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Georgia Press Association In pursuance to a resolution, adopted at the meeting last May. the Association will meet in Atlanta on Thursday, Oc tober 6th. J. 11. Estill, President DON’T HOUKOW TIIOIBLE. Don't borrow trouble. Don’t borrow trouble, nor meet it half way; Sufficient to all are the ills of to-day; Misfortune, reverses and trials may come; E'en those we deem the most happy have some. Don't borrow trouble. Don’t borrow trouble. Don’t borrow trouble—'twill come soon enough. With asoects forbidding, habiliments rough— But wait till he's here, and unheeding his frown. Meet boldly the onset and battle it down. Don’t borrow trouble. Don't borrow trouble. Don’t borrow trouble—this debt will remain. And can only be canceled by suffering again 1 he ills we thus borrow by prophetic fears. Baptizing th < record in sorrowing tears. Don’t borrow trouble. D )U’t borrow trouble. Don’t borrow trouble—it springs in each path, A harvest that beareth an aftermath: D plan eth itself with a plenteous seed. And is gathered in sorrow by hearts that bleed. Don’t borrow trouble. Don’t borrow trouble. Don’t borrow troub'e. nor gloomily weave A harvest of tears in a shadowy sheave; But, rather, come forth from the dark and the night. And garner the blossoms that grow in the light. Don’t borrow trouble. Don’t borrow 'rouble. Don’t borrow trouble; on hillside and slope. For the climbers who always look upward in hope. B.ight 11 >wers spring up with a heavenly bloom. Unknown to the realms of despair and gloom. Don't borrow trouble. Don’t borrow trouble. Don’t borrow trouble; be sure, in the sky. The light will burst forth when the clouds have gone by; Be hopeful and brave, and patient and soon Will shine out a glorious gl rddening noon. Don’t borrow trouble. Georgia A flairs. The Cedartown Advertiser says that on Friday last a Mr. Pittman seriously cut Mr. B. B. Carter. The former wantei the latter to punish his children for some trifling offense towards Pittman’s children, and he did not go about it promptly enough to suit Pittman. Our Eastman correspondent, under date of September 3t>th, writes: “Our citizens met to gether this morning at the Methodist Church to b .ild religious services in memory of our de ceased President. This evening all the busi ness houses in town are closed in honor of the late lamented James A. Garfied. At 3 o’clock this afternoon, in response to a call by the Mayor. C B Murrell, for a citizens meeting, a considerable number of ladies and gentlemen assembled at the court house, and by a rising vote unani nously adopted suitable resolutions, offered by Mr. J. F. DeLacy, upon the death of the President. Maj C. R. Armstrong was elect ed permanent Chairman of the meeting, and J. Bishop. Jr., was made Secretary. The reso lutions were warmly and feelingly seconded and supported io speeches by Messrs. H. Fisher, P. A. Jessup, D. M. Roberts, J. B. Johnston, J. Bishop, Jr., and L. A. Hill. The meeting then adjourned, under the sound of music from the Cornet Band.’’ The Berrien County Sews announces the death at Militown of Rev. Nicholas Talley, of the Methodist Church, at the age of 84 years. Bob Williams, an escaped convict, who was captured near Fort Valley on Friday, and who was put upon the traia of the Central road to be brought to Atlanta, escaped from his guard on Friday night by slipping his fastening and jumping from the train between Lovejoy and Jonesboro. Conyers Weekly: “That dread disease, diph theria, has b' come epidemic in Walton county, and proves fatal in almost every case.” Sylvanla Telephone : ’ We are informed that a party in this county, a short tine since, picked six and one-half bushels of scupper nong grapes in one day without any assistance. We think he must be ’the boss’ grape picker.” Augusta Chronicle: “The City Court of Richmond county has been formally organ ized. Last ftaturday Judge Eve was sworn in by the Governor, and on vesterdav Solicitor Dugas took the oath of office before Judge Eve. The Sheriff and Clerk of the Superior Court are ex officio Sheriff and Clerk of the City Court The County Court is defunct, and all its unfinished business goes over to 'he City Court. The first term of the City Court will be held next Monday.” Atlanta Post-Appeal: “While at Decatur last Thursday Captain Connally learned of the sale of a mule by on* Docd, who was identified by the man Wilmouth. who -vas reported in the last i>sue of the Appeal as having been arrested for robbing a church, and suspending the integrity of the sale on such reccom mendation. he began an investigation which resuited in another visit to Decatur on Friday and the arrest of Dodd by himself and Captain Baeby. Dodd and Wilmouth w-re tried yesterday for horse stealing and held in $V 0 bonds. The mule, which belonged to a Mr. McKlroy. was found by Captain Connally thirteen miles from Decitur and returned to its owner.” Cedartown Advertiser: “One night about two weeks since, out at Brooks’ Mill, in the north east edge of the county, a party of Mormon elders attempted to hold services at the house of a convert, and just as all were ready to begin, a general uproar was bearl without which plainly told that parties had come to put a stop to the proceeding:*. A number of shots were fl ed. but nobody hurt. The elders were preparing to get away in haste when they were met by one of the invaders, who plainly informed them that the good citizens of the neighborhood had made up their minds that no more Mormon meetings would be permitted in the neighborhood. The elders fled and will doubtless steer clear of that quarter for the present at least. It is said they nad succeeded In making quite a number of converts among the lower classes in the neighborhood.’ Columbus Enquirer: “If there is one charity more divine thaii another it is that whichi gives the benefit cf homeland home life and cul ture to little children deprived of all these by the necessities or vices of parents ’Of such is the kingdom cf heaven,’ aaiu the Good Master, as He took a little child in H.s arm* aad bless ed it. Like unto heaven is purity and inno cence. But left to run in the streets, to have few or anv of the comforts of home, to be left with the teachings of profane men. how soon th* innocence is bani bed and the punty marred, I>oubly bie*t would be the hands which reach out to pave both innocence and purity. These thoughts are suggested from hearing three men on the street yesterday teaching a lad of not more than three or four summers to swear. As he would repeat the most vile oath after them the men would laugh m nr uchglee. and think it smart in the boy. It they knew the crime of which they were tuiity their hearts must have been made of adamant, or they would have hung their heads for shame.” Columbus Enquirer: * There is a gentleman in this city who is a regular subscriber to the Enquirer Sun. and who has been one of its constant readers for a long time. Every morn ing one cf our carriers, who is a perfect little gentleman and strictly attentive to his business, ha thrown the paper on this subscriber's por tico. A few days ago the gentleman of whom we speak had a relative, a little boy about the nme size of our carrier, to visit him. The little ‘country cousin’ was up bright gad early the next morning, and waa atandirg on the portico when the ca-n-r came along and threw the paper at his feet. The hi tie fellow picked it up, threw it in the street, and marching out to the sidewalk informed the carrier that ’he didn’t come to town to be insulted in no such way by a nttie city upstart, and if |,e wanted anything he could get It. They wer- about to •hitch’for a fight, when the gentleman came out and matters were explained. ‘Well' said the bov. ’I thought that you had to go to the poat office to get p ipers. but it’s all right. And thus a fight was prevented." Atlanta Post Appeal: “Early yesterday morning, as officer etroud was on his wav- to breakfast, he found a coat, pants and vest on the sidewalk. He picked them up, and began a near h for anything that would ideatify the owner, but he found nothing except a package of letters, signed ’Jimmie.’ indicating the home of the owner at Louisville. The officer started to the police house with the clothes, bat had not proceeded far when he was hailed by a voice, which said: 'bay, are them clsthesT' And upon being answered in the affirmative, ‘Jimmie’ made his appearance at Savannah morning News. J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR. the window wrapped in a bed quilt, and in formed the policeman that he had retired the night before and left bis clothing on a chair near the window, from where they were re moved by a thief, evidently, as the pockets were divested of all the valuables, only the letters remaining. ‘Jimmie’ did not say how much he had lost, and the officer returning his wardrobe to him, he took off the bed quilt and arrayed himself like a sane man should, went out and made a draft on his house, and con sumed the day la swearing subduedly to him self as he held a consultation with his imagina tioo to who the fiend could h&ve been.” Our Brentwood correspondent, under date of heptember 25. writes: “A terrible attempt at murder was made last about one mile from this place, on the person of an aged ne gro, Toney Houston employed by Messrs. D. Bj Wartley & Cos. on their logway. The would be murderer, Marshall Bryant, was also em ployed by the firm, who. after being paid off, wept wita Toney to Messrs. Roberson & Moo dy’s store, where Toney gp°nt five dollars of his wages. On their return Marshall struck Timey with a stick, knocking him down, then rifled his pockets, taking fifteen dollars the old man had reserved ro carry home to his family. After he killed him, as he thought, he drew him about fifteen yards from the rail road. and placed the body behind a log. Bry ant th-n returned to the mill and waited for the train bound for Macon, in which he took passage for parts unknown. I learn that be fore he came here he bought a mule from a gentleman in the up-country on time, and afterwards refused payment. The owner tried to take the mule, but Marshall refused to give up the mule, and cut its throat. The owner then had him arrested, but he made his escape and came down here. Marshall is said to be a noted scoundrel.” Florida Affairs. The Quincy Herald relates an attempt at grave robbery in that town the other night. The metallic case in which a young man from Canada, a Mr. Miliedge, was buried two years ago. had been taken up and attempts made to break it open. This seems to have been a fail ure, it was hastily returned to the grave and covered only a few inches under the earth. The corpse was found to be well preserved, and the town authorities caused it to be reinterred properly as before. Captain J. D. Green has complimented the Pine Level Advocate with a native bunch of bananas containing 340 fingers. Mr. H. B. Stevens, of Ocala, has invented a machine for sorting oranges, manageable by one man. It places those of the same size in one receptacle. Articles of incorporation have been filed by Messrs. D. E. Maxwell. F. B. Papy and E. W. Agnew for a railroad from Leesburg to Indian river. This will be a branch or extension of the Tropical Railroad, thus connecting Fernan dina with Indian river. If this is constructed, it will render the Indian river country accessi ble and within easy reach from the North, and greatly enhance its rapid development. Ex-Governor Drew contributed 8,000 feet of lumber to floor the Florida Exposition building in Atlanta. Betty Fisher, a colored woman, in Apalachi cola, fell down in a fit and expired Sunday evening. There are over $20,000 worth of new build ings and repairs now in progress in Palatka. Eighty drunks is the best Palatka could do for the month of August, according to the Marshal's report. Palatka agrees to board and lodge one thou sand visitors this winter at one time. They can all have single beds too if they wish. Every fellow that can lift an axe in Alachua is cutting crossties for shipment North. It costs a fellow just twenty-five dollars to sell a drink of liquor in Palatka on Sunday. The price in Jacksonville is fifty dollars The citizens of Pine Level have called for a public meeting in the interest of growing vege tables for Northern markets. The Hamilton Times says the caterpillars have ruined very many fields of cotton that promised well two weeks ago. Including Mr. Nathan Bryan's. The depot platforms at Jasper are piled up with cotton seed for ship ment. Pensacola is looking for the arrival of the machinery for an ice manufactory to be in op eration by the Ist of December. Six vessels are at quarantine in Pensacola, which is eight miles across the water from the city. No more cases of yellow fever have been reported there, and the city is in a healthy con dition. The Madison Recorder thinks the sugar cane crop will be very short. Dr. Lester, recently suspended as Health Of ficer of Key West, has been reinstated. There is said to be a gain of 9300,000 in taxa ble property in Columbia county this year over last. A Jacksonville colored man has subscribed $2 to the Florida display at the Atlanta Expo sition. We knew a colored man who subscribed SIOO to carry on the Confederate war against the North. The Apalachicola Tribune says: "Chatta hoochee is the name given to that elegant new steamer of the People's Line. We have been informed that this steamer will arrive at this port from Pittsburg about the 10th of Novem ber.” Of the Southern Parmer's Monthly the Quincy Herald says: “It is difficult to imagine how a farmer can get along without it, if he wants to keep up with the latest methods in agricultural affairs. ‘Work for the Month’ is alone worth the subscription price.” Ocala Banner : “A goodly number of Ken tuckians passed through town the past week on their way to Hernando and other southern counties. They seemed to he well to do peo ple-some of them wealthy. They were im mensely pleased with Ocala and mrrounding country, and some of them think they will re turn and settle here.” Augusta Chronicle: “After the first of Octo ber, proximo, Mr. John Temple Graves will have the management and editorial charge of the Daily Florida Union, at Jacksonville, Florid a Mr. Graves is one of the most bril liant men in Georgia He is gentleman like and energetic, and wields a facile pen. We are glad that this new field h>s opened up to Mr. Graves. We are confident that he will prove himself worthy of all it promises and ready for all that it may require To the press of the ’Land of Flowers’ he will prove an sc quisition, while Jacksonville society will have added charms in Mr. Graves and his excellent and accomplished wife.” A correspondent of the Fernandina Mirror, signing himself “A Roving Englishman,” referring to the projected eaual across Florida, savs: ’ The iueeption of this great work can not be much longer delayed, and I write with some special knowledge. Not only is the government of this country anxious to make and possess it, but three great European corpo rations (two French and one English) are all straining for this great commercial prize, which, in less than two years’time, and with an expenditure of less than ten millions of dollars, would conduct the traffic of thirty thousand miles of rivers and navigable waters to one of the beat harbors on the Atlantic coast, and free forever (and only by its means) the gigantic commerce of the MisissipDi valley and the great West from the enormous tax unavoidably levird now by insurance companies for the navigation of the Bahamas and the reefs of Florid a” Sumter Advance: “Quite a freak of nature was discovered this wek in digging a well at our residence, now being completed. Butler Dabney, employed to do the work, struck hard clay about fifteen feet below the surface. He had worked through four or five feet of this clay, which was very hard, when, to his sur prise, his iron crowbar suddenly disappeared, followed by half of the bottom of the well He was not long in leaving that mysterious well, and it is almost a miracle that he did not cave in with the crowbar. A large number of citi zens went to witness the cause of the disappearance of the crowbar, and found at the bottom of the well a sub terracean pool of cool, clear, soft and very palatable water. Placing a long ladder in the well, we descended to examine this won derful pool, and found it to be perfectly round. measuring twenty-five feet in diameter The depth of the water is from twelve to fifteen feet as far as examined, and from the surface of the water to the oval wall above, is from one to three feet, so that it is no trouble for a person standing on a ladder to obtain a good view of it without getting wet. This un- pool m tw**Dty-thre© feet below the surface, and eight or ten feet of the end of the building extends over it.” A Curious Law.