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riSIA AND FLORIDA.
, ;t , •S 1 P THB TWO STATUS
IN PARAGRAPHS.
u , k.iMi County to the Front with a
! rlul Cotton Tree—Madison the
~ .it > Curious Fowl— The Ur® and
a i!i of ; W dl-Known Sporting Mn.
GEORGIA.
.- -m mls $3,400 per year for gas for
- - 1..| to have been the importer
. : | \ now raging In Thomson.
Imim-i has decide 1 to begin hear
■> -i- in the Justice of the Peace
slamler case on the do ket
the coining session of Jackson
promises to be Tery interesting.
: i -atiintay a negro snatched a
, from Mrs. M A. Bolt. Itcon
< The negro wa captured and the
r. - recently have demonstrated
irge portion of Albany is at
haute conflagration owing
icucx of the water supp'y.
*r woman in Eiberton has lost four
accidental deaths—two were
irowi ed. and the fourth killed
: fr .in a fence and slicking a nail in
. of b.r l-hunters from Albany,
i. Ka-t Dougherty. on Frida v.
i • deer and peppered them with
Th< expect to go again at an
iii u i. load their guns for deer
I! ivg ...!, of south Carolina: Mrs.
i . . *>f Augusta; Mrs. Harden and
•f • olumbus, and Mrs. Jenkins,
e. all widowed sister* of the late
■e . Barrett, of Augusta, are Iwtwcen
- t and 83 years.
- rs jut up in different parts of the city
it the artesian well fixtures will
. i for damages to the Mayor and uv
.f inem us to-day. It is probable
well fixtures of the Manhattan Well
e . in Brunswick will be ordered sold
Gantt, of the Athens F.inntr- Watch
-•i.iting old king alcohol right and ieft
. the columns or his paper. The pres
i.ii.n i— probably ihe hotte-t ever
i arkc. anil so one is doing ni ire
i.gutn j than the wile awake scribe
merit, uied. 'V hen a great public ss
-take tiantt is sure to be fonndon the
- . .f the people’s best interests.
'. II no r corn ~;>ndent writes as follows:
r - >ne >.f the moat peaceful and orderly
i th. state, since the sale of spiritu
... rs was stoputfri. in Is7t>, by the re
t in.- Ordinary to grant license, our
improved morally, socially and
... and the value of real estate in the
. adv anc* I to an average far above that
the nurrouudiug counties,
v .mta ainou 1 o'clock Sunday morning
i. rd colored came in contact with
r five negro men near th.' corner of
in. and Jones streets, with wuom he en
- - iin a conversation. Finally lie and one
■ men began to quarrel, and the quarrel
l"t a a fight. In the fight the • lit re
■v Minpcd on Ford and, after cutting atm
i.a . nn, fied. Three wounds, one of
o may prove fata!, were inflicted by a
M. • nJf • / in:.it,. The greatest curiosity
:> is a fowl owned by W. M, Cal la
a farmer, living near tin's city. It has
•‘•of a hen, the head, ccrab and tail of
. i -;>r; it lays the largest egg of any fowl
, and crow* as perfectly as any other
in color it is i beautiful red on one
■ • .and t- body and a dommick on the other;
performs all the gallantries of a male and
- n..t shun an . of th-* duties of the female;
: -hort. if is neither a hen or a rooster, out
both, consequently is of double value.
Thursday an accident occurred at the Fort
V alley Foundry fin ding, which placed m im
minent danger the itves and limbs of half a
dozen mer. Mr. Cook, with live colored
workmen. It . Broyles. .Joe Fuller, Elijah
Nicks..!•>.i. r Fuller a-ul Noah itiyant, were
standing •.• a girder, which was resting on the
film, so! i.'h . ...,g, 13 feet fr-.m the ground,
raising a ir>.-- v. I. the girder was to be
fastened by r.u . . one of the supports
of ihe girder gave way causing it to break,
l-rc . .tilling U.e men to the ground. Ben
Broytcsand K ijah Nicks were badly bruise t,
an : tis teare i seriously injured. The rest
< aped with sligiit injuries,
lu three or four day. there will be a rat."-
. .f me committee of citizens and Council
n to discuss the question of aoalu.g the
i ,r- id crossing nuisance in Atlanta. <>n
t io there will lie a meeting of this joint
ruillce w ltli th * railroad officials who are
. re-ied. The plan of lowering the tracks
c. n very generally di.-' u-sed, and as far
a-- .named has met with the approval of
p • pie and the roads. It is not impossible
t the matter may receive favorable
deration on all sides ou the 10th.
I McDaniel, A—i-tanl City Engineer. has
■rc l a profile drawing of ' tne pro
: and plan, copies of which have been sent to
ihe railroad officials. The whole distance
embraced m the proposed eat is ;:,4uo feet. It
-pi used to begin at % point about Id) feet
.md Calhoun street and make a grade a
.dc over one foot per hundred feet, reach -
vel at Loyd street, which continues
r ati the candied. A grade of one foot per
; .r. i feet i then started up and ends on
lie Mate .road alongside the freight depot,
a. ton the Central near the lee house.
acksou ller <;d : While some of the other
unties in Georgia have been haviug their
-• -ations, old Jackson now steps to the froiti
; produces hers. <>n last Wednesday, while
- negroes were clearing up a field on
w a! i- known as the Flournoy place, in
- .ro district, of this co: nty. they
. ti. across a tree that looked rather peculiar
much so that they snared it from the
ii s of the ax. Mr. Martin, who now
w: - the place, came to where they were
w .rkiug and examined the tree. The tree is
ut fifteen feet high ami nine inches in
and muter, and the limbs commence
the distance of five feet from the
, and look like the branches
c regular cotton plant, aud each
iias cotton bolls thickly stuck on it. iu
- ii w hidden away the finest kind of cot
. equal in quality to any ever raised in the
' The limbs rre atsiut as thick on it as
i a cedar tree. The discovery of this
rr.o :as created a great sensation, and p*r
- un r auug from long distance* to get
the seed to she it they can't raise
tree- like this one. W ebave a specimen
'it >n m this office, which any one can
Mr. Martin, who gave the information
- 'lie of the mo-i reliable citizens of
tv. and says thu e who are inclined
r. diilous can see for themselves by
i.s -a visit to the place. If we get t"
i- : . cotton on trees, whit will come next'-
we m - respectfully ask.
v >v. i r.twford, once a well known sport
i *f Atlanta, died at the Milledgevilie
lam a <lay or two ago. He was 4)
aj'-. Crawford wa, by birth, u
att, but early iu life went to Atlanta.
■ expert billiard player, and at one
•a a* the recognized champion of the
- In lv>: or ’rS Atlanta bad a billiard
n nt. All of the best billiardis's in ihc
were present anil entered. To the
i di an elegant and handsome ebony
wn- to be awarded, and I rawforil
■.r■ i it. He was an expert pool player
( t was said to be the finest pin pool
-y< r in the world. Persons who placed
r .uev ou a card when A lie Craw
w.s 'icaiing were always satisfied, for
. the reputation of being an honest
r. He was liberal, open hearted and
r. . an I never turned an applicant am ay
in led. lie has been known many 1
refund money won from men to their
In ls7i he abandoned si>ortiug
ened a family grocery, lie suc
: we 1 m busmens a"n<l pnrcnased a tine
(tordon county. He moved lo his
l remained there until the Atlanta
•eicsition, when he went bark u> At
• s' : again began a “life of ease.” A
i- ;igo he again reformed and went
• in- plantation, something over a
• manifested signs of mental aber
. . . ins family caused an investiga
w . i resulted in sending him to ilie
. w b. re he remained until his death
• . ng back to his plantation he joined
sh, and was. up lo the tune of his in
i. in the asylum, a sincere and de
r.as been filed in Fulton superior
gh'y sensat’onal suit. The case is
’ \ . M’abrv and others against Francis
- Francis E. Booth, and others,
r- ago there lived in Atlanta a fine
lib gent and high-minded man
ua->Ueorjw ,1. Booth. Although
- . -ii. <ite v alued at 130,000.ma<le by
•'* judgment and exertion. Booth was
t v cdueation w hatever, and could
write h s own name. In the
rt of -si he died intestate. Soon
• r iv who had passed as the wife
• ar.d at the Ordinary's office
• ' i- .tfc-uinied administratrix on the es
ici r t of which was divided be
er-. . hir s>>ti. John IV. Martin, and
Mi . .. it appears that these three
were Inin > •-, of the house at the time of the
.■ b, of liooui. The bill alleges that Frances
‘ •• "dh was not Booth’s w ife, and that Sa.ruli
'lir.in w.,s not bis daughter, as they claimed,
- at the former was the wiTe'of James
'Mi., who. being imprisoned, broke jail
il 'an away, and ihat his wife, with her
t bn W. Martin, went to keep house for
I s ' Tbe bill claims that sarah Martin is
•lighter of Nancy Thurman, and was
taken by her mother to Booth's house
w nea an infant and then deserted and
: 11" dh through pity reared her, but never
< n net ner or adopted her as his daughter
J - sai l that the young lady is now married
" '* —in ’he bill charges that
n iclaim in law on
t her and by fraud
erty. The estate
tratrix discharg
abry, of Madison
srke county, and
of two of them sis-,
o.ae, his niece. They
.eciared null and
They claim that
did nofeknow of
of Ordinary.
t architect.
