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SOLD TO RYAN AND THOMAS.
THE CENTRAL KNOCKED DOWN TO
THEM FOR $2,000,000.
Col. Buck as Auctioneer Thought
Such a Mngnlflceut Property
Should Have Brought Several
Times That Amount—The 950,000
.Check Handed Over to the Com
missioners—The Magnates Take a
Look at the Property to See What
They Are Getting—No Danger ot
Any of the Employes Going as
Long as They Stick to Business.
It was a sad day for many Savannahians
yesterday as they stood by and saw sold
tinder the auctioneer’s hammer a prop
erty that was built by Georgians and op
erated by them for nearly sixty years
under the most favorable circumstances.
It may. really be said to have been like
a funeral; it was practically the end of a
corporation in which for almost sixty
years the Georgia people have been tak
ing great pride, and which they have been
seeking to build up. Another corpora
tion will, of course, take its place, but
it can never be viewed by the people
with whom it will have to deal as was the
old Central Railroad and Banking Com
pany of Georgia.
The sale took place in front of the pas
senger depot on West Broad street. A
number of Plant system officials were
among the first on hand. They were Gen
eral Superintendent B. Dunham, Passen
ger Traffic Manager B. W. Wrenn and
Hon. S. G. McLendon, one of the sys
tem's attorneys. Some one who came up
gsked them if they were going to pur
chase the property for Mr. Plant. “Per
haps so,” was the reply, "have you got a
blank cheek in your pocket?” and that
was about as near as anybody connect
ed with Mr. Plant's system came to bid
ding.
-It was nearly 12 o’clock when the big
railroad men who took the active part
in the day’s proceedings arrived. They
came up on a street car. Those present
who were more directly interested in the
proceedings were Gen. Samuel Thomas,
Mr. Thomas F. Ryari, Mr. Henry Craw
fprd, constituting practically the reor
ganization committee; Receiver H. M.
Comer, Receiver Robert J. Lowry of the
iiavannah and Western; Senator A. O.
Bacon, representing the Southwestern;
Judge Henry B. Tompkins, representing
the Central Trust Company of New
York, under whose cross bill the sale
took place; Messrs. Lawton & Cunning
ham, who represent the receivers of the
Central; Judge William D. Harden, the
Savannah representative of the reorgan
ization committee, and Col A. E. Buck
andh Mr. George W. Owens, the special
commissioners appointed to conduct the
sale. Others present were Capt. John A.
Davis of Albany, a prominent stockhold
er in the Southwestern railroad; Judge
Robert Falligant, Col. John Screven,
Capt. Henry Blun, Maj. W. F. Shellman,
Messrs. T. P. Ravenel, Marion Erwin,
W. A. C. Ewen, M. J. Solomons, W. D.
Hasley, J. C. Haskell, T. M. Cunningham,
dr., M. B. Lane, and George A. Mercer,
Jr.
Besides those mentioned, some 200 or 250
people gathered to witness the brief pro
ceedings that took the property entirely
from the hands of the old company. They
did not have long to wait, after the ar
rival of the railroad men who were to
buy it. The sun was pouring down, and
the thermometer stood about where it
does on a pretty warm summer’s day.
They retired for a few moments inside the
depot for conference, and then the sale
was proceeded with.
Col. Buck and Mr. Owens found it so
warm where they had to stand that an
umbrella had to be used to shield the
auctioneers. “The time has arrived,” Col.
Buck announced, “at which the Central
railroad must be sold. Commissioner
Owens, appointed one of the special iw
tet» to sell the property, will proceed to
jeiil the advertisement of the sale.”
Commissioner Owens then, r-ad the' ad
vertisement, describing the Central rail
road main stem between Savannah and
Atlanta, together with all of its appur
teHiinces, equipments and properties, and
showing that the sale took place in pur
suance of a decree of the circuit court of
the United States for the Southern district
of Georgia, eastern divison, entered on
Aug. 26, 1X95, in the suit of the Farmers
Loan and Trust Company against Central
Railroad and Banking Company of Geor
gia et al. and Alexander Brown & Sons
against the Central Railroad and Bank
ing Company of Georgia et al., consoli
dated cause in equity, upon the cross bill
of the Central Trust Company of New
York, the latter being the bill for fore
closure under the consolidated or $13,000,-
(Xx> mortgage.
Commissioner Owens then read another
notice from the receiver of the Chatta
nooga, Rome and Columbus railroad to
that effect, that it Claimed a certain par
lor car, the number of which was blank,
ami which was in the possession of the
Central railroad. This, it was claimed,
was car No. 40b of the Chattanooga,
Rome and Columbus railroad. The ad
vertisement and notice having been read,
Col. Buck then proceeded to auction off
the property.
“Gentlemen,” he said, “you have heard
the advertisement read according to the
decree of sale. I presume all who ex
pected to bid either have or will de
posit their checks as required. It is use
less for me to speak to you of this mag
nificent property. You already know more
perhaps of its extent, its merits and its
Value than I can tell you. It is now
seadv to be hid for. Gentlemen, how
much am I offered?”
was silence for amoment and
Col. Buck said again and then a third
time, 'How much am 1 offered?” before
there came a response.
“In behalf of Samuel Thomas and
Thomas F. Ryan 1 bld $2,000,000,” said
Mr. Henry Crawford.
"Gentlemen, this property is worth ton
amount.” Col. Buck said.
'Think of it, only two million. Are there
any other bids? How much more am I
offered than two million? I see no one
here who wants to pay more than $2,000.-
000. Then J get no more? Why gentle
men, if I had four million or six million
I would like to pay it for the property.
Do I hear any more? Two mllion once,
two million twice and two mil—do I hear
aly more? No more; then two million
third and last time and sold to Mr. Ryan
and Gen. Thomas for $2,000,000.”
