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New-York tribune., 1881-12-28
SUPPOSED TO HAVE SUNK IN SQUALL.
s,.cLnL n.snntch 10 ne Etertng TeLegrln

NDefidI Dlspateh 10 IHe hI''''J I'''F'' '"'' .
JospoN. Dee. 27.-Captan lie Person, OF
the Ernrst!nc arrived 81 Brcrt and reported 10 'h' 'o
ms.ry at Brcst on the 2d inst that during gaze On
the eoIh he was In company with large steamer "ui'h
kept within about mile ana nan VI "'"' '''1'
-, =, A., ,h r,orpipc until in the afternoon. Just
n, il,pt s,uall occurred lasting about twenty-five
minutes, when It passed over the steamer was no
ger TO bc sccu ne believes that she SUNK III tno
souau quantity Of wrrckagc which drove ashore On
the following day ~ RoscoG gives an air OF propany
to the reported disaster. The wrecShgo '""s''" "
:, -, -, ,b,l, oil ana various pieces oi wood,
an one of which wa- written "Hpttht i'"u I .lr " t
and bulwarks prohibited" The steamer atPeaI'i W
m, m i r. Pr.nn Ia h., from >, 600 to 5000 tons Dur
den She had straight stem WIN ho"sILIlt ,"' TIE %
of Inc Gasyoy cleaners and was schooner rlgs'u
forrm,qf had two wards with square sIls mn wv , @
and funnel were painted black. she N1 ulu,I s'oai'
proceeding very slowly when the sgiiai STRUCK hcr
New-York tribune., 1881-12-28
CURRENT TOPICS AT THE CAPITAL.
TIE DAMAGE TO THE TENNESSEE.

WASHINGTON Tues lay, Dec 81 1881.
The Navy Department has to-day received
the report Of the Naval Board OF Survey concerning the
damages sustained by United states flagship Tonnes
see from the collision of the steamer Western Texas with
that vessel I'm New-York Harbor last Thursday The
Roarl finds that all the blame for the collision belongs TO
the Western Texas as the Tennessee was lying nj anchor
and had all her proper night signals displayed In acro
ance Hat IT. will rcamire yc or six weeks 10 repair
Teunessees damages, at an estimated cost OF 7|2oo
THE CHINESE MINISTER'S NEW HOME
The newly accredited Minister from China
to this Government Chang TSao, with his
suite and seryants-in all twcnt, Ave persons
are now quartfrcd at the Arlington Hotel
they will remove 10 the "shcpherd' Ma"sion on
Farracut Square needed repairs and i'm
urovements completed. TINS Is one OF We mos, tic
CANT and spacious residences In the city The retiring
Minister with Ills suite will on Saturday next icte
Washington Tor san Francisco en- route for emma. inc
Minister will Dc formally prcsc nttd 10 Pitslsht Arthur
on Saturday next by Secretary Frclinghuysen
WHERE SOME OF THE STAR ROUTE MONEY WENT
One of the interesting political speeches OF
e session. il s understo 3D. will he on the Star Route
swindles by prominent Republican Representative IN
which he will deny any Of the illegal profits were
used for the Republican ticket in the last Presidential
tri6ned $4,000 defeat Randall DELEGATES in Pcnns
vania, besides sending $4,000 :" Cncinnhi "Lch Nh-
used In nominating Hancock, and additional sums ior
the lattcrs election.
PROPOSED CRUISE OF THE EssEX.
The Essex Commander VI Cornck, will
leave Norfolk the ist Of January for The Pnclc
ON the way ont she viii visit Liberia Tor the purpose "
investigating certain matters bstw the natives anJ
the authorities OF Liberia and to sct" disputes that
mas have arisen since thu Alaska, Captain Semmes,
tbere IL h believed the treaties then entered INTO by
the natives Eavc not been properly compiled with.
MR.. EDISON TAKING OUT MORE PATENTS.
The weekly issue of the Patent Office to-
dav aggregates 80 patents nineteen designs and twenty
fonr Trademarks OF the patents Twenty-Five were 70
Thomas A. Edison alone THIS is sId ny Patent Oih'r
9iais fn m e largest number OF patents ever ISSUED
al one time bv any GO, crnmcnt 90 one person. Mr
EIjson's pa lents now NUN 'cr nearly 2JO
New-York tribune., 1881-12-28

ATLANTA, Ga.. Dec. 27.-Thc visiting MEM
bcrs Of the TcruJsr-c Legislature were welcomed to
d,y with addr,ss,s ia tc Jus' bah ~ the Exposition
At the closng exercises ~ the Exposition Saturday
oldrrfses will b. made by H. ! kimhaN, Jo.cph T.
Brown Colonel ". e. Hrcrk rnrift' Dan'r. b"uta.fT
,H.i Governor CH.4Iii Iru uYeuurrF sIil 70" -lnv
b, Governor COIgultt, and poem vii he scad hy J. H.
y
New-York tribune., 1881-12-28
IApAy- AMrRIcA AND ENGLANn.

