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SANDERSVILLE, GA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1885.
NUMBER 29.
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CURE.
A I'RRUII MTENThT’N BUltEHN*
Mild KXPKHINKKTN.
l urliig a Boy who Hod lleen lllttrn by m
Mod Dog.
A special cable dispaV h from Paris to tho
New York Herald gives the subjoined most
Interesting account of Dr. Louis Pastour’s
successful attempt to And a cure for hydro
phobia:
“No more hydrophobia! No more mad
dogs! Dr. Louis Pasteur’s experiments have
resulted in a most brilliant success. At por-
haps the most important sitting held by tho
academy of sciences, Dr* Pasteur thus de
scribed the process of cure by moans of a
rabbit inoculated with the fragment
of a tissue taken from tho spine of a rabid
dog. The incubation of the poison occu*
f iled fifteen days. As soon os the first rabbit
noculated was dead a portion from its spinal
marrow was in turn inoculated into a sec
ond rabbit, and so on until tixty rabbits iia 1
been inoculated. At each successive inocu
lation the virus increased in potency, and the
last period of incubation did not occupy more
than seven days. .
“Having ascertained that exposure todr.ed
air diminished the virus, and consequently re
duced its force, Dr. Pasteur supplied himself
with a series of bottles of dried air. Iu those
bottles ho placed portions of inoculated spinal
marrow at successive dates, the oldest being
the least virulent and tho latest the most so.
For an operation Dr. Pasteur begins by in
oculating his subject witli tho oldost tissue,
and finishes by tlie injection of a piece of
tissue whose bottling dates back only two
days, and wliobe poriod of^ incubation would
•t<
not exceed ,>ae week. The subject is then
found to be absolutely proof against the dis
ease.
“A boy twelve years of age, named
Meister, who hod been bitten fourteen times,
came from Alsace with his mother to soe Dr.
Pasteur. The autopsy of the dog which had
bitten the boy left no doubt ns to its having
suffered from hydrophobia. Dr. Pasteur
took the celebrated Dr. Vulnian and
a professor of the school of
medicine to see the boy Meister. These two
doctors came to the conclusion that tho boy
was doomed to a painful death and might do
experimented upon. In thirteen days inocu
lations were made upon Meister with
pieces of spinal marrow containing
virus of constantly increasing strength,
the last being from tho spine of
a rabbit that died only the day before.
Now a hundred days have passed since Meis
ter underwent the last inoculation. The
treatment has been thoroughly successful
and the boy is in perfect health. He had
been bitten sixty hours and had traveled from
Alsace to Paris beforo tho first inoculation
was performed.
“A shepherd boy named J uditlqaged fifteen,
was bitten by a mad dog a fortnight ago and
has now been a week under treatment. Dr.
Pasteur is confident of curing him.
“Dr. Pasteur said that it was now neces
sary to provide an establishment where rab
bits might always be kept inoculated with
the disease. In this way a constant supply
of spinal tissues of old and recent inoculation
would always be ready. Beforo the sitting was
&djoitrned Dr. Pasteur received an enthusiastic
ovation, from both the academy itself and
the public who wore present. Among those
present I noticed tho Grand Duke Alexis,
who is a great dog fancier, and M. do Lei-
seps, who went to hear Dr. Pasteur’s report
indorsed by Dr. Vulpinn.
“One of the leading doctors present remark
ed that the Question was whether a man
cured of hydrophobia could suffer from a
second bite. In other words, whether
the inoculation of virus was a guar
antee against hydrophobia. In answer
Dr. Pasteur states that the malady
is transmissible only by bite. If, therefore,
by a general compulsory inoculation of dogs
for several generations dogs had been made
incapable of hydrophobia, tho malady would
have disappeared and there would bo no oc
casion to ask whether inoculation had a per
manent effect or not. As to the origin of hydro
phobia, Dr. Pasteur says nobody in the world
can explain its primal causes. As he re
marked—perhaps out of politeness—his theory
will require study by the profession in order
to make it practical, but he emphatically
stated that the cure for hydrophobia baa
been found.”
The Storm In the Ynlley.
The most terrific rain storui known in the
Harrisonburg, Va., valley for many years began
Thursday and continued past midnight* More
water fell in eighteen hours .tba i has fallen al
together in two years previous. High w^tcr
prevailed everywhere, and tho washouts in the
Valley branch of the Baltimore and Ohio rail
road delayed all the trains. The mountains
west of this place ar* covered with mow.
george B, McClellan.
RKKTCH Or HI* 4'A IK F, Kit AM A
SOLDIER AMD CIVILIAN.
Same Interesting Uemlaiicenera ef at Very
Notable Man.
George Brinton McClellan wa$ born la
Philadelphia, December 8, 18211,his father be
ing Dr. McClellan,a celobrated member of the
faculty of theuuiversity of Pennsylvania med-
lcalcolleg 0. After studying at tho University
of Pennsylvania, ho was appointed to tho West
Point Military academy, from which ho was
graduated in 1848, ranking second in a class
of fifty-nine members. Ho was then assigned
lor tho corps of engineers as a brevot second
lieutenant In the Mexican war ho served
with much credit, and was. alter being com
missioned as second lieutenant, breveted first
lieutenant for gallant and meritorious con
duct in tho battles of Contreras and Churu-
busco, and for similar conduct iu tho battles
of Molino del Hey and Chapultapec. At the
close of the war ho was detailed to duty
with tho engineer troops at West Point, and
thon, in 1851-52, was assistant engineer in the
construction of Fort Delaware. In 1852
ho was engineor of the explor
ing expedition to tho sources of tho Bod
river of Texas, and was also made Chief
engineer of the department of Texas, having
charge of tho survoys of tho rivers and har
bors on the gulf const of that state. He was
tho engineor for the exploration and survey
of the western division of the proposed
Northern Pacific tabroad through thi Cas
cade mountains in 1853-.4. and in tho former
year was promoted to bo flrut
lieutenant Aftor special service In
the collection cf railroad statistics for
the war department, ho was made a captain
in the First cavalry on March 8, 1855, and
served in 1855 60 ns n member of tho military
commission appointed by tho United States
G overnment to visit tho scat of war in the
'riinea His official report of this visit was
E ublislied by order of Congress in 1857, .....
racing remarks upon tho operations in tho
Crimoa, and upon tho organisation, instruc
tion, and equipment of European armies.
