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The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-07-03
AMUSRRENTS.
HILLS VARIETIES.

Geo. Hill, proprietor and manager
Fred Gere, stage manager, ThOS. Cullen
leader of orchestra, Geo. Lambert, leader
of brass band. Cook and NickersOn, the
young mOkes; Miss Lou Cook i'm songs
and dances, etc. New first part. New
oliO, and new acts. Open air concert al
SIP. M. Performance commences at s 81
=. NJ. Entrance on Benton street; pTi
vate boxes on ChenamuS.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-07-03

The bribery committee met to
consider their report, but reached
no conclusion. No senators are
yet elected to succeed Conkliag
and Platt.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-07-03
RascOes New Place.

Roscoe. the popular caterer, invites
all his old patrons, and aS many new
ones as may be pleased 10 make him a
visit. TO call at his new Ice Cream Sa-
loon, on ChenamuS street, Occident
hotel block. which he has Just fitted up
i'm first class style.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-07-03
Take Notice.

On after this date an additional 10
cents per cord will be- charged on all
orders for sawed wood not accompanied
by the cash, al Grays wood yard. July
ISt 1SSl
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-07-03
a New Delicacy.

Mr.. j. r. BOrcherS has just prepared !
choice LOT of spiced salmon in 5O-pOund
kegs. They are the finest eating for
lunches, etc. TO be had. Call at once
and secure your supply.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-07-03

blanks, PrOmissOry notes, bonds
for deed, quit claim deeds, mortgages
and warranty deeds. at this Office.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-07-03
Renuesf 10 ALI societies.

All Societies. 2Sanizfions, Fire
companies, etc. VIII 1isHto enter the
procession on thefFOu3tHOf July, 1881,
are requested 10 gepOrtEf once 10
WM. ID. HAKERuirand Marshal
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For sale by the tom, at San Francisco
prices al Warren and EatOns Astoria
market
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Onlces 20 Rent.
Coarse Liverpool sail

Single OF in suites OF two. i'm THE As
TORIAN building. Prices reasonable.
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returning same.
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The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-07-03

Chairman General COmmiG-
W. ID. BAKER, Grand Marshal.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-18
ALMOST A HORROR.
PANIC ON A LONG BRANCH
STEAMER.
The Crowded Plymouth Rock
Blows out a Steam Flue-A Rush
for Life Preservers-COward of
Male Passengers-WOme and
Children Trampled-The Extent Of
Their Injuries Unknown.

NEW YORK, August 1.-THE steamer
Plymouth Rock, on her morning trip to
Long Branch, with ten or eleven hundred
passengers, at 11:3O O'Clock, when about
twenty miles from the iron pier, burst her
steam flue, knocking open the doors
of the engine room, from which
an immense volume of steam hissingly es-
capped. A scene of the utmost confusion
and terror ensued, the passengers being
madly panic stricken. In the struggle for
hfe-preserVers men were seen to seize them
even from women. For about half an hour
there was a scene of dire confusion on the
upper deck. In the cabin a struggling
mass was wedged, the doors being blocked
up, and to facilitate escape the windows
were broken out by the officers of the boat,
and the passengers passed through head
first. As soon as the panic had somewhat
subsided the band struck up, and this help
ed TO reassure the passengers and restore
order.
The tug Germania, about half an hour
after the accident, went to the assistance of
the Plymouth Rock and took her in tow.
Before starting, however, the steamers
Schuyler and City of Richmond also came
up. The latter boat and the Germania
towed the disabled steamboat some dis
tance up the bay to smooth
water, where her passengers were
transferred to the City Of Richmond and
brought to this city. The Plymouth Rock
was towed to her dock by the Germania.
In the panic there were number of women
and children knocked down and trampled
on, but to what extent they were injured
has not been ascertained.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-18
New Orleans and Florida.
Neto Orleans Democrat.

