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(The (Trite (Wizen. Sullivan Brothers. Publishers. Subscription Hates: One Copy one year - - $2 «00 j “ “ • six months - 1 00: “ “ three months - 50 Positively cash. en. Yolume 3. Waynesboro, Georgia, Friday, May 16th, 1884. Number 2. fFhc (true Advertising- Rates t Transient ndvs. ]>iivhIiU> In inlvnnee. I 'ont ract ml vs. pa.valile quart >rly. t'oimnnnleatlnns for personnl henellt will lie tdntri’ed for ns mlvs., payable In advam-e. Advs. occupy Ini; speeial position clmi'Hcd 25 per e lit. additional. No lees atnonu rianllnk matter 10 cents per line, each Insert (on. Notices In Local A Hitslness column, next to reading, a cents per line eaeli Insertion. All notices will lie placed a moon reading matter If not specially ordered ot herwise. For terms apply at tills ollice. The German carp seems to be loosing its reputation as an extra superior fish. Not long since we saw published the experience of a gentleman in eating the carp, lie said thi' flesh was inferior, cottony and little better than that of the gar. And now conies the Brunswick, (Ga.,) Hr raid and says: “German carp, the fish that is now extensive ly propagated by the government, is nothing more than what is known as the ‘mudsucker’ in the South.— The propagation of this species of lish has been a great success. They live to be a thousand years old, and some have been found in this coun try weighing more than twenty-live pounds each.” Nelms, the principal keeper of the penitentiary, was lately charged by the Palmetto Blade with aiding in the procuring exculpatory evi dence in the case of one John Thomas, a murderer, and using bis influence to induce the governor to commute the sentence of Thom as from that of hanging to peniten tiary for life. In the controversy which followed, and in the attempt to deny a well sustained accusation, he used language entirely unbecom ing a gentleman. Besides this, be stepped completely out of bis way to nullify, and render inoperative the solemn action of a court and jury in a very grave matter. As a •State officer, it was no part of Nelms’ business to meddle with, supervise or set aside the action of juries or the judgments of courts. We have had enough of such im pertinent action on the part of offi cials who use their positions to de feat tin 1 execution of the laws. As a warning to those who partic ipate in base ball playing, we give the following account of a distress ing accident, from the Hartwell Sun, which occurred on the occa sion of the picnic of the Hartwell High School: “After the picnic, the match game of base ball was played between the High School Nine and the Blue Boys—the citizens’ club.— AVe have to report two casualities. Willie Edwards had a linger badly dislocated by catching the ball on the fly, and the bone protruded through the flesh. Tommy Graft caught the ball on his eye while pitching which addled him for a few moments, and blackened his eye considerably.” The hurt on the young man’s eye does not seem serious in its results, though it nar rowly escaped knocking out the eye; but the young man who had lus finger broken is a cripple in one of his hands—that ulmost idispen- sible member of the body—for life. This is only one, and a trivial one, too, among the thousands of acci dents which have been reported as the result of this game. It has caused hundreds of fearful and fa tal rencounters which have plung ed thousands of families into mourn ing, gloom and sorrow; it has furn ished .more than one victim for the gibbet and State’s prison, and maimed its thousands, and should be depricated and discouraged by every thinking man throughout the land. A vague rumor has reached us that Bulloch and Sorlven, the coun ties which together with Burke form this State senatorial district, will be put upon notice at the com ing senatorial convention that if the rotation system is continued, Burke will claim two senatorial terms to one of each of the other two counties. We do not know where or when this rumor originated, or anything as to its truth, but even with two terms Burke will be relin quishing one term to which she is justly entitled. Wo are opposed to the rotation system altogether, but if it is the adopted policy, and is to he continued and pursued, it should be done upon a principle of Justice, l’nirke has three representatives in the Lower House of the State Leg islature while Bulloch and Seriven have each only one. Then upon "’hat principle of justice, admitting the so-called rotation system, can Bulloch an Seriven claim an equal number of terms in the Senate with Burke which is