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wb?m?mm?motembtt ctttt i nrvin ni: i at VILLAW5 KUliN. Why the Great Railroad Magnate Finally Succumbed. Of ?11 lilt Wealth Absolutely Xoth Ins Left?Sacrificing his own Money to Fifhl the Wall street Attack on Northern Pacific. New Yobk, Jan. 3.?The ruin of Hcnry V illard, the great roan to -whose untiring fcoergy the Northern Pacific owes whatever of success it has attained, is complete and irretrievable. His vast prepcrties, aggregating possibly ten million dollars, have been swallowed up in the insatiable maws of the ?iv.it enterprises he had under way and was supporting. In fact the case is a parallel one witn t&at 01 Jay uooKe, ms preaecessor m t is?- presidency of th8 Northern Pacific, and I-.:- prototype as a failing railroad magnate. j. i eporter visited the palatial residence at Fiftieth street and Madison avenue, until vi.hina few days ago the property of Mr. Viiiard, and in which he now occupies"a sinr glu floor through the suffranee of his credit. -:^ The reporter saw him and was deeply t-1: pressed with his wretched appearance. But ho begged to be spared an interview and referred tho scribo to a particular friend with the remark, 4;You may take what h Sf?ys as coming from me. He knows all i''-iut it, and has the sad satisfaction of havgiven md~ advise which, if followed, Jnight have rendered your visit hero today w TTVw4/v*? o tliflf: Tii.nam p. il U1 LigCJ. WAAVAVkA U> -?' ? should not appear, Air. Villard's friand said: Mr. Villard is a ruined man in bis private 1 l iuno. Ho hasn't as much money to his i:n.ue today as you have. It has all gono to Vi<j help of the great enterprises he has been at the head of. There can be no question of *ji > conscientious integrity, for he has voluntarily sacrificed his private means to support the- Northern Facific. Mr. Villard deserves 1 sympathy of the public instead of tho vilification and abuse he has received from so:ne quarters. He is a very sick man. This tliiug has preyed upon his mind so that I thought at one time that ho would never re c .vt-r his mental faculties. He has absolutely pc, Thing left His stocks, his bonds, his two residences, are all involved in the wreck. Ho has saved nothing. He never was so rich a inan as y^as reported. Ho was not worth ten in lions, as I have- ieard it said, five was j. arer the figure, but ten made a bigger r.i'-uthfuL Last Sunday Mr. Billings called to see Mr. Villard. He had quarreled with ilr. Villard, had resigned from the manage?iX-at of the Northern Pacific, and there was ? ::iq ill feeling between the two. When fce ve iled and found Mr. Villard sicfc in bed, and v. ten he iearned that he had impoverished fciuwelf in his efforts to support the company, Jtr. Billings expressed his entire belief in Mr. Villard's integrity, and ther<f was a ? one of reconciliation between the two. Why i. - sacrificed his own fortune is a long story, briefly, the burden of this great enterprise ?: -on him has been almost beyond belief, t.'pon him alone depended the carrying out < ? this gigantic undertaking, it was aDSolitoly necessary that the road should be fini i:ed beforjj'the present congress met What it? fate, at the hands of congress would have boon otherwise the bills that have already Uvii intjroduoed will show. Most railroads vuch a character from congress are permitted to issue bonds for every twenty five tjiles or so of cotnpletod road- These are i>!d to raise money with which to build, r.ut the terms of the Northern Facifie charter required it to complete a gives number \ l miles before a bond could be issued. This taade it necessary for the company to borrow rtoney, sometimes as much as $12,000,000 or \ 15,000,060, as at the time Garfield was shot ?> action coujd be had from congress. The first thing "President Arthur was called on do "was to authorize the issue of bonds for over tbrefe hundred miles of completed roads All this financieKng had to be done by Mr. Villard himself. When the "Wall stroet X -Ut J operators tuauw a, vumuiiieu itoiiiun. ua tua stcek recently, Mr. Yiilard was straining every nfav* to preserve the company's credit, imd begad to sacrifice his own money. Tc make matters worse, he waS away from the 2ity and had to do business by telegraph. A oartaig, banking firm was [in difficulty and would have failed if he had not ccmq to the rescue by raising money on bonds and property belonging to himself individually. So l?o has gone on giving of his own money until everything he ov.-as is pledged. But there is era source of strain upon him wmcfc I cava not meanoneu. iuoney * ias.been thrust into his hands to invest for other people. AH financial men know what t,hat experience is. Friends would insiston having him invest their savings. When th? stock went down such was Mr. Yillard?s sesse of honor that I have known him many and many a time to put his hands into his own pocket and purchase the stock to save them from its depreciation. I have in mind one case within my own knowledge. If I should tell you the man's name you _ would be surprised. In this esse Mr. Viilard rcluntarOv suffered a loss of ?90,000. I suppose he has lost ?1,000,000 in this way. Mr. Yillard's resignation of the. presidency i; now'in the hands of the directors, and wjll I>o accepted at Friday's-meeting, I suppose. Mr. Billings has been urged to accept the ? place, but ne does not Want it His health is nut robust. But it makes very little differonce who is president. Mr. Viilard had accomplished the great work of building the roacL Now all that remains is to operate it For that a practical railroad man is required. DOUBLE EXECUTION. WnWn rti?? Craves Haarradla Xccari ?Pitiful Scenes at the Gollozva. H8\yAHK, K J., Jan. S.?The i^u^l hour for breakfast with tho prisoners in the Essex county jail is half past nine o'clock, but tins oje^xijng it was served two Lour.- earlier, sc that the inmates of tho cells in the east hal mjgHt be removed from sight of the gailow* upon which Robert Martin aud James B. Graves were to be hanged. Martin took leavo of three of his sons?the eldest, iUired, not bein~ present?at eleven o'clock last night, after making a will, which Judge Titsworth drew up, bequeathing his property in o/vrtnl trt hie r-hilrfrpn Sheriff Wright was prepared to enact thrpenalty of the law in Martin's case at ter o'clock promptly, but he was delayed fifteen minutes waiting for the county physician Dr. Hewett. Thea the sheriff, Deputy Sher id Davis, the Rev. Dr. Goodwin, the Rev. A. I*. Wood, the two constables who served the last death watch and hangman Van His^ emerged into the flail and conducted the pris onar through the passageway to the warden't olSee and-thence to the corridor where tr : ?ATn vvoe>mn/v fVirnnr?T> {] c *V*<Lfvno noo -w-i pooMQ v? ? v-iBce, white Dr. Goodwin was reading t].