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VOL. 6.—NO. 70.
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
LATEST EVENTS AT HOME AND
ABROAD.
Secretary Manning Still Plying the Guillo
tine in the Treasury Ilepartni nt—Exe
cution of a Wife Murderer-Collision
in Chesapeake Bay—War Be
tween Russia and England
Still Probable Grant’s
Condition Worst-G n
era! I'ems of
Interest.
Chicago, March 17. —Special Treasury
Agent George B. Swift and Inspectors 11.
L. Swords, E. J. Cohen, L. H. Hough and
John Moses, attached to the Custom House
here, received notice yesterday from Secre
tary Manning that their services will not be
required after April first.
AN OVER-ZEALOUS GRAND JURY
Finds Very Absurd Indictments Against
Prominent Citizen! s.
St. Mary's, W. Va , March 17.—There
is gerier I consternation here over the find
ing of thegrand.j iry of this county, which
is just made put lie. More than 100 persons
were indicted, some of whom are of the
highest social standing, including an attor
ney and physicians and a minister. Several
ladies of the best families are also on the
list. These persons were engaged in the
habit of | laying dominoes in public. There
is much indignation over the action of the
grand jury.
ANOTHER COILISION ON CHESA
PEAKE BAY.
The Steamship Berkshire, of the M. & M.
T. Company Sunk —No Lives Lost.
Baltimore, Md., March 17.—A collision
occurred at 3 o’clock this mosniug off Seven
Foot Knoll, in Craighaill channel, between
the steamer Collier h.o.tburg, Opt. P. G
Letonian, belonging to the Consolidated
Coal Company, and the steamship Berk
shire, owned by the Merchants’ and Miners’
Transportation Company, Captain J. 8.
March, Jr, master. The F. offburg was
bound out for Hoboken, and the Berkshire
was on her way to Baltimore from Boston.
The Berkshire was sunk. No lives were
lost.
EXECUTION OF A WIFE-MURDERER.
He Perfect Indifference to His
Fate.
Philadelphia, Pa., March 17.—Charles
Briggs, the murderer of his reputed wife,
Mary Elizabeth Tempest, was hanged in
the county jail here ■ .0:04 tbism.rning.
The man seemed perfectly indiff'jrent to his
fate, and slept throughout his last night on
earth as peacefully as a child.
RELIGIOUS EXCITEMENT
Leads to the Suicide of a Learned Pro
fessor.
Erie, Pa., March 17.—Professor Joseph
Bargeley, a graduate of Edinburgh Uni
versity, was found yesterday bangin' in his
study, where he had been shut up for sev
eral days. Professor Bargeley had filled
the chair of Greek and Latin in several coL
leges. A strong religious excitement this
winter unbalanced his mind and led to his
suicide.
Probabilities.
Washington, March 17. —For the South
Atlantic States, fair weather in the southern
portion; partly cloudy weather, with local
rains or snow, in northern portion, followed
by fair weather, winds generally shifting to
northerly; colder weather and rising bar
ometer.
International Fast Mail Service,
London, March 17. —As a request oi (he
agitation for the establishing of a fast m il
service between England and the United
States, the government has decided to pro
vide £25,000 fi r such service.
War Between England and Russia Still
Considered Probable.
New York, March 17. —The Tribune
says that thi; p-rs and marine insurance
men believe war between Kussia a- d Eng
land prolab e in spite of Mr. Gladstone's
statement.
Chicago' ’Change.
Chicago, March 17. — vVheat ope. ed
stronger and higher; May at 79|; June, 82.
Corn quiet at }c lower; May at 41jj; J ne,
41j; Jt.lv, 42-J. Oats not quoted. PorK
firm and uneha ger!; May at sl2 45; Jane,
sl2 60 Lard s eary and unchanged; May
at $6 9a. Ribs s e .dy and stronger; May,
$6 32|.
.—♦ ♦
Germany to Mediate Between France
a::d China.
Par s, March 17.—The Matin U-Jay
publishes an article startled that it is re[ or -
ed in official circles that Germany has
agreed to mediate between France and China
New General Superintendent B. & O. R. R.
