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VOL. 6.—AO. 72.
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
LATEST EVENTS AT HOME AND
ABROAD
Arrest of the Alleged Murderer of Miss
Madison in Richmond Bismarck the
Mediator Between Russia and Eng
land—The Senate Getting Ready
to Adjourn—Movements of the
British Troops in the
Soudan.
Richmond, Va., March 19. —I. J. Cluve
rius, of King and Queen county, was arrest
ed last night at his home, on a warrant issued
by JusticeD. C. Richardson, of this city. lie
is charged with the murder of Miss Fannie
Lilian Madison, the woman whose dead body
was found in the city reservoir
last Saturday. Officers having him
in charge are on their way
to the city now. They have been preceded
>y counsel for the accused, Messrs B. Evans
and H. R Pollard, of Middlesex and Glou
cester counties respectively. Judge Crump
of this city hasalso be< n retained by Clu
verius who evidently sees the toils fastening
around him. He is a young man and a
graduate of Richmond College here. The
cise creates great excitement here.
THE EXTRA SESSION.
The Morning’s Proceedings in lhe Senate.
Washington, March 19—In the Senate
to-day, Mr. Saulsbury submitted the cre
dentials of the Hon. Geo. Gray, elected to
succeed the Hon. T. F. Bayard, as Senator
from Delaware. The new Senator was sworn
in. Mr Wilson elected as successor to Mr.
Groome, of Maryland, on motion of M'.
Gorman, was also sworn in and took his seat.
The Senate, at 12:30 o’clock, went into
executive session. In executive session Mr.
Sherman offered a resolution, directing the
Chair to appoint a committee of two Sena
tors to wait upon the President and inform
him that unless he has some further
c mmunication to make, the Senate is
ready to adjourn without day.
The resolution will probably be adopted
to-morrow. At 12:40 p. m., when the doors
were reopened, the Senate adjourned.
A TOUGH OFFENDER.
Cuts an Officer’s Throat, and Though Shot
Five Times Will Recover.
Chattanooga, Tenn , March 19. —Last
night Policeman John She I'ow attempted to
arrest James Looney, a steamboat man.
Ix>oney cut the < fflcer’s throat to his wind
pipe and ran, but the officer pursued and
shot at him five limes. One bullet passed
through Looney’s arm, another through his
thigh, the third through his shoulder and
a fourth through his side, yet it is thought
he will recover The officer is badly
wounded.
DISASTROUS WRECK.
lu Which One Man is Killed and Two In
jured.
Poole, Pa., March 19.—A disa trous
wreck occurred e.rly this morning on the
main line of the Pennsylvania railroad near
here, resulting in the immediate death of
Harry Tutz, a fireman. He was scalded to
death. Jacob Shultz, engineer, and Wm
Reeth, freight train conductor, were both
badly cut about the head aud bruised.
Shultz’s injuries are dangerous
HOMELESS AND STARVING.
Destitute Condition of an Ex-F. nian Chief.
London, March 19.—Private dispatches
received by several of the members of the
Irish party from Brussels, state that James
Stephens, the ex-President of the Fenian
Brotherhood, recently expelled from France,
is in an almost destitute state in that country,
being homeless and starving.
FREAK OF A LUNATIC.
Shoots His Wife and Kills Himself.
Goshen, Ind., March 19. William Hub
bell, of Whitly county, an insane uiaa, has
been greatly troubled by hearing his t. mily
talk of sending n m loan a-yl im. Yeltei
day while he and his wife were visi:i."g r. 1-
atives, he suddenly die • hi p.s ul ai.d shot
Mrs Hubbe 1 dead. He lieu blew his ov n
brains out.
THE ANGLO RU-SIAN WAR
Averted by <h Intercession of Isi§m -re s.
London, March It is now st: td iu
dipl<niatid circles that'he threaten dw r
between England an I Russia o.< r the
Afghan frontier disputes was only averted
by the intercession of Prince Bisma-ck, who
at the l ist u oment offered bis services as
an arbitrator in the adj istment of the (in
ferences growirg cut of the dispute.
One Lunatic Kills Another.
