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i CSTABLIBHID 1850 . |
J J. H. ISTILL, editor Md Proprietor. (
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
the news of thf. two states
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
Manager Cohen, of the Augusta The
4te, Dangerously Stabbed—Suit to
Compel an Atlanta Money Lender to
Pay a Fine of S'o per Day—A Well
to-do Merchant Visits Macon.
GEORGIA.
v .fes put the cost of the recent session
J , b " i.eeisiature at 152,000. The footings
have not all been made yet.
' vti ima Monday a thief stole a line 1150
t. n -toque fr-m W. C. Morrell’s resi
dence on Kimball street.
The building boom still continues at B runs
;m,t in addition to the many structures
in course of erection many more are being
projected.
< apt. George Adam, Treasurer of Rich
,ii. n i county, announces himself a candidate
i r re-, o tion. No opposition has been an
nounced as yet.
Tnc Coroner of Ilall county is Investigating
r , recent killing by the revenue men. There
I ,v< is-en no arrests yet. Mr. Gaston is iu
Washington city on business.
Hundreds of friends in every part of the
-tat.- of Hon. A. O. Bacon, of Macon,
-Ti pathize with him and his family. Within
." month he hits been bereaved of his two
noble boy*.
The following officers will serve the town of
1 mpkoi during the year 1885: Mayor, Dr.
,1. \ Thornton, Jr.; Aldermen —R. F. W’atts,
K . M. -heram, T. D. Miller, J. F. Irvin and
y singer; Marshal, Frank Kirksey.
J,.!m \V. -lohnson, o! Atlanta, lost a leather
ca- Monday containing stocks, deeds and
. : • r papers aggregating iu value several
i . and dollars. It was lost at the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia depot.
\V. N. Moore declines to accept his nomina
-1.11 f.,r Sheriff of Ifeard eountv because
private matters would make it impossible for
hsni to give the office proper attention.
Another nomination will have to be made.
V day or two ago the roof of the custom
1 . ;it Brunswick was discovered ablaze,
s 11 Ik-flames were extinguished before ma
damage was done. A spark from a
Tive is believed to have caused tlie mis-
I -in King showed the Eatonton Mes*rnjer
k I di t. from an old chimney, with the
• ate -opt. 12, I'IZ, cut on it. It wasevidently
j lit thereon the day it was taken from the
mould, and must be at least seventy-two
Judge Hammond lias set aside the verdict in
the .• ,-e of Chamberlin against the Central
Railroad. This is the ease in which the chil
dren of an old colored woman who was killed
i . a tvntral Railroad engine sue for damages.
The v.-rilict wassl,9oo. which the Judge said
was too much.
i : arle> riiomi*son. colored, of Atlanta, re
tuaic.ed in bed Monday suffering from a pistol
I,oil in his thigh, and would not tell how be
received the wound. The police hoard of the
matter aud discovered that Thompson wasthe
! •_ ro who tried to burglarize John Wright’s
stor. Saturday night, was fired at. but suc
. ide l iu getting away. Thompson now
languishes in jail.
t ulloden correspondence of the Morning
Slavs. iee. 22: i’rof. A. J. McAfee has ju-t
i!!.:-i id and moved into his handsome build
ing, erected about a mile from onr village.
.Mr. .1. iim s Lockett and family have moved
< :t of town to lus line plantation, on H r*e
creek, four miles from here, and Dr. 11. F.
Clio mbits s, from the lower part of this
i antv. ha- moved into the house reeentlv
... tipn ! by Mr. Lockett.—Dr. J. E. Cook
i aught the largest fish out of his pond a few
•lays ago that has ever been beard of in tits
country, it was seen by several of our citi
zens. It took three men to get it out of the
pond. Who says fish pouds will not pay *—
our farmers are very uneasy about the oat
< roj* that was just up when the freeze came
last week. 1 hardlj- thiuk that they are all
ktlle i, though no doubt consideratily thinned
out.—Our merchants are lookiug forward to a
dull Christmas trade.
A s iort while ago Judge Simmons was hold
_ >u rt in Lexington, in Oglethorpe county,
one night, while looking over the well-pre
served records, he chanced to see the first
judgment ever rendered in the county. It
was so cunous that he copied it, and here it
is: “Juneterm, 171*1. At a Superior Court
In-ld a! t harle's Lane’s, m and for thecouuty
of Oglethorpe, on the 10th of June. 171*4. I’res
i at 111- Honor Judge Stlth. the following eon
f.—ion of judgment was had: cipham A
Moore vs. Joseph Wilson. Jdo confess judg
ment for the sum of eight pounds and ten
pence half penny with cost, with five months
slay of execution, to be discharged of the pay
ment of gi>o I proof peach brandy, delivered
at the towu of Washington, if paid bv
the time at Is and 8d per gallon. Joseph
Wilson. Test: John Mathew-.” The fore
man of the jury ou the ease was Johu Lump
kin. father of Chief Justice Lumpkin. Judge
htith. who presi led at the time, was the
same man who afterwards became notorious
am on with the Yazoo farads. At
the -mne term of court sentence of death was
passed upon a white man for stealing a negro.
The impeachment proceedings against ex-
. uncilman Benjamin T. Longley, at Atlanta,
egin on Monday next, a week’s post
j-element having been granted on account of
the absence of counsel. He is charged with
furnishing No. 1 engine house with 2,240 feet
of luni.-r, for which his firm, Longley, Robin
son A Cos., received $44 50, and that a fair
market price for that lumber was $26 80. lie
is also charged with permitting his firm to
furnish the Board of Firemasters with a lot
of brick and saud, for which they received
more than the bill for the same. He is
charged with permitting his firm to furnish
the Board of Firemasters with ninety days’
l'tlnjr at a price of $270, when the firm had
really paid hut $1 tier day for the same labor.
He is charged with permitting his firm to con
tract with the city for putting up 100 feet of
railing and doing other work in the citv en
gineer's offices. He is charged with contract
ing with the city for fifteen lamp-posts at a
cost of $2 50 each, when the market value of
the same was only $1 25. He is also charged
with receiving a reward rrom Ogletree,
Robinson Jc Boyd for awarding them a city
contract.
Avery peculiar case has been brought in
the United States court, at Atlanta, which
will bring into play a section of the statuses
ten used. C. C. Nelson has been en
gaged in tne business of lending money st
be 2 Whitehall street, Atlanta. The estate-
T- inent is known as the “National Loan
utliee." It appears also that Mr. Nelson has
vi >hited section 5213 of the revised statutes of
the United States, which is as follows: “All
hunks not organized and transacting business
i. -lder the national currency laws, or under
this title, and all persons or corporations
•bung the hu-iness of bankers, brokers, or
savings institutions, except savings banks
* gre-s. to use the word “na
t n tl” a- a part of the-r corporate name, are
ir hi it. I from using the word "national" as
n portion of the name or title ot such bank,
corporation, form a partnership, and any vio
lation of this prohibition committed after
bept. 3, 1-73, shall subject the party charged
therewith to a penalty of SSO for'each day
curing which it is committed or reported.
Tr W. Latham, of Uampbell eountv, has
n w in-titute i a suit in the United ‘Mates
< oart claiming that the penalty of SSO a day
!"• paid. Mr. Nelson began business July 1.
Ins3. and the suit embraces the time up to
I•< . 19, 1884, thus making him liable for over
$50.0i 0. half of w hich the informer claims.
Mr. Nelson h as little to say about the suit.
He does not think that the law can be en
forced, and is giving himself but little trouble.
He lias, however, changed his sign and will
put in a warm defense.
\rlmgton correspondence News, Dec. 22:
The we it her for the last week has been very
favorable for killing and saving pork. A con
e lerable quantity has been packed away.—
The prospect of budding the Columbus, Ciith
b> rt anl Bainbrtdge Railroad at some not
Vf ry remote day has set all our people agog.
When completed this road will pass throuzh
an excellent agricultural region and far
enough from any competing line to
enable it to raonopoliz* almost
*ll the transportation of the territory
w i thin its reach on either side. A small force
is now at work on this line near ( uthbert,
iuit the managers stem to be making slow
l.cks, as if tkev were waiting for farther de
velopments. The most of our fanners have
made good crops and have met their moneyed
obligations. ( alhoun county can eilsh all ’her
outstanding obligations and have a snug snm
left in her treasury. The mama for public
office has developed to an extern that Is almost
alarming among the patriots of Miller, Early.
Ciay and Calhoun counties. In many in
st antes I here are four or five candidates for
the same office, with a negro in lhe back
ground who eays, “If all dem while folks runs
in ilis race. I’ll eat the watermillion;” ami so
he will, strange as it may seem, some of the
coveted offices will hardly pav the incumbent
a salary sufficient lo defray the expenses of
the canvass and election. The opinion
seems to prevail that Cleveland will
amuse himself during the first six months
of nis'administration by kicking out offiee-
Lo’ders. There are ever so many drones in
It;- section who would be willing' to furnish
both boot and foot for that puriose. It is
said that almost every other man down this
way has applie 1, or will apply, for the mail
route agency on the line from Smithville to
Blakely. It is now held by John Few.
