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THEfWEEKl Y CONSTITUTION: TUESDAY* MAY 6* 18S4 TWELVE PAGES, i
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Weekly CenetlUUea tl.SAPer A??nnm.
ATLANTA, GA., MAY 6,18M.
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KbNTUCKY FOR TILDEN
After tbs action of the democratic prims-
riea in Kentucky, we do not lee how any
man can doubt that the Hon. Samuel J. Til
den will be nominated by tbe democratic
convention, world without end, unieaa he
formally refuaea to accept the nomination.
If anything waa considered certain, it waa
that Kentucky would go for HcDonald. It
is tbe home of the HcDonald boom. It ia the
home of the revenue reformer, with whom
"Old Haddlebaga" baa been training. It ia
the borne of tbe Courier Journal. It liaa
been considered the most pronounced Mc
Donald state.
But when the people were heard from your
Vncle Samuel come to the front. He made
no fight for preference. On the contrary, he
deprecated the uaeof bis name. There waa
no machinery at work for him. With the
exception of tbe Hon. Stoddard Johnston, a
stout fighter be la too, we do not recall a man
of prominence who advocated Mr. Tilden???a
claims. The declarations for Mr. Tilden are
spontaneous. They come from the great
popular heart.
And eo it goes. Whenever tbe masses
speak, the name of Tilden is beard. There
are but two things that will prevent Tiiuen'a
nomination. One is bis absolute refusal to
' accept. The other is???death.
In AuiirlM
lu Unwin
In 1U) y
In Spain..
Tbs I ??? 11iAil
MURDER AND 11 8 CAUSES.
According to Mulliall> Dictionary of S a
jistfca murder is a pause pf ^Ifallil
lu Kbt(UudmtMi M .i...u.i..i Io Mf per 10.0:0,000
lultelglum to'140
111 France....,??? to '465
in Rctndlnavie, token
lu fi.rmany -to070
??? Inlaud (1070) - - to'.til
???to #10
to aa
to MM
.to su
lu United etatea. ???to 800
Tbe exceedingly unfavorable reoord of the
United State, la tbe natural reault of a low
condition of public aentlment on the aubject
of murder. This condition of publlo tenth
meut finds expression in weak lawa, timid
courts, and Jurymen who do not healtata to
commit perjury whenever they
encounter a bribe, or elae are
weak and poorly balanced ae to be turned
aaido from the plain path of duty by a law
yer???a talk or by aome maudlin notion. The
great object of pnoiahment la the prevention
of crime, and jurymen that acquit a mur
deter are tho wont enemies of aoclety. By
turning a murderer loose on some tenllmen
til ground, they become parlies to a subse
quent murder, and no Just man
should then hold them guiltleas.
Huniun life can be rendered
tiered In tliia country aa it la In Knglandif the
law in every cue is fully and promptly exe-
ented. The laws of every slate are (011101601,
but public sentiment in none of tke states is
as inflexible as it should be. The law should
become a terror to all, and the jury that
faithfully appliea It ahould have the epproba.
tion of all men. We believe pub???io sent!
ment ia as healthy in thia atato aa In any
other elate of the union, but in no state Is It
up to tbe lew or wbat the situation demands
The crying need of the land is men who will
give society the full benefits of the law In the
jury box. Weak or dlahoueat jurymen are
not wanted. The atailatica of Mulhall enow
that wa have had altogether too many of
aueh Jurymen lu the peat.
WHEAT CROWING AND (MIGRATION
Now when the fertile lands of the west
have ceased to be cheap, or to be obtainable
at ail from the government, when, too, tbe
tide of emigration wonld naturally turn to
ward, the rquabie climate and cheap land, of
the south, there Is a very strong effort to en
large the northern field, at least so far as for'
elgn arrivals are concerned. A company has
bean organised for the purpose of building,
railroad from Winnipeg to Tort Kelson on
Hudson's bay, a distance of 572 miles.
This scheme is fortified by
immense land grant, and large
subscription! have been made to its capital
stock. It Is claimed that tbe scheme Is not
only feasible, bat will prove vsry profitable.
We are assured that no ice will obstruct tbe
route; that Hudson's bay, including the
straits, isopen all the year; that Port Nelson
Is 250 miles nearer Liverpool than Montreal,
end that tbe wheat of Dakota and northern
Uinneaota and from the Saskatchewan valley
can in that way be saved from the expenses
of 2,000 miles of land transportation.
