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The n at Cutht another analysis We nt has rec church 1 also to t Baltimoi preferrii J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR. SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 1878. ESTABLISHED 1850. The and driver from the stables I.. <)verby, at Cochran, were blown flat into the river. Fortunately near the landing and the whole was safely lauded. Sparta Turns evidently speaks most ‘Flea6 getting Prefer didn’t pay his appeal deavor to hundred c lively stepping minute s: the minutes: the t fifth. 1*2 3 » min tinui until Of c pc his \ • three *tiii Georgia Affairs. j,,. (Jabe Kaigler, arrested lately ,t. charged with having poisoned L 1( .,_r r o, has been discharged, an ,f the stomach of the deceased Li trace of poison, i,.,. that Dr. Iwcftwich, of Atlanta, uTivl very flattering calls to the ,,f ip v. I)r. Lowry, of Louisville: i tin- church of Rev. Dr. Bacchus, of , H.>th of these calls he declines, Lj..., t,, remain with the Central Pres- L Church in Atlanta, wind storm of the 10th made its pres- en( “ f,-!t in llawkinsville also. The car- riai: r - l i-,! ’ of Mr. d from the the !l.d ' turnout Th feelinglv when it saysl^| familiar. ; r Consigney, the “walkist,” who hi- board in Columbus, has made nice in Macon, where he will en- \ ilk three hundred miles in three •nsecutive hours. From the Ma ly,/. and Messenger we learn that he Ihegau his walk on Saturday and did some making the first mile in 13 second mile occupied 12% bird. rJ’t,'; the fourth, 13; the 11 is shortest time was half minutes. He will con fer the next twelve days, or hundred miles are walked, hi- landlady, having the experi- L n(V „f ( ilumhus before hereyes, will keep a sharp look out on him when his task is finished. According to the Gainesville Eagle, “the [,1,. in Banks are making preparations for arircst cotton crop ever planted in that county. The farmers arc cleaning up a large area of old fields and original forests, an ,| art* resetting their fences and breaking andbeddinu up their ground, and soon the work of planting will begin in good earnest. Every depot bordering on the county along the Air Line and Northeastern Railroads is filled up with the different brands of guano, an.l all the dealers say they are doing a large business.” Bacon is retailing in Mac Ville at from six to seven and one-half cents per pound, and the best quality of flour at four dollars per hundred weight, in sacks of twenty-five pounds. The girl Elsie Polite who murdered a rival at Darien recently, while suffering from a fit of jealousy, an account of which we have already published, has been committed for trial, and the case will come up at the next session of the Superior Court of McIntosh county. The Timber dinette says: “Such crimes, we are happy to say, are very rare in our quiet, law-abiding community, and the occurrence of such an unprovoked and heartless murder naturally causes consider able comment. We learn from the Irwinton Soutltemerand Appeal that a large crop of sugar cane will be planted in Wilkinson this spring, and that with a moderately good season “long sweetening’’ will be plentiful next winter. Tin* formation of a reading society is at trading the attention of certain sensible people in Irwinton. The murderer, Gus Johnson, whe so justly expiated his crimes upon the scaffold at Rome on Friday last, must have been liter ally a fiend in human form. It is said of him that at one time he, in answer to a notice of twenty-five dollars reward for the return of a stolen horse and the thief, delivered the horse himself and demanded the reward. “But where is the thief ?” asked the owner of the horse. Drawing from his pocket two human ear.-, he said: “I haven’t got him; but I got his ears.” A few days afterwards the man was found dead, with his ears cut off and missing. Again, he went into the house of an aged colored man named Squire Foster, in Rome, and, after carving him into pieces with a sabre, shot him several times. Again, it is said, that he once carved a little negro baby into fragments, and used pieces of the body for fish bait. He seemed to have had a natural hatred for colored people. It is said that he killed a colored mail in Selma, Ala., and claims to have killed two men in Tex&s. Here is the way the unconstructed and unconciliated local poet of the Griffin New* expresses his opinion of Hayes: ’ If Satan trembles when he sees The meanest saint upon his knees. With what amazement must he stare When Ifayes inclines his head in prayer *" Ah! •* how sharper than a serpent's thanks it is to have a toothless child.” A Mr. Frost, colored—in fact, a regular black Frost—has just experienced the force of the above transposition of Shakespeare, by John Phoe nix. But we will give the version of the flf- j fair as it is detailed in the columns of the Dalton Xvrth Georgia Citizen: “An elope ment occurred one dark night last week, hi the southern portion of our goodly city, cre ating considerable confusion in the colored circles. A Mr. Joluison was terribly smit ten—Frost smitten, indeed. The ‘bright particular star’ that attracted hi3 sad and yearning heart being Miss Ellen Frost, and she, all. ‘die walked in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies.’ fiut shi- was just sixteen, and old Father Frost answered that she was * a young thing, and could not leave her mammy.’ and he stoutly refused his permission to the tying the matrimonial knot. So the twain eloped at the witching midnight hour, and the Rev. Mr. Muna was aroused from slum bers sweet and requested to perform the necessary ceremony. As the clock struck thrive he pronounced them wan and wife, in the meantime old Mr. Frost ‘smelt a rat,’ an.!, starting forth in direful mood, be ran- ®&< ked every hovel and house in his vicinity, ^tightening the sleepy denizens by his for midable appearance—gun on his shoulder knife within his hand-—yelling iu thun der tones, • My daughter ! oh, my daughter! ’ hut the intrepid aud determined bridegroom had spirited his ebon bride far away into the country ere gray-eyed dawn had peeped over the hills. ’ J J Cuthberr Appeal, J5th: “We yesterday witnessed the workings of a cotton chopper, an ingenious yet very simple invention of our townsman,* .1. A. McMillan. We can se.e bo reason why it should not prove entirely satisfactory in chopping out cotton, as its are regular and effectual. It is Claimed that with this invention one hand ^nd horse will do the work of seven hands. A patent will lie applied for, and we hope "Ml prove a regular bouanza to the inventor. . The Augusta Chronicle and ConfJ'tulional- *« mentions a new invention calculated to *hav alarm regarding burglars. It is known rL..'^Patent burglar alarm.’' Says that pa- P er: "We saw one of these alarms yesterday, can commend it as a most useful and excellent article. It is nothing more than a £°ng. with springs and levers arranged so ** to b« sounded upon the turning of a nob. it can be attached to any lock. **“ °nc of these alarms on a door it is im possible for any one to enter without ringing ne gong, thus notifying the people of the nouse. It can be placed on the front door [ 0n door of a bedroom, and will be z® ai) solute protection against thieves, as one of them can get in without raising ah Tf n - Its cheapness places it within reach i aimost everyone. The prices range from oree dollars and a half to five and a half. ^ satisfied that it will come into gen eral use.” The Gainesville Eagle thinks that “few por tions of the habitable globe contain as many advantages as are to be fonnd in that portion of the State of Georgia known a- the Pied mont Range. To those who would leave their State, to seek amidst the wilds of America that rest for. which they have sighed since the ruthless hand of war deso lated our hills and valleys and carried de struction to our pleasant homes and fire sides, we would say stay. Do not con sider the past, but look to the future, so full of hope and happiness. See already what energy and resolve have accomplished, and what may be effected by a determina tion to put yoUr shoulders to the wheel.” Cherokee Georgian, 12th: “During the hard wind last Sunday Field's bridge, five and a half miles from Canton, was blown entirely off the pillars into the river. Mr. S. L. Clay, who crossed the bridge only twenty minutes before it fell states that it is a complete