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VOL. X.
PASSEMERB MANGLED
IN A FRIGHTFUL SMASHUP ON THG
JERSEY CENTRAL RAILROAD.
The Accident Due to a Broken Wheel That
Derailed the Train Heartrending
Scenes at the Bedsides of the
Maimed —The Injured.
Jersey City, N. J., Jan. 31. A frightful
railroad accident occurred on the New Jersey
Central railway, in which a number of per
sons were either killed or wounded. As the
fast express from Philadelphia was approach
ing Danforth avenue, just after crossing cem
etery bridge, a wheel of one of the forward
coaches broke, causing several coaches to
leave the track. The derailed cars crashed
into a coal tra n standing on the siding, up
setting the coal cars, and piling upon them in
a wrecked condition. The cars of the express
were well filled with passengers, and as the
coaches crushed into one another, the shrieks
of the men and women were heartrending.
Assistance was at once telegraphed for to
the various hospitals of the city, and they
promptly responded with a corps of doctors
and a number of ambulances. The railroad
hands soon set to work extricating the
wounded from the wreck, while the doctors
bandaged their wounds and sent them to th©
hospitals. At 11 o’clock twenty-seven per
lons had been taken from the wreck more or
less badly injured, some it is feared fatally.
Others were still in the wreck, wedged in
among the broken timbers, and the work of
extricating them was prosecuted with great
vigor and under great disadvantages, but
every one worked with a will and in a few
hours the unfortunates were relieved and re
moved to neighboring houses, where their in
juries received prompt attention.
Lat* r a large number of friends of the in
jured, who had been notified by telegraph,
arrived, and the scenes at the bedside of the
maimed and suffering were heartrending in
the extreme. A few of those least seriously
Injured were removed by their friends, while
many, whose removal would endanger their
lives, are here in charge of the local physi
cians.
The train was running at a high rate of
gpewl at the time, and was due at Jersey
City at 9:30 a. in. Railroad officials say they
can not account for the breaking of the car
wheel as the underpinning of the cars, axles,
etc., are carefully examined and sounded at
every stop between Philadelphia and Jersey
City.
Following are the names of the Injured as
far as at present learned:
M. M Frederick, Boundbrook, N. J., seri
ously injured.
W. Eaton, engineer, badly hurt about the
Jody.
C. J. Burdell, conductor, painfully hurt.
M. Shad wick, brakeman, severely injured.
M. D. .Cornell, Philadelphia, seriously
bruised.
E. K. Searville, C. Reed, 11. Bray, Phila
ielpbia, ‘badly injured
B. F. Scattergood, of Scattergood & Co.,
Philadelphia, right arm lacerated and almost
torn from socket.
Chas. H. Pray, of the firm of Holmes &
Pray, Philadelphia, head cut and skull frac
tured; injuries probably fatal.
O. Reed, Philadelphia, nose broken, face
cut, one eye probably dislodged.
Henry Tracey, of Compton Tracey,
Philadelphia, head cut, frontal bone broken,
Injuries likely to prove fatal.
M. D. Conway, Philadelphia, arm cut, ribs
broken.
AV alter Clickner, brakeman, was thrown
from the platform of the rear car; cut and
bruised over the face and body, and severely
injured internally.
B. W. Vanline, Philadelphia, skull frac
tured, probably fataily injured
B. Wink, Philadelphia, seriously cut.
J. Kelly, Philadelphia, left arm injured.
J. T. Holloway and J. Connelly, Philadel
phia, shock and cuts.
E. C. Nephews, Philadelphia, bruised and
mt.
H. D. Corcoran, Philadelphia, head cut.
Charlee Fraey, Boundbrook, cut and
bruised.
O. Wade. Boundbrook, cut and bruised.
Several gentlemen who were injured re
fused to give their names for publication for
fear of alarming their friends.
Mr. Seaman, of Bayonne, N. J , who was
rn an accommodation train which arrived
within five minutes alter the accident to the
express, says it was occasioned by one wheel
D f the tender leaving the track, which opened
a switch and threw the tram into a coal truin
on the aiding. The engine broke loose
and ran a quarter of a mile before
It was stopped, and the smoker
was completely wrecked. The Pullman
car, and the three coaches following it were
badly smashed. Four coal cars were destroyed
and the coal was scattered over the ground
for fifty yards. The track was so badly torn
up that it will require relaying at the place of
the accident and trains are consequently de
layed.
Frightened Young Templars.
Buffalo, Jan. 31.—At 9 o'clock Thursday
night fire originated in a three story building
in Angola, N. Y., twenty-one miles from
this city. It was caused by the explosion of
’amp in a lodge room of the Juvenile Teinp
,‘Ura, which was in session at the time. There
‘ were abeut fifty children in the room and a
acene of frantic excitement folio wed the ex
plosion. The citizens procured ladders and
removed the children from the building,
the stairways having been burned. Many
jumped from the windows and several were
.seriously injured. Kati© Bangert and a small
boy received fractures of the legs, and an
other boy, Bertie Plare, who was known, to
have been in the room, cannot be found, and
has probably perished. Wm. Thompson, aged
sixty-six, was overcome with the excitement,
and upon reaching his home dropped dead.
The loss is estimated at $20,000.
The World’s Fair Mas a Mascot.
New Ohijcans, Jan. 31. —The liberty bell
b fast winning the reputation of being a
mascot for the exposition. It seems to have
brought good weather and better crowds.
The relic stands in machinery hall on the
trucks which brought it from Philadelphia.
Its removal to the government building is set
for a day next week. A better feeling pre
vails in regard to the exposition finances,
although the gate money is even now barely
sufficient to meet current expenses. Some
$7 000 in premiums awarded to exhibitors of
fat stocks remain aid, and the finance
vsommittde'hfis been forced to admit ite in
ability to meet the amount.
