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P a n:epecship.rmu»y. ., hich has Wen intro- ltle sen#te to promote 8 ot • ship- ra i] Way from t0 the Pacific * the 1 *tStmus of Tehu. ' Mexico I* one which serious consideration of "ten- Mexico haa al- ro yed the measure and th e payment of one- oo f Per <:^ ent ' intere “ on f or fifteen ye .V.; , nd .nroe"^ ' United State, to s if the th< i ° ,her two ‘thirds -;»crr ta h n,“:^' ‘«ent by this country of te,w<vS£ r^-ss: egm to be actiVe only after finistd P , t 'd r0 * d lh “ n h * ve (teen Csimed S.fJ* * from sea ro railroad carries n*ue tha. T CVen h,lf tj<e company teen v ^ ^ rePa> ment W ‘ thin fif ' '"tears, out of the revenues Let p,ott: eatSOmC ° f «• IstL SOme CrOMine *?r*Mpa.t the >'»»* i* imperatively and ’ •'< ly needed. That mine- I, , narrow neck -Paratea 100,000,000 of the ft '■'’prising and industrious r-nths population in Europe ' U,At ' al \ t ’ c A"«eric. from 6no,- who inhabit the Orient and : ' C ' s es - % a cut-off, the * , *”., CO *‘ St Wou * c! he brought S,- . ‘ ,lC " r,-r New York for in this great project We have a naval aiW coaling near the ...rmini of the roap and which shall be under tt lute dominion of our flag, what it to hinder it from ft prey to bandits or guerrillas, * petulant foreign power that to get a reduction ot its met tolls? The more us at uific Ocean is 1000 "‘iles nearer to c-iuamepec than it is at San Fran- ,s s», and south of the ehuautcpec hi • 1! -' whole A -• fhebeL atitude of seventy per cent. * ! 'C trade. , , ess 'P s canal seems to I- ve collaiMc-1 i’se I, because of its '"ormou- am! unforeseen cost; and the Nicarauga project, not yet form-’ would involve an outlay, ac- n , !" K '° lW ' a, imate of Captain Henior.t Pj m , ot the Bntish Navy, ol not le»s man $200,000,000. More over these canals are not located Where the trans-I„ hmus cros , ing pored. They are too lar south, one beyond the great lines of ma- me commerce. The route of the ehuautcpec ship-iailway is over iuo »>>!« north of that of the -iiiam.i canal, in an air-line. In other words, the crossing which is proposed in lhe senate bill is in the !i ot oceanic travel, while that mem.led in the De Lesseps scheme as lur away from that path as the st.ntce bom New York to Omaha. 3 Pacific freight (Oregon wheat, r instance) could be carried to tverpool by the proposed route for wo-thirda what it now costs; the present tariff being some $10 or $12 ton from San Francisco around Cape Horn, and $25 to $30 a ton by across the Continent. Pacifi wheat could once more compete with that ol India. A vessel with 2,500 ton caigo, coming by Tehu antepec, would save $12,500 be— ween the Pacific and the English Channel. 4. The practicability of the Tehu- ntepec scheme is not yet fully de. iionsiraied, but some of the most innnent engineers in the world have 1 e.t that such a railroad can be Inuii; that the natural iaipedi - ate slight; that the devices -ci) are sutlicient to lift a load- <>oo ton vessel in the great upon the tracks, drag it s the isthmus at the rate of lies All hour, and set it again hi the tea uninjured. They ih.it theie is no danger of a straining during such trans- and that the mechanical difli- s iu tlu; way of insuting al>- ohiic safety are trifling. 5. There would be no objection to it guai an tee of interest by the Iiited States government, band in nivl with that of President Diaz, uied tHut due care is taken to Xaleot our mutual interests. But at should be absolutely secured. guarantee should be ptopor nute only to the actual cost of the rrprise, whether $40,000,000 or 000,000, and should have refer- ,l,o to the financial results Xd, not alter one or a dozen '£ have been carried across . but after a period of (say) •ars. The value of the com bonds for the repayment of .ern ment’s investment would - nd wholly upon its ultimate ^ guarantee should be a o« ) n * lupon thU •** un : d T OOyi, too, the present bill nit to the obligations VYNN’ m p» n y mi * ht ii80e, or rt F-r A-nses it might incur to income in order to secure A from the government It /-A easy to nullify the provis- L '.part of the income in ex- 1 ten per cent, on the obliga- Sckall be applied to repaying , Government advance.; that re- '■'could be secured by simply ••»»- ■ obligal' 00 * sufficient to .accumulation of. aorplna. Thu Xld be guarded *g*ost ermote, the company ought ^ ..treater diacnmmatiofl be- *e United S » ,e, a " d those of other countries. ** ihdutaper than foreign ship*. thfi«"y‘ he “ , " Uea,to r , nd to continue this f . C «‘n?«ry- Withthi. advantage * Pacific trade, we could ni- our prominence upon the "„ d “ hip builder, from Portland /cier .ud from Chester * ° f would fiud ample employ t if thi. enterprise i* to be “ t by the co-operation of ■ied out J Mexico, sure- InitedStaeaan (h< The wiser course for the, tors of this enterprise wot doubtedly be to place it a strict business basis, and by t strating its practicability to t ists, secure its success throu| co-operation. But if this . done, and it is to be carried tl by government aid, congress see to it that every possible g fee is provided against loss, much the people will demant that properly secured by the a ment of the senate bill, they V withhold t'ieir approval.— hfalie’s Newspaper. WOMEN AT THE POLLS. A stock argument of the nents ot woman suffrage haa that if women were vested w fianchise very few of '.hem go io the polls, ami that m these would not be capable O' ing intelligently. This vies just received a practical refi in Boston. The writer of a cc nication to the Advertiser ot city points out that “the si voters ia Boston achieved in 1- cent School Board election - markable measure ofsuccess,' should encourage them to re' efl'oit in bena|f of good schot- ernment” They were, he, first in the field and nor|d eight candidates, of whonve were elected. So judicious their selection that seven O'ir nominees were subsequenfi- dorsed by the republicans afe- pendeuts and three by the 0- crats. As the women voterre only five per cent, ol the entim- ber of voters ‘ it is evidentm- dudes this correspondent^ they exerted a power and jpee far greater than any equal ber of male voters in the reepty election.” There is a young congnan from Mississippi, named l?Bar- ry, who is said to have the cuts of a political celebrity in hThis bright and promising