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FOREIGN NEWS.
News, Which if True, Will Gladden
Every Irish Heart.
Home Rule in Ireland; Heibert Gladstone
Says the Liberals Have Agreed to It,
London, October 12.— Mr. Herbert Glad
stone, in a speech to the electors of Leeds
'to-night, stated that all the Liberal lead
ers had agreed that the oftice of Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland should be abolished.
He thought the time had come when Eng
land should frankly yield to Ireland’s de
.mand for home rule, with proper pro
visions, however, for the maintenance of
nil the rights of the Crown.
Toulon, October 12.—Thirty cases of
cholera and seven deaths from the disease
occured aboariWhe Couronne, a gunnery
training vessel, lying off this port. Every
precaution is [being taken to prevent the
spreading of the disease to the town.
Vienna, October 12.—A dispatch to the
Keu-Freie Presst from Sofia says: “The
populace are fleeing. Rumors are current
♦hat the Servian army has crossed the
frontier. The Government has tele
graphed to Phiiippopolis entreating Prince
Alexander to return. A telegram from
Nisch says that the Servian War Office has
given contracts for 0,000,000 kilos of corn.
Troops are advancing toward Akpalanca
■and Leskowacz.
An Old Rule Broken.
♦ Washington, October 12.— Everett J.
Waring, a young colored man, formerly of
Ohio, was Saturday admitted to practice
law in Baltimore, on motion of Mr. E. H.
Gano, Deputy State’s Attorney, made be
fore the Supreme Bench. Until very re
cently the colored race, through the decis
ion of the Court of Appeals, had been de
nied the privilege of practicing law :in
Maryland, the word “white” being in the
statute upon 4 the subject of the ad
mission of attorneys, and, in
fact, the Court of Appeals has not as
yet reversed its decision as to such admis
sion. A short time since, however, upon
motion of Mr. Alexander H. Hobbs to have
Charles L. tV ilson, a colored lawyer of
Massachusetts, admitted to the Bar, the
Supreme Bench of this city, every Judge
concurring, ruled that under decisions of
the U. S. Supreme Court, of later date than
that of the Court of Appeals, colored men
were eligible. Wilson, however, never
afterwards made application for admission,
and so Mr. Waring, admitted yesterday, is
the first colored lawyer ever admitted to
practice in this State/
Outlook of the Special Delivery System.
Washington, October 12.—About Tone
hundred weekly reports have been received
st the Post-office Department from Fost
iimstevß regarding the special delivery sys
tem, whi jh went into operation on the Ist
inst. They do not show that there has been
any great rush to take advantage of the
facilities afforded, but the officials say that
the outlook is more encouraging (than was
expected and that the system will
grow in the larger cities. Cincin
nati has twenty messengers, who delivered
IS9 letters the first week, averaging for
each of the new employes, seventy-five
teitts. There were $.'>7.00 worth of special
delivery stamps sold for the same period.
Cleveland,? with twenty-eight nies engers,
delivered 441 letters, ave> aging $1.28 for the
week to each boy'. Covington, Ky., has
one messenger, who delivered nineteen
letters, and made $1.52. Ti e average time
ol'delivery of letters after their arrival in
, Cincinnati was fifteen and* bue-hali min
utes, which is much better than the ma
jority of reports show for other places.
Three Young Girls Drowned.
If Kittanning, Pa., October 12.—A terri
ble accident happened on the Mahoning
Creek, at what is known as Mill Irons dam,
this afternoon, in which three young ladies
were drowned. A party of young folks
were on their way to Mill Irons church,
and there being no bridge, were obliged to
row across. When they arrived at the
creek, Beekie and Annie Neale, daughters
of W. C. Neale, and May, daughter
of James Neale, got into a small
flntboat, with W. S. Neale ns oarsman.
When they had reached the middle of the
creek the boat sunk. The girls grasped
hold of the young man, but he, being an
expert swimmer, managed (after a terri
ble strugglo) to get loose and get to shore.
The three girls were drowned. About two
hours after the accident the bodies were
found. Their ages ranged from fifteen to
eighteen year 3.
Curious Reading for the Year 1885.
f St. Peter, Minn., October 12.—There is
considerable excitement in Belgrade, this
county, in a settlement of Sweeds, over a
case of what is believed to be witchcraft.
