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VOL. XXV111—NO. 235
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA: TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 2S, 1886.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
COS! FROM HE CUE CITY.
A Superintendent at the Capitol Killed by
a Falling Stone.
The Prohibitionists Hold a Big Mcotlng-The Con
tent Brows Warm—An Kpidealc of Finn—A
quiet Marriage—Tax Arbitration, Etc.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.
Atlanta, September 27.—Atlanta had a
regular fire epidemic this morning and the
department has made a record for itself
that it has just cause to feel proud of.
Three fires, all within twenty-five minutes,
at different parts of town, all in frame
buildings with shingle roofs, and a total
damage of less than $25, is a record of
which few departments can boast, and yet
it was made this morning in Atlanta. The
first alarm was given at 9:35 and the fire
was on the roof of a butcher shop at 111
Marietta street, occasioned by a spark
from a passing locomotive. It waj put
out W'ith a single stream, the damage not
exceeding $10.
The second alarm was at 9:45, and the
fire was in a residence at 51 Forsyth street,
occasioned by a defective flue. The re
serve engine reported to this, but extin
guished the fire with buckets of water.
The third alarm came in at 10 o’clock and
the fire was at 125 Spring street. It was
speedily extinguished with about $5 loss.
Said Chief Joyner: “It was pretty tight
papers, but we stood it much better than
the horses. It was pretty hard on them to
be dashing from place to place through the
hot sun, but we got there.”
Agrleultuml Exhibits.
Atlanta, September 27.—The specimen
agricultural exhibits continue to be re
ceived at the agricultural department.
Farmers all over the state should take a
lively interest in this matter. Their ex
hibits will be presented in the department
with their names on a tag, together with
the locality where grown. Mr. T. P. Kim
ball, of (Quitman county, sends in to-day
fine specimens of sugarjeaue and cotton,
and Mr. W. A. Scott, of Rockdale, sends
specimens of prolific corn and tobacco.
The Legislative Primary.
Atlanta, September 27.—The candi
dates and their friends are hard at work
to-day, and to-morrow’s fight Will be a hard
one. The general opinion seems to be
that T. P. Westmoreland, of the prohibi
tion ticket, and Clark Ilowell, unpledged,
are certain of nomination. The third man
is a matter of speculation, and J. J. Fain,
of the prohibition ticket, and Welborn
Bray, unpledged, aro most frequently men
tioned.
Stray Shots.
Atlanta, September 27.—J. L. Floyd
was to-day commissioned a justice of the
peace for the 1398th district of DeKalb
county, and Virgil A. Stuart notary public
for the 1291st. district of Murray county.
A quiet wedding was celebrated to-night
at 9:30 o’clock at the residence of Mr. F. M.
Richardson, on Rawson street, in which
Miss Lula Richardson and Mr. R. W.
Rood were the contracting parties. The
marriage was performed in the presence
of the family and a few intimate friends.
No cards. Mr. and Mrs. Road left for an
extended western trip, after which they
will make Atlanta tneir future home.
The bride is a sister of Mr. T. H. Richard
son, of the Constitution staff.
A fatal Accident at the Capitol.
Atlanta, Ga., September 27.—A terrible
accident occurred at the new capital build
ing this afternoon, which resulted in the
death of one of the most reliable men en
gaged on the building. A huge stone which
went over the window of the third story
fell a distance of about forty feet upon
Superintendent Larkin, crushing him
into a shapeless mass. The stone
weighed several thousand pounds. It was
being hauled up to where it was to he used
on the wall, when the hooks slipped out
and it fell to the ground. Superintendent
Larkin happened to be immediately under
it. Some one on the wall shouted out a
warning as it fell and Mr. Larkin threw
back his head to look up. As he did
so the stone fell on his chest.
His head and arms thus escaped
mutilation, but his body and lower limbs
were fearfully crushed. Superintendent
Larkin has been director of the rigging,
the pulleys, etc., and was one of the best
paid and most valuable men employed on
the capital. He leaves a wife. He was
about middle age, and came from Phila
delphia here.
To lie Arbitrated.
Atlanta, September 27.—Messrs. Tyler,
M. Peeples, R. C. Hurnber and H. C. Fos
ter will arbitrate the A., G. & S. railroad
tax to-morrow. Mr. Peeples left tor Au
gusta to-day and will be met there to
night by Mr. Humber.
A Prohibition Meeting.
Atlanta, September 27.—The prohibi
tionists held a big meeting in the base
ment of the court house to-night, which
was addressed by Messrs. Henry Hillyer,
James Ware, Recorder Anderson and Dr.
