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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA. tSA.. TUESDAY DECEMBER 30 1884 TWELVE PAGES.
THE FROZEN NORTH.
STORIES OF THE GREAT FROST
BELT.
A CokrsCo Party delated ind m tbe Atony of Death
-The Arrival of tbo Btieuen-A fled Soon#
Presented-A MUerljr Women Frozen to
Soath-A Child la the Air, Etc.
Dzinria.Col., December 28.-???The first report
ot hunger, cold, and death in the mountain*
comes from Eagle county. N. It. Smith,
Dotsero, started a week ago last Tuesday, in
company with Elbridge Forsyth, and two
teams, from that place for Co flee Pot springs,
for lumber. That night the storm
gan. On last Sunday the msil
carrier reached Dotaero from Carbonate, with
information that these men had not been seen
aince Wednesday and as the storm had raged
with unabated Airy, it was known that some
thing bad gone wrong with them. A relief
party of five men was started i At once, and
after a struggle through the drifting snow
and a???furious gale of wind;they found For
ayth half dead from hunger and cold, and so
weak that be was -unable to move. When
they asked for Smith the famished man point
ed come distance away and gasped:
???He died yesterday morning/*
And then said!
???Boys, you are too late for cither of us/'
While tho mound'was exa nined and Smith's
bedy was found half covered with snow and
frtzen hard, in Forsyth's clenched hand was a
scrap ol paper on which he had written, with
hie benumbed fingers, a brief word to bis wife
as follows:
"Dear Addle: We cannot live another
night. I want you to have everything.
ItOACH Foesyth.
He was carried to Willow Springs and eared
tor. Ilia feet are badly frozen, ami he will
be crippled for lifo. Smith, tbe dead man,
came-from Itochester, New York.
ABDUCTED AND FROZEN.
Three Lmlle??? Pursue a Flying Sleigh,'but the
Little Prattler Perishes In tbe Cold.
Dims Fam.h, N. Y., December 28.???Three
bare headed women ran through tbo street!
here, pursuing with loud cries a man in a
aleieh. Uo stood up in tho sleigh whipping
his Lone right and left, urging the animal to
the top of its speed. It was about nightfall.
The sfeigb gained on the pursuing womon an.l
disappeared in the darkness. One of tbo
women fainted in tbo snow.
1'cople who noticed tho cutter go by saw a
bundle on the front seat. Tbo bundle was a
veer old be by. The man who whipped tbo
horse was Elijah. Bruce. Tho woman who
tainted in tbe snow was his wife. Sbo had
lately left bio roof alleging long continued
maltreatment. He had gone to the house
where she had found refuge and stolen her
baby. She was carried homo unconscious.
There was the greatest excitement in tbo
town. Tho night was tho eoldest one of the
year. Deep snow covered tbo ground aud
made tbe fields white. Tbo man drove on
toward tho north part of the county. Ho got
' tbe baby so hurriedly, and escaped with it to
his sleigh with so great dispatch, that he had
not time to get garments and wraps for it. The
baby cried as the man rode under the starlight
hitnt, aud then was very quiet.
when it had been still a long time the fath
er looked at it. It bed frozen to death. Tho
father entered his house with the dead child
in his arms.
The mother prayed for her child, and did
not know that ft was dead. It was thought a
great outrago by the people of the town to take
a babe out doors on sueh a bitter night*as that
of tkeabduetion, and detectives were sont out
to hunt down Bruce and arrest him on achargo
of cruelty to the child. Thoy scourod tho coun
ty for him.
Tbo abduction took place on Tuesday night.
To day detoctives found Bruco aud arrested
him for alleged cruelty to a child. They
asked for the child and demandod its custody.
Ho told them that ho was powerless to give
them tho child.
??????Why!** they ashed.
???Because it is dead. You will havo to ask
God to give you the child/*
ne described the cold night ride, and said
that the baby died before he got home, aud he
teemed bloken down with sorrow.
over the trtgie oc-
BROWN ON THE TARIFF.
Be Would Biicilmloote In Favor of Amerf- j
can Industry.
The following letter has been addressed to Hon.
A. R. Wright, of Rome, by Senator Drown.
WAsmvoTozr, D. C??? December 18th, 1881.???Hon.
Augustus R. Wright, Rome, Georgia.???Dear Sir:??? i
I thank you for your letter of 15th instant. I was j
not aware that there were parties at work seeking
todivlde tbe democratic party of Georgia, on the |
tariff question.
I have louc nothing whatever to encourage any |
such course, end I do not think the party ought to
divide on the Issue. There arc shades of differ
ence of opinion among democrats on this quo*
lion, hut wf should always have a little toleration
towards each other, and not sunder party ties and
t*corne petrousl antagonists because we do not
fully agree.
There ban never been a tariff bill passed upon a ,
strictly patty line, ao Ur as J can gather, during
GORED BY GANTT.
IN THE HOG PEN.
When Ha Fills tbe Editor With a Wonderful Story
Ol Life and Love In Mesieo???The Olrls Bathlag
as a Fsetlmc???A Horde of Relatives???A
Visit to ihs A Isms???A Quiet Race.
Hie Royal Porkers With Which Georgia
Greets the New Tear. .
From the Dawsoif, Go., Journal.
Mr. O. H. Crouch slaughtered three porkers lost
Thun day that aggregated 1,150 pounds net.
Frcm the Milledgerllle, Go., Recorder.
Last Friday sndfisturday were good days for
435 pounds wb
Frcm the Perry, Ga., Home Journal.
From the Athens Banner*Watchman.
