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bv persons eminent in the
V n f f defo ,f armies,'which make a
0 strange and interesting revels-
t'.rneral Patrick Cleburne was
nf of the most gallant and dashing
Confederate general* in the west.
,, f sts an Irishman by birth, we
v"’-e»e.and rose to eminence not
‘ h ’ oH gh lamily or social inflaence,
v( t»v native merit. During the
w n ./ r of iSf>3-4< when.the VVest-
n Confederate army lay at Dal-'
, or) in Georgia, and the fortune’s
Confederacy were seen to
., r waning. General Cleburne, it
procured a meeting of lead-
... commanders, among them
iu-neral* Hardee. Cheatham, Hind-
, n , Stewart, Walker, Bate and
l^tten Anderson, to who he pro-
, ,, fl i that the; should join in a me-'
Jnona! to tr. 'onfederatc congress
.lorgfot the immediate eniancipa-
- on of t! e -laves and the drafting
..,H si le-hodied colored men into
u , rebel armies.
pbr >"ers we publish show that
. , projit sition w is very badly re-
r : VP d. It got no support from the
-.eminent oflicers. It was con-.
f „..]cd at Richmond, and those
v , knew of it were warned to
-ecict, which they did.
-r-P
Cleburne destroyed the
, c , ci nt.iining the argument*
. proposition, and the points
.. paper were only .saved by
t ,.,rc i>: one of its stafToflicers.
Whether General Cleburne’s
. u. '. at that tim , have sav-
. Confederacy is doubtful,
, Mr Lincoln had issued his
mcioation proclamation on the
,4 January, 1S63, a year before
. ,rne opened his mind to hi*
1 n-.orneiaN at Dalton. But there
he IltTle doubt that had Cle
ar'- proposition been heartily
:t .1 im im:n< diately acted on
wou'-i have secured to the Con-
• t rate- midland importantsym-
ithy -n Europe. and might have
..r ■ and |.I olonged the war.
I: li.nl < t n C'meetly said in 1861
ivrt i was tlie corner stone
dir Confederacy.’* In the light
• list has since happened it is
-. mI <0 read the horror and dis-
.- 0 inch General Cleburne’s
d.ew forth in 1S63.
it a - ngular fact that, while an
... , . r>. tii-peral Cleburne advo.
... 1 . 1 citation in the South,
r (i.irral Halpine ad-
.oe o' 'he mint spirited
...»n ’i" -‘.ii'ii'g the war the
• in o' coioied men as Union
lnshmen may be proud
•h i! rse cootrymen of their*.
T -r ecriit explosions in Atlanta
i .do : places are thought to have
: - rxplo-iiin*. Would it not
• make a little investigation and
-, -•' dynamite docs not havesotne«t
_• 1., with it? An explosion
oir.i. a building burned and sev-
:j;.ive- lost, and some man that
n't si aw a t 1 mg about dynamite
■ ;:o. -itp > and says the cxplo
r. cau-eil by gas, and no inves-
gal .;i is made to find out the
ji.-e Tnere ought to have been
■ c.i-: some show made to find out
.1 cause, as it would have put the
• p c on notice that dynamite was
u-ed in this country, as well
• :. England.
NO XL.
ATHBSNSi GEOBGIA, 'A' uESDAlf, MARCH 31, 1S85.
vol mi
oOrtrXmp abroad.
if*
New Orleans, Match
Dg«r Banner. Wottchmin:
three days trip, withiatop-over,^.
delightful entertainments given our
body, at Thomaavjlle, Bainbridge,
Pensacola aijd other.po'mU OnMtte
#ne, Ave fc*tnigfct_ r eached New
Orleans and the most of our party
stopped at the City Hotel, where
we paid $2 each this morning for
six in the room and a miserable
breakfast. In fret, the sausage on
the table had such a canine look
that it barked every time you whjss
tied at it.- But thanks
son, in charge ot the Press Depart-
aient, we have now delightful
rooms at the Hotel Windsor, a
large new building opposite the ex
position grounds, lor .which we only
P*y-5° per d»>.v I will Write
■t length to morrow, having .just
settled down., The Prefs Conven
tion complimented > the Banner-
Watchman by electing its editor
Vice-President. Our trip hat been
one unbroken round of sight-seeing
and entertainments, of which I will
write in due time. . Will leave for
home Mpnday -,or Tue-d*T- ' The
Exposition is • bjg tbing, I have no
doubt. A person can spend as
much or as little here as he sees fit.
T. L. G.
ANOTHER VICTIM.
(hv. Ahbett, of New Jersey,
itu.- to he i^ing the veto for all it
■ »v..tt!t. All last week the repttb-
can It gidature was gleefully pass
i • bill- to get the appointing pow-
• into its own hands and to reduce
it governor to a mere figurehead
' >v :nc Governor has turned the
'« on them and is sending back
■ nice little bills, one after anothl
u it bout his signature of approve
It i. doubtful whether the most
of these bills can he passed
'ft the Governor's veto.
Ed Mfreer Die* from Injuries Received at
Uiellra
From the Atlanta Constitution,
we lekrn that Ed.' Mercer, who was
injured by the explosion in the
James block, died at 13 minutes past
two o’clock, Saturday night.
HOW HK-DlBDy
Every night since Mr. Mercer wss
injured, except one, he has experi
enced* change.-That change came
at two-o’clock, and he continued to
sink until four o’clock, when he be
gan to rally. He would then im
prove until near two o’clock the
next morning when the change
would again take place. Each time
he bss grown decidedly worse. This
morning when the change came at
l«o Mr. Mercer was much worse
than he had ever been and the phy
sicians said.he must die.
The death-bed scene was a most
touching one. His son and daugh
ters were in the hotel. Dt. Howell
sat on one side of the bed and Dr.
Pinckney, his life-long friend, on
the other side. Two sisters of mer
cy were beside the bed. His son
sat by his feet. The crucifix was
on his breast and moved by his la
bored hard Wreathing looked a part
ot the dying man. At eight min
utes alter two the.phvsicians said
that the final struggle was at hand.
They dropped the almost pulseless
hands and looked calmly upon the
dying man. He was talking about
the great fire in which he lost his
life, and at exactly 13 minutes after
2 O’clock he breathed the* last time.
His death occurred at the same hour
and minute of the morning at which
the electric .clock stopped, by the
breaking of jbeayjre.l i \ f\
His ’cbiWte^Jhpugh prepare/! for
the worst, took the death tiara, and
one of his daughters fainted.
