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A NEW DECREE IN BRAZIL
CIRCULATION OF FALSB RUMOB3
TO BE PUNISHED.
A Charge that They Have Been Set
ABJat in the Past in the Interest of
Censurable Speculations and to the
Injury of the Country's Credit.
James Fenner Lee Presents the
joint Resolution of Our Congress.
Rio de Janeiro, March 3L—The pro
visional government has issued a decree
jetting forth that whereas, to the detriment
of public order and tranquility, false reports
and alarming rumors have been circulated,
with the manifest and unpatriotic object of
favoring censurable speculations, and that
Each reports and rumors are highly injuri
ous to the foreign credit of Brazil, weaken
ing confidence in the stability of our insti
tutions and in the security of the obliga
tions contracted by the nations, therefore
Manoel Dodora da Fonseca, chief of the
provisional government instituted by the
army and navy in the name of the nation,
hereby decrees:
Article 1. To the provisions of the decree of
Deo. 23,1539,are subject all persons who originate
or aid in circulating, by means of press or tele
graph, or in any other way, in Brazil or in for
figc countries, false reports and alarming ru
mors such as refer for instance to the discipline
of the troops, to the stability of the institutions
of the country, and the pubiic order.
Art. 2. Vrom this provision is excluded writ
ten or verbal criticism, however severe it may
be, of the government’s acts for the purpose of
excising,correcting and preventing admlnistra
tive errors, provided it be free from personali
ties and defamation.
Art. 3. When the offense shall be committed
in any place beyond the limits of the federal
capital the offender shall be arrested and con
veyed to said capital for the purpose of being
here tried by the tribunal instituted by said de
cree.
Art. 4. All provisions to the contrary are
hereby repealed. The minister aud secretary
of state for the department of justice will cause
this decree to be executed.
llai! of provisional government of the United
States of Brazil on the 29th day of March,
second year of the republic.
Manoel Dodoko ha Fonseca.
Manoel Farroz i>e Campos Salles.
THE DECREE OF DECEMBER.
By the decree of Deo. 33 referred to,
persons committing the offenses therein
specified, are considered guilty of military
sedition, and must suffer the penalties for
which the crime is puuishable. The trial is
according to military forms, before a mili
tary tribunal institued by the government.
The offenses specified in that decree, are as
follows:
1. Conspiracy against tho republlo and gov.
eminent.
2. Advising, aiding, or abetting by word,
writing or deed, civil revolt or military Insub
ordination.
Attempting, by any species of instigation,
to lead officers or soldiers into acts contrary to
their duty to their superiors, or hostile to the
republican form of government.
4. Circulating in the army and navy false and
subversive ideas in suen a manner as to excite
unfriendly feelings toward the republic.
6. Promoting intoxication among the sol
titers for the purpose of leading them into acts
of insubordination.
OUR RECOGNITION OF THE REPUBLIC.
On April 1 at 1 o’clock p. m. his excel
lency, Quintino Bocaquva, minister of for
eign affairs, called for James Fenner Lee,
charge d'affaires of the United States of
America, at his hotel and took him in his
curnage to the palace Itamarity, where he
had an audience with Gen. lssiiiio, chief of
the provisional government, and Marshal
Manoel Dodoro dao Fonseca. On presenting
the joint resolution of the United States
Senate and House of Representatives en
grossed on beautiful vellum Mr. Lea said:
Mk. President— l am charged with the agree
able duty of placing in your excellency’s hand
an authenticated copy of a joint resolution of
the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in congress assem
bled, which was approved hy the President on
the 18th of February last, whereby the United
States of America congratulates the people of
Brazil on their peaceful assumption of the
powers, duties and responsibilities of self gov
ernment. My government, resting upon the
freely expressed will of the people of the United
States, thus gives voice through their
representatives to the cordial sentiment
they entertain toward the people of
Brazil and utter their friendly welcome to a
nation that, by the adoption of self govern
ment, has enrolled itself among the independent
commonwealths of the western hemisphere.
Thu friendship which already united the two
countries is a pledge of even closer association,
looking toward tee attainment in the future of
ends common to both. I cannot permit myeslf
to doubt that the high hopes my countrymen
cherish for the advancement of Brazil in the
paths of peace and material prosperity will be
abundantly realized under the beneficent influ
ence of justice and reverence for the rights of
ail men.
DODORO’S REPLY.
Marshal Dodoro replied:
With feelings of heartfelt joy I accept the
congratulations of the congress of the United
States of America on the auspicious event now
realized of the assumption of self-government
throughout the whole continent. The sentiment
of friendship and amity which has fortunately
ever continued to exist between Brazil and the
United States of America will be henceforward,
I hope and trust, more intimate and cordial by
reason of the identity of their political institu
tions, which establish a virtual alliance between
the Brazilian people and the American people,
an alliance founded on sentiments of mutual
respect, esteem and confidence and that has in
view interests common to the cause of peace
and of the prosperity of American nations. The
Brazilian people who have always held in
nigh esteem the good relations maintained with
‘he American people, will receive with feelings
of gratitude this new proof of friendship on
the part of the wortny and illustrious repre
sentatives of the United States of America in
congress assembled, as well as the signal proof
of esteem offered us by the illustrious President
of the powerful republic, your native land, by
sending us through your intermedium an ex
pression of their friendly sentiments.
ANTI-JEWISH RIOTB.
The Death List at Deala Now In
creased to 17.
Vienna, April 27.—An additional death
has resulted from the riot at Doala, making
the total number of victims 17.
burgomaster Murschau has been threat
ened with death for forbidding a demon
stration on May day.
