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Georgia A flairs.
The Covington Enlerpr'u>r is indeed get
ting desperate as the cold blasts warn it
that inhospitable winter is at hand. It ur
gently appeals to its delinquent subscribers
to settle up, and assures them that it will
take anything for subscription, from a ’pos
sum to a bushel of chestnuts.
Mr. M. M. Barron has sold out his interest
in the Fairburn Star, and frankly states that
his reason for doing so is because he has
lost money and is in debt. He 6ays: “It
may be well to remark that the newspaper
business has never suited me nor I the busi
ness, and this has contributed largely to my
failure.” The Star was a good paper, but
certainly, under the circumstances, nothing
would have been more natural than for it to
fail. We trust our ex-contemporary may
speedily find employment more congenial to
his tastes.
A gang of burglars made a raid on the
premises of Mr. Amos Murray, at Fort Val
ley, on Tuesday night last. They stole his
gold watch and chain and searched generally
for plunder, but with poor success. The
noise they made on going out awakened Mr.
Arnold, who immediately gave pursuit, but
the thieves escaped under cover of the dark
ness.
The Greensboro Herald says it saw a man
the other day plowing up a field of cotton
which contained many grown bolls and
sowing the same in oats. Low prices, or
what ?
Mr. Eugene Granberry has sold the Ham
ilton, Harris county, Journal to Messrs. J.
T. Blount and J. L. Denuis. Mr. Dennis
formerly edited a paper called the Geneva
Lamp.
A correspondent of the Atlanta Constitu
tion from the 8eventh district writes that
lately at one of Dr. Felton’s appointments
he went for Gen. Gordon’s record and char
acter in a very sharp manner. Just as he
had gotten well under way one of his strong
est supporters arose in the audience and
said to him: “I have supported you in your
race thus far, but the minute you find it
necessary to attack Gen. Gordon I am out
of your ranks. I can’t 6tand that.” He
then arose and, calling on all who sympa
thized with his views to leave the hall, re
tired taking oil eight or twelve men with
him. Says the writer: “This story I heard
from several persons, and it is doubtless
true. Since then the doctor has not assailed
Gen. Gordon on the stump.”
The old story that the Atlanta Cotton
Factory had settled its difficulties and would
soon be started, was a^ain in circulation in
Atlanta on Saturday. It must be true this
time, for Bullock says so.
According to the Macon Telegraph Dr.
Carver has expressed himself as highly
pleased with his reception in the South and
speaks of making his home in Georgia. He
has not only made a great impression as the
most wonderful shot in the world, but as a
very amiable gentlemen, refined and affable
in his manners.
On Saturday last Mr. William Mayer and
Mr. Pug McMichael, of Columbus, had a
difficulty at the Cotton Exchange in Macon,
which resulted in the former being seri
ously shot by the latter. Mr. McMichael
was arrested and released on bond. Both
parties are said to have been drinking.
The death of Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, wife
of the late David Brown,.of Camden coun
ty, is announced. She was in her eighty-
fourth year. Her mother was a daughter of
Jacob Felder, of Orangeburg district, S. C.,
who was a soldier of the revolutionary war.
Her father moved from Carolina when she
was a little child, and settled on the coast
•of Georgia, in Camden county, where she
has lived out her four score years.
Georgia claims ninety-four thousand four
Siundred and fourteen dogs, all told, and so
lar this year there has been but one case
of hydrophobia.
* The Conyers Examiner makes the present
very low price of cotton the text of an ar
ticle appealing to the planters not to pin all
their faith to the fleecy staple, but to turn
their attention more to a diversity of crops.
On Wednesday of last week, the saw aud
grist mill aud cotton gin belonging to the
brothers, Messrs. James aud Moses Bowen,
and situated about three miles from States
boro, in Bulloch county, were destroyed by
fire. The fire was caused by a match In the
cotton which was being ginned. About one
bale of cotton and all the machinery were
burned.
Covington Enterprise: “Charlie Jarboe
does not desire to sell an interest in his
gold mine on Yellow river at present. Per
haps he will lease Capt. Joe Lewis, of
Western Newton, half an interest next May.
The Captain offers sixteen hundred dollars
a year for five years. In case the lease is
perfected work will be commenced on or
about the 7th of May, 1879.”
Fort Valley Mirror: “On Monday last a
negro mau named Henry McCrary attacked
Mr! M. C. Anderson with a knife, inflicting,
it is thought, mortal wounds, whereupon
Mr. Anderson shot the negro, killing him
instantly. The difficulty occurred in Ma
con county, near the line of Houston, on
Mr. Tom Massey’s place.”
Americus JbrpiMiccm: “We learn that on
last Wednesday night Mr. Thos. Whitset,
of Lee county, was assassinated by an un
known -party, who rode up to his window
and shot him through the head. He lived
on a place adjoining Col. Maxwell’s, in
Lee.”
Athens Chronicle: “Another victim to the
fascinations of the intoxicating cup. Mr.
J. P. Pledger, oue of -the operators at
Princeton factory, wa* found dead last
•Sunday morning near one of tbe front en
trances to the campus. .The Coroner’s jury
gave a verdict of death from excess in
drinking whisky.”
Speaking of the Congressional contest in
the first district, the Atlanta Constitution ex
presses itself as follows: “Mr.* Stephen A.
Corker is the opponent of Colonel Nicholls,
and is the alleged candidate of the National
Labor Greenback party, which is simply In-
dependentisin under a new name, if not Re
publicanism under a uew flag. At any rate,
when the name of Butler was mentioned by
one of their speaker/at a recent meeting,
the Corker men whooped, aud howled, aud
cheered most vociferously. This fact will
give some idea of the temper of those who
are opposing the organized Democracy in
the First district. Mr. Corker’s canvass has
been wonderfully duil and spiritless. He
has created no sort of enthusiasm, and de
pends almost entirely upon the Republican
vote to make any showing at the polls at all.
He will be defeated.”
Berrien County Xacs: “Last Tuesday even
ing about sundown our village was thrown
into considerable excitement over what had
liked to have been a serious cutting scrape,
Godfrey Pervis had some time previous
traded a horse to John Curry. Curry be
came dissatisfied with the horse, and ap
plied on the day of the difficulty to Dr.
Fogle, N- P-, for a warrant against said
Pervis for swindling, who was accordingly
arrested, and after atrial, was released. Late
in the evening, as stated, Pervis approached
Curry in Paulk, Henderson Co.’s store
piazza, and, after a few words, struck
Curry, whereupon Curry inflicted five pain
ful wounds upon him, and, had it not been
for the timely aid of parties standing near,
would certainly have killed him in less than
half a minute, as Pervis was down, while he
(Curry; was cutting and had every advan
tage of him. Pervis, at last accounts, was
getting on very well, though unable to get
ram
J. II. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1878.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
about only as he is assisted. The most
painful wounds received were in the shoul
der, leg and arm. The other two were
slight. His clothing was cut in fourteen
places.”
