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CRATVFORDVILLE, GEORGIA.
SUMMARY OF CONGRESS.
Mr. Edmunds introduced a bill in tha
Benafce pla ring Gr-nerai Grant on the ivtmvl
list at the army with the lull pay of a uen
*. ra p He a **ompanu*i the introduction w.th
remark •*, in which he expressed the hope would, that
the committee on military a laira
lor obvious reasons, give tho mat'er
prompt attention. The, reasons referred to.
were General Grant's financial Josses fnciirnvl
by the failure of the Now York firm, of which
he was a member. The bill would eooure to
General Grant tbe pay of a general, #14,500,
ami the emoluments attached thereto,
amounting In all to nine $19,000... .Tbe ship
pine till was further considered.
The Senate moisted on it# amendment# to
the Fitz John Porter bill and the pleuro¬
pneumonia bill, which w.-ro rejected b
the House... .The committee on pensions amend¬
reported favorably, with an
ment, the bouse bill granting pensions to the
•oldiers of the Mexican war. The am'-ml
ment provide# that no su'h officer, enlisted
man. or widow shall bo entitled to the bene
fits of this act unl< si dep n lent in whole or
in part upon his or her own labor or a-aist
ance from oi h -rs for support.. • ■ ■ Considera¬
tion of the shipping bill was re-turned, and it
was finally pu s d with amendments.
Tbe Senate took up tbe inlian recapitula appropria
tion bill and Mr. Dawes briefly
tal ita provisions. The estimates for tho year,
he said, had been $6,416,859.91 The amount
of the bill as It came from the Houae had
been $5,456,399.81. The amendments pro
posed by the Henate im remo I the amount by
#757,41 iS.00, making the total amount rejxu to I
to the Foliate for the Indian service for tha
comin g year $6,213,602.97. This amount ex
reed# the Indian hill of last y ear by #*40,147,
the chief element of which mcroaai;, Mr.
Dawes said, was tho amount for Indian
schools.
House.
Tho river nnrl harbor bill was reportevl to
the House Tho total of tho appropriations
is #12,619,100. The largest appropriation H
for the Mississippi river, from its mouth to it#
source, amounting to $2,400,000, and not in¬
cluding the $1,000,000 additional appropriated great hereto¬ rivers
fore. Fift eu $3,403,.50).
of tho Country ri-celvo
The total amount wommendod for 135
river# and twelve channels i# $8,<174,000. The
appropriation for harbors, ice harbor# and
bn«kwater is #4,038,100... bill, repealing .Senate the amend¬ iroiv
ment to tho House
clad oath, w as concurred in.... Senate amoud
inent# to the Fitz John Porter bill were non
concurred in.
The bill appropriating $1.00),009 a# a loan
to the Now Orleans exixwition came up. Mr.
Holman strongly oppo**l the bill, declaring
that Congn si had no constitutional power to
loan money to a private cornoration. Mr.
Potter took similar ground. Tho bill was
poRH«i 132 to 87... .The secretary of tho in
terior submitted additional a supplementary clerical force i miniate in tha
of #272,620 for oonimiwioner of pensions.... A
office of tha introduced.
bill reviving the patent laws wo#
The House piiaso 1 the bill granting #5,0J0
to the widow of Geucral Francis P. If loir for
her hud land’s service* in organizing her jwiivion troiqHi
during the war. and Increasing day sjiout
to $50 a mon!h.... Most of the was
in debate he on two bills, of Willis one appropriating N. Arnold, of
#6,000 for t relief
Henderson, Tenn., which was ro|w>rled claims, the fa¬
vorably by the committee ou war
other tor tho relief of Hiram Johnson and
forty whiih six other iiersotu adversely... of the same .The House place,
in committee was reported finally subitituted tho Johnson
bill for the Arnold bill.
Mr. Cox, of Now York, introduced a bill to
pi a e Genera! Grant on the retired list. Bills
wore also Introduced to restrict tbe ownership citizens of
of real estate in the Territories to
” 1 t at ^ j—x r epeal internal re venue
mi '*' jqwil fiiiu\ wnyb n tuiu
.. frail »,t Ip ]Vt
i___ n nil ewltora wi? . ,. r.
Hevritt ..abdtioed a bill ameudinK tho
tariff The bill provide# for laws. simplifying Cot¬
the a lniinietration of tho custom
ton and outtoa goo ls are not to pav a higher
rate of duty than forty iier cent aft valorem;
liemi), jute and flax, than thirty js-r cent.;
wool on l woolens, than seventy l#-r cent.;
s-ai'is t- and earis'tiug, tlian thirty-live metals, l» r
cent.; earthenware, glaw-waro and
than fifty percent. On chemicals, wixxl, pr>
vision*, IxKtks, sundries (ether than prwio s
e’.ouiwi, amt sugar, there shall imposed, Iw levied and uinoty
Der is nit. of the dnti * new to
bmxxi shall luty eighty jjeri-out. of the dut e#
now in « *-#i The bill maker redui-t one in
the iron a htxiulc, un i a number of miditiuuji
to tho lroo lisL •
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
-*A traveling show inw securisl Hitting
Bull for an exhibition tour.
John Wanavakkh, the eminent I'hiledel
phin merchant, conducts a Bible class nuto-
1 er.ug 225.
Jamkn Oobijon Bennett’s intweno I# «*ti
mated at $2,600 a day. He is forty-trio and
the ri Lo-t bachelor in the world.
