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2 THROUGH A BURNING TRESTLE. FOURTEEN CARS OF FREIGHT BURNED AT WHEAT HILL. DlMnstrous Wreck on the Florida Central mid Peninsnlur Railroad. A Freight Train of 25 Corn Started Actohk a Trestle—-The coinotive Fussed Over Safely, Rut the Tender and Middle Section of the Train Went Down and W’ere Burned—A Colored Brakeman and a Tramp the Only Injured—The Es timated Loss on Freight, $20,000. Four Hundred Bules of Cotton Burned. The wreck on the Florida Central and Peninsular railroad at Wheat Hili, west of Savannah, night before last was the most serious since the extension/of the road to Savannah. Nine carloads of cot ton and one of grain were totally de stroyed, and three cars containing lum ber and one containing brick were par tially burned. Some of the lumber was saved. The wreck occurred a few minutes be fore 11 o’clock. Train 71 from Columbia, Engineer Mansfield and Conductor Angell, was two hours behind timp and was run ning at the rate of eighteen or twenty miles an hour. When it started across the trestle over Pipemaker creek, the engi neer noticed light on the ground about the middle of the trestle, but thought it was the campfire of some tramp, which is a common sight along the road at night. When the engine reached the middle sec tion of the trestle it jumped the rails and the engineer heard a sound which told him plainer than words that the trestle was giving away. He pulled open the throttle, and let the engine go with all speed, with the result that it broke loose from the tender and ran along the cross ties entirely across the trestle for some distance beyond. The tender fell with the trestle, which gave way for a considerable distance. Fourteen cars followed in rapid succes sion, piling on top of each other and crash ing into the bed of the creek with a noise like thunder. There were eight cars and the caboose which did not go into the crevasse for the simple reason that the other fourteen cars had filled it to the top and prevented any more following. The trestle is only about ten feet high. Both Conductor Angell and Engineer Mansfield played in big luck, the latter escaping with his engine across the burned trestle, and the conductor being safe in his caboose in the rear. The fireman jumped from the engine as it crossed the trestle, but was not hurt. John Nelson, the colored brakeman, was the chief suf ferer. He was on the fourth car from the engne and went down in the wreck with the car. He was in luck, too, in being thrown some distance. Had he been caught in the ruins he would have been burned to death and nothing could possi bly have been done to save him. The wreck caught fire at once from the burning trestle and in a few minutes tiie whole pile of fourteen cars and their contents was ablaze. The colored set tlement of Wheat Hill is near the Pipe maker creek crossing, and in a short while a large crowd of negroes gathered at the wreck. They were put to work by tiie trainmen fighting the fire with buck ets, but water was scarce, the bed of tiie creek being almost dry and nothing could be accomplished against such a eundagrutlon. Supervisor J. A. Roberson, was aboard the train, having been up the road with the supply car, distributing groceries to the section gangs. He took charge of the work, assisted by Conductor Angell, of fighting the fire. All the buckets aboard the train and all that could be gathered in the neighborhood were made Use of, and the negroes who gathered to the scene were impressed into service. Mr. Roberson directed his efforts to pre venting the total destruction of the tres tle, succeeding in saving about half of it. He hlho managed to save over hair the lumber. The lumber was green ana burned slowly. As soon as the extent of the damage was ascertained Engineer Mansfield started to the city to notify Trainmaster Williams. He walked to the Charleston and Savannah crossing, where he met the night passenger train, No. 36, which left the ilepot at 11:50 o’clock on its way to Columbia. He informed the conductor of the train of the accident, and the train was at once run back to the yard outside the city. From there Engineer Mansfield telephoned the trainmaster’s olflee Information of tho accident. Train master Williams immediately went out to the scene with such force as he could gather, and remained on the scene the rest of the night, all day yesterday and nil last night, clearing away the wreck age and restoring the tre*tle. The fire was a bad one to contend with, the cot ton continuing to burn for a long time und making a very hot tire. It was some time before the wreckage was entirely cleared away, and thq work of rebuild ing the trestle could begin. Mr. Will iams had a wrecking itraJn with a large force of hands at work. Work was go ing steadily ahead last night, ami the expectation was that the trestle woitld be sufficiently completed this morning to allow of the passage of trains. Freight traffic on the road beyond Sa vannah was entirely stopped by the acci dent. The passenger service was con tinued by tramiferrinng passengers across the break. The regular schedules are be ing run ami the delay is very slight. The road will he open to freight traffic by to night, if not earlier. The wreck is a pretty costly one to the road, the nine cars of cotton contained 480 bales, which Is practically a total loss, there being very little saved and that in a damaged condition. The car of grain is also a total loss, and there will be eon r.ideruble loss on the lumber and bricks. The damage to the freight will not fall short of IJo.tMM). The loss of the fourteen burned cars and the cost of restoring the trestle will be at least half as much more. At the same time it was a lucky accident. hh railroad men regard these things. None of tiie train crew were killed. Had the freight been half an hour later it would have waited at the next crossing beyond ami the passenger train would have clashed into the burning trestle Instead. Or had the freight been on time