They Had Their Vye on the Drummer.
.Covington, Ky., Jan. 31. —On Thursday
•night Win. Gough, a druinner for Carter,
Sloan &; Co., diamond brokers of New York,
entered ML Motch’s store for the purpose of
selling some jewelry. Motch was not in, and
Cough nuked the clerk to place his sample
vaii.es liehind the counter until he returned.
Whan he did come back, one of the valises,
alleged to contain 85,000 worth of diamonds
and precious stones, was found missing. The
thieves are thought to be three well-dressed
strangers who entered the store shortly after
Gough left and asked to be shown some alarm
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HUNTING A MOONSHINER.
Th® Tennessee Mountains Scoured in ths
Prospect of a Lynching Bee.
Nashville, Tenn., Jan 31.—Riley Pile, a
desperado and moonshiner of Pickett county,
murdered Deputy United States Marshal
James McDonald a few weeks ago and two
or three days ago murdered Luke Davidson,
a highly-esteemed farmer, under the follow
ing circumstances:
Deputy Marshals Phillips and McDonald
raided Pile’s still a few weeks ago, destroyed
the outfit and arrested Pile. At first Pile pie
tended to submit, but waiting his opportunity
he suddenly drew a pistol ind instantly j
killed McDonald, making his escape
under a running fire. Pile is in the moun-;
tains, defying capture. When the excitement;
died out he appeared among the people I
who knowing him to be a desperate man'
made no attempt to arrest him. He con-1
ceived the notion that a farmer, Luke David- !
son, had betrayed him to the raiders He l
went to Davidson and made him give him a
note for $75, the value »f the still destroyed
by the revenue men. The not? fell due the
other day and Davidson refused to pay. Pile |
said he would have blood or money, and
would give him two d«Ays to settle.
At the end of that time finding Davidson
working in a field Pile, at the muzzle of a
rifle, marched him up the mountain side to
where a huge ledge projects over a high cliff.
He told Davidson that he was going to place
the note on his forehead and collect it push
ing him over the precipice. A woman living i
near by had seen the two men, an 1 knowing
Pile’s desperate character, dispatched a boy in
search of Davidson’s brother, Junk. The
latter was found and, accompanied by a
friend named Oliver, was soon on Pile’s trail
and arrived in sight just as Pile was about
to shove his victim over the precipice.
Oliver accidentally slipped, attracting 1
Pile’s attention. The latter instantly fired
with his rifle, mortally wounding Junk Da
vidson, who died in a few hours. Luke
Davidson took to his heels and escaped, leav
ing Pile and Oliver alone Oliver fired his
pistol, severely mo inding Pile in the arm. A
running fire ensued for three-quarters of a
mile, Oliver loading his pistol three times. :
Pile jumped behind a rock, and Oliver,
a raid to approach, gave up the chase. Pile
was joined next day by his brother, who is
equally well known as a desperado. The citi
zens organized parties and are searching th*
mountains, declaring the}’ will lynch them. ,
LIGHT ON A MYSTERY.
Alfred Sheldon, Missing Since May, Fouad
to be in England.
Kansas City, Jan. 31.—A dispatch from
Jefferson City states that ex-Gov. Crittenden
has received a letter from the British min
ister at Washington informing him of Alfred
Sheldon's arrival in England. Mr Sheldon,
who was a resident of this city
and a member of the Blue Springs
Milling Company, disappeared mysteriously
on the night of May 14 last. He- was
said to be short $20,000 in his accounts, and
one theory was that he had been kidnapped
and would be held until his wealthy friends
in England should make up the deficit. An
other theory was that this was a ruse on
Bhel<ion’s part to get away. Al the request
of the British government, through the
state department at Washington, Mr. Crit
tenden took active secret measures for an in
vestigation of the case. The correspondent
gives the following account of the affair,
which he asserts is from a reliable sour -e:
On May 14, at about midnight, two men
went to Sheldon’s house in a buggy, arrested
him on a pretended warrant anti took h’rn
away. They were joined by two other men
and the prisoner was carried to a place near
Blue Springs and detained at a forest camp
several weeks. His captors meanwhile com
pelled him to write to his friends for money,
the men demanding $25,000. One night a
member of the gang promised secretly to
release him. The tnan then took him to a
railroad station near by, gave him $lO and
left him. Sheldon tjok a train at the station,
but the narrative does not state where he
went. The conclusion is that Sheldon’s cap
tors were pressed so closely by the detectives
that, becoming alarmed, they released their
prisoner. Sheldon’s wife, who remained in
this place some time after her husband’s dis
appearance, is now in England, where her
husband now is.
Brigbain Young’s Stepson Arrested.
Salt Lake City, Jan. 31.—Royal Birney
Young, a stepson of the late Brigham Young,
was arrested and taken before a United
States commissioner, charged with unlawful
cohabitation with more than one woman.
Under the Edmund's act the offence is pun
ishable by six months’ imprisonment and
S3OO fine. Young’s first and third wives
were sworn as witnesses. The latter testified
that she was married three years ago, but at
th*- time entered into an agreement with her
busband that they would not live together as
mn and wife until the constitutionality of
anti-polygn inous laws had be n determined
by the courts. She wore that they had faith
fully lived up to that agreement. The com
missioner and district attorney are both ap
parently puzzled by the case. The prosecution
will endeavor to prove that the defendant
and his polygamous spouse have lived to
getber, notwithstanding their del a rati on to
♦he contrary. The federal court grand jury
Meets next week, and the marshals are kept
busy serving subpoenas on witnesses in
polygamous cases, while the polygamists ami
their friends, who know theae facts, are
dodging the officers.