A woman has been sick for three years,
and accuses her aunt of being a
witch, and causing her sickness.
The Swedish church has held a trial," and 1
witnesses solemnly testified to a helief in
witches, and stated what they had seen in
this particular case. The statement was
made by one woman that she was posted
in witchcraft, and had seen witches send
the craft off through the air,and had seen it
stride persons who were soon after taken
sick. What will be done with the alleged
witch has not been determined.
A Presbyterian Minister’s Suicide.
1 St. Louis, October 12.—The dead body of
a voung man, which was identified by pa
pers found on his person as that of T. H.
Eatherly, a Presbyterian minister lately
from Nashville. Tenu., was fouud last
Friday on the roadside several miies from
Houston, Mo. He was shot through the
bead and a discharged double-barreled
pistol was found in his baud, w hich, with
other circumstances, clearly iudieate that
he had killed himself. A watch and chain
and S6O were on the body.
Male *and Female Murderers Sentenced.
UTICA, N. Y., October 12.—Dr. Richter,
of Middleville, Herkimer County, who
killed Joeiah W. Smith, of Fairfield Acad
emy, was found guilty of murder in the
second degree, and was to-d-v sentenced
to Auburn Prison for life. Mary Druse,
who helped her mother to kill, cut and boil
her father in Warren, Herkimer County,
pleaded guilty of murder in the second de
gree, snu was sentenced to the Onondaga
Penitentiary for life.
, . No Danger From Cholera,
-F Washington, October 12.—Surgeon (4en
ernj Hamilton said to-day that. t:> * danger
of* cholera invasion of this country had
for the present.
NATURAL GAS.
Three Men 'Burned In a Pit.—The Flesh
Peels OIF in Quiver ng Flakes.
Pittsburgh, Pa., October 11.—By au ex
plosion of natural gas in a pit at Godfrey
& Clarke’sfljaper factory, Tnrentum, Pa.,
this afternoon, three men—Geo. Headin,
William Garlieh and Samuel Thomson
—were seriously and probably fatally
injured. The accident was caused by a
leakage iu the pipes, which filled every
crevice in |i:e pit with the odorless gas.
The men not being aware of the pres
ence of the gas, w rut down into the pit to
oil the pump, taking w ith them a small
lamp. As soon as they reached the bottom
the gas ignited from the lamp and in an
instant ti I.C was filled with a belching
sheet of fiarne. The report was not iv-e. l
and the fire was out almost as sudde ly
as it came, but it left the three
men lying on their backs, ter
ribly burned about the face, arms and
limbs. They were removed to their homes,
where an examination of their injuries
showed them all to be in a serious condition,
the flesh falling off their bodies in large
flakes. They 4 *are resting quite easy to
night, but it is feared they 4 inhaled the gas,
in which case death is almost inevitable,
Riotous Street Car Emp'oyes.
St. Lcuis, Mo., October 9.—About noon
the street railway strikers began to assem
ble in knots in various parts of the city
and things presented an ominous appear
ance. First a riot occurred on Chouteau
avenue road and several cars were dumped
into the gutter, end the drivers and con
ductors were severely handled. Next a
big crowd of strikers attacked several cars
of the Union Depot line on the Twelfth
street Bridge, within a square of the
Four Courts and the police headquar
ters. Tiie drivers and conductors were
badly beaten, one conductor being ren
dered iuseusibie. The rioters were in such
a hurry to tip over the cars that the pas
sengers were not allowed time to get out
of them, and two ladies were badly bruised
on the Twelfth street bridge while leaping
from a car which the strikers had already
tilted in the air. At three o’clock a riot
occurred on Stoddard avenue. One of the
cars of the Union Depot line was coming
up the avenue in charge of Policemen
Griffith and Hannon, and when
near Hickory street it was sur
rounded by some fiftv men, who began to
cut the harness and make other demon
strations. The officers twice ordered the
men to desist, but they paid no attention
to the command, end assaulted the officers
with sticks and rock. Hannon was struck’
with c rock,and Griffith w as knocked down
by a man nam’d John Haney. While the
latter was beating Griffith, Hannon drew
his revolver and shot him in the head, kill
ing him. The body’ of Haney was taken to
the morgue, and Hannon went to head
quarters and reported the affair, and was
placed iu arrest.
