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GENERAL, NEWS. Yale college now ha# 1,092 «,tu- *eTLLD ■ BY BAMYDRAKSN. ’Tis the d»y after Christmas, ami all through sha •ith a headache r.ud ominous agaiu Tho Boautlcs of Grace Church Spiro Described by Mr. Renwick. ATHEISTS, Q-EORQ-IA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1884 VOL XXX TELEGRAPHIC SPARKS. A WOMAN’S TROUBLE. V REMARKABLE CAVE fHE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS. HUFF’S HASHERY, our tenaton |o in relation to the toHRV*" f <Cf f, i • f the nomination of $Ir. [ jj ( ‘ is district attorney, hut it will [ to show the public, If not to cc the senate, that ho is an n to rcp.e»ent the m in any court where Unto be done, t • • r’ - \ jHp. Speer hod charge of the po- k*t cases which were tried' the Hjbcfore last at Columbia, and » conduct there was nothing l4»s- n infamous. For what he dW, attempted, he should be stricken' »m the t, l of attorneys. 1. Mr. Speer asserted the right’ ’ |j»t»nd aside” jurors, knowing at in that way he could Jhrust inrthe juiy every juror who. hiid y political or social relations iJHth : accused Upon packing ^the •v with personal and political 6p- nenis of the accused, he relied r success. • II, The jurors whom ^r. .Speer pended on were greenbackers id republiiaiis exclusively. These ot« had conferences from time to we to arrange their plan of action er was cognizant of these nces. At one of them the reseiii agreed that, being :ans and greenbackers, and !kH|fendanls being democrats, ij^| >rs would find the defendants no matter what the evidence hull be. An affidavit establishing fafct is. or was, in the hands of in Columbia. ■ Mr. Speer sought to put on jury a man named Bulger, who |^e of his own witnesses. Ejection was made tfiat this li,having been summoned as a ness, could n»i he expected lo without p.ejudicc as a juror, Mr. pbf assmeil the court that Bulger t n summoned lo testify only d mailers of no consequence, ige Bond would not allow Bol- geto serve as a juror, and Mr then used him as a witness the hardest swearing and litter witness the government Ripe tomatoes can still be gather ed in Talahassee, Fla., ,* The prohibition movement in W&f&Sf Little Rock has collapsed. The total number of sailing ves sels of all the world is 4SJ04. The South furnishes only half of the Democratic Congressmen. VTj While the Marion cases cution> lor intertcring with a ini meeting in Marion Count? ) fC in progress. Mr Speer sa:tf,-m tli presence of two or re mem- b« pf the state legi-lui.ire. that Jb'e,twere w„r>e io»- ..t every po- lial hkieet n; ii hi- own stale. Lrekr. m i 1h.1i no one tlwre tlaJBs,., It things worthy of no- l,ilieless, ill coml, the idn|, ,lay ami tire next. Mr. I SaSfiKiii.iii.led itie eonvicliuii 01 haccpsed. .1 ajuiy lie believed !.«Vc' lul l! packed successlullv. 11; knowing Ih.i., it his demands v-e Com pi - ed will, respected and MMMjluble c tizens would he sent, aout”u reason or a sufficient -nC, to the Albany penitentiary, ulilar acknowleilgeineiil ol the >tines»;of the charge he made | linn, in a mistrial was ordered. «here are other counts tor the in- ment. but we have said enough how tl flat Mr. Speer should not dldwcd to misrepresent the gov- inenf any longer and bring it a disrepute. In the name of the * he defied, in the name of the vdnment he would bring into in the name of the Amer- ple who insist on the right accused citizen to a fair impartial jury," Mr. nomination should be re- I When some little rural ink-daub- «r chances to be given a job on a city daily, the first thing he does every morning is to critically exam ine the .exchanges .to 'see if any two-line squib he indites and that finds place in anothqr journal, is properly credited; and’yvoc, woe, to the.oflcnding editor who chances to appropriate one of his intellectual squirts without the most elaborate credit. Certain little weekly sheets that only see their names printed in other journals when a murder or suicide chances to oiccur in their lo cality, are also very jealous of their honors, and they roar by the col umn when one of their articles arc appropriated without the name of said sheet printed in italics. Now a paper with an established reputa tion never cares whether their mi nor productions are credited or not. If an editorial is copied from them, or any article that has required an outlay of brain or money, it is ex pected that the journal appropria ting the same should state from what source it is derived. This always done; but when the item is of a general nature, or is simply a plain 6 atement of some local happening, it is a waste of space to give credit. Ill the leading journals, such as the Herald, the Courier-Journal, the Times-Democrat, Constitution, the Morning News, the Augusta Chron icle and the Evening News, you never read complaints about plagi arism. These papers realize the fact that their reputation, as also that of their editors, is already made, and it does not require a constant printing of their name exchanges to teach the public the fact that they are still existing. We condemn the practice of papers re serving letters by mail and heading the reports “Special Dispatches,” for it is an intent to deceive their readers; but to credit every little local squib culled from an exchange is a waste of time and space that no first-class newspaper would ask. Emory Speer expected that there would be no opposition to the con firmation of his appointment. His career in South Carolina, however, seems to have made his confirma tion doubtful. It i South Carolina senators ing themselves to secme f his nomination, ai WITH HIS STEPMOTHER. Concealed In A Great Barrington ca*WerElop«>' in a Load ol Straw. Pittsville, Mass. Dec- 3 4-—J- W. Hines, the alleged « sh,er d great Barrington hank, arnvea here to-day. He was accompanied by a little lady who he registered as his wife at the Berkshire house Hines is a good-looking felhw and is not over twenty-five years old. They reached the city, it was sub scquently learned, on the train. It appears that young Hme s widowed father recently married. Last week he returned from North Egrement with liis young brute, who is connected with one of the best known families in the country-. She is an heiress to a