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I THE HOEHINO NEWS. 1
1 t-cTisusßic 1860. Imcorporatid 1888. V
| J. H. ESTILL President. |
THE WEEK IX CONGRESS.
matters to be considered in
SENATE AND HOUSE.
Senator Ingalls Will Air His Views on
tbe Political Situation in the South—
Pasco Will Speak on Federal Elec
tions—The Oklahoma Town Site Bill
to Come Up in the House.
Washington, Jan. 19.—The southern
question in various phases will cccupy a
largo part of the time of the Senate during
the coming week. The feature of the week
is to bo Senator Ingalls’ exposition of his
views with regard to the south and the
political situation there. It is Mr. Ingalls’
present*intention to speak Tuesday after
noon.
Mr. Pasco of Florida has announced his
intention to address the Senate to-morrow
on his views of the proposed federal control
of elections, taking in the President’s mes
sage.
Bills for the admission of Wyoming and
I t the organization of a territorial form
of government in Oklahoma, will be re
ported favorably early in the week by the
committee on territories, and early action
asked on them. It is expected that the
nominations of Thomas J. Morgan, com
missioner of Indian affairs, and Dr. Dor
chester, superintendent of Indian schools,
will be taken up in executive session and be
disposed of during the week
IN THE HOCSE.
| jThe Oklahoma town-site bill is the un
finished business before the House, and is
likely to be taken up to-morrow after the
introduction of bills. There has already
been much talk over this bill, and the indi
cations are that it will now be pressed to a
vote.
The motion to reconsider the vote by
which the House refused to sanction the
repayment of salaries lost through the Sil
cott defalcation is still pending, and will
probably be called up whenever it appears
that there is an opportunity to reverse tho
last decision.
The ways and means' committee is pre
pared to request the House to take up the
administrative customs bill, and as this is a
measure of great length and complexity, it
may be expected to occupy the attention of
the House for a number of days when it is
under consideration.
THE WORLD’S FAIR.
Should the speaker appoint a select com
mittee on the world’s fair early in the week,
it is probable that they will speedily report
back some plan for selecting a site by vote
of the House, but until this plan takes more
definite shape than it has at present, it is
impossible to predict the treatment it will
receive in the House. The now code of
rules is also a possibility for a subject of
consideration during the week.
THE SOLICITOR GENERALSHIP.
No One Suggested as Tet for Gen.
Chapman’s Successor’
Washington, Jan. 19.—The death of
Solictor General Chapman, following fast
upon that of Walker Biaine, together with
the critical condition of Assistant Secre
tary Bacheller, of the treasury, and of
Secretary Blaine’s brother Robert, have
impressed Washington to-day with appre
hensions of the grip’s consequence.
Strange to say. no one has as yet been
suggested for solicitor general—for usually
mi official’s successor has been mentioned at
least before his body is cold. He will have
to be a first rate lawyer, even it the salary
is only $7,000 a year. Gen. Chapman was
regarded by those having dealings with the
department of justice as a better lawyer
than the Attorney General.
Walker Blaine’s oflicial successor is likely
to be William Henry Trescott of South Car
olina, who has been Secretary Blaine’s
unofficial adviser under both his adminis
trations. Just now Trescott is personally
representing Blaine as one of the American
delegates to the pan-American congress,
but as the vacancy in the department of
state wull not be filled for some time Trescott
may get it in spite of his political record.
ALL THEY WILL GET.
Silver Men Must Content Themselves
With Secretary Windom’s Bill.
Washington, Jan. 19.— 1 t is stated that
the President will not send a message to
congress an the general silver question, as
he intimated ho would in his annual mes
sage, but will content himself with letting
hi3 approval of Secretary Windom’s bill be
known, coupled with an intimation that if
the extreme silverites do not take this
scheme, they will not get anything in the
way of legislation. It is stated that he
considers this the most emtreme possible
concession to them, and would use his veto
iu this case to prevent their getting
anything more. If the silver
men make up their mind3
that the President really means this, they
will take Mr. Windom’s concession on thg
half-a-loaf principle. It is by no means
certain yet that the eastern republicans will
support the scheme. But on this, as on the
rules and the tariff, they may be brought
into iine by a caucus.
RUSSIA AND CHINA.
Tha President a Little Slow in
Appointing Ministers.
Washington, Jan. 19.—The Russian
mission is still vacant, and the Chjnese mis
sion is still held by Col. Charles Denby of
Indiana, an appointee of Mr. Cleveland,
imd a personal friend of President Harrison.
Ha continues to hold the Chinese mission
though, for the same reason that the Rus
sian mission continues vacant, namely,
because the President has not as yet found
the man he wants to appoint. It is still
said that C. C. Harrison of Philadelphia
and John Russell Young, formerly of Phil
adelphia, are to get the Russian and Chinese
missions, respectively, but the President
has not said so yet. One thing is certain,
Lov. Poraker will not get either of them.
Sherman, Butterworth, McKinley, and
Lrosvenor wiil prevent that.
THE BRIDE OFF COLOR
Gossip in the Census Office Over the
Marriage of Two Clerks.
It ashington, Jan. 19.—The census office
clerks are gossipping over the marriage of
Hr. Cullen and Miss Pryor, two S9OO clerks
in the office detailed since their wedding to
asnst Special Agent Day in Philadelphia in
c ■ij cting statistics about the production of
c hi, etc. The gossip is all duo to the alleged
net that, while Mr. Cullen is a white man,
r! s w ,“ e has a very slight trace of African
blood in her veins.
y h ! s -Cullen is but 17 or 18 years of age.
