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Newspaper Page Textthe mercury. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY NOTICE. IfAU eommanlMttoM intended tor Uilt pjpei matt b« aoeompanled with th« toll D tme of th» writer, not neoesanrlly tor publl. H Uon. bat u » guarantee of good faith. art In no wap raaponalble tor tha Tltwt w opinion* of oorrespomtonta. THE MERCURY. A. J. J15R5IGAX, Proprietor. ilEVOTBD TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. $1.00 per Annum'. VOLUME V. MUNICIPAL, Mayor. Wm, Gallahbb, Aldermen. Wm. Rawunqs, A. M. Mayo, W. H. Law«o», R. T. Walk**, Morris Happ, news summary rnNtem and middle fttatet* 1 attihon’s minimi message shows mon wealth Ul i enns\ vim inr ilm loo*- «... SANDERSVILL13, GA„ TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, lB8f>. /wuS , . ,or 1,10 lws & fiscal yi»nr woro Tli./mn V m<1 th0o)tal Payment fe,912,662. " m, ' B s "in^nt Clerk and 7Yeamrer. G. W. H. Whitaker. E. S. LANGMADE, Sttofi|ey ht I(ciw 6ANDER8VILLX OA. Mar) hall. J. E. Wkddon. I OWN OK 1 TBNNItXK. Mayor, ohn 0. Harman. Aldermen. P. J. Pipkin, J. F. Merkkiuom, J. N. Roams, W. J. Joyner Clerk. S. H, B. Massey. Marshall, J. 0. Hamilton. ... rc'pnr,! to t ha sale of liquor uml ?1 more rigid and less expeditious divorco hn\\ At thei opening of tho Now York loiridn President-elect Clovtu M, rosining his office cei>*Hl; “To tlio legisla- fts governor, was re I’ind n 8t i n , t0 , 0t N ?Y, York. Orovor Clove- ianu * , Lioutenant-Oovernor Hill who h/w Mr - <:| r ol ""‘ l tu. goverair,£nt to C o RU 1.’ 1,10 •jWitlaturtt. Georgo Sk.r i 1 ! 10 Kopul'llean inudidato, was Donnl! x7’?" kr .',' of 11,0 “tembly. Senator r( ,ulll - v ' v “ 8 elected president pro tern, of tho si n ito. TnKme„ f Governor Hill to tho New 18 “W’ r, ! vil '"' s and eominemls tho ft ” a legislnllvn work of tho Htato fmYZ , !" ,l ! , r Ml - Cleveland’s mhninis einil ’ I’PV'euh'rly that of tho yonr Inst r 'lerlarea tho public fiiiiin, os tola, in a satisfactory condition and valuahlo pro- gross to have liven nmtlo In idl tlust material welfare. He uLumriy mono relating to private insuTu- tioim in urged, and tho desirability ol tho at 0,1(0 “Polishing tlio present infract system and substituting ».in. tlio expressed wish 11 ho Btato coneer vision of hanking ticularly those relating to privat prison labor one more in ne ... Of the public indwelt ♦ ’Dvellupon at ff POflt length Biennial spring elections for municipal ollicei> inflow Y ork arc recommended: close nttoii- NUMBER 39. THE MERCURY. Intend aa laoond-elua matter at tha I danvlU* Poatofflca, April It, 1M Sandemllle, Washington Coaaty, raiuuss BT A. J. JERNIGAN, Faormimoa and Publisi Bubaorlptlon,.....—... HAS par Yaav The awards of premiums fob cattln On Ov ulation at tho World’s fair in New Orlbms havo boon made. Tho Attendance is inero.is- ing. tion 1* called to tlio work of eivilsorvieoreform, a modification of lmluralliuition laws is ad vised; careful eonslderail m is invilod to prill.lein of forest preservation; tho failure of Now Turk reform lulls boeauso of earoloss Wording is cited as proof nr need of rinser scrutiny of legislation, mid tha einployineafe »• D. nvanb, IW. f VANS & EVANS, iVl torney■ At Law, PANHKHBVILI.E, OA. IL I. HARRIS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, KANDF.HSViLLB, OA. IVili praetios in nil tha Courta of tha middla ironli, Bud In tha onuntla* •urronndiug , iin 1 ;t.iri. Hpeolsl attention giran to omn- F. H SAFF0LD, TORNEY AT LAW, SArfDRfi8VrLLE, OA. Nuniorous other topics «ro also sug- dfs Mi l prnrl ce In all tho Court* of tho Middla 1 in fhe conn Men unrounding t n. Hnccial attention £ Ivon to com- c c BROWN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, HaedarrvUla, Qa. Vlll prsetlte In tha Htate and United BteteB BrtA. untoe In OourUhouua. ONES & ROGERS, tterneys at Law, i |• J 1 • j 1 nson, Kmaunal and } J, h * 11 8. L’ourta for tha Bo f Georgia. mi'&NMss" ,n borln,, “ n-t/’ U W,al **<*• «< Pablle Bqaara. H. N. H0LLIFIELD, hysioian and Surgeon, l«« n,it doar te Mm. Dayaa* mUUaarr «i Harrla atraat. Jn* raoantly graduated at tha Unlvar- M Maryland and returned home, now ■I)' 1 ,* pro/aaelonat aerrloea to file attUsns fcdemyjua and Tlelnlljr. Offlaa with i N BolUilatd, naat door tepm.Bayne's l “a*T atom. SANDERSVILLB, OA., prsetloe Ln tho eountlea of Wi grated, cussed. 1 UK annual nuction so.lo of pows In Mr Boochors Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, draw tlio usual largo attondance. The lirst elmiee •fu-olli 4 * StK .’> "" ,1 ,lle entire sain realized I-I.wll, or nhout ST.lXkl loss than last year. 1). P. Jones, Chairman of tho Republican notional committoo, was elected President of the Antorleau Iron and Bteel association lit a meeting in Philadelphia. Gknebai. Ghant has written a letter to t yriis \\. Held, the New York milll uiaire, declining tho subscription which a ■ am', vr of his friends were raising for his lieneilt. 'Ilm general says it indue to hhpself uml fiimily to dei'llno tlionrofTored generosity. Thoamoimt ntended to ho raised w as $li>(i,U0(). The wlfo of a Philadelphia iioiin* sergeant ♦Son 000 «Hon ^' *bo noiiloruibiu sum of Hihiiop Paddock presided at tho firth mr mml meeting of tho New England Divorce Reform league, held in Boston. JIottK than 5,000 miners have just been thrown out of work in Pennsylvania, the collieries having shutdown for the purpose of restricting tho output in coal. As thero was no choice for the Statetil’ket at the rarout election in Conies ticut. the | B g. Isluture has oloctod tho following iteouhiienn nominees; Kor governor, llenry li. llurn- son; lieutenant-governor, Eorriti A. Cooko; socrotary of Htate, Charles A. UiiskcII; treas urer, \ aloutino H. Chamberlain; control lor, JiU/crnoJ. Munson. Governor Harrison Ue- livoreu a message. At a mooting of tho national committoo of the 1 rohibition party,belli in Now York,twen ty members, represoutiug as many States, were present, A committee report was adopted thanking the laU) candidates for I'rosidont and V ice-President for their services in tho campaign and condemning tho attacks upon Mr. St. John as “malicious and without : proof.” Thomas Thrlan. of Knnsas * ' Vfts stabbed soverul times by j Kichard Short, in tho olllco of the United i Irishmen, edited by O’Donovnn Rossa, in l Vork. It appears that Ph, lan Imd oin- ; bit ter ed tho feelings of many Irishmen by utterances which ho is credited with in nn [ issue of a Kansas City newspaper. Ho ui>- phrontly came to Now York to make somo j explanations in regard to those utterances. I Tlie wounds received by Phelan were thought i to l>e fatal. His assailant was arrostod. j Foun boys wore drowned by tlio ice giving ■ way while skating on a pond at I'ottsviilo, tYafttiingtoii. General W. B. Hazk.n.chief s r gnal lms reduced Sergeant Ott,) Holtnorth 01 the signal sorvico to the ranks, an 1 has formally recommended to tlio so retarv of war that lie l><* dismissed from tlio s«rVico for rifling Lieutenant GlUely's private papers. Tuf. clerk of tho Poiso sta (*= that in tho noxt Congress tho lloiin will c; titaln 1 hJ Democrats, 110 Republicans, ono Greenba k Democrat (Mr. Weaver, of I >wn), and < n- Orcenl a^k Republican (Mr. Hnunni, o* IVnn sylvunia). A vacancy oxists in tho Ninetcontli congressional district of Pennsylvania. Of the memliers of tho present. House is? h.avo been re-elected. Arkansas, I).