it would have probably passed the trestle before the fire had progressed to a noticeable extent and the passenger train would have gone on to Its fate. The holocaust that would have resulted had it been a passenger train that crashed into the burning tiVstle instead of a freight is terrible to contem plate. The opinion of the railroad men is that the fire was Incendiary. They think that it was set fire to by parties who calculated that it would burn into in time to ditch the night passenger train and rob the pas sengers. No trnin had passed over the trestle for several hours previous to the arrival of the freight train, and the rallroaii /nen found their belief that the fire was incemllary on the ground that had it been caused by a spark from an engine the treatle would have been entirely de stroyed, as the seasoned pine timbers would have burned rapidly, before the arrival of the freight train. Besides the colored brakeman. Nelson, the only other poison known to have been injured is Samuel Broad, a colored boy tramp who was stealing a ride In the rear of the tender, who toes maahed. Broad was discovered after the wreck. Dr. J. G. Jarrell, one of the sur geons of the road, went out on a special amt dressed the wounds of Nelson''*and Broad. He afterwards sent them in to the Georgia Infirmary. Dr. M. L. Iktvd the chief surgeon of the road, eald yes terday that Nelson's leg would probably There waa u report among the negroes at Wheat Hill that there ware several persons burled under the wreck, and a day th.'t there were two tramps burned nf the wreckage failed to show any evi- dence of such destruction, and the prob ability is that the reports were un founded. Conductor Angell said last night that he did not believe there were any tramps on the train outside of the boy who was stealing a ride on the tender, as all the cars were sealed and there was very little chance for tramps to steal a ride on the train. MUST WORK OR GO TO JAIL. Delinquents in Road Dnty Given Another Chance. The delinquents who failed to respond promptly to the summons sent them to come out and work the Montgomery cross road and the Buckhalter road were be fore the roads and bridges committee of the county commissioners yesterday after noon to explain why they did not put in appearance, or in other cases why they did not put in the full number of days' work required by law. Sickness and all sorts of excuses were made, but seven of them could not satis fy the committee that they had a right to neglect the duty for which they were called out. They were John Chig, Jack Ferrabee, George Wellbrook, Bram Wil son, Abram Brown and Scipio Waldburg, colored, and Frank Doval, white. Under the law the commissioners are empowered to fine delinquents from $1 to $5 for each day on which they do not put in an ap pearance, or to sentence them to spend not more than ninety days in jail. The judges decided to sentence the seven delinquents mentioned to thirty days each in jail, but agreed to suspend the sentence on the understanding that the delinquents are to go out at once and put 'in the time required of them on the roads. Unless they go out and put in their time on the Montgomery cross road next Tuesday they will be arrested and made td serve their sentences. The judges gave all delinquents to under stand that hereafter they will not be so lenient. The law requires that the men work the roads, and they will be expected to respond promptly hereafter when the summons are issued. Otherwise the pen alties will be imposed unless, of course, ■there is a good and reasonable excuse, and hereafter they will be enforced. Superintendent of Roads R. J. Wade has so far summoned out men to work both the Montgomery cross roads and the Buckhalter road. In the first Instance, the responses to the summons were not sat isfactory and very little work was done. In the case of the Buckhalter road, how ever, the responses were more prompt and considerable was accomplished. The net road to be worked will be the Augusta road, from the six mile post out to Mon teith, and summons for citizens liable for road duty in that section will probably be issued within a few days. No distinction is made between white and colored citi zens liable for road duty, though the white men sometimes hire a substitute, which the negroes do not seem to like, because they are not able to do it. Supt. Wade says about 700 feet of chert has been laid so far on the Ogeechee road, between the city limits and the Charleston and Savannah railroad crossing. This, however, is only the first coating. The chert Is coming in right along now, and the cars are kept on the siding until it is unloaded. There will be put down about 1,000 feet of chert and about 1,000 feet of crushed rock in order that the dur ability of both may be tested. As the por tion of the road to be paved is 3,400 feet in length this will leave 1,400 feet upon which other materials may be put, in or der that it may be determined what class of paving will give the best results. MR. C. B. WARRAND DEAD. A Paralytic Stroke Follows an At tack of Malarial Fever. Mr. Constantine B. Warrand died at St. JoOeph’s Infirmary yesterday after noon,sifter an illness of three weeka. The immediate of death was par alysis. Mr. Warrand was 54 years old. He was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. His father was the English tutor of Alexan der 11, ai d his mother was a French woman of gentle birth. While their chil dren were young Mr. Warrand’s father received a pension from the czar and re tired to an estate on the Rhine. Young WaTrand was first educa ted in the German gymnasiums, and was afterward graduated from one of the uni versities. Fie came to this country short ly after the civil war and for a number of years was connected with the firm of Tunno & Co. About fifteen years ago he married Mrs. Epping of Laurel Point, Beaufort aounty, South Carolina, who survives him. They had no children. Mr. Warrand was a man of much origi nality. He was the inventor of the Pal metto