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MACOftu TUESDAY, SfOYEMBER11, 1879.
Volume LIY—NO 45
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Chicago, N.ivsmbsr 2.—The ooronar’a
jury h«U an inquest upon the body of
the i v« Zrcntruh Chandler at the Grand
Pacific Hotel last night, and found that
the deatn of the latter took plaoe be
tween midnight and .even a. m , and
was probably the re.nit of oerebal hem
orrhage. Toe triendi and relatione of
the d-OKLe-d objo-ed to a thorough
geatmurUm sunta-cioa.
Chicago, III., Nor- mber 2,—The last
sad officii tor Senator Chandler were
performed at aa early honr this morning
at the Grand P*oiflu Hotel. Rif. David
Swing officiated .»d the services were
meoessaruy very brief, o insisting simply
■af prayer and reading from the Sorip-
Oaree. Thn remains were thenascoited
to the depot by mree oompsnies of the
first regimen', two mi odred veterans and
a detail of cade s. together with a large
kumb.r of friends.
At the dtp->« a spsoial train with tbe
oommitlee, beaded by ex-Gov. Baglay,
was watting to taka the remains to De
troit.
Hauvax, November 2.—The storm of
last Wednesday was the most severe in
tbe Strait of Oanso-Sydney and North
lliiliej. and seven sohooners are ashore
at De»ooste, but can probably be gotten
off. Eight buildings were destroyed at
Port Hood, C. B, -nJ abdnt fifty more
’ between that plaoe and Wbyoomah.
Havana, November 1.—The excite
ment in the eager market continned all
the past week,and prices advanced stead
tip. No sneers are now in first hands.
Nos. 10 to 12 Da 9 to 10 reals (gold) per
arrobt; Nos 15 t> 20 Da 10} to Ilf reals;
snolasaee sugar. Nos. 7 to 10,8to 8 to 8}
reelr; Mutcavado sugars nominal; can.
trifngal sagars, 95 degrees polarisation,
in boxes and hogsheads, 10 to 10} reals.
M8cbantow, Paxw., November 2.—A
tremendous explosion of fire damp oc
curred in tbe D~iawaref and Hudson
mine at Mill Cr*tk, Pennsylvania, at
half-past nine o’clock this morning. At
twelve o’oloek George Tosale, Daniel
Buff end J. Kenney were taken oat dead.
Two men yet remain in the mine. A
lsrge force is workiog to get them out.
There were fire men in the mine at the
time the explosion ooonrred: Thomas,
Jenkins, Foioey, K naey and Raff, who
had been sent down a short time before
to P'op np a crumbling pillar. All were
dead when found. Tne bodies of tbe
three last named were, fearfully mangled
and partly covered by a mess pf splin
tered timbers and broken coal.
As the men were all killed it cannot
bo ascertained now the’ catastrophe oa-
ourr-i Three o; tne victims leave large
iamiliea.
Cajbo, III, November 2.—A fire at
Honnd City this atternoon destroyed
over oue- third of the town. A telegram
was received here at three p. m., aaking
for assistance, and in response three fire
engines were promptly despatched.
*1 he fire baa s.m«J great headway,
and it was impossible for the a<» J»iu>ri.
meat to do anytnmg more than prevent
its spread. From sixty to eighty houses
were barnod, and among them the court
house with all the records. A rough es
timate fixes tbe loss at seventy or eighty
thousand dollars.
Wjuusqxok, DXL.,November 2.—Late
last ai,ni .-uittiog engine on the Phi la
delphia, Wilmington and Baltimore rail
road ran into a freight oar just aontb of
-this city. John Gallagher, the engineer,
and two others were horribly mangled
and died early this morning.
Baltimore, M*., November 2.—The
Pina Memorial Roman Catholio Church,
jnat completed in the northwestern eeo-
tion of the city was cedicaled to-day.
The dedicatory mass was celebrated by
.Rev. Father Lyman and the dedication
was by Archbishop Gibbons. Bishop
•Gross, of Savannah, preaohed. A large
number of clergymen were present. The
building is constructed of blue stone, qnd
is one of the handsomest church edifices
of the city.
PXTXB8BOBO, Va., November 2.—At
the County Jourc of Sussex county, yea
terday, the Jury in the case of Frank Ba
ker (colored) who, about two months
since, murdered in a most atrocious man
ner Agaes Shands and ohild (colored),
brought In a verdict of murder in tho first
degree. Mary Baker, mother of Frank
-Baker, charged with being oecessory to
the same murder, is now being tried.
Dbs Moines, Iowa, Not. 2.—Theooal
miners of the Eureka, Eclipse, 8ypher
and Watson mines to the number of two
hundred, struck in a body yesterday on
aeoount of dlssatiafaotion with tbe prat-
ent method of weighing coaL
Tbxhtoit, N. J., November 2.—Hon.
Chae. Hewitt, brother of Abram 8.
Hewitt and President of the Trenton
Iron Company, died here to-night, aged
-W.
Bawuns, W. T., November 2.—A
courier etme in from the front last nigh,
with dispatohes end mail. All is quid
at Merrittfe camp. On the 29th an In
dian came into Merritt* camp to have a
peace talk. He was informed that Mer
ritt had ne authority to make peace. He
then gravely told the General that he
would give up bis arms, ammunition,
horses and mnlet, if he would be allowed
to leave with his men.
After the Indian left the camp, numer
ous signal fire* were observed In the
neighborhood. Two oompantes of infan
try will be stationed at Snake river, to
proteot the stores and furnish escorts for
wagon trains with supplies for Merritt.
Bio Jane bio, October 15, via Lmax.
Great bnah fires are raging in the prov
ince of Minas Geraea. Sixty-seven per
sons have perished.
Iiokdcx, November 2.—A Vienna dis
patch is published in tbe Paris journals,
stating that a telegram from Constanti
nople represents that the relations be
tween England and Turkey are greatly
■trained.
Eogland has sent to the Porte an ulti
matum demanding the execution of re
forms in Asiatic Turkey. If the demand
ianot complied with it ir believed that
the Sultan will be deposed and replaced
by bis brother, who will bj under tbe
tutelary supervision of Eogland, France
and Austria. Russia upholds the Sultan
The foregoing is probably grossly ex
aggerated in the form of a Renter’s tele
gram from Constantinople to-day, which
•ays Sir Austin Layord, tbe British pm
bassado', will shortly present to the
Porte a note insisting on the execution
of promised reform* in Asiatic Turkey.
Tbe Reuter's telegram further says 8ir
Austin Lsyard having been requested by
toe Porte to explain tbe object of the
-dispatch of Admiral Hornby’s squadron to
Tu -kieh waters replied that tbe sqnadron
would remain for th)t present at' Voolah,
but uveala U, might proceed' to some
-other Tu<klsh port as England would
not tolerate the oppression of Christians
in Asia io Turkey.
SParamuBO, Vo., November 2 —At a
ate hour lost night a diSaalty occurred
in Mollmors and Cay Kendal/a bowling
saloon between George Hinton end James
M. Young, two yonog men in this city,
and resulted in the death of ILctoa.
