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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH
ESTABLISHED 1826.
MACON, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1888.---TWELVE PAGES.
VOL. LXIL, NO. 4G.
WASHINGTON.
wer a e m arrc S t J eTby, WAITING FOR WAR-
' Constably I.aac Nathans, am! the cate was
„ 4.1,„ rex ? et,le<l f«r Mu. On the magistrate's docket.
pemoraW^by “* Czar’s Demands Made
Known to Bismarck.
an d Blaine’s Letter.
OF TARIFF REDUCTION.
,„ r Colquitt Soon to Speak on Tariff
lull Internal Revenue-Th# Effort to
jlako AUnntn n aillltnry
I’ost-Tjbeo Light.
. —! attorney.
, , The case is exciting great interest and is
| looked upon as the beginning of a stirring I
up of dry bones generally .in the justices 5
courts.
TRAFFIC DECISION.
Short Lines Operated by Inter-State Itoads
in General Tmlltc Are Within the Law.
PLAN OF ALLIED OPERATION,
[from our special correspondent.!
Macon Telegraph Bureau, ^
No. 515 fourteenth Street. N. W„ V
Washington. February 18,1888. I
Lading Republican Senators have ad-
litted that their only chance for sucoess is
in raising the sectional issue. The Republi*
rt n party is very much <lemoralUeU by the
tinff issue ami Blaine’s letter.
The utmost limit any well informed man
thinks will he reached in readjosting -the
ttriff is twenty-five millions, and the friends
«(revenue repeal admit that the following is
*11 they expect: Abolition of a portion of the
tobacco tax; of the retail license on spirits
tod of all except a nominal tax on fruit
bradv. All this has.not yet been definitely
conceded.
Daily conferences in the little room in the
basement of the capital are held by the Dein-
acratic members of the ways and means com-
nittee, who liave nearly concluded their la
bors. No man can say positively what day
the bill will be reported, or even when it
vill be submitted to the full committee. Be-
pud the fact that it will certainly contain
free wool and some consequent reductions
woolens, there is nothing of importance so
lied that it may not be altered. The Louis
iana sugar representatives are trying vainly
to get the llsuse to accept the Kandall idea
•(letting sugar Alone, but when they fail
they mean to fall into the arms of their party
nther than those of the free sugar Republi-
us.
THE HI,AIR BILL.
The Blair bill goes into the clutches of 9
mWommittee, of which Mr. Crain, one of
its bitterest opponents, is chairman. Qen.
Wheeler and other friends of the measure
ire conceding plans for getting up a new
education bill and having it referred to an
other committee. The difficulty is in
fading one favorable. It is
believed that the appropriations
ud sgrieaUare, Wheeler’s own committee
01 expenditmes in the Treasury Depart
in'! v;iri«■ 11 ^ othrr- arr compoM 1
men who will not report any bill to di>trib-
1 doa
ehooW
1 tin-
Washington, February 17.—The Inter
state Commerce Commission to-day rendered
on opinion in the case of Heck & Petrie vs*
the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
Railroad Company, the Knoxville and Ohio
Railroad Company, the Richmond and Dan
ville Railroad Company, tire Richmond and
West Point Terminal and Warehouse Com
pany and the Coal Creek and New River
Railroad Company.
In this case it appears that a railroad com
pany, chartered by the State of Tennessee,
owns a short road wholly in that State, hut
that it never owned any rolling stock or op
erated its road. The road was used and op
erated as a means of conducting interstate
traffic in coal by the companies owning con
necting inter State roads.
The commission held that the short road
is one of the facilities and instrumentalities
of inter-State commerce, and, as such,
is subject to the provisions of
the act to regulate commerce. In
respect to such traffic, the opinion holds that
the duties of such roads to the public are the
same without respect to their ownership, cor
porate control, the authority or means of its
construction. As one of the “instrumentali
ties of shipment or carriage,” it must be
accessible, it says, to all inter-State shippers
on equal and reasonable terms. The public
cannot be deprived of this right by separate
or joint action by the defendants. The traffic
in question is held to he inter-State traffic.
The companies conducting this short road as
a facility to ouch traffic, they cannot be per
mitted to use it for purposes of discrimination
between mine owners on its line. The claim
for primary damages, the opinion says, pre
sents a case as of common law in which the
defendants are entitled to a jury trial. The
opinion is by •Commissioner Morrison.
THE JACKSONVILLE TRIP.
