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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-01-29
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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-22

The snug sum of $27, 900 is waiting to
be claimed by some Boston lieutenant
A young gentleman of that city recently
received information that letter bear
ing his name with the above martial pre-
fix was in the post Office, and he was re-
quested to call and see if it was intended
for him. He had no claim to the title
of lieutenant, but he thought this was
probably an inadvertence, since the
name was his in full. He accordingly
opened the letter and read: "Dear Sir
Do not think that your gallant conduct
in rescuing two ladies from drowning at
- in 1878 has been forgotten. BY the
will of near relative of one of them, just
deceased, you are set down for bequest
of $27 The young man read no
further. He had never performed the
gallant feat thus recounted, and was re-
luctantly compelled to admit that, al
though the name was his, he had no
claim to the letter or fortune.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-22
SAVING HIS CHILD.
Ferocity OF a Cow-Her owner Torn
and TrampIed In a Terrible MAN.
ner.
SAT- Lake Tribuue.


A terrible affair happened about noon
on Tuesday in the Eleventh ward, which,
if not fatal in its effects, is certainly as
near so as it could be. The victim was
William ]. Smith. Mr.. Smith is quite
an old man, sixty-two last April, and
has been resident of this Territory for
over thirty years past. About week
ago he purchased a blooded mich COW
of William Jennings, which was under
stood and represented to be perfectly
gentle. A few days after he led her
out of the stable and tied her to small
tree in the orchard just back of
his house. His little child, about six
years old, was standing few feet away
at the time, and after securing the animal
Mr.. Smith turned to go back to the sta
BILE. As he did he heard the rope snap,
and returning saw that the cow had
broken loose ard was making for his
child at full speed and with evil in her
eye. He sprang between them in an
instant and was Immediately knocked to
the ground by the Infatuated brute,
which seemed to be perfectly msddened,
and turned her fury upon her master. She
gored him with her horns, one of which
is but stub, and trod upon him
with all four feet, evidently want
ing to kill him. He seized her
by the bride to which the rope
was attached, but it was impossible to
hold her. She was on his breast with all
four feet, and those who saw her say
she sprang up and down as deer would
do, and made that peculiar believing
noise which is sure sign of brute anger.
Two or three young men were IN the
next yard, and their attention was first
called to the trouble by the cries OF the
women folks, who had seen the unequal
combat. They rushed to the scene at
once, and seizing some heavy boards
near by struck the COW violent blows on
the head and nose, and finally beat her
off and compelled her to leave the un-
fortunate man, who was in pitiable
condition.
Mr.. Smith was able to get up and walk
to the barn, few steps away; but was
at once taken to the house and DIR. Sey-
mour Young sent for, who arrived
shortly after and dressed the wounds as
best he could, though by that time Mr..
Smith was completely Frustrated, and
unable to turn over on his bed. His
clothes had been torn from his body,
which was literally one mass OF horrible
wounds, as he had, while under the AMI
NAL, thought to save himself somewhat
by turning over, and both the back and
front parts of his person were equally
injured. 1t would be impossible to
describe the full extent of the injuries,
but the worst included cash four inches
long across the throat, which laid bare
the windpipe, another six inches long
extended from the right temple above
the ear and down toward the throat,
from which the horn verged just in time
to escape tearing oHt the jugular vein.
Both hands, both feet and both ankles
were trampled and bruised, and his
back was terribly hurt. He stated that
he felt that his worst injuries were the
internal ones. Mr.. Smiths act was a
brave and prompt one, and it is only
too probable that he purchased the life
of his boy at the cost of his own.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-22
Result of Reminding.

A statement has been prepared by the
Treasury Department for the purpose OF
showing the result of the refunding
operations by Secretary Window. In
March, before tire Window plan went
into operation, there were $500, 266, 800
six per cent bonds of 1881 outstanding,
and $469. 800, $50 five per cents. of 1881,
making total of $671 ,5S7, 200. There
have been continued at three and half
per cent, $576, 1881, 800 of these bonds,
while there are few thousand dollars
which the Secretary has not yet decided
as entitled to be continued. There are
only $94, 7O5, 400 bonds left to be pro-
vided for, and under the last two calls
they will be purchased with the surplus
revenue on account of the sinking
fund On October 1st all the operations
will have been completed, and then the
bonded debt will be as follows Al per
cents, $3.50, 900, 900; per cents, $780,
347, 800; 81 per cents, 81, 500, 229, 800;
total, 81, $50. 229, 800; navy pensions,
$14, 900, 900; total, 81, $50, 229 900. The
annual interest charge on March LIST
was $76, 845, 937, and the present charge
is SCI. 434, 775, an annual saving of $751;
All, 1872. A simple arithmetical calcula-
ton will show how much less the inter-
est account would be if the late Mr..
Hayes had not vetoed the funding bill
of the last Congress, by which the out.
standing bonds would have been replac-
ed by bonds bearing three instead of
three and half per cent.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-22
DudIeY's Little Game.
Philadelphia Evening Telegraph.