Extrr.of'flintiry Pnst-Offie* Complication.
Washington, October 12.—0 n January 1
last the fourth-class post-office at Hold
ridge. Nth., was placed on the list of Presi
dential offices. Although nine months have
elapsed since that occurrence not a single
application for the position of Postmaster
at that place has yet been received at the
P< st-office Department, nor has any recom
mendation been made looking to an ap
pointment. Consequently’ the Postmaster,
although hold rtf g a fourth-class commis
sion, i 3 receiving the compensation of a
Presidential. Postmaster. This state of af
fairs is said to be without a precedent in
the history of the department.
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Letters Stolen.
Boston, October 12. —The family of Ralph
Waldo Emerson say that a number of his
letters to Carlyle appear to have been
stoleu. They wish to caution all persons
against buying or selling any papers pur
porting to be the originals of letters from
Emerson to Carlyle, and against publish
ing such letters, and to ask‘that any one
who may hear of the existence of any such
letters will do them the fßvor to inform
Edward W. Emerson, Concord, Mass.,
where they may be found. The manu
scripts were ail given by Carlyle to a mem
ber of Emerson’s family, and the right of
publication belongs to the writer’s family
by law.
A Father’s Unnatural Crime.
Utica, N. Y., October 11.—A horrible
crime which was committed last February
has just come to light. Patrick E. Bren
nan, of this city, is the father of four child
ren, the oldest, of whom is a girl of eighteen.
Mrs. Brennan is an inmate of the lunatic
asylum. Last February Brennan went to
his daughter’s room and forced her to ybld
to his inhuman desires. The girl, fearing
the wrath of her father, kept the awful se
cret. On February 22 of this year she
gave birth to a boy, who is now alive.
Brennan was arrested yesterday, and was
arraigned and held to await the action
the grand jury.
Vessel Given Up for Lost.
Philadelphia, October 11.— Great anx
iety is feit for the safety of the Swedish
bark Prima, Captain Ilolm, which sailed
flgun Hull. England, on July 10, for this
port, acd it is feared that she foundered,
aud all on board have been lost. She had
a cargo of eight hundred tons of chalk,
consigned to parties at this port, - and had
a crew of thirteen men on t oard. Her
consignees have given her up for lost, as
she is now ninet3'-three days out.
Husband and Wife Killed by the Cars.
Clifton, Me., October 11.—As the Maine
Central Railroad “Flying Yankee” express
passed through here a: 3:45 p. in., yester
day, it struck a carriage containing Mr.
and Mrs. Horace Goodwin, returning from
shopping. Both v'ero killed .instantly.
horse was thrown a great distance.
Tiie woman’s body was hailed a distance of
one hundred and forty feet. The victims
have a family of five small children.
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Succpss r ul Artificial Oyster Culture.
Cold Spiing Harbor, L. 1., October 12.
—The artifiefd culture of oysters has been
completely siccessful at the hatching sta
tion of the flew York Fish Crtmmission.
Thousands of youue were cauUit on jeotr
lop shells, and are now as large as a difffip
This is .he first practical success ou a large
scale from oysters artificially impregnated
and hatched.
Accident to a Trareze Perfcir.pr.
S Syracuse. N. Y., Octobtr 12.—James A.
Be'mo, a trapeze performer, fell forty feet
from a trapeie to th - floor in Shakespeare
Hall to-night, and was badiv injured,
though probably not fatally. Contrary to
law, there was uouet under th ■ performer.
TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, GA.. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 16. 1885.
THE GREAT STORM.
Pelt From the Mississippi to the
Eastern Shore.
The Atlantic Coast Fretted with W»v<»—
Damage Al ng the Hudson.
New York, October 1::. The present
storm is greater in extent than any expe
rienced on this continent for a long time.
All east of the Mississippi, except a few
spots, is deluged with rain. In Ohio, where
the election is in progress, nearly two
Inches ol rain lias fallen. A cyclone started
out at sea to the southeast ol the jJoitttiv
line of States, and moved northwest, Heing
central over Indiana and Ohio at ten o’clock
to-day. At Atlantic City the wind was
thirty-five miles an hour, while iu the city
it was twenty-two miles. Slight damage
was done by the gust. At Rockaway Bench
the tide "was ** higher than for years.