Programme of the President's Short Visit
to the South Next Week—A Small Party.
Washington, February 17.—The presi«
dential party will start .for Florida about 12
•’clock Tuesday. They will go on a special
train of one car nud a baggage car. The
party will consist of the President .and Mrs.
Cleveland, Secretary and Mrs. Whitney and
CeL and Mrs. LatnonL Jn consideration of
the wisheaof the President, there will be no
rommitteeW any one else on this train.
They will make no stop until they reach
Haraunah at 7:30 on Wednesday morning.
They will devote an hour to driving about
that • ii\. a 1..i * ill then pruroed t<* Jacks,
villc, arriving there sit 1 ::i«. They will v
the Exposition and hold a reception in 1
evening. At lOo’elock Thursday the** will
Kalnok j ’n Bird's-Eye View of the Sitimtio
—Italy Hastening Her 'Military and
•Navnl Preparations—The Em
peror’s Health.
Th.
mile
Copyrighted 1888 by New York Associated Pre*«]
Bublin, February 18.—Prince Bismarck
has obtained from Count SchouvalolF, Rus
sian ambassador here, a definite declaration
of the Czar’s demands with reference to Bul
garin. No secret is made of the exact char
acter of the proposals, nor of the official
Opinion that they will he summarily re
jected. The Czar asks substantial recogni
tion of the right of Russia to control Bulga
ria and Uoumania. Prince Ferdinand and
the Sohraaje are to be wiped oat, and the
Russian comm issioner, with a Turkish
The rate of interest on the new German
loan is filed at per cent. Success of
• the jo in is assured. although the hulk of Ger
man inv istors are hardly satisfied with this
interfeM The papers renew their attacks on
Russian stocks, advising the public to
and Inv. st in the imperial loan instead. The
1 public, However, clings to Russian securi-
i ties, yielding five ner cent., preferring future
• risk «!t depreciation to present selling at a
L*s%.
j T%e .division of the Reichstag on the final
' passage of the antLSocialist bill disclosed a
: combination of Centrists and Socialists
; against the continuance of repression of So-
| cjalisl?. The debate, which lasted six hours,
i was characterized by much vehemence of
| language•. The government accept the mod-
1 itied n.earn re with reluctance, Minister
I’uttkanrer protesting to the
1 necessity for increased severities.
th.
GENERAL siiekidax talks,
AihI Sn\ s There Is No~Presidential Be^n|
Mi-. Bonnet—An Interview.
Wash; ton, February IB.—The Wash-1
inutan agent of the Associated Press sought
an interview with General Sheridan this|
«*v eryujf for the purpose of ascertaining
whether he would consent to making an
authoritative statement in regard to hil
alleged i ' *klential candidacy. The General
' J his const at, and it will be seen from the
league, is to reorganize the government and I following verbatim report of the converse
army, and control the elections for a now So- 1,is declarations are thoroughly
branje. Russia further claims tire right to *
occupy the principality until the Czar
deems it proper to withdraw his troops. The
impossible nature of these demands aggra
vates the situation. It is reported that Bis
marck has advised Count SchouvalolF t<
urge the Russian government to refrnii
from officially presenting them to Austria \
on the ground that they weald •eertafarifj
meet with peremptory rejection without dis
cussion. « «
KALNOKY’8 COMPAIM.
Count Kalnoky, in conversation at the
Parliamentary reception last Wednesday,
compared the position of European states
men towards peace to that of doctors watch-
at the bedside of a dying man. “Our duty,”
he said, “is to employ every means in our
power to prolong its days, andeoren.nlthough
we are certain that our effort* will be futile,
we must endeavor to postjwne tire moment
when it will breathe it* last.” Those words
are a faithful refiection of the .official con
viction in Berlin.
The military preparations of Austria and
Germnny are now approaching a condition
of readiness. Those governments can now
Vfaii events, accepting Russia’s signal for
war, or waiting for an opirertune moment of
attack. As an adjunct of tire treaty of ali-
anoe a plan has been agreed upon for eo-op-
oration of the aliied forces. \\ hen the cam
paign opens there will be tiiree armies in
the field. Mm-, con-Nting of the first, or
east Prussian corps, the fourth or West
Prussian corps, the fifth or Posen corps and
the sixth <t Sib -inn eorpn, uill be under the
command of Prince Milluum; the second
arriw-, led by the King »»f Saxony, will con-
bill which n>ul<l get tiiroagb the House could scntaUvc* ui
•sot j.aM the Senste. v V-sf •
Some oi t)i*‘ wisest and oldest member* of
the House are alarmed at the ea-c with
vkkh bills apj -reprinting money |lt through
fis Home this session.
