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. in, Bannockburn: I see thj- dark, green oaks
And lovely cedars crowned with graceful
Thy waters clear where moonlight loves to lip,
And from whose depths each star reflected
shines.
There. I know, tii. skies are clear to-day.
Ail bright and soft as beauty's sweetest smile.
And broken wreaths of sunlit mist surrounds
The shores of Cumberland's low and distant
Lone, golden sunbeams like bright arrows fall
On tender grass and glancing waters there:
Vnd sweet peach buds and dainty violets small
Now cast their fragrance on the sou spring
air.
Blithe mockingbirds from leafy bower and tree
Through sunlit sprays with dipping motion
dart.
Their songs come floating throughout space to
me.
And find an echo in my lonely heart.
And thou, O. Ocean! I can almost hear
Thy mournful voice in thrilling grandeur rise,
Now rolling, swelling, moaning far and near
In magic tones that seetn to reach the skies.
And o'er my h* art, while musing here to-day.
This thought arises like a sad refrain:
When shall I see those golden sunbeams play
On fields and waves at Bannockburn again?
Monticetlo, Fla., April. 1881.
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Georgia Affairs.
The Columbus Times warns the country
against one IV L. Sams, representing himself
as agent for the Singer Sewing Machine Corn
pat y. aud going about borrowing articles,
winch he takes care not to return. He bor
rowed from a good wife her husband’s overcoat
an I umbrelia, which have not yet been beard
from.
The J lcDuffie Journal says a difficulty oc
curred a few days ago between Mr. J. C. Wat
son and Messrs John and George Usry of, that
county, in which Mr. GeorgeJUsry was shot
with a small pistol iu the hands of Mr. Watson,
the ball entering near the left nipple and rang
ing downward. The wound is considered dan
gerous, but not necessarily mortal.
Muscogee's wealth, according to the lite tax
digest, is sß.lt'B,Tl9. The decrease in lands
value is f £I 7OS. and of polls 121. The increase
of city property is $. ; W,272, of which $49,211
was in cotton factories.
In view of the boat ding house conven
tion in Columbus, the boarders are discussing
the feasibility cf renting a house and running
it themselves. They estimate the cost cf
boarding, according to their scheme, at eight
to ten doll rs per month.
A negro liad his arm cut off by a train on the
-Talbotton Railroad on Monday.
There are 150 men working on the Gaines
ville, Jefferson and Southern Railroad.
The Waynesboro Herald reports Tom Ingram
stabbed at the Millen colored camp meetirg;
Frank Smith, candidate for the ministry, ar
rested for larceny after trust, and Melburn
Gaines struck with a piece of plank and killed
by Charles Jones—all colored.
The colored people own property in Musco
gee county to the value of $151,304.
Madison county is going to issue $50,000
worth of bonds with which to build a. railroad
from Harmony Grove via Daci -Istille to Broad
river.
The tax digest for 18S1 brings Bibb county up
to the grand aggregate of $9,043,313. Macon
now contemplates having an artesian well.”
Sparta Ishmaelite : “If the methods of farm
ing in vogue in the cotton b> It continue it will
not be long before the farms will pass cut of
the hands of their present occupants.”
The Augusta Evening News says: “Judee
Wm. T. Gould wid officiate at the laying of the
Masonic Temp'e corner-stone on Saturdav, An
address w ill be delivered by Hon. John S.
Davidson.”
The Sandersville Herald says: “The unfortu
nate lunatic. John M. Smith, confined in our
county j iii some ten days ago, died on Tuesday
night from sheer starvation. He utterly re
fuged to eat.”
Augusta Evening News: “The Georgia Road
will in the future, as in the past, build its cars
in Augusta. Maior Greene’s policy in this par
ticular is thesame as former authorities, and
he is here to build up our great road."
Augusta Evening News: “Rumors have come
to Augusta in the past few dats from New
York, ihat a pool has been formed to buy a
controlling interest in the stock of the Mem
phis and Chat lesion I'oad. with a view of com
pelling the authorities to declare a dividend, or
of breaking thelease.”
Rome ftulU tin: • We have just received in
formation of the firming of a dead man near
Ladiga. on the Selma, Rome and Dalton Rail
road, a few days ago. The physicians say that
he had been dead about twelve hours before
the finding, and that he was murdered. No
one knew him, and it was impossible to iden
tify him.”
Atlanta Post-Appeal: “There is a gentleman
living on Foundry s’reet, who has a child con
va'eseing from a severe attack of cholera in
fantum. who takes his little jug and walks to
Ponce and Leon tprings after water for the
little one every evening when he returns
home from work.”
Post-Appeal: “Robbe'a re-election is Au
gusta's trumph. for representative at the
Sovereign Grand Lodge c.f the WorM is the
highest honor in Odd Fellow-hip. Thts posi
tion has been held long and honorably by Mr.
R. hue. and he is perhaps the most popular as
well as the most prominent Odd Fellow in the
State.”
Savs the Marietta Journal: “Mr. Henry
White and Mr Bird Parks performed a good
service Friday night late in arresting and put
ting in the calaboose two drunken white m-n
that made the night hideous with their pro
fane and indecent language.”
Macon Telegraph: “It is said that the Macon
and • rurswick Railroad will have to buy the
charter of the Btreet Railroad Company be
fore it can lay 'ts tracks on any street in the
city The Brunswick extension continues to
be tiie railire topi.-, though it’s about settled
that the city will give the road permission and
an injunction will be sued out.”
The Walton County \eirs puts the following
notent quest ion: -When the stock law goes
into effect in Rockdale county on the 4th of
January, what is to become c.f the stock in
Walton near the line of the two counties?
Will a fence between the two counties have to
be built * If so who is to build it ? We do not
see how the county liners are to get along.”
Albany News: “We saw some water from i
Colonel Fort's artesian well yesterday. No
such water has ever before been seen in this
country It is as clear as a crystal and purer
than our common well or cistern water can be
made by filtering. It delighted every one who
saw and tasted it. and the demand for an ar
tesian well io the city is now 'on tne rise.
Gainesville Southron: “The new railroads
are all on a boom. Colonel Foreacre says the
one from Lula to Clarksville will be completed
by ChristnuvS. The one to Jefferson and the
branch to Jug Tavern wi l certainly be done
before that time, and Colonel Price thinks
work will be resumed on the Gaitesville ar and
Dahlonega at as early day. Ail this should
make a great many people happy.”
Colonel R. J. Wilson. Tax Receiver of Rich
mood county, received the following ccrnpli
menuary letter from Comptroller General .
A. Wright: 'Yourdigest received, and it would
be useless for me to say to you that same is
correct Permit me to thank you for your
handsome books, an 1 especially for the large
increase in valuations. The increase is so far
the largest m the State, and is an evidence
that your people are progressive and prosper
ous.
Atlanta Post-Appeal: “Chief of Police An
derson concludes nis report for July by saving
The results of this mouth. showing the pay
ment iuto the treasury of the city of the sum j
of $1.28 > 50 from Oil cases made, is conclusive
evider.ee that your force has been vigilant and
active iu the discharge of their duties, and is
sufficient proof that the additicn of four men
to the force, and the r lieving them ot lighting
the lamps, was a well considered matter.*"
Sparta Ishmaelite: “Senator McWhorter ia
the reputed author of a bill td forbid the manu
facture and sale of t hemicnl fertilizer! in the
Staid. What astonishes us is. how any one
man, of finite mind, could conceive of such a
bit —much more get it into shape and roll it
into the Assembly. The thing is absolutely a
.miracle. Next we shall hear of the introduc
tion of a bill to prevent the raising and impor
tation of watermelons—introduced by some
similar genius who, ia a dm of unprepared-
Swunurii IpMiiiji Sens.
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
ness Tor death, has eaten sufficiently of that
deceptive fruit to develop io his death-rearing
stomach a case of cholera morbus. ”
The farmers of Walton county have organ
jjfd tor Improved agricultural management
The I idette says they were full of enthusiasm
Among the sneakers was Mr. J. O. A. Radford
who said: “He wanted*King Cotton deposed'
because he ruled the agriculturist with a rod of
iron. It had been demonstrated that 4.000 000
bales of cotton brought the agriculturists’ of
the South ss much money asftOfO.OOO. The
South was the most benevolent people uuder
the broad canopy of heaven. They actually
clothed the ba'ance of the world at a clear
loss of at least 2 par cent, upon the cost of
production.”