wreck, and probably a total loss, as there is very little of it-left in a condition to be of any use.” Says the Hamilton (Harris county) Jour nal: “Our farmers generally are beginning to plant com—some of the early ones began a week ago—and the land as a general thing has been well prepared for the seed. If one- fourth of the guano which has been hauled out to the plantations is put under the com, Harris county will have bread enough iu her limits to do for the next year without look ing to Western markets.” “Master Percy Brockman, nephew of our fellow citizen, Capt. J. W. Anderson,” says the Covington Enterprise, “met with a tragic death near Poplar Run, Virginia, a few days since. He was thrown from a plow horse, his foot caught in the traces, and he was dragged over a rough road for half a mile. He was about eleven years old, and is said to have been a bright aiid intelligent youth. ” They are evidently firm believers in muscu lar Christianity in Rutledge, Morgan county, if the Conyers Gazette is a second George Washington, which, of course, we do not doubt. That paper says: “We are informed by a ‘grapevine dispateh’ that a novel scene was enacted in the M. E. Church at Rut ledge, two or three weeks ago, at the last quarterly meeting held at that place. It seems that for some time past an old grudge has existed between two members of that church, and while the Presiding Elder was holding a conference meeting on Saturday, the brethren being all present, one of the dissatisfied brothers rising from his seat, ap proached the other and said, ‘Bro. you have bothered me long enough, and now one or the other of us must carry a ^whip ping.’ The Presiding Elder ami the *otlier brethren, however, interfered, and the fight didn't come off just then, at any rate: and ! the Question as to which on6 of the belliger ent brethren is to carry the ‘licking’ is yet undecided.” The State Line Press, of West Point, wishes a fair to be held iu that place next fall. It says: “Why may we not have a fair in West Point next fall V We are certainly not want ing in the material necessary for* a credita ble exhibition. The large section of coun try in both States * which is commercially tributary to our city would furnish the pro ducts. and our citizens would certainly be equal to the duty of furnishing a place and arranging them so as to produce the greatest effect. Let it be given out by authority that a fair will be held here during the com ing fall, and the country and town people would forthwith begiD to make preparation for it. We believe they would do this as a matter of pride, without the stimulus of a premium list. But if a fafr association could be organized, the exhibition would be more successful.” LETTER FROM OUR TRAVELING CORRESPONDENT. The New Passenger and .Hail Route to Coba-ItK Influence on Trade— It* Advantage to Southern and Western Florida—The Line to be Opened on April l»t, 1878. CHEAP TRANSPORTATION. A Scheme for Connecting the Ohio u:id IViMAiftNippi Valley* with the Seaboard. Washington special to the Cincinnati Com mercial, 14 th inst. A report was made to-day which will form the basis of the recommendation of the House Committee on Railways and Canals, for the passage of the bill to pro vide for the cheap transportation of freight between tide water on or near the Atlantic Ocean and the Ohio and Missis sippi valleys. The committee say no lands, money, guarantee or other aid is aBked for, of believed to be needed, from Congress. A consolidating and trust or ganization is re, | wired to enable this high way to be constructed and bonded as a continuous line to be devoted to freight, making passenger traffic subservient tberteo,until its needs shall require special tracks. This bill contemplates the enl ire construction and equipment with bor rowed capital, the ownership, however, to lie held in trust only for the loans, with the reversion, after they shall have been repaid, to pul&c use. No‘profits are, therefore, contemplated beyond the stipulated interest on the capital bor rowed, and the rates by freights are in tended to cover, besides running ex penses, only the interest on all moneys borrowed on all bonds and coupon stocks for the construction and equipment of the railway, all surplus to he applied to the sinking and redemption funds pro vided for tiic repayment of all such va rious loans within a period of fifty years. The savings banks of Boston being generally believed to lie rotten by the un fortunate people who have deposited funds in their vaults, a panic which gave evidence of spreading IV ednesday broke out. in tlic shape ol a run on the .Five Cent Savings Bank of that city. V\ itli this symptom as an argument in their favor, the big salaried financiers of the other hobbling monetary institutions pre vailed upon the Massachusetts House of Representatives to suspend all rules (in cluding those unwritten ones called com mon sense) and pass a law allowing the Bank Commissioners, at any time they find rot in a bank, to limit and regulate pay ments to depositors as they please, offi- cially keeping up the fiction that the in stitution is sound. Any person aggrieved bv this extraordinary extension of power may appeal to the Supreme Court (if lie or she be ricli enough to stand it), which tribunal is kindly" authorized to annul the operations of the Commissioners if they arc found to have been unconstitu tional ! The Senate will immediately pass the same hill in the same way, with the hope of getting the remedy ready in time to try it on the Five-Cent dog pre vious to his death.—Chicago Tribune. A Terrible Tragedy near New Yoke.—In Westchester county. New York, on Thursday afternoon. Tlieron Merritt murdered Airs. Ann Eliza Leg gett and then committed suicide, both parties being of high social standing. Mrs. Leggett and Air. .Merritt were near neighbors living about half a mile north of The viliege of Tuckalioe, in the town ship of Eastchester, on the road to V on kers V little before three o'clock in the afternoon lie walked from his house to hers, a distance of about a furlong, met her at her front door, shot her through the glass pane of that door turned and walked deliberately home, drank a glass aiu of water and shot himself through the heart in the presence of his mother. Both the murderer and his victim died without a word, leaving no clew to any cause for the act-excepting the generally received opinion that he was temporarily insane Late Thursday night Mrs. Merritt, the wife of the murderer and suicide, was delirious, aud was threatened with bram fever The terrible events of the day had completely prostrated her, and her condition was such as to cause great alarm to her relatives and frica .s. Murder and Arson.—The house of Henry <; razor, four -riles west of Fort Madison, la., was burned Thursday night. The neighbors seeing the fire rushed to the rescue, but too late to save Mr. and Mrs Grazer, whose bodies were almost burned to a crisp. From the evidence collected it would appear that both had been murdered and the.house then set on fire to destroy the evidence of the crime. Mr Grazer and wife lived alone. He was a quiet man, reputed to be wealthy, and thou "lit to have considei aide money in the house. A revolver, which was not the property of Mr. Grazer was found near the bodies with one barrel discharged and the hammer raised. There is no di rect due, hut a strong suspicion as to the murderer. Eccentric persons who propose to make their wills are advised l>y the New York World to leave their money direct to the Bar Association to save trouble. The “Father of his Country '’ hasn’t a monument as yet; but there’s a burglar alarm connected with his tomb.— Wor cester Frets. Cedar Keys, March 15.