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The Savannah morning News.
■„T \BI I*HKD m.O. I
' .. | Editor aud Proprietor. \
\ AND FLORII>A.
XHB r\v) STATES
PAH AG It A PH S.
... H t Callimn-Tbt |
... Habersham j
xrrr-t at Atlanta of a
tour Vt trs of Free- i
1 j,. - araoiift j
rt a i -minted term)
- -.1..,- . .unity who ha*
■;.! ..I" fun is to pay ‘*e I
.. k-■.n has ordered the ]
■i for whisky or no
i.-l at tit- home near Chij>-
li was about 70 rears of
heohte-.l Masons m that i
•- . he eonneeteil with At
-*.ine i nitruruißg rner
.. -ti I il. ami are preparing
■, v:t! nee of heir eholera in
1; i.tr-i of Health have for
■rk in tee ilrur.-w il k mar
v\ i Hail, at Greenslioro. was
-lay by the -heriff under a
Negotiations are being
•: e superior Court of Early
IV ! fleet ion to lake place
1 . to till the vacancy in the
try. cau.sc'l by the <leath of
. r -i,-il Mitchell, ot Atlanta, who
i tri'Oi MUany. N. Y reports
ted Hants county Ku-Klux
l mte l state- prison at
h • i-e of Mrs. Asa lingers,
.. w destroyed by Are on last
Tin entire contents of the
nature, clothing and sou
a. r- burned. There was no in -
n Athens -ays that he never
tro-t'l-as he i- now selling for
. iru.ers ali seemed to have
, . v. :• i I were buying goods for
, nd ' •nth Allant: • Steam
Vrirtiog ' unipsir. haw p.tr
-teumlug as ,t mat*; for tin
• U tin- ■■ h~ an t unnamed,
-•aiiti r turn the Inc-a, bat bud u j
r an t strain chi-t.
' a,, r Hook an'! Ladder Company, of !
no paid the balance ilue the Build
i' an A—"H ialion on Mrs John
ou~< . Tin company also paid for a
-cry, .or all the funeral < x
o> Ic ■ - Moon, ami turned over to liis
fm money.
• Wylie Vnm'il, the Oglethorpe mer
ic.-. failure was published a few days
- indignant over the matter, lie says
t':'. id out his bustues- to Mr. K iyle.
ectlj solTt .and. The report orig
in t jttie by some of Arnold’s friends.
■ ere l- no foundation for it.
* ..arle- Hawkins of Anierious, has a cat
-h t *t was pul in an open glass vessel over
four iiitlis ago. Two-thir of the water
ilia, a- .. it in it the same time til.- evii’Mir
r• . n 1 still the ti-li lives. How intich
.infT he will iive, and how long it w ill he
•fo she remainder of the wet* r >ii-ap,-ears,
: j . • -•!'•-,
r't b. li the State Agricultural > "icty of
r.-'.i w •• it i!
- are arranging f- r a grand auetioh
that t He-. V number of lots have ho<*n
nto the p<hi) ulreadv. and others will
The terms will be one thirl cx-h,
r I at the end of one year, and the ro
r it the expiration of two years.
..v H.Mlds. of Cedurtown, a young man
.• 'dears of as*-, has invented a motive
for a churn, which has merits, in our
. ahead of anything jet gotten up in
It is worked by a crank, and is
, ito the old plain churn and dasher, it
a experimented with, and those who
- cd it are delighted wall Us work.
tv Iliourno. wh > wa- con Had in the
.u ton. for cutting the Toon .Marshal,
.-ks ago. broke jail Thursday night
■ c a hole large enough to let himself
- . . and is still at large, Someone siip
„ m with two augers and a roi: from
- li , and after he had made a hole
■ tly large he attached the rope Inside
t himself to the ground,
• said that the com pan v which proposed
and the street railro. and at Macon has
cloned the project. The e. uipaiiy does
auk the eitv lias been liiier.il er-ough in
ouragemeot of the enterprise. It is also
i • i that the restrictions or limitation*
i by the cilv were too severe, and that
", my eotihl not make a successful op
f ttie road uuder provisions adopted
-dav afternoon there was a s*rious
tal accident at McNeil’s mill, seven
...in Ann runs. By some means the
, exploded, throwing the flv wheel
, ' iing man named Jesse "Weaver,
* - g leg iu-t lielow the knee. Hr.
. \ wit- < ailed, states that the leg
••■rally wrench.-l oil'. An amputation
■i!'■ ! a" --ary, which was jm rfornied
:l k!e. Toe wound is not considered I
. iv fatal.
. law elect.on in Buck Branch dis
■ ;• > ouiity, resulted in a victory for
t, city. The no fe-ice men will
'■ grand-of ill- ai ballots and
- voting. It is an i-sue between I
and i ighh's. The no fence men I
! t.'-kets printed with the wor<l
• I in a vine, and four of them
>r tl sti ket n i- discover- and. \
* - ior a time threatened to raid the ;
uid trouble w.ts imminent, but
* • kept it down.
iuer Thronateeska was on her i
i 'r.nt’tu- Thursday Someone on i
vere! a body in the water at the .
1 i; river. Tli • ■teann r was run i
tin • lace, but the body had d.isap
i na be found. The remains j
to . t: -oof Or Thomas Shep- ;
1 * . who shot himself while <
• t' ,u last week. Shepherd's I
■ is ;, have in* idea that he com- I
• , ai, 1 that the shooting was ,
. shepherd was a young
i married, and his life wasin-
' Friday night there was exoite
’*< litre.- street, at the corner of
. At that point the city is
- • r. i lamps were hung about
•' v i pa-sershv of the danger,
i . '• t h n-tcli -tole the lamps and
ii darhne-s. The hole was
of p- ipb- going to a r.oop
- "I Mr. Thornton. Sam
r~ *’ t in into the nlace and
• - nr .in-! the front of the
> gi'-at Violence. None of them
• hut all were greatly
II - Jackson’s carriage met
v minute - later Wil
• ' walking, went bodily
N ’ tit-.- injuries were se
" ducsilay night the law
• ■!■ -■•■- was broken into and
'ls . f cr.i.-r- against
ii'l ti.i •sheriff’sexecution
• it. i ran •.1 Jones are
-vo n.t-ned otlicers, the
- . u their office for ex
• > a private nature was
r r ii'd desiring to come in
. . Idle Treasurer's record
r value to any one,
n com, ut ng the out
gunst the county. The
iM.i- h le— importance
■ died. The motive of the
vc aa evidence of the in
ty, and it is supposed
' ;c sheriff’s docket was
■ i- -id. s.-co*id time within
■ • ..ity li ‘ks have l>eea
n. they were taken front
- Nt.ws, T ati. Ifi: The
' . i' ri.sg.- ..f the season, anil
• -name I r years. t<M.k
’ < linr.-h at 7 o’clo \ List
tlr.il to Miss Harris
' -ti. Rev. l>. s. Tuir.ua
' J . >-ndants were H. A. Cbap
ii i M s- Mamie Pitts; A.
B . te. . and Mtss Belle
.-■■li "f senator Brown, of
- Ii Harlan; Col. O. N.
" •' ; 'I. Hock, of Decatur;
■ - 'i iggie i antrell; \v. a .
■ Ida B.irm-tt; Dr. 11. N.
• El C. **. Bcuz and
- i'lii-groom Isa rising young
. man ft. -r.i u> county.
- rl, and a graduate of
• * ii-g.*. where she carnevt
r-. Alter the ceremony
dints and the inune
■ re;>a-reil to the home
two miles iu the c >uu
: -upper awaited them,
■ reel with having killed a
Dun . near Stock bridge
i- arre- : m Atlanta Fri
| il nry county man.
| I ~-a.his victim,w<-re
■ •*-y ".re Imth •■ oung
-i .i. l b._:i!y esteemed
- I hey were the b.-sl of
f r lay lag ia tbe.r
| • : 1! ou; aboitt a tri
j -if I'he light i*
J r te one, and during
I- o’. Tie ball enter
| - ■'* l ■- | roved loin* a fatal
i ” •'•■'* r the wound wits
k . was not
l tme. and
a und. He
left iiis home and went to Texas, where he
has been since. No great effort Was made to
had him, and consequently he was never dis
turbed by detectives and officers in the Cone
Star state. Cast week Bella look a notion to
one home, as be says, for the purpose of giv
ing himself up, and reached Atlanta Tuesday
night. Cate Thursday night he was seen by a
man w ho knew of bis crime, and imparted his
knowledge to the patrolmen.
