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GEORGIA PRESS.
The guano trade in Thomasville is quite
lively.
A man by the name of Smith came near
breaking up a show in Thomasville a few
nights since by insisting on indulging in
great laughter.
Several citizens of Swainsboro look
in vain for Ilandy Harden, a colored
brother who took French leave of that
place and his bondsmen in certain cases
against him.
The Thomasville Library Association
has celebrated its fourth anniversary.
Mr. Lou Drewry handed the Griffin
News a bogus marriage notice of a young
lady and and gentleman of Griffin. The
News 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 Nerpie Jordax and Mr. John
. Wall, of Twiggs county, were married
Irwinton on Wednesday.
The cyclone season has opened in
Schley county, and a furious one played a
star engagement there last week, demol
ishing several buildings.
Mb. M. E. Tiiorxtox, 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
M8, 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
Stellaviile,tliat Judge Noah Smith lias re
cently had nine stocks of fodder on his
plantation eaten up by buzzards.
Valdosta Tunes: Wc 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 corn in this immediate section,
wc 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. Sindarilla Lee, of
Appling county, is the mother, grand
mother and greatgrandmother of 215chil
dren. She enjoys very good health for
one of her age, and her prospects are good
for several years yet.
The Jefferson Forest News remarks
that “if you don’t think the average
Georgian is a goober maslier, just go into
a court room and look under the benches
after n day's sitting of the court. All
times during the day, when there is a lull
in the proceedings, you can hear the ton-
stant crack, crack of the goober hull. Our
people have a perfect mania for them that
is uncontrollable.”
ILxksvili.e Gazette: When a farmer
can make eiglity-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.
Tin; LaFayette (Walker county) Mes
senger says: “Another shocking accident
occurred at the Western and Atlantic
raiir...id crossing on Market street early
Tuesday morning. A lady was crossing,
and • ••ing alarmed by an engine approach-
ing l'i <>m one direction, returned to anotli- noon.
Mr. Joseph Sixckland died last Newton, was so severely burned on Mon-
Wednesday near G.lnewille, ajed -. 0.
hundred and five years. house for a short while to look after some
Coloxel I. W. Avery telegraphs the domestic affairs, and were induced to re-
Chroniclc and Constitutionalist that he is turn by the loud and continued howling
. , fr,.™ Pnnnni of the dog. When they entered the house
not seeking a clerkship from General • wci f appalIed by the sight of their
Gordon in Washington. | c bjid lying on the bed, where she had
We regret to learn from private letters crawled in her frantic efforts to escape the
received in this city that Hon. Gregg flames, with her clothing burned and her
er tract, not noticing a locomotive back
ing f. .•man opposite direction. She was
lot
•!y mangled. The engineers of the
motive were ignorant of the accident
unii! told of it some minutes after. It
will be our painful duty to chronicle from
time to time similar accidents at that
cubing 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 iii debt anil 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 the current
c\i«ai*es of the year, and there is no
probability of the county getting into debt
again unless it has to meet some unex
pected and unusual expense.
TIvvesvilt.e Gazette: We had the
pleasure of an interview with Mr. L.
.I .i. ou, a gentleman originally from
Scotland, but who has for a number of
years been engaged in tea culture in the
Fa<t Indies. He is examing our land,
with the view of locating a large tea farm,
where he will employ a large number of
h —Is. Before locating permanently he
piiew>scs to visit other portions of this
State and the Indian river in Florida.
Athens Danner: On yesterday we
\.' ..cased what is not often seen in this
1*' f uncertainties and but few days.
Mi. Marion W. Watson, of this county,
• ' who lives near Winterville, was in
tl«i city with three of his brothers, Messrs.
L. W. and J. M. Watson, of Greenville,
b. <J., and Mr. A. J. Watson,of Oglethorpe
county, which is the first time the four
biotbers have all met in forty-three years.
Tins separation bad been so long that Mr.
Marion Watson, the youngest, did not re-
cc^uize or know his brothers until they
made themselves known to him. Mr. M.
I. Watson is the oldest, and seventy-one
y irs old; Mr. A. J. Watson Is the next
oldest, and sixty-five years old; the next,
Air. J. M. Watson, is sixty-three years old,
and Mr. M. W. Watson the yonngest, is
fitly six years old. The brothers are all
b.-il 1 , hearty and healthy looking men,
ami seem destined for a goodly number
iii* j cars yet. They go to-morrow to spend
a tew days with the brother in Oglethorpe.
.' laj their enjoyment in each others com-
. ...iy in some measure compensate for the
I - ig separation.
'i’iioMASViLLE Enterprise: On Friday
la l there occurred in our city one of thore
“' . ays between the young colored men
that are of such frequent occurrence as to
esms the opinion that the generation now
growing up is not disposed to regard life
as at all sacred.
\ ndrew Jackson had obtained twenty-
fi'i' cents from one George , Dr
I!rune’s driver, and George had repeatedly
i>' l 'irtuncd him to return it. Friday
>•: .ling Gcoige again asked him fork
i some words ensued, when George
' struck at Andrew and ran; Andrew
'*• wed him and overtaking him com-
■•.ed cutting him; he cut George in the
' i st, just over the heart, and again in
ilw neck and then in the hand; he bled
,. >y freely, and fears were entertained
fn. bis life. Andrew Jackson was prompt
ly • rested and lodged in jail.
i he Southerner and Appeal speaks as
ws of the Representative In Congress
... iiis district:
1 • is our honest opinion that Hon. J. II.
r. ,nt Is decidedly the best and most
i il member in Congress from Georgia.
*■ are wo alone in this opinion. Many
e papers that were disposed to under-
him last year are now bis strong
ds and admirers. Tliis is true of the
le as well as the papers. This popu-
i.i v is not confined to Georgia, for Mr.