—Editor Morn ing News: As 1 have been over the en tire line of this new route from Savan nah to Cedar Keys and conversed freely with many along the line, I have the fol lowing reflections to offer to your read ers: The citizens of this place expect much from the inauguratiou of the new mail route to Cuba from this point. So many promises have been made, aud so many disappointments experienced, that faith iu the enterprise began to waver. But I am assured by the authorities at the cus tom house here that, withoutjail,the boats will be here by the 1st of April next. They have received official notice to this effect, and it is the first official informa tion that they have had on the subject. This fact has quickened the public pulse here, although the season is far spent. Their business conneetions with Havana keeps up quite a trade even until the last of July. So that considerable business can yet be done before the season closes. The winter travel, of course, is about over. This contemplated route and tri-week ly mail is claimiug considerable attention from other points. I notice an account of a recent meeting of merchants iu Mo bile, Ala., urging that a line of steamers forthwith be put on between Mobile and Cedar Keys so that they would have a direct line to Havana, or what is equiva lent to it. Mobile claims that she can furnish even more abundantly than Flori da the articles of commerce which are in greatest demand in Cuba. The Journal of this place says that the facility of supplying the markets of Cuba and Matanzas with a large line of Florida products will be ample from along the line of the Atlantic and Gulf and West India Transit Rail road and the Suwannee and Santa Fee rivers. Celerity and dispatch are essential conditions to market fruits and vegetables. The editor says : “ We have heard of peaches selling in Havana for three dollars per dozen, and that oysters are only obtainable in the shell in Havana on ice from New York and Baltimore, and are worth fabulous prices.” From this point they can be supplied in about thirty six hours, and from some other points along the route in a shorter period. The opportunity will be a grand one to all this section, and even extend ing to Savannah. It will only require about sixty hours from your city to reach the metropolis of the “Queen of the Antilles.” This will lie a great saving of time, as well as of money. With the treaties between the two countries readjusted, there is no reason why this route may not become tlic great thoroughfare for all commercial transac tions, as well as the favorite route for pleasure seekers and travelers generally. If the men who have taken hold of the enterprise have only the pluck and ener gy to make it a permanent line, its suc cess will be assured. This route has been a favorite idea with Hon. Mr. V ulee for many years, and he has been bending his efforts in this direction, until at last his hopes are about to be realized, To him perhaps more than any one else the people are indebted for this rare op portunity. That they will appreciate it is evidenced by the universal joy mani fested at its early anticipated consumma tion. By a judicious use of this oppor tunity it will prove a mine of wealth to all this section of Florida. If this fast mail line will bring out the way-mail it will be a great blessing to all along the line of the West India Transit Railroad. It will give them their Savan nah mail the same day that it leaves your city. It will l>e of immense value in the circulation of the News, for the paper will reach Cedar Keys the same night that it. is published. Many are waiting for the inauguration of this scheme be fore subscribing. All maritime intelli gence is of vital importance to truck far mers, and the News furnishes this in formation sooner than any other publica tion which reaches the points along this line. And then, as one of the citizens here remarked, it is reliable and can be depended upon. As soon as the steamships arrive at this point. Col. Maxwell, the efficient Super intendent of the Transit Railroad, will have his fast train in readiness to meet the train from Savannah at Baldwin, so that a passenger can eat his breakfast in Savannah one morning leisurely, and the next morning he can breakfast on the Gulf of Mexico, in one of these elegant steamships. Every arrangement is being made to make this the attractive route for winter travel next season. It will open up Western Florida and afford quick transit to and from any part of the United States. Jack Plane. Selling Church Livings in England at Public Auction.—Two church liv ings were offered for sale at auction in a pub ic hall iu Hull, England, a fortnight ago. One was the vicarage of Burstwick, worth .$1,400 per annum, and owned by Sir. T. Constable. The other was the living of Sproatley, whic h was said to be owned by the Countess of Cardigan. It was worth $1,500 per annum, and the bid ding opened at $1,250 and rose slowly to $3,250. when the lot was withdrawn. Several clergymen were present, and much interest was manifested iu York shire. It often happens in provincial towns that, although buyers refrain from buying livings at public auction, yet im mediately afterwards the lots are disposed of at private sale. These sales of church livings are a disgraceful scandal. Many a sturdy Englishman has raised his voice against them in Parliament, but effective measures to put an end to them have never been taken. A letter from Gen. Anderson, received in New York, says: “Forty-one days, now, I have l>cen in jail! In jail on a trumped-up charge! In jail because, under the law, I did my duty to the whole people of my State.” Anderson had better be sure, the next time lie does his duty to the whole peo ple, that it does not comprehend forgery and grand larceny, because these duties are onerous and', unlike others, grow more burdensome with more perform- The circumscribed martyr to duty at least can say, with the immortal bard. “My duty hushes me,” or at least shuts me up.—Nash ride American. Emigration to Liberia.—The Penn sylvania Colonization Society has author ized the American Colonization Society to send, at its expense, fifty emigrants to Liberia. They will leave May 1, and will locate at the flourishing settlement of Brewerville. ten miles from Monrovia. It was named in honor of the late Charles Brewer, of Pittsburg, by whose gen erosity many emigrants have been enabled to reach Liberia. The Backbone of Volusia County, Fla. | Correspondence of the Morning News. Having been visiting a part of this State which your correspondents seldom see, I think it may interest some of your readers to know what is being done there. In the county of Volusia there is a ridge of high pine land about twenty miles long by five miles wide, running North and South. On the west the St. John’s river is about four to five miles off, and on the east is scrub for about fifteen miles, until near the Halifax riVer. People sel dom visit it, as the marshy banks of the St. John’s river lead them to believe that the land Ls low and worthless. In my residence of eight years in this State, I did not know that a magnificent country like that 1 have lately visited existed in the State. I will coniine myself in this article to describing about DeLand, leaving Or ange City and Springs Garden for a fu ture number. People going up the St. John’s will see, about two miles north of Lake Beresford, a sten with “ DeLand,” aud on the banks a h:mdsome warehouse lately erected. Get off at this place and ask for Dr. Bracy, who will furnish a team to take you to the citv, foui or five miles in the interior. The town of DeLand is named after the founder, a gentleman of wealth, who resides in Fairport, New York, where he has a large manufactory for chemicals, and whose saler&tus is well known all over the Union. The town is situated in a hilly country, about one hundred feet above the St. John's river, and contains a church and school house, store and post office, drug store,' blacksmith and carpenter’s shops. There is also a neatly printed and well edited newspaper published there. There arc sev eral houses in it surrounded with thriving orange groves planted within the past two years.. The country around is hilly and rolling, free of palmetto, the finest class of high pine land, covered with large pine trees, presenting a handsome park-like appearance. All the home steads have been entered and the State lands bought up for miles around, but land can be bought at reasonable rates by those wishing to settle there. The country is now so thickly settled by Northern people that you cannot pass through without being in sight of oue or more houses for miles. Every settler has his orange grove of from five to twenty acres, kept in the highest state of culti vation and surrounded with substantial fences. Their houses are plain but com fortable, a saw mill near the town fur nishing lumber at reasonable charges. From what I saw, and judging from my experience, I should certainly say that the country is as well adapted for orange culture as any I have seen in the