The Mercury. (Sandersville, Ga.) 1880-1???, May 27, 1884, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textthe mercury. PUBLISHED EVEBT TUESDAY NOTICE. «rAU communication* Intended for thli paper muat be aooompanlsd with the foil oeme of the writer, not necessarily for publl- . cation, bat u n guarantee of good faith. W« are In no wap responsible for the view* or opinion* of correspondent. MERCURY. A. JJ JERNIGAN, Proprietor, DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRI0ULTUR1 AED GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. $1.50 per Annum THE MERCURY. dswtUle Festofoi*. Aprtl m, ft Budemtlle, Waaklagtoa Omt|| A. J. JERNIGAN, E- S. LANGMADE, Attorney at Law, SANDERSVILLE, GA. MAYOR. O. H. ROGERS. CL EftR Jb 2 ft LAS HU EH, D. E. B, WELLS. MA ft SHALL. J. E. WEDDON. ALDEftMLJ*. W. H. LAWSON, Wm. RAWLINGS, 8. G. LANG, A. M. MAYO, M. II. BOYER. 2own of Lennitte. Mayor—John C. TIarmnn. Aldermen-W. P. Davie, J. W Smith, P. J. Pipkin, T. J. Beck. Clerk—S. II. B. Massey. Marshall—J. C. Hamilton. MUSIC, MUSIC —ao to— JERNIGAN Bows. Strings, Rosin Boxes, Etc. 0- C BROWN, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Bandsfsvlll*, Oa Will practice In th* State end United Mats* Courts. Offloe in Court-house. Watches, Clocks And JEWELRY BKPAIRBD IT JERXTICAXT. THC* TO TIIKIU HOTIIBR, Dr. H. B. Hollifield, pstsiciai m imm Having reoentiy grndnnted at the Unlver- i<f i ' * (Ity ot Mnrylauif and returned home, now ofU'i'a Ills prolnsalonal eervlcra to the ojtlzeii" ol Mnudersvllle end vlolnlty. Office with l>r. H. N Holllfleld, next door to|Mre. Bayne's millinery store. G. W H. WHITAKER, DENTIST, HandersTlIle, On TKHM8 CASH. omce at 111* Re*ld*nce, on Bnrrl* (treat. Aorll 34. 1880. H. N. HOmniLP. Physician and Surgaon, BandwsvUte, ( Offloe next doer to Mm Bayne* millinery ■tore on Harris street. BUY YOUR SPECTACLES, FROM J E R N IC A F i, Non# genuine without onr Trad* Hark On liiuid and for sale. SPECTACLES NOSE GLASSES. ETC. Machine Needles, Oil and Shuttles, * W,m "" with Warder a.d kef Children He hi mi t« T*«tir*. ,,A’f n , M<lon A l ««ino of 8b Unusual kind, even an Hni“ h mur ^ r lr ‘. sl *t oocufred at Curriok- Tipperary J Ireland. Th* ™ . *“• supposed murdar woe l 1 S laU 7- of KUcash, whoa* body was recently exhumed end wait found to show traces of wienie in suniclent quantity to cause death. Suspicion rested upon the widow, and *‘‘ u arrested and placed on trial at Carrick- on-Huir, Her two children, of very ten- dor years, were produced a* Witnesses, but on bring placed upon the witness’ table they stubbornly refused to utter a Word. They wsre were evl threatened with -.-th imprisonment, and dently muoh frightened, but threats and per suasion alike failed to elioit from them a single morsel of ovidcnce. They were therefore com mitted for contempt of court and ordered to be kept in confinement separate from their mother until i they purge themselves of cou- tornpt by giving their testimony in open oosrt. 1 nn Hftvarit.v < if tlia Tuxl.rx.’o 4«tU.. ..^.1 at.. 1 he seventy cif the Judge's, action under the peculiar circumstances lias calmed a great sen sation in the neighborhood and has turned the sympathies of| the people in favor of the widow, who has hitherto been regarded by moat of the neighbors as guilty. I ImiiHtlon of ike flirspa. The returns of the Departtoont of Agrlenl* (nro for May make the wheat iprnspoot nearly aa favorable ail in Sprit. Tiion the gonoral av* erage wae within fire per oentj of the atandard of full condition. Tho May alverag* Is 94. It wae R8^ In 1888. Ilarring the changes of the astvitiv. ss vs III Mir WliytlV prof 000,000 bnalicls is indicstod. Tho temperature of April hat been lower than usual, and low-lylug lands havo been sat- nrated with niiolsturo, retarding growth. Well drained whoat soils aro nearly everywhere bearing a vigorous and healthy growth. A few reports of injury by tho fly have been received, but |th« aggregate low from Insect ravages will bo trivial The winter wheat of New England it a scarcely appreciate a quantity. Its condition Is quite uniformly high. Th* Middle and Southern Staiiee make average* ranging from 80 to 100. The Ohio basin makes a lcm favor able showing, with little difference in th* States on tho north side of tho river. most avxiuois ron wheat. The'States of large production make tit* fol lowing averagos, 1(>0 representing not an aver age condition, but a full stand of healthy plants of medium growth: New York, 97; Pennsylvania, 98; Kcntuoky, 99; Ohio, 85, Michigan, 86'; Indiana, 86; lllllnoii, 87; Mis souri, 94; Kansas, 103, and California, 96. Bit! IttfNfa Krnpp, the German ordnance manufacturer, claim* to have eettled the oeateat which hoe been waging for several years between armor piste and heavy gun*. He it constructing gun* at present of 16-inch bore sad 86 calibers NEWS OF THE WEEK. ItlMtern nnd middle- States. Chaiu-kn O’Conoh. the noted Now York lawyer, diud at his residence in Nantucket, length, which weigh 181 tons and carry a pro- Mass., a few days since aged eighty years. ] sc tils weighing more than a ton, with acharge He , W *T n ?! Nl "V Y, ”' k ' was ? d , mitt ,^ nf »77ft nitmtsia 1 - rm e . to the bar in 1824, ami was connected with 7 pouu is of powder. These guns can ionic of tlio most iniportant cooes over argued penetrate, at several miles distance, any armor In this country. In 1K73 he was nominated which itispouihle for a vessel to float with 1 t° r President of tho United HtaUw by the Tli«» -mi .wi sent nnn ...v , ’ ’’ Straight-out” Democrats at Louisville, and They oost about •175,000 each, and it requires by ft i ft f H , r n .f„ rm convention in Philadelphia, over two years to complete one. Knipp’s 13 | but dix'llued, notwithstanding wUicll lie re Inch gun carries t projoctil* of aliont half a ton, and It Is claimed that at a distance of two miles It oen penetrate the armor of the strong est ship In the English navy, consisting of 26 inches of Iron plate and 17 inches of teak. THE UAMBIJiK’S WAV’S A recent writer, who Is himself a gambler, Is 1 not inolined to believe the statement that pro fessional gambler* havo a high standard of honor among themselves, llo says they are a very auspicious body of men whoso bond takes the form of collateral security. The two ohief component parts, he says, that go to mako tip the professional gambler are cupidity and last- lies*. These two characteristics predominating result In tho complete demoralization of th* man. He suma up the whole matter In this way: "A business that Is illegitimate in Itself and drawl to its support criminals from every walk in crime, must on Its face be demoralis ing. I do not attempt to iay that every gam bling room in Boston is the constant and only resort of criminals, but 1 do wish to be under stood as saying that there is not a game in this or any other city that would exclude a man on social or moral grounds. Cash, no matter how obtaingp, is the ’open sesame’ in every in stance. The conclusions arrived at in this article havo their foundation In solid fact, and the deductions and suggestions a o the out come of maturo thought, by one who has made tho subject a study, from the vantage ground ot tho doaler’s chair." W11KAT ( HOP. The present outlook of th* wheat crop is generally favorable, though a large part of It la backward. The returns Indicate that the con dition la now 96 as compared with 100 repre senting a full average. This Implies that the present outlook Is 17 percent botter than a year ago. The area of the crop reported this season Is abont 27,000,000 acres, and lit Is believed that th* yield will bo about 360,000,000 bushels. 10^> lit Till? Mill ADR. ft Is wonderful how Europeans stand th* summer in Calcutta, but theylcontrivo to worry through It by 1 living in a state of perfeot idle ness. Servants fan the sleeper all night, wash and dress him in the morning, end attend to every want. The thermometer frequently goes np to 160 in the shade and 180 in the inn. Every summer the Jiest kills i people riding in tho railway ears, live main Imsinoo* of life here is to keep cool. The climate seems to be the one tiling which is fatal to the develop ment of this Wonderful country. FOb HI KINDS OK MACHINFM, for sale. 1 will also order purls of Ms el) litas Hint get broken, for whlolv new pieces nre wanted. A. «J. JEHNIGAN * Hikks. O. H. ROOBBS A Train Disaster. The train bperator at Connelftvllle, on th* Baltimore anrl Ohio Railroad, ordered a o.uup train, bearii g forty-six workmen, to "run ■ jif - — • wild" to Ohlt Pylo Fulls, a station sixteen miles rest of Connellsvllle, ou live Baltimore and Ohio ltatli nnd. A few minutes after the tram left the operator remembered that Iho second section of f ii'iglit train No. 80, which was dno in Connellsvllle at four o’olook in tho meriting, was lint ill yet, hut had just left Indian Creek slat!m, and was constamlyi heating down on the camp Haiti at that moment. The operator DIMKAMR AND OI.D AGE. A prominent F.ngllsh physician says that a great many people who are tfilleted with mor tal maladies manage to live to a good old age. In Ills opinion mors people are killed by fear than by disease. There are innumerable in ti anoes of persons dragging along for year* in dally expectation of death, and yet living to the average age of man. Medicine Is valuable, bnt it owes more to the influence of hope then it does to drugs, Ill - brain, or mind organ, ie Just as muoh a part of the body as the liver or the heart. The influence of hope is frequently manifested when there is a consultation of physicians in the sick room. Generally the treatment ie not changed, bnt the patient feele the presence of skillful medical advisers, and he at once calls up his reserve forcee to fight against disease. A resolnte end Intelligent hopefulness and oanfldencs will do more to ward off and cure sieknes* than anything else. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Edwin Booth will act next year only in Nmv York nnd Boston. ton c.nii- ..ail. uiwswi tun VI, OJl'l J. W. tHkrU), Will till') KM mit/.tl ti led to stop the camp train i at Gilson station, Hcrmggs on its first production, has never Mart Anderson travels ahout England in a spocial palace car, refitted for hor exclusive use. "Confusion" is the great success of the year in London. It has already pastel its ! 0 7 th night. Henry InvtNo’a next season opens lq Quelioe. on Sopt*iiib-r 10 Ho loft his scenery and stage effect in New York. Frau Janihcii, the Austrian actress, nmv on a tour with Rniidiiinnu. will np|xxir next season in English in a drama by Hanlon. "Mr Partner" has loin played 1,383 timw, and J. \V. Hague, win impjiMinato 1 but found lie was too lute, ami a collision oc curred in which 14 men were killod and many siriouiily injured. SOI,ID WHISKY. Tho old story abont tho invention of solidi fied whisky comes no in a inew shape. Thia time the story goes that » German named Peterman, living near Pittobnrg, Penn., has discovered a way of solidifying whisky and packing In plugs like tobacco. A plug of missed a performance. WltnEI.lt GkrichK, wini i« coining from Germany ta> succeed Mr. George Hunttchol as conductor of the Boston Symphony society, is promised a salary of 87,800 yraidy, Miss EmiA Nevada, the young American pritna donna whs hits recently made a pro nounced soccowi In l’ntds, Ls at present con sidering an offer from an American manager to return to this country this season. Constantine Rtrrnbkoo, the pianist, will make a new departure In his lino next season. Solved over 110,009 votes. During the Inst twenty-five years of ills active life he was ac- knowlodged to 1*' tho most distinguished ropreoontntivo of tho liar not only of New York city, hut niso of tho nation. Grant ft Ward’b liabilities have been found to exceed tho colossal sum of f 14,’OJ,. 