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VOL. XXIV --NO. 279.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. SATURDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 25, 1882.
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE,
Twintieth Da)’s Proceedings.
Probible Adjournment on the 5th of
D.comber Until the First Wed.
nesdajr in July.
MKBTATF.
Hpeo'al to Enqutrer-Suo. I
Atlanta, November 24 —The senate
was called to order by President Boyn
ton at 10 o’clock a m.
Prayer by Rev, John Jones, chaplain
of the senate.
The roll was called and a quorum
present.
The journal of yesterday was read
and confirmed.
The report of the committee on ad
journment was received. The mtO ori
tur report was made in favor of an ad
journment on December 5th to the first
Wednesday in July, and was signed by
all the committee on part of the senate,
and four of the house committee, A
minority report was made, signed by
two members on the part of the
house, In which they proposed
the legislature continue the session un
til the business is disposed of.
On motion of Senator Livingston
both reports were made the special or
der for next Tuesday.
NEW BILLS
Senator Pike—A bill to prohibit the
railroad commissioners or their elork
from receiving fees to represent rail-
ronds.
Senator Parke*-—A bi 11 to establish a
branch of the university at Waltho rus-
ville.
Senator McDonald—A bill to estab
lish a branch agricultural college at
Waycross; also,
A bill to authorize the election of five
assessors in each county for the valua
tion of all lands in the county.
No further busiress being before the
senate it took a recess, subject to the
call of the president.
Upon reassembling the se ats ad
journed until to morrow at 10 o’clock.
1IOUNE.
The house met at the regular hour
and was called to order by the speaker.
Prayer by the chaplain.
The journal of yesterday’s proceed
ings was read and adopted.
The house, on motion of Mr. Jordan,
resolved to hold an afternoon session
to-dav, to give a second reading to bills
favorably reported ou.
Two reports were made by the com
mittee app tinted to consider and re
port upon the practicability of an early
adjournment The maj >ritv reported
that 424 bills were before the goneral
assembly, and not one had been passed
and sent to the governor, that it would
be impossible to trausaot the business
of the session within the constitutional
forty days and reported a resolution
for an adjournment from the 5th of De
cember to the first Wednesday in July
next.
The minority reported that the busi
ness c uld bo dispatohed in a shorter
time by a continuous than by a broken
session, and reported a resolution for a
continuous session until the business
is disposed of.
On motion of Mr. Jordan, the reports
were made a special order for Monday
morning next.
6ALL OF THE COUNTIES.
The following bills—some reported
back by the committee on local bills,
and others introduced to day—were
read the first time and relerred as
noted.
To incorporate the town of Holton.
To prohibit the sale of liquors within
three miles of Holton.
To increase the salary of the’ state
librarian to 91,500.
To repeal section 217 of the code, in
reference to decisions of the supreme
court.
To prescribe the costs in cases with
drawn from the supreme court.
To compel the keeping up of stock in
Bibb county.
To appropriate money to supply do-
ficiencas in Bibb county.
To authorize the examination of wit
nesses by interrogatories in cases of in
junction.
To regulate the manner of conduct
ing elections by the general assembly,
and to prevent members changing their
votes.
To furnish copies of the code to so
licitors.
To repeal section 3,074 of the code in
refeerence to chattel mortgages.
To repeal an act in reference to the
election of marshal and deputy marshal
in Milledgeviile.
To authorize the road commissioners
of Baldwin county to work the county
convicts.
A resolution for the appointment of a
committee to procure a life sized por
trait of Governor Stephens.
For the relief of W. B. Whitesides,
of Dade county. (Allows him to prac
tice medicine).
To prohluit the salo of liquors in
Grantville.
To apportion the road hands of
Emanuel county.
To make penal the selling of proper-
tv set apart as a homestead, without an
order from court.
To submit, to the voters of Hancock
county the question of issuing bonds
for building a court house.
A joint resolution for appointing a
committee to investigate how the set
tlement cf the case of Mitchell and
Blodgett vs. Mace was effected, and
whether it is biuding on the state. Laid
over.
A resolution to irquire into the cause
of the delay in furnishing copies of the
new code to state officials. Passed.
Mr. Gary—For the committee on the
state of the republic, reported a reso
lution asking the repeal ot the federal
tax of ten per cent, on the issues of
81 By ^Mrl^Jobnson—To repeal, as to
Lee county, an act to regulate the man
ner of letting out o jntracts for building
bridges, etc.
To incorpoiate the Montezuma,
Brunswick and Savannah railroad
company.
R'quirlng physicians to serve as
jurors in oases of inquiry as to lunacy.
To amend section 787 of the code.
To amend an act fixing the liconse
fees for selling liquor in Piercecounty.
To provide for the establishment
and support of public schools in Eaton-
ton.
To amend and carry into effect the ar
ticle of the constitution in is atlon to
crippled Confederate soldies.
A resolution for the distribution of
conies of the revised c de to county
officials. . .
To prevent anyone from driving
sheep from their ranges.
To appropriate 910,000 far a chapel for
the South Georgia Agricultural Col-
To incorporate the town of Ty-Ty,
Worth county.
To fix the rate of interest at 7 per
cent, unless by written agreement.
To appropriate 972,000 for the com-
f ilet ion of the new building at the
unatic asylum.
To amend the act to incorporate the
town of Jeifarson.
The special committee to visit tbe
lunatic asylum made a report com
meudatorv of the manage merit of all
the departments of the institution, and
recommending appropriations lor the
years 1883 and 1884, amounting in the
aggregate to 9430,000.
The bill of Mr. McIntosh to extend
the time for the payment of taxes on
wild lands was reported back by the
wild lands committee, with a substi
tute extending the time for non-resi
dent owners to give in such taxes to
February 1st, 1883, and the time far
their payment until April 1st, 1883
The substitute was adopted, but before
taking tbe vote on the passage of the
bill, the house adjourned to 3 o’clock
p. m.
u „ Discovery of Hkeleioaa.