* Episcopal service for the dying, Martin rfisad his eyes and glanced at the crowd of person* present; The condemned walked with a lowered head and firm step under the scaffold and in three minutes after leaving his room the drop fell which s?nt him into, eternity. ^he drop fell at tfrenty seven minutes after vCU. 4UB SWUO V?iH> pOiULUi U1 buo His arms were not properly pinioned, and his left band was lifted to his coat lapel, trying to reach the rope. Had the effort succeeded tlic scene must have been terrible. Xho knot of' the rope slipped around to the throat. Martin was evidently in the greatest agony for fully three minutes. He was suspended fifteen minutes per the surgeon's report, to which was added the report of death by asphyxiation, compression of the blood vessels of the neck and'of the trachsp. At three minutes after eleven o'clcsik Graves was brought from his room down tis> eastern stairs that lead to the warden's office Whud descending- the stairs his cries, z?oass and whining could be heard throughout the building. Constables Benedict and La::g were on either side of him. At the foot ot tho stairs he Became so hmp that his km es reached the floor. The officers held him IAr the arms and prevented Mm mom ianiL? prostrate. While waiting for the opting ci' the door leading to the corridor in whiciT the gallows stood the condemned increased, his piteous cries and a shudder of horror ran the crowd. It was one of the most terrible sights, Cornett's execution excepted, ever witnessed on such an occasion. As the iron door leading to the ccrridor opened, the officers dragged the half lifeless form of Graves beneath the gallows, and held him while the rfamps were_atta.ched to the noose about his BflgL ?eck He was hanged at four minutes pes: Aieye^i o'clock. He whined and cried until 1^ "the drop folL I * ?F. B. Kurbert, a white tramp, and Frank Williams, colored, have been S/-vr?ori>ri >n iftil for the recent burglaries ^ in Charlotte. % ||Cj" mm. ' ?r r CONDENSED NEW-> Monday, SeccmT>cr Si. Bamutc, after buying a wiiit.ggi Eja.de his will and wTanged to croc:: lltide. The flooded waters of the '.vc-tern rivers 31FU nave cjiuseu. suwj upjj.cuo-iij- **w ? jeding rapid]}-. The committee of the Barthold; l<xm exhibition are threatened with arrest fcr rioiating the Sabbath. Police Cant. French, of Brooklyn, says he aas a clew to the victim of Xoof. the confessed Jersey murderer. All the cclleries of the Reading company :>n the Lehigh and Susquehanna division have resumed work on lull time. The celebrated ejectment case of Eh'sha H. Packer, cf New York, against I. F. Clement. Df Sunbury, Co::n., hus beau concluded. - > f>-.? ..j,... iilOiOUJ ursvrn i uyt-u.- icuum UIUIUU ill- | restitution has boon concluded with the old verdict: killed by some one uiilmov.-a." Tuesday, January I. The clipper s!:h; Young America has bc-en sold !cr ?15,00U. James JBudd, who " as shot by Daniel P. Reynolds, at Boston, is ropertc-'K to be in a Jyii:? condition. Adam AppIcy,";who was assaulted hi Biooni' * ' T!-"" i-, n ,.aw nrft. JLU.j U-i. Oiit/Ui uaj, iii e~ ?v4|; carious condition. Lambert & Gray, bankers at Alliance, 0.. have failed. The failure is denounced as a fraud and a sham?. A fire in Joliet, 111., destroyed Lambert and Bishop's v/ire worJis. Losses, ?250.000; insurance, ?155,000. Air. George "William Lane, president of tko Nov.- York chamber of commerce, died suddenly on Sunday r.ioruiug. Sergeant Slason has signed a contract with a Philadelphia amusement man to cxi bibit himself tor ?200-a v.-eel:. Wednesday, Jaanary 2 Winfield Heislcr, of "Wilmington, a coppersmith, had his skull fractured by the (vmlosinn cf a Conner kettle. The autopsy of tho brain of Conway Brown, ; the Harvard student who shot himself, r> | veals the fact that that organ was diseased. A ton ger cent, reduction in tho wages of ' the miners of the Clearfield region has gone i into pfTec_*i. Xo strike is looked for. Edward Keyes, who died in Unity, N. H., ! a few days ago, left; the district schools of i that town 512,000, and $-15 to an only daughter. The revenue cutter Samuel Debtor reports falling in with the brig 0. B. Stillman on i Long Island sound with her crew badly frost j bitten and unable to work. The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and i | Iron company bas purchased the Monitor ! j colliery? Locust Gap, which gives em- j ! ployment to 500 men and boys. j The trial of Lawrence Slay and George | Layton, who are jointly indicted for the ! murder of August Delta, a blacksmith, in j Rahway, on the ni^ht of Aug. 11, is begun : in Elizabeth. r Tliarsday, January 3. The Lsague Island Navy yard has been i I uv^u. Supt-. Brockway, of the Elrnira ReformaI tory, believes in contract prison labor. The death is announced of Mr. Joseph ! Murpby. the well known theatrical manager. EiiiS2or.o, 111., Jan. 3.?All the defen- , ; dants in the Emma Bond case have boon ae! quitted. Connecticut tobacco growers arc preparing < to move on Washington to see the secretary ' of the treasury. i fJofvriTA nrf c,!d armv oSieer and j well known Indian fighter, is in the Bloomi ingdale Insane asylum. 1 The New York and New England railroad has fallen behind by a million dollars and is in the hands of a receiver. Harbor Grace is still bisected by a rigid i line of factional demarcation. A special i commission will try the prisoners. By the' giving way of a dam at ono of the northern Penninsula of the ilichigan Copper mines, near Houghton, sis lives have beer, lost +! >/% fl^*aT?nc? \rlin rnhSo/l Mv ! Church on New Year's eve, at a New York ! elevated depot has been found by the dik! cotery of the fast horso they drove. Friday, January 4. A miner's convention -will be held at Co! Iambus, O., on Jan. 23. Tlio United Press has been incorporated | under the laws of the state of New York. Another case of body snatching is reported ! from Chicago, and the ghouls ara in custody. The acquitted defendants in the Emma ! Bond caso have scattered to the south and | west Tko trouble between the Orangemen and { Catholics at Harbor Gracc aro not entirely allayed. Ex-Gov. Butler, of Massachusetts, has presented his succcssor with tho biblo he used during his term. On January 12th Cardinal McCloskey wCl have been fifty years a priest. The event is to bo elaborately celebrated. Sullivan and JSlatie are making lor tnemselves a very unenviable reputation by frequent brawls in Denver groceries. ilarquis do Ray?, the originator of the Fort Breton swir.d!o in "Prance, has been sentenced to four years in prison. Martin and Graves, the New Jersey murdeiers, were hanged i:i the Newark jail. A medical autopsy pronounced Graves to bo insane. The list of victims to the shocking railroad accident near Toronto is receiving daily additions. Tho Grand Trunk company will have to pay heavy damages. Satziraay, J~aa.xiv.ty a. Gen. Grant was reported as greatly mi proved. He sits up in a:i easy chair. Gov. Ordway, of Dakota Territory, does 1.0S expect its admission as a state this session. Judge William G. Barrows, of tho Maine supreme court, whoso term scon expires, is said to have declined reappointment. State Comptroller Charm, Now York, will n:a!:e no fl;a::;-e. i > it'-. Oopart mcni except M'.ivU,!. civil tu-vlc-roi.-.i. JutUiw SauA r.i, i:s .-a: court in Kew Haven. xmivne.-.l T-::.n:.? K:-::nedy to ray line of Slaad to tw - :?o:i6hv nnprisoci: :-..r manstaught: T .v.- IiSjh wind at Acr/pcr; n : *i nr.rsaay :ijht Mow over a crag contai:i:n? twenty ov iiiiriy men, and -> < v?rr! v.- r^ ! -jured. Boats v. ero blown adrift in ti.o h-.r.