900. A not,t.lstO!t occurred nuni* ConnellsvlU*. Penn., between a freight tram nnd a gravel train containing nlimit fifty lnliorers. Four teen men were either crushed or burned to death, and twelve more injured. The recent failures of “ Jim " Keene, the Wall stroot speculator, followed by tho huh pension of the Marine National bank, and the failure of Grant & Ward, succeeded in turn by tho enlbarnssmeilt of the Second Na tional bank, bsl ton panic hi New York finan cial circles, such as 1ms not lieon witnessed since the memorable day when Jay Cooke went to the wall in 1873, During the day two banks—the Metropolitan National and the Brooklyn State bank—closed their doors, nnd seven prominent firms of bankers and broken! •wqitmdod. Wall street was a seeno of tre mendous oxcltemout, and wus crowded front sidewalk to sidewalk with a rushing throng of IHHiple. Heerelnry Folger, however, helped allay the exeitenient by ordering the tivasury department to pay the HO.U Mi.CO • included In the 137th call in advance of the t ime set—June 20—and the New York Clearing-House associa tion, comiHH'sl of slxty-tljree banks, held a meeting nnd resolved to stand by one another. This action in a measure quieten matters. Tiik deficit of John U. Eno, president of tho Second National bank, of New York, we* larger than was at first supposed, amounting to about* 1,000,00). It was made up by lift father, nnil the bank went on with its imsl- n sis, although many alarmed depositors drew out their money, air. Eno lost the money In B|ieculatton. Vbumont Greenbackor* held a Htnfco con vention at Waterbury and nominated a full tickot headed by Samuel Houle for governor. On tho mvsind day of the financial excite ment in Wall street, a quieter state of affairs existed, and only two more failures occurred, one of tho two firms of brokers suspending lieing the prominent house of Fisk & Hatch, the junior partner In which was the president of the New York Htock Exchange. The Met- ro]»litnn bank again nominal business, Presi dent Uoorge L. Honey resigning. A kirk which broko out at 9 o’clock In th* morning nt the Papachoag mill, Worcester, MnsH., spread so rapidly tlint, many opens- tives were com|ielled to jump from the upi»et windows. Nineteen mole and female ojieru- tives were injun-d diy their leap for life, several with results likely to prove fntal. Tilt entiri" mill wus destroyed, and an estimated loss of $130,000 was incurred. There wns n large attendance of delegates nt the nmuinl session of tho Presbyterian General Assembly North, held In Knrntoga, N. Y. Only one failure was reported in Wall street on the third day of the llnam-inl whirl wind. But in Newark, N. J., tho Newark Havings Institution, which had lieon consid ered one of tho stanchest depositories in tlie State, wns forced to sus|>enil anil go into the bands of a receiver. The bank's trouble was caused by the suspension of the New York firm of Fisk & Hatch, through whom the in stitution hod invested its government baud*, iiHi nnil Went. Crni’8 II. McCormick, hood of the great harvester mnnufncturini S isod to lie one of the ric ml at, lift home in that city tho other morn ing nt tho age of seventy-live. John Forsyth nnd hla wife, residing near Bnleiu Church, Ark., were on their way In a buggy to attend the funeral of Mrs. Forsyth's brother when they wore struck by a falling tree nnd both killed. Hiohwaymen attacked United States Pay master Whipple nnd party, in Montana, and killed Sergeant Conrad and seriously wounded two privates. The mules nttachod to an am bulance wagon in which the paymaster, ills clerk end the enclosure lsix wore, ran away anil they thus made their eHenpe. W. Bouak Cash, son of Colonel Cash, sums time sini-e shot and killod Deputy Sheriff Richards, nt Clu-raw, 8. C., nnd with his father's help nt the timo succeeded in escaping tlie posse sent to arrest him. A few days since to escape from Khartoum, but was compelled to return to the city. Much excitement wns caused In the London Exchange by the panic in Wall street, New York. DtiMtfd It revolt near Sana i'OO Turks were massacred. Osman Dion a and hto rebel troops killed twenty-one friendly Arabs near Tamnnieb. took forty women prisoners and captured many cattle. The Ntadt theatre, a leading place of amuse ment in Vienna, has lieon totally destroyed by fire, Emperoh William ha* accepted the resig nation of Prince Bismarck from the presidency of the Prussian cabinet , and tins appointed ns ills succcKsor Herr von Boettlcher, the Prus sian minister of state and im]iorial minister of tlie interior. Men from twenty-one to slxty-flvo years of age may frequently lie seen playing marbles in the streets of Angel's Camp, Cal. The new city ball in Philadelphia has al ready cost $\'.M1,iM) i, and it is not yet- finished. One of its features is n elook tower which is to be 320 feet high. Henry W. Miller, of Worcester, Mass., lias, ns apprentice nnd proprietor, occupied lift liaee of business ns tin and hardware dealer ’or seventy years, A rout 2,400 |h'1noiih ftro employed in nnd nisuit tlie quarries of ltiitlnud, Vt., from which nlsmt ,7K) carloads of marble nre shipiieil every month. The world rojxn't* tlint it has 08,180,000 hogs; of these the United Htntcs has 48,201,000, Russia lias 10,332,09 I, and Germany and Aus tria have about 7,1 01,109 