On January lfi, 1£57. Captain McClellan re*
signed from tho army iu order to accept the
position of chief engineor of tho Illinois C^n-
Iral railroad, of which ho was male vice-
president in the year following. In I860 he
became president of tho St Louis and Cin
cinnati railroad, and ho was holding thio of
fice at tho outbreak in 1851. On April 28,1801,
he was commissioned major-general of Ohio
▼oluntoers, and ho was soon placed iu com
mand of the Department of tho Ohio, which
included tho Htntos of Ohio, Indiana, and
Illinois, with tho westerly parts of Pennsyl
vania and Virginia. Ho was commissioned
major-general of the regular army on May
14, 1801. In the following July he was
engaged in the action of Rich moun
tain, w ‘ •
West Virginia, and by a forced
inarch upon tho Confederates compelled
the surrender of Goneral Pogrom near Bev
erly, in that State. The thanks of Congress
were voted to Goneral McClellan in tho eamo
month for “tho sirles of brilliant and do-
eisive victories” wlduli his army had achieved
“on tho bat tic* (lids of Western Virginia”
On July 22, 1851, tho day after the
Bull Hun disaster, he was summoned
to Washington, and a few days later
was placed In command of the Divi
sion or tho Potomac. Ho was mode com*
mander of the department of the Potomac on
August 17, and of the army of the Potomac
on August 20. Upon the retirement of
General Scott* on Novembor 1,1801, General
McClellan was appointed general-ln-chief of
the armies or tho United States.
Tho young commander won very |
popular with his troops, and ho was
compared to tho young Napoleon. After the
genoral advance upon Manassas in March,
1862, Goneral McClellan was in persoual com
mand of tho Army of tho Potomac during
the Virginia Peninsula campaign. York-
town having been besieged and ovacuafted,
and tho Confederate forces defeated at
Williamsburg and Hanover Court-houso
General McClellan took up a posi
tion on the Chickahominy and
opened the campaign against Hichmond.
Finding his lino too much oxtondod, ho
changed hit boso to the James river, accom
plishing a difficult flank movement by con
tinuous fighting for nearly a week. Among
the more Important Imttlos in which his
past twenty-four hours tba Presi
dent had concluded to offer him
an appointment as a member of the Civil
Service commission.
The President hns di
rected the flags to be displayed at half mast
on all the executive buildings hero until after
tho funeral. He hns also sent a tnessago of
sympathy to Mrs. McClellan. Tho war de
partment, in a general order issued this after
noon, pays tho following tribute: “Th) name
and fame of this distinguished soldier
and citisen is known ami honored
throughout the republic. As the organizer
of tho Army of tno Potomac ho made it
capablo of accomplishing great deeds, the
lessons he gave it were never forgotten, and
the spirit withwhiih he animated it con
tinued through all its eventful history. Sub
sequently, as its loader,ho rendered groat ser
vices to his country. His pure and noble
character, his un*elflsh devotion, and the
duty he performed in the hour or peril will
cause his memory ever to be cherished with
pride by the peoplo of the United States
At the White House.
MCKNKN DURING A PRESIDENTIA l<
RECEPTION—PltANKY VISITORS.
Below is an interesting account of a d»y*
doings at the White Houso during one of
President Clovoland's receptions. It is given
in a Washington dispatch to the New York
Ih. cdd:
The trl-weekly Informal afternoon recep
tions which have been Instituted at the White
House by President, Cleveland are now the
most interesting and attractive entertain
ments In Washington. Tho numbor who at
tend them Increase every week. This after
noon (hero wore nearly two hundrod per
sons in tho East room when the Presi
dent entered. Of this number more
than one-half wore ladies. Tho people
who expect sensations to occur thoro are very
much disappointed. Indeed, tho idea which
has got abroad that the White House Is con
stantly Infest id with cranks is far from being
correct.
Thoro wore two visitors of this clans at tho
White Houso to-day. One of thorn wanted
to talk on shipbuilding. He said ship
building was more sacred than any
other calling or occupation in which men en
gaged, and that shipbuilders should have
every possible protection that the government
ldglvf “ ‘ : **
and Malvern Hill. Aftor General McClellan
had fallen back to Harrison’s Lauding, Gen
eral Halleck, who had 'meanwhile been
mado commander-in-chiof, ordered him
to return with his wholo army to
Fortress Monroe and Yorktown. After
the defeat of General Pope, at tho socond
Bull Hun in August, 1862, General McClellan
wasplacodln command of tho defences of
Washington. In tho Maryland campaign
from September 7 to Novembor 10, 1852. ho
was in command of tho Army of the Pc
tomio, being engaged in the battles of South
Mountain and Antictam and in
tho march to Warrenton. His
victory over Leo at An detain endod
the Confederate invasion of Maryland. On
November 7 General McClellan was super
seded by General Burnside, and placod on
waiting orders.
General McClollan was not afterward en
gaged in the war. On August 31,1804, tho
Democratic National convention nominated
him for the presidency, and at the ensuing
election ho was defeated by President Lin
coln. Ho resigned his commission in tho army
on the day of election, Novembor 8, 1854,
and took up Ills residence in N. Y. city. A f-
terward ho made a visit to Europe, from
which ho returned in 1WW\ Ho then engaged
in practice ns a civil ®ui onr. Ho had
charge of tho construction of the Stevens
floating battery at Iloboksn, N. J., and was
superintendent of the construction of tho
railway kridgo over tho Hudson at Pough
keepsie. He also servod ns chief engineor of
tho department of docks in this city, re
signing in 1872.
In 1877 General McClellan was the Demo-
cra’ic candidate for governor of Now Jorsoy,
and wat elected by about 12,050 majority.
Since the expiration of his term as governor
he has not hold public office.
In addition to his report on “The Armies of
Europe” (which was republished In Philadel
phia in 1851), lie was the author of a transla
tion from tho French of a “Manual of Bay
onet Exorcises.” adopted for the use of
the United States army, 1852; a vol
ume of the government reports of the
“Pacific Railroad Surveys,” 1854: “Regu-
lations and Instructions for the Field
Service of tho United States Cavalry in Time
of War” “European Cava’ry,” “Report on tha
Organization ami Campaigns of the Army of
tho!Potomne,” 1804; and a recent contribut ion
to the Centura war papers. Between 1853
and 18?!1 he was chosen a member of several
scientific associations.
At the time of his doath, General McClellan
was president of the Grant Bolt Copper
company. Ho was also a governor of the
Soldiers’ Home at, Old Point Comfort, Va.
He married in. Mav, 1850, a daughter of
Gen. Randolph B. Mnrcv, on whose
staff ho had been, and who later served on
his staff. For about twenty years General
McClellan has made his summer home on the
summit of Orange mountain,about two miles
from the town of Orange, spending there a
part of almost every year since that time.