— A curious provision of the criminal code of Germany, for which there is no analogy in English or American legislation, makes deliberate homicide, where it is perpetrated at the request of the victim, a lesser grade of crime than murder, and places it within the discretion of the courts to impose as low a sentence as three years’ imprison ment for the offense. Under this law a miller’s apprentice of Berlin has just been sentenced for cutting his wife’s throat. He was out of work and mon ey, and he and his wife formed the reso lution to commit suic de together by taking poison. His wife, however, drained the cup containing the mixture alone, leaving none for him, and after awhile begged him to kill her at once, to put an end to the suffering that ensued. He complied with her request by mak ing several gashes in her throaty This state of facts was deemed sufficient to warrant a sentence of only four years imprisonment. Provided the great organs of the body are not Irreparably injured, there are few dis eases that Tutt’a Pills will not cure. They concentrate the vitality of the system. The Liver, the Spleen, the Heart and the Kid neys are brought into harmonious action and health; long life and vigor of mind and body follow their use. The first dose often patient. BACK TO THE OLD HOME. THE GARFIELD FAMILY RETURN TO MENTOR. Carious Crowd* Watching Their Departure—Thousands Nilll View ing Cleveland’s Pnneral Decora tions—The Spot Where the Victim Day Still a Centre of Attraction. Cleveland, O , September 27. Mrs. Garfield, her children and “Grandma” Gar field, accompanied by Private Secretary Brown, General Swaim and Colonel Rock well and their ladies, were driven to the Uttion Depot this morning In closed car riages, where a special train bad been made up to take them to Mentor. The train con sisted of a baggage car and the elegant Pennsylvania Railroad coach that brought the party from Washington. They wended the'r way quietly through the crowd that thronged the depot and en tered the car. The ladies were all heavily veiled,so that they escaped the curious gaze of the crowd. A few minutes after eleven o’clock the train started for Mentor. Crowds still linger about the park, and so many are continually passing through the pavilion that a force of police is necessary to night to pre vent confusion and guide the curious spectators in line. Although the body has been removed to the cemetery the thousands of peop e seem not to tire of gazing on the place where the remains lay, and where most of the floral decorations, though some what withered from the heat, are yet left. Electric, calcium and gas lights still Illumi nate the scene. GUITEAU’S TRIAL. To be Indicted In New Jersey as a Precautionary- Measure. Red Bank, N, J., September 27.—The legal authorities of Monmouth county had addressed the Attorney General of the State and the Attorney General of the United States upon the propriety of filing counts before the grand jury of Mon mouth county, at its meeting next Tuesday, against Guiteau for the murder of Presi dent Garfield. It is held that the waiver of a Coroner’s Inquest by the State does not deprive the grand jury of this county of Its power to Indict and try the criminal. Also that the criminal law of New Jersey does not disqualify a citizen from serving on a jury simply because he has expressed an opinion of the case to be tried. If Attorney General Stockton, of New Jersey, and Attorney General MacVeagh consider that the trial can be held here the prisoner will be brought to New Jersey. The County Prosecutor of Pleas, Hon. John Ltnning, of Monrnou h, has decided to file before the grand jury an indictment against Guiteau simply as a precautionary measure, so that If the Washington authorities deem it best to have the trial in New Jersey, there shall be no gap left for the escape of Gul teau by legal quibbles under the law of the District of Columbia. FEARS OF A RESCUE. Friends of the Captured ITllssoarl Train Kobbers threaten to Release Them—Bloodshed Feared. St. Lens, September 27.—Last night Governor Crittenden received a telegram from Independence, stating there was dan ger of a mob breaking into the jail and rescuing the train robbers confined there, and asking that repeating rifle 6 and ammuni tion be sent out at once. A dispatch to-day stys; “Governor Crittenden, accompanied by eight marshals, arrived at Independence this morning, and is In attendance at the trial of Ryan, one of the Glendale train rob bers. It is the opinion of the people that in the event of Ryan’s conviction an attempt gwlil be made to rescue him. Much excite ment prevails. The court room Is crowded, and the streets are lined with people from the notorious locality known as ‘Crackers’ Neck,’ who watch every movement of the marshals with great interest. A detach ment of the Craig Rifles Is in attendance. Should a rescue be attempted much blood shed will ensue.” THE STAR ROUTE THIEVES. Their Trials to Go On—Col. Corkhlll Oat of the Case. Washington, September 27.—The star route cases will be presented to the grand jury next week. It Is now stated that the Post Office Department officials say that all the evidence Is In necessary to convict, and they are ready for a trial at any moment. They speak very slightingly of District Attorney Corkhlll, aDd hint that the recent postponement of the cases was due to him alone, and that It is possible that he may be under the influence of the star route jobbers. The burden of the prosecution has been taken out of his hands and will rest with ex District Attorney Bliss, of New York, and the other special counsel em ployed by the government. The star route thieves have, through thetr many Influen ces, endeavored to Induce President Arthur to call off the prosecution and let It drop gradually and surely, but the President has ordered that the prosecution go ahead and convict all who are guilty in that big steal. THE APACHE TROUBLES. Gradual Surrender ol the Hostile*. San Francisco, September 27.—A dis patch from Camp Thomas, dated September 26, says: “Twenty-five men, women and children came from the hosttles and surren dered. They were disarmed and placed under guard. Quite a number of hostile bucks came Into the reservation last night and gave themselves up to the military. Later reports from Apache this after noon announce the surrender of another ba’ch of hosttles, forty-five in number. Still later advices from the agency say that the hosttles, who last week refused to sur render, have come In and have been con fined by the military. There are not thought to be over forty-five hosttles of the euttre number that are not prisoners. The outbreak, which at one time promised to be serious, is about over. A military commis sion to try’the murderers will meet here in a few days.” Wreck and Death on the California Coast. San Francisco, September 27. — A dis patch from Spanish Town, Ban Mateo coun ty, says: “The ship Holesburg, from New York, loaded with railroad Iron for Oregon, struck a rock at Halram beach at midnight Monday and went to pieces. Of her crew of twenty-four persons, nine men, with the Captain and one boy, aged thirteen, were drowned. The bodies have not been recov ered." Pointing a .floral. New York, September 27.—Tbe Board of Manager* of tne National Temperance So ciety to-day adopted resolutions of sorrow at the death of the late President Garfield and sympathy with his family.* The resolu tions al6o commend the example of the de ceased in following the precedent set by bis Immediate predecessor by excluding intoxi cating beverages from the table of the White House. A Desperado Killed. Durango, Col , September 27. lke Stockton, one of the leaders of the notori ous Stockton-Iskrldge gang of desperadoes, who Is wanted In New Mexico on the charges of rape, arson aDd other crimes, was fatally shot yesterday while resisting arrest. Important Railway Consolidation. Little Rock, Ark., September 27 — The Directors of the Paramore Narrow Gauge Railway met here to day and consolidated the Missouri and Arkansas Lines. The length of the line will be over 1,600 mllea, Its terminus being the City of Mexico. Mrs. Lucy E. McCormick, Covington, Ky., writes: “My constitution was completely shattered by rheumatism. I suffered in tensely; stimulants only gave me temporary relief. I tried Brown’s Iron Bitters. It has cured me completely, and I believe perma nently. After using two bottles, I felt bet ter and stronger than ever I did In all my life before." SAVANNAH, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1881. TERRIFIC EXPLOSION. A Car Load of Gunpowder Ignited in Council BlaflT—Great Destruc tion Wrought. Council Bluffs, lowa, September 27. At five o’clock last evenlDg, just at the close of the Garfield memorial exercises, the city was shaken to its very centre by a terrific explosion. Instantly great volumes of smoke were seen to ascend In the south western part of the city. An Investiga tion of the cause of the explosion disclosed the fact that on Saturday last a car load of gunpowder, billed as common blasting powder, reached here over the C., R., I. & P. R. R . on its way to Denver, Colorado. The Union Pacific Company refused to receive the dangerous freight, and the car was returned to the railroad yards, when from some causo It exploded with fearful force last evening. The concussion demolished the company’s round house and repair shops, of brick, and the freight house, of frame, be sides forty or fifty freight cars, and dug a hole In the ground fifteen feet deep and forty five feet in diameter. Large windows In all parts of the city were shattered to pieces, pieces of plastering torn from houses and havoc strewn in all directions. Win dows were even broken by concussion In Omaha, on the opposite side of the river, and as far as Missouri Valley Junction, twen ty miles north of us. The loss will foot up several hundred thousand dollars. COLLIDING TRAINS. Serious Sinasb Up on the Riclimond and Petersburg Road. Richmond, Va., September 27.