process of tanning, and he intro duced the manufacture of lamp black In Georgia. Although of small means, he | did much by his writings and by . personal efforts to encourage the intro duction and establishing of manufac turing industries In Savannah. Some months ago he was appointed immigration agent of the Plant system and had since his appointment been engaged in writing up the opportunities afforded for immi gration by the sections of country which the Plant system of railways traverses. About three weeks ago he was taken ill with fever at Walthourville, where he lived. He had partially recovered and came to Savannah. Friday he was stricken by paralysis and never spoke from the time he was stricken. He was I taken at once to the St. Joseph s Infirm ary, where he died. I mee* ■■ ■T Surher Savannah, Georgia. Blood Poison ! Hood's Sarsaparilla Achieves a Per> manent Cure. Mr. James M. Sutherland is a native I VI Edinburgh. Scotland, and has been ■ a resident of Savannah, Ga., for some i thirty years. He writes as follows: “ Five years ago my blood was poisoned I by poison oak. My trouble grew worse ■ and I took much treatment without avail. I I returned to Scotland and entered the ■ Royal Infirmary for treatment. I was ! discharged as cured, but upon returning ; to this country the poison broke out • worse than before. Finally I resorted to Hood's Sarsaparilla i After taking three bottles I was entirely I cured. lean now eat heartily, sleep well ! and do not have any languid feeling as I formerly. My wife has also taken Hood’s barsaparilla for dyspepsia with marked benefit.’ Jam vs M. Suthkrlaxd,4 Mer cer Street, Savannah, Georgia. Hood’s Pills THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWO-TIMES-A-WEEK): THURSDAY. OCTOBER 31, 1895. WOMEN DENIED THE BALLOT. CAROLINA’S CONVENTION VOTES AGAINST THE FAIR SEX. The Delegates Overwhelmingly Against the Scheme—Mr. Patton Of fers a Substitute for the General Suffrage Plan—He Takes Excep tion to Some of the Statements Mode by the Negro Delegates in Their Speeches Last Week and Scores the Race Roundly. Columbia, S. C., Oct. 29.—After a fight lasting all of last evening and through to day’s session, the constitutional conven tion at 2:15 o’clock, took an aye and nay vote on the proposition to allow woman’s suffrage, with property and educational qualifications. The cause of woman died by a vote of 121 to 26. "Uncle George” Tillman made a mag nificent argument of about an hour or more, favoring woman’s suffrage. The debate was intensely interesting all through. Mr. Sleigh introduced an amend ment to leave the woman’s suffrage mat ter to the general assembly. This will no doubt be voted down promptly. When the Convention reassembled at 7:30 p. m., Mr. Sligh offered an amend ment to section 3 of the suffrage article, designed to accomplish what had been voted down in a milder form. It was co allow the general assembly at any time It saw fit to pass a woman’s suffrage act. He made a strong speech, but it was of no avail. The convention voted it down by a heavy vote, only twelve votes being c n s , t favor of it. Thus died all pos sible chance of the cause of woman's suf frage ever prevailing in this state until another constitution has been framed. then the all-important section contain ing the suffrage plan itself was called up v V ar Mr. Patton offered a substitute plan, the leading provisions of which were: a}:.*? v £ ry J? ale citizen of the state of Soutn Carolina of the age of 21 years, Put under disabilities named in this constitution, who shall have resided in the state two years, and in the conven tion in which he offers to vote one year next preceding any election, and who shall uave paid all poll or other tax due by him to th© state for the fiscal year pre ceding that in which he shall offer to V< ?A e i ln addition thereto: (A.) Shall be able to read the constitu tion in English print and sign his name; ./hJ* have been en .&aged in the vX-LU® hiilitary or naval service of th© r^ t< fv, C °r’-^ e /! er , a 's, e states of America, or of the Lnited States of America, during z’M, 31 ® war between the states, or (C.) Shall be the lawful lineal de scendant of a person who was engaged in such service, and shall be alive at the J he adoption of this constitution. Shall be a qualified elector of this state. aad > when duly registered, shall be en titled to vote for all officers that are now or may hereafter be elected by the people and upon all questions submit ted to the electors at any election. Mr, Patton said he could see very little in the speeches made by the negroes be fore the convention. He granted a great deal of what the negroes had said, par ticularly in the conduct of the negroes to their ex-masters’ families. It was a complete vindication of the treatment given to the negroes by their masters. He reserved the right to doubt some of the things said about the negroes as soldiers and sailors. There never was a race which, coming from real cannibal ism, has ever reached the state of civili ation that the negro has gained in this state. But when the negro member pro claims that South Carolinians were not brave and courageous in the revolution ary war, justice demands that this state ments shall not go unchallenged. He must not attack history with untrue state ments. The statement that South Caio lina furnished not more than 6,u'io men in the whole revolutionary war was ab solutely false. Delegate Miller asked Mr. Patton if he had anything to give in the way of evi dence, in God’s name to please present it. Mr. Patton then recounted “The glo rious history of the South Carolina flag” and the battle In whifch It figured. He went on to detail the particularly brilliant and daring acts of South Carolinians in the beginning of the war. He quoted from Mr. Greeley’s “American Conflict.” If South Carolina had not troops in the war, tear down those pictures of Sumpter and Marion. They were humbugs. Gen. Henry Knox of Massachusetts was quoted and other high authorities to prove that South