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TIIE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION’. ATLANT A. GA., TUESDAY MARCH 30 1838
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ATLANTA, GA., TOIHDAY, MARCH W. UR.
A few days tgo no replied to an ill tam
pered and slmsivo letter on Georgia former*,
- written bp L. W. J,, an Ohio excursionist.
In our reply wo Intimated that L. W. J. wna
mad became tbe democrats hod turned him
out of a At government pooition. We now
learn that he waa a republican revenue ofll
dal for fourteen year*, and kept his month
to the pnblic teat so long that when a deni'
ocrat jostled him away be conld not fit bia
month to anything else. We are afraid that
L. W. J. Is a hard css*.
Sir. Davis and the Hill Statue.
Tbe following correspondence will bo read
with pieman by onr people.
Atlanta, fls.. March 19. ISM.—Mr.
vis, Beauvoir, Miss.—Dear Bln Learning ItuU you
are tt u early dm to deliver an address at Mont
gomery, Ala., Iba Pen 1I1II moowaant commute
hare Instructed as to Invite you to eomo to At
lanta tad address Iba people of Ueorgia on lha oc
casion of unveiling the slatne or the late Rename
Jl 11.11I1L Wc presume, in this request, somo-
whst upon year well known Ion and admiration
of Georgia's great soa. You need no assurance
Ural It would, abovs all things, dsllgbt Mi*. Illll,
or that the people of this oily and of Ibe whole
elate would rejoice In lha opportunity of estoud-
tag to you a cordial welcome No data Is Axed foe
tbe ceremonies, and any day that might suit yon
would be entirely eon rsalent to aa Yours very
respectfully, R. 0. SfAintiso,
chairman.
Htuvvoix, Miss., aith March, ISM.-*. O. found
ing, Fsqr.-Dotr Sir: I have rewired your letter of
the 19lh Inst, and gratefully acknowledge tbe kind
terms In which yon Invite mefoattend atthaun-
veiling of the statue of tholal.Rpnator Illll. Yon
are quite right In attributing tom. both lore and
admiration for Oeosgta's great son,who, rising with
pressure, shone bright.* when weaker natures
were overwhelmed with despair. If It bo practi
cable, I will be present at the unveiling of the
statue. More than tbla 1 cannot say.
Please present my thanks lo your assoelafss on
the monument committee, and believe me raspeet-
fUllyasd faithfully yours, JsrrsssoN Davis.
The clnee personal friendship thpt existed
between Ur. Davit and Mr. Hill makes the
reqnest of the committee especially appro
priate and the consent of Mr. Davis especial
ly gratifying. The superb eloquence, the
unflagging energy and tbe nnqnalllng devo
tion with which Mr. Hill supported and de
fended in the confederate senate the admin
istration of Mr. Davis; the nobility of tool
with which he “rage under pressure and
shone hsightcet when weaker naturae were
overwhelmed with despair;” the lion heart
ed courage with which be stood upright amid
the clouds of a foiling cans*, bia white foee
gleaming, amid the darkening storm and his
dear voice ringing above the din of battle-
three are known of all men. flat beyond
this there waa a loving friendship between
Mr. Hill and Mr. Davit that, kindled in the
days that tried men's aonle, strengthened as
the struggle deepened, survived defeat and
waa inteirupted only when the yonnger
rean, .till a hero and danntlrea in tb* slow
and terrible approach ot death, went down
to his grave. -It i* fit, therefore, that Mr.
Devi, should come and sit in the shadow of
shl. gtatne of hi. friend when It dull be un
veiled to tbe people that lovee them both,
and that did all that a people conld do for
the cause in which they longht together.
It la needlrea to say that a vast crowd of
Georgians will welcome Mr. Davis. The
limit of that crowd will he ret by the ca
pacity of the trains that run iolo the city.
It Is probable that the date will ha ret for
the 2gth, as he will be In Montgomery ou
the SCth. In a private letter to Mr. Ben
1 Ilill, Jr., Mr. Davie ilioco/Mes tbe proposed
visit more fully, and it Is deemed beat to
make the date ao that he can como from
Montgomery to Atlanta. Mr. Davis states
that he cannot make on address, si his
strength will not permit. His wishes will
be consulted in this regard, and only a few
words need be expected from him. It Is
enough that ho la coming.