*lawaro, Knn- Bas, Maine and West Virginia havo made no change in their Representative*. Seoiietauy McCulloch lms transmitted to tlio House an ostimateBpoeilying tho mini- hor and class of otUcors aiiaotnplpycB of every prado and nnturo, with tho rates' of cotni*on- Bntion which will b© necessary to proiierly conduct tlio luiAiiicsa of Collecting the revenue at oaoh port of entry in the United stalls for tlio fiscal year ending Juno 3(1, l-.sii, Tlio number of regular ollleers and cinployes is es- tiinaliid at 4,147, and their salaries at tS.'i,’JU(),- 1J9. An nddltlininl cs imato for miseellnno- ous Items is inailc, amounting to ♦l,100,(iil. Tint annual report of tho Mississippi llivor commission has boon sont to Congress Tlio amount of money called for hy tlie rommls- slou for the lioxt 11 sen I year is ♦10,717,001). The director of the United Slates mint lies made his usunl annual statement andMtimate of the changes mid Incranso during the year lu tlio United Slates gold and silver coin in the country, both total and in circulation, outside oi tlie treasury, ,, The coinage, low tho recolnnge, hn* been; Gold, ♦33,7'.n,HW; sllvor, ♦23,1111,078. Tlie imports oi United Suites coin havo been: Gold. *4,230,S76; sliver, ♦725,150-n total gnln ol ♦77,401,048. Ho estimates that ♦4,875.0(10 of United Stales gold and Mill,000,OOfl of silver coin were melted for uso in the manufactures ami tlio arts, and Hut ii.ihki.oim) trade dollars, con stituting a part of the sliver circulation in previous years,havo lieen entirely withdrawn from circulation. Tlio exports wore: Of united States gold coin, ♦11,878,153; sliver coin, 523,431. Tlio net gain during tho yonr was; In gold coin, ♦11,913,573; silver coin, ♦33,100.007. Tills added to his estimates of tho total amount In the country January I, 1884, makes tho cir culation on tlio 1st of January, 1885, ♦5(13,. OJO.uiki gold nn 1 ♦301,ik;o,000 silvers total Of 1*827,ISIO.lHiO. A comparison of thocorrospondlngamounts of impel* in tlio United Slates tisoil as money or ns representatives of coin shows ntthecloso of the yonr an ineronso In tho gold certificates of ♦38,5119,332; silver certificates, ♦28,309,1180. anil n decrease in bank nolo, of f21,324,‘J00— a not increase of over ♦35,000,000. The gold bullion in the mints awaiting coinage on the Hi st of I lie present month was ♦111,422,047—n reduction of nhout $3,0'0,001 from that on hand at tho lieginning of tho previous year. The socretary of war lms ordered the dis charge of Sergeant Otto Holtnorth from tho slgnnl service for rifling Uuutonant Orooly’s pnpors. AH OFFER DECLINED, Tlio (Arunts Hcfnso a Fortune from IV. It. Vanderbilt* He Bu n s in Their Property and Of- .era it to Mm Qranlk Statistics cone'ruing tlio nunihor of Mor- nioiiR in this country nro givonliy the interior dej nrtinont as follows: In lS'KJ tnorn wero 10 church orgmiimtifins uml 10.KS0 sittings, in 1800 24 organizations and 10,fiO.) sittings, in 1870 180 organizations and s7,*<18 sittings, and in 1880 2(b organizations and (i. r »,2fl2 sit tings. The actual membership of tho .Mor mon church, according to tlio census of 1880, ?vas 70,880. llttiern Dll- BuidnsTUl*, m*. Or. H. B; Hollifiald, SIClAl m IDE010V, Tenn. Buffalo, N. Y., iw described a^“tfio most brilliant ovont of the kind ever hold in tho city.” It was opened by Mr. Cleveland. Bcahlet KKvmi is ravaging several villages ln tho immedlato vicinity of Brooklyn, N. Y. Numerous deaths havo occurred, and tin* scliools havo been closed. Caftain Piielan, tlio Kansas City man stabbed hv Short in tho United Irishmen olllco will probably recover from tlio eleven wounds which he received. The affair created a great s nsatlon among Irishmen every where. While on a trip to Kiigland in 18.8.8, rheum was sus; e.tod of being a “dynamit er, ’ and was under police surveillance). While drunk Lewis Carl, Jiving near Bethlehem, Penn., nbusod his wife. His son interfered, whereupon tho father killed him. Curl was arrested. W. H. WHITAKER, EN T I ST, ■amteriTllte, do. W CABB. J. H. MAY, BANDEK8VILLB, QA. .^’i lli ?, sei ' vlce8 *° oitla.n* of Stndsrs- I i’ll i ,c, nt country. All onlls, d.v nr «1U be promptly re,ponded to. Office tewdenoo on Airs. Plftmtn'e lot, et«n»» “""J Oliuroli eheote. Janl<-1884tf. J- S. WOOD t BRO., M Commission Me chanls, bVANNAH. GrA. cornmisHioii or other expensen charged Wunentsof Wool, 'at market price guarantoed nt time of sepli’S'l-ly Savannah, Ca. Ik h ' t0 *** the most comfortable and 83 ‘ conducted Hotel ln Savannah. ® 8 i S2.00 Per Day. M. L. HABNBTT. chine Needles, ^ and Shuttles, . diP S. INds .°F MACHINFB. for sola. Fill alk,; atAUHJNKB, fo* bialect hJnal 01 Maolilm ni^ en ’ *° r ■wblob new P'mwe nn wanted. JEHNI»AN. Cu arles W. Folger, only son of tho into Secretary Folger, died of consumption a few days ago in Geneva, N. Y., aged about forty Rv tho explosion of hor boiler tho steam tug Mike Dougherty was completely demolished near Elizabeth, Penn. Two of the crew were killed and three others badly hurt. The boat had put ashore at a landing to make repairs to some part of the machinery that had broken down, nn 1 tho explosion occurred while she lay t here. South mid West* The congnv sional committee to investi gate tlie apj ointment of United States dej>- uty marshals in Cincinnati at the Oc.totier elections, tlie Hon. Air. Springer, chairman, began their wm k in tho city named. United States Marshal Lot, Wright was the first wit ness called. Several men were killed and others wounded in a despernte fight botwoon a posse of revenue officers and a dozen or more moon shiners near Livingston, Ky. The New Orleans exposition gate receipts are now more than meeting tlie current ex penses. Agents of the Hocking Valley (Ohio) mines have boon at woik in Lynchburg, Va., securing negroes to take the places of tho striking minors. fSevunty-ilve left for the mines in ono night, uud others have been se cured. During Inst year 1,805 now enterprises wero started in the fourteen .Southern Stutes, with a combined capital of fl().»,:.0 »,500. Eleven persons were poisoned whilo ut sup per in the house of Mr. \ an Forsen, a resident of East Liverpool, Ohio A little girl died. Rat poison was foun 1 in ti e coffee pot. Mrs. Myra Ci./ r.:.K Gaim s died tho other day in New (Jiv .t s, .