Special to KQqulrer-Sun.|
New York, November 24.—While
the workmon who are engoged lu dig
ging awuy the foundation of the old
postoffice, formerly the old Dutch
church, at Nassau and Cedar streets,
this morning, they came upon a place
in the tloor of one of the vaults which
was oovored with boards. Upon those
being removed thero was found a pit
about five feet square, bricked upon
all sides. The pit was filled
with numberless skulls and hu
man bones piled in promis
cuous confusion. Up to one
o’clock sixteen skulls and five boxes
of bones were taken out of the pit, and
then it bad only been dug about two
feet down. It is not known yet how
deep the pit is or how inauy skeletons
it contains. The presence of the vault
was entirely unknown to any one, and
the church had no record of it. The
discovery has created quite an exoite-
raenfc around the neighborhood and the
streets are black with curious sight
seers. The boues are believed by some
to be the remains of Americans who
were confined during the revolutions
ry war in an old sugar house.
Tlie SonUi Attracting Attention.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.]
Washinoton, November 21 —The
New England Muufaoturers and Me
chanics Institute of Boston has just
closed its annual fair. The exhibits of
the southern products there, notably
those presented by tbe Richmond and
Danville, the Chesapeake and Ohio, the
Tennessee Air Line, the Georgia Pa
cific and other southern railroads,
awakened so great an interest among
northern manufacturers that the insti
tute has decided to set apart
for the use of southern
exhibitors at its annual fair a a\ ace of
of from 50,000 to 60.000 square feet, or
more, if applied for. The society hopes
that future exhibitions will be arranged
by the states rather than by railroad
companies. John M. Little, John F.
Wood and F. W. Griffin, chairman,
treasurer and secretary, respectivolv,
of tbe institute, leave Washington to
day for the south with tbe object of
endeavoring by personal efforts to se
cure the active co-operation of the
governors and legislatures of states in
terested in products so largely used in
northern manufactures. These gentle
men carry credentials to the commis
sioners of aggrlculture of Georgia,
South Carolina, North Carolina; Gov.
Stephens, of Georgia, G >v. Jarvis, of
North Carolina, aud other prominent
southerners.
F.trnplns U»« Wallow*.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.1
Petersburg, Va., November 24 —
The decision rendered by tbe court of
appeals at Richmond yesterday, re
versing the judgment in the case of
Oliver Hatchott, convicted of tbe mur*
der of Moses Young, of Brunswick
county, about tbe 21st of April, 1882,
and sentenced to be hanged last July,
practically set aside the sentence of
Littleton Hatchett, father of Oliver
Hatchett, who was convicted as acces
sory to tbo murder, and was to have
been hanged in July last The case of
Littleton Hatchett was also taken to
the court of appeals on a writ of super
sedeas, and the accused was granted a
new trial. Both prisoners are con fined
in the county jail at Brunswick, where
they will remain until tbe 15th of
April next, when their cases will be
taken up in tbe county circuit court.
Their discharge is asked for on the
;round that the murdered man was
;illed by drinking whisky in which
Btrychnine had been placed.
Election to be Contested.
Special to Euqulrer-Sun.J
New Orleans, November 24 —A. W.
Bosworth, independent candidate for
mayor at the recent eleotion, and tbe
other candidates for municipal offices,
have served notice of a contest, and
counsel for the independent party is
preparing petitions to be filed in court.
The committee investigating the late
election have discovered sufficiently
large numbers of fraud* to load the
independent candidates to believe that
they were elected. Instances of dead
men and absentees having voted ore
said to be quite numerous.
Heavy Weather.
Bpeolal to Enqulrer*Hun.]
Washington, November 24 —Dis-
patebosfrom Buffalo and Detroit re
port a heavy gale on the lakes last
night. Several vessels were wrecked
in Buffalo harbor. The crews of two
wero saved by the life saving corps. A
floating grain elevator was blown over
and sunk. A schooner was aground
on Colchester reef, Lake Erie, with the
crew lashed in the rigging, aud is inac-
cesible on account of the high sea. The
weather is piercing cold, and no doubt
exists that reports of ship wreck, with
possible loss of life, will be numerous
within a day or two.
Steamer llurued,
Special to Enqulrer-Suu,]
Norfolk, Va., Novombor 24 —The
steamer Rotary, of the Uoanoke, Nor
folk and Baltimore Steamship Compa
ny, was burned Wednesday night at
Astoria, on the Roanoke river. She
was receiving a cargo for Baltimore at
Iho time of the fire. About 210 bales of
cotton and some general lreigbt wero
destroyed or damaged by being thrown
overboard. The fire is supposed to
have originated in the fire room.
On Trial for Libel.
Special to Eaqulrei-Sun.l
New York, November 24.—In the
court of general sessions this morning,
John Devoy, editor of the Irish
Nation, was placed on trial for libel,
baviug in a recent issue of his paper
charged that August Belmont, banker,
acting in the interest ot the British
government, had refused to return
money entrusted to him for the Irish
revolutionist, Col. O’Mahony, in 1805,
Ruilneu Failure**,
Special to Enquirer-Sun.J
New York, Novombor 24.—Business
failures for the past seven days re
ported to R. Y. Dun & Co., New York,
number 157, of which 143 occurred in
the country and fourteen in New York
city. The eastern states had eighteen
failures, western, forty-nine; south
ern, twenty-three; middle, twenty-six;
Pacific, eleven; Canada, sixteen; and
New York city, fourteeu—total 157.
Botb of Them Browned.
Speoial to Enqutrer-Sun.l
Troy. N. Y., November 24.—Yes
terday afternoon Charles Hutliffe,
fourteen years old, while attempting
to cross Poultney river, was drowned.
Bertnand Spink, who was in the
vicinity, hearing Sutliffe’s ciies for
help, ran to his assistance, but broke
through the ice and was drowned
Bobbed and Murdered.
Special to the Enquiier*Sun.l
Birmingham, Ala., November 24 —
To-night James Wheeler, a respectable
white citizen of this county, while re
turning to his home from Birming
ham where he had sold cotton, was
robbed and murdered iu the outskirts
of the villiage of Pratt’s mines. No
clue to the murderers.
WASHINGTON NEWS-
Calkins Tails How ths Homalnlug
Contested Election Case.
Stand.
Wh:it President Arthur Intends to do
In the Way of Reform.
Unm.furttl Hoik!, to ho Aeerptfil— 1 The Stcond
Florida District—A Fourth €laiM Pont*
master Can’t he a Member of the
Legislature, He.