In appearance General McClellan was a
man who would attract attention anywhere.
He was about five feet eight inches in height.
Mitli very broad shoulders, which supported
a large neck and a well formed head. His
arms were muscular and his hands as hard as
a plowman’s. The eyes were gray, clear, and
gave no signs of any emotion that might bo
workiug within the man. He wore a mus
tache and imperial of a sandy
color touched with silver, and his iron-gray
hair «as brushed back, revealing aprominent
forehead. He was very social and had many
friends, whom ho entertained at times
royally in his Now York and Orange resi
dences.
The news of Goneral McClellan’s death
was received with manifestation of sor
row everywhere. In Chicago, in Tren-
row every wiiero. ju »u j-teu
ton N. J., where he lived many
years; in Wilkesbarre, Penn.; in
Brooklyn, and in many other cities the flags
were placed at hal f-rnast. In New York city
the Veteran Association of the One Hundred
and Sixtv-flfth New York Volunteers (Second
Duryea Zouaves) met and passed resolutions
of sorrow,* and Abraham Lincoln Post, No.
13, G. A. R., appointed a committee to take
appropriate steps.
A Washington dispatch, dated in the after
noon after General McClellan’s death, says:
It is definitely learned to-day that Major-
Genoral McClelRm came very near being
made a member of President Cleveland’s
cabinet; that he was tendered the Russian
mission and declined it because of busi
ness engagements, and that within the
could give them in tho way of bounties and
rewards. Before he had got very far ho was
told to submit his Idea in writing to the sec
retory of the navy, who was Just now investi
gating tho subject. They got rid of him.
Tho other man wanted tho government to
purchnso of him a quantity or small croco
diles which he said he could catch in a couple
of days in tho lower Potomac, and place
them in the basins of tho fountains in public
parks. He thought tho antics that young
and playful 'crocodiles would perform would
lie more amusing to the children, as well as
others, than anything else. He said there
wore millions of crocodiles in tho Potomac,
and that he possessed ft secret by which he
could easily catch os many as might be
needtd. This gcutloman was referred to the
Fish commission.
Tiie President makes all his visitors feel at
home. He seems to make evoryono think
that he is socially glad to boo them. Though
to tho ordinary observer it looks as if he
shakes tho hands of all who present them
selves the same way, ho does not, and many
of thorn go away with tho im
pression that they were specially favored
in tho way their hand was shaken. Indies
are always highly pleased with tho way the
President receives them. He never seems to
pay any attention to their attire or appoar
ance, all, rich and poor, being cordially re
ceived, though it has been noticed that in the
case of a<ed ladles, and Indeed *«‘;ed n.e.i. ho
makes extra efforts to convinc'd c-J.n tha.
ij glad to receive their calls.
The members of tho Utah commission spent
considerable time with tho President talking
over tho results of their labors. Thera is an
impression In some Quarters that thoro will
be a reorganization of this commission before
long. At present It consists of two Republi
can ex-Senators, Ramsey and Paddock, and
ont Democrat, Mr. Pettigrew.
Thoma.i Resigns.
ANOTHER CIVIL HI RVIt F. ( ON.tllS.
NIONKR RKTIREN.
Civil Service Commissioner Thonmn, in a
letter to the President tendering his resigna
tion, says:
“While thus asking release from so honor
able a trust, I desire to record my gratifica
tion of tho proved practicability and remedial
effectiveness of the reform procedure. Triod
veterans in political warfare view
with amazement tho facilo, though
radical, departure from the fa
miliar methods of tho spoils system of
distributing patronage. Strenuous and sin
cere argument, and also deliberate perversion,
mark tho opposition of different groups of
antagonists. And yet it must bo concluded
that a majority of the political leaders in
either party is in accord with tho Pondloton
law, if its original enactment and emphatic
endorsement by a subsequent Congress wore
honest legislative expressions, and not tho
coercion of moral cowardice by popular senti
ment uor partisan legerdemain. * * +
Public appreciation of tho fact that this re
form dues not trench upon sturdy partisan
shipenmo late. It was sedulously maintained
that tho civil service was to bo composed of
men who should abjure certain rights ofeiti-
zendllp. With the gradual, but inevitable
refutation of this false view, the outlines of
the reform at last stoo l forth iu clearness.
It is a reform which views the civil service
as n vast business agency; its search is for
the best obtainable merit. In business which
is net political it enfor. es no tests oi party.
Tho President replied os follows:
Executive Mansion, [
Washington, Oct. 2-4, 1^85.
Hon. Ijcroy IX Tho man, Civil Service Com
missioner.
My I)eau Sir: I have received your letter
tendering your resignation ns n member of
the civil service commission, which is in
furtherance of an inclination expressed by
you very soon aftor my inauguration
as President. Tho resignation thus
tendered is hereby accepted, to
take effect on tho 1st day of No
vember next I congratulate you upon the
fact that in tho office which you relinquish
you have been able, by sincere and earnest
work, and by a steady dovotion to tho cause
which you have in charge, to do so much in
the interest of good government and im
proved political methods. Yours sincerely,
Grover Cleveland.
A Remarkable Duel.
HOW A TEXAN ANI) AN INDIAN ENDED
EACH OTHER’S EXISTENCE.
The particulars of a recent novel duel in
the Indian Territory have just been published.
The affair come off at Tishamingo, in the
Choctaw nation. Tishamingo is a small vil
lage whore the Indians do their trading, and
is tho frequent rewort of hard characters
from Texas and other parts of tho United
States. That region is full of outlaws. Among
a dozen or more outlaws sitting iu a saloon
was a tall Texan named Chalmers. An Indian
police officer named Brown entered the saloon
and Chalmers insisted on treating. As they
were about to drink Brown managed to spill
Chalmers’ liquor on the floor, telling him he
had enough. This enraged the Texan, who
demauded blood, and pulled his revolver with
one hand and his dirk with tho other. Brown
also drew his weapon, and a fight was about
to open, when the spectators interfered and
attempted to settle the matter.
Nothing would satisfy the wounded honor
of Chalmers but blood, and so the other
white men and Indians fixed up a light on tho
following terms: The two men were to stand
back to back in the middle of the floor. At
the room, the Indian through the frontdoor
and the Texan by the back door. They were
to turn in the same direction after clearing
the doors, and begin firing promiscuously.