The killing of Judge J. B. Jones at Blakely j
by It. \\ . 1 1 nis has alrea iy been mentioned
in the News, hut the following from the Early !
Neus gives, a more detailed account i
of tin- tragic affair: *-It seems that Mr. Davis
fad been driving a double team, and when he i
came into town in the evening he drove to
the livery stable, and told the stable boy to
rub his hunts down good and take care of
them until be sent for them, and lie would ,
pay him. The cleaning lieiug done, the aoi- !
mala were brought to the front of the-table
u’u! hitched only a short distance apart,
one of the horses being a stallion
and the other a filly, they soon !
got t’p a scene that is not common in so putt- I
lie a place, it being right in front of Judge ;
Jones house. This stems to have offended
the Judge, and he went at once and put the
stallion iu his own lot. After awhile Mr. Da- i
vis sent his nt gro man Carson for the horses,
and Carson got another colored man to go
into Judge Jones’ lot for the stallion. When :
the Judge saw the horse being brought out of j
his lot. he went to the negro Carson and 1
asked him by what authority he had taken ■
the horse from his lot. Carson replied that
Mr. Davis haif sent him for the horse The
Judge then told him if lie ever took another
horse from his lot without permts-ion. he :
would ‘break tiis d—d head, and it took
ins liest to keep from doing it now. 1
bo tell Mr. Davis to come for the horse
himself; he is the responsible party.’ Judge j
Jones then passed over to his house, and in
about 10 or 15 minutes came hack w ith a knife
open in his hand—stabbing fashion—and took
a seat in front of Ilentlersdn Bros.’ store,
holding the knife open in his hand. In a few
minutes Mr. Davis walked up, andaddmss
tng Mr. K. C. Fryer, the keeper of the stable
he asked why Ins horses hail not been sent to
[ him when 4>■ seat for them. Judge .lones
! rose from his seat ami said: ‘By Cod, lain
the man who wouldn’t let the an nigger
havuthebnr.se; what have you to say atsiut
| it -’ To which Mr. Davis replied, ‘lt is true
I that he is black, but he is a good negro, and 1
j am responsible for hi,in, and my h >rses too.’
j Judge Jones then said, ‘lf you protect the
I '1- —-n nigger, yon are no lietter than he is,
1 you and ti .’ Just here he approached Mr.
j Davis with drawn knife. Mr. Davis cautioned
| lain not to come any closer, and shot off his
! pistol fn the air twice, one of the balls going
• through the top ot the shelter tinder which the
Judge had been standing. At this the Judge
' made sine remark about poor shooting, to
which Mr. Davis replied: ‘i didn't want to
] ;,it you. Judge.’ More words then pa-.-ffd
I between them, when Judge Jones again
; started lor Mr. D.ivi*. bee.b.-s of the w-trn
: mg give him not lo come any cln-er. Mr.
i Davis then ti rod a third, shot, lulling him in
i the left breast. The Judge remarked, ‘You
| hit me then.’ami made a few steps tow ard
' Mr. Davis, fe'l and expired almost instant!;. .
A i oroner's jury was soon gummoned. several
witnesses -worn, and the substance of what
| we have stated was given sn evidence. The
i oiry returned a verdict of iusttllable homi
i vide.”
FLORIDA.
The Fort Dale ha- become the
Ob* *r*.T.
Building the order of the iiav in Dade
City. > venal enh-tantial buildings are to be
' erected in tlie next few weeks.
Five car an.l 2.200 boxes of oranges were
I ran-ferre ! from tbe i >rida Southern Had
v ay to ’ be Savannah, Florida and We tern a’
V t I odge No. 1
F. V. M„ it \v:i-deci'h and to accept theinvita
|to of the County < (■:>,mi- oners to take
! charge of laying the corner-stone of the new
court house.
Two years ago a F rt Dade man was offered
live acres of land near the heart ol the citv
: for an old double-barrelled si otguu that was
mo north more than sls, and refused. Now
; $:,ooo will not buy the land.
A Brooksville man boasts of having bought
! ore bushel of oysters in .he shell and eaten
them all at one meal—of course leaving ot
the she.!*. A citizen of Fort Dade claims
that cue evening last week, according to h:s
; own account, he eat ninety-two pig’s feet at
i one intal, I e-ides taking a few home to lunch j
w;i before going to bed.
Montieel’o Constitution : tt is a mystery lo
the tax-payers of Jeff'erson county why the .
pro.: cr Siate oPseo* have Uia* ,mr failed to
turnover to the Jefferson < ountv authorities i
the full amount of taxes they have collected I
for the county from the Florida ,
Railway and Navigation Company, for j
the years Issl, 'so Hn ,| *:5. The tuxbcoks
allow that there was due for said years the
-um of so.Ml as. Recently there was paid
| over to the County Treasurer .’ti 7>. leav- 1
mg a balance of 14.C0T tv. still due. Of this
I latter amount nearly $3,000 is due to the bond
fund, and if now subject to the order of the
Commissioners, could lie made to retire
nearly $l,O of our bended debt.
Mai. g. \v. Taylor, one of the best and j
1 most cautious citizens oi Jefferson county,
while en route a few davs ago to the Florida j
Conference a! Gatncnville. wa* dclaved at I
Baldwin, awaiting the arrival of a train, and i
stepping up to a coffee stand iu company with j
others, called for a cup of coffee, and while !
enjoying it several men who were dressed j
like'gentlemen crowded around tbe stand !
until it was uncomfortable, when the Major !
clbnvtd his way through tlie crowd. A sh..rt i
tune afterwards be placed his hand in his '
pock t, and discovered that his pocket-book
containing SIOO was eono. The scoundrels
relieved him of it while he was making bis
way through the crowd at tbe coffee-stand.
I’a'atka -Wit*: To decide the question as :
to whether ladies or gentlemen stiell more j
correctly, the following s> ntenc : was taken
and read to a party consist:tig of five college
students and one Episcopal clergyman The ,
score of mistakes stood, respectively: 4. 0, t
11. 4. 6. 3—38. Six ladies then took pencils, j
an 1 made the following score of errors: 5,6, ’
at, ti, l—:s. The sentence was: It is an j
agreeable view lo perceive the unparalleled ‘
embarrassment, unfeigned perturbation and (
ridiculous grimaces of an harassed peddler .
endeavoring to gauge tbe symmetry of a
l*e!ed onion which a wilful, weird old sybil ]
lias stabbed and separated with a poniard, j
regardless of the itinuen ioes of the lilies of
carnelian hue.
Lake t'ity correspondence Sews, Jan. 13:
The weather is springy aciJ farmers are rush
ing with their oat cron. The sea island cot
ton market u dull at 22 cents in the lint.—
: Two families, farmers, and one blacksmith,
from Georgia, moved into Wilson this week.
Wilson needs a country mill and long eotton
gins. That place is the liest opening in the
State for a set-up push-ahead man. The doc
j tor left Wilson last summer on account of
prevailing good health.—Orange trees are
looking well. —Numerous applications are be
; ing made by strangers for houses to rent in
Lake City.—The railroad bond question,
1 “bonds or’no bonds,” wdl be voted upon again
1 in Suwannee county on Feb. 10 next —A hand
- me painting of the Agricultural College at
this place will be on exhibition at New Or
leans. and also picturesque scenes of our
town.
Readers of the Nkws will remember the as
sassination of C. Abbe at Sarasota Ray a
few days agohv a man who stepped from b •-
hind A. p. Ridwell’s store and fired two
charges of shot into him as he was inoffen
sively walking along the rod in com
pany with a friend named Moorclmuse.
