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A PREACHEB LYNCHED.
QUICK WORK BY A MOB OF 4OG
ARMED MEN IN MISSOURI.
I'arciMy Taken from Jn.ll and Hanged to
a Tree for Wife Marder.
Rev. George Graham, a revivalist well
known In the West, has been forcibly taken
from the jail at Springfield, Mo., where he
was incarcerated for wife murder, and
Particulars of the affair are given
dispatches, as follows:
A armed men surrounded the
county tolM ’lllite™
began parleying with the sheriff fnMS”
render of George E. Graham, the evangelEr*
and wife murderer.. The sheriff would not
comply with their demands, (but they soon
battered ia the doors and secured the
prisoner. At 2 o’clock the men, with Graham
in their midst, started out of town and in
Jess than an hour after the attack was made
urn the jail the prisoner was hanging to a tree
,'in the city liniita. Graham went to his death
coolly and died apparently without any
struggle. The n»ob dispersed in all directions.
A notice of warning to other evil-doers,
#iig»ed “Citizens of Greene County, Me.,” was
pinned to the body.
The preliminary examination of Mrs. Mol
loy and Cora Lee, the revivalists, charged
jointly with George E. Graham with tho
mur ter of Sarah, hii wife, has recently been
con luded. Graham had previously made a
eonfe.-Kiou In which he admitted tho murder
of his wife, but alleged that he first wounded
k. her a •cidentally in a s •uftie. and then kiU?J.
her because be was afraid that sb« would i
»>ro;.ecufo lu-ue raw Uie assault and for bigamy
io marrying C;W» Leo.
The .-'vleuoe sal j/pitt dat the examination ■
show*'l Shat Grahnid and Mi s. Molloy at.d
Cora lah: lived togsttnei’for five ywirs. They J
etmducted woras of revivals during that
period, and ir. Indiana, Missouri, and Kansas >
lufiila tl. 'usainis at cbnverU Mrs. Molloy
n fin® farm hear Springfield, which
tho Aave pnj? their n?y/L
quarters. In his confession Graham I
said that his wife, whom he had met
li! raw Louis with their children, followed
him to against his wish; that she
then insisted dfi XSSamponying him to the !
farm, and that when he with
her on tho road they had a scuffle, jl» which ■
he accidentally cut her in the Wfc. * a |
i The State proved tijat on the night that
Graham and his wife arrived nt Springtieh) j
Cora Lee left the farm early in tho evening '
All a buggy; that Graham Mid t"'9 women, ,
oueVT WhlKlV was closely veiled, Ux>k refi esh- I
meats at a restaurant hero, and that Mrs. j
Graham did not die of knife wounds, but was
killed by gttota front a revolver. It is held i
that Cora Loo met the couple at the ;
depot, that Mi's. Graham ha| been j
coaxed to this place by her husband,
and that she was murdered on tho highway ,
nt night by Graham and Cora, who theh
threw her body into an old well on tho Mol- <
toy farm. The next morning they drove ,
down to the dejxit and got the two children,
who ba<l been there all night, in ignorance
of the fate of their mother.
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CREMATED AiIVE.
The Horrible Fate of Mix Nlerpia* Italian
Laborers in Pcnnavlvanla.
Thirty Italian lai Hirers in the employ of th<
Erie Railroad Company have been occupying <
one of the company's old construction shan
ties al Mt. Alton, fifteen miles south of Brad
ford, Penn. The building has been in disusi
for some time, and the wooden underpinning
was weak. Twenty men slej tin a little loti
ami the remainder on tho first floor, which
was elevated above the ground four feet.
I run ng the night, a few day's since, ent
of tlie ports on which the structure rested
gave way, and at I a, m. the shanty wai j
tarown to tho ground an I collapsed.' Tlx; j
num wore precipitated into a heap, and those I
who eeea|ied m tde their way out with great
difficulty. In a few minutre th» wreck took
tire from a lantern that had hung in one of
the rooms, and the walk tieing largely com
puted of tarr.xi paper, at ou -e bla.’.wi fiercely.
The stomtaof too laborers who had escai»ed
from the wreck an I the screams of others
who were still penned in the blazing pile I
■reuwod the village. There being no fire
department, nothing could bo done outaide of
forming a b t ket brigade, whi.il was not of
the dl,:bt<v,!