But the chief object of the scheme
consists in an enlargement of tbe wheat-rais
ing area of tba dominion of Canada, and the
settling in it of the immigrants of the next
ten years. If the railroad can be built, it
would no donbt open np a vast section in
which wheat esm be grown, if men can be
found who are willing to spend their livae in
as Inhospitable climate for the sake of secur
ing the (ruits of a very brief summer. Cheap
land and cheap railroad rates
and skillful advertising do often
tum people away from the more favored
aectiona, and it is very likely that we will
bear a great deal hereafter about Hudson's
bay and its new cities. Port Nelson will be
boomed as another New York, and Winne'
peg's glories will be resuscitated, end her
corner lots worked off on the first incoming
fiood. All things are possible when behind
the ehrewd advertiser stand capital and or-
ganfxalion. If we bed a law for tbe proven
tion of cruelty to mankind, the men who at
tempt to induce a newly arrived foreigner,
looking for a new home, to go to tbe new
banana belt, would receive tbe punishment
they richly deaerve. Bat the people
of thia country, who with ayes open prefer
polar regions to sunny skies deserve neither
protection nor pity.
TRUCK FARMING.
The track farmers in southern end south'
western Georgia are cultivating aa large an
acreage thia year aa last. The Albany New,
and Advertiser says that in tbe neighbor
hood of that city there are about three bund'
red acre, devoted to watermelons, and beaaa,
iquaahte and cucumber, are also largely
planted. The same paper eays that although
the season has been somewhat unfavorable
to rapid growth, the melon end squash vines
promise an abundant yield.
Aa we have said heretofore tbe success of
this new and promialng interest la almost
wholly in tbe hands of tbe railroad mapagers
???f the sta'c. They have it in their power to
foster the business and thereby make money
during the usually dull summer months, and
they have it in their power to strangle
it by exceasire freight charges. This
is a matter that baa never received the atten
tion and atndy of the railroad managers that
it deserves. It Is true they have cut rates to
???ome extent, and have manifested a desire to
encourego tbe truck farmcra, but their deaire
baa not as yet taken the shape of e system
atic purpose to lend themselves thoroughly
to building up a new Industry. There are
millions in it for tbe railroads, not this year
or even next year, but in the fntnre, and thia
is tbe fact that should present itself to the
minds of the managers. The railroads ere
permanent institutions. They are' bnlit for
all tlmo, and that is a foolish and n short
sighted policy which persuades them that It
Is their duty tosqueexe for tbe nickel in eight
rather then prepare for the thousands and
million! that eucceaaful truck-farming in
Georgia would place In their coffers.
ATLANTA AT NEW ORLEANS.
Tna Constitution aome time ego suggested
that the manufacturers of Atlanta make a
collective exhibit of their works at the ap
proaching exposition In New Orleans.
It waa our idea then that the exhibit could
be made In the main building of the exposi
tion. The manager, of the exposition ob
jected to thia, however, and the scheme was
teaian well; and there the editor of tte Al
bany News and Advertiser saw the pipe in
the well bringing npa supply of pare artesian
water, while at tbe same moment the pipe in
the pond was carrying off tho stagnantwater,
the active agent of malaria. Tho description
which Mr. McIntosh gives of wbat he saw
and of the means employed to make the ex
periment e success is very interesting.
Tbe pond covered an area of about two
acres, with a depth of ten feet in the center.
To drain it thoroughly the outlet must be
made in the deepest part. Id order to accom
plish this, Colonel Fort bound four substan
tial pieces of limber together, floated them
over the center of tbe pond, and upon this
foundation built his raft or pen, which sank
as it was added to. When the raft had been
built, the foundation rating on the bottom of
the pond, e platform was placed across the
top,end on this platform a derrick was set np.
To this derrick tbe boring apparatus was a -
tacled. At first a pile-driver was used, Lu
when the pipe had been driven down through
tho bottom of the pond to a depth of thirty
feet, it rated on solid rock, end then
work of drilling and boring was began.
