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Entered, at the Post-Office at Savannub as Second Claud Matter.
VOL. I.-NO. 12. ; SAVANNAH, TENNESSEE, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1885. , One Dollar Per Year.
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
FJillSON AL AND POLITICAL.
Appoiktmb.nt Cleek Hiooins Is said
to be devoting his energies to secure the
position of Sergeant-at-Arms of the House
of Representatives.
A GfiKHAW American named Thielman,
a locksmith, has been expelled from Fleus
burg, Prussia.
William K. 8miih, the successor of Mr.
Coon, as Assistant Secretary of the Treas
ury, took charge of his office on the 20th.
HusselSaob has given $60,(K to Cor
nell University to fouud a professorship
of Ethics and Moral Philosophy, which
was duly acknowledged at the fall meet
ing of the Trustees on the 20th.
Johk Gkahiiaht, a farmer living near
C&tnwisBO, Pa., has recently lost three
children by diphtheria, and on the 20th
had four lying ill with the dread disease.
He bad a family of fourteen children.
The complete correspondence of Carlylo
and Goethe has been discovered in the
archives of the latter.
On the 20th Hon. Levi P. Morton, ex-Minis
tor to France, and family, arrived in
Washington. Mr. Morton says he will
take no active part in politics this winter.
A body, found near Los Angeles, Cal.,
has been identified as that of Benjamin H.
Longnecker, defaulting Poor Director of
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
James Blackburn, a former paymaster
of the Lake Shore & Western Railway, has
been arrested at Milwaukee, Wis., In con
nection with a shortage in his accounts.
Malcolm S. Doty obtained a judgment
for $1,700 against the Bt. Joseph Hospital
at Omaha,. Neb., for the loss of an eye by
a servant's carelessness.
Senator Call, of Florida, is building
himself a fine residence in Washington.
Mrs. Coluan, wifo of Norman J. Col
man, Commissioner of Agriculture, is dan
gerously 111 at Washington.
It is rumored that the Duke of Con
naught is to be made chief of Her Maj
esty's forces, vice the Duke of Cambridge,
who will shortly retire.
In an election letter tba Marquis of Salis
bury says: "Make the support of the
church a test question abovo all others."
Henry Hyuick was defeated iu his suit
at Brooklyn, N. Y., against the Standard
Oil Company for a share in property rai
ned at half a million dollars, and was ar
' rested on a charge of false swearing.
Ex-Prksidknt Arthur's son Allan has
won fame as a match-maker at Washing
; ton.
Mr. Parnell has issued a manifesto to
the electors, signed by several Irish mem
bers of Parliament, severely denouncing
. the Liberal party.
Mr. Gladstone, in a speech at Dalkeith,
rOJcotland, said the dependence of the Tories
I on the Irish voters was unsafe and was dis
J honorable to the country.
Secretary Whitney will give a grand
Christmas dinner to the Cabinet members
and their families.
r The officers accompanying General
Briere de L'lsfc to Paris say that his dis
grace is unjust and that his removal has
caused discontent in the army.
Sin John MaoDonald has started for
England to confer with the government in
regjirdbe-fisheries, reciprocity with the
) UircU States and other questions, .
i Uev. Dr. S. Btobks has just entered
..upon the fortieth year of his pastorate of
the Congregational Church of the Pilgrims
at Brooklyn, N. T.
Mrs. Julia Smith Parker, who gained
fame in New England by refusing to pay
taxes because she was not allowed to vote,
is at death's door.
Kino Milan is concentrating his forces
and a decisive attack on Slivnitza Is immi
nent. President Cleveland has agreed to
open the American Exposition at London
next year by touching a button in Wash
ington, which will start the machinery by
'electricity In London.
Off the kl Mr. Uladstone unveiled a
crois in Edinburgh, and joined in singing
"Old Hundred."
On the 23d Elizur Wright, the well
known Abolitionist of lang syne, died at
his home in Medford, Mass. He was well
known in the field of journalism.
Samuel Jenninos, who set the types for
the first printed copy of "The Star Span
gled Banner," and who was one of the
"Old Defenders" in 1811, died at Baltimore,
Md.,on the 2-'td, aged eighty-eight.
Director-General John W. Glenn of
the North, Central and South American
Exposition at New Orleans has resigned,
and ex-Director-General Samuel M. Burke
has been appointed to the position.
Xuk Czar of Russia has ordered the re
moval of the initials of Prince Alexander
from the eqaulets of the officers of the
Thirteenth Rifle Battalion, of which Prince
Alexander was honorary Colonel.
On the 23d indictments were found by the
United States Grand Jury in New York
against Ferdinand Ward, William S. War
ner and J. Henry Work for conspiracy to
defraud the creditors and stockholders of
the Marina National Bank.
Secretary Manning has directed the
dismissal of H. N. Gassaway, assistant
chief of the Internal Revenue and Mercan
tile Marine divisions to take effect Novem
ber 30th.