large estate in the town of Alford. I-a>t fall she met the elder Mr. Hines at a husk ing bee and fell in love with him. He attended her house that night, paid weekly visits to her thereafter, and in three weeks the wedding was announced. The next morning after her arri val in her new home Mrs. Hines was introduced to her step-son. He it appears, was deeply smitten with her pretty face and fine figure, and lost no time in telling her so. T oung Hines told his step-mother that hi» father was over 60 years old, and concealed his gray hairs and whis kers with liberal applications ot dye. The young bride listened to him attentively and appeared doubt his story. Hines assured her it was true and asked her to fly with him. She consented. W ith $200, which the young man had saved to ward buying a small farm ill Shef field and uencumbered by baggage, they started off on foot toward the depot, three miles away. A farm er’s bov with a load ot straw- soon overtook them, and invited the run aways to ride. They accepted the oiler and climbed up, concealing themselves from observation under the bundles of straw. They reach ed the depot just as the milk train was going out and got on board. The young man’s father reached this place this afternoon, but the elopers learned of his presence and fled. They are said to have gone to North Adams. A Torrlblo Fate Awaiting the Editor ot the Ban ner-Watchman. Capt. Bernard, superintendent of the N. E., says Ed. Calloway, one of the hungry testhetics that presides behind the counter at the Markham house, says he wants us to go on a trip to Florida with him, so that he can feed us to the alligators. If we are not mistaken, Col. Huff also runs a public hashery in the Land of Flowers, and if those alligators are boarders thereat they certainly need some inside timber. Still, we do not think we are corpulent enough to furnish them with a satis factory meal. Our bones would re mind them so forcibly- of their old fare that they might get home-sick. Wouldn’t it be better for Ed. to en tice Fatty Harris or some other in dividual along with him who could give those ’gaters value received for their exertions? Again, we might have to quarter a day or so at the Markham before Ed. gets ready to start. In that case there wouldn’t be flesh enough left on our bones to give one of the Florida mosquitoes a square meal. We have had some experience in that line, and after tackling the fare at the Markham aw hile w e made railroad expenses back home exhibiting ourself as the living skeleton. No Ed., we cannot take that Florida trip with you. If you want to latten your crocodiles for breakfast hunt up some more corpulent and unsophisticated indi vidual, who hasn’t been there. We sacrificed in three days forty-eight pounds of flesh at the Markham shrine, and isn’t patriotic enough to let the Florida varmints gnaw our bones. You had better carry them down a car-load of your regular boarders, and turn your alligator tarm into a sort of bone-grindin factory. Are scattered rich treats for the rats and the mouse; For the nutshells floor , . The candy smeared knobs, when you open a door, The dolls and the trumpets n “*** Mid raisins strewed « Are siens oi the visit that ?anta Claus paid. Oh, then, -rin t out wild bells” ‘‘ring out to the wild sky.” Ring oat turkey, and. fruit cake, and pudding ondpie. Ring out candy and oranges, jelly and custard, Ring in—linseed oil, paregoric, and mustard, For the day that began with rejoicing and cheers Has ended with accidents, illness and - And for powder-burned Ned, and for sick littie Will, , ^ M1 The successor of Santa Claus good Dr. pill. The poor mother wanders from P ar *'’, r , Trie* to wipe off the powder marks from the white wall; , . And on the new carpet, looks down with a groan And wishes that egg-nog had * KMOttY SPEER’S NOMINATION Atlanta, Ga., December 21.— When Emory Speer was firstnom inated for District Attorney Gdorgia, he was a member of the House of Representatives, and as such his nomination could not be acted upon by the Senate, hence i was withdrawn, to be renewed when the Ninth Georgia District would have no further use for his services. If the disqualification had The following letter, taken from existed he would have been A FATHER’S LETTER TO A DISSI PATED SON. 1 all sides arrayed. Dinah flounces around with a scowl and a pout, Dem chillen enough to put any one out, ’d jest cleaned dia house upinest as a pin. And now it’s ar black as a pig pen sigin Papa’s too woi Mopes around frown; •My head is so heavy, my purse Ob, why did 1 drink ul'. that eng* so light, g last night?' rill tell, the bell; but those wishes he For hearing a sudden loud peal He goos to the door, stumbling over a toy, To view the peri face of a telegraph boy. And this is the u easago that came on the wire, mr bouses were burnt up last night by the life ” He yells in dismay And rushes off to s While his parting (Where a duet is k_, . .. . -Oh, l am so sick” “I’m so awful m. I don’t never want any .hristinas :t And they both rise at last from lb “This is past all endurance >e about the insurance: .s sped bv a wail from the bet «• kept up by Wil the r low bed of long months until Chr.sttuas FASHION NOTES. id thut ihc thev lion arc very popular, they in iv succeed. It mav be that Sped will wish that he had kept aw.iy from South Caro- Gen. Bob Tomnlw, of .Georgia, lives : n a big nvo story Tram.- huu-e, into the ball of which a wajjon load of hay could almost be driven. He is rich, havino received for rears a handsome income from his law prac tice. When he was young he bought large tracts of land in Texas, and it is said that he has cleared .fnw.ooo on portions that he has sold, while he still owns enough to turn him in two or three limes as much more. On the Etowah river, above Car- tersville, Ga., is a vein of gold, ’hiladelpbia judge, in aentenc- man for shooting a tramp who caking into an inconipleted ( q,. excelled by few, if am United State-. The vein is nes in the the Covington Commonwealth, was written by a fafcer to a son ot dissi pated habits; My Dear Son:—What would you think of yourself if you should come|to our bedside every night, and waking us up telling us you would not allow us to sleep any more? That is what you are doing, and that is why I am up. Your mother is nearly worn out turning from side to side, and with sighing because you won’t let her sleep. That mother who nursed you in infancy, toiled for you in your childhood, and look ed with pride and joy upon you as you were growing up to manhood, she|counted on the comfort and sup port you would give her in declin ing years: We read of a most barbarous manner in which one of the Orien tal nations punishes some of its crim inals. It is by cutting the flesh from the body in small pieces— slowly cutting it oil the limbs, be ginning with the fingers and toes, one joint at a time, till the wretched victims die. That is what you art- doing—you are killing your mother by inches. You h:.v.