The morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, September 25, 1887, Image 1

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( ESTABLISHED Isso. ; 1 J. H. EfeTILL, Editor and Proprietor, f SIX MONTHS FOR O’BRIEN. HE IS CONVICTED ON TWO CHARGES AND SENTENCED. Poor-Law Guardian Mandeville Also Given Two Months for Using: Lan guage Alleged to be Seditious-Mr. O’Brien Makes an Eloquent Speech Despite the Judge’s Resort to the Gag lew. Cork, Sept. 31.—The trial of William O'Brien under the crimes act, which was commenced at Mitchellstown yesterday was concluded to-day. The accused was found guilty and sentenced to three months imprisonment. Notice of appeal from the judgment of the court was given. Immediately after sentence had l>een pro nounced against Mr. O’Brien on the first charge, he was placed on trial on the second charge. This was of the same nature as the ot her. ITpon this he was also found guilty and was sentenced to three months impris onment, the term to be concurrent with the other. Mr. O’Brien appealed from both judgments, and was liberated on bail. MANDEVILLE ALSO CONVICTED. John Mandeville, chairman of the Board of Poor Law Guardians of Mitchellstown, who was jointly indicted with Mr. O'Brien tor using seditious language in a speech made on the same occasion as Mr. O’Brien’s, was also convicted and sentenced to two months imprisonments. Mr. Mandeville appealed from the judgment and was per mitted to remain at, liberty on bail pending decision of the appeal. Mr. O’Brien, when he emerged from the court room after the trial, was received with an ovation by the large crowd which had assembled to testify their approval of his course. At the opening of the trial to-day Mr. Carson, counsel for the crown, complained to the judge that Dr. Tanner, member of Parliament, had yesterday, within the court, called him a mean ruffian and coward, and had expressed the hope that his head might be broken. The court made a note of the complaint. O’BRIEN’S NOVEL rOINT. Mr. O.Briett. replying to the charge made against him of having used seditious lan image in his public address, declared that, the court, was not, competent to try him, be cause it was foreign in its composition to the requirements of the British constitution. At this point the Judge stopped Mr. O'Brien, saying discussion of politics would not be allowed in the proceedings. Mr. O'Brien thereupon declared that he was the chosen representative of the Irish peo ple, and would advocate free speech. The court, again stopped him. Mr. O'Brien said the crown was guilty of having suppressed evidence favorable to him. The crown had withheld, for instance, note; made by the h“jid constable of the defendant’', speech. The notes, he said, recorded his statement that the Irish party would give the land bill fair play. JUSTIFIES HIS COURSE. Mr. O’Brien justified his defense of the Kingston tenants on the ground that the evictions against, them were commenced just on the ev e of the passage of the land hill, anil thus an attempt was made to de fraud the poor wretched tenants of the benefits of the measure. Ho admitted that he had advised the tenants not to give up without resistance, and he bad declared that before God and man, they were justified in defending their homes. Mr. O’Brien spoke brilliantly notwithstanding the interruptions by the court, and was frequently applauded. He asserted that his advice had prevented evic tions, and that a hundred tenants in Mitchellstown now possessed homes who would have been houseless if his advice had r.et, been adopted. O'SULLIVAN’S REPORT. The suppression of Constable O’Sullivan’s honest.report, he said, showed the means adopted to secure conviction. He preferred breaking the law with John Hampden and George Washington to obeying the law which Capt. Plunkett and Ktandish O'Grady administered. Personally, be felt very proud ot being one of a long line of men who had made the prison cell n glo: ious and holy place. Possibly lie him elf would be fhe last of that long line, for the English nation, to which the last appeal must )>e made, would reverse thede oision pronounced to-day and declare it no longer a crime to defend the homes and as sert the liberties of the Irish people. Mitchellstown was illuminated to-night, rows of candles being placed in all the win dows on tiie main street. Messrs. O'Brien and Harrington caught the night mail train at Limerick and proceeded to Dublin. When thev lefi Mitchellstown they were follow ed some distance by cheering crowds. The streets of the town were alive with people until 10 o'clock, when the crowds quietly dispersed on advice of Cornmer London. Mr. Harrington will return to Mitchellstown <m Tuesday next. The police dispersed a gathering in the priests’ private grounds at Mitchellstown to-day. It is believed that an attempt will I * made to hold a meeting near Miteliells town to morrow. Dr. Tanner. Nationalist member of T’ar hatnent, made u speech at Kenney to-night. >he j .olive in dispersing the crowd used their hatons. and the people replied with stones. Worse disturbance is feared. ROYCOTTED IN CHURCH. Dublin, Sept. 34.—The K.epress (Cotl s*rvati\ei savs that Archbtehop Walah, of Dublin, has expressed strong displeasure at, the boycotting of the sister- of Magistrate grave, the official who superintended the affairs at Mitchellstown oil Sept. 9, on 1 lie* evasion of the fatal conflict between the police ami populace.' The li.r press alleges 1 'at \rchbisnop Welsh has warned the 1 T't'gy that if boycotting of Indies again ms at the church at Mitchellstown ho will close the church. davitt’s alleged mission. IjOndon, Sept. :W.—The Cork correspon dent ot the Times snys that owing to the blunders made by william O'Brien during his recent \inrricnu trip the donations to •ee National from America have dwindled, and that Mr. Davit* liusgoun to America to endeavor to repair the damage o"’.e by Mr. O'Brien, lie kept Ids departure M c-si until the last inoiuert. In* feared ,n >it he would be arrest,el. " i'll mi his proj jrrl would be thus nipped in Cm luid. A iPKItCH nv M I II "\ •b’hn Morley, speaking o Newcastle to ri* 4. repudiated the notion t.lmi there w*i nnv split between himself end the Glad ■lonian party. All long H> Mi. Gindst me adhered 10the cause of ltre.l ,>m and justice so long wniiM he support him. Ill* views mi the Irish question, he ■•aid, were un changed The government had failed to deal satisfactorily with the Irish question. withstanding nil their promises and 11'siges. they bud adopt. .i a ■ liamoh. and Miexampled courac. This Parliurnent was D-own uk "the untile.