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FROM WASHINGTON.
Proceedings of the House —News and
Gossip.
Washington, D. C., January 6. —ln the
House, most or the day’s session was
devoted to busiuesa of the District of
Columbia. The consular and diplo
matic appropriation bill was up in
Committee of the Whole. No action
taken on it.
A bill removing the political disabili
ties of Chas. L. Scott passed.
A cart load of old telegrams were
shipped hence to-day eu route for the
paper mill.
The Secretary or the Treasury for
bids smoking during business hours.
Before the Committee on Privileges
ahd Elections Mr. Bunion, of Martin &
Bunion, testified that his firm issued a
check on the Gth of December for
eight thousand dollars, payable to
Ladd & Bush, Salem, Oregon. Bunion
declined to answer for whom he drew
the check, regarding his business con
fidential. Mr. Kernan said, as a Sena
tor and lawyer, he would advise the
witness to answer. The witness per
sisted in refusing to answer, and the
matter went over. Afterwards Bunion
testified ho had drawn the check for
Mr. T. Pettoa, Secretary of the
National Democratic Committee. The
check was never used. Col. Holi
day, of Virginia, was examined. He
was Centennial Commissioner and
Democratic Elector; did not attend the
Electoral College on account of his iu
eligibility, and the vacancy was filled
according to law.
No action on either side with regard
to the contemptuous telegraphers
The Committee ou Privileges and
Elections has found some bankers, who
are not willing witnesses regarding
eight thousand dollars alleged to have
been sent to Oregon. They are threat
ened with the Bar of the Senate. The
current of feel'ng is toward compelling
the telegraphers to answer fully.
THE ELECTORAL VOTE.
What Senator Ferry Proposes to Do
in Regard to Counting It.
New York, January G.—The Pott's
Washington correspondent says, rela
tive to what course acting Vice-Presi
dent Ferry will pursue on the 14th
Wednesday of February in regard to
counting the electoral votes, the follow
ing may bo regarded as semi-officiai,
although not authorized by Mr. Ferry
or published with his knowledge :
If the Senate and House of Repre
sentatives agree as to the course to be
pursued. Mr. Ferry will act strictly in
accordance with such agreement, be it
what it may. If no agreement is
reached by the second Wednesday in
February, Mr. Ferry will proceed to
open aud count the votes of all the
States excepting those from Oregou,
Louisiana, South Carolina and Flori
da. The question of couutiug the
votes from the four above named
States will be submitted to the two
houses. If they agree that Republican or
Democratic certificates from one or alt
States sh til be counted or rejected, the
Mr. Ferry will abide by suoti decision
anu act in accordance therewith in
countiug or rejecting certificates.
If by the fid of March the concurrent
action of the Senate aud House is uot
had iu regard to the four States, Mr.
Ferry will then proceed to count the
votes of said States aud to declare the
result. Mr. Ferry will not attempt to
exercise judicial power, or to decide
which are the proper teitilicates from
the States of Oregon, Louisiana, Flor
ida and South Carolina, unless the
Seuate aud House fail to agree, but iu
this event lie will proceed to act in ac
cordance with the Constitution, as he
iuteipiets it.
Movement of Troops.
New York, January 6.—An Atlauta,
Georgia, dispatch says two companies
of the Second Regiment of the United
States troops left last evening for Jef
fersonville, Indiana, leaving only a
part of oue company in charge of the
barracks. Two companies of the Six
teenth Regiment, now in Alabama, are
also said to be ordered to Jefferson
ville.
Marine Disaster.
New York, January G.— Bermuda ad
vices report the scitoouer George Sta
ples, from Brunswick, Ga., November
12th, for New York, dtifted on the
reefs and tilled. The Captain and
crew were taken off helpless from star
vation, having been subsisting for two
days on tl tx seed tea arid slush. She
was driven off the coast five times. A
number of other vessels have reached
Bermuda in distress.
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Death of a Celebrated Minstrel.
New York, January G.—The funeral
of Eph Home, negro minstrel, took
place to-day from “The Litll * Church
Around the Corner.” Rev. Dr. Hough
ton officiated. A large throng of actors
and minstrels were present. The re
mains were interred in Evergreen Cem
etery.
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A Fatal Toothache.
Rahway, N. J., January G.—Last
evening Walter Lewis, aged twelve
years, was administered with ether by
Dr. Westlake in order to have a tooth
extracted, and in thirteen minutes was
dead. It is believed death resulted
from irregularities of the heart, as the
ether administered was not enough to
render him entirely unconscious.
Westlake is prominent in his profes
sion in Rahway. He was not arrested.
No Trouble Apprehended in Louisiana
New Orleans, January 6.—Governor
Kellogg apprehends no troubje on
Monday. He thinks the Democratic
programme, after inaugurating Gen.
Nieholls, is to duplicate the State gov
ernment, but pending the solution of
the Presidential question they will
avoid a collision.
Gen. Gordon Speaks.
A Special Washington dispatch to
the Courier Journal, bus the following
paragraph:
Senator Gordon has addressed an
able letter to Governor-elect Colquitt,
of Georgia, on the subject of the presi
dential election. It is bold and emphat
ic in the position that Mr. Tilden was
fairly elected president, and that Hayes
cannot be counted in by any constitu
tional method. If the prima facie
rule is adopted Mr. Tilden is elected;
and if the two bodies go behind the
returne, the same result is reached.
General Gordon, however, states the
belief existing here that the Republi
can leaders are disposed to take the
rist of inaugurating Governor Hayes,
if they shall be assured beforehand of
peaceable acquiescence. The letters is
altogether different in tone from the
recent milk-and-water declarations
which have given so much encourge
ment to the extreme Radical leaders.
c.l)c .4 ngnsttt Constitutionalist
FOREIGN NEWS.
The Eastern Question—Opinions of the
European Press and Correspond
ents.
