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MACON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11,1879.
Volume LIV—NO 6
BY TELEGRAPH.
New York, February 2.—The cigar
makers held a masi meeting this after
noon for preventing a proposed further
rcduolion in wages as well as prices for
shop-mado cigars. Nearly all the shops
in the city were represented. A perma
nent organization was effected, and a
committee appointed to draw up a plan
of procedure to be submitted at the next
^London, February 2.—The Theatre
Roval, with a seating capacity of 4,000,
originally costing $150,000, and having
the largest stage of any theatre in the
kingdom, was totally destroyed by fire
this morning. No lives lost. .
Pabis February 2.—All endeavors to
induce «. Dufaure to retain office have
failed President Greyybas entrusted
M. Waddington with the task of forming
n yin re cibinct* _
The Lxberte states that M. Dufaure, In
the letter in which he informed M. Grevy
of his resolution to retire, pointed to his
advanced age and political views, and
urged that his withdrawal would facilitate
the solution of numerous pending ques-
tionfl. • r
St. Petersburg, February 2.—The
Czar hss approved the summary meas
ures resolved upon by the committee of
ministers for stopping the plague. Three
more cases have been reported at Setit.
rino since those reported yesterday. All
remedies proved unavailing. The Looal
Sanitary Commission of Moscow have de
cided on the most stringent precautions,
snob as the closing of unhealthy base
ment dwellings, the erection of bnildings
to accommodate 2.000 people, and of
farnaoes for burning infeoted clothes,
and the gratuitous distribution of cooked
provisions. Russia has asked England
o send medical men to report on the epi
demic.
Buohabzst, February 2.—The Cham
ber of Deputies have voted a credit of
500,000 francs for the establishment of a
quarantine and military cordon to pre
vent the spread of the plague.
Vienna, February 2.—The Jlfontaps
Revue states that a treaty has just been
concluded between Germany and Austro-
Hungary by which the latter renounces
tho right socured by article 15, of the
treaty of Prague, of calling upon Prussia
to permit the voters of North Scheleswig
to decide by plebescite whether that pro
vince shall be restored to Denmark.
Washington, February 2. — Senator
Gordon said to-night that he thought
Conkling was losing ground in his oppo
sition to tho confirmation of the New
York custom-house appointments now
pending in tho Senate. A number of
Democrats who have hitherto been doubt
ful will now vote for tSm confirmation of
the nominees.
Bio Janeiro, January 13—It is le-
portcd that the blaok plague has broken
out in the province of Cora. Five doctors
have been sent there.
£2London, February 3.—The British
bark Riverside, Captain Davidson, from
St. Marys, Georgia, December 22ad, for
Montevideo, kas been abandoned at sea
and the ere w lauded at Corunna.
The privy conncil has received tele
graphic reports from British consuls in
the United States replying to inquiries
os to what extent pleuro-pneumonia ex
ists among cattle. These replies say
there is a mild type of the disease in va
rious parts of the United States, bnt it is
not malignant nor infections.
The cattle received by the steamer
State of Alabama, which reached Liver
pool on Saturday from Portland, Maine,
were bought in tho same matket and at
the same time as those which \'-ived by
the Ontario. They were subjected to a
rigid examination and found heal hy.
They were shipped to London for sale at
to-day’s market.
The agricultural interest here is en
deavoring to indnee the privy oonnoil to
schedule the United States as an infeoted
country. The Hertfordshire Chamber of
Agriculture forwarded a resolution to
lhat effectjto the Duke of Ricbmond and
Gordon, Lord President of the Oonnoil,
on Saturday. „
Note.—(By the Associated Press
Agent:)
It will bs seen from the foregoing, that
a report contained in a purported London
dispatch, printed in the opposition pa-
pere, that the British government has
issued an order piobibiting for the pres
ent the importation of oattie from Amer
ica, is witbont foundation.
Albert Grant has filed a petition in
bankruptcy. His liabilities are A.G81.993.
W'AiuisoroN, February 3.—Toe Vice
- President laid before the Senate the cre
dentials of Hon. D. W. Voorhets, elected
to fill the unexpued term of Hon. O. P.
Motion as a Senator for six years from
the fourth of March next, and Voorhees
took the oath of office under his new cre
dential?.
A bill was introduced by McCrcery, of
Kentucky, to transfer the office of Indian
Affairs to tho War Department, and laid
on the table to be called np by Mc-
Creery, who gava notice that he would
submit some remarks in regard thereto.
Mr. Matthews introduced a joint reso
lution providing for a commercial treaty
with Mexico, which was referred to the
committee on foreign relations.
In the House, under the call of State?,
Mr. Cotter, of N. J., introduced a bill
appropriating a hundred millions for the
payment of arrearages of pensions.
Washington, February 3.—Teller, of
Colorado, presented a pstition from tb9
colored people of Louisiana, complaining
that they ate not protected either in life
or property; that at tho recent elaotion
they wero met by armed white men
known as Democratic clubs; that they
wire shot and not allowed to bold meet
ings. They, therefore, invoke the pro-
teotion of the Federal Government. The
petition was referred to a select commit
tee, of which Teller is chairman.
The joiot committee on the yellow fe
ver epidemic met to-day. The merits of
bills which have been introdnoed into
Congress were discussed; bnt, withont
reaching a conclusion as to the most prac
tical recommendation to make to prevent
a recurrence of tho epidemic, the com
mittee adjourned.
Boston, February 1.—The venerable
poet and essayist, Richard Henry Dans,
died here yesterday, aged S3.
Washington, February 3.—The bill
introdnoed in the Honse to-day for the
payment of arrearages of pensions appro
priates $100,000,000, or so much thereof
os may be neoeBsary for that pnrpose,
under the act of January 25, and pro
vides that the same may be immmediate-
ly available. The bill was referred to
Ice Commiltce on Apptoprlations.
The river and harbor bill was to-day
reported by a sub-oommittee to the full
House Committee on Commerce, who
will hold dally sessions for its considera
tion until it is ready to be reportedto the
House. For obvious reasons, the details
Of tho bill are not made public.
The Senate has jutt oonfirmed the
nominations of Memtt lo be collector,
and Bait naval cfficer at the port of New
York. The majority waa small—some
cay seven, others ten. The executive ses
sion lasted several hours.
London, February 3.—The British Afed-
i>al Journal publishes the following: The
Vienna Mcdicocher\rijieal Central Platte,
of January 24tb, states the origin of the
pestilence in Russia as follows: A Cos
sack retaming from the war to Wetti-
naka brought his-lady, love a shawl,
which was probably a part of his apoil.