Mas. Culm an, wife of the Commissioner
of Agri ulture, was reported better on the
morning of the 24th, and the family were
much encouraged.
Prince Alexander sent a dispatch to
his father on the 23d thanking him for his
gift of clothing, eta, to the Bulgarian
troops. This dispatch also said: "We
fought all Sunday, and spent the night
on Dragoman Heights, which we carried
by storm. The fighting continues to-day
in the direction of Tianhrod."
The monument erected in honor of Ed
ward Kelly, the Irish leader sentenced to
be hanged, drawn and quartered in 1967,
was unveiled at Mount Hopa Cemetery,
Boston, oa the 13d.
M. Martin, editor of provincial news
paper ot Copenhagan, Denmark, has been
sentenced to four months' imprisonment
on a charge of inciting the people to take
up arms and drive oat the obnoxious
Estrupp.
CRIMES ASO CASCAITIES.
W ilkixsox, the murdorer ofJ) Seer Law-
nrn, wu nangea at 1 noraasion, use., oa
the 30th, and died coolly and unrepentant.
Several persona were poisoned by
drinking water from aa old well, recently
reopened, in Chester County, Pa., two ot
whom, Annie Poole and Frank Tnwnunil
died. The water is believed to be imnrer-
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tea wua aeaaiy mineral poison.
On the 20th Otto Koblank, a drunken
brute, went to his boarding-house in Jer
sey City, N. J., and began to abuse the
landlady, Mrs. Sweeny, and wound up by
pouring a kettle of boiling water over her,
acaldlng her so severely that her recovery
Is impossible.
Several workmen were severely in
jured by the burning of the Rubber Faint
Company's building at Cleveland, 0., on
the 22d.
John W. Laners, of Omaha, Neb., shot
and killed his wife on the night on the 21st,
claiming to have mistaken her for a burg
lar. A terrible cyclone swept over the
Philippine Islands on the 21st. Eight
thousand buildings, including numerous
churches and school-houses, were de
stroyed and twenty-two persons were
killed.
Subib Smeltzer, four years of age, was
burned to death at Altwood, Pa., on the
22d, by her clothing catching tire from a
grate.
A dispatch of the 22d from Calcutta says
that 5,000 people have been drowned and
100 villages submerged in Orissa by a cy
clone, and that 1,241 square miles in the
Moonshedabad and Huddea districts have
been devastated.
Samuel and John May, farmers, were
robbed and brutally, beaten on the night of
the 21st by seven highwaymen in Wash
ington County, Pennsylvania.
Joseph McConnauohty, Town Marshal
of Bridgeport, O., was fatally shot on the
21st by Silas Conway.
Masked robbers at Marion, Pa., poured
coal oil on an old man and set him on fire
to extort money.
A convict in the Nebraska Penitentiary
confesses to the murder of Colonel Watson
B. Smith, Clerk of the United States District
Court, at Omaha, whose death has been a
mystery since 1881.
On the 23d George Stevenson, confined In
jail at Fort Dodge, la., for murder, hanged
himself in his cell.
On the 23d a peddler named Hanfield
was robbed of $1,000 in money and his
stock of goods by highwaymen in Holmos
County, Ohio.
ON the 23d Mary Tialka, a Bohemian
widow, and her two children were burned
to death in a tenement-house fire in New
York. Henry Kohot has been arrested tor
setting fire to the building, which involved
a loss of $200,000.
On the 23d Joseph Groblewski, convicted
of the murder of his wife by poison at
Brooklyn, N. Y., was sentenced to be
banged January 10, 1880.
On the night ot the 22d, John Sharpless,
one of the most prominent Orthodox
Friends in Delaware County, Pa., was
foully murdered in his barn, whither he
had been enticed by a negro under pretense
of getting some straps to mend a broken
carriage.
Willie Desmond blew off his thumb and
finger with dynamite at Williamston,
Mich., and the fright caused the boy's
grandmother to fall dead from heart dis
ease. The police of Philadelphia have arrested
a negro answering the description of the
murderer of John Sharpless, at Chester. He
gives his name as Isaao Lewis, and says
he has no home.
Near the town of Franklin, W. T., on
the 22d, three men were killed during a
wind storm. A large tree was blown down
and fell directly across the house, crushing
it to pieces. Threo men J. B. Gaul, Johu
Cannon and James Smith were in the
house at the time. All were instantly
killed and their bodies fearfully mangled.
Mrs. Louise Stieoer, in a fit of tem
porary insanity, jumped from a fourth
story window of her home in Jersey City,
N. J., with her babe in her arms, on the
23d. The little one was dashed to death oh
the pavement and the woman received
probably fatal injuries, being dreadfully
lacerated by striking an Iron railing. When
her husband discovered what had been
done he endeavored to cut his throat, but
was prevented by the police.
