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THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE.
V'OL. XX.
CREATION’S FAG END.
A Hxtcia St*' i Wlme Disease, Revolu
tion an Interne Heat are ever
Present.
(New York Sue.)
,“A place where they can change the
head of government by revolution
four times in seven months.whero the
mcretiry is commonly at 105 degrees
in the shade, where the people cat
snakes, and where small-pox and vet
low fever follow each other in regu
lar succession, year in and year out,
may not be a lively enough a country
for some folks to live in but tilled the
Tiill for me.” said an oil-well operator
from the Pennsylvania regions.
‘•That locality,” said he, “is the
Stale or District of Tobasco, in Mexi
co. I went down there for some par
ties throo years ago to see what
there was in the reports
about petroleum deposits of great
richness in that region. There was
no way to travel except bv canoe and
■bronchos, and it was no uncommon
thing to travel 200 miles or so to reach
a place fifty miles away as the bird
flies. There is a plenty 0 f natural
pitch or bitumen there, but I couldn’t
see the prospects of an oil region ever
being developed, although Boston
capitalists wore pegging away with
drills in various pans of the district
in the hope ofstrikiugoil. There are
•90,000 persons living in that district,
and all I saw of it was one vast area
of pestilence. The inhabitants are
mostly Indians, and they haven't be
gun to be civilized yet. One loose
garment, reaching from the neck to
the knees, is all the clothing that cith
■er sex wear, and the children run en
tirely naked the year round. I got,
there in November and left in July.
At no time was the mercury lower
•than 74 degrees in the shade, and
when I came away it was 105 de
grees.
“Theday before I got to Sun Juan
Kabtista, the capital of the State, a
• couple of citizens had adopted the us
*ual method of changing the govern
ment and hud shot the governor,whose
name was Foncher, his private secre
tary, and another member of council,
while the three were walaing in the
street. Foncher was the fourth gov
ernor who had been removed in that
•way sinoo the proceeding May. The
.governor’s secretary and another offi
cial was killed instantly. Governor
.Foncher fell to the ground,and retrain
ed his feet. The two assassins were
running away. The governor fired
two shots. One of the assassins fell
• dead, and Foncher dropped to the
.ground and expired immediately af
terward. The second assagsin ran on.
.During the uight a man was found
In Die street suffering, it was sup
posed, with the cholera, it being the
season for that annual visitor. He
was treated for the disease.aud it was
not until after he died that a bullet
• hole was discovered in his back. The
.bullet was found In bis bowets.llo was
undoubtedly the second one ot the as
sassins, showing that the dying Gov
•ernor’s shots had both taken effect.
“Small-pax appears as soon as win
ter sell In. The nalires were dying
at the rate of twenty-five a day dur
ing my stay in Tuxpan, a coast vil
lage, and the coast was under quaran
tine. The yellow fever takes up the
work as soon as small-pox takes its
and that in turn rests in the
fall, and oholera varies the monotony
of the region until small-pox conies
back again. A wagon goes around
every night and gathers up the dead
at the different houses, and
the bodies are loaded in and car
ried to the dead lot, a largo piece of
ground enclosed by a high wall. The
'remains arc sorted out and buried
next day. I was told at Tuxnan that
it often happened that persons were,
: in the hurry'of collecting the dead,
placed in the dead wagon-before life
was really extinct, and that it was not
uncommon for a person to rise up
suddenly in the wagon as it passes on
its rounds.glance wildly around until
recognizes his situation and disengage
himself from the dead piled about
him, jump from;thowagon and move
away as along as his strength lasts,
until he is captured by others and
stowed away in the hospital.' Neith
er is it an uncommon circumstance
for the custidian of the dead lot, on
opening the gates in the morning, to
find two or three persons
waiting to get out, having been placed
in the lot the night before with a
load of dead.
“The uatives live on cracked corn,
the flesh of a hideous snake flesh
of that cheerful-looking reptile or an
imal, or whatever It is. Ihe armadillo.