Landlordism in This Country,
If Mr. Gladstone succeeds in driving the
landlords oat of Ireland, will they not seek
large holdings in this conn try? Ono man
at least has already done so. Mr. William
Brolly, living in London, owns 00,000 acres
of farming lands in Illinois and 100,000
ncres in Kannoa and Nebraska. There lands
arc rented lo tenants nt about one dollar on
acre under very severe conditions. He pays
no taxes in tbo three states, and la in all
other respects a lino example of tho alien
landlord that lms been the came of Ireland
over two centuries. There is scarcely any
danger that landlordism will become a great
evil in this country; the drift seems tube
tbe other way; hut stills hundred Bcuilya
would boa very undesirable clement. Alien
landlords arc not desirable anywhere, and it
msiy be well to nip Iho evil in the irad by
n vigorous expression of public sentfmenton
Hie subject. When America becomes tbe
home of alien landlords and tenant farmers,
it will lie a very different America than we
cpjoy Jtp&v*
come: 11 '
The Business Depression.
Commissioner Wright, of the bureau of
labor, baa submitted hia first report to Heo-
retsry Lamar. It contains many interest
ing facts, as well os* few theories in rela
tion to tbe prevailing depression in trade
and its cure.
Mr. Wright says that of Ac lories, mince,
etc., existing in tbe country, aliont 5 per
cent were idle daring 1885, and that about
5 per cent more were Idle apart of the year.
In round numbers, 1,000,000 employes were
thrown ont of employment, which means a
lore to tbe consumptive power of the coun
try of over f3({D,0Qi),00O a year. And yet
the volume of butlotat during the post year
was fairly satisfactory.
Tile mechanical industries of the United
Stales are carried on by steam ohd water
power, representing, in round numbers,
3,400,000 bone-power, each horac-powcr
equaling the muscular labor of six men. To
do tbe work accomplished by power and
power machinery in the mechanical indtu-
tries, would require men nprerenting a pop
ulation of 173,500,000 in addition to tho
present population of the country of 65,-
000,000. The present cost of operating tho
railroads with stenm power, in ronnd nnra-
ben, is (503,000,000 a year; hot to cany on
the tame amount of work with men and
banes, would cost the country (11,308,500,-
000. These illnatrations show the straits to
which tbo country would bo brought if it
undertook to perform its work la the old
way. Tho apparent evils resulting from
tbe Introduction of msebinery, to a large
extent, have been oflhet by advantages
gained.
The commissioner la opposed to tbe solici
tation of foreign labor, lie point* oat the
evil effects that have followed the employ
ment of Hungarians la mining districts,
the padrone system in some localities, and
other instancre of tho inopportune importa
tion of foreign labor. Considering suggest
ed remedies for depressions the commissioner
myetbsta halt abould be m.nlc in freely
granting landa to corporations. When im
migration becomes a subject of inducement
of contract for tho purpose of displacing a
higher grade of labor, tho antborityof law
should be railed in to prevont the continu
ance of tho wrong. The effect that tho en
actment of laws to atop speculation would
have, If they could he specifically applied,
would be for the public good. Deform In
tbe methods of distributing supplies would
bring great relief to consumers. Co-opera
tion in its distributive form is suggested ns a
remedy; but cooperative distribution is
only a half measure. There is no oontsst
between labor and capital, nor between the
laborer and capitalist as such; but there Is a
contest between the hitter aa to lha profit*
of capital and wage* of labor, or, in simple
teims, as to the profits each shall receive for
bis respective Investment, and this contest
will continue w tongas the purely wage
system lexis. It Is absurd to say that the
interests of capital and labor are identical.
They are no more Identical than the inter-
ate of the buyer and seller. They are,
however reciprocal,and the intelligent com
prehension of this reciprocal element can
only he brought into tho fullest play by the
most complete organisation, so that each
party shall feel that he is an integral part
of th* whole working establishment.
Industries Organising.
The strike* and boycott* that have been
carried,on during|Us* post, several months
under the auspices of the Knight* of Labor
have assumed » serious phase in New Eng
land, where measures have been, or are about
the south prospered, notwithstanding the
law regulating the planting ot cotton; not
withstanding the fact that a majority ol the
ogrienltorist* of the south were In the srmy;
and notwithstanding the tyrannical and ut
terly nnrepnblican impressment laws passed
by the confederate eon gross. Why was this?
The answer is plain. The formers were com
pelled to rely on their own resources.
Tho whole people were compelled to
rely on tlielr own resources. Circum
stances made a market for everything
tbe fanner had to sell. The prodace of the
Arm wa* in demand. The farmer'* boy
brand a market for bis rabbit akin* and hi*
mink skh)f. Everything wM utilised.
Every village, every town, every city wm a
manufacturing center; and In thousands of
instances the most insignificant country
neighborhood wm tbe site of one or more
■mall indnstriea.
Everybody wm prosperous. The soldiers
in the field were fed, their families at home
were token care of, and as tbe correspondent
of the Greenes boro Herald says, "there wm
tbe greatest abundance." Why waa this?