The rational IVwocratic committee, which
here Wednesday, la expected to
thooie Chicago us the place of meeting
d the convention. The Hill men are work-
1*1 for Sew York.
senator ooujcrrr to kpiak.
iknitor Colquitt U preparing a speech nn
the tariff and internal revenue questions,
vhich he will deliver .hortiy in the Senate,
h will be quite elaborate.
Sr. Candler ha. prepared ■ report, to he
pmuted on Monday, In favor of hi. hill to
fit iiiminlitrator of Xebemiah Garrison,
Mps of Mote, l’erklni, .even hundred
*»d fifty dollar*, a Cherokee land claim of
The claim hau been adjucinted in
| *h« Court of Claim., and ha* been in Con-
pu> lince 18*8.
Seiutor Colquitt will addreu the law and
«l«le«gue at the Academy of Musio hi
rhiUdelphiu, next Tueaday evening,
hr. Samuel Barrett, Washington, and Mr.
h>«y Lewis, late editor of the Angnatn
““'tie, are In the city.
ATLANTA AM A MILITARY POST.
"tlge Stuart devoted the day to uecing the
nurj of War, the lieutenant-general
quartermaster-general in regard to
11 flan of eatabliahing a military port at
H* estimate, it will cout only
J^W,Mthe barrack* are already there.
Due high officials heartily favor the project,
‘ . r Approval goes a long way toward
Wing ih e appropriation. It ia not yet
| u 11 * 5ltl her the object shall be obtained
7 * wpArAte bill or an item in the sundry
n ™ appropriation kill.
( The ll 'wuwiek delegation were before the
•noittae on post-offices and pout-road* to
h their purpose being to have Brunswick
iY* wound class post-office. T, * ey *'“ vu
J 1 ' in ‘he morning.
«er Jacob has been appointcil keeper of
bin; l"l»nd light house, vice W. O-
removed. ’ c. W. If.
cassidy vouxd ouilty.
oientl.,1 to Ufo laptbssaif
Xt.lrat. amt Con.tnble. InaDteit.
. ■*' Tt,l Yr»m to Martin Telegraph.
unfit*
Gain
ami linhomin;
ft. ian LOVE UOMAsNCK.
Agent- * ‘f course, General, you have!
noticed that there 1ms been considerable
meutfou ffyou during the past few weeks as
a possible i r probable iiimlifiate for thel
l’resiaeni y next autumn?*’
General s leridan—“Yes, I have noticed I
it, but I have never looked upon those news
paper arti I > ;in anything more than the
usual shooi ng around in the woods, which
has once or twice before in presidential
years brought my name up in tnat connec
tion.’*)**
“But, densral, the talk is more serious
this tiiue, and there appears to be something
like n Concerted movement to bring about
your nomnution.”
General Sheridan—“Well, I know nothin
more about this alleged boom than what 1
have rngd in the papers, except that nowamT
then snrhc friend has twitted me about be
coming a candidate. But if the matter isl
really*, now discussed seriously, it
is tike that all parties con«
cernetf should t be informed that
tiMTj Mn v»iiua ilicir breath. I have never
had a Ifatewd-ntial bee in my bounet, and I[
don’t intend to have it, for there is nothing
that Would imluce me to leave the profession
in which nearly forty years of my Hie has been
snenty^k. enter upon a career. So talk
about my being a candidate may as well
end.” ^ l
“Hut^Kippn>H the Republican convention
should oooiiuatc you?”
Gen. Sheridan ‘‘Nominate me? I would not
accept; but there in not the slightest proba
bility of. tty being nominated, and in ;
event : would uot accept. No, not tin
any cbauttstaoce. I do not want that
any ot office.”
THE BLAIR BILL.
What the Jesuits in Macon
Say About It
AND THE ASSAULT MADE ON THEM,
They Claim That Thoro Wntt Not nn Atom
of Truth III tlio Tirado AquiitKt Them
by tlio Senator from New
Hampshire.
There are some seventy members of the
Jesuit order in Macon and vicinity, and
many, if not all of them, read the speed)
of Senator Blair in support of his bill, anil
published in the Telegraph of Thutsday.
