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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.”