acknowledged t" contain one-third more in num ber of inhabitants than both the other counties together? As con ducted now under the rotation sys tem, Burke yields two-thirds of her right to representation in the Sen ate, and no course of reason can make anything else of it. Wo have heard, coupled with the rumor that Rulloeli is ready to conceed to Burke her rights in this matter, ami wo hope Seriven will bo found ready to act In the same spirit of justice. If, however, these counties refuse to yield to Burke as plain a right as this, then it will the duty “t our delegates to notify them that, 80 far as Burke is concerned, the rotation system is at an end. Subscriptions tire positively cash A ltKPOTOKIAL YYALK. Km! (if tlio Croat (io-As-You-l'Ioaso Match In At- lanta—Clioslilro Wins the ltace. Richmond in Augustu Chronicle. The main object of gossip is the reporters’ walking match that came oil Saturday. Henry Grady seems to be most responsible for the enliven ing episode of the reporters. Ac cording to all accounts it was an interesting affair. There were fully 3,900 people present during the day, including all classes and kinds.— The money taken in has not been stated, but it falls short of what was expected and the cause of the de ficiency is the promiscuous transfer of season tickets, which were priced at $1, and were declared not to be transferable. These tickets admit ted the holders as often as they de sired. 'flic match began at ten in the morning and ended at ten at night. The gentlemen who entered for the race were eight in number, and they attired themselves in the regu lation pedestrian costume. 11. M. Cheshire, blue and grey, 48 miles 1 lap; Josiah Garter, green and red, 48 miles; E. G. Brutfey, grey and red, 4(1 miles 9 laps; E. T. By- ington, yellow and lilac, 40 miles 1? laps; Smith Clayton, black and white, 88 miles? laps; Sam W. Small, lilac and grey, 87 miles 8 laps; Tide Bamsdell, red and white, 80 miles 7 laps; G. T. Logan, blue and white, 21 miles 8 laps. The match took place at Kelley A Rosser’s cotton warehouse. The ring was one-fourteenth of a mile.— The men were allowed to run as they pleased. And a number put in considerable trotting and running. Garter found that running gave him cramp in his legs and perhaps did less running than any. Cheshire and Brutfey are both very small men; Carter, Clayton and Small are slender, tall persons. Byington, Itamsdell and Logan are of good size and quite muscular.— The men trained for several days, doing what practice in walking and endurance that they could, while engrossed in their daily duties.— Logan has been recently ill, and the fact accounts for his small score. Railfsdell has been wounded in his chest, and this interfered with his coming up to the best measure of achievement. All took several rests and were groomed down and rubbed off. Some took a little whis ky to help them out. The scene became quite exciting at the close. Cheshire and Carter were nip and tuck, and on the last mile they were close to each other, but Cheshire seemed to have the best staying quality, and put nearly a lap between himself and his game ful competitor. The match was quite an ordeal of endurance for these novices in pedestriimism and tested them right sharply. At the start, they went off in this order, Itamsdell, Byington, Carter, Cheshire, Logan, Small, Brutfey and Clayton. They changed about won derfully in the race. At the end of the first quarter Itamsdell lead with Cheshire, Byington, Garter, Clayton, Small, Brutfey and Logan in the order named. At the half point the sequence stood, Garter, Brutfey, Cheshire, Byington, Itamsdell, Clay ton, Logan. At the three-quarter stretch they stood, Carter and Cheshire even, then Bruffey, Bying ton, Clayton, Small, Itamsdell, Logan. At the conclusion they were, Chesire, Carter, Bruffey, By ington, Clayton, Small, Itamsdell, Logan. There was tremendous cheering at the result. Much money chang ed hands. 'Phe pool selling before hand stood: Itamsdell 104, Carter 4)0, Clayton 42, Bruffey 40, Logan 38, Cheshire 8.7, Byington 88, Small 30. A curious miscalculation of pros pects. Cheshire, who won, stood fifth in the pool and low at that.— Itamsdell, who rated first in the pool, came out seventh in the race. The money taken in is to be divided between them after ex penses are paid in the ratio of their priority. Besides this many special premiums were offered. M r. Chesh ire, besides winning the largest share of the takings, won a $60 dia mond ring from A lie Fry, a $27 badge from Stevens, $10 from Steve Ryan, $27 from the Swift Specific Company, $5 from W. 14. Lowe, $10 from Paul Jones, $10 from J, A. An derson, $8 pair of shoes from Berry, $in from (’apt. Harry Jackson, $10 f»0 Globo cotton planter, $47 bale of shirting from Gov. Bullock, $100 share in the Electric Light Com pany. Mr. (’arter won, besides the second share, several special premiums.