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VOL. X.
STEWART TN THE DESERT
BADLY WOUNDED BUT STRONGLY
ENTRENCHED AT METEMNEH.
GORDON ALSO HEARD FROM.
Terrible Battle With the Swarming Reb
els —Two Correspondents and Lord St.
Vincent Slain —The Story of the
March—London Rejoicings.
I/OJtmjf, Jan. 29. A diapfetch from Gen.
Wolseley, dated Kortl, hqUjustbeen.received
at |he war office. He atatee that a courier,
whfy was sqnt back by Geu, Stewart shortly
aft& the LstUe at Al>u-JuUoa" Wells, has ar
nved. Ho reports (Jod. Stewart strongly en
trenched at Metemneh. Stewart was badly
wounded in the tmttle. After the battle he
at once set bis men to work and soon suc
ceeded in strongly entrenching his position.
Since the principal engagement the rebels
have made a number of attacks on the Brit
ish works, but they have been repulsed with
heavy low. Five of the Mahdi's einirs were
killed in the fights.
Gen. Wolseley in this dispatch reports the
capture of Metemneh by the British. He
also says that Sir Charles Wilson has gone to
Khartoum on board a steamer to confer with
Gordo?}. It is.cjipected that be will return
as soon as possible and report personally to
Wolseley.
An official dispatch was received from Gor
don, which shows that his position at Khar
toum is by no means as desperate as supposed.
He says he could hold out there for years.
Stewart's wounds are reported doing well.
A dispatch from Cairo declares that Lord
Charles Beresford with a small contingent
is pushing on from Metemneh to Khartoum.
The official dispatches in licate that the
march of Stewart and his little army ii >m
Abu-Klea Wells to the present position has
been >o easy task Almost every foot of the
way appeal to ha** hern sharply contested
by the resolute Arab foe
. Tbbro was a const ant succession' of enc >un
t>rs tie mdrfoivoi the 17th until the Nile
was reached, the British troops steadily gain
Ing fresh victories over the impetuous but
easily demoralized rebels.
The excitement occasioned by the explo
sions and the gn at anxiety concerning the
fate of General Stewart, which has existed
the past several days, was completely obliter
ated by the news that Stewart Rad captured
Mete: meh, and succeeded in cornmunn ating
with General Gordon Great enthusiasm pre
vails and many congratulations over the suc
cess of Stewart’s exp>edition have been re
ceived at the war office.
The Story of.Stewart’s March.
Cairo. Jan. 29.—Qa the morning of Mon
day, January 19, two days after the fight at
Abu-Klea, the enemy appeared in force in
front of the advancing British army. A sh<>rt,
fierce battle was fought. This occurred nt a
point about three miles from the Nile. The
British were compelled to sustain a heavy
fire for Burnt- time. Early in the engagement
Btewart received his woun<i, and Sir Chartes
Wilson thereupon assumed command Works
were hastily constructed under the leaden
rain whi- h continued to pour upon them
from the enemy’s rifles.
The wounded men and baggage train were
left under guard behind qui kJy built earth
works, while the rest of the force advanced
in the face of the hostile fire to a gravel
ridge some distance in front Here a large
force of rebels had establish d themselves in
strong position. As soon as the British line
came near, a fierce charge, »e 1 by several
Emirs, was made against it by the rebel toe-
.< <, . .
The BntUh troop® were arranged as usual,
in the form of a square, and steadily ad
vanced to meet the wild onset of the loudly
cheering enemy, who were rushing down
ujx>n them. At the same time the rifles of
the British were doing bloody excution. The
charge was checked, and not an Arab came
within thirty yards of the British square.
The rebels did not long stand before the
murderous English fire, but were repulsed
with heavy loss. Five Emirs ami 250 men
wore left dead upon the field, au<i large num
bers wo un. ted.
About the Englinb Josses but few details
yet received. It is known, however,
that Canter on, the special correspondent of
the London Daily Standard, an 1 Herbert,
the special correspondent of the Morning
Post, were killed. The place where the taittle
occurred is a slight distance b -yond the Bheba
£at Weils.
Stewart’s wound, while not fatal, is so seri
ous that he will be disabled for the remainder
of the present cawpaign. General Vfobeley
considers Ute deprivation of bis services a na
tional loss. He characterizes Stewart as the
ablest soldier and most dashing commander
he ever knew, and recommends him to the
queen's most favorable consideration.
Lord Saint Vincent, of the artillery, was
among the British slain.
The London Explosions.
London, Jan. 20l—As a result of
the feelmg against the Irish many
Irishmen have already been attacked and
beaten in the eastern portions of this city.
The nriinWty toemi to be increas ng and the
police are on the alert to prevent further dis
turbances of the kind.
Hir Stafford Norheote in a st eech at Exe
ter said: “It “ not ®° much the damage to
life and property that we mind as the effect
of continued outrages upon the man whom
the CJerkefiwfell outrage influenc'd.”
Sir Evelyn Baring telegraphs that he has
re eived a dispatch from Gen. Lord Wolse
ley saying it is bis belief that Gen. Stewart
reached Metarnnehon Monday.
Murder in Russia.
■Sr.. t’ETEWBURG, Jan. 29.—The founder of
the sect of New Israel at Kisheneff has been
murderel by orthodox Jews The sect la
under goverment protection, having accepted
Christ as the Messiah.
To Attack Osman Dlgna.
St akim. Jan. 29—The Rowayaa and
Amrurs, Arab tribes, are preparing to make
an attack upon Daman Digna. They intend
to marjh upon Tokar.
Emperor William’s Mite.
Berlin, Jan. 29.—Emperor William has
subscribed >5.000 for the relief of the suffer
ers by the earthquakes in Spain.
The Hocking Investigation.