The lagarta is the favorite morsel. It
is caught in the stagnant water that
is everywhere in Die locality. It has
the head of a serpent and a half
fish, half-reptilo body, covered with
horny scales. Tno modeo*'cooking it
*o take it as it comes from the water,
run a stick down its throat, and hold
it over a fire until it is baked Tito
few Sprniardsand Mexicans who live
in the district have tlicir tables sup
plied with decent food,but its prepara
tion is not such as to tempt the appe
tite. I found other parts of
Mexico so delightful in every respect
that I could hardly bring myself to
believe that there could bo such an
altogether wretched portion of it as
that same State of Tobasco.”
CROP BULLETIN.
JfiMacon Telegraph.)
DoKalb county: Crops were never
better.
liall county: Corn crop safe—cot
ton doing well.
Baker county: Caterpillars have
done their worst.
Henry county: Crops reported fine
and flourishing.
Scriven county : Cotton picking is
now iu full blast.
Mitchell county: Very littlo rust
reported and crops good.
Floyd county: Caterpillars have
made their appearance.
Thomas county: Farmers com
plaining ot cotton dying out.
Macon county : Colton badly rust
ed, but a fair crap is looked for.
Worth county : There is some com
plaint of rust in cotton.
Johnson county: Bolls cracking
open and picking has commenced.
Marion county : Taking the coun
ty over, the crops are not up to the
average.
Twiggs county : Expect to make a
fair crop. Corn crop not so good as
was expected.
Dooly county : Rust is doing great
damage to the crop and it will bo cut
off at least 20 per cent.
Meriwether county: Caterpillars
have appeared iu a few cotton fields
but no special damage done as yet.
Carroll county : Cotton worms ap
peared on Jethro Jones’ farm one
week ago and have already spread
over forty acres.
Oglethorpe county: Reports from
crops are not encouraging. It is
thought, however, that the county’s
average will he kept up.
Dougherty county: Farmers order
ing London purple in large quantities.
Catorpillars increasing in numbers
aud playing hovoewith cotton.
The New York Times, of August
6th, says: “The demand for silver
dollars at the Sub-Treasury in this
city yesterday was unexpectedly
large. A great quantity of fractional
silver was passed over the counter,
but the output of standard dollars
was the notable feature of the day.
Hitherto the New York banks have
been averse to taking standard silver
dollars from any source, but yesterday
four banks In this citv asked for and
oblaincd $60,000 in standard dollars.
The Chemical Hank took 120.000, the
Central Bank $20,000. the Citizens’
$10,600, and the Market SIO,OOO.
father banks took smaller amounts,
making an aggregate of 110,000 silver
dollars taken from the Sub-Treasury
during the day. Multllatcd currency
to the amount of $5,000 was re
deemed in silver dollars. The As
sistant Treasurer has made it a rule
to redeem mnltilatcd currency only
with standard dollars.
“The cause of this sudden demand
for the hitherto unpopular standard
dollar is said to be the scarcity of one
and two dollar bills. Since the Gov
ernment stopped printing bills of
these denominations the banks have
had difficulty in meet the requests of
their customers for them. The one
and two dollar bills being in constant
circulation, wear out rapidly, and
the supply is therefore steadily di
minishing.”
Col. Towers, principal keeper of
the penitentiary, has issued an order
for Bill McGaughey to be taken from
the chain-gang and carried to Wal
ton county for the murder ofhis wife.
She died since lie was incarcerated
from injuries that he gave her, He
was sent up for a different offense.
WASHINGTON, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1885.
BAYED BY Hid WIFE.
A We.tern Telegraph Operators ;En
perience With a Gang of Train
Robbers.
[From the Chiosgo Herald.]
“Several years ago I had a stat'on
on a railroad, ’way out on the plains.