Baltimore, March 17- —David Lee has
been appointed to succeed Wm.M. Clem
ents as General Superintendent of the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad, to date from
April Ist. Mr. Lee has been in the em
ploy of the road for thirty years.
(grant’s Condition Worse.
New York, March 17.—General Grant
is slightly worse than last night.
FROM ATLANTA.
The New Geo-gia State Bonds—Work on
the New Capitol—Freak of a Runaway
Engine—Suicide of a Farmer.
Special Dispatch to the Daily Times.
Atlanta, March 17.—The capitalists are
already figuring on the new Georgia bonds.
One large syndicate has a representative
here looking to the purchase of the entire
issue. It is confidently believed that the
bonds will go at a premium.
The Capitol Commissioners will meet on
Wednesday. There is nothing of special
, importance to come before the board beyond
the usual routine work. The recent fine
I weather has allowed the work on the new
, building to progress nicely.
A singular accident is reported from
Rome. A switch eng'ne collided with a
freight engine. Jnst before the engines
struck the engineer of the switch engine
reversed and sprang < ff. The engines were
only damaged slightly and the switch
engine being reversed, started backward,
: and was ont of reach of the engineer before
he could get on. The runaway engine ran
out oi tow n and soon struck a down grade,
, and in le-s than no time was going at a rate
of fifty miles an hour. Six miles out i f
town the engine collided with a freight
i train, but with no serious results.
j Yesterday in Gwinnett county, a farmer
named Miner, committed suicide by shoot
’ ing his brains out with a double-barreled
' shotgun. No cause assigned.
New York Stock Market.
New York, March 17 —At 1:30 p. m. to
day quotations were :
. Union Pacific J rjl
Missouri Pacific 60%
Western Union Telegraph Co 59%
Pacific Mall 60%
■ Lake Shore 61%
. Louisville and Nashville 31%
; Texas Pacific 13
: Denver amt Rio Grande 8%
Michigan Central 61
Delaware, Lackawanna<S West'll UH%
Northwestern 115%
St. Paul 73%
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy 121 H
Oregon Transcontinental 13%
1 Northern Pacific 13
i Rock Island 115%
Jersey Central 37%
t MemphisandJCharleston -12%
East Tennessee, Va. & Ga (com) 21) ;
East Tennessee, Va. & Ga. (pfd) 7%
Philadelphia and Reading 17%
Omaha (com) 25%
- Omaha (pfd) 87%
' New York Central 89%
Kansas and Texas 18%
Erie 13%
* New York Produce Market.
New York, March 17.—Flour continues
' dull and prices are unchanged. Wheat, No.
2 red winter, April, 88 bid; do May, 89j
. bid; do- June, 90’. Corn, No. 2 mixed, 49 |
for March; 49) for April and May. Oats,
1 No. 2 mixed, 36J for March and April; 36g
for May. Rye quiet; No. 1, 73. Barley
nominal. Pork quiet, mess $13,50. Lard
s I $7,17a7.18 for March; f7 23.724 for April.
Molasses dull, prices range from 40a50c.
' Turpentine steady at 31}a31Jc. Rosin
1 dull, strained to good $1.20a123c. Petro
. leum dull, refined in cases 9]alo|c. Butter
s quiet and steady, Western imitation cream
t ery chci:e, 13a24c. Cheese dull, Ohio fair
prumes to choice lOJallc Eggs steady,
State and Western 21c.
Charity and Prudenc".
I Two brazen youths were gilding them
’ I selves in a repoussee bar-room. Then en-
j tered a poorly dressed woman with an out
stretched hand, a baby in her arms, and an
i appealing look.
“Charity, gentlemen,” she said.
One of the young men looked at her and
’ palled out a quarter.
“Don’t give her anything,” said the oth
1 er. “She’ll only spend it for rum.”
“I don’t c«re,” retorted his companion,
, who was fast becoming obstinate. “She’s
s got a baby, ain’t she?”
‘ It isn’t hers; she hires it by the day.”
“Well, she carries it around, don’t she?”
returned the charitable man. “That’s
worth $3 or $4, anyway, ain’t it? lam al
' ways willing to help anybody who is willing
1 to work hard for a living ”
1 Then, while his friend was in a state of
I collapse, he gave the quart< r to the woman,
, borrowed a quarter from his friend to pay
for the drinks, and walked home with imply
pockets and a fee'ing of moral exhilara-
, tion.