— Mr. Logan won a baby carriage worth $17, given by Mr. Stewart, as the man making the fewest number of miles. The fastest walker was Itamsdell. Smith Clayton made the last lap most rapidly. I saw the walkers in solemn con clave discussing the premiums with Mr. Grady gracefully and impartial ly presiding. 'Phe three head men all looked as fresh as daises, several bad a jaded appearance. I will not invidiously mention the fatigued ones. Mr. Small won a prize for drinking nothing but water. There was some question about a foul per petrated by Mr. Hodgson, trainer for Mr. Cheshire on Mr. Itamsdell, by which Mr. Cheshire lost a lap under the rules, but there was too good a feeling and generous a spirit to allow any technicalities to thwart the victory honestly won. We take the following division of prizes from the Atlanta Journal of the 12th inst.: “The receipts at the gate were about $1,700 and the ex pense reached nearly $000. The division of money this morning was as follows: Cheshire $800; Carter $227; Bruffey $227; Byington $107; Clayton $107; Small $187; Itamsdell $120; Logan $107. The prizes were pooled. There is perhaps $170 worth of property yet to be divided.” TIIK MACON FOOT HACK. Hportlm? AuthorltltfN (Uro alllark Kye to the JiHlgrs nnd I ) Our Chainpion’N Kucortl. The Spirit of the Timex of May 10th, hits the Macon foot race, and the judges of the foot race, a hard one and unnecessarily reflects on the - record of our champions in the following which we clip from its sporting columns. The article is headed “A Champion Found At Last,” and answers the querry of a Waynesboro gentleman as follows: Waynkshoko, Ga., April 22, 1884. The Augusta (Ga.) Evening News publishes the following: “Fleet Flyers on Foot — Louis Robert, of Augusta, Beats His Best Record and Wins the Macon Race in 9-47 Seconds.—The foot race in Macon yesterday afternoon caused as much excitement as the whole firemen’s parade, and 10,000 people crowded the course to watch the race between Louis Robert, of Augusta, and Dinkier, the winner of the Individual prize in the Macon firemen’s contest. The betting was high and $100 was the forfeit. There was no idea of a forfeit being paid, however, for both runners were con fident and in fine trim, and both had loads of backers. The Macon man had the bulge at first, and, on ac count of his tine record in winning the individual contest race of 100 yards in 10 41-100s., and the report that he was not then at his best, he was the favorite in bets at the start. As soon as Augusta learned of the race, the wires were loaded with offers for any kind of bets, and all the sports were snapped up till the tide changed. The consequence was that Augusta won back its laurels and its money. The reason more money was not brought back was because the bets from here could not all be accommodated.— The race itself is described as the finest on record, for amateurs, and the record made by Louis Robert, of Augusta, the winner, has only been beaten once by a professional, who made the 100 yards in 0'.,s Robert won easily in 9.4-5s., and led Dinkier six feet or more, notwith standing the fact Dinkier got the jump on Augusta’s favorite at the start. The race was the prettiest seen in this section, or anywhere else, and both sides agree that the thing was fair and square. Macon acknowledges the corn handsomely, and the beaten but still plucky loser gave the palm and the purse over to Augusta.” 1. Does this race, taking place as it did, under competent jndgers and timers, constitute a record for Rob ert ? 2. Is it not the best on record ? 8. What constitutes a record for pedeslriauism, horse racing, etc., when they do not belong to the Association? 4. What is necessary to record the same, etc.? Yours, J. A. Polliill. [This story is too ridiculous for serious comment, but as Mr. Polhill seems to be in earnest, wo answer him in the same spirit. 1. This does not constitute a record, be cause the judges and time keepers were not as Mr. Polhill assumes, competent; but on the contrary, were either incompetent or dishon est, possibly both. 2. No. The largest lies on record are 100 yards in 8k,s., by L. Pike, at Baltimore, in 1874, and also by W. S. Larned, in the same year. 8. That the claimed feat should actually have been ac complished under the supervision of competent and honest officials. 