Savannah Morning News, 1881-08-10

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No advertisement inserted n .^ r t!,.-<e headings for less that 30 cent*. > .."'ranees can be made by Post Office Order, -,-rered letter orF.xpress. at our risk. - V t insure the insertion of any adver adveron - on adveron any specified day or days, nor e insure thenumberof insertionswith insertionswith,n - ,n insertionswith,n the time required by the advertiser. Advertisements will, however, have their iuii number of insertions when the time i b- made up. but when accidentally left ' lU{ a:l j'the number of insertions cannot be v ,. n _ |j 1P money paid for the omitted in- will be returned to the advertiser. All Viters should be addressed. AU .elters j H Savannah. Ga. Keslstered at the Post Office iu S SIIDV - IIDVI SIIDV b * Second Class Tf alter. Ilnuvit A (Taira. Tlie Griffin Nan says that two negroes, diaries Scott and Anderson Alexander, were caught st alirg hogs the other night, and promptly j tiled. The citizens of Monroe county have held an enthusiastic meeting and determined on the fence" law. Si iv&nia Telephone: "From the general re sprets in this county it h |-a le that the corton crop has been cut off at least or e half by the bad seasons. Corn has 1.,-n haoly injured, I sit not so much as cotton, one-third will cover the damage to that crop." Dublin Gazette: week, in Wilkinson county, just above the edge of Laurens, on the f Mr. Alfred Hall, a negro child snout three years old was drowned in a tub of water. In plaTing around the tu-, where i's mother bad been washing and left for some fell he.ii foremost into the water and unable to get out. When found it was dead. HinesviPe Gazette: "Last week the rain came in refreshing showers, too late perhaps f,,r corn, but still in time to do rice and cane much g'-od. Although very late in the season, some of our farmers are planting vines, as there was no rain in July for this purpose. We hear that in some places before the rain came that some cut down their corn and saved it tor forage." Sandervill* Mercury: "Mr. Robt. Pounds left his house on Tuesday la"t to visit oi eof bis fields, to se * how his hands were getting a! ng. and in crossing a creek on a log his foot slipped and he fell and dislocated his right shoulder and had to lie there some time before he could make bis hands hear him. When they found him he was suffering very much and could not get up until they pulled bis shoulder in place." Franklin Register: "In his speech on last Tuesday, Dr. Carlton explained the principles upon which the eighteen inch guage railroad *s built. He also exhibited an engraving < f the cars and track in ihe Scientific American. The cars are seven feet wide, and the track but eighteen i' ches broad, yet owing to the peculiar it ion, the trains are run with as great safety as on the ordinary broad gauge road." Macon Telegraph: "Mr George I. S -ney has again bestowed a munificent gi t upon the Wesleyan Fenia'e College of this city - s3o,ooo - making m all SIOO.O 0 Mr. Seney's first gift to Wesleyan was $5 ',IOO. $25,010 of which was to i e devoted to the building. The building fund he atterwards increa-ed by a gift of $.'0.000. A few days since he cave $3*1.0 0 to endow Emory, making m all SIUO.OCO to that college Ills last gift to Wesleyan puts it on an quality with Emory, and makes happy the Methodists throughout the State." Dublin Gazette: "One day last week, while Mr. W iliiam Martin was driving cattle in a swamp w hich was muddy and wet, he jumped from one high point to another, and as be made the jump the sharp end of a limb was thrust into his ear. which gave him great pain end threatened to destroy h s hearing. This was done in the evening, and no assistance could be had till the following morning, when he came to I ub in and had it taken out by a physician. The stick was about an inch long, the outer end only vi-ible." HinesviUe Gazette: "Last Friday, as the Sa Savannah - vannah Savannah bound train approached No 3. a herd of cattle were crossing the track. At the sound of the whis le all scampered away with the ex.-eption of a five-year-old. He wa caught by the train, and, springing up. his feet were caught in the bars of the cow catcher, and he could not exirieate himself. He stood up with becoming dignity enl vying his ride until th train was stop pel. With the assist ancenf a rail he was released from durance vil-. -! went scampering off through the woods." Macon Telegraph: ' The Legislative com committee - mittee committee have reported unfavorably upon the York town bill or. in other words, recommend that the State send no reprt Rental ive. Georgia is the only one of the original thirteen States that will not be officially represented at the Centennial. Twelve States have made ap appropriations - propriations appropriations to send troops, and France will send a ship load of representatives. The Em Empire - pire Empire State of the South won't celebrate on this occasion, and the Governors of North and South Carolina will have to drink by them themselves - selves themselves as of old." Swainsboro Herald: "Mrs Henry Young Youngblood - blood Youngblood came very near being killed l>v being thrown from a buggy on the 24'li ut. She was in company with ter daughter and son-in-law, Mr Wilson Atkii son. when the bone became frightened snd ran over another buggy in front, throwing the ladies and a littie baby out Mrs Y'ounghJood w%- caught in a buggy buggywheel - wheel buggywheel and dragged about twenty steps. She sustained some serious injuries, breaking her shoulder and several bones about her bodv. which rendered her inenritle for some time. Her daughter also received some serious inj i iries. - ries. iries. The baby escaped with a broken ankle " Griffin .Vetr*; "Yesterday's four o'ulock pas sengrr brought Mr. Butler Hudson, of our city, who had in charge Henry Jones, the young white man eba-ged with committing rape on a small negro girl some months ago on the plac 'of Mr. W I*. Hemphill. The cap capture - ture capture was effected in Gadsden. Ala, and was the result of well laid plans bv Mr. Hudson, who gets the handsome reward of one hun hundred - dred hundred and fifty dollars for hia trouble. Jones' w ife went down to see him at the jail, the meeting being a very affecting one. His crime is a frightful one. however, and, unless the cir circ - c circ .instances can be mitigated, the chances are ui favor of his swinging from a beam." Florida Affairs. Viajtboro county has fifteen hundred dollars m her treasury an 1 is out of debt. This speaks well for the County Commissioners. Bloxham. the youngest of Mr. J. B. Mickler's children, died last Wednesday, after having survived a month the injuries inflicted by Sid Sidney - ney Sidney King. The Keg of the Gulf Is indignant that vessels only twenty four hours from the pest house of Havana, where yellow fever and smail-pox are both raging, are permitted to land passengers and freight in Key West without detention at quarantine, while a vessel from the Bahamas with a clean bill of health is detained. The ceremony of laying the corner stone of the new Episcopal church in Fernandioa will take place Thursday next at 5:30 o'clock. Twelve and a half feet of water is reported on the St. John's bar. The Jacksonville Union details the capture near that city, a few days ago, of Tom Summers, a young negro man, who. about two weeks before, committed a rape upon an old negro woman. SO years of age. near Talla Tallahassee. - hassee. Tallahassee. and made his escape. He was recog recognized - nized recognized by some of tha excursionists from Talla Tallahassee, - hassee, Tallahassee, and information given to the officials of his whereabouts. ijuiney Herald: "Mrs. M 8. Scarborough bad the misfortune to break her arm last Tuesday afternoon. Hie was standing on a chair, gath gathering - ering gathering peaches, when she fell to the ground." Apalachicola Tribune: "During the blow last Sunday, the narge that was lying near the H. Brash, loaded with croas-ties, filled and sank The ties, valued at about $501), were lost." Ta'lahasaee Economist: "The contract for the building of Tsbahassee's new hotel has been awarded to Mr. Alex. McDougall. The first load of sand is upon the site located, and the work will be pushed rapidly forward." Orange City Times: "Information has been received in this couuty. from Louisiana, that two men left that St ate a little over a year ago. with twenty stolen mules, who arswerthe description of Rhodes and Crowder, and while there went by the name of Brown and Scott." Jacksonville Union: "Last Saturday a col colored - ored colored woman living at Baldwin desired to at attend - tend attend a fair in progress at that place, and in or order - der order to quW-t her bany sent out and purchased some laudanum. She gave the chill a large quantity, from the effects of which it died. The woman has been arrested." Apalachicola Tribune: "There has been a gentleman from Baltimore in the city the past "ay/*, making inquiries for the purpose of -SSSiu* * frril zr manufactory at Cat E~r <ys that Cat Point is the very place a* muck and fish can be procured m any quantity.'* winannthlHn Un ion: "Last night as an en en-sL,ht - -sL,ht en-sL,ht * ~°, rul i l Central was backing some Jhine then in\° f ,'.*!* sid track at the ma Y ,u *- 'he cars rar into an sUrd mg on the main line. th!r S ,iT as vompletely broken to pieces, while the other was ODsi i*m. ZZtJZJZZZU*, th - attached was a so thrown from the Leesburg Advance: "The train on the St John's and Lake Eustis Railway off the track on Thursday, caused by a washout The engine tender and two box cars were thrown SiXf h °i tr^ Clt ' J al,dtheel,Bine *" r "<* fireman sightly injured, but no bones broken Tha r,^ ou ' w *t a not visible on the surface, and no ei*"f.I 0r th,> accident can be attached to the Tn?tYTi r ' WBo ' ** * ll t,ln **. is very careful slow atthe Ume. otherwise it would have been serious " Thursday a darkey. IT'JV" * ooo k<-d down and draggtd out asatt-a.'ssafsaSSw