<ooa begin at Or
is flourishing and
, o, Nov. IS, ia now
full of ripe strawberries.
<ent?r : haUuck - of Orlando, has rc
linini ~h el a duilt made entirely of satin
rats I', - „_. C " n xV' l o * 1 • ' ,ie " e ® nd lii sepa-
W^ • , - Sbattuck worked on it for
‘•intha. she values her handiwork at
b ■ .amed Ru
uat * • bos idorf.Oer-
many, wa* found dead in Crystal Lake, in the
t trinity of tiotha, on Sunday last. He had
tn-en dead several days. When found he had
on a mght shirt and one sock. His clothes
wire in the house. It is supposed that he
either got of out bed while alseep and walked
out upon a platform and fell into the lake, or
else had a fever incident to ill health, and
had gone out and off the platform while suffer
ing and delirious.
Lake City correspondence Sews, Jan 31- \
large lot of exhibits are being shipped from
i-axcctty to-day for Cos nmbia county. The
n-i C ie vi Wii J , roin l ,r * l>t representing
i e of her own products. More and
better horses and mules have been sold at
l ake titv this season than any previous
season, busine-s has licen one-sided with the
merchant-. Freights bare t-en delayed out
of all rea-on. H e are in good hoia* now of
havmg the road from Lake City to Fort
, Luilt in the near future. ' Rain -till
Tail* m ahund mce. and the flat woods is full
or water.
AT THE STATE CAPITAL.
Commutation or a Negro Boy’s Sentence
—An Important Election Decision.
Atlanta, Keb. 2.— A short time ago
George Price, a 12-year old negro boy,
was sent to the penitentiary from Colum
bus for 4 years for placing obstructions
on a street car track. Price was con
victed under the law which was framed
to protect lives and property on railroad
tracks. The verdict was considered harsh,
although the law apparently had beer
violated as prescribed in the section. Ef
forts were at once made to commute the
sentence, and to-day the Governor acted,
commuting the sentence to six months
in the county chain gang. Judge Willis,
who presided, recommended commuta
tion.
At the regular election held on the first
Saturday in January for Justices of the
Peace sevetal districts failed to act,
while others have since held elections,
and the question arose as to whether the
elections held later are valid, or if in the
districts where elections were not held
the present incumbents hold over. To
settle these questions Attorney General
Anderson upon being asked has rendered
an opinion that when districts failed to
elect the present incumbents can hold
over until the next regular election, and
all otuer elections are illegal. He save
that failure to act on the dav
prescribed by law leaves the office
tilled, and that an election
cannot be held until there is a vacancv.
The opinion also states that the incum
bent holds office until his term expires
and a successor is elected and qualified,
which can only be done where then is a
vacancy.
There are a number of districts ail over
the State where no elections were held on
the regular day, or where elections have
since been held, and this opinion will be
of general importance in consequence.
George liataree, tbe Clayton county ex
l>ert in the matter of coinmitting crimes
and then giving officers the slip, is again
at large. A short time ago he was ar
rested in Atlanta at the request of Ala
bama officials. While in charge of Chief
Connolly and one policeman he gave them
the slip aud got away, outrunning them.
>;">n afterwards he was arrested in the
l nited States building where he was at
tending court as a witness and was re
moved only after Judge Boarman signed
an order allowing the policeman to take
him. \V hen arrested he vt'as among the
rafters of the building biding. Rataree
was turned over to the Alabama Sheriff,
and to-day a telegram from Kdwardsville
mnounced bis escape. Rataree was
aandcuffed w hen he escaped.
FLOUIBA ON THI; WIRE.
Proceedings of the Legislature—The
-News at Jacksonville.
Tai.lahasskk, Ftb. 2.— I Tbe Senate to
tlay declined to visit ihe Jacksonville Fair
till after the adjournment.
The Legislature In joint session elected
Mr. Bowen, of the Floridian, State Prin
ter. for two years.
jfr. M.mn’s bill for the prevention of
cruelty to animals, and also the one to
prevent the sale of railroad tickets ij
irresponsible persons, and compelling
railroads to redeem unused tickets, and
also the one conferring police powers on
railroad conductors, were ably discussed
by Senators Mann and Grill. They will
undoubtedly become laws. Representa
tive l ate, of Escambia, received a tele
gram notifying him of his daughter's
death and was excused lor five days.
THE NEWS OF JACKSONVILLE.
Jacksonville. Fla., Feb. 2.—This
community is uneasy in consequence of
a fear of the loss of the quick mail from
the North.
Tbe State Fair commences to-morrow.
The city is full of strangers. Thirty fast
trotting and running horses are present,
and fine sport Is expected. The display
of fruits, vegetables and Florida products
will lie excellent.
PATKIOTIKM IX THU I'II, IMT.
A Canadian Clergyman Bscomes Bather
Excited Over the Egyptian War.
Toronto, Ont., Feb. *2.—Rev. D. J.
Mac Donall, during service in St. Andrew’s
Church yesterday morning, created a sen
sation by alluding to the battle ofShebuc
aswells, and relating the incident of the
charge of the Guardsmen to get water for
the fighting men of the square, who were
dying of thirst. “Thank God,” said the
reverend gentleman, “that such men
lived who would die for tiieir Queen and
country andPfor their fellowmen." As the
minister, with flashing eyes, called on the
God of battles to protect the British
soldiers who were fighting the cause
of the righteous the organ pealed
out “God Save the Queen,” and the con
gregation, who were greatly moved, join
ed in singing the old hymn." Before sing
ing the second verse Rev. Mac Donall
asked the congregation to use the words
“devilish tricks.” instead of knavish
tricks, to express their contempt for mis
guided men who were sacrificing lives
and property by dynamite The Whole
service was stirring, and will not soon he
forgotten by those present.
NEWS LN A NUTSHELL.
Interesting I.ittle Flashes frim the
Wires Printed In Condensed I' firm.
The lwycotting of the Austrian Reichsrath
is continued by the newspapers. The sessions
of llie last two days of last week were abso
lute)- ignored, and no reader of to-dav’s
papers in this city would know from them
iliat such a body as the Reichsrath was m
existence. Letter complaints from indignant
members are only printed when they are
accompanied with the cash at advertising
rates.
The London Time* denounces the commu
nistic utterances of .Joseph Chamberlain,
President of the Board of Trade, and rails
them scandalons and disgraceful, considering
the fact that they come from a member of the
Cabinet. It says that it is the imperative
duty of the rest of the Ministry to disavow
their belief in or sympathy with such incen
diary sentiments.
The United States Supreme Court ad
journed yesterday until Monday, March 2.
An cast-bound express on the Memphis and
Charleston Railroad was wrecked near
Brownsboro, Tenn., Sunday night. The train
was going%4o miles an hour when it was
thrown from the track. The engineer and
fireman narrowly escaped being killed. Bag
gage ra aider Kessler and an express messenger
were dangerously injured, a baggage car
and a smoker were demolished. No passen
gers were hurt.
A shocking murder occurred Sunday even
ing in James county, Ter.n., a few miles from
i hattanooga. Geo. Eldridge and his cousin,
of the same name, quarreled over a trivial
matter, and the first named drew his knife
and attacked the latter, who was armed, and
who at tnce shot his adversary dead. Both
are members of leading families.
Henry Irving began his Washington en
gagement at Albaugh’s Grand <4|-ra IL.use
belore a brilliant and crowded audience last
night. He was enthusiastically welcomed,
and recalled after every act.
At St. Louis yesterday a biil in equity was
filed in the United States I>:-trict < onrt by
the Iron Mountain Railway Company again-t
the receivers of the Wabash Road lo nullify
the indorsement of the compsuy on all the
Wabash bonds and notes, and to remove Jay
Gould, Solon Humphreys, Russell Sage and
F. 1.. Ames from the directory of ihe Iron
Mountain Railroad, as they are also in the
directory cf the Missouri Pacific Railroad, a
competing line.
At New York yesterday afternoon Sheriff
Davidson removed Under Sheriff-Joel C. Ste
vens.and promoted to the position Deputy
Aarons. Stevens is one of the pillars of Tam
many, and ha* occupied the position foe. 25
years. Aarons is a member of the County
Democracy in the Twelfth Assembly district,
but was formerly identified with the Irving
Hall party, of which Sheriff Davidson is the
leader. The Sheriff’s action is a genuine sur
prise. -
M. LffUoyer was yesterday re-elected Pres
ident of ik* French Senate.
A irusport Start* for Tonqtiin.
Pot LON, Feb. 2. —The transport Nantes,
car.'vint, provisions and a battery of ar
tillery. * arted to-day for Tonquin. The
vessel vill call at Algiers to take on
troops. __
pisco’s Showing.
Nkw A irk. Feb. 2.—The schedule of
John J. - sco & Son shows debts and lia-
Mliti ># of 42,987,446, nominal assets $3,294,-
44S ana Actual assets 12,407,670.
SPEER’S SHOW STILL SLIM
THE -EXPECTED FAVORABLE
REPORT AGAIN H ANGS FI HE.
F.aoh Day’* Delay Greatly Ipapairing
*4!* rra.peuU—Glevelaurl'fi Alleged
Gratification at the Failure of the
Nicaraguan Treaty I'rouounced Suffi
cient to Kill Any Chance of it* Passage
Now.