Tho howling of the roasting mon grew
fainter and fainter and m a short time the i
lire hml sp«»nt Reolf. Rix charred corpses,
which could be identified only bv biu of j
clothing, were tab n out. Two others of the |
num mittens] tierio ts injury from Mogrtruck
by fading timbere. but it is believed thev will
recover Tbs' deal iwu hsd sums ranging I
from SllXlto A*' about their pers.ms, w hich
they were alx mt to send to their families m
Italy. Tb»' Italian® had l»eeu I'ing in tin
/ Erie’s box calk, tut . b the buildin >
against the advice of tluw win hail pro
mninred it unsafe I
The name* irf the dead are: Andiew IV
trela, tod- lew kntts, LXnidniro Colerea. Fap
jasta Itumvsw, Frank Gnuo and Charles
Tto- m ’uresi are Tony Dananro and Nicuk
IX I
A CBAKY »»n u» Pawtucket started
out th* other day determined to hire ;
every woman he met «u thostreet Hi*
mind w still feeble, but he seems to ireve j
more eenne about emne thing*. I; <mgh
Ire w n<d ’W batidecme a* be w»» a I
Tramps are overrunning Florida to
sucljZi.n extent that the county Commis
sio'ners have decided to anchor great
fighters in the St. John’s river and cor
ral the tramps there for ninety days each.
A aurious instance of the changed con
dition of affairs in the west is that buffa
loes are bred in Kansas for sale, and
calves bring S3O each, now, where twen
ty years ago herds of thousand's of these
cattle ranged wild over the prairies.
The Commissioner of the General Land
Office has mad 3 the remarkable discovery
that, through a legislative or clerical ac
cident, the Indian title to W,000,00€
acres of land in Dakota has not been ex
tinguished, though not less than twenty
thousand people have moved in and set
tled the section. Tm million acres art
a good deal of land—enough to make
three states like Connecticut and have a
nullion acres over.
What wouldn’t the average boy give if
his pa would only send him to the Fort
Wrangel training school in Alaska? The
newspaper of that place says that the
boys of the school last year killed for the
use of the institution 121 deer, 11 seals.
1 bear, about 150 wild geese, over 300
ducks, and numerous grouse, porcupines,
marmots and snipe, and caught all the
salmon, halibut, codfish, trout, herring,
flounders, crabs and clams they needed.
The Euphrates river, once a mighty
stream, seems likely to disappear alto
gether. For some years the river banks
below Babylon have been giving way, so
that the stream spread out into a marsh,
until steamers could not pass, and only a
narrow channel remained for the native
boats. Now the passage is being filled
up, and the prospect is that the towns on
the banks will be ruined, and the famous
river itself will be swallowed up by the
desert.
The Boston Journal recently told a col>
respondent that the report that sytfTv’had
fallen in the West when xvas
30 degrees error, assert
ing that itj^4i ien “too cold to snow.”
piffaeer Press denies the
N ft M most emphatically, saying that
in Minnesota, it does snow, and snows
furiously, when the mercury is 30 degrees
below zero. These, the editor adds, arc
terrible storms for the people who are
caught in them.
The principal astronomical event of
1880 will bt the total eclipse of the sun
on the 29th of August. The line of
totality in this eclipse will cross the At
lantic Ocean, traversing land in the West
Indies just after sunrise and in Southern
Africa towards sunset. On the coast of
Benguela tire total phase lasts nearly five
minutes, and at Grenada, in the West
Indies, the duration will be nearly four
minutes. Three comets of known peri
od are expected to return during the
year. Gibers’ comet, with a period of
seventy-one and a half years, will proba
bly Teach Perihelion near the close of the !
A small comet discovfijfi Pons j
inl81?f-4nd rediscovered by Winneeke I
in 1858, is du? ip 1886, as is also jhe one
first seen by Temple and ligaTi?
observed by Swift in 1880. The period
eat'h of these two comets is' aboutlfivc
and a naif yearal u "
Ljgutcflflut Greely ‘pathetic ap
peal in his recently published book sot
the survivors of the Lady Franklin Bay
expedition. Some of them have not been
fully paid for their Arctic service; not
one of has been promoted in the
army; one lies in a city Tiospital the re- |
cipegtbf private charitv, and one and afi
aFe neglected and forgotten after llieii i
faithful discharge of the government
service required of them in the fai
North. The Lieutenant remarks that
Brainard, who was Lockwood’s associate
in making the furthest North, is still a
sergeant in the United States Army, ,
whereas his gallant service would have
earned him a commission in any other
service in the world. The New York
Tribune thinks that the fact that these
men were sent to Lady Franklin Bay by
the United States government and were
exposed to the most agonizing suffering
in the interest of science fairly entitles
them to generous consideration.
