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VOL. X.
'a temple laid in ashes
Xxnbracing the Grandest Ooneietory
in the World.
Terrible Hlow to Cincinnati’® Scot
tish Kites 51 aeons-Rich Psra
t phernalla, Regalia®, Km
blems. Documents, Etc.,
CJone-Loss $300,000.
Cincinnati, Dec. 24. —Masonic Temple,
at the corner of Third and Walnut streets,
this city, was almost destroyed by fire this
morning, together with the printing and
bindery establishment of J. R. Mills, adjoin
ing on the north, on Walnut street. The Are
originated in the cellar of the Mills’ printing
bouse, ami was discovered by one of the girls
Mil ployed in that place at 7:45. A silent alarm
was turned in and a Babcock extinguisher re
sponded. Owing to several mishaps it was
full twenty minutes after tbe Ba bock reached j
the scene of the tire before it was able to |
render any service. By that time the Are
had communicated to the third floor of the
Mills’ building and was rapidly consuming
the paper stock. A general alarm brought
out the entire fire department, but the fierce
flame® had crossed the small area between the
Mills’building and the Masonic Temple be
fore they reached the ground, and for a time
It was thought nothing would save the
temple.
The smoke had permeated the entire build
ing by this time, and was [muring from every
crack, window and crevice above the third
floor of the main building. In ten minutes a
small fork of flame darted through the black ■
smoke, followed by a blare, leaping fifty feet
from the huge round center window of the
assembly room, on the fourth floor. A mo
ment later the fifth floor of the Mills end of
building belched forth flames from every
window, and the Unusual scene of five stories
of a huge building pouring flames from every
window at the same time, three-quarters of
an hour after the Fire Department had com
menced working on it, presented itself.
AtH.2sthe roof was burned through and
by 8:45 the cupola on the northwest comer of
the building Hmoked. and suddenly a crash of
glass sounded a warning, and the sheet of I
flarm- which burst simultaneously from the ■
windows on all sides of it left but little doubt
but that the magnificent structure wa>
doomed.
The beat soon begun to have a telling effect
on the freestone front of the cupola, and a
eracking sound," followed by a shower of
stones, ranging in size from two to six inches
tn diameter, drove the fir.-men and people
back. Hardly had they retreated fifty feet ere
another shower of much larger stores
fell dangerously dose, and pressed them s ill
further back. Then a loud report like tiat
of a cannon rang out from above, and the en
tire stone front of the cup-la. fifty feet
square, fell with a terrible crash, precipitat
ing blocks of stone two and three feet square
onto the sidewalks opposite and narrowly
miraculously missing a little knot of firemen
who pluckily stood holding the nozzle of their
hose toward the burning building. About
8:50 the blaze showed signs of weakening,
and at 9 o’clock it eas evident that the fire
had b**en brought under control, but only
after terrible disfigurement of the grand
building and heavy loss.
The firm of J. R. Mills & Co. consists of
J. R. Mills and Wm. J. O’Neil, Mr Mills
holding th** greater interest, was established
at 124 Walnut street, in 1876. Their loss will
reach 9*20,000
The Masonic building was constructed
years ago at a cost of 9200,900. It is now
valued at 9150,000, on which there is an in
surance of $125,000 There are eight lodges
occupying the building, and each one carries
an individual insurance on their own para ‘
phernalia. Owing to the supposed extreme
safety of the building against fire, each lodge
merely carried insurance for half the value.
This Scottish Kites < athedral, or rather its
contents. i« an irreparable !<«•«. John I).
Caldweli and IV B Aielish, master of cere
monies. said substantially:
“It was recognized a* one of the most elal>-
orately furnished in the whole world, as vis
itors from other countries invariably pro
nounced it to be, and its work was the most
perfect. Its contents cost 935,900, and were
Insured for 92*2,009; but much of its contents
can never lie replaced. They consisted of col
lectione of original Masonic pictures by Mr.
Carson, Mae*>nic palters, old diplomas and
original charter®. There were thirty-two de
grees of the order, aud each bad its special
paraphenalia, consisting of robes of
rich material, lavishly ornamented
with gold an I gems, crowns, truncheons
and regalia. ’ One robe,” said Mr. Me
lish, “I took oht to repair and replaced it just
in time to be destroyed. The cost of it was
9150. There were about fifty of these, cost
ing from 9100 to 9150 each. There were the
paintings, whose cost can not be estimated in
dollars and cents. All the jewels of the de
grees have gone in the flames, whose cost was
many thousands. There was one revolving
panoramic scene of a journey to Palestine
that cost 91,500, and a stereopticau with ite
.Masonic pictures that cost #1,009, the instru- '
meat alone being worth 9200, and the ivory
image of the Savior costing 990. Besides
these were the accumulated properties of
many years, that made ours the only consis
tory in the State, the most perfectly equipped
in the- world.”
The aggregate loss on the Temple and con
tents is variously estimated at between 9400,-
000 and 9500,000, but the former is perhaps
the more correct.
The Temple had a number of law offices in
it. Among others were John A. Corbin,
Coppock & Coppock, Wm. Caldwell, S. B.
Hammel!, Robt. A. Price, Victor Abrams,
W. C. Fiedeldry and Col L. H. Bond, none
of whom lo»it heavily. It wei jnly that por
tion of the building that was occupied by the
lodge roon • that was completely gutted.
The following firms and individuals suf
sered low from water: Gray & Co., dealers
in druggists’sundries; the Fourth National
Bank; J. H. Vornholz, note broker; Joseph
Leighton, broker: Cincinnati Life Awxia
tion: Abraham A; Fiedeldey, attorneys at
law; Coppock & Cop[»uck and William Cald
well, attorneys; Keller & Kebler, attorneys;
Cincinnati National Bank; Fred. Rauh &
Co., insurance agents; Leo Sterrett & Co.,
brokers; E. L. Harper & Co., pig iron deal
ers; Swift's Iron and SteelWork® office
Mutual Life Association; Williams & Co.,
expert accountants: Sage A Hinkle, attor
neys; Stephen Mead, uote broker; Wm. J.
