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MIDDLE GEORGIA ARGUS.
VOLUME XII.
VICTORIOUS ARABS.
THE EKG. SH IN FULL RETREAT TO
KORTI.
Oen, Wolseley to bo Recalled to England and
the Whole P lan of the Campaign
to be Changed.
It is announced that in view of the far t
that the fall of Khartoum and the death of
General Gordon have rendered tho main ob
ject of General Wolseley b expedition iiupos.
ihle, the British government has and enied
t expedient to change tho whole |
plan of the cartqiaign in the
Sou Jaa General Bra< kenbury, who sue*
'ceded the late General Earle, haa l>een j
ordered to al>audon his advance on Berber j
and to concentrate his troops at Korti Col-
onel Kir Iledvers Duller, who evacuated
Gubnt and withdrew his forces to Abu Ivlea,
Ins aii ) been or lored to fail ba *k on Korti.
All the avniJablo troojis in < Wolseley*
c unman! wdi lie concentrated at that pla'-e
and at Debbeh and Korosko. the main b<xly
l*mg at Korti It is probable that General
Wohely may evacuate Korti and retire to
Debbeh, where desert routes from Orn
durman, El Obeid and Darfour con
verge on the Nila General Wolsek-y
will there await help from England.
At Korti the general could .be
Kurrotin led. In tho retirement all available
applies will bo swept up, and tho whole array
intrenched at Debbeh could hold its own, if
ne> ’ ary. until the rising of the Nile occurs,
t'ongola, Hannk, and various other points
on tin. river between Debbeh and Halfay
are held by weak detachments of British
troops. There is a lino of telegraph which
H'lbly might lie maintained, while steam
launches on the clear reaches could keep
up some sore of communication with the sec
ond The moral effect of this lotire
n.c.’it will naturally he rather serious, though
it would be, to a certain extent, neutralized
by action in unmistakable strength from
unkim. General Wol-eley will probably
iwturn to Cairo to consult with General Kte
phenson and ot tiers in regard to tho present
lituntion of affairs.
General Brackonbury, commanding the
trooja of tlie late General Earle, lias tele
graphed from IJssi Island that the c ivalry
ctjw entered Kalamat. finding it de ertea.
When they cnierod Salanmt the cavalry
weie about flee miles in advance of the ia
'iwitry. The horses and camels had got
rvfoiy through the Shukook Bass, which had
l een prepared for defense, but was also
nbanJoiud by tho Arnlis.
In regard to General Wolseley, tho Pall
lull G’uii tie believes that lie will bo recalled
i. Hit to Cairo or to lioudon. In case ho be
’ called to Cairo tho only reason that will be
iv. ii will iv i.li bly l*e that he can better di
r t from that p. iut the military operations
from Sunkitn against Osman Digit a. Iu the
!VI " t"f I'l lVa <>is ley’s recall to London it
> ■ lc */> and tii it he can be far more useful in
pns "i;d (viUatt wi|b the ministry thin be
v . -if ;>pin trio itmafrau} ot Doiigola.
■vora) if ta lim aits of British troops have
) t. 1 ngland for Egypt to reinforce Lord
Wolseley.
GbN. STEWART’S DEATH,
I'oath o( tn!:*r r'romiuvnc Ilnglisb
(Mlii fif Ik fi;*i)-|>t.
A dispatch from ICortl brings intelligence
of the death of General Sir Herbert Stewart
~lio wfcs wounded at tho Zereba fight of Jan
uary ift. This death, the dispatc h adds, has
east a profounct gloom over the whole army.
General Stevsnrt wu forty-two years of age.
He had served with distinction in the Zulu
war and in earlier operations in Egypt. In
tho present campaign General Stewart was
I'ufcln command of the expedit ion of 1,500 men
t u o:o s the desert from Korti to Metein
uoii ov way of Gakdul Wells. His recent
battles at Abti-Klea and near Gubat on Jan
uary J i tin t Id are fresh in tho public mem
ory. lie was wounded early on the day of
the second tight in a preliminary skirmish
Queen Victoria sent her personal congratnla
ti >ns to (leu. Stewart on his brave victory and
promoted him to be major-general. Genera]
Wolseloy recently expressed the opinion that
General Stewart was one of the bravest ofli
# eers he had ever known. It was expected
"until within a few days that he would recover
from his wound.
A STARTLING STORY.
Confession ot*u Blackley Almshouse Pauper
nt Piilliutclphta.
He nays ho applied the match Tillich resulted
in t wenty deaths, at the instigation of a chief
attendant wlio was angry because be could not
get a railroad pass. At the coroner’s investi
gation of tho cause and results of the recent
burning of the insane wing of the Bleckley
Almshouse, in Philadelphia, by which twenty
lives were lost, a sensation was created by the
confession of Joseph Nadine, a young negro,
that he bad set tiro to tho building, and that
he was instigated to tho act by Peter J.
Bchrocder, an attendant.
Nadine, who is about twenty-three years of
ngo. was conceit ed to tho institution as an
imbecil , but it is-ail by the physicians of tho
place that he is moraliv responsible and that
lie was fivig.it ntly permitted to go to his home
unattended. Asa result of Nadine’s confes
sion ticlmxdor was arrested and committed
by tho Coroner to await the further develop
ment of the inquest.
Nad.no said that 8 breeder had given him a
match on the night of the calamity and told
him to Si t the p ace on tire. Nadine then went
fco the drying-room, and iigluiug the match ap
plied it to some rnbtush on the floor, lie then
called Seluwkr, and the two, with the assist
ance of Attendant MuUcu, endeavored to get
the patients out, bet before they had suc
ceeded in getting all of them satVly
from the place ttie lire had gained such
headway that they were forced to leave the
budding themselves Nadine says that when
Sdiroeiier gave him the match he told hi u to
set fire to the budding; that he was tired of the
place and la* was ,o.ng to leave, and that he
disliked Dr. liiehardsou. because ko had re
fus< dto give him a railroad pass. Nadine in
timates that Attendant Mullen also knew of his
bauug set lire to tne banding, but he thinks
be did not know of it until next day. Mullen
was not placed in custody, but will be de
tained as a witness against Sehroeder. In his
fin ther testimony Nadiue said he had twice
before set tire to the building, but both times
the flames had been disoovered and extin
guished before they had gamed any headway.