Indian Spring Argus: “Mrs. Swan, of
Jackson, has relatives by the name of Mc-
Gough, living near Cullodenville, Monroe
county, who present remarkable examples
of longevity. Their ages are respectively
95, 93 and 91 years, and a son in his 7*2d
year, all living in one house. What county
can show a better record than old Monroe?*
Col. Taylor, of Florida, found a wild po
tato while digging indigenous orange shrubs
in Manatee, Fla., and set it out in his garden.
It yielded finely, and the potato was so
palatable that he has turned his potato crop
into what ho calls “Providence Potato.”
“Last May,” says the Americus Republican,
“he gave Capt. Allen, of this county, a po
tato about sir Inches long as a seed. From
this the Captain states he has raised twelve
bushels of fine potatoes, mostly propagated
from the vine, of fine size andj valuable for
fecundity and as a table esculent. How
they may be able to resist cold, or as to their
keeping properties, he does not know as
yet, but they are probably like the common
potato*.”
Florida Affairs.
The Sunland Tribune thinks it strange
that just as soon as a man announces him
self an Independent candidate he goes to
work to secure Radical votes. Nothing
strange about it. Independentism is not so
obnoxious a term as Radicalism, and that
is why the one has been substituted for the
other. In principle they are identically the
same, as both seek to destroy the Democratic
party.
The Tallahassee Patriot comes out with
two wood cuts of Dr. Conover this week.
Love’s labors lost. Two more wouldn’t save
him.
Marianna boasts a genuine straight-out
Democrat. lie is simon pure, and therefore
will have nothing to do with impure Simons.
His name is Horace Daffin, and, according
to the Courier, he was lately applied to for
the hire of a team to bring Simon Conover
to Marianna from Chattahoochee. But,
says the Courier, “he deliberately informed
his applicant that his team could not haul
Conover at any price—that he was a Demo
crat, and had no teams ever tainted with
Radicalism.”
The Pensacola Gazette says that Captain
Chipley has arranged definitely with Cap
tain James McKay for a steamer between
Pensacola and Tampa, making three trips
per month from 1st of November until
May. The Gazette has seen Captain Mc
Kay’s letter, in which he says the fruit is
rapidly ripening, and he promises to bring
large quantities to Pensacola for shipment
into the interior, carrying back western pro
duce of all kinds as well as passengers.
The New York Tribune has had a great
deal of difficulty with those famous cipher
dispatches from Florida, especially with the
word “Warsaw.” For the Tribune's pur
poses the definition of “Warsaw” was
assumed to be “telegram” or “dispatch,'’
but we have positive proof that the Tribune
is mistaken. The term “Warsaw” is ap
plied to an enormous fish which is caught
off the coast of Pensacola. Now let the
Tribune use the word “fish” instead of “tele
gram” wherever “Warsaw” is used in its
ciphers, aud see how they will read. ~
Mr. H. B. McCallum, late the well known
editor of the Jacksonville Sun and Press, has
assumed editorial control of the Evening
Traveler of that city, published by Mr. W.
W. Douglass, who has also purchased the
Florida Union, heretofore a weekly Radical
paper. Mr. McCallum will edit both
journals, and will make them both
staunchly Democratic. He is a vigorous
writer, aud will no doubt meet with success.
From the Sun and Press we learn that Mr.
John Houston died in Jacksonville on Sat
urday, at the age of about thirty-five years,
of consumption. He was one of the oldest
members of the Fire Department, and at the
time of his death was a member of the
.-Etna Company. Mr. Houston had been on
the police force at various times. During
the war he was a member of Morgan’s cav
alry.
All liquor saloons are closed in Jackson
ville on election day in accordance with a
wise city ordinance to that effect.
The latest outrage on the part of a South
ern Democratic Executive, says an exchange,
has been committed by the Governor of
Florida. He has actually issued an order
directing the collectors to take only a part
of the taxes that have been assessed, be
cause the collection of the entire amount
would yield more than the administration
of the State Government requires.
The St. Augustine Press has frequently
dilated upon the bright future of the Ancient
City, but feels that there never was a time
when it could do so with the same assu
ranee as now.
Another convict named Newton was
almost fatally poisoned by eating wild
berries at Chaires’ camp, Tallahassee, last
week. Says the Floridian regarding him:
“The prompt and unceasing efforts of Mr.
Chaires saved his life after twenty-four
hours of intense suffering. Newton is the
same who left Chicago in 1876, hired by his
aunt to kill her husband, Keech, and the
women with whom he was then living at St.
Augustine. He 6hot the man in the back
three times, cut bis throat, and threw the
bodj* in tbe water, leaving it for dead. The
murderer then returned to the house, told
the woman to sav her prayers, at the con
clusion of which he cut her throat fronj ear
to ear. Strange to say, Keech recovered
from his wouuds. The details of this horri
ble crime will be remembered, as they were
widely published. It is probable that the
prisoner, who has frequently expressed a
disregard for his life, attempted suicide in
eating the poisonous berries. When first
tried he was sentenced to be hung, which
sentence was afterward commuted to im
prisonment for life.”
Tampa Tribune: “The submerging by
the heavy rains of the eyerglades and Ca-
loosahatchee region has caused great suffer
ing among the Indians as well as among the
whites on that river. Deer aud stock have
collected on little dry knolls and black-jack
ridges scattered about In that section. On
some of t hese knolls the deer are reported
so thick and gentle as to wake np .effort to
get out of the way, and are therefore easily
captured or killed. The Indians are bound,
if they are not already doing it, to depre
date on the stock of the cattle owners of
that section.”
From the game paper we also get the fol
lowing: “Mr. Dennis O’Hicky, living near
the Caloosahatchee river, some eighteeu
miles above Fort Myers, aud who has been
living there for more than ten or twelve
years, caught the finest kind of fresh water
trout with a hook and line in his yard. The
experience of this year seems to be extremely
discouraging to the prospects of the ex
treme southern portion of the peninsula
ever beiDg settled up and utilized as a fruit
growing region.”
Speaking of the convict Newton, who
lately poisoned bimgelf at Chaires’ camp,
near Tallahassee, the Jackapcville Sun
and Press savs: “ About two yeajs ^n$e
William Newton was sent to the peni
tentiary for life for murder. The crime
of which he was convicted was committed
in St. John’s count}*, and was the killing of
Ellen Wells. The case was transferred ti>
this county. Newton was tried on the 17th of
November, 1876, convicted, and sentenced
lo be hanged. Tbe day for his execution
arrived; all the preparations had been made
for the* execijti.on, and the murderer sup
posed that but a few hours more on earth
remained to him. But during the morning
a commutation of the sentence fcp im
prisonment for life was received from
the Board of Pardons. The ground
yoon which the commutation had
beeu made was that Newton was of
unsound mind, He was accordingly sent
to Chattahoochee, from there was
taken to Chaires’ camp, at station No. 1,
Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile Rail
road, where other convicts were that had
been ‘farmed out’ to the contractor, Mr.