Carolina furnished 31,000 men and more. Mr. Patton was particularly severe on the negroes. He then made a powerful speech against the subterfuge spetion in the committee’s article. After speeches from the negro members in reply, and several other members, Sen ator Tillman gave notice that to-morrow during the day he would call the previous question on section 4, and asked all who had amendments or substitutes to offer to send them up to-night so as to have them printed. Four went up, one provid ing for the Australian ballot system. Senator Tillman speaks to-morrow morn ing. Mr. Patton, In the course of his remarks to-night, said: “Now these delegates admit that their race was unfit for the ballot. If these walls could tell tales they could tell of wild scenes of debauchery and negro mis rule. “I say they were mainly responsible for this. They had it in their power to put a stop to these scenes and acts. They re fused to go to the white people of this state. The white people of this state were Mounded from their homes, and driven into the courts, tried without jury. They had to fight for their lives with bayonets over them. They were seduced, indeed, by the worst of white men, but was not that the fatal defect in their argument, admitting that they were such a race that they could be misled.” Mr. Patton said: “What better proof do we need yet to show that the negro is unfit to cast the ballot than his action in the last election.” “I regret to have to refer to it, Mr. President, but who have they chosen as their representatives, the type of their manhood, the flower of their civilization. I regret to mention it, I repeat, but since this matter has been forced upon us, as we have been subjected to stringent crit icism and reflection, I say deliberately that when the negro race this summer elected as their representatives, as the type of their civilization a man whom the public records of Richland county.show to have been convicted of receiving a bribe in his official capacity as state senator, and another man whom the leg islature of the spring of 1876 elected to the circuit bench of tills state, whom the governor of his own partv refused to commission upon the ground that he was steeped in every shame—l say when the colored race come before the people of this state and present them as the principles of their civilization thev have demonstrated that they are unworthy to cast the ballot." A SINNER CONVERTED. ■I« Escape From a Horrible Death Caused Him to Repent. Waycross, Ga., Oct. 29.—Tom Darr’s re cital of his Christian experience to-night at the laymen workers’ meeting attract ed a large crowd. Mr. Darr is supervisor of the wrecking-machine which capsized a month ago. He was under 5,000 pounds of machinery for thirty minutes with scalding water pouring on his body Ha prayed for help. God saved him from the jaws of death. .He repented of his sin* and was converted. His life is now wholly for the Lord.* Darr was wicked before his conversion, and says his escape was a direct answer to a prayer. His conver sion caused a sensation here. SAVANNAH MEN GOING~NORTH. The Hontinx<lon Car nnd Wheel Works Purchased for Them. Huntingdon. Pa.. Oct. 29.—The Hunting don car and wheel works, which have been idle for three years past, were pur chased to-day by M. A. O’Byrne of Sa vannah, Ga.. for a syndicate of southern capitalists. The new firm will entploj about 500 men and will manufacture trol ley cars principally. A boiler works and malleable iron works will be connected with the new plant FITZ STARTS FOR THE FIGHT. He Says Indian Territory Is to Be the Battle Ground. San Antonio, Tex., Oct. 29.—80 b Fitz simmons and party arrived here to-day at noon from Corpus Christi and left here to-night for Hot Springs. They will reach Hot Springs late to-morrow night. Fitz simmons says that if the present plans are carried out, he will light Corbett in private. He refused to give the location of the place at which the light Will take place, but it was stated by a member of his party z that it would be pulled off in Indian Territory and that the principals and their friends would be taken to the battle ground by special train from Hot Springs. Fitzsimmons stated that he would visit Corbett upon his arrival at Hot Springs and give the champion an opportunity of having an every-day scrap, if the latter feels so inclined. Fitzsimmons is in the best of conditions. Little Rock. Ark., Oct. 29.—Nothing startling has developed here in prize fight circles to-day. Gov. Clark received a telegram from Corpus Christi, Tex., this morning telling him that Bob Fitz simmons and his party had left that place at 8:45 o’clock for Hot Springs. The sheriffs of all the counties have been instructed to watch all northbound trains and to arrest Fitzsimmons on sight. The governor will go to the springs to-mor row to see that his orders are obeyed. He says the fight shall not take place and what he says is law and will be law in the present emergency and he is worked up to a pitch that the choice of weapons will cut no figure in this case. He promises this much and the people here are in doubt as to whether'he can carry out his wishes or not. This city is full of strange faces to night, bound for Hot Springs, but many have concluded to lie over here and watch developments. Every city avenue is thoroughly guarded. Gov. Clarke said to-night that he would plant the militia in Hot Springs to-morrow T if Fitzsimmons should show up, and that it was his pur pose to keep strictly to business. Almost everybody in this country believes the fight will take place in spite of the gov ernor. Over 700 fight tickets were sold here to-day at $25 each. Hot Springs, Ark., Oct. 29.—Steve O’Donnell. Joe Vendig and several others gave themselves up to the local authori ties this afternoon to be put under peace bonds to prevent the arrest and juris diction of the governor or county offi cials. TOOK MORPHINE AND DIED. His Dissolute Wife’s Refusal to Live With Him Followed by Suicide. Macon, Ga„ Oct. 29.