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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. 7 ATLANTA. GA- TUESDAY APRIL 5 1887
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ACROSS THE WATER.
HJtWSOFTHE OLD WORLD BRIEF
LY TOLD.
CjiokU’s Right to Fit Out Orusera tor Uao in Canad'.:
Waters—Tha irlah Criminal Law Bill in P*rit-
ment—Tho Pall Mall Gazette Speaks—
John M»fl tj'a Speech. £tc.
London, March 2**.—In tho house of - om*
ecus this evening, Sir Henry Holl-ind. colo
nial fccrolary, replying to a question, stated
that the Canadian parliament possessed au
thority to purchase and direct the operations
cf armed cruisers fn ('anadicu waters without
tho content oi the imperial government. Tho
act of 1&67 gave Canada power to legislate in
all matters relative to militia and militiry and
naval defense.
IV. H. Smith, government leader, intimated
that the government had decided to ask the
boute to pars a second reading of the Irish
criminal law amendment before tho usual
Easter holidays. [Cheers and counter cheers.]
The government, said Mr. Smith, disavowed
any intention to mcnaco tho house, but they
wished members to understand that the mem-
urc: was vital to eider iu Ireland; th.it it is
or.o upon which the government staked their
exist on co and was more important than the
holidays.
Mr. Balfour, chief secrotary for Ireland, then
moved the first reading of tho Irish criminal
law amendment bill. In doing so he referred
to tho terms of Mr. Parnell's proposed amend*
raent to tho bill, in which tho Irish loader
claims that tho house should obtain Turthor in
formation about tho condition of Ireland. Mr.
Balfour thought tho I’arncllitcs were sufficient
ly informed of tho atato of tlioir country and
should rccoguize Irish auurchy as an artillcor
recognizes his own work.
Mr. Dillon followed Mr. Balfour. Ho said
that this bill would nevor pass into a law.
[Irish ckeeif.l If ho believed that tho people
of England were capable of sanctioning this
measure ho would give up forover tho hope of
feeing Ireland and England shaking hands.
The Irish people would bo slaves, indeed, if
if they submitted to it. Either ho
would leave tho country where
Irishman could livo unless
ho lived like a slave,or if the people were willing
he would bo proud und happy to lead thorn in
battle. [Cheers.] The mcaauro could only ro-
suit in causing increased disorganization and
driving the people back to tho horrors of
former years. [Cheers.] Karl Spencer, be
lieving his life to bo in danger, had tho courage
to faoo the poople of Ireland liko a man, but
small credit was due to the present govern
ment, who did not know the dangers they were
facing. [Criesof‘Oh!'' “Oh!” and cheers ] More
miserable excuses on which to found ooercion
had never been heard. Mr. Balfour had suc
ceeded in proving nothing but bis own igno
rance of the country which he sought to gov
ern. The soouer ho quitted office the hotter
for Ireland and for himself. The government
were practically treating Irishmen like slaves.
Thoy sought to rort thorn out like vermin.
The government offered them tho prospoct of
a favorablo land purchaso bill. If this coercion
bill passed, neither tho land purchase bill nor
any other Irish measure would liko to ho ac*
tented at tho hands of the English parliament.
Tho Parnellltes hold an informal mooting
and united in denouncing what they termed
the atrocious character of tho coercion bill.
Tho measure, they said, concealed under it3
provisions powers for'tho extinction of tho lib
erties of the press, public meetings, free spsech
and all individual rights. Tho Parncllitre dis
regard tho threats of Mr. Smith to coutinue
tho debato until tho second reading of
tho bill. They say that if tho
protraction of the sitting results in
a test of physical enduranco they will be ready
for the struggle.
Mr. Parnell considers tho Irish criminal law
amendment bill one of tho strongest coercion
measures ever propoecd iu parliament. The
bill, he says, ever creates new offenses. He
thinks that Balfour’s roferonce to tho press
means that the government will suppress
prominent nationalist newspapers as soon as
the bill has been passed.
London, March 2!>.—Iu thehou3o of com
mons today Mr. Gladstone resumed debate on
tho Irish criminal law amendment bill.. Ho
was loudly cheered when he arose. He mid
that in an hsue so grave, tho proposals so ex
treme as those now put forth by the govern
ment required ample time for consideration.
He found himself bound to support Mr. Par
nell’s amendment became the ground upon
which Mr. Balfour based the government’*
case was absolutely insufficient and unsatisfac
tory. The government's bill, imteaii of being
a cure for Irish ill, or oven palliative, was a
measure that would aggravate tho deepest
seated and worst disorders.
"With this coercion bill,” cxclaimod Mr.
Gladstone, “tho prospects of conciliation have
vanished into thin air. Tho government in
tend to cxcludo the land bill, which was the
main recommendation of tbo commission
which has just completed au exhaustive inves
tigation of tho Irish trouble. Nothing remains
but tho figure of coercion—bare, bold and
gaunt—alas, too familiar. The right honora
ble chief secretary for Iroland has attempted
to excuse tho proposals on tho ground
that crime in Ireland during the last throo
years has increased, but ho has followed an
unusual course in refraining from giving the
heuse official information proving hii allega
tions. Statistics of crime in Ireland was
a?ain*t the government. Take for instance tho
g vingof threatening letters. In 1885 432such
Liters were received. That hardly furnished
ground to* asking parliament to asiont to the
extreme measure of coercion.
Continuing, he said that boycotting was Ml
enough, but it was not confined to tho nation
alists. He knew of a Protestant clergyman
who hod been deprived of his living hectare
Ee was a home ruler. Continual allusion hii
been made to previous liberal coercion pro*
KsaJa. In 1S8I, when his government pri
lled coercion, tbo ground whs the agitation
existing. Wherever he went he was dogged
ly crime. For tho present bill there was a*
tuch excuse.