with lace or bordered with lace, a jabot of lace finishing the neck and extending down the front. There is a straw lace or netted scarf of straw with fringe, which are placed over satiß and are very effective. They are very finely made and are not cheap, consequently only used for rich bonnets of Tuscan or Leghorn, but upon these - the wide scarf which they cover being rich in color and githered with the straw net netting, - ting, netting, where it is fastened with a very hand handsome - some handsome and finely wrought gold clasp, the only additional ornament - the effect is very good. A fashionable costume for the Spas is of shepherd's check, trimmed with black velvet and worn with a coarse straw bonnet, faced with black velvet and trimmed with a soft twisted silk scarf in a larger cheek. The dress usually has a straight cape to match. A quaint idea is the "Pilgrim" hood and cape, with hood made of fine wool, lined with satin and usually in dark colors, though the lining may be red or wine color, or old blue or gold as preferred, if not of the same color as the outside. The outfit is very convenient to slip on in the morn morning. - ing. morning. and may be carried in a strap with shawls and other things without injury There is no attempt in Germany to follow fashion in the wav it is done in America. A dress may be made as fashionably as is con consistent - sistent consistent with the ideas of its owner, but when it is made it is worn without alteration and without shame until replaced by another. There is something, hewever. that is very charming about high class German women, and it is the repose, the absence of shams and nervous excitement and worry, which are, it must be confessed, somewhat characteristic of American women. Their hair, smoothly braided, shines like satin, a frieze is only con considered - sidered considered excusable on the very young, and pow powder - der powder is unknown It is worse than vulgar, it is disreputable. Their dress has the air of per permanency - manency permanency which distinguishes ail their belong belongings; - ings; belongings; but, while on the common people this leads to dlnglness and dowdy istn. among the refined it is good, true snd harmonious, simply leading them to avoid flimsy gewgaws which only cheapen, never enhance, the effect of dress. SOME CHARACTERISTIC COSTUMES. An afternoon dress worn by a German lady at home recently was of dove colored wool, very fine and soft, trimmed with a soft silk bro brocade, - cade, brocade, a mixture of wine color and olive, old blue and gold. There was nothing novel about the materials which would be considered heavy with us for summer wear; hut the costume it itself - self itself was very good, and the effects of the drapery was enhanced by not being too much cut up. It formed a broad scarf draped semi semidiagonally - diagonally semidiagonally across the front and reaopeared only on a broad knot, and as cuffs and vest. The dress worn by a sister of the lady was a peculiar shade of puoe colored satin, trimmed entirely with beaded lace and real lace es a jabot for the neck and ruffles at the wrist. It was very handsome and very effective, but the skirt had no trimmings save two narrow thick thickly - ly thickly laid pleatings. and an interior ruffle of lace. There is a total absence in the streets of the German towns of the white and thin dresses which are common in London, and, so far as the latter are concerned, in New York. But then ladies are much less frequently seen upon the streets, and the opportunities for observing their home life are not many dur during - ing during a hurried trip. The difference is very marked, however, in this respect between New York, London and the continental cities. Woman are in the shops very quietly and neat neatly - ly neatly dressed; peasant women and servants are seen walking in the streets, also the wives of poor artisans: but the rich women certainly do not make a habit of walking, and, therefore, there are fewer opportunities of observing their dress, their modes or their manners. At a wedding which we had the good fortune to see by pure accident, as we passed the church where the religious ceremony was performed, the civil ceremony having already taken place, the bride wore a plain dress of thick white silk, finished round the bottom with a triple ruche, but having neither drapery nor over overskirt. - skirt. overskirt. The wreath of orange blossoms was carried completely around the head unmixed with any other flower, but there was no veil A small woman in black accompanied the bride in the carriage, got out with her, and arranged her dress. It might have been her maid. Following in another carriage came two young ladies, possibly sisters, who were dressed in prettily draped regular Parisian costumes of pink and blue silk trimmed with white lace, and white lace bonnets trimmed with flowers. They looked much brighter and happier than the hride. There were several other toilets of great beauty, one of which was of black Spanish lace, fiounoed over black satin, and another of dark olive green satin with an open work of gold embroidery over poppy red satin. The most characteristic dresses are those which Dever change : the dresses of the peas ant women seen in the market places and sometimes in groups, as they come iu from the country to make purchases. Short, straight, full skirts, of dark linsey-woolsey ; straight sleeves and bodies ; thick low shoes; and a handkerchief, usually white, doubled and worn as a cap, the corner extending down upon the back and making a covering for the shoulders. This is the dress that lacks the pic picturesque - turesque picturesque French element, the winged cap, but is eminently practical; and it must be said for the peasant women that they look strong, hardy, healthful and bonny, usually, though I saw one, yesterday, walking beside a donkey loaded with vegetables, whose face haunted me for hours, it was so sad. so like one of Mil Millet's. - let's. Millet's. who has revealed the peasant woman In her isolation and hopelessness. WHAT TO BUY. There are not many things which it is ad advantageous - vantageous advantageous to buy in the Belgian or German towns, but among the few are amethysts and amber, liDen and laces, onyx buttons, and some very beautiful as well as very qu int china. This linen is a joy to the eyes, and for what we would consider ordinary prices can be obtained such articles as thrifty housekeep ers look at longingly in New 5 ork, but dare not think of purchasing. In the hotel where we are staying the sheets are pure linen, the cover coverlids - lids coverlids down, the towels dautask. the table cloths fine ss "best" at home, and the curtains lace with ruffled borders inside others of cretonne The table service is exquisite cbir.a - part of Minton, part of it the product of the greatest native manufactory. And it is not chipped. The house is over an hundred years old and many of the servants have been in its employ twenty-five or thirty years. The English take home quantities of linen and whole cases of china and faience from the Nuremburg and Ludwig Weasel manufactories, but the Americans have the fear of the cus custom - tom custom house before their eyes, and are obliged *o leave the things for which they ardently long, and which at native prices might*be obtainable, behind them. Copies of old carved furniture, tall clocks.and spinning wheels are common, and excite the wicked passion of envy in many breasts. But what is the use when one tpust live in exile to eigoy them. Still the possibilities of such things are certainly an element of happiness in life abroad. Lace of common qualities is not appreciably cheaper than in New York, but in the fine real handmade manufactures it is little more than half the cost at home, and is certainly a temptation to those who have money to spend. The fine Mechlin and Duch Duchesse - esse Duchesse or Genoa point laces are the passion of the hour, and the usual sots uonslst of a large clerine collar, a Jong, harrow collarette, which can be used as a barbe, cuffs, and a few yards (say three) to be used as flounces across the front of a dress, and which are in two widths - widthsthe the widthsthe lower one wider than the upper. Long slender leaf patterns filled in with tiny roses are the favorites, the mesh fine, the ground well covered. Spanish lace is as fashionable here as at home, and does not vary so much in price, though it is certainly cheap. A large fichu or smalt mantalet can be obtained fot twelve marks ($3) of a kind that would cost five or six dollars with us; but the Spanish point is higher, and offers few inducements to purchasers, probably because it is more of a novelty. There is a total absence in England and on the Continent of the pretty neckerchiefs of em embroidered - broidered embroidered and lace trimmed mull which have been so much the vogue in New York, and made so dainty an accessory to morning toilets; and we have been wondering where they could have come from, and If it was a partly local fashion. There are fashions certainly that do not reach far beyond the limits of the spot where they are born, and this may be one of them. The esthetic sunflower, for example, which in London spreads its monstrous pro proportions - portions proportions over fan*, parasols, dresses, aprons and bonnets, is absolutely confined to the region of the the too" and "con - and is not seen anywhere else - at least to an alarming extent. Perhaps it will travel to New York, and with the "rea bronze," tangled hair, the leg of mutton Jeeves, the shield-shaped fans wxtlj h,ent very long handles and "Patience,'' I hope so. for it is by far the altogether most-"too too"-for anything idea which we have had In years, and Mr. Oscar Wi'de ought to be imported to give it the requisite tone in society circles. Mr. Oscar Wilde is to the esthetic craze in London society what Dundreary was to the drama, and what would Dundreary be without Sothern? "too "tootoo" - too" "tootoo" dreary.

