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FROM WASHINGTON.
Wilson Improving—Removal of Clerks
- Hurly-Burly in the Departments—
Political Gossip.
Washington, November 13.—The
Vice-President’s health is still improv
ing. He received several friends to-day.
Secretary Chandler will recommence
the work of removing officials this
week. Much consternation prevails in
the departments.
The heads of departments are hurry
ing with their annual reports. The
President has not yet commenced the
preparation of his message.
It is officially stated that additional
calls by the Treasury for the redemp
tion of old outstanding bonds will de
pend on the sale of the new bonds
abroad.
Washington, November 14.—Reports
reach here that prominent Republicans
in Virginia are working for a reorgani
zation of their party in that State. A
change in the Richmond postmaster
ship is said to bo contemplated as the
leading incident of the reorganization,
by which the Independents and Repub
licans are to unite. Judge Morton is
spoken of as the successor of Miss Van
Lew, while the ex-Confederaie General
Heth is on the programme for revenue
collector in Richmond. Other changes
are also contemplated. So far, the par
ties in the new movement have acted
privately, being engaged at present only
with preliminary movements.
The number of candidates for the
elective offices in the House of Repre
sentatives, apart from the Speakership,
is constantly increasing. Already the
Democratic members have received
printed circulars from the candidates,
asking for their votes. Private parties
are also importuned for influence in
their behalf. Each candidate has nu
merous friends seeking subordinate ap
pointments to office, and hence there
is much activity in working for their
respective candidates. There are at
least four candidates for Clerk of the
House of Representatives, from the
South, and these have numerous de
pendents.
Resignation and Appointments—Naval
News—Customs Regulations—Treas
ury Statistics—Grant Writing His
Message.
Washington, November 15.—James
Lockey, Deputy Commissioner of Pen
sions, has resigned.
Robert F. Campbell has been ap
pointed Collector of the Third District
of Texas.
Commodore Cooper, commanding the
Pensacola Navy Yard, telegraphs that
all quarantine restrictions have been
removed at that place.
Collectors of customs will be ordered
to reduce their forces to curtail ex
penses. The appropriation of collec
tion of customs is deficient $600,000.
The President has commenced the
preparation of his message, and will
receive no visitors until it is completed
The Treasury has called $12,750,000
bonds of ’64, and $5,000,000 of 1864
and 1865. May and November interest
ceases 15th February. This closes the
refunding for the $500,000,000 five per
cents.
The Post Office Department esti
mates are $77,415 in excess of last
year’s appropriations. Expenditures
last year for transporting mails were,
to eight huudred and seventy-one rail
road routes, $9,250,000; eighty-nine
steamboat routes, $800,000; seven
thousand three hundred and twenty
t hree other routes, designated as “star
routes,” aggregating 192,000 miles
length, $5,275,000, Total cost of in
land transportation, this year, esti
mated at $16,500,000.
The Commissioner of Internal Reve
nue, iu his report ou savings banks or
provident institutions, where deposits
under $2,000 by one person, are exempt
from taxation, suggests that the
amount exempted be reduced to SSOO.
Supreme Court Decisions.
In the Supreme Court, the case of
Henry Brenner and H. S. Moore vs. Le
roy P. Walker and others, from the
Northern District of Alabama came up.
The decree below was sustained, with
the costs.
The opinion on the appeal from
Judge Bradley’s decision in the Grant
Parish cases was not completed. It
was found difficult to frame an opinion
which will command the sanction of a
majority of the justices in all its points.
The question of importing Chinese
women for immoral purposes was set
for January 11th.
The Baltimore &, Ohio Railroad.
Baltimore, November 15. —John W.
Garrett submitted the annual report.
The total revenues of the road, includ
ing the main stem and western divi
sions, for the fiscal year ending Sep
tember 30th, are $14,426,552, showing a
and i crease as compared with 1874, $500,-
090; compared with 1873, a decrease of
$1,250,000; compared with 1872, an in
crease of over $750,000; compared with
1871, an increase of nearly $2,000,000;
compared with 1870, an increase of
$3,500,000. Net earnings, $4,500,000.
Entire mortgage indebtedness in cur
rency and sterling, $28,750,000. The
surplus fund exceeds the mortgage in
debtedness over $5,350,000. The re
port shows a steady increase of
through tonnage East and West. The
passenger earnings show an increase of
SIOO,OOO, notwithstanding the railroad
conflict.
The report says; “In view of the
protracted and extraordinary inactivity
of every branch of business aud the
universal depression of manufacturing
industries of the country, these results
will be regarded with satisfaction.
When it is further considered iu combi
nation with the united and prolonged
attacks of the great trunk lines upon
the business and interests of the Balti
more and Ohio Company, daring which
time, rates entirely unremuuerative
were established for the transportation
of freight, particularly between the
seaboard and Western cities, the results
are not only satisfactory but gratify
ing.” _
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Sentence of Counterfeiters—Perils of
the Chain-Gang.
Providence, JR. 1., November 15.
In tiie United States Circuit Court,
Geo. E. Butterworth and Maria J. But
terworth, indicted for passing counter
feit United States currency, George
plead guilty and was sentenced to five
years in the State prison. The indict
ment against Maria was nolle pros.
Richmond, Va., November 15.— Henry
Odwier, one of the officers in charge of
the chain-gang, in attempting to arrest
an escaped negro, was assaulted by
him with a shoemaker’s knife, receiv
ing twelve cuts about the head, neck
and upper part of the body. Some of
the wounds are serious, and may result
fatally. The negro was subsequently
arrested.
E. E. Mason, of Pickens county, for
merly of Atlanta, is engaged in building
a mill on Paaolette river for Rev. T. J.
Parle.
Wtft Augusta Cousiiiutiounhst
Established 1799.
KING COTTON.
REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT
OF AGRICULTURE.
