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—TT- second-class Hatter at f'Janfertile Vostofltce April 37, *880. Sand ers¥ille, Washington County, Ga. PUBLISHED BY ^ J. J KHNIGrA-lST, Proprietor and Publisher. Subscription: $1.60 Per Year. THE MERCURY THE MERCURY. tat 4. «T. JERNIQAN, Proprietor, DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND OENEttAL INTEMJQENOE. SUBSCRIPTtOX: $1.50 Per Annum. VOLUME VI1. SANDERSVILLE, GA., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7. 188G. NUMBER 32. EVERY TUESDAY. NOTICE! Ait Communications intended far this Paper must be accompanied bp the full name of the writer—not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of pood faith, )Ee are in no way responsible far the views or opinions of correspond• Vft Is. ' 4 City o( Sandersvllle. THE NEWS IN GENERAL, STONE MUST GO. POSTOFFICE REPORTS. Mayor, j, N. Giemobe, Aldermen. W. R Tihofrn, r E. Rodohto*, ,T. B Roberts, A. M. Mayo. 8. G. Land. A MINE EXPLOSION THE SOUTHERN STATES. HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM ALL POINTS. THE PRESIDENT REFUSES REINSTATE HIM. The Annual Summitry a* Preaontrd by ■nnder-Geueral Viler. EASTERN AND Mil) 1)1,R STATES. h'A' 1 ; 1 'V' ItKRO, Treasurer of tho South **«<»" Horse-Car Company, has Been ar- Clerk. 0. 0. Biiowr. Treasurer J. A. In WIN. Marshal, J. E Wbddok. A, C. WRIGHT, attorney at law, 103 Buy St., Savannah, Ga. tripvii.t. rnACTicn in am, tiie courts. E, S. LANGMADE,. ATTORNEY AT LAW, SANDERSVILLE, Ga. g D Kvrss. U. D- Kvai,, > Jn EVANS & EVANS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW SANDERVILLE. GA. P H. SAFFOLD, attorney at law, SANDERSVILLE, GA. ■ | .. -.in mu i , UCUIl Ul " resto.l r 0 r mlsnpnropr.ating *101,000, which i lotion MSPS h "* h®®" * u, ’ k ,n Private apocu- AnouT 100 persons—ono-half of thorn jvninon—wore o'TOBto I at Amsionlain, N. Y., tor acting as ‘‘pickets” in t| lc (Treat strike against knit goods manufacturers, i -11" M. ItoxiK, First Viro-Pfcsldont anil General Manager of tho Missouri I n. itic I Ballroad, died a few days ago in New York. He attained rational prominence in tlm re* cent great railroad strike in tho Bouthwest ■ Gii.tieut K. Ronntvs (Rep.) has Boon ole tod Mayor of I’roridoni'o By 2 - , - .’ maority 1 ,,v er tho Democratic uud Prohibition caudi- ; dates. l-.n tsTi s B nooks, for many years promt- 1 pent in New York journalistic an 1 political , “fc, is doad in his seventy second year. ! A ti'u-hoat’s Boiler Burst at Now York a | tow days since and all onboard—four or five I men—were killed. i Tiibrk wore t,.Yt0 labor strikes in Now i ork Statu ant City tho past yoar, n. against i 3D J in L8A s Baker A Ci.ahk, wholesale Now York i grocers, failed for $300,000. i Oovernot Carrier lias appointed ox- Govornor Cheney United Status Senator from Now Hu np-.lilro, to fill the vacancy oc casioned By lli i death of Austin K. Pike. Kx-Amikiiman Mot,)i'auk's trial for Brib ery in Now York rrsuitoi in a disagreement of the .in; v, nine Being for acquittal uud throe lor eouv.ction. Tho iury were out | over thirty-oight hours. Tho result ero- atod great siirp iso, ns it was genera ly Be j Hovod Unit the confession of ox- Aldermen I Ful grad’ mi I 1 Hi Tv woal I remit in convl - j tion, The mistrial w*as attributed in a great j degree to tho .Judge’*rharge, which wasquite favorable to ttio i risouer. The Jad/o or- ; dered n new trial for tho '.'UtU. Cleveland’* Reason* Tor III* Action* I* Itemavloa tho Attorney-Uensrai. President Cleveland inis made pnblio the , following correspondence: I. PlTTSnURO, Nov. 18, lS^ll, The lion. A, II. norland, Altorncy-Gen- eral: Sin—1 lmvc read the correspondence be- t.vej i tho Pres dent nil 1 illo Hon. M K. lion* The reportof Postniastor-Oonornl Vilas fo - tho past flsi’ttl year h is just been published In introducing It Mr. Vilas points out that the tnlloago of mail transportation ex ceeded By more tlinn i‘id,00.1,000 the Rcrvice londercd to any Other Gov. rnment, and the letters mailed wore 100,000,000 more than in Great Britain, long tho leading letter writing nation. During tlio year 22,, 47 postmasters were appointed, of w in, li Hi wero upon re movals. ssixuion postmasters were arrested for fraud, a id ski or 40.) lire undergoing in- |0". Cubed Mates Attorney, r. imoeted with ! vestigntlon. P.y vigilnn is on tho part o7 in- Itltt I il.t I . .It In I.. I. l.i It .1 n ^ *' . t* . » t ins restoration to otltce, in whi U it n spears Hi it ho was suspended from o II e for his a i- paront neglect of official duties in masiig sampalgn spco lies. Presumably my sits- pnislon was ordered for tho ranio reason. \ desire, theiefore, to state t.!io facts in my s - ns<\ t mn lo But two speeches prior to the receipt of l io order of sns| vu-iou; one at Butl. r in an adjoiultiYr county on tho evening of Got dior 1, nml l one at Iviitniming, a town near to ;'itt ini g, on the evening ol October Will practice in all the Courts of the Middle Circuit find in tho counties into Hiding Washington. Special at* trillion given to commercial hi'v. O. 11. Rooeiis, F. K. Hikes. HINES & ROGERS, rneys at Law, SANDERSVILLE, GA. it .l pijotiee in tho enunlies of WasliingtO’i, JcITm, a, .hilieslon, Emanuel and Wilkinnon, md in i lie U. S. Court* for the Bunthern Dm- t irtof (lispigia. Wi 1 m i HgcnU in Buying, selling or rent- Ig It . E-tnli), Offi c m West side of Fabito Square. Octll-tf G, W, H. WHITAKER, DENTIST, SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA. —TERMS CASH. tj* OITioo nt his rcaldonce, on Ilnrrl* street. Ap:20-‘80 H. S. HOLLIFIELD, WASHINGTON. M, E. Bki.p, Supervising Architect of tho ! Treasury, in his nnuual report savs that a - | ti e operations w ro prosecuted during tho year . u eighty-one buildings in various pa. ts of the country, varying in cost of construe- ton iro n >,71,0110 to #;,f)in,ooo. Tho t,tul e ipondituru dm in - tho year upon now build ings aggrogated 82,ns”. 