<l I’mimmirnt." In ’hi Doom., t ‘onnnoiieand ii I vlandeverv 'mug had Wen done to :IHe discussion, and the • onntry had returmst t" '.iv riunnit by 'tic old Toryism lit it > worst form. Dteaiptn orale made to bewilder anil i|i h"J the pul,j,,- | liln ,| |,v !r-at geoeiallthm hi and poiith-al platitudes that were not worth Die-iiutT of a ■ aiuila. Bucli conduct would hv,rNUi,ry u,c aspiration i of Irishmen a for |)ms iroutiU. at Mib lieHstown. if the iooetmg held I per am illegal 11 ought U> been proclaimed )t Jltofuittfl |toi£ FRANCE'S WAR STRENGTH. Some Facts Brought Out by the Mobil ization Criticised. Paris, Sept. 34. —The official report of the recent mobilization severely criticises the staff, and especially the Commissariat. Gen. Ferron, Minister of War, has ordered a minute inquiry into the conduct of the branches of the service criticised, and it is expected that several officers will, as a re sult, be removed from the commands as in capable. The War and Marine departments have lessened their estimates to an extent suf ficient to reduce the extra budget bv 33,000- OOOf. France’s Princes. Paris, Sept. 34.—The Cabinet have the second time debated the advisability of ex pelling the French Princes from the terri tory of the Republic. It is reported that they are divided on the question and have concluded to allow it to remain undecided until President Grevy returns to Paris. It is apparent that the Princes themselves ex pect to be expelled for they are all busily engaged in preparing for departure. Cholera’s Record. London, Sept. 34.—Reports from the cholera affiicted cities of Sicily show that during the past twenty-four hours there have been 119 new cases of the disease and HO deaths at Messina; 10 new cases and 9 deaths at Catania, and (i new cases and 3 deaths at Palermo. ANARCHIST DEATH ORDERS. The Sheriff of Cook County Receives Them from the Court. Chicago, Sept. 3f.—The death orders to the Sheriff of Cook county, in the Anarchist cases, wore handed down by the Supreme Court this morning, and reached Sheriff Matson later in the day. The following is the order: At the term of the Supreme Court begun and belli at Ottawa, on Tuesday, the 6th (lav of September, in the year of our Lord one thou sand eight hundred and eighty seven, within and for the Northern Grand Division of the State of Illinois, present: Benjamin R. Shel don, Chief Justice: John At Death, Justice: John H Mulkey. Justice: John Schofield, Jus tice: Simeon Shone, Justice: Alfred M. Craig, Justice; Benjamin I). Magruder, Justice, George Hunt, Attorney General, L. Morrissey, Sheriff; Alfred H. Taylor. Clerk Wednesday, Sept. 11, present full bench, except Mr. Justice Scott. Be it remembered, to wit, on the fourteenth day of September, A. It, 1887. the same being one of the regular days of said term of court, the following proceedings were by said court had and entered of record, to-wit: August Spies, Michael Schwab. Samuel B’ielden, Albert K. Par sons. Adolph Fischer, George Engel,Louisl ,ingg, and Oscar AV. Neetie, vs. the people of the State of Illinois, in error, to the Criminal Court of Cook county on this day come again said parties. The court having diligently examined and in spected well the record and proceedings afore said and the things therein assigned lor error and being now sufficiently advised on and con cerning the premise*, for tlial it appears to the court nowhere that neither in the record and proceedings aforesaid, nor in the rendition of the judgment aforesaid is there anything er roneous vicious or defective, and that the reern-d is no error. Therefore it is con sidered by the court that the judgement afore said lie affirmed in all things as to each and every one of said plaintiffs in error, and stand in full force and effect notwithstanding said matters and the things therein assigned for error. And it is further ordered by the court that the 11th day of November. A. D„ 1887, lie and the same is hereby fixed as Ihe time when the sentence of death pronounced upon the plaintiffs in error, August Spies. Michael Schwab, Samuel Fielden, Albert R. Parsons. Adolph Fischer, George Engel, and Louis IJngg. by the Criminal Court of Cook county. 11l . shall be executed, and it is further ordered by the court that the Sheriff of Cook county. 111., lie and is hereby ordered and directed to carry into execution the sentence of the Criminal Court of Cook county, 111., on the defendants. BORROWED OF THE ROAD. The Pacific Railroad Commission was Pinched for Money. New York, Sept. 34. —In ihe Tribune, this morning was a communication to the effect that after investigating the Central Pacific Railroad- Company at Ban Fran cisco, the United States Pacific Railroad Commission had borrowed money of the in vestigated company to pay its hotel bills and get out of town. The writer of the commu nication thought the story should lie denied. “It can’t he denied,” said Commissioner Littler at this morning’s session of the Commission, “Because it is true. We did borrow §4,000 from the Cen tral Pacific for that very purpose. We thought nobody else were more beholden to the government than this road. Within an hour after we had borrowed the money wo received notice from the Secretary of the Treasury that the money had been placed to our credit, and we paid the loan next morn ing.” A TREASURY STATEMENT. Gold Coin and Bullion on Hand-Pur . chase? of Bonds. Washington, Sept. 34.—The gold coin and bullion in the Treasury on Sept. 30 was $389,677,885, which is an increase in the total for the ten days of §:j,540,ti:18. The aggregate amount of bonds purchased by the Treasury to-day was $ I,9tXi,.'i.