. w regarded ns one of the most expert
pewriters in the government service. She
v , a tim ® a student at Howard uni
a.u( I iator a studied at New Haven,
b>ne was appointed in the census
Judge'll he° r6colun mudation of the late
Wo* Jfflflftiitt#
BROUGHT ON BY LA GRIPPE.
Death at Washington of Solicitor
General Chapman.
Washington, Jan. 19.— Mr. Orlow W.
Chapman, solicitor general of the United
States, died suddenly at his residence in
this city, at 8 o’clock this m rning, of a
catarrhal affection of the kidneys, aggrav
ated by an attack of the grip. He was a
warm favorite with all who knew him, and
his death, following so closely after that of
Mr. Walker Blaine, produc*xi a deep im
pression of sorrow here. He had been dan
gerously ill only a little more than
twenty-four hours, and his death came
before’many of his friends knew that he
was seriously ill. His end was peaceful
and painless, and he passed away sur
rounded by his wife, Attorney General
Miller, who was devotedly attached *o him,
and who had been with him almost con
stantly during his illness, Mrs. Miller, w ife
of the attorney general, and Dr. Johnson,
the attending physician, who had been at
his bedside during the greater part of the
night. Mr. Chapman was first takeii ill
about three weeks ago with the
grip. He recovered from this attack,
and insisted upon immediately resuming
his duties at the office. His exposure re
sulted in a relapse, accompanied by verv
serious complications in addition to the
grip. He suffered from catarrhal trouble
of the head, and intense pain in his ears
made him restless and prevented sleep. The
catarrh extended to the throat and also to
the kidneys, aggravating an old trouble
from which Mr. Chapman had suffered for
some time, but which he incorrectly at
tributed to lumbago. He improved some
what, however, and it was not until Friday
night that he became dangerously ill. The
disease progressed very rapidly from that
time until his death, which came after he
had been unconscious for four or five hours.
Mr. Chapman leaves a wife, but no children.
A DEATH IN ATLANTA.
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 19.—Mrs. C. C.
McUeehee, formerly of Columbus, Ga., died
tc-night of a complication of diseases grow
ing out of an attack of influenza. This is
the first death in the city directly traceable
to the grip, but the malady is fast becom
ing epidemic. One doctor alone reports to
day half a dozen now cases.
Judge T. J. Simons, of the supremo court,
is very ill with an attack of la grippe.
CHICAGO’S BAPTIST UNIVERSITY
Site for the Institution Donated by
Marshal Field.
Chicago, Jan, 19.—1 t was announced
this evening that Marshield Field has sup
plied a site for the proposed new Baptist
university. He has done it by donating
for the purpose ten acros of land
valued at SIOO,OOO. The tract is in the
southern portion of the city, and fronts on
Ellis avenue, between Eighty-fifth and
Eighty-seventh streets. Mr. Field’s gift
fllla the last of tho requirements of the orig
inator of the university project. .1. R.
Rockefeller the oil king gave SOOO,OOO to
fouud a university on the condition that
$400,000 more should be raised, and that
none of the total $1,000,000 should
be used for the purpose of a
site. The value of Mr. Field’s iand,
together with the money already raised,
more than completes the $1,000,000. It is
intended, however, to consider it as no part
of that sum, but to complete the round
amount regardless of Mr. Field’s donation.
COLONIZATION SOCIETY.
Seventy-third Anniversary Celebra
tion at Washington Yesterday.
Washington, Jan. 19.—The 73d anni
versary of the American Colonization So
ciety was held in the Church of the
Covenant this evening, Rev. Dr. Hamlin,
pastor of the church, presiding. Prof.
Edward Blyden, a negro from Liberia,
made an address, in the course of which he
said that there was a rapidly growing con
viction that the white and black races
could not live in harmony. He was in
favor of a return of the negroes to Africa.
He spoke of Liberia as the garden spot of
Western Africa, and said that the negroes
who had gone from America were exerting
great influence there.
THE DEAD CHAMPION.
Great Pageant at the Funeral of
Henry Searle, the Oarsman.
San Francisco, Cal., Jan. 19. —Advices
from Australia by the steamer Marcopa say
that the funeral of Henry Searle, the de*
ceased champion oarsman, took place at
Sydney Dec. 14 The ceremony was wit
nessed by fully 170,000 people. The mayor
and aldermen aud a deputation of members
of parliament formed part of the proces
sion, whioh was one of the largest of its
kind ever seen iu Sydney. The remains
were interred at Maclean. There is a move
ment on foot to erect a monument to his
memory.
MISS CAMMERER GETS $12,000.
Mr. Muller Finds it Costly to Trifle
With Her Affections.
New York, Jan. 19.— The jury in the
suit of Miss Caroline Cammerer against
Clemens Muller for SIOO,OOO for breach of
promise to-day attended the opening of the
sealed verdict in the supreme court. They
found for the plaintiff in the sum of $12,000.
This verdict was reached on Saturday night,
after a deliberation of five and one-half
hours. The plaintiff was not in court, but
the defendant, however, was there. A mo
tion by defendant for anew trial was
denied, and a motion of plaintiff for allow
ances was granted.
WENT TO THE BOTTOM.
A Steamboat and Barge Sunk by a
Collision.
Vicksburg, Miss., Jan. 19. —The Yazoo
and Tallahatchie Transportation Company
steam! oat Katie Robbins collided last night
with a barge towed by the Josie Harkins,
from the Sunflower river, for this place.
The barge sank with her load of 3,000 sacks
of cotton seed and thirty bales of cotton.
The hull of the Robbins was crushed, and
she sank to her hurricane deck. Four of
her crew were drowned.
Fire at Chattanooga.