In the speech an attack was made upon
“Jesuitry,” and as Georgia is one of the
gwo States in the South, where there are
Jesuits, and Macon being their Georgia lo
cation, a Telegraph reporter sought out
some of them to hear what iiiey iiad io say
about it.
Those questioned seemed to be in the best
of spirits, anti answered smilingly that
they were not worrying themselves about
the matter at all, having long siuee become
accustomed to such attacks. The Catho
lics who were spoken to persistently de
nied that there was any truth in the speech.
The rejiorter then sought Prof. F. J. M.
Daly, who hae been acting as agent anti
attorney for the Society of Jesus in Macon,
and approached him with the query:
“Professor, I see that Blair has been
getting after your friends, the Jesuits,
what do vou think about it!”
“Well, 1 ' replied lie, “I read the speed)
in the Telegraph with contradictory
emotions. I felt mortified nntl outraged
that any man who had risen to the dignity
of United States Senator, could he guilty
of ouch a low species of demagogueism,
and deliver such a deliberate tissue of
falsehoods.”
“What could have been his object?”
“Why, it is very dear. This bill of his
has been his hobby for years. It was beat
en in the lost Congress and will be beaten
in this one. The scheme is a monstrous
one and the longer it ia before the people
the more popular it becomes. Illair knows
this and saw hisbilt steadily losing ground
and as a consequence lie lias resorted to tlio
vilest means to save his pet measure.
“Knowing that the heat legal talent ar.d
the conservative element oi the country
was opposed to him, lie hopes to pull li
scheme through »n the terrible wings ,
fnmuicni b : ,;otry. if he can succeed i
stirrit./ up tilt- religious frenzy and preju
dice of the ignorant, lie hones to run
rough shod over luw^ reason and common
sense.
tire. The respectable conservative press
of the entire country has taken the same
position as the Telegraph did, and 1 am
sure that it was as free as it could he from
all so-called Jesuitical infiuencea.”
“Is there any truth in the as-ertion that
the Jesuits and Catholics arc trying to
control the politics of the country?’’
“I will answer you honestly ami in a
few words. Now, my life has been thrown
in strange channels. I do not suppose
that there is a layman in America who lias
held .more confidential relations with
church dignitaries than I. X have been
tile intimate friend and legal adviser of
bishops and archbishops, and heads of re
ligious orders. I have lived in the most
close communion with Catholic priests,
and flatter myself that I know thoroughly
the aims and opinions of the Catholic
clergy. Now, I assure you, upon the
honor of a gentleman, that as a body they
are perfectly oblivious to State and Fctl-
eral politics. They arc instructed to work
for the salvation of souls, nothing else.
Never, directly, or indirectly, lias there
ever been the slightest attempt on the part
of a Catholic clergyman to control nty vote
on nny subject; and l can safclv assert
that they are totally disinterested, the lm!k
of them never even voting.”
“Is it a fact that the Catholics are op-
Jiosed to the public schools?"
“Nothing could be further from the
truth. On the contrary, the Catholic
Church is the mother of popular educa
tion. Why, do you know that at this day
the Jesuits in the South are educating
nearly one hundred poor young men.
They are not only educating them, but
they nre boarding them anil clothing them
as well. It is true that many Catholics
think that the manner in which the pub
lic schools nre conducted throughout tlio
country is not actuated by a spirit of fair
ness; yet I assert tiiat were tlio matter left
to a vote, every Catholic would cast itis
ballot in favor of popular education.
(Thanks to the librality and sense of jus
tice of the hoard of education of Bibb
cottntv, the Catholics of Macon have no
complaint whatever to make.) Let me sav
a parting word aa to Mr. Blair: Like a
great many ignorant persons, he dot's not
know who or what a Jesuit i-. Overflow
ing with bigotry, yet for political reasons
he fears to attack the Catholics as such,
and in his fevcrislt and distorted imagina
tion he conjures up and proclaim! a terri
ble secret organization within the Catholic
Church whim ha caiis -flic Jesuits.’ The
poor man is struggling with either a very
had .digestion or :i horrible nightmare.
X\ bile ail Catholic- arc not Jesuits, every
Jesuit is the beat of a Catholic, and all
.rood ( :»thollos will ever he readv to tle-
tend them.”
Allot T wool.FOLK.
1 set down for the argument on
new trial (or Titos. G.
