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WASHINGTON NEWS.
The President Cannot Remit Fines.
THE WILD HUNT FOR OFFICE.
DESPERATE CONTEST OVER TIIE SECOND
GEORGIA DISTRICT.
DESTRUCTIVE FOREST FIRES.
Naval Intelligence.
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Washington, May IG.—The Secre
tary of the Treasury has issued a
circular to claimants for immunity iu
whiskey cases. He holds that the
President can pardon where ihe
money obligation is part of the pen
alty. This power does not extend to
the remisssion of taxes or the liqui
dation of penalties. The Secretary
proposes to proceed to judgment, and
to see that property of defendants is
not placed beyoud reach, and then
suspend proceedings for an appeal to
Congress.
It is stated that D. Cass Carpenter
has not made a formal resignation,
but upon the return of the President,
his resignation will be treated as
made and accepted, and anew Col
lector appointed for the 3d South
Carolina District.
The struggle over the 2d Georgia
District is desperate.
Description of anew counterfeit
fifty dollar National Bank note : The
signatures are engraved ; the charter
number on the bill is 210, on the gen
uine it is 376. The bill is a little
smaller than the genuine, and the
paper thick. General appearance
calculated to deceive.
Washington, May 10. Judge Gay
erro has left for home. In Judge
Gayerre’s case the administration
was exceptionably frank. It was
intimated to liirn that there was no
prospect of the consummation of
his wishes, and that to push his ap
plication beyond filiug his claim
would subject him to a contest and
contact with political and social ele
ments disagreeable to him.
Lowest bidders for plain postal
cards awarded to the Phototype Cos.,
New York.
Steamer Gettysburg, in the Bos
phorus, must proceed to Genoa or
some neighboring port for repairs to
her machinery, all shops and work
men iu Constantinople being enga
ged in government work.
United States merchant ship Now
York, from San Francisco, witli na
val stores for Mare Island, went
ashore off Punta Rosa, Patagonia.
Vessels have gone to her assistance
from Montevideo.
Forest tires north and northwest
are raging, with many narrow es
capes. White mountain has been in
flames, aud the great hotels at the
summit were in danger, but the
flames there have been stayed.
Specie shipments to-day $70,000.
THE METHODIST CONVENTIONS.
THE BASIS OF REUNION ADOPTED.
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Baltimore, May IB.—The Methodist
Protestant Convention, at Aeequith
Street Church, this morning contin
ued the discussion on the adoption of
the Report of the Committee on a
Basis of Reunion, submitted yester
day afternoou, and finally adopted
the report by a vote of 5S yeas to 5
Days.
A committee was appointed to
make arrangements for a joint ses
sion of the two Conventions; after
which adjourned to 3 p. m.
The session of the Methodist Con
vention, Greene Street Church, this
morning was taken up in the discus
sion of a resolution relative to the
right of suffrage and eligibility to
office, which was finally laid on the
table. Convention then adjourned
until the afternoon, awaiting ar
rangements for the joint session of
the two Conventions.
French Minister IteMlgned.
Paris, May, IG.—ln consequence of
differences with President MacMa
hon, Jules Simon, President of the
Council and Minister of the Interior,
tendered his resignation. The Min
isters are now in council.
London. May 16,—Tne Pall Mall
Gazette's Paris dispatch says Minis
ter Simon resigned beoause of the
continued hostility manifested by the
Chamber of Deputies. Efforts are
being made to induce him to recon
sider his action.
Fire and Lon* of Life.
Binghampton, N. Y., May 16.—The
depot building at Little York, Court
landt county, burned, with five chil
dren of a brakeman, who occupied
the upper story.
THE WAR IN EUROPE.
Manoeuvring on the Danube.
' GERMANY AND AUSTRIA PROTEST
A GA INST TIUtCO-I‘OLISH
LEGIONS.
; Uncertainty of the Kiiolun lCoutc—-The
Kouinuntaii Troop* .\oi Kdluble.
London,May 16.—A great movement
lias commenced among the Russian
troops, on the opposite bank, at
Guergevo. Eight battalions of Rus
sian Infantry, several batteries of
artillery, and squadrons of cavalry
passed through Guergevo, following
the road to Stinuiizu. They have a
i consideiable force at Komoru. Do
sultary tiring is going on. The
| Turkish troops are enthusiasiie.
The Russians are apparently at
tempting to force the Danube, or by
a manouver, to draw away the Turks
from other parts. Up to last night,
however, they were not successful.
The Hungarians have begun form
ing at Peru.
Niesics has been revictualled.
Great, excitement, at Jeddah from
apprehension of the appearance of
the fleet in the Red Sea.
German and Austrian representa
tives at Constantinople are instruct
ed to protest agaiust the formation
of Polish legions in the Turkish ser
vice.
The Turks have dispasched 16,000
from the garrison at Widden to tne
Dobru luscha in all haste.
The Roumanians officially report
■I,OOO wounded in Ivalafat during the
bombardment.
The Russians are further west than
Turnsvern.
The Roumanian party which de
mands active co-operation with Rus
sia is held in check by a foreign in
fluence which favors a temporizing
policy.
Servian volunteers are constantly
passing the frontier to join the Bos
nian insurgents.