London, January 6.—A Pera corres
pondent of the Times, heretofore
strongly with the Turkish and pro-Rus
sian, writes, under date of January
Ist: “I am still of the opinion that the
Turks will ultimately give in, but there
is no doubt a great trump card is in
tended to be played as a last resource
—that of a declaration of war by Rus
sia. It has suddenly turned out to be
no trump at all, for everything in the
attitude of the St. Petersburg Cabinet
and the conductor Gen. Ignatieff, Rus
sian Plenipotentiary here, contributes
to confirm the belief that Russia is
afraid to go to war.
“The Russian Ambassador, in fact,
throws out clear hints that the affair
could only be settled by joint Euro
pean execution, thus reverting to the
proposal made by the Czar two months
ago. The Turks have not failed to
perceive the advantage accruing to
their cause from this resolution of
Russia and Europe, and are not un
likely to continue unmaaagable and
stubborn, as long as they can flatter
themselves that the conference will
break up without any other result
than leaving them masters of the situ
ation.”
The Standard's special from Constan
tinople, after reviewing the proceed
ings on Thursday’s sitting of the con
ference, expresses the opinion that the
dangerous part of the crisis is over.
The Paris Monitecr, which is iu close
relation with the French Foreign
Office, however, publishes the following
paragraph: “We regret to state that
the disposition of Turkey was not im
proved in Thursday’s siitiner, and
leaves very little hope of an arrange
ment by diplomacy, although the con
ference meets again Monday, aud the
situation is uot modified. It may even
now be stated that the task of Eng
land is ended.”
London, January 6.— Tne Times’ Paris
correspondent quotes a letter written
by one of the most eminent members
of the conference, to show that there
is a complete change in the attitude of
the Porte, by which it now proposes
terms to Europe, instead of vice versa,
and is due to the fact of which the
Turks are finally aware, that the
Russian mobilization has completely
broken down, and that none of the
other European Powers are prepared
to exert anything but moral pressure.
The Globe states that Russia has or
dered fourteen Krupp eleven-inch bore
guns for Cronstadt.
The Pall Mall Gazette, in an editorial
note, says the telegram and the News’
letter about the conference, the attitude
of the Turks and the disposition of the
Russians, only deepen the obscurities
of the whole question. It seems doubt
ful whether, at any time, more uncer
tainty or confusion have prevailed than
at this moment. It is clear that the
committee of foreign statesmen assem
bled Iu Constantinople has itself fallen
into much disorder, and that it the
Turks are only resolute enough at this
hour, and are therefore truly solicitous
and speedy iu establishing reforms of
their own in the new constitution, they
may boast of having defeated and si
lenced all Europe.
Madrid, January s.—State, seige and
suspersiou guarantees will continue in
the Basque provinces.
London, January 6.—Rev. Richard
Cabbald, the English author, is dead.
A dispatch to Reuter’s from Semlin
says it is expected an exchange of
prisoners .between Servia and Turkey
will take place shortly. The report
that Gen. Nikitin had been recalled to
Russia by order or the Czar has not
been confirmed up to the present time.
Mincing Lane Markets.
In the Minciug Lane markets during
the week the changes were few and the
tone steady. Coffee is higher; some
plantation Ceylon, new crop, sold at
three shillings per hundred weight.
Yesterday’s public sales consisted
chiefly of old crop plantation. Ceylon
was in good demand. The stock
of coffee in Europe January Ist,
1877, was about forty thousand tons less
than same date lust year. Tea rather
more inquiry, but transactions are
moderate. Sugar flatter ; sales cannot
In many cases be made without reduc
tion of one shilling per hundred weight
which was accepted for some crystal
ized Demarara at auction yesterday.
Speculation in low brown sorts has
subsided. Rice firm.
French Affairs.
Paris, January 6. —The largest sugar
refinery of Nantes has stopped work
for want of raw material. Many other
houses have discharged their workmen.
Winther, the celebrated Danish poet,
is dead.
Judgment has been delivered in the
case of Maurice Vignaux, the billiard
player, against Wra. Sexton, the
American billiard player, Yignaux
seized Sexton’s billiard table and
brought action against him. The tri
bunal decided that Yignaux was not
justified in seizing Sexton’s table and
demanded payment of his expenses,
and therefore condemned Yignaui to
pay one hundred francs fine and costs.
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Minor Telegrams.
Columbus, Ohio, January G. The
House appointed a committee to inves
tigate the Ashtabula bridge disaster.
New York, January 6. —Mrs. Char
lotte DeForest Egbert, sister of the late
Commodore Yanderbtlt, died at her
residence on Staten Island yesterday
of pneumonia, aged 85.
Gen. John J. Abercrombie, of the U.
S. Army, died on Wednesday last at his
residence in Roslyn, L. 1., aged 73
years.
Montpelier, January G.—The Demo
cratic State Committee have issued an
invitation to leading Democrats to meet
for consultation January Bth, at Wash
ington.
Dress Humbug.
[ Washington Cor. Chicago Journal.]
The handsomest dresses which have
been worn in Washington for two win
ters past, and which were described
with a flow’ of adjectives that would
make Noah Webster hang his head over
the failure of his English Dictionary,
were gotteu up in this city and modeled
on the forms of the fair wearers, whose
vanity prompted them not to contradict
the next morning’s dispatches that Mr.
B’s dress was Worth’s latest, and cost
810,000 when a few knew that Mme.
Donovan, or Mme. Soule could testify
in any court that that dress had never
been seen or touched by Worth or any
other Parisian modiste, and that the
810,000 dress cost just $250, and that
the lace trimmings had foamed over
the columns of every newspaper in
Washington, from Maine to California,
for the last three years. This love of
fraudulent display is a weakness of
the average society woman in Wash
ington.
STERN TRUTHS.
Au Editor’s New Year Hermon.