Louis ltti.sell Fatuity Injured— Lec
ture liy Dr. Armstrong,
special Telegram to Macon Telegraph.
Athens. February 18.—A very sad acci
dent occurred here this morning. Mr. Louis
Russell, brother of our Representative, Col.
R. Ii. Russell, was run over by a wagon ami
fatally injured. lie is a student of the Uni
versity. nnd lives out several miles from the
city. While coming in this morning on u
wagou loaded with cotton, he fill under the
front wheels and both the front and hind
wheels ran over bis chest, crushing It dread-
fully. There are no bones of bis recovery.
Iir. Armstrong, of Atlanta, lectured to the
students this morning in the Phi Kappa hall.
Ills purpose was to Teeture with re mini to a
philosophic society which the students ant
organizing, lie lectured for about an hour
in the moat interesting manner, and was
about to take his seat when called on to con-
tinue. Some one asked him to lecture on
evolution, which he did, making Christianity
and evolution accord. Me Intends to give
a lecture on evolution next week, which will
lie largely attended. The trustees left Ath
ens to-day. ________
A TRAMP KILLED.
A Printer Meet* Ills Death While stenting
n Hide tn a Itox Car.
Special Telegram to the Macon Telegraph.
Miller, February 17.—At Cushingville
this morning, in the wreck of freight train
No. ltu from Macon to Savannah, waa found
the corpse of a white man apparently 27
yean of age. Ou bit person were found an
empty flask and a certificate of good stand'
ing in the Typographical Union of Savannah,
hearing the name of D. XI. Pyle. Another
man was in the same car but escaped without
injury.
A TEIlltlDLi: CYCLONE.
^jY^ou,h’rru":sr 1 TrS7
.*ifrs i it?» alliance with Ku.s-ia this plan
will l«* modified but the Gertiuui and Italian
li/rd, are relied upon to di*>-
»e of the French.
ITALY Rl'SUUCO PltEPAEAffONK.
The acceleration of Italian natal prepara
tion! is ilue to urgent representation from
Berlin. Kignor Crlspi» Italian prime min in
ter, has responded to Bismarck *rith miNur-
Ance that an Italian fleet will be ready for
offensive operations. The details supplied
Several Persons Killed nnd Much D(*»truc<
lion of Property.
Chiu ago, February 19.—A cyclone struck
Mount Vernon, III*., to-day. The town was
virtually destroyed, a number of lives lost
and many persons injured. Mount Vernon
is situated in the southern part of the State,
about sixty miles east of Xi. Louis, in an al
most direct line.
Chicago, February 19.—A dispatch from
Evansville, Ind., says: “Over one hundred
persons were killed in the cyclone at Mt.
Vernon, Ill*. Telegrams were received this
evening at Evansville from ML Vernon ask
ing for help. A train with two eugines was
I " ISNAH, Februaty lR.-The jury in the «"«• b » vin * *“. d
| , *“i'ljr murder m. . such other assistance as couiil be hastily
| 1 -kri r ca *e, after haring been ^thered.”
|4ift ® ul for thirty hours, returned a ver-j Later report*, apparently well founded,
Itki'K- H °’ e|ock to-night finding Cassidy place the number of killed at thirty-eight.
E"J' 1 r ' coram *nding Ufa imprisonment | Anrl.ut Ileconl* Destroyed.
1 TWt " P*mdty. Providence, R. !., February 18.—U is
is . ’ Mrn L'Cndation is based on the fact 1 quite certain that the records of the original
[^^’.•Hdene.w.snmin.yeirenm. ^ .l! ‘,t‘fire „? ^
I*,*' ,l »tened quietlrtothe reading of They were iu the business place uf Henry
■- " r,a sentence Ukea <*, ami were .wred IIn «wooden
I He w,, returned to hi. rail at ten They went back to thej rig »» !*"?
|^'^ hMgiTeB ° f * iw5en«b^WiA'u ,,!,>t ‘ OU “ ,r
I fit! |.reLL!.T. ri< ’ r 1 V,url xranii jnry made spe-
K".::,7i si‘"!' ls 11 l ‘*^7 -must Magistrate
toid,. <■ ' ! malpractice in office;
tn > 'D >„ I Henry Uvtherhorn fore*-
t'on.talile Julius Kauf.
gambling room. ,
.... ''"dul 1 is presented for two
■
" ;, *41* a,.o charged that lie eon*
... *^°®*table Hun 8( Wether-
I • llo: .ur. -t
I 01 * 1 * W .‘oortsblc.