Both principals agreed to these terms and
took their positions. The signal was given,
and both started from the nouse, pistols in
hand. They faced each other on the north
side of the house and opened fire at almost
the same instant. Three rounds were fired
in quick succession. Thon the Indian began
to stagger, and, running toward Chalmers
with a drawn knife, plunged it into the Tex
an’s breast just as the latter fired his last
bullet, which penetrated the Indian’s heart,
killing him instantly. Chalmers diel half
An hour after his antagonist. Over fifty In
dians and whites witnessed the duel,
THE NEWS.
Interesting 1 Happenings front all Points.
KtxTKIlN AND AllDDI.ft HTATK*.
Edward Haiti.an, for many year. AmorH
ea'« champion oarsman, lia.1 just been easily
defeated at Albany, N. Y., in a three-mllo
boat-race by John Teenier, of Pittsburg
Penn.
Ex-GoVkrnor John B. Paok, of Vor
mont, died a fow days ago at Rutland. He
was uorn ill 1*20, and elected governor in
1807 and 180S.
Fivk prisoner^ In the Wellsboro (Penn.)
jail took French leave through a hole which
they had cut in the wall.
"Josh- BiM.iNds," the humorist, was
buried in Ijuiesborough, Mass., bis native
town.
An engine ran into a coal train at Swart-
wood Station, N. Y., and William Brown,
engineer, his flroman and a briikeiAan were
Tun trackmen while being conveyed to
Uieir work on a flat car wore swept off near
Oakdale, Mass, and all badly injured, one
dying soon after and sovoral other* losing a
leg by amputation.
Mrs. BRtDDRT Fari.kt, born in Ireland
in 1781. haa just died at Bridgeport Conn.,
leaving two children, twenty-live grand
children and twenty-one great-graudehit-
dron.
A skat in the Now York Stock exchange
haa just boon sold foi $34,000, the highest price
on record.
Bahaii Corky, aged nineteen years, a girl
of Bcotch-Irleh parentage residing at Dovsr,
N. H., has recoivod a cablegram announcing
that by the recent death of an uncle In Boot-
land ahe inherits 11,000,000.
A CoNNKcTiciiT life insuranoe company
took possession of the water works at Evans
ville , Ind., on account of default In payment
of interest on bonds.
Wiixiam J. HxHT.who hns been prominent
In New York busiuoss circle* through his
connection with various broken Institutions
as receiver, was arrested on a requisition of
the governor of Massachusetts and taken to
Boston. He was charged with embemling
*7f>,ooo of trust funds belonging to tho Pa
cific bank, of Boston, of which institution hs
had been a trustee. The charge L denied by
Best.
Notwithstanding the hubbub of an exciting
election can .os the people of New York city
have been greatly interested In the
trial of Ferdinand Ward and the
appearance on the witness stand of
James I). Kish, late president of the
broken Marino bank, ana now an inmate of
Auburn prison. Fish's testimony concerning
the flnancia! o|>eratlous of his former partnor
In fleecing the public was very damaging to
Ward.
Houirt J. Cook, busbies, manager of the
Philadelphia Pros, had his skull fractured
by a hatchet, blow struck by Htoplien Mae-
pnerson, the colored janitor, whom bo had
just discharged. Macpberton was arrested,
and Cook,who is best known as nonce famous
Yale college oarsman, was taken to a hospital.
Kkkdinand Ward’s trial In Now York for
grand larceny endod in a verdict of guilty,
the testimony of Kish, the Imprisoned ex
president of the Marin* bank, telling heavily
against the head of the once famous Ann of
Grant & Ward.
Up to recent date tho Grant National Mon
ument fund had reached *113,500.
sstil;Til AND WKHT.
Mr. Parnkm. and other prominent Irish
borne rulers will attend the convention of
the Irish national league of America at
Chicugo next January.
A Wiohiti Kamjs (Teias) telegram states
that the Exchange batik, C. w. Israel &
Co., proprietors, and the Arm's bank at Hen.
rletta, have sinpondod, and great indigna
tion lias been arouse 1 among the numerous
depositors on account of alleged irregulari
ties.
Rev. Adkiikd Coffee, a colored preacher,
beat bis thirteen vcar-old son to doath at
Madison, Fla, and' was arrested.
The first annual fair of the Mlsslsilppl
colored Btato Fair association has beon
opened at Jackson under favorable auspices.
Tho oponing ceremonies consisted of a clvlo
and military parade, and addresses by Gov
ernor Ijowry, Congresimun Barksdale aud
Isaiah T. Montgomery, rosldont of the asso
ciation. Kvery part of the Btate is repre
sented at the fair by exhibits.
John Thomphon, who murdered James C,
White, a merchant of Glen Alice, Tenn.,
was taken from Kingstown jail late at night
by a mob of 1U0 men and hanged.
A BltlDOK at East Baginaw, Mich., was
flllod witli spectators watching a lire whon
part of I ho structure gave way. throwing
about sixty people into tho deep rlvsr bolow.
One boy's body w as rocovonxl, and sovoral
other persons were reported missing.
The regular Democratic candidate for
mayor of Baltimore ivns succossrui ovor the
fusion nominee in the municipal oleetlon.
A. J. HuniiL's, of Chicago, shot and mor
tally wnoodnd Mrs. Goode, a widow, and her
sister, Miss Lillian Walters. Tho ladles had
been employed ns type writers In n Chicago
mercantile agency,ami Dtirrus.nlso employed
there, had been discharged when he refused
to apologia) to Mrs. G. ooo for defaming hor.
Burras then took this bloo l-thlrsty mothal
of "getting oven. ”
M AMIIMil ON.
Secretary Whitney 1ms approvod the
report of the nival board constituted to ex
amine tho work an I materials of th> unfin
ished cruisors Chicago, Boston and Atlanta,
and to ascertain and lioclare tho fair market
value thereof, Including a reasonable and
customary margin or pruflt upon the work;
end tho naval advisory board lms beon
ordered to go on witli the work of construc
tion.
Thf. President ha, appointed Oscar G.
Paisley postmaster at Wilmington, N. C. To
bo United States attorneys, Joseph W. House,
for tho eastern district of Arkansas.: Monti
H. Sandols, for the western district of Arkan
sas. To bo marshal i, Thomas Fletcher, for
tho eastern district of Arkansas; John Carroll,
for the western district of. Arkansas,
It is understood that Secretary Ravard
does not contemplate making any changes in
the consular offices in I ho countries south of
the United States for [some time yet. It is
the poliey of the state department to cul
tivate more friendly relations with
Mexico and the South and Central American
people, and to exten 1 our commercial inter
course in that direction. For this reason the
consuls who have already sjctired tho good
opinion of the people with whom they nave
to deal, it is thought by the secretary will bo
of greater service just now than would now
men.
