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Or Utormng JUirsL
H* ESTill, Proprietor.
NO. 3 WHITAKER STREET,
(MORNING NEWS BUILDING).
THOMPSON, Editor.
FRIDAY, MARCH 22.1878.
TAPPING the wires.
The Londcr. Tin*?* is very severe on Mr.
Blaine and Mr. Butler for their strictures on
the unfairness of the award of $5,000,000
granted in favor of England and against the
United States by the Fishery Commission.
It regards their conduct in attempting to
cast discredit upon the impartiality of the
Commission as particularly unfortunate and
calculated to reflect anything but credit on
this country. It hopes and believes that
Mr. Blaine will not be able to get a Congress
of his countrymen to support him in a re
fusal to pay the award, and stamp the
American policy with the double discredit
of meanness and trickiness.
There is a family in Newport, Rhode
.island, named Murray, who have four chil
dren lying dead from diphtheria and three
others not expected to live. The father is
insane and has threatened to shoot the un
dertaker.
Nothing of any very special interest tran
spired in Congress yesterday. A creat portion
of the day was taken up in the Senate by a
personal explanation from Mr. Dorsey, of Ar
kansas, regarding certain action of his con
cerning the Hot Springs property. The re
mainder of the day was spent in discussing
the bill authorising the Secretary of the
Treasury to employ temporary clerks and
making an appropriation for the same—also
making an appropriation for detecting
trespass on the public lands, and for bring
ing such lands in certain States into market,
and for other purposes. In this discussion
Senators Jones of Florida and Morgan of Ala
bama, against, and by Mr. Matthews, of
Ohio, in defense of the policy of Secretary
Schurz towards timber cutters and tres
passers on the public lands.
Eight hours work a day. with an hour's
intermission—work to commence at seven
o’clock—has been established for work on
the public buildings and the navy yard at
Washington. This is according to the law,
as it is interpreted.
In the British House of Lords, Lord Derby
protested against the unfounded assertions
relative to Cabinet dissensions. He said
that England only asked representation in
the Congress for Greece that her voice and
claims might be heard, and all she de
manded of Russia was that all the articles
of the treaty be submitted to the Congress
for discussion, that being the oniy way to
decide which of them affected European
interests. If this was not done there would
be very little use for the Congress to meet.
Captain Adams, commander of the United
States corvette Hartford, has died in Monte
video, of yellow fever.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
will soon Usue a circular materially modify
ing his late order in regard to the divis
ion line between cigar factories an<f retail
stores.
The differences between Russia and Eng
land are still unsettled.
Dr. John H. Newman is not to be made a
Cardinal.
The Russians have abandoned the idea of
embarking at Bujukdere, because if the
Turks permit it, the British fleet will come
up the Bosphorus.
Isaac Adams died at Sandwich, New
Hampshire, on Tuesday, leaving a fortune
of from four to six million dollars. He made
it all from the Adams printing press, which
he bought from the inventor for an old gun,
and for the use of which he afterwards re
ceived forty thousand dollars in gold from
England.
The London Time*, in its financial article,
says the fear of the silver bill has died out,
but the people of England are afraid of
what may follow it.
Rev. Mr. Gilbert, of Baltimore, charged
with immoral practices, has been completely
exonerated.
There is talk of a dissolution of the Ger
man Reichstag, and an attempt to earn' the
new elections on the personal strength of
Prince Bismarck.
One of the oldest banks in Prague has
suspended.
Russia is about to issue an intimation that
she recognizes the right of each power to
demand discussion of every stipulation in
the treaty, but she reserves the right of re
fusing to submit such stipulations to the
sanction of the pow'ers.
England has decided to resist Russian an
nexation in Asia Minor.
According to the treaty of San Stefano,
the evacuation of European Turkey, except
Bul fr aria, must be completed within three
The Louisiana Returning Board De
cision.
Now, as we get a fuller and more ex
plicit statement of the late decision of
the Supreme Court of Louisiana wtu: cby
the notorious Thomas C. Anderson xas
released, and the abandonment of the
proceedings against his confederate^ in
crime was brought about, we can discuss
thaw decision much more intelligibly
than heretofore.
In brief, the decision of said court
was simply that ^nderson should be re
leased on a mere legal technicality. The
document offered in evidence and upon
which he was convicted was a “consoli
dated statement” of the election returns,
as compiled by the returning board, and
based upon fraudulent and altered re
turns from the different parishes, and
because the original returns, as altered,
were not offered, the court decides that
the consolidated statement was not
forgery per at, and that therefore
the prisoner should be released. In
the words of the court, “The record of
fered in evidence did not conform to that
mentioned in the information. The docu
meat offered was a ‘consolidated state
ment’ certified by the register of voters,
and not the ‘original returns.’ and the
statute of our State does not attach much
value to this consolidated statement. *’
This decision may be literal law. but it
certainly is not founded on equity, for it
utterly ignores both equity and justice.
Under it men who it is not denied did
forge and alter returns, and thus did de
feat the sovereign will of the people of
a State, have been able to commit the
gravest crime known to our sys
tem of government with im
punity. They have treated popular
sovereignty with contempt, made the
exercise of the elective franchise a farce,
and deliberately told the people of Loui
siana that they should have no rulers
over them but such as they (the board)
saw fit to select. Yet in face of all this,
they are permitted to go unwhipt of
justice simply because of a little legal
technicality. What is there under this
ruling to prevent any party from main
taining itself in power indefinitely, no
matter how bitterly the people may de
nounce its course? What is there
to prevent a returning board
i future from preparing such
consolidated statement” as it sees
fit, and, giving this out as the result
of an election, forever circumvent justice
by simply destroying the “original re
turns,” so that they may never be brought
forward to testify against them or bring
upon them righteous punishment. The
liberties of the people of Louisiana are
terribly imperiled by such a decision, and
it clearly becomes the duty of the Legis
lature of that State to pass a stringent act
which will reach all such crimes hereafter.
As a sequel to this decision of the
Louisiana Supreme Court we read that
Mr. Hayes and his Cabinet are delighted
that the returning board prosecutions
have fallen to the ground, We, how
ever, cannot see the basis of their joy.
True, John Sherman and the “visiting
statesmen” may well rejoice that the
danger which threatened them on account
of the part tliej’ played in the infamous
transaction has passed away. These
men may well feel elated that they have
personally escaped the penitentiary. But
how, in their official capacities, they
should rejoice and be glad, we cannot
understand. The Supreme Court does
not deny that frauds were committed; it
does not deny that votes for one candi
date were thrown out in sufficient num
bers to enable another and defeated can
didate to triumph falsely. It virtually
admits these frauds, and since they were
proven in the court below, it still stands
as a matter of judicial record that Mr.
Hayes has no legal title to the office he
holds. This, ih?n. will be the verdict of
the truthful histories oi the future, and
Mr. Hayes must be known to posterity as
a man who was rejected by his fellow-
citizens, but who became President of the
United States only by means of “trium
phant fraud,” and who afterwards used
his official patronage ?o protect and save
harmless the manipulators of sueli fraud.
If the sterling ideas of our fore.-
fathers are ever to he restored;
if honesty and integrity are ever
again to be regarded as sacred things,
while fraud and corruption are to be
held in the vilest abhorrence, in a word,
supervisors' consolidated statements, was
one of the principal complaints urged
against the action of the board. It was
one of the facts which impressed on that
canvass its illegal aad fraudulent charac
ter. Whether or not the supervisors’
statements were the official records of
the election contemplated by law. they
were assumed by the returning
officers to be official records.