>o, includ ing $533,650 of fount and $1,377,700 of four ami a half per cents. New York sold $603,850. Philadelphia $15,450, Washington $29,150, Boston £922,000, Williamsport, Pa., SIOO,OOO, Pittsburg SOO,OOO, Portland, Me., $90,000, Topeka, Kan.. $140,000. Offers from other cities were of small amounts. A Fight With Smugglers. San Antonio, Sept. 24. A posse wat sent from the I’riled States Marshal's office to Rio Grand'’ City a few days ago to cap ture a gang of smugglers encamped aUrnt titty miles from I-uredo. They found the ramp in the brush near the river, and n de mand for surrender vvus answered by a voliev from Winchesters. A battle ensued, re tilting in the dentil of four of the .smug glers and the capture of the camp and a number of horses. The other outlaws took refuge on the Mexican side. None of the officers were hurt. Virginia’s Coupon Cases. Richmond, Va., Sept. 24. The argu ment in the coupon cases in the United States Circuit Court ■*. concluded to-day and Judge Bond look nil the pa|VTs, reserv ing hi* decision until the (irtober term of the court. Before court adjourned, Judge Bond issued an order restraining the Clerk of Fauquier county from i cuing any execu tion* and the Shi rill' "f Fauquier county from levying upon any property of parties who have tendered coupons In payment of taxes until further order of thi* court. Throe Killed by a Bomb. QI'RHEr, Kept. 34. Three children of a farmer named Gllbonrt whiloplaylngon the island of Orleans to-day, where an artillery encampment was held recently, found a shell and lit the fuse, rim bomb exploded and Lille. 1 them all instant A A Frot Nip* Tobaoro. Dayton, O Kept. J(. A hard frost this morning killed late leaf ... narco standing, which will amount to alowit 3,000 bq** of seed leaf to the glowers <>. the valley and • Uetly ruia*d let* vagetaH# prospect*. SAVANNAH, GA„ SUNDAY. SKPTKMBKR 25, 1887. TRAIN WRECKERS TRAPPED. Two Black Brothers tho Fiends of the Mobile and Girard Road. Columbus, Ga., Sept. 24.—Tailor Thweat and West Thweat, two negroes charged with making two successive attempts to wreck a Mobile and Girard railroad passen ger train at Flournoy’s crossing last week, were arrested by- Deputy Sheriff Bishop, of Russell county, last night in Girard, and carried to Seale, Ain., for safe keeping. For some time a suspicion liasexisted that seed cotton was being stolen from Col. Me- Dougal's place, south of Girard, and that it w-as brought to this city. ('unstable Hood and Marshal Abney have been watch ing the movements of some negroes upon whom their suspicions rested. This morn ing Constable Hood followed an express wagon to this side of the river and found that it contained about 300 pounds of cotter, in sacks. He took charge of the cotton and arrested the driver, George Carter. Three others named William Smith, Joe Smith, and Ella Hutchinson, were lodged in the guard house in Girard this morning charged with being participants in tho theft. RECENT THEATRICAL VENTURES. Tho New Opera Which Succeeds Erm inie at the Casino. New York, Sept. 34. —The Casino made a dangerous experiment on Monday night. It is doubtful if a more risky change could be imagined than that of sending away all of their old and tried favorites on tho rued, and producing an entirely new opera with a fresh troupe, and all the details in pro nounced and emphatic contrast to the opera “Erminie.” Mr. Daly, Mr. Wallack, and nearly all the prominent managers are chary of a change of this sort. If they pro duce a piece that is entirely different from the entertainment that they have been giv ing at their theatres, they Invariably throw out a sheet anchor or two to the windward in the shape of actors who have a strong hold upon the public. For instance, the clever people in “Erminie’’ would succeed in almost any opera. By- casting them in a new piece, it would have been sure of an “acting success” even though it might have failed musically-, or on its intrinsic merits. Mr. Rudolph Aronson, however, took tho ground, that, as “Erminie” has been run ning nearly two years, at the house, the best thing that he could do for his patrons was to give them an entire change of bill. The “Marquis” was therefore brought out in magnificent style, and with young come dians, tenors and prima donnas. It scored a hit off hand. In it are such excellent singers as Bertna Ricci, Isabelle Urquhardt. Lil lian Grubb, Courtice Pounds and Mark Smith. The scene of the opera is laid in France about the year 1760, and the plot hinges on the adventures of three lovely young girls named Mae, Marie and Marion. They meet accidentally on a stage coach, and, before separating, agree to meet again at the expiration of five years, for the purpose of comparing their adven tures and their fortunes. They meet at an inn which proves to be the property of Marion, who has inherited it from an uncle. The other two girls have climbed into higher circles of society, one of them being befriended by the King himself, and the other by a dashing light opera prince. Then there is a handsome colonel, who is also a marquis, and who displays an amazing facility for falling in love with everybody, at all conceivable times and in every possi ble place. The material for the opera is amusing, and everything about it in keep ing with the perfect taste that has lifted the Casino to the front ranks of light opera houses. The amount of care which has been bestowed upon tho production w-ould do credit to a grand opera organization,and there is no donut Rut the piece will run well along in the footsteps or “Erminie.” Had the “Marquis” been produced with a shade less of intelligence, care and inde fatigable labor, its success would have been doubtful, but every point has beeu polished, and every character developed to its ut most, The costumes are gorgeous, of course. The same cause which has led to the suc cess of “The Marquis” stamped the “Great Pink Pearl” at the Lyceum Theatre w ith the seal of emphatic approval. It is very seldom indeed that a play receives more thorough drilling and artistic tutoring than Mr. Daniel Froham has given to the piece which opened his first season at the Lyceum Theatre. There is a lesson in it for the slip shod management of uny of tho other houses in town. Insufficient rehearsals