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•,*i-f ~, .M'lm :g m ~'W . u*\ ' ‘ >,V J .’"ft VOL. 2. T. *. WYKK*, W. t. DK WOLF, JOHN H. MA.BTIN, JOHN *. MM AMS. Wynne, DeWolf & Cos. PubUiken and Iroprletor. DAILY, (in Mlnno.) ft tnnum V 00 •• ,limonth,, ............... *OO thru* month, 3 00 •• on* month 75 WEEKLY, on* 3 00 (ShorUr trmsln proportion.) ■4TEK *> ABVUTDiINK. Square, on* week t 3 00 On* Square, on* month 3 00 On* Square, six month, 38 00 Tr*n*ient,dv*rti,am*nt* SI.OO for Sr,t In,cr on. and 50 cub for each subsequent Inacrlion. Fifty par cent, additional in Local column Liberal rate, to larger adyertUement*. THE BLACK MASK. THE MYSTERY OE ART OLD K.V6- LIH MAiitlOX. Th Watch that Told a D,ul,i Title. A SCENE OF BLOOD AND HORROR. ' t'S * "*• The nunxiination of Col. George Mayne, locally know a, ‘the Red Squire,’ at Mirfield Abbey, York,hire, in 1822, pose,e feat ure* which entitle it to be recorded among the moat notorious crimes of th, century. Miriield wa a small country town, aud the Abbey was the residence of ike lord of the manor. It had formerly been the abode of an ecclesiastical fraternity, and had retained its name after the property was secularized It went irflo the possession of the lamily of the Sugdens, and came into the family of the Mayne, by the marriage of Col. George Mayne'* grandfather to Sarah Sugden, the heiress of John Sugden, well-known in the West Riding of Yorkshire as Jackspur, on account of hi, furious riding. The Abbey was a very extensive building, and had been considerably altered from its original style. The stables and outhouses were intact so far as their exterior was con cerned, and the grand central hallway, din* ing-room and chapel were little changed from the days when friars and monks and high dignitaries of the church feasted and worshipped within its walls. The wings ol the building, however, had been refashioned, and that without much regard to the unity of the whole. TRI BSD sqciKß. Col. Mayne was born in 1775, and was an only child. He entered the army at an early age, and fought in every campaign from 1780 down to the battle of Waterloo. In that terrible engagement he was surrounded by a band of the enemy, and it was attested, and received at a fact that he not only fought his way out, and escaped, but left the mark of his sabre, and in most cases fatally, on every one of the thirty-three Frenchmen who encompassed him. From this circumstance his neighbors christened him ‘the Red Squire.’ Col. Mayne married in 1800, and had four children—John and Ralph, and Mary and Alice. In 1812, the mother of these chil dren died, and the Colonel did not marry again until 1818. In that year the reetbr of a neighboring parish died, leaving a widow and two children, Charles and Robert, This lady's name was Wynne, and her deceased husband and Col. Mayne had long been on intimate terms. Within ten months of the death of Dr. Wynne, Col. Mayne married his widow, and her family removed with her to her new home. In November, 1819, Mrs. Mayne OAve *iara to a sou. Shortly before her father’s marriage, Mary Mayne was wedded to a neighboring gentleman, and died in giving birth to a still-born child. John Mayne, the eldest son, was a consumptive hunchback, and died in 1820. Ralph was therefore heir to the Abbey estate, and in the case of bis death the property would fall to Col. Mayne's son by his second wife. Soon after the marriage of the Colonel with Mrs. Wynne, Charles Wynne and Ralph Mayne were sent to Oxford together. Here they led a dissipated life, and having been involved jointly in a disgraceful tavern brawl, they were rusticated—that is, sent home for a certain period, after which they might return to college. Instead of going home the young men went to London, and quarreling over a woman of notorious char acter, fought a duel in which BALPH MAYNE WAS KILLED. Of Col. Mayne’s children by his first mar riage,‘only Alice remained. She was a beautiful and amiable girl of eighteen, and to her the Colonel was fondly attached. She would inherit a small income in her moth er’s right, but it appears that her lather was anxious to cut off the entail, so as to enable him to leave a part of the Abbey estates to Alice, the whole of which would otherwise go to Henry, his son by his second wife. This state of things brings us down to the begin ning of the year 1822. At that time there was resident in the Abbey Col. Mayne and his wife, Alice Mayne, and Robert Wynne, Mrs. Mayne’s second son by her former marriage, aged eighteen. Charles Wynne, Robert’s elder brother, had fled to the continent after the killing of Ralph Mayne in the duel. Before proceeding with the narrative which is to follow, it may be well to give a brief description of COL. HAYirs'B ETUDY. The grand central hallway already referred to, stood out about twenty feet in advance of the wings, and the chapel was to the left of the front, and opening on a terrace gar den. This chapel remained pretty much the same as when used for its original purpose, with the exception that the floor was car peted and that it was fitted up with the usual library furniture. This was Col. Mayne’s sanctum, and here he was wont to sit of an evening, and sometimes far into the night, reading or attending to the