The editor of the Boston Traveller
having been importuned to say some
thing abouf scandalous Business fail
ures, so frequently reported all over
the country, delivered a New Year’s
sermon, which is quite as good as many
pulpit discourses. We give the larger
part of it as follows:
“Failures are sometimes inevitable,
and are uot infrequently of a charac
ter to leave no stain, and inflict no dis
grace upon the hairaesed and unfortu
nate merchant whose business schemes
have, through no fault of hia own, all
miscarried, and Anally left him but a
stranded wreck upon the shores of
trade. For such disappointed, dis
heartened, aud downfallen men we
have nothing but the profoundest sym
pathy. Toward them every man of
the slightest feeling would extend a
helping hand, aud upon them we would
hope to be the last to heap one word of
reproach, or one sentence of censure
or condemnation.
“But for the miserably dishonest,
tricky operator of the period, who
ends a career of fraud and outrageous,
personal extravagance—a personal ex
travagance participated iu and adver
tised by every member of the house
hold—by an evidently long-intended,
hedged for and planned for ten cents
ou a dollar or “no assets” failure, we
can, of course, have no other feeling
than the profoundest contempt; and
we take it that every respectable man
shares our sentiments, and welcomes
this our attempt to put them upon
publie record. There is not a day that
passes that does not bring to notice
some outrage upon decency, fully and
most strikingly emphasizing the senti
ments we are uttering. But there are
phases of this matter which are, per
haps, not fully understood by all.
“Many are accustomed to look light
ly aud carelessly upon these frequently
iecurriDg fraudulent failures because
they see no actual personal distress
and want and suffering growing out of
them. John Jones fails and pays three
cents upon the dollar, and yet John
Jones’ family retains the fashionable
and expensive pew in the brownstone
church, rides to it with the pair of
grays that they drove last year, and
the wife and daughters swing their
loDg skirts up the broad aisle as
proudly aud gracefully as if they
had beeu paid for instead of haviug
been cheated out of confiding dry
goods retailers.
“Thomas Smith fails, and though long
yea”s ago he started as a journeyman
mechanic, living in a back street, his
wife taking iu vests to make, L now,
after ending as a gigantic bankrupt,
compromises with his creditors for
twenty-five pents on the dollar, retains
his swell-front house at the West End,
keeps his extravagant sons at college,
aud is in all respects as far as possible
frotai any idea of starting where he be
ga#, though so much worse u#r in aii
posits when viewed from any ho/iest
standpoint than when earning wages as
a day laborer. But there is suffering
somewhere. There is an under-dog iu
this fight. There is, somewhere at the
end of the long row of tumbling bricks,
a last brick which touches earth—which
falls to the ground.
“We were called not loi g ago to visit
a family which was actually in a freez
ing and starving condition. The man
of the house was a locksmith and bell
hanger, who had had no work for a
long time; yet he showed us a pack
age of bills for work done in the past
for failed builders which, if paid, he
said, would have carried him over the
dull season. With those bills in our
bauds we had no hard task to trace
back the sufferings of the ramishing
children to their source. This family
was starving because far back a gigan
tic swindling real estate operator had
made a stupendous failure of the char
acter we have been describing and de
nouncing, and with direct results to
himself aud family such as we have
painted.
“Far away in the lumbering regions
of Maine a settlement of choppers is
staring grim want in the face at the
opening of what promises to be a hard
winter. They are in suffering because
they have not been paid for their last
winter’s work. The trouble is at the
head of their line. They have not
been paid because Shingles & Cos., the
great lumber firm of an interior city,
made that most disastrous and dis
graceful failure last spring. All re
member their case. It was the talk of
the town for twenty-four hours, and
some good, honest souls thoughtsome
thing ought to be done about it. Shin
gles & Cos., after borrowing all the
money they could of the savings aud
national banks, and sweeping in all the
lumber from whole districts in the
State of Maine, which lumber they
shipped to all quarters of the globe,
and sold for cash at less than cost at
home, suddenly collapsed. And so we
might go on, if time and space allowed,
with endless illustrations. We speak
whereof we know. %
“Last month an honest, hard-work
ing New Hampshire farmer hanged
himself in his barn. Cause, financial
troubles. He could not raise money
enough to pay his taxes and the inter
est upon the mortgage upon his farm,
because the middleman who had
bought his farm produce had not paid
him; and the middleman had not paid
because the great city commission
house to whom the produce had been
consigned had made oue or these
wretched failures of the period.
“Last week a young and delicate
girl, after seeing the pleasant home of
her childhood ruthlessly broken up,
turned her steps to the city and sought
to avoid actual beggary by the toils of
the city shop, for which she was but
poorly fitted. A gigantic real estate
speculator of the period, whose selling
out under foreclosures occupied a
whole column of the paper a littl j while
since, had swindled the poor girl out
of her home and ruined a score of
other persons.
“But ‘what are you going to do
about it?’ is a question easier asked
than answered. At any rate, we have
acted upon the suggestion of our cor
respondent, and ‘said something about
it,’ and we hope, at another time, to
say something more about it. There
is not only something wrong some
where, but a good many things wrong
in many directions.
“We have only time, in closing, to
allude to a few of the existing mud
dles. When great mercantile houses
make most disastrous and disgraceful
failures—failures which reveal the fact
that they have been worse than noth
ing through long years of good credit,
and it turns out that all the partners
of the bankrupt concern have, during
the years of their good credit, hedged
against the future by paying for im
mense annuity insurance policies out
of the money belonging to their cred-
AUGUSTA, GA., SUNDAY, JANUARY 7, L 877.
itors, does it not seem as if there was
something wrong about the life insur
ance business? When badly-failed mar
chants continue to live in magnificent
houses which have been settled on thllr
wives not long before they went into
bankruptcy, does there not seem to
something wrong about the laws which
permit such settlements? When a
known swindler works his way through
bankruptcy and gets what is called an
honorable discharge, when everybody
seems to be aware that he Is a fraud
deserving jail, is there not something
wrong in the laws pf bankruptcy?