At Bismarck, D. T., on the 23d the -e was
found on a piece of floating Missouri River
ice the body of a man, and beside him was
found a note purporting to be from his
wife in London, England, and which read:
"My dear husband, you must hurry home
If you CTpect to find your little Nellie
alive. I am doing all in my power to save
her, but she is very low. Hoping you will
return soon, I remain, with love, your own
Mary." The note was addressed to Cap
tain John Bannock, Fort Assinaboine,
M.T.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Trouble is reported at the Tongue River
Indian Agency, and troops have been or'
dered to the scene.
It is reported that Turkey has notified
the Servians that unless they get out ot
Bulgaria Turkish troops will drive them
out.
Wages of employes of the National Tuba
Works at McKeesport, Pa., will be ad
vanced and a strike prevented.
The trade and labor counsol at Toronto,
Ont.. condemns the Government for en
couraging emigration fib that country while
there is not work enough for those already
here.
Most of the Liberal newspapers have
passed by the Parnellite manifesto without
comment, while the Conservative press
criticise it slightly.
The social season at Washington is to be
a brilliant one. The President promises to
contribute his full share.
It is reported that if King Milan refuse
immediate peace under the terms of the
Balkan conference's final protocol two of
the signatory powers will enforce his de
position.
A dispatch of the 23d from Sofia said
the Servians had bombarded Widdin and
that the town was on fire.
A complaint has been filed against
Westford (Wis.) woman for attempting to
kill by sorcery.
Kino Theebaw has ordered 25,000 addi
tional troops to be held in readiness for ee
tion.
The anti-silver men are working hard to
have the House committee so arranged
tnat Mr. island will not be at the head of
the committee that will handle the silver
bill.
The steamer Iberian, ashore ta Dun-
manus Bay, on the south coast ot Ireland,
has broken up and fourteen men are miss-
ing.
A SUIT has beea filed against the Stand
ard Distilling Company of Cincinnati, O.
by the Sour Mash Distillir j Company, of
Queettsboro, Ky., for alleged infringement
ot their trade-mark.
The Congressional Gun Foundry and
Armor Plate Commission visited Pitts
burgh, Pa-, on the 33d, and mad a tour ot
the Iron aad steel manufactories.
On the 23d the second annual convention
of the National Cattle and Horse-growers'
Association assembled in the Exposition
building at St. Louis. The attendance at
the opening session was quite large, and
the proceedings give promise of being
warm and interesting.
Hancock (Mich.) fishermen, who have
returned from Lake Superior, found throe
bodies of victims of the Algoma wreck.
On the 23d portions of New York city
were inundated by high tide and much
damage was done to railroad and wharf
property, and passenger traffic was con
siderably inconvenienced.
There was a lively panic in the Pitts
burgh oil ' market on the 23d, and it was
thought that many of the operators would
come out badly singed.
The mortality from small-pox in Mon
treal is steadily decreasing.
On the 23d fifty-six arrests were made in
Now York for infringement ot the excise
law.
Dumno the week ended the 21st the is
sue ot standard silver dollars was $078,818;
during the corresponding period last year
$481,497. The shipments of fractional sil
ver coin from November 1st to November
21st amounted to $439,064.
Belgrade advices are to the effect that
Servia's hopes of final victory are fading,
and that foreign intervention is hoped for.
On the 23d the United States Supreme
Court decided that neither a police ofllcer
nor a private citizen can lawfully arrest,
without a warrant or order of military au
thority, a deserter from the United States
army.
A Vienna dispatch says Austria has
joined Germany in urging Turkey to inter
vene in the Bulgarian war.
Official and press telegrams between
Calcutta and Burinah have been stopped
for some unknown reason.
It is not true that the Porte has sum
moned the Servians to evacuate Bulgaria.
Subscription lists have been opened
throughout Austria and Hungary in aid ot
the Servians. Liberal responses are being
made to the appeals for help. There are
6,000 wounded men at Pirot.
Severe shocks of earthquake were felt
in Spain on the 22d at Valez, Malaga, An
dalusia, and especially at Elhama. There
were also seismic movements on the Afri
can coast and numerous land slips, and it
is reported that the bed of the Mediterra
nean Sea has risen perceptibly.
A dispatch from Bulgaria to the Loudon
toiily Telegraph on the 23d said: "The
Servians have evacuated all the positions
hitherto occupied by them. Dragoman,
Brasnlk, Pernik and Izvar are in the hands
of the Bulgarians. The Servians are still
retiring. It is stated that Bulgarian cav
alry have occupied Tzaribrod."
Nine branches of the Mormon Church of
Latter Day Saints have been organized by
Elder Scott in Southern Indiana, including
one at Lancaster, where a conference of
about forty leaders was in progress on tus
21th. They advocate the general tenets ot
the Mormon Church, but oppose polygamy.
The mi-sing boat ot the steamer Iberian,
wrecked in Dunmauus Bay, Ireland, ar
rived at Crook Haven on the 23d.
A Greenock (Scotland) firm has re
ceived orders to build two steamers, which
will form the nucleus of a passengor serv
ice between Shanghai and Melbourne.