Mr. Stephen Gould, Hon. commissioner for
Texes, secretary 8. A. Merchants' exchange, sec
retary 8. A. hoard of trade, and rspreseutiog s,
A. Dally Express, 8. A. Dally Times and Texas
Btockman, is now on a visit to bis lady???s family
in Athens. Mr. Gould, despite tbe fact that he
is so overladen with offices and honors, gave ns a
friendly greeting when we sought hfm out. Of
comae he is sn intelligent, well posted gentleman,
and knowing how it is himself, submitted to
Infliction of being interviewed
with a patience that would not have
wme iHcuimi.auu ,?? a,.#, .u uwmr huiiu. .uo i done discredit tO Job. The Only Umo he showed i uuu. iuuic m uiuiu iu w?? u??u hwu uteri! n is
parties have always been divided on tarlfl bills, fight and threw bis hand on the hip-pocket wav the locality, when it comes to hog-raitiug or any*
I when ycfcrlbe.dilre.ttd blm u "Colonel." w. I thin*el*of PTOrmlfUImport. j ??
From-the Hswklnsville. Ga., News. ??? m
Messrs. L. 11. and J. W. Harrell, of this *eonh&V
Mr. Gould says that fiari Antonio is a growing I killed a fine porker each the other day. Tnofdr-
city of about 85,???? Inhabitants, it is something I mer a hog weighed 604 pounds and the latter's ."W
over a hundred miles from the Mexican frontier, I Rounds. Mr. Mills Blot*-** *???
and the nearest town is.Austin, 85 miles distant.
and i
the other, some whig* one war and
some the otlit r. and ??o on. Iu other
i enn t??y right, howevei.
am not f?? r pro tecthin per *e. You tay you have
ifgsithd ir.ess fora tariff for revenue with inei
dental protection. That is exactly my position.
Hill uir inn. ui., iiuncrfuunni.
Mr. J. W. Mann killed a hog last Thursday night
that weighed 815 pounds net.
From tbe Dublin, Ga., Post
Mr. Isaiah Jackson killed a bog last Friday
evening that weighed 470 pounds net.
From tbe Hamilton, Ga., Journal.
Mr. IS. H. Williams killed on last Friday fire of
the largest hogs we have beard of this winter.They
weJgc<f326,3&A15.318, and ??92 respectively
aggregated net the large amount of 1,571 puuu<
pork. '
From the Albany, Ga., News.
Mr J. W. McMillan recently killed three porkers
that aggregated 885 pounds net. btilL some peo
ple contend that hogs can't be raised in this'sec
tion, There is more in the mau than there li is
frontier,
??nu mn iitMni Himi u.aiiiiiu. i?? imid distant. I
The country mound it Usparcely settled by ranch
men and cow boys. Wool and cattle j
ills Blount killed nineteen porkers.
le other day, the heaviest weighing 411 pounds.
From the Perry Home Journal.
the principal articles of
. although enough groin and vegetabh
to support tbe people. Han. An too lo h
spring in the Incorporate limit-??? "'Mr. Goufl
??? property ere aa safe
Athens. They have
There are farmers in Houston county Who sell
,Mk and bacon every year. Mr. 8 L. Norwood, of
near Perry, has killed 90 bogs this winter, and
has thirty-fire more to kill. Them bogs will prob
ably average 150 pounds In weight, each, making
total of 'J.750 pounds of pork. Ho has sold meat
racb year during tbe last ten, and last year he sold*
t oo worth of meat and lard.
From tho Irwlnton, Ga. Appeal.
, . - tariff.
J deny that congress has the powor to raise a
dollar more than In necessary for the support of
(hegovernment. Including the necessary expenses
and lor the payment of tbe public debt. The
government should f **??? ???*???
and no more t??? *
are absolutely
In collecting I lie amou nt necessary for the sup- I *P**ngjntb# lncorpor*
port of tbe government, I bclfevc wo should dls- ??*???*.??? - ??? - ???
eliminate in tovur ot American manufactures and 'AW. ,**????? 1 linc&be war. ??? This'll b stride totntrd indepcad*
Aimrlcc tabor, Mtfalu.t foreign nunnfutuie. ?????SBgg.Pf j&fc ??? l) ** ???? th??.lnbnUIjnnu ,,??????? " n???wnnumpcao
and forelan labor. I ** e thrifty ana rndnttrious. and even the Mexicans I .. .. , , _ _ ...
1h.tofrcnuciitlymod thla illuitretlon: Sun- *'o*'iul*t.I**<*??b]eriioe,ttiatrarclyglre trouble. I fiom the Arnerlcu??. 0??., Rcpab]lr??n.
pore my pul of (be til on ??ng.r and colTee to be I
(tn dollar. ??? ynr. Now, no hr U the .mount I. ,ew
...... .... - i cruiRM In the way of office., with which they are
- Vagrant rote,
KuuuiMfiB/nit. nuR,i??fiirMtuo inuuui in I . r. .U. I.??? .r.irr
concerned. It is immaterial tome whether I pay SSSSi^SflJS^l of au b
it all on sugar or all oircoffoe, or five dollars on I f??v r yF All
ihiioouuTf y slid as we have???aiTlmDortant*'suamp I ?? refcl piidc iu Texas retaining the campaign han- ffgWte 200 pounds. Two more were killed in
inicrcst. I prefe r to piy the whole teu^^ dollar! on n??r,aud if there is any danger of tho vote falling bovemtx r and another ill December, aggregating
sugar and protect that Interest to the extent of * bilow lbs requisite majority, will go across the t t75 p_ounds. Last week tbo sow was killed ana
ten dollcr* and get my coffee free.
I pay the same amount of mouey In either case, i ???- ???- - -~w-.
