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Daily Tolumbns Times.
VOL. X.
GORDON’S SAI) FATE.
STABBED IN THE BACK WHILE RALLY
ING HIS FOLLOWERS.
Khartoum the Scene of a Frightful Mae
•acre —Merciless Slaughter of Men and
Women —Diagram and Sketch
of the Fallen City.
Lowdow, Feb. 12. A dispatch to Reuter’s
telegraph company from Korti says: Col.
Wilfs >n and Warttoy who were with the ex
pedition to K hart o run, have arrived here.
They made the Journey from Gutat in four
days They brought the news of Gen. Gor
don’s death. It waa learned tiiat one of the
treacherous pashas among Gen Gordon’s for
ces marched the garrison to the side of the
town nearest Omdenuan, saying that the
rebel attack was expected at that point. In
the meantime another traitorous pasha opened
the gates at the other end and allowed th®
mahdi’s troops to enter, and they easily cap
tured the town. Gen. Gordon was stabbed
Just a*, he was leaving the government house.
Another dispatch from Korti says: The
mahdi caused the massacre of all of Gordon’s
men, together with their wives and children.
The garrison at Gutal is ex&s}>erated over the
haw-® of the massacre. *
fJj 1 ally New| publish b>Hc ig
from Gakdul: The natives who esra pod frt>m
Khartoum sayi Gen. Gordon was killed w hile
tn the act of leav .ng his house to rally the
faithful troop®. The latter were cut down to
a man, and for hours the best part of the
town was the scene of merci leas slaughter,
not even woman and children being spared.
All the notables were killed < xeept the treach
erous pashas and their followers. The latter
recently sent by the mahdi to the English offi
cer® on Col. Wilson's steamer. conhvued a
postscript saying that it was the mahdi’s first
and last letters to the English, and that unless
ttay subimcted be would kill all the Kaflir
dog®
Thetaarer of the letter, #ho was a dervish,
urged the Egyptians on bojird the bteamair to
Join the rabafs army, saying that < kxl had
•ent the mahdi to convert the world, and
that the mahdi intended to march straight
to Stamboui
On the day after the steamer stranded,
which was on Sunday, the mahdi’s emir
landed on the island and urged the British to
surrender.
On Sunday evening Hamed Bey, two skij>-
pers and seventeen natives deserted the
Steamer.
Gen Wolseley asks that the advance from
Buakim be made within a month. He sees
no necessity for waiting until autumn, or for
the construction of a railway across the des
ert
The scenes of the slaughter are as
rivaling the worst horrors of the Sepoy mut
iny. Most of the victims were mutilated in a
mort horrible manner. Eyes were gouged
out, noses were slit and tongues were torn out
by the roots. In many cases tbe mutilated
parte of the victim's body were thrust imo
their mouths while they were still living. Ibe
women were subjected to shameful indigiii
ties. More than a hundred women and young
girls were given over U> the mahdi’s follow
«rs. After the slaughter Arabs were seen
rushing about with the heads of Egyptians
Impair 1 upon their spears. The night was
spent in a aatumalia of blood and debauchery.
A SKETCH OF KHARTOUM.
Dm tag® La Which Gordon wm Cooped by
El Mahdi.
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Cairo, Feb. 12. Khartoum maybe called
the gat© of Central Africa. European civili
sation enters at ope side of the city and
African barbarism comes in at the other.
Beyond Khartoum from the north few’ tour
bits have ever made their way, and beyond
Khartoum from the south few savages have
ever ventured- From the south the Nubian
tends his stortn of ebony, ostrich feathery
Hory, skins of animals and other products
of the equatorial lake district., while from
th* north the trader carries grain, cotton,
gum, Brummagim knick-knacki and beads to
feed and cloths the “savage pouting at the
tfhe*” As the efitrepot bf the products of
Central Africa Khartoum is a place of some
commercial importance. Among the 36,000
people- who make up its population there are
man}’ Greeks and Italians, while two or three
Americans hare find profitable investments in
famishing taads and other trumpery to the
lavages freon Kordofan, El Obeid and Dafour.
The traders sell canned fruits, meats and veg
etables, and make the Dongolowee howl
through the streets after taking some of their
raki as a refresher. Arabs in their bour
aaises, Turks with the tradiitonal fez. Copts
with their baabe, and Birhareen Arabs with
their knotted and combined locks of hair,
standing up like quills of the porcupine, wan
der through its irregular, narrow and badly
drained streets. It to no wonder t iiat Khar
toum is unhealthy. When it rains, great
pools of stagnant water are formed, and
fivim these fevers are generate* 1 and the
deadly miasma does its work /unong the
people.
The streets that border the rft sr side look
down qpon the water from an ele .ation along
which stately palm trees and large gardens of
citron and orange trees stand. Many neatly
whitewashed buildings stand along the river
bank, and these are relieved by the minarets
and incaquea which give the p ace the air of a
city in Ujqier Egypt, like Benisooef or Roda
tn a large way. There are, of course, the
characteristic mud houses, the tropical foli
age, the brret palms, and the weeping domes,
ita dede babas hauled on the beach for repairs,
the boles of cotton heaped on the shore, the
tacks of gum, the tusks of ivory and the
Stevedore population who brave crocodiles for
their paltry paras.