If the liberals aecccdcd to tho appeals o? tho
government the result would bo retrogress in.
The Irish people would return to a state of
things which liberal efforts had
already partly remedied. So loag
as Ireirnd continued in her pr&?cnt course of
federation, so long would tho li bora Is be
bound to persevere in their endeavors to assist
her. The time would soon come when to m my
bow supporting tho catiso of Ireland weald be
added many more; when deplorable propo-
cals, inch as those of the government, could no
more be—ociited with the name of Ireland,
J*4 when if would bo seta that la doing what
they could now to serve the Irish cause they
were also serving the cause of the wide em
pire of Great Britain. [Prolonged cheering],
Mr. Go-chcu taunted Mr. Gladstone with his
alliance with tho National league. Ho asked
him how ho would continno to meet tho
league's constantly increasing demand until an
absolute separation should be completed.
Everybody but tho allies of the league con
sidered the state of Ireland to be intolerable.
The government would bo disgraced if it re*
frained from frustrating the efforts of* tho
enemies of the existing laws and opponents of
whatever remedial measures tho govornfflbnt
might propose. He regretted the absence from
Mr, Gladstone's speech of any condemnation
of Irish crime or violent Language of
Irkh agitators. The liberal leader rathor sug-
gefcted a defense of those crimes. Tho govern
ment based their case upon tbo notorious fail
ure of the administration of justice. The propar
administration of laws constituted the safety
of individuals, and was the only true guarantee
nf Hfn atiiS llWf* “
pait
of life and 1 ibcrfcy, ____
Mr. Gladstone renewed his defiauco of tnu
government to attempt to enforce the closure.
The Gladstouisns are confident that they can
delay the passage of the bill cntil May and in
the meanwhile are hopeful that tho evolutiou
of events will foil the wholo scheme. Whips
on each side have forbidden members to be ab
sent during the holidays unless they are pair
ed. Radical societies throughout tho couutry
arc passing resolutions against the coercion
bill, pronouncing It impolitic and unjust.
THE PALL MALLGAZETTE SPEAKS OUT.
Tho English radical press denounces tho
measuro in language of p&ssionato indigna
tion.
The Fall Mall Gazctto says:
Such a measure, subjecting a nation, white*
skinned, C'hrfrtiau and civilized, to arbitrary in
terference with elementary liberties and tho rights
of man would justify an insurrection. If the Irish
rose iu revolt they would hove our hearty sympa
thy and support. If they did not wish to revolt
against such a system they would deserve our iu-
iimte contempt.
Tho Standard, while admitting that Mr.
Balfour betrayed a lack of grasp of tho com
plications of tho Irish problem, excused him
on the ground cf his nowness iu office.
London, March 30.—John Morley. address
ing tho liberal radical union on tbo Irish
crimes bill tonight, said that the provision for
a change of venue of trials was a grotesque
and malignant proposal, and or.c that showed
that the government had no insight into tlio
national sentiment of tho Irish people. Ho
said tho liberals pledged theiasolv’os to
make every effort to undo tho
mischief and injustice that would
result if tbo bill should psss. Tbo couutry
bad arrived at a crisis in its history.
He denied that the uatioiml league terrorized
or coerced tlio people. The suppression of tho
league, he said, would multiply tho number of
secret serin ion. and would deprivo a tenant of
his safeguard against tho landlord. The passing
of the bill w ould bo to Irelntid humiliation and
to England a lasting disgraco.
Lord Hartingtou delivered a spooch at tho
inaugural dinner of tho libera! union this,even
ing. Ho said that the effect of Mr. Gladstone's
opi n espousal of the action of the Paruoilicos
dining the present session was to divorce still
further tho opposing elements of tho liberal
party. Tho round tabic conference had broken
down. Tbo unionists wero not prepared for
reconciliation baaed upon formulas thoy did
not understand. Tho question of excessive
rents in Iroland waa open for
argument. Ho was not prepared
to say that they wero excessive. It would bo
wise and reasonable for parliament to abstain
from any attempt to deal with rents as fixed by
the land act of 1881. Doubtless somo evictions,
though legal, wero harsh and cruel, and if tho
government could devise somo moro equitable
method, though thoy could not hopo to satisfy
public opinion in irclund, they would go far to
ward satisfying the conscionce of tlio poople of
tbo kingdom.
With regard to crimes, ho know that a severe
trial whs about to no put on many who hod
hoped that they would never again have to
voto lor such n measuro. Bat those who had
refused to allow Ireland to govern heraolt wore
bound to find some remedy by which sho could
bo governed, and by voting for a second read
ing of the crimes bill they would havo u rem
edy before them iu a definite shape, Tho un
ionists wore determined to do nothing to turn
ont the government as long as thoy maintained
tbo law.
London, March 31.—Lord Hartiugton, at
mooting today of tho liberal union members of
both houses of parliament, explained that tho
government had mado its crimes act amend
ment bill a question of confidence, and said
that if tho liboral unionists failed to support
tho bill, and in that wav brought about its do-
feat, tbo result would bo tho advont of Mr.
Gladstone to power. It was the imperativo
duty of tho liboral unionists to prevent this,
Lord Hartiugton contended. Tho meeting do-
cided to support tlio bill. Several members of
the party were absent from tho mooting.
Sir Edward Wm.Watkin, member for Hythe,
said he thought coercion was needod in Ireland
regardless of remedial legislation.
Joseph Chamberlain demurred to this, and
contended that remedial measures should bo
at least implied to Irish legislation.