Burgomaster Stockeran, whose house
contains a synagogue, has received a letter
warning him that his house will be burned
and that not a Hebrew will escape alive.
Anti-Jewish rioting is reported in Kolo
m,a, Gallicia,
COMBAT OF FLOWERS.
A Very Pretty Festival Celebrated In
Mexico.
City of Mexico, April 27.—The flower
Mst, or combat of flowers, began at 4
o clock this afternoon. The arrangements
l ; tn e festival were perfect in
wa y. It is calculated that 100,-
rf r rK 0 were on the promenade
rui,!iS I A orina nnt * Aveuida Juarez. In
c<,n* ° n T ? e ? rl s r unadorned carriages
*tehtseerß, there were over forty
and a< l< j rned with flowers and ribbons,
scMn Q fU 'rw 1,000 horsemen added to tho
quantity of flowers was enor
alone’ f ° Ur carloaila coming from Intaafla
Eleven Hours a Day for Women.
•AP r il 27.—The Xational Zeitung
woml h . e lab ? r bill the maximum of
eu s work at eleven hours a day.
Übe Jltofning ffctog.
THB WEEK IN CONGRBBS.
What the Two Houses Are Apt to Do
in Six Days.
Washington, April 37.—The Senate to
morrow will resume consideration of the
land grant forfeiture bill with tho expecta
tion of coming to a vote upon it before ad
journment. It is the Intention of Us friends
to have it disposed of by Tuesday night in
any event.
After that will come up the customs
administrative bill, and this will
probably fill out the remainder of
the week. There is considerable oppo
sition on the democratic side to the
measure as reported by the committee
on finance, and it is announced that Senator
Evarts has an amendment to propose, so
that the chances seem good for a debate of
t hree or four days.
THE SILVER BILL.
The silver biil is the next measure
of general interest on the order
of business, and will be taken up
this week if any time remains.
Although the republicans of the Senate
have not yot agreed upon all the details of
the silver bill, it is believed that a measure
which they will all support will be prepared
for the consideration of the Senate by tho
time that body is ready to entertain it. If
for any reason the silver bill should not be
ready when the customs administrative bill
has been disposed of the bills for the ad
mission of Idaho and Wyoming will take its
place.
Saturday, according to the regular order,
business is devoted to the consideration of
bills on ttie calendar to which no objection
is made; but this order may very possibly
be set aside,
In the Bouse.
The failure of the House to pass the legis
lative appropriation bill Saturday loaves it
to come up to-morrow as the unfinished
business. The previous question has been
ordered, so that the vote ou the passage of
the measure will probably be reached
shortly after the session of the day begins.
After it is out of the way district matters
will occupy the attention of the House, the
Hock creek bill coming up as the unfinished
business.
The present intention is to press the silver
bill, and it will probably bo called up on a
resolution: to be reported by the committee
on rules, allowing two days for its discus
sion.
THE CAUCUS PLAN.
Carrying out the caucus plan, tho pension
committee is to be given a day for the con
sideration of the service pension bill, and
the committee on public buildings is to have
the same privilege, in order to disposo of
the bills it has reported.
The diplomatic appropriation bill will
probably he passed with little discussion, as
it involves no changes in the law.
No time has yet been allotted to the river
and harbor appropriation bill, but as there
are a large number of members who desire
to see that measure passed before the tariff
bill comes up, they may be able to succeed
in having it considered during the week.
A HAIL SIOBM AT BALTIMORE.
Some of the Stones Weighed Four
Ounces, and Great Damage Done.
Washington, April 27.—The signal of
fice furnishes the following report from the
signal service observatory at Baltimore,
Md.: “The heaviest hail storm on record at
this station passed over Baltimore,; from
the northwest to the southeast, between
3:45 and 4 o’clock this afternoon. Many
thousands of windows in the city were
broken, the damage being confined mainly
to the western exposure. Many runaways
are reported. Some horses and carriages
were abandoned In the streets, their owners
leaving them to seek shelter.
PEOPLE PROBABLY INJURED.
“It is probable that a number of the peo
ple were injured, as tho stones were very
large, seme measuring more than two
inches in diameter and weighing more than
four ounces each. The extent of the dam
age has not been ascertained yet but it
must have been very great. Avery heavy
rain fell with the hail, four-fifths of an inch
falling between 3:45 and 4 o’clock. Many
of the car tracks at the foot of the hills are
covered to a depth of 6 inches, with soil
washed down upon them. The wiud at
8:55 o’clock attained a velocity of 30 miles
per hour, rapidly decreasing after the pass
age of tho storm.”
FREE CARTAGE RULED OUT.
The Interstate Commission Bays It
Constitutes a Rebate.
Washington, April 27.—The interstate
commerce commission has decided the case
of Stone & Carter against the Detroit,
Grand Haven and Milwaukee Railway Com
pany in favor of the complainants. The
main opinion was written by Chairman
Cooley, Commissioners Morrison and
Schoonmaker concurring and expressing
additional views. A dissenting opinion wus
tiled by Commissioner Bragg. This case
involves tho question of the lawfulness
of free cartage of freights by railroad
companies to and from one station
on their lines and shippers’ places of busi
ness when such free cartage is not givou to
shippers at another station on the same line
taking tho same grouped rate. The com
mission rules that the practice is in effect
the giving of a rebate from the regular
published tariff rate, and in this case also
violates the long and short haul clause of
the law by making a charge for a shorter
distance to lonia, Mich., greater than to
Grand Rapids, Mich., a longer distance.