:_.nt Ls winning golderi opinions from
•ctions of the country, for bis work in
Appropriations Committee, of which
. is, for some time, been acting chair-
. This is gratifying to us, for we have
r vs believed in him. We are glad to
no on the right side in the Simmons
oversy, though we never doubted
:e would be.
.£ rk arc an unusual number of brides
•■ason in Hall county.
e laic rise in iron did not affect the
Wright has recently been seriously ill
We trust he may soon be better.
Real estate in the suburbs of Carters-
ville is said to be rising as tlie brass band
is learning Pinafore. It is probable a bill
will be introduced in the Legislature next
session making a special kind of reserva
tion tor the band, with a prohibitory
clause against its leaving its domain ex
cept in case of invasion.
Miss Dearing, of Adairsvilie, has left
that place to go on tlie operatic stage.
Mrs. William A. Wrigiit, 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. Rylan-
der, who was well known in Macon.
Wild turkeys are frequently killed in
Sumter county.
Mrs. N. J. Joiner died in Americus
on Monday last while on a visit to her
sister.
The store of Mr. Sam Cohen was bur
glarized in Americus this week, and four
hundred and four dollars takcp therefrom,
Albany wants a faster line between
that city and Savannah.
The irrepressible Ham lias been beard
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, of Cuthbert,
ran into a fire engine in Cuthbert last
week. The engine is still in working or
der, but the Judge is not.
In Southwestern Georgia they have bad
ice only three times this winter, conse
quently most of the meat is spoilt.
Dn. W. W. Flewellen, of Columbus,
lias accepted the superintendeucy of the
Florida lunatic asylum.
The Washington Gazette says: Mr.
Toombs DuBose delivered a valedictory
for Miss Thompson’s dancing school at
Stummer’s Hall last Tuesday. Thanks
were returned to the town and her pa
trons, and a chiding gratuitously given by
the orator to the bashful young men who
had declined the honors he was bear
ing.
Americus Republican: Tlie Presbyte
rians are contemplating erecting a new
church on the comer 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 tlie city for such a building,
and we hope that tlie land may be secured
and a building erected thereon which may
be an ornament to the city.
Mr. 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 tlie ways of the ex-Collec-
tor. He states that Mr. Camp, a Special
Treasury Agent, lias examined his books
and found them correct in CYery respect,
and will so report. As proof also that be
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 Sallie Gibson, was accidently
killed in this place on last Tuesday after-
Sam Johnson, colored, went into
isvillc-Dahlonega railroad project.
Sallie 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 ofthe hammers down on the
nipple. The hammer slipped from bis
fingers. Tlie 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 bis own
eye befor be adjusts liis 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 be bad not worn a
pair of shoes for the past forty years. He
is aged about ninety-five years and three
montlis, and is employed on a farm about
three miles east of Columbus. On Sun
day afternoon last, says the Enquirer, he
apparently died, probably from sheer ex
haustion and old age. He was dressed,
laid Indite coffin, and bis friends from the
neighborhood gathered to pay their last
tribute to the departed. When the as
sembled multitude were bending in their
sympathy, amid the serenity which over
shadowed the surroundings, the defunct
arose from his strange position and de
manded of the assemblage “ what they
meant by such treatment.” The party
turned away, leaving the old man master
of the situation.
Savannah News: The first case un
der the act passed by tlie Legislature,
chartering tlie Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Children will come up be
fore the Ordinary on Friday. The peti
tion is filed by tlie society, stating that
two orphan children, Cordelia E. Bur-
long, aged ten years, and .James Burlong,
aged two years, colored, are now In the
custody of Louisa Powels, colored, living
at Ruckcttsville, in tlie suburbs; that they
are being reared under immoral influen
ces likely to degrade their moral char
acter, and devote them to a vicious life, in
consequence of the neglect and drunken
ness of said Louisa Powells. The peti
tioners pray tlie appointment of a proper
guardian for said children. W. W. Ma-
kell, attorney for tlie Society, A. P. & S.
B. Adams for the plaintiff.
Sumter Republican: We learn from
Mr. J. D. Scott, of the 2Sth district, that
on Tuesday night a colored man by tlie
name of Mintus, once a preacher, attacked
Houston Kemp, another colored man,
much esteemed in the neighborhood for
his uniform good behavior, and inflicted
a dangerous gasli in Ms forehead with an
axe. Parties went to arrest him, hut he
made good his escape thus far. Houston
is in a critical condition, and this villain
should be apprehended and pay the pen
alty of tlie law. The wounded man is
receiving the kindest attention from liis
white friends, as well as those of his own
color. We hope they will be rewarded
by the recovery and gratitude of Houston
Kemp.
Dawson Journal: Some weeks ago
there appeared in this paper the advertise
ment of an Atlanta firm proposing to sell
a “magnificent watch for $2.G0.” We see
the same advertisement in a great many
of the weekly papers of tlie State, besides
numerous circulars offering the same thing.
Of course no one can expect to get a good
watch for $2.00, hut some persons here
body blistered and charred.
These sad calamities are of frequent oc
currence, and should impress upon people
the great danger of leaving children un
attended in a house where there is fire.
Augusta News: Rev. J. S. Lamar is
back from New York. He comes home
for a little rest this time, and is waiting
for the construction of his new macMne
on a large scale and tlie test of his great
invention. It gives us pleasure to note
the great and universal interest excited by
Mr. Lamar in Ms 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 liim 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 be is superintending the con-
stiuction 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.
