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A MYSTERIOUS MURDER.
The Cowardly Midnight Assassin
Leaves No Clew.
A Window Raised and Giles and Su
san Jones Shot While in Bed Asleep.
The NVoman Died Half an Hour
Afterward —A Negro Settlement Ter
ror-Stricken on Account of the
Shooting—The Murderer Left Noth
ing by Which He Could Be Traced.
One of the most atrocious murders in
the annals of Chatham county’s criminal
record was committed early Friday
morning at Maj. G. M. Ryals’ place on the
Springfield plantation.
The crime was committed about 2 or
2:80 o’clock in the morning. Susan Jones
and her husband, Giles Jones, were sleep
ing in one of the houses on the place,
when the midnight assassin gently raised
? the window next to the bed of the sleep
:. ars, and fired what is supposed to have
been a double barreled shotgun loaded
: with pieces of lead and bits of iron, as
was afterward determined by the discov
ery of pieces of the ammunition in the
wall.
There was general consternation
among the negroes who work on the place
at the time, and after hearing the gun
shots few of them answered the calls for
help. On their arrival, however, they
discovered that Jones and his wife had
been shot, and that the woman was
breathing her last, she having died about
half an hour after the shooting took
place.
THE WORK OF AN ASSASSIN.
Both Jones and his wife were asleep at
the time, and neither of them were dis
turbed by any noise made in raising the
sash. It seems that the murderers lifted
it about three inches giving, just room
enough to get their gun through and fire
the shot when they made haste to escape.
Jones and his xfrife work on the place.
Their house, which is shared by Joo Jones
and his wife, a brother of Giles, is the
second in a row of houses built for the
use of the farm hands. There is quite a
little settlement of them around the
place at this point, and it must have re
quired a good deal of boldness to go up
there with the intention of committing
murder. A peculiar fact, however, was
that none of the negroes who answered
the cries saw anyone running off, and a
search for tracks at the window failed
to reveal any signs of them.
TESTIMONY AT THE INQUEST.
Moses Marks, one of the farm hands
who testified at the coroner’s inquest,
stated that the shot was heard about 2
o’clock in the morning, when he heard
some one yell, and, after dressing, hur
ried out to see what the matter was. His
house was about forty feet away and he
soon heard Giles Jones calling for
matches. He got the matches, went into
the room and lit the lamp. Giles was
cryihgout that he had been shot, while
his wife was lying quietly on the bed.
Marks admitted before the jury that he
was pretty badly scared and so was Jones,
who at the time came out with the state
,ment that he did not shoot his wife, which
was very evident from the fact that he
had been pretty badly shot himself.
4 Doc Perrymore testified pretty much to
the. same effect, but stated that the
woman was still breathing when he went
into the room. Giles stated he had been
■hot by a gun from some one outside, and
that the gun had been put through the
window. Joe Jones, a brother of Giles
who was sleeping in the back room at’ the
time, was the only other witness, but he
told the jury very little that was new.
• TERROR AMONG THE NEGROES.
The case seems to have been one of the
most cold-blooded assassinations, and the
Work was evidently done by some one
familiar with the situation, it seems,
too, that he was after shooting Giles
Jones, as Giles was lying on the side of
the bed nearest the window, and his
wife was further away from the gun.
Jones, however, was a little 100 low, and
the greater part of the load struck his
wife. One of the pieces entered her
left temple, and this is the
wound that caused her death. Another
piece entered her shoulder and two other
pieces cut gashes about the base of her
arm. She lived, according to the testi
mony, about half an hour after being
shot. Giles was shot only in the hand
and arm, and his wound, while painful,
was not dangerous.
The report of the gun undoubtedly
created much terror amoug the negroes
on the place, and it was some little time
before any of those outside the bouse
answered the cries. Even then they went
in fear and trembling, and it w’as with
difficulty that their fear was allayed
sufficiently yesterday morning, in order
to make them testify before the jury.
NO CLEW TO THE CRIMINAL.
There was no clew whatever to who
committed the crime. Jones said he
could make no explanation of it. He
knew of no oue who bad a grudge against
him in particular, nor why any one should
want to shoot him. Neither could any
of the other negroes on the
place explain the shooting, it
being equally mysterious to all
those who looked into it. Every gun oa
the place was collected and brought be
fore the jury of inquest, but none could
be found that bore an appearance of hav
ing done the work. Coroner Dixon made
an investigation and found that several
{decesof the lead with which the gun was
oaded had lodged in the wall of the
room.
After as thorough an investigation as
was possible under the circums xinces, the
jury brought in a verdict of murder by a
gunshot wound in the hand o' some party
or parties unknown to the jury. The wo
man was buried Friday afternoon, and
the man was taken to the Georgia In
firmary, where his wounds were dressed.
Detective Morgan has the case in hand.
The crime is one for which the offenders
should be, brought speedily to justice if
there is any means of laying hands on
them.
COTTON’S YEAR’S FIGURES.
The Receipts Here 177,600 Bales
Ahead, of a Tear Ago.
The cotton season of 1893-94 closed Fri
day. ft was a very satisfactory year
throughput, although prices declined from
the very beginning and at the close were
lower than they have ever been at this
season of the year.
Savannah received 971.405 bales against
798,898 for the year before, an increase
of 177.507 bales. Os these receipts, 917,-
146 bales were upland and 54,259 sea
island.
The average weight of the uplands to
the bale was 489.50 pounds, and of sea
islands 884.79 pounds. The average
weight of both was 484.30 pounds. The
average price of uplands per bale was
987.96, and of sea islands £76.02.
The exporta were 978,114 bales, against
790,753 for the year before, an increase of
182.372 bales. Os these exports 918,268
bales were upland and 54,846 bales sea
island.
THE WEEKLY NEWS' (TWO-TIMES-A-WEEK): MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1894.
GOT HIS THIRTY THOUSAND.
Col. Goodyear Gets Uncle Sam’s
Check for His Work in Brunswick.
Col. C. P. Goodyear of Brunswick
passed through Savannah Thursday, on
his way from Washington to his home in
Brunswick. He had with him the gov
ernment’s check for $30,000 for his work
in the Brunswick harbor.