Wit Found Among Baggage Smashers.
Pretzel’s Weekly.
I There are punsters in all trades but curs,
I but there seems to be a lot of wit running to
' waste among the railroad men. A a gen
tleman was recently commenting on the
calendar for the present year, and he ob
-1 served that the month of February on the
calendar presented a rather odd appearance
. as it commenced on Sunday, and has its
ending on Saturday, thereby filling every
space. It was thus observed in the presence
of E. C. Allen, a well known and popular
baggag man in the depot of the Lake Shore
road.
“Every one is full,” remarked one, “Sin
gular. isn’t il?”
“It won’t present itself in that way again
. for sod.h '-ears to come,” remarked another.
“That’s my case exactly,” said Allen.
‘■A n d why your case?” asked a dozen.
“Well, you see, I was full once, but like
1 old February you see there, it will be a long
time before I am full again.”
CATARKH OF TBE BLAILER.
Stinvinp, irritation, inflamatfon, all Kid
ney and Urinary Complaints, cured b y
Buchu-Paiba.” sl.
William McKnew,
i 124 Fayette St., Baltimore, Md., says: “I
. believe ‘Favorite Remedy’ is a good medi
cine. (t is doing me more good than any
thing I ever tried, and I have tried almost
i evert thing, for lam sufferer from dyspep
sia.” While “Favorite Remedy” is a specific
in Stomach and Bladder diseases, it is equal
ly valuable in cases of bilious disorders,
Constipation of the Bowels and all the class
of ills apparently inseparable from the con
s'itutionsof women.
Hoarseness relieved in fine minutes time
simply by gargling 'he throat with Holmes’
Mouthwash and Dentifrice. Try it and be
convinced.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, T
TREACHEROUS ICE.
1
TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE OF A
PENNSYLVANIA BOY.
5 A Narrow Escape from Drowning While
Playing “Shinny”—Swept Under by the
4 Currents, He Rises Three Times,
to be as Often Carried Away—Fi
nally Rescued, Alter Two of
J Playmates were Drowned
While Making Efforts
to Save Him,
[ Saxton, Penn., March 17.—Charles
Enyeart had a narrow escape from drowning
' on Friday last while playing a game of
“shinny” with his schoolmates on the Rtys
town branch of the Juniata river, at this
l village. Two of his companions, Frank
s Williams and Fred Dobson, who broke
> through the ice at the same place wh le
' endeavoring to rescue him, were drowned.
The river opposite here is comparatively
> shallow but very swift. It had been fiozen
1 solidly during the past winter, but on Fri
-1 day, owing to the recent thaws, the ice re
f mained only about 45 feet from the short s
: and a large open channel had been formed
through the middle. In the narrow stretch
• o’ ice that remained along the shores
were larve holes at various spot”, and some
i places apparently solid were in reality quite
thin. In pursuing the “shinny block” the
boys skated across the piece of thin ice
without thinking of danger. They passed
- over it once in safety, but on their return
the ice gave way under young Enyeart,
and he was carried down the rivir by the
J swift current. He struggled frantically to
. pull himself out, but the edges of the ice
- ' repeatedly broke under his weight and he
“ i was swept beneath the ice. About 50 feet
below thisspot was another hole in the di
» I rect course of young Enyeart, and in a
„ i few moments he bobbed up again in the
6 presence of Iris frightened companions. He
% made a plucky effort to sive himself, but
• | was again swept under the ice. Further
| down,in the immediate direction of the
? current, there was another hole. The boys
? ■ gathered at the spot prepared to rescue En
a yeart in case he should come up again
-' Presently he appeared in the open space,
’ calling piteously for he p, with his fa e
k bleeding freely. Thwo unfortunate
1 young heroes, Williams and Dobson, aged
- 17 and 14, went to his assistance, but they
b oke through near the edge and went
uuder the ice before any one could help
s them. They were not seen afterward. When
, the other boys disappeared young Enyeart
j was completely chilled and exhausted, and
s could make but a spasmodic effort as he
I reached the lower edge of the open space.