business of his estate, which was very extensive. For some time the Colonel had been greatly annoyed by poachers. Robert Wynne was a big, burly youth, fond of his gun and dogs, and spent much of his time in the field. He had repeatedly complained to his stepfather of the depredations committed by poachers, and was mainly* instrumental in stirring him up to prosecute them. Several of them had been arrested and sent to jail, and the Red Squire had consequently become some what unpopular among the less reputable class of his neighbors. THI LAST NIGHT or LIM. The reader will now be prepared for the story which follows. It is taken chiefly from the depositions of witnesses examined before the Magistrates and Coroner. John Carr, Col. Mayne’s valet, deposed as follows: 'lt was my custom to go every evening to the Colonel’s study to see whether he re quired anything before I went to bed. On the evening ofMay 3d, I went as usual, and found the Colonel seated at his desk with a number of papers before him. He asked me to close the window near by, and I did so. He then said, lodking at his timepiece on the mantel: ‘John, you are going to bed early.’ ■No, Squire,’ I replied, 'This clock is half an hour slow.’ ‘He took out his watch, and replied: ‘Well, I declare, so it is. Put it right by my watch.’ TMBia MINI;TUB TO TIN. ‘He held out his timepiece, and I aaw it was threa minute* to ten. Then 1 set the clock on th* mantlepiece by the watch, and quitted the room. Before going to bed 1 went into the housekeeper'! room, and sat talking there for aome miftute*. 1 waa standing with the door half-open, ready to say good-night. The house was very still, and 1 beard a noise on the gravel on the front of the entrance. I walked down the hall, and listened. 1 could hear nothing, and bent down my head and listened at Col. Mayne's door. At the same moment the key was turned by someone inside. It startled me, and I went back to the house keeper’s room. She was standing at the door, and l said: ‘I wonder what the Colonel is locking his study for. I heard tba key turn as 1 was passing.’ TUI BCINK or BLOOD. ‘Perhaps he’s afraid of the poachers,’ the housekeeper said. ‘At that moment a dreadful shriek wag heard. It sounded at a distance, and as though it came from the outside. Mrs. Dunn, the housekeeper, and myself ran to ward the entrance, but before we had got many steps another thriek was heard. It was the voice of a woman, and was imme diately followed by two cries ot ‘Murder! murder!’ The sounds came from the Colo nel's study, and Mrs. Dunn and I ran to the door. It was open, contrary to our expecta tions, and we entered. 'Mrs. Mayne was supporting the form of her husband, as he drooped over the side of hie chair. Blood was oozing from a wound in the left breast. His head lay hack, the jaw was fallen, and the eyes were glazed. MRS. MAYNE WAS DEADLY PALE, and could hardly articulate. She pointed to the window, which was open, anil said: ‘He came in, there. It was alt dona in a moment. I had no time to cry for help.’ T went up to the Colonel, and took his hand in ming. It was limp and powerless. Then I begged Mrs. Mayne to retire with Mrs. Dunn. She sat down at the far end of the room, and Mrs. Dunn opened the Colo nel's liquor case, which stood in one corner, and procured some brandy. I found that the Colonel was quite dead. 1 opened his vest and shirt, and saw a wound I could have pit my finger in, just beneath the nipple. The clock on the mantlepiece was exactly TWENTY-SIX MINUTES PAST TEN. I aroused up some of the servants and we spread a mattress on the floor and placed the Colonel upon it. Then I dispatched the groom to the nearest magistrate, Squire Breakspear, and he and two other neighbors came to the Abbey, accompanied by Dr. Armstrong. Sarah Dunn, the housekeeper, deposed thus: As I and John (Carr) were going to ward the door after we heard the first out cry, we were stopped by two or three other shrieks and a cry of murder. John said it came from the study, and 1 said, ‘The door is locked and we can't get in,’ for John said he heard the door locked just a few minutes before. John, however, tried the door and found it open; he went in and saw the Colo nel lying back in a chair and Mrs. Mayne standing close by, as though she was hold ing him up. There was blood on his shirt and vest, and all over the carpet. Mrs. Mayne was very pale and her lips seemed parchen. 1 said: ‘Good God, mistress, what is the matter?’ She pointed to the window and said: •He came in through that, and I had •so TIME TO CRY YOB HELP.’ Then John said he thought Mrs. Mayne had better go somewhre else, and I led her away to the far end of the room near the door, and gave her some brandy, which I got out of the case. Then l removed her to her room and her maid and myself attended to her. She was hysterical, and a kind of be wildered —dazed like—for she never mens tioned her husband all during the night. Caroline Mayne, the widow of the deceased Colonel, deposed as follows, in a calm, dig nified way, evidently exercising superhuman self-control. I am the widow of the deceased Col. Geo. Mayne. At dinner, on the evening of May 3, my husband informed that me he had pre pared certain documents which he desired to read to me, and asked me to be in his study by 10 o'clock. About 10:10 I went there, and found him writing. I remarked that the room was close, and he asked me to open a window, which 1 did. AS I STOOD BY THE SIDE OP HIS CHAIR, watching him write, snd occasionally ex changing a word or two, 1 heard a noise as of a footstep on the gravel outside, close by the window nsar which the Colonel was sit ting. I drew aside the curtain and looked out upon the terrace. At the same moment there was a quick footstep, inside the room, and I turned hastily away from the window. I saw a tall man in a black mask standing behind my husband, as he sat engaged over his writing. Before I had time to cry out the stranger grasped the Colonel by the back of his coat collar, pulled him back, and struck with a dagger over the right ahoulder. I heard the blow, as though the weapon had struck metal. My husband attempted to rise, gave a loud groan, and fell back in the chair. Then the stranger SPRANG THROUGH Til* OPKN WINDOW, and I cried ‘Murder.’ I had been too much horror-stricken to move or utter a cry be fore. I don’t know who the stranger was, and I could not identify him. James Armstrong. M. D , deposed that he was summoned by Mr. Breakspear and ac companied him to the Abbey. On entering the study he found Colonel Mayne lying on a mattress. He was dead, but still warm. There was blood on his shirt, vest, panta loons and dressing-gown In an inside pocket on the left side of his vest was a watch. There was a mark on it as though it had been struck by a sharp weapon. The face of the watch was broken, and the inte rior injured. The watch had stopped, and the hands poiuted to fifteen minutes past ten. I found a wound underthe left nipple, which had caused death. It appeared as il KADI BY A THREE KDGED’dAGGER. James Harkness, constable, deposed that he examined the garden and the grounds near the house. He discovered no tracks, and nothing which threw any light on the crime. In the West Coppice, a narrow strip of woodland that ran between the park and cross road, he discovered a black silk mask. The mask was produced, and Mrs. Mayne was requested to examine it and see whether she could identify it as that worn by the as sassin of her husband. She trembled vio lently as she held it in her hands, and after a hasty glance at it failed to identify it. This was the case as presented by the sev eral witnesses in their examination before the Coroner. An open verdict of murder against some person or persons unknown was returned, and the matter lay there ap parently wrapped in mystery. Before long, however, the authors of the crime were to be disclosed, and the light of day was to be let in on THI OtTILTT SICRIT. It may be remembered that Charles Wynne the eldest son of Mrs. Mayne by her first COLUMBUS, GA., SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 5, 1876. marriage, lied to the Continent after the kill ing of Ralph Mayne in a duel. In the month of June following the murder of Col. Mayne, Charles Wynne returned to England, and was arrested at the Golden Cron, in Charing Cross, charged with the murder of Ralph Mayne. His baggage was also seized, and a package of letters written by his mother was discovered. The authorities deemed it right to examine theae letters, and came acrosaone written on At ay 1, two days before the assassination of Col. Mayne. The contents were so singular aa to eicite con ■iderable interest and suspicion, and the let ter was made the basil of a secret and close inquiry. A SUSPICIOUS LETTER. After referriug to the affection which the writer bore her exiled son, this passage oc curred: 'I don’t think Col. Mayne would proceed against you for the killing of Ralph, but it is very certain that his feelings toward you are such as to render it utterly out of the question that you should return to the Ab bey during his life-time. But he may not live long, and when he it gone, my ton and your half brother will be master here. As I told you, he has been arranging to cut off the entail in order to leave a large part of the estate to his daughter Alice. I have not strenuously resisted him in this desire so far, but I can assure you that it shall never be con summated, 1 will send you a remittance next week, and. I hope, an invitation to the Ab bey, for things will be changed here by that time.’ This letter for the first time directed sus picion to Mr,. Mayne, as the instigator of the murder of her husband. The matter was put into the hands of a Bow street runner, named Townsend, A FAMOUS DETECTIVE OP HIS DAT, and he, accompanied by an other officer, went north to attempt a solution of ‘The Mirfield Mystery,’ as it was styled. It is not necessary to detail all the steps taken to work up the case, and only the results ol the officers’ labors will be given. On reaching Mirfield, the defectives affec ted no concealment, but went towork appar ently on the theory which generally pre vailed there, namely, that Col. Mayne had been murdered either by a poacher whom he had threatened, or by the companion of poachers, whom he had sent to jail. While seemingly gathering up evidence in this line, however, the officers were in reality work ing on another theory—that Mrs. Mayne was the author of the crime, and that Col. Mayne was removed to prevent hit aliens ting a large part of bis vast property from his son by his second marriage, and bestow ing it on his daughter, Alice. ‘nuci.’ Townsend ascertained that on the night of the murder Robert Wynne took a horse named Buck from the stables, saying that he was going to ride over to Mr. Hawley’s, six miles away, as he and young Hawley were going out gunning early next morning. He returned, however, before midnight, and ap peared to be greatly astonished and horrified at the Colonel’s death. ‘Where is my mother?’ he asked; and ad ded: ‘How fortunate that Hawley’s place was closed for the night when I got there, and that I returned home!' Then he went to his mother’s room, and never once saw the body of his stepfather. Townsend ascertained, moreover, that William Fosbeck, a butcher of Mirfield, hear ing that his son, a mere lad, was consorting with poachers, determined to find out the truth of it, and for that purpose went up to the residence of Col. Mayne’s head keeper to make inquiries. The keeper’s residence was a few hundred yards in the rear of the Abbey, and on returning home POUBECK LEAPED THE WALL or THE PARK, and crossed the coppice to the road. The night was dark, but hearing the snorting of a horse close at hand, Fosbeck searched around and found the animal tied to a tree, He felt the saddle and bridle, and in so doing discovered that the horse had a peculiar horny excrescence behind the ielt ear. He identified the animal thereby as a horse which he had sold to Colonel Mayne, and which went by the name of ‘Buck,’ on ac count of the horny growth referred to. While Fosbeck was examining the horse, 10 o'clock struck. These facts were placed before a Magis trate, and the testimony taken by the Coro ner was carefully considered. These points were noted down: DRAWING THE MESHES AROUND THEM. 1. At 3 minutes to 10 o’clock on the night of the Colonel’s murder, his watch and the clock in the study were exactly in time to gether, for John Carr set the clock by the watch. 2. The Colonel’s watch was struck by the dagger which gave thq/etal stab, and so in jured that it stopped, thus indicating the momeut of the commission of the bloody deed- fifteen minutes past ten. 3. When John Carr entered the study on hearing the CTy of murder, the clock on the mantlepiece pointed to twenty-six minutes past ten; so that between the fatal blow and the cry of murder uttered by the woman who saw her husband recieve iris death blow, an interval of ten minutes was allowed to elapse—ample time for the assassin to make his escape. 4 The key was turned in the lock while John Carr stood listening, and two or three minutes before the cry of murder was heard. The door had been locked during the com mission of the deed, and unlocked by some one inside after the deed was done. THE LAST LINE. Mrs. Mayne and her son Robert Wynne were arrested on a charge of murder. If anything was required to complete the chain of circumstautial evidence, it was found in the discovery in Mrs. Mayne’s possession of the old silk cloak out of which the mask, found in the woods after the murder, had been made. The scraps and clippings were wrapped up in it, and the mask and these remnants corresponded precisely with that part of the cloak which had been cut away. There was no admission of guilt from mother or son, although no doubt existed that the son's hand gave the death blow. The lad was sent over the sea to worse than death, but he bore up and founded one of the wealthiest business firms in anew colony. The mother died on the gallows in York, without a tear or a word of penitence. She had enriched her child and the price she had to pay for it was not begrudged. A Triumph of Hutch Engineering. Amsterdam, Nov. I.—The great Maritime canal connecting this city with the German ocean was opened to-day with imposing ceremonies, at which the members of the cabinet and foreign representatives were present. A grand banquet took place this evening. The city is cov ered with flags. There is a general illumination to-night and a splendid exhibition of fireworks. The canal is 16 mile3 long, and has at the sea end a harbor covering 250 acres, which, however, is not quite com pleted. _ Ship News. Boston, Nov. 4.—The schooner Early Bird, from Santo Domingo for Boston, was abandoned October 24th. Three were , drowned. The Fever at Mavanuuh. Savannah, Ga., Oct. 4.— Yesterday total interments 14, whereof 7 wore yellow fever; five burials of colored. Weather very warm. Henry E. Backus, of the firm of A. H. Woods & Cos., is dead. The mortuary report for the twen ty-four hours ending yesterday at six o'clock p. m., shows the following condition: There were seven deaths, of which five were of yellow fever; five whites and two colored, one of the latter being of yellow fever. The weather is warm and oppressive. A dense fog prevailed last night. In the southeastern section of the city at one o’clock p. m. it was so dense that objects could not be discerned fifty yards. Yesterday was warm and cloudy, and at this writing a olear sky scatters the hopes of cooler weather and frost. At a meeting of the Medical Society, held yesterday, a number of new cases were reported and a committee appointed to in quire into their status, as to whether the return of the absentees has in creased the number of developed cases. This committee will report at a subsequent meeting.