Tho girl wore it two days and sickened,
with all symptoms of the plague, and
died. Daring the following four-days
the other members of her family sickened
nd died. The disease spread rapidly,
but the !o:al authorities did not pay any
attention to it till half the inhabitants of
the village bad died,and those remaining
alive wore unable iobnry the victims. The
epidemic had assnmed i serlouadimen-
ns by the 25th of November, but the
government was only informed of it of
ficially on the 11th of December. * Ten
days further elapsed before nny system
atic er energetic mear s w« re taken for
preventing its spreading turther. r The
authorities have tinea then exerted
themselves to the utmost to make up for
lost time. As the only way of arresting
the disease is to prevent all communica
tions between the districts where it
reigns and otheiB which are healthy, a
doable cordon is being formed: Firstly,
in the towns and villages, shutting off
the streets where the plague reigns from
the reBt of the place; and, secondly, by
surrounding the places with troop3, so
that nobody is allowed to pass in or ont.
Quarantines are also being instituted
on the borders of the infected govern
ments, and are strictly watched. The
population is said to take an active part
in preventing tho crossing of the sanitary
line, which begins at Saniganowska and
runs upwards on both borders of the
Volga to Batagnaska. Fonr quarantines
have been founded in Sarepta, Iwanowka,
Ostrada and Zmtzin. A great drawback
is the want of medical men. The panio
in Russia is almost incredible. Every
class and station in life have petitioned
for entire cessation of nil intercourse,
even postal communication, between tho
rest of Russia and the Volga. Letters
sent from Astrachan and Zmtzin are not
received by the persons to whom they are
addressed. Some people even refuse to
take papar money, fearing that tho germ
of tho infection might ba communicated
through it.
» London, February 3—Tho Times cor
respondent at Berlin 6ays Russian rail
way cars aro no longer admitted into
German territory. Tho export of grain
from Poland will suffer severely from
this restriction. The Roumanian gov
ernment is discussing the expediency of
prohibiting the transit of Russian pro
visions sent to victual the Balkan army.
The Russian sanitary commission has
proposed to shat off the Volga line from
all intercourse with western Russia, and
permit communication only nnder quar
antine. '■
London, Faoraary 3.—A dispatch from
Vienna says the occupation by tho Rou
manians cf a position near Silistria,
which they claim as belonging to Do-
fcrudska, Is a very serious affair. The
Roumanians, by an overwhelming force,
oompslled tho Russians to abandon Arab
Tabia, a fortress cn the outskirts of Silis
tria. The Roumanian Government on
Saturday received an intimation simulta
neously from Si. Petersburg and from
General Todleban to withdraw immedi
ately, bnt formally refused, and a colli
sion is probable. This will test the pre
sent disposition of the Austrian Govern
ment which supports the delimitation of
the Dobtndska frontier protested against
by Rassia. There is good reason to hope
that tho altitude of Austria will, from an
English point of view, leave no ground
fororitioismor reproach.
A notice of ten per cent, reduction in
wages from the 15th of February has
been posted in the Tyne ship building
yard. This will affect 6,000 workmen.
Of 142 cotton mills in the Bolton dis
trict twenty-three are closed and twenty-
eightar e working on short time in conse-
queno of tho depressed condition of
trade.
Pabis, February 3.—Additional retnrns
from supplementary elections yesterday
for members of the Chamber of Deputies
have c">me to hand. M. DeFourton and
Baron Reille, both Conservatifj. have
been re-elected. Connt DeMan, Con
servative, was defeated by Magnel, Re
publican. Marquis De La Rochejaqne-
lein, Conservative, was defeated by M.
Jonffranlt, Republican. M. Flenry, Re
publican, is probably elected, vice Baron
DeBonrgong, who declined to stand.
The returns are not all in yet. MM.
LeRoyer and DeBons, Republicans, have
been elected for Montmedy and Tarbes,
respectively. Second ballots are neces
sary at Az:3 end Yesingeaur.
New York, February 3.—The Daven
port investigation was continued to-day.
Several witnesses testified to knowledge
of intimidation. Senator Wag6taff said
that while his district wa3 mainly Repub
lican, he thongbt that many Democratic
vo.c3 were lost by Davenport’s oonrse-
. In reference to the Congressional sub
committee expected here, Mr. Potter
esid to*day that it is not definitely ssoer-
tained whether the investigation would be
commenced to-morrow or not. The time
of the meeting of tho committee depends
npon the completion of the oipher dis
patches now being photo-lithographed.
Probably Pelton and Weed will be among
the first witnesses.
Tbot, N. Y., February 3.—The Had-
san River Farnitaro Manufacturing Com
pany, at Oohoos, re earned work this
morning, giving employment to fifty
men. Failer, Warren & Co.’e stove
works resumed to-dsy, employing 200
men. Bnssey, McLeod & Oo.’a stove
works will resume on Thursday, and em
ploy the same nnmber. Burden’d water
mill, which has been idle three year?,
started this morning. Other milisare un
able to fill their orders.
A Holly Stosm Heating Company las
been formed hero witha capital of $150,-
000—work to be began early in tho
spring. Business prospeota ror 1879 are
very encouraging.
Philadelphia, Feb. 3.—A private os-
bla dispatob, rfioeived here this morning,
says that three shipments of cattle have
arrived at Liverpool slnoe the Ontario’s
oargo arrived, and have been permitted
to land. _ . _
Jacksonville, Fla., Feb. 3.—Gener
al Sherman and party arrived here this
morning, and left for St. Augustine,
where they will remain for several days,
and then go np the St. John’s river.
There was no pnblia demonstration.
Cincinnati, Feb. 3.—A dispatch from
Indianapolis says it is now inspected that
the sons-in-law of Farmer Brown, who
was murdered last week, were the perpe
trators of the orlme, as both of them had
had a serious difficulty with Brown.
Washington, February 3. — In the
House to-day a bill to secure uniformity
in the standard of valne was defeated.
The Hones also defeated a motion to eus
pend the rnles and pass the bill author
izing the lesne of four per cent, bonds to
the amount of $40,000,000, and apply
the proceeds to the payment of the ar
rears of pensions.
The following were among tae bills and
resolutions introduced and referred: Bill
for the appropriation of $100,000,000. for
the payment of arrearages of pensions;
resolutions of the Virginia legislature
asking for the redaction of the tax on
tobacco; resolutions of the general as-
sembly of Alabama asking for the enaet-
j ment of laws to prevent the exercise of
jurisdiction by Umtod States oourts in
proceedings against municipal corpora-
ugar
lions; resolution of the general i
bly of Lonlsiana in regatd to the
tariff.
Memorial services in .xespeot lo the
memory of the late representative
Quinn, of New York, were held, after
which tho House adjourned.
