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ruTABLhMID 1850 . I
kviTTLL. Bdftor and Proprietor. |
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0 |\ TIIRKK STATES.
1X I I < HUD V AND SOUTH
v ’ T IS TYPE.
.. . |- r it*t>l* Northern Trip
le re*ti>B Shipment* of
I pjn*t Arrest of n Ke
(if Hart County—An
if r ' SfSt „ ( arve* a Whole family
‘ o.M.ty
l.KOßtilA.
Montezuma is occu
. i_rtt barrooms aiul. two
M . fling house in the town
. franklin R*\jit*r is just
* • *un lay School Assnria
tviileon Friday, Feb. 20.
-cd her barrooms Satur
-4 . t U.ulruad is 'try from At
.f M. lntosh, says that he
rce meals and three ilrlnks
, i-hed at Mount Ver
i nuly, has made its ap
v.-rv • reditable issue.
aldosta, brought in 12
. for who'll he got (!'.
Mud swamp with steel
1-fledge l l I.ulu Hursts,
tie anything Miss Lulu
torily explain the pbe-
F "f lialdwin county,
doves and part
. ml a half of last week, of
and horses have been sold
, '• aldosta during the last
f ■ >rr the season is over it
rbeyond.
r > i . and not Washington,
,in the recent publication
■ which cast a re
• ty of the married uien and
Vi at Talmage has. according
• -1 erican, promised to
II irb.ir, next summer, as
_ ,! service (lone in Brook -
tlus winter by Rev. Sam
_ tin? down passenger train
- ro like lightning ran
e.l, and cut off his only
i- crossing the road at a
-Ivs the train ran on
I not get out of the way.
I'., men county, court*d a
s -nit and the day for the
When he went to her
• l ti ne lie found it lock
. -in ih loved the flowing
wetland the widow liau
is from past (mlicy hold
„ Mums! Insurance Com
• n tiled, and a consul
, distributed. The largest
\ .111 l.y the estate of the late
j i .... .utmg to 42->O, and from
town ion few cents.
r -n of Rome are preparing to
L' rzo number of men who are in
s ng continually to excess,
■m-elves an l no"t benetlling
L. 'V hen the list i- fully made out
j le : per will sign a bond to forfeit
L • r -ells to a man on the list.
! nes Taylor lias been peddling
[• ie streets, perambulating on
• ugh unable to move at*out in
f aat on account of a bodily afflic
| ! • twng Mayorremiltc,this license.
■o-d that Taylor is able to walk
L >I sc ty, and he has been arrested
x „ I,an post oitice becomes vacant
| tir-l of Presidential appoint-
I • 'late. There are Hi applicants,
m arc ladies. Almost every one
leacli petition, and i ongr--uinn
thn required to assume ail the re
v iu making a recommendation to
was visited on We Inesday evening
re wind and hail storm, blowing
--ierabte amount of timber and
-o blew down anew four-room
••f building belonging to K.S.
1. ,l took it entirely off the bhwks
- > the ground'and tore up a
j 4 : a. ' i • timbers.
r that the wind was blow
it Lafayette Sunday cven
1. w il.iilcnger failed to hear the
ig there was no service ex
go to the church of which ho
; n as a small congregation
u and cheated them out of a
pan >' went home.
. of Douglasvitle, was 21
. 2. and on that day received
t oil from his uncle, I>avid
I m *i in gold, because lie said
, - .liulhood up, has not taste I
... r.its. Tootubs and his crowd
i . bv rabbit hunting, and
red lb rabbits and a number
-t < in, near Owen's Ferry, in
on Monday last, a negro
s> Mitchell, suddenly be
aring that he was a di-
I carved with a knife a
• groes. consisting of a man,
i biren. and then cscai>ed
i rested. His victims were
L . . .-t accounts.
go l>r. F. W. Memler, wlio
. . miles frtun Marietta, at
. ,!e while riding a young
t-- o i over the saddle turned
ui to the ground. Tin
f. • . who ran. dragging the
,r und. It would doubtless
ait lor the stirrup stra)
r -mg him. He is very seri
■ 11. Park, of Greenecounty,
k - report to the Commissioner-.
uu- shown that fH.ll>l t>
1 from various sources dur-
I- I that fi.352 Tttof this amount
■MU Ila Tr. ,-iirer’s hands, the ex
ti . iH'iug f 07. There i
- f,r this year about $2,000.
. vcr. includes the insolvent
ix c !e tor's commissions.
•> dllei ,r. who lived in the pocket near
r rl ■ f Walker and Goraon, diet! a
Vc - i' the advanced age of lid
a.'. He r >■. Ito the time of his death
. ulties. A number of
•- nr..- -•> blind that it was with
e read at all, but for
•fa-' a .r- oi ins life he recovered it
l - - lor quite a number of
p main portion of each
gol the liable.
Marshal t arter brought to
I imiasioner 15. F.
Hr • n. a highly respected citi
. who had i-on charged by
horse thief from South
w . E. Tillman Acree, with
license. Mr. Itrown was
. and says the etor/ was
1 I ree through malice. He
rtidcates from the olEci ds
past character and re
- r. which were read to the
M tuip at once dismissed the
■ iy< s in Crawford county,
bibb, i- suffering from a
fL other night he was
lie found himself chew
-1 u had leen so tadly
im much pain. He
sleep, and was again
m lie w up his tongue.
U nigh!, and when morn
i swollen to that ex
i eat nor drink. A
lie. and, after exatnina
- a nicer on the tongue.
1 , • in the Superior Court
riant suit against the
\ i.-ta, in which many nice
argued and deter
ipality’s responsibility
, c i sen's pssp
i ol water and fra*
k : . ■' and plugs, etc. Tins
1 - uiard Phinizv and Salem
r to be a ease of imuort-
Stste. The plaintiff
not ,y years in
.. . ! Hank, whose properly
Xv. 1; anksgiving niglit The
■ -t case, and will be car
-1 'art.
. - ast and to Florida an
' - <>f merchandise a day
i ■ f .January. These goods
e • on, flour and hardware
supplies. They went to
i 1 Pont, stoekton, Ilonier
>.g-" ‘lit- as far as Warcross—
‘av- -vond—and to Withers.
! 4,i , r Fla.; Marion, Fla.; Live
i r u lots as far down as New
v • Lake City. The freight
. ' were by far larger dur
| -January than ever before
| ic e Valdosta was a town.
P ■ <- also leen larger than
ft . . ' f which goes to show that
Pt: growing in size, strength
►- A short branch
R -Lunatic Asylum with
■ , Railroad is almost a
a mount of hauling of
from tlie railroads to
i' ii reased immensely of
c- to increase trom
x • ’* fr ui any consideration
• • and in merely a business
■money that wbul 1 be re
i m .. ran. h in question would
' I'y the state and in the
omy. Inour.iudg
-- of the legislature to
wise proeednra and
- ■ f that body a just idea
1 '*Qd of its necessities, that
her manner.
Hurst says that during
'■'f ' the receipts were about
‘ ithe large cities they geo
io to so per eAk, pay
r- V' liiigand individual ®jt
rtie paying all advur
' , '' aJ' uses connected with the
m ug. he said: “*1 must
pleasantly treated lu
o'.*'•' r-t • Jhat I was prejudiced
■ it. fearing I would
possibly insult on ac
t,' V4t ...' ;T the South and having
Hut this soon wore off
r unpleasant feeling that
‘ u„. ' r aml ignorance of the
■rn people. The Ameri
; * ' c, ,-rywhere,and all that
r <ks, " e *ch other.”
tl% - Fj®, n,, H '■ We have recently been
-ptciiflcaa o t ore taken from
k!?r p f |J, i ® wn . c ' l by Sidney R. Hickson, of
o? , l lolnS > ? , '®Vi et ’ whlch , *s“ tke appearance
said to L T studded with silver. It is
saul to be flnc silver ore, and the vein extends
fn TANARUS, ' * . t i atance - Mr - Hickson intends open
"l.,De. ®P anil developing it in order to
r,‘„ JUBt "“ worth. <>ur opinion and
tne opinion of miners to whom we nave shown
tue specimens, is that this mine will prove to
be a One piece of property, and equal to any
silver mine in North Georgia, There is no
end to the rich minerals that arc in Cherokee
couuty. All we want is capital and labor to
bring It to tlie surface. Only a few days since
we were shown a lump of gold taken from
the Franklin mines in this county that was
worth fl.fiOO. These mines are operated by
Col. A. 11. Moore, and are said to be richer
than any in the .State.
Washington Gazette: We only had time to
mention the killing of dim Johnson hv Thomp
son Richardson, lioth negroes, on tlie planta
tion of M.G Robert. The following are the
particulars: Thompson had <juit his wife
sally about a year ago. He suspected Jim
Johuson of being intimate w ith her. 'he sold
Jim a quilt, which was her own property.
The day the murder was committed fast week
Thompson said he was going to have that
quilt or kill Jim Johnson, and took his ax
with him. He first started towards Jim’s
house, but turned and went to where Jim was
making a little liridge over a ditch bv him
self. Some women on the opposite hi.l say
that Thompson struck Jim on the head with
the ax while he was stooping down at work
and that he struck him two or three lieks.
Heath was instant. Thompson ran off and
has not I>een heard from since. Mr. Robert
says that Jim was a very inoffensive negro.
Sheriff Maxwell, of Oglethorpe, was in
Athens, Friday, his business being to lodge in
Clarke county jail Mike F'leeman, the white
man who stole a horse from a darkey. The
negro who robbed G. C. Hall’s, was also cap
tured and placed in the Lexington jail. These
are two of the six prisoners who broke jail in
!e.\ingtou last week. F'leeman was captured
on the line of Madison and Franklin counties.
t>V several officers, after a desperate resist
ance, during which lie was slightly wounded
in the neck. The negro was caught on North
river. Mike Fleeman is either a knave or
fool, and seems to be afflicted with an uncon
trollable mania for stealing, but has not
enough tact to cover up his rascality. He
comes from a worthy family, who are deeply
mortified at his conduct. Mr. Maxwell says
Oglethorpe’s fa.ooo jail is a fraud of the first
water, and he will not try to keep therein
prisoner* charged with any very grave crime.