Gwinnett Herald: Mr. Parish, of this
county, has had the misfortune to lose
both of his hands, yet he does not sit mop
ing around waiting for something to turn
up and the public to go to Ms relief, but
plows, hoes and does almost any kind of
work withing complaining. He is mak
ing an honest and comfortable living, and
maintains the respect of all who know
Mm. On the contrary, we could find
young men with two hands, and stout,
athletic fellows, too, who are continually
complaining that they can find notliing 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
tlie ground floor if you will only pull off
your coat take hold.
T. C. Key, living at King’s Gap, Harris
county, has recently patented an improved
cotton press. It is a very simple arrange
ment, can be hauled upon a two horse
wagon, and two boys can easily pack a
050 pound bale of cotton in two minutes.
Its cost need not exceed thirty-fire dollars
and it will last alife time,
For two or three weeks past Rome has
been luxuriating in a toothsome social
scandal. Charlie Warner, an old codger
about forty-five years of age, disappeared
suddenly leaving behind a wife ar.d fami
ly. Miss Alice Hall, an accomplished
and rather pretty girl, vanished at tlie
same time. The girl’s father, Dr. Hall,
Ms daughter and Warner were all going
on to Philadelphia to join an opera com
pany, accounting for the sudden flight of
Warner by saying that Mrs. Warner
could not stand the idea of seeing lier fes
tive little liubby prancing before the foot
lights. This story pretty well appeased
tlie 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.
The Rome papers have been vaguely hin
ting at this affair for several weeks, hut
have never come right square out with
the item. We are surprised at 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 hanks.
Savannah lias contributed, up to Fri
ver is heard as he swaggers along. Trade
in every line is booming. Gold dust cot
ton accomplished this joyous end. We
are fearful however it will be returned to
us iu due season in the shape of the
poorest calico and other cotton goods ever
seen.
Gainesville Southron: We are glad
to know that Colonel Foreacre is doing
all he can to indnee the people along
the Air Line and others to comp in
and go to raising, sMpping and man
ufacturing tobacco. In a conversa
tion with Mm the other day, he
stated that no part of Maryland or Vir
ginia could produce the finer grades of to
bacco better than this Piedmont belt, and
no industry on tlie 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 fanner in this section will put
out a small patch of tobacco, and learn,
by readfhg 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 and liow 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 ether,
but pitch right in, if you don’t raise more
than five hundred plants.
Says the Dahlonega Signal: “Onr
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 creek, and was three feet
three inches in length and large in propor
tion. It is said to have been* the largest
wildcat seen in that section for many
years. Tlie 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 tlie 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 the Brunswick shore, and the
shoals at Buzzard Roost Point, and tlie
point just above the Brunswick and Al
bany railroad shops will be dredged and
the dredgings emptied into the cribs at
Brandy Point.”
The Augusta Chronicle wants free
trade in paper. It declares the present
protective tariff on printing paper and the
chemicals, etc., used in its manufacture
has created a grinding monopoly, wMcli
is a special hardness upon all publishers.
Lighting the Way over the Wa
ters.—Savannah News: Last night,
about half past teu o’clock, the guests of
tlie different, hotels who were up, and
people who chanced to he on tlie streets
in tlie vicinity of the bav, had tlieir at
tention attracted by a brilliant and beau
tiful soft light,_which brought into promi
nent view
ings along
the light excited curiosity,and)uany 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 tlie illumi
nation was caused by an Aurora Bo
realis or Northern light. The shrill
whistle of a steamer, coming up tlie river,
soon cleared up the mystery, and on
reaching the wharf it was found that tlie
illumination was the result of a powerful
electric light, operated on tlie 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
he distinctly seen. The light was bril
liant, and the good steamer was enabled
to make lier way up the river toiler
wharf with as much ease as though
Washington Correspondence.
Washington City,
February 10, 18S0.
SOUND THE THE HEWGAG
And strike the lyre, not once but many
times, and until the welkin rings. The
eagle orator of Georgia lias been found at
last, and she is once more famous. The
proceedings of the House of Representa
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 forcer-
tain information regarding the enforcement
of the internal revenue laws in North
eastern Georgia. That resolution may ap
pear jo 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
hand hating) Emory Speer. Some of his
fortunate, and yet unfortunate, constitu
ents—fortunate to be 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 tlie 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
gloom of the Congressional Record.
Speaking of the scenery amidst the moun
tains of his district, he ascends the Jacob’s
ladder of oratory and the following pearls
drop from Ms lips:
“There the mountains of ‘Tray’ and
‘Yonab,’ and‘Currahee’ lift their towering
summits towards the heavens. There the
falls of Tallulah, of wouderous yet terri
ble beauty, attract thousands to gaze with
admiration and awe upon the feaful force
with wMch the shining river is hurled into
the abyss of the grand chasm. There the
Toccoa—tlie 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
Amicalola—all add to inexhaustible natu
ral charms.
Sir, the people of this country are not
a lawless population, as they have been
represented; they do not merit that asper
sion. To make the charge is to do their
future great injury. Principally employed
in agricultural and pastoral pursuits, far
removed from the temptations and vices of
latgc cities, they are an honest, virtuous
people. They pursue the even tenor of
tlieir way in their quiet homes on the
slopes of the great Blue Ridge, aud adown
tlie fertile valleys of tlie Tugola and
Chattooga, the Tenora and Turora, the
Hiwassee, Toccoa and Soquee, and where
tlie bright waters of tlie Chattahoochee
with rythmical murmuring winds away
from fabled vale of sweet Nacochee.”
Let there he no more sentimental non
sense about seeing Paris. Rather let the
word be, hear Speer and then die.
