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RGIA AND FLORIDA.
\\- OK THE TWO STATUS
T 1 jot. l* IS PARAGRAPHS.
. ~f an liiMne Negress with a
• ."child in Her Arm* in a Swamp
" , r .tine <>lil Relics at Dawson—
..iita Rosa County.
jlurtler tu
GEORGIA.
tv t- soon to liave anew
is >-1 $4.5*10.
. mil Newberry claim to
: ~ -..ite quarry in the Cohut
. . r - r of Robert I‘artain, of Ilart
■ nvieted in a Texan court
t.j - xty years in the peniten
. ~ii the Marietta ami North
- -•. beery it has never
n r the river. New bridges
- .• I. leather belt at the Ath
i has ts-eu in constant use for
. an I from its looks will last
. r f years yet.
■ r t faniilv. consisting of one
. i re children, one hound ami
l-. iion Howard street ves
_. Their baggage was hauled
- - r lav. Johnson Bros., jewel
-- .'ament for the benefit of
Iheir liabilities arc $5 502,
- $4,751. S. King is appoint
ive creditors reside chiefly in
. i M irdaway. of McDuffie county,
l turnips last rail, and has
\: anta forty barrels and sold in
.ri.i t .'.500 turnips, and still has
. - patch. He never fails to
rop. and without rain at that.
M . county of Dooly 100 white
-of age. and of that a*.miser
r To and to over SO years of
bow living in the county
■ who were grown 40 years
.• re then residents of Dooly
•.t T n’r.c* of freeholders
with the Ordinary in Oconee
. him to order an election
nee.” The freeholders of
• the majority, and in favor
,t how the election will go is
•A': There is a family of
.re that nuniliers eleven—
t f .ur girls—and neither one
. r taken a drop of whisky as a
• one of them has ever tas ed
. drink except vinegar and
. . at Alapaha writes as follows:
f sow that was pigged on the
. ->2. On Aug. 25, IsSi. she found
ii iiemg only 8 months old; on
>-t. she found 10 more pigs; on
"i. -he found 12 more pigs, and on
. -tie found 12 more pigs, who h
. -1 . her age being two years and
The reports from the farm
i!if line ot the Cooea River Tele
iny’s wires indicate the planting
s-.'-r -rips the coming season than for
The increase in acreage will be
rn. wheat and other grains. The
tin- farmers are opening to the fact
■*:,•> otton is king, he sometimesbank
slaves, and some are learning that
corn, hogs, etc., pay better than
* \m.r;ciis correspondent writes to the
l that place as follows: My mother,
• w 7V years of age, lias a common
. - i.ich is over 50 years old. It was made
.1 : .. • ..untv then Dooly) alonit the year
i Mr. Heed, and sold by him to Mr.
.!. Ford, who has one son living and
.rani and great-grandchildren, all in
t ri . and after his death the chair, with
I was purchase*! by his son, William .1.
.me of the first settlers of Albany, who
: r- Imy oiliest r, and died some years
Mrs. Fold afterward married lr.
Stokes, of Worth county. He and
died a few years ago, and thus my
>il heir to the said chair. The legs
,r. worn <>ff to the lower rounds, and it
•- . .nd bottom; otherwise it is well
Wirs: We are informed oa good
r v t J. on last Friday some laborers
v k mg's plantation found a lialf
■ .i woman, bidden in a swamp
i r. •:v at work. Lying asleep in
hall dad w hite child, about S
i. When questioned as to who
. . - .nd at her questioners vacant
■ not ‘.cil, it then dawneil
. i-t i .‘tied darkies that the |mor
of the first water. Thev
i rc l ..f her as to whom she once l>e
ui-wered. -To Old Mistis.”
I "Who was your old Mistus?”
H. .k • • r head and gave the same vague
H-.c -A i , ]■• did you live last year-” asked
H • " ilh Marse—Booker—lhioker
9 - r ,r i nir informant thinks she al-
H Mr It s.ki r Sutton. Mrs. Fanning
H v > r creature cared for until
■- - ir. : ikcri to have her removed to
§1 • . . •Unity deserves, the asylum.
H i at the child was kidnapped.
H -\ i Of Dawson, has a hand bo x
H* .•• -. ii in use in her family sixty
fl - - 11- t walking-stick made of cab-
H . . . which lias been in her family
m i.-ars; two chests, which her
H.’ . in. -11.-ndry, purchased at the
§S . r. i-.hitionary war. lie |iaid $5O
m| si : continental money. They
He i- of preservation. She also
■ years old. which is perfectly
- • she has been offered >5 for
M , ’. it refuse*! to cut it. James 11.
§9 ; rof Mrs. Cobb, has a gilt-edge
H ■ ■ >n ..f a King James .Bible which
• .': r. William laving, brouglil
Jjm a. Edinburgh. Scotland, in the
SB H - li.iine and date were w ritten
HB ■ w r. hand, and it sliows about as
BB ■ :i-l Die year it was written. It
HI '• taken care of and is a very re -
■ - Bible, not withstand!! g it
BH - at lea-t 112 years. Judge
BH 1 .ii! inotlc-r IsUli Jived to the
years. He is now *;< years
BH -i.-t nc and useful about the
u. i s'orc, and is likely to sur-
BH - i-Ins parents did.
■B FLORIDA.
BH -f fruit which was on exltibi-
Bm bur lias been sent to New
■ Waite left Tampa Friday
BH - - .Dy unproved health. He will
BH 1 ’ '• - inf..id and Enterprise
■ •v.arn.i* North.
BH I- * . I.ong. of Tallahassee.
H| ; a aph .-is ..ii silk culture, and
9BE i gratuitously. They were so
|HS -he was induced to pub
h| -i a revised edition.
; • r-rn had s<d the woo*ls on
. I and I. ii. Blanchard’s
H wind, which was blowing
BH e i f.rought the tire down
HB 1 rviug to save it, he must
jHB ' rt • or Having over-exerted
BH '•< fell into it. When found
w a- I >■ rf* *- 1 1 y unconscious
H 1.r.-allied his last. Mr.
jHB inoffensive man of
HH oi-ng James Kdgar was
|H| •• "anta Hosa county, on
H| ‘ n’l- 1 a Bay below Trout
HH 1 -M don and gave himself
HH 1 - In route to the jail he
•'.'••n threatening my life
' met l:iut in an old sedge
HH - morning to him. He re
' - •'■h. an I leveled his gun at
BH the gun as it fired, and
HH l-c- had his knife in h-s
- u' from side to side, nearly
SBB ■ a! 'ne blow. Kdgar lived
Ho.. 1.. A. Barnes has
H,., olie of the largest real
that has taken place in
o ' time, and one which
i . 1.1 1 y-a colony, we may
HB in citizens. He has sold
HB -ove near the Sink and
. o ii.r-k- adjoining; also his
1 .me acre of land, anil a
' ii 14. which is situated
The purchaser is Mr.
HB '.r.iiel Bapids, M'ch.
HB ' r -poses to bring some
es from Michigan, and
Mw n. 'ii of our vicinity well
HB ■ '-oss.on as the rose.
S u ' l!| 111 S. (is THE HUDSON.
H** \
■ 1,. ’•iSi.K.ir of Jay Gould and
f !•*!<! Living in a Cave.
v ' f Tty years, says the
' ■ William Stalilton, bet-
Kg ' IK-rmitol the Sawmill
1 tKar Irvington, West
■ He is a patriarch In
-> , . | - ‘'ell built, with long,
SS;- d ■. - ’ -‘ml !*eard, and nearly
_ Mthough a German by
■E- ' tiv ‘ itiilereut language’s
■B -- \oral acres of rocky
H .the property of Jay-
In ' " . h ield. A cave about
... dug in one of the side
H 1 '"iily habitation. The
■ ' 'Ubtt-rranean abode
H uci-aled between two
■ has lived for many
B rful simplicity. His
|B> ‘ "■•>'of vegetables, which
B land, fish caught in
> and game which he
18-. ■ neighborhood. He
**ed lives alone. He
HF * '’" kings,only a cotton
HB ... 1 l air ..f olue*trousers.
y r. winter and sum-
He ' "“‘form and walks
- ni'i takes a bath. If
■‘ks it and jumps in.
... adopted boys, whom
■K “ u.m-elf. and has tried
; . ” the same lite as his
* •!. • '•'• ter. could not stand
wa ter.
g B' l ‘q.,| J l ,’ i ' "V reticent about his
JJ -V. • :r, t„ be in mortal fear
\v.' \“ t” l >e quite wealthy.
flu tfe- (] ;' at on*; time wanted
*1 ■l**”!*;,.,,, 1 ,1’ r ”Perty. The old
Va l it * U * il needless
lj . k " 1 4 small prlvat*
but bis manners
B;. Ur Uuw he swainp“d the
fighting for a fortune.
A Remarkable Story Brought to Light by
the Heath of E. K. Crosby.
A commission has been issued out of the
Orphan’s Court to Counsellor Maxwell
Stevenson, savs a Philadelphia special, to
take testimony in New York in connec
tion with an extraordinary claim made to
a large estate left by the late Edward F.