Comparison With Last Year—How the
States Stand.
The official cotton crop report for
November makes a direct comparison
of the product of the year with that of
1874. As former reports of the condi
tion have indicated the States border
ing on the Atlantic, all show a reduced
product, and those in the Mississippi
Valley an increased yield. Prior to
November 1, killing frosts had ap
peared in the more northern States of
the cotton belt, in some counties of
Northern Georgia and in the district
north of the Tennessee river iu Ala
bama. Elsewhere the cotton plant was
uninjured and generally in vigorous
growth on the best lands. In one
parish in Louisiana —Claiborne —it is
claimed that a week’s continuance of
fine weather would increase the local
yield several hundred bales. There is
much inequality in the progress of
picking. In some counties of Georgia
and Alabama the harvest is nearly
over. In Mississippi the work
has been delayed L>y the political
difficulties and by sickness. In Wash
ington county two-thirds of the crop
was ungathered, and it was feared that
Christmas would find one-fourth still
in the fields. Fine weather has been
the rule, with a few exceptions; but iu
Louisiana much fibre has been lost of
stained by storms. Tbe effect of the
great September storm in southern
Texas proves less disastrous than was
at first represented. The amount of
lint in comparison with the weight of
seed cotton is quite variable, ranging
from twenty-five to thirty-three per
cent., but, so far as reported, appears
to be less than in 1874. The State
per eentfiges representing the aggre
gate quantity as compared with last
year, are as "follows : North Carolina,
91; South Carolina, 76; Georgia, 74 ;
Florida, 60 ; Alabama, 102 ; Mississippi,
111; Louisiana, 100 ; Texas, 114 ; Ar
kansas, i:35 ; Tennessee, 119. The crop
of Arkansas is a good one, but the fig
ures are increased more by the fact of
last year’s poor yield than by the ex
cess of this year’s crop. These figures
point to a small advance upon last
year’s aggregate, if November and De
cember should be favorable to the
opening and picking of the top crop.
JOSEPH GUIBORD.
Another Funeral to Occur- —Tlie
Troops Ordered Out —A Fight Antic
ipated.
Montreal, November 15.— T0-day,
Mr. Doutre went to the proprietors of
the evening papers and obtained a
promise from them, not to publish any
thing to-day relating to the prepara
tion for Guibord’s funeral, which takes
place to-morrow at noon. Mr. Doutre
fears it the preparations are published
beforehand, rioters will take steps to
harass the procession and cause blood
shed. Mr. Doutre, this forenoon, for
mally entered a writ of the Supreme
Court calling on any one of the judges
of the Superior Court to issue an order
for the funeral. It has been decided
not to use the sarcophagus. The
body will be buried in a wooden coffin
alone. The Commissioner of the
Dominion Police has ordered out the
military, numbering nine huudred and
sixty-five men. All of this force will
be requ red as some five thousand
people are expected in the cemetery
and though the troops have received
orders to keep all persons out of the
grounds who have no business inside,
the order can only be a dead letter. All
the members of the Institute Canadien
will go up heavily armed. The feeling
of the people is anxious and uneasy.
No notice was taken of the matter
in any of the Roman Catholic Churches
yesterday.
MEXICAN OUTRAGES.
Americans Robbed and Murdered by
Banditti —Dost Offices Burned —Mail
Carriers and Inspectors of Customs
Murdered—Will the General Gov
ernment Protect Its Citizens?
Brownsville, Texas, November 15.
The Federal grand jury, in their re
port, say : “ That from Brownsville to
the Pecos river, a distance of six hund
red miles iu length and one hundred in
width, to the Neuces river, all the
American rancheros have been ordered
to leave their homes by Mexican raid
ers, on pain of death ; and that one
hundred thousand head of stolen
cattle are driven to Mexico an
uQually by Mexican marauders.—
Numbers of Federal officials have
been assassinated, post offices burned,
custom houses robbed, mail carriers
aud inspectors of customs killed while
in the discharge of their duties, and
the perpetrators of these crimes have
gone unpunished, aud general inse
curity of life and property prevails on
the border. The jury found eighty
indictments, and urge decisive actiou
on the part of the State aud General
Governments to punish criminals and
protect the inhabitants against the
Mexican banditti.
STORMS.
Squally Weather East and West.
Heavy snow storms prevailed at
Plattsburg, Whitehall aud other points
in Pennsylvania yesterday, and fears
are felt of an early close of navigation.
Omaha, November 15. — An extraordi
nary storm is reported along the line
of the Union Pacific Railroad, west of
the Green river, last night. Sleet fell
in such quantities that the telegraph
wires are reported as large around as a
man’s wrist. Snow to the depth of one
foot had fallen at Bitter Creek, and was
still falling at ten o’clock this morning.
The storm is moving east. Telegraph
communication west of Green river was
broken all day to-day. There is no
storm east of Lamarie City, and trains
are running on time.
Omaha, Neb., November 13.— Tho
storm reported yesterday, struck Chey
enne last night, leaving five inches of
snow and passed east, reaching here at
two o’clock p. in. to-day. Snow has
fallen over the entire lino'from Omaha
to Ogden a depth of from two to twelve
inches. The weather in every place
throughout this region is reported ex
tremely cold.
FROM NEW YORK,
Investigation of the Waco Disaster.
New York, November 15. — An inves
tigation of the Waco’s cargo shows she
had neither petroleum nor kerosene
aboard, but had 300 cans of refined pe
troleum stowed ou the upper deck,
part aft and part forward, and distant
100 feet from any fire. No other in
flammable freight was aboard.
AUGUSTA, GA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1875.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
Sentence of Assassins—The Eastern
Question Again—. Spanish News-
Flood and Shipwreck.
Rome, November 14.—Luciaui, Frezzi,
Arnati, Zarint and Marelli, who were
on trial, charged with complicity in the
murder of Rafaele Sonzogno, editor of
La Capitate, have been convicted and
sentenced to penal servitude for life,
Scarpetti, who was also tried for the
same charge, was acquitted.