- planted many of the white hairs in your mother's head before the time. Your cruel hand is drawing the lines of sorrow on her dear face, making her loo*- permaturely old. You mi-_ht as confirmed unanimously. So sure was he of a similar course of action on his present nomination that up to yesterday he did not concern himself in the least about it. but an tagonism from an unexpected quar ter aroused him. It is well known Trains are not long. Gloves are very long. Mask veils are much worn. Few trained dresses are worn. High coiffures are again in favor. Small half face veils are either red or black. Sleeves remain very tight below the elbow. Dotted face veils are in high fash ionable favor. Gentlemen’s driving gloves have very large gauntlets. Figured velvets are much worn, but are never so elegant as plain e les. ChiKlrcn’s dresses are all made loose about the waist, in the late re vived English styles. Short dresses are much in vogue for evening wear, even when the wearers do not dance. Gauzy stuffs, tulles, crapes and silk and India muslins are in demand for ball and fancy party dresses. Tulle, spotted or sprigged with silver, comes among other gauzy tinsel decorated stuffs for evening wear. The bodice with a high back and low cut out front is the correct wear for dinner parties and evening re ceptions. Sleeves of costumes of ceremony Kent's Cavern In Devonshire 0: anty, England. T!ie Century. It is entered by a narrow passage some seven feet wide and only five feet high. The central cavern which is almost six hundred feet long, has a number of smaller cav ern or corridors leading out from it. It’s farther extremity is terminated by a deep pool of water. In the bed of this ;avern rnorden research has been rewarded by some deeply interesting discoveries. Over the original earth bottom of the cave is a bedorjlayer of considerable thick ness, in which are contained strange mixtures of human bones with the bones of the elephant and the rhinoceros, the hyena, the bear and the wolf, inter mingled with stone and flint tools, arrow and spear heads, and frag ments of course pottery. The ani;. mal remain testify to the presence in the ancient forests of Brittian of the beasts of prey which long since have become ex tinct. Speculation may be exhausted in the endeavoi to account for the cu rious intermingling in this cavern of the remains of human beings and of wild animals. The place may have been used for shelter successively by man and by the lord ot the fo:esc- or, as the presence of the nude beasts of the field may have been brought into this natural recess as trophies of the chase, and their flesh and skins used for purposes of food and clothing. . Nothing less than the most perservmg and enthusias tic search could have discovered the interesting remains which for a vast period of time had been buried in this retreat; for the fossils were covered ■ by a thick floor of stalagmite, which hah been formed there can be no doubt by great blocks oflime stone which had fallen from from time to time, ex tending over a very lengthened period, from the roof of the cavern, and had become cemented into one mass by the perpetual percolations of lime water from above. that bis employment in the South Carolina election cases has brought down upon him the marked hostili ty of the people of that State. He was avoided on tht streets, snubbed in social circles, and altogether so treated that on his arrival in Atlan ta he exclaimed: “Thank God, I am in a free country again.” He described South Carolina as bein just as effectually out of the Union as Rusiia. The Palmetto State has not given up the pursuit of Mr. Speerevcn now. Indignant demo crats of that State awoke to the fact that Mr. Speer’s nomination was yet before the Senate, that that body was very close, and that Senators Hampton and Butlcrhad a duty im posed upon them of securing Speer’s lejection. Those Senators have opened a light so quietly, yet effec tively, on Speer that a prominent Senator has written to parties here his conviction that Speer will fall of confirmation. are made tight, but with pull's AN ELECTRIC CROSS. which, for extent and richness, is W ell stick your knife in her body every time your come near he-", for is 2S0 feet wide .levelling, said that the firing was I t) f which shows gold. Some lone too quickly. j this assays f 16 per ton Under North Carolina’s heW cbiie j tjoirtpany own over 500 feet of a, laws which went into effect on another vein, varying in thickness N-reember 1, the young man who from four to twenty-one leet. double. yOur conduct is stabbing her to the er V inch heart. You might as well bring her wishes to secure a partne wruti dem for life will have to pay $3 for- the neces sity license papers. Senator Colquitt says the south- krn democrats do not want nor ex- any portion of the Presidential 't'.xel to come from that section, kvd; action would only renew the Wifcal feeling and utterly destroy er chances of success the ats may now have. is talk of bridging the Mis- at New Orleans, where the j 400 feet wide. An engi- poses seven spans of 300 ; onb-tB be a draw. The j to b«Creosoted piles. 