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00LUMBU8, GEORGIA: .MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 9 1888.
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THE PROGRAMME FOR THE WEEK IN
ROUSE AND SENATE.
No Prospect of a Break in the Boon Dead
lock—The Weather Crop Bulletin.
The Situation In Germany,
labor Affair i, Etc.
Washington, April 8.—The senate will
probably take up the South Dakota bill to
morrow at 2 o’clock and will try to dispose
of it by Wednesday night. The bill to
tabllah a bureau of animal industry is
made the special order for Thursday, hay
ing been already considered exhaustively
in committee of the whole and referred
back to the committee on agriculture for
the purpose of having its various amend
ments reviewed and assimilated before
final action. When these two measures
are disposed of, Mr. Sherman’s bill author
izing the secretary of the treasury to invest
in government bonds eighty per cent of
the fund held for redemption of notes of
national banks foiled in liquidation or re
ducing cnrrency will be taken up.
These three measures have been
accorded the right of way by
the caucus committee. The Freedman’s
bank bill is unfinished business for the
morning hours, and the Blair confederate
preference bill, which awaits the formality
of a second hearing, is in position to come
up at any odd moment, with the prospect
as to its fate as uncertain as the time of its
appearance, or the direction and length of
its debate. There is a possibility that the
fisheries treaty may command attention in
executive session this week, and a
probability that the nomination of Consul-
Oeneral Radburner of Paris, will do so.
This matter has borrowed interest in its
possible bearing upon the open executive
session question.
The calendar of the house shows that all
of the working days of next week have
been parcelled out among the committees
on the Pacific railroads, territories, foreign
affairs, pabllc lands and agri
culture, for action unpon measures
reported by them; but the actual disposi
tion of time is likely to be very different.
Judging from the proceedings of the past
week, the legislative week will open with
the house constructively in the legislative
day of Wedneaday, April 4. Mr. Taylor’s
proposition to go into committee of the
whole on the direct tax bill will probably
meet with approval, and for a day
or two fictitious progress will
be made. When the phase is reached
where a motion to order the previous
question is in order, if any regard is had
for the sentiment expressed by the oppo
nents of the tax bill, it will soon become
apparent that the conclusion is as far off
as on last Tuesday morning, wh6n the bill
was first called up, and roll call will follow
roll call with a monotony which charac
terized last week’s proceedings. A faint
hope Is felt that the appropria
tions committee will be able
to break the dead-lock by securing
the consideration of one of the appropria
tions bills now on the calendar, but the
republican members profess to be willing
to antagonise any snch effort, and they
undoubtedly have it in their power to do
bo successfully.
formalities st the grave. His text is found
in L Corinthians, second chapter, eighth
verse. It is believed that he is crazy, and
did this for no purpose but to obtain news
paper notoriety. Your correspondent will
be more elaborate in to-morrow’s issue. It
is impossible to obtain an accurate report
at present. Five thousand people wit
nessed the ceremonies, which were con
ducted with great solemnity.
The Weather Crop Bulletin.
Washington, April 8.—The weather
crop bulletin issued by the signal office
says: There has been less rain than usual
from the gulf states northward to
the lake region, but the deficit
is slight, amounting generally to lest than
15 per cent of the usual amount, and dur
ing the past lour weeks there has been.an
excess of rainfall in the winter wheat
states in the east, a portion of the cotton
region, and on the Atlantic coast from
Georgia to New England. The weather
for the week has been favorable for grow
ing crops in all agricultural districts. In
the southern states, it is generally
reported as the most favorable
week of the season, and farm work is
progressing rapidly in the central Atlantic
and middle Atlantic states.
No Change in the Situation.
THE BURLINGTON TROUBLE.
The Strikers Hold a Meeting and Adopt a
Series of Resolutions.
New York, April 8.—Members of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
and Locomotive Firemen to the number
of 1500 met at Tammany ball to-day, and
again discussed and resoluted about the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy strike.
J. J. Haraban, vice-grand master of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, and
Joseph Porter of the Chicago, Barling ton
and Quincy system, addressed the meet
ing, and told what they had seen and
on a recent trip over the Chicago, Bur
lington and Quincy system from Chicago
to Denver, and Mr. Porter denounced
what he termed “a wanton destruction of
life and property and damage to busi
ness interests, which have occurred
since th9 beginning of the *'Q” strike.”
He laid the blame for this destruction and
damage upon the management ot the road,
and declared that the resulting loss already
amounted to millions of dollars. Among
other things, he declared that already 157
engines had been disabled through the
incapability of “scab” engineers, and it
was not true that the road was now doing
30 per cent of its usual business. The
Chicago newspapers suppressed the facts
of the case, and only published care folly
selected accounts of the strike. Along the
line of the “Q” the papers were controlled
by the “Q” management, which exer
cised careful censorship over all strike
news. Remarks were also made
by leading members of the
eastern d ! visions of the brotherhood
of engineers and firemen, of which twen
ty-five and twenty-two were respectively
represented. The meeting unanimously
adopted these resolutions:
Resolved, 1. That the accounts of the
Cnicago strikers, acts of violence excepted,
are hereby endorsed and approved, and
that it is the opinion of the delegates
herein assembled that if the suggestions
contained in the resolutions passed in this
hall on March 4 had been carried out as
advised, the strike would have been set
tled in leas than three days alter said
propositions were declared to the parties
concerned.
