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\ I'M IN TYPE.
S r | >|. i,.11 rußi —A Young I.aily
fj , I mod Kilti lijlnslii I.arte
J „ , r Darien— A Freak In the
i r i , , lii 1 a Hurit'd Kftval—Mr.
ftjoltr’* 1 ,ne
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Bgj GEORGIA.
HB ■ ■ i. the Darien market.
■S • r. - .mek on the artesian well
H , ms t<> be the richest little
H * .
BB threatened with the incen
■S ly namite if Clarke county
|H :n 'chley county has lost
NS f sheep by dogß in the last
SB - ral others have lost many.
BB f cava! stores at Brunswick
IK . tclr. 20, were 2,008 bar-
NS - h.trrels spirits turpentine.
■ : -t church in Koine is rsp
-85 inj iction, ami the ba c cment
H s , . i hurch purpose* in two or
NB •‘Was Home founded by
H i a pupil of a teacher. “No,
SR the wise man, “it was Juliet
■I - trail bv Borneo.”
H •>( Brunswick has almost
H .ml that the Mayor is not
■ i review of his own judg
■ , Major’s Court.
■ ‘ it. t'uigK. I*. L)., of Conyers, lias
■ . root the rresbyterian Church
■ ...th i will supply the pulpit of
■ c a month during thi* year.
H i . . sc.itt. usher at the Milledgeville
H . ii. from Feb. 14, ISM, to Feb. 14,
■ r rounds of one mile each,
■ -td i.iJS visitors through the
fl .ncilof Valdosta has elected the
H . " i >rc to serve for the ensuing
Hj - 11 iraett. Marshal; J, T. Collins,
■ .■ ttmaii: O. M. smith, Clerk; Aaron
B r , i;r c-wik Herald learns that half of
■ . . r- of the Board < f Health of that
B r. : i-ci to act because of alleged in*
■ . i ..iiiicil in some mattercommit
| t:,. ir keeping. *
■ , jr . Fri —. "f t assville, has invented a
I- : : runs with springs. All Mrs. Fa
■ ... . : i-. now is to uour the milk into her
■ Vrs .. • '* .id it up. In a few minutes she
B ■ ar, t finds the churning done.
■ ■ ■i''i AVirs: Kufe Brunson comes
■ this week, with a half-grown
B ball. What magic art Kufe has
■ .r* ; ng to - produce this pheuouieuou
I snow . II ho can trot out anything
I “at c jual it-
I iuli/ Xetre: Large quantities of
I SaiiT hauled out of town. The
I ■ .re of it, however, is that many
I , .i : t'C guano to put on cotton cither
I ii. "a r provision bill unsettled or else give
I ; ,r. e. i notes the go-by.
I ;• indent of the Quitman .Vein South
■ - .• an- acreage of melons planted this
I -p-.r ,n •••apanson with ISBI, is from 1 to 20
I fer ten’ greater. The preparation for the
I .r.-i>. f r•. ring, etc., is equally as good, if
I . ; ettcr titan ever before
I vm : is caught the coek fighting mama.
1 - .•. )■• Tied that a !ug main has been nr
: • tween prominent Macon amt At
- rt-mcii. who will at an early clay
O K- a side for a wager of live
s,ia ire i dollars.
lla -ville A’mtc Mr. Clark Wilcox, of
. u ity, in tonus us that he raised a jwv
lat : - year that measured seven feet and
gi e- in length, and about the size of a
• .rui. lie said it was long enough to sit
end while he roasted the other.
Americas Recorder: W. L. Lambe, of
-lord, has a queer freak of nature in the
dry line—a year old hen that was hatched
us one wing. Otherwise the chicken was
formed, the wing having the appearan. e
• ng amputated at the joint next the
P. , n Gazette: Thousands of saJt water
re now found half dead floating in the
~ i recks and rivers in this section. The
Health has issued orders prohibiting
in Darien. It is saul that the freshet
else of the salt water iish dying in
ijrt quantities.
\V i- gton Wilkes county) Gazette: Our
u: torities have quarantined against
x in Thomson by passing an ordi
. . -itig a line of fi'. on every person
. re from that place. The’marshal
r. train at the de|K>l to look out for
i> from Thomson.
-of oats in Schley county have
t killed bv the recent cold. In such
... - • Id-, will lie planned in corn or eot
. ced its are not to lie had. Many
t. . arc been thinned ou f , while others
r. irably situated and earlier sown
~vc ■ ■ • u materially injured.
M < ’’hronicle: On Wednesday last
sik of Mr. Abe Pound, of this
..r > into the kitchen fire some chips
tti i iscii up at the wood pile. Unknown
t r ai'tsMl' artridge was gathered up with
xpMeii in the tice. and the
- > the w >man’s wrist.
'I. , TclejrivH and iteseenaer: Lust night
thi rc ;■—i i through the city a party of 2.A
pc r an near Knoxville,Tenn. They were
an. to Florida, and will probably
i point near Jacksonville. They
-. ••.. 1 spirits and seemed to enjoy the
nr - • Isa al of them. Some of the party
„i • r ans with them.
. ar is Recorder: There is one benoflt
ibi ■ : nlinued cold weather that will
e .qipri-i lated four or five months hence
f: • a It is keeping bark the budding
if the peach, plum and other
m .uni' giving the assurance that we
an abundance of fruit—one of the
. - V'and luxuries of life.
V - triable accident occurred to tlic
A fr. ... i train leaving Smitbville Fri
•lr •• r:. •. :n charge of xjapt, T. J. Welch.
I tr.i was quite a long one, and when
c nu cs from Albany, one-half of a
J trucks to a car (axle and two wheels;
in. ; ta. ned siul were thrown some ilis
rack. No one on the train
• .ig of the accident until it arrived
X Albany.
I K. v. J f. Allen, of Sylvania, preached
v> - ingn gAtion on the subject of pas’orsl
■- rt.if.A 'iiinlays ago. He said that it was
* i— a ..'ely ibul some C hristians bad of dis
-t gto mingle dollars and cents with the
ai-e.if < hriatiaaity—that Govl didn't send
- • tee i his ministers in these days, as
f. ill. that preachers required the
l ~f f.xsl .is other jMmple, an l just as
Mr .i tin Williams, of Oconee, had a line
*to on Friday morning. Astheam
■* •'• ■•! strangely affected, he held a post
' r; - . i \Animation. In the cow’s maw he
• k weighing nearly a pound,
i . , . . two other stones about half tlie
'e !•■ .- large one. and more than a quart
finer ks. Vo one can explain why she
* . in mdigesti le substance. The
was on exhibition, and it is a
St’Kine o; i granite rook.
1 r din Tinsley, a prominent citizen,
r ' - ear itluffton. feeling unwell, took,
b’-irair. a dose of what he supposed was
- " ii thereafter his family discov-
J he was strangely affected. |aud iu
1■ ■ n proved that he had taken four or
" i 'of morphine instead of quinine,
e - ' s were promptly administered, and
-a and Johnson liastily summon
u.tmr ug with him during theen
’ - si • ceeded in restoring him tocon-
Mr*, .lames .1. Wray, of No. 127
’ Ma< on, knocked at the door of
• t. —. ti Saturday mornin)!. Rereiving
- opened the door and tliseov
;g in bed dead. The family were
. an-l Dr. Fitzgerahl was sent
'■ f -.ire ii as his opinion that Mrs.
■f an atferti-*n of the heart. She
- 1 ' 11 [or table and witn the family
■nr the previous night, seemingly
- - r-ts. She was 43 years old. and
* -i -.unds. Her health had not been
?! for . reral months.
Ar. -i- Recorder: Miss Kllen Livingstone
\- - ' r I'urle Hilly Livingstone, who
: ' ' N m Hope, was seriously burned
' rsday. Her father had given her
. i uce of ground for a cotton
V‘ were engaged in burning the
- liy some means her dress eaught
* is al izing when her sister discov-
I" M -- Ellen started for home, when
r - eing that she was burning, ran
-- • m e and sweet*ded in
lames. Her father thinks than
l r , 'ver, though she is terribly
ott mst.
sr.tr. i ; ary of Sumter county makes
, tme'its: The unpleasant
" " has grown out of our eounty and
• Ctions bring to an evil of
_ ' ignitude. which. in'th<* opinion of
* f grand jurors, demand le'ijl*** t, . Te
. a eans by wUtb the parity
t-box ean be preserved with oC r
- ■U mi nt. It is, theiefore, the
- i> !y that a local law of registra
-•-t tor Sumter county, and that
: ty Lonimtssioners lie requested to
E ' ‘ '"’ice that application will be
* \ , r -'h ~ur representatives at the sit
, - : i.i-nera! A-semblv. the adjourned
: ill' m<>nth of Julv, lsßs, for the pas
* of such a law.
j.' • nsvilie correspondence News, Feb.
. 1 alarm aroused many of ourriti
i t o'clock this morning. Our
'■ m i. soon out, with their steamer
r * he lire was in a small, unoccupied
,’U**-Mburbs. in which some negroes
, oi ling religious exercises. The
}’•- :, * r i>yed.—The Eclipse Hook and
;, ‘ r ' m any, accompanied by the Baby
j **' l ; a:.d. w. i,t ov.’’ 1 ’ to Cochran yesterday
7 oi I'xhilntion for the company’s bene
. 1 hranites, not jMJpreciattng ama
-r f nu- talent, boycotted them and
w . r ‘ troupe to play to a sorry audi
. 1 . ' ' ' glit train, on which they were
, r | emg deleted, some of too hoys,
, ' ' ■' t'i the state of affaire, struct out
i . 11 the dirt road, and this morning
, , ' 1 ame straggling in.