Hinton was playing a game of ten pins,
when Young entered tbe saloon and
made some insulting remarks about him,
at the same time drawing a pistol sol 1
•booting Hinton aa he was ia tbo art of
advancing toward him. Toung wai ar
rested and lodged in jail, to await an ex
animation before Mayor Cameron to
morrow.
Hinton la brother of ex-Senator Wm.
E. Hinton and Capt. Drury AX Hinton,
the Commonwealth’s attorney in this
city. . Young is about twenty-two years
of age, and son of Jlr. J. P. Yonng, a
well known citizjn of Petersburg. The
two yonwg men were bosom friends until
reoently.
Lowboy, Nov. 3.—A Cabal dispatch
reports tpat eight .Joes of treasure have
been unearthed, otuefly gold ooins. Ad
were confiscated for tbe present.
- Eleven prisoners were exeented for
partisipetlon in the max sacra of tbe
British embassy and sixty persons exam
ined since the trial began.
It ia expeoted the Afghan monaroby
will not be reconstructed, bat broken up
Into several provinces.
Tbe innocence of the Ameer ia still far
fromolear.
The epidemio of typhoid and measles
at oamp .Clare continues. A hundred
oases were reported last 8atnrdsy.
A sailor landed at Audierns reports on
Thursday the schooner Marie Theresa, of
Van Ness, from Santander for New
York, struck on a rook near Heret and
sank. Tbe master, his wife and child
and five men were drowned.
Karl Sobwaris, proprietor of the cotton
spinning mills at Erlangen, Bavaria, has
suspended. Liabilities Je103,000.
Chicago, November 3,—The fnrnitnre
factory of A E Andrews ft Co., 166
Mather street, was destroy el by fire yes-
terday. Lots #60,000. Insurance not
ascertained.
Paxaxa, October 25.—Farther infor
mation of the cruise of the Haascar and
Union south, and of their meeting with
two divisions of the Chilian navy is de
rived from the official report of Captain
Aoralio Garoia, commandant of the
Union.
The two vessels called at Iquiguo, and
there stood Sonth. Arriving off Jaroo
(Chilian port), on tbe 4!h nit., where they
captured the Cnilian eobooner Coqniau-
bo. On the morning <X the flftn they
entered the harbor of Irguey, where tbey
caused an attempt to be made to land a
strong Chilian foroe at Iquigne, and
some other point on the oosst of Pero,
when Admiral Gran determined to re*
turn to Arica.
Proceeding north, two Paruvisn steam-
era on the eighth sighted the first divis
ion of the Cmlian fleet, whioh was look
ing for them. The Haascar and Union
at onoe pnt about and made off as fast as
possible to the southwest. They had
drawn well away from land, the Chilian
fleet following them, when Gnu resolved
to steer north and run between tbe Cni-
lian fleet and the shore. In this ma
cceavrd ho succeeded and swept by the
euemy’s first division without firing u
gun. The superior speed of the Peravion
snips was manifest. Tney rapidly steamed
away from their enemies, the Blanoo and
Euoalado and the three wooden steamers,
and tbey thought an escape was certain,
•ban AfiiLfovtl#- a W—*. rKa.
Chilian division, composed of Almirante
Oocnrane and several smaller vessels,
naming down upon them.
In a ew minn.ee Grau said he oonld
not escape from this iron-clad, whose
speed was equal to bis own. He accord
ingly steered for snoal water, when, on
account of bis ligntnesn f drangh-, h-
might lead his huge en.mies on a rock,
or be able to out manmurere them.
Tbe Uoion here deserted her consort
and escaped to tho westward cioBely fol
lowed by several smaller vessels of the
enemy. These could not come np wiib
her, and she proceeded north to Arica
wiihont having a shot daring the disas
trous fight.
The fight was began by the Huascar
disoharging her two three hundred
pounders at close range at the Almtracte
Coohrane, which Grau followed np by an
attempt to ram bis antagonist. This
was nneuceessful, as the Chilian irou
olada are doable screws, and can present
any front they choose to attack by.
Aa the Hnasoar swept by at such cloc**
range she received a btoid-ddo from the
Cochrane, and before ehe bad proceeded
far the other battery was ponred into
her. At the same time tbe other Chil
ian ironclad ran npun her, and Gran,
undismayed by thn odds against him,
boldiy placed hisuelf between the two
huw, which were thus prevented from
firing so rapidly, on account of the dan
ger of hitting each other, whioh prolong
ed the fight.
For about an honr the officers of tbe
Union were able to observe the deadly
combat and speak favorably of tbe man
ner in whiob all three ironclads were han
dled. It is not known whether the
Hnasoar was taken by boarding, or that
after the death of Grau. which it is said
occurred early in the action, and the
wounding of the executive office and eev-
•ral subordinates, the remaining officers
unhurt, only four in number, hauled down
(he flag.
The HuiBOar lost a large nnmbar of
officers and men, a circumstance which
was afterwards reported at Iqniqne by
the Chilian vessels Higgins and Los.
Tho bull of the Hnasoar is said to have
b?en riddled and her engines damaged.
Her turret was jammed so that it weald
not revolve, ana everything was swept
from her deck by the terrible fire from
the ironclads. It is said, indeed, that
her farm is rendered completely use
less.
The Chilian Ironclad whioh went Into
the notion fired her broadsides very rap*
ily, as with her tnrn sorewa she was able
to present to her adversary in a few min
utes any batteries she wished to use.
The Hnasoar guns were well manned.
Memphis, November 3 —Ice was form
ed this morning in all the gutter* of th-
eity, and to-day is by far the coldest ol
the season. Folly fire hundred telegrams
have been sent by physioians advising
that all can return with safety. Thii
ends the epidemio of 1879.
Qukbxo, Nov. 8 —The Austrian bark
Nereo, Captain Ossolnak, from Mon
treal for Cork, with a cargo of wheat is
reported a total wreck on the rocks ia
the lower St. Lawrence. The crew was
saved.
Halitax, Nor. 8.—The sohooner De
fiance was wrecked at Dover Oanso da
ring the gale Wednesday but. The
vessel and cargo are a total leas. No
insurance.
The loss by fhe gale at Prince Ed
ward’s Island la estimated at 160,000
London, November 3.—At the munici
pal electrons throughout England, Bator-
day last, wherever political considera
tions were involved, the liberals were
mostly triumphant. In one or two very
important borough* the balance of power
was completely reversed in favor of the
liberals. Ia Liverpool, where the town
ooancil stood forty-two conservatives and
twenty-two liberals, it now stands thirty-
four conservatives and thirty liberals.
IiWD-s, November 3.—The dis-a"-
known locally aa blaok tongue, but which
probably is a very violent form of dip-
theris, has appeared in the seotioo of
country surrounding this city. The die
ease has b.filed the skill of medioal men.
Five inobes of snow fell at this point
last night.
The old established Calcutta firm, Cal
vin Cowle ft Co, has stopped payment.
Chabuuton. November The bark
Azor, belonging to the Liberian Exodus
Association, in whioh three hundred ne
groes went to Liberia from Charleston in
May, 1878, will be sild here at notion
by order of oourt on the eighth ter satisfy
ti e demands upon the Association.