2. That our pledge of financial and moral
support to our striking brothers of the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad
is hereby renewed, and will be continued
as long as necessary.
3. That although our brothers in the
west may not succeed in obtaining all
they desire, we consider the principle
violated worth a thousand times more
to us than it has, or will cost the brother
hood.
4. That the fight on the “Q” system has
not in the slightest degree impaired the
power and usefulness of the brotherhood,
and that to-day they are stronger and bet
ter prepared to maintain their positions
than ever before.
5. That we fovor conservatism when it is
adequate to the end in view, but when
dealing with radicalism and aggression we
do not feel bound to be more conservative
than our opponents.
6. That reports that our grand chief
would advise us that he would tender his
resignation if he failed to gain a victory on
the “Q” is hereby denounced as false and
without foundation.
7. That the egotistical, conceited and
mugwumpian utterances of the chief
secretary of the Order of Railway Conduc
tors, regarding the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers, does not express the
sentiments of a majority of the railway
conductors towards our organization, and
that his statement that most of the con
ductors were competent engineers, is well
THE LAND OF FLOWERS.
A COLUMBUS YOUNG LADY WRITES
ABOUT FLORIDA.
Her Trip Down the River—A Short Slop
at the Chautauqua—Delighted With
Pensacola and Its Progress.
Gathering Up Shells.
The Enquikeb-8cn is permitted to
publish the following interesting letter
from a Columbus lady, who is now visiting
Florida:
Pensacola, Fla., April 5.—My Dear
Friends at Home: Measured by what
have seen, it has been an age since I told
you good-bye. Estimating the time by the
pleasure I have experienced, all seems but
a brief dream since the Fannie Fearn bore
me from the home shores. New scenes
have crowded upon me too rapidly to ad
mit in my brief meesage heretofore any
thing like a description of the interesting
places I have visited and the atlrative peo
ple I have met.
I will pass over the river—I mean down
the river—eo familiar to you, and not
dwell for a moment upon the uninviting,
bat fortunately brief stay at Chattahoo
chee, known as River Junction.
Leaving that point at forty miles an
hour, over the P. and A. railroad, I liter
ally rushed into the midst oi Florida’s
Chautauqua at DeFuniak springs. It our
people only appreciated what I saw and
heard there, hundreds would join the
thousands from other sections, who
already make their annual pilgrimage to
this wonderful exposition of the Chau
tauqua idea, where every hour of the day
is filled with music, art, literature, science,
and moral work, accompanied by kinder
garten and normal school training in
physical culture, wood carving, etc.
The most enjoyable, and I may say, in
structive feature of my visit to Chau
tauqua, was meeting, socially, the most
noted literary characters of the country at
the table of my host.
These annual assemblies, or the charm
ing climate, or the location—300 feet above
the sea—or the life-giving waters, or per
chance some other cause unknown to me,
has built amidst the pine woods on the
banks of the lakelet a charming little city,
where five years ago the fleet-footed deer
came to lap the pure waters, and the bear
roamed unmolested.
Presto, a change. Dining at DeFuniak
on the closing day of the assembly, imag
ine the transition which could find me
safely ensconced in the Pensacola home of
my host the same night, where grateful
sleep came even without the lullaby of the
surf on Santa Rosa island. This city is not
entirely strange to a Columbusite.
Over forty years ago came
the Abercrombies, whose chil
dren and grand-children are amoDg
The prominent people of this city, and
just after the war quite a colony of Colum
bus people settled here, and although few
are left, those who are gone are well re
membered. The present mayor, one of
the most influential men in the city, for
merly resided in Columbus.
I will tell you later of my visits to other
places, and only refer to them now to say
that of all the cities of Florida, none can
surpass Pensacola.
My first day was spent on the beautiful
bay, and its delight will never be forgot
ten.
Leaving my friend’s residence on what
is called West hill, rising nearly 100 feet
above tide water, I rode down Palafox
street charmed and astonished. The first
public building is the commodious Conti
nental hotel, charmingly situated amidst
the grand old live oaks. Next the hand
some court house, Queen Anne style, in
rear of which is the Presbyterian church,
nearing completion. Immediately
opposite is the new and ele
gant Catholic church, one block
above is the Methodist church, in the rear
of which is located the Lutheran place of
worship. Nearer the bay and opposite the
plaza of Ferdinand VII. rises the impos-
have met here; of my drives sad home-
back rides; of the flowers and the trees; of
the sea breeze; the roar of the surf, and
other things, many novel and all dellght-
fo] to me, but I most postpone them all
for another letter, in which I will tell you
of my trip to east Florida. Minnie T.
FROM FOREIGN SHORES.
News of the Day From Aeres* the Deep
Blee See.
Berlin, April 8.—No change is reported
in the emperor’s condition to-day. Dr.
Mackenzie postponed his departure for
London, by special request, until Queen
Victoria arrives in Berlin.
The conflict between the emperor and
Prince Bismarck, over the proposed mar
riage of Princess Victoria to Prince Alex
ander, has ceased for the present. Nego
tiations on the subject are passing between
Emperor Frederick and Hie czar.