Chaires. Siot 1 opg since Mr. Chaires ob
tained information that some of the pris
oners were conspiring to mak*.- trouble in
the camp. Careful inquiry elicited the fact
that Newton was the ringleader in the
ftcheme. He had conceived a plan for
effecting »n escape, and in order to carry it
out it became necessary to have others asso
ciated with him. He selected his men and,
one by one, broached the subject to
them, explaining how the end was to be ac
complished. There were sixteen in all whom
he took into his confidence. The plan which
he proposed was, that when a favorable op
portunity should occur, while all hands were
at work, the gang should murder two young
men, the sons of Mr. Chaires, who were de
tailed to guard the convicts, and then make
their escape. Before the time arrived for
carrying out the plot some of the men be
came dissatisfied and ‘squealed.’ The
scheme was thus exposed, and an additional
guard placed upon those who were engaged
in it.”
Tallahassee Floridian: “In 1874 a bill,
which afterward became a law, was intro
duced by Senator Jones for the purpose of
enlarging the power of cities to increase
license tax. In that year the City Council
of Tallahassee passed an ordinance under
the statute, but doubting the legality of
the act it was repealed. When denator
Jones returned from Washington he pub
lished an argument supporting the authority
of the statute of 1875, and we believe all
the cities and towns in the State, except
Tallahassee, acted upon that authority.
The present year Tallahassee also passed
an ordinance in conformity to the
statute increasing the license of
merchants and livery men. Wish
ing to test the question of legality,
Mr. C. C. Davenport resisted payment of
the increased tax, when the matter was
called before Mayor Walker, who decided
that the city had power to increase the
license. By agreement, the case was tried
before Judge White by writ of habeas cor
pus on Saturday last. The Judge ruled that
the city had no right to exact more than
fifty per cent, of the State tax, and the
case against Mr. Davenport was dismissed.
The grounds upon which Judge White
rendered his decision we cannot give,
as we have been unable to find
them. The second case was that of Mr.
O’Garra, who had been tried in the Mayor’s
Court for the fffth violation of the or
dinance against selling whisky on Sunday.
He was fined one hundred dollars or sixty
days’ imprisonment. Refusing to pay the
fine, he was sent to jail, but was taken out
on a writ of habeas corpus, and his case
heard before Judge White on last Friday
afternoon, who discharged the prisoner from
custody, on the ground that the affidavit
upon which he was tried simply charged
him with selling liquor, when it should
have charged particularly to whom the
liquor was sold. This point was not made
in the trial before the Mayor. The decision
in both cases will be of interest to business
men.”
The Soldier's Platform.
Sparta Index.
■ A touching scene was witnessed at this
place on last Wednesday while Judge
Marks was speaking. Referring to the
war he said: “I see before me my gal
lant friend, Col. Byrd. During the late
unhappy rebellion he was on one side,
fighting for what he thought to be right,
I was on the other fighting for what I
thought to be right. This calls to my
mind an old man in Virginia, who had
two boys. The elder fell marching be
neath the Stars and Stripes, the younger
battling for the Lost Cause. After the
war, the old man gathered up their bones,
brought them home and laid them side
by side in one grave. Above them he
erected a single shaft, on one of which
was inscribed, ‘Sacred to the memory of
my eldest son, who fell fighting for
the Stars and Stripes. ’ On the opposite
side was inscribed, ‘Sacred to the mem
ory of my youngest son, who fell fight
ing for the Lost Cause.’ Higher up, in
the centre, in bold characters, was this
inscription: ‘God knows who was right.’
High above this was a snow-white ban
ner, on the folds of which were written
by an invisible hand, 'God knoics who
was right.’
“That old man there erected a plat
form long enough, broad and strong
enough for the whole American people,
both North and South, to stand upon.
And upon this platform, to-day, Col.
Byrd (advancing toward him), forgetting
the past, allow me to shake you by the
hand as a brother.” Col. Byrd here
arose and advanced to meet him, and
the two brave soldiers joined hands amid
the deafeniug applause of the spectators.
A Baritone’s Misadventure. —
Everybody remembers Herr Blum, the
baritone, who sang in the last season of
German opera here, and who married
little Miss Human. After his marriage
he decided to go home to Germany,
hoping to find a career open to him there
in one of the court theatres. Like a
dutiful son he went at once to visit his
mother, who lived in a small place in
Hesse Cassel, where Blum was born. Of
course his arrival was known to the offi
cials, who found it recorded in their
books that one Alcuin Blum had left his
country without having fulfilled his
military duty. So the official hand was
mildly but firmly laid upon his shoulder,
and our baritone is now wearing a
spiked helmet as a private in the Second
Regiment of the Guards, lie made a
good-looking soldier on the stage, and
no doubt he will win credit in his new
career, though it is not exactly that
which he went to seek.—Philadelphia
Times.
The recent Richmond (Va.) wedding
of Calderon Carlisle and Kate, daughter
of James Thomas, the millionaire
tobacco man, was a “swell” affair in
deed, Rev. Dr. Burrowsjbeing paid $1,000
and expenses to come on from Louis
ville and tie the knot; Worth furnishing
the bridal trousseau at a cost of $50,000,
and the floral decorations at the church
and house costing $3.000. Father-in-law
Thomas gives each of the boys that
marries into the family a brown stone
front on Grate street, Richmond, where
there are already four in this same style
on this son-in-law row, and he has one
beautiful daughter of eighteen still left.
Alleged Child Murder in Penn
sylvania.—A dispatch from Wilkes-
barre, Pa., says: “Charity Seiner, a
young woman of fashion, a resident of
>Vanami, near Wilkesbarre, was arrested
Wednesday upon the charge of being
privy to the death of her illegitimate
child. The corpse was discovered in a
cave hole of a mine, bruised about its
head in several places, and bore marks
of violence upon other portions of its
body. A rope, tightly shirred up around
the throat, was also one of the means by
which death was produced. Miss Seiner
was leaving the scene of her alleged
criminality in company with her father
and brother.”
General Philip Sheridan, while closing
the door of his room at the Palmer
House, Chicago, the other day, jolted a
transom loose and it tumbled down on
his head. His scalp was cut and he was se
riously frightened. An investigation would
probably reveal the fact that the gallant
General fell down stairs, but, accepting
tbe transom theory as correct, we rise to
ask what the country would have thought
if this accident had occured in a New
Orleans hotel at the time of the General s
famous campaign againstthe “Banditti?”
Would not that transom have been inter
preted to mean a rebel dead-fall? Most
assuredly.—Baltimore Gazette.
Hotel Rubbers Bagged.—Three
men, registered ’ as Joijn Bradly, J. H.
Murray and James Thompson, w^re ar
rested in Richmond, Va., Tuesday night,
whilst in the act of robbing the room of
Judge H. H. Marshall at the Exchange
Hotel. Qa the same night, on the train
between peteisburg and Richmond, a
merchant on his way iforth to buy good3
was robbed of $8,800, and on Wedues.
day a passenger on his way to the Rich
mond Fair on the Richmond, Fredericks
burg and Potomac Railroad, was relieved
of a gold watch, and another passe nge
was robbed of $150.
BY TELEGRAPH.
NOON TELEGRAMS.
ALL OF THE CREW OF THE
SCHOONER BOW SAFE.
A Political Discussion in Kentucky
Ends in Mnrder.
JIIE MARRIAGES OF BISMARCK'S
DAUGHTER AND MARGA
RET ROTHSCHILD.
The German Government Increasing-
Import Duties.
Domestic and Foreign A flairs.