1 clbstewjjfand htavdy cap- cased with iron. The depth ater will be no obstacle, as s can be gpliced. Washinjcn Gazette says: ill never, put an impediment way of negro immigration ' The man who This vein extends three miles through the company's property, and yields from $10 to $110 per ion The Eto wah river cuts the^e veins, and it will yield a power sufficient to run 1,000 stamps.. About 300 stamps are now running, and a quantity of machinery is oil the ground ready to put up and start. This mine can be worked at if 1 per ton. The com- any ownin A KENTUCKY WONDER. pany owning and working it is known'as the’ Franklin and Mc Donald Company. A GREELEY STORY. Horace Greeley, although he‘‘took the papers,” was once thought to he victimized at the well-worn “drop ped pocket book” game. The man who picked up the book, plethor ic with bogus money, right at Mr Greeley’s feet, was compelled to go out of town immediately to his sick wife, and begged the loan of if join advance of the awArd which would surely be offered if Mr. Greeley would keep the book. Mr. Greely consented, and only saved himself ■ k^a clfc look over the Un- jby taking the $5<> «»« of the book ucc » » f!The man remonstrated. “It would coffin and force her i.110 it, for you are pressing her to ,vards it with 1 he same ra pjj steps. Would you tread on her body if prostrated on the floor? And yet with ungrateful foot you are tread ing on her heart and crushing out life and joy—no I need not -ay “joy,for that is a word we have i jug ago ceased to see, because you have taken it away from u». Of course we have to meet our friends with smiles, hut they little know of the bitterness within. You have taken the roses out of your sister's path way and scattered thorns instead, and from the pain they inflict, scald ing tears arc often seen courting dow n her cheeks. Thus you are now blighting her life as well as ours. And what can you promise yourself for the future? Look at the misera ble, bloated, ragged wretche-, whom you meet every day, and see n them an exact picture of what you are last coming to, and will be in a few years. Then in the end a drunk ard’s grave and a drunkard’s doom! forthelBible says, “No drunkard shall inherit the kingdom of God.” Where then will you he? If not in the kingdom of God, you must be somewhere else. Will not these considerations in duce you to quit at once, and for all time? And may God help yon, tor he can and will it you earnestly ask ill see ttiMf the prosperity of fferent sections is in proportion eir freedom from the colored Saturday. December J2,' Mr. Lowry, the chairman of the ned committee of the city courted Atlanta,/paid over to ' State rer Speer the snug little sum 1 account of the* new fund. That is the amount ^|nd itself to pay. being value of the Old cup' 1 ^* Millcdgevillc. Sent Congress iv whining pinions from tenipefnnce It is said, alcoholitady ng, to lie the soberest'body that ever convened in Washington, ( nd *° few of the members “tip the pijy” that the barkeepers are dis posed lo cry out for protection .gainst the influence of the teetotal ler?- not do to touch this money,” he said; “you had better give me $50 out of your own pocket.” “Bless my soul my friend, exclaimed the innocent iloiace,” “I nev r carried as much money as that with me in my life!” The man impatienly snatched the book out of Mr. Gree- iev’s hands and hurriedly left to vis it his sick wife. An object of notoriety, of which Kentucky has a right to boast, is the High bridge. It :s evidently the highest bridge in ;hc United States, and perhaps the highest in the world. It spans the Kentucky river from two peaks of the Cum berland mountain at a point on the Cincinnati Southern railvay, called High bridge and is supported by piers reaching from the bed of the stream. The authentic measure ment of its heights is 272 feet, but to the eye of the observer, it appears to be more than 300. At i.iis point on the river its banks are almost perpendicular and composed of sol id rock almost obscured by clusters of hangiug moss. A few miles up the stream will be found a cave in the V; nks of the river, which is rightly supposed as being the cave once occupied by Kentucky's pio neer, Daniel Boone. This one w ill be found in Jasper county, iS miles south of Lexington. Another one in Madison county, 32 miles north, is said to he a beautiful cave in a comparatively level locality, but recently has al most been abandoned because of Ls unhealthfulness. Another, 7 miles north, known as Russets cave, i.. very pretty, and of late has become a place of popular resort. Others in the state, worthy of mention, by which 1 might sw ell these few lines to a large volume, but deem it en tirely unnecessary. The mammoth cave is too weil known for even a mere mention, therefore I’ve return ed to Lexington and its doings. epaulette appendages in the arm hole or on the shoulders. The few trained dresses lately broughtjfroin the other side have the princess back, under which dis appear the high puffed panier drap eries. The most fashionable ornaments for the hair are crescents, stars, sprays and combs of Rhine crystals, often so fine as to be mistaken for diamonds. Birds and butterflies of the most tropical appearance are placed flat on the corsages and draperies of many gauzy and tinsel-embroidered ball dresses. Caps of pleated lace, pulls of tulle and gauze and ot beaded net arc- added to the sleeves of half high corsages to give the high-shoulder ed epaulette effect. Elbow sleeves have the upper part of the cloth cut away, showing the arm to the elbow, save where it is covered by the bands that fas ten the sleeve across it. Velvet dresses are handsomest when made all of one kind of velvet and trimmed only with a little lace, black or white, or both, or tinted to match the color of the dress. The last gift made to the trustee by some of the congregation of Christ Church is the sum of $50,- 000 for the erection of the new steeple. Mr. Renwick, the well known architect, is to be engaged on the work. To a reporter of -the Journal he said: "The new marble steeple is to take the place of the old one, which was considered unsafe. The steeple will start from the tower and will be 104 feet high and Will rise 115 feet, making the height from the ground 220 feet. The spire will he octang ular in form and divided into twt) sections, the lower one being 53 feet. This will be finished with moulded heads in the angles and with foliage capitals on the top. The faces of the spire, between the beads, will he panelled in diamond form. The capitals will be sur mounted with gablets, crockets and finials. “Right angles vill form the orna mental portion of the upper section. On the top of the spire will be an illuminated copper cross ten feet high, lighted by electric light. The steeple will contain twenty win dows, the dormer windows at the base having rich traceries and gab lets, the 1 ich Gothic tracery being surmounted by a moulded cornice of crockets aud finials.” Soaking a Divorce on the Ground That Hor Hat band is a Mulatto. Baltimore, Dec. 19.