A letter from the editor of the Talla.
hassee (Fla.) Economist conveys the graft
flying announcement that there is good
prospect for the carly completion of the
railway through West Florida which has
been projected for many years, and
which will bring New Orleans within
less than days run of Tallahassee. The
difficulty of reaching Tallahassee with
the present railway facilities practically
shuts US off from that city and from the
valuable trade Of the country adjacent
and tributary thereto
New Orleans was once the market for
all that section of Florida and for South
ern and Middle Georgia, and the trade
was then carried on by steamships and
sailing vessels running from this point to
Apalachicola, st. Marks, Cedar Keys
and Tampa Bay, but the construction of
railways after the war TO Savannah and
other Atlantic ports at once deprived us
OF the cotton and other produce that for
merly came here, and as a matter of
course the people of Georgia and Florida
ceased to purchase their supplies from
us. Whether this large and most desira-
bic trade can be regained in part by the
construction of the railway through West
4 EAOAAOd NCpCliuo la SCIy upon Wu6T6 Lne
interests of those who control the road
lie, and upon the efforts that may be
made by our merchants to compete with
those of Savannah, Port Royal and
Charleston, who now control it.
With cheap freights down the Missis-
sippl and cheap rates by rail or steamer
to Florida and Georgia, there is every
reason why New Orleans should
become once more what she once
was-the grocery market of that whole
section of the country, and the cotton
market as well.
The completion of the railway refer
red to will open up to New Orleans the
famed watering places of Florida, and
New Orleans, with its varied attrac-
tions, will naturally become to the peo-
pie of Florida and Southern Georgia the
favorite winter resort for business and
pleasure.
The editor of the Economist is san.
guine that the same powerful influences
the grain-growing interests Of the
West and Northwest gave us the
jetties will be brought to bear to compel
the digging of the Florida ship canal
which will be virtual extension of the
Mississippi to the Atlantic Ocean.
When we can go to the beautiful capi-
tai OF Florida in less than a day there
will be rush of excursionsts and sight
seers for the Land of Flowers.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-18
The New York stock Market.

NEW YORK, August 1.-THE stock mar
ket opened firm and higher, owing to the
more encouraging reports regarding the
Presidents condition, and in the early deal
ings prices advanced u to % per cent, the
latter in Hannibal and st. Joseph. This was
followed by decline of d to ~ per cent.
the latter In Denver and Rio Grande. Be-
fore noon, however, speculation had again
become strong, and quotations rose Il to 2
per cent, st. Paul and Omaha preferred,
Northwestern, Norfolk and Western pre-
ferred, Lake Shore and Missouri Pacific
leading the upward movement.
During the afternoon the market became
depressed, and prices continued to decline
up to the close of business, the final sales
being a to per cent. lower than the best
figures Of the day, the latter for Denver and
Rio Grande, st. Paul and Omaha preferred,
Nashville and Chattanooga, Chicago, Bur
lington and Quincy, Louisville and Nash
vile and Metropolitan Central leading the
decline. Sales aggregated 0,0S5 shares.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-18
GUITEAU'S CRIME DEFINED.
An IIdIanian Who Holds Him
Guilty OF High treason.
T,dinnnpolfs Sentinel


A person attempting to kill man who
is President of the United States, accord
ing to the Constitution of the United
States, is not guilty Of high treason; but
a person assaulting man with intent 10
kill because he is President of the United
States, is considered a criminal guilty of
high treason, even though it is not ex-
pressly declared in the Constitution of
the United States.
For high treason, according to its ma
ture and common acceptation, is an at
tack directly against legitimate executive
authority, threatening its very existence
and attacking the fundamental organiza-
tion of the government. According to
the Constitution of the United States,
the executive power of the United States
is vested in the person legitimately
chosen as its President; therefore, an
assault with intent to kill the President,
because he is the President, is an attack
on the executive power of the Govern
mert of the United States itself, threat
ening its fundamental organization, and
consequently an act of high treason
under the penalty of high treason, and
punishable as such.
uC ClICulllSt duNC s1ldb SuCu dl dCb Is
not explicitly mentioned in the Consti-
tuition of the United States does not dis
prove what we have said; because an
act which by its very nature belongs to
a certain crime is implicitly condemned
by the class of crime to which it be-
longs Consequently Guiteau declaring
that he had made the assault on Garfield
for no other reason than that he was
President of the United States, is guilty
of high treason and subject to its pen
atty.
Besides, the Government of the United
States has right to punish the attempt
made by Guiteau with capital punish
ment on the ground of self defense, in
order to prevent in the most efficacious
way the repetition of such crime in
future by another would be assassin.
Such public foes have to be deferred by
the severest punishment inflicted in the
most terrible way.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-18

