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VOL. X.
THE i r ST CCMPIJ i D.
NEABINe c i.Aoi S' NE OF THE
C INET MYSTERIES.
The Ca*te, With Fewer Uncertainties and
More Realism*—But One Portfolio in
Doubt—Only Things Unforseen
May Change It The New*.
Nxw York, March 2.—The Albany corres
pondent of the World reiterates his assurance
that Mr. Cleveland has positively selected th*
following cabinet officers and that they have
accepted.
“Thus. F. Bayard, secretary of state.
“Daniel Manning, secretary of the treasury.
**L. Q. C. Lamar, secretary of the interior.
“Augustus H. Garland, attorney general
“W. F. Vila®, postmaster general.”
The correspondent adds: “An additional
«tep has probably been taken in the decision
to make Mr. William C. Endicott, secretary
of war.
“Wm. C. Whitney spent several hours with
the president-elect and t«x>k a stroll with him.
“Another caller was Geo. E. Cothran, of
Chicago, who was once a law partner of W.
8 P. . di. 5T . Cleveland's prvse.’t Tvirincrit
i .. 1. .t is onjectund ■> .. .... he . so. no
thing to say about Illinois ; air cage.”
Th '< n to say: Mr.
Bayard’s resignation as smut r has already
been rittcn and will lie lime public in a few
days.
Mr. Cleveland has finished his inaugural ad
dress. It w ill lie even -horter than at first
expected— not over three-fourth, of a column.
The Times' Albany special -ays: “It is the
impression her tl.u; ox .bC, Endicott will
be secretary of the navy. . r aids of h. ■ who
arc intimate with the asas'l.-itos of Mr. Cleve
land say as much in private conversation.
Tills tills six of the seven portfolios, which, by
common consent, have for a week lieen dis
tributed as follows. Treasury. Mr. Manning;
state, Senator Bayard; interior, Senator La
mar: attorney general, Senator Garland;
postmaster general, Col. Vilas. This leaves
tlie war department <>|x-n
“Mr. Cleveland is known to have the highest
respect for McClellan, and at one time was
strongly disposed to select him. It is the
opinion of his advisers, however, that a civil
ian should be at the head ot the war depart
ment, Mr. Cleveland is reported to have
■weighed their words carefully, and to have
arrived at the sa 1 con- In ei.
“At the West Shore it waasta’edby
the manager that the ~;.er of theti.iin to
convey the presidential party to New \ ork
had been declined.”
The Times' Washington so. rial says: “ I'be
extraordinary store has lieeu h nd here ’hat
Mr. Cleveland has bvm nr .si : > retain Me
Culloch as secretai j ot tii.r treasury, and
that the suggestion has met with favor.
There have been no more cabinet: reports.
CoL W. F. Vilas, who fan reached th" capi
tal, and who had engaged rooms at the Ebbitt
house, has given up his rooms, as he is to be
the guest of' L. Z. Leiiter, who lives in Mr.
Blaine’s hou-v u Dut-ad circle. In the ale
sence of mon■ definite information, the r.s
port tliat he is to be postmaster general is
gem* illy accept• I as true
“i an-ba of th vice president-elect
create, i no excitement. It was noticed that
there was a very small attendance of Indiana
people at the station when he arrived, but
this wa.-, explained by the tact that the house
was in session and tliat business of importance
prevented the Hoosiers from paying that
honor to their chief that they desired to show
him.”
The Time's special from Madison, Wis.,
gays: “Colonel Vilas has left for Washing
ton. An intimate friend of Vilas' said that
from the first the Colonel has not had much
hope that a place in the cabinet would be
tendered to Wisconsin, which cast their ele<
torial vote tor Blaine. For a week or tw. ,
however, he bad some faint glimmering of
hope gained from frequent press reports
tliat Cleveland had inquired kindly concern
ing him in connection with his cabinet, but
even this faint hope was abandoned a fort
night ago on private advices from his Albany
friends.
“The colonel thinks Mr. Cleveland completed
his cabinet selections fully ten days ago, sub
ject to change only in case of some unforseen
circumstance. He is of the opinion that if he
were to be called u; 11 to take a portfolio, he
would before this have received overtures
from Mr. Cleveland, whereas not one line on
the subject has jiassed between them.
“ Your correspondent’s informant says he has
hail it from Col. Vilas’ own lips that he would
take no position under the new administra
tion. except a seat in the cabinet, and this
chance is now gone.
“Col. Vilas is already beginning to work up
a boom for the Democratic senatorial nomina
tion two year hence, when he thinks his party
■will be in the ascendency in the legislature.
COMMUTED.
*c|je Life of a Murderer Given to Prison
Instead of the Gallows.
NasHViLt.a, Tenn. March 2.—Governor
Betas has C'mmubjd the sentence of ex-
United states marshal Vfilliam Spence from
banging to imprisonment for life. Spent*
was sentenced at the present term of the su
preme court to ba hr aged March 18th, tof the
murder of his son <n-law and successor in
office, Col. Edward H. Wheat, one of the most
povuiar wholesale merchants jn this city.
Mrs. Wheat has paid lawyers to defend her
Sather who is poor, and procureti many thou
sand names to a petition for his i .ardon. She
—as a K.ort devoted wife, and almost iliod
wnti grief when her husband was killed, but
with tear stained cheeks and earnest efforts
she has caused the commutation of her father’s
sentence. She also mourns the death of her
eldest son, a promising youth who died ashort
time since.
A Mayor’s Downfall.
Massfikld, 0., March 2.—For some
months past the conduct of Mansfield’s mayor,
C. G. Stough, has been the subject of com
ment any thing but favorable to him and to
the credit of the city. Reclaimed from the
gutter during the Murphy temperance
movement some years ago, and indi
cating signs of reform, he was ele
vated to the office of mayor four years ago.