—Charles Van Hoff, a German and stranger in Macon, took sixty grains of morphine this morning at at 3 o’clock and died this morning at 9:15 o’clock. Van Hoff followed his wife, who is a dissolute character, to Macon five days ago, coming here from Alabama. His home is in Atlanta, where he married Mrs. Stella Weeks, formerly Stella Jones of Macon, last February, but left her after six weeks. He knew' her character before he married her. Mrs. Van Hoff came to Macon about Oct. 1, and began keeping a disreputable house. When Van Hoff came he found her here and tried to persuade her to return to Atlanta with him, but she refused. He has constantly begged her to return, and last night, af ter a positive refusal on her part, he took the drug. His wife sent for a policeman and had him ca.rried to the police station, where he died. Before becoming stupl fied by the drug Van Hoff said: “I am an honest man, but am down. I have no friends and no money.” Van Hoff was a baker by trade, and had been given a position by W. C. Knoblock, for whom he was to go to work to-day. LED ASTRAY BY DIME" NOVELS. The Missing Sowden Boys Were Starting Out for Adventures. Ocala, Fla., Oct. 29.—Ther is joy irj the Sowden household. Frank and Harold Sowden were found last night and return ed home. It now turns out that these tender youths must have been reading dime novels, for the boys had plotted with a youth named Williams, only a year or two older than themselves, to meet the Sowden boys at Chatterton on the Willacoochee river, twenty miles from Ocala, and there map out a tour of the United States. Williams w’as to assume the role of a Fagin, and the Sowdens were to bloom into genuine Coxey noboes. Will iams made a grand beginning by rifling a till of a merchant at Magnolia, with which, money he bought a ticket to Dun nellon. The theft and Williams' absence were discovered, and he was overtaken at Mortel by telegraph and returned to town. The Sowden boys made no greater progress than Nettles because the older one had a sore foot, which became so pain ful from walking that he could not con tinue the journey. AN AWFUL HONEYMOON MISHAP. The Groom Bound for the Pacific and the Bride Speeding Toward the At« lantic. From the Morning Oregonian. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hahlo of Butte, Mont., who are making a bridal tour of the Pacific coast, are stopping at the Port land. They were married at Spokane last Tuesday, where the bride, well known in society circles of that city as Miss Fisher, has lived for several years. Her father is a prominent furrier of that place. Mr. Hahlo is a prosperous merchant of Butte, and has a large circle of friends in the northwest. On Wednesday morning Mr. and Mrs. , Hahlo met with a curious mishap at the union depot in Spokane, where they were to take the Great Northern sleeping car for this city, over the O. R. and N. Co.’s line. The O. R. and N. Co.’s train and the Great Northern train leave the depot within three minutes of each other, one bound for the east, the other for this city. Mrs. Hahlo, accompanied by some friends, went to the depot without Mr. Hahlo, who was to join her before the train left. He had been delayed up town by some impor tant business arrangement. Mrs. Hahlo, by mistake, got aboard the Great North ern train, eastbound. Mr. Hahlo arrived at the depot, and, supposing that his bride was safely aboard the Great North ern sleeper on the O. R. and N. Co.’s train, stepped aboard just as the train was pull ing out of the station. Going into the sleeper Mr. Hahlo soon discovered that his wife was not on the train. Immediately, to draw it mild, he got considerably excited. The train had gone several miles before he made up his mind the best thing he could do would be to get off and walk back to Spokane. Meantime Mrs. Hahlo was having an in teresting time. When the Great Northern train pulled out of the depot for the east, and her husband had not joined her in the sleeper, she sent for the conductor, who soon discovered she was on the wrong train. A few miles east of Spokane the Great Northern track crosses the Northern Pa cific track. There Mrs. Hahlo was handed off the train, and fortunately, caught a Northern Pacific train back to Spokane within a few minutes. Arriving at Spo kane she met her husband. Explanations were exchanged and everybody was happy again in a very short time. The next day Mr. and Mrs. Hahlo got on the right train together, and arrived in this city. WAIFS FROM THE WIRES. Some of the Dhj'» Events Set Forth in Short Stories. Hartford, Conn., Oct. 29.—The Putnam Phalanx, with ladies and friends, will leave this city for Atlanta in a special train Saturday afternoon. The Phalanx will be accompanied by its famous drum corps. Washington, Oct. 29.—The West Virginia editorial Association gathered in Wash ington to-day preparatory to leaving to morrow morning for a week at the At lanta exposition. The party, which num bers about 100, visited Mount Vernon to day. !" How much, is your time 3 " worth ? 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President Samuel Spencer of the South ern Railway Company arrived in the city yesterday afternoon via the Southern and Florida Central and Peninsular railroads, and is stopping at the De Soto. The object of President Spencer’s visit just at this time is to be present w r hen the Central railroad system is turned oyer to the new company. The Southern is the owner of the majority stock in the old and will own all the stock in the new company. President Spencer comes, there fore, as the official head of the corpora tion which owns the stock of the Central system, in order to represent it when the transfer is made. The court has ordered the receivers, Messrs. H. M. Comer and R. Somers Hayes, to turn the property over to the new company at midnight on the night of Oct. 31, so that on the morning of Nov. 1 it will be in full control. . The transfer will probably be made to the temporary or ganization, and permanent organization will be effected just as