Dunlap & Co., brokers, and the Standard
Fire Insurance Company. Their combined
losses will reach from 925,000 to 930,000.
Lewis Block & Sons, brokers: Meuttman &
Co., sign painters, and McCune, Warren &
Co., brokers, also suffered from the terrib b
drenching of water.
The certificate of membership of the grea
Lorenzo Dow is said to be among the treas
ures destroyed.
Ths Nova Csesarea Harmony Lodge cf
Freemasons, to which the Masonic building
destroyed to-day belonged, was instituted in
1794, and is the oldest lodge in the State.
The corner stone of this building was laid
June 4, 1845, by W. B. Thrall, M. W. Grand
Master of Ohio, aud the structure was com
pleted and dedicated June 24, 1846. It was
IMe thought at that time that within fifteen
Ssiito (Lillies.
yttvn another building would be necessary.
Buch was the case however. The growth of
the order here admitted little delay’. In 1858,
while there was still a debt of 910,000 on the
building then standing, it was torn down, to
give place to the magnificent Masoni*' Tem
ple-one of the finest in the country if not in
the world —which was destroyed to-day. The
corner stone of this building was laid with
Masonic ceremonies by Grand Master Horace
M. Stokes, July 22, 1858, and m December,
1860, the building was completed It was oc
cupied by N C. Harmony Lodge, however, as
early as August 3, 1850. The property when
completed was valued at 9500,000.
The grief of Enoch T Carson over his
matchless Shaksperian and Masonic libraries
called for sympathy on all silt«. It meant
not only the losa of many jvms of Masonic
literature, keys of Masonic learning and rare
<*uriosities, but it meant to Carson the loss of
treasure. To Carson his library was price
less. It can never be restored Had it been
fully insured, it would have been hs nothing
in Carson’s eyes His daughter came into his
office at No. 27 West Third street, at 19 a. m.,
and sank to the floor crying, amid her sobs:
“My poor, poor father! My G<xi, my poor
father!” When she was assure'l that her
father was safe, she still cried: “My poor,
poor father. His library is gone 1 know it
will kill my poor, dear father.’
She was led from the room and soothed.
Mr. Carson soon came in ami assisted in
quieting his daughter, but whenever anyone
spoke of his hiss bn face was tilled with an
guish and his voice trembled.
He said there were old charters enough to
have started twenty five new supreme bogus
councils, lodges anil chapters on as gi»od au
thority as many have to-day. You know
nothing alxjut that, but I do. There they
were in tin boxes, with their seals 100
and 150 years old. Those from Eu
rope were most valuable. Thon* was
one, I remember, of the “Charbonier’s,”
that is the charcoal burners of France, 156
years old. There was a grand portrait of
Cagliostro, whose name is a synonym for im
postor, who had a system of his own - the
work of thirty y<«ars of my life is swept
away. ’’ Tears choked his utterance, and he
turned away. Mastering his emotions, he
resumed. “There weie ancient engravings
and drawings of Masonic rites, rare books,
and. oh! I can not enumerate .My own por
trait that the commandery had [minted.
Thei e was too much term-all. I lent them
to the order to form the nucleus of a mu
seum. ”
Latbr The total loss is put at Iwtween
9200,000 and 9300,000.
The Masonic Temple is owned by N. C.
Harmony Lodge. The Gibuluiu Grand Lodge
ih insured for 9’>0,000, 93,(XX) of which is placed
with the Security amt Eureka Insurance
Company, and 92,500 with the (’omniercial
Insurance Company. The building is insured
for 9125,000.
Mr C. R. Folger, the Secretary of the
Ltxige, stated that the list of the companies
with whom the policies was placed wen* not
available, but that most < f it was with Cin
cinnati companies. The . e building
be could not estimate until the a e ith
irew and an examination be made.
FOREIGN NEWS.
THE SHIPBUILDING TRADE DEPRESSED.
London, Dec. 25, —The annual returns te
the Board of Trade from Scotland and the
North of England show that the extent of the
shipbuilding industry on the Clyde, the Tyne
and the Wear has been fifty per cent, les*
during the. present year than during the year
1883. The builders, however, believe that
the prospects for the future are now brighter
than at any previous time for several months.
The dullness in the marine carrying trade hrs
had. they ?*ay, one effect that operates to ti. *
Ix-nefit of the builder. The scantiness of
ocean freignta has led to keeu competition and
to a cutting down of rates to such a point
that It no longer [>ays to run any but modern
built, ships, which can make their trips in the
bhortest possible time. The market for such
ships is nut overstocked, owing to the limited
production during the last year, and the de
mand for them is now increasing. The ship
ping merchants have per eived that the old
time steamers, though cheaper in their orig
inal cost, are more costly in use, owing to
their large expense In maintenance, rejiairs,
sailors’ wages and coal. Some large
firms in London and Liverpool have con
demned whole fleets of the obi vessels, and
are selling them at a loss to coastwise traders.
These firms and several transportation com
panies have given orders for the construction
of larger and stronger vessels with modern
appliances in machinery and steering gear.
The building of these steamers during the
next few months gives a prospect of employ
ment to thousands of skilled workmen who
are now idle.
IRISH MEETINGS
London, Dec 25.—Mass meetings of the
Irish National League are announced to be
held at twenty or more places in Ireland Fri
day, which is St. Stephen’s Day and a gen
eral holiday. The Dublin Castle clique have
lx*en urging Earl Spencer to proclaim all
these meetings, but the Lord Lieutenant has
thus far resisted the pressure. If the meetings
l>e prohibited the farmers throughout Ireland
threaten to retaliate by preventing the St.
