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The Georgia Bond Cane.
Judge Lochrsne, at hinted by Mr. Itobcrt
Lincoln, bun gone into court over Homo ot
the repudiated bond, of Georgia. The
court has not taken long to put Judge
Isochrone, Ur. Lincoln end the bond. out.
The case argued was that of Schulitzes
against the United Staten, in which the
claimant, a Prussian, seeks to recover the
amount of certain bonds issued by the
Brunswick and Albany Railroad Company,
a load badly used np during the war, but
which the Legislature of Georgia m
IHG'J empowered to execute and deliver to
the State Treasurer a deed of trust convey
ing all franchises and privileges to seoure
the payment of the bondholders at the rate
ot $15,000 per mile. The bonds were issued
and signed by the State Treasurer and guar
anteed by the State. The amount of the
bonds issued and negotiated was $1,500,000.
In 1879 Georgia disowned nil her liability
for the payment of tho bonds, the company
defaulted in its interest and the road was
Hold by the courts. Judge Schofield says:
•‘These facts do not disolose a cause of ac
tion which the court is authorized to con
sider. The claim founded not upon an act
of Congress, but of the provisional Legis
lature tit Georgia, does not create an express
contract with the United States, because,
waiving the question of authority, the Legis
lature did not profeHS or undertako to con
tract on behalf of tbd State, but most
clearly it was without authority to under
take anything more. There are no consider
ations, post or present or prospective,
accrued or acoruing to the United StateH,
wherehy a contract can be implied.
They hod not taken, used, or injured
tho company's road. Oa the contrary, it
had been token and used by their enemies
to carry on a war against them. If the
Legislature had tho right to pledge the faith
-of the United States for the payment of the
■bonds, there oon be ao incidental or result
ing liability upon anybody olso. If the
Legislature hod no lawful right to cnuct
tho law it ia entirely void and binds no
body. Georgia denies the right, of the Leg
islature to bind the State and repudiates
the guaranteeing—whether rightfully or
wrongfully it ia nselcss for ns to inquire.
If wrong bos been done to the claimant the
court has no powertorightit." JudgeScho-
field sustains the demurrer of the United
States and gives the defeudaut twenty days
to amend his petition. If he fails to amend
it the ease will be dismissed.
'Eniron Dana fires this parting shot at
Hditor Pulitzer: “To the mental distur-
banoe which attended Pulitzer’s last days
in this-country must bo attributed, we fear,
lii» lnnatical and senselesg denials that
toward the end of the canvass of 1881, when
the days were getting short, the Republi
can MaUonal committeo had his check for
five thousand dollars among theircampalgn
funds. Did Pulitzer givo them this money?
Wo fancy not, for he was tunning at the
tlrneaa a Democratic candidate forCon-
gresa; yet his check came into the Repub
lican treasury, and the proceeds were ap
plied to the iQffffolBal purpose of electing
-.V'^SlaiuA What a queer career Pu-
*er has had aince he left Hungary! Rut
we hope ho may find rest and peace in Eu
rope. He has had very unsatisfactory ex-
jtericnccs on this side, and he ought to
regain a little steadiness of nerve some-
whorA The Moil and Express having stated
that Mr. Pulitzer's check for five thousand
-dollars, given to a press-maker, may have
.found its way into the Bepablicancampaign
fund, the Hun says that it does not refer to
such a check.
A HigolfleAnt Deprecation.
Jnslioe Blandford, of the Supreme bench,
was a gallant Confederate soldier, in token
of which he left upon one of the hardest
contested battles of the war, an arm. It
may also be said that Justice Blandford is
a good lawyer, a good judge and a good
citizen.
Referring to the escort of Gen. Gordon
to Montgomery, Ala., our Atlanta corres
pondent mentions the fact that Justice
Blandfoid was going sloDg.
This was right and proper. Justice
Blandford served os Confederate Congress
man while Mr. Davis was President. But
oar correspondent odds: 'The Judge took
occasion to state this morning that bis visit
to Montgomery is, as it should be, entirely
without political significance." ,
This was also right and proper. The
man who holds a "public trust,” more es-
peeiaUy if be helps to hold the scales of
justice, should not go anywhere upon a po
litical mission. Why should Justice Bland-
furd take oocasion to make public a depre
cation so significant? Can it be possible
that the suspicion there U a political com
bination. on the road has arrested the at
tention and apprehension of Justice Bland-
ford?
The Virginia End North Carolina dtle-
ghtlqus held a consultation in regard to the
tax on fruit brandies and ths'destruction of
■tills. The delegations come to an under
standing as to a bill which, it is claimed, will
to a great extent satisfy those engaged in the
buxineee in North Carolina and VirginiA The
Committee on Ways and Means have agreed
to report the measure. It reduces the tax
on fruit brandies to fifty cents a gallon,
abolishes storekeepers where tho capacity
of a still does not exceed five bushels of
grain or lam a day, and farther provides
that no still shall be destroyed without a
legal investigation.