117, uud tho expense of repairs on old buildings, e c., was 102, making n total expenditure of $2,40 .',23.'. Tilts Appropriations Committee of the Ilouso of Itoprivuutativoi met in Washing ton on the slid pnr-nant to the call of Chairman Bnndull, and nssicned tho appro- priation l> 11s to tlm siiiio siili-co.nmittoos re ape tively wli ch had them In charge last ‘0*4 ill. 'I'llK t.tnl number of apprentices in tho naval sorvlco nt the do e of tho lis. nl year was 1,105; total numbor of men and appren tices in the service, 8,123. Tiik President tins appointed Bishop Gordon, of Minnesota, to Ihi receiver of public moneys at liedwood Fulls, Minn. Tiik annual roport of United Mate* Quartermaster-General llolabird state? that transportation was provided by Ids depart ment during the year fur 2:r.,l''i) persons, It 0,121 tons of freight ai d 7,‘-mf limses and nutlo.s, costing, us re orted, l i i. Ad ditional i!e n- Bring lijo total expen-rs up U) ♦U.0S(),f,7ti. In Ids annual report tj the Secretary of War, General McKeciy,C >muil**nry-G moral of Subsistence, »a s tii it hisburo luoxpondod $ 1,174,050 during the last llsco 1 yoar. Five largo Arms have handed In bids fur tho construction of tho new government cruiser* and gunboats to be built un'er di rection of the Navy Department. Tilt: trial of Washington police ollk'lab charged with iuniigurnllug n spying system upon tho p ivato doings and habits of Con gressmen lias onded in this acce italics of Chief Walker's resignation, the dismissal of Lieutenant Arnold and 1‘iiva o Kdelln and the disciplining of two other o il ors. 2. I did not lea . o Pittsburg or "Butler until nearly 4 o’clock October 1, and returned on the morning or the til of October a out'J o’, lo -k. 1 left I’itt-b.irg for Kittnn- n big Saturday, October 2, about 5 o’clock c. M, mil returned t e same night. II()on both of the iib ive dates the United States Courts hero were not in session, oxccpt a abort time in the inoruin rof ca -li day for or dinary mnti -n . 1 was in nttendanco upon tlm courts during tlieir sittings and did not leavo the city upon cither cc iis.on until long uftor the court had a.l ;ourned. On Ootobor 18th tho United Ktsitts District Court be gan its session a*. Pltt.burg for tho trinl of jury causes, n petit and Grand .lury Be tie in attendnn -o. From October 2 until October IS I was engaged in the preparation of United Ntn o. causes for trial, and from 0 to cr 18 to Oetabor 27, the dnto of tho ro- coijit of tho order of suspension, I was oti- g .ged in the trial of theso onus s. Noitlior .luring this period from October 2 toO .-tober 2 . nor nt any other time, did 1 in liny i ar ticular neglo t tiio dutioi of iny offi e. Th so st.'itomenti limy iio veriflou by in quiry of any o‘li or of our courts, 1 feel it my dnty, nfter rea ling tiio correspondence between tho President nnd Mr. Ho-iton, to stato these facto in ms- ti o to myself, nud res ectfudy reunest that this cominunication lio referred t) the Presb .lout. I may also add that I d.d not think that making an o -onsi -mil campaign speech to my neighbor!), while not negle tin ; tho duties of my ofli o. would bo a violation of tho President's order of July 10, 18sU. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, William A. Stone. II. Executive Mansion, Nov. 23, US'. To Hon. I II (luil mil. Alt n-lleneral: Demi Bill: 1 have read tho letter of tho I3lh Inst., written t> you by William A. Slone. 1 itoiy suspended from odloens District Alt.nicy fur the Western District of Penn sylvania, nnd tho subject matter to which it r fers has ro eive liny caroful rdnstderatton. : I slmll uotimputo to the writer any inisch ov- o i. in. live in lii. plainly erion. o’us assump tion that Ins caso and that " ape.dors, #78,575.(10 Hum been reclaimed by the government, ns wrongfully taken. The tree clilivery system tins been ex tended to Aurora, 111.: I)u uth, Minn., nnd Newport, Ky. Ilf carriers thou* was an In- pi ease Of 483. making tho total 4,841. The cost was 14,312, .O i.’iO, an increase of 13, 1I.VI.I5, or 8. ts per ce it. The number of id.