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thr lffre<- In tlie Tumlln
Uuinin Iturnnl to Death at
l>. uil.nf the lloiiotnn County
lli. AiKlerHonvilte Im
lt-
t.lOßGli.
late of New Or
. luG. W. Ikii-ou, of Mitri
> part a that Mr-. -lame*
fallen heir to the snug
> . ■or more.
. court. Wednesday. the
• i ;.ran o. City of Koine, on
■j. amounting to about S4OO.
r of the city.
ter of Isaac I.aiders was
r Dc\trcau\ last Sunday
■ili.T wli !)• endeavoring to
!l .lines was also severely
. . ,! • -of the little girl caught
tug in front of the lire.
:2 \ ears of age.
T. Vn'irews va. .1. T Kiley, a
ik-lunof the 'uperior Corn t.
o-raiite attention, it lieing
f that $-orl ever hail in llun
>!• i raj. of the <ine Hundred
i -irict, is the pre-idmg
.vestigation progresses rather
will probably occupy all the
f Harbins district, Chero
>l dealt at his home last
il> > t--ittiiig by the lire aharp
w i-n he -lopped, raised up ami
I -i' mighty cohl <lay,” and
-i hair dealt. He was one of
. r- "I the county, having moved
Indians were driven from the
, a wealthy and prominent
...,iii->Y die. has just completed
valuable business Ini at
i.i .dgc It. A. Peeples. Mr.
to Valdosta at once, and en
ral hanking and mercantile
:l . II erect a commodious two
.dug, divided into three de
lor ins hank and tbe other
a- stores.
. new sheriff, W. 11. Cobb,
. :n ijoth the Republican and
alter tlurtv .lays the “Sheriff
idcr county will be published in
instead of the Hejtublican,
. i th,- ■ oiinty printing for thirty
l i /.>/••■ bfn-.in i-offered for sale
ami proprie’or, Coi. C. W. Ilan
, .s lieen in eharge of the paper
w.ien it was first established in
i, Thursday, Mrs. Ctariday, a
amt an invalid, aged aiiout Ou
•un.ed to death in her house, near
. factory. The building wasdis
i n lir. by parties near, who at
. entrance to tiie house, hut found
•urely locked, with the unforlun
i me flames. Noesea|>e could lie
1 maiding was a double-room frame
. was completely destroyed over the
me lady. s
- / : On last Thursday evening
- I'.ir.ee Daniel was making preiiara
■■■ i boggy ride with Mr. \\ ill V\ iiges,
narked to her mother that she was
c married to Mr. \V ages liefore they
Her mother, ttnnkiug she was
.. remarked: "Well, then, you must
i. kto se, us some tune." True to her
in, ' drove to Par -n See's, where they
i. tiie pre-eneeof the family, anil la-fore
- . tinny promised to work for Wages
g is -lie lived. The happy wedded pair
w receiving the congratulation*of their
any friend.-.
Home iVur.Vr: At tiieir annual business
t .-ting last Sunday morning the ro|>ort of
the deacon- oi the liresbyterian church
Bhowed a balance of tli-s net, ozer ami above
all exp) u-e-and lull,tilli- -, remaining in the
tn-asiiry. This was highly gratifying to the
meiubership, aid they thereupon voted SIOO
.. htltlonal to lx- paid their pastor on last
~r'- -alary, ami agreed to pay Si.'XD for the
. . .1 .. ir. it being apparent that the in-
I Ik- . isiiy paid. Dr. Hunting has
a ti.ir*! worker •luring the lime he lias
. ..i ..an l ha- surpas-ed the expeeta
. ... In- most ardent admirers,
it . r s:. , . re|irted a curious case at
i mow. While on a lour
officer,through the
..r , Mr. lb mi.in Itichler on I‘iuin
1 ■•! Fourth, he .lis.-.n -
, , i un.ii , in. . i.g an old negro man ap
i age. The negro (gave
Ii alii. I, and says he has
ii . r the house for {some time.
... a a-know n to Mr. Richter, who
id i in-- the food that -u-tain
-1 ii- .. 1 l. ilow hail nothing hut an
i. iem 1. which protected Inin from
•■ r. He wasin a feeble condition,
a i- r. moved to the city hospital.
i.all. -Ir., Civil engineer ijnarter
■ I- | .rlrmiit l uited states Army,lias
•a. National Cemetery at An
il)- )l)ies not approve oi clearing
: a. : U two'U the cemetery ami rail
' liunksit would )|isfigure the ground
. illy result in bad washes. He is
..to tin- if tiie rat'road will make it
.ml place it on their regular time
~pmg all trains to take or leave
! he will then erect a small orna
• ; t. provided with necessary run
l'lie lepot will be on government
• ■reeled at government cost.
- . n-. • oiored. was convicteil of be
. to ilm murik-r of Adeline llolle-
I*. water Springs in July last.
.. ateao-d l.) life imprisonment, ami
Vi- Pne llolleuian. 801 l was quite
went back to jail with the penal
• w resting upon him. Siibooiuent
„ was Iro uglit into court, ami, after
a;k I>> .ludgi- Brow n, Col. A. S.
: -..til i:or Dober, Bob was informed
was a free man anil could go ami
• irtli again at ins pleasure. Col.
- .re-1 anew trial for Bob, anil as
- not allow the conviction of a
• testimony of an accomplice,
■ i-xi'teuie of corroborating facts
. ami as Adeline llolleman. an
. .la- the only witnes-. -solicitor
I it useless to hold Bob longer
1 the bill of indictment,
i ted states Court at Atlanta
. .. l'.oarman signed the decree
•lames L. Kice et al. against
• t ;.l. This is the noted l um
tiic leeree is the same as that
•l . Pardee m New Orleans a
. . It overruled the exceptions
- report, ami con linns the re
the defendant ilue the estate
r; -r- and balances, defaults aud
it. riginalty was $.00,000.
was itvuied in property, anil
sing administered when the
! lu affairs “f the estate put
i ,ii - M. Neel as receiver.
pts-aled to the Supreme
:••■! statis. The defendants
• irm -t.and announce their
earrv the ease up. The costs
v o i.-nut to SO,OOO, the master
i at it $4,400.
• r.,r: Duringdhe year there
s iaught in the county, 04 w hite
. . white teachers, amt :ts>
red school having been
' t. teacher. The total at
!tiring llie year was 2,225,
were white children, 1,252
• - average attemlanee was 1,795.
it. the school fund of ISst
Df ttn- amount $2,445 was the
■ ty collected, $4,038 20 re
state -school Commissioner,
oi her sources, including bal
ron ixvt. The total expendi
:r amount'd to $6,336 67, leav
'd oi $22 *4 to lie credited
-•I. <>f the total fund s*-.5; 07
• ichors, the average benefit
.. '4 -is. the County School
r l a bald $219 75 for his ser
: -lack-on Jones and Stork-
vouch for the following:
-I.me time ego shooting pur
vey had been flushed and bait
a thicket of undergrowth.
. ti..- thicket in pursuit of the
r.i _ a rather peculiar noise as
s ..;■ and at the same time a
inking hard upon the ground
■at ■ asly through the bushes
ards away Keynard creeping
- Becoming intervsteit in
\ - -nano uvers they watched linn
lie would creep softly and
.lilt i uning to a stop as if on
rl would rise and he would
iit-‘ the air in Ins attempt to
is iiil.-uien could not get an op
• Key nard make a success of it,
■' _ them lie made off at an an
•iv _• a broad side from the two
■ r an-l in- sagacious career was
•!’: l ast Friday afternoon
Uilliug received intelligence
f' •••) - were needeii to hold an in
■ Iv of one Moses Doff, who
killed by Mr. > . T. Clark,
■ of Mrs. John Adams, about
a l’.iyneville. Saturdaymorn
' Ii eng. accompanied by* lr. H.
. repaired to the scene of the
an inquest was held, at w hich
g vv as in substance the testimony:
. risen between the negro,
Mr. Clark concerning thepos
• key to a cabin on the place
v- re the effects of the siep
-5! . Mar-hall Kcuip, who. having
Mr- ark and Incoming indebted to
move. Mose was then on the
. wagon to move the goods.
- t • i biows, and Mose began
. Mr. Clark defending himself
• h-ts. until begot hold of a pieee
- . however, was too rotten to
• rvi. c. Mose then rau to the
• b- in Die act of taking a piece
. a .th which to continue the
Mr- 1 .ark picked up and hurled at
isrsimmoh stick, one end of
-• httn alsiut two inches above
■ i,.ft ear. Mose fell from the
alb ensued in a short while
're tureot the skull.
: It would seem tba
pretty good money for a
in six weeks on tbe
r. i was refused in
Inst fur a lot of fur
r ' , Dv two young men on the
•'i in Macon and Hawkinsville
. - fortv days. These young men
Monday last with S3 beaver
r . de. and 10 coon skins. They
•t to Mr. .Joe Kcvnolds, who is
-wi' ii. and were offered at first sllO,
, a- raised to sll2 So. but they de
i - r , I, l ! elt with their jieltry. We had
li. v w ith one of the young men. Mr.