• ::•<! seventy-eight years. For a long t in * : h l a i I ren a prom inent figure in Wa hi!i ;t >:i so it ty, and for more than forty years liar name Imd been fa miliar in the newspapers ihr< ugli her efforts to obtain property which Hi3 claimed be longed to liar family. In May, 1888, the city of New Orleans was declared in debt to her nearly $.VKX),0(M The Bank of Augusta, Oa., an institution chartered by tho State many years before tho wai*. lias made nn assignment. Tne capital stock of the bank is |>lf)0,000, and’ depos itors will bo paid in full. Herman Mack, a t ineinnuti bookkeeper of considerable social prominence, committed suicide in order to escuno tho result of a heavy defalcation that had been discovorrd in his accounts. A statement prepared by the United States treasurer shows that tliero nro now outstanding $“<1,52.8,1II in 0110dollar notes and $2(».M!),217 in two dollar notes. The treasurer says that there in now u > scarcity of notes of small d •nominations, and lie is prepared to supply nil legal demands for them. The Marino Hospital bureau has received a report from United States Consul Liyeis at Rome, Italy, relutivo to tho cholorn opidomic in that country. From tlio outbreak of cholera, late in July, down to November t», when tlio epidemic was doolarod at an end, there were 21,24(1 cns«*s of cholera in Italy, and 11,072 deaths. Of these 12,402 cases and 0,020 deaths were in Naples alone. Colonel Lamont,private secretary to l’ros- idontroloct Cleveland, has bo *n on a visit to Washington. The object of his visit is sup posed to have been principally the securing of temporary quarters for Mr. Cleveland bo- fore lie enters tlio White lh use. The secretary of tlie treasury has received a conscience contribution of 5; I0J in an en velope postmarked Newark, N. J. Congressman N. 8. Cox’s resolution to appropriate $100,(M) for the completion of tho pedestal of tho Bartholdi statue in Now York rbo.* has lonm reported favorably to the Mr. William H. Vanderbilt, who obtained ft judgment against- General U. 8. Grant for fh>0,000 lout him to ward off the failure of tlio Marino bank, bought ill tlio real estate nnd presents of tho general named in tile bill of salo. lie then presouted tho property to Mrs. Grant for her separate estate, but she has doclined to rocelvo it. 1 he following cor respondence will explain the matter fully: 040 Fifth Avknuk, Jan. 10, 1885. Mils. Ulyhhks 8. Grant—Dear Madam -» Bo many misrepresentation* llnve appeared iri regard to the loan made by mo to Genord Grant, nnd reflecting unjustly upon him and myself, that it seems proper to briefly roeilo the facts* On Sunday, tho 4th of May last, General Gt*ant called at my house nirfnskod hie to lend him $150,(XX) for ono day. 1 gn\ a him my check Without question, hot because tho transaction was business-like, but simply lieoauso tlie request came from I lenerul Grants Tho misfortunes which overwhelmed him in tho next twenty-four hours aroused tho sym pathy and regret of tlio whole country. You nnd he sent me within n few days of tlio timo the deeds of yotlr joint- proiiertios to cover this obligation and urged mv acceptance on tho ground that thin was tlio billy debt of honor which tlio geneinl had perron ally in curred, nnd theso deeds I returned, liming iny absence in Kurone tho general deliverer House from the committoo. Foreign, At n council of cabinot ministers in Paris it was resol vod to send 1*2.000 French troops to the sceno of war in Toiiquin. A railroad train left tlie track in Buenos Ayres, South America, killing seven and in juring fifteen people. All the victims were jjersons of prominence. Advices from Tit n Tain, Chinn, state that tlio losses of tlio French forces in Formosa from fever and dysentery are en rmous, an l that ns a consequence Admiral Courbet’s ship is insufficiently manned. t Nine hundred lives were lest in Grenada, Spain, during tho rocont earthquakes. Mme. Clevis-Hughes, who recently shot and killed a prominent Parisian detective for slandering her, was ucquitted notwithstand ing she boldly confessed having committed the deed, hut was condemned to pay a fine of $4'J0 and tlio costs of trial. Still more earthquake shocks have oc curred in Spain. Fifteen thousand persons havo left Granada. Tho village of Guevojar is slowly sliding downwards to the vnlloy. An opening has appeared in the piountain iit, Otivar, from which smoko is reported to bo issuing. Tho subterranean rumblings and detonations are foarful. A fire destroyed the cargo of thy British iii> Rover of tho Sens, lying in tho harbor . Victoria, British Columbia. Tho estimated [oss is $100,000. Portions of France have been visited by enrtliquako shocks. P.illii In the i oiinlry, Tho commercial agencies givo the following Ignto <>f tho failures in tho country dm ing die past )eur: IN NEW YORK CITY. Year. 1881.. 1882.. 1HH3.. 1884.. Number. Liabilit if>8. $11,130,000 13.323.000 27.073.000 71.543.000 1884. 1881... 1884... CoNt of (fnllcctliitf Revenue. The Secretary of the U. 8. Treasury lias transmitted to tho House of Representatives an estimate specifying in detail the num ber and clans of olficers and employees of every grade and nature, with the rates of compensation which will bo necessary to properly conduct the biiNiiicBs of collecting tho revenue at each port of entry in the United States for tho fiscal year ending June 80, 1888. The number of regular officers and employees is estimated at 4,147, and their salaries at $5,295,- 139. An additional estimate for miscellaneous Items is made, amounting to $1,1 GO,623. —The debate lu the Senate on the Nicara guan treaty showed that serious complications might grow out of the ratification, and the necessity of a strong naval force becomes therefore the more evident Asnets. $3,902,000 . 309 6,803.000 478 13,913,000 628 88.015,000 IN THE MIDDLE STATES. . 2,003 $57,004,000 $107,025,000 IN TUE EASTERN STATES. . 1,551 $8,235,000 $20,6GG,000 IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. . 2,361 $17,903,000 $30,757,000 IN THE WESTERN STATES. . 4 004 $43,987,000 $73,3G7,000 IN THE PACIFIC STATES. 830 $5,319,000 $8,507,000 IN THE TERRITORIES. 271 $J,452,000 $2,518,000 IN THE UNITED STATES. 1SR3..., 10,299 490,HOI,000 ♦175,969,000 1884.... 11,020 134,020,0u0 218,000,000 IN CANADA. 1884.... 1,863 $9,074,000 *17,120,000 to my nllonioy tool Ikiiri's it|ion nil Ills own real rata to, liomeholil olTiM-ts -ml sWordi, medals mill works of art which were tho mo- moi iuls of his victorias, and tlie presents (rom govornmatte all over the world. ih-se seruritle, wore in his judgment worth t.i * ♦150,000. At Ills soliritnl tlio noeessary steps were taken hy judgi it, etc., to i.slneo those Prapi r.los to possession, and the arlieles men tlonod hav# been this day bought In hy inl and the amounts bid appliisl In t-e-lm-tinn of the debt. Now that 1 am at lll-orty to treat these things ns my own, the disposition of the whole matter most In accord with my feelings Is this: I present to you, as your separate os;aie, the debt anil judgment I hold against Oeu. Grant, also tho mort gages upon Ills rent rat i to, and nil the household furniture ttlid ornaments,coilphsl only with tho condition that the swords, coin- missions, medals, pifts from the UnitedKlntes, Btntos, cities t oraign goveimmenta, and all articles of his .cal Value and interest, shall, nt tlio general's death, or, if you doslra it, Sooner, do presented to tho governmoiit at Washington, whofe they will remain ns per petual memorials of Bis Came nnd of tho his tory of Ills lime. 1 inclose herewith assignm nth to you of the mortgages nn-1 Judgments, a bill of salo ol tlio property, and n deed of trust, in which the articles of historical interest are enuinor- nted. A copy of tills trust dec-1 will, with your approval, bo forwarded to tlio 1'i esident of the United Stales for deposit in the proper department. Trusting that this action will meet with your acceptance nnd npprovni. a-ul with kindest regards to your lmshnn-1, 1 am yours, respectfully, W. H. Vandeiiiiii,t. DEOI.1NED WITH THANKS New Yokk City, Jnntinry 10, 1885. D®All Silt: Mrs. Grant wishes me to an swer your lotter of this evening, to say that whilo she appreciates your