Mr. Abhc, it will lx' remembered, was Post
master and I’nited States Land Commissioner
at Saras ua. Mis corpse was put into a boat
and t..wed out of glit down the bay. Ruler
news from Sarasota is to the efl'eet that Mr.
Muorehoo-e recognized the man who lired
the gnu a* Charles Willanß who some
time previously had tried to inveigle
Mr. Ahhe into a political discussion and quar
rel. An indignation meeting of the citizens
was followed by the organization of a pos-cof
21 mounted men, who started at night to
arrest p< tsous suspected of complicity in the
crime. I'pon the approach of the po e Wil
lard fled from his house in his night
clothes, and gaining the underbrush
succeed-d in clud.iiig pursuers, tdmuml
Bacon. Joe Anderson anil l>r. Hunter were
lodged in jail, tlie latter subsequently being
allowed to furnish bail. From him the posse
secured the startling confession that a
secret organization has existed at
Mrasiin for some time past, whose
object was the removal or murder of
all persons in the community objectionable to
the members of the order. The membership
numbered is or it. Two judges and a captain
constituted the officers of the organization.
Toe former passed sentences, and the latter
saw that they were executed. Itidwell. in
front of whose store Abbe was murdered,
was one of the judges. A de
bate resulted in a declaration
that Abbe was worthy of death, and sentence
was passed upon him in April last, but for
political motives its execution was postponed
until after the election. l>r. Hunter claims
to have not attended any of the organ
ization's meetings since August, when
lie and Itidwell resolved to withdraw
from membership. He says that the meetings
were held in various places, foine in the
wood,, others in the old yellow house on the
beach. s<.me at tlie house of a man named
Vlford, a couple at Yongt s’ ship yard, one at
Buiwcll’s store and several at ills warehouse.
Bacon and Anderson were both member- of
the organization. Itidwell shares the ir
:ni| r rut. Thegoc I standing ff the ae
ciiscii n. ,kes the aff i roneef absorbing inter
e-i. Further sensational developments are
not improbable, l’o’it cal motives are sai !to
have been at the bottom of Abbe’s killing.
Archbisho;> Leroy's InstalUtlon.
Nkw Orleans, Jan. 17.— The ceremo
nies of the reception ol the pallium by
Archbishop Leroy t< ok place this morn*
ins; at the Cathedral. Archbishop Gib
bons, ol Baltimore, presided. Bishop
Fitzgerald, of Little Rock. Ark., deliver
ed the English sermon and the Dominican
Father the French. Pontifical mass was
performed at the Cathedral at 10 o’clock.
BROWN'S PF.RCIIED PIKE.
HE FINISHES HIS BOUT WITH
THE REAGAN HiIX.
I jicontrolled Competition Declared In
imical to Railroad Prosperity—The
Bill Forebodiug Disaster to the Rail
roads—Mr. Slater’s Amendment R j?c
ted—Mr. Conger Finds a New Objection
in the Measure.
Washington, Jan. 17.—At 2 o’clock
this afternoon the Chair laid before the
Senate the inter-State commerce bill, and
Senator Brown continued his speech in
opposition to the later amendment pro
hibiting higher charges for short than for
long hauls. All railroad experience, he
said, showed that this plan would seri
ously disturb the operations of through
transportation and would be highly detri
mental to the commerce of the country
in many ways. The principles which
found acceptance among business men
generally would not work in railroading.
For example, uncontrolled competition in
trade was held to be for the best interests
of communities, hut it did not
always work well in railroading,
and Irequently would not work
at all. Where several lines were in com
petition rates were likely to he cut down
below a point which would be profitable
to either line. Out of this condition of
thiugs would grow a consolidation of in
terests and a monopoly. Unbiidled com
petition, frequent railroad wars, and cut
ting of rates were most detrimental to
merchants and business generally.
Having concluded the argument portion
of his remarks, Mr. Brown continued,
that the tendency seemed constantly to
be toward a greater enlargement of the
power ot the Federal Government. This
was tlie most far-reaching step yet taken
in that direction. The commission pro
post and would soon need an enormous re
tinue,which would growyear by year until
government ofiicials would be found in
every town and village in the United
States’‘regulating'’the business of rail
roads. Mr. Brown was emphatic in his
condemnation of the Keagan bill, which
he said would result most disastrously to
the commerce of the country, and while
he could not support that bill under any
circumstances, he would be prepared to
support a commission with properly
limited power to investigate and report,
leaving true regulation where the com
mon law lett it.
SLATER'S AMENDMENT REJECTED.
The debate was continued by Messrs.
Camden and Hawley. Mr. Slater’s
amendment was then brought to a vote,
and was rejected by 11 yeas to 32 nays.
The vote in detail was as follows:
Veil* —Messr-. Camden, Cockrell, Coke,
Fair. Henna, Maxey, Slater, Vance, Van
Wvek, V.st and Voorhees —11.
AYi i/x Messrs Allison. Brown,Butler, Cam
eron of Pennsylvania, Cameron of Wisconsin,
i Conger,'• ullom, Dobh, Frye, Gorman, Hale,
Harris, Harrison, Hawley, Hoar, Ingalls,
Jackson, Jonas. T,*y>liam,Manilerson, Mitchell,
Morgan, Morrill, l*.ke, Platt, Pugh, Ransom,
Sawyer, Shellield. Sherman. Walk, r aim
Wilson—32,
An amendment proposed by Mr. Allison
was agreed to by a vote of 22 yeas to 20
j nays, increasing the number of eornmis
; sion Irom live to nine, and amending
the latter's provision so as to require
; that not more than live of them shall
f belong to one political party.
Mr. Allison’s amendment also provides
1 that one of the commissioners shall be
selected from each ol the nine judicial
| districts of the United States.
An amendment' tiered by Mr. Pugh was
agreed to limiting the powers of the com
mMsioners to the power specifically given
by the bill. Mr. Pugh said that he offered
this amendment in order to obviate Mr.
Garland’s objection thuj Congress Mpis
derogating its own powers to a commis
sion.
Mr. Conger was surprised to discover
that the bill as it stood gave the com
mission control, not only over railroads,
but over vessels and water communica
tion generally. If this were so, he said,
the sooner it was either strangled or
brought to a halt the better.
The amendments to the bill having been
completed, some question arose as to the
parliamentary status of tlie measure,
which, having been ascertained, the
House bill was by unanimous consent
taken from the calendar, and Mr. Cullom
moved to amend it by striking out all
after the enacting clause and inserting
the provisions of the Senate bill. On this
motion, Mr. Vest called tor the yeas ana
nays, but without action on the call the
Senate at 5:10 o’clock adjourned.
THE CULLOM BILL.
The opponents of the Cullom inter-com
merce commission bill claim that their
success in securing an adjournment of
the Senate this evening just as the friends
t the bill had moved to substitute it for
the Keagan bill indicates that they will
be able to defeat the Cullom bill. They
say that when it next comes up in the
Senate its friends will find
themselves unable to substitute
it tor the Reagan bill. and
that the latter will be passed. Mr. lieagan,
who has thought that the Senate would
pass the Cullom hill, is credited with the
nope to-night that the Senate may adopt
his bill next week. This is not certain,
hut the Cullom bill will beentangled next
week in questions of consideration, and
will sutler thereby. The Senate's ad
journment of this afternoon in the face oi
the desire of the friends of the bill to pass
it is a very unfavorable sign.
IN SENATE AMI HOUSE-
Sherman's Correspondence Transmitted
—Mr. Gibson and Mr. Randall.
Washington, Jan. 17.—8 y the desig
nation of the President of the Senate, Mr.
Allison presided over the Senate to-day.
A message from President Arthur was
read, transmitting, in compliance with
the Hawley resolution, the communica
tion ot Gen. Sherman to the Secretary of
War regarding the policy ot the Confed
erate Executive Department. It was
laid on the table.
IN THE HOUSE.