-res of mail matter lmndlcd was \,fH! i,520,51);), un incroaso of 201,(1':!,- 18.1. The amount of pos:ngoon lo nl matter was #5,830,212.07, an o icoss over th >. o-t of the service of $1,5211,1)^1.27. M* - Vtlas re pents bis recommendation that, the service l.c extended to p ncesot 10,0U0inhab.tants, or $10,(41) gross annual revenue. ‘i tin Money i >i dor S.sto 1I has l eon ex tended to 301 additional olllcni, nml during the year there were Issued 7,1140,30 j domostlc Older* for nearly $114,00(1,1100; o.OIK',428 poi- tnl notes, for $t 1,718,0.10, and 4u3, t.'3 inter national order, lor 87,1i8,780.21. Tho total not, revenue Into I ho Treasury was $!i5o,5.M.s7, Tho Hpocinl Delivery Service, Mr. Vilns says, has been hampered by its limitation*, but *84,7'4.82 has b am spent for it, n gross jiridlt of nbont r.’;, 1 " 0. Tho llnancinl condition of tho servlco tins improved. Mr. \ tins says, beyond expecta tion. For lustaii'-e, tho total excess or ooit over revenue was $4,25),I57.fi‘i. In l-8'i tho total excess was 88,3)1.015,70, The estlmnto of tho rove me for the coming year is $47,:;t2,71D.s.:, Tli« appropriation* for tho year exclusive of tho cost of tiio tqiecinl delivery tervi o exceed this sum by $,,053,15). 42. Tito estimated revenue fur 1848 is A’ O.flld,- 501.41', and probable disbursements, $55,314,- 150.15. Tho report Breaks in favora'do termi of til i lo:tor simot envelopes. Tho ,1 a lie: lor oiflco Unndled 5,023,74> pleco* during tho year. When the tlscal year 188(1 < lose, 1. tho post ofllces of the United Status utiuibero.l 53,011, besidas 407 branch offices or stations. IN U’lllril MANY MEN ARE Holt. lllllLY BURNED BY GAS, WJESTERN CATTLE MEN rin» Arrlricnt C>aiinril l»y n (jroii Violation of Ordora. TRAGEDY IN ATLANTA. .1 Uan Shoot* III* Ilrollior and Then IIUu* ■olf— llotli l>oad. SANDERSVILLE. GA. Oilico next door to Mrs. Bayne’s Millinery ‘tw, un Harris street. FOREIGN. Eviction processes are being served on S') HUY YOUIi ^JJ|D from •one genuine without our trade mark.) o v ’IA XI) ANI) FOR SALE SPECTACLES, NOSE GLASSES, Etc., Etc. tounnts on tho Castlelmr estates of l.ord Dil- , lou in Ireland. Russia lias Intrusted Franco with the pro tection of ltuvslnn subjects in Bulgaria Princess I 7 .ithick, w ife of Prince Henry j of Battenberg, -nd youpgost daughtor of ’ Queen Victor’ ' ‘ has given' birth to a s< - NEWSY GLEANINGS. The Austrian Government hns Issued on order proh.b.tlpg pokor playing. The emigration into Kansas this yea- o pittls tiio population of Baltimore. A la hoe numbor of counterfeit silvor do - larsaro being circulated in Miunojota. ently suspended and reinstated, rest upon tho si mo Htii o of tn ts, but prefer lo regard his let or ns containing the best statement possible upon Ihu question of his reinstate ment. You remember, of course, that soon after the present Administration was installed, and 1 think nearly a year an.l n half ago, 1 considered w ith you cert tin charge* which h id bu n preferred agdi’i-t Mr. Stone ns a 1 o lernl oi’dcinh You remember, too, tlmt the action we thou onto q Inte l wu wi.h- held by reason of the oxcuso* nud explanations of ids friends. Thee ex cuse* and u .pi,mat ell* induced me to be lieve that Mr. Stone’s retention would insure n faithful performance of official duty, nnd tlint whatovor idle isivo parti,ntishlp ho lmd .I,. - *, ol iusli iablo in other circumstances ho would, during hi- contlimnnce in office nt his re piest, undo: - an Ailtni istration opposed to him in political need and policy, content him elf with n quiot and unobtrusive en joyment of his political privileges. I certainly suppo od that his sense of propriety would cause him to ro- i rain I nun pursuing such n t artisan course ns would wantonly oITond and irr.tnte the frienisof tho Administration, who insist d that lie sho.ild not be retained tnolHco, either boenusoof his personal merit or in adher ence to (it* methods which for a long time hn 1 prevailed iti tho distribution of Fed oral offices. In tiio light of a liottorsystem, aud without considering Ills ]k>1 iti u 1 atlllintioiiB, Mr.Btone when j erm ttcl to remain in office became a I a - 1 of tho bnsino-s cr .animation of the pres ent administration, bound by every'obliga tion of honor to ns<i-t w thin his sphere in it* successful operation. This obligation in- i voiced not only tho proper performan o of I official diitv. liiit a cm tain good faith nn.l lldelity, which, w hile not exacting the least , sacrifice of political principle, forbade a tlve ; artieipatlnn in purely pat than demonstra tions of n pronounced type, undo taken lor ! tiio purpose of advancing partisan interests mil combi tod upon the avowed theory that the Administration of tho Government was n itcntitio Itolhoconfid nceundros eetoftho In Atlanta, on Friday, four or five pis tol shots were hoard in n room at 12 j Broad street. When an entrance lmd been forced to tho room, I h • bodies of O. O. Ilill and Robert I*. Hill wero found lyinjj upon the floor, one f M. E. Benton, | across the other. Everything w.is cov ered with blood, aud n large pistol lay mar tho bodies. Tho live chambers were empty. All the circumstances us developed by tho discovery of tiio dead pointed to tno awful fact that Bob Hill had shot nnd killed his brother nud then put the pistol to his own hc:nl. The cause for tho horrible deed is not known. The dead brothers wero the sons of Colonel 14. Pike Hill, widely known ns a distinguished lawyer, formerly of Atlan ta, now residing on his farm n few miles from Dalton, Ga. llobcrt P. Hill was a lising young lawyer of this city, and the younger of the brothers, being about 1)0 years old. Ho was bright, popular nnd and generous. O. G. Hill was about 35 years old. Ho was bill clerk for the West Point railroad. Both wore grade ntes of the State University, both unmar- tied, both excellent