The Car-DiulJer reproduces the half- ;
page photograph of a stranger sight than
Baron Munchausen ever saw. A train
was stalled in a snow-bank. An engine
with a small snow-plow started out
from the station to aid the incoming
train. Supposing the stalled train to be
thr?e miles out instead of two, the engine ;
with the plow ran into the stalled en- I
gine in n snow-bank and actually took ’
the incoming locomotive entirely up on j
its entire length. The smokestack, bell, |
sand-chest, and cab wire willed off the i
lower machine, but the upper one lost '
only its smokestack. The two rear drive
wheels of the upper locomotive sit over
the pl act- of the lower smokestack, and
the forward trucks above are in the place 1
of the lower cab. There is a tilt of per
haj« ten degrees to the right in the up- !
per locomotix e. Both engines were now I
ia a dangerous place, so the plucky i
engineers plugged the broken pi of !
the under engine and discovered that it
still could be worked. In this condition,
with a full-sired locomotive on its back,
the under engine ws» run hack twe |
miies W a sidetrack and switched.
An instance of the intimate relation
ship between a horse and its keeper is
afforded, says the New York Times, in
the remarkable history of the horse
Epaulet, for which Mr. Bonner offe r
$20,000 in vain. On its first apper nce
in the ring it was unnoticed and t] lc .
first two Feats. The regular r j^ ver gn( j
trainer of the horse, a .^ olored inan?
begged earnestly to be to take
the horse and drive r eraa i u( ier of the
race, and his reqU est was
granted, at moment. The horse
neighed pleasure when his well
known driver mounted the sulky and
showed bis satisfaction by putting forth
all his efforts and winning the race, and
several others afterward the same season,
with ease. His record stood at 2:19,
2:20 1-4, 2:20 1-4, in three straight heats,
■which for a 4-year-old was so gratifying
to Mr. Bonner that hq at once offered the
large price named for him. With any
other driver the horse sulked and had no
enthusiasm. The affection which exists
between all kinds of animals and their
kind and sympathetic keepers is a trait
which should never be ignored.
Considerable attention has been lately
directed to the commercial and indus
trial value, at least prospectively, of the
tupelo gum and willow oak timbers of
Mississippi. After various and thorough
tests the first named has been pronounced
almost as soft and light as cork, and the
whitest timber in the valley. It is ex
tremely light, can not be split, while at
the same time it is very tough, tenacious,
and will bear a heavy strain, its various
qualities rendering it specially valuable
for -buckets, pitchers, trays, ox-yokes,
and almost all kinds of water vessels, as
well as for many other purposes. The
water or willow oak is said to be second
only to the live oak, is almost as hard
when seasoned as is the latfoy Lhd for
the rim and wheels is alleged
while for ship-build
ing it xvill almost equal the live oak in its
firmness and durability. Tests have been
made of the crushing capacity of this
wood, and also of its transverse strength,
with remarkably favorable results, the
published data showing that it is one
third stronger than any white, red, or
black oak, and only one-eighteenth less
than live oak.
“The comedies of Washington society
arc more funny than those that appear
upon the stages of its theatres,” writes
the correspondent of the Cleveland
Leader. “Throughout part of the
city, just now, the sublime is tramping
upon the heels of the ridiculous, aftd tho
high and low, the rich and the p<W, tho
patricians and the apostles of the.qragged
edge bump up against each other, bow
and apologize, , and move->-
mixed up, indescribable thron
looker-on in Washington the fuiniest'wf
things are those behind the scenes. Ybu
go to a reception and as the gayly
throng flits by you, you think of .the skele
tons which each one has in Ids closet. That
lady dressed so nicely and wearing such
elegant stuffs, like wi qot buys her cloth*!,
ors instalments aiid does: ilGiget them paid
for before jjicy worn out • ..That great
man’s up fa
questionable scandals befgre she was ma*-
ried, |he man you meet may have
bought Ids wealth andgooct 'clothe? FF a |
long career of lobbying. Washington 1
society contains more good and bad than
you will find anywhere in the country,
and the danger of it is the vices arc all so
fair, and they never walk the streets but in
the clothes of virtue.”
t Origin of the Word Texas.
In a recent article published in the
North American Retictr, Governor Ire
land, of Texas, asserts that the word !
Texas means “welcome;” and that on
the landing of the first white men on '
the coast of Texas, the Indians greeted I
them with the exclamation of “Texas P’ ;
or Vwelcome.”