The Homan Catholic University.
New York, Jan. 31. —While several bish
oj s and many of the clergy of the Roman
Catholic Church were here a while ago to at
tend the consecration of the Paulists Fa'hers’
church, some meetings were held at the r si
dence of a prominent priest regarding ihe
first step to be taken in founding the national
Roman Catholic university toward which
Miss Mary U. Caldwell recently gave
a large sum of money. It *as ru
mored that the result of the meetings was
that SIOO,OOO was subscribed besides what M>ss
Caldwell gave, and that a site for the univer
sity had been selected. Mr. Eugene Kelly, a
trustee of Miss Caldwell’s estate, said that the
rumor was not entirely correct. It was true
tha meetings had been held and methods of
raising more money had been discussed, but
no one had yet been asked to subscribe. All
that had been done was to discuss the advan
ta :es of Washington w the home of such an
institution. It was proposed that a commit
tee be chosen to go to Washington for the
purpose of visiting the sites suggested for the
institution.
Another Revival*
Gallipolis, 0., Jan. 31.—The most re
markable revival of religion ever known hen
is now in progress. To date nearly 1,090 con
versions arc reported. Many saloons are
closed, an i all the inmates of two disreputeble
houses nave joined the church. Ail classil
are reached Business is largely suspended.
Dishonest Postmaster,
Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 31.—J. S.
Campbell, assistant postmaster at Goldsmith,
Ind., has been arrested on the charge oi
detaining registered letters, twenty-five being
found on his peison unopened. Some bort
date of last Apr!J. He wai committed tc
await trial.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 1. 1885.
CABINET CALCULATIONS.
SENATOR GARLAND AND THE ATTOR
NEY-GENERALSHIP.
Something About the Arkansas Statesman’s
Personality —Why He is Opposed for the
New Cabinet -Who are Against
and Who for Him.
T TS
AUGUSTUS H. GARLAND.
Washington, Jan. 31.—Senator Garland
lives on Massachusetts avenue, a little east
of Thomas Circle. It is a modest-looking
house and it is a very modest man that makes
his hom<* there. Senator Garland is modest
almost to the point of diffidence and is really
afraid of newspaper men. He has a genuine
fear of the interviewer. When he stopped
at the Fifth Avenue hotel in New York some
time ago on his return from Albany, where
he wont to meet Mr. Cleveland, he succeeded
In eluding all the dozen or so reporters that
waited about for him almost an entire day.
His theory is that it takes four interviews to
explain one, and he does not belong to that
class of men who would as soon be the hero
of four interviews as not.
The reporter found him surrounded by his
children and reading a lot of Arkansas news
papers. Mrs. Garland died about seven years
ago, one year after the senator came from
Washington to ascirne bis official duties, and
since that bereavement he has lived very
quietly. He makes no pretense of going
into society, and the only two places where
he is much seen is the senate chamber and his
own home. He has four children, three sous
and a daughter. The eldest son is to be a
lawyer and is at school in Georgetown.
Senator Garland could never fail to impress
one as a man of more than ordinary force.
He is a liitle under six feet, has a square, full
body and looks symmetrical from head to I
foot. Ho wears no sign of beard or mus
tache, has a strong, massive face that reminds
one of the portraits of some of the leading
statesman wo had in this country
lief ore the war. The traditional, ideal
statesman, you know, is a man
who wears no beard. Webster did not wear
any, neither did Clay, nor Benton, nor Jeffer
son, nor Hamilton, nor Buchanan, nor Ben.
Wade, nor Bob Toombs, nor Alexander
Stephens, nor John. B Floyd, nor Stephen
A. Douglas, nor a dozen others. In fact there
was never a democratic president who wore a
beard. And even Mr. Cleveland, who has
been elected after a quarter of a century
break, has nothing but a mustache. Senator
Garland has a good face of the old school,
and one would hardly make a mistake as to
the section of the country to which he be
longs.
The senator is an excellent talker, but there
is one subject that he always gets rid of as
quickly as possible —cabinet making. The
truth is that he probably does not know '
much more about it than other people. He
is not aggressive; he is not a leader; he would
never organize a movement and carry it for
ward like Wendell Phillips, but he Is a good
man to depend on. Still there is a strong op
position to his going Into Mr. Cleveland’s
cabinet as attorney general. It is based upon
two grounds: First, because he was
in the confederacy; second, because
he is a federalist in his interpre
tation of the constitution. The leader of
the opposition is Gen. Van Manning, us Mis
sissippi, who was also in the confederacy and !
who i-' now in Washington. He emphati
cally denies that he has any personal dislike
to Senator Garland; on the other hand, he
says he has known him for twenty-eight years
and has a high regard for him as a man and
a lawyer. Gen. Manning has seen Mr. Cleve
land and stated fully the objections he had to
urge against Senator Garland for attorney
general, and he is supported by a number of :
southern senators and representatives.
Among the former Senators Maxey and
Coke, of Texas; Senator Vest, of Missouri;
Senator Butler, of South Carolina, and Sen
ator Harris, of Tennessee—all of them in the
confederacy. In fact the entire opposition to
Mr. Garland conies from the south.
The other cause of complaint arises out of
the old democratic doctrine of state's rights.
Gen. Manning and his friends go so far as to
say that Senator Garland is not a democrat
at all, except in so far as he is nominally al
lied with the Democratic party. An 1 they
go to the record and quote from some of his
speeches, in which he takes a view of the
famous “general welfare” clause of the con
stitution that it is not in accord with the in
terpretation generally recognized by the
democracy.