The Bavaria King'* L*ve. . - ,
King Louis iw** .wildly. >in love.
With whom I, will not say. One
day •* bp was.bringing to his lady,
just as common, itnregal lovers do,
a magnificent bouquet, he happened
by accident to pass unnoticed into
her little salon, where he found him
self alone. Immediately he, began
to arrange j the iflpwersi jn'> vase.
Having finished this delicate opera
tion, he started to leave, but just
then saw his beloved one coming
home in company with a yonng
man. So he concealed himself be
hind * curtain in order to enjoy the
surprise as he thought, of the young
lady at the sight of the flowers
brought to her by hpr royal admirer.
yWjell, she qame,pyio the room, but
not alone. Her cavalier was with
her. “Heaven!” she exclaimed,
a not her-bouquet- from that fool of-a
SOMETMIMB GOOD;
A Ikparlmrator Phvsicst Caltnre la ’die
UnlTenity.
The .foDoping iaarjpetitiorvsigu-
ed * by/the Setriovjttnlfe#*, bopno-
moreand Freshman classes of the
University of Georgia, and if grant
ed wifi work wosdom-in the.pbys-
cal training of the young men mho
atteod the University. * Instead of
turning out - *weak,~ puny,
consumptive and • dejected-young
men to battle with the
world, they will be strong {and ro
bust and ready for any of the hard
ships of life:
To the Honorable Board of Trus
tees of the University of Georgia,
care Prudential Committe—Gentle
men: As self-preservation is the
fijst law of nature, the education
and careful development of the
physical system of the college boy
(the embryonic man) is of the most
vital importance to his future health,
strength and happiness. We there
fore most earnestly beg you estab
lish* department of “Physical Cul
ture” in the Universi y of Georgia,
and erect within the campus
grounds a suitable building for
that purpose,
We ask this for recreation through
a coutse of mild gymnastic exercise
and the healthy bodily evercise in
cident to the evolutions in military
instruction.
Enclosed please find plan and
specifications of building for “School
of Physical Culture,” carefully pre
pared be members of the School of
Engineering,
gia.
University of Geo-
A Though! tor Parents.
If a person will take the trouble
to glance over the advertising col
umns of any of our large city'daily pa
pers and compare the notices in the
space devoted to “Help Wanted,”
and “Situations Wanted,” they can
not fail to be impressed with the
lesson that these columns teach.
Under the head of help wanted,
two thirds or more of the notices
call for skilled mechanics and arte-
sans of some description, while here
and there appears an advertisement
for e book keeper or clerk. On the
other hand, tne column of “Situa
tions Wanted,” is filled with appli
cations of clerks, book keepers,
drummers and every conceivable
kind of occupation, which requires
no manual labor or self-denial to fill.
Let one of our merchants advertise
for a boy to run errands a.id ltarn
the business, and he is besieged
with applications from "indulgent
parents who want their boy to
grow up a "gentleman,” whereas, il
any one of our manufacturing con
cerns were to advertise for a boy to
learn a trade, these boys are scarce
and hard to find. The foolish prej
udice against honorable labor is fast
passing away in the South, and not
until it "s entirely obliterated, will
the South take the position she
deserves and be fully entitled to the
appellation, which the politicians
have given her, and be “solid” in
act. The salvation of the youths
and the prosperity of our section is
vastly dependent on this important
matter of our young men learning a
trade. Teach your boy a trade and
in the event that he evidences in af
ter life a talent that will make him
more useful as a professional man,
the experience that he has gained
while learning his trade, even it he
never works at it, will be invalua
ble.
It appears that some or the Illinois.
|r;i*jtors are not »!together above
I'p cion. It was stated the other
that the Finance Committee
po.eii to count the money in the
•te Treasury vaults. Some of
f Treasurer 1 * friends objected to He VcpTdtit (oAlh^anj
: cou.it on the ground that it time, if the unfortunate
MiM put that official to the troub-
! of making a recount of the mcney
l! -er the committee finishes.
r.diara has an uncle Joseph, as
as Georgia. It has been pro-
'sci! to swap our uncle Joseph for
‘ o:he 1 uncle Joseph. We object
> this swap, as Georgia would lose
influence with the republican
’y Tibs is the rock upon which
uncle Joseph stood once, and
ills Vet.
It has at last been discovered that
• f 'c ami was once a disappointed
te-seeker in Washington City.
>houlil now have some feeling
: >..e million who are hanging on
■sgged edge, with no boarding
f"u*e lo cling to in that citjf.
^ hen Howell Cobb was secreta-
f ot the treasury the entire force
"Ployed numbered -583, it now
'•ultrs 3 ,$S6. There is a differ-
lc * between then r.nd now. The
States has grown a lsltle>in,
: ‘»st thirty years.
I Cleveland's civil service rplorm
rh do very well for tbeNorthtbut
Solid South don’t relish it O ne
1 here is a wide difference be-
|''"n the office-holders North and
r & *e South. r -
king whom it-dct^stll vttWeV. towf
ing td het* friend, she in^ited him to
kiss awiy th/t^rn(toying impression.
The inkitationAw A vigorously accep
ted, jmd, hjs canqMled Ijdaji
though tplhriituM vtitfaftJic
his eye* 1 , niant^ed-td ci4wl <
never-j4f#i*-lase«o<L never marry,
^e^t his [o*th,/«n0 since that
e,'if the unfortunate sovereign
has lived in, solitude and has become
the dreamer,that, he is known to fee,
it is because he has long been con
vinced that reveries -can sometimes
give as much happiness as realities,
and that they are less liable to be de
ceptive.
George Gray, who is to occupy
ex-Senator Bayard’s seat in
ate for the terimthding inrii
born in Newcastle, Del., on May 4,
iSaa He entered the^junior class
in Princetoq College in t f 5S7'f*^
was graduatedttw.oyears liter. jJP-
then reailaw |or 'three yD* r * fill
his father, AAdieUC. GreJ’.Ta
with-William C- Spruance-and also
attended at the Ha^vf 1 * school
for A yw. Ho was admitted to
the bar 401863,and ptacticed law
at Newcastle until 1881. ,In that
year he was appointed^Attprne
General gf PeUw'ntel by X>ot.
