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THE WISH IIGTON GAZETTE.
VOL. XX.
THE CABINET.
Short Bloanpbtes ot the Advisory
Household ot President
Olsrslaad
BAYARD. SECRETARY OK STATIC.
Tiioa. Francis Bayard was born al
Wilmington, D■!., October 26, 1829.
Ho was chiefly educated at Flushing
School, and hit early- training was
for a mercantile iitc. After having
had some experience in business in
New York he returned to Delaware
and studied law with his father lion.
.James A. llayard, who was then in
the senate. lie was admitted to the
bar in 1851 and in 1852 Its was ap
pointed United Stato District At.
lorncv for Delaware, but resigned in
1851 and went to live in Pniladol
■pliia where ho remained until 1856
when he returned to Wilmington,
where he remained though the civil
war, practicing his profession. In
the winter of 1868-69 ho was elected
to tho Senate to s ire ted his father,
and was re-clectcd in 1875 and 1881.
In 1876 lie was a member of the
Electoral commission. Mr. Bayard
is the fourth of his family who has
served in the Senate. His grand
father, James Ashton Bayard, was
elected to the Senate from Delaware
in 1894 and served till 1813 when
President Madison appointed him
one of the commissioners to negotiate
tho Treaty of Ghent. His' uncle.
Ilichard if. Bayard was elected to
the Senate from Delaware in 1836
and again in 1841. His father James
A., served in the Senate from 1861 to
1869.
MANNING, SECRETARY TREASURY.
Daniel Manning was born in Albany
X. Y., August 16lh 1831. His par
entage was of Irsh, English and
Dutch extraction. He was a poor boy
and hi* early opportunities for school
ing were .very limited. At eleven
years of age he went to work as an
office boy at the establishment of the
Albany Atlas, which was afterwards
merged iaiw the Albany Argun,
with wfrich Jpucr lie 1..""r
in one capacity or another been con
nected. In 1873 lie assumed sole
charge of the Argus, ami stag elected
President of the company, which po
sition he yet holds, though he has
■done little or no writing for some
time. He was a member of the Dem
ocratic State Convention of 1874 that
nominated Samuel J. Tilden for Gov
ernor and was a delegate to the St.
Louis Convention of 1876; that
nominated Mr. Tilden for President.
He had beau a member of the Dem
ocratic State Committee since 1876;
was its Secretary in 1879 and 1880,
and was elected Chairman in 1881
which place he now flits. He was
warmly interested in the nomination
of Mr. Cleveland for President at
•Chicago last July, and it is generally
conceded that he allowed great skill
in the convention as the head ot the
New York delegation. Mr. Manning
lias been active and successful outside
of journalism and politics. He has
long been a director of the Albany
and Susquehanna Railway Company
and is president of the National
Bank, of Albany, of which he was
first director and then Vice-President.
He is also Park Commissioner of
Albauy and Is a director of the Albany
Electric Light Company.
ENDICOTT. SECRETARY OK WAR.
William Crowninshield Eiidicott,
Mr. Cleveland’s Secretary of war.
was born at Salem in 1827, and is the
son of Wiliian Putnam Kndicolt and
Mary, daughter ef Hon. JarobCrown
inshield, who was a Representative
to Congress. He attended the Salem
school*, and was graduated from
Harvard College in the class of 1847.
lie married his cousin, a daughter
a daughter of George Peabody, and
has a son and a daughter.
.Judge Kndicolt studied at Harvard
Law School, and read law in the of
fice of the late Nathaniel J. Lord.
He was admitted to the bar irr 1850
ami a few years later 1 formed a
partnership with the late J. W. Perry
and continued with him until his ap
pointment by Gov. Washburn to a
Seat on the Sopreme Bench in 1873.
This position he held until 1862,
when he resigned on account of his
health. In 1882 he made an extend
tour to the Continent. He was a
memberof the Salem Common Coun
cil in 1852,1853 and 1857, when he was
elected President of that board. He
was City Solictor from 1858 to 1863.