— The fast mail train bound South and the Northern bound mall train of the Atlantic Coast Line, collided laet evening near Chester, on the Richmond and Petersburg Road. Both engines &Dd baggage and mall cars of each train were badly smashed. Fortunately no one was fatally hurt. Postal agents Roukers and Hawkins were severely hurt, and several others sustained slight Injuries. The engineers and firemen of both t.raius saved themselvesby jump Ing off. The accident Is attributed to disregard of orders on the part of the con ductor and engineer of the northern bound train, which should have remained at Ches ter until the fast mail train had passed. CHARLESTON FLASHES. The Walsh-Tnraer Shooting—The Coming Electric Light. Charleston, 8. C , September 27.—The Inquest on the body of James D. Turner, who was killed yesterday by James F. Walsh, has been postponed until to mor row. The affair creates considerable ex citement here. Walsh claims that he shot Turner in self-defense. The City Council, at its meeting to night, granted p‘rrnislon to the United Srates Electric Light Company to run their polls and wires through the streets. The com pany have applied for a charter, and Charleston will enj >y the electric light in the near future. The Korkiown Centennial. Fortress Monroe, Va., September 27. — The preparations for the centennial cele bration at Yorktown are being pushed for ward, and will, no doubt, be completed, as far as the limited means at command will admit, In ample time. Oue company of engineers, In charge of L'eut. Townsend, and a ba'tery of ar'illery, under command of Capt. J. R. Myrick, are now employed in clearing the grounds for the encampment of the troops. Capt. L C. Forsyth, of the Quarterin ister’s Department, is also on the grounds airangtng for an ample supply of fuel, forage, etc., and also looking after the water supply for the encampment. The arrangements for the accommodation of vi6ltorr, so far as Yorktown is concerned, are vtry meagre, and those coming from a dis'acce will have to depend chi' fly upon the steamers upon which they arrive for meals and sleeping accommodations. There are but three small hotels in the town, with accommodations for not more than one hundred in each. Weather Indications. Office Chief Signal Observer, Wash ington, D. C., September 28—Indications for Wednesday: In the Bouth Atlantic States, fair weather, winds mostly southerly, stationary barome ter and temperature. In the Eist Gulf States, partly cloudy weather aud possibly local rains, east to south winds, stationary or higher barome ter, and stationary temperature. In the West. Gulf States, partly cloudy weather and local rains, southerly winds, higher barometer, and stationary or lower temperature. In the Middle Atlantic States, partly cloudy or cloudy weather with local rains, south to west winds, falling followed by rising barometer and slightly lower tempera ture. In Tennessee and the Ohio valley, partly cloudy or cloudy weather with local rains, southerly veering to cooler westerly winds, higher barometer. New York Stock Market. New York, September 27.—The stock market opened strong and higher, but was simewhat irregular in the early dealings. At first, speculation became stronger, and toward noon prices took a sharp upward turn, the highest figures of the day being current shortly after midday. There was an Improvement from Saturday’s closing quo tations, ranging from % to 3% per cent., the latter In Alton aad Terre Haute, ditto preferred, Reading, Hannibal and Bt. Joseph preferred, Peoria, Decatur and Evansville, and Delaware, Lackawanna and Western being also prominent therein. During the afternoon speculation was fe verish and uneasy,and became quite depress ing in the late dealtrgs. The final sales show ed a decline from the highest point, ranging from % to 3% per cent,., the litter In Alton and Terre Haute, ditto preferred, Hannibal aud St. Joe, Michigan Central and Oregon and Nevada being also conspicuous In the downward movement. Transactions ag gregate 389,735 shares. Brighton Beach Races. Brighton Beach, September 27—The first race, a mile and a half, Brambaletta won, Kitty Clark second. Battle third. Time 2:44 The second race, seven-eighths of a mile, Viola won, Bride Cake second, By-the-Way third. Time 1:30. In the third race, a mile and quarter, Va grant .won, Woodraft second, Enniskillen third. Time 2:11. In the fourth race, a handicap steeple chase, King Dutchman won, Major Wheeler second, Lizzie D. third. Time 2:52. The Flyers at Louisville. Louisville, Ky., September 27.—The fall meeting of tbe Louisville Jockey Club opened to-day with a heavy track. The first race, a dash of three-quarters of a mile, was won by Frenchle Shy, Leona second, 81y Dance third. Time 1:20%. The second race, two miles, was won by Fellow Play, Hegiaz second, Lizzie 8. third. Time 3:343*. The third race, mile heats, was won by Ada, Jack Haverlv second. Pride third. Time 1:46)*, 1:47%, 1:51%. Jack Hav erly won the first heat. Socialists’ Congress at Barcelona. London, September 27.—A dispatch from Barcelona says that the International Socialist Congress has assembled In that city, with five hundred delegate attending. It has appeared that the terms of tbe mani festo are to be sent to all the Socialist socie ties. A communication from a number of Russians in London concurs In the objects of the Congress. The President and Secre tary of the Congress have been arrested for expressing their approval of the proceed ings of the Nihilists. That Insult to Mahone. Washington, September 27.—1n the United States Court at Alexandria, Virginia, to-day the ease of W. M. Carmichael, charged with sending to Senator Vance a scurrilous postal card about Senator Ma hone, was postponed until January next. Alabama’s Tribute of Sorrow. Selma, September 27. —Specials to the Times from every leading point In Alabama show that yesterday was universally ob served. Bells were tolled, funeral guns fired, memorial services held, and every where the sentiments of grief were marked and widespread. Improper medicines only aggravate human diseases. Don’t experiment with your health. If you don’t just know what ails you, use Brown’s Iron Bitters. It will strengthen you and assist nature in removing every symp tom of distress. THE STATE CAPITAL. THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AD JOURNED. Final Proceedings of the Two Houses—No Changes in the Con vict Lease System—The fflotlon to Reconsider the General Temper ance Rill Voted Down—A Number of Pleasures Disposed Of—Compli ments to the Chatham Artillery— The Opera Honse Rioters—The State Road Lease. Atlanta, Ga., September 27.—1n the House, the first motion for reconsideration was on the general temperance bill lost on Saturday night. Messrs. Stanford, of Harris, and Norton, of Hancock, favored, and Mr. Bull, of Troup, opposed the motion, and It was voted down almost unanimously amidst great applause. The second motion for reconsideration was the resolution In regard to the State Road lease. Mr. Hammond, of Thomas, said be had not fully made up his mind In regard to the matter, and, In order not to postpone the desired adjournment to day, he would withdraw the motion. Mr. Adderton, of Sumter, for the same reason withdrew the third motion, which was to reconsider the action of the House on the convict lease rl passed on Saturday Dlght. General applause followed, as the House was determined to adjourn to-day. The following Senate bill 6 were parsed.- Amending section 1377 of the Code, de fining quarantine jurisdiction. Amending the act in reference to the ap pointment and duties of the Btate Librarian. Amending the act enabling purchasers of railroads to form corporations. Regulating the granting of diplomas by medical colleges. The House concurred in the Senate’s amendments to some House bills and re jected others, and concurred in the follow ing Senate resolutions: Asking Congress to grant further aid for edncational purposes in the South for both races. Also, for a larger appropriation for river Improvements In Georgia. Also, for a United States mint at Dahlone K*- Also, forbidding the accepting of United States three and a half percen t. bonds from Colonel Cole In payment for the Macon and Brunswick Railroad. Also, accepting the appraisement of Messrs. Whittle, Robertson and Klbbee of the value of the old capltol, Atlanta to pay that sum. At the afternoon session resolutions of fered by Mr. Dußignon, of Baldwin, in re gard to the Yorktown Centennial, were unanimously adopted. One reads : “ Resolved , That we learn with pleasure of the intended visit of the time-honored Chatham Artillery, of Savannah, which organization has come down to us from the days of the Revolution, and which now has in its battery two guns captured at Yorktown, and presented to them by General Washington himself.” Another of the resolutions requests the Governor to call the attention of the other military organizations to the patriotic action of the Chathams and suggest that their no ble example be followed. The last business of the General Assembly was In regard to the claim of $1,600 of J. P. Harrison, State Printer, for which two com mlttees of conference were appointed. The last committee recommended SSOO as a compromise. The Benat,e adoped this recommendation, but the House spent some considerable time debating the matter, and finally adopted It —yeas 65, nays 46. The Senate