“Aud, flually, when we find theie
classes of bold swindlers, who have,
through long years of trickery, fraud,
and the sharpest sort of practice, maije
their way to apparent financial corn
fort over the wrecks of the fortunes of
worthy people, kindly and favorably
received into good society, their past
conduct apparently atoned for by lav
ish ue of ill-gotten gains, must w*
1 uot corn lude that there is something
radically wrong iu our social system?’
The Ashtabula Disaster.
The accident on the Lake Shore
Railroad near Ashtabula entails the
greatest loss of life of any railroad ac
cident that ever took place iu this
country and perhaps in the world. Of
the 174 passenger ou the train, at
least 100 have been killed and reduced
to almost Indistinguishable ash. The
Angola accident on the same road only
sacrificed about 70 lives, and the Nor
walk disaster iu the early days of
railroading,which has always remained
the unsurpassed New England stand
ard of railroad horrors, only about 39.
All these supremities of havoc have
been associated with bridges, and it is
a singular fact that it was reserved for
the era of iron bridges to suffer from
the actual collapse of the structure.
The bridge at Ashtabula was of the
Howe truss pattern, one hundred and
fifty feet in span ; the stream was small
with only two or three feet of water,
but the ravine was apparently quite
deep.
When the great western express over
the Boston aud Albany, New York Cen
tral aud Lake (Shore lines struck this
bridge at a low rate of speed, near 9
o’clock, on Friday evening, 11 cars
and an engine went down, leaving one
engine standing on the verge of the
clusm. Those who could crawl out at
once were saved, but fire wrought a
fearful doom ou those who were pin
ioned or helplessly wounded.
It is almost vain to speculate about
causes and responsibilities, until the
coroner’s jury, which will meet this
morning, shall furnish some data.
Amid such a wreck of matter it seems
well-nigh impossible to find the orig
inal lesson to which the disaster was
was due. luferiority of material
will still show itself, if it exists, and
faults of construction may have beet
so abuudaut aud palpable as to survive
thegeneial ruin aud appear now as
evidence against the builders. We fear,
however, that so clear a verdict win
not be possible.
The effect of cold weather on iron
subject To strains is not yet very satis
factorily understood. The popular idea
that cold renders the metals brittle has
beeu scientifically disproved, but our
worst accidents from breakage continue
to distinguish the winter months.
The effect of low temperature must
be studied in two respects—to ascer
tain whether it weakens the molecular
cohesion of the metal, and whether
the contraction dislates joints and parts
so as to weaken the mechanical struc
ture. In the former case, the molecu
lar debilitation of the iron, if it takes
place, would be accepted as anew and
hitherto unestablished fact. In the
latter case, the failure to provide for
the well known exigencies of contrac
tion and expansion would be a clear
default of mechanical skill.
The great line of through travel
which has met with this terrible inter
ruption cannot afford to rest content
wiih any but the most searching inves
tigation into its causes. Experience is
a hard school, and experience eo terri
ble as this should be questioned sharp
that It may carry commensurate in
struction.
“Wliat have become of the singers?”
asks the Montreal Gazette. Ah, yes;
you can’t see from where you are sit
ting ; move up toward this end of the
pew and we will show you. That is the
soprano, the one nearest the end of the
chair, letting the young fellow with the
camel’s hair moustache and curling
hair squeeze her hand. He is the tenor.
There is the alto ia the opposite
corner, and the meek-looking little
man with Burnside whiskers, who is
feediug her with gum drops, and ner
vously lookiug out for his wife’s eye,
(the big, iiigh-complexioned woman
near the third window on the right
hand side of the church, with a wart
on her cheek) is the baiitone, and the
burly-looking fellow who looks like a
Barbary coast pirate, and who has just
stepped around the organ to take a
drink with the blower, that is the bass.
Oh, if you just want to know what has
become of the singers ask us.
“A fashionable church,” says Brother
Talmage, “is a place where, after a
careful toilet, a few people come in, sit
down, and what time they can get their
mind off of their stores, or away from
the new style of hat in the seat 'before
them, listen in silence to the minister—
warranted to hit no man’s sins— und to
the choir, who are agreed to sing tunes
that nobody knows; and, having passed
an hour in dreamy languishing, go
home refreshed.”
Norwich Bulletin : We are glad to
see that the ladies are again forming
reading clubs for the winter. The
readiug club is an organization that
discusses the characterof Shakspeare’s
Portia for fifteen minutes, and the best
manner of cutting a basque on the
bias for an hour aud a half, and rarely
fails to bo of great profit.
A young man slightly insane has
made his appearance in New York,
claiming to be Jesus Chxist, He is
singular among pretenders of this de
scription in having a large sum of
money about him, whieh he disburses
liberally in payment for all his wants.
A decided proof of his iusauity is af
forded by nis wild and incoherent de
claration that Chicago and San Fran
cisco stand specially in need of mis
sionary efforts.
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M. Dufaure, the French Minister of
Justice, who was largely the cause of
the late crisis, is haru upon 80 years of
age, and yet he is a hale, hearty and
vigorous man both in body and mind.
He is careless about his dress, like M.
Thiers, seeming to have a preference
for greasy, threadbare garments. Dur
ing the early part of the Empire and
the Presidency of M. Thiers he- was
famous for wearing a horse-blanket
vest of an extremely loud pattern.
“The \ oice of ihe People is the Voice
or God v
UprfAe the banner of the right'
1 rind down the fiend or wrong!
We li t our hearts iii praise to God.
To ihom all rignts belong! ‘
Who rakes the dead to life again,
WJb changeth life to death,
Deciles the destiny of kings,
Asoy a single breath.
The hiceof God, we have beeu tvught,
Stirs In the people’s voice.
The tiuideeman of our nation’s helm
Mutt be the people’s choice!
Let foat the stripes in sunlit air!
Th stars still guild our night;
The leople’s is the voice of God!
The voioe of God means right!
Esmeralda Boyle.
WasUngton, D. C., Dec. 22, 1876.