4. That details and proof should be furnished to the Spirit. If Mr. Pol hill will procure the watch with which Dinkier was timed in 10:41-100 seconds, and show us how the one- hundredth part of a second is marked, we will agree to put it on record.—Ed.] • Did Edmunds made a motion to retire Grant a few days ago in the •Senate. 11 is to be supposed it would much-pleased him to re tiro Arthur, Blaine, Logan and perhaps several others upon whom he looks as lions crouching along his path towards the Presidency. Poor, vindictive miserable old Edmunds, he has done more meanness to the South than he will ever get forgiveness for to be President, yet he is likely to die without attaining tho coveted goal. .Imlnli 1’. llenjmiihi Demi. A dispatch from London, Eng., da ted May 8th, says: “Judah P. Ben jamin, the distinguished lawyer and advocate, and ex-member of the government of the Southern Confederacy, is dead. Mr. Benja min died in his apartments on the avenue Jena, Paris. He had been in failing health ever since he fell while descending front a tramway car several years ago. Judah Peter Benjamin was born in Santo Domingo, in 1812, of Jew ish parents, who emigrated to Sa vannah in 1810. He entered Yale College, but left without graduating. In 1881 he went to New Orleans, studied law, supporting himself by teaching,was admitted to the bar in 1834, and rose rapidly to a high po sition in the profession. He also became prominent as a politician, attaching himself to the Whig par ty. In 1872 he was chosen to the Senate of the United States, where he soon allied himself to the Demo cratic party in consequence of the action of the two parties on the slavery question. In 1859 he was re-elected to the Senate, his col league being John Slidell. On Dc- cemberSl, 1800, in a speech in the Senate, he avowed his adhesion to the Southern cause, and on Febru ary 4, 1861, be withdrew from the Senate and was at once appointed Attorney General in the Provision al Government of the Southern Confederacy. In August he was appointed acting Secretary of War, but resigned in February, 1862, on account of having been censured by a Congressional committee. lie, however, stood high in the confi dence of Jefferson Davis, and was appointed Secretary of State, which position he held until the dowdfall of the Confederacy. lie then took up his residence in London, where he entered successfully into the legal profession, and in 1866 published “A treatise on the sale of personal property.” Since the publication of this work Mr. Benjamin has con tinued his residence abroad, osten sibly in private life, but his name from time to time coming into prominence in connection with im portant public topics. A Fortune for a Coiitlet. Trenton, N. J., May 7.—John Kister is a Newark burglar, who has served part of a thirty year term in the State prison here. He has just been informed by a New York lawyer upon the solicitation of a barrister in Devonshire, Eng., that his aunt has just died in Eng land leaving him $60,000. The con vict came from that country when a boy, having lived there with his aunt. She gave him a good educa tion and provided him with money to begin life in New York. He squandered it in riotous living, and then took to dishonest methods to get more, lie wandered all over the country, and served terms in various penitentiaries, lie was a confederate of “Red” Leary, “Billy” Potter and other infamous cracks men, and was the only one of that party caught after the robbery of tho Krementzet jewelry factory in Newark. Kister will be 58 years old when his time expires, lie may be pardoned out five years sooner, as his behavior is good, lie said to-day that he hardly knew what he would do with his money, but thought if he did get his re lease, he would settle down in some rural neighborhood and live like a decent man. He said lie was tired of crime. Kcllliii; Mountains In Now York. The tiial of J. W. Clark for fraud and conspiracy began to-day, says a Syracuse, N. Y„ special, dated the 8th inst., to the N. Y. Sun. Clark and four others were indicted on allegations that they had sold land in Ulster county, representing that it was valuable, whereas it was worthless. William Fay asserts that he was induced to exchange a valuable farm for a mortgage on some of the Ulster county property which was represented to be on the Hudson river, and worth $1<>(' per acre. An agent who afterwards went down to view the property, found that it was among the moun tains, on which Rip Van Winkle slept, and was practically valueless. It is alleged that Clark and others obtained possession of about 1,000 acres of this land and out it up into hundred acre parcels, and that the total amount of their fraudulent transactions was over $70,000. The parties engaged in tho scheme quarreled, and thus their methods were disclosed. Jule Ramsay, of Toccoa, has three Cotswold sheep, lie sheared two of them a few days ago, a ram which yleldid 13 pounds of wool and a ewe 10 pounds. A largo fruit crop is expected in Bartow county. CURKKNT (II.KAMNdS. Potatoes ut 20 Cents per liusliel. Troy, N. Y., May 12.