There had never been any train rob
beries near us, though there was
much talk about'em. One time the
engineer ofa passenger train stopped
his engine in a hurry at 461st mile
post and then backed up. lie declar
ed the train robber bad placed ob
structions on the track and wore ly
ing in ambush. Investigations show
ed that what he hud thought obstruc
tions were nothing hut some of the
big rolling weeds which had blown
across the prairie and gathered on
the track. Of course.the engineer
was laughed at tor his error, and
after that, whenever train
robbers were mentioned, somebody
inquired if they were the same kind
that William Roberts saw at the 46lst
mile-post.
"One night I was alone in my office
waiting for No. 3. She was an hour
or more late. I was dozing over my
pipe, when on looking up I saw re
volvers pointed at me from both tick
et windows. Of cottrso I threw up
my hand. They wore train robbers
sure enough. There were only three
of them but such desperate fellows I
never saw. They told mo what they
wanted mo to do. I was to write a
dispatch to the conductor of No. 3
signing the superintendents name to
it. ordering him to leave
his train at my station, and
in my care and take tho engine and
several armed men and go on toward
l’lum Creek, moving cautiously and
preparing to attack train robbers.
This despatch I was to hand the con
ductor through tho window when lie
came up for orders, as usual, two of
tho men hiding iu tho oflico to shoot
me if I attempted to glvo the alarm.
The scoundrels expected bfA. this
niean'4 'iw- hate mi Avreuidoft at fnJtr
mercy. I told them No. 3 was
four hours late and tried to scare them
out that way. Then I tried to delay
mattors so that No. 3 would come
before I got tho telegram ready. But
they meant business and in ten min
utes the despatch was written as they
dictated. I cudgeled my brains for
some means to defeat the robbers, but
I could not think of anything for a
long time. Suddenly I thought of
my wife and the telephone I had put
up connecting our residence with tho
station. I made that telephone my
self and, though crude, it answered
terv well. 1 told the robbers I want
ed to telephone to my wife that tho
train was late and that sho could go
to bed.
“If I don’t let her know,’ I added,
‘sho will be down here—you know
howquoer women are—and you’ll
have trouble,’
“Then I was permitted to talk to
her, but was cautioned that any at
tempt on my part to give the alarm
would send a bullet through my head.
So T called to my wife and said :
“Number three late; trouble at
461st mile-post; go to bed as I shan’t
be home till late. Good night.’
“That was all, but I was satisfied
it was enough, I felt that my wife
would detect in my tone that there
Was trouble, and never bo satisfied
until she had sent down to see. Be
sides, I had mentioned the 461st mile
post, to which my captors had no ob
jection, as they know nothing
of the scare that Roberts
had had there a.id I
hoped this would alarm her. The
minutes that followed seemed like
hours. The robbers were becoming
impatient and vicious and they more
than oi.ce threatened to kill Jine if I
had Iricced them. In a omit fifteen
minutes we heard the tramp
of feet upon the platform,
and in walked my wife with
four men, all of whom she
aroused in the village. The three
robbers were captured, but afterward
escaped. My wife said sho knew X
was in trouble, and it was duty
to come to me with assistance, as if I
told her in plain words. I tell Jyou
I’ve had a pretty high respect for
woman’s tuition and sense since that
night.”
At Harmony Grove Jimmie John
son, while on his way to school, stuck
a thorn in his hand, causing a very
serious injury. It is thought his arm
will have to be amputated.
BJOW “OSUD MOSE" COUNTED EGGS.
Old Store, who sells eggs and chick
ens otv t’hc' streets of Austin for a liv
ing. is as honest an old negroasever
lived, but lie has got the habit of chat
ting familiarly with his customers,
hence ho treqnently makes mistakes
in counting out the eggs they buy.
He carries his wares around in n small
cart drawn by a diminutive donkey.
He stopped in front of the residence
of Mrs. Samuel Burton. The old
lady herself came out to the gate to
make the purchases.