having again taken up the convict bill and reconsidered Its action, leaving the original Hawes bill, as printed In the newspapers, open to action by the House, Mr. Barrow, of Clarke, moved thjit the House recede from Its previous action and pass the Senate bill. Messrs. Miller, of Houston, and Hunt, of Spalding, vigorously opposed this motion. Mr. Dußignon sustained Mr. Barrow’s mo tion, and the House receded by a vote of 62 v p as to 38 nays. The act of receding passed the Senate bill. Messrs. Hunt, of Bpalding, and Jernlson, of Bibb, made the point that 88 votes were required. After considerable debate the matter was tabled, and the Hawes bill de clared constitutionally passed. The afternoon session was prolonged to half past eight o’clock, at which time the General Assembly adjourned tine die. Speaker Bacon said this had bqen the hardest working Legislature he had evo known. Twelve hundred bills had been considered in the House. There had been no Idling, but hard work. The people sent In this mass of bills and desired action upon the same, and the members had obeyed faithfully and well. SENATE PROCEEDINGS. Mr. McWhorter moved to reconsider tbe Senate’s action on the Btate Road leaso reso lutions adopted on Saturday. Mr. Guerry made the point that they were Senate resolutions, had passed the Senate, gone to the House and been passed by that body, which removed them beyond the control of the Senate. President Boynton ruled the point well taken, but Messrs. McWhorter and Price appealed from the decision of the Chair. The Senate sustained the Chair by y.-as 25, nays 10. This, with tbe House’s actloD, leaves the matter just where it was—in the hands of the Governor to refer to the At torney General and veto the resolutions. The Senate passed the following House bills: Incorporating the Red Line Steamboat Company of Rome. Amending section 326 of the Code. Regulating tbe granting of diplomas by medical colleges. RegulatlDg tax sales by municipal cor porations. Fixing and determining the taxation of land divided by countv lines. Changing the fiscal year. Chartering the Gainesville, Blairsvllle and State Line Railroad. Abolishing the Scrlven County Court. Chartering the Savannah Freight Tram way Company. Author zing Thomaston to Issue bonds. Regulating the letting out of contracts for tjidges, court houses, etc. Repealing the act creating the office of Land and Immigration Agent, held by Frrancis Fontaine. Changing the time for revising jury lists. Providing for the payment of solicitors' Abolishing the Troup county court, insolvent costs in Hancock county. Paying the printing bills of the Railroad Commission. Abolishing formally the office of State Geologist. Toe Senate refused to pass the House bill regulating the sale of pistols, etc. Also the bill prohibiting the distillation of grain into whisky in Georgia this year. Also tbe bill requiring Ordinaries to record marriage certificates and secure their return. At the afternoon session the Senate passed the House bill authorizing Coroners, Sher iffs and others to give dead bodies unclaimed to medical colleges under the direction of the Governor. The Benate In executive session confirmed Frank L. Harrison as State Librarian for four years, In accordance with the bill Introduced by Mr. Parks, and defeated, after lively debate, the substitute for the con vict lease bill prepared by the conference committee of the Senate and House, which leaves the convict camps just where they were before the General Assem bly met, no reforms having been adopted. A motion to rescind the Senate’s action in regard to the State Road lease was tabled on motion of Mr. Denmark after a speech by Mr. Guerry. The leaders in the riot at the Opera House yesterday were fined twenty five dol lars In the Recorder’s Court to-day. All was quiet after ten o’clock last night. Tbe Cotton Corner. London, September 27.—The Times this morning says : “Good authority calculates that with a week’s stoppage of two thirds of the trade 60,000 bates would be left in the hands of tbe cotton corner at Liverpool, which explains why the corner was not materially affected by tbe recent steppage, that number of bales being small compared with the amount cornered.” MANCHESTER,Beptember27.— At a meeting to day of the Yorkshire cotton spinners and doublers, representing 900,000 spindles, it was ur antmousiy resolved to work four days weekly for four mouths, commencing forthwith. A Cowardly Murder. Memphis, September 27.—W. T. Bo’eter w-u shot and killed at Scranton’s Landing, A k tnsas, twenty miles below this city, last night, by Deputy Sheriff Jere Wood. The two men quarrelled on Sunday over a busi ness transaction. Boteter came to Memphis yesterday,and on his return home last night, as he stepped ashore from the steamer, was shot down by Wood. Terrible Loss of Life. Millions of rats, mice, cats, bed bags, roaches, lose their lives by collision with “Rough on Rats.” Sold by druggists, 15c. A DIAGNOSIS. Dr. Hamilton Describes tbe Late President’s Wound—Tbe Ball Not tbe Cause ol Death. Washington Star. Dr. Hamilton, In conversation with a New York Tntrnne reporter, has dictated the fol lowing : “The ball entered the inter-verte bral space on the right side, between the last dorsal and the first lumbar vertebra, at a point very near the transverse and oblique processes ; that Is, obliquely from behind. It passed s little downward and forward, penetrating the body of the first lumbar vertebra; escaped from the vertebra very near the middle In front, and was found a little to the left of the body of the vertebra, lying under the lower margin of the pan creas and nearer its posterior or dorsal aspect than interior, behind the peri toneum, and therefore outside the cav ity or the belly. The ball was encysted, completely surrounded by a firm cspsule, which Invested It entirely and closely, the capsule containing nothing but the ball. Perhaps a grain or two of white tenacious substance attached to one point of its inner surface which was not easily removed by the edge of the knife, and which may be fouud under tbe microscope to consist of a drop of desiccated pus, or it may prove to be the leaden stain occasioned by the oxidation of the surface of the ball. It also contained a small fragment of black materia], perhaps three-quarters of an Inch in length and an eighth of an inch In breadth, which under the microscope may prove to be a piece of cloth, but the exaet character of which has not yet been de termined. “Perhaps distant one or two inches, and in this neighborhood there could be felt dis tinctly under the finger Innumerable small substances, like grains of sand, of greater or less magnitude, which have not yet been submitted to microscopic examination, but which were supposed to be minute frag ments of bone torn away from the broken vertebra and thus widely disseminated In the adjacent tissues. The blood sac was be hind the peritoneum, but the autopsy re vealed that It had ruptured into the cavity of the peritoneum, probably just before the occurrence of death, and at least a pint of blood coagulated was found In the peritonei cavity. The abscess spoken of In the official report of the au topsy was not In this region precisely, but somewhat more to the right, between the liver and transverse colon. No connection was discovered between this and the exter nal wound made bv the bullet, and there are no means of knowing whether It communi cated with the original track at some earlier period In the history of the case or not. It may have done so, and become subsequently closed, or it mav have been the result of the extension of inflammation from the original track to the adjacent tissues. There was no lesion of the llver, recent or ancient, Indi cated in the autopsy. “It is evident from this account that the presence of the ball in the situation in which it was found was the immediate cause of death, as it was completely en cysted, and must have long since ceased to cause irritation. The small fragments of bone and the great lesion of the lumbar ver tebra are the pathological facts which alone could endanger the patient’s life. This lesion of the vertebra the surgeons had do means of repairing, nor could It have been repaired save by the processes of nature. The small fragments of bone, if they should prove to be such, widely dis seminating in the adjacent tissues, cer tainly could not have been removed by any surgical operations. It was determined by the autopsy that the necessity did not exist for removing the ball, or, In other words, that had there been no other lesion It might have been carried for many years without causing death, or even Incon venience. Still, it may be proper to inquire whether by a surgical operation the bullet could have been safely removed. If it had been arrested by the spine, or even lodged in the substance of the spinal column, pos sibly with a bold and very extensive dissec tion it might have been safely reached and extracted. It is questionable, however, whether the history of surgery furnishes anytxvmpleof success under the circum