A serious religious riot took place on
the 22d at Broach, India. One English
official was killed and three others were
wounded. Five ot the rioters were shot liv
the police.
The English Admiralty authoritiei bava
asked the Treasury to sanction tho ap
pointment ot a high official and assistants
to superintend the Government dock
yards.
A dispatch from Cooktown, Queens
land, says the geographical expedition
which was reported to have been massa
cred in New Guinea has arrived at Cook
town. All the members are well.
LATE NEWS ITEMS.
A faith-cure convention began Its ses
sions at Pittsburgh, Fa., on the 24th.
Robert Fowler, sentenced to be hanged
tor murder at Morganfield, Ky., has been
respited.
The Freuch Senate, on the 24th, adopted
without debate a treaty with Burmah.
Suit U to be brought to test the title to a
large tract of land in the city of Minneap
olis. Justin McCarthy, the historian, has
been returned to the British Parliament.
Pat McGuire, the Logansport (Iud.)
murderer, has been landed in jail at Chat
tanooga. . A bill to reduce the army to 15,000 men
has been introduced in the Mexican Con
gress. Half-breeds in the Northwest threaten
an outbreak in the spring, on account of
Riel's execution.
The Emperor of Austria has donated
$10,000 and 1,000,000 cigarettes to the Ser
vian wounded.
A bpecial Grand Jury has been called
at Omaha, Neb., to investigate the case ot
John W. Lauer, who killed his wife re
cently, claiming to have mistaken her for
a burglar.
Miss Helen Taylor wanted to be elect
ed to the British Parliament from West
Camberwell, but was refused recognition
by the returning officer.
A Belgrade dispatch of the 24th said
the Servians were continuing their retreat,
nd were then in Servian territory. The
Bulgarians have occupied all the position
recently held by the Servians. There is
talk of King Milan abdicating.
At the meeting of the general passenger
agents at New York on the 24th the con
tract for the west-bound pool was signed.
A steamer ot the Allan Line has been
quarantined at Greenock, Scotland, with
small-pox on board.
A couple of colored ministers have sued
a Baltimore ferry company for denying
them their rights under the civil rights
act.
Hon. Georqe Otto Tkeveltan, who
was Chief Secretary for Ireland under Mr.
Gladstone, has been elected to Parliament.
The American Iron and Steel Associa
tion has forwarded a letter to Secretary
Manning, in which it opposes new tariff
legislation.
General Jovanovitcr, who was dis
missed from his command in the Servian
army for disobeying orders, has com'
mitted suicide.
There was a full attendance at the Cab
inet meeting on the 24th. The session last'
ed about three hours, and was devoted al
most entirely to the consideration of tb
President's message to Congress. The doc
ument is iu an advanced state ol prepara
tion, and will be completed mnl day
before m meeting ot Congress.
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.
Mrs. Liz McDonald, widow of Engineer
McDonald, who was killed in the big rail
way accident near Marietta, Ga., has been
awarded $8,000 by a jury in a suit against
the Western & Atlantic Railroad Com'
pany.
Two assemblies of Knights of Labor,
white and colored, have been organized at
Shreveport, La., by M. J. Nolan, of Fort
Worth, TeT. The membership is large.
Several cases of fraud on the Relief Com
mittee at Galveston have been detected,
and the perpetrators will be punished.
Lillie Clark, a courtesan nineteen years
of age, took the motphlne route at Mem
phis, Tenn., a few days ago and ended her
life of shame.
One hundred Mormon converts left Chat
tanooga, Tenn., a few days ago for Utah.
They were from Virginia, North and South
Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Ala
bama. Ninety elders are now operating in
the South.
Henry A. Wiley, uaval cadet from Mc
Kinney, Tex., who was recently suspended
for hazing, has been reinstated, he having
proved that the hazing complained of con
sisted of knocking down the chief of a
party who had heaped insults upou him
until forbearance ceased to be a virtue.
A panic wag created iu the City1 Hospital
at Louisville, Ky., a few days ago, by a
stove exploding and setting fire to the
building. The patients were all safely re
moved and the fire extinguished without
having done much damage.
Captain Eads has under consideration a
plan tor building a ship railway across the
Florida peninsula, beginning at the mouth
ot McOirt's Creek, twelve miles southeast
of Jacksonville and hitting the Gulf ol
Mexico at Deadman's Bay, a total distance
of 120 miles.
The personal property valuation of Nash
ville, Tenn., has increased during the past
ten years $2,830,000.
Prof. R. H. Kinney, late principal of the
Texas State Deaf and Dumb Institute, died
suddenly a few days since of heart disease.
For years be was connected with tho Deaf
and Dumb Institute of Ohio, then that of
Iowa, from which State he went to Texas.
He leaves a wife and three children.