and noble-hearted men, except when drinking. They wore the only children of a devoted mother nnd attached father. An oxploston occurred a few days ago hi tho Conynglintu Colliery of the Delaware nnd Hudson Cannl Com] any In tho Second Ward of Wilkosbnrre, Penn. Over thirty men nml boys wore burned, aud of these not loss thin ton or twelve wore fatally In jure I w liilemnny were badly cut nndbruisod. od. Tho e (plosion oocured a few minutes after 7 A. M. t ns the men wore going to work. Tho colliery oraploys 200 monaud boys and about half of this numbor hnd descended tho shaft. A storm hnd raised tho water in tho mine so that it was not thought probable that there would le any work for tho men em ployed in the lowor lift Instead of going to work, therefore, these men, to the number of sixty, wailed nt tho loot of the shaft for orders from tho flro bosses, who wero in their office near the foot of tha shaft in consultation. Tho men wore ncnt- trtmi m ound in groups, their llnmliig lights illu ninatliig tiio dark pns-ages nml gnng- wnvs. Without tiio slightest warning a .sh ot of l umo Unshed from an abandoned passage leading from the main gangway I clone by the loot of th* shaft. The unfor- lunate men, surrounded and wrapi od in tiro, wo e hurled htthor nnd thither by tiio ex plosion. The smoke, llnuio and dust rushed up tin shaft nml -lint into the air. ovo'dinng- in j tho workings l.ko n b’nek pall. Tho in side sunerinton lent, Uaniel M Donald, who was on tho smTnco, hastened to get together n fore* of oxplorers, and unmindful of ll.e deadly black damp, nt once went down the shaft. The fee- bio glimmer of their safety lamp* brought to light a fearful s - ono. All around the fool of tho shaft in the al oinlng |*as- sngo-nnd gangways lny the blackened bodlos of tho injured men. half burled in dirt and wro ha o. A fow of tlmselenstinjuro l wero huddled togothor near tho foot of the shaft nwrtitlng succor and the groans of tho In oil ed mon were awful tn hear. Tho shock of tho explosion was folt In the mo*t distant part ol the mine, though no damage wus dune o ;crpt around tho shaft. Tho work of getting the in ured persons to the surfn e was begun atouco. Outside foreman John Bowers took charge of tho sulVerers n* they came to the sur.nce and had them cnrrleil Into the engine room, the floor of which win soon Covered with human forms, so black- ened, s -orched and mutilated ns to 1» un- roeogni ablo Mr. Bower* and his assistants, with blanket) soaked in oil, wrapped up the writhing forms, and ns fast ns nmbolnu'-os nud wagons could bo obtained sent some to the hospital nnd ot hers to tlieir homo*. Th ■ on- gino-room, wh lo this work was in prngrem, presented a sight lo sicken the stoutest heart Tiio cronns and shrieks of the suffering men wero ten del \ They cried aloud for water, butnono could lie gi ven them.Oil wo* poured dow n Hi ir parched throats and llie blankets ii which tiny were wrapped ko (it saturated with the sumo. Gutsi lotlio engine room thoro wasn fran tic nowd of w imoii nnd children. Nearly all the men employed in th* mine live in tho neighborhood, nnd when it wns known that tho colliery had blown up, tho imputation living nroutid Hocked to tho works. The wise's, daughters nnd mothers of the injured sought admission to tho ongino room, but * "— slii wero held back, lest they should interfere with tho work of those attending tho in dued. In many ■ nsos forco had to be use I. Fo in idly was tho work of caring for nnd removing tho in hired done, that two hours after tiio a indent over* - man had boon taken 1 out of tho pit, wrapped in oil nnd taken awnv. nnd the o .tsldo of the colliery ro- sun o I its wonto I ulet appearance. The enu-o of tho nc i lent was a flagrant i vlmati m of order*. Tho (xissageway in which the ex; lesion took | live was an aim - donod paiigway kuosvu as the West Working. Whenever the water rose in tho mine this i. - migway bocamo filled with gas. This xuis well known, mid tho place win guarded with heavy doors, and n -ros* tliem was a beard with tho word "gas” in large letters. Notwithstanding this, Tho i as O'Brien deliberately entered the passu o with a unko 1 light. Hardly had he passed tho door when the gas ignited, iva- terribly burned. He CATTLE DISEASED AT CHICAGO. PERSONAL MENTION. About 5,OOO llcnri glider Qiinrniilliif—T Vi*ry Irni'^c. A >(,, poopla There is no dispute whatever concern- A. Davis, of Nevada, Mo v _ *nee»a so { M g the fuct Hint Mr. Stone did join others ) who wu a campaigning tho State of i’enn- Watches, Clocks AND jewelry ncrAinxD nv Violoiuly tho other day tlmt ho broke one bin ribs. The flro losses of this year nro evidently going to exceed by a great deal the usual nv- orago ol’ $100,000,00J. TtiRUF* nro I'fl.oOJ women on tho United State* i elision rolls ns widows, dependents or rowitivos of deceased soldiers. Ix Now York < ity thero aro between 3,0 0 and 5,UK) Chinninon, nearly all of the lower clus - , yet ‘hero nro less than twenty-Uvo Japanese residents. Petroleum hns boon discovered in Idnlilb- gowshire, Scotland, in workablo_quantiti«8. svlvnnin in opposit on to tho Atiinluistration, I t a pear*, too, tliut ho wns active nnd promi nent with noisy euthusn m. in nltoudnuce upon nt least two largo public mootings; that thos eo. hosntsu