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WASHINGTON, D. C. "MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT AMD HIS ADVISERS. U-rOISTMENTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHER MATTERS OF INTEREST FROM TUE NATIONAL CAPITAL. The president has pardoned John W. Rarklev, convicted in Georgia of passing counterfeit money. Secretary Noble received a telegram w Wednesday, from Charles Foster, Chairman, dated Fort Gates, announcing the successful completion of the Sioux commission. The commission Jacksonville. of R. E. McMurray as postmaster of Fla., which has been held forwarded up pending charges against him, was to him Wednesday, tlie charges having been disproved'. Chief Postoffice Inspector Rathbone has been informed of the arrest of George Crawford, mail agent running between Wellston and Cold Spring, Ga., for rob bing a registered pouch of ten letters. - Attorney General Miller appointed James Atkins to be special assistant at torney in the southern district of Geor gia, to assist in the prosecution of the cases of the United States against Ex Marshal Wade. '..The president left Washington on Tuesday morning on his trip to Bar Har bor Me., to visit Secretary Blaine. He was accompanied by Secretaries Windom and Proctor, Private Secretary Halford and also Secretary Tracy. The presi dent expects to return to Washington by the 17th. The report of Captain Shepard, com manding the revenue steamer Rush, in regard to the seizure of the British staler, Black Diamond, winch was mailed at San Francisco, in July, has just been received at the Treasury Department. Acting Secretary Batchellor refuses pos itively to give it to the press, but admits that it confirms substantially the news paper reports concerning the seizure. He says further, that as the qu< stion seems to have assumed political importance, he preferred to do nothing whatever in the matter without consultation with Secre tary Windom. The Western Union Telegraph Com pany claims that it has the better end of the present controversy with the govern ment. The telegraph officials say that under the terms of the agreement be tween them, certain rates have to be fixed annually, subject to acceptance of all the companies interested, and that June, agreement and expired on the 30th of last that no contract between the government and the companies is now’ in existence. They are, therefore, in no hurry to bring about a settlement of the charge pending controversy, for they propose to the government full commercial rates for all telegraphic business transacted by them since the first of July. During the absence of tbe Presi dent and the members of his official family from Washington, the telegraph business of the Government is larger than at any other time, and under the circumstances the telegraph company professes to be willing to prolong the controversy with the postmaster-general. The president, on Monday, appointed Julian H. Bingham, of Alabama, and Nathan H. Alexander, of Alabama, to be register of the land office and receiver of public moneys, respectively, at Mont gomery, Ala.; William H. Hart, of Indi ana, to be third auditor of the treasury; John T. Rankin, of Pennsylvania, to be deputy auditor of the treasury for tiie post office department; Walter II. John son, of Georgia, to be collector of inter nal revenue for the district of Georgia; kugene A. Webster, of South Carolina, to be collector of internal revenue for the district of South Carolina; Columbus C. Wimbish, of Georgia, to be surveyor of customs for the port of Atlanta, Ga.; ohn i. Patty, of Louisiana, to be naval officer of customs in the district of New rleans, La.; George W. Jolly, of Kcn ucky, to be attorney of the United States or the district of Kentucky; William rant, of Kentucky, to be attorney of the ^ nited States lor the eastern district of tjouaana; Peter A. Williams, of Florida, o be marshal-of the United States for oe southern district of Florida. SOUTH CAROLINA FRUITS. 4 WONDERFUL PLENTY—PEACHES FIF TEEN CENTS A CRATE, ETC. to h. C abun ^ an ce of fruit this year seems of c® ^onth £^ nera Carolina. l throughout the whole state « actually In Columbia fruit l"*™ bring a “glut” on the market, into that city wagon 8 o \ rne l°a8 for which they are ahl e find un< o a market at any price. Can u P e3 ,°f the finest quality sell for •oti tbe a t A 01 t mi tmeg variety is sold at fif tj. ' vent y cents a dozeu. One of . r commission merchants had . tuber , a of crates of peaches in front of - s ore marked “fifteen cents crate;” gjj a "ere fresh and of good quality, cent' I ’ r Wa fac ^ eirae ^thereis * ona sell superabundance for five or ten 0 f a want uniform RATES. learlin railroat l representatives of the ofiif.,, % lines was held in the New v ork ?’ Wednesday. runk Line Association in and » After a long their fines agreed to mako a uniform ‘5® foll rate " win on - • SSn TruakLKr hot' * U ^ ? erH Was who 011 Lie requisi ered h, a b rents had consul rates ™ se i v es discriminated against in ittigfaction nrra,n S emeat U aVe universal he raised the money but was finally brought TO GRIEF UNEXPECTEDLY. second^uo Sl f ben and . S - Gra!!d AIIen » Street of the Forty- Ferry n ° f New York arrested arrested Wednesday > ™ George i| afternoon on efl ‘ a uding the company. ceZf^rl i 400 W Sh ? reUtlCe 0f ’ a brokpr > had vl lo n 1 r ircs the com paoy's stock th®’ snl „ q 7 he a bu customer, vcr before and paying, had made tlm J 0ekput . - in > his wie, wished P Pi r entice went to the «« and transfer office to have the made. The president was out, ancl the treasurer acting for him made the discovery that the numbers* on the stock were duplicates of stock credited On the book to other persons, Fraud was apparent, and treasurer com municated at 6lice with the directors. Allen confessed his guilt without much urging. H e wa8 engaged in the iron business outside of his connection with the company, he said, and became inter ested in some inventions, one of a patent lire escape, the other of a clothes post system for use on the roofs of houses. Both promised well, but the officials of the bureau of buildings refused to allow their use, and the scheme fed flat. Allen became unbarrassed, and, to relieve himself, took blank certificates of rail road stock, tilled them out with his own name, or that of some other person, and banks. hypothecated the boeus shares in various He thinks that he has scattered seven hundred shares or so about in that way, and bor aowed about $125,000 or $130,000. A HEAVY FORGERY. A MINNEAPOLIS LAWYER USES HIS CLIENT’S NAME TO THE TUNE OF $227,0U0. John S. Blaisdell, one of the oldest and wealthiest ciiizens of Minneapolis, Minn., Tuesday,discovered that forgeries to the amount of $227,000 had been committed in his name. The forger is a young lawyer of that city whose father is also wealthy and prominent. Blais dell had befriended the young man in business transactions, going so far as to indorse his note for $15,000. The young man made the indorsement the basis for a systematic series of foigeries, reaching the sum above mentioned. Mr. Blaisdell discovered the forgeries merely by acci dent. He at once charged the young lawer with the crime, the latter con fessing in the presence of several wit nesses. The forger’s friends at once took steps to hush the matter up and an arrangement was made whereby the en tire amount of the forgeries was to be paid orer to Mr. Blaisdell in considera tion of his not prosecuting the young criminaL But on Wednesday, however, matters assumed a different phase. The newspapers gave the case publicity. The forger’s name is J. Frank Collum, of Rockwood – Collum, attorneys at 22G Temple court. The forger has been Mr. Blaisdell’s attorney and was tbu3 enabled to have access to his papers—an oppor tunity which he used for the furtherance of his schemes. Collum is a man of about thirty-five years of age. CAN GO TO CHICAGO. HYDROPHOBIA UNFORTUNATES WILL NOT have to leave the country. Residents of Chicago, or elsewhere, be who may be unfortunate enough to bitten by mid dogs, will not hereafter have to go to Paris to be treated by Pas teur. The county’s public service com mittee Wednesday, on the recommenda tion of the hospital committee, ward thirteen set apart be two unused rooms in to used by Dr. Antonis Lagorce, for the treatment of hydrophobia according to Pasteur’s method. Dr. Lagorce spent five years as a student with Pasteur. The hospital medical stall recommended the utility of bacteriological work and pre ventive inoculation for rabies at the hos pital, and Dr. Lagorce will undertake it. A COTTON TRUST. SOUTHERN COTTON MILLS AFPROACHED BY AN ENGLISH SYNDICATE. A formal proposition has been made to many leading Southern cotton mills by syndicate of English and Ensterh capital ists for the purchase of their plants with a view of combining interests in one cen tral trust company, in the 6ame manner that cotton seed