... ibat hishome is 12
river ii.. i. ;V lanta > on the Chattahoochee
Ik yi a,,trapping ever since he was
age, aud iji the winter months is
tfh fits.
able to make expenses ami sometimes over SIOO
per month. About six weeks ago he and his
partner landed in Macon with their traps, and
buying a bateau, started down trie river,
iney camped at various points along the
river, and had very fair luck. The lieavers
they caught were very fat. and they were
ai-ie to sidl a ixirtion of the meat at moderate
prices. The emus were also caught in the
traps. The bides were all in fine condition.
Ihe young ini-ii informed us that he trapped
on the stream- in this section during the win
ter three years ago.
KLOKI I> A.
Dame is very plentiful in Jackson county.
Anew hotel has been opened at Apopka.
u m w ,n| D ut Tavares is nearly ready for
Dreen corn tasselcd out is on exhibition at
Jsartow.
I* ant < ily has incor|H)ratc<l and chosen its
♦ in,* otnceiv.
enterprise has petitioned that it be made a
money order ollice.
A -team ferry is now running between en
terprise and Sanford.
A steam saw mill is lieing put un at Shed
/uoka on Lake Jarkson.
strawiierries are selling on the streets at
Del.and at fifty cents per quart.
Wood tmeves have stolen all the pickets
from the academy fence at Milton.
One farmer in Jackson county has raised
seventy-five head of hogs besides Ids cotton
crop.
Jacksonville's Philharmonic Society has
just given a successful rendition of the “Pi
rates or 4 enaance.”
I he Spanish Consul at Pensacola puriHises
raising a fund at that plare fur the sufferers
by the recent earthquakes in Spain.
An election fur Mayor of the town of Jas
|M-r, a down Marshal and three members of
tae Board of Aldermen, a Ciork and Treas
urer will he held at Jasper Feb. 24.
Leon county l- gaining a reputation for
grass growing, lie-ides enough hay to feed
300 head o( cattle through the winter, one
farmer has sold this year from his farm 7,000
poumls ami is still selling.
Jacksonville has a cabbage which weighs
seventeen pound-, ami measures one way
Tour feet seven inches and three feet four
inches the other. It was from the farm of
Mr. Leek, at Mandarin.
Lakeland, Polk county, is of nine months
growth. W ith one or two buildings last April
it has since grow n to a hundred houses or
more. The new town hall is about complete
and ready for occupancy by different troupes.
Pensacola Advance-Gazette: The family of
Moses D. A niestra, who brought suit against
the Louisville and Nashville Kailroad for
damages for the killing ol Mr. A niestra near
the union depot last year, got judgment in our
Circuit Court for the sum of $25,000.
) in digging out a tree on a lot making prep
aration tor the erection of the bakery and
soda bottling w orks at Tavares the workmen
came across several pieces of pottery and a
skull among the roots on the cast sole of the
tree, the resting place of some Indian no
doubt.
A party of Eastern gentlemen, W. K. Kid
d r, John baton, Charlies Livingston and Wil
liam Burtt, have purchased a tract of laud on
Merritt’s fslaml. and from all appearances
w :!1 shortly have a stirring town in full blast.
1 In- pli.ee is situated a little northeast of City
Point, across tbe river aud near Long Branch,
which name, or Island City, the town will
probably be called. Already several houses
are up. and preliminary steps taken for a long
wharf to lie built. A 3*-horse power engine
has been ordered for a sawmill, which will be
started as soon as it can be received.
Several physicians in Jacksonville are dis
cussing the question of establishing a public
dispensary, where the sick who are unable to
pay for the services o( a physician can be
treated free of cost. The physicians agree to
lake each a week in turn and give certain
hours in each day to work in the dispensary,
for which service there will Ik- no charge
made, and they Hunk that the city druggists
will fill all prescriptions coming trimi the dis
|x-nsar> at actual rest prices of the drugs.
1 lie city government, it i- possible, will foot
the druggists' lulls, as by this means the pau
|K-r sn-k could be much more economically
cared for.
PADDY STUIKKS .JOHN b.
\ Hough aud Tumble Fight Knds in the
Trojan's Favor.
New York. Jan. 21. —1 t transpired to
day that belore the division of the money
made yesterday at the Coleman House
Sullivan and Ryan struck each other, and
were only prevented by friends from a
rough and tumble fight. Air. Sullivan sat
for a long time with his head bowed down
to his knees. Ryan walked in and then
the war began.
“I am sorry,” said Ryan, “that the
match did not come to a close.”
‘•So am I,” replied Sullivan.
“I can whip you right now and here,”
said Ryan. “You are among your friends,
but l want to teach you a lesson.”
“You can't,” replied Sullivan. “1 am
reaily.”
• Put up your hands, John,” said Ryan,
and immediately he let his right out and
planted a terrific blow on Sullivan’s
nose.
Sullivan, who was unprepared for the
onslaught, let go his left, but missed
Ryan. Then he tried his right, but Ryan
met him with a cross counter in 'the
region cf the ribs, which made the Boston
lmv yelp.
Their backers interfered and the whole
tiling was put a stop to, not belore, how
ever, some of the furniture was destroyed.
Parson Davis, who was one of the
lookers-on, said:
“1 have watched both men carefully,
and I am inclined to think that Ryan had
the best of it. He met Sullivan from the
word go, and I think that he is the com
ing man. I know a place, and so does
Sheedy, where they can meet either with
or w ithout gloves. There is from SB,OOO
to SIO,OOO waiting for him, and 1 will
guararantee that the Sheriff'of the county
will not interfere.”
••You tell Pat Sheedy,” said Mr. Patter
son, “that I will meet’ him dollar for dol
lar, and if he wants it I’ll bet him two to
one in the hundreds. Ryan has got that
big duffer dead. He wants to get away,
but he can’t. He has a right to attend to
our challenge, and he must do so or throw
up the sponge. We will light him in any
place that he chooses.”
Sullivan denied to a reporter that he and
Ryan came to blows.
TWO HEROIC HOYS
Save a Train from Destruction—Pierre
Lorillard's Value of His Life.
Sunday afternoon, as the north bound
Alabama Great Southern train was ap
proaching Carthage, says the Chatta
nooga Times , Engineer Henry Elliott dis
covered two boys standing on the track
frantically waving their hats. He at
once stopped the train and backed up to
where the boys were standing. They in
formed the trainmen that a portion of the
Beaver Pond trestle had been washed
away by the hack water from the War
rior river. The boys had made the dis
covery about the time the train was due,
but it was four hours late, and the brave
lads remained standing in the bitter
cold until it arrived. They feared to
leave their posts, thinking the train would
arriveevery moment. Had no one warned
the train of the washout it would doubt
less have plunged into the abyss. The
train was running 30 miles an hour, and
as there is a curve near the trestle, the
engineer could not have discovered the
danger until the train was beyond all hu
man aid. The passengers made up a
purse ot $25 for the heroic boys, who gave
their names as Frank Dickson and Tom
Frierson. Pierre Lorillard, Jr., and Ol
iver Ishlin,ot New York, and their wives,
occupied the elegant boudoir car, “Ade
lina Patti.” The car was attached to the
engine in front of the mail. Air. Lorillard
and Air. Ishlin each gave the boys $5.
Value their lives rather low for million
aires.) The damage to the trestle was
repaired Sunday night. All trains were
badly delayed.
THE GARFIELD HOSPITAL
In Want of Patients ami Support—
Probability of its Failure.
Washington. Jan. 21.—According to
all reports, the worthy persons who in
sisted upon setting up a Garfield Me
morial Hospital in the District of Co
lumbia, after failing utterly to collect
sufficient funds for that purpose, find
themselves in rather an embarrasing
position. The few thousand dollars which
they had on hand were used up in the
part payment for the purchase of
the hospital property, and nothing
was left for running expenses. Con
gress has been sounded as to the pros
pects for an appropriation, but no
encouragement whatever has been re
ceived from thit source, and very proper
ly, because there are already abundant
hospital accommodations here, of which
fact the projectors of the Garfield Hos
pital scheme were fully aware when per
sisting In their useless undertaking. The
hospital has been in operation for more
than a year, but the number ot patients
who have been accommodated is too in
significant to deserve mention, aud cessa
tion of lts operations will not, therefore,
inflict any suffering.
HOKSFORD’S ACID PHOSPHATE
In Debility from Overwork.
Dr. G. W. Collins, Tipton, Ind., says:
“I used it in nervous debility brought on
by overwork in warm weather, with good
results.”
EMORY SPEER’S CHANCES.
NO WITHDRAWAL OF THK NOM
INATION PROBABLE.