Crosby of this city. Mr. Crosby recently
died on board the steamer Bermuda, ot
the West India Line, while returning to
his hortie. The value of the property lelt
by him is estimated to lie $250,000. His
death brings to light a remarkable story
in the_ claim of Adelaide E. Curtis,
of this citv, to administer the
estate as the widow of the
dead man. A counter petition has
been made by Robert A. Crosby, a neigh
bor, as the nearest of kin, and,' therefore,
the heir of his uncle. The claim of the
widow will l>e contested. Mr. Crosby
had been an invalid lor several years and
usually passed his winters in Havana.
He lelt New Vork for the West Indies
early in October last, and would have re
mained until spring, but feeling that his
complaint had taken a fatal form, he
wrote to Mrs. Curtis to meet him in New
i ork upon his arrival, and then took pas
sage and died at sea on Dec. 18, and was
buried from the ship. At the gangway of
the Bermuda, ou its arrival at New York,
a woman, who eagerly inquired for Mr.
Crosby, fainted when she was told of his
death, and afterward took charge of his
luggage, saying he had been her husband.
For more than 1)0 years John F. Crosby
kept a rag warehouse *,u the lower side of
W*er street, below Vine. He did a great
deal of business in a quiet way, but lived
frugally, and was very eccentric. One day
Crosby failed to appear at Vine and Water
streets, and a bit of crape fluttered from
the rusty handle of the rag warehouse.
He had died leaving a fortune of nearly
$300,000 to his only child, Edward F.
Crosby, “wb mi,” the will said, “I drove
from home by ray cruelty when a boy.”
Crosby, the father, died on Jan. 5, IbOT.
Young Crosby was well known among
the young people of his age in the
neighborhood of Franklin street, above
f allow Hill, where he boarded with a
Quaker family. Adelaide Curtis, the
daughter of his landlady, was several
years younger than he, of a very lively
disposition, and exceedingly attractive in
manner and feature. All their young
friends regarded them as engaged. One
July a I ter noon young Crosby and his
landlady's pretjty daughter joined In a
picnic which was held in the East I’ark.
After several quiet games one of the
young men startled the gathering with
the novel proposition, “Let us all get
married for fun.” Several of the young
women objected, but when Adelaide
Curtis and Crosby volunteered to stand
up together the others waived their objec
tions and the ceremonies began. A young
divinity student, who is now a clergy
man in the West, was by popular
choice selected to officiate, and
went through the ceremony of
the Society of Friends. The newly-wedded
couple wandered off again under the trees
with laughter at their new relation, and
by the time it was decided to start for
home the ceremonies had lieen forgotten
by nearly ail. Adelaide Curtis, however,
did not forget the occurrence. She told it
to her parents as a joke, and frequently
referred to it in the presence ol her
mother’s attentive boarder. This was two
years before the death of Crosby’s lather.
About a year afterward the two were en
gaged to each other with Mrs. Curtis’
consent. The young man only waited to
better his condition for the setting up of a
household of his own. Two years after
ward, by the death of Crosby’s father, he
eame into possession of an’ unexpected
fortune, and for a change he de
cide*! to travel until his brief term
of mourning was at an end. His
marriage with Miss Curtis was to take
place immediately upon his return. Ed
ward F. Crosby never came back to Phila
delphia, and Miss Curtis never married.
For twelve years Crosby wandered in for
eign lands, living at times in London,
Paris, and New York. Whenever he
touched American soil the tirst thing he
did after arrival was to telegraph to Miss
Curtis to come and pay him a visit. She
always took up her abode near him until
his departure. Upon the death of her
mother, three years ago. Miss Curtis se
cured rooms in North Thirty-fifth street,
i* here she has lived in retirement, only
disturbed by her absen-es in New York
during Mr. Crosby’s stay there. She pos
sessed considerable money and lived in
comfortable sty.e. Miss Curtis, or Mrs.
Crosby, as she styles herself, is a hand
some woman of 40 years. She is nowin
New York looking after her interests.
Robert A. Crosby, whoopposes her claims,
is the sou of an aunt of the dead man and
the only surviving relative.
SUSTAINING A PASTOR.
for a Theft Committal Yt*ar
Ago—tils Cos ne recat lon Si anti by Him.
Rev. W. L. Woodruff, says a Boston
special to the New York Herald of Feb. 7,
is a tall, young looking man, with a pale,
intellectual face, ornamented with a heavy
moustache. In November last Mr. Wood
ruff was hired at a monthly salary to
preach in the pulpit of the E Street Con
gregational Church, South Boston. He
soon became very popular. In December
strange rumors began to come to the ears
of the church members. Mr. Woodruff
learned the name of an individual who had
given utterance to them. He went imme
diately to this man. a clergyman settle !
over a cburch of the Congregational per
suasion in a neighboring town. This gen
tleman informed Mr. Woodruff that cer
tain scandalous matters in connection
with his past life had come to his notice.
No man ought to remain in the ministry
whose record was tarnished, especially if
his rascality had reached the extent of a
conviction and imprisonment for robbing
the United States mails. Mr. Woodruff
promptly promised to resign tor the stated
reason that any mistake of his past life
was not the fault of the E Street Church,
and that the church must not be dragged
into any scandal growing out of it.
A SELF KIGIC rEOCS COUNCIL.
On the following day he wrote a letter
of resignation, which he presented to a
church committee. The committee de
manded an explanation and be gave it.
He said that two years ago he held the
position of business manager on the
Baltimore Presbyterian. The paper be
came financially involved and he was
unable to obtain his salary. Owing to
the foreclosure of a mortgage the paper
passed out of the hands of the man in
whose employ he was. On the following
day he went as usual to his box in the
post office and took therefrom the mail,
in which were letters containing money
directed to the paper, and not to himself
personally. He was arrested on this,
found guilty by the United States Court,
and given the smallest possible
sentence —a fine of s2<X)—in default
of payment of which he was to
spend thirty days in the common jail.
For the reason that to pay this fine he
must deprive his family of the little
money remaining in their possession he
preferred to serve out the term in jail,
and did so. He admitted that be had
done wrong and had been disgraced, but
he thought he had lived the matter down,
having been for two years pastor of a
church in Savlesville, R. 1., where his
reputation was unblemished. Upon hear
ing this explanation the committee called
a church eouncil. This council decided
that a minister of the gospel ought to be
a man of unblemished reputation, and
advised the church to accept his resigna
tion. . .
The rumor of the decision of the council
spread like wildfire among members of
the church. As 6<*ra as it was know r n the
ladies of the congregation started a sub
scription paper for funds with which to
hire a hall where the many friends ol Mr.
Woodruff might continue to hear him in
the event of his leaving the church. A
serious split in the church seemed immi
nent. when a church meeting was called
to take action on the report of the coun
cil. At that meeting much feeling was
manifested, and when the question of
accepting the pastor’s letter ol re
signation was finally put to vote
it” was negatived and the adviee
of the council was rejected by
a vote of 75 to 1. The meeting of the so
ciety held shortly after reinforced this ver
dicthv a vote of 15 to 3. The pastor was
informed that the church would not per
mit him to go away for such reasons as
had been given, anil should not abide bv
the decision of the council. Mr. Wood
ruff expressed himself as bowing to their
will in the matter and consented to re
main as long as the unanimity continued
as it then was. A few members left the
congregation, but the majority remained,
and so the matter stands.
HO Its FORD'S ACID PHOSPHATE.
For Sick Headache.
Dr. N. S. Read, Chicago, says: “1 think
it is a remedy of the highest value in
many forms of mental and nervous ex
haustion, attended by sick headache, dys
pepsia and diminished vitality.”
SPEER AGAIN’ SET BACK.
THE COMMITTEE’S REPORT DE
LAYED ANOTHER WEEK.
Gen. Lawton's Popularity with the Pres-
Ident-Klect Undoubted Mr. Cleve
land’s Intentions on Removals Made
Plain—Mr. Randall Confident that an
Extra Session will be Avoided.
Washington, Feb. 9. —Emory Speer is
no nearer confirmation to-day than Tie
was a week ago. The Judiciary Commit
tee did not have time this morning, since
the Senate met at 11 o’clock Instead of at
12, to consider the case, and so It goes
over until the next meeting, which will
be on Monday next. Mr. Speer says the
committee will then report the nomina
tion favorably, and that it will go right
through. This is not absolutely certain.
MR. CLEVELAND'S POLICY.
If the Democrats who went over to see
Mr. Cleveland last week brought back
little information about his Cabinet, they
have brought back a good deal of infor
mation about his probable policy. About
Ibis Mr. Cleveland spoke freely and frank
ly. All the returned statesmen agree in
their reports respecting the policy, how
ever they may (litter about the Cabinet of
the President-elect. They all agree that
Mr. Cleveland’s policy will be to give the
country an honest, economical, progres
sive and conservative administration,
such as he has given New York, and that
fie will be as independent of the politi
cians here as there. Specifically
they say that he favors a
Conservative foreign policy, a
new navy, better coast defenses, the sus
pension of standard silver dollar coinage
anti the redemption of the trade dollar,
tariff reform and the enactment of a gen
eral bankruptcy law similar to that con
tained in the bill now pending iu the
House.
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.