The palate of the governor is an ugly look
ing building facing the river, and the hel
meted and casquad negroes who form the
guard of honor are dressed in white
uniforms. There is a good deal of complex
ecoundrelism in the city. It is the result of
fifty years of the slave trade. This bus at
tracted the worst class of the rogues who live
©d the Levant. Ad army of men as large as
(be army of the United States to engaged m
capturing the negroes of the up}*r Nile, and
it is said that 180,000 slaves, worth about
a head, yearly pass through the tortuoui
thoroughfare of this gateway city. 'The Turk,
with his Moslem religion, sees no great harm
in the traffic, for he is taught polygamy
and the servitude of one race to an
other. At Khartoum the harem is re
garded as a sacred institution, as the
Koran Ls the inspired law’ of the majority.
Even if the mountain passes of Abbysinia
were sealed up, the seajxirts of the Cape of
Good Hope blockaded aud all the outlets of
Cent ral Africa barricaded, yet it is believed
thne the same silent caravans will be found
starting over the deserts, aud tae same sus
picious slave-dealers sneaking through Khar
toum across the Red Sea or the Persian gulf.
For 4(XM miles south of Khartoum the White
Nile is cove ns 1 with rich cotton fields, which
slope away from the banks of the river from
live to fifty miles into the interior. The re
sources of the country are immense, and Khar
t am is destined to play au important j>art in
the developoment of the resources of Cehtral
Africa.
CLEVELAND AND HENDRICKS
1 Their Opinions of What Our Gov
ernment Should Be.
New York, Feb. 12.—Ex-Governor Cleve
’and, in declining to attend a banquet given
l.»y a Cle\ eland and Hendricks club in Erie
county, writes:
Tu reply 1 l>eg to say official duties
heiT viH prevent my attendance, and in ad
dition to what is said as a motto for your carl
I wish to say: The preservation of personal
ght, the (quality of all citizens before the
law. the r«XT» ed rights of the states and the
-upremacy of the federal government within
the limits of the constitution will ever form
the true bases of our liberties and never be
surrendered without destroying the balance
<-f rights and powers which enables a conti
nent tx be developed in j>eace, and social
: ' • to be maintained by means of local self
government.
’t i- indispensable for the practical ojx»ra
tion and enf<‘r<'erneut of yi -se fundamental
pi ic iples that the government should not ol
ways b-. '.di rolled by one political power.
Frequent change of fvlministrai ;<>n is a® neo
er ary a> constant reeiirreuees to the popular
will. Otherwise abuses grow, and the gov
eminent, instead of being carried on for tbi
general welfare, becomes an instrumentality
for imposing heavy burdens on the many who
«governtd for the lienefit of the few who
govern; Public sen ants thus become arbi
trary rqjere. »
dr. Hendricks wrote to the same club: “I
will say that the motto at the head of your
card meets my entire approbation- ‘A public
offict- is a public trust,’ and let me add now
tiiat ihe election Ls over and the w inds of
hea'on have blown away the smoke of the
batth-: We nre one people; one flags floats
ov<*r ns all; a*..* constitution establishes the
frn - -work of government for all. Ixd us,
heart aud . band, in entiment, in urfec
tion and fraternity be again one people.”
THE DEADLY SWITCH.
'train <>n the Ixniisville and New Albany
and Chicago Road Wrecked.
Bloomington* Indy Feb. 12 - Passenger
fr-dn No 4 on the - Louisville. New Albany
aud (Un. ago rwihoad, which started frou
'■ raw foolsville at 12 o'clock Tuesday nigh'
•as nnming at full sjhhnl, and w hen turnii j
a curve in Ihe cast part of the city the La„
pige car and two coaches jumpcsi the nia n
ci a-ck on the switch. They ran a few’ f< et
and struck a loaded box car, causing n terri
ble crash. In a few minub-s stoves had set
fir** Uj the baggage car - , and soon it was in
flames. Fortunately the passenger ear’s were
w armed by heaters, and they did not tn ke,
file. The stop, however, wa* so sudden that
several passengers w-ere injured.
Edward McGee, of Bloomington, salesman
for Heidenberger & Co., of Baltimore, was
standing up at the time. His l>ack struck a
seat, breaking his ribs, end it is feared in
dieting other injuries. He is suffering gi-ea:
pain.
John Carmichael, brakeman, Harrodeburg,
is injursl about the heart, and his jaw is
badly mashed.
J<»hn ( Wilkins, Campbellsburg, a passen
ger, is seriously bruised about the legs, body
and head.
Je:T7»rson King. Camj'bellsburg, head cut
badl. in two places and internally injured.
M.i- ji Complan, Evansvilla, leg injured
slightly.
I'rauk Perkens, express messenger, leg
brnirod and badly but on the head by falling
pa- ages.
>< -n- except McKee and King are consid
er d d.mgeroujy injured.
AH expres.-. g-xxis are lost, including a large
amount of money. No baggage was de
stroyed. Some through mail was lost. The
/•i; ; r-of the accident was a defective switch,
wbi-’h ga. e the rails too much play. John
Ci ton, conductor, is doing all he possibly
can fur the injured.
Dying on Iler Wedding Night.