All the locks to the doors have been broken
during the frequent escapes.
Athens £<innsr- Wiitehuxm: “I am in trou
ble,” said I>r. Charley Long, yesterday. "I
am all broke up and gone to pieces. Mark
how this noble brow is furrowed witn care,
and all on ae ouut of my roommate. Think
of a man going to bed with a pair of spurs on,
and every time I moved I was gouged iu the
leg like a horse. My roommate thus tortures
me, and when I asked him if it was fashion
able to wear spurs to bed where he came
from, he replied that it was a fashion of his
own. This was all tlie consolation 1 could
get This tiling can’t la-t always. There
will be a suicide or a murder if it is not stop
ped. Only two nights agd he put two |iounds
of molas-e- candy in my chatr. It is awful
to contemplate how I suffer. Tnink of a room
mate getting tip two hours la-fore day and
practising on a tinhorn! My chum has done
wor-e than this. He poured a half-gallon
of kerosene oil m the water pitcher, and
I arose next morning and bathed
my fevered brow in it. You may not believe
it but there was half a gallon of good sting
ing Italian bees roaming in uutame t fury on
my bed last week, and when I asked my part
ner how they came there, the only informa
tion I could get out of lum was that he was
g ong into the bee business and thought the
bed a good place to keep them warm these
cold nights. My pipe is constantly loaded
with powder, and when it tires off my room
inate claims that it is anew kind of tobacco,
ili- has au innocent, lumb-like countenance
whenever there is anything of this sort on
foot. If you come down some morning ami
see a piece of crape on my drug store, you can
charge the funeral notice to my roommate,
for he will be the death of me yet. It was
only last Sunday morning that he put a half
dozen eggs in each one of my boots. 1 must
leave you now and try to get a little rest, for
your friend can’t stand this much longer.”
FLOKII>A.
The telephone is at Work in Orlamio.
The brick work of Ocala’s new three-story
hotel is about completed.
There are now in operation in Orange coun
ty iol public schools, a toar of visitation to
Which involves a trip of nearly 1.000 miles.
New post offices have been established at
Oriana, Volusia county, and Rural, Hernando
county. The oust office at Westonia, Putnam
county, has been discontinued and the mail
goes to Leeds.
Gov. Perry has appointed N. llayard Clinch
as Honorable Commissioner to represent
Florida at the coming meeting of the Ameri
can Agricultural Society, which occurs on
Feb. 20 at New Orleans.
Gainesville was swept by a furious gale
Tiiur-il.ir. The houses of George Jackson,
Alex Williams, Hill Vel-ou and Steve Rots
were blown down, and also the shed erected
for tli • workmen engaged on the court house
Twenty or thirty large and small shade trees
were proutrated'. and palings by the hundred
rods were floored. Ihe ground "Friday morn
ing was covered with oranges in a more or
10-s damaged condition.
Lake City correspondence News, Feb. 6:
An infantile cyclone struck Lake City last
night, aad tore up a tree and crushed in some
window panes. It lasted hut a few minutes.
—Mr. John McKinney, a prominent merchant
at Fort White, died yesterday. His mother
died a few days before, and his sister. Mrs.
James English, of Wilson, died only a few
weeks ago.—Fort White shipped 1,5n0 hales of
sea island cotton last season. — I learn that the
eyclonedast night threw down timber west of
Lake City, hut have heard of no injuries to
persona or stock.—Many of our citizens are
taking in tae fair at Jacksonville this week.
John Lamb, colored* aged C3, formerly of
Lake City, hut more recently residing iq La-
Villa, was killed about dusk Thursday even
ing by a freight train on tnc Jacksonville,
Tampa and Key West Railway, at a point 4%
miles north of Green Co\e springs. Front the
evidence taken by Justice Plummer, of that
town, it appears that he 'was cro.-sing Peek
creek trestle and was not seen by the engi
neer until the.train was within three or four
ear lengths of him. The engineer blew for
brakes and applied his air brake on the en -
gme and tender, and the train was stopped in
less than too yards, though pulling It ears
down grade, but not, however, until the un
fortunate man was run over. Lamb did not
see or hear the train until called to by his
friend to jump, when lie looked hack, which
\t as fatal, for at that moment he fell.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
William William*,a colored boy of Manning,
fell into the lire in a fainting fit several days
ago and was burned to death.
The |x>st ollice in Greenville sent over st>2,-
OiH) through the mails by postal notes and or
ders last year and’rceeived about 4‘.i.000.
The State printer will have copies of the
acts and joint reso.utions of the last session of
the Legislature ready for delivery this week.
James Brown, colored, of Greenville county,
is the father of 12 children. Last week Ins
wife gave birth to three children at one time.
The Limestone Springs property in Spartan
burg was sold at public auction on Monday
last, and was bought by J. B. aud.T. K. Cleve
land for 15.500.
A new Baptist Church has been organized
near the I‘lyler settlement, m Lancaster
county, tin er the natnenf ••Bethlehem,” with
the Kev. John Katie as pastor.
About a year ago Ur. J. E. Me Lure bought
a tract of land in Kershaw county, containing
150 acres, for $l,OOO. He sold it a few days ago
to some young men from Marlboro’ county for
$1,500 cash, lie nad made no improvements
on the place.
Venuer Adams, a colored cow thief in Ab
beville, was arrested some time ago. His sis
ter Harriet signed his hail bond forssoo,morl
gagiug her house and lo' to secure the same.
Venner has gone to Florida and left his wife
to ‘ hold the bag.’’
There has been quite a number of visitors
from the North at the Hobkirh Inn during
the present season. Booms in both houses are
engaged for Ma eh, and applications aredaily
coming in that ill have to lie refused on ac
count of the limited number of rooms.
School Commissioner May field, of Greenville
county, is very seriously considering the ques
tion of reducing the size of the school districts
and increasing the number, action which he
has the right, under the law, to take. He be
lieves that the present districts are too large
for effective work.
The Itichland Volunteers of Columbia have
decided to participate in the inter-State com
petitive prize drill at Mobile in May, at
which the first prize is to be $5,000. At least
thirty men will enter for the competition.
Tri-weekly drills will oe continued until May.
when they will be held nightly. James C
Oantwell, Secretary of the company, resigned
his iKisition, and W. B. McDaniel was elected
to succeed him.
A sister of Samps Campbell, of Chesterfield
countv. the negro who li is suffered imprison
ment twice in two successive years in prefer
ence to pay ing his poll tax, came forward a
few davs ago and offered to pay the fine of $lO
against Samps, anil allow him to lie released,
provided Samps would only promise to repay
the monev. Samps would not promise. He
preferred to stay in jail his 30 days rather
than promise to pay. Hi* sister let him stay.
The Marion Star says: “The Masonic fra
ternity and the temperance society are hay
ini a lively time disputing as lo the ownership
of the Masonic Hall building. It appearsthat
three orders—Masons, Odd Fellows and Sons
of Temperance —erected the building some
yean* asro. The Od't Fellows and of
Tern iterance died out, leaving the Masons
gVe owners bv rif?ht of survivorship. The
present temperance organization secured per
mission to meet in the hall, and now claim
that they are part owners of the building in
asmuch as the old Sons of Temperance con
tributed me-third of the expense iu its orcc
tion.”
Gen. lie L'lsle's Operations.
Paris, Feb. B.—Gen. Briere tie J’lsle
telegraphs trom Dong Long the following
particulars of his engagements with the
Chinese troops on Feb. 6: “A heavy fall
of rain prevented an attack on the en
trenched camp of the enemy before noon.
We. however, had time before nightfall
to carry four lines of defenses, covered by
ten small forts. The enemy’s tents,
provisions and ammunition remained in
our han is. The behavior of our troops
was admirable despite the difficult
ground and vigorous defense offered by
the enemy. Our 90 millimetre batteries
were of the greatest service. Our losses
iu the attack on the redoubts command
ing the entrenched camp were 80 killed
and wounded. The number of casualties
oa the occasion of the capture ot theen
treached camp is not yet known.
A BIG WEEK IX CONGRESS.
AN KXTItA SESSION TREMBLING
IN THE BAI/ANCE.
Kiver and Harbor Bill Cohorts Banded
Tor a Stubborn Fight—Friends of the
Regular Appropriation Bills to Mako
a Desperate Rally to Rush Them
Through.
W ashington, Feb. B. Whatever may
bo the purpose of the leaders of the politi
cal parties in Cougress. its business is
rapidly drifting to the point where an ex
tra session will be almost inevitable. It
is denied by the prominent men ot both
parties that they desire an extra session,
but they admit that there is danger of it.
A mass of business of an important char
acter has been put off from session to ses
sion, and lately from week to week, until
now there is a total stagnation. Not a bill
'•an get through, except it be a general
appropriation bill, or one which is two un
important to stir up-opposition from ten
members or the House. The calendars
groan under the accumulation of thou
sands of bills, many of which relate to in
terests national in their character. Great
projects for reviving the navy,modernizing
the coast defenses, restoring millions of
aere9 of unearned land grants to the pub
lic domain, measures for importa.it
changes in the national banking acts,
the suspension of silver coinage and other
questions equally important have been
delayed until the last month of the ses
sion.
CHANCES OF THE BILLS.
