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VOL. XXIV - NO. 282.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 29, 1882.
PRICE FIV E HSNTS
-WASHINGTON NEWS-
THE TRANSIT OF VENUS.
Generosity of the Western Union
Telegraph Company.
Mississippi Hirer Commission mul
Crnimltti'e.
Bigelow Forood to Appear In
Court anl Hie Phyelelans
Claim It has En-
* Clangored His
Life.
TH K MAILS AND MATRIM N1AL A«HO •
01AT10HH.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.1
Washington, Novombor 28 —White
the postinastor-general has not yet
formally denied the privilege of lifting
mailH to southern matrimon
ial and nuptial asaoclationa, there
is little doubt that ho will
ultimately do so. Assistant Attorney-
General Freeman, in transmitting the
inspectors’ reports upon these
institutions, takes a decided
stand in this direction, but
reootnmends that furt her inspection be
made before aoiiug in tbe matter. This
recommendation has been adopted by
the postmaster general Judge Fr^enisn
sayH that the only possible excuse that
can be given for the existence of these
companies is that they are incorporated
under state chartors.
MISSISSIPPI H1VER COMMISSION.
Lieutenant-Colonel D. A. Gillmore,
of the engineer corps United States
army, has, at his own request on ac
count of illness, been relieved by direc
tion of the pres dent of his duties as a
member of the Mississippi river com
mission, and Lieutenant-Colonel Cyrus
W. Comstock, of tbe engineer corps,
has been designated to be president ol
the commission.
THE TRANSIT CF VENUS.
In reply ti rniuy letters received at
the United States naval observatory,
Washington, D. C., Prolessor Dark
ness, ol Ihc United States transit of
Venus commission, re quests the pub
lication of the following t-laiement:
“There are many pi rsons scattered
over the country who have good
teiesoopes, and would be glad to
obseive contacts during the com
ing transit of Venus. II they
bad any means of obtaining Wash
ington time. Tne loss of so many pos
sible observations oi such a rare astro
nomical event would be a serious one
to science, and to prevent it the Wewiei n
Union Telegraph Compauy has most
generously agreed to give a wide dis
tribution to noon lime signals irom
the naval observaU ry on Decern ut>r
4tb, 6th, (Lh and 7th. As tills service
will be wholly gratuitous on the part of
the telegraph company, its officers do
not wish to incur needless trouble
by sending signals to places
where no use will be made of
them, and it is tbereiore re
quested that alkperisohs who intend to
make accurate observations of the
trausit will notify the neaiUu Western
Union telegraph office of mat lacb im
mediately. The necessity for such
notifications will be apparent
when it is renrrembered • that
the transmission oi signals will
involve the use of in my thousand
mnes of wire, and the making up of
numerous special circuits — all of
which must be planued beforehand.
The furnishing oi iheso signals, free oi
cost to all observers, is a contribu
tion to science on the part of
the Western Union Company, whion
will be appreciated by every one inter
ested in astronomy. A circular of ex
planation respecting signals is now be
ing prepared at the naval observatory,
and in a day or two it will bo ready for
distribution to all who apply for it,
BIGELOW FORCED TO APPEAR IN COURT.
B, F, Bigelow, ueiaulting teller of
the Bank of the Republic, was to-day
brought to court in a carnage, to aud
from which he was carried in the arms
ol the deputy marshal and a friend. In
court he occupied a iouugo, from which
he did uot rise to plead to the indict
ments (thirteen in number) upon which
he was arraigned. Several physicians
employed by Bigelow’s counsel had
declared him to be seriously ill and
uniitto come into court, but two doc
tors who had been appointed by the
court to report upon his condition had
certilled that though sick, ho whs not
seriously so aud could appear without
daugor to his life or health. After his
pleaol'not guilty had been entered
ne was replaced in the cariiage,
whence he was taken upon
a warrant upon a fresh
charge of embezzlement,returned to the
oourt room, gave bail and was then
allowed to go home. The day was very
inclement, aud Bigelow’s lriends aud
physicians say his compulsory appear
ance in court has endangered uis life.
The action of the judge was token
under the impression that Bigelow’s
illness was counterfeit, aud that a plan
was ou foot to enable him to escape.
MISSISSIPPI RIVER COMMITTEE.
Messrs. Burrows and Htscook, of the
special congressional committee ap
pointed to examine the Mississippi
river aud its improvements, arrived
in this city this morning, and the other
members are on their way. Hearing
of testimony will be continued here
for two or three weeks. The commit
tee will send for pilots and others,
aud will listen to opinions from
the standing Mississippi liver
commission. Burrows, chairman ol
the committee, declines to state h
opinion until the close of hearing. H
says there has been on meeting
of the committee in which opinions
have been discussed. Hisc ick is also
reticent when asked as to the nature of
tke testimony given, and its tendency.
He said that it was plentiful and vsried,
and that so many who live along the
river are interested in the reclamation
aud improvement of laud that there
would h ive been no end to tha hear
ings had the committee continued its
sessions at points on the river. Its
duties were mainly in the naturo of
personal observations, assisted bj puo-
Jlo hearings.
UNITED NTATENNENAToa.
1!U Own
Special to Enquirer-Sun.)
Montgomery, Alv,, November 28.—
In the senate to-day Senator J. T. Mor
gan received twenty-nine and Paul
L. Jones received two votes for United
States senator. In tlie house Morgan
received eighty-four votes and Jonos
ten. Votes lor Jones were cast by re
publicans aud green backers.
In joint convention Senator Morgan
will be declared elected ior the term be
ginning March 4th.
Gen. O’NeiL, governor elect, will be
inaugurated on the first of December.
He will be escorted to the capltol by
military companies from Mobile, Mont
gomery, Selma, Birmingham and other
points in the state. The Mobile artille
ry will also take part. At night there
will be a grand inaugural ball. Many
visitors are already here and every por
tion of the state will be represented.
Kellogg’s Troubles.
.Special to Enqulrer-Han.l
New Orleans, November 28,—Tele
grams from Baton Rouge, show that
the returns from the third district were
finally completed to-day. The ean-
vassers threw out Assumption and St.