and care lessly gathered companies ruined the Union Square and VVallack’s Theatres Thorough ness in these matters has made Daly’s suc cess, and it will have the same effect on Fro ham’s Lyceum Theatre. No piece has ever been presented in New York with more beuuty and finish than “Tho Great Pink Pearl.” Mr. Edward Sot hern, the distin guished son of tho famous father, ndded a new triumph to his already brilliant achieve meats of the past. year, fie appeared both in “The Pink Pearl" and the little one act piece that pre-edo.l it, called "Editha’s Burglar.” Tho first was a strong bit of character act ing, and the second was a juvenile role which was played with <ie lightful spirit and dash. He carried off most of the honors, though Mr. Herbert Kelcey and Mr. Rowland Bin kstoim were well to the lore The composition of this company, together with the fact that Mr. Fiohmsn will manage it, sugge-t* that Mr Dalv will have n hr . k r:\al in the field. Frohtnan is i:i sonv* rcqs- -Is the brainiest manager in New York, and he has about him a company of unequalled excellence, consisting as itdocs of VV. J Lemoyne, Edward Kothern. Herbert Keloev, Rowland Buckston*- and Herbert Archer among the men, and Grace Henderson, Etta Hawkins, nudl Madame D.’Naucaoze. Tli“ pc .-oiielle of this troujie cannot lip approached hr the companies of either Wallace’s, Daly’s or the Madison Square, as far as the men are con cerned. The first performance was as smooth as though the play had run fora hundred nights. A neat hit was made by a man named Cotton, who said nothing through the piece but “so.” He rang the changes on this monosyllable with extraor dinary humor. Aft°r the dismal failuresof the past two weeks, two such remarkable sue'-esses as “The Marquis" mid "The Little Pink Pearl” are worth chronicling. Blakely Hall. Pensacola Pointers. Pensacola, Kr.\ , (Sept. 34. ('apt. H. \. Fuller, owner of the steamer Cumberland, arrived in this ejty tills morning. He is here for the purpose of establishing a line of steamers between this port and Tampa, Fla. \V. It. Cook, Superintendent of Public Schools for this county, has issued a cireu I*r announcing Die programme of the Teacher*' Institute, which nsM-rnblo* here next Monday end <x>nlmU'*x until Friday. The Florida delegation of the Grand Army of the lb-public passed through the city last night on their way t<> Nt. l<ouis. Hamilton Ooee Wet. Jahi'KH. Fi.a., Kept. 31. The • elec tion ym ••rdey for or against whisky In Hamilton county, pawl off quietly amid intense elrileiMflt and deep feeling. Tin; Indus* worked nobly from Die opening to thech>tilg of Die poll*, ruble IIIJ* Die wet majority in this jar redact from nflf -or atxtv to seventeen No official re turn* are yet in but th* county has gone wee by atioui 112* GERMANY'S PARLHMKNT. A MOVE TO REVISE THE LAW FIXING ITS DURATION. Quinquennial Instead of Triennial Ses sions Desired by the Government The Law Against the Socialists Not Apt to be Abrogated A Lull in the Row With France. [Copyright 1887 by the .Veto York Associated Tress. \ Berlin, Sept. 34.—The Reichstag will reconvene on Nov. 15. It is now clear that the leading domestic question w hich w i 1 he considered, is revision of the article of the constitution fixing the duration of Partin ment. The leaders of the National Liberals took the initiative in IBti7 in the debate on the constitution of the North German Confederation, proposing extension of the period of the Reichstag. In 1880 the question was again discussed, but without result. The government then proposed to prolong the Reichstag from three to five years, but only obtained uncertain support. Now, however, the situation is changed. The National Liberals are again an important factor. The government groups will renew the proposal of a five-years' Parliament, and the Conserva tives and Reichspartei will support it. Prince Bismarck privately prompts and will openly indorse the proposal, wtiich can not fail to olitkin a decisive majority. The measures will not, however, pass without keen and bitter opposition from the Progressists, who foresee in the transi tion from triennial t-o quinquennial Parliaments a road toward triennial budges, leaving the government unrest riot ed in the use of the national fund. The op position press even conjures up as a certain sequel to the alteration of the constitution restriction ot tho right of universal suf frage. The Centre party will also oppose the measure. LAWS AGAINST THE SOCIALISTS. Another project for consideration in Die Reichstag that, is certain to raise excited opposition is the Conservative proposal to abrogate the law against tho Socialists which law expires on Kept. 90, 188s. The Socialists need hope for nothing, as a bill will he substituted extending and in creasing the severity of tho laws relating to associations and the press. The Vossisclus ’/.eitung says that instead of relaxing repression the project means that exceptional laws affecting the Socialists will lie converted into laws egainst all opposition parties. Nothing really definite is as yet known regarding the scope of the bill. The leaders of the Ministerial groups are reported to lie in agreement on the measure There is reason to hope that the Progressists exagger ate the character of the proposals which, as truly stated,show a tyrannical exercise of the power of the majority that may lead to a revulsion of feeling throughout the empire. CONDITION OF THE CROWN PRINCE. Alarming reports of a renewal, in a had form, of the affection of the Crown Prince Frederick William have bee:: traced to Paris and Vienna source-. They are so defini-e and detailed that they have created much anxiety here. Inquiries sent to Toblach elicited a telegram to-night stating that the Prince has not boen troubled with fresh symptoms. FRANCO-GERMAN RELATIONS. The relations existing Is-tween Germany and France at the present moment are less irritating than for some time jiast. Count Von Munster returned to his post at Paris yesterday, charged with a pacific message from Prince Rismarek to M. Flourens. In his interview with M. Flourens, Count Von Munster said that the views of the German government, were that, the state of Europe justified hope of the maintenance of peace, which Germany would do her ut most to aid. RASH YOUNG SCH.NABELE. A semi-official reference to the case of the lad Sehnaiielc received through the French Embassy by Count Herbert Bisniarc-k elicit ed from the latter a promise that, m dispos ing of the ease the youth of the culprit would be taken into conslderatior. There is no improvement in tho relations between Germany and Russia. The Cologne Gazette presents an accurate reflection of Gorman sentiment towards Russia. It says that faith in Russia as an ally is dead, and tlrj t if the Emperors met under existing circumstances, their meeting would not have any political significance. WALKING STICKS FOR WOMEN. A New Kink in the World of Fashion. New York, Kept. 24.