—In Wash- ton county potatoes are a drug in the market, and are being bought for the starch mills at 20 cents per bushel. Fur Marrylnnu White Woiiihii. Richmond, Ind., May 13.—Yes terday James Edwards, colored, for marrying Rachel A. Mason, white, was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary and to pay a $100 tint 1 . A Conductor* Crime. Birmingham, Ala., May 10.— Charles Knestric, ex-conductor on the Alabama Great Southern, was tried before Justice Allen to-day for embezzling $8.20, money received as conductor. He was fined $77 and sentenced to hard labor for three days. I'liiteil State* vs. Louisiana State Lottery. Washington, May 12.—A tele gram was received at the Post Of fice Department to-day, from New Orleans stating that the case of the United States vs. the Louisiana Lottery Company had been dismiss ed upon a demurrer filed by the defense. I'lnntliifr n True In the Ocean. N. Y'. Sun. Christopher Hupp, a young man 22 years old, has been of unsound mind for sometime. On Saturday morning, he left his home in Jersey City, with the intention, he said, of planting a tree in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. He has not been seen since. Six National Conventions. There will be six national con ventions this year for the nomina tion of candidates for President and Vice-President, viz: The anti- Monoply, in Chicago, May 14; the Greenback-Labor, in Indianapolis, May 28; tho Republican in Chicago, June 3; the American party, in Chicago, June 19; the Democratic, in Chicago, July 8, and the Prohibi tion, in Pittsburg, July 23, the date of the last having been postponed from May 21. CuNuiTvaaful (loose Kaisluir. Huliulu (.S. C.) Argus. There is an old lady living near Abbeville who has been trying to raise geese all her life. Twenty- five years ago she possessed a goose and a gander and the flock now amounts to three. One of these is a stray goose that walked up one day uninvited and no one has ever claimed it. The other two are the same she had twenty-five years ago. The old lady is still sanguine of suc cess, and now has under her care six goslings that are sure to die before July. An Knrtluiuakr In Ohio. Cleykland, O., May 12.—A dis patch from Zanesville says that town is in an excited state over a supposed earthquake near Blandey avenue, in the fourth ward. At 10 o’clock Sunday morning a terrific report was heard and about three acres of ground sank several feet, carrying with it a number of houses all of which were badly damaged. The inhabitants in the vicinity were panic stricken. The fissure was opened to a depth of about 170 feet, and the only plausible theory is that several deserted eotll mines caved in. I* a Strike ltrculnir 1 St. Louis, May 12.—The Globe- Democrat says that there are symp toms of uneasiness among the tele graph operators and rumors of another presentation of grievances to the Western Union Company with the alternative of a strike un less tlu> demands are granted. The talk has gone so far as to prompt the suggestion among the discon tented that on tho eve of a National Republican Convention at Chicago, would afford the opportunity to give tin* corporation a telling blow. In the twenty-four hours there are in tervals when operators of different and distant cities find time to con verse over the wires, and this way the projects of another organiza tion and of another effort to obtain what they conceive to he their rights have been discussed. How strong is the discontent, how far toward reorganization they have progressed, how near ripe the situa tion is for another tussle with tho great corporation are questions the members of the craft themselves are slow to answer. Last summer’s surrender was not of principle, but the reluctant yielding of men who see the wolf at the door. They think they learned a lesson from that strike which will not be for gotten, but the lesson was not ab stention from another movement in the same direction. There were blunders about that act which they think would be avoided another time. Not n Horn 1 in IIIn llody. A correspondent of the Cincin nati Timex-Star, (probably