The check is something of a curiosity
in the line of autographs. The 'voucher
for it had in the neighborhood of forty in
dorsements by the heads of the various
bureaus and departments of the war and
treasury departments. The voucher was
drawn in the war department, and passed
back and forth between the twe depart
| ments for several days with the
indorsement of the President and Secre
tary Lamont as “special.” Without this
indorsement it would have been an ex
ceedingly difficult matter to have gotten
it through all of the bureaus without a
lone and probably vexatious delay. It is
understood that the amount Col. Good
year received from the government does
noticover the cost of the work, so that as
it now stands Col. Goodyear is out a con
siderable amount. He expects, however,
to continue his work and in that way will
be finally reimbursed.
BURGLARS OPEN A SAFE.
Money and Property Stolen From the
Chatham Trunk Factory.
The Safe Biflsd of Its Contents and
Some Satchels and Pocketbooks
Stolen—These Bobberies Becoming
Alarmingly Frequent and People
Are Putting in Burglar Alarms—A
Speedy Capture and Conviction
Probably the Best Bemedy.
The frequency of robberies and
burglaries in the city is becoming
alarming. They are not altogether con
fined to the sections which are
sparsely frequented, but are often of
the most daring nature and committed
right under the electric lights and under
the nose of the police officers who are
supposed to be patrolling the beats where
they occur.
The burglary of the store of the Chat
ham Trunk Factory sometime Wednesday
night is a striking case in
point. When Mr. R. P. Wim
berly, the manager, entered the place
at Whitaker and York streets Thursday
morning he was startled to find that the
place bad been entered during the nigh t,
that his safe had been opened, and that
the entire inside of it had been torn out.
FORGOT TO LOCK THE SAFE.
The thieves made their entrance from
the back door. They evidently came in
through York street lane, climbed over
into the back yard, got upon a box and
broke the glass over the door. Through
the opening thus made a boy probably
entered and unbarred and unlocked the
back door.
Burned matches were found on all sides
showing the light the thieves had used
in doing their work. The tools they used
were obtained in the store. They had a
hammer, a pair of snips, and a claw tool
which they took from the horse. Open
ing the safe, however, proved to be a very
easy task, as Mr. Wimberly and his assis
tant, Mr. Hanleiter, were in the office
late the night before, and in
their hurry to catch a car
they had forgotten to lock
it. All there was to do was to slide the
bolts and it came open easy enough. The
tools werei used to complete the work
after the safe was opened. The safe was
gutted, papers contained in it were strewn
over the floor, some of them being found
in the back yard outside, and the iron
money box was pulled out and taken to
the back yard where a successful attempt
was made to open it.
BROKE OPEN THE MONEY BOX.
The thieves first tried breaking the
hinges, and not succeeding at that they
broke off the back part of it bV cutting
the rivets with some sort of chisel. From
this they took about SBS in cash. Besides
this they made way with three leather
satchels, half a dozen or more fine
pocket books, a silver extension cup, and
were even mean enough to take an old
cob pipe and a sack of tobacco.
They then left the store, according to
footprints, by the sam| way they entered.
To all appearances the work is not that of
persons who are unfamiliar with the
place, and it also appears to have been
done by a finer hand than that of a negro
thief.
WAS ROBBE D LAST APRIL.
Mr. Wimberly has no idea as to who
could have done the work, and there
seems to be no clew whatever. This is
I the second time his store has been robbed
J within the last two or three montns. It
was broken into April 25. and about SSO
worth of pocketbooks, belts, and other
articles were stolen. A negro. Zeke
General, was afterward caught and
charged with the crime, but he has not
yet been tried.
The frequency of this class of crimes
and the boldness displayed in their com
mission is making many people anxious
; with regard to the saiety of their own
i property. Several cases of putting in
I burglar alarms have been noted, and
other means of protection are being em
j ployed. If the robberies keep up much
! longer there will probably be a network
■ of alarm wires in many of the stores and
i houses, without regard to the protection
that such property should be given from
outside interferences by the officers of
i the law. A speedy capture and conviction
would probably be the most effective
means of putting an end to such out
! rages.
ACCIDENTS AT ST. SIMON’S.
Two Men Injured by Mill Machinery,
One Fatally.
Brunswick, Sept. 2.—Last week W. H.
I Ingram, white, employed at the St. Si-
■ mot’s lumber mills, was caught in revolv
ing machinery and badly hurt about the
head and body, but will probably recover.
; Two days later Superintendent Lyles of
' the St. Simon’s cypress mills was caught
in the ponderous moving log chain and
badly mangled, from the effects of which
he died this morning. Superintendent
Lyles’ death is a sad one. At the time of
the accident the flesh was torn from his
legs to the bone, releasing him
from the chain before any one
knew of his danger. Medical
aid from Brunswick was summoned,
and it was thought his life could be saved.
Re was a young man of excellent charac
ter, and had lately been married. He
had mauv friends on St. Simons and
i Brunswick, where for some time he was
1 superintendent of the Brunswick Foundry
and Machine Works. A steamer from
i St. Simon’s came to Brunswick for a
coffin to-day.
IBON WOBK3 BESUME.
After an Eight Months’ Strike Opera
tives Go to Work.
Hollidaysburg, Pa., Sept. 2.—A1l the
departments of the Portame Iron Works
at Duncanville will be in operation to-mor
row afternoon after an eight months’
strike. The puddlers have accepted the
terms of their employers in imposing a
wage scale of $2.75 per day. The mills
will work on double turn with a force of
500 men.
TALMAGE IN NEW ZEALAND.
A Graphic Account of Bis Many Ex
periences in That Country.
He Discusses Antipodean Experi
ences and Balaklava on a Bishop’s
Dining Table—Woman Suffrage Tri
umphs—A Country of Fleasing Sur
prises.
, (Copyright.)
Dunedin, New Zealand, July 20.—The
angels of night were descending from the
evening skies and ascending from the
waves of the Pacific and riding down in
black chariot of shadow from the moun
tains of New Zealand as we approached
the harbor ot Auckland, and the light
house on the rocks held up its great torch
to keep us off the reefs, and to show us
the way to safe wharfage, seeming to say,
“Yonder is a path of waves! Ride into
peace! Accept the welcome of this
island continent?”