Columbus, 0., Jan. 29 —A member of the
Hocking valley investigating committee says
that work will be commenced by visiting the
valley Thursday or Friday. Testimony will
be heard on both sides, and then be published
by the state. This is all that will be done
with it. The entire committee baa agreed to
submit the report printed to the people and
let them decide as they please.
Will Resist the Tax Collector.
Chicago, Jan. 29—An official dispatch
from Albuquerque (N. M.) board of trade,
says that it is decided to resist the collection
of the tax for the erection of territorial
buildings at Santa Fe, N. M , upon legal ad
vice that the act authorizing the tax is U
Jail® ' 8 fimei
FROZEN TO DEATH.
The Awful Fate that Overtook a Convivia,
Party of Young Men.
Cincinnati, Jan. 29.—As a young man
named Pavia was passing the corner of Free*
man and Central avenues, after midnight,on
Tuesday, he saw a sleigh drawn by one horse
going slowly, the driver, apparently, very
drunk. He met a streetcar conductor named
John Briscoe, and told him of what he had
seen. Going ba k they saw the driver at
tempt to get out. He reached the horse’s
head and fell in the snow. When th<»y
reached his side, in a faint voice he inquirt*d
w here he was and asked to be taken home.
Briscoe and Davis saw three other men lying
in tlw bottom of the sleigh, and took Bn the
situation at a glance—the men were feezing
to death.
The sleigh was driven to a saloon near by
and the four men luted from the sleigh and
carried in. Dr. Agin was summ ned and the
restoration of the frozen men begun. Charlo
Gerber was the first one able to tell his name,
and gave those of his companioiis as Pater
Gerlier, his brother, Joseph Paul and Ern« st
S 'hwe man. Peter Gerber, on being lifte>l
from the sleigh, was found to be a corpse.
Two patrol wagons were summoned to tne
seen* 1 , and while one took Peter Gerber s body
to an undertaker’s, the other took th ■ surviv
ors to the hospital, where all were restored to
consciousness, and are i 1 a fairway to re- 1
cover The men had s Mrted out sleighing
at 9 o’clock, the night b fore, and - had been
drinking very hard at wf vernl saloons in Cum
minsville, where thflt hi U sto; p?d.
Where Shall the President’s Flag Flv.
New York, Jan 29. There is said to tie
quite a struggle between rival factions among
those who aspire to control Mr. Cleveland’s
actions in regard to his stopping place during
his coming visit to this city. The fact that
the national and state democratic commit
tees made the Hoffman house their hind
quarters during the campaign make that Ihe
favorite rendezvous of a certain class of poli
ticians, and has led its proprietors to expert
a continuation of Mr. (Seveland’s patronage.
Benatcr Gorman and others of the loaders at
Washington favor the Fifth Avenue hotel,
and it is mid Gorman has writtan Mr Cleve
land advising him tbgo tn thlt hotel'Because
it is known as a family resort, and would
comport better with presidential dignity t han
the more palatial hostelry in which Ed Stokes
shines. The rumor about this letter has dis
turbed local managers of the party, who re
sent it as to its importance. It is said, how
ever, that Mr. Cleveland has replied to Sena
tor Gorman that he will follow his advice.
Rooms have not been engaged yet at either
hotel, but ex-Senator Barnum, chairman of
the national democratic committee, arrival
at the Fifth Avenin* hotel Tuesday night, and
it is understood that he is with Senator (J-or
man in this controversy. The Fifth Avenue
is owned by the banker Eno, a prominent re
publican, while Ed Stokes, of the Holfman
house, is a leading democrat
The Silver Kings’ l’ow-*.Vow.
Denver, Col., Jan. 29. -The national sil
ver convention is in session in the op* ra
house, ayd tietween 509 and 1,000 delegates
are present White a inajority come from
the mining regions of Colorado, th. neigh
boring mciing states bf Missouri and Ar
kansas have sent delegations. The object of
the convention is to form a western organiza
tion for the protection of the silver mt t< .itR
and to piotecL by nil punsi lde u-••aaa any lepp
islntion in congres.-? txj decrease LUO-pre> vid
rate of silver coinage by the government.
The silver movement was rtarteonere some
time ago. and ita in<M*ption, it is thought, was
caused by the recommendation in President
Arthur’s message to do away with silwir
coinage. There are two factions in the con
vention. One favors the unlimited coinage
of silver, the other the continuance of the
Bland coinage act now in force.
Lynching a Horse Thief.
Helena, Mont., Jan J 9 -News was re-.
Ct ived Tuesday of th** capture Os the notoii*
ous Montena horse thief .-ud desper&do (’on.
Murphy. Two men, M<-FaTtend and Bashaw,
left here Monday and encountered the’ des
perado and his brother at Neill’s ranch, about
fit teen miles east of here, on the Bozeman
road. A lively teat tie ensued, but the out
laws wer. finally brought to bay. These two
men started with their prisoner for Hehma,
but were overhauled on th<’ way by a party
from hero, who took Murphy and swung him
from a bridge at>out one mile and a half dis
tant. At present his body bangs lifeleai from
the bridge.
A Chinaman Thoroughly Civilized.
New York, ; Jan. 29 -Li Kwong, the
president of the Chinese cigarmakers’ union,
proprietor of a large Spanish restaurant at
No. 101 Maiden Lane, and owner of a sash
ionnble Chinese boar ling house in Pell street,
left the city for parts unknown on last Friday.
A short tiire* ago Li Kwong was rated to be
worth about SIO,sXX). Owing co their belief chat
he was financially as sound as the bank of
England quite a numr»ci of Chinamen have
been giving him their earnings fpr keep
ing. It has been discovered that previ< us to
his departure he sold his restaurant. He
owed larg<- bids to grocers, bu cbers and
bakers aggregating several thousand doiiais.