MATRIMONIAL GOSSIP.
London, November 4.—A Berlin dispatch
says: “Bismarck has arrived in this city to
attend the marriage of his daughter with
Count Rantzau, which is to take place on
Wednesday next. After the wedding the
Prince will proceed to Varsein, where he
will remain until Christmas.”
Another Berlin dispatch denies the truth
of the report published in the Paris Universe
that Margaret Rothschild had applied for
admission to the Catholic Church as pre
liminary to her marriage with the Due de
Guiche.
A SHIPWRECKED CREW SAVED.
Washington, November 4.—The signal
corps stationed at Cape Hatteras report that
the crew of the Hattie G. Dow, that sunk on
the end of Hatteras shoals twelve miles
south of Cape Hatteras on October 31st, ar
rived at Hatteras inlet yesterday in a boat
of a vessel bound from Bull river, South
Carolina, to New York loaded with phos
phate. The crew of nine are all saved.
DUTIES TO HE INCREASED BY GERMANY.
London, November 4.—A Berlin dispatch
says: “The government proposes to increase
the duty on wine, hides, grain and some
other articles. The duty on grain is intended
to compel cessions from Russia, Austria,
Italy and France. The other new imposts
are to be light, and are designed for finan
cial purposes solely.”
CANDIDATE OF THE INDIGNANT GREEN
BACKERS.
Boston, November 4.—The Greenbackers
of the Fourth district, who were indignant
at the declination of Wendell Phillips, held
a meeting on Saturday night and nominated
Win. Washburn as their candidate for Con
gress. Mr. Washburn accepts the nomina
tion.
THE EXPOSITION BUILDING.
London, November 4.—A Paris dispatch
says that the proposal to maintain the Ex
position building, on the Champ de Mars, in
possession of the city as a place of popular
entertainment, is held under consideration
by the Municipal Council of Paris.
KILLED IN A POLITICAL DISPUTE.
Cincinnati, November 4.—Jason Met
calfe, a prominent citizen of Cynthiana, Ky.,
was shot aud killed yesterday by* H. C.
Magee, a well known politician, during a
heated discussion of political matters.
EV£N1NG_T£L£GRAMS
BITTER BRITISH*COMMENTS ON
THE FISHERIES (QUESTION.
Government Clerks Gone Home to
Vote.
MILITARY PREMIUMS OF THE
ALABAMA STATE FAIR.
POLITICAL ARRESTS IN NEW
YORK.
ZVIinor matter* of Interest.
Sudden Death in toe Post Office.
— George F. Burn, chief clerk in the
New York post office, fell dead Tuesday
morning while conversing with one of
the other clerks. Sir. Burn, who was
sixty-eight years of age, appeared to be
in his usual health, and while gathering
up his papers at a desk on the way to
his office conversed for a moment or
two with the clerk occupying the desk,
when he suddenly staggered and fell.
His death was probably the result of
heart disease.
A prayer meeting was in progress in
the cnurch in Mount Yernop, Infl., and
a political procession, mistaking the
lighted edifice for the hall in which the
mass meeting was to be held, marched
in with banners flying, to the music of a
full band, and gave three cheers for its
candidate. The clergyman invited the
politicians to remain “for their souls'
sake,” but they declined.
THE PALL MALL “GAZETTE” ON THE FISH
ERIES QUESTION.
London, November 4.—The Pall Mall
Gazette, in an editorial this afternoon, com
ments with some bitterness on what it re
gards as the threatening dispatch addressed
by Secretary Evarts to Mr. Welch, the
American Minister to England, concerning
the fisheries question. The Gazette professes
to see in this dispatch a disposition on the
part of the United States to take advantage
of the present condition of England’s for
eign relations to force her to give way.
The Gazette exclaims: “Nothing else was to
he expected, and for our own part we are
inclined to thank Mr. Evarts for teaching
our countrymen that the nations generally
are no more inclined to forego their advan
tages over one another in the 19th century,
than in the 18th, the 17th, or 16th, or 1st.”
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Office of the Chief Signal Observer,
Washington, D. C., November 4.—Indica
tions for Tuesday:
In the South Atlantic and East Gulf
States, clear or partly cloudy weather, cold
northerly winds, becoming warmer and
variable, stationary or falling barometer.
Ip the fiddle Atlantic States, clear
weather, cold’ northerly veering to warm
southeast winds, stationary followed by fall
ing barometer.
In the West Gulf States, warmer, clear or
partly cloudy weather, variable winds,mostly
southeast, and falling barometer.
In Tennessee ana the Ohio valley,
warmer, clear or partly cloudy weather,
variable winds, shifting to southerly, and
generally lower pressure.
I WASHINGTON notes.
Washington, November 4.—The Tlcon-
deroga, in which Commordore Shufeldt
will make his commercial cruise to Africa,
has just gone into commission at Port
smouth, N. H.
W. R. Ellis and William C. Morrison are
appointed revenue storekeepers and
gaugers of the Sixth district of North
Carolina.
Very little of any excepting routine busi
ness was transacted in the public depart
ments to-day, owing to the very clean sw*eep
made for voters in New York, Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, Massachusetts and the Western
States.
little johnny- davenport again arrest-
* ING VOTERS.*
New York, November 4.—It was rumored
to-day that John J. Davenport had issued
warrants for several persons charged with
election frauds, and that many ar
rests would follow. Davenport said :
“ I expect a great many arrests
will be made this afternoon and evening,
but I positively decline to say what the par
ties will be arrested for, or what the charges
against them are, or who are the persons to
be arrested, as that might interfere with the
course of justice. All these things will
come out when the accused are brought up
for examination.”
GRAIN ELEVATOR BURNED.
Chicago, November 4.—A special dis
patch from PeorlaSays that Easton & Co.’s
elevatoi*, with fifty-five thousand bushels of
corn and oats, was burned yesterday even
ing. ft was fully insured. The fire was the
work of an incendiary.
Montgomery, November 4.—Montgom
ery’s total contributions to the fever suf
ferers is $9,800. The Relief Association
closed on Saturday by sending one hundred
dollars to the wife and children of Lieut.
Benner.
relief for presbtterian sufferers.
SelmA, November 4.—A thanksgiving
service was held at the Broad Street Presby
terian Church last night, at which a contri
bution of two hundred dollars was made for
the families of Presbyterian ministers who
died of yellow fever.
PREMIUMS TO MILITARY COMPANIES.
A FLORIDA EDITOR'S TESTIMON Y
Hon the Purcba*e of Electoral Vote*
Was First Broached and the Va
It Was Discussed.
Tallahassee, Fla., October 24, 1878.
—To the Editor of the New York Ilcrald:
It is probable that the first intimation
Mr. Marble received that the vote of
Florida could be had for a consideration
came from me. I had been told that the
v^te of one of the Republican members
o [ the returning board could be bought.
