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DIXIE’S DEAD GENERAL.
A WOMAN CALLS TO. GET A LOCK
OP H.S HAIR.
* Relative of the Deceased Refuses to
Comply With Hsv Request-An Hrror
\s to the Date of Bis Birth on the
p ate of His Coffin—No Military Dis
play Ees: red-
Washington, March 23.—Among the
many callers at the last residence of Gen.
Johnston to day was a well-dressed female
who drove up in a bandsdma equipage and
risked to see a representative of thp family.
Phe would not give her name, but she told
lr. Benjamin Johnston, who received her,
that she wished a loch ef Gen. Johnston’s
hair for her collection. “I have,” she said,
with entire self-possession, “# lock of Gen.
Lee's hair, a lock of Gen. Grant’s and a look
of Gen. Sheridan’s, and I would like a lock
of Gan. Johnston's.” As goon as Dr. Johris
ton recovered his self-possession he told his
caller that her remarkable request could not
be granted. She left regretfully, not on ac
count of her request, but of his refusal.
THE INSCRIPTION ON THE COFFIN.
•‘Born Feb. 8, 1809” said the inscription
on the plate of Gen. Johnston’s coffin as it
came to his home to-day. It had been so
engraved by direction of Gov. McLane of
Maryland, Gen. Johnston’s brother-in-law.
but when Dr. Johnston of Richmond,
grand nephew of the general, saw it this
afternoon, he said. “ Why, that dßte is
wrong, he was born in 1807.” "Ob, no.”
said Gov. McLane, "he told me himself
frequently that .he was bom in 1809.”'
Therefore Dr. hunted op'the fam
ily Bible and found the entry of Gen.
Johnston’s birth under date of Feb. 3, I£o7.
So the coffin plate was takqn off and anew
one is being engraved to be put on to
morrow morning before the funeral. It
will say: “Born Feb. 3, 1807.”
IN A CIVILIAN'S SUIT.
The body of the late Gen. Joseph E.
Johnston has been prepared * for -burial.
It is attired in a civilian suit of plain
black and placed in a casket devoid of
ornaments, attempts at military display be
ing studiously avoided.
Hundreds of persons called at the house
to-day to look upon the face of the dead.
Many floral tributes were received, a num
ber of them from distant places.
Among the telegrams received to-day was
the following from Gov. McKinney of Vir
ginia toer-Gov. McLane: “Pleas®telegraph
immediately whetner the presence of mili
tary from Virginia at Gen. Johniton’s
funeral would be agreeable?” The reply
was that no military display of any charac
ter was desired. In response to this Gov.
MoKiuney telegraphed that he, with five
other state officials, would attend the
funeral. • ,
At a meeting to-day of the executive eom
of the District of Columbia of the Society of
the Boas of the American Revolution the
following p earuble and resolutions with
respect to the late Gen. Johnston were
adopted:
Whereas, Death has removed from among
us Gen. Joseph LggleSton Johnston,'one of the
honored vice presidents of this society, and an
ton' red vice president general of the Rational
Society of the Sons of the American Revolution,
apd fOr thirty-si- years an'officer in the army
of rbo United Stales, and more reeehtly, in the
civil service, of the government.
Resolved, Tliat in his loss, ripe in years, hon
ored by his fellow citizens and beloved tiy-'all ,
who were favored with b s personal friendship,
this society has been deprived of"one of the
noble men whose bravery, honesty of purpose. „
integrity of character, and many" virtues are
in the hirhe-t degree wbrthy of emula
tion. The son of a qafiant rdvelu
tionary soldier, an officer in Lee's
Legion, thanked at the bead of the army for
his services at tip' storming of Fdrt Washing
ton, Gen. Johnston was himself one ot the
bravest of American soldiers. 'His name is
prominent in the aiinais of the Seminole war of
18 0. where in one engageiflent his uniform was
pierced by thirty bullets; and ot the. sxfi r with
Mexico at Cerro Gordo, Contreras, Cheru
Buseo and Mexico, at well as at Cbepuliepec,
wli re his hand was the first to place the (lag
upon the enemy's rarapkil3. Distinguished
also in civil life, he represented his native state
of Virginia in congress at the age of 70,
and when 80 was still a faithful pobliQ servant
at the Bead of ah important bureau of the
national government. Notwithstanding pKy'Sj
led infirmity, consequent on advanced age and
battle wounds, Gen. Johnston, within a few
weekfi of his death, as a pallbearer paM the
last tribute tot the admiral of thaUrrited States
navy. It. I). Porter, and quitted the grave ot
his old sailor frien 1 to journey immediately
to a dista t city, where as one of the chief
nicurn-rs he stood by the bier of Geu Shegman,
one of the greatest leaders of the federal
armies. The life-long friend to Mie admiral of the
navy and the gefier&l of the army, though for
years an honorabla-and relentless foe upon the
field of cattle, he paid his last, tributes at the.
tombs of Porter and Snermamss he had before
done at those of Grant and Lee, ail good sol
diers and all descendants of patriots of the
revolution
Resolved, That a committee of this society
be appointed to attend the funeral 'ceremonies,
and that copies of tuese reso.ixtioos be trans
mitted to the fhrnily of the late Gen. John ton,
and to the several organizations of cl ascendants
of patriots of tue revolution. *
Ihe following committee of members of
the society was appointed to attend the
funeral: Gen, A. W. Greely, president:
- rof - D. Cabell and Col. Marshall
MacDonald.
telegrams of condolence.
Telegrams continued to come to Gov,
McLane from all parts of the country.
Hugh Garden, president of the New York
Southern Society, telegraphs as follows:
The New York Southern Society and itsmem
ners desire to testify their respect for the mem
ory of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston in expressing
to you their admiration fer his exalte.fcharae
ter am distinguished services, their pride in his
regard, and their profound symoa
tny with those whose ties of kindred have thus
been broken. -
Another of the telegrams received were
as follows:
A piablio rn e etinpr of the ex-con federates and
f ..3" s of Tenn., tender their pro
un 1 sympathy to the relatives of Geo. Josouh
rY. „S D8 on ' anl * ex Pf* ; ss their admiration for
. character and their veneration for his
_ Isham 8. Hhrhis, Chairman.