The hotel piazzas were submerged, and all
the wooden walks and bath-houses were
washed out to sen. Along the ens' chore
of Staten Island the docks are entirely sub- ;
merged, and much damage has been -'one.
A large ship was blown, from tier anchor
age ai Staten Island, and is cow lying at
Robbins Reef Light-house. It was blow
ing at t'ie rat -o! fifty-five miles an hour
at Sandy Hook this morning at seven
o’clock. ' The ferry-boats had a rough
time of it, especially those plvicg be
tween this cdy aid .Staten (eland.
“The storm Icsbcen a bad one for rt-le
•_ranine business,” said Mr. Huuipst use, ol
the Western Union T-legr.aph Company.
“It has delayed busin ss generally’ ail ovei
the country. Wo are remising the > am- ,
age as fast as possible.” N ne-tenths of tbs ■
telegraph wires which reamed along the
Jersey coast w~re carried away by the
storm at an eariv hour this morning. The
Government property at Handy Hook was
wrecked iu several places, tiie beach being
swept away and the jetties badly damaged.
From midnight up to < lie o’clock this af
ternoon not a single s’eamer or sailing
vessel had been sighted by the 'marine
operator at the si ual station. This is con
sidered remarkable by shipping men, it not
having occurred before uu twenty-five
years. The meager reports from Long
Branch show a similar condition of affairs.
On the shores of Coney Island •and Rouk
away every house sustained injuries.
Brighton B ach race-truck was placed ;n a
horrible ion Brian by Hie ruin. Xiong thy
city river front, and particularly on the
East Side, a deluge wa- the result < t
the heavy rains. All lit, cellars ot tfct
houses on south street were tilled with
water. The tide, in the recollection it a
number of residents was never higher. At.
11 :!J0 the wat V had entirely submerged
some of the whovv s.
Nyaok, N. Y„ October lit. T 1 e sever, st
storm in mnuv years pr. vailed along '.ln
-ii in rti!s v-h-rntry to-uav.' in,,
wer. flooded and n number of smali l outs
were sunk. Tiie ferry-boats from Tarry
town to this place w<Td obliged to slop run
ning on account of danger in makingland
ing*.
At Her Baby’s Grave.
Chicago, 111., October Id. —During the
hearing of a divorce case before. Judge
Gardner a very affecting incident occurred.
Mrs. Frieda Rarrmaim, the complainant,
was on the stand. Martin Hartmann, the
defendant, is an engraver with the Western
Bank-Note Company. In the midst of a
■ tale of cruel treatment on the part of the
husband that individual leaned over and
whispered to his counsel. The lawyei
straightened up \> ith a look of importance
and remarked: “Your husband says that
upon one occasion you came home at ten
o’clock at night with torn dress and dis
heveled hair: that you told him upon that
occasion that you had been at the
cemetery. How about that? How about
that?” The witness dropped her eyes to
the floor to hide her tears. “How about
•that?” again ask* d the attorney. With a
glance at the Judge she began her reply.
“My box . ti.e only one we ever had,” she
said, “had been dead a year that day. It
was lat- in the evening when he died —I re
member it well —ami when that hour came
I was at his grave in Graceland, kneeling.
He was my only son, Judge, aud I Huge ed
longer than l thought, arranging the fi >wers.
When I go. up the big gate was closed. I
shouted, but no one could hear, I suppose,
for no one came. I saw a passing express
man through the w icket and hailed him
With his help I clambered over the wajl.
That is how rny dress came to be tbiii,”
and si e looked at the Judge through her
tears. “This ease stands adjourned until
to-morrow,” said His Honor, as he turned
to conceal his as Ration. The attorney who
asked the question and th - husband whe
prompted it could not hide their coni vision
and quickly left tiie room.
The Sifuaiion Summc ! Up.
London, October 14.—The SUunlnr-l this,
morning says: “The situation in the E s; 1
has become more clouded within the last
forty-eight hours. The problem could be
dealt with effectually if the triple alliance
were united as it pretends to be.