That was practically all there was to
gso far as the crowd was concerned,
omo of them looked as if they would
have liked to raise the bid a little just for
the sake of getting up some competition,
hut there was nobody there with mpre
than S2,IXIO,QUO in his pocket at the time, so
no raise was made. There were some there
too. who did not understand how it was
that the whole Central railroad did not
bring any more money than that amount.
The sale, however, was no more than a
formal proceeding, and almost any
amount bld would have answered ail
necessary purposes.
The bidding closed, Messrs. I'iyan and
Thomas came forward and handed the
commissioners a certified check on a New
York bank for $50,000, required to be paid
under the decree at the time the bid was
mndv. They then wont over to the general
office* to complete the work before them,
Messrs. Ryan and Thomas to sign a*
memorandum of the sale and Commis
sioners Ruck and Owens to sign a report
to the court, with regard to the sale of
the property, which will be confirmed by-
Judge Hardee In Atlanta next week. Com
mlsftoners Buck and Owens will, after a
confirmation of the sale, make a deed to
tin" property in favor of the new owners.
The check for $50,000 has been deposited
In the Merchants’ National Hank, to the
credit of the and they will
draw all the necessary cheeks on it for
the expenses of the sale and other pro
ceedings. The memoranda of sale and
report to the court, together with a m >-
tlon to confirm the sale, were tiled in the
United States court in the afternoon
From the de;»oi Receiver Comer took
Gen. Thomas, Mr. Ryan. Mr. Crawford and
a party over to the railroad and steatn-
Jhlp wharves, tor a look at that property
and while down there they had lunch on
fe°a r nr*cHcal t raih«ad l rnln 9 anrt n \ [ ThOOIA 4
himself as very much pleased
CoudHion of the prop, -ty He was seen
by a?< « ’Jlaih tor w* Mir n,; Now
r 1 ! ,o r"p
reeent tne owners of the property, and
policy or maahsvunau Mr. Comer will,
as you know, be the first president of
the system, and its policy in a great
measure will rest with him. The people
of Savannah, however, need have no
cause for alarm, as it is not the inten
tion of the new owners to make any
changes whatever that may be prejudi
cial to the city's business interests. The
idle talk about favoring Norfolk at the
expense of Savannah is foolish in the
extreme.” , , x
Receiver Comer, when asked about the
policy of the new company, said he could
say nothing, except what he has stated
all along. The report that there would
be any radical changes or a removal of
any of the steamships, he said, was all
folly and nonsense. When it was sug
gested that some of the employes were
on the anxious bench, he said that none
of those who are attending to business
and doing their duty satisfactorily need
have any fears as to their positions.
This will no doubh be good news to many
who have been under the impression that
a change of management meant a gen
eral shaking up in the departments.
Gen. Thomas and Mr. Ryan went to
New York last night. Mr. Crawford will
remain in the city to-day to arrange some
matters with Judge Harden. These are
in reference to the junior securities that
from one cause or another have not yet
been deposited with the reorganization
committee. It is the desire of the com
mittee to get in all of these securities
if possible, and they want to ftx some
plan by which those who have been left
out can be brought in without delay.
Some arrangement, with this point in
view, will no doubt be made to-aay.
Receiver Comer gave the visiting rail
road men a dinner at the De Soto last
night. It was attended also by a num
ber of prominent gentlemen who were
interested in the day's proceedings.
TUB CYLINDRICAL BALE.
It Is Favorably Received by New
York Cotton Men.
One of the cylyndrical pressed bales of
cotton, of which there has been so much
talk about during the last year, and of
which frequent descriptions have been
published, reached New York one day
last week and was exhibited at the cotton
exchange. It met with much iavor and
many were of the opinion that if it was
adopted it would be of great benefit to the
trade generally.
The matter in which the buyers mani
fested most interest was that of sampling
cotton under the new orocess. In the
first place it is impossible for the cotton to
be mixed without it appearing in either
of the ends of the bale. The cotton passes
direct from the gin into the condenser,
from which it passes in a broad
continuous sheet the width of the
bale to the spool upon which it
is wound under great pressure. The
very construction of the bale, therefore,
precludes the possibility of mixing in bad
cotton without it becoming apparent
at the ends. It is possible to secure relia
ble samples at the ends.
“An automatic sampler takes three or
more samples fram the bale as it is be
ing prepared, which are afterwards com
pared and the ginner puts a sample to
gether that is certified to be absolutely
accurate.
This does away with the disfiguring of
the bales by cutting to get samples.
Another very desirable feature of the new
process is the compactness with which
it compresses the bale. The bale on exhi
bition had a density of 35 pounds to the
cubic foot.
LIBERIA NOT SO ATTRACTIVE.
Enthusiasm in the Movement Ap
pear* to Be on the Decline.
The bottom appears to have about fallen
out of the Liberian movement.
The society was going to send a crowd
over as long ago as last June. The sailing
date was then postponed uptll the latter
part of August and again it was put off
until' September, and so far as can be
learned it does not appear to be any near
er at hand yet.
The Savannah negroes are to all ap
pearances losing interest in the matter,
and there are riot near so many of them
now with the Liberian fever as there were
shortly after the Horsa ■ailed with the
, first cargo from this port. •
Inquiry*at the office of the Internation
al Migration Society in this city devel
oped the fact that the agent has not been
there for a week or ten days. It was at
last accounts in charge of the treasurer
of the society, Mr. T. D. Howard, who
went back to Birmingham, though he will
no doubt return to look after the society’s
affairs within a few days. In their last
announcement the society stated that the
sailing date had again been postponed,
and that none had been fixed as yet,
owing to the fact that many of those who
are golpg want time to gather their crops.