_\j r ■ , mrnal: <>n Wednesday afternoon
;■* ' r -sk-v purchased a chtcken.wbich
.'”1 " - 1; me and had served for his dinner
'hortly after dinner Mr. t'roseley
ti-', r e family, all of whom partook of
t ' Ti '■ • l-ecame alarmingly til, and a
ft.'J; w --.'•■nl for. In afew hours the phv
- -1 in giving relief.and this morn*
s ‘ " r .Mr. i rossley nor any of his family
I. any unpleasant effects from the
iei . r tl-' rience of yesterday. Mr.Cross
kh t ' inquiry from his grocery-man
low) ' sicken, aud ascertained that the
-t ii u same rooster which was wounded
L-wp, ’• at cock-pit under Mr. Moses
gstfe! L? st ” r ?- As goon ss the rooster was
0n... wa ® k 'tted and dressed for market,
Sff n ® that a chicken killed by a
““"t for the table. It U presumed
in Mr.CrossleVsfam
died bf by cat ’ n a chicken which
uieu in a state ol great anger.
funeral Constitution : The
dav l?iern^ r ’ Dickson took place F'ri
the rIZn 1 2 ° c, ® ck ’ He waB hurled in
tne garden of his own home. The coffin was
h!ir U ( . n £ a d nte ' pl “ e ’ raa,le at one of the shops
mnn whi}’ ar J“’ at *d was covered with com
mon white alpaca. The Corpse was dressed
in an elegant suit of black broadcloth and
black silk velvet, but wore no shoes. The feet
of the deceased were crossed, his right arm
uiv at his side, bis hand cliDcheil with theex
ceptiou of the index finger, which (K>inted to
w tr. s his reef The left hand lay on his
breast and held a beautiful poi ket bandker-
,l. b!?? 1 r the pocket of his pants was
f k Tu fe ' , a f ocket-comb and a tooth
pick. These details alsjut bis burial were
arranged by Mr. Dickson vears ago, and were
communicated to Ins nephew. Mr. Jeff Wor
tben. that they might be oliserved. The
funeral was largely attended by both white
persons and negroes, and the services were
. on.lii. led by Kev. Messrs. T.mraens and 1L
11. >asnelt, both of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. r
Atlanta ((institution: Therein strange case
of llec * tu r street, between Fort
ami Iliilianl. Id tiiat locality resides a negro
woiii>in named Cherry Jone-, the wife of a
weli-to-dAj colored mao. For ten days she has
suffered from one of the most fearful and fa al
malud.cs known among meiical men The
attending physicians. Dr. Goldsmith and Col
ller, diagnose the disease as idiopathic teta
nus. The affection is similar to hvdrophoi it.
and is made up of the ino-t horrible and
painful spasms. The muscles are griped and
pulled as in a deadly cramp. The victim is
doubled up as the paroxysms come on. The
woman is at times quiet,'but a noise or breatli
of air brings on aspell and the muscles become
almost a-i hard as iron. For teu (lavs the wo
man has been goiug through these terrible
attacks, and great numbers of colored people
have visited her, watching the spasms with
, fear and trembling. For nearly a week no
one believed her recovery possible, but she
has now passed the ninth day. ami her recov
ery is looked for The paroxysms are less se
vere, and the interval between them are
longer. Ibo woman has been taking the most
powerful sedatives in amazing quantities,
using one grain of morphine every two hours
for nays, it is just such a disease as ignorant
negroes would readily take to be the work of
a conjurer.
Atlanta Constitution: For some time past
Mrs. Coleman, of this city, has entertained a
-elect circle of friends with manifestations of
a phenomenal j power, said to be equal if not
superior to anything displayed by Miss Lulu
Hurst, the famous electric girl’ of Collard
town. Mrs.oleman is a charming lady, at
traetue, well educated and refiued. She was
liorn in France, ami has traveled extensively.
It is claimed by hundreds of her friends ami
acquaintances that her performances are of
the most startling and inexplicable nature.
The feats accomplished by Miss Lulu Hur-t
are repeated by Mrs. Coleman apparcutly
with perfect ease. In her presence strong
men tremb.e ami twist like leaves in a storm
in their vain endeavor to hold chairs, walking
sticks and umbrellas. amt yet Mrs.
Coleman does nothing beyond plac
ing the palm of her hand upon the
chair, umbrella or cane. Her lightest touch
appears to overpower the greatest strength ol
strong men. She .locsoiher things more won
derful. Blindfolded persons walk about and
pick up ami bring to her any article she may
think of. When she wills it they sit down,
dance or stand up. She lets the spectators
kuow in advance just what tlie blindfolded
man will do and he alone of all the persons m
the house is in blissful ignorance of what is
coming. The nature of the wonderful power
possessed by this lady bailies the greatest sci
eutists. As people know less about electricity
than anv of the great forces of nature they do
not hesitate to say that it is the basis of this
remarkable power. Clearly, too, mind read
ing has a good deal to do with it. Mrs. Cole
man will give a public exhibition of h r pow
ers in Deuive’s Opera House on March it.
FLORIDA.
Bartow is to have a railway mail service.
Orange trees are now ;n full bloom in Sum
ter county.
Oeala lias 2,200 population. Four years ago
she ha.i only 1,000.
Several wagons of immigrants passed
through Ocala Monday.
An octopus, or devil fish, of 16 feet, spread
in all his slimy folds, was caught near I‘unta
Kassa on Sunday of last week.
A white man and a negro at Bartow had a
light with spades last week (Tuesday). The
negro’s skull was fractured so that tlie brains
oozed out.
Mr. W. M. Bryant, of Lake Fcfinsetr, while
loading a large fly wheel last week, wa
crushed against a building by it and severely
if not futailv injured.
Anew town lias been lai't out four ami a
half miles south of Sumterville, at the junc
tion of the Florida Railway ami Navigation
Company’s roa.i ami the Gordon Road.
It is i-aid there is a fall of 14 feet in the
Miami river, from the Everglades to the sea,
a distance of three or fourmUes. If this be
true, trie drainage of the Everglades woulil
not seem to boa very difficult achievement.
Fort Mason vegetable gardeners are mak
ing big preparations for large shipments
soon. Their crops between Lake Eustis and
Vale are in tine condition, ami as a much
larger acreage has been put in than any pre
vious year, a lucrative season is confidently
anticipated.
Mr. Shelton Souter, living near Anthony,
wi.l ship this year between sort and Loco
boxes of oranges'. F'rom the same grove last
year he only shipped 50 boxes. This increase,
though large, is not uuusual, and demon
strates the wonderful bearing capacity of an
orange grove.
F'ort Myers Prem: Mr. Cyrus Beede, the
special Indian agent, is about to take a trip,
accompanied by .Mr. William M. llemlrv, ti
the vicinity of Fort Meade, Kissimmee and
elsewhere to visit the scattered settlements
of ihe Seminoles in pursuance of the object of
nis mission. He is endeavoring to do aU that
is possible to prevail on the Indians to secure
homesteads and save themselves from being
literally crowded out of the country, as they
will be in time if they neglect the opportu
nity.
Tallahassee correspondence News, Feb. 20:
The cause of education was encouraged in va
rious ways by the last Legislature. Florida
University at Tallahassee and several other
institutions of learning were incorporated
and large appropr ations made for the benefit
of the State Agricultural College at Lake
City, the teacher’s institute and for normal
instruction. Dr. E. S. Crill, the new State
Treasurer, assumed the duties of his office
Wednesday. Dr. Mitchell, the new Commis
sioner of Lands and Immigration Aviil take
charge of tiis office on Marea 1. Col. Jno. A.
Craig, a prominent citizen of this county, and
a gallant soldier inthe late war, die.t of pneu
monia last Thursday at his home near thecity.
Lake City correspondence Morniko News
F'eb. 20: A cold wave struck us last night, and
this morning we had a brilliant frost, and all
to-day shawls and overcoats have been in re
quisition.—A family, consisting of husband,
wife and several children, passed AVils n last
week on their way back to Georgia from South
Florida. Their equipage was a bunille in a
dirty rag and a shotgun.—The public health
is remarkably good in ihissection.—One of the
greatest improvements Lake City has hail is
the management of the Peabody School by
Prof. Bently. assisted by Mi-s Anna 11. Por
ter. The school iias 131 pupils and is giving
universal satisfaction, so much so that the
trustees and citizens find that it is necessary
to either build or buv another buihling *o ac
commodate the rapidly increasing school.
Scholars, residents of Columbia county, have
no tuition to pay, while those from other
counties are charged $2 per month tuition.
Another assistant is to be added to the in
structors at once in this school.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
An old colored woman was accidentally
burned to death at McFaddin’s. Clarendon
county, on Feb. 16.
Capt. Daniel O’Leary, an old citizen of
Charleston, died in that citv Saturday morn
ing from a stroke of paralysis.
A peddler of brass jewelry ‘ took in” a
number of young men in Abbeville last week,
who forced him to return their money.
Mr. W. R. Boynton, of Barnwell, has made
an assignment to Capt. George A. Wagoner,
of Charleston, for the benefit of his creditors.
There was a tire in the pickery of the
Charleston Cotton Factory on Saturday morn
ing. The damage amounted to 41.500, covered
by insurance.
Dublin llolman, colored, was lodged in jail
at Barnwell on Friday last. He is charged
with shooting Luther .lone , also col..red.
whose right side, from the neck to the knee,
is said to be painfully full of buckshot.
M. Foot, one of the largest merchants of
Newberry, made an assignment Friday for
the benefit of his creditors, llis liabilities a r c
estimated to be about 461,000, and his assets
are nominally about the same amount. Most
of his creditor* are Northern firms.
The recent cyclone in Anderson county
swept away Mr. N. A. Shirley’s corn crib and
blew down his garden fence. A set of stables
and a corn crib ou Mr. James M. Stepp's place
were also swept away, carrying logs, boards
and rafters for more than 100 > ards.
V 1*- year old son of the Rev. N. Childs,
colored, of Helena, Newberry county, while
trying to get a ride on a freight train, on
Thursday, was knocked down by a car and
had one of his arms anil a leg broken, besides
being otherwise badly bruised and hurt in
ternally.