In the House to-day Mr. Gibson, of West
Virginia, rising to a personal explanation,
said that his attention had been called to
a newspaper paragraph charging him
with having Indulged in very harsh and
unjust criticism upon the gentleman from
Pennsylvania (Mr. Randall). This para
graph'had reference to a conference be
tween himself and some friends in Wheel
ing. At this conference the tariff had
been spoken of, and, of course. Mr. Ran- 1
dall’s name had been mentioned. So far ]
from making any unkind allusion to that ;
gentleman he had declared that while he ,
might differ from him on some subjects
Mr. Randall’s long record bad taught him j
to respect his capacity and integrity.
The Speaker appointed Messrs. Cobb, ,
Henley and Payson as conferees on the 1
Oregon Central land grant bill.
Mr. Hopkins, of Pennsylvania, from the ]
Committee on Labor, reported a resolu
tion directing the Postmaster General to ,
ask the Attorney General for bis opinion
as to whether the eight-hour law applies
to letter carriers. It was adopted.
Mr. Young, of Tennessee, rising to a ;
personal explanation, sent to the Clerk’s j
desk and had read an article published in j
a Washington paper yesterday criticising ;
the expenditures of the contingent fund ]
of the House, and making a statement
that Mr. Young’s expenses during the
Hot Springs investigation amounted to
$125. He declared that there was noth- j
ing connected with the Hot Springs in
vestigation which authorized any such
statement.
Mr. Willis, of Kentucky, reported the
river and harbor appropriation bill from
the committee Laving charge of the sub
ject. and it was ordered printed and re- j
committed. Alter a few moments oecu- !
pied in consideration o( the Indian appro- j
priation bill, but without taking action
thereon, the Hou‘e adjourned.
Cast Tennessee's Funding Scheme.
Xiw York. Jan. 17.—The lull report of
the bondholders’ committee of the East
Tennessee, recommending a funding
scheme, suggests that it any change is
made in the plan, two additional coupons
should be lunded and a proportionate ex
tension of the other securities named be
made. About $4,000,000 of securities have
consented to the funding plan.
SAVANNAH, SUNDAY, JANUARY 18. 1885.
RIVERS AND HARBORS.
A Detailed Statement nf tlie Amounts
Appropriated for Southern Waters.
Washington, Jan. 17.—The House
Committee on Rivers and Harbors to-day
completed consideration of the river and
harbor appropriation bill for the next
fiscal year. The bill appropriates sll,-
399,202. The estimates, as prepared by
the engineers in charge of the various
improvements, amounted to 34,507,630.
The bill embraces items for harbors as
follows:
Virginia. —Norfolk and approaches,
$50,000.
North Carolina. —Beaufort, $5,000;
Eden ton Bay. $2,000.
South Carolina.— Charleston harbor,
$150,000; Georgetown, $2,000.
Georgia. —Brunswick SIB,OOO, Cumber
land Sound $75,000, Savannah $85,000.
Florida.— Apalachicola Bay SIO,OOO,
Tampa Bay SIO,OOO.
Alabama. —Mobile $120,000.
Louisiana. —New Orleans $150,000.
roll RIVERS.
Virginia. —Appomattox $12,000, James
$150,000, Mattaponis2,soo, Rappahannock
$12,500, Staunton SIO,OOO, York $17,000,
New $5,000, Dan $5,000.
North Carolina.— Cape Fear river $70,-
500, Currituck sound $5,000, Neuse $5,000,
New $5,000, Pamlico and Tar $5,000,
Roanoke $17,000, Trent $2,500.
South Carolina. —Ashley SI,OOO, Edisto
$2,500, Santee $5,000, Salkehatchee $3,000.
Wacammaw $3,000, Wappoa $3,000,
Wateree $5,000.
RIVERS NEAR HOME.
Georgia.— Aitamaha, $7,000; Chatta
hoochee, $20,000; Coosa, $40,000; Flint,
$20,000; Oemulgee, $5,500; Oconee $2,500;
ltomerly marsh, $14,000; Savannah $9,000.
Florida. Apalachicola, $1,000; Ca
loosahatchee, $2,500; Chocktawhatehee,
$12,500; Escambia Conecuh, $6,000; Es
cambia, $2,000; St. John's river for the
channel over the bar at the mouth,slso,ooo;
Upper St. John’s,ss,ooo; Suwanee, $5,000;
Davidson $3,000; Volusia bar, $2,000;
Withlacoochee $2,500.
Alabauia.— Alabama river SIO,OOO, Ca
haba SIO,OOO, Tallapoosa $5,000, Warrior,
Tombigbce and Big Warrior $50,000. !
Mississippi. —Channel at Biloxi bay
$5,000, Big Sunflower $4,000, Noxubee
$6,C00, Pascagoula $3,000, Pearl $6,560,
Steeles' Bavou $ 2,5 K', Tallahatchie $2,500,
Tcbula Lake SI,OOU, Yallabusha SI,OOO,
Yazoo SIO,OOO.
TENNESSEE’S SHARE
Tennessee.— Big llatchee $2,500, Caney
Fork $3,000, Clinch $1,500, Cumberland
river below Nashville $12,500, Cumberland
above Nashville with a view to secure
four feet in the channel SIOO,OOO, French
Broad $4,000, Hiawassee $2,500, South
Fork Deer $2,500, Tennessee above Chatta
nooga ss,oO<>. Tennessee to complete Mus
sel shoal’s $350,000.
No appropriation has yet boon made
for the improvement of Galveston harbor
as proposed by Capt. Eads. The matter
will be considered the early part of next
week.
The bill provides for the appointment
i of a commission, to consist of seven mem
i bers, whose duty it shall be to examine
the various river and harbor improve
ments, and report to Congress within a
year. It also provides for a consulting
engineer for the Mississippi River Com
mission, and recommends the appoint
ment of Capt. Eads at a salary ol $3,500
per year.
CON'SFLAK APPROPRI ATIOXS.
Mr. Banda’.l Checks an Effort to Bur
den the Bill With New Legislation.
Washington. .Tan. 17. —The morning
business being dispensed with He
House at 5 o'clock went into
committee of the whole, with
Mr. Wilson cf lowa in the chair, cn
the consular and diplomatic appropiia
tion bill. Mr. Towusheud, of Illinois,
offered an amendment requesting the
President to invite the co-operation of the
Governments of American nations in se
curing the establishment of a commer
cial league by and between said nations,
to be known as “The Customs Union of
America.’’ Mr. Randall raised a point
of order against the amendment. The
object of it might be a very proper one,
but the Senate had advised the House that
it would agree to no legislation on appro
priation bills, and the adoption of the
amendment would only bring on a con
troversy which ought to be avoided.
The Speaker sustained Mr. Randall’s
point of order.
A long debate followed, based inci
dentally upon the principle involved in
Mr. Towjishend’s amendment, but was
devoted principally to a discussion of
tai iff and reciprocity. Among . the
speakers were Messrs. Towushend, Ran
dall, Hiscoek, Cox of New York, Dors
heimer, Mills. Curtin, Reed, Horr, Con
verse and Blount. The debate then
closed.
The committee rose and the bill was
passed.
Two Cent Stamps Retiring Postal Cards.
Washington, Jan. 17.—During the six
months ended Dec. 31, 1884, the number
of postal cards issued was 108,315,250, as
against 194,611,000 for the corresponding
six months of 1883—a reduction of 13.3
per cent, in the number issued. To this re
duction must be added the loss
of natural increase in the is
sue which for several years pre
vious averaged 15 per cent, annually.
The post office officials regard this a reduc
tion of practically 30 per cent., taken in
connection with the increased number of
2-cent stamps issued as evidence that
postal cards have been in a great measure
displaced by 2-cent stamps.
I be House’s Naval Kill.
Washington, Jan. 17.— The sub-com
mittee of the House Committee on Appro
priations, having in charge the estimates
for the naval service, has agreed u pon a
bill making the regular appropriation for
the next fiscal year ending June JO, 1886.
It will probably be reported to the full
committee Tuesday next. No appropria
tion is made for new cruisers. Represen
tative Long, of the sub-committee, favors
such an appropriation, however, and Mr.
Randall opposes it. Mr. Hutchins, the
remaining member, has not yet expressed
his preference on the subject. The ap
propriation for the proposed increase will
be considered by the full commiteee.
NKW YORK’S SEXATORSHIP.