The problem now for Bismarck
is how to settle the p-udmg
difficulties so as to prevent Russia and
Austria from fighting. If the latt-r agree
to insist upon the status quo, or to force
Herria to agree to it, Greece will be satis
fied and Bismarck wiil concur, but tb re
appears to be little chance that they will
agree. It. is not ff r England to act as prin
cipal in the miserable dispute, which is
oniy <tf secondary interest, though she
flight c rdially assist if Germany aud
'Austria make the request.
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Mvs’eriots Dialh.
New York. October 13.—At eight o’clock
this evening John Healy found his wife,
Lizzie, aged twenty-two. lying uucoir-qloiSs
nn the flo r in their resilience, 206 East
Forty-fourth stre-r, with a bullet, wouiil in
her bead. tshe was removed to the hos
pital in a.dying condition. 'lbe cuser is a
mysterious one. as qo pistol could be found
in the room, aud there was no known
r> ason for the shooting, whether it was
suicidal or otherwise.
♦
Six Counterfeiters Captured.
Pittsburgh, October 13. —United States
Secret Service Officers raided a camp of
eleven counterfeiters in Clarion Qanuty
yesterday, capturing six of thensf the
otl ers es-aping into the woods. Thejiris
om rs were brought to tin’s city auffat a
preliminary hearing before United St.tes
Comm ssiouer McCandiess tnis morning
were held for court. The officers ref use to
give ihe names of those arr, - ted. as they
hope to secure the rest of the gang ht ur
many days.
CARPING CRITICISM.
Grumblers Inclined to Take a Distorted
View of the Acts of the Administration
Not Kutitled to Consideration.
The fierce light of publicity which
beats upon this Administration and in
vites criticism and discussion of every
movement and appointment to office is
thorcughly appreciated by the Presi
dent and his Cabinet. They know that
they are the objects of unceasing
(scrutiny and discussion, and that their
words, motives and actions are weighed
and examined with a closeness of at
tention such as never has been applied
before to an Administration. Over six
months have passed siuce they were
called upon to take charge of the Gov
ernment, *and during that time they
have accomplished a vast deal of work,
and a fair opportunity has boon afforded
of judging them. The verdict of the
country has been eminently favorable,
and Mr. Cleveland and his official fam
ily- have wrung praise from even their
political opponents. The Presld snt has
declared more than once that h ■ is
.pleased, rather than annoyed, at the
close watch kept on his Administration,
for, honest and high-m’nded in his
purpo e to give the peop'e the good
Government they expected from him,
lie does not fear honest criticism. But
there is a class of grumblers in both
}parties who arc inclined to take a dis
torted view of everything done by this
Administration.
Some labor under the delusion that
offices under the Government belong to
Republicans by a species of divine
right, when the Administration is
, Democratic, and that Civil-Service re
form should he construed so ns to bar
all Democrats from office. They raise
' a howl when a Democrat is appointed
to a nosition, and endeavor to give the
that, being a Democrat, he
is unfit to hold office under the Gov
ernment. If his Republican predeces
sor should happen to have held the
I position for many years, these carping
critics think that he is entitled to it for
the balance of his life, whether he be
* ompeient. faithful and in accord with
j * lie Government or not. The Adminis
tration has given abundant evidence
jof its desire to deal justly and honor
ably with servants in office, and has, at
ftimes, incurred the adverse cr'ticism of
members of its own part , in car ving
;out its admirable policy in reference to
the public service. But no reasonable
or fair-minded person can expect it to
,/ul'rait to bo saddled with worthless or
k % 'ill* tii fnic mnk rr-iorin.
The carping critics we have alluded to
are too much in the habit of jumping
at conclusions when a removal or ap
point mat is made without taking the
trouble to inquire into the merits of the
case.
The President is not one to act pre
cipitately or contrary to the principles
he so fearlessly advocates, and while
“lighting the bad element in both par
ties" lie is honestly endeavoring to se
cure the best aud most efficient men
for public office. When a removal is
made, in some instances, a storm is
raised by- these critics because the per
son removed has filled for
twelve or fifteen years and has been
generally regarded as an ellicHfct #li
eial. They never stop to inquire what
dereliction of duty and, perhaps,-mal-
office may have taken place
and have been concealed until the im
partial test of reform has been applied.