Spartanburg Herald: In population Spar
tanburg county stands fifth in the State, but
in wealth second only to Charleston, and m
..duration, number of schools, average at
tenuance. it stands first. These facts speas
much for the intelligence, thrift and enter
prise of the people of this county.
A fatal accident occurred in Edisto recent
ly. A colored woman living on Prof. P. C.
Johnston’s place left her baby sitting on a
quilt in front of the fire and went out of the
house. When she returned the child was ter
ribly burned, the quilt having caught tire in
the absence of the mother. The child expired
in a few hours.
Two negroes were exhumed by the Coroner
at Newberry last week, and after a post
mortem examination by the physician and
other investigation and testimony, a negro
woman was arrested and committed to jail
for trial at the sessions, being charged with
noisonmz the unfortunate negroes whose
KdTes were exhumed.
Orangeburg Time* and Democrat : A most
hrutal murder was committed on the planta
tion of Mr. W. Hull, near Vance’s Ferry, on
Friday, F’eb. 13. It appears from the ev dence
brought out at the inquest held to-day by
Trial Justice Browning, acting Coroner, that
on Friday last two young colored boys, Harry
smith aud Keitt Shmgler, became involved in
a quarrel, and after repeated attempts made
bv Harry to cut Keitt with a razor, he (Har
ry) finally picked up a handspike and pursu
ing Keitt around the gin-house overtooTt aud
clubbed bun with the bludgeon, crushing the
skull, from which he died a few hours after.
The murderer uas fled.
CONGRESS FOR THE WEEK.
MK. HAVDALL BAYBTHERE WILL
BE NO EXTRV SESSION.
All the Regular Appropriation Bills to
be Passed— The Sundry Civil Bill to
be Reported To-day -The Silver Coin
age Provision to be Excepted lu Mur
iK its Pa§f>age,
Washington, Feb. 22.—Mr. Randall,
Chairman of the House Committee on
Appropriations, is of the opinion that
there will be noextra session of Congress.
He says all the regular appropriation
bills will be passed by the House before
the end of this week. The naval bill
will be ealled up for further discussion
to-morrow, and after its passage the con
sideration of the general deficiency bill
will be asked.
THK CONTEST ON THE SILVKR QUESTION.
In the House on Wednesday or Thurs
day there will be an interesting contest
oyer the silver question. The Appropria
tion Committee has decided by a vote of
8 to 7 to insert in the sundry civil appropri
at on bill a provision authorizing the
President to suspend the coinage of the
silver dollars lor one year after July 1
next. The vote by which this clause was
inserted was as follows: Chairman Ran
dall of Pennsylvania, Follett of Ohio, El
lis of Louisiana, Forney of Alabama, and
Hutchins ot New York, Democrats, and
Messrs. Horr of Michigan, Washburn of
Minnesota and Long of Massachusetts,
Republicans, voted in the affirmative; and
Messrs. Holman of Indiana, Hancock of
1 exas, lownshend of Illinois and Burns
ol Missouri, Democrats, and Kelfer of
Ohio, Cannon of Illinois and Rvau oi
Kansas, Republicans, voted in the’ nega
tive. A peculiar feature of this vote is that
it is non-partisan and non-sectional. The
programme of Mr. Randall is to move to
suspend the rules and pass the sundry
civil bill, with the exception of the para
graphs relating to the silver clause, and
the clause relating to the New Orleans
exposition, and to consider these clauses
separately, and to act upon them by a
minority vote. This motion will require
a two-ihirds vote, and if it is carried it
will pass all parts of the bill except the
two provisions referred to. These provis
ions will then be taken up, discussed
ami disposed of by a majority vote. But
prominent silver men say to-night that
they will filibuster it necessary to prevent
a final vote on the silver clause. If they
should carry out this programme they
would undoubtedly prevent final action.
They appear to feel quite confident of
their ability to defeat the proposed legis
lation, but an exciting contest is in pros
pect and it is likely to result in interest
ing developments.
i'he fortifications bill will probablv be
reported to the House on Thursday.' It
will be similar to the bill of last year,
making provision simply for the repair
and preservation of existing works.
The Senate has under consideration the
post office appropriation bill, and it is ex
pected that action will be reached to
morrow.
A sub-committee of the Senate Com
mittee on Appropriations was in session
all day Saturday upon the legislative
appropriation bill, and this measure will
probably be ready lor consideration in the
Senate as soon the as post office bill is dis
posed of.
THE SUNDRY CIVIL BILL COMPLETED.
The House Committee on Appropria
tions was in session at the to-day
from 10 o’clock in the morning until 7
O’clock in the evening on the sundry
civil appropriation bill. The bill was
completed and will be reported to the
House to-morrow. It is understood th xt
the only important item of new legisla
tion in the bill is the provision to author
ize the forwarding of standard silver dol
lars tree of charge from the sub-treasuries
of the United States to such banks as
call for them.
AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE EXPOSITION
The committee also agreed to-day to
recommend an appropriation of $300,000
for the New Orleans Exposition, this
sum to be expended under direction oi
the Secretary of the Treasury, in paying
"11 the present creditors of the exposition
in the order of priority of their liens un
der tne State laws of Louisiana.
ELAINE NOT PRESENT.
Bancroft Considers Washington the
Wisest Man That Ever Lived.
W ashington, Feb. 22.—The absence
o£ James G. Blaine (rom the ceremonies
in honor of George Washington yester
day, avus generally commented upon.
George Bancroft was the only person
in the hall ot the House yesterday who
paid strict attention to the proceedings
throughout. He listened to every word
of the two long orations. He Was pleased
with both, but seemed to enjoy Daniel’s
most. Mr. Bancroft knows more about
George Washington than any other Am
erican does. His estimate of him is sin
gular. He does not say he was the great
est or the best, but he saj s he was the
wisest man that ever lived.
CUNNINGHAM’S HISTORY.
What a Chicagoan Says of Ills Sojourn
in that City.
Chicago, Feb. 22. —Uapt. Mack, an in
ventor, in an interview says: “‘Cunning
ham, the man who is under arrest in
London charged with the attempt to blow
up the Tower, • was in this city two
years ago, and had two of his infernal
machines with him. There were three
men in the party. The other two went
by the names of Dalton and Brennan.
Cunningham was a very quiet, smooth
faced youug fellow, with a mild blue eye,
and the last person you would suppose to
be a dynamiter. He became acquainted
with some of the leading Irish
sympathizers here. One night several
ot us were in a restaurant
on Clark street when he received a dis
patch from New York. It was supposed
to be from O’Donovan ltossa. He said
his party must leave for New York at
once. Cunningham was hard up and a
collection was taken up to send the trio
to New York the next day.”
A FRACAS IN WAYCK’ISS.
Mr. HeflwrJsjht Shot by E. B. Baker for
an Imaginary Insult.
W aycross, Ga., Feb. 22.—Some excite
ment was occasioned here this evening
by the shooting of Mr. Heffwright, the
artesian well contractor, by E. B. Baker.
Baker fancied Heffwright had insulted
him earlier in the day, while under the
influence of liquor, and he sought Heff
wright at his hotel and assaulted him.
Heffwright attempted to grapple with
his assailant, when Baker tired
two shots at him, one of which took effect.
After being shot Mr. Heffwright knocked
Baker down. At this juncture friends of
both tnen interfered and prevented what
otherwise might have been a serious
affair. An examination of the wound
found the ball imbedded in the flesh ot
the right side. The wound is not of a se
rious character. No further trouble is
anticipated
THE RUSSIAN NIHILISTS.
Important Documents Seized and Nu
merous Arrests Made.
St. Petersburg, Feb. 22.—The police
at Dorpat, in the Southern Russian prov
ince of Livonia, recently made an impor
tant seizure of Nihilistic documents.
They included several thousand
copies of a terrorist manifesto, which
had been printed on a secret
press and put up in envelopes
to be sent to branch organizations and to
various local aud imperial officials. There
were also several letters which proved
the complicity of a student named Pere
loeff, who had formerly been charged
with connection with Nihilistic plots, but
had been amnestied by the government.
A party of soldiers was sent to arrest
him. They found him at bis lodgings,
but as soou as they entered he snatched
up a pistol and shot himself through the
heart. In his room were fouud poison,
weapons, money and a quantity of dyna
mite. Many other arrests have been
made.
ANOTHER ROAD GOBBLED.
A Vanderbilt Syndicate After the New
York, West Shore and Buffalo.
Chicago, Feb. 22.—The Times of this
morning says: “There seems to be little
doubt that Mr. Vanderbilt will soon be in
possession of the New York, West Shore
and Buffalo Railroad. A heavy bond
holder of the road said yesterday to a re
porter for the Times that a syndicate, of
which William H. Vanderbilt is chief
member, was buying up the bonds of the
road rapidly, and that probably within
thirty days they would have a controlling
interest.”
SAVANNAH, MONDAY. FEBRUARY 23, 1885.
THE INAUGURATION.
Preparations that are Being Made for
Illumination and Feeding.
Washington, Feb. 21.—Preparations
for the inauguration are going on with
great success. The stands on the public
park binding on Pennsylvania avenue
are about completed, and work on toe
Pension building is being pushed forward
night and day. At the outset the greatest
anxiety existed as to the ability of the
committee to get this building completed
in time. Now none at all is felt. The
temporary roof is in place, and the work
on the interior can soon be completed.
In the illumination of the city at night
eighty-six calcium lights will be used and
placed as follows: Pennsylvania avenue,
from First to Seventeenth streets, all
around the Capitol grounds; Four-and-a
half street, from Pennsylvania avenue to
the City Hall, and in front of the Citv
Hall to Fourth and Fifth streets; Fifth
street to Ninth; fourth street to G; G
street, lrom Fourth to Fitteenth street;
Louisiana avenue, from Pennsylvania ave
nue to the City Hall, and F street, from
Fifth to Ninth .street.