At Augusta Monday night Sanford Cohen,
manager of the theatre in that city, was dan
--ready stabled, and at lat accounts was in
a > ntii’al condition. C. H. May hew held a
re-erve seat coupon for seat No. 60, but when
t -her Mast conducted him to the seat it was
o i upied by Capt. Smith, who also held a
coup >n for it. Mast explained to Mayhew
that the mistake hail been made at the box
s' •11 tfiee, and that as Ihev had sold fiupli
t .v. - he could not make Mr. Smith surrender
1 -at. Mast then went to show somebody
- h r seats, and when he returned Mav
' was talking to Mr. Coben about the seat.
: ! ;'t explained the circumstances to Mr.
;." n ’> '’Hereupon he said to Mavhew
| ‘ he could either have his monev back or
“ text in the rear of the theatre. Mav
w Was very much dissatisfied, but sat down
n * teat indicated by Cohen, and began
t'‘a*‘!?*v crumpling his programme so
11 disturbed those persons sitting near,
1 "hen spoke to him about it. At the end
an he came out in the lobbv and re-
L*' , A he sutyeet with Cohen, and Mast savs
il l not hear what was said, but in'a
p ".,“.L Cohen ?>PPed his face, and two
t, r „ ' r U t>r i stepped forward and
au a further ffifliculty. As the
theatre” 5 Zn eme rS lD K from the
aU , er ~ the play Cohen
ei.'; , . , ba s bln ’ an 'J telling him of his
thre
eert ttle a 5 counU w ‘‘ h h>t after the
corn; nr u oh^ 4 .s hat he had Bet ‘“ him *“
the .too/ .? ,her •■> loitering about
with i m , obeo tben Caahin to remain
to to ‘ hni Pht. The latter agreed
as fotloia. a ?*} lu tells the balance of the etorv
fellow then ,,“ voting
Juu, I've a.^i np ° , c ® ben find said: ‘D—
‘ Te you now.’ Cohen replied: ’Welt,
< ®h* Siuiawtali doming Hem
rhe a man y we U h W ad n iL a , n4 1 ha ,l. no “ was
thought it wM niit V een , t , alk i n § a,l °ut. but
some fellow ny friendly badinage with
know fm? hen 1)3,1 met that I didn’t
slat, me aLfn 10 7 re P ,i , ed: 41 want you to
eairi: whereupon Cohen
will*’ fail repeat what you said I
word of u Baid: iterate every
cur ” lin’m^i^ U . a r e a cowardly, thieving
fa e and ru i‘o tel >' Gohen slapped him in the
ed Lrwe., .hl I,OW c ! ost ' l if > on *>• I rush-
I did so I shoved them apart, and
hi'wrist eawa k “i f e ■" his hand, f grasped
rushed nl> wTfh h s 8 t r e 0 4 , wh0 was with him
‘Turn 1)19 * >an d behind him and said:
Mwd Zte ~r~ you.’ I re’used to .lo
Cohen 8000 the crowd rushed up, and
Shot nr™, l , out. ‘Arrest that man; ft has
The oniS)kTioSi!k , *? n ?x * am blee dog to death.’
had an on,£w ba<l b, ' en 80 sudden that no one
su itmn P w n,,y t 0 interfere or realize the
crr ed hvfl? re .i 1 wa9 over. Mr - Cohen was
tel amnT™ £” 4 1 10 a , room n the Globe Ho
to his *id rf ii^ or4 an<l beddings summoned
' , V ls wound was found to he a very
ribs on tw ’ the eleventh and twelfth
liver ” 1 16 n * bl B,de - an d penetrating the
FLORIDA.
i’uij „ l i e i rr)i has arrived at Sanford with a
He rt ill Lhf-n 1 ? K ,vc u lo spen<{ t, “ , winter.
his pets in May “ 6in New York Wlth
hif ian w , ell at the court house at
wdl uf Blink r f eache ’ 1 a ' le P th ot IHO feet. It
fnrnißh to a depth of 3(10 feet and will
a well ii toS™Uy“* Blream yCt Becured from
~i’''i.! ra ™L , ’e Wt ‘°. attemi)te d to outrage a small
r. ’ .l 1 , near Sumtervitle a few davs ago, was
Tlog *Ji vnn D n 4e by c,tizens i tied across
, r,i,, °° la ? be ’ < on his bare hack, and
or it rid to leave the county at once.
Cros ? has about 18 men at his fish,
camp, two miles up the river from Fala'ka
engaged in catching gha.l and other fish for
-gk f rthe ™ n'afhets. He has supplied them
i J i , ever y convenience for the business, and
oesnics supplying his market here, ships about
-o barrels each week to the North.
Workmen climbed to the top of the Presby
terian Church tower at Palatka Monday, and,
sitting astraddle of the walls, began to tear
the bricss apart and slide them to the ground,
t his wor.: is attended with more or less
danger, as the wads of the tower show large
cracks in them, though the workmen do not
seem to mind it much.
Kx-Mayor Dzialynski. of Jacksonville, re
ceived a letter Saturday afternoon from
Governor-elect Perry in answer to one written
nun a few (lays ago, soliciting his consent to
name one of the new parlor coaches of the
Jacksonville,St.Augustine and Halifax River
Railroad for him. The Governor, of cour-r,
gave his consent, together with a good wish
for the road, am; cordial thanks to his friends
for the token of respect.
A few days ago little Sarah, daughter of
Sir. ami Mrs. Johu Gough, near Bay Lake,
was burned to death. He dress caught from
the fire in the chimney, and there being n
one near, the chili threw a bucket of water
on her clothes, hut it did little good. She
then ran out in the field to where her father
was making syrup, close by, hut the flames
had done their fatal work. Mt. Gough was
also badly burned on his hands. The child
was about 10 years old. She lived onlv a
day.
A TALK WITH BISHOP GROSS.
He Returns to Savannah and Discusse^
the Plenary Council nud Other Mate]
ter* of Church Interest. lj
lit. Rev. Bishop Wm. 11. Gross, of thl
Diocese of Savannah, returned from
York yesterday, whither he went immedi
ately after the adjournment of the Plenary
Council in Baltimore. He was seen by a
reporter of the News last night and freely
chatted upon the work of the great church
conference and about its results.
“The Plenary Council,” said he, “was
a most magnificent assemblage, including
archbishops and other church dignitaries
from San Francisco,Oregon',^Texas,Maine,
and indeed from all parts of tne country.
Among the most remarkable members of
the council were Archbishop Henries of
St. Louis, and Archbishop Allemany of
Sar. Francisco. Both are very’ old men,
and the former is the Dean of the Episco
pate, having been a Bishop nearly 50
years. It was a beautiful sight to witness
the sessions of the council. They were
held in an immense hall, at one end of
which was a portrait of the present Pope,
and at the other a life-size crucifix. The
work was rather arduous, the sessions
being held from 10 o’clock to 2 and irom 4
o’clock on. Then there were many pri
vate meetings, etc., to attend. I "have
attended many great bodies, but I never
saw anything so impressive as the de
bates between the courtly and dignified
members of the council.”
“What can you say as to the results of
the oouniilF
“The decrees will go to Rome for the
action of His Holiness, the Pope, and
when they get his official approval they
will become the law of the land for the
government of the church. I tfiink every
body will be satisfied with the work, but
1 am not at liberty to speak of the decrees
until the Holy See has acted upon them.
Some alterations may be made, but the
decrees are usually approved,”
“Do you care to say anything about the
charge made by certain colored people
iu Baltimore that while there you spoke
in disparaging terms of their race?”
“in an address I simply stated that in
my diocese there were 700,000 or 800,000
colored people and children, and that the
church was doing all it could for them. I
said we knew the colored people were
sunk low in Africa through never having
advantages, and here ihey had been
slaves. It cannot be denied that they
have not had the advantages of the white
race. I said they could lie lifted up, and
the Catholic Church could do so better
than any other. A good example of that
can be 6een in Baltimore, where
there is a colored convent and
two colored churches. I did not run
down the colored people. 1 have always
done what I could for them, despite the
fact that my resources were small. In
the council the liveliest interest was taken
in this work. All the bishops showed the
tenderest regard for the welfare of the
colored people and a willingness to im
prove their condition. Ample provision
was made by the council for the attain
ment of this object, and means, of which
I cannot yet speak, were taken. During
my stay in Baltimore 1 preached nine
times, including at the colored convent
anti the two colored churches. Baltimore
is my native city, and I was given unex
pectedlv a tremendous reception at St.