But there are democratic senators who
take the same view of the constitution as Mr.
Garland. Mr. Dan Voorhees for one. He elab
orated the same interpretation of the “general
welfare” clause in his great speech on the
Blair educational bill some time after Mr.
Garland had made his great speech. And
Mr. Voorhees is a strong advocate of Mr.
Garland for the place of attorney general in
the new cabinet. So is Senator Cockrell,
who was a confederate general, and go is
Senator Gorman, whose democracy will not
be questioned.
In speaking ot Mr. Garland’s character and
ability, Senator Gorman said to the reporter:
“Mr. Garland is the first lawyer of the sen
ate. That is a great distinction. He belongs
to the new democracy. There are thousands
of democrats who agree with him in his
view of the ‘general welfare’ clause of the
constitution, and who will applaud him for
the moral courage that impelled him to de
clare that view in the open senate. And those
who now urge him for the position of attor
ney general of the new administration ov
lieve that the same moral courage which led
him to declare a doctrine that was at vari
ance with the traditional belief of his party
would make him fearless in the execution of
his duty as attorney general, whatever may
have been the circumstances by which he
was surrounded in the past.”
A Village Incinerated.
Wheeling, W. Va., Jan. 31.—A fire broke
out in the shoe store of George White, at
Wellsburg, sixteen miles north of this city,
and owing to the intense cold and absence of
any fire extinguishing apparatus, it spread
on all sides. There is nothing but telephone
connection with the place. The postofflee
and a number of other buildings were
burned, and last advices were that the entire
business portion of the village would be de*
strejed.
PROCEEDINGS IN CONGrIfF
A Document I-rom the Secretary of State
on the Congo Question.
Washington, Jan. 31.—At the ojx'ning of
the bouse a letter was read from tin* speaker,
designating Hon. J. C. 8. Blackburn (Ky.)
as speaker protem for the day. Sp aker Car
lisle’s absence is in consequence ol an invita
tion to Albany to confer with the president
elect
Mr. Townshnn 1 (Ill.), from the committee
on approprini.ons, reported the postoffice ap
propriation bill, which appropriates $52,253,-
‘JOO, being neany S4,(XK),OOU kss than the esti
mates.
The chair laid before, the house a
communication from the secretary of
state, giving information respecting the
participation of the United States in the
Congo basin conference, the motives which
led this government to participate, the man
ner in which it participated, and the views
which may have been expressed by its dele
gates at the conference. 'Hie secretary refers
to the resolution adopted by the senate in
April last, advising the president to recognize
the flag of the international association of the
Congo and the appointment of a commercial
agent for the Congo basin, as the first steps
toward an internatioral expression of th ■ view
of this government with regard to the Congo
country. In carrying out these measures the
government recorded its share in the general
conviction that the prospective rich trade of
the Congo valley should lie open to all nations
on equal terms while avoiding any prejudg
ment of conflicting territorial claims in that
region. Last October the German Minister
at Washington, speaking for Germany and
France, called upon the secretary and pro
posed to arrange in a spirit of mutual good
understanding the conditions which would
tend to assure the development of commerce
with the Congo valley, and the United States
was asked to take part in the Berlin confer
ence. Subsequently Minister Kasson was in
structed to report upon the advisability of
this government being represented at the con
ference. Mr. Kasson reported in favor of
representation, and he together with Mr.
Henry 8. Sanford were appointed
delegates from the United States.
As the conference is still in session,
no final view of the results can be given.
So far Mr. Kasson and Mr. Sanford have
confined their propositions to matters affect
ing commercial intercourse with the whole
Congo region—freedom <>f navigation of the
rivers and land communications between the
coasts of the interior without advancing any
plan affecting the political tenure of the di
verse territories. A proposition advanced by
Mr. Kasson making not only the Con, « river
and tributaries, but the whole territory of
the Congo basin neutral in times of war is
still under consideration in the conference,
and so far as known it has the approval of
all the powers represented the e exet pt
France and Portugal. Up to this
time the department has seen no reason
to feel otherwise than satisfied with
the discretion, prudence and ability with
which Mr. Kasson has carried out the in
fractions given to him. Besides limiting the
position of the United States to one of com
mercial interest, dissociated from question of
territorial control, he has baen attentive
that no act ou our part shall deviate from
consistent national policy. He has been care
ful no expression should be found of record
in the agreements in the conference which
might imply that its results are to be bin ting
upon any power which may not formally ac
cept them. Other papers and correspond lence
bearing upon this subject and reports of the
orocee lings of the conference will be trans
mitted to congress as soon as received and
translated at the department.
Senate.
Washington, Jan. 31—Mr. Hoar moved
to take up the bill recently reported by bi in
In regard to the Union and Central Pacific
railroads and their bran hes, stating that at
this time he would only ask for a reading of
the biil, and would then report that the n a
- lay over. He said this was an exceedingly
Important measure and dealt with a vast n
iebtedness to the government and w uld re
move from further dispute a great in ny
complicated questions. This is the biil, sai I
he, that excited so much interest through
the country and among stock jobbers an 1
stockholders, and the newspapers were full of
charges and counter-charges, some of which
were evidently inspired by speculative deal
ers in stocks. It therefore seemed to him
that this bill, which had been the resa tof
careful consideration, which was not a
bill instigated by any railroad, but was
the result of original investigation on
the part of the judiciary committee, should
lie laid before the senate, and that the princi
pal upon which it proceeded should be under
stood. The motion was agreed to, and the
bill and the report of the judiciary committee
were read. The report showed that the total
Indebtedness of the roads to the government
was nearly $103,000,1X10, and that the pay
ment by the government of interest on rail
road bonds which had been guaranteed, ex
ceed by nearly $2,00*1,000 the average annual
repayment by the company
Au Arkansas Hanging.