*b j:\ A collision occurred oa Tiuuviday evening on tlio Canadian Pacific raii..av. Ya-iwki-, Montreal and OLt-r-va. :>y which ni::s i^asse":gers :.ud three ofiiciah: were injured At a meeting held in San Fnmcisco on i Thursday evening to make arrangementi for holding a world's fair ia that city hi 1SS7, at which Gov. Stonemaa presided, is was resolved to provide a guarantee finid oi' u raillion d.!!a,:s. Fuji telegraphic returns to IL C. Dan 62 I Co.. of the mercantile agency, show that the business failures of the i:\si soven days number for ihe United States o!3 and for Can ada ?9. Mrs Mary Carver, in whoso house a Lakeviiit?, Mass., Patrick Cartlin-w&s found: .'soad Monday ls-st, while bejug taken to jii J confessed that Staples foiled Cartlin with a ?Iuu~si;ot and he died wit bin tkrsc hours. Intensely Cold. C'mc&PO, Jan. 5.?Tho cold is increasing i )n intensity. At 10 o'ciock Friday night in .his city it was 20 deg. below zero. At Min- . ncapolis it was CO deg. below; Des Moines, 27 d?g. and at Montreal 43 dog. below. AH ' Vij i4Vi vii Ui I iOiVi? V/A. WUU ViilWU" I i i:ati, Wabash and Michigan railroad is sus- I pendod, the track being three to six feet in i : 5U07T. AH the "Western. Union messengers in i ! this city, except half a dozen, have quit work | j on account of the es-Id. Reports from Wis- j I ;onsin and Iov/a report tho thermometer at j io deg. to 30 deg. and a general snspension ; of railroad traffic. The telegraph business ; to the Horthvrest is almost entirly suspended. Theodore Thomas and his orchestra arrived safely in this city and gava in Central Music : n&u a recoision 01 vrau>nu - ins i ! Creation" before an immense audience. I I Veterans Clustered Out. 2\EW Yoax, Jan. 5.?Andrew Walter Peek is dead. He was born at TValkill, Orange ; county, September 2, 1790, and came to New j York in ISOft, He served through the war j . i nf 1812. and was honorably, discharged from ! die army at the close of the "war with the | rank of sergeant. After three days' illness, John Mowriss, a veteran of the war of 1S12, passed away at the residence of his sou, No. 2.202 First avenue. John Jlowriss was born September I 11, IT&i, at-SIarblefcead, Ulster. ????i?t-I '"^TV7,s.vyvT*-.'Tr,r7rwy?aficaaea3 mmmnis. ffUfe Siecent Attempt on tne mia* peror's Life. STIie Frcnc lx arid the Khcdlrc KJjartoum Endangered?Butferin in Demand?Lieutenant Dc Long's Ecmains. Loxdos, Jan. 5.? Reports from Vienna ihro^" a very different Ifoht o:j the character of the czar's recont injuries from any accounts which nave been previously received. According to the last aA vices a del;'} -rate and nearly burcojiful attempt was made ok Alexander's life and the facto have been carefully hidden from the public, they hav< probably been mado known to the European governments. The statements, which ar?i very circumstantial, arc to" the effect thai the czar went sleighing on the afternoon of December IT, the dates of the reported ac'"?? (-/-fMiin-mi/i 1 hv ij'5 111 1 suite also iu sluigks. As they roturne.l about dusk, or in the neighborhood of 3 o'clock, a group of peasants was passed, standing upon the sidewalk, and 210; differing from many other groups that tV^re passed. Some members of the party <.? peasants fired threw shuts at the emperor, one of the baiia striking him in tho shoulder and iulifoting a paioful wound. The czar's horse took fright and ran away, galloping oil at a terrific pace, overturning me siei^n anti ini owiu^ him out. The miscreants were pursued by the poiico and guards, but all succeeded in escaping temporarily, thero being no direct avkio::co against sujh cf the peasants ai were Tirrestcd or. suspicion. The people.cf Gatc!i:?i.?i, from whomthess statoa'iouu come, ridi/al* too idea that any such accMcnt occurred as was telegraphed all ovoi- Uio world. UCxOzig7* isociy} ?Sr. PET?XSBVi:G, Ja:.\ 0.?The bodies of Dclong and his companions of tho Jeannette passed through Tojnsk Friday. Wreaths were laid aov/n along tho path of the procession through the city. The funeral cortege was met by a military band and escorted through the streets. A printed account of the loss of the Jeannotte was distributed among the. public. A violent snow storm prevailed during the funeral procession. Tiic ^lalidis Advance. T Trt . ? ?! T'\r* rrovn'cn^c- Tr.*>wV]l TTJ + %} V UU. 'J. xuu KM4V** ?? llahdis' brother lof': r.t Duem and Kaorie, have arrived in front of Khartoum, and have made the preliminary arrangements for an attack. Khartoum will bo strongly defended. A New Calricdral. London, Jan. 5.?Is is announce! that the work of constructing tho proposed new Roman Catholic cathedral in Westminste? (Victoria street) will be Ucgua at once, xue building is to cost something over ?500,000. Francc Will Help <Itc Klicdlvc."^ Caiho, Jarr. 5.?Camilla Barrere, French consul general, has assured the Khedive that France is vrillir.g to act against El IvTahdi if England decides not to do so. DnfFcrliig in Demand. London, Jan. 5.?It is reported that Lord Duflerin will be sent to Egypt, to remain so long as the existing difficulties continue. Serious Illness of Prcsiacnl Artlinr, Washington, Jars. 4.?Ever since the reception at the White house 011 Tuesday there has been considerable gossip on the condition of tho president Friends who had not seen him for some time were very much surprised at his changed appearance. A prominent physician who attended the reception says: "Mr. Arthur is far from well. I looked at him carefully when I shook hands with him, as I ha? heard reports as to his poo: health. His color if bad. There is an unnatural Gush about his cheeks. He locked for all the world to me like a person suffering from heart disease. It wordd not surprise mo greatly if w/-* rvnfc Vdc rnrm fir ftrrrn hf'TTfmf' the present year. I know nothing of ths preside t's habits, but he should be very careful. I thi:;k that ho overdid the thing in his trip up the Yellowstone hist summer. It was too lone; and too hard a trip for a person so heavy as tho president is 10 take at o::ce. He might have educated himself up to it by degrees. Why, when he returned to tho White House he was completely fagged out and nearly prostrated. He ought to have been just the reverse." 11315 pil3'Slcia:is statements are curruuorated by others who saw the president. One doctor had the temerity to go to Senator Edmunds and advise him to bold on to Lis position as president pro tern, of the senate, as lie might ba called upon to act as president before His end of the year. There is no doubt that scm: apprehension is felt by the president's friends. The universal comment of the president's callers is: "Hotv badly Gen. Arthur looked." That so .many should notice it indicates that some change must have taken place in the president's appearance of an unfavorable nature. "nil Voilnnnl Nev,1- York. Doc. 31.?Hon. 0. B. Potter, a member of the committee of the house of representatives that twenty years ago originated the national banking system, has a lengthy letter in The Star on the subject, in which ho says: "ily opinion of its value and ncccssity to the county has undergone no change, and I venture the prediction th.