State. The winters (must be mild for guava bushes had not been injured by the cold this winter, and the castor oil bean trees still had on their green leaves of last year’s growth. Many of the settlers are men of wealth and can do much to im prove their locality, and others, after es tablishing their groves, are now turning their attention to the cultivation of other products by which they can make’ a living until their groves bear fruit. Pineapples promise to be a great success. I inspected a patch of the plants which •were put in last year by Mr. Austin, of the firm of “Austin & Cannon. ’ They looked as health}' as any I have seen in the West Indies, and were just putting out fruit. I will mention more about the culture of this fruit in my article on < >rangc City. Strawberries had proved a success and vegetables will be largely grown in the future. At Mr. <)wens', a gentleman from Kentucky who had set tled here, I saw a radish of the Japanese variety that measured twenty-seven inches in circumference, and was then making for seed. The inhabitants are planting several varieties of “Northern” and all the “semi-tropical” fruits that tlmy can get. The most pleasing trait of these settlers was their social life ; every week there is a meeting at some house for conversation and instructive inter course. At one of these meetings while I was there over oue hundred peo ple collected and the time was passed, until late at night, in a most agreeable manner. I attended the church service on Sunday, when an effective address was delivered by the Rev. M. S. Lect. the pastor, which an attentive congrega tion listened to devoutly. There is a school of about thirty-five children, their cheeks as rosy as in their own Northern climate. Their teacher, Miss Dean, an at tractive young lady, deserves all praise for her management of the little dears. The people are a worthy people, and just such as are wanted to settle up our State, and if they continue to progress as they have already done, their efforts will be crowned with success, and happy homes foimed in their new dmintiy. Those who wish to know more about this interesting section of Florida can address the Rev. M. S. Leet or Mr. John Rich, DeLand P. O.. Fla. To get there I can recommen 1 the steamer George M. Bird, which makes semi-weekly trips up the St. John’s river. The boat is roomy aud comfortable and the “cuisine” first class. Captain Shaw, the commander, has been sailing on this river for some years, and is able to give information that may be of use. 0. Sherman Excoriated by Kelley. Judge Kelley has written a letter criti cising oue written by John Sherman to the editor of the Canton (Ohio) Depository. Kelley says: “Let me briefly refer to your statement as to the condition of the Treasury. You say that the sixty- five million dollars available fer pur poses of resumption are now nearly ninety million dollars. In this—though you should be better informed as to the condition of the Treasury than I—I hesi tate, not to say that if your allegation re fers to metallic gold, you arc wide of the mark. The monthly debt statement issued by you on the first of this month showed but $«’»5,219,783 of gold against which there were no current coin obligations. How much of this $115,000.000 is ‘Book keeping gold’—or what the late Col. James Fisk spoke of as ‘phantom gold,’ consisting of coupons paid and bonds called and exchanged which have not gone into the books and been canceled? I do not know, nor probably do you. The Committee on Banking aud Currency of the House.of Representatives is now en gaged in investigating the question; and I when, after careful scrutiny of the facts, it shall make its report, if the country does not discover that your $90,000,000 embraces less than $30,000,000 of metal lic gold, it will be well for your reputa tion as a man and public officer.” NEARING THE END. - “It is an ill wind that blows nobody any good,” and the late flood in Califor nia demonstrates again the truth of the old adage. Over ten thousand acres of land hitherto unproductive have been covered with the alluvial deposit of aliout two feet in thickness. This makes the very best grain land in the world. »• ♦ »«——-——— As the Virginia law making miscege nation a felony was copied from the Code of Iowa, a State which gives forty thousand Republican majority, the stal wart newspapers will have very little to say about the statute. «—♦-»■» An ingenious Italian has made an in vention whereby he produces on the piano sustained notes, such as can be ob tained from all wind instruments and from the violin family. The name of the new instrument is “melo-piano. Keene, the California speculator, has given 8am W ard, “the king of the lobby,” fifty thousand dollars. This is an act of gratitude for personal kindness to Keene in days when he needed it. New England is again suffering from a depression of the print cloths’ market, and the Manufacturers’ Board of Trade of Fall River have voted to close the mills during the two latter weeks of the present month and the first two weeks of April, provided that co-operation in the same line can be secured from a suffi ciently large number of outside mills to insure a reduction of the heavy stock of print cloths held in the country. It is claimed in Fall River that leading manu facturers throughout New England are in favor of the proposed action, and will join in it. A wealthy Philadelphian has made a curious will. His body is to be cremated and the ashes used to produce rose bushes. His property is to go to charita ble institutions, and the surviving rela tives arc granted the inestimable privi lege of plucking the roses and dropping crocodile tears to his memory. Mean while the relatives snuff insanity in the tainted air, anathematize rose bushes,and the eagle eyes of certain eminent lawyers are fixed glitteringly upon their expected prey. The monitor Canonicus having sunk two steani!>oats in the Mississippi river at New Orleans, has been removed a mile below the city, probably for the purpose of sinking an ocean’ steamef. The Democrat suggests that the govern ment either remove the nuisance alto gether or else build a lighthouse on her The Strange Story of a Southern Septuagenarian -In a Pennsylva nia Prison Twenty-Seven Year*tor ‘•Safe Keeping.” Philadelphia Record. It was exactly twenty-eight years to a day on the 29th of last December that Wiley Williams was sentenced to the Eastern Penitentiary,for “safekeeping,” by Judge King. Very soon Williams will pass in his checks aud his spirit will go to the unknown world. That it is a certainty in the near future this man, to whom the greater part of his life has been a blank, is fully aware. Williams was placed in the penitentiary not as a convict, but to keep him from doing mischief. He had shot Dr. Kirk bride, the chief of the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, in the head, and the bullet, which was driven twenty-eight years ago into the head of the celebrated doctor, still re mains in its original position, although it does nfit interfere with his health. Wil liams now has the distinguiahad position of being number one on the books of the penitentiary, his name leading off the long list of criminals who are incarc erated in tlmt institution, although he is not considered as a criminal and never' was. Wiley Williams is the son of the late Judge Williams, who resided near Athens, Ga., and who was at one time a leading citizen of the Slate. He was possessed of ’mmense plantations, and was a large slave owner. His children were brought up according to Southern ideas. At seventeen years of age Wiley was sent to one of the best colleges in Connecticut, to receive an education be fitting the son of a man of wealth. He remained at his studies but a short time, and seizing the first opportunity went to sea. He took passage on a whaler to gratify his love of adventure and determination of seeing the world. He did not find in the real life the gilded amusement which the tales of romance had pictured. Nevertheless, he traveled over a good part of the globe, and finally landed on an island in the South Pac ific, where he fell into the hands of a United States Consul. This official communicated with Wiley’s parents, and by their direc tion the wayward sou was sent back to New York, and finally found his way to the paternal roof. He had not. been at home long before his father