III j sy all on coflke I protect uo American Indus- SnrJSffc^hlS? aSS5SSi??S^Sf^^El?!!fr JSf*
try; if I pay it all on sugar, I give ten dollars Sj??? work cheap, and don t require much watch-
protection to an American Industry. However, I lv h\???
you have a letter from me, Judge, on this subject .?????? i.~ ;rrt-ty;
some time 11 rice thst gsvo you my views corrootir. I Pm whcHf^cfs femeleado fell the]
lonnds. Two more were killed in
..???..-uff * *-
.pounds.
weighed i50 pounds, and the remaining shoatis
now 1st, and at one year old will tip the beam at
700. Thus he has raised, with little trouble, over
1,000 pounds of pork on an original outlay o! eight
???me time since thst gsvo you my views corrootiy, I , ine ? orl ??> ~ at wneu thc/r lemeiai do full ther
nd I have no reuson to change them. / I descend very low. Until a youog girl Is inarrlod,
I have made two or three speeches on this quoi- '???? i tttn !??? r ??? * nt ^
cn that havo been published aud sent all over I receive her sweetheart in the pres*
dollars.
From the Ilswkinsvlllc, Ga., Dispatch.
There la probably ea muqh home-raised meat In
tlcn that havo been published aud sent all over
KUorgla. My own mind has undergone noi
change whatever since their delivery, ami pultlif
there is a flats of democrat* in the case I supposed
ence of the household. If she walks out^tho
whole brood Is at her heels, with one eye on the
fair damsel and the other on every min who
E nscs. 1 he only way to ovade tbo vlgl
nre of such guardians of her vlr-
this section this season ar there has been at any
time since the war. Corn Is worth front GO to 75
| cents per bushel, and dressed pork G cents a
pound. An averago crop of cotton was made, and
tbe best grade is aelllug at to cents. These
li no poor cotton. It is all pretty. becau*o there
were no rain storms to stain it. Flour, sugar, oof-
fee and other articles ol household necessity are
A NOTABLE FAMILY.
rif.rto (Ibirliriln.iu.RRluKt It. ?????*loreif. one of tho fewlaconttre.
Nowiouwlllflnil.tarKowInBOf tho ilomocr*- toibloodibcdwith llireo qnlotpeople. They??ro
ey of Georgia who favor my view of it. and nnoth* f^" T *I e < r .?5??? e ??? hoereycr, and when you arouse them
cr wing that would take the other view of it. hut they neither ask nor give quarter. A number of
wby is It noMSsary that WU should draws party iSf/if* 11 * A!?,???J Dkrn, /* rrylDg ,nt0 Jogjog
1 ue and make divisions out of thd differences of families, for many of the
this character? It seems to mo It would bo Rirls are exceeding beantliul, bat tbo offspring is
very nuwlse to do m.i
I want to protect, os far as I can an the rulo laid
bwir, tbe capital invested in manulacm^^^m
??? especially desire to protect, as far as 1 ??
the rnle^AtocricanJstmr, and the (dau of men
M labor, who are properly ???
you ns wraith producer*
i for calling my attention to this mat
1 he Sons ond Daughters of the Late Robert
E. Leo,
From the New York World.
At tbo recont opening of tho Metropolitan
museum of art I saw among the many notable
no credit io the country. Th'eyTwo lookeH down I P*??pl????? therm Mist Mary Lee, tho second
upon, and generally turn out badly. But there Is daughter of UcncraJ Robert E. Leo, Sho is a
one serious drawback to such unions. I plain looking lady of thirty-five, and, liko her
stfLswTOJsia 1 : i^fSsszsJaJuf??r??taiSS^
??? ??? their dciiarturc rich one ta .xpwMd to I I-oo resembles her lnotkor la anpearanco moro
Il????ii ladnd In jail.
Excitement her. la high
llnnorln, Rnmlnll.
Kacillb, Tcnn., Dreember II,???A meet
ing area called at tba Merchant.??? exchange to-
tlnj, and arranaemenla were mede to welcome
Mr. Betnuel J, Jlendall. The meeting, aa ex-
prcaartl br the clieirmen, had no iiolltical
.IgnlAcancc, but waa .Imply to taka alepe for
on appropriate recognition ul one ol the fore-
moat of American atatMUian. ???If any man,"
continued the apeaker, ???ahould be honored by
thcpcufd.01 the nation,and more particularly
thoae of tbit eectiou, that man wea Samuel
llandall."
, TWO MEN i-YNpHBt>.
Aud a roi.lblllty Kalita Hint They Were
Innocent.
Knw Oat-tana, December 5a.???bait Friday
lilgbt Jordan Darker, colored, ond hi. ion
Daulel were arreited at Purvia atatlon, Mia*.,
.-borged with hating placed obstruetiona on
tbe Kortheaatcrn railroad track, wreoking n
train eml cauaing the death, by aialding, of
Ksglnear Turner and the fireman. When the
wreck waa reported Top Urillln waa put
in charge of the detective work.
Alter icn.luerablo herd work in gotting
nil the facta of the caae, and the eluoa to tho
draperate men, the d.teetivea want to work.
Their elforta war# n ahorl time aucceeafbl, and
the two Darken, wboaa reputation, had boon
under a cloud for aome time, were arrested and
todgttl in Jail nt Purvia. Thaae men had fiim-
illra and tired there for a number of yean.
Mating boon placed In jell they
were charged with tho commluioa of the
rrime, and altar a time they ronfeirad it.
They .aid they thought it wa. ??? height train,
r nd dtalrtd to wreck it In order to ileal (nun
the care what c.oda they wanted for Fhrilt-
urn. Titer did not intend to wrack the
I a t. C ter train and were aorry it waa dona.