FASHION IN EUROPE. THE VARIED PHASES OF DBESS- The Three Grand Centre* of Style - Tbe Esthetic Craze - lndifference of German and Belgian Women - Tourlats' Tollets-Tbe Tailor made Uniform - Tbe Regulation ''Get ''Getup" - up" ''Getup" of tbe English Swell-Charac Swell-Characteristic - teristic Swell-Characteristic German Costumea - more of the ''Utter" and the " roo-too" - Things One Long* to Pick Up - Children's Dress in Germany. Bonn, July 15. - There are only three great centres of Fashion, London, Paris and New York - or you may reverse the order and not be far out of the way. Remove from these and Fashion seems tdfcave been left far behind and to belOßg to a world with which the ma majority - jority majority of human beings have nothing to do. In London the esthetic craze makes anew point of departure and lifts dress out of the region of the conventional and the common commonplace. - place. commonplace. Absurd as it seems when carried to the extreme, wide field as it affords for grotesque caricature and ridiculous exaggeration, it still has its merit of originality and differentiation from the usual ruts - and, more than tbis.it gives us, with something of the picturesque, more that is simple and sensible than we find elsewhere. The straight skirt, the belted waist, the puffed sleeve.are a uniform in London, but nowhere else. Elsewhere - on the Continent, that is to say - the fashions (when there are any fashions) are those of Paris and New York. Everywhere are the coarse straws, scoop-shap scoop-shaped - ed scoop-shaped bonnets trimmed with twisted scarf and the bunch of roses; everywhere are the trimmed skirts and draped polonaises; the little capes and tbe large collars; the beaded trimmings and the cotton embroidery; the Japanese fig figures - ures figures upon red ground and the Spanish-lace fichus with bunches of flowers upon the left of the corsage. Even the old town of Bonn re reproduces - produces reproduces in its every shop window the lace pleated ties and knots, the costumes and man mantles, - tles, mantles, the ribbons and bonnets that are to be seen on the business thoroughfares of the city of New York. But fashion seems here of much less import importance - ance importance than in the city of London or New York. There are things that take the lead of it even among t he women of the higher classes, while for the lower it does not exist at all. Children are of enormous importance in Belgium and Germany, and their care occupies not only the mother but the entire family, especially the female part of it. Moreover tbe Belgian and German hausfrau is pre-eminently the house housewife, - wife, housewife, and though she is not averse to fine clothes gives no time te them which ought by right to be devoted to husband and children. Asa rule she is not a tasteful dresser. Bhe has not the subtle instinct of the Parisian, or the quick imitative faculty of the American, and her thrift prevents her from cultivating pretty house ways and daintiness on her own proper person. She is fond of woolen and wears it to the verge of dinginess. But there are some notable exceptions; ladies whose fine bearing and exquisite taste render them truly royal in appearance, though they are more apt to belong to the realm of art and literary culture than to the German caste of Vere de Vere. TOUBIBTS' TOILETS. Perhaps the most singular extravagances and eccentricities of costume are to be seen in crossing the British channel, and in the con constant - stant constant contact with the female tourist as she plunges in and out of churches and cathedrals or occupies the cheap end of the boat - which is the best point for seeing - after having paid for the dearest, as it ploughs its way leisurely up the Rhine. I say "female" deliberately, though I do not like the word, because women under these circumstances seem to have changed their natures and lost some of tha first elements. They put on hy hybrid - brid hybrid garments, assume a sort of roystering air (which is the poorest sort of imitation of mas cuiine effrontery), and with the inevitable woolen shawl which is always carried over one shoulder or in a strap, and never put on. is as recognizable as a bundle of Cook's tickets. The elegant tourist is severely plain. Her complete costume of navy blue cloth or flannel is surmounted by a straw hat faced with black velvet and trimmed with a broad twisted scarf of mull, in which a group of blush roses is fastened, and is further finished by the addi addition - tion addition of long undressed kid gloves. Her ulster is tailor made, and a long grey gauze veil ap appears - pears appears if demanded by an emergency. The tailor made costumes of cloth of light texture, but firm and durable, made by several noted firms in London, are famous the world over and are worn by ladies of the highest reputation for taste and cultivation. The skirts, except for habits, are always of walking length, and more or less kilted or very simply draped, the upper part forming a princesse polonaise or coat basque with or without a cape. The hat is a felt, soft or ala Derby. Wherever these dresses are seen they are a badge of that distinction which marks the lady of experience and cultivated perceptions. They are the least showy of toilets, as little so as those of men, but they are of excellent ma material, - terial, material, good fit and cut, and neat, strong finish their beauty bei< g in their perfect fitness and adaptability to their function. But though of English design and a special English product, vet they are less seen upon the persons of English lady tourists than those who come from America. American women have a wonderful intuition for a good thing, and four out of five of the well-off class go straight to Cobb's, or some other ladies' tailor, on arrival in London, and get fitted out with a cloth, tailor-made traveling suit, a hat and ulster, and find the blessing of a dress that is not dropping apart at every step, or left in pieces at every sopping place. The "lawn tennis" costumes are utilized very much by young English girls for travel traveling, - ing, traveling, and they are very good if the journeys are not too long; but, though they are often seen on the channel passage, they seem hardly appropriate on the score of warmth, as the lawn tennis dress is more fanciful than pro protective. - tective. protective. Such as it is, and as it is seen in all the shops of London, it consists of an old fash fashioned - ioned fashioned over dress, low-necked, and sleeveless, except for ruffles around the arm armholes. - holes. armholes. It may be of print, checked gingham, or foulard, and has one large pocket upon the front (for holding the balls), which, in a travel traveling - ing traveling dress, is plaoed upon the inside, and used for guide books and the like - whatever will lie flat. A shirred bonnet, of the usual scoop shape, is made to match the over-dress, and the whole thing is worn over a plain under underdress - dress underdress of cotton or wool, to which is sometimes added a cape or mantle to match the under underdress. - dress. underdress. It is in reality a protective apron for out of doors play, with a shade hat or bonnet of the same material; but it is put to many uses, and is certainly an economical as well a* pretty idea. The most effective are red with small Japanese blue and olive figures over plain dresses of olive with puffed or small leg of mutton sleeves, and drawn bonnet tied with olive ribbon. The eccentricities of tourists are mainly seen in the style of the hat, and English from hav having - ing having introduced an "Early" English hat of soft felt,which though intended specially for sports, has been adopted for traveling. The "hatte" can be thrown up in front or turned and twist twisted - ed twisted in every way; and quantities of them in white (cream), peacock blue, red, ecru, and old gold, may be seen all over thecootinent, some sometimes - times sometimes making a bit of striking color, some sometimes - times sometimes tied down with a gauze veil in such a way ns to make a "gipsy" hat of it but always an oddity when or wherever seen. Of course the opportunity for the picturesque is not lost upon the American lady traveler, and she seizes it, if young and pretty, with natural and charming eagerness. If notyoung or pretty, the desire for originality becomes excessively reprehensible and subject* the un unconscious - conscious unconscious object to severe criticism. Even gentlemen are a£ected by the mania for high coloied bats;, audit is hot uncommon to see preatn and red and oven green felt hats in com company - pany company with the neat Bond street morning coat, vest and trowsers of mixed almond tinted cas cassimere, - simere, cassimere, which is the uniform of the English "swell." Nothing can be more commnoplace than the ordinary traveling dress o| the German haus hausfrau. - frau. hausfrau. It is tbe much puffed and draped dress Of woolen, with a jacket or paletot or shape shapeless - less shapeless dolman, trimmed with hangirg fringe or jet, and a bonnet of straw with a twisted scarf or thick wreath of ugly and high colored flowers. Arrived at their destination, they