each. Last summer over 50,009 jssmle erosseii tlie Atlantie from tills country. With tlie rati* down to $17 for tlie steerage many more than the tmmlier named will probably go across this season whisky is rather light in color, and can b* ^ He intends to improvise at the wish of any aasily carried in the vest pocket. It can b« dissolved in water or chewed up. The inventor ssyt he can do nothing unless be has perfectly pure aloohcl. He therefoito olaims that his solidified whisky will be the pnre artlole, *nd will drive out the adulterated stuff whioh is so extensively used at present, j person in his audience, giving an idoa of the wonderful things a man may develop in music. Robert E. Stoepel, the musician and ten your ; men of Uhoraw.led by Deputy Sheriff Cash mansion to a King, surrounded tho Cash mansion to cap ture the fugitive. Young Cash emerged from a barn nnd tlreil upon his pursuers, when a volley wns poured into him, und ho foil dead, riddled with bullets. Judge Reid, a prominent Kentucky Jurist, committed suicide by shooting himsolf at director, has bremsfot suit against Henry Irv- j Mount Sterling, Ky. ’ Not long since Judge ing for the use of the music employed by him yl*li i,„,i hoen ?An.«l ‘ - “ A NEW POWDEK. Gtmmskor Krupp has a pew powder that it said to be more powerful than the powder here tofore used, It is called brown powder to dis tinguish it from the blaok powder of everyday nse. The Ibrown powder contains th* ingre dients *f the black powdoir, but in different proportions, The brown powder has, it is claimed, many points ever; the old-fashioned black powder. It is good in guns of all sizes, ft explodes only in atightlyrenclosed space. It Is non-explosive when not so confined. It does not fill the air with smoke, ,*nd botter than all to the gunmakcr, it produces a greater velo city. It is thought the new invention wifi supersede tlie black destructive agent insoveral of the plays he appears "in. rnpere wore served on Mr. Irving previous to his de parture for Europe. Lamperti, tlie noted vocal teacher, lias a young nnd charming American girl for a pupil, who, it is said, possesses a marvelous voice. She is Miss Ida Marshall, of Boston, and her voice and technique are attracting much nttoation in musical cire-les in Italy. So pronounced was tho kuocoxs attending Krone's performance of Mare - Anthony rwont- ly that Manager W.R. Hayden is negotiating with tlie Cincinnati festival directors for tlie A Dill to Increase Penstana, The U. 8. House Committeo on Invalid Pen sions unanimously agreed I/O report favorably a bill which provides that all|pensions now on or hereafter tilaoed on tlie pension roll, who while in the Military or Naval servioo of tlie United Btutcs lost an arm or a leg, shall be entitled to a pension of $40 per mouth, and those who have lost a hand or a foot, shall be en titled to a< pension of $30, j>or month, and if tlvjy have received a wound or other disability in addition thereto they sliali receive * pension of $60 nor month. All persons who havo a leg amputated at tho hip joint, and afi persons who have lost an arm at tho shoulder joint sliali be entitled to a pension of $50 per month, and aU persons wllio havo lest *n arm and leg shall b« entitled to- a pension of $73 per month. POETRY SOUTH Toaquin Miller thinks the south .. theftnd of „e see. in the books that have ap- HINES & ROGERS, Attorneys at Law, ootry. n° “ t flower, after the pe&red theft' 8 . .. J n—n Rvron. or 8ANDERSVILLB, GA„ i in tl e counties of Washington, inson, Emnnnel and Wilkinson, y>>l praotloe in n Jefferson, Johnson. — K?,* 1 * Jhe U. s. Court* for the Southern Ple- trlotof Georgia. >w.. B " 1 «» ugenta In buying, selling or nm ng Real Estote. Oot iuy 0n W **‘ Ild * 0t Fat>Uo B $ w *> r winter and the southern Byron, or ,torm and winter, a j be the Keats or Shelly may yet apprar Americ.n poet that all are looking for. Sidney UnTer died just as he got a place to set down Lamer ui» j . Little Giffen," Miller ’“sthere i» nothing in tlo land as good and ■aysther - - S He thinks Lillian Rozell graphic in its^way.^ ^ a great recop- * • , I HAfinarl *11(1 Messenger lion, u John Henry Bonerj is doing refined and JeT/eot work, and Theopliilu* H. “other tfnrth CaroUna poet, is devout and true. The »ew poet* of ths'south are full of promite. purchase of the scenery, projxirties, etc., of " Julius Cnwrr,” with a view of aildfng this piny to Krono’s reix-rt/iire for next season. A star prima donna of tlie very first mag nitude, when taking her Is'nefit nt tlie im- perirfl opera, Kt. Petersburg, was called before tlie curtain more than twenty times. At last, she nddressod her enthusiastic patrons a few words in tlie Russian language, and then offered to show her gratitude for their favors by singing them a song in their own tongue. 'I9iis wns received with rapturous applause ; but judge of her surprise when, after retiring from the stage, the mnnngement fined her 2,IKK) francs for addressing tlie audience with out permission. Th« Army Question. Three or four months ago General Sherman, while ou his last round of in spection os tlie head of the army, pre dicted that dangers would arise in the future, and that, ot no distant day the country would again have to invoke tho protection of tlie army as its surest safe guard. He suggested a plan at the same time whereby tlie army might be in creased to one hundred thousand men. The country ridiculed liis fears. Who, said our wise editors and legislators, are going to attack us ? Where is tb.e na tion whioh dore invade us? Mexioo? Assuredly not. Canada? Nonsense. The Cincinnati riot, with the destruction it has wrought,may suggest dangers in the future of whioh we little dream to-day. Five hundred regnlar troops would hove ended the Cincinnati riot in a day. The presence of a garrison of five thousand soldiers in the vicinity of every large city, would do more to suppress in cipient riots than a score of militia regi ments. There is, of course, a prejudice against a large standing army; but there is a still greater preiudioe against mob law and mob violence.