Tiie court of comm'asioners of Alabama
claims, which will expire by limitation De
cember 31, is making rapid progress with its
business.
AUDITION A I, appointments by the Presi
dent: W. Ism Dinkins, of Mis.issippi, to be
United States marshal for tiie southern dis
trict of Mississippi; Kdtuund B. Briggs, of
the District of Co uuihla, to be United Stake*
consul at Bantos, Brazil; Henry F. Weld, of
Massachusetts, to bo ussnycr in charge of tho
ass sy olllco at Boiso City, Montana.
There was received at the United Staten
treasury department tho other day, in an en
velope postmarked Kewanc, N. J., a >50.)
Unite I States note marked "conscience
money." Borne days ago a contribution of
*300 to tho cousci m jo fun 1 was received a
tho department f i o.u a Washington clergy
man, who had received it through the con
fessional.
FOREIGN.
Smallpox, which li is been epidemic at
Montreal for sj many months, has finally
appeared in Toronto. At Montreal consider
able resistance is mad) against the enforced
isolation of patients.
Lord Louse, husband of Princess Louise,
was delivering a campaign speech at Brent
ford, England, where he was running for
parliament, whon ho was assaulted with
rotten eggs, his hat sm i shed over Ills head,
and finally compelie I to 11 ie to the railway
station and depart for Loudon.
An immense demonstration ennerslve of
sympathy for Prime Minister Estrupp, whoso
assassination was reccatly attempted, has
been held iu Copenhagm, ill) Danish capital.
^ A force of (l,0sM) Black Flags, Auamites and
Chiuese deserters h-is been defeated with
heavy Iobs, after three days of hard lighting,
by tho French under General do Coureey.
The French loss was thirteen killed and
wounded,
LATEST NEWS.
8L0WH OUT OF A WELL
A lOlBIBliE ACCIDENT l>l!K TO A
rBEBAITBK Mi ANT.
Twe Mrs Are Thrown Feriy Feel Into tlic
Air no«l Fatally Injwrnl.
Willium Kinnebrcw and Philip Phillips wen-
blown ont of a wrll thirty feet deep in Atlanta,
Ga., on Wednesday, by tho premature din-
charge of a bla«t.
Kmnobrow will dio, and Phillips, if he live**,
will bo blind for tho rest of hia days.
For some time past tho two men havo been
digging a well for tho Rev. Mr. Bowden, 39
Church street, near Cone. Tho well is now a
littlo ovor thirty feot deep, and for tho past
three or four days tho men hare l>oe» workiug
in a solid bed of rock. Every day blast after
blast haa l>cen sot off, and the rocks torn ami
scattered > y tho gunpowder havo l>co:i thrown
i atttf *
out. but still the d ugera could find uo water.
Wednesday they began drilling again, and
about two o’clook oomplotcd two deop li »lea.
Then they began tho loading process, iho fuse
was inserted and thon tin* ginut powder
emptied into tho hole. Thon tho cluy was
pushed down and more powder poured in.
Again tho clay was forced into tho inile, and
tho “tamping rod” was inserted, aud white
tiolu tho
one man hold tho rod steady tho othor pounded
upon it with a hammer. Thin is oalied nun ping
a Mast. With layers of powder and clay lured '
tight upon each otlior, tho holes arc it led up
until the charge is wedged in so tightly that i.
wilt break tho rock to fragments rather than
ahoot out the top.
In tamping tho blast Kinnebrew sat upon tho
atouo holding the tamping iron, while i hillips
stood above him with a heavy slodgu hammer.
Tho two men had al>out completed charging
the hole when tho tamping iron cut thi fuse
in two. As tho open fu«6 ox|»osed, the powder
ami iron fired it. In an instant the burning
grain imparted fire to tho fuse, and whllo the
men were still working above, unmindful of
their great danger, tho tiro was creeping down
to the powdor at tho bottom of tho hole. In a
few seconds the fire icached tho powder, and
then iu an instant there was a great diaclurge.
The blast was a powerful one. It was hoavily
loaded, and whon it went off both men wire
hurled high into air. They went above the
mouth of tho well and Phillips landed upon tin
ground. But Kinuchicw, loss fortunate, drop
ped back into tho well.
They found Phillips lying upon the ground
covered with dirt and powdor burned, llo waa
in an iimoiiBiblo condition. Tho well waa yet
full of powder smoke, and It waa not until after
this smoko cleared sway that Kiuuehrew was
aoen Several persons went down and hclned
in lifting him out. Tiie physicians found that
both men were in an ixtreuioly critical condi
tion. Every rib bn Kitiuebrew'a left sido was
broken. Hia right hand was torn half iff. Ilia
faco was cut and bruised whUo hia right eye
was gono and tho loft closed. Hia breathing
was extremely difficult aiid accompanied with
great pain ou account of tho broken ribs.
The physicians amputated part of the hand.
Phillips had both * ands so badly mangled that
every finger except ono ou the left hand, and
three on tho right woro amputated. Tho i>ow-
der burned his face and eyes te rribly. Both
eyes are closed and the physicians say he will
M blind.
3 ho drill was blown out with auch force that
it went flying into tho air and dropped into
a lot adjoining tho one in which tno well la
located.
MX PBRSONg KILLED.
A Terrible Nlcanteai Disaster ea Fravl.
4eace Hirer.
A dispatch from New London, Conn.* aaya:
A terrible Calamity by whiph sU lives were loot.
occurred in the raco on Huuday night, oaused
by the explosion of tho boiler cf the steam
dredge No. 4. of the Atlantic dredging compa
ny, of Brooklyn, N. Y. The drodge has been
employed on Providence river for four years,
and in company w th tho water tank, left
Providonce for New York at 9:16 Sunday morn
ing, in tow of the tug C. C. Waite, Captain
Tweedy. In order tokoep tho bilge oloar, the
steam pump on the drodgo was kept at work.