The sum named as the price was fifty
thousand dollars. I informed Mr. Mar
ble of what I had heard, and gave him
the name of the party said to be ready to
negotiate and the name of the member
whose vote was to be secured. We talked
the matter over fully. Mr. Marble said,
in substance, that the proposal was a
piCbe of strategy designed to get an offer
from the Democrats and make it the oc
casion for larger demands from the other
side, and that under no circumstances
would Mr. Tilden consent to the offer or
payment of money, nor would he. This
is the substance*of what occurred be
tween us on that question. I have not
the least idea that Mr. Marble was
insincere in his prompt rejection of
the proposal, or that he ever en
tered in:o negotiation with any per
son having as its object and end the pur
chase of a vote. So far from it, as I
know from associations with him, he had
a strong belief that both Cowgill and
McLin, especially the latter, would ulti
mately so vote as to cause the right to
prevail. I myself had some faith iu Cow-
gill, but none in McLin. Dir. Marble had
faith in both. He thought these persons
knew, beyond any reasonable doubt, that
the Democrats had fairly elected their
State ticket and given a small majority
to the Tilden electors, even after count
ing for Hayes all the fraudulent votes
claimed as having been cast for him, and
that their sense of justice would finally
triumph over party prejudice and pas
sion. He held to this view until, in the
informal count, the true return from Ba
ker county was attempted to be concealed
and a fraudulent one substituted for it.
This tended to open his eyes to the in
tensely partisan character of the Repub
licans on the board, and satisfied him
that little was to be hoped for from their
sense of honor or justice if that act was
to be taken as an indication of their feel
ings and purpose. Whatever telegrams
may have gone during those exciting
days intimating a bargain seriously enter
tained. or which failed to be completed
for want of time, were either forgeries
or were sent by political gamblers.
There could not possibly have been an}*
ground for a bargain beyond a mere
surmise that a vote was purchasable, aud
the first suggestion as to that—to Mr.
Marble at least, as I believe—came from
me, as already said. I will add that the
person who professed to be able to secure
and deliver the vote was himself a politi
cal gambler, from Pennsylvania, who
was about that time telegraphing to Mr.
Edmunds for money “to prevent frauds. ”
I had no confidence in the man’s hon
esty, political or otherwise, and had no
conference with him on the subject of
his proffer, but obtained my information
as to it from a Democrat. I understood
that he was to share the money with
the member of the board whose vote was
to be purchased. If the Tribune's dis
patches are genuine and have been cor
rectly translated, any “bargain” they
intimate was based on a vague idea that
a vote was purchasable if the money was
forthcoming—only that and nothing
more. If there had been “a bargain,’’
as the Tribune asserts was the case, some
of us here would have known of it,
whereas the first intimation we got of
anything of the sort was through those
dispatches. C. E. Dyke,
Editor Floridian.
A Northern Tribute to the Howards.
New York Times.
A correspondent addresses us a letter
from New Orleans asking whether it
was the intention of those who gave
money for the relief of suffering in the
South that it should be expended solely
for those whose poverty w*as caused di
rectly by the yellow fever. He states
that the Howard Association are likely
to have a considerable sum of money in
their hands when the cold weather puts
a stop to the fever, but they do not feel
warranted in giving help to any not in
cluded in the class above referred to.
The question is a delicate one, which
it would be difficult to decide at
this distance; but doubtless very
much suffering exists in the South only
remotely, and yet really due to the rava
ges of the fever, which has interrupted
business and thrown many persons out
of employment. In such cates it will be
perfectly safe for the Howard Associa
tion to use their discretion without fear
of criticism from Northern givers. In
deed, the money in their hands, if any is
left when tfie fever ceases, can properly
be used for any urgent need that may
present itself. The communities in the
North have the greatest confidence in
the honor and judgmeqt of “tbe How
ards,” as well as admiration for their
generous courage and devotion, and will
gladly trust them to expend the money
in any w*ay that they may approve of,
Dreading Assassination.—Thomas
B. Musgrove, the New York banker, saw
the Crown Prince of Germany at Ham
burg, and says that “his behavior was a
strange commentary on the insecurity of
privilege in our times. I le had a recep
tion and public appearance on an impro
vised balcony; the lights were turned
down so as to give but half light, and
beside the Prince was a servant, his du
plicate in height, figure, appearance and
dress, so that an assassin would be stag
gered by the resemblance. It was very
sfiort. When be walked to the springs
he walked rapidly, and this man right
behind him, takiDg everything in as they
proceeded rapidly, drank quickly of the
water, and rapidly returned. All that
Hohenzollern family has got the assas
sination fright.”—Chicago Tribune.
Libel Suit Between Prominent
Physicians.—In New York city a suit
has been begun by Dr. Wm. A. Ham
mond, formerly Sqrgeon General of the
army, against Dr. John P. Gray, of the
State Lunatic Asylum, for $50,000 dam
ages for alleged libel. The asserted li
bel was in an article in a periodical con
trolled by Dr. Gray, which was after
ward reproduced in pamphlet form, in
^hich pr. Hammond says that his skill
in what has become his specialty—ner
vous and mental diseases—was assailed,
and his honesty in testimony given by
him in several murder cases was im
pugned.
STRANGER THAN FICTION.
Reappearance or a .'lau Who Wa*
.viourned a* Dead—Abducted While
Swimming.
nty-eight y
Oxford st:
—The State
‘our hundred
Momgoweki, November 4.
Fair Association here offers fo
dollars worth of premiums to military com
panies—two hundred and fifty dollars to the
Lest, one hundred to the second, and fifty
to the third.
THE EXPOSITION LOTTERT.
London. November 4.—A Paris dispatch
to the Daily News says: “It has been decided
to increase the number of tickets In the Ex
position Lotteiy to two million, and post
pone the drawing to the 15th of December.
The wonderfully joined twin babies
from St. Benoit, Canada, who were ex
hibited in New York a few months since,
have been critically examined in Phila
delphia by Professor Pancoast. They are
separate to the hips, but have only two
legs in the aggregate. The Siamese
twins were a distinct pair, sd are the ne
gro twins called Millie and Christine,
but the Professor says of the Canadian
babies: “They have separate lungs and
hearts, the union beginning at the edge
of the ribs, and forming common diges
tive and generative organs. ”
The Western Electric Light Company,
of Chicago, has filed a petition for in
corporation, with a capital of |300,Q0Q.
Mabel Whitman and Dr. Spears have
been arraigned in Boston for poisoning
the mother of the former. Physicians
testified to finding arsenic in Mrs. Whit
man’s stomach. A druggist testified to
selling arsenic to tbe daughter of the
victim, and friends and neighbors of the
family testified to the fact that she had
frequently inquired as to tfie nature of
poison, and arsenic in particular.
In the Circuit Court of Allegany
county, Maryland, on Monday, the jury
in the case of Melvina Bell vg. Henry C.
McElfi§h, for breach of promise and se
duction, returned a verdict for plaintiff
for five thousand dollars damages. The
parties are respectably connected and re
side in the village of Gilpintown. The
plaintiff is a handsome girl about seven
teen years of age.
Hundreds of thousands of peasants in
Italy are without work, and those who
are employed are glad to labor twelve
hours a day for fifteen cents and food,
which invariably consists of dry black
bread at 10 a. m. and aqua-sale soup at
the close of the day—the said soup being
a bowl of hot water salted and flavored
witk a few drops of olive oil.
——
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher turned out
with the regiment of which he is
chaplain on W ednesday, in full uniform.