discovered that Wiley’s mind’was impaired, so he was sent to the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane in this city. In this institution he remained for some time, but finally became provoked at Dr. Kirkbride, because that gentleman would not allow him to visit somefrieuds at Baltimore. Williams liecamc* obsti nate, and determined to carry out his desires, despite strict orders to the con trary. Seizing theopportunityone night he scaled the walls surroifcling the grounds, took a train to the Monumental City, and, after making a round of hi- acquaintances, returned to the hospital Instead of returning to his quarters, he took a position in a large trt*e. Dr. Kirkbride was passing through the in closure iu the morning. Suddenly the loud report of a guu was heard, and the doctor fell to the ground wounded, the bullet entering his head. Williams then came down from the tree, and walking up to the doctor, he said: “You took oc casion to insult me, and, as a Southern gentleman, I determined to avenge the insult.” ■The would-bc murderer then surren dered himself, and it was found that the injuries sustained were fortunately slight. The doctor repaired to the office of Col. Charles Thompson Jones, who was then a Justice of the Peace, and made a depo sition, charging Williams with assault and battery with intent to kill. On this he was sent to Moyamensing prison, and in due course of time was tried. The jury returned a verdict of insanity, and on the29th day of December, 1849, Judge King directed* that Williams should be confined in the Eastern Penitentiary for safe keeping. This order has been obeyed with a vengeance, although the prison authorities would long ago have been glad to release their ward. Up to the breaking out of the rebellion, Williams’ father contributed money enough to pay for his son’s keep, but the emancipation proclamation of President Lincoln set his slaves free and impover ished the Judge. The contributions ceased after that date, although a brother of the incarcerated man, at various times sent sums of money North to his unfor tunate relative. Wiley Williams was be queathed a large plantation by his father, but the trustees who are managing it for him always replied, in answer to inqui ries, that it was not paying, and there was no money for the owner. Although perfectly harmless, none of the friends or relatives of the unfortunate mau will become responsible for him, so there is no recourse left the inspectors of the penitentiary but to adhere to the original order of the court. Williams is now seventy seven years of age and decrepit. Jle is fast failing in health, and death will soon claim him for its own. He is not confined to a cell, but for some years has had the privilege of the yard. The old man expresses but one desire, and that is to be taken to Georgia “to die on the old plantation." “Do you think they will send for me?” he frequently asks of the inspectors, as he sits dreamily in his well-known chair, where he spends hour after hour, appar ently lost in deep meditation. “I should like to die in Georgia.” He always in quires of strangers: “What’s the news from the South?” aud. with the charac teristics of a man whose whole heart is centered in one seption of the country and its peculiarities, Wiley Williams is a living skeleton of a “Southern gentle man.” The man’s memory is remarkable. Three years ago Dr. Kirkbride and Dr. Kervin visited the penitentiary, and at the request of Colonel Jones, one of the inspectors, called on Williams. “Who is this?" said Colonel Jones, laying his hand on Dr. Kirkbride. “That is Dr. Kirkbride—I know him,” said Williams. The two men had not seen each other for twenty-five years previous to this. Con versation turned on the event which brought Williams to his living tomb, when he exclaimed in a dignified sort of way: “ Well, 1 gave the Doctor my word as a Southern gentleman that if he did not let me out I would punish him. and so I did. ” THE HOT SPRINGS COMMISSION. Still Another Victim of the Bre mer Haven Explosion.—The shocking suicide of Frank Miller, who blew out his brains on board a St. Louis wharf- boat on Wednesday, proved to be a sequel to the tragedy at Bremer Haven, caused by the dvnamite fiend, Thomas son. ln*1871 Miller owned a bar room in St. Charles, Mo. He drank very hard and was subject to violent attacks of fits. His physicians recommended a trip to the old country, and he followed their advice. When aliout to return lie in vested nearly all of his money in silks, etc., aud with his property took passage on the fated vessel at Bremer Haven which contained the infernal machine of Thomasson. Shortly before the vessel was to start. Miller went to a saloon a couple of blocks away, to get a la-t glass of old country beer, and while he was gone the terrible explosion - took place, which was fraught with such terrible evil to life and property. All of Miller’s goods were destroyed, and the mere ac cident of his going for a drink saved his life. He was very sadly affected by his loss, and was often heard to. remark after his arrival here that he wished he was dead. His suicide was undoubtedly the result of sorrow over his loss. A doting Chicago father has just re ceived his son’s expense account for the last quarter at Princeton. Among the items are: $9 for a revolver, $2 00 for ammunition. $4 for a burglar alarm, $27 for blacksmith’s and locksmith’s work to make the study door sophomore-proof, $17 50 for half* interest in a bull dog, $9 for sword cane, $2 50 for loaded ditto, and $20 to doctor for digging buckshot out of the calf of his leg! The sympa thizing progenitor says that it is very expensive work fitting a young man for the ministry. !ttr. Hajree* Asjrlnm for Political Knave* and JDead Ducknin Peril. The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun says: “After the decision of the Court of Claims that the Arkansas Hot Springs property belongs to the United States, that tribunal appointed a receiver to take charge. This officer remained in posses sion for several months, and managed the property in a satisfactory manner, so far as the interests of the government were concerned. The chance, however, to provide offices for the faithful was too good to be neglected. A bill was put through Congress providing for the ex pensive and cumbersome machinery of a commission, to consist of three mem hers, at a compensation of ten dollars per dav each. The appointment of commis sioners was given to ex-Senator Cragin, of New Hampshire; ex-Representative Coburn, of Indiana, and ex-carpet-bag Gov. Stearns, of Florida. Mr. Stearns was in the Executive Chair of Florida at the time of the Presidential election, and contributed valuable assistance to the plot by which Tilden was cheated out of its electoral vote. “Mr. Cragin and Mr. Coburn while in Congress were among the most promi nent of that class who were always on the alert to keep up the antagonism of sections and to inflict harsh legislation upon the South. When they were finally repudiated by their people they slipped into these comfortable teu dollars per day places. The law creating the com mission limited the time of its existence, which has just expired. But these three thrifty lads did not propose to be turned out on the cold charity of the world. They succeeded in producing the im pression that their work has just begun, that it is of vast importance, and the Senate has passed a bill extending their time for more than a year longer, and increasing their salary to $5,000 per annum each. The bill was put through th 1 * Senate by the carpet bag Senator from Arkansas, Mr. Dorsey, who man aged at the same time to inject an amend ment to help another little job for the benefit of a corporation known as the Hot Springs Mountain Water-Working Company. Several prominent citizens of liot Springs have telegraphed here asking that liie bill be stopped in the House until it can be understood in all its provisions. This lias been attended to. and the scrutiny which the bill failed to excite in the Senate it will now receive in the House.” From Iron to Steel.