It was 7:30 o’clock when the great
screw of our steamer ceased to swirl the
waters, and the gang plank was lowered
and we ascended to the firm land, our
name called as we heard it spoken by a
multitude who' were there toi greet us.
Strange sensation was it 10,000 miles from
home to hear our name pronounced by
those whose faces we had never seen be
fore, and whose faces could be only dimly
seen now by the lanterns on the docks
and the lights of our ship, just halted
after a long voyage. What made the
night more memorable was that 1 was
suddenly informed at 8 o’clock I was to
lecture in their hall, and thirty minutes
was short time to allow a poor sailor like
myself to get physical and mental equi
poise, after twenty-one days’ pitching.
But at 8 o’clock I was ready and con
fronted a throng of people, cordial and
genial as any one ever saluted from plat
form or pulpit.
I told how for many days I had been
looking off on a great ocean of ipecac, but
that I had not wanted, as many say un
der such circumstances, to be thrown
overboard, and that I did not think any
one ever did want to be thrown over
board, and reminded them of the seasick
voyager who said he wished to be thrown
into the sea, and the captain had a sailor
dash qp him a pailful of cold ocean water,
and when the soaked and shivering man
protested and asked the captain what he
meant by such an insult, the captain re
plied: “You wanted to be thrown o ver
board, and I thought I would let you try
how you liked a bucket of the water be
fore you took the whole ocean.”
Never so glad were we to stand on firm
land as the night of our, arrival at Auck
land. Wondrous New Zealand? Few peo
ple realize how it was discovered. They
tell us of Capt. Cook and of Dutch navi
gators, but all the islands of the South
sea as well as this immense New Zealand
were discovered as a result of the effort
to watch the transit of Venus over the
sun’s disc from the South seas. The
Royal Society sent out ships for this pur
pose, and Capt. Cook and the astronomers
and botanists who accompanied him on
his voyage were only the agents of
science. How the interests of this world
are linked with the behavior of other
worlds, and how the fact men
tioned suggests that most of the valuable
things known in this would have been found
out while looking for something else, and
what sublimity all this gives to the
work of the explorer, the transit of Ve
nus, an island of light, resulting in the
transit of many islands from the unknown
into, the well known. But the prowess of
such men can never be fully appreciated.
The sea captain who puts out in this day
of charts and navigating apparatus with
a ship of 10.000 tons for another hemis
phere, daring typhoons and cyclones,
strange currents and hidden rocks, must
be a brave man; but who can measure the
courage of Cabot, or Marco Paulo, or Capt.
Cook, sailing out into unknown seas,
across wildernesses of water that have
never been mapped, in ships of 200 tons,
discovering rocks only by running upon
them, and met on shore by savages ready
to scalp or roast them. These challengers
of tempest and cannibalism and oceanic
horror must have had nerve and valor
beyond that of any other heroes. Such
men set New Zealand as a gem into
the crown of the world’s geography. To
me and to most people who come here,
New Zealand is a splendid surprise. We
have all read so much about the supersti
tions and outrageous cruelty of this land
in other times, that we are startled on ar
riving here to find more churches in New
Zealand than in America, in proportion
to the number of the population. In one
village that I visited since coming here, I
find eight churches to a population of
3,000 people. There are too many
churches in many places in New Zealand
and they jostle each other and contend
for right of possession, hindering each
other, and half-starving many ot their
ministers, as is sure to be the case when
there are too many churches and conse
quently not enough support for every one
of them. *
Another surprise to me is that female
suffrage is in full blast. I found elegant
ladies telling of their experience at tho
ballot box, and I hereby report to the
American ladies now moving for the right
of female suffrage that New Zealand is
dear ahead of them and that the experi
ment has been made here successfully.
Instead of the ballot box degrading wo
man, woman is here elevating the ballot
dox, and why in New /.ealand or America
or anywhere else should man be afraid to
let woman have a vote, as though man
himself had made such a grand use of it.
Look at the illiterates and the incompe
tents who have been elected to office and
see how poorly the masculines have exer
cised the right of su 8 rase; look at the
governments of nine-tenths of the Ameri
can cities and see what work the ballot
box has done in the possession of
man. Man at the ballot box
is a failure, give woman a
chance. I am not clear that govern
mental affairs will be made any better by
the change; but they cannot be any worse.
New z eala nd has tried it, let England and
America try it. It is often said in
America that if women nad the right io
vote they would not exercise it. For the
refutation of that theory I put the fact
that in the last election in New Zealand
of 109,000 women who registered 90.000
have voted, while of the 193.000 men who
registered only 129.000 have voted. This
ratio shows that women are more anxious
to vote than men. Perhaps woman will
yet save politics. I know the charge that
she is responsible for the ruin of her race,
since she first ate the forbidden fruit in
Paradise, but I think there is a chapter
iu that matter of i_denic fruit not written.
I think that Adam when he saw Eve eat
ing that apple assed for a bite
and, getting it into his possession ate the
most of it, and he immediately shook the
, tree for more apples and has been eating
I ever since. If woman did first transgress
I cannot forget that she introduced into
the world the only being who has ever
done much towards saving it. Woman
has started for suffrage, and she is a de
termined and persevering creature, and
she will keep on until she gets it; she may
yet decide the elections in England, and
elect Presidents for the UnitedlStates. as
already she is busy in the political affairs
of New Zealand. I was surprised
also iu these regions to find
how warmly loyal they are to old Eng
land. I had heard that they had become
somewhat impatient of their governmen
tal mother. But this is not so. They
practically have things their own way,
electing their own parliament, and all
governors sent out from the old country
are such men as ace agreeable, and the
people are required to pay no tax to the
British crown, and they are in good
humor with the British flag.
I addressed an audience last night, on
my right hand the United StqJ.es flag, on
my left hand the English flag, and’you
ought to have beard them shout when at
the beginning of my address I said,“When
in my church at home I pray for the
President of the United States, I am very
apt to add, God save the queen.”