Vienna, November 14. —Herzegovina
will soon send a deputation to present
a petition to Vienna, Berlin and St.
Petersburg, embodying their wishes.
St. Petersburg, November 14.—A1l
the troops in Southern Russia are said
to be in readiness for active service.
Berlin, November 15.—1 tis emphat
ically denied that the movements of
Russian troops are connected with
warlike preparations.
Madrid, November 15.—The Carlists,
attempting to prevent Quesada from
fortifying in the District of Rioja, met
with a reputed heavy loss.
Halifax, November 15.—The ship
Calcutta, from Quebec for Liverpool,
was lost ou Gross Isle, with twenty
two of the crew and a lady passenger.
The captain, three men and a boy were
saved.
London, November 15. —The river
Folka, near Dublin, burst its banks,
submerging thousands of acres.
Spain's Reply to the l nited States —
English Sporting News—Railway
Accident —Refusal to Pray for the
French Republic.
Madrid, November 15.—The Corre
spondencia states the reply of Spain to
tbe recent note of the United State in
regard to the treaty of 1795 will defend
the rights of Spain with energy but
moderation. It will express a hope
that in her desire to maintain good re
lations between the two countries Spain
will meet with reciprocity.
London, November 15. — Joseph H.
Sadler, of London, beat R. W. Boyd, of
Gateshead, for £2OO and the champion
ship of the Thames. Sadler announced
that he will never go into training
again.
Stockholm, November 15. —In a rail
way collision between Liuko Eping and
Lionkeberg, six persons were killea
and twelve hurt.
Paris, November 15. — The Lonnie
arrived at Rochefort and all the sailors
were arrested.
The Proyres du Nurd states, that the
clergy of Rouboix refused to chant the
prayer beginning with the words
“Domine fac salvam Rempublicam,'’ on
the 7th, as requested in the circular of
the Minister of Public Worship.
FROM LOUISVILLE.
Sentence of Ku-Klux Prisoners.
Louisville, November 15 —The Ku-
Klux prisoners, Smoot and Olan, who
have been on trial here, haviug been
found guiity, were sentenced respect
ively to five and three years imprison
ment. Meffert, who was convicted with
them, Is not yet sentenced. The jury
have recommended leniency in his case.
Counsel for defense asked that tlie
Court allow the prisoners to be sent to
some other penitentiary outside of Ken
tucky, for various personal reasons af
fecting the family and relatives of the
sentenced parties. The Court, however,
saitl it knew nothing of these reasons,
and could not send them to any other
prison.
FROM CHARLESTON.
South Cai*olina Bonds—Official State
ment.
Charleston, November 15.—Informa
tion having reached Columbia that a
report prevails in New York that the
new consolidated bonds of South Car
olina, which were issued in exchange
for coupons alleged to have been fraud
ulently outstanding, would be repudi
ated by the State, tlie Governor and
Comptroller General and State Treas
urer authorize the contradiction of the
report, and express the belief that no
such purpose is anywhere entertained,
or can be legally accomplished even if
desired.
Miuor Telegrams.
Philadelphia, November 15. — A large
number of business men, embracing
delegations from all branches and Ex
changes, arrived on a special train from
New York and spent several hours ex
amining the Centennial buildiugs.
Atlantic City, November 15.—A
schooner ran on the bar at two o’clock.
A life saving crew had gone to her as
sistance.
Philadelphia, Pa., November 15. —In
tlie United States Circuit Court, in the
suit of the Peuusylvania Sait Company
vs. Cupples et at., Judge McKennan has
ordered an injunction restraining a
sale, by defendants, of Manhattan
patented lye put up under Sterns’
patent.
FROM ST. LOUIS.
The Whiskey Fraud Trials.
St. Louis, November 15. —The trial of
McKee and Maguire is set for Decem
ber 15th. Y r oorhees defends them.
Avery will be tried Wednesday. But
ler defends him. Thirteen distillers
and rectifiers, seven gaugers and store
keepers have plead guilty.
Mr. Dix, who used to be Governor of
New York, is laid up witli a sore heel,
and only a horse with the epizootic
knows how to pity him.
Hair-dye is no respector of persons.
Tho use of it killed a Baltimore million
aire the other day while he was trying
to catch a second wife.
Emily Faithful, in speaking of pois
onous calicoes, says : “Wo had better
give a wide berth to violet ground and
white figures, or a brownish-yellow
pattern.”
Don Pedro, of Brazil, will bring two
hundred thousand dollars’ worth of
diamonds when he c nnes to visit this
country. He is going to give them
away to young men who part their
hair in the centre.
During the earthquake In Memphis,
on the 27th, a woman ran up to a police
officer on the street, and pleaded guilty
to having stolen four yards of ribbons.
After the excitement had passed she
denied it.
The frogs are going down into nine
feet of water this Fall, and are lining
tlxeir nests with cotton-batting and lay
ing in twice the usual amount of coal.
You can look out for a winter which
will bend shade trees double and freeze
the life out of hitchiug-posts.
An Osceola (Pa.) woman went out to
hunt her drunken husbaud, and found
him lying in the gutter. She gave him
' several raps with a piece of board be
fore she discovered that she was “cor
recting” another woman’s husband.
She takes no pleasure In having the
subject mentioned now.
A BOY’S BRUTAL MASTER.
RESCUE OF A LITTLE ACROBAT.
The Manager of “Prince Leo” at Tivo
li Garden Arrested—Mr. Bergh’s
Humane Work—A Stage Perform
ance Interrupted—A n Account of the
Cruelties Practiced on the Boy.