care would be exercised over the patients
diet in the future, and that all would go
well. The gentleman said that his despond-
eney had been turned into actual hope.
Before the Mansion was closed for the
night DR.. Bliss was asked II there would be
any more nourishment administered natur-
ally tonight.
"No," he said, ''not until tomorrow. We
have made the experiment and are satisfied
that the tone of the Presidents stomach has
been improved by it."
He taid in reply to further interrogatories
that everything had been progressing finely
since the evening dressing, that the patient
had been asleep nearly all the time since the
evening dressing occurred, and that 40 NOR
phia had been administered for three days
past.
While all information obtainable tonight
is of very favorable character and shows
a rapidly increasing opinion that the pa
tient will rally. there is no doubt but that
he is still in very critical condition, and
should his stomach become irritated in
the least degree, the outlook would be
almost instantly changed from a favorable
to decidedly gloomy one. Both Drs Ham
iltOn and AgneW remain in the city to night
If the prospects continue favorable to NOR
row DR.. AgneW will probably leave during
the daY,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-18
A st. Louis Sensation.

A st. Louis letter to the New York
World says: ga suit for $10000 dam
ages, filed Friday, drags into notoriety
the HaZeltines and Paramores, families
of high social standing. The suit is
brought by John Amweg, a singer in the
Ford Opera Company, performing at
Uhrig's Cave, the fashionable summer
night resort. Amweg's story is that be
ing smiled upon from the parquette by
Miss Nellie HaZeltine, known at home
and abroad as the belle of ST. Louis, and
whose name was linked with Samuel J.
Tilden's three or four years ago, he en-
tered upon a Irritation. He visited
Miss Hazeltine at her aristocratic home,
received notes and photographs, and
then, by his own story, boasted of the
conquest. Early this week Miss Hazel
tine and her mother started for White
Sulphur Springs. Amweg's story reach
ed the ears of Will Hazeltine, brother,
and Fred. Paramore, the suitor of the
belle. They corraled Ito use Western
ism) the opera singer in an upper cham
ber, beat him badly with fists, canes and
whips, and forced from him an order on
his landladY for the notes and pictures,
and then turned him loose, all of which
indignities he makes public and asks
damages. The young men are out in
cards admitting the whipping, but de-
claring that Amweg's Irritation was not
with the belle, but with pretty servant
girl in the family named Nellie, who has
had the last of the controversy by declar-
ing she never saw Amweg. The opera
singer is of a good Philadelphia family,
he claims, his father being lawyer and
his brother Inspector of bridges on the
Pennsylvania road. Paramore is a son
of the President of the Texas and st.
Louis Railroad, and is to receive $780,
600 from his father upon his marriage to
Miss HaZeltine.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-18
MATTERS IN CUBA.
Testimonial to Captain GenerRI
BlancO-The New Belize CsbIe-A
Splendid Fleet OF Mail Steamers.

New YORK, August IA letter, dated
Havana, August 13, says: ga scheme is on
foot initiated by honorable persons belong
ing to all classes, to present General Blanco
with testimonial, to be open tor signatures
by all all who wish to contribute, express
ing the thanks of the people for the energy
he has devoted since he took charge Of the
government, to clearing different branches
of the administration of corrup-
ton. A royal order has been
received for the construction of the land
line between Cape San Antonio aud the
shore end of the cable soon to be laid from
Cuba to Belize, Honduras, such line to be
connected with the nearest telegraph sta
tton. Seven splendid steamers for naviga
tion In these waters are being built in Eng
land by order OF the Marquis De Campo,
who obtained at Madrid a concession for a
Spanish mail steamer to ply between Havana
and the Caribbean Sea. AS the contract
requires the service to begin on November
list, by which date the new steamers will
not be finished, the steamer Manila, Of
$500 tons burthen, which formerly ran be-
tween Spain and the Philippine Islands, is
expected here this month. and two other
steamers Of the same tonnage Will follow
The lines Of communication will be four In
number.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-18
BRITAIN'S REALM.
Changes of Scotch OneIals-ParneH
and the Irish Members ON the CO.
erciOn Act-The Triumph and
Value of the Land League.