In many eases the very length of offi
cial life has caused a Government offi
cer to become more lax in his duties
and more i \Jued to make a pernicious
use oL his e- and position.
Haviw enjoyed immunity so long
under® Republican rule, he appears to
think gthat a Democratic Administra
tion should be equally lenient. Reform
he considers necessary, perhaps, for
newcomers in office,* but not for an old
stager, like himself, who has been so
long.in the Government service that
he lias some sort of li non it.
There is no one more willing to listen
to.honest, sincere critie .xm than Pr si
deut Cleveland. He can afford to look
down upon those who are forever bark
ing at his heels because their own in
s gnifieant iniluenee is not regarded,
aud on those who are ever prepared to
condemn before they have an oppor
tunity of judging of a question. The
recent history of affairs in Hie New
York Custom House abounds in eases
of carping criticism. The Administra
tion has no small amount of labor to
purge that institution of the evils which
y ears of misrule and corruption gatli
ered there, and removals and appoint
ments have been made wit ; the one
object in view, the purification of the
public service. The Republican officials
in the New York Custom House have had
a long lease of power, an,d how they
used it the oppressed and swindled
' merchants of the metropolis can tell.
1 Every change there is a decided im
provement, as it would be in any den
of thieves. Albany Argus.
A POLITICAL LIE.
Senator Miller's Statement Thai the Re
publican* Favor Civil-Service Reform
Contrary to History.
Mr Warren Miller is the senior
United States Senator from New York,
aud, although it would be a somewhat
I exaggerated statement to allege that
jhe is the leader of the Republicans of
thatState.it is not going bey ond bounds
to say that he is certainly as influential
ias any of his brethren. In taking the
chair at Saratoga as the temporary pre
siding officer of the Republican State
(Convention, he made a few remarks
isuitable to the oce i ! on, in the course
of which he uttered the following senti
ment: “When we turned ov r to the op
position the civil service of the Govern
' merit, no b -tter civil, service existed
under the sun.”
The New York Republicans, and, for
that matter, all Republicans, now tlu.t
they- are out of power, find no difficulty
in resolving in State conventions in
favor of Civil-Service reform. To this
cause they have not the slightest objec
tion to pledging theii lives, tlie r fort
tunes and their sacred hono:\ Th e
resolutions look well on paper, sound
well when voiced by- experienced read
ing secretaries, an 1 do no harm,because
they mean nothing so long as the Dem
ocrat; have the reins of government.
But if any one ha.s any curiosity to
know just the sort of civil service Re
publicans approve, precisely the kind
they would set in motion bad tnev the
responsibility-, all that is necssarv to
do is to grasp to the full extent ot its
meau'ng the quoted utterances of .Sen
ator Miller.
lie speaks not alom- for irmself, not
only for the Republicans of New York,
but for the party throughout the coun
try. When Mr. Cleveland was inaugu
rated “no better civil service existed
under the sun," according to tit's emi
nent authority. What that civil service
was we all know. T. «« Federal office
holders were organized into a vast, po
litical machine which sought first to
control the Repub ican party and t'i*-n
the country. Under the prevail ng
abuses it w.ts as much a political of
fense to le a Republican, if opposed to
the ruling clique, as it was to b ■ a
Democrat, no one of either stripe being
allowed to hold office if it were possible
to prevent it.
These officeholders also wore re
quired to pay to party committees lixeil
percentages, apportioned according to
(he r salaries, to defray the expenses of
pol t'oal campaigns, and were com
pelled alway s to vote as the bosses of
the ruling faction dictated, and to make
political speeches, if they could, and do
such other work as was demanded,under
pain of dismissal. Their enforced votes
and contributions turned the scale in
1880, when their aid was so valuable
that even General Garfield a-ked how
the departments were doing, aud made
the contest so close in 1876 as to invite
flic fraud'whieh was perpetrated. The
civil service which the Republicans con
ducted, which was in existence, accord
ing to Senator Miller, “wncnwe turned
it over to tiie opposition," and than
which “no better civil service existed
under the suu," was the spoils system,
pure, simple and unadulterated, uu ler
which the country revolted and from
which it is to be hoped we are now free
for good aud all.