W. Hall, and removed to Wilming
ton. He was re-appointed by Gov.
Steckley in- >884.1 Msv r^«.V has
for some year*4al&n an ^arive part
in - Delaware .politics* shd in the
Democratic National Conyentipns
ofi88ognakiSS4,<ne 'iprfcjdnted
Bayatd’s-name f°**** Irrelidd
— ■ ' friend per^qnajly
He
I-kvtland has net . as yet made
1°" - wi st his oolicy to the ladjfc
be. He will probably
10 find out whether they are
r eu y, worthy and well qualified
1 '"'married,
I Henry Clews,a well-known Wall
l * C J m ®", says that the men - who
Vt whiskey are sure to tail in
-i street. None pf your advice,
L, n '>'- The people in GeojglS
r ,w you too well.
1 Higgins finds, hinue|f
* ‘bed into a much larger map
|u» P,™P h . et Wiggins. Hig-
‘ , ,n< ! Wiggins are keeping op
t]( citeinent over the count). .
. — UJcon
ncw wcrcliry of war never
fieri * c * m PS'gI» » — —
is said tp be A fluent speaker,and of
rpWndid,physique, being over six
■eSt id height. He was at one time
Chairman lit itheN vSfcastle Bo»fd
Education. *nd
1
erring lo Min rcnlic
ACd 'same evening h^ rame.aar.
t—... N. Butler to Miss Sarah E.
,311, Ur 'l.b 1
Carroll
whose-
AIEST
[True Citizen*]
The Athens Banner-Watchman
urges the legislature to request* Jbe
Biown'to resign the office he now
holds. It is, we fear, too much to
hope for, but we verily believe that
such a request would be hailed with
the overflowing- approval ot the
beat .people of Georgia. This man
JJrhWn it too heavy a weight for
any honest party to carry. Indig
nant at his venal alliance with the
(enemies of his state and section
after the war, the people who had
nurtured and honored him repudi
ated him with scorn, and turned
from.him as a thing too vile to
touch. His name was fhe synonym
throughout the South of corruption
and 1 treachery. Driven from pub-
lie life by' the stern mandate ot 1
ptople who were still too loyal to
the homes of their - birth and the
'memories of their dead to hold fel
lowship with one whom they
irded as si traitor to both, he
thereof. During these years of en
forced retirement, he worshipper
tfrthfc Shrine of bis * god, MatiimOn.
with great and steady devotion.
DRUNKS' ON THE SLY.
Same ot the Dmecs Ttat So-OsUea T«aper*
UN People Boortte.
Vtw York Telegram.
Our business does not come en
tirely from people who drink, for a
good percentage of the money that
goes into the till comes from those
who are supposed to bestrictly tem
perance people,” said the cashier in
the barroom of one of the large ho
tels that face Madison square.
“How do they do it?. Oh, it’* easy
enough for a man who wants his bit-
ters to get them right here, even if
ho is au avowed blue-ribbon man.
Therp was a Boston clergyman
stopping here last week. Of course
he does r.ot drink—certainly not!
But every morning, at breakfast,
we send into the dining-room *
glass of seltzer lemonade for him,
which he drank to ‘wake his stom
ach up,’ as he told his triends at the
same table.' One-quarter of that
glass of lemonade was pure Holland
gin, which, being white in color,
could not be detected even by the
person sitting next to him. Yes, of
course we knew the gin was in it,
for he has been stopping at this ho
tel when in the city for some fifteen
years, and there was an understand
ing reached between us a long
while ago.
Then there is tne wife ofa naval
officer of high rank who always
stops here while her husband is on
one of his cruises. With dessert'at
dinner she has two small cups of
very black coffee, and her friends
always speak of how much more
animated and entertaining she is af
ter dinner than before it She be
comes then a really brilliant talker.
The true reason is that there was a
tiff pony of the best French brandy
n each one of those little cups ot
black' coffee.
“Now look ■ there; watch that,”
said the speaker, stopping suddenly
and nodding his head toward the
door of the room, “Now you’ll have
practical illustration ot what I
say.”
As lie spoke three gentlemen
strolled in and walked up to the bar.
Each one ot them wore silk hats
and- large diamond solitaires in their
shirt fronts. They each ordered
drinks, two taking whisky and the
third a bottle of ginger ale.
“You keep it up better than 1
thought you could, Aleck,” said one
of thewhisky drinkers to the third
man, as he came up to the cashier’s
desk to p y the check. “I’m bless
ed if I didn’t think Billy would win
inside of two weeks.”
“I’m going to win that bet, and
don’t you for jet it,” said the third
man, complacently. “There’s only
month yet and then the time’s up.”
•‘The man who drank the ginger
ale,” said the cashier, when they
had left the room, “is in the custom
house, pretty near the head of it.
He made a bet of $5,000 two months
ago with one of the leaders of the
county democracy that he wouldn't
drink a drop of anything for three
months. Two or three times a day
he comes in and takes a bottle of
Belfast ginger ale with some of his
friends. The barkeeper over there
will be $500 richer when the custom
house man wtns the bet”
“Why?” asked the reporter
doubtfully.
Don’t you see?” said the cashier
in disgust; “the barkeeper has a pe
culiar box irom which he takes those
bottles of ginger ale. Each bottle
in the box has been very carelully
opened so as not to destroy the tin-
foil capsule over the cot k and has
been fixed with old rye whiskey—*
one-quarter whiskey, three quarters
ginger ale. Do you “tumble now? ’
“There waf one old fellow, a re
tired -merchant and a pillar of a
Fifth avenue church, who stopped
here last winter, who always at his
meals had a lemon sent to him in a
small glass. One end of the lemon
was nicely sliced off and the lemon
was carefully set up in the glaks on
the other end.. He sucked the juice
from the lemon after he had finished
eating and everybody thought' he
took it to help his digestion. So he
did, but the lemon was about half
full of ‘the old'stuff,’! so that he got
a good ‘whisky sour’ every time. I
could go on for an hour telling you
of games like these. It seemed to
be a mania with a great many peo
ple to hide the fact that they drink
anything and they will go to any
amount of trouble to deceive their
friends and acquaintances. But we
who are behind the scenes, as it
were, know all about it Of course
we never give it away, for. its worth
a good deal of money to us.”
