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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 o «« § ggg § gg •“ 11 r . E5 : o o • O'"! . OMB) m g gg g : 01 :::::: r » ° S. —®_:—-J : ago M® O ® a’ o $ :!: : g g g I“ * — g g 0 a i » » rs 5. ” sft a, i - 00 £ »< m ST 3 : J g - • g - g £ s t . . ± . . ± 5. 88 k s r* CO • ■ • to -• to S S ■g 5£ g 1 § ihi * . I 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. 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