oil mills have heretofore combined. The letters of proposal mill are now in the hands of various owners in Columbus, Ga. No steps have been taken, but there is no knowing the final result. FATAL COLLISION. Wednesday morning, at Noifolk, Ya , while the Old Dominion line steamer “C l Dominion" was coming up the river, she collided with tbe sloop Ella May, of Warwick county. James Henry Coombs, captain, and two of the crew, colored men, were drowned. KILLED BY LIGHTNING. At Catawba, North Carolina, on Mon day night, Mr. J. A. Troliinger had accompanied Miss Addie A. Reid from church, and while together in the parlor of a thunder storm began, and a stroke lightning, tearing down the chimney, instantly killed the young lady aud her visitor. IMMEDIATE DELIVEBY. Customer (to grocer)— I want to get a pound of old cheese. send il Grocer—All right, sir. I’ll around in five minutes. Customer— All right, and let it bring a couple of crackers with it. scmjfr coxjisT? news. CURIOUS WILLS. Some Modern Instances of Tes tamentary Eccentricities. Testators Who Made Odd Dis positions of Their Eodies. Modern instances of testamentary ec centricity abound, and the United States in particular, seems to be singu larly prolific of curious wills. Some little time since Mr. Solomon Sanborn of Medford, Mass., left his body to the late Professor Agassiz and Dr. O. W. Holmes, to be prepared by them in the most scientific manner known to anat omical arr, and placed in the museum of Harvard College. Two drum heads were to be made of the skin. Upon one was to be inscribed Alexander Pope's “Universal Prayer," and the other the “Declaration of Independence,” and then they were to be presented to the testator's “distinguished friend,” the drummer of Cohasset. This presenta tion was subject to the condition that on the seventeenth of June, at sunrise, every year, the drummer should beat upon the drum heads at the foot of Bunker's Hill, the spirit-stirring strains of “Yankee Doodle.” Another American, who died within the last few months, by way of revenge on his relations, who had neglected him, bequeathed to his brother his left arm and hand; to another brother, his right arm and hand, and to others his legs, nose, ears, etc. He also left one thousand dollars for the dismembering of his body. Among other testators who have dis played this peculiar tendency to leave legacies in the shape of portions of their bodies may be mentioned Jeremy Bentham, the English writer, who be queathed his body to the University College Hospital, with instructions that his skeleton should be prepared and cleaned, and that it should preside at the meetings of the hospital directors. Whether this provision w T as ever carried out is doubtful, but it is certain that the skeleton was preserved, and may be seen to this day in the hospital museum. A wealthy Germm who die 1 the other day bequeathed his effects to a poor man whom ho greatly disliked on con dition that he always wore linen under clothes and dressed in white, and a short time ago Stanislaus Poltmarz, a Hun garian, left the greater part of his for tune to a notary named Lotz, forbidding him, however, to take possession until he hnd sung at La Scala Opera House, the parts of Verdi’s “Otello” and “El vira” in “Sonnambula;” wbi'e John Reed, the gas-ligliter of the Walnut Street Th atre, Philadelphia, directed that his head, after being duly prepared, should be employed to represent the skull of Yorick in “Hamlet.” Lord Newborough who died last No vember, directed that, after a certain period elapses, his body is to be ex humed aud re-interred in Bardscy Is land, which i3 reputed to have no fewer than twenty thousand saints buried in its soil, and Mr. John Browne of Rath bane county, Limerick, required that his son, the R?v. Peter Browne, should un der penalty of forfeiting a considerable estate, change his Christian name “Pe ter,” for either “William’’ or “James, > } the old gentleman having taken an in veterate dislike to his son’s name, while a rich saddler ordered in his will that his daughter should lose the whole of her fortuue if she did not marry a sad dler. It turned out however, that she married the Earl of Halifax, who in or der to win the bride actually served an apprenticeship of seven years to a sad dler. Not long since a Mr. Harper settled a hundred a year on his “young black cat,” tbe interest to be paid to his house keeper, Mrs. Hodges, as long as the cat remained alive; and quite recently