M ashington, Feb. 2.—Emory Speer
is not a good prophet. Tbe Senate
Judiciary Committee did not agree
to-day to report his nomination as Dis
trict Judge for the Southern District of
Georgia as he thought it would. On the
contrary the committee postponed action
on the case until Monday next. The
committee desire to hear Senator Col
quitt’s objections to the confirmation of
the uomination. There was not time for
this this morning, so the case will be de
layed another week. Meanwhile Mr. Col
quitt will continue to file the protests sent
Lira tiy these citizens ol Georgia who are
opposed to the confirmation of Mr. Speer.
It is, of course, very unfortunate fcfr Mr.
Speer that this second postponement
should have l>een made. It jeopardize
his chances ot confirmation and may de
feat him. Delays are dangerous at this
period of the session. It is perfectly evi
dent that the members of the Judiciary
Committee are open to conviction. It
will not be impossible to show them that
Mr. Speer ought not to be confirmed and
so to defeat bis confirmation. To this
task Mr. Colquitt will bend his energies.
Senator Brown, who will be back this
week, will do all in his power to secure
Mr. Speer’s confirmation. He is even ex
pected to go before tbe Judiciary Commit
tee in Mr. Speer’s behalf.
CLEVELAND GLAD THE TREATY FAILED.
It is understood that the motion of Sena
tor Edmunds to reconsider the vote by
which the Nicaraguan treaty was refused
ratification by the Senate was in con
formity with a desire expressed by the
President to have an opportunity to sub
mit further information bearing upon that
treaty. It is stated that several of the
Senators who voted against ••atitication
have, upon further investigation of the
subject, expressed an inclination to
change their votes if an opportunity were
offered, but it is not probable that tbe
Senate will reverse its action, because the
Democratic Senators have now definite
and positive information to the efiect that
President-elect Cleveland was gratified
by the failure of the motion, to ratify.
They understood that he does not wish to
ini embarrassed by ilie ratification Ol any
or the pending treaties.
CARLISLE NOT CHIDED BY CLEVELAND.
Well informed men say that there is no
basis for the theory that Mr. Cleveland
sent for Messrs. Carlisle and Randall to
instruct them what to do between now
and the 4th of March. The real object of
the President-elect was to get the views
ot the two leading men in the House upon
national questions for general informa
tion and to aid him in preparing his inau
gural address, together with information
about public men. The story that the
President-elect took Mr. Carlisle to task
tor constructing the House committees
as lie did in the organization of the
Forty-eighth Congress, and for allow
ing Mr. Morrison to press his hori
zontal tarifl bill upon the House, is
ridiculed by Mr. Carlisle’s friends. Mr.
Carlisle would not listen to anything of
the kind, and Mr. Cleveland is too much
of a gentleman to violate the proprieties
so grossly.
THE FIGHT ON THE COLLIN’S BILL.
The attempt to call up the bankruptcy
hill in the House to-day again brought
°ut the fact that the Forty-eighth Con
gress does not propose to do anything for
the business interests of the country. At
- o’clock this afternoon Mr. Randall’s re
solution to amend the rules came up, but
was not finally acted upon up to To’clock,
when a majority ot the members had lett
tbe hall. Mr. Collins, of Massachusetts,
realizing that the only' hope for the
passage of the bankruptcy bill at this
session would be lost if the House ad
journed before action was taken, moved
to take a recess until 11 o’clock to
morrow. The motion was antagonized
by the opponents of tbe bill by motions to
adjourn. As there was no quorum pre
sent, nothing could be done, and, although
Mr. Collins’ supporters were in the ma
jority, his opponents were enabled by
filibustering tactics to prevent any friend
ly action whatever.
THE POSTAL EXHIBIT.
The Post Office Jiepartment, learning
of the deficiency of $4,000 in the accounts
for expenditures on the post office exhibit
at New Orleans,has recalled LaUue Har
rison, who has charge of it, as he has
had cf the post office exhibit at all the
American expositions. Mr. Harrison had
SIO,OOO to expend. He explains, it is
said, that he simply carried out plans
matured here under the direction and
with the approval of the Post Office De
partment, and that he was forced to ex
ceed his allowance, because the prices of
labor and of material were much higher
than had been expected. No suspicion of
dishonesty attaches to Mr. Harrison, but
the post office officials are very much an
noyed, because they were particularly
anxious to avoid the necessity of asking
Congress lor a deficiency appropriation
on this account.
CLEVELAND’S NEW YORK TRIP.
An Albany special says: “President
elect Cleveland has determined to post
pone his departure for New York until
the late train to-morrow evening or the
early train Wednesday morning, in con
sequence of word brought him by Senator
Gorman from Washington that a number
of the influential Democratic Senators
and Representatives who wish to see him
will be unable to reach New York until
Thursday. The President-elect does not
care to stay in New York longer than will
be necessary to suit the convenience of
those who wish to see him, and will cer
tainly return to Albany on Saturday.
Mr. Cleveland did not invite any one
to meet biin in Albany to-day or to-moix.
row, and did not expect any one. He has
not yet made public the hotel at which he
will stop. The impression among those
who know Mr. Cleveland best, is that
Messrs. Garland, Vilas, Hewitt and Mer
rick will probably be tendered Cabinet
positions w eek alter next.”
CLEVELAND'S WASHINGTON HEADQUAR
TERS.
It is gratifying to know that Air. Cleve
land has declined all the invitations he
has received to stay at private houses
when he comes here. The proprietor ol
the Arlington Hotel in this city, re
ceived a letter to-day from Private Secre
tary Lamont, definitely engaging rooms
at that hotel for the President-elect, his
three sisters and brother, and for Col.
Lamont and family. The time for their
arrival here is designated as March 2, but
ii is thought they may come a day or two
sooner. Mr. Cleveland will go to the Ar
lington like any other guest and pay his
bills.
BAYARD STOPS A RUNAWAY.
Senator Bayard was walking up Ver
mont avenue yesterday when he saw a
pony running away and a colored bey
chasing it. The Senator headed it off and
it was cornered and caught. The boy
thereupon mounted the pony and proceed
ed lo beat it in a most cruel manner.
Senator Bayard appealed to the negro to
cease beating the horse, whereupon the
fellow swore at the Senator in the most
outrageous manner.
UNION PACIFIC’S CASE.
The Supreme Court Her Her* Its Decision
in the Matter.
Washington, Feb. 2. —The Court of
Claims to-day decided the long pending
cases of the Union Pacific Railroad Com
pany vs. the United States. Chief Justice
Richardson delivered the opinion of the
court. The following is a synopsis of the
points decided:
1. The amount allowed by the Treasury
Department for carry ing the mails heing the
same rates allowed by la w to all other rail
road companies, is fair and reasonable com
pensation and not in excess of that paid by
private parties for the same kind of service.
2. The Cnited States are tmuud to pay
for the transportation of their passengers
(lroon, etc.) from Council Bluffs to Omaha,
over the bridge, and between Council Bluffs
and Ogden, the same rates paid by private
parties, those rates being fair ana reason
able. and the United States are not
entitled to the reduction accorded to
passengers wto purchased through tickets
between New lork and San Francisco,
and other distant places unless their passen
gers purchase tictets in like manner,
n. The company is required lo pay into the
Treasury of the United Slates each year 5 per
cent, of Us net earnings under the act of 1882,
and under the Thurman act since its passage
in additiou tbereloso much of 1*50,000 as, with
said 5 per cent., and the whole compensation
for government transportation, will equal 25
per cent, of its net earnings.
WHAT THE NET EARNINGS ARE.
4. In determining What the net earnings are
expenses bona fide paid out of the earnings,
and not charged to construction or capital, are
to be deducted from the gross earnings, al
though they arc partly in Jhe nature of per
ioHQUDt improvement*.
6. In otating the accounts to I>ec. 31, 1882,
SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1885.
the court finds approximately that the United
States owes the cotnpanv *2,975,7! 0, and the
company owes the United States *5,734,3112.
Deducting one from the other, and the
United States are entitled to judgment on
their counter claims against the company of
*2.778,1)92. *
6. The accounting officers of both parties
are to make accurate computations in accord
ance with the principles and formula laid
down in the findings of the fa t and oniuiou,
and judgment is postponed ti l their calcula
tions are made and handed to the court for
estimation and final action.
The full text of the opinion 19 not ready
for publication, but the foregoing synopsis
of the points decided was prepared by the
Chief Justice. The total amount ot the
government's “counter claims” was $B,-
992.000. The amount gained by the com
pany under that part of the decision
which relates to the construction ol the
net earnings clause of the Thurman act
is understood to be about $700,000 up to
the date ol Dec. 31, 1882, to which the ac
counts in controversy were limited.
FITZ JOHN POKTKIt’S APPEAL.
Arthur Asked to Take Steps to Secure
Hi* Restoration to the Army.
Washington, Feb. 2.—ln response to
the House resolution, offered by Repre
sentative Slocum, President Arthur
to-day transmitted to Congress the re
cent appeal of Fitz John Porter to him in
his own behalf. Gen. Porter savs in
part:
I ask you to deal with the present, not with
the past. The effect of the sentence is a pre
sent and continuing one. It continues as long
as I am kept out of the profession in which 1
was bred, and from which, it is shown by facts
which have come to light siuce mv trial, I
was wrongfully ejected.