— News, 'MI. Cremation In Kaxc-Gothn. Permissive cremation is notf fairly established in Saxe-Gotha, both the civic authorities of the the town of Gotha and the ducal government having expressed themselves favor ably. In a recent sitting of the town council it was decreed that the ne cessary apparatus shall bo introduced into the now cemetery. It was laid down that fire-burial should only take place if a wish to that effect had been clearly formulated by the de ceased, and if the medical officer of health had testified there was no rea son to assume that death had occur red from criminal violence. Provis ion was also made for a treatment of the ashes in accordance with the treatment due to human remains. The ashes are to be gathered in urns, which may be either handed over to the family of the deceased, or be set up in a hall in the cemetery, destined for that purpose. A sum of fifteen thousand marks, offered by the Fire Burial Society of Gotha, was accepted by the town council. John H. Lick Trying to Breuk HU Father's Deed of Truat. San Francisco, Nov. I.— lt has been ascertained that the main grounds on which John H. Lick in tends to contest his father’s trust deed are insanity and undue influ ence on the part of the trustees and others, who, it is alleged, have used means to prejudice the deceased against his son by falsely accusing the latter of obtaining the passage, through the Legislature,of abill pro viding that no descendant should divide over a certain proportion of his fortune to charitable or other ob jects aside from the natural heirs, by which and other alleged untrue representations, the deceased was induced to leave the estate in trust, to the prejudice of the petitioner. The legitimacy of John H. Lick will rnako a prominent feature in the contest by trial, and the impres sion prevails that It will be difficult to prove any action on the part of bis father by which his legitimacy can be established. Uan Ustello’s Show Kohl Out. Constable Frank Morris yesterday sold the remains of Dan Gastello’s circus and menagerie at auction in the presence of a large crowd of prob ably 200 people. The sale took place at Colonel Charles C. Burns stable on Locust street. It was made in ac cordance with an execution levied on the property by S. It. Stickney, the clown, and one or two other per formers, for salary due and unpaid. The sale was an immense sacrifice, us the property worth $4,000 @r $5,000, brought only about $1,200. Joseph Morris purchased a fine black horse for S4O; a ticket wagon worth S3OO or S4OO for $155; three sets of fine harness for $45 ; three camels for S2OO, and the entire canvas, ropes, seats, poles, &c., for $lO5, making a total of $545. All but the harness was purchased for parties In the East The camels were worth from S4OO to S7OO each, and the largest of the three, an immense Arabian drome dary, is said to be the finest one of the species in the country. This fine animal brought SIOO at the sale, and the others SSO each. The circus canvas, double, is worth probably $3,500, and brought only $lO5. It consists of two coverings, one of which is new, the affair beiug water-proof. Henry Gumberts purchased two animal-wagons for SSO. Captain Hornbrook, for other par ties, purchased a fine gray ring horse and two trick-mules for $275, the two mules bringing only $75. Colonel C. C. Burns took a trick stallion, Excelsior, at S2OO, but it was discovered afterward that the animal was dying with colic, and it is doubtful if the Colonel will receive him. General James M. Shackleford, one “calico” ring-horse (billed as a thoroughbred Arabian) $67 50. Henry Brommslbaus purchased two little black Shetland ponies, a perfect match, for SB2 50. The total amount of the sale was $1,220. NO NEWS OF THE FRANKLIN. Has She Foundered, with Tweed* Washington, Nov. 4.—The Navy Department has no news of the Franklin. Navy circles are of the opinion she foundered in the recent cyclone off the Atlantic coast. The brig was one of the oldest vessels in the navy and not very seaworthy. There is no telling how long her ar rival may be delayed. The State De partment contradicts a report that it has a statement or confession made by Tweed. And still Another. Louisville, Nov. 4.—A collision oc curred this morning on the Louis ville, Lexington & Cincinnati Short Line Railroad, near Peewee valley, between a wild engine and an express train bound south, killing Ginther, the engineer of the wild engine, and seriously injuring two firemen and an express messenger. No passen gers were killed. THE TURKISH SITUATION. TERM* OF THE ARMISTICE. . i -i... i.— ... Reported New Demand of Ruaila. ■ ' ■—.l"" London, Nov. 4.—Montenegro ac cepts the armistice oh the same terms as Sorvia. It is stated that the Austrian Am bassador at St. Petersburg has been ordered to go to Livaiia, and rumor ed that the Turkish Grand Vizier will go there also on a confidential mission. A dispatch from Belgrade to the Times confirms the statement that the armistice, as accepted by the Porte, is unconditional. The official announcement is a two months’ armistice from Novem ber Ist; hostilities to cease immedi ately, both armies retaining their position occupied upon receiving no tice. It is understood that there are no other conditions attached, and that Montenegro has also accepted the armistice. New York, Nov. 4.