It is safe to say that scarcely a single
bill of public iuterest will be passed un
less it be forced through in the form of leg
islation upon an appropriation bill. This
form of legislation is repugnant to the
rules of the Senate, and that body will re
sist it in almost every case. Senators say
that while they do not want an extra
session of Congress, it w ill not be their
fault but that of the House, which has
persisted in putting oil everything until
the last minute, and now asks the Senate
to accept its appropriation bills, in
cluding general legislation, without suffi
cient time for consideration. They say
that the Senate does not wish ah extra
session, but as the Senate will have to
remain here anyway, perhaps the
course of the leaders of the House
means that they also desire to remain in
session after March 4. The Democratic
management of the business of the House
is open to the charge of stupidity or to a
deliberate purpose to secure an early
convention of the Forty-ninth Congress. *
REPUBLICAN PLOTTING.
The Republican leaders are contribut
ing to the difficulty of the situation by
their treatment ot the questions which
daily arise. They protest against the
do nothing policy ol the Democrats and
declaim against the rules of the House,
yet never fail to encourage wiiatever
tends to increase the embarrassment of the
situation, and sometimes actively par
ticipate in obstructive movements. Manv
persons at both ends of the capital have to
d:tv expressed a suspicion that the secret
purpose of Mr. Itandall and his followers is
to permit the appropriation bills to fail,
while he publicly protests against it.
Others are convinced that the hand of
Mr. Blaine guides Messrs. Reed and Uis
coek and their Republican followers in
Congress to cunningly shape the course
of events so that the Cleveland adminis
tration will be troubled by the presence
of Congress during the summer. Mr.
Randall has gone to New York, it is said,
to talk over the situation withTilden and
Cleveland, and when he returns the policy
determined upon must soon develop it
self.
The Republicans begin to see that an
extra session at which the Democrats
could put through the land grant for
feiture bills, the bankruptcy lulls, the
reconstruction of the navy bill, the bill
redeeming the trade dollar and suspend
ing the coinage of the standard dollar
and like bills whose passage Cleveland
will recommend would help the Demo
crats much more than it would hurt them.
They may change front and light against
an extra session instead of for it as they
have during the past week.
POWER OF THE MINORITY.
The condition of business in Con
gress is such that the minority
in either House can easily force
an extra session, but if a purpose to do
so is auy where entertained the fact has
not been made known, and the leaders in
both Houses express the opinion that the
appropriation bills will all be passed be
lorc- March 4, in which case of course no
extra session will be necessary. This
will require the abandonment of many
important measures which have been per
fected in one house or the other. It may
he added that not nfuch general legisla
tion other than that which may he at
tached to appropriation hills can in any
event he enacted. The action of the
House to-morrow is looked forward to
with much interest, as it is supposed
that the chances lor an extra session will
thereby he either increased to a proba
bility or reduced to nothing.
THE RIVERS AND HARBORS.
The body will assemble at 10 o’clock as
in continuation of the last legislative day.
The most active promoters of the river
and harbor bill have announced their pur
pose to resist the adjournment formality
at noon and immediate reassembling as
on the next legislative day. They will
endeavor to continue the last legislative
day throughout the week, if necessary to
secure the passage of their measure." In
the vote to take a recess instead of an ad
jouurment last night the friends of the
river and harbor hill were found to be in
a strong majority, but the issue was not
then squarely made as between that
measure ou the one hand and one of the
regular appropriation bills with a
prospective extra session on the other.
Such will be the issue to-morrow.
WHAT IS HEFOKE THE SENATE.
The course of affairs in the Senate dur
ing the present week is involved in con
siderable doubt. Wednesday will be de
voted to the counting of the electoral
votes. The pensions appropriation bill
will probably be taken up to-morrow and
passed. The Indian, army and agricultu
ral appropriation bills are in the hands of
the Senate Committee on Appropriations,
and may be reported in time lor action
upon one or two of them before the end of
the week.
The unfinished business is the anti
silver coinage bill, and several Senators
have prepared speeches upon it. If the
measure le not set aside by other than
appropriation bills, there is a prospect
that it may be disposed of betore the end
of the week.
HOPES OF THE SILVER MEN.
The silver men, who at first threatened
to prevent action upon this bill, now
claim to have strength enough to strike
out the feature which looks to stopping
the coinage of the standard dollar and so
have less reason to postpone action.
In the House, if the Appropriations
Committee is successful to-morrow in
opposing further consideration of the
river and harbor bill, the post office ap
propriation bill will be called up. Imme
diately alter its passage the legislative,
executive and judicial bill will be pressed
for consideration. Tne Appropriations
Ccinmittee expect to report the sundry
civil bill so that it may be taken up next
in turn. These three measure*-will prob
ably be sufficient to consume the week.
CLEVELAND WITH TILDEN.
Representative Moulton's Report of His
Interview with the President-elect.
Yonkers, N. Y.. Feb. 8. —President-
elect Cleveland and Daniel Manning ar
rived here this morning. They are the
guests of Mr. Tilden at Greystone.
MR. MOULTON’S INTERVIEW.
Washington, Feb. B.— Representative
Moulton, of Illinois, who headed the
Springer delegation which called on Mr.
Cleveland last week, says: “I had a very
agreeable interview with Mr. Cleveland
and found him atf'4blo.and pleasant. He
is very familiar with the history and rec
ord of the leading men <st the country—in
my judgnent he is far above the average
in" ability, and I was greatly im
pressed with the strong ’ vein
of practical common sense
which pervaded all bis conversation.
Practical reform in the many abuses of
the government seemed to be his leading
thought, lie asked me many questions
about the public men of my State.”
“Did he give you any information about
his probable Cabinet appointments?”
“He gave me no definite information,
but in my judgment his Cabinet will bean
agreeable surprise to the American people.
Tnere will be men in the Cabinet who
have not yet been talked about by the
public or in the papers. It will be com
posed of first-class men and will be satis
factory to the Democratic party.”
Went Through a Bridge.
Omaha, Neb., Feb. B.—An accident
happened at Creston, lowa, to-day. A
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy train
went through a bridge. No particulars
have been received, except that 16 were
and 7 killed.
SAVANNAH, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1885.
FLORIDA ON THE WIRE.
Newsingfl In Legislative Niches—Shoot
ing ol' a Negro at Madison.
Talleßassee, Fla., Feb. B.—Last
I night the Assembly passed the Senate
bill authorizing railroads to condemn
| lauds for their own use. It is not proba
ble that the convention and appropria
tion bills will be passed by Thursday, so
an extension of a few days is likely to be
had. The committee to examine into the
State’s contracts with the Okeechobee
Drainage Company will probablv be au
thorized to continue their labors during
the vacation.
THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
Ihe bill calling a constitutional con
vention provides tor anew registration
ol voters as though a general State elec
tion was to be held. The delegates are
to I* equal in number to. anil propor
tioned the same as, memljers ot the Legis
lature. The election is to be held on the
first Tuesday in May and the conven
tion is to assemble in Tallahassee on the
second Tuesday in June. It is probable
that some ol the above mentioned pro
visions will be altered to some extent.
There will be over 200 bills not acted on
when the Legislature adjourns Feb. 12,
and many of them are very important
measures.
THE CONVICT CAMP.
The Senate Committee appointed to
visit the State convict camp reported that
they find 172 men and 3 women at the two
camps; that they are all iu excellent
health, except five or six,who are suffer
ing with chills and lever; that the present
contractor, C. K. Duttou, has complied
with the contract in furnishing abundant
food and clothing for the convicts; that
each convict is furnished with
two blankets and two suits
of clothes; that proper medical
treatment and medicine are provided, and
that a minister preaches to them twice a
month as required by Jaw. That they are
in good spirits, not overworked nor im
properly treated; and recommended that
the convicts be again leased to the pres
ent contractor, as they are now an ex
pense to the State, the original lease hav
ing expired. The committee also recom
mended that the Board of Public Institu
tions advertise tor tbe lease of convicts in
October instead of December, so the con
tractor can have more time to prepare
for them.
TALLAHASSEE'S HOTEI-S.
The hotels in this city are elegantly
furnished, and the accommodations anil
bills of fare are second to none others in
the South. The weather is perfectly
lovely, and numbers of visitors arrive
daily and are delighted with the superior
attractions of this beautiful city on the
hills. The different hotels are liberally
patronized, and more persons have de
termined to spend the winter here than
ever before.
The agricultural interests are looking
up, and many of our more progressive
burners are engaged in raising improved
stock. The Middle Florida Jersey cattle
and the butter produced from them are in
steady demand in all sections of the State.
Nearly every week excellent milch cows
raised in this county are shipped to East
anu South Florida, and the farmers find
ready sale and remunerative prices for all
they can raise.
SOMETHING ABOUT SENATORS.
Hon. Charles Delano, Senator from Vo
lusia county, is a native of Illinois. He
is an excellent civil engineer and was
Mayor of his native town. Removing to
this State about two years ago he at once
became a prominent railroad man. Ev
erything tending to the development of
the great resources of South Florida has
received his hearty support.
Senator C. B. Pendleton represents the
Ivey West District. He has been promi
nent before the public as the contestant
lor the seat occupied by Mr. Allen. Some
time since Mr. Allen resigned, and after
full consideration the Senate decided that
Mr. Pendleton was duly elected.
Senator Jolm W. Whidden was born in
Thomas county, Ga., and came to Florida
when quite a young man, living first in
Hillsborough county, but afterwards
removed to Manatee county, where he
has since resided. He has held many
offices of trust in his county. After serv
ing several terms in the Lower House he
was elected to the Senate, where he takes a
high stand. He is Chairman of the Com
mittee on State Affairs and is a safe law
maker.
SHOOTING OF A NEGRO.
Madison, Fla., Feb. B.—Last night
about 10 o’clock a negro boy named Sam
uel Johnson, while coming with his father
from town to the railroad depot, was shot
through the body by an unknown person
and died in about an hour. Four colored
boys have been arrested and jailed on
suspicion. No verdict has yet been ren
dered by tbe Coroner. The supposition
is that the killing was accidental,and will
serve as a warning to the thoughtless and
reckless class who are in the habit of
tiring off pistols nearly every night, thus
endangering the lives of persons out after
dark. The town is making vigorous ef
forts to find out the party doing the shoot
ing.