Bamesvdle (iazette : “A few days since
there was rather a gloomy veil overhanging
the agricultural interests of this section, and
perhaps over the crop prospect of the country
at large The recent rains have revived things,
and it look* now as if this section would make
corn enough to supply tb coming year’s de
mand. There if a crop of rich pea vines,
whether the fruit yield will be In proportion or
not. The cotton prospect is very flattering,
and a fair vic'd will be made by all the territo
ry- that brings its cotton to Barnesville. ex ept
the scope from Culloden. Monroe county, to
the country adjacent to Thomaston. Through
this territory there will be an exceedingly short
crop of everything "
Gainesville Southron: “Mr. W. W. Hendrix,
of Daw-on countv, informs us that some cow
ardly fiend, who has a spite at Mr John Town
send. of that county, aurht two of his mules,
an! last night a week took them to an old
house belonging to Marian Martin, tied them
securely inside, and set fire to the house for
the rutpose of burning them up. When the
neighbors arrived on the scene the poor mules
were burned nearly to death, their eyes being
burned out, their ears and other parts of their
bodies to a crisp One died at once, the other
probably soon afterward It is to be hoped the
perpetrator will be ferreted out and punished
with the greatest severity for this fiendish,
heartless act.”
McDuffie Journal: “On a plantation a few
miles from Thomson, Bailiff Srteir, a few days
ago had a desperate and exciting race after a
bow-legged Ethiopian, for whom he held a war
rant. The freedrr-an was boeing cotton when
the rode up to the fence and re
quested him to saunter up. He sauntered, but
it was toward a neighboring swamp and in
double-quick. Mr. Speir jerked down the fence
and dashed off in frantic pursuit, and the
astonishing agility displayed by that old gray
mre as she switched her tail, flung up her
heels and tore through the cotton patch, will
not be witnessed again by the present genera
tion. The African escaped, but Mr. Bpeir
everlastingly covered himself with dust and
glory, and left three acres of cotton in ruins ”
Columbus Enquirer: “Yesterday Mr. Robert
Flour- oy was in the city, and reports that the
caterpillars are extending on his plantation.
It is feared that unless they are exterminated
in some way that their ravages will cause con
siderable damage. Mr. Hournoy was in the
city for the purpose of procuring arsenic with
which to poison them He will use one pint of
arsenic to one bushel of house-dust (the dirt
raked from beneath housesi and will distribute
it over the plant. The manner of dis’ribution
will be a barrel with small holes made in it,
and will be carried through the field by hand.
This he considers a better and more practical
poison than Pari* green. We also learn that
Mr. George H Thompson and others, in that
part of Russell county, are troubled with the
caterpillar, and steps will be immediately ta
ken to exterminate them.”
Albany News: “A wild bull from the rural
districts made things lively down at the estab
lishment of Tift & Cos. yesterday. He was be
ing driven to the butcher by some horsemen
with long cow whips, and became so terror
stricken between the popping of the murder
oils whips and the bustle and clatter of city
life that he darted into the first convenient
hole he came to. Sa-d hole happened to be
the side door of the office of Tift & Cos. He went
inffike a hurricane, with head down, tail up
and heels flying, ala mode. The venerable
Colonel Tift was seated at his table
quietly perusing his railroad article in
ye-terday morni-g's News and Advertiser, and
had the unfortunate distinction of being first
min in the fracas. Now. if there is a man liv
ing who is not afrsid to "take the bull by the
horns' that man is Colonel Tift, but this bull
caromed on the Colonel with his heels, and then
allied off towards Tom Woolfolk and his able
corps of assistant accountants. Tom mounted
the high desk in time to save himself, and.
raising his hands and trembling voice in holy
horror, told the horrid bull to ’shew.’ while
El. Ki chens and the other boys crouched them
selves in the closest places they could find until
the no n with the whips arrived and drove his
bullship out.”
The bill reported in the Georgia Senate by
the special committee on temperance provides
that after present licenses expire it shall be
unlawful for any person to sell, barter or fur
ni-ta either directly or indirectly, any spiritu
ous or intoxicating liquors or drinks, or any
medicated alcoholic bitters of anv kind, or any
liq ior of which spirituous liquor is a material
or constituent part, outside the limits vf any
incorporated town or city, except upon the
written application to the Ordinary of two
thirds of the freeholders who reside outside of
such towns and cities and within three miles
of the place at which it is proposed to open a
saloon The second section of the act provides
that in incorporated towns an election shall be
held when one-fourth of the voters so petition
at which whisky mty be voted out, and such a
vote stall deoar any person from issuing li
cense in such towns as polls a majority of votes
again-t whisky. The filth section provides that
the law shall uot operate to cause anew elec
tion in those places which have already voted
whisky out, or where the sale of whisky is
prevented by special legislation. It ia thought
that the bill will pa-8. It will suit the country
people, and it leaves the towns and cities free
to regulate the matter for themselves.
Florida Affairs.
White Spring, Suwannee county, is becoming
a favorite watering place.
We have received the premium list of the
seventh annual State Fair, to be held at Jack
sonville, under the auspices of the State Park
Association of that city, beginning on Tues
day, February 21st, 1832, and continuing four
days.
The colored laborers employed in the con
struction of buildings about Tallahassee struck
for higher wages the other day. demanding one
dollar per day. They are not skilled me
chanics, but generally “picked up” hands to
do the heavy work. A compromise was ef
fected, we believe, and work resumed.
A farmer in Hillsborough county declares
that plowing and keepiog the land bare of
vegetation in the months of June, July add
August, and exposing it to the hot suu.is highly
dett imentai to the soil in deteriorating its fer
tility.'
“The wadding fired from the assassin's gun,”
says the Orange City Times, “that killed
Rhodes and Crowder recently near that town,
wa* a piece of the New York Tribune, issued
during the Beecher scandal. The wad from
such a sheet containing the details of that
scandal was sufficient in itself to kill most
anything, to say nothing of the shot it cov
ered. To keen such unholy publications
around is enough to make a man commit mur
der.”
One hundred and fifty thousand cocoanuta
have been planted in Monroe county this sea
son.
Mrs. Richard Smith, at Bpring Garden, fell
out of a wagon and was severely but not dan
gerously bruised.
Mr J. Summerlin, who is jnst recovering
from the effects of a dose of poison adminis
tered to him and some friends on June 25th,
writes to the Kay West Democrat that he will
par $530 for the cooviction of the party or
parties that did the deed. Mr. Summerlin
thin tea ww tftio luttHlllOTt Of fhP nftrSAll
who pot the corrosive sublimate into his coffee.
Jacksonville Union: “It is whispered that a
syndicate is being formed to build a railroad
from this city direct to Key West. There is a
ccrreepondence guingon b-tween New York
and London capit-lists to this effect.”
Orlando Reporter: “One of the greatest
needs of this portion of Florida i* good and re
liable laborers. Nearly all branches ofindus
trv are suffering ftom the lack of efficient
laborers. A hundred good men who would be
willing to work six days a week, could find em
ployment at once.” The same wail Comes
up from •very nook andcorner of the State.
Tallahassee Floridian: “A lady of tit's city
received by express one day last week a large
package, hich, upon op-ning. was found to
contain only a venerable shoe, moldy with age
and covered with scars and patches. Her in
dignation at the trick played upon her was
considerably modified by the subsequent dis
eovery that the shoe was a very clever imita
tion in pasteboard, hollow, and filled with the
choicest of candies and bon-bons ”
Jacksonville Union: "Tuesday evening a thief
gained entrance to Messrs. Tyson <S Smith 8
store and secreted himself until the store was
closed- During th. night he went to the money
drawer and attempted to open it bv boring holes
above the lock, but this failing, he broke the
drawer open. For unately, all the money had
been put away in the safe. The thief then at
tempted to pry open the safe door with an
oyster knife. Failing in this, and not finding
any money in the drawer, he took a box of
cigars and left The brace and bit and oyster
knife were found at the store Wednesday morn
ing.”
Jacksonville Union : “The engineer corps,
under the supervision of Mr. Carter, Chief
Engineer of ine Tampa and Jacksonville Rail
road, left this city on Monday on their survey
south. They will meet the surveying party
coming from Tam pa It te the intenttonof the
company to make three surveys, and then the
route proving the moat practicable will be
adopted. Mr. Van Fleet, the President of the
company, leaves to day for Tampa. There is
no doubt, we are told, of this road being built,
and there is no railroad coming into Jackson
ville in which our local interests will be so
much benefited as this road. We say success
to the enterprise.”
A Florida item, with the following import, is
found in the Waycross Reporter: “W e learn
from Major R McLaugh/in. agent for Mr Astor
at Jacksonville, that he returned last ” edses
day. to ex-Governor Cornell, of New York, and
ex Senator Barnum, of Connecticut, two offices
for the transae ion of the necessary busine-s
in furtherance of the building of what will be
oyiled the Jacksonville, Palatka, Tampa and
Key West Railroad.’ The work on this grand
tnink line will be commenced at an early day.