Stephen’s fox-hunts, which alway take place
the 26th of December, and are gala occasions
for the huntsmen.
THE PUBLIC HEALTH.
A Scheme for the Or&rantxatlon of a
National Board.
Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 25. —Dr. G. B,
Thornton, President of the local Board of
Health of Memphis, states that the recent re
port marie to the House Committee, having
ia view the establishment of a National
Board of Health, does not meet with bis ap
proval, inasmuch as the Board, which is to b
composed of thirty-eight members, would lie
too large aud unwieldy. Previous to his de
parture from Washington Dr. Thornton left
with Senator Harris and Congressman Casey
Young a draft of an amendment to the bill
reported by the committee. Dr. Thornton s
bill,' in place of a National Board of State
Boards, provides for one member from the
army, one from the navy, one from the Ma
rine Hospital Service, one from the Depart
ment of Justice, as in the old Board,
and one from civil lite, who shall
be President and executive officer. Thia
board shall elect a Secretary not a member
of the board, whose duties shall be merely
clerical. All of these are to reside in Wash
ington. This bcr*rd is to be or may be en
larged in the dis .’retion of the States by a
single representative from each existing or
hereafter to be organized State Board of
Health, provided that the expenses of such
representative shall be borne by the State.
Residence in "Washington of the entire board
prevent! the possibility of one-man power.
But two salaries are created. The members
from official life are merely detailed without
additional salary. A permanent National con
trol of the subject is provided, which, how
ever, the States may at their option, assume
by appointing their own members, which
need not be at additional cost beyond their
expenses, since they could be detailed from
the salaried officers of the State boards. Dr.
Thornton’s bill also provides that an inspec
tor shall be placed at the infected ports of
other countries, under proper regulations
and after advisement with the Department
at State.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 27, 1884.
NEW CABINET MATERIAL
The New President Will Slight No
Section of the Country.
Garland** Prospects Allen G. Thur
man's Clslni—Cleveland's Plans—
Will Write No Message Illinois
Senators and Civil Service.
Washington, Dec. 25.—1 t is learned to
night from authority which can not be ques
tioned that Mr. Cleveland tendered to Sena
tor Ga< land a place in his Cabinet, and that
the offer was accepted. Os course it is un
derstood that the position will be the Attor
ney Generalship, but upon this point the in
formal ion is not so definite. The President
elect said to the Arkansas Senator, in tho
course of an interview, that he desired him
to take a place in the Cabinet. Mr. Garland
said that he would do so. That uiuch was
settled on Saturday night Two members of
the (-abinet have been decided upon, and only
two. Mr Bayard was the first called and
Mr. Garland the seixjnd. The confirmation
of the report in regard to Mr. Gatland was
not received here until late to-i ight, but
when it did come it was in such fcv*.n as to
leave no room for doubt.
The Washington Star says: “Senator Gar
land left the Senate after a short time spent
in tho chamber Saturday, and, it now ap
pears, made a visit to Albany, to see Govern
or Cleveland. He saw Governor Cleveland,
and the report is that he was formally ten
dered the position of Attorney General in the
next Cabinet. An Aliiany special to the
New York World denies this, but it is the
general belief among Democratic Senators
that it is so, and m<>st of them now think
that Senator Bayard has also boon invited to
a seat in the Cabinet. 'Hie expression of
Democratic sentiment throughout the coun
try has been almost unanimously in favor of
Mr. Garland for the office of Attorney Gen
eral. It is conceded by all who know Mr.
Garland that he would not have gone to Al
bany uninvited, and upon the assumption
that he was called there by Cleveland the be
lief is that it could only have been to offer
him the place he ha> been so prominently
talked of for.”
Till rman’s claimh.
Congressman Hurd was seen by the repor
ter after his interview with the Governor,
and spoke very freely on the object of his
visit.
“I am on my way home from Washington,”
said be, “and. having never met Mr. Cleve
land. I stoppwl over to pay my rwpect* to
him But the principal object of my visit
was to urge the claims of Allen G Thurman
for Secretary of State. In view of the hn
portant treaties now pending, and which will
probably not be concluded until the new Ad
ministration comes into power, I said that
I believed Mr, Thurman to Lie best fitted to
carry out a foreign policy that would reflect
credit upon the American Government. Mr.
Bay aid 1 hoped would be given the Treasury
portfolio, leaving the chair of foreign rela
tions unfilled. The President-elect listened
attentively, but gave no indication aa to what
his own views were.”
Mr. Hurd cnjsaed his legs, leaned back, and
added in a reflective way, talking half to
himself: “Perhaps, after all, none of the Cab
inet [lositions will be awarded to Ohio.
Governor Hoadiy has been strongly uien
tiuned for the Attorney Generalship, and
to keep the party together the President
will probably take no Minister from that
State.”
the south to be recognized.
Buffalo, Dec. 25. —An Albany corre
spondent telegraphs as follows: Contrary to
general expectation Governor Cleveland Las
decided to remain in Albany during the
interval between his resignation as Governor
and his inauguration as President. The Gov
ernor has hired a house and his sisters will
keep house fur him. The resignation will
take place immediately on the assembling of
the Legislature on January 6, and Lieuten
ant Governor Hili will at once lake the chair.
Governor Cleveland said last night, in an
swer to an inquiry as to his staying in
Albany:
“It is a good deal more convenient here for
meeting a good many people who al ways
come to call on me in relation to public mat
ters and I have easier access to certain books
and public records 1 want to consult in the
interim. I shall make a run to Buffalo to at
tend tho Charity Ball, making uu < xception
of that, for 1 am crowded with invitations.’’
“You will not have any message to write
then this year !”