Lord Hartingtou appealed to members of the
liberal union purty to support tho government
on the second rosdiug or the bill, reserving
tho liberty to demand it in committee. This
the meeting agreed to
At a meeting of tho consorvativo party to
day. it was decided that the house of commons
shall sit until the Irish criminal law amend
ment bill has passed its second reading,
and that the only adjornmont to bo takon at
caster, shall bo fipm Thursday next to tho fol
lowing Tuesday,
In the fcouso of lords tonight. Etrl Cadogan,
lord of tho privy seal, presented a bill provid
ing for tho purposo of Irish holdings, or, In other
words, for tho abolition of the system of dual
ownership created by tho act of 1**1. It was
proposed, be said, to admit lcaso holders to tho
benefits of tho actor 1881. [Qheers.] Lcaso
holders whoso leases expired prior to 1881,
numbering 160,000, wero to be admitted to the
benefits of tbo act of 1881 in tho same man nor
as those whose leases expired in that year. It
was also proposed that a landlord must issue
notice in tho form scheduled in the bill whon
ho obtains an qjectmcnt writ from the court,
afcd that ho be required to lonre the tenant
with that notice in the manner proscribed by
tiie courts, either by service or by posting; that
when the tenant rcceivca this notice ho
shall bcccmo the ipso facto caro-taker of his
holding for tlio period of six months, and that
redemption shall run as from that date. Earl
Cudogan hoped tbo house would accept the
measure.
The carl of Belmore said that while the
measure would hit somo landlords hard, it also
would hit somo tenants whose present rents
were much lower than a court would fix.
The carl of Dunraven said that tho measure
would be a beneficial one, but the only chance
of satisfying Ireland was by the abolition of
dual ownership of land invented by Mr. Glad
stone and bis party.
Tbo bill parsed its first reading and the
second reading was fixed for April 21 st.
London, April 1.— In the house of commons
tonight W. 11. Smith, tint lord ofthetreiaury.
suggested that if the Irish crimes bill be read
the tint time tonight, the second reading could
bo taken nn on Tuesday and then there would
he au interval of a w eek between tho second
readlngsr.d going into committee. He said it
was the imperative duty of the governmout to
insist that the house come to an early decision
cn the principle of the bill. Referring to the
land bill, he said it was of vital importance
that the government use every effort to make
the measure a law.
Mr. Parnell,"upon rising to resume dcW.o on
the crimrs lull, was loudly cheered. Ho slid
that with the production of tho laud bill, yes
terday, parliament had be:n put iu posses<i m
of a complete plan of government io all its
nakedness and dishonesty. The laud bill had
revealed the extent of tho plot and tho gravity
of the conspiracy through which the corner v.i
tives and liberal-unionists intended to
try to coerce tenants in Ireland
into the payment of Impossible rents, compel
them to purchase their landlords’ interest at
exorbitant rates. If the house should ever
give the government power thus to coerce the
people, the result would matt ccrtiinTy v»
wholesale repudiation, involving an im .nure
loss to British taxpayers. [-Hear! Hear’ 1
Proceeding to discuss the provisions c ' t* *
bill. Mr. Parnell contended that the T»v. . <
given to magistrates would enable them >
send political opponents to prison for * c
months—to a plank bed and prison diet. Ha
of previous coercion acts had
ever excited so much distrust of
Euglish justice as tlio proposal
to change the venue of trials and briug Irish
men before English juries. The proposal moans
a reign of judicial murder. It meant that all eulated:
hopes of better times which seemed dawning wh ‘' rAl
upon Ireland would disappear and that a sys
tem of subornation of witnesses aud wholesale
perjury before partisan juries was to prevail,
sending innocent persons to the scaffold and tho
convict s coll. What was the only state of soci
ety that could aiise under this reign of terror?
Their battle was now won m Ireland.
[Cheers.] There might be somo suffering and
much tyranny yet to be endured,
but they would bo us nothing
compared with what the Irish peoplo had gone
through in the past. A little waiting and the
etomity proposed for this bill would disappear
before a brighter time when Mr. Glade one
would be able to appeal once moro to tiie souse
of justice of the people of Great Biitain and
receive full power to do right to Ire
land. [Che era]
He concluded by moving that tho bouse
resolve Itself Into a committee to consider tho
state of Ireland.
Mr. Hartiugton, amid great laughter, read
letters from Mr. Kuight, of Kerry, Lord
Monck and others, applying on behalf of
friends aud relatives, for atiponding magistrate
ships in Ireland. When asked where bo had
obtained tlio letters, lie replied that lie had
bought them at auction.
This answer was received with shouts of
laughter.
Mr. Hartington proceeded to ex
plain that tbo principal qualifications
urged iu behalf of tbo applicants wero
poverty ami largo families.
On being interrupted by cries of “divide!”
tho speaker said bo was not surprised at the
impatience shown by the gentlemen opposite
chief justices of tho supreme court, three dis
trict judges, two members of congress, atl tho
leading Protestant clergy, attorneys and repre
sentative business men of this city, aud tho
mayor and common council, has just been cir-
ilatcd:
Whereas, England's proposed resort to arbitrary
and unprecedented coercive measures In her treat
ment of Ireland marks a crisis in the history of
constitutional liberty;
expression of opinion on this invasion of per
renal aud Doliticai rights and this defiance of tho
humauitartau sentiment of tho age.
The meeting will be held next Monday even
ing in this city.