MiKitß.svnxr. Pa., Feb. 12.—Tue lav eve
ning Wrn. Duffy, a merchant of this place,
was rnarrkxl to Miss Mary McCrystal, sister
of Dr. McCrystal. The marriage czjremony
was periormetl by the Rev. lather
Schvzarz, at the German Catholic
Church. After the ceremony the ne -ly
married couple and their friends went to
the bride’s home, v here a feast was servol.
I’he fwtivities were kept up to a late hour.
Some of the gueste rho had departed to their
ow n homes were hardly asleep when they
were aroused by the startling intelligence
that the bride wa* very ill, and possibly at the
jioint of deat h. At 5 o’clock the priest and
Dr. McCrystal were summoned. The physi
cian found the bride prostrated by a sex ure
attack of heart disease. 'The most powerful
remedies were jjowerless to afford even tem
porary relief. The priest anointed the dying
lirid - and administered the last riles of the
«hc: (H. and soon after 5 o’clock she died. The
icx.tor pronounced the disease to be paralysis
of the heai t.
A Sensational Ca«e.
Albany, N. Y., Feb. 12—A breach of
promn/* case which Ls being tried here is ex
citing extraordinary interest. The plaintiff
Ls Mrs. Sarah J. Ray, a widow of fifty five,
with grown children, and the defendant
Aaron M. Hendrickson. She sues for $lO,-
000. The testimony was sensational and racy
and while some of it was Ijoing received ladies
weie excluded from the court room. Mrs.
Ray admitted having lived with Hendrickson
in relation of wife, but contended that he
premised to merry her. He did not deny the
relations, but a paper signed by the
plain till in which she agreed to an intimacy
for six months with a proviso that the secret
contract if divulged by either, he or she
should forfeit $250. Hen Irickson deciaresit
is a case of blackmail. The daughter, a
spri rfitly young girl, and her brother were
«mong the witnesses. The case has not been
concluded;
Work on a Kailroad Abandoned.
Chattanooga, Feb. 12.—1 t is assorted here
that work on the Eastern Alabama railroad
between Gadsden and Anniston, Ala., has
been abandoned. This is the road which was
l>egun by New York capitalist, but which, iu
a sun on some technicality, j>as&e<i mto the
Luamls of Hugh Cai Lute Co., of Alabama
COLUMBUS. GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 11. 18S5.
CLEVELAND'S CABINET.
BAYARD TENDERED THE PORTFOLIO
OF SECRETARY OF STATE.
Senator Ijunar tn Great Demand—He Say®
He’® Not Going In —The Claim® of We»t
Virginia, Kentucky aud Texas —Gar-
laud For Attorney General.
Washington, Feb. 12.—0 f all the recent
visitors to Mr. Cleveland who have returned
here Senator Lamar received the most atten
tion, being more in demand for the time be
ing than even Senator Gorman. Mr. Lamar
talked quite freely of his interview with
Cleveland, though ho did not enter into de
tails. He said: “I’tu not going in; I’m not
going in,” laughing at the time, and referring
to the cabinet, as nearly all who had spokan
to him since his return congratulated him as
a prospective cabinet official. He admitted
that he had a lengthy talk with Mr. Cleve
land, but he said it was not specially in refer
ence to the cabinet. He said enough to show
that he was freely consulted in regard to the
most important questions relating to the next
administration, but stated positively that he
was not offered a cabinet ix>sition. Senator
Pugh, of Alabama, says he felt it to lie his
duty to urge the appointment of Lamar and
Garland to the cabinet, as the two biggest
men of the south—men who would do most
credit to the administration and the country.
Mr. Pugh felt, confident that and Gar
land will be invited into the cabinet, though
he admits that he has no positive information
beyond, he says, the accepted foot by every
body around Cleveland that Garland is It be
attorney general
It is the prevalent opinion among dev >
Cratic senators that Lamar would accept a
cabinet position if tendered him. Senator
has beeu in exuberant spirits, some
thing very unusual for him of late. It is evi
dent that something occurred between Cleve
land and himself to please the senator very
much. When it was suggested to him that
the appointment of Bayard, Garland and him
self to the cabinet would take three of the
strongest and ablest democrat# out of the sen
ate he raid: “But even better men may be
sent in our places.” Gen. Walthall, of Missis
sibsippi, is a devoted friend of Lanpar, aud the
latter has been anxious for a long time to get
Walthall into some prominent position in pub
lic life. The belief that Walthall would suc
ceed him in the senate might influence Lamar
to accept a cabinet position if it were ten
dered to liinL
From all that can be ascertained, it seems
quite ceriain that should Bayard decline the
date department rt wotild Ixs offered to la
mar, but nobody believes now that Bayoi’d
has any idea of declining. He has no confi
dants in tlie senate, aud therefore nothing is
known yiositively as to hiri mentions, but
from various remarks he has made lately it is
the unanimous belief of democratic senators
toot he intends to accept. Four service
as an adviser of the president would bar here*
after the public charge against Bayai d that
he sympathizi'd with the south during the
war, and as an aspirant for the presidency it
is natural for him to want to wipe that out
It seems quite clour that Lamar has not been
offered a cabinej position yet, though there is
no doubt that he was treated with great dis
tinction by Cleveland, and that the latter let
lamar see»that he attached great value
to the senator’s friendship and advice,
and wanted him to feel free in giving advice.
Senators Kenna and Camden say they had
a very pleasant meeting with Cleveland.