Those along the avenue will be lighted
as soon as darkness sets in, while those
around the Pension building will be
lighted about 9 o’clock. Colored globes,
four on aeh lamp-post, will be placed
along the avenue. The members of the
diplomatic corps, 85 in number, Mr. Cleve
land, Mr. Hendricks. President Arthur,
Senator Edmunds, Speaker Carlisle, Mr.
Blaine and Gen. Logan will be the guesis
of the Executive Committee at the ball.
The following items will be included in
the inaugural supper: 1,000 quarts of ice
cream, 500 quarts of water ice, 150 boned
turkeys, 1,000 pounds of lobster, 8,000
pickled oysters, 8,000 clams, 6 large sal
mon, 6 large striped bass, 200 roast tur
keys, 500 boiled turkeys, 1.50 tongues, 100
hams, 16 sets of roast beef, 50 pate de loie
gras, 100 quarts of consomme soup, 50
dozen bunches of celery, 50 dozen heads
of lettuce, 2 barrels of chicken salad.
6,000 rolls, 150 loaves of bread, 1,000
pounds of cake.
THE BALL-ROOM WILL BE THE LARGEST
EVER SEEN
in this country. You see when you get a
ball-room on whose floor 2,000 or more
people can be dancing at once, on whose
promenades 2,000 or 3.000 more can be
made comfortable, in Avhose dining-room
1,000 people may tie fed at once, and in
whose galleries 4,000 or 5,000 people may
be comfortably seated, you have an Da
mons • affair. No one can realize the big
ness of the ball-room and its belongings
until he has seen it and realized how little
show a few hundred workmen make in it.
THE FROCKSSION PROMISES TO BE A VERY
FINE ONE.
There are to be from 7.000 to 10,000 mem
bers of civic associations in the proces
sion, judging from the communications
we have had, and as tor the military
there is no end to it. Pennsylvania alone
is to send 7,000 of her State troops, New
.York 5,000, and many of the other States
large numbers, while the United States is
also to furnish a large number of men.
The procession will be something quite
worthy ot the occasion.
On every “reservation” and park along
the avenue where the procession is to
march are being erected platforms with
seats to accommodate thousands and
thousands of people. All along the ave
nue the windows are placarded, “This
window for rent for the inauguration
parade.” The prices for windows range
lrom $5 upward as high as $.50.
BROKE UP IN A ROW.
Herr Moat Advocates Murder aud the
Use of Dynamite.
Baltimore, Feb. 22.—There was a
large meeting of Anarchists and Social
ists at Turn Hall here to-night. It was
addressed by Herr Most of New York,
who advocated murder, justified the use
of dynamite, and spoke of the “Knights of
the Black Hand” as great and glorious
heroes. He was interrupted by one of
his audience named August Zwililer, who
denounced the views expressed and call
ed Most a coward. The meeting broke
up in great excitement, which threaten
ed at one time to take the shape of a fight
b3tween the moderate Socialists and An
archists.
CHOLERA IS COMING.
A Mysterious Light in the Hills that is
Cousldered as a Warning.
Port Jervis, Feb. 20.—A curious phe
nomenon was witnessed by residents of
Momiaup, Sullivan county, a small vil
lage in the Delaware valley, five miles
west of this place, on the night of the re
cent g-eat snow storm. On the Pennsyl
vania side of the river the Pike county
hills rise st- ep and rocky to several hun
dred feethigi. While the storm was at
its height a bright light suddenly flashed
up among the high rocks opposite Mon
gaup, near the summit of the range.
There was no blaze, but the snow-covered
rocks glowed like red-hot iron for a dis
tance of several feet around. The light
resembled a huge bed of live coals, and
cast a weird reflection on the snow, throw
ing the trunks and lower branches of the
bare trees into strong reliet. The light
gleamed through the storm for several
minutes, and then gradually grew dim
and disappeared.
As it would be difficult and hazardous
for any person to reach the spot where
the light was seen, even in the day time
and in summer, it is not thought that any
one could have possibly clambered to the
spot at night, up the steep ledge, covered
two feet deep with frozen snow, and
through a blinding snow storm. The
mysterious light is, therefore, not charged
to any human agency, and the supersti
tious look upon its strange appearance as
some kind of an omen. An old inhabi
tant says that in 1836,when cholera raged
through this country, similar lights ap
peared on the mountains in the winter
and spring. He says it is another warn
ing that cholera is on its way.
SEEN IN A TRANCE.
A Young Lady’s Visit to the Other
World and What She Saw There.
Reading, Feb. 20.—The great religious
wave recently struck Mohnsville, this
county. Among the persons converted
was Miss Elizabeth Metz, a respectable
young woman of this place, who was
thrown into a trance from which she did
not recover for over twenty-tour hours.
She tells wonderful stories ot all she saw
and heard while her body remained on
earth. She claims that her soul spent a
brief period in heaven, where it was per
mitted to remain just long enough to gaze
upon all its glories. She claims to have
been actually in heaven.
The time she was in this state is a per-'
feet blank to her. Miss Metz regrets that
she was not allowed to remain in the
beautiful place. She says that all about
her was filled with millions upon millions
of happy beings whose faces bore no
traces of sorrow. In this ethereal space
she met friends who had been dead for
years, and their only occupation seemed
to be to sing 6ongs ot praise and to play
upon their golden harps. She was also
permitted to gaze into an awful black pit
full of writhing human beings in a seeth
ing fire, whose faces bore evidences of the
fearful pain they were undergoing. She
says no oce can now convince her that
there is no hell. Many persons have been
st-ongly impressed by her story.
A Reminiscence of Old John Covod*.
Washington, Feb. 20.—The question
of ventilating the chamber ot the House
o( Representatives is ever present, al
though the reasons for it are not as ample
now as when John Covode was a member.
Uncle John was strong on ventilation.
On one occasion he fairly aroused the
House to its importance. “Mr. Speaker,”
he f outed, alter describing the bad air
which members were compelled to
breathe, “I suspect that the foulest snot
in this ’ere House Is about where I stand!”
A roar of laughter upset him, and it was
some time before he could continue his
speech.
A New Disease Among Swine.
Boston, Feb. 21.— Many of the farmers
and tine hog breeders in this part of Mas
sachusetts and throughout the western
part of the State have lost large numbers
of their most valuable swine from anew
disease. The symptoms of the disease are
loss of appetite, sight and strength, inva
riably resulting in death inside of three
daysJ The disease seems to be contagious
and spreads rapidly. Notwithstanding
the cold weather, the hogs begin to turn
purple shortly after death, and many of
the farmers immediately bury the car
casses. in the last two weeks the disease
has abated.
A Tall Man.
Why are the tallest men the laziest?
They are always longer in bed than others,
and if they neglect their coughs or colds
they will be there still longer. Use Tay
lor’s Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and
Mullein.
A SKIRMISH AT ABI’KLEA
CONFLICTING STATEMENTS OF
THE BRITISH LOSSES.
The Rebels Carry off Their Dead and
Wounded—Heroic Tactics of Maj. War
drop—The Mahdi’s Contingent Arrive
and the Attack to be Renewed—Lord
Wolselev’s Opinion.
Korti, Feb. 22.—A dispatch from Abu
Klea says: “Gen. Buller, who arrived
here on Feb. 15 from Gubat, at noon on
the 17th commenced a systematic shelling
ot the Arab lines. Two well-directed
shots did the enemy great damage. Oue
exploded amidst a group of men engaged
in placing the howitzer on the summit of
a hiil east of our sailors’ fort and the
other removing the wheel of the gun car
riage. Lord Beresford also did the enemy
great injury with the Gqfdtuer guns.
“The honors of the day fell to Maj. Ward
rop. who, with thirteen men, stole cau
tiously round the enemy’s right and found
they had only a few hundred riflemen on
the hills and no reserve spearmen. Maj.
Wardrop and his men, keeping out
of sight, sent volleys at a range of
800 yards on the enemy’s flank. Leaving
one man at this point to continue the tir
ing he took the twelve others, and as
quickly as possible pursued the same tac
tics at three successive hills, giving the
Arabs the impression that fresh bodies of
British troops were arriving. The
Mahdi’s forces became panic
stricken, ceased firing, and decamped
toward Metemneh, taking their guns, dead
and wounded with them. A few Arab
scouts only were left three miles off to
watch our movements. There has been
no sign of the enemy since. Gen. Buller
will advance to Gakdul as soon as rein
forcements arrive from Korti. The Brit
ish loss during the engagement- was 4
killed and 25 wounded.”
THE SKIRMISH MAGNIFIED.
London, Feb. 22.—The newspaper cor
respondents with Gen. Buller’s force at
Abu Klea telegraph accounts of the suc
cessful skirmish on Feb. 17, which the
LonUon papers magnify into a British
victory. As Lord Wolseleyhas sent no
report of the affair it is probably regarded
by him as insignificant. The withdrawal
oi the Soudanese to Metemneh is at
tributed to want of water and other sup
plies.
ATTACKS TO BE RENEWED.
Dispatches from Korti say it is expected
there that the attacks on Gen. Buller will
be renewed. The Soudanese around Abu
Klea wore the Mahdi’s uniform, showing
that the contingent has arrived lrom
Khartoum. Gen. Buller will be unable
to resume his retreat until he obtains ad
ditional means of transportation. The
second convoy with camels, which is
taking Gen. Boiler’s ammunition, left
Gakdul on Friday morning.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT
of the skirmish at Abu Klea on Feb. 17
says: Before the rebels fell back there
was some very active fighting, but it was
confined to the sharpshooters on both
sides, as the Arabs did not come near
enough to Gen. Buller’s intrenchments to
make volley tiring effective. For the same
reason, and also on account of the scarcity
of ammunition, the machine guns were
not brought into action. The loss on the
British side was three killed and twenty
one wounded. Gen. Wolseley thinks Gen.