He is a member of the Historical
Society and of the board of Over-
seers of Harvard College. Tho Com
iug Secretary of War is a direct de
scendant from Gov. John Endicotl.
Politically Mr. Eudicott is of Whig
antecedents, his affiliation with the
Democratic party dated from the
Bell Everett campaign of 1860, but
ho has never been an active political!.
Last fall, it may be recalled, he was
the caimlatc of his barly for Gover
nor in Ihe State, but he did not ap
pear in the canvas*, and received a
comparatively small vote. Asa law
yer and a Judge Mr. Eudicott holds
high rank, and personally ho is a
gentleman highest character.
The objector the appointment tsman
ileslly to gratify the independent
allies of tho Democrats, ami tnay be
accepted as an indication of Mr.
Cleveland’s purpose to make them, if
possible, permanent supporters of
himself and his parly. The rank and
file of the regular Democracy appear
to acquiesce in that idea, as a shrewd
and polite thing to do, though there
are. unquestionably, a dozen leading
New England Democrats the selec
tion of any one of whom for I lie Cab
inet they would have hailed with a
warmer and more sincere satisfac
tion.
WHITNEY SECRETARY or THE NAVY.
William Collins Whitney, who is
to ho Secretary of the Navy,is a native
of Conway, Massac.husetts. ami was
born in 1839. His father, Genera!
James 8. Whitney, who had been
Colleclor of the port of Boston, a del
egate to the Charleston Convention
of 1860, ami prominent among the
great Democrats of that State, was
regarded as one of the leaders o’ the
party. The latter died In 1878 during
tho exciting contest against Benia
min F. Butler. After being grad
uated from Williston Seminary at
Easthatnpton, William C. Whitney
entered Yale College in 1859. With
William G. Sumner, the well
known writer and teacher upon pol
itical economy,who was his classmate.
Mr. WldtncW divided the first nrbe
T§raftgT).Jtesays.— Hfl Watclwsen
to delivor the oration of his class
on graduation. Entering the Harvard
law school, he was graduated in 1865
and continued his studies in Now York
city with Abraham B, Lawrence,now
on* of the Judges of the Supremo
Court. On his admission to the bar
he began tho practice of liis profes
sion, which ha has since followed.
In 1871 Mr. Whitney took a fore
rnoitparlin the organization of the
Young Men’s Democratic club, which
still cuntinttes as a vigorous ami pow
erful politicial factor. He was prom
inent among those in the club who
miantained and perferred |tho system
of inspection at the polls in the mem
orable election of that year, when
citizens asserted their rights and
fought against the notorious Tweed
and Bepiiblicans-Dcmocratic ring.
He contributed largely to the honest
count which turned tlie riseals
out. The attention of Mr. Tilden
was attraled by his sagacity and
courage exhibited in that contest,
Mr. Whitney’s prominence in the pol
itics of New York has been unin
terrupted since that time. The
friendship ofMr. Tilden given him
then has never been withdrawn not
weakened.
Mr. Whitney served as an Inspec
tor of Schools in 1872 and the same
year was defeated for District-Attor
ney as the candidate of the Reform
Democracy, owing to the demoraliza
tion of the party.
LAMAR, SECRETARY OK THE INTERIOR.
I.ucius Q. C. Lamar vu born at
Oxford, Putnam county, Ga., Septem
ber 17,1825, and received his early
schooling in his native tewn. He
graduated at Emory College, Geor
gia, In 1845. He studied law at Ma
con, Ga., and was admitted to the bar
in 1847. He removed to Oxford,
Miss, In 1849, and was elected Ad
jtinct Professor of Mathematics in the
Mississippi State University, Dr.
A. T. Bledsoe, editor of the Southern
Review, being the senior pjofessor.