. He was swept down a third time by the re
i morseless current. By this time, however,
’ the other boys standing about had become
I desperate, and when for the last time Enyeart
reappeared, in the still water fronting the
eaw mill, they hurried to the water’s edge,
’ and after having joined hands for safety, the
first boy in the chain reached out with his
. hooked club and caught Enyeart by his coat
( pocket and carefully drew him out, bleeding
. and insensible. His physician predicts his
complete recovery in a few days, in spite of
1 the thorough chilling and the long nervous
1 strain to which he was subjected in the ex
citement and terror of his situation. After
. his second futile attempt to crawl out En
. yeart tried to break the ice by bracing his
. feet i n the bottom of the river and bumping
i agains’the ice with his he id, but failed
After this he became unconscious He sup
poses his face became cut by the scraggy
I under surface of the ice as he was carried
under it. “I opened my eyes under the
water several times.” he said, and could see
when 1 was coming near the open places
, by the greenish light. He was terribly
s shocked to learn that his friends Wil-
liams and Dobson were drowned. On being
questioned as to his emotions during his
’ struggle, he said: “It was so quick I hardly
i knew how it happened; but after 1 found
I couldn’t get out my feelings were
, horrible. The Lord deliver me from an
other such horrible experienc,! Ugh, the
f cold, rushing water!”
A Deatli Scene Interrupted.
, Little Rock (Ark.) Gazette.
The last scene of “La Traviata,” at the
Grand Opera House, represented the death
bed of Violetta, the room being furnished
as an ordinary bedroom, with an open fire
, place upon the right, in which the fire was
■ reprisented by a candle burning behind a
- piece of red cloth. The extended scene al
s lowed the candle to burn low and tumble
• over ag inst the cloth, which Hashed up
e like tinder. All in the r.om were engaged
3 with the heroine, who was struggling with
3 death, but the nurs* saw the danger and
r quietly endeavor d to tear the burning
3 cloth away, bin the fire had caught upon
r the woodwork of the scenery. The doctor
s looked around and left his patient to assist
the maid. The flames mounted higher.
- He flung a large cushion upon them without
effect. The attention of the audience was in
i vited to the flames, and began to get uneasy,
• and many in the immense audience stood up.
A general stampede impended. S louts of
’Fire!” “Keep your seats!” and “Don’t
3 rash!” resounded on all sides Tae dying
5 Violetta looked around, and like lightning
sprang up, snatched a large flannel blanket
from the couch, and in three seconds the
leaping flames were subdued, and she stood
■ before the audience with a smiling tace and
' the remains of the burned and blackened
blanket in her hands. For a moment the
demoralized throng stood breathless, and
then a roar of enthusiastic applause swelled
! forth like a tornado, which continued long
■ after Miss Abbott had appeared biffire the
■ curtain and bowed her acknowledgements,
t The audience was cheated out of the death
■ scene, but witnessed in its stead one of the
: coolest, pluckiest pieces of work ever done
■ on the stage The Grand Opera House
, never had and never can have a more nar
i row escape from a disastrous death-de ling
stampede.
ROUGH ON ITJH.’
“Rough on Itch” cures humors, eruptions
ringworms, tetter, salt rheum, frosted feet
hilblains.
UESDAY, MARCH 17, 1885.
A WOMAN’S CURSK.
How it Has Followed a Gambler Over
Land and Ocean for Ten Years.
“If yon want to hear a strange story,”
said a gentleman to a reporter of the San
! Francisco (Cal.) Alta, yesterday, in Go’den
Gate Park, “engage that gray haired man
in conversation, and get him to tell you his
htyory; it will repay you for your time,”
and he indicated a prematurely aged man,
with a sad face, silting in the sun on one
of the benches of the park. The reporter
. needed no second invitation, and was soon
seated by the man with the sad history.
' “I am told,” said the seeker after facts,
f “that you have a life story strange in the
- extreme, and that you are not averse to re
-5 latirg it.”