PaoTiBXNcr, B. I, November 3.—The
schooner Hattie Turner McIntyre, six
teen days froth Savannah for Boston,
teached New Fort this evening. The
captain and all hands were sick except
tho mate. Yesterday she spoke the Nor
wegian bark Pacific from Boohefort
France, for New York, and was enpplioi
with Amen to work the sohooner into
port. I V.
N*w Tons, November 8.—In tbe Til
ton iuojms tax cos a to-day, after t
augthy argument before Judge Choate,
his Honor decided that Mr. Colgate
could not be compelled to produoe his
o joka and directed an order to be issued
closing tha exsmiaition before tbe Com
missioner this afternoon.
Isidore ft Hein, far dealers on Green
street, have made an aajtgument. Their
liabilities are saidto.be heavy. -
Washikgxoh, Nor. 8.—The President
has iesusd a proclamation appointing the
27th of November as a day of thanks
giving and prayer. , <•. • T .
Chicago, Nov. 8.—It is stated that
Bleit«uer Brothers, dry goods msrobants,
234 Madison street, have failed for
million dollars. ,
Post Jaetis, November 8.—Snow fell
here to the depth of three inches lost
night.
ToBoirro, November 8.—ft severe now
storm prevailed throughout Ontario last
night and this morning. In some sections
there jfl a foot of snow on A level.
WiNRiFio, Maxitobia, November 3.
—An ue bridge has formed on the river
and people are crossing oa tne foe. j
Washington, November 8.—With a
view of reporting to Congress as to its
ntxs session a plan for the National
Pablia Health Organisation, as requirad
hy tbe act establishing the National
Board of Health, a circular was issued
by the Board of Health requesting the
sanitirianB generally and all otiera inter
ested in the subject, to oommunioate
their views to the Board, and inviting
the dtate local boards of health to be pre
sent at the conference of the Ameriean
Public Health Association, to be held in
Nashville, November 18th.
Nxw Oblxans, November 8.—Judge T.
Wnarton Collins is dead.
Tne Bihaoner Mary Eveline, from Ute-
la, encountered a gale on the 27cb, losing
her fore sail. She sprang a leak and
threw her cargo overboard.
The Liquidating Commissioners of the
Business Sav nga Bank, have filed suite
as follows: Io the Fifth Didtriot Coart
against K. C. Palmer, cl of. Board of Di
rectors of said Bank, OUiming five hun
dred thousand dollars for mismanage
ment and other illegalnois; against E C.
Palmer ft Co., claiming twenty-eight
thousand dollars illegally drawn from the
bank by Primer and charged to profit
drawn from said bank; also suite for.
Amounts due for unpaid atock sa follows:
E. O Palmer, forty thousand dollars;
Edward Coney, twenty thousand; James
Jaokson, twenty thou-and; J. H. Keller,
ten thonsand; Fred Wing, ten thousand.
Che parties afeore named constituted the
Board of Direotors.
Boston, November 3.—-The Journal
says “Walter Hastings, reoently deceas
ed, has bequeathed the bulk of hia for
tune, after tbe death of his wife, to Har
vard College. It is estimated to amount
to a half million dollars, whioh is tho
largest bequest the College has ever re
ceived ”
London, November 3.—A Madrid dis-
patoa to tbe Standard says tne repre
sentative in tbe Cortes from Caba end
Porto Rico have decided to appoint a dep-
u aiiun to ask the Ministry to present to
tne Legislature simultaneously bills for
me abolition of slaver; and for the re
form of tbe tariff and commercial rela
tions between Spain and her colonies. If
tbe demand ia refused the members talk
ot withdrawing from the next Legisla
ture.
London, Nov. 3 —A dispatch from St.
Petersburg to tbe Daily Newt says: At a
primes! trial atKieff oa tne 23th ultimo,
oue man was sentenced to death, two to
ten years imprisonment at hud labor,
one to six years and two to four yean.
Madrid, Nov. 3.—The session* of tbe
Cortes wore reopened to-day and the
royal message read annonneing the ap
proaching marriage of Kiog Alfonso.
Havana, November 8.—-The German
mail steamer brings advioes from St.
Thomas to the 29u> of October. General
Salomon was proclaimed President ot
Hay ti on the 23d ultimo, and has issued
a manifesto asking the rapport of the
nation-
Intelligence from San Domingo to tbe
20tn nlumo states that, wtthont firing a
single shot, the whole of the North has
joined the reTolntionary movement,
whiob is headed by General Lnperon.
The rebels are marching southward.
Washington, November 3.—General
Sherman’s annual report to the Secretary
of War was oompleted to day. It is pre
faced with the usual tabnlar statements
and the >e turns compiled by the Adja-
txnt GenersL These show that the total
strength of the army ie now 2.189 officers
and 24 262 men in the service, and 388
officers <etired. Of this foroc, however,
3,463 enlisted men are detailed for epe.
oial servioe in the engineer and signal
corps, at torpedo etatioD, at West Point,
as prison guards, etc., rad are not
available for frontier defense. The army
proper or real combative foroe, therefore,
consists of eleven generals, 1.559 offioers,
20,565 men and 233 Indian scoots, to
gether with auoh staff offioers as. are as
signed by tne War Department to duty
with the troops, Ie thus appears that
one-sixth of the enlisted men provided by
law for the whole umy are not available
for active service, and if the army should
not. General Sherman ^ayv, be held re-
eponeible for the work of 20,000 mfn,
when so luge a fraction ts necessarily di
verted to other uses. He recommends
that Congress be asked to so legislate as
to aU}W 25.000 men, exclusively for the
line, matiog special provision for men
employed in the detached servioe.
Gen. Sherman devotes a large put of
the report to the trouble with the Ute
Indians, whioh he prefaces with the his
tory of that tribe rad accompanies it
with a number of letters, tbrowiug light
upon the history of the outbreak. H -
applanda the courage and energy dis
played by Gen. Adams in obtaining the
release of the oaptives, and hopes he
will completely succeed in bis praise
worthy mission. At the same time, be
quotes a latter to Gan. Sheridan, in
whieb be says: Should agent AdamB fail
in his mission, I nnderrtand that the
civil authorities will stand aside and tbe
military will take absolute oontrol of tbit
whole Ute question and settle it for good
ALd all General Sbeiman ul-o giv,d
rhe history of tee recent trouble
with the Apaohcs in New Jlt-iic > o= far
us known, but says thutai t-.es-e: o"
war is oevosd thu reSoh of Ulegr-pb, he
canuot give anything definite fr -in M ■ j
Morrow, woo is in puisuit.ot toe hosmo
Indiana in that region In vie" of poa
recommends the oonatraotion of a strong'
lort near the boundary line between
Forts Baferd and Aaaoinaboine and also
the completion of tbe Litter fort, which Maoon
will require about one hundred thousand
doll are.
Tu-Mocqoixo Plagdx.—An exchange
'"Mosquitoes ore one of the afiLcttoos
at Fernandin* this year, bat they have
been an equal or greater tttictioa in New
Jersey and Maryland.- In fact, it seems
to be a good year for mosquitoes every
where.”