They were the only documents on
which the canvass and compilation
were based. If that canvass and
compilation had stood: if they had
not been nullified and vitiated, as to
all officers except Presidential electors,
by subsequent events, the tenure of every
official in the State would have rested
upon them. Hence to alter and to falsi
fy them directly affected the rights of all
candidates on whose claims the return
ing officers assumed to decide. Taking
these facts into consideration, it does not
seem strange that the lower court re
garded the supervisors’ statements for
the purposes of the election of 1876 as
official records, and, as such, having a
direct bearing on the rights of candi
dates.
“It is inter«Png to note that although
the Supreme Court decides the supervi
sor’s returns to be in no sense records,
and to be utterly without vitality as a
l>asis for a legal canvass, yet, in point of
fact, the eight electoral votes of Louis
iana were cast for Mr. Haves in conse
quence of a canvass thus illegally con
ducted and consummated. The decision
which relieves the returning officers from
prosecution, stamps with conspicuous
illegality the canvass which they made,
and” notifies to the world that, by the
solemn judgment of the highest tribunal
of this State, there never was a legal can
vass of the votes cast in Louisiana for
Presidential electors at the election in
November, 1876.”
months after a definitive peace, andtheRus- j |f tliis Itepublig of ours is to stand on the
sian troops may embark on the Black Sea I foundation upon which it can ever
and Sea of Marmora. It is for this reason
that the Russians are marching in the neigh
borhood of Constantinople for shipment.
Russia will keep a portion of her troop,
near Constantinople until the final treaty is
signed.
Southern Republicans in Washington
saV that the version of the shooting of
one of Mr. Schurz's timber agents for an
indecent assault on a lady is about what
they would have expected from his
character- Anothertimberageni. accord
ing to letters received there from reliable
persons, has been relieving his labors in
making unlimited affidavit-;, by going
around with a buggy and a fast woman.
A third Southern agent is a murderer
and an ex-Ku-Klux detective. They arc,
altogether, a sweet set to be invested by
the government with power to confiscate
property at will, and reduce thousands
to beggary-
Proposed Monument to Thomas
JeptuksoX. —In the House nf Repre
sentatives on Monday. Mr. Cox, of Sew
York, introduced a bill providing for
the erection of a monument over the
grave of 'Thomas Jefferson, at Moati-
cello, near Charlottesville, Va. It is well
that fie former home of Mr.
wreck, and that the grave
known
Jefferson is a
containing his remains Is now almost un
marked. The erection of a .suitable
monument to mark Mr. Jefferson s test
firmly stand—the patriotism, virtue and
honesty of its citizens—how th*u v*^ii
the present administration be regarded
by generations to come? Mr. Hayes
and his Cabinet must, in very deed and
truth, lie of exceeding hilarious tempera
ments, and firm believers in the teach
ings and doctrines of 3fark Taptey, if
they can be jolly under such extraordi
narily adverse circumstances.
The New Orleans Time* eommentuig
on the decision of the Supreme Court,
the text of which will be found in an
other column, says:
“The great question of the guilt of
the board in falsifying tije result of the
election and defeating the will of the
people stands unaffected by this decision.
The opinion of the country on this
point no technicality can neutralize and
lio court, however august, modify. Per
haps is best for the country and for
the cause w the purity and freedom of
the ballot that ttm offense should remain
the unexpiated crirn* pf a great party
rather than be condoned and ^ttied by a
two years sentence ic the pemteatatty of
one of the many w'ho participated in it.
and profited by it.
<o far as it can be considered a ques
tion of public policy, undoubtedly a vast
majority of the people will approve the
decision of the court. The prosecution
relieved the State of the stigma of acqui
escing in the great fraud, but at the same
time it was concentrating upon us a par
tisan hostility unfortunate for us, and
was rekindling animosities which patri
otic citizens of all parties deplored, ft
also had the appearance of drifting into
The Macon (Ha.) Claim.
In June. 1865, the city of Macon. Geor
gia, issued its bonds to the amount of
$25,000, in denominations ranging from
twenty-five cents to twenty dollars.
This amount was increased from time to
time afterwards up to $50,000. The city
was assessed by the Internal Revenue
Assessor one-twelfth of one per cent each
month on the aggregate amount of thee
bonds used and paid. The city paid this
tax regularly until June, 1873, when it
refused to pay it any longer, and six
months later it filed a claim with the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue for
the refund of that paid, amounting to
$6,141. Attorney General Stanbery, in a
similar case from Alabama, decided that
the statute under which the tax was
levied did not apply to a public or politi
cal corporation.
Under the opinion of the Attorney
General, the Secretary of f he Treasury
held that the tax was improperly as
sessed against the city of Macon. The
Secretary, however, only refunded that
portion of the tax paid within two years
prior to the date of ttie claim for refund,
holding that the remainder, $4,178, was
barred by the statute of limitation. The
city then applied to Congress, and the
House passed a bill providing for the
payment of the remainder. This bill has
been considereS by the Senate Commit
tee on Claims, which has just decided
adversely upon it on the ground that the
city has had the benefit of the circula
tion of its bonds since May, 186-7, and
that there are no equities in favor of the
city which would justify the removal of
the bar of limitation.
The New Postal Law.
The bill for the classification of mail
matter, agreed upon by the House Com
mittee on Post Offices, provides fora two
and three cent discrimination in pound
rates between newspapers and periodi
cals printed at greater intervals than one
week. The registration feature was
adopted and so extended that registered
matter maj* be scut from either the office
of publication or from • news agency to
the subscriber. The words of registra
tion are to be printed on each issue.
Advertising sheets are excluded from
the privilege of registration. The
annual fee for registration is one
dollar. The committee retained the clause
providing that newspapers may circu
late free within the counties where pub
lished, except in letter-carrier offices.
All publications must be registered in
order to l»e sent at pound rates, and
those rates apply equally to sample
copies, or those to regular subscribers.
The committee added three sections to
the bill, which, if adopted, will introduce
a sweeping change in the present
methods of distributing large dailies,
weeklies and magazines. These sections
give the government a monopoly of ear
ning all newspapers and otheF periodi
cals, and make it a criminal offense to
send them by express or in any other way
outside of the mails.
National Quarantine Law.
We are indebted to our immediate
Representative, non. Julian Hart ridge.
for a copy of the quarantine bill intro
duced by him on the 9ih instant by unani
mous consent and referred to the Commit
tee on Commerce. The committee having
agreed to report favorably, the bill will
soon be put upon its passage.
The necessity of an effective quaran
tine law is universally acknowledged
but there is a difficulty in the way of
establishing a national system of quar
antine that may not come in conflict with
local sanitary regulations, and interfere
with the rights and interests of State and
municipal governments. The bill intro
duced by Mr. Hartridge. while all
that can be desired in its general
provisions, does not quite solve
the problem of national and municipal
co-operation, since it seems to subordi
natc the State regulations to those of the
General Government, thus opening the
way for conflicts of jurisdiction and au
thority, to the prejudice of the public
health. It is of the greatest importance
that the General Government should in
augurate a general system of quar
antine. with a view to prevent the
introduction of infectious diseases
from foreign countries, but as the
local governments are not only
most immediately affected by quarantine
regulations, but are better informed in re
gard to the necessities and dangers of the
local situation, they should lie left free to
inaugurate and enforce such special sani
tary and quarantine regulations as cir
cumstances may demand. 31 r. Hartridge
suggests that the bill we give below
should )>e somewhat modified in this re
spect:
A Bill to prevent the introduction of
c ontagious or infectious diseases into
the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled. That no
vessel or vehicle coming from any foreign
port or country where any contagious or
infectious disease may‘exist, 'and no
vessel or vehicle conveying any ]**rson
or persons, merchandise or animals,
affected with any infectious or conta
gious disease, shall enter any port of the
United States or pass the boundary line
between the United States and any
foreign country, except in the manner
and subject to the regulations to be pre
scribed as hereinafter provided.