The railroad company is ordered to cease
and desist from making such free cartage
at Grand Rapids.
A POOR POSTMASTER.
The Officials of the House to be Sub
jected to Investigation.
Washington, April 27.— The mail ser
vice of the House of Representatives since
the republicans came In has been very bad,
and constant complaints have been made.
Formal charges have now been preferred
against the postmaster of the House, a
Yvisconsin man named Wheat. The charges
are brought by one of his subordinates
named McCord, the son of a Wisconsin
member of congress. It is alleged that
much mail matter that should have been
delivered or returned to the senators
has been sold for waste paper,
and crookedness of various kinds
is described. Wheat is a one-armed
soldier who is supposed to have lost his a m
in the war, but who really lost it in the
firing of a salute after the war. The mem
bers of the House, who have had great
trouble in getting their mail, will not be
unwilling to see Wheat investigated.
Emperor William and Queen Via
Berlin, April 27.—The emperor spent
the day with Queen Victoria at Darmstadt.
The queen received a deputation from tho
Gorman dragoon regiment of which she is
honorary colonel.
Paris at the Polls.
Paris April 27.—The municipal elections
passed oft quietly. In the suburbs the police
destroyed a number of Orleanist and Bou
langist placards*
CORPSES ON TOE WATER.
SEVERAL LIVES LOST IN THB
REAR OF POINTS OOUPEB.
A Refugee Reports Running Across
the Bodies of Six Negroes—Hun
dreds of Dead Farm Stock Afloat.
West Melville from One to Six Feet
Under Water and No Dry Land in
Bight.
Baton Rouge, La., April 27.—'The work
of closing the Martinez crevasse below
Buton Rouge is progressing favorably.
Two steamboats, two tugboats, four barges
and 1,500 men are engaged at the work.
WEST MELVILLE FLOODED.
West Melville, La., April 27.—Every
thing looks gloomy. There are now one to
six feet of water in our town limits, and
not a sign of land anywhere exoept a small
strip of tho levee on the front. The water
is within two inches of the top of the
levee, and no more material is obtainable,
the earth hereaboat being covered with
water. It has been raining torrents all day
and both the river and back water are ris
ing.
LOSS OF LIFE.
New Orleans, La., April 27.—A Baton
Rouge special says: “J. M. Ferguson
arrived last night from the rear of f'ointe
Coupee parish. He came in a skiff and
brought with him some household effects.
He substantiated the rumors of loss of life
in the back country, and states
that at a point between Mor
ganza and Labelle, about nine miles
inland, a family of five negroes named
Watson were swept out of existence. On
his way out he ran across the drowned body
of a negro man unknown to him. The body
was floating in a swamp, and Mr. Ferguson
made it fast to a tree, hundreds of drowned
stock were passed, and Mr. Ferguson said
the suffering is terrible in the interior.
Baton Rouge is full of refugees, many
securing homes in the hills, while others
are awaiting the falling of the waters.”
LOWER WATER AT GREENVILLE.
Greenville, Miss., April 27.— The river
has fallen 4X inches in the past twenty
four hours, which is 2% feet from the high
est point reached this year. It is feared
that this fall will be somewhat checked by
the rise now coming out of the Arkansas
river.
COTTON’S MOVEMENT.
A Statement for the Period from
sept. 1 to April 25.
New Orleans, April 27.—The New Or
leans Cotton Exchange issued yesterday the
following statement covering the cotton
crop movement from Sept 1 to April 25 in
clusive, based on telegraphic reports from
all the leading cotton centers and railroad
crossings on the Ohio, Mississippi and Poto
mac rivers: The net shipments overland to
Northern American and Canadian mills for
the week ending April 25 were 8,910 bales,
against 5,902 during the same week last
year, making the total for the season to
date 892,067, against 906,238.
takings of the mills.
American mills have taken during the
tbirty-four weeks 2,132,348 against 2,129,-
513 bale3 last year, of which by northern
spinners and Canada overland 1,728,546
bales against 1,725,711 bales.
The northern mill takings during the
week, 10-s stock corrections, wero 5,795
against 10,709 for the corresponding seven
days of last year.
The amount of the American crop brought
into sight during the past week was 23,715
bales against 81,525 bales for the seven days
last year ending April 35, making the total
thus far for the month of April 89,626 bales
against 117,244 bales for the corresponding
twenty-five days in April of last year.
THE CROP IN SIGHT.
The Bmount of the crop now in sight is
7,007,128 bales, against 6,728,301 bales up to
this date last year.
The foreign exports during the week were
10,112 bales less than those for the corre
sponding seven days last season, reducing
the excess to date over last year to 324,201.
The stocks at shipping ports and twenty
nine leading inte ior southern markets were
in tho aggregate reduced during the week
40,903 I mlts, against a falling off during the
same time last year of 48,071 bales, and are
now 150, 781 bales less than they were at
this time last season.
Owing to the small extent of the move
ments and the departure of Secretary Sester
for Washington to be gone for an indefinite
period, those reports will bo temporarily
discontinued.
EXPREBS HAND3 NOT TO STRIKE.
Their Decision the Result of Confer
ences with the Company.
Chicago, April 27. —A1l fears of a strike
by the employes of the United States Ex
press Company wore finally banished to
day. The men met and by an unanimous
vote decided to accept for tbe present at
least the new scale of wages announced by
the company to take effect May 1. This
determination is the result of a thorough
discussion with Vice President Crosby’s
committee ir. answer to the emploves’ com
mittee that waited upon Vice President
Crosby April 23. In his reply, Mr. Crosby
stated that a reduction in salaries was ab
solutely necessary, and that exigencies
could be met in no other way. A pledge
was given that when the condition of the
company warrants it the salaries will be
restored.