He savs that on both occasions he afterward
told N;breeder of his acts, but that the latter
iwuitd him that he would not report ban to
tbs authorities of the institution.
In giving his story Nadine was at times
nervous aud apparently greatly frightened,
but upon being assured that no harm
would be done him he would become calm
and collected. If the trmhfulnees of his
story can be verified it completely annihil
ates" many important details of testi
mony given by Schroder and Mullen,
whose appearance seemed to indicate that they
had rehearsed their story together. Nadine
told of many cruelties inflicted upon patients
by Sehroeder when the latter was in violent
tamper. Sehroeder after his arrest admitted
that he had intended leaving the institution,
but denied the truth of Nadine’s siory or that
he had ever said that he was "down on Dr.
ihahardduo.”
-- A nephew of General Gordon attended a
court ball by authority of his father, who tele
graphed him not to believe that the defender
of Khartoum was dead until the receipt of
more positive proof.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
rtrrn and lllildle States,
A Sailing vessel brought to New York the
captain, first mate and two seamen of the
Norwegian bark Alfred, which had been
wrecked at sea. The four men had been
{lick'd up in an open boat. Eight men left
on the bark were probably lost.
Osk man was in-fantly killed and thirteen
others were seriously injured by an explosion
of gas 3 ) feet underground in a mine on the
outskirts of Wiikesbarre, Penn.
Big snow drifts impeded railroad travel
quite generally throughout Central New
\ ork, Northern Pennsylvania and the East
era States. In many instances trains were
stopped all along the road, unable to move
either way for several day's.
A fire in Lynu, Mas?., destroyed the large
boot aud shoe fa tory of C. A. Coffin & Cos.,
and two smaller buildings, entailing an esti
mated total loss of $750,000. The factory was
four stories high, 100 feet dong and 75 feet
deep, and employed 250 hands.
Ex-Governor Moses, of South Carolina,
has been sentenced at East Cambridge
Mass., to six in nth s’ imprisonment for ob
taining SB4 under false pretences from Colo
nel T. W. Kigginson.
Ihe Metropolitan Opera-house in New
A ork was drais'd throughout in black and
filled with spectators at the funeral of
Dr. Dam rose h, musical director of the Ger
man ojiera. Rev. Henry AVard Beecher de
livered tho funeral ad iress, and tho leading
German singing societies of the city took
part in the impressive services.
A fire in tho business setion of Philadel-
Cliia almost completely destroyed nine large
uildings and very much damaged ten
others, causing aggregate loss os of $250,000.
]• ireman John McCourt and a drayman
named Marslinll were killed and three other
persons injured.
The Marvin Safe company’s factory, a
large eight-story building in New York, has
succumbed lo the fi t mas. At the time of the
fire 500 safes, valued at SIOO,OOO, were stored
b l t The total loss is about
Peter Schroeder, an attendant at the
Bloeksley almshouse, Philadelphia, has been
arrested, charged with instigating another
employe, a colored lad, to fire the building,
whereby twenty of the crazed inmates lost
their lives. Nadine, the colored boy, de
tail and circumstantially how, at Schroeder’*
request, ho had set fire to the building.
Bchroed r was arrested, charged with con
spiracy to commit arson, and Mullen, another
attendant, was held as an accessory ut'ter the
fact
South and Went.
As in the East, ‘he West and Northwest
.lave suffered severely from impediment to
railroad travel by huge snow drifts. Trains
everywhere in these sections have been
stalled or delayed, and in many cases it took
days to get them moving.
N v merous deaths from exposure to the
cold are reported from the Northwest.
Emory Speer’s nomination to be district
judge for the southern district of Georgia ha
been confirmed by the Senate by a vote of 27
yeas to 20 nays, after a hard light against con
firmation.
A young ' .lonian in the Chicago hospital
has such brittle bones that they have been
fracture l over 170 times since she was two
years old.
Two brothers named Rainey, who murdered
Constable Johnson and wounded Constable
Floyd iivar Marysville, Texas, while they
were serving a process, were captured in the
Indian Territory and lynched by a party of
Texas citizens.
The business part of Bisbee, Arizona, hat
been burned; aggregate losses SIOO,OJO.
Jerry Collins and his nephew, Samuel
Scott, quarreled at Shelbyville, Tenn., over
a bet of ten cents and fought with knives.
Mrs. Collins rushed between them and re
ceived a wound in the back, from which she
died.
The firm of John Chaffee &; Sons, one of
the largest cotton factors in New Orleans, has
failed. Liabilities, $508,402; assets, $1,708,000.
The first vote in joint ession of the Illinois
legislature for Unite! States Senator to suc
ceed General Logan resulted as follows:
John A. Logan, 101 (the full Republican
strength present); AVilliam R. Morrison, 94;
E. M Hayn >s, 5; Frank Lawler, l.aud J. H.
Ward, 1. Two members were absent. There
was no election.
At a fire on a rancho near Cheyenne, Wy
oming, an imported stallion costing $15,000
and a Cleveland bay worth $5,000 were
burned to death.
IN a graveyard near Point Pleasant, W.
Va.. six bodies were robbed from their graves
and placed on t-ie ground in the shape of a
Greek cross. The limbs had been severed
from two of the bodies in order to make the
contour of the cross more perfect. No rea
son could lie found for the act.