Before the expiration of his first two years'
term he demonstrated his unfitness for the po
sition, and two years ago his renomination
was made against the best judgment of his
party, and at the ensuing election his defeat
would have resulted but for the efforts of the
ultra temperance people, who still professed
confidence in him. Within the past ten days
he has been in a complete condition of de
moralization. His bondsmen informed him
that they would ask release from their bond,
and he tendered his resignation to the city
council.
Winged In His Flight.
Kansas City, March 2.—A brother of the
late operatic manager, Dr. Leopold Dam
rosch. has been arrested here on a charge of
embezzlement from H. H. Shepherd & Co.,
by whom he was employed as collector. Dam
rosch fled «o Burlington, lowa, but was fol
lowed, arrested and brought back.
fflailti Stmcs.
CLEVELAND’S LETTEP
Fxpla’i.i Hi* Views ou the Silver Ques
tion.
Aib ’ N. Y. March, 2. -Foflo'. ,n r is the
reply of I ’ esidentr-elect Cle’• land tot ‘sil
ver <•<»i i igt a. i vurates in co ii gro«s:
Albany, N. Y., Feb. 1885.
Hou. A. J. Warren and others, members ot the
Forty-eighth 0 >ngress:
Gentlemen: The letter which I have had
the honor to receive from you invites, and in
deed oblige®, me to give expi\ssi a to some
grave public necessities, although in advance
of the moment when they would become the
objects of my official care and partial re
sponsibility.
Your solicitude that my judgment shall
have l»eeu carefully and delilierately formed
is entirely just, I accept the suggestion
in the same friendly spirit in which it lias
lieen made. It is also fully jus* itie Ibv the
nature of the financial crisis which, und *:- the
operation of the act of congress of February
18. 1878, is now close at hand.
By a .-■(idplianoe with the requirements of
that law ail the vaults of the federal treasury
have been and are heaped full of silver coins,
which are now worth less than eighty-five
per cent, of the gold dollar, prescribed as the
‘‘unit of value’’ in section fourteen, of the act
of February 12, 1873; and which, with th»‘ sil
ver cer: ifi ates representing such coin are re
ceivable for all public dues Being thus re
<■• .vable. while also constantly increasing at
the ran* of $28,000,000 a year, it has followed,
o. necessity, that the fiow of gold into the
treasury has been steadily diminisliing. Silver
and silver cert ideates have displaced and are
n>w displacing gold, and the sum
of gold in the federal treasury now
available for the payment of ‘he gold
obligations of the United States, and for the
redemption of the United States notes called
■ ‘greenbacks,” if not already encrouvhed upon,
i.p p -xlously near such encroach meat.
These are facts which, as they do n< t admit
of differences of opinion, call for no argu
in'nt. They have been forewarned to us in
ti.. idicial reports of every secretary of the
t. a ury from 1878 till now. They are plainly
a Tinned in the last Decern tier rejKirt of the
pre--nt secretary of the treasury to the
s; 'aker of the present house of representa
tives. I’hey ap|«ar in the official documents
of this congress and in the records of the
New York clearing house, of which the treas
ury is a member, and through which the bulk
of the receipts and pa :nents of the L deral
govenrrnnent and of the country jmws.
These being the facts of our present condi
tion. >ur danger and our duty to avert that
i . t.;ger would seem to lw* plain. 1 hope that
\< u concur with me and with the ifr. -it ma
i.y of our fellow cJizuns in deeming it
de. liable Ui Jjcp J( .vm junctureto main
tcin and continue in use the mass of our
g M <u>in, as .is the mass of silver al
i - , i .mi.. The- p•> uHb- by a present
* ■'•..ion of ihf. pti.< .i-e and coinage ot
•; er. lam not that by any other
i. .'bhod it is possible.
ii . f mour niou> Importance to prevent
tic r mci .Jo from parting company;
to p event ii e iiicren-ing displacement
of gold by the in«-■•<-:»-.mg coinage
of silver is to prevent the disuse
oi gold in tin* custom iiou- vs of the UniUxi
Lu.lv-.-> and in thedaLy business of the people,
to prevent the ultimate expaision of gold by
silver. Such a financial crisis as thes<‘ events
would Certain’ pr> ipitato were it now to
h How upon ; : a jxwiod of commercial
dei e-ssion. a . olve tiie jxjopie of every
i.>.y and ever;, :aiv m the Union in pro
cage: I and disastrous trouble.
T1 .* revival of business enterprise and pros-
I. .y, so ardentl} 7 desired, and apparently so
11 would lie bojieles-ly postjKHied.
Gold would lie withdr» to its hoarding
phi -s, and an unprecedented contraction in
the actual volume of our currency would
speedily take place.
Saddest of all in every workshop, mill, fac
tory v tore and on every railroad and farm,
the wages of laborei s already depressed
would suffer still further depression by a
waling down of the pur< basing power of
evvry so cali.-i dollar paid into the hand of
toil. From these impending calamities it is
surely a most fiatriotic and grateful duty of
t‘? representatives of the people to deliver
them.
I am, gentlemen, with sincere respect, your
fellow citizen.
Grover ClevelaAnd.
AV_RY SICK MAN.
Gen. Grant Fighting His Rhyslral Ail
ment —Hi© Old Hero Breaking Down.
New York, March 2. —The city w r as some*
what excited over a minor that Gen. Grant
had suddenly died, which although happily
without foundation has set people talking
about the old hero’s physical sufferings. The
Times says it has reliable medical authority
for the statement that notwithstanding the
rejiort of Gen. Grant’s health, re
cently given id a medicrfJ journal, the truth
is that Gem Grant is < very sick man, and
his death is apparently not far distant.