They informed him that Went Virginia would
be pleas d to see ex-Senator Davis in the cab
inet, but that the democracy of that state
did not moke thLs a condition of their sup
port; that they would coixliaHy sustain the
administration, whether Davis was elected or
not. This was done as a mere compliment to
Davis, for in truth the party loadei-s in West
Virginia do not want him in the cabinet.
Senator Williams, of Kentucky, said he
went merely to pay his respects, and he told
Cleveland tliat Kentucky iiad no aspirant for
the cabinet. All the senators who f«w Cleve
land express the very highest opinion of him
as a man of practical ability, and all of them
predict for him a successful administration.
Without a single exception they all express
the opinion that (Jarland is slated for attorney
general. Most of them think Garland and
Jonas will be the two southern appointments.
The senators who saw Mr. Cleveland say tlnit
he is more perplexed about tho selection of a
secretary of the treasury. They do not lx>-
lieve that Cleveland has any idea v horn he will
appoint, and they think he is ao ily puzzled
over it
New York, Feb. 12.—A ofAcial to the
World from Washington says: “A promi
nent democrat Ls authority for the statement
that Mr. Bayard has received a communica
tion from Mr. Cleveland tend (‘ring him the
office of secretary of state. ThLs is the first
absolute office tliat has been offered to any
one. The impression in Washington is that
Mr. Bayard will accept.”
Attrtin, Tex., Feb. 12.—Both houses of the
le> slature have asked President-elect Cleve
land to recognize Texas by appointing ex-
Gov . Hnbbord in his cabinet.
Mont Say® It*® AJJ Bosh.
New’York, Feb. 12.—Her Most sat mod
estly on the (dge of ach/ar in Justus Schwab’s
beerery, enveloped in a dense cloud of smoke
which came f rom alleg- d cigars in the mouths
of a great throng of gentlemen who prefer
the gore of kings to ar y known beverage ex
cept beer. Corrq<red to the din of conversa
tion which filled the little den, the sound of
labor in a Ixiiler shop would have been as the
rustling of thin sheet# of pafier.
Herr Most’s hair was in ita usual state of
violent uprising against prevalent social con
ventionalities, and his left cheek bulged from
the open revolt of a bad tooth. As to the
report that a socialistic plot existed to blow
up Pittsburg with dynamite, he said:
“It is all boch. Either some newspaper re
porter invented it, or some one made a fool of
him by filling him up with lies. If the social
ists contemplated any such thing it is not
likely that they would tell of it. It is bosh.”
Burned Alive.
Concord, 0., Feb. 12.—Hiram Atkins, a
rich old farmer, living near here, married a
young woman here. They lived unhappily.
Atkins finally became a helpless invalid. A
few' months ago an alleged brother of Mrs.
Atkins came to live with her, and their ac
tions caused much scandal. Tuesday morn
ing the Atkins house was burned. When the
neighbors arrived and searched the ruins, they
found the charred bodies of Atkins and his
two children. Nothing was to be seen of Mrs.
Atkins aud her brother. Later it was learned
that they had driven in the night to this place,
and Lad taken a trvin for the wetet.
Ice Hinder® the Firemen.
Racine, Wis., Feb. 12.—-An overheated
stove ignited the floor of the varnish room of
Fish Brothers' w agon works in this city. The
flames spread rapidly and for a time threat
ened to destroy the entire factory, which was
re« eutly invoiced at $400,000. Two fire en
gines tnrze up and aid was summoned from
Milwaukee. Before the arrival of relief, how
ever, the local firemen had subdued th«
fixing tex loss being confined to $20,000.
COUNTING THE ELECTORAL VOTE.
A Joint Session of CongrreHs to Officially
Declare the Renult.
Washington, Feb. 12,—Although the
counting of the electoral vote did not begin
until 12 o’clock, there was a crowd in the
lobbies and galleries of tho house before 10
o’clock waiting for the doors to be opened.
Except during the famous electoral count
of 1877, the count has al way’s beeu a mere
i matter of clerical work, the vice president
j announcing the vote of each state, the tellers
1 putting doxui the figures in tho proper col
umn on a sheet prepared for the purjxjse, and
at the close, the vice president announcing
the result according to the known result
rather than by the figures of the tellers.
At noon sharp business was suspended to
pnx’eed with the electoral count. Tbo two
front rows of seats were vacated and the sen
ate, headed by President Edmunds, its ser
geant-at arms and the venerable door-keeper.
Mr. Bassett, bearing the boxes containing the
vote, wore announced. The president of the
senate announced that in obedience to the con
stitution and law, and in accordance with
their concurrent resolution, the two houses
had met in joint convention to count the
votes of electors for president and vice presi
dent for the term commencing March 4, 1885.
The tellers on the part of the two houses ware
directed to take their places.
The chair then said : “The president of the
somite will open the votes of the several states
in alphabetical order; he now opens the cer
tificate of the state of Alabama, and will de
liver it to the chairman of the senate tellers.”
Senator Hoar then read the certificate
handed him.
I The count progressed quietly until the vote
of New York w r as reached, when there was
slight applause, but it was soon suppressed by
| the stentorian demand of the chair, “Ixjt there
Lie order.” When Mr. ('biy announced tliat
tho certificate was signee! by Grover Cleve
land, governor, there was another outburst
i At tlie conclusion of the reading the chair
directed the tellers to make their report, and
Mr. Hoar announced as the result of th®
computations that the whole nunilier of vote®
cast were 401, of which a majority was 201.