STATE AGRICULTU UAL SOCIETY
It Will Meet at Brunswick To-morrow—
Programme of tlie Proceedings.
Brunswick, Ga.. Feb. B.—The Georgia
State Agricultural Society will begin its
spring meeting here Tuesday. The
meeting will continue three days. An
elaborate programme covering all the
days has been prepared. On the first day
Mayor Crovatt will deliver an address of
welcome on behalf of the city, and Col.
D. T. Dunn will deliver an" address of
welcome on behalf of the Glynn County
Agricultural Society. Hon. T. G. Holt,
of Macon, will respond for the con
vention. In the afternoon Col. Fan
ning’s resolutions on “Immigration”
will be discussed. Col. 1). P. Duncan,
President of the South Carolina State Ag
ricultural Society,will also deliver an ad
dress on “Observations of a Cottontotfor
the past 20 years.” On Wednesday, the
second day, addresses will be delivered
as follows: By lion. 11. H. Carlton of
Athens,on “The Duty ot the Leading Men
of the State to Support with Zeal the Ag
riculture of Georgia, and their failure to
do so.” By Prof. H. C. White, of Athens
on “The Need and Opportunity for the
Establishment of an Agricultural Expe
riment Station in Georgia.”
By Dr, P. H. Mell, Jr., of Auburn,
Ala., on “The Science of Meteorology—
its Benefits to the Agriculturist;” and
by Col. E. S. Murphey, of Barnesville, on
“The Practical Uses of Improved Tools,
Implements and Machinery.” On Thurs
day, the third day. Rev. Henry Quieg, I).
D.. of Conyers, will deliver an address on
“Industry the Highway of Success.”
There will also be reports of committees
and miscellaneous business. The mem
bers of the convention will be taken on
an excursion about the harbor of Bruns
wick.
GEN. JACKSON’S “FANCY.”
Hundred? Gathering; to See the Old
War Horse—Drowning of a Negro.
Rome, Ga., Feb. B.—“ Fancy,” better
known as “Old Sorrel,” tbe famous horse
that Stonewall Jackson rode, and from
which he was shot, arrived here at 2
o’clock this morning en route to the New
Orleans Exposition. Hundreds of people,
including many ladies, assembled to see
“Old Sorrel.” Tbe horse is in charge ol
Maj. Letcher, of Virginia, who states that
oyer fifty young ladies surrounded the
famous steed at Bristol,Tean., and kissed
it. A great deal of its mane and tail ha 9
been cut off by parties anxious for even a
hair.
The body of Lewis Knox, an old deck
hand on the Coosa river steamers, was
found floating to-day just below Dublin,
on the Coosa river. Knox was crossing
Ihe river when his bateau sank and be
was drowned.
Heavy Weather at Sea.
New York, Feb. B. —The steamer Lake
Winnipeg, from Liverpool, which arrived
here this afternoon, reported that they
had strong west and southwest gales dur
ing the most of her passage Feb. 4,
in latitude 42 degrees and JO minutes,
and longitude 60 degrees and 30 minutes,
they observed a steamer showing signals
of distress which proved to be the steam
er Alaska from Liverpool for New York,
with Lhe loss of her rudder. Capt.
Murray wished to tow our
steamer so as to steer
his ship. We got out two chain cables
and was towed to Sandy Hook. At 12:15
a. m., Feb. 7, the starboard chain parted,
but we succeeded, after several hours, in
making fast again and proceeded.
Burning of a Store at Laurens.
Charleston, S. C., Feb. B.—The store
of Mitchell & Knight, near Laurens, was
destroyed by fire yesterday. Tbe loss is
$3,000. It is two-thirds insured.
Mistrial in a Murder Case.
Charleston, S. G., Feb. B—The trial
of Jobn C. Ferguson, at Cobbeville, for
the murder ol Benedict last Christmas,
has resulted in a mistrial.
ENGLAND’S FANATIC FOES
THE GOVERNMENT BOUND TO
CRUSH EL MAHDI.
Italy All Eager for the Fray—Turkey
Protesting Against Humbert’s Inter
ference and a Turkish Fleet Ordered
to Make Ready for Action—Gordon’s
Fate Stilt Unknown.
London, Feb. B.—The Observer this
morning says that Gen. Wolseley asked
for specific orders as to what he should
do in the event of Gen. Gordon being
found dead. After a very animated and
prolonged discussion the Cabinet re
plied that the campaign should be prose
cuted until the reliellion was suppressed.
Another council will be held to-morrow.
Gen. N'ewdigate is mentioned as likely to be
placed in command of the Somlau expedition
now being organized.
The War office maintains the utmost reti
cence with regard to the plans and move
ments of Gen. Wolselev. Cairo telegrams
received to-day report that a council or war
has been held at which Gen. Stephenson was
present. He advised a retreat of the troops
front Metemueh or Korti and the concentra
tion of the entire force towards Berber, and
after the capture of Berber to await an expe
dition coming to Suakin before makiug an ad
vance on Khartoum. Military authorities
say that this plan involves a delay in the ad
vance upon Khartoum until autumn. The
hot weather which begins next month will
make it impossible for the English forces to
stand marches.
A SHEIK BELIEVES GORDON ALIVE.
Sheik Gemal Ed Din, a well known
Mohammedan agent now in Paris, has
been interviewed on the Soudanese rebel
lion. He thinks that Gen. Gordon is still
alive,* but if dead that he fell while fight
ing the rebels. El Maluli, he says, would
respect Geu. Gordon as a prisoner aud might
be willing to open negotiations to exchange
Gen. Gordon for Arabi Pasha, who El Mahdi
honors as a true servant in the cause of Ma
homet. El Mahdi might make partial peace
with the English, but never permanent peace.
He would refuse to aecept the title of Viceroy
or any other title from the Khedive or from
the Sultan, but would remain El Mahdi. He
aimed at the conquest of the Soudan and
hoped that a rising would take p.ace in
Arabia against the Turks.
TURKEY’S PROTEST.
The Turkish Government has sent to each
of the powers which signed the treaty of Ber
lin a formal protest against occupation by
Italians of Egyptian territory on the Rod Sea
coast. Turkey also demands that the Italian
troops sent to Assab aud Masswouh shall be
withdrawn.
News from Gubat, dated Feb. 3, is to the
ellect that the rebels are actively employed
in preparing for another encounter. Loop
holes are being made in the outside of the
houses at Metemneh, and the enemy’s
videttes maintain an active lookout, fear
ing a British attack on the town. The recent
convoy from Gakdul, when three miles dis
tant from that point, met 1,000 rebel cavalry
amt infantry. The rebels were shelled and
soon dispersed. The convoy was unhurt. The
light camel corps has arrived at Gubat. El
Mahdi is drawing immense quantities of sun
lilies from the Merawir district.
ENGLAND’S INTENDED WITHDRAWAL.
In an interview between Earl Granville aud
Feluni I ash a, the Turkish Envoy, the former
told tiie latter categorically that the English
Government intended for political
and financial reasons to evacuate Egypt,
but that it was impossible to
specify the exact period for withdrawal.
Tim British Government, he said.beiDg a con
stitutional government and dependent on
public opinion, which compelled the Cabinet
to semi an expedition to Soudan, would not
permit the evacuation of Egypt without
some reward for England’s sacrifices, lie
added that the proposed Turkish expedition
to Suakin was inopportune, and assured
Fell mi Pasha that the Sultan’s sovereignty
over Egypt would be respected. Earl Gran
ville counseled the IV e not to raise a ques
tion with Italy in ...nnection with the an
nexation of Beilul. He he'd that Italy’s
commercial interests in Assaba compelled lier
to extend her authority over the adjacent
district.
TURKISH WAR VESSELS ORDERED TO SEA.
A fleet of Turkish war vessels has been
ordered to prepare to put to sea within a
month. Tiie order is interpreted to mean the
fixed determination of Turkey to oppose
Italy’s encroachments on the Red Sea littoral
of Egypt and to prevent any aggressive move
ment by Italy in North Africa.
COL. DULLER AT GAKDUL.
Gakpil, Feb. 5. Col. Sir Kedvers Buller,
with the Royal Irih Regiment, has arrived
here, having tramped the whole way from
Korti. This is the first regiment that lias
attempted to make this journey on foot. The
men’s bearing won the admiration of all.
Col. Buller, with the Irish and Sussex Regi
ments and a strong escort from the camel’s
corps, will start Friday for Gubat. An as
sault on Metemneh is expected soon after Ids
arrival at Gubat. It is not thought that the
enemy will make a prolonged resistance. The
wouuiied prisoners who have been brought
here say that El Maluli said to his
men that tin. British were few in numher,
that their weapons were harmless, and that
the English soldiers would fly at the sight of
the Arab spearmen. The majority of the
rebels were unwilling soldiers. They were
compelled to light or suffer cruel treatment.
El Maluli threatened to deprive them of food
for forty days, saying that if they survived
they would be exempted from military ser
vice by Allah’s will, and left unmolested.
A BITTER FEELING AT CAIRO. "
Alexandria, Feb. B.—An intensely bitter
feeling prevails among all classes here against
the British policy, i lie general opinion is
that it will lead to the ruin of Egypt. A na
tive paper, La Miriuit Anscfutrk, savs that a
numoer of Turkish officers have lately joined
El Mahdi.
TURKEY PROTESTS TO ITALY.
Constantinople, F’eb. B.— The Porte lias
sent a protest to the Italian Government
against the occupation of Beilul. Count
Corti, the Italian ambassador, who was
about to leave Constantinople on a furlough,
has been ordered to postpone his departure.