his pockqt,-He pilei>ip,^hqshekks,
one way'ana another, until he had
accumulated'-*n amount -of lucre
such ^yptahaps was VteVei*control
ly anyone man t-in Geor-
-the country know* the
t into office again.- ‘He
hich.he tried so bard
y ears "/ before; 1 -one
* good omen-: then
how he -got -it
ih^itkeq* us, *«d
darktspo^Hwrttfe’M*
j&ry of Georgia. ;t Ha didn't .get/ it
untilnfterhe had Come Into control
of vast.wtoUhfrfaaMid>‘g>* > » then,
and be holds it yet; -and th<
OHft'thfc butmngiquesiton ‘
th8.ti*tbe
heir* have refused,
ithcirisuit '■forthe
tft
' _
la«rtKfd"-i*
f » m » *d
vffiichthtr city
iSted. There are
•heirs In
Clarke coutj*)vw«»d*’«we hope tbdt
they.IeUf'isAt»f «°mb-fat4 passes
siou of this ltrgDWill."'-
.yH .slUsdfrd
. 33.-.yWl
liam Satuta*l.*ra* brutally murder«
liman,
been reward
A LIKELY. STORY.
BlXiMlW a Cow Bor-VtoAn**** Career ot
Ota False Fxoptut In America.
the Prescott 1
Fire al Bascotxl.
Monday night about 12 o’clock
the dwelling house, kitchen and
other outhouses of Mr. D. J. Mat
thews at Bascobcl were consumed
by fire. The family retired at 11
o’clock and at 12 the buildings were
in flames. The stables wer# saved,
but all the other buildings were en
tirely consumed. The family es
caped with only a few articles of
clothing. Mr. Mathews was badly
burned and hurt in the head and
left hand. The family are in a des
titute condition and are in need of
everything in the clothing line. Dr
T. C. Orr will go around to-day and
solicit contributions from our mer
chants and citizens.'
y«
(Ari) Weekly Miner,
among the desperadoes and wild
riders who patrolled the broad
plains of -the county of Cochise,
recognizing no law but their own
sweet pleasute. were many charac
ters which under more auspicious
circumstances would have won
deathless renown as intrepid lead
ers of armed hosts. Inured to hard
ships, skilled in the use of the
most approved and accurate arm*
known to the civilized world, and
possessing an exhuberance of ani
mal spirits and courage that would
have done honor to the Mess troop
ers of Old Scotia, when the rapid
march of civilization pressed them
into the last ditch of frontier out
lawry, few would accept the con
ditions of capitulation offered them
by the civil authorities, and either
crossed over the river and meander
ed through the Valley of Death,
booted and spurred, or departed
for less critical communities in for
eign climes. Among this particu
lar mass of heterogeneous humani
ty were many of fine education and
accomplishments, who, for reasons
best known to themselves,
had seen fit to adopt a wild and
half savage life. Of these none
were more prominei tly distinguish
ed in this Tespect than Colonel
D’Estee. Who he was, and what,
no man had ever endeavored to as
certain after making the first at
tempt. Slight and dark, with an
eye like a hawk, his bearing and
carriage, combined with natural vi
vacity. gave the impression on first
acquaintance that he was of Creole
descent, while from his accomplish
ments as a linguist he migiit have
been a native of half the civilized
nations of the earth. Extensive
travel and tales of lands beyond the
seas, interspersed with military ad
ventures, won him the sobriquet of
Colonel, which he accepted with
indifference, neither denying or af
firming his title to it, and by such
he was known from the Pecos to
the Colorado during his three years’
sojourn in the sun-kissed lands of
the Southwest. Ori the vigorous
prosecution by Governor Trittle,
shot tly after his appointment, of
the work of suppressing
the border . outlawry in Ari
zona, D’Estee distinguished himself
in several organized efforts at re
sistance against the authorities, but
was at last forced to desist and dis
appeared from sight until about
two years ago, when on the organi
zation of the Anglo Egyptian com
mission and the resignation of Gen
eral Stone and other American offi
cers serving in the army of the last
named nation, while returning to
their holmes in the East, via Cali-
>ornia and Tucson, they visited the
office ot the sheriff of Cochise coun
ty, at Tombstone, and were shown
a number of photographs contained
in a local rogue’s gallery. While
examining a handsome miniature
of Col. D’Estee, Gen. Stone ex
claimed with surprise, “where in
h—1 did you get that?” . An expla-
nation followed of D’Estes career
in the territory, and the General,
turning to the sheriff, said: “Why,
that is Michael Mascot, who during
the war commanded a brigade of
Confederate cavalry from Louisiana
and afterwards took service with
me under the Egyptian govern
ments, and served until cashiered
for a liason with a prima donna of
a French opera troupe visiting
Cairo. When was he last here?”
“In the fall of 1881,” responded the
astonished sheriff. “Yes,” replied
Gen. Stone, turning tp Col. Clanay,
whb was accompanying him home,
“in the spring of 1882, didn’t you
remember his again turning up at
Alexandria and leaving for the
Soudan with the ostensible pur
pose of seeking service with the
Ibrces suppressing the slave trade?”
“Yes,” replied Clanay, “and after
all his failure i* that, his endeavor
ing to found a religious sect in
Islam, with the title of ‘Directed of
God.’”
Since the conversation the
D’Estee Mascot, or the “Directed
of God,” has, undoubtedly, devel
oped into El Mahdi, and the Con
federate General, Arizona cowboy,
is* playing a dashing game for death
or glory on the oanks of the Nile,
at feast so says General Stone, in a
letter to a -near relative and old
schoolmate of himself and Mascot,
how serving in the army in Ari
zona.
When the skill shown in the cam
paign of El Mahdi are considered,
in connection with the intimate
knowledge he has displayed as to
affairs not only in Egypt, but Eu
rope, and bis toying with the be
leaguered forces of Khartoum so
long as the dilatory action of the
Gladstone ministry made a decep
tive diplomacy possible, we must
admit that no ignorant Jsavage ha*
thought out the campaign which
has eluded England with sorrow
for a distinguished officer and brave
soldier. But rather that a skilled
and educated tactician and diplomat,
unscrupulous and reckless, such as
Mascoteminentl) was, is the ruling
genius ot the war.