Section 2. That whenever any infec
tious or contagious disease shall appear
in any foreign port or country, and when
ever any vessel shall leave any infected
foreign port, or, having on board goods
or passengers coming from any place or
district infected with cholera or yellow
fever, shall leave any foreign port, bound
for any port in the United States, the
Consular officer or other representative
of the United Suites at or nearest such
foreign port shall immediately inform
the Supervising Surgeon General of the
Marine Hospital Service thereof, and shall
report to him the name, the date of de
parture and the port of destination of such
vessel: and the Consular officers of the
United States shall make weekly reports
to him of the sanitary condition of the
ports at which they are respectively sta
tioned; and the said Surgeon General of
the 3Iarine Hospital Service shall, under
the direction of the Secretay of the
Treasury, be charged with theexecution
of the provisions of tliis act. and shall
frame all needful rules and regulations
for that purpose, which rules and regu
lations, with the approval of the Presi
dent, shall have the force and effect of
law until modified in the same manner.
Sec. 3. That it shall be the duty of the
medical officer- of the 3Iarine Hospital
Service and of Customs officers to aid in
ihe enforcement of the national quaran
tine niles and regulations established
under the preceding section; but no ad
ditional compensation shall be allowed
said officers by reason of such services as
they may be required to perform under
this act, except actual and necessary
traveling expenses.
Sec. 4. That the Surgeon General of
the 3Iarine Hospital Service shall, upon
receipt of information of the departure of
any vessel, goods, or passengers from in
fected places to any port in the United
States, immediately notify the proper
officer or officers at the threatened port
BY TELEGRAPH
THE EUROPEAN COMPLICATIONS
Russia's Views Regarding the Con
grress and Treaty.
ENGLAND TO RESIST RUSSIAN
NEXATION IN ASIA MINOR.
AN
The Difference Between the two Na
tions Still Unsettled.
Russian Evacuation or Turkey lobe
Completed in Three tionlh.
Alter Peace.
n , ace would be but a slight re- implications which threatened the
ing . unity tei Jjie Conservative element in this
resting „ . ,
cognition of the great services rendered
to°his country by the author of the
Declaration of Independence. -
Fred. Douglass plants himself beside
Senator Bruce and the leading IMsfcops
of the African Methodist Church in the
South on the Liberian craze among bis
rftce ye tells them that the best place
for the negroes is as near the white peo
ple as they can possibly get. The old
Colonization Seek!y and other white
people who ought to know better, how
ever, are cultivating the emigration fever,
and it has probably got to go on till a few
colonies have had time to send back
word to the rest of their race to stay
Where they are well off.
The Judiciary Committee of the Sen
ate has reported favorably on a bill re
pealing
the bankrupt act. This report
insures the passage of the measure by ihe
Senate,
and may carry it through the
House and make it a law. The act has
•become such a ready shield for fraud that
3 ar „ e number* of the merchants of the
court* cy have petitioned Congress to
sweep R t' rom 1116 statnte book3 -
ColoneUBonn - Piatt says: “We never
__ ,,, our editorial duties, after a
return .
" rt absence, that we are not painfully
f "Ucg^ed with the fact that the success-
lufconuol of a journal is more in what
j, kept out than what gets in." The
Colonel is right.
State in u which it is now. hap
pily, unnecessary to discuss. Henceforth
the irreat political crime of the century
is no loiigct $ special £rie,>*2/*e
of this State. If teJongs to the
pe?nlc of the country U) redress
in their own time and way. It tf our
interest to ce^ to be the political cyno
sure of the country. Our duty is done
and we may now consider ourselves re
lieved of the last remnant of the harass
ing struggle imposed upon us and at lib
erty to turn to the more agitable and
remunerative task of building up our
waste places, and profiting by the Iran
quility and contentment legitimately be
longing to peaceful and unquestioned
self government. Practically, Louisiana
suffered less than the country at large
from the crime—whatever name may be
given to the returning board, and
'we can now afford to leave the country
to redress its wrongs m the mwu^r which
it may deem most ^effectual
The Picayune closes an editorial on
the decision with the following, para
graphs:
“\Ue have no disposition to criticise
this decision. We presume that it is
good law; and certainly it must be ac
cepted as law. But it is cisy to see how
Judge Whitaker could take a different
view of the case as it was presented to
him. The fact that the law required
that the returning officers should make
their canvass from the commissioners’
statements was strenuously insisted on
by the Democratic counsel at the time
the canvassing process was going for
ward. The fact that the board posi
tively refused to canvass the com
missioners’ returns, and as positively
asserted, and carried out their inten
tion to make their canvass from the
Prospect cf u Protracted Session of
Cttllg
Congress has l>een in session five
months. During that time, 4,775 bills
have been introduced—3,847 in the
Senate and 928 in the House. In addi
tion to iliese, 133 joint resolutions have
been referred in the House and 20 in
the .Senate, making a total of nearly
5,000 Mils and joint resolutions presented
since the loth of October. Of this large
number, which exceeds that of any other
five months of continuous session, twelve
joint resolutions and some thirty public
.in>j priy^fe acts have become laws. At the
rate at which the ooi^n^ittees are turning
out bills and the House is acting on
them, it will be fully five months before
the appropriation, tariff and internal reve
nue bills are out of the way. The Ap
propriation Committee intend to get their
bills before the House by the last of
A pud, and possibly before that, if the
status ct thv ~rmv is determined so that
the appropriations cw k? estimated for
the next fiscal year for that service. The
investigations which have been ordered
are getting to work very slowly, aud
promise Lq pid in prolonging the session
far into midsummer Everything indi
cates a very protracted session.
of destination of the vessel, and shall
prepare and transmit to the medical
officers of the 3Iarine Hospital Service,
to Collectors of Customs, and to the
State aud municipal health authorities in
the United States, weekly abstracts of
the consular sanitary, reports and other
pertinent information received by him.
Sec. 5. That the provisions of this act
shall not be so construed as to pre
vent the establishment and main
tenance by States or municipalities
of port health regulations and quaran
tine measures, in addition to or further
ance of the rules and regulations estal>-
lished under this act and such local
systems and their appendages sliall re
main under the control of the respective
local authorities: but any local law or
regulation interfering with or obstruct
ing the due execution of the national
rules and regulations, us approved bv
the President under this act, shall Ik*
null and void.
Sec. 6. That wherever, at any port of
the United States, any State or municipal
quarantine system may now exist, the
officers or agents of such system shall,
upon the application of the respective
State or municipal authorities, lie
authorized and empowered to act
as officers or agents of the national
quarantine system, and shall be clothed
with all the powers of United States ofii-
cers for quarantine purposes, but shall
receive no pay or emolument from the
United States. At all other ports where,
in the opinion of the Secretary of the
Treasury, it sliall be deemed necessary
to establish quarantine, the medical offi
cers or other agents of the 3Iarine Hospi
tal Service shall perform such duties in
the enforcement of the quarantine rules
and regulations as may be assigned them
by the Surgeon General of that service
under this act.
Sec. 7- Thfit this act may be quoted
as the national quarantine act of eighteen
hundred and seventy-eight.