UNMATURED BONDS TO BE ACCEPTED.
Special to Enquirer Sun.]
Washington., D. C., Nov. 24.—Sec
retary Folger to-day telegraphed
Assistant Treasurer Acton at Now
York, as follows :
“Accept unmatured bonds in all
calls, including the ouo hundred aud
nineteenth, without rebate or interest
at the rate of ten million per week on
any day of the week, payable at your
office, until otherwise ordered, Secre
tary Folger this afternoon directed
estimates to be prepared with a view to
making another call for bonds as soon
as possible.
WHAT ARTHUR WILL DO IN REFERENCE
TO TUB INTERNAL REVENUE SYSTEM.
Until within a low days Commission
er Kauin was disposed to make no re
commendation in bis forthcoming an
nual report looking to a reduction iu
internal revenue uxea. It is bulioved,
however, that he has reconsidered tbe
matter and will advisesuch a reduction
as will leave tbe aggregate income to
tbe government from this source at
about 9100,000,000 per annum. It is
known that the president, while he is
firmly opposed to any proposition look
ing to the abolitiou at this time of the
entire internal revenue system,believes
that the time has come when substan
tial reiiet can safely be accorded the tax
payers of the country and that a por
tion of this relief should come in a re
duction of internal revenue taxation.
With this- view the members of the
cabinet are in entire accord, aud the
president, in his forthcoming message
to congress, will recommend the aboli
tion of internal revenue taxes, except
tlioso on tobacco in its various forms
and upon distilled spirits and fennant
ed liquors, and except also special Lbx
upon manufacturers of and dealers in
such articles, with a reduction
the tax upon whisky and
tobacco upon a basis ot the bill
which passed the house of representa
tives at the last session of congress. A
etention of special taxes is deemed
issentlal to afford the officers of the
government proper supervision of
these articles for the prevention of
fraud. If this recommendation be
adopted, the remaining sources of iu-
tornal revenue will yield, according to
the estimates of the commissioner <>t
internal revenue, about 9100,000,000
per annum. Any further reduction of
the Internal revenue, than that pro
posed, would compel the government
to roly almost entirely upon
import duties for its necesm y
income aud would render any revision
or reduction of tariff’duties daugeroua,
if not impossible. The president is
firmly opposed to the adoption of any
policy that will create such h onlin-
gency, and will in his forthcoming
message urge upon congress the im
portance of an immediate revision of
the tariff with a view of reducing the
aggregate income of the government to
such an amount as is absolutely re-*
quired to meet the interest on the pub
lic debt and current a id ordinary ex
penses of the government.
DECISION OFTIIE POSTMASTER GENERAL
The postmaster general has decided
that a fourth class postmaster can’t
hold that office while serving as a
member of a siate legislature, because
he would not be able to give proper at-
tion to the postoffice.
HAT WILL BE DONE WITH THE CON
TESTED CASES,
A reporter of the Associated Press
asked Mr, Calkins, of Indiana, who ar
rived iu the city to-day, what would
be done during the coming session iu
regard to undecided contested election
cases be'ore the committee on elec
tions, of which he is chairman. Mr
Calkins explained that there is only
four ca B es left of all that were pro
sented to the forty-seventh congress,and
that three cf those are practically de
termined. The Richardson-Lee South
Carolina case has been determined in
the sub-committee, and there will be
immediately reported to tbe bouse a
majority report favoring the sitting
member, Richardson, who is a demo
crat. The Manuing-Buchanan case
from Mississippi is in a similar condi
tion of forwardness with a inajori y
favoring Manning, deni., the sitting
member. The Sossingban-Frost case
trom Missouri is prac'ically deter
mined by a majority in favor of Frost,
the silting member, though thero re
mains to be argued a question involv
ing the state law of registration, which
has been changed since the election.
This case is in the hands of Milier, of
the committee. The Cook-Outts case
from Iowa, is the only one undeter
mined. Cook is a greenoaeker and
Cutts, the sitting member, is a lepub-
llcan.
Mr. Calkins would not give an opin
ion as to the probablo action r f the
house on these reports, but it is the
prevailing belief that none of tho con
testants will be seated.
™ F.NMIiANU.
Speoial to Enqutrer-Huu.l
London, November 24.—Consid
eration of the procedure rules was
resumed in the house last night. The
10th rule whs carried by a vote of 82
to 20. This rule provides that if tho
speaker or chairman of the ooni'
iiiittee of the whole shall be of the
opinion that a motion for adjourn
ment of debate, or of the house dur
ing any debute, or thut the chuirman
do report progress or do leave the
chair, is made for the purpose of ol
■(ruction, he may forthwith put the
question thereupon from the chair.
The Marquis of Salisbury, in an
address before the Scottish conserva
tive club at Edinburgh, last night,
tauuted the liberal government with
having adopted its predecessor’s
Egyptian policy. He strongly de
nounced the action of the govern
meut toward Ireland, and condemned
the arrears of rent act. He had, he
said, favored the schemes
peasant proprietory that were now
impossible, as the church surplus
fund had been otherwise disposed
of. Stigmatizing the vagueness
Gladstone’s utterances, be said : “I
confess I do not often envy tbe
United States, but their institutions
possess one feature which appears
to me a subject for the great
est envy, namely: their mag
nificent institutions of su
preme court. If their parliament
passes a measure inconsistent with
the constitution of the country, there
exists a court which will negative it
at once, thus giving stability to the
institutions of the country, which,
under the system of vague and mys
terious promises here, we look for in
vain.” His remarks were received
with applause.
HUNN1A.
Special lo Enquirer-Sun.]
St. Petersburg, November 24.—-An
official announcement relative to Iho
cloning of the university here, stales
that agitation had been noticed among
the students at the beginuiiiir of Octo
ber. On Tuesday last the ring-leaders
went to the length of distributing cir
culars snmmouing a muss moetiim of
the students ?o express sympathy with
the students of Kazan 11 Diversity. Tho
curator applied for the assistance of the
police, who arre«ted 100 students.
Fourteen of them, who wore the chief
instfcaiors of the agitation, have bet n
rusticated.
‘FRANCE.