: Tbe writer has more than onoe felt the
sharp beaks of these peats in onr Florida
sister oity. and paid liberal. tribute it
blood to their impdrions demands. Bat
he is also free to sky that this very ram
mer he fared but little better in Boston,
Philadelphia and Poughkeepsie. So on
he moaqaito question nonors are pretty
xeirly even between the Sonth and
North. ■'->
Last Week’s Cotton Figures.
Tha New York Ukreefcl* reports the
receipts at the ports tor tha seven days
ending last Friday night, Slat nit, at 245,-
618 bales against 157,290 for the oorres-
■ponding week of lost year. Total ainoe
1st September 1,123,135 bales, against
1,005,855 for the corresponding months
of lent year, showing» net increase, of
21&780 bales.
The New York Cotton Exchange re
port for the same days wan receipts
244,415, against 164,281. Total, 1.240 ,
982-against 971,300—making tha net
inoreaeei269,682 bales. ,- : j
The (JknmMa table of Interior port
operations for the same week ie u fal
lows! Total receipts 102.796: bales,’
against * 85,56t~lkst ’You; ’ Shipments
83.054, against 68,415 list year. Stocks
115,735. against 115,084 last year, n 1
The CkronieWa visible supply table
shows 1,631.945 bales ot ootton in sight
last Friday, against 1,440,880 bales at
same date last year, 1,478.62r at same
date the year befora, and 2,085,723 at
same date ia 1876L These figures show
an increase of 91,057 bales in the visible
supply of last year; an increase of 69,1
824 balee in the visible anpply-of 1877;
and a decrease of-551,783' bales on, the
visible supply of 1876 at same dates.
Cotton in Liverpool last Friday- wsi
7} for middling upland. At the come*
ponding date last year the quotation was
5 11-16. in 1877 6}. and in 1876 68-16,
The .Ckmniels’s weather reports from
the cotton region show light frosts at
Corsicana and Dallas in- Toros, killing
frosts in the middle and northern ^por
tions of Alabama, hard frosts in Mem
phis last Saturday and Sunday. Pioking
was going on rapidly and under favora
ble conditions. Under the stimalaB of a
rise in prices,' cotton was being crowded
into market as fast ss possible.
From the aspect of things to-dav (Mon.
day, Nov. 3 -) it is extremely' -probable
that the aeoount of the growing ootton
crop of 1879 will be dosed up by.a gener
al black frost by ranrise to-monow. We
39, and a floras northerly wind and fall
ing temperature promiow s-ritwiTn
frecae to-night. Unless prices fall more
seriously, tbe heavy receipts, however,
will continue, and tbe subsidence will be
very sudden and complete when it
comes. •
Whxnhvib the OmuRMim folks get I gia.
bold ot a-word that tickles their fancy, I q™-™ » Thaw. h«n
they fondle it as continuously ra n uShw
ooon does a hiekery nut. Lut week hem wriSi wbontSUsJ
they dropped upon ‘’silly.” andbave aL t to“aS mry find 1hTre«Ter
ready wonTlhe corners smooth ia fitting j th. «ubLot- Af&T havini-
il! p £ oe8 , who 5 e M * n '«nte were pj£ ^ mspeoted ihe ralendid
needed. We do not pretend to advise L, hibita m “ t ' t *
onr nervous contemporary, yet it does ^ Tfauian tidl,
"'tt.'feovflil'ulS't 5*,S?SSS.”thTirS’S'KS? “
si&ttisvs ass« &
injustice even to in adjective. of ** u eww ? 0,0 *"Z T !
Trie Atlanta Fair is said to have olosed. *?*, woek 10 M *‘
i- ayrsaiSSiijarjBa:
fore they ware hatched.
When a man
OaUe - ra
Tb* editor of this
Column
A FLEDGLING,
By the abide of onr
Honorable paste pot
We will paste him
By the ears
To the handle of our
Open i,
And experienced H
SCIS9GR9,
Poar Mempuis.
To partially disinfect Memphis the Na
tional Board of Health used the present
season 170,105 pounds of copperas, 1,215
pounds of eui;hate of Etoc, forty barrels
of salpbnr, 9,000 barrels of lime, fifteen
barrels of o-irbulio sold, and 1,200 gallons
o! zino iion. Besides this, armed p*trpU
for the proteotion of the oity.had to b«
employed, troops picketed the roads and
approaches to prevent the ingress and
egresa of citizens and strangers, camps
for the poor were established at desirable
locations where they were duly supplied
with rations, and a host ot nurses and
phjsiaians for tbe sick had to be provi
ded.. __
Still all these precautions did not seem
to weigh a feather in artestlng the pro
gress of the pestilence, which steadily
held its own in that almost dep .pulated
oity. Bnt, now that Jack Frost haa
banished the insidious foe, before the
rush ot rovlving buslnesi and a thousand
distractions serve to obliterate the past
and engender the same oaretaesaess, not
to Bay fatality, whioh obtained at the
advent- of tha recent anmtner, it is proper
to ask what were the senses that pro
duced this terrible disease, and what era
be done to destroy its existing germs and
prevent a repetition of the same ealamlty.
The following extract from the Mem
phis Atwlawtos wilt go for to famish the
solution of tbe sole matter!
A singgisb, filthy stream ia Wolf river.
Ia faot lc is nothing more than an ex
tremely stagnant bayou fall of vegetable
poisons. Yet we are not only compelled
to drink Wolf river water, bnt when
there Is high water in the Mississippi
river onr water Is dilated with 1,500
prlrjf vaults.
This is enough to poison any commu
nity. Bat, in addition, so lax were the
authorities last spring in their hygienio
precautions, that, as we published sever
al months ago, a respectable gentleman
from this oity, when visiting Memphis,
saw piles of second-hand dead men’s
shoes and clothing offered for sals, by ne
groes on the street oorners, and says the
streets were filthy rad the pavements de
cayed.
All this mast be stopped incontinently,
and proper drainage, purs water and
oleanliness assured to the people of Hem-
phis,if they wonidhope to esoape another,
and repeated visitations fromyellow fever.
Ic is due to tbe safety of the whole South
tfiat speedy measures should be taken
daring the winter months to disinfect
tho oity, and make its sanitary condition
each as to remove ell danger or fear of a
return of the plagne next summer.
Bel who ia to do tbit? We answer, tb
people of Memphis (hemMlvea, assisted,
if need be, by their State authorities.
Sorely the great commonwealth of Ten-
nssaeo would not humiliate herself by
nailing upon the general Government to
do that whioh is manifestly her own
daty.
Bnt there is no time to be lost in tbe
premises, and now while the reoolleotion
of the reoent horrors through which the
people of Memphis have paused are still
fresh in ihe pablia mind, is ihe proper
moment to agitate the question and ac
complish the necessary work.