STOLEN DIAMONDS.
A Society Lady* Lon at ABoMoaHoUL
A special dispatch from Boston,
Mass., says: Miss Sarah S*. Marie,
a young society lady from NeW
York, was robbed of $3,000 worth
of diamonds and jewelry while so
journing at Hotel Vendome, in this
city during May, 1883. The valua-
bles were in a bureau drawer and,
she left them there, the room door
being unlocked, while she attended
an evening reception in the parlor
below. She alleged carelessness
on the part of the hotel people and
brought suit against the proprietor
to recover the value of the property.
Tlie action has attracted considera
ble attention, being considered ot
importance to hotel keepers, trav
ellers and railroads. It appeared at
the trial that the rules of the hotel
which were posted in the plaintiff’s
room, required that guests on leav
ing their rooms should leave their
keys with the clerk at the office,
and that the landlord would not be
responsible for valuables lost or
stolen unless given in charge of the
clerk.
The TudgeJ said that if the jury
found that the negligence of the
plaintiff contributed to the loss she
could not recover; that the ques
tion of what was a reasonable
amount of wearing apparel or arti
cles worn on the person was a
question of fact for the jury, which
was to take into consideration the
condition and social position of the
guests. The Judge ruled that the
regulations of 'the hotel were rea
sonable. The jury found that the
plaintiff’s negligence contributed to
the loss and gave a
defendant.
Gea. Great* Coadltkm.
General Grant’s callers yesterday
numbered fifteeti. He was quite
fatiqued by meeting so uiany per
sons. He retired betweon 9. ana ic
o’clock and slept fitfully until two
o’clock this morning, from which
hour he slept none?- -He took food
during the night and this forenoon.
After dsy break be dosed'ait inter
vals in his Chair and chatted With
his daughter, Mrs. Srrtwris, during
the forenoon.
Savannah News) The/statement
telegraphed,to out qf< -town papers
that a box containing clock work
/yd and sonrs uokpown substance, sup
posed to be dynamite, was recent!
lefts ~ --- -
.eft iHhuBw nf Mer-Gee*
Annesly,' British consul AtjtlQ*! port,
is pronounced at\he consulate.'*
hoax. Mr. Annesly fs at his place'
at White pioff, but; the ^iro-consul,
who was seen by a News reporter,
said that nothing of the kind hac
occurred. He said that he could
not account lor the publication, but
believes it was done by somebody*
as a practical joke
well, too.
, gave a verdict for the
ANECDOTE OF BRUCE.
How tho Colored Register Hot aa Old Acquain
tance.
Blanche K. Bruce, whose signa
ture as Register of the Treasury
now graces every national bank bill,
says Ben. Perley Poore, was very
popular while he was in the senate,
lthough he is of African descent.
Unobtrusive, attentive to business
and. modest, he conquered the
prejudices against his race and was
treated with marked courtesy by
his associates. One day, after he
bad been a senator for two years or
more, Senator Bogy, the aristocratic
descendant of one of the old French
families of St. Louis, took a seat by
his side, saying: “Mr. Bruce, 1
have a bill here I want you to vote
for. It is one in which I have a
great personal interest. It has
nothing political in it. Look at it
and tell me what you think.”
Bruce laughed, as he said: “Sen
ator Bogy, I hope we shall arrange
this more satisfactorily than our
last business gtransactien.” “Our
last business transaction? What do
you mean?” “Don’t you remember
meeting me before my coming to
the senate?” “Most decidedly, no.”
“I think I can refresh your mem
ory, Senator. Some twenty years
ago you were one day running
down Olive street in a hurry to
catch a steamer. You were carry
ing a very heavy valise. The day
was very hot. Don’t you remem
ber the colored boy who came up
and offered to carry the valise down
to the levee for a quarter? You
ran along with the boy. Soon the
wharf-boat dock was reached. The
boat was just swinging out. You
ran and jumped on board. You
called ior the valise. The colored
boy put the valise behind his back
and called for his quarter. You
fished out a quarter and
tossed it ashore; but the gap was
too wide to toss the valise. The
Captain had to stop the boat and
back up before you could get your
valise. Do you remember that?”
“Well, I should say I do.” “I was
that colored boy.”
WILD SORREL CHaRLEY.
ATTACKED BY WEASELS.
AXmaitaU* Eipottaac® ot *MtaSPta*-
tjlTiaU Faraar.
Olean, March tS.—Delos Lante,
an Elk county fanner, has been an-,
noyed greatly this winter by weas-
les in his poultry yard and houses,
the bloodthirsty little animals hav
ing killed his fowls by the score,
and defied all efforts to trap them.
On Saturday Mr. Lante was walk
ing through a stony field on his
farm, and saw a weasel run into a
big heap of stones piled loosely in
the middle of the field. He had a
walking stick, and; going to the
stone pile, began to throw down
stones to get at the weasel or scare
it out Presently a weasel jumped
out, and he struck at it with his
eane. It * did not run away, but
sprang at Lante’s throat—the spot a,
weasel instinctively tries to sieze.
The farmer struck at it again and
hit it, but it returned gamely to the
attack, and, whether in answer to a
signal or not the farmer does not
know, weasles began to swarm out
of the stone pile on all sides, and in
a second were springing upon
Lante, climbing nimbly up his
clothes,^ trying to reach his face.
They bit him with their sharp teeth,
and finding that he would be unable
to keep the sav%ge little blood-suck
ers from fastening their teeth in his
neck without help, he shook them
off as best he could and started at
the top of his speed for home. The
weasels followed him until he scaled
the fence. His hands were bleed
ing from a dozen wounds, and if he
had remained to fight the weasels
they would undoubtedly have over
powered and killed him. In the
afternoon Mr. Lante returned to the
stone pile with two men, two guns,
and a dog. They routed out the
weasels and killed thirty—a colony
which had been devastating the en
tire neighborhood for a year and
more.
HIS DEATH-SONG.
n* Strut* us SaSSut Sad 0! u Emlaiat
SonUi*n>L*vjar.
A Jacksonville, Fla., special says:
Last eveping, M. H. B. Plant,, of
New York, capitalist, railroad man,
and president of the Southern Ex r
press Company, was coming down
the St. John’s river from Sanford
on she steamer Debary. Accompa
nying him were several officials of
his various companies, including
CoL F. E. .Whitfield, of Mississippi,
a distinguished public man ot that
state;.and the attorney of Mr. Plant’s
irporations.