Fire has destroyed the big Grannis block
In Chicago, a bunding in which were located
two national banks and numerous lawyers,
architects and insurance agents. The build
ing was valued at $* vv \ooo.
The British seh >0..-r E. V. Olive, from
Ruatan to Mobile, has been, lost in the Gulf
of Mexico, with all on board.
Two trains were wie ked by colliding be
tween AA'aCiinglon, D. C., and Alexandria,
Va. ITie wrecked trains caught lire, the
flamo> being foil by petroleum from two oil
ears, and thirty-one cars, including the bag
gage and mail cars, were destroyed. Five
train hands were killed and seven or eight
persons injured. A large amount of mail
matter (including 180 registered letters) from
Southern points intended for the East wai
destroyed.
Washington.
The Congress mal committee of inquiry
into the Joan tto arctic expedition has made
a report blaming no one and praising every
body.
The United States consul at Malaga reports
that a partial estimate of the damages of the
recent earthquakes in Spain shows a loss of
uearlv $4,00>,000. Continuing shocks
paralyze business and prevent the return of
the citizens to their homes. A heavy fall of
snow has also added to the misery of the
homeless thousands.
The answer of the department of justioe to
an inquiry of the House shows that since 1872
the amount expended for deputy marshals,
supervis us and other election offic-rs has ex
ceeded f1.u73.0110. Of this sum fully fifty
per cent was sent to New York city districts.
The Senate appropriation committee struck
out of the postoilice bill the proviso reducing
the pound rate on newspapers sent from the
office of publication from two cents to one
cent.
The Senate confirmed the nominations of
Stephen F. Wilson, of Pennsylvania, to be
associate justice of the supreme court of New
Mexico, and Charles H. Burns, of New
Hampshire, tol>> L'nitod States attorney for
the district of New Hampshire
foreign. *
Att r a -.cries of stubborn oontests with
the Chines* the French troops in Tonqmn
have captured the city of Langson. The
Chinese lost heavily; the French loss was 39
killed and 222 wounded.
I A nwiMiTr scare prevails at Frankfort.
Stuttgart, and Mayence, owing to aaarcuid
letters and placards which have been circu
lated broadcast, threatening explosions.
In a naval engagement between the 1 ren h
fleet under Admiral Courbet arid fiveChinoso
men-of-war. the French torpedo boats sank
two of the Chinese war-hips, the tnree others
escaping in a fog to Clxinghai.
General Gordon's trusted messenger,
George, has arrived at Abn-Klea. He says
(hit a most a’l the native account-ng v ri. t
General Gordon, on finding imntvit *_*.; . *c*\ i
Devoted to tho Interests- ot Butts County.
JACKSON. GEORGIA, TUESDAY. MARCH 3, 1885.
made a rush for the magazine near tho Catn
olic Mission buildings. Finding the rebels
already in possession, he returned to the gov
ernment house and was killed while trying to
re-enter it
lakge number of Russian exiles at Irk
utsk, Siberia, revolted, but were subdued
after a desperate contest with the authori-
Nine soldiers and thirty exiles were
killed and many wounded on both sides.
Mrs. James Russell Lowell, wife of the
American minister to England, is dead.
The British parliament is again in session.
ft* ie °P® nin b ou se of commons Sir
feta fiord Northcote, leader of the opposition,
gave notice of a motion of inquiry respecting
the government’s Egyptian policy.
Mr. Gladstone, the Englsh premier, is
reported to be much dejected and weighed
down by the series of disasters to the British
forces in the Soudan.
0 A dispatch from ICorfi says that General
Sir Reavers Builer in his retreat from Uubat
was compelled to halt at Abu-Klea wells aud
infrench his trooj s in a position there, in
safely defend himself against El
Mahdi s men, who were gathered in large
numbers, and continually menacing the Brit
ish forces.
An immense crowd o? spectators in Lon
Hon witnessed departure of the grenadier
andS ar d y i one of England’s crack regiments,
■ tho Soudan. They were addressed, pre
vious to departure, by' the Brines of Wales,
and the streets along which they marched
were decorated with flags aud banners. The
war spirit in England seems to have been
thoroughly aroused. On the other hand the
Irish weekly newspapers generally display a
feeling of jubilation over the British reverses
in the Soudan.
KAILKOAD ACCIDENT.
tirlher Details of the Collision on the Vir
ginia Midland Railroad.
A. south-bound freight train and the Mid
land Express from the Booth with Northern
passengers carao in collision the other night
on a single track in the culvert at Four.
Mile Run, midway between AVashington and
Alexandria.
The engineer of the freight train, the con
ductor of the passenger train, a brakeman,
and two firemen were instJntly killed, and
seven men—tho engineer of the passenger
train, an express messenger, a brakeman aud
four men at work in the postal car—were in
jured None of the passengers were serious
ly injured, though several werre badly
shaken up and received slight bruises.
The baggage, postal and smoking cars of the
passenger train caught fire and were totally
destroyed. Tho flames were ted by petroleum
from two oil cars in the freight train Thirty
three cars were burned, including the bag
gage and mail cars.
The collision occurred at a point on the
line of the Baltimore aud Potomac railroad,
about four miles south, where the Chesa
peake and Ohio canal crosses the track by a
viaduct. Th s road at this point forms a curve
with a pretty steep embankment on the
inner =ido and a Lnn on cue outer side. Tho
passenger train which was coining north
was passing under the arch of the
viaduct and met the freight train
just at the northern entrance of the arch. The
curve is such at this poiut that neither en
gineer could have seen the light of the other’s
train until the engines were within ten yards
of each other. The engines came together
with such a shock that heavy pieces of iron
from both were thrown twenty or thirty feet
up i-ne side of the hill. Both rolled over on
the inner side of the curve and the mail-car
of the passenger train was telescoped on the
tender of the engine in front of it None of
the other cars left tho track.