IoSDoS. Dec. 27.-lhc Berlin correspondent oi
III, 1iuNs says:
An Influential japanese gentleman Informed me dur-
IN "A cnuy,r-a ion japan FOR some un" p's' mas
hr.n ,trri-t.y dc,r,us to remodel her .onmercia re
l,t.,u- tfn Europe anu America. Japan has already
,ru iu, attention thr Powers concerned 10 h'r auT,
nl.d their r,pr.-c, tItiyr- viii hold cunierrnce Al
InLIn ON tll nINI.ct early In JhnuaI!.
New-York tribune., 1881-12-28
ADrAycIyG Bos1oys INTERESTS

BosroN, Dec. 27.-At meeting OF the Board
OF Aldermen o-Ii-t order was passed authorizing
the construction o. continuous lines OF p2oS IN many
~ he streets to uc clcgraph AID telephone "irc
slI tho c0mpanic, in the ciy hrnc granted r'is"1aie
acc1nmOinti. the ppr- ~ rent not rNr'cdH- ue
cost OF maintaining The wires overhead. An o'drr
limiting the number pf ecctn anI 10 De put up ID ie
streets tO 100 wus al@o adopted.
An order for tc purchase from Harvard College ~
The Arnold ArhDrctum, to Dec ds"d ~ pubic paT< -
pass.d to-ni.lt d. tie Aldermen, III concurrence "ltA
q
New-York tribune., 1881-12-28
zHr coLrlnT- CITY rRnrD&

COLUMBus. Ohio, Dee. 27.-F. W. NcWhur1
the eyed 'o-r.r. was arr,i,u,d this morning and
waived examination. lie bound over on ak
cparatc clnrs., and '.c bond whs fixed ~ $1,000.
The Board Of Public work TO-DAY al-coy'rd adm rll
f.r..ti.. and rlI-.1 rn.r fu o.. amount OF -l'fp
.Tu.s inasca about eI2U.p tgti indications o.; more.
New-York tribune., 1881-12-28
NEGRoES LEATlNe sOUrH cAROLLNA.

AUGUSTA, Ga, Dec. 27.-Between 800 aud
600 negroes, from EIgedeld, South Carolina passed.
through Augusta to-day on their way TO ArAansas.
They are under the leadership OF coored preacher
named Hammond who promised 90 have chartered
train waiting for theIa - Augusta bat failed ~ 40 So
New-York tribune., 1881-12-28
rLnoD IN rAA sCsQUEHANNA.

WmLIAssPoRT, Penn, Dec 27.-A big flood
il expected IN the west branch OF the susqnehanna
River tonight The at present ten feet above
low water mark, and is stiil rising rapidly and VIII
urobaby reach twelve fourteen feet By morning The
booms have been hung, aud some logs are reported
coming down All small streams are greatly swollen by
IN 81 ~
New-York tribune., 1881-12-28
pROGREss AND REFORM II EGYPT.

Lo>poS. Dec. 27.--rhc 6hcdiyc Of Egypt in bis
speech 70, the opening of the Assembly OF Notahies
NJ Cairo yesterday dwrt upon h" necessity OF pro-
rrr,s and Of respect for International ohhgalo's'
bnt concluded with reference to the powerful Snp-
port which usriul reforms received nom the Sul'''H
,F I'm .tsy
New-York tribune., 1881-12-28
rI1r C,TtTOVTNS PASSENGERS.

JoyD,N. De. 2T.-rhc passengers Of the Conari
line steamer Catalonia. from Liverpool tor New
York. which returned - Queenstown sunday, hav-
ina, been damaged Iu collision. have the option Of
rr rrr.liug O. thcr hy IA, city of brussels, the
Marathon or the SER IL, on Saturday next.
Amljoutyo ol the passengers wall 7ii IN the ser
New-York tribune., 1881-12-28
MURDERERs SAID 70 H4VEBEENLYNCHED

PETERSBURG, Va, Dec. Pit is repJrtcd
here that the Two charged with the murder Of John
Nurrel aud Thomas Glover at the store of j. B. and
n Prince In southampton County, last Friday night,
and bo a Itprwarls set lire 10 the building, have been
caunrrd and ynched IL Is stated that The mudcrcrs
wore taken 70 the scene where tue murder was com
,nift.d and there hanged 10 a tree.
New-York tribune., 1881-12-28

and the party had 10 paw ull rates TO Atlanta Iheg
say they found II too hard work make living IN SOu1
Carolina. and dctermdel 10 20 elsewhere: Hamnlonn
went to Arkansas time ago. examined tue couIl!'
and his return, advised the nerrOc 20 go OuI 'l0
1t is expected that altogether 900 wiz 20.
New-York tribune., 1881-12-28
THE CR.4.NER CASE.