—Steel is dis placing iron with a persistency which brooks no impediment. The progress which, in the past year, tin* substitution of one metal for the other has made is strikingly illustrated in the experience of Cleveland, where some fourteen blast furnaces have iu the twelve months been turned mostly from the smelting of pigs for the iron mills to the smelting of pigs for the steel converters. Simultaneously new furnaces in the purely steel districts have been added to the great additions already made in former years. While this h;is been going on in Great Britain other nations have not been quiescent. But. as it should, this country has kept well ahead of its competitors* We now produce no less than three quarters of a million tons of steel ingots in the year; the United States, 525,996 tons; France. 261,874 tons; Germany. 242,261 tons; Belgium, 71,758 tons; Sweden, 22,789 tons, aud Russia. 8,500.—London Iron monger. Mob Rule in Montreal.—The city of Montreal Ls fast passing into the bauds of the rowdies. It is scarcely a matter for wonder. Rowdyism has ruled in the provincial parliament, in this city's cor poration, very often in the press, and now it is taking possession of the streets. For peaceable citizens to attend a concert involves danger to life and limb. The crack of a revolver is quite ordinary; to beat a man within an inch of his life a thing of constant occurrence. Thi9 be gan on the 12th of July last; was bap tized, blessed, aud made safe by the ac tion of the grand jury. It is coming to this: The citizens must take measures to protect themselves, if the authorities will not protect them.—Canadian Spectator. Wholesale Emigration from Penn, sylvania.—During the month of Febru ary there were eleven hundred emigrant tickets sold for the West at the Harris burg (Pa.) depot of the Pennsylvania Railroad, it being double the number sold in the corresponding month of last year. The emigrants were among the best citizens of the State—well-to-do farmers, mechanics, wheelwrights, crafts men of all kinds, and a large number of whom had been tenants on farms, who had accumulated sufficient to buy land in the West, and were about to locate in colonies along the line of the Western railroads. How the Pope Chose His Name. Monsignor Lasagni. pro-Secretary of State during the conclave, had already risen to dispatch Tommaso Tosi. Captain of the Conclave, with the official an nouncement to the Marshal, Prince Chigi, that the conclave would lie opened at four p. m., and that the Marshal would be the first admitted to kiss the sacred foot, when it occurred to him that the title by which the new Pope was to be proclaimed was yet unknown. “By what name,” he asked, “doe9 your holiness choose to be made known ?’* “Who is the patron saint of today?” “St. Leo.” “Then announce me as Leo XIII. "—Home Cor. Fall Mall Gazette. The Advance in Torpedo Construc tion.—The advance made in torpedo construction of late years can be seen from the fact that when Whitehead lie gan experimenting with his famous fi.*»h torpedo he secured a sj>eed of only eight knots an hour—now he achieves eighteen, and in the torpedoes he is making for Rus sia at his works at Fiume, on the Adri atic, he expects to reach a speed of twenty-four knots. That is, having sur passed already the speed of war vessels, he is fast approaching that of railroad trains. Hazing was revived at Dartmouth Col lege, Monday night. Early in the even ing sophomores intruded upon the fresh men. About two o’clock in the morn ing freshmen broke into a room ir Thornton Hall occupied by a sophomore and his brother, a senior. Both were unmercifully beaten with bottles and dis figured. Two of the freshmen have been arrested for assault with intent to kill, and are in custody. Search is being made for the others. A young man, recently married, who has been an enthusiastic collector of coins, found that his wife, with the charming freshness characteristic of brides, has been drawing on his cabinet for change, and among other things had passed out an old penny, for which he paid $3 50, for a cent’s worth of yeast. That yeast “raised” more in that household than any previous investment of the same amount of money.—Springfield BejnMiran. Colonel T. W. Hig^iuson, who has been as good an abolitionist as Wendell Phillips or William Lloyd Garrison, finds, after a recent visit to South Caro lina. that the President’s Southern policy has lieen the best thing for the colored people, and he has considerable confi dence that the Republican party can be rebuilt in the South on a sound basts.— Ne>r York Post. The Tambookie tribe of Kaffirs deter mined to Lake a colonial city, appropri ate the goods, kill the men and steal the women. In a conference between the Tambookics and their wives, it was de cided that only the dark eyed prisoners shoi.l 1 become wives, -while the blue- eytd ones were to become domestics. But the Tam bookies were whipped. A ladies’ league has been formed in Philadelphia to advance the interests of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Mexico. CHEAP ICE! ( 'AUU retail price for ICE, delivered from our "Main House, on Bay street, or at our Branch House, corner of Floyd street and South Broad street lane, will be, until further notice, at the reduced rate of Half of One Cent Per Pound. Fifty pounds or upwards will be delivered free to any part of the city at a lower rate. Special and very low rate per ton or car load. HAYWOOD, GAGE & CO. mhl U3.16.iy.eiJt23.6t ICE! ICE! ICE! CHEAP ICE! / \UR retail nritv for ICE, delivered from " J our deix>t. No. 144 Bay street, or from our wagons, will be One-Half Cent Per Pound, for the season, and not until further notice. Any quantity delivered (not flfty pounds only) to any part of the city. A share of patronage respect fully solicited.* KNICKERBOCKER ICE GO, NO. Ill BAY STREET. mh!5,19Jt21.3t (Tobacco. GENUINE Smoking Tobacco, Manufactured by Z. I. LYON Sc. CO„ DURHAM. N. O. \Y7'E beg to call attention of Smokers and » ▼ Dealers that the above cut is a far simile of the new lal>el used on Pride of Durham. GOODMAN & MYERS, jan21-tf Sole Asrts for Georgia & Florida. Aira. led hi_hr.it prize nt U.-rtcnnial Exposition for h- e disxi' .j i] 'Uitif «:>i exc. Ucice and bi'ting char- arter of ncecteiitg tv id flavor irj. The btot tobaecc ever niade. A* onr blt*e strin tra'Ac-mark is riof-ly iautated on Infcri r rh«t J rktr.r'x JUM id on every I'l t'r. Soil !-t • i| S • mr • fc-:o, t> C. J vc . . Cj., Petersburg, janll-F&Tu&wly Sap boards, (frorfcmt, kt. EVERY FAMILY Should have a i LAP BOARD ! For sale at Crockery House of JAS. S. SILVA, dec31-tf 142 CONGRESS STREET. THE NEW YEAR CARO BASKETS! DECANTERS, WINE GLASSES, * COFFEE URNS, etc. At'Crockery House of JAS. S. SILVA, dec31-tf 142 CONGRESS STREET. Hotirrs. NOTICE. ■J^URING iny absence from the city JOHN SCHWARZ is my authorized attorney. E. A. SCHWARZ. mhlASt NOTICE. I DO herein consent that my wife, JETTE ALEXANDER, may become a public or free trader, under the provisions of Section 1760 of Irwin, Lester and Hill’s Code of Georgia, of 1S73, and such other laws of the State or Geor gia now of force. LOUIS ALEXANDER. Savannah. Ga., February 22.1H78. f*h2a-N«CTel1m CDanlcn Sihs. Harden Tiliiur or Borders -FOB— Flower Gardens & Cemetery Lots 3,000 EDGING TILES, Just received and for sale by PALMER BROS., 148 and 130 Congress, 149 and 151 St. Julian sts. mhlS-tf Suiidiui) SHatfrial. SASHES, BLINDS, DOORS, MOULDINGS, ETC. H AVING bought the su»ck of the above line of goods of H. P. BICKFORD, I respect fully solicit the custom of my friends ana the public. I will sell on good terms at reasonable prices. A large stock always on hand. Orders addressed to the old established Paint and Oil Store, NO. 5 WHITAKER STREET, SAVANNAH, GA.. Will have prompt attention. JOHN OLIVER. The stock will be continued at the old stand for the present. Goods carefully packed for ■hipping mv15-tf MittflUs. S XI INGLES HORSE BEDDING. SHINGLES. loads HORSE BEDDING. 200,000 !o For sale at Shingle Mill on Canal, foot of Bryan street. D. C. BACON & CO. WRAPPING PAPER. F )R SALE, OLD NEWSPAPERS, SUITABLE for wrapping paper, at Fifty Cents per hundred. Apply to feoSl-tt .MORNING NEWS OFFICE, (Tittt (OrainaurfS. CITY ORDINANCE. ORDINANCE OS ITS FIRST READINO IN OOrNCII. FEBRUARY 1878, READ TOR THE SECOND TIME IN COUNCIL, AMENDED AND PASSED* MARCH liTH, 1878. An Ordinance to confirm and explain the prop osition of the Mayor and Aluermen or the city of Savannah to compromise the bonded debt of said city, as made by the ordinance passed December 36th. 1877, and amended February 6th, 1878: to provide for the issue of new h mds with which to redeem those out standing; to provide for the establish meut of a sinking fund for th** redemption and re tirement of the outstanding bonds of said city; aud for other purpose-.. Section L Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldmnen of the \City of Savannah in Council assembled, and it’gs.hereby ordained by the au thority of the same. That th»* determination of sail Mayor and Aldermen to make a compromise settlement of the funded debt of said city, in the manner and upon the terms set forth in the preamble of an ordinance passed in Council on the 36th day of Decemlter. 