It is believed that the society is not
meeting with such an encouraging har
vest as was looked for when the Liberi
an fever was at Its hight, and that It is
taking a considerable longer time to
get together a crowd large enough to fill
up a vessel.
THE NEW LINE TO TRIESTE.
The First Steamer at Quarantine
Waiting to Come I'p.
The Tergeste, the first steamer of the
new line between Savannah and Trieste,
is at Sapelo in ballast, and will arrive up
to the city as soon as she has been re
leased from quarantine. She will load
phosphate and cotton.
The Tergeste is 3,200 tons. The other
steamers of the line are the Illiaria. 3,750
tons, the Istria, 4,000 tons and the Bettie,
4,200 tons. The Illiavla will arrive the lat
ter part of this month. While cotton will
be one of the staples of export, it is ex
pected that miscellaneous cargoes will be
secured and that return cargoes will com
prise many articles which have been hith
erto exclusively received through New
York.
Wilder & Co. are the agents of
the line, which, although experimental,
is believed will be permanent.
The vessels will run between
Galveston, New Orleans, Savannah and
the Mediterranean ports. There is a large
amount of cotton consumed in Austria
most of which is now taken by rail from
Bremen. The merchants of Trieste have
decided to make an effort to bring this
traffic through their port, and have or
ganised the steamship line for this pur
pose.
DRIGGERS BACK IN DUVAL.
Ills Trial for Murder to Take Place
in That County.
Jacksonville. Fla., Oct. B—M. M. Drlg
, gers, white, who shot and killed Tax Col
j lector Dowling of Bradford county last
i spring, will be tried in this county. Drig
gers was hurried away from Bradford
country in order to escape the fury of the
many friends ot Dowling. To-day he was
carried to Starke by Sheriff Bowden, but
returned in the afternoon. An immense
crowd was at the Starke depot, but there
was no demonstration of violence. Drig
gers, when he left here, was fearful that
I there would be and begged the sheriff to
surround him with deputies, but the sher
; iff thought it unnecessary. The accused
was much relieved to find himself safe and
sound back in the Duval county jail.
HIS HEAD SHOT OFF.
Brooksville’s Missing; Stock Man
Found Dead in a Hammock.
Brooksville, Fla., Oct. B.—Last Friday
I Henry Smith, a stockman who lives near
i here, went to the prairie to feed his hogs.
| Saturday morning Smith's horse return
j ed riderless. Search was instituted and to
day Smith's corpse was found in a dense
hammock about eight miles from here.
His head had been shot off and his body
i riddled. Smith had had trouble with neigh
[ bors about cattle. It was charged that he
raided his neighbors' herds. This is sup-
• posed to have been the cause of his assas
sination.
A New Anti-Socialist Measure.
' Berlin. Oct. B.—The first cabinet meet-
I L n % the beginning of the ministerial
. hc’ii.ay.» was held to-day. Prince von
- Hohcmoho presiding. It is understood
that the ministers discussed the question
I cf the introduction of an anti-socialist
• measure to apply to Prussia only.
THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWO-TIMES-A-WEEK): THURSDAY. OCTOBER 10. 1895.
A RING LIKE MISS LAMONT'S.
THE MAN WHO WANTED TO PAWN
IT PUT ON THE STAND.
He Wan Dressed as Durrant Is Said
to Have Been When He Visited
the Same Shop—The Defense Try
ing to Show That the Pawnbroker
Got This Man Mixed Up With the
Prisoner—A Reporter Gives Testi
mony Which a Detective Has De
clared Erroneous.
San Francisco, Oct. B.—The defense in
the Durrant trial Is nearing the close of
its case. It will probably reach it this
week. To-day it made one of its strong
est points in the introduction as a wit
ness of C. T. Lenahan, the young man
who* says he visited Adolph Oppenheim’s
pawnshop, and w’ho, it is claimed by the
defense, was mistaken for Durrant by
the pawnbroker. Lenahan testified to
day that he had gone to the pawnshop
and offered a band ring with a chip dia
mond similar to that worn by Blanche
Lamont. He had a brief conversation
with the pawnbroker similar to that said
to have been had with Durrant. His
ring was not accepted and he left the
store, going in the same direction as that
said to have been taken by Durrant.
Lenahan testified that his visit was on
the afternoon of April 13, instead of on
a morning between the 4th and 10th, as
testified to by Oppenheim, and he met
the pawnbroker at the door, whereas in
the other case Oppenheim w-as seated in
side the store reading when the customer
.entered. Lenahan was dressed as Dur
rant was said to have been when he vis
ited the store.
Another point for the defense was made
by H. N. Marshall, a reporter, who testi
fied that on the day of the discovery of
Miss Lamont’s body, Detective Gibson,
wffio found it, told him that there were
footprints of a No. 9 shoe on the top plat
form of the church tower. This Detec
tive Gibson, has already denied on the
stand.
Judge Murphy, who presides, is very
cautious in making no ruling to jeopardize
the case should it go to appeal, and he to-
reversed himself on the question ot
permitting Dr. Cheney, whose lecture
Durrant is alleged to have attended on the
afternoon, of the murder, to express an
opinion as to whether Durrant was at the
lecture or not. Durrant’s counsel asked
this question earlier in the case, but an
objection to it was sustained. When the
lecturer was on the stand to-day the court
made his offer to permit him to give his
opinion, but the defense refused to avail
itself of th«» opportunity on the ground
that Dr. Cheney had practically testified
that he believed Durrant to have been at
the lecture when he said he thought the
roll call was correct.
Leonard Averett testified as to the time
consumed in going over the route travers
ed by Mrs. Crosett on the afternoon of
April 3, when she said she saw Durrant
riding on a car toward the Emmanuel
church a short time befote the murder
with a young lady. His estimate of the
time differed from that of Mrs. Crosett
by about six minutqs>.