Hppclal to F.nquIrer-HuD.J
Paris, November 2-1 —The Evene-
ment states that M. Duharael, ohh f
clerk of camptoir d* esoompt, has ab
sconded with a large sum in notes and
gold, and a quantity of sorip,
London, November 24—A dispatch
to the Central News from Paris says
there are renewed reports of mirisu-
rial difficulties. It is expected that
M Herrison, minister of public wor'-s,
or M Tirard, minister of finance, will
resign.
ALABAMA LEGISLATURE
T> 11 III Dii>’s Promedlrg*'.
Tho Judicial Circuits to 1)9 In.
creasrd to Ten.
TIiauksglTlng Day to lie Observed—
A Unnncratle Caucus Monday
Night—Tlio Prohibition
Question, Etc.
TI'BHET.
Rpeolaljlto Enquirer-Bun.I
Constantinople, November 24.—
The government of Montenegro have
informed the porte that unless tbe
district of Kolatcbin Is ceded imme
diately to Montenegro 4,000 troops
will be sent to occupy it. Three hat
taboos of Turkish troops have gone
to Kolatcbin to maintain order.
Fire.
Special to the Enqulrer-Run.l
Philadelphia, November 24 —The
fourth and fifth floors of Arrott’F two
mills, occupied by Clerk A Keen, wool
on manufacturers; Priestly A, Brother,
manufacturers of dress goods, aud
Wedley A Tetl .w, cotton y*rn manu
facturers, were burned last night. Tho
loss is estimated at 9150,000 Nix v five
employes got out by lire escapes.
Funerai ofTliurlow W
Special to Euqulrer-Buu.]
New York, November 24.—Tho fu
neral of the late Tburlow W»ed took
place this morning.
A NOTH KK FITKNAC’K IIORIIOK.
Awful Oeafli of Two Negro** I.n*i
NlglU at NIuin Furnare-TImr Full
Below Into n .tin** of llut-iiliiir
Ciihn nod Ore.
THE
COND FLORIDA DISTRICT.
Burned to Death.
Special to Euquirer-Sun.]
Indianapolis, Nov, 24.— Shortly
after 2 o’clock this morning fire broke
out the boardiDg house of Mrs. Ralph
Lord on Houth Tennessee street, in
destroying the rear portion of the build
ing. Two servants, Katie Daly and
Ella Keenan, who were sleeping in an
upper room, were burned to death.
Senator Call, of Florda, who is now
in this city, said to-day, with reference
to the congressional eleotion iu the sec
ond district of that state, that
upon the face of the re
turns H. Bisbee, jr, republican,
is elected, but that J. J. Finley, the
democratic nominee, will contest his
seat upon the alleged ground that be
(Bishop) obtained an apparent majority
oy colonizing voters Finley was un
seated in tho forty-seveuth congress on
June 1st, 1882, on a contest by Bisbee,
his present opponent.
Failure*.
Mpeclal to Enqulrer-BuD.J
New York, November 24 —An as
signment for the benefit of creditors
was filed to-day by Chas. V. Faile,
wholesale dealer in tar, to Issaac B.
Cratie, with preferences amounting
to 9103.590. The principal preferred
creditors are J. B. Sumtnerfield &
Co., $-50,000; Denton Smith *k Co.,
$28,000, and Samuel Faile as trustee,
$10,000.
Indian* at W»r.
Bpeclal to Enquirer-Nuu.i
Nan Francisoo, Cal,, Nov. 24 —
It is reported from Wadsworth, Neva
da, that the Washoe anil Pinto Indians
have declared war and aro now en
gaged in a bloody con diet. Tho re
port is not yet confirmed.
CbnaM lli*> Unllotf*.
Bpeclal to Enquirer-Sun.I
Sweetsrurg, Quebec, Nov. 24.—
William Richards, who was to be
hanged this morning, committed 1
oide by cutting his throat at 3 o’clock
this morning. An inquest is in
gress.
Hilled by a Falling Bridge.
Special to Enqulrer-Hun.]
London, November 24.—A railway
bridge at Bramley, near London, fell
this morning. Seven workmen be
neath tho structure eating breakfast
were killed.
Birmingham Age.]
About nine o’clock last night a re
port was circulated that an accident
hail occurred at Hloss Furnace. An
Age reporter repaired to the furnace
immediately. On arriving there a
large crowd of men were gathered
around the base of the stack
endeavoring to recover tbe re
mains of two negroes, who ha 1 fal
len into the stack. Aftor removing
a quantity of slag and ore, they
threw out the charred and blackened
remains of what had been only a few
minutes before two living human
beings. The bodies were a ghast
ly and re-veiling sight. The
skulls were bleached white; the
arms of both were drawn up above
their licadsthe lingers were clenched
tight; ami only small particles of
charred flesh remained on blackened
bones. It was a scene that was
iudescribly horrible.
The reporter sought, the man
who was superintending the work
which was being done by the un
fortunate negroes at the time of the
accident, and from him gathered the
following information in regard to
the fatal afFalr:
Ou the inside of the stack of the
furnace, there had fanned what is
known as a “scaffold.” This is an
adhesion ol ore ami coke to the side
of the stack. The furnace was
blown off,” and the two negroes,
Aleck King and Boh Mayfield, were
lowered in tlie stack on a sus
pended platform for the purpose
of removing the “scaffold.” The
two men commenced with
their picks to dislodge the
“scaffold,” when suddenly the whole
mass of matter gave way and fell
with a crash to the bottom* Instan
taneously a dense volume of ashes,
smoke ami gas ascended, which suffo
cated the two men, and they fell into
the mass of burning matter beneath.
It is believed the suffering of the vic
tims to the terrible disaster was mit
igated by quick suffocation before
they fell.
Mr. F. Luptou, governor of the
Egyptian province of Bahrel Ghazei
reports, on what he believes to be
credible authority, the discovery of
an equatoiial lake in Central Africa.
The luke Is ^scribed as being as
large as the Victoria Nyanzi, and
lies to the west of the Albert Nyan/.a.
The natives of the region are copper-
colored. It takes them three days to
cross the lake in boats. The governor
thinks the outlet of the lake runs
into the Congo. The tribe goes by
the name of Barhoas, ami shows
some skill in manufacturing clotl
from grasses, of which clothing ii
made.