Sec. 8. That all acts or parts of acts
inconsistent with this act be, and the
same are hereby, repealed.
Bv Cable to the Morning Setcs.
Loxd^», March 4 21.—The Daily Tele
graph's Vienna dispatch states most posi
tively that Gen. Tcherkasky, late Provi
sional Governor of Bulgaria, committed
suicide because he was threatened with re
moval.
Russia is about to issue an intimation that
she recognizes the right of each power in
dividually to demand discussion ff 11
stipulation in the treaty, but she reserv *s
the right of refusing to submit »ucu stipu
lations to the sanction of the powers, even
if a majority desire it.
A dispatch to the Daily Telegraph from
Pera says: “The British Government has
telegraphed to Gen. Sir Arnold Kemball to
return home immediately. It is reported
that England has decided to resist Russian
annexation in Asia Minor.” •
A special to the Tunes from Vienna says:
“According to the treaty of San Stefano,
the evacuation of European Turkey, except
Bulgaria, must be completed within three
months after a definitive peace, and a por
tion of the Russian troops may embark on
the Black Sea and Sea of Marmora. It is
doubtless on the strength of these conditions
that the Russians are now beginning to march
their troops for shipment in the neighbor
hood of Constantinople, as they may begin
operations at once. Russia has insured
herself the right, or at any rate the possi
bility, of having a portion of her troops al
ways around Constantinople until the final
settlement is signed.’’
A Vienna dispatch to the Tunes says the
Russian admission of the right of the Con
gress to discuss what points of the treaty
are of European interest does not seem to
have been made directly to England, and
the difference is still unsettled.
The Pope’s intention to make Dr. Jno. H.
Newman a Cardinal is denied.
It is stated that Bismarck, tired of Nica
ragua and Nicaragua's shuffling, has deter
mined to order a blockade of the Nicaraguan
ports.
The Morning Ibxt prints a second edition
containing the following:
“Peka, March 21.—The Russians have in
the Bosphorus two regularly fitted torjiedo
ships, carrying six torpedo boats.’’
Pakis, March 21.—Lucy, a daughter of
the late Prevost Paradol, has died in a con
vent.
A special to the Daily Xews from San
Stefano reports that the Russians have
abandoned the idea of embarking at Bujuk-
dere, because 31inister Layanl informed the
Porte that if the Turks granted them per
mission to embark there, the British fleet
would come up the Bosphorus.
The Slits' Vienna dispatch says: “Russia
has declared her readiness to make conces
sions relative to the boundaries of Bulgaria,
and all misunderstanding between the three
empires is removed. ”
difficulties. Finally the £ bill was passed
organizing the commission, and the adjust
ment of the difficult questions involved was
now progressing to the satisfaction of every
one, and exact justice was being doue to all.
He must express the opinion that when the
people of the Hot Springs had understood
his amendment they wouTO not condemn it.
This story, like others, was not worthy of
his attention.
The Pacific Railroad sinking fund bill
was laid aside with the understanding
that it should not lose its place as the un
finished business, and the Senate re
sumed consideration of the bill authoriz
ing the Secretary of the Treasury
to employ temporary clerks, and mak
ing an appropriation for the same: also,
making appropriation for detecting trespass
on public lands, and for bringing into mar
ket public lands in certain States, and for
other purposes. The pending question be
ing on the amendment of Mr. Beck to that
of the Committee on Approprations. prohib
iting the use of money to collect anv charge
for wood or timber cut on the public lands
in the territories of the United
States for the use of actual set
tiers in the territories and not for export,
so as to provide that the timber shall not be
eported from the territories where it grew;
and. provided further, that in the event it
shall be exported from the territories it
shall be liable to seizure by the United State
authorities whereverifound.
Mr. Jones, of Florida, quoted the second
section of the bill which appropriates $20,000
for diagrams, furniture and repairs in the
General Land Office, actual expenses of
clerks detailed to investigate fraudu
ulent land entries, trespasses on the public
lands, etc., and said he would never vote
that appropriatiomas the Secretary <
the whole of it to annoy and harrass the
people. What authority existed under the
iaws of the United States, as they now stood,
for the action of the Secretarv of*the Interior
in regard to timber lands? The Senate had
been told that there had been no change in the
policy of the Interior Department: that the
present Secretary was following in the steps
of his predecessors. He i Mr. Jones U contra
vened that position. He denied that it was
true the present Secretarv had instigated a
new policy and one not supported by law:
a poliey which had a detrimental ’effect
upon a large part of the people of this
country. He argued that in all cases of tim
ber prosecutions which had taken place in the
South, the Secretary of the Interior had gone
into the Federal courts under State statutes,
which he had no right to do. and without
anvthing behind him in the Statutes of the
United States to sustain the proceedings.
Up to the time when the present Secretary
ot the Interior came into office such a thing
was never heard of as a seizure of lumber in
the hands of any man who had purchased
logs in the open market. He quoted from
sections of the Revised Statutes in regard
to the timber lands, and argued that it
never was the intention of the government
to permit the Secretary of the Interior to
harrass aud persecute a large number of the
leople of the country by suits not authorized
>y law. In reading over the correspondence
between the Secretary ot the Interim and
his agents he found charcoal must be seized.
Every man knows that charcoal was manu
factured by poor men aud not by rich cor
porations. Where the Secretary of the
nterior got his authority ’to -eize
charcoal was beyond his < Mr.
Jones') comprehension. Whatever au
thority was conferred by the Revised
Statues to punish timber depredations was
not given to the Secretarv of the Interior,
but the Secretary of the Savy. He was the
only officer to carry out sections 2461. 24»>2
and 2463 of the Revised Statutes. The policy
of the Secretary of the Interior was not
STRIKE ENDED.
London, March 21.—It is stated that the
strike and lock out of the Fordham weavers
terminated to-day.
The Barnsley colliers struck work to-day
against a reduction of their wages.
The Oldham Mills were opened to-day.
THE GERMAN CABINET CRISIS.
London. March 21.—Regarding the ex
isting Cabitfet crisis there Is some talk of
dissolution of the Reichstagand an attempt
to carry the new elections ou Prince Bis
marck's personal strength.
SUSPENSION OF ONE OF THE OLDEST BANKS
IN PRAOl’E.
London. March 21.—One of the oldest
banks in Prague—that of Gruud—has
suspended.
XOO.N TELEGfL-Ul.S.
DEATH OF A MILLIONAIRE.
Who Made an Immense Eortnne from
an Old Gnn.
TIIE LOXDOX TIMES OX AMERI
CAS F1XAXCES.
UOMIRESSIONAL eUOIEOIMiS,
Lively DiM-ushioQ Over ^lr. Sclinrz*ft
Poliey Toward the Tim
ber Cutter*.
T«e Tariff Information from
Washington is to the effect that the Com
mittee of Ways and 3Iea&s of the House
of Representatives will be able to report
the tariff bill during the present week.
It is farther stated that the free-traders
on the coitiaitte' 1 have very largely
abated their demands, enabling the pre
sentation of & report, which, it is claimed,
will prove satisfactory to all with the ex
ception of the extreme protectionists. In
this connection, says the Baltimore Sun,
it is worthy of remark that the indiffer
ence pf the South and West, where free
trade v> as once supposed to be popular,
is very remarkably. The papers which
were formerly clamorous iox it are now
silent. One of the most significant moi
cations of the changed fed ing at the
West is the action of the Ohio Senate,
which, after adopting a free trade resolu-
tipn, reconsidered it and decided not to
interfere with \L<. tariff question either
way.