an old Parisian dame left fifteen hundred a year to her butcher, whom she had never seen; while one man chalked his will on a corn-bin; and another inscribed his on a bed -post, Both the corn-bin and the bed-post are filed in tbe Will office at Doctor’s Commons, London, The whimsical will of the Scotch gentleman, who bequeathed to each ot his daugh ters ner weight in one pound notes, has often been quoted, More remarkable still is the will of the New Yoraer who directed that his one and seventy pairs of trousors should bo sold at public auc tion without being examined beforehand. The sale was actually held, and the seventy-one purchasers found in the right-hand pocket the neat little sum ol a thousand dollars in cash. Another peculiar legacy was that of Col. Nash, an English officer, who be queathed an annuity of fifty pounds to the bell-ringers of Bath Abbey, on con dition that they should muffle the clap per of the bells of the Abbey and ring them with doleful accentuation from 8 a. m. to S p. m. on each anniversary of his wedding day; while a Mr. Luke of IiotLeringhanr, after leaving a penny to every child who should attend his fu neral, directed that forty dozen loaves should be thrown down from the parish church steeple at noon every Christmas day forever .—Once a Week. Woven Rattan Cofllng. “What do you think of a rattan cof fin?" said a very fashionable undertaker yesterday who prides himself on his blue-blooded patrons. “I have just received from an Eastern manufacturing company two rattan cas kets which have been sent as a sample. 1 have not yet had any calls for them, but they have received the stamp of ap proval of several of my scientific friends. The caskets are designed to meetthede siros of persons who object to the now prevailing mode of sealing bodies in air tight caskets. It is argued that this method, as in the case of cremation, is not in accordance with the decrees of the Bible, and prevents the body from returning to the dust wbeuce it came. With the rattan casket change the ac tion of the earth has full sway, just the same as in the days of yore, when bodies were placed in the caves, and it is not long before all traces of the corpse and the coffin, too, have disap peared entirely. Besides these excel lent qualities the rattan casket has this advantage. It can bo produced very cheaply, but at the same time the rattan can be worked up into beautiful designs and with rich trimmings can be made a receptacle w’orthy of holding a million aire corpse.” The coffins are manufac tured in Boston, where there is quite a demand for them .—Philadelphia Press. Bargaining in Mexico. An American, ten years resident in Mexico, taught the writer how to bar gain with the Mexicans. A dealer in onyx carvings came by our door one day and exhibited his stock in trade. Some of the articles were exquisite. Wo priced one superb piece—$30. “I will give you $8 for it.” “O, no, senor, I will take $25.” “I will give you $7 for it.” “Senor, tho work alone is worth more, and I cannot take less than’’ mirtih' J£ tv-v . “Well, I’ve concluded not to give more than $6 at most.” Ah, senor, but” “Here is a $5 bill if you want it take it and give me the onyx.” Quick as thought the bill was transferred to his dirt} pocket and the carving was mine. The sight of the money and the fact that I kept offering less, each time, is what did it. The rule works excel lently with all kinds of merchants in Mexico, even in some of the largest stores. If you are a gringo they expect yon to pay fifty per cent, more than a Mexican would give.— Dixie. The Oldest United States Soldier. Henry Smith, said to be the oldest soldier of the United States army, whose real rank was that of first sergeant, died at the residence of his daughter, in Brooklyn, recently. Sergeant Smith was for years in charge of Fort Jackson in this State, and at the outbreak of the late war was forced to surrender it to tho Confederate forces. He afterward returned with Gen. Butler’s forces after the surrender of New Orleans to Farra gut. He had been educated for the trade of a printer in Charleston, S. C., his birthplace; but at the age of twenty four the idea of army life attracted him, and he enlisted and served (luring the Seminole war in Florida .