Ho resigned in 1850 and went to Cov
ington, Ga, where he devoted him
self to the practice of law. In 1853
he was elected to the Geotgia Legis
lature and in the following year re
turned to Mississippi, where he set
tled on a plantation in Lafayette coun
ty. He was elected to the Thirty
fifth and Thirty-sixth Congress and
resigned in 1860. He entered the
Confederate army In 1861 as Lieuten
ant-Colonel of the Nineteenth 'Miss
issippi Volunteers, and was soon
WASHINGTON, GA.,' FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1885.
promoted to the Colonelcy. In 1863.
he was sent to Russia by the Confed
ate Government on an important di
plomatic mission. Ho returned to
Mississippi at the close of the war
and in 1869 was oTocted Professor of
Political Economy pud Social Science
in the University of that State. A
vear later he was transferred to the
Professorship of the law. Ha was
elected to ths Forty-third Congress
and re-elected to tho Forty-fourth.
In thewintc 1876-7 he was eleelcd
to the Senate, where he lias yinee
served.
VILAS, I‘o I'M ASTER GENERAL.
'William £. Vilue was bn fcL •
Chelsea, Orange county, Vermont,
July 9, 1840. When he was efeVen
years old bo went to Wisconsin, frhere
a few mouths after, he was entered a
pu,iil of the preparatory department
of the University, of the Slate.—ln
1853 lie matriculated In Ihc freshman
cla'-a of that instilut’oii, and was
graduated there in 1858. After fak
ing his academical degree ho studied
law in Albany, New York, ami "was
graduated from the law school of
that city in 1860. After his admis
sion to the Supreme Court of New
York he removed to Wiscansitt, where
on his birthday, July 9,1860, lie made
his first argument before the Supreme
Court of that Slntc. .In the same
year, 1860, lie became a partner wfih
Charles T. Wakelcy, a lawyer of
good standing. Upon the outbreak of
Ihc war Mr. Vilas entered the army
as Captain in (lie Twenty-Third Wis
consin Volunteers, and rose to be
Major and Lieutenant-Colonel. Ho
resigned his commission and resumed
tho practice of the law. January Ist,
1872 Gen. G. E - Bryant joined him
in partnership, and in 1877 his broth
er, E. P. Vilas, also became a partner
in tlio firm. The Supreme Courl
of Wisconsin appointed Col. Vilas
oncof the revisors of the statutes or
the States in 1875, and ihe revision ot
1878, adopted by (lie State was parti*-
madly by him. In 1879 Mr. VJJasui
usoof his name as a eaudfi
datofor the Governorship of Wiscon
sin. He has persistently declined
office, but wont to Chicago as a
delegate to Ihe convention of 1884,
which honored bint with its per
manent chairmanship.
OARLANP, ATTORNEY-GENERAL.
Augustus 11. Garland was born in
Tipton count}-, Tennessee, June 11,
1832. Tho following year his parents
moved to Arkansas, where lie has
made Ills home ever since,and which
Stato je has retire sen ted iiithc Senate
since, 1867. He was educated in St.
Mary’s College and St. Joseph’* Col
lege in Kentucky. He studied law
and wasadmitted to practice at Wash
ington, Arkansas, the place where Ills
parents had originally settled, in 1853.
He removed to Little Rock, where
his home now Is, in 1856. He was
a delegate to the Stato Convention
that passed Ihe ordinance of secession
in 1861, and was also a member of the
proviainal Confederate Congrm lha!
snbscquently met the same year at
Montgomery, Ala. He served in both
the House and the Sonato of the Con
federate Congress, being in the Senate
when the war closed. He was elected
from Arkansas to the United States
Senate March 4, 1867, but was not
admitted to bis sear. ll* made test
•atlicaseas to lawyers in the Supreme
Court of the United States and gained
it. He practised law with success
till 1876, when he was elected Gover
nor ef Arkansas without opposition,
and at the expiration of his term was
elected to the United States Senate,
again having no opposition, and suc
ceeded Powell Clayton. He has
taken high rank as a lawyer from the
day he eutered the Senate, and has
for some time been a member of (lie
Judiciary Committee. Ho is of
medium height and speaks with
clearness, ('"liberation and force.
Ills wife dy-’f soon after he was elect
ed to tho Senate, and he ha* since re
mained a widower.
Last Wednesday an accident hap
pened near Decatur, that came near
causing the death of little Robert Piu
nell, at the hands of his own father.