The engineer of the passenger train had
both legs and one arm cut off and died before
he was taken from the wreck. The conduc
tor was crushed between two of the cars and
the engineer of tiie freight and firemen of
both trains were evidently killed when the
engines came together. Portions of their
bodies were dragged out of the burned wreck
of the engine some hours after the collision.
Postal officials say that the collision caused
the largest loss of mail matter of which there
is any record iu the department. The fire
which resulted from the collision destroyed
thirteen through registered mail pouches
coming from New Orleans, Mobile and
other points in the South, and destined
for Washington, New York and East
ern cities. These pouches are known to
have contained money and valuables, but to
what amount cannot yet be ascertained. The
lii e also destroyed 150 sacks of ordinary mail
matter, a heavy miscellaneous mail and 180
registered letters taken up for delivery along
the line and not enclosed in pouches. Tho
ordinary mail lost is supposed to have come
from Louisiana, Texas, Mississipi, Alabama,
parts of Georgia and South Carolina and
points in Virginia.
PERSONAL MENTION.
General Wolselev has received $465,-
000 in bounties for his military services.
Mr. Burnattd, the editor of London Punch,
is the father of eleven married daughters.
Professor Richard A. Proctor is lec
turing iu the South on astronomical topics
General Cox, of North Carolina, who
led the last Confederate charge at Appomat
tox, beai*s the scars of eleven serious wounds.
Jay Gould, the New York financier, has
gone on a trip South, embarking in his
yacht at Charleston, S. C., lor an extended
cruisa
Mr. Oscar Wilde now favors the aboli
tion ot the coat and waistcoat, and has pro
nounced himself in favor oi the rustic smock
frock.
Sir Herbert Stewart, the wounded hero
of Abu Klea and Gubat, is a teetotaller. He
is a man of irrepressible spirits and untiring
patience.
Bradlaugh, the English atheist, announ
ces that he will be returned to parliament
for several constituencies at the next elec
tion. and will sit for Northampton.
The venerable American historian, George
Bancroft, recalls with delight that he dis
cussed Byron with Goethe at Weimar, and
Goethe with Byron at Monte Nero.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., now a
judge on the supreme bench of Massachu
setts, was an officer in the Federal army, and
was once left for head upon a Southern bat
tle-field.
Dr. Tanner, the faster, is a resident of
Dona Ana county, New Mexico, where he is
devoting hlmseit to the propagation of anew
religion, founded on anew Ihbie, revealed to
& ne w prophet
Makchese del Grillo, the beautiful
daughter of Mmx Riston, was able at a re
cent diplomatic reception at the White
House, to converse with ail the guests in their
own ianguuge excepting only the Japanese.
GOST WITH AIX HANDS.
\ British Scheaner Found Wrecked—Ooe ot
ibe Crew Rescued aud He Dies.
The British schooner E. Y. Olive. Captain
Clark, from P.uatan fer Mobi e, with a cargo
of fruit, was wrecked on Dixie Island A~ei
nesday night during a heavy northerly gale.
She was disoovered at an early hour the follow
ing morning, and tue pilot boat Ida Lowe pro
ceeded to tlie wreck. When the Olive was
reached only one of her crew was found, and he
was taken from die risg ng in an uiioom-ion?
condition and lived only a short time after be
ing rescued. The pilotboat cruised for some
time in the vicinity of the wreck in the hope
of rescuing some "of the remainder of the
crew, but none of them were found, and ail
| of them are supposed to have been lost. Tne
i vessel and cargo will prove a total lasa”
NATIONAL AFFAIRS.
NOTES OF INTEREST AT THE NATIONAL
CAPITAL.
The Senate Passes the Foreign Contract Labor
Bill.
The following is the text of the House For
eign Contract Labor bul as amended and
passed by the Senate:
An act to prohibit the importation and mi
gration of foreigners a-. 7 aliens under con
tract or agreement to form labor in the
United States, its Terr it ries, and the District
of Columbia.
Be it enacted, eta, Th t from and after the
passage of this act it shall be unlawful foe
any person, company, partnership, or corpor
ation, in any manner whatsoever, to prepay
the transportation or in any way assist or en
courage the importation or migration of any
alien or aliens, any fort gner or foreigners,
into the L nited States, is Territories, or tha
District of Columbia un; ir contract or agree
ment, parole or special, express or implied,
made previous to the i. aportation or migra
tion of such alien or alie; s, foreigner or for
eigners, to perform bor or service of
any kind in the Uni;ed I *:ttes, its Territories,
or the District of Coiuim. u. _
Sec. 2. That all contracts or agreements,
express or implied, par.- ? or special, which
may hereafter be made ’ y and between any
person, company, partnership, or corpora
tion and any foreigner or foreigners, alien or
•liens, to perform labor or service, or having
reference to the performance of labor or ser
vice, by any pereon in tge United States, its
Territories, or the Dist j ‘ t -ef Columbia, pre
vious to the migration or importation of'the
person or persons whose labor or service is
contracted for into th - nited States, shall
be utterly void and of uo effect.
Sec. 3. That for eve ■■ violation of any of
the provisions of seetio .. of this act the per
son, partnership, comp; ay, or corporation
violating the same by knowingly assisting,
encouraging, or soliciting the migration or
importation of any alien or aliens, any for
eigner or foreigners, into the United Slates,
its Territories, or the District of Columbia,
to perform labor or service of any kind under
contract or agreement, express or implied
parole or special, with such alien or aliehs,’
foreigner or foreigners, previous to becoming
residents or citizens of the United
States, shall forfeit and Day for every such
offense tha sum of SI,OOO. which may be sued
for and recovered by the United States or by
any person who shall first bring his action
therefor, including any such alien or for
eigner who may be a party to any such con
tract or agreement, as debts of like amount
are now recovered in the circuit courts of
tho United States, the proceeds to be paid
into tho treasury of the United States; and
separate suits may be brought for each alien
or foreigner being a party to such contract
or agreement aforesaid; and it shall be the
duty of the district att< raey of the proper
district to prosecute eve y such suit at the
Expense of the United States.