NEw-HAvEN, Conn, Dec. 27.-The lawyers
interested 10 the trial Maey boys for tho murder
of Jennie Cramer deny truth recent mOrs 10 the
effect that the State has secured important new tes-
mony aud that astonishing developments are 10 be e1-
pecIGd.
New-York tribune., 1881-12-28
p,y1c IyALOypON THEATRE

LONDON. Dec. 2S.-A false alarm 'l hr' cau''u "
panic last evening in theatre IN ha'' ho''i'"' No
one Was injured.
New-York tribune., 1881-12-28
rnIGurENrn RY IN ALARM OF FIRE.

LoyuoS. Dec. 2s.-ihe Ddiiy Noe'S dispatch
from Berlin sly,: There wa, panic IN music
hall her, on Tuesday evening, IN consequence ol q
ful,r alarm of fire No Casualties occurred.
New-York tribune., 1881-12-28
VOL. XII. Ne S27.
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON
IN THE RECESS OF CONGRESS

CONTESTED SEATS IN THE HoUsE-CLAlN9 VI
DAKOTA FOR ADMIssIoN-MR MOLlN' ~
SEARCH OF EMPLOYMENT. o..
Three subcommittee of the House Commit
tee on Contested Elections have been appointed
and the twenty-one cases before the House
have been divided among them. The chairman
of the Committee on Territories will urge the
massage of bill for the admission of DAKOTA
as a State. Ex-Supervising Architect Muliett
has applied to Secretary Folger for employ
ment.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-07-16
AGrent EncYcIopnedin

The completion of the great stLi-
brary of Universal knowledge"
the first of July, will mark an
epoch in the lives of thousands of
ambitious young men and women,
as it places a liberal education east
ly within the reach of every one
who chooses to aspire to it. Every
department of human knowledge
is in large measure here laid open
to the understanding of the intelli-
gent reader. Heretofore such a
valuable and magnificent compen-
dunn of knowledge has been mac
cessible to ordinary people on ac-
count of extremely high cost. This,
the largest encyclopedia ever pub
lished in this country, in large type,
excellently printed and bound, can
be secured at the trifiing cost of $I5,
and even beyond this, liberal dis
counts are allowed to clubs of three,
five, ten or more persons, and dur
ing the months Of July and August
$4,000 special reward is offered to
club agents. 1t is well worth
while sending at once to the pub
fishers for specimen pages and par
ticulars. See also their advertise
ment elsewhere. American Book
Exchange, Publishers, New York.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-07-16
"Ised Hot, and Don't KO" Forget

L.
For ten or fifteen days past the
newspapers throughout the land
have teemed with accounts of the
horrid heat and its fatal effects.
Fifteen or twenty fatal cases of
sunstroke a day we're reported from
the larger cities. The condition of
the weather has been the principle
topic of conversation everywhere
throughout the broad country. The
severe temperature had such an eff
feet on peoples minds and bodies
that every one was rendered utterly
incapable of talking or thinking of
anything else. The septuagenarian
sat around, with palm-leaf fan or
turkey-wing, and with mind arous-
ed from its sleepy lethargy by the
sweltering heat, recounted marvel
GUS tales or amusing anecdotes of
hot times in days long gone by,
while trying to keep cool. The
small boy hied himself away to the
shady bank of some cooling stream,
where he could, oft and again, lave
his parboiled cuticle in the sooth-
ing waters, while his fiendish COM
panion, with diabolical maIeyo-
lence, would steal out and tie his
gauzy apparel into thousand Cor
dian knots. Those who could get
out of town Detook themselves to
the cave or some other more hospi-
table and genial climate than the
city, while the can't-get-aways
sauntered around and cursed their
luck, or bored their perspiring ac-
quaintainces with brilliant (?) con-
versatiOns about the weather, and
the superfious information that sit
was hot" The oldest inhabitant
could not remember a more Hades-
like spell. The thermometer dubbed
and boiled and ran higher than at
any time since the signal service
records of the country have been
kept, with the single exception, so
says an exchange, Of one day in
August, in 1874, when the mercury
reached 1922 in the shade. The
mean heat has been considerably
above that of any season for twenty
years. Vennor said we are going
to have continuation of such
weather until the 25th, but at pres
ent writing it remains to be seen
whether the old cuss's prognostica-
tions will prove correct or not. One
of the most disagreeable features
of the weather was the extremely
hot and insufferable nights. People
were unable to sleep, and were
weak and unrefreshed when morn
ing arrived. The dust on the thor
oughfares was ankle. deep, and
formed clouds when stirred up by
the passing vehicles or pedestrian.
No sunstrokes, as far as we have
heard, occurred here.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-07-16
LOcArION OF rHE Ball.