gin . geuorosity ln transferring lo her Iho m -rig igo given lo socuro my debt of $150,(HK), she cnim-.t ncci-]>t It lu wholo. Mho accepts with pleasure t o tmst which applies to nrticles enumerated in your letter to go to tlio government of tho United Htat-'S ut my death or sooner, nt her option. In tins matter you Imvo anticipated tho disposition which I had contemplated making of tho nrticles. They will ho de livered to tho government ns booh as ar rangements enn he made for their reception, Tapers relating to all otlior proi-orty will be returned, with tlio request tlm; you linvo it sold and tlio proceeds n| plied to the llquida- tion of tho debt which 1 b«j justly owe you. You hnve stated in your letter with the min utest accuracy tlio hist >ry of tho transaction which brought mo in your (Jvbt. I lmvo only to add that 1 rogard your giving mo your chock for tho amount without inquiry as an act of marked And unusual friendship. Tho loan was to mo poruo.inlly. I got (ho money, as I believed, to carry tho Marina National bank over a day, being ns- *<l that tlio bank wn.s solvent, but, owinpy to unusual calls needed assistance until it could call in its loans. I was assured by Ferdinand Ward that tho firm of Grant & Ward had over {009,0 0 to tlioir credit at that time, in the Marine bank, besido $1,- 80d,0U0 of unpledged security in their own vaults. I cannot concludo wit ho .issurlng you that Mrs. Grant’s inability to n\ni' herself of vour groat kindness in noway lessons either hersensoof obligation or my own. _ __ Voids truly, U B. Grant. W. H. Vanderbilt, Esq. nK WILL NOT HE DEFEAT; D. 510 Fifth avenue, Jan u 1885 General U. S Grant—Mv D ar Sir. On my return homo last night I found your let ter in answer to mine to Mrs. (-r-ui:. lap. nrociato fully tho Hontiments which actuuto both Mrs. Grant- and yourself in .1 vlinliiT tho part of mv proposition relating to tlio real es nto. 1 gr a Mv roc o'- that ^ho feels It her du r y to muk tin., do ;uion, us 1 earnestly hoped that the spirit in which tlm offer was made would overcome any scruples in nccepling it. But I must insist that 1 shall not bo do'eatc^d in a purposo to which I have given s-i much thought, an 1 which I havo so much nt heart. I will therefore, ns fast ns tho m nicy is re ceive-) from the sales of (ho real estate, da- posit it in the Union Trust company. Wi h the mon -y thus realized I will nt once create with Hint company a trust, with proper provisions fur tlio income te he paid te Mrs. Giant during her life, nnd giving tlio power to her 111 111 ikn su -li disposition nt th« principal hy her w ill ns she may oloct. Very tnily yours, Wiluam II. Vanderbilt. TUB nYNA6IITRK*fl TICTIItl. Ah AltaiHiiteil AA.sssIrtrtiliiii I* OMInnoynn ltoasn’B oni-'ti Ospt, lliomsS l’liilan I- SnperinlcpJeit, tho K-nsns City Wurkhotlso, nnd is nn Irish Nationalist, sgamSt wh'-ni miuio of the dvns- mite facli-ti appear t linvo had a grudge.' Oi lire. 20 last l'lielnu sent or tho piihllshor 0; tho Knnsas City Journal, and oil the next ilsy there sppesred s printed interview, giving what-purported to bo the trno history of the attempt to blow np the steamship Queen. Ir tlie interview heoietiiioned st-reisl Irish ngiln tots cohneoleil with dynsniito plots. After the spprstenco of tlib atllcle tevetil parti-» in Non* York telegraph d 10 I’liolst nhout the nflnir, mid ho replied Ihnt lie #util( tuou be In Now York. l’lielnu readied New York Friday, wearing 8 pew Derby lint and a new pcpper-antl sail Miit. In one pocket of his more.-at was a copy of the Knnsits CUV Journal, Conta ning his big interview. In his right hand hip p -eket Was 32-cahhro nlckie-pla eil rovolvor of tho sly! known as ‘(lied Jacket, No. 8." Ite live diam hers wero all loaded. Ho went at oneo to the saloon of a friend of his uaino-i Kearney, arriv lug about noon. They ioiIc down togctlior It. » o.-r and climbed the thteo fliglila or narrow ■taira that lead to Koasa's aanotulil, Tbla eon* alsta of two very small offic, s at the westerti Olid of a narrow corridor, with --flleea opening upon it nt efttior atdo of it. Kearney oIhIuii lliat lie did lml want to go with Pi.olan, nntlci lulling Ironhle. but was indaoed bi do so. Ill U'Dunovsii Il'-ssa’a office a number of men lia-l mot. Things heenin - lively the mtt- tnont C’apt. l'hobm’s identity became known to tin- men in (he office. Ono of the men struck Phelan anil the laltor reached for his revolver. An Instant Inter a tbick-eet man of athletic l-nil-l, wiih a slouch hat and dark complexion, Jeik- il open tlio door suddenly and sprang into the room With a bowlo knife clinched in bis ilgld bsndi rbclaii recognised lilm as a man wlio had licen liilVoduc d to him bv ji issa as a “Mr. 1 talker." He struck st l'hclan from 1 cliiml, and l’lielan twialed around In the chair aid warded off the blow of Iho ugly weapon Willi Ills arm. Kearney says he had run away hi fore that. The aa assin struck nt I’helan Si coml time and missed Ida aim, but just aa 1 it ignored to tils feet lie slashed him In quick siicco slim lu the hack and tlio ncOk. Phelan threw tip both anna ami forced his oasailuir imn tlio hallway. Ti e occupants of tho otlior offleos fled In aiarin. I lie two unknown mi n who were In b—sn’s office and stinted the quarrel took io then hcela ( ton, leaving Phelan and Ills ns-nil- ant nloiie m tht-lr battle. Phelan got no ohsnoo te reaeb for Ida revolver, lie simpiv strove lo ward olT the bloWH of the b iwli- knife with a mug that ho broke out or an ofllco chair, lie was slabbed again In tlio hack nnd onoe in the chest. Another blow sent tho knife into Ids lelt arm, boluw tho shoulder, with such foreo that tlio Weapon broke tlio ’ll*, lbs last blow was a glaiioibg olio at -I I Iglit arm. It cut down to the bone and ii.nsi compltlely around it. Winn I'liclan received thla wound tho two were at tho edge of the steep winding double flight of si airs leading to the flr.t flour. Tho wails woro (pattered with blom) and a trail of blood maiked the floor rrom tlio ofllco to the landing. Great gualics wore out In Phelan’s overeoat, and it was soaked with hlooil that poured from Ida eleven wounds. Tlie assailant threw the bowlo kuife on the top atop of tho stairs and ran down In the str-it. Then lie very coolly buttoned bis overeoat, thrust Ilia blood-stained hands In I lie pockets, leisurely crossed tlie street, and walked slowly up Oity Hall place. Phelan staggered iluau tlie atalri after him. A b g crowd gathered iu tlio roadway tho blatant be pnoari'd iu tlie doorway, l’holaii called te a lulioemaii, who followed tho man.andarrcated ml, bringing him back, “Yea, Hint • the man who atabked ine, mun lied Phelan. Police nan Levy turned around to call an other polleeman, who waa hurrying up. lie ni ■■amor turned ha head than Pin inn rolled over nn Ilia left aide, and reuelilug Ida nearly ai-veied right nnn Into lua overcoat pocket pulled out his revolver ami tired it, quick as a wink, ai tlie priaonor. The ball alniek the prisoner Just above the wnlst on tlie right aide. Policeman Levy aprang to Plu'lnn’a aide and wreatod tho revolver from him, nnd his pris -nor darted up Olitmborastreet toward deny, nH fast as lie could run. Pulliomah ciuti'lilug the revolver, raced after him. with a great crowd at Ida licela. lie caught him before lie bad gono half a block. ‘T got d Hint timo,” tlio prisoner cried, and began id rip open bis clothing nt tin- -am-i line, lie found (hat the bullet had pi.rooil is oviro mt and unilorrrat and waistcoat, Hindu a hole in n undid jiateli safe in tlie _ eket of iho latter and Just aerntoliod bis akin. Tlio police couldn't llu-l tne bullet after ml. Tlio man arrealed waa nam d Itlohanl Rhorl, n olaimod to be a butcher. Phelan's pust urlein s ateiuent was taken and his wife tele graphed for. Ilia injuries are of n very - ous nature, and he ia not expected to imrvivo them, AT rBKbAN I lions. Kansas Oitt, Mo.