When nearing Palatka, the.party,
had gathered around the piano in
the saloon, and Col. Whitfield, who
was a vocalist of much power, was
pntartaining with songs the gay
party of ladies.and gentlemen. Sud
denly, after singing a plaintive bal
lad with unusual tenderness of ex
pression, he turned, faced bis audi
ence, grew pale, tottered in his seat,
and; without a word; fell dead. His
remains^ accompanied by his wife,
reached the city- this evenifig and
were forwarded for interment to his
home in Corinth, Miss,
CoL Whitfield was reckoned next
to Mr. Lamar, the most eloquent
man in Mississippi, and the bright
est political hopes were entertained
for him by his friends. His death
is felt keenly by Mr; Plant and the
officials 6f his Verifies corporations.
A Fire Engine Hone Whose Fierce (Spirit is
Dnbrokra.
Indianapolis SenUnel.
There is a sorrel horse, named
Charley, one of the engine team at
the No. 6 house, that, jn fireman’s
parlance, is a holy term?; and the
stories of his general cussedness
would fill a dime novel. The ani
mal has an inveterata dislike to
Johnny Stake, the engineer, and he
never neglects an opportunity to
show it Johnny is afraid of him,
and the horse knows it The only
person he obeys is George {filler,
the driver, and whenever Diller is
absent, and there is a run, two men
handle the reins over Charley and
his companion, and then quite often
they are unmanageable- Both
horses have indulged in several
runaways, Charley leading off and
compelling the others to keep up
with the procession. Whenever
there is an alarm Charley
from his stall like the wild Yak of
Tartary, his mouth open, ears laid
back, while he jumps forward on
his hind feet with his forefeet paw
ing the air. If there is a stranger
in the house, one look -at
Charley is sufficient to make him
hunt a place of safety, usually the
stairway,Jand the higher he gets the
safer he feels. Coupled with his
depravity, the horse is unusalty in
telligent, and one of his common
tricks, when be is thirsty, is to walk
to the hydrant, turn on the water
with his teeth, and after satisfying
his thirst he twists the faucet back
to its original position. Notwith
standing his long service in the de
partment his spirits are unbroken,
and, as an instance, he has never
been known to walk into his stall.
He always goes with a bound, and
comes oat the same way, fire or
no fire. Already be has lost a por
tion of Jus tongue, fighting with the
other horses, and the boys ho more
think of fooling around bis stall than
they would in stirring up the royal
jbengal tiger in a menagerie-. Some
of these days he will break his ne’ek
in a wild escapadd, but it is to be
hoped be will not cany one or rapre
of his firemen over the river with
him. *
New York, March 23.—The
steamship Wieiand, hence I.arch
19th, for Hamburg,* returned this
morning, having been in collision
with the bark Cornwallis, of Wind
sor, N. S., from Antwerp for New
York. They collided on Jhe 20th
at 1 p. m. during a heavy gale. The
bark struck her on about twenty
feet from the stem, making a hole
several feet square, ten ' feet above
tM'ffatetline. She sustained no
tumt
of 30 feet; last we .
ing any fatal injuries.
MAJOR FRANK NORTH.
Death of tho Woito Chief of the Pawnee titdain.
St. Lull Qlohe-Demacret.
Major Frank North, the white
Chief of the Pawnee Indians, died
at Columbus Nebraska, on Thursday
aged forty-four years. North was
one of the most noted characters in
the West. He was born in Tomp
kins county, N. Y., and came to
Nebraska in 1856. His first work
here was clearing the ground on
which the city of Omaha now stands.
This finished, became a hunter and
trapper, trailing the country from
Omaha to Dever with Buffalo Bill.
In 1864 North organize a company
of Pawnee scouts, and was made
captain by Gen. Curtis. He served
through the Powder river campaign
killing 200 hostile Indians without
losing a man. The Pawnees attrib
uted this to the protection of the
Great Spirit, and North their
chief. In March, 1866, North was
made a major and did good service
for year when his command was
mustered out. From 1871 to 1875
North acted as guide and interpre
ter at various posts on the frontier
line. In the latter year, under or
ders from Gen. Sheridan, he raised
a company of scouts and assisted in
the capture of Red Cloud and the
hostile Sioux. The following two
years he served with Gen. Crook,
when he resigned and with Bufialo
Bill, started an extensive ranch nehr
Columbus. Last year Major North
started out with the Wild Combina'
tion, and while exhibiting in a Miss
issippi river town he was crushed
by an unruly bronco. Contrary to
expectations he recovered, and
when well, rejoined the show.
Three weeks ago be was seized
with malarial fever at New Orleans
and sent home, where he died to
day. He was comparatively
wealthy, and leaves agrown daugh
ter. 4 He was strong in brain pow
er and a natural leader among his
men. •
President Cleveland's Policy.
On Friday night two leading
Minnesota Democrats visited the
President He took them all over
the White House, showed them the-
cellars, the kitchen, Ihe conservato
ry, the east room, red room, blue
room, the executive offices, and
finally took them to his bed room.
Drawing out a box of cigars he
passed them, and then pulled oil his
coat and lopped down on tne bea
“Now, I suppose we are going to
talk politics,’’ said he. The Minnes-
otians admitted that such might be
the case. “Well, what do you want,
any way?” said the Chief Magis
trate. Ths Minnesotians giving a
polite and evasive answer, the pres
ident took the conversation into bis
own control and went on: “Ibe
lieve,” said he, -in civil service re
form. I believe the Democratic
party should support me, if I should
commit mv administration to that
policy. The situation for demo
crats is a choice between rushing in
and taking all the patronage now
as soon as they can get it, and wait
ing and gradually-filling the offices
as they became vacant by natural
and due course of time and circum
stances. If ww pursue the former
course we m ay be elected out of
power in 1888- If we take the latter
we will
good, l
out deserve to be retained in pow
er- Now, I think I shall practice
civil service reform, pure and sim
ile, and with that determination'
want my • democratic friends to
help, me by standing between the
administration and office-seekers, to
keep them off as bras possible.
That is the sunt and substance Of
f
also sustained
standing by her four hours, and she
requiring ho assistance, tbe Wie
iand returned to this ' port for re*
pairs.) ,
TELEGRAPHIC SPARKS.
