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Telegraph and Messenger
qa. , EPTEMBEB 17 1878,
THJB GEORGIA P«ES8.
A ijWiB for Mr?. Mary LaRoobe, Ma-
con;,i9 beld for postago in the Savannah
cffice,
Tnttas were twenty-three deaths in Sa*
vannah for the week ending September
7lb*of which fqur were whites, and two
of these infanta.
A Screven county merchant went on a
small drank one night last week at Savan*
r.aKj ncd woke np next morning in Frank*
IinSqcare minus $40, his watoh and ehain,
sleeve buttons, all his papers, pen knife
and revolver, and plus a splitting head-
oohaand enongh nansoa to vomit a regi
ment*
The August Chronicle refers as follows:
io.tbo renomination of Captain ‘‘Tote"
Smith in the Second distriot. Every
word is especially well deserved, and has
ouBemphatio endorsement:
ini'. Smith is an able and upright man,
and his public and private life is free
from stain or blemish. He served the
South with conspicuous gallantry in the
war between the North and Sontb, and
left a leg cn the battle field as a testimo-
ciat.ot his bravery and devotion. Since
the-wav he has been a staunch and un
compromising Democrat, and bora the
banner cf hi3 party when the Second
District was redeemed from Radical rule
four years ago. The firmness of his
character and his popular manners have
made him an influential member of Con
gress and enabled him to do good service
to bis State and section. Even ths Isb-
maelite wbo edits the New York bun will
be g ad to hear of Mr. Smith's success,
for he voted against the bill creating the
electoral commission and againet Mr.
Qartridgc-’s resolution affirming the va
lidity of Mr. Hayes’ title to the Presi
dency, and he has rs little use for the
"Fraud” in the White House as Mr. Da
na himself. It i3 very probable that the
Republicans will not put a candidate in
the field against Mr. Smith, but it is sta
ted that Mr. J&s. L. Sewaid, a ttimming
politician of Thomas county, will take
the field as an Independent, Mr. Sew-
ard’e extended experience in office-seek
ing should teach him that his candidacy
will certainly terminate in a humiliating
defeat. Mr. Smith will be elected by a
bandeotno majority over either regular
Radical or independent Radical.
The Conyers Courier claims Rockdale
as the banner temperance county in the
State, and also that “moonshine”
whisky is a thing cl tho past.
Blount and Coos.—We call the pre
vious question on, and ask the unanimous
adoption of the the following, from the
Monroe Advertiser:
Colonel James H. Blount has been
unanimously renominated for Coneress
in the Sixth District, and General Phil.
Cook has been similarly honored in the
Third District. The people of their re
spective districts have dene well to trust
again these able representatives. Both,
during the late Congress, won for them
selves honor and distinction, the former
as second on the Committee on Appto-
priatione, and the latter as the chairman
of the Committee on Public Buildings
and Grounds. Both are able, honest
and true, and do Georgia credit in the
national councils.
The editor of the Advertiser has been
overhauling the files of a paper printed
at Forsyth in December, 1838, and finds
the following prices ruling at that date:
Bsgging 18 cents per yard, bacon 10
oentB per pound, coffee 12 to 13 cents per
pound, corn 50 cents per bushel, flour $5
to $6 per barrel, lard 10 to 12 cents per
pound, sugar 8 to 12 cent3 per pound.
Judge Thomas W. White, of Milledge-
ville, one of the leading and most estima
ble and prominent citizens and lawyers
of that place, died last Thursday.
Ashamed or His Master.—Under this
bead the Old Capital lets tho following:
The other afternoon a well dressed far
mer reeled down Wayne street in a state
of brutish intoxication. At bis heels
trotted a shaggy little terrier, whose
shame for his master was both pitiful
and amusing. He kept close to tbo
drunkard, following bis staggers, but so
utterly mortified and miserable that he
would not raise bis head, and let his tail
dangle wretchedly. Occasionally the
man wonld stop and clutch a railing, and
standing there would sway to and fro.
This only increased the misery of doggie,
who sat himself down cn his haunches
and cast sneaking glances to the right
and left to seo if any one was observing.
The approach of the equinox seems to
have raised old scratch on a small scale
at Augusts. The News reports a serious
shooting match,and a dangerous stabbing
scraps in that city last Sunday. Benzine
in cne, and dunning a man for the mag
nificent sum of ono dollar in the other,
eeom to bare been at the bottom of tho
fun.
Mb. Brexsee, boss of the Western
Union at Augusta, has set up one of
Edison’s telephones at his residence, four
miles from the city, and now keeps the
boys stirring without moving ont of his
house.
Thebe were ever four thousand persons
at the camp meeting near Conyers, last
Sunday,
The indications at this distanoo arc
that tho Greenbaekoi-Lsboi-Working-
men’s candidate for Congress in the Sa
vannah district will have his cam9 chang
ed on the day of election from Corker to
Corked.
The Sumter Republican voices our sen
timents and thoso cf all who know Gen.
Cook, when it says “hia (Cook’s) record
is unexceptionable. He haB won and
justly dfBf rves the confidence of the peo
ple. He rtitds as high as any mac in
the State for politioa! integrity and per
sonal worth. The Macon Convention did
right in xe-cominating him, for he is un
doubtedly the choice of the people.”
Three Cheers for Friend Grubb cf
the Darien Gazette.—This gentleman
was a Tompkins man all over in tho late
Congressional contest in the First dis
trict, but now. like a true patriot and
Democrat, yields grace.'ully to the popu
lar will, and says:
Wo fc.ko pleasure this week in placing
at our masthead the name of Hon. John
C. Nicholla, of Pierca county, as the
Democratic nominee for Congress from
tho First District of Georgia. The Cu
rette heartily endorses CoL Nicholls, and
will do all in its power to elect him.
Jadge Tompkins, too, we learn, sup
ports the nomination of Col. John C.
Nicholls. We are tell that tho Hon.
Julian Harlridge and ex-U. 8. Senator
Norwood will stamp the district for CoL
Nicholls. This is a3 it shonld be. Col.
Nicholls has always been cn hand in the
different campaigns, and has worked un
ceasingly for the success of the Demo
cratic paity. It is bnt fair, therefore,
that these diatinguishedgentlemeSshould
slump the dsitrict in his interest.
T.rn is nolle and magnanimone, and
- nl contrast with some of tho old
’ adereand organs of the Seventh
lazctie cfflrms that at present Da-
'very healthy and lazy.”
Growth or Coral.—From oae of
cinnicationa of si exceedingly la-
2 co-respondent of the Darien
. . n.e, weoUp the following;
The rale at which corels grow is an
interesting question, but not lnily deter
mined for want of sufficient data. A sin
gle mass standing m clear water would
inoreaeo more rapidly than corals in a
reef. If at the rate cf an Inch in six years,
a dome twenty feet in diameter would re
quire about one thousand four hundred
year?. Some species seem to grow more
rapidly than this, bnt the inoresBB o
reefs is slower, notwithstanding additions
from shells and other soaroes. On b co
ral plantation, as a reef may he called, a
portion la always unproductive. There
are barren reefs ontbearea, where Band
or sediment destroy polypus and retard
its growth. The investigations of Prof.