But the one thing most deeply im
pressed upon the mind of the average re
turned Democratic visitor to Mr. Cleve
land is that the latter really means all
that he has said about civil service re
form. A Lfemocrat who was in New Y’ork
last week says on this head: “Mr. Cleve
land inquired of several of the Senators
what was thought in Washington
ot his late civil service letter
and the principles laid down
therein. It was suggested to him
that more than one construction had been
put upon the letter; that it had been In
terpreted, for instance, by some office,
seekers as not meaning so much as ap
peared to those who were not looking for
place.
NO DECEPTION IN HIS LETTEK.
To this suggestion he replied very de
cidedly that the letter meant exactly
what it sAid, no more and no less,
and that those who were under
taking to read between the lines would
find themselves mistaken. He did not
propose removing any Republican official
who had been faithful and attentive to his
duties and whose administration of bis
otlice was satisfactory to the public who
were immediately concerned. AVhen the
terms of such officers expired he expect
ed of course to till their places with good
men of his own party, if they could be
found, which he did not doubt. There
might be reasons in some cases why
this position should not be adhered to,
but under all ordinary and usual circum
stances It would be the rule.
POINTERS ABOUT THE CABINET.
The News correspondent is able to
make several positive statements about
Mr. Cleveland’s Cabinet. First, no mem
ber ot it has yet been selected; second,
Messrs. Bayard and Garland will almost
certainly be in it; third, Mr. Money, of
Mississippi, and Mr. Jonas, of Louisiana,
will almost certainly not be in it; fourth,
the three mentioned’ among his visuors
who pleased Mr. Cleveland most last
week are Messrs. Lamar, ot Mississippi,
and Colquitt and Norwood, of Georgia.
Mr. Lamar recommended Gen. Walthall,
of Mississippi, and Messrs. Colquitt and
Norwood recommended Gen. Lawton, of
Georgia. The President-elect will give
their recommendations careful considera
tion. Gen. Lawton he knows and likes
very much. He has placed his name on
the list of those whom he would like to
appoint mem tiers of his Cabinet,
BAYARD’S FINANCES.
Mr. Bayard is said to feel that his
private fortune is too small to justify him
in taking the portfolio of State, a position
that requires its occupant to expend
money far in excess of the salary of the
office in social entertainments. Besides
this reason Mr. Bayard has another, and
that is that he likes his post in the Sen
ate, where he will naturally be the leader
of his party. It is an open secret that
Mr. Bayard would leave the Senate, how
ever, to be Secretary of the Treasury if
he were urged to do so. and that August
Belmont, William It. Travers and other
financiers would like to have him in
that office. It is also pretty well under
stood that a strong influence in the party
is against the policy of making him Secre
tary of the Treasury, and that Mr. Cleve
land has inclined to listen to this in
fluence, and to intimate that, while he
hopes Mr. Bayard will consent to be his
Secretary of State, he has other notions
about the Treasury Depatt:nent. Mr.
Belmont and his friends are now said to
have yielded so far as to agree that Mr.
Bayard ought to be induced to take the
portfolio of State, and to be pushing
Alexander Mitchell, of Wisconsin, for
Secretary of the Treasury.
MANNING’S INDIFFERENCE.
Daniel Manning doubtless could be
Secretary of the Treasury if he would say
the word, but he is wholly without am
bition for public office, and feels, besides,
that liis business affairs demand bis per
sonal attention. Several New York bank
ers and business men have told Mr.Cleve
land that they would be pleased with Mr.
Manning’s appointment, and the politi
cians who follow Mr. Manning’s leader
ship strongly favor his selection, in the
belie that it would strengthen the party
in the State. Mr. Manning, it is said,
fails to see the force of any of these argu
ments, and prefers to be the silent power
behind the new administration. Some of
the party leaders about the hotels last
night thought that Mr. Tilden might per
suade Air. Manning that it was his duty
to go into Mr. Cleveland’s Cabinet.
THE TRIO OF FAFORITES.
A Democrat who is very well informed,
but who would not permit his name to be
given as authority for the statement, said
that the I’ost Office Department would be
given to one ot three men. These men
ate Gen. E. C. Walthall, of Mississippi,
Gen. Lawton, of Georgia, and Senator
Jenas, of Louisiana. He said that the
difficulty with the appointment of Mr.
Jonas was that the failure on the part of
his State to give him a re-election to the
Senate deprived him of much prestige,
and promised to clear the way for one of
the other candidates. The same gentle
man also said that Mr. Money’s candidacy
was only the result ot persisteut Pick
wickian flattery.
Among the reports in circulation, and
perhaps the wildest of all that floated
about the corridors to-day, was one to the
effect that under the direction of Mr. Til
den. Mr. Cleveland had induced Mr. Ran
dall and Mr. Carlisle to agree upon a
proposition that, in the Forty-ninth Con
gress, a compromise on the tariff question
should be reached between the wings of
the Democratic party by which reductions
should le made in both the internal reve
nue and customs taxes sufficient to pre
vent the accumulation of surplus, and
thus the tariff' question should be taken
out of Congress. Mr. Randall laughs mer
rily at the Idea of thus disposing of a
great publie question.
AN EXTRA SESSION OBVIATED.
Mr. Randall says that the victory of
the Appropriations Committee in the
House to-day insures the passage of all
the appropriation bills before
March 4, and so obviates the necessity
for an extra session of the next Congress’.
He is supposed to reflect the wishes of
Mr. Cleveland in opposing an extra ses
sion.
As has been said, everybody is appar
ently opposed to an extra session. But
there is sometimes a current in politics
which it is vain to oppose. The indiffer
ence of the leading Republicans to the
dispatch of business is ominous. They
say they are anxious to proceed, but they
don’t go ahead. On the contrary, they
hang back. The voice is the voice of
Jacob, but the hand is the hand of Esau.
Mr. Randall may sketch a programme for
the session, but it will be almost at the
mercy ot anv fifty determined members.
The Democrats, with a majority ol sixty,
can do as they please, but practically
they must do as a Republican minority
please, and the course of this minority
will tie largely determined by what
Mr. Blaine advises. Mr. Blaine will have
quite as much to say about the extra
session as Mr. Randall. There could be
no greater mistake than to regard Blaine
as a dead cock in the pit. He is the lead
er of the Republican party, and its policy,
especially in the House of Representa-
is iargely controlled by him. He
did much to kjii the treaties. That was
SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1885.
to punish treachery, vindicate his foreign
policy as Secretary of State under Gar
field, hold the party steadfast to the high
protection principle, and show his per
sonal power. If Mr. Blaine shows Mr.
Hiscock, Mr. Reed and Mr. Phelps that
it will be good politics to force an extra
session, it will be done. The Democrats
cannot prevent it. But, of course, in that
case the Republicans will be loud in their
laments. They will disavow all responsi
bility.
UNION PACIFIC DEBT.
The Secretary of the Interior will reply
ttiis week to the resolution of the Senate,
asking how much the Union Pacific owes
the government on current account. The
officers of the road now here state that
the amount is less than $1,000,000, instead
of nearly $3,000.C00 as has been reported.
The Commissioner of Pacific Railway
Accounts concurs in this statement.
CARLISLE'S RECOVERY.
Speaker Carlisle, who has been confined
to his room with a bad cold ever since his
return from Albany, was able to be out
today, and would have been had ttie
weather not been so inclement.
DON CAMERON’S SOUTHERN TRIP.
Senator Don Cameron will start to
morrow for the South. He will spend
much of his time while absent in Florida.
His health has been failing of late, and
hi 9 physicians have advised him not to
remain here any longer, although he
wanted to stay the session out. Mr.
Cameron has had two hemorrhages re
cently, and he is advised to the
milder climate of the far South and take as '
much outdoor exercise as he can. He
will be paired during his absence.
IN SENATE AND HOUSE.
Cameron Declaims in Favor of Bounties
to Americau Shipbuilders.
Washington, Feb. 9.—The chair laid
before the Senate to-day the concurrent
resolution heretofore submitted by Mr.
Miller, of California, to authorize the
President to announce to foreign
governments the result of the delibera
tions of the international conference held
in Washington in October last for the
purpose of fixing a prime meridian and
universal and to invite the concur
rence of such governments in such result.
The resolution was agreed to.
Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, delivered a
long and cure!ul y prepared speech in advo
cacy of bounties to American ship builders.
Mr. Vau Wyck asked and received unani
mous consent for consideration ot the House
bill to prevent the unlawful inclosure of pub
lic lands, better known : s the “fencing bill.”
The amendments of tiie Senate committee
were concurred in, and at 1 o’clock the bill
went over and the unfinished business was
laid before the Senate, being the anti-silver
coinage bill. Mr. Beck proceeded to address
the Senate. He said that he would
endeavor to show why the sections providing
for the retirement of trade dollars should
pass and why the provision for stopping the
coinage of the silver dollar should be stricken
out
Mr. Morgan presented the credentialsof re
election of Senator I’ugli, of Alabama. They
were read and tiled.
THE PENSION BILL.
The pension appropriation bill was taken
up. A long discussion ensued regarding the
interpretation of the Senate rule forbidding
the proposmgof general legislation on appro
priation bills.
Dismission arose ou a point of order
raiseil by Mr. Ingalls on an amendment
proposed by the Senate Appropriations Com
mittee to this bill. The point of order was
that, under the rules of -the Senate, the pro
|K>sed amendment was not in order. The
amendment proposed was to modify the pro
vision of the House lull that established in
favor of pension applicants presumption of
soundness at the tune of enlistment. The
modification would establish presumption in
favor of those only wiio had served at least
three months.