The impression appears general at
Widdin that no quarter will be al
lowed Roumanians who cross the
Danube.
The Miridates drove the Turks
from Orosctii.
The reception of Grand Duke Nich
olas at Bucharest was cold- not a
single cheer.
The greatest possible secresy is
observed as to the movements of the
Russian troops; still, from various
indications, it would appear that the
troops on the left wing, which had at
first extended all along the lower
Danube, have gradually been drawn
nearer toGalatz, Reni and Ibruil.
As for the troops which have passed
Bucharest, they are reported to be
bearing on Oltenitza in order to bet
ter disguise their movements. There
are comparatively small numbers
actually in position on the Danube.
Most of them are echeloned further
back. Points are being chosen at
crossroads-so that troops may be
moved in one or another direction.
Thus, those South of Bucharest may
be available for advance either on
Oltenitza or Guergevo. At the same
time there are signs that a Russian
column is moving still further west
ward. This column is kept the most
backward, so it til ay be meant for
Turna Magureli, opposite Nikopoli,
or for Simnitza, opposite Sistcra. It
will take some time, it seems, before
the whole force is in position. Ac
cording to an estimate, nut more
than half can be said to be already
so, with all their accompatnments,
without which of course no cam
paign is possible in Bulgaria.
The Jassy correspondent of the
Aews discussing the efficiency of.the
Roumanian army, writes that there
was.a Routnanian'corps of observation
stationed at Gtiergero to watch the
Turks, and it occurred to the Minis
ter of War that it would be a good
thing to exercise these troops and
accustom them to sounds of war.
So one night ho ordered an alarm
sounded, but he has been heard to
say he bitterly repented having
taken so bold a measure for it took
him a week to get the detachment
together again. The soldiers have
not yet all been found, and they are
supposed to be still running.
Tbe Telegraph'x special from Pera
says there’ has been an unusually
late winter throughout. Asia minor.
Snow is deep on the grounds retard
ing military operations.
Bukarest, May 16.—The campaign
will now proceed according to the
original programme—the Roumanian
army remaining in the defensive
within its own territory.
The Russians are crossing the Dan
ube at eight points simultaneously,
aud pressing forward to the Baltans
with all possible rapidity, leaving
behind in Bulgaria civil officials
charged with the organization of the
institutions.
The Roumanian Chamber of Depu
ties voted a credit of $2,000,000f0r the
maintainance of the army.
A Minm’ Hint.
Denver, Colorado, May 16.—A riot
occurred among the miners in Cali
fornia Gulch. The miners seized W.
H. Steveoß and two others, and have
them under a strong guard. Stevens
and other Detroit capitalists had
failed to pay the miners. Stevens
was to have been lynched Sunday
last, but the affair was postponed.
COLUMBUS, GA., THUKSDAY MORNING, MAY 17, 1877.
TIIE WAR IN ASIA.
Russian War Vessel Run
the Blockade.
TUG CISC CABMAN INStUItRECTIOX.
Hr teat nt ilit- Uumhliiiik at Ilulmim Be
lieved.
| SAFETY OF THE IU'SSIA.\ STEAMEU AKD
TORPEDO BOATS-A RFSSIAX FLEET
ORDERED TO THE PERSIAX
GULF.
London, May 16—A Russian war
vessel escaped from Sebastopol aud
reached Batouui Sunday night.
, When seven miles from shore she
! sent four boats with torpedoes to at
! tack the Turkish frigate in the road
stead. The boats were driven off. |
Two reached Pali, safe; the others
unknown. Tne steamer disappear
ed.
The Russians attach importance to
the esoape of the steamer as showing
the inefficiency of the Sebastopol
blockade.
The Circassians who have risen in
trans-Caucassiau Russia have de
stroyed all telegraphs.
The defeat of the Russians near
Batoum, with 4,000 killed, is general
ly believed.
St. Petersburg, May 16.—1 t is offi
cially announced that the Turks bom
barded Sookgoons Kale on Monday.
The town was somewhat damaged.
An attempt to land troops and guns
was defeated, the Turks leaving a
number of dead on the beach.
The two Russian torpedo boats
which were missing after the unsuc
cessful attempt to explode the
Turkish frigate in the Roadstead of
Batoum Sunday night, succeeded in
reaching the steamer Constantine.
The latter arrived at Sebastopol yes
terday. She sustained no loss.
Liverpool, May 16. —The Courier's
Loudon correßt)bodeDt says: The
India office has information that the
Russian vessels at San Francisco
have been ordered to the Persian
Gulf.
II;-(I Ifiealtli of lit* Pope.
London, May 10.—The Standard's j
Borne dispatch says the Pope's
health again causes disquietude, per
haps with more reason than pre
viously. He has no special ailments,
lie is in good spirits, but extremely
and increasingly weak, and has
again taken to being carried in a
chair, which ho does not leave during
an audience.
The We(rn Ex‘urlnU<*.
Wilmington, May 16.—Western
excursionists arrived here at
noon from Norfolk, all well.
They were enthusiastically re
ceived by the citizens, who tendered
them an entertainment at the Opera
House. They leave for Charleston,
8. C., at seven o’clock this evening.
Mii|> News.
Nw York, May 15 —Arrived: Casta
lia, Scandinavian, Algeria, VaUorland, City
of New York.