George V,. Gorman, Secretary.
Senator Wade Hampton telegraphed
terssly from Montreal. Va: * “Will
, !T IV ® to-aight to attend the funeral of my
w Thn three sons of Gen. T^e-
H ' F : Lee. • W. C. Lee and R. E. Lee
telegraphed:
*,!h heard of Gen. Johnston’s death,
famiitfi-ff ? ur heartfelt sympathies to his
*5 their great bereavement. We regret
our inability to attend his fnneral.
Gen. E. P. Alexander of Savannah, Ga.,
teagraphed:
ex t >res - s lo the relatives my sincere
..id ,™“ 5 ' 111 the death of Gen. Johnston, my
-oinmander, whom I loved very dearly.
ACTION OF LEE CAMP.
mSH <r ' HMO i ? ?, Va., March 23. — A sped and
luting of Lee catnp of confederate veter
°f which Gen. Joseph E. Johnston was
T l . em ° Br . was held this evening to take
■cion concerning his death. A committee
as appointed to drait resolutions and the
trustees were instructed to Lave the hali
raped in mourning and the picture of Gon.
Johnst n, which now hangs in the hall,
, 110 dialed. The flag on the ball was or
irvd to be placed at half-mast during the
nour of the fu .eral. and tno city authorities
e sf- rw l ues ted to have all the flags oh the
Public buildings placed at half-mast and the
Lolls tolled.
■At a meeting of the board of aldermen
And common council to-night the following
resolutions wars adopted:
'Vhkhkas, We have learned witf\ profupd
sorrow and unfeigned 1 a tret of the death of
another of oar great confederate commander*.
Gen. Joseph E. Jbhnston, who, having passed
the natural expectancy of life by fourteen
years, laden with ail the honors and glories
incident to the life of a marked hero, and
crowned with the plaudits of his countrymen,
has been oalled to answer the luminous of our
great Captain aorose the over, where he has
joined, the immortal spirits of Lee, Jackson,
Davis, Johnston, Stuart, and a score of others
of corresponding fame. He bears a record
aspure, chaste and unsulliqd as was ever vouch
safed a Christian warrior, and while with con
spicuous gailanWy he has fought the battles of
■is country'and of life, let us pope, as we be
lieve. that he has answered the roll Call of the
army of the Redeemer pnd. now wears ah fin
peri.-hahle crejwn'of gldry with that noUtfiarmy
of martyrs who preceed him Therefore, be it
Resolved, Thai in hie death we recognize the
loss of a great soldier and typical Virgfnian,
whose military .tAord, constitutes one uf the
brightest pages iq 'Pnjted States and confeder
ate history and oha who was pecu’larly and
affectionately ldSUmed with the people qf our
city in that he freely poured out his best
blood iu one of fhe fiercest stru rgles around
Richmond, in toe Cause, the memory of which
is still dear to every confederate soldier and
true southern man.
Resolved, That this chamber be suitably but
simply draped in mourning for the period of
thirty days and that Mayor Edison be requested
to attend tq© funeral as the representative of
the city. . •
The governor has ordered the flags at the
capitol to be planed ahhalf-mashrio-morrow,
and through the adjutant general issued an
order to the howitzers to Are half-hour guns
from* sunrise to-morrow morfiiug until the
hour of thp funeral, minute guns during the
time of the funeral services at the church 1
and the moviug of the funeral cortege to the
station, aud a general salute at the hour of
burial. ' . #
Gov. McKinney, Mayor Eliysoo and sev
eral state officials have gone to Wphington
to attend the funeral, 11
A MEMORIAL AT ATLANTA.
Atlanta, Ga„ March 23. —The Con
federate Veterans’ Association held, a
called meetng to-night aftd passed
resolutions of respect Cos the memory of
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. Memorial exer
cises were appointed far to-morrow night.
KX-GOV. L*UC lU$ ROBINSON DEAD. '
A Short Slcettrti of HIM Career in and
Out of Politics.,
Elmira, N. Y.. March 24. Eg-Gov. Lu
cius Robinson died to-day at his home in
this eity, of pneumonia.
Lucius Robinson was born in Greene
county, N. Y.. Nov. 4,1810,and was educat
ed at the academy at Delhi, 14 that state.
He studied law admitted to ttfe
bar In 1832. He became district attorney
aud was appointed master in chancery
in New York city in 1843, and reap
pointed in 1845. On the formation- of
the Republican party he left the Demo
cratic party and became a member of that
party, and was elected to the legislature in
1859, and controlffer of the state' in 1801
aud 1863, In 1876 he was elected oSntrollei
by the democrats, having become a member
of the Democratic varty. In 1870 he was
elected governor and was defeated for the
same offioe in 1879.
TRICKS OF TEB OARBISR3.
The PoHtoffice Department to Make a
Series of Investigations.
Washington, March'23.—The investiga
tion of the letter carriers in Washington
ordered by Postmaster General Wana
maker, Which has resulted already ia the
dismissal ,of five, and the suspension of
iff teen letter carrier% for offenses ranging
from taking car tickets for distance walked
to making charges for "overtime work,”
rendered recessary by idling duriag the
eight-hour period each day, is to be ex
tended to all the free delivery cities; in fact
the preliminary work has been secretly
done by the' postofllce inspectors and de <
tec’ives in several cities already. The cities
of Boston, Philadelphia, New York, 'Balti
more, Savannah, Charleston, Jacksonville
anil New Orleans are understood to be fore
most on tho list of the -city services to be
investigated. Postmaster General Wana
maker hopes to secure both better services
and greater economy by this effort.
A IRjP TO EUROPE.
Mrs. McKee and Mrs. Russell Harrison
Plan a Summer Outing.