-.i the system is in no danger from a democratic ' congress. It certainly -rcas not republican in any party sense in its origin, unci VY&S iiUii CJUttUiAJU. iMi u. iicvcx ouitainsd as a party measure. X am glad to bo in a positi&n to do what I can to defend and continue its usefulness until something which can be shown to be equally efficient lor good can be substituted for it, and to express the belief that it will not be overthrown nor endangered unless a majority of congress shall, upon full discussion, bo brought to the conclusion that it caij be no longer useful to. the country or can be shown something better. Grant and Artliur. "NJttw Votlk. Jan. 4.?Gen. Grant is still confined to his room and suffers from tba sprain ho received by a fall on Christmas 3ve. All attempts to converse with hiia have been fruitless, but a reporter met on,i of his sons and from him received a Sat denial of the published story that the general had declared open war against the re-nonvnation of Presideui Arthur in favor of Senator Logan. i: vV'iienever my father goes to Washington,".^;] young Grant, "he calls on the president,'and tlieir relations aro very irienaiy. 1 am sura ho never said any such thing as the "Wash ington dispatch asserts. If ho lias made any such utterances about the presidential ncminution as are credited to him in the dispatches recently published, no membor oS the family has heard of it." News.Frosa hloct. STarber. TVashi:cg1'OM, Jan. S.-r-Secrctary Chandler is informed by Minister Hunt that Lieut Harbor arrived at Tomsk, Siberia, December ol, "WVCH UiO rciLUiUib \JL ijj. Tba bodies Vill probably roac> . Orenburg cs January 1&. an insane ncacaciS wau ?? Nashville, . Tenu., Dec. .31.?A terrible" eflair is reported from Dover, Term.. It appears that the ttffo of cno Joseph Cook, a ^>rcacher, gave birth to a child, and Mrs. Glasgow, a woman of the neighborhood, widely known for her charity, prepared a basket of dainties and carried it to tho sick family. Cook, who was sick in bed, said that the food was poisoned, and becoming enraged jumped from his bed, seized his gnn and discharged its contents into the stomach of his benefactress, killing her instantly. He then dressed and fled. A sheriffs posse went in pursuit and caught him some miles distant, where ho had gone to tho house of Richard AIuII' "s and demanded a gun of Mrs. Mu!lons, who was alono. She refused, and as he became violent she seized the gun and kept bim'dt bay. He ran upstairs, and she was standing guard whea' the' sheriff came up. Cook was captured and carried safdy to jail. But for a belief that he is insane he would have been lynched. Cock has been in Dover but? a few months. Mrs. Glasgow belonged to a prominent family and was generally ?Sergeant Ba'wcs announce] the other da\ that he would speak in the United States courtroom in Atlanta. The custodian of the building would not allow him to speak, saying that he was "not going to have any monkey business around that house." a \ CYNTHIA'S SLEIGH RIDE. Farmer Nelson's Daughter Flies with a Farm JIaad. IjQVZLL, .lass.. J a::. 5.?A short distancj cut of North Chelmsford, uoar here, lives farmer NeLon, a man possessed of considerable property and a daughter of more than usual comeliiiejs. Las: suiainsr a handsome young Pole named Tilcski came to v.-ork on Nelson's iurm, and b-tv.een him and Miss Cynthia Nelson ar. intimacy sprang up which soon ripened into love. But tha course of true love, as usual, ran anything bu: smooth. Farmer Nei.;o:j had destined hi* daughter for one Miles J\>!ns n, a young farmer uear bv, and Johnson was as far r\T7c.~ nis rtoi-ff in l<wr? ivirl, thr. I.nvom Vvnnntrv u,v' A" ~ ~ J I as the Pole himself. It was not long before both Johnson a; id the fanuor v. ere made aware of this. The giri showed in everyway her aversion for Johnson and her preference for Tileski. At ZJr. Nelson ordered Tileski off the fan a. Tileski hovered ?.-ouad Chelmsford, and through notes dropye I from Juliet's window at midnight he was kept informed of bow mnttnrs <st.rMvl. in.! hi-; f. r!brain soon eon- I ceived a j.Ian by wiiic": to win his fairdulcinea. Friday night about 0 o'clock Hiss Nelson i wa? suddenly taken sick. Mr. Nelson drove to the village for a doctor. No sooner had he got well array than Miss Nalson recovered, and -with her satchel in liaud left tho house and flew up the road luadiagj from the village. Here she found iier suitor waiting with a flout horse auu sleigh. They immedifttf-lv act nn foaLowiil- where thev intended getting the nuptial knot tied. They v.'ere compelled io pass through Chelmsford, and had nearly reached the village when a pin gave way in tho sleigh and they -were unable to proceed. A moment later the young*man looked up to ilnd ilr. Nelson upon him. The deluded father at once saw tho trap into which bo had fallen, and sprang upon Tiicski with murder in his eye. The young Pole was too much for him, however, and L*i a trice had the fanner down and bound with the reins taken from Tileski's horse. After comfortabip wrapping up the old gentleman in buffalo robes the unfilial daughter and her adorer coolly took possession of Nelson's sleigh and continued their journey. At Chelmsford Tileski ran across Johnson, and told him that his hoped for father in lav,- was waiting to see him on urgent business a half mile kown the road. Then the truants drove chuckling away and went straight to Lowell, where a good naturcd parson was routed up and the knot tied upon the spot. Papa Nelson was released too late for the' wedding' Tilcski told his story with a good deal of self satisfaction, and said he supposed it would be war to the knife now with Nelson, but that he had won his bride as fairly as the old man would let-h'm, and he proposed to keep her. Mrs. Tilcski blushingly corroborated hor husband's story, and seexned perfectly contented with the stop .she had taken. PENNSYLVANIA REPUBLICANS. Tlie Election of ^Delegates to tho National Convention. Philadelphia, Jan. 2.?Whilo there are yet few signs of presidential activity among the republicans of Pennsylvania to form any distinct conclusions as to the coiu-so which their delegates will take at Chicago in June, the matter is beginning to be discussed, and esp jciallv with reference to the party's formal procedure under the new national rules and under those also agreed to at Hasrisbnrg last July. The two sets do not conflict, but they considerably curtailas was the intention?the rangb of discretionary power heretofore possessed by th* state committee. Practically it amounted to this, that the earliest date at which the ?ate convention can bo held this year in order to choose delegates to Chicago will bo the 4th of April, that being "not more than sixty days baore tlio national convention." But as by the state rales sixty days' notice of the state convention must ba given in order to have time for choosing delegates to it, it will require that the state committee should meet early in February, or it would not have the opportunity of calling the state convention, if it desired to do so, at the earliest date. Mr. Coopor, the chiiirman of the committee, will therefore convene it some time in Februaiy, and near the beginning of the month, and it may be expected that the state convention will ce called for the latter part of April or the beginning of May. Golu Hunting Extraordinary* St. Louis. Jan. 4.?The Chronicle this afternoon says a syndicate of wealthy St. Louis men are interested in a scheme to acvioli o-nl/1 tvaf-.TrpAn latitudes 27 and 29 donees in tho Mexican peninsula. In 1870 there was a population of 1,000 in the area named, but nothing was heard from them for years. Early in 1SS3 the Mexican government sent an expedition under Senor Blanca to explore the country and report. They traveled from San Diego and the Pacific coast of the Gulf of California, and returned in four months almost skeletons. For 2w miles they saw no living thing except an old Indian and his squaw. Tho pack animals dieciof hunger and thirst. At two places they passed deserted mission churches built of stone. In these were gold and silver vessels on tho altars, and in the vestries hung priestly vestments covered with dust and dropping to pieces with age. Dried and bleeched bones were found, but not a bird, animal or reptue; not a drop of water and no indication of rain for years. A few days later they found rioh deposits of gold ore, both place and ledge, of which they brought back specimens. These specimens arc in the hands of the agent of the St. Louis syndicate and have beon assayed by government experts. The placer pccimens show $240 to the pound and th6 iedgo specimens show from ?00,000 to $200,000 to the ton. To rcaeh these deposits pipe lines and artesian wells will be tried and eachcs constructed for food. The country is the abodo of desolation, and many lives .