1S<« , as amended by an ordinance passed in Council on the 6th day of February. 1878. be aud the same is here by reaffirmed, and the said compromise settle ment is hereby specifically offered to the hold ers of the outstanding bonds of said city, upon the terms and c*4 •nditious set forth in said ordi nances, an 1 herein. Sec. II. .ind it is hereby further ordained by the authority of the same. That the said Mayor and Aldermen shaU petition the Legislature of Georgia, at the first session thereof to be held after the passage of thisordinanc**. for authori ty to issue for exchange, and to exchange, new bonds, of the same face value, for any and ail of the outstanding matured and maturing bonds, and matured cou pons, of said city, at the option of the holders thereof, after such bonds aud coupons shall have lieen stamped as hereinafter pro vided; which said new bonds shall become due aud payable thirty years from and after the first day of ' January, 1879. and shall bear interest, payable semi-annually, at the rate of 3 per centum per annum f4jr the first ten years, at the rate of 4 per centum per annum for the second ten years, and at the rate of 6 per centum per an num for the third ami last ten years. And each of such new bonds, before it is ex changed by said city, shall be registered in the office of the City Treasurer, and shall have cer tified thereon by a majority of the sinking fund commission hereinafter provided for, that all conditions precedent required by law, and by the contract under which I he bonds are author ized to lie exchanged, have been complied with; and each of such bonds may also l*e regis tered. at the option of the holder, after Ik*ing exchanged, in the office of the City Treas urer, which registration shall be certified thereon by said City Treasurer, after which said bond shall b“ transferable only by endorsement by the said City Treasurer to the transferee, unless the last person in whose name it is so registered shall transfer and assign it to bearer, after which it shall again.be transferable by delivery- And such n**w coupons and new bonds, as they mature. shaU l*.- receivable, at their par or face value, for all taxes and other dues to the city of Savannah; and as such re duced rates of interest are made for the pur pose of bciug, and are considered by said cor-l porat*- authorities as, the equivalent of any and all taxes which the said cor- K rate authorities might otherwise hereafter ry upon such new bonds and coupons, such new bonds and coupons shall never again be taxed by said city. S«C. IU. And il is hereby further ordained by the authority of the same, That the said Mayor and Aldermen shall also petition the legisla ture of Georgia, at the first session thereof to be held after the passage of this ordinance, for authority to creai** a sinking fund for lb.* pay ment of such new bonds, and a commission of freeholders to be known as the Sinking Fund Commission to consist of live persons, each of whom shall be the owner, in his own name, of unincumbered real estate in said city of the value of at least five thousand dollars ($5.0Urt) upon the basis of valuation made by the City Asessors; aial no Mayor, Alderman, or other city officer, shall be eligible to serve upon said commission; and when any memlier of said commission shall qualify as an officer of said city, he shall immediately cease to be a mem ber of said commission. The five original members of said commission shall l>e elected by the Mayor and Aldermen of said city at the second regular meeting of Council after the passage by the Legislature of the necessary enabling act, a two-thirds vote being nee<*ssary for a choice; and each member of said commis sion so elected, as well as his successors, shaU be sworn to faithfully perf4>rm the duties of the position, and shall serve for ten years, and until his successor is elected in the same manner and for a similar term of years, and qualifled.un- less be be sooner removed as hereinafter pro vided. Said commission so appointed shall be invested with power, and it shall be its duty, if necessary-, to enforce taxation sufficient to raise the "sinking fund’’ herein provided for, by application to the courts having jurisdiction, at any time when there shall be a failure to act in good faith <jn the part of the Mayor and A Ider- men for the time being; and, after it is or ganized, shall have power to till all vacancies in its body, whether caused by death, resignation or otherwise, by a majority vote of those act ing, except when suen vacancy Is caused by the removal of a member as hereinafter pro vided. or by the expiration of his term of office; and except, further, that when, in consequence of a tie vote, or from any other cause, they are unable, or shall fail, to fill any vacancy or vacancies at the first regular or special meeting of their body after such vacan cy or vacancies shaU occur, their pre siding officer shaU certify such fact to Council at its next regular or s(>ecial meeting thereafter, and Council shall, at such meeting, proceed to fill such vacancy or vacancies in the same manner that it elected the original mem bers. Sec. TV. And it is hereby further ordained by the authority of the same. That immediately after the passage of the aforesaid enabhng acts by said Legislature, and be fore exchanging said new l>onds,Council shall make ample provision for the 'payment of the annual interest on said new bonds, and shall set apart so much of its most fix«*d sources of revenue as shall yield with the greatest certainty at least fifty thousand dollars ($30,*)UU> for each of the first succeeding live years; sixty-five thousand dollars ($65,000) for each of the next succeeding ten years; and seventy- five thousand dollars (§75,000) for each of the next succeeding fifteen years: and the same shall be paid in quarterly payments by the Treasurer of said city to the said Sinking Fund Commission, who shall apply the same to the purchase of any of the outstanding- bonds of said citj-, at the ruling market rates, and shall cancel.each bond so purchased (and the coupons thereto attached ', and. alter such cancellation, shall deliver it (and them; to the said City Treasurer for such final destruction as Coun cil may direct. And when said commissioc shaU desire to purchase any of said bonds, they shall call, by advertisement in the offi cial gazette of the city, or in such manner a* the city makes public its official acts, for pro posals to furnish the same, and may accept the proposal of the lowest bidders for a part, or the whole, of the amount called for, or may reject any or all bids, as they may deem most advisable for the public interest and consistent with econo my: calling, after each rejection, for new bids: or they maj-, by unanimous consent of their body, buy such bonds in open market, at ruling rates, without calling for bids. Said Sinking Fund Commission shall luake an annual report to the said Mayor and Aldermen of their work to December 31st, of each year, which report shall i>e published annually *'itb the Mayor’s report. Sec. V. And it is hereby further ordained by the authority of the same. That it shall be lawful for the Judge of the Superior Court of Chatham county, in his discretion, on the application of the Mayor and Akiermen, to remove any member or members of said commission before his or their term of office expires, and to appoint, for the unex pired term, a commissioner or commissioners, in nls or their stead, having the qualifications hereinbefore set forth. Sec. VL And it is hereby further ordained by the authority of the same. That until bond holders representing three-fourths (%) in value of the outstanding bonds of said city shall have accepted the said offer of compromise, and such bonds to that amount shall have been stamped as hereinafter provided, the accept ance of those representiq" any