The answer is plain. The people of the
south were compelled to depend on their own
resources. To supply their own needs they
were compelled to establish industries to
supply their wants. The situation amount
ed to practical protection. Tho people were
compelled to depend on themselves, and
while there wm competition, it wm home disvnu onc criticism, bat we do not hesitate
M£2222d«safe
> some extent the
troet’a, in it* hist
sable list of anti-
Diver, Itrocton,
ton, Oobofii and
to he, t
remits
nnmbei
boycott
Lynn,
other p,
Thro
ired, m
the Kn
lnteipo
parties
colt.
It it also raid that the manufoctnrlng In
dustries ore combining to protect themselves.
They have resolved to stand by each other,
and when one ol their number to boycotted,
to dose all the works onUl th* boycott i* re
moved.
A Leaf From the Post.
A correspondent of tba Greenes boro Her
ald, who signs himself “Observer,”hu been
Ined, ore organ-
interfering with
hr the purpose of
innocent third
tctima ol • boy-
writing
paper,
that is
about t
have 1
both ci
our ol
aged d
cotton
providi
a tithe
tb* coc
re letters to that
raph lo his last
Ho is talking
irt* our farmers
the war to nuke
rs: “1X> somo of
ber how we mao-
itha acreage of
and we not only
but w* famished
sly starved. Oa
greatest ahaod-
Tho older readers of The OoNNTiTtmox
will verily IhisstatemenL But it is hardly
strong enough. Th* forming interests of
llvcfyifcriofi 'but U demonstrated the foot
that when the formers and tbs people have'
homo markets, they prosperin tbe very teeth
of War and pillage.
Why the Times are Hard.
Mr. Carroll D. Wright, chief of the no
tions] labor bureau, is not content with tbe
statement that lost year 1,000,000 men were
idle—that earnings to the amount of (500,-
000,000 were thereby lost He goes on to
show what, in his opinion, led to the depres
sion tbst throw such an army of men into
idleness.
Tbe cessation of railroad building is first
on his list. Construction fell firom 11,510
miles in 1883 to sbont 5,000 mile* in 1885.
At the same time there wm ■ very consider
able shrinkage in railroad operation. The
entire transportation interest was decreased
until it severely affected many branches of
lndnstry.
Immigration wm also largely reduced. In
1882 tlie arrivals numbered 730,340; but
year only 332,301 immigrants reached our
shores—s loss of over fifty per cent. We
loet the labor of s vast number of people,
and we also loet the business connected with
them; for immigrant*, like other people, have
to be clothed, housed and fed.
The follnre of the winter wheat crop of
1885, and a short corn crop In 1883, doubt
less had much to do with the shrinksge in
exports. We are exportiog Iras, and uny
loss in that direction la a direct reduction ol
our annual revenue as a people.
Tobacco Iteforni In Chicago.
In ono of his recent sermons in Chicago,
Iter. Bam Junes announced, amhl thunders
of applause, that Sam Small hod thrown a
stack of cigaretto packages In the fire and
had quit tobacco. Mr. Jones explained that
Mr. Small had quit tobacco not became he
believed its use to be sinful, but bocauso the
attacks made on him in regard to the habit
were calculated to make him resentful, and
rather than be resentful, be hod concluded
to qnlt tbe use of tobacco forever.
Mr. Jones went on tossy tbst be believed
Mr. Moody told the biggest troth of his life
when he said ■ man who used tobacco could
be a Christian, but he would be a nasty
Christian. And then there is this suggestivo
appendix to the account: “After tbo con-'
gregation wm dismissed, Dr. Scudder did a
little missionary work with Brother Jones
himself, trying to induce him to give np the
tobacco habit, bat wm apparently unsuc
cessful."
All this gocs to show that Chicago is tb*
hot-bed of tobacco reformers who are ready
to follow a man Into the pulpit to accom
plish their purpose. Brother Jodm once
told an inquisitive reformer that he cheered
tobacco in order to get the (nice oat of it,
but it is evident that inch an answer will
not satisfy the Chicago reformers. Sam
Small lull already succumbed to tbo pres
sure, and no donbt 8am Jonea wilt follow
suit before tho reformers are dons with him.
The Morrison Dill.
Onr Washington correspondent announce*
that Mr. Kartdall and those democrats who
agree with him have declined to support the
Morrison bill. This is natural and to lie
expected. Hr. Morrison knew it before be
had pat pen to paper (along with Moore, th*
“ranee Merchant") to draft the bill, and it
wm with this knowledge that he and his
Aee-trade colleagues concluded to cripple
Mr. Randall by scattering the appropriation
bill* and changing the rales.