Many of the streets of New Zealand
cities are called after the generals and
prime ministers of Great Britain,. and
Wellington, and Palmerston, and Glad
stone, are the names of great thorough
fares. New Zealand feels the financial
depression very much as the whole world
at this time seems smlering an epidemic.
Indeed the world is now a compressed
and interlocked affair. Out of the bold
of our ship arriving in New Zealand were
lifted rakes, ploughs, and various agri
cultural implementsof American manu
facture. To-day all New Zealand is re
joicing that the American congress has
put wool on the free list and the value of
the sheep on all these hill-sides is aug
mented.
Among our most interesting hours in New
Zealand were those spent at the bishop’s
house in Auckland. Lord Bishop Cowie
is a man of marvelous attractiveness, and
his home is an enchantment, adorned
with many curios which he brought from
India, where he served as chaplain during
that war which interests and appals the
world with its tales of mutiny. While
chaplain he rode with Sir Colin Campbell
and his historical host for the capture of
Lucknow, that city whose name will
stand in the literature of all ages as the
synonym for Sepoy atrocities, and
womanly fortitude, and Christian heroics.
Ha told us most graphically bow the
women waiting for death at Lucknow
tore up their underclothes to make ban
dages for the wounds of the soldiers, and
that when at last these women were
rescued they appeared in the brilliant
dress of the ball-room. These dresses
formerly worn by the convivial having
been suddenly come upon, and when the
wives and daughters of missionaries and
Christian merchants had nothing else to
wear.
Lord Bishop Cowie also had on his
walls pictures of some of the most stir
ring scenes of the Russian war with which
the military friends of the bishop had
been cognizant. Here is a pictured scene
where there was no retreat for the
English, and yet their standing firm
seemed certain destruction, and their
general cried out, “Men! there is no re
treat from this place, you will die here!”
and the men replied, “Aye, aye, we are
ready to do that!” And yonder another
pictured scene of Balaklava after the
famous charge of the 600, and the com
mander said to the few men wflo had got
back from the awful charge, “Men, it
was a mad-brained trick.” and they re
plied, “Never mind, general, we would do
it again.” The bishop’s walls in other
places were made interesting by swords,
belts, and torn insignia Os battle from she
fields of India, all the more interesting
because we expect in our journey around
the world to visit Lucknow and Cawn
pore and Delhi, and many of the chief
places made immortal by the struggle be
tween British valor and Sepoy infamy.
And here from the bishop s own. words,
I got a satisfactory answer to a question
I have asked many times, but for which I
never received a satisfactory answer. I
said, “your lordship knew the chief men
of Balaklava, and will you please explain
,to me what I have never been able to find
out, and to which Tennyson makes refer
ence in his ‘Charge of the Light Brigade,’
and in that line where he says, ‘Some one
had blundered.’ Do you know and will
you tell me exactly what that blunder
was?” He said, “lean and will.” Then the
bishop iliustrated,>with knives and forks
and napkin rfhgs on the dining
table the position of the English
guns, the Russian guns and
the troops. He demonstrated to me
plainly what the military blunder was
that caused the dash and havoc of that
cavalry regiment whose click Os spurs
and clatter of hoofs, and jingle of bits,
and spurts of blood you hear in the poet
laureate’s battle hymn. Here was the
line of the English guns not very well de
fended, and yonder was the line of Rus
sian guns, backed by the whole Russian
army. The order was given to the cav
alry regiment to take care of those En
glish guns and keep them from being
taken by the Russians, and the command
was: “Take care ol those English guns!”
But the words were misunderstood,
and it was supposed that the or
der was to capture the Russian
artillery. Instead of the command, “Take
care of those English guns!” it
was thought the command was, “Take
those Russian guns!” For that ghastly
and horrible assault of the impossible,
the riders plunged their spurs and headed
thair horses into certain death. At last
I had positive information as to what the
blunder at Balaklava was. At Edin
burgh. Scotland, years ago I asked one of
the soldiers who rode in that charge the
same question, but even he, a participant
in the scenes of that fiery day, could not
tell me just what the blunder was.
Now I have at last not only told in
stirring words of a natural orator and
magnetic talker, but on the dining table
of the Lord Bishop of Auckland I had it
set out before the eye, dramatized and
demonstrated by the cutlery on the white
tablecloth: but, instead of the steel bay
onets, the silver forks of a beautiful re
past. and instead of the sharp swords of
death, knives for bread-cutting, and in
stead of the belching guns of destruction,
the napkin rings of a hospitality the mem
ory of which shall be bright and fresh
as long as I remember this visit to
New Zealand.
T. DeWitt Talmage.
■ ■. --
NEEDS A ROPE BADLY.
A Murderer in North Carolina Flays
the Insanity Dodge.
Columbia, S. C., Sept. 2.—A white man
named B. E. Gray, alias Hoke L. Se
crest, was released to-day from the peni
tentiary here, having served a two years’
sentence for assault and battery with in
tent to kill. Immediately upon leaving
the penitentiary he was arrested by an
officer from North Carolina, who had
requisition papers for him, on a charge of
murder, and thereon hangs a tale.
Twelve years ago Grey married a young
woman in Union, S. C., taking her im
mediately to North Carolina, where
within twelve hours after the marriage
ceremony, he took her in the woods and
murdered her, burying her in tbe woods.
The murder was discovered and he was
arrested and found guilty, but playing the
insanity dodge, was sent to an asylum.
Here he remained for some time, but fin
ally made his escape, and coming to
South Carolina, he committed larceny
and was sent to the penitentiary for two
years. He served his sentence
and was sent to North Carolina,
where he was again tried for the previous
murder, but again only sent to the
asylum. Escaping again, he went to
Spartanburg, S. C., where he married a
woman and had several children. He
treated them so badly that he was sent
to the penitentiary for two years for as
sault and battery with intent to kill,
which sentence he has just served. He
is supposed also to have murdered his
own daughter by a previous marriage.
He was taken back to North Carolina and
will be tried again.
The officials in the penitentiary say
that he has shown no signs of insanity
since he has been here until arrested by
the North Carolina officer to-day, exceot
once when he was recognized by a gentle
man from North Carolina who was visit
ting the penitentiary some time ago.