—A case that is exciting much interest here is the suit of Emma J. Fearing against her husband, Robert J. Fearing, asking that the court de clare her marriage null and void. She is a white woman, and her plea is that he is a colored man. She is a pretty brunette, with large btown eyes, and is quite intelligent. Tell ing her story to-day for the first time, she said: “I was born in Dorchester, New Brunswick, and am twenty-eight years old. I left that place -when I was twenty years old, and went to live witli lfly married sister in Cas- tine, Maine. It was there that I first met Fearing, who was then steward on a government vessel of that port. I was introduced to him at my sister’s residence, where he was well known. It never occur red to me for an instant that he had African blood in his veins, and I had never heard of such a being as a mulatto. He proposed for my hand and I willingly gave it. We were married on May S, 1S79, by a Congregationalist minister in Cas- tine. “At the end of the first year a little girl was boin to us, and a pret tier babe was never seen. The baby died when only ten months old. One morning before her death Robert received a letter from Wash ington containing a tintype of his little nephew. In opening the let ter I saw the tin-type drop on the floor. He picked it up hurriedly and thrust it in his vest pocket, not thinking I had seen it. The letter must have made him nervous, for on leaving the house he dropped it. My curiosity was aroused, and 1 picked the letter up and read it. It was from his brother Charles, and he said he in closed a tintype of his little boy. When Robert returned I asked him to let me see the tintype. Alter urging he did so, and I saw at a glance that the child was not white. Noticing my surprise, he said the child was a little darker than the children in this part of the country, owing to the warm climate of South Carolina, where the child was born. He finally- confessed that the child was a mulatto and that he himself was of African descent. I was mortified beyond expression, and we at once left Castine. We lived at Middleport for some time and then went to Washington. There I met his brother, who was a very light mulatto, as was his brother’s wife. H's brother was employed in the treasury department, and they treated me very kindly. Fin ally I got money enough to bo back home and then decided to enter this suit. My hi sband is now on a gov ernment steamer at Mobile, Ala.” An old lady died in a church at Troy, N. Y. The Eastern railroads are block aded by snow. Dr. John A. Griffin, of Greenes- r. John boro, Ga., is dead. Small-pox has broken out in the jail at New Castle, Del. They continue to reduce wages in the eastern mills. Burglars have been breaking into the Union Point stores. The Eastern manufacturers con tinue to reduce wages. A farmer at Goshen, Vt., was poisoned by his wife. Guiteau’s skeleton is now on ex hibition in Washington. Fay Templeton has been granted a divorce from her husband. Three young men were killed in row at E' llendale, S. C. The coal miners of Pennsylvania contemplate a general strike. All the prohibition towns in Geor gia report a quiet Christinas. A great many murders are report ed over the country for Christmas Mr. V. B. Cosley and Miss Tom mie Smith, of Elberton, arc married. While holding an inquest, a To ronto coroner dropped dead him self. Another dynamite explosion is reported near London. No one killed. An Orangeman riot occurred at St. John’s, N. F., and the militia was out. The Czar’s shoulder is still inflam ed from his recent fall from his sledge. SARAH BERNHARDT AND HER COWHIDING SCRAPE. A lady in Illinois was killed by- gas from hard coal, used in her bed room. John Kile, a white man, fatally- cut a negro named Tohn Kimball, in Atlanta. Mrs. Houston, of Portland, has had four pairs of twins in seven years. ' In England the average of life ex ceeds that of France by eleven years. t Nearly 17,000,000 acres of the public lands were disposed of this year. Baron Rupertswood, the wealth iest man in Australians worth $200,- 000,000. In the zoological gardens of Lon don there is a macaw known to he 119 years old. A child was born in Ithaca, N. Y., recently with a nose like an elephant’s trunk. The organized band of fence cut ters in Southwest Texas call them semselves Javclenas. Five thousand persons are said to have died from fever in Sonora and Sinaloa, New Mexico. There is a Jewish penman in Vienna who writes 400 Hebrew letters on one grain of wheat. It is probable that the system of farming out convicts in South Caro lina will be abolished next year. A Massachusetts widow dresses mourning and wears bangs made in of her departed husband’s hair. The work of getting out copper and mica from the mineral lands near Clanton, Alabama, has be gun. It is said that all the Bishops of the M. E. Church, South, with possibly one exception, were con verted under twenty years of age. St. Louis, Dec. 22.—An immense meeting of citizens was held last night, and took steps to secure the next Democratic National Conven tion for this city. Little Rock, Auk., December 22.—The Maley boys have confess ed to tne killing of Daniel Casev, near Fhatlagnah. Their mother fired the fatal shot. All have been arrested. Two respectable farmers in Mis’ souri traded wives. The women consented. A crew of frost-bitten and dead sailors from Calcutta came into New York. J. O. A. Symms, of Savannah, was found dead on the street. Too much whisky. A Savannah lady was seriously- injured by a large popper thrown at her by a negro. A man in Cleveland suicided in a church during prayer by jumping from a window. CARD FROM DR. MeFERRIX. Fifteen students were burned death in a Jewish synagogue at Constantinople. BROWNLOW’S NEPHEW. Your effectionate, but stricken father. A FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT. P fhe next national Du nvention will comprise 80s dtle- tes, instead of 7.48, as heretofore. The increase result, from tho en- eer - ^ the water from the House of • *- e P : thus nr*. Birmingham, Dec. 26.