youian is thus described by the corre<lent of the Louisville Times: “His mind has been tbghly disciplined by severe studHe is a finished orator, and hi-tures are the mott graceful of .ublic speaker } ever saw off thfnatic stage, but it ia in hit voipt lies the greatest charm of his «ence. It ia not so deep and rpnt ar. Joe Blackburn’s, it is m clear and silvery as W. C. P.ckcn- ridge’s, it is not so commar^ and trumpet-toned as Senafrye’s, but it is persuasive, getsweet and melodious. Words lrom his lips “Lik* rote* from tbe Ups of Ango)l aofela Might stoop to pick them ap." The bald head of Sen^ilsham G. Harris is a striking objto tbe visitor looking down from rtran. gets’ gallery of the Un|States Senate. A deep scar rutg in a semiciide across the topic skull marks the energetic eflota Fed eral cavalryman to end tSoulh- etner’s career on the liaield of Shiloh. Mr. Harris, as C-rnor of Tennessee, was with Alt Sidney Johnston throughout th^o days’ conflict, and it was in hiarrs that the Confederate leader efed. Hr. Honls, the Student WHO Fell From a Porch, Sresthes HU Last. It will be remembered that on last Wednesday night, Mr. Norris, * young man from South Carolina, while out with some friends, fell from a verandah and injured his spine. He was carried to his board ing house, and after a time physi cians were summoned, who did everything in their power for the young man. The next day, Christ mas eve, his parents were tele- gtaphed for, and Christmas night they arrived to find their son per fectly paralyzed and almost in a speechless condition. As soon as they arrived, however,' the loving words of the mother fell upon the ears of the almost dormant form of the son, and he at once aroused and seemingly took a turn for the better, but the injury was deep, and al though the physicians’ efforts and the unreserving energies of the de voted parents were unabated, death came, and yesterday at 2 o’clock his spirit tooK its everlasting flight into the invisible beyond. Before he died, he raised his languid eyes to his mother, and with weak voice asked her to place her head upon tbe pillow near his, that he might breathe out his life while under the light of her eves. What a Christ mas it was to these poor, heart- broker parents. Only a few days before preparing for this glad time, thinking, perhaps, of the presents they: were to give or receive from their hoy, the idol of their hearts, and then, upon the eve of the veri fication of their bright hopes, to have them blasted by this sad ca lamity—instead of- the happiness and joy they anticipated, the deep est dved sorrow came. We extend to them our heartfelt sympathy in their sad bereavement, and trust that He who suffered death upon the cross may pour upon their troubled souls the oil of consolation. The remains ol this young man will be carried to the home of his parents this morning over the North-Eas tern railroad. ACSTIS, TEXAS, IN A STATE OP SAVAGE BEWILDERMENT. A SKETCH FBOMWAB TIMES. the these coun ..tries should receive tbe I’U" s “ ar * “gs’if the United State* 5 - 11 ought to have some ^ ch the bill doc* oat pro- for protecting the ,nv L it end our A gentleman in Athens tells us that during slavery times his father owned a worthless negro boy, as stubborn as a mule, which neither persuasion nor lash would move when he set his head not to, so tri fling was he that he gave him to one ot his friends. The son of this friend was going to do battle for the Confederate cause, and took the ne gro along as his body servant. By kindness on the part of his master he became attatched to him, and on many occasions risked his life to save that of his mister. On one occasion, in a battle, when the shot were falling around like hail, glanc ing his eyes over the field he saw among the dead and dying, his young master, reeling and stumb ling, ready to fall from a shot from the enemy’s guns. Tho negro, with no thought for himself, rushed into tbe hottest of the fray, and gather ing the young man in his arms, bore him to a plrce of safety. The mas ter, knowing that the wound was fatal, gave the negro the money he had about his person, as also his horse and entrusted him with some messages for his family. When the young man died, the ser vant gave him the best burial possi ble under the circumstances, walked back from Pennsylvania to Georgia and delivered the messages. Before the master died he gave his boy his freedom, and told him there was something in him which ought to be brought out. The servant thought of this, and when he came to Georgia went to work to carry out the injunction of his master, and to-day owns one of tbe best sloops that splits the waves of the Atlantic ocean between New York and Sa vannah. Worntn Servants Ontracsd and Murdered hr the Seers, and All Efforts to Vetect the Fiendish Criminal Futile—One Woman Killed Outright, Another,Fatally Injured, and a Man and a Child Horribly Hacked in a single Right. Galveston, Tex., Dec. 26.—A special dated yesterday from Austin says: “Two terrible crimes were committed in this city last night af ter midnight which will undoubted ly result in three deaths, and there is no telling how many lynchings. During the past year Austin has been horrified every few weeks by some dastardly attack on servant women, both white and colored. TWELVE OUTRAGED AND EIGHT KILLED. Fullyja dozen servants have been outraged and eight murdered within the period. The crimes all bore ev idence of being perpetrated by the .same person. Every effort w»i made to apprehend the criminal, skilled detective* being employed. Many negroes were arrested and put through a rigid examination, but nothing came ot the efforts. INSANE CUNNING SUSPECTED. Many citizens and some officials held to the theory that the crimes wcie perpetrated by some insane person, who cunningly devised how :oukl shed women’s blood with out misapprehensions. About mid- night last night W. H. Hancock, a well-to-do carpenter, residing at No. 203 Water street, was awaken ed by groans. A HORRIBLE DISCOVERY. Entering his wife's chamber, he found the vacant bed covered with blood spots. He followed the trail out of the front door, around the house, and into the back yard, where he found his wife weltering in a pool ol blood. She] had been struck twice across the head and face with a blunt ax, and her skull was fractured. Although