He rode with the staff behind the bass
dnw.
old, of No. 138 North Oxford street,
Brooklyn, disappeared from his home
last July. The following day his cloth
ing, money and jewelry were found in a
row boat adrift in Flushing Bay. It was
naturally inferred that he had been
drowned while bathing. The waters of
the bay were dragged and a minute
description of the missing man sent to
different cities; but no trace of him could
be discovered. Great was the surprise,
therefore, on last Saturday evening,
when he appeared at his former resi
dence. So singular is the account which
he himself gives of his disappearance
that some few of his friends are inclined
to regard it as the product of an excited
imagination.
He told the police yesterday that he
had gone bathing in Flushing Bay and
while in the water was seized and
dragged into a sailboat by two men.
He then became unconscious. Upon
coming to he found himself lying in the
bottom of the sailboat with a coarse
canvass bag over his head. His two
companions informed him that if he did
not remain quiet they would kill him
and then throw him overboard. Pro
mising to comply with their request,
they furnished him with clothing. The
boat, after sailing steadily along for
several hours, landed at a strange shore.
His companions then told him that he
must go to Charleston. A railroad ticket
for that city, together with a small
amount of money, was given him, and
he was induced to take a drink from a
bottle. He again became unconscious
and afterward found himself on a rail
road train. His companions w*ere no
where to be seen.
In due time he arrived in Charleston,
and, after sitting on a stoop to rest, re
membered nothing more until he found
himself locked up in a cell for intoxica
tion. When taken before a magistrate
the complaint against him was dismissed.
He afterward wrote to his parents for
money to return home, and received an
unsatisfactory answer from other parties,
who, he thinks, intercepted the letter.
He then determined to remain away from
Brooklyn, and secured employment.
When he had saved sufficient money to
pay his fare to St. Louis he went to that
city and remained there until he met an
acquaintance from Brooklyn, who in
duced him to return home.
Mr. Treadwell, w’hose nervous system
has been considerably disturbed, owing,
it is said, to his strange experiences, left
Brooklyn yesterday to visit the young
lady whom lie intends marrying at her
country home.
1 n relating his strange adventures to
liis friends the young man gave a min
ute account of the way in which the two
men in the boat succeeded in capturing
him. He had noticed them for some
time while swimming about, and when
they approached him saw at once that
they had some design upon his person.
Heading for his rowboat he struck out
vigorously, but his pursuers having the
advantage of a sail quickly overtook
him. Instead of pulling him out of the
water immediately, one of them held his
head beneath the surface till he had ex
perienced the peculiar sensations, both
agreeable and disagreeable, of death by
drowning. At last he was dragged into
the boat, and remained in a totally un
conscious condition for hours. That
pait of the bay in which he had been
swimming was entirely deserted at the
time of his capture, aud when he awoke
many miles of water separated him
from the spot. The night had
passed and the gray light of morning
was hidden from the prisoner’s eyes
by the canvas bag which the ruffians
had pulled over his head. The death
like hush of early morning was broken
only by the rough voices of the two men,
who were debating what disposition to
make of their captive passenger. Soon
the covering was removed from his
eyes, but a heavy mist which covered
the face of the waters shut out every
object from his view, save the sailboat
in which he lay and the mysterious men
whose dark countenances lowered upon
him. Pledging himself to make no effort
to escape or offer other resistance to their
wishes, Treadwell was furnished with a
suit of clothing, his nakedness up to this
time having been covered only by a
blanket and an overcoat. The bopt then
lay at anchor, but sail was shortly after
wards hoisted, and after a trip of four or
five hours the three men landed at some
point unknown to the captive.
How the railroad station was reached
or on what road it was situated were
equally unknown to him, for after the
men had furnished him with a ticket to
Charleston and six dollars in cash, a bot
tle was put to his lips and he became
unconsoious when its Contents tyere swal
lowed. His next awakening was in the
railroad train. Again he became con
scious, though not thoroughly arquqed,
in the stfCpts pf Charleston, aiid throw
ing himself down on a doorstep, soon
found himself in a cell and thence be
fore a magistrate. Bqt sqbsequeqt fail
ure to receive word from home or from
his fiancee, to whom he also wrote; his
obtaining employment in Charleston; his
trip to St. Louis and safe return to his
friends in Brooklyn, complete a story
that has its parallel but rarely in real life
and which would form an admirable
theme for the pen of the romancist.
It is evident that the motive of the ab
duction was not a roercen&ry one, and
the only theory yet advanced which
seems at all satisfactory to Treadwell’s
friends, is that of jealousy. What gives
color to this suspicion is thp fact 1 that a
fortnight before the deed was committed
Mr. .Treadwell received a letter warning
him to cease his attentions tq the yuung
lady to whom he is engaged. He would
never live to see his wedding day if he
persisted. His continued intimacy with
the young woman is supposed to have
provoked the violence to his person, t*
is thought tuat the unknown
men who committed the deed may have
been hired by a rival to put an
end to the lover’s life, but at the
last moment relented and merely put
him out of the way till their reward
should be secured, knowing well that
their employer would never seek to re
gain it by legal process. It is also sug
gested tliat the young lady’s relatives,
wishing to break off the match, may
have adopted this plan without intend
ing to do him personal injury. This lat-
tei theory, however, is generally dis
credited. Detective Zunat has been
specially detailed to work up the case,
and the whole Brooklyn police force will
keep its eyes open for the discovery of
the guilty parties. Treadwell is confi
dent that he will never forget the faces
of his captors, and if they are still lurk
ing about Long Island or this city their
arrest is not impossible.
Suicide on a Steamboat.—A neatly
dressed man about fifty years old took
passage at Hartford on Wednesday for
New York in the steamer State of New
York. He acted in a strange, nervous
manner, evincing a disposition to talk
with every one about politics. After
supper he disappeared, and it was sup
posed that he had gone to his berth. At
midnight an employe named Price dis
covered him lying on the after-deck
dying, with a pistol shot wound in the
right temple. Blood on the rail indica
te that he hail leaned over it and fired.
The six chambered revolver had fallen
from his hand to the lower deck.
Ninety-seven cents and an envelope ad
dressed to “C. W. Scott, Baltic, Conn.,”
were found on him. Mr. Scott was a
prosperous farmer, and ex-member of
the Connecticut Legislature.
MASKED ROBBERS
Over Sixteen Thouiwnd Dollars Ta
ken from a Safe In a House whose
Owners Distrusted Banks.
Camden, N. J., October 31.—The
daring robbery of the Balser * brothers
last night by five masked burglars, who
handcuffed them and carried $16,500
from the house, has excited this usually
quiet city. The house in South Third
street, where the tw*o bachelor brothers
have so long lived together, and iu which
they were robbed, has been visited by
many hundred persons to-day,led there by
curiosity. Wesley and William Balser
own a block of five or six houses in
South Third street, in one of which, 26,
they live. They own, besides, consid
erable property in other parts of the city.