This theory,according to a correspond
ent in the Texas Fortcoerf# is not cor- |
reet. In the roicient Spanish archives,
stored away in the land office at Austin,
it appears that certain lands were situ- '
ated “tn el pais de his Tejas,” or in the .
country of the Texas, or Tejas Indians, |
x and j being pninounceil alike.
It is well known that the Texas or !
Tejas Indians were a tribe or Indians liv
ing in the valley of the Rio Grande, who •
were exterminated or driven off by 'a •
more sat.igi’ tribe. The word Texas dr
Tejas is the root of the names of all the
Indian tribes in Texas and Mexico. *The
prefix indicated the locality of the tribe, i
The As-Tejas, nr Aztecs, dwelt on high !
lands of Anahuac. The Tol-Tejas or
Toltecs, lived as far south as Yucatan.
The Huas-Tejas lived on the Gulf coast, ■
between Matamoras and Vera’ Cruz, and '
the Tol Tejas were located in the state
of Coaliuela.— T&ras Sir'tings
'
Not the Slightest Consequence.
Litewaite (profusely)—“My dear Miss
Olivette, ydu must excuse me. Passed ■
you on the street— baw Jove!—forgot to i
bow —actually didn't see you I” I <
Miss Olivette (affably)—“l beg you '
won’t distress yourself. It is not the
slightest ’consequence."
Litewaite (still in a flutter)*—“Ah, yes,
but I—-you know—l am—" i
Miss Olivette (more affably)—‘‘Not the i
slightest consequence." Philadelphia | j
CaiL I ’
NEWS IN GENERAL.
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
FROM ALL POINTS.
EASTERN ANB MIDDLE STATES.
The* Chamber of Commerce of New York
City has just held a meeting and adopted
resolutions endorsing arbitration as the only
means of settling the prevailing war between
capital and labor, and condemning all at
tempts by strikers to interfere with or coerce
those taking their places.
The New York Grand Jury has indicted
forty-seven membei-s of the Tailors’ Union
for boycotting a firm of tailors who refused
to accede to the Union’s demands.
A Bostox supplier of builders’ material
states that $17,000,000 of capital about to be
invested for building purposes in that city
and vicinity has been withdrawn on account
of the strikgs.
A pool of the glassware manufacturers ot
this country has been arranged, and hereaf
ter the p - ice of the smallest piece of glass
ware sold will be fixe l by the association
which controls forty-thne furnaces with a
daily output of about 1,000 tons of glass
ware.
A large meeting of Grand Army mem
bers and others was held in the Assembly
Chamber at Albany, N. Y., on the 29th, to
express disapproval of the reappearance of
Mr. Jefferson Davis “as an attempt to revive
the war feelings of the past.’ 1 Speaker
Husted presided, and resolutions of condem
nation were passed. General Henry A.
Barnum and others made speeches denounc
ing the addresses of Mr. Davis on the 2Sth
at Montgomery, Ala.
Five of the striking New York horse-car
drivers have been arrested on the charge of
rioting.
SOUTH ANO IVEST.
The Richmond (Va.) local election, just
held, was a struggle between the Prohibition
ists and anti-Prohibitionists. The latter, or
“wet ticket,” won by a large majority over
the “dry ticket.” The colored vote was
almost unanimous for anti-Prohibition.
Hailstones big as hen eggs fell during a
tornado at Killeen, Texas. Two houses
were destr, yed and a child fatally hurt.
A train on the Missouri Pacific railroad
was ditched re ->u VVyandotte, Kansas, the,
otho’- •_ £2* spikes were pulled out of the
,ti:s and angle-plates taken off the rails. The
fireman and brakeman were instantly killed,
and engineer severely injured. Vice-Presi
dent Hoxie offered a reward of $2,500 for the
arrest and con victim of the wreckers.
In Las Vegas, N. M., the overflowing of
the Rio Gallonas from heavy rains has
destroyed many buildings, including the
postomce, railroad buildings and extensive
oil and lumber works.
. “Memorial Day” was celebrated this
year with unusual ceremonies at Montgom
ery, Ala., orations being delivered by Jeffer
son Davis. General Gordon and other promi
nent ex-Confederates. The corner-stone of
a soldiers' monument was laid. From Mont
gomery Messrs. Davis and Gordon went to
Atlanta and took part in the unveiling of a
statue to the late Senator Benjamin Hill.
A number of large Milwaukee (Wis.) fur
niture factories have closed because the em
ployes demanded that the hours of labor be
reduced to eight a day, at the old wages.