Sec. 4. That the mast* of any vessel who
shgU knowingly bringk-. Fin . the .Unite*
States on any such vesserand land, or permit
to be landed, from any foreign port or place,
any alien laborer, mechanic, or artisan who,
previous to embarkation on such vessel, had
entered into contract or agreement, parole or
special, express or implied, to perform labor
or service in the United States, shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on con
viction thereof shall be punished by a flue of
not more than SSOO for each and every such
alien laborer, mechanic, or artisan so brought
as aforesaid, and may also be imprisoned for
a term not exceeding six months.
Sec. 5. That nothing in this act shall be so
constructed as to prevent any citizen or sub
ject of any foreign country temporarily re-
in the United States, either in private
or official capacity, from engaging, under
contract or otherwise, persons not residents
or citizens of the United States to act as
private secretaries, servants, or domestics
for such foreigner temporarily residing in
tuo X nited States as aforesaid; nor shall this
act be so construed as to prevent any person
or persons, partnership or corporation, from
engaging, under contract or agreement,
skilled workmen in foreign countries to per
form lalior in the United States in or upon
any new industry not at present established
in the United States; provided, that skilled
labor lor that purpose cannot otherwise be
obtained; nor shall the provisions of this act
apply to professional actors, artists, lecturers,
or singers, nor to persons employed strictly
as personal or domestic servants: provided,
that nothing in this art shall be construed as
prohibiting any individual from assisting any
member of his family or any relative or per
sonal friend to migrate from any foreign
country to the United States*for the purpose
of settlement here. ”
S etion G repeals conflicting laws. The
bill went back to the House of Representa
tives for concurrence or non-concurrence ir
the Senate amendments.
TOM OCHILTREE CREATES A BREEZE.
During consideration of the river and har
bor bill in the House Mr. Thomas P. Ochil
tree, of Texas,rose to a question of privileges.
Mr. Holman, of Indiana, had offered an
amendment to the bill, which was lost. Air.
Ochiltree had gone to Mr. Holman and re
quested the name of the gentleman who had
given him (lie information unon which he
based his amendment. That man proved to
tie a Air. Alexander, and of that man Mr.
Ochiltree had said “he had left his countrv
for liis country's good.”
“In going out of this room,” continued Mr
Ochiltree, “that man attacked me m the
corridor of the capito! and told me in a
threatening manner that he intended to meet
me again for what I had said.'’
A voice—Let h’m meet you. (Laughter.)
“I want t > state further,” Mr. Ochiltree
went on “that I am utterly indifferent as to
shielding myself on tho ground that I am en
t'teito protection as a member of the
House, lam willing to meet him or any
one else.’’ (Laughter and applause.)
Subsequently Mr. Ochiltree was inter
viewe i on the subject of his encounter with
Mr. Alexander. “He approaciiel me,” said
the great Texan, “m a threatening manner
aud exclaimed:
“I’ll see you agsfin for what you have said.
You said I ought to leave the country for the
country’s good.”
Mr. Ochiltree called a Capitol policeman
and requested the arrest of Mr. Alexander.
Afterward, Mr. Ochiltree stated, Mr. Al
exander apologized and he thereupon
quested Alexander’s release.
THE OKLAHOMA LANDS.
Senator Dawes reported favozxbiy from
the committee on Indian affairs, bill to
enable the President to negotiate* for the pur
chase ot portions of certain Indian reserva
t ns. which are described iu the ffiill and are
p a: rally known as ih; Okiahoiah lands. Tiie
Li 1 farther prov.des that any person who with-*
ra authority oi law. enter these land- shad be
line i not more than >5 JO or imprisonment for
not more thin one year or both for the first
o.Tenee. and be finei f 1,00(J or imprisonment
for not more tha l two years for each subse
quent offen e. It also authorizes the seizure
dr be outfit of such persons.
Niagara River Mystery.
A handsome skiff drifted ashore at the Grand
I-land ferry landing, on the Buffalo side of the
Niagara river. In it was found an overcoat,
in the pocket of which, besides business cards
and memoranda, was a letter introducing J.
H. Ridford, of Toronto, to F. W. Parkinson,
and another from Maud L. Radford to her
father, also under date of Toronto, Hie river
has been jammed with ioe bos it is thought
that the missing owner of the coat most have
attempted to cross after the ferryboat had
-topped running. If bo he has undoubtedly
gone over the Falls, which are bat a short dis
tance below.
LATEST NEWS.
—ml Rome correspondent tells of m* ex
p'osion at one of the gates of the Parliament
House in Roma T
—ln Siberia a large number of Russian
jxilcs revolted, but were subdued after a des
perate Contest with the authorities. Nine
soldiers and thirty exiles were killed, and
many were wounded on both sides.
—Queen Victoria has returned to Windsor.
—The Prinoe of Wales has arrived in
London.
—Pope Leo XIII. is ill with a recurrence of
his intestinal complaint.
—Advices from the west coast of Africa sav
tlist Germany has annexed a strip of land
along the coast to the westward of Benin.
—The Swiss Bundersrath has resolved upon
a wholesale expulsion from Switzerland of for
eign anarchists
—The Marvin Safe Company’s factory, a
large eight-story building in West Thirty
seventh street, New York, was destroyed by
fire, inflicting a loss of over $250,000.
—The Niagara river is blockaded with ice.
Dressing on it has commenced. The river is
now blockaded from Queenstown two miles
out into the lake, making an ice-bridge nine
miles long.
—The ceremony of tho dedication of the
Washington Monument occurred on Saturday.