INew York 1 itues.J
The people who have had occasion,
recently, to pass the entrance of the
Tivoli German Gardens iu Eighth
street, near the Bowery, have doubtless
been attracted by a poster, proclaiming
exhibitions within by ‘ Prince Leo, the
wee acrobat.” They who have entered
the gardens and pass :d through the
saloon to the theatre in the rear have
seen “ Prince Leo ” in the person of a
very small, delicate boy, who has been
performing wonderful tight-rope acts
to the mingled astonishment and indig
nation of the audience. “ Prince Leo ”
performed at the Tivoli for the last
time Saturday night, when he was res
cued from the cruelties of his situation
by officers under the direction of the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children.
The attention of the officers of the
society was directed to this case by
complaints of several persons who had
witnessed the acrobatic performances,
and more particularly by the com
plaints of employees of the theatre,
who alleged that Walter Leonard, the
man having charge of Prince Leo, was
habitually cruel and abusive. Tlie com
plaints led to an investigation, which
occurred last Friday night, when Su
perintendent Jenkins and Superintend
ent Hartfleld, of the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children, were
of the audience at tho Tivoli. Prince
Leo was introduced at about 9 o’cloek
in the evening, and put through his
acts by the man Leonard. The first
performance was on the horizontal
tight rope stretched across the stage
upon cross-trees. The officers say that
the boy trembled from head to feet as
he was compelled, taking a heavy bal
ancing pole of gas pipe in his hands,
to walk forward and backward on the
rope, and go through other perform
ances common with tight-rope walkers.
This trembling was visibly increased
when lie was brought forward to be
blindfolded. His muscles twitched spas
modically, and his countenance v/as ex
pressive of the utmost terror. But Leon
ard was ruthless, and binding a hand
kerchief tightly over the little fellow’s
eyes he again lifted him to the rope
and sent him off on his perilous trip
across the stage. The worst part, how
ever, came in the second act, when a
small rope was stretched from ceiling
to the floor, a distance of about sixty
feet, at an angle not Jess than forty
five degrees. Up this steep incline,
grasping the line with his toes and
holding in his hand the balancing pole,
the child laboriously aud painfully
crawled. There was no stnile on his
face such as boys are apt to wear when
they are doing that which is to win
them admiration and applause. His
face depicted the intenacst fear. Reach
ing the top of the rope, he stretched
his right foot backward, grasping the
rope between his first and second toes.
A second later he was sliding with
frightful velocity down the steep de
scent, bringing up with a rush in the
arms of Leonard. There was no net
ting to catch him iu case of a fall, and
the only arrangement looking toward
safety had much better have beeu dis
pensed with. Only a brute of a man
could bring himself to make use of it.
It consisted of a fine cord, not so large
as an ordinary clothes line, one end of
which was tied tight about the boy’s
abdomen. The other end, after pass
ing through a block above, was care
lessly held by Leonard. The slack of
this cord was at least six feet, so that
if the child had fallen either while as
cending or descending, lie must almost
inevitably have beeu cut iu two by the
sudden jerk.
This was substantially what Messrs.
Jenkins and Hartfleld saw, and this
they consider was enough to justify
the arrest of Leonard and the rescue of
the boy. Judge Donohue granted two
warrants, the one an injunction de
manding Leonard to show cause why
the child should not be taken from him,
and the other charging Leonard with
assault and battery on Prince Leo. The
arrest occurred on Saturday night, and
was conducted by Superintendents Jen
kins and Hartfleld, assisted by officers
in the command of the latter. The
performance was about half through
when the officers, who had been sitting
in the audience, leaped upon the stage
and seized Leonard and the child. The
sudden raid created some consternation
among the company of actors and act
resses behind the scenes, and also
among the people who witnessed it
from the auditorium. But when the
surprise had slightly subsided and the
cause of the disturbance became known,
there was a round of hearty applause
and cheers. Leonard, accompanied by
the boy, the officers and Mr. Bergh, was
at once taken to the residence of
Judge Donohue, in Sixty-sixth street.
The Judge, after an examination
ordered Leonard to give his own bond
for S3OO to be present for the trial of
the cause in the Supreme Court Cham
bers, this morning, at 10:30 o’clock. The
boy was given in charge of the Sheriff,
with orders that he be produced at the
trial. The society will produce at the
trial a number of witnesses, who will
show conclusively that Leonard is not
a fit person to take charge of the child;
that he has repeatedly beaten the boy
and kicked him a* rehearsals, and that
his conduct towards him is uniformly
brutal. Medical testimony will also bo
introduced if necessary, to show that
the boy has already received perma
nent injury to the muscles of his abdo
men and spine from the severe strains
to which he had been subjected. The
officers of the society have no doubt
that the boy will be given up to them,
in which case they will put him into
some good homo. The boy was taken
from a Home in Philadelphia by Leon
ard, who represented to the managers
that himself and wife wanted to adopt
him, to bring him up with every possi
ble confort. Leo—for that is the name by
which the boy is known—is seven years
old, of under size, and puny physique.
His limbs are very small, and his every
motioD, except when under the eye of
his master, is characteristic of weari
ness. His face is remarkably sweet
and interesting, and he is a very intel
ligent boy. He has never been to
school, and has not yet mastered the
alphabet. His recollection of bis early
life is slight and confused. He says
that his father was a German, that he
drank to excess, and that he abused
him when drunk. His mother must
have been a rag-picker, for Leo says
that he remembers assisting her some
times in the assorting of her rags.
How long ago it was, and when it was,
he cannot say. Nor had he yesterday
the faintest idea as to the time he had
been with Leonard. He waa asked
whloh he would prefer, rag-picking or
tight-rope walking. “I’d rather pick
rags,” he replied, “for then I shouldn’t
get licked so.” From the testimony of
the employes at the Tivoli, and from
the boy’s meagre story, it appears
that it has only been by means of cruel
beatings that the little boy has been
taught his difficult feats. One of the
ballet girls said yesterday, “It was
only Saturday morning that I saw
Leonard whip little Leo terribly. He
told him to perform anew and very
hard feat. Leo tried to obey, but was
overcome with fear, and fell to the
floor when half way through. Without
stopping to see if the boy was hurt,
Leonard beat him and kicked him. We
girls interfered and tried to stop him,
but he swore at us, and beat the boy
all the worse. The next time Leo tried
the feat he got through all right, and
Leonard told him to take care that he
did not fall again.”