Mary’s parishes on the ground of in
farm ality in the returns. The former
gave Kellogg 1,130 majority; the latter
1,801 majority. This leaves him still
about 2,000 majority. Gov. McKnery
has refused to issue a certificate
to Kellogg on the ground of non
residence in the district or state, and
has given him until Monday next to
submit a brief and evidence. Kellogg
has prepared a statement showing that
be oame to tbe state in the spring of
1805; that he was the sixth man regis
tered under the military reconstruc
tion in 1870, in the parish oi Orleans ;
that he has since constantly registered
aud voted in the slate, bought and sold
property, sued aud has been sued in
the state courts as a citizen of the state,
has been during his residence four
years govornor of the state and ten
years United States senator and is still
senator, lias been recognized repeat
edly as governor and senator by both
national and state governments, has
large planting interests in Iberia
parish, in the third district, when he
ceased to be govornor. His household
goods were removed from New Or-
leanHo, then tbe state capital, to the
parish of Iberia, in his district, whore
he has since resided and now resides,
and where he is now a registered voter.
The democratic returning officer of St.
Mary’s parish has telegraphed Gov
ernor McEnery that the election was
fair, and that his returns are a correct
computation of the votes cast.
Contested Election
Apodal to Enquirer-Bun.)
Richmond, Va., November 28.— The
state board of canvassers met at 10
o’clock this morning to consider the
contested districts. The second and
fltth districts wore soon disposed of,
and certificates awarded to Llbbey, co
alitionist, aud Cabell, democrat, which
Is the same result as heretofore tele
graphed. The board will next take up
rho first district, in which Mayo, coali
tionist, contests the election of Garri
son, democrat, his principal claim be
ing based on an Informality in the re
turns from Gloucester county, which,
if thrown out, will e ect him by ono
vote.
The board finally decided to throw
out the vote of |Glouceater county, and
awarded the certificate to Mayo. The
board then adjourned uutil to morrow,
when the case of congreRsmau-at-large
will bo taken up. There is no doubt
certificates will be given to Juo. 8
Wise. Virginia’s delegation in the
forty-eighth congress will stand: Coali
tionists G, democrats 4. Several soats
will be contested by democrats when
that congress meets
MORGAN’S MASONRY.
Tho Story of How Horg.a Via Mor-
dered to Keep From Exposing
Masonry.
Whnt
Thurlow Wood
About It.
Knew
Bpeoial to Unqnlrer-Bun.l
Washington, November 28—The
New York Sun to-day publishes an
affidavit sworn to by Thurlow Weed
on September 28th, 1882, in whioh he
places upon the record a detailed his
tory of the abduotion and killing of
William Morgan, the maaon, by his
masonic brethren as obtained by Weed
through a confession of one of the par
ticipants in the affair. In 18)1 and from
the statement of a witness who had
failed to testify to what he knew when
the case waa under investigation
by tho courts soon after Morgan’s dis
appearance. Briefly, the story is that
for the purpose of suppressing Mor
gan’s intended exposure of the secrets
of masonry, he was seised by a num
ber of masons and placed under guard
in the magazine of Fort Niagara, New
York, to await an opportunity to ship
him from the country. While thus
incarcerated a number of masons af
ter dinner at one of their
gatherings when Morgan’s case
was discussed, acting under sud
den impulse, at a suggestion one of
their number procoded to Fort Niagara,
took Morgan irom his prison, and un
der pretense of taking him to Cana
da took him in a boat from which ho
was cast overb <ard in Nlagra rive 1 ’, his
body loaded with weights.
Whitney, the man who con
fessed to Weed his instrumentality
in Morgan’s death, intended to puttbe
story in affidavit, but death overtook
him in 1801. before he carried his pur
pose into effect. The names of all the
participants in the affair are embodied
in Weed’s affidavit.
New Englitnd (’HplUllili In Abo Noalb.
Special to Enqulrer«Bun.]
Richmond, Va., November 28 —Tho
committee of New England Manu
facturers and Mechanics Instbue who
are on a tDur through the south in the
interest of their institute for the pur
pose of securing exhibits from south
ern states for their annual fair in
Boston next September, have been in
Richmond since last Saturday and left
to-day for Raleigh. They were tho re
cipients of courtesies from Governor
Cameron and many other influential
men and expressed themselves as high
ly pleased with their visit.
A Dltorco Granted.
Special to Enqulrer-Sun.l
St. Louie, November 28.—In the cir
cuit court hore to-day, a decroe of
divorce with the custody of
children, was granted to
Barnet Dixon, whose wife eloped
last spring with John Curtis, aged
twenty years, and attracted n groat
deal of attention in Texas and the east.
Mrs. Dixon is highly connected here,
and the elopement created a great scan
dal. Curtis was examined and testi
fied to his relations with Mrs. Dixon.
It is believed she is now living near
Philadelphia.
Cllr Father* 111 Troiihl*.
Special to Euqulrer-Suu.l
New York, November 28. — The
Commercial Advertiser says the court
of appeals this morning handed down
their decision in the case of the people
of the city of Brooklyn against fifteen
aldermen and ox aldermen, who aro
accused of overriding Mayor Howell*
veto of the resolntion enlarging the
franchise of the Brooklyn elevated
railway. This decision remands the
accused city lathers to Raymond street
jail to serve out the sentences imposed
by the lower court,
Killed for deduction.
Bpeoial to Enqulrer-Bun.i
Galveston, November 28 —A man
named Shirly was shot , at Austin last
night by auother man named
Maynard in the presence of the latter’s
sister. The News’ Dallas special sav
Injustice is done to Miss Maynard’
brother in the report of the Aus in ps
pers. The testimony taken at the ins
quest shows that Shirly had under
promise of marriage seduced the young
lady. Shortly before the shooting this
fact w.ts learned by her brother and it
sed him to commit the act.
Failure*.
Bpeoial to Enqulrer-Sun.l
New York, November 28.—Kendal
Brothers, paper dealers, Nassau street,
have made an assignment. Liabilities
8200,000.
Chicago, November 28.—H. A. Pitts’
Sous, farm implements, have made an
assignmont. Liabilities 8230,000; assets
8350,000.
New York, November 28 —Graham
<fc Aitken, dry goods merchants, 392
Broadway, have failed. The assets are
said to exceed the liabilities.