Future Vantage Rather than Present
Honors the Aim of the Republicans.
Albany, N. Y., Jan. 17.— The contest
in the Republican party which has been
virtually brought to a close by the with
drawal of both Messrs, liiscock and Rus
sell in favor of 31r. Evarts, has been not
so much a contest for present honors as
it has been for vantage for the future con
trol of the Republican party. Two re
sults now seem to have been achieved,
the first beimr the retirement of the Ar
thur stalwarts from a position of in
fluence in the party. So long as Presi
dent Arthur was even remotely connected
with the contest the opposition to Mr.
Morton was handicapped. It was not
President Arthur’s so-called free trade j
notions that aroused the popular feeling
against him. Warren Draper and oth
ers may write any number of
letters to prove that President
Arthur contributed to the Blaine canvass.
The rank and tile of the Republican party
do not believe it and cannot be made to |
believe it. The great bulk of the Itepub-I
lican party wanted to win, and in this |
wish they do not believe President Arthur i
participated, but although they desired I
Blaine to Min after he had been nomi- j
nated they.do not care to have him r.orai- j
nated again. The retirement of Platt, !
Payn, Cornell and their stalwart I
following is Lhe retirement of the
forces which were seeking to pave |
the way lor Blaine’s renomination
in 1888. Its leaders made no conceal
ment of this lact and have ail along i
counted on it as a w inning card. This 1
fact has been appreciated at its true sig- '
nifieance by the Republican politicians ol' i
the State, and all elements have come to i
Albany for the express purpose of break
ing the Platt-Corueil combination. It '
Arthur has been removed from polit'es
by the events in Albany during the past
fortnight, his friends have taken care
that so far as this State is concerned,
Blaine has gone down with him.
WRECKED BY SPECULATION.
TheDeatliof Its Head Followed by the
Suspension ot a Bank,
Lancaster, Pa., Jan. 17. —The bank
ing house of Amos S. Henderson, of this
eity, one of the oldest banks in the coun
try, failed to open for business this morn
ing, and it was announced that the insti
tution is insolvent. Mr. Henderson died
last Tuesday, and in an examination of
the bank’s affairs, it was discovered that
the estate was bankrupt, and in order to
treat ali creditors alike, many of whom
are time creditors, the administrator de
cided to suspend business. The bank had
deposits exceeding $200,000. The in.-ti
tution is believed to have been wreckeu
by stock speculation. •
OLIVER BROS.’ FAILURE.
Pittsburg, Jan. 17. —There continues
to be much gossip about the suspension
of Oliver Bros, it Phillips. An impres
sion is growing that the firm thought it
best to suspend and did so voluntarily.
They decided that it was useless to en
deavor to carry their debt load any lon
ger in the lace of the present condition of
trade, and after a week or two of consul
tation, it was determined to stop pay
ments. H. W. Oliver has been hypothe
cating his securities since last May and
so have other members of the firm.* Mr.
Oliver put up part of his holding of
Pittsburg and Western stock in the city,
but most of it is held as collateral in New
York.
The employes at the various mills
owned ,by Oliver Bros. & Phillips were
notified that their wages for the past two
weeks, which were due this afternoon,
could not be paid. The men understand
that they will not be kept out f money
long, but many can ill-afford to wait
even a few days, and are very much dis
tressed in consequence. D. B. Oliver,
one of the members of the firm, said to
day that the estimates of the liabilities
of the firm were all wrong, and that the
sum total would not reach half of $5,000,-
000. The latter amount has generally
be en considered nearly correct.
D. W. C. CARROLL ASSIGNS.
I). W. C. Carroll has made an assign
ment of all his property, real, personal
and mixed, valued at several hundred
thousand dollars, to John Bcnford, for the
benefit of his creditors. The limited
partnership now operating the Fort Pitt
, Boiler Works under the firm name ot I).
W. C. Carroll & Cos., limited, is not af
fected, the partners state, by this assign
ment.
IRREGULARITIES in two banks.
Norwich, Conn,, Jan. 17.—Irregular
ities have been discovered in the accounts
of the Merchants’ National Bank of this
eity amounting to a considerable sum,
but just how large it is now impossible to
state. The irregularities are due to the
action of the cashier add assistant cashier,
Messrs. Meecli and Webb, both of wfcom
have resigned pending complete investi
gations. Lesser irregularities have also
been found in the Spetucket National
Bank, the cashi :• of which, William T.
Roatb, has also resigned. The places of
all three employes have been tilled, and
the banks will’ continue business. Ex
aminer Mygatt is now in the city making
a coni; U'te examination of the affairs of
the two banks.
LOST’ AY IT if SIXTEEN LIVES.
Tlie Fears Concerning the Packet Ad
miral Moorsom Prove Well Founded.
Liverpool, Jan. 17.—The fears enter
tained yesterday for the safety of the
packet steamer Admiral Moorsom, plying
between Dublin and Holyhead, prove to
have been fully justified. The steamer
collided with the American ship Santa
Clara, from Liverpool for Now York, and
Saras sunk. .The Santa Clara landed 12 oi
the sunken steamer's crew and two of her
passengers at Holyhead. The lost
steamer was a staunch built vessel of
some 800 tons burthen, and was one of a
lleet of freight and passenger steamers
owned by the London and Northwestern
Railway, and run in connection with their
train service. The steamer carried a crew
of between 20 and 30 persons.
SIXTEEN LIVES LOST.
The Captain of the Santa Clara reports
that bis vessel came into collision with
the Admiral Moorsom Thursday evening
off Holyhead. The Santa Clara was but
little damaged, but the Admiral Moorsom,
which was struck nearly amidship, sank
almost immediately. The Captain and
crew of the Santa’Clara did all in their
power to save the lives of those on board
the sinking vessel, but a heavy sea was
on at the time of the collision and twelve
of the crew and four of the passengers
were drowned. The remainder of the
crew and passengers of the ill-fated
packet not rescued by the Santa Clara
were picked up by another vessel and are
supposed to be safe.
Later accounts irom Holyhead state
that the Admiral Moorsom had sixteen
passengers on board and that only two of
them wore saved.
Another account of the sinking of the
Admiral Moorsom, received this evening,
says that from ten to filtecn of tlie persons
on board the steamer at the time of the
collision, Including six ot the crew, arc
missing. The steamer sank in a lew
minutes, Two of her sailors climbed into
the rigging of the Santa Clara. A num
ber 'ot others, including two soldiers,
took to a boat, which was rescued by the
Santa Clara. It is feared that the rest of
those onboard the steamer, including two
women, were lost. The Santa Clara’s
head gear was slightly damaged. She
was towed to Holyhead.
GOV. ST. JOHN S HEPLY.
j The Common Sense of the People Ap
pealed to bv the Prohibition I.eader.
St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 17.—Ex-Gov.
St. John to-night issued a long statement
regarding the cnarges made against him
in the letters and reviews recently pub
lished by Messrs. Clarkson and Legate.
Gov. St. John says:
I submit to the candid judgment of every
good citizen unbiased l.y partisan prejudice,
even though I should interpose no word in my
own defense, do not the statements of Messrs.
Clarkson, Legate and McCullough show that
there was a plan laid to either lilcli money
from the treasury of the National Republican
Committee or to bribe me to betray an hon
est, sincere and conscientious minority, and
thus prevent a fair expression of the
will ol' the people, ami through
such corrupt rneaus give victory
for the Republican party? Failing in this
and smarting under the lash of political de
feat and blasted hopes to crown the infamy,
Mr. l egate is treacherously betrayed and
offered as a sacrifice upon the altar of cor
ruption, ami these are my accusers.
Knoxville's Rapid Growth.
KNOXvii.btf.TKNN., Jan. 17.—The Daily
Tribune will publish tomorrow carefully
prepared statistics, showing that the
manufactories, business houses, public
buildings and dwellings erected in Knox- I
vilie during the past year numbered bit)
and cost $1,080,000. Manufacturing es
tablishments anti additions to factories to
the number of 33 were erected at a cost of
$205,000. Seventy new business buildings
cost’s2s,ooo. Public buildings and works
were completed at a cost of $220,000, and
340 dwellings were built at a costof $315,-
000. The building improvements In
Knoxville during 1884 amounted to 40 per
cent, more than in 1883. The population
of Knoxville is over 27,000, which show
a gain of over 5,000 in a year. The Tri
bune claims that Knoxville made greater
advancement last year than any city in
the South.