They alio cxprc.icd neat aorrew at tha death
of llvb Turner. Further they admit-
l>d that they wrackwl tha
- freight train la the umo place
and for tha lama purpoa. on. year ago. The
new, of tha armt waa kept Very quiet, but It
aeon became common talk among railroad
men. Friday night, at midaight, fifty railroad
men, .po doctor., engine ere, fireman, braketuan
and it i lion man boardcl tho acath-bound
true, j.t??? hlwidiaa. It waa aoon apparent to
thega cn}h. train that ???oniothlng vary unuaual
w: l (oing to occur. The train atopned
* at Purvia, and the crowd got off end proeoadad
at oaea to the jail, where they broke down
the doom, and Bating placed rope, about the
Kirch, of the men, led them out. The wreck-
cm again eoufeaaed the crime, but begged
met piteeualy for their lire. It waa to ae
purpc.e. In tha mind, of tha mob then <ra<
only tbe blood of Bob Tamer crying from
the ground for vengeance, and with no further
ode they took tbe nienteapoint near the aohno
>d lb. wreck and etrang them apt* tnee. It
.waa one o???clock Baturday morning whan
tbe job waa completed, and ai the
liit men carting off the pale moon
peeped from behind e mountain 'of
clouds and lit with lie rays aac.no aa gbaatly
and aa horrible aa ena ever ubeida in this life.
There were the bodice of two notorious do,-
pc.dm., whose deeds had rendered th?m too
Uf V kr further life. And aa the moonbeams
glnt.Bid through the beugha et tha tiwcs
THE TENENSbEE IMPROVEMENTS,
Bumor.U Itaaaon I or Mr. Uandall???. Southern
Trip,
WianiauTON, Dccombsr 28.???The fol-
lowing ia given by the Star as a reason for f; ...???l*
Kinds IF. aouthorn trip: A number of mem- I rcMufrlne bill
hereof rongrria and oapitaliats are Investing
Antonios
and lead t
drifted f, _
American', conitaraatlon upward.' ol tbresi hnn-
drtd kln-ln-law attended the nuptials. _ The
ACROSS THE WATER.
Tbs NibfUtts Threaten Count Tolstoi with Death???
An Interview with a Djnsmlttr-Sentoaos of
Death Poised Uccn Vs Klen-LI Hun#
Chang's Troops at 7s! So. Etc.
Political matters in Ecuador continue
mixed. Scattered bands of revolution! its havo
taken poneaaion of several towns. In one of
the engagements that have recently occurred
'thirty or forty men were killed and the govern
ment forces retreated. General Alfiero, with a
force of revolutionists, landed on the Ecuador
coosij November 30. After a defeat by the
government troops, Alfiero retired to hit ship,
leaving his men to push into tho interior to
join the revolutionists there. On the 8th in
stant, Alfiero fell in with the government
steamer Huacho and captured hersfter a fight
in which about 400 men were killed on both
sides. The government has called out the
militia to meet the revolutionists.
St. Pxtxbsbukg, December 22.???The Navoe
Vnroye, in an article discussing Russia's in
terests in Corea, urges the government to
seize the opportunity now offered by the re
bellion in that land to raise the Russian flag
and so supplant England or any other power
competing for influence in that quarter, and
at the same time to obtain the much required
portion of tbe Pacific coast which is not
frozen over In winter. ???Sooner or later/' the
paper adds, ???Russia will have to settlo ac
counts with China. It is of tho utmost im
portance to determine definitely whether
Russia or China shall predominate in Corea."
Lokdox, December 28.???The Paris corres
pondent of the Times devotes considerable
space to-day to some account of the present
state of Russia. He says: ???Count Tolstoi,
Russian minister of the interior, is chiefly en-
ipd in the discovery and prosecution of ni-
lits. No sooner has one society of nihilists
been suppressed, than another springs
large sums of money in tho iron and coal
lauds in Tennessee and Alabama.
whole breed took uu a residence
themselves
??? ___??? _J process
removing hiss took ot foods. Tho merchant woit
worth about tlo.oto. but when at last they took
their avpsrturo he found himself a bankrupt and
jiiiui iu Avuucssce ana Aiauama, and are I fs now q day laborer. The Mexicans are so polite,
rldgwa I.W rail., .part, ras.lD. through Ala- sis??? hSwcvcr,???rc - F????? lwe -- T ???
borne, Tennessee, Kentucky ami into Virginia,
and in Alabama and Tannaaaoe it ia laid to be
tha beat ia tbo world. Northern men aro at
work in llirmingham, anil the Knglish and
homestead, near Waahington, where Mrs Loo
continued to livo after her marriage, Tho
oldest daughter, Mildred, turn traveled a great
deal aince tbe war, apending much i ''
time in Europe, but when here makes
homo with her brother Curtis
Lexington. . Mias Mary, the next lister, also
>u miiuiugiinm, nuti tuo r.ugiiBU Bull
Tennesseans are working out the iron at South
Pittsburg and the fhrnaces in Tennessee.
Representative MoMillan amt his brother have
bought 10,000 acres of eoal and iron lands in
that region since the adjournment of the la??t
session. For a year they havo boon gotting
out iron below tbo lowest price it can bo
brought her# from Europe, and they are aend-
ing pig iron to PitUburg and Philadelphia
cheaper than they can work it out there. For
??? *
has mad
Mona
been broken up. They do not consider
| iht???rC (a
J practice,
???if in still Indulged In, and Mr. G.laya It in ad* I
Mahlc, In walking ont with ladies, to avoid all
.bothVirginia
them only has children, and tho probabilities
are that ft is through him alone that the Lee
family and tho Cuatis family aro to bo perpet
uated.
Mrs. Robort E. Leo.was the onlr child of
streams and wsshfiolcs. They iudulge, howevor, w.. h | n . , K??J A
in modeat and decorous manner, ana their very I George Washington 1 ark Custis, who was the
movement Is so graceful that those who expect ???