Newark, N. J., March 19. —Herman
Fuchs, an insane patient in the Essex conn-1
tv asylum, was killed Tuesday night by Wm.
Mulcahy, another lunatic, who crushed his
skidl by repeated blows with a heavy stone
spittoon, before the keepers could interfere.
A Recreant Clerk.
Tombstone, Arizona, March 19. —J. W.
Smith, confidential clerk of the St. Helena
Mine, in Las Deliscas Sonoro, has absconded
with a gold bar valued at $13,000.
Mrs. Thumb to be Married at Easter.
New York, March 18—The marriage of
Mrs. Gen. Tom Thumb to Count Magri,
will take place oi Easter Monday, in
Trinity Church, this city.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1885.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
Their Hospitable Reception in Bab bridge
—Offic ra Elected—Off for New Orleans.
Special Dispatch to the Dally Times.
Bainbridge, Ga., March 18 —Tbe Press
Association reached Bainbridge at 12 m.,
a.id were received by a committee of citi
zens, aud a splendid banquet was given
them. The speech of welcome was d liver
ed by Judge C. Y. Campbell, and risponded
to by Mr John L. Underwood, of the
Camilla South Georgia Clarion. After some
routine business was transacted, the election
of officers was had, and resulted as fallows :
President —J. H Esii'l.
First Vice-President —J. W Birke.
Second Vice-President —T. L. Gantt.
Treasurer—S. R. Weston.
Rece rding Secretary —J. W. Chapman.
Corresponding Secretary—W. A Knowles.
Resolutions were unanimously passed en
dorsing the application ot Mr John L Un
derwo d tor United Slates mi'dster to
Switz Hand, and pledging him the support
of the press of Georgia. A number ot new
members were elected and the report of the I
executive committee favoring a by law not 1
recognizing any representative who is not a ;
bona fde editor or proprietor of a paper was
adopted.
An invita ion to meet in Macon mxtj
year was accepted.
The association ieive tonight at 11
o’clock fur New Orleans. Tne citizens of
Cambridge have been pr fuse in their Los
pitali y, and the association and the ladies
are delighted with their reception and
treatment.
MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA.
Notes from the Capital of Our Sister State.
Montgomery, Ala., March 19. —A storm
and severe cold wave has prevailed here
since yesterday, accompanied by snow in
North Alabama and Tennessee.
Excursion rates to and from the New Or
leans Exposition were fixed at the meeting
of the general passenger agents, at one cent a.
mile from everywhere.
Ensign Bibb, of the Federal Navy, visit
ing here on leave of absence, has been
ordered to join his command at New Or
leans immediately. He left promptly.
Alice Tunnell, a young lady from Chilton
county, Alabama, was fatally burned this
morning. Her clothing caught fire, and her
father was seriously burned iu trying to
rescue hc*j
New York Stock Market.
New York, March 19. —At 1:30 p. m. to
day quotations were :
Union Pacific 43%
Missouri Pacific 90%
Western Union Telegraph Co
Pacific Mail 55%
Lake Shore •'-%
Louisville and Nashville 30%
Texas Pacific 12%
Denver and RiojGrande 7%
Michigan Central 61
Delaware, Lackawanna & West’n 103
Northwestern 94%
St. Paul 72%
Chicago. Burlington and Quincy 122%
Oregon Transcontinental
Northern Pacific 42%
Rock Island 114%
Jersey Central 36%
Memphis andJCharleston 3#
East Tennessee, Va. & Ga (coin) 2*4%
East Tennessee, Va. & Ga. (pfd) 6%
Philadelphia and, Reading 15%
« unaha(com) 25
Omaha (pfd)
New York Central 88%
Kansas and Texas 18%
Erie
New York Produce Market.
New Y ork, March 19. —Flour dull and
unchanged. Wheat —No. 2 red winter
April, 88}. Corn—No. 2 mihed March
49}; Oats—No. 2 mixed, 371 bid March
Pork quiet; mess, sl3 50. Lard at
$7.13a7-14 April. Molasses quiet and
unchanged. Turpentine quiet at 32.
Rosin dull; strained to good, $1 20al 23.