It is confirmed hi ministerial circles that
the crisis terminated Friday. The Cologne
GaeetXe says that the matter was settled,
as Prince Bismarck desired the semPoffioial
organ to remain either silent on the sub
ject or simply state that the crisis con
tinues, the marriage project not being
abandoned. In liberal drdaa Prince von
Hoheniohe is spoken of as the successor of
Prince Bismarck.
The emperor.; attended services in the
chapel to-day. He looked well and
coughed but little. He walked in the park
in the morning and drove with the empress
in the afternoon in the direction of
Spanedua. Later he received M. Herbett,
the French ambassador.
Calcutta, April 8.—A severe tornado
has done great damage in the native quar
ter of Dacia. Nineteen persons were re
ported killed. The European quarter es
caped.
THEY LACK A LEADER.
THE REPUBLICANS HAVE NO MAN FIT
TO GO IN FRONT.
John Sherman a Man to Be Avoided—He
Has Bnt Little Chance—Blaine Still
In the Field—Cleveland and
the Augusta Chronicle.
Affhirs in France.
Paris, April 8.—A tumultuous meeting,
attended by 2500 electors, was held at
Valencienese to-day. LaGuerre was
frequently interrupted, and Fouchard was
unable to obtain a hearing. The meeting
terminated in disorder, and the crowd fol
lowed Laguerre to his hotel, shouting
“Vive Boulanger!” Domain is elected in
the Aisne district. Boulanger’s return for
Dordogne is assured. Ferroole is returned
from the Ande district, receiving 21,515
votes. In this district, Boulanger received
7151 votes, although he was not nominated.
How It Will be Settled.
London, April 8.—A recent dispatch
to the Standard from Tangier says: A
treaty has been signed whereby the sultan
agrees to leave the dispute between the
United States and Morocco to the decision
of a Moorish representative and the
American consul. If they fail to agree, a
European referee Is to be nominated,
whose decision shall be final.
Trouble in Ireland.
Kilrush, April 8.—Saturday night some
policemen who were trying to prevent the
erection of a platform for a meeting an
nounced to be held to-day were pelted
with stones by a mob, and were compelled
to charge the crowd. Many civilians were
badly injured. Tanner, member of par
liament, held a meeting outside Marcrome
at 5 o’clock this morning. He then
burned a copy of the government
proclamation. At 2 p. m., the advertised
hour, he attempted to hold another meet
ing, when the police removed him from
the ground. There was only slight excite
ment. About 6000 persons belonging to
various league branches of Kilrush assem
bled at 2:30 p. m. There was a large con
tingent of horseback police, led by Magis
trates Welch and Irwin, who charged the
crowd, injuring many. A number of
proclamations were torn down. Father
Glynn of Kilmihill, was attacked by two
policemen with rifles. The former felled
one policeman to the ground with a black
thorn stick. A riot being imminent, the
Berkshire regiment, with fifty bayo
nets, led by Capt. Lynch, charged
the crowd, and many persons were
badly wounded. Order was somewhat re-
Washinqton, April 6.—[From our Spe
cial Correspondent.]—The republicans are
at sea as to their presidential candidate.
There seemingly is no one man in all their
party of sufficient prominence and popu
larity to step in and fill the void left by
Blaine’s supposed retirement. In this
emergency they have had recourse to the
“favorite son” expedient, and there are
now about as many applicants for the un
promising nomination, with a more or less
solid state backing, as there are states in
the republican sections of the country.
Of all this list of anxious and expectant
patriots, John Sherman seems to be the
most eager and untiring. He is working
his political crop on the forcing plan, and
is leaving untried no device which an un-
scrnpulous cunning could suggest, to win
the prize. I notioed him, one day this
week, shaking hands with a lot of the
faithfol in the senate lobby, and trying to
beam forth on them from his snaky eyes.
I do not know what effect the forked ex
pression of the fellow had upon the loyal
gang that he had in tow, bnt I must con
fess to feelings of revulsion at the sight of
the utter unscrupulousness that is indeli
bly written in his countenance.
If nature never lies, John
Sherman is a man to be avoided.
This is evidently the opinion entertained
of him by his own people in Ohio; ior
while they send out half-hearted delega
tions in his interest, every four years, it
seems to be with a sort of well understood
reservation that nothing is to come of it.
Even now, in spite of the seeming unani
mity of Ohio republicans in his interest,
he is afraid to allow an Ohio man to pre
sent his name to the convention, lest the
old Garfield act of treachery be repeated.
He isn’t making any headway at all out
side of Ohio, except in the southern states,
where he is said to be in che market buy
ing up convention cattle at so much a
head, or so little, as the case may be. It
is gratifying to feel assured that he stands
little chance, if any, of securing the nomi
nation.
Bnt in the midst of all the little booms
and boomlets, it is apparent to close ob
servers that Blaine is still In the field,
with or without his consent, and that he
will be the nominee of the Chicago con
vention. He is the strongest man whom
the republicans could nominate, and is the
unquestioned choice of the rank and file of
that party. The recent convention in
Vermont gave an indication of
this by selecting Blaine dele
gates to the Chicago convention.
Other states which are not engaged
in having a little fon with “favorite son”
booms will follow salt; and the outcome
of it all will be that the Mailt* jinn will
lead the forlorn hope again*’. *5- .yeland.
It is noticeable that, in the Vermont con
vention, Edmunds, who is i>PteT’y an
tagonistic to Blaine, was dul; uarily
squelched.