A Sample of a Fast Mau.
The Bank of Montreal, in Toronto,
Ootaik), is out about $190,000, through
the robbery of u dishonest accountant
named Barber. He had a habit of
stealing securities from the vaults, and
obtaining advances, on them from
biokers. This is the plan of opera
tions ;
An assistant accountant, he had ac
cess n“n. only to the securities belong
ing to the bank, but to the securities
placed in the vaults for safe keeping
by cu. torners. These securities were
Chiefly city, county and township, in a
word, municipal debentures; and he
stole not ouly the bank’s, but the cus
tomers’;- He was carrying on margins,
SBOO,OOO of different stocks la&t week,
Bank of Montreal stock, Montreal Tele
graph stock, Dominion Telegraph
stock, New York Graphic stock (that
paper is owned by Canadians), and
Cauadian stocks of every kind. And
not content with speculating in the
Queen’s Dominion, he operated largely
m New York. “No pent-up Utica,” etc.
As an ,istance of the cool manner in
which he played his game, I am told
that some weeks ago he offered $93,000
worth of securities to a Toronto bro
ker, and asked for an advance of 830,-
000 thereon. The broker, naturally
enough, asked him how he came by the
securities. “Oh,” said Barber, “I be
long to a syndicate in Montreal; in
fact, } 14a their Toronto agent. With
out more ado the broker advanced him
the sum required. A few days after
ward the same broker was short of
cash, and he took the securities he had
obtained from Barber to the Bank of
Montreal, and deposited them as
collateral, and obtained 880.000 on
them. And next day Barber stole them j
again, deposited them with another
broker, and obtained another advance
on them. It was a case of this double
back-action thieving that finally floored
him last Saturday. He had abstracted
some securities belonging to the town
ship of London, county Middlesex, and
obtained an advance on them from a
Montreal broker. The broker in turn
put Item into the Bank or Montreal
office, in Montreal, and they were for
warded to the office here for identifica
tion. -Then Barber abstracted them
agaju and swapped them here. The
brokftt who got hold of tnem here had
occas* ft to aen-' them to broker No. 1
in Mo* troatwand iaiulfij to be able to
account for thoir suddeu reappearance,
brokeV No. 1 consulted the bauk people
in Montreal. They in turn asked To
ronto, and Barber was fairly trapped.
Baiber was essentially a “fast”
youth. He had a phaeton and a valet
to sic behind; was a member of the
Toronto club and the United Empire
club; rode his horse with the Hunt
club; went on gentlemanly but very ex
pensive “bums” o’ nights; had a coupe,
a fast woman in tow;, spent lots of
money; could put down champagne
cocktails as easily as he could put mar
gins, and dressed in the height of
fashion. He is 28 years old, and has
been in the bauk service eleven years.
His father, the late Mr. George Anthony
Barber, was a fine old English gentle
man, and a man of good standing in
this community. It is well for the
poor old man he died three years ago.
Early this summer, his youngest son, a
clerk in the depository department of
the Normal school, was seut down for
j eighteen months for stealing books;
! and uow his second best beloved sou is
sailiug under a fair wind for the peni
j tentiary.
A Story of Proctor Kuott.
(Washington Capital 1
Jones tells us a good story of Proc
tor Knott. It will be remembered that
in the fall of 1860 Knott, then residing
In Missouri, was elected Attorney-Gen
eral on the Glaib. Jackson ticket.
When Frank Blair seized the State of
Missouri in 1861, he sent old Colonel
Bo rest ski, at the head of two German
regiments, l'rom St. Louis to take pos
session of Jefferson City. Boruatein
was a revolutionist of ’4B and a native
of Uesse-Cassel. At his approach
Claib. Jackson fled to Neosho, accom
panied by all the State olTioers, except
Knott and one other. As soon as Born
stein had established himself iu pos
session, with headquarters at the State
House, he sent a Corporal and life of
men to collect those fragments of the
State Government which Jackson in
his haste, had left behind. The corpo
ral collected our J. Proctor along with
the other fragments, and marched him
up to headquarters, where Bornstein,
in full regimentals, with sword and
pistol by his side, and seated in the
great chair ot the Chief Justice, re
ceived him.
When Knott was presented to him,
Bornstein began a speech as follows :
“Mr. Addorney Sheneral, der refolu
tion ish now gomblede. Der maderial
oaf der Shtate Gufferment Ish now in
undishbuted posession of der dhroobs
oaf der Unided Shdates. I am em
bowered to effect a reorganization of
der Shdate Gufferment upon der dhrue
basis oaf der instldutions for vich our
forefadersjblet und died”—
“Allow me to interrupt you Colonel,”
Knott broke in, solemnly.
“Cerdainly,” said Bornstein, with en
ormous gravity.
“I merely desire to conserve the ac
curacy of history,” pursued Knott.
“You observe, Colonel, that the con
text of your remark would lead to the
inference that your forefathers aud
mine fought shoulder to shoulder in
that conflict. But if you will refer to
any reliable account of Bennington or
Trenton or Princeton, you will flad
them represented as facing each other
on those fields!”
“Gorboral,” replied Bornstein, sadly,
“dhake dot man away ; eshcort him by
his bouse vere he lifes, and blace him
under guard till farder orters.”
Knott tells me, says Jones, that he
has never since ventured upon a joke
at, the expense of a Dutchman, par
ticularly if he was a native of Hesse-
Cassel.
Firtnin-Gerard’s “Paris Flower Mar
ket,” intended for A. T. Stewart, but
not finished before his death, has been
on exhibition in New York. It has been
sold for $'20,000 to a well known con*
noi-scur.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Governor Hampton speaks in Lex
ington on Monday next. .
There is a balance of $35,877 in the
Abbeville county treasury.
Ou Monday night last, seven mules
were stolen between Charlotte and
Lancaster. -
A house belonging to Mr. G. E. Wat
son, in Marion, was burned by Incen
diaries on the 30th.