stances now supposed. But the fact is that the bullet traversed the spine and lodged at a point some distance removed from It, passing miraculously through vari ous vital structures which surround the anterior and lateral walls of the ver tebra. The front of the spine in the region traversed aad both of its sides presenting toward the Interior of the belly are literally cow red by Important blood vessels, arteries and veins, the most Important nerves of the body, including the sympathetic or gang lionic system of nerves, also the nerves of common sensation and motion, and by sym pathy inclining the great thoracic duct through which nutrition from the alimen tary canal is conveyed to the heart. The Injury of almost any one of the foregoing, excepting the nerve* of common sensation and motion, would Inevitably destroy life, and In the midst of this plexus of arteries, ve'ns and lymphatics the surgeon would have had to carry his knife in search of a ball, the situation of which has only been revealed by the autopsy. There were no po'slble means of knowing the situation of the bail during life, as it gave no indication of i’s presence; nor could It possibly have beeD reached and recognized by any form of surgical probe. That death would have been immediate, and the inevitable result of any such daring adventure is almost absolutely certain. However much we, In dividually or collectively, may have made ourselves liable to just criticism In the matter of diagnosis or prognosis, and what ever doubts may be entertained by medical men as to the propriety of the treatment In certain respects, I cannot believe that one Intelligent surgeon will hereafter think that at any period in the progress of the case the ball or the fragments of the bone which it sent before It could have been success fully removed. Nor, indeed, that any serious attempt in the direction would not have resulted in speedy death. Viewing the case In the light of our present knowl edge, I am prepared to affirm that surgery has no resources bv which the fatal result could have been averted. This was the sad consolation which I felt justified in giving to the grief-stricken wife and family, and which ail my associates believe we can give to an afflicted people.” The Anglo-French Commercial Treaty. London, September 27.—The Manchester Guardian's dispatch from Paris says: “The Anglo French commissioners for the revision of tariffs discussed the subject of cotton yarns yesterday. There are complaints as to the manner in which the French com missioners received delegates representing this branch of English industry. Conhllngltes Bolting. Utica, N. Y., September 27.—At the Sec ond Assembly District Convention to-day, William 8. Barlett, of Clinton, an anti stalwart, was elected Chairman by a vote of 40 to 8. The eight stalwarts Immediately withdrew and elected a contesting delega tion to the State Convention. Tbe Land League’s Funds. Dublin, September 27.—At the weekly meeting to day of tbe Land League it was announced that £969 had been received since the last meeting, of which £SOO came from Victoria. Mr. Parnell denied that any members of Parliament were paid by the League. Bay State Unlversallsl*. Springfield, Mass., September 27.—The State Universallsts’ Convention opened here to day with a large attendance. Rav. C. W. Biddle was chosen President. The reports of the Secretary and Treasurer showed the condition of the church to be prosperous. Cholera In Meeca. Alexandria, September 27.—The Sani tary Commission has received a telegram from Djlddab, in Arabia, announcing that cholera has broken out among the pilgrims at Mecca. A Coatly Canada Fire. Dundas, Ont., September 27. —A fire this morning burned tbe Dufferln Hotel and nearly the entire block in which it was situated. Loss $25,000. The Garfield Fond. New York, September 27 —Tbe fund for Mrs. Garfield now reaches $321,251 86. A Horrible Story of Cruelty. —An extraordinary and almost u>credibl story of cruelty comes from Jersey City, where a mother is charged with delib erately starving her child to death, and announcing its death, providing a coffin, and actually arranging the body as if for burial before it had breathed its last. When its condition was discovered, star vation was so far advanced that life could not be saved. This remarkable parent is charged by her own sister with having lost three other children in the same way. Every horse owner caring the least for his stock, believes in St. Jacobs OJ. THROWN INTO THE RIVER. NOVEL ACCIDENT ON THE CANADA SOUTHERN. A Transfer Boat Strikes a Wharf and Plunges a Sleeper In the Wa ter—A Passenger Coach Half War Over —Panic and Confnslon —Fears That All Were Not Rescued. Detroit, Mich., September 27.—A pas senger train of the Canada Southern Rail road, due here about one o’clock this morn ing, while belDg transferred across the river from Amherstberg to Grosse Isle, met with an accident. The transfer boat was run with such force against the dock at the island as to throw forward the sleeper, which ran along tbe track on the boat, and plunged headlong into tbe water in the slip. The passenger coach Immediately behind It was also forced forward, and the forward trucks went over the end of the boat. The coupling between this coach and the one behind did not break, however, and the car hung over the end of the boat at an angle of forty-five degrees, and one end just touched the water. The engines of the boat were at once reversed, and as It backed away from the slip, the sleeper, which had fallen into the water, rose and turned over on its side, the tracks attached to It having gone to tbe bottom. All was confusion. The passengers In the sleeper clung to the side out of the water, and tried to break through the windows, and cried for help. Sixty or seventy others, who were in the passenger coach behind, were panic stricken and rushed pell mell for the end of the car farthest away from the water. Some of them clambered out at the side and fell into the water. Others of the passengers, who stood on the deck of the boat, saw the danger of those in the stream and plunged in to rescue them as soon as possible. The passengers and train men clambered on tbe top of the coach fal len In the water and broke in the windows, pulling out the drippiDg occupants. When all in sight had been rescued it was found that of the fourteen passengers in the sleeper three were missing. The dark ness of the night, the confusion and the fact that nearly all the passengers were strangers to each other, make it possible that all were rescued, but it also leaves painful uncertainty as to whether there are not several persons drowned. Six passen gers went down with the car, but were res cued with the exception of a man named Bloom, who occupied Section 11. A care ful search for him was made, but he had not been found at last accounts. BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY. Father Sheehy and four other suspects have been released from prison, French mariners have committed out rages on British fishermen at St. John’s, N. F., cutting out nets, turning craft adrift, etc. Three Bishops of the sect of Old Believ ers, in Russia, who have been imprisoned in the monastery at Susdal since 1856, have been released by order of the Czar. A Syracuse dispatch 6ays: “The Repub licans of the Becond A?Sf-mblv district of New York have elected Frank Hiscock and four others, all Garfield Republicans, as delegates to the State Republican Conven tion. A train on the Valley road was ditched near Breckville, Ohio, by a fallen tree on the track. “Doc Drum,” a train boy, was badly scalded, and Engineer Vightly hurt. The train load of 200 passengers escaped without injury. The Russian ukase recently issued to facilitate the declaration of a greater or le6B state of siege authorizes Governors during a minor state of siege to prohibit public or even private meetings and close all* trade or Industrial establishments. Frederick RettiDger, aged sixty-five years, was found drowned in the canal In Wilkes barre, Pa , recently. It Is said that parties there have Insurance to the amount of $70,- 000 on his life. The Coroner will hold a post-mortem examination. The boiler of the steam threshing ma chine at work on George Caldwell’s farm, In Thurlow, Ont., exploded a few days since, killing Andrew Lloyd, Mr. Malcolm, Mr. Anson and Miss Viola Caldwell, and seri ously injuring Mr. Caldwell, H. Garvin and Charles Gerkin. Dickey, aged five years, the son of John Holmes, and Maggie, an adopted daughter, while gathering coal In St. Louis, upon aslackinHaifling’s coal mine, sank through the heap Into a smoldering fire, and were so badly burned that the boy died Saturday night. It is not believed the girl can live. The noted outlaws known as the Williams brothers appeared recently in Pike countv, 111., having escaped from Wisconsin, and Sheriff Roberts, of Pike county, and Sheriff Lammis, of Calhoun county, 111., assisted by two men named Churchman and McNabb, started In pursuit. The posse overtook the men near Fox creek, Missouri, when the outlaws shot and killed Sheriff L&mmis and wounded McNabb, and then escaped down the Mississippi river. Owing to the continued drought, the wood fires In Northwestern New York are still spreading and causing great destruc tion. Much of the soil being peaty, the fires burrow to a depth of two or three feet, and the crops and railroad ties, as well as trees, fences, telegraph poles and farm b uildings have been destroyed. The burninu district lies along the railroads between Buffalo and Rochester, and Buffalo and Batavia. Edward Malley’s store, at New Haven, Conn., has been attached for $60,000 on two suits, one for false imprisonment of his brother, William Malley. of Ansonia, and the other for notes due Edward J. Malley, Michael Malley, Edward J. Carroll and William Malley. After the attachment Carroll offered to settle for $2,500. Then Edward Malley had CarroU and Michael Malley put In ia.il about midnight for false attachment. The other Malleys were not found, though searched for. Efward Mal ley is the father of Walter Malley and an uncle of James Malley, the two young men now under arrest on the charge of com plicity In the murder of Jennie Cramer. Terrible Hurricane and Earthquake at Elmira, N. T. Elmira. September 25.