Buller will be able to make his way back
to Gakdult wells without serious diffi
culty. •
GEN. GRAHAM’S TROOPS.
Gen. Graham will have 8,000 troops in
Suakin by March 9. These will include
the Indian contingent.
A i TAlt I LING HUMOR.
The Troopship “Lydian Monarch’’ Said
to Have Foundered.
London, Feb. 22. —A telegram from
Dublin reports that a rumor prevailed in
that city to-night that the troopship
Lydian Monarch from Kingstown
for Suakin had foundered in the
St. George’s channel. There is in
tense excitement in Dublin over the
report, but no advices confirmatory of the
rumor have been received by the Aumi.
ratty. There have been terrific gales in
Scotland and Ireland within the past few
days. Steamers have been detained from
sailing, and great damage has been done
along the coast. Numerous losses of life
are reported.
ALMOST EATEN BY DOGS.
A Little Girl Pursued by Ravenous Ca
nines who Tear her Body.
Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 17.— Two
men while crossing a lot at Forty-eighth
and Market streets, about 1 o’clock this
afternoon, were attracted by the screams
of a little girl, who was lying on the
ground surrounded by a dozen or more
mongrel dogs. They ran to where the
child lay, and, after no little trouble,
drove off the dogs which were tearing
the little one’s flesh in the most savage
way. The child was able to
give her name as Mamie Hasson,
and to tell the men that she had been fol
lowed by three or four dogs while return
ing from a butcher’s shop with some meat.
The starving animals commenced to jump
around her and snap at the meat, at
which the child, who is but 12 years of
age, became frightened, and as the place
where she was first attacked is a con
siderable distance from any house, she
started to run. The dogs were joined by
others and quickly secured the meat,
after which they attacked the little girl,
and, throwing her down, bit her cruelly
about the face, arms and lower limbs,
and almost denuded her body of clothing.
Several of the wounds are large and
dangerous ones.
CRANKS WHO WANT MONEY.
Curious Letters Received by Treasurer
Wyman.
United States Treasurer Wyman is the
recipent of many curious letters, gener
ally relating to the disposition of the
money contained in the Treasury, says
the Washington Star. A few days ago he
received a letter from an Indiana farmer,
who said that he understood the Demo
crats intended cleaning out the Treasury,
but before that should come to pass he
desired that the small sum of $6,000 should
be sent to him in order that he might buy
a farm. He knew Mr. Wyman would be
willing to oblige him with this amount,
particularly if he felt that the Democrats
could not be trusted with the Treasury
and its funds.
Another letter, received about the same
time, was from an Ohio nuin, who said
that he learned from different papers that
$40,000,000 lay in the Treasury which be
longed to various persons, but had never
been claimed. He was of tiff* opinion that
some ot this amount rightfully belonged
to him. A good many years ago, while
traveling in Kentucky, he had sent $lO in
a letter to his wife, b*t nothing had ever
been heard of either letter or remittance,
and he presumed the money was in the
Treasury. Besides, his wife’s uncle went
to California in 1869, and promised to leave
her some money. The-uncle had since
died, but nothing had been heard of the
legacy, which no doubt was a part ot the
unclaimed forty million. He desired the
Treasurer to look the matter up and turn
over to him what was rightfully his own.
A ROMANTIC CAREER.
A Position Lost in America and Re
gained in the Old World.
Dr. Edward Warren was the leading
medical witness for the defense in the
great Wharton poisoning case at Balti
more, says a Washington special to the
Pniladelphia Xews, and he was more than
a match for all the doctors the prosecu
tion could bring. He had been a Confed
erate soldier and chief medical officer on
Gen. Lee’s staff. He was bright, a good
talker and an excellent writer. He orig
inated the theory of cerebro-spinal menin
gitis as the disease from which Gen.
Ketcham died, and outwitted the lawyers
in getting it before the jury in such an in
teresting shape that it sounded and read
like a romance. Dr. Warren’s participa
tion in this case practically drove him
out of Baltimore, and he went abroad as
surgeon to the Khedive of Egypt. Here,
for some tamous surgical operation upon a
member of the royal family, he was deco
rated Bey and otherwise honored. He is
now the leading physician of all Paris,
and has received two or,three decorations
for his skill. He has written a good deal
for the newspapers since he has been
abroad, and has a very attractive way of
making his points, lt’was a great dav for
him when he was called into this Wharton
trial, for he was poor then and the chance
made him rich, famous.
A letter was received at the Washington
post office the other other day addressed:
"Hon. Mr. Cleveland, In the White House at
Washington. Please examine quick,”
FOB M’CABE’S SUCCESSOR.
Belter That the Choice Has Fallen on
Dr. Walsh
I believe it is not too early, says a Lon
don cablegram In Saturday's New York
Time*, to venture a prediction respecting
Mr. Parnell’s party and tha English Gov
ernment in the struggle now waging in
and about the Vatican over the successor
to Cardinal McCabe. My prediction is
that the English will be beaten in this
struggle. In fact, I have information
from both sides which seems to point
without question to the fact that
the next Primate will be an ardent
Nationalist. Toe Papacy tried to
tall out with the Parnell leaders
last year, ard with the result that the
Parnell tribute money was swollen trom
£4,000 to £40,000 and that nearly the en
tire Peter’s pence fund was suspended.
As soon as the results of this
mistake were seen the policy was
changed, and the difference was speedily
displayed In the appointment of a Coad
jutor Bishop lor Cork. Dean Nevelle,
who is an able and aristocratic Whig,
and who was strongly urged by the
English, was set aside' in that appoint
ment lor Father O’Callaghan, who is a
decided Nationalist. The Pope is then
said to have laid down the rule that in
future no bishop shall be appointed in Ire
land populo invito.
But the reasons for predicting a Na
tionalist success in the present contest
are stronger than this fact would indicate.
The new man is practically certain to be
Dr. Walsh, the well-known president of
the Maynooth College. He is about 45
years of age. In size he is small. His
complexion is excessively dark, and he
has piercing eyes. He wears gold
rimmed spectacles. All his life has been
spent in the college as student, profes
sor, aud president. F6r the past five
years the great Updy of clerical
alumni with whom he has come into
personal contact have grown extremely
fond of him. He has been one of the fore
most writers of the Nationalist propa
ganda. His pamphlets on the land ques
tion have been by far the best that the
controversy has evoked. It was he who
fought the Duke of Leinster and over
threw the iamous Leinster leases, which
were cunning evasions of the reform
regulations of 1870. During Cardinal
McCabe’s regime he has been re#sgnized
as the head of the opposition, which has
tacitly embraced forty-nine-iittieths
ot the Irish clergy. Cardinal
McCabe, who went "to an ex
treme of English sympathy in Ireland
not easily to be exaggerated, and who used
the whole machinery of the church to
punish the priests for their Nationalist
leanings, once said to him: “Do you know
I could exile you to the lowest and mean
est parish in the wholejarchdiocese?’’
To this Dr. Walsh replied: “Yes, but you
don’t dare.” Mr. Parnell, when once
asked if he knew Dr. AYalsh replied: “1
should think 1 did know him. It was he
who got me put into prison.” He then
laughingly explained that it was from
Dr. Walsh that he got the phrase “Prai
rie valuation.” which served as the pre
text lor his conviction.
A significant straw in this matter was
seen a few days ago, when the Cathedral
Chapter met to select a Vicar Capitular
to serve during the interim. Assistant
Archbishop Donnelly, who, as a matter
of etiquette, has expected to get the place,
although he had no formal right to the
succession, insisted on opening the pro
ceedings by reading Lord Spencer’s letter
of condolence against the protest of some
of the Canons. When a ballot for Vicar
Capitular was taken Dr. Donnelly got 4
votes and Dr. Walsh 20. Out of the 50
priests who vote on the names to be sent
to Home it is believed that all but 6 have
put Dr. Walsh’s name first. One of the
rural priests was asked the other day in
Dublin if he intended voting for Dr.
Walsh. He replied: “Faith, if I didn’t
my own curates would boycott me.”
There is also a side reason for the unani
mous desire of the priests to have a Na
tionalist primate. It is not quite so ele
vated as the patriotic reason. Under the
regime of Cardinal McCabe and of his
predecessor, Cardinal Cullen, who forbade
political action on the part oi the parish
priests, the priests had a sort ot rival au
thority set up under their very noses in
the form of presidents of local leagues,
the result of w'hich was the impairment
of priestly authority and often a dam
aging falling off in clerical influence.
Not a little of their anxiety for a change
at this time is due, no doubt, to a desire
to regain their power by leading political
movements.
Dr. Walsh, it created Primate—and of
his election there seems to be no longer
any doubt—will be a figure in Irish affairs
second only to Mr. Parnell. The immedi
ate local effect of his accession will be an
enormous change in Dublin politics and
the completion of the social eclipse of the
Castle already begun by the present Lord
Mayor’s abstention. The general under
effect will be more sweeping, perhaps,
than even the Nationalists dare to hope.
SIX WEEKS WITHOUT FOOD.
A Woman Who lias Eaten Nothing and
Drank Little Since Jan. 7.
Bloomsbury (N. J.) is a small village on
the line of the New Jersey Central Rail
road, about seven miles from Phillpsburg,
the border station between New Jersey
and Pennsylvania. Mrs. Crandall came
to the village about eight years ago from
the interior of New York State. She is a
native ct Ireland and about 64 years of
age. Four years ago she tell while pass
ing through a doorway leading into her
yard and struck her back violently
upon a door sill, receiving a per
manent injury to the spine.