The St Louis Republican says: “The
bill introduced in the House by the Com
mittee on Public Lands to forfeit the
lands granted to States and railroads on
conditions which have not been complied
with, causes some excitement among the
railroad companies concerned. The to
tal amount of lands proposed to be for
feited a* 1*5.000,000 acres, including
47.000.000 acres to the Ztcrthern Pacific;
18,000,000 acres to the Texas Pacific;
42>ju,000 !o the Atlantic and Pacific;
640,000,060 to the fet, Louis and Iron
Mountain—and similar grants to other
railroads and Slate* Jn many cases the
lands are of little or no value, and their
forfeiture will not be seriously resisted;
but in others they are good lands.”
Senator Edmunds has given the
woman’s bill (providing that any woman
who shall have been a member of the bar
of the higher court of any State or Ter
ritory oi District of Columbia for a pe
riod of three years may be admitted
to practice in the Supreme Court
of the United States) that was re
cently passed by the House a black eye.
Mr. Edmunds takes the sensible position
that courts are authorized to make their
own rules touching the admission of at
torneys.
Tennessee Finances.— A mass meet
ing was iiplfl on Saturday last at Clarks
ville, Tenn., the principal fobacco mart
of the State, at which resolutions were
adopted that Tennessee is neither a pau
per nor bankrupt, and that the Legisla
ture should have promptly settloa the
detyt at fifty cents on the dollar.
The oiscuzh^c of the State finances is
waxing warm in Tenkers^e, :tnd the
prospect is that it wiH be the prominent
issue in the canvass Just opening- Fifty
cents on the dollar, however, is not what
the bondholders propose to accept. Some
irresponsible part}' offered that. The
genuine bonohoidcic have declared their
willingness to accept sixty cents- not
less.
The New York Times says of Secretarv'
Evarts’ circular, relative to the interna
tional coinage conference, that the circu
lar itself is full of delphic utterances,
and tacks on a most remarkable bit of
pure stump speech. It also says that in
point of political economy Evartk circu
lar is not creditable either to himself or
to the country
CONGRESSIONAL.
Washington, March 21.—In the Senate
Mr. Conklin^ presented a petition of the
citizens of New York city asking an appro
priation to complete the catalogue of the
National 3Iedical Library. Referred to the
Committee on Printing.
Mr. Sargent, of California, read a com
munication from F. W. Houghton. Secretary
of the New York 31aritime Association, re
ferring to the memorial of that association
in regard to the change of the control of life
saving stations, recently presented in the
Senate, and said it had been erroneously
stated that the memorial favored a transfer
of the control of that service from the
Treasury to the Navy Department, whereas
it protested against the change. He (Sar
gent) supposed the mistake occurred in
stating the purport of the memorial in the
Senate.
The Railroad Committee of the Senate to
day referred Senator Hill’s bill for govern
ment aid from Milanga to Key West to a
sub-committee consisting of Messrs. Ran
som, Matthews and Saunders.
The Post Office Committee have ordered
an adverse report on the nomination of
Alex. Reed as Postmaster at Toledo by a
vote of 6 to 3.
In the House, Mr. Chalmers, of Missis
sippi, introduced a bill providing for the or
ganization of the Mississippi Improvement
Commission. Referred to the Committee on
Navy Appropriations. The bill appropriates
nearly fifteen million dollars.
An effort to take up the Mexican pension
bill was defeated by a vote of 97 to 118.
The motion was made by Mr. Hewitt, of
Alabama, and was to «et aside the regular
order. The vote is no indication of the
strength of the measure.
Mr. Waddell, of North Carolina, Chair
man of the Committee on Post Offices and
Post Roads, reported a bill to establish
Postal Savings Depository as a branch of
the Post Office Department, and to aid in
refunding the interest bearing indebtedness
of the United States. Ordered printed and
recommitted.
The bill authorizes he establishment
at Washington of a chief office to be
called the Central Depository, and the
opening at suitable money order post offices
of sub-depositaries for the receipt
and withdrawal of deposit*, inter
est to be allowed at 3 per cent. The
deposits are to be paid into the treasury
and interest credited to the Postal Savings
Depository account at the rate of four per
cent. Depositors to the amount of over
fifty dollars may have four per cent, bonds
issued to them, redeemable after fifty years,
and only transferable by authorization of
the Secretary of ihe Treasury. The bill
also provides for certificates of deposit of
the denominations of ten. twenty, fifty and
one hundred dollars, bearing interest at 3.65
per cent, for one year only, and to be con
vertible into four’oer cent, bonds.
In the Senate, Mr. Hereford, of West Vir
ginia, offered a preamble and resolution di
recting the Finance Committee to report
the House bill repealing resumption within
one week, aud asked immediate action. Ob
jection was made by Mr. Morrill, and the
matter went over under the rales.
The timber question was resumed, and
Mr. Jones, of Florida, spoke in opposition to
th*‘ course ot the Secretary of the Interior.
Mr. Dorsey, of Arkansas, arose to a per
sonal explanation and called attention to a
publication which appeared in a New York
paper of yesterday in regard to his amend
ment to the bill passed last week to extend
the time of the Hoi Springs
Commission. He said he had long since
determined not to respond to news
paper publications instigated by persons
engaged in defaming the character of those
UDon this floor, but in regard to this matter
he desired to say that the amendment sub
mitted by him simply authorized the Super
intendent of ihe Hot Springs reseivati »n to
lease tfie ground for the erection of suitable
bath houses h*r th.e accommodation of the
public, and to distribute water to the peo
ple of the place. It granted no other privi
lege There were two or three individuals
” ’ who had the
Hut Springs so
__ immediately tele
graphed there that a great fraud had been
perpetrated by him i Mr. Dorsey): that the
watei company was to have possession of
all lire spriiifcs. The amendment he
proposed was air • absolute necessity
to enable those visiting the springs
to enjoy the advantages ot the wa
ters. All the bath hoa*eu but two
were destroyed by the recent fire. He bad
received many letters ureing the passage of
-och an amendment as that submitted, and
Le because h§ thought it was
the right thing to oe The only thing
this water company askea, d
the bill granted, was the right t\>
build a reservoir on the mountain
for cold water, to supply the city there
with and erect bath houses. It did not
f ive the company a right to the Hot Springs,
f it did, he (Mr. Dorsey.) would be as
cuick to protest against it as any one. He
fiad letters now from ex-Senator Crogin
and others, providing Jcr the emynd-
ment. For more than a vear he (Mr.
Dorsey) has spent much time and
money in sifting these Hot Springs
rmht, not wise, not generous. The States
ol Mississippi, Florida. Alabama, Louisiana
and Arkansas had large tracts of public
lands which were of no use whatever
for agricultural purposes, but by a
mistaken policy they had been reserved
from sale, aud the citizens were not allowed
to buy a single acre, no matter how much
they might heed the lands for their con
venience.
3D. Morgan, of Alabama, also opposed
the second section of the bill and said the
Secretary of the Interior had relied upon
men not worthy of trust, and refused
to hear men who were worthy of
trust in regard to these timber depredations.
