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VOL. VII. - NO. 13.
PLAGUE-STRICKEN.
Dying For Want of Food and Water.
A jarful Account of the Kentucky and
Virginia Epidemic.
Louisville, November 29.-Arthur ■H.
Loomis, a traveling representative of a
jjew York firm, is in the city to-day, hav
ing just returned from a trip through the
plague-stricken district of Eastern Ken
tucky. Mr. Loomis said: “I was four
days in Martin County without disposing
of a single article. People are absolutely
crazy; they have no use for anything but
coffins. I know of instances where
whole families have died within
a week, where neighborhoods have been
swallowed up in a grave, where one man
has survived to bury his family and his
friends, and then been found dead, with no
living creature near him, except, in some
cases, a faithful dog. Flocks of sheep and
droves of cattle that used to browse on hill
sides and along the range of the Cumber
land now lay dead and rotting. White peb
bles glisten on the bottom of creek beds.
Wells and cisterns are drained to the bot
tom, and springs are no longer to be re
lied upon for supply of water. The
ground is literally parched, and where
vegetation formerly bloomed luxuriantly
there is nothing but decay. Thousands are
said to have died within the past two
weeks. It is very evident that the chief
agent of death is starvation. The people in
those districts are almost without commu
nication with the outside world. An occa
sional drummer, like myself, strays among
them once a year, a few of the most pros
perous visit some large cities once in a life
time. A good season brings with it bountiful
crops. Wool and other native products are
rudely manufactured into clothing. But
when crops fail, then the order of things is
reversed. lam speaking now of backwoods
neighborhoods, where the plague has
raged with greatest fatality. I learned
while in Martin County that the crop yield
for two successive seasons had been a
failure. Natives are without money, and
without means to purchase bread. The
shutting-off of the water supply has
brought to the surface a poisonous liquid.
Famished for water, the people drank, and
the consequence was death. The first
symptoms are violent gripings, and after
this a raging headache. Hot fever ensues,
and the patient usually lingers two
days, suffering mental agony be
fore death. Relief has recently been dis
patched to Martin from neighboring coun
ties. Before I left there was a light rain
fall, with prospects of continued falling
weather, and the opinion prevails that the
plague has passed through its most dan
gerous stages and is now on the wane.
During the last two days of my stay I heal'd
of very few deaths.
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INDIAN SCHOOLS.
Increasing Civilization Among the Children
of the Forest.
Washington, November 29.—Mr. Teller,
Secretary of the Interior, devotes an im -
portant partof his annual report, just pub
lished, to the condition and welfare of the
American Indian. In his last annual
report he gave it as his opinion “that it is
quite possible, with wise and judicious
treatment of the Indian question, to pre
vent the recurrence of hostilities between
the Indian and his white neighbor
that has marked nearly every year of our
history.” The past year has been one of
peace among the Indians, and no outbreaks
have occurred. All the tribes are at peace
with each other and with their white neigh
bors. During the past year new buildings
ave been erected at several of theiagencies
for the accommodation of children in
the boarding schools. Five new
loarling schools and twelve new day
schools have been added to the list
of schools in successful operation. There
are now eighty-one boarding schools, sev
} -six day schools and six industrial or
nanual labor schools under Government
“10l- Fourteen boarding and four day
schools are supplied with teachers and
lp r employes by some one of the various
ehgious denominations, the Gov-
Payi “ g a stipulated price
hll ,. 10 ■ care and .education of the
len therein. This course has
“eing necessitated by lack of sufficient ap
will n lat ? nS to provide all the children
amn.A ° re . ce * ve an education. The
ave,-',' 1 . Pa ’ S 80mew hat less than the
mainA per ca Pita of children
area) 8 ' I *'' f’ overn, nent schools. There
bv >i° ’ v , enty "three schools maintained
eLn.A 8 and aß *oeiations without
tteZ * the and to
tributf ,>Or tbe Government con-
schools h n ° ? lng ’ Pliree new industrial
successful 1 on ,6 T com P. leted and put in
Oneat('hii ICratlOU during 1,116 laat ycar
rapacity of iM°child ian Territory ’ with a
Kan with ''ildren; one at Lawrence,
“ne at (I? Capacity for 300 children, and
for iso. a ’ with a capacity
Louisvn ßhter of the In "ocentß.”