There is a reason in the general drift of
northern and eastern republicans to Blaine,
outside of the mere consideration of his
personal popularity with his party. It is
afoot, recognized by every intelligent man,
that the tariff question will be the great
issue in the coming presidential contest.
Mr. Cleveland has settled the democratic
position in the fight beyond the desire or
the possibility of recall, and as Blaine
represents in himself and in his record
more folly than any other man—Sam Ran
dall himself not excepted—the opposing
position, it is not only the most natural,
but it is the only natural, condition of
affairs that these two men should be ar
rayed against each other. It will give the
make snch a surrender, is the only argu
ment by which the impudent suggestion is
sought to be enforced.
I did not see tbe editorial fo.'mination in
the Chronicle. I saw it in the Philadel
phia Press, a rabid republican organ. It
had found its way into congenial com
pany. The Press accompanies the publi
cation with a congratulatory editorial, in
which it makes the most of the assertion
that a division is son to remit in the here
tofore solid democratic states if G’eveland
should be re-nominated on a tariff reform
platform. It is plain from all this that
the RandalUtea intend to make a fight in
the coming state convention, to force an
acceptance of their views of the tariff by
the majority, under the threat of party de
feat as tbe alternative of refusal. It re
mains to be seen whether tbe democratic
majority in Georgia is so cowardly and un
principled as to surrender their convictions
of right and duty at the demand of a mere
handful of political adventurers, who re
pudiate all idea of harmony, except
upon their own terms—terms, the accept
ance of which, by the St. Louis conven
tion, would amount to a repudiation of
Cleveland and an insistence on his with
drawal. It is well enough to have this
fully understood, so that, if tbe Georgia
convention should resolve to endorse Ran-
dallism in order to prevent threatened
Randallite desertion, it will do so with its
eyes fully open to the consequences.
The resolutions of the Houston county
democrats are on the right line, and con
stitute the only just, manly and honorable
answer to the threat of the Randall organ.
It is the duty of j»very democratic county
convention in tne state to pass similar
resolutions; and, if there are any people in
the state to whom they are distastefol
they have a remedy. This is a free coun
try, and there is' no. law to constrain a
man’s vote. Mr. Cleveland will not be the
only presidential nominee this year.
There will be a candidate on a high tariff
platform; and it will be both the privilege
and the duty of those Who believe a high
tariff best for the interests of the country
to support him. Bht the protectionists
will not be allowed to control both con
ventions. S. L.
HON. POPE BARROW.
AN INTERVIEW WITH HIM ON^XIST-
ING TARIFF LAWS.
\
Protection Based on a Vicious Principle.
Oppressive to Both Farmers and
Manufacturers in Use South.
The Internal Revenue.
known to be absolutely false and idiotic. ! in*. and I may well say magnificent
8. That the twin brotherhoods of engi- j public building,
neer* and firemen, will be honored and re- i You will be able to form some idea of
Washington, April 8.—There ha's been I 8 Pected throughout the laud, loDg after 1 Pensacola’s progress when I tell you ail
no change in the situation with respect to
tbe direct tax bill. No conferences look
ing te a settlement have taken place be
tween the opposing parties. The leaders
of both sides have, of course, consulted
their followers in order to ascertain
whether there has been any accessions to
their ranks or not, but beyond this nothing
has been done. It is probably tbpt a state
ment will be made in the house to-morrow
in answer to Representative Taylor’s
proposition imade just before recess was
taken yesterday. This statement will give
tbe ground on which the minority justify
their course and will refuse concur
rence in Mr. Taylor’s suggestions.
Tbe minority claim that they are as strong
now as when the filibustering began.Every-
thing points to a dead-lock that will be
historic in future annals of congress.
Mills Hunting Health.
Washington, April 8.—Representative
Mills has gone to Fortress Monroe and Old
Point Comfort for a few days, to recuper
ate his health.
Cross and White.
Washington, April 8.—United States
District Attorney Busbee and Chief of
Police Heartt of Raleigh, North Carolina,
arrived in the eity this morning with
Cross and White, the Raleigh bank de
faulters. They left on a later train for
Weldon.
Sharp’s Remains Interred.
New York, April 8.—The remains of
Jacop Sharp, over which the funeral ser
vices were held last evening, were buried
to-day in Greenwood cemetery. A hearse,
followed by seven .carriages, drove np to
his late residence before 8 o’clock this
morning. The casket was borne from tbe
house to the hearse. One of the carriages
was filled with floral tributes, and his
widow, his grand-eon, daughters and other
relatives, and a few very intimate friends,
seated themselves in the other carriages
and were driven to the cemetery through
the almost deserted streets. The early
hour at which the burial took plaqe was
chosen to avoid the attention of the curi
ous public.
He is Dead.
Charleston, a C., April 8.—Hon. L.G.
Clemson, son-in-law of John C. Calhoun,
died yesterday at Fort Mali, South Caro
lina. Mr. Clemson was onoe charge
d'affairs at Brussels. He was eighty-one
yews old, and for the last fifteen years had
lived the life of a hermit.
The Freak of a Crazy Preacher.
Athens, Go., April 8.—Special- Rev.
Dr. Pridgeon, aged eighty-four years,
preached his own funeral sermon near
here to-day, having a home-made coffin
before him in which he intends being
buried, besides going through tbe usual
the names of its present enemies shall
cease to be mentioned, except as a re
proach.