Corning, Ark., Jan. 31.—Fayette Melton
was hanged in the jail here at noon. He
bore up bravely and protested bis innocence
to the last moment His neck was broken
and he was pronounced dead in nine min
utes.
He said on the gallows that he had been a
bad boy all his life and had kept bad com
pany but that it was false swear
ing that Ixought him there. No attempt
was made io rescue the prisoner by the mob
as talked of. He evinced no emotion and
mounted the scaffold, but broke down sob
bing while being tied. Just before the black
cap was drawn he sail: “Goody-bye to all.
Boys, let this be a warning to you to keep
good company. ”
Under the Wheels.
Cincinnati, Jan. 31.—A C., W. & B. pas
senger train forty-five minutes behind t.me,
and running at a high rate of speed—prob
ably thirty miles an hour—in passing the
Harrison avenue crossing, this city, ran over
and instantly killed an unknown man. The
unknown, who was about sixty-five, and
dressed in workingmen’s clothes, was walking
across the track on the crossing when struck.
The Reporter Jailed.
Rochester, N. Y., Jan. 3’.— John Dennis,
jr., who refused to testify before the grand
jury as to the author of an article in the
Democrat and Chronicle, touching the Kelley
bribery case, has been ordered to jail until be
choses to answer the questions put to him.
He is relying upon his privileges as a reporter.
French and Chinese Fight.
Paris, Jan. 31.—Ailispatch dated Shanghai
states that it is rumored in that city, and
generally believed, that the French fleet un
der Admiral Courbet, and the vessels <■< in
prising the entire Chinese fleet met off Mal
sol. and a sanguinary naval battle, lasting
several hours, took place. Confirmation or
denial of the report is anxiously awaited.
College Men Dining.
Washington, Jan. 31.—The second an
nual dinner of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fra,
ternity at Welker’s was attended by a large
number of graduates ironi the various ccJ
i kjgae, and many members of congress.
A SOUVENIR OF THE RING
NEW YORK CITY PLANKS DOWN A
CHECK FOR $1,409,595.65,
And Settles the Old Navarro Claim—Talking
With a Moving Train Fred Douglass’
Legacy of #20,000 I.eft Him by a
•Suicide—A Corpse in Danger.
New York, Jan. 31.—Comptroller Loew
las paid out of the city treasury the sum of
Bl .4 19,595 65, being the principal of and the
icerue 1 interest on the famous De Navarro
H um. In 1871 William M. Tweed was com
missioner of public works and Dick Connolly
was comptroller. A contract was entered
into wiih Jose De Navarro, by the terms of
which the latter was to iupply the city with
I wat r meters **. a cost of S7O each.
Only a few had been delivered when the
jrusL ca ne and Tweed and his associates
were driven from power. Connolly’s suc
cessor, Andrew H. Green, repudiated the
contra-t on the ground of fraud an 1 refused
K> accept the meters tendered by De Navarro,
aut De Navarro, acring under advice of
?ounsel, who hold that the contract
was valid, continu’d to manufacture
;he meters. When h» had turned out 10,(XX)
)f them he put in his bill for $700,000,
♦nd payment w r as refused. The claim fell
into the hands of John Baird as assignee of
lose De Navarro, and suit was brought
i .ainst the city for the anvmut of the ‘con
tract. Tlie case was carried from one court
x> another until it finally reached the court of
♦ppeals The court last fall rendered a de
cision in favor of John Baird, condemning
;he oily to pay the principal and the aedrued
interest, a little more than double the amount
)t the original claim. The board of estimate
ind apportionment during the closing days
)f last year made provision for the payment
f the judgment. The De Navarro meters, to
. e number of 10,000, are stored in the cor
oration yard, and being now the property
f the city, will be used as they are required,
io that the city will i-eceive some return for
iho vast amount of money paid out.
Talking With a Moving Train.
New York, Jan. 31.—The first practical
lest of a railroad telegraph line by which a
constant communication can be kept up be
tween a station and a moving train, was
nade Thursday on the Harlem river branch
)t th 3 New York. New Haven and Hartford
•ailroad. T; train upon which the test was
na ie started from the Harlem river depot
md ran to New Rochelle, a distance of
welve miles. At the Harlem river depot
Tenry A. Lewis sat at a “double-pointed”
i i instrument, which was connected with
t bunch of wire-, inclosed in a small box or
covered trough of pine b >ards, which lay in the
centre ot the track and were fastened to the
lies. In the baggage car was an instrument
>f corresDonding pattern attached to a four
cup battery and connected with an
>ther bunch of insulated copper wires,
vhich passed under the car, inclosed
n a hollow iron tube. This tube
•uns nearly the whole length of the car be
iwepfi u, ■ tracks and r sts about a foot above
:he trough of wires. In this position the iron
iul.a is directly atove the stationary wires in
he center of the track. As the car moves
dong, at any speed, communications can be
c t. up with the stations by induction, which,
v.ih trie naileries used yesterday, was said to
>e as e’enr and perfect as though there had
)een direct connection.
The uflkcei’s of the company which is test
ng the telegraphic inventi n were much
>leased with the result. Supt. Stephenson
ivas also one of the inspecting party, and ex
pressed himself as being entirely satisfied
iri;h the experiment.
T legraphic messages were sent and re
ceived from an 1 by the moving train as per
fectly as < an be received and sent from station
io station. The inventor is Lucius J. Ehelps,
who was at the key on the train.
#20,000 for Fred. Douglass.