John Harrison was recently convicted at
Sherman, Tex., of the murder of. Jack
Goodwin and sentenced to the Peniten
tiary for life. His defense was that he
killed Goodwin to shield and protect the
honor of his wife, on whom he claimed
Goodwin was making a fiendish assault,
but the prosecution proved this feature to
be a conspiracy to secure a pretext to kill
Goodwin and then furnish a plea for ac
quittal. The cotton receipts at Corsicaua, Tex.,
this season, up to the 19th inst, were 18,000
bales, against 11,000 bales up to same time
last year.
Charles Vogel, a German, was killed
near Owensboro, Ky., a few days ago by
the earth of a well he was engaged in dig
ging caving in upon him and breaking his
neck.
The subscriptions to the relief fund for
the Galveston sufferers amounts to over
$100,000. Thomas M. Joseph, R. L. Sher
rard and J. C. Levy are the members ol
the Odd Fellows' committee to receive con
tributions from sister lodges.
Stephen E. Jones, assignee of the Louis
ville Savings Bank, has filed a petition in
chancery for the settlement ot his trust.
Every person connected with the execu
tive department of Georgia, from the Gov
ernor down, is a Prohibitionist.
A planter named Hammersly of Camp
bell County, Virginia, was murdered and
robbed a few days ago by a negro.
A milk white alligator was discovered in
a pond at Escambia, Ala., and also one
that is parti-colored.
The Colored Orphans' Home at Chat
tanooga, Tenn., was destroyed by fire a
few days since.
A jury at Sparta, Ga., sustained the will
of David Dickson, leaving $500,000 to his
colored mistress and child, and disinherit-
'ng his heirs.
A sign which reads as follows hangs on
cbe wall ot a Tampa (Flu.) restaurant
"Waters are not allowed to lafe andtork
with the men in cichen dewringmeleowers
or wile waiting on gests."
Birmingham, Ala., has a thief named
Sturgess, who makes a specialty of wed
ding presents. He was a regular attendant
at church, and never missed a wedding.
His house was found full of beautiful arti
cles stolen from various wedding feasts.
Mrs. Rboda Howard, supposed to be the
oldest person in Kentucky, died a few days
ago near Owingsville. She was born in
North Carolina 114 years ago. Her third
husband, who died in 1846, was a Revolu
tionary soldier and she had drawn a pen
sion up to the time ot her death. She had
four children living, one being over ninety
years old. She had lived in Kentucky
ninety-one years and smoked a pipe con
tinuously. 8he had never been sick a day
and refused to take medicine up to the day
she died.
A foul murder was committed at Wad
ley's saloon at Jackson, Tenn., a few
nights ago. Will Madison, a young rail
road man, struck Dan 8hampel, a cigar
maker, over the head with a gun, crushing
his skull, from which he died. Mayor
Robinson has offered a reward of $200 for
the arrest of the murderer.
The total subscriptions for the Galveston
fire-sufferers at last accounts reached $110,
000, of which $82,000 had been received and
about $50,000 distributed. Mayor Moore,
of Kansas City, remitted an additional
subscription of $1,135, making a total ot
$3,533 from that city. From Memphis, $1,
163 was sent; from the city of Corpus
Christi, $500; and many smaller sums from
Texas, Missouri and the East.
The Vanderbilt University at Nashville,
Tenn., which was erected ten years ago,
through the liberality Commodore Vander
bilt, ot New York, who had previously
contributed large sums to aid in the con
struction of new buildings. The latest
gift, the amount of which is not known,
will, it is understood, be used in adding
Teral thousand volumes to the library.
New Orleans is full ot visitors.
The decomposed remains of John Brown,
colored, son of Willis Brown, were found
a few days ago near Milan, Tenn. The
hands and feet were tied, and it was evi
dent that the poor creature had been
bound by some enemy and left to starve to
death. The boy had been missed for tome
'inie.
The remarkable temperance campaign at
Atlanta, conducted by Rev. Sam Jones,
Senator Colquitt and others, resulted in
the registration ot nine thousand voters
(or the late election. Positive prohibition is
the issue. Race linee have been obliterated
by the excitement.
INTERNAL REVENUE.
Annual Report of the Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue, With Opinions and Re-'
commendation of that Officer In Regard
to Future Legislation.
Washington, D. C, November 23.
The annual report of Joseph S. Miller,
Commissioner of Internal Revenue, for
the fiscal year ended June 30th, 1885, is
an exhaustive document of 135 pages,
pamphlet size, and contains many valua
ble suggestions respecting the Internal
revenue service. The Commissioner
shows that theie are now 7,000,000 gal
lons of distilled spirits abroad, which to
find a market will have to be rcimported.
