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ZsTMEUSHKD 1860. IVOOB-OlLiTII; 1618. V
J. H.E3TlLL.Prasident. |
LIVELY TIMES IN ERIN
A FIGHT OVER THE START OF PAR
NELL’S EMISSARIES.
The Parnellites Go For Their Opponent
With Elackthorn Sticks—Police In
terfere and Stop the Row—Parne’
Still Making Bids for the Influenc
of Labor.
Queenstown, March B.— The steams
Etruria, which sailed from here to-day fr
New York, had among her passengei
James O’Kelly, John Redmond, Job
O'Connor and Henry Harrison, members l
parliament, who go to America to rai
money as representatives of Mr. Parnei
A Parnellite crowd met with a hostile n
caption from the anti-Parnellitos here
The efforts of the former
bo much resistance that four attempt
which they made to present an address t
the delegates proved ineffectual. The die;
order culminated in the Parnellites attack*
mg their opponents with blackthorn!
Police interfered, and the ParneUites won
finally enabled to present their address
Delegate O’Connor’s speech of thanks foi
the address was interrupted throughout.
TOILERS HOLD ALOOF.
Dublin, March 8. —The Dublin trade;
council, by a vote of 35 to 3, bas,*<leclded not
to take part In the proposed conference oc
Saturday, at which Mr. Parnell has prom
isedto expound his views on the labor quee
tiou. The ground taken by the council it
that the labor question ought not to be
mixed up with politics.
The Earl of Zetland, Lord Lieutenant o!
Ireland, said Saturday, in giving a de
tailed account of the government relief
work, that 10,000 persons in Clare, Cork,
Donegal, Kerry and Mayo, were receiving
weekly grants of meal, tl-at £lo,ooosterliug
had been set apart to feed the school 1
children and that 5,000 suits of clothing,
had been given out.
A SPEECH BY PARNELL.
In replying to-day to an address from fif
teen branches of the national league,council)
and other organizations, Mr. Parnell dwell
on the significance of the presence of depi
tations “from districts where every das
tardly means had been employed to stiffs
public opinion.” He next attacked Juatri
McCarthy for “traducing the memory cf
John Mitchell in his history.” Mr. Par
nell said that owing to the com
parative absence ot industry in
Ireland, Irishmen were precluded
from a leading part in the groat labor
movement, but could join hands with the
British workmen to secure needed legisla
tion, end thus show that the “brotherhood
of nations” as regarding the working
classes, was s lid between England and
Ireland. Mr. Parnell reminded his hearers
that the literal party had beeu as active
correctionists as the other. l .
It wa3 announced to-day that CaDon
Keller would soon start for America in
behalf of the evicted tenants.
ANTI-PARNELLITE MEETINGS.
Successful meetings were held by the
anti-Parnell faction of the Irish party at
Kultown and Lislea to-day. At Dundalk
the populace unyoked the horses and drag
ged Mr. Healy’g carriage through the town.
Mr - Parnell on returning from Newry
through Dunkalk was groaned and hooted at
by cbe people, the crowd becoming! a . vio
lent that the police Imtl to go to the rescue
and escort Mr. Parnell to the railway
station.
Archbishop Crote has sent to the National
fress, the new MoCarthyite paper, a letter
"* "Wcii he strongly opposes the retention
or Mr. Parnell as the leader of the Irish
party.
FIRED INTO A CROWD.
Belfast, March a—While the Belfast
contingent returning from Newry the meet
ing was passing Tandragee station to-day,
to shots were fired from a car, wounding
t-vo persons seriously. The occupants of
tee car were detained at Belfast. No weapon
as found upon any of them.
MURDER SUSPECTED.
The Body of a Physician Found in a
Ravine Near San Remo.
London, March B.— Further facts have
come to light regarding the murder of Dr.
-f dermaun, whose body was found in a
ravine near San Remo, and who was at
Hrst supposed to have committed
££* “ to have fallen by accident
om the ravine. Leidermaun was a
German, and formerly resided in
T be faots elicited so far seem
he was ra urdered and then
robbet.. \V bile at San Remo at a hotel he
H ** ly ? wo Germans and all three
departed together by rail on December 20.
Hie evening of the same day the two Ger
mans returned to the hotel without Leider
ft . response to inquiries they
sau that Leidermann had suddenly become
l n a " 6 a, ! d had b fen placed in confinement
nan asylum at Nice. That night tbe two
“™ s " s ,,iefC the hotel without having
bdv of T thelr departure. The dead
f ’L f T r r - Leidermaun was afterward
lound. The police are inclined to think
erhne* 4 * g * gaag are lm P llca ted in the
END OF BUENOS AYRES' PANIC.
The Government to Issue a Large 0 Per
Cent. Loan at 75.
Buenos Atres, March B.—The panic in
aancial circles is over and business will be
turned to " m °rrow. The feeling in the
gold market is more quiet and confidence is
8 red A number of prominent mer
houL tS a “ d bankers met at the government
to ,i of .i, 1 a „ nd appointed a committee
it Upon the question whether
tnent ii m ° re , advisable for the govern
oommi^ 1 ®, Ue .¥°i and noteß or al 0- The
whTeht hi Kw 8 and i n favor of the loan, to
000 Vu ban^s °ffor to subscribe $9,000,-
] oa ;, n i "f Sojsrnment has decided to issue a
teresf £ a ’ ooo ’ ooo Piastres at 6 per cent, in
'Shb i Subscriptions will open to-morrow.