Mr.Pinnell was engaged in chopping
some underbrush on his land, and his
son was benind him taking the
branches from liis wav. Suddenly
Mr. Pinnell’sax came incontact with
a dead limb which yielded more
readily than he had thought for, and
the ax continuing on its course cut a
terrible gash in the face of his .little
son behind him.
The Soudan War.
A dispatch of the 9th Inst., from
London says: The plan adopted for
lhe dofei!*< ; of the SuaKim is as fol
lows: The Indian contingent will
encamp on tho right of the town and
the guards on the left, while a semi
circle of redoubts 400 yards apart
will be formed 1,800 yards from the
inner line of tlio dofenses, connecting
with the latter. The water supply
is abundant. Osman Digma has sent
a letter to the British general in com
mand at (ltis .place, recounting the
Arab successes, announcing that the
fall of Kassala is imminent, ami
warning the English that they will
hq defeated and driven into tho sea
if they venture outside the city. Os
man has also sent a letter to tho chief
of tho friendly tribe of Amurars,
who is now in Suakim, thcatening
him with doatli unless he rejoins the
mahdi’s army, and telling him that
Ihe British aro doomed, as 7",000 Dfer
vishes have arrived to reinforce his
(Osman's) army. There is a constant
stream of transport steamers arriving
in Suakim.
A dispatch from Korti eavs the rear
guard of*. General Redvers BullerV
troops has arrived at Korti from
Gakdul in a terribly faggodcondition.
General Sir Evelyn Wood, having
ordered tlm complete evacuation of
Gakdul Wells by March 4, Lord
’Charles Borosford with his naval
brigade lias arrived here. Lord
Charles 'repot Is that ho heard on
rottlo that the lllasauiguli tribe of
hostile Arabs had arranged to harass
the British during their retreat.
The mudler of Dongola, lias stal led
for Merawi to inspire by his presence,
confidence in the native troops there.
Gen. Brackcnbury has arrived at
Korti. He reports that the natives
all along the Nilo so far as lie has
gone, willingly supply tho British
army will) provisions.
Gene re 1 Graham, in command, of
the Suakim expedition, started for
that place |b-taaT?. * \
ur4ulM’-toolsit tnade 8 genoraUie
viewofthc Nile expeditionary force
now reunited at Korti, including the
troops of Generals Brackenburg and
Bullcr, the naval brigade commanded
by Lord Charles Bcresford, and the
Canadian voyagettrs under Colonel
D6nnison. Getcrai Wolsetoy compli
mented tho troops for the heroism and
fortitude with which they had faced
the perils and hardships ot the cam
paign, and especially thanked the
voyagours for their services in facil
itating the advance of Gonorai Earle’s
force toward Abu Hamed. He pre
sented liis own silver cigarette case to
Engineer Bonbow, ot the naval brig
ade, as a tribute of admiration of the
bluejackets’ bravery in repairing, un
der the heavy fire, the steamer with
which fjord Charles Boresford res
cued Sir Charles Wilson and his par
ty after they had been wrecked on
the island in (lie Nile returning from
Khartoum. The naval brigade in the
Soudan is to be greatly augmented
before the resumption of active oper
ations next autumn.
The composition of the British
House of Commons, for instance, is
very different from an American
Congress. It represents princi
pally property and business interests.
The House of Commons is called the
“best club in England,” for it em
braces in its membership great land
lords. bankers, manufacturers, mer
chants, gentlemen of ieisnrc—ail
men ef affairs. These classes in our
Congress are conspicuous by their
absence. We choose all our legisla
tors and executives from the lawyer
class. There are very few members
of the legal profession In the English
Parliament. Their function in leg
islation is very subordinate. They
are made use of as experts and to
draft bills; hence in En-
gland is a matter of business. With
us it is an outlet for the ambition of
one profession. The lawyers man
age so as to enormously increase lit
igation.