Mr. George Timothy Wade, an
esteemed citizen of Lancaster county,
died at his residence on the 21 -it ulti
mo.
On Friday last, a horse belonging to
Mr. Charles T. Young jumped from the
dam of Mini's mill, in Lancaster coun
ty, aud was drowned.
The Rev. Dove Tiller, the new pastor
of the Methodist Church at Kingstree,
will preach his first sermon ou the
second Sunday In Js;uuary.
Sheriff Ward, of Williamsburg,
“holds the fort,” and refuses to sur
render his office. Judge Shaw refuses
to graut a mandamus to tne contestant
for the office.
The thirteen negro prisoners, charg
ed with complicity in the Lowndes
ville butchery, who have been confined
iu Walballa jail, will be brought to Ab
beville this week for trial.
A diploma and medal have been
awarded by the Centenuial judges to
the State of South Carolina “for a re
markable exhibition of the universal
phosphates of the State.”
The taxpayers ef Darlington and of
Lancaster hold mass meetings on
Monday next, to endorse Governor
Hampton’s government and to repudi
ate the Chamberlain usurpation.
The prisoners iu the Spartanburg
jail made their escape on the Wednes
day before Christmas by knocking
down the jailor. They were all re
captured ou the following morning.
Ned Stafford, who escorted the usurp
ing Governor on his campaign in
Marion county, cut his brother-in-law
Chris. Rogers, so badly last Monday
night that he is not expected to
live.
Aron Tillman, a colored barber, was
found in the streets of Newberry on
Tuesday night last iu a dying condi
tion. lie had been drinkiug very freely
and it is supposed ho fell iu the snow
aud was unable to get home.
A uutn by the name of Levi Smith
was killed near Bivingsville, Spartan
burg county, one day last week, lie
was engaged in a difficulty with another
party, and while attempting to strike
him with his gun the weapon exploded,
killing its owner.
A difficulty oecured at Chappell’s
Depot on Chrism is day. Mr. Lewis
Simkins was shot by the accidental
discharge of a pistol. On the same
day Mr. Eldridge C. Simkins, brother
of the former, was seveiely stabbed in
the abdomen by a negro.
.Mr. James McCorkle, living four
miles north of the village of Lancas
ter, committed, seicide on Christmas
Eve night by Ranging himself to the
joist of his house. His family was
absent from home at the time. He
left a note giving some reason for
taking his life.
On Tuesday of Christmas week, Bill
Pilgrim, a very worthy colored rnau,
was found dead iu front of the resi
dence of Col. Evins, in Spartanburg
couuty, haviug evidently frozen to
death the night previous. He was un
der the influence or liquor, and must
have become unable to proceed, had
fallen asleep, aud thus perished iu the
snow which fell on that night.
Mr. Thomas Barnfn, while riding
home a few nights siuce, was shot at
twice in the neighborhood of Hurricane
Church, Laurens County, by parties
supposed to be negroes. He had s >ld
cotton that day and had the money on
his person. A night or two later,
about the same place, Mr. Jared John
son, Trial Justice, was shot at three
times, no doubt by the same party.
Neither of the gentlemen were hurt.
Judge Cooke, of the Eighth Circuit,
has issued the following order: “In
view of the disturbed condition of
business, owing to the intense political
excitement and tbe unsettled financial
status of the community, which would
result inevitably to cause a sacrifice of
property at Sheriff's sales, and ouly
tend to complicate business, and in
crease litigation without bringing re
lief either to creditor or debtor, 1 have
decided io enjoin all Sheriff's sales on
sales day iu January; and you are
hereby enjoined from making all or
any sales before sales day iu February
next.
Another one of WLittemore’s pets
has come to grief. This man was Elias
Davis, aud he stole a lot of fodder
from Mr. A., planter, near Tiramons
ville, and then stole a trunk from
another farmer. The gentleman from
whom he stole the trunk had him ar
rested, but compromised the case upon
Davis promising to pay him sl2. He
stole tbe fodder to pay the 812, and
the owner tracing it au altercation eu
sued, in which Whittemoie’s constitu
ent flourished his knife extensively,
Oue of the men whom he had robbed
obtained a shotgun aud killed him. So
much for Whittemore’s teachings.
Civil Rights in St. Lonis.
[From the St. Louis Times.l
Kleintopf, the barber on Olive street,
has studied the civil rights bill. He
was standing? in the front part of his
barber shop Yesterday, when a sprucely
dressed darkey switching a cane enter
ed and remarked, “I want to get shav
ed.”
“Ad right,” responded Mr. Kleintopf,
“have you a cup here ?”
“No.”
“Can’t shave you unless you have
your own oup.”
“Pll buy one. Will you sell ma one?*’
“Certainly,•sir.”
“How much is it?"
“Five hundred dollars.”
“What?”
“Fivehundred dollars.”
“You mean to debar me from getting
shaved?”
“Do you want a cup?”
“At that price?”
“Yes.”
“No.”
“Git, then.”
Kleintopf assumed the attitude of a
boss bouncer, and tbe African went
through the door as if propelled from
a catapult.
Anew society lias been Tormed in
Paris, whose members are to dine to
gether on the first day of each month
till January 1, 1900, when the farewell
banquet will take place. The members
must have been born later tban Decem
ber 31, 1849, and tbe club is called “The
Men of the Twentieth Century.”
Maj. J. H. Butt, a successful and ac
complished journalist, is announced as
assistant editor of the Gainesville Eagle.
BENNETT-MAY.
SENSATIONAL TERMINATION OF
A MUCII-TALKED-OF MATRI
MONIAL ENGAGEMENT,
The Owner of the New York Herald
Horse-Whipped by Miss May’s Bro
ther.
[New York Special (Jan. 3) to the Cincinnati
Commercial.]
The marriage of Miss Carolino May
to Mr. James G, Bennett the proprietor
of the Herald, was to have been solem
nized to-day by Cardinal McCloskey.