Sir Michael Arthur Bass, who died ro
cently in England #t the age of forty-nuio,
w as in ad of t ie English brewing firm
Lkii/iNKi. Robert Bkatv, aged eighty four
N-enre. of Union county. South t’oroium. has
In Id the ollice of sheriff in that co.mty since
is
Kino Chi’lai.onkon, of Siam, is not Ori*
rn'nl in ap)x nuance. but ltviks like a F.uro
|SVU 1 prince who is willing to innrry He an
Ajn rican hniress for her money. sjK-a .i
English very w. 11.
1)r. Zai.ihvaR, the president of Salvador.
flow \ teitiug this country, is a S suiianl of
fine suitin' s anti uortiisu manner, He is as
luxnvn a- a berry, suiti is regartiod as a hattti
i ini' specimen of (he tropical Ame lean.
The president of the t 'regon Vaoifieraitway
r. jo. > S ill the Iiam • of T. Kgginton Hogg.
11> ls a very efficient and popular o in ul. but
!)« & to havt» summtuii> *■' d *.
cr.il ei.ip "v« «ho flI ppenUy alluded to him
«s -Ham anti Eggs.
(iKNF-R\L 8 waim. th?* judifo ndvov'at^-gen- j
t'lalot the army, an former c'o« frieud of
iuu tuo i h jueumd ms bus a short. d sU>ut bfur iiaiu ami
witii a rustn* air »r.a
vlusViN. a for.d fn e is eareieSN \n h a dro^,
illy Ua-s n'i;ar ill lu> mouti, anl li quirt
ant iv tiring in hi- maimer.
John Hi skin. th>- eminent English art
rr.u and auth a, isrixty llvo veirs o’.ti. b.it
i-s at" a.-t like a mail'd f'-rri five. Ho vs
no. more than five fo I five n -he- in he Hit.
l nd' el, hi- is j "tit hi- nml'-xi. 11 "rigmal
I' was pn.ivii'.v fair, though now otreredwith lire lare
jirvt’y nearly biWid: up to the th -abundant eyes is Lair i- un
on trv n gray 'iiailv long a;ul though h.
,o v t hair isp u-sona hive -
)v II'*’ aid -trill his s-ms «"
La i B-- I'-.-eiit s.-tktnp a-qundttaii' ami oi. ft
i.r'ish. 'lhe Iirthoiti is low retiva ng.
tb 4 ViW m-ay anti e.atraung-quua.ug ^
nus h 1 o is
—The witnesses who acknowledged iheir
perjury in the Hill- 8 haron ease in th> San
Francisco total hare Wvu arrested and p.a.-.ft
uudttr be*vy baiL
-Two fatal case.of 00
the part of druggists
_Xhe Seymour Satin OoqjLpauj, of Miune*
apdia, is in the hand* of a rtn elver.
_I'rrua II. McCormick, head of the great
Imrrtwter manufacturing company, and one of
the richest men ui Chicago, dieil lh
75. He had been an invalid for several vcjut#
Ht was m ver known as a politician.
Governor ft New York vetoed the
Broad* ay Aicatiy 5 yuiierjjtvund Baaroati
sMk .
THl’fi TO THEIR MOTHER. )
A Woman CAuwawd with Mnrdrr and kn
OhUdreo Bslow to Testify.
A sensational scene of an nnusual kind, even
In Irish murder trials, occurred at Garrick
on-Huir, county Tipperary, Ireland. The
viotkn of the of supposed Kilcash, murder body was
Michael Ilianev, wliose
was recently exhumed and was found to show
traces of arsenic in sufficient quantity to causa
death. Suspicion rested upon the widow, and
she was arrested and placed on trial at Carrick
on-Suir. Her two children, of very but ten
der years, were produced as witnesses, they on
being placed upon tbe witness’ tabic
stubbornly refused to utter a word. They were
threatened with imprisonment, and were evi¬
dently muoh frightened, but threats and per¬
suasion alike failed to elicit from them a single
morsel of evidence. They were therefore com¬
mitted for contempt of court and ordered to
be kept in confinement separate from their
mother until they purge themselves of con¬
tempt by giving their testimony in open oourt.
The severity of the Judge’s action under the
peculiar circumstance# has caused a great sen¬
sation in the neighborhood and has turned the
sympathies of the people in favor of the widow,
who has hitherto l>eeu regarded by most of the
neighbors as guilty.
Condition of the Crops.
The returns of the Department of AgricuP
tore for M*y make the wheat prospect nearly
as favorable as in April. Then the genera) av¬
erage was within five per cent, of the standard
of full condition. Tho May average is 94. It
was S3>£ in 1883. Barring the ohanges of the
future, a winter wheat product of about 350,
000, (MX) bushels is indicated.
The nsnal, temperature low-lying of April lands has have been been lower
than and sab
tirated with moisture, retarding growth. Well
drained wheat soils are nearly everywhere
bearing a vigorous and healthy growth.
A few reports of injury by tbe fly have been
received, but the aggregate loss from insect
ravages will bo trivial.
The winter wheat of New England is a
scarcely appreciable a quantity. The Its Middle condition
is BoUthern quite nniformly States make high. ranging from and
average#
90 to 100. The Ohio basin make# a less favor¬
able showing, with little difference in tbe
States on the north sido of tho river.
mon average# for wheat.
ThojBtatos of largo production make the fol¬
lowing condition, averages, but 160 representing full stand not of an healthy aver¬
age a
plants of medium growth: New York, 97;
Pennsylvania, 98; Kentucky, Illinois, 99; Ohio, 85,
Michigan, 85; Indiana, and 85; California, 87; Mis¬
souri, 94; Kansas, 103, 95.