The Secretary of the Illinois State Board
I of Health says the danger from Asiatic
cholera this year is greater than ever.
. 9 o .Y NTY t Z KEASURER Hollingsworth is
m jail at Vincennes, Ind., for embezzling
about Sse.COO. °
just issued shows the Southern
States have 117 savings banks, with a capital
of $11(728,000 and more than $109,000,000 in
AjfLARGE band of armed Mexican? the I
otlw- nifrht raided the of Collins, Texas,
iWiSieki it for a number of hours while they ■
searched for Deputy Shoriff P. M. Coy,
who recently captured Martinez and Car
two noted Mexican outlaws, who were
mattered while in the constable's custody.
Two brothers name 1 Owens and the wife
and child of a ranchman have been killed in
county, Arizona, by marauding i
■Alany coal miners in the vicinity of Elk
Garden, W. Va., have lieen without work for
fisore than a year, and hundreds of families
are in a starving condition. An appeal for
help has been issued.
A BAKp of forty Indians attacked two
ranches near Pantano, Arizona, and killed
pight persona.
WASHINGTON.
A REORGANIZATIOIi of the Patent office is
in contemplation.
The President has sent the following nom- i
inations to the Senate: To be Consuls of the '
United States—Andrew F. Fay, of Illinois, at :
Stettin, and Thomas C. Jones, of Kentucky, at 1
Funchal. Madeira; Reuben B. Pleasanta, to ;
be Marshal of the United States for the f
Eastern District of Louisiana; Patrick O’Mai- !
lev, to be Receiver of Public Moneys |
Menossha, Wis. A number of presidential
postmasters and army officers were r/tsd'nomi*
THS S&iate Committed Uh Public fcthds
has unanimously vofou to report adrvYseiy
upon tho nominatin' of R. S. Itoredutto ba
Surveyor-General of Utah.
of Bo t in, Prudent of the
Bell Telephone Company, wAs examined on
the “j?th by the House Committee of investi- ■
gation into telephone matters.
Senator Shersan Selivercd an address *
at the Metropolitan M. E. Caurch, Washing- I
ton, on the 27th, m c jnimemnratioa of Gen- ;
eral Grant's sixty-fourth birthday.
ADDmqxAL 'dominations by the Presi
(tout: R. H. Jone*, of New Mextoo, to be •
Consul of th? United States at Chihuahua; i
Samuel H. Keedy. of West Virginia, to be
Consul of tha Unitel States at Rheims; E. j
H. Bryan, of California, to be Consul of the ■
United States at Lyons.
Chang Yen Hoon the new Chinese
Minister, has presented his credentials to the !
Prerident.
Mu Whitelaw Ried testified before the
Home Pan Ete -U i- Ts'epb.one Committee of >
Investigation on the 29th concerning the
manner in which the newsixipers obtained I
th 'ir information of the facts in the case.
The Senate Committee on Agriculture has
ve . n f 1 long bearing to representatives of !
the dairy interests who ask for tho passage
of Senator Miller’s bill for the relief of the
fa U n . er ' i from th? unfair and oppressive com- i
petition of imitation butter manufacturers.
FOREIGN.
re P or f confirmed that the Amir of
Xu A* l Turkey, has massacred
n lm'X»^ U^ >peai V j? his ca P :ta l< also the
JX io* ! ‘“ »'«‘ tiCc eipeiition
sJS bTU f Auari *- *““ bee “ de ‘
a£rS)n »n Europe. Greece
hL l be powers and disbafided
tht reserve force that she had been massing
Turkey r ° Ut er ' n of war with
VVhxixsox’s mills a t Basston, England
together with many adjoining houses, have
been destroyed by fire. -
fouldn’t Say "Boo.”
Her Little Brother (holding up the
cat's—“ Say ‘Boo,’ Mr. Smith."
Mr. Smith—“ What for, Bobby?’’
Her little Brother—“l want to know
if you can. Sister says you can t fry
‘Boo to a cat’
MERRY MARRIAGE BELLS.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND TO LEAD
MISS FOLSOM TO THE ALTAR.
Confirmation of the Report of the Marriage
by an Uncle of the Bride-Elect.
A Boston dispatch says: Mr. H. F. Har
: non, a well-known flour merchant of this
sity, is a maternal uncle of Miss Frankie
Folsom, who is believed to be the bride-elect
jf President Cleveland. A correspondent
asked him if there is any doubt that President
Cleveland is going to marry Miss Folsom.