“No It has been suggested that the in
augural address will have some of the char
acter of a message in outlining a policy, but
1 hardly think much is expected in that line
beyond a very general statement of the prin
ciples that will govern my action. A good
deal has been said about a Southern adminis
tration, and I suppose some people are look
ing for assurances that we are not to have
the Government run in the interest of a sec
tion. The way I look at it is that no part of
country is to be treated any differently from
any other part. Efforts have been made tc
raise a false alarm on this matter. I think ii
is the duty of every patriotic man to fro we
down any such sectional issues. ”
THE ILLINOIS SENATORS.
Washington, Dec. 25 Senator Cullom’i
attention wm called this evening to a state
ment that be aud Senator Logan had become
enemies to civil service reform by urging the
appointment of a machine politician as Post
master at Petersburg, Illinois, and opposing
the claims of Miss Rebecca Snape, who hai
been for twelve years Deputy Fustmaster,
aud has almost unanimously indorsed bj
the people. Senator Cullom pronounced the
story an unfounded attack upon his colleague
and himself When the Senators were noti
fied by the Postmaster General that th«
term of the Postmaster at Petersburg, Mr
Curry, was. about to expire, they recommend
bir. reappointment without any particular con
sideration, as they took no special Interest ir
the matter and believed that he had satisfac
torily filled the position. The Senators wen
subsequently informed that Mr. Curry wai
not an applicant for reappointment, and up
on receiving this information notified tht
Pus toil!-e Department to take no further ac
tion. Learning more recently that Mist
Snape is an applicant, and is favorably re
garded, Senators Logan and Cullom havt
recommended her appointment, and her nom
ination is daily exacted. Senator Cullon
added that no political appointment was a!
any time suggested or considered; that th<
action taken was in strict conformity with
civil service reform principles; and that th<
attacks and misrepresentation* were meat
and unwarranted and designed to reflect
upon the sincerity of his colleague and him
self.
ST. JOHN’S ORGAN DEAD.
Leavenworth, Kas., Dec. 25.—Yester
day the material of the Kansas Prohibition
ist, St. John’s Kansas organ, run by Martin
Van Buren Bennet, was sold by th<
Sheriff. The Prohibitionist was thi
most intolerant of Kansas papers in ad
vocating prohibition, and died for lack «
support.
Wilson, Walton & Co., railway raanu
facturers, Pittsburg, announce a ten per cent
reduction of wages, to take effect January 1
Those under yearly contract are not affected
QOINQ FOR MOODY.
Probability that It Will be Warm
for Him In Virginia.
Richmond, Va., Dec. 2. —Religious circles
hen* were shaken this evening by a card pub
lished by B. D. Cove, a well known citizen,
in rd’otence to the visit of Moody, the evan
gelist, January 4. The visit is in response to
an invitation signed by hundreds of citizens,
and Gove’s card has fallen like a bombshell,
since it holds the evangelist up as one who
has not practiced tho Christian charity he
preaches. Cove says: “During the month of
April, in the year 1876, Mr. Moody held a
series of revival meetings in the Hippodrome
at New York. One of his discourses on that
occasion was characterized by a narrow, sec
tional, contracted prejudice uot countenanced
in any gentlerran, much less in a man
professing to be full to overflowing
with Christian grace and charity. In the
course of his remarks it suited his
purpose to illustrate the character of Jesus
Christ and the davil, but how? He said, in
substance: ‘lt was the custom of Jesus
Christ, in his parable's, to use as examples
those persons, charact<us aud scenes with
which the people to whom he was sjwakhig
were not familial-, and I will do likewL e. The
rebel leaders, Lee and Stonewall Jackson,
and the peerless patriot Grant, are names
which are familiar to you all.’ Ho then pro
ceeded to divest lrf»e and Jackson of every
honorable characteristic. In their religious
characters they were worse than the follow
ers of Mahomet; in their lives the life of Ne
ro, in comparison, was as white as the driven
snow. In a word, he said that by every il
lustration and animus of their lives and
actions they more forcibly represented the
character of the King of Darkness than any
names which his knowledge of the world’s
history enabled him to call to mind since
Judas betrayed the Lord *of Glory. Hethen
preceded to clothe General Grant in all the
grandeur of a god, so far as the extent of
words could do it, robbing heaven of its
glory and God of His attributes to
adorn his hero, Grant, his ideal rep
resentative of Christ. To this at this
time 1 only have to say that there
lives not a Virginian with any pretensions
to respe<'tability who is not proud to claim a
common citizenship with the immortal Ixx
and Jackson proud that Virginia had such
( hristian heroes to offer to the service of
their country They were our leaders, our
representatives. We loved them in their
lives, and their memory is dear to us still,
and will ever lie. We were with them, and
Moody’s abuse of them is equally an abuse of
each of uk wh'» followed these [tearless patri
ots. Our land and cause went down with
them. We suffered, and their morality,
their patriotism, their sense of honor, and
their religion and piety is good and exalted
enough for us Their standard of true, ex
alted, Christian gentlemen, as illustrated by
their daily lives in every phase is exalted
enough for us, and I do not hesitate to assert
that the immaculate Moody could study char
acters with advantage' to himself and tho
cause which he professes to desire to promote
if his prejudice would allow him to see any
good in those who do not see as he does.”
CAPT. HOWQATE.
Heports as to Ills Whereabouts far
from the Truth*
Washington, Dec. 25. The conflicting rs
]>orts about (‘apt Howgate’s wherealx>tits
and the efforts to apprehend him are all very
wide from the truth. The War Department
maintains a stolid silence on the subject only
admitting that ever since the Captain’s es
cape two of Pinkerton’s detectives have been
constantly employed in the search. These de
tectives have at different times been sent to
Canada, to almost every portion of the Uni
ted States, and to South America, following
supposed dews, and their instructions have
been to act upon any information promising to
throw iight upon the whereabouts of the
fugitive. That Howgate is now in Nebraska
is not believed at the department. One of
the detectives ut least is following a supposed
clew from the interior of Pennsylvania Ser
geant Holt worth has brought upon himself
the displeasure of the department by the
course pursued by him in the matter. Secre
tary Lincoln regards the recent publications
and alleged disclosures as having been the
work of Howgate's friends, and designed to
interfere with bis pursuit. Secretary Lincoln
in making this search has undertaken some
thing (hat was . ■ >t legally required of him.