Washington, March" 23,—Mrs. McKw
and Mrs. Russell Harrison are going to
Europe to spend the summer. They will
probably sail about May 1. find, going
Straight to London, they will be the guests
of Minister and Mrs. Lincoln. They will be
presented at court. The length of their
stay will be determined by the eourt func
tions. In Berlin they will be the guests of
Minister and Mrs. Phelps, ad in Paris of
Minister and Mrs. Reid. The President’s
California company, should ho determine
to go, will in all likelihood be entirely a stag
party, for should Mrs. McKee and Mrs.
Russell Ilfrrison go abroad the children
will be left to Mrs. Harrison’s care during
the summer and she may not oare to be sep
arated from tijem for tbb six weeks’ con
templated overland journey.
SFOL ATION CLAIMS.
The Court Makes Certifications to the
Treasury Department. ,
Washington, March 23e—In the court of
claims to-day an order was issued for the
clerk of the court to certify to the treasury
department the validity*’ pf certain of the
French spoliation claims, ,f*)r the payment
of which an appropi iation ,of more than
$1,000,000 was made by congress at its last
session. 'lt Is required In the law that be
fore claims that have been adjudicated by
the court can be paid by the treasury, it
shall be necessary for the claimant to make
a certificate in court to the effect that he is
an administrator of the heirs of the original
sufferer. In a dozen or so cases reported to
tbe-dapartmeDt this morning this formality
has been complied with.
KINCAID ARRAIGNED.
He Pleads Not Guilty and the Securing
of a Jury Begun.
Washington, March 23.—1n the crim
inal court this morning Charles E. Kincaid
plead “not guilty” to an indictment for the
murder of ex-C'ongressmaa Taulbee. The
work of procuring a jury was then pr<V
ceeded with, with some measure of success,
seven having been obtained before the noon
recess. In the afternoon the jury box was
filled and then the work of challenging
began. Under the district law the district
is entitled to five aad the defense to twenty
peremptory challenges. After one chal
lenge by the government and two by the
defense, without formation
of the jury, the eoufV adjourned.
Our Treaty With Hawaii.
San Francisco. March 23.— A special to
the Examiner from Honolulu say*: "The
new reciprocity treaty, -including all
products, natural and manufactured, be
tween tho United States and the Hawaiian
islands, which is now before the queen, is
objectionable to the islanders because it
gives no bounty on their sugars, and the
English influence is trying to dtefeat it.”
SAVANNAH, GA,, TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1891.
PARNELL HARD TO BEAT.
HR TRIiS TO FORCE HEALY TO RE
, SIGN FIRST.
His Application for tba Obiltern Hun*
dreda Placed in Mr. Nolan’s Hands to
Be Forwarded if Healy Resigns— Dav
ltt Denounces Parnell's Course aa a
Trick—Timothy Healy Mobbed.
Core, March 33.—1 t is announced,- today
that Mr. Parnell has written a letter to the
Cork leadership committee, in which the
Aon© ofvtudied Insult and the untruthful
character of the statements made In Mr.
Healyt letter accepting his (Mr. Parnell’s)
challenge that they should both resign their
seats in parliament and come forward'as
. candidates for re-election debar him from
communicating directly with Mr.
HeAly or with the latter! friends.
Mr. Parnell adds that it . is
impossible to expect that any agreement
will Derespected Dy_hie opponents longer
than .aexpedient. However, he ha3 placed
his application for the C'biltern Hundreds
in Mr. Noland’s bauds, requesting biin to
'forward it directly. Mr. Healy submits
hipiself before the electors of the division of
Cork, which ha represents.
’ healy ready. 1 *
Maurice Healy, when questioned to-day
about Mr. Paruell’s letter to the leadership
committee, said that be had not seen ther
letter referred to, but if the resignation
was genuine, he (Mr. Hsaly) would in
stantly meet it.
William O’Brien and John Dillon were
to-day transferred from the Galway jail to
the .jail at Cork. They were recognised
upop arrival at the railway station
here, 'and as they were driven through the
streets upon jaunting cars guarded by a
police escort the prisoners received an
ovation from the people in the. streets.
Messrs. O’Brien and Dillon were at first
takaii to Clonmel prison after surrender
iug to the police at Folkestone on Feb. 13,
aud on Feb. 18 they were transferred to the
Galway jail.
WHO HIS ASSAILANT IS.
Mr. Healy’s assailant is O’Brien Dalton,
who was connected with the Tipperary o®*>-
apiracy. He first upbraided Mr. Healy for
nn insulting speeoh which he made while
Dalton was in prison. He then struck Mr 1
H* aly. The glass injured the coating of
Mr. Healy’s left eye, and inflicted an
incised wound an inch below the eyelid.
It is feared that inflammation will epsue.
Mr. Healy’s sight is not injured. Mr.
Morley, who arrived at the hotel after the
assault, was highly indignant Parnellit©
roughs watched all the exits till Mr. Healy
departed from a back entranoe, when they
hooted him.
• PARNELL AT BLIOO.
Sligo, March 23,—Mr. Parnell,ina speech
delivered he-q to-day, quoted Gen. Gordon’s
oplnion|that the tenants ‘should be bought
out by compulsory propriation at a small
sum and should be allowed to keep their
holdings in perfect security and practically
rent free. Eight or ten million pounds, he
said, would be more than ample to compen
sate the landlords for any losbcb they might
sustain. This would be a small .sum to ac
complish a nobler Wort than the emancipa
tion of the slaves’ -In'' the soirfli
ern . states of America. Mr. Par
nell, in referring to ttfe seesders,
from his ranks, said he preferred Va'entjue
Dillon (the Sligo candidate) to a good pro
portion of the traitors who had deserted the
party, because Mr. Dillon would not run
away if the grand old man made faces at
him. He would put his back to tbe wall
and die fighting rather than march out
with all the honors of war, which the
seceders did not do when they hastily re
treated from room 15. Vlf the strife
had been removed from the heated
atmosphere of room 15 and the evil in
fluence of tue National Liberal Club, some
way . would have been found out of tire
difficulty witliout the present deplorable
schism.