Abium Likooln not being a military re
former, it is fair to place him as against
civil seevioe reform. A friend of his having
I been rejected by A military examining
i bowed, Mr. Lincoln gave him this letter:
Executive Munson, November IA M,
■ Htaston, Secretary of War-Six: I veraocallj re-
qaeak that Jacob it. tream ot »ewbur» may be ap-
, painted a colonel of colored trooya. and this tiro-
- atcrt.ro of wkatkor La can tell tbe preclee ahada of
■Julius Canar'a Loir. A. Lxcolh.
Tub Richmond Dispatch thus describes
the way in which Prohibition was defeated
in that city: "The Liquor Dealers' Pro
tective Association led off in the battle and
made capital hits by pledging their influence
to secure the observance of the hitherto ig
nored law prohibiting bar-rooms selling
liquor on Sunday, and by resolving that
they would not avail themselves of the privi
lege of paying their State taxes in depre
ciated coupons, but would pay in money.
Later on two splendid meetings of bush
ness men were held at Mozart Academy,
and resolutions were adopted condemno-
t >ry of prohibitioDism. On the other hand,
the Prohibitionists had meetings almost
daily. Tho terrors of intemperance were
vividly depicted. They were able to com
mand tho services of many orators—Senator
Colqnitt and Dr. Hawthorne of Georgia,
prominent among them, and nearly all
the preachers—white and colored—were
outspoken for them. At the temperance
meetings there wore usually large audiences
and it was expected at one time that they
would be nble to give the ‘ antis” n stiff
fight. At ono period it was confidently be
lieved that the colored people were going
to vote dry almost unanimously, bat a cir
cular representing that if liquor was pro
hibited the next move would be to prohibit
tobacco hail a wonderful effect upon them,
especially upon the thousands who gain
livelihood in the tobncco factories. Tho
‘ 'dry” people found their greatest weakness
in their inability In consolidate the church
members' vote in their favor. Once they
probably hoped to get nearly all the church
men, white and black. Later they would
have been glad to know thoy could got one-
half of thorn. The result proves that more
chnrch members voted "wot” than "dry."
Last week tho "wets" were seen tc
be gaining rapidly, but in thoir wild
est dreams thoy never imagined
that they would win such a victory as
perohed upon their banner yesterday. By
9 o'clock n. In. the "dry” men were nltcrlv
hopeless; by 10 they wero disgusted. After
thnt they had no heart at ull for the fight;
and thpngh many of them continued to
stand to their posts at tbo polls, wearing
their bluo badges and waviag their tickets,
they could no rnoro stay the popular tide
than they could check tho flow of James
river to tho hoa Tho voting yesterday (as
at all elections held in Virginia) was by
(seorct) ballot, but it was nevertheless per
fectly practicable to keep tally of the vote.
All you had to do whs to watch the voter us
he approached the polling-place and see
whether he took a ticket from a "wet” or
“dry” man. In very rare instances, indeed,
llid voters care 1« conceal how they were
voting, and so the statu of the polls was as-
aeriained with oonsideruble accuracy.
Chicaoo is going to open a school for
evangelists, as may be seen by this adver
tisement:
J.< Meeting of Reformed Drunkards, led by a re
formed drunkard, will be held at the Adelphi Thea
tre bundey night. There will
reformed drunkard*. Among theme who will apeak
will be:
Chicken Thieve*,
Counterfeiter*,
bandbagger*,
Mlnstiela,
Actor*.
Cirouaraen,
Gambler*,
Liara,
l’iratea,
lickpcekefct
Cowboys,
Bbopllftera,
Itum tellers
Korgerw,
Iufldcl*,
Tram i«.
Tint esteemed Philadelphia Pre.v»has seat
a special reproueututWo to Montgomery to
see the ovation given that “distinguished
foreigner,” Mr. Davis, as that Quaker city
Blaine organ calls the ex-President of the
Confederacy. Is the Prey's representative
a minister plenipotentiary?
A'uomjunia* tale from the sea relates that
a whole ship's crew were stricken blind by
tea. We have known “cold tea” to cause
several nUteemen to l>e knocked blind
drpnk.
POLITICAL Nims AND ACUOUKT8.
When prohibition prohibit* It la likely that glrla
won’t flirt.—Philadelphia Timet.
Rumors of Mr. Blaine'* indifference to politics
continue to agitate the politicians.
If Attorney-General Garland loat money at poker,
who found It? Iteapectfolly referred to the investi
gating committee.—Washington Critic.
