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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.