Te sfU’ N ° Vember
looking thL baakes Peroan reader, while
discovered th ° Louisvin e Art Gallery
' randt’s “Hi PlCt^ re wbich be says is Rem
und purchns a , U ? bter °f the Innocents,”
for d y ron ? its ™ner, Robert
Picture came ti '■ How the celebrated
me ther e is a mystery.
h *®Kon" V J h,lß,ians ln Chin «-
li6 “ii»sion h ’ NO J embor 28.—The Catho
' iceroy o f r n , aas adv ices that the
tller e, and also',• ° n ?' as closed a U chapels
tleinent. a n a ? ed tlle entire Catholic set
froin the TntP, 1 . SSlOnary ’ arrived at Canton
of W e6ter States that Christians
*i'dsof Tonmn„ laC u are fu ßitive» in the
?“ Qeße authorities of* V S ° ? tateS that the
issued a( r . Northern provinces
missionarie/ °tt eringthe expulsion
authoriti,..' * J° U appeal the
rescinded anyth’ h ° Wever ’ tho
thr ’ anc missionaries
pcw er, ' Protection of the Chinese
n ment.
GZl]c 0 nil on xteoiis.
U. S. TREASURER’S REPORT.
The Country's Income and Expenditures
Decreased.
Washington, November 28.—The annual
report of the Treasurer of the United
States shows the net revenues of the
Government were less than 1883, by
$49,767,712. The decrease in receipts
from Customs was $19,639,007; in receipts
from internal revenue, $23,134,296, and in
receipts from miscellaneous sources,sß,B49,-
248. From the aggregate of these
items should be deduced an increase of
$1,854,840 in receipts from sales of public
lands, leaving a net reduction as stated
above. The net expenditures aggregated
$244,126,244, a decrease from the amount in
1883 of $21,281,893. The surplus applicable
to reduction of public debt amount
ed to $104,393,625, a decrease
of $28,485,818 from that of the pre
vious year. The items of expenditures
showing a decrease are as follows: On
account of the War Department, $9,481,779;
Interior Department, $11,469,936; interest
on public debt $4,581,852. There was an in
crease of $2,242,411 in the expenditures ac
count, civil and miscellaneous, end $2,009,-
164 in expenditures account of the Navy
Department. Disbursing officers of the
United States had to their credit on the
books of the Treasury at the close of the
year $32,463,980. The statement of assets
and liabilities for September 30,1884, shows
the general balance was reduced from
$163,232,463, in 1883, to $149,525,062, in 1884,
a reduction of $13,707,400. The aggregate
amount of gold and silver coin
and bullion held by the Treas
ury was increased from $352,510,809 in
1883, to $395,216,297 in 1884; an increase of
$42,705,487. The gross assets were’increas
ed from $456,119,817, in 1883, to $519,690,249;
an increase of $63,570,431 from November 1,
1883, to November 1, 1884. The reserve was
decreased $12,752,255 or from $160,822,545 to
$148,070,290. There were nominally out
standing at the close of the fiscal year,
silver certificates amounting to $120,891,691,
an increase of $32,274,860 during the year;
the amount held by the Treasury was in
creased from $15,996,145 to $23,384,680, thus
leaving actually outstanding $97,507,011, an
actual increase of $24,886,325. The amount
of standard silver dollars coined to Sep
tember 30, 1884, was $182,380,829, of
which the Treasury held $142,349,409. Os
this amount $97,094,881 was for the
redemption of silver certificates out
standing. The amount in circulation was
$39,801,953, or about 21.8 per cent, of the
total coinage. As usual, the amount out
standing reached the highest point in De
cember, when it exceeded $41,000,000, an
aggregate never before reached. The de
crease to June was not as great as in pre
vious years probably owing to the scarci
ty of $1 ftnl $2 notcwyend on September 30
the amount was $680,717 greater than same
date, 1883.
A Horrible Tale of the Coast.