—This morning at the shaft of the Prstt Mines, six mile* from Birmingham, as the. convict miners were being lowered into the mine to go to work, the engineer lost control of the en gine, and the cage descended with frightful velocity to the bottom of the shaft, two hundred feet, throW- at the bot- re- check- ing the cage before it reached the bottom, but failed. After it struck it rebounded about sixty feet, when again descending, it caught three men und^r it, killing Joe Phelan, and seribusly injuring Randall Baker and Steve Carter. Eleven others nfe slightly injured. The coroner’s jury found the accident was caused ly the failure of the en the shatif two nunureu icci, inro ing the men in a heap at the b tom. The engineer frantically : versed tl sengfne in hope of chei largement of the I tesentatives. Two delegile*-«re lowed Irorti each Congrefsiop*! dis- -tritt, nnd four at large Korn ®n?h {State, to represent the Senatorial ItA Sothntit.will:«qwre402to nominate, instead of 37a, ^ Hereto fore. K ; cylinder before starting, thus prf venting the sdmi.sion of sufficient steam to control the cage. The en gineer claims that the accident WS* due.to o -efloadingthe cage, Selma, Ala,, "boasUofkrrich de posit of phosphates. STATE TREASURER SPEER’S RE PORT. THE WAR BEGUN. ila'on Trlcyraph, Our dispatches this morning an nounce that the attack on Son- tay by the French has begun. Five strongly fortified villages have been captured, and Admiral Courbet has devoted himself to the capture of the city proper, defended by 10,000 soldiers. Sontay is the northern city of the Red River delta. It is situated up on the main stream just above where it breaks into the numerous channels through which its waters seek the Gulf ofTonquin, and is the key to the whole upper country. The war between France and China has probably been be gun by this assault, since the Chi nese ambassador announced recent ly that .if Sontay was attacked, it being partially defended by Chi nese troops, diplomatic relations would be suspended and he would be suspended from France. The attacking force numbers only 7,000 men, but they are armed with modern weapons and skillfully gen- eraled. GREAT CATCH. Philadelphia Call, Dentist—The man who witu- that girl will get a treasure. Customer—She looks like very charfniiigcreature'thatisa fact. Is she wealthy? Dentist—Wealthy! Well, I should ■jay so. She has $500 worth of gold in her teeth alone. The annual report of the Trea surer of the State is before us with compliments ot Hon. D. N. Speer. He has our thanks for the courtesy, and the people of Georgia have a model report as the outcome of the work of such a Treasurer. The re port is for the year ending Sept. 30th, ISS3, and is as complete and yet as succinct a document as graces the archives of the state. The re port is accompanied by tables show ing the monthly recepts and dis bursements, also a table with a des criptive list of the bonds of the State outstanding on the istof Oct., 1883; a table showing the public debt of the state; a table showing the amount of interest to he paid quar terly and semi-annually on the bonds of the State, &c., and also a table estimating the probable receipts and disbursements at the Treasury for the year ending December 31st, 1SS4. These and other facts and tables of interest and importance are given, and in the body of the re port we find the following valuable figures: Balance in treasury Oc tober ist‘ l8Sz, $690,472.15; * re ceived from October ist, 1SS2, to September 30th, 1SS3, $1,427,051,- 64, making a total of $2,017,523.70. Tlie disbursements from October isti 1SS2, to September 30th, 1883. were $i,47S,3S44i,lcaving a balance in the state treasury October ist, 1883, 0^539,139.38. Paris, December 21.—All sorts of stories are afloat about Bern- hardt-Columbicr affairs, and the scandal grows apace. Mile. Colum- bier, however, tells a story of the attack which differs entirely from that told by the redoubtable Sarah. She says that she retired behind the door upon Mile. Bernhardt’s advent, and that intruder, after raging about the apartments, vainly in search of her, revenged herself by smashing the furniture. Mile. Columbier as serts positively that she was riot once struck by the whip, or in any other way. She takes the matter quite philosophically, it would sec- saving that the upshot will be more people paying to see Berndardt “Nina Sahib,” and more peopic I buying future editions of "Sarah Barnum.” •‘Bernhardt, according to intimate friends will issue a card as follows: “To my friends and the public: I chastised Marie Columbier be cause she insulted :ne. When she was in want I brought her to Amer ica and she shared my profits. She has deceived me. I gave her gold. She gave me calumny. She called me -Sarah Barnum.’ I am not a -Jumbo.’ Then I gave her the lash. She weighs 300 pounds; I weigh 75; but she ran before me; this vile, ungrateful woman, this woman whom i have befriended; "the Co lumbia.’ who was nothing till she met Sarah. I have done with her. I did not chastise her for advertising purposes.” All Paris is taking sides in the dis pute. The book. “Sarah Barnum,” involes a number of well-known Englishmen and Americans, and seems destined to provoke great scandal. Welt Up In Practical Points. Washington, D. C., Dec. 24.