Acting on your own sense of duty and justice
you have removed that part of the continuing
sentence which disqualified me from restora
tion to the army, it is in your power to ter
minate the further force of this continuing
sentence by appointing and nominating me
to the Senate for restoration to the army, to
which Iain made eligible by the action vou
have already voluntarily taken. The law pro
vides for just such cases as mine, and there
are many precedents with which 1 need not
trouble you.
ASKING FOR REASON TO HOPE.
You had objections to the special course of
action presen lied in the vetoed bill. If you
continue to adhere to the views expressed in
your message may I not indulge the hope
that under tlie general act of lsttf> you will 111
the exercise of your constitutional power re
appoint aud nominate me to a suitable
vacancy which may exist or may occur in the
army ? if, however, you believe tins course is
not within your power 1 respectfully ask you
by special message to refer my ease to Con
gress, with the suggestion that the recom
mendation of the advisory board be carried
out. This appeal to you is prompted by
a deep sense of the wrong and injuries
done me, and of mv right to
receive itequtmost measure of vindication. 1
have made my appeaffor redress eontinuailv
fiom time to time, 111 every form that seemed
open to me, and I now adopt this as the only
one iu which I can present it at the preseut
time. Conscious of my innocence and of the
justice ami righteousness of my case, I would
respectfully but earnestly appeal to vou to
lake such action as can now fie hit i for the
purpose of restoring me to the position of
whi. li I was so unjustly and cruellv deprived.
PESTILENCE PRECAUTIONS.
Kecoininendatioi s Made by tlie National
Board of Health in its Report.
Washington, Feb. 2.—The report of
the National Board of Health for 1884
was to-day transmitted to Congress. The
rendering of the report was delayed in
the hope that the results of the investiga
tions of yellow fever might be included,
but as the work is not sufficiently com
plete the publication of these results is
necessarily deferred. The report gives
an outline of the movements of several
epidemics of cholera which occurred
in this country in 1832, ’49, ’54, 'OB, ’75, and
calls particular attention to the dangers
to which the country is exposed by
the prevalence of the disease in
Western Europe. The report says tlie
importance ol' contin the
tions into matters affecting public health,
and of providing means for aiding State
and local health authoritii s in preventing
the introduction and spread of pestilent
diseases from distant countries, cannot
be exaggerated. The results to be at
tained are of incalculable value in pro
moting the general welfare of the people.
In the absence of a specific appropriation
ali investigations have been suspended.
An appropriation of $43,000 is asked for
this work. In addition to this it is earn
estly recommended that an appropriation
of $500,000 he made to be expended in aid
of State and local boards of health iu pre
venting the introduction and spread of
contagious diseases. Asiatic cholera, the
report says, is a disease which is not
limited in its ravages by latitude or longi
tude, and in the event ot its appearance
in the United States will require the
utmost vigilance to prevent its spread.
TONNAGE TAXES REMOVED.
Arthur Returns the Compliment to
Forts Not Taxing Our Vessels.
Washington, Feb. 2.— President Ar
thur has issued a proclamation, directing
that the collection of the tonnage tax
shall be suspended, beginning with to
morrow, as regards all vessels arriving in
any port of the United States, from any
port in the Province of Ontario, the Do
minion of Canada; from the ports ot San
Juan and Mayaguez, in tbe island o'
Forte Rico: from the ports of Panama and
Aspinwall, or from a port in the island of
Montzeret. No duty is imposed as a ton
nage tax on American vessels in the ports
named, and under the shipping act of 18S4
the President is empowered to suspend
the colle#tion of the tonnage tax as re
gards vessels sailing from ports where
such tax is not collected from vessels ol
the United States.
WHITE AND BLACK TOURISTS.
Separation Permissible, but Equal Ac
commodations Imperative.
Baltimore, Feb. 2.—Judge Morris, in
the United States District Court to-day,
rendered bis decision iu the case of
Martha Stewart and three others (color
ed), against the Baltimore, Chesapeake
and Richmond Steamboat Company. The
libellants purchased first-class passage
tickets on a eteamboat, and sue after
having been told that they would not be
admitted to sleeping apartments occupied
by white females. This suit was brought
to recover SSOO each for exclusion from
that apartment. Judge Morris said that it
was the right of a common carrier of pas
sengers to make regulations for the sepa
ration ot different classes of persons, but
they have no right to make any difference
in the comlort or convenience of those
who pay equal fare. The forward cabin
assigned to colored females was net in as
comfortable a condition as that assigned
to white females, and he, therefore,
aw arded a decree of SIOO to each of the
libellants.' Notice of appeal was given.
A CROOK FOR A TELLER.
Bank Examiner Needham Makes a Dis
covery at Nantucket’s Bank.
Boston, Feb. 2.—The Pacific National
Bank of Nantucket was visited fcy Col.
Needham, a national bank examiner, last
week. ’He found that Mr. Chadwick, the
late Cash.er, had abstracted money from
the bank to the extent of $12,000, but,
through tbe assistance of bis bondsmen
and triends, had indemnified the bank
fully. He made several false entries,
which Mr. Needham discovered, to cover
the deficiency at the time ofthe directors’
examination. He over-issued thirty-eight
shares ol stock and pledged an over
issued certificate for money fair
rowed. The amount has been paid
and tbe certificate was burned
bv his father, who paid the debt,
lie wrote on the stock of tbe certificate
book from which the over issued certifi
cate was taken, “unused,” that the ab
sence of tbe certificate might not occasion
distrust. Mr. Chadwick’s entire in
debtedness on the island amounts to
$50,000, much of it due to people who can
ill afford to lose it.
The Debt Statement.
W ABHINGTON, Feb. 2.—The debt state
ment issued to-day shows the decrease of
the public debt during the month of Jan
uary to be $942,046; the decrease of the
debt since June 30, 1884, $40,921,910; tbe
cash in the Treasury, $460,.‘141,804; the
go.d certificates outstanding, $134,279,030;
the silver certificates outstanding, $141,-
196,701; the certificates of deposit out
standing, $30,130,000; tbe refunding cer
tificates outstanding, $253,000; legal tend
ers outstanding, $346,681,016; fractional
currency outstanding, not including the
amount estimated as lost or destroyed,
$6,969,008.
Belva has a Rival
Washington, Feb. 2.—Mrs. Laura
DeForce Gordon, of California, was ad
mitted to the bar of the United States Su
lireme Court this afternoon. Mrs. Gordon
Is the second woman allowed to practice
liefore this court, the first being Airs.
Belva Lockwood, wbo has argued only
one case here since her admission to tne
bar in M.arch, 1879.
ROSSA SHOT BY A WOMAN
BUT ONE OF THE BEAU TV’S FIVE
BULLETS TAKES EFFECT.
The Wouud Not a Dangerous One—The
Victim la the Same Hosoitai Ward
with Capt. Fhalen—The Assailant
Under Arrest—The Shot* Fired in the
Crowded Highway —Dynamiters very
Irate.
New York, Feb. 2.— O’Donovan Rossa
was shot by a woman this afternoon on
Chambers street, near his office. The
shooting took place at twelve minutes
past 5 o’clock. He was in front of the
Stewart building, on Chambers street,
when he was approached by a handsome
young lady, dressed in plain clothes. She
wore spectacles, and had the ap
pearance of an intellectual look
ing school teacher. She drew
a five-barreled revolver from her dress
pocket, and leveling it at him, tired one
shot. Rossa threw his hands above his
head and cried: “I’m shot!” He then
fell heavily to the sidewalk. Tbe woman
fired the remaining bullets in her pistol
at the prostrate man, and calmly and un
concernedly walked off, with the smoking
revolver in her hand. She was followed
by a large crowd, while a still larger
mob surrounded the wounded dynamiter.
THE WOMAN ARRESTED.
City Marshal Janies MacAuley, in
the absence of a policeman, saw
the revolver in the woman’s hand and ar
rested her. She was conducted to the
Twenty-sixth Precinct station-house, in
the City Hall. Her imperturbable gravity
aud coolness of demeanor were remark
able when arraigned at the Sergeant’s
desk. Marshal McAuley handed the re
volver, a small calibre five-shooter, to the
Sergeant and said that he found tlie wo
man brandishing the weapon on the street.
A citizen who entered the police station
with the prisoner said that she had just
shot a man on Chambers street.
“Do.you know the man?” asked Sergt.
Cass, turning to the woman.
“Yes; I shot O’Donovan Rossa,” said
the prisoner, with a slight English accent.
She looked very pretty as she stood at
the bar, and betrayed no excitement who
ever. She gave her name us Yffslet Dud
ley.
ROSSA’S ANTE MORTEM STATEMENT.
O’Donovan Rossa made the following
statement to Coroner Kennedy:
On Saturday, Jan. 31. about 4 o’clock in the
afte noon, I received a letter at inv office, No.
12 Chambers street. The message was iu
writing and was delivered hv a messenger
hoy. The note stated that a 'lady wisheu to
see me, that she was interested in the Irish
cause anti desired to assist it. She didn’t care
to go to my office and remain waiting there
tilt I came. She only would ask for 10 minutes
time. The boy told me that the lady was at
Ihe telegraph office in tlie Stewart budding,
corner of Broadway aud Chambers street
1 went with him and I met her.
I told tier it would be well to go to some hotel,
as tbe telegraph office was no place to talk in.
We came out and went to Sweet ey’s Hotel.