THE GEOBGlft PRESS
quant and patriottq address, in 'Whioh he
-c- . . , , . | counselled pease, frateinitv, Uud the bu-
Tk» Dtvafth ought to issue a joke on tia i ot »1] pVsr ulan-i iee. The oele-
as a supplement. It always J bration was, in every way,
inooeee.
spoils a joke to be mixed np with adver j 1“ » ktter to the Mnquinr 8**, Matt
tieements. I O’Brien sayai Maoon has acted the host
THU Upson Aferpriis contains an orig-1 ’o-perfection in her ente^ Uinment of the
5ll .i liVo wiHu’iHmnn., ! “* D 7 thou **°d rial tors who have come
inal poem strangely like Wilde * Sommer j ^ ^ her gieat St(lte Fijr Ail ths ^
S 09 ®- . . I itiry oompaniee weift banqueted and
JTn Tbomasrille Fair baa been post- I "balled”".and ‘‘p inched” and “cham-
poned antll next year. Bid weather I .not* 1 the * had to orv ont
only waa the cause
Bnaue of feather*, reminds us that
old Maoon has a handful of plumes in
her head dress that cure over and dan-1
gle In forty oonntiev.
Thobntox Is going to be clerk of tbe
Railroad Commission. This is aa it
(I) ‘‘HeldI Eoouga 1 * i; „ . KU
And in speaking of the Fau, the dis
play of cattle hero ie remukably large
end fine. The pans are mnoa uesrei to
■he main attractions than at the Atlanta
Fair, and aa c a eonsequenoa many .ladies
and childfen were visitors, and were wtll
should be, unleai T. is kept too busy to I rewarded by -hat they saw; a< d I am
let u» kpow oocaaionolly who our next I told a grrat many fine hogs, raws, eto.,
gavernor will be. were sold.
, to corespondent M the Awiftif News Bo far aa the geaeral display Ja oon-
is "hail-fellow well-M, E. T. ’ with the I eeraed, the exhibits are greater in num-
native Georgians. Thu may or may not bsr than at the AUanU Fur. the cro-d
iewa X L It lent jot$. I greater, and the grounds belter, and the
Fon the ladies—to prevent the heir racing just at good, and rhl* is a- it
from falling ont, use plenty of hairpins. I should be, for this is the great State Fair
Thm "falling stare ’ bhsinees haa keen IFair in wilch the whole State is in
advertised every year ii&m 1835, and we j tereeted—hence Macon people think it
In
"see a man” report favorably, wa shall I remain away from the 8tote Fair ia the
borrow a obock and pass in. >j : I three days belonging to the latter.
Glanoe along the column, gentlemen, j Lunrxiw Indtyendont-. |The Georgia
and-1ell what of the State Fair now. Nor State Fair at Maoon daring the week was
wind, nor rain, nor poverty, hostile pa-I a grand and decided sneoeas. .Theatten-
pere or seductive holding-over*, ora I donoe has been very large, the racing
affect ns, rad the wicked gnashed their I fine and the exhibition generally one of
teeth in vain, jr - a _ jthemost meritorious ever mode in Geor-
“jodge the issue” and hide the trath.
tbe olosing paragraph the writer saje it is
unfortunate m tuu connection, tnat "white
nuniaiers ore refused on old time oonrteay,
gamblers and confidence men were allowed
openlr to prootioe their oaliing, and had
probably paid to do ao in order to swell the
funds of the fair and the Sooiety ” This is
not the first time a charge of this character
has bean made against the Society rinoo I
have beau its President, .and one writer
Wen* so for as to >*«-"*■ God that others had
the norva to disallow anything of this nature
on tbe grounds. I *fpool to all fair going
and candid men to a ay. U since my adminis
tration of tha affair* of the Ocoiaty began,
th«r# hart not been leu ohspets, oonfid-moe
games and wheals of fortune, than fur many
yean previous. I am a member of no
torn oh, (I with much I was good enough to
be) but I challenge a oomparieon on this
point ft cm Enquirer and other writers wuu
have insinuated against ms, until they ihuiA
i mart tamely aubcait to there unjust char
gee. Tbe wheel of fortune, that has been
heard to roll for’.years at every fair, has
been denied admlttanoe under my admmis
oration. Persistently have 1 refused appli
cations, and tbe "funds of the fair” eould
have been swelled fifteen hundred dollars
tbe last week, had I not remained firm ia
my purpose to exclude them from the
grounds. !
If there were oonfidencs men on ihe
grounds playing their games they gained ad-
mittenoe under false representations. 1
oonfe-c I saw none, though they may hare
been there. I saw no more .there (I say it
wit > due respect and ooarteey) than 1 had
seen at fairs’‘whore rafilsa were resorted to
to build a shuroh," and wbsre “take a
chance ’ was tbe appeal to relieve a parson
age After my fiwt fair experience 1 deter
mined upon my oourse, and X have not wav
ered since, an- a fair minded pub.io will see
the injustice of each insinuations, and de
cide for themselves who are end caroling to
moke th* Society “a religious or even politi
cal machine.'’ 1 do not wish to be misun
deretood. I would not be discourteous, cat
t have borne theee unjust insinuations os
long oa reap ot for myself and tbe Uocieiy 1
represent will peimit. If ‘‘Enquirer” la
seeking for truth aud desires only fair deal
ing. and will under his own name state
wherein any Minister of the Gospel or tbe
rehgicus press “haa been specially ember*
gooa” by tne Society, 1 will ehuw him there
uno fnaudation for his insinaationa, or X
will mike ample amende to the Reverend
Uie.gy, whom 1 do not intend to drag into
n.toriety about complimentary tickets to a
fair, where it u alleged "gamblers, sharpers
and confidence men openly followed their
caiiu ga.” ; i
Thos. Habdb jan,Jb.,
Pree. Georgia Stale Aarioalinou Society.
OVa burnt noon his
Tainted
It ia rumored that Pinafore
board, from the red hills of Middle Geor.
gia, rad tbe mountains of Noith Georgia.
Florida, South Carolina and Alabama far-
nished tbelr tall quota. The number of
visitor*, we do not doubt, approximated
thirty or forty thourand, and yesterday
tbey were still coming. It was a wonder
where the quiet oity of Maoon did or in-
deed eould put bet guests. At any rate,the
mast of them found comfortable quar
ters where they snatched a few hoars, of
rest in the small hoars. Some, «e trust
not many, who came late, found that
lodgings were as scares ar gold mines,
and in some instances, though strangers,
searched like sleuth hounds for a plsoe
to lay their heads, they found themselves
shat out into the night with only ihe bit
ot consolation that they oonld have their
fun the next day.
srssw&f’K
ooming South. We tnu. ^ uldomJ+FSt&Slm uS&eP'ttfi
true, and that our people may have an \ prevailed for the past six weeks the
opportunity of hearing an opera whioh I SLrSi'wk'JSS* Thomoevllle Fair h*w-
a—-—» n-Hs X'SSaWS
the Northern States. Its mueio and jokes I will be disappointed, yet wa are satisfied
are new and . fresh and are bound to be-1 »» -
| We have already announced the above
como popular. -■ I fact>‘batins net aware that the poet-
Son of tho Georgia editors who at-1 pemement would be extended for so long
tended the Fair now ore the espraurioo, I a period. Thomasviile always gets np a
“Let’er roll.” Which paddle did von WjtrtWWff agrienltnral aa weiLag horti-
990 1 I oultural axposiiion, and can justly com
ae on, gentlemen r - | I nets for Dreobdonce with anv oounty in the
Aclarta haa om governor and four J State. Doubtless there were good re sons
ex-governora living within her limits. I for this postponement, and while speak-
She has two United States Benatorv, and j lag of the same, we wonld again repeat a
haa frequently bad two or throe Con- j snggeatibn made by the Tunis bath two
greeaaen at once, but never until Mr. “ - —
luff moved heire oould ehe say that the
Major of Maoon waa ona of her citizens. I oome off bienniatlyr and tha alternate
Wo suggest that Beoorder Milledge ten- I year be devoted solely to.the building np
dar the use of ins court room, ao that I of a grand exhibition of the State Agri-
Mayor Huff can hoM the Maoon City j culfurat 8ocietv, the plan would wotk ad-
Court here, without inoonrenienoe.—At-1 mirably, and conduce largely to tbo eu-o
Unfa QaaetU. l oeac not only of the county shows bnt
And when all the “regulars” are fax- I also of onr State Fur, in whioh every
nished with 1,000 miles tioketa over the I «•?**!“ hM “ equal interest.