Joe Mul- luittan) writes from Lexington, Ivy.; Yesterday your correspondent was introduced to Isaac Arbuckle, a member of a United States Mar shal’s posse, who has returned from a raid in search of moonshine whisky manufacturers in the moun tains of Eastern Kentucky. Ar buckle was waiting for a train to take him to his home in Carter county, and when interrogated, stated that the revenue raid was almost barren of results, but that lie had made a discovery while prowl ing below Barbourville that ho felt sure would be of interest to news paper readers. Ilis story in his own words were as follows: Two days after leaving Barbour ville, I spent the night at the cabin of a poor farmer among the hills, and during a social family conver sation, in which I participated, after supper, some one incidentally spoke of Hector Davis, “the man without bones.” I immediately asked what was meant by the ex pression, when my host explained that Hector Davis was one of their “neighbors,” living some three miles further on among the mountains, and that he actually had not a bone in his body. As I expresssed some skepticism, he volunteered to show me over to Hector’s the next morn ing. We knocked at the door of the Davis cabin about 9 o’clock next day, and the first thing that struck my attention upon entering was a middle-aged man sitting bolt upright and supported by a rude and peculiarly-shaped frame-work. He was introduced to me as Hec tor Davis. I at once entered into conversation with him, and dis covered him to be a man of fail- intelligence, and eager to tell all about himself, in a voice that was as strong as my own. I grasped his hand upon first entering, but his fingers all rolled up together like a cabbage leaf in a mutiny sort of way that made me glad to let go of them. Taking hold of his limbs they yielded to the pressure until they were flattened out to twice their proper width. The only indi cation of bone was in his skull, which, while pliable almost as shoe- leather, still afforded a kind of pro tection for the poor fellow’s brain. His neck was limber as a dish cloth, and when his head was releas ed from its support, which was something in the shape of a similar contrivance used in photograph galleries, it rolled helplessly about on bis shoulders like a foot-ball. Ilis arms drooped at his side, but with the aid of the muscle ho was enabled to partly raise the forearm, although the hand curled over limp ly and gave the whole a sort of zig zag shape. He shullied off his slipper and requested me to step on his foot. I did so, and it at once spread itself out until it looked as if a railroad train had passed over it. Tt slowly resumed its natural shape, but it was fully a halt hour before he was able to get the foot into his slipper again. “Perluqrs you would like to tie my leg in a knot ?” 1 found no difficulty in perform ing this feat, while my friend ac complished the same with the other leg, and after we had also tied knots in both his ariqs he presented a very knotty problem, indeed, and one that would have set a profes sional contortionist crazy. When we had unraveled all tho knots and straightened his limbs again, he requested us to lift him gently from his framework and place him upon the floor. This wo found no easy task, for his body slipped, and it was only by securing a firm grip upon his clothing that we managed to keep him from falling. \Ve finally succeeded in straightening him out upon the floor, and then my friend, who seemed to thoroughly understand the boneless man’s programme, seized a barrel standing near, and which 1 afterward learned contain ed turnips and swiftly upending it at once proceeded to roll it over the prostrate Davis, from his toes up to his chin and back to his toes. The only manifestation of pain he made was when the barrel passed over his heart and lungs, but it left him in a horrible shape. 1 can only describe it by comparing it to a man made of mud, and then thrown up and flattened against a wall.