Chattanooga, Jan. 19. —A fire occurred
hore to-night that destroyed the building
formerly occupied by the Hughes planing
mill, a large frame structure 00x150, throe
stories high, four cottages, one two-story
residence and severed small shanties. There
mere about 50,000 feet of lumber in the
yard The main budding was being fitted
up by"the Chattanooga Stove Company,
who lose SI,OOO in lumber aud sustain a
further loss of $3,000. Tho total loss will
be about $20,000, fully insured.
Waynesboro Waifs.
Waynesboro, Ga., Jan 18. There are
several cases of influenza and jaundice here.
The town council are figuring on the cost
of electric lights.
There are several new residences going up.
The demand for building is increasing
.every day.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 1890.
WINDOM’S SILVER BILL.
A MEASURE PREPARED IN AC
CORDANCE WITH HIS REPORT.
It Authorizes the Issue of Treasury
Notes on Deposits of Silver Bullion
and Repeals the Bland Coinage
Law—Tho Secretary of the Treasury
to Determine the Price of Silver
Bullion.
Washington, Jan. 19.—The following is
the text of the hill prepared by Secretary
Windom for presentation to congress au
thorizing the issue of trea-ury note* on
deposits of silver bullion, in accordance
with the plan proposed in his report to
congress:
Sbction 1. Be it enacted by the Sennte and
House of Representatives of the United States
in congress assembled, that any owner of silver
bullion, tbe product of mines of tbe United
States, or of ores smelted or refined in the
United States, may deposit the same at any
coinage mint, or at any assay office in the
United States that the Secretary of the Treas
urv may designate, and receive therefor
treasury notes hereinafter provided for equal at
the date of deposit to the net value of such sil
ver. at the market price, sucli price to be deter
mined by the Secretary of the Treasury under the
rules and regulations prescribed, based upon
the price current in the leading silver markets
of the world; but no deposit consisting in whole
or m part of silver bullion or foreign silver
coins imported into this country, or bars re
suiting from melted or refined foreign silver
coins, shall be received under the provisions of
this act.
Sac. 8. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall
cause to be prepared treasury notes in such
amounts as may be required for the purpose of
the above section, and in such form and de
nomination as he may prescribe. Provided,
that no note shall he of denomination less than
$1 nor more than SI,OOO.
Sec. 3. That tho notes issued undor this act
shall be receivable for customs, taxes, and all
public dues, and when received into the treasury
may be reissued, and such notes, when held by
any national banking association, shall be
counted as part of its lawful reserve.
Sec. 4. That the notes issued under the pro
visions of this act shall lie redeemed upon de
mand at the treasury of the United States, or
at the office of the assistant treasurer of the
United States by the issue of a certificate of de
posit for the sum of notes si > presented, pay
able at one of the mints of the United States,
in amount of silver bullion equal in value, on
date of said certificate, to the number of dol
lars stated therein, at the market price of sil
ver, to be determined as provided in section 1;
or such notes may be redeemed in good coin at
tbe option of the government, provided, that
upon the demand of the holder, such notes
shall be redeemed in silver dollars.
Sec. 5. That when the market price of sil
ver. as determined by the Secretary of the
Treasury, snail exceed $1 for 371.25 grains of
pure silver, it shad be the duty of the Secretary
of the Treasury to refuse to receive deposits of
silver bullion for the purposes of this act.
Sec. 6. That it shall bo lawful for the Secre
tary of tho Treasury, with the approval of the
President of the United States, to suspend,
temporarily, receipt of silver bullion for treas
ury notes at any time when he is satisfied that
through combinations or speculative manipula
tion of the market, the price of silver is
arbitrary, nominal or fictitious.
Sec. 7. That silver bullion deposited under
this act, represented by treasury notes which
have been redeemed in gold coin or in silver
dollars, may lie coined into standard silver
dollars or any other denomination of Bilver coin
now authorized by law, for the purpose of re
placing coin used in the redemption of notes.
Sec. 8. That so much of the act of FeD. 28,
1878, entitled “An act to authorize the coinage
of the standard silver dollar and to restore its
legal tender character” as requires monthly
fiurchase and coinage into silver dollars of not
css than $2,000,000, nor more than $4,000,000
worth of silver bullion is hereby repealed
Sec, 9. That any gain or seigniorage arising
from the coinage which may be executed under
the provisions of this act shall be accounted for
and paid into the treasury, as provided by ex
isting law.
Sec. 10. That silver bullion received under the
provisions of this act shall be subject to the
requirements of existing law and regulations of
the mint service, governing the methods of re
ceipts, determining the amount of pure sliver
contained, and the amount of charges or de
ductions, if any, to be made.
Sec. 11. That nothing in this act shall be
construed to prevent the purchase,from time to
time, as may be required, of silver bullion for
subsidiary silver coinage.
Sec. 12. That a sura sufficient to carry out
the provisions of this act is hereby appropriated
out of any money in the treasury not otherwise
appropriated.
Sec. 13. That all acts and parts of acts in
consistent with the provisions of this act are
hereby repealed.
Sec. 14. That this act 3hall take effect thirty
days from and after its passage.
DISSIPATION AND EXPOSURE.
An Old Beggar Woman Found Dead
in Atlanta.
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 19. —Callie Sholes,
nearly 60 years old, well known as a boggar
of old clothes, was found dead in the
suburbs, near the East Tennessee railroad
shops, this morning. The woman lived
with her sister, Susan, who went to bed
drunk last night without missing her.