One bottle Ayer's Sarsaparilla is worth
five of any other blood purifier.—ad.
SPIRITS HELD HIGHER.
Steady Sales Reported at 26 l-2c,
But Factors Want More.
A Better Tone to the Market-Rosin
Selling Well at Firm and Unchanged
Prices—Cotton in Good Demand, But
Off.ring Stock Small—A General
Holiday to Be Observed Next Mon
day, and All the Markets Will Be
Closed.
Savannah, Sept. I.—There was a much
more bouyant feeling in the naval stores mar
ket than has existed for sjme t.mc. The
official sales were 1.220 casks, at 2t%c for
: regulars, while it was rumored that there
i was a good demand at that price which
caused holders to ask 2594 c. There weieno
sales reported at the latter price, though the
market closed firmly held. There was a good
. demand for rosin. The inquiry for cotton
was fair, with only small offerings. The gen
eral markets were usually quiet and steady.
There was no official reports of cotton from
New York, that market being closed tor the
day. Liverpool spo'.s were quiet and un-
I changed, with arrivals steady and in moder
; ate demand. The lull report of receipts at
I all ports was not received, and our table is
i incomplete, having only reports from points
heard from. All of the markets will be
i closed Monday, Labor day. The stock mar
ket was quiet, there being but few operations
, in the market. Thd closing showed a net
i gain of ato 194 per cent. Grain closed with
a decline after sharp fluctuations in corn,
w>ich influenced the other markets. *
The following resume of the different mar
kets will show the tone and the quotations at
the close to-day:
Cotton.
There was a continued good demand on the
market but the offering stock was small, and
consequently transactions were limited.
There is a better movement expected next
we< k and no doubt business will be better.
Prices remained unchanged.
At the Cotton Exchange the market was
bulletined steady and unchanged as follows:
Middling fair Nominal
Good middling 6 9-16
Middling ~..6 5-16
Low middling 6
Good ordinary 5 11-16
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DAILY COTTON MOVEMENT AT U. S. PORTS.
Tone. Price. Rec. Salas. Stock.
Galveston.. Steady 6‘A 1,637 631 21,950
N. Orleans. ..Quiet 6’4 437 1,150 28,579
Mobile Dull 6 716 51 .... 2,705
Savannah.. Steady 6 5-16 87J 566 10,102
Charleston... Quiet 694 12$ .... 11,857
Wllm’gton...Quiet 6% 16 .... 1,385
Norfolk.- Quiet 6 11-16 20 .... 2,716
Baltimore. ...Holiday.
New York... Holiday.
Boston Quiet 634 ....
Pbllad'a... ...Holiday. ..; .... ....
DAILY MOVEMENT OF COTTON AT INTERIOR.
Tone. Price. Rec. Sales. Stock.
Augusta Quieten 120 .... 2.912
Memphis Nom‘l 69 8 6 550 4.409
St. Louis Quiet 6% 17 50 17.182
Cincinnati.. Q&St'y 7 16 ... 2,991
Houston Quiet 2,667 775 8,813
Louisville.. ..Quiet 6% .... .... ....
Atlanta Nom’l 69-16 ....
EXPORTS OF COTTON THIS DAY.
Gr. Brit. Fr’noe. Cont. C’st
New Orleans ; ' 2,959
Mobile 131
Charleston .... .... .... n
Wilmington 31
Norfolk .... 25
Total .... s, 163
Total exp'ts thus
far this week..* ... 3,160
Liverpool. Sept. 1, noon.—Cotton—Quiet;
demand fair;, prices unchanged; Amer-
ican middling, 313-16 d; sales. 6.000 bales;
American. 5,300 bales; speculation and ex
port, 300 bales; receipts. 2.2.A) bales; Amer
ican. bales. Futures opened steady; de
mand moderate. ,
Futures—American middling fair, low mid
ling clause: September, J 47 6u; September
and Octouer. 3 45-64 d, also 3 46-t<4d; Octo
ber and November. 3 45-64 d, also 3 46-64 d;
November and December, 3 4 6-64 d, also
3 4"-64d; December and January 3 4 6 64d, also
3 47-61 d, January and February, ' 3 48-64 d.
also 3 49-64 d; Feoruary and March, 3 49-641,
also 3 50(54d; March and April, 3 51-64 d. also
3 52-64 d; April and May, 352 64d. Tenders
none.
1 p. m.—Cotton, American middling fair.
4 7 3,d; good middling, 3 29-32 d; middling,
3 13-16 d: low middling,3 23-32 d; good ordinary,
3 19-32 d: ordinary, 3 13 32d.
Futures—American middling fair, low mid
dling clause: September, a 48-o4d, buyers; Sep
tember and October. 3
and November, 3
and December, 3 46-6i@3 47-64 d; December
and January, 3
February, 348 64@3 49-64 d; February and
March, 3
352 64d. buyers: April and May, 3 52-64@3 51-
64d. Futures closed quiet.
New Orleans, oeut. I.—Cotton futures
closed steady, with sales of 7.<Wu
bales, as follows: September 6 3Cc, October
6 aoc, November 6 3c. December 6 15c. Jan
uary 6 sic, February 6 ode, Marcn 6 61c. April
6c6j, May 6 71c, June 6 76c. July 681 c, Au
gust c.
New York, Sept. I.—The total visible
supply of cotton for the world is 2.0J5 5U
bales, of which 1,589.484 bales are American,
against 2, and 1.770.5«8 bales, respect
ively, last year. Receipts this week at all
interior towns 29,524 bales. Receipts from
plantations 25,720 bales. Crop in sight
bales.
The detailed statement of the visible
supply of cotton as compiled by the Chronicle
will be published to morrow.