The Euterpriae, a colored newspaper of New York,
la urging colored men to go Houth, “organise for
mutual protection, cultivate farms and get rich/*
According to the Montpelier Argus loyalty to and
support of the Republican priHideutial ticket lu the
laat campaign ia to be the test in the coming sena
torial election in Vermont.
The Iowa Oreenbackent are sick of their fusion
with the Democracy and will nullify it. ThU
means that the Greenback party will go oat on the
road with the other tramps.
The New York Tribune is in favor of submitting
a prohibition amendment to a vote of the people of
the btate. The iinpresaion seems to be that it would
bo overwhelmingly defeated.
The Rhode Island bill to enforce the prohibitory
amendment excepts the luauttfacture of cider, wine
and malt liquor* for domestic use. Thus are many
bung holes converted Into loop holes.
A new law in New Jersey prohlbiU any person
from catching b’ack bass leaa than seven Inches in
length, or trout irsa than nix inches, under a pen
alty. FUli smaller than these must be thrown back.
These who wonder why statesmen arc so slow to
recognize new issues should remember that it U
always so. Great issues push the in selves slowly
to the front and almost as slowly retire.—Memphis
Avalanche.
The Blair bill is bringing out some pretty ex
haustive dUcusEious of the oducational question
and some very {jointed comment. A Pennsylvania
paper says Impecunious illite acy is better than cd
o ited mendicancy.
A Boston paper advocates goueral observance of
Washington's birthday because but for the fact that
the shops and factories closed on that occasion
thousands of jieople would never know anything
about the Father of his country.
The number of bills Introduced in Congress since
the present session opened exceeds 10,300. The
House has passed five appropriation bills. The
change In rules does not appear to have facilitated
the dUpatch of business to any great extent.
The announcement that the dolngsof “the Wash
ington lobby” are to bo investigated causes an ap
prehensive shiver to ripple along the spinal column
of the entire Capital. Pretty much all Washington
ia only a gigantic lobby.—Philadelphia Times.
A Tennessee Republican informs a New York
Tribuno interviewer that the Democratic dissen
sions through which alone the Republican party
hoped to carry the State, havo been healed by tbo
appointment of Senator Jackson as United States
Judge.
If the Democrat* will leave at homo for the next
Congrats those Representatives who are too timid
to take tho responsibility of preferring charges of
offensive partisanship against Republican office
holder* they will be following tbo advice of the In
dianapolis Sentinel.
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
The favorite flower with every woman is the ono
that looks the prettiest upon her bonnet.—New
Orleans Picayune.
The time may come when every man will boycott
every other, and then we shall have a pretty state of
things, indoed.—New York Graphic.
Amidst all this merry clowning by the jocund
free-traders not a soul among them has ventured
to assert that the tariff Is a local Issue.—Ph. Prt as.
A Philadelphia girl broke au engagement because
her lover called her bis ducky darling. She said
that a duck waddled, and she wouldn't stand any
such comparison as that.—Philadelphia Pres*.
Wife—”1 have been returning calls this after*
soon, and have had a delightful time." Husband—
“The 1 allies unusu illy gossipy, I suppose?’’ Wife—
"No; I found them all out/’—New York Times.
Two Macon men looking for their Representative
from the gallery of the House: “I can't dUtiuguWh
him," said one, after a hopeless visual observation.
‘•Of course not,” wai tho honest reply, “he can't
even distinguish himself."—Washington Critic.
Two fool* at Omaha loved the same girl. The
result was pretty much like that of two trains woo
ing the same track from opposite directions. It
might have saved trouble if they had referred their
differeace* to the girl for arbitration. As it is, the
coroner and court* wiP arbltrate.-Mem. Avalanche.
Walter—“Say, I .think that man in No. 76 has
blown out the gas and gone to bed.” Hotel Propri
etor—“Has, hey? Well. I'll charge him for the
waste of gas in the moralug." Walter—"Ycb; bnt
he may flie from breathing It." Hotel Proprietor—
'Not much, lie belougx to the Hoard of Health,
They never smell nothluT’—Chicago Rambler.
COTTON IN 11U8S1A.
DETERIORATING LABOR.
SINGULAR INSURANGE i'A&X.
Ihm h aliout the six* of it, according to
tie Si Lonta Globe-Democrat: "The right
ct every man tc manage hie own business
in his own way, subject only to the consti
tution of the United States sod the lews
-~i. to pannance thereof, ie s right which
ton American people newer will end nerer
. ha aid
M yeterlotu Dla»ppr;intnre ot a Kwlas Bar-
Claim fur s Pulley.