Since then her body has been
bent forward, and she has been able to
walk only with the aid of erxitches. Soon
alter her fall, having no means of sup
port, she became a charge upon the town
ship and has since lived with Overseer
Laire, who has an extension on the side
of his house in which the town paupers
are kept. When admitted to the poor
house she was somewhat above the aver
age weight, and soon began to accumu
late flesh with great rapidity. This habit
continued, and when taken sick about
three months ago she had become
so lat as to be hardly able to move, and
was estimated to weigh at least 350
pounds. She complained when she first
became ill of severe pains in the abdomen
and of nausea, but insisted upon gettiug
up from her bed every day unfit about 2
months ago, when she became so weak
that she was unable to move from her cot.
Her symptoms indicated a rather severe
attack of inflammation of the lining mem
branes of the stomach. Dr. J. s. Linda
berry, who attends cases of sickness at
the poor-house, prescribed some tonics
for Mrs. Crandall, but the treatment did
not have much effect.
On Jan. 7 she was fed some beef soup
for her noonday meal by Overseer Laire.
After eating a few spoonfuls she was at
tacked with a sudden faintness, fell upon
her pillow and immediately began to
vomit not only what she had eaten, but
also a large quantity of dark green fluid.
The next time food was offered to her bv
the nurse she said:
“I will never eat attain.”
When the nurse insisted that she must
eat if she wanted to get well, she replied:
“I can live without it. When I get
hungry I’ll let you know 7 .”
Since that time —43 days ago—she has
not taken a particle of food. She not only
refuses to eat, but on seeing food will be
attacked by violent spasms, which are
followed by severe retchings and a period
of apparently suspended animation. The
room in which she is kept is small. Her
cot is in one corner of it, and diagonally
across the room is another cot, in which
a young girl has lain for some weeks sick
with pneumonia. The sight of feeding
this other patient has caused Mrs. Cran
dall great agony, and a screen was placed
between the cots.
She is still stout, though it is estimated
that she has lost 150 pounds. Her face,
surmounted by snow white hair, was
deathly pale. When asked if she would
like a piece of chicken, a shudder passed
over her body and she did not answer.
When any portion of her body was touched
she shrunk away and 'indicated pain.
Her feet and legs to the knees are and
have been icv cold to the touch. Her
flesh is flabby and the skin a mass of
wrinkles.
Overseer Laire and the nurses are con
sidered trustworthy people, and their
statements that no' food has been taken
by Mrs. Crandall sine 3 Jan. 7 are believed
by the townspeople. Dr. Lindaberry es
timates that Mrs. Crandall’s body con
tains enough flesh to keep her alive 30
days longer without food.
A Block OeAtroyed In Danville.
Danville, Va., Feb. 22.—A block of
buildings belonging to the estate of the
late William Kobertson was burned this
morning. The buildings were occupied
by Schoolfleld, hardware; Pritchett,feed;
Sonneborn, clothing; Boswell, dry goods
and groceries, and Robertson, boarding
house. The loss on the buildings is about
$30,000, and merchandise about $55,000.
The Insurance about covers the losses.
TIIE WAR ON TilE SABBATH
DR. TALMAGE DISCOURSES ON
VIOLATING THE DAY.
The Seventh Is a Day or Rest—He who
Breaks the Lord’s pay Gives a Mort
eage to Disease and Death—The Rattle
Between the Sabbath Breakers and the
Lord.
Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. 22.—Dr. Tal
mage preached in the Brooklyn Taber
nacle to-day on the subject “The War on
tne Sabbath.” The opening hymn was:
“Arm of the Lord! awake! awake!
Put on thy strength, the nations shake!”
The text was taken from Exodus, xxxi,
13: “Verily my Sabbath ye shall keep.”
Following is Dr. Talmage's sermon in
lull. He said:
The wisdom of cessation from hard labor
one day out of the seven is almost universally
acknowledged. The world has found out that
it can do less work in seven days than in six
and that the 52 days of the year devoted to
rest are an addition rather than a subtrac
tion. Experiments, have been made in all
departments. The great Uastlereagh thought
he could work his brain 305 days in the year,
hut after awniie broke down and committed
suicide: and Wilberforce said of him: “Poor
Castlereagh! This is ihe result of the non-ob
servance of the Sabbath.” A celebrated mer
chant declared: “1 should have been a ma
niac long ago hut for the Sabbath.” The
nerves, the brain, the muscle, the bones, the
entire physical, intellectual and moral na
ture cry out for the Sabbatic rest. What is
true of inaa is for the most part true of the
brute.
Travelers have found ont that they come to
their place of destination sooiwr when
they let their horses rest by
the way on the Sabbath. What
is the matter with those f.irlorn creatures
harnessed to some of our citv cars? Why do
they stumble and stagger and fall? It is for
the lack of the Sabbatic rest, in other days
when the herdsmen drove their sheep aud
cattle from tne far West down to the seaboard
it was found out by experiment that those
herdsmen and drovers who halted over the
seventh day got down sooner to the seaboard
than those who passed on without the observ
ance of the holy Sabbath. The fishermen on
the coast of Newfoundland declare that those
men, during the year, catch the most fish who
stop during the LordN day.
When I asked the Rocky Mountain locomo
tive engineer why he changed locomolives
when it seemed to be a straight route he said:
“W.e liaye to let the locomotive stop and cool
off or the machinery would soon break
down.” Men who made large quantities of
salt were told that if they allowed their
kettles to cool over Sunday they would sub
mit themselves to a great deal of damage.
The experiment was made, some observing
the Sabbath and some not observing the Sab
bath. Those who allowed the fires to go down
and the kettles to cool once a week wereeom
peiled to spend only a small sum for repair ,
while iu the cases where no Sabbath was ob
served many dollars were demanded for re
pairs.
In other words, intelligent man and dumb
beast and dead machinery cry out for the
Lord’s day. A prominent manufacturer
told me that he could see a difference between
the goods which went out of his establish
ments on Saturday from the goods that went
out on Monday. lie said: “They were very
different indeed. Those that were made in
the former part of the wee.k, because or the
rest that hail been previously given, were
b tter than those that were made in the latter
pirt of the week, when the men were tired
out.” Tlie Sabbath comes, and it bathes tlie
soreness from tlie limbs, quiets the agitated
brain, and put-out tlie tires of anxiety that
have been burning all the week. Our bodies
are seven-day clocks, and unless on the
seventh day they are wounil up, they run
down into Ihe grave. The. Sabbath was in
tended as a savings-bank; into it we are to
gather the resources upon which we are to
draw all the week. That man who breaks
the Babbath robs Ins own nerve, mus
cle, his own brain, his own hones. He Uqw
up the wine of hi3 own life and throws it
away. He who breaks the Lord’s d::®, gives a
mortgage to disease and death upon his en
tire physical estate, and at the most unexpect
ed moment that mortgage will be foreclosed,
and the soul ejected from the premises. Kverv
gland and pore and cell and finger-nail de
mands the seventh day for repose. The respi
ration of the lungs, the throb of the pulse in
the wrist, the motion of the bone in its eocket
declare, "Remember the Sabbath day to keep
it holy.” There are thousands of men who
have had their lives dashed out against the
golden gates of the Sabbath. A prominent
London merchant testified that thirty yeats
ago he went to London. He says: “I have
during that time watched minutely, and 1
have colic and that the men who went to busi
ness on the Lord’s day or opened their count
ing-houses. have, without a single exception,
come to failure.” A prominent Christian
merchant iu Boston says: “I find it don’t pay
to work on Sunday. When I was a boy, I no
ticed out on Long wharf there were mer
chants who loaded their vessels on the Sab
bath day, keeping their men busy from morn
ing till night, and it is my observation that
they themselves came to nothing—the-ie mer
chants—and their children came to nothing,
ft doesn’t pay,” he says, '“to work on the
Sabbath.”
While the attempt to kill the Sabbath bv
the stroke of ax and flails and the yardstick
lias beautifully failed, it is proposed in our
day to drown the Sabbath by opening all the
grog-sliops. An organized movement is on
foot to get the New York Legislature to re
peal the present law which prohibits the sale
of intoxicating liquor on the Sabbath. It is
said that tins law is uot executed. sen thou
sand men in the city of Brooklyn in behalf of
law and order are about to see that the law is
executed. The Sabbath has been sacrificed
to the rum traflic. To many of our people tlie
best day of the week is the wow. Bakers
must keep their shops closed on the Sabbath,
ft is dangerous to have loaves of bread goiug
out on Sunday. The shoe store is closed;
severe penalty will attack the man who sells
boots on the Sabbath. But down with the
window shutters of the grog-shops. Our
laws shall confer particular honors npontlie
rum traffickers. All other traders must stand
aside for these. Let our citizens who have
disgraced themtelyes by trading in clothing
and hosiery and hardware and lumber anil
coal tal-e off the'r hats to the rum-seller,
elected to particular honor. It is unsafe for
any other class of men to be allowed license
for Sunday work. But swing out your signs,
O ye traffickers in the peace of families and
in the souls of immortal men! Let the corks
fly and the, beer foam and the rum go tearing
down the half-consumed throat of the inebri
ate. GoB does not see, does he? Judgment
will never come, will it?
They would bury the Sabbath very decently
under the wreath of the target company and
to the muißc of all Strakosch’s brazen inetru-
There are to-day in the different
cities 10,000 hands and 10,000 pens
busy in attempting to cut out the
heart of our Christian Sabbath and leave
it a mere skeleton of what it once was. The
effort is organized and tremendous, and, un
less the friends of Christ and the lovers of
good orier shall rouse up right speedily, their
sermons and their protests will be uttered
after the castle is taken, There are cities in
the land where the Sabbath has almost per
iahed, and every Sabbath night those cities
are in full blaze of theatric and operatic en
tertainment, and it is becoming a practical
question whether we who reeeived a pure
Sabbath from the hands of our fathers shall
have piety and pluck enough to give to our
children the same blessed inheritance. The
eternal God helping us, we will!