New York, Sept. I.—ibe Sun's cotton re
view to-day says: “Ihe Cotton Hxcnange was
closed, fcieavy rains were reported in some
parts of Texas and Georgia. Rust, blight and
rot are reiorieu in Texas. The visiole suppiv
of 10-ton in this country is.'at ports. 176,00 J
bales; inter or towns 42.000 bales, against
243,000 bales and 61.0 0 tales respec
tively last year, a deficit of 86 000
ba’es. The amount on ship oard not cleared,
is 5,<i00 t ales more than a yea. a;o. The total
visi le suppl in this countr. aid Europe is
2 <5,000 tales against 2,29< 0 0 .>ales last year. I
a decrease of 2~.0 0 bales. The supply of
American :'3 ',’>ei;,boo bales, against 1,710 0 0
bul.s. anu tne lo.al supply is 605a00
bates less than In 1892. On oept. 1, 18s>2, j
the visible supply of American cotton :
was 2.148,000 bales; two crops have since I
been made, aggregating 14,2t>0.u(J0 bales. The i
present visible supply in 1.589.UX) bales, which i
shows that the takings of American cotton I
for the past two years have been 24,750.00 J '
bales, but the large excess in the visible sup
ply in the hands of soinners, especially m
the country at the end of the season in 1892,
has probably been exhausted.’’
Naval Stores.
Spirits Turpentine—A much more buoyant
feeling prevailed among the factors, as there
were fre i.uent Inquiries for .spirits at26%c.
and considerable sales made at that price. It
was rumored that there was a large block
sold at 6V;C, which was aot officially reported.
At the Board of Trade, at the nrst call at 11
o’clock, the market was bulletined at 26i4c
paid, with sales of 1.2C0 casks, and
asked. At the last call, at 1:30 o clock, it was
bulletined firmly held at 2694 c for regulars,
with no sales.
Rosin—A here was a good demand at un
changed prices. The sales reported at the
Board of Trade were 3,532 barrels. The fol
lowing were the quotations;
IA.B. C. andD..JI 05 K $l9O
i E 110 M 205
F...1 125 N 230
G 145 W. G.. 245
H 100 W. W 270
11 70
NAVAL STORES STATEMENT.
Spirits. Rosin.
Stock on hand April 1....11,634 109,977
Received yesterday 843 4,140
Received previously 160,510 432,266
Total 172,987 546,383
Exported to-day 365 7,077
Exported previously 117,435 429,078
Total 117,800 ~436,155
Stock on hand and on ship- ~
hoard to-day 55,187 110,228
Stock same day last year 31.312 137,877
Receipts same day last year.. 86 98
Price spirits turpentine same
day last year 2514 c
New York. Sept. I.—Rosin market dull,
steady; strained, common to good, $1 15®
$1 20. Turpentine quiet and weak at 28%@29c.
Charleston bept. I. Spirits turpentine
firm at 25%c; receipts 66 casks. Rosin
good strained firm at 90<®95c; receipts 1,011
barrels.
Wilmington, N. C., Sept. I. Rosin firm;
strained. Bic; good strained, 90c. Spirits
turpentine, firm at 2>%c; receipts. 50
casks. Tar steady at $1 05. Crude turpentine
steady; hard JI OJ; soft JI 70; virgin, $z 00.
Financial.
Savannah. Sept. I.—Money is easy.
Domestic Exchange—The tone of the mar
ket is steady. Banks are buying at %. per
cent, discount and selling at 15 cents pre
mium on amounts below 8100; above that
amount at par.
Foreign Exchange—Market shade easier.
The following are net Savannah quotations:
Sterling, commercial demand, 14 85%;
sixty davs. $4 84%; ninety days, $4 84%:
francs, Paris and Havre, sixty 'days, £5 20%;
Swiss, sixty days, $5 21%; marks, sixty
days, 9113-16.
Securities—The market is quiet and dull.
State Bonds —Georgia 4% per cent. 1915,
113% bid, 114% asked; Georgia 7 per cent. 1896,
104% bid, 105% asked; Georgia 3% per cent.,
long dates. 98 bid. 98% asked.
City Bonds—New Savannah 5 per cent,
quarterly October coupons 105% bid, 106%
asked; new Savannah 5 per cent. November
coupons, 105% bid, 11.6 asked.
Railroad Bonds—Central Railroad and
Banking Company collateral, gold os, 88 bid,
—asked: Central consolidated mortgage 7
per cent., coupons January and July maturity,
1898, 117 bid.—asked; Savannah and West
ern railroad 5 per cent. trust certificates, 52
bid, 54 asked; Savannah. Americus and
Montgomery 6 per cent. 50 bid, 52 asked;
Georgia railroad 6 per cent. 1910, 107 bid, 109
asked; Georgia Southern and Florida first
mortgage 6 per cent. 83 bid, 84% asked;
Montgomery and Eufaula first mortgage 6
per cent, indorsed by Central railroad. 101 bid,
—asked; Augusta and Knoxville first mort
gage 7 per cent. 100% bid. 101% asked; Ocean
Steamships per cent., due in 1920, 96 bid, 98
asked; Columbus and Rome first mortgage
bonds, indorsed by Central railroad, bid, 41
asked; Columbus and Western 6 per cent.,
guaranteed, 101 bid, asked; City and Sub
urban railway first mortgage 7 per cent.,
bid, 85 asked; Savannah and Atlantic 5 per
cent., indorsed. 25 bid, 40 asked; Electric rail
way first mortgage 6s, bid, asked; South
Georgia and Florida first mortgage 7 per
cent., 106 bid, 107 asked; South Georgia and
Florida second mortgage, 105% bld. 106%
asked; Alabama Midlands, 88 bid, 90 asked.
Railroad Stocks—Central common, bid,
19 asked; Augusta and Savannah 7 per cent.,
guaranteed, 88 bid. 84% asked; Georgia com
mon, 145 bid, 152 asked; Southwestern
7 per cent, guaranteed, including or
der for div.. 71% bid. 72% asked; Central 6
per cent certificates, with order for de
faulted interest, 25 bid, 27% asked; Atlanta
and West Point railroad stock, 80 bid, 90
asked; Atlanta and West Point 6 per cent,
certificates. 89 bid, 93 asked.
Bank Stocks, Etc.—Southern Bank of the
State of Georgia, 164 bid, asked; Mer
chants’ National Bank, 92 bid, 93 asked;
Savannah Bank and Trust Company, 102 bid.