They were in the habit of turning
tho proceeds of their beggary into
.whisky and indulging in protracted
debauches together. Yesterday a negro
man who lives in the neighborhood fur
nished the women with liquor, and it is
thought Callie was looking for him to pro
cure more when she fell down, too drunk to
get up again. Tho body was found in a
vacaut lot, where it had lain all night. The
coroner’s jury found that the woman died
of dissipation and exposure.
Closed Up by the Sneriff.
Chicago, Jan. 18.— The AY. H. Hays
Manufacturing Company, dealers in rugs,
blankets, etc., bus been closed up by the
sheriff on judgments. Liabilities are $35,-
000; assets about the same.
AT LAPORTE, IND.
Laporte, Ind., Jan. 18.— Julius Barnes
& Cos., the largest dry goods firm in tho city,
made an assignment yesterday. The
liabilities are said to be $50,000; assets
$53,000. Barnes has been engaged in busl :
ness here for over thirty years.
A Gale at Apalachicola.
Apalachicola, Fla., Jan. 17.—The
wind took a tilt to the north last night, and
a norther set in that promises wintry
weather before it ceases. The wind is
whizzing out of a clear north and sweeps
drifts of sand and oyster shell before it,
windows slam and jar madly, men’s derbys
are hurled in the air like kites, modest
pedestrians strive vainly to suppress the
capricious flutterings of their skirts, but
old boreai is marching by, opening the way
for a full-fledged winter.
Called to Augusta.
Augusta, Ga„ Jan. 19.—Rev. Dr. J. T.
Plunkett of Detroit, who has been obliged
to Joave that citv on account of his health,
and who has been greatly improved by sev
eral weeks stay here, was to-day called by
the First Presbyterian church of Augusta.
His answer has not been given, but the
church hopes for a favorable response.
Death of Dr. Thomas Millar.
Winchester, Va., Jan. 19.—Dr. Thomas
M. Miller, one of the oldest and best known
physicians in the state, died yesterday of
heart failure at his home in Stephen* City,
this county.
Unable to Form a Cabinet.
Madrid, Jan. 19.— Senor Martinez, who
was summoned by the queen regent to form
a cabinet, has been unable to accomplish
the act,
BLOODSHED AT WEST POINT.
Several Deadly Conflicts—A Riot Nar
rowly Averted.
AVest Point, Ga., Jan. 19.—Yesterday
afternoon a riot was just, averted by the
coolness displayed by the white?. A negro,
Troup AA’ inston, snatched a pistol fnsm a
white man named Bug Carrington, and,
being drunk, pointed it at everybody.
Marshal Houge deputized Gixirge Burdette
to assist him in arresting Wii.ston. Tho
pistol went off, and Mary Sherrill, a female
triend of Winston, stabbed Burdette. She
was arrestoi, and both she and Winston
were tr ed and bouud over to court.
one neoro killed and two wounded.
Last night a negro was killed here and
two others wounded. Nolan Sherrill (col
ored) struck Claude Blackman (white),
knocking him down. Blackmail gathered
liis friends, said to bo Will Epps, Jarrett
Harrellson, John Reynolds. Will Dardoti,
J. Phillips, and Marshal Ragsdale, and,
findintr Sherrill returning from a party
with other negroes, they flroil upon them,
killing Sherrill and wounding AVesley Free
man and Alex Davidson. Freeman’s leg
was amputated above the knee ou account
of the wound. This morning ha is in a
critical condition. The whites escaped to
Alabama.
NEGRO AGAINST NEORO.
Two negroes, Squire Floyd and John
Jackson, quarreled to-day. Squire was
badly wouuded. lie has other serious
wounds also. His life is despaired of. John
Jackson was shot in the left side. The ball
striking a rib ranged under the skin and
proved harmless. There was great excite
ment over the various conflicts, but the
town is quiet to-night.
MOURNING HIS BROTHER.
King Humbert’s Dispatch Announcing
the Duke of Aosta’s Death.
Rome, Jan. 19.—King Humbert’s tele
gram to Premier Crispi, announcing tho
death of his “dearly beloved brother,” the
Duke of Aosta, says that the duko devoted
liis last words to the country and army,
saying he had loved them with tho strong
est love, and regretted dying so early only
becauso it would prevent his serving them.
The king concludes. “I press your hand with
sorrow at heart. Your Very affectionate
“Hdmbekt.”
Premier Crispi has started for Turin.
The queen and her son will go to-morrow.
The funeral will take placo on Monday,
and, at the desire of the deceased, will boa
simple ceremony. The army will mourn
forty-fivo days. The municipal authorities
will place a bust of tho deceasod in tho
capitoL
On the arrival of King Humbert at his
brother’s bedside yesterday, the duke said:
“You see, Humbert, I allowed rnyself to be
tortured with remedies in order to be kept
alive to die in your arms.” Tho duke re
mained conscious to the last, encour
aging his wife and sous, whom ho
recommended to the care of King
Humbert. By the duke’s own wisli
the body will not be embalmed. There will
bo no lying in state, and the remains will
be placed in the family tombs at Superga.
If there had been a state funeral the Ger
man emperor would have been proseut.
THE INFLAMED PORTUGUESE.
Protests Against the British Ulti
matum.
Lisbon, Jan, 19.—Protests against the
British ultimatum are displayed on tables
in public squares here, and have been
signed by many persons. A meeting was
called for to-day, in Camoens square, to
protest against the action of the British
government, but it proved a fiasco. A gov
ernment organ has denied that changes in
the cabinet are pending.
DEFENDS SALISBURY.
Berlin, Jan. 19. —The North German
Gazette counsels Portugal to adopt a sober
policy, and defends Lord Salisbury, who, it
says, is willing to settle the dispute with
Portugal, provided the latter respects inter
national law.