The western free-traders were assisted in
this business by the ringstera and jobbers ot
both parties, and by K iihifilttf 'Atncniocrat*
who conld not be made to believe that the
intention* oi the free-traders were anything
but what they were represented to be. In
other words, a great many honest and well-
meaning dcmocraU believe that the change of
mice would fiadlitato basinets and they re
fused to agree with those who warned them
that the whole bostons had for its purpose
the exaltation of a parcel of free-traders and
whisky ring attorneys, and the hnmlliation
oi one of the most patriotic democrat* to be
found in this country—a man who stood be
tween tbe sonth and the bitter prejudicn of
s republican boose whose majority was as
savage M a mob. Certainly no southern
democrat would deliberately seek to humil
iate Mr. Randall, who, for long, weary
months interposed hb tirclcn energy and hi*
mstchlisa. parliamentary (kill between a
bowling republican majority, led by Thad-
deoa Stevens and others ot that kidney, and
the defenseless aonth.
Tb* rales have been changed, and there is
aavanch delay in legislation as ever; a good
deal of Mr. Randall's power In committee
has been token ftom him, hat he still re
mains the most prominent democrat in the
house—the most prominent by reason of hb
ability and his experience. Th* western
free-traders have acromplbhed their par-
poscs thus lor. They have carried all their
poinb; and now Mr. Morrison steps forward
with one of hb celebrated bills for revising
the tariff. He seems to b« a* uneasy aboat it
ns a bantam hen with one chicken. He has
had consultations and conference*, and has
done a good deal of ftrmbling first and bat
For instance, he has struck at the sugar and
rive interests of th* sooth, and, tn seder to
Iim concluded to make still another strike at
a large and growing southern interest by ad
mitting iron ore free of duty.
Tb* simplest minded person in th* world
need not be toid.that stteb a bill M Mr. Mor
rison hM introduced b not, in any sense of
the word, real tariff revision. There b no
attempt in It to adjust difference* or to
equalize and systematise the tariff, or to les
sen ib real hardens. It b simply s free-
trade measure, pare and simple, framed, not
for the purpose of benefiting the country,
but for the purpose of forwarding the politi
cal ambition of Mr. Morrison.
A Cowboy Evangelist,
There are evangelists and evangelists.
Borne ore gifted men, and nro undoubtedly
called to their work. Bat to all ago* of the
world there have been impostors and fiuat-
ics, and modern evangelism cannot escape
these disagreeable nuisances.
Recently we have seen inthb country •
class of traveling religionists resembling, in
many respects, the howling dervishes of
India. Borne of these men sre doubtless
sincere, bat their methods shock and disgust
tbe majority of Christian people.
Tho moving cense of these reflections, it
most be admitted, b one Lemposas Jake,
otherwise known M tho cowboy evsngelbt
of New Mexico. Wo sre witling to make
large allowances, and as a rale, the simple
statement that a man b preaching ibegorpel
much for ns. In other words, we draw the
line, big and black, a sort of barbed wire
lence Mit were, between the Christian com
munity and LampasM Jake. This new phe
nomenon preaches in frontier saloons. He
describes hb own remarkable conversion,
sod then proceeds to pnt in hb work on tbe
•toners. A letter from New Mexico says:
"Jako preaches nothing bnt repentanoe and sal
vation. IfollTcaofrtbocoudtrj.hciajs. Uetskes
np no collections and he asks low favors. He goes
well armed and never lays aside his weapons, even
when preaching. lie has lights frequentlr. sad be
rometimes brings men to repentonco by mala
strength. Wherever he finds three or four cowboys,
gamblers, rustlers or adventurers, ho begins his
unleei
"doing Into one of the hardest of tho numerous
herd islooni In this place, the other night, Jake
mounted a chair and commanded sllenoe. The
games and drinking esme to an end, and about
twenty men, young and old, looked up. One fellow
undertook to edge out, but Joke stopped him.
" 'No, you don 't, mister,' be said, pointing his
finger at him. ‘No, you don’t When you get to
hell you’ll have chances enough to comes sneak
on somebody, hut you don't do It hero.' Then,
Urals burning himself up, he yelled Is a voice that
made things creak:
‘"If oar many of yoa's ready todla now with your
boots on? Wherc’d you be to breakfast? Host
any of you drunken, swearing, fighting, blupheo-
lag,rambling, thieving, tln.horn, collln-palnt ex
terminating galoots look at me ugly, becauso I
know ye. I've been through the drive. You're all
in your sins. You know a fat, well-fed, well-eared
for, thoroughly branded steer when you soo onc,
and you can tell whose It Is end where It belongs.