Hawthorne. Mr. Hillyer made an ex
haustive review of the whole prohibition
contest in Atlanta from its inception to the
present time, skillfully inciting the au
dience to the sun port of the prohibition
ticket for the principles it embodied, inde-
dependeut of the men. After get
ting the audience ut> to this
point he briefly spoke _ of the
personnel of the ticket, declaring in favor
of each man upon it, and calling upon the
audience to support the ticket undivided.
Ware is a Knight of Labor, and his
speech was to bring that wing up in good
order. He was a good talker and kept the
audience in a roar of applause. He said
Perkins was the representative of
the laboring men ou the ticket, and it
should be a source of pride to the Knights
of Labor that their first representative in
the legislature of Georgia should go there
upon the high platform of morality and
good order embodied in the principle ol
prohibition. , .
Recorder Anderson made a short speech,
declaring that there was no possible hope
for either of the other candidates except
Clark Howell, and no attack had been
made on any member of their tic cet ex
cept Perkins. The fight was Clark Howell
against Dr. Perkins. He strongly ur^ed
the support of the straight prohibition
ticket. ,, „ , .,
Dr. Hawthorne was called on and said
he had no idea of opening his mouth in
the meeting, and he knew that in respond
ing to the flattering call that had been
made for him he would be
taunted with mixing politics and
religion. He did not believe
in carrying politics in religion, but he did
believe in carrying his religion in politics
and every where else. He believed in that
religion which made a man .as pure in
politics and on the hustings as in the pulpit
or at the communion table. He didn thave (
anything to say against any gentleman per- ;
sonally, but advocated the support of
those men squarely pledged to prohibi
tion. The meeting was enthusiastic and a
resolution was passed that all present
should go early to the polls and work late.
The fight to-morrow will be a hard one.
The Fifth Fire.
Atlanta, September 27.—-Atlanta had
the fifth fire in twelve hours at 10 o’clock
to-night. It was more serious than those
to-day. The fire was in a two-story frame
building and was well advanced before tho
alarm was sounded. The explosion of a
large can of oil in the store scattered the
flames in all directions. Tho first building
and three small one-story frame buildiugs
were partly destroyed. The damage is
estimated at $1200,
A Call for llonds.
Washington, September 27.—The not
ing secretary of the treasury this afternoon
issued the 143d oall for the redemntion of
bonds. The call is for $16,000,000' of the
3 per cent, loan of ’82, and notice is given
that tho principal and accrued interest of
the bonds below designated will be paid at
tho treasury of the United States on tho
first day of November, ’86, and that the in
terest on said bonds will cease on that day,
viz.: Fifty dollars original No. 50 to orig
inal No. 55, both inclusive; $100, ditto 64
to 776 ditto; $500, ditto 286 to 340 ditto;
$1000, ditto 2435 to 2834 ditto; $10,000, ditto
7309 to 8810 ditto. Total, $15,000,000.
Tho bonds described above are either
bonds of tho “original” issue, which havo
but one serial number nt each end, or
“substitute” bonds, which may bo distin
guished by a double set of numbers, which
are marked plainly “original numbers”
and “substitute numbers.” All of the
bonds of this loan will be called by the
original numbers only. Three months in
terest due November 1,1886, on the above
described bonds will not lie paid by checks
forwarded to the holders of the bonds,
but will be paid with the principal
to the holders at the time of
presentation. The parties holding the
bonds called by this circular can obtain
immediate payment, with interest to date
of presentation, by requesting the same in
a letter forwarding the bonds for redemp
tion. Many of the bonds originally included
in the above numbei's have beeu trans
ferred or changed into other denomina
tions on n waiver, the original numbers
being cancelled, or have been redeemed
under the circular of September 15, 1886,
and leaving outstanding, apparent, the
amount above stated.
HE EARTH IX CONVULSIONS.
The People Along the Coast Badly
Frightened Again.
Thoj Hash from Their Houses In Charleston—Olil
PlssterlA* Shaken Down—Wilmington Experi
ence* Two Shocks—Augusta Pools On*.
ON ’CHANGE.
A Reported Schama Causes a Itmiiurkiilile Itlsc
in New England.
New York, September 27.—The stock
market to-day showed less activity than
the average of last week, but New York and
New England sprang into the first place
in the dealings, being nearly twice those
of any other stocks. Trading in this stock
overshadowed interest in all the restof the
murket and the street is considerably puz
zled for the reason of the deal. Advices
from Boston disclaim any knowledge of
the affair, but at the same time chronicled
exemption in the stock equal to
that in the New York board. The gen
erally accepted theory, however, is that
the Manhattan elevated people here are
seeking the control both of it and tho New
York City and Northern, but the de
tails of the scheme are not yet ready for
publication. The stock made an advance
of nearly 6 to-day, part of which was lost
in the last hour. There was considerable
strength displayed by many of the special
ties, which seemed to help
the general market materially.