A RIVAL OF THE NEC A.
Wilmington Sends a Fine Pilot Boat
to the Regatta.
Charleston. S. C., April 27.—A1l the
pilots of this port have been admiring the
superb pilot boat Addle of Wilmington, N.
C., which put in here fo-day on her way to
Savannah to enter the pilot boat regatta.
The unanimous verdict is that tbe
Addle is the largest, and barring
tho Neca, tho most symmetrical craft on the
South Atlantic coast. She will sail for Tybee,
weather permitting, to-morrow morning,
and will be accompanied by the Frances
Elizabeth, the holder of the pennant. It is
doubtful if any other Charleston boat will
enter tho race, although several may go
down to take part in the festivities.
DALLAS FULL OF WATER.
Tho Water Up to the Second Stories
in Some Places.
Dallas, Tex., April 27.— Yesterday and
last night the river rose rapidly, aud this
morning the highest water mark in fifty
years was passed. It is two miles wide in
front of this city. All the residences on
the north from a short distance||from
Cochran stree: are submerged, many to the
second floor, and some above. On the south
and in tbe front of the city there is a vast
ocean of water 30 to 40 feet deep and still
rising. Trains were not run north or south
of the city to-day.
Germany's Empress and Queen Vic
toria.
Berlin, April 26. —The Empress of Ger
many arrived at Darmßtadt this morning
ou a visit to the Queen of England.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY APRIL 28, 1890.
BOODLE FOB THE G. O. P.
The Republican Executive Commit
tee’s Raid on the Purses.
W asbington, April 37.—One of the prin
cipal subjects to be considered by the
executive committee of the republi
can national committee when it
meets here next week, is the ever
important one of Raising funds, with
special reference to the campaign of next
fall. Senator Quay, First Assistant Post
master Oeueral Clarkson and Col William
Dudley, being now the general managers
of the Republican party, take charge of all
national campaigns, and so will direct the
fight for senators aud congressmen next
fall just as closely os they will direct the
presidential campaign of 1892. Just now
the general campaign chest from which
they propose to draw their fuuds is far
from being full.
quay’s chromo scheme.
Chairman Quay’s ingenious scheme for
making every republican a stockholder in
the party by Issuing to him a hands mie
chromo certificate of a contribution of $lO
or more, has been established, and Senator
Quay’s late private secretary, Frank Will
ing Leach, in his capacity as deputy secre
tary of the republican national committee,
is sending out invitations to the men on tho
lists of the various committees, which have
been procured for that purpose, to take
stock in the grand old party, but in the
present uncertainty of party feeling this
has been done very cautiously. Even Sec
retary Leach’s diplomatic stylo is liable to
appear at a disadvantage in letters of this
character, and it is difficult to make sure
that they shall fall only Into “safe” hands.
TRYING TO DODGE THE LAW.
The combined intellect of the big three
are to be applied to tho problem of formu
lating a plan for safely avoiding the law
against political assessments. Senator
Qnay, Col. Dudley, and George Clarkson
will carry tho suit against the Old Domin
ion League, of which they are the real de
fendants and defenders, to the United Stales
supreme court in the attempt to establish
the proposition that it iq not u violation of
the law to send political assessment letters
through the mail to government employes,
but pending their appeal they think they
must have tne “voluntary contributions” of
the poor clerks, and are casting about for
some way of breaking the law without get
ting caught.
BAPTISTS OFF FOB HOME.
The Convention at Washington
Brought to a Close.
Washington, Ga., April 27.—Large con
gregations attended the religious services
here to-day and listened to Dr. J. B. Haw
thorne at the Methodist church, Dr. H. C.
McDonald at the Presbyterian church and
Dr. G. A. Nunnally at the Baptise church
this morns:ig; and Dr. W. L. Kilpatrick at
the Methodist and Dr. J. G. Gibson at the
Baptist church to-night. These sermons
were, without exception, eloquent and in
every way worthy of the denominational
leaders. There was a large Sunday school
mass meeting at the Baptist church this af
ternoon, with addresses to the children by
Revs. J. F. Eden, T. C. Carlton, W. L. Kil
patriok, C. M. Wilkinson and T. C. Boykin.
With to-night’s services the convention
is at an end.
A large delegation of the members will
attend the southern Baptist convention
which meets at Sort Worth May 9.
Washington’s hospitality has been un
bounded and cannot be surpassed.
The next state Baptist convention will
meet in Hawkinsville on Tuesday before
the second Sunday in April, 1891.
SAM JONES’ LATEST STIR.
Ho Declares tho Mecklenburg Cele
bration Founded on a Myth.
Charlotte, N. C., April 27.—Sam Jones
preached three sermons to-day to audienoes
of 6,009 at each meeting in a tabernacle.
In the afternoon, at a sermon to men, 5,000
were present. The evangelist created a
sensation and aroused much indignation
among old citizens bv denouncing tne cele
bration of the Mecklenburg declaration of
independence on May 20, as founded on a
mytn and nothing, but a drunken fmlie.
May 20 is a legal holiday in North Carolina.
A RETRACTION.
At a sermon to-night Mr. Jones said that
his charge that the Mecklenburg declaration
is a myth, he had since learned, was an
egregrious error. He apologized humblv
for slandering a noble people, and said that
those Philadelphia people had imposed in
him in tho matter, and when he got back to
Philadelphia again, he would stamp the
feathers out of them for imposing on him
about the Mecklenburg declaration of inde
pendence.