Presiding Officer Platt held that Mr. Ingalls’
point of order was well taken, and, therefore,
that the Senate committee’s proposed amend
ment was not admissable.
Mr. Ingalls, for the purpose of obtaining the
opinion of the Senate, appealed from the de
cision of the chair. The action proposed by
the Senate, lie said, was not the proposing
of legislation, but an amendment of legisla
tion already proposed by the House. After
further debate the decision of the chair was
sustained by 35 yeas to 23 nays, as follows:
Teas— Messrs. Aldrich, Allison. Bayard.
Beck, Blair, Brown, Cameron of Wisconsin,
Chaco, Colquitt. Conger, Cullom, Edmunds,
Garland, Gorman, Groome, Hamilton, Harris,
Harrison, Hawley, Hoar, Lamar, Lapham,
McMillan, Manderson, Mitchell, Morrill.
Palmer, Pendleton, Pike. Platt, Pugh, Ran
som, Sabin and Wilson—'ls.
Mays— Messrs. Call. Coke, Dawes, Ilolph,
Frye, George, Hale, Ingalls, Jackson, Jonas,
Mahone, Maxey, Miller of California, Millc-r
of New York, Morgan, Saulsbury, Sawyer,
Sherman, Slater. Van Wyck, Vest, Voorliees
and Williams—23.
A bill was passed appropriating $(150,000
for tiie purchase of a site for the extension of
the Post Office Department building in Wash
ing, I>. C., which extension shall embrace
proper accommodations for the city i ost office.
After an executive session the Senate ad
journed.
IN THE HOUSE.
Tiie House at 12:50 o’clock to-day went into
committee of the whole (with Mr. springer, of
Illinois, in the chair) on the po9t office appro
priation bill. After a quarter of an hour
spent in a futile effort to come to some deter
mination as to the length of time to be con
sumed in tiie general debate, Mr. Townshend
proceeded to explain the provisions of tiie bill,
which he characterized as the most important
postal appropriation bill which had ever been
reported to Congress. It appronriatei.
be stated, $52,253,200. being $3,212,800
less than the amount carried by
the law for the current year. The amount of
resources estimated for 1880 w;ts $51,272,820. If
the bill was passed in its present form it
would carry every dollar needed for the
public service, but large as was the appropri •
atiou the greater temperance of the bill was
made in the postal laws. The most import
ant of these changes was one in the method
of compensating railways for mail service,
which would save the government over
$1,500,000 per annum.
At the close of Mr. Townshend’s speech the
committee rose, and Mr. Townshend moved
that all general debate be limited to five hours.
Mr. Willis wished to have the debate limi
ted to one hour anil a half, but Mr. Townshend
declined to yield to the motion to this effect,
ami Mr. Randall suggested that live hours
was not too long to debate a bill of this mag
nitude. The river and harbor bill bad been
debated for a week.
Mr. Willis said this had been done in oppo
tilion to the wishes of the committee, lie
wanted the river und harbor bill passed, but
it appeared to be the desire of the Appropria
tions Committee to de'eat it.
Mr. Townshend’s motion was agreed to, and
the committee resumed its session.
CONTINUANCE OF THE DEBATE.
The bill was debated by Messrs. Ilorr of
Michigan, Aikin of South Carolina, Ryan of
Kansas, Money of Mississippi, and Hunt of
Louisiana. Mr. Ryan, in the course of his
remarks, called the attention of tiie commit
tee to the backward condition of the appro
priation bills. Only one of the thirteen gene
ral appropriation bills hail gone to the Presi
dent. and there were only nineteen legislative
days of the session remaining. The peril of
an extra session was imminent, and it be
hooved the House, if it would avoid sueh a
session and all its disastrous consequences to
the country, to proceed rapidly to the dispo
sal of the appropriation bills. Pending fur
ther debate the committee rose.
A resolutiou was adopted reserving the
whole of the east gallery of the House for
the accommodation of the families of Sen
ators ami members during the counting of
tiie electoral vote on Wednesday next. The
House then, at 3:30 o’clock, took a recess until
11 o'clock to-moitow.
AN ORDER TO NAVAL OFFICERS.
Communications to Congress Must be
Made Through Department Channels.
Washington, Feb. 9.—The Secretary
of the Navy has issued the following
general order:
All petitions, remonstrances, memorials and
communications from any officer or officers of
the navy or navy corns, whether on the re
tired or active list, addressed to Congress, or
to anv committee of Congress,or to any mem
ber of Congress on any subject of legislation
pending, proposed or suggested will be for
warded through the Navy Department and
not otherwise except by authority of the de
partment. and no officer will appear before
anv committee of Congress except by such
authority. Strict compliance with this order
will be required.
It is understood that this order was
prompted by the action of a number ot
naval officers in uniting in a protest to
Congress against the passage of the reso
lution thanking Commodore Schley and
Lieut. Emory, of the Greely relief expe
dition. The Secretary has’ addressed a
circular letter to the officers who signed
the petition calling their attention to the
fact that they have violated the naval
regulation which forbids officers of the
navy from attempting to influence legisla
tion. The only action taken by Secretary
Chandler in regard to the proposed vote of
thanks was to address a letter to Senator
Hale, of the Senate Naval Committee, in
which he says that wh'le he preferred
that no name should be mentioned in the
resolution, if it was decided otherwise, it
would, in his opinion, be unjust to Com
mander Coffin, of the Alert, to omit his
name.
Secured a Secretaryship.
Washington, Feb. 9.—^The Senate to
day confirmed the nomination of William
E. Curtis to be Secretary of the South
American Commercial Relations Com.*
mission. This is a nomination which has
been hanging in suspense in the Senate
for a long time.
The National Democratic Committee.
Washington, Feb. 9.—A call has been
issued by the Secretary of the National
Democratic Committee for a meeting to
be held at the Arlington Hotel, in this
city, on Monday, March 2. The purpose
of the meeting is not Bt&ted.
MR. WILLIS’ BILL SINKS.
POSTAL APPROPRIATIONS BEAT
THE liIVERS AND HARBORS.
An Effort to he Made to Raise the
.Sunken Measure—Messrs. Nicholls
and Colquitt Looking After the Inter
ests of Savannah—Mr. White Proves
Almost Irrepressible.
Washington, Feb. 9.— Representative
Nicholls ottered in the House to-day an
amendment to the river and harbor bill
appropriating SIOO,OOO for a dredge boat
to be used by the government engineers
in dredging the harbors of Savannah and
Charleston and the St. John’s bar. At
the request of the River and Harbor Com
mittee he withdrew It upon the assurance
that the committee would accept it when
the end of the bill was reached, which
was not done to-day. Senator Colquitt
and Mr. Nicholls expect to get an item In
the river and harbor bill in the Senate, if
it reaches that house, appropriating $200,-
000 for Savannah harbor and $7-000 for
Brunswick.
Mr. Willis, Chairman of the Committee
on Rivers and Harbors, says that an ef
fort will be made to secure further con
sideration ol the river and harbor bill
after the passage of the post office appro
priation bill.
SENATOR BUTLER’S PROPOSITION.
Senator Butler to-day introduced a bill to
appropriate $300,000 to continue the improve
ments of Charleston t*-rhor, south Carolina.
He also introduced a bill to appropriate SIOO,-
000, to be expended by the -eeretary of War
iu the purchase of a steam dredge, to lie used
in tiie improvement of the haroors on the
coast of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.
THE FIGHT IN THE HOUSE.
When the House met at 10 o’clock this
morning in continuation of Saturday’s session
Mr. Townshend moved to go into committee
of the whole for consideration of the post
office appropriation bill.
Mr. Willis opposed the motion and argued
that the House should continue consideration
ot the river and harbor bill.
After discussion the motion was lost by a
vote of 53 ayes to 128 nays.
The House then, at 11 o’clock, went into
committee of the whole, with Mr. Hammond
in the chair, on the river and harbor hill, the
pending amendment lieing tbatoffered hv Mr.
Hepburn, providing that no part of the money
appropriated for the improvement of the New
Orleans harbor shall be expended in the re
pair, ereciion, maintenance or paving of
levees, or in the grading or revetment of tiie
hanks of the Mississippi river owned by
private parties or municipalities. The amend
ment was lost by a vote of (SO to 105.
At 12:05 o'clock Mr. Townshend moved that
the committee rise. This was agreed to by a
vote of 123 to 98.
Mr. White, of Kentucky, rose to a question
of privilege, but his first sentence convinced
Speaker pro tern. Blackburn that such a
question was not presented, and he requested
the gentleman to resume his seat, but Mr.
White continued with his remarks.
The Speaker directed the Bergeant-at-Arms
to scat the gentleman, and the Deputy Ser
geant proceeded to perform his duty, hut
without carrying his emblem of office.
A LIVELY TILT.
Mr. White declined to recognize his au
thority, and Mr. Hill rushed for his mace and
proceeded toward Mr. White, who took his
seat, but who in a moment was again on his
feet. “lr. the matter of personal privilege,
when I was occupying my place on the floor,”
lie said, “the Sergeant-at-Arms came to me,
a citizen without a semblance of authority,
anil atteu ptod to seat me.”