Ib-wgate di<i not uKcnpe from the military
but from the civil authorities. It in to the
discredit of the latter that they have taken
no steps to apprehend the defaulter, who
could hardly have escaj>ed without the con
nivance of at least some sulxirdinate civil
officer.
A New and Necessary Canal.
Ottawa, Ont., Dec. ‘2s.—An attempt is be
ing made to get up a company to construct a
(anal across the small pen insula between
Lake St. Claire and Lake Erie, in Western
Ontario. Ingoing now from I>ake Huron to
Lake Brie, vessels have to pass around this
strip of laud, whereas if the canal was con
structed the distance would be shortened over
KX) miles, and a very dangerous section of
the lake navigation avoided. At present the
distance to be rounded in reaching Lake St.
Clair from Lake Erie 1s 150 miles through
navigation both dangerous and tedious. The
new route would only l>e fourteen miles in
length. The benefit to be derived in thus
shortening the route would be very consider
able, us there are 1,199 steamboats and 1,35(1
sailing aud other craft employed on thelakeu.
The coet of constructing the canal is eeti
mated at which it is proposed to
raise by a company without making /in ap
plication to Parliament for aid.
Manager Cohen Knifed.
Augusta, Ga., Dec. 25. During the first
act of “Article 47,” by Clara Morris, at the
Opera House, Monday night, C. H. Mayhew
was usheaid to his seat to find it occupied by
another, who held a duplicate coupon.
In the words which ensued Mayhew
called Manager Cohen a coward Iv
pup, whereupon Cohen slapped Mayhew’s
jaws. They were immediately separated.
V/hfle the thii d act was in progress and Man
ager Cohen was in the vestibule, he wm
fushed npon by Mayhew, who had returned
armed. Mayhew thrust a keen knif® intc
Cohen's ribs Cohen now lies at the point ol
death, while Mayhew is in jail.
Deienllng th® Lsw.
New York, Dec. 25.—John L. Sullivan
and Alf Greenfield have signed a contract
with a theatrical manager to appeal- at the
Academy of Music, Br<x>klyn, at four even
ing performances and two matinees during
New Year’s week in Brougham’s “Lot
tery of Life.” Police Superintend
ent Campbell will send Inspec
tor Mackeller to the Academy tc
see that no knock-out blows are dealt. It if
not yet known, however, whether the direc
tors of the Academy will allow an exhibition
of sparring on the stage The sparring is tc
form a part of one of the act®.
Fatally Shot.
Oshkosh, Dec. 25.—Word has been re
calved here of the shooting of District Attor
ney W. F. McArthur, on the street at Nee
nah, by Paul Steinel, a client, who claimi
that McArthur swindled him in managing
his ca®e The ball penetrated the lungs, and
McArt) ur is said to be in a critical condition,
Bteinel gave himself up.
A MINISTER’S SYMPATHY
Extended in Behalf of the Walsh
Mountain Robber®.
Colored Baby Farming In Phlladab
phlM—Terrible Tate of Tortur®
and Hobbery In Ohio In
Pursuit of the Outlaw®.
Reading, Pa., Deo. 25.—The following
statement, from a clergyman who had visited
the haunts of BuzzardV gang of mountain
robbers, is made public to-day:
“Brownsville, Pa., Dec. 24 -There ha.-
beou quite a number of reports circulated in
regard to a religious visit made by Rev. Jo®.
8. Lane and myself to the people residing on
the Welsh mountain®. After the many rai l*
that had been made upon the residents of the
Welsh mountain® by armed men, 1 felt my
heart drawn out in sympathy for them, and
suggested to J os. Lane, pastor of the Method
ist Episcopal Church of Stony Brook, that
we [»iy them a religious visit.
He united with my desire and we drove
there, a distance of eight miles .from this
place. We found a great amount of misery
and degradation. We found families living
in huts, with nothl ig but the damp earth for
a floor; Home wer» living in mud shanties.
We Haw families o» half-clad children, when
the father was a black man and the mothei
a white woman. But we also found those
who, tn their bumble home, are striving t<
lead upright live®. These have been sub
jected to many tr ( als in having their littk
homes rudely dist\u*bed by officers of the law
while in search of stolen property, for they
search all the houses without any reference
to the previous character of the inmate®.
“We called at the home of Abe Buzzard'?
mother, who is married to a man by tho naim
of Daniel Clark. Both she and her husband
are professing Christians, and I believe an
endeavoring to lead upright lives. Th»\
have had their houses searched some eight
times within the past year, though no stolen:
property has ever been found with them
La»t week they were called up at 4 o'clock in
tho morning by three men, who searched theii
house without a® much as showing their war
rant.
“I have written to Abe Buzzard a lettei
urging him to lead a better life. I receis.
a reply from him. The following I® an ex
tract from it:
‘“I promised the Lord many days ago, if j
could lie once more a free man, I would, by
His help, lead a new life and show to the
world some things they now think impossi
ble. ’ ”
Abram Buzzard feels he has been unjustly
sentenced. He said he would as lief bo dead
as serve his long sentence. He is willing tc
return to jail for two years, if at the end of
that time he could be free. I think Abrair,
Buzzard desires to lead a better life. He trieu
to work several times, but had to stop on ar
count of officers continually hounding him.
He certainly possesses a bright mind, aud if
he becomes a gofld man he certainly would
be a useful one.
“On account of the suspicion against them,
many, even honest citizens, have been un
ablo to find employment, and they are thm
in quite destitute circumstances as regard,
food and clothing, especially clothing, m
many of them raise enough on their farms tc
fet'd them. “Prick Z. Supplek,
“Stony Brook, Pa.”