“Frankly speaking,” said he, “there is
none. It was not our intention to announce
the engagement until some time before the
wedding, but unfortunately it was made pub
i L* c . by 8> breach of confidence on the part of
; friends in Buffalo. I have just been writing
a letter to Miss Frankie,” he added. “It is
now nearly time for her to be preparing to
return home.
“Do you suppose she has heard of the
I rumurj in circulation on this side the At-
I lantic?”
“I have no doubt she has learned some
thing. I was engaged in w riting her, as you
entered, that the cat was out of the bag, and
giving her a little of the gossip she may ex
pect to hear on returning home. We fre
quently receive letters from her about the
trip. She writes often and her letters are
particularly bright. She has a brilliant, de
scriptive style and is an enthusiastic ob
server. The rumor that the expenses of her
: European trip were paid by Mr. Cleveland
has no foundation in truth, and I do not see
how it ever originated.
“It was Miss Folsom’s intention to an
nounce the engagement in due time before
the wedding, but to her, as well as the entire
family, the premature statements concerning
it are a great surprise. As I have said, there
were but a few let into the secret. At last ac
counts Miss Folsom was enjoying the best
of health. She enjoyed the visit to Italy very
much, the only drawback being her mother's
illness in Genoa, where she was taken down
with a fever. Miss Folsom'sacauaintance with
President Cleveland forms a romantic story.
“Frankie at a very early age gave promise
of great beauty. She was loved by every
one who knew her. She was frank in
manner, warm hearted and very love
ly. When scarcely knee high she was
particu’arly friendly to ‘Uncle Cleve,’ as she
called him, and in after years held him as one
of her dearest friends and advisers. Then
came her father’s death with its attendant
changes. 1 have no doubt if he had lived he
w’ould have been much gratified at the mar
riage.”
“When did President Cleveland commence
his matrimonial attentions?” was asked.
“I can scarcely an Gver that;” was the re
ply. “He was very friendly disposed toward
Miss Folsom from the time she was a child;
but about three years ago his attentions com
nienced to assume a more serious aspect. Al
though very reserved in manner, it was evi
dent ne now cared far more for the woman
than he had in former years for the child.
When Miss Folsom aud her mother visited
the White House last*year there was consid
erable talk about a possible engagement, but
not until the announcement of the marriage
was recently made was any further report in
circulation. I think I may safely say you
can travel a good many miles and see a great
many people before you will find a young lady
of greater beauty and accomplishments
than Miss Folsom. I have no doubt it will
be very embarrassing for her to know of the
thousaud rumors that are circulated about
her, especially if she happens to see any of
the newspaper cute that have been printed
ever her name.”
PERSOHiL MEHTIOM.
■ Mr. Parnell has found time, somehow,
j to write a novel, entitled, “Lady Drusilla.’’
| Congressman Wm. D. t Kelley, the
“Father of the House.”is s?veuty-tw<j years
old. (
Mr. Froude, the Engliih historian, has
declared against Gladstone's Home Rule
policy.
Ex-Queen Isabella still chorishev the
hope that she wi 1 one day be restored to the
throne of Spain.
It is now said that Senator Hawley is the
most rapid speiker in Congres:. This is tho
statement o" a stonoj’ apher. .
The duke ot' Sannaugb'l IS said to be the
only member of the royal family who really
r^.b? m g for Ireland.
Commodo*re W alker will bo Acting Sec
the. So2retai . y
ney c. absence xfcni n ashington
uese MmlSteF, hfSin his suit thirtpafne peo
ple, and not one of them a fetairib'
Henry M Stantex, the has re
covered his. h ?alth, and is j<_3 w in Roine . Ho
is said to be anxious return to the Congo.
According to Randolph Churchill
the chances of the Gladstone Land bill pass
ing the HousQ Commons are abo.it four to
five. ...
GeXßral Dacres, of ths British Royal
Ariihery, who has be n iu tho service for
hrly seventy years, his been made a field
’marshal.
Edward Everett Hale deprecates the
use of the word “ Knight” in mo iern Ameri
caqgjrganizations, as the term is a relin of
Feudalism.
The widow of General J, F. B. Stuart, the
commader of the famous Virgin a cavalry,
is running a prosperous female seminary at
Staunton, Va.
Captair Boycott, from who-e name is
derived the word “boycotting, ’’ has finally
sold his property in Ireland ana has removed
his family to England.
Rev. Sam. Jones, tha Southern revivalist,
has a tour laid out wbi h runs through Oc
tober, and takes him to Maryland, Indiana,
Michigan, New York, Missouri, Ohio and
Canada.