??? oflapliij *- '???*- *???-
???u^humoral display will be seriously disap-
In speaking of tbo Alamo, onr Informant aaya it
la an old church, still standing Iu the heart of Ban
. t ??? , , . . - . . Antonio, aud althooih remodotod aluoeltipur
a 1 roars past, the river and harbor bill I chare by the sutc, presentt many marks of the
???ado appropriations to remove obstruo- ??????"???"J conflict. The walla are Ailed with bullet
iu the Tennessee rlrcr. Thl. year the "
tsiirniiwltita m.i non win uuirt ine
only son and heir Of Martha Waahington.
was from George Woahlitgtou and Martha
Washington that Custis obtained Arlington,
which, at tho opening of tho war, was ono of
the finest pieces of conntry property of tbe
south. It was the local southern homestead.
Tbo union 'forces took possession of it at tho
very owning of hostilities in 1852, and during
W*hFbii^wnrk???* ^ if?!!* 1 ??' S*???? 1 * 1 tb^rolusteel of a X host U ot l ^ood thirsty 1 Ibe war it was converted
When tho work is completed, there will baa I Mexican*, lead by Santa Anna In person. Mr. cemetery. According to
into
water-way ojron all tho year round from tho
iron furnaces of tho south to Cincinnati, Bt.
Louis, Louisville, PitUburg and Philadelphia.
Southern members say that when this is open
tbe Pennaylavanis furnacea will have to shut
Gould says U Is a mystery to blm why this band I of tho will of Georgo
national
provision
Washington
have been a better chancy for resistance: but It
tbe eldest son of Mrs. Let. Tbit oldest eon
utae the present General G. W. 0. Lee, anil be
ehtelnra #125,880 from the gorernment, in
Bpon the drad rare, the member, of the mob
??????? noii.lre.lj away in tbe
sterprelngiJi.deut and tb< plainliT. aighs of
tba ??md, atone brake tb. stilln.,. ol death,
l-alrr n.n akesrs that tba man lynched
The contaaaion waa
wSTi.i* .? , '* ,k,r by thrusting bis
kLulVUL^.t*"* tB ,r [*???* k* *v>??. and
j???r 't tkcm ,kcr ?? until they wren burned to
snrant *0 touch to tho northern ironworkors
has been kept a secret up to Ibis time. This
will sufficiently account for Mr. Randall's
trip. ___
MR. CLEVELAND???S CABINET.
John Goodg to bo L???rgad tor tho Navy De
partment,
Wasrixgvox, December, 28.-Ex-Congrass-
man John Goouo of Norfolk is to bo recom
mended to Mr. Cleveland as the ehoice of Vir
ginia democrats tor a place in tbo cabinet.
Tho navy department is tho one picked out
for Mr. Goode, lie probably knows as well as
anv man in tho country how navy yards ought
not to bo conducted, for he bos had to contend
against the political enginery set at work in
the yard in tils district manv times, and not
alwavs successfully. Mr. Goode, it is under
stood, will have no opposition.
Congressman John 8. Barbour, who has
been mentioned as a candidate for pmtmaator-
general, it is laid, will boa candidate for
Mahone???e scat in tba senate a year bonce, and
will urge Geode's claims.
Leading democrats who havo seen Mr.
(Utvelana recently havo been led to believe
that If Mr. Bayard it not made secretary of
lUta Mr. Thurman will be. Mr. Cleveland is
represented as often inquiring about Mr. Thur
man, and tho latter*! friends are very hopeful
that tba old Roman will receive a c*11 to Al
bany before many days have panted.
BKECHER AND HIS FLOCK.
He Asks If Thero la n Btrong Feeling
A R n??n.t lltm
X??w Yoax, December 28.???Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher, after he had concluded hie eer-
mon in Plymouth church to-day, touched
upon the dUatTeclion which existed among
some of his congregation, caused by
bis action in the late campaign.
Ue alluded to bis forty years p&storege, and
???aid ha naver mixed polities with hie thaology
in Uinpulpit. He said ha did not know how
fisritib trouble bodoyrewd, but only learned it
froift'/lba newspapers. If there were any
pewboldere offended he did not know them.
Ha did not want any dissatisfied itran to
sneak away. Let him come to Reecaer'e face
and tell him he it dissatisfied, acd Beecher
would bless him.
In relation to the paw rants he did not care
if they were diminished. 11a had lived on a
islsry of ft ,500 when be first became a preach
er, aud if necessary could livo up >n it now.
It there was a majority in the church, or a
strorg minority, who no longer wanted hi:u.
ha would go. It t?;e great, majority wisbod
him to stay ha would die with th*e::>. aud
nothing would drive him away. If he ??t.\ycd
the congregation would have to receive him,
not on a pitehfork bat in the palms ot their
??? afidi.
Mr. laadall to tte In C Xattaaeog*.
CHattavoosj. I*????fcer27. -{fpectoLJ-A tel*
etram was received to-day t y The Times from
ex fpeakrr Bandal!. stating th it he would be In
thfe city next Saturday- A rra pttoa and banqoet
will bf tendered him. Citizens ol all politicll
panics participating.
bnsjaughti driving the cuemy back wUba' a ???foarfui I but a trilling remnant of tho magnificent os-
. liy. M only whan Santa Anna hooded I tale* they owned in Virginia beforo tho war,
???*!!!??? ^*!^]!Wfr t Pnnjn. nndmadn hto not to speak or tho. hundreds ol .loves that
k^g???urgJHg ??????? h ??
1 fared better than ipany otbeps of the south
that were cquaRyyrcaltby botoro tho war.
