo
weeks airo, and thi B- some
They hill. - e - Winers are in jail,
her of yearjf n IVInK vicinity a num
se^uZ > Wr^ il --‘, h l there wil > * anew
tX *n place of Judge
or “ : .s u,ut
divides between E*K W“1 appointee ruu.or
lan, b.vth of Sanford7‘M ' ttr a “' Ju<1 8C -No-
TcffiSSZtSi'% schools all the
ind the school for eoh^C,.IT' n ‘ try ,' vvl ‘ lte ’’
ceeda tho w-hin i.B * children, which ex-
Iheco red I** numl 'ers. The latter
a,wut a
- Kd„ r b^ n l° ~k who ,ia<l nin
unnatural enmi LndKwi 1 on a’barge ofan
alonx Udieved was i ma,l s Dave all
>ia> and acquitted. tK j urv not n m
fifteen minutes on hia JtJ. 3 not uel,ll£ oul
wt r o t w-is U t n r , feV ngl^han named Newton.
tTn^ecTu?lifh^i“- and u nd guilty and sen
near ♦° r .B ,e mur(,er of .Samuels
gfven a, ew } P ar ' a *'d who has been
Soor and ■ I kept ch:il ued to the
nt!4S a th ti[‘ I 1 f ht : a, ‘ h , 18 fai V nK
no; soon take place iVm -m ? han ? e does
before 4W , 1 will, before long, go
obliged ,^ and *P her tribunal. Th.y
frequent •ind°.l.^^" IKI lllra I,ecaus e of
irequent and desperate attempts to escape
reJit*ebTnment* *r rr ' 't ln a,i,liti n to the di-
Uds oft L t. c 2§°" to Liverfmol from
mis port m January, Mr. F. B Pai.v the
p'TdWav al fr ' 5 1 ' t ofthe Florida
■ i iinEi (Ml li a > V | lgat W" Company, has made
Breim Bh, L"n*-nt of 2,e00 bales to
be Vo “ Germany. The cotton for it will
the U hftlm ed at Loliimljus, <ia., come down
J.'Vs n r .“ ah 2? ch! f'ver, be loaded on the
( ..nm Honda Railway and Navigation
, a, i'i transported to this port. Here
trans erreli '? r , ' nilu ' l ving.iom will Ivc
the Cam Marth for Mr. Wm.
rarrit v e for Germany will be
tarru <1 to New York via the Mallory line.
WO.Nfc by a PA lit OF SHOES.
A Kfcmance ln the Life of Gov. Cleve
l land’s Father.
Majliy years ago there was a meeting of the
Gem iral Assembly of the Presbyterian Church
*" 1,1 e cit y of Baltimore, says the New York
Wot* W. Among the clergyman in attendance
" : ‘”i k young dominie but recently ordained,
wim e manners un.l personal qualities
wroi ight havoc among the marriageable
Bis!< f 1 whos* piety or curiosity had led them
to a lend the deliberations of the pundits. Of
thos sxvho, in this solemn conclave, found the
opP' lit unities of measuring the qualities of
the femlvryo divine was a certain Miss A ,
an '* hand having already been
picdttea and so in a manner fitted by experi
cnce janvi i.y sympathy of judging the wants
oi me unoccupied human affections, saw in
thi-> lanii’ young clergyman a most fitting
mjaie for her younger sister for whom as yet
“ no man had spoken.”
Hfeturoing to her home at the close of the
>r*t session of the Assembly, she revealed to
Bdr sister the discovery she had made, insist
'ing that she had found the man bv Providence
Ordained to make that sister Annie hai.i.v,
and that she (Annie) should attend the fol
omg meetings, and thus place herself in a
providential line for carrying out the pre
ordained plans. Miss A ,in no wise loth]
to see the man thus ardently described A
amused by the anxious care and wise provis*!
ion of the elder was illing to act I
But here an insuper.-|fjle obstacle interposed l
the world had not ! A.-n tirolific in itsboun- 1 '
ties to this family, aRd Miss A’s explora
tion revealed that her wardrobe did not
contain a pair of boßs or shoes in which she
could venture totnjad the streets. Nor did
her sister’s contain- a duplicate. In fact
there was but a . single pair
between them. So faff a time it seemed tint
all their providentinlj plannings wore to be
brought to naught foffiwant of a pair of shoes.
The elder sister remiked the obstacle bv re
moving the covering at h.-r own feet to luvest
those of the youuger, Otul sent her on her mis
sion. Meanwhile tlWigotis that weave the
warp of life had noHpTeen idie in removing
threads among the of the young man’s
ho|K*s. His eyes,someßu. s wandering, caught
flashes from other spoke unnttered
thoughts, and amonAe i>ious emotions due
such a holy assemblaEt were miugled strange
thoughts and themesk^
So destiny wrought, bringing then and
there these two and nearer to
gether. Then an was formed,
ripening soon into If ve, an.l two hands and
lives were joined, thflUhrough years of joy
and sunshine, years of louds and sorrow,
ever kept bright and noble—that
blessed the world rod prac
tices of the gospel of lov. —that gave to the
world children that sbou Id perpetuate their
good works and .ldMk, whom the world
should delight to hc aor, .ind one, a son—the
m in f destiny who, on March 4, shall take
his seat a3 President of the United States.
DAMAGING RECORDS.
The Republicans Ridding Themselves
of Documents that Would Betray
Them.
All of the arc house-cleaning,
says a getting ready
for the new tenants Wlv l are to move in by
March 4.
In many of the records which
might be of assistailH in investigating past
management are
ment is this so notidflble as in the state De
partment.
Here there is not fM the present time any
record kept ot the MEhlential work of the de
partment. The chlifclerk does not come to
the department uncArcry late, and when he
does he runs tlirougMhe’mail and then car
ries the bulk of it home with him. None of
tliele papers, wheti once carried away, are
ever brought back. is example is imitated
by other officials IB the department who
handle records. Eijt| day a bundle of papers
is carried away bj sopie one of the leading
officials, and thej Bfcver return them. All
that might throwjpght on the suddenly
developed, brilliant foreign policy of the
administration aH been or will be
removed by Marc!4. When the new Secre
tary comes to take ®arge of the department
he wiil find no ariWves beyond the junk re
presented by the cmfcmercial reports of Con
suls. The private of Minister Fos
ter, who is lobby-Hjflfiht-in-chief to the Span
ish treaty, the dipjvatic Santa Claus who
desires to make a Qfc-istmas present of $25,-
000,000 to the CubantManters, would prove in
teresting if they cmild be found. The secret
pajters relating to tlMrKic&ragua treaty would
also make good reading.
PROSPECTIVE MILLIONAIRES
Dying in Poor-llouses While Awaiting
Thedr Fortune.
A remarkable ciSe of eccentricity in will
making, says a London cable special of Dec.
20, is just reported from Bradford, and rivals,
In real life, Eugene Sue’s dramatic story of
“The Wandering Jew.” Mr. John Taylor
died at Bradford in 1860, leaving considerable
wealth and a wilt directing that all his proper
ty should be so administered as to accumulate
for twenty-five years. The ouiy churges that
were to be paid were the cost ot maintaining
and investing the property and of discharging
certain mortgage bonds as they became due.
At the end of twenty-live years the property
was to be divided amongeertain heirs named in
the will or amend such of them as sbouid then
be living. In cast* none of the heirs should then
lie living the ehafie of each one as apportioned
in the wiil w-as t<s be paid to his or her natural
lK Tjfe beneflciarAs named in the will were all
relatives of Mr.t Taylor, and were all poor.
They vainiv soupfit to set aside the will, and
thev vainly appealed, time and again, to the
executors for sdme relief out of the shares
which were eventually to come to them. Tlie
executors rigidly adhered to the terms of the
will, and some of the heirs, although pros
pective millionaires, became reduced to great
poverty and want. Several of them died in
poor houses. Only eight now survive to
share the property, which is to lie divided
among them early next year, and which
amounts to no less than $20,000,000.
AT THE STATE CAPITAL.
One Man Killed and Another Badly In
jured at a Cotton Compress.
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 22.—At the Bell street
cotton press this morning Abe Thomas was
killed and Jerry Wilson paihfully wounded
by the falling out of an iron wedge in the
upper portion of the press as it came down on
the bale. Both men were employed sewing
the ends of the bale, when the wedge slipped
out and the press flew up, breaking a portion
of the machinery above. Thomas was struck
in the breast by a piece of the broken ma
chinery and injured to such an extent that he
diet soon after. Wilson luckily escaped being
mashed to a jellv by the wedge which fell
down at his end of the bale. The press belongs
to Inman.
Florida on the Wire.
Jacksonville, Fla., Dec. 22.—Two
and one deacon were ordained yesterday afj
St. John’s Church (Episcopal) by. Bi'hoM
Young. The ceremonies were very imijV
appearance of the frost
morning created surprise. It has qnite
warm all day, and windows amljßbor* have
been all open. .. „ . 4m.