still alive, the physicians says she will surely die from her wounds. Mrs. Han cock is 40 years of age and a hand some woman. She bears an un blemished character. , , *-A How He Was There liVcif** San Jose one of the T noted officer*,of McClelland s staff y “It wasnearb during the late war. His name is Gen. Henry M. Maglee, and he is tbe man spoken ot by Kelley in bis steps of him when he was shot* nearly night in the village of Sharpsburg, when Gen. Toombs was wounded. I was in twent brochure on McClellan' as having | said an old soldieT, in speaking of A girl rec ently born itancock^ Moss., iff blessed with terandpa- rents. She has a grandjher and grandfather, a great-gri-mother and great-grand father,a (it-great- grand mother on the fi-’s side. On tbe mother’s side is wrvdfath er and grandmother, a at-grand father and great-grandmer and a great-great grandfatherThis gill is much better off thin fellow who has a good fightjsister or mother-in-law. Now that local optioij sweep ing the field the cry foriw cover ing the entire state is creasing Many men e.e on recorjs saying that while they favor ;ohibition under a stale law they qose pro hibition in one county rounding countiea conti and derive whatever pi t therefrom. file aur- the sale, results Judge Tompkins com ■ran has the same right ds that a own liq uor that he ha* to ow a horse That may be a II true, 1 he does not have the same rigto use i like he does his horse. congress ■ The next lively scencj will he enacted when M .domram T. Warner unlimbera its guna against Secretary Manrg for re fusing to issue a bond c His ar tillery is loaded with rolled up In gteeabacxs. f Adirondack Mnrray|tT» that while's Yale student hi red four months on a diet which st him 56 cents a week-Indian c land wa- ter, not enough meal at too much water. The students ofe Georgia University should trjjis diet a short while. I MUs Cleveland has iaed an or- der that smoking be jiiibited in the corridors and vestile of the White House. Miss eyeland is assuming a* much aujirjty as a street car conductor. What would you do you sud denly came into posses a of $60,- 000,000. This is a qition, an swers to which the Eln a Gazette colicits from it* readers We would spend it 1 ast as pos THE FUNERAL OF ME. W. A. TALMADGE. Sunday morning a large con course of friends and relatives gath ered at the Presbyterian church, to pay the last sad tribute to the mem ory of their departed friend. The seimon was preached by Rev. Dr. Lane, after which his remains were carried to the grave in Oconee cem etery and there interred. Every denomination in the city was repre sented as pall-bearers. It is report ed that some time before his death Mr. Talmadge made wishes—that when he died he might be in his garden surrounded by his trees, shrubbery and flowers, on a bright beautiful day—one of those lovely days on which all nature seems to rejoice; and that he might be buried on Sunday, and that that day might also be fair and lovely—and strange to say his wishes were verified to the letter. Christmas day he died and Sunday he was buried—both lovely days, Sunday especially, was beautiful, for there was not a cloud 1 to mar the smooth tranquility of the canopy above—it was a day long to be remembered by those whose sad duty it was to follow the remains of this honored Athenian to their last resting place.” Peace to his ashes. ATLANTA 1 * PROHIBITION. W. L. Calhoun, Ordinary of Ful ton county, has issued his proclama tion, that after its publication once a week for four weeks in the At- lantA Constitution, the prohibition act in that county becomes a law. This no doubt settles the matter so far as that county is concerned. The whisky men have made a des perate fight but to no avail, and on the 26th day of January the “Classic City” can shake hands with the “Capitol City” across the soul- wrecking chasm, and it will not be long before tbe countiea of tbe state will form a chain ot prohibition without »n unbroken or missing link. ANOTHER MASSACRE. In the midst of the great excite ment produced by this outrage the citizens were appalled at learning of a still greater crime that had been perpetrated about the same hour several squares distant. At 1 o’clock Mrs. Phillips, residing at No. 30S Hickory street, was awak ened by the cries of her grandson. Entering the room of her son, Jas. Phillips she found the infant on the bed covered with blood and Mrs. Phillips lying senseless from a terri ble blow on the head. Ella Phil lips, the wife, was missing. FOLLOWING THE BLOODY TRAIL. The affrighted neighbors follow ed the bloody trail, and found her body lying in the back yard of the adjoining premises. Death had re sulted from a blow on her forehead with an axe. Across the body lay heavy rails. Her person had been outraged. There is no clue in either case. The excitement on the streets during the day was very great. Christmas was forgotten. A COMMITTEE OK PUBLIC SAFETY. The Mayor called a meeting ot citizens at the State house, and nearly 1,000 responded to the call. A committee of public safety was organized. The feeling over these last outrages is intense. A house to house search for the bloody- handed murderers will probably be made.” MORE CRIMES UNEARTHED. Galveston, Tex., Dec., 26,11 p. M.—To-night’s special from Austin says no clue has yet been unearthed to the mysterious tragedies of Christmas eve. Mrs. Phillips, one •f the victims, was buried to-day. Mrs. Hancock is still unconscious, and is slowly dying. James Phil lips is also dying. His wounds are worse than was at first supposed. The community was horrified again to-day by the discovery of a series of crimes even moie inhuman than the others. The remains of Claude Ennes, a little 8-year-old white child, were found to-day in the back yard of his mother's premises in the village of Clarksville, two mile* west of Austin. Swine were de vouring the body when it was dis covered, and had eaten all the flesh from the bones, but the features were recognizable. gotten up the packed council, of war for tSe Peninsular campaign. Naglee has left the army and gone to brandy making. His vineyards are noted oh the Pacific coast. His brandy is very choice, and he is worth about $3,000,000. He is a staunch Democrat and a great ad- irer of President Cleveland. On the completion of tbe last campaign he decided to send Cleveland a present of brandy, but, seeing in tbe papers that Cleveland was not receiving gifts, he wrote to his friend William Dorsheimer, of New York, and asked him if be thought he could get a barrel of brandy to Cleveland for biro. JDorsheiinei replied that he could, and that he should send the brandy to him in- stanter. Naglee then let it be known thft he was sending a pres ent to Cleveland. -He pre pared to ' do the thing in style- He had a barrel made of fine oak, beautifully carv ed, and bound with silver plated hoops. Engraved upon the barrel wis an inscription extolling the president elect, and saying that it wa- a pres ent from Naglee to Cleveland. Its size was 32 gallons. This barrel was filled with the finest of grape brandy, very old, and of a qual'ty worth at least $20 a gallon. When properly boxed, Naglee expressed it to Dorshetmer, and then sat down with his friends and waited a reply. He expectr..’