-it ? - r ..e?~ it, U. Will DG sacrmceu tK'iuiu iu i^uu uo uauitable for the gold hunters. Two Important .Pleasures, Washington*, Jan, 3.?Holidays and the phenomenally bad weather have caused a lulx in politics. Beyond the talk about the Pacific land grants!, which will bring the biggest railroad lobby ever in "Washington here, and the prospect of a final fight over . the Fitz Joh:i Porter cr??, thero has been a dead c-l:n in politics all week. It is said tuat lbi? is Porter's last effort, that he has spent ali his money and worn himself out in the' straps, and that if the Forty eighth congivss does not give him what he wants, ho wiil sivc uy the fight. Hi3 prospect-. however, are certainly good, and Senator Logan wiil hardly get the attention of tLe senate for another week's s;>eech prx :!: > subject, as he did last year. The house -. . miiUfed o? military affairs agreed to re port last year's bill for his relief with but ;wo dissenting votes, and there are hopes of reporting the bill'unanimously. The postmaster se:icr;;l is trying to .execute a flank movyiijent <?n tho Louisiana lofcyjry. lie wants a bill fmincd prohibiting ?apers from publishing lottery advertisements. -ho postr.ut-:<!! general is thought \o undertake too njue'-i "-. hen he attempts to :omo between RC?vpaj:cvs; and thciivpntr.-jsas Tii.&cn's Giiost is; Indiana, Loiaxapolis, Jau. 4.?At the annual ; iacctiug of the democratic editors of Indiana I mi hiterostmz incident was tho introduction j and subsequent withdrawal of a resolution ! Indorsing Joseph E. McDonald as the choice j of the state democracy for president. Al; though it is believed that throe fourths of S those present were McDonald men, and j several speakers conceded that McDonald was the choice of the part^, the adherents of ! tho old Tilden-Hendricks' ticket was strong i enough to scare McDonald's . friepds into a I withdrawal of the resolution. This is con' sidered a serious , blow afc fcha ez-sehator's aspirations. Japan's Athlete. Arrive^ ISfEW Tohe, Jan. 5.?iCatsada iiorakjahi, the Japanese wonder, who is matched to i wrestle Edwin Bibby for S5CC a side, of whiph $100 a side has. already been ppatwi ! up, 'artirod on the steamer Guadxdupe fr<?m i GteivOTton, Texas. He>4s" of. a genuine HonI goliao.-Qrpe.. libber, darker than us mtmity* | tqen, but' is" withont'.the usual and distinctive that ra^ the pigteiL Ho teffc hft nntfvs land' two months ago* ?Thomas Faiana was mistaken for a I burglar by his nephew, i>. uonova, in I Jacksonville on Wednesday night, and | was shot ami painfully wounded. * * I "THE GABBir FEAR." t* ? V Bad for Legislation, Says Sunset Cox. Some Sensible Sayings of tlic Ca attic | Congressman?The Captain Gene> ral of the Outgo?The Alleged Navy?The Tariff. New York, Jan. 5.?An American Press reporter met Hon. S. S. Cox just as he was leaving for "Washington. He has been enjoying the holidays, regardless of the political quidnuncs who have pretendofl to report his disgruntlement, etc., because of his assignment to a committee less in dignity than he had a right to expect. On being asked as to what his committee would do for the navy, he responded that he never had made the navy a study, and knew little of its needs. He had made shipbuilding? the mercantile marine and commerce and their rival?a special study since 1868, when first elected ffom New York. He gave to the special committee upon which ho served ! loe+ nniytVnmn nil Vtic '\V>H flfc Otlfl timo during the progress of the bill last congress ho earned bis two propositions for free ships and free materials. But the next day tho protectionists rallied and killed the amendments. New York cannot get free materials or free registration,, except by ibe consent of protection. Already Geu. Sloeum, the head of the new committee, finds no obstacle as to certain minor propositions, but in impediment in a Louisinana sugar member, who has tho balance of power on bis committee, as to the main points. Sugar is next to bread for sustenance, and we pay bounty on bounty to this interest as-we do to Pennsylvania 011 iron. These states came up together smiling to smite our interests. They will do it again in this democratic congress. You can board all the sugar makers at public expense at the Windsor and save uionoy?if they let us buy our sugar in Cuba and have free sb^pe." "What has this to do with a navy?" "Much eveiy way?chiefly in this: that if :horo be no commerce, so enterprise, no carrying trade, what use of a flap on tho sea or a navy of much size or moment? You want a constable where thero is a town' of Lxsople. You don't want a police in a vacant prairie. I am not committed to anyone's schemes. I am not partial to John Roach's ideas, and although he ran his foreman for* nenst me in my last race, I have no prejudice, except what arises from reading of his transactions. I e-o to the matter vew much disposed to help all. I can in proper and honest directions. But after all, the, Appropriation of moneys for all objects? laval and otherwise?does not depend >11 tho committee of naval affairs. It .Icpcnds on tho appropriation committee. I see that Mr. Randall is on the sub-committee an that head, and is said to be already anticipating any possible aotion of the fiaval committee favorable to any sums to make a navy. Mr. Carlisle has made Mr. Randall captain general of the 'outgo.' I prophesy :uore content with the action of the house fVi/* AufrrA r\ mAr>Afc f.hfln f;VtA arcancA-i ihent of tho 'incomo.' The tariff and internal revenue once started will not be controlled by the calm 'business-like' iqen, so sailed. Let the imp out of thQ bottle, you Kin't rebottle it. There are men in that iiouse?and I am one?who fought these inordinate tariff rascalities and exactions twenty years before the speaker was known in federal politics. I despair of much genuino reform. Thero is so much cautionayy, calm conservatism. Perhaps all we can exj?ct is a horizontal scaling; that will save 'disastrous debate,'you know; debate is so much to be feared-by good people, and especially by the monopolies of the exclusive schooL "But a truce to policies of that naturo. We will have no chance to do much of apy thing. It i3 the presidential y&ar and that is not a good time for work. It's tho gabby year. Besides, we will have 8,000 bills. Tba trees will be fiill of blossoms, but as to fruit?1 Well, it is the