Thtru'semsnthstownalt. Therols aplecefortt
logo. There's a law to protect it. But tho maver
ick- who's Is that? You're all mavericks and
wane. The maverick hae no brand on him. He
goes hollering shunt until somebody takes him in
and clasps tho branding Iron on him. Bet you
whelps, you'vo got the devll'e brand on you.
You vc got his lariat sbont you. He leu you have
rope now, but he'll haul you In when he wanU
firewood.’"
There is a column more of this stuff, bnt
this sample will da. Possibly it will be said
that-Lanipasns Jake*knows how to reach tho
cowboys, And tbst his methods suit his au
dience. If this style of defense justifies
Lampasas Jake, it most also be urged in be
half of the Salvation Army and the howling
dervish eccentricities. But, in point offset,
this blixxsidy exhorter of the southwest is
beyond the limits of reosonanle apology and
defense. _
Farmers and Free Trade.
The Albany News and Advertiser ade
quately describes tbe stress of southern
farmer*. It aays the former* became in
volved in debt after the war, and were thus
dependent on merchants and warehousemen.
“The reasons for this," any* tbe New* and
Advertiser, “are manifest. Cotton wm
their only money crop. There wm and
there is no home market for other products.
The all-cotton plan became n system, and
cotton, in a few years, fell so in price as to
b« nnremnnerative.”
This, assuredly, is a part of the problem
which the southern former has to flue; and,
with Statesman Morrison and other western
statesmen tinkering at the tariff, year after
year, they have not much to hope for. It ia
tree that protection hM not, as yet, given the
flumeisofthe aonth heme market*; bnt it
hM given them a teats of what might be.
Atlanta, for instance, with it* thousand and
one small indnstriea, furnishes the neighbor
ing farmers with a reasonably good home
market, and the result is that we find them
bringing to draesed poultry with their cot
ton, to say nothing of other products that
find a ready and a profitable sale here.
The News and Advertiser truthfully says
that the highest protective tariff, “with all
its blearing*,” has thus for failed to build up
home market* for the southern former. This
is tree, bnt ths protective tariff hM nop
foiled to build np home 1 ' market* for tlie
northern and western formers, and we may
reasonably expect it to do the same for the
aonth. Wo may be very sure that the in
dustries of the south cannot bo built up
without protection, and if they are not built
np, the southern farmer will be no bettor off
fifty yean bonce than bo is today. This la
th* outlook—nay, it ia a certainty. We have
no donbt that many farmers havo been
taught to believe that free trade ia a Quo
thing; and it is a fine thing in theory; but
ia poisonous to an undeveloped country.
England, with all her industries developed,
and over-developed, could very well afford
to try tbo free trade experiment, but it is to
bo noted that free trade in that country wm
advocated by the manufocturere and bitterly
oppoeed by the agricultural cleeeee. That
the egricultural classes knew what wm best
for them in this business has been amply
shown by results.
Tba farmers of th* aonth are poor and
cramped, bnt they are rich by comparison
with the fuming classes in England. Before
we try any new experiments let ns wait a
little. Let ns see what the outcome will be.
We know very well that free trade will pot
on end to tbe growth of Industrie*, and we
know, moreover, that without the growth of
induatriea the market of the farmer will be
M barren m it hM always been.
Could Hardly B*vr Good Health Without tt.
The following letter from Tyre, ao., shows the
esteem lo which Tat Cosvrm-nox Is held la that
■own. Hr. C. H. Hammond, of Tyre, Gs, writes:
"Til COXITITVTIOX Is the only paper that comet
to this office, with the exception of a little Caasp-
helUte paper- I do not want yon to Infer tom
' * : hat
nc« loitTnU o* ue bouid, ua, in oracr w think conld hiMly bin nod hsmith
please th*.Irritable Mr. Abraham Hi wilt, ■«« tuout Tits CoasTrrrti ox/
NEWS BY WIRE.
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK ALL
OVER THE COUNTRY.
Mormon Ututonottoo-Aa aidsnrosV Trouble#-*
Deceiver Smoted-SUlkios Hlaoro-Osoliol
Toolsbioent-Tha Zoo Gorge-* Senator
Appointed—So Attempt to Lynch
Omaha, Neb, March 83,—Ed. Johnson, the
desportdo who killed his employer on Bator-
day, entrenched himself to a barn near Oak
land, where he resisted all attempts to captors
him, and killed two men and wounded several
others. The barn was set on fire last evening.
Fire was opened on Johnson and he was killed,
falling in the flames. Whcn.tho firs had sub
sided, tbe body wss found riddled wltb
bullets.
For thirty-six hours tho daring desperado,
tbe murderer of H. C. Stedmao, Peter John-
son sad Edgar Everett, the man who defended
Ua life with the deaperetion of a fiend, held a
crowd of pursuers, at times numbering 300
men, at bay. He could not be taken alive.