—A terrible hurri cane struck this city this afternoon at 4:30, accompanied by a severe storm of rain. A vast amount of damage was done in about two minutes, the duration of the storm. Entire roofs with their heavy timbers were blown hundreds of feet. The Rathburn House was unroofed. The spire of Heddlng Methodist Church was blown across the street into a yard. About two tons of brick were deDOSited in the organ of the First Presbyterian Church. Several brick buildings had holes blown clear through them, scattering the bricks In all directions. The river bank is full of the debris of roofs blown from buildings, including chimneys. Immense oak, elm and maple trees were snapped at the roots like pipestems. Almost every street is impassable from the trees blown across them. Workrmen are busy with axes and teams, clearing away the ruins, and the firemen have been c&lled out to care for en dangered buildings. Mr. 8. A. Manwearing was blown from his buggy and seriously in jured. The spire of a church was blown upon a house adjoining and crushed it in, fortu nately injuring no one. The roof of the palace car shops was blown clear over the freight office several hundred feet. The streets were full of people, and the greatest consternation prevailed. The storm was preceded by an earthquake, and now there is a perfect calm. The rain fell so heavily that the pipes were insufficient to carry oil the water, and immense damage was done to furniture by water entering the houses. The damage in this city alone will reach thousands of dollars. Texan orTkx^an. —One or two Texas papers appear to wish to revive the ques tion whether a citizen of Texas should be called a Texan or Texian. Some forty years ago the latter term was gen erally used, but custom has long since settled down in favor of Texan. There is no precise rule applicable to the case, and some smart philologist may yet get a law passed to change the spelling of the name, as has been done in a neigh boring State, where Arkansavv has been made to take the place of Arkansas. That State, however, neglected to state whether its citizens shall be called Ar kansawers or Arkansawyers. Webster says sawyer is a corruption of sawer, and anew law may be necessary to fix the correct thing as to the name of the citizens of our sister State, if not for those of Texas. There was once a soldier-poet who wrote the word Texi cans in order to make it rhyme with Mexicans. The San Antonio Times says: “A number of Arkansians,” etc. This seems to he hardly as fit' a word as either Texans or Texians. —Galveston Neuss. ESTABLISHED 1850 Facts and Anecdotes About General Garfield. Marshal Henry, of Washington city, tells one or two very interesting incidents re lating to the life of the late President during the few days preceding his murder. He says: “I was riding out with the President and Harry Garfield on the Wednesday night of that week. The President talked about a great many thiDgs, and said a great deal about his wife’s recent illness. Speaking particularly of Dr. Boynton’s services during the hour of Mrs. Garfield’s peril, of the doctor’s prompt response when sum moned by telegraph, and of his untiring efforts night and day to ameliorate the suf fering of the oaMent, he said, In a tone of voice which I shall never forget, to his son, ‘Harry, I want you to remember your Uncle Silas as long as vou live.’ ” One of the habits of the President for many years was the writing of a private diary, and he has left a number of volumes of these diaries, which are about six by eight inches in size. He did most of the writing in these himself, though when very busy he dictated the entries to his secre tary. The last entry he made himself the night before he was shot. Under the date July Ist is written: “Brown returned to day,” and, after a few more notes, were the last words, “Cousin Cordelia died to-day. Retired atl2o’clock.” It will be remembered that Private Secre tary Brown returned from Europe the night before the President was shot. The “Cou sin Cordelia” spoken of was Mrs. Arnold, who was fatally Injured by the accident in which the late President’s undo, Thomas Garfield, was killed near Cleveland. The Marshal says the late President has left sev eral boxes full of papers and documents, which will probably be examined some day and edited for publication. In some reminiscences of President Gar field, contributed to the Boston Journal by Ben Perley Poore, is the following: “The short time that the Garfields occu pied the White House before the assassina tion was a continued scene of domestic en joyment. ‘Grandma’ Garfield had, until she returned to Mentor, an honored place at the family table, at her son’s right hand, and was always waited on first, whoever else might be present. On the other side of the President sat Jamie, who was his father’s pet. Harry, the oldest bov, always sat next to his mother, and then Miss Mol lie, who is approaching womanhood; then Irwin and little Abram,who is but nine years of age. Mrs. Garfield Is a believer in good fare, and there was always an abun dance of wholesome, nutritious food, with good coffee, tea and milk. Flowers from the conservatory adorned the table at every meal. After dinner President Garfield used to indulge in a game of billiards, having promptly restored to its place the billiard table banished by Mrs. Hayes. Occasion ally he would indulge in a cigar, and he was not adverse to a glass of champagne or Rhine wine, or lager beer,although he drank temperately and without hypocrisy. He liked as night came on to take a gallop on horseback, and he was a fearless rider.” The International Cotton Exposition. Railway Age. Among the great movements of this stirring period, few will attract greater at tention this year or have a more important bearing on the future of our country than the International Cotton Exposition which will open at Atlanta, Ga., October sth. It is to be an illustration of the progress this country has made in agriculture, manufac tures, commerce, science and the arts dur ing the five years that have passed since the Philadelphia centennial was closed to the public. Industrial enterprises in the form of expositions have become since that time factors of no mean importance to the busi ness of the country. The people of the Northwest have learned by the brilliant ex perience of our Chicago Exposition and by the similar exhibitions that are annually given in other great centres to appreciate the value of these modern aids to all depart ments of industry and labor. But the Inter national Exposition that will open at At lanta, will be unlike any other this country or the world has ever seen. It may be called mi generis for its uniqueness and pe culiarities. It was originally intended to promote the interests of the cotton planters of the South, and the cotton mills and man ufacturers of the rest of the country; but %io sooner was the plan presented to the public than the wise heads of our commer cial centres saw that it admitted of great development, and gave a long desired op portunity to place before the people of the South a complete picture of our diversified national industries. Director General Kim ball and his associates were the right men to appreciate this grand idea, and it was adopted, and arrangements made to carry it into practical effect. The railway companies of the United States are exponents as well as leaders of, and more than any other class in this coun try believe in progress. The great lines of the South saw at a very early day that the Exposition would give them a chance to place before the capitalists of the world such a display of the natural resources of the regions which they traverse as would be likely to lead to numerous investments and to the development of the mines, and the utilization of the forests, of that vast and richly endowed