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GEORGIA PRESS.
Tjie guano trade in Thomasville is quite
lively.
A man by the name of Smith came near
breaking up a show in Tkomasville a few
nights since by insisting on indulging in
great laughter.
Several citizens of Swainsboro look
in vain for Handy Harden, a colored
brother who took French leave of that
place and his bondsmen in certain cases
against him.
Tiie Thomasville Library Association
has celebrated its fourth anniversary.
Mr. Lou Drewby handed the Griffin
News a bogus marriage notice of a young
lady and and gentleman of Griffin. The
Neics very properly goes back on the
young man and he probably has changed
his ideas in regard to the absolute merits
of the joke.
The Presbyterians of Louisville con
template building a church in that place
soon.
Miss Neppie Jordan and Mr. John
. Wall, of Twiggs county, were married
Irwinton on Wednesday.
The cyclono season has opened in
Schley county, and a furious one played a
star engagement there last week, demol
ishing several buildings.
Mr. M. E. Thornton, of Atlanta, lias
purchased the Crawfordsville Democrat,
and will make it a lively sheet.
The Albany Evening Advertiser says
we saw a collard this morning nine and-a
half feet high, grown on Mrs. E. H.
Barnes’ place in Mitchell county.
There were eighteen deaths in Savan
nah last week—eight whites and ten col
ored.
The Mazeppa correspondent of the
Oglethorpe Echo says that about the year
’48, a miner of the Pacific slope unearthed
a perfect cross of solid gold. He gave
it, with thirteen dollars in specie, as a
marriage fee to a missionary, who is now
an honored member of the North Georgia
Conference.
Louisville Courier: We are informed
by a friend who lives in the vicinity of
Stellaville,that Judge Noah Smith has re
cently had nine stocks of fodder on his
plantation eaten up by buzzards.
Valdosta Times: We heard a busi
ness man from Savannah say a few days
ago that in his opinion there was never a
more brilliant prospect for Georgia and
the South than now. He thinks that the
long looked for “good time a-coming” is
near at hand. While we see nothing dis
couraging in the near future, except the
scarcity of com in this immediate section,
we are' not as sanguine as our friend, but
still we hope he is the prophet, and not
us.
A correspondent of the Berrien county
News says that Mrs. Sindarilia Lee, of
Appling county, is the mother, grand
mother and greatgrandmother of 215 chil
dren. She enjoys very good health for
one of her age, and her prospects are good
for several years yet.
Tiie Jefferson Forest News remarks
that “if you don’t think the average
Georgian is a goober masher, just go into
a court room and look under the benches
after a day’s sitting of the court. All
times during the day, when there is a lull
in the proceedings, you can hear the «on-
stant crack, crack of the goober hull. Our
people have a perfect mania for them that
is uncontrollable.”
Hi.NE8Vir.LE Gazette: When a farmer
can make eighty-seven dollars net profit
to the acre on rice, and that too, on pine
land without fertilization, it does seem
that there is money in it. That is the re
turn that some of the farmers in this lo
cality made last year.
Tub LaFayette (Walker county) Mes
senger says: “Another shocking accident
occurred at the Western and Atlantic
railroad crossing on Market street early
Tuesday morning. A lady was crossing,
and being alarmed by an engine approach
ing from one direction, returned to anoth
er ti act, not noticing a locomotive back
ing from an opposite direction. She was
terribly mangled. The engineers of the
locomotive were ignorant of the accident
until told of it some minutes after. It
“will Ire our painful duty to chronicle from
time to time similar accidents at that
cawing until a bridge is built.”
Louisville Courier: Jefferson county
stands above the average counties in the
Stale in a financial point of view. It is
out of debt and has money in the treas
ury. We are not informed as to the ex
act amount in the treasury, but it is, we
learn, quits enough to meet tbs current
expenses of the year, and there is no
probability of the county getting into debt
agai' i unless it has to meet some unex
pected and unusual expense.
TTinkbville Gazelle: We had the
pi ensure of an interview with Mr. L
Jut . .son, a gentleman originally from
Scotland, but who has for a number of
years been engaged In tea culture in the
East Indies. He is examing our land,
with the view of locating a large tea farm,
where he will employ a large number of
h •> !s. Before locating permanently he
proposes to visit other portions of this
State and the Indian river in Florida.
A niENS Banner: On yesterday we
\ ..essed what is not often seen in this
of uncertainties and but few days.
Mr. Marion W. Watson, of this county,
?"1 who lives near Wintervilie, was in
the city with three of his brothers, Messrs
L. W. and J. M. Watson, of Greenville,
S. C., and Mr. A. J. Watson,of Oglethorpe
county, which is the first time the four
brothers have all met in forty-three years.
The separation had been so long that Mr.
Marion Watson, the youngest, did not re
cognize or know his brothers until they
I !e themselves known to him. Mr. M.
I Watson is the oldest, and seventy-one
a old; Mr. A. J. Watson is the next
oldest, and sixty-five years old; the next,
Mr. J. M. Watson, is sixty-three years old,
nn<l Mr. M. W. Watson the youngest, is
filiy-six years old. The brothers are all
hale, hearty and healthy ldoking men,
ami seem destined for a goodly nnmber
of years yet. They go to-morrow to spend
a tbw days with the brother in Oglethorpe.
May their enjoyment in each others com-
..,y in some measure compensate for the
tong separation.
Thomasville Enterprise: On Friday
last there occurred in our city one of those
r Ar ays between the young colored men
:hat are of such frequent occurrence as to
cause the opinion that the generation now
growing up is not disposed to regard life
as at all sacred.
Andrew Jackson had obtained twenty-
fii - cents from one George , Dr
Bruce’s driver, and George had repeatedly
imnortuned him to return it. Friday
morning George again asked him.for it
a :d some words ensued, when George
again struck at Andrew and ran; Andrew
‘■■'owed him and overtaking him corn
iced cutting him; he cut Geoige in the
*- ist, just over the heart, and again in
'Tim neck and then in the hand; he bled
• -iv freely, and fears were entertained
ft .• bis life. Andrew Jackson was prompt
ly .crested and lodged in jail.
i he Southerner and Appeal speaks as
' 1-iws of the Representative in Congress
-. uis district:
• is our honest opinion that Hon. J. II.
u'< ant is decidedly the best and most
■ful member in Congress from Georgia.
•'••• arc wo alone in this opinion. Many
ft ; ie papers that were disposed to under-
>• -fra last year are now his strong
ids and admirers. This is true of the
lie as well as the papers. This popu-
i y is not confined to Geoigia, for Mr.
int is winning golden opinions from
actions of the country, for his work in
Appropriations Committee, of wliicli
as, for some time, been acting chair-
. This is gratifying to us, for we have
ij’s believed in him. We are glad to
dm on the right side in tiie Simmons
-uversy, though we never doubted
lie would be.
iiicitK are au unusual number of brides
season in Hall county.
ie late rise in iron did not affect the
.esviltc-Dahlonega railroad project.
Mr. Joseph Sinckland died last
Wednesday near Gainesville, aged one
hundred and five years.
Colonel I. W. Avery telegraphs the
Chronicle and Constitutionalist that he is
not seeking a clerkship -from-General
Gordon in Washington.
Newton, was so severely-burned _on Mob- ver is heard as he swaggers,along. Trade
day that her life was despaired of.