WHEAT CROP.
The present outlook of the wheat crop is
generally favorable, though a large part of it is
backward. The returns indicate that the con¬
dition is now 90 as compared witli 100 repre¬
senting a full average. This implies that the
proaont outlook is 17 percent better than a year
ago. The area of the crop reported this season
is about 27,000,000 acre#, and it is believed that
the yield will lie about 350,000,000 bushels.
150 IN TIIE SHADE.
It 1# wonderful how Europeans stand tho
iumnior in Calcutta, but they contrive to worry
through it by living in a state of perfect idle¬
ness. Servants fan tho sleeper all night, wash
and dress him in tho morning, and attend to
evory want. The thorraomotar frequently goes
up to 150 in the shado and 180 in the sun.
Every summer the heat kills people riding in
tiie railway cars. Tho main business of life
here is to keep cool. The climate seems to be
tho ono thing which is fatal to tho develop¬
ment of this wonderful country.
A Train Dl«n«lrr.
The train operator Railroad, at Oomiellsville, on tho
Baltimore and Ohio ordered a camp
train, wild" to bearing Ohio Pyle forty-six Falls, station workmen, six toe to miles “run
a n
rust of liallbmil. OoutielliiTiUe, <>u the Baltimore tifaid and
, Old;) operator ,A rexuAmbercd ftKv mimies after .the
left the that the second
section Connells*llie of freight train No. 80, which was due
in at four o clock in tlu.- inorking,
was not in yet, but hod jnst loft Indian Creek
station, and was constantly lx-uring clown on
tho camp train at that moment. Tho cqicrator
tried to slop the camp train at Gilson station,
but found ho was too late, and a collision oo
ourred in which 14 mou woro killed and
many seriously injured.
NOI.ID WHISKY.
Tho old story about the invention of solidi¬
fied whisky comes ud in a new shape. This
time the story goo# that a German named
Peterman, living near Pittsburg, Penn., has
discovered a way of solidifying whisky and
packing in pings like tobacco. A plug of
whisky is rather light in color, and can be
easily carried in the vost pocket. It can be
dissolved In water or chewed np. Tho inventor
ssvs ho can ilo nothing nnloss lie lias perfectly
pure alcohol. He thorefore claims that his
solidified whisky will be the pure article, and
will drive out the adulterated Btuff which is so
extensively used at present.
A NEW POWBKlt.
Gtiumaker Krupp has a new powder that is
•aid to lx* more powerful than the powder here¬
tofore used. It is called brown powder to dis¬
tinguish it from the black powder of overyday
Use. The brown }K>wder contains the ingre
ihcnts »f ti,, black powder, but in different
.......... W- brown powder it ii
claimed, many points ever tho old-fashioned
black ixiwder. It is good in gnus of all sices,
It explode* only in atightlv-encloscd space. It
■......'‘-I”*
not till the air with smoke, and better than all j
to the Rumviaker, it pn>dnee» a greater vokv
city. It is thought the new invention will
supersede the black destructive agent
A mu to locreaoe Pension#. i
^ u 8 Honso conunittoe on Invalid Ten
nimninumAlv ; ^ to rc}x>rt favorably a |
^ wWoh , TilU # iat ^ no w on or
hereafter pieced on the pension roll, who while
* {1 tiie Miiiturr or Naval aervico ot the j
Cnitod 8(ate« loft an arm or a leg. ;
i|,*u be entitled to a pension of
$40 jwr month, and those «ba\l who have |
a hand or a foot, be en- j
tiUed to a pension of #30 per month, anti if
Uu-y have rooeived * wonnti or other disability
in Addition thereto they shall receive a pension
of *50 por month. All person* have a log
utoutatoi at th« hto joint an.» all persons who
liav, Uwt an arm »t the dioultier jomtehaU and aU be
entitled to a pension of $50 per month,
p.rs ms who have lost au arm and leg shall be
.uutioti to a pension of $i2 por month.
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POETRY SOUTH.
thinks the s.utth te the Und of
' that have ai 1
poetry. He »ee*tn ui ixx'ks v -
after .
, the tat little eweet lowers
;v . m southern 1W
Jtoriu Mid winter, and the .
Shelly may yet aptiear and be tne
Keats “ or Sitinev
Amcnoau pre-t . that all Arc Ux king ■
Uni.r died jnst as he got a p.aw to set down
lnI , rt , st of Tiekr. -r's "Ltttie Giffen, Miller
tay* there is nothing in 'be laud as good and
its way. He thinks UU.an EozeU
Messenger wiU yet be acconhft *
tion. John Henry Boner is doing refined and
H. 111 ... auot.-.er
North Carolina iioet, is devout and true. The
new pcvia of the south are full of promise.
BIG lil’SS.
Krupp, th* German ordnance msnnfscturer,
| U*na4 to heTe settled the contest which has
been waging for several years between armor
plate and heavy guns. He is constructing
guns at present of 16-inch bore and 35 calibers
length, which weigh 121 tons and carry a pro¬
jectile weighing more than a ton, with acharge
of 770 pounds of powder. These guns can
penetrate, at several miles distance, any armor
which it is possible for a vessel to float with.
They oost about $175,000 each, and it requires
over two years to complete one. Krupp’s 12
Inch gun carries a projectile of about half a
ton, and it is claimed that at a distance of two
miles it can penetrate the armor of the strong¬
est ship in the English navy, consisting of 26
inches of iron pJate and 17 inches of teak.