region. They, therefore, made arrangements with the Director Gene ral to furnish them with space on the Expo sition grounds in which they could exhibit collections of minerals, lumber, forage plants, agricultural products and everything else found adjacent to their lines, which would support human beings and fur nish the raw materials for their employment. So soon as this plan was made public, it ex cited universal attention and interest—other roads joined with those that had conceived the plan, and, as a result, the entire coun try south of the 40th parallel will be com prised in these displays. Everything north of the Gulf of Mexico and the Mexican ter ritory between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, south of the line named that is worthy a place in the Exposition will be there; and all these exhibits will be so skillfully arranged and classified that who ever sees them will be able to tell at a glance where anything in which he is especially in terested can be found. Nothing like this has ever before been attempted, and we are not surprised to learn that some of the heaviest capitalists of this country and Eu rope have determined to vislit the Exposi tion and to make these railway exhibits a matter of careful and thorough investiga tion. The Star Route Swindlers. Boston Post. When the star route iniquity was brought to light the new Postmaster General was held up to the country as a first-class reformer. The country was almost ready to tender him a public ova tion. The guilty parties were paraded before the country with a flourish of trumpets, and the details of their trans actions scattered far and wide through the public press. In order to make thorough work of it anew prosecuting officer was employed, who was said to be possessed of unusual skill in criminal laws, and a man of uncommon vigor and promptness in the discharge of his duties. The adminisrration was claim ing special eclat, and at first seemed to have earned it for its improvement over the preceding one. Time went on, but nothing was dote to briDg the offenders to justice. The court and juries sus pended their functions, and there was a general scatteration of the per sons accused to parts unknown. This dilatory conduct attracted wide attention, and the people began to wonder why the wheels of justice moved soslowly. Then went dispatches in the form of “official bulletins” all over the country, that when the court should reassemble in the fall swift and sure and exemplary punishment would be administered, and with an impartial hand. The country was patient and in general trusted in these assurances. Our readers have seen by our Washington correspondence what all these demon strations have amounted to. This vigor ous prosecutor has allowed his grand jury to go off for another vacation of weeks. The Postmaster General is away from his post at the time appointed for following up the investigations, and also his assistants, relied on to give effect to their discoveries. What excuse or apology is to he pleaded for this dis regard of the public demand and ex pv'ictation? If British energy is not aroused Brit ish trade will receive a death blow here, as we now receive from the Yankees car riages, organs, furniture, timber, doors, windows (a box frame is sold here for less than 1 can buy the timber), plows, axes, hatchets, spades, nails, locks, hinges and general ironmongery, gar den seats, india-rubber hose, perambula-. tors (much prettier articles than anything I have seen from the old country), and lately I see a large quantity of saws; in fact, English hardware in general is being rapidly driven from these parts.— Australian correspondence of an English paper. COTTON PICKERS. Three machines Exhibited ■ the memphta ttotton Exchange* a Memphis Avalanche. Yesterday was a field day at the Cot lon Exchange for cotton pickers, models of no less than three being on exhibition at one time, viz. : Hutton’s cotton picker, of Memphis, the Pugh gin saw picker, of Covington, and Dr. Dooley’s cotton picker, of Forrest City, Arkansas. A sketch of the first two has been given in the Avalanche. Of the third it is claimed by Dr. Dooley that one man and two horses or mules are all the help needed for the machine. The driver sacks and throws the cotton overboard as the machine goes from turn to turn. This machine will gather no bolls, limbs or trash, except the leaf trash adhering to the open bolls. All the dirt and dust will be shaken off. He has been work ing every possible plan to gather cotton by machinery, and says he has found none that will compare at all with the one he has patented. It can be used as soon as enough cotton is open to justify running it. If all the cotton is open, the machine can pick eight acres per day, or as fast as it can be driven by the team. He say no machine can ever succeed that gathers bolls, limbs and trash. His calculation is that each machine will cost to build it #IOO, and a margin to manufacturer of SSO. It will sell for $250, allowing him SIOO on each machine. He thinks at $250 for a machine every man raising fifty acres of good cotton will save the cost of the machine and expenses on the first crop, and the machine will last ten years if carefully handled and preserved. He has had several applications for a machine at SSOO for this season; but he will not be able to put up but one machine by Octo ber 15. His aim was to begin manufac turing at Memphis, but he says the mau facturers in this city could not do work as small as his spindles of steel; there fore he is now on his way to Cincinnati to get one manufactured. Whatever may be the outcome of the various cotton picking machines already patented, it is safe to say that the in ventive genius of the country will yet accomplish the construction of a ma chine that will pick cotton, which will be as great a boon to the South as the in vention of McCormick’s reaper was to the Northwest. Drain Development and Moral Char acter. London Lancet. It is not surprising to find the unlearn ed in things medical unable to under stand that brain development, which of course is generally a matter of heredity, determines character. Such, however, is, and must needs be, the fact. Wheth er the mind is something outside mat ter which acts through or by the brain, as a musician may use a musical instru ment, or whether, as some think, what we call mind is simply brain function, it should be manifest on consideration that upon the quality and conformation of a man’s brain must depend his mental ca pacity; and, consequently, also, his characteristics, both intellectual and moral. We are not disposed to urge spe cialties of development as excuses for conduct, because, given an average degree of intelligence and fairly strong will power, the individual is clearly responsible for bis ac tions; but it must not be forgot ten that his instincts of right or wrong, and the faculty of judgment with which lie distinguished between good and evil, will be acute or dull in proportion as his brain is developed. The mind is in a large sense the character of a man, and as directly dependent on the physical growth of his brain as the speed of a race liorse is dependent on its muscular development. This is not sufficiently recognized, and because it is not we every now and again find silly remarks in print such as the following: “The convolutions of the brain may have something to do with the difference be tween mediocrity and genius, but at present they are not recognized in the law courts, and it is difficult to see how they can be;” with such weak and wide moral reflections as that “it would be scarcely satisfactory to a pickpocket to have his brains (sic) examined, in order to prove to those he left behind that he really could not help being a thief 1” And yet the facts arc sufficiently plain and simple, so plain and simple that any one should be able to understand them. Vice Presidents and their Prede cessors.—lt is not entirely unreasonable that Vice Presidents, selected as ours have been, should uniformly reverse the general policy of their immediate predecessors. Tyler did it; Fillmore did it; Johnson did it, and Arthur is reasonably certain to do it. And why? The answer is simple and logical. Vice Presidents represent nothing. They are nominated to meet some present and accidental political necessity, generally resulting from the nomination of the Presidential candidate. They, therefore, represent no great sentiment in the party, and they become ciphers in the adminis tration. Tney gravitate into estrange ment because they are voiceless; the dis appointments of the party naturally cluster about them until they become the central figure of the opposition, and when they succeed to the power that dis regarded them they fall into the arms of those who were not in sympathy with the elected President. As long as Vice Presidents are subjected to the ordinary laws of human nature they will be the natural antagonists of the President, his policy and his friends.— Phila. Times. An Old Woman’s Advice. 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