IRELAND.
Special to Enqulrer-Sun.l
Dublin, November 28.—The meeting
of the privy council to-day was the
most protracted one ever held by that
body since the Fenian scare in 1867.
Earl Spencer, lord lieutenant, presided
in person. It was resolved to proclaim
the city under operation of the curfew
section of the repression act, which
authorizes the police to arrest all sub-
C leious persons found on the streets
et.wcen an hour after suuset and an
hour before sunrise A proclamation
was also agreed to offering a reward of
five thousand pounds for information
leading to the apprehension and con
viction of Field’s assailants, with the
usual provisions of pardon and protec
tion to the informer.
Dublin, November 28 —In the proc
lamation under the repression act the
olt'zons are informed that the powers
granted by the curfew law will be used
only^gainst persons believed to be en
gage* in criminal designs. It is re
ported that in consequence of the as
sault upon Field, who was a member
of the jury that convicted tbe murderer
Hynes, special jurors have requested
the government not to call upon them
to serve for the present, but to try
political prisoners without jurors.
Flood* off Water.
Bpoqlal to Enquirer-Sun.]
Wiesbaden, November 28. — The
Neckar, Main and Maselle rivers are
bringing down a great body of water at
Frankfort, Mayenoe, Coblentz and
Cologne. The cellars in tbe streets
along the water front are submerged.
Boat bridges at Mayence and Cologne
have boon secured with double anchors
The Main valley forms one great lake.
Vienna, November 28.—Elbe valley
is flooded. Two villages near Altnut
aro submerged.
Berlin, November 28.—The rivers
Main and Rhine are still rising, and
tho rain continues The Rhine atMay-
euoo to-day reached the highest point
attained during the pust century. Rail
way traffic is entirely suspended.
Riveted A**l*t»ut Ulaliop.
Special to Koquirer»-Hun.l
Jackson, Miss , Nov. 28.—The die
ceaan council of tbe Episcopal church
of Mississippi assembled here to-day
and unanimously elected Rov. Hugh
Miller Thompson, of New Orleans, as
sistant bishop of tho diocese. Bissop
Green presided. Twenty-four parishes
were represented.
bi;n«ia.
Special to Enquirer-Bun.|
Vienna, November 28.—Advices
from St. Petersburg state that 180 of
the students engaged in the recent
demonstration have been arrested. Tho
troops fired into a crowd of Kazan
University students and killed three
of them,
Newapnper* lloH'ulled.
Bpeoial to the Enqulrer-Sun.l
Chicago, 111., Nov. 28 —A Jol let, III,
special says: Tho trade and labor coun
cil have boycotted two newspapers in
this city and all merchants who patron
ize them, on account of denunciatory
articles in the papers directed at the
unions.
An Bx-Uanlt President Senleuceil to
Tea Year*' Imprisonment.
Special to Enqulrer-Sun.l
Syracuse, N. Y., November 28,—In
the United States circuit court, this
morning, the jury in the case against
R, Porter Lee, the defaulting president
of tho First National Bank of Buffalo,
returned a verdict of guilty, and
Judge Wallace seuteuced tbe prisoner
to ten yours’ imprisonment. The jury
were out one hour.
A South End woman keeps only
one servant to do her work, instead
of two. She says help are always
leaving, and when you are left alone
it’s much easier to do the work of
one servant than of two.
An Ex-PremUr Arrested.
Special to ttnqulrer-Hua.j
Bucharest, Nov. 28. — Romanul
Zanoff, ex-premier, on arriving ou Bul
garian territory last evening, was ar
rested, but tbe people compelled his
release, aud escorted him in triumph to
his residence. He was rearrested to
day iu his own house at RuBt Chuk. A
hundred of his partisans wero alto
taken into custody. Great excitement
prevails.
ArreMted For Frnnd.
Special to Euquirer-BuD.]
Baltimore, November 27.—N. L
Lombard was arrested in this city yes
terday, on a warrant from the western
district of North Carolina, charged
with having used the United States
mails for fradulnut purposes. He was
turned over to the United States
authorities to be taken to North Caro
lina for trial.
‘•Never would call a boy of mine
‘Alias, 1 ” said Mrs. Jones, of Hunts
ville, Ala., “if I had a hundred to
name. Men by that is alius cullin’
up capers. Here’s Alias Thompson
Alias Williams, Alias the Night
Hawk—all been took upforstealiu’.’’
■truth «rn t'oiiKi'cimnan.
Special to Enquirer-Bun.]
New Orleans, November 28.—A
dispatch from Baton Rgue to the
Timex-Democrat states that General
Andrew H. Herron, congressman-elect
from the Gth district, died very aud
donly at his residence at 12:30 o’clock
last night of heart disease.
NlHtnpvd t» Death.
Special to Enquirer-Bun.]
Rochester, N. Y„ November 28.—
Hiram Shepard was murdered by Eras
tus Page at Hunt’s Hollow. Living
ston county, Sunday night. Page was
drunk, and stamped his victim
death. He was arrested and remanded
to jail.
Fire.
Special to Enquirer-Bun.)
Raleigh, N. O, November 28.—
A lire at Henderson this morning do
strovrd three stores and a residence
The stores belonged to J. R. Young A
C v, W. Revis and F, W. Rowland Tne
dwelling to Mrs. Alloy. The total loss
18 818,000: insurance, 80,000.
Crnatied to Dp*lb.
Special to Enqulrer-Sun.l
Vicksburg, Novomber 28 — E Iward
Crafton, for the past! twelve years an
omploye on the Vicksburg aud Me
ridian railroad, was crushed to death
last night while coupling seme freight
cars near the city limits.
No HI* lit Exist*.
Bpeclal to Enqulrer-Sun.l
Chicago, III., Nov. 28.—The iron
men of this city declare that there is
not a particle of foundation for the
story recently published that the Bes
semer steel ring exists in the west.
Dfdib off Bt»r Admiral Ntronar.
Washington, November 28 —The
navy department is informed that Rear
Admiral James H. Strong, retired, died
at Columbia this morning from hemor
rhage of the lungs.
Nnow Ntoru.
Bpeoial to tbe Enquirer-Hun.i
Raleigh, N. C., Nov. 28 —A snow
storm began here at three thirty this
morning, wfth colder weather.