The conduct of the Secretary of the Interior
as to the public timber lands had been
evasive and not candid. lie started out for
the purpose of exercising a jurisdiction
which the law never conferred upon him,
and when he was advised that his agents
exceeded their authority, be shut his eyes
to all review of their conduct. No one
doubted that the public lands of the
South ami West had been raided to
some extent, but there had been
the greatest exaggeration about the
matter. The Secretary of the Interior had
been informed by those who knew that leas
than eight per cent, of the land within
wagon haul of the place where seizures in
the South had been made was public land:
the balance was private land. An issue had
beeu made here in the Senate between the
Secretary of the Interior on the one part and
the people on the other part, the Secretary
being characterized as an eminent patriot
and the people as a pack of thieves. A
man in his (Mr. 31orgau’s) State, whose
name was a synonym for infamy,
one Hestor, was now preparing an addi
tional raid upou the people of Florida. He
(Mr. Morgan) knew of instances in the
South where men owning saw mills had
been rained by timber seizures and hun
dreds of thousands of dollars lost. The
Senate could not vote upon this question
now without seeing plainly the issue pre
sented.
Mr. Morgan then read an order
of the Secretary of, the Treasury to
3lr. newitt, Collector of Customs at
Vicksburg. 31i?sissippi. directing him
to refuse clearances to vessels having on
board turpentine suspected of having been
taken from trees on the public lands: and,
resuming his remarks, said: “These
industries in the South were to
be broken up by Messrs. Bartley
A Carter, the agents of the Interior Depart
ment sent there. The Secretary of the
Treasury had laid an embargo upon a port
in the instance of these men. The govern
ment could rely upon the support of the
people in the various localities to enforce
the law better than it could upon hired
pimps aud spies sent from this city.
Thousands of cattle were now pasturing
on public lands: pass this bill and then pass
one to seize all cattle found pasturing on
the’public lands.” He gave notice that at
the proper time he would move to strikeout
the second section of the bili.
31r. Mathews, of Ohio, said that whatever
else might result from this debate one
good would follow. It would demonstrate
the necessity for some wise and svstematic
legislation covering this entire subject. He
would endeavor to express his views on this
matter divested of any personal feeling. He
had no feeling other than that of protecting
the public interests. He had looked with
apprehension upon the wastefulness and
destruction of our forests, ami
there was a growing public sentiment for
their preservation. “He argued that the gov
ernment owned the land, together with the
timber thereon, and if any person engaged
in cutting the timber became a trespasser,
as owner of the property, the United States
had the right to follow it and take it
wherever found, if it could be done without a
breach of the peace. The real gist of the
accusations against the Secretary of the In
terior was not that usually beanl about the
neligence of a public officer, but that, ac
cording to his sense of duty, he was enforc
ing the Inr. Became <.f that he wae ar
raigned as oppressive to individuals, and as
being un-American. He (Mr. Matthews)
thought it was one of our cherished
maxims aud principles that the best
way to secure the repeal of obnoxious
laws was to rigidly enforce them. An
executive officer of the government had no
discretion; he must enforce the law. A
recent President had been justly eulogized
for the sentiment ihat it was the duty of the
executive officer to enforce the law; that by
its strict enforcement its odious features
would be brought out and in that
way public opinion aroused to its cor
rection.
The Senate adjourned without action.
LON DO?; TIMES ON AMERICAN SECURITIES.
London, March 21.—The Tunes' financial
article says: “United States bonds continue
to be bought lor American account, and
their price is maintained: but sales by Eng
lish holders, corporate and individual, con
tinue, and are sometimes of very large
amounts. The fear of the silver bill has
died away, but the people now begin to
dread what may follow it, and there is a
strong and widespread feeling that if
Americans are to try experiments on their
credit they had much better do so with a
debt held’af home than in English hamls.
People sell, therefore, and are likely to con
tinue to do so while so much that is danger
ous seems to surround the United States
national finances.”
BISMARCK’S RAILROAD BILL.
London, March 21.—Special dispatches
from Berlin to the London morning journals
say that Prince Bismarck's bill separating
fhe railway department from the Prussian
Board of Trade, and appointing a special
Imperial Minister for Railways, will proba
bly be introduced in the Reichstag to-day.
It is not believed the bill will pass at pres
ent, but some members intend to take the
opportunity of debate on its first reading to
question the Ministers.
DEATH OF A FOUR OR SIX MILLIONAIRE.
Plymouth, March 21.—Isaac Adams died
at Sandwich. New Hampshire, yesterday,
leaving a fortune of from four to six mil
lions. He bought what is known as the
Adams printing press from the inventor for
an old gnu. aiterwa. a receiving $40,000 in
gold for the use of it in England.
FIRE ON STATEN ISLAND.
Stapleton. Staten Island, March 21.—
Rubsom A Aousmous' brewery has been
burned. Joseph Robsom’s private dwelling
va r '-?o burned. Loss on the brewery
buiJdiDKs stcck $200 000 : insurance
$150,000. Loss on the : d^eius.L furni
ture $15,000: insurance $11,500.
A SUCCESSFUL WaLKIST—EXONERATED.
Cincinnati, March 21.—Vonllillern has
made her one hundred miles in twenty-eight
koRfS- . . « , .
Rev. Mr. Gilbert, formerly of Baltimore,
accused of immoral practices, has, after a
full Investigation oy his church, been fully
exonerated.
EVENING TELEGRAMS
I’ROTEUTION OF SAVINGS BANK
DEPOSITORS,
EXGLANDS DEMANDS REGARD
ISO THE CONGRESS.
The London
Times on
Award.
the Fishery
GOVERNMENT HOURS OF LABOR IN
WASHINGTON.
Circular to be I.Muetl Kcgardlnic
Ci^ar Factories and Ketall
Dealer*.
THE TIMES ON THE FISHERIES AWARD.
London, March 21.—The Times' editorial
on the fisheries' award says: “It is unfor
tunate for the good fame of the United
States that at the moment when the finan
cial policy of Congress has awakened grave
suspicious and anxieties in Europe some
American politicians of considerable
importance and notoriety display another
phase of the repudiating spirit in opposiug
the payment of the award. The reckless
language of Mr. Blaine and Mr. Butler is
not oniy throwing discredit on the country,
but is damaging to the system of settling
international disputes by’arbitration. No
country henceforward will be willing to
refer claims to arbitration if the decision
of the arbitrators is liable to be chal
lenged by the unsuccessful party." The
article continues: “The attempts at evasion
and the attacks on the impartiality of Mr.
Delfosse, are of a piece with the spirit of
chicanery which has attempted to force an
interpretation of the unanimous award. We
hope and believe that Mr. Blaine will not be
able to get a Congress of his countrymen to
support him in a refusal to pay the award
and stamp the American policy with the
double discredit of meanness and tricki
ness.”
WHAT ENGLAND DEMANDS AT THE CONGRESS.
London, March 21.—In the House of
Lords to-night the Earl of Derby, replving
to a long and discursive speech of Lord
Stratheden on Eastern affairs, said that
for obvious reasons the fleet should not be
sent into the Black 8ea at the present
moment. He protested against the repeti
tion of unfounded statements relative to
dissensions in the Cabinet. The govern
ment had not asked that Greece should
enter the Congress on the same footing as
the great powers, but simply that she
should be represented as a means of making
her voice and claims heard. The government
had never proposed that Rnssia should sub
mit the peace conditions to decision by the
majority of the Congress. They asked’ that
all the articles should be submitted for
discussion and discussion oulv, that being the
only possible manner of deciding which of
them affected European interests. This w as
the sole question now at issue. He was not
prepared to say what answer Russia would
give, but he thought the demand of the
government was reasonable and moderate
and unless it was complied with there would
be very little use for the Congress to meet at
all.