Arrived out: Beethoven, Minnio M.
Watts, Daniel Draper, Mary Stewart,
Saeramonto, Diana, Minnie Carvllle, Han
nah Morris, Vaar, Antagonist, Reyno,
Monarch, Albino. L zziu Moses. Tonawan
da.
A British Fleet at tlie Suez (.'anal.
Port Said, May IG.—The British
fleet arrived off this harbor to-day.
The offioers, or men, will probably
land, because the small,pox prevails
in Port Said.
\V I: A TII E K IMI IC A TIO \X.
War Department, )
Office of Chief Sionai. Officer, >
Washington, May 16, 1877. )
For the South Atlantic and Eastern
Gulf States,slowly falling barometer,
east to south winds, nearly station
ary temperature, and clear or partly
cloudy weather.
A letter to the Toledo Blade , says
of London’s underground railway:
“Tiie train is generally long, and I
found the ears as pleasant and as
free from smoke as those of the train
above; ami when you pass out of the
depot into the tunnel, the change is
hardly so great as to attract your at
tention. The cars appear to be
lighted by gas, and as the light shines
down from the top, it is favorable
for reading, and I saw gentlemen who
seemed to mind nothing bur, their
papers. The tunnel is in a circuit,
and has a length of about eleven
miles. The cars run every five min
utes, and the road is largely used. I
see it stated that the number of pas
sengers for the last year was over
forty millions.”
Raleigh News: We have informa
tion of the fact that orders have been
received for the dismantling of Fort
Macon. All the troops will be re
moved, and the garrison left in
charge of an ordnance sergeant. The
abandonment of the post at Morgan- j
ton has also been ordered, so that
North Carolina will be left, without j
t roops. This is done iri pursuance of j
the design of the War Department to j
concentrate the forces, abolishing [
the one, two, and three company
posts, and massing them together in
larger numbers.
Representative W. D. Kelley thinks
that the leading questions to come
before the next Congress wiil be the
remonetization of silver and specie
payments. He professes to know
that several members of both parties
in the House of Representatives will
refuse to go into the caucuses for the j
Speakership unless tbev have
pledges that they will not be called |
upon to vote for a Speaker who fa
vors the contraction of the legal
tender currency.
’Hie Cotton Crop.
From N. V. Dulletln, 14th.
The receipts of cotton at the ports con
tinue on a diminished scale, those for last
week being 17,.%!) bales. In order for
the crop to reach 4,500,‘t00 bales at which
it has been estimated, the receipts at the
ports, for the remaining sixteen weeks
of the cotton year would have to average
about 10,250 bales per week, according to
the following:
■Rale*.
Already received at port* 3,856,040
Kst. overland to mills lor your same 1
hh 18 76-6 ( 3J3,000
Southern coiiHUUipttou lor year esti- ( ...
mated same as 1875-6 j
10,230 b-il.’B pur wee* from now to j ... nnn
August 3Ut j 1 uu
Total 4,408,940
llow an average of 10.250 hales per
week would compare with the receipts for
the corresponding sixteen weeks of the
last live years will appear from the fol-
I lowing figures:
Total R'- Weakly avor
eeiiits of the age lor tlio Total
IS weeks. lfi weeks Crop,
187(1 bale*.234 383 14.(133 4.889, IS*
| 1N75 “ 136, 3’N 8,764 3,833,991
1574 •• 176 979 11.061 4,1711,389
1871 ■■ 3..8,373 19,373 3.930.(5118
[ 1872 " 131,826 8,238 2,974,331
It will ho seen from this comparison
that the years in which the receipts for
these sixteen weeks fall below the 10,250
hales per week above supposed were short
crop years. Last year, the receipts for
this period averaged 14,022 bales; those
of 1874, 11,061 hales; and those of 1873
(when the crop was only 3,930,508 bales)
averaged 19,273 bales. It therefore does
not appear a very extravagant assumption
to suppose that, from now until Sept. 1,
the receipts at the port will average 10,-
250 hales per week. If, however, we
were to estimate the receipts for the next
sixteen weeks at the same rate as those
of 1872, when the crop was only 2,974,-
351 hales. —aud take the overland supply
to mills and the Southern consumption
as the! ante as last year—we should then
have a total crop ot 4,467,000 bales, as
will appear from the following:
Bat**.
Already received at porta —............3,836 946
Eatimated overtand to millelor year. 338,1160
Estimat’d South’d consumption for year. 143.066
8,238 bales per week next 16 weeks 131.826
Total 4,466,766
What Old knlillers Think of (lie \ni
scheme Axalnst Mexico.
The recent dispatches published in
the Democrat relative to a prospec
tive raid by organized bunds from
tile United States has caused consid
erable of a movement among those
who are out of work and inclined to
ward filibustering. A large class of
people who have been waiting for
the politics of the State to settle
down in order to secure some official
position, and who have failed to se
cure auy, are taking to the scheme
1 very favorably.
A Democrat reporter had a long
conversation with quite a number of
those out of work relative to the
prospect oi securing one or two regi
ments iri New Orleans to go down to
Mexico to aid this novel project.
One old Confederate said that if
well known leaders could be put at
the head of the scheme, two thous
aud men could be raised iu sixty
days here, inn if ordinary men were
‘‘to boss” the job, the true fighting
material would not touch it.