The eyes of the man were turned on the
’ speaker a moment, and then folding his
3 white hands in his lap, he said :
; “Yes, it is a s*ory. lam a murderer and .
a reformed gambler; but you need not
shrink >o from me, for the mutder was not
’ intentional Ten years ago I owned the
> largest and most popular gambling parlors ,
in the city of Chicago, and on Saturday
nights I dealt my own faro game, in which
business, of course, I made a great deal of
! money. Many unpleasant incidents grew
1 out of my business, but I always excused it
i on the ground that men did not have to
t play my game any more than they were ob
‘ liged to drink poison. I finally got to no-
ticing and expecting one young man in parti
■ cular.who always came when it was my night
' to deal. At first he ) liyed boldly,andasa cm- 1
I sequence, lost heavily; but as he grew more
i familiar with the game he played carefully,
, and acted as though life depended on his
‘ winning, which in fact»was the case, as it 1
' afterward proved. I got acquainted with
- him, addressed him as Brown, but knew that '
that was not his true name. I think he 1
: followed the game for months, winning a
littlesometini' S, but generally losing heavily. '
i At last he came one night, and I saw by his
■ flush'd face that he had been drinking,
: although he looked apparently cool. He
i sat down to the table, drew out a small roll
r of money, and laying it down before me, !
? said: ‘There is in that little pile my for
-3 tune, my honor and my life. 1 either win
- all or lose all this night. Begin your game,
I am ready.’ Others joined in and
, played for awhile, but finally wth
;■ drew from the game and watcl ed
r the strange young man at my right. He
I played to win, but fate was against him, for
i he lost, won and lost again, and finally, after
i two hours of playing, evidently in the most
3 fearful suspense, had lost his last dollar,
i Leaning back in his chair, with compressed
t lips and face blanched to a deathly white-
I ness, he looked me in the eye a moment, and
’ rising, said:
“ ‘My money, honor and happiness have
gone over that table, never to return; I said
, my life would go with them, and it shall.
■ Tell my wife I had gone too far to return.”
“Before we could prevent him, he put a
Derringer to his breast and and shot himself
, through the heart, falling upon the tablethat
■ had been his ruin and death.
) “His wife came, awful tn the majesty of
her grief, and after satisfying herself that
; her husband was dead, asked: ‘Wnere is the
< keeper of this dreadlul pi ece?’ I was pointed ’
I’ out, and striding up to me so that her finger
< almost touched my pa lid face, she exclaim
• ed, in tones that are ringing in my ears ye :
■ ‘Ob! you soulless wretch, with heartof stone! ’
- You have lured my husband from me, sent
< him to perdition, widowed me and orphaned '
; my children. You are his murderer, and
may God’s curse rest upon you eternally!’ 1
■ Anil with a wild scream, ‘Oh! my husband! I
my ch Idrenl’she fell fainting on the body I
of the corpse. ’
i “I lingered for weeks in a brain fever, 1
i that curse always seeming to be a burden to '
t my mind. On my recovery I burned the
fixture” of my den, and closed the place,
and have devoted most of my time to trav
; e), with the hope of escaping that woman’s
i just curse, but I can’t; I believe it is on me
■ forever, and I feel that I was that man’s
I murde.er. lam rich, and my first attempt
was to get the dead man’s wife to accept an
■ annuity from me, but she refused all aid,
■ and tried to support herself by her own la
bor. I relieved my miud to some extent,
however, by settling a certain sum on her
and her children, which patses through her
father’s hands, and ostensibly comes directly
: Iro n him, Iler children are receiving a fine
education by this means, and my will, safily
I locked in her lather’s office, bequeaths to
her and her children my entire wealth,
■ some SIOO,OOO My life,” concluded Le, “is
s devoted largely to visiting gambling dets,
i where I meet young men who are on the
highway to hell, and warn them of their
danger. Thanks be to God, I have suc
i ceeded in many cases in saving thim, and
now, young man, remember this story, and
i let it always stand up as a white spectre
I between you and the gambling table. See
; to it that the poison does not enter your
i veins,” and he pulkd his hat ever his
■ moistened eyes and strode silently away.