A DUEL TO THB DEATH.
Two Negroes Fight About a Girl and
One is Killed.
Augusta, Ga., April 27. —Last night as
William Briggs aid Leonard Butler, two
young negroes, were returning home from
a dance they got into a quarrel and fight
about a girl at tho dance. There was a
severe fight under tho dim light of the
moon, and the duel was to tho death. Briggs
received a blow back of tho ear witn a
stone which crushed bis skull and he fell
senseless. He was carried home but never
regained consciousness and died before day
light this morning. Thii occurred on a
plantation about eight miles from the city.
The coroner was notified to-day and held an
inquest. Dr. Glass made an autopsy and
said death resulted from coucussiou of the
brain. Tbe jury’s verdict was, “death
from a stone in the hands of Leonard But
ler,” and William Harris and Henry Pat
terson were declared accessories to the
crime. The three negroes were arrested.
MEMORIAL DAY AT ALBANY.
Appropriate Exerciser Over the
Graves of the Dead.
Albany, Ga., April 27.—At 3 o’clock
this afternoon tho memorial procession
was formed at the Pine Street Baptist
church and proceeded to the cemetery, led
by the Guards, with the confederate vet
erans, tbe different Sunday schools aid
citizens following in the line of march. Tho
sorvices at the cemetery were opened with
preyer by Rev. Mr. Eppes. J. S. Davis, in
a short and beautiful address, introduced
the orator of the occasion, Judge Hugh V.
Washington, of Macon. After tho address
the Guards fired a salute over the graves of
the dead heroes. Judge Washington was
complimented on all sides and his effort
was spoken of highly by all.
A Cloud Burst in Indiana.
Louisville, April 27.—A cloud burst
struck English, Ind., at 1 o’clock yesterday
morning. The water rose rapidly and
flooded tbe streets and many hous -s to a
depth of four feet. W itbin fifteen minutes
the water began to recede. Muoh damage
was done.
John J. O’Brien Dead.
New York, April 27.—John J. O’Brien,
the republican leader of the Eighth as
sembly district, died this morning at.
Baeder’s hotel, on Coney Island*
A DEFENSE OF FLORIDA.
THE PRESIDENT'S INFORMATION
SHOWN TO BE FALSE.
—. t - ■
Officers of the United States Court
Openly Boasting that It Was to be
Run to Persecute Democrats—The
Packing of the Federal Grand Jury.
Obstruction Denied. *
Jacksonville, Fla., April 27.—The fol
lowing open letter has been addressed to
President Harrison by the editor of the
Times-Union in reply to the statements
contained in his letter to Attorney General
Miller.
Jacksonville, Fla., April *7, 1890.
To Benjamin Harrison, President of the United
States:
Sm—lt is with surprise and with a deep sense
of injury that the people of Florida read this
morning your letter of April 24. addressed to
Attorney General Miller, and containing state
ment* with reference to them which. they are
convinced, must hare been based upon mis
information as to the true condi
tion of affairs in Leon, Hadden,
Madison and Jefferson counties. Under ordi
nary circumstances It would he highly pre
sumptuous in me, and repugnant to ir.y sente
of proprieties, to thus Intrude upon your atten
tion. Yet the fact that the Times-Union, the
leading daily newspaper of this state, occupies
an intermediary position with reference to the
people of 4 iorida and the public, whose good
opinion they hold in high esteem, makes
me feel sure that a prompt word
of defense and explanation from this
quarter will, at least, be appreciated by them,
and may prove not wholly distasteful to you.
nor appear to have been uncalled for under tho
circumstances. If it shall serve to enlighten
you, eveu in the smallest particular, upon the
true conditions prevalent in those four coun
ties, I shall feel more than repaid for tho risk
of adverse criticism incurred by taking this
step.
PERSECUTION PLANNED,
You say that in the four counties named
“obstructions are offered to tho execution of
processes of the courts of the United States,
and that officers of the United States are not
suffered freely to exerctse their lawful func
tions." There, tho source of your information
is doubtless the official channels of the depart
ment of justice based upon the allegations of
the officers of the court for this district. Bow
worthy of credence those are you can
best judge by tho following circum
stances: fihortly after your appointment
of Cnarles 8 wayue as district judge
an finder : oflscer of his court openly boasted
that its policy was to be oue of persecution of
democrats to thi bitter end, a threat which
naturally put them on the defensive, and pro
voked a widespread Judge Kwayne’s
tribunal. On July 6, last, tin judge ap
pointed a jury commission in open and flagrant
violation of the United Htates statute, and an
other officer of his court has only recently been
charged with the udmission that thii act was
unlawful, but done to make the conviction of
the democrats sure, a charge which he has
never publicly denied.
THE PACKED JURY.
The marshal of this court ordered his deputy
to select for jurors only “true and tried repub
licans,” another open violation of the statute,
which directs that the selection shall bn made
without regard to party affiliations. Undor this
arrangement the grand jury contained twenty
two republicans in a total of twenty-three
members. Indictments against, democrats for
political offens-s were then found by wholesale,
in many instances upon the most un
reliable testimony, and the people gener
ally were aroused to a high pitch
of indignation and fears. In tlie cases
that came to trial tho rulings of the court were
often partisan, unjust and still the packed grand
jury kept grinding out indictments.