One Italian said he would go any
way; he wanted a change, and if
there was any hope for money he
would join at once.
A carpenter, who is out of work,
said to the reporter that rather than
be idle for the summer lie would en
list to-morrow; but a friend of his,
who was enjoying a siesta in Jackson
Square, merely dismissed the project
by saving: “The whole game is
damn foolishness, and will end like
Walker’s trip down to Costa Rico.”
This expedition was the main topic
of conversation in the smaller caba
rets and groceries where loungers
out of work congregate, and the pros
and cons of the debate showed that a
large part of the poorer class of the
people here are ready to take Mexico
if an excuse was offered to-morrow.—
N. O. Democrat, 15th.
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An Interesting Case.
An interesting case was tried this
week iu the Circuit Court. In 1875,
a man calling himself Johnson, was
introduced to Lehman, Durr & Cos.,
bankers in Montgomery, no repre
sented himself as a Western man,
seeking a location in the South, and
traveled throughout this section os
tensibly to examine the country. He
made a deposit of several thousand
dollars with Lehman, Durr & Cos.,
got letters of introduction from them
to various sections which he visited.
Wishing to make expenses,as he said,
he bought cotton which bo shipped
them. Finally he wrote to them from
Dawson, Ga., for a letter of credit
with which to buy cotton, and they
wrote him that he could drawou them
for three-fourths the value of his
purchases if the bill of lading for tbe
shipment of the cotton accompanied
his drafts, and that if he would pre
sent that letter to bankers in Eufaula
or Cuthbert and they would advance
him the necessary fuuds, they would
honor their check for the same. Soon
after he appeared at. the bank of E.
B. Young & Son, exhibited the letter
and two cotton receipts one for
thirty-four bales and the other for
twenty— upon which Messrs. Young
& Son advanced him about 2,500, and
drew on Lehman, Durr & Cos. for the same,
which was paid. Johnson has never been
heard of since,and it was discovered that
the first receipt was for only four bales,
and the second, one, he having written
the words thirty and twenty before those
that were in the receipt. Lehman, Durr &
Cos. brought suit therefore for lire recovery
of the money which they bad paid on
Young’s dralt, aud which Young had paid
Johnson. Tiie yrecovered judgment of
Young on lust Thursday, hut the case will
no doubt go to the Supreme Court.—
Clayton Courier.
A Paradise for ts<]nirrel Hunters.
From the Maryavillo (Cal.; Appeal.]
Yearly the squirrels are becoming
more numerous and a greater pest.
They are so thick iu places as to
prove very destructive to crops. All
sorts of devices are employed to kill]
them, but ttiey appear to increase in ;
numbers. The Legislature could au
thorize the county to offer a bounty
for squirrel skins. By so doing
profitable employment would tie
furnished fora number of idle boys.
Or better still, the Legislature rnignt
empower the Road Supervisors of
each district to order out all the boys
between the ages of twelve and seven
ty five to kill squirrels. This is a
plan adopted in Kansas to kill grass
hoppers. Something has got to be
done, or in some portions of the val
ley the squirrels will take possession.
Ntntr mid Fftlcral JurlMltctlon—An im
portant Cause,
In the United Suites District Court
Saturday an order was passed which
is of oonsiderale interest. Applica
tion was mado to Judge Gibson,
President in Burko Superior Court,
to certify a certain case to the United
States Courts, which ho refused on
the ground, wo understand, that tho
case had already been appealed to
the Supreme Court of Georgia, and
that, the Federal Court had not juris
diction. The oase aud facts are
briefly thus:
Henry J. Schley and wife ef. al. vs.
John W. Carswell, executor of B tld
wiu B. Miller. In equity in Burke
Superior Court.. A writ of certiorari
having been issued by Judge Erskine
in the above stated case to Ju Ige
Win. Gibson of the Augusta Cir
cuit, requiring him to send the
record from Burke Superior Court,
from which court the cause had been
removed on complainants’ petition,
which hu docliued to obey for rea
sons stated in his return, Associate
Justice Bradley, of the United States
Supreme Court, after consideration
of the reasons, adjudged tho same
insufficient, ami ordered the clerk to
issue au alias writ, returnable forth
with.
W. W. Montgomery for movant.—
Sav. News.
A llemtllliil Tribute
The following touching tribute to the
memory of the great, soldier, Alliert Syd
ney Johnson, is from the pen of Professor
Joan P. S. Dimitry, of New Orleans. It
was copied from the rough head-boad ol
Gen. Johnston’s grave in New (Means and
went the round of the papers without the
name of the author. It is probably the
most exquisitely finished and eloquent
inscription over writteu in this or any
other language:
Boneatli this Stone is laid,
For a Season,
Albert Sydney Johnston,
A General iu the Army oi tlio Confederate
Status,
Who Full at Shiloh,
on the Sixth Day of April A. D.,
Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-two,
A Man Tried iu Many High Offices
And critical Enterprises,
Aud Found Faithful iu all.
His Life was ouo long sacrifice of Interest te
Conscience
And even that Lite on a woful Sabbath,
Did He yield as a Holocaust to His Country’s
Need.