number less than such three-fourths in value shall not be bind ing beyond three years next ensuing after the first day of January, 1879; and further, any changes in the terms of compromise as herein set forth, and which shall be moie ad vantageous to the bondholders, shall inure equally to all, no matter at what time accept ing the compromise as now offered and con ditioned. Sec. VII. And it is hereby further ordained by the authority of the same. That upon each bond, and the cou]>ons thereto attached, or ap pertaining, presented by such bondholders as accept this compromise, unless they be redeem ed by said new bonds, shall be stamped, printed or written respectively: Upon the bonds: "In pursuance of the compromise settlement offered by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah to the holders of the bonas of said city, as set forth in an ordinance passed Decem ber 36th. 1877, as amended by an ordinance passed February 6th, 1878, and in another ordinance confirmatory aqd explanatory of the same, passed March 6th, 1878, and wnich or dinances are made a part of this contract, ami which compromise settlement is accepted and agreed to by the holder of this bond upon the condition that, in consideration of the rebate of interest allowed by him, and which Is mu tually agreed to be the equivalent of any taxes which said Mayor and Aldermen might other wise hereafter levy hereon, this bond and the coupons appertaining to it, $nd so stamped, shall never again be taxed by said city, the said Mayor and Aldermen agree to pay, and the holder of this bond agrees t«> accept, in full payment of the coupons heret*^ appertaining, and so stamped, three sevenths of the face value of those which shall fall due within the ten years next succeeding January 1st, 1879, four-sevenths of the face value of those which shall fail due within the next suc ceeding ten years, and six-sevenths of the face value of those remaining; and this agreement stamped hereon shall be proof of acceptance of said compromise settle ment by the holder, by receiving interest there under, and of part performance by the city;” which shaU be signed and dated by the Treas urer of said city: And upon the coupons: “Subject to agreement stamped on bond, ’ ’ and ** value tnree-sevenths (3-7) of face,” "value four- sevenths (4-7) of face,” or value six-sevenths (6-7) of face,” as the date of maturity of the coupon may require. And when bonds are matured, or without coupons for the full period of thirty t&b years, the city shall, at the option of the holder, either furnish cou pons for the whole, or a part of said thirty years, as may be required, or pay the interest which would be due under the said compro mise, stamping upon the bonds the amount of interest so paid. Sec. MIL And it is hereby further orjlained by the authority of the same l That ail coupons P<i.» iucui ui an uucs anti tax,.4i ,, n .i turity. shall be receivable at face value, in payment r.f any*551 their balance of purchase money iJn am- hS dUe . 88 heretofore sold by said eitV tot or lots known as "oaorxD rent ^ronionly Sec. IX. And it is hereby further w • , by th, authority of th. ^.rSt alf oref nances and parts of Ordinanoi. Li. ' jnth UHs Ordinance 1* and ,he T are h™eb?r? Ordinance passed '" Council Jtarch 6th , 18m JOHN F WHEAT®?, Attest: Frank E. Rebarek Mayor. Acting Clerk r.f Counc I mhli-tf ^ CITY OKIiin vm OCMXAJiOE READ IN COCXCfL pdb _ TIME FEBRUARY 6th. IS?* ne , D FTlU * T onu rats romraav ££ reox the table: reap T ,._ ... . march 0th. HKS, AMD PAssri • THn,,> T,xx “Ax Oroixaxck to amend sections Article AXVI., Title Il n ( ulnm .’^° f vannah City Code, adopted i )v ' passed February 16th. ix?ii •• ordinance &WTIOM 1. Be itordai,u d by th, Mayor awl Aldermen of the City of Savannah herrby ordained by th.:>:.th„ntfZf thcLiL'.* That section 30 of Article xxfi title * n Culture." of the SaTanuah Citv CodemioiitS by ordinance passed Kebruan- 16iIl wsP™ page 213 of said Code, be S hereby amended by striking out the^onb "subject to dry culture contacts," a ir £!H s ing in lieu thereof the wools upon whichthe cultivation of rice Is prohibited ’ Cn Section 2. It is further "nlarnrH bu then,, thonty of th, some That Section 21 of smd “7 ttcle AAA I. he. an.l the same is hereby amended •by BtnktaK out the words dry culture com tracl and UuMttag in heu thereof the words "land whereon its cultivation is prohibited " Section X It u further ordained by thunty of the fame. That all ordhuume* i parts ot ordinances conflicting with this ordinance be, and the same are. hereby re- pealed. J In Council March 6th. 18?8 ... , J0HX F "'HK.vrON. Attest: Mavor Frank E. Rebarek, Acting clerk of Council mh»-ti ORDINANCE. ORDINANCE READ IN C('t*NCIL FOR THE FIRST TIM.: VAR 1 'I! t*TB. 1S7S. AMI BY INAN.VOfa CONSENT, t’NDER A SUSPENSION OP THE RULES, HEAD FOR THE SECOND TIRE AND PASSED. AN Ordinance to rejculat.* the sale of propertv levied on by the City ilar-hal under t xecu- tion for taxes. Section l. He ■< ordained by the Mayor awl Mclrrmen of the C,ty of .VmmnnA in Council assembled, awl ,t herein, obtained by the authority of the same, That from and after the jia-sage of this Ordinance all prupertv real personal nr mixed, which mar have ln D or may hereafter be, levied on by the Citv Mar shal under and by virtue ».f any tax executions received or to be received by him from the Citv Treasurer, shall l>e advertised and sold by the City Marshal in the manner now or hereafter to be prescribed for Sheriff s sales under the laws of the State of Georgia Sec. II. And it U herein, further ordained by the authority of the same. That all Ordi nances and parts of Ordinances conflicting with this Ordinance be and the same are hereny re pealed. J In Council March 6.1878. JOHN F. WHEATON, Attest: Mayor. Jrank i- Rerarer. Acting Clerk of Council, mhtt tf 3ru «ood$. WISHES TO CALL ATTENTION TO HIS HAVING RECEIVED A VERY CHOICE LINE OF iSi'riiig & Slimmer Silks ALSO, AN ELEGANT LOT OF All of which will be offered at the Very Closest Prices! 430 PIECES EMBROIDERED Cilgings anil inserting:; Ranging in price from 5 cents a yard to |2 50 a yard. SPECIAL BARGAINS LADIES' IDERCLOTDIIG "IXT’HICH has b«*en largely replenished, and » » now include* many NEW DESIGNS. An inspection of these gfKNls cannot fail to con vince the purchaser that in point of finish and quality of material, as well as Lowness of Price! they surpass any that has been offered in this city at corresponding prices. 100 dozen TWO-BUTTON KID GLOVES, in Spring colors, at 30 cents a pair; actual value $1 00 a pair. 500 dozen LADIES’. GENTS’ and MISSES’ HOSE, to close, reduced fully 25 per cent. A JOB LOT CONSISTING OF ABOUT SIXTY PIECES Black Silk Warp Henrietta Cloth, LUPIN’S BLACK FRENCH CASHMERES AND TAM1SE CLOTHS, TO BK CLOSED AT A Great Reduction FROM FORMER PRICES. 50 BLACK THREAD EMBROIDERED DOL MANS, at less than half of last year's prices. DANIEL HOGAN. K. t. MEM & CO., 157 Brougbtou Street. 4VR HAVE just received the follow mo Sew Spring Goods! WHICH WE OFFER AT OCR USUAL LOW PRICES. t OA PIECES DRESS GOODS, in N'* « Spring loo Styles, from 10c. a yanl upward. A choice lot of Plain and Striped COLORED SILKS, from 85c. to Wc. ayanl. A lot of Elegant Embroider..! WHITE PIQUE SUITS for Children and Miseea. A full line of White M Very Fine FRENCH NAINSOOK. A full hue of White S4 FRENCH ORGANDIES. A full Une of Fine SCOTCH, thin NAINSOOKS. Full linen of WHITE SWISS MULLS. VICTO RIA and BISHOP S LAWNS 20 pieces of Bleached ami Half IjVirri^ TABLE DAMASKS, warranted all IJnen, at low price*-. A splendid assortment I L1NE> TABLE NAP KINS and DOYLIES. 100 dozen IRISH. HUCKABACK and DAMASK LINEN TOWELS. 2 cases full size WHITE TOILET and HONK* - COMB QUILTS, from 75a up. An elegant line of Ladies' Spanish and Blonde LACE NEUKSUAR» An elegant line of Colored SILK LACE NECKTIES, new designs. 30 dozen very* han ds-'rne E ^^J^' WHITE LACE NECKTIES, from -x:. up. » doxen NEW CORSETS includ^ lar Nonpareil and sstra | -' u «• Corsets. Ladies extra long BROWN BALBRKK3AN HOSIERY. Misses* and Children’s very fine FANCY BALBRIGGAN spring colors. WO dozen Men's fine nn*! superfine BROWN ENGLISH HALF HOSE. Full line of best brands SHIRTINGS and SHEETINGS, at low prices- A splendid assortment BROIDERIES, hi exSSItae Muslins, handsome designs ana ext™ work. Agents for R. J. ROBERT^, * SCISSORS* NEEDLES and RAZoK-sTEEL “the best in the world.