This, with more than 10,000,000 gallons
that had, on June 30th last, been in bond
for three years or longer under the seven
months' extension, affords ample margin
for assuming that the receipts for the cur
rent fiscal year willfiggregnte at least
U5,000,OOO. The total receipts from all
sources of internal revenue taxation for
the fiscal year ended June 80, 1885,
were $112,421,121, as compared
with $121,590,039 for the year 1884;
8144,653,344 for the year 1883, and $146,
523,273 for the year 1082. The collec
tions made in the Fifth District of Illi
nois (1)13,298,087) were the greatest, and
those in the First Ohio District ($8,058,
186) were second in volume. The cost
of collection ' aagrcgated $4,445,430,
against $5,076,914 lor 1864. Six hundred
and twenty -four violations of the law were
reported during the year,
and 175 illicit distilleries were
destroyed. The Commissioner recom
mends an increase in the number of rev
enue agents, and submits estimates for
the next fiscal year aggregating 94,019,190.
Nine hundred and twenty-six dismissals
have been made in the force of storekeep
ers, gaugers, etc., during the year. The
aggregate amount of taxes collected
from tobacco during the last
fiscal year was $20,407,088. New
York did the greatest menufaclurlng
business: Pennsylvania is second on
the list. It is recommended that an
other examination be made to ascer
tain the exact amount of taxes from
States still due, and that proper action be
had to obtain a settlement of the accounts
of the direct Tax Commissioners. Con
siderablu space is devoted to the sub'
ject of taxation of fractional parts
of a gallon of distilled, spirits during the
course of which it is shown to be unite
practicable for the distiller so to fill nis
packages as to have a number ot full gal
lons and a large fraction less than one
half gallon iu nearly every Instance. Un
der existing luw a fraction ol a half gal
lon is exempt from taxation. The Com
missioner is of the opinion that the prac
tice should be checked without de
lay and that the best remedy will
l)c fonud in taxing all fractional parts oi
n gallon of distilled spirits, and for this
purpose lie recommends "that legist
tion be had, which, in lieu of the pres.
ent method of taxing and exempting
fractious, shall authorize the assessment
and collection monthly ot the
tax upon the whole number of prool
gallons, or of wine gallons when below
proof, which the fractions of gal
lons removed from each distil
lery warehouse may ' aggregate
Under the act of March 8, 1877, distillers
of brandy from grapes are afforded the.
advantages of three years' storage of theli
product in .special bonded warehouses,
The Commissioner is of the opinion that
it would be advisable to make the pro
visions of the act applicable to all dlS'
tillers of fruit brandy. The quantity of
spirits. 07,049,821 gallons withdrawn; tax
paid from distillery warehouses during
the fiscal year ended June 80, 1885,
was less than the quantity
(78,342,474 gallons) withdrawn from
distillery warehouses during the
fiscal year ended June 80, 1884, by
10,093,168 gallons. On the subject ol
withdrawals of spirits the Commissioner
says he is of the opinion that it would bo
best to allow spirits to remain in 1S'
tlllery warehouses an Indefinite time,
subject to peremptory withdrawals In
case of excessive losses, provided the
United States is reimbursed for the add!
tiouid expense incident to such storage
He adds : "As in caso of all other art!
cles subject to internal revenue tax, the
' qnauUty actuolly coiisuincrt Is the measure
of the quantity upon w hich the tux is paid
Any law, therefore, which Axes the date
of the payment of the tax at any time
other than the date of the. actual demand
for I'liitHuiniitlon, is a disturbing clement
In the business of the producer, more or
less severe, us the business of the distiller
varies more or less from the artificial
standard set up by the law."
In concluding, the Commissioner rec-
niimends that the Inspector of Tobacco
' c abolished, and that his duties be de
rived upon the collectors of districts
here inspections of tobacco, snuff, cl-
irs or cigarettes for exportation are neo
kisary
INDUSTRIAL TRAINING.
The Forthcoming Report of the Bureau ol
Education Universal Teaching of Indus
trial Drawing to lte Warmly Kecom
mended.
Washington, D. C, November 22.-
The Bureau of Education Is preparing a
report on art and industry in institu
tions of training. It Is replete with prao
tical knowledge which will form a basil
tor those studies In public schools. The
work has been in preparation since 1874,
and although some parts of it have been
published the major portion of the con.
tents Is new, and has been collected and
edited with considerable trouble and care
Much delay has been experienced in se-
' curing its publication, owing to insuffi'
cientcy of appropriations or its use in
other
branches of the interior ueparv-
uicnt, under which the Bureau Education
is placed. The fundamental idea ot th
work is that universal teaching in all public
schools of the elements of industrial draw
ing Is an essential part of any general sys
tem ol public education. The work con
tains a rpport of the system followed la
English institutions and those in othet
countries relating to technical instructiot
and the history of the progress of indus
trial and fine arts. There are several on
inal papers in the work dealing with the
advance of this science and its probable
-fleet as a text-book for school uses.
A Stubborn Krttance.
I.oxdos, November' IS. Dispatches
recived here state that the Bulgarians,
ulthoueh defeated in vesterday's battle al
Slivnitza, continued fighting until shortly
before daylight yesterday, falling back
slowly, but maintaining so strad)
and deadly . a fire upon the
advancing Servians that the lattci
were deterred from making
successful charge. After a short cessa
tion of hostilities the fiehtina was re
newed yesterday morutug, bet bu wUjji
of the battle have yet beea reccrven. Oa
of King. H'lf' aides wa woaaded.