LONDON, August 17.-Mr. John Blair
Balfour, member of Parliament for Clack-
mannan and Knross, and Solicitor General
for Scotland, will succeed as Lord Advocate
of Scotland Mr.. john McLaren, who is to
be appointed Judge of the Court of Sessions.
Mr.. Alex. Asher, member of Parliament for
EIgin, will succeed Mr.. Balfour as Solicitor
General.
In the House of Commons to-day, on q
motion for going into supply, Mr.. Psrnell
moved that the coercion act had not been
administered in accordance with the pledges,
which the Minister had given when they in
duced Parliament to suspend the constitu-
tion, and he declared that the action of the
government in regard to coercion prevent
ed any gratitude for the land bill. 1t was
well known fact, when he said, that but for
the Land League the whole strength of
the House of Commons would have been
unavailing to force the land bill through
the House of Lords. He thought the Irish
people would be wise If they continued to
rely upon their own exertions, which had
procured them such an installment of Just
rights.
Messrs. Lalor, DAILY and others followed
Mr.. Parnell, the principal point made by all
the speakers being that the power of arrest
under the coercion act had been used to
crush political agitation, and not against the
rutfians whom the Chief Secretary for Ire
land Mr.. FOrster) denounced IN his speech
introducing the coercion bill.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-18
GUITEAU DESPERATE.
He Attempts TO Kill a Guard-A
knife In his POssession-A Lively
Struggle In his Cell.

WASHINGTON, August 17.-Guiteau made
an assault on one Of the jail guards about
O'Clock this morning. Last night It was
evident to the guards that Guiteau had
either overheard or suspected that the Presi-
dent was worse. He was very much ex-
cited, and several times was caught climb
ing up the bars in his cell trying to overhear
the talk of the guards. Early this morning,
as McGllI, one of the guards, noticed that
Guiteau seemed to be pairing his nails, the
guard abruptly entered the cell and demand
ed Of Guiteau the knife he had. Guiteau
replied:
$50 help me God have no knife"
McGill insisted on getting the knife,
wbereupon Gultesu assaulted him. McGill
cooked his pistol and commanded Guiteau
to surrender. Guiteau fought desperately,
and in the scuffle McGill's pistol was dis
charged. The bullet passed through the
door and struck the wall ia the hall. The
noise of the discharge of the pistol at
tracted the other guards, and Guiteau was
overpowered. He then excitedlY represen-
ted that the guard was trying to shoot himN
The guards theu found knife under Gui-
teau's bed. 1t was made from the Steel
shank of a shoe.
1t is mystery how Guiteau got the knife,
but 1t is believed that prisoner who for
merly occupied that cell, a negro who was
hung here some months ago, left the knife
In the cell, and that Guiteau found it. He
cut the guards clothing in several places,
but did not reach his person.
Warden CrOcker, Of the Jail, denied that
Guiteau had knife. He made ligst of the
affair, saying that Guiteau was very much
excited and the guard caught him climbing
up the cell bars. That the guard ordered
him down. "He refused to descend, y
said Crocker, "when the guard went in, and
Guiteau clinched with bim; that in the
tusse the pistol went Off, but Guiteau did
not mean to hurt the guard"
This was untrue, and Crocker knew it.,
but he told that story because he thought it
would reflect upon his conduct Of the jail to
let it be known that Guiteau had got a
knife. The truth is, Guiteau came within
an ace OF wrenching the pistol from McGill,
and the latter says Guiteau is as active as
Pat
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-18
LAWYERS IN COUNCIL.
The American Bar Association at
Saratoga.

SARATOGA, August 1.-THE American Bar
Association began its third annual session
to-day. The President, Hon. Edward j.
Phelps, of Vermont, presented the annual
report, it being, according to the constltu-
ton, an account of the most note
wothY changes OF statute law on points of
general interest made in the several
States and by Congress during the preced-
ing year. Several new members were ad-
mitted. On motion Of Mr.. Baldwin, of
Connecticut, the following message was
sent by cable to the Association for the Re-
form and Codifcation OF the Law Of Ma
tions, at Cologne, Germany.
"The American Bar Association, now in
session at Saratoga, hoping to further the
advancement of the uniformity of the laws
OF this country, wishes you success in your
efforts to advance uniformity in the law of
nations PHELPS, President"
Among the members of the Executive
Council elected were the following:
District of Columbia-J. b. Ashton.
Georgia-G. A Mercer.
Kentucky-John W. Stevenson.
Louisiana-Carlton Hunt.
Msryland-J. K. Cowen.
Missouri. o. Broadhead.
Pennsylvania-T. E Franklin.
Virginia-Robert Ould.
Texas-R G. Strout.
Florida-E. NJ. Randall.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-18