We went into the ladies’ parlor, and she said
that she would be able to give considerable
money if anything good was doue. She then
said she would call Monday. Fell. 2, at 4
o’clock in the afternoon. To-day she sent
another message to mv office, and I went to
the same telegraph office, and there I met the
lady. ijMi showed me a paper which I was to
sign, nhe then suggested that we go to
some place. We walked down Chambers
street toward Broadway, and we got a short
distance toward Broadway w hen the nomau
stepped back and fired two or three shots at
me. One ot the halls entered my back.
Jeremiah O’Donovan Kossa.
NATURE OF THE WOUND.
Rossa. after being shot, was able to
rise to bis feet, anti, with the assistance
of a man on each side, be walked to the
Chambers Street Hospital, about a
quarter of a mile. There it was found
that only one shot had struck him, that
was in the back, and the bullet is lodged
in tbe muscles, about half an inch above
the left shoulder blade. The wound will
not cause him much inconvenience.
Rossa was placed on a cot in the same
ward in which Capt. Phelan lies, and
within twenty-five feet of Phelan, who
was nearly cut to pieces iu Rossa’s office.
Further questioning by the Sergeant at
the police station elicited the statement
thkit tbe woman’s name was Yselt Dud
ley. She is aged 25 years, is a nurse, is
married, and lives atNo.OOClinton Place.
She was asked why she shot O’Donovan
Rossa ? how long she hail been in the United
States? and other questions, to which she
made no answer. After her “pedigree”
had tieen taken she was escorted to
a rear room and the crowd slowlv
dispersed. As there were no accommo
dations for female prisoners in the City
Hall station Mrs. Dudley was removed to
the Oak street station at 7:15 o’clock,
and there placed in a cell. Her entire de
meanor was that of a rational person, and
a cool-headed one at that.
Shortly after the surgical examination
the Coroner was sent for, and Rossa made
his ante-mortem statement. He was then
moved to another ward. Capt. Phelan,
who is still guarded by a policeman,
when informed of the particulars smiled
grimly, but refused to sav anything on
the subject. The office of the hospital
was visited by a large number of Rossa’s
friends to-night. All were determined
looking men, and their talk boded no good
to Rossa’s enemies.
ROSSA SUSPECTS CONSPIRACY.
To a reporter who interviewed him to
night, Rossa expressed the opinion that
he was the victim of a conspiracy by the
British Government, and that the woman
was only a paid assassin.
Patrick Joyce, Rossa’s right hand man,
expressed the same opinion, accompanied
with many threats.
Mrs. Dudley discarded her glasses to
night, and some of Rossa’s friends assert
tiiat they w'ere merely worn as a disguise.
She refused to talk to any person.
ROSSA’S BUILD.
The bullet struck Rossa below the
shoulder blade and ranged upward, and is
lodged in the muscles behind and above
the shoulder blade. Rossa is a large,
muscular and fleshy man, and the doctors
say that no danger is to be apprehended
from the wound. Rossa is comfortable
to-night, and expresses confidence that he
will recover. His wife was soon at the
hospital, where she remains.
Airs. Dudley, who shot Rossa, applied
for admission on Jan. 22 at Airs. Leggett’s
house for unemployed women, in Clin
ton Place, and was admitted. Her only
luggage was a valise, which she never
unpacked, because, as she or.e day re
marked, she might be called suddenly to
attend some patient.
MRS. DUDLEY’S ALLEGED ANTECEDENTS.
She said that she bad been married and
bad two children, but that her husband
and children died abroad. Her father,
she once remarked, had been engaged in
tbe British cavalry service. She had
acted as a trained nurse in London and
Paris, and had diplomas from institutions
of that kind. She was an accomplished
woman, and her manners and speech be
tokened a thorough-bred English woman
of keen mind and bright perceptions. She
was an intensely patriotic little lady, and
sarcastic and cutting when speaking of
those who seem at war on her people.
WHY SHE FAILED TO KILL.
She was extremely near-sighted. In
telling of her work abroad, she one day
said that she much more enjoyed hospital
work abroad than the nursing she has
been doing here.
“She came here one w ek ago Thurs
day last,” said the matron. “Tuesday is
our weekly pay-dav, and she paid her
board up to last Tuesday. On Tuesday
she came to me hurriedly, said that she
had a case and was going. She would
take the latch-key, for she might desire to
return. She went, taking her valise, and,
by the wav, 1 never knew- of her hav
ing a pistol. Last Thursday she
returned, coming in in the pleasant
est mood possible. She said that her
parent bad died. Then she paid her board
up to Tuesday, to-morrow. But about 3
o’clock this afternoon she came to me and
said tl at she was going away again,
might not return, and if she did not she
would send tor her valise. 1 returned to
h rthe money for one day’s board, and sbe
went away between 3 and 4 o’clock this
afternoon, and seemed not unduly excited.
Tnen this evening 1 was shocked to hear
that she had shot at Rossa.”
GREATLY EXCITED BY THE EXPLOSIONS.
In the parlor of Airs. Leggett’s home a
bevy of young ladies talked of Airs. Dud
ley’s deed. “She was almost crazy with
excitement one week ago Sunday when
she heard of the explosions in London,”
said one lady. “She said that America
sbould give up Rossa to England, and
then on Sunday last, when she heard of
the explosions in Grand street, she was
again very much excited. She had
a number of copies of Rossa’s paper, and
Sunday said that she bad had an
interview with Rossa tbe day before, and
said that she had Rossa’s word for it that
he could get a ton of dynamite in New
York, that she hoard him say that he
knew and was in league with those who
made it, and he did not care if they
stopped its exportation or its importation*.
Then she added that ‘somebody would
get even with O’Donovan Rossa vet.’
1 never knew that she had a pistol, but
offered to lend her mine.”
BELIEV ED TEMPORARILY INSANE.
The young woman concluded by saying
that she believed Airs. Dudley temporarily
insane on the subject of "dynamite as
used against her country.
The matron did not know who or where
Dr. Thomas or Thompson was, whom Airs.
Dudley had referred to; but au investiga
tion proved she had reierred to Dr. Thom
as. at No. 294 Fifth avenue. At his
office it was learned that about four
months ago Airs. Dudley had come from
England iu company with a lady of New
ark, N.J. They brought diplomas from
foreign hospitals and Dr. Thomas had
sent them both to Dr. Chambers, at Dr.
Thomas’ private sanitarium at No. 698
Lexington avenue. Dr. Chambers was
very favorably impressed with Airs. Dud
ley, but she did not work harmoniously
with those in the sanitarium. At the end
of one month, without being discharged,
Mrs. Dudley left.
HER HOSPITAL RECORD.
A young nurse at the sanitarium talked
reluctantly. She had seen Airs. Dudley’s
certificate from the Charing Cross Hospi
tal in Londoß. She did not regard Airs.
Dudley as light in her head. She boasted
almost constantly of her ability as a
nurse. She once said that her youngest
child had been dead two years. She never
referred to her father or mother.
Superintendent J. R. Lathrop was seen
at 7 o’clock. Mrs. Dudley came there
Oct. 7 and left Nov. 19. Dr. Lathrop was
not favorably impressed with Mrs. Dud
ley. Her service was not satisfactory.
She had some ability as a nurse, but was
deficient in order." She left voluntarily,
and from Roosevelt Hospital had gone
over to Dr. Thomas’ sanitarium.
HER MAJESTY’S CONSUL NOTIFIED.
J. Pierrepont Edwards, the British
Consul, was found in his library at No.
44 East Thirty-first street. He nd heard
of the shooting of Rossa by Mrs. Dudley,
but he had no details. These being lur
nished, he asked “the condition of this
wretched man,’’referringto Rossa. Being
told that he would probably recover, Air.
Edwards said: “Then he will become
a greater hero than ever,” and then he
added: “It is unfortunate that he should
have been shot by an Englishwoman, but
I think the poor lady must be demented
ou the surely must be de-
Tuentedr T never “have "seen a/' 1 ' that J
can recall, and know nothing of her.”
ROSSA’S HISTORY.
Jeremiah O’Donovau has been a con
spicuous figure iu Irish national affairs
for years. He added the word “Rossa,”
which in the Celtic tongue means “Red,”
to liis name after reaching this country,
and it is presumed that he did this
to strike tenor to perfidious
Albion. After being discharged from an
English prison he came to this country
with Thomas Francis Bourke, Dr. Denis
Dowling Alulcahy and John Devoy about
1869. He was engaged in a number of
enterprises in New York, having been
ticket agent for a transatlantic line
of steamers and hotel keeper. He ran
for State Senator in the Fourth district
against AVm. Al. Tweed and was badlv
defeated. He opened a hotel on the cor
ner of Chatham square and JJott street,
which for a while did a good business,
being a great resort for Irish Nationalists.
Custom fell off after a time and Rossa was
compelled to shut up the place. He sub
sequently founded the United Irishman,
a radical dynamite organ, and of which
he was tbe reputed editor at tte time he
was shot. He is 53 years old, but remark
ably well preserved. He has a wile and
five children, aud lives with his family in
his own house at No. 23 Iluryea street,
Brooklyn.
ROSSA, ASLEEP.
New Y’ork, Feb. 3, 2 a.m.—A physi
cian’s bulletin issued at 1 o’clock this
morning stated that O’Donovan Rossa
was sleeping quietly and suffering no
pain. His condition was favorable. Mrs.