A woman’s love is essentially lone
ly ami spiritual. It is the heathen
ism of the heart ; she, herself, has
created the glory and beauty with
which the idol of her aflar stands
invested.
NKN ITK.
Special to Enquirer-sun. |
Montgomery, Ala., Novr-mbor 24.—
Bills were introduced as follows :
Mr. Hargrove—To ainoud section
1544 of tho code.
Also—To define the duties of probato
judges with reforonwie to issuingliceuso
to sell liquors. In connection with
this bill he presented memorial* from
the state temperance convention for
the passage of a law regulating tho sale
of intoxicating liquors by druggists; a
memorial for a law requiring liquor
dealers to execute a bond ; n memorial
against the repeal of prohibitory laws;
a memorial against the passage of a
law appropriating the state license for
the sale of liquors to the public schools
or Montgomery and Selma, and one to
confer certain powers on oourts of
chancery.
Mr. Bowles—To a mend section 2070
of the code.
Bills wero passed as follows:
To author!/. * railroad companies or
ganized under the general incorpora
tion law to extend their linos and build
branch roads
For the relief of persons who paid for
liquor license in districts In which pro
hlbitory laws were alter ward pass
ed.
IfOIJMK #
Bills were introduced as follows :
Mr. Edwards—To amend subdivision
eight of section 302 of the code.
Mr. John—To protect the rights of
tenants for years or for life, ami of
remaindermen in money coming into
tbe bands of probate judges.
Mr. Averv—To change the grades of
the public schools.
"r. Or me—To require license of for-
* tollers.
r Muldnn—To amend an act, soo-
lion 4108 of the node.
r O *wart—Ts amotul section 1544 of
the codo.
Also, to define the duties of probate
judges In issuing liquor license.
Mr, Whorton—To amend section 4733
of the eerie.
r. Berry—To repeal tho registration
law.
Mr. Janes—To amend the school law.
Bills wore passed as follows:
’»’o punish the taking of rebates
To provide lot the preservation of
m«*UH reports of probate judges.
To amend sections 3218 and 3219 of
the code.
To amend section 4340 of the oodo.
To authorize the rendition of decrees
of strict foreclosure in mortgage suits
in equity.
To allow the governor to offer a re
ward for lelony whether known or un
known.
To Increase jurisdiction of justices
of the peaco it* actions for property to
one hundred d dlars
To amend section 871 of the codo.
The judiciary committee reported a
resolution Increasing the judicial cir
cuits to ten and chancery divisions to
four, and committees are to be appoint
ed to rearrange the same.
Both houses'haye agreed to obsorve
Thanksgiving.
A democratic caucus on the senato
rial question will meet Monday night.
J. H. P.
THAN SI T OF VENUS.
Oliver*lute Ilia «•*“ th« Pland
The transit of Venus takes place
December 0th, and it will he observed
by astronomers of all nations, H(a
tinned at different points of observa
lion. The United States will l»e rep
resented by eight different parties,
stationed as follows:
Cape .Town, Africa—Prof. Simon
Newcomb, CL H. N ; Lieut. T. L
Casey. IJ. S. Engineers; Ensign J
C. II. L. Holcomb, U. S. N ; Julius
Dike.
Santa Cruz, Patagonia—Lieut. S.
W. Very, IJ. S. N ; O. B. Wheeler,
W. Bull. Ervin Stanley.
New Z j alaml—Edwin Smith, U. S.
Coast Survey ; Prof. H. S. Pritchett,
Augustus Story, Gustav Theilkwhl.
Santiago, Chili—Prof. Lewis Boss,
Miles Hock, T. Marceau, C. S. Cud-
lip.
San Antonio, Texas—Prof. A, Hall,
U. S. N.; K. S Woodward, D. R.
Holmes, G. N. JimIhut.
Cedar Keys, Florda—Prof. J. R.
Eastman, IJ. S N.; Lieut. J. A. Nor
ris, IJ. S. N.; George Prince, G. F.
Maxwell.
Fort Selden, New Mexico—l’rof.
G. Davidson, United States Coast
Survey; Messrs. J. S. Lawson, J. F.
Pratt, D. C. Chapman, all likewiseof
the coast survey, and Mr. T. B. Tap-
pan.
United States Naval Observatory,
WashingUm—Prof. J lark ness, IJ. S.
N., and others.
The United States Transit of Venus
Commission, by which the plan ol
the observations has been formed,
consists of Vice Admiral Rowan,
superintendent of the United States
Naval Observatory; Prof. J. F. Hil
gard, superintendent of the United
States Coast and Geodetic Survey,
and Profs. Simon Newcomb, Asaph
Hall and Wm. Darkness.
It will he seen that four stations
have been selected in the southern,
and lour, including Washington, in
the northern hemisphere. It is hard*
ly to be mi j) posed that bad weather
or other accidents can prevent sue
cess at all the southern or at all the
northern stations ; and if satisfactory
results are obtained at even a single
station iu each hemisphere, a good
determination of the distance of Hie
sun will he secured. The Boston
Advertiser says : “At the transit 01
of 1874 the photographic method
adopted by our countrymen proved
its superiority by furnishing pictures
which have since been found capable
of satisfactory measurement. This
method was first brought into practi
cal use in 1870 by the late Prof. W111-
lock, at Harvard College Observato
ry. Jls main feature is tiie employ-
ineht ofa stationary lens of long fo
cus, upon which the sunlight is
thrown by a plane mirror. A pic
ture of the nun is thus obtained near
ly free from optical distortion. The
success of 1874 has induced the Amer
ican astronomers to rely greatly upon
photography in their observations of
the coming truusit.
The improvements in the phoot
graptiic art itself which have been
made during the past eight years give
strong ground for the expectatu
that the pictures of the sun obtain
on December <> will be still better
than those taken in 1874. Insle
of wet plates, *1 ry plates, prepared by
tho emulsion process, will now he
employed. This will diminish the
risk of irregular shrinking of the
film of collodion, and will permit a
large number of photographs lo he
obtained iu a giveu time. The last
advantage will he of extreme impor
tance if partially cloudy weather pre
vails, so that the observers will have
only occasional brief glimpses of the
suu ou the day of the transit.”
H'lll Thfroltaaii Rxtrn flaialnn?