A negro tramp thief was a police
man winlo attempting to escajw.
Another case of infantioJF lias occurred.
The victim is white.
Thequestion of the alVrption of the sur
burbs by the city is agaif J.eing agitated.
Two Shot at Subnsboro.
Mipville. Ga., Dec.
evening there was a m
Bwa:nsboro. and some of them
guns and pistols promiscuously. BeWPKemp,
white, and Manning Walker, colored, were
.slightlv wounded. Neither was seriously
hqyt. 'Both parties are up.
DANDRUFF
Is Removed by the Use of Cocoaine,
And it stimulates and promotes the growth
of the hair.
Burnett’s Flavoring Extracts are
the best.
HALE OX THE BIG SPLIT.
THE STOItY OF THK CONTRO
VERSY TOLD IN DETAIL.
Nothing but Consivvatism Seen In the
Senate’s Course by the Gentlemen ln
Charge of the Kill which Made the
Mischief—The llcane, of Courwe,
Shouldered with the Blame.
Washington, Dec. 22.—Senator Hale, who
has charge of the naval appropriation bill in the
Senate as Chairman of the naval sub-commit
tee of the Com mitt, e on Appropriations, was
asked to-day by a reporter of the Associated
Press to state the position of the Senate in the
present issue with the House, and the reasons
which underlie its disagreement with that
body. He said: “The controversy at this
session arose out of the fact that at the last
session the House of Representatives refused
to go forward in the work of rebuilding the
navy. The Senate, by a considerable
majority, favored an increase of the
navy. I felt in managing the bill
that while it was proper for the Senate to
maintain its ground, and while it was very
desirable that the work of rebuilding the
navy should nyt be delayed, still, under the
rules that govern the two Inxlics. the Senate
could not in the end coerce the House. The
session expired, the bill, w ith all the Senate
amendments, was left in conference, and the
two l-odies passed what is ealle.l an emergen
cy bill, giving the Navy Department fifty per
cent, of the appropriation of last year to run
until Jan. 1, 1885.
THE PRESENT STAND.
“This session the attitude of the Senate has
been that the regular appropriation bill for
the current year ending July 1,1885. should be
taken up and considered by the two houses,
deducting from its appropriations what had al
ready been given for the first half of the year.
Ity tliis the items for the heads of the several
bureaus of the Navy Department would all
he given under estimates made for the pres
ent year. The House blindly insisted on an
other 6ix months temporary provision, going
back to last year’s appropriations and giving
50 j>er cent, of them. The Senate insisted
that such a way of appropriating is not a
good one, that eacii year’s appropria
tions should lie considered by themselves,
and presented to the House conferees
for theirconsideration the regular b,ll for the
present year, as prepared by the House and
amended by the Senate, including the pro
visions for cruisers and monitors and all ex
traordinary- appropriations for rebuilding the
navy. The House conferees declined even to
consider this amendment. The result of that
attitude on the part of the House has been
that no appropriations have been made, and
that the Navy Department, after Jan. 1, will
find itself without actual appropriations.
WHAT THE NAVAL DEPARTMENT WILL
“Of eousc the department will not expire.
Under the General Statutes giving the Secre
tary the right to provide for its indispensable
needs it will run on until some bill is passed.
As some attempt has been made in the House
to convey the impression that the Senate
seeks to force the House from its position
against the new navy, I have, this morning,
by unanimous direction of the full Committee
on Appropriations, reported as an amend
ment to the bill of tiie House giving a month's
appropriation to the Navy Department, a
substitute which makes the regular appropri
ations in the usual form for the last half of
the present fiscal year, and have taken as the
basis of that bill the regular naval appropria
tion bill for the present year, as it passed the
the House at the last session and came to the
Senate.
extraordinary items in reference to the
mw navy are left off, because the House has
V persistently opposed them. The present
will no doubt pass the Senate to-morrow.
House does not consent to take it up it
its own action at the last session, and
in maintaining that the Navy De
purtment must run on its own bill, a bill
which the Speaker of the House has decided
on a point of order is uol ono of the regular
appropriation bills.
CALLED CONSERVATIVE.
“The action of the Senate has been eminently
conservative, and there can be little doubt
but that in the end the House must recede,
but should any emergency arise, an.l the
American people be found unprepared, in
view of the complications with foreign pow
ers and with the navy comparatively useless,
it will plainly lie seen that at least tw-o years
have been wasted by reason of the obs motive
course of the House of Representatives. 1
that by this time the public will under
sntA 1 ' 1 that auy delay in rebuilding our navy
results from the attitude of the House. If
the next administration finds itself without
means to rebuild the American navy the re
sponsibility for that rests with the branch of
Congress that sympathizes with it politically.
Mr. Cleveland’s administration will be more
interested and more affected by this condi
tion than anybody else.”
WHAT THE OUTCOME WILL BE.
The News correspondent learns to-night
that the to-morrow adopt the
M'
i. .■.
to ill;, .-"licc.lc all asks,but It
will try to do so of an entirely
new bill. It is doubtful whether it will suc
ceed in beating an honorable retreat. The
members of the House are not disposed to
help the Senate out of its embarrassment.
The few who were at the capitol to-day
laughed whenever the Senate was mentioned,
but so many members of the House have gone
away that it is doubtful whether the House
will nave a ciuoruni when it meets on Wednes
day. Those who are present will probably
refuse to act u|>on the Senate bill, and so the
matter will bo no nearer disentanglement.
The fact is that both houses are in had temper.
Each thinks its prerogatives are invaded. The
House resents the interference of the Senate
with appropriation and revenue hills. The
Senate resents the interference of the House
with treaties. It would not take much cer
tainly to make the House refuse to approve
any of the legislation requisite to the proper
execution of the reciprocity treaties.
SAVANNAH’S POSTMASIML
Hatton Gives No Hint of Who IIdSUII
Aid with His Recommendation.
Washington, Dec. 22.—Postmaster Gei
eral Hatton returned to the Department to-'
day. He said to the News correspondent that
he would take up the Savannah post office
case just as soon as he got rid of the accumu
lated matter on his desk. “Two men,” he
said, “are bciug strongly urged for the place,
the incumbent and Mr. Wilson, who hits the
backing, apparently, of most of the promi
nent Republicans of the State. I have not
examined the case closely, but will do so just
as soon as jiossible.” The Postmaster Gen
eral may send the case, with his indorse
ment, to the President before New Year’s
day.
GARLAND’S TRIP TO ALBANY.
The Senator Invited to a Conference by
the President Elect.
Washington, Dec. 22.—Senator Garland
wentto Albany at Gov. Cleveland’s invita
tion just as Messrs. Bayard and Eaton and
other Democratic leaders have gone to give
advice at Mr. Cleveland’s request. He did
not go to be offered a Cabinet position, nor
was any Cabinet position offerc l him. He
simply gave the President cleet the benefit of
his long experience in public life. Neverthe
less it is the general opinion among well in
formed Democrats that Mr. Garland will be
offered and will accept the position of Attor
ney General in Cleveland’s Cabinet.
Holtnorth Relieved.
■Washington, Dec. 22.—Sergt. Otto Holt
north, of the Signal Service, who was recently
sent by the Secretary of War to Cleveland in
search of Capt. Howgate, has returned to
Washington, and has been relieved from duty
in the Signal Service. It is alleged that Sergt.
Holtnorin obtained information which in
duced the Secretary of War to send him as a
detective by rilling Lieut. Greely’s private
papers. He is to be court-martialed on charges
of conduct prejudicial to good order and dis
cipline preferred by the Chief Signal Officer
at the direction of the Secretary of War.
Flight of the Senators.
XVABHINGTON, Dec. 22.—Senators Beck, Don
Cameron. Butler, Jackson, and others, went
down the Potomac to-night on an extensive
duck hunt. Senator Hoar, though he opposed
the recess resolution and voted against it, an
nounced in the Senate to-day that he would
be absent after to day. Numerous others
have made arrangements to leave, and the
indications are that there will not be a
quorum present to-morrow.
Postmasters Commissioned.
Washington. Dec. 22.—The following Post
masters have been commissioned: Frances
D. Forsyth, at Perry, Ga.; Mary E. Stevens,
nt Tropic. Fla.; M. Blue, at Kcysville, Mo.
The post office of Merritt. Brevard county,
Fla., has lieen created, with Samuel J. Frost
as Postmaster.
Senate Confirmations.