Inauguration Railroad K<e*
Washington, Jan. 17.—The Pennsyl
vania Railroad Company has notified the I
committee on Cleveland’s inauguration
that reduced rates for visitors to the in
auguration will be made on the basis of :
one fare for the round trip for organiza
tions of 100 persons or more, and one fare j
and a half for single tickets to points 1
North, AVest and East. The Virginia
Midland rates are: single tickets from J
Atlanta $23 50, and for military sl7;
Athens, Ga., $23 50 and sl7; Gainesville.
Ga., $23 50 and sls 70; Seneca. S.C., s2l 75 ,
and sl4; Greensville, S. C., S2O and sl3;
Spartansburg. sl9 and sl2 20; Augusta.
S2O 85 and sls 15; Columbia, sl7 85 and
sl3; Charlotte. $lO and $lO 40; Goldsboro, ■
sl2 75 amt $8 35; Raleigh. sl2 75 and $8 35;
Greensboro. sl2 30 and $8 05; Lynchburg
$7 70 and $0 05; Charlottesville, $5 30 and j
$4 35. I
DESPERATION IN ENGLAND
10.000 UN EMPLOYED WORKMEN
HOLD A MASS MEETING.
Incendiary Pamphlets Circulated Among
the Throng—Blood. Bullets and Bay
onets the Watchword Connecticut
Strikers Accused of Trying to Blow Up
a Hat Shop, But They Deny the
Charge.
Bridgeport, Conn., Jan. 17. —An at
tempt was made shortly after 11 o’clock
last night by unknown persons to blow
up Crofut & Knapp's hat shop No. 2, at
South Norwalk, with dynamite. The
shock was felt all over the city, and at
tracted great crowds of people to the
scene. Due end of the structure was
completely blown out. There were 17 of
the employes asleep in the building at
the time, who fortunately escaped in
jury. It is supposed to be the work of
dissatisfied strikers or their friends. Men
in the building in some cases were thrown
from their cots, and others shaken up.
The windows throughout the building
were shattered, and heavy stone window
sills were broken to atoms. The strikers
disclaim all responsibility for the ex
plosion.
UNEMPLOYED ENGLISH IN MASS MEETING
London, Jan. 17.—1n accordance with
previous announcements a mass meeting
of unemployed workingmen was held in
front of the Royal Exchange this after
noon. Shortly after noon people began to
assemble, and by 3 o’clock fully 10,000
bad come together. The multitude
awaited the arrival of the speakers in
perfect order. Henry George, llellen
Taylor, William Saunders, and other
well-known radicals were loudly cheered
as they appeared upon the scene, and
were recognized by the waiting throng.
Speaking began at a little past 3 o’clock.
At the same time radical pamphlets of the
most advanced description were meeting
with an immense sale. Some of these
were headed, in bold type, with the words
“Blood, Bullets and Bayonets!” and i>fe
sented an extraordinary “appeal” to the
half-starved, herring-gutted, poverty
stricken, parish-damned inhabitants of
the disunited kingdom.
The meeting was presided over by Mr.
Saunders. A resolution was passed de
claring “the depression in trade chronic.
Poverty and difficulty cf finding work are
intolerable evils, which those who suffer
them ought not tamely to endure. These
evils result from the denial ot the equal
rights of man in the elements which the
Creator has provided.” The meeting
pledged itself to demand the restitution
to the whole people of their birthright in
the land,
THE BLACK FLAG AT CINCINNATI.
Cincinnati, Jan. 17. —To-night an un
heralded procession, purporting to be of
Socialists, paraded the streets. From
fifty to seventy men followed a drum
anil fife. They carried a black flag and a
red one made out of paper muslin and
also transparencies rudely prepared con
taining incendiary mottoes. At
the Esplanade a short speech
was made, in which the speaker called
attention to the great .lumber of men out
of w ork in Cincinnati, aud hinted, that
desperate measures would soon be re
sorted to for their relief. The speaker re
ferred to Krohn, Fleiss <fe Cos., cigar manu
facturers, saying that their striking em
ployes would get even with them.
STRENGTH <>i I'llK FRENCH LABOR VOTE.
Paris, Jan. 17.—The French federation
of Socialist workmen has issued a mani
lesto showing that it can, if properly or
! ganized, command 2,000,000 votes at. the
\ next Paris election, The manifesto ira
; plores the Socialists to devote themselves
to the object ot the organization, and to
avoid premature attempts at a grand
social revolution.
REPAIR SHOPS CLOSED.
Reading, I’a., Jan. 17. —The Philadel
phia and Reading Railroad repair shops
at Schuylkill Haven, which employed in
brisk times several hundred hands, have
been closed until further orders. The
rolling mill at the same place has also
stopped.
5,000 PEOPLE WITHOUT WORK.
AY II.KESI!ARIiK, P.A., Jan. 17.—At the
conclusion of work this afternoon all the
collieries of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre
Coal Company were ordered to suspend
operations for the remainder of January.
The reason given for the stoppage is that
the company’s allotments of coal for the
month have already been shipped. Five
thousand persons are out of employment.
ACCEPTED UNDER PROTEST.
Fall River, Mass.. Jan. 17.—The
Spinners union to-night voted to accept a
reduction oi wages under protest, ar.cl to
postpone further action for i*ne month.
FATAL FLAMES.
The Touch of An Incendiary's Torch
Co:*t Two Tallies Their L?fc3.
Mobile, Jan. 17.—Early this morning
fire was discovered in the twe-story irame
building corner of Charles and Charles
ton streets. The ground floor was occu
pied as a grocery stoic and sleeping room
by Frank Cullen, and the upper floors
were occupied by George B. Phillips,
owner of the building, and his family, to
gether w ith hoarders. The flames spread
rapidly, but all hut two of the occupants,
Mrs. and Miss Pbililps, escaped, although
but narrowly. One of the boarders had
to climb down by means of a ladder. Both
ladies were burned to a crisp. It. is
thought the fire w as of incendiary origin.
The insurance on the house was SI,OOO,
and on the stock in the grocery store $450.
in local companies.
THE FIRE IN THE ACUBA.
London, Jau. 17.—The fire in the hold
| of the steamer Acuba. from Galveston for
! Bremen, which arrived at Dove- Thurs
; day, is still burning. All attempts to ex
| tinguish the flames have proved futile
j It will now bedifficultto save the steamer.
1 Efforts to discharge the cargo from the
forehold were baffled by the flames. When
I the hatches were opened the flames burst
out mast liign and the sailors barely
escaped with their lives. The hatches
were immediately rebaltened. All the
available fire engines an:l steam pumps
are playing on the steamer.
BURNING OF A F I.OUR MILL.
Cincinnati, Jar.. 17.—David Kiefer’s
Sons’ flour mill caught fire at 1 o’clock
this morning in Covington, Ky. The
whole establishment was destroyed. The
loss is $60,000 and the insurance’! 10,000.
SEVEN BUILDINGS DESTROYED.
Morgan City, 1.a., May 17.— Fire to
day destroyed seven buildings here, in
cluding Mrs. Judge Fran’s residence, I’.
H. Mentz’s law office. Henry Hattendorf’s
drug store, the Free Press office, Charles
Malloy’s residence and Masonic llall.
The loss is not stated.
THREE RESIDENCES BURNED AT PENSA
COLA.
Pensacola, Fla., Jan. 17.—Three resi- j
deuces on the block west of the Conti- i
nental Hotel were burned to-dav. The
loss is $7,000.
A CYCLONE IN DOUGHERTY.
Building* Demolished ar ,u Timber and
Fences Swept Away by the Wind.