Not wholly was He understood while Ho lived
But iu His Death His Greatness stands
Confessed
In a People's tears
Resolute, Moderate Clear of Envy, yet not
Wanting iu that Finer Ambition which
Makes Mon Gnat and Pure,
In his honor—impregnable,
Iu his simplicity—sub.ime;
No country e’er ha t a truer son—no cause, a
Nobler champion;
No people a bolder defender—no principle a
Purer victim.
Thai tho Dead soldier
Who sleeps here,
The Cause for which he perished is lost;
The People lor whom he fought are crusned;
The flag he loved guides no more the charging
Lines,
But his lame, consigned to tho keeping of that
lime which,
Happily, is not so luu.di the Tomb of Virtue
As its Shrine,
Shall, in the years to come, fire modest worth
To Noble ends.
Iu honor, now our great Captain rests.
A proud people mourn him.
Throo commonwealths proudly claim him;
And history shall cherish him
Among those choicer spirits, who holding their
Consciences unmixed with blame,
Have been, iu all circumstances.
True to themselves, their Country, and their
God.
ItUMftta’N l-oan.
N. V. Evening Post.]
The publie debt of Russia is about
$1,750,000,000, a turn very much less
i.iian tlio public debt of Euglaod,
Fiance or the United States. Yet,
uuder the most severe conditions in
regard to security, she is unable to
negotiate a loan with the European
bankers at a less rate of interest
than eleven and three-sevenths pet
pen tain. It is not strange that suob
a circumstance its this draws atten
tion to tiie morbid financial condi
tion to which the biggest empire of
tlio old world is reduced. If this is
the condition of Russia, what is to
be said of the financial prospects ol
Turkey, which with a debt of $930,-
000,000, is able io obtain no loan at
all? And if tnis is tne present situa
tion of both these empires at the
opening of an expensive war, what
will it be when the war ends?
The Rev. John Miller, who has just
been suspended for heresv, used to
be (sa>s the Richmond Dispatch) a
clerical hete noir of Stonewall Jack
son, wUo was a professor at the Mili
tary Academy while Mr. Miller lived
and preached in Rockbridge, Va.
After Mr. Miller’s marriage to the
divorced wife of ex-G<>v. Thomas, of
Maryland, which Jackson believed
forbidden by Scripture, he would
never hear him preach; and several
times when Dr. White had invited
Mr. Miller to preach for him in Lex
ington, Jackson, who had gone to
ihe church not knowing of the
change, would get up aud go out.
These stories of Mr. Miller’s eccen
tricities are numerous, hut not more
so than the stories of his genius.
When he entered the Southern army,
in which he was a brave soldier, he
tried to get up a brigade ; but Jack
sou, it is stated, used his influence to
prevent it. or in any way to nave him
attached to his command.
Earthquake Wave*.
Washington, May 12.—Assistant
Davidson telegraphs 0. PetersoQ,
Superintendent of the Coast Survey,
iu relation to the earthquake waves
registered in the tide gauge at Port
Point at the eutrance of San Fran
cisco harbor, to the following effect:
‘’Sharj) earthquake waves com
menced Thursday, May 19, at 6 :18 a.
m. Five rises and falls of 9 inches iu
eighty minutes; then nine maxima,
or crests, forty-eight minutes apart,
with secondary maxima, tiie largest.
15 inches; then six sharp rises of 14
inches each ; irregular, broken crests
one hour apart; then, to 5 a. sr. Fri
day, double maxima, as at the com
mencement; largest rise, 8 inches,
from 5 :'2O a. m , Friday, to 1:15 p. m.,
irregular maxima; then a sudden
fall to 16 inches, and action continu
ing until 5 p. At. No Weil defined
nraxiinun of action by expeditions of
markedly different characters The,
eaithquake wave of the great earth
quake iu Japan some years ago was
23 minutes traversing the Pacific to
Han Francisco.”
Clumsy legislation has left Ten
nessee without any law against
horse-steaiiing, larceny from the
person, house or bridge burning, or
house-breaking with intent to commit
robbery. The old law against these
crimes were so severe that the last
Legislature repealed them, but for
got to restore the old law or enact a
new one. Hence the present awk
ward condition of things in Tennes
see.
A Cnllfiirntn Hear Mtory.
Calavtrat (Cal,) Chronicle. — A few days
ago a very exciting but also ludicrous inci
dent occurred at the upper end of Hunter’s
Flat, some ten miles north of West Point,
Calaveras county, .lohn Giles, who has been
profitably engaged iu trapping in the moun
tains above, the past winter, visited a Mr.
Hall, who owns a small ranch on Hunter’s
Flat. A few hours previous to Giles’ arrival
a bear had paid his respects lo one ol Hall’s
Berkshire hogs, leaving the smaller portion
of it under un oak tree lor lulure lunch,
j Gdes owns a large steel trap, weighing sixty
i pounds, which was hauled to the oak tree; a
I pine some nine inches in diameter was then
cut down, the but nearly reaching the oak.
The heavy chain attached to the trap has an
enormous swivel at the end, which was se
curely fastened to a strong iron bolt inserted
in the but end of the pine. The ghostly re
mains of Bcrkey were carried up the oak
| tree and lashed to the trunk so as to be in
sight. 'The trap was set, and Giles procee
ded to obliterate footmarks. All at once
Hall yelled in a scalp-raising tone, “Here
he comes!" Sure enough an enormous and
apparently enraged bear was making rapid
headway toward the mourners under the oakj.