■“> issue price will be 75.
aoth® , governtneut has issued a deoroe
for i hr tbe banlra to suspend payment
withT* days - Tb ® *°an issue will open
diivcf^’ o^?' 000 ' Blr ®ady subscribed. The
vincion? °f botb the national and pro-
C h ßn _ , *** will retire, and other radical
changes are to be made.
BPAIN SHOWS HilH T^ETa.
A ny Attempt to Annex Cuba Would
Meat With Resistance.
Madrid, March B.— The Heraldo. in an
ie e protesting against the supposed
C eina of the United States government to
nnex the island of Cuba, says Mr. Blaine
ught to reoolleot tha tthe congress of Ameri-
a 4 OU * i P proved that
ai]r>. a -American* are not disposed to
h‘ v 'i themselves to be absorbed
of r 7,t Kr ? ot northern republia The people
ur^, a ’n‘ t say *> are strongly Spanish, and
tht, i- 1 , . ly opposed to becoming a Dart of
certinl S p ateis - Probably, with the ex-
•/•’"'tradesmen, there is no one
imil, i and wbo is at all desirous of an-
j ii i tbe Heraldo continues,
imr „ “ bed llur lnst ot blood in resist
e&7r„anjl attempt to deprive her of her
nor y, fenr ‘ a 8 neither a Cuban revolution
or War with the United States.
JKofninij
AN AGED COUPLE SLAIN.
Their Doga Forced by Hunger to Feed
on Taeir Corpses.
Paris, March B.—The story of a terrible
double murder comes from Tours. About
a week ago a wealthy aged couple, named
Delhomaia, residing in that city, mysteri
ously disappeared, and their neighbors,
thinking there was something wrong, noti
fied tho police, who forced the doors of the
o.d couple’s house, when the discovery was
made toat a horrible crime had beeu
committed. Both the man and his wife had
been brutally murdered, and the house
stripped of everything of value that could
be conveniently carried away. The bodies
of the aged victims presented a ghastly ap
pearance, the household dogs having been
forced by hunger to feed upon the corpses,
large portions of which nad been devoured
by the animals. No arrests have been made.
TRANSFUSION OF BLOOD.
Four Death s Follow Experiments in
the Bernheim Method.
Paris, March 8. —The Figaro asserts that
four deaths have ocourred within five days
as a result of transfusion oc blood accord
ing to the method of Dr. Bernheim. The
Figaro declares that the Bernheim treat
ment is mere dangerous than the treatment
by the Koch method. Dr. Bernheim. how
ever, maintains that he has had sucoeas in
eight cases of tuberculosis.
A BATILS ON THE NIGER
The French Lose Eleven Sharp
shooters and Kill 800 Natives.
Paris, March B.—A dispatch from St.
Louis, Senegal, says: “The French expedi
tion has had a severe battle with the natives
at Diena, on the Niger river. The French
carried the native positions, eleven sharp
shooters being killed and many wounded.
Six hundred natives were killed, among
them bung tbe leader.”
AMNtCSIY FOB THE SHEIKHS.
The Khedive's Proclamation Received
With Cries of Loyalty.
Sit akim, March B.—Gen. Grenfell, com
mander of the Egyptian array, read to the
assembly of sheikhs from all parts of the
Soudan yesterday the khedive’s proclama
tion of general amnesty. The proclamation
was received with fervent cries of loyalty
by the sheikhs.
A Report Against Koch.
Madrid, March 8. —A commission of six
medical men appointed to investigate the
Koch method of treating consumptives has
reported iu favor of the total suspension of
that form of treatment, it having been
found, according to the committee's report,
that not a single cure had been effected here
by the use of the method in question.
Fired by Incendiaries.
Listowel, Ont., March B.—Last even
ing incendiaries bound and gagged the
night wa'chman at Hess Brothers’ furni
ture factory and then fired the premises,
which were totally destroyed. The loss is
not yet estimated. There is $31,000 insur
ance uu tne building.
WRECKED ON A SWITCH.
A Fast Passenger Train Derailed and
Burned in Illinois.
Peoria, 111., March &—The Jackson
ville southeastern fast passenger train over
the’Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe road,
which left here at 1:30 o’clock this morning,
met with a terrible accident at Havana,
forty-one miles south of here. The train
consisted of a baggage car, coach, chair car
and two sleepers, and was an hour
and a halt late, owing to the
terrible storm which raged all
night. At Havaua the engine
struck a curve at a switch and left the track.
All the cars followed, piling up ja great con
fusion. The half-dressed passengers clam
bered out of the windows and through the
roof of the demolished oars and hastened,
barefooted, through the sleet and over tho
icy roads for the nearest housos.
THE DEAD AND INJURED.
Under the engine was Fireman Saddler,
who was instantly killed. Engineer George
Birkenhead of this city had one arm and
one leg cut off. Others injured are: Ed
ward Hemmoll of Peoria, burned and badly
bruised; Walter Conover of Maniton,
111., left arm torn out and fatal in
juries; Charles Mulvaney of Streeter,
111., back and head crushed, will die; Aiiss
Emma Bnshton of St. Louis, seriously
bruised; Express Messenger Bates of Chi
cago, loft foot torn off and badly bruised;
Frank P. Lewis of Peoria,seriously jammed
in the breast; Conductor Kennedy, who
lives at Eureka, 111., and C. L. Hughes,
brakeman, of St. Louis were alio injured.
THE WRECK ON FIRS.
The wreck immediately took fire and
burned with great rapidity. It was with
the utmost difficulty that some of the
passengers wore rescued, and one or two
were severely burned. The loss to the
company, including death aad accident
claims, will not fall short of SIOO,OOO.
TROUBLE AHiAD FOX RAUM.