*» bat never until Mr. I years ago, that 1f it' were poosibla to addrees, whioh aet the hall fairly tingiog
oould she say that the j have ali_ the county and distriot fair* with applause, and Mr. R. W. Patcersoo,
,, , . „ „ . , , As the matter stands, there ia danger
railroad, we believe Maoon will be just aa thrt the happening of both State rad
■rwtl aa6tafla4 * ( .. I’ S.t_. u —o^ll »
well satisfied.
Tan Adofrlinn “ I ] -
sssn
appointed under the set <pf the reoent] ^
Lsglalatare. They are impatient to know 0,6 Ae *
what relief, if any, ia to be had at the I H » oi » t, ons ot Georgia.
SAVANNAH SOLDIERY.
From the Savannah Nnoa we take the
following complimentary postages about
the entertainmente given the Savannah
soldiery while in Maoon. It is taken
from a handsome account ot the cere
monies of Wednesday last by Mr. B.
H. Riohardaon.- the city editor of the Sa
vannah Nets*.
THB WAGON GAD ITS AND THIIB GUEST*.
Returning fiom tbe fair giounds, tbe
military visitors sought tbeir respeetivt
rendezvous, add were again taken formal:
charge ef by their Maoon comrades. The
Blue*, with tbe other guests of tbe Maouti
Oadeta, reassembled at their armory about
half peat fonr o’cloek, and were then
marched to the Brown Honse, staoked
arms, raft forming iq twos, were «*«•““
muened into theenaoiona dtni-g loom.ot
^hl tablie
sldmOMaVhoiouSWt&jfo/f*
ing companies were in a few oordial
words bidden hearty welcome to tbe feast
by Captain Boss, the clever oommaoder
->t the Cadets, and then the onslaught be'
X r. r w. neOMik -wt
m abundance, and tbe sparkling wine
whioh folio red tbe snbslantials, kindled
the desire for speech and song. Csptam
Bose gave “Onr Gneata,” whioh waa vet*
handsomely responded to by private H .
A. Jenkins of the Putnam Rifles, Baton-
ton. Lieutenant G. N. Sauesy, of the
Nssiau Light Artillery, responded to
“Florida.” Captain George A. Mercer,
of the Bines, called ont by a tribute to
“Savonnab,” made a grand and brilliant
Co!. Hardeman replied to tho seati
ment to “Georgia” in a style that fairly
electrified his bearers, rad the tribute to
“The Ladies’ Memorial Association'' waa
mist fittingly acknowledged by Major
Hodgkins. •
Daring the evening, OepL Bom, of the
Maoon Cadets, rad Capt. Meroer, of the
Bines, entered tbe hall and were warmly
welcomed. A toast to the Cadets elicited
a few remarks from Capt. Boas, who than
formally introdnoed Capt. Meroer, who
made a glorioae speech—a speech whioh
excited unbounded enthusiasm and soiled
forth the remark from an old veteran,
“Gad blew him 11 wonld like to hog him.”
Major Jordan F. Brooke, ot the Ogle-
iborpes, favored the company with a song
sod Copt Fieunigvnt song “The Man of
the Twelfth of May” in hia beat style.
The patriotic, stirring words and livaly
tune elioited vooifeross applause—rad so
the time passed.
TH* MITCH*1, aDABDS AUD THUS QUBITS.
The armory of this corps, located in the
vloinity of the Confederate Monument,
was handsomely decorated with wreaths —
of evergreen and draped with U»e na
tional oalora of America, Ireland and
Germany; and bonapiouou* waa a Confed
erate flag. Tneir guests were the Irish
Jasper Greens and German Volanteen,
and right royally were they entertained
at a banquet whioh waa oharaotans.’d by
the atmort pleasure and enjoy meat.
The gaeeta were welcomed by Mr. Leon
ard McManus la au appropriate speech,
and happy responses were mode by Lien*
tenant Reilly, of the Greens, Capt. John
Dorst and others, the evening also being
unlivened with songs.
hands ot this new law and those who aro
to administer it.
Tbx same paper gives tha last reports j
from the abiquitooa Harry J. Byant
Oa Thursday moral ag this "ales young I
man" waa taken down to Caatilla for la- [
vestigation. He was charged wit
cheating and swindling-by Mr. J. L. |
Hand, of Pelham. Ho
nieoUon .
lOOKMUNIOATBO. h-
Maoon, Ga., Novembers, 1879.
Kinross -Tiunuiz ahd Msssbhgxb.—
In your leans or Sunday there Isa comma-
headed “Tbs State Fair and the
from a correspondent who styles
iquirer,” that requires from me
noBw. -I regret to odd ear in tbe
—.. _ .publiopreta In this manner, but “Enquirer”
bound oyer I eridemiy deigns to provUlra reply or foroe
and in default of bondf woe brought back ^ manager* ol the late fair to rest quietly
totheAlbany jouTa Thura^llgbt^ £?£&&£
await hie trial atthenexttermof thoMit-1 i *^°T u:g oI “• "°*P 9 ‘“ d “•
^ Tt* . wligtooa press in the oonduot of tn* fair, be-
cnell Sapenor Uoiru W6 Itm loit I omuo of (btlt stored juid oocxxpttion
there are six other warrants ont tor Byes, j I regret exceedingly the sp&it of tbe article,
all of them, we believe, being for similar I for u ia controversial in tone, de.nsive, tn.
tricks to that plsyed upon Mr. Hand. He I Just and full of insinuation* that are eojea-
inafairway to gat in the nenttontlBrY. I “‘tad to mislead and deceive the people. I
Bataxhah Jfawvi A yonogmauwho I *«p.U.e wrttar did not w intand, for if .he
had a desk room in a well-known estab
lishment In tho eastern portion of the ] u, the'nraaohers. I will an**'a- him. lor
oity, was on Thursday afternoon detected I j «m entirely ignorant of any tnch trouble,
in the aot of robbing the safe belonging I and it will enable ate, as Freeident of the
to the firm. It appears that the safe had I Bute Fair, to remove some of the rnoueous
been purchased from a former employer I b* haa endeavored (I hope nn-
ed a duplicate key, with whioh he man- I eation for « boo unmistakable “earxuiki,”
aged togafnaooeas to the eofe when op- tmt as I revere the clergy I am unwilling to
portamty offered and help himself to I bring them into a controversy to which they
the loose oash. Money had frequently I would not be voluntary parties. -Tbe writer
been missed within the lost few wt eks, I intimate* that the religion* press wewenot
and the bookkeeper waa completely mya- I “tiekoted oomp imenUry through ” "while
tified. being nimble to aooount for it. 1 g«y. other aeoiionof the fourth estate was "
n n I This Is SB error and a grave ona. There was
though tbe party to quwUon^was an*- j^diatinstionby thanuaagera in this re-
monagere in this i
epeet. In tbe 'promium hot, published at
the headquarters of Enquirer, tho whole
pr ts of Georgia are notified that thaw oon
secure tioketa “oomplimentary through” ty
applioatioa to the Secretary. There was no
distinction and non* even contemplated.