Agszzis at Key West indiostes a growth
cf six inohea in one hundred years. He
says: "If we allow twite that rate of
growth not Ites than seven thousand years
wonld be required for the great reef at
that place, and hundreds of thousands of
years for tfie ooral growths which form
the peninsula of Florida.
Rain la much needed in Molntosb coun
ty for the late riee, oorn, potato and pea
crops.
A vert large crop of mast is reported
this year in tho forests of Georgia. Good
for the hogs, coons and ’opossums.
Madison Journal: Several independ
ents from Clark ware in our city on last
Taesday. After dramming the toWD, they
retained, sad and dejeoted.
Bainbbxbge and Columbus Railroad.
A movement is on foot to complete thiB
enterprise, and we notice the following
call for a meeting advertised in the Lump
kin Independent:
The citizens of the county interested in
the completion cf the Bainbridge and Co
lumbus Road, are requested to moot in
the Conrt-houso at Lampkin on tho sec
ond Saturday in September, instant, for
the purpose of devising farther measures
for premoiiog this important enterprise.
J. W. Stokes,
J. M. Scott,
T. W. Battle,
R. F. Watts,
Committee.
Sons eyes are prevailing generally, in
Stewart county.
Cctton pickeri fiad plenty to do at 30
cents per hundred in Stewart.
Says the Berrien County News: "Car
rying whisky to church is practiced by'
some—espeoially at "big" meetings.
A Noble Benefactor.—From the Co
lumbus Times we see the Eagle & Phenix
Company and its operatives have con
tributed no lees than $1,055 to the yellow
fever sufferers, The total contribution
of Columbus, foot up about $2,000.
Mb. J. W. Eardsn, a valuable citizen
of Columbus, is dead.
The Augusta Chronicle and Constitu
tionalist, after publishing a resume of the
communistic greenbseker platform in Sa
vannah, pithily remarks: It will be seen
from this synopsis of the Savannah
Nationals’ declaration of principles that
the new party in the First District is at
tempting to cover a great deal of ground,
and it may be added that the platform
has more plank3 than the candidate on it
will receive votes next November.
Fort Valley Mirror: We are informed
that Mr. Ed. Moody, of Fort Valley,\haa
a baby five months old that is a natural
dancer, and that upon hearing any music
it will go through the figures very cred
itably, and that upon patting the hands
it will slio respond by motion of its feet.
This is tho most wonderful baby ws ever
beard of, and this is a nut for anti-dancers
to crack.
The Outlook in the Ninth.—Atlanta
Constitution: Tho campaign in the Ninth
district is not as heated as it might be.
What General Toombs calls Speers ac
tivity has apparently already won the
race for Billups. The canvass is o very
earnest one, but it dce3 not have about it
that peculiar ferocity which marks a
struggle where both aid is are doubtful of
■access. Behind Colonel Billups and sus
taining him is a background of Demo
cratic assurance and confidence that no
effort Mr. Speer may make can overcome 1
The Eight Kind of River Boat.—
Columbus Enquirer-Sun: The steamer
Holt, as will be seen in these columns,
arrived on Saturday morning. She was
heavily laden, having 402 bales of cotton
aboard, besides other freight, and to
make matters worse a drenching rain fell
in the afternoon, which increased the
weight of the cotton. With this heavy
load she drew only 291 inches of water.
She is a commodious steamer, of very
light draught, and we predict a prosper*
ous future for her. She left at 8 o’clock
yesterday with a good freight, and com
manded by Captain Charlie Klink, a gen
tleman who thoroughly understands bi3
business.
Editorial Change.—Mr. Joe O. Far*
rel has retired from the Athens Chronicle
and Mr. E. H. Stone announces the edi
torial management.
Athens Chronicle: ProfeBaor W. H.
Waddell, we learn, has taken advantage
of the present vacation, to enjoy the lux
ury of a Northern tonr. May he have a
pleasant time, and return muoh improved
in health. 4
Rome Courier:—Greenback Mextino.
—There is to be a mass meeting at Dal
ton to-day by tho Greenback party. Hon.
A. R. Wright, of this city has acocepted
an invitation to address the meeting. It
is understood that no reference is to be
made to the morits of the present candi
dates for Congressional honors in this
district.
Cedartown Record: Captain West is
now making about twenty tons of iron
per day.
The latest improvement is a negro and
a mule working side by side in harness to
a double wagon.
Business,—Valdosta Times: Business
is getting to bo very brisk now. Nearly
or quite a thousand bales ef the new crop
has been received, and it has scattered a
good deal of money through the country.
Valdosta has been steady in her onward
progress as a business mart, and by en
ergy and good management she will rise
to a still greater prominence. Let her
roll—on.
The Times learns that one gentleman in
Brcoks county, Mr. D. P. Gibson, will
make thirteen thousand gallons of scup-
pernong wine this year. This beats cot
ton cut of sight.
The Milledgevillo Union and Recorder
refers as follows to the renomination of
Mr. Blount:
The unanimity with which this gentle
man was renominated for Congress by the
district convention which assembled in
this city last Wednesday, must be pecu
liarly gratifying to himself and friends.
No other name was presented to the con
vention, and he reoeived the vote of every
county on the first ballot. This result
eannot be attributed to a lack of good
material in the district,for there are many
men in Bibb, and other counties of the
distriot, who would have done great honor
to the station had they been chosen by
the people. But Col. Blount had dis
charged hia duties as a representative so
ably and falthfally, and the people were
ao well pleased with hia official conduot,
that all opposition tn him waa disarmed.
That he will be triumphantly elected,
there is no question. Independentism,
will not dare to raise its disturbing figure
in the Sixth distriot, and the Republican
party will not venture to antagonise Col.
Blount.
Mr. E. A. Ennis killed a negro named
Jack Simmons near Milledgeville last
Sunday, under the following circumstan
ces:
Two negroes names Pearson and
another negro, name not now known,
agreed to have a fisticuff. After fight*
iag some time, Jack Simmons came to
the spot, tried to stop them, brandishing
his pistol and threatening to shoot.
Another negro, Jack Trawick, unde of
Gas Pearson, seeing Simmons about to
shoot, got a pole and tried to run Jack
oft. Mr. Ben Ennis, hearing of the fuss,
(and being officer of the peace) told Jack
to put his pistol up. Jack refused to do
so. Ennis told him if he didn’t he’d get
a stick and make him do eo. While he
stepped aside to get a stick, Mr. E. A.
Esnis went up and said, ‘‘Jack, put that
pistol up, air; if you don’t Pll make you.’’