■ LIF.PT DATE.
Louisville Commercial.]
The New York Graphic has be
come alarmed and wildly asks: “Is
the country about to be overwhelmed
by auother financial panic?” It sees
in the temporary shutting down of a
few iron works, a depressed stock
market and the expansion of our rail-
read buildings, conditions akin to
those which preceded the crash of
1873, and the withdrawal of only a
minor support to the structure of
credit is all that is necessary to pre
oipitate the smush. Its discernment
is so keen that it even perceives that
theactof Oulteau has injured our
credit abroad irreparably, and “has
filled the air about us with the spirit
that animated the assassin.” It says
American securities are coming home
by the ship loads and foreign capital
is fleeing to Europe as if Irom a pes
tilence..
This is all very dreadful, but not
entirtly true. It doesn’t pay always
to bet on appearances. Up In New
Hampshire one day several years
ago a ragged and unkempt peddler
drove up to the tavern of a village
where a county fair, with the trot*
ting races, waa in progress. Attached
to his rickety wagon was a still more
rickety^looklng horse,lean, old, lame
and apparently scarcely able to stand
without the support of the thills.
After supper the sports were discuss
ing the qualities of the horses who
were to trot next day and freely mak
ing and taking wagers oti their re
spectlve favorite*. Tne pe.Idler sat
quietly by the stove until a lull in the
conversation came, and then asked:
“Strangers, can any feller enter a
hoss in these trots?”
“Why, certainly.”
“Wall, I’ve got an old plug out
here that I’ll bet will beat anything
on the track, and I’m goiti’ to start
him in the ‘free for all.’ ”
A shout of laughter greeted this
announcement, aud the gum biers
gathered around the rustic vender
and showered ridicule upon him.
Bets of $500 to $5 were fr*ely
offered, and to the surprise of
all as freely taken. After awhile
some one said: ‘ Let’s go aud see the
hoes ’’ So they filed out to the ham
and viewed the “old plug,” whom its
owner called “Sleepy David,” and
the laughter became the more up
roarious aud the jests more frequent
at the expense of the unlucky peddler.
The latter, however, took everything
in good part, especially the heavy
odus against “Sleepy David,” and
finally the crowd parted for the night.
Next day, sure enough, the peddler
appeared on the track with his sorry
looking nag, and at the word
“go” was off with the cracks
At the first heat, “Sleepy David”
barely saved his distance, aud the
gamblers hooted at him as he pasted
the stand. The peddler now mingled
with the crowd and bought Sleepy
David in every pool sold. Off they
went for the second heat. Rmtid to
the three quarter pole the peddler
was way behind, hut as they neared
the distance stand he suddenly stood
up In his sulky and shouted so every
one could hear him. “Go In, Sleepy
David!” and Sleepy David went in
and wou the heat hy ten lengths in
2:28—fast time in those days There
was a general exclamation among the
sports of “sold by G—,” which gave
place to long continued curses when
they saw Sleepy David take the last
heat and race in 2:20 The truth was,
the peddler had treated the horse as
the Graphic does the finan
cial situation. The former
took a first-class trotter and
with the aid of paint and bandages
transformed him into a scarecrow.
The latter takes, on the whole, a very
promising financial structure, aud
with the aid of distorted statements
and doleful coloring makes of it a
tottering wreck. It 1b to be doubted
if the Graphic Is sincere in its gloomy
forebodings, and it would be well for
speculators who follow Its pre-
iictious to first satisfy them
selves that there is not a first class
animal under the paint and rajfs.
The fact of the matter is, that while
railroad building has been increasing
railroad earnings have been increas
ing in much greater proportion, and
while values are undoubtedly de
pressed the movement of enormous
crops in the near future must advance
them. Manipulation and speculation
may make the outlook gloomy for the
moment, but the sound financial
condition of the country cannot be
shaken by such trivial and temporary
causes.
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
Twenty-Third Day’s Proceedings.
SENATE.
Bpeoial to Knqulrer-Hun.l •
Atlanta, November 28, 1882
The senate was called to order by
PresKent B lynton at 10 o’clook, a. in.
The oomrnlttoe upon adjournment
submitted two reports. The majority
report favored an adjournment on De
cember 6th until the first Wednesday
In July. The minority ropon urged a
continued session until the business
before the body can bo transacted.
Senator Gustln, of the 221. favored a
continued session.
Senator Parks, of the 11th, favored an
adjournment.
Seuator Peeples, of the 84th, favored
an adjournment until July.
Senator Gustln offered a substitute
authorizing a continued session until
all busine-s is transact-d. The substi
tute prevailed.
The morning as consumed in the
discussion of this matter.
The hour of 12 having arrived the sen
ate adjourned to the house to elect a
successor to Judge Hillyer.
HOUSE.
The house was called to order at 10
o’clock by Speaker Garrard.
On motion of Mr. McIntosh, the
house reconsidered its vote of yester
day adopting his substitute for the re
port of the committee on adjournment.
Mr J. R. Short, representative-elect
of Marlon county, appeared and was
sworn in He was elected in the
place of W. W. Singleton, deceased.
Mr. Jordan moved that an afternoon
session bo held to-day to read a second
time bills favorably reported upon.
Oarriod.
Under a suspension of the rules, the
following bills wore introduced and re
ferred :
By Mr. Harris—To provide for chain
gang puuishmentof county convicts.
By Mr. Crenshaw—To incorporate
the Chattahoochee Navigation Com
pany.
By Mr. Hood—To abolish the county
court of Monroe.
By Mr. Johnston—To establish a
state normal school at Miliedgeville,
and to donate state buildings at Mil
led gevll'o for that purpose, e«.o.
Bv Mr Jones—To create a board of
commissioners for the county of De-
Kalb.
Giv. Stephens transmitted a letter
from Hon George Hillyer, making his
resignation date from Monday, the 27<h
inst, instead of “when his successor
shall have been ohoson and qualified,”
as first announced.
Mr. Maddox, by leave, introduced a
bill to Incorp >rale tho town of Raccoon
Mills. Chattooga oouuty.