If Ho is Not Removed He Will ba In
vestigated by the Democrats.
Washington, March B.—Representative
Cooper of Indiana says that the Raum case
is not closed, and that if the commissioner
of pensions is not removed before oongress
meets thatan iuvestigationthat “will really
investigate” will be bad next December.
The committee acted throughout, he says,
as if it desired to shield Mr. Raum, and put
every imagiuable objection in the way of
Mr. Cooper and bis associates, tbe chairman
acting as “Commissioner Raum’s best
friend” throughout.
TWO TRAINS CRASH.
An Express Buus Into a Wrecking
Train and Several People Hurt.
Scottdale, Pa., March B.—A bad wreck
oocurred ou the Southwest railroad yester
day. A Fair Chauoa express and a wreck
ing train ran together at Moyer station,
causing a terrible smashup. The injured
are: William Sterger, baggagemaster, facs
lacerated; John M. Beck, fireman, wrists
strained and severely cut; W. Bettlsbom, a
passenger, seriously cut on tbe head.
Chicago Carpenters to Strike.
Chicago, March 8. —At a mass meeting
of the journeyman oerpenters of Chicago
this afternoon it was decided that should
the master carpenters not conclude to
accede to the proposition to arbitrate the
differences between tbe carpenters and
employers a strike of great magnitude will
be inaugurated. Fully 3,000 meu were
present.
A Marriage at Waycross.
Watcross, Ga., March B.—Ex-Mayor
George R. Youmans was married to-night
to Mrs. Fannie J. Carswell, widow of x-
Maror A. W. Carswell. A reception and
supper at tbe residence of the bride followed
the ceiemony.
NEGROES AND THE FAIR.
JOHN M. BMYTHE WANTS A COL
ORED MAN AS COMMISSIONER.
Not to Appoint One Would, Ha Thinks,
be an Insult to 8,000,000 Loyal
Blacks—He Alludes to Their Loyalty
and Tbe'.r Pride in the Country.
Washington, March B.—Hon. John H.
Smythe, ex-United States minister to Li
beria, has written a letter to President
Harrison on tbe subject of the appointment
of a colored person to represent the negro
race at the world’s Columbian exposition.
THE NEGROES OVERLOOKED.
Mr. Smythe, after referring to the pa
sage of the bill providing for tbe exposition,
which is to consist of industrial, agricul
tural, scientific and art productions of men
and women of the United States, says that
no provision is made in the bill for such sep
arate display of the intellectual and physi
cal acquisitions of tbs negro citizeus as will
show that they, as such, have done any
thing on the lines indicated.
NEGRO LOYALTY.
The exposition, he says, cannot carry out
and make good the purpose of the national
display without distinctive repreaention of
all tbs people cf tbit composttr nation. Tbs
greatness, glory and graudeur of this na
tion, Mr. Smythe argues, is as much the
pride of the American negro as it is of the
American white man,and for the President
to fail to appoint a colored man to represent
the negro race at the exposition would seem
to be an Intentional Insult to eight million
loyal negro Americans.
WANTS ONE APPOINTED.
Mr. Smythe therefore asks that an officer
of the exposition ot tbe negro race be ap
pointed. and that a placn be made in tne ex
position for the dismay of negro Industry,
agricultural product*, art and scientific
achievements, inventive genius and educa
tional development.
MONEY FOR DIB EC T TAXES.
The Act Contains the Necessary Ap
propriating Claus'.
Washington, Maroh B.—There is noth
ing in the point which has been raised that
the direct tax act, like the Philadelphia
mint act, contains no appropriating clause.
Section 3 of tho direct tax act provides
as follows: “That there is hereby appropri
ated out of auy money in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated such sums ns may
bo necessary to reimburse each state, terri
tory and the District of Columbia for all
money found due to them under the pro
visions of this act, and the treasury of the
United States is hereby directed to pay the
same to the governors of the state) and ter
ritories and the commissioners of the Dis
trict of Columbia.”
the plan of payment.
The Secretary of the Treasury, as soon as
a certified cony of thedirect tax bill reaches
the treasury department from the state
department, will notify the governors of
the several states and territories and the
commissioners of the District of Colum
bia of its provisions, and upon
receipt from the executive mentioned
of a certificate that the legislatures of the
states and territories (except in the case of
the Distriot of Columbia, which will be
paid directly,) have authorized the gov
ernors to give quit claim receipts for the
amount* due them respectively, will notify
the Uniced States treasurer to pay over to
the governors the amounts respectively due
to their states and territories.
M’KINLEY’S BILL IN COURT.
The Cases From New York and Cin
cinnati Before the Supreme Court.
Washington. March B.—The supreme
court is expected to-morrow to adrauoe on
the docket so as to be heard In April the
two oases from New York and one from
Cincinnati, involving the validity of the
McKinley tariff acts. They turn on points
raised by the omission of section 30 from
the engrossed act, by the provision for
sugar bounties, and by the pro
vision for reciprocity agreements, all
of which are alleged to be un
constitutional. The supreme court will
probably also soon advance the cess involv
ing the constitutionality of the McKinley
adinluisti ative customs act, turning on the
point that Speaker Reed passed it by count
ing a quorum.
An interesting case to be heard next week
is thatof Ward McAllister,Jr., removed by
President Cleveland from being district
judge < f Alaska, the question belug the one
raised in tbe Say ward case as to whether
the district court of Alaska is like other
United States district courts.
BPINOLA COMING SOUTH.
He Will Spend a Month Here—The
Speakership and Chairmanships.