\ incent de Paul’s, in which parish I was
born.”
Bishop Gross is now in excellent health
and does not show any effects of a slight
indisposition from which he suffered while
in New York.
GREAT SUFFERING AT SEA.
Terrible Experience or the Crew of the
Bark "Ephraim William-."—Lathed in
the R igglng Four Days Without Food
or Water.
During the past few days terrific gales
have raged along the whole Atlantic
coast. Great damage has been done to
shipping, and incoming vessels report ex
tremely severe experiences. Added to
very heavy cross winds, there has been
considerable fog, rendering navigation
very difficult and dangerous. The togs in
many places were followed by a heavy
downpour of rain or driving snowstorms,
and this has been as great an impediment
as the fogs.
A Washington dispatch to the News
details the wreck of the Savannah bark
Ephraim Williams, before reported as un
known, and ashore off Big Kinnakeet life
saving station. The Ephraim Williams
was commanded by Capt. Morrison. She
was lumber laden, and was cleared for
Providence. R. 1., by McDonough & Cos.
and R. B. Reppard on Dec. 16
ith 257,365 feet of lumber.
She encountered a northwest gale
•n Thursday last, 70 miles off Hatteras,
and became waterlogged. The Captain,
in trying to beach her, struck on Hatteras
shoal Sunday night, and she dragged an
chors. Yesterday morning Keeper Daley
and crew of the Cape Hatteras life sav
ing station went to her assistance and
rescued the crew—nine men. The work
of rescue was very difficult, the sea beir g
very heavy, with a strong nortberlv cur
rent. The Captain and. crew had been
lashed in the rigging without food or
water since the 18th, and their suffering
had been intense.
The brig HeleD, Capt. Rowley, arrived
up from Tybee yesterday. She is from
New York. The Captain reports very
heavy weather throughout the passage of
eight days, during which he had cross
seas. His bulwarks were stove in, buL
no other damage was sustained.
Capt. Billups, of the Baltimore
ship William Crane, reports very sjCre
weather. He was overtaken by ‘ajflense
snowstorm, accompanied by
in the Chesapeake Bav, com
pelled to put into Monroe
until it cleaned up. ■ During
the entire passage the nerawas very
rough, but the steamship Mffitred no
damage. She was
and will not be able to sail until
The City of Savannah, of the UcctM
Steamship Line, was delayed about lH
hours. Capt. Daggett says it was very
rough. The passengers suffered much
from seasickness, the cargo being light,
but the steamer came in in good shape,
and sustained no damage.
The steamship Juniata was due yester
day from Philadelphia. She is probably
detained from the same cause, and will
very likely arriv* up on to-day’s tide.
SENATORIAL ONSLAUGHTS
VEST ATTACKS TH E PRINTING OF
UNDELIVERED SPEECHES.
The Custom Lumber)! t up the “Con-
ISTe&sioiitftl Record” and C?iu&iij£ a Pub-
He Scandal—Hale’s Naval Bill Passed
aud an Adjournment to be Taken To-
Day to Jan. 5.
Washington, Dec. 23.—The Chair laid
before the Senate to-day the memorial of
the American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science, urging an exten
sion of the coast and geodetic survey to
all States.
Mr. Jonas presented the memorial of the
joint commercial associations of New Orleans
protesting against the ratification of the
•Spanish treaty.
Mr. \ est submitted a concurrent resolution
providing that Congressional speeches shad
lie printed as delivered, with the exception of
verbal amendments, and when speeches are
.withheld for revision for more than one week
the speech shall be prl nted as delivered.
Mr. \ est said that he wished the resolution
referred to the Committee on Printing, and
it was so referred.
MR. VEST'S ATTACK ON THE EVIL.
In the debate on the resolution Mr.
> est said that lie had no idea that any
such resolution would pass both houses, but
perhaps occasional reminders on its subject
matter would have some effect. The Senate,
he said, had already passed *-uch a provision
iu the form of an amendment to an ap
propriation bill, but it was struck out
m the conference committee. The
evil at which it was directed had
grown to such au extent as to becomee a veri
table scandal In a country in which public
opinion largely influenced public business, it
was of the greatest importance that the
manner in which the laws were passed should
be correctly set forth in the record. It was
due uot only to those who represented the
people themselves, but as well to the truth of
history that what purported to be a truthful
recoru of what was said and done in Congress
should be what it purported to be. instead of
being the ea.icature that it was to-day. The
effect of the untruthful representations
now made could not hut have the most
injurious effect, especially on the young
men of the country when they learned that
instead of a speech being delivered to the full
house, and iu the presence of crowded gal
leries, and loud applause, and immense
bouquets to reward the orator, that the orator
did not deliver the speech at all, but at the
tunc of supposed delivery was takiug a
leisurely luncheon in the Congressional res
taurant or placidly smoking in a cloak-room,
INSTANCES OF THE ABUSE.
This was becoming so well understood that
it was touching the sense of public humor,
and Ihe obinion of the country was getting to
be that Congress was nothing but a variety
show, where there was nothing r?al except
the pay. He cited as abuses of the printing
privilege the case of a member of Congre.-s
who delivered ten lines of remarks and then
printed, as part of his speech, a complete copy
of the constitution of the United States, ami
another who pruned as part of ins remarks a
teem of W) pages entitled, ‘ To the Immortals,”
anil dedicated to Congress. But even a more
scandalous abuse than this was shown at the
fa-t session, when a member, after delivering
■ few sentences of a speech, supplemented
■noil with all the chapters on the tariff con-
in Blaine's book, and bad them thus
at tin; publ.o expense. Copies of that
Mr. \ est said, were sold by tiie cam
com uni at ion cents a thousand
Another instance cited by
was where identically the same
appeal’d printed as having been de-
by two members. Some member of
<>r irv h'bby had so and lhe e ipy of a speech
different men.
Hawley remarked that any copies of
sent out bv campaign committees
for.
Vest asked whether it wa • not true that
franked through the mails.
Hawley replied that he believed it was
the custom of both political parties in dis
tributing copies of Congressional speeches to
frank them.
A BULKY RECORD.
Mr. Sherman said that the Conarewional
Record had come to be altogether too bulky
by printing in it all sorts of documents that
happened to have any bearing on the subject
under discussion. He thought that the
Keeorjj would tie immensely more convenient
if it were less’bulky.
sai l that, inasmuch as there was
no the senate giving “Leave to print,”
the did not arisn there.
Mr. thought that there was something
to be salßraexcuse for the House of llepre-
the rules of lhat bodv it
was that a member was allowed
more thanten minutes in debate. The most
important discussions there were under the
five-minute rule, anu under no rule could a
member have more than one hour. In the
Senate, ou the a gentleman
any whole
VHH
p r. appr..
i inn
modified o as to cover half of
the year. The bill was passed. ™
Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Public
Land* reported favorably, with amendments,
the hill to forfeit the lamia granted
to the Nc-w Orleans, Baton
Rouge ami Vicksburg Railroad Company
(the Backbone Railroad;. It was placed on the
calendar.
Mr. VanWvck moved to make the special
order for Jan. 0 next the bill heretofore re
ported from the Judiciary Committee de
claring subject to Slate taxation the lands
granted by the act of July 1, 1862, to aid in
the construction of a railroad and telegraph
line from the Missouri river to the Pacific
ocean, and to which the companies were to
become entitled to lands upon the payment of
the cost of surveying.
Mr. Garland said that the bill was a very
important one. and there were a numbdlrakf
Senators who would doubtless desire to^B
heard on it.
Mr. VauWyck’s motion was agreed to. Tna
Senate then went into executive session, amt
when the doors were reopened adjourned
until to-morrow.
THE SENATE’S RAD FIX.
No Chance that the House Will Pass
the Newly Prepared Naval Bill.
Washington, Dec. 23.—The Senate
passed its naval bill to-day and to-morrow
it will be presented to the House. The
members of the House pronounze its
passage by the House to-morrow improba
ble. Without a quorum the House caunot
pass au appropriation bill. The House
will not have a quorum to-morrow, but if
it does it will not pass an appropriation
bill originated in the Senate. This con
duct on the part of the Senate is a direct
usurpation of the prerogatives of the
House. Mr. Holmau said this evening
that the House would no more agree to
the bill passed by the Senate to-day than
it would agree to the amendments filed by
the Senate on the House bill.
The Senate also adopted the House holi
day recess resolution with an amendment
making the recess run from Dec. 24 to
Jan. 3. The House may agree to this, or
the point may be made that no quorum
has voted, and it may be held that
therefore the House cannot adopt such a
resolution. The fact is, the House has all
the advantages of the Senate. It will ap
prove no naval bill but its own, and it
will adjourn and permit the Senate to ad
journ for a holiday recess or take simply
another three days’recess, compelling the
Seuate to do the same, just as it pleases.