Jack put his pistol under his coat, not
taking his hand off, and stepped back a
few paces a*d drew tie pistol again, in
the attitude of shooting Mr. E. A. Ennis,
who seeing this, commenced firing, and
shot three times. Jack fell, and while
falling shot three times.
“In his letter accepting the Damoeratlc
renomination for Congress in the Third
district ef this State," says tha Augusta
Chronicle, "General Phil Cook re-endorses
the State and National platform of the
Dsmooratio party, and saye he shall sus
tain the majorities received by him in pre
vious eleotions, whether his opponent be a
straight-out Democrat, an Independent
Democrat, or a straigbl-ont Radical. If
General Cook continues to go on la this
way, the first tbiDg he Knows tho peopls
will get mad and elect him Governorof
Georgia.”
The same paper baa discovered that
the champion talker of ths last session
of the House of Representatives was Mr.
Elen, of Illinois, who was on the floor
728 times—an average of five times per
day from Deoember until tho adjourn
ment in June. Old Conger was on the
floor 404 times during the aame period.
In the case of Eden, retribution seems to
have followed auch Jdendiah confine', for
he was defeated for renomination.
Jail Delivery at Marietta-—Under
this head tho Constitution has the follow-
iag:
Marietta had a sensation Sunday morn
ing. It wes tcld all over the streets that
the jail had been bioken and four of the
prisoners confined therein had escaped.
It appears from tha testimony of persons
living near the jail that tho escape occur
red shortly after midnigtt, and it is also
very evident that the prisoners were as
sisted in the work of breaking out by ac
complices ontside.
There wero horses waiting for them,
and they were heard going in different
directions at great apeed.
An examination of the jail showed that
tho prisoners sawed their way out near
the door. They were undoubtedly fur
nished the instruments with which to
achieve their freedom by friends who
awaited them outside with horses for
their use. The sheriff tried to find some
trace of the escaped prisoners but with
little success. They went at breakneck
speed and will probably hide as effectu
ally aa possible. All day Sunday the
search was kept np to co effect. Yester
day morning, to the surprise of the com
munity, one of the escaped prisoners, F.
C. Rollins, under aentenoe for assault
with intent to murder, returned and vol
untarily gave himself cp to the sheriff.
He eaya he was rot in the plan of the
other three to escape, and that they were
gone before he know it. He eaw the
aperture and walked out into freedom
himself. After getting ont and roaming
around awhile ho concluded to return and
give himself up, as he is confident of a
new trial and an acquittal.
He eay3 he knows nothing of the
wheresbout3 of the other prisoners. His
story is generally credited and his action
will go strongly in his favor.
The eheriff of Cobb county, Mr. W. P.
Stevens, has offered a reward of $25’each
for the arrest of the other refugees.
The same paper learns from a private
letter recently received in Atlanta from
New Orleans that “Mr. E. Georgi and his
wife, together with his two small chil
dren, died in that oity a few days since
from yellow fever. The fatal disease
carried the entire family to the grave in
less than a week. The husband and father
took sick first and was soon foliowed by
his wife. Tho former died a few days
alter and then the wife breathed her last
from the same terrible disease. A few
days after their death tbo two children
and the last members of the family con
tracted the fever which proved of only a
short duration, and they were transported
to the bnrying ground and interred by
the side of their parents.
Many of our readers will remember
Georgi. He wa3 for a long time aasoci-
ated with Mr. Pelligrini in running the
terra cotta yrorks near our city, which
firm did an extensive business daring the
period of itB existence. When the firm
dissolved several years ago Georgi camo
into the city and opened a fruit and con
fectionary establishment on Marietta
street, near the capital, where he did a
most successful business prior to hia
selling out his interest and removing to
New Orleans, where he lived np to his
death. While he lived here he managed
by hard work and strict economy to lay
up quite an amount, and must have died
well off. Georgi was an Italian by birth.
He has lived in this country for tho past
twenty-five years. The fatal fever did
not leave ono of the family, who era now
buried aide by side iR a graveyard at
New Orleans.”
We learn from the Sandexsville Courier
that Hr. .Henry Hawkins, of that coun
ty, fell dead one day last week,
while sitting on the aide of his bed.
Also that Captain Frank Brantley died
last Friday week of eongeBtive fever.
Also that Captain T. W. Kent, of John
son connty, was thrown from a wagon last
week, one wheel of whioh.ran over and
seriously injured him.
The Swainsbpro;HeraM says ten young
men of Irwin oonnty were tried laBt week
before a 'squire for “kidnapping a young
lady and taking her to a place where a
minister and her sweetheart were await
ing hor, and then and there being aooes-
sory to her being joined in the holy bonds
of matrimony to her said sweetheart.
They were acquitted.”
The same paper relates the following:
Trbbible Accident.—On Friday after
noon last, as a daughter ot Mr. White R.
Smith, aged about twelve years, woa re
turning from aohool, aha stopped at a
house near her father’s place where a
quantity of seed cotton was atowed and
commenced to play in the seed. It seems
that the children had been playing on the
ootton before and had dag s hole about
four feet doep in it. Itia supposed that
while playing on the oottoD, she fell bead
foremost into this hols, and beingnnable
to extricate herself, she was suffocated, aa
life was extinct when she was found.
“ Jack Plane,” in a late Knoxville
(Tenn.) letter to tho Savannah News,
gives the following account of the doings
of a certain Mrs. Nelson, who presides
over a negro school at Jonesboro, in that
State:
A Mrs. Nelson, a woman of culture and
brillainoy of mind, but evidently of moat
wretched taste, presides over this insti
tution. The moat advanced doctrines of
miscegenation and social equality are
said to form one of the chief points of
instruction in this school. And to give
these doctrines force, so far as equality
is concerned, it is practiced by the prin
cipal and her subordinates. She boasts
of it, and declares it is no sacrifice for
her to associate with and be escorted
arm in atm with a negro man. Her only
associations aro with the negroes. She
has a right to choose her n6EociataB, and
if the indulgence of her taste in this mat
ter affected her only I would never
have spoken of it. Of course she is
let severely alone by the better olass
of citizens, but her influence is
being felt by the poorer class of whites
and by the negroes themselves. Some of
them declare that they will not work for
certain parties, because they wont let
their servants eat at the same table with
the family. X are ^lid to note tho fact
that there are certain colored people who
have no sympathy with this effort of Mrs.
Nelson ts establish social equality of tho
races, and repel every advance of this
wonld-be reformer. Thera is one in
stance so striking and tho rebuke so
keenly administered that I will be par
doned for. inserting it here. Fred Max
well and his wife, are industrious colored
peopls living just above the village, in
their own house, earned by their own
labor. Margaret Maxwell refused all
invitations to call npon Mrs. Nelson.