At maiiy other meetings Mr. Parnell’s
difficulty in obtaining a hearing has been
so great that the services of the police
have frequently been required. The
election agout of Valentine Dillon has ap
plied to the magistrates for protection
against what he terms “organized mobs.”
PARNELL’S POPULARITY WANING.
Dublin, March 23. —Mr. Parnell traveled
from this city to Sligo to-day, His journey
was heralded broadcast. Nevertheless
there was no gathering at the station to
greet him.
A BOGUS LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS.
Canon Kearney has written a letter to the
Rational Press, tbe McCarthyite organ, in
which he qpys that he is astonished to find
hit name published in the Freeman's Jour
nal as having written to the lord mayor.en
cloting a Do note for the fund oeing raised
for Mr. Parnell’s campaign purpose. Canon
■Kearney’s denial, the National Press says,
is suggestiva # of the bogus list of subscribers.
Mr. Hexton, speaking at Sligo, announced
that Mr. Hesly would hand his resignation
to Mr. Deasy, the nationalist whip, so that
Mesirs. Nolan and Deasy could apply for
the Chiltern Hmfdreds together.
LOOKED UPON AS A TRICK.
London, March 23. —Michael Davitt, in
an iu’erview to-day, said that Mr. Parnell's
phrase ip his letter to the Cork leadership
oommittee saying “so soon as Mr. Healy
has submitted himself to the judgment of,
and bas gone to, his constituents/’ is a repe
tition of the Boulogne trick. *Mr. Davitt
added: “Mr. Parnell wishes to make Mr.
Healy be the first to resign, and then he
(Mr. Parnell) would be guided by the result
of Mr. Healy’s ,fate. Mr, Parnell would
never have noticed the acceptance of his
challenge except tor the taunts of the press.
He now evades the terms qf his own chal
lenge.”
The election at aston.
Mr. Davitt, roferring to the recent con
servative victory at Aston, said that the
battlo was fought not on the home rule but
on tbs labor issue, aqd that Joseph Chamber.
lain’s influence secured the, middle class
vote. He added that the government's
reiolve to appoint a labor commission to in
quire into tbs cause of strikes and the best
way toromedy them, as well as into labqr
matters generally, undoubtedly greatly in
fluenced the laborers, but the latter did not
sea thO government’s desire to shelve the
labor question by appointing sqch men as
Lord Hurting ton, and the Earl of Derby as
members of the commission.
Interviews with members in the lobby of
the House of Commons show a general
belief that Mr. Parnell will not resign until
after Mr. Healy has resigned. Many Me-
Carthyites are so confident of the defeat of
Mr. Parnell that they urge Mr. Healy to
make every possible concegiionrto force an
encounter.
PORTUGAL’S BEVOLUTIONIB7B.
The Lender to Ee Jailed for aixYeera
and Then Banished.
Oporto, Ma-ch 23.—The court-martial in
the case of the soldiers ooilcerned in the re
volt of January last bas rendered its deci
sion. Capt. Beito, the principal leader, is
sentenced to six years’ imprisonment and
ten years’ bainsnrnent iq . Abies. ■ The'
other leaders receive more lenient sentence .
Tney average three years’ imprisonment
and threuyenrs’ banishment. Of jO'Jothers
accused, half are liberated and the other
half receive shorter sentences.
oua DBAL Wlf* NEWFOUNDLAND
• —■
The Colony's Correspondence With the
Home Gbyernment.
London, March 33. —The correspondence
between tbe governments of Newfoundland
aud Great Britain on the proposed fishery
convention between Newfoundland and the
United States is published. Tbe dispatches
extend from February, 1690, to March,
1891. The • flfet communication is a
letter from Bir John O'Brieu.
governor of Newfoundland, tb Lord
Knutnf.rd,, Imperial colonial secretary, iu
which the governor gives tjie minutes of tbe
Newfoundland executive council lu favor of
a separate i.rraugerhent Wi:h the United
. (States on fishery aud commercial questions,
as opposed to co-operation with Canada.
- Lord Kifutsford, on April 12,18(10,.absents
to Newfoundland's negotiating directly with
the government at Washington.
■ Sir Charles Tupper on OfcL, 37, 1890, pr>-
tests against the departure fruty the old
policy of treatlngstbe fishery question as
Requiring upity bf action between New
foundland and Canada, and Hir John
MacDonald cables that the dominion ought
to fio included in nnv arrangement,
v Lord Knutsford, on Nov. 4, 1890, cables
that Mr. Bond, colonial seoretary of New’-
fpundland„has no'powers to negotiate, and
tnnt the-government had eommuuicatnd
With Sir Julian Pnuncefite In re aril to
the dominion’s desire' to be included in any
arrangement.
Blaine’s intervi|w vmfl bond..
Sin Julian Pauncefote. on Oct. 1<), 1890,
wired that Secretary had received
Mr. Bond unofficially, and had a lortg in er
view with tfim, the result of which
,was the drafting of a convention by
'Bir Julian Pauncefote. A, eopy of this
convention,sent to L>rd Htaulay ,<govenior
general of Canada, elicited, a cablegram
from the governor general ■on Nov. 19,
stating that Canada vie wed the convention
with the utmost alarm, and strongly pro
tested against the signing of it.
Messages from Sir. Johu O’Brien urge that
thro bo no delay in signing the convention.
He contended that Newfoundland ought not
to be involved m Canadian disputes, ami
appealed to tbe imperial government not to
subject the colony to t&dfiig disabilities to
the advantage of Canada.
Lord Knutsford in.rsspotno holds that tho ‘
convention cannot be made exclusively in.
Newfoundland’s interests.