The Monument has taken thirty-seven years to
build, the corner-stone having been laid in
1848.
—Two trains, a freight and passenger, col
lided on '.he Atlantic and Pacific R lilroad, near
Biuewater station, A. TANARUS., Thursday night, in
stantly killing John Breed, Jr., and fatally in
jiuiug Morris Barth. Both were young mer
chants of Holbrook, A T.
—The greatest loss of mail matter on record
was caused by the burning of the mail train
on the Virginia Midland Railroad. Five train
hands were killed.
—ln Providence, R. L, David Carus, aged
85, a recent arrival from Dumferline, Scotland,
went to bed with a pipe in his mouth and was
burned to death.
—James D. Fish, of New York, ex-President
of the Marine Bank, was in the United Slates
Circuit Court on a bench warrant. Iu answer
to a second indictment, charging him with mis
appropriating the funds of the Marine Bank,
he pleaded not guilty. Bail was fixed at
$50,000.
—On Thursday a number of disastrous and
destructive fires occurred. A large block in
Philadelphia was gutted and two lives were
lost. A valuable building in Chicago was de
stroyed. At smaller fires in other places two
persons were burned to death aud much prop
erty was consumed.
—A Germ an-American resident of Bloom
ington, 111., who visited his old homo iu Ger
many was seized, aud is about to be forced
into the German army.
—A tenement house on North street, Cin
cinnati, 0., was burned Wednesday night, in
which Nellie Brice, colored, aged twelve, per
ished in the flames.
—The residence of James Whidden, near
Manistee, Mieh., was burned Wednesday night.
Mrs. Whidden, who was alone, was burned to
a crisp.
—A serious collision occurred ou the Vir
ginia MkHaiid Railway on Thursday, ffre
north bound mail due at Washington at 10.25
p. m. ran into a freight train about four miles
above Alexandria, and several persons were
killed. The cars of the passenger train caught
lire after the collision.
—Phelan, who was assaulted at O’Donovan
Rossa’s office in York, has returned to
Kansas City. He is “glad to get home alive.”
—Three fruitless ballots were taken in the
Illinois Legislature for United States Senator.
—Depositors and all creditors of the defunct
Savings Institution of Newark, N. J., will be
paid in full and a surplus will remain.
—The steamer Newcastle City left Halifax
for London with a general cargo and 154 head
of cattle. She threw 100 head overboard in a
gale.
—The Senate Appropriation Committee has
struck out of the Post Office bill the proviso
reducing the pound rate on newspapers sent
from the office of publication from two cents
to one cent. This was not done on account of
lios'i ity to the measure, but because of the
position taken by the Senate in regard to legis
lation on appropriation bills. Since one Houso
has passed the amendment it will become a
subject of conference, aud as a large number
of Senators have expressed themselves in favor
of the proposition it is possible that on this
amendment the Senate conferees will finally
yield.
—The Senate passed the House biff forfeit
ing the lands granted to aid in the construc
tion of the Texas Pacific Railroad.
— The head Keeper of the litrht house at
Frazer Point and three assistants, left Victoria,
B. C., in a boat which was capsized and thiee
of the party drowned.
—C. A. Coffin & Co.’s boot and shoe factory
in Lynn, Mass., was destroyed by tire wiih a
loss of $750,000.
—Near Elizabethtown, Tenn., Mrs. John
Youok locked her two children in the house
and went visiting. On returning she found
that the house had been burned, and that the
children had been burned alive within it.
—The ocean tramp Coniston sailed from
Liverpool for New York, in ballast, on Decem
ber 24. She had neither passengers nor freight
on board. She was commanded by Captain
Owens and had a crew of about thirty men.
She is now given up as lost with all on board.
—Nearly half of the village of Marshall, lIL,
was destroyed by lire.
—The propeller Michigan has been heard
from. She is locked in the ice, twenty-three
miles west of Milwaukee, unable to move.
Seventeen of her crew crossed thwantervening
ice aud reached the shore some miles north of
Milwaukee. They had a perilous and weari
some journey. One of the men gave out, and
was carried live miles on the back of another.
They say thirteen men remain on board the
propeller; that they have rations for twenty
live days, and ninety tons of coal, and that the
ice extends westward into the lake as far as the
eye can reach.
—Ex-Gov. Mose3 of South Carolina, charged
with obtaining >34 under false pretences, was
sentenced in Boston to six months’ imprison
ment in the House of Correction.
—A barn on the ranche of the Hon. Harry
Oelrichs, six miles from Cheyenne, was burned
with $25,000 worth of horses.
—At a burial ground near Point Pleasant,
W. Va., the sexton found a ha.f and jzen bodies
teken the graves and strewn about the
fcv; -vnd
- \>a Chaffee A Sons, one of the largest
cotton factors in New Orleans, has failed. Lia
bilities, $503,402. assets, $1,763,000.
—A case of leprosy is said to exist in the
county jail at Portland. Che,
—A Paris correspondent states that the
T rish dynami’ers have set up a pre-s and sent
a printed manifesto to the English Cabinet.
—General Wolseley will, it is said, endeavor
to coneentr de all his forces at Debbeh. The
Fall Mall Gazette hints that he may be recalled
soon.
—Mrs. Lowell, wife of the American Minister
in London, died on Thursday.
—A revolt of Russian exiles in Biberia was
put down only after much bloodshed.
—The British schooner E. Y. Olive, from
Ruatan for Mobile, with a cargo of fruit, was
wrecked on Dixie Island aud all the crew
perished.
—George Scott, of Gibson City, EL, seventy
years of age, lost his life on Thursday.
His wife was passing a red-hot stove and her
clothing caught fire. Mr. Scott carried her
out into the snowdrifts. He saved her life
but was so badly burned himself that he died
within a few hours.
—-W. L. Soott. of Erie, notified his miners
that they most mine for 2% cents. He has
been paying 3 cents.