soon as the duties of the temporary organization have been completed. There are no ceremonies connected with the transfer of such a property, even though it is a large one. All of the for malities in connection with it have been completed sometime. Certain circulars will be issued by theyreceivers, announcing that the property was transferred to the new company at the time designated by the court, and other circulars, formally announcing the necessary arrangements will be issued by the new company. The receivers w|)l continue as such, though not in possession of the property, until they make their final returns to the court. President Spencer will probably remain here, or will be in conference with Re ceiver Comer until Sunday.' He has come down as the chief representative of the largest stockholder, to be present at the transfer of the property, and also to look into its status and perhaps go over its lines on a tour of inspection, as he has been invited to do by Receiver Comer. It is probable that President Spencer will take a trip over certain portions or the system with a vi.ew to inspecting it .before he returns north. As the Central is to pass practically into the control of the Southern, the only stockholder, it was thought some expres sion from him would be of interest to the people of Savannah so many of whom are interested in the property. A repre sentative of the Morning News called on him at the De Soto last night. Mr. Spen cer firmly declined to be interviewed, however, saying that he was too tired to talk, and that even if he were not, he had nothing to say. DIDN’T WANT HIS BOY THRASHED. So Policeman Fleming Arrested His Son’s Schoolmate. Recorder Wilson will investigate the cause of the Henry street school trouble this morning. Robert Downing, a 12 year old boy, is charged with creating an ex citement at the school. Monday after noon the lad was arrested by Policeman Fleming. It seems that Downing and Walter Fleming, a son of Policeman. Fleming, and about the same age as Downing, had been quarreling. Downing announced his intention of laying for Fleming outside the school. Mrs. Gray, the teacher, kept young Fleming in after school was dis missed to prevent trouble. Young Flem ing’s sister went home and told her father that Downing had a crowd 1 of boys waiting outside to beat her brother. It seems that Policeman Fleming has had complaints of trouble of this kind before tnd went immediately to the school and ound Downing and some other boys there. When Downing saw the policeman he ran and was chased several blocks be fore caught. He was sent in to the bar racks and a charge entered against him. A number of the members and friends of the two families were present in the po lice court yesterday morning. Young Downing denied that he was waiting to do up Fleming, and claimed that the shoe was or. the other foot. At the request of both parties the recorder continued the case until this morning. A number of wit nesses have been summoned, including two of the teachers. A CAROLINA ROAD SOLD. The Camberland Gap and Chicago Road Goes on the Block. Aiken, S. C.» Oct. 29.—The Carolina, Cumberland Gap and Chicago railroad, about twenty-six miles in length, was sold by Special Master J. E. Hagood to day for $87,000. There were two bidders, N. G. Evans and J. D. Reynolds, the lat ter representing the bondholders. Mr. Reynolds was the purchaser. The road runs from Aiken to Edgefield. A Cook Book Free. “Table and Kitchen” is the title of a new cook book published by the Price Baking Powder Company, Chicago. Just at this time it will be sent free if you write a postal mentioning the Weekly News. This book has been tried by our selves, and is one of the very best of its kind. Besides containing over 400 receipts for all kinds of pastry and home cookery, there are many hints for the table and kitchen, showing how to set a table, how to enter the dining room, etc.; a hundred and one hints in every branch of the culi nary art. Cookery of the very finest and richest as well as of the most eco nomical and home-like, is provided for. Remember “Table and Kitchen” will be sent, postage prepaid, to any lady sending her address (name, town and state) plain ly given. A copy in German or Scandi navian will be sent if desired. Postal carl is as good as letter. Address Price Baking Powder Co., Chicago, 111. A Sunday With Sullivan. “I don’t believe I should care to have John L. Sullivan for referee,” says Will iam H. Crane, according to the Chicago Record. “Sullivan doesn’t like to stand by and see any man whipped; his sym pathies are always with the under dog. “Some years ago Nat Goodwin and I had an experience with Sullivan; it was in what I call my halcyon days. Nat and I had been celebrating the close of the sea son, and we came ashore one Sunday morning from my yacht, determined to be very circumspect all the rest of our lives. We went to a seaside hotel for the purpose of getting breakfast, when whom should we fall in with but John L. Sul livan and one of his boon companions, a Boston aiderman. Both Sullivan and his friend were pretty well corked up, and they insisted that we should go with them to call on another friend, a Patsy some body, who was training for a fight with Mike somebody else, at a small country road house about four miles away. “Goodwin and I did our best to shake the two, for we feared that, full of li quor, as they were, Sullivan and his sat ellite would get us into trouble. But Sul livan wouldn’t take no for an answer, and finally, just to keep the peace, we went along in their wagon to visit the training grounds. Well, when we got there Patsy and his trainer were having their usual morning bout. The trainer was a big, broad-shouldered, good-natured fellow, genial and smiling of face as a well-fed child. He was a little too much for Patsy and was giving him sume pretty hard exercise. I suppose Sullivan fancied that the trainer was unnecessarily severe; at any rate I saw Sullivan’s face grow dark er, and I knew that trouble was