The Speaker pro tem.—The Sergeant-at-
Arins went under direction of the Chair, tiie
Chair having repeatedly ruled that the gen
tleman was not in order and requested him
to take liis seat, which he persistently refused
to do. [Applause on the Democratic sole.]
“I desire to debate the question,” said Mr.
White.
The Speaker pro tem.—The t hair does not
desire to hear the debate. The Chair de
clines to hear the gentleman further on the
question of privilege on tiie ground that it is
not a question of privilege.
“I desire to ask,"said air. Kelley, ot I’enn
sylvania,“whether a person with no insigniaof
office may place violent hands on a member
and push him into his seatV”
“Appeal, if you wish to,” cried several
voices from the Democratic side.
The Speaker—“ The Chair hears no ap
peal.”
“I tliirk that this is a question of the high
est privilege,” broke in Mr. Cutcheon, of
Michigan.
“And tiie Chair differs from the gentle
man,” replied the Speaker.
Mr. Hammond made a pr.intof order, which
was sustained by the Chair, that no appeal
having been taken the debate was not in or
der.
Mr. Townshend, of Illinois, moved that the
'House go into committee of the whole on the
post office appopri.ition hill.
This was agreed to by 149 yeas to 117 navs.
WHITE IRREPRESSIBLE.
-Pending going into committee, Mr. White
again claimed the floor on the question of
privilege. While he had been stating, he said,
a question of privilege and addressing the
Chair, a citizen without any semblance of
power came to him and demanded that lie
should take his seat, and when he protested
with the palm of his hand, he (the citizen) laid
violent hands upon him and demanded in an
oflfensiTe manner that he should take his seat.
If that citizen was carrying out the order of
the Cliair. then, like Cromwell, this Sneaker
could pat his foot down and say, “Go; be
gone!” He could do as the Speaker of the
pseudo Parliament at Constantinople a few
years ago did if any member dared to do what
the Speaker did not wish—have the Sergeant
at-Arms arrest him and thrust him out of the
House.
G. 1). Wise, of Virginia, objected to the
gentleman’ proceeding, as it was evident that
he waited to make a political speech.
“I li ire no wish to make a political speech,”
said Mr White.
‘lon hive been making them a dozen
times,” returned Mr. Wise.
Mr. Wise—“ The gentleman will address his
remarks to the Chair,” suggested Mr. White.
“I address them to you and call you to #r
dcr.”
Mr. Whi e— “ The question I raise is this:
that any person who comes without his mace
to arrest a member, and lays violent hands on
him, is unworthy to be an oflicer of the
House.”
Mr. Hammond said that this question had
been already passed upon by the Chair, and
that no appeal had been taken. The debate,
therefore, was out of order.
Without regard to the merits of the case
the Speaker sustained the point of order.
Mr. White then wished to appeal from the
decision of the Chair, ruling that he had not
presented a question of personal privilege,
but the Speaker ruled that the appeal came
too late, and the postal appropriation bill was
then taken up.
FORTIFICATIONS ANl> GUNS.
An Appropriation of 1114,935,000 Pro
vided tor in the aub-Coimnittee’s BUI.
Washington, Feb. 9.—Messrs. Horr,
Ellis and Hancock, of the House Appro
priations Committee, have completed the
fortification appropriation bill, but have
not yet reported it to the full committee.
It provides for an appropriation of $1,935,-
000. The amount appropriated at the
last session of Congress for the present
fiscal year was $700,000. The bill prepared
by the sub-committee provides for the
protection, preservation and repair of the
fortifications already begun, and the con
tinuation of work upon them, as well as
tor the construction of new works of de
fense at Boston, New’ York, Philadelphia,
Hampton Hoads and San Francisco.
For these purposes it appropriates
$2,000,000. The President is directed to
appoint a board to prepare
and submit to Congress before
the first Monday in December a plan for
the construction of defensive works for
the city of New Orleans. The board is to
consist of four officers of the Engineer
Corps and three naval officers, and the
Chief of Engineers is designated as its
President.
ADDITIONAL DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS.
The following additional appropriations
were recommended for the improvement
of other fortifications and for the tom
meneement of the erection ol such new
works as may be deemed necessary by
the Secretary of War at other ports ot the
United States, $200,000; for the purchase
of sub-marine movable torpedoes, $30,000;
for the purchase ofcan adopted pattern of
sub-marine mines for harbor defense,
$300,000; for the continuation of torpedo
experiments, S2O,(KM); for neces
saries to render possible the
operation of sub-marine mines,
$200,000; for the armament of sea
coast fortifications, $600,000. and for test
ing steel armor of United States manu
facture, *25,000.
HEAVY STEEL GUNS.
The bill also recommends that for
the procurement of heavy steel
rifle guns and carriages, and for the
armament of deep water ports of the
United States a permanent appropriation
of $1,500,000 shall be made for five years,
from June 30, IKBS, provided tbatin so far
as practicable this sum shall be so ex
pended as to induce private manufac
turers of the United States who may best
be prepared to meet the require
ments ot the government, or who
will agree to increase their plant,
to undertake the work of furnishing the
necessary material for guns or sample
blank guns of cast or wrought steel.
These shall be thoroughly tested by the
United States. If found satisfactory in
every respect the Secretary of War sball
contract with the manufacturers who are
best prepared to execute the work to the
full amount of the appropriation. The
guns are to be rifled steel guns of not
less than 8 Inches calibre, or in lieu there
of the materials are to be suitable for
making such guns, all of which shall be
American and of American manufacture.
NEEDS OF THK EXPOSITION.
Congressmen Being Buttonholed by the
Committee of the Commissioners.
Washington, Feb. 9.—The commis
sioners trom the New Orleans exposition
have spent the day representing its needy
condition to Congressmen. They say
that unless Congress makes a further
appropriation ot $500,000 at once for the
exposition it must close its doors. Their
appeals do not seem to move the Congress
men. It is very unlikely that any further
appropriation will be made for the ex
position. Congressmen consider the
former “loan” a permanent investment,
and do not, to use the expression of a
Westerm member of the House Appro
priations Committee, “care to send good
money after bad.”
The committee called upon the Presi
dent yesterday and left with him a state
ment of the financial affairs of the exposi
tion prepared by the board ot manage
ment, and the memorial of that body ask
ing that he recommend to Congress the
granting of an- additional appropriation
to aid in carrying on the exposition.
THE FINANCIAL EXHIBIT.
The statement gives in detail the iteni9
of expenditure from the fund originally
appropriated by Congress, and sets forth
that the management is now in debt to
, the amount of $360,000. The memorial
recites various untoward circumstances
which have operated against the success
ful conduct of the exposition, and states
that matters are in such shape now that
if payment ot the debt can be secured,
and an additional appropriation tor fur
ther expenses be obtained, there is every
reason to expect that the ex
position can be carried out successfully.
The total amount asked for is $500,000.
The committee, in presenting the me
morial, urged on tiie President the neces
sity of immediate favorable action upon
its recommendation. They argued that as
a matter of justice to the several States
and Territories which have spent large
sums of money in preparing and sending
exhibits to the exposition and to the
various foreign governments which have
accepted the invitation of the United
States to be represented therein the ex
position should not now be allowed to fail.
The committee is hopeful of favorable
action by the President upou the memo
rial and will remain here to urge the
matter on Congress.
VIRGINIA’S DEFUNCT BANK.
Judge Mann Declares Valid the Deed
Made bj the Directors Last May.
Petersburg, \ a., Feb. 9.—in the Hust
ings Court to-day .Judge Mann rendered
his opinion as to the validity of the deed
made on May 19 last by the directors of
the defunct Planters’ and Mechanics’
Bank. The deed was assailed by the
State of Virginia, which had on deposit
in the defunct bank $130,000, and by tbe
Union National Bank of the city of New
York, and other judgment creditors.
Judge Mann renders the opinion that the
deed is a valid one, and decrees that the
funds now in the hands ot the trustees
of the bank be distributed
pro rata among the creditors. The
trustees have on hand $90,000, sufficient to
pay creditors a dividend of 20 per cent.
The petition of J. R. Wagesdale, Treas
urer of the Commonwealth of Virginia,
which has been treated as a cross bill, is
dismissed, and the demurrer to the bill ot
the Union National Bank of the city of
New York is sustained. The counsel for
the State asked for a suspension of the
order with a view to taking an appeal to
the Supreme Court of Appeals, which was
granted.
FOUR KILLED ON THE RAILS.
Cold Weather iu lowa Causes a Raii to
Break Under a Train.
Creston, l a., Feb. 9. —A serious acci
dent occurred about ten miles west of this
place yesterday afternoon. As train No.
3 (west bound ) on the Chicago, Burling
ton and Quincy Railroad approached a
bridge across a small stream it struck a
broken rail and tilted along on the ties
until it ran upon the bridge, which went
down, carrying with it two coaches and a
sleeper containing from 20 to 25 passen
gers. The baggage car was the first to
leave the track. It was at first report
ed that the engine’s tender had kept the
track in safety, but subsequent reports
show that this was untrue, and that both
went down in the wrpek, the engineer
being killed at his post. Three other per
sons were killed and eight injured. The
accident was probably the result of a
broken rail caused by the cold weather.