St. Loots, April $7.—Charles Ohlendorf
is in jail here under circumstances of a
peculiarly sensational character. Ho wot
formerly in the employ of the Pullman
Company of Chicago, and came to St. Louis
in the early part of the present month. On
the 14th instant he became acquainted with
Arnold TeggU, a Swine boy. 18 yeem of
age, and two days afterward he and hie new
acquaintance went to on insurance agency
and each bod his life insured for $6,000
for the benefit of other. After they had
secured the insurance the suspicion of the
company wee aroused end the matter was
reported to the police on the theory that one
of tho two intended to murder the other.
To-dty Oh’.undorf came here and claimed
the $6,000 insurance on Teggli's life, saying
that the latter had been drowned at Com
merce, end that an inquest bad been held
on the body. He, to proof of hi* statement,
produced a coroner's certificate of the in
quest and the cause of death.
On ths representation of the Insurance
oompany snathe suspicions circumstance*
surrounding the matter Ohlendorf is held to
await the result of an investigation into
tho oano.
An Kfltirt to I'rmluce It Ctntlrr Direction of
Grand Duke Alexia.
A Fort Worth, Texas, special to the 8t.
Louis Globe-Democrat Bays; The Czar of
Russia has determined to introduce a new
agricultural product in his domain, espe
cially in Asiatic Russia. Setae years ago
Mr. Francis Vogel, formerly a citizen of
Ban Antonio, Texas, went to ltitssta, and his
superior businesa ability and his American
methods of improving the lund attracted
the attention of Grand Duke Alexis, who
soon became well acquainted with Mr.
Vogel, who, through the Grand Duke, has
introduced many things of benefit to the
Russian people. For months past Mr.
Vogel bos been endeavoring to get
the consent of the C’xor to intro
duce the planting ot American cotton, end
to have the expeiiment made on a large
enough scale, and under the royal direc
tion, in order that ii might have everything
in its favor and be mode aa cheap os pos
sible. Mr. Vogel is located at Tiflin in
winter end et Borjo-n, State of Caucasia,
in summer, and finds that that immense
section of country, now producing but
little, bes a soil precisely like the sandy
loam of Texas, which produces cotton of
Jflne texture. At loot toe Cxor has consented
to-the plan, and has- instructed the Grand
Duke to lend bis personal aid to Kr. Vogel
Theso facta are obtained from Mr. G. J.
Franks), manager of the Western Union
Telegraph Compos* In this city, whose
sister la the wife of Mr. Vogel. Mr. Frenkel
has inode the investigations of cotton plant
ing, soils, etc., in this State end transmitted
the information-to Mr. Vogel. He is to
day to receipt of a tetter to the effect
that the experiment Is to be made as soon,
os possible, and ho has been commissioned
to purchase a quantity of seed of whet to
known as storm-proof cotton, which will
be shipped to ClnlveeUu end there placed
aboard a Russian ship for the purpose, to he
transported to llussto Mr. Frenkel will
endeavor to employ two successful cotton
planters to go to Russia with tha seed end
give personal direction to ill planting and
cultivation. It ia said that labor can be ob
tained very cheap to Russia, and that ootton
ran be raised at much Ices expense then in
Texas or the South. It is the present inten
tion of the gentleman to buy the seed from
the tint cotton made in this end surround
ing counties end in the meantime perfect
arrangements for tbs scheme. Implements
need by cotton planters of the most im
proves American manutocturo will be sent
over with the cargo of seed.
What Trades Union, nnd Labor Agitators
ore Doing.
The workers of this country are rapidly
making labor at the some time more costiy
and less valuable. The general troth of
this statement will not be denied by any
intelligent worker. The reduction of the
hours of labor has alreudy passed tho point
at which greater efficiency and freshness
compensate for the reduction in hours. The
many restrictions demanded by trades un
ions for the protection of the men against
injustice, whether justifiable and in other
respects be neficial or not, at any rato limit
the possible usefulness of labor to the em
ployers in any emergency. A far more im
portant difficulty is that the spirit of antag
onism between the employer and employ ed,
nnd the feeling that it is manly nnd helpful
to the cause of labor to do os little as one
possibly can for the money, is rendering all
labor less willing and less efficient.
What ia tho practical effect of this change?
Clearly its first effect is a decrease in tho
production of things needful for the satis
faction of human desires. Wo prodnee
fewer things and therefore must have fewer
to consume. Bnt wit): this comes a higher
cost of production, and higher not only in
dollars paid, bnt also iu days’ labor expend
ed. The consequence is that more days’
labor must bo required to purchase the
same product. Rapidly this change is ex
tending to different branches of industry.
Scon a clearly defined and great increase in
the uost of living must result. The work
ing people generally will get more in wages,
bnt will pay at least as much more for what
they buy. Thus thoy gain nothing.