This was a matter greatly regretted by
Mrs. N-, and not to be outdone, she made
ber way to Fred Maxwell’s home and
announced herself to Margaret, saying,
“As you have not called on me yet, I
thought I would waive all formalities,
and come ont and see you.” Margaret,
still standing, replied: "No, Mrs. Nelson,
I hare not called on you, and I do not
expect to aor did I expect you to call on
me. It is not customary in this conntry
for white ladies to call on colored people.
I visit among my own color. ' Good morn
ing. Mrs. Nelson.”
The Rome Courier says a fire last Sat
urday night destroyed the Cohen mill in
that plaoe together with 900 buaheh of
wheat, 300 of rye, 9,000 pounds Hour and
a considerable quantity of corn, shorts
meal, bran, eta The property was in
sured In the Southern Mutual at Athens,
Georgia, for $5,000. It was oae of the
best water mills in the country, and val
ued at $20,000.
Some Kallroad Lair.
In the case of the Southwestern Rail
road Company.agaicat Hankerson, deci
ded on the 3rd inst., the Supreme Court
enunciate a very important principle.
Some idea of the case may be gathered
from the abridgment which appears in
this issue of the Telegraph and Messen
ger.
The decision i3 based on the following
sections of the code:
Section 2972. If the plaintiff by or
dinary care could have aToided tbo con
sequences to himself caused by the de
fendant’s negligence he is not entitled
to recover. Bat in other cases the de
fendant is not relieved, although the
plaintiff may iu some way have contrib
uted to the injury sustained.
. Section 3063, A railroad company shall
be liable for any damage douo to persons,
stock or other property by the running of
the locomotives, or cars, or other ma
chinery of such company, or for damage
done by any person in tbo employment
and Betvice of such company, unless the
company shall make it appear that
their agents have exercised all ordinary
&nd reasonable care and diligence—tbe
presumption in all cases being against
the company.
Section 3034. No parson shall recover
damage from a railroad company for in
jury to himself or his property where the
same is done by his consent, or is caused
by his own negligence. If the complain
ant and the agents of the company aro
both at fault, tho former may recover,
but the damages shall bo diminished by
the j ary in proportion to the amount of
default attributable to him."
It will be seen from the decision that
the court hold the latter portion of the
last mentioned section inapplicable to all
cases where the party is suing a railroad
for physical injuries to himself. It is
not the first time the court have so held.
The effect of this decision is somewhat
singular. If a man lie down on a rail
road track and go to sleep, the engineer
of a passing train may run over him with
impunity, (provided, probably, the man
is not killed). No whistle need bo
tlowD, no bell rung, and tho train need
not be checked. No matter how negli
gent tbe officers of the train may have
been, tho law shields them and their com
pany from all liability.
If, however, a cow should happen to
stray npon tho track, or a sheep, or a
horse, then, unless the brakes are prompt
ly whistled down, tbe bell rung, the en
gine reversed, and all the energies of the
officers and agents used to avoid injury to
the oow, or tho sheep, or the horse, the
railroad company is liable for the dama
ges that ensue—nay, more, Is liable even
though the owner of suoh stock may have
turned them out upon the track of the
railroad.
So muoh higher is the estimate the law
places on the preservation of property
than on the safety of the human body!
For my part, I incline to the ruling of
Judge (Jriap iu the Court below, but the
Supreme Court having spoken, we must
remit the matter to the Legislatnre.
Ciyitas.
One Day of BXemptils Horrors.
Letter to tho Cincinnati Commercial.]
St. Martin street is by no means one
which wonld be selected in oidinaiy
times as a residence street. It is inhab
ited principally by the lower classes of
whites, negroes and in occasional blocks
by demi-monde. The advantage of hav
ing a French woman, a former resident
of New Orleans, as a landlady, and her
assurance that should I bo taken with
the prevailing fever ehe would give me
her undivided attention, induced me to
take up.my abode with her at No. 37 St.
Martin street. This morning early a
lond rap on my door awakened me from a
short, troubled sleep—the first I had in
twenty-four hours—and in response to
my inquiry at to what waa desired, wsb
informed by my landlady that she had
just discovered a house in tho immediate
vicinity in which were three colored men
—one dead, tho other two delirionB
with fever—and, said the kind-
hearted lady, ‘ For God’s sake go for a
dootor or they will all bo dead in an
honr.” Harrying from the bouse In quest
of a doctor, I was Bomewhat startled by
moans and cries of "Oh, God! oh, God!”
emanating from a small briok house, No.
18 HL Martin street. Entering, I found
on the bed n little girl, apparently about
eight years old, yellow as gold, with lips
and bands stained with the fatal black
vomit. Athorside, in Iheaame bed, was
another child two years yonnger, with the
fire ef the terrible fever slowly but surely
eonsuming her young life, while the
mother, half orazed with the agony of her
surroundings, almost exhausted, laying
npon the floor calling upon God to com-
foit her. Leaving this sad soene of death,
and approaohing the commencement of
St. Martin street (at Beale street), a col
ored woman, with bloodshot eyes, dish
eveled hair and gtief-strloken appearance
asked. “Would masea bo so good bb to
send the funeral man; her two chil
dren .were dead and her husband
would aoon follow'." As I tam
ed the corner of St. Martin and Beale
I encountered one of tho visitors of.tbe
Howards, who, with the bravery which
characterizce many of them, immediately
accompanied me to the house No. 32 St.
Martin etreet, where tho tbreo colored
men resided. Ia it wo found a eight be
fore which even the bravest heart would
flatter. Oa a pallet on the floor, half
nude, with eyes protruding wide from
their sockets, firm-set teeth and dark
congealed blood elowly cozing from his
nostrils, lay the dead body of Frank
Johnson, while in a rudo bed near by
tossed in wild delirium two mulatto men,
one of whom, after almost super-human
efforts to batTe with his appioiching
dissolution, gave one loud, long scream,
grasped at an invisible hand, seized it
and quietly pss.ed away from earth.
These are but tbe experiences of to-day.
Reminds Him of a Little Story
Boston Herald.!
Ben Sutler's charges against the party
ha has been acting with remind as of the
Irish woman who sought ft divorce from
her husband on the ground that he had
been unfaithful to her. “And what makes
yon think he has bsen unfaithful to yon?”
asked her lawyer. “I have raison to be-
lave that be was not the father of my last
child!” she replied. The “widow” has
evidently got some offspring which the
Republican party w»s not the father of.
We Second tbe Notion-
St. Louis Globe Democrat 1
The qnurel between tha Arm} end the
Indian Bureau, su to tbe paternity of ihe
half breed papooses that jostle each other
at some of tbe ogsucie?, in grosrlag wea
risome. Let tbe debaters * pod their is
sues” and behave better in the fntcre.
Decisions of tire Supreme Court | teis embraced in the request tare been
of Georgia, Delivered Septem
ber 3d,'1878.
Abridged from ths Atlanta Constitution by N
B. Harris, ol the Macon Ear.
Southwestern Railroad Co., vs. Han
korson. Gsse from Msoon.