The Secretary did send ont.a few to the
Nxw Yoax EnoorioN —New York and
various other States - vote to-day. With
the experience in the late Ohio election
no great confidsaoe will be reposed in
the prognostications of politicians. Tbe
80-oalIed Republican politicians claim
for Cornell a majority over huh his com
petitors ranging from.76,000 to 100,000.
That is an extravagant claim whioh will
hardly be realised. The Robinson men
(Democrats) have displayed great plock
und indaatry,notwithstanding thed-.fuor
alising influence of tha do -.-ily u i WttH
th 1 ? Tammany wing of their pirty. ;
Oa tbe pro-p. cw of BebtoeoaWel-N
Yo k 8*n o' F-i-isy din**’- I 'ds tji >
r vl^rf ot uio ri'-uatuu’ by n.t exp.;-
wble> orpra.o-- . .. ; c
sib'e troible from Sitting Bub’s Indians | fidqnce tk,,t RuOinscrV maj^.uy uv ; r Colonel Thomas Hardeman,
► u_ £ a.^..—4 - n. . n . ti «:ti ... M oe run ca iYia av... »i.
on tbe Northwestern frontier, the report Cornell will ran from 25.000 to 50,000.
pected and watch kept over him.
After tbe disoovery tha individual
dropped the-key ih hi* pocket and eooly
walked off, tboogh he wa* denounced a*
a thief. A warrant waa issued for hia an.
rest by Magistrate Molina, and officer
Bodies haa l»en on the lookout for him, j ^ nunj i know not.
but up to a late hour last night had not I ■ .yrroiood mv regret at before the fair
nacceeded in finding him. In the barimTforfMwnu^woald be ovartooksd,
event of his apprehension, tbe fall par-1 and ia onr published fair list wa had arrana-
tionlars of the affair, with the names, will j ed for all.
be given. The entire amount taken ap-1 This is not tbe first insinuation that bat
proximate* over $150. I base zmto by representatives of the rtligtona
I 2* “• Wffi Sr«MBSS?y!S3S£!5S
CvntUtntwn credits me with baring teL IS* tat a Mratu world bear th* reason
egrapoed you that the "Rex dftplay Ml and judge if tbeoessare is just. The ad-
lueeday night was immense, etc.” Oh, I voettatog cord of the Booiety woe the same
no - l'bey must oredit some Atlanta man I for every paper—it stated plainly, txnthfol-
*itb that, for I was here. There was no
“rex” display in Atlanta. The only
“wreoks” were those caused by oollision
•vitb uatb, and tbey were hiddan, not
i-played. Yours,
Matt O'B.
, r S»mi Wttklj Republican : The eeremo-
u.> u iv-iliug ui the Confederate
- a -i n ut in Macon on Wednesday were
v is t-nprrssive, and the demonstrslion
.-.jJ anything ever seen in Middle
u.utor oC the day, made a stirring, do-
fpiMf-tt I
ly, what tneSocMy intandad to do at the
fair—aaoong other thing* they would have
trials of speed by honae on tho track. The
religions proas objected to publishing than-
om—(this woe tbeir right) bnt ware willing
to publish our card if vre would leave the
noing port mb—in other words they wonld
pablah oar fair where they know there
would be radag, if we wonld sugar oost the
oord by leaving racing ont. Ao wo did not
wish to sail under false color*, wo wituhsid
tbe raid entirely. We were willing for the
public to know the troth and tbe whole
tmth, und we are arraigned before the bar
of pubtio opinion because we would not
of Maoon, spoke handsomely in behalf of
"The Ladies’ Memorial Asoooiations tf
he South.’’,
Mr JohnW. Wilson, Jr.,of the Bines,
made seme effective remarks in response
to a call, bnt the nensl "volunteer” toa-ts
were omitted from necessity, the Cadets
being unable to retain Ihe dining room
later than half-put six o’clock, and with
three cheers for the Cadets, the social
reanion vu brought to a close, the in
terim before the departure of the train
being devoted according to inclination.
THB V0LUNTXXB8 AND THUS OUBfcTi.
The handsome hall ot the Msdon Yel-
anteera was very beautifully decorated
and illuminated, this, work being done by
tbe wives rad Bisters of the members and
the earns fair hands prepared the mag
nificent feast for their gueete, a ban
quet that in trath did oredit to the fame
of the Volunteers, and will long be re
membered by their Bavannah gneeto, the
Guards and Chatham*. With the knoxp
reputation pf the military generally, for
appreciation ot good things,'It may be
rightly inferred that time passed pleas
antly. The incidents of the evaning
were touts and songs. To the tout,
‘‘Our viiUtng soldiers, may the day soon
come when we shell meet again,” offered
by Capt. Games, of the Volanteen, Cor
poral Sansar, of the Chatham*, made a
felicitous response,and cloud with an ap
propriate sentiment.
£ Hon. A, O. Bacon accompanied tbe
following with some eloquent and feeling
remarks, which were loudly applauded i
“Honor, fame and perpetuity of tbe
oldest artillery oompany in the United
Ststei—the Chatham Artillery,” to which
Corporal Walter G. Oharlton replied in
one of the “happiest efforts of his life.”
Gov. Colquitt, who was present, also
made a capital speech, ocoompaued with
tho sentiment—“The Volunteer 8oldiery
of Georgia-^the guardians of her honor
and dignity now and in ages to oome.”
Colonel Hardeman was pressed into
service and made a telling speeoh, which
“brought down the boy*.”
Lientanant Joseph A. Cronk, ot the
Savannah Guards, made an exoellent
response to "Our Visitors,” Private A. H.
MsoDonell, of the Chathams, acquitted
himself handsomely in a patriotic speech,
and remarks ware mode by Colonel J. P.
Fort, Col. EL H. Jones, of Maoon, and
others, and thus the time worn away.
THU nolD Minus AMD THBin GUIITi.
The Orfleth >rpce and the Savannah
Codetohad the good fortune to be tbe
guests of this exoellent company, and
most hospitably were tbey entertained.
Tbe banquet provided for them waa a
paragon of feute, and tbe occasion was
brilliant with tbe interchange of bright
thoughts rad humorous aneedotes. To
the tout: “Savannah—Our city by tbe
sea, the pride of the State, whose people
are as hospitable as chivalrous, and
whoee chivalry has been most fitly illus
trated by her own Bartow,” eptsin
Ribert Falligant responded in an earnest
and b-autifnl speech, which wu greeted
wiih thunders of appfeuse.
