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Tt v. . C/L 'K s> <-7i C WtlTmJTtl »fe’ " tJjTiWIX JH-J Ul»ttJJ isssSSfei. . :. f ♦ 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 «k»ka 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