It ia said that the efficiency of labor is
steadily increased by the use of machinery
nnd by new inventions. This is true, and
it ought to be true. The United States
would not be what the country is hut for
this steedy improvement It would not in
vite the labor of other countries with such
large returns. But tho question is whether
the benefits of machinery and of labor-
saving inventions shall nil be neutralized to
labor in the United States, by rendering
human effort here less efficient If men
worjt four-fifths ns many hours ns before,
or in the same degree less willingly and
efficiently, so that they produce less in
that ratio as respects their part of the work,
then it follows that the improvements, in
ventions, the use of increased machinery,
and the employment of vastly more capital,
even though sufficient to add a quarter to
the productiveness of labor, witl result in
no benefit to labor whatever. There will
be no greater quantity of things produced,
tint only the same ns before. Capital then
will do more of the work, and will get more
of the pay. Labor will do less, and will
get less.
Not many laborers realize this fatal ten
dency of movements professedly for the
cause of labor. Yet it is perfectly clear to
every observer. Other consequences are
also clear. This country u< engaged in com
petition with other countries, all striving
for a larger share of the world'a traffic. If
the cost of production cau here be reduced,
the industry of this country can expand,
ami it can enter and grasp the mastery of
uew markets, and oust the capitalists and
traders of other countries. The inventive
genius of Americans promises this result.
The greut skill of native American workmen
promises this result. But now come in
trades unions and labor agitators, and by
rendering labor less efficient, threaten to
neutralize all theso advantages. If
labor be rendered less efficient, in
like proportion os its productiveness is
increased by invention and by larger
use of capital, the consequence is that the
country will not be able to compete better
than before. On tho contrary, ita position
will be much better than before; it will be
less able to compete. For foreign countries
are inventing also, and the inventions of
tho United States are quickly adoptod in
other countries, so that the efficiency of
Jabor, by reason of the improvement of ita
tools, increases there perhaps as rapidly os
here. But capital also is cheaper and more
abundant ut ail times in other countries
than in this. Where capital does the great
er ehnro of the work, other countries hnvo
the greater advantage. In other countries,
labor ia less disposed, or because of differ
ent institutions less able, to havo ita own
way. Hence the cost of production in other
coutrics steadily diminishes, while in this
country it remains comparatively un
changed, in spite of all tho improvement
which rapidly reduces the cost elsewhere.
Labor in this country is free, und must
pay for ita freodom. The free man can do
aa he will, bnt he must bear the cost of his
blunders. If apaternul government regu
lates things for him, he depends on its wis
dom. But if he regulates things for him
self, be need* tbo wisdom himself to avoid
the errors which render labor futile or ill
paid. Every step in the labor agitation of
the post four mouths has baen a step back
ward, toward the stagnation of indnatry
and the prostration of trade from which the
country hoped it was escaping. It ia trno
thnt something has been gained. It is o
gain that some of the methods of tabor agi
tators have been found within the reach of
taw, and can he stopped or pnniebed. Boy
cotting, for instance, is found to be con
spiracy in any case; a crime if force is cm-
uoyed, und tilackmnil if money is extorted.
Sut meanwhile the loss goes os, and the
crippling of industries and the prostration
of trade, and the United Statee becomes
each month more heavily handicapped in the
race for commercial supremacy.—N. Y.
Commercial Bulletin.
KNIGHTS OF CAPITAL
COLUMBUS A CORSICAN.
Harp rials
IIow the Battle With the Workmen Haa
Been Prepared For.
J list as tho troubles between the Northern
and Southern States led, year by year,
through a number of decadesto the struggle
of twenty-five years ego, so have the differ
ences between capital and labor been grad
ually approaching the final struggle. Iti
has been said of late that the strikes all
over the country are indicative thnt the pe
riod is nt hand when the millionaire and
corporations on one side and the working
men on the other must come to a satisfac
tory and final understanding, which is to
be tlie snprewacy of the ono or the other.
Strikers in a majority of instancea have
met with succesa in times past simply be
cause they were organized,* but recent in
formation showa that the millionaires and
corporations have organized and that to this
fuct is due the virtual defeat of the Knights
of Labor on the Gonld Southwestern sys
tem in Chicago, on the Third avenue road
in this city and of the angar strikers in
Brooklyn. It is learned that from the day
lust summer when Gonld was forced to bow
the knee to the Knights and grant their de
mands for an adjustment of grievances on
the Wabash system thnt the capitalists and
large corporations, seeing the handwriting
on ths wall, have been preparing for a final
struggle.