In the '.Senate, Mr. Harris, of : Tennes
see, from the Bolect committee on epi
demic diseases, reported a bill to prevent
the introduction of contagions or infec-
tioua diseases into the United States,
and to establish a bureau of public
health. Ordered printed and recommit
ted to tho committee. ... ^
Mr. Matthews, of Ohio, submitted a
joins resolution providing for a commer
cial treaty with the Bepnblic of Mexico.
Referred to Committee on Foreign Rela
tions.
Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, gave notice
that to-morrow, oraa soon thereafter as
be conld obtain the floor, he would ask
the Senate to take np and consider a bill
ioo, is a dnplioate of q message; reoently
introdnoed in the House by Hon. Casey
Youag. It require! that the President
appoint three MtnaftMioners to eondnet
negotiations with Um government of Mex-
ioo for the general purpose of fsoiUtatiug
liberal commercial relations between the
United States and that eonntty; of in
creasing the exchange of prodaots, and
.of promoting the investments of Ameri
can capital in the construction of rail
roads and development of mines, eto., in
. Ia the Senate to-day Mr. Teileri’ of
Colorado, presented a lengthy petition
signed by O. C. Antoine, E. X. Fisher and
about fifty-five other ooroted people of
Louisiana, complaining that they share
the harden of taxetien, and although the
recent amendemnts to the oonstitntion
have given them political equality, that,
at the last Congressional eleotion, they
were orneliy deprived of their rights.
They deolare tha$£istory shows that they.
for taking the tenth and subsequent can- as a race, are pfcoefol, not revengeful,
Buses.
Tho Senate went into executive session
st 1:10 p. m., remaining until 8 o’elook.
The vote in confirming the nominations
of Merritt and Bart was, in the oasa of
the former, 33 to 24; of the latter 31 to 19.
The majority of the Demoorats voted In
support of the administration. Although
considerable pressure had been bronght
to bear npon Representative McMahon
with a view of inducing him to serve as
ohairnian of the Potter sab-committee,
who axe to visit New York City, that
gentleman said this afternoon that it
would be utterly impossible for him
to act. A change in the Republi
can Bide has also been effected, Mr.
Reed having been substituted - for
Governor Cox, the latter desiring to ba
relieved from the duty owing to a pres
sure of other business. This arrange
ment was made by the Republican mem
bers of the committee, and. althongh no
mooting had been held, it is understood
that the change is acquiesced in by all
the members.
There will be a mooting of a majority
of the Teller Committee to-morraw
when the testimony of Judge Mackey, of
Sonth Carolina, will be taken.
A meeting of the Senate Committee on
Privileges and Elections has been
called for to-morrow when a formal vote
will be taken on the Corbin-Bntler cise.
The Republican members will all unite
id a majority report prepared by
Cimeron, of Wisconsin, in favor of Cor
bin. The Democratic members will sign
Senator Hill’s minority report asserting
that Batter wa3 legally elected, and
that moreover the Senate’s action in
admitting him last winter has made the
case res adjudicata.
Washington, February 3.—The Uni
ted States Supreme Court rendered deci
sions to-day in tho following Son'.bern oa
ses : Thomas R. R. Mills, Jr., Bdminis-
trator, against Lsvi N. B. Scott, from the
Cironit Conrt for the Southern distriot of
Georgia. Cause remanded, with instruc
tions to award a new trial, nnloss the
plaintiff consent to a redaction of the
judgment to forty thousand dollars. This
was a snit to foroa tho persontl liability
of a stockholder for the payment of bills
of tho insolvent Merchants and Planters
.Bank of Savannah.
The Comptroller General of South Car
olina against the Richmond and Dan
ville Riilrcai Company, from the Circuit
Court of Sonth Carolina. D scree re
versed with costs. This was a suit to
enjoin thB collections of taxes upon the
part of the Richmond and Atlanta Air-
Line railroad within the limits of South
Carolina on the ground of exemption in
the company’s charter. The conrt holds
that as the act incorporating the Air-
Line railroad in Sonth Carolina in 1856
contained no clause excepting its charter
from the provisions of the law of 1841,
they most bo held applicable to it. The
State, therefore, has the right to with
draw the exemption of tbe original char
ter aLd collect taxee.
John L. Storey against N. W. Casey,
receiver of the Ne.. Orleans Banking
Association * from the Circuit Court of
Louisiana. Judgment affirmed with
costs, on authority of Casey v?. Galli,
94 U. S. 673.
The United States against George A.
Sheridan, from the Circuit Coart of Lou
isiana. Judgment affirmed by a divided
conrt.
Baltimibe, Eeb. 3.—In the United
States Circu t Comt, Jndge Band presi
ding, tj-diy iho 038 j of Thomas B. Per
ry, Hubert B. Perry and William S. Wil
kinson, judges of the election for the 8 b
district of Anne Arundel County, was
ooaolnded. They were Indloted for bold
ing the late congressional election at a
place ether than that selected by the coun
ty commissioners, found guilty and ro-
manded for sentecoe. In the same coart,
polioemsn Louis Norris was called to an
swer the- indiotment, charging him with
having staffed the ballot-box In tbe 6tb
ward at the late congressional eleotion.
The defendant entered a general demnr-
rcr, alleging that nnder the Btatntos of
the United States staffing of tbe bal
lot-box is not a penal offense. The de
murrer was sustained and the prisoner
discharged.
Since the Journal published farmer
Kern’s letter, there have arrived here
letters from the Farmer’s Mutual Insu
rance Company, of Montpelier. Preston
and Accsden have arrived here.
The letters, and affidavits of Jacobs
and his clothes, etc., . have been
secured. On Monday stepa will be ini
tiated to secure bis arrest. He evidently
is not far distant and is well known in
Windsor county as a dangerous chai as
ter. He repeatedly stated before sud
denly leaving Vermont that, "lean clear
Gravelin with three word?.”
Yobk, Pa., February 3.—Saturday
evening a party of tramps entered the
bouse of Peter Lint, bound and gagged
him and robbed him of a gold watch and
$125. No arrests.
Philadelphia, February 3.—General
George Cadwalder, brother of the late
Jndge Cadwalder, and last of five sons of
Thomas Cadwalder, died this afternoon.
Aged 73 years.
Washington, February 3.—The offi
cials of tbe Interior and Treaaniy De
partment* were before tbe Honse Appro
priation Committee to-day urging vari
ous appropriations lo meet tbe defloien-
oies. Among those who nude appeals
was the Commissioner of the Internal
Ravenna Department, who wisheB one
honored thousand dollars to meet the ex
penses of collecting the Internal revenue,
and also urged that seventy-five thousand
dollars bs. embodied in the dsfioienoy
appropriation bill, to tbe oredit of his de
partment.