—The newa of tho stabbing of Captain Thomas l'helau ill Now York accepted ny the general. New York City, .Inn. 11, 1985. Dear Mu;—5 -nr letter of this dalo 1h re ceived. Mrs. Grant nml 1 regret that you cannot accept our pro-osition to retain tho property which wi.s mortgaged in good faith te secure n ilolit ol honor, lint your generous determination compels us lo no longer resist. Yours truly. U. S. Grant. W. H. Vanderbilt,. created quite a stir of eioltemont In thi-i city, His absence waa not generally ku .wu and only few fnenda wore nwaro of Ida visit to New York. Phelan look exception te oominonts in O’tlonuvaii ltnaaa'a paper on the interview publiahed bore, and left for Now York city with tlio intention, it ia stated, of asking an explanation or retraction of them, lb- repre sented to hta wlfo that he was going to St. Louis, and slie waa not awaro of his nibsiou to New York until Informed afterward of the en counter thore. Captain l’nolnu has boon a resident here itnce 18(i4; ho served iu Hie Fedi ral army during tho war, anilh a- fig considerably ill h eal politiea. He has always been an ardent supporter of tbe Irish cause and a man of violent temper. MAII.t«IBt3,IIVIS.|IB«U!!s ACQUITTED Adnillflire Hint Ilia Hhontius waa l-renieill laleil—tier Otter in .Vlnrln. 1881.. 1884... 1894... Tlllt I.ATK .11YIt % Cl,A It K OA1NIES, find ol n Career ol Almost CoiiHtunc Lltliia* REFUSED BY MRS. OKANT. New York, Sunday, January 11, 1885. , My Dear Mr. VANDEItniLT—Upon read ing your letter of this afternoon, G.-norm Grant nnd myself folt that it would bn un gracious to refuse yom princely uml g neroiis olTer Hence his noin to you. Hut up n re- fleetion I lln-1 that I cnimot, a id will not ac cept your munifle -ice in any form. i beg that you will pardon this apparent vascillation and consider this answer defluite anil final. With great regard nnd n sense of obliga tion that will always remain, 1 am Yours, very gratefully, Julia D. Grant. To Wm. IL Vanderbilt, the distinguished dead. Tlie Notable People who Left Us In 1884. The necrology of the year 1884 includes among noteworthy Americana, Olmrlo- Fomio Hoffman, Charles O’Conor, John Letcher, of Virginia. Wendell Phillips, Jndah P. Benjamin, Paul Morphy, Cyrus H. MoConnick, Gen. God frey Weitzel, Robert Hoe, Bishop Benjamin Boawnrth Smith, Mme. Anna Bishop, William If. limit, Jane Qrey Kwisahelm, Anguatus Schell, William A. Beach, CharleH J. Folger, 8;un \Va d and “Chevalier” Wykoff. Mi*h. Myra Clark GninoB, tlio famouslitig int, died on i hursday lawt in New Oj leauB, aged eighty yeai a. For tho ^stflrty-f;ight years this indomitable woman has fuught for her rights in tho courts , llt I rU v.„e..ee .jour,on; -ur. of the United btntos. Her caso iai one of tlie John B. Wood, of the New York Hun; Wilbur “ ' Storey, Chicago Timet; Dr. Sanford B. ’ Wyko Among journalists are- Senator Henry B. Anthony, of the Providence Journal; “Dr.” most remarkable ones on record. It involves the title to millions of dollars of property in Now Orleans, and it will probably not be finally Bettlod as long us the city can Lgally fight against it. In 1861 she obtained a Judgment in tho U. 8. Supreme Court confirm ing the will and giving hor the whole property left by her father and the rents thereof for the past thirty years. Then the war broke out and justice was again delayed. Since then she re ceived someth ng from the city, but nothiug ip comparison with hor rights. Hunt, Newark Advtrliuer; Thomas Km sella, Brooklyn Eagle, and Gen. James Watson Webb, ex-editor of tlio New York Courier and En quirer. Abroad am »ng the distinguished dead of tlm year ure Charles Hondo, Pro •» is Chenery, edi tor of tho Loi• d -11 Times; It. H. Iljrno, the historian; Henry J. Bvrou, the dtain&iis.t; Sir Michael Costs, c mpoaer; Gen. rodlebon, Marie Tag ioni. Cetvwayo, llans Mafcsi'tj The trial of M-ulnin i Clovis-flugues for tho murder of her traducor, Private Detoctivo Morin, took place in Paris. The court-room was crowded to overfiowing. Many diplomats and otlior persons of distiuctio.i were present. During tlm reading of the indictment M idame Clovis-IIiigims seemed to he affected, but she replied in a linn tone to tho questions. Htio admitted that the shooting was nremeditatod, and declared that evor since May 25 she had boon resolved to kill her traducor. The inter rogation ns regards tlm facts leading to tho sho ding developed nothing now. l ater in her exam.nation Madame CJ< Ungues declared that she offered Morin to ap ply for a remission of his sent nee if ho would retract tlm calumnies which lie l ad circulated about her. To ibis offer Morin only returned an insii t ng reply. In concluding hor state ment Madame Clovis-IIugues said: “If yon believe mo guilty, condemn me. If you can uii(lei>tnnd tlm moral tortures 1 have endured, acquit mo.” These words we o uttered in a firm and energetic tone. She appeared to make a favorable impression on the jury. In reply to a remark by the judges that inurdor was unjustifiable, especially after fifteen months’ premeditation she said: “You would not reason >o o oily if you had suffered as I have,” and tlm prisoner proceeded to unfold the character of the persecution to which she had ho n subjected. During this narrative she became excited. Madame Clovis-IIugues was acquitted, but is condemn.d to pay $4(/0 d images and the coifcs of tho trial. FOIJKTKHN HfiTTI.fiU.N PKOZHN doilies Found McnltrreU Alone <>riirlinjr. Kail way Sioux City, Iowa, Jail. 7, 1885.—Nowa has boeu reooived boro, which is believed to ho re liable, that tho liodies of fourteen men have been found between a point twenty-nine miles weal of Valentine, Nub , ami Gordon City, Neb., seventy miles nest. The bodies round along and near the new railroad grade The dead moo weie v et ma of the neeiit te r rible blizzard and are supposed tol-e settlers on their way in for supplies from claims which they hava been locating near the line of tho new road to be built uext season. Austrian artist, and Fanny Elssler. Plymouth Chnrrh, Ilrnalilyii. No 11 tie interest was manifested in the rale of. lh’ pews fu Beechers Plymouth Church this season. Thu fixed rentals mis year amounted to -j1 1,857; hut yen. they were $12,933. 