Fifty millions of people have read
with the greatest solicitude and in
terest, during the past two weeks,
every particle of news coming from
the bedside of the wounded presi-
dent, and yet, who knows anything
about the range or location of the
murderous missile. This, Of course
would be interesting to thecommon
people, if the learned Nj. DIS who
have the case in charge, would speak
in plain united States talk" and let
US inquisitive plebeians known how
and where the president was shot.
The following is pretty fair sam
pie of the mysterious medical mans
intelligent importation Of knowl-
edge, on The subject, to mystified
pencil pushers. In answer to re-
quest for an explanation Of the ma
ture Of the wound, the doctor said:
THE line of incidence pursued by
the ball to the point of impact
against the fractured rib forms, with
the line drawn from that point to
the spine, an obtuse angle, while
from the same point of impact, a
line drawn along the rib toward the
front ofthe body, would form, with
the same line Of incidence, an acute
angle. Hence, it is fair toinfer, cet-
eris pari6us, that the missile would
be DETECTED in the direction of the
cerebral column, and not toward the
abdomen, etc." The anxious sover-
eign will be delighted to hear this.
All, to his mind is nowclear, where
as before, "all was as dark as was
Chaos, ere the infant sun was rolled
together and had shed its beams
athwart the gloom profound" 1t
doesn't take your cultured doctor to
convey a swift understanding of
pathology to the omniscient news
paper man.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-07-16

WHY don't such coupon infamy
and bride 'howlers" as the Shelby
Vile Commercial, ct id Ona1le genus,
cheese their little puny racket about
the dear outraged people, and the
infamous state debt settlement :?
Are they unhappy now because the
case is in the courts? The people
have always been willing to sub
NIT it to the final arbitrament of
their courts and to abide the decis-
ion. The patriotic citizens of the
state do not fear the result, nor can
the sworn officers of the law be in
fiuenced in their opinions by lit
tie passionate prejudice'l newspa-
peF gas.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-07-16
THE PooR DoG.
TReply Of d. L. to Jims' last.l

tReply Of ID. L. to Jims' last.l
"old Mother Hubbard She went to the
To get the poor deg a bone, DC"
:. Al yes. it may be all right for good, honest
dogs and men
To 90 mad, and bite, and shoot good honest
folks;
But very wicked to say, that all dogs, and
men,
Who don't go mad, and bite. and shoot good
honest
Folks, shah be IN equal danger Of
Gobbling down their Threats the "pizened"
bits OF meat,
Scattered about hotels, aud ON the public
street.
Because there was Booth, a Buford and a
Gniteau,
Who madIy did commit vile assassination,
Should the INNOCENT suffer for the acts OF
this trio,
By the horrid death of .,pizen" without dis
elimination?
MORAL 1.
II mankind would escape a dose Of pizen"
then
The wicked few must cease to 'sassinate
other men,
Because the farmers noble dog in guarding
his trust,
Did not act the coward, and '.turn his other
end.n
Was the intruder justified in making the
thrust,
So fatal to the farmers most faithful and
best friendf
MORAL II.
If a "Jailor" has certain prisoners from a
mob to defend,
Should he in time of need "git-up
and "turn his other end,n
Cause pistol ball, or s'pitch-forlx'' threat
en- their way through him to wend
d. l.,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-07-16
Notes from sewanee.