This is the story as told by the Repub
lic, a clever Sunay paper, in 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
OAVASAAU uascomriuuicu, uuwxn-j _ rr .. ^ _ . , . . °
, - v. ,-o 7 C favored with the smilerof the god of day.
day night, $2,1 <3.<o to the Irish Relief As the steamer swung around in tlie river
and moved up to her wharf, the light was
Fund.
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 a
bushel out of the wagon in Dalton.
Miss Stella Morton died near Rome
on Monday.
The Middle Georgia Argus hoists the
They
confirmed fexcept the godly Simmons, who
so hates “the corrupt secession traitors,”
that lie wants the office merely to get
even with some of them. Messrs. Hill,
Felton and Stephens, are making a des
perate struggle for him, but will only
have tlieir labor and a large share of pub
lic odium for tlieir pains. Mr. Hill 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 tlie prediction
that at least half dozen Radical Senators
will gag at tlie dose, and find it conve
nient to be out of the way when tlie vote
is taken. Stories about Simmons’
being a gay deceiver and ruining some of
the lambs of his flock, are also in circula
tion, and wont help him much. What an
ass the man lias shown himself. As the
detectives say he has not only “given him
self away” completely, but also some oth
ers of his cloth, who will find Mm the
heaviest load to carry around next sum
mer and fall they ever attempted. By tlie
i way, this, I learn, is not tlie first time
t l ie | Simmons lias been on record here. I un-
' derstand that lie once did some swearing
thrown in different directions, and tlie
effect was beautiful and gorgeous beyond
description. As soon as she was
made fast, representatives of
News, who were present on
and clever commander, Captain Leo Vo-
& who informed us that tlie light had
i of incaiculabe benefit to Mm, as lie
was enabled by it to discover tlie buoys
... , several miles off, and could see his way
names of General Hancock for President, clear. Captain Vogel states
and General Gordon for Vice President, that wLen 0l r Martin’s Industry lightship
as its choice for 1880. [ be saw pilot boats five miles away, and
The orange trees are in bloom in Quit- ! could very easily decipher the numbers
° I nn flimn cnila onrt tliot Tim lifrlir u’qo CA
Commission in regard to a “loyl” claim,
which swearing was afterwards described
in the oflicial records as decidedly econom
ical as to the truth.
A TRIP TO ALEXANDRIA.
I decided, one bright afternoon not
BY TELEGRAPH
London, February 20.—The boring of
the St. Gothard tunnel will he finished in
twelve days.
A Berlin dispatch says the Socialist
Deputies, Bebei and Bader, stated in the
Reichstag that German Socialism had no
connection whatever with Russian NiMl-
ism.
Paris, February 20.—The Due D.
Andiffert was received into the French
academy Thursday. The reception was a
brilliant affair. A grand banquet in
honor of General Fairchild, on the eve of
his departure for Spain, was given last
night by the American Colony.
New York, February 20.—Five hun
dred cabinet makers in the employ of H.
Henman, struck yesterday for an increase
of wages.
Detroit, February 20.—The Republi
can State Convention will meet here May
12th.
Cincinnati, February 20.—ABellaire,
OMo, special states that as the 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
tho track, throwingthe coach and baggage
car down the embankment turning both
bottom up. It is rumored that ex-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 United States
Courts, in civil and criminal matters, to
the Indian Territory, and providing for
the acquirement of citizenship by Indians,
and tlie 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,
and 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 fftflipim shorter.than the Pana
ma one, as betweenjfcw York and San
Francisco, audl because o/the greater sul-
ubricty. of its* 1 climate, better supply of
building material,.anjl 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 he
less than four hundred millions. The
latter he regarded as 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 the
annual expense of maintaining it would
be twice as great, but he thought that
these objection were more than offset by
its relative cheapness.
In the House, the Speaker is calling
committees for reports.
The House passed the Senate joint res
olution authorizing the Secretary of the
Navy to designate a vessel of the United
States to cany, free of charge, contribu
tions for the relief of the suffering poor of
Ireland.
The Senate proceeded to consider the
calendar. Besides various private bills,
tlie 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
the Treasury and Postmaster General, of
all mailable articles of dutiable matter
received by mail from foreign countries,
and admissible under tlie rules of the
universal postal union, and authorizes the
Postmaster General to accept aud execute
tlie 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 rerieal the provisions of
tlie revised statutes authorizing tlie 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, Mr. Butler in
troduced a joint resolution providing for
tlie restoration of tlie books of tlie Beau
fort, South Carolina, Library. Referred.
A number of bills for the relief of pri
vate individuals were considered and
passed.
A bill to authorize the completion and
publication of the naval history of the
war, comprising both Union and Confed-
dueing genuine diamonds, which stand all instant, via Lisbon, state that from eicht
the tests that can be applied to them, to ten persons are dying in that city dail-
Professor Maskelyne says: “There is no ; from yellow lever. 3
doubt whatever that Mr. Hannay has at | Ottawa, February 20 The grant nf
last solved the problem which has so long ; $100,000 by the Dominion government for
been the reproach to chemical science, i the Irish relief fund passed the House to.
viz; the problem of crystallizing carbon. | day unanimously.
Iiis process for affecting’ this transforma-
tion is hardly less momentous to the arts
than to the possessors of wealth in jew
elry. It is on the eve of announcement
to the Royal Society. •
St. 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 the weight of the dynamite
used was about four pounds. The Winter
palace and other palaces are being care
fully searched by a company of specially
charged sappers. The total number of
persons killed by the explosion was ten.