7 be total premium's ihi-i year wore *15,899, which, with tlio llxo-1 rentals, make (he lotsl rentals loot up *27,366. Last year the total was *84,814, so that the fulling . ff tills year a mounted o 87,588, nr allowing tor Jlio reduction of tlie fixed rentals about -6.51)0. The lirst choice sold to li. T. Bush for premium and $110 rental; tho Bt-cond clmioe te H B. Clalliu for *500 premium and *12:' reutal. The highest rentals were in 1875 when *68,997 wua realized, and Iho lowest m ’886 when tb’ sum realized was *27,266, SUMMARY OF CONGRESS Nborlj tiit» hole (hit'snRmsIuji of lh« Senate was tnketi tip iu qi^'thskni of flirt GlVgon Ontinl Inna grant, forfeiture hill; fvhich ivM llnnlly passed. The hill applies fa fiffcli J.ortionjf only rtf tlife lands ns Ho ndjnceflt to mid csuorniinqfrs Vvith ^ho HncomplcUnl portions of tlm IIHe. Aftor, deemring such lands fort«*itrd, it iirovidc^ IHfJfc personif already actually settled thereon shall nri<*5 H Dieterjnro right of entry thereto under tlio Homes tend laws—such entry to bo conpiderod fis of tha dnte of actual settlement. When It emno front the lhmso the hill declared all tlio landfl granted to th« e« inpi ny hn-feittnl Mr. Hawley intrtthfoed rt hill to establish an int *rnntional copyright SysttNii The Him.nto paired th" ! I oust* joint »i?olii- tion appropriating $5),(XK) to relieve thd wants ot destitute Indians in Montana,... A resolution introduced by Mr. Lowell author- Ittos tile scerfltary of war to pay $25,(HK) to tho Washington (KvtNdathni nf New Jersey for the purjstHe of iinprovirig WAsliihgtoiFs liend- qunrters nt Morristown. N. J., and for tha puiyharoof ground in w hich to pluro tho ro- 1 niains of Contiueutnl soldiors, and to erect a monument over the spot. Ml Allison In trod uen I a hill relating to tho fees Of pension claim ng«nt* nnd attorneys. Ho said that if. had boot! charged, that under tlio legislation of hist, yonr claim /Igcnfrt war* oppressing jwnsion agents, and that tlio HUH ate w as rosnomihlo for it. Tho fact was that tho legislation of last year emus from tho Hotlso nn the n guar pension hill.... ML HftWlot oirnhsl a resolution nuk ing file UFfcsirte.lt to mi i,l to tho Henato an hist< rienl siatehletlt fcotleerning tlie public jHilicy of tlio exefc'utHe tlppnFt- nu*ntof the ('onfertornto States rturing tho late waij which was reported to havo been recently filed in tho war d •parttnent by General Sherman .... Mr. Lnpnain nmdo an argument, In favor of the negotiation of com- fnorclal treaties. Inking the ground that they wero cOnntitUtidnai..lit eXivutivn sensinn thoSenntors discussed lor ttlore V.iait two hours Mr. Conner’s resolution to untie |>»»b!hi the text of tlio Nicaraguan tro ity. Tho reso lution was lost by 12 yeas to 40 nays. Tlio Inter-state commerce bill wa* con sidered. Mr. Wilson*wam Midm • t n nking it tinlnwTiit for rttllfomlHtodiscri u nn o again it hx'alitieB or iudividttaJn Wa* nrtilo.l to tlio bill. A motion to recommit tlie ! 1.1 v, A4 fie feated, IK to 21.... Mr. Hlat^'r ea'iod up tho Oregon Central land forfeiture bill,which lias been in abeyance subject to Mr. Morgan’s motion to reconsider, and Mr. Morgan thei withdrew his motion to re.'oi.s der. The bill therefore Stands passed ft* aimcikU I by tho Senate, dud noW o the Ho mm of I • >ro- Beutatives. NEWSY GLEANINGt-4 Il'K sells at teff Cents a pound In tlio olty of Mixlco. Itsiise. Tho Homo wont into oofmiltico of (ho Wlmlo on Ilia ik-dkIods appropiiution l-ill, which appropriates *59,9,11,0 in, Tlio bill Was pii»0'-il, with nil amendment limiting pension ag-nta’ fooa te fill, oxii-pt that a writ ten oontr.it for a *35 fiu may he t n'e l.i- lween a i-iidiiinne and nil agent redding in til-' name Hale, nn 1 | n- I !i-ig Ilm no a -- nt •hall I’tholvo II too unnl iho iluiin is el- lowed. Mr. I’holps made a reply to Mr, lleagan's attn- It upi 11 him In tpnlioi tIon Willi Iho ju- toi-.lnt- eominorio Mil. JlraySi. IJori* and is - a poke on til- lil.l.... Thd eon- .lil u umltliplonmtio appropriation I iil. a ported by lh - lomniltre.-, is *1,199,8-5, a re- due, i-m under the present fiscal your of* 14,- Tho House, liy a vote of 158 lo 75, passed tho inter-state common o l-ill The hill pm- Tides that no railroad or pips tin - roinpaay ahnll make any disi'i liiiilialloil in lie - hiu g.-s for transiMii ting freight from one Ki-it-- or Territory to anothor or to or from any foreign country. Tho provisions r.e luting to tin- carrying of j-assu^or i il - els res that all pel-sons who Imvo bought tickets of i Do mine dm. ,1 all l-o af fonio.l ixpial neciininKHlatloils, but Unit any road may pfovldo sO inrate ncnominu lathi for passiiijphi provided Hi t no li s i lmlmi- tion is ma-lo on aceoimt of race or color. No passongor can ho charge 1 more than tlireo coiiIn a mile. Tho hid prescribes [leiinltii-s iolation of its provision i, an I provl los for th- bringing of »ul « in tn.- United Star. . and Slate conns, Tho act -lues not apply to tiie carriage of proporty wliolly within one State.. Mr. ltandiiil, front the committee on appro- n-iatlons, reported n l-ill for the e*iiei!si-s of lie navy for the six mont!|s e;f i itg Jn-io 10, 1885. It nppr prlntus ♦(1,181,155... Mr. Craig's contest lor tho sent from tho Fourth district of Alabuum, occupied by Chari -s ftl. Shelley (Domocrati was -le -i l-i in favor of tho contestant, who is a Hopuhlican, ami Mr. Craig took tho ontli of ollh-o. lies -hitions wero adopted calling on Ills President for Information n'-out the U-n;.) confeii-U' o, atnl for copl ■« of a I correspnii-l. betwoen this g-.v.-r.i u nt an l Fram-o in rogar-1 to tlm French and American Land Commission since Novomln r '83. 1881. A largo number of private l-ills will 1m intro duce h In 1884 there were upward of 350 hotels burn ml in this country. Tnfmr. are 8o,duo roller skating rinks sstnblislud in this country. The cx|«-fisra of tho Democratic national convention at Chicago woro *150,090. In Clermont county, Ohio, gold ore has k«en foftnil that ylolds *1,009 to tile toil, It is said that tlio writings of Nathaniel P- Willis are again coining Into public favor. I'll K main exposition building at Now Or leans Is Is-lieved to bo tbo largest building over erected. A i.IKE Insurance man calculates that in 1983 thero will be living 1,233 survivors of til io civil war. A Fiiknch aslfononior claims to hnvo dis covered that ia Vi-iitls tliero is a mountain seventy miles high. Mexico maintains nn agricultural college nt Its capital, lhi appropriations for which last year were ♦131,318, The secretory of tho Interior states that there is no lainl wlf llln the limits of the Indian Territory subject to settlement. Within a fow years tho manufnctnro of dice AO lms increased ln this country from 70,(100,000 pounds to 4-50,000,000. LonUiiR is now ono of the quiotcHt cltlos iu the world in consequence of tne provahmet) of wood or asphalt parement in all the chief tlioi oug hi area. A i-ackaoe of glamglobes, of Iho Valin *15, w.h roeelved at BLatland, Oivgon, by pi vs* recently from the Hast, the exprest fcimrgcs on which amounted to over $60. Kacii messenger carrying tho electoral vote of the several Htates from tho capita!* of their respective Htnte« to Washington, re leivwltwenty-flvo cents per milo ns com pen Ration. Aivordinq to the official returns of tho lloulth Department of Now York thuro won r. p rtcMl ill the ten years ended with 1HK8. 