He knew that surrender meant certain death
at tbe bands of tbe enraged citizens. The
fight be made wss a remarkable one. Amply
supplied with ammunition and weapons, he
defied every assault made to capture him In
his flail fortress. Last night It was decided
to fire tbe barn and force him either to sur
renderor suffer cremation. Tho shed tbst
was attached to the stable wm Ignited. The
murderer icelng the barn wsson fire, sent into
tbe crowd about twenty shots. Tbe fire was
opened on him with Winchester rifles from all
sides, and it is supposed he was killed before
he could get,oyt, After tbe firshAd-subjidcd.i
tho remains were found to a large pile of oats,
which protected him a great deal. Both the
arms were burned off and part of both legs;
part of his head wu shot off, and many bullet
holes were found to bis body.
MOBHOir MiaStOlCAMES.
Dcckebtown, N. J„ March 38.—Thirty five
yean ago two Mormon missionaries labored In
dustriously to the Isolated hamlets of Sussex
county, and'made many converts to their
doctrine. After a year or so spent In proeelyt-
tog they were recalled, and with a colony of
their convert* went west to Joiu the gnat body
of the Mormon church In Its emigration to
Utah. Member* of some of the leading fami
lies in tbe county were la the colony, and
some of them became leader* In the church. A
number of families, that had embraced the
faith remained In Busses county. Some of
them to a few years renounced It, but others
remained steadfast to their heller.
The last survivor of these Sussex county
Mormons who did not go to Utah wss
Thomas Perry, whs died a few days ago, ono
of the wealthiest farmers in Montague town
ship. He believed In all tho practices of the
saints, bnt was a much respected citizen. Ou
tho day ho died Elder Decker, of the Mormon
church at Salt lake City, and one of tho Sus
sex county emigrants, returned to his old
home to that county. It la an open secret
that he came east to lire In seclusion among
the scenes of hi* yonth, and to escape the
procesecs of law to which the faithful In Utah
an now being compelled to submit, charged
with nnlawfiil cohabitation. Elder Decker
left fourwlvcs to Utah.
an aldebman’s tbocm.es.
NewYobk, March 23.—Alderman Jaehno
was brought Into the court of general sessions
this morning. The grand jury handed in an
indictment against him, and he eras placed at
the bar, and after tho charge against him wss
stated, he wu formally asked If wu guilty or
Illy. He promptly snswed "not guilty”
his counsel could stop him. - At the re-
3 nest of counsel for time to examine tho la-
Ictment, ho wss given until -Wednesday
morning to enter bit plot. His bail was fixed
nt (35,000. The punishment under the first
count is Imprisonment for ten years, in ths
state prison, sod (6,(100 flue, and. under the
second count he may be imprisoned for throe
yean In the penitentiary and fined (5,000/
a Dxczrrxa arrested.
CrnclNNATT, O., March 33.—Sixteen years
ago, J. B. Cummings, a railroad civil engineer,
married Mary Wcese, of Middleport, O. His
wife is now at bis home to Chelaoa, Mass. Os
the 8th of March Cummings left Middleport
with hia slster-ln law, Alice Weeae, now Si
years old, ostensibly to send her to his home in
Chelres, Mass., while he made a trip to the far
writ. Cummings hM been arrested on a tola-
gram from Hr. Weese, of Middleport. They
were found at tho Geneva hotel, where they
had been living M man and wife under the
name of J. Boardmsn and wife. The high so
cial position of the parties makes the affair no
table.
STMKINO MINXES.
Pimnpxq, March 33.—A general strike of
tho miners of the fourth district ml tnsngnra-
ted this merafa(. th* operative* having re
fused to grant the 11 cent* advance demanded.
All the mines 1a tho region are now Idle.
Rome of the operators offend an increase of
five cento per too, which was not accented.
A meeting of the. strikers wm held
to the open house at Dabols, Pa, today to
consider the operators’ proposition to resume
at five per cent advance. Over 800 delegate*,
representing 4,000 miner*, were present, and
after thoroughly filscnastog the question, the
proposition wss rejected by an almost unan
imous vote.
CAMTAL PUNISHMENT.
Buffalo, March 23.—Senator McMillan, of
this district, has Introduced in the legislature
a bill which provide* for the appointment of a
commission to investigate and report the most
humane method of Inflicting capital punish
ment. The bill Is of importance to all Inter*
ested to the advancement of bnmanlty, and It
Is probably the resale mainly of the efforts of
Dr. A. I*. Bonthwick, of this city,who has been
for many years anxious to have the method of
capital punishment changed, and Assistant
District Attorney Qntoby. They look upon
banging ss a relic of barbarism. Solenco Is so
for advanced that other and better means can
easily he devised.