THE GAMBLER’S WAVS
A recent writer, who is himself a gambler, is
not inclined to believe the statement that pro¬
fessional gamblers have a high standard of
hopor among themselves. He says they are a
very suspicious body of men whose bond takes
the form of collateral security. Tbe two chief
component parts, he says, that go to make up
tho professional gambler are cupidity and lazi
ness. These two characteristics predominating
result in the complete demoralization of the
man. He sums up the whole matter in this
way: "A business that is illegitimate in itself ■
and draws to its support criminals from every
walk in crime, must on its face be demoraliz¬
ing. I do not attempt to ray that every gam¬
bling room in Boston is the eonstxxt aad only
resort of criminals, but I do wish to be under¬
stood as saying that there is not a game in this
or any other city that would exclude a mgn on
social or moral grounds. Cash, no matter how
obtained, is the ‘open sesame’ in every in¬
stance. The conclusions arrived at in this
article have their foundation in solid f^jj, and
the deductions and suggestions are the out¬
come of mature thought, by one who has made
the subject a study, from the vantage ground
of the dealer’a ohair.”
DIHKA.SK ANO OLD AGE.
A prominent English physician says that a
great many people who are afflicted with mor¬
tal maladies manage to live Jo a good old age.
In his opinion more people are killed by fear
than by disease. There are iunumorqijlc in¬
stances of persons dragging along for years in
daily expectation of death, and yet living to
the average age of man. Medicine is valuable,
but it owes more to tho influence of hope than
it does to drugs. The brain, or mind organ, is
Just aH much a part of the body as the liver or
tho heart. The influence of hope is frequently
manifested when thero is a consultation of
physicians in the sick room. Generally tho
treatment is not changed, but the patient feels
the presence of skillful medical advisers, and
he at once calls up his reserve forces to fight
against disease. A resolute and intelligent
hopefulness and confidence will do more to
ward off and cure sickness than anything else.
.MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Emma Abbott goes to Europe this slimmer.
Oomic opera will bo given on the iron pier ■
at Coney J Island this summer.
A , monument is . , to . be erected ,, in . Paris t- to
Berlioz, the eminent composer.
A» na DiCKEBSOK.it is said, will hence
forth , bo seen m publio only on the lecture
platform.
Ma-rib Van Zandt has been HoUaotL- appointed This a
court singer by tho king of aijiBM is
an honor rarely conferred. . gaa
IteRTLCX * ’ iyjl’ l, "t Tr u "-i» w 7f^ r the Union -
drama, whii-Ji w New ill bo \ produced ork, next at
Square theatre, season.
Maky Anderson will make a tour ot
Spain before returning to tbe Lyoeum then
tre, Ixmdon. for a revival of ‘‘Borneo and
Juliet”
jssas used asarsmss Mr. Abbey
astrous season that up sc
limit v
Thomas Nast _ h . go4ng to , lecture . next . sea
•on. He yearned for a play in which he
might show his skill as a drawer of cartoons,
U - llo „” one -
mS^^Sre^SSSfSSSSZ .
loader of the inarm# band in Washington,has
Minnie Fai.mer continues her success in
London, and there is somo talk now of her re¬
maining S in England anothor season. At any
rate it not at all likely that sho will return
In August, as arrange.) some time aga
Hubenstein's “Nero’’ was recently given
seven times in succession at Moscow, the
house being sold out eft- li time. Tiu3 0 }>era,
which Kuilinstoin considers his best work, is
also in preparation at Vienna, Berlin, and
other German cities.
It is rumored that Italian opera will only
ho continued another season at St Peters¬
burg. In 1885 the Marie theatre fc to be de
mouahed, and the sums hitherto consumed
by tho Italian opera are to be devoted to tGe
Russian o;»ra.
An old lady from the country goes for the
first time to the opera After a few solos,the
troui* all sing together. ‘‘Ah!” remarks tho
old tedy, ' they don't care now that they have
Mr EdWI1t Booth, t ho distlnguishod
actor, is acquainted his profawion. personally He wrth iSefere but few
inemimrs of tho
a t homo In th# skidkis that he froquants. In
porsontU appearand Mr. Booth is getting to
<»W>.*ted father, Junius Brutus
Czar Alexander, th-- Emperor Francis
Joseph of Austria-Hungary.and will other probab.y lover
signs anti leading gtavsinen
mt et at Nice this suimn r.
Muuiat Pasha th. great . - Turto-h w . states- . .
man who afterwanl dopcsed the Milton d Abdul murder Aa»
&»d was conyii t ot m>
and tor 1110,13
doad m hi> Mxt> -thi d > o.w.
The Norwe lan bark 1 heresa. having on
hoard the it*nmiudtr oi the suvivorA of th©
collision Utw-u tha bars tho Poacma, ste- mtifip arrived 8 ’tate at: of
Horuia and
Qnel-ec. I
Fran; E and China have sign withdraw" -ti a troatv of
{ , va , v t ho aver a.min- to her
^ froul iooqmn. anti tin form r a bam- ;
(!ol iu a i. , laims to inhimity tor losses sue
tlin { U-twe the two '
, k ,. u;ing t.io trouue- n
nauons. ‘
German Anti-Sxiahst law . has , been i
—The •
adopted by the 1-iohetag.
—The Swiss elections resulted in aConserva
tive vu-torv : aU the government measures were ,
rejoetol
Zobehr I aoha deciaros that he will not rest
until he has killed General Gordon. ;
—A treaty and'China. of peace Tho has latter bean signed between
France agrees to with- I j
her troope from Tonquia j
— At a nationalist meeting at Waterford. Mr.