TALLAHASSEE TOPICS.
A Negro Found Dead—Trout Fishing
Near Carrabelle.
Tallahassee, Fla., Oct. B. James Smith,
a young colored man, was found dead a
few miles north of the city Saturday af
ternoon. He was out hunting with a shot
gun, and it is supposed that the gun was
accidentally discharged while he w’as get
ting over the fence, as he lay on one side
of the fence and his gun on the other. The
whole charge entered his left side, near
the heart, and it is supposed that death
was instantaneous.
Trout are biting lively at Carrabelle, and
hundreds of them arj caught nightly from
the wharves. Excursions 1 go down nearly
Aery afternoon to fish at night. Mr. W.
N. Shine, editor of the Floridian, was with
a party Saturday night; over 500 were
caught. He brought up a barrel on ice
and distributed them throughout the city
Monday morning.
John C. Trice of the Tallahasseean, has
purchased a plantation west of the city,
which he will have cultivated according to
his ideas of farming in Florida’s hill coun
try.
Hon. F. T. Christie of Miccosukee came
very near killing a negro Saturday even
ing. The negro had driven Mr. Christie’s
team to the depot, nine miles distant. It
is said that the negro had imbibed pretty
freely of liquor during the day, and about
dark drove into Miccosukee at such a rate
of speed that everybody in the village
thought the team was running away. Mr.
Christie, seeing that it was his team, ran
out in front of the mules to stop them.
The negro became enraged, jumped from
the wagon, knife in hand, and ran toward
Mr. Christie cursing him. Mr. Christie
took in the seriousness of the
situation at once, seized the first thing
he found, struck at the negro as he rush
ed upon him with murderous intent,
struck him on the side of the head and
laid him out. The negro was unconscious
for an hour or more, but the doctors
brought him to and he may recover.
Those who witnessed the affair think that
Mr. Christie might have been killed if he
had not knocked the negro senseless.
SHIP BUILDING _ HANDS TO STRIKE.
i
Fifty Thousand Men to Be Made Idle
on the Clyde.
Belfast, Oct. B.—The employes of the
Belfast ship building yards have given
notice to their employers that they will
strike on Thursday next if their demands
for higher wages are not conceded. The
Clyde ship building unions will co-operate
w ith the Belfast hands.
It is the intention of the Clyde unions
to bring out twenty-five per cent, of their
men. This will throw 50,000 men into idle
ness.
JOHN OTT DEAD.
He Was Acting Controller Under
President Buchanan.
Roanoke, Va., Oct. B.—John Ott, secre
tary of the Iron Belt Building and Loan
Association, one of Roanoke’s best known
business men. died at 4:25 o’clock this
morning of paralysis. He was a native of
Hagerstown, Md., and was for a long
time in the service of the. government at
Washington, having been acting control
ler of the currency under President Buch
! anan. He was chief clerk of the treasury
department of the confederate states until
the latter part of the war. when he took
the field and won the rank of colonel.
An Attempt at Robbery.
Mclntosh, Ga., Oct. B.—As Mrs. M E
Trask, a lady doing business in Henn’ing
\ ton, was on her way home from her store
about dark last night she was stopped bv
two men, one negro and one white man.
who attempted to rob her. She had in her
I satchel a good sum of money and a gold
I watch. She acted very bravely and pro
tected herself with her pistol and scream
ed for help. Both men were armed but
fled as help came up. There is no clew to
the would be robbers.
A Conductor Attempts Suicide.
Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. B.—A W Logan
a Florida. Central and Peninsular conduc
tor. drank several ounces of laudanum to
night in an effort to commit suicide.
Emetics were promptly given and Logan
is now out of danger. Logan is from
Kent. O. borne months ago his mother
I died, since which time he has been ex
| ceedingly despondent.
—-
Possum Williams Quits.
Augusta. Ga., Oct. B.—The much adver
tised fight between two negro pugilists
Possum Williams and Dennis Robertson’
ended in a fiasco in the second round, the
i redoubtable Possum declining to pro-
I ceed with the fight. The affair was badly
managed, and came nar precipitating a
| free light among the bystanders around
• the ring.
CONVENTION OF THE CHURCHMEN.
* SMWMMMSSMWO
The Designation of the New Consti
tution Adopted.
Minneapolis, Minn., Oct. B.—The cold
weather effected a marked change in the
attendance at the house of deputies this
morning, and it was after 10 o’clock before
the session opened. After the preliminary
formalities the committee on changes in
the constitution submitted a report un
favorable to the proposed amendment,
whereby it is proposed to substitute the
word constitutions for that of constitu
tion, and asked to be discharged. The re
port of the committee was adopted.
Mr. Elliott, of the same committee, sub
mitted a report upon the resolution by
Judge Fairbanks, the intent of which was
to authorize any diocese to set aside a
part of its territory as a mission. This
report was also unfavorable.
Dr. Samuel Hart, custodian of
the standard book of common
prayer, submitted through Dr.
Huntingdon a long printed report relat
ing to the new standard, and calling at
tention to several typographical inacdu
racies. Among other statements con
tained in the report w-as one to the effect
that 1,100,000 copies of the book had been
printed from the new standard.
A resolution adopted at the last gen
eral convention and providing that the
name “assistant bishop” be changed to
bishop coadjutor wherever it occurs in
the prttyer book, was brought up for final
action, and, as the' same question, is
now before the house as a portion of the
report of the revision committee, w r as
placed on the calendar.
The first vote by the present convention
was demanded upon the designation of
the constitution sent down by the bishops.
This ran as follows: “The constitution
and canons for the government of that
portion of the catholic church known in
law as the Protestant Episcopal Church of
the United States of America.”