Thomas Green, a Jones county far
mer who had purchased a pair of in
fant’s shoes of 8. Levy, of Macon, a
week ago, entered the store Friday,
and with a cocked pistol in his hand
compelled the merchant te take hack
the shoes and return their price, to
gether with a bonus of 10 cents. The
shoes were too small in size, and ihs
merchant had none to fit. Green,
who was intoxicated, was arrested.
TIPS LIMB IN THE DKSRRT.
American Bnflnee to Pump Water for the
British From Suakim to Berber.
The British government is actively
moviug to construct a pipe line from
Suakim on Ihe Red soa to Berber on
Ihe Nile for supplying Gen. Graham's
army with watoron its advance across
tho desert to join Wolseley. Tho war
•ffioe after long consideration sanction
ed the plan some time ago. Contracts
for the pumpiug engines have been
made with tho house of Henry R.
Worthington,ofNewY'ork. A dozen
or twenty engines will probably be
required of from 150 to 200 horse
power each. By tho term ofthe con
tract an engine is to be shipped each
w.-ek until its terms are fulfilled.
Tne government has received advices
across tho desert to to join Wolseley.
The war office after long consideration
sanctioned the plan some time ago.
Contracts for tho pumping engines
have been tnado with tho house of
Henry It- Worthingtod, ofNow York,
A dozen or twenty engines will
probably be required of foom 150 to
200 horse power each. Ba the terms
of the contract an engine is to be ship
ped each wook until its terms are ful
filled. Tho government has received
advices ,hat tho first one was dis
patched by the Adriatic last Saturday.
All tho leading pipe manufacturers
of the Lulled Slates have submitted
estimates for the lino to tho govern
ment, but so far no ordors have boon
placed here or abroad. The pipe will
bo four inches in dirmelcr—the same
-ize as the pipes tnrough which oil is
pumped from tho Pennsylvania fields
to the scabbard, a longer distance
than tho proposed water lino. The
jfojjtrnet (or the pipe will amount to
.f— — r -j, ‘ | 'p'l iivi ■"“’’if~liiiTiV|Tf.'
feeling among officials that English
manufacturers should have tho work.
It Is a question with some engineers,
however, if a poytiou, at least of the
contract should \nwt. be placed in
America, owing \to tlieajjtipri'i tvr
quality t*f the pipevWde fli.rf ~ T h<-
plan meets with/general,jSiPß* v ßl
among those who' burp jid'ftM’Hie'
working of the oil lines in America.
The same general plan will bo follow
ed fot the water lines, and the engines
will he duplicates of those in use
t here. With such a pipe line in opera
tion it would seem that the cudqf the
Soudan difficulty, so far as tho move
ment ef reinforcements is concerned,
would be reached.
Richard Wall, of Ilaverstraw,
N. Y., walked into the National
Hotel in Washington City, re
cently, carrying a broem, on one
side of which waa (lie legend, “Let
Her Go Slow, or twenty-four Terrs
on t lie Lookout,’’and on the other side,
1,104 plus 45, equals game.” Ho did
not appear to ho footsore or weary
although he had walked all the wav
to Washington. “Tlicre was no wager
in this case,” he said to a Post repor
ter. “I simply said that if Cleveland
was elected, I wonld walk to
Washington. He was elected, and I
am here. I left Havcralraw on the
7th, ami walked on an average about
til Keen miles a day. It was a hard
tramp, tho worst being from Relay
station to this city." “ What do the
figures on the broom mean ?” “Well,
Rockland cunty gave 1,104 majority
for Cleveland and the State gave
1,146 so that4s voles added to the
county majority won the game. Am I
going to stay until the inauguration ?
Certainly 1 am. I did not come here
for nothing.
The fate of the late Senator Benj-
U. Hill and the probable fate of Gen.
U. S. Grant ought to be a warning
to excessive smokers. The cancerous
growth on the tongues of both is as
cribed by their physicians to this
habit. Wo believe that Mr. Hill was
not an inordinate smoker, but he
generally had an unlit cigar in his
mouth, and at the side upon which
the cancer made its appearance on
histonguo. Gen. Grant, as is well
known, has been a constant smoker.