34,Cm? ctUf* Ol (bphtlnria, of which 16,097 cases pi ovwl fatal. A BOUNTY of $1 per head for each wolf de stroyed in Northwest Canada i« flow being paiif hv ranchmon in that section, who hnro Rttireroii conBidorablo loss lately by tho rav ages of those aiiiinals. The nnmd of AH/xma, the Sentinel of that Territory Bays, was Hot l*stowed through •ny poetic arrangementHof Indian or Spanish names, but is derived from arldous, dry, and Kona, a girdle or bolt. A LONDON correspondent of an American patfer writes homo Haying that moro than naif tho Rupply of-— T * r - J son uro from the bron Helling at retail for from $5 to $7 per barrel — A death at Lynn, Mbs*., was canned l»y tho mlHtifift of * prescription of morphine —A tfftfitlral training school 1h to bo organ- iced in BoRtou. —Hptclnl advices from Little Monk, Ark. Rtato that a conflict between Unit d Htr.k's troops and tho Oklahoma IntiurterR upon I ml lan Territory may bo expootcil in a fow days, —A collision, by which two Pullman cars woro *fclescoped Hiirt several passengers 1 ijinert, oc curred oil the l’ensaeola and Atlantic laihoart. —Kartlmuako shocks have been felt ug-iiu nt Malaga. The village of Gucveja, Hpain, pro- vIoiiHly reported to be sliding down the moun tain toward (lie vallcv, has moved hortily sixty feet. Its former site is marko I by a deep ♦emi-cir< iilar crevasse. The homo« of tho village, though damaged, still remain standing. fjord Wolselev has succeeded in sending a note to (ifltifcrsl Gordon at Khartoum and re ceiving a note in return. General Htewart started from Onkrtul on Monday with 2,000 men to ma cli to Mutom- ineli. 'Hio Ameer of Hingnra. tho Malidl OpIK H,090 m«n under him. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Mibb Anna Dickinson has re-entered the lecturing field. Rev. Dr. T. Die Witt Talmaoe has just celebrated the fifty-third anniversary of his birth. Both of Georgia’s Senators have been pronehers, Senator Drown as a Baptist. Sen ator Colquitt us a Methodist. Kfprk kntative Hour wfl go out of Congnsiftnd into tho chi *f o li tors-hair of tho Chronicle at Knoxville,Tenn.,on March 4. Hon. Tiiomah A. Ifendbiokh has conssnt- ed to doliver the annual art dross before the Yule alumni and graduating class in Junr next. Du. Wm. H. Furness, of Philadelphia, by his ordination in 182.% tlio oldest Unitarian clergyman in this country, is still active in his ministry. The czar of Russia has an income of more than $*,<)00,000 a year. The emperor of Aus tria receives $l,0.MJ,0.X) l andtho queen of Eng land $i,200,000. Mbs. Mary Ashley Townsend, the poet of the oxjiositioii opening at New Orleans, is an Iowan by birth,and her husband is a New Orleans commission merchant. James L. Graham, tho new Speaker of the Pennsvlvania House of lleprosoiilativs, is sixty-five yeurs of age. In early life he was Methodist, He lias amassed considerable ealth. —A party of cowbnyn visited the ntoiO and ranch of James Davis nt Hand On ok, Wyo ming, and nitomplcd to run the plu* Davis killrnl three of the runtlci-M and oHcaped Injury himself. Polo, iu Philn- erso aunt nlpo, Rlicclady prepared with an cxploahc. When lighted it blew up. Inflicting te-rihlo wounds from which the victim cannot recnv- r. through —Prompted by Jealousy, d' lphia, gave to a rival —A oolony of Morin nn paH*«Ml Dallas, Texan, en route to Mexico. large number of West Point endita failed to pass tlioir examinations —Tho tag Miko Dougherty was completely demolish d noar Pittsburg, I’d., nbo it ti n o'clock on Hnnday, by tin explosion of her 1 oiler. Two of her crow were killod nnd othoi s badly hurt. The boat ha<f put ashore iilmu- Belle VUG. —Tho Tronton pottora have offered tlioir em ployees tho English rate of wngos will tariff added. —Tho Farmers’ Bank of Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, closed Its door-*. —Tho armod and organized Socialists of Chicago number 1,500 mun. —Lewis Carl, living near fMIdebeni. Pa , Jot drunk and abused his wife. His son iiiior- tered, whereupon ilie father killed him and then committed micide. — Gun, Butler’s libel suit against the B istun Herald for $.'6,000, is based upon an nr iolo which appealed In that paper oil Nov. 13, 1883, afrer General B. huu been dote ted for Governor, and assails the General's war rec ord. —The exports of llvo stock and dressed cents from tho port of Boston, p r ste amers eek were 1,844 for the foreign markets, last ween wnu cattle, 5,167 quarters of b.ef and 115 ca c of mutton. By the queon’s command, a largo and hand some chair of polished granite has been placed by tho side of a privute road at Balmoral as a memorial of her son, the late Duke of Al bany. That road wus ono of his fuvorito walks. Oscar Wilde keaps right on in his cru* sartes ugaiitst modern fashion in dross. He told a Glasgow nudionce thd other night that a Lancashire mill-girl with a shawl over her shoulder and clogs on hor feet knew more abouL dress than a fashionable London lady jujt returned from Paris. IL H. Warner, founder of the Warner Observatory, in Rochester, N. Y., has re cently purchased Cameron’s painting, ‘Niagara Falls in Winter.” Tho purchasing price was $30,500. The picture measures nine by eighteen feot. Mr. Warner will pined it in his private gallery, which already Contains many masterpieces. A Buffalo paper states that Mr. Hill, thi a New " new governor of New York, “like President elect Cleveland,was thd mayor of a city throe years ago. Among distinguished ex-mayors still living are Horatio Beymour und Roscoo Conkling. In this connection tho fact may l>e recalled that Do Witt Clinton resigned the United States senatorship to beoomo » mayor. Ex-Governor Abner Coburn, of Maine, whose death at tho age of eighty-one years and ten months recently occurred, wus a poor termor’s boy, und by his own efforts and as- ‘zoness accumulated a fortune of $6,090,000 $7,000,009. Ho was never married. Ho was tho last of eight brothers, no one of whom loft a male hoir, tho last of thorn, Stephen’s son, having been drowned with ids father a few years ago. Air*. Grunt Declines. When Gen. Grant refused to accept a fund isid for him, Mr. Vanderbilt turned.over to Mrs. Grant all the property seized under his Jguumt against the Cb nera). Mrs. Grant ro used the gif’. He thou proposed to deposit the receipts from the sales of property with a .st company, with propor nrov.sio.is for the nine to be paid to Mrs. Grant during her , and giving the power to hor to make rucli isp >sitlon of the principal by her will a* Gw might elect. This liberal offer was also deel wed Mrs. Grant by —Tho Manhattan Hailnay Company I n io Jioved its mam offices from New Y- rk city ic Irvington. . —Bolva Lockwood presented a petition to tho Senate asking that the vote cast fur her at the late election bo e minted. —Major Gillespie, of the on Rimers, has made a report relitivo to tlio ureponing of Gidnoy’s (Jliannol through Hftndy Hook bar. —Hecro'ary Lincoln, in a reviow’ of the Uuzon-Garlington charges, sees no cause for punitive action. —The House Committee of Agriculture, after heating the representatives of the Noith Western Cattle Dealers’ Association, has agreed to roport a bill authorizing the President, whenever ho shall receive information just Ty ing ir, to dec are a State in which pleuro-pnou- nimiia is found to exist iu quarantine. This is to apply to those breods ot cattle aff ected by tlie disease. When a State is declared in quar antine it will bo unlawful to ship any of tho design ited breed out of it until the quarantine is removed. —At Goldsboro, N. C., a woman prevented two desperate criminals ironi breaking jail by threatening them with a revolver. —J. F. Legate, of Topeka Kan., brands