Albany, h. Y., April 1,—In the senate this
morning Mr. Murphy introduced the follow
ing: •
Whereas, The English government is again
at -out to resort to cruel and coercive measure* in
k to infringe upon tho great bulwarks of JSog-
i liberty (the right of trial by jury) m seeking io
ict a law by which Irishmen may bo dragged
inud’h government’ ..
pression and misrule, and is alouo reap nibble tor
the alleged lawlessness which it now seeks to pre
vent by cruel and coercive legislation; and,
Whereas, we believe that home rule is the ouly
balm for tho wounds of uufortunate Ireland, aud
the only guarantee for tiie peace ami prosperity of
that distracted country; therefore
Resolved, That this renato does hereby protest,
iu the name of humanity. against the enactment
of the proposed coercion bill by the English gov
ernment and scud greeting to William E, <;!.id*.ouo
and Cimrics Stewart Parnell in their noble ami
humane effort to prevent inch cruel, unjust and
tyrannical ltRislatinii as that proposed by the
Imlfeh ministry, and in their endeavors to secure
for Ireland the inestimable boon of home rule.
The resolutions wero temporarily tallied. Iu
supporting the resolutions Mr. Murphy stated
that seven states bad already parsed similar
upou the exposure of these unpalatable fact3, u re solutions. A liko resolution was introduced
but he had the right, ho said, to show tho *"
characters ef tho men at whose mercy
proposed to place tbo liberties of Irishmen.
T. I*. O'Connor moved to adjourn tbo bebato.
Mr. Gladstone,iu supporting tho motiou,siiid
there were strong reasons for it. Ho defended
Mr. Parnell's delay iu moving his amendment
and raid this was a gravo aud serious case, de
mand ing another night for discussion. Wish
reference to Mr. Parnell’s speech, Mr. Glad
stone said that he bad never known of
au instance in which a caso mado for such
Ull bad been so completely torn to rags.
[Loud cheers.]
Sir William Vernon Harcourt said tho un
ionist policy was now plainly shown. It was a
policy of coercion, pure and simple.
Mr, O'Connor’s motion was rejected by
vote of Ilbl to 254.
The met ion for closure was carried by a voto
of 301 to 253, and the first reading of tho bill
wns agreed to without n division.
London, April 3.—[Special.]—Tho strong
majority obtained by the government Friday
night in tho houso of commons on the closure,
361 to 253, nnd tho passage at once, withont
division, of the first rending of tlio Irish crim
inal law amendment bill, havo crashed all
hopes of tho homo rulers that they might bo
able to provent tho passago of the bill in its
worst form. Tho unionists-libcrals vote!
solidly with tbo conservatives for tho cloture,
only three of them abstaining from votiuvr.
Tbo fact is now obvious that tho unionists
mean to carry out their policy of adhesion to
tho Salisbury administration unflinchingly,
and that they will giro tho govorniuvnt
whatever coercive powers for tbo control of
Ireland may bo demanded of parliament, and
will hold no further parley with tho Gladstou-
ians. All notion of a renewal of attompti at
reunion has ccnscd on both sides, neither
unionists, liberals nor Gladatoniaus enter
taining tho slightest idea of combining horc-
after. •Thero is an intenser animosity than
ever botween tbo conservatives aud the old
liberals. The government, securo now in sup-
pert of the unionists, are not
at all inclined to modify the
Irish crimes bill, notwithstanding
the objections to some parts of it of tho mem
bers of their own party. Many conservatives
continue to urge the government to abandon
the proposal to try Irishmen in England tor
certain offenses, and also tho clauses
which vlrtoaBy renew the “white boy” act.
In an interview on Friday night’s sceno in
the house, Mr. Gladstone said: “The extraordi
nary scenes were indeed extraordinary, but they
are exactly the result we anticipated. When
tho procedure rule respecting the application
of tho cloture was passed we .knew
what it would be. We op-
noted it with all our might.
We protested solemnly, but they wore too
strong for us. Now tho result has come. They
have thrust upon the speaker a partisan func
tion, and thus have dealt a blow at the chsir,
the gravity of which it is impossible to exag-
r rato. Recollect at all timos, it is not coorclon
am thinking about, not dissolution, not
home rale even, but tho chair—tho chair. Let
them tight us, I havo always said. Let them
beat us. Thstis well. They will win ouo
time. We shall win another. That is
all light, and is nothing to
what has hsppenod, but abovo all things let
them respect the chair. B it thoy havo not.
They have forced partisanship upon him. Be
sides this, nothing could exceed tbo contempt
uous disregard of tho government for all
forms of precedence and parliamentary pro
cedure. There is not a shred or tatter of jus
tification left to tho government.”
“Did you hear Mr. Parnell’s speech?”
“Such a grinding, pulverizing, destructive
speech, so completely upsetting and swooping
away every argument they htveadu:ed, I think
I never heard. Upon my word, I was
almost sorry for them. We were reduced to
takeSthellast step in our power, and the most
serious step posslblo, to leave tbo bou*e; re
duced to cut oursolvos off from tho houso o
commons at the moment when its privileges
were overruled, and tho contor of its authority
displsced, and an outrage upon it’s procedaro
perpetrated. I recollect by whom these pro
cedure rules wero passed. The dissentient
liberals, that is where the blow falls. On the
mstarest reflection, I am convinced that ou r
action was right and justified.”
PRANCE AND GERMANY.
There are small points of frlctiou appearing
at various places throughout Eurnpo disturb
ing the surface which has looked ootmo/lb
atd peaceful during the last month. Great
excitement has been created in Franco by Ger
many expelling from tho reichstag and from
German territory ofM. Antoine, deputy for
Metz, whoso pronounced French sympathies
are well known. The plucky deputy
has already once been subjected to imprison
ment and to confiscation by the German police.
All bit pajH-TS wero conveyed to the
frontier under polico escort, and
there let loose on the frontier territory.