Warner C. J.—On the trial the defend-
ent requested the oourt to give the fol
lowing oharge to tbe jury: _
“If tha plaintiff, Hahkerson, In ft state
of •• intoxication and in sonsequence of
suoh intoxioation, wandered off from the
pnblio road and its orosalng over the rail
road traok and sat down, laid down, or
fell down on tho railroad track, between
the stringers in eonsequesoe of such
drunkenness, and lay there in a stria of
dranken insensibility, and the train of
the railroad ran over and injured him in
that condition, then the plaintiff oannot
xeoover anything for snob injuries, and
your verdlet in such esse should be for
the defendant.”
The court gave the charge as request
ed, with tho following qualification:
“Provided, that the railroad company has
made it appear that their agents exercised
all ordinary and reasonable care and dill?
genes to prevent suoh injury.”
Held, that if the requost was legal, and
we assume that;it was, the qualification
was error. If the plaintiff was volunta
rily drank, and in that condition placed
himself on the defendant’s railroad track,
he was not entitled to recover under the
provisions of the 2972d section of the
cede, whether the defendant was negli
gent or not.
Judgment reversed.
Bolton vs. DuEcan. Certiorari, Lee.
Warner, C. J.—A rent note, payable
to Turner & Bolton, or bearer had on it
the following endorcements:
I transfer the within note to J. H. Bel
ton to do as ho pleases with it on the 16th
March, 1878.
[Signed.] H. B. Turner.
Albany, Ga., March 17th, 1577.
For value received, I transfer the with
in note to N. F. Mercer with all the pow
ers vested in me as landlord to take con
trol of and aot in the oapacity as landlord,
etc., and I am to collect tho rents and
pay proceeds to him.
[Signed.] J. H. Bolton.
The Court below ruled that a distress
warrant in favor of Bolton did not lie, on
the ground that he had assigned the
rent note. Held, that the indorsement
of Bolton on the note was notan absolute
but a qualified endorsement and the
remedy by distress warrant would lie.
J udgment affirmed.
Hawkins et al. vs. Georgia National
Bank. Complaint, from Sumter.
Warner, C. J.—The only question
made in this ease is whether a garnishee
who has been summoned as such by vir
tue of a void process is liable for interest
on tho mcney in his hands acoording to
tho provisions ef the 3546th section of
the code. We think he is liable for in
terest, espeoially when he is not made to
appear that he kept the money set apart
to answer the summons of garnishment
and did sot use it in his own business.
Judgment affirmed.
Green, guardian and administrator tb.
Green, etc. Motion to enter judgment,
from Lee.
Warner, O. J.—When the parties to a
bill agreed on a settlement of tho matters
in litigation, and a decree was to betaken
at the next term of the court, iu accord
ance with the argument, and in his ans
wer to the motion to enter up said decree,
the defendant set up certain matters oc
earring between tbe time of settlement
and tbe making of the motion to enter up,
but offered no evidence to sustain the
same.
Held that there was no error in enter
ing the decree complained of on the
statement of facts contained in the rec
ord; the defendant’s answer was mere
pleading, end he offered no evidence to
sustain tbe allegations contained tnereiq,
did not even ask tho court for a rule nisi
calling npon tho plaintiffs to show cause
why tbo decree should not bo entered up
in accordance with the agreement of the
parties,
Let the judgment of the court below
be affirmed.
Merrill vs. Pemberton. Irj auction,
from Felton.
Bleckley, J.—Generally a State oourt
cannot restrain the infringement or the
nse of letters patent granted by tha
United States. Though, as a means of
enforcing covenant or express contract
between the parties, the jurisdiction to
restrain may not be deficient, tho foots of
the presont case do not entitle tho plaintiff
in error, nnconditionally, to an in junc
tion, nor tho defendant in error, either
to an injunction or a reoeiver. Only in a
very extraordinary oaso, if at all, should
the chanoellor, before final decree, en
gage his court, through a reoeiver, In the
mannfaolure and Ealeof patent or proprio
tary medioines, and require the parties to
disclose to the receiver secret information
necessary for beginning and carrying on
the business.
Judgment paitially revcissd.
Drinkwater vs. Moreman. Equity,
from Dougherty.
Blxcklbt, J.—1. In a suit npon ft
warranty of title, an eviction is establish
ed when it is shown that the land was
levied upon under a judgment against
the personfrom whom the warrantor de
rived title, of older date than the warnin'
ty, that a claim was interposed by the
warrantee, of which claim the warrantor
had notice whilst it waa pending, that
on the trial of the claim the land was
found subject, that it was afterwards sold
under the levy, and that the warrantee
haB yielded, or been turned out of pos
session.
2. The date of the contract, not of the
breach, is the material matter in a con
test with the homestead right: A jndg.
ment or deoree resting on a covenant of
warranty older than the constitution of
16GS, will prevail over a homestead right
under that constitution though the evic
tion took plaoe long after the constitution
was adopted.
3. When one holding land with warran
ty of title is adjudicated^ bankrupt, and
the land is set apart to him by the as
signee as exempt in b&nkruptoy, his right
to avail himself of the covenant of war
ranty, npon a subsequent evioiion,4s un
affected. It makes no difference that the
land, before it was set apart as exempt,
waa offered for sale by the assignee, and
bid off by a third person for the baDk-
rapt’a wife, the sale never having been
consummated—no money paid, and no
conveyances exeouted.
Jadgment affirmed.
Braswell v?. Saber. Ejectment, from
Sumter.
Bleckley, J.—1. The wife’s consent
to an absolute deed, made in 1875, to se
cure the payment of money, was not
necessary to pace the legal title, whether
a bond for reconveyance was given by the
creditor or not.
2. Tbe debt being not paid, if it was
not due, tbe defendant should have made
that fact appear as matter of defence.
The legal title wss in the creditor from
the execution and delivery of the deed,
and a right to enter was consequent
upon such title, unless negatived by evi
dence, no bond for titles, nor stipulation
between the parties as to tha possession
appearing.
Judgment affirmed.
Everett vs. The State. Murder, from
Maeon.
Bleckley, J.—1. What the prisoner
said on being arrested Borne hours after
tbe assassination, and two miles from tha
place where it was committed, is not evi
dence in his favor.
2. Threats by tho prisoner against the
life of the deceased are admissible in evi
dence. though made some years before
the assassination.
8. One wbo is not an expert or prac
ticing physician may, after describing
the wound, give his opinion that it caused
and may give his opinion, with
thv reasons therefor, that tbe deceased
Co 1J mt possibly have inflicted tbe
w.m.-.da on herself.
4 Even in a case of bomioide, a re
quest to charge may bo denied, if the m»t-
fnlly and oorreetly snbmute# to the jury
in the general charge sb given.
5. Where the whole charge la in the re
cord, and ths same taken altogether is
fair and foil, and lays deWB EKnstautlaUy
the law of tbe case as sppllaable to the
facts in evidence, mere inaccuracy In some
ot the language will be treated as imma
terial, tbe oorreotion being virtually made
by the general import and spirit of the
instructions.