OUR GREAT STAPLE. JULY REPORT ON THE GROWING COTTON CROP. The Outlook In Vtralnla, the Caro Carollna*, - llna*, Carollna*, Alabama, ffllaelaelppl, Ar* kausaa and Tennessee. Charleston, August 9. - The July renort of the Charleston Exchange Is based on fifty-three replies from twenty-seven coun counties. - ties. counties. The condition ot the crop for the month of July Is generally reported un unfavorable - favorable unfavorable on account of the continued dry and excessively hot weather causing rust and shedding in various sections. One reply reports more favorable, four the same as last year, forty-eight from unfavorable to very unfavorable. No lands are reported as abandoned. The crop is seriously injured by the drought. The plant ia small and boiling badly. Two counties report injury from lice. The average estimate as to the outtnrn of the crop is from one-fourth to one-third less than last year. Picking will be general from the 20ih of August till the Ist of September. Norfolk, August 9. - The Cotton Ex Exchange - change Exchange makes the following report of the condition of the crop, based on seventy replies from thirty-six counties in N >rth Carolina and Virginia, of the average date of July 30. Thirty five replies show favor favorable - able favorable weather. Thirty five unfavorable. Twelve show more favorable weather than last year. Fourteen the same m last year, and forty-four less favorable than last year. Fifty-nine replies show that the plant is forming, bloomlog and blossoming well, and eleven not well. Forty five replies show the condition of the crop good, and twenty-five poor. Thirty nine replies show the condition of the crop not so good as last year. Twenty the same as last year, and eleven better than last year. The average of the replies show tbe condition of the crop3s 3 100 percent lower than last year. Sjine few replies indicate that Dicking will begin by August 25th. An average of tbe reports shows that picking will have begun by September 10th to 15th. The tenor of the reports indicates that the plant is small, caused bv tbe drought, which was general and severe up to July 25th. Since that tiina rains have been abundant. They further show that much of the damage can be corrected by a favorable season in August. Accounts of lice are more fre frequent, - quent, frequent, and are reported from eleven coun counties. - ties. counties. Labor in some sections is so scarce as to retard the cultivation of tbe crops. Mobile, August 9. - Tbe following is the Mobile Cotton Exchange report for July: A labam a - Thirty-five counties, sixty-two repliea. Tne weather for July is reported as favorable for tbe growth and develop development - ment development of tbe crop in seventeen counties aud unfavorable in twenty counties, and as compared with last year from equally as favorable to more favorable in nineteen counties. The plant is re reported - ported reported as forming, blooming and boiling well in twenty-eight counties and not well in nine counties. The present condition of the crop is reported fair to good in twenty twentyeight - eight twentyeight counties and poor in nine coun counties, - ties, counties, and as compared with last year front good to better in the mo6t productive counties and not so good in the small up uplind - lind uplind counties on account of the drought. Picking will be general from August 15ih to September Ist, according to location ot counties. Worms in small numbers are re reported - ported reported in most of the low land counties, but there are no damages therefrom as yet. Mississippi. - Nineteen coun'.les, twenty twentynine - nine twentynine replies. The weather during July is reported as having been favorable in ten, aud as compared with last year equally as favorable to more favorable in eleven coun counties - ties counties and less favorable in eight counties. The plan- is forming, blooming aud boiling well, there being only one report to the contrary. The preeeut condition of the crop is fair to good. The plant, however, is small in the hill count L-s, and, as compared with last y.-ar, is from as good to much better in twelve counties, and not as good in sev seven - en seven counties. Picking will become general from August 15 to September 1. The com committee - mittee committee begs to report that the most general complaint from correspondents in both States has been the drought, but, since the date of their letters good rains have fallen over nearly the whole of our district, doing much good. Memphis, August 9. - The crop report to the Memphis Colton Exchange, comprising the districts of North Mi-stsslppi, North Ar kansas and West Tennessee for the month of July embraces eighty two responses. Seveuieec report the weather as favorable and sixty five unfavorable on account of the excessive drought. As compared with 1880, sixteen report the. weather more favor able and sixty six less favorable, Five re report - port report tbe plant forming, blooming and blossoming well, and thirty-two not well. No report from others on this feature was received. Twenty five report the crop in g od condition, nineteen moderately good and thirty-eight poor. Thirteen re part it iu better condition than last year, ten about the same, and fifty-nine not so good. Picking will become general from August 10 to September 15 ; the average date will be September 1. There Is general complaint of the long continued drciuht that has prevailed throughout this district during tbe month of July, which has retard retarded - ed retarded the growth of the plant and caused its fruit to ma* ure too rapidly. Eleven report the plant shedding rlightly, and thirty re report - port report it shedding seriously. Five, four in Mississippi and one in Arkansas, report the appearance of worms, but no danger has been done. FREIGHTS AND FARES. The Transportation Problem In New York - An Important ,t|ore. New York, August 9. - At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce to day delegates were appointed to attend tbe Transportation ; Conference, to be held at Utica on the 12 h instant. The call was signed by maDy promi prominent - nent prominent farmers throughout the Btate to con consider - sider consider whether our government Is to continue a government of the people, for the people, by the people, or whether It is to be "a goy ernment ot corporations, by corporations, : for the benefit of the favored few.'* Tbe special committee on railroad trans : portatton submitted a report on tbe changes which have recently taken place in freight and passenger rates, and passed a resolu resolution - tion resolution asking the mauager6 of the trunk lines for a general reduction in west bound open rates, and declaring that tbe only dis discrimination - crimination discrimination just! liable in tbe report of a com common - mon common carrier, either as regards persons or places, Is that based upon "cost of service," and upon this basis asking the trunk lines - to make a thorough examination, and, if i borne out by the facts, to join in equal with ail other seaboard cities and to remember tbeir oft repeated assertion that tbe amount of wa-ered stock has nothing to do with the cost of transportation. They tlso deprecate the practice of making ixcesstvely low rates during the season of navigation and Invariably higher rates during the winter months. That this is not only discriminating against the State, which, as the owner of the canals, cannot afford to permit th'a practice, but it is also detrimental to the best interests of commerce generally. Another resolution declares that reasonably uniform and public rates of freight will best serve tbe interests of both public and railroads. That "we willingly concede rates which will pay lib liberal - eral liberal dividends upon the actual cost of con construction - struction construction of these modern highways, but that stock watering is a crime against the public which should be prohibited by severe penalties." DEADLY LIGHTNING. Two Men Killed in ITlanitoba - An* other a Having .Maniac. Winnipeg, Manitoba, August 9. - A tent occupied by men employed in grading on the Canadian Pacific Railway, near Grand Valley, was struck by lightning during a storm on the 30th ult, and two of the men were instantly killed. Another of the men, who was supposed to have been killed, was laid out for burial. He recovered, but see seeing - ing seeing the black corpse* of bis comrades on each side, hie mind became so affected that he is now a raving maniac. Another County Heard From. Cincinnati, August 9. - A bale of new cotton from Georgia, raised in Terrell coun county, - ty, county, was sold here to-day for cent* per pound. It was raised by J. J. Grant and purchased by F. A. Laidley A Cos. Silver Creek, N. Y., Feb. 6,1880. Gents - l have been very low, and have -tried everything, to no advantage. I heard your Hop Bitters recommended by so many, I concluded to give them a trial. I did, and now am around, and constantly Im Improving, - proving, Improving, and am nearly as strong as ever. W. H. W*UJB.

BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY. One hundred and forty-eight persons died 1 In New York city between Saturday and I Sunday noon. Sixty of these deaths are ascribed to the effects of the heat. The steamer Cortes, bound for Bt. Johns, | Newfoundland, has been wrecked while go going - ing going out of Halifax harbor by striking on I Thrum Cap. She will be a total loss. A man, supposed to be Hartmann, the Nihilist, has arrived in Montreal and regis registered - tered registered at one of the hotels under another name. Meantime a detective Is watching his movements. A telegram from Tucson, Arizona, says the statement of Lampreux, the engineer recently captured by Apaches, "is false in detail as to numbers and movements of the savages and presence of Victoria." Two large mills of the Old Colony Com Company, - pany, Company, at East Taunton, Massachusetts, were destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at about $175,000, and nearly three hundred men are thrown out of employment. Two bodies, which had been mangled be beyond - yond beyond recognition by coyotes, were found about ten miles from Tucson, Arizona. They were supposed to be those of two Indians lynched for a murder about a month ago. Anti Jewish disturbances have occurred at Justrow, West Prussia, during which a Rabbi was wounded, his assailants escap escaping, - ing, escaping, after a regular fight with the police. Further disturbances of the same character have occurred at Bublltz, in Pomerania. The Indian chief Spotted Tail has been shot dead by Crow Dog, captain of police, at the Rosebud Agency, in Nebraska. There had been ill feeling between them for some time. Crow Dog has gone to Fort Niobrara, "to await further developments." A dispatch received from Oroville, Cal., says: "J. P. Noakes was taken from the jail by a body of masked and armed men, conveyed a short distance from the town, and hanged to a tree. Noakes had murdered an old man named A. J. Crum, at Chico, three weeks ago, by kicking him to death." It is proposed to send out an expedition or expeditions of observation of the transit of Venus, which again occurs in 1883. Nothing definite has yet been arrived at, however, in this connection. An appropria appropriation - tion appropriation will have to be made by Congress be before - fore before the work can be undertaken. The sub subject - ject subject will be called to the attention of Con Congress - gress Congress by Secretary Hunt. The contract of the Spanish Government for the American tobacco needed this year in carrying on its monopoly has been awarded to Louis Araujoy Co6ta, of Mad Madrid, - rid, Madrid, whose American agents are Galwey & Casado, of New York. The contract is for i),000,000 kilograms, equal to about 12,500 hogsheads, of Kentucky and Virginia to tobacco - bacco tobacco in four grades - selections, medium leaf, common leaf and lugs. Constables at McKeesport, Pa., arrested two men near Deadman's Hollow who are thought to be the leaders of the gang of desperadoes who murdered McClure. They gave their names as "Shorty" and "Reddy," and the former is thought to be the leader of the gang. An Immense crowd gathered around the jail and threats were made of lynching the men as soon as It could be definitely settled that they were the persons who committed the crime. The residents of Queenstown, near Wash Washington, - ington, Washington, D. C., are horrified over the discov discovery - ery discovery of a fiendish murder. Two children of a gentleman named Fisher were found mur murdered, - dered, murdered, with fearful wounds in the head in inflicted - flicted inflicted with an axe or club. An old negress and her daughter are held for the crime. From the evidence adduced before the Coroner, it is thought that the old woman killed them in a fit of drunken rage. The children were aged three and five years. A cold blooded and terrible murder is re reported - ported reported to have occurred recently on a rail railroad - road railroad train at Shannondale, a small station on a branch of the Wabash Road, between Salisbury and Glasgow, Mo. While sitting in one of the coaches, George Wright, a passenger, was approached from behind by two men, one of whom buried a hatchet in his skull, and the other fired a pistol ball Into his head. The murderers then rushed from the car and escaped into the woods. Mrs. Kate Adams attempted to commit suicide recently by jumping into the Niagara river from in front of the pulp mill just above the American Falls. She was noticed by an attendant in a curiosity store near the spot to act strangely, but not enough to ad admit - mit admit of interference. Shortly afterward Mrs. Adams made the fearful leap. The alarm was at once given and Mr. W. A. Phllpot, who happened to be near, threw off his coat and vest, ran down the bank some hundred feet, where the lady had drifted into the stream, and brought her safely to land. THE POWERS OF THE RAILROAD COMMISSION. Senator Brows Before the Senate Hallroad Committee and the Com Commission. - mission. Commission. Atlanta Post-Appeal. Senator Joseph E. Brown appeared Friday evening at half-past four o'clock in the Senate chamber, before the Senate Committee on Railroads and the Railroad Commission, to give them his views on a Railroad Commission. He had no ob| jections to make to the present Commis Commission - sion Commission or their work. He was not opposed to a Commission. On the other hand he believed it to be the best medium yet brought forward for the regu regulation - lation regulation of matters between the rail railroads - roads railroads and the people. His objection to the present Commission was not to their work but the law under which they act. He believed the law not only to be un constitutional, but derogatory to the best interests of both railroads and the people. In this light of the question he proceeded to show with a great deal of ability that to the Commission powers were delegated by the Legislature which the Legislature itself did not pos possess - namely, - sess - namely, possess - namely, the powers ot the Legis Legislature, - lature, Legislature, Judiciary and Executive. He claimed it as proper and right that they should regulate their tariffs, but not make them. In fact, he argued that this present Commission, under the existing laws creating and controlling it, was a little government of itself, with all the powers of our National and State Governments - first to make its rules, then pass judgment upon them, and finally exe execute - cute execute them. He thought their power to make a rule for tariff rates and to sue the railroads for a penal offense if they disregarded it, and then upon no evi evidence - dence evidence whatever save their own ac action - tion action in making the rates to fine them from SI,OOO to $5,000 and execute this verdict, an arbitrary one, and contrary to all notions of civil liberty. He believed that the prop proper - er proper sphere of the Commission was a ju judiciary - diciary judiciary function to arbitrate and settle all matters that come into dispute be tween the people and the railroads. In that way the Commission wouldj be a regulating power, a means of protection for the people against any unreasonable charges or rates they might make, and yet leave to the railroads the right of defense and explanation. His argument was listened to with great attention by the committee, the Commission and quite a large gathering of spectators, among them a number of prominent railroad men. After Senator Brown had concluded his remarks, Hon. Samuel Barnett, a member of the Railroad Commission, appeared before the committee to answer the arguments of Senator Brown, and to defend the Commission and the law under whigh it was acting. He said at the outset that the Commission was unprepared to answer satisfactorily the points brought forward by Gov. Brown, as they expected an informal meeting with the committee, and not a large gathering of Senators, spectators and railroad men, headed by their chief. He introduced no new points, nor any anything - thing anything in answer to Senator Brown, but held up before the committee a copy of Judge Wood's recent decision on the rights and powers of the Commission under the present law. He was of the opinion that that able argument covered it all, and moreover, believed it to be settled that the Commission was all right, and was doing a good work. Queen Victoria went through a plea pleasant - sant pleasant little ceremony lately 'when the boys of Christ's Hospital, of the founda foundation - tion foundation of King Charles 11.. went to Wind Windsor - sor Windsor to exhibit to her their drawings and charts. The young fellows had luncheon in the dining-room and then each of the forty was formally presented to the Queen. After that each boy in succes succession - sion succession laid his drawings and charts before her for inspection, and the kindly lady selected fouj which especially pleased fe??'