103 asked: National Bank of Savannah, 130
bid, 132 asked; Oglethorpe Savings and Trust
Company, 98 bid, 100 asked; Citizens’ Bank,
100 old, 101 asked; Chatham Real Estate
and Improvement Company, 50% b1d,51 asked;
Germania Bank. 101% bid, 102% asked;
Chatham Bank, 46% bid, 47% asked; Savan
nah Construction Company, 74 bid, 75 asked;
Title Guarantee and Loan Company, 75% bld,
asked.
Local Miscellaneous Markets.
Bacon—The market is strong. Smoked clear
rib sides, 9%c: dry salted clear rib sides,
B%c; long clear, B%c; bellies, 9%c; sugar
cured hams, i3%c.
Lard—Market firm: pure, in tierces, 9%c;
50ft tins, 9%c; compound, in tierces, 7%c; in
50ft tins. 7%c.
Butter—Market steady; fairdemand: Gosh
en, 20c; gilt edge, 21c; creamery, 25c; Elgin,
27c. ,
Cheese—Market dull; 10%®12>%c: fancy full
cream cheese, 13@13%c; 20ft average.
Fish—Mackerel, half barrel, No. 1, $8 50:
No. 2, »7 50: No. 3, $6 00. Kits, No. 1. $1 25;
No. ?. $1 00; No. 3,95 c. Codfish. 1-ft bricks,
6%c; 2-ft bricks, 6c. Smoked herrings, per
box, 20c. Dutch herring, in kegs, $1 00; new
mullet, half barrel, $3 75.
Salt—The demand is fair and market
Steady. Carload lots, f. o. b., Liverpool, 200
pound sacks. 60c; Virginia, 125 pound burlap
sacks, 3uc; ditto, 125 pound cotton sacks, 42c;
smaller lots higher. ,
Syrup—Florida and Georgia, new 35c:
market quiet for sugar house at 30®40c;
Cuba straight goods, 28®30c; sugar house
molasses, 15® 20c.
Tobacco—Market quiet and steady. Smok
ing, domestic, 22@60c; chewing, common
sound, 24@.27c; fair, 28@35c: good. 36® 48c;
bright. 60@65c; fine fancy, 65®80c; extra fine,
$1 00®1 15; bright navies, 25®45c.
Flour—Market-quiet. Extra. $1 35; family,
$3 00; fancy, $3 45; patent, $3 65; straight,
$3 40.
Corn—Market is strong and advancing.
White corn, job lots. 77c; carload lots, 74c.
Mixed.corn. job lots, 74c; carload lots. 71c.
Oats—Market firm. Mixed, job lots,. 48c;
carload lots, 45c; Texas rust proof. 55c
Bran—Joo lots, 97%c: carload lots, 92%c.
Hay—Market steady. Western, job lots,
92%c; carload lots, s7%c.
Meal—Pearl, per barrel, $3 75; per sack,
JI 75; city meal, per sack, $1 50. Pearl grits,
per barrel, J 3 85; per sack, JI 80; city grits,
per sack, $1 60.
Conee—The market is firm Mocha, 28c:
Java. 28%c; Peaberry. 23c; fancy or standard
No. 1.21%c; choice or standard No. 2. 21c;
prime or standard No. 3, 20%c; good or stan
dard No. 4,20 c: fair or standard No; 5,19 c;
ordinary or standard No. 6. 18c; common or
standard No 7, 17%c.
Sugars—Market firm. Cut loaf. 5%c;
crushed, 2%c; powdered, 5%c; XXXX pow
dered, 6%c; standard granulated. 5%c;
cubes, 5%c; mould A,5%c; diamond A, 5%e;
confectioners, 5%c; white extra C, 4%c;
extra C, 4%c; golden C, 4%c: yellows. 4%c.
Liquors- Market firm. High wine basis,
135; whisky, per gallon, rectified, 100 proof,
JI 35®1 75; choice grades, JI 50®2 50: straight,
$1 45® J 5o; biended. &2 00®l 50. Wines--Do
mestic, port, sherry, catawba, low grades.
60®85c; fine grades. Ji 00®l 50; California,
light, muscatel and angelica. JI 35® l 75;
lower proofs in proportion. Gins 1c per gal
lon higher. Rum 2c higher.
Apples—Nortnern, steady, $2.75®3 25 bar
rel.
Lemons—Market firm; per box, J 2.75.
Dried Fruit—Apples, evaporated. 15%®16c;
common, 9%®10c.
Nuts Aldmonds. Tarragona, 17%@18c;
Ivicas, 15%@16c; walnuts. French, 12%c; Na
ples. 14c: pecans. 12%c; Brazils, 9c: filberts.
10c; assorted nuts, 501 b and 251 b boxes, 12@13c
per oound.
Peanuts—Ample stock: demand fair; mar
ket steady; fancy hand-picked Virginia, $
ft. sc; hand-picked, $ ft, 4c; small hind
picked, $ ft. 4c.
Cabbage—Northern. 8c head.
Onions—Crates, $1.25; barrels, $2.75.
Potatoes—lrish. New York, bbls, $2.50®
3 00; western. $2 25.
Nails—Market steady; base 60d. fl 15: 50d,
$1 25; 40d. $1 40: 30d. $1 40; 12d. $1 60; -:0d, $1 50;
lOd. $1 65; Bd. $1 75: 6d. $1 90. 4d. $2 05; sd. $2 05;
3d, $2 35; 3d. fine, $2 75. Finishing, 12d, $1 80;
lOd. $1 90: Bd. $2 05: 6d $2 25; sd, $2 40; 4d.
$2 60. Wire nails JI 60 case.
Shot—Firm, drop to B, $1 15; B and larger,
fl 49: buck, fl 40.
Iron—Market very steady. Swede, 4%®5c;
refined, $1 90 base.
Oils—Market steady, demand fair. Signal,
45@50c: West Virginia, black. 9@l2c; lard.
65®80c; kerosene, %c; deatsfoot, 60® toe: ma
chinery, 20®30c; linseed, raw, 57c; boiled. 50c;
mineral seal, 16c; homellght, 13c: gardian,
11c.
Lime, Calcined Plaster and Cement—Ala
bama and Georgia lime in fair demand and
selling at 85c per barrel, bulk and carload
lots special; calcined plaster $1 60 ber bar
rel; hair 4®sc. Rosendale cement. JI 30® 1 40;
carload lots, special: Portland cement, retail,
$2 40; carload lots, $2 10.