—The Herald’s London speoial says a rumor pre vails that Russia will demand the withdrawal of the Turkish troops from Servia, which Turkey cannot assent to, aud thus a conflict will en sue. Constantinople, Nov. A— Tho for eign ambassadors met at the resi dence of Sir Henry Elliot, British Ambassador, yesterday, to settle upon the method of determining the demarcation line between the bellig erent armies. A Compromise In the French Chambers London, Nov. 4.—Reuter’s dispatch from Versailles says since yesterday there has been a compromise be tween the supporters of the Gatineau bill for the cessation of the prosecu tions against the Communists. The nature of the agreement is not stated, but in to-day’s sitting of the Chamber of Deputies anew bill proposed as a compromise was adopted excepting an article transferring to juries the trials of offenders in contumaciam. Another. Cincinnati, 0., Nov. 4.—A passen ger train going west on the Ohio and Mississippi railroad, collided with a freight train this evening near Shoals, Ind., killling Engineer Scott, and fireman Kieglor. Some of the ytas sengers sustained slight injuries. Wheat anil Cotton. Washington, Nov. 3.— The digest of crop returns for October, prepared by the Agricultural Department, in dicates a reduction in the wheat crop of nearly one-sixth, while the quali ty is somewhat superior. Every sec tion indicates a reduced crop except tho Middle States, which increased about two per cent. The figures point to a total yield of 245,000,000 bushels. The rye crop is four per cent, below last year, with somewhat better quality. The barley crop is six per cent, below last year. Buckwheat is a full average, and oats a slight falling off. Condition of cotton is as follows: North Carolina, 84; South Carolina, 80; Georgia 87; Florida, 80; Alabama, 70; Mississippi. 83; Louisiana, 82; Texas 91; Arkansas, 86; Tennessee, 91. Business Improvement In Europe. London, November 4.-There has been much fluctuation on the Stock Exchange during the week, which in the early part was of an unfavorable, tendency, in consequence of Eastern affairs. The announcement of the conclusion of an armistice produced a great improvement. Since Thurs day an important advance in prices has occurred, aud the majority of stocks attained their best point for somo weeks. The Continental bourses, during the last three days, have also been very buoyant. Fastest Ocean Trip on Record. New Yoke, (Nov. 13.—The White Star Line steamer Britannic, anchor ed on the bar at 1 a. m. Saturday, having completed the fastest pas sage on record—7 days, 13 hours, 11 minutes, mean-time, from Queens town to New York. Crists In the French Cabinet. Paris, Nov. 4.— After a debate on the bill for the cessation of prosecu tions against the communists, which Dufaure opposed, and Gambetta sup ported, the Chamber by overwhelm ing majority voted to proceed with the disruption clauses of the bill. The issue is supposed to involve the resignation of the Cabinet. Another Railroad Disaster. Wheeling, W. Va., Nov. 4.—Nine cars i’and a locomotive were pre cipitated through a bridge, a dis tance of thirty feet, on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, two miles east of Moundsville. Engineer H. Hamilton was killed and an unknown woman. The engine was seriously injured. The "Weather To-Day. Washington, Nov. 4.— For South Atlantic States, northeast winds, stationary or higher temperature, stationary or lower pressure, and cloudy or partly cloudy weather will prevail. —* ♦ - —Why is an orator during his perora tion like a man about to dress in the morn ing? Because he’s nearing his close. MACON’S DEMOCRATIC TURN OUT. The I.nr,eat in Meorslal ONE THOUSAND NEGROES IN LINE. Special to th. Time,.] Macon, Ga.) Nov. 4.—The largest Tllden and Hendricks demonstration ever known in Georgia is now in procession in this city. There are one thousand negroes In line. THE BETTING POOIJN. STILL STRONGER IN FAVOR OF TILDEN. New York, Nov. 4.— Among the pools last night, general results in favor of Tllden, 3,000 to 2,400; S3OO to $240, $l5O to $125. On New York, Tllden SIOO to $37; SI,OOO even bet on Tilden getting 20,- 000 majority in thq State. One hundred to eighty dollars bet that Tilden’s majority in New Jersey will not reach 7,000. POLITICAL ROW IN NEW YORK. Fight Between Whltei und Blacks. New York, Nov. 4.—While the col ored clubs from Jersey City were re turning home, after the Republican parade disbanded last night, a row occurred near Debrosses street ferry. The whites used paving stones, brick bats, &c. The negroes used pistols and dirk knives. Wm. J. Merriman was stabbed in the left breast—the wound may prove fatal; Thomas J. Foster shot in the right leg; James Norton shot in the left breast, and two others were slightly wounded. None of the colored men are known to be injured, nor were any of their number arrested. HIGH-HANDED FEDERAL CBI RPA TION. GEORGIA OFFICERS DRIVEN FROM THE POLLS. Atlanta, Nov. 4.