Philadelphia, November 28.—A terrible
tale comes from Lewes, Del., the pilot town
of the Delaware Bay. Last Monday three
men left the pilot boat Turley in a skiff to
put another pilot on the steamer Pennsyl
vania, bound for Philadelphia. The weather
was thick and the sea heavy, and in
returning the men lost the pilot boat,
which beat back and forth for them
in vain. It was dark, and they had
no compass on board. They could only
keep the boat before the wind and trust to
luck. The weather was bitterly cold, they
had not taken their winter clothing, the
spray froze upon their oil-skins, and with
no water or provisions they were in a ter
rible plight. When they had been
afloat twenty-four hours two of
them became delirious and threw
overboard everything that was
loose in the boat. About midnight on
Tuesday one of them tried to kill Bor
trand, the only one who kept his senses,
threatening to drink his blood, but fell
exhausted before reaching Bertrand, at
whom he lunged with his knife. The next
day, Wednesday, the two survivors fell
on the dead body and eat some of
the flesh. Then, feeling refreshed,
they lay under the gunwales of the boat
until they were sighted and rescued by a
schooner and brought to Philadelphia.
Bertrand used a rubber boot to bail with
and got his feet frozen. They were sixty
hours with nothing to drink but salt water,
and no food but their companions’ flesh.
Across the Atlantic.
London, November 30. —The relations of
Lorne and Louise are a subject of much
comment. The scheme of making Minis
ter Lowell Professor of English Literature
at Oxford is.still being discussed. A re
ported letter stating that he is determined
io return to America is not credited.
Gladstone’s redistribution scheme is said to
contain startling proposals. A rumor is
revived that Ismael Pasha will be rein
stated as Khedive of Egypt. There is as
intense feeling against Germans in
London as against Chinese in California,
on account of their lowering the stand
ard of wages. The Congo Committee made
a unanimous report in favor of free trade.
Its adoption by the conference is thought
certain. The American delegates are se
curing important advantages. The German
Government is about to build a railway to
connect the Transvaal with the coast. Mon
ster meetings of natives in Bombay pre
sented a testimonial to Lord Ripon, the re
tiring Governor. This would seem to con
tradict the report of a feeling of mutiny so
far as that section is concerned, at least.
The Mahdi continues calling on Gordon to
surrender. He answers with shot and shell.
Payne, the Boomer, Dead.
Wellington, Kas., November 28.—Cap
tain David L. Payne, the famous leader of
the Oklahoma boomers, died suddenly here
this morning while at breakfast at tho
Hotel de Barnard. He addressed a meeting
last night, and was seemingly in his usual
robust health when he entered
the dining-room this morning. While
partaking of breakfast he was ob
served to lean forward and utter a subdued
sound, as if from slight suffocation, and
then dropped from his chair to the floor,
and expired instantly. His sudden taking
off created no little sensation here, and
profound sorrow among his ™-w?rkers
and followers in attempt mg to settle
dian
DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1884.
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE.
Pertinent Points in President Arthur's Last
State Paper.
Washington, December I.—President Ar
thur’s annual message was transmitted to
Congress to-day. At the outset tho Presi
dent refers to the recent political contest,
which resulted in President Cleveland’s elec
tion, and remarks: “It is a subject of gen
eral congratulation that after the contro
versy, despite the closeness of the vote, the
public peace has suffered no disturbance,
but the people awaited the result patiently
and quietly. Nothing could more strikingly il
lustrate the temper of the American citizen,
his loyalty to law, nor more signally demon
strate the strength and wisdom of our politi
cal institutions.”
Our relations with all foreign powers con
tinue amicable. The Congo question is com
mented upon as one of great internhtional
importance. The rich prospective trade of
the Congo Valley leads to the conviction that
it should be open to all nations upon equal
terms.