Just Loforo midnight, when near Bace Bock
light, Captain Tweody, who was at the atern of
tnetug, noticed a moving fight on tho dredge,
and heard a voice, but could not distinguish
tho words. A moment later he hoard an ex
plosion on tho dredge, and saw fire, smoke and
•team. The dredge aauk immediately, and
the stern of tho tug was drawn under water
before tho hawsers could bo cleared. Tho
Waite was immediately put about, but no trace
of the drodge, her crew or water tank could be
found. After searching in the vicinity for half
an hour, tho tug hoadod for this harbor, arriv
ing in the teeth of the easterly gale that waa
prevailing. As soou as tho storm subsided,
the Waite again wont out to tho race in tho
hopo of finding oven the dead bodiei of the
unfortunate men, who went down with the
dredge, but nothing could he fouud, not oveu
a floating piooe of tho dredge. The tug re
turned to port Monday evening. The iismes
of tho mon on the ill-fated vessel are not fully
known. As far as can be lesmcd they are:
Captain, Robert Kent; mate, Htrabs and Ids
brother; tho steward, of Providonce ; a deck
hand known as “.Sandy;” a fireman whoso
name could uot bo leu mod, and a Providence
man who was working his passage to Brooklyn.
When the dredgo loft Providence a largo Now
Koumliand dog was on board. Monday night
two young men at Black Point, seven miles
from this placo, saw tho dog swim to shore and
drop exhausted. They took the dog to a house
near by, and bo is now gaining strength. It
ia prohabiy the only living thing that survived
tho explosion. Tho distance from tho place
where tho dredgo wont down to whore the dog
landed is twelve miles.
A FATAL ACCIDENT.
Thirteen Cara oil llie Knat Tennessee Hull.
rend IMInl In n Mass.
A had wreck occurred Tuesday night at eight
o’clock, on the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia railroad at Childorsburg, caused by
the collision of two freight trains. Thu regu
lar freight going north was already due at
Alpino, where it lays ov r night, but for some
reason wai several hours behind time. A
special freight coming south pulled up at Al
pine and registered its arrival. Nut noticing
that the regular freight had not arrived aim
receiving no train orders, tho conductor or
dered tho engineor to go ahead. A short time
after tho two trains met in the hollow, each
going down grade, and whipping its best for
the grade ahoad. The engineers sudd only saw
the danger, reversed tho levers and blew down
biakes, but too late, the two trains colliding.
It was a most ltorrii) c crash. Ono fireman waa
instantly killed. One engineer, Robert Hill,
was horribly scalded u.id hurt, Aiid tho other,
Chas. Ddvis, und several other train men, are
seriously if not fatally injured. The two en
gines crushed together, recoiled and jumped
the track. Five or six car h ads of coal aud
charcoal, which caught fire, roiling on top aud
completely burying them. Both trains were
demolished. The wreck is said to ho the worst
that ever occurred on that division. Bales of
cotton, coal, merchamliso and general debris
are scattered all over tho road-bed and tho
woods. The loss is probably $75,000 or more.
A TUG BOILER EXPLODES.
Which Result* In the Kltllug of Four Men
and the Wounding of Others.
At 2 o’clock Sunday morning the tug Frank
Moffit, bound down with four barges, rounded
to becAUsa of thick weather, at tho wharf of
Sombra, opposite Marine City, Mich. The
lino was taken ashore anil made fast, but tho
currout was so sirong that tho captam thought
to ease up a trifle on the hawser, aud so rang
one boll to go ahead. As he did so the boil* r of
tho tug exploded without sign of warning, and
with terrific force, carrying away the upper
works and a large portion of the deck planking,
besides shattering tho hull from stem to stem.
The cause is not known but it is supposed to
I e a lack of water in tho boilers. At tho time
John Ward, first engineer, of Detroit; Wil inm
MUlor, second engineer, of Port Huron; James
Wylie, homo unknown, and Walter Firher, of
Wylie, homo unknown, anil Walter Ifhher, of
Port Huron, fireman, were at their posts and
all were killed. Captain Thomas Ouiry had a
leg broken and was otherwise injured. Frank
Furtah, wheelman, and Andrew Reed, deck
baud, were badly scalded. Maud Bennett, tho
cook, who was iu the after oabin at the time of
the explosion, was blown into tiie river, from
which she was rescued uninjured. Robert
Gv-odwin, mate, who was ashore handling the
line, waa blo.vn over the woodpile, and had his
aide iujured. The bodies of the dead sank iu
tho river and have not been recovered. Tiie in
jured men are at Sombra uuder the care of a
physioiau from Port Huron. The tug was
built at Port Huron in 1869, aud was valued
at $7,000,
FATA I* MINE EXPLOSION.
Twe Miners Lsm ihrlr Llvts bj the Bi*
plsatoa sf a Blast.
•Tamos Kocnan, twenty-two years old, and
Thomas Kefir', of the same age, both employed
at shaft No. 6 of the new • Croton aqueduct, at
Whitson’s station, N. Y., woro killed shortly
after 1 o’clook Sunday morning, Just as they
had oommenced work after eating. 2 hey be
longed to the night shift of men. Keenan ran
the drilling machine, and Kelly waa hia araiat-
ant. After the drill had gone alront ten inches
into the rock of the aonth heading, where they
were at work, tha blast sudd nly wont off, send
ing atones and fragments flying through tho
air. Tho heavy 1 drill machine waa hurled over
upon K«< nan. crushing his head. He died Bl
atantly. Kelly waa struck on the head by a
larg- 1 piece of rock, which crushed in Ida skull.
He died in tan uiinutee. At the inquest over
the victims It waa learned that the oxplosion
waa caused by the drill striking a cartridge in
an Old hole, which it'was thought had beon ex
ploded at tfca proper time. The jury’s verdiot
attached no blame to any ono. Both men wore
experienced mfnere, having worked all their
llvea in coal and or* mint* near their homes.
KILLED BY BTBAM.
Two BtaaiMhlp Englneei* Nnnlded ts Daniil
by Hiram.
As the steamer Miles was leaving her dock at
Duluth, Minti.^Friday night, tho cast iron chest
I'liiiuii, IHIHJ HIK'D, mu unnt. iiuiiviii'ii
or Jsokst of th* cjrlindor tilled with strsm .ml
siplodtd, throwing s great volumn of utonnt
•iih such fords ts to knuok down Die second
englnser who was on wstoli. Ho wss tin own
through into the room whore the first engineer
wss sties)). Tile stesm rusliol in through the
opening sml filling tho room, added them so
Ihtlwhen tho crew went Inm the room sltnost
Immediately afterward, they found both men
dead. Thoms. Hickey, first engineer, was 87
vests old, and leaves a wife and two children In
Hamilton, Ont. The second engineer, Win.
Rooney, wta not married and leaves relatives In
Ottawa, Ont.
Psoplo’a n.aMtNwOpt Away ssttNaswrass
Per.... DrswaeS. -
Advioea bars been received at Halifax,
Note Beotia, of • terrific hurricane along
the coast of Labrador. On Ootebsr 10 tba
wind waa high. Daring the night it
rapidly, and by 10 o’olook tbs following day
It waa blowing a kurricana, Th* fishing Oast
in the neighborhood had no warning of tha
storm's appronch, and balng taken almost
unprepared was almost entirely destroyed.