Want a Treaty Abrogated.
Madrid, Jan. 19. — A deputation from
Barcelona, has presented a petition to the
government against tbe Anglo-Spanish
treaty of 1838, under twhich men-of-war
of both countries have the right to search
vessels trading in African waters. The pe
titioners hold that the measure is injurious
to commerce.
Ex-Premier Sagasta and the majority of
tho liberals declined to support Martinez’s
proposed protection policy. Queen Chris
tina has recalled Sagasta, who has under
taken to form a cabinet.
Guarding Against Outbreaks.
Brussels, Jan. 19.—The infantry has
been confined to the barracks to-day in
readiness for any emergency in connection
with the labor troubles. A squadron of
cavalry has gone to Charleroi, wnere the
miners aro armiug themselves with axes
atid other implements, and assuming a
threatening attitude.
Banking in Brazil.
London, Jan. 19. —Tho Brazilian govern
ment has issued a decree dividing the coun
try into three banking districts, and provid
ing for three issue banks with a capital of
$250,000,000 in government stock, the cir
culation of each bank’s notes to bo confined
to its own district. Ten per cent, of the
earnings will be applied to the redemption
of the capital stock.
Btorm in the Irish Sea.
London, Jan. 19.—A terrific gale, ac
companied by thunder and lightning, pre
vailed to-day on the Irish sea. Much
damage was done to property along the
coast. Several persons were killed by
lightning, and a number were drowned.
Fire on the Steamer Venice.
London, Jan. 19. —Steamer Venice, from
Savannah, arrived at Barcelona, Jan. 18.
She reports that during her voyage, fire
broke out among tho cotton in her cargo,
hut that the crew succeeded in quenching
the flames.
Stabbed a Policeman.
Albany, Ga., Jan. 19. — Last night about
12 o’clock, John A. Faulkner, a white rnan
from Alapaha, became angered with a
negro, and, being under the influence of
whisky, pulled out a large, keeu-blnded
knife and started la pursuit of the negro.
Policeman J. AY. Kemp saw his actions, and
overtook him in front of tho express office.
The policeman only intended to remonstrate
with him, and laid his hand upon his right
shoulder to halt him, when Faulkner made
a backward stab, the knife entering the pit
of the stomach and cutting the left lobe of
the liver. Mr. Kemp is in a critical con
dition, hut the wound is not necessarily
fatal Faulkner is in jail.
Phosphates in Lower Suwannee.
Branford, Fla., Jan. 19.—There has
been several purchases of phosphate lands
here within the past few days, with South
Carolina capital, prices ranging from $5 to
$25 per acre. The opinion prevails that there
are largo phosphate belts lying in this por
tion of the county. Considerable excite
ment is manifested, and everybody has a
puskoUul of rocks.
TRAGEDY AT WAYCKOSS.
W. E. DONALDSON SHOT BY O. A.
SLED3S.
Sledge Claims That tie Did the Deed
Zin Dolenae of Ills Dead Wife’s
Honor—The Victim Had Been Drink
ing—His Wound May Prove Fatal-
Sledge's Statement.
Waycboss, Ga.. Jan. 19. About 200
yards from the Savannah, Florida and
Western railroad passenger depot stands a
largo two-story building, which is the prop
erty of the railroad company. This build
ing was used as the hospital and morgue
for the dead and injured from the Hurri
cano creek disaster, and was still further
made notorious by a tragody to-day.
The building is rent'd by a Airs. Brown,
and is used as a boarding house for railroad
men. C. A. Sledge is an engineer on the
Savannah, Florida and Western railroad.
List Monday Airs. Sledge died, and
was buried on Tuesday ufternoon.
The couple had one little son—
the little one who caused tho mother's death
by coming|prematurely into the world. Since
the death of his wife, Mr. Sledge has broken
up housekeeping, and taken quarters at the
Brown house. Bledgo had run his engine
all night, and at 9 o’clock this morning,
after breakfast went to his room for rest.
STARTLED BV A SHOT.
During the morning young \V. E. Donald
son. night hostler in tho railroad yard at
this place, called ut Sledge’s room, and It is
suppOßod tiegan drinking. He remained in
the room uutil 3 o’clock in tho afternoon,
when tho other inmates of the
house wore aroused by the
crack of a’plstol, breaking the otherwise
stillness of tho Sabbath afternoon. In a
few minutes young Donaldson staggered
out of Sledge's room and started down
stairs, meeting young Clements at the
head of the stairway. He exclaimed, "My
God, I’m shot; go for tho doctor." When
Donaldson reached the bottom of the stair
way he fell on his face.
A MORTAL WOUND.
The doctor reached him in ten minutes,
and after examining the wound pronounced
It mortal. The ball was from a 33-calibor
Smith and Wesson, and entered two
iuciiei below the breast bone and
iu the pit of tho stomach, and
glanced downward toward the left. Prob
ing for tho ball failed to discover it, and the
opinion is that it entered tho cavity of the
abdomen.
Donaldson is unconscious, and your cor
respondent could not get a statement from
him. He stated, however, before losing
consciousness, that Sledge had shot him for
nothing.
SLEDGE'S STATEMENT.