New York, Jan. 31 —Henry Bergh, of the
•ociety for the prevention of cruelty to ani
mals, filed with Surrogate McAvoy in Jersey
ZJity the will of Miss Ottilia Assing. Mr.
3*r h was named as sole executor. For many
fears Miss Assing and her sister, Miss Lind
nuller Assing, lived in II >bokon. They spent
iheir lives in li erary work, from which they
;arned enough money to considerably in
crease a small fortune their tather had left ,
lhem. Many translations of popular German
Forks were made by them. Ten years ago
hey went to Europe and never returned.
They spent the greater part of their time in
Paris. In August Miss Ottilia Assing ccm
nitted suicide in the Bois de Boulogne in
Shat city. She had been suffering from caa
jer of the breast, and, in despair, she took a
fatal dose of laudanum. A paper was found
jewed in the bosom of ker dress. It proved
;o be her will. In it, after some minor be
quests to friends, she leaves her fortune of
>2O,(XX) to Frederick Douglass, ex-marshal of
the District of Columbia, for life. At his
lea th it is to revert to Mr. Bergh's society.
Mr. Bergh declined to qualify as executor,
♦nd Surrogate McAvoy wrote to Mr. Doug
lass informing him of the legacy. An execu
tor will be named by the orphans’ court. The
bequest to Mr. Douglass is in recognition of
nib labors in the anti-slavery cause. Miss
Assing also bequeathed to him her pens and
some other articles as souvenirs.
The Corpse Almost Cremated.
New York, Jan. 81.—Mrs. Eliza Courtney,
a nurse in the New York hospital, died Thurs
day, and her daughter took the corpse home
to her house and prepared it for burial. The
corpse was hung about with drapery, and
lighted wax candles stood at the head. The
daughter was called to the rear kit-hen, and
perhaps half an hour had passed when she
was startled by yells of “lira” The tenants
up stairs and persons passing by rushed in,
among the latter was John Newman, a truck
driver. The drapery around the corpse was
in a blaze, together with the bureau, cur
tains, carpet and window sash at the head of
tho dead woman. The truckman, dashing the
burning drapery aside, caught the corpse up
in his ar ms and carried it into the hall, in
doing so he burned his right hand badly. As
he reached the hall the firemen arrived and
snee lily drowned out the fire. It was found
that, though the coffin was scorched, the
corpse was uninjured.
A Specimen Dispatch.
Washington, Jan 31.—Following is one of
the many disqjatches which have been received
by members of the house, representing the
extreme Irish element:
Milwaukee. Jan. 28.
To :
Present the greetings of Irish-Americans of the
northwe ' to Senator Riddleberger. Bayard is
dead. God save Ireland.
(Signed) John Fitzgibbons,
President Irish Total Separation Society.
Mr. Huntington Gets In.
New York, Jan. 31 —Mr. Collis P. Hunt
ington was elected n member of the stock ex
change. The vote in the admission commit
tee is preserved as a secret, but he must have
received the votes of at least two-thirds of the
committee. Mr. Huntington, on being noti
fied of his election, repaired to the exchange
and signed the constitution and paid Um
IX ,CJO initiation lea.
THE CONDENSER.
Fresh, Pithy Now* Item* Roiled Down
tho Hurried Reader.
Philadelphia charity ball netted SB,OOO.
Pennsylvania will hereafter whip wife beat •
ers.
No news yetfrmn Conant, Harper’s missing
editor.
A woman suffrage bill has entered the Ohi<
| legislature.
j Wheeling nail-makers have raised the prl«
five cents a keg.
Tho Bowling Green, Ky., Times burned
out. Loss, $ io,ooo.
E. M‘ Haines is finally elected permanent
speaker of the Illinois house.
C. P. Huntington is elected to the stock ex
change. George G >uld, sou of Jay, also.
John J. Crawford, of Ohio, has been ap
pointed chief of the inspection division of th<
porii ffice department
Bix dynamite cartridges exploded at Pesth,
Ont. Three men were fatally injured, and
one other seriously hurt.
Bonnett Parsons, of Jonesboro, Ala., wai
murdered, an I his wife and daughters an
charged with the crime.
Vicksburg wants the Yazoo river turned j
ami brought through that city at an expend :
of $3lX),000 to Uncle Sam.
A valise containing diamonds and jewelry
valued at SS,(XX) was stolen from a New York
drummer m Covington, Ky.
Rebecca Mason, of Richmond, Ind., tool
laudanum to induce an afternoon nap and
is now in a precarious condition.
j ’ John C. -Taa lzettel, of St. Louis, while
drunk, went to the morgue and asked pen
mission to lie down on a slab, and died.
i Dan O’Leary, at Youngstown, 0., attempted
to walk miles while two men walked twe
miles. He was defeated by one-half ot a lap.
Miss Irene Daly, of Swiss City, Ind., was
I urue 1 to death, her clothes having cau- hl
from the fire, before which she was work
ing.
; A bill has been introduced into the legis
i lature securing to women the right to vote
; at school, city, town and other municipal
elections in Ohio.
John Gilmore was'released from the Hamil-
I ton county jail in a half-clad condition, and
froze to death before he reached his home a
; few miles from the ciey.
The nail manufacturers of Wheeling, W.
Va , have advanced the price of nails five
cents a keg. The advance in Philadelphia is
about eight percent.
Leopolda West, Chicago, third hnsband oi
Mmo. Cottrelly, who is starring in “Apajune/
. in a New York theatre, sues for divorce.
' alleging infidelity.
The St. Louis Cable and Western Railroac
! Company filed a mortgage in St. Louis ii
favor of the farmers’ Loan and Trust Com
i pany of New York for $600,000.
