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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 I TlTm, 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. 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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