Albany, Ga., Jan. 17. —A cyclone vis
ited this county about nine miles east of
Albany last night. Great damage was
done to timber and tencing. A house
M’as blow-n down upon the Helm’s plan
tation, destroying a buggy stored within
it. Upon the A. F. Harris place, adjoin
ing, the wind entered an open window in
the dining room and blew out the entire
side of the house, carrying it some dis
tance, The force of the cyclone was
stronger upon the river, tw o miles distant
from these places, but lull particulars ot
the damage have not yet reached the city.
A HIGH WIND IN VIRGINIA.
Lynchburg, Va., .Jan. 17. —A heavy
wind storm prevailed here throughout
last night, interfering noth telegraphic
communication and doing much damage
to barns and other property in the sur
rounding country.
A large frame church in Rockbridge
county was blown from its louedation
anti wrecked.
FLORIDA ON THE WIRE.
Murderous Work by Burglars Near Or
lando-Legislative Proceedings.
Orlando, Fla., Jan. 17.—The residence
of Robert Howe, of Orlando, was entered
by thieves last night. A gold watch and a
small amount of money were stolen. The
house of Hon. J. G. Sinclair, of Wilcox,
was also entered and a gold watch and
$l5O were taken.
It has just been learned that an un
known man was shot and robbed about a
mile and a half northeast of this place,
about dusk this evening.
WORK OF THE LEGISLATURE.
Tallahassee. Fla., Jan. 17.—1n the
Senate yesterday, the bill limiting the
time in which to sue railroads for killing,
animals was discussed at length.
The bills introduced were:
By Mr. Cottrell—Relating to judgment
liens.
By Mr. Gaskins—lncorporating the
Sampson Canal Railroad Company.
By Mr. Mann—lneorporatingjhe Brooks
ville Academy by a joint stock company.
The foilowin g bills passed the Senate:
Relating to the duties of the Comptroller
ami Treasurer; allowing husband and
wife to testify in divorce cases; the gen
eral law for the adoption of children; de
claring the city government of Kissimmee
City legal.
The Committee on Public Printing re
ported favorably a bill reducing the
printed matter in the State Treasurer’s
annual report.
Among the bills introduced in the
House were the following:
By Mr. Owen —Providing a uniform
system of city government.
By Mr. Kirk—Legalizing the city gov
ernment of Brooksville.
By Mr. Hines—Relating to issuing mar
riage licenses.
Bills passed in the Senate were read
and referred. A joint resolution of the
Senate tor an early adjournment was not
concurred in.
The House passed several bill 9 ot a
local nature.
The bill legalizing the city government
of Ocala passed both houses.
In the Senate to-day the following bills
were introduced: Incorporating the Se
ville and Halifax River Railroad Com
pany, incorporating the Winter Park
Company, restoring to citizenship all
persons convicted of crimes in Justices’
courts, for the relief of Lewis Brokuw and
others.
Mr. Mann’s resolution for a committee
to inquire into the sales of lands by the
State Internal Improvement Board was
passed, and Messrs. Mann, Lesley and
Bryson were appointed as the comnuttee.
The bill appropriating money lor the
New Orleans Exposition was indefinitely
postponed.
The bill relating to druggists’ licenses
was discussed at length. In executive
session several county officers were con
firmed.
A resolution appointing a committee to
visit the New Orleans Exposition to iff
spect Florida’s exhibit was lost.
A resolution appointing a committee of
five to visit the convict camp at Live Oak
passed the Senate.
The official stenographer was installed
in state to-day.
Bills were introduced in the House to
day subjecting criminals to examination,
relating to one mill school tax, prohibit
ing the loading and unloading of vessels
on Sunday.
Bills legalizing the city government oi
Eustis and Orlando, and declaring Alalia
river navigable passed the House.
Mr. Tate, of Escambia, was declared
entitled to the seat ke now occupies iu
ihe House.
The bill appropriating $5,000 to the New
Orleans Exposition passed its second
reading and was ordered engrossed.
Numerous bills were read, referred and
advanced.
The memorial to Congress for the erec
tion of a public building at Tallahassee
was read the second time.
The members seem pleased with Talla
has*?e and the salary they receive. an<>
are not al'Xious for an early adjournment.
In the joint Democratic caucus last
night, N. M. Bowen, of Tallahassee, was
chosen State I’rinter for the next two
years.
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.
Interesting Little Flasheg frt in tlie
Wires Printed in Condensed Form.
Edmond About, (lie French author, is dead.
George 8. Osborn has been appointed Post
master at Tiirnerville. Ga.
Heavy etorms have been raging in Southern
Europe during the past lew days. Tlie trans
ports with French reinforcements from Alge
ria for Tonqnm have been delayed thereby.
The boiler cf Earnest’s saw mil l , Good
Spring station, on the Lebanon andTremont
Itailro.vd, Pennsylvania, exploded yesterday
afternoon, killing three of the employes and
injuring two others.
At Springfield, 111., the Legislature itd
journed at 1:45 o clock yesterday morning
after the passage cf a resolution that argu
ment on t ,C temporary sneakershin should be
the first order next Tuesday morning, which
is considered a victory for tlie opponents of
Haines.
I At Petersburg, Va., Let tie Jones, aged 110
years, the oldest person in the city, was fa
mily buined yesterday morning. She was
staudiug with her back to tlie lire, when her
I clothing ignited. She ran out of the house
while the wind was blowing fearfully, and
soon became a mass of flames.
The special grand jury appointed by the
Cook county, 111., Criminal Court last night
returned indictments against Mackiu, Gal
lagher. 'liields, Ilanabrough, Sullivan, Biehl
and GJeason for uarticipation in the Eigh
teenth ward election frauds. Mackin was
also indicted separately for perjury in swear
ing that he did not older the pniitinr of the
bogus tickets.
The munieipa election at Knoxville, Tenn
yesterday was very quiet. James C. Lut
trell, Democrat, was elected Mayor. The
Board of Aldermen stands !5 Democrats and
3. Republicans. There was a majority of 500
in the November e’ection.
At New Orleans jesterdav in a street Ibdit
F. A. schiedel was shot and killed by Frank
B. Renton. Both men were policemen.
Tlie Jefferson Democratic Club of Birming
ham. Ala , discussed a proposition for enter
tuiniug C •). A. K. McClure here win n be re-
I urrs from New Orleans, hut did not decide
upon plans. I’ropt r courtesies will be shown
Col. McClure, however.
The Springer committee started from Cin
cinnati last night for Washington.
At Paris trie French Ultra-Radical Com
mittee, ii c tiding among its members Roche
t -i te, Cleiiieeceau ai rl Guiot. has published
a program me for an ml gral revision of the
constitution bv a eo lduo. t assemble. It
propos -s the aboiui n t enatc. ’com
plcie mu ordination if the i .vocative to the
legislative power, separation of ctur li aial
Slate, the cleetion , magistracy, the de
centralization ..r the departments and Ihe
autonomy t f the communes.
At W i mmz'on, N. < . yesterday afternoon
n u grn named i! n All. i . hailing from Jack
sonv lie, Fla. was arrested while making
counterfeit si’ver c-eu. About $-,o i„
money ha* been secured. A negro worn:,i is
his accomplice.
Statistic-, published in relation to the agri
imiiur .1 ludu-try of Ire,a id tor toe year f<<B4
<diow that free tr* is n p.„y,,..j fcl .1 to the
growing of c real*. Farming of gras* lands
has been found less di-a itiru-. At the pres
ent mom- rit the ground used u cultivation of
cabbage is half • great a* that under wln-nt
cult i v -l ion. Ait cctli r tii,-re are I)4,(its
acres less under tillage than in 1883.
T.con Say. formerly Minister of Finarce, in
tin article in 1m lifx'i c 7V* Dmr JfondM, com
plains that the French Legislature is usurp
ing the functions of the Finance Minister, tte
predicts that the time will come when the
budget will be suspended and the govern
ment will be compelled to ask for its daily
expenses from a permanent committee chosen
by Parliament. He advocates the abolition
of committees on each chapter of estimates
and the submission of the budget directly to
the Chamber.