They are both advanced in years,
and they lived frugally.employing no ser
vants. They add to the letting of prop
erty the business of shaving notes and
mortgages. Neither of them had any
confidence in banks, and all their unin
vested money was kept in the house. On
Wednesday evening the money in their
safe in the second story amounted to
nearly $17,000. A portion of this was
gold and silver, which they had inherited
from their parents, who for many years
occupied market stalls in Market street,
below Eighth. When the mother died
the father not only continued his busi
ness, but performed the housework, the
boys assisting him. After their father’s
death they, however, abandoned the
market, and began to live very retired.
One of them would sometimes w*alk
abroad on a fine day, always appearing
neatly dressed, while the other remained
in doors, it being their rule never to l>e
both absent from the house at the same
time. The following is Mr. William
Balser’s story of the robbery. He is the
younger of the brothers, and is probably
somewhat less than fifty years of age:
“I went out for a walk at six o clock
last evening, he said, leaving my brother
Wesley in the front room. I returned
at about twenty minutes before eight.
I opened the door with my latch key, as
usual, and, advancing, turned up the
light in the hallway. As I did so, the
door was closed behind me. At the
same minute I looked into the front
room, and saw three masked men stand
ing there, but no sign of my brother.
‘My God,’ I said to myself, ‘is Wes.
murdered?’ Just then I received a blow
from a man standing behind me, and
those iu front advanced hastily and
threateningly. I turned quickly on be
ing struck, and knocked down the man
behind me, and hit two of the others.
At that instant I was caught round the
arms and waist from behind, and in a
minute more I was gagged and bound
hand and foot. They then tied a linen
tablecloth over my head and dragged
me to a closet in which they had before
put Wesley. They searched my pock
ets, taking out the key of the safe, and
four of them then went up stairs, while
one remained as a guard over us. Once
or twice this^man spoke to me, saying
he would shoot me if I attempted
to cry out or give any alarm:
and I noticed that he tried to give the in-
pression that he was an Irishman by as
suming the brogue, but he failed miser
ably. There w*as $3,500 in gold and $500
in silver in the safe, and I heard them
pouring the coin into something as they
removed it. There was also $12,500 in
notes of various denominations. I heard
them go out by the back way. As soon
as I could free my hands, which I had
been constantly endeavoring to free
while in the closet, 1 ran to the front
door and saw a man dart down and run
off up the street. I then gave the alarm
and in a few minutes persons came run
ning up and unbound me. The robbers
had placed a pair of new spring steel
handcuffs on my brother Wesley’s wrists
which we had to file off. It seems to me,
also, that they had something on a sponge
which they several times attempted to
dash into my face. Wesley had a key to
the safe but it was in his fob pocket and
they did not find it when they searched
him. They had, however, previous to
up stairs and emptied of its contents an
old chest of my father’s.
“Wesley tells me they rac~ the bell,
and when he opened the door they
knocked him down, handcuffed him, and
demanded the key to the safe. He said
he didn't have it, and they then searched
him. Afterward they went up stairs,
and, coming down again, asked him how
soon I would return. He told them he
did not know; probably I would he ab
sent all night. They answered they
would wait, and sat down in the front
iGOiu down stairs until they heard me
come in. We intended to purchase some
property, and that was the reason for our
having so much money in the house. At
one time we had m^nev iu tne State Bank,
but drew umsiderable out. I haven’t
the slightest suspicion of who the men
were.”
The police have thus far obtained no
clue to the burglars other than a report
that one of them belonged to Camden
and furnished information to the others,
who were from New York or Philadel
phia- The brothers can give no clear
description of them.
The Great Liar.
Washington, D. C., October 31.—The
following explains itself:
Washington, D. C.. October 31,1878.
—Editor of the Philadelphia Press: So
far as the statements of James E. An
derson relate to me I know them to be
false; so far as they relate to others I be
lieve them to be false. At the proper
time I shall be glad toprove this.
I never saw £ L. W eber to know him
until the day he testified. I never had
any conversation with him till I met him
in New Orleans some time after.
I do not know J. R. Sypher by sight.
I know nothing of his relations with
Anderson except what Anderson told me
himself in conversations occurring last
fall, which began and ended my personal
intercourse with him.
JosErii H. Maddox.
Mr. Gibson, when spoken to this even
ing about James E. Anderson’s affidavit,
said: “The statements in his affidavit
affecting me are false. I never heard of
the things of which he speaks until they
were reported to me by others to whom
Anderson related them with such
varieties as his fancy suggested, coupled
with threats made by Anderson that if
he was not paid for his silence he could
get all the money he wanted from the
other side. I had done no wrong myself.
I knew of no wrong done by others. I
refused to entertain any propositions in
any shape to buy his silence.
To prove the value of lands along the
line of a Texas railroad, the company
has been exhibiting the products of the
country through which it passes. Apples
ripening all along from May to Christ
mas, in seventy-three varieties, form part
of the collection; also clusters of grapes
fourteen inches long; peaches in one
hundred varieties, weighing from ten to
fourteen ounces each, and over one hun
dred kinds of valuable wood.
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BT thk Mayor lsd Au>nuroi or m
Cm or SATiSSAJ) of rrs isnsno!. to ipn.T
S^ODOU. Assmbly for cert ad* local
TK^Wavor’and Ald*rn>-n of the ciqr of So-
toSmYeue
kU th. Vsvor and Aldermen of the city
b J gSjSi in “ouncll «femMed. on th.
Sth daV of July. IKS. R«d
-Tn oVdinnnce to corapromuK tho
R f ° r ^ b l
publication in*. ^
newspaper published "> ^d. W,
po^timr the'eame conspiotionsly at the door of
STSXrt House of said
ass k^'fn^ft?-:
to the introduction of the bill for such purpose
into the said General As*emblr.
I n p L P ;rs‘-.M^» for
•St 5.5*5^
NOTICE,
City or Savannah,
Optics: Clerk of Council,
October 24, 1878.
'A’U'tlcI *•-*, j [
r PHE following Ordinance publisbed fQ!-
L information of all concerned. The oms
will be rigidl >* enforced, and any person iouna
painting tlie glass or interfering in any manner
with the citv lamps will l>e placed on the Infor
mation Docket.
Bv order of the Committee on Gas.
° FRANK E REBARER,
Cleric of Council.
ORDINANCE 15th AUGUST, 1850.
2 That if any person shall break, injure,
deface or destroy any of the street lamp posts
or lanterns, or shall, without due auwority^
light or extinguish the gas In
lanterns, he. she or tbev may be fined by the
Mavor or acting Mayor in a sum not le« than
thirty dollars, nor more than fifty dollars, one
half to the informer; and in default of payment
may be committed to jail for such period aa
in the discretion of the Mayor or acting Mayor
may seem proper. And in all cases it shall be
In the discretion of the Mayor or acting Mayor
to order thr offenders into custody until the
fine shall be paid. oct»-10t
NOTICE.
I HEREBY consent that my wife, MARY
FLEMING, may become a public or free
trader after the publication of this notice for
one month. JOHN FLEMING.
Savannah, Ga., October ££, 1878.
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4EurtUtur».
HOUSE FIRAISHIXG!
IMPORTANT SALE—PURCHASED IN NEW
YORK AT SHERIFF'S SALE.