Jadgment affirmed.
THE STORY OF A FBINCfiSS,
Stolen from Hadagafear and
Sold as a Slave In Maw York.
Prom the New Yoik Bun J .
Near the end of the last oeatnry Archi
bald Mercer, the owner of Mttl property
at Millstone, N. J., bought a girl in this
city. It ia the legend about her that her
features were almost as dear cut as thoso
of a Caucasian, and her complexion of a
light copper hue. She was slender and
shapely, and her bearing was proud, al
most haughty. After she became some
what reconciled to Mr. Mercer’s service,
and cculd speak English, the beau
tiful , young slave teld a sad
story of ber life. She was, she said,
a King’s daughter, iu her
native land, Madagascar, she wore a dress
fashioned of tbe plumBgo of the bright-
est-hued birds. Her head-dress was also
of feathers, and her neok, arms and an
kles wero enoircled with bands of gold and
strings of mauy-oolored heads. One day
she wandered to tho seashore to pick np
shells for a necklace. She wss alone and
intent upon her paBtime. Suddenly she
felt herself grasped from MMad by rnde
hands. She had been captured by the
oiew of a slave ship. The slavers tied a
handkerchief over ber month and carried
her to their boat. Then they rowed swift
ly to their ship.
Dreading her father’s anger, the Cap.
tain ordered sail to be made at once.
The captive Princess was forced to ex
change her costly attire for a coarse cct
ton gown, and to herd with the slaves
ironed between decks. No manacles
were put on her, becanse she was pass
ively obedient to every command. The
slavo ship entered a port of the United
States, and the girl was brought to this
city for sal?.
Within a few years the osptivs Prinoess
fell In love with a fallow slave, of a lighter
hne than his oomrades, and they were
married. Their first child, ft daughter,
was born about 1773. They called her
Racbol. About this time Ur. Meroer, the
girl’s owner, sold his property and moved
to Newark. There Theodora Frelinghuy
sen, one of tbe founders of the well-known
New Jersey family, of whiah locator Fre
linghuysen is a member, weo the hand cf
his daughter Charlotte. Mr, Meroer gave
the slave prinoess and her ohild Rachel
to his daughter on her.wedding day.
When Rachel grew to womanhood ehe
was as beautiful as her mother had been.
She was married to Samnel Williamson, a
slave belonging to Mr. Frederick Freling-
huysen. Six children, two of whom ere
living, w6to the fruit of this marziage.
Rachel’s mother lived until she was
fully one hundred years of age. She was
in her later years an object of affectionate
solicitude on the part of the Frelinghuy-
sens. She was not allowed to do any
work, and at 11 o’elcck every day a glass
cf fine old wine was sent to her, with her
master’s and mistress’ best wishes. She
was of incorruptible honesty, trad jewels,
plate and money of very Urge valuo were
often left undor her charge by tbe Fre-
linghuysens.
Rachel, who has been living for many
years in the household of Mr. Dumont
Frelinghuysen, a brother of the Senator,
and a gentleman of independent means,
in Somerville, N. J., fell into her dotage
about a year ago, wnen she had attained
her 104th year. On Saturday, 10th inst.,
Mr. Frelinghuysen determined to send
her at once to hor daughters house cn
the outskirts cf Somerville. Rachel
seemed pleased with the change. On
Sunday her daughter, wbo is about eighty
years of age, had a great mustering of her
friends to show off Rachel,, ox “Mam'
my,” as ehe wss generally called. On
Monday Raohel was in fine spirits, and
ate heartily. In the evening she was
stricken with paralysis of the right side
and throat. She lingered, without solid
food, until Tuesday last, and then died.
Her body was interred in the colored cem
etery near Somerville, by the side of a
colored woman who died at the ago of
1C3. The whole Frelinghuysen family,
including the Senator, attended the funer
al in their oatrisees.
Mr. Dnmont Frelinghuysen said yes
terday that he does not doubt that Rachel
Williamson, w&s about 105 years of sgO'
She often spoke of playing with the Mer
cer children, who if they were living,
wonld be between 103 and 107 years of
age.
Death on the Ball.
Montbzus^* Go., Sept. 8, 1878.
Editors lelegraph and Messenger: Mr.
John Patrick, an estimable old citizen,
resident of Oglethorpe, Georgia, was yes
terday run evsr by the down through
freight train that wss following on sched
ule of regular passenger, due nere at
10:45.
Mr. Patrick, who was Infirm and total
ly deaf, had waited near the depot here,
until the passenger train moved off, and
then started fox Oglethorpe, keeping the
track. The old gentleman failed to no
tice that the passenger engine was “flag
ged” and had nearly reached the Flint
River bridge, unconscious of any danger
behind, when the through freight came
sweeping along around tho cuive near
tho bridge and in spite of the reported
efforts of the engineer, the engine struck
him, breaking bstli legs and tossing him
from the track to the hard embankment,
breaking his neck also by the concussion.
The engineer reversed his engine and
sanded the track, so reported, but failed
to stop in time. As soon as the train was
checked they took the old gentleman up
and placed him in the cab, delivering his
body to bis family and friends at Ogle
thorpe.
He has left a wife and several children
who, with many friends, passed through
our town to day, cn the way to the family
burying grounds on his plantation in
thi3 county. Respectfully,
Subscriber.
A Wicked Slander.
N. X. Commercial Advertiser.!
It is difficult for a man. .who has not
taken advantage of the bankrupt aot to
hold sp his head in Chicago.
YheyAnst ‘ OH.”
Chicago Tribute.!
Tho Chinese must go now and no mis
take. Kcainey put it teveta the other
night in Jersey City, audit was carried
unanimously.
Dauntless Patriots.
Washington Star.l
Thera are, already, applications at the
pcal-cffioe department for the petitions
of postmaster at Memphis and at Grena-
day, made vaoant by the yellow fever.
All Provided For.
Washington 8 tar.]
Both- Captain Jenks and Agne3 are
said to be on the pay roll of the New Or
leans custom house. Likewise a brother
of Mrs. Agnes.
Amen.
Toledo Bee.l
Kearney east of tho Rocky Mountains
is a fish out of water. Let him go back
to California and howl with the hoodlums.
or Coarse.
Indianapolis Ecntinel.l
The Chinese had an Edison in 968 who
invented ft telephone similar to the one
that has made such a stir In the world of
fate.
Gen. Joe Jobnston’s Platform.
Letter accepting Congressional nomination.!