Duplicated His Pay Account.
Leavknworth, Kas., Jan. 29 Charges
have been p. eferred against Lieut. J. R.
Pierce, of the Seventy-fourth infantry, for
selling his pay accounts tor four months and
then drawing two months’ pay from a pay
master covering the perio 1 for which the ac
counts were sold. The accounts sold were
jr»*B -nted for payment to the same off! er
from whom Lieut. Puree had drawn the two
months’ day. He is st itioned at Supply, I. T.,
and will be ordered o Fort Leavenworth for
trial.
Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad.
Cincinnati, Jan. 29. -The stockholders of
the Columbus and Cincinnati Midland road
have elected the* folk-wing board of directors:
Drland Smith an 1 George Hoa-lly, of Cincin
nati; S. Spencer, of Baltimore; Chai les Par
rott, Henry Miller James A. Wilcox, P. W.
Huntington, G. C. Hoover and T. Ewing
Miller, of Columbus.
Lilliputian’s Wedding.
New Haven, Conn , Jan. 29. -Mrs. Gen.
Tom i humb, who is at present playing at a
museum in this city, is to b * married in
about three months. The name <d’ the pros
pective bridegroom is not known to a cer
tainty, but it is thought to be the Count Rose,
bud. a gentleman of exceedingly diminutive
stature.
Frozen to Death.
Columbus, Ind., .Tan. 29. —Word is .re
ceived here that William Marr an i wife, two
of our oldest and most p*oinio«-nt citizens,
who emigrated to Nebraska last fall, were
caught on the plains in a blizzard there a few
days ago while returning home from town
and frozen to death.
Buckeye Girls On a Tour.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Jan. 29—Seventy
school teachers from Cleveland, Ohio, ar
rived in a special car to visit Lockout moun
tain. The party was un ier the charge of D.
J. Uollner, passenger agent of the Bee line,
and Colonel Frank Woolley, traveling agent
of the Queen and Crescent route.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 31, 1885.
GOSSIP OF WASHINGTON.
RIVAL ASPIRANTS FOR COMFORTABLE
CABINET PLACES.
Dep , tmcntM that Need a Touch of the
New Bixioi i X nd VI Here Reform Will
Not l>e Amiss —A General Shak-
ing Up Anticipated.
Washington, Jan. 29.—From now to the
4th of Mar h the inter-. <t tn Presideu|helect
CJ vvland’s abmet making will grow in in
tensity as the intervening time grows shorter.
Riv.'tlr. . are growing, contentions are heard
on every hand, and crimination and recrimi
nation wil soon be the rule among a clans of
who are pushing themselves
aiid their friends for places. It is really
amusing to witness' the exertions made by
two or three aspirants to create the impres
sion that there is a possibility of lightning
striking them.
H« i naudo DeSoto Money, believes that the
only obs:ante between him and the portfolio
of the postotllce department is Senator Gar
land, of Arkansas. Mr. Garland has been
su"gusted as a lawyer and statesman who
would worthily fill the post of attorney gen
eral under a demo* ratio administration. The
response from' the entire legal profession of
the country wai an emphatic approval.
His high char cter as a man, his
acknowled abilif f as a lawyer, an t
his broad statesmanship and high
rank in the senate long since made him a con
spicuous |>epeonage. That heshould benanuMi
as a probable member of Mr. Cleveland’s
cabinet was natural. For a time there wo?
not a murmur of disapproval from any
source. By?euU by, however, paragraphs
began to appear in various papers to the ef
fect that Senator Garland was not a sound
democrat, that he was Hamiltonian rather
than Jeffersonian in his views of constitu
tional law. Presently carefully selected ex
cerpts from his speeches on various
questions of national importance
were handed about to correspond
ents, who, in the general dearth of
news, made use of them in their letters and
lispa.t< h< s. It seemed strange to every
body who knew anything of the national pol
ities that the soundness of Senator Garlandb
democracy should be questioned. When the
JeiihK rats came into control of the senate he
was made chairman of the committee on ter
ritories and placed upon the judiciary com
mittee, two positions where approved fidelity
»n (■ nG itutb nal questions wou d naturally
be taken into c< nsideration by the democratic
rnaj a-ity There was no man in the senate
upon w horn Judge Thurman more confidently
relied or wh - shared his fullest confidence as
* man and a lawyer more than Mr. Garland.
Lun.-me the ceueral surprise when the fact
was imide known that all this outcry against
Gat land's denxxjraey an<i constitutional views
ram- fr in Hernando De Soto Money and an
sx memi er of congress from Mississippi
named Manning.
1/ pot- lli< o department needs reforma
tion iii more w ays than one. It was intended
to be u s< ij-sustaining institution, and if the
man is put nt the head of it, the
>fb, i v <>f the postal service can bo greatly
inere d and made to pay its way. The
wo . i .m ister General Jatnoa did during
h h< k. r enol he held th At office demon-
•ir .o s the . u • with which a great work can
be doh when •he rigllt’ num is in the right
'l l- iiigs effected in the star mail
orv.ee in h than one year made the post
office department self'Sustaining. If the rail
way mail b»tvice hud been overhauled, as
Mr. James intended to do, the reduction of
letter postage to two cents would not have
caused a deficiency. It is possible i>r a dem
> ratio ad ministration to make the postal
lervice pay its why a'nd increfts • its efih-iency
in one year from the 4th of March next.
The Interior department must Ixj adminis
b rod by n Western man, say the candidates
from that, section of.tlie country.
Our tie., ury system, with the addition of
the sub-treasury, is the same that Hamilton
kit in motion. It is the old English system
which gave way years ago to a better one in
that country. The system of accounting is
old and well-nigh Worfhtesf. Our accounting
officers are not what tlidy are suppos'd to Ite,
checks upon disbursing offl- enc They merely
look to see whether the expenditures are au
thors. I and in due routine form. The Hovr
gate, the navy deparement, and the postofllce
department frauds would not have been jx»-
rible if tiie accounting officers had been work
ing un ier a pr>4>er system jand had exercised
due diligence.