"At a depth of fifty feet below the bottom
of the pond,??? the News and Advertiser says,
the drill struck an opening and
once tbe water commenced to sink with
roar tbrongh the big pipe, the top of whioh
was only a few Inches under water. The drill
pipe was drawn out, and tbe pond com'
menced to empty Itself os fast os tho orifice
that tbe drill had made through the rocks
would permit tbe water to flow. When tbe
water in tbe pond leveled itself with tbe top
of tbe pipe a reamer was attached to the drill
pipe and sent down to open the way for the
b'g pips to be sunk deeper. In thia way the
pipe was sunk until the joint of two sections
wee at most level with the bottom of the pond,
and there it waa unjolnted. That was some
time last week, and tbe water has been rap
idly linking ever aince. Had It not been for
tbe heavy rains, all ths water would have
been carried away ere this. When all the
writer has passed off Colonel Fort will have
square pit dugaroond the pipe, and the pipe
will then be driven down to a level with the
bottom of thia pit. The top of tbe pipe will
be covered with wire to keep the trash oat,
the pit will bo filled with rooks, and thus the
drain will be keptopen.???
The experiment waa not a costly one,
addition to the labor, only (75 was paid out.
II every pond in aonthwest
Georgia can be drained
cheaply, it will soon become, with its supply
of artesian water, one of tbe healthiest, aa
has long been one of the most fertile, sec
tions in the world. The draining of these
ponds will be a movement not only In the
dlraoiion of Improving the healthfulucss
southwest Georgia, but in tho direction
advancing its material development, The
pond which Colonel Fort has drained will
???upply him with aeveral thousand tons
JUUCk for composting, and experiments
It was reported that Mr. Stanton, tbe recretary ol
war, had ordered bla body taken Into me middle
oi the ocean and there rank, to that there would
be no spot of earth that, as be alleged, might be
worshipped by eoomeraen as holding the remains
ot President Ltncotn'saasa stn. This report led to
me writing of tbe lines yon ask for. We'have been
unable to find them In print, bat ex-Senator L. P.
Mandevllle. of Carroll, furnishes them to us from
memory. They are quoted below:
In
abandoned. It was then proposed that
Atlanta should erect a special building and T, V t .??? V \. experiments
make haraAllaoHwaa.l7i.il .u.LJ a,, which 1.4 hai already mails have coavlncc.1
hint that no better terlilissf can bo found
make her collective exhibit anyhow. Mr.
Barns, our comminioner, secured a place
for Atlanta and came home to report what
he had done,
We most confess that we were not tapsc
laity struck with the idea of a separata build
ing for Atlanta. Wa had no fears but what
the money could bo raised with which to
build it, but wo were apprehensive that our
manufacturers might prepare (o make tbelr
exhibits In tho main building, and thns leave
the Atlanta building without n fair repro
sentatlon of what wo ere really doing in the
way of manufacturing, A largo meeting
of manufacturer! hold some time alnoa
coincided with thia view and the
project of a special building waa for the time
abandoned, it being agreed that each manu
facturer would exhibit under hla own classi
fication and that Atlanta headquarters would
be established in the main building.
Since thattlme, however, another meeting
ot manufacturers baa been held, and it lias
been determined to havo the apactat building
aa at flnt intended. The manufacturers agree
that even where they make competition
exhibits in the main building, they will
alio make anexhlbitln tho Atlanta building-
If thia is done, ths building will be filled to
overflowing and aucb an exhibit made os will
doincalculablegoodfor Atlanta. Tho move
ment ie already under way. and a subscrip
tion paper haa been started to raise the re
quisite money. One firm heads the list with
$300 and many others havo subscribed .$104
each.
We cheerfully waive tho doubts wa have
entertained on this question, and will co-op
erate to tho beat ot our ability in the move
ment for a apeetal building. We are lor
Atlanta, and wherever she starts wears with
her. Our good elty depends more on her
manufactures than on anything elae. It la
her shops and her factorial that must make
or mar her future. As .they grow ahe will
grow, and If they do not grow ehe must
???tend still with them. Anything that tends,
tbrrvforc, to advance the lateral's of our
manufacture* should meet the hearty and
prompt support of our people at large. {There
ia no dtisen in Atlanta who owna a foot of
around or who does e dollars worth ot busi
ness, that is not personally interested in this
exhibit. 11 it la made complete and full and
entertaining, at it can be, it will have inch
an effect on our manufacturing Interests as
our own exposition had, which waa to treble
them in four years. We can make an exhibit
that will annas visitors to New Orleans and
establish Atlanta firmly as tbe leading indus
trial city of the south. That once done, she
will go to 100,000 population without a bait
or a break.
AN ORIGINAL METHOD OF POND DRAIN
1NO
The Albany Newt records the auccees ot an
experiment which promises to have as ini
portent a bearing upon the development of
southern and aonthwest Georgia aa the system
ot artesian wells. It seems that Colonel John
P. Fort, who waa the first to demonstrata the
practicability of boring artesian wells in that
section, conceived the idea of draining the
stagnant ponds which are scattered over south
west Georgia, by running them off through
the subterranean passages that are known to
exist at a distance of from seventy to one
hundred feet below the surface.