The funeral ofthe 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. lu 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-eighth 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:
Fully 10,000 persons witnessed the hang-
Washington, February 21.— 1
House committee on Post-offices and Post
Routes to-day prepared a report to accom.
pany the bill wMch they propose to offer
in the House on Monday, and under j
suspension of the rules endeavor to secure
a two thirds vote 4>r its passage. There,
port will set forth that on December 6^
the attention of Congress was directed to
the fact that a deficiency appropriation of
$2,000,000 would be required to continue
the present expedited schedule of star
routes to the end of the fiscal year, and
that the service would be discontinued or
cut dowu to weekly service upon all
routes if the required appropriation was
refused by Congress. Two montlis and a
half have elapsed and no definite action
has been taken; that the department has
issued a general order cutting down the
service upon all routes to weekly service,
which, under the law, requires one
month’s notice to contractors and in
volves the payment to them by the gov
ernment of one month’s pay, which will
aggregate $600,000, for the investment of
which the government virtually and ac
tually receives no corresponding service.
In view of the above facts and the seri
ous inconvenience resulting to the public,
the committee will urge the passage of a
hill continuing appropriations lor the star
routes upon tlieir present basis of service.
The bill which is being prepared, on care
ful estimation omits any consideration of
three or four routes, which have been the
especial subjects of investigation by a
Special Committee of Appropriations, the
Ing of John Hall and Burrett Smith, near i Committee leaving them to be affected by
Little’s creek to-day, for the murder of | fly, ultimate recommendations of the Ap-
Henry Pugh in 1879. _ . .. propriations Committee bill, which the
Post-office
long ago, to get on the ferry boat that crate vessels, was passed, as were also a
plys between this place and Alexandria' bill authorizing the payment of SI,200 to
for the purpose of visiting the famous old ! Claude II. Masteu, of Mobile, for the rent
1 nf fli« din-ill" tlie war.
j on their sails, and that the light was so
I powerful that he could see seagulls flying, r .
The Quitman Reporter lays tho farm- ■ and thus learned for the first time in his j ferent Alexandria looks from Washington, I ho, Land Register of Alabama.
a Iiqva lrvcfr mmurvl» in an/tilf maof fn • ATfftndpil Oil tllil SCIH ! iuIigihi ararvtliinrr ic livirrlif mm’ fraeli nntl I A bill Jlllthorizinff tllC DAVII
re light was so j Christ church, where George and Martha 1 of the Levert Hospital during the war,
j powerful that he could see seagulls flying, j Washington used to worship. How dif- ; anil a billjfor the relief of Monroe Dono-
about offset the benefit from the rise in
cotton.
Bainhridge wants a town hall and
opera house.
Tiie Decatur county fair will be held
at Bainhridge May 6 and 7.
A party of Perry hunters killed 1,300
robins last Monday.
Corn is being planted in Quitman
county.
Griffin News: Horse Thief,
A negro boy stole a horse 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 horse he swapped for, and
before he got his money he was safe in
the clutches of the law, and is now in
Spalding county jail to await Ms trial,
' From the same: A Terrible
Outrage.—Wa under stand that
man who lives at Brooks Sta
tion, committed an outrage upon his own
daughter on Sunday last. Our informant
says the community is very much en
raged, and when he was in that village
on Tuesday, hardly a citizen could be
found, from the fact that they were all on
the hunt for the criminal, who had made
his escape. We are not in possession of
any of the particulars, and will withhold
the name until we get further informa
tion.
The Stock Market Savannah
News: Central opened yesterday morning
at tlie closing quotations of the day previ
ous, and rapidly advanced, selling on the
first call at 95, and then 951, 951, 90 and
9<H, closing at 90 bid, 96} asked. The
sales for to-day were 1,100 shares, with
more buyers than sellers.
Homicide.—Meriwether 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
the 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 heard in
the premises.
Middle Georgia Argus: Mr. William
Moss, of this county, who has been farm
ing with Hon. S. F. Smith for the last
eight years never owned a horse or a mule
in liis life, but has been working for Mr.
Smith on shares. Mr. Moss has raised a
large family, paid his debts as he went
and now has seven hales of cotton piled
up at home waiting for a high price. That
beats buying mules at high priees and
paying big rents.
Meiiiwether Vindicator: Rev. G. P.
Sutberlin reports the wheat crop as not
birds fly by night. He is thorouelily’ sat- lively, while in the former place there is . seph R. Shannon, of Louisiana, of the
isfied with the light, wMch was'used on an ancient, tumble down, rusty old world value of a steamboat impressed into the
this trip as an experiment, and would not J appearance about everything, aind, over ! service of the government during the war,
now he without one, as hereafter by its all, an almost oppressive sileuce. Stroll- was objected to by Mr. Allison and laid
aid be will be enabled to avoid de- | lug past the Mansion House and sec- aside.
tention on account of the risk of. ing the United States flag floating At the expiration of the morning hour
navigation In these waters on dark 1 from the top reminds me of the the Senate resumed consideration of the
nights, and hence will save trips that I Jackson-Ellsworth tragedy wMch oc- 1 five per cent, and military land warrants
would otherwise be lost. Tlie advantage, 1 curred there in 1801. j hill, and Mr. Bogan spoke in its support,
therefore, to the company of the electric j A frcedlnan standi ng there directed mo
light is too obvious to need comment. th „ old „ hnrrl , in nnt . conlpr ■ Morrill moved that tlie Seneate take up
The cost of running the light steadily is of a snuare surrounffi-d bv a substaiff al and pass House bill admitting free of duty
* feime^wdrich^rougM me^o a standsti'll.as contributions in aid of colored
both gates to it were securely locked,doubt- In Kansas. Ohjec mn was made
less to prevent Yankee relic lmntera from “^r some debate the Senate without
carrying the old church offbodily. Can any v actlon 011 tho biU adjourned until
one explain the solemn veneration and ,'tt -»r_ i?ii!„ „e t
eager desire for a relic of anything in any r™' Vnt
way, the most remotely connected with ; fi? 1 ?