The road will skirt the St. John’s river, touch
ing at ail points of importance to Palatka, and
2*a*l*®“** will diveige to the right, going in
the direction of Tampa,”
THE STATE CAPITAL.
THE COLE CHARTER PASSES
THE HOUSE.
The Kill Passed by an Overwhelm
ing Vote-Important Amendments
and Considerable Modification—
The Judge and Solicitor General
Elected for the Northeastern Clr
cult—The Macon and Brunswick
Sale—The Railroads and the Com
mission.
Atlanta, August 11. —ln the House
Colonel Cole’6 charter was the special or
der.
Mr. Jemison, of Bibb, moved to strike out
“fifty years” and insert “thirty” for the
limit of the charter.
Mr. Garrard, of Muscogee, explained that
Colonel Cole wished to issue bonds to run
forty and fifty years, and for that reason the
committee, in striking out the perpetual
duration of the charter, had Inserted “fifty
years.”
Mr. Barrow, of Clarke, made a somewhat
similar statement, and Mr. Jemison with
drew his amendment.
Mr. Bronson, of Bartow, offered an amend
ment that if the entire line from Brunswick
to Rome was not completed within three
years that the charter should be forfeited.
Mr. Garrard said the committee and Col.
Cole accepted this amendment, and It was
adopted without opposition.
Mb Jemison offered an amendment pro
blbitiDg any railroad or express company,
controlling a competing road, from pur
chasing an interest in the Cole road without
a forfeiture of the charter.
Mr. Barrow, of Clarke, said this was most
remarkable.
Mr. Jemison retorted that it was taken
word for word from the act regulating the
sale of the Macon and Brunswick Road.
Mr. Barrow—“And didn’t the State lose
by It.”
Mr. Jemison— “Ye3, but she secured the
desired object.”
Mr. Barrow said he was willing to vote
for 6uch an amendment if put in a different
form.
Mr. Dußignon, of Baldwin, read from the
State Road lease act to show that a similar
provision was in that document.
Mr. Jemison—“The more reason that the
Cole charter should have the rule applied
to it. Remember what Mr. Stephens says—
where consolidation is possible competition
is impossible.”
Messrs. Barrow. Garrard and Milner, of
Btrtnw, and Tucker, of Monroe, amended
Mr. Jemison’s amendment so as to prevent
any competing line from getting control of
Colonel Cole’s road, or Cole’s road gobbling
up any competing line. The rule works
both wavs. No person having a controlling
iuterest !n one road shall be allowed to buy
a controlling interest In the other. This
amendment was then adopted.
Mr. Rankin, of Gordon, then offered an
amendment similar to Mr. Jemison’s before
its amendment, but it was voted down.
Messrs. Barrow, Rice of Fulton, and
Jemison amended section 6 so that default
ing subscribers to the capital stock shall
not forfeit all their paid In assessments, but
only an amount sufficient to cover the
a*6*>ssment called for and not paid in. This
amendment was adopted.
Mr. Rankin offered an amendment pro
hibiting the extension of the road beyond
Rome and Chattanooga.
Mr Garrard opposed it, and the amend
ment was lost.
Mr. Jemison proposed several amend
ments —one to prevent a sale to any railroad
company or person hereafter engaged in
running or operating a competing line, as
well as any now so engaged. Also, another
amendment to confine the building of the
wharves and docks to Brunswick or that
vicinity.
Mr. Bacon, of Bavannah, asked if that
would not prevent Col. Cole from building
docks and wharves in Savannah.
Mr. Jemison replied that it would, or any
other place except Brunswick.
Both amendments were lost. Tbe bill as
amended by the committee and printed for
the House with the amendments was adopt
ed, and was then put|on its passage.
Mr. Rankin, Chairman of the Railroad
Committee, opposed its passage solely
because it would injure the Btate Road, and
read letters from Hon. L. N. Trammell and
General Wm. Mcßae, the General Superin
tendent of the State Road.
In reply Mr. Barrow said be was author
ized bv President Joseph E. Brown, of the
State Road, to inform the House that Gen
eral Mcßae’6 letter was written without his
knowledge or consent, and he did not in
dorse it. Colonel Cole’s road wouid hurt
the lessees, but not the value of the Sta’e’s
property In the Western aud Atlantic Rail
road. If it did, tbe large amount of money
brought into the State and expended here
by Colonel Cole would make good any such
10-s. This statement assured the prompt
passage of the bill.
Mr. Rankin explained that he had offered
General Mcßae’s letter as written by that
gentleman simply in his capacity of a pri
vate citizen.
On the call of the previous question the
bill passed with the three amendment* al
ready referred to by 134 yeas to 25 nays,
amidst general applause, the galleries being
crowded. The original bill was cut down a
great deal by the Railroad Commission, but
Colonel Cole and his friends accepted the
result. The bill as passed Is about as good
a compromise as could be secured by both
parties.
JOINT SESSION.
At noon the Senate and House met in
joint session to elect a Judge and Solicitor
for the Northeastern circuit, till January 1,
1883. C. J Welborn of Union, C. H Sut
ton of Habersham, and W. L. Mailer of
Hall, were nominated. The vote stood,
Weiborn 141, Marler 41, Sutton 11.
For Solicitor General, W.- 8. Erwin of
Habersham, H. W. J. Ham of Hall, R. H.
Baker of Lumpkin and Wm. P. Finley of
Hall, were nominated. The vote stood:
Erwin 89, Ham 83, Baker 22, Finley 2.
On the second ballot, Baker and Finley
having been withdrawn, Erwin received
111 and Ham 81, a close and exciting race,
Erwin gaining by changes near the close of
the ballot.
SENATE PROCEEDINGS.
The special order was the consideration
of the report of the committee on the reso
lution authorizing the State Treasurer to
accept three per cent. United States bonds
in payment for the Macon and Brunswick
Railroad.
Mr. Denmark said a resolution was now
pending in the Senate to Investigate the
sale of that road, and moved to postpone
the special order. Carried.
A communication was read from the Btate
Agricultural Society at Rome in favor of
granting •*> making of
an appropriation for fish propagation.
A number of bills were read a second
time. The Senate discussed the bill fixing
fees for weighing cotton until tbe hour for
the joint sefsion.
Tnere is a strong pressure to increase the
pawers of the Railroad Commission. Able
arguments are being made on both sides be
fore ?he railroad committees of the House
and Senate.
TRENCH POLITICS.
IU. Julea Ferry at Nancr.
Nancy, August 11.—Speaking at a ban
quet iu his honor last night, M. Juies Ferry
declared his belief that at the coming elec
tions the country would respond in favor of
the mutual agreement of the parties for a
revision of tbe constitution of the republic
as opposed to any absolute, violent, radical
revision, which is the favorite Idea of the
lrreconcilable6. He was tumultuously ap
plauded.
Reunion of Ex-Conlederates.
Galveston, August 11. —A special from
Dallas savs: "A reunion of ex Confeder
ates ltviog in Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri
and Texas was held yesterday to extend
through to day. About 500 arrived in the
city during tbe day and a large number at
night. A procession headed by the local
military companies and fire department and
bras* bands paraded the streets. Craddock’s
Opera House was thrown open as
s place of rendezvous, and hearty hand
shakings wete indulged in. Many
had never met since the surrender.
Speeches were made at the Park by General
Lewis, Frsnk Mitchell, Colonel Pearson
Pierce, Generals Cabell and Gillmon, of the
Third Louisiana.”
Fatal Land Slide.
Richmond, Va., August 11.—A telegram
from LexlngtoD, Va., says that seven ne
groes were Silled yesterday afternoon by a
slide in a cut, uoon which they were at
work, on the Richmond and Allegheny
Railroad, six miles from that town. Six of
the negroes were convicts.
“Roueb on Rata.*?
The thing desired found at last. Ask
druggists for Rough on Rats. It dears out
rats, mice, roaches, files, bed bogs. 15c.
boxes.
SAVANNAH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1881.
AMERICAN BANKERS.
Second Bay’s Vleetlog of the Annual
Convention.
Niagara, August 11.—The second day’s
meeting of the American Bankers’ Associa
tion was called to order at 11 o’clock this
morning by Geo. S. Coe, of New York.
There were three hundred delegatee pres
ent. Tbe Chairman stated that Thomas
Henry, of Mobile, one of the Vice Presi
dents, would preside. On calling the con
vention to order, the Chairman, Mr. Henry,
made a brief, humorous speech. The first
paper read was written by Hon. Wm. Win
dom, Secretary of the Treasury,on “Govern
ment Finances.”