An a 1 ministration that had sufficient ca
pacity to revolutionize the workings of
every department of our public service would
earn imperishable renown. President elect
Ci» veland says he wil) select his cabinet offi
cers more with reference to their ability to
deal with the work of their respective de*
partments than with regard to localities.
The conference committee on the six
months’ naval appropriation bill has finally
rea bed an agreement, and the bill will now
Ixi passel and sent to the president for his ap
proval.
The public comfort committee of the inau
guration exercises report that so far accom
modations for 13,447 virftors have been
registered with the committee and quarters
secured for 11,508. The committee is of the
opinion that ample accommodations can be
furnished all applicants.
In relation to the fire at the house end of
the capital the committee on public buildings
and grounds have reached the conclusion,
and will so report to the house, that the cause
of the fire was, beyond doubt, accidental,
probably owing to the throwing of waste
paper or other light material into a fireplace
some of which might have been carried up
the flue an 1 while ignited have been blown
over to th i wooden flag staff or to the wooden
box on th 3 roof in which the flag is kept. To
prevent o recurrence of such an accident the
committee will recommend that the flag staff
be covei ed with and the box made of sheet
metal. The committee will also recommend
that the clerk of the house be directed to pro
cure and p ace in ali rooms in which docu
ments, pai*ers or records are stored, suitable
small jKirtable fire extinguishers or hand
grenades tor the extinguishment of fires.
Mrs. Garfield Sued.
Cleveland, 0., Jan. 29.—0 n December
22, whUe'Mrs.’ Lucretia R. Garfield was driv
ing through the public square, a woman
named Thankful Tanner was struck by her
ra:. a and knocked down. Mrs. Garfield
in.in i »t‘ Iv gave the woman a |io bill,
whi< Apparently healed all injuries. Thank
fui tew just begun suit against Airs. Garfield
for ■ damages. She claims she received
in* njui i besides a broken rib. She has
an unbavory reputation.
The Way Cincinnati Does It.
€<»r.UMBUB, Q , J an. 29—It is the general
un -rata ding here that the entire legislature
will be invited I > vihii Cincinnati Saturday
as gu< sts of the citizens who want the canal
transformed into a boulevard. A huge meet
ing will be h'd 1 at Music Hall and a general
banquet will be given with All accessories.
The committee on municipal corporations wifi
report favorably to the boulevard bill, aud
will nls-) recommend toat Gluten be annexed.
CRAZED BY GRIEF.
The Widow of 'Tom” Fields an Inmate of
the State Insane Asylum.
Poughkeepsie, Jan. 29.—The intelligence
of the death of Thomas Craig Fields, one of
the member* of the old Tweed ring, recalls
the melancholy story of his shameful de
sertion by- his wife, who is at pro-ent an in
mate of th<‘ itate asylum for the insane here.
She was a 'lias Ui>a;r, and at the time of her
marriage was a 1 lutiful an I accomplish Art
girl. Bho fr a, na vo of this county aud a
BMer of the lau Lieut. Hoag, who gradu
ated at VVt .;. P»i it in the same class with
Fred. Gi an’
After her bifebitnd’s flight to Canada she
came here and took up her residence with a
private family named Purdy. She was a de
vout Catholic. After realizing the fact that
Fields had deserted her and llod. with a
wyman to Canada she hut her roas->n and was
found about the streets,
possess:'l with the hallucination that, her
busband was pursuing h?r with the intention
of taking her life. Her arm and hand were
gashed and bleeding. Physicians subse
quently adjudged her insane.
Two weeks before sfie lost her reason an
elegantly dressed woman, believed to have
been a Mrs. Garrett, who had been intimate
with Tweed and who, it is thought, fltd to
Canada with Fields, called to see Mrs. Fields,
but after waiting a couple of hours took her
departui'e. It is thought her object was to get
possession of Mrs. Field's child. When the
fact of her visit was made known to Mik
Fields she grew very much agitated, aud her
excitement increased until she lost her mind.
At the time she was committed to the asylum
Mrs. Fields is said to have had some valuable
diamonds in her possession, but what became
of them is not known. She is now about, forty
years of age and so changed that her most in
timate friends of foruier days would hardly
recognize her.
Muiichniisen Loose in Pennsylvania.
Lancaster, Pa., Jun. 29.—Miss Emma
Sensenich, of Beartown, is nearly thirty
years old, and never spoke to any one but her
mother and two sisters. Although tenderly
oaring for her father in his last illness four
years ago, she never spoke to him. Bhe was
the only one present when he died. She went
to school and obtained u fair education, but
never recited a lesson or spoke to teachc ror
ichoolmate. When a child her father
tempted her with gold pieces to speak to him,
but she would not or could not speak. She has
always abhorred men, but was fond of the
society of ladles, answering the r -marks sim
ply with smiles. Inheriting seme money, she
bought a house, which afterwards lawamo
the parsonage of the Bridgeville church. Her
mother acted for her in the purchase of the
house. Last Thursday, upon coining down
stairs suddenly, she found her mother lying
on the fl »or in the agonies of death and l>e
fore assistance arrived the mother had died
in the mute daughter's arms, bince then she
Ims talked freely to every one. A gentleman
from that section says she continues to talk,
but. offers du explanation, if she h; ; any, of
the past. The family is prominent in this
•ounty and the case is exciting much interest.
A Sealed Record.