Washington, March B.—Representative
and Mrs. Spinola will lonve next week fora
month’s trip to Savannah. Gen. Spinola
said that a meeting of the twenty-three
democratic members from New York state
state would be held next fall regarding the
speakership. The delegation will act as a
unit, will have no candidate of its own, but
will support someone wbo will appreciate
the necessity for giving New York city and
state the legislation which it desires.
The name of Thomas M. Cuakley, now
assistant doorkeeper, will be presented for
the position of doorkeeper, and five mem
bers of the delegation want chairmanships.
Mr. Flower is anxious to be at the head of
the banking and currency committee. Gen.
Spinola wants the chairmanship of the mil
itary committee, of which committee he
was the ranking democratic member in the
last congress. Mr. Cummings wants to go
to the head of the merchant marine commit
tee, and Messrs. Tracy and Fitch are also
afier chairmanships.
A BOOM IN BRAZIL.
Great Commercial Activity in the New
Republia
Washington, March B.—Official returns
received by the bureau of American repub
lics from Brazil indioate great commercial
activity in the new republic. During the
year 1890 corporations were organized with
capital aggregating $643,004,720, the months
of extreme activity being September
and October, the capitalization in the lat
ter month reaching $181,000,000. The
railway Con panie Generate of Brazil has
made contracts in the United States for
$4,000,000 worth of rolling stock and other
railway aupplies. This order embraces,
among other things, 815 cars and forty-five
Baldwin locomotives.
The minister of public works of Brazil
has drawn upoD the treasury for SIB,OOO to
pay the share of that republic in the cost of
the inter-continental railway survey.
A dispatch from Montevideo announces
that RusseU R. Pettier, an American citi
zen, has been appointed representative of
Uruguay on the inter-continental railway
commission.
Fire In a Stationery Store.
Montreal, Quebec, March B.—Fire to
day in the stationery department of Louis
Foriar’s establishment and adjoining prem
ises caused damage amounting to over
$40,000.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, MARCH 9, 1891.
AN UNKNOWN SUICIDE.
A PrtMt Thinks Hs (Was a Mason
Who Came to KUI Him.
Toledo, 0., March B.—A young man
about 25 years of age, who registered at the
Boody house F.iday night as Charles J. Ed
wards, but gave no place of residence,
committed suicide last night. He had pre
viously destroyed everything that would
reveal bis identity except a gold ring with
the initials ML N. C. Father Quigley, a
Carholio priest, says the man called on him
Friday and told him he had come to Toledo
to oommit a murder, but was finally dis
suaded. Father Quigley believes the man
came to murder him, and.when asked why,
referred to the fact that the suicide wore
Masons’ emblem, which being said in a
significant tone recalled a higblv sensa
tional sermon preached by Father Quiglsy
a Tear ago, when he claimed that the Free
Masons had sent a man to kill him. He said
the man came at tbe time and waited to
stab him. Although he gave Father Quigley
his name as Charles J. Edwards of Buffalo,
he subsequently said he had willfully mis
informed the doctor.
RISE OF THB MISSISSIPPI.
Much Apprehension Felt for the Lower
Levees.
VicAsnuttu, Mias., Maroh S. —Four and
three-teutbs inches of rain fell here yester
day. Much damage has been done to the
streets and bridges in the city. Trains on
tho Vicksburg and Meridian railroad have
beeu abandoned, the track being flooded at
many points and the roadbed badly
washed.
Trains onjtbe other roads are badly de
tbe Yazoo valley and all tho Btroams are
reported baus-full and risiug. Much
apprehension is now felt for tho safety of
the levees all along tho lower Mississippi
river.
A DOWNPOUR AT MEMPIUS.
Memphis, Tenn., March B.—The rainfall
in this oity and section of the south for the
past two days is unprecedented. Nearly five
inches of rain has fallen hero during the
past forty-eight hours. The eutire lower
part of Canton, Miss., is under water, and
all trains on the Illinois Central rail
road are delayed. Tne Pearl river has
risen throe feet in t waive hours and all
trains are delayed at Jackson, Mise.,no trains
having arrived from the south siuoe Satur
day. The Mississippi at Memphis is
feet above the danger line and is still rising.
KILLED BY HIS BROTH UR.
The Murderer Caugrht Stealing Corn
and the Tragedy Followed.
Birmingham, Ala., March B.—lntelli
gence has beeu received here of the cold
blooded murder of one brother by another
at Bulligent, Lamar county. A farm on
which Jack Webb was living, and which
belonged to his father, was cultivated
last year by his brother, Dumas. When
the latter moved off he put the corn for tbe
rent of the place in a crib and left it there
for his father. In passing place occa
sionally he noticed that the corn was disap
pearing. Yesterday morning, on going to
the place, he found his brother Jack and
his wlfo in the crib shelling corn. This led
to a quarrel between the two
men, whereopon Jack went into the
house and procured his guu, and deliber
ately shot his brother through the heart.
The murderer, acoompanied by his wife,
immediately decamped. Ho told some
neighbors what had happened,and said that
Dumas was rushing upon him with an open
knife when he snot him. Dumas was a
quiet, peaceable citizen, while his brother
had an unenviable reputation.
JEFFERSON DAVIS EULOGIZED.
The Legislature of Texas Pays a
Tribute to the Deceased.
Austin, Tex., Maroh A—The Senate and
House mat in joint session yesterday and
adopted resolutions of respect to the mem
ory of the late Jefferson Davis. After
prayer by the chaplsln, tbe members naid
glowing tributes to tbe deceased chieftain
of the confederacy. Addreeies were made
by Messrs. Ragan, Hood, Gerald, Garwood,
Gossett and Swan.