—United States Marshal Smythe, notified the Chief cf Police to-day that he had exclusive control of the polls Tuesday, and that the police force and all other parties had no authority there, and advised them to keep away from the polls. TEI.EURAPIIIC SI'MMARY. Philadelphia.—Fifty cents admis sion to the Centennial continues to November 18th. Washington.—Weedon O’Neil has been appointed Marshal for Ken tucky. New York.—Judge Launore, sitting' in Supreme Court at chambers, has granted an order extending the time of H. Ward Beecher to the amended complaint of Francis D. Moulton twenty days. Newahk, N. J.—George Stickert, in a fight in a saloon this a. m., killed one and fatally wounded another. Several others were hurt. Stickert claims to have acted in self-defeuce. New Yoke.—The Brewers and Gro cers’ Bank was, on the Ist inst., opened for business, with a capitul of $1,000,000. Omaha, Nov. 3.—Major Howard and Dr. Dauiels arrived to-day from the West, haviug in charge 88 Sioux ludians, and ; five interpreters. Among the Indians are Spotted Tail, Red Dog, and Youug-Man-Afraid-of- His-Horses. They are en route to the Indian Territory to visit that country, preparatory to moving their tribes thence. The Man Who Have Odds. Detroit Free Press.] After a strange man had finished eating a hearty meal at one ol' the stands iu the City Hall Market yes terday, he remarked to the woman: “As I was sitting down to this meal I said to myself that I’d bet one dol lar against the dinner that the green back candidates would not curry a single State. If they do. you have won the dollar, and shall have it.” “I want thirty-five cents of you,” she replied, pulling off her comfort er. “Or I’ll bet you five dollars that the Democrats will carry New York State,” he confined. “I want my pay or there’ll be trou ble right here!” she exclaimed, slip ping off her bonnet. “Or I’ll betthe same sum, on the same terms, that the Republicans will carry it,” he remarked, as he wiped off his sandy goatee, ‘H never bet, and I want my pay I” she called out, being ready for ac tion. “Great heavens! but look at the odds I offer you I” ho gasped. “Inot only let you bet on the other side, but I offer you tho most fearful odds that have ever been given since the advent of the Christian era!” “I can’t help the odds,” she an swered, as she got hold of his coat tails. “You can’t leave here till I get my money.” “Or, I’ll bet you $35 against this 35 cents debt,” he wenton, “thatneither Hayes nor Tilden will be elected. One of them must be, but I offer to bet they won’t be, simply to permit you to coin $35 out of my hard earn ings. Great Jigs! hut such another offer was never known since Oliver Cromwell kept a fighting dog 1” “Thirty-five cents! she shrieked, pulling him around. “Last, but not least, I’ll bet you forty to one that I haven’t had thir ty-five cents about me for a month! Come, now, I offer you every chance to win.” , She gave him two solid kicks, and was designing and drafting a third, when he made a bolt and left a coat tail in her grasp. Corn is quoted in the Chattanooga market at 45 cents for white sacked in depot—wheat,choice,sl.lo to $1.15; white. $1.02 to $1.10; red, $1 to $1.05; oais 47 to 50 cents. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. BY TELE6HAPH TO THE DAILY TIDES. HONEY AND •TOCltft. NEW YORK. Nor. 4.—Evening—Money easier, offered at 2; sterling quiet at2);gold dull Governments dull and steady; new 6‘a 13. States quiet and nominal. PARIS, Not. 4.—Rente* opened 108f. and 6*. COTTON. LIVERPOOL, Not. 4.—Noon—Cotton advanc ing; sale* 20.000; speculation and export 6.000. Futurea—middling uplands,low middling clause, new crop, shipped November and December per aail, 6 U-32d, November delivery 6 5-16d; February aad March 6 13-32d. new crop, abippod January and February, per aail, 6 7-82daf> 7-16d; January C 15-32d, shipped January and February 6 13-32(1, November and December 6 11-32d. Fu tures weaker, seller* offered at a decline of l-32d; uplands, low middling clause, shipped October and November,aatl,6%d;Noveraber delivery 6)£d; December and January 6 7-16d, January and Feb ruary 6)£dall-32d; new crop, chipped February and March, sail, 6 16-32d, March and April deliv ery 6 15-32d*7-16d. The receipts to-day were 1,- 100 bales—no American. 1:30 p. m.—Uplands, low middling dance, new crop, chipped October and November, per aail, shipped January and Febuary, per sail. 6 15-33d. March delivery 6 16-32d.; new crop, shipped January aud February per sail, 6>£d. •hipped January and February, 6 15-32d; January and February delivery January and Feb ruary 6 11-32d; February and March delivery • 7-16d. 2:30 r. m.— Sales American 5,600. 8:30 p. m.—Uplands, 6 5-lCd; Orleans 6)*d. Fu tures l-32d cheaper; uplands, low middling clause, new crop, shipped Novembar and Decem ber per sail, 6 11-32d. NEW YORK, Nov, 4.—Evening—Cotton firm; net receipts 747, gross 8,760. Futures cleaed barely steady; sales 26,000: November 11 21-32; December 11 11-10a23-32; January 11 22-82; Feb ruary 12H*5-32; March 12 11-32; April 12 17-32; May 12 11-16*23-32; June 12 July 12 31-32a13; August 13 l-16a3-32. Sales 642; mid dling ll**al3. Consolidated net receipts 26,876. Exports Great Britain 2,104, France 6,539, Conti nent 223. GALVESTON, Nov. 4. Cotton strong, mid dling 11‘4; net receipts 2,482; gross—; sales 3,223; exports coastwise 1,710. NORFOLK, Nov. 4.