Sugar dull; refined cut loaf, 6.J; Granulated,
6a6j-. Coffee firm; fair cargoes, SI. Rice
n iminal.
Chicago ’Change.
Chicago, March 19. —Wheat opens with
better feeling and J higher. May, 79.}; June,
81Corn stronger, with slight advance;
April, 37|.
Lcni; Strike Eaded.
Cleveland, Ohio, March 19—S. E.
D .vie, secretary and treasurer of im- Min
ers’ Urii'-n m the Hocking Va'lev, tele
graphs that the long strike is at an end.
General Grant’s Cond itim
New York, March 19—General Grant’s
comli'i nis unchanged this morning. He
passed a fair night, and no new develop
menu of importance have occurred in his
ease.
The Bank of England Reduces L> Rata of
Discount.
London, March 19—The Bank of Eng-
JanJ’e rate of discount has been reduced to
three arid a half per cent.
British Forets Advancing.
Suakim, March 19.—The British forces
operatin' from this place to-day, com
menced an advance in force on Tamas.
Failure of a Home Ruler.
Dublin, March 19—Mr. John Daly,
formerly home rule member for Cork, has
fat ed, H s liabilities rmuunt to $150,000
Probabilities.
Washington, March 19. —For the South
Atlantic Slates, slightly warmer weather.
Charity for His Customers.
Kentucky State Journal.
“Yohanr.es. gome a leedle here vonct.
Vhy you don’d gut some vater pud iu dot
new parrel of viskey ?’’
“ ’Cause I couldn't git emy iu ; it’s full of
whiskey yit.”
“ Look see here, Yoliannes, ouf you want
to learn dot grocery pteznets, you nioost
eferythings do honist und sguare. Vhea I
get a new parrel viskey, d r first dings vhat
you do vas to make ouc fife gallons viskey
u..d fi'l o p mit vater—good cistern vater;
dot makes d-r beslest visk j v vat can pe had.
Vi-key mitout dot voter kill mein guslom
ersuud den I loose mein peezuess, see? I
got scharity fur dem beoples.”
A LIKELY STORY.
EL MAHDI AS A COWBOY.
The Alleged Career of the False Prophet
in America—Said to Have Been a Con
fed: rate Colonel and an Arizona
Cattle Puncher —One Michael
Mascot Declared to be the
Leader of the Faithful
of Islamism.
Less than three years ago, says the Pres
cott (Ari ) Weekly Miner, among the des
perados and wild riders who patrolled the
broad plains of the county of Cochise, recog
nizing to law but their own sweet pleasure,
were many characters which under more
auspicio s circumstances would have won
deathless renown as intrepid leaders of
armed hosts. Inured to hardships, skilled
in the use of the most approved and accurate
arms known to the civilized world, and pos
sessing an exuberance of animal spirils and
I courage that would have done honor to
i the M st troopers of Old Scotia, when the
I rapid march of civ 1 ziti n pressed them in-
I to the last ditch of frontier outlawry, few
I would accept the condbions of capiti 1 ttion
offered them by the civil authorities, and
eithee cru s d '-ver the river and meandered
through lite V. Iley of Death, booted anti
spurred, or departed for less c. itical com
munities in foreign climes. Among this
' particular mass of heterogeneous humanity
were many of fine education and accom
plishments, who, for reasons best known to
themselves, bad seen fit Coadopt a wild and
half savage life. Os these none were more
prominently distinguished in this re
| spect than Colonel D’Estee. Who he was,
and what, no man had ever en
-1 deavored to ascertain after making
’ the first attempt. Slight and dark, with an
i eye like a hawk, his bearing and carriage,
combined with natural vivacity, gave the
impression on first acquaintance that he was
of Creole descent, while from his accomplish-
> ments as a linguist he might have been a
1 native of half the civilized nations of the
earth. Extensive travel and tales of lands
■ beyond the seas, interspersed with military
i adventures, won him the sobriquet of Colo
nel, which he accepted with indifference,
neither denying or affirming his title to it,
t and by such he was known from the Pecos to