Finally, oh Jan. 23,1891,L0rd Knutsford
cabled to Sir John O’Brien that the imperial
government was compelled to maintain ile
ly of ratification of the convention. The
same cable refer* to tbe French shore
difficulty, the depressed condition of
Newfoundland and the importance of o; en
ing up the oolouy’s resources, and offers to
guarantee a railway loan and to send a com
mission to inquire into the resources of tiie
colony; but adds that befpre applying to
parliament to sanction the loan the im
perial government would reauire utsurauco
shat the colony would 00-opffrate in adjust
ing the controversy with France.
NEWFOUNDLAND’S RESPONSE.
On Fzb. 10 (the Newfoundland gov
ernment responded 'that they could not
comprehend Lord Knutsford’s withdrawal
from the distinct and- positive understand
ing declaring that the . imperial
goverment was delaying ratification'
-of*'the convention in subservience tv
Canadian politics, to ruin the prospects of
the colony, and demanding an explicit
answer yes or no, iw'order that the fate of
the colonyraight be known aud appropriate
action be taken.*
Lord Knutsfosd cabled that he adhefed
to the decision and that ho regretted tho
language which the Newfoundland minis
ters thought fit to use.
Sir John O’Brien having sent tho resolu
tions' of the two houses of the New
foundlaud legislature, Lord Knuts
ford in a* final despatch on March
12 contended that Mr. Bond’s in
structions whan in \Vaihington in no
wise implied that a contention could then
be concluded; that Mr. Bond, without ref
erence to Bir Julian Pauncefote, had had
several interview# wRh Blaine,
the result being the remodeling of tbq
convention as prepare! by Sif
Pauncefote, that Secretary ’Blaine
had csiiimunicated * this counter
draft to Sir Pauncefote oh Jan.
6, and that this fact, tbqpgrf known to the
•Newfoundland ministers, had not be oh
stated to the Newfoundland legislature.
Lord Knutsford regrets that the legislature
recorded an inaccurate vie w of the transac
tions. • * k
NEWFOUNDLAND’S RAGE. *
Talk of Applying for Admission to tho
United fc tales.
Boston, Mass., March 23.— The Herald's
Halifax special says: -“The people*)! New
foundland are, a unit in denouncing the
cowardly and treacherous conduct of the
government in coeroing the province re
specting the French fishery claims.” The
specbl says that English allegiance will be
renounced and an appeal will be made to
the United States for admission as a state
into the union and for protection.
WILLIAM HENRY SMITH’S STATEMENT.
LowbON, March 23.—-William 1 Henry
Smith, first lord of the treasury, in the
House of Commons to-day, replying to a
question asked by Mr. Gladstone and others,
said that Lord Knutsford, secretary of
state for the colonial department, on Satur
day last had oabled to Sir John O’Brien,
governor ■of Newfoundland, saying that
the bill giving effect to the modus
vir.endi would not be proceded wijji
until April ife, thus giving time
for further communications on the subject
between the imperial and colonial govern
ments. The proposals of the Newfoundland
delegates for settling the whole questiqn by
territorial concessions or by some other
equivalent, added Mr. Smith, bad beeneub
nutted to the French government. In the
House pf Lords, Lord Sab stuff made a
statement similar to that of Mr. Smith,
adding, however, that the bill would sot be
taken up beforo April 23.
MEMOIRS OF TALLEYJtAND.
A Frenoh Professor Impeaches Their
Authenticity.
Paris, March 23. —M. Aulard, professor
of bistory at Sorbonue, impeaches the au
thenticity of the Talleyrand memoirs. He
argues that, from internal evidence', por
tions of tha papers have, been
suppressed and * thaj the gaps
have been clumsily concoaled.’ He sug
gests that the work was done by Bacourt to
screen the reputation of Talleyrarid or. royal
personages, as the pu lislied version of the
memoirs does pot account for the postpone
ment of their publication for so many yeaviL
The Due de Biogho gives an evasive roplw
to M. Aulard’s challenge to produce Ijjge
original manuscript.
Slukltig of the Utopia. *
Gibraltar. March 23.— The coart mar
! tial to ascertain what responsibility. If any,
' rests o i the British warship Anson for the
sinking ef the steamer Utopia was opened
• here tcLday.
The bodies of fifty m- re of the victims of
the disaster were reeovered to-day. They
were in very bad condition, ar.d for sani
tary reasons it was decided to bury them at
ea.
AWIFECIIOKEDIODEATU
HFR CORPSE DISCOVERED BY HWR
LIT rL R LAUGH l ER.
Bslnbridge the tcene of the Crime—
The Worn’s Husband the Mur
derer—A Fosse l ursues and Captures
Him. at Camilla-Lynching Looked
for Lpst Night.
Bainbridue, Ga., March 33.—Early this
forsnoon there occurred in this city vne of
tho most shocking murders ever committed,
the victim being a Mrs. James Lemox,
aged about 25, and the murderer being fier
husband, who, after chokiug her to death,
ffiosdd and-looked up the house, and, com
ing up town, procured a horse from Hines’
livery stable tod fled, going in the direc
tion of The deed was not discov
ered until noon, ' when the murdered
woman s little girl returned homo from
School, who, finding the house looked, went
to a neighbor’s near by and said tbatjsi’.e be
lieved her mother was dead. Another key
was found that unlocked the door and the
deoil lnuy was found lying partly on the
bed, cold and stiff in death.
WARES ON HER THROAT.
Idnrlpi about tho .throat showed that she
had been choked to death. The alarm was
ht onoe sounded, and the sheriff and a
posse left in pursuit, having found that
the murderer hid gone in the dir.-cffonof
Camilla. -The posse soon found that they
were on the right track, mfil (he pursuit
became more spirited. Tjse murderer’s
arrest was effected at Camilla late this
afternoon, and It is not improbable that he
.Will be lynched to-night. A jury of inquest
.tfas been summoned, but at this hour no
Verdict has been reached.