He intends to return to Berlin via Belgium
to demand his seat in the reichstag, where he
has hitherto led the intranaignent party of
deputies from Abaco-Ix»rraine, whose opprsi-
tion to tbo government is more nucomprotntsing
than ever. According to the dispatches re
ceived here, the expulsion of M. Antoine has
earned great sensation at Paris, where it is
looked u|>on as a gross and fresh instance of
Gorman provocation.
Sympathy for li-alaml.
Springfield, 111., March 2fi.—In the homo
today a resolution was adopted condemning tho
proposed Irish coercion laws and condemning
the policy of the English government towards
Ireland, aud extending sympathy and cncoitr-
aj.-uncut to William Gladstone and CharJc-s
Stewart Parnell, in their crusade against op
pressive and unjust laws, and for their faith
ful endeavors to hasten, by constitutional
methods, a better government for Ireland.
Haerij-kur' , Pa . March 31.—In the homo
this mart ir.g the following was adopted:
, the Brirlch house of commons has
►'.deration, and is pr*-parin,? to put into
•railed coercion bill, v/t« se provi ions
arc to stamp out constitutional libery
in Ireland and toabolkh the freedom of the pres*,
c rights of ireespccrh, and the cuppreiiloo of
«1 byjnry for political reav>us only; therefore,
Resolved. That the house* ot representatives
in the assembly.
Subsequently, after few speeches. Murphy’s
resolutions were unanimously udopted.
A Priest Greeted With Clieom. *
Dublin, March 2D.—Father Uyati, of Her-
hcitstown, branch of tho National league, pro
sented himself today before Justico Boyd, of
the bankruptcy court. Ho persisted iu liia re
fusal to tell the court what tio new about tbo
doings of tenants iu bis parish respecting the
trusteeing of their rents umlor the plan of
campaign, and was condemned to prison.
When Father Ryan emerged from tho court
a prisoner, lie war met by a multitude of citi
zens. They unmoored many tbonawda, and
cheered tlio priest with enthusiastic and pro
longed applause, aud then followed him iu pro
cession to tlio juil. making bis tour a trium
phal one. A number of prominent men took
port in tho procc£Bion, and among the more
conspicuous w ero Lord Mayor SulUvau und
Archbifebop Croko.
Father Slattery was also summoned by Judge
Boyd to give similar information to that de
manded of Father Ryan. Hu likowisu refused
and was also ordered to prison. Both priests
wero removed to jail in a cal). Tho peoplo hooted
and jeered the polico iu attendance ou tho cab
and for a while refused to permit it to pro
ceed. A diatnihauco ensued and the polico,
who arc mounted, rodo with drawn sword*
upon the crowd and cleared a lane for the cab.
Mr. O’Brien, editor of United Ireland, also
followed tbo piisoncrs to jail. He, with the
lord mayor and ArcUblshoii Coke, rodo in tho
lord mayor’s carriage. Tho mob threatened
tbo polico along tbo wholo route, aud the sconos
at times was very exciting.
Michael Davitt, speaking at a mooting of the
National league at Dublin, tonight, said tho
very stringency of the Balfour measure ap
peared to him to be a a favorable feature. He
was not prepared to say what it might bo neces
sary for Irish manhood to do when naked
tyranny reigned in Ireland. Under tho pre
vious tory governments, despots had been
mado to feel, when thoy tried to crush liberty
that they, themselves, had been crushed.
William O’lhicn, editor of United Ireland,
said he would not protend to bo violently
apprehensive of the future. The Irish poople
bad gone through similar trials before as those
they would havo to endure sbonld the proposed
coercion law be adopted.
"When Balfour shall have had experience In
tho results of ooercion,” said Mr. O Brleo, “he
will find a plant bed much more trouble than
the bed of the chief leoretary of Ireland.”
London, March 30.-^VillUm O’Brion. oditor
of United Ireland, in a speech mado at Dublin
last night, said that if the evictions on Lord
Landsdowne’s estate did uot cease, he
and Kilbride, who was tho principal tenant on
bis lordship’s Inggscurran estate, and who was
recently evicted, would visit Canada and begin
BILL ARP
Vlattiog Feints Made Deer by Ufa Father’# Proi
ence-Yhe Old Heroea Whose Hamte Have
Made Savanuah Yemoue-a Talk With
Ono of the Old Inhabitant#.
of such heartJeu) coeri k-n measure* upon a pcopU
•trurgliD* under the galling yoke of a futile arli-
tcrracy and honorably reeking higher political
autonomy, and that we extend to Mean. Glad
ttcce and Parnell and their nupporterK. ah well ah to
bleeding and down trodden Ir».-land,;the aympithy
of the free ana prosperous millions ot this com
monwealth.
Dzf Moines, Iowa, March 31.—Tha follow
ing call, signed by the governor, Beaten*
ant-goveracr and other state officers, three ex-
invuvij gTivtWi wuuiu iiiii vauwia nuu irugiu
an agitation with a view to hiring Lord L:ins-
downo ousted from the palace at Ottawa.
Tho queen has commanded all mombera of
the roval furaily to como to London to celo-
brate ncr Jubilee.
Foreign News Note*.
Paris, March 28.—Today a mob attackod
and broko windows iu the employment regis
trars, in the ({nattier dos Halles. Louise
Michel participated in the riotous demonstra
tion, but sho was monacod by market womon
and compelled to take refugo in a polico sta
tion.
St. Prtfnsm-RG, March 20.—It is slated that
all of tbo iiihiliats arrested for complicity iu
tlio recent unsuccessful plot on the czar’s life
when taken into custody were small bottles of
K ison on their bosoms, and that oecrot agents
d keendeputied to smash these bottles in tho
event of tbo asassin retreating from his task at
the last moment.