The opening was rather heavy,
Pacific Mail, Union Pacific and Omaha be
ing down * each, while changes in other
active stacks were for insignificant
amounts, and about equally divided be
tween gains and losses. There was active
trading in early dealings and the market
was weak, especially Jersey Central and
Western Union, but extraordinary strength
in New England soon rallied the list, after
which t he market was comparatively firm
until the last hour, when the hears raided
the list and everything was carried down
to tho lowest of the day. With the excep
tion of New England, the market closed
weak. Sales, 422,000 shares.
‘SOUTH ST. LOUIS FRIGHTENED.
.1 Dynamite Bomli round at a l.lvery Stable.
St. Louis, September 27.—The citizens
of South St. Louis are thoroughly aroused
over the finding of a dynamite bomb at the
office of John 11. Conrad, keeper of a livery
stable on South Broadway. When Mr.
Conrad went to his stable yesterday morn
ing he found a small chalk box, from
which a fuse partially protruded, in the
doorway. He picked up the box, carefully
removed its lid and was horrified to see
neatly packed in sand and saw dust, a
regular Chicago anarchist bomb. The
police were at once notified and they took
charge of and carried it to the police
station, wherelit was thoroughly examined.
The instrument of destruction was a cast
iron shell resembling in shapo a duck egg
about three inches in diameter and filled
with dvnamito and bullets, with an open
ing in tiie top to admit a fuse. Why any
one should desire to destroy his stables
Mr. Conrad is at a loss to know.
A Kentucky Tragedy.
Louisville,September 27.—The Courier-
Journal’s special says: Nat Johnson,
nephew of ex-Governor Johnson, shot
and killed Ben Crady at Nelsonville, Ky.
The killing grew out of the late Robert-
son-Montgomery congressional race. Crady
and Jim Smith attacked Johnson, who
shot Crady through the brain and tired at
Smith, who escaped by running.
A Florida Town Burned.
Jacksonville, Fla., September 27.—Fire
broke out about 10:30 o’clock yesterday
morning in Deland, Valusia county, Flor
ida, and destroyed thirty buildings in the
business part of the town. It began in
Wilcox’s saloon, and is thought to havo
been of incendiary origin. The loss is esti
mated at $72,000. The insurance cannot be
stated, because the records are burned. |
A Itaui' Arranged.
Providence, It. I., Sept. 27.—A match !
has been arranged between the yachts ,
Miranda and Sachem for a forty mile race |
off Newport next Thursday. The start will j
be from Brenton’s reef lightship, twenty I
miles to windward, or to leeward, and re- j
turn. The prize will be a silver cup.
A Strike Settled.
Philadelphia, Pa., September 27.—At
a conference here to-day between the win
dow glass manufacturers and a committee
of employes the wage question was settled
and fires will be started at once. This set
tlement affects all the factories in New
Jersey, Maryland, New York and Pennsyl
vania east of the Alleghanies.
Tli<* Cesspool of CiiHseilnesK.
Columbus, Ohio, September 27.—An
analysis of the water left in their cell to-
i day shows that three penitentiary prison-
| ers who were taken suddenly sick Satur- |
day night were poisoned. One of them, ,
John Francis, is still very sick. The others I
were not badly affected. All are important ;
witnesses in the pending investigation of j
abuse at the prison. 1
Charleston. S. C., September 27.—A
slight earthquake shock was felt here at
two minutes past 5 o’clock this afteenoon,
accompanied by a loud rumbling sound.
The wave moved from the north to the
south. Tho shock lasted about two
seconds. Houses were shaken perceptibly
and a number of persons rushed into the
streets. No damage was done beyond the
falling of loose plastering. The same
shook was felt at Savannah, Ga,, Sum
merville, Orangeburg, Camden, Granite-
ville. Hopkins, Kingville and the Ten-
Mile hill.
The work of the relief committee is pro
gressing favorably. Over 1100 applications
for assistance to repair houses huve been
filed with the relief committee, 400 of
which are from widows and unmarried
women. About 500 rations were issued to
needy families to-day. Businoss men speak
hopefully of the future. A prominent con
tractor, who has been advertising in the
morning papera for bricklayers and plas
terers, stated to-day that in his opinion
500 to 1006 workmen of that class
would find employment here dur
ing the winter and spring at
$4 a day and upwards. The supply at
present is not ono-half equal to the de
mand.
Dr. J. B. Hnbbell, general field officer,
and Miss Clara Barton, president of the
National Red Cross Society, arrived in
Charleston to-day. They come to inspect
the situation and soe whether it is neces
sary to enlist further aid from the various
Red Cross societies of the United States.