On the Ith of March next ncondi
tion of things will exist similar to
thut which attracted such earnest at
tention when Gen, Arthur succeeded
to the presidency. There will he no
president pro tempore of the senal
and nospeuker, to fill theexecutlve
chair in the ease of “removal, death,
resignation or inability,”as prescribed
by the constitution.
Judge Davis’ term as senator will
expire March 4Hi, 1883, and even if
he wefc re elected, he would no long
er be president of the senate after that
day without being agalu chosen.
One-third of the body will be re
newed ou tho 4th of March, which
will participate in tho choice of a
presiding officer, and there nan ho no
election fora year hence unless the
president calls the senate together
specially.
Ordinarily, the speaker of the new
house would uot be elected until De*.
cember, 1883, at the first regular ses
sion of the forty-eighth congress, so
that in fact, without an extra session,
there would be no person qualified to
fill a vacuncy In the presidency if It
Hhould come to pass.
Will the president call congress to
gether to provide for this contingen
cy? Ostensibly, the republicans have
forty senators, including Mahone
aud Riddleberger, against thirty-six
democrats, assuming that the states
yet to elect will return senators of the
political faith of the present incum
bents. This assumption, however,
rests upon a very weak foundation,
ami there are other elements which
enter into the new organization that
aim serious attention.
I11 the first place, the legislature of
Nebraska has an anti monopoly mtc*
jority, which will doubtless defeat the
re-election of Mr. Saunders, or of any
pronounced republican who will go
into the party caucus If this expec
tation should he verified, it would
Involve the InsHof one vote.
Tl»e legislature of Colorado is close
ly balanced, with a senator to elect,
and with a hitter fight going on be
tween the Teller ami the Hill fac
tions, which leaves the result there
in doubt.
There is a returned majority of
twelve republicans in the legislature
>1 Illinois, with violent feuds certain
o come to the front in the struggle
between Cullom, Raum and Oglesby
for the seat of Judge Davis. Wheth
er these conflicting forces can be held
together in caucus, so as to make a
harmonious nomination, is yet to he
demonstrated.
The republicans have a majority in
10 legislature of Michigan, where
Ferry and Hubhell are contending
fiercely against each other far the
enate, while a number of respecta
hie republicans who seek to smash
machine politics cry out, “A plague
’ both your houses!”
Tiie outcome iu these three states
of Colorado, Illinois and Michigan,
all of which are confidently claimed
by republican candidates for the sere
ate, is rendered uugertain by the in
ternal divisions or the party and by
ho violence of opposing leaders, who
are ready for any sacrifice short, ot
their own ambition
Mr.'Van Wyck, of Nebraska, lia«
shown himself to he pretty much of
a free lance in the senate, aud in the
present state of politics at home it
would excite nosurprise if hesnapped
party chains entirely. He is an
>wed anti monopolist, and lie
therefore is in line with the move
ment which upset republicanism in
Nebraska.
Mr. Hill, of Colorado, openly sup
ported the democratic candidate for
governor at the late election, aud he
is charged by Mr. Teller with hav
ing expended n large sum of money
to defeat the republican party.
Mr. Mitchell, ot Pennsylvania, was
manc.ipated on the 7th of November,
aud he is no longer a bondman of
Don Cameron.
Now, if these three senators stay
out of the republican caucus, they can
ontrol the next organization of tiie
enate, and dictate by a combination
all the officers, even if Colorado,
Illinois, aud Michigan should elect
■traightout republicans. No public
indication Iiuh yet been given of their
intentions.
lere is still another, disturbing
factor. George C. Gorham, editor of
the administration organ at Wash
ngton, is a candidate for secretary of
he senate. He received the last nomi
nation for that office In
laucus, but failed of an elec
tion through the equal stab
parties. He made the bargain
ith Mahone, r and Mahout 1 and Rid
eberger will muke his election as
secretary a positive condition of their
adhesion to the party.
It is quite probable that Gorham
ill receive the caucus nomination,
but several republican senators have
eclared without reserve that they
vi 11 not vote for him under any cir
umstances. Still men change as
often as the wind changes.
In presence of these discordant el
ements, ami with a very narrow and
unstable majority at the veiy best,
the inducement far the president to
all an extra session of the senate
merely to elect a president pro tem
pore and other ofticeis is uot great
Indeed, it might precipitate a colli
sion between the factions in that
body, aud deepen the existing ani
mosities. It is, therefore, hardly
probably thut Gun. Arthur will tak*
that step without some more urgent
lasou than now appears ou the hur
face. In that event the contest for
the offices would be postponed until
' member, 1883, to the grief of many
pectauts.—New York Sun.
Joseph Smith’s Miracle — For
e past few days two Latter-Day
.ints from Salt Lake City have
en Iu Susquehanna, Pa., exploring
the site ami immediate vicinity of
>ph Smith’s Mormon temple,
some traces of which still remain.
Here it was that Joseph unearthed
his stone tablets, commenced the
erection of his temple, preached his
peculiar doctrine, married his first
wife (one Miss Hale) and attempted
to perform miracles. An old inhabi
tant, Mr. Buck, remembers tiie r
ginal Mormon, has heard him t
pound, ami saw him uttempt to in
tale Christ's miracle of walking uc
tho water. Joseph had erected
submerged sidewalk in tiie Susque
hanna river at a point two miles west
of here, ami had advertised his per
formance far ami near. During the
night prece<ling the walk Home per
sons cut a section of the planking,
ami a large multitude saw the mira
cle almost end in his death.
Brooklyn is not so had aftor all.
There iB one clergyman there who
has the world by the right hand. He
found a punched half dollar silver
piece in the contribution box tho
other Sunday, and instead of up
braiding the donor for giving alms
worth hiss than face value, he simply
said, “Let us tie liianklul that the
good brother hail this silver coin with
a hole iu it, for otherwise he might
• have given only a cent.” That is the
sort ot dominie to have around
UNDER TIIE OCEAN.
Prof, Verrill Telia of Wonderful Dis
coveries Made There.
Iu Eminence l.lko Mount Witnlilnit-
lou Nnlitticrgctl nir fills roast anil
4?«vor«*<l wit It tftaecr FInIi.OiIU
Plants, ami Other Thing*.