BABY FARMING.
Philadelphia, Dec. 25.—A baby farming
establishment was discovered this morning
by an officer of the Health Department sent
to clean up and disinfect six small dwelling?
in the rear of Spring Garden street. The
dwellings were occupied entirely by colored
people, and frequent complaint® have been
made of the offensive odor® that arise from
refuse in the filthy cellars and narrow
alleys. Entering a small room on the ground
fltxjr of one of the house® the officer found e
woman fully seventy years of age and of iin
mensH proportions, weighing not leas thai:
390 pounds, who w'aa holding an infant no
more than three years old which she wa.
feeding. A young mulatto girl was nursing
another infant a couple of months old, suffer
ing from a distressing cough. Near by twt
children, neither of whom was more that
three or four years of age, held an infant,
nursing it from a bottle. In a corner sat. a
child about a year old, while foul
others were Hcatterei about the floor.
The woman, the head of the establishment,
admitted to having nine children in hei
care, and confessix! that at times she has had
as many as twelve. All these are cared foi
in the one single room upon the first floor,
the place being disgustingly fuul. Mrs.
McLean, the proprietress, stated she had lived
in the house nearly twenty-three years, en
gaged in her present business. Hhe is now in
debt for rent because some of her patrom
have neglected paying their weekly stipends.
She nays all the children in the baby farm
are the offspring of colored jMirents.
SEARCHING FOR FIENDISH ROBBERS.
Xenia, 0., Dec. 2. —A posse of men ar
rived here last night from near Bloomington,
in the Southeastern portion of this county, ii.
pursuit of a gang of meu who committed b
robbery near that place Monday night.
Between 10 and H o’clock the house of Har
vey Jackson, an aged farmer was entered by
masked men. Jackson and his wife and
daughter were taken from .their beds, bound
hand and foot and blindfolded. Refusing tc
tell where their money was hidden,
they were subjected to various tor
ture®, and finally, when the men had
placed the old lady in the centei
of the room, saturated her clothing with coal
oil, poured it about her on the floor aud
threatened to set it on fire. She make known
th® whore about® of their savings, which
amounted to in gold and 9'90 in cur
rency. The men then left their victimi
lying on the floor in their night clothes,
still bound and with lx>th doon
open. The poor creature® wer® com
pelled to remain in that condition
until 4 o’clock in th morning, suffering in
tensely from the cold. The men were tracked
through Bowersville and in this direction.
Owing to the age of Jackson and his wif«
then recovery from the rough treatment re
ceived is regarded a® extremely doubtful.
Their daughter was badly frightened, and
has i»een in convulsions ever since.
A MURDERER SHOT DOWN.
Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 2 . — La.-»t week Bill
Robinsun, a negro, in the employ of tht
Louisville, New Orleans & Texas Railroad,
wes discharged from the construction train
for refusing to work. At the time of his di®
missal he threatened vengeance on Conductoi
Sample. Robinson armed himself with a
shot-gun, and last Saturday fired into tiic
construction train near Hulls-break, Missis
sippL The content® of both barrels struck
Conductor Sample and fireman Harrington
A large charge of the turkey shot with which
the gun wm loaded struck Sample in hh
right side, hip and thigh. Only a few stray
shot hit Harrington. Both men were brought
here for treatment. The assassin took to the.
woods. Monday Marshal Mcßride, of Clarks
ville, Miss., attempted to arrest Robinson.
Re resisted,.and was shot down and killed by
the Marshal and his deputy.
* A movement is on foot in New York t<
form & union having for ite object an increaw
of th® wages paid for shirtmaking.
CONDENSED NEWS.
House and Senate adjourned December M
to January 5.
Maj. Hanger, of the United States army,
died yester lay at Ambery, Illinois, of heart
disease.
Suit is to be brought against sixty New
York butter dealers for selling oleomargarine
for butter.
A suspicious tunnel loading to the base
ivent of the Treasury building in St. Peters
burg has been discovered.
Engineer Robt. Turner and hi® fireman
were killed by colliding with an obstruction
that had been placed <»n the track near PlUs*
vis, Tenn.
There is no land within the boundaries of
Indian Territory subject to settlement. Set
tier® who go into the Territory now will sim
ply lose time aud money.
A gitn was cast for tbe United State® Gov
ernment in Boston yesterday, which, in th®
rough, weighs one hundred and twenty tun®;
when finished fifty-five tons.
Four of the Traverse, Dakota, mob weiw
arrestid upon warrants charging them with
interference with the United States mails, at
the time of the descent upon the town.
R. W. Cooper’s family and 159 men have
arrived from Liverpool to establish a ho®iery
establishment at Providence, where English
hosiery will be made at English price®.
The appointment of Mr. John Jameson, of
Wisconsin, to the position of General Super
intendent of the Railway Mali Servi< e, here
tofore predicted, will date from January 1,
next.
The Paintertown coal mine, situated on®
mile north of Irwins, Pennsylvania, and
operated by the Pennsylvania Gas Coal Com
pany, is burning. About 350 men are thrown
out of employment.
The Narional Tube Works Company at
McKeesport, Pennsylvania, close down for
an indefinite period on account of a scarcity
of orders. The same action was taken by
Dilworth, Porter & Co.’s spike works.
Representative Holman says if the Naval
Appropriat i<>n Bill which was passed by tho
Senate should become a law at this time it
would involve the Dejjartment in such a
tangle that it would require an expert to ex
tricate it.
It ha® been decided that the Inauguration
Ball shall ba held in the new Pension build
ing. The committee has fixed the price of
ticket® at five dollars, and complimentary
ones are to be issued only to the President
and Vice President and their immediate
party. The indication® are that the city will
be crowded.
Theodore Rosekvelt, of New York,
has been hunting in Montana since the Chicago
convention, tells some big stories He shot
three grizzly bears, six elk and innumerable
antelope, and he didn't count the small game.