DEAR CHRONICLE:-I have now
been week on the top Of this
mountain, if mountain it can be
called but it is rather a spur or
buttress extending eastward from
the great Cumberland plateau into
the central basin of the state. One
cannot get a better conception of
this central basin and its surround
ing highlands, than by travelling,
as l have just done, from CIarks-
vile to Sewanee by way of Nash
vile and Murfreesboro. The rise
from the limestone bottom of the
valley to Tullahorna, on this side of
the basin, takes you through a range
of country exactly resembling what
we have on our side from the top of
the ridge to Springfield a man
being near Greenbrier Station
would think he had got home again
when he saw the barrens between
Tuliahoma and the basin with their
thin, cherry soil, and groves of
Isscrubby oak. These barrens on
this, the eastern rim, are the more
striking from their marked contrast
with the inexhaustible fertility Of
the valley, at this, its eastern mar
gin; from Bellbuckle. to the rise
there seems to be no limit to the
productive capabiIity of the soil.
Here, however, we are far above
all this, both the basin and its rim /;
we are, in fact, on the margin of the
great Cumberland plateau, with its
inestimable coal measures and iron
mines. Sewanee is built on mass
of what is here called conglomerate,
based on a vast slab of sandstone,
eighty feet thick. This conglomer-
ate differs from any rock or soil I
have ever met with under that or
any other name; in its solid form as
rock it is very soft sandstone,
easily disintegrated by water, in
which innumerable white quartz
pebbles are imbedded. This being
disintegrated by frost and washing,
produces sandy gravel, in which
the same quartz pebbles lie loose.
1t is not a soil favorable to agricui-
ture in any form, but, as a compen-
sation, it produces beautifully pure
! springs of water and an atmosphere
absolutely free from malaria.
The site of the college itself does
not suggest the idea of a mountain
top at all it looks more like
sandy stretch of rolling ground,
shaded by tall, but rather attenuat-
ed, oaks. 1t is true that in several
directions splendid views into the
adjacent valleys can be had, but
there is no indication of mountain
or valley either in the college cam
pus and its immediate vicinity.
So much for the material /; as for
the personal characteristics, they
shall be treated of in a future letter;
suffice it for the present that the
population here is about equally
constituted of the professors fami-
lies and students on the one hand,
and the summer boarders" on the
other; these latter are floating
population, made up of visitors from
the various Southern states, who
resort here for health or for rest
from engrossing occupations.
What sort of a social result this
produces shall be described in my
next. ID. F. w.
Sewanee, July IL, 1881.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-07-16

THE st. Louis Globe-Democrat,
ga stalwart of the stalwarts" organ,
in speaking of the recent interview
with Senator ConkliRg, goes slight
ly back on its beauideal of states
man.
Mr. COnkling consented to an in
terview yesterday, which we regret
to say is not in the right vein. A
few words for the stricken President
would have been much better than
his extended praise of Mr.. Arthur.
We agree with Mr.. COnkling that
the government is strong enough to
survive the loss of any President.
With Il little extra eXertiOn it might
even survive the loss of an eX-Sena-
tor. We have approved Mr.. Conk-
ling's course so cordially in the past
that we regret to see him unequal
TO great and solemn occasion like
the present, when one touch of ma
ture makes the whole world Except
MI. COnkling) kin.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-07-16
RAnRETT vs.. vERTREEs.

1t is to be hoped Senator Barrett
will push his suit against Vertrees,
for SANDER, to the bitter end. A
lawyer has no right to charge a
man with bribe-taking, either in a
lawsuit or out of it, unless he can
substantiate his charge. If the
charge is true, the gentleman now
has an opportunity to prove it if
not, let him be mulcted in damages
for defamation of character. Let
Smith and Morgan also join in as
co-plaintiffs with Barrett. Vertrees
made the same charge against them
also. The people Of Tennessee are
deeply interested in the issue of this
suit. If their representatives in the
Legislature have been bribed and
corrupted as the enjoiners and their
attorneys assert, why, then they
want to know it. This suit of Bar
rett VS.. Vertrees ought to establish
the truth or falsity of this assertion.
We are glad the question has been
brought down to dead square is
sue in an individual lawsuit. Now,
for the first time, have these gentle
men, against whom all sorts of
loose rumors, and vague, uncertain
charges of bribery and undue in
fluence have been brought, had an
opportunity to face their accusers
and vindicate their good name.
Let them do this or else be relegat
cd to that degradation and infamy
TO which the proof of these charges
would, and should, send them. We
say we are glad this question has
been brought prominently before
the public in personal lawsuit.
1t is the only way it will ever be
decided. The allegations of fraud
and bribery in the "demagogue's
injunction bill" are too vague, in
definite and impersonal to admit of
any defence by the gentlemen
against whom the covert insinua-
tions of the bill are understood to
be intended.
If they are guilty, let them be eX-
PEELED from the legislature, and let
the laws of the land deal with them
as Is prescribed; if not, let their cal
umniators be silenced. 1t is a sad
hour in the politics of the country
when public officials can be charged,
with impunity, with all sorts of
high crimes and misdemeanors,
and there is no one to be held re-
sponsible or substantiate his allega-
tions. Let this indiscriminate de
famation of public men be kept up,
and, in a few years, no one, who re-
CARDS his reputation and character,
can be found to accept an office of
public honor and trust.