GOLD FOR THE PICKING.
Extensive Vein* of Marvelous Richness in
Lower California.
San Diego, Cal., April 6.—There is
great excitement in this city, over reports
of rich gold discoveries in Lower Cali
fornia. Prospecting parties have been
fitted out and gone to the scene.
An expert who has been in the San
Rafael valley, states that in traveling over
the Sierra Mad re mountains he discovered
a tract thirty miles long and twenty miles
wide, which formed one large body of
mineral ground.
He claims that there are hundreds of
veins, averaging from three to thirty feet
in width, principally composed of tree
gold in white quartz, which is easily
worked, and assays from |800 to |2200 per
ton.
A Suudny Game of Base Ball.
New Yore, April 8.—Both the Newark
and Jersy City base ball clubs went to
Ridgewood park, in Brooklyn, to-day, to
play tbe Brooklyn clnb. The home clnb
chose to play with the Newark players,
and Jersey City had to pay their way in.
At this, Manager Powers waxed wroth,
but his demand for “play or pay” (the f200
guarantee) was met by a point blank re
fusal by Brooklyn. Equally vain was the
Jersy City’s appeals to Newark not to play
with the Brooklyns. Some 5000 people
saw the game in which the home club
would have been beaten if the visitors had
not let it go four runs in the fifth inning,
through getting rattled. Score: Brook
lyn 5, Newark 4; base hits, Newark 4,
Brooklyn 6; errors, Newark 6, Brooklyn 7.
Committed Suicide.
New York, April 8.—Francis M. Pitt
man, the murderer of his daughter, Rachel,
who was under aentenoe of life imprison
ment for thd crime, and who has been suf
fering from the effect of a dose of opium
taken Saturday morning, died to-day.
Base Ball.
Columbus, O., April 8.—Cleveland, P,
Wheeling, 3.
Louisville, April 8.—Louisville, 8; St.
Paul, 3.
The River Stm Rising.
Des Moines, la., April 8.—The Dee
Moines river at this point is higher now
than it has been for seven years, and is
still rising.
The Chicago Way.
An Englishman who has been visiting
Chicago, says that when the citizens of
that eity fcel bine they go out to the stock
yards and slaughter houses to get cheered
np.—New York Tribune.
these buildings have been constructed in
I the past fonr years.
| Leaving his majesty’s plaza a few more
blocks brings us to the bay, where we em
barked for the navy yard, Fort Pickens
and Barrancas and the lile-saving station
on Santa Sosa island.
What she saw, the pleasure she expe
rienced and the impressions made—upon
the mind of the Chattahoochee river girl
by her first sail over Pensacola bay and her
first view of the ever rolling waters of the
Gulf of Mexico—would fill a book. As a
friend of mine suggests, I spent three de-
lightfol weeks that day. Everything was
bright, beautifol and novel to
me. The navy yard was fall of
interest, here first my shoes were filled
with Pensacola sand which, according to
the tradition of these clever people is an
omen that I shall some day return to this
genial clime. So may it be. Fort Barran
cas is even more interesting than the navy
yard, and here was located the first Pen
sacola, nearly 300 years ago. Here is to be
found the remains of Fort San Carlos,
nearly two centuries old. Pensacola was
removed from this point to the present
site of Fort Pickens, the next point of in
terest visited. Here we found Natchez,
Geronimo and Mangas with their Apache
braves, squaws and papooses, all of whom
were curious enough and well worth a
visit. But the noble red man of whom
we read is, in my opinion, a myth.
The loveliest event of this red-letter day
was the visit to the life-saving station. I
will not dwell upon snch a material event
as the fact, we had luncheon at this
point, for a ham sandwich was not
to be thought of as we looked
out upon the ever moving waters
of this inland sea. On the horizon, as it
appears, we canght sight of a ship under
full sail, the loveliest sight I ever wit
nessed, in tbe shadow of which the
Thronateeaka and other fancies of my
youth will ever sink into insignificance.
The surf admits of no description; it must
be seen, in order that the mingled blue
and green, the rolling, rushing, murmur
ing, white-capped waters may be appre
ciated. Was there ever a child, old enough
to read, who has not been entranoed by
that familiar song, “Gathering up the
shells from the sea shore,” and this priv
ilege has been mine upon the snow white
beach of Santa Rosa Island. I might toll
you of other trips on the bay, and of the
strange people from all parts of the world
in this oosmopolitan plaoe, and of the for
ests of masts, which over a hundred
ocean-going vessels send towering above
the blue borders of the bay; of the flags of
all nations, which float at the »■—»-
of different vemela; at the qnaear looking
In tbe 'old Spanish ’ part
stored on the crowd being appealed to by j so-called democratic protectionists and the
the priests and Messrs. Redmond and so-called republican “free traders” oppor-
Crilly, members of parliament, Mr. Red- | tunities which, it is to be hoped, they will
of the city; of the hospitable ^people I
mond then attempted to organize tbe
meeting which bad been heretofore an'
nounced, but was prevented by Magistrate
Irwin. Redmond protested that the gov
ernment’s action in proclaiming the meet
ing was illegal, and together with the
priests, advised tbe multitude to disperse.
Messrs. David, O’Connor, Rev. Mr.
