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o 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.