Colonel Fort's experiment was made on
his Hickory Level plantation in Dougherty
connty, and the pond upon which he
experimented is situated about tiro
hundred yards from bis ' pioneer ar-
We trust that this successful experiment
may lead to othera equally as ancceasfui.
KEENE'S FAILURE.
Speculation haa ita mils posts, find the
mile poala lead to tbe Jumping-off place
Those who undertake the journey can travi
no other road. Occasionally a bag of gold
is found at the end of one of the beautiful
ealclnm light rainbows that adorn tho land
scape, but from the rainbow to the jumping-
oil plaoe is not more than a day???s journey.
Large numbers of fatuon's people have trav-
ed this road during the past twenty years,
and as many more will travel it during tho
twenty years to come.
The latest traveler of any note iaMr. James
It. Keene, lhis gentleman, attar finding
many bags of gold at tho ends
ot ns many rainbows, has at last
reached bis jonrney???s end. The particulars
of hia final plunge are related,in the dispatch
es printed in yeatcrday'i Constitution, end
they ere even of Interest to those common
place people who are in the habit of earning
tbelr living by tho sweat of tho brow or in
the ardlnary routine of business. Some of
these simple-minded, commonplace people
will even go so far aa to aympathias with
Mr, Keene, but we may be sure that none of
that gentleman's friends, acquaintances or
"spot" companions will shed a tear over hie
failure. On the coutrary, tbe harpies in and
around Walt afreet are already engaged in
fighting over his financial remains.
It ia a desperate crotjrd, engaged
in a desperate business. They
would bo glad to make capital
of theireoula and refile them off to the devil
If only to keep the blood stirred by the ex
citement of gambling. They have not a
???park of humanity left in their aordld lives,
not a generous impulse, not a auggeation of
honesty' except to illustrate tbe old eaying
that there ought to be honor among thieves.
As cold-blooded a lot of hyenas as ever waited
for the going down of the moon to scratch in
a graveyard.
Of this element Keene su one of the lead
ers, aa rccklesa as any, as unfeeling is any.
He waa called generous by tho New York pi
pers because he gave a hotel porter two dol
lars for brushing his coat and a bare
footed beggar-girl tan cents to buy
a loaf of bread. He had hla fast horses, his
wine suppers, hia coaching parades, his fan
faronades and his what-nots. In the bloom
aud glory of hia renown be was speculating in
breadstuff, and provision!, cornering wheat
aud corn and meat???alwaya bent upon ad
vancing the price of the necessities of life.
By thia means he got In debt to the poor, and
with one turn of the wheel Providence baa
paid him off.
Time, according to the old poet, goes by
turns. This ia only another way of saying
that Providence makes its influence felt
sooner or later. Mr. Keens is only one of
many hundreds who are engaged in tha bus
iness of preying upon tbe public through
the methods invented in Wall street. Soon
er or later each and all of there will follow
Mr. Keene to the jumping-off place.
ECHOES FROM THE PEOPLE.
Young Lady, Album. Ge.-I remember to have
reen many ywn ago Hues written on John Wtlkea
Booth, beginning, --Oh, its, him a grave aa broad
??? . ???wjvp. ??! ths Udal wave? measarelsre
moUou Can you set me a ropy ot them ,nd
[Ive the author and cucumeuncca under which
vy were written?
The lines you allude to were written. It la mid,
by a reddest ot Springfield, 111. Tha ctreum-
???tancss were these: Shortly after Booth was killed
Oh! give him a grave as broad is tbe sweep
Ot the tidal wavea'ImeaiurleM motion.
Lay him to sleep In tnearms ol the deep
Since hla heart waa as tree as the oc.-att.
It was liberty slain that maddened bis brain
To avenge the dead Idol he cherished
Bo 'tls meet that the main, never curbed by a
Should bold the last freeman now perlebed.
The dust of tbe brave could not rest in the grave
Of a land where blind force bath dominion.
Butthe step ol a alavn never soiled the proud wave
That apurueth the hamper and prison.
All the hosts of the despot defylDg,
May not sleep lu tbe sod, ny a nation???s feet trot
I hat he shamed with blagloryln dying.
Yes, bldehlm away, from the -ad eyes of day
In the coral of sea green abysses ,
Where themeimUdena gay, aa they fly thro'
BhaSf pm'ple hla pale cheeks with kisses.