. an autograph ‘letter from Cleveland, which he might hang up in his parlor and show to his friends. Weeks passed, and no letter came. Months went by, and nothing from either Cleveland or Dorshenner. A few weeks ago a young man named Bell, a fiiend ot Naglee and a mugwump in Califor nia politics, started East, and as he left Naglee asked him to call upon Cleveland and Dorsheimej and ask the wherabouts of his choice bran dy. It is this young man who tells me the story. He called upon Cleveland at the White House five weeks ago, and Cleveland straight ened up in astonishment at his story and tnen burst into laughter, throw ing himself back in his chair and roaring again and again. He said he had never heard of the brand), and he supposed that it had tickled the stomach of Dorsheimer and his gastronomic triends. Yesterday Editor Dorsheimer appeared in Washington, and Mr. Bell called upon him and asked of him the same question he had put to rhe President. Dorsheimer replied that he had sent the barrel to Cleveland a few weeks ago. A MOUNTAIN VENDETTA. Two Hostile Clans-Meet at Close Eange In imbat. ms-Meet at ortaKomba Chattanooga special News reached the city of a very sensational and sanguinary conflict between two families in Clay co., Tenn., among whom a bitter ven detta is of long standing, and as a result of the affair three men are mortally wounded and two quite seriously. Leary James, Bud Tay lor and George Scarbrough attend ed a school examination, and 011 their return home began drinking heavily, and in their drunken orgies met a man named Stewart, who is related to a family named Coes, against 'whom the Taylors had a feud of long standing. They as saulted Stewart furiously, and would have beaten him nearly death had not thtee members ol the Coes family tome up at a fortunate moment. All the parties were arm- eJ to the teeth, and a fierce battle with pistols ensued. The short- range duels were very effective, and, as a result, James Taylor was shot through the bowels. Bud Taylor through both hips, Scar brough through the lungs and George Taylor was wounded in three places. The Coes escaped unscathed. It is thought ti^o ol the Taylors and Scatbrough will die. the dead General. “We had fought the battle of Sharpsburg'and next day both sides seem satisfied, and were in line of battle all the time. The sh«rp shooters kept up firing whenever they could see a head show up over < the hill. No oue had any idea that the Confederate army would fall back across the Potomac nvei, as we thought we had come to Maryland to stay, al though we did not meet with tbe treatment at the hands of “My Maryland” that we expected. It had been railing during the day and a little after dark the tired sol diers were looking around for a place to sleep. Tbe Seventeenth Georgia, commanded by Col. (after wards Gen.) Benning, was in line on the side of the road and a little in front of the St-cond Ga. Regi ment of Taopibs’ brigade. Gen. Toombs received orders to march his brigade out and to caution the commanding officers to move as quietly as possible, as the Yankees were only a short distance from our lin.-s. Gen. Toombs sent out his couriers to notify the commanding officers ot each regiment, and the soldiers were rolling up their blan kets, buckling on their cartridge boxes, and wondering what we were going to do. Gen. Toombs and bis aids rode up to Col. Henning to let him know in what order the regiments were to move. As they were riding along there were several Yankee cavalrymen rode up who had by accident got over in our lines. Capt. Uroupe, of Gen. Toombs’ staff, ask ed the General who these men were and Gen. Toombs immediately ask ed, “Who are you?” and one ol the cavalrymen answered, “We are friends.” Capt. Troup said, “No you’re not; you have got on blue clothes!” and immediately fired at them with his pistol. The cavalry men commenced firing, and one of the shots took effect in General Toombs’ hand that held the bridle reins of his grev mare. The Gener al’s horse began running and the aids followed after Gen. Toombs The horses ran some distance be fore Gen. Toombs was able to get the reins in his other hand and check his mare. He informed his staff that he was shot through the hand and wheeled his horse and rode back to where Col. Benning was and informed him he was wounded and tor him to take charge of tbe brigade. The whole com mand was in confusion and a great many thought that the Confederate army was surrounded and made up their minds to fight everything that came in their reach. The Yankee cavalry, after wounding Genera! Toombs, and finding they were in side the Confederate lines, scamper ed back as fast as their horses could carry them. The soldiers of Gen. Toombs’ command all worshipped him for his kindnftss, and there is not one of his old brigade who fol lowed him through the campaigns of Northern Virginia but will deep ly regret to learn of the death of their former leader. Hew H* Manipulated Gen. Grant for an In- vtUtUn to a Swell Affair. *"1 see that WaiRd has proved a as a bbok-k'eeper at Sing Silig,” said a prominent criminal lawyer of New. York the other day, “and has been' put to kicking, a press. Wonder when he’ll get that hospital room?” “What hospital room?” was asked. “Why, the room that Is to be fitted op for him as soon as you reporters quit going up there. Ward told of it himself before his trial. He said to Orrin Skinner, of Chicago, one of the