General Custis Lcc,'lbough tho legal jrossos-.
or of $125,000 he received lor Arlington, hoi
a big heart and makes tho most liberal provis
ion lor hie Wro maiden sisters. Though, as
stated nt tho opening of this paragraph, Miss
Maiy Leo is a plain looking Indy, with no
pretensione to beauty, felto is gifted in intellect
and is a moat charming person. During tho
wor sho was moat of tlw time in Richmond
with her mother aud slaters, and with thorn
endured many privations. 1 havo icon a
little account book in which thero
wn??i n record of expenditures made on account
of tbo littlo party Mrs. Leo and her daughter*
messed with, it was seldom thoy had meat
or coffee, and the most exorbitant prices ha f*
* ' * or even green corn.
tho jK??fc-c*??lon of 8sn Antonio. Thero have boon
l a number of pitched battles fought on Its stroet*.
that literally run streams of blood. This is ono of
tbe uldiat cities in America, being an old trading
pc*t. and is rich In historic luchlcuLi. It haa now
GRANT???S TOOGBRY SBIZBD.
Vanderbilt Scoops ilia Old Soldier*# l*o??.???|
sessions.
N??w Yobk, December 28.???Tho Tribune
this morning publishes a statement to tho ef
fect that executions-havo been issued under ?? vr i-uun. nau-w?? ???uunm
tbo judgment recently rendered ogtinst Gon- | to le paid tor a chicken
era I Grant in favor of Win. II. VoudorbHt for I The bulk of the diet was
|150,0fH), which tho former borrowed- b a fore
tho failure of Grant A Ward, and
used in tho endeavor to keep that firm
on its feet. Tha executions aro.
said to cover General Grant** houses in Wash
ington ??nd l'hUadelphia, aud his farms noar .
B|. Louis and Chicago, and all hit relies of
bread and such???light article!. Mrs. Leo was
one or the moat patient and self-abnegating of
women, and though a confirmed invalid dur
ing the entiro war in which her husband was
such a prominent actor, naver complained,but
was, in the free ol constant misfortunes and
, , ??? threatened dangers, always resigned and se
wer, bis swords, medals, gifts from friends at | reno. She maintained this character up to
borne and foreign rulers, his pictures and his ( the very hour of her death,
brie a tree. General Bherman has, it is said, I A touching story, of which Mils Mary Leo
gone to Philadelphia and Washington to con- I is tbo heroine, is that after one of the terrible
suit friends of General Grant as to tha best I battles near Richmond, just previous to tho
means of relieving tba latter frcm bis embor- | eloce of the war, she aim soma other lady want
on the field to render whatever assistance they
could in tbe care of the wounded and dying
| soldiers of her father's army. One among
i these to whom she went to offer relief wa??
a youth of not over sixteen, who b*9???,
been fatally shot and ready to expire. Sho
saw tha poor fellow was going to die 1
??? ??????*????????? *^ttn5rlr *
Count Tolstoi, is familiar
with threat* of death Ho rarely
attend* a meetings of tho council. Whenever
ho stirs out it coots live hundred roubles for
extra police protection. White nihilism is
more dangerous than ever, the position of the
Jews is os fierce os it was a few years ago,
when tbe European press denounced with in
dignation tho anti-semetic outrages which
disgraced Russia. The great bankers,
especially those of German nationality, who
were previously interested in* giving wido
publicity tp the outrages, with a view to pre
vent tho investment of capital in Russia, are
now inclined to subsidize tho press to pre
serve silence. They take this course for tho
purpose of preventing the Impairment ot
European confidence in Russian finances.
The condition of which, at present, is not bril-
liont. It is suffering from tho diificulty..ex-
pcrienccd at present in collecting tbe
revenue on account of tho porsistent Ameri
can competition in tho grain trade, and of tho
ruinous expenso of ttie Russian advance to
Mcrv. Furthermore tbe protection systom,
which the Moscow manufacturers obtained
against tbo Silesian competition, has caused
the Silesians to establish hundreds of factories
in Russian polards. In these factories Ger
man operatives aro omployed, and the Biles-
ions aro thereby enabled to supply the Moscow
market # with goods at prices
frcm 5 to 10 per cent under
tho price demanded by the Moscow manu
facturers for precisely similar articles. Tho
despotism is Increasing, and the press is co
erced into silence. Russia is moro and more
ignoring liberal ideas,and is paving tho way to
a tremenduous explosion/*
Lohdox, December 24.???Tbe-Bt. James Ga
zette prints an interview hlad in Paris with a
dynamiter. The dynamiter said that the
headquarters of tho con spirators was in Paris,
but the fands came from America. The ex
plosion at the London bridge was arranged at
Varin o piuntbs ago by a man who is now in
America.. Two men were sent to London to
execute tba plot In September, but a delay
occurred. They retured to Paris after the ex
plosion, and are now there.
Extra guards have been placed on duty at
tbe principal prisons of London, as a precau
tion against tbo operations of the dynamite
inces of Malaga and Granada by the recent
earthquake. The population of Granada aro
still encamped in the squares, and the riche;
classes ere lodging in carriages along tho
promenade. The arcade of the cathedral waff
seriously damaged by the shock. Many
houses were destroyed in Jimena, and a
whole family was killed in the village
of Cojor, by tbe falling of a chimney. Over
half of the inhabitants of Albumellac werS
killed. Albania Is mostly in ruins. The
province of Malaga suffered equally as much
damage as did Granada. Commerce is paral
yzed. Two hundred houses at Al Fornetejo
were damaged. The panic is subsiding. The
???bock was not felt in the northern and north
west provinces., The government has granted
$1,000 from the National calamnity fund for
the relief of the sufferers in the province of
Granada.
TBK LOSS Or LIFE IXCREX8IXO.
Late advices show that 308 lives were lost
at Albania. 750 houses and a church ( were
destroyed, and thirty persons were killed at
Prism. The town iall and many houses were
damaged at Lanox, and tho inhabitants fled
from tbe town panic stricken. It is now esti
mated that six hundred persons were killed
in tho province of Malaga, including those
killed at Alhama.