Necessary legislation to make effective the
Mexican commercial treaty is recommended
as one of the first measures to claim atten
tion from Congress. The Nicaraguan treaty
recently concluded, which authorizes the
construction of a canal and railway by
the San Juan and Lake Nicaraguan route,
the President believes will command univer
sal approval at home and abroad. To the
United States the commercial and political
advantages of the treaty cannot be over
estimated. Approval of the new Spanish
commercial treaty, which soon will be sub
mitted to the Senate is urged. The ques
tion of international copyright is
brought to the attention of Con
gress. He recommends an enlarge
ment of the scope of the neutrality laws to
cover acts of hostility committed within our
territory and aimed at the peace of friendly
nations. He sees no reason why overt prep
arations in this country for the commission
of such criminal acts should not be alike
punishable, whether intended to be commit
ted in our own or in a foreign country with
which we are at peace.
The reorganization of the diplomatic and
consular service is recommended.
On the subject of finance the President
concurs with the Secretary of the Treasury
recommending an immediate suspension of
the coinage of silver dollars, and the issu
ance Os silver certificates. The fact that of
the $185,000,000 coined during the past six
years, but little more than $40,000,000 is in
actual circulation, seems to furnish a co
gent argument for the repeal of the statute.
He renews his recommendations of 1882,
favoring the abolition of all excise taxes, ex
cept those relating to distilled spirits. If
these taxes are abolished the revenue re
maining to the government will not only suf
fice to meet reasonable expenditure, but will
afford a surplus large enough to permit such
a tariff reduction as may seem advisable
when the results of the recent revenue laws
and commercial treaties shall have shown in
what quarters these reductions may be most
judiciously effected.
Although sensible of the objections to be
made to the appointment of a commission
to ascertain the most effective means of in
creasing our foreign trade he favors large
subsidies to steamship lines to secure the
investment in them of American capital
in order to wrest the carrying trade from
foreign bottoms.
He says over $100,000,000 of 3 per cents have
been redeemed since the last message, and
of these $200,000,000 outstanding will be re
duced one-fourth by the sinking fund the
coming year. These are the basis ol bank
circulation, and to relieve them from the
consequences of this contraction, he recom
mends a privilege of larger circulation upon
their present deposits equal to the face value
of the bonds.
He favors a preparation of defenses for
our seaboard cities by a graded expenditure
of sixty millions —a much smaller sum than a
victorious enemy could levy as a contribu
tion. One-tenth is asked by the Secretary of
War to begin with, which he hopeswill be
granted. He repeats his former message
favoring the establishment of' two govern
ernment factories, one for navy and one
army munition and arms.
He favors the restoration of the navy to a
high state of efficiency, and this from con
siderations of safety, wise economy and a
true appreciation of the dignity and honor of
the republic.
The loss of postal revenue by reduction of
letter postage to two cents is only $2,275,000,
which is less than expected, and indicates a
speedy arrival at the former amount of re
ceipts. The unit of weight for first-class mail
matter (sealed letters, etc.) should be the
ounce, instead of the half-ounce as now.
Postage on drop-letters should be reduced to
one cent, and the free delivery system should
be extended. Pre-emption laws should be re
pealed, and statuets enacted resolvingpresent
legal complications touching lapsed grants
to railroad companies, and the funding of
the several Pacific railroads under such
guarantees as shall secure their ultimate
payment. •
Congress should assume absolute political
control of Utah, and appoint commissioners
with such governmental powers as are wise
and just. Most radical legislation will be
necessary to suppress polygamy by law.
On the subject of foreign trade he says
substantially that we have rich and broad
agricultural territory, and raw material of
nearly all kinds in abundance, a system of
productive industries that furnishes more
than we can consume, and tariff and tax
legislation that yields a revenue in
excess of the needs of govern
ment, and we have an artizan popu
lation with remuneration sufficient to insure
them comfort and intellectual development,
and the problem into which these things
enter as factors, is how we shall develop our
merchant marine and secure foreign and
contiguous markets for our surplus without
endangering the condition of the working
man, while the workshops are necessarily
protected against foreign competition.
Four paths of policy seem to point to this
end. (1.) Reciprocal commercial treaties
with all American countries favoring un
hampered movement of trade. The condi
tions of these treaties should be the free ad
mission of such merchandise as this country
does not produce in return for admission
free, or under a favored scheme of duties of
our own products, the benefits of such ex
change to apply only to goods carried
under the flag of the parties to the con
tract ; the removal on both sides from vessels
so privileged, all tonnage dues and national
imports, removal or reduction of the burdens
on exported products of these countries
coming within the 1 eneflts of the treaties,
and the avoidance of technical restrictions
and penalties by which our intercourse with
these countries is at present hampered. (2.)