ITALY’S CAMPAIGN.
Rome, Feb. B.—lt issemi-oflieially announc
ed that the Italian forces took possession of
Massowali on Feb. 5. The natives welcomed
them, but the Egyptian authorities, formally
protested against their occupation of the
town.
The Remeyna says that no troops will be
sent to Soudan by Italy unless under a formal
treaty providing for an offensive and defen
sive alliance and guaranteeing Italy English
support in the event of war with any mari
time power.
ADMIRAL CARMI’S REPORT.
Admiral Carmi telegraphs that he anchored
off Massowah on Feb. 5 with the corvettes
Amerigo Vespucci and Garibaldi. A force of
marines was disembarkej and the Italian flag
was hoisted alongside that of Egypt. England
hitherto lias not asked that the Italian gov
ernment should co-operate with her in Sou
dan. Frequent conferences have been held
between Sir Saville Luroley. British Embas
sador, and Siguor Mancini, Minister of For
eign Affairs, but nothing definite has been
agreed noon. Signor Magliani, Min
ister of Finance, opposes the ex
pedition upon the ground that
the treasury is already overburdened,
but the majority of the members of Par.ia
ment support it and urge that it be carried
forward upon a grand scale.
/- San/alla, a Ministerial organ, savs:
“We will not wait for England to ask our
help, but will give it without bargaining. We
do not wish hesitation on our part to appear
as speculation. It is said that Italians are
Macnavil£au This is a noble way of being so.”
La Director in an article headed “Advance
of Italy,” says: “Italycannot permit England
to be defeated. It is Italy’s duty to assist and
to extricate the English Cabinet from its
present difficulty. The Italian forces, if
promptly employed, will be able to open the
Suakin aud Berber route and to secure Gen.
Wolseley’s line of communication. Public
opinion will applaud Italy’s prompt, energetic
aud resolute support. England has always
been Italy’s friend.”
La Rieforma (Ministerial) says: “England
is a friend who has rendered us great service
and never asked us for a man or penny. It is
our duty and to our interest to unite with
her.”
The Rebellion in Arabia.
Cononstantinoi’Le, Feb. B.—The rebellion
in 4 emen, Arabia, has been levived because
the Porte suspended payment of subsidies to
tribes between Jeddah and Meir. A number
of caravans have been pillaged. The military
commander has asked for 4000 reinforcements.
Fatal Flay Between Soldiers.
London, Feb. B.—While two soldiers
were skylarking at Woolwich arsenal
to-day one of them was fatally bayoneted
by the other. The occurrence gave rise to
rumors that another dynamite outrage
had been attempted.
Another account of the bayoneting says:
“A private soldier on guard duty last night
saw a man advancing toward hispost and com
manded him to hall and give the counter
sign. The stranger neither halted nor replied,
hut attempted to walk past the guard line.
The sentinel thereupon plunged his bayonet
into the man’s body, killing him almost in
stantly.” An account of this occurrence
reached London to-day and was exaggerated
into a sensational report that dynamiters had
made an attack on the arsenal. An investi
gation shows that the man who attempted to
run the guard was also a soldier and a com
rade of (the sentinel whom he had tried to
annoy by a silly practical joke.
West Indian Reciprocity.
London. Feb. B.— The recommendation
of Earl ot Derby, Secretary for the Colo
nies, in favor ol the acceptance of the
proposal of the United States government,
looking to a reciprocity arrrangement
with the British West Indies, has been
practically rejected by the British Cab
inet. No formal decision has been ar
rived at, but the majority of Ministers are
opposed to the acceptance of the proposals
on the ground that the advantages offered
the British West Indies are doubtful
in view of the probability of similar trea
ties being concluded by the United States
with Cuba and Brazil. One section of
the Cabinet is also influenced by the
consideration that such an arrangement
w’ith the United States would be a breach
ot the principles of free trade.
HUiuarck again 111.
Berlin, Feb. B.— Prince Bismarck is
again ill, and has been ordered to leave
Berlin for a term of repose.
WASHINGTON IMPRESSIONS.
Bayard, Lamar, Money and Garland as
Prospective Cabinet Officers.
Washington. Feb. 7.—Mr. Cleveland's
conference in New York with Democratic
Senators anti Representatives from Wash
ington was the principal subject of con
versation among politicians at the capital
to-day. The greatest importance is at
tached to Mr. Lamar’s visit and the long
talk he is reported to have had with the
President-elect. While the general im
pression prevails that Mr. Bayard has
been informed that he can be Secretary of
State, the fact that he wants the Treasury
Department has caused the name of the
Senator from Mississippi to be very
prominently mentioned in connection
with the Department of Foreign Affairs.
Senator Lamar has not hesitated to ex
press his opinion that the South should
not seek recognition in Mr. Cleveland’s
Cabinet, but should be entirely content
with whatever he may offer that section
in the make-up of his advisory council.
It is remarked that the greater number
of names suggested to the President-elect
for Cabinet offices yesterday are those ol
Southern gentlemen. While Senator
Lamar has declared that he would not
accept a Cabinet office for several reasons,
one being that another citizen of his
State, Mr. Money, is in the field, it is
no secret that tbe Senator from Missis
sippi believes that Senator Garland is the
best qualified man in the party for Attor
ney General. The South would be amply
satisfied if it could be assured of repre
sentation in Mr. Cleveland’s Cabinet by
the two offices of Postmaster General and
Attorney General.
ALL ON THE ALERT.
Traps and Pitfalls in Washington
Awaiting the New President.
Washington, Feb. 6.— Not less than
half a dozen gigantic rings, not to men
tion the Ividwell Bottoms, have their
agents at work to obtain some advantage
in the make-up of Mr, Cleveland’s Cabi
net. They are in Washington, in New
Y'ork and at Albany, and they will follow
the President-elect wherever he goes, ana
attempt to have a finger in whatever he
does.
The subsidy railroads are on a sharp
lookout, not onlv to see that no harm
comes to them, either in the Interior De
partment or the Department of Justice,
but to strengthen themselves in new ways
in both places.
The whisky interest is sharp set for
offense and defense. It is millions to
them whether two men go into the Cab
inet, one as Secretary of the Treasury
and the other as Attorney General. Any
way they want Phil. Thompson made
Commissioner of Internal Revenue.
The public land ring has its pickets
out, und a large force in position to head
Mr. Cleveland if he should go wrong
right rather.
There are other rings, some great and
some small, besides almost innumerable
petty interests, whose agents are trying
in different ways to influence the make
up of the Cabinet.
To steer clear of all these requires a
strong head.
SUFFERING SPINNERS.
Six Large Cotton Factories Idle near
Petersburg, Va.
Petersburg, Feb. B.—Located in and
near this city are six large cotton facto
ries, all ot which, with one exception,
have been closed for several months. These
mills, when running, give employment to
over 1,000 operatives. There has been much
sutt'ering among a large number of those
thrown out of employment by the shut
ting down of the mills, and in order to re
lieve tbe suffering existing among tbe
operatives at Ettrick, Chesterfield coun
ty, where the Ettrick cotton mills are lo
cated, aid was asked ol the authorities
several days ago. All last week the ne
cessary supplies and provisions were fur
nished to needy operatives at the expense
of the county. It is not known when
these factories will resume operations.
400 SHOTS FIRED IN THE HOCKING VAL
LEY.
Columbus, 0., Feb. B.—The Hocking
valley was greatly excited last niirhtover
rumors of a concentrated attack'bv the
strikers. Over 400 shots were tired*fn the
neighborhood of Nelsonville and Buchtel
about 10 o’clock, but no attack was made.
Patrol trains drove tbe strikers off.
The Great Exposition.
New Orleans, Feb. B.— Yicc President
elect Hendricks will deliver the address of
welcome to the World’s Cotton Conven
tion to be held under the auspices of the
National Cotion Planters Association.
Hon. Charles E. Hooker, the silver
tongued orator ot Mississippi, will re
spond on behalf of the association. The
convention will open in the Music Hall of
the World’s Exposition building on Feb.
10 at 1 o’clock.
The Farmers’ National Congress will
meet on Tuesday next at the exposition
building. One thousand delegates are
expected to be present.
FRANCE’S DAY.
France had her day to-day at the ex
position and the announcement that such
was the case had the effect of assembling
the largest crowd ever gathered within
the grounds. Nearly all the prominent
Creole and French citizens were present,
together with the officers and seamen of
the French men-of-war in the harbor.
At 1 o’clock Viscount Dabzac, the
French Consul, opened the ceremonies
by an address in which he made a formal
transfer of the exhibit to the exposition,
to which the Director General responded
on behalf of the Board of Management.
At the completion of the ceremonies sa
lutes were fired and there was general
rejoicing.
The New Orleans Races.
New Orleans, Feb. B.—There was a
light attendance at the races to-day. The
weather was clear and pleasant and the
track in good condition. The events were
as follows:
First Rack—Five furlongs. It was won
by Ellen, with Nat Trimble second and Mal
volio third. Time 1:0BJ 2 .
Second Race—-Selling race; six furlongs.
It was won by Belle B. by four lengths, with
Pilferer second, a half length ahead of Wild
Kansas, third. Time 1
Third Race—Seven furlongs. Aurelias
won, with Magpie second and Carella third.
Time 1:37.
Fourth Race—Handicap; one mile and a
quarter over four hurdles. Rowdy Boy won
by two lengths, with Ascoli second and Fred
B. third. Time 2:28. Joe Cooper fell at the
third hurdle.
No Verdict Yet In the Murphy Case.
New Orleans, Feb. B.—No verdict has
yet been rendered iu the Ford-Murphy
murder case.
Advices From the Far East.