George 8. Coe, of New York, read an ad
dress on the subject “What shall be the
currency of the future.” It was a careful
review of the financial outlook, and was
well received. John Jay Knox, of Wash
ington, D. C., Comptroller of the Currency,
was Introduced and read an explana’ive ad
dress on tbe "Banking and currency of the
country.”
Secretary Wlndom, in his paper, furnishes
a brief resume of the funding operations of
tbe government! 6ince the incoming of tbe
present administration. He states at tbe
outset that the funding operations are not
quite completed, so no precise statement of
transactions can yet be given. Owing to the
failure of tbe refunding act during the last
session of Congress, the only resources of
the|government to meet its maturing obli
gations were the surplus revenues and the
amount of $lO4 000,000 of 4 percents, author
ized by the acts of 1870 and 1871 remaining
unissued. These resources, he says, were
tiot sufficient to provide for all the maturing
bonds. Finally, to meet the demand of the
public creditors and at the same time to
avoid the calling of an extra session of
Congress, a plan was matured, which has
been put into operation and bas proved suc
cessful. In conclusion, Secretary Wlndom
says:
“By this plan the department has been not
only relieved from the embarrassment of
providing for the payment of the coupon in
terest, but bas reduced all the 6 and 5 per
cent loans of the government to a loan
payable at the option of the government
and bearing interest at only per cent,
per annum, and this with the tr fling ex
pense to the,government of preparing the
new registered bonds and orf paying the
actual expenses of the London agency, at
which only three persons have been employ
ed for a few weeks. The saving to the gov
ernment through the continuance of
these bonds is very gratifying. On
the 0 per cents, the continued annual
saviDg hereafter in interest will be
$4 451,378 75. On the 5 per cents., assuming
$400,000,090 to be continued, the annual
saving will be about $(5 000,000, making a
total annual saving hereafter In the interest
of the public debt of $10,451,378 75. Mean
while, from March 1 to October 1,1881,
when these operations will have been com
pleted, there will be paid of the 6 per cents.
$24,211,400, and of the 5 per cents.
$69,320,650, maklDg an additional annual
saving in interest of $4,918,716 50—a total
reduction of the interest charge
In seven months of sls 370,095 25.
Io other words, the annual interest charge,
which was, on March 1. 1881, $76,845,937 50,
will he on October 1. 1881, as nearly a* cau
now be stated, $61,454,722 50 Thts saving
in interest can hereafter be applied to tbe
reduction of the debt, thus reducing it and
the burdens arising therefrom more rapidly
than heretofore.”
BRITAIN’S REALM.
The Lords to Give Wav on (be Land
Hill— State or the Loudon money
market.
London, August 11—The Times , in a
leading article this morning, says: “The
Lords have yielded to what they admit to
be a paramount political necessity, and have
accepted the bill, which they profoundly
dislike and distrust. It can hardly be
doubted that the same motives which have
hitherto actuated them will again prevail
when they come to reconsider the points of
difference which remain between them and
the House of Commons.”
Tbe Times in its financial article says:
“We believe Daly has obtained with ea6e
the amounts of bullion she requires at pre
sent, and the anticipated withdrawals of
gold from tbe Bank of England on
Italian account are at any rate post
poned. It is qutte possible that a bul
lion drain to America may begin at any
moment, but at present, io spite of
the withdrawal of bullion from the bank on
Tuesday for America, it cannot be said that
atiy drain has set In. The bank will be, no
doubt, prepared to raise tbe rate of dis
count quickly on the least sign of a drain to
America or elsewhere, but with the cessa
tion of tbe Italian demand for the present,
there appears to be do necessity for any
action, at least in advance of an open
market.” *
FLASHES FROM CHARLESTON.
A .Splendid Donation to the Cathe
dral—The II >ttest August Day lor
Filty Years—Fatal Sunstroke.
Charleston, 8 C., August 11.— The will
of the late John McKeegan was read to day.
He leaves a house and lot to an old negro
man, his life-long servant; three bequests
of SSOO each to private persoas, and the
balance of his estate to his executors in
trust to rebuild the Cathedral destroyed by
fire in 1861. The conditions are that the
work shall be commenced within five years.
Failing in this, the trustees are to devote
the fund to tome charitable object. One
half of tbe amount is to be paid when the
walls of the church are ten feet from the
ground and tbe balance when the roof is put
on. The estate is placed at from $40,000 to
$60,000.
To-day was the hottest day that has been
kitown during the month of August for
nearly half a century, the thermometer
reaching 96 in the shade.
A white laborer, named John Sweeny, was
fatally sunstruck, and a negro, name un
known, was prostrated.
MAUD S.
Another Splendid Performance at
Kocbester.
Rochester, N. Y., August 11.— Twenty
thousand people were on the grounds of the
** * -• tHnar Parlr
the second heat of the 2:21 class, tbe track
was dragged near the pole for the purpose
of giving Maud 8. every opportunity to do
her best. The day was perfect, and not the
slightest breeze was blowing. At twenty
five minutes before four o’clock the magnifi
cent mare jogged past the grand stand.
Every eye was on her, and there pas great
enthusiasm. Nearing the grand stand her
driver nodded, and the word was given.
The first quarter was reached in 32$£
seconds. Tbe half in The three
quarter pole in 1:37X. There was no sign
of a break. Down the stretch she came,
and In splendid form passed under the wire
tn 2:103tf. Three cheers went up from the
reporters’ stand, and an instant later the
official time was hung out by the judges,
and the applause of a multitude greeted it.
The New York Stock market.
New York, August 11. —The stock mar
ket opened generally weaker and lower, but
was to 1# hieher for C. f C., C. and 1.,
Louisville aud Nashville, New Jersey Cen
tral and Western Union. In the early deal
ings, however, tbe entire list became weak,
and a decline of to 2% per cent, took
place, tbe latter in C., C., C. and 1., Read
ing, Ohio and MLsisfipnd and Wabash be
ing also conspicuous therein.
Toward midday speculation assumed a
firmer tone, and, although the market was
extremely dull, prices advanced slightly
but steadily, and closed at a recovery of %
to 1% per cent, from the lowest point of
the mornlDg. The improvement was most
marked In Metropolitan Elevated, Wabash
Pacific, Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
and Northern Pacific preferred. Adams
Express was notably strong, and advanced
2% per cent. Sales aggregated 135,357
shares. _
Tbe Electrical Exhibition.
Paris, August 11.—The inauguration of
the International Electrical Exhibition here
yesterday was in private. The exhibition is
in a very unready state. The Edison exhi
bit was the object of much curiosity.
The electrical machine will in a few days
operate in tbe Edison show, which will be
manipulated by four clocks and will tele
graph 12,000 words per minute.
Again Defeated.
Vienna, August 11.—The boat race be
tween the Cornell crew and the Vienna
Cp6w was won by the Vienna crew. 1
VIRGINIA REPUBLICANS.
TWO DAYS OF W’ABRIKG FAC
TION.
No Compromise Arrived At—Tbe
Coalltlonlate Indorse the IVahone
Platform— I Tbe Stralgbtouta Nomi
nate and Withdraw a Ticket—A
Square Platform Adopted—Will
Tbey Stick ? Rancorous and
Windy Discussions.
Lynchburg, Va., August 11.—Mr. Coch
ran, Chairman of the State Central Commit
tee, called the convention to order at 10
o’clock a. m. In his address to the conven
tion he said: “We meet here as Republi
cans, not as Democrats or Readjusters, to
name a ticket composed of candidates for
Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Attor
ney General.” He urged them to be mode
rate, prudent and wise in their delibera
tions. Upon motion, J. T. Wilson, colored,
of Norfolk, was elected permanent
Chairman. Mr. Wilson return
ed thanks for the compliment.
He said that it was not expected that there
should be perfect unanimity in the party;
that there are but two national parties in
the State, the ReDublicans and the Demo
crats. The Readjusters were made up of
dissatisfied wings of both parties, and tbey
had brought all their means to bear to de
feat the Republicans in this convention.
The R-publlcans of Virginia were in no
condition to indorse the Readjusters.
When the Chair reported the convention
ready for business, Mr. Tinsley, of Nanse
tnoud, moved the appointment of a Com
mittee on Credentials, to consist of one
from each Congressional district and two at
large.
J. T. Dezendorff then took the floor and
said that the committee from the other side
(the coalitionists) wished time to enter the
convention, but as they had not been pro
vided with tickets they could not, and he
therefore moved that the convention adjourn
until three o’clock, in order thal they might
be conferred with and the two wings united
if possible.