Garland Denied Calling on Cleveland—
The Next President a Tariff* Reformer
Hayanl and Garland Looked I'poii
as Sure to be in tiie Cabinet—Other
Inxide Pointer* from the News Cor
respondent.
AN ashindtox, Jan. 23.—The President
is not likely to withdraw Mr. Speer’s
nomination. It Mr. Speer should be re
jected he might appoint Mr. Mercer, of
Savannah, to the place. The South Caro
lina Senators are no less vigorous than
Mr. Colquitt in tbeir opposition to Mr.
Speer’s confirmation. Their opposition is
based upon his interference in the South
Carolina election cases. They believe
that his confirmation can be prevented
by delay, if in no other way. Senator
Brown refuses to talk about the case. It
is well understood, however, In the dele
gation that he will do all he can for Mr.
Speer. His chief reasons are said to
l>e —first, that Mr. Speer is pre
ferable to any Republican that would
have been nominated, since, being a native
Georgian and possessed of social status,
for his family’s sake as well as his own,
he will administer his office in a conser
vative and impartial way. Second, that
it is not improbable that within tbe next
four years Mr. Speer may become a good
Democrat again.
KVAKTS’ PRESIDENTIAL BEE.
Friends of Mr. Evarts now here say very
frankly that he will not rest content with
a seat in the Senate. He wants to be
President of the United States and he
thinks that his chances of success in that
direction are as good as those of any other
candidate in the Republican party. Tbe
idea entertained by Mr. Evarts is'that by
a wise course in the Senate and by a
prudent management of the party politics
in New York, he will in 1888 have the
great majority of the professional politi
cians, and finally go to the National Con
vention with a practically unanimous
party at his back. He thinks that New
York will be regarded by the convention
as the pivotal State in 1888. Consequent
ly New Y'ork’s choice must be nominated.
CLEVELAND’S RED AUD FOR GARLAND.
A special from .Albany this evening
says: “The dispatches from Washington
concerning the likelihood of Senator Gar
land being chosen for a Cabinet position
are in entire harmony with the little that
the President-elect has disclosed here of
his intentions. In private conversation
Mr. Cleveland has frequently spoken of
Mr. Garland’s ability and of his own high
regard for them. He has not intimated,
of course, that he has yet formed his reso
lution concerning the Arkansas Senator,
but his intimate friends certainly look
to see Mr. Garland in the Cabinet.
As far as possible Mr. Cleveland is
keeping himself in seclusion in order to
prepare his inaugural address, upon
which he has already begun work. The
address will state positively that in tbe
President’s mind the war legislation must
stand and that any attacks upon it by the
Democratic party will not be approved
by the executive.
A TARIFF REFORMER.
The friends of tariff reform have no
reason to fear that the President-elect
holds now or will take any uncertain or
amoiguous position with reference to it.
ile has frequently expressed his opposi
tion to the abolition of the internal revenue
taxes and his belief that the customs du
ties should be reduced. His inaugural
message will not show any lack of back
bone on these matters. Personal friends
Continue to take up a considerable share
of his time in friendly calls, but the Pres
ident-elect is withdrawing himself more
and more irom intrusion.”
GARLAND DID NOT GO TO ALBANY.
Senator Garland, it is explained, did
not go to Albany as tbe gossips asserted,
and so all tbe rumors based upon his al
leged visit to Cleveland fall to the ground.
It is generally accepted among well in
formed Senators anil Representatives that
Messrs. Garland and Bayard will be in
President Cleveland’s Cabinet.
Beverly Tucker, of Virginia, referring
to various publications about an alleged
conference at Albany between himself
and Gov. Cleveland, furnishes ffn absolute
denial of the alleged visit, and says that
he has not been out of this city lor over
rwo months.
HARVARD’S WHITE ALUMNI.
At a recent meeting of the Harvard
Club of Washington, the names of Prof.
Richard T. Greener (1870) and Robert H.
I’erell 1884) were proposed for member
ship. These gentlemen are slightly
tainted with African blood, but both are
men of brajns. Greener is perhaps as well
known as any colored orator in the coun
try Terell is a teacher in the colored high
school here. Some of the members of tbe
club met and voted upon the names pro
sosed, and Greener and Terell were both
blackballed. The gentlemen present
at the meeting decline to talk upon the
subject at all. It is admitted by one of
them, however, that no one had any ob
jections to otter to either of the candidates
that was made known to the committee.
Professor Greener was seen to-night and
asked if he had anything to say upon the
subject. He declined to say more than
that the men who met as his social judges
were not true representatives of Harvard.
Among the Harvard alumni who were
not at the meeting and, therefore, not
parties to the action ol the meeting, were.
Gov. Long, Senator Hoar, Congressman
Collins and Mr. Belmont. The affair has
created considerable stir among college
men here. The Y'ale and Dartmouth
Alumni xVssociations number several col
ored men among their membership.
MR. COLLINS’ BANKRUPTCY BILL.
Representative Collins, who has charge
of the bankruptcy bill, was asked to-day
what are its chances. He replied: “We
do not give up the fight yet. There is still
a hope that it will pass.”
“Will the meeting of the National
Board of Trade here next month have
any effect?”
“No, I think not. The position of the
National Board of Trade is already well
known, and that organization has done
all in its power to create a sentiment in
behalf of the bill.”
“What plan of procedure will you
adopt ?”
“We shall try to suspend the rules on
the next suspension day. Failing in that
we will make the last trial during the
last six days oi tbe session. Some of the
best parliamentarians are of the opinion
that we can pass it with a simple majori
ty during the last day of the session.”
SENATOR BROWN COMING HOME.
Senator Brown, of Georgia, goes to At
lanta next week for ten days, bn railway
business.
MEXICAN KXTHADITION.
Secretary Frelinahuy sen Replies to tbe
Strictures of Gov. Ireland.
Washington, Jan. 23. — Secretary Fre
linghuysen’s attention was called to an
extract from the inaugural address of
Gov. Ireland, of Texas, published in this
morning’s pa4ers, in which he alludes to
tbe unsatisfactory condition of the Alexi
can extradition treaty, and states
that he has made repeated efforts
through the State Department to induce
discussion of the propriety of amending
the treaty of 1861 so as to permit any one,
no matter where his allegiance may be,
to be extradited, but that no results have
followed. Secretary Frelinghuysen says
that the treaty of 1861 does not permit the
United States to surrender to Alexico one
of their own citizens; that therefore this
government cannot demand from Alexico
the extradition of a Mexican accused
of a crime committed in this country,
and that the moment this difficulty
Alexico for an amendment to the treaty to
cover this point. Secretary Frelinghuysen
was seen negotiations were opened with
added that no time has been lost in this
mattsr, ar.d that in addition to interna
tional negotiation the attention of Con
gress was last year called to the difficulty
with a suggestion that appropriate legis
lation might be made to cure it without
the necessity of a treaty.
The Nicarnguan Debate.
Washington, Jan. 23. — Senator Ed
munds continued his speech in the
secret session of the Senate to-day, and
occupied the entire session. He dealt
principally with the Clayton-Bulwer
treaty, arguing that it was not an obsta
cle to tbe ratification of the Nicaraguan
treaty.
The Oklahoma Invaders.
Chicago, Jan. 23.—Dispatches say that
nothing was done at Fort Leavenworth
yesterday toward forwarding troops to re
inforce Gen. Hatch against Oklahoma
booaers. It is stated that messages from
Gen. Hatch to Fort Leavenworth are to
the effect that he needed no reinforce
ments, and believed that the removal of
the settlers could be effected without
bloodshed.
SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1885.
IN SENATE AND HOUSE.
Indian Talk Among; the Senators—Early
Hours for the Representatives.
Washington, Jan. 23.—1n the Senate
to-day Mr. Garland, from the Committee
on Judiciary, reported favorably and the
Senate passed bills removing the political
disabilities of Gabriel H. Hill and J. Pem
broke Jones, both of Virginia.
The Chair laid before the senate Mr. Vest's
resolution, heretofore offered, to au'horize the
Secretary of the Interior to ascertain upon
what terms the Creek and Seminole Indians
would surrender their remaining interests in
the Oklahoma lands. Mr. Vest amended the
resolution so as to includ.- the Cherokee Na
tion in the inquiry.
Mr. Sherman thought this so important a
matter that the resolution and all amend
ments that might be offered to it should go to
the Committee on Indian Affairs for serious
and deliberate consideration.
Mr. Plnmb offered a substitute f r Mr.
Nest’s resolution. The substitute requests
the President to enter as speedily as possible
into negotiation with such Indian tribes as
may be in possession of more lands than
enough to give each head of a family 100 acres,
with a view to using such surplus lands for
actual settlers only. The substitute also re
quests the President to act on the matter as
speedily as possible, and to report to Congress
such propositions as he may receive.