EQUIVALENT TO A CHINESE WALL
To maintain the present Railway Com
mission system is equivalent to building
a Chinese wall about the State to keep
out railroads and other improvement en-
terprises. Capital has as good right to
expect that the State will take control of
it if put into cotton factories as in rail-
roads. 1t will feel that all that is needed
is the howl of the demagogue to cause
the Legislature to pass laws assuming
for the State control of any branch of
enterprise. There is a point beyond
which laws should not go. They should
never place private fortunes under the
control of the State. The right of a
person to the control of his own prop
erty is a sacred one and should never be
interfered with by the Legislature.
This is a good reason for opposition to
the Railroad Commission law, and when
taken in connection with the fact that
competition, and not law, should regu-
late them, there would seem no ground
left for the law to stand on.-AtEGntG
Post Appeal
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-18
THE LAW OF NATIONS.
Meeting of the Association for Their
Reform in Cologne.

LONDON, August 1.-THE conference of
the Associ alton for the Reform and
Codifcation of the Law of Nations,
which convened at Cologne, Ger
many, yesterday, holds its session
In the great hall of the House. The regu-
lar officers of the association are: Honorary
President, Right Hon. Lord O'Hagen /;
President, Right Hon. Sir r. j. Phillimore,
aud Vice Presidents from the United States,
China, Denmark, France, Great Bri-
tain, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands,
and Norway and Sweden. The Vice Presi-
dents from the United States included Chief
Justice Waite, of the Supreme Court, and
Justice Field, Hon. John Jay, Hon. Carl
SchurZ, Hon. David Dudley Field (late
President of the associationl, Judge Chas
A. Peabody and Gen. James Grant Wilson.
The subjects to be discussed at the con-
ference are: "Public International Law"
international Commercial Law" and 'In-
ternational Maritime Law" aud embrace
also Arbitration and Disarmament -
Among the American delegates who have
left to attend the conference are
David D. Field, F. A. P. Barnard,
Charles A. Peabody, John Jay, George w.
Cullum, w. P. Peabody, Clinton B.
Fisk and others. The conference will
represent all the principal nations of the
world. Il is the ninth conference of this
association, and 1t is expected to surpass all
the previous ones in practical benefits to in
ternational law reform and arbitration.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-18
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

OFFICE CHIEF SIGNAL OBSERVER, WASH
NGToN, d. c., August 17.-Indications for
Thursday:
In the South Atlantic States, partly cloudy
weather in the north portion, local rains,
stationary or lower temperature and pres
sure, winds mostly easterly,
In the Middle Atlantic States, cloudy wea-
ther, light rains, northeasteTlY winds, sta
tionsry or lower temperature and pressure.
In the Gulf States, fair weather, winds
mostly southeasterlY, stationary temperature
and pressure.
In Tennessee and the Ohio valley, warmer,
fair weather, variable winds, mostly south
westerly, lower pressure.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-18

The negro woman who murdered a
little girl and boy near Washington says
Il was going along the path. 1t was
not God Almighty, but it was the devil
who put it in my head to kill them.
could not help killing them. / did not
do it with the ak, nor the washboard, but
with piece of wood big as my arm,
and about eighteen inches long. The
children were running about the yard of
the house. ! struck the one with the
long hair first, but / don't know how
many times / hit her. L saw the ak in
the wood pile after, hitting them with the
stick. What l killed them for l don't
know. The devil got into me, so that
could not help doing it.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-18
TIE INSULT TO GAMBETTA.
What He Told the Paris Mob.

LONDON. August 1.-THE Paris corre-
spondent of the Times, describing the great
electoral meeting yesterday, when NJ. Gam
BETA was interrupted by the noisy demon
strations, says that NJ. Gambetta concluded
his remarks thus:
'What you are doing was never done by
the worst populace. You are slaves Next
Sundays ballot will avenge me on your dis
graceful conduct. and then l shall know
how to discover you, even II have to track
you to your dens."