South Carolina Notts. The stock law is being agitated in Edgefield county. A difficulty occurred at Johnston, Edgefield county, Monday morning, between W. H. Boul Boulware - ware Boulware and Elbert Padgett, in which knives were used quite freely. Padgett got a gash eight or ten inches long under the ribs and Boulware was cut slightly under the arm. Mr. Nesbit, the manager of the Dorn gold mine, in Abbeville county, has already shipped ore worth $340 a ton, and has since found and opened a vein which will yield ore valued at SI,OOO a ton. A colored boy was drowned near Chesterfield on Sunday while in bathing. There are certain persons traveling through Spartanburg county selling whisky uuder United States licenses received from revenue officers. Henry Thompson, colored, was arrested in Orangeburg on Friday last upon a warrant charging him with the burning of Mr. J. H. Felder's dwelling. The Hampton Guardian says that Mr John Clark who is well known in that section, left the residence of Mr. W. T. Spencer, at Early Branch, on the 25th of last December. He was seen at etnasse \ on the same evening, but since then his friends have been unable to learn anything of his whereabouts. Miss Emma Burckhalter, of Barnwell, has just completed a handsome quilt in which there are 4 985 patches. John E. Peoples, of Anderson, is the greatest rsg inan in the state He ships annually from 150,000 to 200,000 pounds of rags. Mr. M. W. Watson, of Ridge Spring, Edge Edgefield - field Edgefield county, recently sold ninety-g'x acres of land, one mile from that place, for $3,500. There are five men in Hampton county, neither of whom have lese than thirteen chil children, - dren, children, and some of them as many as fifteen. Chester county has a dwarf who is fifteen years old and is onlv thirty-eight inches high. He is white, weighs 68 pounds, and is in excel excellent - lent excellent health. There were returned in Hampton county last year 1,6i8 horses.which averaged $65 each; 1.193 mules, $67 each: 14.499 cattle, $8 each; 4.35! sheep, $1 each; 2.165 degs, $25 each. For seventeen months, says the Lexington Dispatch, there have been only two Sheriff sa.es, and they were made nine months since. Can any other county in the State make so good a showing ' 8. P. Croft's dwelling house In Barnwell county, with all its furniture, was burned on Sunday night. The fire is supposed to have been kindled by an incendiary who wish-d to burn the family, as the tlimes were first ap plied to Mr. Croft's sleeping apartment. A serious cutting affray occurred at Camden last week between William Rodgers and James Chesnut, both colored. Cbesnut was severely cut in the left shoulder and left hand. The wound in the shoulder is some three or four inches long and over an inch deep, while the one in the hand nearly severed it in two from the wrist to the fingers. General U. J. Rains, a prominent citizen of Aiken, and a soldier in the Mexican war. died very suddenly at his residence in Aiken on last Saturday morning at 5 o'clock On Wednes Wednesday - day Wednesday he was in his usual health, but on Friday he complained of shortness of breath and rapidly sank until his is said to have been probable that death enfllhd from a'wound the General received in the Mexican war about thirty-five or forty years ago. The Legislative Committee on Constitution, lat ly in session at Greenville, have adjourned They will propose several amendments to the constitution at tbe next sitting ot the General Assembly. Besides the amendments already mentioned, changing tbe term of county and State officers from two to four years, and the election of Judges for life or during good be behavior, - havior, behavior, the committee has agreed to recom recommend - mend recommend a change in the time of holding county ai.d Mate elections so that they shall not take place on the same day with the national elec elections. - tions. elections. Another change proposed looks to more clearly defining the qualifications of voters. Insddition to what has already been mentioned, it is proposed to make important changes in the educational department of the State. On the 3d inst., aa a party of two men and three women, going home from their work, were crossing the trestle of the Charleston and Savannah Railway over the Ccosawhatchie river, they saw the hand car of section No. 8 a r out three hundred yards behind them. They made all haste to get over and motionei to tbe men on the hand car to slack speed UDtil they could get out of the way. The car was. how however. - ever. however. not stopped quick enough, and the entire party of pedestrians were knocked from the trestle into the marsh, a fall of fifteen or twenty feet. One woman was insensible for ten minutes another was knocked speechle-s and the third had her arm run over by the car and her right hand badly cut One of the men had his leg badly mashed. One of the women is still very ill from the effects of her injurits. The present crop outlook is more unpromis unpromising - ing unpromising than at the last report. Cotton has on y a -lion time in which to grow fruit that will ma mature - ture mature before frost, and without favorable sea sons and a late fall it will fall far short of a three quarter crop. Corn cannot be material materially - ly materially beneStei by the most favorable seasons, ami will p obably not yield much above the present estimates, a fraction over a half crop. Rice in some sections has still tirre for im improvement. - provement. improvement. and the yiell may be above pres present - ent present estimates. Peas may yet be p anted for forage, and this course is urgently recom recommenced. - menced. recommenced. The State has been visited by the severest drought known in many years and the farmers feel discouraged, but there is room for hope, and favorable seasons for the next few weeks will make the prospects brighter than are at present anticipated. Horatio Sejmonr on the Political Situation Intervieued for the Chicago Time*. "I do not think that the attack on the President has made any change in poli political - tical political feelings, except, perhaps, to soften them. It has without doubt made with Democrats a more kindly feeling toward the President. What the future may be no one can foresee. If, in case of his restoration to health. President Garfield should show a strong partisan feeling it would make a reaction against him. Ex Extreme - treme Extreme partisanship would be felt to be an ungrateful return for the interest shown by a i parties and all sections in his re recovery. - covery. recovery. Ido not think that the ques tion of administrative arrangement has occupied much of the public mind, nor do 1 think that it has brought any well wellworked - worked wellworked plan for guarding against this danger to the public from the attempts to murder officials. Tbe perils which surround high positions may tend to check ambition to hold them, and to sober the passions for place and power. It is hard to foresee the effects of the Albany contest upon the action of parties. These are so frequently mollified by casual events that it is diffi cuit to forecast the effect of any particu lar action, it has encouraged the Demo Democratic - cratic Democratic party, because it has not been drawn mto'the contest or made respon sible for any of the acts of the Legtsla ture that have offended. Ido not think that there are any indications of any great modification in political parties." The correspondent adds: "Gov. Bey mour'B personal relations to ex Senator C.cukling are of such a character that he will not speak or permit any opinion of his on that gentleman to be published. " Borneo Bats. - Buy bridge, the Eng lish naturalist, in his book of travels in Borneo, says: "An enormous species of day fijing bats was quite common here near the Sultan's palace, and most weird and supernatural did they appear on dull days, solemnly flying from one tree to another, their great wings distended against the leaden sky overhead. I shot one which measured four feet six inches across its outspread wings, and its head was as large as that of a little terrier dog, and of a similar shape, being ot a dark, foxy brown color." It appears that prohibition in Kansas is a delusion, after all. Judge Kingscott dismissed a liquor case the other day "at the expense of the State, '' declaring that "the prohibitory amendment U unconsti unconstitutional, - tutional, unconstitutional, and will not hold water." This decision ia reported to have paralyzed the temperance people. Judge King Kingscott - scott Kingscott is Chief Justice of a truly rural township near the Missouri line.