It is doubted if Leonard comes to
court this morning, and Superintendent
Jenkins cares very little whether he
does or not. His main purpose has
been accomplished iu the rescue of the
boy. The case of little Leo is only one
of perhaps a huudred in this city. The
society means to reach all these cases,
and would be glad of information of
any atrocity practiced on children. The
society has, during the short time of
its existence, accomplished a great deal
for the unfortunate children of New
York, and has proved itself quite
worthy the title it assumes of “The
Children’s Friend.”
GLEANINGS.
It is appropriately suggested that
His Royal Highness shoot the poet.
None but cowards habitually color
their beards. The brave die but once.
—[Lowell Courier.
In this dim world of clouding cares
We rarely know, till ’wildered eyes
See wtiite wings less’ning up the skies,
The angels with us unawares.
— [Gtrald, Massey.
“United we stand,” said a belated ine
briate, as he supported himself against
a lamppost; and the lamp-post treated
him'with silent contempt.
Boy, when you slide on the long banis
ter of tlie front hall stairs, and go down
to the bottom so fast that it burns you
clean through your trowsers, that’s fric
tion.
It lias been asserted, and never con
tradicted that no observant boy can
fasten his thoughts on his Creator, who
sits opposite to a cross-eyed woman in
church.
The man who doesn’t read the ad
vertisements In a newspaper Is like the
traveler who passes along a strange
road without consulting the guide
boards.
A circus elephant picked up an aider
man at Benniugton, Vermont, tlie other
day, and shqok SSOO of the city money
out of the 'man’s pockets. Nothing
short of an elephant could have done it.
We are requested not to mention the
name of the man who, in taking out his
handkerchief, drew out of his pocket a
pawn ticket for a derringer, a counter
feit half dollar, aud u policeman’s
whistle.
More cause of complaint against the
Western agents of the Associated Press.
Not a word of tho fact that Wisconsin
grasshoppers tire preparing their Win
ter quarters and have laid in a large
stock of Ulster overcoats.
Now is the time when you see in the
suburbs parties of three or four small
boys on the war path for the matuti
nal chippy—one boy carrying the gun,
and the rest merely going along to
carry the game., you know.
“Was the crowd tumultuous?” In
quired one man of another, who had
just come from a mass meeting. “Too
multuous,” replied the other. “Oh, no
just above multuous enough to com
fortably till the hall.”
An Arkansas man ate a pint of saw
dust a few days ago on a bet. An in
telligent physician, who was called in,
told him that he would have pain in
his lumber region if he stuck to such
board as that.
There isn’t but one pair of lavender
pants in Atlanta, and the young man
who owns them is almost buried under
invitations to open a menagerie, with
himself as the chief curiosity.—[Newt
Orleans Bulletin.
The brave anonymous writers who
are always wanting newspapers to give
people lits, are requested to go out and
give their own fits. Stab in-the-back
writers are not particularly agreeable
sort of people.
A revival is raging tit Amandaville,
Ky., under the management of a local
Talmadge, who says: “ I know lam a
fool, and I glory in it; just such as I
am God sent out to knock the socks
from under the sinners’ heels ! ”
The Prince of Wales will shoot tigers
while in India, and an Indian poetsays
“ He w 11 beautifully shoot
Many a royal tUer brute—
Turning on their back they’ll die,
Shot In the apple of the eye!”
It doesn’t do for a fastidious man to
marry one of those too gushing crea
tures who are utterly untainted by the
conventionalities of society. A Cleve
land man recently consulted a divorce
lawyer because his wife ran into a room
full of company, with a turkey bone in
her mouth.
The true American spirit still lives,
in spite of all that croakers may say to
the contrary. The following interview
took place between two Brooklyn lads
recently: “Lien’ me five cents, Bill; gi’e
it back to you termorrer?” “Can’t do
it, Charley ; Centennial’s cornin’ and
I’ve got to save up.”
Yesterday morning, we regrot to
learn, the colored cook of Col. John
Smith lighted the fire with some non
explosive oil, and the neighborhood
was immediately startled by a report
like that of a park of artillery, etc., etc.
The funeral takes place this afternoon.
—San Antonio Herald, Bth.
The Detroit Free Press refers to
angels in their “azure robes,” and noth
ing in the world but whi'e whiskey
smuggled across the river from Canada
could have ever induced such a flight
of fancy. An angel in a blue shirt
twanging away on a golden harp is in
deed a picture. —Hew Orteans Bulletin.-
A respectable young man who wishes
to win his way in the world by honest
industry, and feels that it is high time
somebody set an example of reducing
prices from their exhorbitant war
standard, advertises himself as an ac
complished astronomer, and offers to
lead young ladles in search of undis
covered asteroids, at $lO a week.
P. T. Barnum advertises all his show
property for sale at auction. If any
one is in need of a hippopotamus or a
few hyenas, now is a good time to buy.
Among the articles of adornment ad
vdrtised we notice, “two red elephant
plumes.” A red elephant without a
plume is incomplete, and if we have a
reader whose red elephant is una
dorned, we would urge him to send in
his bid.
EDWIN FORREST.
An Interesting Conversation with His
Divorced Wife.
The New I'ork correspondent of the
San Francisco Chronicle has lecently
interviewed Mrs. Sinclair, the divorced
wife of Edwin Forrest. Until Mr. For
rest’s death she received $4 000 a year
from him as alimony, and since his
death, though he studiously ignored
her name in his will, her right of dower
In the estate has been admitted by the
courts, and by a compromise with the
executors she received $95,000 iu money
and securities, thus placing her above
want for the remainder of her days.