—The Pennsylvania Senate rejected the bill
providing for the whipping of wife beaters.
CCHGKESSIONAL SUMMARY.
Senate.
The anti-foreign contract labor btll was
placed before the Senate. Mr. Sherman said
that it was Mr. Morrill's intention to call up
and continue discussion of the trade dollar
bill on the completion of the labor bilL Mr.
Beck said that he did not know how that bill
had got out of sight Mr. Hawley said it had
gone to the calendar when t he' Senate de
clined to proceed with it. That course was
in accordance with the Senate rules. Mr.
Beck expressed the hope that if it was to lie
killed, it would be killed squarely, and not by
indirection. Consideration of the anti-foreign
contract labor bill was then proceeded with
without action.
The chair laid before the Senate a memo
rial of tbe legislature of Maine, urging the
passage by Congress of the bill to authorize
the placing of General Grant on the retired
list The anti-foreign contract labor biff
was passed with amendments, aud went ba k
to the House.... Mr. Palmer introduced a bill
to set apart the unsurveyed marsh lands at
the mouth of the St. Clair river, known as
the St rtlair flats, as a hunting and fishing
{) reserve l- : 'io people of the United States;
t was referred to the committee on public
lands.
The Senate passed the Texas Pacific for
feiture bill, Mr. Blair, of New Hampshire,
and Mr. Bowen, being the only Senators who
voted against it The bill forfeits and re
stores to the public domain the lauds
granted in 1811 to the Texas Pacific Rail
road company to aid in the construction of
their road. The bill had passed the House,
and went back to tiiat body with the
Senate’s amendments added thereto Mr.
Plumb reported the post office appropriation
bill, appropriating $53,819,900, an increase of
$300,000 over the bill as passed by the Houso
and $3,279,179 less than the estimates.
Mr. Miller, from the committee on agri
culture, reported favorably, without ameud
ment, the House bill for the protection of
forests on the public domain Mr. Hoar
introduced a bill for the relief of seamen. He
said that it was almost a transcript of the
Massachusetts law relating to the pledge of
seamen’s wages, and permitting such pledge
only for the support of their wives and chil
dren. It was referred to the committee ou
commerce... The agricultural appropriation
bill was passed.
House.
Mr. Dorsheimer introduced iu the house to
day a bill to regulate the coinage and promote
the equal circulation of gold and silver A
resolution for the appointment of a commis
sion on the subject of the alco
holic liquor tariff was reported
back adversely by Mr. English, of Indiana,
from the committee having charge of the
matter, and was laid upon the table Tho
joint resolution giving notice to the North
German Confederation of intention to termi
nate the treaty of 1868 was reported from
the committee on foreign affairs by
Mr. Deuster, of Wisconsin, and placed
on the House calendar Mr.
Riggs, of Illinois, from the committee
on public health, reported a resolution rec
ommending the appropriation committee to
insert in an appropriation bill an item of
$500,000 to be expended in preventing the
introduction into the United States of the
Aedati' 1 cholera.. ,The legislative appropria
tion bill was passed.
The House in committee of the whole fur
ther considered the River and Harbor bill.
An amendment was adopted appropriating
$500,000 for the improvement of Galveston
harbor and directing the harbor board to
proceed at once to examine the plans, specifi
cations and estimates for the improvement
and report to the secretary of war for his ap
proval. The committee rose without reach
ing a vote on the bill The general defi
ciency appropriation bill, providing for an
appropriation of $3,501,916, was reported
The conference report upon the District of
Columbia appropriation bill was agreed to.
Mr. Holman introduced a joint resolution
requesting the President to open negotiations
with the French Republic with a view of ne
gotiating anew convention with that govern
ment for the establishment of another French
and American claims commission, which
shall have ample jurisdiction to reopen, ex -
amine and finally determine all claims which
were filed before the late commission under
the convention of January 15, 1830 Mr.
Bennett, from the committee on elections,
submitted a report on the lowa contested
election case of Frederick against Wilson,
accompanied by a resolution declaring Fred
erick entitled to the seat.... Consideration
of the river ana harbor appropriation biff
was resumed.
Mr. Burnes submitted the conference report
on the consular and diplomatic appropriation
bill and it was agreed to A bill was passed
granting a pension of SSO a month to the
widow of Major Thornburg, but when Mr.
Hewitt, of New York, called up a Senate lull
granting a pension of $59 a month to the
widow of Commodore Cravens it was re
jected At its evening session the House
riassed fifty pension bills.
ITEMS OF NEWS.
Making bricks of cork constitutes one ol
the new German industries.
Boston is looking forward to a population
of 1,000,000 in the year 1000.
During last year there were 289 murder?
in Ohio and 178 in Kentucky.
There are said to be 75,000 men and women
out of employment in New York city.
Six American ladies are on the list for the
next presentation at t he English court.
So far lowa has more visitors to the New
Orleans exposition than any other Northern
State.
It is said SSOO to S6OO per acre is an ordi
nary profit in Bermuda from on acre of
onions.
The skate factories in Richmond, Ind.,
have increased to nineteen, with a capacity
of 3,000 pairs a day.
A woman in the city of Mexico gave birth
to seven children in one day. The babies died,
but the mother survives.
Over 20,000 Germans are employed in Lon
don, monopolizing almost entirely the bar
ber, tailor and waiter trade.
Boston has an apple mission, which dis
tributes from 4,GuO to 5,000 bushels of apples
among the poor every year.
England sent to the United States $2,084,-
7SO worth of cutlery and hardware in 1883
and $1,611,220 worth last year.
Nova Scotia is not often spoken of as a
told producing land, yet since 1860 its mines
ave produced $8,000,000 worth of bullion.
Evert penitentiary in Texas is provided
with a kennel of three or more bloodhounds
for the purpose of hunting escaped convicts.