The Pittsburg coal miners, 12,000
strong, struck last Monday.
It is probable that the senate will
adjourn without delay, before the
end of the present week, and possi
bly that it may do so by Tuesday or
Wednesday night
A special to tbe American from
Loraconing, Md., says that a fire
destroyed almost tbe entire business
portion of that village this morning,
entailing a loss of about <50,000.
New York, March 22.—Rev.
Elias Bray, the man arrested here
last Monday, who declared that
his mission on earth was to remove
President Cleveland, was shipped
to England by the authorities to-day.
Petersburg, Va., March 22.—
heavy snow storm set in here early
this morning. It has been snowing
incessantly all day, and the ground
is covered to the depth of eight in
ches on a level. To-night a light
snow is falling.
Washington, March March 22
—President Cleveland has rented a
pew in the first Presbyterian church,
this city, of which Rev. B. Sunde-
land, formerly chaplain of the Uni
ted States senate, is pastor. The
iew was occupied to-day by Miss
Cleveland and Mrs. Hoyt, sisters of
tbe president. (
George Wilson and George Dick
erson, of Hamilton, O., were duck
hunting to-day, when they were
struck Dy a cake of ice and upset.
Dickinson sank at once, but Wilson
floated upon the cake of ice to the
bridge, a short distance below,
where he grasped a rope, let down
to him, but was not able to retain
his hold, and falling into the water,
was also drowned. •
The President sent in the follow;
g nominations:
Envoys extraordinary and minis
ters plenipotentiary of the United
States:
Edw in J. Phelps, Vermont, to
Great Britain.
Robert M. McLanc, Maryland,
to France.
George H. Pendleton, Ohio, to
Gei many.
Henry R. Jackson, Georgia, to
Mexico.
Mmrenas E. Benton, Missouri, at
torney of the United States for the
western district of Missouri.
The senate immediately confirm
ed the nomination of Senator* Pen
dleton. *
The senate also confirmed the
nominations of Messrs. Phelps,
Jackson and McLane, and of Ben
jamin H. Hill, Jr., to be United
States attorney for the northern
district ot Georgia.
Geaeral Edward F. Bryant, ot
the Madison Democrat, has been
tendered the position of assistant at
torney general for the post-office
department at Washington by Post
master General Vilas.
It is said at the White House that
the President will take no action in
regard to the postmastership at New
York for some* time yet. ,Pearson
will, of course, continue to serve as
postmaster until a change is made.
Secretary Lamar has, it is said,
decided to appoint a commission to
investigate the workings of the in
terior department, with a view to
reorganizing and rearranging the
work and the force of the depart
ment.
Austin, Texas, March 23.—The
constitutional amendment provid
ing for the submission to the peo
ple of the question of prohibition,
passed the bouse to-day with dis
cussion by a vote of 72 to 16. The
announcement of the result of the
vote was greeted with applause.
cotton in one year to pay fer Fenc
ing the district/ 1 .* ' ' •
Col. Clarke Watkins received a
ten stamp mill last Week from Meek* -
lenburg, N. and it having it
ka^^qut.to hi* _ tWWij in Carroll
Captain J.J. Seay, of Rome, an
Wednesday killed an immense blue
crane and ten ducks. The wings
of the crane will be fixed up for
fans. , #1 -
The farmers of Mitchell county,
generally, report farming opera
tions progressing rapidly, and the
hope of a good crop year is enter
tained.
An old man by the name of Ga
briel, aged 84, from Coweta county,
went over to Carroll not long since
and married a lady by the name of
Garrett, aged 35.
The Hon. Jacob Thompson, who
was Secretary of the Interior under
President Buchanan, is lying vety
ill at his residence in the southern
suburbs ot Memphis, Tenn.
A large drove of wild geese, fly
ing northward, passed over Monti-
cello last Saturday. They formed a
complete letter A, and, according
to the old sign, indicated winter
“all gone.”
Near Chickasawhatchee a line of
earth-works can still be seen which
were thrown up by Gen Jackson
(Old Hickory) as a protection
against the Indians, on his march to
Florida through this section in 181S.
These breastworks are scarcely per
ceptible on first sight, but by close
observation they can be traced.
Hawkinsville correspondence
News, March 19: A man named
John Mims, from Dooly county,
was killed yesterday evening by
falling from a wagon loaded with
guano, which ran over his body
and crushed him to death immedi
ately. It occurred a few miles
irom town while he was going
home. He was in town in the after
noon and had been drinking.
The Coweta grand juyy “recom
mend that our members of the leg
islature support a general dog law,
and, if it cannot be secured to the
whole state, we request them to
have passed a local law for this
county, taxing every dog $i, such
money to go to 'educational pur
poses.” They concur with two for
mer grand juries in recommending
that the Board of County Commis
sioners appropriate a sum ot money,
not exceeding $500, to the Ladies*
Memorial Association, for the pur
pose of erecting a Confederate
monument
At a faro bank in Macon last
night, a well known yonng man,
starting out with $10, drew out $900.
There is talk ot putting tlie elec
tric wonders, MiSs Lula Hurst, of
Cedartown, and Mrs. Dixie Hay-
good, of Milledgeville, against each
other at Macon next week.
A Montezuma man was at the
Union depot at Macon, Thursday
night with an eyeless chicken, which
he was taking to the New Orleans
Exposition. The chicken had no
eyes, nor any siga of them.
• M. J. Carlisle lives on a place in
Talbot county where more than 40
years ago a crib was burned. In
plowing over the ground where the
crib stood the other day, a bushel or
more of charred corn was turned
up by the plow.
A young lawyer of Sylvania
came through town the other day
driving the balance of his first law
fee—a yearling steer. Tbe fee con-'
sisted of eight dollars in money, a
stack of fodder, a silver watch, an
old sow and the yearling.
The case of Henry Whitfield
alias Ryals, the negro under sen
tence to be hung on Friday in Sa
vannah, for attempting to burn the
residence of Mr. F. A. Exley, in
that city, early in the winter, was
heard in Chatham superior court on
Saturday under a supplemental mo
tion fora new trial, a prior motion
having already been refused.
AFASCINATINGGARROTER
BovaFrtttTFnaeh Womaa Trie* to Extermi
nate Toting KSa in Vnr Orleans.