Enthusiasm is one of the most
powerful engines of success. |When
you do a thing, do a will, do
it with you might, put yotirj whole
soul into it, stamp it witli your own
personality. Be active, bo'energelie,
be faithful, and ,’our will accomplish
your object. Nothing[grcat was ever
achieved without enthusiasm.
NO. 11
BTRTJGGIJS IN HRR CJOFJTN.
Terrible Bate of a Tonne Girl of
Weat' Virginia
(Special to Baltimore American.)
The following facts wero leaned
to-day regarding the preinatnre bu
rial ef a young girl near the Capeu
river, in Hampshire county, W. Va.
which is about two miles from the
village of Okenono. Mary Cox, a,
young and beautiful girl, aged about
eighteau. with black hair and eyes,
who visited Cumberland only a few
weeks ago, made hor home with a
well known farmer by the name or
Wro. Hass, who had a daughter
about the same age. Miss Cox was
taken violently ill a f ew days lgoj
and was attended dy Dr. M. V. Kirk*
of Paw Paw, who decide! that she
was suffering from neuralgia of the
stomach. He prescribed morphia,
and a dose was administered at
once, with the understanding that
another dose should be taken in
twenty-four hours. For some rea
son the second dose was given in a
very short time. An hour or two
afterward the death of Miss Cox. was
announced, anil two days later the
body was buried. At
one lady insisted that Miss Cox was
not dead and begged that adoefoi-bc
sent for.' That night the dogs of a
manliving near thq graveyard sta
tioned themselves near the temb and
kept up a persistent howling. The
next night (Thursday lasi) the body
ofthe girl was exhumed and the
coffin opened at the request of Miss
Cox s relatives, and in presence of a
Hampshire county constable and
several oi her friends, her body was
taken from the casket. As was fear
'iiiti'iMMu Mi?. :*„• cs
the effects of an over-dose of morphia.
The unfortunate girl had evidently
made superhuman struggles to lift
Ihe lid of the casket after it had been
TS’*( liir failure she must have lost*
her mind entirely, as hti face Wsdis-
Jgcred in every possible banner.
Her long, black hair pluck
ed from her head. The lining was
torn fromlhe aides of the casket, and
the pillow was in shreds. Her
hauds and arms were torn and bleed
ing. Her clothing consisted in part
of a light summer dress, which was
literally torn from her body. Her
lips were bitten through.
ATIBBIILI ADVENTURE.
Burled In u Alpine Avalaeohe tor Three
.TS.
The Italian and Swiss papers relate
some striking incidents to which the
recent avalanches hare given, rise,
A man by the name of Rapolli, an
ex-marshall of carabineers, lived with
his wife and his children in the vil
lage of Groscavello. The wifp was
au invalid, and while her hupbaud
and their little girl were in bed
two Sundays ago an avalanche fell
on the village and crushed the house,
RupclU was killed, and the child, one
of whose feet was canght between
two joists, was thrown head down
ward, without any possibility of ex
tricating herself. Tho mother,
though saved from destruction by a
beam, had one of her arras so tightly
wedged under it that sho could only
just touch the child’s head with the
lips of her fingers. After hanging in
that position for thirty hours,
ually crying to her mother for help,
she died in convulsions. MmeKapelli
would probably have perished of
hunger and cold if a hen had rot
come within tho reach of her free
hand. She seized and strangled it
with her teeth, and placed tho feath-
ers under her neck, which was in
contact with the snow. Then sho
devoured the fowl just as it was.
After remaining thus imprisoned
nearly 60 houre ehe wae got out by
a rescue party and carried iuto a
stable hard by, where a short time
ago she lay in a condition bordering
on insanity. The cause of these dis
asters (a correspondent points, out)
is well known. There is nothing like
forests for stopping or breaking the
force ef tho nvalauches tor the
Italian sides of the Alps have
been almost completely deluded
of their timber. The Swiss owe their
comparative immunity from tho
catastrophes which have wrought so
much havoc among their neighbors
te the care they bestow on the preser
vation ot their mountain woods.