h meetings were largely devoted to abuse nnd misrepresentation of Hie Alministrution; that he approved A member of the live slock cominis- . sion is authority for the report llml there , arc nearly 2,000 head of diseased caltle i scattcivd over the city, which will have (o be slaughtered by the Stale, in uddi- | lion lo m arly i),!'00 bead under quaran- | tine at tho distillery sheds. The apprais- j cd value of the entire lot will probably I reach $125,000, nnd it is doubtful wheth er half that amount can bo realized on the snle of the meat of such (fhitraclcr as will jiuss inspection. The expenses of inspec- , tion and of maintaining the quarantine, ! which have been partly met by 1 he ! Federal government, are sai ! to have amounted to nearly $25,000 up to the present date, while the flnancial losses that liuve resulted to the State nml THE NEW CRUISERS. OUR its natural slate—tho llrst “ilud” of tiio sort in Groat Britain. Fifty thousand tons of soot W'e takeii ft-om London chimneys in a year. 11 is t-timnto l to bo worth >2U - ,u0ii nnd is usod us a lcrtili- zer, half a ton to an aero. r i, e cotton crop will be a little less than 0 500 OU0 balo*, which i* not quito so large ns that of I8>l but am, lo for the demand with out a decided advance in tho pi ice. The total nntnhor of bhist furnaces in this country, in blast November . ‘ „ wcodv ' a aclty of 1—,u) 1 tons oi i ns. with 272 furuaeo*, wilh a weekly capacity of isi.-iU'J tons out of blast. — —. .. . Chicago because of inability to immedi- “b rius- uud aotnnHy addressed the jneoGng , nte ]y - U pp reS8 the disease cannot be esti- hinisclf in somenhat tho same strum, tuat , / , 11 lie attended such mootings away from Ins . mittea. h miu for tho purpose of making such ud- drosses, and that ho was advertised as ouo of tho speakers at each of aid mootings. I shall accept a * true tho statement of Mr. Stone that tho t mo spoilt by him in thin demonstrating his willingness to hold a profit- , able oiliro nt iho hands of a:i Administration ! which ho on loavored to discredit with the 1 I eoplc, and » hich had kindly overlooked his previous offenses, did not result in tho Jioglcct of ordionry official duty, but his conduct lias brought to light such an un- friemllinoss toward the Administration \ Francisco, which ho pretends to sorve, and of which ho i* nominally u part, nml such Hills Accepted lor lilt) )'oii*lriicllon of Tliroo of till) New Vessel).. an inthkhstims dbuhion. department -l-i.p United Stales Gircuit cou.t 1U , C , ' the "Western Union supplied with all the rpqul*ites for doing kiiiiIh of Job nnd Book work in First- J-'lsBS Biyio, r souable t y and at llea- ipt y an - Prices. WE DDINQ cards, VISITING CARDS, BUSINESS CARDS, BALL CARDS. ?t attnehmint’a as 1 c socond crvbtor. only enough 0 -j t j )0 Western a con-oquent lack of loyal interest in its sue revs tlmt tiio safest uml surest gua autco of his faithful service Is in my opinion entirely wanting. His course, in itself such us should not have been entered upon wliilo nit iitaiu- ingollii ial relntious to tho Aimlnistration, also renews au<l revives with uuinistnkab.o interpretation of their character and iuiont tho charges of offensive part sanship h - reto- fore made uud up to this time hold in abey* n "jlr, Stono and others of like disposition are not to suppose that party linos aro so far obliterated that tho administration of the government is to bo trusted in places high or low 11 those whonggressivoly and constantly ondeavor unfairly to destroy tho confidence of tho people in the ] arty responsible for such administration. While vicious imr- tisau molh ds should not bo allowed for partisan purposes to degrade or in- the public service, it . is my bo; The Secretary of the Navy bus accept ed the folio *ingbids for the new cruisers and gunboats: Cruiser No. 2 (in Charles ton), to the Union Iron YYorks, ol San at $1,017,500; cruiser No. 3 (in Baltimore), Cramp & Son*, of Phila delphia, at $1,325,000; gunboat No. 3, the Columbia Iron Works and Dry Dock Company, of Baltimore, at $240,000._ In tho case of gunboat No. 1, no decision ling vet been reached. Queen Victoria will go ti Cannos, France, to pass a portion of tho winter. Mas. Lucy Parsons ndvised her husband, tho condemned Chicago Anarchist, not to sue for nior. y. Georoe W. Baxter, tho new Governor of Wyoming Territory, isa very young man, not ovor thirty. M. Muxkachy. tho Hungariaa palatal, expresses onthu*insti - a admiration for tho beauty of New York svflineu. Prixce Komatsu, who lias boon traveling in Ibis country, lies gone to England to con fer tho Japanese "Drdor of the Chryiantho* muiu" on tho Prince of Wales. Although Mr. Bartlett, tho husband of Baroness Burdo t-Ceutts, is of plain Now England ancestry, he now riiios in a carriage emblazoned with two ci nts of arms. The “Patriarch of Jerusalem" is do*iribeil as a most kingly man, inectiiig with one’s conrapt ons of King David's aiqicnruu e in middle lilo. He is about fifty-five years old. Tin: Crown Prlnceof Germany is said to lie a very reserved nnd silent man, and bit terly opposed to tho sentiments and policy of I rinco Bismarck, a fact which is a source of great annoynneo to tho old Emperor. IturonTs from Washington ray that Mrs. Cleveland Is now spending