The estaNishment of the consular service of
tho United States on a salaried footing,
thus permitting the relinquishment
of consular fees. (3.) The enactment
of measures to favor tho con
struction and maintenance of a steam car
rying marine under the flag of the I nited
States. (4.i The establishment of a uniform
currency basis for countries of America. so
coined that the products of our mim - msn
circulate on equal terms throughout the
whole system of l emmonu . a ’ s This
would require a Monetary I monos A er <->
whereby the output of Vu.'.'.o ye
countries, and the circulation of t’< s,- ,■
yield neither gold nor rim WAX :-c *'
justed In conformity with the peyi *
wealth and commercial need' ■■ c*. :»
many of tho cour.trlos furnish no I '..
the common stock, the >urp \
of our mines and mints migb.t t.hv.s '.< ■.•••.
ized and a step taken tea anl the st res .v
monetization of silver.
This policy should bo applied e'.se to our
trade with 'Europe. Asm and i.e .2
duties on wares not well prxMucod
in America should be reduced, and we would
thus gain a better market for our food pro
ducts, raw material and manufactures. Buch
protective duties as shall not overtax the
people may bo retained, bbl'.ipln ; interests
should be judiciously oucoun -i d < lureiicj®
Should be fixed on a him
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vice, a national bankrupt law, effective pre
cautions against cholera, preservation of
forests, government aid for popular educa
tion, and an amendment to the Constitution
to make effective the President’s disapproval
of items in appropriation bills. The message
concludes with the usual thanks to Congress,
etc. _
Napoleon’s Meanness.
The selection from the letters and
dispatches of the First Napoleon which
has just been published, with explana
tory notes by Mr. Denis Bingham, is
very interesting reading, for they form
I an excellent and authentic record of an
j extraordinary man who was a singular
mixture of the greatest talents and of
the meanest qualities. Napoleon is
often reproached for his lies, and the
phrase “menteur comme un bulletin”
was invented to characterize his official
mode of announcing his military suc
cesses. This I have always thought
somewhat unfair, for the object of a
general is to deceive his opponent in
many matters, and if this can be done
by means of a bulletin, why should he
not adopt this method? The worst trait
in Napoleon was his jealousy of his own
generals, and his persistent endeavors
to lessen their services in order to ag
grandize his own.— London Truth.
The Placid Boston Girl.
During the first appearance of Henry
Irving as Louis XIV. in Boston a lady
found herself seated next to a party of
three intensely typical Boston girls, who
observed the development of the play
with that reserved serene and critical
aspect for which their class is noted.
The lady was more enthusiastic than
they, and at various points which the
actor made was not chary of applause.
At last, when a particularly strong sit
uation had been met and mastered, she
exclaimed sotto voce: “Ah, he is, in
deed, great.” The three young women
who sat beside her immediately put up
their eye-glasses and looked at her in a
quiet, but superior way, and the near
est of the party in a calm and very dis
tinct voice, said- “Pardon me, but I
have not yet experienced any thrill.”
Afterward, in relating this incident,
the lady said: “I had in my dress at
the time a long shawl-pin, and I was
awfully tempted to jab it into the cold
creature's arm to see if she would feel
any 'thrill’ at that.”— Boston Journal.
Successful Fox Hunt.
Farmer John —“Fox hunters? Wall,
I should say we hed fox hunters in these
parts. Funniest crowd you ever seed in
your life. Makes me shake all ovei
every time I think of ’em.”
Visitor—“i ity chaps, I suppose?”
“Yas. They come down from the
city and stopped at the Old Time Inn,
beyond the hill—twenty two of ’em, all
in red jackets and yellow boots, lookin’
like organ-grinders’ monkeys off fur a
holiday.”
“Funny sight, I’ve no doubt?”
“Funny! Why, Jake and Josh and
me when we seed ’em kitin’ over the
meadow just laid down on the barn floor
and roared!”