A general debate upon questions of Indian
policy followed, principally between Messrs.
Vest, Plumb. Conger and Ingalls. Finally
the resolutions of Mr. Vest an 1 Mr. Plumb
were referred to the Committee on Indian
Affairs.
Tbe Senate, at 2:25 o’clock, went into exe
cutive session, and at 5 o'clock, when the
doors were reopened, adjourned.
IN THE HOUSE.
• In the House this afternoon, after the Blair
bill discussion, Mr. Valentine offered a reso
lution providing that ou and after Monday
next the House shall meet at H o’clock, aud
that for one hour the .Speaker shall make in
dividual recognitions for the purpose of per
mitting a member to call up nuy measure,
which shall be considered immediately, un
less ten objections are made thereto. The
resolution was laid over until to-morrow.
Mr. McMillin, of Tennessee, moved that the
House go into committee of the whole on the
private calendar. Tins was antagonized by
Mr. Townshend, of Illinois, with the Mexi
can pension bill, and the motion was lost by
103 yeas to 123 nays. The House then took a
recess until 8 o’clock, the evening session to
be for the consideration of pension lulls.
At the evening session the House passed
forty-six pension bills (including one grant
ing a pension of SSO a month to the widow of
Commodore S. Dana Green), and then, at
10:55, adjourned until to-morrow.
FIRE’S FREAKS.
A Car with Twentv-five Bales of Cotton
Consumed at Hawkinsville
Hawkinsville, Ga., Jan. 23.—This
morning at 2 o’clock a firo at the depot
destroyed a car loaded with twenty-five
bales of cotton. The cab and tender of
the engine to which the car was attached
were also burned. The freight house,
tilled with a large quantity of valuable
merchandise, was in great danger, but
was saved by the efforts of the two lire
companies. The total loss will exceed
$2,000. The fire is supposed to have been
of incendiary origin.
A MORNING ALARM AT COCHRAN.
Cochran, Ga., Jan. 23.—Fire broke out
here at 2 o’clock this morning. It was,
from all the evidence, of incendiary origin.
The fire started in the store of J. D.
Wynne. The following are the parties
who suffered: J. A. D. Colley, house.
$1,500; J. D. Wynne, stock of groceries
and bar fixtures, $1,000: Harvey Jones,
restaurant, $250; B. B. Pound, bar, saved
all his goods, damage $100; J. M. Fore
head, two stores, $2,000; R. L. Stokes,
saved all his goods, damaged SSO; J. P.
Marshman, meat market, damage light;
H. M. Loyless, bar and groceries, saved
his stock, loss $100: Jake Solomon, dry
good-) and groceries, loss light by damage;
S. B. Whipple, four storehouses, $2,000.
The houses were all wooden buildings,
and no insurance could be obtained on any
of tbe property. Tbe loss is heavy on the
real estate owners. A light rain was fall
ing during the tire. else the largest por
tion of the town would have gone to
ashes. The burned district will mostly
be rebuilt in brick soon.
PRISONERS burn a jail.
Shreveport, 1.a., Jan. 23.—The pris
oners in the jail at Belleview set fire to
that building last night and it was com
pletely destroyed. For a time it was
thought that the whole village would be
destroyed, but the spread of the flames
was prevented by tearing away buildings
near the jail. Ail the prisoners were se
cured. *
THE FIRE ON THE ACUBA.
London, Jan. 23.—The fire which broke
out yesterday in the steamer Acuba, at
Dover, was at the third hatch. After the
deck plates in the vicinity had been re
moved, and 100 bales of cotton taken from
the cargo, the flames were extinguished.
AT THE STATE CAPITAL.
A Decision in the Railroad Case—A
of Sleet and Haiti.
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 23.—This morning
Judge Boarman rendered a decision in
the East Tennessee, Virginia and Geor
gia Railroad case, which was overruling
the motion to remand the case back to the
State courts. The question of the re
ceivership will be considered to-morrow.
The counsel for the bondholders were
ready to argue the case to-day. but the
counsel for the petitioners asked until to
morrow to prepare the case, which was
granted by the court.
From midnight last night until noon to
day Atlanta was subjected to a heavy fall
of sleet, fully five inches failing during
that period. This afternoon rain visited
this section, and between the two disa
greeable elements the streets are in a fear
ful condition. In som^ portions of the city
street cars were unable to move, the
tracks being heavily blockaded. It is the
most severe weather that has visited At
lanta this winter.
At noon to-day Benj. J. Wheats, em
ployed by Aaron Haas, started to descend
the rock steps leading into the basement
under the office. The sleet on the steps
caused him to slip, and he fell to the bot
tom. When assistance reached him it
was thought that he was dead. I)r. Bak
was summoned and made an examination,
finding two ribs broken and the spine
badly injured. Conveyance was procured
and the unfortunate man was carried to
his home on Plum street. His injuries
are very painful, and may result in hi 9
death.
FLORIDA ON THE WIRE.
Proceedings of the State Legislature-
Prominent People in Print.
Tallahassee, Fla., Jan. 23.—The Sen
ate to-day passed the Assembly bill
authorizing the Governor to appoint com
missioners to govern cities when their
debts reach a certain amount, which is
intended for the reliel of Pensacola.
The bill appropriating money for the
New Orleans exhibit was recommitted.
The bill appointing a Superintendent of
the Penitentiary was lain over until the
committee appointed to visit the convict
camp reports.
In the House the bill establishing a
State Board of Health was discussed at
length.
The bill staying the collection of taxes
for 1885 was indefinitely postponed.
JACKSONVILLE PERSONALS.
Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 23.—Sena
tor Call left for Washington at noon to
day.
Chiei Justice Waite arrived here this
morning and will spend a few days In the
‘city, and several weeks in the State. He
thinks that his health has improved since
leaving Washington.
Swalm'* Trial Nearly Over.
Washington, Jan. 23.—Judge Advo
cate Gardner concluded his argument to
day in the Sw&im court-martial, occu
pying the time to the adjournment for the
day. The court will to-morrow consider
the case with closed doors. The findings
of the court in the case when reached will
be transmitted through the War Depart
ment to the President, by whose direc
tion the court was convenec. It is un
derstood that he will submit them to the
Attorney General for review. Until they
are reviewed and approved by the Presi
dent they Will not be made public.
Deaths Under the Black Cap.
Charleston, 111.. Jan. 23. —Thomas
J. Chapman, the murderer of Nicholas
Hubbard.* in Humboldt, Coles county,
last August, was hung here at 2 o’clock
this afternoon, having previously con
fessed his crime. He had nothing’ to say
on the scaffold, not even a prayer being
offered. His neck was broken by the tall,
and he died in eight minutes. Chapman
worked for Hubbard, who was a wealthy
butcher and farmer, and killed the latter
on his returning home from a camp meet
ing-
Crops Damaged by Cold.
Hogansville, Ga., Jan. 23.—The
ground is encased in ice aud rain is still
freezing as fast as it falls. Fall oats are
entirely killed and wheat is greatly dam
aged by the unusually cold weather.
[ARALLY FOR BLAIR’S BILL
APPROPRIATIONS MAY ORIGI
NATE IN THE SEN ATE.
The House Votes Rat tier Against its Past
Principles Save the Favorite Edu
cational Proposition from Death —Mr.
Haniiuoml Takes a Prominent Part in
the Debate. .
Washington, Jan. 23.—1n the House
to-day Air. Hurd, as a privileged ques
tion, offered a preamble and resolution
reciting that certain bills appropriating
money from the Treasury originated in
the Senate are now on the Speaker’s ta
ble, to wit: the Blair educational bill and
many others, and it asserted that these
bills are in violation of the privileges of
the House to exclusively originate bills
for raising revenue, and directing the Ju
diciary Committee to inquire into the
power of the Senate to originate bills ap
propriating revenue and report to the
House at any time.
Mr. Hammond inquired whether if the
resolution were adopted the House could
still consider the Blair bill in its regular
order. The Speaker answered in the af
firmative. Mr. Hurd said that for many
years he had viewed with apprehension
the increasing number of appropriation
bills originating in the Senate. When
confined to matters of personal and local
interest he had not seen tit to interpose
an objection, but when the Senate origin
ated a bill appropriating $106,000,000, and
affecting a great public purpose, the time
had arrived when the question should be
determined whether the Senate possessed
the power which it claimed to exercise.
Mr. Herbert, of Alabama, inquired
where, in the constitution, any dis
tinction could be found between tiie
power of the Senate to originate bills
appropriating a specific sum tor a specific
object, and bills appropriating a specific
sum for a general purpose, a9 in the case
of the Blair bill.
THE DANGER IN THE SYSTEM.
Mr. Hurd denied the power of the Sen
ate to originate either character of
bill. He believed that the adoption of the
doctrine contended for by the Senate
would be utterly destructive of the object
sought by tbe founders ol the government,
which object a was to give to Representa
tives power over the people’s money.