Three iceboats with mails, fifteen crew and
I seven passengers are missing. They were
! overtaken by a storm after leaving Prince
Edward’s Island for Halifax, N. 8.
An Alleged Faith Cure.
Utica, N. Y., Jan. 3*. —A faith cure is re
ported in Morris, Otsego county, an 1 vouche l
for by reputable people. For twelve year?
Alice, daughter of George Benjamin, hai
been an invalid on account of spinal injuries
received by being thrown from a wagon.
Most of the time she has been confined to hei
bed. Nothing that physicians could do foi
her helped her. Six weeks ago it was thought
she could not live long. On January 16 she
. began to pray for restoration to health. A
I week later she walked to a neighbor's house,
several rods distant, ate a bearuy dinner and
walked home. The same evening she rode a
mile and a half, took part in a church meet*
| ing, assuring her astonished friends that she
was perfectly well She has since attended
daily to household duties, and to all inquiries
answers that her recovery is due to God’s
i goodness, . he is about thirty years old..
The Financial Troubles in Galvet*t<m.
Galveston, Jan. 31. —The suicide of C. G.
Wells, president of the cotton exchange and
also of the Island City savings bank, and iti
attendant financial crash, continue to exclus
ively absorb the attention of the city. The
doors of the tarings bank were not open* .
except to admit officers of the court, be)
fresh batches of attachments. At 6
attachments aggregating $70.00 '
placed u ( on the property of t
favor of depositors ae<
from SSUO to The dire 1
protracted meeting, and furnish
ment, showing liabilities $543,017.
$425,678, making a deficit of sll.
directors say that a liquidation <
cents on the dollar is possible.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
Latest Quotations of the Stock, Produi .
and Cattle Markets.
New York, Jan. 80.—Money percent. Ex
change quiet; governments steady.
Alt. & Terre Haute. 19 Morris A Essex ... 118’4
Bur. & Quincy Missouri Pacifia... 99
Canada Paciilc.... 89 N.Y. A Erie 12 7 a
Canada Southern... 29 N. Y. Central. 87*4
Central Pacific . .. Northwestern 89%
Chicago <Jfc Alton .. 181 Pacific Mail
0.. C.. C& 1. .. 82 Rock island 108%
Del. & Hudson ... 70% St. Paul. 72>»i
Del. Lack. &. W . 89% St. P. &. S. C
Illinois Central. 121% do preferred. ... 86%
Jersey Central ... 84% Texas A’ Pacific...
Kansas Texas . 15% U. Pacific 49 L
lAke Shore 81% West. Union 68%
Louisville & Nash. £>% Nash. & Chat. 36%
General.
Cincinnati, Jan. 80.—FLOUR—Fancy, s4.l»®
4.50; family, stl.B.K<j>4.oo.
WHEAT—No. 2 red, 88c: No. 3, 82®85c.
CORN—No. 2 mixed, 48,’ ac; No. 8, 48%c; ear,
42@46c.
OATS—No. 2 mixed, No. 2 white, 84%c
RYE-No. 2,72 c.
BARLEY -Spring, 55®70c; fall, 78»t85c.
PORK—Family, sl2J2s(s 12.60; regular, $12.50,
BACON—Shoulders, 5.50^5.62%c; short clear
rides. 7%@7%C. Lard—Kettle,
CHEESE Prime to choice Ohio, 10<0Ho; Nev
York, 12‘ Northwestern, 8 <j)9c.
POULTRY--Fair chickens, prime,
$8.00.48.50; ducks, $3.25; geese,
per doz.; live turkeys. dressed,
HAY—No. 1 timothy, $ No. 2, $11.50
@12.00; mixed, $19.00 wheat and rye straw,
oats straw, $7.00@8.00.
Nxw York, Jul 80.—WHEAT—No. 1 white,
92c; Feb., 88% ; BJ%o.
CORN—Mixed western, futures, 43%
@s2c. Oats - Western, 86@40a
New Orleans, Jan. 30.r-SUGAB Refining, com
mon, 4@4b a c; inferior, B@3b;c: choice white,
60; off white, 5%@6c; choice yellow, 5%(g/5%c.
MOLASSES— Good fair, 3<\u/3»c; prime, 34 g)3oc;
choice, 44c; centrifugal, prime, 23@30c; fair 23c.
Detroit, Jan. 80.—WHEAT—No. 1 white, btta;
1 No. 8 red, 78c; Michigan soft red, 87%c.
Toledo, Jan. 30.—WHEAT—No. 2, 78%0, No. 2
•oft, 86%@86>nC.
Live Stock.
1 Cincinnati, j*u W.—CATTLE—Good to choice
butchers', $i.25@5.25; fair, $4.25'05.25; common, $2
@2.75; stockers and feeders, $3.75@4.50; yearlings
and calves, $2.50@3.50.
HOGS—Selected butchers, $4.85@5; fair to
good packing, $4.50@4.86; fair to good light, $4.36
’ @4.80; common, $3.75@4.85; culls, $3@3.75.
■ SHEEP—Common to fair, $X50@3.25; good to ;
choice, $3.50@4.25; weathers, SL6O@6. Lambs, -
1 common, $3@&75; good, $4@4.T5,
. Chicago, Jan. 80.—HOGS—Fair to good,
4.50; mixed packing, s4j)O@4.4 n : choice heavy, i
' »4.45©1.80.