, Dr. Sketchley, who has charge of the
- ostrich farm at Anaheim, was plucking one
■ of the things one day. When thiy pluck
, them a stocking is kept on the head to
blind the bird. While he cannot see he is
‘ quiet, but if his blinkers get uncoveted then
he “goes for” the plucker. The doctor
moved his arm so as to distuib the stcck-
I ing, and instantly he saw what was dine
and went head first out of the pen, not
! eating for any more plumes just then. As
he tumbled head first over the fence the
bird—he was a jack on e, of course - let fly
a kick which, striking a fence hoard, made
' toothpicks of a panel length. The mule’s
occupation as a kteker is gone in this ccun
try since the ostrich came.— Los Angeles
I Express.
Proof Against Intoxication.
“Don’t you know,” said a gentleman in a
, barroom to a very seedy looking party who
. was about to drink a glass of steaming hot
whisky, “that the strong fumes of that
liquor are very intoxicating? Tao or three
such glasses will make you terrible drunk.”
“No, they won’t.”
“They won’t? Why not?”
“Because I haven’t got money enough to
buy two or three of ’em,” said tie seedy
party sadly.
ftT. PATRICK’S DAY.
HOW IT WAS CELEBRATED IN SA
VANNAH.
Grand Parade of the Irish Societies—The
Streets Thronged with Admiring Spec
tatorsr-The Shamrock and the Harp
Mingle Harmoniously with the
Stars and Stripes—Pleasing
Incidents of the Day—The
Banquet To-Night.
The celebration of St. Patrick’s Day in
this city to day was taken part in by a large
number of the Irish population, who turned
out in the ranks of the different organiza
tions of the c’ty. The display made was
highly creditable, every organization seem
ing to vie with the other in a good natured
way in making the occasion one of success
and enjoyment.
At 9 o’clock the Irish Union Society met I
at their hall for the purpose of installing I
officers for the ensuing year.' Below are |
the officers: D. A. O’Byrne, r ’resident;
James Ray, First Vice President; Thomas I
D. Downing, Second Vice President; John !
E. Nolan, Treasurer; John W. Deacy, I
Recording Secretary; P. L. Constantine, I
Corresponding Secretary; Capt. Edward :
Fi zgerald, Standard Bearer; Thomas F.
Cullen, Assistant Standard Bearer.
The new officers were regularly installed,
and this ceremony being ended, the
society which now numbers about 100 j
members, adjourned to South Broad street,
where it took the p< sition assigned it in the I
ranks of the procession.
Promptly at 11 o’clock the procession be- |
gan to assume tangible shape, and soon the
entire line, composed of the various Irish I
societies of the city and their invited i
guests, numbering about seven hun
dred persons in all, was formed. Mr. I
Luke Carson was Marshal of the day, his
aides being Messrs. Jordan F. Brooks and
Frank Douglas, and one from each |
society. Tne Stvannah Volunteer
Guard's band led the procession, the firs’ I
piece of music played bffing “St. Patrick’s
Day in the Morning,” which was also joined
in by the Union Cornet band. Next fol
lowed the Jasper Greens, whose beaut ful i
uniforms and soldierly bearing excited the
aa miration of the large number cf lookers
on. The ancient order of Hibernians fol
lowed next floating to the breeze the Na
tional banner of the Sons of Erin. Following
the Hibernians came the Irish Union So
ciety, which has not paraded for sev..
eral years before. ,The Union Cornet
band came next, and was fo.lowed by the
Workingmen’s Benevolent Association, cne
of the largest societies in the city. St.
Patrick’s T. A. B. Society and St John’s
T. A. 8.. both temperance societies, came
next, and were so ly represented. St. John’s
Cadets, f. Bowed by the Irish National Land
League, completed the procession.
The procession moved along the route
laid out as heretofore published until the
City Exchange was reached, where the
company passed in review before His Honor
the Mayor and the Board of Aidermen. All
along the route crowds of pe ple stood and
watched the column as it passed. Quite a
uu” ber of flagr, bearing the sy mb< lie wc rds,
“Erin-go-Bragh,”' were carried by the
societies, besides their regular banners. At
last Madison Square was reached, and here
the Irish Jasper Greens fired the s lute in
honor of the day, after which they fed into
ranks and the march back to the start’ng
point was begun. This point reached, the
procession was dismissed and the different
societies either went off in a body or broke
up into small parties, seeking to spend the
day as best suited each one’s inclination
The day opened up as beautiful and clear as
a bell and had the effect of putting every
body in a still happier frame of mind than
before, and bright and smiling faces were
observed on all sides.