—A fashion intro duced at foreign watering places this year has originated the carrying by women of very tall and much ornamented walking sticks. The custom threatens to make its apjiearance in this country, though it is safe to say, with our present style ot dress and methods of living, these canes w ill hardly become popular They may, indeed, tin said merely to represent a fresh way of spending money Mild exhibiting extrava gance. I happened to sec one of these sticks n few days ago. It, had been brought to New York by a fashionable woman who had been spending the summer at Trouville. I believe she used the cane religiously on the other side, but here it occupies a prominentooi ner in the drawing room and is regarded more as a curiosity than any thing else. It is made or finest satin wood and is twice the length of tho ordinary walking stick. The handle is thick and round, topped with gold and sin rounded hv tiny tniquoi* and diamond*. On touching a soring this gold tip fii'-* tin ~ revealing within a small bottle, ore- im ibly for per fume. I say presumably ueeatiHo one would naturally imagine the gia*- r< • ••ptarln to lie destined for triple extrect* mid nothing else*. Inquiry, however, revea'ed the startling faet Diat anything liquid with the exception of perfume msv Ire earri.*d in the liottle. Vinaigrettes, I was gravely informed, belong to a past ge-.e-at i"n. No woman of elegHnee ever carries o;ie. She rubs a few drop*of fragrant ext; ac. in her rare, and put* any number ot When sachet* in the drawers of ner toilet t i!>le, but as to being *e*u with a vulgar smelling bottle, such u thing is out. of the question. What, pur pO*e, then. dne> the bottle 111 the jewele I isn serve' M by, in nine '-a** out of t>-n it is filled with chloral, brandy , liqueur or anv other of th s’lniulatillg drugs m> much affected by the modern woman of fashion. Cuba Lanza. Brownsville Not Devastated. Galveston, Tk.v, Sept. 31.—The follow ing telegram to the Aso-ihlihl Pii-s.* was received this afternoon: HsnwN-tvn.i.r. TANARUS x . Kept. 34. I’le*r contra dict the telecram* sent from l* re retailor to l tie deta*tat i"tt h> lhr -term in Ibitrity The slate of things Mas areally rxi .l le<l and inlsre|iresehi>*d But vrty IIIII .* tkiioigce wns done We are tally shirt" ear for the suffei era. If any there are. ,1 . A Miom.. Mayor pro lent. lioorgia'* LeffUlaiura. A t l.a xi vDa , Kept .1 lr<gi*lal ive pro ' ending* to day will hardly make an itrui The Henatn "'•> not in eesalon ami the Ho'iae was onnJXd only la readiag Mil* th* fit aland vsrend time CHARLESTON CHAT. A Breezy Letter From the South Carolina Metropolis. Charleston, Sept. 34 - Another week of sensations-- this time w it!i several first class burglaries thrown in. The! Yoghan mystery still remains a mystery, but one of tin) past; people have almost forgotten it, and even the reporters have ceased searching for clues. The burglaries, act omits oi which have already been published in the Morn- INti Nkws, have awakened the people of Charleston to the realization of the fact that its police force is utterly inadequate to the protection of the city, and a pressure is being brought to bear upon the administra tion to reorganize and reinforce it. The department, is managed by a hoard of commissioners, whose administration is not considered at all efficient. There are on the force a good many old men wholmvegrown gray in th service, but who are for that very reason unfit to discharge the duties. These men, it is claimed, should U> relieved. If the city is bound to do anything for them it might pension them. There are also men who might be weeded out for other reasons. The present administration goes out of office in December, unit will hardly do more than bring the force up to the number re quired by law —seventy-live men. They will, however, leave for their successors a splendid station house in tbo central part of the city, and no debts. THE MUNTRIPAL CANVASS. The municipal campaign grows in in terest, Since Saturday last another candi date for the Mayoralty has shown up, Al derman E. F. Swoegnn. Alderman Sivee gan is called the father of all the city fathers, from the fact that he has been an Alderman from the time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the con trary. It may be added that Alderman , Sweegan has been a possible candidate for the Mayoralty ever since he has been an Aldernmn. It will not be inferred that be ha offered himself for the position during all these years. What is meant is that he has been talked of as a candidate. It is not probable that he will receive the nomination this year. The Democrats of Charleston are searching for new men and new measures The United Labormeu held a meeting during the week and made another lizzie The meeting was attended by t wenty-<iiite persons all told, most of whom wore de ludes! Democrats. They first fired out, the reporters and then called upon those present to come up and sign the roll. Inquiries followed as to what was to be done. The answer was that the United Laborers were to cut loose from the Demo cratic and Republican parties “(lerreat Scott! Aro yez going to let In the naggursl” inquired a Milesian Demo crat. “Certainly,” was the reply. “(food evenin’ to yis,” and a dozen more of the twenty-nine followed the reiiorter into banishment. The United Laborers then organized with about thirteen mem