A bill was introduced in the Honse to-
d-y by Representative Clark, of Missouri/
for the relief of the owners of land
washed away by the Mississippi river,
.and permits ench owners to locate on any
pnblio lands- of tbe United States on
equal quantity of land, not txooediag 640
acres.
This afternoon the Secretary of State
introduced to tbe Presideat Seoor Mendez
Vigo,recently eppointed envoy extraordi
nary and minister plenipotentiary to the
United States from Spain. The minister
having presented bis credentials, made a
few remarks expressive of the friendly
feeling of his country, wbich were recip
rocated hy the President.
Tbe joint resolution lntrcdaoed in the
Senate, providing for a treaty with Mex-
nor aro they asfaBSins. Xu conclusion
they invoke the power of the Federal
Government to protect them. The peti
tion, at the request of Mr. Teller, was
referred to a special committee, of which
he is chairman.
The Democratic eauens to-night dis-
onssedtbe question of the seleotion of jn-
rors in the Fedora! courts. The seleo
tion of jurors in the South, because of
their Republican proclivities, was alluded
to. It was nnsnimonely agreed that an
amendment be offered to one of tbe gen
eral appropriation bills in order fo olearly
oarry out tbe olam'e of the judioisry act,
which provides that jurors, to serve in
United States Conrt*, shall have the same
qaalifioationB and be entitled to tho same
exemptions as the jurors of the highest
court'of the Siate wherein thoy Berve.
The amendment will'also propose the re
peal of the seetionkwf the aot imposing a
test oath on jurors.
Ttfo debate in theaxecutive session on
confirming tbe New York custom honse
nominations was very animated. The
friend3 of Arthur and Cornell protested
earnestly against their removal, and in
sisted that the Administration conld pro-
dnee no oanse therefor. Those who fa
vored the confirmations' declared that the
onstom honse had been for a long time a
mere politiesl inaohuw and a eonroe of
aorrnplion. Secretary Sherman and the
President received many congratulations
to-night on tbe resfclt. It is intimated
to-night that the Fmaidect, being now
relieved of this matter, will give his at
tention to affairs in the Naw Orleans cne-
tom honse, also that to will soon send in
the nomination of the Minister to Berlin.
Cincinnati, Jad. 3.—An Eilzibetb,
Kentucky, dispatch says affairs in Green
county m that Stats are in disorder, cruis
ed by the tax voted npon themselves some
years since to aid in the construction of
the Cumberland and Ohio Railroad. The
interest has been paid promptly np to the
last year or two, bnt no railroad has .ever
been built. Within tbe last year, a por
tion of the road which bad been graded
between Lebanon and Greensbnrg was
leased to tbe Lonisvillejand Great South
ern Railroad and a proposition is now
penning to take the sense of the people
whether tbe lease shall be ratified. The
proposition so aroused the people
that the oourts have been called
to adjndioate tbe question and
an in junction has been obtained against
holding tbe election. The more lawless
portion of the people, enraged at the
law’s delays, have determined to resist
the collection of any more railroad tax,
and on Monday night the barn of Lather
Morris, depnty sheriff, was burned, to
gether with a quantity of grain, and no
tices were poBted np on his premises
reading, "Cease collecting railroad tax
or leave the country.” It is stated in a
letter that the tarn of Morris’ father has
also been burned. A conrier has been
sent to the Governor with tho request
for the militia to aid in collecting the
tax.
Boston, February 3.—A special to the
Journal from Ttblow, Kansas, says the
investigation which has been going on
here for tbe past two days in connection
with the Weathersfield, Vermont
murder case, for wbich Henry Gravelin
was condemned, has proved astounding.
Farmer Kern who December let wrote to
Albert Preston concerning John Jacobs,
which letter Sheriff AtUBden had twenty-
six days without investigation, makes an
affidavit whioh proves a farmer, a resident
of Windsor county, to be White’s mur.
derer.
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Washington City, February 1,1879.
HR. STEPHENS
wishes it nnderatcod. that he did not
dodge the test vote on tbe investigation
by the Potter Committee of tho cipher
telegram!'. He is as much opposed fo that
committee and all its woiki and ways as
be was to its creation, and was paired on
nil votes tonohing it with Mr. Hatcher,
(Democrat,) of Missouri. Hs favored
Garfield’s motion to extend the debate,
and bad a yea and nay vote been taken on
the naked qneBtion of defeating or adopt
ing tbe resolution of inquiry into the
oipher dispstohes, would, if not paired,
have voted against such resolution. I
make thu statement by reqnest of Mr.
8., and in order that there may not be
the least doubt as to bi9 position. It is
also dne myself that if sny wrong im
pression was created by my former state
ment in reference thereto, it should bs
promptly set right. As I do not bear
from Dr. Felton on the subject I suppose
he was neither misunderstood nor inoor-
rcctly reported. With him it saems to
have been simply a auestion cf "let it
rip."
THE BIG EIGHT
between Hayes and Conkling is now oh
and promises to be exceedingly lively.
Bets ran in the tnrkey cock’s favor, bnt
he is thought to have got a back-set yes
terday in the vote by whioh the. decision
was postponed until Monday. Hayes’
friends take much comfort from this
vote, as Conkling was especially desirous
of forcing the fighting and taking Hayes’
scalp at once. It is understood that he
was beaten eight votes but his
friends say it was not a test
at all. However, lhat may . be,
it is veraoionsly reported that there
was an extra brew of extra slrong
tea for visitors at the White Honse last
night, and that J obn Sherman and Ru
therford skipped off to a private nook
and had • "nip" of something ooneldera-
bly stronger, in honor of the event. The
resalt is regarded aa nnoertaln. Conk
ling will die hard, though. 2 sinosrely
heps that event will happen, and that
no Demoeratlo Senator will aid in avert
ing it. If any one of them does, he
shonld hear from his constituents at onoe
in reprobation thereof. If Conkling bad
been defeated in bis first fight with
Hayes he wenld not have been re-eleoted
Senator, and his State woold almost oar-
tainly not gone Ridloal at tbe last eleo
tion. By helping him against Hayes
Demoorstio Senators ont their party’s
throat in New York.- Do they wish or in
tend to entirely sever the bead this time ?
Besides, what has Conkling ever said or
done to entitle him to Demoeratlo help in
a fight with anybody? Ha is an inso
lent, atnok-np creature, and jnst as bit
terly partisan as Morton or Zioh Chan
dler ever were in their most venomous
days. Ha deservdb humiliation on the
eronnd of general onssedneBs if nothing
glse, and I ainoereiy hope will get it.
THE VETEBAK
Shield?, looks decidedly at home in his
seat in the Senate which he holds now for
the third time and from as many States.