There was no debate and the designa
tion was adopted by this vote;
Ayes. Noes. Divided.
47 5 1
36 8 6
83 13 7
No sooner had the result of the ballot
been declared than some of the members
took alarm and wanted the rest of the
message postponed until a more conveni
ent season.
Dr. Huntington, the New York orator
and parliamentarian, said the house had
done what was absolutely without prece
dent in passing an amendment to the
constitution without discussion, and he
hoped that such action would never-be
repeated.
Ex-Senator Edmunds, however, thought
it would be most expeditious to go on with
the subject at once, so that If any
amendments were decided upon, the
bishops might have them without delay.
The house thought the same way.
The proposition of the bishops to sub
stitute the word “Synod” for “Conven
tion” was non-concurred in by a vote,
the volume of which seemed nearly
equal.
On the proposition to accept the title
“Bishop Coadjutor” instead of “Assist
ant Bishop,” as adopted by the house,
the vote by dioceses was 55 to 37, nine
being divided.
At the opening of the afternoon session
the house members appointed to select
the next place of meeting reported in favor
of Boston. An amendment was made,
substituting Louisville, and the matter
went over.
Ex-Senator Edmunds of Vermont asked
leave of absence to leave the city for the
rest of the session, and tendered his resig
nation as a member of the committee on
constitutional amendments. The leave was
granted and the resignation accepted.
Dr. Rhodes of Southern Ohio raised a
question as to the mode of procedure ob
served in the morning, in acting upon the
proposed amendments to the new constitu
tion. He urged the house, in a rather long
speech, to take up the committee’s report
and act upon Its provisions independently,
without section 3, as adopted by- the house
of bishops, providing that the senior
oishop of the chUrch should act as the
presiding officer of the house of bishops,
and be knjrwn by the title of primate. «nd
To that ent! moved postponement of the
message of the house of bishops.
This prov&kcd discussion, but the mo
tion was lost and the question fell upon
the amendment offered by Judge Bennett
to take the place of section 2, as provided
by the house of bishops. The section as
approved by the bishops extended to the
resigned bishops whose resignations were
made necessary by infirmity, the right to
vote In the house of lords and the
amendment deprived them of this right.
Judge Bennett’s amendment w-as lost,
and the house concurred in the action of
the house of bishops.
George C. Thoihas of Pennsylvania shot
off the first arrow with an amendment
substituting the words “presiding bishop."
A good deal of feeling and some heat
■was shown in the debate upon this propo
sition. When a ballot was finally' reached,
Mr. Thomas’ amendment was lost bv a
vote of 152 ayes to 162 nays.
The question will thus revert to section
3 as adopted by the house of bishops when
the matter is again considered. At 5:30
o’clock the house adjourned.
Just before the.delegates dispersed, the
house of bishops announced concurrence
in the resolutions dividing the dioceses of
California, Maryland and Kentucky.
BAGGED A CITY’S INTEREST.
Pittsburg Officials $50,445 Ahead by
Loaning Municipal Funds.
Pittsburg, Pa., Oct. B.—Controller Gour
ley and the city council’s sub-finance
committee engaged in an investigation
of the affairs of the office of City At
torney Moreland to-day, obtained the de
sired information from the Tradesmen’s
National Bank as to the amount of in
terest the bank had paid to Assistant
City Attorney House, on the city’s money
deposited in that institution. The
bank has paid to Mr. House the total
sum of $21,316 interest on city moneys
between April 4, 1885, and Dec. 20, 1894.
This swells the total paid to Mr. House
on the city money deposited in the name
of City Attorney Moreland to $50,445. The
statement from the Tradesmen’s Nation
al Bank completes the evidence required
to show that the funds belonging to the
city of Pittsburg had been made to earn
money for others.
An unconfirmed report Is current that
the next move will be to compel City
Attorney Moreland and his assistant,
Mr. Hoqse, to give up information as
to what Was done with the interest mon
ey' collected from the city depositories.
This action, it is said, will probably take
de fircite shape to-morrow, and may lead
to further sensational disclosures.
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GEN. MAHONE DEAD.
Officers and Soldiers of His Brigade
to Bear His Body to tlie Grave.
Washington, Oct. B.—Gen. William Ma
hone died at Chamberlain’s hotel at 1
o’clock this afternoon, from the effects of
a paralytic stroke sustained last Mon
day, Sept. 30. He had been totally un
conscious for more than forty-eight hours
previous to his death, and passed away
seemingly without pain. Mrs. Mahone,
Butler and William Mahone, Jr., his sons,
Mrs. Ollie Gill, his daughter, L. L. Mai A-y
of Southampton county, Virginia, a
nephew, and Capt. Rogers, secretary of
the Virginia state republican committee,
and former secretary to Gen. Mahone,
were at the bedside when the end came.
The arrangements for the funeral were
made soon after Gen. Mahone died. The
remains will be taken to Petersburg, Va.,
by train, leaving Washington at 4:30
o’clock to-morrow morning. Services will
be held at 5 o’clock to-morrow evening
at St. Paul’s Episcopal church at Peters
burg, and the body will then be taken to
the place of interment. The honorary
pall-bearers will be officers of Mahone’s
brigade, and the body bearers will be sol
diers who served in that organization.
Gen. Mahone was paying one of his
frequent visits to Washington when he
was paralyzed last Monday. He was part
ly conscious and able to take nourishment
until Sunday morning last. From that
time until his death he did not open his
eyes and was unable to take any nourish
ment.
The following officers of Gen. Mahone’s
old brigade and members of Gen. A. P.
Hill Camp Confederate Veterans, all of
Petersburg, will be the honorary pall
bearers.