Mr. Arnold opposed any adjournment,
saying that the straightouts had appointed
& committee of two of the best Republicans
in the State to confer with them, and they
returned to caucus, saying that they could
find no one to confer with. He was opposed
to any coalition with “Caping Kidd.”
“I was in this etty,” he said, “when
there was no repudiation in the city. The
motto was, ‘Owe no man, pay no man,’ as
general Mahone teaches. 1 would rather
vote for John Daniel’s little finger a thou
sand times than for ballot box stuffers.”
He wanted some assurance that the coali
tionists would act In good faith.
Mr. Dezendorff rose and said he believed
that every man here was an honest Republt
oan and could not be bought out in two
hours.
Mr. Tinsley, of Nansemond, replied:
“Peter J. Carter came here a straightout,
and was bought in two nours.”
After the Committee on Credentials had
been appointed, Ross Hamilton took the
floor in advocacy of a committee to Invite
all delegates to come to the hall. He
wanted to pay all that the State mor
ally owes, and It only morally owes
wjiat it is able to pay.
Mr. Poindexter eudorsed what Mr. Ham
ilton bad said, and he wanted the world to
know that the cause we are championing is
too dear to lose.
Mr. Gordon, of Petersburg, took a sensi
ble parliamentary view of the case. One
hundred delegates were ascertained to be in
tbe hail. Mr. Hamilton’s motion for a com
mittee was carried. On motioD, the Chair
appointed the committee which bad been
appointed by the caucus. A recess till 3
o’clock was carried.
Ou reassembling the Chairman called the
meeting to order and stated that the next
order of business was the report of the
Committee on Credentials. The committee
not being ready to report, Mr. Austin, of
Laurenburg, was requested to address the
convention.
Mr. Austin was in faror of healing, If pos
sible, the split in tbe party. He said that
he came here to fight the Democracy and
was in favor of admitting the coalitionists
if they will come forward and act honorably.
At the conclusion of his remarks several
short speeches were made against any com
promise charging that these men were
backed up in repudiation and were opposed
to any steps, no matter what they were,
.that were taken by the straightouts.
Mr. Jorgenson, Chairman of the com
mittee appointed to confer with the coali
tionists, reported that he had conferred
with all the members of tbe committee ap
pointed by tbe coalitionists, and bad in
vited that section to participate in the pro
ceedings of the convention.
Mr. Tinsley moved that the report be
accepted and the committee discharged.
Mr. Austin, of Lunenburg, offered as an
amendment tbe adoption of tbe report, but
was opposed to tbe committee’s being dis
charged.
Mr. Poindexter made a short speech in
favor of the original motion.
A delegate from Warwick county rose and
said that he was willing to fight when he
could win, and he thought they could win
now. He said he had been canvassed by
several delegates since he arrived in this
city, and they were all Mahoneites, and had
been reading the Mahone. organs. He attack
ed that organ in regard to its reports ou
political meetings, and said that its reports
of meetings in his county were all false'. He
said the delegates in this convention were
all legally elected, but the coalitionists, to
his certain knowledge, had delegates tjiat
were not more than sixteen years of age.
Mr. Lester, of Richmond, by request, took
the stand amid great applause, and address
ed the convection. The first remark he
made was that he was utterly opposed to
readjustment. There was a time, he said,
when the people I am identified with had
bosses, but they, with my assistance, shall
never have a boss again. It, was Garfield
that said that bis administration would
not countenance a boss, and they
have chopped off the head of Roscoe
ConkliDg. He charged that the straight
outs had made too many compromises
already. That they have appointed two
committees to confer with the coalitionists,
which is proof positive that they were
capable of eating dirt. lie went on to
charge Cameron with ballot box stuffing,
and said that he was the prime mover of
the burning of Gordon Kemper in
efllgv because he would not
violate tbe constitution. Addressing the
convention, he said: “You can vote for him,
if you wish, but I will vote for Daniel,
who, I consider, will make a better Gov
ernor. He is an honest man, and so far as I
know, has not been guilty of corruption,
ballot-box stun fling, or burniDg a Governor
in effigy.” He spoke about an hour, and de
nounced the Mahoneists, charging that Lewis
had fort? officers under him, and not one of
friend to the colored ma’h.
The Committee on Credentials presented
their report, which was adopted. The tem
porary officers were renominated lor perma
nent positions, and they were so elected.
Hon. J. T. Dezendorff and Mr. Smith
were elected Vice Presidents. The conven
tion then adjourned until 7 p. m.
The Coalition Convention met at twelve
o’clock In the Opera House. Jotiah Crump,
of Richmond, was elected temporary Chair
man, and J. P. Brooke Secretary. Both are
colored men.
A committee of nine was appointed on
credentials and directed to report at three
o’clock, to which hour the convention ad
journed.
The evening session was slow in assem
bling and was called to order at 3:30, with
only a small attendance. A colored dele
gate from Alexandria rose and said he de
sired to state that be was sent by the Re
publicans of Alexandria as a delegate to the
Republican Convention and had a ticket
signed by the Chairman of the State Cen
tral Committee, and he had been ruttalesriy
thrust from the door of the Republican Con
vention by a Democratic policeman.
Capt. E W. Early, of Albemarle, moved
that a committee of nine be appointed to
confer with a committee of the straightout
convention.
Dr. 8. Lewis opposed the motion, on the
ground that the straightouts were bolters.
W. W. Douglass favored it.
Mitchell, of Alexandria, believed that the
negroes of Virginia to-day would be better
off had they never seen Jorgenson or Dezen
dorff, but he was willing to allow them both
rather than have a split in the Republican
party.
J. P. Carter was in favor of the motion.
The convention voted for it almost unani
mously. The chair appointed one from
each district as tbe committee on compro
mise. A committee of nine on resjlutions
was also appointed.
While waiting for the report of the Com
mittee on Credentials, John O. Popbam
made a speech, declaring that there were
but five or six Republican debt payers in
the Slate. His speech was bitter and vin
dictive throughout.
The Committee on Credentials reported
155 legal delegates In the convention. Tbe
report was adopted. A committee of niDe
on permanent organlzition was appointed
by the Chatr. The convention then ad
journed until 7 o’clock p. in.
At the appointed hour In the evening both
conyentions were again in session listening
to speeches while awaiting the reports of
the committees on compromise. Finally
the straightout convention adjourned to 9
o’clock to-day.
The Readjusters’ faction remained In ses
sion until a late hour, and the delegates are
jubilant over their anticipated victory. The
straightouts are fast losing ground, and it
is generally thought that no nominations
will be made by them.
The straightout convention reassembled at
nine o’clock this morning. The platform
was read, and, after much discussion on the
debt plank, was adopted.
Ross Hamilton, leader of the Mecklenburg
delegation, upon the adoption of the plat
form, said that if his delegation remained
in the convention after the adoption of the
platform they would grossly misrepresent
their constituency. They would, therefore,
he said, retire. The action of Mr. Hamilton
and his followers was severely criticized by
the President of the convention.
A Committee on Nomination was then
appointed. J. W, Cochrane, colored, of
Rockingham, was elected Chairman of the
State Central Committee and ex officio
Chairman of the State Executive Commit
tee. A. Spitzer, of Richmond, was elected
Secretary of the State Central Committee
and ex-officio Secretary of the State Execu
tive Committee.
The following is the platform adopted by
the Republican State Convention:
Whereas, It is proper that when tbe
people assemble in convention they should
avow distinctly the principles of govern
ment on which they stand; now, therefore,
be it
Resolved, That we, the Republicans ot
Virginia, hereby make declaration of our
allegiance and adhesion to the principles of
the Republican party of the country and
our determination to stand squarely by the
organization of the Republican party of
\ irglnia, always defending it against the
assaults of all persons or parties whatso
ever.
Resolved, That amongst the principles of
the Republican party none is of more vital
importance to the welfare and interests of the
country in all Its parts than the sanctity of
government contracts. It therefore be
comes tbe special duty and province of the
Republican party of Virginia to guard and
protect the credit of our time-honored
Btate, which has been besmirched with re
pudiation or received with distrust by the
gross mismanagement of the various fac
tions of the Democratic party, which have
controlled the Legislature of the State.
Resolved, That the Republican party of
Virginia hereby pledges itself to redeem the
State from the discredit that now hangs
over her in regard to her just obligations for
moneys loaned her for constructing her in
ternal improvements and charitable institu
tions, which, permeating every quarter of
the State, bring benefits of far greater value
than their cost to our whole people, and
we, in the most solemn form, pledge the
Republicans of the State to the full payment
of the whole debt of the Stateless the third
set aside as justly falling on West Virginia.