EnttduelpntU evening IetegTUph.
On the day following Commissioner
Dudley's wholesale house cleaning in
the Pension Bureau, it was suggested in
these columns that the new official from
HOosierdom would bear close watching.
In less than week the cat in the meal
tub is visible. And it is the same old
political vandal, keen eyed and rapaci.
Gus. Mr.. Dudley reluctantly finds
of course he is reluctant to make such a
demoralizing discoverY-that he will be
unable to get along with his reduced"
force, and will be compelled to call for
volunteers" to, help out, they being
expected to look to Congress for
their pay. Now, if this little
scheme is carried out, it will be
as plain as the MONDAY sun that it
was all planned from the beginning, and
intended to be the means of raiding the
Pension Bureau in the interest of hun.
cry pack of political blowers and strikers
from Indiana. Volunteers" who will
have to 'look to Congress, etc 1t is
altogether too transparent, Mr.. Dudley.
By the way, the new Commissioner will
have to run the gauntlet of confirmation,
a fact which he seems to have forgotten
Under Bentley the Pension Bureau was
one of the best conducted departments
of the government In recklessly turn
ing it upside down and inside out, and
making it partisan political machine, "
the chief of the Indiana "bosses" may
suddenly find himself hung up on the
Senatorial back fence to dry and blow
away. Stranger things have happened.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-22
A Cottage for the President.

A dispatch from Atlantic City, the
popular New Jersey summer resort, says:
ga scheme is on foot to coax Presi-
dent Garfield away from Long Branch
and get him here. A subscription list
was opened today for the purpose of
purchasing a cottage A rich Philadel-
phisn, who withheld his name, put down
$500 as a starter, and promised like
sum when the amount had reached
$4,000. 1t is proposed to buy one of
the best cottages here and present it to
the President.
On this subject the Philadelphia Record
very properly remarks: "There is moth
ing commendable, either specially or
upon general principles, in the reported
enterprise in the direction of getting up
gift cottage at Atlantic City for Presi-
dent Garfield The attempt should be
discouraged. 1t is indecorous. The
President is neither a mendicant nor a
pauper. The Presidential gift business
was run into the ground during General
Grants two terms, greatly to the disgust
of right-minded people, and it ought not
to be resumed. Persons who have more
money than they know what to
do with can easily iud OBJ
jects of charity by dew ing a
little attention to the investigation. The
President of the United States is not a
proper beneficiary of aims giving. The
perfect looseness with which presents of
all kinds, from bull-pups to houses, were
lavished upon General Grant, along with
his eagerness in taking them, was dis
credit to him and reproach to the coun-
try. 1t was toadyism on the one hand
and greed on the other. President Gar
field is different style of man. One of
his first acts when he RECEIVERS his
strength will doubtless be to decline,
with thanks not only the tender of this
Atlantic City cottage, but the $500
fund which is now being raised for Mrs.
Garfield.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-22

KILLED BY DIsH.-In st. Louis, on
Monday, a little girl, Ave years old,
named Lizzie Apperson, was sent by her
parents to grocery store to purchase
butter. The little girl started off with
the glass butter dish in her hands, and
in tripping along stumbled and fell
down. The butter dish was broken as
it fell from her hands to the sidewalk,
and the child falling face downward
upon the shattered pieces of the butter
dish one of the pieces penetrated her
groin. She was taken to her home inn
mediatelY, and as she bled profusely and
appeared to be suffering immensely the
parents called a doctor. The doctor
examined the wound, and while dressing
it pronounced it serious one. When
the doctor had finished the operation and
had gone away about fifteen minutes the
little girl died.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-22
A METEOR FALLS IN THE RIVER
Startling Visitation of An AerOlIGe
I'm West Virginia.