Hundreds of handbills are being circulated
at Czaelauand Keelin,towns in bohemia,call
ing for vengeance on the executioners ot
Hammerer and Stellmacher, the Anarchists,
A workman has been arrested at Keelin for
throwing before the house of a sergeant of the
gendarmes an Anarchist paper condemning
the Chief of Police and ottier officers to death.
A Cae Not Beyond Help.
Dr. M. H. Hinsdale, Kcnawee, 111., ad
vises us of a remarkatle cure of Con
sumption. He says: “A neighbor’s wife
was attacked with violent lung disease,
and pronounced beyond help from Quick
Consumption. Asa last resort the family
were persuaded to try Du. IVm. Hall's
Balsam for the Lungs. To the aston
ishment of all, by the time she had u> ed
one halt dozen bottles she was about the
house doing her own werk. I saw her at
her worst, and had no idea she could re
cover,”
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KING WINTER’S CARNIVAL
RIG DRIFTS AND BITTER COLD
IN THE NORTHWEST.
Fifty-one Degrees Below Zero Registered
by the Thermometer—Countless Pas
senger Trains Stuck In the Snow and
Freight Traffic Entirely Abandoned—
Schuyler Colfax’s Funeral Greatly Im
peded—Telegraphy Paralyvod.
CftCAGO, Jan. 17.—Owing to the heavy
snowfall trains last night ranged from
one to nine hours behind time. The fast
mails were generally two to three hours
late, The situation is worse # southeast
and east. A passenger train coming this
way on the Chicago, Lafayette and Cin
cinnati road was, when last heard of,
locked in drifts near Sr. Anne, 111.
Another passenger train on the Louis
ville and New Albany road, due here last
evening, was caught in a snowbank a few
miles from this city, and the people ou
board bivouaced in coaches ail night.
Shortly after midnight the temperature,
which had previously been comparatively
comfortable, began a rapid descent and
fast went to zero, and th*e snow that re
commenced Thursday night was still fall
ing last night.
STOPPED SNOWING AT MIDNIGHT.
After snowing almost continuously for
24 hours the storm appeared to have gen
erally abated throughout the West and
Northwest at midnight, to be succeeded
by a rapid drop in the temperature.
Trains have been delayed in every direc
tion and a number are reported snowed
in, and in the absence of telegraphic
communication the exact situation has
not yet been disclosed. The storm has
been unusually severe in its effect upon
the telegraph service. Communica
tion with New York was entirely cut oft'
about 4 o’clock this morning, and had not
been resumed up to 10 o’clock. The chief
difficulty appears to be east of Crestline,
0., and Buffalo, New Y'ork. The weather
at all points is reported clear and cold.
Fargo quotes 24 degrees below zero,
Jamestown, Dakota, 30 below, St. Raul
8 below, Des Moines 15 below, < ffiiaha
14 below, St. Louis at zero, Chicago 7
above, and Cincinnati 10 above. Through
out lowa railroads are reported operating
with great difficulty, and freight traffic
has been almost entirely suspended for
the time being.
No through passenger trains had ar
rived here up to 2:15 o’clock this after
noon on any of the roads Irom the East,
South and West, except one from the
South on the Illinois Central. Freight
traffic was practically suspended through
out. Tbe telegraph service was slightly
improved this afternoon.
51 BELOW ZERO.
Milks City, M. TANARUS., Jan. 17. —The ther
mometer registered 51 degrees below
zero here at 4 o’clock yesterday morning.
Some small losses of sheep are reported,
but a few cowboys who came in say that
the condition of cattle is fully as good as
it was at this time last year. During the
day the thermometer averaged about 15
degrees below zero.
THE REPORT AT WASHINGTON.
Washington, Jan. 17.—Dispatches to
night report heavy gales, intense cold
and great snow storms all over the West
and Northwest, ant! a good deal of dam
age from the wind. The gale at Buffalo
blew 71 miles an hour for several hours.
Chicago is suffering from a partial block
ade of the streets and almost a total
blockade of the railroads leading from
the city, delayed mails and deranged tele
graph facilities. Schuyler Colfax was
buried to-day in a heavy storm, with the
mercury about zero, and all trains ear-*
rying mourners were delayed several
hours. The hour of thejuneral was fixed
at 10 o’clock this morning, but the body
was net placed in the vault until 5 o’clock
this afternoon,
a Church about to fall.
Steubenville, 0., Jan. 17.—The First
Presbyterian Church here was damaged
by the storm last night an:l Is ltai>e to
ut tiny loomlt cost $70,000.
BA YON ETS AND BHAIN S.
Wolseley’s Men Marching While the
Diplomats are Exhausting Argument.
Cairo, .lan. 17.—The principal officers
here believe that Gen. Wolseley will pro
ceed with his whole force toGakdu], leav
ing a garrison of 150 men at Korti. No
news from Metameneh is expected until
Jan. 20. The posts are too far apart for
the use of the heleograph. The Nile route
is easy from Shendyto Khartoum. Steam
ers take three or four days to make the
passage. There is only one cataract be
tween the two places, that at Shabluka,
which can be passed easily, unless the
water should he low. It is reported that
the Mudir of Dougola will be asked to gov
ern the Nile up to and including Khar
toum,
The 300 Canadian boatmen who took
part in the Nile expedition will leave
Alexandria for home Feb. 5, their work
having been finished.
THE FINANCIAL SETTLEMENT.
London, Jan. 17. —Tne counter pro
posals made by the powers for the settle
ment of the finances of Egypt demand
that ail inquiry under their control he
instituted in Egypt, with the object ot as
certaining the resources of that country
aid determining whether the sacrifices
which the holders of Egyptian bonds have
been asked tqmake will be reimbursed or
made permanent. The proposals also de
mand that all coupons shall be provision
ally taxed.
THE COMBINATION AGAINST ENGLAND.
Berlin, Jan. 17.—The Berlin National
Gazelle to.day publishes a statement to
the effect that Germany, Austria and
Russia have joined France in its attitude
upon tbe question of the settlement of the
Egyptian financial difficulties.
1)1X1 E’S EXPOSITION.
Prewldent Arthur Compelled to Ag’uin
Postpone th© Date of His Visit.
Washington, Jan. 17.—Owing to the
great press of business attending the
closing days of the Congressional session,
and the probable necessity for the signa
ture of bills immediately after their pas
sage, President Arthur has been com
pelled to reconsider his determination
to attend the New Orleans Exposition
during February. He hopes, however, to
attend the exposition as a private citizeD
alter the expiration of his official term.
CUTTING EXPOSITION RATES.
New York, Jan. 17.—Another cut was
made to-.iay in the prices of excursion
tickets to New Orleans. The schedule
rate has been J 45, while ticket brokers
sold t’ckets for $42 50. This morning the
New Y ork Central Road and Erie began
selling tickets at $39 50, which rate was
immediately met by ticket, scalpers with
a reduced rate of S3B 50. Rates to other
places remain unchanged, although some
mention was made of a further reduction
in emigrant rates westward.
A CROWD ON THE GROUND.
New Orleans, Jan. 17.—Clear cold
weather to-day brought out, an immense
attendance at the World’s Exposition,
giving the grounds and buildings an ap
pearance of life and animation equalled
only by the scene on inauguration day.
The opening of the dairy division of the
Agricultural Department was one of the
special features of the day.
I >\KK DAYS IN SPAIN.
Shocks of Fartbquake Still Felt—The
I’eop'.e Crowiig Desperate.
Madrid, Jan. 17.—Another severe
shock of earthquake was experienced at
Granada at 10 o’clock last night, causing
great alarm among the inhabitants. King
Alfonso visited Valez Malaga to-day.
Heavy snow storms and frost continue in
Malaga, and the most, severe snow storm
since lsGl prevails. The sugar cane crop
has been destroyed and orange and olive
groves have been damaged. The situa
tion is bust critical. The earth is a vain
tri m'din, urub r the Influence of stronger
seismic movei .hi!, The wind sn i snow
h vc destroyed the huts of those who fled
P om the cities and towns for safety.
At Frizillana, a town twenty-seven
miles east of Malaga, the people, rendered
desperate by cold and hunger, attacked
the houses of the land owners. Another
severe shock of earthquake has been ex
perienced at (Janillas.