bers. THOSE STEAMSHIPS. The new line of steamers to New York has not yet started. George W. Quintard, the great steamship king, paid a flying visit, to the city and ha several hurried inter views with the committee appointed by the, two Exchanges anU then skipped off sud denly to New Yore. Nothing definite is known of the outcome of these conferences, but it seems to lie generally understood that Mr. Quintard told the committee that Charleston might get anew line of steam ships for $150,000. “Would Charleston have the manage ment?” “Certainly not.” Ho the $150,000 was not forthcoming, and so the matter stands. “Charleston people sometimes do stupid things,” said a prom inent merchant, “but if Mr. Quintard ex jkm*ts them to give him $1.50,000 for a minor ity interest in two old wooden ships, he's mistaken.” This same merchant, who by the way is one of the biggest merchants in the city, thinks that a line of st eamers can tie secured of the cotton and produce men promise the owners a preference of freight. He is willing to sign any contract to that effect,and if a sufficient number of merchants can be induced to enter into an arrange ment of that kind, he thinks there will be no difficulty in getting up anew line. A BUSINESS KICHIT. Just at this time a rather lively fight is in progress. The Sun, the new afternoon pa per, lias been publishing letters from all parts of the State showing why Charleston has lost her trade and how she can regain it. A good mnny people, among them the Xew* and t'onr'er, think that Charleston has not lost her trade, and one wide-awake drummer took up the lettei I #published in the Sun, and investigated the financial standing of the writers with the somewhat startling result that most of them had no rating nt nil in the commercial agencies. As most of the Nua’s correspondent* claimed that, one cause of Charleston's lies of trade was the fact that her merchants did not sell on credit, this long-headed drummer points out that they could not very well sell on credit to persons who had no rat ing. There is more ground for the statement published here and alluded to in this cor respondence. that the young men of the city are emigrating ls>causo they have no chance to get on in their native city. There is hut one remedy— to pay living wages and to help them along in this world by giving them the chance to become the owners of their homes. THE COMING CARNIVAL. The gala week scheme gives promise of abundant success, and Charleston will lie a good and pleasant place to \ i*it during the first week in November. The committee have raised a sufficient sum to warrant them in undertaking a very elaborate pro gramme. The railroad. have fallen into lini'. The inqiortance of this enterprise to Charleston cannot l>e estimated. If the coming car nival 1-. a success ami everything points that way—it will leu! probeolv to the or gtnizMtrn of a permanent carnival awtoeia tion. which w ill soon Is 1 in a position to get up annual carnivals anil trade displays, which (annot fail to draw thousands of vis itors to toe city and to increase its business aid trade. It mav l>e mentioned that the carnival is almost entirely the work of young Charleston. The editor of the .Yen* mill < Vni rirr, in turning the matter over to his young men, told them to stir up the young men. They did so; with what result* will be seen in Novemlier. A FACTORY BURNED Inonndaries Started the Blaze - Many Store* Burned. Evansville, Ixn., Sept. “4.—L. f’uster A. Co.'s large furniture factory was dee trojred by fire hist night, and neighboring buildings were saved with great difficulty. Th • loss oil the building and stock is $711,0011. The insurance is $40,010. The fire was doubtless of incendiary origin. SI.AMEH AMoMI NTOIIKS. Memphis, Kept. ;t.~Kira last night at Wynne, Ark., destroyed nearly the whole' Imstnnss portion of the town. Th* loss is fully ETi.Ouh. The proper! vi partially in sured Wynne is seventeen miles north of Forest t'liv, Ark., *1 the junction of the bald Knob and Helen* breach of the Iron Mountain railroad NOTES FOR WOMEN Points About Interviews and Other Interesting Matters New York, Sept. -4. — Miss Marietta Holley, “Josiah Allen’s Wife," is not especially fond of interviewers and is apt to avoid them when she ran. She told me no long time ago, however, t hat her experiences w ith newspaper women were often like that of Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, who on one occasion did her utmost, to escape seeing a correspondent, but after a half hour’s talk made up for her previous backwardness by exclaiming with some warmth: “Oh, l like you I Can’t you come again f” Interviewers of thesex masculine dislike to get points from a woman sometimes, because they say she always wants to see the note book, the pencil and the other paraphernalia come out and to tie sum her sentences are taken down verbatim. 'I bis is not the experience of a feminine interviewer with her own sox, however. The woman’s punctilio with a reporter is mainly put on to let him know she ha* been through the operation lie to re and understand* the mechanism and the proprieties of the occa sion. The reporter may find ier ready enough to talk to him, but ho has no idea how she unbosom* herself to a newspaper woman whom she trusts. He she writer, lecturer, educator, on a charities board, whatever her doings, her plans or her pros pects, with a woman she Ims no thougut of lead pencil formalities. tshe knows she is talking to someone who very likely looks at the matter from the same point of view with herself, and she is as frank and ronfi dentiHl us if she chatted to her own shadow. Interviewing women commonly is very easy and very pleasant work for women. LAST SPRING WHEN THE ANNOUNCEMENT was made that Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleve land was coining to New York to reside in the fall, the house of Mrs. Syivanus Reed, in whose school Miss Cleveland had engaged to teach, was haunted for a day or two by reporter*, mostly women, to get the latest developments for publication. It. so happened that one enterprising news gatherer, resort ing to a dev it e not altogether unknown among newspaper men, presented