I Mr. Addcrson and his wife, left-tbs
j liouso for a short while to look after some
domestic affairs, and were induced! to re
turn by the loud and continued howling
of the dog. When they entered the house
j they were, appalled by the sight of. their
I child lying on' the bed, where "shehad
We regret to learn from private letters crawled In her frantic efforts to escape’ the
received in this city that Hon. Gregg
Wright has recently been seriously ill.
We trust be may soon be better.
Real estate in the suburbs of Carters-
flames, with her clothing burned and her
body blistered and charred.
These sad calamities are of frequent oc
currence, and should impress upon people
the great danger of leaving children un-
ville is said to be rising as the brass band 1 attended in a house where there is fire,
is learning Pinafore. It is probable a bill! Augusta News: Rev. J. S. Lamar is
will be introduced in the Legislature next. fm % ^ this timCj and jg wa ;ting
session making a special kind of reserva- • f or construction of his new machine
tionlor the band, with a prohibitory j on a large scale and the test of hi? great
clause against its leaving its domain ex- invention. It gives us_ pleasure to Rote
cept in case of invasion.
Miss Deabing, of Adairsville, has left
that place to go on the operatic stage.
Mbs. William A. Wright, wife of
the Comptroller General of the State, is
dead.
Mrs. Eunice Price, wife of Mr. J.
Lott Price, died last week at the Plains of
Dura, in Dooly county. She was a
daughter of the late Matthew E. By lan
der, who was well known in Macon.
Wild turkeys are frequently killed in
Sumter county.
Mrs. N. J. Joiner died in Americas
on Monday last while on a visit to her
sister.
The store of Mr. Sam Cohen was bur
glarized in Amencus this weejr, and four
hundred and four dollars taken therefrom)
Albany wants a faster line between
that city and Savannah. . j 'i
The irrepressible Ham has been heard
from again. He is practicing law at
Gainesville.
It is authoritatively stated the North
Eastern railroad will be built to Clarkes-
ville at an early day.
Judge W. F. Clarke, ofCuthbert,
in Cutbbert last
the great and universal interest excited by
Mr. Lamar in his invention, and the fa
vorable notice of the press all
though the country. _ Scientists and
those interested everywhere are now
awaiting his experimentum crucis with
much interest, as his theory is perfectly
sound, and successful application will
bring him great reputation coupled with
substantial reward.
The chief electrician of the Western
Union Telegraph Company agrees with
Mr. Lamar, and is interested to the ex
tent that he is superintending the con
struction of the machine, and is a warm
well wisher of our Augusta inventor.
Such an influence is very powerful in
itself, and has its weight in forming scien
tific opinion. The displacement of steam
by electricity is a great problem, and if
successfully solved by Mr. Lamar, none
will offer their congratulations and plau
dits with more truth and fervor than his
many friends and admirers in Augusta.
Gwinnbtt Herald: Mr, Parish, of this
county, has had i the misfortune, to lose
both of Ids hands, yet he does cot sit mop
ing around Waiting for something to turn'
in every line is booming.- Gold dust cot
ton accomplished this joyous end. We
are fearful however it will be returned to
us in due season in the'shape of the
poorest calico and other cotton goods ever
seen. , • a's
Gainesville Southron : We are glad
to know that Colonel Foreacre is doing
all he can to induce the people along
the Air Line and others to come in
and go to raising; shipping and man
ufacturing tobacco. In a conversa
tion With' him the other day, he
stated that no part of Maryland or Vir
ginia coaid produce the finer grades of ttf-
bacco bettcr.tlian this Piedmont belt, and
no industry on tbe farm pays better if
properly managed. Colonel Foreacre has
given the subject much attention, and can
convince any man that he is right. We
hope, every farmer in this section will put
out a small patch of tobacco, and learn,
by reading up and practical experiment,
how to raise and handle it to get the best
results. Seed can be procured by writing
to any house in Richmond or Danville,
Virginia, or to Baltimore, Maryland, ask
ing for the best qualities aud how to plant
it. Mr. O. E. Mitchell, of this city, will
have quite a number of plants, and per
haps others will have by the time to put
them out into • the field. We hope our
people will take hold of the matter at
once. If they will, they can rely upon a
manufactory being put up in the city and
in full running order by the time the crop
is matured. Don’t wait one for the other,
but pitch right in, if you don’t raise more
than five hundred plants.
Says the Dahlonega Signal: “Our
friend,Mr. Marcus Reeves, of this county,
brought to this office last week the skin of
the largest wildcat we ever saw. It is
neatly and artistically stuffed, is furnished
with a pair of red flannel eyes, and looks
alarmingly lifelike. The animal was cap
tured by Messrs. William and Randall
Reeves, a short distance below Patteson’s
bridge on Brier 1 creek, and was three feet
up”arid the pEKfo^o t^“fiiTreKrf,Tu‘t WS® 5 ^es in length and large in proper-
plows, hoes and does almost any kind of ,.k* ve l*^, n
work withing complaining. He is mak
ing an honest and comfortable living, and
maintains the respect of all who know
him. On the-'contrary, we conld find
young men with two bands, and stout,
athletic fellows, too, who are continually
complaining that they can find nothing to
do. It is sometimes said; there is,' always
plenty of room in the top story, and our
observation is there. is plenty of room on'
tbe ground floor if yon will only pull off
/bur coat take hold, ~
ran into-a fire engine
week. Tbe engine is still in working or
der, but tbe Judge is not.
In Southwestern Georgia they have had
ice only three times this winter, conse
quently most of the meat is spoilt. T c K ey, i iving at King’s Gap, Harris'
Dr. W. W. Flewellen, of Columbus^ county, has'recentlypatentedan improved
has accepted the superintendency of the cotton press. It is a very simple arrange-
Florida lunatic asylum. { ment > can be hauled upon* two horse
„ ,_r ,. 3 „ „ . l wagon, and two boys can easily pack a
Tiie Washington Gazette says. Mr 650 pound bale of cotton in tyro minutes.
Toombs DuBose delivered a valedictom Its cost need not exceed thirty-five dollars,
for Miss Thompson s dancing school at’ and it will !ast a ijf e time, V
Stammers Hall last Tuesday. Thanks \
were returned to the town and her pc- 'For two or three weeks past Borne has
Irons, and a chiding gratuitously given by ’ ’ ’ j| I
the orator to the bashful young men who
had declined the honors he was bear
ing.
Americus Republican: The Presbyte
rians are contemplating erecting a new
church on the corner of Jackson and
Church streets, provided the negotiations
now progressing can be completed to any
advantage. The site is one of the most
desirable in the city for such a building,
and we hope that the land maybe secured
and a building erected thereon which may
be an ornament to the city. |
Mil Andrew J. Miller, late Deputy
Collector at the port of Saint Mary’s, who
was removed from his post by Tom Blod
gett to conceal irregularities of which the
latter was guilty, has written a long letter
vindicating himself and exposing the
crookedness of the ways of the ex-Collec-
tor. He states that Mr. Camp, a Special
Treasury Agent, has examined his books
and found them correct in every respect,
and will so report. As proof also that he
is considered entirely innocent by the de
partment, we learn that he has been ap
pointed Collector ad interim until Blod
gett’s seccessor has been finally decided
on.
Montezuma Weekly: “A little
colored girl, aged five years, daugh
ter of Saliie Gibson, was accidently
killed in this place on last Tuesday after
noon. Sam Johnson, colored, went into
Saliie Gibson’s house to get a gun which
he had left there. The child was sitting
on the floor eating. Johnson attempted
to let one of the hammers down on the
nipple. The hammer slipped from his
fingers. The gun fired and the whole
load of shot entered the temple of the
child on the floor. The child was instant
ly killed. Purely accidental. No in
quest.”