DURING the week
Let them moan him with music
Let the tempest bell oil, tbe repose of a soul.
More sublime than the sound of lta surges.
Be hath written his namo, In letters of flame,
O'er the pathway to Liberty???s portal.
And the serfs that now blame, now crimson with
shame,
When they learn they have enrsed an Immortal.
He hath died for the weal, of a world 'neath the
heel
Ol too many a merciless Nero,
at while there Is steel e
That God's reogeance t
Thsn give him a grave as broad as tho sweep
Of (he tidal waves??? measureless moUon,
Lay our Brums to sleep In the arms ol the deep,
Since his heart waa wide as the ocean.
W. H. C.. Athens: 1. What relation are General
William T. and Senator John Sherman t 2. Native
atato of each?
I. Brothers. 2. Ohio.
Subscriber, Oostenaula, Ga.: Is there any sale lor
confederate money? It so where and what 1st?
Yes. but the demand Is not steady, and the price
paid Is a mere trifle.
Subscriber, Talbotton.Ga.: Where Is tho larg
est suspension bridge In the wothl?
The one now being built across the Forth at
Qneensbnry. Scotland. It Is one mile and a third
In length.
B. C. II., Lockport, N. Y.: I am a physician of
twtnty.flve years experience. I wish to get Into ft
warmer climato for ths benefit of mv family.
Would there be any room for me In Atlanta, or
have yon all the M. D.'s your place can support?
We have a good many physicians here, bnt tho
old maxim ???there Is always room at the top" ape
plies.
J. B. K.. Batter, Ga: I see In your issue of ye
torday that Dr. Met!, In hla sermon before the Bap
fist convention, asserts that the eunuch whom
Philip baptised was an African. I have been of
the oplnlnn that he was a Jew, and wonld like to
know ot Dr. Melt his authority for saying he waa
an African, taking It for granted that so learned a
man haa what he at least conceives to bo good au
thority for tbe assertion. I have thought that
Cornelius was tho first Gentile coaverted alter tbo
atcenfion, and that no Gentiles were In tbe temple
upon tbe day ol Pentecost, but tbat tbo Jews "out
of evory nation under bearen??? were there, and
had, llko tho onnuch???mat " ?????? *
tbelr annual temple wont
Dr. Melt says tha Blblo la his authority for saying
tho eunuch was an African. In Acta 8:27, it Is said
ho was "a man of Ethiopia, an ennucb, ol great
anthorlty under Candace, queen ot the Ethio
pians." Be supposes the Ethiopia referred to was
In Africa. Bo Is not to be understood, though, as
aaecrllo* that tho eunuch was a negro.
8tndent, Atlanta: Wbat are the lengths ot the
Nile, Mbsbfippt and Amazon?
Tbe Nile, 4.109 miles, Mississippi 8,ICO miles aud
tbo Amazon 4.034 miles.
_ LAB. Atlanta, Ga: 1 To what denomination
, docs Dr. Talmadgo belong? 2 Where did the negro
e <F2iptlng from?
1 Presbyterian, 2 Be la supposed to be a descend
ant ot Bam.
J L W, Itlokory Flat, Sa: 1 Wbat haa became ot
General Pemberton, of Vlcksbnre notoriety? 3
Were General.A. S. Johnston and General J. E.
Johnston related, and If so wbat was the relation
ship?
1 General Pemberton Is dead, 2 Tho biographies
ot tho two are sllont as to their relatlonsblo it any
existed. General Albert Sidney Johnston was a
nafivo ot Kentucky, while General Joseph
Johnston Is a Virginian.
Constant Beader, Atlanta. Ga.???la calomel a min
eral or a vegetable eubstance?
It la one ot ths preparations orltorms of mercury,
a metal.
No very definite answer can be given, but there
la good reaton to believe that several centurlee.be-
foro Christ flrearms were used In India an** In
China.
B. V.. Live Osk, Florida-Whlch was the
most destructive Are In the world's hlstoiy?
So far aa the destruction of property la concerned
It Is generally concede d that the great Chicago Ore
ot 1871 heads the Hat. It destroyed properly worth
$192,000,009, and 250 lives.
B. A.. Seneca, 8. C.???How esn I tell Roudan
fowls ot purs breed?
Boudens stand and walk erectly. The males
weigh from eight to ntno pounds; the hens from
flyetoreven. They are lumpy in shape, evenly
???peckted white and brown, with Urge comb, crest
and beard. 8elect those with pink white feet,
black and while plumage and good crests.