Mrs. Sinclair resides with her brother
in-law, Henry Sedley, a journalist. The
following is a portion of the interview:
“ You have had, in some respects, a
troubled life, madam,” I remarked.
“ This rest and contentment must be
doubly acceptable to you.”
“ I have had a great deal of trouble
duriug my life,” she replied ; “ much
more than the public at large know
anything of. But that is all passed
now, and I am very happy.”
“ Do you count this the happiest pe
riod in your life ?” I asked.
“No, I do uot,”she replied promptly.
“ The first five years of my married life
was perfect happiness. My husband
was then young, was prosperous, had
few or no annoyances ; his talent was
appreciated and he was devotedly fond
of me. Our relations were unmarred
by any differences, and it seemed as U
we could never be other than happy.
That was the Elysian period of my life.
Since then, however, I have experi
enced my full share of trouble.”
“Will you tell me the story of your
engagement to and marriage witli Mr.
Forrest V”
“It was a very simple and ordinary
courtship. I became acquainted with
Mr. Forrest on the occasion of his first
visit to England. He spent two years
in England and ou the Continent, dur
ing which time our correspondence con
tinued, terminating in our marriage in
1837, on the eve of his return to this
country. His success abroad secured
him a most cordial and flattering recep
tion on his return home, ali of which
tended to keep him in excellent humor
and contributed largely to the great
happiness I enjoyed as his wife.”
“You lived with Mr. Forrest, I think,
twelve years ?”
“Yes; five years of sunshine and hap
piness, and seven of clouds and trou
ble. He returned to England on a
second professional engagement, and
then he encountered rivalry and oppo
sition that provoked and annoyed him.
He gave way to his temper, and from
being an affectionate and considerate
husband became frequently tbe re
verse. He was endowed with a violent
temper; but in his early life and during
the first years of our married career he
controlled this temper perfectly, and
was always amiable and kind. Bur
when he began to meet with profes
sional difficulties, he relaxed the curb
on himself, and displayed bis arrogant
and despotic tendencies at home as
well as abroad. Then arose jealous
ies between us, aud fault-findings,
with criminations and recriminations,
and the storm that troubled us after
seven years’ duration, broke out iu all
its fury.”
“At the end of these seven years of
stor m your separation was by mutual
consent, was it not?”
“Yes; we parted to prevent constant
quarreling. Mr. Forrest took me in a
carriage to tho residence of our mutual
friends, Mr. and Mrs. Parke Goodwin,
and left me there As we were leaving
the house I spoke to him about a por
trait of himself, which he had had
painted for me. He said that belonged
to me, and that I should have it. It
was placed in the carriage, and I carried
it away with me, and have it yet. Yon
der it is now”—indicating the portrait
hanging on the wall. “It was painted
at the time when he was at his best, in
the prime of his life, when he wa3 at
the height of his fame and undisturbed
by rivalry, and at a time, too, when he
was enjoying a little respite from his
professional labors. I consider it the
finest portrait of him that ever was
painted. It has a kindly expression
and an amiability about it that no other
picture I have ever seen of him pos
sesses, and which wholly disappeared
from his countenance later in life. I
love to remember him just as that pic
ture represents him.”
“During this separation he main
tained you, did he not?”
“Yes, he continued to maintain me
until tho beginning of our litigations.”
“That was in 1850,1 believe?”
“. Yes ; our litigation began in 1850,
but it was not until 1852 that I secured
a verdict against him granting me a
full divorce, with $3,000 a year alimo
ny, subsequently raised to $4,000. Dur
ing this period he refused me any sup
port, and when tlie verdict was obtained
he appealed against it, withholding the
alimony, and contesting its payment at
every point and on every legal quibble
through all the courts up to the Court
of Appeals, It was not until 1862, ten
years after the verdict, that I secured
the final and unanimous opinion of the
Court of Appeals in my favor. It is a
great satisfaction to me to recall that
through all tills protracted litigation
there was, at no stage of it, nor in any
court, a single decision adverse to me.
I was successful as well on the minor
Issues raised as on the general and final
result.”
“Then at the end of the twelve years
of legal contest the alimony that had
been withheld was paid to you in
bulk ?”
“Yes, it was all finally paid ; but not
until I had obtained judgment against
Mr. Forrest’s sureties, and fought them
through all the courts, as I had pre
viously fought Mr. Forrest.”
“Did you ever meet Mr. Forrest, or
have any communication with him after
this litigation?”
“I never saw him afterward, and
never communicated with him. In his
will he utterly ignored me, not even
mentioning my name.”
“You put in a claim for dower in his
estate, I believe ?”
“ Yes, and that was decided in my
favor. It is but just to say that his ex
ecutors treated me with the greatest
respect and consideration. Of course
they could not admit any claim without
the aotion of the courts of Philadelphia.
But when the Orphan’s Court of Phila
delphia, which had jurisdiction in the
matter, decided in my favor, they made
no further resistance.”
“ You were not yourself originally
educated for the stage, I believe?”
“Oh, no, I never entertained any idea
of professional life until my separation
from my husband. Pending that sepa
ration, and before I began my suit for
divorce, foreseeing that I might be
thrown upon my own resources, I pre
pared myself for the stage, studying
diligently during those two years. I
made my debut under Mr. Brougham’s
management as ‘Lady Teazle,’ in the
old Lyceum Theatre, in New York.
New Series —Vol. 28, No. 87.