“Did they catch the fox?”
“Yes, they got him.”
“Must have been pretty good riders
then, anyhow?”
“No, you see, when the fox saw ’em
cornin’ be got to laughin’ so hard he
couldn’t run.”— Philadelphia Call.
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Julius Didn’t Hit It.
There were three or four of us in .
grocery store in Macon when a tall,
solemn looking negro entered and pre
sented a written order for five dollars
worth of goods.
“Did Colonel Dunlap give you this
order?” sharply inquired the grocer.
The negro scratched his head and
looked uneasy.
“Did he sign it or you?”
“Say, boss,” slowly began the man,
“has you any doubts dat Kernul Dunlap
signed dat ar’ order?”
“Os course I have!”
“Den dat settles de case an’ I doan’ j
want no trade. If my son Julius can’t
do better dan dat arter practicin’ for a
hull week, I’ze gwine home to tell him
dat he’d better drap educashun an’
pick up the cotton-chopper!”— Detroit
Free Press.
Great Earthworms.
Mr. F. E. Beddard states that earth- '
worms two feet in length have been
found in the British isles, and various
species as large or larger are known to
exist in South America, Western Africa,
Australia and New Zealand. The larg
est species known, however, inhabits
South Africa. Forty years ago a speci
men was described which measured six
feet two inches in length, but it seems
to have been nearly forgotten until the
other day when a gigantic creature of
the same species, nearly five feet long
and half an inch in diameter, was sent
to the London Zoological Gardens from
Cajie Colony.—JrAwisas Traveller,
It is a diN’ided distinction, says the
London U orW. to be an honorary free
man of the city of London. There are
no? a dojren living individuals who can
boast of the privilege, first conferred
ujvou the great Earl of Chatham and
(Mt span the philanthropic Earl of
bhaftesbury. Among them are Lords
Napier, of Magdala; Wolseley and Al
cester. M. de Lesseps. Sir Henry Besse
mer, Mfirqtiis of Salisbury, the Pre
tn er, Baroness Burdett-Coutts.
is not one purely literary mnn<udj
APPEAL FROM ABROAD.
The U. S. Consuls at Rouen and
Berne to the State Department.
Russian Wheat Crowding American Grain
Out of Germany and Switzerland.
Washington, December I.—The U. 8.
Consul at Rouen writes to the State De
partment that under a mistaken preju
dice, on account of pretended difficulties of
approach, Rouen is excluded from the
charter parties of the Northern American
ports. Vessels drawing upwards of
twenty feet, ho says, frequently arrive at
Bouen laden with wheat, rice and corn
from India, Brazil and the Black Sea, but
none from the United States. Rouen not
only supplies its local market,
but is enabled to supply it to
a million inhabitants of Paris more direct
ly and economically than any other port,
both by rail and water. The Consul says:
“I can not avoid referring to the injury
which the Produce Exchanges of the cities
of Baltimore, New York and Philadelphia
impose upon themselves and their country
men by neglecting to remove this embargo,
but I feel convinced that it
is now continued only from an over
sight as to its existence. I feel as
sured that each month of its continuance
deprives the American farmer of an im
mense outlet for his grain, and conseouent
ly of a considerable profit.” Mr. M. J.
Cramer, U. S. Consul General at Berne,
Switzerland, reports to the Secretary of
State that Russian wheat is now driving
American wheat out of the markets of
Switzerland and South Germany. “The
Russian wheat dealers,” he says, “strain
every nerve to supply the markets of
Central and Southwestern Europe,
They are supported in their endeavor by
the low cost of transportation, both by
railway and by sea and river steamers, in
consequence of which Russian wheat is of
fered at a very low price. These circum
stances cause a constant increase in the ex
port of wheat from Russia into Italy,
South Germany and Switzerland via Genoa,
Marseilles, Antwerp and Rotterdam, so
that this country is now almost entirely
supplied with Russian wheat. If American
wheat is to regain command of these mar
kets, both its price and the cost of its trans
portation, Mr. Cramer says, must be re
duced.
XLVIII. CONGRESS.
Second Session.