* Ijrcwntr.cntehazge* that the
to the war office confirin.the rejwgti
tin-.- Jil tivitV in tli- Ita!i III iirsi invL-. tier.
man ofliei ri who were sent to usskt In tlie
|>rrparatiuns report favorably on the concen
tration of Italian naval forces at three cen
tre*—Messina, Taranto and XtaddulniuL On
the island of Mud.lolonn, which is oil' the
northeast const of Sardinia, u new s/senul
has been established. The heaviest Krujip
guns are being mounted st these point A Kx*
tensive works ure being constructed nt llsd-
iliiiono, which is designed to be the renriqf-
vous of the fleet.
RL’KSIAN T&ours.
The Russian military council terminated
Wednesday after a daily conference since
February S. The Czar on Thursday gave a
parting reception to the generals command,
Ing the divisions on the frontiers of.Galicii
and Hukovlna. General* Oourko, lhidit-kn
lleeentlna and Itott, with chiefs of artillery
and engineers, continued the councils until
hMlay, when the Czar gave them final audi
ence. The latest estimate by Berlin military
experts, based on the must trustworthy re
ports, places tlie number of Uussian troops
on the Prussian nnd Roumanian frontiers
at over MW.UtW. Along the Polish frontier,
notwithstanding the hoxrihle suftrings of
the men, who are crowded into ill-bailt nuts,
re-enforcements continue to arrive. It is
war without the excitement of actual con
flict
Xluch excited talk prevailed in the lobbies
of the Reichstag regarding tlie intention of
the government to propose a regency hill.
It received an effeeinal question by a private
official 'lerlsreturn that no regency is con
templated.
HEALTH OF THE EMPEROR.
Tlie splendid health of the Kwperor shelves
the question of regency for the time being.
Rumors which appear from time to time in
progressive papers to the effect that the
Kuiiieror is feeble and has continual fits of
crying over the Crown Prince, nre nonsense,
in the midst »t puldie reception* to officers
of the Russian Kainuga regiment yesterday,
the Kuqieror looked ss vigorous n» before
his illness of Inst year. Household officials
describe him as working with the activity of
ten years ago. He devote* fourteen hou
daily to his duties, beginning nt (>
o’clock in the morning nnd
retiring at It p. in. HU vslet awakes
at 7 u. ui., and he dri°ks a cup of tea b«-
fore arising. He breakfast* lightly at 8 :S0,
ami at U receives reports, first that of the
president of the police department, followed
f,v Hint of Herr Nilrnowoaji, chief of the air-
il cabinet, and than that of Gen. Albvdyil.
He lunches at 12:344- He holds audiences at
:t o’clock, when he goes out tor a drive. He
returns at 4 and grant* more interviews till
5, when he dine*. Then he resumes work
from lit* 7, *nd afterwards indulge- in so
cial converse till 10, when tea is served, af
ter which he retires to his study. Me .1.--
(TIC’s Georg* A»hley.
Washington, February 17.— Among the
night-seer* nt the capita! yesterday many
noticed a robust, -epically young Kngli-li-
man, who eworte.iT a pretty little blonde,
whose blushing i-lwoks and downcast blue
over, no less titan tiv* tell-tale newness of
her apparel, proclaimed her :t Iiriii-*. Tito
yuung people were nu.rrtcd last week, after
a courtship a.- romantic u< one often reads
of iu real life, nnd t.r. on their wedding-
tour. Tlie young mar's name is Ashley,
and four years ago he the favorite s«
of a wealthy KnglUh squire. lie was tm-
Itickr enough to incur his father's dis
pleasure by forming an attachment for a
voting lady in u i,eigli!«oing town wlm.
tliough beautlfol and refined, was ;>oor.
By tlie death of a near relative Ashley
inhcritixl a few thousand dollars, and see
ing little opportunity in Kngland of ever
being able m mnrrv and supiurt the Indy
of III- . hoivc. lie 11:i*T.■ hi- -wetli.-ait a t--:ir-
ful farewell, nml after an interchange of
vows to he forever faithful to her, sailed
for America to try hi- fortune. Arriving
in this country he sought ont * thriving
western city, nml by energy and persever
ance succeeded in Mtabltoning a flourish-
ing bnsineea on a modest scale,
l-'or many months he and his young
tltenrt eurrcs|ionded regularly, but one
day lie failed to receive the usual letter,
anil when, after a week or so, it arrived
without explanation of the delay, in a tit
of anger be penned a reply which he would
gladly have recalled when it was too late.