s the Colorado during his three years’ sojourn
r in the sun-kissed lands of the Southwest. _ On
> the vigorous prosecution by Governor Trittie,
shortly after his appointment, of the work
of suppressing the bord r outlawry
in Arizona, D’Estee distinguished hitnsell
in several organized efforts at resistance
against the authorities, but was at last forced
, to desist aud disappeared from sight until
i about two years ago, when on the organiza
' tion of the Anglo Egyptian commission and
’ the resiguation of General Stone and other
i American officers serving in tbe army of the
last named nation, while returning to their
‘ homes in the East, via California and Tuc
son, they visited the office of the sheriff of
1 Cochise county, at T. mbs one, and were
! shown a number of p olographs contained
in a local rogue’s gallery. While examin
‘ inga handsome miuiature of Cd D Este ,
’ Gen - Slone exclaimed with surprise, “where
in h—t did you get that ? ’ An explana-
> tion followed of D’Estes c reer in tbe tern
' tory, a <1 the general, turning to the sheriff,
said: “Why, that is Michael Mascot, who
1 during the war commanded a brigade of
‘ Confederate savalry from Louisiana and
i afterwards took service with me under the
Egyptian governments, an 1 served until
, cashiered for a lia on with a prima donna
of a French opera troupe visiting Cairo
' When was he last here?” “In the fall of
1881,” responded the astonished sheriff.
“Yes? ” replied Gen. Stone, turning to Col.
. Cavay, who w s accompanying him home,
i ‘in tire spring of 1882, didn’t you remember
his agaiu turning up at Alexandria and
leaving tor the Soudan with the ostensible
purpose of seeking service with the forces
' suppressing the slave trade ?”
"Yes,” re| lied Clanay, “and after all his
failure in that, his endeavoring to found a
religious sect in Islam, with the title of
i ‘Directed of God.’ ”
Since the conversation the D’Estee Mas
' cot, or the “Directed of God,” has, un
’ dotibtediy, developed into El Mahdi, and the
confederate general, Arizma cowboy, is
playirg a dashing game for death or glory
on the banks of the Nile, at least so says
. General Stone, in a letter to a near relative
and cl I schoolmate<>f himstlf and Mascot,
no v serving in the army in Arizona.
When the skill shown in tbe campaigns
of El Mahdi are considered, in connection
> w th the in.iiur.te knowledge he has dis
' p ayed as to at! irs n>t only in Egypt, but
Earop', and irs toying withthe beleaguered
i fcr<es us Khartoum »o I ,: g as the dilatory
a t on of the Gladstone ministry made a de
, ceptive dip!'macy possijle, we must admit
that u hr n' sart febas thought oat the
campaign whic ba eluded England with
' sorrow for a inouhhed officer and brave
Soldier. Bit', father that a skilled and edu
cated tactician and diplomat, unscrupulous
and reckless, such as Mascot eminently was,
is the ruling genius of the war.
The Howlingest Kind of Grief Never
Seemed to Faze Him.
Chicago Herald.
“Lem me see; you knowed, the captain,
didn’t you ?”
“O!>, yes; krCw him well.”
“Well, now, wasn’t he a man as could
stand Up under trouble eq’l to anybody you
eVer seed ?”
“I don’t know. Don't remember that I
ever saw him in any very trying difficulty,
though.”
“Well, I have, an’ the howlin’est kmd of
grief never seemed toeven faze him.”
“Indetd!”
“Yes, sir; he could bear tip wonderful.
• Why, when he come home from his third
wife’s funeral, instead of snortin’ aro ind the
house an’ spilin’ his hair an’ makin’ his
eyes red, as you or me’d a done, be jest set
hisself down, an’ says he to tbe hired gal,
says he: ‘Mary Ann, is there any col l meat
in the house?”
the hope; of the nation.
Children slow in development, unyp
scrawny and delicate use “Wells’ Health
Renewer.”
THE LOSS OF THE BERKSHIRE.
Full Report of the Sinking of the Vessel
io Chesapeake Kay—Descrip
tion ol the Ship.