Senator for six years from Illyxois and
for four years from Minnesota, he now
rounds oat what is very probably his last
service in any legielative body by a five
weeks’ term from the State of Missouri.
It is not given to many men to leave such
a record fo^ their biographers and grave
stones. - The old man still bears himself
bravely and save for a limp, which testi
fies his devotion tqhis adopted country,!
walks with a soldier’s firm tread and up
right carriage. He looks one,
too, with his close-CKipped hair and
iron-gray moustache. I saw him in
theHouBC, a day or two sinco, where ho
was cordially greeted by tbe Democrats
bnt received scant notice from tbe Radi
cal?, who, it will be remembered, raised
snch a howl beoanse the Democrats did
not elect him Doorkeeper last year. He
and Mr. Stephens, who were in Congress
together in the golden days of honest
rale, before tho devil had invented the
Radical party, appeared to have a speci
ally cordial and agreeable meeting. They
seemed like landmarks of ancient better
times. The-country owes General Shields
a solid remembrance in the shape either
of a life office or a geneqpua pension, bnt
ho will never get it from those now in
power. He is a Democrat and that is
enongb. But won’t it be rough on the
old man to have to get ont so soon. It
S9em3 to me it would have been less bind
ing on the nerves not to have gone in at
all than for snch a short time. Perhaps,
howtvet, he can make much hay in those
short weeks in another direction if, as
stated, ho will really be a candidate for
Sergeant-at-Arms.
THE BIQGEST LOBBY
of this or tbe last session is on hand jnst
now, and seems growing every day. The
hotels are fall end lucre more abundant
than I have seen it. Tho pop of the fes
tive and fizzy wine whioh the lobby—and
everybody else with deoent taste—so dotes
npon, is heard onoe more pnnotasting
dinner table chatter, end there is an
aroma of pare Havanas about
the • hotels, which shows men
with big money are aronnd. There
are tbe Texas Paoifio folks and the Bra-,
zilian subsidy folks, and the Bugar tariff
people and the city post-effioe people,
and many others of rare and radiant
plans and promises. Ail these make mat
ters brisk, and the skirmishers nnnsnally
active. Bnt I see no sign of winning for
any of them. They mast go over unless
things take -a sudden or marvellous
change Only,-twenty-four work days
remain and gush and gabble struggle
for front seats as fiercely as if these were
months instead of days. It will be close
work if all the appropriation bills are
passed and if the House and Senate
wiangle over them as nsnal, they may be
in danger. There is a deal too much
tongue in the Honse and too much de
portment and slow coach in the Senate;
and, in addition, the former insists npon
Jegislation whioh the Ssnato has over
and over demonstrated it will not indorse.
All this wastes time and causes loose
legislation in the harry and rush to get
through with necessary work. I am not
a raven, however, and won’t croak. Men
will squabble, and gabble and dawdle to
the end of time, espeoially when pat to
attending to other people’s business.
A. W. R.
THIS GEORGIA PjtSESS.
Another Scandal and Murder in
Atlanta.—We gather from the Constitu
tion that on Friday Mr. Sam Hill shot
Mr. John Simmons mortally, m the bar
room of the National Hotel. The oaose
alleged lor the shooting was a grievous
wrong inflicted by Simmons npon the
wife of his destroyer. The facts relating
to this terrible occurrence, however, are
conflicting, tho friends of both parties
making different statements. Mr. Hill
snrrecisred himself, and was taken to the
stition honse. Tae troth will come out
in the courts.
A Pleasant Testimonial.—Mrs. S. H.
bollock and family have presented an
elegant memorial badge to tho Atlanta
Cadets, to be contended for, annually, as
a company prize, and worn in honor of
their lato comrade, Marion F. Koilock,
Captain Jackson, after a neat prefa
tory address, presented the badge to
Captain McCandleBs, who, in turn, made
a very handsome response. The corps
then adopted suitable resolutions of
thanks—a copy of whioh was ordered to
be transmitted to Mr?. Kollook and fam
ily-
Pbohft Action and a Liberal Re
ward.—SAvanDah News:
A stranger en route to tho North in
formed Offioer Henry Wetherhora, one of
the shrewdest deteotives in the city, yes
terday about 12 m. r that he bad been
robbed of three hundred and eighty dol
lars and two diamond studs, and that if
he succeeded in recovering the property
he could keep one-half of it as a re
ward. Upon the meagre information
furnished in regard t j the robbery, Officer
Wetherhora went vigorously to work,
and with snch* success that shortly after
1 o’clock he had apprehended a boy by
the name of Williams, who had the money
and diamonds in his possession. The
officer immediately relieved him of his
booty and returned the property to tbe
gentleman, receiving his due reward.
The stranger was anxious to oontinne his
journey and declined to prosecute the
negro, who was thereupon released. The
rapidity with whioh the case was success
fully worked up reflects no little credit
npon the shrewdness and skill of the
detective.
A Norfolk dispatch states that the
schooner Addie Failer, from Orient, Long
Island, bound to Savannah for a cargo of
guano, had put into that port, badly
le.
damaged during the severs gal
Hon. T. M. Norwood is in Montgomery,
Alabama, and on Thursday night deliv
ered an address at tbe capitol on the
Southern Paoific Railroad.
Thiev Caught.—A negro boy waa seen
by Mr. Hsidtpjf-flsraniUlJ/to enter the
store of Messrs. I. L. Faulk & Co., cloth
iers, on Thursday and grab s pair af
pants. That gentleman pursued and
overtook him, recovering the stolon ai ti
de. In the straggle the little rascal bit
Mr; Heidt severely. He received a good
drnfibing and was dismissed, bat later in
the day the same little villain was detect
ed in an attempt to steal a belt of cloth
from the store of Mr. Baily, after receiv
ing alms from him. --a?> ::ifrf.!-
Atlantic and Gulf ‘Railboad -Lib
eral.—Savannah News: Round trip tick
ets good to be used between the 15th of
February and tbe 1st of April from any
station on the road to Savannah and re
turn will be issned npon application by
stockholders to the general freight and
passenger agent. Mr. James T. Taylor.
Savannah stockholders will also be enti-
tied to tbe privilege of making a free trip
to any station on the railroad daring the
time mentioned.
Fibe.—Early Connty News: Just as we
go to pres?, we learp with much regret
that Mrs. Colonel Jones, of Bluffton, had
tho misfortuQp, cd Wednesday night last,
to lose her dwelling henso and most of its
contents by fire. Origin of the fire in
donbt.