Dr. Southwlck proposes to execute criminals
by means of electricity, by which death would
M Instantaneous*. The method which he pro*
pored Isvery slmpla. His idea la' to' use an
ordinary chair. In this city a wire conld bo
run from the electric light works to the jail.
The man would alt tn the chair with hi* head
resting against its back. Th* wire entering
an insulated substance, such ss rubber or glass,
would constitute the poritiv* pels- By placing
the man's feet upon a metalle plate a connec
tion would be formed with th* pole*. Atasignal
a switch to another room conld be tamed. The
current would enter at th* base of the brain,
th* center of the nervous system, and pass
through the man. The heart would stop heat,
tog, and a complete paralysis would ansae.
THE ICE OOEGH.
Yankton, Dak., March S3.—'The Ice gorge
In tbe Mission river, nenrlElkTFoint, still con
tinue* solid, and the ientlre district between
Sioux City and Elk Point la under water. AU
the Chlergo, Milwaukee SDd 8t. Pant tracks
sre submerged, In many places the road-bed is
entirely washed away. The trains east of
Elk point have been abandoned. The
raUroed bridge screes Sioux river
hu been carried away. The people of Jeffar-
aon are moving to the hills, and ths water ia
rapidly rising. The railroad hM a large fores
of bridge builders and track layers waiting for
the floods to subside, so that tbe track ean be
repaired, hut it Is not thought that the trains
will he ran over the track for several days af
ar the gorge breaks sway No loss of lifo Is re
sected, bat great damage to the live stock has
been done.
A SENA Ton APPOINTED.
Sacbamxxto, Cal., March 2.1.—Governor
Stcneman appointed George Hex tat to be
United States senator, vice John F. Miller,
deceased.
AN ATTEMPT TO LYNCH.
Loxo Pine; Neb., March 24.—A desperate
attempt wss made yesterday to lyaris an un
known tramp, who had committed a brutal
assault upon the eight year old daughter of
John Wilkins, of this place. The whole town
turned ear, end captured him about two miles
out to th* country. Ills preliminary sxamln-
alien occurred ia the afternoon. Th* girl
) Maturely identified him M her assailant.
. 'ohn Wilkins, her father, attempted to shoot
him in th* court room, which wm crowded
Vkh eight hundred people. He wss restrained
by the constable. Tbe tramp was remanded
firtrlal, and a special posse orthlrtymen were
sworn to to protect him daring his transit to
> tbe county jail. The Infuriated crowd follow
ed the officers to the depot, where a passenger
train wu walttog.Bepeatsd attempts ware made
to recur* the rapist. On the platform lariats
were thrown over the heads of thedepdtlea to
the hope* of encircling tbe man and choking
him then and there. He wss safely landed on
the train, when fifty men jumped on board,
but were driven off at the pelut ot the depu
ties revolver*. After* hard fight, tb*(rain
started out, and the prisoner wm taken to tba
county jail at Ainsworth.
A tobxado.
Findlay, 0., March 24.—A tornado passed
over Bellemore, a small town northwefit of
this city, in Pntnam county, Sunday, Tbo
heavens suddenly became dark, and there
came»terrific storm cloud, ftranel shaped,
tearing up tho trees by the roots, blowing
down small buildings, and destroying every
thing in its path. A protracted meeting wm
being held at the Methodist church, when the
storm came on. Tbe steeple was blown down
and the roof carried off. Tbe congregation
waspenlc stricken, but fortunately no onc wm
killed, though many received brotses and cute
which au result fatally. The damage done
by the cyclone will amount to many thou
sand dollars.
' ASKED TO StTKKENDEB.
Wilson, Aris.,M*rch 37.—General Crook,ac
companied by bis personal staff, Lieutenant Mao's
commend sad Apache scouts, today met (Jeroni
mo end all Chlricahiias, twenty-five miles south
west of Fan Bernardino, Sonora, Mexico. Crook
would have no argument w tb Oeronlmo, but told
him he must decide at once on an unconditional
,,t iMyo Li a. nr. maskable case.
Si KEbEsviLijE.O,: March '29.—TSpeolaLJ—
One of tbe most retuatkable cases oftotolli-
f ltnt blindness on record exists to this county
n tbe person of a man uamod Jacob Twaddle.