R.C.L , Canton, Him: Please inform me where
can set a copy ot Hon. B. H. Bill's ???Notea on file
Situation."
It would be dlfflanll to get a copy, but It might
be done by advertising for It.
D. P. M??? Jonesboro, Ga.???1. Is "lhanks" con-
ale eicd cor red? 2. Is It Dot nted by a largo portion
of tho boiler class ot English 7
1. Certainly, 2 Your supposition Is correct. The
simple word "thanks " In acknowledgement of a
favor or courtesy sounda very well, but tbo frisky
habit some peoplo have ol saying "Toanks,thanks,
thanks,??? whenever the occasion offers makes a
good old word ridiculous by the unnecessary ropt-
Utloo.
C. B. J??? Eilerton, Ga.???t. Why U It that our
railroads do not offer lower rales tor summer tray
el? 2 Wtd there bn any inducements In low rates
this summer? 8- Why (s it that they are so far be
hind reads sast and west lu this ptrtlculai?
land 2. llouroorrotpondent will look In the ad
vertising columns ot Tua Constitution from day
to day, he will And tow summer rates advertised by
various roads. S. They are not behind other roads
when the cltcnmataneea ol the case are con
sidered.
W A Ram toy, Augusta, Ga.: I notice to your pi-
r a ommutttcatloa from E L P, Madison, ua.,
that he has In his pomemion a silver c tin (half dot
tar) withUtti 1 scripfioa: "Pre-ented to W A Ram-
soy by hla Mother, July 9,1861." 1 have nodoubt but
tt la my property. I bad stolen from me some time
about 1885, a box containing silver and gold coin,
1th streral relics given me by my motner, as welt
_i some little arlelre given me by my fetner In 1880,
who died April. 1884. My mother died .1884. We
eiwayt chatted a small negro boy otlhe swaltug,
lium the tact be runaway aud left the night el the
???-.calleg and have never area him since Yon can
???end thia letter to him and It he Is aafiaflvd It Is
mine then he can send It, U not I do not want It
and I would only want it aa a relic In remem
brance of my mother.
A -tip's Crew kiriins (jaavaaes.
Boston, Man.. May 3.???G Jobmon.a merchant ot
Pott an Prince, writes undir the date of April 10th,
that the sloop Grepptcr. flying tke English flag,
commanded by fcamuel t Partington, a submarine
diver and working on A cay Island, about 80 miles
west of Port an Prince, naa been captured and
burned by the natives She had on board some
110,000 worth ot wrecked cargo, from the royal
mail steamer Nile, which was plundered and
destroyed. Tbe crew was either killed or driven
the mennubu by the natives. The government
dispatched (ship of war In search of the crew.
It la (eared the;
natives who retard t
Tuesday, April SS.
In a Philadelphia baseball game, the nmplre,
Wm. McLean, angered at remarks made about
him, threw a bat violently Into the crowd. A row
ensured. McLean was put under a SiOl bond. Tbe
wareblp Portsmouth arrived at Providence yester
day from St Thomas with one ease of yellow fever
on board. Governor Ordway, of Dakota, has glvi
bond ot $10,090 to answer charges ot maUea-ence.
Several large lumber mllle In different parts
Michigan were burn, d yesterday, at a total lorn
about 1701,000. Mayor Gulllate and the new coat-
cilof New Orleans were lneugnrated yesterday.
The stockholder! ol the New York tcedemy
music have denounced Mapleeon ae playing false
with tbelr Interest. Frank James has arrived
Booneville. Ho., and released on a 81,000 bond.
Bam T. Wilson, a convict guard, near Vicksburg,
waa lynched by negroes yesterday. Henri Roche-
fort'e ton Is alto misted wifi, thccoircepondent
O'Kelly In Egypt. Circulars advocating the Aquero
movement hare been circulated In Havane.
laborers lu the South African diamond fields bare
struck because they were searched at tbe end
each day???s work.
is tbs cirr.
Yesterday afternoon a meeting of manufacturers
and their executive committee was held at the
office of Comminioner Barns lor the puipoee
dlscnmlng tbe question ot Atlanta???s special build
ing at New Orleans. Major Bams was authorized
and requested to go ahead with the arrangements
lot a collective exhibit ot Atlanta induitrles In
separate building, u heretofore proposed, and
celt upon our merchants and others Interested
tho success of the Atlanta enterprise.