Under the head of Ware connty items,
the Valdosta Times gives this interesting
information:
Colonel W. J. Winn, assistant engin
eer of tho Florida Ship Canal Survey,
rnnning from the Golf of Mexico to the
Atlantic Ocean, whioh if ont will greatly
shorten the distance by water between
ports on the' Golf and Atlantio, and obvi-
at^he dangers of rounding the ooast of
Florida, baa been encamped near here
for a week, delayed for want of a team.
They left at twelve noon on the 25th for
Blonnt’s Ferry, via the Okefenokee and
Mixon’s Ferry. They wish to use as muoh
of the watercourses as possible to lighten
the expense of tbe survey all they oan.
Colonel Winn’s party consists of eight
ereons. They expect to form a jane-
ion at the Okefenokee Swamp with Col.
Mahon’s division of the surveying party,
who at Jast accounts were enoamped on
Billy’s Island in the Okefenokee swamp.
A conrier who returned Sunday after
noon from Colonel Winn’s party reported
them as being in camp near Mr. Obadiah
Barber’s place, about nice and a half
miles from here; that they were all well
and expeoted to move as soon as a team
arrived from Colonel Mahon's parly-
Ctlonel Freemont, engineer in charge of
the survey, was here one day last week
on bis way to Savannah.
A Sound Institution.—SnmterRcpuI)-
lican: The bank of Americas has a good
firm hold npon popular favor, as is
evinced from tho fact that there is $85,-
000 on deposit in that institution, subject
to tho drafts of depositors *
Thee aro agitating the building of an
opera house in Americas.
Eathsb Mean.—Republican:
A few days ago a col
ored man, Jim Anderson, was exhibiting
marriage license near tho Planter's
warehouse, when a gentleman, who was
ell acquainted with him, said: "Jim,
what have you done with your wife?”
'I have got a divorce,” replied the dar-
key.” The gentleman asked to see the
divorce, and Jim took a bundle of papers
from his pocket in wbich he had care-
illy wrapped the precious document,
e handed it to the gentleman to read,
and here is a copy:
'This is to certify that Jim Anderson
hss'been legally divoroed from hie wife
at tbe Conrt House in Amerious, Janua
ry 25 :b, 1879.”
[Signed] A Lawyer.
Whether a lawyer duped tbe poor dar
key, or some one else imposed upon him,
wo oannot say. The poor fellow had his
lioense to matry another woman, and we
presume by this time he is In the happy
possession of two wives; for the divorce
is certainly a fraud. Ths man who wrote
tbe reoeipt may have intended fun at the
negtos’s expense, bnt we believe be com
mitted a grave"offense against tbe laws of
the State, and caused a poor ignorant ne
gro to commit bigamy, unless he wss per
suaded ont of it by the gentleman refer
red to above.
Salt Meat the "Go.”—Berrien coun
ty News: There has not been a ponnd of
fresh beef in our town during the winter.
How long is this thing going to last?
Until yonr people tarn their attention
more to raising stocks of cattle and their
own homo comforts.
Like Isaac, gone to the country of his
fathers for a wife. The Brunswick Sea
port Appeal sayt:
A report reached ns on Thureday^mor-
ning that our contemporary of the Adver
tiser was married on Wednesday, in Lib
erty county. We did not learn the name
of the lady.
We wish our worthy confrere any
amoufit of happiness.
Tax lnmber shipments of the St. Si
mon’s Mills for last year are as follows:
Feet of lumber 10.181,002; number of
vesaeld loaded 43; aggregate tonnage 1G,-
391.
This is a grand showing for one mill
establishment.
Why Rome Gets tux Cotton.—Rome
Courier : The cotton reoeipts at Rome
tbia year up to this time are nearly fifty-
one thousand bales, abont fonr times aa
large as they were four or five years ago.
The reason of thiB is that oar bayers pay
higher prioes than are offered in other
market*. The average prioe from wag
ons is over a quarter of a oent higher than
in Atlanta, and large amonnts have been
shipped from that oity to this in the past
two years. „
In regard to the destruction of the
conrt boneo and records of Worth county,
the Albany Advertiser publishes the fol
lowing thrilling letter from a citizen of
Isabella, which out-Kearneye Ksarney.
But we did cot know that even a cess
pool was tolerated in hell. Here is the
letter:
January 27,1879.
Dear Advertiskb: Some incarnate
fiend, engendered from hell’s foal cess
pool, about midnight last night, set fire
to onr conrt house and everything was
burned up. Col. W. A. Harris’ friends
tried to save his library, etc., but the
devil of a fiend did bis work well. He
had saturated the whole with kerosene or
soqie combustible material, and it wa3 a
hurricane of fire. Col. Harris lost every
thing ; not a paper or a book or anything
saved; all gone, a clear sweep.
God grant Col. Fleming has got his
bills of indictment in his pocket, so the
hell-hound won’t esoape. Our connty is
raised. I want to be attached to Dough
erty. Taxes, my God, they will ruin ns.
Col. Harris says he is for hire, even to
drive a dray. Poor Tifton, unable to do
anything like manual labor; and Judge
Llppitt, everything gone; papers lost
that can never be established again in
the world.
Several parties are inspected of this
foul crime, bat there have been no ar
rests. The loss of all the records of a
county ia indeed a serious affair, and will
oanse mnoh embarrassment and possible
litigation.
Removal.—Advertiser: We understand
that the Atlantic and Golf Railroad has
decided to remove its depot from Tebeau-
ville to Waycross, and that all arrange
ments have been made. This is an
important move for Waycross and a con
venience to the Brunswick and Albany
Railroad.
Tax nomination of a successor to Mr.
Hartridgo takes plaoe in Savannah to
day. The candidates are Colcmtl Thump-
son and Hon. W. B. Fleming. The
former appears (o have the inside track-
Newnan Leader: Tom Barron has had
his nose in a sling for several days—boil.
He wants to know why a boil wants to
jump on the biggest part of a man.
Painful Accident.—Baenna Vista Ar
gus : Jnst after onr last issue was printed,
we learned Mr. W. A. Attaway accident
ally shot his left hand so as to disable
him, perhaps, for life. He was loading
the pistol, and undertook to Dnsh the car
tridge in with his hand, when the pistol
was discharged. He aooidentally bewed
his leg open lost summer and now he has
shot his.hand to pieces..
‘Athens Chronicle: The Seniors of
the Institute, we are glad to learn, are
contemplating tbe publication of a liter
ary paper. The olaas is said to possess
very mnoh talent, and we Bhould be very
glad to weloome them into tbe broad and
fasoinatlng field of journalism. Their
enterprise will assuredly be a success,
Fbcm the same*:
We notice that the pines of the Cam
pus grounds are being out down, and un
derstand that they are to be supplanted
by good shade trees. Let the good work
go on.
