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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-06
CATTLE PLAQUES.
Official Reports = The Lung Disease
Texas Fever.

Official Reports - The Lung Disease -
Texas Fever.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.-In the report
from the Treasury Cattle Commission sent
to Congress to-day it is estimated that the
present yearly losses from the lung plague
to the cattle trade of this country amount
to $4,000 and that it will cost $2O, ,OOO,-
600 to stamp out the disease. The report
recommends that the Secretary of the
treasury be empowered to order
the instant destruction of cattle or
other animals which in quarantine give
evidence of dangerous contagious disease.
Another commission, composed of experts
in the Agricultural Bureau. is preparing
a report of its investigation of disease
among cattle. They have been success
full in developing important facts
relative to diseases peculiar to the
cattle of Southern Atlantic and Gulf
States, which is known as picnic or
Spanish fever, but more commonly
known as the Texas cattle fever. This
disease is considered by skilled veterinary
men to be the most fatal of epidemic dis
eases, when contracted among cattle of the
North and West, to which they are sub
jected by the importation of cattle from
those infected States of the South. This
disease was unknown in the Western and
Eastern States until cattle were
brought into those markets after
the war from Texas. The board have in
formation that entire herds of blooded and
graded cattle have been swept away by
this disease being brought among their
herds by one bullock from one of these
states. The board find that the propaga-
tiOn of the disease occurs only in summer
and early autumn and hardly ever occurs
after a heavy frost. The last case re-
nOrtad was ON Novauhnr 20th No oooae
are reported as existing at the present
time
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-06
SANDERSVILLE.

The County Election-Asa Lawson Dead.
SANDERsvILLE, Jan. Am the general
scrub race for county offices on yesterday,
and with the number of candidates in the
field, 1t has taken an official count to de-
termine the election. The election passed
off quietly, and full vote was polled
throughout the county. The following
gentlemen were elected for the next ensu-
ing two years: A. NJ. Mayo, Clerk Supe-
riOr Court; G. II. Wall, Sheriff; W. r..
Thigpen, Tax Collector; - Guin. Tax
Receiver; p r. Taliaferro, Treasurer; NJ.
1. jackson, Surveyor; G, B. Hyman, Cor
oner.
Messrs. Mayo, Wall, Thigpen and Jack
son succeed themselves. Captain Talia-
ferro and there is no better man in Geor-
gia) succeeds Mr.. o. H. Rogers, q most
worthy young gentleman, who declined
the use of his name for reelection. With
these gentlemen, and Major Mark New
man as Ordinary, old Washington has
set of officials the equal of any in our
commonwealth.
Asa Lawson, the notorious outlaw who
was dangerously wounded in the riot at
Oc0nee during Christmas week. died on
Monday nlght last. WASHINGTON.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-06
MEMORIES OF THE STATESMAN.
What Ex-NTinister washburne Says of
Gambetta.

The Chicago Tribune has n long letter
by telegraph from the Hon. L. B. Wash
burne, at San Antonio, Texas, giving
"reminiscences of IGambetta while Mr..
Washburne was United States Minister
/ to France He saws: "A great light has
gone out, and the world loses one of the
most gifted, brilliant and eloquent men
of the age. He was distinguished in 1869,
/ though young, as member of the Cham
Der of Deputies, and. being in the front
rank of a little band of able and
courageous men who made face
against the empire in the pride and
I arrogance of its power, was concerned
! in those turbulent and exciting scenes in
the Chamber before the war was declared
and the empire fell. II was cool when the
people broke up the Chamber of Deputies
and fiocked to the Hotel de Vile, where
the dethrOnement of the Emperor was to
take place. Appearing at one window of
the palace Gambetta proclaimed the Re-
public of France and threw the crowd be-
low little lists containing the names of
Deputies who were to constitute the pro-
visiOnal government of France under the
name of Government of the National De-
fense.' Such a shout of deliVerance went
up from the great throng as has rarely
been heard in the worlds history. The
new Ministry, Gambetta at its head, i'm
mediately took possession of their
:
own difficulties in protecting German in
terests there while the empire lived, and
the astonishing grasp with which Gam
beta at once understood the whole ques-
ton Calling on him, he found young
man of ordinary height and size he af-
forwards became heayye with fine man.
ners and agreeable address, handsome
face, long, black, glossy hair, and full
beard. He did everything possible, and
did it Immediately, to mitigate the
troubles of the Germans. Gambetta be-
ing selected as the representative to the
I Tours Mission, he did not shrink from the
hazardOus2trip from the city in balloon
and lmade the trip safely. He soon be-
came, in fact, the Dictator, and the true
history Of that Dictatorship has yet TO be
written. 1t will become one of the most
interesting episodes in the history of
France. Single-handed and alone he
aroused the dropping spirits OF
the peeple, raised and equipped
armies. and accomplished all that mortal
could in stemmiRg the tide of disaster
which was overwhelming his country. He
raised and disbursed the millions gotten
through Morgan & Co. in England, and
the most rigid examination OF his affairs
by enemies when the war was over, only
showed that his hands were clean and his
record uNstained. After the war MS ad-
vice was sought more than that OF any
other man. The greatest speech OF his
life was that made at Versailles upon the
occasion of President McMahon's coup
Fetat in turning away his Republican
Ministry and replacing IL with Ministry
hostile to the Republic.
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Qnr0ua Glaciers.
HOME COMFORT.
After Rainy Ride a Country Physi-
clan Tells What he Thinks of
Some People.