Washington. Dec. 22.—The Senate to-day
cosfirmed B. Platt Carpenter, of New York,
to Ik* Governor of Montana, and Miss Mary
K. Pueenbcrry, to be Postmaster at Colcord,
N. C.
• Randall’s Welcome,
r Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 22.—A meeting
was called at the Merchants’ Exchange to
day, and arrangements were made for a
hearty welcome to S. J. Randall. The meet
ing, as expressed by the Chairman, had no
political significance, but was simply to take
steps for an appropriate recognition of one of
the foremost American statesmen. “If any
man,” continued the speaker, “should bo
honored by the people of the |nation, and
more particularly by those of this section,
that man is S. J. Randall.” *
A THIRD SOUTHERN TOUR.
Washington, Dec. 22.—1 t is understood
that Mr. Randall contemplates a third South
ern tour, which he will try to take in the
spring. It will embrace Charleston, Savan
nah, Jacksonville, Mobile and New Orleans.
Evarts ln the Race.
Y., Dec. 22.—The Erening
Journal prints a letter from William M.
Evarts announcing himself as a candidate for
the United States Senate, and appealing for
the support of the Republican members of the
Legislature.
Mrs. A. Kiley, corner Bryan and Farm
streets, Savannah, says: “I used Brown’s
Iron Bitters as a tonic and appetizer, and
found it all I could desire.”
SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1884.
SENATORS GO IT ALONE.
The Bill for a Liquor Commission
Passed—Sailing Into Naval Affairs.
Washington, Dec. 22.—The Chair laid be
fore the Senate to-day a message from Pres
ident Arthur, tran-mitting the supplemen
tary report of the Gun Foundry Board. It
was referred to the Committee on Military
Affairs.
Several petitions numerously signed were
presented, remonstrating against a ratifica
tion of the Spanish treaty. There was so lit
tle morning business to be done that by 12:15
o'clock the Senate had disposed of all that
was offered and proceeded to its calendar of
cases not objected to, which are subject to
the five minutes’ limitation tn debate.
The private pension bills that had already
passed the House were taken up and a num
ber of them passed.
Mr. Blair ealled up the bill providing for a
coni mission to examine into the liquor traffic.
He said it was a bill already passed four times
by the senate, but not acted on by the House.
The motion was opposed, but the bill was or
dered to be taken up, and was passed by 24
yeas to 10 nays.
Before voting Mr. Vest, who opposed the
bill, remarked that lie did not propo .e to be
placed by his vote in any attitude of hostility
to temperance, but he regarded the subject
matter of the bill as one belonging exclu
sively to States, atd there was no evidence
that the .State governments were not emirely
competent to deal witti it. The vote iu de
tail was as follows:
Yeas— Messrs. Allison. Blair, Cameron of
Wisconsin, Cameron of Pennsylvania, Conger,
Cnllom, Dolpli, Edmuuds, Frye, George. Hale,
Harrison, Hawley, Hoar, Laphaui, Mander
son. Miller of California, Miller of New York.
Morrill, Platt, Sawyer, Sherman, Van Wyck
and Wilson. Total 24.
Xam— Messrs. Bayard, Beck, Butler, Cock
rell, Gibson, Hampton, Harris, Jonas, Jones
of Florida, Maxey, Morgan, Pugh, Slater,
Vest, Voorliees and Walker. Total lt>.
THE NAVAL BILL.
Mr. Hale, from the Committee on Appro
priations, reported with amendments the
House bill making temporary provision for
the naval service—the Si-day bill. Mr. Hale
explained that the Senate committee had
amended that bill by substituting for it the
provisions of the regular annual appropria
tion bill for the fiscal yearesdiug June 30,
18*5. precisely as the House had passed it at
the last session, but modified so as to cover
only the remaining half of the fiscal ye r.
The amendments formerly inserted by the
Senate relating to ironclads and steel cruisers
being stricken out. The bill, he said, so far
as amounts went stood precisely on the basis
ou which the House had passed the original
appropriation for the year. In that, Mr. Hale
added, the Senate maintained its attitude of
considering this year’s propositions and not
those of the former year. He said that lie
would call the bill up to-morrow morning.
The Senate then went into executive sess'on,
and when the doors were reopened adjourned
until to-morrow.
EXPOSITION VISITORS.
Tlie Crowd not Large, and Workmen
Consequently not Impeded.
New Orleans, Dec. 22.—The weather was
warm to-day. The visitors to the exposition
grounds were not so numerous as yesterday.
There are many strangers in the city, but the
numl>er is not increasing as the departures
are about equal to the arrivals. Work on the
grounds and the placing of exhibits is pro
gressing with rapidity. The art gallery and
Mexican buildings are nearing completion.
The former is expected to be in read ness in a
few days. To facilitate operation* and to in
sure rapid transmission to the several build
ings of exhibits arriving via the river route,
the French company to-day commenced the
construction of a line of portable railway.
Their tracks will run from the river
to the south entrance of the grounds.
Diverging tracks to any hcsire.l point can be
placed au.l removed as quickly as the exigen
cies demand, thus conveying an exhibit to its
destination without delay. Ground was
brokeu to-day for an electric railway on the
west embankment of Smoke Lake.
Among the exhibits in the Government
Building Connecticut is well advanced. This
is the sixth exposition at which Connecticut
has had representation, and Assistant Com
missioner Pickering thinks it will excel all
previous efforts. Conspicuous in this exhibit
are wood specimens, which have been so care
fully handled that the moss and vegetation
still adhere to the barks, and look as fresh as
the day the tree was cut. Among the ex
hibitors a feeling of content towards
the management strongly prevails as
against discontent at the dilitatoriness of
the railroads. Exhibi'ors whose names can
be given claim that goods shipped weeks ago
are side-tracked somewhere route, thus
causing unexpected and serious delays. The
United States Treasury Department to-day
extensively distributed circulars addressed
to the mercantile public of New Orleans giv
ing a detailed description of counterfeit coin,
treasury and national bank notes which have
been put in circulation. It is understood that
some of the counterfeits have been circulated
on the grounds, lienee the precautionary
measure. The workmen injured by the fall
ing of the Exposition Hotel structure are
doing well,.and both men will recover.
EDITOR STOREY’S MONEY.
Mrs. Storey and Relatives of Her Hus
band at War In Court.
Chicago, Dec. 22.—Mrs. Wilbur F. Storey
submitted for probate yesterday tlie will of
her late husband drawn in August, 1879, the
court having refused to admit to probate the
will drawn in 1881 on the ground that Mr.
Storey at that time was of unsound mind.
From the refusal to admit the 1881 will to
probate Mrs. Storey took an appeal, and an
appeal was also taken by Mrs. Farrand, one
of the blood lieirs. Mrs. Storey afterwards
dismissed her appeal, but the ap
peal of Mrs. Farrand is still
pending. In her petition to-day
Mrs. Storey declared that the Farrand
appeal was not taken in good faith, that Mrs.
Farrand did not desire the establishment of
any will, and had taken the appeal to create
defay and embarrassment inltlie settlement of
the estate. The answer of Sirs. Farrand de
nied that she had taken her appeal in had
faith, and her attorney moved for a postpone
ment until her appeal had been determined.
UThe counsel for Mrs. Storey argued that it
to Mrs. Farrand’s interest to have both
invalid. He contested tlie idea
doors of this court were closed
nntuSWic appeal matter was settled, and
the whole thing as trifling
with After hearing the arguments
Judge said that the matter of
Mrs. appeal was something with
which tliis ?%rt bad nothing to do. It was
not for him whether it was frivolous or
otherwise. must he disposed of
l.y the Circuit and he knew of no au
thority under should now proceed to
probate tlie will t(79. He would, there
fore, deny the petition.
FIRE’S ANG^kllOAlt.
Several Buildings CnnsumV at Archer,
Fla., and the Loss is wtal.
Archer, Fla., Dec. 22. —Fire morning
destroyed Johnson’s livery, stable with its
contents, his residence and several otnYr
buildings. The loss is about $6,000. There is
no insurance. 8
CULLODEN’S BEST HOUSE GONE.
CULLODEN, Ga., Dec. 22.—The largest and
costliest residence in town, belonging to It
W. Rutherford, was burned at 4 o’clock
yesterday morning. There issl,:oo insurance
in the Continental Insurance Company of
New York. The fire is of incendiary origin.
CAUSED BY A GAS LEAK.
Utica, N. Y\, Dec. 22.—A gas leak in the
No. 2 Upper Empire Woolen Mill at Clayville,
near here, at 2:30 o’clock Sunday morning,
caused its total destruction by lire. The loss
is about SIOO,OOO. The property is insured for
$85,000. Seventy employes are left without
work. The mills were running on heavy or
ders.
PRATT’S HEAVY LOSSES,
New Y’ouk, Dec. 22.—The less by the de
struction of Pratt’s Astral Oil works in Brook
lyn yesterday has not been stated in figures,
but the proprietors of the works are credited
with a statement that the buildings, ma
chinery and other plant destroyed represents
an outly of $1,000,000, and 15,000 barrels of oil
were burned. The rate of insurance on this
kind of property is so high that tiie firm have
always been their own insurers and the loss
Is entirely their own.