I protest against this invasion of the holy
Sabbath in the first place, because it Is a war
on divine enactment. God says in Isaiah:
“If thou turn away thy foot lrom doing thy
pleasure on my holy day, thou shalt walk
upon the high places.” What did he mean by
“doing thy pleasure?” He referred to secular
and worldly amusements. A man told me he
was never so much frightened as in the midst
of ati earthquake, when the beasts of the field
bellowed in fear and even the barnyard fowls
screamed in terror.' Well, it was when the
earth was shaking and the sky was all full of
lire that God made the greatannouncement:
“Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.”
Go along through the streets where the thea
tres are open on a Sabbath night; go up on the
steps: enter the boxes of those places of enter
tainment and tell me if that is keeping the
Sabbath holy. “Oh,” says someone, “God
won’t be displeased with a grand sacred con
cert.” A gentleman who was present at a
“grand sacred concert” said that daring the
exercises there were comic and sentimental
songs, interspersed with coarse jokes, and
there were dances and a farce and tight-rope
walking and a trapeze performance. I sup
pose it was a holy dance and a consecrated
tight-rope. lam not certain, however, about
that, hut this I know—it was a “grand sacred
concert.”
We hear a great deal of talk abeufc “the rights
of the people” to have just such amusements
on Sunday as they want to have. I wonder if
the Lord has any rights. You rle your
family, the Governor rules the State, the
President miles the whole land; I wonder if
the Lord has a right to rule the nations and
make the enactment, “Remember the Sab
bath day to keep it holy,” and if there is any
appeal to a higher court from that fficision,
and if the men who are warring against that
enactment are not guilty of high treason
against the maker of heaven and earth. Thej
have in our cities put Gad on trial. It has
been the theatres and the opera houses of the
land plaintiffs, vs. the Lord Almighty de
fendant, and the suit has been begun, and
who shall come out ahead you know. Whether
it lie popular or unpopular, I now announce
it as my opinion that the people have no rights
save, those which the great Jehovah gives
them. He has never given the right to man
to break His holy Pabhath, and as long as
His throne stands He will never give that
right.
The prophet RBks a question which I can
easily answer: “Will a man rob God?” Yes.
They robbed Him last Sunday night at the
theatres and the opera houses, and I charge
upon them the infamous and high-handed
larceny. I believe with the sailor. Thecrew
had been discharged from the vessel because
they would not work while they were in port
on the Lord’s day. The captain went out to
get sailors. He found one man. and he said
to him: “Will you serve me on the Sabbath?'”
“No.” “Why not?” "Well,” replied the old
sailor, “a man who will rob God Almighty of
His Sabbath would rob me of my wages if he
got a chance.” Oh, it is dastardly mean when
we break the Sabbath. Suppose you had
seven oranges and you gave to your child six
of them, putting the other orange in your
pocket for yourself, and you should find that
the child had not been satisfied with the six
oranges and had come and stolen your sev
enth. That i" precisely what men do when
they break the Sabbath. Suppose you were
poor, and you came to a drv-goods merchant
and asked for some cloth for garments and he
should say, “I’ll give you six yards,” and
while he off from the counter, binding up
the six yards, you should go behind the coun
ter and steal one additional yard. That is
what every man does when he breaks the
Lord s Sabbath. God gives us six days out of
seven, reserving one for Himself, and you will
not let Him have it. It is mean beyond al
computation.
I am opposed to this desecration of the Sab
bath by secular entertainments because it is
a war on the statutes of our state. The law
says:
“It shall not be lawful to exhibit on the first
day of the week, commonly called Sunday, to
the public, in any building, garden, grounds,
concert room or other room or place within
the city and county of New Y'ora any inter
lude, tragedy, comedy, opera, ballet, play,
farce, negro minstrelsy, negro or other danc
ing, or any other entertainment of the stage,
or any part or paris therein, or any equestrian,
circus or dramatic performance, or any per
formauce of jugglers, acrobats or rope-danc
ing.”
Was there ever a plainer enactment than
that? Who made the law? You, who at the
bal.ot-box decided who should go to Albany
aud sit iu the Legislature. They made the law
lor you and for your families; and now I say
that any uiau who attempts to override that
law iusuits you and me aud every man who
has the right of suffrage in the State of New
York.
still further: I protest against this inva
sion of the sabbath, because it is a foreign
war. Now, if you heard at this moment the
hootmug of a guu iu the harbor, or a shell
lrom some foreign Ingale should drop into
our sirtets, how long would you keep your
eeats til the tabernacle? sou would want to
face the foe. aud every gun that could he
mauaged would be brought iu use, and everv
ship that could be brought out of the navy
yard would swing from her anchorage aud
the question would be decided. You do hot
waut a foreign war, and yet I have to tell you
that this invasion of God’s holy day is a lor
eign war. As among our own nu'tive-boru
population there are tw > classi s, the good aud
the bad, so it is with the people who come
from other shores—there are the law-abiding
and the lawless. The former are welcome
here. The more of them the better we like it.
In ibis particular church there are represen
tatives of all lands. I believe God intended
our national heart to throb with the blood of
all people! liut let uot the lawless come from
other shores expecting to break down our Sab
bath and institute in the place of it a foreign
Sabbath.
How do you feci, ve who have been brought
up amidst the hills of New England, about
giving up the American Sabbath? Ye who
spent your childhood under the shadow of the
Adiiondacks or the Catskills; ye who were
horn on the banks of the Tennessee or the
Savannah, how do you feel about giving up
the American Sabbath? You say: “AVe shall
not give it up. We mean to defend it as long
as there is any strength left iu our arms or
any blood in our heart!” Do not briug your
Spanish Sabbath here; do not bring your
French Sabbuih here; do not lit ing your Ger
man Sabbath here. It shall be for us uu i our
children forever, a pure, consecrated, Chris
tian. American Salibaih.
1 will make a comparison between the Sab
bath as some of you have known it and the
Sabbath of X’aris. I speak from observation.
One Sabbath morning f was aroused iu I’aris
by a greal sound in the street. 1 said, “What
is this?” “Ob,” they said, "this is Sunday.”
As unusual rattle of vehicles of all sorts.
The voices seemed more boisterous than on
other days. It seemed as if all the vehicle
of Paris had turned out for the holiday. The
Champs Elysees one great mob of pleasure
seeking people. Balloons flying, parrots chat
tering, lootballs rolling, peddlers hawk Jig
their knickknacks through the streets, hand
organs and every kind of racket, mils cal and
unmusical. When tlie evening came down
all the theatres were in full blare of music
and full blaze of light. The wine stores and
saloons were thronged with an uuusual num
ber of customers. At eventide I stood and
watched the excursionists coming home,
fagged ont men, women and children, a gulf
stream of fatigue, irritability and wretched
ness; for I should think it would take three
or four days to get over that miserable way
of Sundaylng. It seemed more like an Ameri
can Fourth of July than a Christian .Sabbath.
Now-, in contrast I present one of the Sab
baths in one of our best American cities.
Holy silence coming down with the day
dawn. Business men more deliberately
looking into the faces of their children, and
talking to them about their present and fu
ture welfare. Men sit longer at the table in
the morning because the stores are not to be
opened aud the mechanical tools are not te
be taken up. There are congratulations and
good cheer all through the house. Houses oi
God vocal with Uiunksgivings f. r mercies re
ce.ved, with prayers for comfort, with chari
ties for the poor, rest for the body, rest for
tlie soul. The nerves quieted, tiie temples
cooled, the miud cleared, the soul strengthen
ed and our entire population turned out o>i
Monday morning ten years younger, better
prepared for the duties of this life, better pre
pared for the life that is to come. W Inch do
you like best, the American Sabbath or the
Parisian Sabbath? Do you kuow in what boat
the Sabbath came across the seas aud landed
on our shores? It was in the Mayflower. Do
you know in what boat the Sabbath will leave
us if it ever goes? It will be in the ark that
floats over a deluge of national iniquities.
Still furlh-r: 1 protest against this invasion
of the Lord’s day because it wrongs aviist
multitude of employes of their rest. The
hartenters in case of the grog shop, aud in the
case of the theatre the scene shifters, the
ballet dancers, the call boys, the innumerable
attendants and supernumeraries. They are
paid small salaries at the beM. You see them
on the stage in tinsel and tassel or you see
them in gauze whirling in toe tortures, and
you mistake them for fairies or queens; bui
after 12 o’clock at night you may see them
tru iging through the streets in faded dress,
shivering and tired, seeking their homes in
the garrets aud cellars of thecity. Now yen
propose to take lrom t housands of these em
ployes throughout this country, not only all
opportunity of moral culture, but all oppor
tunity of physical rest. Let the crashing
J uggernaut stop one day in seven! I oppose
this invasion of the Christian Sabbath because
it islawar on the spiritual welfare of the people.
You have a soul. Yes. Which of the saloons
or theatres on the Sabbath day will give that
soul any culture? If you gentlemen ot ihe
restaurant and the opera have six days in the
week in which to exercise your evangelical
and heavenly influence, ought you uot to
allow Christian iustituuons to have 24
hours? Is it unreasonable to demand tnal
if you have six days for the body and the in
tellect we have one day at least for our im
mortal soul? Or, to put it in another shape,
do you uot really think that our imperishable
soul is worth at least one-seventh as much a.-
our perishable body. You must not forget
that ninety-nine one-hundredths of all the
Christian effort of this country are put forth
on the Lord’s day. That is the day in which
the asyiums and the hospitals aud the prisons
are visited by Christian men. That is the
day when the youth of our country get then
chief religious information. That is the dav
when the most of the charities are collected.
That is the day when under the blast of 50,000
American pulpits the sin of the laud is as
saulted and men are summoned to repent.
When you make war upon any part of God’s
day you make war upon the asyiums and the
penitentiaries and the hospitals and the re
form associations and the homes of the des
titute and the church of the living God, which
is the pillar and the ground of the truth.