THE PRESIDENT. Hta Progress Satisfactory - The Sur* geoua Sanguine and the Symptems Assuring. A COMFORTABLE NIGHT. Executive Mansion, August 9, 8:30 a. m. - Notwithstanding the effects of yester yesterday's - day's yesterday's operation, tbe President slept the greater part of tbe night without the use of any anodyne. The febrile rise of yesterday afternoon slowly subsided during '.he night. This morning at 8:30 his pulse is 98, tem temperature - perature temperature 99 8, respiration 19. Since yester yesterday - day yesterday afternoon the small quantities of liquid nourishment given at short intervals have been retained, and thla morning larger quantities are being administered without gastric disturbance. D. W. Bliss. J. J. Woodward. J. K. Barnes. D. Hates Agnkw. Robert Rbtburn. NO CAUSE FOR ALARM. Executive Mansion, 11:40 a. m. - The President at this hour Is resting comfortably. He has taken nourishment quite freely duriDg the morniDg, and relished it. Dr. Reyburn says his pulse and temperature are at present perceptibly lower than when the morning bulletin was issued, and he con considers - siders considers that the patieDt is progressing fairly. He says there Is no cause for alarm whatever. Dr. A anew con considers - siders considers the President's condition to be very encouraging, and he expects to leave for Philadelphia during the day if the pa patient - tient patient continues to Improve. The discharge from the wound this morning has been en entirely - tirely entirely satisfactory, and the pus is of a healthy charac er. The nourishment which the President has taken this morning con consisted - sisted consisted of Koumiss and milk and lime water. All reports that the President is sinking are entirely unfounded. the pcs flows freely. 12:30 r. m. [Official Bulletin.] - At the dressing of the President's wound this morning it was found that tbe pus bad be>-n discharging spontaneously and freely through the counteropening made yester yesterday. - day. yesterday. He has been quite comfortable this morning, and has taken a liberal su[ ply of liquid nourishment. His pulse is now 104, temperature 99 7, respiration 19. D. W. Bliss, J K. Barnes, J. J. Woodward, Robt. Rbtburn, D. Hates Agnew. AN BAST DAT. 7 I*, m. [Official Biiletin ] - The President has been very easy during the day and has continued to take the nourishment allowed, without gastric disturbance. The discharge of pus from bis wound 1s quite abundaut, and it Is evident that thorough drainage has been secured by yesterday's operation. The degree of fever tills afternoon differs little from that of yesterday. Pulse 106, temper temperature - ature temperature 101-9, respiration 19. BLAINE TO LOWELL. The following was sent this afternoon by Secretary Blaine to Minister Lowell: "At this hour - 2 p. m. - the physicians give an encouraging report of the President's con condition. - dition. condition. His pulse and temperature have slightly diminished since morning. The pu* is flawing freely, aud his appetite is im improved. - proved. improved. He has been able to sleep with comfort lying on his wouuded side." BRITAIN'S REALM. Bradlangh's Uaae-PoUtical Prison Prisoners - ers Prisoners to b t Keleaaed - The Progrena of tbe Land Bill - Plucky Jolia Bil Billon-Land - lon-Land Billon-Land League Fuudi-Hubla'i A<l Vance lit Asia. London, August 9 - The House of Com Common* - mon* Common* was well attended to day except on the Conservative side. The Peers' gallery gallerywas - was gallerywas crowded. Sir Cbas. Dllke, Under Foreign Sicretary, replying to Hon. E iward S anhope, Con Conservative, - servative, Conservative, said that Russia had officially stated that the country Immediately around Askabad is tbe southern boundary of Tekke, the oasis which has been annexed by Rus Russia, - sia, Russia, though there may be a few troops further south. The Under Secretary added that It was not at all expedient to express an opinion as to what extent the Russian advance trenches, if it treDcbcs at all, on Persian territory. In the House of Commons to day the Duke of Argyle's amendment to clause 1 of tbe land bill, excluding from tbe right of free sale tenancies on which permanent im improvements - provements improvements have been made by the land landlord, - lord, landlord, was accepted by the government with an amendment that the improvements must have been substantially 'maintained, and was passed by a vote of 268 to 100. The minority was composed of Parnell lltes, Home Rulers and Radicals. Mr. Gladstone declared that he would not agree to the amendment of the House of Lords relative to the Ulster tenant right in any shape or form. Right Hon. Henry Brand, Speaker of the House, who hitherto has been one of the principal seeeders, supported the govern ment. After a leng'hy discussion the amend amendment - ment amendment of the House of Lords was rt jected by a vo'e of 272 to 345 The Home Rulers voted in a body with the majority. Many Conservatives and Liberals In tbe House of Lords and in the House of Com mons have signed a memorial to Mr. Glad stone, urging him not to propose any special legislation on behalf of Mr. Bradlaugh. indirect overtures made to John Dillon, that he should be released on condition of his going to Madeira or elsewhere, where the climate is favorable for pulmonary dis diseases, - eases, diseases, were firmly rejected by him. He also positively declined to make any condi conditions - tions conditions upon hi* release. The London correspondent of the Man Manchester - chester Manchester Guardian says: "There is undoubt undoubtedly - edly undoubtedly a disposition on the part of the rov eminent to drop the powers derived under the coercion act, if possible. It is under stood that the subject was mooted at Saturday's Cabinet council. The suggestion has been made to the govern government - ment government that if after the passage of the land bill there should appear to be a reasonable prospect of the restoration of tranquility, the prisoners arrested under the coercion act should be liberated,each after six months imprisonment from the date of his arrest." Tbe Morning Jhst says: "We have reason to believe that Mr. Bradlaugh will demand to be allowed to take tbe oath in the usual way at the next session of Parliament, and, if objection is rais-d, the government will propose a resolution declaring that he be allowed to take the oath. If that resolution is defeated, a bill will be introduced alter altering - ing altering tbe parliamentary oaths act." The Daily Telegraph 6ays: "In compliance with the urgent request of Mr. Parnell, many Home Rule members of Parliament have returned to LondoD, to be present when tbe amendments in the House of Lords to the land bill are considered." A dispatch from Pretoria, dated yester yesterday, - day, yesterday, says: "The retrocession of the Trans Transvaal - vaal Transvaal to the Boers has been formally effected, and tbe Boer Government has issued a proclamation announcing tbe establishment of the South African Republic. -' Dublin, August 9. - At the weekly meet meeting - ing meeting of the Land League to-day subscrip subscriptions - tions subscriptions to the amount of £2,759 were an announced, - nounced, announced, the whole being from America and New Zealand. Mr. Dillon was present. Father Cantwell, a Tipperary priest, who presided, said they should be thankful that Mr. Dillon was not killed in prison. The land bill, he said, was nothing to them. The League should continue to resist land landlordism. - lordism. landlordism. Brighton Beach Races. Brighton Beach, August 9. - There waa quite a good attendance at the races to day. The track was rather heavy. Tbe first race, for all ages, one mile and five hundred yards, Yiola won by two lengths, Bob Riddle second, Reporter third. Time 1:52%. Tbe second race, for all ages, one mile and a half. New York Weekly won by a length, Una second, Dordette third. Time 2:40. Tbe third race, one mile and an eighth, Frankie B won, Duke of Kent second, Kitty Clark third. Time 2:00. The fourth race, one mile, Governeur won, By The Way second, Bride Cake third, Pilgrimage fourth. Time 1:43%. The fifth race, a handicap steeple chase, short course, gtrychnine won, J.'zjsle D Dsecond, - second, Dsecond, Huwannat uj third, Time 2:66. The New York Slock market. New York, Augusr 9 - The stock market was dull again to-day. In tbe early deal dealings - ings dealings pr:ces advanced % to 1% per cent., the ia'terin Texas Pacific. But before noon a reaction of % to 1 per cent, took place, in which Canada Southern was most promi-