To Inis ho received no answer, and though
heaping reproaches upon him-elf for bis
hasty act, he never wrote again. But the
image of tin--weet little English girl was
graven on It is heart.
The steamer Oregon went down about
this time, and a small sailing vessel, the
Petrel, bound from New York to Liver
pool, picked up a small water-eosked mail
hag that litul evidently been floating about
for some day-. The master ojiened the bag
lint found little cl-e than a mass of pulp.
One letter only waa preserved, enclosed in
a stout envelope, winch bore a faintly leg
ible sup- reenption. The letter, with a
memorandum attached, wn- placed
by the captain in a small writing
case and in the course of a few
days entirely forgotten. Arriving at
Liverpool, the captain and crew
wen- re-hipped and the little ve-nel -ailed
for Cepe Town, Africa. While on shore,
after n long cruise, the master was taken
with fever and died. His effects we
to l.iveri-ioi and thence to hi* wife in New
Bedfotd.’lfeaa. Upon examining them the
widow found the letter which had been
pi. krdup by the lVlrel, and after carefully
sling it, -in- mailed it to its addre-
ieorg* Ashley, K-q., Fargo, Dakota.”
The mi—ivo was from Ashley’s little
incee, and when he read the loving word*
t ai’pttrent neg-
the fair En
within an hon
ge for which lie
Providence hy i
^snmiis r
the Mute
in 182:
Bo
of
ty oDni'nd strike hi
TUB c
Official bnltetins
vice*. They state
Priarr’s throsl
lion is worse,
longe-l insomnia,
hesd, his rough
combine to work
ho hare al good citizens.”
“But w!iat do yon-ay to hi-chargeti.”
“There i- absolutely nothing in them. I
-kno better refutation of tin- charges
than Blair*- speech itself. The -perch it
self show* op Mr. Blair as an egregreous
fool, ignorant of some cd the elementary
facts of the country’s history. For in-
tance, lie disclaim* all intention of attack
ing (.'nthnttr* snd pays a glowing tribute
John anti Cliarlc- Carroll :l*
repre-enting Catholic* wlto had
devoted their live* to civil right- and true
religion and charging Jesuits as being
something different and opposed to thc-c.
Why, everv school hoy conversant with
the facts of colonial history knows that
John Carroll, the first Catholic bishop of
Baltimore, and brother of the signer nt tlie
declaration of independence, was a fnll-
fledged Jesuit, and so were manv of the
early priests who labored under him. It
was this same Jesuit Bishop Carroll who
;ave Franklin personal letter* to the papal
ognte at the court of Louis XVL, through
whom he was introduced to the French
court and aid obtained for the struggling
colonic* assistance. So you see that tlie
Jesuits have done the state some service.
I make the assertion that nine Jesuits
were never together at one time in any
legislative hall in the country. No Jes-
uit ever wrote a letter against the bill, for
the reason that it is against their rule,pos-
tively, to interfere in outside bu-ine—,Jnot
even luting allowed to write a will. None
of them can publish anything until it hn*
been submitted and examined bv tlie su
periors. None of them would have dared
to have written the letter men
tioned bv Mr. Blair except
two or three provincial*. Aa to
his charge that the Jesuits are opposed to
l>opular education, nothing could be fur
ther from the truth. They are pre-emi
nently the great educators of modern
tims-t. They nre senttereil throughout the
entire world. Never did a Jesuit build
church but that in a few months a school
house was established next the sanctuary.
Yen will find this the case not only m
America, but alto in China, India, even
amid the icefields of Alaska. Another
refutation of Senator Blair'- slander* can
be found in the anatysis of the vote in the
Senate. Now, what doe* the vote -how?