Frederick and William H.
Bailey, prominent members of th? Knights of
Labor, are foreign-born citizens. Turner
comes from Somersetshire and Bailey from
Greenwich. England.
Sjw a to.- D >lph, of Oregon,is regarded by
the ladies th» han Isomest man in the Senate.
He is tall aud broad-shouldered, speaks with
a rich, deep bass voice and has a magnitiecat
full beard, which falls to the m d tie of his
waitcoat He has a striking face and a ma
jestic bearing, both of which attract atten
tion.
FIGHTING MOONSHINERS.
Attackin< * Marshal—Two Men Killed and
Four .Mortally Wounded.
A dispatch from Manchester, Tenn., gives
details of a bloody tragedy enacted there
shortly after midnight the other morning, in
which U uited States Deputy Marshal Webb
Pardon, and a moonshiner named Clark
were killed and three other moonshiners
fatally wounded.
Purdon had accompanied Deputy Marshal
Hughe? on a raid on the illicit distilleries of
Grundy county, Tenn., and captured and de
stroyed several stills. Between 12 and 1
o’clock in tha morning fifteen
moonshiners rode into Manchester
and determined to have Purdon’s
life. Seven broke into his house and
the balance surrounded it Pardon met them
as they entered with a cocked revolver, and a
terrible battle then ensued. Two moon
shiners fell to the floor mortally wounded and
the gang retreated, but they succeeded in
family wounding Purdon.
I’i-abled as be was, Purd n discharged his
doubled barrelled shotgun into the retrea’ing
gang and two more fell mortally wounded.
I union then fell dead bes.de th? body of one
of hi- victims. The gang earned off"three of
their wounded companions. A large puesse
*as &eut in uursuit of them.
BEN HILL’S MONUMENT.
ITS UNVEILING IN ATLANTA ON
THE FIRST OF MAY.
Fifty Thousand Enthnsiastlc People and
Several Eloquent Speeches.
A‘. no period in her previous history has
Atlanta had wit iin her borders su :h a host,-
From every s ction of the state, from Florida,
A’abama, Missimippi, Tennessee, Kentucky,
Virginia, North Carolini aid South Carolina;,
from a score of other states, including even
those of the far north, the people cams to do
to the lamented Hill and to Jefferson
Davis.
Mr. Davis’ arrival caused great excitement,
and the streets along which his carriage passed
were strewn with flowers.
at the statue.
Very early in the morning the crowd became
enormous. It was with difficulty that onb
could pass along the street, while a crowd im
penetrably dense pressed about the ropei that
were arranged across tin several streets to
keep the crowd away from the statu'.
The platform presented a gay appearance.
Fags innumerable fluttered in the breeze
while a gaily decorated canopy as a shelter for
the speakers proved quite an ornament.
Jus: about eleven o’clock successions of
deafening shouts proclaimed the approach of
the procession.
Mr. H. W. Grady, advancing to the centerof
the speakers’ stand, eaid :
“Fnendq, and fellow citizens: We have met
here to-d»y to honor the memory of a great
man. To perpetuate his virtues in «ur hearty
and fix his manly beauty in enduring msrblq
This vast arsemblage, inspiring in its numbeii
and in the ardor ot its sympathies unequalled
by any that ever stood on Georgia’s soil, hon
ors itself, no less than him. in gathering at the
base of this statue. Callous must be the heart
that is not tnnoUed by the touch of thia hour’s
inspiration. Sluggish the soul that does not
kinole with new aspirations as the morning
sun catches the gleam of this marble, and this
mute interpretation of a great life is given to
the morning air. And if in the mercy of God that
great soul, enthroned beyond the skies, is per
mitted to look upon this thrilling scene, and -
read the hearts of this loving multitude in the
swift revelation of that one g ance, in that one
chapter of fa - hornless love, it would find rec
ompense for the crosses and trials of an ardu
ous lifo and the agonies and sufferings qf an.
heroic death.
In behalf of the committee, I ask your silent 1
and earnest attention while General C ement
A. Evans, beloved iriend and pastor of our la
mented dead, invokes the bles ingof Almighty
God on this scene, this people apd these cere
monies.” , .
A.ftl? a touching prayer by General Evani,
Dr. 11. Spalding, president of the Hill M nu
ment Association, was introduced aud made an
eloquent tpeech. At its conclusion he sad:
“A id uow. sir, permit me, in behalf of the
asicciation which I hive th? honor to repre
sent, to present to the state, through you, her
chief magistrate, this statue of one who not
less signally illustrated the honor of Georgia
than her most disiinguished sons from Ogle
thorpe, the founder of the commonwealth, to
Toombs, the dead Mirabean of the south.”