—iVeto York Hour, Reiil had been caned by a lawyer named Cor neilson, on account ot trouble about a law cose in which the latter was interested. Georoe Horn and William H. Gibbon, aged twenty-four and twenty-nine, were hanged nt Ashland, Ohio, for tlie murder of Harry Williams. Ton thousand people col locto l around the jail, and nine companies of militia were called upon tqrercservo order, as it was feared that the crowd would tear down the enclosure about tho scaffold in order to see the hanging. On the same dny, nt Greenville S. C., three negroes—Riely Anderson, for tho murder of Louis A. Griffith and daughter, and Alfred McCullough and his son James, for tlie murder of Ephraim Saxon—were nil hanged together in the nreaence of a large crowd. YYnaliiiigKin. The House committeo on elections in the contested election ease of English versus Peelle, of Indiana, decided by a vote of flv to three to re]sirt in favor of seating Mr Eng lish. It was unanimously ngreed by the House committee on invalid pensions to re] sirt fn- vorably a bill which provides that all pensions now on or hereafter placed on tho pension roll, who while in the military or naval service of the United States lost an arm ora leg, shall lie entitled to a pension of $40 |ier month, and those who have lost a hand or a foot, sliali lie entitled to a pension of $30 per mouth’, and they have received a wound orothcr disability in addition thereto they shall receive a pension of $50 per month. All poison* who havo a leg amputated at the hip joint and nil persons w.io have lost nn arm nt the shoulder joint snail lie entitled to a pension of $50 per month, uni) nil ]iersons who have lost, an arm nnd leg shull lie entitled to u pension of $73 per month. The American Fish Cultural association has held its annual meeting in Washington. Professor James Law, of the cattle com mission, reports that there ft no foot and mouth disease among the cattle of Kansas, Illinois and lown, ns reported. Representative Lowering, of Massaohu setts, who recently introduced a bill providing' for a pension of $8 per month to all officers, soldiers and sailors who served sixty days or more in the civil war, is in receipt of petitions from a great number of Grand Army posts throughout the country urging the passage of the measure. The House, nt n recent evening session, passed thirty-two pension bills Foreign. A motion to censure tlie Gladstone ministry for not taking measures to rescue Genera) Gordon at Khartoum was defeated in the British house of commons by the close vote 803 nays to 275 yeas. The government’s policy in the Soudan was bitterly attacked. General Gordon made a recent attempt Gear Alexander, the Emperor Franrlt Joseph ot Auttria-Hnngary, and other io er- oigns and l ading statesmen will probaby meet at Nice this surain -r. Midhat Pasha, thi great Turklih states man who depieed the Bultui Abdul Aids Otld Wns afterward convict d of hit murder nnd sentenced to itttprl onra-nt for life, ft dead in his sixty-third \ ear. The Norwe ian hark Theresa, having on txmrd the rvmaiudi r of the survivors or the collision lx tween the ste in lup Mate of Horida and the bark Poiiems, arrived at Quebec. France and Chinn have signed n treaty of poace, tho latter agreeing to withdraw hor troops from I ouquin. and th- form r aban doning all 11'lints to indi mn'ty lor .o see sua- t'lneil during tno trouble; bet we n (he two nations. In (be Senate Gen. Lagan, from the Military Committee, reported favorably the bill to place Gen. Grant on the retired fist, with the rank and full pay of General of the Army, and th* bill was pawed at once without debate. The Indian Appropriation bill was smended by the Henste. and passed Tlie House passed the Senate bill to provide a civil government for Alaska, Tbcro was a spirited debate on the bill providing that no 'Territory sliali form a constitution, or apply for admission os a Htato, nntll it contains permanent population equal to that required to entlilo a Congress distric' ‘ let to a representative, Messrs Cox and Potter, of Now York, cham pioned tha bill, but It waa finally tabled, 109 to 16 MINI KIJiANKOUS. — A prominent barrister of Winnepog ran off witli $70,000 of other people’s money. —Tlie expected rosnlts of Canadian immi gration are greatly lessened by tlie mmilior of persons who immediately cross tho bordor and settle in tlie United Htatcs. —Tlie Norwonftn bark Theresa, having on board tho remainder of the snrvlfor* of tlie collision between the steamship ,State of Flor ida, and Pomona, lias arrived at Qnebco. —A young man namod Walls booamo insane through accidentally killing his motiior In Hussex connty, Del. —Troublo is fcarod among tlie Clioetaw In dians owing to some of them lieing dissatisfied with a recently enacted law regarding tho trial of criminals. Tlie militia have been oallod out and stationed at different parts of Iho Na tion. Tlie spinnors* strike at Fall River, Mass., is practically ended, and dl-astronsly for tlie spinner*. —The 8tndtTheat.ro in Vienna was totally dc- troyod by fire, bnt fortunately no lives wero lost. — Bismarck’s resignation of the Presidency af tlie Prussian Culnnet has lieon accepted. —A man who wo* helping to hoist a safe into a third story window in New York had his fin gers caught in the taokle ao that the rope* had to be out to release him, tlie