Boston, Jan 29. —ln overhauling the
records in the secretary’s department there
was found a sealed package bearing tbip in
scription: “This package contains abonfl
(tential messago from tli<> gov< rn -r and the
docihrients which accompan. -1 it, together
with the record of the proce lings of the ■»; n
ate thweon in secret aessiou. The injunction
of secresy not having been removed, it in
expected that these sea’s will never be
broken. (Signed) Charles Calhoun, clerk of
the senate of Massachusetts, state house, Ap
ril 11, 16.39?’ This session was hel lin order
to cojuri ier a menage, which nns sent to th©
senate by Gov Everett, in reference to a
danger, which appeared well-founded at the
time, that Great Britiau was about to take
forcible jMissession of the disputed torritor
on the boundary line between th > British
provinces and the state of Maine. The gov
Bi norand council, the custodians of the honor
of the state, ». ill open the mysterious pack
age.
Ohio’s Veterans.
Akron, ()., Jan. 29.--In the state encamp
ment of the G. A. IL, Department Coin
nmuder Lh.y-i, of Cincinnati, read the annual
rejjnrt, recommending that, the representation
in the s ate encampment be reduced to one
delegate for each l(Xl members, instead of 75,
and calls attention to the large number ot
comrades dropped off last year through non
payment of dues, bemi annual conventions
ire recommended; also a memorial to the
national encampment for a reduction of the
per capita tax to three centa During the
year I*2o new jxxits were formed and W,oi3 re
cruits mustered.
lee Embargo in the Ohio.
Cincinnati, Jan. 29.—The immense quan
tity of ice which is making in the Gai > from
Pittsburg to Cairo has effectually blocked all
transportation in the river. There are no
packets of any kind running either up or
down from this city, aud even the
ferryboats have been laid up for the
past two daya This last discontinu
ance has proven a great incouvenien e
“No steamboat would dare venture to run on
the Ohio us long as there is so much and such
hick ice in the water,” said a prominent
river man. “It would break her wheels all
to pieces. None of the regular packets are
running, nor do they expect to until this ice
either thaws or runs out ”
Suing Newspapei*x.
Nashville, Tenn , Jan. 29.—Three libel
suits have been brought against the Evening
Banner for |20.0 0 3ach, by the superintend
ent, warden and physician of the ijeniten
iiary. A scurriloui ediio ial in Monday even
ing’s edition precipitated the suit
Boston, Jan. 28. —The Boston Herald has
been sued for 4‘2,5C0 for libel by State Repre
sentative Isaac Halm, of Providence, who
claimed that his character wax defamed in
the Providence letter in the last Sunday Her
ald.
A Bloody Jackpot.
Greenville, 0., Jan 29 —ln a quarrel be
tween Thomas Wallace and E iward Dovor
at Funk’s place, late Tuesday night, over the
jackpot in a game of poker, Devor cut Wal
lace in nine different places about the breast,
face, arm and lx>th thighs. Wallace is in a
critical condition. Devor has b<*en arrested.
Col. Hill Dying.
Cincinnati, Jan. '9— The condition of ex-
County Commissioner Hili has become alarm
ing, and his death is said to be close n* hand.
His attendants are of opinion that can
last but a short time.
A Seven-Year-Cid Murderess.
Andersonville, Ga . Jan. 29 —The two
little girls of Mrs. Jennie Rees, aged five and
seven, quarreled, when tue older s t fire to
the clothes of tho younger, burning her to
death. , ' ,
Vaccinating Cattle.
Wilmington, Del., Jan 29.—State veter
inarians attached to the agricultural depart
ment at Washington, inoculated fifty, cows
which comprise a dairy upon a farm in
Bran ly win a.
Alfred Will lams was killed by a train al
Faria, Ky.
CHICAGO’S TICHBORNE.
I
\ MYSTERIOUS YOUNG MAN CLAIMING
A LARGE ESTATE.
!
Fate of a Vassar Girl —Entrapped and De*
sorted by a Drummer -Kescued by Her
Father A Rellgioux Tidal Wave
Sweeps Pennsylvania Towns.
Chicago, Jan. 29 —Public attention was
attracted to the d ath of Mrs. Clarissa C.
Peck not long ago by her bequest of a fortune
of in trust for the foundation of a
h '(no for incurables. The day after the pub
i I’cation of Mrs. Pork's will, a ruuior of the
b exist- no? of a grandson and heir who wag
laying his plans to break the will became cur
rent. On being interrogated, Albert Keep,
. one of Mrs. Peck’s executors, at whose house
she had redded for many years, averred
, in broad terms that she had no surviving
grandson. But there is a young nnui of
twenty-on i living who avows his purpose of
presentinq himself in a week or two in living
confutation of that averment. He has
always teen known as George Peck,
and piofesses himself the legiti
mate child of Mrs. Peck’s youngest son,
George E. Peck, who died in 1865. Lawyers
have been at work upon the case for some
time, and if the discoveries which they claim
to have made are authentic the young man’s
claims are not grouuiiless. The annals of the
Peck family abound with curious complica
tions and dramatic incidents of a kind more
frequently found in the pages of romance
than in the theatre of actual life. Should the
boy’s claims be brought to the test of litiga
tion, as they now bid fair to be, a trial of
great interest may be looked for, and, as the
greater part of bis narrative is indisputably
true, the lawyers will need their most critical
judgment concerning events that happened a
quarter of a century ago to discriminate
between fiction and reality.
The boy George claims to have been born
during the life of hi« father, George E. Peck,
and to have lived with his parents during the
greater portion of his childhood. There is no
question that this boy did live with his
mother during his infancy and childhood,
but it is asserted by many persons that he
was not her child. The story goes that she
placed the boy in an orphan asylum, where
ho passed some months; that during this in
terval she encouraged the supposition that
all her children were deal, and, when she
took Go.rge from the asylum again, gave it
>ut that he was only a foster child. It is
naim (1 that she either gave ■ r offered a
house and lot to one oodurate woman to in
luce her to hold her tongue, and that by this
means she succeeded in suppressing the truth.