This power was the mo9t potent of the
instruments against encroachments of
executive power. Liberty could only be
preserved by preserving its muniments,
and of all those he knew of none greater
than that of the power over the people’s
money by the people’s Representatives.
[Applause.]
Air. Hammond, of Georgia, called at
tention to the fact that in the Forty-sixth
Congress a similar point had been raised
against the right of the Senate to origi
nate a bill for the purchase of addi
tional ground for the Bureau of Engrav
ing and Printing. The question had been
referred to the Judiciary Committee, and
of 15 members of that committee 10 had
decided that the Senate had a right
to originate that bill and
all bills of like character.
If the J udiciary Committee of to-day were
polled on the floor he ventured the asser
tion that two-thirds of its members w ould
say that the Senate could originate an
appropriation bill. He argued that an
appropriation bill was not a bill raising
revenue. Raising revenue was bringing
up money from the pockets of the people
to the exchequer of the government, and
a constitutional convention had limited
the prerogative of the House to that and
not to appropriations.
Air. Dibble, of South Carolina, made a
constitutional argument in support of the
power of the Senate, and pointed out that
in the rules of the House a distinction
was made between bills raising revenue
and bills appropriating money.
Mr. Herbert, of Alabama, viewing the
question in tbe light of the action of the
constitutional convention, contended that
the exclusive power to originate revenue
bills did not include power to originate
appropriation bills.
A CLIP AT THE SENATE’S WINGS.
J. S. Wise, of Virginia, thought that if
the proposition advanced by the gentle
man from Ohio was correct, which he de
nied, it would emasculate the Senate ut
terly, and ridiculed the doctrine that
money did not become money until it had
been collected and spent. The great dan
ger which threatened the government was
the ignorance of the people, and to say
that the Senate could not pass a measure
to avert the danger was to say that the
Senate was not a co-ordinate power of the
government. This privileged question
was a direct attack on what he conceived
to be the most important measure before
Congress.
Air, Cox, of North Carolina, while
maintaining the right of the Senate to
originate appropriation bills, spoke a good
word for tbe Blair educational bill.
Air. AVillis regarded the resolution as an
unusual and extraordinary one. The aim
it had in view was to call in question the
constitutionality oi the educational bill.
The point would have been better made
against some bill less worthy than this.
From month to month he had been trying
to get action on this bill, which, under the
infamous system of the House rules, was
buried on the Speaker’s table. Mr. Willis
moved to lay the motion on the table.
This was agreed to by 127 yeas to 123
nays.
Before the announcement of the vote
Air. Warner, of Ohio, changed his vote
from the negative to the affirmative, for
the purpose of moving a reconsideration.
The motion to reconsider was tabled by
141 yeas to 131 nays.
WHY HURD WAS BEATEN.
The News correspondent learns that it
was because Air. Hurd’s resolution en
dangered the educational bill that it met
such general opposition and was finally
voted down. The popularity of the edu
cational bill among the Southern men on
the Democratic side rendered Air. Hurd’s
doctrine, although acceptable generally,
very unpalatable to-day. One by one Mr.
Hammond, of Georgia, Air. Dibble, of
South Carolina, and other Southern men,
stood up to assert the right of the Senate
to originate bills making appropriations,
making common cause with Messrs.
Reed, Long of Alassachusetts, and
other Republicans, who contended that
the Senate had that right, since the propo
sition to prevent the Senate from origi
nating appropriation bills was voted
down in different forms in the Constitu
tional Convention. Air. Hammond made
the striking assertion that half the bills
appropriating money, passed by Congress,
had originated in the Senate. The vote
by which the Hurd resolution was laid on
the table, 127 to 123, does not indicate the
full strength of the educational bill. It
will, its friends say, have a much larger
majority.
THE EXPOSITION.
Unpleasant Weather, but a Good Crowd
in Attendance.
New Orleans, Jan. 23.—1n spite of
the unpleasant weather there was a con
siderable number of people on the expo
sition grounds to-day. The principal in
terest centered in the Agricultural De
partment, where awards were being made.
French ’draft horses were passed upon.
M. W. Dunham, of Wayne.Hii., took three
firsts for stallions, and Dillon Bros., of
Normon, 111., took one. The latter also took
four firsts for mares. The awards will be
completed to-morrow.
The members of the American Horti
cultural Society made a trip to-day by
special train on the Louisville and Nash
ville Railroad to Pass Christian, return
ing in the evening. Alost of the members
will return home to-morrow.
A reception will be tendered to Col.
Alexander AlcClure, editor ot the Phila
delphia Times . to-morrow in Exposition
Music Hall. He will give a lecture there at
3 o’clock. A committee of seventy,embrac
ing members ot the Council, commercial
bodies, and civic and military organiza
tions appointed to appropriately arrange
for the reception of the “Liberty Bell,”
will meet to-morrow. The programme, as
tar as known, will consist of a national
salute and a reception address by Hon.
T. J. Semrnes. The Mayor and committee
will go by special train to Alobile aud
escort the bell to the city.
Judge McChjt DiHContiiiues Proceedings.
Philadelphia, Jan. 23.—Judge Mc-
Cay’s writ ot habeas corpus was with
drawn to-day from the Court of Common
Pleas. His couusel explained to Judge
Finletter that the proceedings had been
dropped. He said that the relator was
not deprived of his liberty, and that he
was now remaining in the insane asylum
voluntarily till his health should be re
stored.
Sleet in Louisiana.
Shreveport, La., Jan. 23.—The heavi
est sleet of the season fell last night, and
this morning the whole country was
crested with ice, presenting a scene sel
dom beheld in this section. Bridges in
the surrounding country have been swept
away, the streams being higher than they
have been for years. Roads are impassa
ble, aud this condition of things is caus
ing great suffering in some localities.
THE BELL ON THE ROAD.
! Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Towns
Turn Out to Give It a Start.
Philadelphia, Jan. 23,—The Liberty
! Bell was taken from Independence Had
; this morning, and at 8 o’clock a proces
; sion of 500 policemen started to escort it
; to the West Philadelphia depot of the
| Pennsylvania Railroad, whence it was to
I be taken to the New Orleans Exposition.
The truck on which the old bell was hauled
through the streets was appropriately
decorated with garlands of flowers and
flags, and drawn by six bav horses hand
somely caparisoned. There were four
bands of music in the procession, and
many of the houses along the route
were decorated with flags. At the
depot the bell was transferred to
the special ear constructed by
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to
bear it and its guard of three officers to
the exposition. This ear is thirty-five
feet long and nine feet and a half wide,
one half of the platform of which is taken
up by inclosed and comfortably furnish
ed quarters for the special police officers.
The bell platform is protected by a brass
railing with posts decorated with gilded
bells. The large frame upon which the
bell is secured is the only work upon the
platform of the car.
THE BELL ON THE CAR.
The venerable relic was securely bolted
to this frame and thus left in full view.
At the top of the frame is the inscription,
“1776, proclaim liberty,” while on each
side o! the flat car are two clasped hands
with the names ot the two cities Philadel
phia and New Orleans on either side. The
car was then run down to the Broad
street station and attached to the special
train for New Orleans, currying the com
mittee of the City Councils. The start
was made at 10 o’clock. They expect to
run 40 miles an hour and reach Pittsburg
at 9:50 o’clock to-night, Cincinnati at
10:30 o’clock to-morrow morning, Louis
ville at 0 o’clock in the afternoon and
New Orleans at 11 o’clock Monday morn
ing. At Lancaster, when the train ar
rived at noon and stopped 15 minutes, a
crowd of 3,000 people were assembled.
A CATHOLIC LETTER.
The Plenary Council Extends Its Sym
pathy to the Church tn Germany.
Baltimore, .Jan. 23.—A long letter to
the Catholic Archbishops and Bishops in
North Germany, issued by the Plenary
Council recently in session in Baltimore,
has just been made public. The letter,
which is signed by Archbishop Gibbons,
has been kept secret until this time
until all danger of the original being
stopped by the German government in
transmission has passed, its publication
has already been prohibited in Germany.