There were east for president the following:
For Grover Cleveland, of New’ York, 219;
for James G. Blaine, of Maine, 182.
For vice president the following: For
Thomas A Hendricks, of Indiana, 219; for
John A. Logan, of Illinois, 182.
The president pro tern of tho senate, Mr.
Edmunds, then announced tho result. f
| There was some applause w hich was quickly
suppressed by the chair, who then declared
j tlie joint session terminated. Tlrere was then
I a fresh and prolonged outbreak of applause
as the senators retired.
I Senate.
' Washington, Feb. 12.—0 n wiotlon of Mr.
Da was, the senate passed the bill providing
a permanent reservation for the Indians of
northern Montana. /\n aigiuitg of $225,000
is aprropriated to enable the Indians to give
up tlie chase and assist them in becoming an
, agricultural and pastoral people.
• Mr. Sherman endeavored to have the sec
ate consider the relief bill which hud posse
the house, but Mr. Harris objected.
I The bill to quiet the title of the settlers at
■ the Dos Moines river land iu lowa was taken
I up, when just before 12 o’clock tlie senate
proceeded iu a body to the house of represea
. tatives.
| The senate, after witnessing the counting
of the electoral votes, returned in a body to
the senate chamber, and the legislative pro
ceedings of the day were resumed.
HENDRICKS IN CINCINNATI.
He ViHit® the Broker®, Make® a Speech an J
Want® to be (’ailed Governor.
Cincinnati, O/, Feb. 12.—Vice Fresident
elect Hendricks arrived in the city at noon in
President John Scott’s private car. He had
come from New Orleans over the Qmxm and
Cresomt. Mr. M. E. Ingalls took charge of
tlie distinguished visitor and escorted him to
tlie chamber of commerce. Mr. Hendricks
: entered, led by Mr. Adolph Worxl, first vice
i president of tlie chamber, and accompanied
by several gentlemen of his party. Mr.
W cxxl rapped for order as «x>n as the party
had Ijeen seated, and briefly introduced “Hun.
Thomas A. Hendricks, the neat vice president
of the United States.”
As Mr. Hendricks stepjied forward he was
greeted with a ripple of applause:
“Gentlemen of th-. Hoard of Commerce:
“I did not exjxict to appear before you to
day, but your vice president said I must ap
pear, and so I olieyed authority. I iiave been
having a delightful trip through the south,
and am just returning to my northern home.
I understand tatter to-day why Cincinnati
reached out her arms for southern trade than
ever before. Passing over your Southern
road, I can see why Cincinnati counts very
much upon the trade she secures from that
country. And I think she will not ta disap
pointed. A country which deals so largely in
one of the essentials of trade—in cotton—can
not fail to ta very important to Cincinnati. I
saw mineral wealth at Birmingham larger
and more of it than I ever saw befoi-e.
“The principal purfxme of our trip was to
visit the exposition at New Orleans, and
might I say a word or two about that exposi
tion/ Is it ]>ossib]e that I can interest this
board in tliat enterprise? Why surely I need
not say much to excite attention. As an ex
position of the industry and wealth of our
country, it is uir/urpassed; nor do I think
anything has eve»- been shown in this country
which could surj/&ss it. It is a wonderful col
lection. All tie statxjs and territories in the
Union are there except Idaho and Alaska,
and many f< reign countries—lfrance, Italy,
Russia, Central America—are there. Have
you ever thought what a grand place
it is, where great states, and almost em
pires, contest for the prize? In some
respecte they have had a very hard time.
Rain in the south and ice in the north have
kept many away. Our neighbor, Mexico, has
one of the finest displays in the exposition,
and gives us assurance that if we will do our
jxirt, will have trade with Mexico and the
great states beyond. Our country has taken
hold and appropriated, I bel&ve, $1,000,000,
so when I sjmak for this exposition, I sjieak
for the union of states, in which you art- in
i teres ted, lor there is every state at the expo
! sition.
“My fellow citizens, I thank you for the re
ception you have extended to me. It is very
. warm, compared to the chilly atmosphere
j outside.”
After the speech Governor Hendricks held
’ a little informal reception, Messrs. Adolph
j Wood and M. E. Ingalls intnx!ncing the Cin
cinnations to him. Everybody called him
governor, and finally somebody apoligized for
! doing it.
“That is all right,” heartily replied the
vice president-elect, “call me governor. I’ll
ta called governor, I suppose, until my dying
day. V ice president is no title. It is surne
| thing like the office, in that respect.”
Death from Chloroform.
Des Moines, la., Feb 12.—Another fatal
case of the use of chloroform in surgery oc
curred at Cottage hospital Mrs. O’Connor,
an Irishwoman of fifty years, and the mother
of several children, was operated on for
ovarian tumor by the physician on duty fjf
the day. Chloroform was used, aud before
the opera tion was concluded the patient La
breattad tar lasU
THREATENEDBYGOKGES
THE OLD OHIO, THE MAD MUSKINGUM
AND THE RUSHING RARITAN.
The Dangerous Delaware, the Boisterous
Brandywine, the Surging Susquehanna,
the Ainrming .Allegheny and the
Moaning Monongahela.