—New Orleans Times-Dem ocra t. A Stake Through Her Body. On the way from Brunswick to Harps well is a point where four roads meet. Nature smiles on the spot, but it marks a uniquely cruel episode in the history of the New England colonists. In 1752 Ann Conner committed suicide in the old town of Brunswick. In accordance wi.h the old blue laws she was burled at this place of the meeting of the four roads, with a stake driven through her body. This is said to have been the only instance in which the old law was put into execution in this country. — Lewiston, Me., Journal. SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. i. Gnomium is' the name given to tho new metal discovered in commercial mckel and cobalt, v Mucous membrane from the mouth has been transplanted successfully to the upper eyelid, the entire graft living and giving perfect results. A French scientist shows that 8 per cent, of marriages in France a?e sterile, 25 per cent, yield one child, and 100 families average only 259 children. At the electrical exhibition at Birm ingham, England,, there will be con structed an electrical switchback telph erage system, upon which visitors may take aerial flights around the hall. A test has been mode in France to seo whether the color of a horse had any thing to do with his characteristics. It was demonstrated that any such idea was all nonsense. Pedigree and early training have all to do with it, and color nothing whatever. Professor Renzi, of Naples, reports that numerous physicians have success fully treated tetanus by rest. The ears of the patient are closed with wax, and he is placed in a perfectly dark room far from any noise. Liquid food is given, so that mastication is not neces sary. Tbe famous torquoise-blue enamel of tho old Egyptians, w’ith which their amulets and s pulchral figures were of ten coated, has been the subject in re cent years of several communications to the Mineralogical Society of France. It is found to be a double silicate of cop per and calcium, without any trace of alkali. It is not possible to arrive at the amount of capital already invested iu electric lights m the United Kingdom, as a very large proportion of the w T ork is being done by private companies; but the limited companies engage 1 in elec tric lighting havo a nominal capital of more than $20,000,000, of which about half baa beeu called up. M. Danion, writing in a Paris paper, gives some remarkable results of the treatment of facial paralysis by electrici ty. His experience leads him to con clude that the best method of treatment consists in the application of voltaic currents of five to soven milliamperes applied weakly on the trunk of the fa cial nerve and the length of its terminal branches. Carpenters and other tool users who keep up with the times now use a mix ture of glycerine instead of oil for sharpening their edge tools. Oil, as is well known, thickens a id smears the stone. The glycerine may be mixed with snirit§ jn greyer * or less propor tion, according i" * (he tools to be sharp as ened are fine or coarse. For the average blade two parts of glycerine to one of spirits will suffice. A very smooth, solid and compara tively noiseless roadbed is now made in the following manner: Bricks, con structed from tho refuse clay not suita ble for regular firebricks, are laid end wise, with broken joints, in sand. They are then pressed $own with a heavy roller, and boiling tar is poured over them, so as to make a compact mass, as well as to exclude the water. A layer of sand is thrown over tho tar before cooling. This paving has been in satis factory use for some time in various cities. Deer and Rattlesnake in a Fight A gentleman narrated to your corro apondent a fight he witnessed some time back near Cisco, Texas, between a deer and a rattlesnake. lie saw the deer some distance from him engaged in cut ting up peculiar antics. He could not understand what it meant, but upon creeping up near he heard the rattling of the snake and understood that a fight to tho finish was in progress. He waited and watched. The deer would run forward, jump off theground, throw its four feet together and come down with all its force in one place, then bound from the ground as if a rubber ba'l, retreat, snort, ruffle up its hair and return, again to go through the same proceedings. This was kept up for some minutes. In tho mean time the snake was perceptibly weakening. Finally tho deer cautiously approached the snake, raised one foot and pawed it until satisfied the snake was dead. After the battle was over and the deer gone, the ground was found to be beaten down, tho grass destroyed, and tho snake pawed almost to pieces. — St. Louis Republic