The bill of Mr. Jordan to submit to
the voters of Hancock county t he ques
tion of issuing bonds to build a new
courthouse, was road a third time and
passed
Mr. Ric*, by leave, introduced a bill
to amend toe not. incorporating the
8 u'bside S roet Hal road Company of
Atlanta.
THE LI4UOH DEALER*.
A Convention of Ilie Protentlve A**o-
i-lnl Ion—K«i»ort off the Proceeding*
Ye*ierd»y.
Atlanta Constitution.|
O.jo of the mo*t important conven
tions held iu Atlanta lately was the
convention of liquor dealers, which
met in Concordia Hall at ten o’clock
yesterday. The convention was hur
riedly gotten up, but in spite of that
fact, was largely attended, there being
nearly a hundred delegates present.
The convention was called to order
at ten o’clock, by Mr O’Connor, of
Augusta, and a temporary organ!/, ition
was t fleeted by the election of Mr.
David Mayer, of Atlanta, chairman,
Mr. Heroort, of Augusta, was elected
temporary secretary. Ou motiou a
committee of twenty-live was ap
pointed ou permanent organiza
tion, after which the morning
session adjourned to re convene at
half post three. At half post three
o’clock the convention met aud re
oeived the report of the committee oi
permanent organization, which report
suggested the election of the ful.owing
permanent officers: President, James
H. Campbell, ot Macon; vice-presi
dents, 8. L. Singer, of Savannah, E J.
O’Connor, of Augusta, I. Joseph, of
Columbus, I Lowe, of Athens, and M.
Pepper, of Rome; corresponding
. i i/i xvuuid , uuuuri|juuiuug
secretary, W. R. Cox, of Maoon ; re
cording secretary, G. Herbert, of Au
gusta ; treasurer, R. M. Rose. The re
port ol the committee was accepted,
and the proposed officers were duly
elected. The following commit
tee was appointed to draft
set of by-laws: G. Herbort, chairrn
BO. Johnson, Mr. Caruthersof Athens,
8, B. Wright and W. E. Haygood, Tho
following committee on resolutions
wus appointed: 8 L Singer, chairman;
M. T. (1‘iinari, K O’Connor, F. M. Potts
and E. S. O’ Briea.
There being no further business, the
convention adjourned to meet at 10
o’clock to-day, at which time the re
ports of the two special committees
will be received. If the reports of the
committees aro accepted without much
debate the convention will conclude its
labors before 2 o’clock, at which lime
the delegates, bv invitation, will pro
ceed in a body to tbe city
brewery, and he entertained as guests
of the City Brewing Couipauy, At five
o’clock they will return to the city and
be royally entertained with a banquet
at Cone irdia hall, tendered by the
Liquor Dealers’ Association of Atlanta.
The d« 1 (gates are a representative body
of men, being the leading liquor deal
ers of the cities and towns from which
they come. They are dispatchiug bus
iuess in a way whioh shows that they
are thoroughly in earnest, and it is
probable that their next convention
will number several hundred delegates.
They already have several local asso
ciations.
ed
By Mr. Crenshaw—A bill to incor
porate ihe Merchants and Planters’
B»uk of West P ilnt.
Bv Mr. Key—To reduce the bond of
the sherd!’of J.isper county to |f> 000
Tho bill to imposo an annual tax of
one-tenth of one per cent, on the tax
able property of the state for the sup
port gof public schools. Road second
1*1110,
At this point the 8enate came into
the hull to elect a judge of the Atlanta
c'ronit The ballot, resulted: Ham
mond, 124; Clarke, 68; Rodgers, 5.
The legislature thou adjourned.
KE.1UKKABI.F, ‘HAND*.’’
A Most Wonderful Drill Iu Will*! ni
•lie I'uvlrr Club.
Cincinnati Commercial.I
Yesterday afternoon, at the Cuvier
Club-house, Clay Culbertsou, Jerry
Kierted, Alex. Btarbuck aud E. G.
Webster entered into a game of
whist. After the first hand had been
played, Mr Webster, whose turn It
was to deal, took the cards, shuflled
them, and after they had been cut by
Mr. Kiersted, dealt. Each player, as
he arranged his cards, appeared to he
laboring under some unusual ex
cltemeut. Mr. Culbertson, whose
turn it was to play, and
who generally Is very prompt in
placing his card on the table, delayed
the play until Ml. Htarbuck broke
the ominous silence which prevailed
by exclaiming, “Gentlemen, I have
the most remarkable whist hand I
ever held. I hold thirteen hearts.”
“And I,” remarked Mr. Culbertson,
“hold equally us remarkable a hand.
I have thirteen spades.” “And I,”
nervously said Mr. Kiersted, “have
the thirteen diamonds.” “Of course,
I hold the thirteen trumps,” quickly
chimed in the dealer, Mr. Webster.
To say the players were
duly excited at such an expose of the
hands hut feebly expressed their men
tal condition at the time. The con
versation that ensued relative to this
unexpected event in whist among tho
players anil members, as they dropped
in during the afternoon, was decided
ly animated. No one had ever heard
of holding such hands in whist,
case occurred in a Boston club a year
or so ugo where a player held the thir*
ten trumps, and also a similar case
in a New York club, but aside from
these two no one could
report even such hands
these. Mr. Zmonl, one of the old
whist players in this city, on being
told of the four remarkable hands,
stated that in all his experience in
the seductive game of whist he had
never heard of such a deal beingcon-
Bummated. He thought that some
one had previously been playing a
game of solitair with the pack
question, and that when the dealer
picked them up [It being the custom
here to play with two decks,] he made
but one or two shuttles with the cards,
without disturbing their relative po
sitions, and that the cut was made as
It was between the two suits. Prol
G. W. Smith, another expert was
simply amaxed at such a result of
a ileal. It seems to be one of the ‘
|K>ssihles, and it might not occur
again during a generation of playing
Mr. Clement Olbaber, who was pres
ent, was willing to make a handsome
wager that it would occur again in
period of seven years, and at the
Cuvier club. A repetition of course
is not impossible, yet we doubt if he
lives long enough to ever have a
tangible proof of such hands being
dealt again. Buch a phenomenal
deal, if we can so classify it, is evi
dently worth a record in the annals
of whist.
«n th« Brink of n Ntm LTntNiit.