The public no conception of the shat
tered condition of his physical system. It is
hoped the affection rs the tongue may not
prove fatal, but there is, as yet, no appear
ance of its non-development of a malignant
and fa a di -ease. Although somewhat better
now than some weeks ago, an enlarged and
inflamed tongue continues, making it painful
to:gx*ak or swallow’fluid, the only nourish
ment he can take. In addition to this distress
ing malady, < ’cnei’al Grant is a terrible suffer
er from neuralgia, and it seems to have taken
ssionof Lis whole system. He has had
dk st of his teeth drawn to lessen neuralgic
torture, and his injury in the hip < aused by
his fall a year ago, is still a source of great
suffering and forbids physical exercise.
It is a fact that should no longer be con
cealed from rhe country, that General Grant
is rapidly breaking down, and apparently
without hope us reaction, and unless there
should be some unexpectol relief, he will not
be long among the living. He is wonderfully
patient and uncomplaining, and he pro
foundly appreciates expressions of sympathy
which have l»een called out by his recent ap
palling misfortunes. He works every day,
with bandaged head and in unremitting pain,
to finish his military autobiography, or his
tory of the war, and hopes to complete it this
spring. The first volume is entirely finished,
but not revised, and the second volume is
more than half done, He has not taken time to
revise the first volume, because of his appre
hension that he may not be able to finish his
second volume.
Denin is Dead.
Indianapolis, March 2.—Chas. Deam after
attempting to chloroform his wife shot him
self dead. Mrs. Deam says tha' her husband,
gouu- months ago, proposed a double suicide,
to which she objected, and she thinks that he
ad in Lured chloroform to her. which pre
venteu her from awaking. At that time she
Doticed that the fire* were unlighted, and the
d<K>rs leading to the rear were open. She
went out at once only to find her husband’s
body in the shed.
A Holler King.
Warsaw, N. Y., March 2.—Willis J. Dur
fey, of Gainesville Creek, has sued J. E. Mory
Laird, his former partner in a roller skating
rink, to i ecover <2,000 for enticing his wife
from his residence during his temporary ab
ence.
CO! IMm GEORGIA, TUES k Y MORNIN i, MARCH d. ISBS.
BY A HAIR’S BREADTH.
NARROW ESCAPE OF GLADSTONE’S
POl ICY FROM CENSURE..
“You Hud Better Wnlt to Roe if 1 Continue
in o,” wim Glad dem . Irouioal
K- dy—Sharp itaparte md
Biting sarcasm.
London, March 2.—ln the house of com
mons Henrv Labouchere gave notice that he
would move that the house regrets that the
militia had be i embodied, becaus *it indicates
a re elution on the part of the gox eminent to
interfere in the Soudan by force of arms.
Sir Michael Hicks Beach, conservative, re
sumed the debate on bir Stafford Nm-thcote’s
motion to censure.
He called attention to the fact that the gov
ernment hud not attempted to d r. nd the de
lay that caused the death of G *don. The
country wus entitled to know wh..t the policy
of th 1 gov rnment was to be after the mahdi
was overthrown.
Mr. Forster said that Gordon’s sp rit would
have revolted at the idea of a part' struggle
over his suffer iugs. If the go•> eminent
smashed the mahdi who would be put in his
place? Mr. Forster was opposed to Mr. Mor
ley’s amendment, but was unable to express
confldtH e in the government.
It was man >st that there had been two
parties in the < abinet on the Egyptian ques
tion. The policy of vacillation was likely to
continue, and he would therefore support the
motion for a vote of censure.
The amendment offered by Morley in favor
of the evacuation of the Soudan was rejected
—445 to 112. Lord George Ha:nilton’s amend
ment that the government had failed to indi
cate a policy justifying the confidence of the
country, was rejected—2i)9 to 277. All the
Irish members v< »d against the government.
The house rejected Northcote’s censure mo
tion— 302 to 288.
In the house of lords Earl Carnarvon, con
servative. said that the conduct of the govern
menl a■] I Gordon v -of itr-df sufficient
to i e ’ o \ -1 • us.ire. The
speak r knew of a . ecord more shameful and
more dishonorable to the country.
Earl Kimberly, secretary for India, reply
ing to Camarnon, said he thought the noble
lord was cliim'ly exercised as to how he could
best use General Gordon’s heroic name as a
men .•f. r » tac : ; the j ivernmeni. Noth
ing could bo more suicidal than to leave
ninomr the Soudanese the impress!' .n that the
English were corning to restore the Egyptian
yoke. The Soudanese bitterly liated the
Ear! Granville maintained that the preced
ing g*;.cium.'’it had sown the s<.ods of all the
prest‘l!* troubles. The government wa>
anxious to proceed with vigor in its present
policy and to deal with the slave trade in the
most effectual way possible. He regarded
England’s honor as phjdged to defend Egypt
proper. He declined to give definite answers
to questions pnt to him. Interrogatories, he
said, Wei*-.’ never put to any government
before a war regarding the precise action that
would be taken in the war.
'1 he Lords adopted Salesbury’s motion of
censure, 189 to 68.
Tin government’s majority in the commons
is the lowest majority the government ever
obtaineii since it entered office. The conserviv
tive vote normally estimated at 245, was in
creased to 288 by the votes of Mr. Goshen and
other whigs, and twenty-four Irish members.
The pvaoe radicals supported the government.
The excitement became intense toward the
end of the debate, when it transpired that a
section of the whigs and parniellitee had de
ciderfl to vote against the government.
The report led a number of hesitative radi
cals to vote against the censure motion, thu>
saving the government from defeat.
In the house of commons Mr. Thomas Sex
ton ask-d whether the visit of the Prince of
Wales to Ireland would signalize a political
amnesty, the lapse of the crimes act, and the
appointment of a royal commission of inquiry
into the Dublin castle rule.
Mr. Gladstone replied that it was impossi
ble now to enter into the discussion of matters
of such importance and delicacy.