San Francisco, Feb. B.—The steamer
Rio Janeiro arrived here this afternoon
bringing Hong Kong advices to Jan. 9,
anil Yokohama advices to Jan. 19 .Th*
gunpowder works at Fat-Shan, fourteen
miles from Canton, exploded on Dec. 22,
killing 250 employes. The Corean Gov
ernment has agreed to pay Japan an in
demnity ol 120,000 yen for the outbreak
against the Japanese and the burning of
the Japanese legation on Dec. 6. The
government will also punish all of the
leading rioters. It is stated that the ne
gotiations were carried on through Gen.
Foote, United States Minister to Corea.
It is rumored at Tien Tsin that Russia
will soon make another effort to annex
Corea.
Eloped With the Wrong Oirl.
{Sanftrl (Del.) f'nttr/irise, Jan. 31.
On a little farm nearly in sight of the
quiet little town of Federalsburg, Md.,
resides a blooming young girl of 22 sum
mers, also her cousin and her father’s
ward of two years her senior. Both of
these have beaus whom their stern old
father and uncle do not approve of. The
lover of Mo. 1 and his sweetheart, unbe
known to the other parties, had made all
arrangements to steal off in the still of
the night and get married. This was aleo
the plan of the contracting parties No. 2.
The ladder was hid back of the garden
tor the purpose of scaling the walls at
the proper time. In the bewitching hours
of the night when the graveyards yawn,
lover No. 1 placed the ladder to the
window of girl No. 2. The night was
dark just at that time. She made her exit
out ot the window and into the arms of
her supposed knight, and was hurried off
to the carriage near by. Not a word was
spoken as along the ramparts (the old
man’s back lane) they hurried. The car
riage was gained and the lash was ap
plied to the horses. When they arrived at
the preacher’s house, whow r as waiting to
tie the knot, the gallant knight then dis
covered that he had got the wrong girl.
Of course there were some salts and in
ward cuss words, and the tug of war
came—how to get the weeping girl back
undiscovered. Lover No. 2 met with an
accident by running his buggy against a
post and carrying away his port wheel,
and failed toat night to arrive at the
house. The old man has bought a sl3 gun.
and is nightly in ambush for the raiders.
DOWNFALL OF RELIGION.
DR. TALMAGE TAKES HIS TEXT
FROM ACTS 11., 20.
The Efl’ect of Religions Destruction on
the Moral World Likened to the Effect
the Destruction of the Sun Would
Have ou the Natural World.
Brooklyn, N. Y r ., Feb. B.— Before the
sermon to-day Dr. Talmage expounded a
chapter from the Prophecies. The open
ing hymn was:
“From Greenland's icy mountains,
From India’s coral strands.
Where Atric’s sunny fountains
Roll down her golden sands.”
Dr. Talmage’s subject was “The Down
fall of Religion,” and his text was taken
from Acts 11., 20: “The sun shall be turned
into darkness.” The following is the ser-
mon in full:
Solar eclipse is here prophesied to take place
just before the destruction of Jerusalem.
Josephus, the worldly historian, says that
tins prophecy was literally fulfilled, and that
the skies were full of strange appearance*
about this time. Of course the sun was not
obliterated, but clouds rolled between it and
tbe earth. Christianity is tde rising sun in
eur time, but there are m-iuy who by the up
rolling vapors of skepticism and the siuoke of
their blasphemy are attempting to turn it
into darkness.
Suppose the archangels of malice and horror
were unloosed and permitted to extinguish
the sun in the natural heavens. They tnrow
ou that great lamp of our planetary system
oceans trom other worlds, and the waters roll
hissing down into the ravines and chasms of
that great luminary, and explosion follows
explosion until only a few peaks of fire are
left, and now they are cooling off and going
down until ttie vast continents of flame ar*
reduced to a small acreage of fire, and this
lias lieeu reduced to a few coals, and they are
whitening and soon go out, not a spark left in
tbe mountains of ashes and the valleys of
ashes and the caverns of ashes. An extin
guished sun. A dead sun. A buried sun.
Let all worlds wail at tlie stupendous obse
quies.
Under this withdrawal of solar light and
heat our earth, of course, takes universal
chill, and the tropics become tlie temperate,
ami the temperate becomes the arctic, and
there are frozen rivers and frozen lakes and
frozen oceans. The inhabitants gather in
from arctic and antarctic regions toward the
centre, to find the equator as the poles. The
slain forests are heaped into huge bonfires,
around which shivering villages and cities
gather. 'lhe wealth of all the coal mines is
hastily poured into furnaces and stirred into
rage of combustion; but even the bonfires are
lowering, and the furnaces are cooling off,
and the nations are dying. Vesuvius and Co
topaxi and Stroniboli and the Californian
geysers cease their smoko, and the ice of tbe
hailstorms remains uumelte i in the craters.
All the flowers have breathed their last
breath. All the leaves of the forests have
fallen. Ships on tlie sea, with sailors frozen
at the mast, and helmsman frozen at the
wheel, and passengers frozen in the cabin.
All nations dying—first at the North, then at
at the South. Children frosted and dead in
the cradle. Octogenarian frosted and dead
by the hearth. Workmen, with frozen arm,
holding the hammer, or with frozen foot ou
the shuttle. Winter in ail zones, winter
from sea to sea. All-congealing winter—per
petual winter. Hemisphere shackled to
liemisjiliere. Globe of frigidity. Universal
Nova Zembla. The whole earth an ice-Hoe
grinding against other ice-floes. So the arch
angels of malice and horror have put out the
natural sun amldestroyei!|our world, and they
may take their till-one of glacier and their
crown of ice and their sceptre of icicle.
W hat the obliteration of the natural sun
would do for th* natural world the de
struction of Christianity would do for tlie
moral world—the sun turned into darkness.
At the present time infidelity is a joke. There
are people who " ill give 50 cents or $1 to hear
Christianity assailed by epigram and quibble,
and badinage and harlcquiuade. If correct!)
reported ono of the loudest laughs in Brook
lyn The. tre lu*t Sabbath night was at tlie
Lord Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the world,
the One who came to carry our sorrows. I
read from that lecture the following in re
gal'd to Christ: “When He was here He was
forgiving and half human. But now lie is
God. Instead of saying ‘Father, forgive them,
for they know not what they- do,’ He sends
them to eternal fire. It is' wonderful the
difference office makes with some people.
[Laughter].”
Now, there is one law that ought either to
he erased from the statute book or else exe
cuted, and that is the law against blasphemy.
What is blasphemy? I went into the law li
brary anil 1 lind this authority: “Blasphe
mous words against God. contumelious re
proaches and profane ridicule of Christ or the
Holy Scriptures are offenses punishable at
common law whether u tered by words or in
writing.” If a poor drunken man stood on
the street corner this morning and took the
name of God irreverently on his lips in pres
ence of passers-by, he would be grabbed and
hustled to the police station. But there is not
a city authority in the United States that lia
backbone enough to stop the indecent and
blasphemous utterance of last Sunday night,
though it is being delivered in all the cities
Penalties and prisons for those who defame
the most insignificant man in the city, hut
defamation ol' God has perfect immunity. It
would have been the finest drama ever enact
ed on the stage of that Brooklyn Theatre if,
in the midst of such utterances, my friend
Patrick Campbell, Chief of Police, who be
lieves in God and Christ, had, with a platoon
of his ollicers, stepped upon the stage and
gently putting his hand upon the shoulder of
the lecturer said: “In the name of the com
mon law of this country, and in the name of
the families of Brooklyn, this infamy must
stop, and stop here and stop now.”
“But,” says some oue, “are you not in favor
of free speech?” On, yes; X am in favor of
all styles of freedom—free driving of horses,
but not liberty to run over people in the
street; free lire in your stove, hut not incon
el inr or the burning of ttie property of
others; free air, hut not permission to poison
that which other breathe: free use of knives
but no right to stab others; free use ot gun
powder. but no allowance for assassination;
free speech, but no permission for obscenity
or slander or false swearing or blasphemy;
free to do right and act according to law, but
never free to do wrong and against law. I
call the attention of judges and attorneys and
police commissioners and mayors of cities to
the importance of either driving the law
against blasphemy from the statute book or
putting it into immediate execution. There
will in some of our cities arise authority tail
enough to see beyond all political surround
ings and strong enough to execute the stat
utes of the States, and then we shall have no
more of the execrable and dastardly abomi
nations that were uttered last Sabbath night
in Brooklyn theatre, and the carrion stench
of leprous infidelity will be fumigated from
the atmosphere.
Tnere is a class of persons in all our com
munity hoping for the overthrow of the Chris
tian religion, and many who are bold to say
that the world will he better ofl' without it
than with it. I want to show them the end of
this road, the terminus of this crusade, and
what will he the state of things on the sup
position that they triumph.
First, woman’s complete and unutterable
degradation. I will prove it by arguments
and facts that no sound or honest being will
dispute. In the comniuuUits and the cities
and the nations where the Christian religion
has reigned woman’s condition has been
ameliorated and improved and she is honored
and deferred to in a thousand things, and
there is not a gentleman who does not takeoff
his hat in her presence. She may in the
United States and England suffer some injus
tice, hut she lias more of her rights in Chris
tendom than anywhere else. Jf your associa
tions have been good, you know that the
words wife and mother and sister and daugh
ter are suggestive of the most gracious sur
rounding*. The best schools and seminaries
of the United States are for young women.
Then take woman’s condition in lands
where Christianity has madenoor little head
way— China, Egypt, Turkey, Assyria, Bor
neo, Barbary. The Burmese 6ell wives and
daughters like sheep. The Hindoo Bible for
bids a woman to hear music or sit at a win
dow during the absence of her husband, and
allows a divorce if the wife eats before her
hughand finishes h's meals. The Hindoo wife
is consumed on the funeral pyre of her hus
band. The horse, the cow. the dog, the cat
are better off. They were intended for brutes
and they expect to be treated as brutes. But
see the wlme bundles on the rivers in the
morning in China. Infanticide after infanti
cide. Female children cast off liecause they
are females. See the women harnessed to
plows like oxen. Hidden from the sight of
man by barricades and by veils and by all
styles of cruel seclusion. Their birth a disaster,
their life a torture, their death a horror!