“Biuce the great maguetic storm of
Friday, and the brilliant auroral dis
play last night,” said the astronomer
to the reporter on Monday, “perhaps
you would like to look at the sun
spot that was probably at the bottom
of all this disturbance ?”
“To be sure I would,” the reporter
replied, “do you mean to say a sun
spot caused the maguetic storm?”
“Well, to he more accurate, per
haps T should say that the causes
which led to the formation of the sun
apot also produced the storm. It is
•imi>os«ible to particularize very close
ly In this matter. What we do know
Is that when sun spots are most nil
nierous and largest, then auroras and
magnetic storms are most frequent
and most violent. This has been
strikingly exemplified during the
present year; we have had two or three
great maguetic storms and simulta
neously with each of the storms
sun spots of extraordinary magni
tude have been visible. 1 caught
sight of the present great spot just
coming around the edge of the sun
on November 13th, and since then
there has boeu more or less electric
and magnetic disturbance, culmina
ting in the marvellous auroral out
burst of last Friday. I think this
spot is identical with the one which
made its appearance during the peri
helion of the great comet, hut it has
changed greatly in appearance.”
“Then it is visible without a tele
scope?”
“Easily. Bmoke a piece of window
glass to protect the eye, and you can
see the great spot as a conspicuous
black dot on the sun.”
“It must be very large.”
“Large! Euormous doesn’t be
gin to express it. Counting
the whole surface covered by
the various nuclei and the
icnumbral net in which they appear
:o he entangled, it is not less than 60,»
000 miles long by 40,000 miles wide.
Take all the continents and islands of
the earth together, add to them all
the oceans and spread the whole out
fiat, aud they would uot cover one-
twelfth of the area included iu that
tremendous congeries of sun chasms.’.
“Let me see It,” said the reporter
Don’t keep me waiting.”
The astronomer laughed and point
ed the telescope at the sun. After
the reporter had somewhat recoved
from his astonishment he began to
ask questions.
“So those queerly shaped black
spots are holes in the aun, are they?”
“Yes,” replied the astronomer.
“Ami what Is the shadowy veil
thut surrounds them ?”
That is also a depression in the
sun’s surface, but uot so deep as the
black holes.”
‘What are the white ridges arou ud
the spot ?”
“Mountains of fire, or perhaps I
should rather say billows, iu com
parison with the size of which the
Himalayas or the Andes are rows of
mere ant-hills.”
“Wnat art those white, featlnyy-
looking points projecting here and
there over tliOKhasms?”
Clouds iu which iron and other
meluis are flouting iu the form of me-
talic vapor. What do you suppose
you would see if you could stand upon
cue of those projecting points sus
pended over a tun chasm?”
The reporter couldn’t tell
“Let us make the absurd supposi
tion that your body would not in the
millionth purt of a second, he turned
into vapor,” said the astronomer,
‘and let us also suppose that you could
for au instant retain conscious exist
ence amid tlie crash and roar of solar
action, where the uobe of the burst
ing of a world into fragments would
be indistinguishable from the uni
versal clangor, and I will try to give
you a notion of what you would see.
Your horizon, supposing that imme
diately around you comparative quiet
could prevail, would be a circle of
fire, heaving, tossing, spurt
ing, ousting up showers
hot metallic spray, while
here and there fiery geysers, shot up
with inconceivable velocity, would
rise a thousand, ten thousand,
twenty thousand miles, and. con
densing, fall buck iu an unimsgiua-
hie blazing ruin. The sides of the
chasm over which you huug, gaping
wide enough to swallow this whole
earth, would appear as cataracts of
glowing vapors, purtially con
densed and tumbling down
ward to an awful depth.
Borne students of the sun have
attempted to measure, or ruther to
approximately estimate, the depth of
sun spots, and they put it at from
000 to6,000 miles. In thecaseof
large a spot as this one we may safely
assume that its depth is equal to th
maximum estimate. You would he
hold cyclonic motions in this seu of
fire producing fearful whir)
pools, and the rushing and
clashing of vuporized
incuts, driven by hurricanes that
would make playthings of moun
tains. The flerv cloud bridge upon
which you stood would be likely to
he shuttered to fragments at any
time. I have seen such bridges dis
appear in a few minutes. Then, if
you fell into the chasm, still assum
ing that you would not he instantly
turned to vapor, you would, afle;
your tumble of 6,000 miles, strike
tnttom on which a foot could be
planted, hut would sink into
a mass of fiery gases in
which probably all of the ele
ments that compose the *olid eartl:
would be represented. As you sank
lower and lower the gases, whiL
yet retaining their other properties,
would resist your descent like an
ocean of tar, tlie effect of a tremen
dous temperature and pressure to
which they are subjected.”
“But would I find nothing besides
gas in the sun ?” the reporter asked
“Probably not,” the astronomer
replied, “but you must recollect thut
this is a matter of theory. Astrono
mers are only trying to account for
what they see iu ways that appear
most consistent and reasonable. It is
a long step from the gaseous theory of
the sum which is now widely accept
ed, though in somewhat varied forms,
to the theory of Sir William Her-
schel, that the body of tho sun is a
cool, inhabitable world, separated
from the glowing surface which we
see hy a protecting atmosphere. But
nobody holds that theory now. The
fabled salamander would find the sun
too hot for a place of residence, uml
deeper he got the wor.-e it would be.”
The Southern Lime Associa
tion.—The Southern Lime Associa
tion belli a meeting at Graysville
on the 22d, and fixed prices for next
year. The following officers were
elected: President, Moses Simon, of
Gafney, 8 G\; vice-president. J. I).
Hardy, of Calera, Ala ; secretary aud
treasurer, A. C. Luld, of Atlanta.
The next meeting will he held in At
lanta on the fourth of next March.
The association mukes 600,000 barrels
of lime and feed 3,500 people.
Cut Till* Otll.
If the following, which was writ
ten to the Liverpool M< rcurjj, he
true, there is nothing very alarming
in smullpox. Mr. lime says:
4 I urn willing to risk my reputa
tion as a public man if the worst case
of smallpox cannot tie cured iu three
days, simply by tlie use of cream of
tartar. One ounce of cream of tartar
dissolved in a pint of water, drank
at intervals when cold, is a certain,
never-failing remedy. It has cured
thousands, never leaves a murk, noi
causes blindness, ami avoids tedious
lingering illness.”