Davitt argued that live years* rent would be 1
auenuivalent^for the purchase of holdings
‘ hM rofneed to reeegnie the Igle- ^
0
^ te iW
—Spanish flonr merchant* eomplMn of the |
treaty with tbfr United States in regard to Cuba.
— Agnero and the insurgents continue to hold !
their own in Chiba.
Mexican Congress grants President
Gonrah
$cX).00(\UOi
ST L' 11 J Q QP |<] W TiTlT^.
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pastern and Middle States
John F. Slater, the cftto.i manufa-turer
and philanthropi t who gave £ 1 . 001 ,UXI for
the edu -ation of the colored men of the
South, died the other day at Ins residence m
Norwich.. Conn., a;ed ab ut seventy years.
At the General Con: eren -e of the Metho¬
dist Ep.s op iJ church, held in i hiladelp u,
many cue. lions of interest to the denomina¬
tion were discus e l by the delegates.
The suspens > concerning t e fate of the
surviv rs of the s:e'<m hip State of Florida,
frrm New York for Glasgow, was relieve 1 by
a d s. -atch re < iv,<1 in Now \ ork from Que- I
i e announcing th; arrival at that place of
the steam,hip Titania with twenty-four of
the survivors on board. Th-Ftateof hlordr
had collided u mid-ocean with the bar-t
Pone-na, and both vessels went down. Gf
t e bark's crew of fiftren only tiie captain
and tw > sjamen were saved. Tae steamer
i arru d thirty-five cabin anti fifty steerage
passengers, and a crew of eighty-one men,
and a stewardess. Iw nty-nine o: the cr:w,
including the stewardess, and twelve pats sn¬
eers. were saved by a pa-sing vessel alt-r
drifting about in a small boat tor nearly two
days. Twenty-four of the forty-four survi
vors were afterward transi'eirodto the steam- all
ship Titania, and taken,to Quebec. In
about 135 persons were reported losb
The remains of the late Dr. Samuel D.
Gross, a prominent f'hila ielphia physician,
were cremated at Washington, Fenn.
Owin'! to the failure of the Marine bank of
New York. and of the firm of ( irant & Ward,
General Grant and his sons, Ulysses S. Grant,
Jr Jesse R. Grant and Frederick D. Grant,
have all gone into the bankruptcy benefit of
and male assignments for
their creditors. The firm of Grant & \Vard
Ls sail l to be involved ti the extent of $10,
000,IK 0. James V. Fish, president of the
Marine bank,has also made an assignment.
The steamer City of Portland, from Bos¬
ton to St. John's, N. F., struck on a ledge off
the Maine coast. Her passengeis and crew,
128 per.-ons in all,were saved. Tho vessel was
value 1 at $125,000.
John F. Smyth, the well-known Albany
fN. Y.) politician, banker and broker, has
failed.
Generai,Grant and his wife have tranr
ferred their property, including twi> houses
in Washington, a nouse in 1 nilad-lphia, at a
farm in tho suburbs of ho St. Louis^ in New a cottage York to
I ong Bran li and a ,s- his
William H. Vanderbilt to pi ole t him on
loan of $160,000. Pennsyl¬
Butler B. Strang, a prominent of the house and
vania politician, ex-sp -aker
ex-president of the State smote, in which
position he act-d as lieut-naut-govemor. himself at Ins
committed suie de by shooting long been
home in 1 Vest field. He had in
poor health.
Isaac D. Edrehei, a New York chemist,
sixty-four years old. called on his wife, with
whom he was not living, and after a short
conversation shot mid woundxl killed thair tho six-year
old son, desperate y woman
and killed iiims .it.
South and WoaL
CHABnra Ford, one of the brothers who
killed Jesso James, the notorious Missouri
bandit, committed sui ideat Kichmond, Mo.,
vith a pistol shot.
A passenoer car and two sleepers belong¬
ing to a train woro tin own into a ditch by a
broken rail near Decatur, 111. Three person;
were fatally and twenty seriously injured.
T«k twenty-ninth annual reunion of the
Southern Baptist convention was held in
Baltimore, Rev. Patrick H. Mali, of Georgia
lx ln ° l ) ' 0 ’ l ir, ^ ! ‘ c )l •
At the | General Conference of tlm coFr«
Methodists, in delivered Baltimore, Bishop the quadrennial Dickerson,
^ drogs waB by
^ Nortb Carolina.
Judah P. Benjamin, the noted lawyer and
A( j VOCBt0i and O x- O flicial of the Southern
Confederacy, died in Paris a few days a ;o. of
He was born on tho island of St Croix,
Jewish parents, in 1811, was admitted to the
bar at Now Orleans, became a United States
- Bender attorney-general te-lsaSfaniPwits returned in Jefferson in 1858; Davis fate
came Confeder
cabinet in 1861, and was 1869, appointed and afterward
ate secretary of war in
secretary of state; went to England law atj until ■
close of the war, where he practised then
liia retirement last year. He was eon
e»ttwfJB5?sttaa£2 Dubino the progress ofAgamBt
tn an enclosed park at Chillicothe, witli Ohio, temfio the
grand stand suddenly fell a
a . a ,j, burying J rZrsons many people in tha ruins.
‘ mjured, eight of
^wdth A) ( LrCsffnotf were ataliffeefi ^
Lightning destroyed a mill at Keyser, N
S#-*
persons.
on the samo day James S. Coleman (colored)
was hanged at Columbia, S. C., for tho mui*
der of his sister-in-law.