Gainesville Eagle: The Websterian
professor who murders the Queen’s Eng
lish in the Southron' ought to rig up a
hoisting tackle for the beams in his own
eye befor he adjusts his spectacular mag
nifiers to scan the ocular demonstrators
of other people for motes. A man who
spells “mode” without a final “e” and
“moneyed” without a “y” is certainly
neither “y’s” nor at “e’s” in an ortho
graphical skirmish,
The Columbus Enquirer tells a strange
story on a well known character of that
city and vicinity known as Barefoot Wal
ker, so called because he had not worn a
pair of shoes for the past forty years. He
is aged about ninety-five years and three
months, and is employed on a farm about
three miles east of Columbus. On Sun
day afternoon last, says tbe Enquirer, he
apparently died, probably from sheer ex
haustion and old age. He was dressed,
laid in bis coffin, and his friends from the
neighborhood gathered to pay their last
tribute to the departed. When the as
sembled multitude were bending in their
jpbpatby, amid the serenity which over
shadowed the surroundings, the defunct
arose from his strange position and de
manded of the assemblage “ wbat they
meant by such treatment.” The 1 party
turned away, leaving tbe old man master
of the situatfb&t* -■* -i T
. Savannah News:-, The first case.un
der the act passed'by. i the Legislature,
chartering the Society for the*'Prevention
of Cruelty to Children will coino' up be-
fore-the Ordinary- oh' -Friday. The -peti
tion is filed by the society, stating that
two orphan' children, ‘ 'Cordelia E. Bur-
long, aged ten years, and James Buriong,
aged two years, colored, are now In the
custody of Louisa Powels, colored, living
at Ruckettsville, in the suburbs; that they
are being reared under immoral influen
ces likely to degrade their moral char
acter, and dcvqte them to a vicious life, In
consequence of the neglect and drunken
ness of said Louisa Powells. The peti
tioners pray the appointment of ad roper
guardian for said children. W. W. Ma-
kell, attorney for the Society, A. P. & S.
B. Adams for the plaintiff.
Sumter Republican; We learn from
Mr. J. D. Scett, of the 2Stli district, that
on Tuesday night a colored man by the
name of Mintus, once a preacher, attacked
Houston Kemp, another colored man,
much esteemed in the neighhsrhood for
Jiis uniform good behavior, and inflicted
a dangerous gash in his forehead with an
axe. Parties went to arrest him, but he
made good his escape thus far. Houston
is in a critical condition, and this villain
should he apprehended and pay the pen
alty of the law. The wounded man is
receiving the kindest attention from his
white friends, as well as those of his own
color. We hope they will be rewarded
by the recovery and gratitude of Houston
Kemp. ‘ ;*'/ - ,s •
DawsoJT Journal: Some weeks ago
there appeared in this paper the advertise
ment of an Atlanta firm proposing to sell
a “magnificent watch for $2.60.” We see
the same advertisement in a great many
of the weekly papers of the State, besides
numerous circulars offering the same thing.
Of course no one can expect to get a good
watch for $2.60, but some persons here
thought of sending on the funds, but first
wrote to a prominent merchant of Atlanta
to investigate the matter for them. The
been luxuriating in a toothsome social
scandal. Charlie Warner, an old codger
about forty-five years of age, disappeared
suddenly leaving behind a wife and fami
ly. Miss-Alice Hall, an accomplished
and rather pretty girl, vanished at the
same time. The girl’s father, Dr. Hall,
his daughter and Warner were all going
on to Philadelphia to join an opera com
pany, accounting for the sudden flight of
Wamnr by saying that Mrs. Warner
could not stand the idea of seeing her fes
tive little hubby prancing before the foot
lights. This story pretty well appeased
the Romans for several weeks, but now
that enterprising community has tolera
bly well settled down into the belief that
it was a clear case of elopement. Dr.
Hall stood well in Rome, and many
friends sympathize with him in this, the
deepest affliction that can befall any man.
Tbe Rome papers have been vaguely hin
ting at this afl'air for several weeks, but
have never come right square out with
the item. We are suiprisedat this be
cause we thought the Rome press was
keen after any item, sounding metropoli
tan. Brace up, fellows, and have some
style about you.—Cartersville Express.
Atlanta has seven faro banks.
Savannah has contributed, up to Fri
day night, $2,173.75 to the Irish Relief
Fund, f- ■
Monroe Coleman, colored, was acci
dentally drowned at Savannah on Friday.
Rome’s new. opera house will soon be
completed. ^ :
Corn is selling at fifty-five cents s
bushel out of the-wagon in Dalton.
Miss Stella Morton died near Rome
on Monday, p
Tin: Middle Georgia Argus hoists the
names of.General Hancock for President,
and General Gordon for -Tice President,
as itif choice for 1880.
: The orange trees are in bloom in Quit-
Quitman Reporter says the farm
era have lost enough in spoilt meat to
about offset tbe benefit from the rise in
cotton.
Bainbbidge wants a town hall
opera house.
The Decatur county, fair will be held
at Bainbridge May 6 and 7.
A party of Perry hunters killed 1^90
robins last Monday.,'
Corn Is being planted in Quitman
county. .
Griffin News: Hobs* Thief*.
A negro boy stole it horae out
of ' one of • the warehouses in
Griffin on Monday last and made his way
to Brooks Station and on to Newnan, but
before reaching the latter place he swap
ped the stolen horse, and, when, in New
nan sold the horae he swapped for,- and
before he got his money he was safe > In
the dutches of the Bray and'Is noWifi
Spalding county, jad to await his trial)',j I
From the same: A Terrible
Outrage.—Wo under stand that a
man who lives at Brooks.' Sta
tion, committed an outrage upon his own
daughter on Sunday 1'astv. Our informant
says the community 1 is . vtoyyjtiuch en
raged, and when he was In that village
on Tuesday, hardly a citizen could be
found, from the fact that they were all dn
tiie hunt for the criminal, who had made
his escape. We are not Id possession of
any. of the .particulars, and will withhold
the name until we get further informa-
The Stock Market.—Savannah
and
wildcat seen in that section for many
years. The Messrs. Reeves are noted and
successful hunters, and rarely fail to cap
ture any kind of game, even a wildcat
when once started.”
On Monday last Mr. John Brady, con
tractor for the improvement of the Bruns
wick harbor, arrived in that city and en
tered upon his work. The Appeal says:
“Four thousand feet of jetties are to be
constructed at Brandy Point, running par
allel with tbe Brunswick shore, and the
shoals at Buzzard Roost Point, and the
point just above the ' Brunswick and Al
bany railroad shops will be dredged and
he dredgings emptied into the cribs at
.randy Point.”
The Augusta Chronicle wants free
rade in paper. It declares the present
protective tariff on printing paper and the
chemicals, etc., used in its .manufacture
has created a grinding monopoly, which
is a special hardness upon all publishers.
Lighting the Way over the Wa
ters.—Savannah Netcs: Last night,
about half past ten o’clock, the guests of
the different hotels who were up, and
people who chanced to be on the streets
In the vicinity of the bav, had their at
tention attracted by a brilliant aud beau
tiful soft light, which brought into promi
nent view the Exchange and the build
ings along the bay. The steadiness of
the light excited curiosity,andjroany mean
dered to the river front to ascertain the
cause, some being under the impression
that it was a powerful Bengal light on
some ship; others that the illumi
nation was caused by an Aurora Bo
realis or Northern light. The shrill
whistle of a steamer, coming up the river,
soon cleared up the mystery, and on
reaching the wharf it was found that the
illumination was the result of a powerful
electric light, operated on the bow of the
splendid steamer St. Johns. Hutchin
son’s Island, opposite the city, was bathed
in the soft translucent rays, and even the
houses on the South Carolina side could
be distinctly seen. The light was bril
liant, and the good steamer was enabled
to make her way up the river to her
wharf with as much ease as though
favored with the smiles of the god of day.