New Orleans, March 19.—Last
night as Mr. J. D. Ward, a visitor
to the exposition, was sauntering
along Canal street, a Very pretty
young woman, elegantly dressed,
accosted him, and he vras'led into a
conversation with her. The woman
stated that she was a French actress
and a stranger in the city.
Mr. Ward accompanied the fair
charmer down Canal street until
they reached No. 142,- when he was
invited in. He accepted the invi
tation. Once inside ner room, the
woman locked the'door and at
tempted to put the key into her
pocket, but dropped it on the floor.
Ward saw at once that he had been
decoyed into a dangerous place, but
did not dream of what was to fol
low. He supposed that robbers
were concealed in the room. It
turned out that he had no one to
battle with except this tigress of a
woman.
At Ward’s first motion to pick
up the key, the woman snatched
from under the bed clothing an iron
collar, .which she endeavored to
throw over his head. Ward clutch
ed both her hands, and a desperate
struggle ensued.
Toe woman proved to be very
powerful and fought like a demon.
Finding that she was being oyer
powered, she began a series of
shrieks, which, however, did not
seem to attract any one’s attention.
Ward, in-the meantime, was fight
ing his way. towards the door, the
woman disputing every inch of the
advance in that direction. Getting
to the door, he gave her a violent
push, which hurled her off some
distance, opened tbe door and es
caped into the street, with tbe loss
of his cane and a gold sleeve button
' He at once sought the police, and
finding Gaster anjd Cain, told his
story. They started with him for
the house and o» !the--way there.
nav policy. What do you ..think of
it?” The two Minnesota democrats
assured the President of their most
cordial co-operation, and some time
later departed.,
E. D. Clark, of Vicksburg, the
newly appointed assistant secretary
of the interior, who has been suffer
ing from an attack of typhoid pneu
monia for about ten days,
last evening considered oat of dan
ger, had a sudden relapse after mid
night and expired at an early bout
this morning.
James Bond, a farmer of Walker
county, Georgia, together with his
son, were drowned in-Cave creek,
yesterday. Bond had 'been to the
hmd him. ‘ When they’reachJdfEc
creek they fouhd it greatly swollen.
Bond attempted to ford it, but 'his
horse was swept off by the current
and ihe animal arid both ’its riders
were drowned. WM £3 art# s
eneAi <j!ra W | , « C wi«f« u
1 Record sat/ffilit'
ceration, bat that the remedy of
surgery is entirely practicable,,
there,
met her coming along Customhouse
street,- apparently-having been - ©tit
again, possibly in- search- of. fresh
victims. . The. officers placed her
under, arrest and taken her: to. the
third precinct*tation,.bat not with
out a struggle. - She 'declined to
talk English,pretending not to un
derstand, it in-the least.;: She gave
her name a Marie Kline; '
- Ward; daripgJiis. battle) for liberty
wss somewhat excised, but the col
lar was-01 iron,-heavy and provi
ded, with a screw to tighten it about
the neck So as to choke-the victim
to terms. ‘ Tbemodns operandi is a
new oue here, and although the of
ficers Went to her room; they were
unable to. find the instrument of tor-
tureand of robbery. i ; Her room,
V contained’several trunks
which werti securely docked.
-cWardiexpnSsseenfirtaK.detesDiin-
tion topmeeeuto; the /.case*': which
willguodoabt, he a'.rich: one. <
BelWe.tte Hjyn#J5ttr*»* circle,
Colonel James R. Randall read his
latest poem/asyet tinriublished.’It
^st iaarSaVed,’* arid
weSnRftSi
and this return is said by many to
sank with his “My Maryland.” ~.
GENERAL NEWS.
Vanderbilt is building him a two
hundred and fifty thousand dollar
tomb.
Colored men in Mississippi lynch
ed a man of their own race for wife
murder.
' Eating forty-two oranges at one
sitting was the feat accomplished
the other day by a man at Crescent
City.
• In the Senate, Mr. Van Wyck
disturbed a hornets’ nestby denoun
cing a proposed commission to visit
Alaska.
- A railroad is being constructed
through Guatemala, and Central
Americans are said to oppose the
Nicarauga canal.
Argument is being heard before
the supreme court in five test cases
relating to the Virginia tax coupons
on the state bonds. * • ‘
Secretary Manning sees no reason
for haste in paying off the govern
ment bonds; the treasury “rplus
has reached $151,000,000. 1
At Key West Thursday, Lewis
Spencer, a sailor, committed sui
cide by cutting his throat with a ra
zor. He had the delirium tremens.
The largest and finest memorial
stone in the Washington monument
is the one presented by the corpora
tion of Philadelphia.
At Dcs Moines, Iowa, Mr. CattcU,
Governor Sherman’s appointee,
took charge of the State Auditor’s
office, and the militia,,, which had
been on duty, were relieved.
The surveyors on the Florida,
Midland, Hench’s road, are making
a preliminary , survey, making a
short curve near Apopka and run
ning northwest to Sorrento and
thence.to. Enstis,
1 Princess Beatrice will have for
bridesmaids at her wedding, the
daughter* of the Prince of Wales,
the Duke of Edinburgh and the
Grand Duke of Hesse, all her nieces.
Tbe honeymoon is to be spent at
BalmoraJ. .* __
The annual cost of maintaining
the reading, room of the British mu-
scum is $125,000. There are over
one hundred employes, eighty-two
of whom are engaged in taking out
and replacing books. Their salaries
range from $600 to $4,000 per an
num.
A would-be suicide who jjv**
found hanging and apparently dead
in.Rhode Island the other day,.wa*
resuscitated after being .unconscious
for eight nours. .
Senators are vainly endeavoring
to devise some means by which
they can prevent newspapers from -
getting the news of their secret ses
sions.
strike on tbe Alabama 3 Gre«tl>outh?
ern road because the employes have
not tbeen .paid j for nearly three
"fO®Wesserigejisfind 4oorke#pepi.
°»trie senate b*XC been instructed
npttfttdk Set ooteujew, An addl-
tional doorkeeper has been station*
e'd at the gallery door oftfys senate,
op.eping VPOti the press room. The
purpos®-***^ 10 make swe that the
publication qf executive secrets,
which the senators think has grown
to, be an evil of great magnitude,
shall no longer, continue.