Mr. Sexton asked Mr. Gladstone to fix a
day for the discussion of the questions,
Mr. Gladstone said, “You had bottei
wait to see if I continue in office.”
A Prince for Ireland.
London, March 2.—The proposed visit to
Ireland of the Prince of Wales originated
with the queen, who desirwl Prince Albert
Victor, who has never been in Ireland, to
make a tour of that country with his father.
Earl Spencer opjKiscd the visit of Prince Al
bert, doubting his reception. It is reported
that the queen has instructed the cabinet to
consider the subject of a permanent
residence in Ireland for Prince Al
lert Victor. United Ireland, in comment
ing on the proposed visit of the prince to rre
land, disclaims any gratuitous disrespect for
the prince. “But,” it says, “if the castle
flunkies organize mock demonstrations of en
thusiasm, they may rest assured that there
will l>c counter displays which wdl over
shadow any manifestations that Earl Spencer
may inaugurate.’” Continuing, the article
suggests tliat 100,000 members of the na
tional league assemble at the Kingstown pier
on the day of the Prince’s arrival to listen to
speeches from Irish members of Parliament,
or, if this i i not feasible, thn t there lie a vast
public assembly in Phoenix Park, which shall
demand a restoration of Ireland’s “stolen
birthright.” The Irish Times asserts that
threatening letters have been received at
Marlborough house and at the Home office
from pi of*'- '-I Fenians warning the officials
that the visit of the Prince to Ireland will be
attended with danger.
Cable Sparks,
The unveiling of the replica of Westminster
Abbey bust of Longfellow at Portland Me.,
took place Friday.
Zebehr Pasha has declined the request of
Sir Henry Gordon to parley with the Mahdi
for the retai nos Gordon’s papers to the gen
eral’s relatives.
William Henry Hurlbut, formerly editor of
the New York World, is likely, aeconling to
a report current in Rome, to be the successor
of United States Minister Astor.
The Swedish steamer Norden has been run
into and sunk by the British steamer Cum
berland off Cuxhaven. Twenty-one persons
who were at>oard the Norden were drowned.
The English troops who volunteered for
service in Bcchunanaland have notified the
government of their willingness to go to the
Soudan after their troubles with the Itoers are
settled.
A manifesto signed by O’Donovan Hossa
is published in one of the Paris papers. Rossa
declares that he never has had any intention
to involve America in war or in any misun
derstanding with England.
Among those who lost their lives by the
explosion in the royal school of gunnery
at Shoeburyness are Col. Fox Strange
ways, commandant of the school, and Col.
Lyon, head of the royal laboratory at Wool
wich.
MIS FILENT. SHY
l roi-i \\ i>. m the Earl <if Durham Is Seek
ing ■ i Divorce.
London. March ' —Not since the trial of the
divorce suit ff Sir v larles Mordnimt agiinst
Lady Mordaunt have London .<• i. ty anu bar
I'cen so interested in the proc xlir. of the
court founded by the memorable Sir Cross
well Creaswc‘ll as it was when in the presence
of a crowded room, the Earl of Durham en
tered the witness box of tlx* divorce court,
with the solicitor general fronting him as his
counsel and the attorney geumal, not far
away, as counsel for Lady Durham, from
whom the witness sought annulment of the
marriage because she was, unkuowu to him,
insane before their marriage.
Some witnesses of that marriage ceremony,
which trfxik place two years ago, were in court
as spectators, and when the plaintiff was
sworn t hey recalled the noble Earl’s marriage
oath, “To cherish iu sickness or in health,”
which they bad heard him take while h- >lding
the hand of his bride, w’ho was a society
beauty and a grand-da tighter of the celebrated
archbishop of Armagh, who had performed
the ceremony. Her father was the late Henry
B. W. Milner, Esq. The plaintiff is the chief
of the I jambtons, whose family came in with
the Norman marauders and conquered the
laud which is still their heritage.
The defendant hud been courted by many
I.‘fore the earl went in to win, and she never
had betui susjiected bv any of her suitors of
more than shyness. The tenor of his evidence
seemed to show that he fell in love with her
physical beauty, and, infatuated with it,
thought, like many a young lover before him,
but little about the coming companionship.
When he proposed she said:
“I have something dreadful to tell you.”
When the earl last saw her under medical
keeping, last December, she repeated that
same ominous sentence, but she nev r hinted
what its meaning was. His direct testimony
was made up of circumstances unmistakably
indicating a strange weakness of her intel
lect.
One of the points urged by the earl of Dur
ham against his wife was her abnormal insen
sibility to pain. Before his marriage to Miss
Milner the earl was much worried about the
strange silence so persistently maintained by
his affianced. He attempted in every way he
knew to make her more talkative and eom
munival ivo, but all to no purpose. When the
marriage engagement hail Immjii enteml into
he wrote to her:
“I wonder if you will over talk to me.
After marriage I could gaze on your ( harms
some hours every day, but it will become mo
notonous if we maintain this gloomy silence
the rest of the time.”
During this period of their aesjuaintunee
the earl called Miss Milnor his “silent, shy
divinity. ”
During the entire period of their courtship
she had never used a single word of endear
ment toward him. Her invariable answer to
L sqne Gons was, “I don’t know.” Evidence
was adduced showing that the deb Lint's
mother had committed suicide during a fit of
temporary insanity.
HANGED BY HER HUSBAND
For Rcfusln<t to Deod Him Her Property*
Desperalely Resisting the
Loris villf., Ky., March 2.—lnformation
has reached here of a horrible tragedy in
Union county. Ky. A farmer named Mose
Canton, living near Smith’s mills, Union
county, and his sons hanged his wife, whom
he married four years ago. She was a widow
before she married Canton, and was the own
er of a small parcel of land winch Canton
wislusl her to deed him. She declined to do
so, which so enraged him that, with his sons,
he took her out and hanged her, alter lieating
her terribly. They put the corps into a box
and took it into the house of the lady’s neigh
bors, who, in dressing the coqise to be buried
discovered bruises and a broken neck. 'l’hey
repoitod the matter to the authorities, who
had the body disintxinvd and ordered the ar
rest of Canton and his sons.
