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ESTABLISHED 1850. j k ,tII.Iw Editor and Proprietor.! J B r ‘ m.O, [N TIIREK STATES. a , v I I.OIUDA AM) SOUTH \ 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 ■ Lk.- * 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! j PRICE aio A YEAR.) | 5 CENTS A COPY. | 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. 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