Corry, and other league leaders, left Car-
mody’s hotel in Ennis at 2 o’clock in the
afternoon and drove ten miles into the
country, followed by eighty hussars
under Col. Turner. By a precon
certed arrangement Mr. Cordon,
member of parliament, remained in
town to hold a proposed meeting in an
unoccupied corn store. This programme
leaked out, and a cordon of soldiers was
placed aronnd the building. The doors of
the building had been barred, bnt soon
gave way to sledge hammers in the hands
of the police. This aroused desperate re
sistance on the part of the people present,
and many were injured, including a re
porter of the Irish Times. Fifty persons
were arrested, among them Mr. Dunleary,
editor ot the Clara Independence, hr.
Halfin, poor law guardian, and Patrick
Carmody, relieving officer. Rain is falling
in torrents. Cavalry and infantry are pat-
roling the town.
The men arrested were afterward re
leased.
To be Expelled.
Odessa, April a—It is officially an
nounced that all foreign Jews in this city,
numbering 10,000 families, chiefly natives
of Austria and Ronmania, will be expelled
shortly.
A Famous Horse Dead*
Elmira, N. Y., April 8—The fomons
breeding stallion. Wood’s Hambletonian,
owned by Joseph Wood of Knoxville,
Pennsylvania, is dead, aged thirty years.
He was the son of Alexander’s Abdallah,
brother of Goldsmith Maid, Major Ed sail
and others, and was the sire of many fast
horses. There were eighteen of his get in
the 2.40 list, including the fostestytwo year-
old this side of California, Mamie Woods,
owned by Congressman Flood of this city.
Conkllng’s Condition.
New York, April 8.—Roecoe Conkling
is reported to be resting comfortably to
day, and to be Improving steadily.
One Negro Cate Another.
Hurtsboro, Ala., April 8. — Special:
This afternoon about 4 o’clock, Freeman
Dawson seriously cat Frank Battle in
three plaoee—the side, arm and thigh. All
are regarded as dangerous. Dr. Paschal
ligatured the arteriesAnd sewed up the ter
rible gashes. The difficulty is reported to
have originated over a game of cards.
Freeman his left. Both are negroes.
Death of Lilian Scott.
New York, April 8.—Lilian Soott, the
well known actress, died at the West
minster hotel at 10 o’clock this morning of
inflammation of the bowels.
improve. In the struggle which will fol
low the planting of the two stand
ards, there will be no reason
wby every man should not
have the courage and the honesty to align
himself, according to his convictions.
The indications point more strongly
than ever to the nomination of Cleveland
by acclamation. In Oregon, where it was
thought tree wool would be more than the
democrats would stand—to use the vocabu
lary of the assistant republicans — Mr.
Cleveland bas been enthusiastically en
dorsed, tariff policy and all; and this, no
doubt, seta the foshion for the rest of the
Pacific states. In Pennsylvania, down to
this writing, all of the county conventions
have repudiated Randoilism, and declared
for Cleveland and his tariff policy. There
is no question now that the dr legation
from that quondam stronghold of protec
tion, will be for Cleveland on a tariff re
form platform—as bold and outspoken ao
the one on which Tilden was elected in
1876. Randall has lost his grip in Pennsyl
vania, and he has made no reputable gains
anywhere. The few and uncertain Geor
gia accessions to him, are not of a sort to
contribute to his happiness now, or his
hopefulness hereafter. They cannot off
set the defection of a half dozen ward poli
ticians in Philadelphia. Properly speak
ing, they belong to what may be appro
priately termed the “dead-oyster dispensa
tion.” Those who object to that characteri
zation, are at liberty to get one of their
own.
But balancing gains with losses it is evi
dent that Cleveland has grown more with
his party within the past four months than
in all the previous time since his election.
This fact is to be attributed to his tariff
meesage. It made his re-nomination not
only a certainty, bnt a necessity. From
the day in which that message was given
to congress, Randallism in the democratic
party was doomed. It is evidently true,
however, that, in Georgia at least, it
doesn’t intend to succumb without a strug
gle—even if it should not go the foil length
of actually and folly incorporating itself
with republicanism.
This alternative- suggestion naturally
springs up after reading an editorial from
a late issue of the Augusta Chronicle, in
which it is easy to read between the lines
that that paper does not intend to support
Cleveland on a platform based on his tariff
message. It takes the position that the
democrats will lose the presidency unless
they are united, and has the impudent ef
frontery to suggest that the necessary har
mony can be secured only on some other
tariff basis—presumably that offered by
Randall. It is anxious for demo
crats to harmonize their dif
ferences by the majority surrendering
their convictions of right and duty to the
minority, and it doesn’t propose to har
monize in any other way. The threat of
party defeat in the event of a refusal to
A YOUNG HEIRESS.
Little May Sharpless and Her Small Army
of I>olls.
The richest child in America has just
gone to Florida with her mother for a few
weeks. May Sharpless is her name and
she is nine years old. Her closest rival is
Jay Kingdon Gould, the son of Mr: and
Mrs. George Gould and tbe grand-son of
Jay Gould. YouDg Jay may be richer
than May after awhile, but just at present
he is not. May Sharpless is estimated to
be worth |9,000,000 in her own name
and right. Her guardian is ex-Gov.