prisoners in Ludlow street jail, that it had all been arranged that he was to be put at common work at first, until the excitement died out, and would then be given an easy berth ia the office, and alter awhile a room would be fitted up for him in the hospital. These favors, he said, would cost him about $5,000 a year. The pro gramme goes all right, thus far, doesn’t it? “By the way, did you ever bear how Ward attended Geoaral Grant’s dinner party? It was when the firm of Grant & Ward liad just started in business. Fred G.ant happened to mention in the office one day that his father was going to give a dinner party that evening, and that Vanderbilt, Cyrus W. Field aud some more of the big guns would be there. ‘Ah,’ said Mr Ward, and nothing more was thought of it. That evening Grant’s doorbell rang while the family and their guests were at dinner, and Ward presented himself in full dress, with his crush hat under his arm. Could he see the general for moment—just for a moment?” The general came into the hall. ‘Ah, my dear general, I beg your pardon for disturbing you, but I just stepped in for a moment—from the opera, you know—to tell you that I had a chance to make a little turn to-day—nothing to do with the firm—but just a little outside specu lation, and I put you in. I closed it up this afternoon, and your share of the profits is $3,000. I happen ed to have the check in my pocket, so I brought it over. Here it is, General,’ and Mr, Ward prepared to rush back to ihe opera. The Gtneral was delighted, poor, simple old man, and swallowed the whole story. “Would Mr. Ward stay and dine? No! Then at least he mus‘ have a glass of wine before he went away.” Mr. Ward protested, but finally permitted himself to be led to the dining room, and remained until the dinner was over. That invitation cost Mr. Ward $3,000, but he considered it cheap at that price. He had made his point?” AMUSING WAR INCIDENT. FRUSTRATED WEDDINGS. CHARGE OF COLLECTORS. Savannah, Ga., Dec. 28.—Dep uty Collector Ashley, of the Val dosta district, has b«en transferred by Collector Crenshaw from the Valdosta district to Savannah, to succeed Deputy Collector James O’Farrell. The change will take place January 1st. Mr. Ashlev is a lawyer, who practiced ia Val'dosta until last May, when he received the appointmentofjdeputy collector. He will make Savannah his head quarters.—Constitution. Deputy Collector O’Farrell has been ordered to Atlanta, as his ser vices are needed in that portion of the state. v A fanner living on the Ocklock onee river, claims that it is bilious ness that makes a man get out of ... humor and fret and «wear and when, old he feels himself getting angry he 1 swallows a compound cathartic pill. Last week he was driving oxen and swallowed thirty-seven ■P POSSIBLY A CLUE. Last August Hugh Eanes, the father, mysteriously died. The coroner’s jury declared that he had been poisoned by some person un known. About the time of Eanes’ death Charles Courtney became a boarder in the family, which com prised Mrs. Eanes and her two chil dren, Dolly, aged 11, and Claude. The unnatural mother tried to give the children away, pleading pov erty. A couple of weeks ago she told her neighbors that she had given Dolly to a school teacher down the river. On Monday night Mrs. Eanes visited a neighboring family and asked the privilege of spending the night. She said she had also given Claude away to a family in Lampassas, and Courtney being absent she was afraid to sleep in the house alone. THE WOMAN DISAPPEARS. The next morning the woman departed for Austin, saving she had received a telegram from Illinois asking ber to attend the funeral of a relative who had just died and left her a legacy. Courtney returned to-day and found the bouse desert ed. He discovered the body of Clande, which had been buried a foot deep and' afterward uprooted by hog*. Thelre was intense ex citement when the news of' the murder reached Austin. Courtney was arrested on suspicion. A search is being made for Dolly. Eloped with Her Minister. * ZUliigh.». C., Special. * The Methodists of this State are having a severe trial with their ministers. It is announced from Greensborough that tbe Rev. M. E. Hammer has eloped with a Mr*. Parris. Hammer served the past year on the Hard River circuit, and went to Greensborongh on No vember; 30 last. He bought three railroad tickets to Little’Rock, Ark., boarded the train, at High Point, ind with him went Mr*. Parris, her cnteea-year-old son, a two-yesr- 1 daughter. Mrs. Parris is the wile Ol- a respectable well-to-do citizen -who resides near Freeman’s Mills,' in. Guilford county. Ham-, mer left a wife and several small united. Jumbo's Skeleton and Model. A correspondent of the New York World visited Saturday, at Rochester, N. Y., the museum of Piof. Henry A. Ward, the scientist, who is preparing the skeleton of the mammoth elephant Jumbo, and is also making a model of the animal, the largest woik ot the kind ever tiempied in this country. Th model will not be finished until next spring, allhough it was at (list cal culated to have it completed in two months. At the present stage of the work Jumbo looks like an ele pinnt made ot lath, although the shape of the head, bodv and limbs is remarkably perfect. The animal stands on a frame of heavy oak tim bers, bolted together in a position as natuial as in life. Two iron rods, each of two-inch solid metal, tun through each limb up into the body, where the frame work of the great beast is constructed. This frame work is composed of more iron rods and oak timbers, bolted together in the strongest possible manner. The rods and Irame work extend into the head and upper pari of the trunk, the rods really taking the place of bones. Upon the irame work is nailed inch square strips of bass wood. The general shape of ihe animal depends largely upon the manner in which these strips are placed and, the different lengths they are cut tel. Although at first glance the elephant appears to be made ot lath, a close examination reveals the really artis tic work which hss , been done in shaping it and the wonderfully strange way in which the parts have been made. The hide is in two pieces, and it will require much stretching to place it over the rrjodel, although it is as near Jumbo’s'orig inal size and shape, as it is possible to make it The tusks will be of