They bring a message to Mayor Courtenay
from Mayor Carter Harrison, of Chicago,
saying that the contribution received from
the Chicago Red Cross society is not the
only subscription that will be made by
Chicago, but that the citizens of that place
are organizing a movement by which the
best results will be attained, and that Chi
cago will yet be heard from.
Augusta Kelt It.
AUGUSTA, Ga., September 27.—There
was a distinct shock of earthquake here
at 5 o’clock.
Two Earthquake Sharks.
Wilmington, N. C., September 27.—A
special to the Star reports two earthquake
shocks at Smithville, one at 11:30 last night
and one at. 4:56 this morning. There was
no damage done.
AN EMPTY THREAT.
That Indulged III lijr National lluiika—'Treasurer
Jordan Says That Should They Withdraw They
Would qulrkly Go to tlio Wall. .
New York, September 26.—A Washing
ton special to the Sun says : “Treasurer
Jordan, referring yesterday to the alleged
threat of several national banks to with
draw from the national banking Bystem,
said: ‘You can rest assured that uo bank
will carry out that threat—first, be
cause the situation for them is not at all
stringent, and they are in no danger of
being driven to the wall or even cramped
by these bond calls; secondly, because
there are no state laws under which these
banks can reorganize profitably.
If any of the states had laws under which
these banks could issue currency, there
might be some temptation to them to go
out of the system, although I doubt if their
circulation would be accepted generally
then. I am inclined to believe that these
banks would not for a good deal lose their
status as national banks, for the reason
that much of their business would go to
the remaining national banks. This would
the girl home, going as far as tho gate
leading to the front door of tho institute.
That was the last seen of her alive, except
by the person or persons who murdered
her. The next morning tho body was dis
covered over 100 yards away from tho
institute building. A new pairof gloves and
her pocketbook wore missing. Two wounds
on each side of her head showed where
she had been struck with some blunt in
strument, and marks of flugors on tier
throat proved that she had beeu strangled
to death. The physicians who made tho
post mortem examination were positive
that tho girl had been criminally assaulted
before sho was killed. Titus was arrested
and committed to the county jail here, and
a week later the grand jury formally in
dicted him. Titus pleaded not guilty to
the indictment, biP reserved tho right to
AVithdraw iiis plea nt any time.
JUSTIN M’CARTHY.
Arrlral at New York of tho Distinguished Irish
Member—Ills Violin on Sonin of fho Lending
questions.
New York, September 27.—Justin Mc
Carthy, who arrived hero Saturday after
noon ou the White Star steamer Brittanio.
avus met down the bay by a committee ol
reception on a revenue cutter. The com
mittee cordially greeted Mr. McCarthy,
who was pleased to meet them. The com
mittee consisted of Col. Cavanaugh, Win.
Lane O’Neil and Win. B. Clarke. Mr. Mc
Carthy is a middle-sized man, with a florid
complexion and a sandy gray board. He
said that lie came over in the company of
Mr. and Mrs. Campbell Praed, and had
a delightful journey. He talked freely,
and said, in regard to the defeat of
Gladstone’s home rule measure, that he
was quite prepared for it and was sur
prised that there was not a greater ma
jority against it. The people wore now
anxious to see what Chamberlain would
do. He did not think that Ilnrtington had
carried as many with him as it was
thought he would do, and lie believed that
it would be found that the secessionists
would fall away from I ho ranks of Salis
bury when they found that they had re
ceived no appointments. If eviction was
pressed in Ireland ho thought there might
be individual disturbances hero and there,
but there would he no organized political
troubles, because the Irish people under
stood the position of alliiirs perfectly.
As to tho suppression of the na
tional league that could never take
place, because it was an English us
well as an Irish institution and it would re
quire an act of parliament to bring this to
pass, which would bo very dillloult of ac
complishment as they numbered oighty-
six homo rulers and would tic sure to have
a great many radicals with them. There
has boon something said about an organ
ized attempt on behalf of the Irish people
to avoid paying rent. Hu did not Dolievo
that anything of the kind would occur. Of
course in somo eases it was impossible for
the pooplo to pay thoir rent as they were
without means. In speaking of tho ap
pointment of a commission to inquire as to
the tenure and purchase of land in Ireland,
mentioned in the queen’s speech to-day,
he said that was one of tiie many ways the
tories had of evading the question, and
that it only meant delay to enable them to
TSnnulate some definite plan for
dealing with the Irish question, lie spoke
of the recent defeat in Derry, and said tho
case would come up for hearing before Mr.