Hacked to Pieces by his Crazy Brother
Wausau, Wis., Dec. 22.—After an unsuc
cessful attempt to take the life of his wife this
afternoon, Francis Dcliliz went to the house
of his brother, who was confined to his lied by
illness, deliberately chopped the helpless man
into pieces, nearly severing his head from his
body. The murderer is evidentlyi nsane on
religious matters, as when standing over the
body of his victim he exclaimed, •’Christ is
come; His blood flows for all.” He was
arrested and is now in jail.
Killed by Coal Gas.
Albany, N. Y., Dec. 22.—Egbert Earl, chief
salesman in the muslin department of the
firm of William M. Whitney & Cos., and an
infant daughter were suffocated bv coal gas
last night. His boy, with whom he was sleep
ing. and the mother, with whom the babe was
sleeping, are alive, but in a critical condition.
They slept in dark bed-rooms opening on a
sitting-room where a stove was. A singular
fact is that a bird in a cage in the sitting
room was not killed.
Shot to Death ln His Cell.
New Orleans. Dec. 22.—William Fletas
was incarcerated in Madison jail for robbery
having threatened the lives of all who aided
tn his arrest. A party of fifteen men sur
rounded the jail to-day and shot the prisoner
to death. Fletas, some years ago, killed P.
Gillespie in Madisonville. He was tried and
acquitted. It is alleged that he displayed
symptoms of insanity, and at times was
violent and dangerous.
France's Ultimatum.
Berlin, Dec. 22.—1 t is reported that Baron
de Courcel, the French Minister at Berlin
has presented an ultimatum to the African
International Association, demanding an un
conditional submission to all French claims
He threatens that otherwise negotiations will
be broken off.
Brown’s Bronchial Troches
for Coughs and Colds: “There is nothing
to be compared with them.”— liar, o 1)
i Walkini, Walton, Ind .
DAKOTA’S COMING WAR.
TRAVERSE AND WII,MOT EACH
FILLED WITH ARMED MEN.
Both Sides Ready and Rather Anxious
for Bloodshed—Traverse Leaps from
Helplessness Into Sufficient Strength
to Assume the 4>fl'ensive—Wilmot Ex
pected to Precipitate the Battle.
Traverse, Dakota, Dec. 22.—A spy who
arrived from Wilmot yesterday says that a
conference of 150 men was being held in a
man’s office at Wilmot. The Chairman stand
ing oa top of the stolen safe said that the com
bination had been telegraphed for, and if it
was not received by Sunday morning the safe
would be blown open. He asked the question,
“What shall we do il the l<ooks are not in the
safeV” A motion was made and carried amid
cheers and howls to go to Traverse, and sack
and burn every building and hang every man
found. All the men at the meeting were
armed with Winchesters and shotguns. On
receipt of this news the Traverse officials or
dered the women and children to leave the
town, and the order was rapidly obeyed. The
mob was not expected to reach here much
before dark. Buildings were b tr
rieaded and there were runners out
all over the county for arms and meu.
The force in Traverse was rather small for
such an emergency, but the men on the
ground were well armed and determined to
make a desnerate fight. All the weak-kueed
were asked to leave the town, but none left.
Aleu from the northeastern part of the county
were coming to the rescue. The officers were
cool and made the most of their circum •
stances. Gov. l’terce telegraphed the Sheriff
to call every marvin the county to his assist
ance and note every one who refused. Ex
citement ran high. The county records were
secreted,' and no one except tne Register of
Deeds knew where they were.
TRAVERSE READY FOR THE ONSLAUGHT.
Traverse, Dak., Dec. 22, 11:50 p. m.—The
situation remains unchanged since last even
ing. A blizzard has been blowing since yes
terday, and it is extremely cold. The ther
mometer was 20 degrees below zero at noon
to-day. Traverse has scoured the county for
arms, and sufficient have been secured. Men
from all parts of the county are constantly
arriving, despite the cold weather, and the
officials now feel relieved. The headquarters
are at the court house, where the Register of
Deeds has removed the records. It is
thought that a sufficient force
is now ou hand to safely
keep them. A spy has just arrived
from AVilmot. The men are trying to open
the safe, but have not yet succeeded. The
mob will be kept under arms until the safe is
opened and the contents discovered. If the
records are not found, the mob will imme
diately move upon Traverse. No one is per
mitted to leave the town without examina
tion. The Sheriff, haviug a sufficient force to
secure the safety of Traverse, will to-morrow
with a posse attempt to make some arrests.
TO ASSUME THE OFFENSIVE.
If resisted, lie will take his whole force and
serve warrants regardless of consqeuences.
His forces are sufficient to enable him to take
offensive. Although much smaller in number
than the mob, his men are much more reli
able. being mostly Americans and leading
citizens of the county. If the two forces meet
a regular battle will be fought. A coufiiet
must take place in a day or two. If the
Sheriff’s posse should bo resisted to
moOryw and any injured, it would
make war to the knife. Everyman in Tra
verse is a Deputy Sheriff. Their motto is,
“I’eaee, if Possible; Force, if Necessary.” A
telegram has been received from the United
States Marshal to the effect that a Deputy
marshal is ou the way with warrants for the
arrest of all those overhauling the mail. The
Governor will furnish all assistaucs to have
the meb punished to the full extent of tlie
law.
4,000 3IEN GO ON A STRIKE.
The Great Coal War Along the Monon
gahela River Ushered ln.
Pittsburg, Dec. 22.—The coal miners all
along the Monoagahela river, as anticipated,
went out on a strike this morning for an ad
vance of % cent per bushel in the price of
mining. By noon it was known at the miners’
general office in this city that the strike had
begun in earnest and that nearly 4,000 men
had quit work. The operators assert thnt
rather than concede the advance thev will
clssc .town their works indefinitely.
GLASSWORKS NOT TO SHUT DOWN.
Pittsburg, Dee. 22.—The officials of the
Window Glass Workers’ Union report that as
far as can be learned no glass works will be
shut down on Jan. 1, as was talked of a month
ago.
BROTHERLY LOVE.
Philapelphia, Dec. 22 —ThePeace Society
having accomplished much toward a settle
ment of troubles between the shoe mxnufac
turers; and the Knights of Labor, will now
turn its attention to the weavers’ quarrel and
see if something of the same kiud cannot be
done with them. J. M. Washburn, of the so
ciety, paid a visit to Kensington to-day, and
did what he could towards effecting an ad
justment. In the meantime a much better feel
ing prevails among the shoemakers, and al
though none of the factories were opened to
day, it is expected that by Jan. 1 they will be
running again.
TWELVE HUNDRED MINERS RESUME.
Denver, Col., Dec. 22.—The coal miners at
Coal Creek, Elmore. Watsonburg and Came
ron, 1,200 in all, resumed work to-day at the
old rates.
VESSELS IN DISTRESS.
A Steamer Reported Sunk Off Cape
Charles with all Hands.
Norfolk, Va., Dec. 22.—This moruiDg as
theateamer Jane Moseley,which runs between
Norfolk and Cape Charles City as a ferry boat
for the New York, Norfolk and Philadelphia
Road, was leaving her dock at Cape Charles
City the tug, which pulls her out of the slip,
let soon,and the Captain of the Moseley,
thinking he could get out without further as
sistance, ordered her to be started ahead,
when she struck an anchor left on the bottom
by it dredging boat, making a hole in tier.
The steamer sank in shallow water. Her
passengers came to Norfolk on the lug, ar
riving at about 12 o’clock.
NOT SUNK.
Cate Charles City, Va., Dec. 22.—The
steamer Jane Moseley is tied up at her dock,
having been damaged by striking a sunken
anchor. The report of her siuking is a mis
take.
DISASTERS OFF HATTKRAS.
The Signal Corps Station at Cape Hatteras
reports as follows, dated Dec. 18: “The three
masted schooner Carolina, Captain Gaskell,
from Washington, North Carolina, bound to
Charleston, S. C., loaded with rice, was driven
ashore on it reef in Hatteras inlet by a gale
to-day. The vessel will have to discharge her
cargo before being floated. Tlie sloop Vim,
from Portland, Me., in ballast, bound to
Jacksonville, Fla., came ashore in Hatteras
inlet during the same gale. Both crews were
saved.”
LIFE IN CUBA.
Yellow Fever’s Few Victims The
Customs Collections for October.
Havana, Dec. 22.-There were three deaths
from yellow fever in Havana during the past
week.
The Triuno has been suspended for 40 days
for ridiculing the dogma of the Catholic
church. The first number of the Truncio, a
paper intended to be published during the
suspension of the Triuno, has been seized on
account of an article on politics.