HAD THREATENED TO KILL HER,
The little girl says that her father threat
ened yostorday to kill her mother, ant said
he would do so if site would promise net to
tell on him. ■ The fleeing murderer bor
rowed Vue mouey with which to hire the
hors'* upon winch to make his escape from u
brother of the murdered woman. Mrs.
Lemox was a Sister of Messrs. E. J. Willis
& Bro., salfton keepers 6f this city.
Tennessee election, oases.
.the Supre(Q9 Court Answers Only
Five of the -Questions Appealed.
*WAsmNwrbN, March 28.—The*supreme
court of tile United. States to decided
the case of the United States vs. Clark
Brewer et al., which comes Aere on a certifi
cate of a division of opinion among the
judges of the circuit Court of the United
States for tho western district of Tennessee.
Brewer and others were election officers,and
were indicted tinder the federal statute for
refusing or neglecting after the el -ctlon to
upon the ballot-boxes at tbb place wht re the
election was held, and for failing to rind
aloud the names of th voters, these being
the requirements pf the law of Ten
nessee. Tiie indictment did not
fraud or inteht to -coirihiit by the
nor that the. election was affected by tho
-action of Brewer and Bis colleagues. Tho
lower court submitted eiifht qnestiotis as to
the Validity of the indictment. The su
preme eourt th an opinion by Justice
Brewer holds that the indictment was had,
and answers five of the questions in favor
of "the elecworf odicejrs,' pud does not
answer the remaining questions.
TAYLOR BUN TO COVER.
He is Located 'fn a featei at Council
• . Bluffs,
Chicago, March 28, —A special dispatch
from Omaha says: '‘Senator Taylor, the
Nebraska legislative member who fled from
tho capital at the instance of the railway
lobby;,to defeat the maximum ratohiil, is
looated in a Council liluffs hotel, but be
cannot bo reached, as the sergeant-at-arms
fears to break dowh the door to effect bis
arrest. Tho place is surrounded by officers
to prevent TayJbj-’s esespe.
“Congressman McKergnan,-an alliance
representative, visited Council ifluff.s last
night to entioo the fugitive into a hack and
convey him e Nebraska, but was foiled by
Senator Taylor’s fneuds.”
4 Tffi fIBAOCOCK BROKEN.
Lincoln,, Njib., March 23.—The dead*
lock in the state Hennte, after lasting over
neventy'fonrboitrs, Wits broken at 5 o’oloclt
this afternoon by the independents, who
"succeeded in winning over one pf the re
publican opponents to the maximum freight
rate bill. A oaji pf the house was dis
pensed with, and the bill passed. It now
goes to the governor. Benator Taylor, who
ran away, is still missing.
" QUEEN VIC EB-T 8 A BOt^L’
Her Majesty Going ,to the Hou'tb of
Franpe for Heoreation.
London, March 23.* queen left
Windsor Castle this morning en foute to'
Grasse, a smaU town in the departmpnt pf
the Alps Maritime, 2d . miles fturn. Nice.
-The queen goes via Cherbourg, and not yia
‘Calais and Baris, as was announced shortly
after the arrival in this oountry of Empress
Frederick from hei< visit tc Paris. At
Urasse the grand hotel has been rented and
placed in order, for she accommodation of
the queen.
THIRTY YEARS IN ORLLS.
Aro Boys Sentenced for Killing Their
Bfother-ic-law.
Oquawka, 111., March 23.- Bnrnnm
and William Brown were sentenced Satur
day to serve thirty years in tho peniten
tiary for the murder of their •brother-in
law, George Holly. Hplly had ill-treated
his wife. .She left him, and, going to her
horpe, told her brothers to go homo fbr her
thing*. Upon.their arrival Holly ordered
them off tho promises and attacked them
with 9n ax. Boriium, who is 20year* old,
deliberately discharged a gun iato Holly’s
breast, kiying him instantly. The boys
gave themselves up, Claiming self-defense.
Commerce With Brazil.
London, March 231 -‘-Lord (Salisbury in a
letter to the Glasgow Chamber of Com
moroe says he is well aware ol the Impor
tance of the reciprocity treaty betweou the
United States und brazil. Four years ago
the government failed.to obtMn the Brazil
ian assent to the "most favored nation”'
treatment for British merchandise, but
the efforts in that disection will nojr be tc
[ newed., . __ ,
Retention of Gold Bbrs,
Washington. March 23. Secretary Fos
ter to-day armounopd that the policy of the
| treasury department begun bv Assist Ant
[ Secretary Nettlston in exercising the dis
cretion Vbsftd in tie Secretary of toe
Treasury by the aot at March 8, 18W1; to de
cline to furnish gold bars in exchange for
L gold coin for* shipment, would be adhered
to, and the necessary instructions to that sf
-1 foot were issued totiie director of the mint.
A Panic In a Church.
Halt La Be City, March 23.—Almost a
, panic-happened last night at St. Paul’s
Episcopal church, The audience had just
Iboen seated when the floor gave way, re
suiting Intlie Injury of a number of persons,
but none, however, were seriously hurt.
EDMUNDS' RESIGNATION.
The Belief That it May ba Looked for
Very Generally Entertained.
Washington, March 23.—The belief
that Benator Edmunds will resign before
congress meets again, 09 aocount of his own
health, and the health of his wife aud
daughter, which demand prolonged travel
and residence ip Europe, is very generally
entertained by senators and, as was stated
in these dispatches, afforded to them the
only reason for thinking that Secretary
Proctor might resign. Apart from the
fact that Senator Edmunds has rented his
new residence on Massachusetts aveuuo for
two years to Senator Washburn of Minne
sota,-the senators nowl 11 Washington, when
questioned have very iitt:e to offer by way
of foundation for their belief,
. hoar’s hint.
No one of them, apparently, has heard
Benator Edmunds say that he would resign.