As the steamer swung around in the river
and moved up to her wharf, the light was
thrown in different directions, and the
effect was beautiful and gorgeous beyond
description. As soon as she was
•made fast, representatives of the
News, who were preseut on the
wharf, immediately boarded her, and
were courteously received by her popular
and clever commander, Captain Leo Vo
gel, who informed us that the light had
been of incalculabc benefit to him, as he
was Enabled by it to discover the buoys
several miles off, and could see his way
perfectly clear. Captain Vogel states
that when off Martin’s Industry lightship
he saw pilot boats five miles away, and
could very easily decipher the numbers
on their sails, and that the light was so
powerful that he could see seagulls flying,
and thus learned for the first time in his
extended experience on the seas that these
birds flyby night. He is thoroughly sat
isfied with the light, which was used on
this trip as an experiment, and would not
now be without one, as hereafter by its
aid he will be enabled to avoid de-
first call at 85, and than 95^, 6596 and
00J, closing at 06 bid, 06j_asked. The
sales for-to-day were 1,100.'share* with
more buyers than sellers.
Homicide.—Meriwether 1 Vindica
tor: Tuesday morning news was' brought
to Greenville 'that on Monday evening
about dark Mr. Theodore Davis had shot
Wade Glanton, colored, killing him in
stantly. The parties were tenants of Mr.
Clem Evans residing near Lutherville and
tbe difficulty arose from a dispute they
had in the field during the day. It was
reported that Davis would be arrested
and brought to Greenville, but as we
write nothing further has been beard in
the premises.
Middle Georgia Argus: Mr. William
Moss, of this county, who has been fann
ing with Hon. S. F. Smith for the last
eight years never owned a horae or a mule
in his life, but has been working for Mr.
Smith on shares. Mr. Moss has raised a
large family, paid his debts as he went
ana now has seven bales of cotton piled
up at home waiting for a high price. That
beats buying mules at high priees and
paying big rents, f | ' j ‘
Meriwether Vindicator: Rev. G. P.
Sutherlin reports the wheat.crop.as
looking so well as it should in the Luther
ville district withibe jurat (Warm winter.
niiii mi i L ■ ml u | He represents the p&Jple“rthe district as
replv received states that the “watch man” j energetically .pushing alraad-.WJthtljgir
is a fraud and advises the persons not to farming operations and preparing for a:
send him any money. The merchant al- ( large cotton crop. Guano isbeing bought
hided to stated that the selling man was on an extensive scale,
always out when lie called at his place of | Cotton Still Pougs In.—Oglethorpe
- -Washington Correspondence
Washington City,
February 16, 1SS0.
SOUND THE THE HEWGAG
And strike the lyre, not once hut many
times, and until the welkin rings. The
eagle orator of Georgia has been found at
last, and she is once more famous. The
proceedings of the House‘ofBepresenta-
tives have been generally, this session, a
dreary waste of lifeless and arid words.
But thanks to the god of eloquence,
there comes occasionally a delicious oasis
to refresh the desert of dull routine.
Last Tuesday was such a day. A reso
lution came up last Tuesday “calling
upon the Secretary of the Treasury for cer
tain information regarding the enforcement
of the internal revenue laws in North
eastern Georgia. That resolution may aj>-
pear 5o be a very small peg on which to
hang oratorical gems. But genius asserts
itself, especially that prime quality of gen
ius possessed by the brilliant (and brass
band hating) Emory Speer. Some of his
fortunate, and yet unfortunate, constitu
ents—fortunate to he represented in Con
gress by one so well equipped and so pe
culiarly able to defend them, and unfor
tunate in having been charged with ob
structing the revenue laws—were the chief
topic ef his discourse, though he made
several incidental allusions to the pending
resolution. I cannot refrain from rescu-
ing, as it were, at least two bursts of Emo
ry’s choice eloquence from the Lethean
§ loom of the Congressional Record.
peaking of the scenery amidst the moun
tains of his district, he ascends the Jacob’s
ladder of oratory and the following pearls
drop from his lips:
“There the mountains of ‘Tray’ and
‘Yonah,’ and‘Currahee’ lift their towering
summits towards the heavens. ' There the
falls of Tallulah, of wonderous yet terri
ble beauty, attract thousands to gaze with
admiration and awe upon the feaful force
with which the shining river is hurled into
the abyss of the grand chasm. There the
Toccoa—the Cherokee for beautiful—in
its precipitous leap down the side of the
mountain dashes its translucent wave to
spray; and the legend haunted falls of
Amicaiola—all add to inexhaustible natu
ral charms.
Sir, the people of this country ar e not
a lawless population, as they have been
represented; they do not merit that asper
sion. To make the charge is to de their
future great injury. Principally employed
in agricultural and pastoral pursuits, far
removed from the temptations and vices of
large cities, they are an honest, virtuous
people. They pursue the even tenor of
their way in their quiet homes on the
slopes of the great Blue Ridge, and adown
the fertile valleys of the Tugola and
Chattooga, the Tenora and Turora, the
Hiwassee, Toccoa and Soquee, and where
the bright waters of the Chattahoochee
with rythmical murmuring winds away
from fabled vale of sweet Nacocliee.”
Let there be no more sentimental non
sense about seeing Paris. Ratber let the
word be, hear Speer and then die.
This is the story as told by the Repub
lic, a clever Sunay paper, iu its issue yes
terday, but it omitted to mention that
Speer did not make the speech at all.
He asked permission to have it printed in
the Record, where it duly appeared next
morning!
THE GEORGIA NOMINATIONS
for census supervisors will likely come up
in the Senate this afternoon or to-morrow,
in Executive Session. They will all be
confinnedlexcept the godly Simmons, who
so hates “the corrupt secession traitors,”
that he wants the office merely to get
even with some of them. Messrs. Hill,
Felton and Stephens, are making a des-
jierate struggle for him, but will only
have their labor and a large share of pub
lic odium for their pains. Mr. llill will
not carry a single Democratic Senator
with him. He will stand solitary and
alone with the Radicals in support of
Simmons. I also make the prediction
that at least half dozen Radical Senators
will gag at the dose, and find it eon.e-
nient to be out of the way when the vote
is taken. Stories about Simmons’
being a gay deceiver and ruining some of
tbe lambs of his flock, are also in circula
tion, and wont help him much. What an
ass the man has shown himself. As tbe
detectives say he lia3 not only “given him
self away” completely, but also some oth
ers of his cloth, who will find him the
heaviest load to carry around next sum
mer and fall they over attempted. By the
way, this, I learn, is not the first time
Simmons has been on record here. I un
derstand that he once did some swearing
RY TETiEfrBrAPH ! . d , uci ”g.se? ui » e diamonds, which Stand all! instant, via Lisbon, state that f roi » ,
XJA -Cl. the tests that can be applied to them, to ten persons are dvlng in that e j&
— ; Professor Maskelyne says: “There is no from yellow fever. c t f
doubt whatever that Mr. Hannay has at i —• —
the St. Gothard tunnel, will be finished in
W nIiI
A Berlin dispatch says the Socialist
Deputies, Bebel and Bader, stated in the
Reichstag that German Socialism had no
connection whatever with Russian Nihil
ism.