In an interview with Sledge, ho would
only make this statement. Ho stated that
“Donaldson came to my room somewhat
under tho influence of whisky, and, after
being iu there some time, began talk
ing in a disrespectful manner of
Mrs. Sledge, who was not yet cold
in her grave, making statements that
were exceedingly damaging to her virtue
and ca'culated to arouse the indignation
and inflame the spirit of revenge, and in
sulting the sense of honor of any man, and
wbon he saw that I was indignant and
angered he reached for an iron frog which
I had used as a door weight, and which
stood on tho mantel, with which he doubt
less intended to do me bodily harm. I
went to the head of my bod (I was in my
underclothes) and got my pistol and aimed
for his I reast and fired, hitting him a
little below my aim. I; consider
it a case of self-defense and in defense of
my dead wife’s honor, and am no more
alarmed than you are. After tho shooting
I went to tho window and gave the Masonic
and brotherhood signal to two friends pass
ing. I did not attempt to get away, and
will give bond if any is required.”
IN CHARGE OF THE SHERIFF.
Mr. Sledgo is now in tho custody of the
sheriff, awaiting the result of tho injuries to
Donaldson. Sledge has heretofore borne a
good charactur, and, so far as is known, hiß
wife’s character was unimpeachable, and
there is no known causo of the damaging
remarks made by Donaldson against her
memory.
Sledgo is a prominent mem her of the loco
motive brotherhood. Donaldson is origi
nally from Thomasvillo. The affair has
created n tremendous sensation here.
ROTHWKLL’3 NSW IDEA.
He Thought He Would Get a Girl
Secretary.
New York, Jan. 18.—A number of years
ago a bright idea occurred to 11. P. Koth
well, editor of the Engineering and Min
ing Journal. “I’ll have a secretary,” said
he, "to take the drudgery of letter writing
off my hands.”
So one day there appoarod among the
grave and learned “M. E.”s and "C. E.”s,
who write articles about tho lixiviation of
silver ores with hyposulphite solutions and
the world’s visible supply of copper a slip
of a girl from a business college with
pretty pink cheeks and dark eyes, an erect
figure, a healthy color and a general air of
sufficiency to her work. She was the sec
retary.
Perhaps the editor wasn’t used at first to
having a secretary and didn’t give her
letters enough to write to keep her busy, or
perhaps ho was away on business, a good
deal, or perhaps—and this solution is quite
as reasonable —the girl had away of getting
through work rapidly; at any rate she
found hersolf with some leisure on her
hands, and instead of crocheting tho latest
variety of fancy work or flirting with the
mailing clerks or reading novels or employ
ing any such familiar and innocent
moans of getting rid of time iu office
hours she began studying the mining papers
in the exchange bundles and getting
out modest scrajA of mining nows which
found their way into tho Journal, and w ere
appreciat'd. By degroes this occupation
increased upon her hands; mining corre
spondence was intrusted to her more and
more, until she managed, for what is one of
the best known trade papers in the country,
the whole department of mining news, edit
ing the original matter, culling extracts,
restraining the sanguine expressions of
investors who were sure they had “a good
thing,” and, in general, making the depart
ment felt among miners everywbere as a
storehouse of reliable facts about their
business and an incorruptible judge of new
emerprises. Odd work for a wroman, wasn’t
let But mining and metallurgy were the
subjects nearest at hand, and she devoted
her elf to them so persistently and success
fully that it never occurred to the “M. E.”s
or “C. E.”a to think it queer.
The secretary became in time one of the
best authorities on mining in the country.
She could tell offhand whether they had
put a night shift on tho Belle Creole or
whether Monkey and Parrot consolidated
was paying dividends. Aad she had an
especial girt for toning down the enthusi
astic reports of correspondents who wrote
of big bonanzas into safe and conservative
statenunw. Whoever about the office
wanted sheets of statistics or shrewd esti
mates went to tho secretary.
lty and by the secretary began to give a
part of her time and attention to the “busi
ness end” of the paper. She developed a
faculty for management, and nfter trying
for aw hile to do her now work by day and
get up columns of mining news by night she
concluded that to burn tho editorial oil reguj
larly until midnight was not good policy ,
and, accordingly, an assistant, a man, was
hbtainod who helped her with the mining
news, and finally took it altogether off her
hands. The secretary's whole time was oc
cupied with more responsible duties. Then
the business manager of tho paper left and
it seemed to the whole staff perfectly fit and
natural that the person who bod beeu long
est in the office and knew most about its
affair should Pike his position, and so in
the first number of the Journal for 1890
appeared a notice at tho head of the editorial
columns stating that “Mrs. Sophia Braeun
lica, who has been connected with the
Journal for the past ten years, passing
through every department, and who during
the last year has taken an active part in the
business management, on Jan. 1 was ap
pointed business manager.”
I went to see Mrs. Hraounlich in her
office tho other day, curious to know what
manner of woman should bo the business
manager of a mining ongiuoar’s trade paper.
Kate Field has a woman, and a young aud
clever one, to manage her new Washing
ton venture. Jenuio June’s fortnightly.
The H Oman's Cycle, is published and
managed by Mrs. C. H. Halay; Susan C.
Y’ogl is the very efficient business manager
of the H oman’s Journal, ami other pub
lications edited and controlled by women
have women to solicit advertisements, but
the management of a paper devoted to the
engineering arts seemed hardly a promising
feminine field.
Tho first thing notable was th reflex
mutual action upon each other of office and
woman. Tho woman ischartning, aud so is
her office. Tho office is thoroughly business
like, and so is the tall, graceful woman with
the white apron and the big brown eyes.
The room is daintily cloan—startling inno
vation; it is big—in the business section of
New York more startling still. The floor
is stained dark, and there is a square of
fawny carpet. There are two high lace!
curtained windows, with a caged canary
bird chirping and gurgling in each.
Orchids hang their weirdly beautiful
flowers from nooks and crannies,
and tall palms nod over the desk tops. The
smoke from the elevated railroad, whose
trains thunder past just around the corner
ell day long is very bad for the growing
things and they do not do well, so Mrs.