According to a statement published by the
Director General of the Treasury, the collec
tions at the custom houses of the island dur
ing the month of October amounted to $975.-
189 as against $1,556,305 during the same
month last year, showing a decrease this year
of $581,196. During the same month the sura
of $215,544 was paid ont on account of de
creed deductions in the tariff.
The agents of the New Y’ork and Cuba Mail
Steamship Company advertise that after Jan.
1 the Bteamers of that line will touch at St.
Augustine, Fla., on both the outward and
homeward trips.
RUSSIA AND COREA.
Alexander Urged to Plant the Flag of
HU Country ln the Land of Turmoil.
St. Petersburg, Dec. 22.—The Xovoa
Vrernya, in an article discussing Russia’s in
terests in Corea, urges the government to
seize the opportunity now offered by the re
bellion in that land to raise the Russian flag,
and so supplant England or any other power
competing for influence in that quarter, and
at the same time obtain a much required port
on the Pacific coast which is rot frozen over
in winter. Sooner or later, the paper adds,
Russia will have to settle accounts with
China. It is of the utmost importance to de
termine definitely whether Russia or China
shall predominate in Corea. It was the
nephew of the Queen and not the King’s son
who was recently murdered in Corea.
An Anglo-Spanish Treaty.
Madrid, Dec. 22.—Senor de Elduayen, Min
ister of Foreign Affairs, and Sir R. D. Morier,
British Minister, have signed the draft or a
declaration providing for the drafting of a
law to be presented to the Cortes granting
Great Britain, the “most favored nation,”
treatment in commercial matters as soon as
the House of Commons shall have agreed to
an extension of the shilling scale of wine du
ties from the'present limit of 26 degrees of
proof spirit to 30 degrees. Anew definitive
treaty of commerce between Spain and Eng
land will not be arranged before 1886.
Arms from Germany In China.
London, Dec. 22.—A dispatch from Hong
Kong says that large quantities of arms and
ammunition have arrived there by German
steamers, and have already been forwarded
to the r einforcements sent to the Tonquin
frontier.
THE BATTLE OF CHU.
Paris. Dec. 22.—Gen. Brier De L’lsle tele
graphs that in the recent engagement with
the Chinese, near Chu,the French lost twenty
killed and ninety-three wounded.
Mr. Wm. C. Workman, 110 Bay street
Savannah, says: “For two years I suffered
from malaria and its dreadful ellects—my
physician rendering me only temporary
relief. In Brown’s Iron Bitters 1 found
decided and permanent benefit,”
CAUGHT IN J.VNNEK S DRAG NET.
An Old Firm of Vienna Forced to go
Into Bankruptcy.
' le nn a, Dec. 22.—The very old firm of Em
manuel Btsch & Cos. has suspended. It was
I obliged to take this step because of its deal
ings with Heinrich Kuffier, the broker impli
cated in Janner’s operations The assets of
the firm are amply sufficient to cover its
liabilities, but it is difficult to convert them
into cash. A book belonging to Kuffier has
peen found which contains a record of the
broker’s dealings with Januer. The book
proves conclusivelv Kuffler’s complicity in
Janner s frauds. General confidence in the
financial situation has been restored, and de
positors are returning their money to the dis
count bank.
Jean Lucas, manager of the securities de
partment of Giro and Cassenveretn Bank,
committed suicide to-day. He was a brother
in-law of Herr Balday, a superior oflicial iu
the same bank, who is under arrest for em
bezzling.
WOOLEN GOODS DEALERS ARRESTED.
New York, Dec. 22.—Ferdinand Mayer and
Jus son, Benjamin, who formerly did a large
business in woolen goods at No. 42 White
street, and who failed for SIOO,OOO ou Sept. 24
last were arrested to-day by detectives from
the District Attorney’s oflice on a charge of
perjury connected with their assignment. J.
V Swift A Cos., dealers in woolens, make a
charge of fraud.
A BANK TO RETIRE FROM BUSINESS.
Mt. Vernon, N. Y., Dec. 22.—The Ea-q
Chester Savings Bank of this place contem
plates closing its doors and winding up its
business in February. Since the failure of J.
\V. Masterton A Cos., of Mt. Vernon, there
has been a continual run ou the institution,
and so little new business has coiits in that
the officers have decided upon a suspension.
1 here is a surplus on hand of between SS,OOO
and $9,000, which will probably be divided
among the remaining depositors.
A TRIPLE FAILURE.
Ottawa, 111., Dec. 22.—0. J. A Wm. Wil
son, bankers, made an assignment for the
benefit of their creditors this morning. Tlie
liabilities of the bank are SB'J,OOO, of O. J.
W ilson $15,000, and of William Wilson $40,000.
The assets claimed are as follows: of the
bank $85,000, of O. J. Wilson $66,000, and of
W tlliam Wilson $16,000.
DYNAMITE BUGABOOS.
The English Possibly Ready to Quake
at Their Own Shadow.
London. Dec. 22. —Great excitement pre
vails about the Are of Saturday at Windsor
station, and it has been attributed to the usual
American dynamiter, who it is now remem
bered loitered about a few days ago, and sud
denly disappeared, etc., but the managers of
the station have steadily maintained that the
lire was accidental. An investigation has de
monstrated that the small wheels and portions
of brass clock work, similar to that in a cheap
American clock, composed before the lire
a reel for a fishing rod, and the brass caps de
cribed as shells for dynamite cartridges were
only metal caps on the sections of the fishing
rod to which tlie reel belonged. The usual
bottle containing the remains of some evil and
dangerous compound proves to have been a
bottle of horse medicine, dark amt ill-smell
ing, which liad escaped from a broken pack
age in the baggage-room. These tacts, how
ever, are slow in reaching the public, which
does not quiet down as rapidly as it is fright
ened. Some of the accepted theories in regard
to the explosion at London bridge are also
being overthrown. There is evidence now
that the nails over the gully holes, which were
believed to have been placed there by the
authors of the outrage, had been fixed there
by the corporation workmen to use for moor
ing boats. Every suspicious occurrence in
the present nervous condition of the public is
converted into a possible dynamite outrage.
About midnight last night two men threw a
parcel over the bridge at Glasgow and made
their escape, and it is believed that their in
tention was to blow up the bridge with dyna
mite.
Bismarck’s Opponents.
Berlin, Dec. 22.—The Frankfort Gazette, in
an article on the present political situation,
shows that in all important votes in the
Reich'tag, including those on the Parliamen
tary indemnity proposition of Dr. Windthorst
and the several budget questions, the govern
ment lias always been in the minority. This
feict it attributes to the action of the Centre
party, of which l)r. Windthorst is the leader.
“Let Prince Bismarck,” it says, “find a mo
dus vivendi in the Centre. The Reichstag
would present a different tableau if the gov
ernment were always in the majority.”
A committee has been organized to raise a
fund for Prince Bismarck as an expression of
conti.lence of the nation in the great states
man.
Sentences of the Anarchists.
Leipsic, Dec. 21.— Sentence was pronounced
here to day in the case of the anarchists who
were tried last week for an attempt to asassi
nate Emperor William at Niederwald. Reins
dorf, Rupsch and Knecblcr were sentenced to
death. Holzhauer and Bachmann were con
demned to ten years penal servitude. Sochn
gen, Rheinbach and Tocllner were acquitted.
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.
Interesting Little Flashes from the
Wires Printed in Condensed Form.
The United States Supreme Court adjourned
yesterday until Jan. 5.
Bombay dispatches state that heavy rain
storms are damaging the cotton crop.
A severe famine is in progress in Archan
gel, owing to the failure of the grain and po
tato crops.
The Russian Government will newly and
strongly fortify Batoum, Polio, Ivara and
Michailowski in 1885.
Marquis de Leuville has commenced suit
against the New York World for libel In pub
lishing attacks on his title.
The Archbishop of l’aris has issued a pas
toral to the clergy against Free Masonry with
tlie V atican’s strictures thereon.
At St. I’ctersburg all printers are searched
nightly by the police on leaving their offices
in order to prevent the secret printing of
seditious literature.
Later advices confirm the report that the
German Hag has been hoisted over New
Britain, New Ireland and the Admiralty
Islands and portions of the northern coast of
New Guinea.
A party of white emigrants from Canada
arrived at Petersburg, Va., yesterday morn
ing, bound to North Carolina, being tiie third
party passing here within a week. Others
are to follow.
Second Assistant Postmaster General Henry
D. Lyman has resigned, to go into the tele
phone business. John B. Thompson, General
Superintendent of the Railway Mail Service,
will probably succeed him.
At New Orleans the owners of the steam
boat Fred A. Blanks, sunk on Friday evening
by collision with the steamer Victoria, have
libeled the Victoria for $75,000. They allege
that the steamer is responsible for the acci
dent.
A boiler exploded yesterday in the cotton
gin and grist mill of I*. Herkinson, near
Pleasant Util, Va. Joe Sharps (colored), who
had just gone into the mill to warm hunseir,
was killed, and the fireman was wounded by
a piece of the boiler.