81 wish to gracious some peor,le would learn
when they need doctor and when they
DON'T" exclaimed Doctor E.. as he entered
his house in coy little village in the ,nte-
rior of the State Of New York. af-
ter tedious night ride of many
miles. II have been down among the
mountains to see man who the messenger
said was very sick aud not likely to live tin
morning, unless he had immediate help. and
found him suffering from rather sharp attack
of collie, which his family might have relieved
In ten minutes, II they had a grain of sense
and two or three simple remedies in the
house. But no; they must remain ignorant AZ
pigs, and when the least ache or pain takes
them, send for doctor, whether thew ever
pay him or not"
'sWhy. Doctor, what kind Of sirnnle rane-
dies, as you call them, do you expect people to
keep in the houseS" asked his wife. az She
poured him cup of hot tea.
eIn this case" answered the Doctor az
they had only put BENsON,S CApcIvF po-
ROUS PLASTER on the mans stomaes, ta
would have been all right in an bour- ard
saved me dreary ride.''
In all ordinary complaints il eures at oroa
All diseases are eliminated from the srsts,,,
by what may be roughly called expulsios. Il.
extraction, or by union Of the two procossas
Behson's Plaster promotes both. II incisas
the torpid organs to act, and sends its haa9;,-
soothing influence through the myriasl 49, :,
Of the skin. AL other plasters oblq ,Ia =. 4
Iient % wait. They give him hope Tor "a NOV
row. Beuson's plaster gives him helm
,1 ~ nlcn Is better, do you think7 Buy the car
etNE ana keep It IN the house. Price q cent.
sssDury q johnson, Pharmaceutical Cher
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ASTOUNDING REVELATION.
A Charge that S1.e0O, 900 of PennsyI-
vania Money Was Stolen by Two
WaIkes6arre (Pa.) Special

+'"NF~NSS~~ffS SkfcOeNes
The Union Leader publishes the follow
ing astounding letter sent to Editor Bo-
gert, ex-Chairman of the Democratic
State Committee, by one of the oldest and
best known Democrats in Pennsylvania
The author heads the letter, "Work for
Governor Pattison's Attorney General. 1t
runs as follows;
During a brief visit in Mauch Chunk
few weeks ago, Gen. William LiIley
called at the hotel where your correspond
ent so1ourned. In conversation which
related t0public affairs and the degeneracy
of men who managed to obtain executive
and representative offices in Pennsylvania
and who have held sway for some twenty
years past, instances of a want of moral
character and common honesty were re-
lated and assigned as the cause of last
November's election verdict against boss.
ism. Gen. Lilley asked me if / did not
remember the hue and cry against Mr.
Evans, who was appointed Agent for
Pennsylvania to settle with the limited
Statea Government for advances made
during the war. Public attention was
directed to the outrageous charge made
Dy Agent Eyane for a very trifino SER
vice; The sum retained for his services
aggregated some $300,0ON for COLLECTING
about $3.OO0,OO0, The instance came to
mind, and so Istated. Now said General
LllleYa mot one dollar of these millions
was ever covered into the treasury of
pennsylvania, and the evidence is in
existence TO prove this statement The
General named two men who had 5000 0O0
each of the sum collected by Evans. This
astounding revelation of the venaljty of
public men, coming from q man of the
high character General Lilley has
acquired by life of business enfernr%ise rise
ana social prominence, determined me to
throw 1t broadcast for inquiry and exami-
nation. l have purposely withheld the
names Of the two men who heIned them-
selves to s., 200, 900 of money belonein@ to
the people Of Pennsylvania,''
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-06
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY

CampbelPs cotton mills, Manayunk,
Pa, have closed on account of the de-
preston in trade.
A special from Harris, Texas, says:
Sam Scott was hanged yesterday for the
murder of Joe Spears"
The Senate yesterday confirmed the
nomination of John G. Beale to be POST
master at LAGRANGE, Ga.
Herr Most's efforts at Milwaukee have
not been successful, the majority of the
former Socialists being now property own
ers.
The weavers of the Aquideck Cotton
Mill, at Newport, r. l., struck yesterday
morning, and the mill did not start up at
noon. Complaint was found with the
lack Of cotton instead Of the lack of pay.
The trial of sixty-six Socialists will be-
gin at Lyons on Monday. Thirty-six are
charged with belonging TO an International
association, and the remainder, including
Prince Krapotkine, with being officers Of
said associations.
Michael O'Rourke, who murdered Maker
HaltOn county, Ontario, iii July last. was
hanged at s O'Clock yesterday morning.
He was firm to the last, but made state
ment on the scaffold.
s. Lewis, aged twenty-eight years. com
mitted suicide at his residence in Asbury
Park, n. j., yesterday. His wife died at
O'Clock yesterday morning in child
birth. When informed of her death he
seized razor and cut his throat from ear
to ear.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-06
THE FIRE FIEND'S WORK.
OVER HALF A MILLION OF
PROPERTY IN ASHES.

Terrific Blaze at Cohoes-COstly Mills
Consumed-Lightning Swiftness of the
Fiames-The Firemen PowerIess-
Several Peoria Business Houses De-
stroyed-Partial Insurance.
CoHoEs, Jan. 8, $3.50 A. M.-The rolling
mills of Morrison, Colwell & Page are
burning. The Pilot mills of P. Gogerty.
and the tubing works of A. G. Curtis q
Co. arein danger. A high wind is blowing.
CoHoEs, Jan. s, 8 A. M.-The rolling
mills are total loss. The Pilot mills
are now burning iiercely.
CoHoEs, Jan. 8, 1:15 P. M.-The fire is
now under control. Morrison, Colwell Il
Pages rolling mills, Powers & O'Brien
knitting mills, and Patrick Gogerty's
Pilot mills were totally destroyed. The
loss will exceed $3.50, 900, which is covered
by two-thirds Insurance.
The fire originated in the wheel-pile of
the rolling mill of Morrison, ColwelI &
Page while the engineer was throwing out
the wheel, and the entire works were con-
stunned within an hour, nothing being left
but the furnaces and chimneys. The
flames drove the workmen away so quickly
that they had no time to draw their fur
naces, and hence the loss is much greater
than 1t otherwise would have been, as the
iron VIII now nave 10 cool Iii them, and
they will then have to be taken apart for
removal. The total loss on the rolling
mill is now estimated at half million
dollars. The insurance is about $50, 900.
The flames were driven to the Pilot
mills, which were soon enveloped. The
fire ran riot through the oils and COM
bustible material and communicated from
one story to another with lightning speed.
Within five minutes this immense brick
structure was in flames, and the firemen
had to retreat to a safe distance, as it was
momentarily expected that the gasoline
tank would explode. Several barrels of
oil had just been placed in the tank. An
explosion followed, which rent and leveied
the walls. The loss on the Gogerty mills
is 100000. The insurance is probably
$4,000. Powers a. O'Brien's mill occu-
pied portion of the Pilot mill building
and is involved in the general ruin. Their
loss is $30,000, partially insured. The
sufferers state that they will rebuild at
once.
CHICAGO, Jan. ga special to the
Inter Ocean from Peoria says: "a fire to-
day destroyed the business houses of
Chalmers 81 Myers, wholesale leather;
K. Schradsky, clothing; ID. j. Calligan
d Co., boots and shoes; and Cutter a.
Cooldridge, wholesale hardware. Loss
$780, 900; insurance S52 500.0
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-06
FLoRIDAsLEGIsLATURE.
New Measures-The constitutional Con-
ventiOn-COnflrmat