The injured were removed to the Summit
House at this place, and all that is possi
ble for their comfort is being done by the
railroad officials and citizens.
A TENNESSEE VENDETTA.
Story of til© Cruel Assassination of an
01*1 Parmer.
Nashville, Feb. 9.—There is intense
excitement in this city and Brentwood,
10 miles from here, over the assassination
of James Carter, an old farmer, by tbe
Sawyer Brothers, near Brentwood, Satur
day. A lady who saw the shooting, saj s:
“Obadiah Sawyer and his two brothers
were hidden in a thicket opposite Gen
net’s blacksmith shop on the Hillsboro
turnpike when old man Carter drove up
in his wagon. Carter heard a noise in
the bushes and turned toward the thicket.
He saw guns pointed at him and threw
up his right hand before bis face. Two
loads of buckshot entered his hand and
face. Tbe old man fell back in the wa
gon and expired.” A vendetta exists be
tween the Sawyer and Carter familes.
A Mistrial in the Ford Case.
New Orleans, Feb. 9.— The jury in the
Ford-Murphy murder case, who had been
deliberating since 1 o’clock Friday after
noon, having announced that they could
not agree, Judge Baker said that be held
in his hand a letter which led him to be
lieve that no agreement could be had by
sending them back to the jury room. He
therefore ordered a mistrial to be entered.
The accused—Recorder Thomas J. Ford,
Patrick Ford, W. Caulfield, W. Buckley
and John Murphy—were remanded to the
custody of the Sheriff. Ten of the jurors
were lor conviction and two, Edwards
and Scott, held out for acquittal.
Juror John W. Edwards, colored, who,
it was thought, would favor the persons
on trial, was the only one of the twelve
men who from first to last favored con
viction. Edwards’ statement is to the
effect that on retiring into the jurv room,
Scott, a keno gambler, serving 'as fore
man, asked for a vote according to their
respective opinions. Edwards declared
himself by ballot for conviction as charged
for all, and he was the only one of the
twelve men who so proclaimed himself.
The other eleven men demurred
to such a sweeping verdict, and
he argued the point for fully three-quar
ters of an hour without effect. Thus
matters stood until yesterday, when Scott
drew up a paper making Murphy and Pat
Ford guilty of manslaughter, and Tom.
Ford, Caulfield' and Baekley not guilty."
This paper was unhesitatingly signed by
all except McMahon, Peiser and Edwards,
the two former saying that they would
agree with him in everything he did.
A Tragic Murder in Texas.
Coleman, Tex., Feb. 9.— A tragic mur
der occured Saturday night on the ranch
of A. J. Nathans, 10 miles north of here.
At about dark a stranger rode up, and
without dismounting approached the
door and asked a woman to tell Dudley
Henderson to come out, as he wanted to
see him. As Henderson appeared in the
yard the stranger covered him with a re
volver ami said to several bystanders,
“Now see me kill him.” Before any one
could move he sent a bullet through
Henderson’s heart. After Henderson had
fallen the stranger fired four more bullets
into his body, any one of which would
have proved fatal.
Notice of a Reduction.
Phosnixville, Pa., Feb. 9.—Notices
were posted up this morning through the
different mills of the Phoenix Iron Company
at this place announcing that a reduction
in wages would take effect Feb. 23. The
puddlers wtli be paid $3 25 per ton, and
mill and yard laborers (except common
laborers) will be reduced 5 per cent. It
is thought that the reduction will be ac
cepted and no strike inaugurated.
MILLS TO RESUME.
Pittsburg, Feb. 9.— The Edgar Thom
son Steel Works, at Braddocks, will re
sume operations in all departments to
morrow, giving employment to 4,000 men,
who have been idle for eight weeks.
A Witty Customer
went to a drug store and asked for Sozo
dont. The storekeeper said: “We’re out
of that, but here is something just as
good.” The customer said: “No you
don’t,” and went to a neighboring store
and got a bottle of Sozodqnt.
MORE MEN FOR SOUDAN.
ENGLAND TO HURRY FORWARD
H.OOO REIN FORCEMENTS.
The Road from Suakin to Berber to be
Opened by Bayonet and Bullet—Col.
Butler Bouts an Encampment of Re
bels Under the Leadership of Col. Stew
art's Slaughterer.
London, Feb. 9.—Three battalions of
guards and four battalions of infantry,
including two from Malta and two from
Gibraltar, have been ordered to Egypt.
Two battalions of infantry and a regi
ment of cavalry have been ordered to
proceed from India to Egypt.
The nine battalions of troops ordered from
.England, Malta, Gibraltar and India are sent
at the request of Gen. Wolseley. The guards
will leave England at the end of the present
week. It was at first proposed to dispatch a
regiment of cavalry from England to Gen.
YVolseley’s assistance, but the Mea had to be
abandoned because it was found that but fur
squadrons were available for foreign service.
The two battalions of Euglish infantry at
pr< sent in Lower Egypt will proceed to
Soudan.
TEWKIK’S VIEW OF THE SITUATION.
Iu an interview at Cairo to-day the Khe
dive said that he thought that Ger.. Gordon
was still alive, as El Muhdi was too wise a
man to kill him. El Mabdi had no interest in
wishing the death of Gen. Gordon, hut, on the
contrary, would do all in his power to prevent
such an occurrence. Instant, action on the
part ol England, he said, is necessary to pre
vent further progress of El Mahdt’s cause and
avert new disasters. The abandonment of
Soudan by the English under the present cir
cumstances would he a grave mistake. Tribes
hitherto friendly to Great Britain would now
join El Malidi, aud if England does not take
immediate steps to crush him his influence
may seriously threaten the stability of the Bri
tish empire in India.
8,000 NEW MEN FOR EGYPT.
The total number of reinforcements already
ordered to Egypt is 8,000. The War Depart
ment lias completed its preparations for the
transport of commiasarial and ordnance ser
vice. Vessels are already loading with stores
at Woolwich.
The Grenadier Guards have been ordered
to hold themselves in readiness for foreign ser
vice. Lord Granville had a long interview
witli Premier Gladstone at noon to-day. The
Pull Mall Gazette this afternoon says: “The
Cabinet have decided that the defeat of El
Mahdi is necessary te vindicate England. Gen.
Wolseley is making all the preparations neces
sary to push forward without a moment’s loss.
WILFRED BLUNT’S SCHEME.
The Globe referring to the recently pub
lished letter containing the reoort of a conver
sation between a clergyman and former pre
fectof police uuder Aram Pasha, during which
tiie latter said that Wilfred Blunt was the
ouly living man able to effect for England a
peaceful solution of the Soudan question, says
that the National party in Egypt, combined
with tiie French at Cairo, have organized
centres in at least three capitals of Europe,
and are intriguing to use the revolt of El
Mahdi as a means of overthrowing the alien
Khedivial government. The intriguers con
sist of adherents of Arahi Pasha. Several of
them reside in London, and hold influential
positions and would willingly have assisted
Mr. Blunt’s scheme to negotiate with El Mah
di. Premier Gladstone, however, knew of
tiie means Air. Blunt intended to employ to
reach K 1 Mahdi ami, therefore, rejected the
scheme. Many of Mr. Blunt’s friends are
still of the opinion that even the capture and
crucifixion or E! Mahdi would only accentu
ate his claim among Moslems to be regarded
as a prophet of Islam.
buller’s force.
The force of Col. sir Red vers Bailor will
reach Gubat to-morrow. Before leaving
Gakdul Col. Buller was instructed by Gen'.
Wolseley not to attack the Arabs at Metem
neh. l.ater orders, however, sent to-day
leave Col. Buller at liberty to act as lie thinks
fit. Tiie force at Gubat now consists of 2.600
men, of whom it is said tnat 2.300 are affec
tive, ami several guns. All the newspaper
correspondents have left Gubat and are
returning to Korti. Gen. Wolseley
declines to permit non-combatants to
remain at the front, it is s tid that corre
spondents will also be stopped from communi
cating to their papers. The troops at Gubat
were in good health at last reports, very few
being sick.
PLANS OF THE TORIES.
The Marquis of Salisbury will return to
London from his chateau in France Thurs
day. He has called a meeting of the leading
Tories to consider what line of action to
adopt in the coming session of Parliament
The Tories will support the largest measures
of the government to retrieve Eng’and’sp si
tion in Soudan, hut will call for the appoint
ment of a committee of inquiry n,*o the re
sponsibility for the dispatch of the Nile expe
dition. Gen. Wolseley’s friends say that he
undertook the Nile route against his own
opinion, which was in favor of the Suakin
and Berber route, and that the government,
for tiie purpose of economy, had broken its
promise to supply the number of troops for
which he asked.
Lord Wolseley telegrephed to the War Office
to-dav from Korti as follows: “The advance
guard of Geu. Earle’s column, consisting of a
squadron of cavalry under command of Col.
Buller, surprised a large body of the Monas
sir tribe under Wad Gam, the murderer of
Col. Stewart, encamped at Shaboob wells
The cavalry charged ou the encampment, and
the enemy fled in every direction, leaving be
hind 30 men killed, a large number of camels
and cattle, and many Remington rifles. Col.