Paris, February 20.—The Due D.
Andiffert was received into the Trench
academy Thursday. The reception was a
brilliant affair. A grand banquet m
honor of General Fairdiild^on the eve Of
his departure for Spain, was given last
night by the American C-olony.
New York, February 20.—Five hun
dred cabinet makers in the employ of H.
Ilerrman, struck yesterday for an increase
of wages.
Detroit, February 20.—The Republi
can State Convention will meet here May
12th
Cincinnati, February 20.—ABellaire,
Ohio, special states that as tbe engine of a
passenger train of the Bellaire and South
western narrow guage railroad came on
the trestle work, eighty feet high, near
Jacobsborough station last night, it jumped
the track, throwingthe coach and baggage
car down the embankment turning both
bottom up. it is rumored thatex-Con-
gressman Danford .and a Mrs. Caldwell
were mortally wounded and A. B. Booth,
mail agent, badly bruised. '
Washington, February 20.—The Sen
ate Committee on Territories to-day deci
ded to recommend the passage of the bill
extending the jurisdiction of UnitedStates
Courts, in civil and criminal matters, to
the Indian Territory, and providing for
the acquirement of citizenship by Indians,
and the allowment of lands to them in
severalty, under prescribed conditions,
The Committee on the Inter-Oceanic
Canal had before it this morning Mr. A.
G. Menocal, of the United States Navy,
one of the civil engineers formerly en
gaged in making surveys of the Isthmus,
aud heard his statement as to the relative
advantages and disadvantages, of the Pan
ama and Nicaragua routes. Mr. Meno
cal favors strongly the Nicaragua route,
as being 660 miles shorter than the Pana
ma one, as between New York and San
Francisco, and because of tbe greater sul-
ubricty of its climate, better supply of
building material, and its relative cheap
ness of construction.
He expressed his conviction that the
cost of the Nicaragua Canal would not
exceed seventy millions, while that of a
sea level canal at Panama would not be
less than four hundred millions. The
latter he regarded a3 commercially im
practicable. He admitted that the pas
sage by Nicaragua would consume more
time on account of its greater length, and
the large number of locks, and that tbe
annual expense of maintaining it would
be twice as great, but he thought that
these objection were more than oflset by
its relative cheapness.
In tbe House, the Speaker is cal'ing
committees for reports.
The House passed tbe Senate joint res
olution authorizing the Secretary of tbe
Navy to designate a vessel of the United
States to cany, free of charge, contribu
tions for the relief of the suffering j>oor of
Ireland.
The Senate proceeded to consider the
calendar. Besides various private bills,
the following were passed : Bill providing
for delivery of dutiable articles in mails
and for indemity of lost registered arti
cles; it authorizes the delivery to addres
ses in the United States under such regu
lations for collection of customs duties as
may be agreed upon, by the Secretary of
tbe Treasury and Postmaster General, of
all mailable articles of dutiable matter
received by mail from foreign countries,
and admissible under the rules of the
universal postal union, and authorizes the
Postmaster General to accept and execute
the provision of the Paris postal union re
specting the payment of an indemnity of
fifty francs in case of loss of registered ar
ticles. Also the bill authorizing the Sec
retary of the Treasury to appoint a depu
ty collector at Lake Charles, Louisiana,
Also, the bill to repeal the provisions of
tbe revised statutes authorizing the ad
vancement Of naval and marine officers,
thirty members ,in rank, for extraordinary
heroism,
Washington, February 20.—In the
Senate, after the presentation of a number
of petitions and memorials, Sir. Butler in
troduced a joint resolution providing for
the restoration of the books of the Beau-
Ottawa, February 20—The
. . - ---- - - i-- o ; $100,000 by the Dominion govc-rnmo 0 ..-^
been the reproach to chemical seience,; the Irish relief fund passed them ntfo?
viz; the problem of crystallizing carbon. I day unanimously. to-
His process for affecting this transforma- Washington, Tebniarv o,
tion is nardly leas momentous to the, arts House committee on Post-office,;'?^
than to the jiossessors of wealth iu jew- " * - « and n...
,elry. It is on the eve of announcement
to the Boyal Society.
Sr. Petersburg, February 20.—The
Golos says the cellar under the Winter
palace was occupied by four joiners,
three of whom have been arrested. It is
estimated that tbe weight of the dynamite
used was about four pounds. Tbe Winter
palace and other palaces are being care
fully searched by a company of socially
charged sappers. The total number of
persons killed by the explosion was ten.
The funeral of the victims will take place
to-day.
Liverpool,February 20.-This weeks cir
cular of the Liverpool Cotton Brokers’
Association says, cotton was in good de
mand throughout the week, and quota
tions, excepting for American, generally
advanced. American was in good de
mand with free supply. Quotations were
reduced one-eighth d. Iu Sea Island a
large business was done at full prices.
Futures opened dull, prices declining. On
Wednesday there was an improvement of
one-sixteenth d, and since then the mark
et has continued flat. The final rates
show an advance of one-eiglith d.
Philadelphia, February 20.—The
Imperial Cotton Mills at Darby, owned
by John Verlinder’s estate, were destroyed
by fire last night. Loss $50,000.
Cincinnati, February 20.—A dispatch
from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, says: especial subjects of investiration"hr‘ IS
Fully 10,000 persons witnessed the hang- Special Committee of Anpronriatior?)),!
Ing of John Hall and Burrett Smith, near. Committee leaving them to be aS
Routes to-day prepared a report to
pany tbe bill which they propose
in the House on Monday, and undp r
suspension of tberules endeavor to JL *
a two thirds vot Air its passage Th*
port will set forth that on
the attention of Congress was dirfUfj
the fact that a deficiency appropriS 10
$2,000,000 would be required tS °f
the present expedited schedule of „
routes to the end of the fiscal year tar
that the service would bo discontinuM^
cut down to weekly service upon «
routes if tbe required appropriation -T 1
refused by Congress. Two months and
half have elapsed and no definite act' *
has been taken; that the department), 011
issued a general order cutting (] 0 m,
service upon all routes to weeklv serrt
which, under the law, requires
month’s notice to contractors and
volves the payment to them by the J?
emment of one month’s pay, which Sit
aggregate $600,000, for the investment Z
which the government virtually and uL
tually receives no corresponding serrfo
In view of the above facts and theses
ous inconvenience resulting to the puhlS’
the committee will urge the passak C G
bill continuing appropriations forth* Sl ;
routes upon their present basis of serd»
The bill which is being prepared, on care
ful estimation omits any considerations
three or four routes, which have teen thJ
Little’s creek to-day, for the murder of | the ultimate recommendations of th?*^
’ugh in 1879. nronriations CommitiM van
ro.n,fo«?nni ) n f r^ a S e to > * t “i e Ti” C | ai ' niS fort » South Carolina, Library. Referred.
Commission in regard to a “loyl” claim, £ niimhfiP ftf uni f nr ti.e relief nfnri.
which swearing was afterwards described
in the official records as decidedly econom
ical as to the truth.
A TRIP TO ALEXANDRIA.
I decided, one bright afternoon aot
long ago, to get on the ferry boat that
plys between this place and Alexandria
for the purpose of visiting the famous old
Christ church, where George and Martha
Washington used to worship. How dif
ferent Alexandria looks from Washington,
where everything is bright, new, fresh and
A number of bills for tiie relief of pri
vate individuals were considered and
passed.