WcdsaaSay, April SO,
Ex -Mayor Caleb 8sndera, ot Lawrence, Maas., has
been arrested for tampering wltn the ballot box
the December election. Arbnckle Bros.' coffee
mllle in Brooklyn, valued at $150,040, have been de-
???troyed by fire. The Union Pacific railroad has
announced a -'horizontal" reduction ot wage*,
general strike all along the line Is highly probable.
Tho Parts conference to determine electrical
unite ssarmbled yesterday. The proceedings wero
opened by M Jules Ferry, prime minister. M Louts
Cochery, minister ot posts and telegraphs, Is presi
dent. Delegates In attendance number sixty-four
representing twenty-six states. Daly, the inspected
dynamiter, has been removed from Berkenhead
Chester caatle to prevent the poealbtllty of escape.
The bill Imposing a tax on sales to take place
the stamp tax, will probably be passed by the Mex
ican congr ss. The prospect of this solution ot the
vexed question gives general ufitfaofion. In the
election tn Cuba for members of the Spanish codes
eighteen ot the 21 are conservatives. The election
In Spain was quiet.
IN THE CITY. '
The suit ot Colquitt, governor, vs. Bonfroe et al,
zntt to recover certain interests paid banks to the
detendent while state treasurer, was called In tbe
superior court yesterdsy. Owing tothe unavoida
ble absence of Judge Lester, whole at counsel In the
case,the trial waa postponed until May 13th. Major
J. J. Williams, of the wholesale commission house
at J. J. Williams & Co., died at hla home at Stone
Mountain yesteiday.
Therakay, May 1.
The supreme court ot New York yesterdsy grant
ed an attachment against the property ot the Gcor
Bla railroad and Banking company tn a salt by Wil
liam J. A. Fuller. The Georgia railroad and Bank
ing company guaranteed tbe payment ot fire hun
dred mortgige bonds representing 1500,040 of the
PortRoyeliaUroad. A heavy storm prevailed In
Buenos Ayres. A Mussulman agitation is in pzo-
grealn the Caucassus. The firm ot Ward 4 Foster,
ot New York, has suffered by tho forgeries of W,
J. Philips, the defaulter. Dr. E. J. Barker, the
oldest editor In Canada, Is dead.- The special em
bassy appointed by the king ol Slam Is expected
to arrive In New York from Liverpool, on tho Alas
ka, roma time during this week. Tho envoy Is
halt-brother to the king ol Slam, and Is accompa
nied by his wife and six or eight noblemen of the
blghertreuk.
IN TBS CRY.
On the 7th lost, about fitly Journalists from
Maine, Massachusetts, Now Hampshire, Vermont,
Conneollcut'gnd Rhodo Island will leave Boston
ana trip south over the East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia lino- The programme ol thotonrista
embrace- a visit to Atlanta, and tboy will probably
arrive hero abont the lonrteonth or fifteenth. Jeff
Morris, a negro boy,was knocked from the railroad
track near Balman???a plow factory, some lime dur
ing Tuesday night. Bo waa found yesterday
morning tn an Insensible condldltlon. He was
cut In a half dozen places.
Friday, If ay 9.
About 140 hands employed at the round house
and on tha eastern section of the New York, West
Snore and Buffalo railroad, at New Durham, K. J.
???truck yesterday, Tho company hu failed to pay
the wages dne for the past three months. In Boland,
Iowa, on Tuesday, Edward Thompson fatally
crashed his wife???s skull with an ax and then
Jumped Into tho well headfirst and was drowned.
A general strike haa been Inaugurated among
tho freight handlers In Buffalo. Gangs otmenln
???event depots have quit work, and othen are ex
pected to do so. Policemen are etatloned eo ae to
pieserve order. Three hundred tracklayers on the
Ontario and Quebec road have struck for higher
wages. The convocation of tho university ot Ox
ford has decided by a vote ot 444 to 321 to admit
women to a participation In the honor examina
tions. The Thetis, which is to be the flagship of
the Greely relief expedition, took her departure
yesterday afternoon et 2 o???clock from the Brooklyn
nary yard. The French steamer Assyrian, bound
hr Madagascar with provisions (or tho Frerch
forces, has been wrecked at Providence bland, In
the Iadlan ocean. 240 miles north eff Madagascar.
All of the German federal princes have agreed
that if the relctutag rejects the measure prolong
ing the anU-szctellst law, a dissolution ol that
body shall ensue.
in Tire CITY.