Fresh shocks, more violent than the first,
havo occurred at Torrox and Alhama. Tho
panic at those places has been revived.
SHE WAS CONJURED.
A FEW SMILES.
It would seem aa if all bakers ought to be doaxh
b??i slick iu their w*j*.
It Is said that when a man lies, the devil tenths.
How the old fellow???s lids must ache.
It Is stated that William Thaw, of Vit^burg, is
worth jKir>,coo,uw. It will be a cold day whea Thaw
WKW ayouoj; lady becins to remark, '???Be Is no
such a fuel m be looas,'' it to asign that there will
be a wedding soon.
One patriot???s Idea of a reform measure to a
measure that bolds mors beer than those now In
use.- New Orleans Picayune.
Mr. Bt.Jonm bavins sakl that the prohibition
party is dvsUucd to become a power in tha tend. It
faCstifscaud that it will a water-power.
iimiif. hhiijdu uiv aiwuji wiTiiin,
fjerybody to marry, and yet you show no harry
about taking iwtteyounelir* F??*x: ."Because.
??y bey, fa too much of a gentleman to help my-
kelf until everybody else to supplied.''
??? 'g young lady named Russell
it she'd give roller shaking a "tun!*-**
Iter skates proved erratic???
Her tell was
And???her life was a
naff oat
"What's it foer'
??? Well, a good many are used for keeping liquor
mediately, and being struck by Eit'youth nn
nt at attire, she asked him if he had any mee-J
sage to leave behind. ???Yea," said ha, Mmjf
name it???, and my mothar live# at???; tgu
her, if you plraie, that I have just seen |ou??
spit ndid commander, General Lee, rido byv
and that I am content to die.'* That wa* all.
He never knew U waa hie splendid enmmffnft-
er's daughter to whom ha was confiding that
final meaaaga. j .. r '
TELEGRAPH BREVITIES.
I will abut down for an in-
iFPwjri ????? vuJteesport, fa., wars notified that the
various departments would dose down to-mor
row evening foran indefinite period.
By order of Mayor Lewis the Salvation army ia
Jfew Haven was arrested test night. Three men
and two women wore taken to the police head
quarters.
Pilworth, I???ortcr A Co.'s spike, works
somhtldeofllttaborg "* ???
definite period. ^
The Old Liberty ItsU.
fKZLADirax, December U ???Tbe ???'Old Liberty
Bell??? will be taken to the Now Orleans exposition
in charge of a Joint committee of the oounciL The
resolution authorizing Its removal from Inde
pendence hall for that purpose finally pernod tbe
council today.
Loxdox, December 25.???A dispatch from
Shanghai says that 85,000 Chinese troops un
der Li Hung Chang are massed at Pei Ho.
The works at Port Arthur, on the gull ofPe
Chi LI, built by the German ortillory officer*,
make tho strongest fortress in tho north of
Chino. They aro mounted with heavy artil
lery and Gatling and Nordenfeldt guus. Tho
entrance to the port is guarded.wtfh torpedoes.
The Chinese have warned the French that
they intend to make on attack. Letters from
the French fleet at Kalung state thrft Admiral
Cotitbet is ill, imd worried over his forced in
action. It is feared that ho oanuot contintio
operations. The blockade has no results.
Mortality among tho troops ?? increasing.
Tuft BfiMtOXAXiica in Toxquig.???Tho Catho
lic missionaries in Tonquin complain that tho
court at Hue, tho capital of Annam, has not
fulfilled its promise to make reparation for tho
massacre of Christiana which occurred some
months ago. A" correspondent of tho Temps
at Hanoi, says the court is atrougly hostile to
France, ond he advocates a clean sweep of tho
officials at Hue.
Skxtkxcrd to Death.???A telegram from Pe
kin says that the board of censors ho* proposed
that the sentence of death bo passed upon Mn
Kien. secretory of Li Hung Cbang, whom tho
board holds responsible tor the Tren Tain
treaty. U is expected that Li Hung Chang
will intercede in tho secretary's behalf, and
with success.
London, December 27.???The news from
Egypt is not of. the most satisfactory char
actor. It appears that Lord Wolseley has de
cided to abandon tho attempt to reach Shoudy
by the desert route from Korti, thus cutting
off the great bend in the Nile. The difficul
ties of the way seem to him too great to be
surmounted with the resources at bis com
maud. Instead of tbie route, he will use the
road from Meraweb to Berber, likewise
through the desert, but much shorter than
tbe other. He has.accordingly changed base
for the concentration of his foreei from
Karti to Meraweh. Thla change
of plsn pieces the relief of Rortoum two
months ftirtber into the future then had been
anticipated. It is difficult to prophesy when
General Gordon will be rescued from bis pres
ent trying position. Lord Wolseley is far from
satisfied with the arrangements for the expe
dition. He has sent furious complaints to
fre war office of inefficienccs and an abso-
ute breakdown of the transport and commis
sary services. Although good two months has
elapsed since the pioneer corpse left 8*rass,
only 1500 wen cut of seven thousand, com
posing the full force of the expedition havo
retched Karti. British envoy* nave left Kar
ti on a mission to tho Kabbsbish tribe, and to
other tr.bes, which are only weakly attached
to the nishdi's cause. The envoys will en
deavor to purtuade the tribee in question to
enter into an alliance with the English. The
chief augment used to accomplish this
desirable end will be a financial
character. The admiralty Has awakened to
tbe fact that the present facilities for coaling
war vessels, both at home and on foreign
stations, are not what they ought to be. It hu
tberefere appointed a special naval commit
tee to look into the matter, and initructed it
to report upon what means can be em
ployed to improve tbe protect facilities, and
also to suggist t method by which the faeiii-
. T. . . a ???> 1 2 ...li H .. >1 nllt.lrlre AW
flow ft Colored Girl Woe Crippled far an
flour???The Remedy.