Resolved, That the industries of the coun
try should be fostered through protective
laws so as to develop our resources, employ
our own labor, create a home market, en
hance values and promote the happiness and
prosperity of the people.
Resolved, That the public school system of
Virginia Is the creature of the Republican
party, and we demand that every dollar
that the Constitution dedicates to it should
be sacredly applied thereto as a means of
educating the children of the State without
regard to condition or race.
Resolved, That the elective franchise is an
equal right, and should be based upon man
hood qualification, and that we favor the
repeal of the requirements of a prepaid
amount or capitation tax as prerequisite to
the franchise as opposed to the Constitu
tion of the United States, and a violation of
the condition whereby the State was read mit
ted as a member of our constitutional
Union, as well as against the spirit of the
Constitution, but demand a capitation tax
as a source of revenue for the support of
the public schools without its disfranchising
effects.
Resolved, That we favor the repeal of dis
qualification for the elective franchise by
conviction of petty larceny, and the infa
mous laws which place it in the power of a
single Justice of the Peace, oftentimes more
corrupt than the criminal before him, to
disfranchise his fellow men.
Resolved, finally. That we urge the repeal of
the barbarous law permitting tbe imposition
of stripes as degrading and inhuman, con
trary to the genius of a true and enlightened
people, and a relic of barbarism. Adopted.
The committee on nomination reported to
the convention the names of W. C. Wick
ham, of Richmond, for Governor, Majors.
M. Yost, of Staunton, for Lieutenant Gov
ernor, and Judge Willoughby, of Alexan
dria, for Attorney General. The report was
unanimously adopted.
General Wickham and Major Yost ad
dressed the convention, declining their
nominations, and entreated the Republican
party to make a firm stand and abide by the
decisions of the convention. The conven
tion then decided not to make any nomina
tions, as they deemed It inexpedient,but con
cluded with great unanimity to hold fasj to
the principles of the Republican party,
ignoring ail propositions for readjustment
of the debt, whether naMonal or State.
Tbe State Central Committee was in
structed to issue an address, putting forth
the actions and principles of the conven
tion. At 1:30 p. m. the convention ad
journed sine die.
It is generally believed that the result of
the convention will be to hold intact the
Republican organization of the State, and
that the Mahoneites will have few followers
in the straightout ranks.
Lynchburg, August 11.—The coalitionists
adjourned this morning at 2 o’clock sine die,
after having indorsed the regular Readjuster
platform. A majority of the coalitionists
left for home this morning.
Weather ludicatlona.
Office Chief Signal Observer, Wash
ington, D. C., August 11.—Indications for
Friday:
In the South Atlantic States, partly cloudy
weather, occasional rains, variable winds,
stationary or lower temperature, higher
pressure.
In the Middle Atlantic States, partly
cloudy weather, possibly followed by local
rains, easterly veering to southerly winds,
stationary or higher temperature, rising fol
lowed tty falling barometer.
In the Gulf States, fair weather, winds
mostly southerly, stationary temperature
aud barometer.
In Tennessee and the Ohio valley, fair
weather, followed by increasing cloudiness,
warm southerly winds, falling barometer,
followed in the west portions by rising
barometer and colder northwest winds.
Saratoga Races.
Saratoga, August 11.—The attendance
at the track to-day was very large. The
weather was pleasant and the track was in
excellent condition.
In the first race, one mile, Valparaiso won,
with Warfield second, Girofla third, Alfam
bra fourth, Brooklyn last. Time 1:16.
The second race, the Kernan stakes, for
tbtefzYear-plds./IDO eacb.jrlth *l5O added,
second, Bonfire third. Time 3:32.
The third race, a mile and a furlong,
Goldbug won *by four lengths, Churchill
s°cond, a head in front of Fireman. Time
1:55%.
The fourth race, a selling raee, one mile,
Sagamore won by four lengths, Brooklyn
second, Governor Hampton third, Fair
count fourth, and Lucy Walker last. Time
1:44.
Temperance In Alabama.
Montgomery, Ala., August 11.—The
Alabama Temperance Convention, after a
session of two days, adjourned. An organi
zation was perfected with an Executive
Committee for the State and one for each
county. All attempts to make the question
a party one were deprecated and voted
down. Among the resolutions adopted was
one of regret Tor tbe wounding of the
President and expressing sympathy with
him and hope for his speedy recovery.
Tennessee’s Debt.
Nashville, August 11.—Governor Haw
kins bas received a letter from Chief Jus
tice Deadrick stating that the Supreme
Court deemed it Inexpedient to hold a
special term to bear the State debt Injunc
tiou case. If allowed to take its course on
the docket, the case will not be reached be
fore the meeting of another Legislature.
The regular term of the court commences
next December, when it mav be advanced.
The Edenton (N. C.) Clarion con
tributes this horrible instance: “On
Thursday morning, July 28th, near
Edenton, one of Harvey Burke’s boys
shot his brother with a pistol, mortally
wounding him. Immediately thereafter
he reloaded the pistol and shot himself,
causing instant death. The boy first shot
lived only a few hours. What was the
cause of the shocking affray is unknown.
The boys were about ten aud twelve
years old.”
A traveler says that what one who has
been in tbe North misses in the Southern
States are the fresh, sweet milk and but
ter, and a New Englander says that the
best investment one half the planters and
small farmers of the South could make
would be to expend a small sum in visit
ing a Northern farm.
WRITING TO HIS MOTHER.
____________
STEADY PROGRESS OF THE
PRESIDENT.
A Free Talk With tbe Surgeons—
The Wound About to Heal—The
Patient Likely to Take a Sea Voy
age In Three Weeks.
Washington, August 11.—All advices in
regard to the President’s condition continue
to be reassuring. The surgeons are excessive
ly gratified with the condition of the Presi
dent to day. To-night Dr. Bliss rode to the
depot to meet Dr. Hamilton with the agent
of the Western Press Association. He said
the improvement of the President has been
more than gratifying, that he had counted
on his rallying from the effects of the opera
tion by this morning and was not disap
pointed. In fact the improvement was
more than could reasonably have been ex -
pected.
The first thing this morning the President
called for bis breakfast, and said he wanted
something solid and substantia). He ex
pressed himself as feeling .better than on
any day since he was shot. He called for
a pencil and paper and said he wanted to
write a letter to his mother. Dr. Bliss was
surprised at this, but would not deny the
President his request. Dr. Bliss said to
night the President had not suffered espe
cially from the last operation, and that he
was strong enough to stand three such
operations. He said it was evident that the
wound had been drained from the bottom
and was now rapidly healing, and he now
felt confident he could give the assurance
the President would recover without fur
ther trouble from the wound.
When the noon examination was made to
day it was found that the pulse had gone
up two degrees. The temperature and
respiration, however, remained the same.
Dr. Reyburn said: “There is one thing we
want to impress upon the minds of you
newspaper men, and that Is that when the
temperature of the President is at 90 there
is no fever. Asa matter of fact, the Presi
dent has no fever.”
“How do you regard your patient’s con
dition ?”
“Favorable,” said the doctor. “Yes, it
is favorable.”
“As favorable as you had wished ?” per
sisted the reporter.
“No, not as we had wished, hut favorable.
The President is doing well.”
“Is the President dyspeptic asked the
reporter.
“Yes, he is,” answered the doctor, “and
we for this reason have trouble in adminis
tering food which will remain upon his
stomach. The President has suffered with
dyspepsia for many y£ars.” Continuing,
Dr. Reyburn said there was no cause for
grave alarm. He said the President was, of
course, weak, as anyone would be wha< had
remained on his back in bed for forty days.
Dr. Bliss said to-night at midnight that he
was satisfied that the President would be
able to take a sea voyage in three weeks.
the morning bulletin.
Executive Mansion, August 11,8:30 a. m.
[Official Bulletin ] —The President has passed
au exceedingly good night,sleeping sv eetly,
with but a few short breaks, and awakened
refreshed this morning at a later hour than
usual. At the morning dressing just
completed It was found that the
deeper parts of the wound had been
emptied spontaneously. The quantity of pus
secreted is beginning to diminish. Its
character and the appearance of the wound
are healthy. His temperature shows an en
tire absence of fever this morning, and his
pulse, which Is less frequent than yesterday,
Is Improving in quality. At present it is
100, temperature 98 6 10, respiration 19.
D. W. Bliss. ,1. J. Woodward. *
J. K. Babnes. Robert Reyburn.
THE NOON BULLETIN.