— There have been many sensational rumors afloat here |concerning the administration of W. H. Brownlow, who was the door-keeper of the last house of representatives. He is charged with having carried on the pay-roll dur ing the past summer a number of persons who rendered no service to the goverment. The book-keeper under Brownlow says that Brown- low kept , his wife and son, his sister-in-law and brother-in-law on the pay roll during the past summer, and they were on the roll for December pay. A young man who acted as clerk to Brown low, is said to have been kept on the pay roll during the summer, while he was serving as a clerk in the treasury department. To-day, when he called to get his draft for this month, the chief clerk informed him that he could draw but one sal ary from the government at the same time. The ex-doorkeeper is a nephew of “Parson Brinlow.” The Nash- ille Christian Advo cate contains the following card from Dr. McFsrrin: •Six week s ago, this day,I was taken sick; the next day I took my room and bed, where I have been confin ed ever since with malarial typhoid fever. My physicians and nurses say that my case was extremely doubtful. Indeed, it was published in the papers, as I now learn, that I had passed away. But, by the goodness of God, the prayers of his people, the skill and energy of wise physicians, and good nursing, I have been raised up, and am now much improved and able, with iny own hand, to pencil these lines. Next week I hope to be in my office. The object of this writing is to greet my friends and brethren in love, and in a small degiee recipro cate their sympathy and congratu lations in my sickness and in my re covery. To many friends in per sonal letters, to annual conferences, to the board of missions of the Meth odist Episcopal church, and to the religious and secular press North and South. I am indebted for kind words, all of which are I trust duly appreciated, however unmerited on my part. Whatever of virtue is in me as a Christian, and whatever of good I may have wrought, is all of the grace of God. I come up from the margin of the “last river” with a heart fuller of love to Goe and charity for men than ever before. I think I have realized and now feel that “for me to live is Christ, but to die is gain.” All for grace. Asking my brethren to continue to pray for me, and invoking the blessing of God upon the church and the country, I am Yours in Christ, J. B. McFekrix. December S, 1SS3. Anew scheme for the emigration of colored people has just been put under way in Washington. A couple were refused admit tanceinto a New York theatre be cause they showed traces of African blood. - Chas. Sunder, of Philadelphia, after kissing his wife and children, threw himself from a third story window. An irate husband in St. Louis fired at his wife’s boarders and winged two of them. He was jealous. The French government announ ces in advance that English media- The Chicago Tribune has just published the “Beautiful Snow” poem as a special contribution. The editor of that paper would evident ly be heartless enough to wring in a cold deck on a poor orphan. Several thousand alleged inde cent pictures have been seized by the police of New York and Phila delphia, and two or three photo- raphers convicted for selling them. This has been done at the instance of the Society for the Suppression of Vice. “The nude in art” does not seem to be appreciated by the reformers. The Calhoun Times says: “We arc informed by Major Roil’, of this place, that the statement now going the rounds of the press that Gen. Longstreet’s father ran the first steamboat ever invented is a mistak-. He says it was Gen. Longstreet’s grandfather, and th -, he was a perfect genins. He ;J first ran a boat with horses, and then applied steam with suc cess, and ’hat it was from this source that Fui,.on got his ideas. The Mr- jor’s wife is a granddaughter of the inventor and a cousin of Gen. Long- street, and he knows whereof he speaks.” GEORGIA ITEMS. 4fe5 cents at Pork is bringing Bainbridge. ' Calhoun county’s grand jury lias tion in the Tonquin complication J a( I°P tet I fb c new road law. Elberton will have a grand fan tastic ride and ball on Christmas. will not be received with favor. While moving from Illinois to Arkansas a family of three, besides two other persons, were drowned while attempting to cross a swollen creek,in a covered wagon. The crown prince of Germany has left behind him in Rome an air of mystery which is equally per plexing to both king an- pope. They both expected him td say more than he did. HIS LAST NIGHTMARE. AN AXE KILLS THREE. Andrew Lively, of Fayette coun ty, was assassinated one night ; last Week. The alleged assassin wik rested and is now in jail. #4 ill it Greensboro, N. C., December 26.—A tripple murder was com mitted last night near Moncure, in Chatham county. The victims wete Mrs. Sarah Gunter, an old widow eigfcty-two years old; her daughter, twenty-two, and granddaughter, about seventeen. The bodies of the three murdered women were found in the house of Mrs. Gunter by a neighbor early this morning. An axe, besmeared with blood, which had evidently been used by the murderers, was found on the floor of the room in which the crime was committed. Two negroes are suspected of the murder but not ar rested. The affair is misterious. San Francisco, Dec. 24.—A strange and fatal tragedy occurred at No. 41 Jessie-st. to-day. Ben Blaz, of the whaling bark Wander er, several weeks ago eloped with M iss Florence Williams, a pretty girl from Pueblo. The couple oc cupied apartments, and appeared very much devoted to each other. Blaz f»r years has been subject to attacks of nightmare and somnam bulism. During the night he arose in bed and deliberately shot his young wife in the head wjiile asleep. She sprang]to the floor in terrible agony only to see Blaz shoot himself through the brain, dying in stantly. An investigation showed that it was a clear case of somnam bulism. The woman will die. WASHINGTON. Snoaker Carlisle Announces tho Committees. Washington, D. C. December 25.—Speaker Carlisle' to-day an nounced the Committees to the House. On the Ways and Means Com mittee Mr. Morrison, of Illinois, is chairman. Mills, ofTexas; Blount of Georgia; Blnckburn.of Kentucky The negro “Big Ike,” who mur dered a son of ex-Governor Hunt at Durango, Col., while being pur sued in the mountains leaped over a forty-foot precipice. He was captured dreadfully bruised but alive. Two men were lynched at Me- Dade, Texas, when their friends took it up and two of the lynchers were shot. The town is now un der arms as further trouble is feared. The trade dollar, says the Albany News, is about to go to par. The members of the Monroe Baptist churchjare worth $t,000,000. A man down in Burke county is named Pea Vine, aud he is a colon el, too. John T. Arnold, of Baldwin, has killed 217 partridges in . 35 shots this season. A white cat squirrel has been kill ed at Hershman’s L.ake, on the Savannah river. Pittsburg, Dec. 26.