order of nature. Duly let us get the best out of tho best blosoucs and the fittest survived "What do you think of Democrats proapoets with a southern speaker?" "That is too .previous a question. Ttjo prospect- is of a campaign all gory with aiiirte and outrages, I would: oxamind all allegations and rnjht all wrongs from every quarter, where it is a federal matter, Danville and all. and take away all reproach from s>ur party. But that will be seen." Sir. Conkling Excited. In'kw York, Jan. 5.?When the Marie< 'rarison suit was continued yesterday betore the referee, Prof. Theodore W. Dwight, nrarly every question was objectod to, admiited and an exception taken. After a :ime Mr. Conkling, who had taken no part in tue questioning and had been engaged in reading his mail, finally broke out with the following assertion: "As I held my peace until this moment, I he pe I will bo permitted to say one word, aud that is that this case is the greatest satire upon a trial by law that I ha^p ever seen, or that has ever tafceii place uncior God. It has cone on at a snail's pace, and there has been nothing but iteration and reiteration on the other side. Notwithstanding all the persons engaged, their time has been taken up by fighting over little things which have not the slightest relevancy to the case, and seemingly only made for tha purpose of retarding the progress of the ascertainment of the facts at issue.* EX-GOV. BUTLER. A Characteristic Act of the Bstirluc Uxecutlvc. Boston, Mafia, Jau. 3.?At noon Gov. Benjamin F. Sutler left the state house and became er-goveruor. At the same boor excongi'esstnqp and gov.-elect George P. Robinson attorned thfc full powers of the chief executive, aud before the two bodies> composing the state lawmakers, delivered his inaugural address. The last hours of Gov. Butler's administration wore marked hp ooa of his characteristic acts. Not until y?cte? day did the gov.-elect, Mr. Robinson, send his resignation as member of congre&'&osi the twelfth congressional 'district to Gov. Butler. The document opened by anaouao ! ing the election of the resigner as governor as a cause for his act. To this Gov. BUtki replied, accepting toe raagouuoo, uuuuig that "the reason prompting the same being so entirely satisfactory to a majority of thepeople of the state." The satire of the letter has raised a general laugh. He also or$ejrod a special election to fllTtbe vacancy oh the 17th: inst Congressman Wise * oa Prospect* Political* New ?oek, Jan. 4,?Congressman John 8. Wise, of Virginia, a frienl and co-worker of Senator Mahono, the readjuster leader, whils at the Huffman house, was soen by a reportex of the American Press Association, and is reply to a question as to what he thought of Mr. Carlisle's committees, said: "Ther simply demonstrate that the linei hare been drawn between the two parties, and that the fight this fall will be betwcei the nigger killers ana free traders, as repre scnted by the democratic party on the on? hand, and the republicans or protectionists on the other. Of course 1 did not .expect te receive any favors from Mr. Carlisle and 1 was not disappointed." "How does your party regard President Arthur's chances for a second termf "President Arthur is generally admired by thcpcople of Virginia, and I have not the least doubt tfcat ho will the choice ot Virginia in the national convention. He has r*r.nn mnr>h f.tr n?i?- rwirlo nnr? thav h/vco good cause to jespeet and admire hinx" A IA(H? V^f tOT a Little Boy. Not ^-^b^?a&ni>d7, The condition of the Czar of Russia, who was recently injured hv being thrmvn from his slodire, is satisfactory, luif In; is st.il!.nnablc to move the in j 11 l*C'1 Ailrt, ?Monaco li;i~ lmd another startling suicide; tliis time of a very wealthy Kn?>*i:iii, whose losses had been overwhelniiiur. ?If the London Times ie good authority, the amouut of poverty among the clergy of the Chnrch of England, is, "simply "appalling." ' * - /I * I ? , -rv THE WORK OF THE SESSION. acts pas8k1* by the g?x?bal assembly of theisTate. The followiujf is the text of the Act to remove all doubt as to the time of holding general elections in this State; Sir mm 1. Thnf tln? veneral election for Federal, State and county officers in this State shall be held on the first Tuesday following- the first Monday in November in every second year, reckoning from the year 1870, and at such polling precincts as have been or may be established by law, and shall be conducted in the same manner as is now provided in the General Statutes and Acts of Assembly of this State. arson and burglary. An Act (o amend Sections 2,480 and 2,481 of the General Statutes of South Carolina relating to the punishment of the crimes of arson and burglary: Section 1. That Section 2,480 be amended by striking out the word? "during the' whole lifetime of the prisrmpi*" in thp ni-nviin nnd insfirtinu" ill lieu thereof the following: "For a term of not less than ten years," so that the proviso shall read: "Provided, however, that in each case, when the prisoner is found guilty, the jury may find a special verdict recommending him to the mercy of tho court, whereupon the punishment shall be reduced to imprisonment in the penitentiary with hard lahor for a term of not less than ten veatv." That Section 2,481 be amended by adding thereto the following proviso: "Provided, however, that iu each ca*e, when the prisoner is found guilty, the jury uuiy find a special verdict recommcndin<r huu to the mercy of the court, whereupon the punishment shall be reduced to imprisonment In the penitentiary, with hard labor, for a term of not less than five years," so that the section will read: ''Any person who.shall commit the crime of burglary at com moii luw shall, upon conviction, be imprisoned in the State penitentiary, with hard labor, during the whole lifetime of the prisoner; provided, however, that in each case, where the prisoner is found guilty, the jury may find uspecwii vuruiui reuuiuuieuuiiig nun the merer of the court, whereupon the punuliment shall be reduced to imprisment in the penitentiary, ut hard labor, for a term of not Less than five years." prohibiting sale of uksouxd meats. An Act to prohibit the sale of unsound meats: Section 1. That any person who shall knowingly sell or"expose for sale the flesh of any animal which was diseased or serionsly injured at the time of slaughtering-", or which died a natural death, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be fiued not less than five dollars nor more than one hnudred dollars or hdnwcmip/l nnt Ipsa liian ten nor more tlian thirty days: Provided, that this act shall not apply to the sale of any animal which is accidentally killed, when the panic is immediately prepared for market, and the killer informs the bnyerof the time, place and nature of the death of such animal. delinquent taxes on rkal estate. An Act to amend the law in regard to the collection, of delinquent taxes on real estate: Section 1. That all sections or parts of sections of the General Statutes of South Carolina, and Acts or parts of 1 . :i..l li i: ' il. * Acts enacted store uiai nine, u tuuu provide for the lousing or lolling of real property returned delinquent by the treasurer be and the same are repealed; and tint <lcli.iKjuciit real estate shall bo offered Tor sale as heretofore provided by law, at such, times and upon such