A bill to authorize the completion aud
publication of the naval history of the
war, comprising both Union and Confed
erate vessels, was jiassed,' as were also a
bill'authorizing the payment of $1,200 to
Claude H. Masten, of Mobile, for the reut
of the Levert Hospital during the war,
and a bill for the relief of Monroe Dono-
ho, Land Register of Alabama.
A bill authorizing the payment to Jo-
tention on account of the risk of-ing*the United States
navigation in these waters on dark! from the top reminds
nights, and hence will save trips that
would otherwise be lost. The advantage,
therefore, to the company of the electric
lightistoo obvious to need coalmen’.
The cost of running the light steadily is
estimated at three cents per hour, and the
machine is easily and readily operated af
ter its workings are - Once explained.
lively, while in the former place there is seph R. Shannon, of Louisiana, of the
an ancient, tumble down, rusty old world j value of a steamboat impressed into the
appearance about everything, and, over S service of the government during the war,
all, an almost oppressive silence. Stroll- was objected to by Mr. Allison and laid
ing past tbe Mansion House and see-! aside.
Jackson-Ellsworth tragedy
curred there in 1861.
A freedman standing there directed me
to the old church, which is in one corner
of a square surrounded by .a substantial
fence, which brought me to a standstill,as
both gates to it were securely, locked,doubt-
flag floating) At. the expiration of the nioming.hour
me of the ! the Seriate resumed consideration of the
which oc- \ five jier cent, and military land warrants
I bill, and Mr. Logan spoke in its support.
J After a §bort executive session, Mr.
Morrill moved- that the Seneate take up
and pass House bill admitting free of duty-
foreign ••contributions in aid of colored
refugees in Kansas. Objection was made
ter iu workings are > Once explained. t ps . JL nrpvpnt VanVep folfo lnint^rn 1 and alter some debate the Senate without
The motirejwwer is sui plied by a donkey carrvingthe oldcLrchoffbodily! t Canany taking ractioh on thebill adjourned until
engine boner.connerted with the electric one explain the solemn veneration anil Monday.^ .
LU^lUU UU1IU1 J WUifoUGU TV 4U1 . VIVLW
battery, and has all the force requisite.
- With one -of these lights any of the
sfoauuhips could safely come up to- the
wharves tbe darkest nights with as little
trouble,dr danger as inthe day. It is not
liriprofiable'that the introduction of the,
electric light iu this section by the St.
Johns will result in its general use by
steamships and steamers.
The steamer left on her trip to Florida
at midnight with a large accession to herj
passenger and freight lists.
- HR ■
eager desire for a reiic of anything'in any of Louisiana,
way, the most remotely connected with th “ th ® Pacific Kail-
George Washington, a Southern uml js! • Mnendmj
great a rebel as ever lived, which • —
to possess the hearts aud souls;'
Englauders. §Vt; .
A crowd Of school hoys with no rover-1 Oflfib-ed whited- and roenmm
ence for the sacred ] vicinity were bttsily^ the" p“
engaged just outside tbe mclosure. in a|ijCom " —
game of marbles, -and bnei of them!jO?
voluteered to bring the sexton, and after, i jfol&frff*
a few minutes delay, I lourfd 'myself The House then went into committee
Company,
immltted.
ded to call
es for reports on private bills, a
~ which were reporte d and dis-
Besuio and ball for Dr. Ball’s Cough
Syrnp, it you are troubled with a bad
COllgu or Cold. It Will give relief. For-, UV uic lueaui^u uiics nil WHICH
sold by every 1 respectable druggist. Price’ J George and Martha sat- and knelt nearly
25 cents per bottle. ■ <,r ; . , jl a hundred years ago. i
standing before the old square pew, With
its ragged cushions and still more ragged,
carpet, which from their appearance
might be the identical ones "on which
hundred years ago.
' ••• ' | I was informed that all the pews in the
Baroness Coutts’ CoNTHBUTioN.-It' church were originally 'sqmtre, but non 1
•now turns out that the rumor said to have,: are so now except the one mentioned, am
j in the lobby of the Brit-
louse of Commons to tue effect tjftjt j
Baroness Burdett-Coutts contemplated
that formerly occupied by General Lee’s
family, which is across the aisle almost
opposite. A new organ has been recently
of the whole on revision of the rules. Ya-
rious amendments were offered to rules
twenty-three aud twenty-four. But all
were voted flown and the committee rose
without making any changes.
Mr. King, of Louisiana, introduced a
bill dividing the State Of Louisiana into
two judicial districts. Referred.
^ The House then adjourned until Mon-
Washington, February 20.—The Sen
ate in executive session to-day confirmed
since sliS~-became the' sole possessor,
through the* Dtichess of- 6t. Albans—the
maoWtfr did “Tom” Coutts,bind In ear- i
Her life the-'jdlly Miss Mellon, of theatri
cal njgriiory—of the great Coutts estate, j
Baroness Coutts has spent- her. life im
allnsgivingarid'in tlie promotion of under-;
.fiflt&igs forthe TeHef of the poor. She] | n
has also been a large contributor totho ] dates of Mis. Elizabeth Davis’ 'birth arid,
A AIUTT UlgAU 1IW VUW4U1.U11UJ j PHU lit CAUVUMTC iJUJDIVU wruajf UHlUIi
put into the church, aud to make room'-'the nomination of John S. Reed to be
for it, some of the original timber inthe pogi$£Sler #t Huntsville, and rejected the
roof liad to be remoyed,'and-ait has been! nomination of ' jEflwaru T. Parker to be
utilized by making it up into canes, cups; j supervisor of census for the first district of
etc., which find a ready sale to numerous. LouIsItCai,;.jf..., . ’■ v :
visitors. But the churchyard, with its j The sub-committee of the House Ways
old, sunken gravestones, was even more j and Means Committee to-day heard ar-
interesting to me than the church. Some > guments by Representative Joe Johnston
of the inscriptions struck me as veiy pe- « r >ti-viv unn. -r ni/.i, m ™j i« j-r
cullin'; arid altogether different frdm those
of latter days. I have forgottep .the exact
Palestine exploration fund.
death, but the inscription impresses it
’ Frqnl her great wealth it was not at ail I upon one that “she was related to several
impossible for her to have given half a ! of the most respectable families in Md. &
million of money to Irish relief; but it is j Va.” The inscription on Bethanath Mc-
now stated, upon what appears to be good • Can’s tombstone tells ns that he was
authority, that the extent of her contribn-1 “bom Nov. 25tli, 1705, at 2 o’clock. A. M.
lion is £700, ($3,500), of which. JE200 are \ & departed this life Aug. loth, ,1708, at 11
to be distributed in the distressed dis- o’clock, P. M.” So you see, as far back
tricts, and £500 toward making a harbor I gg 1795, babies bad a way of coming at
pa the west‘coast of Sligo. We may add ■ the most unseasonable hours. The two'
here, as a.farther explanation of how 3I10 ; oldest graves in the yard are those of
became endowed with such immense j Isaac Pierce, who was buried there in
vrioaTfTi* eVm xraa flu* ilfliiolifflr nf Sir ! 1WI *n/1 a*’ Vaw T amJ
wealth; that she was the daughter of Sir
Francis Burdett, a once famous liberal
member of the House of Commons, and
the granddaughter of “old Tom Coutts,”
the banter. . * i I
1771, and George Mumford, of New Lon-*
don Colony, Connecticut, who was burled
in 1773. The word prepare on one grave
stone was spelt prepair and indisposion on
another, meaning, I suppose, indisposition,
and on another one letter in a word was
left out, hut the stone-cutter, in the most
matter of fact way, inserted it above and
cut tbe little carat down below. There
It ,was Time to Go.—Dr. George C.