The missionary of the cross in heathen
lands to-day preaches to an audience divided
.into two parts, the men who msy sit as they
will and do as they will, and the women
cruelly hidden in a side apartment where
they can hear and cannot he seen, no intelli
gence, no liberty, no refining influences, no
hop* for this life and no hope for the life to
come. Kinged nose, cramped foot, disfigured
face, maltreated mind and embruted soul.
How far hack toward that condition would
women go if the Bible and Christianity were
withdrawn is only a Question in oynamics.
If an object be lifted to a certain point and be
not fastened there and the lifting power he
withdrawn, how far will the object fall? Clear
back to the point from whence it was lifted.
Christianity found woman in the last point of
degradation and raised her almost to the
skies. >’ow, let the power that brought her
up be withdrawn and she will fall clear down
to the depths from which she was resurrect^'
Again, the downfall of icligion and the
triumph of infidelity mean the demoraliza
tion of society. Ihe most obnoxious thing to
infidelity is the idea of retribution. Now,
take all fear of voluntary punishment out of
society, and let the rule be that all go as they
please, and how long before disintegration? I
declare it. take the fear of hell out of the
minds of men and the majority of them would
soon make this world a hell. The vast ma
jority of those who are offended at the idea of
future punishment have such unclean hearts
or lives that thej- are opposed to future retri
bution for the same reason that a criminal
don’t like a penitentiary. All this brave talk
about not fearing punishment for siu in the
next world is only a coward’s whistling to
keep his courage up.
I have s* en men talk very Drave about the
future and defy God and flaunt their immor
alities in the face of society, and challenge
the Eternal, hut iu their last moments they
shrieked till you could hear them for two
blocks, and the neighbors on a hot summer
night had to put the windows down because
they could not endure the sound. I had
rather see a railroad train with five hundred
Christians on board go down through a draw
bridge into a watery grave than to see one
infidel or one atheist die, though it were on a
pillow of eider down and under a canopy of
vermillion. 1 would-not want to see the first
catastrophe, yet 1 would las sure of their
happy destination, hut 1 have never been
aide to brace mv nerves up for the latter
spectacle. The terror on the brow is so un
paralleled. the clutch of the fist is so diaboli
cal, the strength of the voice is so unearthly
“There is no hed! there is no hell! there is mi
hell!” he had said over and over again for
forty years, but there was something in that
dying scene of my infidel neighbor which
seemed to say: "There is! there is! there
is! there is'” Mightiest barrier to
atheist and libertinism and outlawry
and crime of all sorts are the
retributions of eternity. Men may escape the
law, for that is done every day, hut there is
something down in the offender s nature which
says “You cannot escape God. He stands at
the end of your road of profligacy.” He will
by no means clear the guilty. Take the Bible
idea of retribution out of the world and
Brooklyn and New Y'ork and Boston and
Chicago and Charleston and New Orleans
would become Sodonis right speedily. The
only restraints ou the evil pas?ious of the
world to-day are Bible restraints.
Suppose now these giants in blasphemy
succeeded in marshalling a liujorily of the
world ou their side. There they are iu com
panies, in regiments, in brigades. Forward,
march! ye great army of infidels ami atheists!
Banners flying before, banners il> iug behind,
inscribed with “No God,” “No Saviour,” “lo
as you please,” “No punishment,” "No moral
law,” “Down with the Bible.” The sua
turned into darkness. Forward, march! Th j
first assault is upon the churches. How At
with all the houses of worship that have been
occupied by people who were deluded into be
ing comforted over their bereavements and
their sorrows. They deserve to be extirpated
because they spent much of their life in re
forming inebriety and iu saving tlie lost and
holding before the struggling the idea of eter
nal rest after the paroxysm of life is over.’
Let the St. Hauls uud the st. Peters and tliu
Trinitys and the Tabernacles and the temples
be turned into club houses or places of
merchandise! Forward, march! Down go ail
the Sabbath schools of bright-eyed, bright
faced children, singing songs and getting in
struction when they ought to have beeu play
marbles in the street or swearing ou tn©
commons.
Forward, march, ye hosts of infidels and
atheists! Take the Bible ou which witnesses
are sworn out of the court bouse ami let loose
testimony be unhindered. Forward, aui
down ten thousand asylums and hospitals of
mercy supported by churches and Christian
philanthropists, prayers every morning by
the sick and prayers over the dead. Never
mind the blind eyes and the deaf ears and tlie
weakened intellects and the crippled limbs.
Let paralyzed old age pick up its own food
and orphans find their own way and the half
reformed go back to their old iniquities. With
the broad-axphew dowu the cross and split ‘
up tlie Bethlehem stable. Tear down from
Vatican and Florence and Venice and Dres
den and all the picture galleries of ihe world
the mightiest works ol art. for tliev are re
ligious—Claude’s "Burning Bush” and Gliir
iaudajo's “Adoratiou of tiie Magi” and Rem
brandt’s “Christ iu the Temple” and Paul Ve
ronese’s “Marriage in .C'aua” and Michael
Angelo’s “Last Judgment.” And drive back
all the oratorios of Handel and Haydn and
Beethoven into the crypts of the ruined
churches for they tell of tlie .Messiah or the
creation or Japtha or Samson or other
Bible heroes or heroines.
Forward, march, ye hosts of infidels and
atheists into the graveyards and cemeteries,
and tear down the sculpture from Green
wood’s gate representing the Resurrection,
and break up the artist’s figure of Old Mor
tality, aud his chisel at the entrance of Lau
rel Hill, and then march on and when you
find an epitaph “Asleep in Jesus” chisel out
ttie words, and when you find a stone that
speuks of heaven cut it uvruy, aud when you
find an inscription on the cliild’srestingplace
“suffer little children to come unto me,” sub
stitute the words “Delusion and sham,” and
il you Und an angel in marble strike oil' tbe
wings, and on the door of ad the family vaults
inscribe “No hope,” “Dead once, dead for
ever. And then open tbe graves and sit
down on the broken slabs for banquet aud
carnival, and pour into the skulls of tlie dead
the wine of derision and hate, and altogether
lifting chalices of skeleton drink to doom and
darkness and annihilation, a liie without
comfort, a death without peace, and for body,
mind and soul and family extinction. Make
all tlie places of Christian burial the grave
yards in which lie the whole family of Chris
tian graces. Prayer dead. Faith dead. Re
pentance dead. Self-denial dead. Hope
dead. Society dead. Jlone&ty dead. llai
pi ness dead. “’1 urn ttie sun into darkness.”
But, forward and upward, ye hosts of m
hdels and atheists. There are heights to
scale. Pile hill on hill aud Peliou upon Ossa,
and hoist the ladders against the walls of
heaven. Let the sappers and miners blow up
the foundations of jasper and put dynamite
under the gates of pearl, and now for the
throne. One more attack and theday is won.
Charge! charge! The storming parties aim
for Him that sittetti on the throne; yea, the
Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Tlie
assailants try to hurl the spirits over the
, battlements with mightier wrench thau Mil
ton s Satan was pitched into hideous ruin
down. They cry “Down with the Son of God
aud let the javelins as of old strike his side
and tiie hammers his feet aud the brambles
his brow. Down off the throne! Down out
of sight! Down forever!” And last of all, aud
more thau all, they would have God the
Father feel the combined lorceof all human
aud Satanic spite aud there be deicide. They
would have his blood incarnadine the heavens
till all immensity is red as a thousand sunsets
Uuz-zah! huzzah! a world without a head
A universe without a King. Orphaned con
stellations, fatherless galaxies, a dethroned
Jehovah. An assassinated God. Patricide
Regicide, Deicide.
that is what infidelity wants. Thatiswhat
it will accomplish if it can. Civilization W ill
be hurled back into semi barbarism and sem i
barbarism into Hottentot savagery. The
wheel of progress will turn llie other way and
roll toward the dark ages. The clock of the
century will be set back two thousand
years. Turn back the Sandwich Islands from
their schools and libraries and reformed con
dition to what they were in Ini', when the
missionaries of the cross began their work of
gracious revolution. Call home the five hun
dred Christian missionaries in India and over
throw their two thousand stations and scatter
the hundred and forty thousand pupils gath
ered out of barbarism into Christian schools
Level to the ground on the coasts of all heath
endom the gospel batteries which were plant
ed to capture all Asia and Africa for civiliza
tion. Disband the twenty evangelizing so
cieties in South Africa for the salvation of
bushman and Hottentots. Send back the
converted Chippewas and Delawares amt
Oneidas to their war-paint and barbarity and
nakedness. Let the three hundred Poly
nesian islands that have relinquished
heathenism be given back to tneir for
mer cruelties. Go hack to you* darkness
from which Christianity extricated jou ye
50,000 converts of China, ye 00,000 converts of
the Indian Archipelago, ye 180,000 converts of
South Airica, ye 300.000 converts of the South
Sea Islands, ye 50u.000 converts of India and
Farther India. “Turn ihe sun into darkness.”
Blot out all the work of Dr. Dull' in India and
Abeel in China, and King in Greece, and Jud
son in Burma!), and David Brainerd among
the American aborigines and discharge the
three thousand missionaries in the field from
their ministry of self-sacrifice. Call back the
medical missionaries, those who doctor both
the bodies and the souls of the dying nations
Go home, English Missionary Society and
American Board of Foreign Missions and
Moravians, and.surrender the world that yon
have begun to conquer back to the filth and
the squalor and the despair from which ttiev
are now emerging.
JSever has such a nefarious plot been laid
for the destruction of the planet, and never
has such an all-destructive enginery been set
in motion as that which infidelity is working.