A Morgantown, West Virginia, dis
patch, dated July 18, says: "a remark
able phenomenon occurred here this
evening about half-past seven o'clock.
Just at twilight / noticed in the heavens
to the left of the north star in the con-
stellation of the Great Bear a small
bright spot which approached the earth
with incredible velocity, travelling SO fast
that the eye could scarcely follow it. AS
it neared the earth it grew brighter, part
of it being of a white and part of a
blush light. The size enlarged from
the time when my eye first
caught it and when it was but speck
of flame until it became as big as
the moon at its full. A small luminous
mist appeared to follow the ball of fire.
In a very few minutes the meteor passed
below the hill, which hid my view from
the river, and a second later loud re
port was heard, caused by the igneous
projectile striking the Monongahela
river. A number of people heard the
report, although but few saw the meteor.
Asst was not entirely dark, but very few
stars were visible The night turned
out remarkably clear, and large num-
Der of shooting stars fell, but no other
meteors. stayed up most of the night
hoping to see more. Mr.. Charles White,
Professor of Astronomy in the university
here, was away from town, so that no
scientific speculation could be INDUCED
in with reference to the meteor.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-22

THE HAWAIIAN KNGDoM.-Major
McFarlane, aide-de- camp to King Kala-
kaua, who has arrived at San Francisco,
says that His Majesty at one time seri-
ously contemplated putting his domin-
ions under the control of the Emperor
of China. The plan was to bring 1,00O,.
600 Chinese colonists to the island, and
to levy tax on them of seven dollars
per capita. This was the price the King
was to receive for his realm. The i'm
migrants were to be Immediately in
vested with citizenship. and the islands
were to become a part of the Chinese
Empire. Major McFarlane says that
the scheme was defeated by the action
of the foreign residents. The Kings
ministers who are with him in Europe
deny that he ever proposed to sell his
kingdom to England or France.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-22
New York,s senator Elect.

AS a member of the House, Senator
elect Warner Miller has been prominent
but once, and then not creditably. On
that occasion. the World says, he twas
so lost to shame as to make his appear
ance as lobbyist before committee OF
the House of which he was a member,
in behalf of his own individual in
terests." He is a manufacturer Of wood
pulp, which manufacture is a monopoly,
established not by act of Congress, but
by Treasury decision giving to an act
of Congress an Interpretation which Con,
gress never intended, and under which
Miller was enabled to tax for his
personal benefit every man in
the country who bought a book
or a newspaper. 1t was against
Congressional interference with this mo-
nopoly that Miller 30 shamelessly appear
ed as a lobbyist about year ago. At
that time he was sharply censured by
many Republican papers. The New
York Times Republican, described him
as a reformer whose professions of viz
tue have yielded to the first temptation, ="
declared that INSTEAD of resolutely alb
staining, as many less pretentious men
have done, from taking any part in
legislation in which he was personally
interested, Mr.. Miller has devoted much
time, argument and influence to the
task of convincing the Committee OF
Ways and Means that they ought to leave
untouched his private monopoly of the
manufacture of wood pulp; and charged
that his conduct was characterized by "a
disregard of the line which separates
public duty from self interest" AT about
the same time, the New York Post (Rep.
said: HE has presented the disgraceful
spectacle of a member of Congress be.
fore the Committee of Ways and Means
endeavoring by specious arguments and
false statements to further his own Pc
cuniary interests. He has not allowed
political matters to stand for a moment
in the way of his private profits. " From
all of which it is plain that however
well-founded might have been the half
breeds impeachment of Mr.. Platt's
ability, honesty, etc., last winter, they
have not filed his seat with a better
man.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-22


1t is reported that Keene, Flood,
Mackey and others are rapidly organizing
their new telegraph scheme, and that the
work of building will be begun at once.
1t is intended within a year to have an
extensive service established in all the
principal paying points in the United
States. All branches of business now
performed by the Western Union will be
carried on by the new management, but
under different organizations. One spe-
eial feature of the general commercial
and telegraph department will be a sys-
TEN Of receiving and transmitting night
messages, which will be dropped in the
post Office as soon as received, and for
which an unparalleled low rate will be
charged.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-22

The census officials who had in charge
the collection of the statistics of manu-.
facturers of New York city have Just
completed their work and reported. The
totals fall somewhat below the original
estimates, being as follows: Total mum
Der of manufacturers, 11.06S; capital,
$157. 5s1, 747; greatest number of hands
employed at any one time during the
year, 262, 459; males above sixteen years,
133, s9S; females above fifteen, SO. 4S2
total amount paid in wages, $50, 513, 934
value of materials used, $267, O43, 1856
value Of products, $495, 422 ,1Os. The
most important industries are: Manu-.
facture of mems clothing, cigars. sugar
refining and lard refining.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-22

The Chinese Government established,
some years ago, at Hartford, Conn, an
educational bureau, where a number of
the brightest Chinese youths were sent
to learn the English language. A good
deal Of money was spent here, the aver
age annual cost of this institution to
China being 100000. The Pekin au-
thorities have just issued orders to dis
continue this little arrangement, on the
ground that the Chinese students attend
ing our colleges were learning too
much. If they would conhne them
selves to learning English so as to
be able to act as interpreters.
the Emperor would be very much
pleased, but they discover a great deal
more, become decidedly too smart, and
acquire a contempt for the ideas. man
ners and civilization Of "the fiowery
kingdom" The Chinese statesmen very
sensibly declare that the government
cannot afford to educate young men q
look down on and scorn it.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-22