12:30 p. m. [Official Bulletin.]—The Presi
dent is doing well to-day. Besides a liberal
supply of liquid nourishment at regular
intervals, he has taken for breakfast, with
evident relish, an increased quantity of solid
food. He continues free from fever. Hts
skin is moist, but without undue perspira
tion. Pulse 102, temperature 98.6, respira
tion 19.
THE EVENING BULLETIN.
7:00 P. m — [Official Bulletin.] — Since the
afternoon bulletin was issued, the Presi
dent’s condition continued as then reported
until about 4 p. m., when the commence
ment of the afternoon febrile rise was
noted. In its degree it did not differ ma
terially from that of yestetday. His pulse
is now 108, temperature 101 2, respiration 19.
TERRORISM.
Washington County, Arkansas, at
the Mercy of a Gang ot Despera
does.
Gov. Churchill has received a letter
from a prominent citizen of Fayetteville,
Washington county, who states that the
civil authorities are powerless to arrest
the murderers of City Marshal Patton
and Deputy Sheriff Mount, who were
killed six weeks ago. The double mur
der was the continuation of a vendetta,
the assassins shooting down Patton and
Mount in the streets of Fayetteville
one night to avenge the death of a
desperado named Reed, who was slain
by the Marshal while resisting ar
rest. The murderers were mount
ed, and after slaying the Marshal and
Sheriff rode swiftly away, while the
citizens of the town, aroused by the dis
charge of firearms, flocked to the scene
of the tragedy. Though the assassins
are known, no effort has been made to
arrest them, as they have sworn never
to be taken alive. They belong to a gang
of notorious desperadoes who occupy a
tract of country known as the “West
Fork of the White River,” distant five
or six miles from Fayetteville. For
years they have terrorized all the adjoin
ing country, and since the Patton Mount
murder they have grown more law
less than ever. They threatened to
km neSny'tarTVre people inr v rs: rad
Democratic printing office, having criti
cised their actions sharply, is also mark
ed for destruction, and the citizens have
for weeks been living in continual terror
of some dreadful calamity to be wrought
by these outlaws. The facts are all set
forth at length in the letter referred to.
The writer requested permission to raise
a company of men for self-protection.
This request was granted. The company
will be supplied with arms from the In
dustrial University. It is thought they
will be able to preserve peace and assist
the civil authorities in apprehending the
murderers of Patton and Mount.
Aati Jewish Fanaticism in Germany.
Berlin Correspondence London Aews.
The Berlin National Zeitung of July
18 publishes the following telegram:
"This evening Neustettin was the scene
of serious tumult. Yesterday an excited
crowd paraded the streets the whole
night long. Several shops and the
printing offices of the Neustettiner Zeitung
were demolished. Over thirty arrests
have been made.” In confirmation of
this the editor of the Neustettiner Zeitung
earlier in the day was waylaid on bis
way to the railway station by
a man named Luettosch, who accosted
him, saying: “You are the man who
wrote those articles,” meaning certain
statements denunciatory of the anti-
Jewish proceedings, and thereupon set
upon him so ferociously that the editor
fell senseless to the ground. On recov
ering consciousness, and having ob
tained surgical assistance, he was able to
proceed on his journey. It appears that
the editor has lately received notices
threatening violence, and even death, at
the hands of the anti Semiucs. The
outbreak in the town was the outcome
of anti Semitic fanaticism.
An old man-of-war sailor, who had
lost a leg in the service of his country,
became a retailer of peanuts. He s& t id
he was obliged to be a retailer because,
having loqt a leg, he could not be a
Whole Skilor.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.
A cloud buret has filled H&ssayasupa
creek, in Arizona, washing away six teams
of thirty-six animals, with wagons, freights,
etc.
News from Carter county, Kentucky, says
the regulators rode into Graysons recently
and attempted to take the town. The Mar
shal armed a posse and killed thirty regu
lators and captured four others.
The grand jury at New York have filed
an indictment for murder in the first degree
against Mrs. Elizabeth Coleman, aged 27
years, who shot George T. Coles. Assistant
Treasurer at Harry Miner’s Theatre, on the
night of July 37.
While John Reagan and Newton Martin
were fighting in the Fifth ward of Biog
hamtoi!, N. Y., a son of Reagan, aged about
fourteen years, struck Martin, who had
Reagan down at the time, with a base ball
bat, causing Instant death. Reagan and his
son were arrested.
At a moonlight picnic of colored people
at Stony Point, Bourbon county, Ky., Dan
Harper, a mountaineer, was put off the
grounds by William Hatchcroft, a white
man, whose services had been engaged to
preserve order Harper returned with a
shotgun and killed Hatchcroft.
James D. Powers killed William R. Houg
hall at Perktnsville, Ind., a few nights ago.
Powers, with a crowd of roughs, was trying
to break up an ice-cream party, which
Hough&ll, as one of the party, tried to stop,
when he received a fatal blow across the
forehead. Powers Is in jail at Anderson.
Three prisoners escaped from the peni
tentiary at Lincoln, Neb. They were as
sisting at the burning of a brick kiln, and
scaled the wall. James Kennedy and
Samuel M. Goddard were in for horse steal
ing, and had three years to serve, and the
other, George Davis, was serving a sen
tence of two years and a half for grand lar
ceny.
A Boston dispatch asserts that several
prominent persons “have mysteriously died
at Lancaster, N. H., within a year; and that
a young woman is suspected of killing them
by poison. It is said that arsenic has been
found in the stomach of one of the deceased,
and that the Immediate exhumation and ex
amination of the internal organs of the oth
ers who mysteriously died will take place.
An altercation occurred at St. Louis a
few days ago between Nathan Prettyman
and Charles W. Curry, at the house of the
former, growing out of attentions paid by
Curry to Prettyman’s daughter against the
wishes of her parents. They came to blows,
and Prettyman was knocked down and
stamped on in a most brutal manner. He
died the day after. Curry is in jail. Both
men are said to have been intoxicated.
Rev. 8. B. Halladay, pastoral helper to
Rev. EL W. Beecher, has filed with the
Brooklyn Health Board the certificate of the
marriage of Ella C. Miles, the niece of Vic
toria Woodhull, to Charles 8. Wells, whose
occupation is given as an author. The
bride is the divorced wife of Captain Frank
Elkington, of the British army. Bhe was
once before married to Mr. Wells, but the
marriage proved to be illegal because the
decree of divorce she had obtained from
Elkington was set aside; and now that the
marriage may be legal a second ceremony
has been performed.
KILLED BY LIGHTNING IN TEXAS
Heartrending Affliction in nTennes*
see Family.
Troy ( Tenn.) News-Banner.
By a letter from Mr. R. A. Hutchison,
of Montague county, Texas, to his
brothers in this county, we learn of a
very heartrending occurrence which be
fell his family on the 9th of July, when
out traveling in a two-horse wagon, re
turning with some lady visitors to their
homes who had been spending some
time with his family. The morning of
this sad day was clear and beautiful,
but late in the afternoon a cloud arose,
accompanied by much thunder and
lightniog, which struck with a death
dealing holt the traveling party of
friends, killing outright the two young
ladies, Miss Henrietta Lizzie Hutchison
and Miss Kittie Cox, a schoolmate of the
former, besides rendering insensible all
of the others in the wagon. The team
first received the electric stroke, which
was more than likely transmitted to the
wagon, the left hand horse of the team
being killed first. What a heartrending
dispensation of an All-wise Providence,
bringing grief and sorrow in the twink
ling of an eye to families that were
all joy and happiness just a few
moments before. The two lively and
joyous maidens had just finished singing
the song “Hear Him Calling,” when the
storm overtook the party, producing
such a sorrowful scene of sudden death
in the midst of life, proving that these
young girls must have had a premonition
of the end that was so near. The imme
diate family have in this awful dispensa
tion a source of solace in the implicit
faith that the Judge of all the earth will
do right, although His ways are mysteri
ous and His providences inscrutable to
mortal ken.
The Public Debt and Revenues.
Bradstreet's.
The August debt statement is interest
ing, as being the first one which con
tains the 3£ per cent. “Windoms,” and
does not contain any at 6 per cent., the
Pacifies, of course, excepted. For a
quarter century, at least, this is the first
absence of 6 per cent, bonds. The
Windoms are also notable as being the
first 3£ per cents, ever out, and the
lowest bonded obligations yet; the 3 per
cent. Navy Pension Fund and the old 3
per cent, certificates, of course, are not
considered. Prior to 1861, the highest
rate paid was 8 per cent, on $1,481,700
of fifteen year bonds, placed in 1800; the
lowest was 4|, in 1834. The following
schedule shows the reductions in princi
pal and interest annually, from August
31, 1865, down to the present month, the
first year ending ten months only, and
the last one thirteen:
„ --Yearly decrease in —>
Fiscal yeAr. Principal. interest.