When infidelity has conquered this world, ii
will be a habitation of three wards— the one a
madhouse, another a lazaretto, the third a
a pandemonium. The concert of this band of
infidel music has not yet fairly begun. You
have only heard them stringing their instru
ments. I put before you their whole pro
gramme from first to last. In theatres the
tragedy comes first and the farce last, but in
the drama of death the farce leads ofr and the
tragedy follows. In the farce the infidels
laugh and mock, but in the tragedy God
will laugh and mock. He says so
“I will laugh at their calamity and mock
when their fear cometh.” From such open
ing chasms of individual, social, national and
world-wide ruin stand back. The time.wil)
come when the infidel will bo treated as a
criminal against* society as well as against
God. Society will push out the leper, and the
man with soul gangrened, itcherous, vermin
covered and rotting apart will fall into the
ditch and denied decent burial; men wi.l
come with spades and cover him up where he
is that the air be not poisoned with the car
cass; the on y fit text for his funeral Jere
miah, xxii and 19: -With the burial of an
ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of
Jerusalem.”
But a thousand voices cry: “Will all the*:
allied forces of infidelity and atheism suc
ceed in destroying Christianity? Will the
church become extinct and the Bible obsolete
and civilizat on only a memory?” Yes! when
the smoke rolling up from the city’s chimneys
efin arrest and annihilate the noonday sun.
At the destruction of Jerusalem, Jo-ephus
says the text was fulfilled: “The sun shall be
turned into darkness.” His rays were shut
out for a while, but.did that destroy the sun?
No, that great luminary w'hich at the begin
ning shot like an electric spark from God’s
finger is ro)ling;onlto-day wanning •outineuts,
gilding oceans, and with glorious liglit
deluging the world. Eight for mountain and
valley. Light for this world. Light for a
whole circle of worlds. Not failed light, hut
the blending of violet, indigo, blue, green,
yellow, orange and red, jnst as true as when
first evoked from the white light by the solar
spectrum. Eight not worn out by the ages,
hut stepping 190,000 miles a second. Light
pulsating 451 trillion undulat ons in a
second. At the beginning God
said: Let there be light, and
light was and light shall be. And so Chris
tianity goes right on to warm and cheer all
nations. Men may shut their window blinds
of prejudice so they cannot sec It, and may
smoke their pijm of speculation till they are
in the shadow of their own vaporing, but the
Lord God s the sun and all the earth shall yet
bask in its warmth and brighten in its illu
minations. Aye, when fully let loose it will
be a swift gospel, and who can calculate the
speed of its undulations? Aye, the pure
white light of the gospel holding in it all the
beauties of earth and heaven, the violet
plucked from amid the spring grass and in
digo of Southern jungles and blue of skiesand
green of forest foliage and yellow of au
tumnal forests and orange of tropical groves
and the red of sunsets, all brought out under
the spiritual spectrum. Gieat Britain will
take Europe for God and the United States
will take America for God. Then both nations
together will take Asia for God. Then all
three will take Africa for God. Who art
thou, O great mounlaius? Before Zerubbabel
thou sbait become a plain. The mouth of the
Lord hath spoken it.
A Vermont farmer reports that he made a
profit of *243 from six hens the past season.
He sold them early in the spring and conse
quently had to plant his garden only once.—
HomcrvMt JsurwU.
I rnLIS,! 10 A YEAR.I
I * CENTS A COPT. j
WAR WITH THE MEXICANS
TEXANS AND CATTLE THIEVES
IN A OVEIiY EIGHT.
Twelve of the Marauders Reported
Killed iu One Engagement—Two More
of the luvaders Reported halil Low in
Another Skirmish with the Ranch
men—Troops Going to the Scene.
•San Antonio, Tax as, Feb. B.— The
situation at Carrizo Springs is growing
serious. The citizens are detei mined to
resist the band of 100 Mexicans when
they arrive. A Vdoixly battie is expected.
Ihe citizens of Sevalla and Maverick
counties are joining forces with Dimmit
county in combating the marauders.
Runners have been sent to Catulla and
other points tor arms and ammunition.*.
It is Ascertained that Mexicans crossed
the Rio Grande on the night or Fob.fi.
they numbered 100, and have divided
their force into four bands, who are ap
proaching Carrizo through unfrequented
portions of the country, driving away
herds by detail as they advance into the
interior.
A RUNNING FIGHT.
A spirited running fight occurred to
day between scouts of citizens and a de
tail of Mexicans. Two marauders wire
killed and one American was w’ouuded.
Sheriff Oglesby, of Maverick county, has
sent a mounted posse to the scene of
action on the frontier. Troops at Uvalde
left t--night for Carrizo. Another report
from i ie trout chronicles another bloody
attniy, in wbicb twelve Mexicans
were killed and a number
won The American loss, if any, was
no <:”ed. These conflicts took place
ben • or. ranchmen and relays of Mexi
cans who were overtaken while
driving stock toward the Hio Grande.
The Mexicans are being reinforced,
their objective point being Carrizo
Springs, at which place it is believed
they have agreed Jo concentrate their
lorces au_l attack the town for tho pur
pose of releasing their companions eon
liued for cattle stealing. Telegrams from
many places along tiie Rio Grande call
on the authorities lor troops.
A DEADLY SCOURGE.
Black Scarlet Fever Makes Appear
ance in Louisville, Ky.
In the mortuary report, returned to the
Louisville, Ky., Health Otlice Thursday,
were two deaths iu one family—that of B.
C. Scanned, ol No. 1825 Fort land avenue.
In both cases the cause of death was
ascribed to “black scarlet lever.”
A reporter, informed of the dangerous
contagion attending black scarlet fever,
set. out to learn the particulars in the
case,
oil reaching Portland avenue it was
learned that nearly all the houses in the
Scannell neighborhood were deserted. Mr.
Scannell’s family occupy a two-story
brick just above Nineteenth. A preva
lence of great alarm and anxiety was
soon developed. The terror-stricken peo
ple in that vicinity regard the disease as
more deadly anil contagious than small
pox, yellow fever or cholera.
Questioning physicians as to the first
cases of the disease, the reporter learned
that the original case reported was that
o' Mrs. Blake, who died about two months
ago. She was attended by Dr. Bailey,
who, after the decease of his patient, en
deavored, by the free use of disinfectants
and burning the bedding and clothing, to
check the spread of the disease.
Despite all the efforts, the family of Mr.
B. C. Scannell next tell victims. Mr.
Scannell’s family had been on friendly
terms with the lady who died. There is
no doubt as to where the disease then
originated lrom. Sporadic it is termed by
physicians, meaning that it emanates
from germs which are conveyed in arti
cles of clothing, food and water, or more
directly by the air.
On Wednesday a week ago, little Bar
tholomew, a 0-year-old son of Mr. Sean
nell’s. became suddenly and violently ill.
Violent vomiting and purging attacked
him, and in a few hours the disease had
reached its height. Dr. Benjamin A. Al
len, the family physician, was called in
and he pronounced the disease at once
scarlatina maligna, or, as it is more com
monly called, “black scarlet fever.”
The boy’s life was despaired of, but
nevertheless, lrs. Larabee, Pelie and Al.
len, Sr., were called in consultation. In
spite ol their united endeavors the child
died iu twenty hours after being taken ill.
The children in the Scannell family
were kept carefully separated from their
dead brother, anil every effort was made
to prevent their contracting the disease.
This was iu vain, however, for on Monday
Birdie, an eight-year-old girl, on rising in
the morning was suddenly seized with
cramps and a severe headache. In a few
moments she was attacked with violent
vomiting and purging. Growing rapidly
worse, in a lew hours she was soon in a
comatose condition with a high fever.
The fever rose rapidly, and by midnight
reached 100 degrees. At daybreak she,
too, died in a state of extreme exhaustion.
Wednesday morning the eldest child
was attacked by the disease, and at night
his lile was despaired oi. Birdie was
buried in the alternoon, the family leav
ing the latest victim ol' the disease at
home. With the sick bov w’as left his
nurse and the youngest child. On their
return from the funeral the grief-stricken
parents were horrified to find their young
est child in the clutches of the dreaded
disease.
The stricken family receive no commis
eration from the .neighbors, wiio, badly
frigh;c-ned, evade them, and have estab
lished a quarantine. All their efforts
have been futile, however, and two new
cases hove been reported, one in the fam
ily ol >' loe Waters and another a do
rnesti in ployed near the Scannell resi
dence.
Noue but the most courageous and
reckless and dearest friends have come
near to alleviate the misery of the
afflicted ones. With blanched faces and
averted heads those compelled to pass the
scourged spot hurry by, and anxious
mothers guard their children from the
pestilence.
Dr. B. A. Allen is untiring in his efforts
to prevent the spread of the disease, but
it is feared that its pestilential breath
will sweep over and scourge the entire
neighborhood, and it is impossible to con
jecture where it wil! stop.
Speaking of the disease the doctor said:
“It spares neither age, sex nor color,
and is most deadly in its action. Tho
most common results, if recovery from
the disease should take place at all, are
Bright’s disease of the kidneys, deafness,
loss of speech, abscesses and paralysis.
“One curious leature of this disease,
and the one which gives it the name,
‘black scarlet fever,’ is that within a few
minutes alter death the patient’s face
grows black very rapidly. The disease is
characterized by violent retching and
purging, with no clearly defined premon
itory symptoms. After the first stage is
past the 1 emperature rises very rapidly,
and becomes higher than in almost any
other disease, frequently, in fatal cases,
rising to 106 degrees or 107 degrees.”
French Anarchists Arrested.
* Paris, Feb. B.—The police to-day ar
rested twenty-seven Anarchists who were
holding a secret meeting for the purpose
ol organizing a demonstration upon the
Boulevards.
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