, John Boui.tokk, a prominent barrister o
Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, now in Port¬
land. Oregon, has absconded with $50,000 of
other people s money. Still¬
Tub Northwestern Car company, of
water, Minn., of which United States Senator
Sabin is president, has failed and a reoeivtr
bo,n appointed. The liabilities are estimated
at $1,(0),COO, and Mismanagement the in«s largely said in excesi to le
of that sum. downfall is
the cam# of the company's
Lawrence Spii.um, » farmer living against near
Petereburg, W.Va, vowed vengeance
his stepilaughter and a hire! man named
Taylor who had eloped and got marriel.
Sldher’ getlior, f'Towel kd el laylor the l«ur. witn a ?
’
lieat the nnwl ,.
aiid then - 1 ,
fii-Ungfatalinjur.es. Atu r >. .
Spiller was amste 1.
Tub Cincinnati grand Jury found fifty-four
Indictments against penons concerned in the
late r ots.
A broken levee on the Mississippi in Louis
iana caused an inundation which rained the
crops for mih s At Shreveport 6,000 acres
wen- under water.
Washington.
The teslimonv iloose in tho Jeannette inveetiga- enS
tion be*ore t, e navai rermmittoe
with that ot' Mrs Do Lon*, who tod-iUed t mt
vS^^^Arctie h^ eniav
ored procure r the tost.
REFRKSEXTATrvE COLXtHfs was dirt»ct‘'a
by by the the committee committee to to favorably favorably amendment report re porta to a Arti- .iom iom ■
resolution proposing Constitution. an The amendment
c |.» 15 of the tha word **nativ
.^ rwists of the insertion oc fol
| t , - im j raa :.is thdfii-stsction read as
joVs: “Th" right of Citizens of tho United
State-* to vote shall not bo denied or abridged
bv the bnitexi Stews, i r by any State on ao
wantof nativity, race or color, or previous
oonditiem of rerutule.’
The *cretaris 8 of war and site nivj Lave
appointed General John New#on chlof of on.
gnuers. Colon-1 tj. A. G-llruore, cor^ps of
engineers, anti lieutenant Com nandir b H.
McCa! i a members, and Lieutenant T H.
, reoordw of brari ere
Bliss. First ArffilerV, a of Repro
at eft bv a resolution of the House
Wltat ives toeons d-r the expedien-y of the
constwetioj. of a line of tatarior wat^ways
for the pr t x-tion of the seaboard of the At
lantic and Gul: Mates
---*
Foreign.
A Wwim-KO (Manitoba) -at oitn>o.i dispatch 41«o«toh oavw soys that t t
Jtextling developments nave 3 - _
been sy^remati
^ fmiian aLT^S^tor ae^^ntT !
An
indmn 8 g"nt sayefce has doenmente which
will prove that a gigantic system of saiu
tiling the Anrerioan an 1 Canadian govern
mente hasbieu carried on for years by such ,
ceFusion.
i
By an expltreion in a dynamite factory in
Ayrshire, England, 1 ten women severely were
blown bo atoms an two otheis
wounded.
The British government beg d-cid-d upon
sending an e .f edit on or th - relief of Gtn
eral Gordon lo Khartoum in July.
A massacre of Christians by a native
1be is repotted ir m South Africa.
An anti-socialist law has b en adopt© 1 by
file German reichstag.
Bismarck’* ’ong-< ontemrlatcd ret'remert
from the German minis-ny has at last Let-D
Sinc.itnel by u.e emp.rx
The bark Yen' is or i red at Montre 1 fr m
Ton Jen i- njliiid wi:n s -ven o: trie crew of
nineteen b-lcn in t to a f:sh ng s -hooner on
board. There had teen a coll sion and tie
s hooner nal gone to tae bo t hl wil l twelve
men.
MISCELLANEOUS.
—The bodies of two fishermen in a dory were
picked up by a Gloucester schooner.
—After a fight in which he was stabbed,
a man walked away and bled to death in tbe
streets of Utica.
—The offioers of the New England Tobacco
Growers’ Association have inaugurated internal a move¬
ment to secure the repeal of all reve¬
nue taxes ou tobacco.
—The bill providing civil service examina¬
tions for the employees of the cities in the
State of New York,’ passed the Assembly and
now goes to the Governor.
—A reduction of $2,000,000 from the New
York State taxation of last year is made in the
hills which passed the Assembly.
—It is rumored£in Paris that Prince Bis¬
marck urged China to oonclude a peace with
France, and that therein he was influenced by
a benevolent and human motive.
—The court martial assembled at Pamplona,
Spain, to try the banditti recently captured in
a fight at Navarre, has sentenced them to im¬
prisonment, with hard labor for life.
—A family of six persons were murdered at
Buezaas, a town of Galicea, in Austria. One
child, hid and so escaped. robbery. The The motive miscreants prompt¬
ing the murder was
escaped.
—The Paris Temps has a dispatch occurred from
Aden reporting that a revolt has near
Sena, and that 300 Turks have been massacred.
—An earthquake has occurred in Turkey, in
the region south of the Sea of Marmora.
Some damage was done at Panderma and Er
dek, in the province of Brougsa. Two slight
shocks were felt at Balikesz, but no damage
was caused.
—A prominent barrister of Winnepeg ran off
with $70,000 of other people’s money.
—The expected results of Canadian immi¬
gration are greatly lessened by the number of
persons who i mmediateiy cross the border and
settle in the United States.
—The Norwegian bark Theresa, having on
board the remainder of the survivors of the
collision between the steamship State of Flor
ida’and Pomena, has arrived at Quebec.