The letter says:
To the Must Here rend and Must Esteemed Arch
bishops of Morth Germany:
The Arch bishops and Bit-hops of the United
Suites of North America send greetings amt
praise, love amt honor. What we have felt
smgly, scattered as we are over this broad
land, during this last decennium, towards
you, respected brethren, in the very depths of
our soul, we wish now, assembled iu the Third
Plenary Council ol Baltimore, to de
clare aloud your meritorious sufferings,
“wherem you endured a great light,”
have tilled us with grief and sympathy, but
your steadfast patience, by which you were
made “a spectacle to the world and angels
and to men,” inspired us with no less joy and
admiration. You were ready to become mar
tyrs of Ltin- 1 . You have become in reality
eoufessorsot the faith, lor with unconquerable
courage you have borne all injustices that
were inflicted on yourselves and your beloved
flocks, > aluwnies aud threats, robbery aud
persecution, imprisonment and exile. You
have loved justice and hated iniquity,” there
fore oue of your numb r suffered a glorious
death in exile, in which, alas', two others still
remain separated from you. lu truth, “vour
sound bate gone forth into ' ali
the earth and your works unto the eqdsof the
world,” ami these words were words of grief
and complaint at the immeasurable trespass
against the rights of the church, sacrilegious
profanation of the Temple snatched from the
true worship of Uod, the closing, of schools,
colleges, seminaries and other institutions ot
Christian charity, the banishment of the reli
gious, a a-1 the imprisonment of the clergy, un
availing demands of the faithful for the work
of God aud the sacraments of salvation even
at the hour of death.
DYNAMITE IN STOLEN BOOKS.
A Library Robbed of 3,000 Volumes—A
Flan to Kill any Discoverer.
CHICAGO, Jan. 23.—J. C. Talbert, re
cently an employe of the Chicago Public
Library, was detected stealing books
from the library. A search ot his premises
revealel about 3,000 volumes of stolen
books. These were removed to
the City Hall. To-day the police
were demoralized by discovering among
the books several small boxes, which,
upon examination proved to contain ex
plosives, and one contained an infernal
machine composed of some powder and a
pistol with a contrivance for discharging
it. Another box contained a quan
tity of dynamite. The scheme
of Talbert seems to hisv e
been that whoever should attempt to re
move from their hiding place the books as
evidence of his guilt would set off a small
internal machine, the explosion of which
would light dynamite and thus wipe out
at once, perhaps himself, and certainly
everybody within range of the books
and buildings. . Talbert asserts
that he had been experimenting
with explosives. The police discredited
this story, because there was too much
method in the way the dynamite was put
ud and stowed carelessly among the
books. Tbe boxes had been handled sev
eral times, and tbe discovery was only
made through the curiosity of one of the
officers.
TELEPHONES MUST BE PUT IN.
Companies Not Legalized to Refuse any
Unobjectionable Applicant.
Omaha, Neb., Jan. 23.—The Nebraska
Supreme Court has just rendered an im
portant telephone decision in the case of
a man who was refused the privilege of
becoming a subscriber to the Nebraska
Telephone Company, although he offered
to comply with ali the requirements usu
ally demanded of a subscriber. He
brought a mandamus suit to compel the
company to permit him to have the use of
a telephone upon the usual conditions.
The Supreme Court, in deciding in bis
favor, held a telephone company to be
a public servant as a common carrier, and
as such it must treat all persons alike,
and that where no good reason can be as
signed for a refusal to furnish a telephone
instrument to a person who otters to com
ply with the regulations, a writ of man
damus will be issued to compel any tele
phone company to supply such person
with necessary instruments. This decis
ion defines the position of incorporated
telephone companies to be virtually the
same as that ot a telegraph company, or
any other corporation, tor the perform
ance of services at the hands of the
public.
DYNAMITE AT KANSAS CITY.
Theories which are Founded on the
Finding of n Mysterious Rox.
Kansas City, Jan. 23.—A box, the
contents of which is supposed to be dyn
amite, was found near the east end of the
Hannibal and St. Joe Railroad bridge
across the river at this point yesterday.
It is not yet determined that the contents
of the box is dynamite, but one of the
local papers has upon this foundation a
well built and complete history of the box
and the man who owned it. His name is
said to be Melhan, a dynamiter driven out
of England. It is reported that O’Donovan
Rossa obtained the aforesaid package of
dynamite in New York and went West,
and discovering that he was likelv to be
captured threw his dynamite out of a car
window, whereupon the detectives permit
ted him to proceed Westward without
molestation. His destination was said to
be Australia, where his dynamite was
expected to work mischief.
Killed by a Druggist's Mistake.
New Orleans, Jan. 23.— The attending
physicians not being able to account for
the sudden death of Capt. M. J. Farrell,
of this city, last night, to-day investigated
the matter and ascertained* that William
Melcher, a druggist, had made a mistake
in filling a preseiiption. Instead of one
ounce of water and 24 drops of aconite
as ordered by Dr. Crawcour, he had put
in one ounce of aconite. A dose of this
was administered to Capt. Farrell and he
expired shortly afterwards. An autopsy
was held, which showed that death had
resulted from an overdose of aconite. A
warrant has been issued charging Mel
chert with involuntary manslaughter.
A Stitch In Time Saves Nine,
is true of old coats, and mouths. When
tbe former shows the first defect take a
“stitch,” and always keep the mouth
right by using Sozodont. It costs less
for anew coat than a set ol teeth. False
teeth are not pleasant.
FLAGS OF AMERICAN SILK.
ONE PRESENTED TO EACH OF
THE LEGISLATIVE BODIES.
Both S nate and House Express Their
Appreciation of the Novel Gifts—The
History Attached to Them and a
Plea for American Silk Culture.
Washington, Jan. 23.—1n the Senate
to-day the Chair laid before the body a
memorial of the Woman’s Silk Culture
Association ot the United States. The
memorialists recite the great success
through their efforts of the work ot silk
culture in the homes of this country, and
crave the good will, influence aud aid of
Congress in the development of an indus
try of some importance to the women and
children of the United States. The me
morialists beg the Senate to accept with
their memorial a truly American national
flag, made of silk raised in American
homes, by American women and children,
reeled, spun, dyed, woven and mounted
in Philadelphia.
SENATORIAL ADMIRATION.
The flitg, which is a large and hand
some one, was borne to the desk, and was
the subject of much admiration both
from the floor and galleries. Mr. Beck
offered a resolution expressing the high
appreciation and thanks of the Senate for
the flag and its admiration for the efforts
and success of the Women’s Silk Culture
Association in their patriotic purpose to
ameliorate the industrial condition of
their countrywomen, and to enlarge and
diversify female employment in the
United States. Mr. Morgan, in a feeling
and happy manner, welcomed the flag
with ali that it meant to the hall ot the
Senate.’
BURYING THE PAST.
There was a time, he said, w hen he w as
acting in hostility to the flag, but that
time would never again come. Tne sen
timent which it embodied in the form now
presented to the Senate was or*- that
added strength to the bond of union be
tween the States and intensified the love
of country-that every American should be
proud to feel and to express.
Mr. Dawes congratulated the country
on the great advance made in silk culture
in so short a time, it being only a few
years since the work was undertaken.
Mr. Beck’s resolution was then agreed
to.
A SIMILAR PRESENT FOR THE HOUSE.
When the House met this morning a
handsome silk American flag, similar to
that presented to the Senate, ornamented
the wall behind the Speaker’s chair, and
alter the reading of the journal the
Speaker laid before the House a commu
nication from the Philadelphia Women’s
Silk Culture Association of the United
States, tendering the flag to the House of
Representatives, and bespeaking for it a
place in the halls oi the National Govern
ment.
Mr. Kellc-y, of Pennsylvania, oflered a
resolution, which was adopted, accepting
the flag, and declaring that the excellence
of the fabric and the perfection of tbe
colors it display s affords evidence of the
remarkably rapid development of the cul
ture and manufacture ol silk by the
American people, and that the House will
cause the flag to be displayed within the
halls of the Utilise.
M KBCANTI liE COM PLICATIONS.
Dun & L'o.’s Report for the Week—A
Run on a New Haven Bank.
New York, Jau. 23.—Business failures,
according to It. G. Dun & Cos., number for
the United States 371. and for Canada 40.
Total 411, against 420 last week, and 457
the week previous. Casualties are still
unusually numerous in Western and
Southern States, and there is an increase
in Canada. In other sections of the coun
try figures are about an average.
a run on a bank.
New Haven, Conn., Jan. 23.—There
was a run on the New Haven savings
bank this aiternoon and the excitement
is increasing. The bank’s of
ficers assert that the bank
is all right, and that the run was
caused bv some person joking about the
bank's condition.
THE PETERSBURG TROUBLES.
Petersburg, Va., Jan. 23.—The Hust
ings Court, Judge E. M. Mann presiding,
was engaged until late this afternoon in
hearing argument in the case of the State
oi Virginia against the Planters’ and Me
chanics’ Bank of this city, the directors
of which made a deed of trust of its as
sets on May 19 last to Messrs. McGyane
and Gilliam for the benefit of its creditors
without priority. The argument will lie
continued to-morrow.
TAMMANY HALL.
Officers Elected and Arrangements Made
io Attend the Inauguration.
New Y'ork, Jan. 23.—The Tammany
Hall Committee on Organization elected
the following officers to-night: Chairman,
John Kelly; First Vice Chairman. Hugh
J. Grant, the recent nominee for Mayor;
Second Vice Chairman, John McQuade;
Treasurer, Police Justice John J. Gor
man. A committee was appointed
to arrange for a delegation
to attend the inauguration
of President Cleveland. Rollin M. Squire,
the new Commissioner of Public Works,
was elected a member of the committee
from his district. Squire w-as also elected
a member of the County Democracy last
week. In each case he says he will con
sider the matter.