Practically speaking, a great union of the
moneyed interests has been in course of
formation for many months. At first the
surface railroad corporations of this city
did not belong to the union, and they were
forced to grant the demands of their men in
Juncury. Since then it can bo positively
stated that the presidents of the roads have
joined tho big nnion, subscribed anywhere
from $1,000,000 and upward uud are now
prepared to (five battle to the Knights.
To this union of capital more than any
thing else is due the defeat of the Third av
enue strikers. To this big union is dan the
defeat of the strikers on the Southwestern
system, the defiant attitude of Hoxie end
the surrender of the strikers nt Chicago.
When Hoxie turned his back upon the mem
bers of tho general executive committeo of
tho Knights of Labor he knew that all the
roods leading into East St. Louis had sub
scribed $250,000 as a fund to defeat the
strikers. He knew that all the other roads
of the country had subscribed or were will'
ing to snbscribs hundreds of thousands to
crush the Knights of Labor and the labor
unions of the country.
The last to como into the nnion are the
sugar refl nets of Brooklyn. They also have
subscribed to the big fund, and are prepared
to fight to the bitter end. They are even
more defiant than Hoxio. They refuse abso
lutely to take the strikers bark ut anything
like former wages. They will shut down
entirely, they say, knowing fall well tint
ns the Knights have a fund from which to
draw support, thoy also lmvo n fund run
ning np into the millions from which to
draw sustenance.
A certain president of ouo o£ tho trunk
lines said to-day that his company stood
ready to subscribe half a million to the big
fund at the first indication of trouble from
its employes. Whether Gonld is the gen
eral master workman of the Knights of
Capital cannot ho learned, but each is the
report. This big fund has enabled the cor
porations to scour the country for non
union men, nnd it can be statod positively
that in tho event of a genora! tic up of the
railroads ia this or any of the largo cities
these men stand ready to tako tho places of
the strikers,—N. Y. Special to Philo. Press.
Discovery of tlie lllrthphare of
the tires! Explorer.
Pams, April 21—Abbe Casanova s Cor
sican urchtcologist, has discovered archives
which show that Christopher Colnmbtu
was born in the town of Cslvi, ia Corsica,
and emigrated to Genoa. President Gravy,
having examined the evidence and being
aaitafted of its authenticity, has authorized
the authorities of Oslvi to celebrate by an
official holiday the four hundredth anni
versary of the discovery of America. The
inhabitants of Caltri will hold a fete oo May
23, when a commemorative inscription will
be placed on the home in which Columbus
born.
Fired by the Sun's lUat.
A Newburg. N. Y., special says: Emery
Salford, a farmer, drove to the home of
Dior Baker, at Wortxboroaah, Sullivan coun
ty, accompanied by hfa wife, Unhitching
hie horse after bis wife had alighted be led
the animal to the barn. After a stay of
three honra Mulford went out to the barn
to hitch up for the retam heme. On reach
ing the spot where he hod left the wagon he
was very much surprised to find that all
that remained of the vehicle was a pile of
.shea. The wagon box hod contained a
quantity of straw, on which lay an empty
milk cos, two horse blankets, a shawl and
some other articles. The hot rays of the
inn striking the can had reflected on the
straw to such an extent that i* war, rot on
fire. The iron work alone remained to tell
the story.
PROMINENT PEOPLK.
Axon of Hannibal Hamlin wantat,,
governor of Muiue. 10 U
Albert Curry, the South Csrolln* ^
is pointing a portrattof Mr. CleveUai^
General Logan's book, “The Great r
spiracy," will bo published next mo ‘ t , Cott
A Portuguese journalist vows that n
carries tho Bank of England in her I a , W
* Abbe Liszt, now in Paris, is to he ^
at n reproduction of his "draud MiS® 1
r riday. oi
Frofesfior Hardy of Dartmouth ana
novel in press which will be issa^l 110 / 8
month.
Late rumor from Detroit is thnt the I,a
with whom Senator Jones became^
noted is presently to be married to a v
York mun. “
Mrs. Mary Campbell, grandmother
Congressman Campbell, of Ohio k,
J«yn«d the age of 100 years when she
unjustly accused and mercilesidy r ab^I
Mr. and Mrs. George TV. Cable have h.
come quite famous for their beautiful ii.,
family of girls. The advent of a new K-.V
and this time a hoy baby, has mad*
on excitement amongst tho friends ot
author of "The Grandissimes,”
Ex-Govcmor Wnnuotb, who was aeenk.
a reporter of the New Orleans Times-Demi.
crat, said: “1 have no gubernatorial si/
whatsoever. I am out of politic,
FERDINAND WARD SETTING TYPE.
Tliv Young Napoleon ot Flnanoe (.rowing
Fat In Sing Sing Wu, lie Inaane'.*
“Ferdinand Ward is fat," said Mr. W.