Lumber—Demand, both foreign and domes
tic. is quiet. Mills generally full of quick
work, owing to lost time on account of con
tinued rains. We quote: easy sizes. $lO 00;
ordinary sizes. sll 00® 14 (JO; difficult sizes,
sl3 OW®lB 00; flooring boards, sl4 50® 22; ship
stuffs. sl6 50® ia 00.
Hides. Wool. Etc.—Hides—The market is
steady; fair demand; receipts light; dry flint,
4%c; dry salt,2%c; butcher salted. 254 c; green
salted, 2%c. Wool, steady; prime Georgia,
1 free of sand, burry and black wools, 13%c;
blocks, 10%c; burry. B%c. Wax. 21c. Tallow,
4c. Deer skins, flint, 22.; salted. 17c.
Poultry steady; fair demand: grown fowls,
pair, 50@60c; % grown, 35@45c; % grown,
20®3L)c; ducks, 65@750.
Eggs—Market steady; fully supplied;
country, $ dozen, 21@22c.
Bagging and Ties-The market firm.
Jute bagging, 2%ft, 8c; 2ft, 7%j; l%ft, 7c;
quotations are for job lots: small lots,
higher; sea island bagging, 12<®13c. Iron Ties
—r>arge lots, 85c; smaller lots, «oc@sl 00.
Dry Goods—The market is quiet, demand
light. Prints 4@sc; Georgia brown shirt
ing, 3-4. 3%c; 7-8 do., 4c; 4-4 brown sheeting,
sc: white osnaburgs, 6%@7c; checks,
3%©5%c; brown drilling, 5@6%c.
WILL COAL AT SAVANNAH.
Vessels Drawing 24 Feet of Water Can
Go Down the River This Fall.
The Berenguer el Grande to Take 600
Tons of Coal at Savannah in Addi
tion to Her Cargo—lnquiries of
Foreign Ship Owners as to the Depth
of the Channel to Be Answered by
Official Information From the United
States Engineer.
The plan to have steamships trading at
this port coal here instead of at Norfolk
bids fair to be successfully carried out.
Mr. James L. Logan, the manager of
the Sloss Iron and Coal Company’s Sa
vannah office, has contracted with the
owners of the Berenguer le Grande of
Barcelona, Spain, which will arrive in
Savannah about Oct. 1, to furnish the
vessel with 600 tons of coal.
The Brenguer el Grande visited Savan
nah twice during last season, and at
tracted considerable attention as the
largest vessel which had ever visited, this
port; Her cargo was 10,000 bales, but
having passenger accommodations for
several hundred passengers, this, of
course, diminished her freight room.
Otherwise her cargo would have been
about 13,000 bales. If vessels of this size
can coal at Savannah there would cer
tainly seem to be no reason why the
ordinary cotton carrying steamships of
from 1,200 to 2,000 tons should not take
all their coal at Savannah, instead of
going to Norfolk for it, and considerably
increasing their expenses by extra costs
of pilotage and insurance.
NO TROUBLE ABOUT WATER.
Mr. Logan has had considerable corre
spondence with foreign ship owners with
reference to the coaling of vessels at
Savannah. Naturally the idea which he
finds most difficult to combat is the im
pression which exists among foreign,
ship owners as to the depth of the Sa
vannah river. In this connection the
work of the board of trade in •
having the correct depth of the
channel placed upon the government
charts is destined to have considerable
effect. One very large shipping firm
of London, in replying to a recent letter of
Mr. Logan’s in reference to coaling its
vessels when visiting Savannah, acknowl
edges the apparent advantages of coaling
at Savannah instead of at Norfolk or
some other port to the northward, the
single item of the saving of S9O pilotage
being especially noted.
A MISTAKEN IDEA.
The only drawback complained of is
the fear that the draft depth of water
“on the bar” is insufficient, and that
vessels with full cargoes aboard would be
unable to cross the bar at Savannah with
their bunkers filled with coal. Theletter
concludes by inquiring the actual draft
of water at Savannah. Mr. Logan went
to Cant. Carter, United States engineer
in charge of the river and harbor work
at Savannah, and was by him furnished
with a letter which states that there is
at present at least mean low water a
channel depth between Savannah and
the sea of 16 feet, or at least mean high
water a channel depth of twenty-four
foet between the same points. Opera
tions are now in progress, adds Capt.
Carter’s letter, which it is hoped will
result at an early date in further increas
ing the depth. #
TO NOTIFY SHIP OWNERS.
Mr. Logan will have copies of Capt.
Carter’s letter made and mailed to the
foreign ship owners
In reference to the Savannah bar, it is
well known here tnat there has always
been plenty of water on the bar, the only
difficulty having been in the river, which
has been greatly deepened in recent
years as the result of the government
work. Capt. Carter informed Mr. Logan
that if he would load the Berenguer el
Grande to a depth of 24 feet in the mid
dle of October he would himself take her
down the river. With this backing Mr.
Logan expects to secure a number of
other contracts for coaling steamships.
A BRUTAL KuRDER.
A Negro Woman Cut to Pieces by a
White Man.
Abbeville, Ga.,Sept2.—A brutal mur
der was committed here last night.
Missie Jackson, a notorious Degress,
robbed Albert Evans while in her room.
As soon as Evans discovered that his
pocketbook was gone he charged the wo
man with the theft and followed her into
the street and demanded the ‘ret lira of
his money, which she refused to give up.
Becoming exasperated, Evans drew his
knife and literally cut her to pieces. As
soon as Evans drew the knife
the woman began to plead pite
ously for her life and offered to re
turn the money. The infuriated
man dealt blow after blow, and only de
sisted when the cries of the unfortunate
wretch attracted attention, when he fled
under cover of the darkness.
The woman ran to a house near by and
fell dead on the threshold of the room.
One of the wounds was between the
shoulder blades, six- inches long and very
deep, another was under the left nipple
and exposed her heart.
The verdict of the coroner’s jury was
in accordance with the facts.
The murderer is still at
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