a good deal of time lo .king over samples of carpet and furniture for tboequii mont of her now home at Oak View, in tho suburbs of the Capital. After dining in the evening Prince Bis marck spends un hour with his fumily nnd then retires to his study, where ho svorks frequently till ouo o’clock nt night. During thoso studies his inse nrnblo companions av NEWSY ITEMS GATHERED UP IN PARAGRAPHS. UKOliniA. ' Mlllciigcvillo i* to have a foundry and ; a machine shop Bears arc plentiful in the swauipsa few ! miles from Darien. j A little over ]<>,000 bales of notion hns I been marketed in Eutonton this full. Judge Willis A. Hawkins died nt his | borne iu Americas Monday afternoon nt 2 o’clock. All the business houses in town were closed from 2 to 5 o’clock. Information to the ciTcel that a syndi cate, will) one million dollars, lias been formed in New York for the purpose of establishing an iron furmino somewhere oil the Hun of the Rome nnd Decatur road, lias been received. The North Georgia conference of the Methodist Episcopal church south met in Augusta on Wednesday and will cotttln- iu session one week. The meetings are held in St. John’s church, with lli-hop McTycire presiding. It is the regular annual conference for the purpose of sta tioning preachers and attending lo other business of the church. Tnere are 400 delegate* who arc entertained by the dif ferent families. At St. John’s church, the Rev. Dr. Wnrdtnw appointed the fol lowing gentlemen a* a reception commit tee: Messrs.W. M. Dunbar. E. B. Evans, J. B. Davenport, W. J. Hollingsworth, W. C. deck Icy, George Patrick and I*. F .Fuller. Albnny’s cotton receipts this sensou footed up to over 30,000 bales. That number was reached lust wook, and cot ton continues to come in quite lively. Tbo magnificent dwelling of lion. R. C. number, on the Baldwin nml Putnam conuty lino, was destroyed by tiro Wed nesday. The loss is nbout $5,000, with no insurance. His fumily barely cseuped with their lives. The turpentine distillery of D. I. Har den & Co., near Gibson. 1ms been des troyed by tire. AU material lying around was likewise destroyed. A large number of men lmvo been thrown out of employ ment thereby. The (JTvners will start again. Savannah is overrun with tramps. Early Tuesday morning the police niudo a raid on a camp near tlm outskirts of the city and captured twelve. They were arranged Isidore the city court, and sentenced to various terms in the chain- g»»K - Mr. Q. S. Price, of Brooks Station, killed two hogs that netted 810 pounds; II. W. Callahan one weighing 310; F. Bridges one weighing 351). \V. L. Ken nedy, of tin- fourth district, killcl one eighteen months old which weighed 535 pounds. The recent tragedy near Social Circle, On , remains a mystery. Eive negroes were g tabling and one of their number was afterwards found dead, having bc.-n murdered. 11 is four companions have been under arrest charged with the crime, but ns nothing cold 1 be proven against tliem, they liuve be n acquitted. A meeting of the citizens of Hancock was held recently in the courthouse for the purp se of organizing a county fair association. A series of resolutions was adopted consisting of rules and regula tions for .he management of the business c/ this organization, nml the whole nf- [ fair was then turned over to n “linuneia - | board,” whoso duty it is In select the fair grounds, erect tho buildings, lay oil and grade the track, and in general manage the entile business of the organization A very destructive Are occurred at Graham, n railroad station ten inilei north of Baxley. The lire made its np pet rail co iu tho railroad warehouse. A lot of rosin, consisting of two thousand barrels, stacked from their distillery to a point beside the railroad, near the warehouse,quickly caught from the burn ing house and then their distillery ii turn took lire, both of which wc:c de stroyed. The express and mail office were kept in the warehouse nnd tlieir contents, with the exception of the money packages, which were deposited in a safe and found intact, were also destroyed. LOC8IANA. A special from Bayou Sara, Lu., wiv tiie Red River an 1 coast line steamboat Richard was burned nt Concordcnc about forty miles above the mouth of Red river. Tiie boat and her cargo o' 387 bales of cotton nre a total loss. Eire man George Clark aud Watchman Chus Robinson, both colored, were drowned Dick Hickman, tho cook, was badly burned. Ortinind I’rnlrcllnn from Plenrfl-P****** nln nml lliillroail Extorltaa* Tho following letter has been address ed to President Clovelnud: “Office of the Internationa!. Range Association, Denver, Col.