Geobgia V3. Texas.—Inquirer Sun:
Many of tbe citizens of the State have in
the past few yoars been stricken with the
Texas fever, and accordingly went to the
"Lone Star State.” Many, yea, nine-
tentbs of these have returned disgusted
and in a bad condition.
On the 20ih of laet December Messrs.
Ruff Bartlett, Fiowellen Bartlett and
Adam Jones left Marion oonnty for Texas.
They travelled all over Fannin, Grayson,
Denton, Wise, Tarrant and Dallas coun
ties by private conveyance to inspect the
country. They fonnd bad water and
rough people, who seemed Biokly and dis-
satiefied. Cora sold from 15 to 30 cants
per bushel, and wheat at 60 cent}. Mr.
Ruff Bartlett returned yesterday, and tbe
others will arrive in a day or two. They,
like manybafore them, are determined
to stiok to old Georgia.
SUDDEN DEATH OF
WHITTLE.
ARTHUR
One of the saddest deaths that has oc
curred in Macon, and one whioh has cre
ated a greater shook on the oommnnity
than any since the death of Mr. Elgar
Collins, was the death of Mr. W. Arthur
Whittle. Tbe oity was startled by the
announcement, and a thada of sadn as
spread over its faor. At ten o’clock on
Sunday night Ur. Whittle was at the La
nier Honse joining in the conversation of
quite a coterie of friends. Scon after
he left.
About a quarter of twelve he went
home, carefully removing his shoec be
fore entering the house for fear of dis
turbing the inmate?.. His room was on
tbe second floor. He entered it and al
most immediately a pistol shot was
heard.
The rest of the melancholly c'rcnm-
stances can be learned from tbe evidence
of the coroner’s jury.
Dr. 0. H. Hail, sworn, said I hare
examined the body of deceased, Mr. W.
A. Whittle; I find bat one wonnd npon
the body, that caused by a pistol shot,
the ball entering the right side of his
head just above the right ear, going di
rectly through tho cerebrum and lodging
just nnder the scalp of the temple on the
left side of his head abont one and a half
inches above the left ear; I consider tho
one wound sufficient to produce immedi
ate death.
Mr. A. P. Whittle, sworn, raid: I thick
at a quarter after twelve last night, the
deceased, my brother, Mr. W. A. Whittle,
came into this room ; I was asleep in tbe
bed on the side nearest the fireplace, and
the opening of the door awakened me; I
said, "Hello, Arthur, is that yon?” he
replied, "Yes,” in his usual tone of voice;
I think then he mnBt have eat down upon
the trank to the left of the fireplace; I
think so from the fact that when he got
np again I heard the sound of the trank
top &3 it sprang back into position; there
was no light in the rcom; a very short
time after I heard this Bound made by
tbe trunk, I heard the crack of a pistol
and tbe fall of the body; ju9t as tbe pis
til fired I was abont to address him again,
bnt I don’t recollect what about; so soon
aa I could get a match from the mantel
piece, I lit the gas, rushed up to him aud
found him dead; as soon as I saw that
hs was dead I went to arouse my father,
down etairp, aud ether members of the
family; when my father oame in, after
looking at the body, he asked me if I had
seen any pistol; I told him no, and be
gan to IooE for one; I found one on the
left side of bis body, down near his feet,
and one chamber exploded; I reoogoizsd
it,as my pistol, whioh I kept in the
drawer of a dressing ossa on the corner
of the mcntelpieoc; I had not rcen tbe
pietol for several days, having had no oo-
casionto look in the drawer; this pibtoi
had been In his possession several times;
in the same drawer I had a pair of kid
gloves, whioh I found in my brother’s
pocket after his deatb; I had been absent
from tbe oity that day, and my brother
had told my slst6r that he wonld wear my
gloves that day as they were better than
his, or some snch expreseioc; it was my
brother’s custom, when he oame in after
the light in his room had been extingosh-
ed, to go to bed without a light; the
drawer to wbich I referred was abont as
high above the floor as my brothel’s
chin, and hie body lies just where it fell
direotly in front of that drawer, as if he
was standiog with his head directly at tbe
drawer when tbe pistol exploded; did net
hear any sonnd each as always ao-
oompsnies the act of cooking a pis
tol; if snch a-noise-bad been made
I would have heard it. Tba draw
er was naarly filled with papers, and, re
alizing whenever I went to replace the
pistol in it that some danger cf explod
ing it existed, I always used great care.
He was always of a obeerfol frame of
mind, and I have not heard of, nor de I
know of anything whioh would induoe pie
to taink' that be contemplated taking bit
own life. He and I had • positive en
gagement, at his suggestion, to meet at
my office and transact some business this
morning. He removed hie shoes before
be oame into the house, leaving them on
tbe baok porch, where they were this
morning early; this was a onstom with
him and a precaution he took to keep
from waking the family when he oame in
late. I have sesrohsd his pockets and
have not fonnd any preparation fo; or
consideration of death.
Mr. R. A. Niabet, sworn, said: About
half-past twelve o’clock last night Mr. A.
B. Whittle oame to my honse, awoke me,
and I went with' him at onoe to his home
and to the rcom where we now are. I
.taw the body of deoeaeed, Mr. W. A.
Whittle, lying as it does now
jnst in front of the dressing ease
on the mantelpiece. It now lies aa i
did then. The only change ia his attire
is, that I, with the assistance of Mr. J.
P. Fort, plaoed on his hands a pair of
kid gloves which we fonnd in deceased’s
pocket*. My office adjoins that of tbe
father of the deceased, and during the
past week I have seen him every day,
and he haj been constantly cheerful, be
ing all tbe time very talkative and pleas
ant. I examined the pockets of dtcorse 1
and found to papers on his person, ex
cept one letter, which did not, in any
way, refer to the death of the person.
Here, at the request ofa member of the
jury, Mr. Nisbet cocked the pistol aud it
made two distinct clicks, loud enough to
bs heard all over the room and To attract
the attention of anyone in the roam.
Mr. N. M. Hodgkins, sworn, .said:
Having had considerable experience in
the handling of 'firearms, having been a
dealer in them for fifteen or twenty
years, he itated that be ooald easily see
how the discharge of the weapon shown
him could have osourrad by striking the
hammer against the corner of. the drawer
or otherwise. Mr.. Hodgkins explained
the manner of cocking and lettiog down
the-hammer upon the cartridge, whan a
very slight blow on the hammer would
explode it.
After duly considering tbe foregoing
evidence tho jury arrived at the follow
ing verdict:
Upon considering the testimony, and
after a careful examination of the body
of deceased, and of tbe premises, we, the
jury of inquest, find that W. A. Whittle
came to Mb death by tbe accidental dis
charge of a pistol, whioh, io the dark, he
was attempting to place in the drawer cf
a dressing case on the end of tbe mantel
piece in hia room, near the height of his
head.