While managing the Metropolitan In
San Francisco I employed the best talent
aud the most eminent stars that oonld
be procured. Mr. Forrest was then fa
mous, and I went so far as to sacrifice
my own feelings and make overtures to
him. of course, through a third party, to
visit California. As an inducement for
him to come I offered to relinquish,
temporarily, my management, promis
ing to absent * myself from the city
while he should be there. But he would
not listen to the proposition. From
San Francisco I went to Australia on a
starring expedition, and thence to Eng
land, where I played a portion of two
seasons at the Haymarket Theatre,
meeting with good success. Then the
condition of my litigations called me
back to New York. An application had
been made to the court for temporary
alimony, which was granted, and my
counsel suggested that it would be bet
ter for me to retire from the stage,
which I did. I have never resumed
the profession.”
“ After your first separation from
your husband, Mrs. Sinclair, were no
efforts made to secure a reconcilia
tion ?”
“Our original separation was a very
business-like affair. We mutually
agreed to live apart in order to avoid
the jars which our incompatibility
seemed to occasion when together. Mr.
Forrest made provision for my separ
ate support, and used frequently to call
upon me, and manifested a good degree
of interest in my welfare ; but a mutual
friend busied himself, ostensibly, in
trying to effect a better relation be
tween us, but really in widening the
breach. To him is largely due all that
subsequently foil nved. Ido not, know
that we should ever have been recon
ciled by his interference ; yet I do not
think we would have been absolutely
estranged and separated without that
meddling.”
Our conversation, from this point,
took a less personal nature, having no
interest to the general reader.
A Destructive Fire.
About half-past 11 o’clock, Saturday
night, the premises in King street, oc
cupied by Messrs. J. R. Read & Cos.,
were discovered to be on fire, and the
alarm was promptly given. The fire
brigade arrived quickly on the scene,
but not in time to prevent a very disas
trous conflagration. The fire was evi
dently the work of an incendiary, who
probably entered the premises from a
gate on Beaufain street, which led to
the rear of the store. It was set under
the staircase which leads to Barnard’s
photograph gallery, on the second floor
of the building, and was evidently well
set, as the flames gained rapid head
way. The building occupied by Messrs.
Read & Cos. was completely gutted by
the flames, while the adjoining build
ing on the south, occupied by Edwards
& Cos., book auctioneers,was but slightly
damaged. The loss iu stock and real es
tate will fall little short of SIOO,OOO, and
was only partially covered by insurance.
The stock of Messrs. J. ft. Read & Cos.
had just been replenished for the fall
trade, and was valued at about $50,000.
It was insured for $40,000 in the fol
lowing agencies: Colburn & Howell.
$5,000; W. B. Heriot, $5,000; E. Sebring
& Cos., $10,000; Hutson Lee, $10,000;
A. 11. Hayden, SIO,OOO. The Are did not
reach the first floor of the building,
but the flue stock of lace and dry goods
was almost completely ruined by the
water with which it was necessary to
deluge the building. The third floor
and the front, room of the second floor
was occupied by Mr. Barnard, the well
known photographer, who lost one of
the finest and most complete stocks of
photographic material in the South.
His studio contained the negatives of
all the places of prominence and in
terest in and around the city, and
those also of probably two-thirds
of the residents of Charleston,
embracing the collection of nearly
twenty years. The stock was valued at
not less than $15,000, and was insured
for $6,000, in the agency of Messrs. E.
Sebring & Cos. It was totally destroyed.
The rear of the second floor of the
building was occupied by Dr. Theodore
F. Chupeiu, the dentist, whose stock,
consisting of valuable surgical instru
ments and furniture, was also com
pletely destroyed. Loss, about $7,000;
Insurance, $4,000. The building be
longed to Mr. E. J. C. Wood, of Aiken,
and had been recently renovated and
repaired. It was valued at about $lO,-
000, and was iusured for SB,OOO - $5,000
in the agency of Messrs. Colburn &
Howell, and $3,000 in that of Mr. Hutson
Lee. The buildiug next south of this
store was occupied only on the first
floor by Messrs. C. B. Edwards & Cos.,
book auctioneers, who had recently
moved in. Their stock was injured by
water. The loss is about SI,OOO, being
fully covered by insurance. The build
ing belongs to the estate of Hart, and
is valued at about SB,OOO. Only the
third story is injured by fire, and the
loss, it is thought, is covered by the
insurauce, $2,000, in the agency of
Messrs. E. Sebring & Cos. It is proba
ble, however, that the entire building
will be renovated and repaired. The
handsome store of Messrs. Carrington,
Thomas & Cos., next north of Read’s
store, escaped injury, as did also the
store occupied by Mr. W. J. Trim, at
the corner of Beaufain and King streets.
—News and Courier, Monday.
The Death or Father Jacquemkt.—
An extract from a Montreal paper con
taining an account of the sudden death
of the Kev. F. X. Jacquemet, whose
apostasy from the Catholic church
caused a little stir in Baltimore last
spring, gives some particulars of his
death, heretofore reported in the Sun.
On the 20th of October he wrote a let
ter to Archbishop Bayley, thanking
him for the charity he had evinced for
him before and after his renunciation,
and making a formal act of recantation
and contrition. On the morning of the
22d he was found dead in his bed. The
coroner’s inquest determined his death
to have been caused by a rupture of
the aorta, the great artery of the sys
tem. He was to have started a few
days after for Texas, where an asylum
had been procured for him with some
Franciscan fathers. —Baltimore San.
Karr.—M. Alphonse Karr, the French
man who is the author of the celebra
ted phrase: “lam in favor of the abo
lition of the punishment of death-let
assassins begin!” has just treated the
question of capital punishment, and
after enumerating the hundreds of sail
ors, miners, workmen who have per
ished in the exercise of their calling,
the numbers of persons who have died
by their own hands or by privations
during the last year, he says only eleven
persons were executed ; “ consequently
the profession of assassin is, of ail
known professions, the least dangerous
and the least unhealthy.”
Christmas is coming, and when the
roll is called that morning every little
child should be able to answer, “Pres
ent.