Richmond and Allegheny’s Afl'airs.
New York, Jan. 23.—The bondholders
of the Richmond and Allegheny Railroad
Company resolved this evening that “the
holders of first mortgage bonds shall sur
render eight coupons and receive in lieu
thereof preference stock aggregating
$15,000, 60 per cent, of the preferred stock
to go to the holders of second mortgage
bonds, the interest on the bonds to be re
duced from 7 per cent, to 5 per cent, front
January, 1887, to 1892, the floating debt
and receiver’s certificates to be adjusted
before Jan. 1. 1887.” A friendly foreclos
ing suit will be instituted without delay.
Existing stockholders can enter into this
arrangement and retain their stock, now
worth 70 per cent., on the payment of $3
per share. Smith Clift was appointed to
confer with other parties interested in the
road.
Free Trade anil Protection.
London, Jan. 23.—M. Gustave de
Molinari, the Belgian economist, in a
communication to the Times, says that
England, Belgium and Holland, tbe only
three remaining free trade countries,
if linked together in a customs
union would combat the pro
tectionist reaction in Germany,
France and Russia. He suggests that
Holland and Belgium accept the English
tariff, and so overcome the only real diffi-'
culty in the way ol such a union. This
union would have great powers of expan
sion, he thinks, and would be capable of
confronting protectionist nations with
important effect.
Raxing Streams in Texas.
Houston, Texas, Jan. 23.—Continuous
rains and sleet during the past several
days throughout Eastern and Southern
Texas have been very severe on stock and
railroads. All streams are very much
swollen, and grave apprehensions are
felt by all railroad lines. The Texas and
New Orleans Railroad has abandoned
both passenger and treight traffic on ac
count of extensive washouts. Reports
are coming in from surrounding ranches
of heavy losses of sheep and cattle on
account of the severe weather.
The Advance in Exchange.
New Y’ork, Jan. 23.—The advance in
foreign exchange,is.mainly due to the,pur
chase of bills here by people who seek a
higher rate of interest than can be secur
ed in New York. Millions are reported
invested in 60 day bills, money to carry
them being borrowed at and 2 per
cent per annum, and the bills held until
maturity for interest. High rates for
money in England and a scarcity of com
mercial bills here, also stimulate the ad
vance.
England Declared a Coward.
Cologne, Jan. 23. — The Gazette , in a
leading editorial article on the relations
of England and Europe, says: “The
chief question is whether England or
Europe shall give way, or whether they
shall compromise their opposing claims.
We are convinced that England will yield
if the verdict of Europe is given with the
necessary emphasis. The writer predicts
the decadence of England’s power. “Only
let us show our teeth” the article contin
ues, “and England will surprise the world
with her cowardice.”
Sudden Changes or Weather
are productive of Throat Diseases,
Coughs, Colds, etc. There is no more
effectual relief in these diseases to be
found than in the use of Brown’s Bron
chial Troches. Brice 25 cts.
MYRA GAINES’ MILLIONS.
Racy Testimony tn Court During the
Contesting of the Wills.
New Orle ans, Jan. 23.—The contest
ever the two wills alleged to have been
left by the late Myra Clarke Gaines, be
tween Mrs. Mary E. Evans, named as ad
ministratrix in the alleged autographic
will dated Jan. 8, 1885, and Messrs.
Wilder and Christmas, named as
administrators in the nuncupative
will dated Jan. 5, 1885, has
l>eeu going on since Wednesday before
Judge Houston in the District Civil
Court. Two witnesses testified that the
first mentioned will was not in Mrs.
Gaines’ handwriting, and Dr. Holcomb
testified that Mrs. Gaines was physically
unable to write anything from Jan. 5 to
Jau. 8. To-day, letters alleged to have i
been written by Mrs. Gaines in the years ;
1882, 1883 and 1884, were oflered in i
evidence by the counsel for Messrs. Wil
der and Christmas, showing that
Mrs. Gaines at one time had
great confidence in Mrs. Evans, but
subsequently held her to be a iraud,
and an unfortunate and unprincipled wo
man. Mr. Wilder, who had
been Mrs. Games’ legal ad- i
viser, and had received the above ]
mentioned letters, was put ou the stand
to prove Mrs. Gaines’ signature to them, i
The counsel for Mrs. Evans asked Wilder !
if he had ever been convicted for forgery. ;
Wilder said: “1 will answer thus—il
ever 1 was convicted I have been par
doned by the President. That happened
many years ago, and let me say further i
that I was unjustly convicted.” Several
witnesses testified to their belief that the !
alleged aulograpnic will is in Mrs. Gaines’ ;
handwriting, hut others testify to the j
contrary, i 'eeds offered in evidence show !
that Mrs. Gaines in 1881 diposed of the
property mentioned in thi9 will.
CRUSHED UNDER THE SNOAV.
Terrible Avalanches iu Italy and France
—Great Loss of Life.
Paris, Jan. 23.— An avalanche occurred
at Meturilles, in the department of the
Hautes Alps, and'crushed a church in
which a number of persons were wor
shiping. All were buried under the snow,
as were also 20 men who were working in
a marble quarry near by. A volunteer
force was at once engaged digging out
the victims of the disaster.
Further details of devastation caused
by avalanches in the Piedmontese Alps
are coming in slowly. The telegraph
lines are prostrated and post roads
blocked by the snow in many places. A
report from Bronasco states that nine
persons were killed and many others in
jured in that village. At Chia
brands every house was bur
ied, and in some cases the masses
ot ice and snowj covering the houses were
twenty feet deep. The soldiers and
neighboring villagers are laboring with
desperate energy to assist the survivers.
Scores of dead bodies have been taken out,
and in many cases they bear no mark or
injury, showing they must have suffocat
ed. Many survivors who have been res
cued had been imprisoned in the narrow
and partly wrecked cabins several days
together with the corpses ot relatives who
had been killed. Relief trains have been
sent from Turin with food and clothing
for the sufferers.
ASSASSINS E XTK ADIT ABLE.
Prussia and Russia Conclude a Conven
tion Aimed Against Socialists.
London, Jan. 23.—A convention was
concluded ou Jan. 12 between Russia and
Prussia providing for tiie extradition oi
persons guilty of murder, attempts at
murder, or of committing or preparing to
commit acts against the German or Rus
sian Emperors or tbeir ■ families,
such as assassination, acts
of violence causing bodily injury, abduc
tion or insults. The convention also pro
vides that persons guilty of the illegal
manufacture or storage' of explosives
shall be extradictable. The allegation
that the acts were committed from politi
cal motives shall not constitute sufficient
ground for a refusal to extradite.
La Journal de St. Petersburg is con
vinced that the Reichstag will sanction
the extension of the convention to the
whole of Germany. The paper says that
it hopes that the example of Russia and
Prussia will be followed by other coun
tries to protect society against a set of
lawless criminals.
A BRIDEGROOM ASSASSINATED.
Wedding Festivities in the Indian Ter
ritory Wound Up with a Tragedy.
St. Louis, Jan 21.—A tragedy occurred
near Webber’s Falls, iu the Indian Na
tion, on Saturday. Colson Baldridge was
.married a day or two previous, and the
festivities were wound up by a ball at the
residence of a man named Davis. Whisky
and pistols seem to have been plentiful.
All went merry until after midnight,
when suddenly the revelers were startled
by a pistol shot from the outside of the
house, and Colson Baldridge fell with a
bullet through his body. He imme
diately got up, and drawing
his pistol, rushed to the door and
tired three shots at his assassin as he fled
from the house, and then dropped dead.
Then there was a general drawing of pis
tols, and about 75 shots were fired through
the house. When the smoke had cleared
away it was found that Jennie Butler, a
Cherokee woman, Joe'Muskrat and Jen
nie Smith had been wounded. The party
being all full of liquor, many of them lay
on the floor and slept off their stupor, anil
one of them found when he awoke that he
had been using the body of the murdered
bridegoom as a pillow, and was lying in
his blood.
Baldridge had killed Jesse Foreman
several years ago while trying to arrest
him. lie was tried for the crime in the
United States Court, but was acquitted,
and it is supposed that some of Fore
man’s friends took this occasion to wreak
their vengeance on him.
WOMEN IN POLITICS.
Coolness Between Mrs. Lockwood and
the Female Suit'ragists.
Washington, Jan. 20.—The fact that
Mrs. Belva Lockwood is absent from town
during the sitting of the convention of the
female suffragists provokes the suspicion
that the late female candidate for the
Presidency is not on cordial terms with
the leading representatives of the move
ment for the betterment of the condi
tion of women before the law. None of
them were known to advocate Mrs.