The following account of the recent sink
ing of the steamer Berkshire, of the Mer
chants and Miners’ Transportation Company,
in the Brewerton channel, near Baltimore, is
taken from the Baltimore Sun of yesterday:
“The Merchants and Miners’ Transporta
tion Company, which has sustained a series
of misfortunes to the vessels of the line dur
ing the past six months, had another added
to the list yesterday. The iron steamship
Berkshire, Capt. John S. March, Jr., bound
from Boston, via Norfolk, with freight and
1 passengers, collided at 8:20 a. m. yesterday
■ with the Consolidation collier Frostburg,
Capt. Peter Letournau. The Frostburg sailed
* from Baltimore early in the morning with
about 1,100 tons of coal for Hoboken, N. J.
Tbe collision occurred in the Brewerton
i channel, between the Cut-off and Seven-Foot
. Knoll bar.
The causes which led to the collision were
not explained yesterday, nor was an official
report made by the Captain of either ship.
Both refused to make any statement. It is
understood, however, that both steamers
were going al average speed. Captain Le
tournau made a verbal statement to the
local board of steamboat inspectors, in which
he said that Frostburg failed to answer het
helm when put hard down, which would
have cleared the other vessel.
Ti e Frostburg struck the Berkshire with
a glancing blow on the port side about 40
feel forward of the boiler room. Tbe hole
1 made was below the water line and the
lower holds and compartments began to
! fill rapidly. Captain March at once ran
tbe vessel ashore to the southward of th«>
i channel, and she brought up iu about 16
' feet of water. The main dec<£ is out of
I water, but a 1 below is hl ed
As soon as the vessel was last aground
> the tueboat Alice Ehrman was signalled
and came alongside, and the passengers, five
s in number, were transferred to her and
’ brought to the city. The crew remained
1 on board. The damage to the Frostburg
consists of the entire destruction of the st< in
s to below the water line and the mashing in
' of seven pl lies She returned to the <ity
’ and tied up at Brown’s wharf, wheie a
> large force of warkmen fr< m Spedden’s
> shops were put to work clearing away the
5 wreck. The cargo will be partially dis
-1 charged and the vessel put in dock.
1 “The officials of the M. and M. T. Com
; pany wid discharge as much of the cargo of
5 the Berkshire as possible in lighters bifore
•’ the work of getting her afloat begins. She
1 has 225 tons ot <a go in in he holds The
3 Baker Wiecking Company us Norfolk will
* ba employed to get the vessel afloat. A
* water-tight bulkhead a few feet aft of the
stem saved the Erostburg from filling, and
' what water she made was easily kept out by
" the steim pumps. No one was hurt on
“ either vtssel, but several of the crew of the
Frostburg who were in the foreca- 1 ■ had a
’ narrow escape.
f “On board the B irkshire the b< st of or 'er
prevailed, and the promptness of the crew
in making arrangements for the safety ol
the pissengers was very commernlal le. No
i occasi m, however, arose for tai i g to the
! boats, as the vessel when aground Lit all her
nc lommodations free of water.
“ Tbe Berks! i e is a sister ship to the Al
legheny, and is of 2 014 tons register - She
was built by William Cramp Sons, Phila
delphia, in 1881, at a cost of $250,000. Her
dimensions are 250 feet long, 381 feet beam,
and 23 fee, depth of held. Her commander,
Captain March, is an old officer of the line
Captain Letournau, of the Frostburg, had
been appointed but a few days before he
sailed, and at the time of the accident was
on his first trip.”
Mr. Endicott’s Vigorous Health.
Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
The idea that Secretary of War Endicott
is a feeble man is wholly mistaken. His
health became impaired by long service in
the Massachusetts Supreme Court—an over
worked body—and he went abroad on six
months’ leave of absence three years ago.
While in Europe he chafed under the
feeling of limitation in his vacation,
aud also under his delicate sense of obliga
tion toward his associates on the bench, who
were in the meantime doing his work. Con
sequently, he early made up his mind to
cut loose from all public duty as a prere
quisite to complete rest, and forwarded his
resignation from across the water. He
thereupon began to recuperate rapidly, and
in the course <f a year or two
returned wholly restored in health,
and with a disposition to
resume an active career, net in
general practice, but as counsel to large in
terests which sough t io employ him. It was
as referee in such a matter that he visited
Washington early this winter to ha 'e a case
argued b.fore him by Senator Dawes. He
will be a working member of the cabinet and
a very judicious general adviser to t' e Presi
dent,
Hans Yager On Old Hens aud Old Women.