great mass of metal fell to tha sidewalk, demolishing the cellar roof of the building. —At tlie interstate drill snd encampment in Texas, tha infantry first prize of $6,009 was awarded to tho Houston Light Guards. —Lieutenant Bohuetze has made a report of Ids search through tlie Lena delta for Lioub Cliipp and party, embodying a description of tlie oonntry, character of the inhabitants, local f -overnment, etc., of th* regions through which ie journeyed. —In Now York, tho notorious James Irving* *n cx-Aldorman and ex-Assemblyman, was surrendered in conrt by his bondsmen and rent to the Penitentiary to servo the two years’ fontonco imposed npon him by the Court of Gonoral Hessions in May. —The Grand Jury of Cincinnati report their findings in the riot matter with fifty-four in dictments. —Captain Mnnro, of the City of Homo, positively denied that any signals of distress were observed on Ixiord tho ship Lon ft* or that any signals at all were’ raised by the birk Theresa, whioh vessels had on board the sur vivors of the Btatp of Florid* disater. —It has been discovered that the oivll service law practically prevents afi federal official* of evei y character from acting on political cam paign committees, and all Bcnatore and Itepro- ■entatives will have to resign. —A bloody street fight between a white man — Tho bodies of two fishermen In a dory were picked up by a Gloucester schoonor. —After a fight in which lie was stabbod, a man walked away and bled to death in tho streets of Utica. —The officers of the Now England Tobacco Growers' Association have inaugurated a move ment to socuro the repeal of all internal reve nue taxes on tobacco. —The bill providing civil service examina tions for the employees of the oitios in the Hiato of New York, passed tho assembly and now goes to tho Oovornor. —A reduction of $3,000,000 from the New York Htato taxation of last year is mado in the hills which passed the Assembly, and a negro, which resulted in four deaths, oc curred in Baltimore. The negro had three loaded revolvers, and the doaths were at his hands. —Investigation into the esse of Isaac D. Fxlrehi, in New York city, who shot his son and wife before committing suicide, shows tint lie was crazed by the taking away of his child by its mother. —Charles O’Conor, the noted New York law yer, died at Nantuoket on Monday afternoon, His ' — A heavy frost took place in Wisconsin, — Three negro murderers were lunged nt Greenville, B. C., and two white men for the same vrimu at Ashland, Ohio, —A man arrested in Philadelphia for mal practice was found dead In his coll. —Tlie ooal tonnage of the anthracite carry ing companies for Apali —r..united to 3,828,209 tons, an increase of S1G 493 tons compared with tlie corresponding mouth of last year. —Tnero wore 18’ failures and suspensions in the United Btnto» reported to Iho agenoios dining tlie past week against 182 in the pro- red ug week, And Kill. 110 nnd 88 in tho corre- .ponding weeks of 1883, 1882 and 1881, respec tively. Tho Dakota Democratic Territorial Con vention clco'cd delegates to tlie National Con vention. They nre iininstructed, but are Iki- liovod to be for Tilden and Hendricks. Resolu tions were adopted favoring revonuo reform according to tlie Morrison bill, a correction of tlie evils of tlie present tariff system, civil ser vice reform, anu a land bounty for soldiers, opposing sumptuary laws, and favoring a onr- rencyof gold, silver, and convertible paper. The Vermont Btate Greenback Convention adopted resolutions which demand tlie pay ment of tlie public debt as rapidly as tlie money shall accumulate in the Treasury; that the government shall issue greenback money; favor inter-state commercial regulations, and extend thanks to tlie Hupremn Court for its de cision that the greenback ft a legal tender. Tho delegates favor Gen. Butlor. —Bogan Cush, tho fugitive murderer, was overtaken by a posse near Cheraw, S. C., but. on answering with a shotgun a summons to surrender, the entire ixisse fired and ho fell pierced with twenty balls. —Joseph Barling, sixty-four years old, while walking along Third avonuo. Now York city, at noon, wae attacked by thrormon, who dragged him into a hallway, und, after robbing Turn, remains were taken to New York oity ami deposited In Bt. Patrick’s Cathedral, when the funeral services wero held. —Both houses of the Now York legislature passed tlie bill to oornpol telegraph, telephone and electric light companies to put their wire* under ground in Now York and Brooklyn OF CONGRESS. Senate. Mr. Ijognn, from the military committee, reported favorably the bill to place General Grant on tlie retired list, with the rank and foil pay of general of the army, and the bill was passed nt once without cnbate A motion to appoint a conference , omr.iittee on the shipping bill was passed by 28 to It Tlie Indian ap lions U) Mie mu hoi mi, *s.k),uuo nun amouut appropriated $0,390,109, abc 003 more than tho appropriation of I The House hill to loan $100,000,01 mropiintion bill was amended ami passed. The Senate lias added about $; 5 0U0 more than the amount reimrtod by the Senate committeo on appropriations. This makes tlie whole amount of tho (senate addi tions to tlie bill about $KI5,(MK) and the total about (0 0,- f last year. ,000 to the New Driest;s exposition wns uissed....A resolution wns offered by Mr. Morgan, di recting the committee on finance to examine Into the rouses of the failure* of me-h of the national hanks in the city of New York as have sus|H>nded business in May, 1884, and to report whether said failures have to any extent resulted from any viola tion ’ of the laws regulating their conduct Mr. Cuilhim introduced a bill, wlilch was referred to the committee