Before Giles got started in the ensuing
race Hall had taken the lead by a good many
lengths leaping wild coffee bushes six ieet
in height with case. The roaring of the fe
rocious brute in the rear accelerated Giles’
speed until he was exhausted, when he ven
tured to look back aud note with a grateful
heart that Bruin had given up the race. He
shouted the happy fact to his friend who
was some 400 yards ahead, but Hall contin
ued the race until he reached his cabin. The
two now concluded to wait some two hours.
Giles had no weapons with him, and when
ihe time expired Hall advanced trivial ob
jections, but offered to lend his rifle As Hall
is acknowledged to be a bold and skilful
hunter, Giles pressed him to explain his ap
parently cowardly behavior, and the blush
ing and stuttering friend said that he was re
cently engaged to ths reignhjgtbelle of West
Point —did not fear death —but seriously ob
jected to the possibility of Bruin's unkind
scratching under the circumstances. Giles
shouldered ihe riHe and started in ihe direc
tion of the trap. He found the Berkshire
epicure with his left fore paw in the trap
which he han dragged some 500 yards, tree
and all. When the monster caugtit sight of
his jailer his rage knew no bounds in his ef
forts to get at him, but the trap and the tree
which had become fastened in the under,
growth held him securely. Giles says that
he lodged five balls in the bear's eats, which
all ineffectively flattened. Balls fired at the
head only penetrated the skin. Several shots
in the region of the heart finally brought
him down, but he did not die until three
hours after. When the monster had been
skinned his head, back of his ears, was found
to be two feet ten and one-half inches in cir
cumference. The carcass when dressed
weighed 1,453$ pounds It is probably the
largest bear ot its species ever seen in Cali
fornia. The skin is a very fine one. and
Giles intends to present it to President
Hayes.
.—
Taper Flour-Barrets.
A firm at Syracuse, N. Y., are now man
ufacturing a novel flour barrel. The barrels
are composed of straw-paper pulp, which is
run into a a mold made in the shape of one
half of a barrel cut vertically. The pulp is
subjected to a powerful hydraulic pressure,
and when reduced to the required thickness
the ends of the halves are cut off' at the ends.
The pieees are then placed in a steam drier,
and thesides are trimmed evenly and the sub
stance'horoughly dry. It conies trom the
drier ready for making up into barrels.
There are three heavy wooden hoops and two
hoops fastened together; and into grooves
cut in the staves the paper halves, which
have an average thickness of three-sixteenths
of an inch, are slid. The ends of the barrels
are made of paper of a similar thickness,
constructed upon the same principles as the
sides and protected by heavy wooden ones.
The advantages of these barrels over wooden
ones, are lightness, cheapness, durability,
and the prevention of flour silting out while
in transit. They are constructed entirely
by machinery, and the halves are cut so true
that any pieces of the same size will readily
fit together. They will not cost more than
one-third the price of wooden barrels, are
lighter, and fit so nicely in the grooves that
there is no chance for flour to sift through,
which loss is quite a heavy percentage in
the use of other kinds.
The Oldest Newspaper in the World.—
The Chinese possess the oldest newspaper
in the world. “Court Announcements” is
its Chinese name, but it is known as the Pe
kin Gazelle, amt dates back to the year 713
8.0. In the oldest, book of Chinese poetry
extant mention is made of an appointment
conferred on the author by the Chinese Gov
ernment, and its announcement in the Pekin
Gazette is referred to. The newspaper is
mentioned several times in the earliest Chi
nese annals known, and exercises great in •
fluence among and over the people. Hence
the anxieties of the British minister in China
to obtain mpntion of the recent convention
between the two countries in tbe Pekin Ga
zette The newspaper consists of about
twelve leaves, printed on bright yellow pa
per. In former times the different copies
were transcribed by hand, a copy being sent
lo every province and important city in tbe
empire and posted up in some public place.
A claim has been made upon Wra.
11. Vanderbilt by Teunie C. Clalln
for over SIOO,OOO, the proceeds, she
alleges, or SIO,OOO deposited by her
with Commodore Vanderbilt in 1871,
I for speculative opperations. Van
j derbilt, before leaving for Europe,
pronounced the claim ridiculous.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
BY TELEGRAPH TO THE DAILY TIMES.
MO.VKY AMI STOCKS.
LONDON. May 10. Noon—Consols 94 146.
1:0 I P. M.—Consols 93 15-16.
3:00 p. m.—Consols 98 J£.
| PARIS, May 16.-1:80 P. m.—Rentes 102f. and
| 40c.
NEW YORK, May 10.—Noon—Gold opened
: 107.
i NEW YORK, May 16.—Noon—Stocks little off;
I m rt ney2; gold 7; exchange, long, 4.57 K; abort,
4.90; State bonds firm; Governments firm.
I NEW YORK. May 16. Evening Money
OAsy, at 2@2*; sterling 4 87,'£; gold 7: Govern
ments strong—new s’s ; States steady.
COTTON.