The Senators are quite as much irritated
by the action of the House as the House
is by the action of the Senate. The fail
ure f their little plan lor getting out of
their diaiemma gracefully will not lezsen
their purpose to “get even” with the
House at an early day.
GARLAND ON CLEVELAND.
The President Elect to Show the Conn
try What Good Government I*.
Washington, Dec. 23.—Senator Gar
land was in his seat again to-day. His
friends congratulated him on his pros
pective elevation to the Attorney General
ship in Cleveland’s Cabinet, but he quietly
replied that it had not been offered to him
yet, and that congratulations were there
fore premature. He was well pleased
with Gov. Cleveland, as all the Demo
cratic leaders who have talked with Gov.
Cleveland at the latter’s invitation, have
been. He says that Gov. Cleveland is
square, broad gauged and animated by a
purpose to give the country an excellent
administration, and that it is Gov. Cleve
land’s ambition to properly conduct the
through one administration.
He sus that he is himself a conserva-
Democrat, but that he pro
jraflß to give the country an
#Rministration in full accord with the
progressive spirit of modern Democracy.
To that end he is exercising great care to
obtain for bis Cabinet men who will sym
patbize with the purpose and help him to
carry it out. He is a good listener, Mr.
Garland says, and is eager for informa
tion.
The Cherokee Land*.
Washington, Dec. 23.—The Senate
adopted in secret session to-dav a resolu-
B>n calling on the Secretary of the Inte-
Mor for information respecting the pay
ments to tne Clwrakee nation for certain
lands.
Prevent serious sickness by taking oc
casionally one of Emory’s Little Cathar
tic Pills, a wonderful appetizer, an
absolute preventive and cure of Bilious
ness, pleasant to take, sugar coated.
Ask your druggist for them and take no
other. 15 cents.
SAVANNAH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1884.
MONEY ORDERS CHEAPER.
The Post Office Department Institutes
a Reform Long Demanded.
Washington, Dec. 23.—1 t has been for
a long time a matter of surprise that the
charges for foreign money orders have
been greater to Great Britain and Ireland
than to continental countries. The pre
cise difference has been that a money
order to Paris which would cost 15 cents
has cost to London 25 cents. The same
ratio of increase was preserved for the
greater amounts, a SSO order upon Paris
costing 75 cents, while that upon London
cost sl. When it is considered that the
business with Great Britain is something
like six times as great us that with all
other European countries combined, ex
cept Germany, the discrimination against
Great Britain in the price of orders seems
to have been unworthy of the business
ability of the two countries. Our Post
Office Department seems to have been
in fault in the matter, and it has
yielded to a demand for reform on
the subject. A circular has just been
prepared which reduces the fees on money
orders after Jan. 1 next to the same sched
ule as that heretofore prevailing for
similar sums upon other European coun
tries. The charge for a money order of
$lO upon any point in Great Britain and
Ireland will hereafter be 15 cents instead
of 25 cents: tor sums over $lO and not
exceeding S2O, 30 cents instead of 50; for
over S2O and uot exceeding S3O, 45 cents
instead ot 70; for over S3O and not exceed
ing S4O, 60 cents instead of 85; for S4O
and not exceeding SSO, 75 cents instead of
sl. A separate circular of the same date
has been prepared, notifying the public of
a reduction of the fees charged on orders
payable in India, so that on and after
Jan. 1 next uniform fees according to the
above schedule will be charged for orders
upon any points in British India. Here
tofore they have been 30 per cent, higher
than the rates charged for orders on
points in Great Britain and Ireland, and
about double those charged for orders on
European countries.
TORTURED BY ROBBERS.
A Lonely Miser of Wheeling Horribly
Maltreated for Money.
Wheeling, W. Va., Dec. 23.—a second
horrible outrage and robbery bv highway
men in the past three days has roused the
people of Wheeling to a terrible pitch.
On Sunday six masked men entered the
home of Mrs. Workenour, in East End,
and alter horribly beating the family
stole about $5,000 in gold. Last night
four men, evidently of the same
gang, broke into the house of Elijah Mar
ting, a bachelor miser of this county, and
finding only $lB2 on his person, put him
to the most horrible torture to force him
to reveal the hiding place of his gold. He
was tied to the bedpost, stripped, and a
red-hot poker applied to bis back and
thighs in no less than twenty places. Hot
oil was also poured down his back, and
his sufferings were terrible In the ex
treme. He evidently had no money con
cealed or this would have brought it.
DEALT A PARTING BLOW.
In their anger at their failure the bur
glars struck thetr victim a heavy blow on
the head and left him hanging in his
fastenings in an insensible condition. He
was found six hours later neatly frozen
and halt dead, and his condition is dan
gerous. Marting is nearly 60 years old.
These robbers work with impunity, as all
effort to locate or capture them seems
useless. The county constabulary is pow
erless, and dwellers iu isolated houses are
in constant dread. The deeds of the West
Virginia red men are being outdone in
the metropolis.
TRAVERSE NOT YET ATTACKED.
The United States Marshal has No
Trouble in Making Arrests at AVilmot.
Traverse, Dakota, Dec. 23.—Last
evening Deputy United States Marshal
Johnston, of Fargo, arrived here with
warrants for the arrest of persons who
overhauled the mails. This morning, ac
companied by Sheriff Cummins and
Deputy Pelham, the Marshal started for
Wilmot. He has just returned with four
prisoners— H. H. Houghty, Albert Deoves,
K. Knudsoa and W. Boyes. He will take
the morning train lor Fargo. The Adju
tant General of the Territory arrived on
this evening’s train. He was sent by
Gov. Pierce to consult with the Sheriff in
regard to furnishing troops. Deputy
Marshal Johnston says that he found
Wilmot filled with armed men, and ad
vised the Sheriff not to use force, but to
wait for troops. The citizens of Traverse
are becoming indignant at the delay.
Business is entirely suspended.
CLEVELAND’S RECEPTION.
Nearly 300 Friends Entertained at the
Executive Mansion.
Albany, N. Y., Dec. 23.—The recep
tion tendered by Gov. Cleveland to his
social friends to-night was a brilliant
affair. Invitations to the number of 300
were sent out, and fully nine-tenths of
those invited attended. The reception
was exclusively to those who had extend
ted similar courtesies to the President-
Meet during his two years’ sojourn here
and to Buffalo friends who
lMßAise have honored him. A number of
gentlemen who have been on
visitißAerms at the Executive Mansion
here we^^Lsoincluded among the guests.
Ah it in return for social
tonors whiaßke Governor has received,
o the reception were ex
tended to of this city, Buf
falo and Troy,
IN JAIL.
New Haven Uetermlnrato Stop the Cam
paign in the
New Haven, Conn., By or
der of Mayor Lewis, the Army
in New Haven was
Three men and two women were Own to
the police headquarters and were CTrarg
ed with parading the streets without a
license. The warriors held a celebration
at the police office and prayed for the offi
cers and Mayor. The women were bailed!
out, but the men slept in the lock-up.
The city officers have long been threaten
ing to arrest the army, but heretofore the
proceedings against them have amounted
to nothing.
Florida on the Wire.
Jacksonville, Dec. 23.—The police
man who shot the negro thief who was
attempting to escape, was discharged
from custody to-day.
There will' be opposition to the scheme
for the extension of the city limits. Com
mittees of conference have been appointed
by the city and suburbs to discuss the
contemplated arrangement. If carried
into effect, the population of Jacksonville
will be doubled.
The frost signal is still flying. The
weather is warm and rainy.
The Florida Methodist Conference
assembles at Gainesville on Jan. 8.
John T. Lee Set Free.
Montgomery, Ala., Dec. 23.—John T.
Lee, who was commited to jail for refus
ing to reveal the sources of information
furnished to the Mercantile agenc” of B.
G. Dun & Cos., was to-day released, a
verdict in the case having been reached
without his evidence. Subsequent to the
trial the court agreed to allow his dis
charge on his denying by affidavit a per
sonal intention of contempt. The case
has excited considerable attention
throughout the South because of the im
portance oi protecting the privileged
character of communications regarding
credit.
Gallagher Charged with Forgery.
Chicago, Dec. 23.—William J. Galla
gher, who is under indictment here lor
alleged participation in the Eighteenth
ward election frauds, was arrested this
afternoon for an alleged forgery committed
in Philadelphia. The United States Dis
trict Attorney objected to the removal ol
Gallagher, and an order of the Federal
Court was issued, directing that he shall
remain in the custody of the United
States marshal here pending his trial.
Second Assistant Postmaster General.
Washington, Dec. 23.—President Arl
thur to-day nominated and the Senate
confirmed William B. Thompson, Super
intendent of the Railway Mail Service, to
be Second Assistant Postmater General.
How Frank Duffy, an Eight-Year Boy,
Gets 83,000.