Buller also captured 0 prisoners.”
ACTIVITY AT THE ARSENALS.
Great activity prevails at Chatham, Wool
wich and Aldershot, and preparations for
sending the reinforcements to Egypt are being
rapidly pushed. The Twentieth Hussars, the
Third of the Kifle Briglide now fit
Aldershot, a battalion of the Scot Fusiliers, a
battalion of the Coldstream Guards and a
squadron of the Fifth Lancers have been
ordered to proceed at once to Suakin.
THE WORK BEFORE THE REINFORCE
MENTS.
It is stated that all the forces comprised with
in the 9 battalions to he sent to Lord Wolseley
wi J, after reaching Suakin, operate between
Suakin und Berber with the object or secur
ing possession of tiie route between those
points ami of then effecting a complete junc
tion with the Britisli forces on the Nile, both
above and below Berber.
It is reported that the government has de
cided to call out the reserves and also a por
tion of the militia for garrison duty in place
of the troops now being forwarded to Egypt,
Gen. Roberts, it is believed, has been request
ed to assume command of the Indian contin
gent ordered to Lord Wolseley.
ITALY’S SHOW OF GENEROSITY.
Romk, Feb. 9 .—La Liberia states that King
Humbert presided at the Cabinet council
which decided thatshould England ask ltal>’s
assistance in Egypt it -would he given with
feelings of loyal friendship, without any
question of territorial or other compensation
This decision, it is further stated, was at once
wired to Chevelier Nigra, the Italian Minister
at London, for communication to the English
Government. Italy has voluntarily explained
to the, Porte that tier sole reason for occupy
ing Massawan was due to a desire for the
better protection of her subjects in the vicinity
of that towu. Italy, it was stated, had no in
tention of disputing Turkey’s sovereignty
over Massawan, amt Egyptians would be
treated in a friendly manner by the Italian
marines.
At the State Capital.
Atlanta, Feb. 9.—Gov. McDaniel left
this atternoon for Augusta for the pur
pose of Inspecting the convict camp at
that point. From Augusta he will go to
Milledgeville, where he will inspect the
Lunatic Asylum.
The remains of Miss Sophie Richard
son, the young lady who died last
night from injuries received two weeks
ago from being knocked down by a
runaway team, was sent to Griffin this
afternoon for interment. George Hayes,
the driver of the team, was arrested to
day and is now in confinement. There is
very little probability that be will be
prosecuted, as ample evidence is said to
be procurable that the horse was running
away at the time of the accident, and that
the driver was doing all that he could to
stop him.
Tammany at the Inauguration.
New York, Feb. 9.—At a meeting of
the Tammany Hall Committee on Organ
ization to-night it was decided to send a
delegation ot 535 to the inaugural cere
monies at M ashington. Seven thousand
dollars will be subscribed to defray the
expenses.
THE COUNTY DEMOCRACY’S PARTICIPA
TION.
Washington, Feb. 9.—Some of the
prominent politicians of the New York
County Democracy are here securing
quarters for a large delegation during in
auguration week. Accommodations for
‘l,lOO have been secured and about 2,000
are expected to come.
Socialfftt Blatherskites.
Pittsburg, Feb. 9. —Between fifty and
seventy members of the International
Workingmen’s Association met in Alle
gheny City to-night to discuss Socialism
and Anarchism. Joseph Frick and John
Staub made long addresses. Frick spoke
in German and denounced the United
States Senate for passing the dynamite
resolution. He said that the Senators
were all millionaires, and that they were
playing police for England. As the poor
man could not get his rights by law and
order, he advocated murder and revolu
tion. Staub spoke in the same strain.
Fatal Accident Near Augusta.
Augusta, Ga., Feb. 9.—There was an
accident on the Augusta and Knoxville
Railroad, 10 miles from here, to-day,
which resulted in the death of Conductor
J. G. Davis and Judson Walling, a train
hand. The accident was caused bv the
spreading of the rails.
Fating Soup With a Fork.
Why is kissing your sweetheart like
eating soup with a fork? It takes a long
time to get enough. But it takes a very
little of Taylor’s Cherokee Remedy of
Sweet Gum and Mullein to cure the croup,
coughs or colds, "
SNOW PARALYZES TRAVEL.
Traffic on the Railroads of the North
west Brought to a Standstill.
Chicago, Feb. 9.—Reports from all
Western and Northwestern points indi
cate that the heaviest snow storm of the
season prevails. At noon in this city
business ot all kinds was nearly sus
pended. All the railways are from one to
seven hours behind the regular schedules.
The thermometer ranges from 1 to 40 de
grees below zero all over the West. In
this city at noon the mercury stood 4 de
grees above zero. All trains have been
abandoned.
As thorough a blockade on railroads
has not been experienced in Chicago for
years. No trains, passenger or freight,
have gone out to-day or to-night on the
following roads: Clrand Trunk, Kanka
kee line, Chicago and Eastern Illinois,
Baltimore and Ohio, Louisville, New
Albany and Chicago, Panhandle, Michi
gan Central, Chicago and Alton, Wabash
and the lowa division of the Illinois Cen
tral. The roads have been hiring every
idle man who could be found during the
day to go out on the lines to shovel snow.
The Burlington, Alton and St. Paul Rail
road alone sent out 1,000 men. Even un
der favorable circumstances, the mana
gers ot the railroads say, they cannot
hope to get back to schedule
time before three or four days, and if the
Buow continues to dritt, it will be a week
or more. The loss to the roads in busi
ness, and the cost oi clearing their tracks
will l>e something enormous. Special ef
forts are being made to bring in stock
trains, several engines being used. The
St. Paul Railway brought in a stock train
of 45 cars this afternoon.
Telegraph wires are working heavy in
every direction. At 10 o’cloek to-night
the storm here had ceased, and the stars
were shining. The snow was, however,
drifting, and everything was very un
pleasant.
SHIPPING ORDERS NOT FILLED.
There were shipping ordei s here for
jarge quantities of corn, but it was almost
impossible to obtain freight room and but
few orders could be executed. Traffic by
teams on the streets was reduced to a
minimum. An “owl” train on the Illi
nois Central Road for Hyde Park got
stuck in a huge drift at Forty-third street
and did not reach its destination till 6
o’clock this morning. Various branch
railroad tracks running to the stock
yards were completely blocked by snow
this morning. Suburban trains on tbe
Rock Island Road were delayed over
three hours this morning and no freight
trains have passed Blue Island either
way.
A special dispatch from Paxton, 111.,
reports the storm of last night as very se
vere, with heavy thunder and lightning.
Snow covered the fences. The public
schools were closed.
At Jackson, Mich., the snow is three
feet deep on the level. The fall is the
greatest in twenty years.
At Janesville, YVis., the storm contin
ues. All trains are abandoned.
At McGregor, lowa, the air continues
full of snow and a strong wind is blow
ing. Railroad traffic is suspended, aud
travel greatly impeded.
Wenona, Minn., reports no snow fall
ing, but a heavy wind dritting that
already on the ground. Business is every
where practically suspended. Country
roads are impassable.
A train on the Northwestern Railroad
is snowed-in four miles east of Dixon.
STREET CARS STOPPED.
Rock Island, 111., Feb. 9.—No street
ears have been running to-day, and very
few vehicles, on account of the storm.
Trains are badly delayed.
CEDAR RAPIDS ISOLATED.
Cedar Rapids, Feb. 9. —Cedar Rapids
for the time being is shut in from the out
side world by a snow blockade. All trains
have been abandoned. The weather is in
tensely cold, aud the wind is blowing fu
riously. The mercury was 20 degrees
above zero at noon, 7 below at 6 o’clock,
and at 11 o’clock to-night 12 below, with a
downward tendency.
MERCURY TUMBLES IN MISSISSIPPI.
Jackson, Miss., Feb. 9,—There was a
sudden change in the weather here to
day. The thermometer dropped 38 de
grees—irorn 70 to 32 degrees in twelve
hours.
trains abandoned.
Bloomington, lu, Feb. 9.—The In
dianapolis line. Lake Erie, and the mid
dle division of the Illinois Central aband
oned all trains to-night on account ot the
storm.
SNOW TEN INCHES DEEP.
Ottumwa, la., Feb. 9.—Snow com
menced falling at 3 o’clock yesterday
afternoon, and has continued ever since.
It has drifted badly. Probably ten inches
have fallen on the level. Trains neither
arrive nor depart.
A Cyclone in Bibb.
Magon, Ga., Feb. 9.—This morning
about 6 o’clock dark clouds were seen
passing near the outskirts of the city.
They were accompanied by rain, light
ning and thunder, and had a threatening
appearance. Later in the day John Mc-
Gee, living in Rutland district, reported
that a cyclone hacKpassed over his plar -
tation and also that of bis neighbor, Rich
ard Bearfield. It was funnel shaped and
was accompanied with a roaring sound.
It struck the gin house of Mr. Bearfield,
and laid it to waste with other buildings.
The cyclone did much damage to houses
and crops. No lives are reported lost.
JOY FOR MR. M’ADOO.
How Great a Thing it Js for a Con
gressman to be Married.