A STRANGE MURDER.-The Paris cor
respondent of the London Daily Telegraph
narrates horrible occurrence near Cler-
mont Ferraud. A Lieutenant of the
Third Chasseurs, named Riege, affected
by sunstroke at the camp at Chalons,
was walking through a neighboring vii.
lage and asked his way of woman, who,
frightened at his disorderly appearance,
ran away screaming. A number of
peasants returning from the field threat
ened the officer with their sickles, and
he drew his revolver, fred several shots
that were harmless and then ran into q
field. Two men armed with guns Joined
the peasants and shot Riege down. One
of the peasants then Drained the officer
with a pickaxe.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-22
THE BLACKLIST OF VILLAINS.
Nearly a Hundred Years Old, and
Eighty Times n Murderer.
odessa Correspondence London Times.

odessa Correspondence London Times.
Vastly Tchoomak, aged ninety-six
years. has Just died in the hospital of
the Odessa prison with the reputation of
having in the course Of his vile exist
ence committed alone, or in conjunction
with others, eighty murders, and also of
having escaped no fewer than five times
from Siberia. He was born near Ismail
about the year 1886, and appears to have
been of Kolmuck descent, of herculean
proportions and of great physical
strength. After serving his term
as a soldier, he adopted brigand-
age as his profession, and, with
a band of three or four score
roughs kept the wooded part of Bessara-
bia and even the country for many miles
round Odessa during several years in
such state of terror that the police
rather than arrest him lived on friendly
terms with him. At last, about the year
1850, a police superintendent named
Khorzhevsky undertook to capture him,
and surrounding low roadside inn kept
by one Keeseelon and known to be the
resort of thieves and robbers, succeeded
in doing so after desperate encounter,
in which fifteen men altogether on both
sides were killed or wounded. For this
service Khorzhevsky received the order
of st. Vladimir, a distinction not so
often bestowed in those days as
in these. The old Russian
criminal code being then in existence,
Tchoomak remained in prison nine years
before being brought to trial. In 1859,
however, he was condemned to twenty
years hard labor in Siberia and to be
logged. Five years later he escaped
back to Odessa, but was again caught,
tried and sent into captivity. In 1859
he again found his way back to Odessa,
was again caught, and after being kept
in prison till 1871, was retired and sent
back to Siberia, but the very same year
he managed to get away from there
while being transferred from Irkutsk to
Kercusk, and in 1874 was recaptured at
Elizavetgrad, in this government (Kher-
sony, andfor the fourth time tried and
removed to Siberia. A couple of weeks
ago he appeared here again, thus
making the fifth escape from Siberia,
and being caught in attempting to steal
wagon and pair of horses in one of
the German colonies in this neighbor-
hood, the sturdy colonists, following
their usual practice of taking the law
into their own hands in such cases, after
belaboring him and companion of his,
bound their arms and legs with cords,
brought them to Odessa aud handed
them over to the prison authorities. The
two criminals had been so roughly
handled, however, as to necessitate their
removal to the prison infrmary, where
Tchoomak died two days after, seven of
his ribs having been broken. 1t is pro-
posed to send his brains to DIR. Benedict,
of Vienna, for examination, that gentle
man being reputed to have devoted much
attention to the brains of notorious crimi-
nails.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-22
The Partisan BOURGEOIS

The Partisan 6ourgeOiste put their in
fants out to nurse without. in many
CAGES, any precautions as to getting their
own child back again. A lady says: 81
have often seen at the Paris railroad sta
tons thirty or forty nurses leaving their
babies bundled up on the seats of the
waiting room. At the signal for depart
ure they rushed in, took up bundle at
random, and were off to the country,
Indifferent as to which child they took
one baby being in their eyes as good as
another"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-22

THE Ice COMBINATION IN NEW YORK.
The abundance of ice gathered last win
ter does not deter the companies and in.
dividual dealers of New York from ad
vancing the price twenty-five per cent.
Nearly all of the dealers admit that they
have on hand large store of ice, suffi
Gent for more than year, and some
dealers have even two years supply,
but the prices at which they have been
selling this year, they claim, were un
remunerative, and now that they believe
steady warm weather has set in they in
tend to make profit. The customers
who buy ice in very large quantities,
such as brewers, provision packers,
butchers and large saloon keepers, must
have ice for their business, they say,
and will pay the companies prices. AS
for the small customers and families,
the dealers claim that these consumers
will not mind paying the small increase
of price demanded.