-—A young man named IValls became insane
through accidentally killing his mother in |
Sussex ■county, Del. I
—Trouble is feared among the Choctaw In¬
dians owing to some of them being dissatisfied ;
with a recently enacted law regarding called the
trial of criminals. Tbe militia have been
out and stationed at different parts of tbe Na¬
tion.
„
by inner*.
Of tho loans of the Marine Bank, a little
more than $2,000,000 were made to Grant &
Ward. Of these, $300,000 were made on good
^S^dttonai a m\ ( tel a tcuri^wWch
are believed to be in good part rehypothecated, what
and about $900,000 loaned on no security
over.
As illustrating the profitableness of the
Grant <fc Ward pool, attention and indicating called where its
receipts have gone, was to the
fact that withiu less than two years Ward has
acquired at least ©750,000 in real estate. Fisa
about $i,ouo,ooo, U. S. Grant, Jr., $500,000,
and W. S. Warner at least $250,000, a total of
$2,500,000. heavy M bv the failure ... - :
Among tho losers are
mentioned the following, though of course it '
is impossible to get any accurate account of
the losses until the several statements are com
pie ted Erie, ©1,500,000; Nickel bii&delpliia, Plate. $1,-
400,000; Buffalo, N. A., and I
$150,000; Work, $500,000; ex-Senator Chaffee, I
$600,000; First National Bank, $213,000; War
ner, ©700,000; New York city, $1,000,000. Fish
loses $1,500,000, Gen. Grant about $300,000,
Col. Fred Grant, Ulysses, Jr., and Jesse at
least a half million each and Ward estimated
“ worth a mllll ° U whea thu Crash
—President Grevy, of France, has pardoned
a majority of the miners who were imprisoned
for for having having participated participated in in the the labor labor riots riots at at
Denain.
mined —Tiie English government relief expedition haa finally the deter- Son
to scud a to
dan in July. “Chineee’’ Gordon lias made a
8 uco€* 08 ful sortie from Ivli&rtoimi.
prJlotSSS.fi.K.’&rSSJS becomes daily more bitter.
newal —Correspondents of hostilities against at Haiphong the Annamite cable the and re
Chinese pirates. In the mountains the French
captured a gun. !
-Outbreaks between the soldiers and na
tivesat Cairo are of daily occurrence. It is
reported that Lord Woteelev will command the
October expedition to Khartoum.
—Tbe Empress of China approves of peace
between China and France.
—A hand of Persian nomads have plundered
several villages on the right bank of the Kurd.
1116 Nfttional Convention of the Anti
Monopolista'party met in Chicago. Theplat
f or m calls for the enaotinent and vigorous
I execution of all jnat laws and equality in rights,
burdens, privileges and powers; asserts that it
j s duty of the Government to at once
j | re bureaus gul&te of commerce statistics among must be States; established; holds that the
national eight hour law must be enforced; de
i mands the payment of the bonded debt as it
falls duo; holds that the election of United
States Senators should be by a direct vote of
j ] demands the people; that calls the for tariff, a graduated which is tax income upon tax; the
a
people, shall be so levied as to bear as lightly
.. , ., . ... ,
nounces the present tariff as being largely in
the interest of monopoly, and demands that it
be^ddy —A. man reduced. who w was helping to hoist a safe into
third window - J^ew li ,
. story . ork , had , . his . hn
a m
g ers caught in the tackle so that the ropes hatl
to be cut to release him. the great mass of
me tal roof fell to tha builtling. sidewalk, demolishing the
cellar of the
k . tofantr? firat* urbl of^*5 P So ;
JtarrtJ^ta iha HmLtm PJht Gniori ’ 000
tho ’ T 8
™
Inssesreh^ , Ctopp anti OwQUohJh^ Lena d elta forLte nfi
Cerement go'ernmeut ete^f etc., of theVerions^r^hwSih .he regionsthrou B hwhich
Le Journeyed.
—It has been discovered that the civil service
lgw practicaUv prevents all federal officials of
every charaeteV from acting on poUtieal cam
cvinniiittss. sxi'l all S'-sators mui l'<pr'.
Mnlat i Te 8 will have to resign, ^
_ A bloody ?tre<?t fig ht tween a white man
- dtaihs,
an i a negro which runfited in four oe
eurred in Baltimore. Tbe negro had three
loaded revolvers, and the deaths were at his
hands,
—Investigation into the case of Isaac D.
Etirehi, in New York city, who shot his son and
wife before committing smeide, shows that he
^ ^8 SWa - V 01 ** C “ d b?
-Charl« O’Conor, the noted New York law
jw, died at Nantucket on Monday aiternoon.
depreited Hre re-mains in St. were Patrick taken s to Cathedral, New York where city ^d the
funcrai services were Lid.
—Both houses of the New York Legislature
the bnl to compel telegraph, telephone
In the Senate Gen. Logan, from the Military
Committee, reported retired favorably list, the with bill to plaee rank
Gen. Grant on the the
and full pay of General of the Army, and the
bill was passed at onoe without debate.
The Indian Appropriation bill was amended
and passed by the Senate.
The House passed the Senate bill to provide
a civil government for Alaska. There was a
spirited debate on the bill providing that no
Territory shall form State, a constitution, or apply
for admission as a until it contains a
permanent population equal to that required
to entitle a Congress district to a representative.
Messrs. Cox and Potter, of New l'ork. cham¬
pioned the bill, but it was finally tabled, 109 to
15.
—Fourteen hundred Egyptian troops have
been ordered to proceed a few days’ march be¬
yond Assouan so as to be ready to assist
Koroeko.