ivory, screwed on iron rods project ing from the head. The eyes will be of glass blown especially for the purpose. They wijl be the natural size and color. The building (or constructing the model had to be erected expressly for the purpose.; On the (op of the skull is a cavity over , two feet in width and in some place* nearly six inches in depth. This was the wound, if it can be called such, which was inflicted when the-loio motive struck the great beast, The lower jaw and other fragment* of the skull will be united to this por tion when the skeleton is mounted. In a building near by the bones of the skeleton are placed ready to be A ConglomoraUon of Unsuccessful Suits. In Jackson county, we learn, that a marriage was to, take place Sun day. The bride arrayed nerself in her wedding robes, tile dinner was prepared amt- everything was in readiness on her part for the cere mony to be performed. The hour arrived when her happiness would be complete, as she thought, and with beating heart she waited the coming ol her Romeo; wearily the minutes passed, and the hours came and went, but he did not come, and finally she gave out the idea of h : s coming, and with the thought that he had surely forgotten her, arose and went to church. Thus two hearts that were to heat as one were as widely severed as the poles. Another case happened in this wise: There were three suitors to the hand of *ne young lady—two of whom were brothers—and it so hap pened that one of the brothers seemed to have the preference of the young lady, and became engaged to her. Sunday morning they were to be married. Everything here was in readiness, the guests invited were present, the table groaned be neath the weight of good things, and everybody seemed bent on hav ing an enjoyable time. And now the peculiar part conies. As a mat ter of course, the other two lovers were invited to witness the cere mony. and wee present. When the time arrived, Ihe lady arose, but by her side was not the one to w hom she was to be wedded, but one of the other suitors, who had taken time by the forelock, procured a license and handed it to the preacher before the groom-intended knew what turn matters wete taking, and there he sat as the preacher went on with the ceremony, seeing the one whom he had come to marry actually given to another man, and he one of the witnesses. Every thing, however, passed off pleas antly, although the disappointed groom left the house a wiser, even il he was a sadder man. Theabove is vouched for by a reliable gentle man living near the scene where these romantic occurrences hap pened. Last Han and Last Dltcb—Tewlutmry and Guard From Dismal Swamp. Correspondence Cincinnati Enquirer. During the war the “last man” and "last ditch” were common phrases, and, strange as it may seem, they were located at the end of the war. On fourth of July morn ing, tS66, fifteen months after Lee surrendered, the secretary of war, who ttnd planned a fishing excur sion ‘.o the falls of the Potomac, re ceived a telegram from the provost marshal at Richmond, Virginia, stating that a squad of Confederate soldiers were at his office ready to deliver up their arms and be am- nested. Knowing that joking of that description would subject the perpetrator to courtsmartial. he made a bee-line for the White House to consult President Johnson, which resulted in a telegram tD the provost marshal: “Who are they and where did they come fram?” The answer was direct to the poiat: “fcergeant Tewksbury and guard from Dismal Swamp. Did not know the war was over.” After a loud roar of laughter the provost marshal was ordered to receive their capitulation. Tewksbury, a Virginian, ordered a touple of Georgians to come forward, give up their shooting irons and stick their fists to the “document,” re solving himself as the last man and old Dismal Swamp the last ditch. Tewksbury’s description ot how he ascertained the war was over was very amusing. He and his compan ions had been posted on the edge of the swamp to watch movements of Yanks from Norfolk, with orders to remain until relieved. He never was relieved, and had subsisted on game and fish for three years. He met an old negro who told him that the war had been over a year, which tickled him better than if he had been kicked by a mule, as he face tiously expressed it. THE AUSTIN TRAGEDIES. A fire in Attesia; Miss., destroyed every store in the place. : The South Carolin* Legislature came very near .having * deadlock over an appropriation bill. John Bigelow’s letter to the; Pres ident declining to accept the office of Assistant United States Treasu rer at New York will not be given out for publication at present One-half of a five-hundred dollar legal tender note was recieVed at the treasury department in an envel ope postmarked at New York, with the following letters “Restitution, internal revenue, publish receipt, keep record of number of bill, more later.” Christmas night, at Little, Blue, Mo., Frank Vaughn was married to Eliza Swope. Immediately after the ceremony, while Vaughn and his wife were standing at a window, they were fired at from the outside, the ball grazing Vaughn’s head. It was thought the shot was fired by Abraham Nave, a cousin of the bride, who had threatened that if she did not marry him he would shoot the man she would marry. ) A negro named Alexander Reid, was burned for murdering a young lady near Gainston, Ala. James Turner, a young white man, was killed by an engine at the Wes tern & Atlantic yard in Atlanta. The signal corps station at Cape Henry, Virginia, reports the schoon er Lena Hunter ashore in that vi cinity is fast breaking up. The first comptroller of tbe treas ury has approved the account of the United State fish commissioner for the fiscal year, without alteration or modification. The municipal council of Cork has decided to loan, as an experi ment, £6,500 for the purpose ol erecting 74 cottages for laborers, to be rented at half a crown a week. Collector Seeberger, of Chicago, has received orders to release 600 barrels of alleged potato starch, consigned to the Union National Bank, a dutybf two cents per pound having been paid. It is probable that United States Treasurer Jordan will be designated by Secretary Manning to act as sub- Treasurer at New York city, until congress reassembles, when a new appointment will be made. Another bloody affray occurred in the Cheiokee Nation, in which George Hiles was brutally murder ed by Dave Mi2e and Joe Hunter. The cause of the killing was Hiles’s attention to Mize’s wife. Ttie juryin the circuit court, in the suit of Frank Springman, brought by his father and next friend, James Springman, against the Baltimore and Potomac railroad, gave the plaintiff a. verdict for $12,- oco. A public meeting of citizens was held at Nanticoke to devise some means for raising a fund for the re lief of the families and others de pendent on those who lost their lives in No. 1 slope ot the Susque hanna coal company. The remainder of the mutilated $500 bill received at the treasury department Christmas morning, came to hand from New York, with the brief explanation: “Restitution. Other half sent previous.”