Braeunlich says, but you would never sus
pect that they were not flourishing uncomS
inonly without the explanation. Tho walls
of this business boudoir are painted a
bluish-gray, aud there aro big bookcases
filled with reference volumes, and a tiny
birch bark canoe hanging from tho gas fix
ture for odds and ends.
There’s always a difference on this point
among business women. Homo lake pictures
and portieres and homelike surroundings
into the dreariest office blocks. Others
accept philosophically with the new life the
usual masculine concomitants of dirt and
disorder. For a beginner innovations in
the wny of “fixings” arc often bad policy,
but when a woman has an assured position
she can have as pretty draperies us does Miss
Agnes K. Murphy, New York’s woman
real estate agent, or indulge in canary revels
and scorn uutidinoss like Mrs. Braeunljch,
and who shall dare grumble?
Mrs. Braeunlich is so modest and unas
suming and so much in earnest atiout her
work that it is hard to got hor to talk
about hersolf. She’s very willing to tell
you how indispensable the Journal Is to
mining men and what, a fine book the new
volume about gems, by Kunz of Tiffany’s,
which tho company is to publish, is sure to
be, and about the kindness of the editor
president and his readiness to discover
and reward merit in a woman
employo, ns in one with a bass voice
and whiikers. You have to find out by
slow degrees that her own share in the busi
ness is to look after four or five advertising
solicitors in New York and a lot more all
over the country, and to solicit advertise
ments by correspondence and look after the
make up of thirty, forty or sometimes even
sixty pages of advertisements in a week,
and koep the subscription clerks up to their
work, aud manage an expert edition, and
make payments and receive them, and
supervise the bookkeoping, and in general
run things in a big office of which
she is practically at the head.
All this is no trifle for a woman
who looks just atiout the right age to
be the belle of a ballroom. But she has
worked up to hor place a step at a time, as
a man would do if ho had it in him and
didn’t get drunk, and <> is easily able to
attend to it. Casas liko hers strengthen in
one who knows much of present conditions
the conviction that there is much less of
sex discrimination in business than is com
monly supposed, Sometimes the woman
who is os good an “all-round” hand in au
office as a man suffers because of the lower
reputation of her relatively jless efficient
sisters, but usually tbo woman who has it
in her will succeed.
Kuza Putnam llkaton,
A BABE WAB HELIC.
A Confederate Map that is Quite In
teresting—What It Shows.
W ashington, Jan. 19.—T. Sowell Ball, a
clerk In the Indian bureau, is the possessor
of a rare war relic. It is a map used by the
confederate government in 1884, showing
the vicinity of Richmond, and covers a
tract of country extending from Vernon
Station on the north to Petersburg on the
south, and from seven miles west of Rich
mond to Ferry Point, York river, on the
east. It shows the location of every
railroad, county road, ford, bridge
and stream, gives tho place and
date of principal battles, topography
of entire country, depth of water at
different landings, lines of fortifications,
forms and farm houses, with names of
owners; in fact, everything that would be
of interest or value in reconnoitering. It is
made in small sheets, SxBX inches, backed
up by heavy linen, so as to allow it to be
folded into txiok form without injury. It
was niado under the direction of Capt. A. H.
Campbell, C. E., C. 8. A., who, in a reoent
letter to Mr. Ball, guarantees its authen
ticity, and speaks of its groat rarity, the
negatives of it having been destroyed with
the rest of the engineer’s baggage at the
fall of Richmond. It is possibly the only
one which escaped the general destruction,
and is in an excellent state of preservation.
Mr. Ball has also letters from Jefferson
Davis upon the subject, which corroborate
those of the civil engineer. Mr. Ball, who
was in the union army, bought it from a
confederate soldier immediately after the
evacuation.
Arbor Day at Monticello.
Monticello, Fla., Jan. 19.— “ Arbor
Day" was celebrated here with appronriate
exorcises by the members of the Jefferson
academy, under the direction of Prof. Grif
fin. Tree* wore dedicated to Henry W.
Grady, Benjatnan Franklin, Jeff Davis and
Thomas Jefferson.
The music of the trowel and hammer,
shows that Monticello is steadily growing.
J. H. Perkins is erecting several very
handsome brick stores; and tewides about
half a dozen new residences will be com
pleted.
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i WEEKLY,*!.* AIfEAR. *
Dll. TALSIAGE IN' LONDON'.
HIS BEBMON ON “ HE PHILIPPIAN
EARTHQUAKE.”
The Seismic Disturbances of the
Homo—Financial Crash and Death-
Faith In Christ is the Balvation of
the Soul—The Loathsomeness of
the Grave Unless He Is With Us.
London, Jan. 19.—The llav.' T. DeVVitl
Talmage, D. D., of Brooklyn, preached in
this city to-day, taking for his text Act*
xvi., 31: “Bolievo on tho Lord Jesus Christ,
aud thou shalt be saved." He said:
Jails are dark, dull, damp, loathsome
places evoa now; but they were worse id
the apostolic times. I imagine, to-day, we
are standing iu the Philippian dungeon.
Do you not fool tho chilli Do you not lioa*
tho groan of those incarenrato l ones who
for ton years havo not seen the sunlight,
and the deep sigh of women who remem*
ber their father’s house, and mourn
over their wasted estates ? Liston
again. It is the cough of a consumptive,
or the struggle of one in a nightmare of a
great horror. You listen again, and hear a
culprit, his chains rattling as he roils ova*
in his dreams, and you say, “God pity the
prisoner.” But there is another sound in
that prison. It is a song of joy and gladness.