Do you wonder then at the citizens of Leon,
Gadsden, Jefferson aud Madison counties, where
a large number of indictments have been found
against men known to be innocent of any
wrong doing, shrank from appearing for trial
before a court thus constituted to convict the
guilty and innocent alike?
A HELPLESS PEOPLE.
Many of those men were poor, living among
neighbors similarly conditioned in life, little
known outside of their immediate communities
and confronted with serious difficulty iu secyr
ing bail. Do you wonder that they evaded
arrest; that innocent men preferred privations
and hardships in concealment to facing a court
constituted to convict and holding open
the doors of the penetentiary for
them? In some instances men bare
been rendered desperate under tne circum
stances. Gan you wouder at it? The condi
tion in these counties has beon truly deplorable.
Wives, mothers and children have lived In
constant terror. They have feared that at any
day or hour their loved ones might be dragged
from their Domes hundreds of miles away for
trial before a partisan court and bo mode to
suffer punishmeut, innocent or guilty. They
have had the sympathy of their own people
and the state in general. They ask you to con
sider these things.
NO OBSTRUCTION OFFERED.
The people of tbe counties are not offering
obstructions to the execution of court proc
esses. They object to being held responsible
for isolated individual acts. They are not law
less, nor do they seek to “set the law at defi
ance." They are an industrious, God-fearing
and law-respecting people. They have
been grossly misrepresented. They are
not inhospitable to oMc -rs of the United States
court, in the town of Madison, where it bad
been ehorged that a marshal’s posse was re
fused accommodations, an Investigation proved
the eontrarv. I have in iriy possession a state
ment signed by eleven of the posse to tbe effect
that they were “treated like , on! lemon." You
are charged with the responsibility of execut
ing the laws. The people of these fourcounties
do not desire to offer any obstructions
or any resistance to such execution; it
is their wish to aid you in bringing wrong
doers to punishment; but I know that I voice
their sentiments when 1 assure you that they
earin t respect the United States court for tills
district if it is to continue its policy of the past
nine months. If it is purified, if it is cleansed
of ail suspicion of partisanship, of designed
oppression, of injustice, its officers will en
counter no resistance, no obstruction, no eva
sion in Leon. Gadsden, Jefferson and
Madison counties. Constitute tho district
court to mete out justice, not injustice, and the
people of Florida wifi hold it in as high respect
as do the people of any state in the union. Very
respectfully, F. W. Hawthorne.
Editor Times-Union,
THOMA6VILLB TOPICS.
The County Convicts—Readable News
paper Articles.
Thomasville, Ga., April 27.—For some
time the county convict question has been
causing dissatisfaction. Thomasville has
be in working the oonvicts on terms that
stirred up the wrath of certain villages in
the county. Tho recent grand jury recom
mended that Tbomasvillo still retain them,
provided they shall bo do expense to the
county, but it Thomasville does not want
them on those terms that they are to be let
to the highest bidder in or out of the county.
This recommendation, it is believed, will
give general satisfaction.
READABLE SKETCHES.
The 'Times-Enterprise, Thomasville’s
I sprightly daiiy, has had a number of very
interesting editorial articlos, giving an ex
haustive and intelligent exposition of
Thomas county, its cities, towns and ham
lets, with sketches of history and much
valuable information.
Miss Bettie Bruce, one of the belles of
Thomasville, aDd Lieut. Lunsford Daniel of
the United States army, were married on
Thursday at the reudance of the bride’s
mother. Lieut. Daniel’s regiment is in New
Mexico, and he and his bride have gone to
join it.
The Hussars have received their uniforms
and satiers and present a splendid appear
ance on horseback.
A War Service of Confederates.
Atlanta, April 27.—About 5,000 con
federate veterans, who went into camp in
one of tho city parks yesterday, held a war
service to-day aud wore addressed by several
army chaplains.
WEATHER AND CROPS.
Tha Weekly Bulletin of the Signal
Service.
Washington, April 24—Tha weather
crop bulletin issued to-day by the signal
service says: “During the past week the
temperature differed but slightly from nor
mal iu all tho districts east of the Rocky
mountains, being slightly cooler than usual
iu the south Atlantic states and slightly
warmer than usual in the northwest and on
tho north Pacific coast, while in Montana
the average daily temperature was about
6' lielow the normal.
“Generally over the districts east of the
Mississippi and In the northwest the rain
fall during the woek was much less than
usual; while excessive rains occurred in the
lower and Central Mississippi valley, and
thence westward to the Rocky mountains.
An excess of rainfall al-o occurred in North
ern Minnesota. Over the Central Rocky
mountaiu region, ln_ the western portions
of Nebraska and Kansas, and generally
throughout the west Gulf states, the rain
fall was heavy, and generally exoeodod two
inches.
THIS SECTION DRY.
“Showers were very light in tha South
Atlantic states New England and the upper
Mississippi aud lower Missouri valleys, the
total amount of rainfall baiug generally
less than one-tenth of an inch, while over
the Ohio valley and Middle Atlantio states
the amount of rainfall during the week,
although below the normal, generally ex
ceeded half an inch.
“The reports from the northwest, includ
ing tho states of the Missouri and upper Mis
sissippi valleys show that the week has been
especially favorable for farm work, and
that the weather, although dry in some
sections, has generally improved crops.
Seeding is completed in South Dakota and
Southern Minnesota. Corn planting is in
progress in lowa, Nebrasku aud Illinois,
and corn is up in Southern
Kenans. The weather conditions were also
favorable iu the states of the Ohio valley,
and iu Michigan, and Tennessee, although
excessive rain are reported to-day in In
diana. Cold frosty nights have retarded
the growth in Michigan, where fruit trees
are In bloom in the southern tier of coun
ties.