Eight subjects were discussed in
the National Academy of Sciences
yesterday iu u Columbia college reci
tation room. G. F. Becker of the
United States coast survey spoke.on
tho cause of the intense heat in the
Comstock lode. The temperature is
not abnormal until a depth of 100 feet
is reached. At 500 feet it is much
higher thau in most other mines, and
at 1,000 feet tho thermometer stands
at 100° Fahrenheit, so that if a miner
steps in a puddle of water it is
though hcscahled hie foot iu a pail of
boiling water, and if a drop of water
fulls on his flannel shirt it raises a
blister. The latest of many theories
ad vanned to account for this intense
heat is that it is caused by chem
ical action in the kaolizatiou of feld
spar. Mr. Becker said that he hud
xperimented with the rocks by pul
verizing a small mass and heating it
with steam in a holler far six weeks
iu succession, but he found no
hunge. Furthermore, he could find
in the Comstock lode no feldspar,
aud only a very small quantity of
kaolin, so he was compelled to doubt
the truth of the new theory. The
ks are decomposed in the lower
levels of the lode rather than on the
surface, and so probably it was the
result of volcanic action. Observa
tions had been carried to 2,300 feet
below the surface, and indications
are that the huh tee of heat is over two
miles, probably four miles, below the
lowest level, and is to be compared in
nature with tiie heat at the centre of
an earthquake.
Prof. A. E. Verrill, ot Yale col
lege, described the physical and ge
ological character of the sea bottom
off our coast, especally that which
lies beneath the gulf stream. He has
made 1,500 observations this summer
for the United States fish commis
sioners. He has cruised from Labra
dor to Chesapeake hay and about 200
miles out to sea. About sixty miles
outside of Nantucket is a streak of
very cold water, and animals dredged
up are like those caught in the waters
of Greenland, Buffshergeu, or Bibo
The water Is fifty fathoms deep,
and the bed of the ocean is of clay.
Boulders Weigh lug 800 or 1,000
pounds are dredged up. Prof. Verrill
believeH that they are brought down
by Icebergs from the Arctic regions
uiid dropjeJ when the ice
melts. The boulders are found
far south as Long Island. Further
out to sea, 70 to 120 miles a )uth from
(lie southeastern coast of New Eng
land, tho bottom of the sea, which
has inclined very gradually eastward,
forming a table laud, takes a sudden
lip downward, so that whereas the
water on the edge of the bluff’ Is 100
fathoms deep, at the bottom of the
basin it is 1,000 fathoms deep. The
slope is as high und as steep as Mt.
Washington, and on its summit,
which is level, a diver, could he go to
low a dr pth, could not put out his
hand without touching a living crea-
ure. The bottom of the sea is cov
ered just there with a fauna which
has never been before found outside
f the Mediterranean Sea, the Gulf of
Mexico, the Indies, or other tropical
regions. The number of species of
fish dredged up is 8(H), and over hal/
1 have never before been seen
by naturalists. Seventy kinds of
fish, ninety of Crustacea, and 270
mollusks have been added to our
fauna. The age of many of thespecl-
ns shows that they must be per
manent in that region. The trowel
letdown from the ships by a mile of
rope brings up a ton of living and
dead crabs, shrimp, starfish, and as
the trowel Himply scrapes over asmall
surface, the ocean bed is plainly car
peted with creatures.
Sharks are seen by thousands in
this region, and countless dolphins,
hut it seems strange thut not a fish
hone is ever dredged up. A piece of
wood may he dredged up once a year,
hut it is honeycombed by the boring
shell fish, and falls to pieces at the
touch of the hand. This shows what
Instruction is constantly going on iu
hose depths. If a ship sinks at sea
with all on hoard, it would he eaten
up by fish with the exception of tiie
metal, and thut would corrode and
disappear. Not a hone of a human
body would remain after a few days.
It is a constant display of the law of
tiie survival of the fittest. Nothing
made by tho hand of man was
Iredged up after cruising far month a
n the track of ocean vessels except
ing coal clinkers shoved overboard
from steamships. Here Prof. Veirill
ted himself. Twenty five miles
from laud he dredged up an India
rubber doll. That, he said, was one
tiling the fish could not eat.
Here the Gulf Stream is lorty miles
further west than any map shows,
Prof. Verrill continued; and this
stream of warm water from the south
nourishes the tropical life near Mas
sachusetts. The temperature further
in shore is thirty-five degrees iu Au
gust, on the edge of tlie submarine
Mount Washington fifty-two degree*
and toward the bottom of the basin
thirty-nine degrees, while further
out to huh the temperature of the
water grows colder. On the surface
the jolly fish, the nautilus and tin*
Portuguese man-of-war, with other
tropical fish, are found. In this belt
the tile fish, about which so mucl
was said a year ago, were found ii
immense quantities, hut this sum
mer, although expeditious have beer
made for the express purpose o
catching some, not one could hi
taken. Undoubtedly they had Duel
killed, to a fish, by a storm whirl
carried the cold water into tiie Gulf
Stream; indeed, it is known that a
cold current of water resting on tiie’
ocean’s bed may contain arctic fish,
and a current of warm water floating
over it on the surface maybe alive
with tropical fish.
As to the quantity of light at the
bottom of tiie sea there has bet n much
lispiPe. Animals dredged from be
low 700 fathoms either have no eyes,
or faint indications of them, or else
their eyes are very large and protrud
ing. Crabs’ eyes are lour or five
times as large as those of a crab from
surface water, which f-howsthat light
is feeble, and that eyes to be of any
use must be very large and sensitive.
Another strange thing is that where
tin* creatures in those lower depths
have any color, it is of orange or
red, or reddish orange. Sea anemones,
corals, shrimp and crabs have this
brilliant color. Sometimes it is pure
red or scarlet, ami iu many specimens
it inclines toward purple. Not a green
or blue fish iH found. The orange
red is the fish’s protection, for tl
bluish green light lu the bottom of
the ocean makes the orange or red
1 fish appear of a neutral tint, ami
PRICE FIVE CENTS
the Huhniarin*/ na l * ,L ‘ 8 uiTace of
witrXli r fl ‘ ,1 l i kr ft n u l nr, l | 0 C0Wred
beach, showing that it Is the7n t w
animarH T " u, ,‘ no ,' 8 of , ^Ivwo^
nto A ,rr,ith? k o^ k(( W, ' ( t e
the ie'st 8 rrnh he 'T 1 ’ aud <JUt
ttonrral Manager l>«*Fuiil*l< n r 11...