Maj. J. Arthur Johnston, Judge Dowry
A. Hinton, Gen. Sittith Bolling, Capt. E.
A. Goodw'in, Capt. John R. Patterson,
Cant. Asa Rogers, Col. E. M. Field and
R. T. Harrington. Thp active pall bear
ers will be the following privates who
served under Gen. Mahone: George S.
Barner, J. E. Spottswood, J. R. Turner,
R. L. Watson, T. S. Beckwith, J. E.
Whitehorn, Alexander Wilson, and R. R.
Gee. ‘
William Mahone was born in South
ampton county, Virginia, in 1826. His pa
rents were from Ireland. Both of his
grandfathers served with distinction, in
the war of 1812. His father commanded
a regiment of militia in the “Nat Turner
insurrection.” The senior Mahone edu
cated his son himself, with the exception
that he went to school for about two
years. He wag graduated from the Vir
ginia Military Institute in 1847, and taught
school for two years at the Rappahannock
Military academy. While at the academy
young Mahone studied civil engineering
and finally became chief engineer and
constructor of the Norfolk and Peters
burg railroad. At the outbreak of the
civil war he joined the confederate army,
and was commissioned lieutenant colonel
of Virginia volunteers. Shortly thereaf
ter he became colonel of the Sixth Vir
ginia infantry. He was present at the'
capture of the Norfolk navy yard in 1861.
He participated in most of the battles
of the peninsular campaign, those on the
Rappahannock and those around Peters
burg. At the latter pldce he won tne
sobriquet of “the hero of the crater,” for
his splendid bravery at the time
of the explosion of Grant’s
mine underneath Lee’s outworks, on July
30, 1864. He was known as a brave and
daring fighter throughout the war. Gen.
Lee held him in high esteem, considering
his ability to rank hardly second to that
of any commander in the service, with the
exception of Stonewall Jackson. He was
(Commissioned a brigadier general in
March, 1864, and a major general in Au
gust of the same year, for listinguished
services around Petersburg. Afterward
he commanded a division in Ambrose P.
Hill’s corps. Had Mahone’s career ended
with the close of the war, he would have
lived in history as one of the most ad
mired and respected of the commanders
of the southern armies. But he lost in
politics much of the admiration which he
won in war. At the termination of the war
he entered the railroad business again,
and soon took a leading part in politics.
He was at first a democrat, and worked
hard to carry Virginia for the Democratic
party. But failing to secure for himself
tae office of United States senator, he or
ganized the readjuster party, fbunded
Upon the conditional repudiation of the
state debt, apd -was by that party, elected
to tho senate in 1880, serving until 1887.
He tried for a. second term in the senate,
but was defeated. He became as active
as the leader of the Republican party as
he had been once as the leader of the
• democrats, and for a time was the boss
of the party organization. Factional quar
rels, however, broke his power. For sev
eral years prior to his death he had not
been active in politics.
PUBLIC LAND RECORDS.
Penaacollnns Disinclined to Surren
der Them to tlie Government.
Washington, Oct. B.—The interior de
partment and certain prominent citizens
of Florida have for some time engaged in
a controversy as to the proper place for
the filing of certain of the public land
records of that state. The commissioner
of the general land office recommended to
the Secretary of the Interior that they
be transferred to the office of the survey
or general of that state, but it appears
that the Spanish archives of West Florida
are in the possession of John De la Rua
and others at Pensacola, and on a demand
for thorn the surveyor general received
only dilatory replies. Letters of remon
strance against their removal were re
ceived at the interior department from
Hon. S. R. Mallory and W. A. Blount of
Pensacola who state that fully 90 per cent,
of the matter embraced in the archives
relates to lands and titles in Pensacola
county, and but a small fraction has refer
ence to lands within a reasonable distance
of Tallahassee. The department after an
examination of the law on the subject
i concurs in the commissioner’s recommen
dation that these archives are held with
out legal authority axid should be in the
hands of the federal authorities of the
state, and directs that steps looking to
that end be taken.
RIOTING AT BARCELQNA.
An Edict Against a Text Book at the
Bottom of the Trouble.
Madrid, Oct. B.—Serious rioting is re
ported among the students of the Univer
sity of Barcelona. The bishop of that city
recently declared heretical a text book by
Prof. Odon of the Barcelona University,
and the government prohibited the use of
the book. This resulted in a demonstra
tion by the liberal students within the
university grounds, which was followed
by a conflict between the liberals and their
Catholic comrades.
The authorities of the university called
In the police, who ejected from the
grounds several of the more prominent of
: the disorderly students. Then the scene
of trouble was changed to the streets of
r the city. The liberal students, reinforced
by a crowd of republican citizens, attacked
the bishop’s palace and smashed in the
windows with stones. Fierce fights fol
lowed, in which many heads were broken.
At last accounts order had been re
stored by the strenuous efforts of the po
lice.
FIGHTERS HELD FOR TRIAL.
The Men Arrested at Jersey City-
Each Held in SSOO Bail.
Jersey, City, N. J., Oct. B.—Police Jus
tice Douglass, this morning, rendered a
decision in the cases of Peter Reilly of
Long Island City, Frank Erne of Buffalo
Casper Leon of New York, and Sam
Robinson, Charles Roden and Joe Craig
of this city, who were arrested on the
night of July 15 at the conclus?&n of the
Hudson County Athletic Club’s boxing
show at Oakland rink, and charged with
prine fighting. The court decided that
the bouts constituted prize fighting. The
defendants were held in $509 bail each,
to await the action of the grand jury.
Weavers and Spinners Strike.
New London, Conn., Oct. B.—The weav
ers and spinners of the Ponemah mills
at Taftville struck yesterday in sympa
thy with the back boys, who struck last
week for the restoration of a 19 r.er cent,
cut in wages. Twelve hundred opera
tives are out.