CORN AND TOBACCO PLANTING,
“The planting of corn and tobacoo is in
progress in Kentucky and Tennessee, and
the condition of crops has improved. Al
though tobacoo looks promising iu Tennes
see, a reduced area is predicted. The re
cent heavy rains in the southwest
have doubtless proved unfavorable to grow
ing crops in Arkansas, Texas and Louisiana.
Work is twenty duys late in Arkansas, and
reports from Louisiana indicate so me
dainago to cotton and rioe, and probably to
corn in the overflowed districts. Crops on the
uplands wore improved in both [/ouisiauaatid
Mississippi, although heavy rains interfered
with planting. Despite tho deficiency
in the rainfall In the South Atlantic states
and Alabama, the crop prospeots are re
ported as generally good for corn and cot
ton, and planting has been almost com
pleted. Tobacco aud other vegetables were
somewhat injured by light frosts in North
Carolina. Wheat anil oats are not reported
in flourishing condition in South Carolina.
The reports from tho Middle Atlantic
states. show that the week was specially
favorable for crops and farm work, except
in New York, whore rain is needed. In Now
Jersey and New York fruit is reported in
good condition.”
REPUBLICANS AND THE TARIFF.
The Bulk of the Congressmen Indorse
the McKinley BJU.
Philadelphia, April 27,.—The IVess has
interviewed 209 senators and representa
tives for tho purpose of ascertaining the
views of individual members ns to the
necessity of passing a tariff revision and
reduction bill ns speedily ns possible. Tho
result summarized is as follows: Total
number of interviews 209; total number
of republicans interviewed 159; uum
lier of republicans who believe a
bill revising tho tariff and reducing the
revenue mutt be passed before this congress
adjourns, 20.
Number now ready to vote for tho Mc-
Kinley bill as it stands, 141.
Number who believe the McKinley bill
sure to bo made satisfactory to the party
and country by amendments and passed,
118.
Number not sure about it, 7.
BATTLES WITH BALL AND BAT.
The Results of the Day’s Games All
Over the Country.
Washington, April 27.— 8a1i games
were played to-day as follows:
At Bt. Louis
fit. Louis 2 4 2 1 0 3 2 0 o—l 4
Columbus 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0— 1
Batteries: Stivetls and Earle, Uastright and
Bligh.
At Philadelphia—
Athletic... 1 0010300 o—s
Syracuse . 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2—3
liattorios—Price and Cantz, Casey and Briggs.
At Louisville—
Louisville 1 000000200 1— 4
Toledo 0 2 000000 1 00—3
Russia’s Prison Congress.
St. Petersburg, April 27.—Tho prisons
congress will open June 15. The Prince of
Oldenburg will preside. Three hundred
delegates will be present, representing
twenty-five states. A municipal banquet,
excursions, fetes, etc., are being arrange 1
for the entertainment of tbe delegates. A
trip to Finland is proposed, to take place
after the close of the congress.
A Defaulter Surrenders.
Trenton, N. J., April 27.—United States
Commissioner Rowe was called upon at his
hotel here at a late hour last night bv
Casper Boer, chief clerk of the money order
department of the Newark postofHce, who
came to surrender himself as a defaulter in
about $5,C00.
Death of a Merchant.
Charlotte, N. C., April 27.—5. Younts,
a wealthy aged merchant and prominent
citizen of Pineville, this oounty,died at noon
so-day.
No New Lottery Loan in Russia.
St. Petersburg, April 26.—The govern
ment officially denies that it is about to issue
anew lottery loan.
Carnot Returns to Paris.
Paris, April 27.—President Carnot has
returned to Paris. He received an unusual
ovation at Grenoble.
Rain at Guyton.
Guyton, Ga., April 27.—The drought
was broken by a good rain this evening.
Contradicted by a Cyolone.
Ic Is seldom, says the Chicago Tribune, that a
man gets contradicted by a cyclone. Some
thing very like it occurred in a lofty building in
Piltsturg on Wednesday. Two gentlemen were
standing near the window lookiug out at tbe
clouds, ominously fluffy and gray, which the
wind was driving across the sky.
"1 wish," said one, “that I was out of this
building—looks like a cyclone coming."
"Nonsense.” said the other “you’re much
safer up here than in the street," and as ho
spoke a furious gust of wind tore the Iron shut
ter from its fastening and hurled it against the
window, sending tho glass in big splinters all
over the room.
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LESSONS FROM NATURE.
TALMAGE PREACHES ON VOICES'
THAT ARE NEVER SILENT.
More Potency in the Tree of Calvary
than In the Tree of Paradise—Nat*
ure’a Testimony in Behalf of the
Truth of Christianity—Dumb Lips
that Preach tha Gospel
Brooklyn, April 27.— The attraction of
the parks in their new spring-time garb,
which affects many congregations at thin
season, does not diminish the crowd which
pours into the Academy of Music to hear
the eloquent preacher. This morning the
great edifice was thronged, os usual, a a
soon as the doors were opened. After tha
reading of an appropriate passage of scrip
ture and the singing of the hymn, “Glory
to God on High,” Ur. Talmage announced
os his text Isa. lx.: 13, ‘The glory of
Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree,
tho pine troe, and the box together, to
beautify the place of my sanctuary.” Fol
lowing is his sermon is full:
On our way from Damascus we saw the
mountains of Lebanon white with snow,
and Che places from which the cedars were
hewn, ami then drawn by ox-teams down
to the Mediterranean sea, and then floated
in great rafts to Joppa, and then again
drawn by ox-teams up to Jerusalem to
build Solomon’s temple. Those mighty trees
in mr text are called the “glory of Leba
non.” Inanimate nature felt the effects of
tho first transgression. When Eve touched
the forbidden tree, it seems as if the sinful
coutaot had smitten not only that tree, but
as if the air caught the pollution from tbe
leaves, and as if tho sap had carried the
virus down into the very soil until the
entire earth reeked with the leprosy.