Rossa left the hospital lor her home at
11:30 o’clock.
ONE OF ROSSA’S APPEARANCES.
New York, Feb. 3, 3 a. m.— The Tribune
this morning says that O’Donovan Rossa
and others addressed the Denis Deasy
circle ot the Irish Revolutionary Brother
hood here last night. Walker Elliott, on
taking the chair, said:
A r ou all know what has been done recently,
ami I think you Are satisfied with it. [Ap
plause], I knew ihat lam. We don’t need
to send material to the other side. It can be
{Manufactured.
Hugh B. O’Reilly, who was introduced
as a “young Fenian Irom Ireland, not
here very long,” said:
In the war between England and Ireland
we had victory. You, in your hearts, know
perfectly well that any means to bring about
amelioration of the condition of the Irish race
are justifiable in the sight of God aud man.
The speaker continued in an even more
violent strain.
- MRS. DUDLEY AT NEWARK.
Newark, N. J„ Feb. 2.— Mrs. Ducliev,
who shot Rossa, spent a week in a board
ing house here, and during the time acted
so strangely and talked so violently that
the proprietor of the hotel determined to
to get rid of her, and told her that he had
no room for her, and that she must seek
other quarters. She left on the Monday
following the dynamite explosions iiw
London.
LONDON’S JOY.
London, Feb. 3, 2 a. m.— The first in
telligence of the shooting of Rossa was
posted on the newspaper bulle
tins and sent on tickers to the
clubs at midnight, which shows
quick work, considering the five hours’
difference between New York and London.
The news spread with wonderlul rapidity
throughout the city and caused the
wildest excitement. Crowds of people
surrounded the bulletin boards and
at almost every corner there
was a group of men jubilantly discussing
the event. Passing pedestrians, who
stopped to hear what the excitement was
about, were told “O’Donovan Rossa has
been shot.” The response was invariably
a cheer and some other expression of de
light. Many men became almost frantic
in the exuberance of their leelings.
TOASTS TO MRS. DUDLEY.
Many thousand toasts were drunk to
the health and happiness of Mrs. Dudley,
who is lauded as a heroine.
The Daily Telegraph, in commenting on
the shooting of Rossa, says:
It would be Idle to prelend that there is the
smallest sympathy lor Rossa in England. He
is not a bohl patriot, will not die in behalf of
his country, hut has always been ready to
cheer others into danger which he himsell
avoided. From the beginning of his career
there has never been a speck of
nobility, courage or patriotism in
bis conduct.
The Telegraph congratulates Ireland on
the fact that some of her sons have de
nounced the dynamite outrages, andealls
upon Parnell also to speak.
ROARING PLAMKS AT NIGHT.
Marquette’** Finest Building Completely
Destroyed—The Boss $211,500.
Marquette, Mich., Jan. 2.-At 1
o’clock this morning tire was discovered
in the First National Bank building, the
•finest structure in the city. The entile
building was soon enveloped in flames.
The bank building is a total loss, with all
its contents. The-,greatest excitement
prevailed. Efforts were concentrated on
saving adjoining buildings. The losses
are about as follows: Bank building,
$150,000; New burger. $40,000; S. Kauffman
A Sons, $30,000; Rothschild & Bending,
$25,000; First National Bank. $lO,OOO.
Champion Iron Company, J. E. Ilalliba,
Dr. H. W. Banks, M. H. Maynard, W. p!
Healy, the United States Signal Service
office and W. W. Manning lose all their
books and office fixtures. Three valuable
law libraries were destroyed.
The fire was finally got under control
and, owing to the absence of wind, was
confined to the bank building where it
originated. Many merchants on Front
street had their goods packed ready to
move, but that was found unnecessary.
The total loss is $211,500. The insurance
is $99,000.
Taking tli** Veil at Macon.
Macon, Ga.. Feb. 2.—To-day the black
veil was taken by five young ladies at the
Mount de Sales Academy. The ceremony
was very impressive. Rev. Bishop Gross
presided, assisted by Faiber Bazin, of
Pio Nono College; Father Sims, of Pio
Nono; Father McCarthy, Father Kirch,
of Atlanta, and Father McConville, of
Milledgeviile. The young ladies who re
ceived the veil w'ere Misses Maggie Burke
(Sister Lfguori); Mary Sheridan, of Mr.
con, (Sister Deueiri); Maggie McKervey,
ot Macon (Sister Aquinia Anna); Miss
Mahoney, ot Atlanta (Sister Ignatius);
and Mamie Traelor, of Augusta, (Sister
Leo). ,
Miss Mary Y'oung, of Atlanta, will lie
received in the academy with imposing
ceremonies March 7.
••Brown’s Bronchial Troches”
are excellent for the relief of Hoarseness
or Sore Throat. They are exceedingly
effective. —Christian World, London, Eng,
CUNNINGHAM ARRAIGNED
SOLICITOR POLAND REPRE
SENTS THE GOVERNMENT.
A Sensation Created by the Announce
ment that the Government Reserved
the Right to Change the Charge of
Conspiracy to One of High Treason—
Tlie Prisoner Closely Guarded.
Loxßon, Feb. 2.—The examination of
J. G. Cunningham, charged on suspicion
of complicity in causing the recent explo
sion in the Tower of London, was begun
this morning. Mr. Poland, Solicitor of
the 1 reasury, appeared for the prosecu
tion. In opening the case for the Crown,
Mr. .Poland said that the government in
tended to prove that the prisoner was an
active agent in the conspiracy which cul
minated in the horrible outrage. The
Solicitor then related tbe facts in regard
to the prisoner’s movements at Liverpool
and London, from the date of his arrival
at Liverpool from America, to the time of
his arrest at the Tower, a few moments
alter the explosion occurred, his traveling
under the assumed names of Gilbert and
Dalton, and many suspicious circum
stances in connection with Ins stay.
A PECULIAR TRUNK.
Air. Poland dwelt particularly on the
mysterious disappearance of a peculiar
trunk from the prisoner’s lodeings, in
Scarboro street, immediately after Cun
ningham’s arrest, and which was taken
away by two men. Air. Poland laid stress
upon the fact in order to show that Cun
ningham was In league with others who
must have been instructed in a line of
action to be taken in case of arrest. Air.
Poland further said that witnesses would
bo produced to prove that Cunningham
had for several days previous been seen
loitering in and around the Tower of
London.
THE PRISONER'S DETONATOR.
He also produced a small detonator
which was found in the prisoner’s bag
gage, and said that it was similar to those
which bad been used in previous dyna
mite outrages iu Loudon and.elsewhere In
England, indicating that the prisoner
might have been connected with those
crimes. In conclusion, Air. Poland asked
that Cunningham be arraigned under the
explosives act on a charge of conspiracy,
and said that he might uossibly, at a later
day, request that the charge be changed
u> one orjiigh iraaan, 2 o
of the latter crime could be meted out to
him, as dynamite outrages could be con
strued to be acts of war of a rebellious
people.
CUNNINGHAM’S RECENT MOVEMENTS.
Continuing his opening address, the
Solicitor said that Cunningham was but
22 years old, and not 28. as he claimed at
first, By occupation he was a dock la
borer. He was not alone in the work of
causing the explosion at the Tower, but
in league with others, whom the govern
ment hoped soon to prosecute. The pris
oner had lived in the United States sev
eral years. He arrived in England last
November. He came aboard the steam
ship Adriatic and landed at Liverpool.
He took up quarters in that city in a
small hotel al No. 31 Roberts street.
When he left that place he came to Lon
don. The government, Air. Poland said,
was not yet prepared to say just how
Cunningham had employed himself dur
ing the interval between his arrival in
London and the date of the Tower explo
sion. That was as yet unnecessary, but
could be proved if necessary.
LOITERING AROUND THE TOWER.
It would be shown that the prisoner
began loitering about tbe Tower after bis
removal from Prescott street, and that he
passed in and visited the Tower building
a few da\ s before the explosion at least
once. The prisoner’s counsel are Messrs.
AlcQuellen and Norden, both of Liverpool.
At the request ot the prosecution Cun
ningham was remanded for a week, and
was removed from Bow Street Court hack
to his cell in Clerkenweli prison.
POLAND'S SENSATION.
Air. Poland’s notification to tbe court
that the government would reserve the
privilege ot changing the charge against
Cunningham from the present one of con
spiracy to high treason, so that the result
might be execution instead ot imprison
ment, provided for under the explosives
act, caused a commotion among the
spectators. The declaration was at once
construed into an admission that the
crown had found that in Cunningham
they had the meet important prisoner yet
arrested. This impression was confirmed
by the extraordinary measures v.bich
were taken when Cunningham was driven
to court. On each side of tho driver was
an armed policeman, and officers with ex
posed revolvers stood guard on the steps
leading to the van door. The conveyance
was driven slowly in order to allow its
armed police escort to keep alongside,
and to enable detectives who followed on
the sidewalks to keep up.
BUT FEW IN THE COURT.
Very few persons were admitted to the
Police Court during the examination.
Before the commencement of the regular
proceedings a number of witnesses were
assembled in court for the purpose of
identifying the prisoner as the man they
had reported to the police as having been
engaged in suspicious movements just
before the explosions. Cunningham was
placed in a small crowd, but three of the
witnesses, one of whom was a woman, the
other two being constables, had no diffi
culty in singling him out as
the man whom they had given
the information about. A “cab
man who had given the police in
formation about the transfer of the
brown trunk of American manufacture
from Broad street station to the lodgings,
at No. 30 Prescott street, and who was
present as a witness for the crown, was
unable to identify Cunningham as the
person who occupied the cab during the
transfer of the luggage from the station to
the boarding bouse.