Simply that from those Mate where there
are Jesuits established the votes of the
Senators were in favor of the bill; while
the Senators from the States in which
there wss uot a single Jesuit residing voted
ag*in-t the bill. For example—’.here are
about seventy Jesuits in Georgia yet both
the Menators from this State voted in favor
of the measure. There is not a single
Jesuit in Kentuckv, Tennessee, Nebraska
West Virginia and many other States, yet
the Senators voted against the bill. There
are plenty of Jesuit* backed by a large
Catholic population in Lonisisns, yet the
S-uators of that State voted yea. In most
of the other State* were no Jesuit* can be
found the Senators were divided. I will
willingly leave it to .Senators Brown and
Colquitt, one a nroralnent Baptist anil the
other a prominent Methodi-t, both repre-
senting a State where there are many
Jesuits and large Jesuit interests and I
will guarantee that neither .of them w
ever approached directly or indirectly by
sny Jesuit or the friend of Jesn'
\ te a gain-1 the hill. Again,
look nt th-- unwarranted attack Illair
in.iki - on ti.e pre—, claiming that it w
controlled hy “Ji-uitry.” This charge
too silly, as yon know, to dt tunnd nn a
-H. r. Take the TkusUt’U, for instant
which lias --l aldy combatted the Bit
hill; I - . | j ** tit it y •• i at- the only mar
OI-L-I-- t- -i -till 111 5 r k’
versed with a Jesuit, ami --<11 X. w
the-, r,.u-r«:- • •itMuut lO.'.do hr J,-
don all hope of escape. He ess ph
the large cage where more than al
pairs of eyes wole upon all itis movements,
where the best steel and hurnened iron
confined him, nnd where he was beyond
tin* rciteh of the looks; but it seems that
the hope has never died witfiin him.
A day or-o ago Mi, J. F. Ktroherg was
In the jail repairing some water pipes.
Watching hi- opportunity Tojn sitpjieil
Ur. Stroberg a letter or a note, i:i which
lie offered him §500 cash if he would
furnish him a chisel nnd saw. lie said in
hi- letter that Mr. Mtroberg could tie then*
on tlie end of n stick and thrust them
thi-.n^i. tlie w ilnh.w (nr him. Mr. Mlro-
berg paid no attention to the lint
letter, and Tom gave; _ him
the second letter, which was in effect that
which was in the first. Thu letters were
turned over to Jailer Birdsong, who gave
them to Judge Gnstin.
Thursday n letter for Tom was received
at the jail and was opened according to
it w.t- .1 !.-u. 1 dated at Savan-
tah, saving that he would never see
outlier Sunday, to make his pence with
God, and that lie would he hanged hy a
mob on Friday night. The jailer hesi
tated a long time before giving the letter
Tom. He knew it meant noth
ing except the writing of some crank,
but it was Tom’s letter, and he finally al
lowed him to have it. Tom rend il and
n-kvd Mr. Stroberg to give it to Captain
Rntiierfonl, his counsel, which was done.
Tiiis letter was received after the two notes
offering$900 for the tools were written.
Sheriff Wescott and Jailer Birdsong did
not feel in lie least utiea-v as to the threat
in the Savannah letter.
Tin; Gixmr.iA soltiikkn.
Tlie l're-lil-Ill’s Itcturn to Mueon-Mortr
Iron Coming—Rolling Stork, Ktc.
I’n-ident Sparks returns to the city
from New York very much gratified at the
result of tlie ^rip, having placed nil tlie
bonds of the Georgia Southern anil 1-Toridn
railroad that there were to place. He
found many warm friends of the road in
the North, all of them recognizing the fact
that, by the completSoit of tlie road, it will
form the great direct line from the extreme
North to the extreme Mouth.
Mr. Mparks came home to And that the
construction force has been quite busy, and
is pu-hing the road to completion.
There is now due in Brunswick 1,100
tons of iron for the road,and on its arrival^
which will be in n few days, will be brought
direct to Macon. Then-is nit-- due In tlie
month- of April and May, 3,000 tuns.
This will build the road to two miles be
yond the town of Cordele, ur sixty-six
miles.
A* to rolling stock, there L> now coming
forty flat care, forty box cur-, two passen
ger conchcn and one combination haggagu
and express car. These are expected early
anil may be here at anv day.
The track is now laid f-r a distance of
twenty-one miles.
It is the intention of Prenidem spark*
to put en a regular schedule by Use fir-t of
Mav, or earlier if possible. ,.,'j
l T he road is being Imilt a- rmpldlr 1—
possible, bul
the thirty-thin!
poet. This delay
heavy work, the 1
..11 the line. It r
to cut tin- igh it,
Li mar th.-
Betw. . M .
be located in n
•rat-class iawml
largely to the
id tii
Fluted
work
t!.i, 1
| the U.U..
- 1 fl- y v. g-
,:ag the heart.