George Washington, a Southern and as ;
great a rebel as ever lived, wliicir seems U if 1
EnS S c« ie LeaftS aUd S0UlS ° f aH N ° W theact ofMarel.^® in^rat-
Englandere. J ing the Texas Pacific Railroad Company.
A crowd of school boys with no rover-. Ordered printed and recommitted,
once for the sacred vicinity, were busily | Tlie Speaker then proceeded to call
engaged just outside the inclosure, in a : Committees for reports on privale bills, a
game of marbles, and one of them ! number of which were reported and dis-
voluteered to bring the sexton, and after I r>osedof.
a lew minutes delay, I lound myself i Tlie House then went into committee
standing before the old square pew, with , 0 f (be whole on revision of the rules. Ya-
its ragged cushions and still more ragged - r ; ous amendments were offered to rules
carpet, which from their appearance i twenty-three and twenty-four. But all
might he tlie identical ones on which | were voted down and the committee rose
Georg® end Martha sat and knelt nearly i without making any changes.
estimated at three cents per hour, and the
machine is easily and readily operated af
ter its workings are once explained.
The motive power is suj plied by a donkey
engine boiler, connected with uie electric
battery, and has all the forco requisite.
With one of these lights any of the
steamsMps could safely come up to the
wharves tlie darkest nights with as little
trouble or danger as in the day. It is not
improbable that the introduction of the
electric light in this section by the St.
Johns will result in its general use by
steamsMps and steamers.
The steamer left on her trip to Florida
at midnight with a large accession to her
passenger and freight lists.
Be sure and call for Dr. Ball’s Cough
Syrup, it you are troubled with a bad
cough or cold. It will give relief. For
sold by every respectable druggist. Price
25 cents per bottle.
a hundred years ago.
I was informed that all the pews in the
Baroness Coutts’ CoNiLtBUTiON.-It church were originally square, but none
now turns out that the rumor said to liavo are so now except the one mentioned, and
been circulating in the lobby of the Brit
ish House of Commons to the effect that
Baroness Burdett-Coutts contemplated
giving half a million of pounds sterling as
a fund for the permanent relief of Irish
distress had no foundation in fact. Ever
since she became the sole possessor,
through the Ducliess of St. Albans—the
widow of old “Tom” Coutts, and in ear
lier life the jolly Miss Mellon, of theatri
cal memory—of the great Coutts estate,
Baroness Coutts lias spent her life in
almsgiving and in the promotion of under
takings for the relief of tlie poor. She
has also been a large contributor to the
Palestine exploration fund.
From her great wealth it was not at all
impossible for her to have given half a
million of money to Irish relief; hut it is
now stated, upon what appears to he good
authority, that the extent of her contribu
tion is .£700, ($3,500), of which £200 are
to he distributed in the distressed dis
tricts, aud £500 toward making a harbor
on the west coast of Sligo. We may add
here, as a farther explanation of how she
became endowed with such immenso
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 banker.
that formerly occupied by General Lee’s
family, which is- across the aisle almost
opposite. A new organ has been recently
ut into the church, and to make room
Mr. King, of Louisiana, introduced a
bill dividing the State, of Louisiana into
two judicial districts. Referred.
The House then adjourned until Mon
day.
Washington, February 20.—Tlie Sen
ate in executive session to-day confirmed
the nomination of John S. Reed to be
:or it. some of the* original timber in the; postmaster at Huntsville, and rejected the
roof liad to be removed, and it lias been
utilized by making it rip into canes, cups,
etc., wMcli fiuda ready sale to numerous
visitors. But the churchyard, with its
old, sunken gravestones, was even more
interesting to me than the church. Some
of the inscriptions struck me as very pe
culiar, and altogether different from those
of latter days. I have forgotten the exact
dates of Mrs. Elizabeth Davis’ birth and
death, but the inscription impresses it
upon one that “she was related to several
of the most respectable families in Md. &
Va.” The inscription on Bethanath Mo-
Can’s tombstone tells us that he was
“bom Nov. 25th, 1795, at 2 o’clock, A. M.
& departed this life Aug. 15tli, 1798, at 11
o’clock, P. M.” So you see, as far back
as 1795, babies liad a way of coming at
the most unseasonable hours. The-two
nomination of Edward T. Parker to be
supervisor of consus for the first district of
Louisiana.
Tlie sub-committee of the House Ways
and Means Committee to-day heard ar
guments by Representative Joe Johnston
and Mr. Burr, of Richmond, in favor of
tlie bill amending the revised statues rel
ative to tobacco export bonds. They will
probably report it favorably to the full
committee soon.
New York, February 20.—A telegram
from Bellaire, OMo, says the train on the
Bellaire and Southwestern railroad, wMle
approaching Woodfield, OMo, about half
past five o’clock yesterday afternoon, fell
tlirough the trestle work near Jacobsburg.