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Office of the Chief Signal Observer,
Washington, D. C., March 21.—Indications
for Friday :
In the South Atlantic States, partly cloudy j
and cloudy weather with rain areas, north
east to southeast winds, stationary or lower
pressure and temperature.
In the Middle Atlantic States,partly cloudy
w eather and light rain, southeasterly winds,
stationary or falling barometer and tem
perature.’
In the East Gulf States, cloudy weather
and rain areas, easterly backing to north
westerly winds, falling barometer and sta
tionary-temperature.
In the West Gulf States, clear or partly
cloudy weather, cold northerly shifting to
warmer southerly winds, failing or station
ary- barometer.
In Tennessee and the Ohio valley, clear
weather, followed by increasing cloudiness
and rain areas, warmer southerly shifting to
colder northerly winds, falling followed by
rising barometer.
Cautionary signals continue at New Or
leans, 3Iobile, St. .Mark’s and Key West.
AN ACT FOR THE PROTECTION OF SAVINGS
BANK DEPOSITORS.
Uncle Remus as an Emigrant
Atlanta Constitution.
A colored man stopped Uncle Remus
in the street the other day for the pur
pose of getting some information.
“What’s all dis talk I hear ’bout Li-
berier?” be asked.
“What’s all dis talk you heerd bout de
Freedman's bank?*' responded Uncle
Remus, somewhat savagely.
“Dey tells me," continued the negro,
“dat you don't hav’ ter wuk out dere,
less vou wants ter.”
“Dey duz, duz dey?” said Uncle Re
mus. “Dey sed dat you wuz gwine fer
git forty acres an' a mule; an' dey tole
you fer'ter put yo’ money in de’bank.
an’ dat you’d git interest. Well, I speck
vou got*it; but ef vou did, you sorter
banged me out. fer 1 ain’t got needer one
ncr de udder. ”
“ But dis ain’t no mule ner bank biz-
ness. Uncle Remus.”
“ Dat’s w at trubbles me, honey. I
know dere’s plenty er loafers w’atoughter
go. but I dunno who terinwite. Dey say
coffee grows in de frunt yard, an’ de sun
parches it, an' de rain wets it, an’ it falls
in a hole in de groun’, an' dar’s yo’
coffee.”
' You talk like you gwine. ”
‘Oh. I duz, duz I? Well, I got ter git
over de Georgy fever fus\ I don’t mine
missin’ my mule an’ lan’, an’ de intrust
on my money in de Freedman’s Bank,
but I spizes fer ter miss a meal. I’ll drap
you a note w’en I starts. ”
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Boston, March 21.—Governor Rice to-day
signed the bill entitled “An act for the better
protection of depositors in savings banks. ’’
The law is to continue three years.
The Brighton Five Cent Savings
Bank was the first to avail itself
of the benefit of this law. The Bank
Commissioners have directed that during a
period from March 21 to September 21,
not over ten per cent, shall be paid to each
depositor out of the total amount due him:
ten per cent, additional to be paid during
the period between September21 and March
21, 187M No further additional amount shall
be paid after the latter date, except by order
of the Commissioners.
HOI KS OF LABOR ON GOVERNMENT WORKS
LIFE-SAVING STATIONS.
Washington, March 21.—Eight hours,
aud commencing at seven, with an hour's in
termission, commenced to-day at the navy
yard, on tht* public buildings and at the ag
ricultural grounds. The workmen are dis
satisfied with the arrangements, but the
authorities see no other interpretation of the
law.
The Committee of Commerce have or
dered a bill reported ordering the establish
ment of many new- life-saving stations. The
report strongly protests against a transfer
from the Treasury to the Navy Department.
CORRESPONDENCE OVER THE PISHEKY TREATY
Washington, March 21.—The President
communicated to the Senate to-day the cor
respondence regarding the fishery treaty,
whereby the U nited States was mulcted of
five million dollars. The correspondence is
bulky, but contains nothing startling or
new, and develops no sharp practice on the
part of England or palpable stupidity on the
part of the United States.
CIGAR FACTORIES AND RETAIL STORES.
Washington, March 21.—The Commis
sioner of Internal Revenue will to-morrow
issue a circular materially modifying and ex
plaining the recent order with regard to the
division line between cigar factories and re
tail stores, which has called out innumerable
protests from all over the country.
AN ENTIRE FAMILT DOWN WITH DIPHTHERIA.
Providence, R. L, March 21.—A family
named Murray, in Newport, have four chil
dren lying dead from diphtheria, with three
others not expected to live through the day.
The father is almost insane, and has threat
ened to shoot the undertaker. A police
officer is compelled to be in attendance.
HELD FOR TRIAL FOR MURDER.
Boston, March 21.—Charles Tbos. Pea
body, commander of the bark C. O. Whit
more, is held for trial, in default of ten thou
sand dollars bail, for the murder of his mate,
James II. El wood.
DIED OF YELLOW FEVER.
Washington. 3Iarch 21.—Captain Adams,
commander of the United States corvette
Hartford, died at Montevideo of yellow fe
ver.
The Baltimore Bulletin, commenting
upon the acquittal of General Pecksniff
Howard, which has been called a vindica
tion of the General's character by some
Republican sheets, says he was acquitted
upon a technicality. He was not re
sponsible to anybody, he claims. He
merely held an honorary position. As
to the money, that was looked after by
General Balloch. However, Howard
does not deny that the money has disap
peared. He does not explain how it
went, nor does he deny that General
Balloch was his partner in all the thous-
sand and one little schemes and enter
prises for using up the twenty-five mil
lions of dollars which the Freedman’s
Bureau cost the government.
FOR BREMEN.
r J'HE first class German bark
TU1SKA,
Von Thclen. Master,
having a large portion of her cargo engaged,
will have dispatch. For freight engagements
apply to
mh£i tf KN’OOP. HAXEMAXN & CO.
ORDINANCE.
ORDINANCE READ IN COUNCIL FOR THE FIRST TIME
MARCH 20, 1878, AND PUBLISHED FOR INFOR
MATION.
An Ordinance to make the weighing of hay
by a sworn weigher optional with the owner
or consignee, unless such weighing l>e de
manded by the purchaser.
Section L Be it ordained by the Mayor and
Aldermen of the city of Savannah, in Council
assembled, and it is hereby ordained by the
authority of the same, That from and after
the passage of this Ordinance, no hay received
or offered for sale in this city need be weighed
by the sworn Weighers of Hay. except at the
option of the owner or consignee thereof, un
less the person or persons purchasing such
hay sliall demand that it be so weighed, in
which case such hay shall be at once weighed
by a sworn Weigher of Hay. under the rule*
and regulations, and for the fees, now required
by Ordinance; and any seller of hay refusing
or failing to have such hay weighed by a sworn
Weigher of Hay. upon the demand or the pur
chaser, shall be subject to the pains and penal
ties now prescribed by Ordinance for refusing
or objecting to the weighing of hay landing
from a vessel.
Section II. And it is further ordained by
the authority of the same. That all Ordinances
and parts of Ordinances conflicting with this
Ordinance, so far as they so conflict, be and the
same are hereby repealed.
Ordinance on its first reading in Council.
March 20th, 187K
JOHN' F. WHEATON,
Attest: Mayor.
Frank E. Rzbarer,
Acting Clerk of Council. mh22-3t
r EE S AUSTRALIAN LINIMENT, th ^
Lmi cure for man and bea-r is put up Tso.
cents and one do»lar bottles. Sole a*r
Savannah are SOLOMONS <£ CO.. Dm ~
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'T’HE people have found out that th-;
A get better Photographs or Ferret NT-
less money at WILSON’S, 21 Ball sfr—-
any other place in town.
fifty
c*n
for
I EE’S AUSTRALIAN LINIMENT i
-J * good remedy for horses, but will
man. woman or child, rheumatism, n-
swellings, burns, boils, bites of animal-
ness of joints, etc. m h
F *R SALE, 250,000 to 300,000 Har-1 .