L'o establish tho identity of the boy under
such circumstances of suspicion would re
pnro strong evidence, but his friends believe
tiiey are in posses-d mos it.
They profess to have fnund the woman who
was present at his birth and the priest who
baptized him. They even maintain t hat the
woman who washed and dressed him when he
carne into the world observed certain eigne
ind marks upon his person, by means of
which, though she had never seen him from
hin t day to this, she can recogniz?’ and iden
tify him instantly. His guardians claim that
the chain of evidence is complete and irre
lra r abl<». The friends of Mrs. Peck say the
whole s’ory is a plot to get money, and the
boy a bogus heir whom they are trying to
palm off upon the public for their own pur
poses.
The Deceitful Drummer.
Han Fran<tsc >, Jan. 29.—Miss Edith
Miller, a beautiful girl of eighteen years,
graduated from Vassar college last summer
and returned to her home in Marquette,
Mich., where her father, Horatio Miller,
lived in fin.- style with his family. Miller is
owner of several copper mines in M chigau
and very wealthy. Koon after the young
lady returned home a Pittsburg drummer
named Herman MMJdruin, whom she mot in
Poughkeepsie, turned up in Marquette, and,
after a brief courtship, much against the
father’s wishes, tho young couple eloped in
October last. The parents were stricken with
grief and search was everywhere made for
I’kiith. In December Mr. Miller heard that
h s daughter w.-w in San Francisco, and hither
he at once came. After some search ho found
her, but his grief almost killed him when he
discovered that she was an inmate of a house
of ill-repute. His first impulse was to leave
her to her shame, but thoughts of the broken
hearted mother at home anxiously awaiting
her child's return in<luced him to take back
his now penitent daughter, and a couple of
days ago they startai for Michigan. It was
the old, old story. Meldrum had promised to
marry her, but tiring of her after reaching
this city ho deserted her. The last heard of
the drummer he was in Denver, Ooh
Religious Tidal Wave.
Reading, Pa., Jan. 29.—A great religious
wave is sweeping over some of the villages of
Berks county, and many hundreds have id
ready been converted. The upheaval is
reaching all classes of society. Presiding
Ehler Dickerson, of Philadelphia, is the mov
ing spirit at these meetings, which are held
nightly. At Morgantown, a small village,
over eighty iiersona have profniwed religion.
There is only one person in the village
who remains unconverted, and he is an in
fidel. The people drive together for miles
around, and tho roads leading to the meeting
houses are nightly lined with carriages The
hotels have voluntarily stopped selling
drinks. At Johanna, near here, some sixty
persons were converted in one night Entire
villages have become praying communities.
Johanna has become a temperance place, and
the hotels are doing no business. A sect
known as the Mennonite Brethern in Christ
have organized in many small towns. They
baptize by immersion. The new converts
and the members inarch from the church to
the river in a body, singing, headed by the
deacons who carry axes with which to chop
away the ice, which is frequently ten inches
thick.
A Lunatic Starving Hlrn«elf.
Dayton, 0., Jan. 29. —Bartholomew Lin
denberger, a farmer, living neai this city,
wa3 on Tuesday taken to the insane asylum.
Three weeks ago while in good health he
quarn le i with his parish priest. The matter
weighed heavily on his mind. He consid
ered his belli irreparably lost aud s«x)n be
came insane. For fifteen days he has not
slept a moment, 'fen days ago he began re
fusing foal and drink. He seems determined
to starve himself to death. He is now in
a precarious ondition and no food or medi
cine can be gotten down his throat.
The Leather Merchant Wouldn’t Marry.
Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 29.—James V.
Walbh, a leather merchant of this city, was
arraigned i. the police court Tuesday on a
charge of seduction, preferred by Miss Nellie
Hoyt, until recently an actress at the Theater
Conuqne in New York. Miss Hoyt is u niece
of Nuily Pieris, the widow of Carlo Patti,
brother of Mme. Adelina Patti. She is about
to become a mother and brings the present
action to comjiel VVaisu to marry her. Walsh
said the charge was made for the purpose of
blackmailing him, but the court held him in
SI,SUU bail for exammaUou on Friday.
THE CONDENSER.
Fresh, Pithy News Items Boiled Down ftnr
the Hurried Reader.
Texan farmers are plowing.
I A heavy earthquake shock was felt at Vat
paraiso.
Groat religious revivals in the towns about
. Reading, Pa.
Montreal's ice carnival grows in populous
enthusiasm daily.
St. John, ’tis said, is preparing another
statement for tho public.
Cleveland had a gr ind reception by the
Fort Orange Club, Albany.
Typhoid fever is quite prevalent at Bel
laire, 0.. and of a dangerous type.
Con Murphy, desperado of Montana, has
been vigilanted with a piece of rope.
Edgar Thompson’s steel works will resume.
Several thousand families are so glad.
Mississippi levees south of Vicksburg are in
iMitter condition I han at any other time since
the war.
Ch es Engineer Melville wants to go to the
north pile again C some wealthy man will
fit him out.
Hon. Robert G Gregory, a member of the
Lafayette (Ind.) bar, is dead. His age was
eighty-three years.
Colorado silver men. In session at Denver,
will oppose legislation tending to reduce the
rate of silver coinage.
Plucky Laura MrAlery, niece of the sheriff,
queltai a riot in Huntingdon, Pa, jail at the
point of a six-shooter.
New York Irish-Americans wired Senator
Riddleberger thanking him for bis speech on
the dynamite business.
Kansas sympathy is all with the Oklahomas
and against the United States troops. The
Oklahomns have surrendered.