A REMARKABLE FAMILY.
The Last Remaining Member of Whleh Is
Lying at the Point of l)eaih-.A Singu
lar Regularity In Dates of DeathMar
ried at Four-Score.
IIartford, Conn., November 23. Mrs.
Julia Smith Parker, one of the famous
Smith sisters of Alderney cow notoriety Is
on her death bed. She was brought Into
prominence eight or nine years ago, when
she and her sister Abble refused to pay
taxes in the town of Glastonbury because
they were not allowed to vote. The town
authorities seized a couple of fine Alder
ney cows and sold them at auction. The
sisters were the successful bidders and
thus paid their taxes with additional
costs. This was repeated a number of
years, until "Abble Smith's cows" became
known all over New England. A curious
fact in connection with this Smith family
is the regularity of dates of death once in
seven years and 185 Is the year to
claim this last irarvlvor, who ts now suf
fering from rbrokeii lilp, caused by a fall
a lew days ago. Seven years ago her sis
ter Abbic died, and at intervals of seven
years each of three brothers and sisters
and her mother died, while - fourteen
years elapsed between the deaths of ber
father and mother. Mrs Parker Is nearly
ninty-f our years, and up to the time of the
accident was able to visit this city
occasionally. Her husband is nearly as
old, and the antiquated couple always at
tracted attention as they drove to town In
their farm wagon. The story of their
marriage Is Interesting. Mr. Parker
ited Glastonbury soon after Abblel
and became acquainted with
ulmost Immediately propose
cepted by the lone sis
over eighty years
ceremonies were
populace of Glastoi
prise was expres'
should marry aft
fourscore years in
Mrs. Parker's
of time, as her si1
the bones or re
than make her
sible.
A TERRI
An Old and Promiii
to His Darn and M
Who Later Fires a
tract Attention From Hi
Chkstkr. Fa., Novem i
Sharpless, one ol the mo'
Orthodox Friends in Deb
was most foully murdero
about two miles from this city,
night. Ills farm is a part of the or!
tract of the pioneer, John Sharpies,
w hom he is a lineal descendant, and if
located on a ' lonely road. At 9 o'clock
a strange colored man called at his house
while it was raining. He found Mr.
Sharpless sitting with his family his
wife and two children and a nurse. He
induced Mr. Sharpless to go
to the barn with him for some
straps, under the pretext that a carriage,
in which there were three ladles, b;
broken down iu the road. When in.
stable the negro struck Mr. Sharplj
Uieoocr oi the lieau wiui -ft tia
crushing his skull and killing him in
ly. After taking his watch the negro
out the lantern and returned to the houl
for the purpose, It Is thought, of killing
all therein. In reply to a question he
suld he wanted money and advanced to-
ward one ot the women, at the sumo time
asking what had become of the young
girl, Whom he missed irom the room.
Upon learning that she had gone out, and
the colored servant being sent lor, the
villain left. He went across the
fields . in the direction of John
Lindsay's ' farm. and it was
supposed, fired tho barn to detract atten
tion, for it was burned down a short time
after the murder, with all the crops,
(arming implements and four bead oi
horses, entailing a loss of $5,000. The
body of John Sharpless was found In the
stable, where he had fallen. He was a
very plain, generous, honest man, a well-to-do
farmer, withont an enemy iu the
world, and his murder is appalling, lie
was President of the Sharpless Bi
centennial Association, and took an ac
tive part in the affairs of the community
and his religious society.
ARSON AND MURDER. .
The Serious (harges Mronjrht Again-
Henry Koliut In New York.
Nkw York, November 24. Henry
Kohut, the Bohemian, who is accused ot
setting Are to the tenement In East Sixty
lourth street yesterday morning, has been
lormally charged with arson aud murder,
the police having obtained evidence
enough to warrant such a charge. The
dead bodies of Mrs. Alary laika and her
two children have been removed to the
station-house, and the Coroner sum
moned to hold an inquest. Kobut, it is
believed, set the place on fire in order to
recover a heavy insurance that he heid on
his furniture. This was Insured for $900,
while it was worth barely 975. Anton
Scitr, a tenant in the house destroyed,
describes the nre as follows:
'I was awakened by a cry of fire soon
after one o'clock. Running out on the
Ore escape I saw that Kohut's room ad-
ioiniue mine was amaze, me oea was
empty. No one was in the room. In front
of the stove on the floor was a full quart
oil-can upset and smashed. Th' lamp
was upset lying on the table. The Are
was on the floor. I pushed open the win
dow and, running back to my room, got a
DAil of water and threw it on ine nre
fetched four pails of water fjnt the fire
out. There was a very strong amcll of
benzine in the room. When I had
put out the Are I opened
the door to 'the hallway to
get out that way. Outside the stairs and
ball were ablaw. The wslnacotting and
the floor were all la a blase. There was
no getting down that way, and I ran back
to my room in the other building by way
of the fire escape aud down to the street
crying "Fire." As I reached the side
walk I saw Kohut coming out of his own
house with his coat on his arm. The
other tenants were waking np then and
beginning to climb down the fire es
cape." . The Meeting of CoagreM.