herself to Sirs. Reed not as an accredited reporter, but as the mother of a little girl whom she wished to enter in the school. With a parent's pardonable interest she plied Mrs. Reed with questions about. Miss Cleveland's attainment*. her exact position m the school and Mrs. Heed's opinion of her capabilities, and that, lady, wholly unaware that she was talking for cold type, spoke freely, and experienced something of a surprise to see a sprightly and very readable exaggeration of her remarks in a morning paper next, day. Mrs. Reed was unable to remember the personal appearance of her betrayer, and the n • xt. feminine reporters who visited her would have met a cold ro (•option if she had not been able to produce satisfactory evidence that she was lint the guilty she. Women take the news scenting of the masculine reporter for granted, but they visit the sins of their own sox with severer punishment* All newspaper women suffer when one is a little too clever. Though the number of women engaged in newspaper work does not multiply very rapidly, the organization of women’s press associations testifies to the fact that the women who are in it ex|iect to stay. The Women’s National Press Association was organized in New Orleans during the ex position and branches have sprung up in several States. The most flourishing of these probably are the ('hicago Association and the New England Association, which numliei among its members Alice Htono Blackwell and Mrs. Vogel, of the Woman'* Journal; Mrs, Marion Mcßridl*. of the Boston I'ost; Mrs. Hallie Joy Whit?, of the Herald; Mrs. Kate Tannatt Woods, as well ns representatives oi a good portion of the papers published in Massachusetts. MltS. LOUISA KNAPP, who receives $5,000 a year for editing the Philadelphia Home Journal, does her work under conditions as pleasant as often fall to the lot of a journalist. Her business office is at her home in Camden, N. J., and is full of pictures and flowers. She ha* telephone connections with the Philadelphia establish ment and directs the smallest details of the work. Some pretty yachting costumes appear on these yachting days in New York. A woman who enjoys the water at all enjoys it very much and looks better on yachtlsjard than anywhere else. A pictur"sque costume tliat went charmingly with bright cheeks and flowing hair was a sailor shirt of a cream-white silk, laced with scarlet silk, and having a rolling collar. A short full skirt of a fine rod serge went with it, and a peaked yachting cap in red and white. Another pretty device for a showy blonde was a petticoat of striped blue and white serge Over this was draped a white serge tunic raised high on the right side and drawn plainly across to the left. The blue holies had vest, cuffs and revors of white. With the gown wont, a white felt sailor hat with ribbons of blue. A gala day yachting gown for smooth water sailing was of white silk shirt and skirt* alike, the color being supplied by a peaked blue cap and a blue susli knotted loosely about the waist and falling in lieu of draperies at one side. This also was a blonde girl's gown and suited her red gold hair wonderfully. Soft, white India silk gowns for not too formal evening wear arc finished nowadays with scarf drapery of the silk crossing the bodice diagonally from the shoulders, mid then forming a panier on one side. Home lighter fabrics, gauze or lace, fall on the other side low on the skirt like a loosely knotted sash. There is a long, pointed vest, and high collar, wrought with [K arls. Mrs. Whitney, the wife <• tne Secretary of the Navy, is said on pretty good author ity to mean to push her scheme for the establishment, of a college for the training of domestic servant* to accomplishment in New York this winter. Neither Mrs. Whit ney nor anybody else can induce American girls to enter such an institution unless committed to it by a magistrate until American women see to it that kitchen girls do not lose caste any more than shop girls or school teachers. Mrr. Langtry was a picturesque object,on Broadway tne other day clad in dark hluu tailor gown, fltiinir without a wrinkle, and crowned by feather plumed Rembrandt bat, But she does slain her hair. There’s no use denying it. There isn’t u t heat,re goer with a memory five seasons long who can't remember when it. was a simple brown without the red gold in it. fi. P. H. Her Hundred and Third Year. From the Ronton Herald. (me of the oldest residents of Kkhx county died \e*t*rday afternoon—Mrs. Elizabeth Putnam, of Dtuiveis, widow of (Jol. Jesse Putnam. Mrs. Putnam was horn on Not U, UN, In the town of Middle town, Hite married Col. Putnam, of Dan vers, on June ”, IS<H, and they at once went to live in a house which now forma imrt of the house where she died. Hhe had lived there all her (lays, and lived a happy married life for almoat eighty years. Twelve children were born to them, six sons and six daughter*, five of whom sur vive, All those wno are now dead lived lo ne Hfl years of age or over HTATianrs shoe tbs' thee uimiiiqKton ofsoftr tn lb* last tin v years baa gone up from about I* to TO pound, per head, of tee from it* to i . rounds |*u bred, of tobacco fropi Sb to ltd • ben greet gieedleifcen dwt. i PBK'ERin 4 Y EAR. | j .% ( E.VTS \ COPY, f OLD YETS SHAKE HANDS, LAST DAY OF THE REUNION AT EVANSVILLE. Letters Read From Gov. Gordon and Senator Cullom -Both Express a De sire for Complete Reconciliation of the Sections The Letter of th* Georgian the Most Cordial. Evansville, Ixr>., Sept. 34.