terms and condition's as are provided in relation to such sales, in an Act to raise supplies for the fiscal Skc. 2. That this Act shall lake effect l*i*oin the date of its approval. local option. " An Act to amend Section 1,746 of the General Statutes relating to elections for the granting of license for sale of intoxicating liquors-: Suction 1. That Section 1,746 of the General Statutes he and the same is hereby amended Ly striking out the words "for the ensuing year" at the end of the said section and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "For two I i>/. "A lMIAOAO/KIW^ MI/IU Alartf'/Mi jrraiia UC\t duv/ucv;iuu^ oui/ii so that said section shall read: "Whenever a number of tlie citizens of any incorporated city, town or village in this State, equal to one-third of the number of votes cast in the next preceding municipal election therein, shall, in writing, on or before the fifteenth day of November in any year, naKtinn for an election uuon the aues tion of'license' or 'no liccnsc' for the sale of intoxicating liquors therein, the council of such city, towu or village is hereby authorized and required to submit such question to the qualified electors of such city, to?vn or village, at a special election to be held therein on or about the 1st day of December following; and if a majority of said electors vote iu favor of 'license,' then the council of such city, town or village shall grwit license according to the laws now of force in the State for the sale of liquors in such city, town or.village for two years next succeeding such election; but if a majority of said electors vote in favor of 'no license'then it sliall be uulawful for the council of such city, U\vn or village so voting to cri~>nt ftliv lii-PtliU* for tht? Rttlp fit" 3111V spirituous or intoxicating- liquors, bitters or fruits prepared with' such liquors, for two years next succeeding such election." INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS. An Act to ameu4 Section 1,696 of the General Statutes of South Csiro Una, in relation to insectivorous birds: Section* 1. That Section 1,696 of the General Statutes of South Carolina be, and the same is hereby, amended * * * so that the paid section, as amended, shall read jx? follows: *'Seel Ion 1,696. No person or persons shall at anv time or place within this St.nte take, kill, sell, expose for sale, export beyond ! the limits of t he State, or cause to be { taken, killed, sold,exposed for sale, or exported beyond the limits of the State anv mocking-bird. nonpareil. swallow, bee-bird, red-bird, woodpecker, thrush or wren, under penalty of $o for each bird so taken, killed, sold, exposed for sale or exported beyond the limits of the State; and it shall be lawful for any person to take or destroy any net, traps or snares f.ir tnkiiiur snch birds whereso ever found set for such purpose: Proaided, tlmt nothing herein contained shall prohibit any person from taking and keeping any bird of w>ng or plumage for his own pleasure or amusement and not for sale, traffic or gain." opening of courts. An Act to amend the Code of Civil Procedure by the addition of a section to be known as as Section 27a, relating to the opening of tbe courts: Section 1. That Part 1, Title 3 of I ~ ri*_M T? .J? A | tne uoae OI l^lVll rruteuure cc aiucuued by the addition of a section to be | known as 27a after Section 27, which said Section 27a shall read as follows: "27a. That should the business before the Court of Sessions at any term in any circuit in this State be completed or suspended before or after the day fixed by law for tlie opening of the. j Court of Common Pleas for any county in the State, the presiding judge may ?? i -- Jr?flia lli lili> UUsi;i CUW?j uttyu M?c> vvi?i|7iv?iwU of the criminal biisine&e, open the Court of Common Pleas for the trial of ^a^causes or the, dispatch of all busi[ ness that may be pending in said conrt S - i I ? \ rH in^.which the parlies interested are ready to be heard." CONTINGENT BE3IAINDERS. An Act for the better protection of contingent remainders. Sectlon 1. That ?o estate in remain- j der, whether vested or contingent, 3 shall be defeated by any deed of feof- ' ment with livery of seisin. THE CALHOUN SARCOPHAGUS. The "Joint Uesolution appropria ting funds for the construction ana erect ion of a sarcophagus for the remains of John C. Calhoun", appropriates $3,000 for the erection of tlw sarcophagus over Calhouu's remains iu " St. Philip's churchyard, Charleston? ? the Governor to call for plans ami specifications jand to award the contract. LIABILITIES OF STOCKHOLDERS. j An Act to declare the law in refer- * ence to the liability of stockholders of \ iucor|Joratious: i Section 1. That the entire loss and liability imposed upon each and every stockholder in any corporation by the words "beside the value of his share or shares therein," whether used in the general statutes or in any special char-, ter or charters, shall be held and takpn as a loss of the amount previously in vested l?y such stockholder in tl*? capital stock of s?aid corporation, and as imi>o>in?r no other or further liability w ha: ever. school attendance. An Act to limit the ages of pupils attending the free public-schools: Section 1. That ?>? after the first iIav ol Vovi-inliiM'. 1SX4. it shall not be Iawfnl for any per-son who is less than six years of :ige to attend any of the free public schools. 8AIM UIU-V .Si'tEUVrt \OXI\ ATIO\ Senator JUutlcr Denies tliat He has Kver thprewKcd an Opinion on tlie Sahjer t One Way or the Other. [ b'fum i'tu Xfticx ami Courier.] Tin; New York Times of Tuesday i last ha^ ihe following' dispatch: Washington, December 31.?The Hon. Emory Speer, who was appointed United States attorney for the < Northern district of Georgia after the * Forty-seventh Congress adjourned, is now in town, waiting to see whether or not the Senate will confirm his ap- ( pointment. He said to-day that he was not at all worried about the mat- I ter, feeling confident that he would be confirmed. He understood that Senators Iiuller and Hampton, of South ] Carolina, were working hard to hare him rejected, in return foi the part he . played in undertaking to secure the conviction of the accused persons in the South Carolina election cases. He did not know, Mr. Speer remarked, that accepting employment under tlic ; Government and trying, as any good lawyer ought, to win his cases was any reason why he should be rejected when nominated for a district attorneyship; yet that rcas,_tl?e sum of his offence. Mr. Speer said was not sorry when he was able to leave South Carolina, but he was ready to go back whenever the attorney-general reouested him to do so. Durin?r the progress of the trial fhe counsel for the defendants talked to the jury about ,fthe hounds sent down to prosecute the good people of South Carolina," with a sweep of the hand toward Mr Sj>eer, and declared that the "hoauds'* ' would be lucky if they got out of the State with nothing worse than broken lw><iHe ?r irnt AAvnv " sftid Mr. Sneer. "without a broken head and so I suppose I can consider myself lucky, but I was bappy when I crossed the borders of South Carolina and <?ot back into the United States." A specimen of the trcatmeut received by those who i ftf flip TCnklll* ?9 shown by a poem sent to .7ud?re Bond, of the United States Circuit Court, who occupied the bench. Tt came ' from Edgefield, Senator Butler's ; home, and its last verse was as follows: "Now, old Bond, pack up your traps and go, Anil go with trepidation, And learn to spell with little n . - TiiisG d Yankee nation." "What do you think about that 1poenri'?" asked a Reporter of Senator Butler yesterday. "It looks to me very much like it was composed by Mrs Speer himself," replied Senator Butler. "It : is doggerel of the worst kind, and I don't ont* mon 111 SkAtifh PovAlititi UllttR 4li*4t ?ii? umu iu vmavii?ii? could get off such a tliiug. It must have been Mr. Speeds own composition." 