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Interesting; Episode of the Early
Days of Leadville.
From the Washington Post.
In a day when Leadville’s directory—
had Leadville had such a tome —would
have shown but two people, Chicken Bill
was easily one of that hamlet’s leading
citizens. Old Billy Stevens was the other
inhabitant of Leadville, and he and Chick
en Bill made up the population of that
place.
Old Billy Stevens was the first man in
California gulch; Chicken Bill was the
second.
This latter worthy was of a fanciful dis
position. It would seem, too, that he pos
sessed a strong bent to defraud and pil
lage his fellow man.
One of the earlier methods by which
he sought to bunco the unwary was a
fake nugget of gold, or, more properly, a
nugget of fake gold.
Chicken Bill would obtain rough, irreg
ular pieces of brass of nugget size and
contour. These Birmingham selections he
would throw into a certain stream in the
gulch, at the foot of a little trifle of a
waterfall, where the descending floods
could beat upon them and churn and
grind them into pebbles.
This churning process added to some
action of a chemical sort which the water
itself took up in, the shoddy case of these
brass contributions of Chicken Bill, turn
ed them out at the end of the week per
fect gold nuggets so far as one’s eye could
tell aught of it. Acids might discover the
imposition; the eye never.
Chicken Bill would then braise a long
pin on his brass nugget and bestow the
bait for the gulls in his shirt front. Be
fore the day was over, he would sell it
to some ambitious barkeeper, or play it
on some poker game.
All these transactions in fake nuggets,
by which Chicken Bill turned last and
first many a dishonest dollar, took place
however, after Leadville had increased
its count far beyond the meager tale of
Old Billy Stevens and Chicken Bill. The
latter never sold Old Stevens any of his
water-fall nuggets; Stevens was a bird
of age.
But it was not to sing of Chicken Bill
and his brazen nuggets which prompted
the telling of this. It was to speak of
a time when Chicken Bill in his buncoing
overplayed himself; of an hour when the
victim turned out victor and the biter
bit himself. '
Be it known that in a later Leadville
day, graduating from brass nuggets,
which only at the best meant S2O to his
weAl, Chicken Bill became a Salter of
claims.
He would salt a claim in various fash
ions. He would sink his shaft until the
surrounding rock showed as it should
to suggest the existence of silver-bearing
ores. Then would Chicken Bill bore holes
at haphazard in divers corners of the
claim, and hide away ingeniously speci
mens of the precious metal.
At times to give the “salt” the force
to make it stick and stay, Chicken Bill
would shoot it in with a shotgun.
Still Chicken Bill, by brass nugget sell
ing and silver mine salting, gained but a
precarious livelihood, and made a great
deal of bad repute for himself. There
came a day when he concluded that he
would make one elaborate steal, and that
accomplished he would get out with his
reward.
First, he must get the claim and salt it;
and then look up his tenderfoot.
So Chicken Bill cast about California
gulch and came finally to make a loca
tion, which he called the Chrysolite claim.
Then he sunk his shaft and subsequent
ly, by every process known to the expert
mining sharp, Chicken Bill salted the
Chrysolite claim. He took a patient time
to do it, and exhausted therein all his in
genuity for fraud.
At last, however, Chicken Bill was ready
to deal; no claim had ever been “salted”
to such a pitch of excellence before.
Ready for the victim, Chicken Bill be
gan to use his eyes. It did not take him
long to pick his man. The party was new
to Leadville; didn’t know much of mines,
and still less of Chicken Bill.
This interesting person, too, had money
—large bundles of it—and he wanted to buy
a mine.
Chicken Bill came to with cau
tion. Little by little -fee 4nade his ac
quaintance, and told him in drops and
driblets of the chrysolite mine. Chicken
Bill hooked his fish and played him with
a skill which was the admiration.of every
bar-room in Leadville.
All knew Chicken Bill, and all felt fair
ly sure of the game he was playing with
the guileless stranger. But no one thought
of interferring.
One of the earliest lessons which the
west teaches* is to attend to one’s own
business. Everybody In Leadville had
been taught it long before the day of the
Chrysolite mine.
So, while the Leadville public discussed
the matter with Itself whenever Chicken
Bill and his victim weren’t about, no.jone
stepped in to stop the wrong.
The see-sawing and haggling between
Chicken Bill and his buyer need not be
gone into. The “salt” worked to the
queen’s taste, and the stranger was com
pletely mislead. He looked on the Chrys
olyte as a very rich vein, thanks to the
fraudulent arrangements of Chicken Bill
to bring about such a conclusion.
One day the stranger closed the bargain.
The trap was sprung and the stranger
gave Chicken Bill $50,000, and the far
famed Chrysolite was transferred to him.
Chicken Bill put the $50,000 in his belt
and went to Denver, first taking a drink
with every white man in Leadville.
A week went by. Chicken Bill was gone,
and the stranger put in a force of men
to develope and work the Chrysolite.
Leadville, who knew It was “salted,”
watched operations, and leaned back ready
to laugh whenever the stranger discov
ered what the wicked Chicken Bill had
done to him.
But a week, a month elapsed, and the
stranger never yelled. Work went on at
the Chrysolite, and Leadville began to
wonder. It only wondered a brief period,
and then It began to investigate.
In away a chill of horror shot through
the entire camp when it was found that
Chicken Bill, instead of fooling the strng
er, had inadvertently fooled himself. The
Chrysolite had been salted, but the "salt”
might have been dispenced with.
Had Chicken Bill, while digging his
shaft and setting his trap, taken the trou
ble to examine the rock, he would have
found that the Chrysolite was one of the
richest mines in Colorado.
And that is the story of how Chicken
Bill “salted” the Chrysolite and sold him
self. The mine which he let go for $50,000
was easily worth $2,000,000. The sucker in
this case of mistaken bunco was Gov-
Tabor.