—Evening—Cotton strong; middling 11; net receipts 5,909; gross—; exports coastwise 868; sales 7,000. BALTIMORE, Nov. 4.—Evening-—Cotton Arm; middling ll?,'a>;; gross receipts 146; sales 616; spinners 215; exports Continent 800; coastwise 150. MEMPHIS, Nov. 4.—Cotton strong; middling 11 receipts 423; shipments 2.262: sales 2,300. AUGUSTA, Nov. 4. Cotton firm and active, middling 10 >**>.; receipts 2,936; sales 2.149. CHARLESTON, Nov. 4. Evening Cotton firm; middling 11#; net receipts 4,436; ealei 2,000; exports to Great Britain 2.104. SAVANNAH, Nov. 4. Evening Ootion quiet; middling 11%; net receipts 4,682; gross 480; aalea 1,719; exports ooaatwise 2,661, NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 4.—Evening Cotton ■trong; middling 11#; low middling 11)*', good ordinary 10#; net receipt* 2.861; gross 4,101; sales 6,000; exports France 6.639; Conti nent 1,930. MOBILE, Nov. 4.—Evening Cotton active; middling'll#; net receipts 849; sales 1,600; ex ports coastwiae 968. BOSTON. Nov. 4. Evening Cotton firm; * middling 11#; net receipt* 498; groa* 1,261; •ales 700, WILMINGTON, Nov. 4.—Evening Cotton steady; middling 10#*#; net receipt* 401; aalea 182. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 4—Evening Cotton atrong; middling 11 # ; net receipt* 1,166; gross 1,254. PROVISIONS. dcC. NEW YORK, Nov. 4,—Noon—Flour dull and steady. Wheat quiet and heavy. Corn dull and unchanged. Pork firm $17.12#a17.25. Lard firm $lO.lO, NEW YORK, Nov. 4. Flour still In buy ers favor, only limited business doing $5.25*6.60. Corn to fair extra Southern $6.65*8,75. Wheat heavy I*2 lower, only limited export and milling demand, $1.25a28 for winter red Western, $1.34 for white Western. Corn heavy >4*l lower, moderate demand for export and home use, 68*a >4 for graded mixed, 60 for white Western, 58 yellow Southern on dock. Oats a shade firmer. Pork Arm aud quiet.Jnew mess 17.25. Lard firm er, prime steam 10.10*15. Coffea quiet and firm. Sugar quiet and firm. Rice steady. Freights dull. BALTIMORE, Nov. 4.—Evening—Oats firmer aud higher; Southern prime 35. Rye lairly act ive aud firm. Provision* quiet aud unchanged. Coffee easier and moderately lower. Whiskey dull. Sugar quiet. CINCINNATI,(Nov. 4.—Evening—Flour quiet; family 45 Csa9u. Wheat quiet aud ateady, red 1.20a28. Cora quiet and firm 49*5(1. Oata dull 3Ui37. ttys inactive 08. Barley dull uud nominal, No. 2 red laU *1.06a1.08 Pork la 111 tair demand 18 60. Lard In good demand ateam a)ja: kettle tlo.lKjatlo.2C. Dnllt anata in fair uemaud; alioaldera 61 i, clear rib aidea a cl. ar sides B Baco j firm, holders firm; shoulders 7>6; clear rib sides ‘X. clear al its 9!is‘a Whiskey steady 8. Batter dull and drooping; choice Weatorn reserve 20; Cen tral Ohio 17ai8. ST. LOUIS. Nov. 4 —Evening Flour duUsnd lower to sell, superfine fall |3.75a4; extra do. $4.23a4.60; doubte extra do., *4.75a5. Wheat firmer with acme salea, higher, No. 2 red fall it 19 No. 3 do. $1,09a1,25. Corn firmer, 40,‘ia 40 ‘i. Oats firmer SOgaX bid. Bye lower, 67. Barley quiet; prlmo to fancy Minnesota 76ca $1 00. Whiskey quiet at 8. Pork lower, jobbing *16f,0a75 Bulk meats firmer for car lots of loose shoulders, 6&, clear rib aidea 8 15. clear sides 8 40. Bacon null, shoulders 7#X clear rib sideg B\,aJi- clear aidea 9XX. Lard quiet, LOUISVILLE, Nov 4.—Flour steady at full prtcia; extra f 4a4.26; family 46.00a50.25. Win at steady aud iu good demand; red !.15al,18; amber 1.20; white 1.20a 1.98. Corn steady; white 47. mixed 45. Oat# firm, white 38. mixed 25 Pork scarce, firm aud in demand. Bulk meats quiet and steady, shoulder# nominal; clear rib side# 8)f, clear aides 8. Bacon ateady and In fair demand, shoulder# 7RaBX. clear rib sides 9; clear Bides Bugsr-curod hsrns steady aud firm 16. Lard firm, tierce lla.X, keg 11X- Whiskey iu active demand. Jerome Park Baeee. New York, Nov. 4.—Extra day at Jerome Park —mile and a quarter. Starlight won; Galway 2d ; Red Coast, favorite, 3d. Time: 2:15J. Two miles—Vigil won; St. Martins 2d; Virginius 3d. Time; 3:40 Mile heats—first, Mettle won! Egypt 2d; Rhodamanthus, 3d. Time: I :47}.—Second, Madge won; Mattel 2d; Art Athlene 3d. Time: 1:47}. Third. Madge won. Time: 1:48. New York, Nov. 4.—Steeple chase —Bullett won; Deadbeat second; Resolute third. Time, 4:16. Black silk and cashmeres. If you are in need of such goods look at my stock before buying. otcS-eodtf J. Albert Kibven. ELECTION NOTICE! The following named persons are hereby Appointed managers oi the election at the different precincts in the county of Mus cogee to be held on Tuesday, the 7th day of No vember, next, for Electors of President and Vice Preeident of the United States, and one member of Congress for the Fourth Congressional Dislrict of Georgia, viz: Columbus—T. J. Chappell, J. P.. Charles A. Klink snd George Hungerford. Nance's—C, Ogletree, J. P., T. J. Wstt, and Ja cob W. Kimbrough. Bozeman's—J. W. Massey, J. P. W. R. Tur man, and James H. Patrick. Steam Mill—E.P. Willis. J. P., 8. S. Jenkins, and Asa B. Low. Upatoie—John D. Odom, J. P., Emanuel Bitch, snd Andrew Jackson. Edward’s—Geo. M. Bryan, J. P., J. E. Broad nax, and L. K. Willis. Managers will please call at my office for the necessary blanks. F. M. BROOKS, October 23d, M 79. Ordinary. ocUi td NO. 202