INCIDENTS OF THE DAY.
Previous to the St. John’s T. A. B. So
ciety taking its position in the procession,
Mr. T. B. Catherwood, in behalf of Mr.
J. J. Tynan, presented to Mr. N. F. Thomp- ■
son, President of the Society, a beautiful !
banner, the front of which was of blue satin,
with a wreath of leaves and flowers coming
from the upper right corner to the lower, the
letters “J. J. T. to N. F. T.” being in the
crescent. The reverse side of the banner
was of rich crimson satin, the whole being
bordered with a heavy cord of crimson and
gold. In making the presentation, Mr.
Catherwood deliveied the following neat and
appropriate address:
Mb. President: —I am accredited to
ycu an ambassador frem the truly royal
Ccurt of Gratitude, the bearer cf a message
and a token. lam commissioned to say Io
you that ycur earnest, your devoted labors
in the cause of total abstirence have lifted
cut of the depths cne grateful soul at leas’,
and I am requested to give expression, as
best I may, to the deep gratefulness thet
fills cne heart. I have been asked by one
who, young as he is, had already found l ow
easy and how rapid is the descent into the
Valley of Humiliation, to say to ycu. “God
bless you ! God speed your tireless labors
for the welfare of your fellow men.” Sir, I
congratulate myself that cur young friend
has oxmmitted this trust to me, for
assuredly could he look Into my
heart today he would find there in
surging volume the same fee ling < f iliimit
al le thankfulness that oveifluns his own,
and he would know me, animated by the
same gratitutde to which be gives expres
sion now, for I too was traveling that con
stantly descending road, whose way lies
through Sahara— like wastes, and finds its
terminus in the vale cf Despair. Having
in remembrance ycur earnest labors in my
behalf, I can place myself (in fu 1 sym
pathy with cur friend, and lean heartily
and earnestly echo his cry, “God bless you!
God speed ycu in your unselfish labors.”
I have delivered my nitstage, Mr Presi
dent, aid I take a tincete pleatme in de
livering also a tangible ttken of that
sentiment I have tried to express, this
beautiful banner. It is indeed an
appropriate gift to the banner President
oi that which bids fair to become the ban
nerTemperame Organizatien of thebanner
Temperance State of the South. Ycu will
prize it,sir, we know, not akne for its in-
S6OO A YE LR
trinsic worth, beautiful though it be, but
because each time your glance may fall
upon its lustrous folds you will be reminded
of a young life redeemed from vice, of a soul
saved perchance, and you will be nerved
and strengthened to renewed activity in the
cause you hold so dear.
I'ake then your banner and with it take
the honor and esteem of a brave heart,
which the fair braider, catching
her inspiration from the enthusiasm of
the donor, has shared and woven amongst
her silken threads, and oft as you may look
upon it, may it speak with silent yet im
pressive eloquence that donor’s prayer and
mine, “God speed you! God prosper you!
God bless you !”
Mr. Thompson was taken completely by
surprise, and was only able to respond more
by look than word. He expressed his sin
cere thanks and gratitude for the kindly
token and expressed satisfaction that he had
been the humble instrument of doing so
much good as saving even one soul from the
downward course, and hoped that he might
be instrumental in doing more good.
i A large crowd assembled and blocked up
; the pavements on Bay street and filled the
I steps of the Custom House while the pro-
I cession was passing the City Exchange in
; review this forenoon. The procession was
j favorably commented on by all.
MACON MATTERS.
I End of the Strike on the E. T., V. & G.
Railroad—A Serious Runaway—Re
ligious Revival—A Great
Strok© of Fortune.
Special Corespondence to the Daily Times.
Macon, Ga., March 16. —Chief I’. M.
' Arthur of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
■ Engineers of (. lev< 1 md,Ohio, has succeeded
! in bringing the strike to a close. After a
consultation of about live hours with the
; strikers and other members of the Brother
hood here, he decided that the men had no
just cause for leaving the service of the
! road in the manner they did. A committee
I called upon Superintendent Fry and asked
that the strikers be reinstated in their
j positions.