I bold the law establishing national
banks, Including the prohibitory tax (10
per cent.) on other banks, to be entirely
unoonstitutionsl. and therefore ought to
bo repealed as scon as possible; tbe na
tional bask notes to bo called in gradual
ly by the substitution of redeemable Uni
ted States cotes, and tbe issue of suoh
notes to be increased until snffioiect for
tbe wants of all parts of tho oountrj. I
advocate, in other words, a bands nee of
paper money, equal in value to gold and
silver and receivable for sll dues to the
government. Bring a life-long Democrat
I stand upon the Dsmooratio platform in
this and ail other politioal question?,
namily : Striot oonsttnotion of the Con
stitution, close economy in all brsnobes of
tbs governmtnt and the extinotion of the
nations! debt pradnally, bnt as soon
possible. I have olwayB been
hostile to tbe present tariff, and wonld be
so to any other discriminating like it in
favor of oae seotlon of tbe country—that
a small one—to tbe injury of all others.
I am opposed also, and very strongly, to
all t*xes bearing unequally upon the dif
ferent sections of the pountry, like that
on tobacco, which extorts from Virginia ■
muoh larger contribution to the United
Stales revenue than Is paid by the six
New England States, not leia than three
times richer, and which, slio, makes the
poo; man pay at least 200 per oent. on the
tobaooo he uses and the rich from 30 to
40 per oent.
Dreadl'nl fltorlallty. .
New Haven Register.J
The greenback papers are having a
rather hard time of it. Since last March
foity-ono “greenback newspapers” in Il>
licois, Michigan and Wisconsin have
given up the ghost—seven within the
pasttwo weeks.
Old Cock Eye’s Pica.
Boston Herald.]
General Bntler is sending the invita
tions to his party. He is inviting the voters
to invite him to be a candidate on the
grouud.lhat hois a bald-headed son of
toil.
Tire Latest Folmeai Platform.
Philadelphia Times. |
A reform candidate in Virginia an
nounces as his platform, “No interest on
money,and death to lawyers.” How would
Butler like to stand on it?
Jim’s Opinion ol Ben.
Boston Herald.]
“My own personal opinion of Butler,
founded upon some years of observation,”
says Mr. Blaine, “is that he’s a lamenta
bly successful cross between the fox and
the hog.”
An Exaggerated Estimate
Nashvillo American.]
Probably at tbe last dreadful day, when
Gabriel sounds his trumpet, if he doesn’t
stop once or twice between the blasts, and
shout “General, General! Colonel, I saj!
not more than two fiftb3 of the men in
American cemeteries will get np.
Gospel Tram.
Burlington Hawkeye.1
Careful physicians, who have thor
onghly investigated the matter, say that
writing on both sides of the paper will
predispose the system to the yellow fever,
and is one of the primary causes of that
disease. We trust our correspondents,
especially those who write poetry and
pcl.tics, will remember this.
Pooling his Issues to Some Pur
pose.
Wa»hington Post.]
Mr. Cassidy, who lives a few miles from
thiB city, has been “pooling his issues” to
some purpose. Mrs. Cassidy has just
given birth to fire children, three girls
and two boys. All sre doing well. This
is a big thing on children, and we are all
proond of it.
She Has « Better Title.'
Fo t Wayne Sentinel.]
The Presidential junketing party is on
its travels through tbe notthwest, and the
Associated Press gives elaborate reports
of its progress. It appears that Mrs.
Hayes i3 received with great enthusiasm,
bnt the rest of the party meets with much
coldness.
SEPTEMBER.
Sweet is the voice that calls
IremLabeling waterfall*
in meadows where the downy s:ods ai*fl,i.
And toil the hraecai blow
Tn f n ,iX?™ e ^ d,inr . coae and TO
In faded garden* where iharoeeig dying.
i£“i.S\Su5S.'SR„„.
sSssSsSks*-*—
_, Above the reedy stream.
Where busy spider* spin their filmy lace*.
, At eva cool ahadow* fall
Across the garden wall.
Along the eastern *ky
Where the bread harvest moon is r*dl, fcaraiBf|
Ah. *oon.on field and hill
. - Tkgwlnda shall whiitie chill,
P TOther* ° WS C611 flock* to.
To fly from frost and mow.
The fairer MmSu * wither.
Thesquirre^ejes askance the&eitnut,brown-
The wild fowl fly afar
Above the foamy bar
And hasten .outhward ere the Ek! W w etlBlro .
Now come* a fragrant breezo
Through the dark cedar tree*.
And round about my temples fondly Imran
Is (entle playfulness ’
Like to the soft car?**
Beriowed in happier day* by loving flng«ri.
Yet though' a lease of grief
Cornea with thefal'ins loaf.
And memory make* the Suuner doubly plcu.
Ia all my Autumn dreams
A futnre Summer gleams
Passing the faireat gloritt of the preient.
- Geoeor arxqid.
AND THBNNO JfOJW.
by jaxes euRSxcs hah oast.
I *aw her once, one little while, and thtnno
more.
’Tvras Eden’s light or earth awhile, and then to
more,
Amid the throng she passed along the mtad»v
floor:
Spring seemed to smile on earth awhile, aid
then no more,
But whence ahe came, which way (he weat.wijt
garb'the wore
I noted not, I gazed awhile, and then no more.
I saw her one?, one little while, and then a
more:
’Twos paradise on earth awhile, end then no
more. *
Ab. what avail my vigfli pale, my mzgic lore ?
She lhone before my eye* awhile, and then r.o
more.
The ahallep of my peace is wrecked on Beauty’s
shore,
Near Hope’s fair isle it rodo awhile, and then no
more.
I saw her once, one little while, and then no
more.
Earth looked like heaven a little while, azd
then no more:
Her presence thrilled and lighted to its inner
core
Hy desert breast, a little while, and then no
more.
So may, perchance, a meteor glance at midnight
o’er,
Some mined pile, a little while and then t«
moie.
I taw her once, one littlo while, and then no
more:
The earth was Peri land awhile, and then no
more.
Oh, might I see hut once again os, onco before.
Through chance or wile, that shape, awhile and
then no morel
Death would toon heal my grief! This heart,
now sad and sore. „ . .
Would beat anew, a littlo while, and then no
mere.
BY TELEGRAPH-
Breaking It Gently.
Indianapolis News.l
Visitor from the country at the door cf
a Southside residence to a German next
door:.
“Jane net at home did you say ?”
German—“Nein, Chane’s nod at
home.”
Visitor—“Where ia she
German—“She’s gone der cemetery
down.”
Visitor—“When will she come back?”
German—Oh she vont come back al
ready any more; she’s gone to stay; she’s
det.”
Well* Who Cares?
Philadelphia Timw.]
General Grant has written a recent let
ter to a friend in Washington, in which
he says that he never speculated or in
vested in New York real estate; that he
never went in debt for property; that he
spent more than his salary during his
first term, and just abcuc got even on
the increased salary of hi3 second term,
and that his only extravagance was his
Missouri stock farm, which he broke up
by selling and giving away tho stook and
renting the farm.
Death of a Brave and Pious Clergy
man.—The Memphis Avalanche pay
this eloquent tribute to Rev. Charles C.