Twenty men, led by a county magistrate,
vent to Caton’s house. Arriving, th *y met
with resistance on the part of the Catons,
whereupon they fired upon them, wounding
Mose Caton in the ankle, and John Caton
through the lung. Caton’s daughter Annie, in
attempting to shield her father by passing l>e
tween him and the posse, was shot in the
I jewels. ‘Squire Lilly finally stopped firing
and asked Caton to surrender. He would not,
and they told him they would kill him and
burn the house down, when he decided to give
up.
’Squire Lilly started off with his prisoners,
Moses Caton, Wesley Caton, John Caton, Tom
Caton and Joseph E. Fritz, and landed them
safely in jail at Morganfield. John and Annie
are lx>th badly wounded. An attempt was
made to take them away from the squire and
posse and lynch them while on their way to
Morganfield which was unsuccessful, but it is
the talk of Union county that the villians
must swing.
NOTORIOUS TRIO.
Mr». Dudley and the Two Dynamiters on
TriaL
New York March 2.—Mrs. Dudley, who
Rossa; Dick Short, who stabbed J'helan
in Rossa’s office, and Justus Schwab, indicted
for inciting a riot in Concordia hall, will all
Is- arraigned before Recorder Smyth at one
time at an extra sitting of the general ses
sions. It is expected they will plead not
guilty, and ask for an adjournment of their
trials.
But in case one or more of them should de
mand an immediate trial, Recorder Smyth
ordered the entire panel of jurors to be in at
tendance. The whole force of court officers
wiH Ije on duty to preserve order.
PROBABLE DUEL
Between Governor Mannaduke and -Major
Rainwater, of Missouri.
St. Louis, March 2. —A serious controversy
has sprung up between Gov.- h i-John M.
Marmaduke and Maj. C. C. 1' Jeer, who
is mentioned as a candidate to: <n\ In a
recently-published interview Gov. Marmaduke
said some things about Maj. lia in water that
the paper found necessary to expr -s by a se
ries of dashes. Maj. Rainwater wrote a caus
tic letter to the governor, demanding public
retraction or Marmaduke must take the con
sequences. Those well acquainted with the
men fear the trouble may lead to a duel.
Gosling’s Murder.
New Braunfels, Tex,, March 2. —The
preliminary examination of Carles Yeager
and his alleged accomplices in the murder of
United States Marshal Gosling, has began.
Yeager was swathed in bandages. Rosa
Yeager, a sister of the convict, had to be car
rier! into the court room. Her wounds are
healing very poorly. The evidence adduce*
tended to corroborate the previous account
of the tragedy.
Off the Rail and Ditched.
Keokuk. la., March 2.—-An accident oc
curred on the A Vabash four miles east of Cen
treville, la., by which about a dozen passen
gers were injured. The train struck a broken
rail, or else the rear car jumped the track.
The coach kept upright for about fifty yards
and then swung off a bridge falling twelve
leet. It was reduced to kindling wood.
Nearly every occupant of the car received an
injury.
OVLV A MILLION.
A LARGE LAND LITIGATION AFTER
SEVENTY-TWO YEARS.
A Town io Canada Situated on Property
Ouci W ortlilcNS, now a Fortune —A
Pittsburg Lady the Only Legal
Heh* Ari EnorniouH Amount.
Chicago. March 2.—-The following dis
patch come from Pittsburg, Pa.: Attor
neys in this city in conjunction with the Can
adian counsel are preparing to enter suit
against the residents of a town called Bas
tard, Canada, to recover a piece of property
lying in that district estimated to l>e worth
$1,000,000. The claimant to the property is
named Mrs. Mary E. Hicks, who new resides
in Chicago, but who formerly lived in Pitts
burg. She claims under the will of her
mother. Mary Ayres, who died in 1813. There
are about ten acres of laud involved. D. C.
Riter, a son-in-law of Mi’s. Hicks, is pushing
the matter.
Mrs. Mary E. Hicks is a wonderfully well
preserved vivacious old woms.i of seventy
two years of age. Her agile ways, brown
hair and whito teeth would indicate her to lie
a woman of less than half a century. The
room she was in did not indicate wealth, but
was neat, clean and comfortable. “Yes, the
suit has been commenced in earnest,” she
said. “I don’t suppose that I will live to en
the c pal •, but there are others who are
dear to me who will. About a year ago I re
ceived word from a lawyer named Steele, in
Bastard, that the property had enhanced in
value so much that a million of dollars
wouldn’t, buy it.”
How did you become dispossessed of it?
Along about 1811 my mother was given
the propel ty by the will of an uncle who laid
lived in Canada many years. Less than two
years afterward 1 was born; my father, whose
name was Ayres, was lost at sea about the
time of my birth, and my mother died shortly
afterward, she leaving the property to me by
will. In my infancy I was adopted by Dick
and William Collins, who left their home in
Litchfield, Conn., and came to Illinois, found
ing the town of Collinsville, in this State. A
man namcKl Scoville was the trustee of the
Canada estate, and be regularly remitted to
my adopted parents the rents and interests.
He ditrfl, and hi:, eldest: son was made trustee.
Ho became dissolute in his habits, and was so
groat a profligate that he began to dispose of
tho estate by piecemeal.