Some few hot heads have caused all the
trouble. Chairman J. F. Porter was ac-
■ quitted of all blame in the action he took,
las he acted silelv upon what hebilieved
! to be facts as regarded the alleged treatment
of the men. The grievances of the men were
exaggerated, and in seme cases untrue.
Superintendent Fry has scored a big
triumph by his coolness and calm judg
ment in this affair. He has all along offered
to hear any complaints the men had to
make and repair ii justices if any should be
found. He will reinstate only a portion of
the strikers.
Rather a serious runaway occurred yester
day afternoon in Mr. Jno. M. Daly’s back
yard, a place about 20 feet wide by 75 long.
The horse attached to a buggy, in which
were Mr. Daly’s two small children, became
frightened at a goat which ran out from
under the house very suddenly. The horse
ran around and around the yard, threw the
children out and smashed the buggy into
kindling wood. The children were hurt very
badly, anil Mr. Daly, in trying to catch the
horse, sprained his arm and received severe
bruises about the face and body.
A revival is being held at the First Bap
tist Church, led by the pastor, Dr. E. W.
Warren. Small dodgers were scattered over
the city to-day inviting sinners to repent
ance.
The “Great Stroke of Fortune” reported
in the Constitution to-day as likely to fall to
Mr. A. A. Willett, of Sumter county, will
fall here instead, if anything comes of the
affair. Judge E. E. Brown, proprietor of the
Edgarton House, is a grandson of the pros
perous merchant of 1812, whose valuable
vessel was seized by the United States Gov
ernment. It is said that the claim amounts
to over $1,000,000. Prof. Willet, of Mercer
University, is also an heir to this snug sum.
Judge 11 own and Professor Willett will in
vestigate. Harold.
I-t Case of War with Russia.
Saturday Review.
Ruisian finance is in an extremely bad
I state, but a war with England would crip
! pie that finance in a variety of ways—di
rectly, as every one can see, by increasing
largely the military expenditure, ami in
dirtctly by the blcikade of the Russian
ports. At pieseut the Russian exj ort trade
j consists almcst entirely of raw materia),
% such as torn, flax, h<mp atd the Ik ■. A
. ' war wculd immediately lead to the bh ckade
. j of the whole of the Russian p< rts, and all
I ; these products would be shut in. or else
could be exported only throt gh Gen any
> ard Austria. The roundabout ix|ort
would inertase grea ly the expense, and
there would consequently be an immense
i falling iff in the exports cf the empire.
The peasants, already cripp led by exerf itant
taxatiinard low prices, would be ruined
by this prohibition of exports; their mar
kets would be <1 sed agairs them, and
they would have no profitable sale < their
surplus production. The nsult might be
an agrici Itural revolt; but in any case it
would increase enormously the difficulties
. of the government in meeting the interest
i upon its foreign debt. In the cis? cf India,
I on the other hand, there would le no
I blockad); while the Russian blockade would
■ diminith the ermpetitien with Indian
wheat, and would thus benefit the Indian
i farme: - Furthermore, if actual invasion
- were a\ erted and the war was fought <nt in
, Central Asia, Indian production would be
? stimulated by the demands of all kinds for
- the supply cf the troops, and in the long
■ run, doubtless, markets would be
s opened up in Central Asia for many Indian
s )i< ducts. The cost of the war at the same
> time wiuld be very heavy, would disergan
; ize li ei. n finance, and press heavi’y upon
- 'he luoian taxpayer. But agaimt. these
i disadvantages ie to be set, undoubtedly, the
! stimulus to production of all kino's to which
we have referred. Nor is there any reason
- to suppi se tl at there is anything like so
large a speculation for the rise in the case of
t lirdiaii Goverrment securities as is known
s to exist in the case of Rnssian Government
i securities. Therefore it is Lot probable
t that the fall in Irdisn Goverrmont seenri-
- ties wou'ol be res.rly as heavy isin Russian
r Gcven mt nt tocuritit s, and in fact, the fall
1 that has now ccci nod is due net exolutiye
• ly to political causes'.