He killed a bear weighing 1,290 pounds with
in nine feet of him, because he was so near
sighted he didn’t see it till it got that close.
This seems rather funny. The other game
must have perched upon bis lap before he saw
it to kill it.
Additional peculations by the late
Director Jauner, of the Lower Austrian
Discount Bank, have come to light.
Several arrests have been made. The Dis
count Bank at Laybach, Corlntbla, has sue
pended and two large sugar firms at B<xlska,
Bohemia, have failed, owing to the collapse
of the Austrian Bank. ()ther failure® are ex
pected. The Bohemian Mortgage Bank
at Progal has sus|>ended in consequence
of the failure of the Lower Austrian Dis
count Bank.
A New Anthracite Coal Field.
Cortland, N. Y., Dec. 25 —Last summer
Leander Ladd bored an artesian well on his
farm four miles from thin village. At the
depth of sixty-six feet the drill passed
through a brittle black deposit eight feet
thick. Specimens taken from the deposit
were submitted to a geologist at Cornell Uni
versity and to mining ex|*ertH in Scranton,
Pennsylvania. Both authorities pronounced
it anthracite coal of good quality. Several
mining contractors from the coal region en
deavored to secure the right tu sink a shaft
to the vein and work it if it proved to be of
any extent, but the owner of the land re
fused al! their offer® and is putting down a
shaft at his own expense. If he finds coal in
quantity corresponding with it® quality, im
mediate steps will be taken to open mines on
adjoining farm®. Already stock sufficient to
build a road from the spot to tbe Elmira <fc
Cortland Railroad at Chicago Station has
been subscribed for pending the result of
Ladd's test. The discovery ha® caused a
marked appreciation of real estate in the
vicinity
Death from Grief.
Washington, Dec. ‘2s.—William Blair
Lord, for many years one of the official
stenographers in the House of Representa
tive®, and who has been somewhat promineut
in polities in his day. is dead, aged sixty
years. His death is said to have been has
tened by grief for the loss of his wife, who
died last week. Prostrated by that event, he
survived her but six days. He was on cor
dial terms with Ben Wade, Stephen A
Douglass, Garfield, Blaine, Fernando Wood,
Samuel J. Randall, and many other promi
nent men.
Holding Their Wheat.
Minneapolis, Dec. 25,—The extremely
low price of wheat has caused a falling off in
the receipt® of the Northwest of fully eighty
per cent, compared with fifteen day® ago.
and Minneapolis millers are securing less
than 40,000 bushels per day, and the Millers’
Association raised prices in the country two
cento, and to-day another advance of two
cento was ordered. It is rumored on appar
ently good authority that big millers have
quietly got hold of all the good hard wheat
in Dakota and the Red River Valley, and are
holding it until spring.
tncredniou® Young Han in Tronbi®.
(Chicago, Dec. 25.—Martin Bliss, a well
dressed young man, was arrested last night at
a museum. One of the freaks has a protu
berance from th® middle of hi® forehead and
• called the Homwl Negro. To »ee whether
it wa® genuine Bliss reached over the railing
last night and gave a pull. The negro went
sprawling about the platform. He fainted
from the shook and is ®aid to be seriously ill.
Bliss fled but wa® arrested on a warrant after
wards.
Death of a Prominent River Hau,
Jasper, Ind., Dec. 25—Captain Isaac
Wright, one of the best known Ohio, Missis
sippi aud Red River steamboat Captains, died
at Troy, Indiana, yerterday, aged eighty six
years. Captain Wright commanded Govern
ment boat® on the Rio Grande during the
Mexican war. He also commanded gun boat®
and flotilla at the siege of Vicksburg, and
participated in mo®t of tbe river engage
ments during tbe late rebellion.
The Search Over.
Brooklyn, Dec. 25 —The search for bodies
tn the ruinu® of St. John’s Orphan Asylum
was concluded without further discoveries.
The funeral of the bodies found will take
place to-day. Missing boy® are returning
from time to time, and it is believed that all
will be accounted for in a few days The
eum of 91,490 was subscribed to-day toward
rebuilding the asylum, aud clothing and pro
vision® ar® beiug sent in by charitable people,
NO. 208
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’ _ BTOMACK BP®
In «•!', of detilHy, rl ern ktl«m.
f< ver .rd ,pi" dvr i rOßM'Flnt, Imsctivity of
tbe Iriduir « ,nd bladder, corfttlpation and other
orKAido maladleH, Hei t, tter’u dtomaoh Bltiera
la • trird iemtdy, to whirb tbe medictl brother
hood b.ve lent their | rufear onal i,i.ctlov. and
which a. a title, 'Hortative and I rm..held
apen'dc for diaorrera ii tbe liver and
bowela baa an nrbotioded nornlarity,
tor Bate by brnug'.ata ano eale,a, to whom
at ply for H tatere. . Atmarac for l‘R5.
MB JUHNH I nn (I' O hint "H ANKIN
H r’.e) i olnntt u., ra ■. **.dy wife ruff red
for two yeara, trout dytMitary. Ur' wn'a Iron
Blttera o' n d I rr; nothing elf-" did any good/’
FIKHI PILKHII.f-ILKStIi
■S> re cur* i i u.u it, BietaliUK itutl It,ch
>UM Puts. Obe box has cuit-ti lhe> worst
art ■ <; 40 yreie' eiatuilijg. No one need
'uUt-r live minutes utter u<4u« Wlltlutu’e
lutlluu Ptb Ointment. It absorbs turnoi e,
AlJays tun lug, acts as poultice, nlvee In
jtant relief. Pitfared only, tor Pllee,
tteiiiiiß oi the private tturts, nothing else.