The remittances grew smaller and smaller,
and finally about, five years before tho rebel
lion, ceased altogether. He had given quit
claim deeds for all the pi jierty and had
squandered tho money. 1 gal prcxieedings
were commenced ar. tho time, but nothing
over came of it. Mcanwlnlo J had married
Ellas B. Hick .. a Mississippi river captain,
and went to r L 1 aiis and Now U r kans to
live. Myhtr bm I diet, and lie was rapidly
followed by my < ght cnil in a, as well as five
grundchilirei:. having me only my son-in
law, I). C. Riter, now in Pittsburg, and my
grandson, A. G. ’liter, whois here with mo.
1 suddenly found my st poor, and came to
Chicago nine years ago. 1 have my mother’s
will and Ln -" >pcs ..»f r'’eowring t.ne Canada
property intact.
Mrs. J lifts has had an eventful career, and
has fallen from a position of wealth to one of
small means. By her mother’s will she was
also given property in Litchfield, Conn.,
where she vus born. But long ago, while liv
ing with her husband, she gave the estate to
some poor cousins who hud been living upon
It ren! free for many years. She will not try
to recover it.
During the rebellion she rented a bouse to
the government for a prison, and took a con
tract to f eed the prisioners and guards. She
claims that payment was never made to her
in full, and she now has a claim against the
government f<>r 87,000. Maj. Clements, pro
vost-nmrshal of the quartermaster’s depai’t
ment m Wa llington, has the case in hand at
tho present i In Ghicugo she <ook the
position of matron of the organization known
as the Good Samaritans, but resigned owing
to the bickering of the members.
“HANG HIM 1”
The Cry of a Mob That Followed a Fiend
to Jail.
Dallas, Tex., March 2. —When Frank H.
Mclntosh, alias Howard Moutresser, charged
with committing an outrage on Emma Klapp,
a nine-year-old girl, was taken from the court
room an incensed crowd called out “hang
him!” The mob surged around the jmisoner
and had it not l>een that the six or seven offi
cers escorting him presented a good front, he
would in all probability have been violently
dealth with. The crowd which was credited
with having a rope followed to the jail, but
deputy sheriff Moor, the ex-sheriff, and others
apiKjared u{X)n the scene and checked all
demonstrations. Notwithstanding the well
known security of the jail against the attack
of a mob several of the sheriff’s force made it
convenient to lodge there last night.
Very, Very Funny.
Ironton, 0., March 2.—As the excursion
train going east over the East Kentucky rail
road left Grayson, a drunken fight occurred
in several of the coaches. Simultaneously
fully twenty-five pistols were drawn, and
glittering knife-blades flashed in the sunlight.
Men were kiawked kown, women screamed,
and for a moment the place was a
perfect hell on earth. The conductor stopped
the train and ordered the men to get off and
fight. A line of battle was formed and armed
with clubs, pistols and knives, a score oi
drunken Kentuckians defied th? enemy, who
failed to come to time. The train started and
a few of the disturbing clement were left be
hind. No lives were lost, but broken noses
were numerous.
The Congo Question.
Washington, March 2.—-The house com
mittee on foreign affairs, by a majority vote,
adopted the following resolution, submitted
by Mr. Phelps on the Congo question:
Resolved, That no prospect of commercial
advantage warrants a departure from the tra
ditional policy of this government, which for
bids all entangling alliance w ith other nations;
that the participation of delegates of the
United States in the so-called Congo confer
ence, while carefully guards!, is unfortunate
in its departure from th<* jxffiey which forbid;
the government of the United States to parti
cipate in any political combination or move
meat outside the American continent.
Industrial Exposition.
Milwaukee, March 2.—The liberal league
lia-s decided to arrange for another industrial
exposition, to be held, in the new Turnei
hall. 'Phis was done to offset the refusal oi
the Milwaukee exposition association to kecj
the exposition open on Sunday. The Turn
verein has declared its willingness to advance
the necessary cash. Lhe meeting was largely
attendee.! by citizen; representing all classes.
A Living Death.
Bloomington, Ind., March 2.—-Wm.Welsh
was refused a new trial by Judge Wilson, and
was sentenced to state prison for life for the
murder of Lewis Fedder. He says he is not
guilty. Alice Stuart, charged as accessory,
will be liberated.
THE CONDENSER.
Freah. Pithy News items Boiled Down for
the Hurried Reader.
The Belle Valley (0.) flour mill- were total
ly destroyed by Are.
1 Eddie Uotlin. aged eleven years, is missing
from his home in CincinuaU, U.
The inaugural procession will not move
until the close of the inaugural c«*renionies.
Thirteen anarchists wore arrested in Borne
in addition to the ten captured in the recent
raid.
Mr. Cleveland will go to Washington in the
most, elegant and costly palace ear in tlie
world.
H. 1). Kingsley had his right hand ampu
tated at the wrist while operating a circular
«aw at Warren, <»
| Competition lietween two gas companies in
i Savannah. Ga., resulted in a reduction to
fifty cents ])er 1,900 feet.
The secretary of war reported against; the
creation of the assistant chief signal officer as
not a military need.
i Theodore 11. Tracey & Co., general mer
chants, Peoria, HL. aligned. i.labilities,
■ $40,000; assets, S2O,(W.
I The steamer “Harvest,” which sailed from
Hamburg February 1. loaded with sugar, htts
not since been hoard of.
Jami's WaLs’ni, on trial for murder at Nich
olasville, Ky., tried io escape from the jailer
Mid was shot and kill. I.
| Democratic harmony during the coming ad
ministration is jwi\ou> threated by a division
i on the silver question.
Postmaster Brown, <'f Hardeeville, R. C.
has been arrested on the charge of falsifying
returns to increase his commissions.
A variegated meteor fell at Knoxville mak
ing a heavy noise and creating the greatest
excitement The wonder could not be
found.
There is a reA i val of the scheme to consol-j
date the Hocking Valiev coal and iron inter
asts, of which W. D. Lee, of Newark, is the
author.