Frank K. Duffy, an 8-year-old son of
Thos. Duffy, dealer in gents’ furnishing
goods, purchased a one-flfth ticket in the
November drawing of the Louisiana State
Lottery Company, and received an ex
press package containing $5,000 in cash.
The number of the winning ticket was
13,023, and the whole prize was $25,000.
A Times reporter has verified the case' ot
this Hartford boy.— Hartford (Conn.)
Times, Hoy. 29.
AT THE STATE CAPITAL.
GOV’. M’DANIEL HARD AT WORK
SIGNING BILLS.
James F. Cummings Dead—Half a
Hundred Local Liquor Bills Passed by
the Legislature—Chatham’s Delegation
and the Enviable Reputation Which it
Won—Amusing Ben Dugger.
Atlanta., Ga., Dec. 23.—Since the
adjournment the Governor has been kept
steadily employed examining measures
and passing upon them. To-day he signed
the tax act and general appropriation
bill, and also a number ol public acts,
among them the following act regulating
the service of tale-i jurorrs taken from
the grand jury box; the act amending
section 661 of the Code regarding
penalties on Road Commissioners who
fail in the discharge of the duties ol the
office; the act amending section 1419 of
the Code giving to the Ordinary and
County Commissioners discretion to grant
license to sell liquors in greater quantity
than a gallon; the act providing for the
discharge of certain articles paid for rent
from the fine of judgment direct or other
proctss against a tenant; the resolution
to relieve the|sureties on the bond of Tax
Collector Polk.
The Governor to-night has forty bills on
the table awaiting action.
The Lunatic Asylum to-day drew
$13,333.
To-day J. A. Hunt, of Thomas, paid
SIOO reward for the arrest in Ware county
ot George Lanier who in June last killed
Edward Lester in Brooks.
Janies F. Cummings, for years past
proprietor of a bucket shop in this city,
died at New Orleans last night while on
his way to Texas, where he anticipated
locating. Mr. Cummings since his resi
dence in Atlanta has been one of her most
enterprising citizens, and during the ex
position was one of the directors. He
was well known all over Georgia. During
the war he lived in Macon, where he ac
cumulated considerable wealth.
work of the legislature.
Nearly titty local liquor bills were
passed at the late session of the Legis
lature, and double that number were
introduced. Considering the fact that
all of these bills Lave to lie read
three times in both houses and go through
the bauds of the committees, one can esti
mate their cost to the State. Frequently
it happens that a bill is passed to prohibit
the sale of liquor within six miles of
Buttermilk Church, w here no one is en
gaged in selling it in the vicinity of the
church. In this ease the originator gets
his bill through so that it will be useful
some day if an attempt is made to set up
a barroom in the neighborhood of the
church. The general local option Jaw,
after going through the Senate like a flash
and meeting with a hearty reception in
the House, died in the arms of a majority
from blows struck by a stubborn minority.
The summer session will be as interest
ing as the one that has just closed was
uninteresting. Harris, of Bibb, has his
technological bill; Pringle, o f Washing
ton, his general Peal option bill; Felton,
of Bartow, his reform penitentiary bill;
his bill to break up the pooling system by
the interference of the commission, and
bis measure to prohibit the manufacture
or sale of liquor in Georgia. Gordon, of
Chatham, has his bill to give the railroads
the power of making rates subject to ap
proval by the commission, and so on.
Mr. Gordon made a line impression here
as a legislator. He devoted a great deal
of time to a careful analysis of all
the important measures. An Investiga
tion of his record will show that his vote
in every instance was backed by law,
good judgment and an eye to the best in
terests of the State. Asa careful legisla
tor he had no superior. Felton or Little,
of Muscogee, could give him a pointor two
occassionally in parliamentary tactics,
on account of their schooling in that line,
hue that was all. In every other respect
the gentleman from Chatham was the
equal of either.
CHATHAM MADE NO MISTAKE
in sending Mr. Gordon to the Legisla
ture, nor did she when she se
lected Reilly and Hartridge to come
with him. The former is holding
his best efforts back for his military bill
and fortifying himself for the struggle.
Hartridge, the junior member of the dele
gation and the youngest member in the
House, is paving the way to a bright fu
ture by his watchfulness of everything
that transpires and a careful considera
tion of every measure before he casts his
vote.
rilK MOST AMUSING CHARACTER IN THE
HOUSE
to look at was Ben. Dugger, of Fannin,
lie was a sort of walking curiosity, as he
only opened his mouth to vote. At the
regular eleotion held in Fannin. Dugger
and Chastaine his opponent, got the same
number of votes, and anew election was
held. This event occurred only a short
time ago, when Dugger was elected. He
was sworn in about ten days before ad
journment, and a day or two after he took
his seat a resolution was introduced to
pay him his per diem and mileage from
the opening of the session. When the
resolution came up the House refused to
pass it. Dugger voted for the resolution,
and seeing that the House was opposed to
the passage of the resolution, called for
the yeas and nays and voted again. It
was a novel sight to see the old man from
the mountains fighting against big odds
for his pay. He said that he wanted a
list of the members who voted against
Ben Dugger getting his pay, and desired
it to go on record that every man got his
money except poor old Ben Dugger.
I understand that there is a member of
the House from one of the upper counties
who returned the complimentary railroad
passes sent to him with thanks. He says
that he never rode on a railroad free in
his life, although he has been in politics,
State and national, for ten years.
senator Falligant made quite a reputa
tion for himself. As an orator he stands
in the front rank. It is doubtful if there
is in either House a member who is
heard with more pleasure. His readiness
and fluency are something remarkable.
MACON’S ELOPEMENT.
Ae Affair the Sensation of the Pay—
The New City Officers.
Macon, Ga., Dec. 23.—The sensational
elopmeut involving Mr. Thomas Collins
and Miss Ella Byrne, wired last night,
has been the topic of the city to-day. The
young man denied it emphatically on the
streets. He denies having been to Mont
gomery. The facts show that he accom
panied the young lady to that city and
registered at the Exchange Hotel as “Abe
Cullen and wife.” He came to the city
last night and said that he had left her in
Montgomery, and that she left during the
day for Austin, Texas. The mind of the
young lady’s mother has become seriously
impaired bv the severe shock ii has re
ceived. She swears vengeance on the se
ducer of her daughter.
To-night the following city officers were
elected by the Council for the next two
years: Treasurer, O. F. Adams; Clerk,
H. A. Blue; City Attorney, N. E. Harris;
Recorder, R. W. Patterson; Sexton, J. J.
Clay; Chief of Police, C. M. Wilev; City
Physician. F. Walker; Magazine Keeper,
R. M. Smith; B;idge Keeper, Charles
-Jones; Street Overseer. James Denton;
City Engineer, Julian Dennis; Sanitary
Inspector, William Stephens; Kirst Lieu
tenant of Police, C. M. Wood; Second
Lieutenant of Police, W. A. Wylie; Im
pounding Officer, Jeff. Johnson; Watch
men, G. L. Henry and James Chapman.
Probsble Murder in Floyd.
Rome, Ga., Dec. 23.—Intelligence
reached this city yesterday that a well-to
do negro man named Edward Nicholds,
living near Ridge Valley, had a difficulty
with another negro, to whom he was rent
ing land, and the tenant struck Nicholds
with a piece of wood and injured him so
severely that it it is thought he cannot lire.
Burglars are making a raid on the city,
having gained entrance into several
houses Saturday night.
The News in Baldwin.
Millidgeville, Dec. 23.—N0 cyclones
have occurred in Baldwin county.
A marriage in high lile occurred here
to-day,Miss Sallie W. Tatumand Mr. Geo.
E. Wilson being the contracting parties,
at the Presbyterian Church. Rev. D.
McQueen officiated.
Georgia Post Offices.
Washington, Dec. 23.—The following
Georgia Postmasters have been appointed:
Josiah B. Daniel at Daniel’s Mills;
Daniel O. Chapman at Montevideo. The
post office at Rilla, Carroll county, has
been discontinued. The mail now goes
to Bonedon.
To take a cheerful view of life, the trials
and temptations that line its rugged way,
is a duty, which it is impossible to fulfill
when one is troubled with Chills and Fe
ver. The best remedy is Clifford’s Feb
niuge, or Fever and Ague Cure. A sure
and certain cure.
INDIANA’S BAD CRASH.
Fuller Details of the Early Morning
Wreck, with Names of the Victims.