Justice O’Brien, who was an enemy to tho
cause of homo rule, he having been de
feated by a friend of Parnell’s in his con
test at Ennis. As to his return to Europe,
Mr. McCarthy said he intended to he tiack
for the opening of parliament on the 5th
of February, lie had not come hereon
any political mission of any kind, but to
give political lectures for his own purpose.
He had come as a literary man, rather
than a politician, and intended to lecture
on the “English House of Parliament,” the
“Irish National Cause,” “English Politics”
and one or two other subjects, arid en
deavor to give the American people a fair
view of things on the other side.
The Irish people, he added, felt perfect
ly satisfied with the defeat of Gladstone’s
measure and seemed disposed to call it a
be especially the case with small deposit- i victory rattier than a defeat, for when
ors, whose suspicions are fully aroused, and
to whom the word ‘national’ in n bank’s
title has always seemed a great protection
for their small investments.
“Again, money now commands
5 and 6 per cent., and
the banks cannot afford to retire
their circulation when it is as valuable as
that. There never was a time when the
banks xvere making as much money ns
now. If money were as cheap as it was
some months ago there might be some
sense in these reports, but it is nonsense to
talk of it uoav.”
It is rumored at the treasury department
that the forced substitution of other bonds
for the called 3 per cents Avill not be push
ed very rapidly, and that plenty of time
will be given the banks to make the
change. The called bonds deposited by
banks will be the last, taken up for liquida
tion, and no bank will be crippled by these
calls.
THE AUSTRALIAN WINS.
Roach and Hanlon Beet at the Race anil Have an
Unpleasant Dispute.
London, September 27—The boat race
for £100 a side between Largun and the
Australian oarsman, Meilson, took place
to-day on the Thames, the course being
from Putney to Martlake. The race was
Avon by Meilson, who finished alone.
Beach and Hanlon Avitnessed the race
from the deck of a steamer. On
meeting the champion and ex-champion
showed marked coldness, not CA’en
shaking hands. Loach said he AVeuld not
roAV in America if Hanlon offered him the
whole of America to do so. He said he
would roAV on the Parmetta, and would
lay llanlon £1009 against £800, but that lie
Avould not pav Hanlon’s traveling ex
penses. The dispute continued for some
time. Hanlon was greatly annoyed
by Beach calling him a gas bag.
A flit; lluy for the Colored Militia.
Baltimore, September 27.—This hies
been a great day among the colored militia,
the occasion being the anniversary of the
organization of the Grant Memorial Guard,
they commenced the light eight years ago
they had but eight or nine home rulers,
Avlnle, when they walked with Gladstone
to the house last March, they had 311. He
believed that if the present government
carried out Lord Carnarvon’s plan they
Avould he in power for a long time. Lord
Randolph Churchill would, he believed, be
educated to home rule, llo was a very
clever young man and a deep thinker,
although but a school boy in many of his
ways.
Mr. McCarthy spoke of the admiration
which Gladstone and Parnell had for each
other, and said that Parnell believed im
plicitly in Gladstone’s power to give the
Irish people what they sought after if ho
lii’ed.
Mr. McCarthy avus taken to the Hoff
man House, where he Avill remain during
his stay in this city.
Hanlon Chnllcuges Bench.
London, September 27.—EdAvard Han
lon has challenged William Beach to roAV
a race on the Thames for any sum up to
$25,000, and has offered to row him in
America or Australia, lfunlon to give
Bench $10,000 in the former case and Beach
to give Hanlon $10,000 in the latter. Beach
has declined all challenges.
DEATH OF B. W. FURLONG.
A Well Known Mil! Mao Ends His Life with a
post! of Lamia ii urn.
Albany (Gn.) Ne-.vi.
News reached the city yesterday morning
of the death of Mr. ii. W. Furlong at his
home at Stiff, on the Brunswick and West
ern roailroad, on Friday evening. He died
from the effects of dose of laudanum
which he took it is supposed, with suicidal
intent.
Coupled with other reports as to what
caused him to end hisoAvn life, it is rumored
that he killed a negro not many days ago
and sunk his body in the Alapaha river.
He had been on a protracted spec just be
fore his death, and had involved himself
in a good deal of trouble.
Mr. Furlong avus well known in this city
HIS FROM FOREIGN
What is Transpiring on tho Other Side of
the Waters.
Prince Alexuudrr anil th* (>.ur—Turkey Alarmed
at tlio Buro|ioan Situation -Comment ou Par
nell's Cablegram—Bail Treatateat of fatliolles
la China, Etc.