The receiver of the Ontario and Western
railroad has been sued for S4O3,(XM) on con
tracts for the construction of the sheds at
Weehawken.
Will Webb, a school teacher, in Ballard
county, Ky.. fell while skating, and was so
badly injuied that he died. He was aged
twenty-two years.
In the Nova Scotia legk iature the question
has been raised of au appeal to imperial
authorities for leave to withdraw’ from the
uuion with Canada
The house foreign affairs committee author
ized the submission of a favorable rej>ort
upon the resolui on calling for retaliatory
action against Germany's restriction upon
American products.
Seven heirs have lieen found in Texas to the
Perez W. Morton claims against, the govern
ment for the loss of nine ships by a French
fleet, about 1801. These heirs will get a large
' share of this immense sum of mon- .
Mrs. Catherine M. Burnham, of New York,
brought suit against Macy & Co. for falsely
arresting her while .-hopping and subjecting
her to the humiliation of a search. The jury
gave the plaintiff a verdict for $5,000.
George Hull, a former school superintendent
of Youngstown, Ohio, drank an ounce of car
bolic acid and can not live. Two years ago
he shut hims«.‘lf, Lui recovercxl. He is twenty
nine, unmarried, end slightly demented.
The j-eport of Representatives Springer and
Van AJst? ie, a majority of the subcommit
tee that took testimony in the ca.se of Marsnal
Wright, of Cincinnati, sustains the charges
and reccom mends his removal The
remaining me: •itx’r of tho sub-commit
tee, Mr. Stewart, dissents from his colleagues’
views, and v. ill assert that the latter’s report
has no basis to rest uj>on in the evidence
taken.
Made of Iron.
London. March 2.—Last Octolx r the mahdi
sent an autograph let.te)- to Gen. Gordon ex
ulting over th'* wreck of Col. Stewart’s
steamer and the murder of that officer and
companion-, in proof of the knowledge that
disaster had overtaken Stewart he enclo xxi
copies of documents found on the steamer,
and an account showing the state of munitions
and supplies at Khartoum at the time of
Stewarts departure. By the messenger who
brought the letter Gen. Gordon sent back a
defiant reply to the mahdi. He said:
“I do not care how thany mon you have
killevl or what success sou have gained. It
makes no difference to me.” After more in
the same vein, he concluded with; “1 do not
care what forces you have. Tam made of
iron, and intend to holdw here.”
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
Latest Quotations of the Stock, Produce
and Cattle Markets.
Nxw Yonx, Feb. 28.—Money winy, 2 per cent
Exchange tii ni. Governments quiet but steady.
Alt. & Terre Haute 23* a Morris & Essex...
Bur. & Quincy. . . 121^ 4 Missouri Pacific...
Canada Pacific... .8U N. Y. & Erie 13X
Canada Southern.. 82 N. Y. Central
Central Pa< itie.. 34% Northwestern 91%
Chicago & Alton 181 Pacific Mail
C. 0. C. & 1 38 Rock Island 112
Del.& Hudson ... 7H l ,i St. Paul . 7U4
Del. Lack. AW. .102 St. P. AB. C 2
Illinois Central . 12f>% do preferred ....
Jersey Central,. . BK*4 TYxas & Pacific. . 13*4
Kansas A Texas .. 17*i U. Pacific
Lake Shore 64% West. Union
Louisville A Nash.. Nash. & Chatt
General.
Cincinnati. Feb. 2>. < LOUR Fancy, S4.UX®
4.60; family,* *;<•(«,l.hrt.
WHEAT No. 2 red. 33c; No. 3,
CORN—No. 2 mixed. !3 No. 3.
ear, 46c.
OATS-iNo. 2 mixed, 336^33^0; No. 2 white,
35>2C.
RYE—No. 2,
BARLEY—Spring, 55
PORK—Family, 812.MHch12.7A; regular, $12,750
12.H7Cj.
BACON Shoulders, 5' 4 short clear sides,
7@7.05c. Lard Kettle
CHEESE Prime to choice Ohio, 10 <tllc;. New-
York, 12'i G 3 2 c; Northwestern, 7 1 -^Us l 3 c.
POULTRY Fair chickens. $2.75 1'>3.25; prime,
>8.5(X04.(K); ducks, Ji.-•); geese .<;.<»■ ' ZOJ j T
doz.; live turkeys, !•« <>!<’ igdrc s.G 3 a c.
HAY—No. 1 timothy, 312.50<fH i.Vj: Nu. 2, $11.50
@12.00; mixed, SIO.O >
$6.00@7.W; outs straw, $7 00 ?,s.UU.
New York. Feb. is. WHEAT—No. 1 white,
No. 2 r»*d. *7 \
CORN —Mix -1 western, 50@52, l 4c; futures, 48\@
50?4c. Oats -‘.Vostern, 38@40c.
New Orleax Feb. 28.—SUGAR Refining,
common, ‘ y : inferior, choice
white, 5 7 H c; off white. 5*4@5%c; Ch< i«-e yellow’, 5
(&5 7 '«c.
MOLASSES (.io > I fair, 25 <t32c: prime, 4@3iic;
choice, 44c; centrifugal prime, 25 a-Kzc; fair, 20@
23c.
Detroit, Feb. 28. WHEAT—No. 1 white, 84} a c;
No. 3 red. 74; 2 c; Michigan soft red, 4 c.
Toledo, Feb. 28. WHEAT—No. 2,75 c: No. 2
soft, 83e.
Live Stock.
Cincinnati, Feb. 2s.—CATTLE Good to ulioice
butchers, 84.257*5.00; fair. s4.f>O'tGL2 >; common,
s2@3; blocker-- and feeders, yearlings
and calves, $2.50@8.50.
HOGS -Selected butchers, >4.75@5.00; fair to
good packing, $4.50 'j/4.75; fair to good light, $4.40
@4.75; common. $3.75@4.40; culls, $374>3.75.