Leon Abbott of New Jersey. Even
ber guardian finds it hard work to
keep track of all the wealth that flows
into pretty little May’s ooffers. Before
she is of age, if nothing happens, she will
be enormously wealthy, ana the man who
secures her heart will become the husband
of probably the richest woman on the
continent ten years hence.
May Sharpless is the daughter of a mem
ber of the famous dry goods house of
Arnold, Constable & Co. Sharpless was
the resident member of the firm in Paris,
where he died. His daughter was born
abroad. She is as bright as 8 be is rich.
Sue speaks French and English fluently,
and is rapidly acquiring a thor
ough knowledge of German. She learns
very rapidly and is very fond of the stage.
Her youthful talent has exhibited itself
more than once in tableaux and private
theatricals. Two summers ago she was at
Sea Girt, a fashionable resort on tbe Jersey
coast, with her mother, nurse and govern
ess. Some theatricals were given and
May made a big hit in several sentimental
parts.
But it is May Sharpless’ dolls that are
the wonder of all who know her. She
has, probably, the finest collection of
dolls in the world, and she is constantly
adding to her stock. Her dolls range in
size from the smallest to several that are
nearly as large as their owner. Two of
them cost thousands of dollars apiece.
Every summer Mrs. Sharpless and her
child go abroad and the latest Parisian in
ventions in the doll line are purchased
The dresses for the largest ana most ex
pensive dolls are made in Paris by Worth.
They are perfect fits and cost more than
the average American girl, even in fash
ionable society, pays for her dresses. The
dolls’ wardrobes of Miss Sharpless are
wonders Each of the favorite dolls has
half a dozen miniature Saratoga trunks
filled with dresses and other clothes. The
underwear of the dolls Is made of the best
lace and the finest of silk. They have
the latest style of shoes, and wear the
I newest shade in hosiery. All of them have
hair, not of corn-silk, but genuine, and
the hair is dressed according to the exist
ing fashion. Miss May takes down and
puts up the hair, and when she gives a
dolls’ party, as she occasionally does, at
her home in this city, the dollies’ hair is
arranged by regular hair dressers engaged
for that purpose. At her home here May
has dolls’ houses, carriages and a regular
dolls’ establishment. Her dolls’ parties
are well worth witnessing. She in
vites her girl friends to bring their best
dolls, and the reception is modeled
exactly after receptions in high life. En
graved invitations have been sent on sev
eral of these occasions, and the dolls were
brought in carriages by their mistresses.
They wore wraps, their dresses were cut
low in front and V-shaped behind, and
corsets, bustles, and tbe usual female par
aphernalia made up tbe costumes. As
most of the dolls could walk when wound
up, the scene in the parlor as they moved
around, using their fans and bottles of
smelling salts, was decidedly realistic. It
was certainly decidedly novel.—New York
Letter to Philadelphia Times.
Ingalls Catching It.
It will be long before Senator Ingalls
hears the last of his wanton attack on
Gens. McClellan and Hancock. Col. Fin
ley Anderson of New York, who was on
Gen. Hancock’s staff during the war, has
written an open letter to Mr. Ingalls, in
which, after reciting at some length the
eminent services of the general in the war
for the union, closes with the following:
“In view of bis conspicuous service to
his country for more than forty years,
sealed as that service was by nia own
blood, and in view of his proverbial purity
of character, it is amazing how any men
could rise in the senate chamber to defame
his memory. But having had tbe audacity
to do so, the least you can do in repara
tion of this cruel wrong, alike to Han
cock’s memory and the patriotic senti
ment of the country, is to rise again in the
senate chamber and make a full retrac
tion and apology.”
The Boston Herald offers this sarcastic
apology for the offending senator:
“It strikes us that many of our brethren
of the press who criticise Senator Ingalls
altogether mistake the man. He is not
half as bitter in his feelings as they sap-
pose. Had he really felt the gall in his
disposition to which he gives effect in his
speeches, he could not have sat at Presi
dent Cleveland’s table, or participated
with him in social festivities, as he did.
Mr. Ingalls is a vain man, much more
than a malignant one. He is endowed
with a talent for saying vitriolic things,
and his vanity enablas him to pot ic
on exhibition. He is thus run away
with by his own fatal facility, as
it were. To put it a trifle coarsely, his
mouth is too mach for him. But there ore
men really more bilious than Mr. Ingalls
who are spared from making their sad
state apparent to the world, because they
are not as vain as he is.”
Poor Ingalls is catching it on afl sides.
If he had only oonfined himself to pouring
out his spleen on living confederates, he
would have been all right. Decent and
respectable people will not oonntenanoe
obscene attacks on the dead, even if the
corpses are those of enemies. There is no
animal with so hatefol a reputation as the
hyena.—New Orleans Picayune.
A representative of the Atlanta Journal
was in Athens Thursday, and calling on
Hon. Pope Barrow, found him in bis gar
den looking at his vegetables.
“Where do you stand on tbe tariff issue?”
asked the Journal representative.
“Right where I always did,” replied Mr.
Barrow. “I am for tariff for revenue
only. The doctrine of protection is based
on a wrong and vicious principle. It is an
exercise ot the taxing power of the gov
ernment for the benefit of one citizen at
the expense of another. Whenever an
irticle is protected by a duty
its cost to the consumer is
increased. It means that the gov
ernment by law will enrich one man or
one class at the expense of the other.