A Blehoprlo Declined.
Boranton, Pa., March B.—Rev. Henry
C. Sweutzelread to his congregation to-doy
a letter addressed to the presiding bi-bop of
the American Episcopal church declining
the appointment of missionary bishop to
Japan, recently tendered him. " He thinks
that It would bo unwise t > appoint any per
son to such office at present.
A BLAZE IN A CELLAR.
Plenty of Smoke and Much Excite
ment at Columbus.
Columbus, Ga., March B.—Fire broke
out in the cellar of L. Bubler’s wholesale
liquor store, next door to the Central hotel,
ot 4 o’clock this afternoon. fh6 cor
ridors and rooms of the hotel
were soon filled with smoke, and
tbe seventy-five inmates hastily ran cut.
The department responded to the alarm
promptly and soon had half a dozen streams
of water pouring into the collar. Chief
Burrows went into the cellar to locate the
fire and was overcome by the heat and
smoke. He was carried to“ his residence In
an unconscious condition. The cellar was
filled with old boxe< and barrels, and on the
floor abuve over 500 barrels of whisky were
stored.
INTENSE EXCITEMENT.
The dangerous locationpf the fire and its
proximity to the hotel rendered the excite
ment intense, and, as the news spread over
the city, in spite of the heavy downpour of
rain, an immense crowd assembled. Dense
clouds of smoke continued to issue from
the cellar for hours and those who ventured
near enough had their eyes filled with hot
smoke and were compelled to beat
a hasty retreat. The firemen remained
bravely at their posts, and at 6 o’clock the
fire was under control. The origin of the
fire is unknown, and the extent of the loss
cannot be ascertained to-night, but the
principal damage will be from w ater. The
firemen laid their hose across the street car
track, and tbe passage of cars was delayed
for hours.
PENSACOLA POINTER3.
Sam Jones Opens His Revival—The
Fight Over a Chlefshlp.
Pensacola, Fla. , March B.—Rev. Sam
Jones began his series of sermons in the
tabernacle at 11 o’clock this morning, and,
despite the inclemency r,f the weather, was
heard by an audience of about 2,000 people.
He will deliver three sermons dally, at 11
o’olock in the morning and 3 and7:3l iu the
evening, for a period of ten days or two
weeks. There are hundreds of strangers in
the city, brought here by tbe dual attrac
tions of the White Squadron and Ham Jones.
The state supreme court has > evened the
decision of the lower oourt in tbe quo war
ranto proceeding, instituted by Marshal
Joseph Wilkins, to oust from the office of
chief of the police W. P. Conners, the mar
shal claiming the chiefs oocupancy of the
office to be usurpation of rights and prlvleges
belonging to himself. The case had gone
against tue marshal in the lower court.
; THESUPItEME COURT BILL
I
SOME D3DBT6 ABOUT ITS CON
-BTI tUTIONALITY.
■
The Jurisdiction of the New Tribunals
Haiti to Conflict With That of the
Buprema Court—How That Body May
Examine tte Law-The Contest Over
the Measure in the Senate Judioiary
Committee.
A Washington special to tho Now York
Tribune seys that the new law creating
nice circuit oourta of appe '.ls, in order to
relieve ;he United States supreme court of
a part of its present overwhelming burdwn
of litigation, is certain to havo u thorough
overhauling by the latter tribunal before
it is put into operation. There is in tho
minds of some excellent lawyers a grave
doubt about the constitutionality of tho
law—which will no doubt ho known to
history as the Evarts law—because it takes
uwny from the supreme court and confors
upon tho new circuit courts of appeals juris
diction in certain classes of oases which is
given by tho constitution, iu terms or by
implication, to the supreme court alono.
These clkmiss of cases are as follows:
1. Cases in whioh the jurisdiction of the
national oourta depends upon the character
of the suitors—that is, upon whethor they
are aliens, citizens of another state, etc.
3. All cases arising under tho patent
laws.
3. All casoe arising under the revenue
laws.
4. All coses arising under tha criminal
law’s.
5. All admiralty cases other than those
involving prizes made on the bigh seas.
Just how the question of tho validity of
this act is to coino before the supreme oourc
has not been deoided, but the fact that it is
tube reviewed and uinst critically examined
has boon fully determined. The justices of
the supreme court are taking such an active
interest in this subject that they are restless
about waiting for the official print of tho
not ns it dually became a law, with its joint
resolution attachment. In the ordinary
course of things the official pamphlet will
be out within four or five days.
The engrossed bill was received at
tho state department on Wednesday, and
although made “apodal,” so that it would
have the right ol‘ way over other bills by
the public printer, the great urgency which
always attends the getting out of the appro
priations has impeded the printing of the
little three-page pamphlet whioh this im
portant measure will make. Hence it has
become necessary, in order that tho im
patience of the Just leas inny be relieved, to
have made for them a Certitiod copy of tho
act and of its joint resolution “rider.”
This copy was maJo this afternoon and will
be sent to the chief justice, duly eertiiled,
to-morrow.
Justice! blatchford and Gray have
already made a critical study of the new
measure. Tho former said: "What the
effect of this act will bo no man living can
tell, any more than he can tell when he is
going to die.”
The vigorous old justice said further that
as a matter of course lie could not with pro
priety discuss for publication this or any
other matter that was to corue before him
in his judicial capaolty for consideration—
in fact, it would be highly improper for
him to do so. But it was easily inferred
from his manner of Bpe&king of the new law
that his careful review of it has given him
some decided improisions with regard to it.