SHEEP—Common to fair, S2.SU@J 25; good to
choice, wetfiers. >4.50 $5. Lambs—
-1 Common, $3.00.a-<.OJ; good, $4.25(®5.00.
I Chicago, Feb. HOGS—Fail 1 to good, >8.85@
! 4.40; mixed packing, >4.1M»4.44»; choice heavy,
>4*50.(04 80
| CATTLE—Exports, >5 60®6.75; good to choice
shipping, >4.75<g,5 50; common to fair,
j •tockerw and feeders,
NO. 265
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STOMACH
*»itteß s
The Filteet Buhjeets
For fever mu! vgue.and remittents, are the de
i bllHtteil, Odliouß and nervous. In Huoh per
•ana, Hujftet'. vr’s Stomach Butera affords ade
qnatt protectiot*. by lucnaging vittl stamina and
the rvsiatat.l power of the oouatitntiou, and by
c.coking irregularities of the liver, »tomsoti
and bo*ejH. Moieovnr, it erldioatrs malarial
c plHnts oL ..n otstlaatb tyre, and etanda
b oi e unequalled among our nations! rcmedi- a.
For eaie by all bt utigiers and Dealer*
raneraliy,
Fl KB I PILKKII FILES!!!
Sure cure tor Bilud, Bleeding aud Itch
ing t*:le6. One box has cured the worst
cases ot 20 years'standing. No one need
suC r live mlnutee after udng William's
Iriolan Pile Olin eject. It absorbs tumors,
allays Itching, uet>. as poultice, gives in
sl-nt relier. Prepared only for I'llee.
Itcuing ot the private parts, nothing else.
Hon. J. M.Oonenbury, <>t Cleveland, says.
“I have used ecores ol Pile jures, and It
affordo me pleasure to eay that 1 have
never found anything -vhleh gives such
Immediate and permanent relief as Dr.
William'a Indian Pile Ointment.’ bold by
druggists and mulled on receipt of price,
sl. For sale by Brane n <*■ Carson, B.
Garter, .John P. Turner and Geo. A. Brad
ford, Columbus, Ga.
Dr. Frailer’?. l!»ot Bitter
Frazier's Boot Bitters are w.t| a dram
ahjp beverage, but are strictly medicinal
in every sense. They set strongly upon
tin Liver and Kidneys, ke< p the towels
.jpi t, acd regular, maKe lite weak strong,
heal the iuugo, bullu up the nerves, and
cleanse the blood and system of •ryery im
purity. Sold by druggists. 81.00.
For sale by Brannon & Carson and Jno.
P. Turner, Columbus, Ga.
Dr. Ixattui’s Mnr»:c Olr.tanent,
A sure cure tor Little Grubs in the Skin,
Bough Skin. etc. it win remove that
roughness from the hands j.nd face and
ni'.l : youbeautinrl. Prl< s,jr>. Sent by
man. For sale by Brannon &. Carson and
<i. iP. Inrr.fi, .a iuml '.t:, Ua.
Giro . E. Gi. ver, t!>' tmaßello, Mexico,
•hily 16. 18S8, rays; “1 take pleasure In
add ■ ■ Ingy>n on< » rn< >.-, o' you have
tie,-,: <>! k-rea'. b' nru' to in.. L wrote to
v. u b ■>, one and orn-lvilt years ago,
fi i Atlionn, for Dr. W.main’s Indian
Pl Olrfment. I re-wived ii and U rured
rr. ■ ont'tfiy, I still hurl seme Ointment
r> in i itm. with width I have euied seven
or eight more. It is wonderful.
Hr:r itoga Htgii Book Spring Water for
o 'r: ‘ all dnmori?!*. mt atfeort&w
IMPORTANT
TO
Farmers, Trucksters and Gardeners,
——o
I wlllffurnteh on board the Cars at f lora.
Alabama, a very
Rich Marl
AT it IX DOLLAKB PEH TOM
CASH!
jAnd a Very Low Rate ot Freight
Is offered by the Mcblle 4 Girard B. B
By analysts o! the State Geologist this
MAUL contains irom S to 8 p< r cent, ot
Phosphate with othu let tlilzlng qualities.
Fcr composting nod broadcasting for
grain fields, oicnaide and lawm It will be
found.
A Valuable Stimulator.
Ttifsje not a Guano, but a RICH MARL
o
Any c rdere forwarded to
K. J. OHR, Agent, Flora, Ala,,
Mobile & Girard Railroad, will meet with
prompt attention. deell-tt
11. E. I.KIUGS,
Physician and Surgeon.
OFFICE:
T. H. EVANS & CO. H Drug Store.
RcMidence. Jock aon Bt., Rontheast of Court
aHouie with W. H. Glaxo.
lanß-ly
L.H. CHAPPELL,
-ROVISiGIi BROKER & ihSURAHCE A6T.
ill) Broad St., Oolumbw, Ga«i
Ur.iae of New York.
Imperial of Louavn.
Guardian of London.
No»th*>n o» Lordon.
Male ano female agaoemy.
CUSSETA, OEOBOIA.
The wm k of this School will begin again
JANUARY 5, 1885(flrei Monday).
1 altlun Bl SO •* SO and *3.00,
According to grade. Board n»ver more
Than 88. Per Month,
music PER MONTH.
LOCATION Ht.AITHICL.
W. E. MURPHEY,
jaulwlt-emlwS Principal.
1)B. J. M. MASON,
DENTIST.
St. Clair Bt., Columbus, fta.
DR. JOHOORWOOD,
OFFICE A.T
BREEDLOVE & JOHNSON’S Drug Stilt.
Randolph Street.
Besldence with H. L. WOOD BUFF,
Crawford, betw.en Troop and Forayth St real