<iou. 4. M. Ct-hi t i ui j>t Llevelttufl, says:
‘1 have used t-cciea ot Pile cures, and It
•tfford- in- in it ait n.y it tit 1 have
□ever touuu ut yil.lt,« ulltl alter smti
miii.t 'ete oi il [ ■ rut i.-i.t It ,t as Or.
WUllan’s Indian PileOlntmtut." bold by
:iurs«u ts Htd mulled or rent Ipt ol price,
bl. Foi sale by IJiHun n <t Oareoit, li.
Garter, John P, lurnei and Geo. A. Brad
ror<i, Columbus, Ga.
Dr. FraslePa boot Bitter
Erazler's hoot l itters are not a dram
slnip tieveiune, butuiesUlctly medicinal
in vvi'iy eti.w. Iley act stn rtriy upon
tbe Olvet and Kldiieye, keep the tt.wela
open nd regular, make tbe week stti i.g,
dial the lunge, build up i nt- nerves, and
oleatise tlie blood and nyeteiu ot every im
purity. Sold by druggists. JI.OO.
Foi sale by Brannon <t Oat son, and Jno.
i Cu ruer, Oolumbue, Ga,
Dr. Frualer'a aiagic Ointment,
A sure cuie tor Little Glut's in the Skin,
Bough Skin, etc. It. will remove that
roughness ti om the hands and face aud
make you beautiful. Price JCc. Sent by
mail. Por sale by Bninuon A Carson and
John P. lurnei, Columbus, Ga,
Mr,. Dr. Walton’, Periodical Tea.
Mother Walton lute pi sserlbefl this val
uable medlceiue tor a great many years
her private practice. It has proved an
unfailing specific In Ithe treatment of tr e
many disorders tow rich the ternate con
stitution is subject. It is a sure cure tor
tbe monthly troubles that so many women
suffer. Mailed od receipt ot price. OCc.
for s ale by him non A < arson aud «no
P. lurner, Columbus, Ga.
Saratoga High hoi k Sprit g Witter for
sale by all drnpvtate rrbaSeonAw
MP. E. F DIXoh, :y , AM. L' H IT., <O-
Inoltii, . > ii-iiio n, n lilies
fe> i. In tr> wi.’a ton Iniura, I feme Leith
aud BUtugib ”
Pure Loo Live i Oil,
made from elected livers, on these*-
lore, by Casvei!, Baxar.l A Co., hew
'iork. It li at eolutely pore aud sweet.
Patients wue l ave once t«ken it. prefer n
alloiliere Pt .-'"uimi have decided its
superior tc uy ol li -other olle It. market
Ohupped Haiide, iri. and Pimples, anti
rough iSkiu, cured ty ualug Ju»ip»b 2ab
soap, wiide by Citii wen, i.asard A Go.
New York.
MR A T BOOhBB, 62 < HKRpy ST, MACON,
O«, aaya; • 1 h. i« ti. b< inat <y In r rent m,o*
> ng biowi.*. Iron litlirta a goon rtnieCy tor
general cetillty. It die ire great goon.**
Dividend No. SIS.
The een.'l- Ltuai dividend of Four Dol
lars per shine on tl e slock of the Eagle
and Phenix M tiulactuting Company Is
due and payable at tbe office ot theeem
pany on December 31,1834,
Transfer books closed on tbe 20th Inst.
Cl6-td G. GUN by Joboan, Treas.
MBSJL fH.KLIM*. 2,7 IND fcT, BACON,
uasfjn 1 irud Liovu’m Iron jitters
®uu lounu it t. flrbl’Clats t Lie* 1 can ihtieici®
recommend it.’’
Aobtantiy Relieved.
Mss. Ann Lacour, ot New Orleans, Da
writes: "1 have a ton who has been sick
tor two years; he has been attended by
our leading physicians, but all to no pur
pose. This morning be han hie usual
spell of coughing, and was so greatly
prostrated ,t. conbiqumce, that death
seemed immineti . Wshadlu the bouse
a bottle ol Da. WM. Bald’s Balkum nob
the Lungs, purchased by my hutbaud
wuo noticed your advertisement yester
day. We administered It, and be was
Instantly relieved. octal
M'lS DASKL'ViLLt, 31U IRIBD ST., MACCN
Oa., raj' brt.wi 'r 11* n llltte. a cutid l y
Li.ibard ot ii ii ii io .il. hi.fl :ig .lae old h m
any good, li aiao teUbVrd tie ol chill* and
teevr."
Y<iong Miui-llead Tills.
The Voltaic Belt co., ot Marshall,
Midi., off. t to send Ibeli celebiated Elxo
tbo-Voltaic Belt and other Electric
Appliances on uialfor thirty days, io
men (young or old) uffilcted with nervous
debility, loss ot vitality and manhood, and
ail kindred troubles. Aieo tor rheuma
tism, neurulgla, paralysis, and many
other diseases. Complete restoration to
(tea Uh, vigor and manhood guaranteed.
No risk Is Incurred uathlity days trial la
allowed. Write them at once for illus
trated pamptet tree.
decl7eodAwlyr
TAX PAYERS ATTENTION.
STATE AND COUNT! TAXES 188*.
All who have not yuld taxes for 1884 are
earnestly rnjueeted to do so nt once, aud
save COST Ot EXECTftION, Leni ano MALE,
the iawdemaL.es piumpt aeiltement tiom
lax Collectors, and it cannot ue nuett
loi ger deterred.
DAVIS A. AJi DREWS,
ffsxC’cilector Muse'gf' t * duty.
Office: O-O’.f.* t.n - l-i.iir'ng. Hts
Ottice <7«11*1.. I.* <• ■- li.n iHfo • I.uipsny.
CoLCMut s, t a., Li i. 18, ibi-4 -1 hi an
nual meeting ot ti i' sb c-Bholders of thia
company will bi beidat Unit . slice on
Tuesday, January 2U, 1885, at 12 m.
W.C. CcIABT.
JuilLeutd beoretary.