brewing. Finally Sullivan slipped off his coat and threw it over the back of a chair; then, wating until he saw the trainer advancing to attack Patsy with redoubled energy. Sullivan reached out that right arm of his, and his big fist caught the good-natured Irishman full in the mouth. It didn’t look as though Sullivan put any force at all into the blow; it seemd to us as if he merely put out his fist—so—and let the other fellow' run against it. But, gracious! you should have seen that Irishman keel over. I’ll bet he went back twenty feet before he stopped. Then, he turned a back sumersault over the wheel of our wagon and fell to the ground apparently dead. He didn’t regain consciousness for two hours, and you can imagine that those two hours were the most miserable Good wdn and I ever spent. We fancied our selves forever disgraced by being pulled into court as witnesses, perhaps, as ac cessories, to the killing of this innocent man. Our suspense was /simply dread ful. Finally, however, after hunting up a doctor and working over the fellow for two hours the victim came to. The first thing he did was to put one hand feebly to his mouth, as if to learn what damage the swollen orifice had sustained. And then, smiling amiably, he said: “Be Ja bers, that was a wicked thrusht!” You see, he never lost his temper at all; as I have told you he w'as the best natured fel low I ever saw. “But the honor of having been hit by Sullivan was too much for him. Having regained consciousness he proceeded to fill himself with liquor, and it wasn’t long before the rural constabulary had to be called to take him into custody. As he was a powerful creature and fought vic iously, it became necessary to pound him into subjection, and by the time he was lodged in jail he was a bloody spectacle indeed. Next morning he was released, there being nobody willing to prosecute him; but even then he had not lost ail sense of the great honor of having been hit by Sullivan, and so hung about the jail all day boasting of that honor, and ex pressing an ambition to lick the combined constabulary forc’e of the township. “I have never forgotten the incident,” says Mr. Crane, “and it suffices to con vince me that as a referee Mr. Sullivan is hardly the person I should choose.” TO DISCUSS HOUSE NUMBERING. The City Connell to Take Up the Matter To-day. The council will hold a meeting at 4 o’clock this afternoon to dispose of un finished business. There is a good deal of .business which was left over from the last meeting and there will probably be several committee reports. The question of renumbering houses will be taken up and the bids which have been made for doing the work opened. They will probably be referred to the committee of the whqlefor action. SAILING DAYS OF STEAMSHIPS. Below will be found a list of the steam ships sailing from Savannah, and the date of their sailing: ' FOR NEW YORK. Central (90th meridian) time. Steamship CITY OF AUGUSTA, FRI DAY, Nov. 1, 4:00 a. m. Steamship CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, SUNDAY, Nov. 3, 6:00 a. m. Steamship NACOOCHEE, TUESDAY, Nov. 5, 6:30 p. m. Steamship KANSAS CITY, FRIDAY, Nov. 8, 9:30 a. m. Steamship CITY OF AUGUSTA, SUN DAY, Nov. 10, 11:30 a. m. Steamship CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, TUESDAY, Nov. 12. 1:00 a. m. Steamship NACOOCHEE, FRIDAY, Nov. 15, 4:00 a. m. Steamship KANSAS CITY, SUNDAY, Nov’ 17. 6:00 a. m. Steamship CITY OF AUGUSTA( TUES DAY, Ijov. 19, 7:00 p. m. Steamship CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, FRIDAY, Nov. 22, 9:30 a. m. Steamship NACOOCHEE, SUNDAY, Nov. 24, 11:00 a. m. Steamship KANSAS CITY, TUESDAY, Nov. 26, l,:00 p. m. Steamship CITY OF AUGUSTA, FRI DAY, Nov. 29, 3:00 p. m. FOR BOSTON. Central (901th meridian) time. Steamship CHATTAHOOCHEE, TUES DAY, Nov. 5. 7:00 a. m. Steamship GATE CITY, SUNDAY, Nov. 10, 11:30 a. m. Steamship TALLAHASSEE, THURS DAY', Nov. 14, 3:30 p. m. Steamship CHATTAHOOCHEE, TUES DAY, Nov. 19. 7:00 a. m. Steamship GATE CITY, SUNDAY, Nov. 24. 11:00 a. m. Steamship TALLAHASSEE, THURS DAY', Nov. 28, 2:00 a. m. FOR PHILADELPHIA. Central (90th meridian) time. This ship does hot carry passengers. Steamship CITY OF MACON, SATUR DAY', Nov. 9. 10:30 a. m. Steamship CITY OF MACON, TUESDAY, Nov. 19, 7:00 a. m. ■ Steamship CITY OF MACON, FRIDAY, Nov. 29, 3:00 p. m. FOR BALTIMORE. Central (90th meridian) time. Steamship BERKSHIRE, SATURDAY, Nov. 2, u p. m. i Steamship D. H. MILLER, WEDNES DAY, Nov. 6. 7<30 p. m. Steamship WM. CRANE. SATURDAY, I Nov. 9, 10 p. m. A BIG COLD STORAGE PUNT. WESTERN MEAT PACKERS TO BUILD ONE IN SAVANNAH. Plans Being Perfected to Locate n Central Southern Depot Here for Cold Storage and to Pack Southern Meats—St. Louis and Chicago Pack ers to Visit Savannah Next Month and Complete the Plans Already Begun-Several Sites for the Plant in View—The Enterprise to Bring; 5200,000 Here. Negotiations are in progress for the erection of an immense cold storage plant in Savannah similar to those in St. Louis and Chicago. A party of western packers who are building a packing house and refrigera ting establishment in Baltimore will be here about the middle of next month to look over the ground and fix upon a lo cation. Several sites have already been considered, but no steps will be taken un til the men who are back of the enterprise come here. They are Amos Jackson, C. M. Washbond, E. S. Smyth, C. A. Em mett, M. E. Martin, H. M. Squire, W. C. Earnest, B. F. Anthony and R. K. Bruce, leading packers of Chicago and St. Louis, It has been known for some time that Chicago packers have been talking of a plant in the south as a central supply de pot and they are convined that Savannah is the plcae for it. Mr. Ivan T. Goodrich of Goodrich <S> Co., commission men of this city, is in cor respondence with Goodrich & Goodrich of Baltimore, architects for the plant in, course of erection there, and who prepar ed the plans for the Arfnour packing house in Denver, Coi., erected several years ago, in reference to the establishment