The poet who Bang, “Woman, with
all thy faults we love thee still,”
ALABAMA LEGISLATURE
Thirteenlli Diij’h Proceeding.
*emilor Morgue Re-elected to the
United States Senate.
NKNATK.
.Special to Knqulror-Huu.j
Montgomery, Ala., Novomber 28.
— Bills woro introduced as follows :
Mr. Thomas—To provide for tlie pay
ment ol eoBts in oases bofore Justices
anti notaries in Barbour county when
the state fails to convict.
Also, to provide for the payment of
costa in oases before the circuit court in
Barbour county when tho stato fails to
convict,
11ILLS PASSED.
To amend tho code as to tho levy of
oounty tax by the eommisHioDors court
iu Barbour aud other counties,
■I DUNK.
Bills passed—to prevent tho sale of
cotton In the seed In certain cohos in
Barbour oouuty,
To prevent the taking or catching of
oysters by non-rosidents.
Both houses voted for Knifed Staton
senator. Iu tho senate Morgan received
twenty-nine votoH anti Paul Jones two.
Senator Jackson and Shelby voted for
Jones.
In the liousO Morgan received eighty-
four and Jonos ton ltaisler and Kibb,
independent democrats, voted for Mor
gan.
Interest in the inauguration increaso
and a grand affair is expected.
WII Kilt: w L A LIU At’CUMUJLATKN.
An KHttlUh View off the Lnnirer off (lie
Ar«ial*ltlon off C»t»**i»l Fortune*
Hr Ainrrlcnn*.
London Spectator, i
There is evidence forthcoming
from America that fortunes may be
accumulated on a scale of which
Englishmen have little conception,
and that when they have been accu
mulated their increase may besought
from a motive which is never quite
satiated—the thirst for direct and in
direct influence on allairs. Europeans,
even those who study the subject,
underrate American fortunes, first,
because they think the rich must
spend largely, ami, secondly, because
they assume, which is quite false,
that great wealth must he invested
at about four per cent. It may, as
American example shows, he
Invested hy millionaires who
do not care for rest iu
work which yields from three times
to ten times that rate. Now, the gov
erning financial fact about the Van
derbilt railways Is that they are man
aged to yield, aud do yield, a steady
10 per cent.; ami Mr. Vanderbilt
ought, therefore, to he in possession
of an income of £2,000,000 a year.
It is not. probably, so much, because
purt of his fortune must huve been
estimated for probate duty on shares
above par; hut. taking it at only
£1,600,000, Mr. Vanderbilt, who does
not spend unproductively the in
terest of his dividends, might easily,
at seventy, own £60.000,000, yielding
un average of 8 per cent. None of
his known rivals, perhaps, could do
this, hut their sons might, und it is
quite on the cards that in 1020 the
American Union may possess a dozen
capitalists, each with fifty millions
solidly invested, yielding incomes of
from three to four millions a year.
Be it observed, we do qot in
clude any fresh money by
the millionaires, though they
make it every day; or any calcula
tion about compound interest, though
there is such force iu movement in
their favor. Wo assume that they
live on the interest of their interest
iu Mr. Vanderbilt’s case £60,000 a
year—-uml invest the remainder iu
the new railroads, telegraphs, uml
steam lines which they construct or
regulate. The temptation so to ac
cumulate, in a country where lazy
wealth brings so little enjoyment,
while working wealth brings power,
status, and celebrity, is great, and the
Irawhacks, to a man not afraid of oc
cauional threats, ure not many. Rail
way managers are easily found, other
stockholders take much work off the
millionaire’s bunds, und uh against
ordinary accident, so vast un invest
ment forms its own best insurance.
If an Englishman could own fifty-
one per cent, of the Midluml and
Great Northern, and appoint any di
rector he pleased, his wealth would be
fairly secure, much more secure than
if he owned a wheat growing coun
try in East Anglia. Is the existence
of u fortune of this kind, in the
bunds of a man whose business in
life is the acquisition of power, safe
for the community? We cannot hut
fed a doubt of it.
AN KXI'KNNI VK A I I OKM. Y <4 I N
Kit A L.
Iflr IJrfwnler'it I,iff * tirluii* lioom* Fur*
nlatir«l nl Hit* CuM ol Hi
The last seusatiou in Washington
is over the newly furnished and
decorated rooms of Attorney-General
Brewster iu the department of Jus
tice. The furniture and decoration
have all been made from designs
special I v prepared for Messrs. W. B.
Moses it Sou of tills city, in pur
suance of an order from Attorney-
General Brewster himself, witli carti
blanche to make the rooms perfect.
The principal room, the one used by
the attorney-general to transact offi
cial business, is furnished with ebony
chairs aud lounges covered with the
fluent moroco leather, and said to he
the most elegant ami costly suit of
furniture iu Washington. The centre
table, designed ami made to order, is a
gem of its kind. Although measur
ing only six feet by four, it cost $250,
This table lias for a cover an exquis
ite piece of Algerian lace work, said
to have cost $100. The smaller tables
are also elegantly finished, and strict
ly in keeping with tlie central one.
The carpet in this room, consisting
of a Turkish rug, cost the govern
ment $1,200. To walk upon it makes
one imagine himself to be treading on
lown. To complete this there i* also
a rich fleecy rug costing $150.
But the most gorgeous adornments
n this room arc the curtains. They
are made of the finest silk plush, rich
uml duzzling in texture, lined and in
terlined with line Turkish saline,
with cardinal cords ami tassels. The
brass, rods, holders, and other acces
sories are equally elaborate in pattern,
and were specially designed for the
department of justice. There are four
windows iu this room, and, as tho
price paid for each pair of curtains
was$300, the cost is $1,200 for cur
tains alone.