Chicago, Dec. 23.—Following are the
additional details of the bad accident
which occurred on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad yesterday morning about
one hundred miles east of Chicago. By
some lucky chance no serious iDjurv was
suffered by any passengers, but all re
ceived a shaking up that none will soon
forget. At 6:45 o’clock in the morniDg,
when the fast train of the Baltimore and
Ohio Road, which was due at Chicago
at 9:20 o’clock, had just passed
Bremen, Ind., it struck a sp-ead
from a frog. The train was making up
time, and was running at the rate of 40
►mil san hour. The engine, baggage car,
smoker and one coach passed on in safety,
but the dining car, which came uext,
jumped the track, and two sleeping cars
in the rear went crashing on top of it. Iu
the sleeper were 16 passengers, but no
one was in the dining car except the
cooks ard waiters. The latter car was
turned completely over, and, catching lire,
was soon burned. The sleepers
were simply thrown on their side,
and did not take fire. They
were both badly’ shattered, however. Of
the people injured, those most seriously
hurt were the cooks, who were not only
bruised but also burned, and besides
scalded with water from the car boiler.
The negro waiters were badly bruised and
burned. The other injured were passen
gers in the sleeping cars, and their hurts
were in no case dangerous, although some
of them were painful. The list of the in
jured includes: Edward McCabe, cook;
badly burned and scalded, may die; Joe
I’ratz, cook, burned, arm broken and
scalded, will recover; Edward Gray, a
negro waiter, burned and scalp wound;
Robert McNaughton, a negro waiter,
burned and badly shaken up; Congessman
B. T. Shively, of South Bend, Ind., bruised
about the thighs; Hiram Y. Smith, of
Des Moines, lowa, legs and feet cut and
lacerated; Hon. O. S. Gifford,
of Canton, Dakota, injured about
the shoulder; Frederick A. Wheeler,
of Baltimore, cut about the face; Mrs.
Frederick Wheeler, of Baltimore, cut
about the head; H. S. Haller, of Chicago,
badly bruised; J. W. Mills and wife, ol
Chicago, both badly shaken up and
slightly bruised; R. W. Nelson, of Rock
ford, 111., scalp wound; J. C. Mamiere, of
Pierre, Dak., scalp wound; Daly, steward
of the dining car, scalp wound.'
Considering the speed at which the
train was going when it jumped the track
the only wonder is that there were not a
number killed outright.
FIZZLE ON THE MONONGAHELA.
Many of the Miners Returning to Work
and the Strike a Failure,
Pittsburg, Dec. 23.—The latest re
port irom up the river would seem to in
dicate that the miners’ strike is a failure.
In the second pool many of the miners
have refused to strike, and in the third and
fourth pools it is reported that a majority
have signified their intention of returning
to work. A number of operators were in
the city this afternoon trying to make ar
rangements for leading shippers for barges
toload. They say that they are not afraid
of the miners striking.
TUBE WORKS TO SHUT DOWN.
This afternoon the employes oi the
National Tube Works Companv, at
McKeesport, Pa., were notified' that
the various departments would close
down to-morrow evening for an
indefinite period. A scarcity of
orders was assigned as the only reason
for the suspension. The trade at present
is very dull, and for some days the force
has been utilized in turning out material
for the company’s own use in order to
keep the works in operation. The sus
pension will throw over 2,000 out of
work, and withdraw from McKeesport
trade about SIOO,OOO every month, winch
was paid to and spent by the employes.
SPIKE WORKS OUT OF ORDERS.
D.lwortb, Post & Co.’s spike works, on
the South Side, will shut down to-morrow
for an indefinite period. No reaszn is
given for the suspension except lack of
orders.
THE PHILADELPHIA SHOEMAKERS.
Philadelphia, Dec. 23.—The confer
ence committee of the shoemakers and
manufacturers empowered to perfect a
basis of joint arbitration met this after
noon and appointed a joint board of arbi
tration. The session was a rather stormy
one and lasted for nearly five hours. J. M.
Washburn, oi the Universal Peace Union,
presided, and three other members of
that body were also present. The manu
facturer strongly protested against shop
meetings, and shoemakers, with equal
emphasis argued in their favor. Two
rules were finally adopted, one of which
gives to the manufacturers the right to
discharge any employe for ineompetency
or any cause other than malice. The other
rule gives to such discharged employe the
right of appeal to a joint board of arbi
tration, whose decision in the case shall
be accepted as final. The session will be
continued to-morrow morning. While all
the rules for the government of the board of
arbitration have not teeen agreed on, it
will not affect the resumption ot work on
Friday next.
THE HOCKING VALLEY TROUBLES.
Columbus, Ohio. Dec. 23.—Since the
arrest of three men by the United States
marshals at Nelsonvilie on Saturday, on
a charge of intimidating men desirous of
working, there has been no disturbance
in the Hocking Valley. One hundred new
miners went to work in the Happy Hol
low mines this morning, many being ex
perienced workmen from West Virginia.
A dispatch from Rendville, on the Ohio
Central Railway, states that one of Rend’s
mines has closed down, because of the
refusal of some of the men to further con
tribute to the support of the Hocking
Valley strikers.
HAItUIGAN & HART BURNED OUT
Their Piay House at New York Reduced
to Ruing.
N*w York, Dec. 23. Harrigan &
Hart’s Theatre Oomique, on Broadway,
opposite the New York Hotel, was en
tirely destroyed by fire this morning. The
theater cost $125,000, The losses range
from $200,000 to $250,000. The building cost
SIOO,OOO less than four years ago. The
interior decorations cost about $30,000,
and there was in the theatre a large
amount of scenery and properties, much
of which was entirely new, besides the
property of actors and other occupants of
the building. The Colonnade Hotel ad
joins the theatre, and was on lire several
times. Many of the late-rising guests
were frightened out of the building m
their night clothes, but no casualties are
reported. There was no insurance on the
building or contents.
FOUR BLOCKS IN RUINS.
Troy, N. Y., Dec. 23.—Cambridge,
Washington county, was visited by a
great conflagration this morning. Four
large business blocks were completely
destroyed, with a probable loss of be
tween $160,000 and $200,000. The insurance
is estimated at between $53,000 and
$75,000.
A SPINNING MILL IN RUINS.
London, Dec. 23.—Morrison’s spinning
mill, at Dundee, was burned to-day. The
loss is about £40,000.
ICE MELTED.
Jackson, Miss., Dec. 23.—The ice fac
tory here was burned to-day. The loss is
SII,OOO.
LUCAS’ LIFE GOES OUT.
The Vienna Bank Manager’s Kmbezze
meat Followed by His Suicide.
Yienna, Dec. 23.—Jean Lucas, man
ager of the securities department of the
Giro and Cassenverein Bank, who at
tempted to commit suicide yesterday, (Jied
to-day. He left letters stating that he
had been ruined in Bourse speculations,
and embezzled 90,000 florins ($46,000).
His brother-in-law, Herr Kalar, has been
anrested and examined, but as there is
no evidence of fraud on his part he will
probably be released.
SELMA CLOTHIERS FAIL.
Selma, Ala., Dec. 23.—E. A. Scott &
Cos., leading clothiers of this city, made
an assignment yesterday. Their liabilities
are about $25,000 and their assets about
$15,000. The failure is due to large pur
chases a year ago, with two bad seasons
following.
France’s African Demands.
Berlin, Dec. 23.—A majority of the
German papers express the hope that
France will moderate the demands which
it makes upon the African International
Association. If these demands should
be acceded to, the association, instead of
being a free State, would belong to France.
Durkee’s Salad Dressing and Cold Meat
Sauce is made from the freshest, purest
and choicest condiments obtainable. In
using it waste, labor, anxiety, and disap
pointment are prevented.
SNOW AND BITTER WINDS.
RAILROAD TRAFFIC ABANDON
ED IN THE NORTHWEST.
Tbe Mercury In the Thermometer Sinks
to Forty Below Zero—Business at a
Standstill In Many Towns—Many of
the Drifts Ten Feet Deep.
Chicago, Dec 23.—The weather con
tinues very cold, but the Signal Service
reports show that it has moderated some
what throughout the Northwest. The
temperature here at 6 o’clock this morn
ing was 4 degrees below’ zero, at St. Paul
12 below, at Fargo 25 below, and at
Omaha 7 below. At Dubuque it was 8
below and a snow storm prevailed. On
Sunday night and yesterday throughout
the prairie section of the West and North
west the mercury ranged from zero to 40
degrees below, with a heavy snow over a
great part of that territory. At Sheboy
gan, Mich., the snow is two feet deep and
the country roads are impassable.
From Dubuque news comes that heavy
snow and winds have partially blockaded
the northern branch ot the Illinois Cen
tral Railroad.
A dispatch from Denver reports that
the San Juan Branch and the Utah line
of the Denver and Rio Grande Road are
Tpw impassable, the San Juan line in the
•icinity of Toltec Gorge and the Utah at
Marshall Pass, where five engines have
beeu battling with heavy drifts for forty
hours without making any headw’ay.
Leadvilie reports that the snow is about
three feet deep on the level, but it is drift
ing badly under a fierce gale. Ore haul
ing is suspended, and even loot locomo
tion is excessively difficult.
DRIFTS TEN FEET DEEP.