of the southern plant. Goodrich & Goodrich have in hand plans for the central plant which it is proposed to erect in the south, and for duplicate or very similar plants to be established at convenient points. The plan is to erect the main plant here, with branches in Charleston, Jacksonville, Ma con, Montgomery and Mobile and perhaps other cities. The plan of the company is to refrig erate butter, eggs, fruits, vegetables, cheese, furs and wines and liquors so that dealers and consumers can have a ready place to obtain supplies at all times. The freezing of fish for northern consumption, in which there Is a large profit, will be one of the features of the business. The present plan is to supply the meat department from the Baltimore plant with western stock. In warm weather the southern stock is not consid ered sufficient nor of the proper quality* but in cold weather southern cattle, hogs and sheep will be utilized, which mean® the building of slaughter houses and the bringing of thousands of head of beef cattle and other stock to tills market. Mr. Goodrich, who Is a son of the senior member of the firm of Goodrich & Goodrich, and who established the Dixie Produce Company, now Goodrich. & Co., here, will "be the manager of the new enterprise. The proposed plant is of the most improved kind being a du plicate or very nearly so of the Balti more plant, except being, of course, on a somewhat smaller scale.. The Balti more plant Includes a central building, three stories high and 350 by 125 feet ground space. At the front and back are wings 100 feet square. From the two ends and one wing of the central build ing, are two-story buildings, each 300 feet by 40 feet, extending to and crossing a railroad track, which forms a semi-circle. Between these extensions from the main building are a series of six 2-story buildings sixty feet apart and each 100 by 40 feet. The railroad track runs through the center of these buildings, and is covered by a 2-story building ar shed 20 feet Wide. Into the six buildings are to be unloaded the cattle, which, af’wa* having been slaughtered, ar* raised on elevators to the second floor of the build ing and there transferred on a system of tracks to the central building and the refrigerating compartments. On the ground floor is the refrigerating machin ery, the packing machinery, Ice plants* etc. * About ten acres will be required for the site of the Savannah plant, Mrv Goodrich says. He has several sites in view which will be gone over by the westerners when they visit Savan nah. They are now with plenty of capital and know what the needs are for the plant which they propose to erect. They realize the value of a central depot at some point in the south, which shall have the location to command all branches of the business which the company would engage in, and they regard Savannah as the place, being on the coast, with unex celled transportation facilities, and being so located as to handle the fish and other branches of the business for which ar» interior point would not be suited. The establishment of the plant here means an Investment of $200,000 to $250,000, the greater part of which, if not practi cally all, will be western and northern money. The company which is building the Baltimore plant was organized In St. Louis as the Eastern Shore Abbatoir Com pany. A similar company, it is under stood, will be organized by the same men for the south. DON’T”WANT ANY OFFICE. Hon. Pope Barrow Will Not Run for, Congreai. Contrary to reports which have ema nated from Atlanta, Hon. Pope Barrow will not be a candidate for congress front the First district to succeed Hon. Rufus E. Lester. The announcement having been made In Atlanta that such a report was going the rounds, a representative of the Morning News called on Mr. Bar row yesterday and asked him if there was any truth in it. “No,” was his reply. I not only am not a candidate for congress, but if I should be nominated, I would decline it. It is impossible for me to enter politics. I have other duties which are inconsis tent with political office-holding, and which I cannot fdisrfcgard. Besides, I have no taste for politics in any form. “Like every other citizen, I entertain opinions upon political questions which I take the liberty of expressing with the utmost freedom, publicly and privately. This is done, however, as a citizen and as a voter, and not as an aspirant for of fice. Ttyere is no office that I desire or would accept. “Whenever a man accepts an office his tongue is tied. I have been in a position to see and to know the uneasiness of those who hold public offices, and I would not surrender that glorious privilege of just shooting off my mouth on anything and everything whenever I want to, for all the offices in the world.” Mr. Barrow said he made this statement for the purpose of stopping such reports at once, and that he was glad to do it through the Morning News. HIRED OUT TO HIS BROTHER FOR LIFE. A Queer Contract Cau«e« a Law Sult in a Family. A suit on a rather queer sort of a con tract was filed in the city court yesterday. It is styled M. Brown against Janie Brown, executrix of the estate of H. A. Brown. The petition states that the suit is on an indebtedness of $216 on the fol lowing contract which is quoted: “Jan. 21, 1391. I, H. A. Brown, has agreed to hire my brother,, M. Brown for the sum of $4 per week. I pay him $2 a week/ balance due, this agreement is to be kept between 1, H. A. Brown and M : Brown as long as I live, and if he should i die first balance due is to be paid to said i M. Brown’s family. H. A. Brown and M > Ercwn. fl. Robertson, witness.” For uniqueness this contract would perhaps be hard to beat. H. A. Brown : died March 4, 1894, leaving a will and mak ing Janie Brown his executrix. The pe tition states that M. Brown fulfilled his I contract from Jan. 21, 18V.L fo>- two years thereafter, and that $216 is due him by ] the estate. Mesara. M ;Alpin & La Roche represent the plaintiff and Mr. U. II Mc -1 Laws the defendant i I