Two passenger coaches and a cook car fell
about eighteen feet. A. S. Wylie, fire-
mau, who lives near Burris’ mills, Ohio,
thought of sending on the funds, but first I looking so well as itshould in the Luther-
wrote to a prominent merchant of Atlanta 1 ville district with the past warm winter,
to investigate the matter for them. The ! He represents tlie people ofthe district as
reply received states that the “watch man” I cneigetically pushing ahead with their
Is a fraud and advises tlie persons not to fanning operations and preparing for a
send him any money. The merchant al- j large cotton crop. Guano is being bought
Iuded to stated that the selling man was on an extensive scale,
always out when he called at his place of I Cotton Still Pours In.—Oglethorpe
business, and that the finn seemed to pre- ! Echo: Every day this week we have no- J thus starting in life tho iitr-v couple. The „ , ~ . -j
fer sending by mail rather than selling di- ' ticed wagon loads of cotton passing our mother, a large woman, about a foot tal-lpiiglit at the house of a married friend an«T
rect to customers. I office. There is more behind and the. ler than the doc to., p'.aoing lier
Isaac Pierce, who was buried there in
1771, and George Mutnford, of New Lon
don Colony, Connecticut, who was hurled
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
It was Time to Go.—Dr. George C. left out, hut the stone-cutter, in the most
Lorimer, of Chicago, while pastor in a matter of fact way, inserted it above and
Southern State was called to perform a j cut the little carat down below. There
marriage ceremony in a poor white settle- were many others equally as unusual as
ment. After the knot was tied the mother - those mentioned, but I have forgotten
of tlie bride placed before tlie guests re- them. A. W. B.
freshment in. the form of rye whisky. Dr.
Lorimer, by virtue of Ms office as a Chris
tian minister, renioi,otra':Cd with her for
oldest graves in the yard are those of was seriously, if not fatally Injured. Ex-
aeed eight years, daughter of Anderson farmers are splitting their sides ’ with 1 yer kim yerc I
Adderson, who resides seven miles west of greenbacks and the musical jingle of sil- you’ve married this
A Cross Baby.
Nothing is so conducive to a man’s re
maining a bachelor as stopping for one
arms being kept awake for five or six hours by
tho crying of a cross. baby. All cross and
crying babies need only Hop Bitteis to
make them well and smiling. Yonrfg ( — „ ,
tie co:;p!e, now git.” ■ man, remember this.—Traveler. fb!8-2w * has at last succeeded in artificially pro-
Congressman Danford, of OMo, sustained
painful, but not dangerous wounds. Sev
eral other passengers were more or less
iqjured. Tho wounded are being kindly
cared for by residents near the scene of
the accide it, and all, with the exception
of Wylie, are likely to recover soon. The
accident resulted from tlie breaking of the
truck fastening.
Cincinnati, February 20.—Advices
from the scene of the railroad accident
near Bellaire, Ohio, are meagre, as there
is no telegraphic line to the spot. It is re
ported that ex-Congressman Danford,
Mrs. Caldwell and Mr. Bowmer. are fatal
ly hurt, and at least ten or twelve others
seriously injured.
London, February.20.—Professor Mas
kelyne, ofthe mineral department of the
British Museum, writes to the Times that
J/Ballautynb Hannay; of Glasgow,^ Fel
low of the Chemical Society ol’ LOndSrl,
The scaffold was erected within 300
yards of the public square, and raised
seats had been erected facing it, sittings
upop which were sold at a dollar ap’ece.
Hall died without a struggle, but Smith’s
death was painfully prolonged.
Washington, February 20.—Post
master General Key has issued an order
to-day reducing the service on all star
routes to one trip per week, allowing one
month’s extra pay in the service dispensed
with. If this reduction be found insuf
ficient to keep expenditures within the ap
propriations, the service placed on all new
routes since aud including July, 1870, will
he entirely discontinued. The last named
routes were established by tlie post 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 Aftairs, 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 30,500 pounds have
been expended. The Committee says it
trusts there will he no diminution ofsub-
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 tlie Agricultural Hall Mon
day morning last, the contestants had
made the following scores at twelve
o’clock last night: Blower Brown 405
miles, Ilazael 350, and Day 313. The dis
tance covered by Brown for mnety-five
hours ending at midnight, beats all pre-
, vious records.
New York, February 20.—A London
special says the Parisian Journal La
France, publishes tlie following concern
ing the attempt on the Czar’s life. It
comes from its Saint Petersburg corres
pondent and is dated February nineteenth:
The conspirators used dynamite. This
substance can only have been placed in
the vaults with the complicity of persons
employed in the subordinate capacities at
the Winter palace. The train was fired
at the hour appointed, with the aid of
electric wires, which were cut after tlie
explosion, and were ff und in fragments
at some distance from the dining room.
Several officials are under surveillance.
Many arrests have been made, hut the
police are not yet on the track of the as
sassins. JThe Emperor is said to be much
affected, and rumors of his abdication on
March second are again passing from
month to mouth.
•JJLondon, February 20.—In the house of
Lords to-night, the Duke of Argyle moved
for the correspondence found at Cabul be
tween Sliere Ali and 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 tlie close of the session of Ger
man Reichstag. In the Reichstag to-day,
Herr Ackerman, Conssrvative.was elected
to the second Vice-Presidency, wMch was
refused by Herr Hoelder.
London, February 20.—In the House
of Commons to-day, Mr. Plimsol read an
apology for the language used in Ms hand
bill with reference to two other members
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 hoard
the British gunboat Goshawk, wMch 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 the inhabitants, but acute
distress confronts me on every side. The
relief measures of the Dublin and local
committees are, however, sufficient to
meet the emergency.”
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 he constmed
as a British surrender, and destroy Eng
land’s prestige in Asia.
St. Petersburg, Fcbruaay 20.—The
Agence Russe confirms the statement that
negotiations ate pending between Eng
land and Persia relative to the occupation
of Herat.
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 ex-
Congressman Danford, A. P. Wiley, Mrs.
A. B. Caldwell, Henry Wendell and Wm.
Tt-igg. Those reported severely but not
fata!iy injured, are Mr. Bereman, of Par
kersburg, West Virginia, Mr. and Mrs.
Bowman, Mr. Pendle, Conductor Burk-
head, tlie mail agent, both express mes
sengers, Mr. Hayden, and others whoso
names are not given. There were up
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 of!.