The second trial of Fred Richards, who
murdered Amos Buckest s<>me time ago, is set
for February 9th, at Decatur, Ind.
A Philadelphia family named Crisp is
mysteriously poisoned. Two children have
died. A chemist will investigate.
Propellor Michigan forced her way out of
the ice at Grand Haven, and in doing so ex
ploded her boiler, killing two men.
John Murphy, superintendent of the East
Tennessee zinc works, Knoxville, Tenn., is
missing, with several thousand dollars.
8. 8. Conant resigned his position as man
aging editor of Harper’s Weekly ten days
ago, and has not been seen or beard of sin<’e.
Fred. Douglass gets a $20,00' life interest
In Miss Altilis Assig’s will. The money at
Fred.’■ death will go to the New York 8. F.
C. A.
The troubles of the Amalgamated asstxda
tion at Bellaire, 0., are not being &ilaved,
and some of the members predict its autrap
tion.
At Ashland, Penn., Mrs. Joseph Keefe,
aged fifty-five, while making preparations
to retire, fell iq»on the stove and was fatally
burned.
An organized band of horse thieves is op
erating m Greene county, and the commis
sioners are moving in the matter of putting a
stop to their numerous depredations.
George Thompson, an aged blacksmith
living near Portsmouth, 0., has been ad
judged insane. He has for some time past
been endeavoring to burn hims.df to death.
The founder of the sect of New Israel at
Kisheneff, Russia, has been murdered by
orthodox Jews. The sect is under govern
ment protection, having accepted Christ us
the Messiah.
Grand Master Young, of the Ohio grand
lodge of Odd Follows, accompanied by large
delegations of the order from Cleveland, Day
ton, Youngstown and other cities, dedicated
the elegant new hall of Mahoning lodge at
Warren.
The oourt of appeals has decided that
Bra*Haugh ha« a right to Appeal in the case
which the English government won against
him for attempting to take bis scat in the
bouse of commons witiiout taking the cus
tomary oath.
The trial of Recorder Thomas J. Ford, Pat
H. Ford, W. H. Caulfield, John Murphy,
Charles Bader and Baptiste Tavatto for the
murder of Captain A. H. Murphy, New Or
leans has commenced. Os 193 witnesses sum
moned 143 are for the defense.
Home fiendish rogue sent the British consul
at New York an awfully mysterious looking
box. Opened it was found to hold a deadly
looking blue powder, with a diabolical cop
per wire inserted in it The powder was
emery and tho whole thing was a hoax.
Li K wong, the president of the Cbiness
cigar-makers’ union, proprietor of a large
restaurant, New York, and owner of a fash
ionable Chinese boarding-house, left the city
for parts unknown last Friday. He was
bank jr for a large number of Chinese.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
Latest Quotations of th© Stock, Produce
and Cattle Markets.
Nsw Yons, Jan. 27.—Money per cent. Ex
change firm; governmenta steady.
Alt. & Terre Haul©. 18 Morns & Essex....DS
Bur. & Quincy.... 118 Miaaouri PacUi .. H 4
Canada racihc. ... BS'-i N. Y. A Erie 12)4
Canada SunUu-m .. N. Y. Central.. Btt>Z
Central Pacific .. North wtjaienr 89>Z
Chicago di Alton 181 I‘uciflc Mail M 4
C., C.. U& I . . 31 Kocli Island . .. 108
Dei. & Hudson ... St. l*kui.
Dei. Lack. &. W ... 67J4 St. P. «x. S. C 24
Illinois Central. 121 do preferred. ... 88>4
Jersey Central.... 82% Texas & i*uciiie... 13%
Kansas & Texas 1&U U. Pacific 48%
Lake Shore 80% West. Virion &7>£
Louisville <&. Nash. 2B>< Nash. A Chat. ... 84
GeneraL
Cincinnati, Jan. 28.—FLOUR—Fancy, >4.14J
AW; family, s3.lg>(jM.OO.
WHEAT-No. 2 red, H7c: No. 3, 82£85c.
CORN -No. 2 mixed, 44c; No. 3,48 c, ear, 44a.
OATS—No. 2i mixed, Na 2 white, 3d«
RYE-Na 2, 73a
BARLEY Spring, fall,
PORK-Family, regular, SIS.M,
BACON Shoulders, short dear sidws,
lahl -Kettle,
CHEESE—Prime to choice Oido, 10<iiilc; Nev
York, 12'i $18So; Northwestern,
POULTRY—Fair chickens, prime,
ducks, $3.25; geese, $3.00 ($>5.00
per dox.; live turkeys. dressed, 13
HAY—No. 1 timothy, $12.50013.00; No. 2, $11.50
@12.00; mixed, SIO.OO 11.00; wneat and rye straw,
SO.OU@7.UO; oats straw. $7.00.58.00.
Nkw Yohk, Jan. 28.—WHEAT—No. 1 white,
04c; No. 2 red, Jan., B(f>i@9lc; Feb., 90
CORN—Mixed western, futures,
@62‘4c. Oats—Western, 86@40a
New Orleans, Jan. 28.—SUGAR—Refining, ooih
mon, inferior, choice white,
sc; off white, 5 z 7 choice yellow,
MOLASSES-G<xxi fair, 87@89c; prime, 34<>30c;
choice, 44c; centrifugal, prime, 23@3Jc; fair 20a
Dxthuit, Jan. 28.—WHEAT—No. 1 white,
No. 8 red, 79c; Micliigan soft red, 87*4<3.
Toledo, Jan. 28.—-WHEAT—No. 2, 79' 40, Na 2
•oft, 82»i@87c.
Live Stock.
Cincinnati, Jan, 28.—CATTLE—Good to choics
butchers’, $4.2,\@5; fair, common, $2
2.75; stockers and feeders, $3.75@4-W i yearlings and
calves, $2.500/3.50.