Mr. Bennett had desired that the mar
liage should not be a public display,
and Miss May concurred. It was agreed
that the couple should sail for Eng
land just after the marriage, and state
rooms richly arrayed for the bridal
party had been engaged. Miss May’s
bridal outfit had been received from
Paris at a cost of twenty thousand dol
lars, and she had been congratulated
ou her prospective wedding. Lately,
however, some stories had come to her
ears of Mr. Bennett’s actions, and yes
terday it was announced that by mu
tual agreement the match had been
broken off. Mr. Btnnett frankly ac
knowledged that his behavior warrant
ed Miss May’s action in asking to be
released.
Soon after two o’clock this afternoon
the habitues of the Union Club were
startled by the information, which
sped like wild fire through the build
ing, that Mr. Bennett was being as
saulted by Mr. Frederick May, on the
sidewalk in frout of the Club House.
The members of the Club were aware
of the fact that the sttuggle might end
in a tragedy, as May was known to
have been in a desperate mood since
Saturday. Mr. May is the brother of
Miss Caroline May. He is tin athlete,
and has been very indignant concern
ing Mr. Bennett’s treatment of his sis
ter, and had traced Mr. Bennett to the
Union Club building.
Mr. May is not a member of the
club, and eherefore did not enter and
there eucounter Mr. Bennett. As he
stood near the railing in Twenty-first
street, several friends passed and
noticed that he was much agitated,
and that he kept a sharp watch upon
the entrance to the club-house. Mr.
Bennett was within enjoying refrbsh
rneats. He was unaccompanied, aud
his acquaintances noted that his jollity
was*artificial. He sent a message for
his sleigh, and when it ariived at the
door he prepared himself for a ride to
Central Park. He wore a long coat and
a jaunty cap, aud a splendid silk hand
kerchief was wound around his neck.
He seemed much annoyed at the watch
fulness of the club people.
When Mr. Bennett lighted a cigarette
in the large hallway or the club house
and started toward the street, the door
was opened wide for him by the attend
ant. Mr. Bennett slowly descended the
staircase, and just as he reached the
sidewalk Mr. May confronted him. Mr.
Bennett stepped backward, and Mr,
May drew a small whip from his great,
coat, and with much force and rapidity
struck Mr. Bennett across the face
three tmies. Blood streamed from
gashes under his eyes, and from a
trightful cut on his nose. He staggered
for a moment and then threw himself
upon Mr. May. They clinched, but
Mr. May being the more powerful of
the two, forced himself from Mr. Ben
nett’s grasp. At this the latter made
another lunge at Mr. May, who struck
at him from the shoulder, aud Mr. Ben
nett fell at full length ou the sidewalk.
Blood stained the snow from the side
walk to the gutter.
Attaches of the club-house and pe
destrians ran to Mr. Bennett’s assist
ance. No one attempted to stop Mr.
May, who with his hands in his pock
ets, walked leisurely toward Fifth ave
nue.
Mr. Bennett was carried into the
house, and his face was bathed. His
sleigh was sent away and a cab was or
dered. Then he was taken to his home
in Fifth avenue, where he was attended
by bis physician. He will not be able
to be out for several days, being fear
fully cut and bruised.
Police officers near the club-house
said they knew nothing of the fight, al
though five minutes alter it happened
it was the chief topic in all the neigh
boring hotels.
Miss May’s two brothers were on the
lookout for Mr. Bennett as early as 6
o’clock this morning. They went to
the Russia, thinking that be might
take passage in that steamer, but he
was not there.
Wm. May, Frederick’s brother, was
in the club-house this evening for a
few moments. He said at first he did
not care to talk of the aflair. Then he
said to one of his friends : “We were
looking for Mr. Bennett all day. but he
was hiding. He ought to have been
cowhided long ago.”
The law ought to set its big foot on
the barbarism of Christmas. It is bad
enough that invalids have to endure
the hideous noises of the day; it is
shameful when no respect is shown to
the house of tbe dead. After a tortur
ous year of bell-ringing—for bells are
always rung on the slightest pretext—
Christmas comes with its rack to jerk
to pieces whatever may be left of the
victim of everlasting noise. A neathen
festival could not be more absurd than
this so-called Christian holiday as it is
now observed. It has become the day
of pa’s and ma’s booby, who has
grown to the height of man without
having in reality got beyond his eighth
year, and he buys cartridges for his
pistol, and swears, and shoots, and pa
and ma give him their money and
think he is a wonderful child. It is an
error to suppose that Christmas is the
day of the small boy proper. It is the
saturnalia of the booby, and he makes
the most of it.— Courier-Journal.
An Indianian went into a Chicago sa
loon, and asked for “a gia cocktail with
some strength into it.” The bar-keep
er made a mixture of alchohol, pepper
sauce, absinthe, limes and painkiller.
“The Jndianian drank it,” says the Chi
cago Tribune, “and about a quart of
tears came to his eyes, his mouth con
tracted to auout the size of a safe key
hole, and wheu be bad sufficiently
mastered his emotion to speak, he said,
“How much’s that?” “Fifteen cents,”
responded the barkeeper. The custo
mer put down a quarter aud said,
‘Keep the change—have something
yourself;’ then ringing the bar-keeper’s
band, he added, ‘That’s tbe first good
gin I’ve tasted since I left home—
something like liquor; its sorter quick
iu taking hold and slow iu lettiug go.
Come and see me, and I’ll give you
some corn whisky that’s better still
whisky that’s like swallowing a circu
lar saw whole and pulling it up again.’
The barkeeper, an hour later, asked
tho patrolman if he had heard of an
old man being found dead on the side
walk, and when the officer said no, be
danced a few jig steps, and cried, hur
rah, he’s gone somewhere else to die.”
SIX DOLLARS A YEAR
GEORGIA NEWS.
Good Templarism is on the inert ase
in Elberton.
Mr. W. S. McEifresh and family will
return to Marietta to live.