Chief Justice Fuller also Baid that, while
ho was free to say that tho law would boa
great relief to the court, ho could not prop
erly say anything for publication upon the
matter, as it would doubtless bo before the
supreme court for review as to its validity.
He had not scrutinized the law as closely as
Justices Uiatchford and Gray have, but lie
spoke as though there was no manner of
doubt that the law would come before the
court for its action.
Inquiry at tha white house failed to dis
close any action on the part of the .President
looking to to the submission of this subject
to tho supremo court for its opinion boloro
the appointment of the nine judges and the
institution of the nine new courts with all
their official machinery. It was officially
given out, however, that there will be no
haste whaiever in the selection of (ho
judges, and that it will be perhaps months
before the President will begin to perform
tha highly important duty required of him
by the Evarts act
It in not at all that the initia
tive in the proceeding luiving for its object
the disueotion of the law by the supremo
court should bo ta.'ien by the President or
by the Attorney General. If the supreme
court should ho of the opinion that the law
is intended to impair its jurisdiction under
the constitution, it has the undoubted
power itself to tana the initiatory action
and place the law under rovlow. This is
the opinion of an experienc'd and eminent
democratic lawyer who warmly supported
the Rvarts law in congress, and it is also
evidently the opinion whioli the Justices of
the suprome court would be likely to hold.
There is a good deal of feeling among the
lawycri of the Fifty-first cungre's over
some of tli* details of the contest which re
sulted in the new judiciary law. In the
Senate jndioiary committee Mr. Edmunds,
the chairman, and Mr. Evarts foil into
strong opposition, and after a resolute con
test between these eminent members of the
bar, Mr. Evarts carried the committee, the
chairman finally muttering only two sup
porters, Messrs. Ingalls and Vest. Mr. Ed
munds was rnuoh hurt by this signal defeat
in tne oommittee which he has dominated
for so many years; and he still stoutly ad
heres to his opinion that the law is not
constitutional, aid is known to favor the
submission of the question to the supreme
court for review before the law shall be put
into effect. He believes that the substitute
proposed by him for the Evarts bill reported
by the majority of the committee, to the
effect that three justices of the supreme
court should constitute a quorum for the
purpose of hearing cases, while the consuls
tation thereon should embrace the entlro
court, and the deoree following be the
decree of the wh le court, would be prefer
able to the Evarts scheme of minor supreme
or appellate courts.
Aside from the question of the validity
or the constitutionality of the Evarts law
which the justices have been privately con
sidering, the practical utility of the measure
will, doubtless, also be takeu into account
by them. If, as Mr. Edmunds asserts, the
supreme court Is to be relieved at the cost
'of clogging and blocking the circuit courts,
of wbioh tho justices form a part, the main
argument that underlies the Evarts law will
naturally come into question. In a number
of tho circuits the judicial administration Is,
and has been for years, unable to keep up
with tho ourrent business, and in circuits
thus situated Mr. Edmunds expresses the
fear that the requirement of the Evarts law
that circuit judges and some of thn district
judge* shall sit as part of the oircuit courts
of appeals will result in a still grea or accu
mulation of ur.duposed-of causes. Thus, he
thinks, the relief to bo given by this law to
the supreme court will have the practical
effect of making a still greater blot kade of
Du-finess in man v of the subordinate courts.
This ground, however, has ait been thor
oughly and oarefully canvas 'cd by Mr.
Evarts, and bo is doubtless ready to defend
bis great judicial measure against any
attack that may be made upon it on this
•core in the court of last resort, as be has
done most effectually. So far as carrying the
majority of bis colleagues with him is con
cerned, in the contest in congress. The
great interest taken by lawyers throughout
the oouutry in this matter tf the new appel
late courts is evidenced by a rush of appli
cations even thus early for copies of the
bill as it booamo a law; but, as before
rioted, it will he a week or longer before tho
law will be available for distiTbutlon.
The President has before him a most diffi
cult and laborious duty to perforin in the
selection of the nine new judges. In the
case of each circuit the recorus of many
Judges and lawyer* who aspire to or are
eligible to selection for the distinguished
labor of a circuit Judgeship will have to bo
gone oyer; delegations and individual ad
vocates will have to be heard patleutly on
tho merits of this and that candidate, and
finally will come tho delicate and trouble
some task of deciding who among tunny
good men are the best or the most available
for the plaoe. It is considered as not at
all unlikely that the President will be
able to use all of the nine months to
elapse before the Snnnte will meet again in
the performance of thin trying service in all
of the nine cases to be dealt with. Appoint
ments will not be made during the reoees,
if precedent ie to be followed by the Presi
dent. No federal judge has ever boou ap
pointed when the donate was not in session
to act upon the nomination, an exception
being made of this class of offices from the
practice of (.vacation appointments, on ac
count of tho great responsibility aud high
character of the judicial office.
It will thus be seen that aspirants will not
want an opportunity, so far as time is con
cerned, to make or to have made known
their moiits to the chief executive; and
they will still have tiefore them the possi
bility of a summary stay of proceedings
under the mamlats of ths supreme court, as
a result of tha examination of the Evarts
law which is now iu progres-.
THOMASVILLE TOPICS.
The D'rectors and Offlcors of the New
Bank.
Thomasville. Ga., March B.— The stock
holder* of the Citizens’ Bank and Trust
Company met Friday and organised by
electing tho following board of director*:
J. Wyman Jones, George H. Stone, Dr.
Humphreys. J, W. Reid, E. M. Malle tie,
I)r. P. A. Mclntosh, Dr. T. M, Mclntosh,
R. W. Gladding and T. C. MitoiielL Im
mediately alter the roesting
adjourned the board of direct ors met and
elected J. Wyman Jones president, J. W.