on finance, to pi ev mt speculation by officers of national iNinkN The pensions bill was re ported, The committee had reduced the amount, of the unexpended twilances of the ap propriations of tho current, fiscal year to be re- appropriated from $84,000,090 to $08,000,000. House. Tho Heuato bill to provide a civil govern ment for Alaska was |m*sod... .There was a spirited debate on the bill providing that no Territory sliali form a constitution, or apply for admission as a Btate until it contains a permanent ixipulatiou equal to that required w entitle a < ’oimress district to a represent** (i on Mnuut'u ( 'mv mill UntiiiP nf 'Wc*W Yriflf. tive. Messrs. Cox anil l’otter, of 'New York, championed tlie bill, but it wns finally tabled, 109 to 15. The H|H-aUer announced the following as visitors to the annual examination at West Point; Mchhi-s. Rosecrans, Beach andH endar- son, of Illinois, and the following visitors to Annapolis; Messrs. Cox, of New York, Evans, of Houth Carolina, and Goff Th*> House concurred in Beoate amendments to the bill for tlie New Orleans exhibition The House voted down several proposed amendments to tho ronsular and diplomatic bill increasing tlie salaries of ministers and consuls, which are cut down by the bill, and adding to the appropriation In other way* PROMINENT PEOPLE. Ilia miirdorois choked snd beat linn to death, were arrested. —In the New York Btate Rcnate a bill allow ing Now York city to contribute $50,000 for tlie Bartholdi otatue of Liberty Pedestal Fund was passed. —Lieutenant Emory, commanding the Bear, reports from Bt John's geuornlly favorable conditions in tho Arctic for the reliof of Grcely and party. —in South Worcester, Ma*s., the Papachoag mill, owned by Goorgo Compton, was burned. Tlio mill was fonr stories high and built of brick, it was used for the manufacture of woolen yarn, ami was running day and night. Tlie fire originated in tho piokor room, and spread so rapidly that many of the operatives had to jump from tho upper windows. Fully 20 of them were badly injured and some of them it is feared fatally. The National Convention of the Anti- Monopolists’ party met in Chicago. Tlie pint- form calls for the cnaotment and vigorous execution of all just laws and equality in rights, burdens, privileges and powers; asserts that it is tho duty of tlie Government to at once regulate commerce among States; holds that bureaus of statistics must bo established; the national eight hour law must be enforced; de mands tho payment of tlie bonded debt as it falls duo; holds that tlie olection of United States Senators should bo by a direct volo of tho people; calls for a graduated income tax; demands that tlie tariff, which is a tax upon tlie peoplo, shall be so levied as to bear as lightly as possible upon the necessaries of life; de nounces the present tariff as being largely in tlie interest of monopoly, and demands that it be speedily reduced. —The witnesses who acknowledged their perjury in the Hill-Sharon case in the San Francisco trial have been arrested and placed under heavy bail. —Two fatal cases of oriminal negligence on the part of druggists occurred in Pittsburg. —The Seymour Satin Company, of Minne apolis, is ir the bauds of a receiver. —Cyrns H. McCormick, head of the great harvester manufacturing company, and one of tlie richest men in Chicago, died Tuesday, aged 75. He had been an invalid for several years. He was never known as a politician. —The Governor of New York vetoed the Broadway Aroade or Underground Railroad bilk —It is rumored'in Paris that Prinw Bis marck urged China to oeuciude a peace with France, and that therein he was Influenced by a benevolent and human motive. —The oonrt martial assembled at Pamplona, 8pain, to try the banditti recantly oaptnred in a fight at Navarre, has sentenced them to im prisonment, With hard labor for life. —A family of six persons wero murdered at Buezaas, a town of Galioea, in Austria. One child lihi and so osoaped. Tlie motive prompt ing tlie murder was rubbery. The miscreants escapod. —Tlio Paris Tempi has a dispatch from Aden reporting that a revolt has occurred near Bonn, iukI tlint 300 Turks have been massacred. —An earthquake has occurred in Turkey, In (lie region south of the Boa of Marmora. Some diimago wns done at Pandorma and Er- dek, in tlie province of Urons-o. Two slight ■hocks were felt at Balikcsz, but no damage WHS CHUSed. Of tlie loans of the Marine Bank, a little more than $2,000,000 wi re made to Qrnnt A Waid. Of these, $900,000 were made on good securities, which are available, l'liere aro $800 000 additional made on securities which are believed to bo In good part rehypothecated, and about $900,000 loaned on no security what ever. As illustrating the profitab'eness of the Grant k Ward pool, and indicating where its receipts have gone, attention was cabrd to Ihe fact iliat within loss than two years Ward hoe a- quired at least $750,000 in real estate. Flab about $1,000,009, U. 8. Grant, Jr., $500,000, anrl W. S. Warner at least $260,000, a total of $2,600,000. Among tlie heavy losers by tho failure are mentioned the following, though of online it is inipoesiblu to get any a-curate account of tlio losses until the sev, nil statements are com pleted : Erie, $1,500,000; Nickel Plate, $1,- 490.000; Buffalo, N. Y., and Philadelphia $150,000; Work, $600,000; ex-8onator Chaffee, $900,000; First National Hank, $213,0<K); War ner, $700,000; New York city, $1,000,000. Fish loses $1,500,0. 