At a signal from Dr. Spalding, Captain J.
F. Burke removed the veil and the statue of
Hill was revealed to the great crowd. A shout
of applause went up.
Tiiis speech was ably responded to bv Gov. A,
H. McDaniel, of Georgia, and then lion. J. C.
C. Back, the chp-en orator of the occasion,
was introduced an d delivers xl a telling oration
in honor of the departed Hill.
Then amid tha most srapendous cheers Mr,
guj'i V’ ed 6 e tho Pbfttom and
spoke as follows:
Ladies and Gziitleman : You Lave been, I
believe, general apprised that no address was
' to bo expected of me. I came bee to •e’.-mtly'
and reverently witness 'tW* trancing <f this
statue of my friend. I came as one whb wanted
to show his r. specs for a man whp in victori
or defeat was ever the same—brave, couragebhS
and true. If I were asked from Georgia’s his- S
tory to name three mtn who were fair tvpos of ’
Georgians, I would take Oglethorpe the‘benev
olent, Troup the danntltss and Hill the faith- ,
ful. [Great applause.] It is known to your
generally, it has been told to you to-dav what
part he took iii the s’ruggle which hasjtx'st
HK& ILl* 2 vere ' spited of me. and I felt
able io speak, I
properly supplcm mt thft gTent orations to
which yon have listened. There is nothing to
be r D complete. But there is
somgHttog i m ay gay of my dead friend. If he
the last to engage in the wat between the
states, he was the last to give it up. If he did
not precipitate the controversy be stood by the
wreck of our fortunes, and it was his voice
that was ra : .se«4 loudest and rang clearest for
Georgia to assert her sovereign'y. When, un
der the power of the conquering enemy—for
they were still such—when paralyzed by defeat,
and poverty our people seemed to shrink back,
hopeless of the future and despondent of the
past, he wrote those notes on the situation
that first kindled the fires of hope in Georgia
and elsewhere. His voice rang out and called
the people to remember that their cause was
not lost; it was the eternal cause of truth and
justice, and he invoked Georgians to,renew the
struggle in such form tts has cd to the inde
pendence you now enjoy. But I dare not
speak of Hi’ 1 psrsonally. From’t he beginning
to the end of the controversy he w»s one on
whose shoulder I could place my hand and feel
tha*. its foundation was as firm as marble. He
had nothing to ask, but he had much to give, and
when I was tne last from the south who could
excite any expectation of benefit, it was Hill
whose voice rose triumphant in the senate and
mashed the ingenious yankee down. [Great
cheering.] My friends, ours is the clay of
peace. The friend whose memory we have met
u> honor taught ns the lesson of peace as well
as resistance. He taught us that it WAi—
through peaceful methods we were to regain
our rights. We have trodden the thorny path
and passed over the worst part of the road.
Let us still remember fealty to every promise we
have given, Mit still let us love Georgia and her
rights, and may her rights of freedom and
independence, such as your fathers gave you,
be yours and your children’s forever.
As Mr. Davis cone tided he was led back to
bis seat by Dr. Spalding, while the vast sea
of people sent up cheer after cheer.
MISS DAVIS INTBODCCED.
While the cheers that followed the speech of
Mr. Davis were still ringing loudly. Mr. Grady
and Dr. Spalding approached Miss Davis aud led
her forward before the great crowd. The
wildest enthmnasra. prevailed. Hats ficw in
the air and the cheering was like thunder.
Mi-ts Davis smiled and bowed.
Dr. Spalding said:
“It is my pleasure to introduce to you the
daughter of the confederacy, the daughter of
President Davis.”
Again the crowd cheered, and after bowing
gracefully several times, Miss Davis led
back to her chair.
The ceremonsee were concluded with prayar
tv Dr. Bsrnett
‘From the statue Mr. Davis went to Sirs.
H H’s and rested quietly during the afternoon.
The crowd was sometime in dispersing. The
exercises lasted a shade over two hours.
The following morning (Sunday) the special
train gaily decorated with the national colors,
bore Mr. Davis to Savannah.
Being either way up in the attic of
ecstacy, or way down in the cellar of
despair, is bad policy. Any fool can
become comparatively happy in life if
he will take a position on tne fence and
stick to it
I wn.i.l>et my last dollar on tenacity.
It is a legitimate persecution. It ril!
even make Canada thiatka pine for death■
as a reieaae.