Secretary of the Treasury McCulloch has
received a letter from a resi lent of Riga,
Russia, enclosing a SIOO note of tlie Confederate
States, which he says he inherited from hia
uncle, and which he wants exchanged for
currency. The note has been returned to the
sender with the information that it is worth
less.
While a party of miners were at work im
proving the ventilation in the Barnum mine,
near Pittston, Pa., yesterday, a miner rushed
through one of the chambers with a naked
lamp, igniting the gas, which caused a ter
nffic explosion. I’atriek Egan was instantly
killed and Andrew McMillan Jefferson Yan
dell seriously burned and injured internally.
At Winchester, Va., yesterday the negro
Bank*, who was indicted as accessory to the
killing of .Joseph McFall during the Demo
cratic procession there on the evening of Nov.
14 and convicted of murder, was sentenced to
be hanged on Friday, March 20 next. He re
ceived his sentence with a slight twitching of
the limbs. The case will go to the Court of
Appeals on a writ of error.
Bill Thomas, colored, was discharged from
the Louisville, New Orleans and Texas Rail
road at Corfhom a station Miss., on Friday. lie
afterwards ambushed a train, firing at the
conductor, who was riding on the engine, and
putting eleven shots in his leg and three in
the head of the fireman. Thomas was pur
sued, and when the party attempted to arrest
him he attacked them and was killed.
On Sunday morning, Jan. 4, the ceremonies
incident to conferring the pallium upon the
most Rev. Dr. Ryan, Archbishop of Philadel
phia, will take place iu the Cathedral of St.
Peter and Paul. Invitations have been sent
to all the members of the American hierarchy
to be present, and a large representation of
Bishops is expected to participate. The cere
mony will be of the high order of ritualism.
An accident occurred on the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railroad, near Eddvville, Ky., yes
terday, iu which William Buddington. a fire
man, was instantly killed, and George Gore,
an engineer, badly injured. The locomotive
ran over a cow and fell down an embank
ment, carrying with it eight freight cars,
which were complete’}.; demolished. The
other train men escaped injury. Buddington
lived in Alabama. .
The fast express from Washington over
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, due
at Chicago at 9 o’clock yesterday mom
morning, while going forty miles an hour,
struck a broken rail or an obstruction near
Bremen, Ind. The forward part of the train
pulled over safely, but the dining car and two
sleepers were overturned. The dining car
burned up, but the sleepers were saved.
Four of the cooks and waiters were so badly
burned and scalded that they will probably
die. EVtervbody in tlie sleepers was badly
shaken up. but no bones were broken and no
one was seriously injured.
A MISER living in Columbia county. N. Y.
has just died, aud his wife quarreled with the
undertaker for charging her $1 50 for putting
some boards together for a coffin, which
boards the miser had previously provided. In
searching the house after the wife’s death
$35,000 in government bonds, $28,000 in bank
certificates and three bushels of pennies were
found. They had been so saving that they
had used neither meat nor soap for twenty
years.
Mr. M. E. Robinson, 90 Harris
street, Savannah, says: “I have used
Brown’s Iron Bitters in my family and
can cheerfully recommend it as one of the
best tonics I ever tried.”
TO EAT A FATTED CALF.
A FATHER HAS HIS RUNAWAY
SON SENT HOME.
Gambling and a Longing to Koam the
Allurements Which Enticed the Lad
from Horne— Ttie City Kinds a Sensa
tion In an Elopement—Houses Demol
ished by a Cyclone.
Macon, Dec. 22.—Chief of Police Wiley re
ceived a telegram Saturday night late from
Jersey City, N. J., advising him to arrest a
young man named Albert Stewart. Detective
Wood made the arrest at a negro eating sa
loon. He was placed in the barracks. Soon
after his incarceration a telegram was re
ceived from his father telling him that he
was arrested because it was thought that he
had no food or lodging, and that the Chief of
Police would be wired money to pay his ex
penses home. The boy is about 17 years old.
Me ran away about three months ago from his
home, and has been gambling. He was robbed
by his companion and left penniless. Late
this afternoou a telegram was received from
his father. To-morrow he will be seut home.
AN ELOPEMENT.
The cltv was wild with rumors this evening
that Mr. Tom Collins, a bookkeeper of S.
Waxelbaum & Cos., bad eloped with Miss
Ella Byrne, a young lady he has been very at
tentive to for some time. The rumor was
traced to a telegram received in this city this
morning from Montgomery, stating that Mr.
Collins and bride had stopped at the Exchange
Hotel. Mr. Collins left the city Saturday
night, and the young lady Sunday morning.
r W lien tiie mother of the young ladv heard the
rumor she became frantic with grief. The
young mail’s visits were objectionable to her.
A CYCLONE ON A FARM.
This afternoon, about 4 o’clock, a cyclone
struck the farm of David Birdsong, about S
miles from Macon, and shattered five houses.
His residence was damaged to same extent.
No lives were lost.
A PERILOUS RIDE.
An Old Man’s Unsuccessful Trial of a
New Flying Machine.
Hartford, Dec. 20. —Zejriiuniah Phelps is a
niau 75 years of age, anil is regarded by the
few of his neighbors who know him as a
crank. Phelps lives in an old hut in the
woods near Avon, and has for years devoted
all his attention to mechanical inventions.
He lias two pet hobbies, perpetual motion and
an aerial navigating craft. Incidentally he
has devised several machines which in no case
have been patented. Many years ago he ap
plied for a patent, but failed to obtain it, and,
disgusted with the whole system, he made no
subsequent attempts to secure legal protec
tion lor his inventions. The models were
thrown aside and in many cases burned by
their eccentric inventor. Phelps is a distant
relative of Congressman Phelps, of New Jer
sey- The whole region,in which he lives is
thronged with people of his name, hut Zeph
aniah belongs to a branch now almost ex
tinct. He married early in life, hut for years
has been a widower. One daughter was the
result of his matrimonial venture, she is
married and lives somewhere in the vicinity
of West Troy, N. X.
Wadsworth tower is a tall wooden struc
ture over 100 feet in height. It is built on the
summit of Talcott mountains, and gives one
of the finest views in the country. It is 15
miles from this city, and is in &ummer a
favorite resort of pleasure-seekers. In winter
it is utterly deserted, the keeper, a man
named Bartlett, leaving its breezy ami
freezing altitude for warmer, if more lowly,
quarters. On Friday morning Zeplianiah
Phelps made hi* way to the top of the tower.
He made several trips, each tune carrying up
pieces of machinery. No one interfered with
Him. and about 10 o’clock he had his latest
machine in order and ready for use. It con
sisted of a strong but light gas generator, a
combination of cog-whee sand pulleys and
two light pitch turbine wheels, both arranged
at a slight angle to the vertical. The whole
contrivance, including two triangular wings,
weighed about 60 pounds.
The gas generator was easily worked and
within a few minutes both turbines were in
condition to start. The old man opened the
valves and seating himself in a loop of rope
suspended under the generator pushed his
machine from the tower. The turbines low
ered rapidly and the flying machiue and its
rider moved slowiy awav. For a mo
ment the rose a few feet and then
began to drop. Phelps found his gen
erator losing power with every second
and attempted to discover the cause.
By some mistake he opened the discharge
valve and instantly was falling rapidly, with
bis turbine motionless and useless.’ The only
cheek on his descent were the two triangular
wings. These spread out and checked some
what the descent. Still he fell with con
stantly increasing velocity, and after a de
scent of several hundred feet he struck the
trees on the Simsbury plains below. His fall
was broken, but nevertheless he lost his hold
on the rope-loop, and while the machine
caught in the branches, he fell with terrible
force to the ground below, breaking his hip
and several ribs.
The old man fainted from the pain and lay
unconscious for nearly half an hour. Coming
to his senses, his groans finally attracted the
attention of a chance passer-by, who came to
his rescue. The old man was nearly dead
from pain and cold, and fainted on being re
moved. He was taken to a neighboring
house about a mile distant, and is now lying
in a critical condition.
WASHINGTON’S OBELISK.
Two Year*’ Work Yet to be Done After
the Spire of the Monument is Com
pleted.
Washington, Dec. 20.—There yet remains
about tiro years’ work before the. Washington
monument will be complete. Theobelisk.it
is true, is finished, and the rest of the work
relates to the base of the monument, but some
of the details are not yet decided upon. Col.
Casey, who has had charge of the work since
it was recommenced in 1878, comes of a family
of engineers. Ilis father was considered one
of the ablest engineers in the United States
army, and several of his family have distin
guished themselves in scientific pursuits.