—F, C. Breckenridge, a nephew of Captain Nutt, and one of the three men who witnessed the murder of Nutt by Dukes, has lately been receiving anonymous letters threatening his life. Madison, Ind., December 26.— Information has just been received here of the drowning of a family named Ross, consisting of husband, wife and seven children, during a freshet in Hardis creek Sundav night. Pine Bluff, Ark., Dec. 24. Mack Stanis, a brutal looking ne- Hewitt, of New York; Herbert, of j gro, has been brought to town and Alabama, Hurd, ot Ohio; Jones, of lodged in jail, charged with an a’- A SMALL TARGET LEFT, Philadelphia freu. (Pep.) Gen. Longstreet is partly right and partly wrong in saying that THE DAILY OUTRAGE. Dayton, Ohio, Dec. 24.—Intel ligence has just reached here that all the farmers at a little settlement eight miles from here are searching for traces of a party of three young men who raped the 14-year-old daughter of a farmer there. She was sent after the cues, and was caught by the three your.g brutes and rav ished. Left in a pitiable condition, she made her way home late in the night. m BONNET’S MADE OF NATURAL FLOWERS. there is 'no republican party in the south. Late events have shown that there is enough of it left to shoot at in Virginia and Mississippi. .V<w York Journal, Opera bonnets made entirely of natural flowers, such as Russian vio lets, tiney moss roses and forget-me- nots, are very fashionable, though expensive. The frame is sent back to the florist and he has the blossoms carefully sewed on. and keeps it in he ice house until half an hour or so before wanted. Such a' bonnet costs Arkansas; Kelly, of Pennsylvania; Kasson.of Iowa McKinley, of Ohio; Hiscock, of New* Jersey; Russell of Massachusetts. 'he chairmen’of the other com - inittees are as follows: Appropriations—Randall,of Pen- sylvania. Foreign Affairs—Curtin,of Penn sylvania. Post Offices ar.d Roads—Money, of Mississippi. Commerce—Reagan, of Texas. Rivers Jar.d Harbors—Willis, of Kentucky. Elections—Turner of Georgia. Military Affairs—Rosecrans, of California. Judiciary—Tucker, of Virginia. Bankingand Currency—Buckner, of Missouri. District of Columbia—Barbour, of Virginia. Levees and Mississippi Improve ments—King, of Louisiana. Labor—Evans, of South Caro- lina. Territories—Muldoon, of Missis sippi. Private Lands Claims—Hewitt, Alabama. Pensions—Hardeman, of Geor- L. Sterne, of Albany, has justed killed a 300 pound hog, from which he got 100 pounds of lard. Pork at 6 cents and corn at 50 cents show hog and-hominy to be plentiful in Dougherty county. In Chattooga county Ben Nicholls was sentenced to pay $25 and costs for enticing away a servant. Blowing a balloon so frightened a 3 months old negro baby at Atlan ta that it went into convulsions. There is not an editor or a prin ter in the lunatic asylum, while all other professions are represented. Estin Welchel, of Gaicsvillc, kill ed a wild buck a few days ago, within 300 yards of the court house. The prohibition counties, almost to a unit, report increased prosperity since king alcohol's dethronement. tempted assault upon Eliza Abies, a twelve-year-old white girl. The people will hang the man if they can get hold of him. Congressman Cox, it is said, has not only declined the chairmanship of the naval affairs committe for himself, but is engaged in the ef fort of inducing other committee men to decline the places to which they have been assigned. Mr. Springer, also, is actively manifest ing his hostility toward the existing order of things. Judge Adams, of the superior court, sitting in Savannah, recently fined a negro woman a doliaf^ tot eating peanuts in court. Lewis Davis, of Clayton county, has raised during the present year, on a three mule farm, fifty-three bales of cotton, besides corn and other grain. The City Council of Augusta de clines to aid the Augusta & Elber ton railroad, but the friends of the enterprise are confident of its ulti mate success. The Hague, Dec. 26.—A mar ried woman named Von Derlinden, was arrested at Leyden, charged with having murdered in the last few years sixteen persons. The victims were nearly all members of her own family. She insured their lives first, and received the insur ance money after their death. The woman confesses to be guilty, and it is supposed that shq poisoned five of hjr own children. Col. J. W. Chapman, of thc'Ga- zette, has sold his press to the Greensboro Journal. He is now running the press formerly used by the Rome Tribune. There is only twenty miles of the Air Line Railway yet to lay with steel rails. In another year ah will be completed, the trestles mostly filled up and the road bed nicely ballasted from end to end. gia 1 A Vermont farmer was killed by bis wife mistaking arsenic for sodrt from $20 to $50 and lasts but for one water. She is arrested. night. Expenditures in State Depart ment—Belmont. of Kentucky. Public Buildings—Springer, of Illinois. Expenditures in the Department of Justice—Vance, of North Caro lina. Patents—Aiken, of South Caro lina! Education—Deutdson, of Flor ida. Dallas, Dec. 26.—U. S. Grant a son of Rev. Win. Jesse Grant, a republican politician here, formerly of Illinois, and a cousin of the ex- President, was arrested yesterday on a charge of burglary, and lodged in jail. It is alleged that he broke into a house and stole a fine pistol from E. W. Lane and sold it The, prisoner has been leading a fast life, and this is the second time he has been arrested for burglary. The previous offense was overlooked on account of his family connection. Thus far he has been unable to fur nish hail, which is fi: Near Perry a sow fell in a dry well, gave birth to a litter of pigs, and was not found by her owner until six weeks after her disappear ance. The swine were alive but emaciated. * $500. Tuesday night, in .1 negro cabin, near Calhoun, sev ral little negroes were playing with a gun which was lying on the .bqd, when it was dis charged, killing one of them instant ly. The negro killed was about 6 years old. Kate Thompson, the. eolored wo-x an shot by T.‘ B.. Smith,' an ex- V,. man snot by 1. B. Marshal of Valdosta, died Wednes day night. An inquest has been held and a verdict rendery ed charging Smith with' ' ’ the first degree. The mu: notl