—At the close of the Blue and Gray Reunion hers yesterday evening, letters were read from Gov. J. B. Gordon, United States Senator S. M. ( iiilooi, Gen. James Longstreet, Hon- Roscoe Uonkling, Gen. John U. Black, Gen. Basil W. Duke and Col. W, C. Goodin?. The Iwo first named are representative* from two sections, and ureas follows: I'HII.AUZI PRIA. Sept. If, IW7 To her rum-* .If. Shacket forth and the Committee on the Fe ll,l mu of the Rlui unit th an. KlHUwril/r. 1 Mv llk.ah Si as: - Official duties of a most presj ing character Impoaod by circumstance* wljicii I could not runnel conqiel my immediate 0- tum to Georgia It is one of the seriou- d'*- nppolntmeiits of my life that I am thus dem-d the privilege of attending lb* reunion of the Rliie, and I,ray at Evansville, It was my desire and purposu after witnessing th- cele bration of tbr Constitutional Centen nial at Philadelphia the present week to return by way of Evansville, and by my pres cnco to at least express the earnest and ferrsnt sympathy 1 feel with the heaven-inspired effort, thereto he made to luinish from Ib* heart s of brave men the last vestige of enmity and ot suspicion, and weld them into*,-,unmanbrother hood as sacred as truth and ns enduring ustini". This Is an object Immeasurably above the p-tty tMirtlsan aims and ambitions of men. nd r, a * compllshment should enlist, the prayer* and *f forts of good men and w omen in all our country. For myself I h*d rather be n bumble tottpi ment in t tie liands of Provirk’ni"* to obliterate the dissensions growing out of our late civil war than lo occupy the highest position in the universe. This result It is the beneficent tendency of the reunion t> achieve, and Ih-refore. it is wit’i nain that I relinquish the hope of participit.li g in the occasion. Trusting that the reunion -' l be enjoyed by all and that the high and gen erous purpose of its promoters will meet nob fruition. I am, my dear sir, sincerely and faith fully yours, J. H Go ft nos. SENATOR rULLOM .S LETTER SpaiNnriEi.D, 111., Kept 1-1. 1W lien. James if. Shackelford and the Invitation Committee; Mv Pear Bins: Your favor of the M m*t, iVKliiesting my acceptance of an invitation of your committee to attend tbe proposed reunion of the ex Union and ex-rebai soldiers of the late war to take place in your city on the 21*t to the -Jljd inst. inclusive has been received. Please accept my thanks for your very cour teous. lull pressing invitation. I have not answered sooner Iwcausc t hoped for several day* after receiving it that I might be able to attend, hut 1 find ihal my engagements are such t hat. I shall not ho able to do so. Such a reunion as protested, “of the blue and grav.” may Ik- made of value lo tbe country, not by yielding any principle for which tea Union army fought or tne national govern);.tot contended Inil by cultivating a disposition oil the pari of all American citizen* to pul away animosities and cherishing t he spirit of harmony ami peace between the section* in tbe inter csl of the prosperity of the people, with malice toward none. I regard it as i in- duly of all people to do ivliiit can reasonably he done to make r*ir na tion riot only a union rf States, but a union of hearts and bands a* w ell, holding fast to those principle* on which our Union rests, and also to grateful recollection of the brave and patriotic men who fought for the Union on the field of hallie. Trusting that your reunion may he a grand success. I am with respect very truly yours, S. M. Ul llom. WHIPPING-BOSSES. More About Their Way of Dorns Busi ness In the Camps. Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 24.—The eonx-jot investigation was resumed this morning at, 10 o’clock with a full attendance, except Mr. Hlllyer. Meriwether I,cwif, was sworn. He was in the employ of the Chattahoochee Brick Company,and was a guard of the con vict* on the Georgia Midland road. He re membered the time that Bill Slaughter,Mob ley Wilson and Bennett were whipped by Whipping-boas Bingham. They had be comes so unruly that it was necessary that they be whipped. It was his opinion that they became incensed on account of their rations Iteing cut down. Slaughter waa considered a very bad negro and bad threat ened to kill any one who tried to whip him. Arnold Conyers testified that he was with the brick company also, and was a guard of the cam pa on the Georgia Midland. Ha had helped to hold the convicts to ba whippet!, but only when orders came from Mr. Bingham. The witness said a good strapping waa frequently necessary, as they would not work if they did not, receive it. Testimony was introduced in regard to the case of Bill Bturgiss, who died in John son county, April Ut, Itrio. Cos!. Tower* testified that be v:*;ted the rnm|), but, found the statement tliut fc- was killed with a rail untrue. He wrote < 'apt. Smith, the lessee, that ho was gratified to report that the cas* was exaggerated about his death. He looked upon Col. McGuin, who was in charge of the camp, as a bad man. and in another ease he refused to indorse his reappointment to the p.ssition of w hipping-bos*. Gov. Gordon urged that greater speed would be necessary in order to bring th* case to a close next weak, and announced that, beginning with Monday, they would meet at ;i o'clock, adjourn at 2, meet again at •') and adjourn at .5, thereby doing seven hours' work per day. SALE OF THE TELEGRAPH. Jas. H. Campbell the Purchaser—Mr. Lamar to Retire. Macon, Ga.. Sept. 24.—The Macon 7W graph to-dav '-banged hands, J. H. damn !ell purchasing the entire stock of the pub lishing company from J. F. Hanson. Mr. Hanson sold for purely private reasons. The Teleji aph has been a pronounced pro tective tariff [taper. The new management will conduct it as a low tariff paper. Mr. Campbell i* a relative of J. H. Blount, member of Congress from this district. The -ale was the subject of gen eral street talk because of the complete change from a protection to a low tarirt' polity. Mr. Campbell lsverv popular in Macon, bring n widely known business man and universally liked. Bo far as can l*> learned the only changes to be made in tbe editorial force i the removal of Col. Lamar who has oeen in editorial charge for th* oast seven years. Harry Edward*. Robert llayne aurl Bridges Smith, of the old force, are retained. The paper will be improved m various way* In a short time The objarL <>i the new proprietor is to make iteonaerv -.and |t taking of nos ing of the course pursued by the former management. Mj. Munson and CM. laimar leave the p|i*r with the regrata of niiinv warm friend* who heve stood bv th* [Hiper throughout It* winding*. It i* not a now ii wlint Col. lAiuar’* future plana are. buthe has many admirers here who wish him every success. The amount paid for the paper ' not [-oillvely known, though Unstated uii ■? '* wan paid for M