HOGS—Selected butchers, fair to
good packing, $4.50@4.85; fair to good light, $4.85
@4.75; common, $3.75@4.05; culls, $3.25@3.55.
SHEEP—Common to fair, good to
choice, $3,50 0.25; weathers, $4.50 ?£5. Lambs,
common, good, $4@4.7A
Chicago, Jan. 28.—HOGS—Fair to good, $4.35 J
4.70; mixed packing, SLBS@LSS; choice heavy,
s4.Cx)@s.
CATTLE—Exerts, $6.00@6.25; good to choict
•hipping, $5.00 (65.70; common to fair,
■tockars aud leeders, SB.UqH>K.
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Hur? curt- tor Blit <l, Bieotllijg anti Itch
tn« Ptjoe. Ono box haa eurpd the worst
caMHH of 20 yeara’ etandinK. No one need
eoffer Hr- mlnntf'e after u u lt’« Wtill«tu’e
Indian Pile Oluttuent. If abaorbe tumors,
allays Itehlnu, sete as poultice, Rives In
“tnm reiter. Prepared only tor P'lee.
ftehlrur of tlie private parte, nothlDtf lap.
Hon. J. M.C' flt-nbili v. • f Cleveland, anys;
I"I iiave used t-eert* el Pile' cures, and It
I affords me pleasure to eay that 1 have
never found anything which xivee such
Immediate and permanent relief ae Dr.
| William’s Indian Pile Ointment.” Hold by
irumrlstß rhfl mailed O' receipt of price,
11. For stile by Brann n & Osrst n, B.
Carter, John P. Turner and Geo. A. Brad-
I ford. Oolumbus, (4a.
Dr. Frailer’, I,'wot Bitter
Frazier’s liooi Bitters are not, a tram
I ehop beverage, but are strictly medv Inal
in tvery st r.ee. They act strongly upon
th" J Ivor and Kldnevs ke. p the bowt-la
open and regular, make the weak atr< rtfcr,
heal the lunge, build up the nerves, and
cleanse the blood *nd system of every im
purity. Sold bv druggists. SI.OO.
I For sale by Brannon A Carson and Jno.
I’. Turner, Columbus, Wa.
Dr. Frarler’a Magic tUntnteßt
A eme erne lor Little Oru’ etn the skin.
. Bough Skin, etc. it will remove that
roushneas from the he ds and face and
I m>ike youbc iuttful. Price Wp. Sent by
mall. For sale • v Brannon A Careen and
John P. 1 urner, Columbus, Ua.
i Oh’s. E fllover, Hertnorst'llo, M x'co.
■lnly 16.1883. ay- ; "I take o'earute In
Hridtei-alng yen onmore, or you nave
been ot great benefit to roe. I wrote to
| you about nt e ai d nn<-ht|f v,»ra i go,
t'<ro Arizen.,, tor Dr, Wild m’s Indian
Pl On'mert. I received It anti it rured
me.'io t- y. I sTII had some O fui-nt
r m l Ing. with w l< h I h«v" ctned si ven
jor eight mo, e. It. Is wonder ui.
Saratoga l’lgi) Rock Spring Water tor
H'lrH fll' drnpiHpfo n-hQOer'/* H ar
Male AhD BMAirAGmiiY.
CUSSMM, GEORGIA.
Tb<* v* k./ ♦! *■ Hp/ 01l begin hcrld
! JANUARY 5 Mor d-JM
3 ul>l«n $1 CO 50 MDd S 3 SO,
I According to gtad . B.vd n-v. r more
Tlmn 98. !’• r Month,
MUSIC PER moNTB,
1.01 A < ION iisai.th di,
W.E. JKDitFHEY,
let loir.rmlwS t’rtrc'nal.
OR, JOiF NOhWOOO.
OFF ICF, AT
BREEDLOVE & JOHNSOVS Drug Store,
Bandolph Street.
Beeldcnee with H. L. WOODHOFF,
Crswford. be»w< cn Trrup ird Fcis? it bi i< et
•«VIG t B
it E. bIIIGGS,
Physician and Surgeon.
OFFICE:
T. H. EVANS A CO. N Dtw Store.
Befit de nee, Jx< St., East Court Home .
W. A.TIGNER. Jr.
Attorney At l aw.
OFFICE IN GAHBAHD PrilX’lKG
- - - GEOB GIA
Great B.r.alne
At Phillips' New Shoe bl me, 18 Broad
Columbus, Ga. Stock all n w, fine and
heap. <lc7rA:wtf
IMPORTANT
TO
Farmers, Trucksters and Gardeners.
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I will furnish on board tbe Care at Flora,
Alabama, a very
Rich Marl
AT SIX IIOLLA W PKII TOV
CZI SIT 1
And a Very Low Kate of Freijfht
Is offend by tbe M< bile 4 Girard B. B
Bv analysis of the State Geologist this
MABL contains from 5 tn 8 per cent, of
Phosphate with oth> r fertilising qualities.
For ccmnostlrg and broadcasting for
grain fl- Ide, orei aids and lawns it will be
found)
A Valuable Stimulator.
Tnls is not a Guano, but a RICH MABL
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Any c rders forwarded to
K. J. ORB, Agent, Flora, Ala.,
Mobile 4 Girard Railroad, will mest with
prompt attention. deolj-tf
NOTICE!
CIFOROTK MFROnGpR rorNTT I JtPOb
X hn«bsnd of TWa Brod a, (I raid
( ourty and Bt»te. hereby B'venrtie* to the
publte of wy co* ftumyn'd wt*e, 1 css
Bro J fi, rbfi’i he nil become from and after tfele
date a public or free trader w’th all nf the
right* and privileges under the BUV te tn tach
eaaea made and provided. JAOOB BROD A*