Y\ ashington, Feb. 6.—Congressman
William McAdoo, of Jersey City, will bid
adieu to bachelor life on Wednesday
next, at Bonair, Va., taking for his wife
one of the belles of that State, Miss Eva
Lee Tardy, of Lynchburg. Tbe day set
for the nuptials is the day appointed
for counting the electoral vote for Presi
dent and Vice President, so that the at
tendance of members of the House will
probably not be so large as would other
wise lie the case. Bonair, a suberb of
Richmond, will, however, gather on that,
day the Democratic members of the Vir
ginia delegation and the elite ot Rich
mond society.
GREATNESS OF THE EVENT.
The marriage of a member of Congress
is a greater event than is generally sup
posed. Tradition has it that members of
the House are fathers of toe republic,
and it seldom happens that one so young
in years as Mr. McAdoo installs himself
among the venerable statesmen during
his Congressional career. The older
members, such as Mr. Randall and Mr.
Holman on the Democratic side, and Mr.
Wait on the Republican side, have
already given the young Rupert their
blessing, and the Naval Committee of
the House, of which Mr. McAdoo is a
member, will contribute something more
substantial to remind him of the only
successful engagement during their offi
cial term of service.
DOES ENO WANT TO COME BACK?
Prospective Legislation iu Canada that
It is Said Makes Him Uneasy.
QUEBEC, Feb. 6.—Mr. Acbille Carrier
of this city, a young French-Canadian
lawyer, who has been for months past a
constant visitor at the residence of John
C. Eno, has left for New York on legal
business. It is surmised that he has
been sent by Eno’s friends to negoti
ate for Eno’s return. For a long time
it has been understood that such ne
gotiations were In progress, but the great
difficulty in the case appears to be to
get over the criminal prosecution. Stren
uous efforts are, it is understood, to be
put forth in high official quarters with
this object in view, more especially as
legislation will be had in Ottawa during
the present session of the Dominion Par
liament looking to greater facilities for
extraditing American offenders. Eno is
said to be considerably alarmed at the
prospect of this legislation, and has a
number of friends at Ottawa watching its
progress. He has specially retained the
services of a lawyer who is a member of
the House of Commons.
Eno attended the opera, the “Chimes of
Normandy,” here a few nights ago. When
the old miser, “Gaspard,” gloating over
his gold, repeated aloud, “There are no
defaulting bank Presidents here,” all eyes
in the hall were instinctively directed
toward Eno, who colored the roots
of his hair, and appeared to find his seat
exceedingly uncomfortable l or the re
mainder of the evening.
A Factory Burned.
High Point, N. C., Feb. 9.—W. H.
Snow’s shuttle factory here, was burned
to-day. The loss is $9,000 with no insur
ance.
For Throat Diseases and Coughs.
Brown’s Bronchial Troches, like
all really good things, are frequently imi
tated. i'he genuine are sold only in boxes.
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DYNAMITE’S WARRIORS.
PHELAN'S ASSAIL ANT ADMITTED
TO BAIL IN #3.000.
Chicago Chief* to Invite Rossa to their
Kminet Celebration on March 4—Cun
ningham and I’.urton Arraigned on
More Serious Charges at London and
Again Keinauded.
N’kw York, Feb. 9. —Richard Short,
who stabbed Capt. Phelan in O’Donovan
Rossa s office, about lour week 9 ago, -was
released on $3,000 bail to-daj\
efforts had been made to have the amount
reduced to $2,000. Dennis Corbett, of
West Thirty-ninth street, a liquor dealer,
became his bondsman. John Roohe,
George Smith, “Rocky Mountain” O’Brien
and a dozen other members of the Fenian
Brotherhood, accompanied Short across
the street from the Tombs to Counsellor
Oliver’s office, where an informal recep
tion took place. Short received a letter
from Cork to-day informing him of the
death of his wile on Jan. It).
ROSSA TO BK INVITKD TO CHICAGO.
Chicago, Feb. !i.—A morning paper
has the following: “\V ithiu the past tew
days a meeting of dynamite chiefs has
been held in this city. The names and
coming and going of the members from
abroad v.vro kept secret. There was no
display, but the outcome of the consulta
tion is ex, cted to produce new activity
ami possibly a moditication, if not a
change of progr me. Chicago has al
ways been in Ih* , u ol Irish revolution
ary methods in : s country, and to give
to this city and to the Nortnwest a boom
in dynamite it nas been determined to
have O’Douovan Rossa here on March 4
next, the anniversary of Robert Emmet’s
birthday, when he will appear at a public
demonstration, it is to lie tne inaugura
tion of anew crusade against England.”
EXAMINING THE LONDON DYNAMITERS.
London, Feb.!).—A further examina
tion of James G. Cuuningham and Harry
Burton, charged under the explosives act
with conspiracy, in causing the malicious
explosion at the Tower of London, Jau.
24 last, was begun to-day at the Bow
street Police Court. The court room was
crowded with spectators, but no unusual
demonstration was made.
Air. Quiiliam, counsel lor Cunningham,
was permitted to have an interview with
his client before he was brought into
court. Harry Burton declined the ser
vices of counsel and said that he would
defend himself. Mr. Poland, Solicitor
for the Treasury, opened the case for tho
Crown. He created a sensation by im
mediately announcing that he would
withdraw the charge of conspiracy and
substitute that of high treason felony
against both prisoners jointly under the
new indictment. The solicitor lor the
l'reasury proceeded to state in detail the
testimony which the Crown would pro
duce to sustain the charge of high treason
feiouv against the prisoners. In doing
this Air. Poland of necessity repeated the
history narrated at the former examina
tion oi Cunningham on Alonday last and
at that of Burton on Thursday.
FLUSTERING A FEMALE.
Miss Cannon, a lodging housekeeper
with whom Cunningham had lodged, was
demoralized by cross examination, and
refused to swear to the identity of Cun
ningham’s boxes and trunk found in Bur
ton’s possession. This was a great dis
appointment to the prosecution, because
they had held her to be a valuable wit
ness. Before asking for a remand for the
prisoner, Air. Poland reiterated the state
ment that the charge against the prison
ers was high treason and capital crime
for bring the Tower of London by the ex
plosion of dynamite. It was, he said,
a curious iacl that dock laborer
Cunningham and carpenter Burton had
been able to afford lrequent trips between
America and England. Their visits to Eng
land coinciding with the times of the ex
plosions at tne Carlton Club and else
where, the complicity of the prisoners
was becoming daily more clear. Dr. Du
pree, Government Chemist, had declared
that the detonator found by the detectives
among Cunningham’s effects, could not
be bought at retail, and would not cause
an explosion without dynamite. The
prisoners were remanded till next Alon
day, when testimony will be brought
against them to convict them of complici
ty in causing the Gower street explosion.
THE HIM XU DEVON D BUYING.
A Conspiracy to liny New York’s Vote
a I*retext to Rob Office-Holders.
A rumor has been whispered about here
to-day, says a .Philadelphia special to the
New York World of Feb. 8, that a hold
scheme to have the vote of New York
counted for Blaine was hatched at the
rooms ot the Republican Committee im
mediately after the election, and would
doubtless have been put into effect had it
not been that it was divulged to the Dem
ocrats by a prominent Federal office
holder here, who, in consideration of
this friendly act, was promised to
be looked alter by the incoming admin
istration. The plan included a heavy
assessment of all government employes
and tho expenditure of the money thus
secured in buying up the Boards ot Can
vassers in the Democratic counties of
New York. The assessment is known to
have been made in this city and else
where. That it was not put to the pur
pose at lirst intended is said to be owing
to the knowledge of the matter having
come into the possession ol the Demo
cratic lew ’ ns, who informed the Republi
can Natic ~ Committee that if anything
ol the kind - .s attempted no stone would
be left untu.aed 1 erret out and divulge
the conspiracy.
The Republican- thus warned, saw
that there was a traitor somewhere in
their camp and did not dare to go lurther,
tearing that their scheme would be ex
ploded. It Is said that ever since that
time eiforts have been made to get down
to the facts of the case, and that after
much persuasion the official who gave the
first warning has been induced to say
more. Indeed, It is alleged that evidence
of a most damaging character to those in
the conspiracy has been secured in the
shape of correspondence, etc., and steps
have already been taken looking to the
prosecution of the guilty parties. A
prominent Democratic lawyer of this city,
the rumor goes, has been retained on the
matter and action will immediately fol
low President Cleveland’s inauguration.
The present apparent apathy Is accounted
for by the fact that it is not desired to
throw suspicion upon the Republican
official until the new administration is in
a position to reward him.
NEWS IN A NUTSHELiLi.
lntretlD£ Little Flasheg from the
Wires Printed in Condensed f rm.
St. John’s Commandery No. 4, Knights
Templar, will leave Philadelphia to-day on a
pilgrimage to the World’s Industrial and Cot
ton Exposition at New Orleans, and to the
Mammoth Cave in Kentucky.
At Minersville, l*a., Sunday evening. Miss
Marie McCrystal was married to William
Duflie, a merchant of that place. While the
wedding festivities were in progress, the
Pride was attacked with paralysis of the heart,
and died in a few hours.
William Harrington died at his residence
in Vermilion Pariah, La., on Feb. 4, age
K 9 years lie was born in Alabama and
taken to Louisiana when 3 years old. He
was a soldier in l*i4.
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