There is considerable (lift Tenge of
upitiiidi among Democrats as #-> th«
efficacy of the present Civil-Service
statutes and the ability of the men who
are charged with their execution, but
there is none as to the merits of the
civil service as it existed prior to March
1, 1885. Democrats are as. much op
posed to the whole system as Warner
Miller and his Republican friends favor
it. There is no tronble about drawing
the line and framing an issue right here.
Washington Post.
North and South.
As every unprejudiced observer is
.Ttwnre, the manner in which General
Grant’s sentiments of wood-will were
received and reciprocated in the South
signifies much more than personal sym
pathy with a brave, chivalric and suf
fer! 112: foe. The South believes nr
longer in slavery, no longer in seces
sion. Some ex-rebels said not long ago:
“We are glad we were whipped, and
we are in to stay! Now let us see Mas
sachusetts try to get out of the Union!”
One of the leading m n of the South
lately told, in private 'conversation, a
significant incident He was compla n
ing, he said, to one of the officials of
his own State that the otlicial salaries
given were not large enough to attract
ambitious young men powerfully and
permanently to the State Government;
that their bright youths would lie look
ing rather to the Genera! Government
for a career, aud would perhaps thereby
lose the feeling of superior loyalty to
their own individual State. “Well,
why not?” was the official’s reply.
“We have given up all that idea; why
should we want to cultivate State rather
than National loyalty?” This incident
and similar ones give color of reason to
the theory, held by one of the most public
spirited of Northern Republicans, that
the turning of the intense Southern
loyalty of patrotism from the various
State Governments to the National
Government and finer may yet make the
South the most enthusiastically 1 oy r a 1
section of the whole'country.— Century.
“buffering” Negroes.
An interesting incident, illustrative
of the feeling of the whites for theii*
former slaves, is furnished in Atlanta
The Constitution of that city says: “On
the premises of Senator Brown lives an
invalid female servant whose health
failed while she was in the service of
h"s family. She re pores Ibe daily treat
ment of a physician, who is paid by the
Senator to at» :.d her. It is necessary
for her to go to the doctor's office every
day. Regularly every morning Senator
Brown’s carriage drives to the door-of
the cottage which is allotted to the in
vali 1 negro woman. She is assisted
ii'to it by the Senator’s coaehma 1 and is
dtiven to see tin doctor. In front of his
office Ihe carriage waits until the daily
consultat’ou is concluded, .aud then the
woman i.-, carried home. The ‘suffering’
of the negroes in ihe South has never
yet been a lequaloly portrayed.”
Newspaper men have as much
sen- ; of the moral and decent fitness of
things as any one else liv.njr, anil it is
owing ‘.O tiieir moral convictions that
the country is not flooded w ith immoral
literature every day. —ijuu Antoine
Times,
VOL 11.-NO. 34.
BOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGS.
A fatal accident occurred during a bal«
loon ascension at Union City, Tenn. Prof.
D. E. Johnson, of Evansville, lud., mad*
two successful ascensions and attempted it
again. The ascension was successful, but
in the desceut the balloon fell into the toj
of a large tree. Johnson jumped wher
twenty feet above the tree, aud caught or
a limb, which broke, precipitating hint
over fifty feet to the ground. His body
was fearfully lacerated, his rig hi leg beinr
broke iu two places, and he can not re
cover.
At a meeting of the Tennessee Confer
ence of the Methodist Church South al
Columbia, Team, the other day, the inattei
of changing the name of tiie church so a;
to eliminate the word South by- using the
plain term Methodist Episcopal Church
came «p unexpectedly, and failed, aftor a
sharp and short debate, by a vote of 175 te
25, Dr. Kelly, J. B. McFerriu, Dr. Young.
\Vm. Green and others debating the ques
tion from their standpoints, ali of whom
were in the maiu in opposition to the
change. It was then submitted whether
tiie name should be so changed as to read:
“Methodist Episcopal Church of America.'
This also ntet with repulse,, and so far a
this conference if concerned this question
is now at rest, and will be so reported at
Richmond, Va., general conferenei iu May
next. Each conference must act. on th
question, aud the general conference will
decide according to majority.