This, in my opinion, is not only an abuse
and a perversion of the powbr to tax, but
it is an inexcusable discrimination by the
government in favor of the protected
classes against the masses.”
“ What do you say to the argument that
aiprotected tariff will build up manufac
tures ii. the south?”
“I do not believe it. My judgement is
that it produces the opposite effeot. I am
convinced that the present tariff retards
the development of such industries. If
there could be a general and substantial
reduction in the tariff, it would result in a
general and healthy increase of manufac
turing in tbe south, especially in cotton.
This would be the immediate, direct and
certain effect of a general and substantial
reduction in the duties. A cotton mill
that now costs fl,000,000 could then be
built for about $600,000. A friend of mine,
who is part owner of a cotton mill near
this place, told me not long ago that he
feared that the business would be over
done by the large increase in the number
of new mills if there was a redaction in
the duties on material and machinery. He
is a sagacious man of large experience and
extensive information, and as I said be
fore, is deeply interested in the question.”
“You think, then, that the present tariff
is particularly oppressive upon the south?”
I know it. Take cotton ties for exam
ple. My impression is that there are lees
than a dozen men, or companies, in the
United States who manufacture them.
Every farmer of the south pays directly
into the pockets of these manufacturers of
ties a heavy duty. I think it is about 35
per cent ad valorem. In the twenty-two
crops of cotton that have been made since
the war, more than twenty million of dol
lars have been taken out of the pockets of
the cotton growers by this little tax alone.
You see, we have produced in the south
since the war considerably over a hundred
million bales of cotton, every bale of which
was wrapped with these ties, and every
tie had this duty on it. This money has
gone into the pockets of about a dozen
manufacturers. Is it any wonder that the
southern farmer grows poorer and these
manufacturers grow richer? It is not sur
prising, when you think of this, to see
these monopolists riding through the
south on their way to their annual winter
frolic in Florida, rolling in wealth and
looking out of the windows of their palace
cars upon the impoverished fields of the
men the government is helping them to
plunder. Such a law is an infamy, and ior
my part I will vote for no man who de
fends it.”
“What do you think of President Cleve
land’s message?”
“I endorse every word of it. If I had the
power I would adopt it as it stands, pare
and simple, for the national democratic
platform.”
“Are you in favor of the repeal of the
internal revenue on whisky and tobacco?”
“There will be plenty of time to cross
that branch when we come to it. Let us
first cheapen the necessaries, such as
clothing and food, and attend to the stimu
lants and narcotics afterward. When you
have relieved the people at large, men,
women and children, by reducing the cost
of cotton and woolen goods,blankets, shoes,,
rice, sugar and other necessaries, it will
then be soon enough to mitigate the suffer
ings of the dram-drinkers and tobacco-
smokers. 1 know of no two things which
can be more appropriately taxed than
whisky and tobacco. 1 use both and can
afford to advocate this doctrine. This tax
is paid voluntarily by the consumer and
not by the producer. Of coarse there are
many obnoxious features in the laws rege
lating the collection, and no doubt there
co uld be improvement in this respect,
which I would be glad to see made.
“How do you think a majority of the
pe ople stand on these questions?”
“I am not in politics and have not sought
to find out how anybody stood, but I think
t here can be no doubt that a large majority
of the people in this part of Georgia great
ly prefer a reduction of the taxes on the
nec essarits of life to a repeal of the inter
nal revenue on whisky and tobacco. They
are for Cleveland, and are, in my opinion,
in favor of his re-nomination upon a plat-
fo rm embodying the principles of his mes-
sage.” _____
Bismarck’s Habits.
PriDce Bismarck goes to bed usually at 2
o’clock in the morning and gets up at noon.
In his bed-room a light is kept burning all
night, numbers of messages, often requir
ing his personal attention, being brought
in durlDg the night. Id consideration of
the late hours kept by the prince, supper
is served late in the evening, and seldom
finished before midnight. Besides the
Princess Bismarck, Count and Countess
Rantazu partake of almost every meai,
regularly leaving the palace at 10:45 p. m.,
when a second-class cab always takes
them home. Bismarck’s birthday is al
ways a great feast and holiday for the ser
vants of the house. In the kitchen a bar
rel of wine is provided by the Princess
Bismarck, two bands are in attendance,
and the servants’ families appear
on the scene. The prince
comes down, talks with the guests,
and distributes sweets among the
children. The pleasant relations between
master and servant are also evident from
the fact that the princess always gives six
Easter eggs to each of the servants. The
domestic police of the prince consists of a
sergeant and eight constables. Ifthe prince
is away from home, four constables go
with him and four remain at the house,
and all of them are entitled to arrest any
suspicious person, be it at Berlin, at
Friedrichsruhe, or at Varzin. It was at
Varzin where Prince Bismarck’s large dog
Sultan, was poisoned. The princess de
clared at the time she would make pro
visions for life for any one who could
g lint out the poisoner. Sultan was mor9
telligent than Tyras, but Tyras is more
faithfol ot the two, and will take food ont
of the band of any member of Price Bis
marck’s family, but never from a servant,
as one of the footmen has learned to his
regret. It is well-known that at Berlin
the chancellor is rarely seen, and only
some of the inhabitants of the Vor Scrape
have the privilege of seeing him walking
in his grounds.—New York Tribune,