David E. Blount, Foreman. ’
Chables L. Roes, in* rtdwtA
J. A McManus, V -
- N. M. Hodskins,
Chables H. Hall,
William Hazlkhubst,
Haynb Ellis,
JohnT. Boifeuillet, Js.,
Thomas L. Robs,
J. W. Lcokett, ;i . , —
R. 8. Saul-bubt,
Thomas U. Conner.
Mr. Whittle would have been twenty-
'four years of age in June. Hg was bora
end reared in Macon, gra i dated at the
State University, and. has, for the past
two year?, been farming near Boling-*
broke. He had jnst removed to the city
to commence tbe study of law in his
father’s office. .He was well known and
very popular with hia young friends and
companions. His impulses were those of
a thorough gentleman, and in his natare
wasmuchof true nobility.
The casket which held the spirit was
like it. aud a more eymetric phjsique
could hardly bo found. Ho has died in
the very blcom of magnificent manhood, t
and hisyouDg life has gone out "while its
wi3 yet morning.” His nature waa im
pulsive , and his bravery was almost a
fault. With his family, whose hearts are
almost crushed under this weight of tor-
row, the entire city sympathise.
—1 great many young men who swore off
on the iat cf Januaiy havereenmed
—An old Danish treaty gives Fiaacea
monopoly of iho ood flihing off the Iceland
coast, wbich ia valued at 5,000,003 a year.
—At tho Thimes 1’olico Court, London,
the other day, a cibman was sent to prison
for frnlons driving, although he had not
even killed or tnj aicd any one.
—Hr. Spurgeon, yielding to the earnest
solicitation of the ms jority of hU flock, has
consented to take a vacation of three months,
to ba pused at Mentone, Franco.
-The Emperor of Germary is now won
derfully well and vigorous, though atill carry
ing h<s arm in a eling. He gives audiences
and tides out daily. He has held a oommla-
tion in the Prussian army seventy-two years.
—A Bill hss passed the Alabama House of
Delegates which provides that in all fature
election] in that Bta’.e the billots cast shall
not he numbered, so that the secrecy of the
elector’s vote will bs perfect and Inviolable.
—There wero 19,695 persons killed tn 1877
by wild animals and pcisonons snakes in
British India, as compared to 19,273 in 1876.
The number of oattie destroyed in the same
way in 1877 was 53,197, as comp;red with
54.830 in the previous year.
—The Marquis of Lome and Pxinoees
Louise devote an hour to family devotion#
each evening, half an hour in the morning
and a quarter of an hour at noon. The
Marquia read* from the Church cf England
service, and thePiioooe* respordr.
—Feaifaltempesta are reported from AL<
gtria. During one storm at Br o tho hail
stones killed a woman working in tbe fields.
A flock of pigeons was also killed, and after
the tempest a great number of haree and
pirtridges were fouuddead on the ground-
—Lord Bsaconafleld wrote in 1833 a tragedy
which has never been played. Its nature
may ba corjec!u*ed f.-cm Hits speech oFcne
of its personagoat "Try me,’ he i ays. ‘this
Ojprus wine; an English Priuci did give it
me re during from the Holy Sepulchre ’
—The growth cf Bodie Col. i. w.nde.fal.
Six months ago there were b: tween 500 and
630 buildings, with a population of 1,490.
Now there are between 3,000 and 4 000 build ■
ings, and a population of 7,(0'. There is
one s rcet over a milo long, lined on either
side with business houses,
—A Birmingham manufacturer baa recent
ly ttated in public that during !h3 Franco-
Gat mm war the Birmingham woiVmcn wero
earning snoh high wigea that ma-.y of them
actually kept ponies and fphaetons, and it
wia aimoa' impossible to buy ponies in Bir
mingham ‘for lovo or money.’ '
Senator Isa ills B k -Elected. —The anti-
Ingalla clement in the Legislator*, after
caucusing all night and to 11 o’o’ook last
Friday, centered on Chief Juatite Horton.
On the fint ballot to-dav Ingalls received 86
votes, Horton, 79; Goodwin (Dem.), 2, and
Mitchell (Greenback), 1. Mr. Ingalls was
declared elected.
bsNATox Chbisiuxct.—A telegram from
Lansing, states that Senator Ohriatianoy
arrived there Friday night, and called on’Gov i
Orosawed to-day, bnt did cot trader Us
resign Alien, and is still ia donbt whether he
will accept the Permian missiorf cr not. He
will not do so unless he can arrange his
business affaire at Lansing satisfactorily.
—In the French army oavalry bands have
been t uppressed, and uniforms are neither
so varied nor so brilliant as they used to be.
With compulsory service tho bxit of gaudy
trappings U not required, and with the new
armiof precuion showy colors i fiord too
fur a mark to tbe enemy. Even white box-
ees are being eliminated from the army ser
vice as far aa possible. There are no z ousts
regiments now exoept in A'getre.
Bine Note Cox pant a Consol: auraa.—
Tho three leading bank note companies of
New Tort—American, National, and .Contin
ental—coc schooled on Friday last, under
the name of the American Bank Note Com
pany. The fcurineea of the three companies
and their Govsinmrat contracts are to be
concentrated at the present office of the
American Bank Nots Company, at Broadway
and Liberty streets. The nominal capital ia
•100,100.
Whsbe ihi Fisaswe Awasd Goes.—New-
•.75.060 of lha HUlfax
foundland will get .
fisheries award money and Canada •4.S87, -
500, the remaining $187,500 being retained
“ id till tbe expense accounts are
Prince Edward Island will Maim
81,900,000. and pasUUyha’f of tbe Domin
ion’* share, on the ground that It was shown
at Halifax that the island l ftabarie* were
more valuable then those of sny other prov
ince, or of all of them combined*
VlSTOSti AS A GsEAT -OaANPMOTgEB—
The London World says it will
The Losdon World says It will make i
middle-aged people feel very 5dto
that the Piisors* Royal, who mm bora with
in their rommnhnmoo, lo on tho point of
becoming a grandmother. Her daughter,
the hereditary fttaoeasof Saxs-Metmngen,
U e xpecting her eontaeoent next meow; so
that, if sri sets well, her lfojesiyffc* Qnoon
wfl: fee a great-grandmother before ahois
S3. Uptotlietim so Qwswof RogtaBd
his ever lived to see her great-grwndehiUren,
bQtherMsjaeiysBag sow reaeenab>
to b: a great-zreat-giandmcUrr, aad t
cdobi'dran’s grandchSdr
her grandobi 1 *
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