1 "Do you know Mr. Speer personally?" inquired the Reporter. * "I saw him in Columbia during the trials," replied Senator Butler, "but never before, and I desire to state here that the statement pnblishcd In the Times concerning my alleged opposition to Mr. Speer's nomination is entirely untrue. I hud never heard of Mr. Speer's nomination as district-attorney for the northern district of Georgia until the fact was published in the newspapers, and I have never yet expressed an opinion on the subject one way or the other. I don't think that Mr." Sjjeer's nomination is of sufficient importance to the country to warrant me in worrying myself about it, aud l Have not none so yet. Mr. Speer, if Ixi is reported correctly in the New York Times, has simply lied about the people of South Carolina. I suppose thnt he has done so in order to ij^ratiate liimw?lf with his ?cw Radical allies iu Washington. I can't imagine what other motive the creature could have had. His statements are purely and simply malicious lies. Mr. Speer is not a man or sufficient consequence to cause me much thought one way or the other. It' he does not acquit himself more creditably when he returns her next spring he liad bet- ! ter continue to nestle in the mountains of Georgia* Mr. S peer, in my opin- i ion, is a very light-weight, personally, professionally and politically. Any man of more modesty and* of less 1 brass would go off and hide him-self from the public gaze after such a contemptible and ignominious failure as hp itiiule in South Corolina as a prose eating officer." j "Is" it true that you and Senator Hampton will .oppose his nomination , in the Senate?" "You may say that there is no truth in the statement that 1 hare expressed an opinion one way or another on that 1 subject. When Mr. Speer's nomina ? * -? T cKoll UOI1 CUIIIC3 up i<Jl WUUIIHUMU1I a ouuu have something to say, probably, but . I have not yet indicated my opinion. I have a very decided opinion about Mr. Speer, and I shall not hesitate to express it when I am called npouto do so officially. For the present you may dismiss Mr. Speer from your thoughts and let him go." <lt ?Philip M. Russell.has been re-elec ted clerk of the city council of Savannah, and David Baily has been re-elected city sheriff. ?Col. Henry P. Farrow, of Atlanta, is spoken of as a strong candidate for United States Judge of the southern district of Georgia. ?The Liberal press of Berlin is con- I trolled almost entirely by the Jews. . Their raDid erain in influence in Euro pean journalism is one of the most re- j markable evidences of their present forward movement as a race. ?The State of Virginia will have ample fands in her treasury to pay the interest of Riddleberger bonds falling doe January 1, 1884. "J NEW 4 BENSON'S . CAPCESE POBO0 PLASTER. Over 5,000 Druzsists and Physicians n?rt ugned a japer sUidng that Beta's CapcUX Porous Piasters are superior to all otfctfS. Price 3S cent*. CONSUMPTION I h**? ft pMttfranaMdjfor th*abo*? di*a?M; If J* BM thoftSftida ?t eaaMofttawombaUAoiiofMBC rtmdtnf h?T? b*M curt>4. Indoorf, ?o ?too?g i? *1 faith in rta flU-icy, th*t I wOl ?ad TWO HOTTlSo rSXX.tegwtbawiUim VALUABLE TKXJLTXtXm thU (lutm, to an/ stdferw.jftGhr# auuew ?nd P-V' tdOnm. Da. T. A. ?IXX:U*C^P*ftn8tJI?wYotk. n n n 17 n ust.it- ? D U U k 5 "iiiiiOllS Volume* a year. The clioic<st lite a wire of iie worl.!. Catalogue free. Lowe?( l/Tlc**8 ;v?r knewu. Not sold by dealers. Sent lor ixaiuloatlOD before jtayment on evidence or rood tiutu. JOHN B. ALDEK, Publisher, P. O. Bo* 1227. 18 Ye key St, > * t'CURE FITS! A Wlmlwy cgreldo act wnwwfr to ~ for * tmM $ad thtn hATe them return miuu radical eta*. I h*ra mxd* thedisewof Fn*V$Cr LEP?T OS PALLING 8ICK2TESS -sssertsaffisssasssft^ S&^SK^JSI^jss^ ^SSSSS.'S^Si%iStSpr<^ f|DP The REMINGTON Plllh HOSSE-POWEJf . f ine FIREENGINE! ttT^T?rte?ni-|P^ dascrl*' tted tot cost, 'H thwdrcobzs ad hm thing ? Eytrl&tertteto.' cno.tenth ?n.? swJHHgMl*ddzan REMINCTONfB|fl%BB A6B1CULTURAL CO. Be I If ILION, New York! ME " Jaa4-x4w ::c JHAi?L?ST(?' A J) VK Ji'J. ISEMENTS. UCAS 6 iilClIAliDSOX, STATIONERS, PRINTERS iXD BLANK BOOK MANUFACTURERS, < *' 52 EAST iJAY, CHARLESTON, S. C. Q W. STILES, PAINTER, HURLEY BLOCK,' 109 MEETING ST., CHARLESTON, S. C. Dealer in Paints, Oib, Brushes, Vr?ubh, <jiass, ruiiy, voiors, ixiue, occ. ALVIN R. THGMLINSON,; (Factory in Charleston.) Manufacturer ov Saddles, Bridles, HARNESS, Sec.' Dealer ix Saddlery, Hardware, Leather, &c., Ac. - : Importer of English Bit?, Stirrups, <fcc. 137 3Ieeting Street, Charleston, S. C. JJENRY STEITZ, ' Importer ivnd Wholesale Dealer in FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC FRUIT, A}ipii*s, Orange, JJimaapw, Coeoaiiuts, Lemons, Ptftrrt].ij>l<?s, Potatoes, Onions, feacuts, Cahlias'M, Jb\ S. K. Cok. Miasrixfi & Makket Stkekts, CHARLESTON, S. C. QHARLESC. LESLIE, Wholesale and Retail Commission Dealer ^ in FISH, OYSTERS. GAME and POULTRY, Stalls Xotf. 1 and 2 Fish Market Office No. 7 Market St. East of E;u?t Bay. Consignments of Country l*roduce are respectfully s?!icited. Poultry. E^gs, &c. Perishable 0<x>ds at owner's risk after delivery to Southern Express Co. * p brotherhood & co., IRON MERCHANTS. a DEALER# IN MACHINERY AND SCJ'J'UES. agents for, "maid of the south corn No. i<>5 Meeting St., C. Try our .TO cents MacltijcT?"*Oil?the best in the market. ?r? 1 1 , - JT^AGER BEER FROM TTTE CLAUSSEN BREWING CO., CIIAELESTO> rfJ>. C.:' Have now a Standard Be srjsuperipr to oth ers, put up in kegs, patei litopper bottles' and bottles in barrels for | export, to keop a long time. Empty betr bottles bought. Agent in Coluuiuia, 3Ir. yaiius Kwutlou. QLEMENS CLACIUSf"? ?IMl'OBTKK AND DEALEU IX? WINES, LIQUORS, CRiifes, TOCA CO^ GIlOCEItrcS AXD PR0V7?I0Sf, " So 175 EAST BAY, CHARLESTON, iv C% QTTO TIEDEMAN & SONS, WIIOLESA LE GROCERS, *?AND? PROVISION DEALERS, 103 AND 104 EAST BAY STREET, CIIARESTON,S..C. . v ? ? ? JJOYD BKOTIIERS. WHOI.kxui.E GEOCEKE, I-iQrou DEALERS ?AND? COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 197 EAST BAY, CHARLESTON, S. C. Q B.THOMAS, AGENT,? ' o. No. 320 Kino St., Oitosith Liberty^WINDOW SHADES, PAPER HANGINGS, LACE CURTAINS, corxaces axd "uhholstevy goods, CHARLESTON, S. &-" Window Awxings Made *o Order ' ? ^ G. CUDWORTH & CO., ?WHOLESALE? SADDLERY WAREHOUSE. 153 Meeting Stbeet, Opposite Chaklestou Hot i? CHARLESTON, S. 0. JJESTRY BISCHOFF & CO., vf av/umaa vawaas AND DEALERS IK CAROLINA RICE. PSOPEIETOES OF THE CELEBKATHD CAROLINA TOLU TONIC. ' 199 EAST BAY, CHARLESTON, S. C. A LYA GAGE & CO., 1 \ Zjl ^ > Kstxj\.rLLijCjZ) j.ivx. Market, Corner Chubch Street, CHARLESTON, S. C. tZflce nacked for the country * aiKHilaltv. g A. NELSON & CO., ?wholesale dealers ixBOOTS AND SHOES, f .. No. 23 Hatxj 8tb*et, CHARLESTON, S. C. " .