Lockwood’s name last fall, and now it is
believed Mrs. Lockwood has departed on
a lecturing tour on the eve of the conven
tion to mark in return her indifference bo
the work Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anthon v
have in hand. Mrs. Lockwood is known
to be a very positive woman, and Mrs.
Stanton and Miss Anthony are unyielding
in amiable measures, so to speak, and
now that a division appears in the ranks
of characters so determined, a reunion is
hardly to be expected in time to affect the
situation before this Congress.
* iiw n;tior*mj>m.
Littlk Rock, Ark., Jan. 23.—Six bal
lots were taken by the Legislature to-day
for the Senate, but developed no material
change. The last ballot stood: Dunn 43,
Berry 41, Jones 33, Duval Harris 2,
Rose 1.
CALIFORNIA’S BALLOTING.
San Francisco, Jan. 23.—George
Hearst received the joint Democratic
nomination for United States Senator last
evening, polling 17 voteson the nineteenth
ballot. Healy polled 11 and Sumner 2.
Settlement of the Potters’ Strike.
Trenton. N. J., Jan. 23.—This evening
both committees signed an agreement that
the potters who had been locked out shall
go to work on Monday next at the old
rates. A sub-committee of the Knights
of Labor is to confer with several branches
ol the potters’ trade and endeavor to
equalize and harmonize the proposed re
duction in the list of wages demanded by
manufacturers, it being understood that
a final report and settlement will be made
by Feb. 1.
England and the Chinese War.
Hong Kong, Jan. 23.—A proclamation
has been issued here directing attention
to section 10 of the foreign enlistment act,
which the proclamation say>> will be en
forced. The section provides that in case
of war between two nations with which
England is at peace, a man-of-war of
neither of the belligerents shall be fur
nished with equipments or supplies in
British ports.
Adelina Patti,
the great songstress, says of Solon Pal
mer’s Perfumes, Toilet Soaps and other
Toilet articles: “1 unhesitatingly pro
nounce them superior to any 1 ever
used.” Principal Depot, 374 and 37ti Pearl
street, Mew York.
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i 5 OS.NTs A COPT. j
FEARS FORGE! STEWART
THE AIR IT’LL OF CONFLICTING:
REPORTS FROM EGYPT.
A Further Advance Hiuteil at and Vague
Stories lliat the Rebels Have Sur
rounded the British ami are About t
Exterminate Them—A Battle Ahead
for Gen. L trie.
London, Jan. 23.—The War office has
received no news concerning Gen. Stew
art's advance since the account of the
battle ot Saturday. This absence ol' news
causes considerable anxiety. The heads
of the War Department met at noon to.
day, with Lari of Moorly, Undersecretary
ol State for \\ ar presiding, to consider
the situation.
lhe limes, lelc.jrapL and Standard
have not yet received their special re
ports ol the battle at Abu Klea, although
they had special correspondents in tue
field. Ibis iact increases the anxiety
concerning the fate of Gen. Stewart. The
beiiet became prevalent that the battle a*
the Wells was more severe than the gc
eminent is willing to admit. There is
impression that the official reports ■
colored at thu War office, and that st
dispatches were intercepted by pre*
sors because they contained Infoi
which would throw objectionable
the affair.
RUMORS THAT THE ’ *
Private advices received late
uoou from Korti assert that t.
-ve trreudered to Gen. Stewart
desert, where he has taken up a*
trenched ; ion to await reinforce!'
from Gen. Wolseley. Deserters l'ro>*
rebel lines say that El Mahdi’s ol
consider the affair at Abu Klea Web
drawn battle. The Arabs were neith
routed nor pursued, and fell back in an
orderly manner, and were not in the least
demoralized by the outcome of the en
gagement. They recovered themselves
so quickly and effectively that Gen.
Stewart dared not move, and was com
pelled to entrench niinseli on the scene or
conflict. Govummeut officials discredit
the information conveyed in the above
dispatches.
The officials at War Office now
that Gen. Wolseley may liud it impera
tively necessary to reinforce the troops
mnv operating against the Mahdi in the
Soudan by drafts of men from the British
army of occupation in Lower Egypt. At
the same tune they are afraid
to allow tne army of occupation to he se
riously weakened. They are accordingly
preparing lor the transportation of troops
irom Malta, Gibraltar and home depots to
Alexandria to take the place of those
who may be sent to the Soudan.
THE REBELS AT MKTKMNEH.
Private advices from the front say that
the rebels are strongly entrenched at
Metemneh, which post it will he neces
sary tor the English forces to occupy be
tore they can proceed to Khartoum. It
is reported that numerous rebels have
collected at Abu 1 lamed and are pre
pared to resist Gen. Earle.
A dispatch to Le Paris from Alexan
dria says tuat a report prevails there that
the rebels have surrounded Gen. Stewart,
whose line of retreat is threatened.
Vault!/ Pair asserts that Gen. Wolseley
had a fail irom a camel some time ago and
was hurt, it was to recover from this
that he was detained at Korti.
REPORTED DEFEAT OF STEWART.
London, Jan. 24, 2 a. m.—A special
dispatch from Cairo says a report was
circulated here to-day to the effect
that Gen. Stewart’s troops had
been defeated and routed by El
Mahdi’s forces. Tne report was very gen
erally believed by the natives, who as
sumed such a threatening attitude that
ball cartridges were served out to British
soldiers in the garrison.
I.A REPUBLIQUK FKANCAISE TREMBLES.
I’aris, Jan. 23. —La llepublique Fran
raise considers the result ol the battle
between Gen. Stewart’s troops and the
t Arabs on Saturday last at .Abu Klea
Wells as an irredeemable- check to the
[ advance ol the English on Khartoum and
t says that it trembles for the fate of Gen.
j Stewart’s force.
■
The fTovbm Mtttlfri.
Yl.ma, Akiz., Jan. 23.—Gov. V'illage
rane, of Lower California, has arrived
here. He lett Euccnado, Mexico, with a
volunteer force ol twenty men. They
encountered a party ot escaped Mexican
mutineers and Killed one and captured
nine. The prisoners are being held in
Mexican territory. One ol the
Governor’s party was killed. Lopez
was in the encounter, but
escaped. The object of the Governor’s
visit is to secure the return of the
prisoners captured by the American
troops. Doubts exist as to whether the
request will he complied with. Lieut.
McDonald is in close pursuit of the re
mainder of the gang. It is almost certain
that the mutineers will all he captured or
killed.
4p>
Looking for a Premium on Gold.
New York, Jan. 23.—At an uptown
resort last night an operator in stocks
Did % to call $1,000,000 in gold this year,
and this morning this same offer was ,
made to a prominent put and call dealer.
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.
Interesting Little Flashes from the
Wires Printed in Condensed Form.
At San Antonio, Tex., Col. Thos. G. Wil
liams died Thursday morning from paralysis.
The deceased was commissioned Assistant
Commissary General of the Confederacy for
Ins services at Richmond.
Capt. M. J. Farrell, one of the best known
detectives in the United States, died suddenly
at New Orleans Thursday night, aged 59 years.
At the time of his death be had charge of :ho
police department of the World’s Expos . ion. j
Near Bond’s mill, in W.se county, Va., on
Monday. Elias Collier, T. B. fill".
lier, Wm. G. Botts and several tl, 'i
engaged in a light. The par i h-j.- ’<■>,
In the melee Elias Collier emnio '<
volver into the body of Felts, ing 1 in
stantly. The murderer fled to K utues /. I
is still at large.
In 'lie Missouri Senate vest day r ' g •
Senator Vaneleave, from "the < v-rared t
Militia, reported a joint resol' u i j
tlie surviving officers of th wemy-
Regiment of the South Can Yd: . i
late of the Confederate St! A
their battle flag captured f: i at -
Steadman, March 25, lh(>s, b . 0 •. --o— ,
of the Adjuctent General, and also to substi- J
lute in tlie State Armory for such riattle flag I
a white flag with an inscription showing what <
it represents.
The Pittsburg, Pa., Clearing House Associ- .
ation lias agreed to allow the Pittsburg post
office to ; clear postal orders through one of
the banks of the association. The new system
goes into operation Monday.
The steamship Tallahassee, from Savannah,
arrived at New 5 ork last night.
The Illinois House assembled at 9 o’clock
yesterday morning and soon afterward ad
journed until Monday evening. The Demo
• rats desire to secure tlie attendance of all
I tj,eir members, their caucus having decided
I ! i-t night to elect Mr. Haines permanent
Chairman.
Gen. Gillmore. of the United States Army,
expresses his entire satisfaction with the pro
gress of the work on the national jetties in
the Charle-ton (S. C.) harbor, and says that
lie is confident a navigable channel 8u feet
deep across the bar can lie easily made and
maintained.
It was ollicially announced yesterday that
Emperor William has entirely recovered
•rom Ins recent illness.
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