LIVERPOOL, May 16. Noon— Cotton dull;
middling uplands 6 1846d, Orleans 6d, sales
8.000, speculation and export 2000, receipts
21,700, American 20,200.
Futures opened l-32d better, but the advance
has since beau lost; uplands, low middling clause,
May and June delivery, 5 23-82@ll-16d; June and
July 6%@13 32d, July and August 5 13-16d, August
and September 5 29-82d, {September and October
6 31-32d, shipped July and August 6 25-32d.
2:00 p. m.—Uplands, low middling clause, July
and August delivery 5 13-10d.
Sales of American 5950.
4:30 p. m —Uplands, low middling clause, July
and August delivery 0 25-34d, August aud Sep
tember 5%d.
5:00 p. m,—Future* steady; uplands, low mid
dling clause, July and August delivery 6 13-ltfd;
now crop shipped November aud December per
sail 01-lfld.
NEW YORK, May 16.—Noon—Cotton quiet;
mlddllug uplands 10 J 3-16; Orlesus 10 16-16; Male*
103.
Futures opened shade lower, but steady as fol
lows: May 10 H?(s Hi; June 10.8646.87; July 10 90
(uJ.9B, August 11.069*88; September 11.06(^.07.
NEW YORK. May 16.—Evening—Cotton quiet
and steady; middling uplands 10 13-16; Orleans
10 15-16; sales 246; net receipts 72; gross 1602,
Consolidated net receipts 11.U78; exports to
Great Britain 17 748: to Frauce 2610; to continent
9968; to channel 1163.
Futures closed weak; sales 30,000; May 10.78(<t
.75; June 10.78®.79; July 10.89® 90; August
10.99; September 10.97®.98; October 10 K7®.89;
November 10.78®.80; December 10.80®.82; Jan
uary 10.92®.95; February 11.04®.08, March 11.18
@ 23.
GALVESTON. May 16.—Cotton weak; iniddliug
10 3 ,; net receipts 11; gross—; sales 611; exports
to Groat Britain —; France —; to chaunel —; to
continent —; coastwise —.
NORFOLK, May 16. Evening Cotton
dull; middlings 103* ; receipts 407; gross —; sales
50; spiuuers —; exports to Great Britain —;
coastwise 809.
BALTIMORE, May 16. —Evening—Cotton dull;
middling 10 13-16; net receipts —; gross 377;
sales 40; spinners —; exports to Great Britain —;
to continent —; coastwise 389.
BOSTON. May 16. Evening Cotton dull;
middling 11; net receipts 252; gross 252; sales
—; exports to Great Britain —.
WILMINGTON, May 15. -Evening Cotton
nominal; middling lo'-a; net receipts 65; sales
to spinners —; exports to Great Britain —, coast
wise —.
PHILADELPHIA. May 16. Eveniug Cotton
quiet; middling 11; net receipts 150; gross 182;
sales 654; to spinners 239,exports to Groat Brit
ain —.
SAVANNAH, May 17. Evening Cotton
quiet; middling
sales 25; exports to Great Britain —; to conti
nent —; to chaunel —; coastwise 248.
NEW ORLEANS, May 16. Evening—Cotton
quiet; middling io ; low middling 10; good or
dinary 9; not receipts 250 gross 258; sales 8500.
exports to Great Britaiu 7835; to Frauce —; to
continent —; channel —; coastwise 493,
MOBILE, May 16. —Cotton weak and irregular;
middiug 10, 5 , ; net receipts 76, gross —; sales 700;
exports to Great Britain —; to France —; conti
nent —; to chaunel —; coastwise 8.
MEMPHIS, May 16.—Evening Cotton quiet
aud nominal; middling 10,V. receipts 107; ship
ments 541; sales 100.
AUGUSTA. May 16.—Cotton firm and in fair
demand; middling 10; net receipts 42; sales 138.
CHARLESTON, May 16. Eveniug— Cotton
steady; middling IO I*, 1 *, net receipts 486! gross —,
sales 700; exports to Great Britaiu —j to Frauce
—; to continent —; coastwise —.
VKO VISIONS. At.
NEW YORK, May 16.-Noon- Flour dull and
lower. Wheat dull and nominally lower. Corn
2®3c lower and heavy. Pork quiet—new mess
sls 25. Lard steady, steam $9.67>£. Freights
steady.
NEW YORK, May 16. Evening—Flour dull,
10®25c lower, closing dull aud declining; super
flub Wt-steru and bt&te $7.10®57.85. southern
flour dull aud easier; common to fair extra $7.80
$8.30, good to choice $8.85®510.50. Wheat null
aud nominally lower, scarcely anything doing iu
winter; for white Western and State $2 28®35.
Corn 2c lower; ungraded Western mixed 6e®6B,
yellow Southern 67Oats more active without
decided change. Coffee, Uio, firm. Sugar quiet
aud very firm at 10® 10>4 ;air to good refiuiug;
refined in moderate demand; 11J*® 12 for stand
ard A, 12%@)£ for grauulated, 12>®*£ for mush
ed aud powdered. Molasses—refining stock firm,
at 50, last quoted at 52®52)£, Rice quiet and uu
chauged. Pork decidedly lower, closing more
steady—new mess $16.00. Lard much lower,
i closing more steady—new prime sttam $9 50,
j $9 65 for old. Whiskey Freights steady.