New York, Feb. 12,--Ice gorges furnish
the exciting scones and a'arms of the hour.
Tliat in the Delaware river at Trenton wm
forty feet high. It broke up Tuesday and
flooded some portions of the city even to the
second stories of buildings. Ice in the Sus
quehanna gorged opposite Port Deposit,
moved, but ivgorged ftt tlie Baltimore and
Ohio railroad bridge. The cold wave arrived
at just the right time to prevent a disastrous
flood, but th( danger is yet in the future. A
gorge in the Brandywine carried away a now
Baltimore and Ohio bridge near Wilmington,
Del. The giving way of ft gorge ’’ - the Rari
tan flooded manufacturing estab ishments aud
dwellings in New Brunswick, N. J. But the
worst intelligence con\es from Chester creek,
in Penn ylvania. Dams gave way, mills and
dwellings were flooded, bridges were de
stroyed, but fortunately no lives we »e lost.
Cincinnati, Feb. 1. —The great Murray
ville gorge, said to have been forty- ’ r " miles
long, is coming down tho river wi\ lout hav
ing caused great damage up to this time, be
cause it has lioen moving on a rising river,
which has been hourly giving it more space.
By the time it reaches this city the river will
ta falling, but in its progress the ice will be
much broken up. Upon a rising river its
tendency is to the center. Upon a falling
river its tendency will !>o toward tho shores,
and much of it will lodge. That which jmssee
this city will scarcely be observed below tho
falls. It is not known that all of the great
gorge is moving, but certainly a great portion
of it Ls on its way south. If any part remains
intact that part will bo augmented, solidified
and rendered more dangerous by the present
prolonged cold snap.
Zanesville, 0., Feb. 12.—There was a
great gorge in the Muskingum river, extend
ing from McConnollsville to Zanesville, and
twenty feet higher than the surface of the
water. Col. Merrill, in charge of Ohio river
improvements, visited it b> r invitation, to de
vise means by which a disastrou lood may be
averted when it moves. It is hoped tliat the
-Murraysville gorge may jiass out of tlie Ohio
before the Muskingum gorge enters this
stream, and the fact that the ire was moving
at Zanesville Tuesday encourages a belief that
the hope has been verified.
From Pool No. 2 the ice is moved out of the
Monongahela river some time ago, and now
constitutes parts of what has been known as
the Murrayville gorge; but the Pennsylvania
railroad has constructed a bridge a short dis
tance below the dam of Pool No. 2, all piers
of which save two that support the channel
span are but fifty feet apart, and against the
ice from above gorged and backed up over
the dam, which is eleven feet high, the gorge
extending a quarter of a mile above the
latter. From the iqjper end of the
gorge the Monongahela and nil of its
tributaries were frozen solid to their source.
There was a movement of the ic in Pool No.
4, but it is not known that the recent rains
were sufficient to break up the ire in the re
maining parte of the Monongahela or in its
tributaries. There would be on easier feeling
among owners of float ing property, such as
barges, flats, floats, slianty boats and trading
boats, as well as elevators, if the Muskingum
ice could remain intact until the Murrayville
ice luis passed.
Pittsburg, Feb. 12.—The Allegheny river
is frozen solid from this city to the New York
state line, 160 miles, tlie ire being from seven
to twelve inches thick, and bard as only tha
blue ice of the Allegheny can ta
The Liquor Problem in litdifuni.
Indianapolis, Feb. 12.--Ita financial
flurry has practically monopolized the atten
tion of the legislature and tho public, though
the liquor question is still an annoyance to
tlie democrats. The vacant police coinmis
idonership is not yet filled, and tlie two com
missioners remaining—one a democrat and
one a republican—insist upon enforcing the
11 o’clock closing law against the salor«ns. Ita
state officers who elect the commissioners are
opposed to this, because the liquor men du not
wont the statute enforced, aud are
doing all they can to rempel
Mr. Murj)hy, the democrat, to re
sign, so that two “liberal” democrats can ta
elected, and the liquor allies of the party
placated. This Mr. Murphy declines to do,
and it is not improbable that the board will ta
legislated out of office or a bill parked repeal
ing the objectionable clause of the present
law. The whisky men feel that they own the
legislature and can demand what they want
The republicans and a few of the democrats
are in favor of a high liscense law, but it is
scarcely probable the democrats will dare
pass such a Yneasure, though by a vote of 65
to 28 the house laid on the table a resolution
against rhe increase of the state levy. This
means that taxes are to be made higher,
which is a necessity in the present depleted
condition of the treasury. Altogether the
outlook is not a pleasant one
A Runaway Marriage in Georgia.
Valdosta, Ga, Feb. 12.—'The fifth run
away marriage within a few weeks has just
Occurred here. Several weeks ago Warren
Bleas eloped with Miss Simmons, and made
her his wife. On going to housekeeping he in
vited his sister Minnie to take up her residence
with him. Minnie was a charming blonde,
and sy: npathized wit h her bnither , <jxploit
She was disposed to listen to the advances of
Robert Sims, a substantial farmer of the
neighborhood. Her brother objected, where
upon she notified her lover that it was for him
to suggest further steps. Late on Saturday
evening a mutual friend called for Miss Min
nie with a buggy. The couple had not gons
far before the brother’s suspicions were
aroused, and mounting a horse, with a shot
gun in his hand, he r<xle in pursuit. He over
took the couple as they joined the waiting
lover, and, dismounting, he drew a bead on
Biin«, but the gun failed to go off Mrs. Bleas
having removed the reps so that her hus
band could do no damage. Then tta mutual
friend advanced on Bleas, and engaged him
in a sparring match, while the young couple
rude off, aud were duly married by Judge
Peeples.