General Gressen, while riding on the street,
was fired at with a revolver, but was not hurt
His wouM-bo murderer was immediately ar
retted, but committed suicide as soon m taken
into custody.
8t. Petersburg, March 2i).—It has trans
pired that whou Prince Alexander, of Itatteu-
burg, was deposed from tbe Bulgarian tbrono
and escorted out of the country hy the succom-
ful conspirators, he accepted from them tho
sum of 4,1)00 francs, with which to |tay his way
to bis homo at Darmstadt Tho money was
handed to him at Reni, in Iiesrarabor, where
the prince’s kidnapers parted with him. A
suit to recover the num has been inaugurated
by the rebels who made the loan.
Bjiumli.s*March 30.—The* Belgian paper,
LaMcuse, prints tho report of a conversation
which It rays Bismarck had with aa illustrious
Belgian during the recent fetes at Borlin, in
honor of the ninetieth anniversary of the em
peror’s birth. According to this report the
German chancellor said he abandoned tho idea
of neutralising Rcichlaud (Alsace-Lorraine) be
cause it would be a dangerous delusion. The
neutrality of any province, he said, was only
prete* vable a* long as the people were prepared
to defend their neutrality by force of arms, aud
be could uot admit that aucli a determination
exhted in Beichland.
“Therefore,” said tbo chancellor,“we intend
that the provincca shall remain incorporated
with Germany. Their fortresses are a strong
bulwark agaiust France, and for us thoy havo
the advantage of removing, by several days’
march, the atarting point for au aggrotaivo
movement against ui from France. Two
months ago,” added Bismarck, “I feared there
would be war. I do uot now. .Still wo must
bo prepared for war. We nover know what is
to happen. Who could have expected a few
years ago that the pope and I would become
fkithful alJIfft?’
8t. Petersburg, March 30.—Seditious
placards were secretly posted throughout the
university building today, proclaiming that
the address recently presented to the czar did
not reprerent the roil feelings of tho students.
Kt. Petkbsri ho, March 30,—A wholesale
me rchant of fit. Petersburg, reported to be worth
million#, has l.ctu shot and killed by fl man lo
whom Lc refined to give *0 COO rouble* toward the
nihili*in’fund. Tho murderer han t*?en arreMcd.
Other ltu*»iau capitalists are fearful of suffering a
►imiJar fate. They are receiving letter# threaten
ing them with immediate cieath iftbevdonot
cMcpty with the demand* to furnhii money for
•*tr.e common cau*c.”
(.’onstantinoble, March -‘A—A mob of
(ire c*ka la»t Pun day attacked with atone* there*!-
dt nee of American missionaries in Hntyrna. Tbe
Ami rfean legation here has a-.ked the president to
►end a roan of war to 8wjrn* to protect the tola-
oiocariis.
Berlin, April 2.—Three persons concerned
in the attempt to aafawlnate the czar by means of
bomba, in Kt. Petersburg, on March 13, were hanged
Thursday morning. Twenty nfore officer* in
various branch** of service have been arrested In
rc-nnecUon with the attempt made asainHtbe life of
tbe eras in the park of oauchina palace on Tues
day last.
When I told an Atlanta friend that I was on
my way to Savannah, ho said: “Well, you will
like Savannah, she is a mighty pretty little
town.” I used to think that Augusta was tho
prettiest city in the state and I liavent chang
ed my mind so fior as somo things are concern
ed. Her Broad street aud Green street, hor
longitude aud latitude, her aristocratic diguity,
her canal and factories, her beautiful river aud
her dclightAilf-liniftto, and, moro thsu all, her
standard men and queeuly womon havo made
an impression upon tno that is aklu to rever
ence. Whon I was a young man and was
merchandising in an unpretending town
I bought my goods in Augusta
and was familiar with hor old historic names.
I bad great respect for the Goulds ami Buck
leys and Stovalls and Barretts and Butts and
Tutts aud Plumb and Bones and Browu and
Hand and Williams and many others. My
good father taught mo to respect them, and ho
bad the most confiding faith in their integrity.
“They will not choat you, my sou.” ho SAid.
“They are all honorable. Christian gontlomou.”
But tho biggest thing about Augusta to mo was
a select school that was conducted there by
Mr. aud Mrs. Chapman. Well, I was not so
much interested in the school ns I was in ono
of the scholars—and she is sittiug in tho other
cornor now with her gold spectacles on, sowing
away, and ever and anon going upstairs to seo
how tho sick grandchild is getting on. Of
courso I have ptcarant memories of Augusta.
And tho beautiful city of Savaunah has
strong ancestral claims upon mo, too, for my
father located there in his early manhood and
taught school, aud my mother was ono of hii
pupils. Whnt a world of ovents—groat ovonts
—have happened 6inco then! As l wandered
along tho bay nnd through the parks, my mind
went back in a wakeful dream to tlio tlmo
when my parents walked in those same ways
nnd looked upou three scenes and had bright
and anxious hopes of tboir own future. Savan
nah is really a lovely city, and impressed me
much more than loxpcctcd. It is achy of parks
and monuments. These parks aurpriso you ns
you go around from elrcet to stroot, aud thoy
arc thronged with happy children playing
among the flowers aud evergreens. Tho found-
era of this city had a l >vo fur tho hoautiful and
the ir successors had high patriotic emotions,
for they have Imilt monuments to their horoio
dead and shown tboir rererenee for < >g!cthorpo
ami Fulaaki ami Green nnd .laspor. Every
thing indicates abundant wealth
nnd prosperity. Tho ground that
a few yturs ago wns her suburbs is now
fabt filling up with beautiful residences, in tho
heart of tho city tho old-tiiuo honored buainoss
houses are giving pluco to modern structures
that arc elegaut aud costly. 1 saw a lot, n
vacant lot, that was uot upon a corner, soli for
£20,000, And it was only thirty foot front. Tho
Central fytteiu of railroads has dono wondors
for 8avaunah| A frieud took mo all around
through tho Immense warehouses, where half
a million bales of cotton are handled,
aud thousands of tons of kqruo are
stored, and millions of feet of lumhor
are shipped. Itaw tbo great steamships that be
long to tho Central, and went aboard the Na-
coochco and waa shown all through her apart
ments by Captain Ketnpton. Sho is a mtrvol
of strength and beauty, and her great elevator*
that are operated by steam wore bringing up
and discharging ber cargo, while scores of ne
groes moved it up to tho wharf. “What ia
that great pile of pig-iron doing there?” said I.