Chris. Deques, tolored, was hanged at
Augusta, Ark., iu the presence'of over
tf ree thousand persons, for murdering his
paramour, Mol lie Banks, last December, in
Woodruff County. On the scaffold he
made a full confession, that he murdered
her because she refused to marry him, not
having been legally divorced from her hus
band.
J. E. Morgan, of Bainbridge, Ga., was
seized tfle other day with a sneezing spell
which, the Columbus’ Enquirer-Sun says,
lasted for eleven hours.
A farmer named Spinks was shot ami
instantly killed by John Patton, one of his
tenants, near lluling, Texas.
A dispatch from Rome announces that
Very Rev. D. J. Quigly, Vlear General of
the Diocese of Charleston, K. C., has been
appointed Domestic Prelate, with the title
of Mousignor. This is the first priest in
the South so honored.
Twenty-two of the accomplices in the
lynching of Culbreath, in Edgefield Coun
■ty, S. C.,were lodged in jail the other day.
The remaining three are detained tempo
rarily by sickness.
The Supreme CBurUhas granted a writ
of error in the famous CJuverius murder
case.
A wire attached to a pole in the court
house yard at Cleveland, Tenn,, was cut
down by the county authorities, pulling
the gable ends off two frame store build
ings to which the other end was fastened,
aud the mass carried a wooden awning
with ir. Percy Surguine, a small boy, was
directly under the mass of material, and
narrowly escaped death by being near a
coal oil tank, which supported it above the
pavement.
At Bristol, Tenn., Jere Smith, a colored
yard hand, was run over by a switch en
gine ou the Norfolk & Western Road, aud
his body cut in two.
Miss Lillie Boss, a beautiful girl of
seventeen, was to have (married Jacob
Weatherington, aged sixtv-six, the other
morning, at Valdosta, Ga. The marriage
had been arranged by her parents. An hour
before the hour named Lillie fled from home
in her bridal dress and at a neighbor’s
house met Jesse Hardee, a former sweet
heart. They went in a carriage to the of
ficeof a magistrate and were married. They
then returned to the bride’s house in time
to meet the guests who (had assembled to
see Weatherington’s marriage. Mr Weath
erington took the affair coolly, but declined
to st'iy to the feast. The girl’s parents for
gave her, and all is now serene.
A mob of masked men took Mrs. Cross
and two daughters of ill-fame from their
home at Blue Ridge, Blount County, Tenn.,
tarred and feathered them, whipped the
woman half to death and burned her house
with all its contents.
The other day at the terminus of the
Kansas and Gulf Shore line near Lufkin,
Tex., sixty convicts working on the road
made a desperate break for liberty just as
they had finished their supper. With deaf
ening yells they started up in a body and
rushed for the neighboring woods. Guards
opened fire on them with deadly effect. The
latest report say? that twenty-five of them
were killed or wounded. The first ones
were in one ’arge body, and the guards
simply emptied their repeating rifles aud
small arms into the moving mass.
The other evening, as Herman Guenther,
aged for\y, and his son Louis, aged six
teen. were crossing the Union Railroad
tracks, near Bay View, Md., their wagon
was struck. The young man was killed
outright, and the physician pronounces his
father’:! ease hopeless. TheJGuenthers Bre
truck { ardeners, aud reside near Herring
Run, iu Baltimore County.
C. T. Smith, of Rivesville, W. Ya., fell
from the construction train on the F., M. &
P. R. R.. on which he was riding, and was fa
tally irjured.living but a short time after the
accident. He was caught under the wheels
and terribly mangled, a leg and both arms
being cut off. He was about forty years of
age, gnd leaves a family.
No white child has ever been born in
Creighton’s Island, which is situated near
Brunswick, Ga., aud embraces about 1,400
acres, though people have lived there for
the psst 100 years or more.
The (Southern Base Ball League for next
ye ir will comprise clubs at Nashville, At
lanta, Augusta, Memphis, Savannah and
Chf-rleston. Columbus, Macon, Birming
ham and Chattanooga are dropped, not
being able to sustaiu good clubs.
The movement of Northerners on Florida
has begun.