A Horrifying Crime.
Fayetteville, W. Va., Feb. 12.—Six
months ago a family named Gardner moved
to this plaee. Shortly after they were joined
by a young man nan km I Clark. Gardner ta
came jealous, and ordered Clark to leave.
The wife said no, and numerous fight® re
sulted. Tuesday Gardner went before a jus
tice and swore out a warrant for Clark’s ar
rest. On his return he was met by his wife
and Clark. A fight followed and Gardner
was killed. Clark and the wquuui disap
peared.
Wanted—The Prince of Wale®.
New York, Feb. 12.—O’Donovan
pajier, the United Irishman, offers SIO,DUO re
ward for the body of tta prince of Wataa,
<bad or alive.
THE CONDENSER.
hre®h. Pithy News Items Boiled Down iter
the Hurried Reader.
Speaker Carlisle is ill.
Central Pacific net earnings for 1884, sfi,«
170,710.16.
Rev. R. Heber Newton has been admonished
ly Bishop Potter.
1 Dr. William Waring, prominent citizen of
Richmond, lud., is dead.
| Receipts of coal in Cincinnati tor the year
last were 56,412,069 bushels.
Burglars robbed a Catholic church in Chi
sago of silver vessels, vestments, etc.
No trains left Cincinnati for Chicago Tuee
’ay, owing to the blizzard blockade.
The Bankers’ and Merchants’ Telegraph
Company owe employee fifty per cent of
lanuary salaries.
Joseph Mackin and others, charged with
the Eighteenth ward election frauds in Chi
»gu, are on trial.
Ferry, Davis & Co., cotton factors, of Cln
rimiati, assigned. Assets aud liabilities each
*ti mated at $30,000.
i The matter of admitting colored men to
practice at the Maryland bar is receving much
ittention in Baltimore*
The New York clearing house has acrepted
diver certificates in settlement of balances
from the New York sub-tivasurv.
i The secretary of the treasury has trana
nltted to the house a report on the silver
juestion, in response to a resolution.
Portuguese brig Julia Norton was wrecked
on the rocks near Gloucester Monday. All
)n board rescued by the life saving crew.
P House committee on pensions, etc., are in
restigating the participation by pension
bureau employes iu the Ohio October eleo
don.
1 ; Dick Mulligan was drunk at Columbia, 8.
C., threw a chair at his wife which k'Ued hi»
little daughter, Sobered by remonio, he cut
lis throat
Ita bar association of Cincinnati adopted a
report Condemning the judge® of the district
sourt for their findings in the Campbell dta
garment trial.
I Twenty per cent of the coke ovens con
irollod by tho syndicate in West Pennsylvania
ire to start up at once. Two thousand of tha
lyndieate’s ten thousand are now in blast
Marshal Wright’s accounts of expenses in
curred at the October election in Cincinnati
lave been audited, and all the items were al
lowed except pay for non-resident deputy
narshals. , , . >
THEIR FATE UNKNOWN.
An Fxplo®lon Imprlnon® Fifteen Miner® tn
a Nova Scotia Colliery.
■ Halifax, Feb. 12.—At 9 o’clock Tuesday
light an explosion occurred in tlie old pit of
Vide colliery at Westville, Pictou. The heavy
rtorm seriously interfered with the telegraphic
nrviee, and little more than the bare fact of
1 casualty can lie obtained.
It is rumored in the city that 100 men ware
In the ’nine at the time, but it is reported
from New Glasgow that the people there
heard of only fifteen being down. The later
report is likely tn be nearer the truth, as New
Glasgow is only seven miles distant fi'om
Westville. Whether the men ore alive or
lead is unknown at present. Fire broke out
Immediately alter the explosion and the men
have gone down in the pit to attempt to get
tlie thunes under control
Three Women Burned Alive.
I St. Louis* Feb. 12.—A horrible affair oo
lurred on the ptx>r farm near the town of
Monticello, IU., Monday night, meager de
tails of which have reached here. There
were three old women who were demented
Mid not considered fit to be kept in the same
bouse with the other paupers. The county
sutborities had a small building constructed
tor tlie women. They lived together there aud
together died in a inoet horrible
maimer. The shanty was about a hun-
l ln d yards from the main build ng.
Tuesday moriiiiig the attendants of the ta lot
were horrified by the discovery that tome
time during the night the little shanty had
been completely destroyed by fire, toge her
with ita inmates. Itair names were Lucinda
Currant, Louisa Baker and Eliza Ma ami.
Their charred bones wore found in the a-lies,
but nothing was discovered to indicate how
the tire originated.
Heavy Salvage Demanded.
Nbw York, Fdb. 12.—The owners of the
steamship Itace Winnipeg have filed a l.bel
against the Alaska for such sal vug® a* the
court may deem just for rescuing the Alaska
and towing her to New York. The Alaska
and car go are valued at $1,250,000,
I FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
Latest Quotation® nt the Stock. Produea
aud Cattle Market®.