Parsons, Rector of Grace Chnrch in that
city, who died last week of yellow fever
Death aimed high when his fated dart
struck down Charles Q. Parsons, late
Colonel of the U. S. A , and rector of
Grace Episcopal church. Yet the mark
was fair and near anil bared for the blow.
Into the roomot disease the Christian
soldier marched. Tho hand which had
applied tho matoh to oannon on .the bat
tle-field lifted the dying head, '.cheered
with prayer the departing soul day and
night to his own fated exposure, this man
invaded the strongholds of tho plague,
carrying help to the body and the soul of
many a stricken man.- Death struck
hard and true. The chivalrous soldier,
the honored shepherd of a flock, the
courteous, polished West Pointer, the
favorite friend, particularly of the youth
of Memphis, was borne to his last resting
place. Orer his grave, in maible, let
this be cut:
“A MARTYR OF 78.”
“he disd for the people againet whom
BE HAD FOUGHT.”
The Grand Canal of China is likely to
shore the fate of the Great Wall. Thu
water-way was constructed by Kublai-
Khan and his'successors of the Yuen race,
and is 600 miles in length. There are
10,000 flat-bottomed boats on this canal,
and these are used in the transportation
of grain. The Echoatatcs that this great
waterway is an enormous “white ele
phant,” as it costs an enormous amount
every year for repairs, the appropriations
there, as elsewhere, not being entirely
devoted to the purpose for which they
aro ipeant. Junks are delayed ovary
month while channels are being dug for
their passage. This year, for the first
time since the construction of the canal,
the gram from Nankin, with the consent
of the Government, has been forwarded
by sea, and this fact has impelled the
Pekin authorities to consider the ex
pediency of abandoning the canal as a
commercial highway.
Ths Single and Double Standards.
—Paris, September 6.—Tne Internation
al Congress of Weights, Measures and
Coinage has adopted a motion in favor of
a universal standard of one-tenth alloy
for gold coins. The votes were equally
balanced as to whether the same stand
ard is applicable to silver. The proposal
for freedom of the mints to coin gold or
silver according to Deland, was rejected.
It was decided that ths right to melt or
export coins should bs unlimited, that no
fixed rates be established between gold
and silvei; and that silver should not be
legal tender for a debt of over JC10. Tbe
Congress unanimously resolved tknt tbe
best mode of arriving at an Internation
al monetary unit ivould be to giv,: legal
currency to the ten franc piec.
London, September 11.—A Geneva dir-
patch says the Bernese Government has
decided to propose to the Grand Council
of Switzerland that amnesty be granted
to ninety-three Catholic Priests deprived
of livings in 1873 for refusal to comply
with the requirements of the State.
London, September 11.—The Times ot
this morning states that there Is not a sin
gle encouraging feature in the cotton
trade cf North Lancashire. The condi
tion of the markets is worse than ever and
the ontlook most gloomy. Goods are not
only being piled up in tbe Manchester
warehouses, but are fsst accumulating in
the milt store rooms. Small manufacto
ries, with limited mean?, ate obliged to
sellat almost any siorifioe, and before
theorisis is passed there is no doubt many
of tbese firms will 6ucoumb.
Later edviees from Constantinople giva
further details of tbe circumstances attend
ing the deslhcf Mehemet Ali Pasha. It
seems that at Gassecje, Plavo and Ko-
lasin, even before the arrival of Mehemet
Ali, complete anarchy had gained the up
per hand, end npon hia arrival in Jakoya
he fonnd the greatest excitement prevail
ing among the inhabitant?. Ho was vio
lently upbraided with having come to Al
bania to band over tbe land to tbe Servi
ans.
Tbe agitation went on inoreasing, flaN
ing vent especially iu vehement abuse cf
Abdullah Pasha, Mehemet AJi’s adjutant.
The house selected by Mehemet Ali
for his lodging was Eet on fire by-tbe Al
banians of Jakova and Ipek. Then a
fight began between tha incendiaries and
Mehemet All’s eBoort, in which twenty
men of the latter fell.
Towards evening, through tbe intez-
vention cf some Ulemas, the conflict w»a
appeased, the insurgents promising to
observe a peacefnl attitude.
About six o’clock in the evening, howev
er, in Jakovo, where Mehemet Ali etiil
remained, the straggle broke out afresh,
resulting in ths death of Abdallah Pasha,
with several offioers of his eBoort, and the
house in wbioh they took- refuge was
fired.
Mehemet Ali succeeded in faoapiDg
from the burning building, and conceal
ing himself in a shed olote by, but bis
hiding place wss soon discovered and be
was mercilessly put to death.
Tbe Albanian League is ssid-to number
45,000 well armed and equipped men, de
termined to resist the occupation of their
territory by any Chrietian power.
There is muoh talk of Servia acd Mon
tenegro’s co-operating with Austria. It
thought possible at Vienna that anarchy
in Albania may compel Austria to occupy
that previnoe also.
Cincinnati, September - 11.—Another
death from yellow fever occurred at Gal-
hpolisyesterday—the victim being Joseph
Porter, s watchman on the steamer Por
ter. His body was not permitted to be
removed from his house, and the neigh
bors wonld not allow his wife to leave
her home. His physicians made mi ef
fort to bury him to-day. There is a gen
eral scare in that region over those deaths.
Three new cases are reported. All the
public schools were closed yesterday-
Fires of coal tar have been kept burning
for the last twenty-four hours at the term;
inns of every street opening on the river-
Many citizens are leaving, and business
and travel are almost suspended.
Rahwat, N. J., September 1L—The
Union National Bank, of this city, ms-
pended yesterday. The suspensioni was
caused by the shrinkage in values ana tne
depreciation of real estate. Tbe capita*
of the bank was one hundred thousand
dollars. It is thought the creditors win
be paid in full.
Leavenworth, Kansas, September 11-
—Over two thoaeand dollars has been
collected here the past two days for tn-
fever sufferers in the South. . .
Chicago, September 11.—Tne P**®f
for the fever sufferers was a grand suc
cess. The sum raised will not be
than ten thousand dollars, and possicij
much more, _
Indianafolis, September 11.—"
ernor Williams has issued a procUumw®,
recommending next Friday as a “ fl y
fasting and prayer in behalf of the pwg
stricken South.
Cortland, N. Y., September 11-—* ,
concert here for tho fever sufferers ce.
threa hundred and four dollars.
Canton, Miss., September .
last twenty-four hours, fifteennew
and four deaths. The deaths are gj-
Reid, John Reid, B. Gout and Wiffl*
Welsh - _ ' , _Th*
New Orleans, September U- ,
weather tc-day was cloudy, cool “ e
windy. Two hundred and fifty-**
new cases and ninety deaths. o 0Ci e
Baton Eoua*, September 11* ^
thirty deaths tareRecurred from £
tever to date. E.ghty-oight oaset
ported for the three days
a&y. At least forty more will be au
this morning.