???I can't put my foot on do flo*, and dat nig
ger gal's done gone and put a spell on me. I
aJJers knowed she'd do it if she got de chance,"
said Ida Moore, a colored girl, to the lady for
whom she was working. And as sho spoko
she made several attempts to rise from the chair
in which she was sitting, but each attempt
was accompanied by such contortions of tno
features that her face waa horrible, *nd those
who were standing by were induced to believe
that sho was suffering great pain. It was yes
terday afternoon, and every servant in tho
kitchen soon became amply interested in tho
girl's condition. They congregated about her,
and with repressed breathing heard her story
until they were fully convinced that she was
suffering' from ???a spell her enemy
bad put on her/' Thon ono of
the servants quietly carried tho
startling intelligence to the. lady of tho house.
Of course tho lady laughed at tho supersti
tious idea, but when she repaired to tho kitch
en ond asked Ida Moore to get up, witnessed
her demonstration of pain, she became con
vinced that tbe girl was suffering from a
cramp. Tho lady knows the disposition and
naturo of the colored raco, and believing it
best to coincide with tho girl, asked her to toll
her who ???put tho spell on her." With much
lamentation the girl told the wondorful story of
love and a jealous rival. Socretly laughing,
but. openly sympathizing with tho
servant, tho lady told her sho had something
that would kill the spell. She then entered
her bedroom, and pouring a good quantity of
laudanum in a glass carried it back to the girl
and told her to rub a littlo on the end of her
nose and the rest on her foot. The girl did
as directed, and os the cramp disappeared sho
arose, sajinc:
???Fore de Lord, dat beats anything I ever
seed. Just gimmo a leetle of dat in a bottle,
missus, and I'll neber be scared ob dat nigger
gal agin."
CUT HER THROAT.
One ol the Most Frightful Harders Erst
m Committed. *
Tjiomaston, Ga., Decomber 27.???[Spccial.]-Ella
Drako, wife of John Drake, a. negro barber of this
place, wns found in her house this morning with
her skull broken, throat cut, and tho house fired.
Tho fire was extinguished. Circumstances point
to her husband, who is under arrest, as tho mar- .
derer.
The coroner???s jury rendered a verdict this after* -
noon as follows: "The woman carao to her death
from wounds inflicted by her husband. It is a case
of cold blooded murder/'
John Drake is a young negro about twenty years
of age and has been married about a year. At tbo
coroner???s inquest to-day those facts were devel
oped: Drake and his wifo bad frequent quarrels*
Her ststcr was in tho house and heard them quar
reling this morning Just beforo tho ranrder. Ia
half an hour after she left them, smoke was seen
issuing from the house. Drake had broken his
wife's skull with an axe, ent her throat, placed her
on the bed, stuck Arc to tbo bed clothing, locked
the door and went to his shop. The axo and hit
knife were found In the house with blood upoa
them. Blood stains were on his pants and he
wiped the blood from his hands on the towel ia
his barber shop. Tbo latter ho claimed was caused
from accidentally cutting a customer wbilo shar
ing him. This the customer denied. Beforo tbo
flames could bo extinguished they had bhrncd
the bedding and all the -Clothing from
body of tho victim. * The blood
stained clothing, knife and axe of the prisoner,
all bearing undoubted evidence of hto guilt, aro
now In the hands of tbo tiferifl?' and Drake la
safely lodged in tbe county Jafl. Uo firmly # de
nies the charge In the face of tho overwhelming
evidence. There is gteaf excitement among tho
negroes and frequent threats 61 lynching by them
has caused the sheriff to take extra precaution for
she safety of the prUoner to-^ght. At present
things are quiet. Sfany expect aa attJmpt will bo
made to-night to get possession -of the prisoner
for the purpeso of lynching hfm; ; fc
SOME SOUTHERN flCRAPS.
Writers of fiction aro increaziBg In the south.
Tampa will coon commence her lint brick build
ing.
??? Peanut* are sold to he more of a brain food than
fish.
A Mississippi farmer hoa 150 acres planted la
peppermint.
Ncwfprieani' next mtrdi-gru will be inaugu
rated February 17.
The health of Mr. Jefferson; lUvi* is reported aa
falling very tut
A fish canning and a guano factory are talked ol
lor Charlotte Harbor.
A story Is told in tbo Rio News of two ship
wrecked sallow Who lived--and grew tot
for seven years on an "exclusive diet of cocoa-
nuts.
Yon cannot caiculxto on the woman vote. Brery
county In Washington territory, where women
vote, gave a majority in favor of taxing cbarea
property.
Some one saya: '"Ho who lies down with dot?
Is suro to get up with fleas on him.??? This Is un
just to dogs. Thee?,are men so mean that fleas
would be glad to^je them and go to the dog-.
A Dubln Street Done*,
There's nothing In life like a Jig or a reel:
First a^ top with your toe, then a dram with your
And now Aoubleahuffle, and hext heel and toe, I
And then torn yepr partner as over you go.
And aa yon grow wanner your muscles grow
free,
[ooccr
JOU'rt ??????# ?? re....rarer, miwiwcu
Old men become boys, and gossoons become men*
From the cold English pavement we i
While them that remain?, though they hollo and
whoop,
'Tit as plain c* a pike they're beginning to droop.
ties could??? be easilv and quickly ex
tended In case an outbreak should make such
a step necessary.
Madrid, December 28. ??? Official report*
show that 218 persona were killed in the prov-
Acd now, at long last, there remains but onff
Who a halo ot glory and eminence wear,
Forby they hare danced all the company downs
With a^Dsqrgin of whisky tha the darlings let???s
???The Spectator.
On.bottl.el Dr. T'Ulre'.PooUt Injection, wits
cum wlttraut wgj
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