NO INTERVIEW ALLOWED.
Previous to the remanding ot the pris
oner, in answer to a request for the privi
lege of an interview with Cunningham,
made by Mr. Quillian. one of the counsel
for the defense, Judge Ingham replied that
no one would be allowed to see or con
verse with the prisoner without a
special permit from Sir William
Vernon Harcourt, Home Secretary. By
the time the examination was con
cluded the crowd that pressed around the
building numbered many thousands. The
adjoining housetops and every window in
the neighborhood were crowded with peo
ple curious to catch a glimpse of Cun
ningham during his removal from court.
During the progress of the van, which
conveyed the prisoner back to Clerken
well prison, the streets along the route
were iinedjyith files of special police, and
fairly swarmed with detectives.
THE ANTI-IRISH MOVE IN LONDON.
Dublin, Feb. 2.—A London corre
spondent of Freeman's Journal says that
the panic produced by the recent outrages
is causing many employers to plav right
into the hands of the dynamiters." Some
firms in Leeds and Sheffield are dismiss
ing all Irish employes. The very fact
that detectives are employed to watch
establishments wherein large numbers of
persons of Irish birth are employed has
proved so irritating to the owners of the
concerns subjected to such disagreeable
espionage that to escapa from it they are
naturally-resorting to the only means of
relief at their command—the wholesale
discharge of their Irish employes. One
of the largest publishing houses in Lon
don on Saturday last dismissed from their
employ every person of Irish birth.
A LIVELY MEETING AT GLASGOW.
Glasgow, Feb. 2.—O’Leary, the Fe
nian, lectured to a crowded meeting of
Irishmen here this evening. References
to the names of Parnell, Rossa and Ford
were hooted at. A free fight ensued in
the gallery, which was not quelled until
the disturbers had been ejected from the
building.
TAYLOR CRIES FOR BLOOD.
Hnrmoniim’t Saints Declared on the
Verge of Dangerous Desperation.
Salt Lake, Feb. 2—President John
Taylor spoke in the Tabernacle yester
day. He referred to his recent trip, and
said that the Saints were being persecut
ed in Arizona and sent to an American
Siberia for living up to their religion. He
spoke of the Federal officers here as
sneaks and tramps, intruding with pro
cess from courts into the homes of the
people. This was hard to hear, and for
bearance might cease to lie a vir
tue. He said that the Saints
would not stand it much longer. He did
not want blood to flow, but there would
lie a change before long. These perse
cutions were making some of the saints
think of going to a foreign country to
preserve their religious liberty there.
There might be another pilgrims day. He
said the saints were illegally punished at
home and killed in the Southern States,
and no one was punished for the murder
ing ot missionaries.
AN ALL NIGHT SESSION.
Collin*’ Friend* Give the House a Long
Slexe.
Washington, Feb. 2.—The Chair laid
before the Senate to-day the credentials of
John C. Spooner, elected United State*
Senator from Wisconsin for six years
from March 4 next, and also the creden
tials of the re-election of Senator Vest, of
Missouri.
A message from President Arthur was pre
sented informing Congress that the govern
ment of Corea desired the services of one or
more American military officers as instruc
tors for the army of Corea, and recoin mend
ing the passage by Congress of a concurrent
resolution authorizing tne President to comply
with the desire expressed.
The Presiuent’s message relating to the
“Alert” aud recommending its return to tbe
British Government was also presented to the
Senate.
The Senate took up the Pacific railroads bill.
A few verbal changes will be made in it. aud
it then, by agreement, went over till Wednes
day next.
On motion of Mr. Dolpli the Senate then
took up the hill to repeal the pre-emption and
timber culture laws. After some discussion
by Messrs. Dolph, Morgan aud Cockrell the
hill was displaced by the inter-state com
merce hill, consideration of which was re
sumed. Mr. Cullom said that he hoped that
the hill would be completed to-day. If not he
would ask the Senate lo remain iu session to
morrow until it was disposed of, aud would
interpret a declination ui the Senate to so re
matu in session to-morrow as an evidence of
an intention not to do anything at all on the
subject.
After speeches by Messrs. Harrison and
Mahone a vote was taken on Mr. Btck’s
amendment to strike out from the House hill
the provision relating to equal facilities. The
senate by a vote of 22 to 37 refused to strike
out the clause. The bill provides that a rail
road shall not charge more for a shorter haul
than for a longer haul that includes the
shorter.
Mr. Beck moved to ameud this, and several
others followed, hut amid a loug debate ali
were voted down, except one offered by Mr.
Plumb, upon which a vote was not reached.
It was lo amend Mr. Beck’s amendment
so as to make it apply only to
cases involving “similar circumstances.” Mr.
Sherman moving that the Senate proceed lo
consideration oi executive business, said
that he would to-morrow support Mr. Uui
lom’s proposition that the Senate sit continu
ously until the Gill shall he completed. With
out action on Mr. Plumb’s amendment, the
Senate, at 6:25 o’clock, went into executive
session, and when, at 5:45 o’clock, the doors
were reopened, adjourned.
IN THE HOUSE.
In the House to-day, under the call of States,
a number of bills were introduced and re
ferred.
&’£•. "alien up iHo ‘resoiutidh pfb
vidiog that during the remainder of the ses
sion thirty minutes every morning shall be de
voted to consideration of measures called up,
if there are not live objections made thereto,
provided that while this order is in force tlic-
Speaker shall not entertain a re
quest for consent at any other time.
After several motions had been offered
and defeated the previous question w#=
ordered by a vote of l‘J2 to 62. Upon
Mr.Handall’s motion the time was then ex
tended. At this point, and before linal action
was taken on the resolution, Mr. Collins, of
Massachusetts, moved that the House taae a
recess till 1 o’clock to-morrow. This was
done for the purpose of continuing the legis
lative day on Monday in order that an oppor
tunity may be had to move the passage 01 the
bankruptcy bill under the rules.
-Mr. Ihompson, of Virginia, interposed a
motion to adjourn which was lost.
Mr* Moulton, of Illinois, then made some
filibustering motions on which the roll was
called.
The yea and nay vote was ordered at 6:20
o’clock on motion of Mr. Blount, of Georgia,
to adjourn. Before it was taken Mr. Hiscock,
of New York, asked of Mr. Collins, ot Massa
chusetts. “What can we accomplish? You
know it is not possible to accomplish any
thing?”
Mr. Collins retorted—“ Ail things are possi
ble in a sensible assembly.”
Thus passed another hour, and then Mr.
Springer, of Illinois, rose and said that earlv
iu the day he had yielded his right to call up
a bill of local importance, and that he now
hoped that unanimous consent would be given
to have it passed.
Mr. White, of Kentucky, objected. Roll
call followed roll call in monotonous succes
sion until 9:20 o’clock, the friends of the bank
ruptcy bill being in the majority, ranging
from 2 to 6. and voting down every motion to
adjourn. The attendance of members which,
at the beginning of the st.uggle was large,
aggregating about 250, dwindled away until
at 9:30 o’clock there was but half that num
ber present.
At midnight the House was still in session
with no prospect of adjournment. Thelime
was mostly occupied with roll calls, dilatory
proceedings being deversilied with banter,
iun and humorous remarks.
STICKING IT OUT.
Washington, Feb. 3, 1:15 a. n.-The House
has just voted down another motion to ad
journ.
KEEPING IT UP.
Washington, Feb. 3, i:45 a. m.— At 1:30
o’clock this morning a motion to adjourn was
’ost by a vote ot 65 to 66.
In an interview with a representative of the
Associated Press a few moments previously
Mr. Collins, who has charge of the bankruptcy
bill, said that he would endeavor to carry on
the fight for a few hours longer. The bill,
he declared, was not dead, but would be
passed during tlie last six days of the session.
The friends of the bdi had been much eni
'"tiered by the action of the minority in
filibustering against its consideration, and
they would retaliate upon filibustering hv
using their own methods when they brought
forward measures which they favored.
AN ADJOURNMENT.
Washington. Feb. 3, 2:15 a. m.—At 2:10
o’clock this morning a motion to adjourn was
carried by a vote of 73 to 77.
THE COTTON PLANTERS.
Maj. lYToorehead Addresses a Letter to
New Orleans Organizations.
Vicksburg, Aliss., Feb. 2.—The follow
ing open letter was sent to theAlayor.
business exchanges and social clubs of
New Orleans to-night:
OFFICE \
Nat’l Cotton Plan’bs ass’s of America,J
Vicksburg, Miss., Fob 2, isss. )
I am directed by tne Executive Committee
of the National Cotton Planters Association
of America to respectfully request that you
unite your efforts to have Thursday, Feb. 12.
made a general holiday in New Orleans and a
day of public rejoicing for the purpose of cele
brating the greatest event connected with the
World’s Exposition, viz., its cotton centen
nial features. Never since cotton entered the
arena of the South’s industries, one hundred
years ago, has there been an occasion of such
momentous significance as the meeting of the
World’s Cotton Convention, to be held Fell
10, in the Music Hall of the Worm’s Exposi
tion. You are well aware of the relationsex
isting between the National Cotton Planters
Association and the exposition, it being held
by act of Congress under the joint auspices of
the association, the Government of the United
States and the city of New Orleans. These
facts, together with the close relations be
tween yourselves and the interests repre
sented by the association, warrant me in the
belief that you will give the foregoing sugges
tion your earnest and I trust your favorable
consideration.