Only one accident has happened, and that
near the base of the shaft. A workman slip
ped and broke his arm. But nearly all of the
workmen have at one time or another fallen
into the netting which surrounded the obelisk
on a level with the platform where the work
was being done. Once a young lady visitor in
a spirit of bravado threw herself into the net
ting—an experiment which noteventhe work
men had ever tried for fun. During the last
stages the workmen were often enveloped in
the clouds which drifted around them. The
only elevator in use has been the open plat
form on which the stone was hoisted to
the top. As it was not allowed to
make trips except when lequired
to carry the blocks up, the passengers had the
privilege of ascending this frightful height in
company with a mass of stone weighing from
S'x to ten tons. The President and Mr. W. W.
Corcoran of the Monument Commission have
frequently been up to the top. There is to be
anew closed elevator which will make the
ascent in about 12 minutes. There is cer
tainly nothing in all the difficult ascents of
buildings like the sensation of being sus
pended by a rope 550 feet in the air. The
elevator will have all the newest appliances
for catching it in case the rope should |break.
The plan for the base of the monument has
not yet been decided upon, but it will proba
bly include a series of grand terraces orna
mented with statuary. Many of the memo
rial stones are inappropriate, and others are
unfit for exposure to the weather. The situ
ation of the obelisk has been much criticised,
but it was recommended by both Washington
and Maj. L’Enfant as the spot most suitable
for a grand national monument.
THE LEVEES IN GIiEAT DANGER.
Prospect That the Country Opposite the
Exposition Will he Flooded.
New Orleans, Dec. 20.—The high norther
ly winds together with the rain of the preced
ing day caused great havoc along the west
bank of the river last Thursday. The wash
ing of the water against the steep bank caused
much erosion, and the result was a general
caving in of the batture for the distance of
from one-half to three-quarters of a mile be
tween the plantations of Messrs. Bell and
Ames, nearly opposite the exposition grounds.
The levee thus far remains intact, but the
caving in of the land in front extended alarm
ingly near to the base of the earthwork, and
exposes it to the full and powerful action of
the river, the current of which sets in toward
the bank at this point. Recent soundings
have developed the fact that the entire west
bank of the river in St. Charles Parish is in a
very precarious condition owing to the
great depth of the water immediately in front
of the levees, where it varies from 50 to 90
feet, in frontof an almost perpendicular bank.
This condition of affairs exists, except at two
points, clear down to the Algiers suburb of
the city of New Orleans. A serious cave-in
occurred at Oouldsborough and about 75 feet
of traek.of the old single track incline road
and a portion of the wharf of the Texas and
Pacific Railroad Company were washed
away. The result of this state of affairs will
be that after the next rise of the river the
continued erosion of the banks will take place
to such an extent that crevasses are liable at
almost any point during an entire distance of
some twenty miles of the river front. An
unusual amount of trouble with the levees it
looked for during the coming spring, although
the danger for the most part lies on the west
bank of the river.
The poetic and perfervid nature of Orien
tals is illustrated in the addresses presented
to Lord Ripon on his return home from India.
It may be that they are servile, but after the,
noble stand made in India for the natives 1 A
the Marquis against European officialises
they are to a great degree deserved.
thousand years,” said one deputation, “OB
dian history has recorded no such rule*l3
“Thv lovely name is the country’s lamp it’
eve.’’ But the richest of them corafejiunrilJi
the adulatory eloquence of the Stai{3 UiWg
on his presentation to Queen VictW2-* , lsr?!-
tofo>-e, ’ he said, “the years of my life vTaVe
been numbered from the hour of my birth.
Hereafter they shall be reckoned from the mo
ment I beheld the beauty ol thy counten
ance.”
Mr. Tobias G. Brown, 175 Congress
street, Savannah, says: “One bottle of
Brown’s Iron Bitters completely cured me
of biliousness. I heartily recommend its
use.”
GRAVESTONE ADVERTISEMENTS
How the Parisian Cemeteries Are Util
ized by Tradesmen.
Two meditative beings strolled thought
fully through the avenues of Greenwoord
Cemetery, says the New York Times ol
Dec. 7, as amicably inclined as a French
man and American can lie, and apparent
ly determined that differences of opinion
should never alter friendship. “You have
got the reputation,” said the Gaul,
thoughtfully, “of being a people keenly
alive to the value of advertisement. I
think you are. But I beg to state that
you do not go as far as we Parisians. You
stop at the churchyards. In Paris they are
our great field lor advertisement.”
The American begged that this condi
tion ol things might be explained, and the
Frenchman begged that he might explain
them at the same time.
“In Pere la Chaise.” said the Gaul,
“which, as everybody knows, is the
world-renowned cemetery of Paris, you
may always see a crowd ol people whose
preseuce there is at first inexplicable.
They wear no hit bands, and are conse
quently not in mourning. They are not
intensely jolly, aud cannot, theretore, be
mistaken for undertakers. They seem to
go nowhere and to do nothing, but pretty
soon their work there is discovered. lit
inspecting the principal monuments, say
those erected to Rossini, Auber, Heloise
et Abelard, Thiers and a liaspaiL, r
of things is found which,As at oner
isbin.', and I might uYciißay ilisg
-but 1 won’t, because mvottld
patriotic. These tombs a”
ered from top to bottom with
first you are inclined to suppose
these cards are Scriptural maxii&ylor
adages appropriate to the mournful ot" a
sion. Not a bit of it. You learn that the
exqisite monuments are simply made
into gigantic posts for advertisements, to
be used much in the same manner as dead
walls. On Raspail’s tomb you will see
‘Elegant bottines can be obtained from
M. A., No. 20 Rue ‘Mr. 8., wine mer
chant;’ ‘Mine. C., midwife;’ ‘Mile. D., cos
tume maker,’ and so on. in all cases the
addresses are given and the cards firmly
fixed so that a hurricane could not blow
them away. Don’t imagine that you see
one, two, three, or four cards. The tombs
are positively white with them, and they
are considered so mueh of an institution
that they are hardiy noticed by well-bred
Parisians. I suppose the scheme was
originally commenced by the undertakers
of the Rue de la Itoquette, just outside
Pere la Chaise, who placed the adver
tisements relating to their immortelle
wreaths and couronnes on the monuments,
and thought there was nothing inappro
priate in their so doing.”
“Nothing inappropriate?” queried the
American, indignantly.
“Not according to their standpoint,”
was the answer. “Well, that paved the
way for the others, you know, and though
1 am quite sure that well-educated and
thoughtful Parisians think of the nuisance
in the same light that you do, nothing is
done to prevent it, and the thing is kept
up just as though it were one of our in
stitutions. It strikes every visitor to
Paris, but I do not remember ever having
seen it publicly noticed.”
DOGS AS NEWSPAPER CARRIERS
Instances of Marked Intelligence by
Falthfnl Canines.
Avery common thing on all the Connec
ticut railroad lines, says the Hartford
Times, is for accommodating trainmen
to throw newspapers off the trains at or
near the houses of subscribers living on
the line oi the road at a distance from the
stations. Frequently they are thrown
overboard at a road crossing, perhaps a
considerable distonce away, but there are
quite as many cases where a dextrous
whirl from the platform sends the paper
directly into the owner’s yard, and he
is saved a long walk, and in bad weather
a disagreeable one. In many instances
dogs have been trained to watch ior the
cars and get these papers, and country
dogs, It is noticed, take quite an active
interest in the affair. After yawning
around ail day with nothing more inter
esting than to bark at an occasional
passing wagon, Towser must enjoy the
approaching rumble of the train, the
snatch at the paper as it comes whirling
toward him, and the trot homeward bur
dened with news and responsibility.
Over on the Naugatuck road someone
has had tne curiosity to inquire into
this matter of dog messengers. Mr.
Philip McLean, proprietor of the Gate
House, on the Thomaston road, has a dog
who goes a mile and a halt every morn
ing to meet the train. The paper was
formerly thrown off by the brakeman on
the last car, and there tlffe dog watched
for it. Lately it has been thrown from
the baggage ear.. The dog appeared
angry at the change, barked furiously
and waited sullenly for some
time before going on his errand.
He has not yet become reconciled
in the new way of delivering his paper.
Below Derby a dog has acted for several
years as newsboy for a number of fami
lies. The papers are thrown out of the
ears under full speed. Whether one or a
large bundle of them the dog is able to
lug them off, making good time back.
Another dog who has become a veteran
as newsboy and cannot now, from age
and rheumatism, get down to the cars,
has in some way managed to train a
younger dog to do his work. Edward
Osborne, residing below Naugatuck, has
a dog who regularly meets the early
morning train. The house is a mile
away from the railroad, and the dog
never leaves on his errand until he hears
the train whistle at Beacon Falls
station. Then he starts on a run
and waits at the same spot always,
with his nose poked between the panels
of a fence, and his keen eyes watching
for the flying paper. A story is told of
one dog that was first taught to bring a
certain New Haven paper, and when his
master changed to another, could not be
induced to carry the new one. Another
story is that the late Senator William
Brown, of Waterbury, had a pet dog that
could readily distinguish the whistles of
the New England engines from those of
the Naugatuck, though running on a
parallel track at the same time side by
side. The faithful dog alw&ys found his
train and car, and stood in waiting for
the Hartford Times, which he carried
home to his master for many years.