He is thought, however, to bavo said some
thing about it fe Senator Hoar. The Utter
remarked, at.lhe caucus, whoa he hail been
oleatod president pro fern, over Senators
Frye and Hoar: "Well, It is just as well. I
should probably have had to resign the
presidency pro fen*, before long. ’ From this
it was Inferred that Senator Hoar expected
Senator-Edmunds to retire, and then ex
pected to succeed him as chairman of the
judiciary committee. Altnougu Benator
EdtuumlsTs far from being old, he has aged
greatly within the last few years. He has
never taken fho name interest
in - public Affairs or iu the
business of the Benate since
It becumo apparent that he could never be
nominated for the presidency. His absence
from thh Senate chamber became sd worked
during the lust congress that it was alluded
to In debate. Asa matter of fact he spent
tWo-thirds of his time when at the capitol
In his committee room.
KEEPING UP THE WAR CRY.
Cleveland Writes Another Tariff Re
form Letter.
Inianapolis, Ind., March 23.—Ex-
President Cleveland hay written a letter to
tho Indiana Tariff Reform League, declining
to be present at the leggu Vi annual meet
ing. The full text or the letter is not given
out for publniatida, but the closing para
([rapbs are made public. They are as fl
-ows:
You will not, J hope, think li amiss K I sug
gest the necessity or pushing with more vigor
than ever tho doctrine of ijour Organization. T
believe that tho theories, and practices which
tariff reform antagonizes are responsible for
many, if uot all, Of the evils which
afflict our people. If there is p
scarcity of the clryulatlug medium,
is pot tho experiment worth trying, <l. a
remedy, nT leaving Ui money In the hands of
Hie people, and for their use, which is needless
ly takrti from them under the pretext of neces
sary taxation? If tiie farmer's lot is a bard one.
in his ’ discouraging struggle for bet
ter rewards for his toil are the
prices of his products 'to be Improved
•by a pollcy’whieh hampers trade in his best
markets and Invites the competition of dauger
eus rivals* Whether other meant of rebel may
appear necessary to relieve the present hard*
ship, 1 believe the principle of tariff reform
promises most important aid in their behalf;
and that continued and earnest advocacy of
this principle is essential to the lightening of
the burdens or our countrymen.
Uniting that ymir organization may continue
to he one of great usefulness and encourage
ment, 1 am yours, vcyy respectfully,
GIIOVKH Ct.KVBI.AND.
TEXAS REJECTS A BOUNTY, y
Her Governor Vetoes a Sugar Bill bn
Constitutional Grounds.
Austin, Tkx., March 23.—The state of
Texas owns aud runs a sugar farm worked
by convicts. Recently a bill was passed by
the legislature to accept a 2-cont bounty
uudof the McKinley bill. Gov. Hogg vetoed
it. The vido closos, in' part, as follows:
“The statii is sovereign of her own affuirs
and I'annot be dist iriiod iu the legitimate
exerekq of %ur prerogatives. If she desires
to raise sugar by convict labor, under no
circumstances could she, with propriety,
ask or accept from any govepmmnt Jk
license *0 do so, nor could
she yield to supervision ot her affairs by
any officer not subordinate to her own laws.
To do sb In one instance would lead to
sSiothdr, and finally to supervision by the
federal government over the cotton patches,
wheat Helds, stoofe ranches, lumber raids
and factories within her limits. Precedents
of government usurpation become stronger
then ttio law, and tbe worse they are the
mere difficult they are to overthrow.
When they at.' emoted on the destruction
of thb constitution, like the bounty act, the
wrong which produced them strenglitens as
the bruits of the crime spend, until they be
come fastened forever on tho people. For
tnypart I shall protest, and begin to strike
now while the precedent is hew. For ro
turn can the state afford to sacrifice princi
ple‘or to imperil hereoveign rights."
. A BACK’S EYE BLACKBD.
The, Waching-ton NetLnal of New
Yopk: Won’t open To-day.
New York-, Msroh 33.—The Washington
National hank', will not onen its doors to
morrow. T-tje suspension is due, for the
greater part, it is said, to tbe undue lati
tude accorded friends of President Sher
man In tbe way of Plans. A large amount
of securities deposited for these ioeus have
boon of the "cat and dog clan.” Depos
itors, it is said, will not suffer materially by
the suspension, which was precipitated by
the refusal of the Gallatin National bank
to Altar tor tbe Washington National upon
a discovery that the capital of tMdatter
bank is impaired.
The bank began business last June with a
paid up capital of $300,000, The net depos
its are only about SOOO,OOO. The bauk will
be placed in the hands of tbe national bank
examiner. The amount of the impairment
of its capital is rather indefinite, but it is
estimated at abeut $60,000. *
_RAN INTO A FREIGHT.
An Enarineer and Fireman and Several
Postal Gierke Injured.
Col vm bub, 0.. March 20.—A epecial to
tbe Dispatch from Coshocton, 0., says:
"T 1 b limited mail, No, 7, due in Columbus
a( 1:40 o’clock this afternoon, was wrecked
at C.'iiesvUle, seven miles west of here, this
afternoon. A freight frail* was rulin g ou
a tiding at that point and had failed to
station a flagman. The- mail train, run
ning at a high rate of speed, came around a
curve and ran into the fr'eßht Tbe mall
trail’s engine turned over and Engineer
Oscar Farrell and Fireman Dicksun were
horribly injured. The iatter, it is thought,
is fatally hurt. 'Several of the postal clerks
were severely bruised, but none were seri
ously injured.
Bridge Builders Assign.
Milwaukee, Wib., Marob 28.—' The Mil
waukee bridge and iron works, in which
' Keepers & Predell were tbe principal stock
holder*. made an assignment tins morning.
The liabilities ore reported at about $300,-
000. The assets are not given, but it is
claimed that they will exceed the liabilities.
Blow collections caused thef ilure.
Gotham Has the Grip.
New York, March 28.—The health de
partment says another epidemic of the grip
is now ou iu this city. •
I DAILY.JIO A YEAS, 1
•{ 5 RENTS A COPY.
I WEEKLY, Sl 2> A YEAR, I
SLASHED WITH KNIVES.