Illicit distillers are being captured in
gangs in Madison county.
The snow was twelve inches deep in
Gainesville Monday night.
The heaviest snow since 1852 fell in
Elbert county last Monday.
Troup county is losing heavily bv
the Texas movement at present.
Two droves of hogs sold in Elberton
last week from to 7c gross.
Moses B. Whitmore, of Marietta,
died on December 28th. Aged 79.
Treasurer Renfoe has no opposition.
He will be re-elected without anv
trouble.
Mr. John Bius was killed dining
Christmas week by being thrown from
his buggy.
The only child of 001. James S. Ham
moud, of Elberton, was burned to death
last Friday.
M. W. Spencer has removed to Ma
rietta, and will put up a leather furnish
ing establishment.
Judge William Ezzard, the success
ful candidate for Tax Receiver of At
lanta, is 78 years old.
Dr. J. A. Long, one of the oldest and
most prominent citizens of LaGrange,
has removed to Texas.
An 81-year-old negro man in Macon
says his mother, born in 1762, is still
living in Monroe county.
Prof. George F. Gober, of Marietta,
has gone to Savannah to study law uu
der Gen. A. R. Lawton.
Two costumers have arrived in At
lanta with gaudy parapherualia for tho
Rex bail next Friday night.
Losses by fire in Macon last year
842,610; insurance 826,900. Department
was called out thirty-five times.
The Atlanta Constitution says that
Capt. Harry Jackson is not an applicant
for the office of Attorney General.
Mr; George Bradford, of Elbert
county, broke his arm last Saturday,
and married the following Tuesday.
Colonel E. P. Davaut, who has been
teaching school four years in Elberton,
has removed to Lawtonville, Burke
countj*.
Mr. James a Haralson, of LaGruDge,
left for Texas Wednesday. The Re
porter speaks in the highest terms of
the youug gentleman.
Micajah Martin died at Harrisonville,
Troup county, on the 30th of Decem
ber. He was eighty-four years old aud
iiad lived in Georgia sixty years.
The Sandersville Herald is ont in a
New Year attire aud now compares
j favorably with any country paper in
! the State. We are always glad to get
it.
Mrs. Dr. A. E. Beasley presents the
readers of the LaGrange Reporter with
a beautiful and well written essay, en
titled “The Cultivation and History of
Flowers.
Messrs. Cook & Cheek have received
their final discharge in bankruptcy.
Their assets are found equal to 30 per
ceut. of the debts proven a-s required
by the stat ute.
Griffin Nexcs: They can’t have an
elect iou ia Augusta without dragging
in the religious issue, Catholic and
anti-Cat holie is the war cry of the pol
iticians.— Faugh.
H. M. Hammett, Ordinary; W. P.
Stevens, Sheriff; J. B. Campbell, Clerk;
\\. H. Jackson, Receiver, and J. li.
Ward, Surveyor, were elected iu Cobb
couuty lust Wednesday.
A buzzard has been seen a few miles
from Cartersville flying through tho
air with a small bell attached to its
neck, and the Kxpress wants to know
who has lest a belied buzzard.
There was a tie Wednesday in New
ton county for Ordinary between Sum
mers, Republican, and Ausley, Demo
crat. Newt Anderson, Democrat, was
elected Sheriff, and T. Black, Demo
crat, Clerk Superior Court.
Mr. Aleck Lowe, a young man living
in the vicinity of Drayton, Dooly coun
ty, met with a terrible death a few
days ago. He was engaged in packing
cotton, when the follow block fell upon
him, crushing his head to a jelly.
Machinist Sinclair, of the B. & A. R.
R. shop, while going to his boarding
bouse Saturday night, fell into the well
at tbe turpentine distillery and sus-’
turned bruises from which be died next
day. He Lad strength to craw 1 (ut.
Quite a number of new buildings arc
beiug ereeted iu Swalnsboro. Mr.
Ayeock, or North Carolina, lias been
prospecting for a turpentine distillery
between Svainsboro aud Summerville.
All such enterprises are cordially
greeted.
Mr. Roderick Rutland died at bis
residence, near Russelville, Monroe
county, on Wednesday, the 27th ult., at
the advanced age of 81 years, 10
months and 21 days. He was well
known to ueariy the citizens of his
county, and was esteemed for many
noble qualities. 3
Columbus Enquirer'. A gentleman on
the lower liver has shipped 400 bales
of cotton to Columbus, and was forced
to make 82.500 by the low water. If
the river had been full he would have
shipped and sold some time ago, but
the stream was too shallow, and, much
against his will, he was compelled to
hold. The rise in price came as soon
as the river rose, and he is richer by
the amount stated.
Atlanta Telegram : “On Monday,
January 8, 1877, the first issue of
Bridges Smith’s paper will appear. It
will be a first-class journal, devoted to
news, literature and gossip, and will be
filled each week with selections from
the best newspapers, home and general
gossip, oiiginal sketches by the editor,
and such other reading matter as will
make it a newspaper for the family
and general reader. The editorial
conduct will be under the sole control
of Bridges W. Smith, the founder of
the Sunday Herald, and whose reputa
tion as a humorous writer is wide
spread.
According to the Griffin News Gov
ernor Colquitt is beset by an army of
office seekers. The number on file
foots up as follows: For places in the
Executive department, 21; for State
House guard, 10; for superintendent
public works, 16 ; for messenger exec
utive department, 3 ; for State libra
rian, 39 ; for place in State asylum, 3
for inspectors of fertilizers, I‘2; for
keeper of penitentiary, 4 ; for compiler
of laws, 7 ; for attorney-general, 6 ; for
solicitor-general, various circuits, 98 ;
for judges Superior- Court, 24 ; judges
of County Court, 12. Thirty-nine meu
file their written applications for some
place. In the Flint circuit there are
fifteen applications for solicitor gene*
ral. In the Southwestern circuit wo
find ten applicants on file for judge.