The vousels sought such ,shelter
Inhospitable coast alforisd, but vaa-
ael after vessel waa blown from its moorings
and driven ashore on tbo rocky reefs, thoro
to bo dashad to pieces. Wreckage ia strewn
along tha coast for miles, and mon of it is
coming ashore every hour. The full extent
of the damage cannot yet b* estimated for
want of communication, bat from what haa
been learned so far from seventy to ninety
vessels have gone to pieces, and only a faw of
their crews bad any chance to escape. *
far as asti mated some one hundred flenern
have lost their lives.
Th* people on tho chore, mostly woman
and children, are thue bereft of their sol# eup*
port at a tlmo when the entire coast Is suffer
ing from a dire famine. Many of the leal
vessels are from other localities, and this add*
Fatal Acrid.at is a Trala.
The heavy reins which fell on Monday an-
demined a culvert on the Brattleboro anil
Whitehall railroad, ahont hair a mile north of
Tumi send station, VI. Tito mixed train which
leaves Mouth Londonderry at 13:30 o’clock
reached the point above mentioned about 8 p.
m., and tha engine fell into tho gap caused by
the destruction of the cnlvert. George Msnn
tho engineor, wss probably fatally lutured.
and scrotal other, were severely braised. Th.
passenger car waa placed next to the euglne,
tut did not fall with It
Ills Hand Vat Off.
Whilo Andrew Plokent waa engaged In ous
ting a band at a shingle machine, Wednesday
morning, In Hastings, Va., the table on which
he stood slipped, and ha fell headforemost Into
the cylinder. His head waa torared from hti
body.
destroyed. Tho reason why this disaster ta
particularly felt by the inhabitants there la
due to tha fact that th* fisheries were a com
plete failure)
Every able-bodied man and boy had I .
tempted to taka advantage of large schools of
mackerel whloh had suddenly appeared in
those waters. For the same reason tha vaa-
eels had all roinained on the grounds inm.
whet later in the season to make up for their
past bard luck.
There are now fully 3,000 penoiu on
shore completely destitute. Their nppeah
for aid made a fow week* ago upon th*
etrength of the fisheries have now become
doubly urgent. A steamer is fitting out to
go at once to thoir assistance with all tba
necessaries needed and then It Is hoped that
complete returns of the disaster can be ob
tained. The Dominion parliament baa beast
oalied upon and n liberal donation ia ag-
pasted.
Tha damage done,according to tho raporte.
ia not cohflned "td the sen, but nunf
numbers of
A Yoaag Lady RsrsrS la Death.
Mias Katie Tabb, a well known and popular
young lady of Loulsvlllo, Ky., waa fatally
burned Tuesday night. Hhn was kneeling be
fore the grate saying her prayers, when liar
clothing caught lire.
Fraarra. aft be Maalh.
Tiie only illustrated newspaper in Iho south
cominenocd publication last Mnnday at Jacx-
•onvilli-. Fla. It Is called "Tho Democrat,"
and is | u'lllshcd by W. D. Hughes.
dwellings, many of them Little bettor t
hate,but still the only homo and shelter thaw
unfortunate persons pom eased, wars lavolad
to the ground or washed nwsy by tba
tide, which ia reported to havo riaan
to an unprecedented height within n tew
hours. In many lnatanoes tha people warn
away from home, being down on the beach
aaaisting some unfortunate craft ashore, and
ao, whan th* flood came they were not tbero
to remora their effects and consequently lost 1
their elL
Tbs many thus left homeless aresuhsietlngi
the best way they can either in th* houses of I
friends, in the oil factories, or in temporary j
shelters made up of old boats, pieces of can-
vaa, etc., in shell ‘ '
Itored nooks. This Is having I
BASE BALL FACTS.
a fatal effect on tho many victims of tba
mad* ito appearance
A new Northwestern league ia talked ot
for 188D.
Bouton has but three batsmen in the first
thirty-eight; not so many as New York has
in the first ten.
Collect!vkly the Eastern dubs ot the
National league were by far the best, and yet
the pennant went Weat,
Rt. Louis was the great whitewashed team
of the league. Sixteen time* was tha un
pleasant coat applied
There must bo In tbo neighborhood of
*100,003 lost annually in this country in pro
fessional baaobnll ventures.
New York wan tho least whitewashed of
any of tho leaguo clubs, only two white
washes being sustained this season.
In the American association tiie Western
clubs proved greatly superior to the Eastern
teams, and the pennant wont where It Le
ri readed scurvy which
some time ago.
A number of bodies bave been washed np,
some fifty being recovered so far, but to dis
figured are they from the action or the water,
hr from having been beaten out ot all human
resemblance ou the rocks, It waa pomlbl* to
' htlfyonly a few.- Th#y were buried in
IMIy-mado graves aa soon a* recovered, the
inlmhitedta religiously accompanying each to
me burial service
the grave and seeing that tome 1
was hold. |
Ho violent was the surf that only little
came ashore from tho wreck sufficiently In-1
tact to be utilised. Tho vessels were most ot,
them small, so tho loss In money will baldly:
reach over *33,003, hut it is the flahermen’s'
all.
A later dispatch from St. John’s, New-:
foundland, says; "A great storm raged off
tcaiirt.
Ion feed
The National, of Washington, is tho only
professional club In the country that escaped
being blanked. The Nationals won 110 of the
14. 1 ) games played during the season.
The longsat league ganto was the fourteen
Inning game won by Chicago from Frovi-
dence; (hs longest American was on April
34, whon Pittsburg won from Cincinnati In
the sixteenth inning.
The Ht. Ijouis Drowns, champions ot the
American nssoclation, In their recent series
with the Clilcngo olnb, champions of the
National league, won three games on their
morlte, while Chicago won hut two, and an
other ended In a tie.
Dukino tha entire existence of thoNational
leaguo tho rhamplunsbip penant has only
been held In throe different cities. The pres
ent year makes the fifth time it has been
taken by tho Chlcogos. Doston has had it
threo times and Providonce twico.
A team ot Northorn professionals will visit
Now Orleans this wluter under the captaincy
of Carpenter, of tho Cincinnati olub. and in
cluding Mullnne, Baldwin, Pocblney, McPhee
and Jones of that club; Hanlon, Thompson
and McGuire of the Detroit*, and Ewing of
the New Yorks.