Dublin, Septeinbor 27.—The Froeman’s
Journal says that Mr. Parnell’s cablegram
to President Fitzgerald, of the Irish Na
tional League in America, is virtually an
appeal to tlio Irish at homo. ‘‘From tho
British government,” adds the paper,
“nothing can bo expected by the Irish
people, AVho may, however, nave every
thing by their own endurance, backed by
the help of their excited countrymen.
There must be no disorder, though; uo
Avild insanity; uo acts estranging tho
World’s sympathy. Where landlords givo
proofs that they arc fair-minded, let thorn
lie met by fair dealing.”
Turkey.
ANTICIPATING A GENERAL OUTBREAK.
Constantinople, Septeinbor 27.—Tur
key’s agents abroad report that the poace
of Europe is endangered by the present
temper of the English and Austrian cabi
nets against Russia. The Turkish AA’ar de
partment contemplates equipping and
drilling 60,000 Kurdish horsemen in the
same manner that tho Russian Coasaeks
nro equipped and drilled.
Grin
OPPOSED TO THE ALLIANCE.
Athens, Septombor27.—The semi-official
journals here, commenting on the state
ment that Lord Iddesleigh had been en
deavoring to bring about an approach-
ment between Servia, Bulgarin, Greece
and Turkey, say that his efforts are too
Into. The breach lictAvoen those states,
they say, lias become so Avide that no
diplomatic skill can close it. Although
Greece Avill regard with uneasiness Russia’s
presence in the Balkans, she cannot ally
hersclf with Turkey and Bulgaria without
first securing her present and future inter
ests, and that Avill be impossible while
Bulgaria is allowed to increase at tlio ex
pense of other nations and AVliilo tho
Greek claims on Turkish provinces remain
unsatisfied. If Turkey ami Bulgaria desire
an alUanco with Greece they must otter
tangible advantages.
Ex/pt.
A RUSSIAN SUBJECT’S EXPLOIT.
Cairo, September 27.—To-day M. IJkvi
se n, a Russian subject, as agent of Ismail
Pasha, tho ox-khedivu of Egypt, and
Avilh tho aid of a number or armed
Alhains, seized the Isrnalia palace,
which tho ox-klp'diva olaims as his
property. M. Luvison subsequently
withdrew from the palace at tho lustuuoo
of tho Russian consul. Sir Henry Drum
mond Wolff, the British commissioner,has
hastily returned to Cairo to investigate tho
muttor. It is understood that M. Lavl-
son’s motive was to lorco tho tribunal to
take cognizance of the ex-khedlvu’s claim.
England.
WILL NOT DENY IT.
London, September 27.—At a meeting
of the national league at Hull to-day it
was decided not to pass a resolution deny
ing the accuracy of tho letter recently pub
lished in the Eassern Morning Ncavs, in
Avhich tho Avriter informed the editor of
that paper that the town of Hull Avon to he
burned ljy tho feniaus. The opinion whs
expressed that tho letter would embitter
employes and cause the dismissal of many
Irish woikmen.
Bavaria.
THE KINO’S CONDITION WORSE.
Munich, September 27.—The condition
of King Otto is becoming worse. He re
fuses Avarm food, but devours great quanti
ties of cold viands. Often, in the middle
of the night, he talks loudly to himself
and gesticulates wildly, lie insists on re
maining in solit ude.
Italy.
UNWELCOME NEWS FROM CHINA.
Rome, September 27.- Monitour de
Rome has received letters emanating from
Christian missions in China, stating tluif
tiie Catholic seminary in that country hud
been burned by the natives and that a
thousand native Catholic adherents hud
been placed in manacles.
trying to get u pardon before I left the
penitentiary, and that he expects his par
don now as tho price of this lie. This par
don Beaton has undertaken to get for
him.
“I nover knew this fellow Nye to be
about tho morgue of the ponltentiary in
any capacity,” continued Dr. Montgomery.
“During the whole time I was connected
with the institution there were only two
or threo bodies of prisoners uncalled for
and loft to be buried by the state. These
men wore put into coffins by Yard Super
intendent Wright and burled. He knows
that they wore buried. Who were the
seven or eight persons from Nye took their
skins? Tills tale that the young governor
of Ohio iH circulating shows that he is re
duced to remarkablo extremities for cam
paign thunder.”
GEN. LOGAN AT PITTSBURG.
any.
ui ■»m,i.nuu ui nreui»,o.uuj.iuuoiiju uu and all along the line of the BrunsAvick
TlfeWashin^on'cadets'and"caDitoi U cStv I and W «tern railroad, having been en-
Guards, of Washington, and detachments B^' ed the Haw | niu business on this line
_<• .’» ..... .. „’„.i 4.u. m.L_ i of road for several vears oast.
of the Attack Guards and the Richmond
Guards, of Richmond, Va., participated.