—The money will be ciedited to the con science fund. The Buckeye glass works, at Martin’s ferry, Ohio, which has been idle since last summer, on account THE ATLANTA DRUMMER, One of the proverbial “late de date” Atlanta drummers called on Uncle Steve Stokely in 'Crawford lately, and insisted on selling him a bill of goods. “We are hot wanting anything in your line,” said Uncle Steve. “But,” said the persistent drum mer, “I know that you do need something. Perhaps I can suggest, as 1 hsve been on the road so long that I know exactly what a mer chant wants better than he does.” Yon do?” ssid Unde Steve, looking at the young man with min- gled pity and contempt “Well, I have been in business here about 36 years, and when I find a man that'know* more about my business than 1 do, I want to hire him. What’s your price?” The smart fellow said-' he Was afraid he wouldn't suit, and gath ered up his samples'and left the place to conceal his emotion. ' « K' ‘ TfS rip. Mr. C. H. Sawyer, a young me- f *1, n Qul'onnnll I? I t-*. IV GEORGIA N Eugene P. Speer 1 toi this winter PfflH re*nonfleiit of the Alls Capitol. CougressinanJCharleyj^ worked ayoung man m from" Georgia, into a tion. '■ -\i Janies Naismith.of S.ivafi cidentally shot and kills Baxter, ot Augusta, in a r" Florence. . . ; i _ Near Rome Friday, wjg his father’s gin,' the 6 year!; of 1 -W. P. Salmon had'^L band fearfully lacerated by th Over two hundred pe arrested in Atlanta cm.- 1 —_ Day, most of them for sM fireworks. 'There wash ot drinkiug, but little drunketl James Weatherly, a vOUtiWJ of Birmingham, has been qH ed assistant general ccAinsqK Georgia Pacific Railroad Cotnj in place of Bernard Peyton, . was killed in tbe Austell aCcW A white man named St^plf has been arrested: at Rome, dftS picion of making and passitijS^^^__ i terfeit silver dollars. He had, <V companion who succeeded in elud ing arrest. ; ’IM A pine tree; on Knight’s plantation, in Meriwether county, has been cut..dowquSwj|M measured. It was five feet jjjiyjw&U'ek meter, 315 feet in length, and SSunpo*"''' blocks had been sawed froti* the trunk to the distance of 245 f&i. A negro boy employed by Hay- . wood, Gage & Co., in Saya^ahj]: ' ; made a wager with a companion f Christmas eve that he coulqfcmDfc, a quart of whisky without takiligy d the glass from his lips. -The whisky was purchased and swallowed AndV • the bet won. He will probably The Baptist church at Milled Se ville was burned. The loss $3,000 ; no insurance. The people of the city subscribed about to-day for rebuilding. Wo commence at once. A stable be longing to Fox & Ailing was also burned last night. One day recently a hawk swoop ed down in Joe Thaxton’s yard at Jackson and made an attempt to catch some chickens that were coop, when Mrs. Thaxton turnecCag upon his hawkship and caught him with her hands. He fought man fully, but the plucky lady was too much for him and succeeded in putting an end to his poultry yard depredations by pulling his hjigd -S from his body. Pure California wines are sold in place on the Pacific coast at five cents a glass. ' ’tjfex'u The last negro held in bondage in:; ;• the south was owned by another negro near Thomasville. A cannon that was used 200 years ago in Indian warfare, is .now mounted in front of police head-' - quarters in Montgomery, Ala. '.^3 A young man in Savannah put on female attire Christmas night and went masquerading over the town. . He was picked up by the pohce f ^*B The tax assessment of the county jp of Putnam amounts to $ 15,217. Collector has received $i4,ooo,^^^S expects in two weeks time to collect the balance. A negro woman named MJlley •'£ Rodgers, died of lockjaw in SmjtKaH ville last Wednesday morning. SnSl stack a nail in her foot about a Week]? before she died, but kept-up iintilH about two days of her deatb. ,: f^Jwj A young daughter, eight ye$(HH old, of Mr. George VV. Bailey, tiTthgSj near Scarboro, Scriven county, dicjdfil a few days ago of poison from eat ing pork. Another daughter-.Jsfl dangerously ill. A number ol mers in that section are losing thezS fattening hogs from cholera. ' ■ Tbe Pope is suffering from kidpcgjg complaint, and has been ordere d by his physicians to take a rest, of a strike, to-day accepted a mbeft-“i- Ttye schooner Tarry Not, from Tbe Coroner's Jury at Work on tbe Lat Sensations. Austin, Tex., December 28.— The coroner’s jury, in the case ot Mrs. Eula Phillips, who on Wednes day night last was found in a yard attached to her residence, and who was thought to have been assaulted before being killed, to-day rendered a verdict to the effect that death had resulted from wounds inflicted with an'ax in the hands ol parties un known. Mrs. Hancock, who had also been murderously attacked with an ax by unknown persons on the same evening is in a dying condition to-night. Mrs. Eanes, who was arrested in San Antonio yesterday, charged vith the murder ot her seven year old son, whose headless body was . found in the rear of her premises, at Clarksville, on Saturday, partially eaten by swine, was brought here to-day. She protests her innocence of the ’crime. She declares she has no knowledge of the boy’s death and that before leaving home to search for work, bad given him away. Mrs. Hancock died, at S o'clock to-night. This is the seventh mur der committed in the city within the past eight months to which no clue has been discovered. Two men worked a nice little game on the proprietor of the Barnes house, Albany. H. S. Ra gan had been at the hotel abou( ten days. He told the hotel keeper he was out pf money but was {expect ing money, by telegraph. Last Wednesday a man calling bim&elf Miller went to the house aud regis tered. He asked , the city marshal to arrest Rsgan, which was done. He claimed .that. Ragan jya* •.de faulter from Orlando, having swin dled the Bell telephone company chanic of.the Savannah,'Florida'& out of $400 Next day both men Western railway shops of Savan- sk'PPed without paying their bills, nah, has built a complete bicycle. It is very substantial and built in tbe best style. He built thema : GENERAL NEWS. fied proposition concerning the basis of wages offered by the em ployes, and preparations for starting were begun at once. Dubuqjje, Ia., Dec. 28.