Reid vice president, J. T. Culpepper cashier,
and Hausell & Merrill attorneys.
The new bank will have a cnpital of
SIOO,OOO and will bo ready for aotive busi
ness by next July.
At a meeting of tho Thomas Hussars
Friday night it was decided to accept the
Invitation of tho Albany Guards to visit
tho Albany Chautauqua on Governor's day.
Mrs. Hugh T. Inman, wifcn her sou, Ed
ward, is in the olty for some time.
W. H. Mitohell Is preparing to try the
experiment of raising Cuban tobacco In this
oouiitv. He has enguged the services of a
skilled superintendent aud will plant ten
acres or more in tbs suburbs of Thomasville.
There seems to be no good reason why thiu
tobacco cannot be success!ulty produced in
this vicinity. Mr. Mitchell's experiment
will be watched with very great interest.
ST. AUGUSTINE SIFTINGS.
The Report of the United States Engi
neers Approved.
Ht. Aooustink, Fla., March B.—Secre
tary of War Tracy has approved the report
of the Board of United States engineers,
Capt. Wm. M. Black, Obelin MoOarter and
Lieut. David Dub Uallllard for tho estab
lishment of solid fill and bulkhead lines on
the Matanzat, North and Han Sebastian
rivers aud the tributary creeks, complying
with the unanimous voico of the property
owners. Tho line is fixed to present a sen
wall with wharf heads. The line is limited
to six feet depth, mean low water, on both
banks of the Matanzas and Han Sebastian
rivers, In front of St. Augustine; on the
North river and south of tho s.a wall limits
established at twolvo feet depth, mean low
low tide. Maria Sanchez and Hospital
creeks are treated as other navigable
streams. Congressional aid must he ob
tained to bulkhead beyond tho limit estab
lished by the hoard. A severe penalty for
violation of tha limit is fixed.
C. VanHouten of Paterson, N. J. jointly
with Frank lielaplanti, n casual ac
quaintance, rented a room of Mrs. Pacetti.
The result is that $53, a good watch and
diamond stud ore gone with tha casual ac
quaintances.
A FIBHJJHMBN'3 FUSILLADE.
One of the Trio Engagod In It Finally
Brought to the Ground.
Apalachicola, March 8.- Apalachicola
was thrown into a fever of excitement the
other day by a desperate affray, in which
revolvers were freely used, and with prob
ably fatal effect. Noah Pitts and ton,
William Pitts, fishermen, and N. Donoroma,
an Italian of tbiso.ty, mot on Water street,
in front of H. Huger & Sons, and, after a
round of epithets, Donoroma drew bis re
volver and began firing at Pitts at short
range. Pitta returned the fire until a full
round was discharged between the assailants,
from which Pitts sustained a slight flesh
wound. Donoroma then fled to the store of
A. J. Murat, just acres* the street, and
reloaded, and wont again iu search of the
Pittsos, who had retreated toward their boat,
lying at the wharf. Donoroma pursued,
and was iu the aot of renewing the fire on
tue younger Pitts, when the older Pitts
fired, bringing down his assailant with a
dangerous, if not fatal, wound.
lire Pittses were immediately arraigned
before Judgo Baker, and were discharged
on the ground of self defense.
FLORIDA'S -EN
Dr. T. A. LaFar of Pensacola Wants to
Sucoeed Call.
Pensacola, Fla., March a—Dr. T. A.
LaFar of this city, in a twenty-two page
pamphlet, to-day announces himself a can
didate for a seat in the United States Sen
ate, made vacant by the expiration of Sena
tor Wilkinson Call’s term. The doctor will
dopend mainly upon his war reoord for sup
port, having boen in charge of the hospital
service in South Carolina and other south
ern states (luring the late unpleasantness.
He was a warm personal friend of the late
Jefferson Davis, and has numerous letters
from that gentleman, as well us other dis
tinguished southerners, attesting the good
work he pe/formed during the war.
MAN AND WITH SHOT.
The Bullets Fired by a Couple of
Negroes at Amaskoag.
Eastman, Ga. , March B.—A serious
shooting affair occurred at Amoskeag, on*
and a half miles below here, this afternoon.
Sampson Speed and bis wife wsre shot by
Hicks Holland and Kamp Porter. Speed
was shot in the left lung and thigh, and is
in serious condition. His wife received a
flesh wcuud. All the parties are oolorod.
Hammond and Porter made their escape.
A reward has been offered for their capture.
I DAILY, flO A YAB. I
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A PLAGUE OF BAD BOOKS.
TALMAGE LIKENS IT TO THE VISI
TATION Of THE FROGS.
Tho Literary Frogs as Übiquitous a a
the Ones '■ hat Ware Sent as a Curse
on Egypt-Tho London Plague Noth
lng to the Affliction of To-day-A De
mand for its Suppression.
New York, March It—The plague o<
pernicious literature furmed the subject of
Dr. Talmage’e sermon to-day, which wae
the third of the series he is preaching on
the “Ten Plagues of the Cities.” Ths
Brooklyn Academy of Mueio was filled in
the morning by a donee orowd eager to Lear
It, and at night at the Christian Herald
eerrice in the New York Academy of Musta
the doers had to be closed long before tha
hour of service, there being no space avail
able within the buildlug for more hearer*.