TilK BIG CROWD EXPECTED.
Delegates are expected to he present from
every State in the Union, who will respec
tively represent agricultural societies and
communities, manufacturing districts, boards
of trade, cotton exchanges, etc., while a
large number of foreign governments have
accepted invitations to he represented. Good
management and adequate transportation
facilities by river and rail, which can he se
cured, notwithstanding apparent difficulties,
ami the occasion properly entered into by the
authorities and the people of New Orleans,
together with the members present
at the convention from a distance,
ought to pass 50,000 to 100.000 people
through the gate of the exposition on that
day. It is the earnest desire of the National
Cotton Planters Association that their con
vention shall mark a bright era in the history
of the exposition, ami herald the glad tilling
of its greatness throughout the land. They
are ambitious and anxious for the common
wealth to do their part to bring the great en
terprise to its maximum success, and to this
end will stand shoulder to shoulder and co
operate by work and money with your citi
zens and ail others who are actuated by the
same patriotic and unselfish motives. It
may be proper to state that limited time has
compelled me to avail myself of an open letter
instead of the usual course. Very respect
fully, F. C. Moobehkad,
Prest. Nat. Cotton Planters’ Ass’n.
GEN. PHELPS DEAD.
Ills Famous Ship Island Emancipation
Proclamation and Other Acts.
Brattlkboro, Vt., Feb. 2.— Gen. John
W. Phelps, of Guilford, was found dead
in bed this morning by a neighbor, his
lainily being qbsent on a visit. Gen.
Phelps served in the Florida and Mexican
wars, and was promoted to a Captaincy
for his gallantry in battle, a position
which he declined. In 1861 he was Colonel
of the First Vermont Regiment, and was
soon after breveted Brigadier General.
Later he was with Gen. Butler in the de
partment of the Gull, and while stationed
at Ship Island issued his famous emanci
pation proclamation to the negroes, for
which he was proclaimed an outlaw bv
the Confederate Government. His pro
clamation was also unfavorably received
by the War Department, which led to hie
resignation. Since then Gen. Phelps has
resided in Brattleboro till within a few
months, when he removed to Guilford.
He was the anti-Masonic candidate for
President in 1880. He had iong been a
contributor to the Century and other
magazines.
Senatorial Gladiators.
Chicago, Feb. 2.—lt Is stated to-day,
notwithstanding the report to the con
trary Saturday night, that Assemblym is
Brachendorf is not seriouslyAH. He an
quoted as saying that he expects to be
on hand at Springfield whenever the Sena
torial election takes place.
) PRICE *lO A TEAK. 1
I B CENTS A COPT. j
A BIG RIOT IN NEW YORf
SOCIALISTS ATTACK POLICE A
A MKEL’IXO.
Schwab and Most Set the Ball Rolli.
Captain McCullough Poll ]
to the Floor—Reinforcements aud j
Successful Attack with Clubs Schw
l*ut ttehiud the Br.
New York, Feb. 2.—Two thousand pi
sons gathered at a Socialist meeting t
night in Coacori id llall, in avenue A. =
was rumored previous to the mebUa/th
trouble would be caused'by Just!
Schwab and Herr Most, aided by a nu j
her of their adherents, who intended j
capture and control the proceedings. T ;
less radical element ot the party, head
by editor Schevilsch, of the Folks Zeitui
were determined to nold the extremists ■
check. A voluminous circular, print
in English and German, denunciatory
violence aud the Irish dynamite outragi
had been widely circulated by the Sot 5
vilseh faction, but it excited tne derisit
of tne Schwab-Most crowd, wbo in retu
issued a flaming incendiary appeal, a |
pin udiug dynamiters, and threatening w
to Euglaud.
POLICE ASSAULTED,
Police Captain McCullough, oft;
Seventeenti precinct, attended the met
ing with a posse. Herr Schevilsch callt j
the assembi ge to order, aud his radic
opponents o joe ted in such a way that
tumult ensi.ed, in which chairs, clu
and revolvers figured. Capt. McCullou*
commanded siieuce, and forced his w;
to the platform, followed by his me
Schwab saw him, and shouted: “it’s ti j
police. Kill the . xij
mluriated m>b turned on the oilicers, a ;
Capt. .McCullough was struck on ti ;
heu ! with a chair and knocked down. F j
regained his feet, and at the points j I
their revolvers the police kept the mob T
bay.
CLUBS USED WITH TELLING EXPECT)
The Socialists then wanted to resuii
the deliberations and supplemented thi
demands by drawing cjubs, kuives tii
pistols. Capt. .McCullough was rciuforc
in a little wutle by BO policemen. Ti
enraged the crowd still turther aud th
again attacked the police, who respond
witn their clubs, aud the rioters w
badly punished aud many heads v .
cracked. Witn the exception of Ofl
Kelt, who was slightly ciifcjn the f 1
i autl Afew bruises M
CuTfough, none ot the police were injure
Peter brown, of the rioters, had his 1<
broken and bad to be sent to a hospital.
SCHWAB ARRESTED.
Justus Schwab was only arrested. I
skulked away before the riot was ovt
but Capt. .McCullough found him in b
saloon on First street. He submit!/
quietly to arrest. Bail was relused a)
he was locked up. After the tight a u
tol, dynamite bomb and several shffl
black clubs were found in the hall, ■fa
1.. Rosenberg, Secretary of the lnt
national Workers Association, said th
Schwab had asked O’Donovan Uossa
send a gang of his dynamiters to brei
up the meeting.
EAULE OCCUPIES 11IKTI. | !
The Arabs Desert their Kutrenchmeni
oil the Approach or the British. il
London, Feb. 2 - —An official dispate
lias been received stating that Gen. Ear •
has occupied Bird, the rebels having dj
serted their entrenchments there.
EUROPE’S NARROW ESCAPE.
A dispatch from Rome says that Signal
Manici, the Italian Foreign Miniate)!
stilt s that documents will shortly 11
publißlied which will throw new light
upon England’s negotiations with th
powers, and to which he attributes
narrow escape from a great Kuropeaf
etnbroglio.
the financial agreement.
Paris, Feb. i.—La Temps this inornit I
says: “England has accepted the Fren* |
counter proposals relative to the tinanoii 1
management of Egypt with a few umen< f
ments, which France and the other powej
have adopted, and a treaty will
be arranged. France has secured her i#j
quired interests, England admitting lu'i
principle of international inquiry, j
only remains lor the two Parliaments J
indorse the agreement.” L'l Temps adi 1
that England will withdraw hertroojl
from Soudan as soon as possible.
SHOT IN THE SOUDAN.
Service of the Daring Journalist Buy |
leigh in tlie Confederate Navy. I
Richmond, Va., Feb. I.— Bennett On I
ham Burleigh, the special corresponds \
of the London 'Telegraph, who waswouut I
ed in the iightof Jan. 15 in Soudan, servJ |
with great gallantry in the Confederal
navy. In the early part cf the war b'l
tween the North and South, Mr. Burley j
walked from Washington City to Go>|
donsville, where he was urrested as a su’ $
picious character, brought to this citl
and imprisoned in Castle Thunder. H |
was taken out of prison by Thomas Johi; *
stun, of the firm of West, Johnston & Cc
who introduced Burleigh to Secretary i jr (
the Navy Mallory, who assigned him It
duty in the torpedo service on the -lame,
river. He was daring and reckless, any
loved to participate in hazardous expedfll
tions. lie was instrumental in eapturitt ’|
the Federal steamer Jolos, in the Chest I
peake Bay. The flag of the eapturqjj
steamer is now in the State Library.
He contracted malarial fever while ft '
the lower country, and was in Richmond
on sick leave for several months. Duriti .
that time he contributed articles to tnj
Southern Illustrated Eeics, and often a] t
peared on the stage of tbe Richmon j;
Theatre in the play of “Tr.e Guerrilla, .
which was written bv Mr. D'Orsay Ogdei i
While on a secret expedition within tt
enemy’s lines he was captured and sei
to Johnson’s Island. He did not remai
there very long, however, but escaped bj
swimming across the lake. He returnd
South and joined theCanadir initio
under John T. Beall and wa ->dy
when the war closed. DurfL. i P
riot in this city he took a prominent pa*
in suppressing it. At the close of t|
war he enteral journalism.
Germany’s Anti-Socialist Law. ill
Berlin, Feb. 2.—During the debate i||
the Reichstag on the memorandum r|
speeding the enforcement of tbe lamfl
against Socialists several of the Radios fl
Deputies complained strongly of tb T
tyranny with which the government et |
forced the laws against Socialists, ei 3
pecially in Berlin. Herr von I’ultkan a
er in reply quoted largely from Socia 'i
ist newspapers to show that Socialist j
sympathized with the murderer who a*
sassi naled Dr. Rumpff, Chief of Police a
Fiankfort-on-tbe-Main, and said thf
ihose exhibitions of such sympathy wer ;
proof sufficient of tbe necessity for tfc
continued enforcement ol’ the anti-Su
ist law.
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