as a forgery a letter published by a St. Louis pqior to prove charges against Governor St. John. —A dosperate shooting aff ray occurred in tho office of the Mascot, in Now Orleans, in which the editor of (he paper and two officials wero seriouflly'wounded. —The number of passengers brought from Europe to New York during 18S4 hy tho various lines aggregated 320,807 steerage und 59,603 cabin. —A policeman has boon detailed to stand guard over Captain Thomas F. Phelan nt tho hospital, to guard against any possible attempt to injure him. —Not a single American steamer carried grain from New York last year. —Recent changes of importance have bom made in nis Cabinet by President Crespo, of Venezuela. —Eleven valuable Clyde-dalo horses woro killod mar Piattsburg, Ohio, in a railway out by being run over by a last train. TIIE JOKER'S JUJDGET Drnwlnn tHo I.!ih-—j* Fullin'. Hint* Tliro.rlire u lloltor-Tit* Hindi Lnxnry— A fllniin tinTin- 7r.ee. lit-uv——■ Di.lv n Hl«|i. lire., lire. notv to nnT niD of nnr. Tha other evening n young Indy wimi walking homo nnd was nppronohed by n dude, who nmlilod np beside iier, nudi proceeded to ninkohiuiRolf agreeable. "May 1— ah—carry—nh—your purse?" said he. • O’), I don’t mind,” hIio replied. He look it and seemed delighted to bo of any jorvioj. They walked nnd Walked, hbo, wishing to get rid of him, kept si lent while thinking about something funny to any. "Mins Glnra,” ho finally ventured, “I don't think you hnvo much money left. This purse seems a little flat; he*I ho t ‘Tint? Well, it is a little flat, sure enough, but I don’t mind that: it’s a big flat thnt I object to.” Ho left her nt the next corner.—Ev- anwille Aryus, TOO HUon LUXURY, Proud Pa.—"No, sir. Ycmng man, yonr pleading is useless. My daughter must marry her equal,” Poor Suitor—"I am oortafnly her equal in birth, breeding, education, and "Ah I but yon nro not her equal iu woalth. That’s what I menu. My daughter bus been used to a life of lux ury ” “l know, bnt ” "No iuterrnptions, pleaso. Sho has never known what it is to want for any thing. Nothing that money could pur chase has been denied her. She has uover been allowed to lift her baud to liolp herself in nny way; never allowed to learn to sow, to knit, to cook, to—in fact, sho knows no moro about snob things that, ^now about Greek. 8bo don’t even scleot hor own wardrobe, ohoose her own bonnets or comb her own hair, Hbo—" But be bod fled. I'hila. Call. a RAIIIIF.I1. The enstomor had a big bald spot < n the back of his head, Tho faintest fnrzii was barely visible on tho polishod scalp. In brushing tbe remnant of hair the bar ber included the donnded surface, care fully extending an imaginary parting di rt ctly through it, nnd then using the brush in n way thnt would have ar ranged tlio hirsute covering if thore bod been any. "Wbnt on earth made you do that?” I subsequently nsked him. "Becuuso I would have offended him by roeognizing ids baldness.” was tho reply; "and hy ignoring it I tioklodhim mightily.” OAN T KILT. Tnr.M THAT WAY. “Tho best wuy to get rid of roaohes,” said tlie man witli tlio glnssi-s, "is to let your tiros nil go out somo roal cold night, raise all your windows and froizo them out. The first oold night I intend to do that, and will pour water in every crack and let it freeze,” “It won’t work,” replied thomnn with the red nose, "1 tried thnt myself once and wli-'ii 1 came down stairs tho next morning to gather up the oorpses I found that all the rouohce had strapped skates on and organized skating parties. Y in can’t kill a roach tint way.”—Off Oily Blizzard. trues i.vrvrn. It was long after midnight, nnd the minutes woro clicking hy like hours. "I love a graceful olnr tree,” she ro- rasrked. ‘How I wish I wero an elm tree,” he responded, quickly. Il yoi "Why do yon ?” ho inqnired with a world of devotion in his voice. "Because,” sho replied, "trees lenvo onoe a year at least.”—Brake's Mag azine. A WONDERFUL THTNO. Young Artist (displaying his latost picture)—Ya-as, art is a wonderful tiling. Why, do you know thnt with a single dnsh of tlie brush 1 can change tho fnco of a laughing ohild into that of a crying child ? Old Party (who knows nothing of art) JSr.-by hitting it with the brush ? ONLY A STEP. Most people will approve of the sug gestion contained in tbe following rhyme: It Is bnt a stop-oh Down to tlio iltp-ob. Tlm way Is quite- eionp-oh '1 Imt leads to tho dcop-oh. I slipi-od on a grapc-ib Just tiy ilie day-poli. In a store iionr tho il- e-pot I bought this email t- A-pot, rorliAps, lo ond tl.o Agitation, Wo'd hotter hcnuctortlr call it station. A FATtTEU’B HINT. Look houh, Riusotn," said an ol'f negro lo u young fellow. ‘ I doan min' yer ’socintin’ will my daughter, but I’d rather yer wouldn't come ronu’ my home no mo’. Timo 'fore do las’ what yer wits hoab, I missed or water bucket, -in’ de las’ time do bridle wits gone, an’ now, ez I has n uso fur de saddle, l’il rutlier yer wouldn't oouio heah. I douu »y dat yer ain't hones’, for I h'lebes tr is; hut such cnis things hap pens while yer is in tho neighborhood, so jos’ please er olo man, who ain’t en joyin' very good health, please doan come rout)' dis house no mo’,”—Arkan- oaw Traveler. —General Li-wal's proposal to declare war ngaliiMt O'lina h-s canned dissension in tho Fre oh Cabinet. I ho revolt in Uuubodia is so serious that ihoii- are roars tin-1 ilie French will he massa cred at tlio nidi aiy pons. — The British press hopes lliat the dyna miters’ fray ill New Y..rk may lead Americans to do Sumetidng to stimp one ih-no agitat -rs. —A statement prepared by the Uulted States Treasurer shows that there are now outstanding *26.528.144 iu oue do.lar notes and *23,840,217 ill two d liar no es. Each of these amounts is in excise ut the arnouut ol thus i notes utU t.niiJii'g iu July last. Thu Treasurer saya that there is uow uo scarcity ot notes of. small do oniinatious, and he is prepared to supply all legal demands tor them THE SEALSKIN. "Say, Charles,” said Mr. Bnysell to his clerk, "if yon will buy a seal-kin sacque for your wife I’ll give you $25 toward the purchase.” “1 will do it,” replied tho clerk, "hut, Mr. Buysell, why this burst of liber ality ?” "No liberality about it, my boy. Jf your wife comes out in a sealskin, don’t you see, it will save mo the expense of hnviug to buy one for Mrs. Buysell.” "How so?” ‘'Why, yon don’t snppose slid would wear the samo kind of clothes as my clerk’s wife wears, Uo yon?’’—Chicago News. HE DREW THE LINE. The following story is told ol Con gressman Burleigh, of Eensselaer and Washington Counties: When he lirst ap peared at Washington, in conversation with a brother Congressman one day he said: “A particular friend of mine at home told me before leaving that after arriving here thore would be two.im portant things for me to attend to. One was to stop Bwearing, and the other to appear in a swallow-tailed coat. Well. I have stopped swearing, but I’ll be hanged if I w:!i wear a swallow-tailed coah”—Glen’a Falla Times, —A Berlin correspondent oables thnt an of- ticial paper declares that Gormany must inter fere in the Panama ami Niearagna canal schemes booaiw of alleged impurtaut inter. I eats. r. : :

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Mercury. (Sandersville, Ga.) 1880-1???, January 20, 1885, Image 1