Washington, D. C, November 24.
Two weeks from yesterday the Forty
ninta Congress will convene. Nearly all
the employes have been ordered on duty,
aad &e respective chambers have been
thoroughly c!eand and put in order.
Tie House floor has beea newly car
feted. The desks have all been re
varnished, and the gildings and brass
works repolisb1. The coat rooms hv
been painted in licrht tints aud hand
oroely carpeted with heavy raj. Th
work ot renovatinx has been general
throughout the buildup. ,
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THE WILD WAVES: WORK.
Destruction Along the Atlantic Coast, From
Maine to Georgia, By a Hevcre Storm and
One of the Highest Tides Ever Known--HiixineitH
and Travel Very Seriously Im
peded. ' - . T v. : .
Nkw York, November 25.-Contrary to
signal office predictions there was a se
vere storm all along the coast yesterday,
accompanied by one of tho highest tides
ever known. Old river men In this city
compared the tide to the disastrous rise
of the river in 1854. Great discomfort,
damage to property and delay to business
were eausedi'by the submerging of steps,
streets and piers, and the flooding of
basements and cellars. Ferry-boats
stood so high, in the slips that teams
could hardly get aboard.
Along the Jersey coast the storm was
especially severe. Sandy Hook was Inun
dated and the Government Station was in
danger of falling. The Southern New
Jersey Railroad tracks wcm submerge
Two One summer cottages at SeaK
were swept into the Atlantic. Few
ers and no sailing vessels alten,
cross Sandy Hook bar to go to f
Off Ocean Beach the ship M.
Antwerp, for New York, strain
the morning. One sailor
board and was drown
thirty-three members c
rescued by i
cargo
se'
ttilt
throughout?
and business Is much delayed.
The Signal Oltlce reports that tne
storm has been felt from Atlanta, Ga., to
Eastport, Maine.
Snow fell last night iu Ohio anci In
diana. Clearing weather is predicted for
some time to-day.
THE WAR IN THE BALKANS.
The Tide Squarely Turned and the Servians
Retreating in DUortler to Their Own Ter
ritoryMilan Went lip the Hill and Then
Went Down Again.
London, November 25. A dispatch to
the Standard from Flrot status that the
Servians are retreating in great disorder
and trying to make their way across the
frontier wherever they can. The demor
alisation of the troops is complete, dis
cipline is pnbvcrted and the control of the
officers over the men is almost lust. The
commissary and quartermaster suppjles
are not properly guarded, and there Is al
most a total lack of ambulances to carry
off the wounded. The retreat, therefore,
Involves great suffering and must result
In a terrible loss of life.
The people of Belgrade are enraged
against King Milan for his wanton sacri
fice of his soldiers' lives. The name of
his hereditary rival, Prince Fetor Kara
gcorgevitch, "is on every tongue, and a
renewal of the conspiracy which was dis
covered on the 4th Inst. Is deemed very
probable. .
Bklguadk, November 25. The latest
dispatches from the front show that the
Servians are still retreating and that the
Bulgarians are advancing toward the
frontier. The Servians' rear is contlnu-'
ally threated by Bulgarian cavalry, but
no serious encounter is yet re
ported . The Servian general head
quarters have been move
in Servla, and tn-npcnsnleB back
frontier, whar the? were advanc!u to
TiaribjtTart Sunday. A state ot stml.
parilc exists at Belgrade, and the land
sturm baa been summoned to prepare im
mediately for active service.
Lonix), November 25. King Milan
has decided to abdicate the throne of Ser
vla. The country will be temporarily oc
cupied by Austrian troops, if such a
tourse is deemed necessary to prevent
the accession of Prince Peter Karageorge
vitch. The Tlrltlith M arching en Mandator.
Losios, November 25. A Calcutta
dispatch reports the defeat ot thp Bur
mese troops by the British, who are- ad
vancing from Minhla upon Mandalay.
The road to the capital is now clear, and
;t will be but a few hours before King
rheebaw's reign is over.
A Teaactoas Grip.
Nkw York, November 25. Mr. Geo.
.Sterling, recently appointed by Gov
crnor Hill to be Port Warden in place of
Win. Leaycroft, whose term has expired,
called upon the latter yesterday and
iormaSlT demanded possession of the of
fice. Mr. Leaycroft declined to surrendei
the office until compelled to do so. saTins
Hiat be did not recognise Mr. Sterling's
.isrht to the place, and that the question
ras one of law which must be decided by
the courts. Mr. Sterling then returned
:o Brooklyn to consult counsel, while Mr.
Iycroft sought legal advice
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