Tho attorney-general’s private
office, his sanctum sanctorum, is cer
tainly remarkable for splendor and
elegance. Turkish carpel and rugs,
handsome Oriental furniture covered
with French velours, with silk plush
trimmings, and elaborate frescoing
and fine pictures, make this a mos
luxurious room. The attorney-
general's expensive tastes have al
ready cost the taxpayers over $5,000
ami by the time the innumerable ud
ditlous and finishing touches an
given to these offices, making thei
Iron und Alvei,
B ston Herald ,
There is no danger of a panic in the
Iron and steel market. The country
Is rich ami prosperous, and never
was growing more rapidly. The de
mand for iron and steel cannot per
manently decrease. The manufac
turers of steel rails, for instance have
been making enormous profits foi
the last three years. As a rule, they
have had orders ahead all the time,
calling for work to the full capacity
of their mills. They have enjoyed
protection to the extent of $28 a ton
or nearly 100 per cent, on the price
in England. English manufacturers
manage to make steel rails and sell
them at about $.10 a ton, und make a
fair profit. Tf American manufac
turers cannot afford to make them
and sell at $45 a ton, they must have
something yet to learn. We do
not believe they aro so far behind
their English rivals. England has
the whole world for a market for its
surplus iron and steel. Our manu
facturers are shut iu by a worse than
Chiuese wall. American capital is
building railroads in Mexico, rigliu
under the beak of the American eaglo
but it is obliged to buy its rails in
England, because “protection” keeps
American rails above the market
price. Wouldn’t it be a good thing
if American manufacturers had a
foreign market for their surplus? Wo
have little faith in the dark reports
about the steel rail business. There
may he a temporary depression—
wages may have to ho reduced, ii
spite of General Butler’s election—•
but a dollar has a larger purchasing
power than it had last year, ana
wages can he moderately reduced
without suffering. It may not bn
necessary to run the mills day
und night to supply tho
winter demand. The husiues-t
of manufacturing rails has been sc•
very profitable, on account of tlio
high tarifl, that it has been enor
mously extended. Now we come t
the natural result, which extreu
protectionists tell us is the true c
and aim of protection. Competit
reduces prices. All right. It will i
a great benefit to the country to have*
cheaper iron and steel. These am
prime necessities. They enter into
almost every new improvement,every
individual’s expenses. Lower prices
will increase consumption. It makes
a great difference, for instance,
whether the railroad companies buy
rails for $60 or $40 a ton. We suspect,
that the talk about shut ting down is
for effect on congress. Congress
meets in a fortnight, and will re
ceive a report ou tlie revision of the
tariff. Anything to prevent a reduc
tion of the duties on iron and steel.
Or, if there must be a reduction, to
make it as little as possible. Wo
have seen the same game before.
.\(iw Orleans (loNNlp uhuiil ihn LA
New Orleans Tlmee-Democrat, j
Mr. W. CL Rowland, so the “Rack
et” ascertains, will succeed Mr. De-
Kunlak as geueral manager of tho
Louisville and Nashville rond.
For quite a time Mr. K >v \ d has
been acting as general super 1 itend-
entof the line, und ho !im \ repu
tation of being a tlioroi- i ailroad
man, who will ably fill tin* position.
In connection with tin* af irs of
the Louisvilleaud Nashville roa.\ the
Racket” has been informed lliai. *he
lecline in the stock of tho mud was
3aused by mismanagement, or rather
a lack of judgment on the part of the
officials controlling the company.
The road, it is claimed, was put in
the “nine hole” by ironclad contracts
which President Alexander made
with tho Kennesaw route and the*
rgia Central road, under threai
that they would build into New Or
leans unless tlie Luisville aud
Nashville came to terms. These
intrants, so the “Racket” is iu
formed, are suicidal to the
uterests and the business of the
Louisvilleaud Nashville road, aud
that the line for some time past has
been greatly hampered by them. I';
appears that the damaging effects o*?
these contracts engendered consider
able feeling, for some reason, against;
President Alexander, Mr. Do Funialc
the general manager, and Mr. Breed,
the purchasing agent of the compa
ny.
It is not probable that the chop
ping off of tho beads of subordinates,
which Ims been prophesied, will ex
tend as far south as New Orleans, fo-
the reason that very near all the offi
cers and employes of the Louisville
and Nashville in this city are old and
faithful servants, and, being indeuti-
fled with our people, have done niucli
to make the road popular.
For the Family Scrap Book.--*
Ripe tomatoes will remove ink oc
other stuins from the hands.
Kerosene will soften leather hard*
ened by water, and lender it as plia*
ble as new.
ers with rapidity
"h it united wit i
To heal cut
wrap them in
alum water.
To keep tinware nice and briglr,
scour it every two or three weeks
with finely silted coal ashes.
o clean willow furniture use sa t
water, and apply with a hone
brush, and dry thoroughly.
Machine grease may be retnovfd
mi wash goods by dipping the
fabric iu cold rain water and soda.
To remove tar, rub thorough’
with clean lard, and then wash \vi •
soap and warm water. This maybe
applied to either the hands or clotl -
Kitchen tables may bo made:is
white as snow if washed with haul
soap and wood ashes. Floors look
best scrubbed with cold water, soap
and wood ashes.
Tea stains and many fruit status
may he removed witli boiling waltr;
pour the water through the stain, i a
order to prevent it front spreading
through the material.
To make good starch, mix with
cold water und add boiling water ui -
til it thickens; then add a dessert
spoon of sugar and a small piece >f
butter. Tliis makesu stilt and gins y
finish equal to new.
IJI: N ES IS O V Cl>TTON M VCIIIN'EK \\
—Hargreaves invented the spinning
jenny in 1764; Arkwright patented
his method of spinning by rollers and
me in
. r plan
nule
ted his first si
1760; Wood patented Id
in 1776; Compton inve»
jenny in 1770; Will a a;. i .resn
engine to spinning cot'mi 17 k
Beil invented cylinder u r : ; i d
Cartwright invented hi.; »o a
in 1786; Arkwright’s pat vere > .‘fc
aside aud his iuveolio o
the public in the aime v< I . u
prophesied that “the United . u h
would one day hec.nue i ^rei : cot n
producing country” in the Vnnapoi s
convention of 178 , the tirsf cotton
factory in the United States w.£
built at Beverly, in Massachusetts, i i
, and was visited by Washington
ml Eli Wi
what he designed they should be. tlie | e.liusetts, while
of Mat-
General
Nathaniel Greene's nmilv, in Geoi:**
gia, invented the saw gin in 1793.