So largo is the number of those every week
disappointed of gaining admission that the
project of hiring the Madison Bquars gar
den has again been revived. One citizen
bos offered to pay all the expeuaas if the
garden can be secured and Dr. Talmage can
be induced to preaub in it. me text of tha
preacher’s discourse was taken from Exodus
vili. ;6,7: “Andjlhe frogs cime up and
covered tho laud of Egypt. And tha
magicians did so with their enchantments,
and brought up frogs upon the land ol
Egypt,”
there is almost a universal aversion to
frogs,and yet with the Egyptians they were
honored, they were sacred, and thev were
objects of worship while alive, and after
death they were embalmed, and to-day
their remains may be found among the
sepulchers of Thebes. Thews creatures, so
attractive once to the Egyptians, at divine
behest became obnoxious and loathsome,
and they wont croaking and hopping and
leaping into the palace of the king, and into
the broad-trays and the couches or the peo
ple, and even the ovens, which now are up
lifted above the earth and on the side of
cbimnoy*. but then were small holes in the
earth with suukeu pottery, wore filled with
frog* when the housekeepers name to look
at them. If a man sat down to eat, a frog
alighted on his plate. If ho attempted to
put on a shoe, it was preoccupied by a
frog. It ho attempted to put his head upon
a pillow, it had been taken possession of by
a frog. Frogs high and low and everywhere;
loathsome frogs,slimy frogs, besieging frogs,
innumerable frogs, great plague or frogs.
VViiat made the matter worse, the magicians
said there was no miracle in this, aud thsy
oould by sloight-of-haud produce the same
thing, and they seemed to succeed, for by
sleight-of-hand wonders may be wrought.
After Mosos had thrown down his staff and
by miracle it became a serpent, and then h s
took hold of it and by miracle it again bat
came a staff, the serpent charmers Imitated
the same thing, and knowing that there
were serpents in Egypt which by a pe
culiar pressure on the nock would become
as rigid as a stick of wood, they seemed to
change tho serpent into the staff, and then,
throwing it down, the staff became the
serpent. Ho likewise these magicians tried
to imitate the plague of frogs, and per
haps by smell of food attracting a great
number of them to a certain point, or by
shaking them out from a bidden place, the
magicians sometimes seemed to accomplish
the same miracle. While these magicians
made the plague worse, none of them tried
to make it bettor. “Frogs came up and
covered the land of Egypt, and the
magicians did so with their enchantment,
aud brought up frogs upon tho land ol
Egypt."
Now that plague of frogs lias come back
upon the earth. It is abroad to-day. It it
smiting this nation. It oonies in the shape
ol oorrupt literature. Those fr gs hop into
the store, the shop, the office, the banking
house, the factory—lnto the home, into tha
cellar. Into tho garret, on the drawing
room table, on tho shelf of the library.
While the lad is reading the bad book tha
teacher’s face is turned the other way. One
of these frogs bops upon the page. Whila
the young woman Is reading the forbidden
novelette after retiring at night, reading by
gaslight, one of theee frogs leaps upon tbs
page Indeed, they have bopped on tha
news stands of the country, aud the mails
at the postoffice shake out in the letter
trough hundreds of them. The plagua
has, taken at different times, pos
session of this country. It it ono of the
most loathsome, one of the most frightful,
ono of the ipost ghastly of the ten plague*
of our modern cities. There is a vast num
ber of books and newspapers printed and
fiublished which ought never to see tha
ighfc. They are filled with a pestl'ence
that makes the land swelter with a moral
epidemic. The greatest blessing that evet*
came to tki* nation Is that of an elevated
literature, and the greatest scourge hi a
been that of unclean literature. This lass
has its victims Id all occupations and de
partments. It has helped to fill insane
asylum* and penitentiaries and alms-
X_ J J M . m, a . .
bouses and dons of shame. The bodies
of this Infection lie in the hospitals
and in tho graves, while their souls
are being tossed over into a loss
eternity, an avalanche of horror and de
spair. The London plague wet nothing to
it That oounted its viotimi by thousands,
but this modern pest has already shoveled
its millions into the charnel-house of ths
morally dead. The longest rail-train that
ever ran over the Erie or Hudson tracks
was not long enough nor large enough to
carry the beastliness and the putrefaction
whtoh have been gathered up in bad books
and newspapers of this land in the last
twenty years. The literature of a nation
decides thn fate of a nation. Good books*
good morals. Bad books, bad morals.
1 begin with the lowest of all the litera
ture,that which does not even pretend to be
res pa table—from cover to cover a blotch
of leprosy. There are many whose entire
business It is to dispose of that kind of
literature. They display it before the school
boy on his way borne. They get the cata
logues of schools and colleges, take ths
names and postoflioe addresses, and send
their advertisements and their circulars and
their pamphlet* and their books to every
one of them.
In tho possession of these dealers in bad
literature were found nine hundred thou
sand names and postoffice addresses, to
whom it was thought it might be profitable
to sond these corrupt things. In the year
1878, there wereJl6s establishments engaged
la publishing cheat), oorrupt literature.
From one publishing house there went out
twenty different styles of oorrupt books.
Although over thirty tons of vile litera
ture have been destroyed by the society for
thn suppression of vice, still there is enough
of it left in this country to bring down
upon us the thunderbolts of an incensed
God.
In the year 1868, tho evil had become so
great in this country that the congress of
the United States pawed a law forbidding
the transmission of bad literature through
the United States malls; but there were
large loops in that law through which crim
inals might crawl out, ami tne law was a
dead failure—that law of 1868. But in 1873.
another law was passed by the oongress of
tho United States against the transmission
of oorrupt literature through the mails—a
grand law, a potent law, a Christian law—
and under that law multitudes of these
scoundrels have been arrested, their prop-