□Washington, December I.—Senate.
Promptly at noon the President of the Sen.
ate called the body to order, and prayer was
offered. Bills introduced and referred: By
Mr. Cullom—To prohibit distinctions being
made in the military service of the United
States against any class of American citi
zens Also to enable officers of
the army promoted for gallantry
and distinguished services in the war of the
rebellion, to be retired with rank and full
pay of the rate to which promoted. Also to
facilitate promotion throughout tho army by
retiring from active service, upon their own
application, officers of the army who served
in the war of the rebellion; also to author
ize lighting of navigable rivers of the United
States with electricity: also, to authorize the
increase of the capital stock of the Com
mercial National Bank of Chicago. By Mr.
Dolph—To prevent obstruction of the navi
gable waters of the United States, and to
protect the public works against trespass or
injury. Mr. Ingalls offered a resolution,
which was agreed to. instructing the Com
mittee on Public Lands to report such legis
lation as necessary to authorize the Secre
tary of the Interior summarily to remove all
fences illegally constructed on tho public
domain. The President's message was read
at 1:35, after which the Senate adjourned.
House.—At noon the Speaker’s gavel
called the House to order. Mr. Holman pre
sented the credentials of Mr. Shively, mem
ber-elect from the Thirteenth Indiana
District, to succeed Mr. Calkins, resigned,
and that gentleman took the oath of office.
The House took a recess of fifteen minutes.
At 1:40 the President’s message was received
and immediately read. The message
was referred to the Committee of the
Whole on the State of the Union, and with
accompaning documents ordered printed.
Mr. Hutchins, from the Committee on Appro
priations, reported a bill milking temporary
provision for the naval service. Referred to
the committee of the whole. Formal an
nouncement was made of the death of Rep
resentatives Duncan and Evins, and the
House adjourned.
Decision in the Telephone Suit.
New York, December I.—Judge Wai- I
lace, of the U. S. Circuit Court, New York,
has announced a decision in favor of the
American Bell Telephone Company, in the
suit brought against the People’s Tele
phone Company, to enjoin the use by the
latter of its apparatus. The suit, which
involved a larger amount of money than
any previous suit in tho U. 8. Courts, has
been pending for years.
Determined War on the Buzzards.
Lancaster, Pa., December L—Early this
morning Jthe .Honeybrook, Goodville and
Boumansville horsethief detective associa
tions, together with fifty farmers of Brek-
knock Township, all mounted and armed,
resumed their search in the Welsh Mount
ains for the Buzzard band of thieves. They
intend to keep up the search from day to
day until the outlaws are either captured
or driven from the country.
Arrested for Embezzling $48,000.
Boston, Mass., December I.—Friday last
Charles F. Jones, of San Francisco, was
arrested in a case in which Charles A.
Gregory, of Chicago, is plaintiff. The suit
was upon his notes amounting to about
$48,000 now, it is alleged, the property of
Gregory; but Jones, it is alleged, has con
verted them to his own use. Hail was fixed
at SIO,OOO, and being unable to procure it,
Jones was locked up.
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Did Not Know it Was Loaded.
Woods Run, Pa., December L—Yester
day George Rankin, while carelessly hand
ling a shotgun, accidently shot and killed
his aged mother. The young man, who
did not know the gun was loaded, is fran
tic with grief.
Appropriation Estimates.
Washington, December I—The esti
mates of the House Committee on Appro
priations for the year 1886 are an increase
of $43 462,054 over the estimates of tfiepres
ent yeiuk and $82,816,077 over the appropn-
TERMS-Sl A YEAR.
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGS.
J. H. Bailey, of Atlanta, Ga., a dissi
pated drummer, committed suicide at Lit
tle Rock, Ark.
John Lundunberg, escaped prisoner
from Tyler, Tex., jail, while being returned
to prison, was shot and instantly killed by
parties unknown.
Geo. Briscoe, colored, charged with
robbery, was lynched at New Bridge, Md.
Rev. W. D. F. Sawrie, D.D., one of the
most prominent divines connected with the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South, died
at Nashville, a few days ago, aged seventy
two years. He was well known through
out the country.