Yesterday was tho annual celebration day ol the
Pullen county Sunday school association. The
schools spent the day at Ponce do Loon. The new
officers were Installed. Dr. Thomse msde tbe In
troductory address. Master Willie Hemphill da
Uvored the address cl welcome, and waa applaud
ed by tha Chautanqoa salute, tha waving ot thou
sands ot handkerchiefs. Speeches wero made by
Dr. McDonald aud othen. The declamation prize
waa awarded to John KlmbaU. Lula Brown was
awarded a book. Willie Harwell and Willie Han-
???ell were honorably mentioned.
MlerSsT, Mas B.
Forest flres'are reported in the Sbonanyunk and
Cataklll mountains, In New York, and In several
mounutuons parte at New Jersey and Pennsyl
vania. Brisbane, tn Pennsylvania, with 250 houses,
was burned up. faveral Uvea have been test. An
appeal lor aid hu been made for Brisbane.
Payne, president ot Medicine Valley bank,who was
shot and wounded by men who attempted to rob
the hank at Hu per, Kansu, died Thnradty night.
Tke barrel milt, press house, and canning mill
ot the Moetlc Powder company, at 8crenton, Pa???
were blown np to day betveen three and (onr
???'clock, and the soda, grinding and pulverising
mills were set on In and horned. The ship Alan-
fine, ol Bremen, Norway, was wrecked Wednesday
night In a northeast gale fire miles east ef Wolfe
Island station, Magdalen bland. Nine esn Uvea
wire lost. An attempt was mads to blow np a
???rein oh a Spanish railroad with dynamite. The
Oriental bank ol London haa impended. It me
weighted down with unproductive capital. Tha
Irish government bee requested Sonar Zotills, a
Spanish agitator, to leave Franc*, and eo arold
expulsion. Thb request bee been compiled with.
Egypt hu not been Invited to enter the financial
conference. The French cabinet will ask for an
additional credit of 90 C00 000 franca for the Ton'
quin war.
IN SIS CITY.
The whig republicans were In session hen
Thursday and yesterday. Mr. Johathan Norcyou
withdrew from the convention. A platform wu
adopted favoring a protective tariff, fits repeal of
Internal revenne, and prohibition. A state execu
tive committee wu appointed with General Long-
street as chairman. A resolution wu adopted
requesting leading repnbllcana of the north to
come to Georgia and speak during the pending
campaign.
laid*/ May 4#
WlUUm Brooks, a negro, wu hanged In Alexan
dria, Friday, for wife-murder. The house commit
tee on rivers and harbors hasabout concluded its
approprlatson recommendations. John Ever, the
scenlo artist of New York, died yesterday morning
at bb home in Hempstead, L I, in the 78fit year ot
hti age. The Irving ball democrats ot New York
have reorganized tor the coming campaign, and
have declared tor Tilden aud Hendricks. Tbe to*
bacoo monopoly in Costa Rico Is now fully estab-
lbhed and a decree hu been Issuod prohibiting
the plant being grown by farmere. The strike of
the Buffalo freight-handlers continues. Several
squade ot Italians have been Imported, but they
were roughly treated by the strikers. The sub
committee el the house elections committee have
decided to reporfin favor of Englbb, in the Indiana
election contest ol English against recto. The
bolter of the Whitney marble works at Gnurernent,
St Lawrence connty, New York, exploded yester
day, killing firemen Instantly and fatally Injuring
two others. In Philadelphia, Judge Thayer to day
delivered the opinion ol the court ol common
pleas No. 4, admitting Mrs Carrie B Kilgore to prac
tice. Every other common pleas court hu refused
her admission. Tbe jury In the esse ot Wm. An
drews In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, charged with
killing his wife and then burning her body at
High Springs, on July the 4th, 1881, returned a ver
dict last night ot murder In the second degree. The
secretary of the treasury yesterday afternoon lisued
a call for 110,000,400 3 per cent bonds. Notice is
given tbat principal and accrued interest will be
paid at tbe treasury on the 20th June next, and
interest will cease on that day. In the trial of
Black Wolf, a, Cheynno chief, and hb accessories,
in Mills City, Nebraska, for burning Anderson
rscche, Black Wolf wu found not guilty. Hunt
ing Wolf, White Bear and two others pleaded
guilty amidst a scene of excitement.
IN THE CITY,
Yesterday morning a street car fcelongijg to tbo
Metropolitan street car company wu entirely de
stroyed by fire. Judge Jared I, Whitaker died at
hb residence, No. 37 Jones avenue, yesterday
morning.
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