Atlantic, Iowa, Februaty 20.—Gil
man & Co.’s grain elevator and adjoining
crib was destroyed by fire yesterday, with
120,000 bushels of com.
New York, Februaty 20.—Dr. Benja
min Brandretli, of Brandreth pills notorie
ty, died suddeny at Ms 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 been burned. Loss estimated
at £50,000.
Cincinnati, O n February 20.—A tele-
grain from Piedmont, West Virginia, re
ports that a strike of all the mining opera
tives in that vicinity, for higher wages,
'Wiil probably he made-Monday.
Advices from Rio Janeiro to the 3d
Committee will endeavor
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 in
the accident near Jacobsburg Station,
died yesterday. Hon. Lorenzo Danford’s
condition is considered critical. A man
named Jones, while working at the scene
ofthe disaster, fell from the trestle and re
ceived fatal injuries.
Augusta, Me., February 21.—The
Greenbackers in the Legislature held a
caucus last evening and nominated dele
gates at large to the National Convention
to meet at CMcago. A committee was
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 York, February 21.—At the pri
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 Tote for Grant,
and twenty-one favor Grant, two opposed
to Grant, two opposed to third term, only
one publicly favors Conkling, fifteen are
uuiustructed; 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 Russia forthe
extradition^oT Hartmann has been referred
by Premier Freycinct to the Minister of
Justice. It is stated some of the reaction
ary deputies applied forthe man’s release,
but were told that if it appeared that he
was coimected with the Moscow attempt
the govemment would surrender him to
the Russian authorities.
Paris, February 21.—The Temps pub
lishes a letter from St. Petersburg which
says: “News from the interior of the em
pire is heartrending. Fauiine aud 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 tlie Caucassus the famine is still great
er, where the people are committing sui
cide and selling their cMldren.
New York, February 21.—a London
special gives tlie following from the Stand
ard’s Berlin conr oondence: Lately the
Czar has hardly r left the Winter pal
ace. When he WbA abroad he was sur
rounded by a cloud of mounted officers
who concealed the carriage, and protected
tlie inmate with their bodies. In the pal
ace he was accessible only to diplomatists,
dignitaries and officers of the household.
At the Chapel, detectives occupied the
seats that ware formerly reserved for dis
tinguished visitors, and detectives infested
tlie kitchen.
Ever}* dish was tasted by persons of
rank, specially selected for the purpose.
The Emperor did not even venture to open
his letters, documents steeped in poison
having repeatedly been sent to him. Yet
with all these elaborate precautions it oc
curred to nobody to search for tlie an
nounced, advertised and placarded mine
in the basement. The Emperor and the
Duchess of Edinburgh were seated in the
apartment* next to the dining-room, when
they heard the report of the explosion.
The lights were extinguished and the gas
pipes burst. The Princess, officers and
valets went blindly through the dark, and
then poured promiscuously through the
door of the royal apartments. The sov
ereign was lound grouping his way out of
the fatal quarter. AH who saw the sight,
the picture of Alexander H. leading his
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, tlie Czar has daily received sealed
letters containing a few words of menace
and saying that if he did not change his
system of oppression, he would not live to
celebrate the t sventy-fiftli anniversary of
his accession. The sheet was always bor
dered with black. In court circles it was
known as black letter. All efforts to dis
cover the person who conveyed it to the
Emperor’s room were unsuccessful.
Little Rock, Arkansas, February
21.—A destructive fire occurred at Bates-
ville yesterday, originating in Clapp &
Co.’s grocery, which, with Adder’s three
story brick store, J. R. Taylor’s dwelling,
Taylor & Heckersoifand Wycougli’s store
houses, were destroyed. Tlie wall of
Adder’s building fell on the warehouse,
owned by H. C. “Smith, instantly killing
L. Gorsuck and wounding Thomas Jahlin
and E. W. Moretield, the former fatally.
Three others were slightly injured. The
Masons, Odd Fellows aud Knights* f
Honor lost all their furniture aud regalia.
The losses are $70,000, half covered by in
surance.
Vicksburg, Februaty 21.—Thomas J.
Balton, Jr., of Balton’s depot, shot and
killed Leonard M. Clarke and his brother
Douglass Clarke last night. The fight
began between Balton and Douglas
Clarke. Leonard Clarke coming out of
the theatre saw Balton shooting at his
brother, and ran up anil grasped the pistol
iu Balton’s hand. Balton resisted, and
jerking the pistol from Clarke’s grasp shot
him. Neither of the Clarke’s were arm
ed. Balton was captured this morning
near Edwards. The excitement is in
tense.
New York, February 21.—A thanks
giving service lor the preservation of Em
peror Alexander of Russia from the late
attempt on Ms life was held to-day at the
Russian Greek Chapel, 951 Second Ave
nue. Among those in attendance were
his Excellency Nicholas de Shishkin,
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni
potentiary from Russia to the United
States, aud his wife, and Baron and Bar
oness Blanc. The service was of an en
tirely private character, and was conduc
ted by Rev. Father Nicholas Bjarring.
London, February 21.—A Paris dis
patch to the Times says the Archbishop of
Bordeaux, in forwarding five hundred
francs to tho Catholic Archbishop of
Dublin, writes : “France and Ireland are
inseparable, names, recalling a commun
ity of faith and a long-standing exchange
of sympathy.” ,
A dispatch from Rome to the Standard
says: “Strictly .confidential reports res
pecting the nature ofthe agitation in Ire
land have reached the Pope, which sh°w
that three-fourtlis of it are due to a spirit
of Socialism. Very precise instructions,!
the! Irish bishops, therefore, are hein rr that
pared, exhorting them to take^ into
fri relieving distress they dq^' kiug ** for a
■the hands of those who -
political object.”