1*66 $ 49,199,087 $ 4,909.501
1867 84,263,830 7,175,745
1866 45,978,660 10,431.853
1869 40,028,205 2.935,600
1870 115,604,800 6,739,038
1871 111,758,972 6.835.630
1872 119,902,650 7.960,867
1878 104,310,150 5,938.659
1874 *28,446,800 *746,200
1875 16,254,450 1,940,814
1876 11,990,850 1,751,421
1877 *1.203,050 1,943,626
1878 *82,847,150 *1,493,829
ißßi::::::; yyy.yyy.y. m.m.m io.isajs?
Total decrease $877,119,044 $88,836,811
Total increase 115,405,050 2,240,029
Net decrease $761,713,934 $81,596,782
In the years marked with a * there was
a temporary increase appearing at this
particular date—July I—and1 —and the princi
pal of interest bearing deht has been, at
times, increased by issues of $5,500,000
for the Halifax award in 1878, of $90,-
000,000 for resumption purposes in 1877
and 1878, and for refunding operations,
which, as is well known, increased the
total during the three months after the
old bonds were successively “called.”
In place of $196,378,600 6s a month
ago, $178,055,150 "continued” 3*B ap
pear, representing the net result of the
refunding operation, the 5 per cents,
which have been continued do not ap
pear as such uDtil the next statement,
and after October 1 the 5s will disap
pear entirely.
The usual monthly statement of cur
rency movements shows an increase of
$2,482,338 in bank notes during July,
anG $13,420,166 during the year.
Colonel Finney relates the following
interesting story: ‘ ‘About Oreen Mount,
the cemetery at Baltimore, Maryland, a
story is told that rivals in romance the
old tale of ‘Romeo and Juliet.’ The
property was owned at one time by John
Oliver, a rich English merchant. His
only child, a beautiful girl of twenty,
was loved by a young man whose only
unfitness to become her husband lay in
the fact that a disagreement of long
standing existed between hua and the
girl’s father. Finally an elopement was
planned, rumors of it reached the father,
and ho stationed watchmen about the
grounds at night with orders to shoot all
trespassers. Disguised in men’s clothing
the girl attempted to esc&oe, but was
shot dead just as she teaoheu the outer
gate. Overcome with remorse at the
,raeic fate of his daughter, the merchant
had a mausoleum erected upon the
spot where she fell, and deeded the whole
property to the city for a cemetery.”
THE FIRST COLORED POLICE
MAN DONS HIS UNIFORM.
Hl* Appearance Greeted by Sbonta
and Catcalls from a Hob of Blitclti
and Whites— He Behaves Admira
bly.
Philadelphia Press (Rep.)
“Here he comes!”
A motley crowd of nearly five hun
dred white and black people stood on
Lombard street below Eighth, facing the
Nineteenth district station house, last
evening, where they had been waiting
for upward of an hour to get a glimpse
of Charles K. Draper, one of the new
colored policemen, who was to go on
duty at 6 o'clock, in company with the
squad of “regulars.” Anxious
to assume the responsibilities
of his new position, Draper had
been to see the tailor who was making
his uniform early yesterday morning,
and succeeded in having his blue uni
form and shining brass buttons ready to
don before 5 o’clock in the afternoon.
Somehow, the people in the thickly
populated neighborhood came to hear of
it, and the news spread quickly from
mouth to mouth, so that when the hour
for going on duty arrived the street in
front of the station house was packed
from curb to curb with a curious mob,
all ready lo salute the first black police
man ever seen in Philadelphia.
"Yes, look at dar air niggart” was
shouted, as officer Draper, armed with
the authority of the law, a mace and a
rattle, descended the stone steps of the
station house, preceded by a dozen and
flanked by as many more of the old offi
cers of the district. With an almost
phenomenal solemnity the squad filed
slowly down the steps. Draper, cool
and collected, nodded right and left to
numerous acquaintances, who called him
by name, and by the time the blue coats
reached Eighth street he had been cheered
a dozen times. Along Eighth street to
Spruce walked the officers, closely fol
lowed by the crowd, which was being
increased every moment by the irrepressi
ble small boy, who yelled and hooted at
every step.
“Shoot the nigger’s cap!” yelled a di
minutive barefooted youth In a long
tailed coat. “Jes’ luk at him!” screech
ed a lemon-colored woman in a dirty
calico dress. “Wull, wull,” exclaimed
a venerable old son of the Green Isle,
“nivir did I expect to see the loikes o’
thot. A nagur polaceman! It’s con
sated I am thot we’ll be hoving a black
President afoor long.”
Two young men in short coats and
carrying canes, carefully adjusted their
eyeglasses as the crowd approached
Eighth and Spruce streets, ana one of
them exclaimed:
“By Jove, Chawley, old boy, this is
the—ah new African officer, you know.”
‘‘Yaasl’’ drawled his companion, staring
at the centre of attraction; “he’s devilish
black, isn’t he?”
Draper paid no attention whatever to
the multitude of unfavorable comments.
He walked firmly along, and the only
indication he gave of hearing was when
the colored people cheered, when he
bowed and smiled in recognition of the
compliment.
At Spruce street the officers who had
accompanied him divided, and walked
slowly down Spruce street to Seventh,
there to be saluted by a chorus of cat
calls, cheers and hisses from an army of
small boys seated on the curbstone on
each side of the street. From Seventh
to about half way between Eighth and
Ninth streets the pavement was filled
with a noisy crowd of white and black
urchins, who had been waiting with im
patience for what to them would be a
novel exhibition. By some kind of a
signal it was telegraphed along the line
that the new officer was on duty in
less than five minutes after he had
turned the corner of Eighth street.
Down came the crowd on a dead run.
They hemmed the black policeman in on
every side. They yelled and shouted
in ear splitting chorus. Draper, with re
markable coolness paid no attention to
the hubbub, but after reaching Seventh
street turned about and walked up the
thoroughfare with the air of a veteran.
Above Eighth street he was subjected to
another chorus of noisy comment. “Dat
air niggah can’t ’rest dis yerc chile,”
cried a frowsy-looking young colored
woman. “I’d break his jaw, I would,”
“What’s you talking ’bout gal?” re
torted an elderly negress reprovingly.
“I gess youse never been in de Souf, has
yer? Why, down dere dey has nuffin
but cullud gemmen fur p’licemen.
You’re not smart, you isn’t.”
“I don’t keer,” was the rejoinder, “I
don’ ’low no buck niggah to take me in,
an’ don’ yon forgit it!”
Among the colored males the com
ments were various. The majority,
however, expressed satisfaction at hav
ing their race recognized by the appoint
ment, while a few disappointed aspi
rants vented their spleen by the uukind
est remarks about the new policeman’s
appearance and manner.
The object of curiosity bore the criti
cisms without a word, and walked grave
ly up and down Spruce street, from
Seventh to Eleventh, only stopping when
greeted and congratulated. About fifty
yards in the rear two stalwart special
officers in citizen’s clothes walked, ready
to give the recruit assistance shonld he
require it. Draper was entity unaware
of having any protectors, and displayed
commendable pluck and patience in not
noticing the idle jibes of the crowd. He
stood on the corner of Seventh and
Spruce streets, just before midnight last
night, and when questioned by a Press
reporter, said that he had expected
just what had occurred.
He is an intelligent-looking fellow,
rather spare about the shoulders and
possessed of a determined cast of coun
tenance. Draper is very black, and ex
hibits all the notable characteristics of
his race and a thorough contempt for
ridicule. He is not a man of heavy
frame, but is wiry, Btrong and persist
ent.
“I expect to do my duty, the same as
any other officer,” said he, “and I pay
no attention to all this tomfoolery. I
expected it and just made up my mind
to let it go in one ear and out the other.
It don’t bother or annoy me in the least.
After the novelty wears off, people will
pay no more attention to me than to any
other officer.”
The South and M a nu f act uke .— a
few years ago a cotton mill in the South
was a curiosity; the staple went North,
its traveling expenses being nearly two
cents per pound, and whatever cotton
goods the planters wanted had to pay
heavy freights to reach their destination.
Now mills, and large ones, are going up
ail over the South, and paying dividends
such as no owner of Northern mill stock
plenty of white operatives can be had.
Having succeeded so handsomely with
cotton, the South will probably attempt
other manufactures, and there is no rea
son why she should not do well in work
ing wood, iron and clay into the forms
that command the best prices.—Afoc
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