THE STATE CAPITAL, THE CONYICT SYSTEM UNDER FIRE. Debate on tbe Relief Bill - Probable Defeat of tbe measure - Tbe mtcon and Brunswick Sale - Another Crowd for Rome. Atlanta, August 9 - ln the House the special order was the bill to provide for tbe better inspection, management and control of the convicts of Georgia. The bill was reported favorably by tbe Penitentiary Com mlttee, and yet tbe House seemed disposed to differ with the committee and disagree to their report. This fact brought to his feet Mr. Milner, of Bartow, Chairman of the Penitentiary Committee, who made the first speech. He commenced by denying that tbe bill was drawn and introduced for political purposes, and declared that it was prepared and pre presented - sented presented solely to reform and perfect the con convict - vict convict system of the State. After reviewing the law as to the care of convicts, Mr. Milner affirmed that its provisions had not been carried out. The present system was a disgrace to Georgia. "No matter what may be said in favor of the lessees, it is faulty and unequal in its; operations. The discipline and care of the convicts is upon no fixed rule, but differs widely in the several camps according, to the bumane'character or cruel disposition of tbe bosses. There should be a system bearing alike impartially upon tbe convicts of all the camps, and this can only be attained through a plan such as the bill proposes, giving the control of all convicts to officers of the State, who shall establish, perfect and keep up an impartial system in each camp. It will be said in reply that the next thing asked for will be a fine hotel and the best of fare for tbe convicts. Not so. The committee asks nothing of this kind. They favor hard labor for ail and proper punishment for stubborn con convicts. - victs. convicts. But these things should be under tbe responsible control and immediate personal supervision of State officials. The present system ha* grown out of State control. There are now thirteen camps, and in not a single one is there a State official to stand between the convict, aud a cruel and iuhu man boas, as provided for by the act of 1876 " The speech occupied two hours, and was forcibly delivered. Mr. Winslow, of Houston, replied. He read from and endorsed the rej dnder pub published - lished published by the lessees, and claimed tnat no change was demanded in the present sys system. - tem. system. Mr. Post, of Coweta, came to the support of the bill in a strong and forcibly delivered argument, which reviewed the entire sub subject. - ject. subject. Mr. Loren, of Dougherty, followed in ad advocacy - vocacy advocacy of the bill, as did also Mr. Mclntosh, of Liberty, both colored members. The debate was interrupted by the hour of adjournment. I do not think the bill will pass. SENATE PROCEEDINGS. In the Senate, the joint resolution of the House to investigate tbe sale of the Macon and Brunswick Railroad, adopted yesterday, was reconsidered and laid on the table. The House bill Incorporating the Camilla Warehouse and Banking Company was again discussed and amended eo as to increase the stockholders' liability, and finally pass ed. Also, the bill to amend the act fixing the liquor license in Ap Appling, - pling, Appling, Coffee and Wayne counlies, including bitters and other liquor pre preparations. - parations. preparations. Also, the bill to provide for local option in Lowndes county. Also, the bill regulating the pay of Couuty Court jurors. Also, the bill to amend section 4109 of the Code In regard to post mortem ex examinations. - aminations. examinations. The Benate amended the House resolution for the election for the Northeastern circuit, postponing it to Thursday. Another big crowd went to Rome this morning. It will be the largest meeting held in a long time. Wcatlier Indications. Office Chief Signal Observer, Wash Washington, - ington, Washington, D. C., August 9. - lndications for Wednesday: In the South Atlantic Btates, warmer, fair weather, winds mostly southwesterly, and stationary or lower pressure. In the Middle Atlantic Btates, fair weath weather, - er, weather, preceded by occasional rain, westerly winds, stationary or higher temperature, anu falling followed by rising barometer. In the Gulf States, fair weather, winds mostly southerly, stationary temperature and barometer. In Tennessee and the Ohio valley, fair weather, winds mostly westerly, stationary temperature and higher pressure. The Torch Agalnat tbe Jew* Iu Ruaitla. London, August 9. - A Berlin correspon correspondent. - dent. correspondent. says; "So many towns and villages in Wes'ern Russia, whose population are principally Jewish, have recently been burn burned,that - ed,that burned,that it is impossible to resist the suspicion of systematic incendiarism. Up to the end of Juneslxteentownsand villages were burned. Since then fresh tires have occurred, two of the most terrible of which were at Korez and Minsk. From ten to twenty houses and shops were destroyed at Korez, and thirty thirtynine - nine thirtynine persons were killed. The bulk of the survivors were rendered destitute." Texas Road Agents at Work. Galveston, August 9. - A special says: "The notorious 'Long and Short Men,' who have been operating for some time upon the stage lines of Western Texas have again made their appearance. Thev rob robbed - bed robbed the passengers and mail bags of the Ban Antonio and Fredericksburg stage at a place known as Robbers Delight, about five miles this side of Fredericksburg. I is also reported that they robbed the Aus Austin - tin Austin and Fredericksburg stage at a point within eight miles of Robbers Delight." The Irish Revolutionists. Chicago, August 9. - The Irishmen's con convention - vention convention whs reinforced yesterdav by Mayor Smith, of Denver, and R. J. Sullivan, of San Francisco, each of whom is said to have subscribed $5,000 to the general fund. The Ancient ()rder of Hibernians, who have refused to come intq the convention, say that their refusal is due to the fact that the general gathering does not receive the sanction of the Roman Catholic Church, and U essentially a secret society. Chicago's Great .viorta.lty. Chicago, August 9. - The deaths last week outnumbered tho c e of any previous week. The number was 527. Tbe rate 50 52-100 per thousand. The highest num number - ber number ever recorded before was 452. The pre ceding wet k 334 died, and the same week last year 221. The intense heat was the chief cause of the Increased mortality. Nashville's First Bale. Nashville, August 9 - The first bale of Tennessee cotton, raised by James F. Jen Jenkins, - kins, Jenkins, of Rutherford, was sold here to day by Collier. Frailey A Cos. for 50 cents per pound. It grades stric'ly low middling, and is ten days earlier than In the previous years. Racers Burned to Death. Lexington, August 9 - A fire in the stables on the race track yesterday burned two tine two year old racers, and occasioned the death of a three-year old filly, who broke her back by running against a fence. All the horses were the property of Jame 6 Murphy. marine Disasters. London, August S. - The bark Gladstone, from Pensacola for Liverpool, has been sunk in the Mersey in * collision. The bark Staffs, at Queenstown from Darien, lostber bulwarks on the passage, and has a heavy Hat. Dean Stanley's Vacant Post. London, August 9 - The Bishop of Man Manchester - chester Manchester has declined the Deanery of West Westminster. - minster. Westminster. Dr. Louis, of New Orleans, who is something of a wag, called on a colored minister and propounded a few puzzling questions. "Why is it," 3aid ]ie, "that you are not able to do tbe miracles the apostles did? They were protected against all poisons and all kinds of perils; how is it you are not protected in the same way?" The colored brother responded promptly: "Don't know about that, doctor; I s'pect I is; I've taken a mighty sight of strong medicine from you, ana I is alive yet."