“Have you any eggs this morning
Uncle Mose ?” she asked.
“Yes, indeed I has. Jest got in ten
dozen front do kentrv.”
“Are they fresh ?”
“I gmt’iitee cm. I knows dey am
fresh jess the same as ef I had laid ’em
myso’f.
“I’ll take nine dozen. You can just
count them into this basket.”
“All right, mum.” Ho counts,
“One, two, free, l'oah, fivo, six, soben,
eight, nine, ten. Y'ou kin rely on dent
bein fresh. How’s your son coming
on at do school ?” Ho nuts’ be mos’
grown.”
“Yes, Uncle Mose, hois a clerk in a
bank at Galveston.”
“Why, how ole am do boy ?’’ t
"Ho is eighteen.”
“Y'ou don’t lolc mo so. Eighteen and
getting a salary already, eighteen
nineteen, twenty twenty
one, Iwonty-two, twenty-tree, twen
foalt, twenty-five, and how’s yore gal
coinin’on ? She was ntos’ growed
up do las’ time I seed her.*’
“‘SHe ir married and living in Dal
las.”
“Wall, I dcclar’. How do time
scoots away 1 An’yo’ say she has
childrens? Why, how ole am de
gal? Stic mus’ be jess about ”
“Thirty-three.”
“Am dat so? (counting), firty-free,
flrty-foah, fifty-five, flrty-six, flrty
seben, flrty-eight, flrty-ulne, forty,
forty-two, forty-free. Hit
dnifio singular dat you has itch ole
childrens. I can’t b’lsevo yon has
grand childrens. Y'ou don’t look
more den forty yeahs ole yourself.”
“Nonscnco, old man, I sec you want
to flatter mo. When a person gets
to he fifty-three years old ”
“Fifty-free? I jess dun gwinter
b’lceve hit, fifty-free, flfly-foah, fifty
five, fifty-six,—l want you to pay
tenshnn when I counts do eggs, so
dar’ll lu no mistake—fifty-nine.sixty
sixty-one, sixtv-two, sixty-froo, sixty
foah—Whew. Dis am a warm day.
Dis am de time oh yeah when I feels
Use gettin’ole myse’f. I ain’t long
fer dis world. You comes from an
ole family. When your fodder died
he was sebenly years ole.”
“Seventy-two.”
“Dat old, suah. Seventy-two
sebenty-froe, sebenty-fouh, sebenty
flve, sobenty-six, Bobenty-seben, seben
eight, sebenty-nlno—and your mud
der ? Sbo was one ob do noblest look
ing ladies I ebber see. Y'ou reminds
meobher so much. Site libbed to
mos’a hundred. I hleeves she was
done pass a centurion when she
died.”
“Nojtinclo M?se, she was only niuc
ty-six when she died.”
“Den site warn’t no chicken when
she died. I know dat—ninety-six,
nlnety-seben, ninety-eight, ninety
iiiue, one hundred, one, two’ free,
• foah, fivo, six, seben, eight—dar 108
nice fresh eggs—jess nine dozen, and
here am one moah egg in case I has
discounted myso’f.”
Old Mose went on his way rejoic
ing. A few days afterward Mrs.
Burton said to her husband:
“I am afraid we will have to dis
charge Matilda. I am satisfied she
steals tho eggs and milk. I am pos
itive about the egg a . for I bought
them day before yesterday, and now
about half of them are gone. I stood
right there and heard old Mono count
them myself and there were nine doz
en.”—Texas Sittings.
Tho docket now filling up with ca
ses for trial at Die October term of
Fulton Superior court does not indi
cate any abatement in the number of
divorce cases. At the last term of
the court there wore 35 divorce cases
set for trial, and tho number promis
es to be fully as large at the ap
proaching tuna. About three-fourths
of the cases arc from negroes. One
uegro woman gave as a reason for
asking a divorce that she had been
living with her husband for five
years aud was tired of him.