Lorimer, of Chicago, while pastor in a
Southern State was called to perform a - .--- — . -- ---,
marriage ceremony Iii a poo? white settle- ,were many others equally as unusual as
meat. After the knot! was tied tup mother - tlioso mentioned, but I have forgotten
oftbebrjde placed before the guests re- ; them. . -ft-
freshmeht in tlicform of 17c,-whisky. Dr. t . J , lv . ‘
Lorimer, by virtue of his office as a Cliris- _ ; . j,. h
tian minister, remonstrated ; vfitb her for! Nothing is so conducive, to a.mansre-
lm-iriess. and that tiie firm seemed to pro- | Echo: Every day this week we have no- J thus starting in life the t ■--i.ple. The maimng a bachelor as stopping for one
fer sending by mail rather than selling di- ! ticed wagon loads of cotton passing our mother, a large woman, aborit a foot tal- wight at the hoipe of amarried lrierfd and
rect to customers. j office. There is more behindhand the, ler than the 1 doctor, placing her arms being kept awake for fiveor hours by
and Mr. Burr, of Richmond, in favor of
the bill amending the revised statues rel
ative to tobacco export bonds. They will
probably rejxirt it favorably to the full
committee soon.
New York, February 20.—A telegram
from Bellaire, Ohio, says the train on the
Bellaire and Southwestern railroad, while
approaching Woodfield, Ohio, about half
past five o’clock yesterday afternoon, fell
through the trestle work near Jacobsburg.
Two passenger coaches and a cook car fell
about eighteen feet. A. S. WyWe, fire-
l’he two ' man, who lives near Burris' mills, Ohio,
was seriously, if not fatally Injured. Ex-
Congressman Danford, of Ohio, sustained
painful, but riot dangerous wounds. Sev
eral other passengers were more or less
injured. The wounded are being kindly
cared for by residents near tbe scene of
the aqcidext, * and all, wfith the exception
of Wylie, are likely to recover soon. The
accident resulted from the breaking of the
track fastening. •
.Cincinnati, February 20.—Advices
from. the scene, .of £he railroad accident
near Bellaire, Ohio, are meagre, as there
is no telegraphic line to the spot. It is re
ported that cx-Congrcssman Danford,
Mrs. Caldvyell aqd jlr. B^iwmer, are fatal-,
ly hurt./ana afleast teh dr twelve others
seriously injured.
London) February 20.—Professor Mas
kelyne, of the mineral department of the
British Museum, writes to the Times that
J. Ballautyne Hannay, of Glasgow, a Fel
low of the v Chemical Society of London,
has at last succeeded in artificially pro
ton a.aa&mas i “■ * ' j .4
Hemy Pugh
The scaffold was erected within 300
yards of the public square, and raised
seats had been erected facing it, sittings
ujxm which were sold at a dollar ap : ece.
Hall died without a straggle, hut Smith’s
death was painfully prolonged.
Washington, February 20.—Post
master General Keyha3 issued an order
to-day reducing the service on all star
routes to one trip jier week, allowing one
month’s extra pay in the service dispensed
with. If this reduction be found insuf
ficient to keep expenditures within the aji-
propriations, the service placed on all new
routes since and including July, 1879, will
he entirely discontinued. The last named
routes were established by the jiost route
bill passed at the extra session of Con
gress last year, and are mostly in the
Southern States.
Deputy Internal Revenue Collector at
Atlanta telegraphs Commissioner Raum
that two illicit distilleries in Butts county,
owned by McMichael and Dukes, were
captured yesterday while in full opera
tion.
The President sent to the Senate to-day
the nomination of Rowland E. Trow
bridge, of Michigan, to be Commissioner
of Indian Affairs, in place of E. A. Hayt
removed.
Dublin, February 20.—The Mansion
House Relief Committee announce that
the amount received to date is 68,000
pounds, of which 36,500 pounds have
been expended. Tbe Committee says it
trusts there will be no diminution ofsuli-
scriptions, as every exertion is needed to
meet the demands.
London, February 20.—In the six days
go-as-you-please walking match, which
commenced at the Agricultural Hall Mon
day morning last, tbe contestants had
made the following scores at twelve
o’clock last night: Blower Brown 405
miles, Hazael 850, and Day 313. The dis
tance covered by Brown for ninety-five
hours ending at midnight, beats all pre
vious records.
New York, February 20.—A London
special says the Parisian Journal La
France, publishes tbe following concern
ing the attempt on the Czar’s life. It
comes from its Saint Petersbuig corres
pondent and is dated February nineteenth:
The conspirators used dynamite. This
substance can only have been placed in
tbe vaults with the complicity of persons
employed in the subordinate capacities at
tbe Winter palace. The train was fired
at the hour apjiointcd, with tbe aid of
electric wires, which were cut after the
explosion, and were found in fragments
at some distance from the dining room.
Several officials are under surveillance.
Many arrests have beeu made, but the
jiolice are not yet on the track of the as
sassins. {The Emperor is said to be much
affected, and rumors of his abdication on
March second are again passing from
mouth to mouth.
■^London, February 20.—In the house of
Lords to-night, the Duke of Argyle moved
for the corresjxmdence found at Cabul be
tween Shere Ali aud the Russian author
ities. Lord Cranbroke, Secretary of State
for India, refused to produce the papers,
and debate ensued.
Bucharest, February 20.—The official
communication in which England, Ger
many and France acknowledge the inde
pendence of Roumania was transmitted
to this capital to-day..
Berlin, February 20.-
-The Prussian
Diet has been adjourned by Royal order
until after the close of the session of Get-
man Reichstag. In the Reichstag to-day,
Herr Ackerman, Conservative,was elected
to the second vice-Presidency, which was
refused by Herr Hoelder.
London, February 20.—In the House
of Commons to-day, Mr. Pliinsol read an :
apology for the language,used in his hand
bill with reference to two other membenj
of Parliament, and it was decided that no
further action should be taken in the mat
ter by the House.
The Standard's correspondent’on board
the British gunboat Goshawk, which car
ried provisions to the western islands of
Ireland, writes as follows: “My inves
tigations on all the islands visited by the
Goshawk satisfied me that there is no star
vation among tiie inhabitants, but acute
distress confronts me on every side. ivM
relief measuie3 of the Dublin and local
committees arc, however, sufficient to
meet the emergency.” - : J - I
The Pans Journal des Debats says:
“We believe Russia and England have
agreed to allow Persia to occupy Herat,
and thus establish a neutral zone between
them.” It is to be remarked that yester
day’s Pall Mall Gazette declared that
Prince Labanoff, Russian Ambassador at
London, brought the plan for a settlement
ofthe Central Asian question. It also
declared that the acceptance of any cut
and dried settlemont would be construed
as a British surrender, and destroy Eng
land’s prestige in Asia, 1.; • j.
St. Petersburg, Februaay 20.—The
Agence Russe confirms the statement that
negotiations are, pending "between' Eng
land and Persia relative to the occujiation
of Herat. * '*’■ v vrJ 5
Cincinnati, February 20.—The latest
reports from the scene of the Bellaire and
Southwestern railroad accident,' state
that none of the wounded have yet died.
Those reported fatally injured are ext
Congressman Danford, A. P. Wiley, Mrs.