TALLAHAssEE. Jan. 5.-In the Senate
to-day bills were introduced as follows:
BY Mr.. Mann-Setting forth who shall
compose the Board of Public Instruction
in each county.
By Mr.. Fortner-For the protection of
married women of unsound mind.
By Mr.. Sharpe-Requiring the transpor-
tation companies to forward freight by
such lines and routes as shippers may
direct.
BY Mr.. Pope-In relation to public
printing.
By Mr.. wearingen-Granting aid TO
the Thomasville, Tallahassee and Gulf
Railway.
By Mr.. Hendricks-For the protection
of life, and for other purposes.
By Mr.. Crill-Relatiye to last wills and
testaments.
BY Mr.. Providing for an cleo
ton to declare whether a constitutional
convention shall be held, declaring its
term, place of holding and the compensa-
tiOn of its members
The bill prohibiting the Jurisdiction of
magistrates in cases of larceny was de-
feated, as was also that allowing married
women to testify in criminal cases in be-
half of their husbands.
A resolution was introduced for the re-
moval of the capital.
ASSEMBLY PROCEEDINGS.
In the Assembly, Mr.. Whidden intro
duced bill to repeal the act creating a
bureau of immigration.
BY Mr.. Miller-A bill providing for the
bringing of suits against corporations that
abuse their corporate privileges; also,
for the relief of prisoners in county iaiIs,
BY Mr.. Plata bill to amend the reye-
nue. law.
BY Mr.. Mabry-A bill providing for the
repair and keeping in order of public
roads.
Mr.. Mills offered resolution restoring
the soldiers of 1895 and 1856 to the pension
rolls.
Mr.. Mabry also introduced a bill pro-
yidlng for the analysis of fertilizers.
Mr.. Cobb introduced a bill to protect
public health against infectious diseases.
The resolution providing for the ap-
pointment of a railroad commission. was
made the special order for Monday.
Both parties held caucuses last night to
dispose of the convention question.
Ten thousand copies of the Governors
message were ordered printed for dis
tributiOn by the Bureau of Immigration.
The Senate confirmed w. II. Sessions as
Collector ofRevenue for Suwannee county,
and q. W. Umstead as Assessor of Taxes
for the same county,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-06

Concerning the battle-fiag Of the Confed.
eracy, Carlton McCarthy's book upou
.'Soldiers' Life' speaks as follows: ssFhe
hrst three nags, received were made Of
Baltimore and Alexandria. at their resi-. Il
dences and the residences of friends. Al
soon as they got description of the de.
sign adopted. One of the Misses Carey
sent the flag she made to General Reaure.
gard. General Beauregard sent the fiae
he received at once to New Orleans for
safe keeping, After the fall of New Or.
leans Mrs. Beauregard sent the flag bv a
Spanish man-of-war, then lying in the
river opposite New Orleans, to Cuba. where
It remained till the close of the war, when
it was returned to General Beanre0ard
who presented it for safe keeping to thf
Washington Artillery, OF New Orleans
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Fai1nres for the IYeelr-

NEW YORK, Jan. 5.-The failures for
the past seven days reported to r. G. Dun
& Co, number 224, distributed as follows
The Eastern States %, the Western 72,
the Middle 3s, the Southern AZ, the Pacific
Is, New York city IL, Canada 16. As
compared with last week this shows an
increase Of 81, but the number is, doubt
less, swollen by numerous small assign
ments made at the close of the year,
though the parties had virtually failed
lo,,nr hnfnrn
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-06
A BLAZE AT PETERSBURG.

Large Freight and Depot Building
Burned.
PETERSBURG, VA, Jan. 5.-The large
freight and depot building of the Norfolk
and Western Railroad Company at Znni
station, was burned yesterday morning,
with some of the contents. The loss lis
not yet ascertained. The fire was of incen-
diary origin. The night before last two
tied in the safe of the company, and it
is thought the object of the incendiary was
to obtain possession of this money, which
was saved
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Italia Irridente.

LONDON, Jan. 5.-A dispatch from
Rome TO the Times says: "a Milan news
paper, having opened a subscription for
monument to Overdank, has been warned
that the journal will be sequestrated if
the subscription list continues to be pub
lished, and a penal action will be COM
menced against subscribers. The OficiaI
Gazette announces that the government
has informed the projects that they will
be held responsible for the vigorous en-
forcement of the recent instructions in
regard to anti-Austrian manifestations,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-06

Treasurer Vincent has forward to New
York, Mobile and Selma the funds neces-
sary to meet the January interst paw
ments on Alabama bonds. Interest win
also be paid on presentation of any bonds
on which interest is now due at the State
Treasury at Montgomery. The Advertiser
says 1t is gratifying to know that Ala
bama bonds stand among the best securi-
ties IN the great money marts, a fact
owing to the inyariable promptness with
which interest payments are made. Even
at the present high market quotations. no
bonds Of this State are offered for sale.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-06

In one of the large Chicago shops the
other night the electric lights suddenly
went out and, in looking under the dyna-
with one leg raised as if about to take
another step, motionless. The rat was
dead and rooted to the spot. 1t had
leaped or stepped first on one of the cop
per conductors underneath the brush. and
in stepping ON the other closed the current
so that it passed through the body, killing
it instantly. The machinery was stopped,
the rat taken off, and then everything was
all right again.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-06
Another Move Against Gould.