On several transatlantic ships telephones
are now used between the bridge and the
wheel-house, instead of speaking-tubes, as
heretofore.
There are employed upon all of the Ger
man railways 203,761 persons, who received
pay in the aggregate last year to the amount
of $70,669,096.
An* old negro, seventy years of age, has
just been sentenced to one year in the peni
tentiary in Newton county, Miss., for marry
ing a whit* woman.
Anew electric automatic compass has
been invented, the needle of which, by open
ing and closing a circuit, will keep a ship on
her course without the aid of a “man at thr
wheel'’
The commissioner of education places the
number of medical students in this country
ia 1873 at 8,681; in 1883 we had 15,151. The
medical schools during thia period increased
from 94 to 134.
The “Father of Freemasonary,” has just
died in England in the person of William
Eliot, who attained the ripe old age of ninety
one years. He was the oidest Freemason u?
Europe, if not ia the world-
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF BUTTS CO
ODDS AND ENDS.
The net fnnded debt of New York city
is $92,047,403. .
Frederick Douglas is believed to be
■worth at least $150,000.
Jay Gould predicts that 1885 will be
“a money making year.’'
The first American bank was estab
lished in Boston in 1686.
There are 600 Masonic lodges in
Texas and 16,000 Masons.
Berlin has 1,027 physioians, or one
to every 1,230 inhabitants.
The corps de ballet of the Paris Grand
Opera comprises 1,027 women.
“Bubdik” is Mr. Burdett-Goatts’s pet
name lor the wife of his bosom.
There is but one place in the United
States where gun cotton is made.
Mr. Joshua Montgomery Sears pays
the largest individual tax in Boston.
A pearl has been found on the west
ern Australian coast valued at $20,000.
Paper is now used in Germany instead,
of wood in manufacturing lead pencils.
Germany is doing what it can to keep
o ut American petroleum from her market,
Chicago is said to have within her
borders two thousand armed Socialists.
Ontario (Canada) exports more than
87i per cent, of the timber annually
cut.
It is said that Japanese women have
never seen and do not know the use of
pins.
Montana horse thieves are operating
In force in the British Northwest Terri
tory.
Ore yielding SI,OOO in gold to the ton
aas been discovered in Clermont county,
Ohio.
Drunkenness is common in the army,
the Army and Navy Journal con
fesses.
The only sister of the late Gen. Cas
ter is giving dramatio readings for a live
lihood. 4
During the recent eholera epidemic in
Naples twenty doctors fell victims to the
disease.
Op the 82,000 Indians in the Territory
of Dakota, 30,000 speak the English
language.
A falling meteor recently killed Mr.
Julius Rabble, a farmer, near Somerset,
Kentucky.
Henry Tate has given £IO,OOO for the
erection of a homoeopathic hospital in
Liverpool.
A spider is said to eat twenty-six
times its own weight every day and still
be hungry.
The number of post offices in Germany
has increased from 5,755 in 1872 to 11,-
646 in 1883.
The Salvationists of England want
$150,000 for their work during the
coming year.
The largest Bank of England note is
worth $150,000, and the owner is Prince
Slarbeenberg.
The late Abner Coburn was the
richest man in Maine. He was worlb
about $5,000,000.
A glass of whisky, which is sold for
10 or 15 cents, costs the distiller only
one-sixth of a cent.
It takes two men over an hour io wind
up the clock of Trinity Churoh, Non
York, it is so heavy.
A motion to allow street cars to run
on Sunday failed to find a seconder in
the Toronto Council. ■
A man in York county, Pa., has had
his wife arrested for pouring a gallon of
molasses on his head.
The estimated cost of collecting the
customs revenue at Boston for the next
fiscal year is $569,931.
The season in Romo this year is re
ported as the dullest within the memory
of the oldest inhabitant.
There is a bill pending in Congress to
create a Department of Agriculture with
a Cabinet officer at its head.
Mbs. E. D. E. N. Sotjthwokth is an
nounced to be writing her sixty-fiftb
novel in her sixty-tifth year.
The American News Company has
twenty-seven different branches, cover
ing the entire United States.
Only four out of the forty-six Stater
and Territories are now trying to pm*
hibit the sale of strong drink.
It lias been estimated that theco.i' -
mon fly moves its wings 330 times pe*
second, and 19,800 times a minute.
The Italian funds have lately been
quoted at nearly the same figures as tiva
English. In 1866 they stood at 36-
A Cup of Water.
The late Abner Coburn took a deep
interest in the State College of Maine,
and always attended its commencements.
On one occasion there was a concert
given, commencement week, and among
the artists was Miss Kellogg, the prima
donna. The drinking water at the hotel
was not pleasing to her taste, it is re
lated, and she did not hesitate to com
plain of it. Mr. Coburn, who was char
acterized by a carelessuess of dress, was
wandering about the hotel, when lie
heard of the distress of the singer, xle
immediately offered to relieve her of her
trouble, sayiDg that he knew where there
was a spring of good fresh water, and
offered to bring her some if she wished.
She, taking him for some attendant
about the hotel, gladly accepted the offer,
and was so much pleased with the
draught he brought that rhe engaged
him t© furnish her with drinking water
during her stay. Upon her departure
she expressed her thanks to her attend
ant, aud, mnch to the amusement of the
by-standers, offered him money. This
he gallantly refused, telling her that the
carrying of the water had l>een pleas
ure to him. When she had boarded the
train, one of her companions asked her
if she knew to whom she had been
speaking. “Why, no,” said she; “some
servant at the hotel, ! suppose.” Her
amazement can be imagined when told
that it was none other than the Governor
of the State.
mat in the world covers
the circus ring of a Loo-lon theatre. It
is made of unbleached cocoanut fibre,
and has a soft pile four inches thick.
Its weight is more than two tons.