Bourke Cockrun yesterday. "I never saw
him looking so well, and I think it iso good
thing for Ward that lie has been sentenced
to a term ia the penitentiary." Mr. Cock-
ranwnsoneof Ferdinand Ward’s lawyers
and he spent last Saturday afternoon nt
Sing Sing with his former client. "Did
you see Ward daring tho trial?" continued
Mr. Cockran. "Well, you know how hag-
f ;ard and hollow-eyed he looked. Now the
incs of care have been' smoothed out and
his eyas are bright und clear. Ward was a
lunatio when be was convicted; he was a
lunatie before he was srrested. If ho had
been a thief bn wonld be in Canada to-day,
or aomewhere else where oar law officers
could not touch him. If the tnan had not
been crazy ho would not be in jail. The
day before he waa arrested he handed in
that check of Vanderbilt's for $150,909
simply to tide over tho bank. He conld
have appropriated that if he oared to be dis
honest. Ward took the consequences. He
is serving his term of ten years in Sing
Sing, anil the men who benefited by his
financial vagaries ere still at large."
‘Who are these men, Mr. Cockran?"
'The newspapers havo more than hinted
who they are. The Star has mentioned
nemos; I have no chargee to make. I
assert, though, that Ferdinand Ward was
insane for months before he was arrested.
Shrewd and unprincipled men were traffick
ing and benefiting on his financial lunacy.
If Ward had not been a crazy man he never
would have been arrested. However, that
ta gone by; he is in the penitentiary. He is
learning to set type now, or something else
around tho printing office nt Sing Sing.
The hollows iu his eyes are filled oat, the
lines of care have disappeared, and Word
looks tike s healthy, bright mechanio, whoso
face promises something better than a sub
ordinate position. I think tho penitentiary
has been a good thing for him. No, I do
not cart to say why he sent for me. That
waa personal bnsinesa. But I will say that
his wile goes to see him and appears to be
deroted. —New York Star.
tions wnateoever. I am out of politic,
out I mean to stay. I was once Goveroo,
and experience teaches me that it j, ...
thing hut on enviable position."
Mr. Richard A. Proctor, the iwtronoun
who has lately devoted many hours to c
dilations of chances in card-playing
swers, in Longman’s magazine, the mtri
“Is whist-signaling honest?” His concli
sion is that, despite Cavendish and eten
other authority, it is not a square thing. 1
Mr. W. D. Howell’s salary from tho Ho
pera amounts to about $200 a week. It j,
well known that Mr. Howells'little dangh.
ter, Mildred, ia something of un atlut
Soveral juvenile stories of Air. Hovrcll}
have been illustrated by his small daughter
A clever nnd not intentionally unkind po
son says that "Mrs. Howells looks os if he
daughter hod drawn her.”
Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi of New York
was the first woman to enter tho Ecolg d,
Medicin in Paris in 1867, says the Womui
Journal. ller application for nclmisaioa
was refused by the faculty, but oflerrui
accepted by the minister of public instrae
tion. The latest nows from Palis ig that i
number of women medical students bn
been admitted for the first timd us residu
physicians in the hospitals. .
Mr. Gladstone's memory, (inys the ha
don World, is evidently fading. Heucti
ally read several passages of tbi
body of his speech, and, what ia more,
a great portion of the -peroration, iron
notes. His hearers were astonished, and,
for a time, imagined he was quoting froi
somcliodv else. This innovation gt*tj
marred the effect of tho oration, as t« i
those actually present were concerned.
Charles A Dana is sixty-six years old,bi_
looks folly ten years younger. Ho goes to
the San office ut 11 ia the morning at
leaves at 4 in the afternoon. AU hla edits
rials are dictated to a stenographer. Whu
dictating bo allows no ono to interrupt Lia,
tbongh usually accessible to all pencil,
thus preserving his lino of thought mbr»
ken. Hta office is plainly famished, lb
walla being covered with photograph, <
dead friends. His health is almost per!«t
Tho happy uiurrieil life of the Ktnpenx
and Empress of Russia ta that spoken a
by the Boston Traveler: Before asccndib
the throne Dagmar bad her romance. E
gaged to tbo Czuewitch, tho older broth
of her present husband, she loved him vt
ull her heart. She sat by his deathbed i
Nice, and would havo wished toniournhi
lost lover all her life aa if sho wore in tnll
his widow. But the will of her pareik
the exigencies of politics, decrood otb«-
wise, and ahe had to silence her own faith
fnl desires. On tho other side the tint
Duke Alexander, not Icing tha heir, h*l
hoped to marry according to his inclina
tion, and was deeply attached ti
n maid of houor of his mother's Princes
Mario Metzhersky, the only daughter cl
a Polish nobleman, a poet and au exile.