Abe Frazer, colored, was hanged at
Little Rock, Ark., for the murder of Lewis
Davis, two years ago.
S. T. Hersy, dealer in ropes, Wheeling,
W. Va., has assigned.
A fire in Jacksonville, Fla., destroyed
Hart’s elevator and mill. Loss, $60,000.
The three-year-old son of Joseph Flynn,
of Parkersburg, W. Va., was scalded to
death in a tub of hot water.
The following is the official vote of
Tennessee for President: Cleveland,
133,364; Blaine, 123,025; Butler, 957; St.
John, 1,131.
The attention of many Canadians Is now
turned southward from a lumber point of
view, and an influx from that section is an
ticipated.
The pompano, though essentially a
Southern fish, is now found in deep wa
ters all a'ong the Atlantic coast, on that
part bordering the United States.
The Mobile Register says a negro, while
fishing in the bay recently,caught a grouper
which, the men say, is the largest they ever
saw. It filled a hand-cart and weighed be
tween four and five hundred pounds. I
A bill to repeal the crop lien law has
passed the Alabama Lower House and will
be likely to go through the Senate. The
South Carolina Legislature will have up a
similar bill.
The corner-stone of the State Capitol at
Austin, Tex., will be laid March 2. Mean
time it is going to cost over $3,000,000 in
stead of $1,500,000, and the Chicago syndi
cate who took 3,000,000 acres of land for
their pay, at fifty cents an acre, are kick
ing hard, and the actual cessation of work
is imminent. The building, if completed,
will be second in size only to the Capitol tn
Washington.
Capt. Richard King has sold the largest
ranch in America to a New York company
for $6,500,000. The ranch is in Texas. It
comprises upwards of 800,(XX) acres, all
under fence, and nearly 200,000 head ot
cattle, horses and sheep.
James Bayard, a son of Senator Bayard,
is teaching school in Garret County, Md.
Aaron Kennedy, a colored butcher of
Blackshear, Ga., inquired of Dr. C. H. Smith
if he wanted any meat, which so enraged
the latter that hs shot the colored man
through the stomach, mortally wounding
him.
New Orleans is giving sound thought to
the growing need of an acquaintance with
Spanish.
The Coroner of Yazoo County, Missis
sippi, was holding an inquest over a body
a few days ago, when the corpse recovered
from the effects of its spree, arose from
the table, “sized up” the crowd, and reach
ing the conclusion there was no chance for
drinks, wended its eccentric way home
ward.
Freeman Crawford was killed in a
brawl in Monroe County, Georgia, by be
ing struck on the head with a stone.
Eugene Luttrell shot and killed Lum
Walker at Spring Place, Ga., the other
night. A woman of ill-repute was the
cause of it.
Dr. A. G. Haygood, President of Emory
College, Oxford, Ga., resigned, and was
made President of the Board of Trustees.
A fatal accident occurred the other
morning in the Nashville and Chattanooga
Yards, at Chattanooga, in which William
| Donlon, of Nashville, a well-known engi
neer on the Alabama Great Southern Rail
road, lost his life by being run over by a
freight car attached to a switch-engine.
Donlon got off one track to another for the
purpose of evading moving cars, and by
mistake got on the wrong track, and walk
with head bent down. He was knocked
down by the car and run over. His head
ami body were badly bruised, several ribs
on both sides badly broken, and his right
leg broken in two places. Death ensued in
a few hours. His wife had just arl ’ r ™ d
from Nashville, but knew nothing of the
accident until his dead body was taken to
Hon. A. C. Coffee, a member of the Ala
bama Legislature from Bibb County for six
years, killed himself the other day at his
home at Vance’s Station, Ala. He had
been ill for some months, and became very
despondent over his condition. He left his
wife at the breakfast table, and soon after
wards the report of a pistol was heard.
The attendants'-rushed to his room, and he
was found on the floor with a bullet through
his brain. He was very wealthy, and
prominent throughout North Alabama.
A sad affair occurred at Clinton, the
county-seat of Anderson County, Tenn.,
the other morning. William Brummet
aged ninety-Ave years, who had
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