What a place to sing in] The music come*
winding through tho corridors of the prison,
au l in all tho dark wards the whisper is
heard: “What’s that} What’s that? It
is the sing of Paul and Silas. The)
cannot sleep. They have been whipped,
very badly whipped. Tho long gashes
on their hacks are bleeding yet. They ha
flat on tbo cold ground, their foot fast in
wooden sockets, aud of course thoy caanoD
sleep. But they can sing. Jailer, what ara
you doing with those purple* Why liava
they boon put in here? O, they have been
trying to make the world better. Is that
all? That is nil. A pit for Joseph. A
lion’s cave for Daniel. A blazing furnace
for Shadraoh. Clubs for John Wes
ley. Au anathema for Philip Melancw
thon. A dungeon for Paul and Silas,
But while we aro standing in the gloom
of that iTillippiau dungeon, and we hea*
tho mingling voices of sobs, and groan, am]
blasphemy, and hallelujah, suddenly an
earthquake I The ironb trs of the prison
twist, the pillars crack off, the solid masons
ry begins to heave and rock till all the door*
swing open, aud the walls fall with a ter*
rifle crash. The jailer, feeling himself ra
sponsible for these prisoners, and feeling
suicide to be honorable—since Brutus killed
himself, and Cato killed hunself, ami
Cassius killed himsolf—puts bis sword to
his own heart, proposing with one strong
keen thrust to put au end to hi*
excitement and agitation. But Paul
cries out: "Stop! stop! Do thy*
self no barm. We are all here.” Then I
see the Jailer running through the dust aud
amid the ruin of that prison, and I see him
throwing himself down at tho feet of these
prisoners, crying out: “What shall Idol
What shall I do?” Did Paul answer: “Get
out of this place before there is another
earthquake; put handcuffs aud hopples on
these other prisoners, lost they get away}”
No word of that klud. Compact, thrilling,
tremendous answer; answer memorable all
through earth and heaven: “Believe oa
the Jiord Jesus Christ, aud thou shalt h
saved.”
Well, we bnvo all read of the earthquake
in Lisbon, in Lima, in Aleppo and in
Caracoos; but wa live in a latitude wher*
iu ail our memory there has not been on*
severe volcanio disturbance. And yet w<
have soon fifty earthquakes. Here is a maq
wno has been buildiug up a large fortune.
His bid on the money market wus felt in all
the cities. Ho thinks ho has got beyond all
annoying rivalries In trade, an l'he says t*
himself: “Now lam free and safe from aM
possible porturbation.” But a national
panic strikes the foundations of the coirn
merclal world, and crash I goes all
that magnificent business establishment,
Hero is a man who has built up a very boau*
tiful home. His daughters have just oom*
home from the seminary with diplomas ol
graduation. His sons have started in life,
honest, tempera to and pure. When th*
evening lights are struck there is a happ*
and an unbroken family circle. But ther*
has been au accident down at tho beach.
The young man ventured too far out in th*
surf. Tho telegraph hurled tho terror ujl
to the city. An earthquake struck unde*
the foundations of that beautiful home. Tig
fdano closed; the curtaius dropped; th*
aughter hushed. Crash! go all those dd
mestic hopes, and prospects, and expect*
tions, 80, my friends, we have all felt |thi
shaking down of some great trouble, an*
there was a time when we were as much ex>
cited as this man of the text, and we cried
out, as he did, “What shall I do? Whal
shall I do?” The same reply that tne apostil
made to him is appropriate to us, “Believi
on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt hi
saved.” There are some documents of st
little importance that you do not care t*
put any more than your last name undel
them, or even your Initials; but
there are gome documents of s<
great importance that you writ*
out your full name. Ho the Savioul
in some parts of the Bible is called “Lord/
and in other parts of the Bible be is called
“Jesus." and iu other parts of the Bible hi
is called “Christ;” but that there might t*
no mistake about this passage, all thro*
names come in together—“the Lord Jesi*
Christ.” Now, who is this being this
you want me to trust in and be
liovo in? Men sometimes come to n*
with credentials and certificates a{
good character; but I cannot true
them. There is some dishonesty,in the*
looks that makes me know I shall lie cheats*
if I confide in therm You cannot put you*
heart’s confidence in a man until you know
what stuff he is made of, aud am I unrea*
sonable tills morning, when I stop to as)
you who this is tnat you want me to trus?
in? No man would think of venturing hi*
life on a vessel going out to sea, that ha*
never boon inspected. No, you mua
have the certificate hung amidshipa
telling how many tons it carries, and ho*
long ago it was built, and who built it, an*
all about it. Aud you cannot expeot me t*
risk the cargo of my immortal interests oi
board any craft till you tell me what it i
made of, and where it was made, and whal
it is. When, then, I ask you who this isyo*
want me to trust in, you toll me he was *
very attractive person. You tell me tba
the contemporary writers describe him, au<
they give the color of his eyes, an?
the color of his hair, and tho)
describe his whole appearance as ho
ing resplendent. Christ did not tel
the children to come to him. “Suffer littli
children to come unto me,” was not spoke*
to the children; it was spoken to the Pha
risees. The children hail come without auj
invitation. No sooner did Jesus appear that
the little ones pitched from their mother*
arms, an avalanche of beauty and lovq
into his lap. “Suffer little children to coirs
unto me.” That was addressed to tho Phal
risees; not to the children. Christ did nc*
ask John to put his head down on his bosom
John could not help but put his head thera
Much eyes, such ebooks, such a chin, sud
hair, such physical condition and appear:
ance— why, it must have been com
pletely captivating and winsome,
suppose a look at him was just to love him
Q! how attractive his manner, Whj