He is sixty years old and notwithstanding the
fact he hu Men blind from his birth bs issble
to distinguish rtsdily by the sense of touch
the color of* horse, make rails, build fences,
e mb, rake and bind as well as tbe best of his
ends after ■ cradle an! to attend and manage
without assistance everything necessary to be
dene on his farm, and bo goes to 8altoevjlte,
eight milts from bis resfduuce, to market often
nrattrsdedby anyone: knows tbw locution of
every farm fur miles from bis house;
tnd is able to readily point out theoamo while
resting by; recognises everybody ho is so-
? insisted with, by tbe senses of touch an 1 bour
ns; bss been known to recognlso * stranger
whom he had not met to ten years by the
tense of toneh alone. In 1842 he drove a four-
horse team from here to Twaddle’s horse milt
in Boss township, n distance of twenty-flvo
miles and ean now point tbo location of every
grave to the old stone church cemetery to Fox
township, Carroll county, and telljwhoso dost
it contains. He is one of s family of seven,
all born blind.
MBS. WATSON’S VtnOROtlS DREAM.
Lansisd, Mich., March 28.—A quoer expe
rience occurred to su estimable couple at AI-
mens. Mrs. John Watson dreamed that her
husband's mules were on the rampage to the
stable. Mr*. Watkins dreamed that she re
paired to ths bsrn, and, finding the mules
kicking high, she played the same sort of
racket. The kicking oa the part of Mrs. Wat
kins was by no means visionary, and when
Mr. Watkins succeeded to awakening her aho
realized that she bad broken one of his riba,
several bones to her husband's foot and that
she had Inflicted serious Injuries to other por
tions of bis body. A physician's services were
required to rduce the fractures.
STANTON'S BROKEN DOOR-BELL,
PovoBKEETRix, March 23.—On reading an
extract going the rounds of the papers alleging
how Jelnrson Davis received the news or the
awaasinttlon of IJnooln, and what he said
about E. M. Stanton, the then secretary of war,
Bud ion Taylor, whs at tbst time kept a book
store to Washington, and who wri'a warm '
friend of Secretary Stanton, mays:
"The morning alter the assassination of IJnooln
It wu stated to newspaper articles that two gen-
.. .r. •- along near Mr.
night of tho
itwirduid
Job-lion, nw i tail man with a hlgli hat hurry oil
tilantou's mood, and though they remarked It aa
singular, gave it only a patting notice. Tho next
morning, when I made mjr usual call on Stanton.
he raid, after reading the article referred to. 'I waa
tired out last night and went home early, and was
In Ibe back room playing with the children when
tho»e gentlemen mw the man hurry oir my Moop.
If tbe door bell had rung it would have boon
answered and theroan admitted, and I no doubt
whuld have been attacked, but the belt wire had
been broken a day or two before, and though we
had endeavored to have It repaired, the bell-hang*
f-r bad put ua off bocauae of a prcusnro of orders*
tvK.re t —More after this Interview
ft Taylor, I mentioned
clerks, who exolataed
. w,because at 7 o’clock last
lihtl went to Mr. Stanton’s housowlth a book
ana pulled and pulled the door-knob, but got no
reeponte. I stepped into the vestibule, and looking
up raw the broken bell-wire, and reaching np pull
ed It, when the boiler answered and .asked; ‘How
did you ring that bellf and expressed surprise and
added: ;It has been broken a day or two and has
annoyed us mneb/
••We til agreed, Including Mr. Stanton,” said llr.
Taylor, “that if that bell-wire bad been In work
ing order Mr. Stanton would have been assassin*
led. for the man had evidently palled oq the bell-
knob several times, and getting no response be
came frighted and fled.”_
A Dig Case*
Macon, March 22. —[Special.]— Judge
Emory Speer decided on the 22d, In Macon, In tho
United States circuit coart a case Involving the
title.to 100,000 ncres of land in Telfair, Dodge,
Pulaski and Laurens counties, worth, It wu alleged
9160,000 at the lowest estimate. The bill wu riled
by George E. Dodge, of New York, against Lather
& Hall, O. H. Bnggs and H, O. Sleeper, and other
parties said to be trespassing on the land in dis
pute. Tho complainant showed a chain oftltlee
running back fiJty years and originating in grants
ftem the state of Georgia. Tbe defendants claimed
under titles runlng through different parties. The
state of Indiana, which wu at ont time the pome-
•or of those lands, wu shown to be a party to one
of tbe deeds under which the complainant Dodge
claimed title. The court decided In favor of the
complainant thus dispocing of one of the most
peculiar and Important land questions that OTer
anotherstatonoono but th* fist* trhereia tho
lands are located can oblocL
Wattoraon’s Health Trip,
Locisville, March 23.—Henry Watterson
and Mis. Watterson started last night for Old Faint
Comfort. Mr. Watterson bss boon staadUy improv
ing fur two weeks, but, on tho advice of his phys
icians, a change of sir was regarded necessary, tad
Ibis trip was ordered.
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ot the ConfWerscy.
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