Kentucky State Journal.
Yesterday Herr Hans Yager undertook to
break one of his old hens from setting. He
caught her, filled her nest with a brick,
poured a bucket of cold water on her and let
her run. She run—right back to the i est
and got on the brick. This was repeated
several times, when the old man became
disgusted, lit his pipe and went out to the
front ea t e t o smoke off his disgust.
“Where is the hen now?” asked a neigh
bor.
“She set cn dot brickschstone. I belief I
don’d know, meppy I left her set on, schust
bke a vomans, oudil she got her genough
set. Ouf mein frau has tooked a notion to
[ set a brick on, I moost efery time let her
. set ondil she got her set oud. Yes, sir-e,
i dem oldt vomans got more schtubborn as a
yackass mool.”
"ROUGH ON RATS.”
Clears out rats, mice, roaches, flies, ant
oed-bugs, skunks, chipmunks,gophers. 15
Druggists.
Mayer’s Magic Soap is the moat economics
1 nthe market. Saves time and mou«y. Man
uactured by William Hone & Co.
THE FEDERAL CAPITAL
THE ARMY OF OFFICE-SEEKERb
St ILL HANbING ON.
Waiting Patiently for a Recog ni« ion to
Their Claims—C< rtain Applicants From
Georgia for Important Positions—
Senator Colquitt's Opinion—A
General Cleaning Up iu the
South at an £arly Day—
Various Matters of In
terest.
Special Correspondence to the Daily Times
Washington, March 18.—Although
the present administration has an
nounced in unmistakable language that it
will be governed by a “ slow but sure ” poli
cy in the matter of removals and appoint
ments, there is still a good sized colony of
Georgians in this city, who ate patiently
awaiting for something to turn up that may
interest them. Captain J. F. Wheaton and
Mr. J. D. Johnson, both ot whom are appli
cants for collector for the port of Savannah,
are engaged in a vigorous but friendly con
test for that office. They, by some means,
manage to keep posted regarding each
others movements, and the race promises to
be close and exci'ing, tha is, providing I
have been correctly informtd by the friends
of the two candidates. Mr. C. T. Crenshaw
is making a quiet but determined effort to
have Attorney General Garland recommend
him for apj ointment as United States Mar
shal. Cal er, at the Department of Justice
do not, as a rule, receive much encourag
ment. Their ap, 1 cations are received,
placed on file, and those presenting them
are yoiitely informed that they will receive
due consideration at the proper time. All
the members us the cabinet, as well as tbe
President have, it seun-, ag.ead that they
will not d scourage the presenting of appli
cations, but they have doubtless also agieed
that they will not by word or action inti
mate how they will be acted upon.
M: j >r Ely, of Georgia, is very partial to I
Washington as a place of residence, and ;
ilier.il,re he has intimated to some of his I
friends that he cou d be persuaded to ac j
lepta position of Assistant Attorney Genera', ■
detailed for duty in one of the executive
departments. The Attorney General lor
the Interior Department receives $6,000
per year; similar officials at the Postoffice,
■ Treasury and State Departments receive
$4,000, $4,500 and $3,500, respectively.
Major E ! y could undoubtedly content him
, self with any of the above mentioned posi
tions. I came very near forgetting to men
tion Co). J. E. Dart, who aspires to be Col
lector i} the port of Brunswick, and .Mr.
Henry Hill, who is spoken of for Collector
of Internal Revenue.
Senator Colquitt says he has visited all
the members of the Cabinet, and so far as
he has been able to learn there will be very
few changes while the departments are
flo ded with office seekers. Vacancies that
now exist or about to occur, will be filed by
competent Democrats, aud as soon as the ;
grand rush is over the various app'ications j
will betaken up and considered. The Sen- i
ator says he believes there will be i genera) '
clearingout in the Soutn befote a great
while, and that the mo t meritorious appli
cants will be rewatded as they deserve. He
contends that it is almost useless to call
upon the 1 ead of a department at this time
and ask him to oois der an application for
office, unless the office sought is vacant, or
an immediate change is absolutely neces
sary.