Drifts ten feet deep are piled up on the
streets and commerce is practically aus
petided. The South Park road has sent
no train out frein Leadvilie to-day, and it
is said that its high line has been aban
doned for the season. Its passengers for
Leadvilie will take the Rio Grande at
Buena. Vista. Branches of the Deaver
and Rio Grande Irom Leadvilie known as
the Eagle Pass and Blue River lines are
buried under large drifts and no effort is
making to get them open. All the energies
oi the company are concentrated on
their Leadvilie lines and the route to
l tan with but little hopes of accomplish
ing much as long as the fierce winds in
those altitudes keep the snow in motion.
At Leadvilie many w eakly constructed
cabins have been crushed in on their oc
cupants.
Up Clear Creek canon it has snowed
steady for three days, and is still falling.
Last night a strong wind was blowing
there, and piling the snow in immense
drilts. A number of residents in Middle
Park are at Georgetown trying to reach
home, but tbe mountain passes are im
passable, and it would be certain death to
try to .get through them.
A WRECK-STREWN COAST.
The Two Days’ Rampage of the Winds
aud Waves Flays Terrible Uavoc.
Washington, Dee. 23.—Many wrecks
are reported in the storm of the last two
days all along the Atlantic coast from
Halifax to Cape Hatteras, The schooner
Warren Sawyer, with 1,100 bales of cot
ton Irom New Orleans for Boston, went
ashore on the south side of Nantucket
Island. The crew were with difficulty
rescued by the life savings station.
The English steamer Olivette is ashore
near the east end of Long Island, on the
south shore, and will Drove a total loss.
Everybody was taken off by the lifesaving
crew.
The bark Chas. Hickman, from Liver
pool for New York, also went ashore on
the south side of Long Island and went to
pieces. The crew we; e saved by the
Forge river lite savers, excepting oue man
who was washed out of the breeches buoy
by the waves.
An unknown vessel has corns ashore,
bottom up, at Great Egg Harbor bar.
HER MACHINERY DAMAGED.
London, Dec. 23.—The British steamer
Romanby, from Charleston, 8. C., Dec. 3,
for Bremen, has put in at Deal with her
machinery damaged.
CABINET SPECULATIONS.
Mr. Lainar Embarrassed by the De
mands ot Two of His Friends.
Washington, Dec. 20.—Tennesseans
are all apparently earnestly in favor of
Gen.Whitthorne for Secretary of the Navy.
The Tennessee delegation support him
unanimously, and say that they will be
strongly reinforced by commanding in
fluences alter the holidays. Virginians
express no confidence in securing a Cabi
net office for their State, and Southern
Senators do not greet the suggestion of
Representative Barbour for Postmaster
General with much warmth of approval.
Since Mahone first and Riddleberger
afterwards entered the Senate, Virginia,
so lar as the Senate is concerned,
has been divorced from sympathy
and co-operation with what is now the
dominating! influence among Democratic
Synators—the cotton growing section.
Senators Ransom and Vance do not ap
pear to be losing health by the ardor with
which they press the claims of Gov. Jar
vis, for whom a boomlet was lately
attempted by some North Carolina influ
ences.JgGeorgia and Mississippi present
the names of ex-Senator Gordon and Rep
resentative Money. These are strong
names for Cabinet pssitions strong
enough, as it low appears, to defeat the
aspirations of each other.
LAMAR’S EMBARRASSMENT.
Senator Lamar is the warm personal
friend of both, and is said to feel some
embarrassment by reason of the pressure
upon him of the supporters of these two
gentlemen. With characteristic fidelity
to his friendships he said recently that he
would gadly surrender his seat in the
Senate to have any ambition of Gordon
gratified. Senator Colquitt is warmly for
Gen. Gordon, and deplores the failure of
any Senator to join him in pressing the
name of a gentleman so popular and con
servative in his long service in the Sen
ate. Senator Brown is credited with a
mild acquiescence in Gordon’s going into
the Cabinet, and his influence will be
given to advance Colquitt’s preference,
as he has no Georgian in view for Cabinet
honors on his own motion.
Among the Democratic Senators, the
mention of the name of Senator Cockrell,
of Missouri, for either the Post Office De
pnrtment or the Department of the Inte
rior, is received with very cordial, if not
unanimous, approval. The admiration ol
Mr. Cockrell is reasonable. He is a man
of the Edmunds sort in many respects.
He is younger, more vigorous, and more
affable, but he is a tireless worker, a
“watch dog,” who knows every claim
bill, who does not hesitate to fight meas
ures of doubtful expediency to the bitter
extremity, and who will certainly not be
accused of being anything but a positive
Democrat. The star route gang will not
like him as a candidate for Postmaster
General. The land grabbers who flourish
under the Interior Department are said
to be entirely opposed to any man they
cannot select and control. It has been
asserted here of late that more than half
the candidates sugested for Postmaster
General under Cleveland are men chosen
byjthe star routers, who are indifferent
about the party in ccmtrol so long as they
can thrive.
A well known Democrat, who, in 1876,
was prominently connected with Mr.
Tilden’s campaign, said yesterday: “If
you will look closely into the history of
many of the men pressed for Cabinet
offices under Cleveland, you will find that
they are backed by precisely the same
gangs of bloodsuckers and jobbers who
have basked in the sunshine of official
favor under Republican rule. Mr. Cleve
land will have to look out for them. They
can afford tc, and do employ, the smartest
advocates in the land to conduct their
business for them, and only the strictest
scrutiny of these scheming patriots will
prevent Cleveland from taking them up,
only to find that he has warmed a nest of
vipers and made a false step at the outset
of his career as President.”
Russian Nihilists in London.
London, Dec. 23.— The London corres
pondent of the Alc/voe Vremya alleges
that a complete organization ol Russian
Nihilists exists under the guise of an ex
port firm within the precincts of the city
of London, Eng., and is exporting to
Russia criminal documents and explo
sives.
The Times correspondent at St. Peters
burg says that this confirms the already
fixed conviction of a number of influen
tial Russians who presumably have a
means ol knowing of the existence of
such an organization.
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of the Throat and Lungs.
EGYPT’S FINANCES.
The Proposals which England Makes to
the Powers of Europe.
Pris, Dec 23. —La Rationale says that
France has rejected England’s proposals
with reference to the financial difficulties
of Egypt. According to tne English pro
posals, the burdens of Egypt are classi
fied as follows:
First. Interest at per cent, on £5,-
000,000, constituting a contemplated loan
guaranteed by England, the revenues of
the domains and Daira being assigned to
meet it and being up to the requisite
amount, paid into the Bank of England.
Second. The privileged debt with the
domain debt added, as also the loan of
£4,000,000 for the Alexandria indemni
ties, which will be -issued at 1.10,
and like the _ pririleged and domain
debts will bear 5 per cent, interest without
reduction.
'lhird. The unified debt augmented by
the Diara debt and interest" reduced to
3% per cent.
Fourth. Interest on the Suez canal
shares reduced from 5 to 4}j per cent.
Fifth. The cost of the auministration,
amounting to about £5,000,000, including
£120,000 for the surplus of the annual cost
of the military occupation.
Sixth. The residue divided pro rata to
compensate the reduction of % per cent,
on the unified debt and to
cost of the military occupation IxJ^^ra
the £120,000 stipulated lo iLgland
Lastly, the proposals ||
financial control, |.rmWn
Egyptian Government to borrow
£1,000,000, and even this subject
control of England; and the substituent
of cheaper and more homogeneous ml
agement lor the mixed international man
agement of the domains, Diara and rail
ways. Such is the substance of the
proposals on which the powers have for
some time past been exchanging views.
The statement of La Nationale that
France has rejected England’s proposals
is not believed here.
La Temps declares that the English
proposals are unacceptable, but that
France can only act in concert with the
powers.
It is believed at Cairo that Germany
and Russia intend to renew their demand
upon the Egyptian Government for ad
mission to the management of the Uaisse
de la Dette Publique. They will ask
Egypt to give her consent to their admis
sion, and likewise to procure a reply from
the powers which have not yet expressed
their consent.
THE TARDY ADVANCE.
London, Dec. 23.—Gen. Wolseley re
ports that the delay in the concentration
of troops at Korti will retard the advance
across the desert until the second week in
February. The preparations for a dem
onstration from Suakin, have been post
poned. The military authorities tear
that the relief of Khartoum cannot be ac
complished before the middle of March.
GERMANY IN THE PACIFIC.
Australia and the Mother Country Both
to Raise a Protest.
London, Dec. 23.—The Times says that
the annexation of a portion of New Guinea
and other islands in that neighborhood
by Germany will expose the government
to popular execration in Australia and to
severe censure in England. The refusal
ol the Earl of Derby, Secretary of State
for the Colonial Department, to recognize
Australia’s annexation of the same terri
tory has opened the door to Germany,
The colonists wanted to annex the whole
of New Guinea, for, in the event of war,
this island would form the base of opera
ting against Australia.