GENERAL GRANT’S REMAINS.
A Possibility of Kemoval-Million
aire* Who Hare Given Nettling
to the Fund,
Now York Special in the Doiton Herald.)
Shall tho remains of General Grant
bo removed from their present place
of deposit? Thequostion is not pre
posterous and there is no conclusive
reason for answering it conclusively in
the negative. New York is utterly
unappreciative of tho honor of having
the tomb of the hero and has already
refused to erect a suitable monument.
Two weeks of earnest effort by a com
mittee, the period Including the |cmo
tional and demons ritive days of tho
prolonged funeral, close to-night
with only about fifty thousand dol
lars raised toward a proposed 11,000,-
000.
Tho project, as a popular demon
stration, is now an • admitted failure.
Contributions from other cities are
not to be expected in any appreciable
amounts, and Now Y’orkors have, in
a body declined to give anything.
Letters were sont a full week ago to
every New Y’ork millionaire whoso
summer address could be found. No
money responses have yet been re
ceived. All the Vanderbilts are si
lent, not otto of the family having
deigned any sort of reply to tho ap
peals. Counting in the sons and sons
-in-law of William H. Vanderbilt,
not one of whom is posset red of less
than a million, nine Vanderbilts have
not been heard from. Tho two As
tors who divide the enormous Astor
estate, AViliiam and John Jacob, have
sent no replies; but AViliiam AValdorff
Astor, being asked to serve on the
committee, wrote hack from Newport
mat ho had no time to spare; and ho
lias contributed no dollars, either.
Jav Goulil was personally solicited
while in town between cruises on his
yacht, but he deferred a definite an
swer, neither promising nor refusing
Less than ten per cent, of tho com
mitteemen themselves have contribu
ted* either time or hionoy thus far.
The coiire movement is dead. Hope
is expressed that, with the autumn
return of wealth and fashion to town
interest may be aroused in tho enter
prise, but Die histories of monumen
tal funds do not record an instanco of
liveliness after apathy. The only
“old family” names on the list at this
writing are Van Renssolaer for 815
and Rhinelander for 850. Last win
ter’s charity hall committee of two
hundred leaders of “our best society”
can be hunted over without disclos
ing more than six names that are now
on the Grant contribution list.
The intimations are so strong that,
when Congress shall next winter be
asked to make au appropriation for
a monument, tho place tor its erec
tion will bo Insisted on as AVashing
ton. Now York is not beloved of the
nation and a majority of Congress
can hardly be got for spending 8500,-
000 or so to adorn it with a structure
toward which her own citizens will
not contribute. Incase AVashington
Is selected for the government’s mon
ument tho body will probably bo
transferred there. Mrs. Grant was
astonished and offended when May
or Grace, acting on the opinion of the
corporation attorney, informed her
that the plot in Riverside Park could
not he legally presented to her, as the
city owned it solely for park purpos
es. As the matter now stands the
Park Commissioners have by resolu
tion permitted the Interment but that
action could bo annulled if ever any
body might tako the notion to do it
when tho time came to bury Mrs.
Grant there. The feeling against a
mortuary feature in a public pleas
ure park grows rather declines and it
may be relied on that a propotion to
remove the remains to AVashington
would not bo much opposed here.
At Amoricus, Each Baldens’ little
pet red eye perch has hatched out
another wonderful brood ot minnows,
about one thousand iu number, mak
ing nearly three thousand site has
hatched this season.
Tho town council of Elberton has
passed a registration ordinance fer
the town requiring twelve months
residence iu the State, six months m
the county, thirty days in the town,
and the payment of all taxes before
a citizen can register and vote. The
town election comes off tho last o
September, but there will bo no ex
citing question before the people, as
prohibition Is an established facti n
the town of the expiration of the pres
ence license.
NO. 35
SACRIFICE OF LIFE.
Losses On Union Bids During the War.