—It was rumored in Dublin that there was a
plot to blow up the Nelson column in Sackville
street. *■„ |
—In New York, the notorious James Irving,
an ex-Alderman and ex-Assemblyman, and was
surrendered in court by bis bondsmen
sent to the Penitentiary to serve the two years’ of
sentence imposed upon him by the Court
General Sessions in May.
—The Grand Jury of Cincinnati report their
findings in the riot matter with fifty-four in¬
dictments.
—Captain Munro, of the City of Borne,
positively denied that any signals of distress
were observed on board the ship Louisa or that
any signals at all were raised by the bark
Theresa, which vessels had on board the sur¬
vivors of the State of Florida disater.
In the New Jersey Democratic State
Convention Tiileri and Hendricks were
declared to be, in the opinion of the Conven¬
tion, the most e igible candidates for President
and Vice-President. Republican The platf-orm and arraigns declares
the record of the party
in favor of revenue and national civil service
reform.
Ex-Senator Henderson says the Republican
delegation from Missouri will be divided be¬
tween Logan, Blaine, Arthur and Edmunds, friends
with Arthur as the second choice of the
of the latter. Blaine’s nomination will, he
thinks, imperil the party.
The Virginia Democrats in State Convention
declined to instruct the delegates to Chicago,
while manifesting a decided preference for the
•‘old ticket.”
PAYztfASTEUS OF THE ARMY.
How Tlicy arc Often Robb<ul while Travel*
SllK*
Paymaster Broadhead’s case, says a
Washington letter, is a very sail one.
About fifteen year# ago he went down
into the Southwest to pay the troops at
a small camp-field. He had $2 500 with
him in a little iron safe. He got to the
camp at night He took his safe to the
tent he was to share with a brother offi¬
cer that night When he opened his
safe it was empty. High-spirited, sensi
tive, the very soul of honor, Broadhead
was crushed by the discovery. He
thought the man who slept in his tent
had taken the money, but he could not
prove it, and so he had to assume the
loss himself. He paid it back in two
jeTJout o. 0 , r lH.j„y. He worS.d
all the time about the matter as he
feared another loss. He traveled with
every possible precaution, and even
then he trembled. Eight or nine vears
P self a ,ff again. “ d One day he had to pay out
825,000 at Fort Sill. He sealed up the
money in an iron safe at Fort Leaven¬
worth and turned it over to the express
company to be carried to Wichita. At
Lawrence he had to change cars. It
was an hour before the train left for
Wichita. At Wichita Paymaster Broad
head noticed that tbe wax seol over tljo
kevhole of the safe had been disturbed.
R- toH , ,, ,, the express . agent __, , before , ■, h
e
surrendered his receipt that the seal fiaa
been removed and then replaced. The
express agent thonght he was mistaken
_ — thonffht 1 CUOUgnt the tile seal seal had nau been Deeu partially pammuy
removed by the rough handling which
the safe had received. Finally Paymas
ter Broadhead surrendered his receipt,
calling the attention of witnesses to the
oondi1ion o{ t he seal Then he put the
safe in a wagon and slowiy jolted more ^
Hie fort, ^ he opened 10 J?* lus 4 safe f 1 ' 1 ' and found it
filled filled with with brown brown paper. paper. Every dollar The
of his money had been taken.
shock was terrible to a man of his expe
yjenoe ’ then sixty years old. For a
time h e was prostrated. ^ Then he rallied
^ , -n«r- 1 ■!.„ /t#
He at once sued the express company.
After several years of litigation of the
most vexations character he won his
81l jt in the highest courts, and the ex
press £ company t7 paid the money to the
e", overrimen But Broadhead’s success
did not , , bring . , him . peace. -rr He was __ too
old. He had become morose, nervous,
suspicious—suspicious of himself and
everybody else. A word, a kindly look,
from the Secretary of War or the Pay¬
master General would have soothed and
oomforted him. But the iron rules of
officialism forbade the expression of the
sympathy they felt with the unfortunate
paymaster. And now his brain has
yielded to the incessant worry, and he is
in an asylum.
Taking Him at His Word.
This anecdote of Red Jacket was re¬
lated by Judge Sheldon at the meeting
of the committee of the Buffalo Histori¬
cal Society: “There was a blacksmith
shop on the corner where the Post Office
now stands, kept by a man named
Reese. He was a very fine workman, a
real artist in his line. One day Pied
Jacket came into the shop with his inter¬
preter—he would never speak English,
you know. He wanted a new tomahawk
made. They had some talk, but Reese
finally said he would make the toma¬
hawk for him, and told him to come in
two weeks for it. When the time was
up Red Jacket came for the tomahawk.
It was a fine piece of workmanship, too.
He went off, but in a day or two re¬
turned with the tomahawk. It didn’t
suit him.
Of coarse, Reese was mad, but he told
Red Jacket if he would make a model
out of mapie wood of jnst such a toma¬
hawk as he wanted, he would make it
for him. So Red Jacket made his model
and brought it to Reese, who told him
to come after it in a week. Rod Jacket
came in a week with his interpreter, as
usuaL Reese had told several people
and several people were in the shop
when Red Jacket came in. Bff se handed
him the hatchet.
Red Jacket looked it all over, flung it
across the mad room, grunted “Ugh!”and
went off as thunder. He had for¬
gotten to make an eyein his model, and
Reese made the hatchet without an eye.
“Do not force upon tliy neighbor a
hat that hurts thine own head,” is »
Hindu proverb,