"Ah. that la our ballast,” said the captain.
“Wo have to lower that into tho bold to steady
the ship. Our cargo now going north U
mainly of light weight, such as Florida
ftulta and vegetables, nnd thoy must
bo stewed on the tipper docks to got air, and
so we hold the vessel down with the iron.”
There are nine of these immeuso steamers
making regular trips to New York and Boston
sud Philadelphia and Baltimore. Tho largest
have a carrying capacity of flvo thousand bales
of cotton—compressed cotton—and huge mon
ster* that puff and blow liko loviathans are
compressing by day and by night in tho cotton
season. Savannah is indeed a port—a great
port, our port, aud is tbo receiving and distrib
uting point for tho produce and
merchandise of a vast area of territory.
From these whams wo took a circuit around
and among the truck farms that seemed to
have no limit, and just as far as the eye could
reach thero werejgardens— vegetable gardens—
tbousandaof acres in cabbages and potatoes
and peas find beans and beets and onions and
all the garden vegetables. Homo of thorn gave
signs of frost, but not many, Score* of ne
groes, large and small, were .picking the peas,
and they are boxed rapidly aud hurried to the
steamships for exportation. It is lively times
in tbt-so truck farms now, and it is said to bo a
very profitable business.
1 met one of tho oldest inhabitants In Colo
nel E*till’s cffico—Mr. R. W. Habersham, who
Is a Ben; l’erly Poore in memories of tbe olden
time and he discoursed pleasantly of the days
of Van Buren and Calhoun and Webster, and
told mo of bis visit to Poland with J. Fount-
more (Jooper and Mono, the inventor, aud of
his interviews with General LaFsyette. Mr.
Habersham waa tho classmate of Joe K. John
ston at West Point, and Robert E. Leo was a
cadet at the same time.
One evening 1 mu quietly titling la tbe reed
ing room ot tbo Hero Ten home, wbon . .total?
gentleman canio nnd acted hlmwlf in front of
mn,{ and laid: “Now, look at mend wo
If you have forgotten one of ,our old
claumataa.’’ Wo.I, I looked and pondered end
waa about to give It np, when he nld: “Let
me rail the roll and then ntajbe jtn wilt be
reminded,” and he began with the old l.mlliar
nance, “Allan, Aablep, Andeiaon, Bancroft,
Baron, Btiacoe, Camak, Caaaldaj, Cod,, Farmer,
limit, ll.rdro, Howard, Hall, Hughes.”
Btop, aatd I, Tbia la Dan Hoghea, and it waa,
and ao we got cloae tip together end talked of
the college da,a and the bora who won living
and tboae who wan deed. I found Charlie
Hardee then, too. lie la the dt, treasurer
and old father time he, whitened him up and
wiinklad him juat like, he has me—we
want to got up a reunion of the hope thia next
rummer— not limply of our clue, hut of all onr
college mutra for tbe yeere Mu und ’47. We an
gather about thirty that are in reach, and wo
want to attend tho next collegecommeucemant
at Athena and atrnt around like tagaa aud pa
triarch* and fix up aome Uuuchauaen atorlea
wherewith to amasothe nrewnt genentlun
that ia drinking In knowledge at the nnlrorri-
ty. I reckon that Henry flradyand hla crowd
wouldn’t run ever ua, but would raiae their
hhta cut of rcapect for our arc. If nothing alas.
There la one aorioua trouble, though, about
meandering over tbe country now. There
railroads wou’t even give anybody excursion
rater, end free paaree are all aboliahed. It coat
me tio to go to Farenneh end back again, in*
eluding the sleeper. They won't aell a thou-
und mile ticket. They recognize the powerof
the pnlplt a little, end will letn preacher travel
for two cents a mile, but they won't recogulzo
A UAt.F HOl'It LOUD,
A telegram in Tuesday's Constitution brief*
ly outlined homo points in tho life of Samuel
Tipper, a respected citizen of Camden, Ala.,
whodied hy his own hand.
The Mobile Register says:
The deceased hart a most eventful history,
llocsmetoUzmdcn in the forties, end pllod hla
vocation of bouse palmer. Ho was a man of tho
people In every tense, w orkefi hnnl when ho had
uu> thing to do, and drank hard In between time*.
\\ hlfky promised to get the better of him, but about
IKO a temperance movement struck Camden and
bit gaauel Tcppcr bard that he stopped drink-
lug.
In real goed romances the fairy comes in at this
point and showers fame and fortune upon the man
ot resolution, but hero is au exception. Tcppcr
-topped drinking aud became a good cltb.cn, but
no fame <nme along and be did not get rich. In
fact, be bad bard trouble to get enough to cat, and
the light botween him and poverty was carried on
without «tny change for more than twomy-flvo
years. Uo was a married mnu and bod two daugh
ter. One Is*married, whilo tho other remain
slnRlo. Ills v ifo died some years ago.