AUSTRALIA TO PROTEST.
Melbourne, Dec. 23.—The Premier of
Victoria has invited the governments of
the various Australian colonies to unite
with Victoria in protesting against the
annexation by Germany of a portion of
New Guinea and neighboring islands.
DEATH OF A MILLIONAIRE.
Making His Fortune by a Patent and a
Bold Business Stroke During the War.
Boston, Dec. 21.—Michael H. Simpson,
of this city, best known as the possessor
of a fortune of $10,000,000 or $12,000,000,
died to-day of heart disease. He was born
of poor parents, in Newburyport, seventy
five years ago, and came to Boston when
a boy. He laid the foundation of his great
fortune in this way: Many years ago a
tailor named Nichols went to a leading
patent agent in this city and asked ii he
knew a man who could "invent a machine
for taking the burrs off of wool.
The agent took him to a French
Canadian named Coullard, who agreed
to undertake the task. Be went to
work, but was so slow that Mr. Nichols
gave up the project on account of the ex
pense. Mr. Simpson, who was having
some machinery built at Coullard’s shop,
became interested in the Canadian’s
models, and purchased the invention. He
took it to England and sold it for £IO,OOO.
That machine was the same in general
principles as those now used for the same
purpose. The millions have since been
piled up for Mr. Simpsou by the Saxon
ville mills and the Roxbury Carpet Com
pany, both great establishments being
controlled by him.
The bulk of his fortune was made by a
master stroke during the war. In the
early months of the contest, when busi
ness of all kinds was greatly depressed,
his partners suggested that they, like
others, should curtail production. Look
ing out oi the windows of his great carpet
mills, Mr. Simpson asked: “How much
land is there in that vacant tract?” So
many thousand feet was the reply.
“Very well,” replied Mr. Simpson.
“To-morrow we will begin to build a
warehouse to cover it. Then we will
make carpets to the full capacity of our
machinery. When that storehouse is
full, we will build another and fill it.”
This policy was followed, and when the
inflated demand and prices of a year or
two later arrived, the concern put an im
mense quantity of goods on the market at
the highest figures.
Mr. Simpson was twice married, the
second time about four years ago to a
woman nearly 50 years his junior, who
survives him. The wedding is remem
bered on account of the impression
created by Mr. Simpson’s gift to his bride
of $1,000,000 in bonds.
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.
Interesting Little Flashes from the
AYlres Printed in Condensed Form.
The death is announced at London, Eng.,
of William Henry Channing, a well known
Unitarian minister and author. He was horn
in Boston, Mass., May 25, 1810.
At Gallipolis, 0., the towboat Raymond
Hamer ran into the ferryboat Champion yes
terday, nearly destroying the latter. George
Henry, a passenger, was instantly killed.
The period of Fenian O’Leary’s exile has
expired. He will return to Ireland and enter
the lecture field. He will take no active part
in politics, and will not contest his seat in
Parliament.
The trial of Mme. Clovis Hugues for shoot
ing M. Morin will begin at Paris on Jan. 8.
People of all social ranks are besieging the
Judges for tickets of admission to the court
during the trial.
The Berlin Post yesterday had an article
threatening the Reichstag with dissolution,
which it says is the only solution of the po
litical problem that would show the confi
dence of Germany in Prince Bismarck.
The Lahore Gazette expresses the belief that
Russian officers are residing at Cabul, and
that the Ameer is treating them with unusual
regard, giving them access to his confidential
correspondence with the Indian government.
The French Senate is unable to vote the
budget before the end of December. The
government on Friday will ask the Chambor
of Deputies for a credit of 800,000.000 francs
to meet the expenses of the first quarter of the
year 1885.
A shameful outrage has occurred at Bally
Duffy, county of Waterfosd. The vault of
Col. Hilliers, formerly Inspector General of
Police, was broken open Monday night, and
Mrs. Hillier’s coffin was taken out and thrown
into a glen.
The Mackey-Bcnnett commercial cables
were opened to the public at midnight at
theoffices of the Commercial Cable Company,
corner Wall and Nassau streets. The plase
was brilliantly lighted and the operators and
clerks were kept actively engaged in sending
telegrams. The rate charged lor public busi
ness is forty cents a word to Great Britain.
Ireland and France.
The auk Board of Aldermen was
an injunction from the
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EXPOSITION EXCURSION.
5,000 TEACHERS EXPECTED AT
NEW ORLEANS TO-DAY.
| Nebraska, Indiana and Minnesota to
Furnish the Quota- Preparations Mak
ing to Accommodate 100,000 Visitors
During the Mardi Gras Festivities—
Traffic in Exhibits Not Yet Begun.
New Ohleans, Dec. 23.—T0-day at Use
World’s Exposition was a repetition of
yesterday in point of attendance and gen
erally unfavorable atmospheric condi
tions. On the grounds the work of im
provement is being pushed as rapidly as
an army of workmen can prosecute their
labors. Within the buildings exhibitors
are covering space with great rapidity.
Everything has settled down In a syste
matic groove, and, as a natural result,
not a moment is lost. While the attend
ance is good, very little business had
been done in the way of sales direct or by
sample. The exhibitors, however, are
cheerful, claiming that the investing
community have yet to come. The near
approach of the Christinas holidays has
also.had its effect financially.
THE SECOND BIG DAY.
To-morrow will be a field day, as in
formation has been received that the first
influx of organized excursionists will
arrive. The expected visitors are from
Nebraska, Minnesota aud Indiana and
will number about 5,000 in all. Among
the number a large per cent, are school
teachers. Preparations for their reception
are already completed, the accommoda
tion bureau having secured rooms for
those who communicate with its officials
on arriving. The excursionists are booked
to return in 15 days, the limit of their
tickets. Though rather far to look in the
future, preparations for the Mardi Gras
reception of visitors have been already
inaugurated, and it is confidentay as
serted accommodation bureau
that the tribute of 100,000 visitors
will hardly inconvenience them.
The City Council to-night passed an
ordinance taking off the laborers from
construction work on the Exposition
Boulevard. The city was lurnishing the
men and the exposition the material. The
cjty claims that the other duties of tha
city proper demanded the workmen.
THE OLD LIBEKTY BELL.
Philadelphia, Dec. 23.—The Old
Liberty Bell will be taken to the New Or
leans Exposition in charge of a joint com
mittee ol the Councils, a resolution au
thorizing its removal from Independence
Hall for that purpose having finally
passed the Councils to-day.
BARBOUR FOR THE CABINET
Resigning His Railroad Presidency to
be Prepared for a Portfolio.
Washington, Dec. 21.—The resigna
tion of John S. Barbour, of Virginia, from
the Presidency of the Virginia Midland
Railroad, is commented upon as a step
looking to the possible appointment of
that gentleman to the Postmaster
Generalship. Virginians here are almost
unanimous in the opinion that Barbour
will be chosen for the Post Office Depart
ment. He has already been presented as
the choice of that State for a Cabinet ap
pointment. A short time ago it was urged
against him that be was debarred Ida
reason of his relations with a corporation
engaged in carrying the mail. “He will
resign,” was the rejoinder of a friend, and
60 he has resigned. It will be remem
bered that in the ease of A. T. Stewart,
whom Grant nominated for the Treasury,
the nominee resigned his importing inter
ests alter his name had been sent to the
Senate, but the Senate would not consent
to such an arrangement. Mr. Barbour,
if it be for the purpose reported, has taken
time by the forelock and made himself
ready for the emergency. He is very well
off and the salary of a Cabinet officer,
which is lower than the pay of any cor
responding position in the business world,
is of no consideration. For this reason
men like Barbour and Vilas are willing to
sacrifice their source of large incomes,
the honor being the cbiei recompense.
LYNCH’S WEDDING.
The Color Line—Two Sets of Invitations
Sent Out.
Washington, Dec. 21.—The Bet news-
Saper, a weekly published here and the
rgan of the colored people, devotes, in its
issue of this morning, a long article to
the wedding of ex-Congressman Lynch,
which occurred on Thursday. Lynch is
much darker than Miss Ella Summerville,
his bride, and a sister of the latter, who is
employed in the Government Printing
office, will not recognize the young wife
“because she married a nigger.” This
feeling extended farther into the Sum
ville family, and was the cause of two
sets of invitations to the wedding being
issued—one set for the blacker, more nu
merous and more plebian element, and
the other for the whiter and aristocratic
few, the former attending the brief and
leastless afternoon ceremony, and the lat
ter the swell reception and dinner of the
evening. The Bee criticises Lynch in
very harsh terms for “drawing the color
line” and catering to aristocracy, though
the bridegroom is quoted as alleging that
he had nothing to do with the invitations.
The incident has created quite a row in
the black district.
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