LOUISVtLLE, May 16.—Flour dull and weak;
extra $7,25®57.50; family $8 00@58.25. Corn
•lull, white 55, mixed 64, Rye quiet at 9b@95.
Outs—white 48, mixed 40. Provisions lower and
iu better demand. Pork quiet at $16,25®50.
Bulk meats in good demaud and lower—shoul
ders 6)4. clear rib sides7**. clear sides bacon
active aud shade lower—shoulders 5%, clear ribs
B*,, clear sides B#. Sugar-cured hams quiet at
10‘4®12. Lard quiet; choice leaf, tierce IOT4.
In kegs Whiskey quiet at SI.OO. Bagging
quiet at 12 *£@l3.
ST. LOUIS, May 16. Eveniug Flour dull
and nominal; double extra fall $7.75@|8.00,
treble extra do., $8.60@59.25; family and fancy
s9.so®s 10.50. Wheat unsettled aud lower; No.
2, red fall, $2.12; No. 3, do.. $1.90. Corn active
audlower—No. 2, mixed, 60> 4 '. Oats dull and
lower; No. 2. 45. Rye dull aud lower, at 80@82.
Barley dull. Whiskey inactive aud lower at $1.07.
Pork inactive and lower at $14.60 bid. Lard dull,
current make at 9. Bulk meats dull and nomi
nal—clear ribsides7^ t asked, 7Si bid. Bacon dull
aud lower at 5%, B@B‘ it aud B’s, for shoulders,
clear rib and clear sides.
CINCINNATI, May 16. Evening— Flour
easier; family $8,76@f8 90. Wheat quiet; red
$1.76®.90. Corn lower aud unsettled at 49@62,
oats iu fair demand at46@69. Rye dull and low
er at 90®92. Barley dull aud nominal, at 60@67.
Pork easier at sl4 50®$ 16.00. Lard in fair de
maud steam $9.25 bid, kottie s9J*@slo.oo.
Bulk meats dull aud weak—shouders %i%\ short
rib middles s7j„, short clear ribs $7-50®.
Bacon easier at $6 @sß.2s@sßfor shoul
ders, clear ribs, and clear sides. Whiskey dull
aud lower at $1,06. Butter dull and drooping
—p ime to choice Western reserve 16® 17,
Central Ohio 13@15.
BALTIMORE, May 16. Oats dull; Southern
fair to prime 45@48. Rye lower, 9U@95.
Provisions dull—mess $lO 50. Pork— new mess
$17.00, Bacon, shoulders i^®. I *, clear sides
9,‘4@>4. Refilled lard 10%@11, Hams 12%@13>tf,
oflee dull; jobs 17@22. Whiskey dull at 12>£@13.
Sugar steady at 12.
JOHN BLACKMAR,
Brolxerago,
REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE,
St. C 1 iti v Street,
GEORGIA HOME BUILDING,
NKXT TO WESTERN UNION TE LEO RATH OFFICE.
LAND WARRANTS BOUGHT
HEFKB, 11Y PEMISSIwN,
To Banks of this city,
I)R. f-. B. LAW.
OFUCEatA.M. Brannon's Drug Store. Office
hours from 12:80 to 2, and from 6 to 6.
ja2B if _
City Marshal’s Sale.
WILL b sold on FIRST TUESDAY IN JUNE
NEXT, at Abbott k Newsom's corner, on
Broad street, in the city of Columbus, Ga.. tbe
undivided oue-half interestin that part of City
lot No. 175, lying and being In the City of Colum
bus, Muscogee county, State of Georgia, on tbe
east side of Broad street, corner of Broad and
Randolph, running 140 feet more or less, north
from Rvudolph up Broad street to an alley, and
running east from Broad aud along Randolph
street 70 feet more or less- v/ith tbe improve
ments thereon. Sold as the property of the es
tate of Charles Oleghorn, deceased, for the use of
the Chattahoochee National Bank ot Columbus,
to satisfy three tax ft. fas. in my hands for city
taxes for the years 1874, 1876 and 1876, transfer
red to said bank. Property pointed out by Bam’l
B, Cleghorn, Administrator of estate of Charles
Cleghorn, Amount $1,077.75.
TIFF. T. MOORE,
my 6 lawtd City Marshal.
a A|T{)obtained for mechanical de-
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I H I Lll I Wpounds, ornamental designs,
trade-marks, and labels Caveats, Assignments,
Interferences, etc., promptly attended to.
inventions that have been
ir ATrn b y the Patent Office may
|J L IL I IL I Istill, in most cascs.be se
ll I tlfcured by us. Being op
posite the Patent Office, we can make closer
searches, aud secure Patents more promptly and
with broader claims than those who are remote
irom Washington.
muriiTnno* ud ns * model or
InlwrN I IIK \Hketch of your device;
fill V Lb Is I UIIU *•’ make examinations
free of charge, aud advise as to patentability. All
correspondence strictly confidetial. Prices low,
AND NO CHARGE IMAMS PATENT
1M MEf L'HEIt.
We refer to officials in the Patent Office, and
to inventors in every State In the Union. Ad
dress, in Herman or English, C. A. BNOW & 00.,
Opposite Patent Office, Washington, D.
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