AN ATHENIAN BAH A CLOSE CALL
IN A STORE.
A Wrangle With a Man Who Owed
Him Money Results In an Attack by
'Three Men Three Wounds inflicted
Before the Victim Made His Escape
by Taking Leg Bail.
Athens, Ga., March 23. —A bloody me
lee occurred in Brooklyn, a suburb of
Athens, to-night, whfch may result fatally
to one of the parties mixed np in it. Accord
ing to the statement of J. M. Morris, who
figured prominently in the affair, be wen*
to the store of Mr. MacParris, on the out
skirts of Athens, and asked the use of his
telephone. Whilo in the store he exchanged
some angry words with Abe Lowe, whom
Morris claimed owed him some money,
Morris says MacParris slipped around be
hind him, closing the front door to the store
and locked it
ATTACKED WITH KNIVES.
Almost instantly Floyd Johnston, a
begin, stabbed him in the leg with a knife.
Richard Lowe, another negro, sloshed bin*
iu the breast with the chn so knife, and
MacParris cut him again in the neck, in
flicting several ugly,- though not necessarily
fatal wounds. Morris saw he would be cut
into mincemeat unless be escaped, and
dashed out of the hack door, bleeding pro
fusely from a dozen wound-. Morris is
liadly, but not fatally cut, nons of the stabs
having touched vital spots. Warrants have
been issued.
AN EDITOR KILLED.
The Editor of a Rival Paper Fired the
Fatal ohot.
New Orleans, La., March 2a—The
Picayune's Vicksburg (Mils.) special says;
“Ernest Hardenstein, editor of the Burn'-
ness, a weekly paper, and John G. Cash
men, editor of the Evening Post, met in
mortal combat on the streets here to-day,
and Hardenstein ’ was killed. it
is claimed bv Coshman’s friends
that Hardenstein. upon reading
strictures of the hr filing Pott in regard to
a card sig ted ‘‘Basinets’’ had threatened to
attack Cushman on sigtit. Cashmau started
home, taking iiis usual route, when he was
stacked with the result above stated. The
discussion which brought about the diffi
culty was in regard to the ac lon of tho
citizens of New Orleans in killing the
Hennery murderers. <‘ashmen sur
rendered and was locked up. He re
fused to tie interviewed, lurther than stating
that he had been advised by wurm friends
that Hardenstein would attack him, and hs
was prepared for the worst when the attack
came. No pistol was found on Harden
stein’s body and he is believed to have been
unarmed at the time of the encounter."
MOLDERS STRIKE.
A General Quit at Richmond's Loco
motive Works Probable.
Richmond, Va., March 21.—About fifty
■Holders employed at the Richmond loco
motive works went out on strifes to-day,
the molders’ union having declared it im
proper fdr the molders to furnish castings
for scabs to finish in the machine shop. The
couucil, representing nineteen unions in
this city, adopted a resolution recommend
ing a general strike at the locomotive work*
next Saturday if trouble between the com
pany and the who went nut last
Thursday, is not settlelby that time. At
a meeting of the board of directors of the
locomotive works held to uight the action
of the general manager, in refusing to ac
cede to the demands of the strikers, was sus
tained. The indications are that the COO
men remaining in the shop of the works
will go out by the end of the week.
The Vulcan iron works, which shut down
lust week, will be in full o(ieration to-mor
row, the men having agreed to aocept tbe
terms of the company that they ho paid off
monthly instead of somi-mouthly, os hereto
fore.
HU6TUED Q'_T BY DAGOES.
A Man Who Claimed to be One of tho
Lybchers Badly Beaten.
Chicauo, March 2-'i.—Charls Button
went Into the barber (hop of F. Pierfoiso
Saturday. Seating; himself he oalled upon
suiy member of fbe Mafia in the shop to (rive
him a shave. He announced that he had a
band in settling the New Orleans troubles,
being a member of the mob that stormed
the jail. For a moment the Italians
looked at their customer, and
then fell on him cn masse. When
the •‘avenger” landed In the street
be looked as if he had been in collision with
a locomotive. The terrific thumping h'
received with pokers, ciiairs ar.d billets of
firewood may result fatally. Last night
three barbers, Alexander Necozeo, Michael
lterelo and Jacob Keare, were arrested
charged with assault on the “avenger.*
Button, it is believed, was not in New Or
leans at all, but was simply trying to bo
funny.
A TOWN CLERK'S BOLE.
Ha Pigeon-Holes a Proclamation From
the Acting Governor.
WrasrtD, Conn. , March 23.— 1 t has been
customery for the governor’s fast day pro
clamation to be read in all the churches on
the Sunday preceding the fast day. In
Winsted Sunday none of the ministers read
the document. To-day the pastors state
that they bad not been furnished with the
otHcial proclamation by the town clerk.
The town clerk, George Wentworth, a
democrat, explains the matter by a state
ment that be does not recognize Mr. Bulke
lev as governor, and hence pigeon-holed the
official proclamation.
A MONUMENT Off SILVER.
The (Director of the Mint’s Beference
to Free Coinage.
Washington, March 23. Director of
the Mint Beach figures thus in an inter
view published this evening!
“With free coinage, how much money
would be neoeesary to build additional
vaults?” be was asked.
“The lord only knows.” was the reply,
“but I would not favor building new vaults.
My idea would be to take the accumulated
silver and build a monument. I would
dedicate it to Senator Stewart and the
other silver senators. It is a great idea,
and about as practical as free coinage it
self.’”
Blair Going to China.
Washington, March 23. —Ex-Senator
Biair has excepted the Caine se mission, and
has arranged to sail from San Francisco for
“The Fiowery Kingdom” May 1. He has
already received his instructions from the
Secretary of State.
Martin's Case Goes Over.
Washington, March 23.— Tha case of
Harry Martin, the young man arrested Sat
urday night for breaking into the white
house, went over in police court to-day on
account of the sickness of the defendant.