There avus a parade through the principal
streets, in Avhich the companies presented
a fine appearance. The celebration closed
with a ball at night.
An Interesting Case.
Belvidere, N. J., September 27.—The
trial of James J. Titus, light janitor of the
Centennary Collegiate Institute of Hack-
ettstown, for the murder of Tillie Smith,
a servant girl employed in that institution,
will open here to-morrow before Chief
Justice Beasley. The case is one of un
usual interest. The murdered girl is sup
posed to have been killed in or near the
furnace room of the institute on the night
of April 8,1886. She attended a perform
ance gicen by the Fitzpatrick Merri makers.
There she met three other girls, and
through them she became acquainted
Avitii tAVo drummers, one of whom suav
of road for seA’eral years past. While he
was a very clever and companionable
gentleman, and an industrious business
man when sober, he appeared to place no
value upon his own life when ou one of
his protracted sprees, and avus generally
regarded as a reckless and dangerous man.
Washington Notes.
Washington. September 27.—Secretary
Bavard leaves Washington ut noon to-day
to lie absent about a Aveck.
The president to-day appointed Wm. U.
Allen, of South Carolina, to be United
States consul at Piedras Negros, Mexico.
Indicted for Mnnslaiiiditfr.
Buffalo, N. Y., September 27.—Con
ductor Harrison and Engineer Brewer, of
the excursion train in the collision at Sal
ver creek, haA’e both been indicted for
manslaughter by the grand jury at May
ville. They are held in $5000 bail eauh.
PRINCE ALEXANDER AND THE CZAR.
Berlin, September 27.—The North Ger
man Gazette, in an article to-day denying
that the great powers ousted Prince Alex
ander, maintains that even Russia placed
no difficulty in the way of Alexander’s re
maining at Sofia. It says the
czar’s personal aversion for
Alexander is no new thing. For
the past five or six years the prince
believed himself able to bear Russia’s
wrath without prejudice to the interests
of Bulgaria. Therefore it behooves the
newspapers which are favorable to Alex
ander to explain the real motives of his
abdication. If the newspapers fail to offer
an explanation, the German and Austrian
parliaments must do so.
OHIO’S CHIEF CRANK.
Ilonoaiiroil as a l.lor by Hr. Montgomery.
B’r. Louis, Mo., September 26.--The
Globe-Democrat publishes this morning a
column report by telegraph of a speech
made by Governor Foraker at Columbus,
in which the governor tells a blood-cur
dling story of the atrocities perpetrated
upon convicts in the state prison by its
democratic officials. In this speech Gov
ernor Foraker introduced as the
foundation for his charges the
affidavit of a prisoner, F. W.
Nye, taken before Notary Public George
A. Beaton, ( f Franklin county. This ofli-
davit alleged that Nye had been employed
by Dr. C. II. Montgomery and
W. W. Homes, the peniten
tiary physician nr.d his assistant, to
carry the bodies of convicts who had died
in tlio hospital to the morgue, where, un
der their instructions, he skinned them.
These skins he was afterward obliged by
the physicians to tan and make into walk
ing canes, the strips of human skin alter
nating Avith calfskin upon the stick. As
an instance illustrating the Inhumanity of
Dr. Montgomery, Nye added in his affi
davit that several times while standing at
the bedside of dying prisoners the physi
cian would turn to him Avith the remark:
“I guess he would make a good stick.”
Dr. Montgomery, who is accused of this
barbarity, lives in .St. Louis nt No.
3129 Olive street, and lie was visited to
day by a correspondent and asked if he
wished to present a statement to the pub
lic regarding the story. “I wish to take
enough notice of the Nye affidavit to say
it is a lie from beginning to end,” he re
plied. “Nye is serving a fifteen-years’ sen
tence in the penitentiary for stealing
horses, and in the institution he is notori
ously a liar. Governor Foraker and George
Beaton both know that the affidavit is a
lie. George Beaton knows that Nye Avas
Substance of Ills Speech— Upon In g of tlio llcpulili-
I'ait Campaign.
l’lTTSBURO, September 27.—The republi
cans opened the gubernatorial campaign
hero Saturday night with n torchlight
parade, and un immense mass meeting at
Music Hall. Among those who addressed
the meeting were Gen: Beaver, candidate
forigovernon Gen. Osborne and Gen. John
A. Logan. The latter did not arrive until
9:20 p. m., and at 10 o’clock was introduced
to tho audience by President Wm. Metcalf,
the steel manufacturer of this city.