Nrw York, Feb. 11.—Money 1 per cent. Ex
change weak and tower, S4.*JShM.B7. Govern
men is Ann.
Alt. & Terre Haute. lt> Morris & Essex... lit
Bur. <& Quincy ...iWi Missouri Pauiito.
Caiuulu PaciuO.... N. Y. & Ene li z
Canada Southern . N. Y. Central to ®
Central Pacific 81 North western ...
Chicago & Alton... 131 Pacific Mail
C..C.,C.&1 #5 Rock Ulaud... ...114
Del. &. Hudson.... BA Paul
Del Lack, it W... tali Bt. K 8. C.
Ulinoi® Central IM do preferred
Jersey Central.. .. Texan .t Pacific. ) >zl
Kansas A Texas.. U. Pacific
Lake Shore bl West. Union .. .
Louisville &, Nash Nash. & ChaU ....
GeneraL
Cincinnati, Feb. 11. FIA)UR—-Fancy, $1159
150; family,
WHEAT—No. I red, No. 8,
CORN—No. 2 mixed, 44c; No. t, 41c; ear.
43c
OATS—No. 2 mixed, ia; Na J white, Sla
RYE--Na 2, 72a
BARLEY—Spring, fall,
PORK- Family, regular, $lB.
BACON—Shoulder®, short clear si lea,
7.fiO'|»7.H.">a Lard—Kettle—7‘- a
CHEESE—Prime lo choice Ohio, New
York, 12 .yqhß 3 c; Northwestern,
POULTRY—Fair ciuckeus, $2.5(K<42.75; prime,
s3.Uou£B.ao; ducks, $3.50; geese, $3.0040 par
doi , five turkeys, dressed, H.gtilHc.
HAY—No. 1 timothy, SIISUi>M.UO; No. 2, 11.1$
SIZ.UO; mixed, wheat aud i>*e straw.
stt 'At® straw,
Nsw Yohk, Feb, 11.—WHEAT—No. 1 white, IXto;
No. 8 red, Feb.,
CORN- Mixed western, futures, 40
Oats—Western.
Nrw Okixas®, Feb IL—SUGAR--Refining, coo»-
mon, 4}/ 4 (54. 8 c; inferior, B.(^B> a c; ctaice white,
4“/ g c; off white, choioe yellow,
MOLASSES—Good fair, prime,
clMMoe, 44c; centrifugal prime, fair, 33a
i Detroit, Feb. 11.—WHEAT —Na 1 white, dTo;
Na. 3 red, 77c; Michigan soft red, OT!4c.
Toledo, Feb. ta—WHEAT-Na 2, «0c; Na 1
■oft,
Idve stock.
Cincinnati, Feb. H.—CATTLE—Good to choice
butciierH, $4.75; fair, $L50i05.2&; common, $4
(£2.75; siocker® and feeders,’ sl7 yearlings
and calves, $2.30(b3.50.
HOGS—Selected butcher®, fair to
good packing, fair to gtxxl light. $4.40
BHEEI’-Common to fair, SXW>3.2S; good to
choice,
CQunuon, $3.U(X<£3.75; good $4-<j»4.75.
Cmkugo, Feb 11.-HOGS—Fair to good, si.4s®
4.*6; uuxed packmg, etoace heavy,
$4
CATTLE—Exporta, s4.tegood to choice
shipping, 45.65; coannoa to
(Mjd feed ii rq SS.4O(OtoMI
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then®* es Ho»t<tt*r’» Bitter® flto
b reared npevaroe ot the rountensMt sad
■bi inn® •oi djepeptes at® ®app)®ct®4 by a
b a thb r look, and ■> th® food fs ®®®lmfiai«d.
the bod* acqu re® ®n bat tree. Apptt’te Is ra
stored, •nd the n*rv ui qium te'ifbed w'tb
roue* l n®«d0 4 ® r.mter, thfoug' >h® aee of this
n eat-in®, which U »>a >b* nefloiai p*r®os® es
• rheums 1< ti nd ney, and an ii;®s louable pr®»
v«i tatlv® o» f-v®r *nd »g >♦.
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r®n»raUv,
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Baratoga High Boek Bpring Water to*
n»lr hr nil drupctsts. mhUOeoclAw
MaLI AND female academy.
CUSSETA, OEOBGIA.
The wo- k of thts Hcboo; will begin atpda
JANUARY 0 1885(llret Monday).
1 union •! M •« M aad S 3 M,
According to grade. Board never more
Than ®B. For Month.
musk; <*:i. pek montb.
LClAlluU health, vu
W.K MURPHEY,
lanlwlt-emlwS Principal.
DR. JOHN NORWOOD.
IOFFICK JLT
BRFEDIOVF & JOHNSON'S Dug Still,
Randolph btreot.
Residence with H. Is WOODRUFF.
Crawford, h®tw«®n Troip aad Tor®) th frtreat
K. E. t,BI«GS,
Physician and Surgeon.
orncKi
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Beatoeacet Jackson •<. Row,beast of C®wvt
Bouse with W H. Biaa®.
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W. A.TIGNER. Jr.
Attorney At Law.
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By analysis ot the State Geologist thio
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