The results obtained by Mr. Kirk
ley, a statistician of Die Adjutant
General’s oflico compiled from all
attainable sources a list of the union
side during the war possesses a me
lancholy but very strong interest at
this time. It has been a very difficult
task to gather names from this roll.
So many person , unseen and tinkown - T
so many died in Southern prisons of
whom every traco is lost that tho
compiler might well despair
of over completing his task with any
thing like an approach to acouracy.
l’atience and perseverance have at
last accomplished the difficult task,
homever, and wo have in Mr, Kirk
ley’s tables what is at least the most
accurate and complete death roll yet
published, if not one absolutely
without error. Tho registers of a
dozen southern prison have pot boon
secured—those at An ericus, Atlanta,
Augusta, Charleston, Lynchburg,
Macon, Marietta, Mobile, Montgome—
ry, Savannah. Shreveport, and Tyler
and also partial records were ob
tained from Cahowba.Columbia.Flor
once, Milen, and Salisbury; but with
these exceptions the roll is substanti
ally complete.
Olio ot the most remarkable results
at lived at, at least to the reader who
knows nothing practically of war, is
that more than twice as many men
died trom disease iu the army as from
tho shots, shells, bayonets and sword*
of the enemy. One dundred and ten
thousand and thirty eight officers and
min were killed outright or died ot
their wounds; but 224,586 died of dis
ease. The number of those who are
known to have died in captivity,
reachos Dio appalling number ot 29,-
496.
Another remarkable fact is that
over fifty per cent, more men were
killed in action than died of wounds,
thq respective numbers being 02, 396
and 40,777. At least three fourths of
of the wounded must have recovered
partially at least, so that they did die
during the period covered by the in
quiry, which con es with the mnster
ingout at the end or the war. How
many veterans there are still among
us who carry about their bodios marks
of violence suffered during the war,
lot tho long pension rolls testify.
Mr. Kirkley’s tables are arranged
by States, so that we can tell just how
many lives each one contributed to
tho cause. New York of course heads
the list, with a total of 46,534; then
Ohio comes next with 35,475 ;then Ill
inois, 34,384; then Pennsylvania, 33,-
183 and Indiana, with 26,672. Michi
gan, Missouri, Massachusetts, AVis
consin, lowa and Kentucky contribu
ted between 10,000, ail'd 15,000 each ;
all the rest less than 7,000 each.
It is worthy of remark that every
State now in the Union except South
Carolina, is represented on the list,
anil every Territory except Utah
There are only 15 from Georgia, 42
from Virginia, 78 from Mississippi,
141 from Texas, 215 from Florida, 345
from Alabama, and 360 from North
Carolina. Arkansas contributed 1,-
713 anil Tennessee 6,777. This le
'exclusive of colored troops, of whom
36,847 died, and does not take in non
combatants of either color.
The grand total of known deaths in
the Union army was nearly 3f{0,000.
Adding as many more for the’robel
losses—probably not over estimate—
and taking into account the Navies
on both side, and the prisoners who
died unaccounted for, we reach a to
tal of 800,000 men as the cost of the
war to this cou n try—nearly one eighth
of its entire voting population.—New
York Mail and Express.
When Mlu Kulchen Fell Ilnppy.
8. M. Simpson the distribution ci
gar store man, on June the 13th met
the Denver agent of the Louisiana
Slate Lottery, and bought fifteen
tickets from him, and sent ten of lliem
to Leadville to a customer who asked
to buy them, that night by mail, look
flvo of lliem home, gave two to Miss
KaicheH, his sistor-in-law. who had
told him she felt lucky and to pur
chase for her two fifths for two dol
lars in the Louisiana State Lottery
and retained three himself. Next
morning a message carno to the effect
that 8,999 had drawn the capital prize
Ho told Miss Kaicheu to look, and
found that hail No. 8,999"
The ticket was sent and
the money collected through the first
national bank of Denver, Col.—Ccn
ver Coi, News, Inly 13.