A MONKEY ON HORSEBACK.
How a Tricky Animal Was Cured of a
Bad Habit.
Not long ago, says the Dublin Herald,
a gentleman who rather prided himself
on a very fine stud of hunters, found that
the horses did not appear properly re
freshed by their nightly rest. One of the
grooms, on being desired to keep a strict
watch, discovered that a tame monkey,
belonging to the house, was accustomed
to ride on the horses’ backs almost all
night, preventing them from taking suffi
cient rest.
His master on discovering his penchant
for riding and being averse to killing the
monkey on account of his horsemanship,
succeeded in curing him effectually of his
love for horses. The next time that the
hounds met he had the monkey put into a
full hunting suit and secured by a strip
to the saddle of his most spirited hunter
and took him away to the meet. When
the fox was found the horse pricked up
his ears at the well-known sound and
started off at once. The chase happened
to be a particularly long and severe one,
the monkey, ot course, from his light
weight, being far ahead of the legitimate
huntsman.
A countyman who was coming from the
direction the fox had taken was ques
tioned by some ot the sportsmen as to the
position ol the hunt, and told them that
the fox was looking tired, but that none
of the huntsmen were near, except a
little gentlemen in a yellow jacket who
took leaps beautifully. Sure enough.
Master Jocko was in at the death, but did
not by any means appreciate the humor.
After the fox had been killed there was a
long ride home again, by the end of which
time the monkey seemed thoroughly
wearied out. After this experience, he
was never known to mount a horse again.
And That Too,
Wall Street Newt.
Htman got hold of a Westerner
in hnpes of getting some
of till' look of affairs to-
Ml' tie. la i!) pr. 'inpt i> re
you. things have just squatted
s2srllrway.”
wheat look up a little, eh?”
r “Not a look.”
“Any new enterprises ?”
“Not so much as building a woodshed.”
“How’s matrimony?”
“Deader’n Joseph’s old hoots,” was the
confidential answer. “A year ago yon
could have married anything or anybody
and counted on 6 per cent, dividends, but
the general depression has flattened mat
rimony until a widow worth $20,000 has
got to hunt a man down with a gun.”
1 PRICK SIO A YEAR. I
} 5 CENTS A COPT. j
BISMARCK UiVITING WAR.
ENGLAND’S EGYPTIAN POLICY
BOLDLY OPPOSED.
All Europe Astounded at the Hard Blow-
Aimed at the Lion’s Prestige—Ambi
tion for Colonial Acquisition Now an
Epidemic Among the Old World Sov
ereigns.
Brussels, Dec. 22. — A St. Petersburg cor
respondent, iu a dispatch referring to the de
mand of Russia and Germany for admittance
to the Caisse de la Dette l’ublique of Egypt,
says:
“It is impossible to permit a continuance ot
a state of things in Egypt that is so harmful
to common interests. The situation of the
Egyptian problem lias become more urgent
because the political movement of Europe now
tends in the direction of colonial acquisition.
Egypt is destined to become the key of the
new policy. This may result in the settle
ment of the Egyptian question in a manner
favorable to the continental powers by the
formation of a mixed commission, charged
with the task of studyiug on the sjioi whether
the British proposals are well or ill founded.”
A BLOW AT ENGLAND.
Paris, Dec. 22.—The St. Petersburg dis
patch, sent to Brussels with reference to the
settlement of the Egyptian question, creates
a profound sensation here. It is believed
that the dispatch embodies the opinions of tho
powers in regard to tho creation of a mixed
commission and thatsueh aetiou is tantamount
to a rejection of the English proposals. If
this happens a great blow will he struck at
England’s prestige.
BISMARCK’S FUELING AGAINST GLAD-
STONE.
London, Dec. 22.—The delay in the response
of the powers to Earl Granville’s proposals in
regard to the Egyptian llnances is attributed
to Prince Bi-marok’s initiative, he desiring
to embarrass Premier Gladstone's Cabinet by
obliging the Ministers to meet Parliament
without arriving at an entente, it is certain
that the powers have not commenced .pour
larlers on the proposals. Mr. Carmichael,
Vi vale Secretary of Mr. Childers, Chancel
lor of the Exchange, in an interview with
Premier Ferry ou the modifications of the
Egyptian financial scheme failed to obtain a
discussion on the subject.
M. the French Ambassador to
EnglanddMuveyed to Premier Ferry the de
sire of Earl Granville to hasten negotiations
and his readiness to make modifications. The
fact that the German Consul General at Cairo
has been raised to the rank of Minister is
laken as an indication of the intention of
Prince Bismarck to insist upon the admission
of a German delegate to the Caisso and to in
stitute active interference iu Egypt.
OSMAN DIGNA WAITING.
A dispatch from Debbeh says that a runner
of the Mudir reports that El Mabdi has sent
14,000 reinforcements to Osman Digna, who is
encamped near Berber waiting lor the ad
vance of the English.
fftBAK AGAIN IN TROUBLE.
Caiko, Dec. 22.—The prevailing opinion
here is that the government gave an evasive
reply to the demand of Russia and Germany
for admittance to the Caisse, when it in
form;! those powers on Saturday that it
would consent to their admittance in case all
the signatory powers agreed to the change
this necessitated in the law of liquidation.
The Russian Consul has written a sharp
reply, and the German Consul to-day visited
the Khedive, and accused Nubar Paslia, the
Prime Minister, of bad faith.
THE DHEAD OF OLD AGE.
The Disease Called Senility Much Barer
Than it Used to Be.
There is nothing to surprise us In the
interest displayed ail over the world—
often in such kindly and graceful fashion
—says the London Spectator, In the hun
dredth anniversary of Sir Moses Monte
liore’s birthday. Apart from the dignity
of the great Hebrew’s personal character,
which, though in a different way, resem
bles the dignity of Lord Shaftesbury’s,
and from the fact that he has illustrated
a cosmopolitan clan very sensitive to
such illustrations, all mankind are at
tracted by any instance of extreme old
age reached without loss of faculties, of
visible happiness, or of consideration.
We all of us, or at least all of us who are
slipping past 50, secretly dread old age,
and regard with aversion its usual, or
traditionally usual, conditions; and the
sight of a man about whose years there
can be no question who has passed by
thirty years the average limit ol human
life, and by ten years an extreme limit,
and yet talks well, hears fairly well, sees
perfectly well, and could walk like an
other but for weakness, is pleasantly re
assuring. If the man of a century can be
like Sir Moses, the man of 00 may be only
a little indolent, the man of 80 hale and
hearty, and the man of TO retain “the full
est vigor of his faculties”—a phrase so
habitually used and in so conventional a
sense that a Suffolk laborer was once
heard to tell his clergyman: “Thank ye,
sir, I’m well enow, hut my faculties Is
failing, specially my feet.” That is one
secret, we are convinced, of the decided
popularity of very old statesmen, and
especially old statesmen of great vigor, a
sense among the middle-aged that if they
who- are so visible can be so strong and
active and full of brilliancy, old age can
not be so dreadful after all. An appre
hension is removed or lessened, and a
very keen one. Some of the dread no
doubt is traditional, founded upon boyish
recollections, and even upon books, Shak
speare in particular having expressed, in
lines which have stuck in the national
memory, an unusually strong sense of
the infirmities of age. His celebrated
lines were probably accurate at the time,
for they are accurate now when applied
to certain classes ot the very poor, but
they no longer describe the majority of
the aged well-to-do. Whatever the cause,
whether improved sanitary appliances, or
greater temperance, or, as we should our
selves believe, an increase in the habit
of persistently using the mind and can
sistently taking interest in events, it is
certain that the disease called senility is
among the fully-fed much rarer than it
used to be. The old lose their hearing
and their activity, and part ol the keen
ness of their signt, and are supposed to
be grown duller alike to pleasure and to
pain; but they much seldomer become
totally blind, or fatuous, or unable to con
trol their features, or incapable of guid
ing themselves about. Men of 84 or 85,
who, in the early part of the century,
would have fallen into second childhood,
then a disease recognized not only by
doctors, but by all .men, and regarded as
a sort of idiocy, now talk easily, and
glide over little deficiencies of memory,
and are, apart from a not ungraceful, or
at all events not disgusting, physical
weakness, truly men. The younger gen
eration has, however, scarcely realized
the change in its full extent, and fears
age, therefore, unconsciously, a little
more acutely than it should, though it has
reason for some of its fear. The lot ot
the old is not the happiest, even if they
are iortunately placed.
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