A. B. Caldwell, Henry Wendell and Wm.
Trigg. Those reported severely but not
fatally injured, are Mr. Bereman, of Pari
kersburg, West Virginia, Mr. and Mrs.
Bowrnau, Mr. Pendle, Conductor. Buriri
head, the - mail agent, both express mes
sengers, Mr. Hayden, qnd others whose
names are not given. There wereuji-
wards of forty persons on the train, and'it
is considered almost miraculous that so
many escaped fatal injury.
Buenos Ayres, January 2S.—Accord
ing to intelligence published here the alli
ance between Peru and Bolivia has been
broken off.
Atlantic, Iowa, February 20.—Gil
man & Co.’s grain elevator and adjoining
crib was destroyed by fire yesterday, with
120,000 bushels of com.
New York, February 20.—Dr. Benja
min Brandreth, of Brandreth pills notorie
ty, died suddenly at his residence in Sing
Sing yesterday, of embolism of the heart.
He leaves an estate valued at from two to
three million dollars, including considera
ble real estate in Texas.
London, February 20.—The Woolen
warehouse of-Hill, Mills & Co., in Man
chester, has beeu burned., Loss estimated
at £60,000. — _ : . _ — |
Cincinnati, O., February 20.—A tele
gram from Piedmont, West Virginia, re
ports that a strike of all the mining opera
tives in that vicinity, for higher" wages,
wiil probably be made Monday.
Advices from Rio«Janeiro to the 3d
propriatious Committee bill, which tha
Post-office Committee will endeaw
through its chairman, Mr. Money, to in.
troduce on Monday. It will provide for
a deficiency appropriation of about a mill,
ion and a half.
Cincinnati, February 21.—Mrs. Cald
well and Mr. Wiley, who were injured ia
the accident near Jacobsburg Station
died yesterday. Hon. Lorenzo Danford's
condition is considered critical. A man
named Jones, while working at tbe scene
ofthe disaster, fell from the trestle and re-
e.-ived fatal injuries.
Augusta, Me., February 21.—
Greenbackers inthe Legislature held s
caucus last evening and nominated dele
gates at large to the National Convention
to meet at Chicago. A committee vu
appointed to draw up a resolution of
thanks to Solon Chase and the father of
the party in Maine for the resolute stand
he had taken.
New Yobk, Febraaiy 21.—At the prj.
maries held last night for the election of
delegates to the Republican Convention at
Utica, as far as heard from, fourteen del-
gates were instructed to vote for Grant,
and twenty-one favor Grant, two opposed
to Grant, two opposed to third term, only
one publicly favors Conkling, fifteen ate
uuinstracted; of these two oppose Sher
man, three favor Grant as first choice and
Blaine as second.
London, February 21.—A Times Paris
dispatch says the demand of Bussia forthe
extradition^of Hartmann has been refined
by Premier Freycinct to the Minister of
Justice. It is stated some of the reaction
ary deputies applied for the man’s release,
but were told that if it apjieared that be
was connected with the. Moscow attempt
the government would surrender liim to
the Russian authorities.
I Paris, February 21.—The Temps pnh-
lishes a letter from St. Petersburg which
says: “News from the interior of the em
pire is heartrending. Famine and diph
theria are decimating the population. The
provinces of Saratof and Kief, which an
nually export in ordinary times enor
mous quantities of grain, had scarcely any
crop last year. The calamity is aggra
vated by the want of fodder for the cattle,
the peasants being forced to sell them.
In the Caucassus the famine is still great
er, where the people are committing sui
cide and selling their children.
New York, February 21.—a London
special gives the following from tbe Steal-
ard’s Berlin correspondence: Lately the
Czar has hardly ever left the Winter pal
ace. When he went abroad he was sur
rounded by a cloud of mounted offices
who concealed the carriage, and protected
the inmate with their bodies. In the pal
ace he was accessible only to diplomatists,
dignitaries and officers of the househoU
At the Chapiel, detectives occupied the
seats that ware formerly reserved for dis
tinguished visitors, and detectives iufested
the kitchen.
Every dish was tasted bypiersoiuof
rank, specially selected for the purpose.
The Einpieror did not even venture to open
his letters, documents steeped in poison
having repeatedly been sent to him. Tet
with all these elaborate precautions itoe-
ciured to nobody to search for the an
nounced, advertised and placarded mine
in the basement. The Emperor and the
Duchess of Edinburgh were seated inthe
apartment'next to the dining-room, when
they heard the repiort of the explosion.
The lights were extinguished and the gss
pipes burst. The Princess, officers and
valets went blindly through the dark, and
then pioured promiscuously through the
door of the royal apartments. The sov
ereign was found grouping his way out of
the fatal quarter. All who saw the sight,
the picture of Alexander U. leading hi*
daughter away from the mine of dynamite,
say it was one that could never be for
gotten.
The Tag Rlatt relates that for some
days, the Czar has dally received sealed
letters containing a few words of menaK
and saying that If he did not change his
system of oppression, he would not live to
celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of
his accession. The sheet was always bor
dered with black.' In court circles it vsi
known as black letttns'i All efforts to dis
cover the person who conveyed it to the
Empieror’s room were unsuccessful.
Little Bock, Arkansas, February
21.—A destructive fire occurred -at Batts-
vilie yesterday, originating in ClappS
Co.’s grocery, which, with Adder’s three
story brick store, J. R. Taylor’s dwelling.
Taylor & Heckerson’and Wycough’s store
houses, were destroyed. The"" wall 0
Adder’s building fell on the warehouse,
owned by H. C. "Smith, instantly killing
L. Gorsuch and wounding Thomas Jablia
and E. W. Morefield, the former fatally.
Three others were slightly injured. The
Masons, Odd Fellows and Knights* '
Honor lost all their furniture and regalis-
The losses are $70,000, half covered by in
surance.
Vicksburg, February 21.—Thomas J-
Ballon, Jr., of Balton’s depot, shot
killed Leonard M. Clarke and his broths
Douglass Clarke last night. The
began between Balton and Dougffi
Clarke. Leonard Clarke coming out «
the theatre saw Balton shooting at fo
brother, and ran up andgrasped the pisto
in Balton’s hand. Balton resisted, aw
jerking the pistol from Clarke’s grasp sW
him. Neither of the Clarke’s were ani;
ed. Balton was captured this noB*j
near Edwards. The excitement is in
tense. t
New York, February 21.—A thank*
giving service forthe preservation of E®
peror Alexander of Russia from the law
attempt on his life was held to-day at tu
Russian Greek Chapiel, 051 Second Are
nue. Among those in attendance wew
his Excellency Nicholas de ShisltB"!
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
pxitentiary from Russia to the b n ‘ te _
States, aud his wife, and Baron and bar
oness Blanc. The service was of a 11
tirely private character, and was con®*
ted by Rev. Father Nicholas Bjarring-
London, February 21.—A -Paris ois
patch to the Times says the Archbishop™
Bordeaux, in forwarding five hunt!re
francs to the Catholic Archbishop
Dublin, writes : “France and Ireland ®
inseparable names, recalling a coniniu
ity of faith and a long-standing excuan a
of sympathy.”
A dispatch from Rome to the Staiw
says: “Strictly confidential reports
peering the nature of the agitation ini ■
land have reached the. Pope, which s
that three-fourths of it are due to a sp
of socialism. Very precise instructions
the Irish bishopis, therefore, are being P
pared, exhorting them to take care . | 1 ! (0
in relieving distress they do not pi*) .
the hands of those who are working
political object.”