—A seri ous and sensational case of “vitriol throwing” occurred here to-night. Frank Woods, an engineer on the Illinois Central railroad, wat going to the yard te take a freight train out. Just as he reached the lower end ot Main street, two women stepped oat of a dark recess and one of them threw a can of vitriol on him. It struck him in the face, and i) is feared one or both of his eyes will be entirely lost. VIRGINIA ORATORY. A Slice of the Speech That Knocked Hoff man Out. From the Baltimore American. At tbe recent caucus of the dem ocrats of the Virginia legislature, when nominations were declared in order for the office or superintend ent of public printing, Mr. Hoffman, of Craig, in a dramatic Speech, nom inated Rush U- Derr, of Roanoke. When Mr. Hoffman sat down, Mr. Bohannon, of Matthews and Mid dlesex, presented the name of A. R. Micou, editor ot the Tidewater Index, published in Essex county. Mr. Bohannon completely took the wind out of Mr. Hoffman’s rhetori cal sails in these words: 'The gentleman from Craig has said that he came from a country where the lofty peaks kiss the morn- ingjrays of the sun and the tinkling of the cow bells are heard along the silent streams whose crystal waters meander through beautiful valleys. I will ask him, where did I come from? I came from a district where the noble Chesapeake rolls her glas sy waves from the oyster beds of Virginia to meet the solid billows of the stormy Atlantic; whete the majestic York river hums its mur muring music that echoes along the pebbly banks of Old Point Com fort I represent not a section, but the state of Virginia, from centre to circumference; from where ; the morning rays of the golden sun gild the eastern shore to where the'eve ning rays linger behind ber western hills, and tbe jackal’s. mournful cry aronses tbe slumbering, woodsman, and moving eastward greets the orb of day ’and wakes the echoes of the Dismal Swamp.” ‘ Mr. Bobannonkept nr>a wonder ful play on tbe English .language .for fifteen minutes, and 41s perora tion far overtopped bis introduction. He had the satisfaction of having his candidate, Mr, Micou, nominated. Mrs. 'Della Breun'er, widow of the officer who sacrificed hi* life while bringing relief to yellow fever sufferer* of tbe lower Mississippi river several years ago.-was pointed postmistress of the village of Rod gers Park, in the towqshipof. Evan ston, Illinois.. , , , , ,.. j„ The -tobacco growejs of Chem ung, Cowaresque, .TSqga, Coshoc ton and Caristeo Valleys are raising money to senc(. a representative to Waihiqgtftn $9.. urge, congress, .to place a heavier tax on. Sumatra to bacco. The importation ol this to- balsco has greatly injured the tobac co growing industry. JJngineer-in-cbief Loring, of the tri New'Yoik for Richmond, came - into Hampton Roads leaking badly^f ^ with distress signals up. ... .' A Over 300 laborers are now -at'' i work laying the new track on the Florida Central and Western rail-?J , road, and the force is being incrcas-" . ed as rapidly as possible. •j Late on Thursday a fire in Clar--{'' I endon, Ark,, destroyed several''' wooden stores, with the contents^ 4 and the office of the Monroe coun-*>’ ;,t ty Sun. (gSffl The government ship, “Dolphin,’, over which so much commotion •. has been raised, has left the BrookMKg lyn navy yard on her trial trip and ' will come as tar south as Savan-'S '-f nah. The marriage of a girl 10 years and S months of age to a man of 3O3& i; is reported by good authority. Thq“® girl’s father is'a minister, and the ceremony was performed by his“.% coisent. .38$* The Newfoundland Executive.. , 3 has issued A proclamation forbid-. }'^ ding an Orange procession in _ Harbor Grace and other parts Conception Bay. In the United States Circuit M Court at San Francisco,Judge Saw- ^ yer rendered a decision in favor of the plaintiff in the suit of the ’2 Sharon vs. Hill action, brought to jg declare void the alleged marriage ■ contract. j Last week, the Casino roller rink.in one of the most pretentious institu-,*9 tions of the kind in Cleveland, went into bankruptcy, arid ’yeSter-j^B day Le Grande rink on Euclid avi— • '• nue, a $17,000 structure, followed H SUit. , , , ( On Christmas day, abput cightH miles from Union court house, C., Henry R. Fowles was shot dead Al by B. B, Goings, after,» short alter-' *8 cation, which grew out of a grudge of long standing. Both, men are white and of good standing. (K A dispatch was received from JU Governor Zulick, of Arizona, stat- !■ ing that troops are required in th.e a neighborhood of the, San Carlos in reservation to protect the Indians on the reservation from threatened JR attacks by lawless persons. The Secretary of War has ordered suf- ficient soldiers to the scene,< j ■ ?■«(■ A Trenton widow, has broqgbf. -J stiit f^r damages against the ownefs of an;-abandoned canal basin iff -1 .which her husband fell and was .drowned.,.' ■- The amount of pork produced, in comparison with last year, is 86. The prevalence 6f cholera has reduced the stock of hogs to 88 per cent of last year- <! <- A pively. free fight, has taken place in'Limerick between rival lo cal political faction. ' Women plied and received the brickbat ahd' ; the ‘ shillalah as freely a* merf. By it premature explosion of a ' blast in the,tunnel of.the Potisville railroad, at Horse Shoe Bead, the foreman, named Cook, an<Ja Jajfmt-,' er, Patrick Tray, were killed, , j , There was a serious accident on the' New Haven railroad at Pelham* .•' ville' Station, .the Boston express being Wrecked shortly before day light. I The fireman was killed and several persona Were injured. The council of reiorm read to the board of. estimate and appi meat a com