Loulavllie aud N».H V ||| U ' Kau-
road, KealgiiN.
Louisville Commercial,]
There was a genuine ami etartllnir
senaut on in railroad circles T r“-
; ay which succeeded In focussing all
the rumors that have been leading
up to the facts for several weeks The
I w, « the anu W o e uneem T ent
(jointly of the resignation of General
Ma ager Fred. DcFnniak, of the
Louisville and Nashville rail
road system, and of s istant
ft,. Purchasing
Agent (J. C. Breed. Tiie rumors
were 111 regard to the man-
agement of the road, and the charges
that the road was traveling rapidly
toward the goul of a receivership, ft
was stated in welWnformed circles
that Mr. Deh umak’s resignation was
caused by unwillingness to identify
himself with the condition of (lie cor
poration and its alleged improper
management. 1
COLON**. DKKUHIAK TALKS.
Mr. Deitunlak was found, at Ills
residence. He laughed as lie invited
the reporter to an easy chair.
nation?”" ' llU yOU heml ln your reB| K-
"A tew days ago, but it doesn’t
takee lect till the 1st of January.”
Wliy dul you resign?”
"I have hem thinking of doing so
for some two or three months, r am
president of the Pensacola anil Atlan
tic, und wish to devote ull my ener
gies to that. After I get through
there r may go to Europe; l don’t
know. 1 hut is tiie only definite plan
for the future which I have formed
—to take charge of tiie Pensacola aud
Atlantic.”
I shall say, then, that you were
perfectly salistieu will! the present
'-"edition und management of the
huh ville and Nashville, and Ihut
nils hau no iiilluuticu on you whats
ever?”
“No, sir; don’t say anything about
that, interrupted Mr. HeFuuiak
quickly and earnestly; “don't mens
lion the condition of the mail; just
say I left to give more attention to
Iho Pensacola and Atlantic.”
FAU ABOVE TilE ( LUHI)N.
I tll«* IMItfll
IMke’a Peak Letter ln the N. Y. Poat.J
The visitors’ register at the Pike’s
Peak station is a curiosity in Its way.
A rush of blood to tiie bead, causing
lightness aud headache, and extreme
nervousuc-ts arc the most common
sensations experienced by tourists.
Prom both of these disorders tiie
register Butters. Thesenlimmts vary
from the subllmeat utterances of the
Holy Scriptures and Milton to tiie
commonest kind of western slung.
Page after page bring together such
as these: “Glory to God in the High
est,” and, "Well, I’ve climbed Pike’s
Peak, and I’ll never do it again, you
j„,( .n “ Let all Thy works in-uise
Ibee, O God,” ami “1 am seveiitv-
sixyearsold and liaveclum up I t 117
feet; how is that for high ?”
Many who iiave strong lungs re
main purposely all night to witness
the electric and stellar lights, which
are sometimes very line. One night
last summer an electric! storm came
on, which, trom tire description given
me by Ollicer I.eitzeil, must nave
been very grand. For two days pre
viously thunder Htorms hud been
rolling among the mountains,
and then for over two
hours everything was tipped and
covered witli electrioity. Spanish
pHckmidcs, left on thesiinunitfor the
night, appeared to be ull on lir'-; tiie
•lollies of tiie men seemed nbla/.q
electricity streamed from the tips or
fingers, from die nose und from tiie
hair. The anemometer on top of the
building spat tlreat every revolution.
Kvey rock ou (lie summit was cov
ered witli flame.
Nfariinic u Youuk tTIun.
Wall Street Record. |
It Is related of a wealthy Philadel
phian who has been dead these many
years, that a young man cuiue to
him one day and asked for help to
start in business
“I)o you drink?” inquired the mil
lionaire.
“Occasionally.”
“Stop it! Stop it for a year and
then come and Heu.”
The young man broke off’the habit
at once, and at tiie end of a year
again preieuted himself.
Do you smoke?” asked tiie great
man.
“Yus, now and then.”
“Stop it! Stop it for u yeur and
then e ime and see me.”
The young man went away and
cut loose from the habit, and after
worrying through another twelve
months once more faced the philan
thropist.
“Do you chew?”
“Yes.”
“Stop id Stop it foi
id sue me.’
ear and
tin
But the young man never called
again. When some one asked why
he didn’t make one more effort, he
replied:
“Didn’t I know what he was driv
ing at? He’d iiave toM me that as I
had stopped chewing, drinking and
smoking, l must iiave saved enough
money to start myself.”
The biennial report of the princi
pal keeper of tlir penitentiary shows
that there are 1,243 convicts. Of this
number there are white males, 112;
white females, 1; colored males, 1,100;
colored females, 30. Tiie oldest con
vict is 78 years, and the youngest 12
years. Ln the lust two years 109 have
been pardoned, 20 escaped and 22
died. These convicts are there for
twenty-four different grades of crimes:
Murder loo, manslaughter 75, shoot
ing at anothsr 50, burglary iu day 120,
burglary at night 75, bigamy 55, sim
pie larceny 43, horse stealing lo, cat
tiestealing 15, hogstealiug 10, larce
ny from house 50,larceuv from vessels
15, larceny after trust 27. rape 45, at
tempt to rape 25, perjury ; tasiiali-
ty S, misdemeanors, seduction 8, il
legal voting 1, arson 49.
Cai'T. Tom Garrett.--An < IliciaL
circular was Usued yesterday by F.
K. Huger, superiutendunt of the East
Tennessee, Virginia aud Georgia
railroad, announcing tiie appoint-
mentcfCapt. T. W. Garrett master
of trains of tiie East Tennessee
division of the road, the appointment
to take effect December Dr. Oiptain
Garrett is the depot master at Chatta
nooga, aud is ouo of the best railroad
men in the south. During his short
residence iu Chattanooga he has
gained hosts of friends, and his pro
motion will be a source of much graU
illcatiou to all. He will make a val-
i uable officer and will do credit to
himself.— Chattanooga Times,