This young lady eventually wedded Won
Paul Demnlolf, and diod when she waa only
24. Thus it waa that Alexander and Dag
mar met with wounded and preoccupied
hearts, both cursing the rank which threw
them into each other's arms. Tho poor
young people did not attempt to coneeal
their sorrow nnd their regrets, and vi.ia
exchanging their mournful confidence oa-
consciously learned to know nnd appreciwti
tho nobility and loyalty of their respect'"
natures. A warmer foeling innetnitly
sprung up, and the young couple awoke to
tho joyful surprise that the raison d:U
which had united them, had resulted ia a
lovo mutch. Theirs had been nn excep
tional happy marriage os fax os perfect ubioi
would rnuke it. After neatly twenty y** 1 *
of marriage Marie Fedorowna and
ander HI are levers.
COLUMBUS.
Work, un the Midland Hoad -Alli-ged B
Star Arrested—Soda Fount Accident.
Oovututm, April 29.— Another squad of
about one hundred convicts reached here
to-dny and went out on the line of the
Oeorgia Midland. They began throwing
dirk to-day elevon miles from this city.
J; W. Livingston, a white man, was
lodged in jail here to-day in dufault of $500
bail to answer the charge ot burglarizing
Mr. J. J. Wood's residence. He denies his
guilt He claims to be a sailor.
While oharging a soda fcant to-day Ur.
Ed. Schley hod hie arm badly burned by a
top blowing off and a stream of vitriol
shooting up hta sleeve.
hooting up has sleeve.
The Chattahoochee National Bank
calved a new safe to-day that weighs over
20,000 pounds.
TIIK RIVER VERY HIGH.
Two NrznM Hanged far Catting the Levea
nt Frlsn 1'olut.
Mr, Dsvla n« nn Illustration.
Luxdox, April 29.—The Times says:
The reappearance of Jefferson Davis, whom
Gladstone hailed as the erector of s new
State, enforce* the thought that the man
who made that capital mistake, may be
making another when ha hails Parnell's
temporary capture of the Iriik representa
tion at rvidecoe that another nation hoe
bun bore.
Hslsmo, Ass., April 29.—The river hoa
risen two inches here from 8 o'clocz last
night to 8 o'clock this morning. The gangs
now stands 48 feet shore low water mark
aad eleven inches above extreme high water
mark.
The "Belle Memphis” from Viekxburg
just 'cached here, and brings the report
that two colored men were banged below
Friars Point, Uisstasippt, for catting the
levee.
The river ta twenty-one inches above high
water mirk at Prism Point.
Premier de Preycinct will go on the stamp
on an electioneering tour during the Par
liamentary vacation.
SCHOOLBOYS ARRESTED.
Klngleaders of the Strike In Iloaton W<*
Before the Court.
Boston, Mass., April27.—James F. Lf“
el Thomas ltiloy, two fiftees-yeeJ- 0 ! 1
schoolboys, wero sleeping peacefully »
their little beds at 4 o’clock this uicruul
A few moment Inter the slumbers of •“
were disturbed by u policeman.
won arrested and lutes in toe day *•
brought before the Municipal LouA
where they were held in $100 each.
cause of these criminal proceedings *** J
follows: A few days ago those two boyatas
upon themselves tha tabor of ameliorate 1
the imaginary wrongs of their follow echo 0 '
mates, and called an indignation nieeWj
at which it was detormined thnt
dcaerlioEx of the acbool-ronra waa tm- ll[ -.
possible chance whereby they might obte*
leas honra of work at their hooka and »t m ’ y r
Truancy was, in consequence, immediate
inaugurated, with Lena and Riley ** ",
ringleaders. At first, nil went vrsU, »
spirit of enthusiasm roee high, and the***
determined to call out all other scbooloe.
iu the city. . ■
The Quincy school was first sti»“"
with indifferent success. The fof®*
deemed necessary to persuado w«I->J”"
tioned boys to join them. Isaac end Eum
Hirsh, two youthful students st No.
Oneida street, were first attacked, »nd We
refusing to join in playing truant, *
given s severe thrashing. . •„
• The capture of this schoolhonse
proven more difficult than was at nrat
ticipated, the gamins turned their Hhn
to the Brimmer school, but here pn>*',
different methods. Arming iDttu**
with sticks and stones, sn onstangM
mode on the window* of the baudJnw.
which attack Lynn and Riley figuro* Jj* tI .
nently. Alter on unsuccessful ch* r r ,
cept os regards the shattering of
panes, the malcontents withdrew
leaders of the gang were easily rf ' ,0 *^ii
and warrants issued for their w**"? j
they ekilfuUy evaded ths police UDtJ
morning.