I am opposed to the invasion of the Sabbath
because it is a war upon our political institu
tions. When the Sabbath goes down the re
public goes down. Men who are not willing
to obey God’s law in regard to Sabbath ob
servance are not fit to govern themselves.
Sabbath-breaking means dissoluteness, aud
dissoluteness is incompatible with self-govern
ment. vv hat is the matter with republican
ism in Italy and Spain? No Sabbath. France
never will have a permanent Republic until
she quits her roystering Sabbaths. Let the
bad work goon, and you have “the commune”
and you have “the revolution,” and you have
ihe i-unof national prosperity going down ii.
darkness and blood. From that reign of ter
ror may the God of Lexington and Gettysburg
deliver ns!
Still furt - er: lam opposed to this invasion
of the Sabuath because it is unfair and it is
partial. Why bas it been during the past
few weeks that some of the theatres have
been allowed to be open and others not? Why
not have all open? Go further and see how
unfair it is. While operas and theatres in
different cities are allowed io lie open on the
.sabbath day, dry goods establishments must
be closed and plumbing establishments and
the butchers and the bakers and the shoe
makers and the hardware stores. Tell me by
hat law of justice you compel me to shut
the door of any store while v o u keep open the
door of your theatre? May it please your
honors, Judges of, the Supreme Court, when
you give to the opera and the theatre the right
to be open on the Sabbath day. you ought to
give at the same time the right to alfcoin
racrcial establishments to be open and to all
mechanical establishments to be open. What
is right in the one case is right in all Un
cases. But come now, and be honest, you
men who manage theatres-and operas, and
confess that you do not care anything at all
about the moral welfare of the people, but
you only want more dollars, indeed, the
leader of one of the operas says in *he public
prints that unless he can have the theatre
open on the Lord’s day he cantot afford to
keep it running. vVe are told by the operatic
and theatrical leaders that they must get
money on Sabbath nights in order to pay the
deficits of the other nights of the week. Now
in answer to that I say that if men cannot
manage our theatres without breaking the
Lord’s day, they had better all go into bank
ruptcy together. We will never surrender
the Christian Sabbath for Hie purpose of help
ing these violators pay their expenses. While
there may be a difference of opinion among
some people about the propriety of having
theatricals during the week, X think all lovers
of good order must unite in one solid, unan
imous resistance to this infernal attempt to
massacre the Christian Sabbath.
I congratulate our city that so far we have
almost entirely escaped the invasion, and my
confidence is in our Mayor and our Judges
and our police officers that the laws of the
State of New York will be executed. Above
all. my confidence is in the good hand of God,
that has been over this city since its founda
tion. But I call this day upon all those who
befriend Christian principles, and those who
love our political freedom, to stand in solid
phalanx in this Thermopylae of American his
tory; for I believe as certainly as I stand here
that the triumph or overthrow of American
institutions depends upon this Sabbatic con
test. Bring your voices, your pens, your
printing presses, and your pulpits into the
Lord’s artillery corps for the defense of our
holy day. Decree before high heaven that
this war on your religious right* and the cra
dles of your children shall bring ignominious
defeat to the enemies of God and the public
weal. For those who die in the contest bat
tling for the right we Bhall chisel the epi
taph: “These are they who came ont of great
tribulation and had their robes washed and
made white in the blood of the Lamb.” But
for that one who shall prove in this moral
crisis recreant to God and the church there
-hall be no honorable epitaph. He shall Dot
be worthy evi nof a burial place in all this
free land; but perhaps some steam tug at
midnight may carry out his poor remains and
drop them in’the sea. wh*-re the lawless winds
which keep no Sunday will gallop over tne
grave of him who lived and died a traitor to
od, the church and the free Institutions of
America. Long live the Christian Sabbath!
Perish forever all attempts to overthrow it!
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SUNDAY IN NEW ORLEANS
HOW WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY
WAS CELEBRATED.
A Good Attendance at the Exposition—
Carver Leads Bogardus In the Shoot
ing Contest—Events on the Turf—The
Art Gallery and the Colored Exhibit
to be Opened To-day.
New Orleans, Feb. 22.— The weather
to-day was cold but partly clear. The
attendance at the exposition was good for
Sunday, as the mechanical department is
not in operation on that day. Only a
small percentage of the large exhibitors
put in an appearance.
To-morrow a grand reception and open
ing ot the exnibit of the colored people
will take place. The art gallery will also
be opened to-morrow.
The Educational Congress will convene
to-morrow, and will be in session a week
at Tulane Institute. Educators from all
parts of this country and Europe will be
present.
BOGAKDUS AND CARVER.
A match shoot between Uapt. Bogardus
and l)r. Carver, 200 double balls, Louisi
ana Gun Club rules, and 300 singles, go
as-you-please against time, was begun
this afternoon, but the lateness ol the
hour prevented its completion. One hun
dred doubles were shot, resulting in favor
ol Dr. Carver, who killed 100 to Capt.
Bogardus’ 100. The match will be con
cluded next Tuesday.
THE DAY CELEBRATED.
Washington's birthday was celebrated
by the Continental Guards, who paraded
the streets and had a dinner at the West
Knd. A salute was tired at noon on the
levee, and also by the flagship Tennessee.
THE DAY ON THE RACK TRACK.
The race track to-day was somewhat
heavy, and the weather was cloudy and
cool. The events were as follows:
The lirst race was a handicap hurdle,
one mile and three furlongs. Ascoli won
by a length, Joe Cooper second, Fred. B.
third. Time 2:40.
The second race was for maidens, five
furlongs. Mavoureen won by three
lengths, Carilla second, Secret third.
Time 1:09)£.
In the third race, selling
seven and one-half lurlongs. Greenwood
won by three lengths, VVild Kansas
second, Shelby West thud. Time 1:44)4.
The fourth race, selling allowances, one
mile, was won by Fair Count by three
lengths, Twilight second, Kansas third.
Time 1:51:
ONE UNI*ARTISAN DEED.
How Gen. Logan Took Senator I’ugh, of
Alabama, i'risonor.
Senator Pugh, ol Alabama, says a
Washington letter, served in the same
Congress with Senator Ligan just prior
to the outbreak of the late war. They
were then members ol the same political
party, and were personal friends. Near
the close of the war, when the Union sol
diers went through Alabama, a detach
ment of Wilson’s cavalry approached the
residence of Senator I’ugh, in Eufaula.
When he saw the troops approaching
Mr. Pugb, who had been in the Confeder
ate arniv and in the Confederate Con
gress, expected to be rou :hly handled.
He walked out to the lront yard, and
when the detachment drew up to his
gate he said to them: “There’s the house,
go in and take possession.” The officer in
command inquired: "la your name
James L. Pugh?” “That is my name,
sir.” "Here are my orders respecting
you,” said the officer, extending a paper.
Mr. Pugh unfolded it,expecting to read
an order for his immediate arrest and
transportation to prison, i ustead of that,
he read an order issued by Gen. Logan
that neither Mr. I’ugh nor anything be
longing to him was on any account to be
molested.
A MOUNTAIN LORELEI.
The Singing Sand Heap of Churchill
which Swallows Men.
Oyer in Churchill county, Nevada, says
the Reese River lleveille, there is a travel
ing mountain of sand. The winds have
gathered together a great heap and kept
it constantly moving like an immense
glacier. It crawls steadily along over
valleys and through canyons, never ceas
ing, the sands making a low, musical
sound as they rub against each other,
much as they (io around the sphinx every
morning at sunrise, which gave rise to
the legend that the stony statue was
greeting the morning sun with a song.
But the moving mountain of Churcnill
contains still another pecularity. While
its sides are symmetrically formed and
lay in folds like solidified waves there is
no cone at the top. Instead of it going to
a peak there is a hole there made by
counter winds, and whoever is rash
enough to scale the ridge and pass into
that hole pays for his rashness with his
life, for the tickle sands yield beneath his
teet, and the more be struggles to get;,
back the faster he sinks until he is smoth
ered to death. The Indians tell of several
of their tribe having been thus swallowed
up, and no trace has ever been found of
them since.
Chief Justice Waite’s Health.
Washington, Feb. 21.— The condition
of Chief Justice Waite’s health does not
promise a long career on the bench, al
though his friends claim a present im
provement. The real trouble is the con
sequence of a stroke of paralysis, though
it has been disguised with a milder name.
He was disaliled by overwork. If he were
eligiole lor retirement, the Chief Justice
would resign from the court. He has
served *he necessary ten years, but he is
still short of the required age of 70 to get
a pension, having been born in 1816.
William Adams, who killed his sweetheart
and committed suicide near Sbelbyvllle,
Kentucky, on Sunday, wag buried near that
city Tuesday. Adams owned a pet dog,
which was an inseparable companion in his
moody wanderings. After his remains had
been taken to his home his dog stationed him
self close beside the body of h s dead master,
and refused to be driven away. Just beforfi
the funeral the dog was locked up in a barn.
After the interment a brother of Adams went
to the baru to release the 'dog, but found that
it ha<l burrowed a hole under the walls of the
building and escaped. As the animal could
not be found any tvhere about the place, a visit
was made to the new-made grave. There it
was found stone dead in a shallow hole it had
dug beside the grave,
Mr. Labocchere does not believe in letting
the fortuues that men make live after them—
in undivided entirety. “I would not allow.”
he says, “any one to inherit from another be
yond a certain sum. Let us suppose this sum
w ere £loo,' 00, ami that a man dies leaving a
fortune of £ i,O 00,000, and three children. A
20 per cent, succession duty would absorb
X2i 0.000. Thf re would then, after each child
had inherited £ 100.000, remain £500,000. To
share this he would have to find five persons.
Thus, instead of ono son having nearly a mil
lion and two sons a trifle, as is the result of
the mode in whieh rich men now leave their
money, the State would come in for £200.000,
and eight persons would have a very comfor
table provision.”
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