Lientanant Tenant, of tho Baldwin
Clues, did the honors in flue style to the
toast! ’‘MiUedgeville—Though deprived
of her birthright, yat her eone, who
fallowed after and in the footsteps of the
—An offlaol publication c ompilrd from ol
the oo unties in T-xas shew tnat thorn are
4585 fugitives from jusboe in Uwt State.
—The only surviving son ot Davy Crookatt
is an extensive farmer at Grtnbary, Texts,
and a grandson edits a newspaper them.
—National banks, portualady in tb* Want,
are increasing their oircnlauon very rapidly.
This month tbe increase will be ovar 33.600,-
000. *
—Alarg* bra shipped ona uUxoadat
Cleveland woe fom.d m contain a live
a flask of whisky, some sandwichM, ends
kit of burglar’* tools. It 1* supposed that be
intended to rob the express oar.
—The active metropolitan polio* cf Peris
composed of 0,000 men, chosen from the
ranks ot toe army. Tneir qi&litlaaUana ore
tested during one year prior to being pat on
the foroe.
—Th* opinion is entertained to Washing
ton among soma who ore regatdod aa good
authority cn such matters that the receipts
of gold from Europe net ween this time and
the first of January will be over 834.000,000,
and ma* resoh 830,000,000. The imparts of
coin and bullion, mostly for Beptembar,
were 328,300,000. The exoeu of imports
over exports of me rehandles for September
w*a 83s.eoo.eoo.
—David Dixon and Mary Swtoton wars to
have been married at 2 o cloak in the of tor-
noon, at Embarrass, W a An hour earlier,
he *nd others were in her rojm, where tha
dnUhtog touches weie being put on Ine
toilet. An old pistol ley on her bureau. Ho
aupposedU unloaded, pujfaijy snapped it-t
—Gem otoaemaa derides G—- Fremont’s
scheme for turning the —ter* or the Got-
or*do into the de**'** oabui ol Utll/onui 2nd
Arisons. Hr to**, presuming the oon-
necji™ y*nal to be 1,000 l«et wide and 10
^.ep and running Atdvs milee anbour.it
would take two hundred years to fill the
bum. After tatogfilied it wonid, ha asserts,
require. an additional of ihe ««»«
eviporatloin' 1 f e*t wide w J- r
—Ur*. Margaret Bobcrtaoa of Oaoper An-
.flcettLand, died leoeatly, aged 107. She
S£aTe tissa
■area who oould not hr* orarfei 6. p ^" whiatl
she deolarsd to Wr Horny Tbpuiwon,
aoroapn w»e *»>*« •*-«* .’ The oiey pipe
waaaTways is her mouth. Tve smoked a*
my days, the skid, ’it’s had plenty of time
io dee me ill, and it* nevsr soont.’
—The lugast betting room m Oinoinnati
prove* to have bean ran fraaualeuUr. It
wu observed that, a few minutes before the
result of a hone nos vu reported, the
bookmakers altered ihelr ftguraa oouoidar-
»bly, and always in a way that retailed
favorably for themselves, dev oral veteran
gambler* were the first to euipeot the troth,
whioh woe that the proprietor* received pri
vate and early despatobee from the race
—Might thousand two hundred ahd fifteen
miles of railroad ore now open ia British
India. During tbe present year the very
important Indaa YoUey line, oonneotmg the
port ot Karraaha in tirtnde with tbe Pan jaab
ttkilroad at Moulton, ha* been oompleted,
and thus,'with tbe exception of the oiosaing
ihe Indus at Buk Ear, a continuous com
munication by railway via Lahore, Delhi,
Agra, and Benares to Oaleoua, about 2,130
mil**, is established, The lines in upper
uidia proved of great servioe ia the reoent
etmpugu.
—The oommatee of clergymen who have
been engaged in preparing me plan for In
ternational ttaucay-eabooi lessons in Wash
ington this week, completed tbeir work
Thursday. They have decided that tha
study for tbe first six months of 1881 should
inoiud* the Book of Duke, and tbe last six
month* should be devoted to tbe wandering*
of the children of Israel. This decision mast
b« concurred in by tbe European oommiltee
before it it final.
—It hu frequently been said that no
horse could equal the boat record of a man
in a six-day roue, ihe fallacy of this notion
woe demonstrated in the recent hen Proa-
daoo oon test between men and boraea. A
common looking beut from a livery stable,
colled Pinafore, travelled 659 mile*, basting
the but bum in performance, that of Weston,
by nine miles. Pinafore is a gelding, eight
years old, without a pedigree. He wu not
lamed by tbe raoe. Two other horse* mode
513 and 6X4 milee, while the foremost man
soared only 875.
—Two Illinois farmers, who had a large
crop of wheat to sell, went to Ohioago and
frequented the Board of Trade rooms, whiob
u a resort for epeoulitora in produoe. Their
attention wo* attracted by on old man who
oonat mtly talked and geetloalated all by him-
■elf. They mode hi* acquaintance, and he
told them that his strange conversation was
with spirtta, who kept him informed M to
the future of tbe market. He said that he
looked toe money to take advantage ot these
supernatural points, but would sell them at
a reasonable prioe. The farmers at onoe pat
him on a liberal salary, and only lost filth in
him when he stole a diamond pin from one
of them. The foot that he had swindled
many other speculator* waa then divulged.
iNUtokMXS OX THB Ghiuauo Whbit Oaixk.
—Tha following from toe Ohioago Tribune
of Friday snow* how the speculative aroze ia
wheat haa effected nearly all classes in that
excitable community: ‘The routes to good
look are various. Aole.k in one of the dry
goods stone, when the market was wsy be
low 90, aoraped together $60 end invested it
in wheat. In toe oonroe of time, and in the
sphere of duty, hie employer seat him up
into Minnesota to ‘bona’ somebody for i
dry iilUe unUqateated debt*. He woe, of
oourse, obliged to leave hi* wheat trad*, and
fully expeoted to loss hi* money for want of
tuna and opportunity to look after it. Hie
amassment and surprise oon be imagined
when, on returning, he found that there was
about 915,000 to his oredit in Ihe transac
tion.
Even the backet chops occasionally fur
nish instance* of good look. It 1* recorded
tost one young man put a 95 nest-egg into
one of these institution* when toe market
was about 88 oenta and trusted to look for
toe liatobing. He kept biz money taming
oreroe prioes want up until the market
reached do cents when he put ia another egg
to tbe value of 9X5 and awaited reenite.
Friday last he diew oat 94,MM. and, unlike
too avenge laoky speculator, wisely announ
ced it as bis de.eiminstton to bay a bouse
and lot into the proceeds of his trade, and
not rtek it in another venture. Tbo inherent
mischief of toe thlngis that the stories of
one man making $4,000, another 913,0113 and
another 930,UK) or 925,000 are martbfmg
like the suooeaefnl prediettenaof tha weather
prophets. They are heralded all i
omu’iy, while the iocs'ecf the i
gallant Dolce, have given her a heritage j money gOM to tasks up these profile, Ilka
that fat outshines the -vualth of tb* la- 1 the fsihue* of the weather *e*r*,*r
dies.” hoard of unlaac the thing leaks Oft,*
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