— Hi* Excellency Grover Cleveland, Presi dent of the United States: The time has come when that branch of the com mercial interests of our country repre- si nted by the live stock industry feels it should no longer plead for, but demantk* justice. I am empowered by the Live Stock men of - the plains, who have more than six hundred millions of dollars in vented in cuttle alone, to respectfully in vite tho attention of your Excollency to tiie imminent danger threatened our | io ids by tlm existence of contagious bo vine diseases, which, if once introduced to the open ranges of tho West will sweep our entire interests from tho earth. I feel that I nm justified in nsking that in your forthcoming messago to Congress some suggestion inny be made in tho in ti rest of legislation looking to the ex termination of tho contagious cattle dis ci.si known as pleuro-] n uimmia, such sanitary regulations a; will protect the cattle interest of tho United State* against the importation of cattle from known diseased centers in other couh-‘ tries. “I would further respectfully submit that under tho pooling system entered into by the transportation companies ol the United States nnd fuvoritcism on th« rebnto system, grievous wrongs nro per petrated on tlm producer of beef, and t he consumer as well. That snmo _ com bination which compels tho million! who toil to pay an exorbitant prlco foi the prime necessities of life, compels the producer to accept for his products a price which Iiiib pressed cnttlo growers to tho verge of ruin. The bill now pond ing before Congress for tho regulation of inter State commerce, known as the Reagan bill, is in tho interest of justice mid cquulity, and the cnttlo industiy bospouks for it such attention in your message as may moot your commen dation. Respectfully, [SignedJ “R. G. Head. “President International Range Asso ciation.” A special from Lake Providence, La. says: 8. Wilowski, representative from GLADSTONE'S 1‘UOGK AM-gE. lure lief that nothing trials so much to discredit our efforts in the intorest of su h service to treat fairly and R nerously tho official tn- emnhen :y of politi «1 opponents ns conduct is hero diselosod. i he people ot this ! ntry certainly/lo not portnneo. posters, handbills, PROGRAMMES, STATEMENTS. LETTER headings, dodgers, PAMPHLETS, ETC.. ETC.. ETC jlfsn TO EXAMINED- cd the ]) Ma0 “ „„ cxnmim.tiou of such ns country *>v.v).-v . * . suits of adininis'rativo endeavor rea ‘hod with such agencies ns these Upon n full consideration or all I havo be fore me I am constrained to doclino tho ap plication of Mr. Stone for his reinstatement 1 inclose his latter with tins, nnd desire you to a 'quaint him with my decision. flo/WIPT> IIT.1RV Mr - Gladstone declines every request to speak until Parliament reassembles. He has sent letters to several of Lis late col leagues statiug his programme for the eoming session, lie approves an immedi ate challenge to tile government to state its Irish policy in debate on the address, although he expects that tiie Unionists will maintain their adhesion to tiie government. Afterwards lie will assist in an effective settlement of the proced ure question. a Ion j smoking pipe nnd a bumper filled with , West Carroll parish, arrived at New beer, which lio drinks copiously. i Orleans Tuesday evening and reported Michael Davitt, tho IrsU Homo Rulo 1 (lint he had been waylaid in his parish leader, i* thus described by a Cincinnati re-I by a gang of outlaws numbering about nortor: "Hoisamunof massivo frame, aid . J h . n . , , u grand head towers above tbo broad len persons. He was accompanied by shoulders. Tho forehead, broad and full, ; two friends. lie expressed himself overtops a i airof senrehinR, cral-bla - k eyos, j fortuunto in escaping by taking to the wliilo tho lowor portion of the face is covered ; won( ] s He further renorted that nbout by a closely trimmed black beard.” THE NATIONAL BANES. 8 A31 JUNES’ OMAHA CAMPAIGN. Penitentiary , Fis i, ns t j the condition of cx- ^ b guided in ! depM'lmcntfoos.mtw^to^ its judgment 1)3 a There will Your* GnovEit Clkvf.land. III. Depautuest of Justice, I Washington, D. O., Nov. 24, 1SS0. I 77,,, ij on . WlViam A. Stone, Fittiburg, Pa.: Sin: I nm directed by tho President to s»jr to you that, after consideration of J’our let- Iv-* 7 .!! At... Db Kith hn will rmf. rnvnlfa nt* Bant Jones closed Lis three weeks’ cam paign iu Omaha Monday. At his last meeting bo raised $100 for a 51. C. A. building. He lias loft for his home in Georgia, to take a rest. Figure* and FnctN Compiled from the Report of Clio Comptroller of the Currency* Idj will not rovoko or •etofore maclesusponflinp: dS ! SiSS^toforamarta—«.»« be no action further information ; , |ls district Attorney for the v< estern until this repori idiG , , j s re , District of Pennsylvania. Very respectfully, from the Dirt.net Attorney . ' i-eived. A. H. Oakland, Attornoy-GimbreL McNEII- A CANDIDATE FOll MAYOB. Geo. E. McNeil hns manifested his readiness to Stand as u labor candiduto for mayor of Boston. Seven thousand signatures to a petition nuking him to he a candidate, have been obtained. Currency, rays in his annual report tbit in all 3,870 national banks have been organized, of which 2,858 are now in operation. < >f theso 174 have bt ou organized duriug tho past yoar, with a capital of $31,000,001), bonds 8 (KiO, aud circulation $2,900,TOO. Twenty-four j banks went into voluntary liquidation j miring th* year, ono ceased I > exist by oxi i ration of charter, and eight railed. The failed banks have an aggregate capital of 8" - > V 10 ”. surplus and undivided profits 8201,000, and liabilities 81,300,030. The creditors of two of tliese bauks have been paid«in full, prin cipal and interest. , . (Since the beginning of tho system m loot only 112 national banks have jaded - these 30 havo paid tlieir creditors iu full, and 20 have paid interest hosldes, fifteen in full and 5 in part. „ , , The total number of sbures of national bank stock is over 7,000,000; total sbarohold er- - , 223,000. , , , Tho contraction In national bank circula tion duriug tho year excoods $53,000,000. i ho aggregate deposits iu the* banks have tu- cveasesi from $522,000,000 iu January, t8-o, to 81.172,000,000 in October. 