— But I had not time to contemplate his flatness, as he almost immedi ately called to us in a rather a weak voice to “roll him up.” This we proceed to do by doubling his head over his chest and then con tinuing “to roll him up” as you would a carpet, until wo came to his feet, and he formed a complete cylinder about as large a half-bar rel. A voice feebly piped from the centre of the cylinder for us to un roll him, and wo soon had him once more spread out over the floor. While his body was resuming its former shape, I learned from his old spectacled mother, who had sat during all these proceedings knit ting in her rocking chair, that Hec tor, who was 40 years old, had al ways enjoyed excellent health, and provided well for her until the be ginning of bis affliction two years ago. He first observed a softening of the bones of the toes, and this rapidly spread to all parts of his anatomy, although, beyond making him helpless, ho never experienced any inconvenience from it. All his vital organs performed their func tions properly, and she believed ho would live to a good old age. She had a younger son then in the field at work, who assisted her in hanld- ling him, and altogether they got along quite comfortably. She did not know what the doctors might think of Hector, as she “had not seen a doctor up in them thar hills for nigh on to twenty year.” After my friend and I had replaced tho boneless man in his frame work, we bade him good-bye and came away. Water Uiiniiliis; up lllll. Washington (D. ('.,) Republican. With the McDonald boat way in operation, the near future may wit ness large steamboats running from Lake Ontario to Lake Erie over tho now impassable Niagara Falls, where a wide river of deep water dashes over a precipice and falls with accompanying thunder and great clouds of spray hundreds of feet below. Colonel McDonald is a member of the United States fish commission. A model of liis re markable boat way was placed in operation last Saturday at the arm ory building, on Sixth street south west. The model is about nine feet long, and consists of a trough inclin ed at an angle of about one foot in thirty. In the centre of the trough are cells, while the sides are a se ries of triangular cavities. The water falls in succession into each cell as it passes down the way, and is forced from beneath into the triangular cavities and to the sur face again. These cavities face tho top of tho way, and as the water rushes through it goes upward, forming an upper current. The effect of the way is that water falls or strongly flowing currents can be forced up hill instead of down.— To illustrate this, several small boats with crews of wooden figures, were in operation on Saturday.— They were placed in the way at the bottom, and without the least aid from any one, they passed swiftly up the ascending current to the top. Colonel McDonald said to a Re publican reporter: “It is possible to tame the wild falls of Niagara with one ot these ways, Of course, it would be a costly operation, but it would establish steamboat com munication between Lakes Ontario and Erie. The incline would have to be about 2,000 feet long, with a fall of one foot in forty. The cur rent could be forced up the way with sufficient velocity to carry a tow of vessels to the top without any assistance from either steamer sails. There are three points on the Ohio river where navigation is obstructed. My boat way would render these points navigable, and do away with locks and gates.” A model of the proposed fish way for the Great falls of the Potomac was also on evhibition at the arm ory building on Saturday. The fish way in operation will enable fish to swim over the falls in order to reach the quiet waters beyond, where they can spawn without danger trom the voracious fish that inhabit the lower Potomac. Tho plans of the Great falls way will be submitted to the United States en gineer’s department this week and the contractors will begin work about June 1. The river and har bor committee of the house, besides many congressmen and others wit nessed the operation of both ways on Saturday. Washington 1 , May 14.—It ap pears probable that there will be but few contested seats in the Re publican Convention at Chicago. The call for the convention requires that notices of contests shall be given to the National Committee, accompanied by full printed state ments of the grounds of contest. Up to this date only two notices of contest have been heard, one from the First district of Alabama and the other from the First district of Georgia. In the latter case only have the requirements been com plied with by filing printed state ments of the grounds of contest. Tho absence of contests in the dis tricts makes a brief session of the convention probable. Leading men of the Southern del egations to the Republican Conven tion will hold a conference before the convention meets, with a view to concert of action. They will have little difficulty in getting to gether, for they are all for the man who will win. Fourteen of the six teen Louisiana delegates are set down for Arthur. Tho proportion of Arthur delegates is greater in other delegations, but they will vote for Edmunds or Lincoln or anybody else who seems likely to win.