NEW YORK, Jan. 5.-Frederick Bill, of
GrotOn, Conn.,, who owns 275 shares of the
Gold and Stock Telegraph Company, has
filed bill in equity in the United States
District Court against the Western Union
Telegraph Company, the Gold and Stock
Telegraph Company, and the directors in
dividually of both corporations. Upon
this bill preliminary injunction has been
granted restraining the carrying out OF
the lease for ninety-nine years of the Gold
and Stock property to the Western Union.
The bill prays for a cancellation of the
lease and for other relief.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-06
CHILI-PERU.

Minister Logan's Letter - The Feeling
in Lima.
LIMA, Jan, 5.-The letter of Gen. Logan,
the United States Minister to Chill, to
Gen. Montero, was republished in the
Didrio Official of the I'd inst. 1t is APP
plauded by the Chilians, but causes great
indignation among the Peruvians, who
say that Gen. Logan, being Minister to
Chilli and not to Peru, had no right to ad-
dress an official communication to Peru,
and that his letter has really postponed
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-06

n New metnOu OF STOCK SW1n0ling,
The London Times recently published
the following letter from prominent firm
of brokers in London, giving warning of a
new method of stock swindling:
''SIR-You would be comforting favor
on members of the Stock Exchange if you
would insert warning paragraph in your
money articles to brokers to beware of a
man, or, perhaps, gang of mentor we
believe there are several working together
who for some time past have been vic
timizing brokers.
''The modus operandi Of the particular
individual we mean is TO pay visit to the
Secretary of some well known company
and make a series of inquiries with a view
to investing in their stock, winding up
with a request for an introduction to a
broker to do the business. He has sue
ceeded several times in this, and has then
proceeded to the brokers, and, after stat
ing that he was recommended by Mr.. So
and-so, induced them to exchange his in
vestments, promising to bring down his
stock, sold, in a day or two, etc. He is
then called down to the North, and is
unable TO complete, so telegraphs to carry
over the stocks. If there is profit no
doubt he would appear to take it, but
when there is loss he is not to be found.
"This may be an ordinary risk, to be
met by ordinary caution, but this man is
peculiarly proficient in his art, and has
succeeded in yictimizing some firms of
brokers of high standing and old fashion
ed ideas, who are not certainly credited in
the House with being at all loose in their
habits Of business. And we have found
so many people he has tried that we have
no doubt he is doing thriving business,
and we want to save others from suffering
as we have done. If some of his earlier
victims had taken any means of warning
others we might have been saved. but
there seems to be deep.rooted objection
to admit such losses, and rogues profit by
itV
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-06
Weather IndicafionS

OFFICE CHIEF SIGNAL OBSERVER,
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.-Indications for
Saturday:
In the South Atlantic States, clearing
weather, light variable winds, mostly
northerly, stationary or higher tempera-
| ture and pressure.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-06
A thoroughly Broken Bank

LoNDoS. Jan. 5.-A dispatch to the
Times from st. Petersburg says: The
p,unicipal bank of Sapojok has failed.
The town has only three thousand inhabi-
tants, but the liabilities Of the bank are
probably some millions of roubles. The
assets, exclusive of furniture, are only
twenty-nine Poubles. The municipality
of SapOjok will prosecute one of the dl-
rectors. The affair is regarded as inr'
ther proof of the unsoundness of the sys.
tenn 81 municipal banks.v
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-06

LONDON, Jan. "a dispatch from
Wiesbadep to the Daily Ne,CS says: '1The
Rhine is beginning to fall. Thirteen per-
sons were drowned at Friesehiem. In all
sixty or seventy lives have been lost by
floods. The water is penetrating the
foundations of the -fortifications at Nav
ence, The barometer is risingv
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The Mic6Igan Se1a7o--6Ir.

DETROIT, Jan. 5.-Fifty-seven members
of the Legislature assembled last night
and renominated Senator Ferry for United
States Senator. Twenty-four Republicans
did not attend, and declare themselves not
bound by the proceedings Of the caucus.