The; old, old story of untold
wealth, in the form of jewels hid
den away in the vaults of the Treasury De
partment, is revived again. This old yarn
comes up two or three times a year, and the
value of the treasure is magnified each time,
until now’ seven or eight figures are required
to express it. There is a quart or more of
precious stones in the bond vault of the
Treasurer’s office, but the strange part of the
story is that absolutely no one knows any
thing about their value. Back twenty-five or
thirty years ago, an Eastern potentate with a |
name or thirty or forty syllables sent to the
President of the United States several swords
heavily jewelled, a bottle of ottar of
roses, and a jewelled casket.
The swords and other presents
could not be accepted by the President,
because of a clause in the constitution wh.ch
prohibits theacceptance of giltsuf this char
ac er. They could not be sent back because
etiquette would not permit this to be done, 1
therefoie they were (dumped into a cate in ]
the model room of the patent cffice, where ;
they excited the cupidity of the enterprising j
individual who concluded to possess them
He made the attempt and got away with tbe
bcoty* Later the jewels were recaptured
and deposited in the treasury vaults for safe
keeping. Here for eight or ten years they
have remained sealed up in bottles and de
posited in a box out of sight and generally
out of mind. The box which contains
them is a rough pine affair of abcut
a cubio foot in dimension. It is
tied up with a common piece of j
twine and looks like a box of soap or can
dies. The custodians of the vault differ as
to the value cf the contents; one says that
the box would be cheap at SIOO,OOO, while
another thinks $1,500 a very high price in
deed fcr the whcle assortment. No ore
ownsit. The United Hates has really no
more title to it than the King ol Hawaii,
' except that the United States holds posses
sion. Some day it will be stolen and the
successful thief will probably reap the ben
efits of the haul, as it would be exceedingly
doubtful if the ownership of the United
Stales could be established. This is the
; only «ay in which the treasure can be dis
posed cf unless the constitution is amended
1 so as to allow the heirs of the president to
’ whom it was presented to dispose of it. In
the meantime the curious visitor inquires
’ constantly about the enormeus (?) wealth.
1 Occasionally the box is kicked when the
subtle odor of the altar of roses will fill the
vault for days.
“The discovery of the omission of ‘he
clause providing for’the armament of the
' new cruisers from the naval appropriation
bill,” said a New York Congressman, “re
minde one of a somewhat similar incident
5 while I was a member of the New York
Assembly. In the case of which I speak
S6OO A YEAR
only one word was omitted, and that was
dune intentionally. In fact it was a scheme
of the 1 bby, and tbe engrossing clerk who
omitted the word was paid $2,000 for his
action. It does not seem as though one
wtrdoould make as much difference as to
make it worth while to pay a man such an
amount for treachery, but in this case it
would have meant a great deal to the tax
payers of New York. The word omitted
was ‘thereof.’ It should have appeared in
a bll making ao appropriation of
$30,000 for some purpose, the
nature of which I have furgotten.
The clause read in the original bill after
citing tbe purpose for which the anproprL
ation was designed, ‘thirty thousand dollars
or so much thereof as may be necessary, is
hereby appropriated.’ The purpose us the
bill was to limit the amount to be expended
to thirty thousand dollars or less. By the
omission of the one word‘thereof,’ the limit
was removed and the appropriation left
practically limitless. It will readily be seen
that interested parties could easily afford to
pay a liberal price for this little act on the
part of the clerk.”
“1 don’t suppose that there was any inten
tion io leave out the omitted clauses of the
naval bill” continued the Speaker, “but
Congress has fallen into a very slip shod
way of doing business, and these
errors and omissions are much
more common than they should be. We
, have descended into the habit of rushing
through important measures during the last
hours of the session, and no opportunity is
afforded for close inspection. During the last
days of the Forty-eighth Congress some one
insisted upon the reading of an enrolled bill,
I and there was an immediate howl at the so
called waste of time. If the rules in this re
spect were enforced to the full extent, and no
bill sent to the President until the enrolled
copy had been carefully compared with the
original, as it passed the house, there would
be less cry of jobbery. A dishonest clerk
charged with the enrollment of bills as they
pass, might cost the country millions. I for
one, shall favor the reading of all bills in fu-
I ture.”