1880, while loan > and discounts havo risen from SSOtyWOJKl > THE FEDERAL CAPITAL. French Npnllnllon < - lnini«-—Tlm Cabinet Mertlna—Debt Mtnti men). Arguments of counsel in the French foilntion cases wero. concluded before io court of claims Wednesday afternoon, uml tiie first fourteen cases on tho calen der srcre submitted for decision. Theso sro test cases, uud involve the general question of tiie government's liability for damages claimed. The president’s messago again formed the only subject of discussion nt tho meeting of the cabinet. All tho members were present. It is un derstood tlmt the message is complete with tho single exception of tlmt portion relativo to naval establishments. The public debt statement show* a decrease in debt for the month of No vember <>l a little over $1,003,000. Tbo small amount of reduction is principally due lo tho fact Hint nearly $14,000,000 were paid out during the mouth for pen sions atone. Receipts during tho month wero about $27,000,000, and disbursements about $24,000,000. In November of last year the receipts wero nbout $85,000,000 and expenditures about $23,(830,000. There wns nn increase of about four millions in tho debt in November, 1885. CLTTVERIUS’ LAST CHANCE- The Apitral to Governor Ere. As tho day (10th of December) ap proaches the execution of T. J. Cluverius for the murder of Fannie Lillian Madi son, at Richmond, Ya., public interest in the case increases. According to ap pointment the prisoner’s counsel imd ar ranged to call on Governor Lee to present to him petitions both for the pardon of Cluverius and for tlic commutation of the scntenco to imprisonment for life, which had been freely circulated through tho stnte and received numerous signatures. Thero is much speculation as to tiie ac tion of the governor, but ho lios given expression to nothing that would inaicato wlmt ho will do. It is generally belLved, however, that even if ho refuses to inter fere with tho execution of tho sontonco ort the prisoner, ho will nt least respito him for a time. Rumors arc in circula tion that Cluverius hns made a statement giving an account of his whereabouts on the night of the 13th of March, 1884, the night of the murder of Miss Madison, but tlioy cannot bo traced to nny reliablo sources. Ho will doubtless do so, but it is not expected thnt it will be mado pub lic before it goes into the hands of the governor. SHAKING BY THE QUAKE. Mile of Knllroad Track Washed Away. woods. Ho further reported thnt about ten o’clock tho night before, Ins book keeper, Major John McKay, a justice of tiio peace, wns shot and killed nt his home, about four miles from Caledonia, together with his cook. His dwelling was set on flro nnd both bodies were con sumed. Wilowski has lurgo business in terests in West. Carroll parish, where lie lms lived a great many years and brought up Lis family, nnd whom be wus com pelled to leavo behind in order thnt ho might escape. MISSISSIPPI. A flro nt Bay St. Louis, Miss., Tuesday destroyed the properties of Bojarin Breath, Higgins A Delery, a residonco and drug store and the Stockton Hotel and outbuildings. The residences of Mr*. Villars and Misses Wagoner wero badly damaged. The loss is estimated at $25,000, partially covered by insurance. BIG COTTON FIRE. Tuesday afternoon a flro broke out amoug cotton on the city cotton platform at Raleigh, N. C., started, it is suppos ed, by «i spark from a soldoring furnace, usod by tinners who were roofing a „j. , lately erected compress on tbo platform. St tto'fomm - data to *1,413,003,000 at ’tho I About 1 000 bales wore destroyed. The latter date. loss u about $60,000. The new dam which has just been fin ished at the Lanatry cotton mills, on tiio lino of the Charlotte, Columbia and Au gusta railroad, gave way Monday after noon, and it is again almost a complete wreck. Tho water rushed through in a resistless flood from the pond, and swopt away half a mile of tbo track of the Charlotte, Columbia aud Augusta rail way, nnd badly damaged the track of tho South Carolina railway. All the new nud expensive work recently completed on the former road is totally ruined, and it will be at least a week before the dam age can be repaired. Tiio passenger, mail and express train from Augusta,due in Columbia at 10:35, was cut off by the flood nnd could not reach that city. The necident is ascribed to a violent shock of earthquake, which is reported to havo been felt in that locality. It is believed that this shock was sufficiently strong to shako away the foundations and cuuso the structure to break loose. Tbo waters are inundating all the adja cent country. FIRE AT AIKEN, 8. C. There was a serious fire at Aikin, S. C. Tuesday morning. Eight buildings wore destroyed, as follows: Hahn & Co , dry goods and groceries, loss $14,000; Schro der & Thorpe, loss $8,000; W. J. Pratt & Co., loss $2,700; M. Loeb & SohultiE, loss $1,600. Other losses $2,000 The, total losses are estimated at $34,000, and the insurance at $22,000, iim m m _