1 CATlLE—Export., good to clhho. .
■ shipping, ts.£kss.6t; common to fair, i
| SUieiuuv nud feadws, HUiXMM
NO. 240
STETTBift
j CELEBRATED
u. STOMACH
By th* u"* es Hostetter’s Stow«ch the
b'jigared upes’rrce 01 the rouineuince and
Ralio n*'«o d’ gp«pt <8 a e Bupp ante'* by a
b> » thl r r look, ai d• r thn food b >B»lmi'at ed,
the b* d» acqn re* enb«t»rce. Aip-tte Is r#
• tored, and the nerv us syst* m retre* hßd w'th
wt'c DMt'fl slmt c, th-onit 'h-ngFO' th<«
u e^i--’ne, whicti !• > s btntfloiai t* pern re of
a rheuuia k t*nd noy, and an li*s Im able pre
v*u taiive o’ f ver and rn r.
F<,r sa e by all and Dea'ei t
PIEHI P1LK8!! FILES!!!
Hun* cutp for Biirtl, Bleeding and Itch*
Piipp. On** box hen cured the worst
fHppe of 20 yean/ Btandlnir. No on** need
«uffpr flv- minutes after ue-Idmt Wiliinm’a
Indian Pib-Ointment. Ii abeorbs tumors,
allays itchkitf, nets a© poultice, frive* in
wtar* relief. Prepared only for 1 Ilea,
itchinc of ’he private parts, nothing ■ lee.
n. J. M.C< ffciibury,'J t’k eaya:
“I havp used scores of Pile curoe, and it
nffnrdH me pleasure to say that I have
never found anythin# which drives r-uch
immediate and perm'inent relief as Dr.
Wlijian ’a Indian Pile Ointment. ’’ Hold hy
drugtfiste and mailed o> receipt of price,
sl. Foi .‘-ale by Brann' n it Oaraon, R.
Carter, John P. Turner and Geo. A. Brad
ford, (Jolumbue, Ga.
Dr. Frailer’, Root Bitter ~
Fruzler'e Root Bltlerp are not a dram
»hop beverage, but are strictly medlrlnal
1n every wise. They act stronaly upon
the Llv<*r and Kldnevs, keep tbe bowels
open and regnler, make the week strong:,
heal the lUpfh. build up the nerves, and
'•lesnse the blood -nd’ system ot every Im
purity. Scld by diUFirlefs, Jl.oo.
For sale by Brannoc <t Carson and Jno.
I‘. Turner, C.’lumhi's.Ga.
Dr. Frarler’o Msgte Olntmeot
A sure cure tor Little GrtFe in the Skin,
Bonph Skin, etc. it will remove that
roiifbresp non the tui'de and face and
make you bPHUtitnl, Price BCe. bent by
mail. For sale bv Brannon <t Carsen and
John P. lurner, Columbus, Ga.
Chse. E Glover, Hermoraello, M'Xleo.
•Inly 16 iBB3, •up ; "I teka pleasure la
addieesliK yi u oui-h more, or you have
been c.t Hreet berefli tn me. I wrote to
V' u about one and onr-h ’.lf vtare use,
’ 1 m Ar'soiia, h i Dr. William's iridian
Pl Onm it. I rereived it anil It rured
me entirely. 1 e'tii he'd Rome Ointment
r tn 1 mir, wish wi irh I have cuied Seven
or eight mo e. It Is wonderlui.
Si-.rat.OFa Hijrh Bock Spring Water for
p| ’. b « ■ ■' -' : ’. -7 i-ii to n 1 r- e .4-w
Male and female agademy.
CUSSETA, GEORGIA.
The wo kof thu Mei O o' will begin again
JAJSUAK} 5 1885(fl “' Monday)
1 union $1 SO. SO and S 3 SO.
Accotdtng to giad . Board never more
Than #B. Per Month.
MUSIC S«; 5. PER MOXTR,
LO'AlloN HEALTH Ul.
W.E. MUKPBEY,
lar.T wlt-emfwS Principal.
OR. JOHOOhWOOD.
OFFICE A’l’
BRFEDLOVr & JOHNSON’S Drug Store,
Bandolph Street.
Residence with H. L. WOODEUFF.
Crawford, bet ween Trcup and Tcra; th Hieet
at xri-1
K. E. 6BIGGS,
Physician and Surgeon.
OFFICE:
T. H. EVANS & CO. 8 Drup Store,
Residence, Jackson St.. Eagt Coart House •
janß>]y
wTATrTcNERTjiT
Attorney At 1 aw.
OFFICE IN GAUBAIiD BUUDING
COIUMBUa, - - ■ GEOB GIA
Great Bsrgaius
At Phillips’New Shoe Store, 46 Broad et n
Oolumbus, Ga. Stock all mw, tine and
heap. dcTe&wtf
IMPORTANT
TO
Farmers, Trucksters and Gardeners.
I will furnish on beard tha Cars at Flora,
Alabama, a very
Rich Marl
AT SIX UOLGATS PtitC TO.V
SII !
And a Very Low Bata of Freight
Is offered by the Mi bile & Girard It. Ii
By analysis of the State Geologist thia
MA BL contains from 6 to 8 per cent, of
Pboephate with ottn r lei tll'ziua qualities.
For eompoßtlrg and broadcasting tor
grain fields, orcnaide and lawns it will be
toundl
A Valuable Stimulator.
Tnle la not a Guano, but a liICH MARL
o
Acy orders forwarded to
R. J. ORR, Agent, Flora, Ala.,
Mobile &. Girard Kailroad, will inert with
prompt attention. dee! J.tf
NOTICE?
Georgia, mpsoogek oovnty.—i j,cob
Brods, husband of Boss Brods, oi raid
I County Bnd State, hereby give nctir» to the
| public of my corsent that my eatd wife, t oss
Brods, shall be acd become from and after thio
I date a public or free trader, with all of the
rights tad privileges nndar the fetal te in such
j oases made and provided. JALQB BRODA,
I Janwy pmft-Ua