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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.