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GEORGIA GENERAL NEWS.
Columbus has 741 voters registered.
Only seven deaths in Macon last
week.
Mule thieves are lively around At
lanta.
The Macon police have captured a
door-mat fiend.
Atlanta complains some of her negroes
“ have too much jaw. ”
J. A. Beeks, the oldest merchant of
Grriftln, has retired from business.
The Seaport Appeal favors the em -
ployment of official court stenograph
eirs.
Col. George M. Lawton’s house, In
Griffin, was destroyed by fire on Satur
day morning. Insured!
Gainesville sends forth this wail: “Do
send us a minstrel troupe. We are
dying for a hearty laugh.”
The ladies of Columbus are ener
getically at work in raising money for
a monument in memory of the Confed
erate dead.
Up to Friday night, 12th Inst., Co
lumbus had received 20,007 bales,
against 22,791 in 1874, showing a de
crease of 2,964.
Gov. Smith, in the case of Brinkley,
his ordered another board of three
physicians to examine into the ques
tion of his sanity, and report on the
23d inst.
Atlanta is concerned about the capa
pacity of her hose nozzles. Augusta
firemen own the patent for throwing
more water than any other F. D. iu
Georgia.
A reporter of the Constitution “inter
viewed” some of Atlanta’s prominent
citizens about the plans for collecting
taxes, aud an annual collection ap
peared to find most advocates.
In that portion of Lee county border
ing on Mtickalee Greek, northeast of
Starkville, the plantations for miles
have lost t'wenty-five per cent, of their
crops, for the last several years, by the
thieving of the negroes, who carry
their stolen produce to these “dead
falls” and sell it for a mere pittance.
Macon Telegraph: John McDonald
alias John Hasdai, was tried before
Judge Best yesterday on a charge of
carrying concealed weapons. The tes
timony was insufficient to convict.
Fanny Clark was a witness in the case.
She behaved so impertinently during
the examination that the Judge fined
her five dollars for contempt.
Geo. M. Dallas Geams, Andrew Jack
son Geams and James K. Polk Geams,
well known gentlemen of Bartow county,
are t riplets, and were born in Forsyth
county in the year 1845. The oldest
one—of course he is but very little the
oldest—when eighteen years old weigh
ed but 58 pounds, though at present he
pulls the scales down at the number of
160 pounds. Their mother gave birth
to ten children.
Athens Geo r rgian : It is not often that
one sees such a manifestation of religi
ous feeling as has been shown for the
past week in the prayer meetiug rooms
of our city. These meetings, as is well
known, have been regularly carried on
for some time, and this week the arrival
of Mr. Monday, the reformed gambler,
now eminent revivalist, has added new
interest to the exercises.
A reporter of the Atlanta Herald met
a gentleman the other day who bad
just had a long talk with Foster Blod
gett, over in poor Carolina. He thinks
that Blodgett is likely to turn up in
Atlanta on auy of these tine mornings.
We are willing to stand on the asser
tion that Blodgett will be in Georgia in
less than sixty days, either upon his
own accord, or upon a demand from
the Governor. Blodgett says that he
has about concluded not to publish his
book, descriptive of the scenes in the
Bullock regime, as he does not think it
would sell outside of Georgia ; and, be
sides, we think that he can make more
money by not publishing, than he could
by publishing it. He is very much dis
couraged by the political outlook. Ho
says that the Radicals will probably
carry South Carolina, next year, under
press of the Radical canvass, but
thinks this will be the last time the
State will ever go with the Republican
party. We pray that his prophecy may
prove a true one.
A Hawkeye-tem.
I From the Burlington Hawkeye.i
It is a terrible thing to tell, but how
can we help it? Thursday night a
charming young lady who lives out on
North street, being on a lark with sev
eral other charming young ladies, put
on her brother’s clothes and walked
around the block on a wager. That is,
she started to walk around the block,
but at the first corner she met a wild
Irishman very drunk and belligerent.
Frightened nearly out of her wits, she
forgot that she was a man pro tem., so
she gave the tipsy man one of her
sweet smiles to soften his rugged
heart, and tried to go past him.
But the insulted roisterer indignant
ly demanded of the supposed man
whc in thunder he was grinning at, hit
her a dip under the ear that knocked
her half-way across the street, and
when she got up, shrieking and whoop
ing as only a woman could shriek and
whcop under such circumstances, he
pasted her a most ugly one right under
the eye, and she hasn’t got through
seeing stars yet. Neither will she go
to church to day, and neither again
will she take that green patch off her
eye for a week, and neither also will
she play man any more until she learns
better than to be sociable or concilia
tory with a stranger on a great big
nine-story drunk. You can’t always
tell how cross it does make some men
when they fill up.
thiTphcenix.
A Nice Woman Not to Murry.
[From Piatt’s Letter.]
Looking through the triangular glass
that; exists between the compartments,
ve saw the Phoenix sitting on the seat
opposite, coolly smoking a cigarette.
She wore a gray ulster, with a peaked
felt hat, with gloves and boots to match,
and was—well as we eould determine
—about twenty-five years of age. Her
hail' was light chestnut, and seemed to
be abundant. Her eyes, by far the
finest feature, were large, lustrous and
eithei dark gray or hazel, and we could
not determine. Her Roman nose,
in exquisite proportions, had that cold,
delicate outline and thin nostrils that
indicate the bird of prey, be it in Letty
or Vanderbilt. A short upper lip was
in keeping, while the mouth, though
full and fair, confirmed the impression
tiie nose had made. The cheeks and
full jaw were rather heavy, and the
whole face told of a Judith that would
go in on Holofernes with assurances of
distinguished consideration, with a
knife ready to sever her jugular hid in
her bosom or bustle. We would as
soon think of making love to Lady
Macbeth or Vinnie Ream’s Lincoln aq
this female American eagle,