0, Gen. Grant about $300,000, Cd. Ficd Giant, Ulysses, Jr., and Jesse nt least s half million each, anil Ward rslimated himself as worth a million when tho crash came. —The German Anti-Socialist law has be n udopted by the Reichstag. —The Swfts elections resulted in a Conserva tive victory; all the government measures were rejected. —Zobehr Facha declares that he will not rest until he lias killed General Gordon. —A treaty of peace has been signed botween France and China. Tlie latter agree* to with draw her troops from Tonquin. —At a nationalist meeting at Waterford. Mr. Davitt arpued that five years’ rent would be an equivalent for the purchase of holdings from landlords. —France lias refused to recognize the Igle- sias government in Pern. —Spanish flour merohants complain of the treaty with the United States in regard to Cuba. —Aguero and tlie insurgents continue to hold their own in Cuba. —Tlio Mexican Congress grants President Gon/.alez authority to contract a loan of $20,000,000 —President Grovy, of Franco, has pardoned a majority of tho miners who were imprisoned for having participated in the labor i$*4* at Denain. Bkcrktahy FiiELiNunuYHEN lias a line col lection of inoKuicn. * Francis Murphy has boon holding tem perance meetings in Chicago. Hunky Want) Beecher has lieon thirty- seven yeai-s witli Plymouth church. Don Cauloh. the Spanish pretender, ft staying at Naples, under tho name of Count de Lucnr. Tiiomah Bailey Aldrich, the American author and |K>et, is fair ami slender, with a fine profile mvl u blonde mustache with waxed pm is. Ir urn Tbnnvron'h wife has been an invalid for tlie past twenty years, and never mixo* in general so.-lety, as she ft unable to loave her sofa. The Earl of Dunraven, in * paper in th*. Nineteenth Century, pronounces the United Htntas Bronte "tho strongest, most efficient and Host capable legislative body in the world." , Coxorkssman O’Hara, the colored mem ber from North Carolina, 1s a graduate of Harvard nnd a inwyer by profession. Ha lives in good style, and has a white tutor for his children. The Rev. Joseph Cook has a stereotyped inotio which he invariably writes in addition to his signature when solicited for an auto graph. "’Duty done is the soul’s fireside,” ft the sentiment, Messrs. Breituno and Houseman, th* two wealthy Gorman representatives in Con gress, from Michigan, wero born 4n the sains town in Ba-'arin nnd afterward were poor clerks in stoi-as in Knlnmazoo and Battle Creek. —Tho English government has Iliirlrd Under the Nnow. The early winter was bo pleasant in Colorado that hundreds of men, disre garding the Advice of old Hettlere, re mained in tlie mountains. The fnte ol some ot these is already known. A* to other* there is great and increasing anxiety. The men who have been scour ing the oonntry on snow shoe*, riding ou avalanches, and sliding down glisten ing mountain* of ice have some strange stories to tell of their experience*. At Created Bntte, Irwin, nnd all surround ing places the snow lies ten to sixteen feet deep ou a level by nctual measure ment. Two-story dwellings are buried to the roofs, and in numerous instauoea it has been found necessary to piece out chimneys with seotions of etote-pipe. The people have tunneled out as beat they could, and cat air holes through the solid masses whioh surround their habitations. A man living in a one- story cabin delves out to the surface with a shovel in hand, nnd after clearing a hole for his smokestack and opening up holes for the windows, set* about con structing a snow stairway leading down to his door. The snow is packed so hard that this becomes comparatively easy. Getting the pitch of his steps to suit him, he has bnt to lift the chunks out as they nre out with the shovel, and, with tlie aid of small pieces ot wood, whioh serve to protect eooh step, the passageway remains firm, growing hard er with use. Coming out of hi* house a man has but to olimb to the surface of the snow, don his snow-shoes, and sail away over the tops of houses and stores at will Many a “city” whioh outs as big a figure on the map as Denver does, consists at this moment of twenty or thjrty stovepipes stuck in the snow. That is the way it looks to a newcomer, at any rate. A Lawyer or a GeneraL mined to send a relief expedition to dan id July. "Chinese" Gordon has made a successful sortie from Khartoum. —The struggle between the German Im perial government and tbe German Liberal* becomes daily more bitter. , —Correspondents at Haiphong cable the re newal of hostilities against the Annamite and Chinese pirates. In the mountains theFrenob captured a gun. —Outbreaks between tho soldiers and na tives at Cairo are of daily occurrence. It is reported that Lord Wol-eley will command the October expedition to Khartoum. —The Empress of China approve* of peace between China and France. —A band of Persian nomads have plundered several village* on the right bank of the Kurd. This is Presidential year, and every cue just now is speculating as to who will l>e the nominees of the two parties. Nothing can be known so far ahead of the nominations, but in all human prob ability some lawyer will gain the prize in each pnrty. We draw all our Presi dents from two ol asses—lawyers snd soldiers. The proportion is generally three lawyers to one soldier. In this oonntry, filled with able business men, we never think of making a farmer, a mer chant, a banker, or a railway king, a Presidential candidate There is a tra dition that Presidential years are bad business years, bnt the very reverse is the truth; 1880 wns a very prosperous year; 1876 was better than the yearn whioh preceded or followed it; 72 and '68 were also prosperous years, and all the signs go to show that the olorn of this year will make it more prosperous than either of the two preceding years.— Demorest'a Monthly. ■ . 1 a fi m

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Mercury. (Sandersville, Ga.) 1880-1???, May 27, 1884, Image 1