Under that sinful touch nature withered.
The inanimate creation, as if aware
of the damage done it, sent up the thorn
and brier, and nettle to wound and fiercely
oppose the human race. Now as the physi
cal earth felt tho effects of the first trans
gression, so it shall also feel tbe effects of
the Savior’s minion. As from that one tree
in Paradise a blight went forth through tbel
entire earth, so from one tree on Calvary
another force shall speed oat to intorpene*
trate and check, subdue and override the
evil. Iu the end it shall be found that the'
tree of Calvary has more potency than the|
tree of Paradise. As the nations are evan
gelized, I think a corresponding change will
be effected in the natural world. I verily
believe that the trees, and tbe birds, and
the rivers, and tbe skies, will have their
millennium. If man’s sin affected the ground,
anil the vegetation, and the atmosphere,
shall Christ’s work be less powerful or less
extensive!
Doubtless God will take the irregularity
and fierceness from the elements so as to
make them oongonial to the raae, which
will then be symmetrical and evangelized.
Tbe ground shall not be so lavish of weeds
and so grudgeful of grain. Soils which now
have pecullnr proclivities toward certain
forinN of evil production will be delivered
from their besetting sins. Steep mountains,
ploughed down into more gradual ascent,
shall lie girdled with flocks of sheep and
shocks of corn. The wet marsh shall be
co ue the deep-gross meadow. Cattle shall
oat unharmed by caverns once haunted by
wild beasts. Children will build play
houses in what was ouoe a cave of serpents:
ami, as the scripture saith: “The weaned
child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’s
deu.”
Oh what harvests shall be reaped when
noithor drougth, nor excessive rain, nor mil
dew, nor infesting in-ects shall arrest the
growth, and tho utmost capacity of the
fields for production shall be tested by an
intelligent and athletic yeomanry. Thrift
aLd competenoy characterizing the world’s
inhabitants, their dwelling-places shall bo
graceful and hea thy ami|adorned. Tree and
arbor and grove around about will look as
if Adam and Eve bad got back to paradise.
Great cities, now neglected and unwashed,
shall bo orderly, adorned with architectural
symmetry anl connected with far
distant seaports by present modes of
transportation carried to their greatest
perfection, or by new inventions
yet to spring up out of the water or drop
from the air at the beck of a Morse or a
Robert Fulton belonging to future genera
tions. Isaiah, in my text, seems to looto
forward to the future condition of the phys
ical earth as a condition of great beauty
and excellence, and then prophesies that, as
the strongest and most ornamental timber
in Lebanon was brought down to Jerusalem
and constructed into the ancient temple, so
all that is beautiful and excellent in the
physical earth shall yet contribute to the
church now being built in the world. “The
glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee; the
fir tree, the pine tree, and the box tree to*
gether, to beautify the place of my sauctu*
ary. ’
Much of this propheoy has already been
fulfilled, and I proceed to somo practical
remarks upon the contributions which tbe
natural world is making to the kingdom of
God, and then draw some inferences. The
first contribution of that nature gives to the
church is her testimony in behalf of the
truth of Christianity. This is an age of pro
found research. Nature cannot evade men’s
Inquiries as once. In chemist’s laboratory
she is put to torture and conqielled to give
up her mysteries. Hidden laws have coma
out of their hiding plaoe. The earth and
the heavens, since they have been ransacked
by geologist aud botanist end astronomer,
appear so different from what they once
were that they may be called “the new
heavens and the new earth.”
This research and discovery will have
powerful effect upon tbe religious world.
They must either advance or arrest Chris
tianity, make men better or make them
worse, be the church’s honor or the church’s
overthrow. Christians, aware of this in tbs
early ages of discovery, were nervous and
fearful as to the progress of science They
feared that some natural law, before un
known, would suddenly spring into harsh
collision with Christianity. Gunpowder and
tbe gleam of swords would not so much
have been feared by religionists as electrio
batteries, voltaic piles, and astronomical
apparatua It was feared that Moses and
the prophets would be run over by sceptical
chemists and philosophers. Some of tha
followers of Aristotle, after the invention of
the telescope, refused to look through that
instrument, lest what they saw would over
throw the teachings of that great philos
opher. But tbe Christian religion has no
such apprehension now. Bring on your
telescopes and microscopes, and spectro
scopes—and the more the better. The God
of nature is the God of the Bible, and in ail
the universe, and ir. ail tho eternities, he has
never once contradicted himself. Christian
merohants endow universities, and in them
Christian professors instruct the children of
Christian communities. The warmest and
most enthusiastic friends of Christ are the
bravest and most enthusiastic friends of
science. The church rejoices as muoh
over every discovery as the world rejoices.
Good men have found that there is no war
between science and religion. That which
at first has seemed to be the weapon of tbe
infidel has turned our to be the weapon of
the Christian.
Scientific discussions may be divided
into those which are concluded and those
which are still in progress, depending for
decision upon future investigation- Thoie
which are concluded have invariably ren
dered their verdict for Christianity, and wt