“What will President Cleveland do with
the reciprocity treaties?" was the q iestion
addressed by the Times’ correspondent to a
| Democratic senator wiio is supposed to
j know something us the intentions < f the
I new President.
1 He teplied: “I do not know the Presi-
I deni’s intentions with reference to all of
I them, but from recent conversations I feel
certain that he will never return the Nic
aragua tieaty to the Senate. He sees in it
the fir.-t step towards an advance with the
Central American powers that would cer
tainly eid to some straining of our re at ions
with the governments of Europe ”
“D es be .ook upon the ra ification of a
treaty with Nicaragua as a violatir n < f the
spirit of the Clayton Bulwer treaty ?”
“I am not prepared to answer tba ques
tion directly. I thick, however, that be
fore tbe close of his administration Presi
dent Clevi land will submit the text cf a
convention with the Republic of Nicaragua
that will contain all of the good points of
the rejected instrument without i s objec
tionalle features. I think, too, that the
policy of a tommerci. 1 union of the coun
tries cf North America suits Mr tleve-
I 1 ind’s views exactly, and that with s >me
j modification the Spanish, Mexican and San
I Domingo treaties will again be returned to
j the Senate.” Fob.
A Recreant Officer.
In the)early part of the week a depu’y U.
8 Murphy, liviog at Swans
boro, Emanuel county, was given several
summorsesto serve(on grand jurors in Bull
ock, Emanuel and Screven counties. It
was t the next day after, the
jut ors would be in attendance, but rnither
the jurors nor the marshal have been beard
of since. However, an official envelope
containing nine summonses, bnt not a
single word of explanation was received
by Marshal Wide this morning. The v alter
was reported to the court, and an attach
ment was ordered issued against the re
creant deputy, who will probably be
brought before the court this afternoon at 4
o’clock, to show cause why he acted as he
did in returning the summons in such
manner, and unless he can show go' d cause,
hew! 1 suTer he consequences of his acts.
Too Much Roller Ska ing.
Cleveland Penny Press.
“This roller skating,” remarked z local
physician, “,'s raising sad havcc among
some of the young men, physically speak
ing. Those who have the ersze real bad,
i who skate every 1 leased afternoon and
1 night, and there are quite a number of such,
| are easily distinguished upon ti e street,
j Instead of skating in moderation they fly
j around the rink like all possessed Ircm the
I minute they get in until tbe cluse. Then,
with their blood almost at the boiling
point, they rush out into the odd air and
allow an Artic wave to roam all o er their
perspiring bodies. Sot n they begin to grow
thin, pule and emaciated, shadows <f their
former selves. Some us them who were
formerly fat have now taken on
the appearance of dime mveeum curicsi
tie?. Then the constant motion cf skat
l ing effects their walking. In fac*, quite
I a number who can be met with on the street
| don’t walk at all. They skate. They slide
; their feet along the sidew: Ik in front of
them with a sideway swaying metion cf the
body, cress one foot over the other iu turn
ing a corner and cress the street with a
i “Dutcl roll.” In nine cases out <jf ten the
blccd .etscut cf order frem the violent
exercise and sudden exposure to ecl land
boils and carbuncles and barber's itch begin
ito make their appearance. One young man
who may te seen upon the streets at any
time when be isn’t at the rinks, was for-
■ merly plump and fair to Iced upon. Now
he locks like a bad case us nieaelc.-.* with
I living skeleton attachment. He s getting
> thinner every day, and, if he kec ps on
i skating, it is only a question of time when
- he will fade away until there is nothing
. left of him but a pimple and a pair of
i skates.”
A Bonanza Beau to go L’rivit g "With,
s “I see the papers speak of a man in Ala
s bama with three arms,” said n M. dison
i Avenue belle to her dearest chum. “1 wish
he lived up here.”
t “Why? ’ said the ' earest chum.
t “Just think what a bonanza he’d be to go
c driving with.”