About 1*73 Mr. Godfrey JRloch. then traveling
for Messrs. 1-otnkauf »fc Straus, of this city, read iu
a New York paper au advertisement asking for
fafoimitfon concerning Samuel Topper, who left
Kngland some forty year* before, and who would
hear of something to his advantage if ho would
rommunlcate with So-and-So, attorneys, etc., Lou
don, England. .About tlio saino tinio Jlr. Jacob
Web*, also of this city, rend tho sain© Inquiry, aud
Loth these gentlemen, in tho order named, pro
ceeded to toil Mr. Tcppcr that ho was wanted in
England..
Then followed correspondence, tho result of
whic h wns that Sir. Tepper proceeded to New York
and took the steamer for London. In tho world's
metropolis lu- learned that lie wns heir, through
the dentil of hfs brother, to a i>ortfon of tho estate
of the late (Joseph Mallard William Turner,
tho famous English laudacapo artist,
who died in l.Vd. The greater, pntt of tho estate,
eonsfrUug of many paintings, was already by will
the property of tho English government, but
there remained real and personal property of
great value, nnd a partition among tho hoirs had
lictu ordered. In thia proceeding, Tcppcr -had
been advertised for, nnd he arrived lu time to re
ceive seme 8100 COO worth of property. Ho did not
care to remain in England, and Im had no faucy
for living on the landed estate, so ho resolved to
transfer hfs lands to tho other relatives, and taka
Solid cash lu exchange.
It teems that Included iu who estate wi* n lot or
parcel of land that conferred upon its owner n title
of nobility, but Tepper «»# entirely Ignorant of
tue fact, until tho barrister who wuh carrying out
the legit I proceeding) of the transfer began calling
him "My lord.”
"Oh, Ict up oil that,” exclaimed Topper. "Wo
don't have that sort of foolishness In America."
Die lawyer insisted, however, that the title was
a necessary part of the proceedings.
"Would my lord bo so kind ns to put hi* (lngcr
thero 7” sahl tho obsequious barrister, indicating
the home paluter from Camden, Ala , was to touch
the end of tho penholder while tho signature was
appended to the deed of trnm-fer.
"My lord” condescended to put his flffijor upon
the peu us requested.
"That’ll do, Tcppcr!" raid the barrister, dryly,
aud liis Ion!ship relapsed In.dantaheously iato his
previous condition of republican simplicity.
Mr. Tepper in ado light of the matter, of course,
hut w*h ever afterward* rather fond of telling how,
once in Ids life, lio was for half au hour a Ion!.
The tramient dignity did not afl'aot hi* manners
or character in tlio least,however. lie was a plain
man, loved quiet, bad worked hard and knew that
in peace was tho ouly pleasure. Jto Oamo back
homo with a bag stuffed full of money. Ho
brought alto it number of steel plates of engravings
of Turner'* psiutlugs, and, it is oaid, several of tho
palntinp* afro, nil of which nro at Camden. Mr.
Tcppcr did not care for such things, however. Ho
said; "Yes, thero were a lot of painting* o*or
there, but l havo no cyo for them.”
After his r< turn to Camden lie exhibited s goner-
ou* spirit. Ho lent hi* money freely to those who
lu d befriended him, aud encouraged young men
In industry. Ho went Into buslnsm lilmKclf with
Mr. Henry Caster, but hi* health soon begtu railing
him, and be drew out. HI* tastes were simple. By
long hshlt be liecamc of n saving disposition so fat
•s himself waa concerned, aud ho spent very lUUo
money for bli own comfort. It Is hollered that In
spfto of the Isrgo sum* he gsvo sway and lost
through kindness, he managed to ssro as much as
the original value of hi* Inheritance. It Is known
that he has 850,000 Invested In United State* bonds,
deposited In a bank hero In Mobile, anfi that ho
has other Investments In and around Camden. The
Ufo ho led bad Tor many years t>oen perfectly sober,
upright and good, and no deserved the title bo-
stowed upon him in tho special telegram, “re
spected citizen,”
He ha*been an Invalid for somo Umo, and is said
to havo suffered from uotwnlug of tho brain, lie
wua doubtless not himself when ho fired tiie pistol
ball into his forehead.
• THK SOUTHEKN fARM,"
A AO-l'agft Monthly Mnsaxtiia of Agrleultura
and Stock Uniting,
Directed by Mr. Henry W. Grady mid .Inlm
B. Wllklnaoii.
r.piTOU
the power of the press at all. An elitorhas
K t to pay just like a white man. Well, I’ll
t $10 that tho editors knock that whole
( interstate bill into pi at the next session
of congress. How aro the members of the leg
islature going to get to Atlanta;, And what will
tbenegrecado about excursions? They say
the new law goes into effect the first day of
April, "all fcols day,” and I reckon thore will
be many a fellow fooled fur tho next twelve
months. One thing we can all do and that Is
to stay at homo. There aro livo pssrenger
train* each way ou tho Btato road,
and hereafter 1 reckon about two can do the
hoaineas.
Well, April has come at last, and now I
reckon that spring will surely come. It ought
to, for tbst is tbe meaning or the word. April
comes from a Latin word that means "to open,”
and the name was .given because the earth
opens for vegstation to spring up. One thing I
want Judge Henderson to snow, and that Is
tbe fruit if not killed fn Bartow. All the
peach trees 1 have examined are loaded with
healthy fruit, and our wheat crop looks bettor
than usual. Bill Asp.
UI!. W. 1.. JONK*
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Southern Farm.” Mr. John It. Wilkinson, busi
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Dr. W, L. Jones,tbe leading agricultural writer
of the south, Is editor of "The Southern Farm,”
having signed a contract for five years, fits work
begins with the April number.
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