F ~ ’
Brown Bricks, at greatly reduced ra-.
the yards ot the Savannah Brick Man if
Company. E. C. SWaIN.
tf Supermini-
in * . „
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R ichmond rattlesnake and
FORD’S HYBRID WATERMELON Svn
“ ■ ‘ ‘ G. M. HEIDT a; CO
Druggists.
For sale by
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I X)R SALE, a twenty-four inch GRIT> Mrrj
with Bolter, Fan. Shafting, PuIIeyMuJ}
Belting. All in order for use. Apply 4 i lUv
street, to E HAGAR. jani.* tf
tYoCQUETS. CUT FLOWERS, etc., fmt - ^
to order. GK< > WAGNER. 5 Bara a- ., •
and Thunderbolt road. mhl-F.\L£\Y .-j
T\RIVEN WELLS—DRIYEN WELL- . ^
1 * plete in every respect: guarar.t :: ? r . ]
nish pure, dear water; free from surface . -, ; , n .
* Wells and Pumps repair- i «r !
W. D. R. MlLLAR
age. Only $25.
small cost.
feb27d£wlm
1 X>R SALE, two LITHOGRAPHIC TREssra !
1 and lot of LITHOGRAPHIC STONES An
plj^tO-X H. EST1LL, 3 Whitaker street.
Sent.
/ VFFICES. Alley aud Wharf Stores f«.r rent in
Stoddard's Upper and Low .- Itung- 1
Apply to JOHN L HARDEE
febas- FAWlni
f T'0 RENT, store No. 153 Broughton >
1 now occupied by Brunner & Son: ai-
v ' ** Mon street, lately occupi
Apply at CRAWFORD
W. Corn wel L
ELLS.
treet,
store
& LOV-
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TO RENT OR LEASE, from 1st Sent.-mber
1 a store and dwelling, corner West it uadarr
and Jones streets. Apply on the premises.
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yurniturr.
PARLOR SETS.
CHAMBER SETS.
SIDE BOARDS.
BOOKCASES.
Tables, Chairs, Bedsteads.
FOLDING CHAIRS.
PATENT RECLINING CHAIRS,
PATENT ROCKERS.
WARDROBES,
HAT RACKS,
SECRETARIES,
CHIFFON EKES.
marble tables,
PARLOR DESKS,
LOUNGES,
CRIBS.
And every article m the FURNITURE line, li
the LOWEST PRICES, at
D. G. ALB’S,!
Cor. Bron^faton and Barnard Sta.
TOOK XL L NEW,
—AXD—
Prices Guaranteed as Low as I
the Lowest.
I respectfully invite those in need of anything
to give me a call before purchasing »nd be con
vinced of the fact.
PACKING AND SHIPPING FREE OF CHARGE
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NOTICE IN BANKRUPTCY.
against
BIGNON. of Brunswick, county of Glynn, and
State of Georgia, who has been adjudged a
bankrupt on his own petition, and that the
payment of any debts and the delivery of any
property belonging to such bankrupt, to him, or
for his use, and the transfer of any property by
Iiim. are forbidden by law: that a meeting of the
creditors of the said bankrupt, to prove their
debts, and to choose one or more assignees of
his estate, will be held at a Court of Bankr
uptcy, to be bolden at Savannah. Ga. before
Isaac Beckett, Esquire. Register, on the
SECOND DAY OF APRIL. A. D. 1K3. at 10
o'clock a. M.
O. P. FITZSIMMONS,
mh22-2t U. S. Marshal for said District.
NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS!
CTATE OF GEORGIA, Chatham Cocxty.-
O N< ’ ' *
Notice is hereby given to all
demands against
ersons hav
iv given to all pei
W3L C. BEALE, late of sail
county, deceased, to present them to me. pro
perly made out. within the time prescribed by
law. so as to show their character and amount.
And all persons indebted to said deceased are
hereby required to make payment to me.
March h, 1878.
R. C. BEALE.
Adm'r of the estate of Wm. C. Beale, dee d.
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LOOK AT THIS'I
I GIVE THE HIGHEST CASH PRICE FOR
Second-Hand Furniture,
Stoves, Carpets and other Household '--•■da
J. B REMION,
210 Broughton street.
mh8 4m One door from West Br-jod
^.vnirsitms.
The Chicago Times is of the opinion
that “so long as Anderson, of the New
Orleans jail, continues to run thj custom
house at New Orleans, it isn't worth
while for the administration to mention
civil service reform.’’
Excursion to Tyke.
THE FINE STEAMER
CE3STTE KHVIAIj,
Captain WIGGINS,
TYTILL leave wharf foot of Drayton street,
▼ ▼ on
SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 24th.
AT 9 O’CLOCK, FOR TYBEE.
at 4^4 o’clock p. m.
• FIFTY CENTS.
Returning wiJ] leave Trbee at
Tickets for the round trip cJlilit .-
The proceeds of the excursion are to be used I
in building a dancing pavilion at the hotel.
Cars on the Tybee Tramway will run during
♦he day. mh21-4t&Tellt
A gentleman whose proboscis had suf
fered amputation, was invited out to tea.
“3Iy dear,” said the good woman of the
house to her little daughter, “I want you
to be ¥«jnr particular and to make no
remark about 3Ir. Jenkins nose. ’ Gath
ered about the table, everything was go
ing well; the little child peeped about,
looked rather puzzled, and at last startled
the table. * ‘31a, why did you tell me to
say nothing about Air. Jenkins’ nose ? He
hasn't got aayf
Steamboat and ^ill Supplies.
STEAM BOAT
ILL SUPPLIES
N ew tore bei.ttxo ax» packd'G|
COMPANY'S BELTING.
ROUND and SQUARE TUXT PACKING.
SHEET. RUBBER and SOAP STONE PAC KI><«|
LEATHER BELTING and LACE LEATHER-
AXLE GREASE.
COPPER RIVETS and BURS.
FILES, BELT HOOKS and BABBIT METAL I
For sale n. I
LOWEST PRICES' 1
tUm, BROTUIKl
SAVANNAH, GA.
Orders taken for ENDLESS BELTS, s® 1 1
furnished in TEN DAYS. rih«(
dumber. &t.
^lotiffs.
PUBLIC NOTICE.
4 LL persons are hereby notified that I will
.1 not be responsible for any debts contracted
In my name without my written order. I dis
claim having any agent or manager for any
part of my business or property.
~ J<
mh2l-2t
JOHN RYAN.
NOTICE.
I M I>0 hereby consent that my wife, JETTE
ALEXAN DER, may become a public or free
trader, under the provisions of Section 1760 of
Irwin, Lester and Hill ’s Code of Georgia, of
1873, and such other laws of the State of Geor
gia now of force.
„ LOUIS ALEXANDER.
w£s£^' Febru “ T ^ 1K *
R. B. REPPAR&,
WHOLESALE
NO. BAY STREET
SAVANNAH, ----- GEOBGlLj
STODDARD’S LOWER RANGE.
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SAVANNAH WURSE^V
WHITE BLUFF ROAD.
TJ LASTS, Cat Flowers and I
1 Stock All orders left at R HuM* I
BoUgeet,promptlyKIKSUhU