It is a noticeable effect that every one of
the players who Indulged much in roller
skating and polo playing Inst winter stands
low in the batting averages this year. It is
believed the whirling and circling Ivor-
Immense damage among the fishing
gathered there Eighty vostrli were
wrecked or driven arbor r, and
at least seventy men 1 rom th*
creweof the vewels lost their Urea. Two
thousand persons are now ashore in a desti
tute condition. Th* news created great ex
citement here. Steamers will bo Immediately
dispatched to the scone of the disaster with
S revisions, clothing and other comforts far
louse of the castaways”
l-nteat Departs.
Tho barkentlne Nellie lms arrived at Ht.
John’s, N. F., from laibrador. Hho brings
terrible news of tho liiirrlenna that recently
ravaged the wave-washed shores of that
bleak and iuhospltublo country. Not
only have the fisheries railed the sturdy
toilers of the sea, but tho very ele
ments seem to hnvu a particular spite against
them. With Iho beginning of the month the
weather grow bad nnd frequent storms pro-
vnlleil. On the llth Inst a hurricane cams
on. it struck the const quite unexpectedly,
aud thu. fishing vessels sufforod severely.
Many foundered at their nnchuiv, and others
wore dashed high on tho rocks and became
total wrecks.
Tho loss of life wns terrible. Home of the
passengers of the Nellie eutiinats thu numbor
at three hundred. Beveral women perished
from cxiKuuro and starvation unit others
were drowned.
At Esquimaux Point, out of a population
of 180 families' only twenty have supplies for
affect the sight of the ball later on.
The championship race in the National
league was unique tho past season. Two
clubs only fought for flret placo and neither
was ever lower than second place. Two con
tested for third place and were never lower j
than fourth, while none of the other four
teams ever held alone higher than fifth
place. The lower four clubs fought together
all the season to keep out of last place.
PERSONAL MENTION.
Robert Toombs’ rotate i« said to be worth
$250,000.
Bonanza Mackay’h wealth is estimated at
$180,000,000.
Kino Alkonro, of Bpain, has consumption
in the left lung.
Mrs. Garfield is writing a biography of
her husband.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton has turned her
seventieth birthday.
Georoe W. Guilds, proprietor of tho
Philadelphia Ledger, has au income of $1,200
per day.
Frank James, the ox-bandit, is now em
ployed os a salesman in a grocery store in
Nevada, Ma
General von Moltke has just celebrated
his eighty-fifth birthday. He h enjoying ex
cellent health.
M. Roubtan, the French minister at Wash,
ington, is rich und a bachelor, und the ladiot
consider him u great cutcb.
Judge Foraker, governor-elect of Ohio,
is still a young man, being about forty, ilo
entered the army when be was a boy.
Kino Oscar II., of Sweden, is eugaged
upon an extensive historical work, embracing
the historical events in Europe from 18(44 to
1872.
President Cleveland told the memhe:s
of the Baltimore synod tho other day that ho
remembered every word of tho Presbyterian
Shorter catechism.
Father Hyacinthe, in a recent sonnon
in Paris, declared that wur coul.l not be dis
pensed with, and ihat those who advocate I
its abolition wero dangerous people.
Emperor William is not only the oldest
officer in the German army in point o a ;o,
but in point of service as well. His commis
sion as major-general bears date of March
30, 1818, and he joined the army as an ensign
on March 22,18U7.
When Judge Kolley, “the Father of tho
House,” was last re-elected, “Hunset” Cox
said to him: “Well Judge, you will probably
be kept in Congress nil your life.” “I t II
»le,” answered Kelley, *‘I was u cun-
the winter. Thirty more nopo to get enough
from tho merchants who usually make ad
vances to them to pull them through. The
remaining 100 families have iioLldug
whatever with which to faco the win
ter, and It will bo uecossary either
to bring them oif the coast ur to send sup
plies to them. The failure of tho fisheries
was due to tho action ot the ice in tbe spring.
The fall fishing has been poor all over the
gulf owing to rough weather. Prices of all
kindB of fish are low.
Over two thousand porsous are destitute
anl stranded on tho coust. Five stearaera
have been dispatched to their Assistance.
The worst is not yet known, but suffi
cient information bos come to hand
to make it fully known that dire
distress prevails on the coa«t. Tho hurricane
blew with such violence that many of (he
rude huts of the fishermen wore swept away.
Hundreds of families are deprived of a roof,
and seek shelter day and night under the
scanty protection afforded by wreckage and
tattered sails. Unless speedy succor roaches
tjiein many must dieef exposure an l famine
Office Seekers.
THE I’HE-II'ENT HEFINIM TO |-|{|S
ANY AlOltK OF Illl.W-
The following has been promulgated by
President Cleveland for the information of
tho public:
Executive Mansion, [
Washington, Oct. 27, .1885, f
For nearly eight mouths a large share of
the tlmo of the President has bom dovo od to
tho hearing of applications for office and
tho determination of appointment?. Much
of the time thus KjHUit lias union''tedly
subserved the public gool, soun of it
has been mi* rill ed to the indul-*
gel ice of the people in their li.vumi insist
ence upon uael -s* interviews, and sonis
of it has been unjustifiably wasted. The
public wchareand a due regard for he claim)
of those whose interests in the government;
me entirely disoon live ted wjth office-
holding imperatively detnun 1 that in
the future tho time of tbe Presi*
dent should* be differently occu pie 1, and
he confidently expects that n'.l good citizens
will acquiesce in the propriety aud .•aasou-
nbleuess of the following plan adopted to tbftt
end:
After tho first day of Novomber tho Presi
dent will do.dine to grant interviews to tho.w
seeking public positions or their advocatas.
/A.. XI 1-n nrl 17ni.1u,n J...
my people," answered Kelley, “l was u can
didate ror life—barring lunacy or paralysis.’ 1
“You make your exception too broad,” re
plied Cox; “lunacy does not disqqalify a man
for a seat in Congress,” a
On Mondays, W ednesdays, nnd Fridays dur
ing the month, from 10 to 11 o’clock
in tho morning, ho will receivo such
other persons as coll oil strictly public bu-d-
uets; aud on the sauio dayat half pa*t one
in the afternoon, he will meet thos* who
merely desire to | ay their respects. On ail
other days and times during that month ho
wi i receive ouly cabinet officers and he ids
of departments.
fVeaehlni for Mm ty Year*.
Rev. Mr. Tennant, died at Evansville, Ark.
Monday, aged 115; years. The deceased was
thei oldest gospel minister in the United S atre.
•ud bad preached for ninety y*. are.
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