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New' York, Oct. B.—The written challenge
■from the Royal Victoria Yacht Club, on
behalf of C. D. Rose, has been received by
the New York Yacht ciub. A special
meeting, to consider the same, has been
called for next Monday, the 14th Inst.
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Mr. Foley and His Frog.
The embarrassments and annoyances in
cident to the existence of a man, whose
stomach is occupied by a baritone frog„
with a propensity for demanding recog
nition at any time, under any circum
stances, will readily suggest themselves,
says the Oil City Blizzard. Yet this is
precisely the predicament in which James
Foley of Wheatland finds himself. One
evening recently he was sitting with his
family playing dominoes, when a pecu
liar grunting sound made the children
jump.
“What’s the matter, James; aren’t you
well?” inquired Mrs. Foley.
“Why, I didn’t do that.”
“Yes, you did, James. I he&rd you.
Have you been drinking again?”
Mr. Foley was in the act of making a
most emphatic denial, when the sound
was heard again.
“Yes, it comes from me, sure enough,”
he was forced to admit. Like a flash his
mind grasped the true state of affairs}
he must have swallowed something in the
drinking water, and it had grown inside
him.
He has now brought suit against Philip
C. Dickinson to recover $5,000 for damages
to the- plaintiff’s health, alleged to have
been caused by drinking impure water
furnished by the defendant. The Foley
and Dickinson farms adjoin, and Foley
paid his neighbor sl2 a year for the privi
lege of using water from the latter’s.well.
.Mr. Foley claims that the animal in
side of him is a frog. “I know it's that,”
said he, "for nothing else would make so
queer a noise. Last Sunday in church the,
frog took it into his hei<4 to kick up a fus»-
just as I was enjoyingtjhe sermon. First"
I knew, ft gave a blit ow-nk. L , 'rytindyM
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barrassed. Then it started to croak still
louder. I couldn’t stand that, so I got
tip and walked out. All the way down the
aisle the frog, or whatever it is, kept mak
ing its strange and peculiar sounds. I’m
afraid I’ve queered myself for that
church.
“The worst of it is,” continued Mr.
Foley, "they won’t believe me. Every
body seems to think I’m doing this for
fun. I can’t go to any little social gath
erings or prayer meeting without this in
fernal animal tuning up my interior.”
Mr. Foley, like many others, doesn’t re
alize his own possibilities—he doesn’t
know what’s in him. He ought to make
that frog pay for his lodgings by earning
a lot of money for him.
Saved With a Lariat.
"You were asking me a while ago about
the lariat and its uses,” said a western
man to the Washington Star, “and it re
minds me of the time on one occasion
when It served an excellent purpose aa
a life preserver.”
“It isn’t always used for that, is it?”
“Well, no,” laughed the westerner,
“I’ve seen it do prompt service when there
was no other rope handy and the boss
thief was. But this time was different,”
he went on. “I know because I was the
one preserved. We were up in the canon
country looking for some cattle, and one
of the boys and I had gone off the trail
to a stream to take a bath, as you might
call it in the east, for it was hotter than
blazes and shade was not plentiful. We
went Into the water some distance above
a turbulent rapid and a water fall of
twenty-five or thirty feet, and as we
didn’t go to swim so much as to get cool,
all we needed was enough water to cover
us, and that’s all my companion took.
“I was, however, more ambitious, and
having been a fine swimmer when I was in
the east, I thought I would branch out
a bit. I was soon branching out exten
sively, and the first thing I knew the swift
water caught me and down I went toward
the fall. I tried to pull for the shore, but
It was no good, and then I set up a yell that
made the canon echo, and my partner
cams after me along the shore. I was fif
ty feet out In the stream, struggling, and
there wasn’t any more sign of salvation
for me than if I had been in mid-ocean.
“Down I kept going, whirled and turn
ed upside down and fired around permls
cuously, until about a hundred yards
yard® above the final fall I caught on a
rock. It was just high enough to keep
my head out of water, and I hung to ft
until my finger nails seemed to be im
bedded in it. My partner at this juncture
show’ed the kind of a fellow he was in an
emergency, for he appeared on shore with
our two lariats tied together, and just as
I was about to let go and. be smashed on
the rocks below, he swung that lariat as
cool as he ever did from the back of his
mustang, and it dropped square over my
head. The rest of it I am not very con
scious of, because by the time he had
pulled me ashore by the neck I was about
as near hung as I ever want to be, but ha
brought me around all right in the course
of half an hour or so, and I was quite as
good as new again.”
“That was a narrow escape.”
"And that was an odd fellow who saved
me,” added the westerner, “for he was so
mad about the scare I 'had given him that
I’ll be blamed if he didn’t turn to before
the day was over and give me the worst
licking I ever got in my life for scaring
him so.”
Romance Spoiled.
From the New York Press.
I believe in helping the young people
out. There might have been a pretty bit
of romance In the elopement of John Bris
ben Walker, Jr., and Miss Brandt but for
one thing—the parents on both sides had
the prosaic perversity to be willing. Will
ing parents spoil every bit of romance In
the matrimonial entanglements of the
young. They ought to make a show of
opposition anyway, when they find that
in the imagination of the young couple
an elopement is conducive to connubial
bliss. Walker is a foot ball player of no
mean skill, and he wanted this chance to
show his sweetheart how nobly a foot
ball lover could fight for, guard, defend
and protect the abject of his adoration.
A Clothing Dealer Sells Out.
Gainesville, Fla., Oct. B.—Joseph Ma
nassee, a dealer in clothing, has sold out
his entire slock of clothing, invoicing
SB,IOO, to S, H. Benjamin & Co., for $1,479
and other valuable considerations.