He said that but one measure enacted in
accordauco with the financial policy of tho
democratic party before the war remains
ou the statute books and that is the inde
pendent treasury system. The defeat of
the republican party he attributed to the
desire of many voters for a change of ad
ministration that it might be seen whether
the charge of delinquency in the conduct
of tiie government’s affairs was true or not,
and the democratic party, after a most
minute and painstaking examination, had
been forced to admit, he claimed,
that the record of the republi
can narty, for purity and official in
tegrity, is the marvel of the Avorld.
The republican party has established a
system of currency Avhich avoided all the
evils experienced under tho democratic
theory. He claimed that the democratic
party is ready at all timas to seize upon
ail v quack system of finances for the pay
ment of the national debt that promises
destruction to our credit and our honor in
the future. Gen. Logan then entered into
a resume of the history of tho tariff and
indulged iu the usual display of figures to
prove that oil the progress made in ma
terial wealth since 1860 is due to the tariff
and tho republican party. He asserted
that the democrats ignorantly confound
our eommoroe with our carrying trade
and havo provod their inability to
increase that trade; that one of the
first acts of tho democratic administration
was to crush the first man who made it
possible for American shipping to compete
with tho world, and that a democratic
postmaster-general impudently refused to
pay the mail subsidy voted by congress for
tho transportation of mails in American
vessels and allowed our mails to be carried
in foreign bottoms. Ho asked what evi
dence of economy tho democratic party
has shewn and what abuses it had cor
rected. Thu administration, he said, had
failed to hIiow any nerve in demanding
the rights of American citizens in foreign
lauds. The refusal of the administration
to approve bills passed for tho relief of A’et-
jviins was dwelt upon at some length.
PRINTER BENEDICT'S AX,
l -—
11 Decapitates Oil" IIunilred mill Fifty Employe*
»l Ono Foil Snoop.
I Washington, September 27. — Public
I Printer Benedict has been but two weeks
in office, yet he made the fact known in a
I very unexpected manner that there had
been a change. The entire night force ill
the press room, eighty employes in the
bindery, and six clerks, making about 150
I all told, were dismissed. Each employe
! drooped avos informed by circular or letter
' of the reasons of dismissal in the following
! language: “On account of the insufficiency
of the upnropriation to meet the expenses
of this office up to December 31 next upon
the scale of expenditure required by the
present force, and believing that I can dis
pense Avitii your services Avitboutscrious in
terruption to the necessary Avork in hand,
you are hereby informed that your services
■.'. ill not be required in your present posi
tion after this date. Tne cashier will pay
you any balance due on account of your
salary at your convenience.” The fact
Unit some reduction would haA'e to be
made was announced when Mr. Rounds
went out and Mr. Benedict came in, but it
was scarcely believed to lie possible for a
new man to become familiar enough with
tho force in two weeks to get up a digested
list of 150 persons unnecessary to the serv
ice. A great many of t be persons who re
ceived the circulars are complaining be
cause they appear to have been insulted as
well as deprived of employment, while
others, more generous in their expressions,
attribute the awkward language of the dis
missal notes to a luck of skill in composi
tion, rather than a purpose to offend.
Noinimitoil for Congress.
New Orleans, September 27.—The re
publicans of the second district to-day
nominated Major AndreAV Hero for con
gress. Major Hero is a prominent notary
of this city. He served through the Avar
in the Washington Artillery in the army
of northern Virginia, and is noAV major of
that organization.
Mem Dins, September 27.—The republi
can convention of this (tenth) district to
day nominated lion. Zaeh. Taylor for re-
election to congress.
Di'ftlh of ii I'roio I ill'll t Negro.
Montgomery, Ala., September 27.—
George W. Washington, one of the best
known colored republican leaders in Ala
bama, died to-day at his home in this city.
Ho was one of the “306” who voted for
Grant utChieugo and had one of the Grant
medals.
A Disabled Steamer.
London, September 27.—The steamer
Persian Monarch, from London, Septem
ber 25, for New York, has arrived at Havre
with her plates broken, having been in a
collision.
Anotlmr Strike.
New York, September 27.—The strike
of the employes ot the Mount Vernon and
East Chester Surface railroad took place
this morning in consequence of a re
duction of Avages from $2 to $1.50 per day
for fifteen hours.
Tlio Augusta Factory.
Augusta, Ga., September 27.—There are
uoav fifty operatives, working at the
Augusta factory. The hands from Patter
son, N. J., Avho came here to AA'ork will re
turn home.
So lliii’i' Yesterday.
Marblehead, Mass., September 26.
; There is no possible chance for a race be-
tAvecn the Galatea and the Mayflower to
day. The weather is flat and calm and a
j dense fog hangs over the bay.
Di'iith of All Author.
Winchester, Va., September 27.—John
Esten Cook, the author, died at his resi
dence in Clark county to-day.