J. B. REMION,
NO. 210 BROUGHTON STREET, CORNER OF
WEST BROAD,
>EGS leave to inform the citizens of Savan-
> nah and the public generally that he has
just returned from New York with a large and
nice assortment of Furniture, the greater por
tion of which was purchased at a Sheriff's sale,
and the remainder for cash, which enables him
to sell at prices
ABOUT ONE-HALW LOWER THAN ANY
OTHER HOUSE IN THE CITY.
The Furniture consists of
BLACK WALNUT PARLOR SETS. Rep,
Hair, etc., at from to $!0 and $100. Seta
worth $70 will sell for $3G.
BLACK WALNUT LOUNGES in Hair and
Rep and Carpet, from $9 to $15. lounges
worth $20 will sell for $9.
BEDROOM COTTAGE SETS from $15 to Sft
BEDROOM SETS (Walnut), from $25 to $75t
BUREAUS at all prices from $3 to $25.
WASHSTANDS from $1 to $12.
STOVES at half the price of any other estab
lishment— from $7 50 to $20.
Together with a general assortment of CAR
PET*. Brussels, Kidderminster and Two-ply;
MATTING, HA TRACKS. MIRRORS. LOOKING
GLASSES, SHOW CASES, DINING TABLES,
etc., eto,
I also purchase all SECOND-HAND FURNI
TURE at higher prices than any other dealer.
J. B. REMION,
210 BROUGHTON STREET,
Corner West Broad and Broughton.
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Ij- REMION,
S ECOND-HAND FURNITURE STORE, No.
187 Broughton street, next to Thomaa
West’s Crockery Store. The highest cash price
paid for all kinds of second-hand Furnlturet
Stoves, Carpets, Bedding, etc. Repairing and
exchanging. Tbe highest cash price paid for
second-hand Clothing also. my27-ly
traits.
THE WORLD’S STANDARD.
^ ja-ForralebyDrngsifts, + GENTS _
my coming home, rummaged the house •® eaeralStores - e -‘ aA fc' eI - ; -^. a WANTEIV
Back to His First Love.—A Cin
cinnati dispatch states that Dr. Sorg, a
physician, of Newport, Ky., the head
qf a family, and who abandoned the
priesthood twenty years ago and mar
ried, has now, by the consent of all
concerned, abandoned all family rela
tions and entered the priesthood under a
special dispensation obtained by Bishop
Toebbe from the Pope,
The Coolie Slavery Frauds in Cuba.
A letter from Havana says that the
report of the selling of the coolies
brought there by Dr. Secchi from Trini
dad is confirmed, with the addition that
Secchi had engaged t£ bring from Trini
dad and I^en*emi*a ten thousand coolies
a year, they being contracted for five
years at one shilling a day. and tqat of
the forty coolies •vvho.rq Sficclu had
already brought he had sold three at
Santiago de Uiiba for $200 each- The
fraud in the contracts, which were made
out in JJnglisb, and Spanish, consisted
in the English not being a translation of
the Spanish, as the latter gave Secchi
full power of transfer whilst the former
did not mention this condition. Some
of the contracts were for on* year,
aud signed by coolies ’yhu could read;
the remaincUu were for five years,
signed with their' marks by thotie
who could not read of did not under
stand the contracts. The British Consul,
therefore, seized the contracts, and, after
considerable trouble and resistance on
the part of Secchi, who brought a civil
action against the coolies for breach of
contract, and a criminal action against
the Consul himself, the latter succeeded,
in shipping the coolies back to Trinidad
by the royal mail steamer on the 7th
inst. Some misunderstanding was re
ported to have arisen between tbe British
Consul and the government here, and it
w*as reported that the latter had threat
ened to withdraw the Consul s exequatur.
If this speculation had been allowed to
be carried into effect it would have been
a very profitable business for the specu
lators. Tbe audacity of the whole
scheme will be appreciated when the fact
is known that these coolies were,without
exception, British subjects.
A Quadrupled Liar.—A Pittsburg
paper is somewhat indignant because the
Post observed in its felicitous way that
Jeems Anderson had probably beer,
bought up by John Sherman. On the
whole we are inclined to think we did
injustice to Anderson. He is a fellow
who doesn’t allow himself to be bought
up permanently, but lets himself out on
a royalty, as it were, like the quadruple!
telegraphic system. He has been worked
up to such a state of proficiency that four
lies can be sent through him from differ
ent points at the same time. If we had
stopped to think of it we should have
known that such a fellow w^§ tuu valua
ble to be owned by any one man.—
Washington Put.
Trial bottle froe. Ask your dru;
joid Wholesale and retail ’ ""
Sai
OO.
.v&nnah Ga.
^ f° r
by SOLOMONS &
sep5-dJtwly
CURE BY ABSORPTION.
THE HOLMAN
Ague and Liver Pad
And Its auxiliaries.
OI K MEDICATED
PLASTERS
MEDICATED FOOT
BATHS,
ABSORPTION SALT.
These remedies will do for you what nothing
else on earth can. In the name of humanity
try them More than a quarter of a million
intelligent living witnesses bear testimony to
their efficacy.
Pad $2. Specials $3. Specials are used in
complicated cases. Body Plasters 50c. Foot
Plasters 50c. a pair.
Absorption Salt Foot Baths 25c. a package,
six packages $1 25.
Pads and Plasters sent by mail (on receipt of
price) free of charge. Salt is sent by express
at the expense of purchaser.
Consultation at our office, 133 Congress street,
or by letter, free.
Beware of imitations. None genuine but the
above.
HOLVIAN PAD COMPANY,
133 Congress street, Savannah, (la.
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A child, who in later years can lay pre
tensions to high birth, blinks at the light
in Paris. Two weeks ago, as the captive
balloon Paris was making an ascension,
a young lady in the car was taken ill. A
doctor from Tarbes, who happened to be
in the car, saw her safely delivered of a
boy before the balloon reached the
ground, when a cab took the mother and
child to a hotel. The husband, son of
one of the leading Manchester manufac
turers, presented the doctor with one
hundred dollars for his services. ^
ft Buffalo Lila Waters
—FOR—
Stone in ihe Bladder and Hemor
rhage from the Bladder.
Case of Mrs. , of Charlotte, N. C., stated by
Dr. J. B. Jones, of that place.
„ , _ Charlotte, n. C., April 13,18T7.
Col. Thos. F. Go^de:
Dxar Sir-Mrs. suffered with stone in
the bladder, composed of alternate concentric
layers of calcarious matter and lithic acid, at
tended with occasilonal alarming hemorrhage
1 Prescribed for her the
Eukjo Lithia W ater, the oootinuoiui use of
which arrested the fora\at>an of stone, and
the hemorrhage oconrs now at much longer
intervals.
I to** frequently prescribed the Waters In
chronic affections of the kidneys and bladder
with the mest satisfactory results, and in such
cases I regard them a remedy of more po ency
than any mineral water of which I have any
knowledge. In all irritable ounditions of the
benaficiaf aS8a g eS they wtU 56 ft,und highly
Very respectfully yours,
J. B. JONES, M. D.
These Waters, in case* of one dozen half-gal
lon bottles at tbe Springs, $5 per case. OSCE
OLA BUTLER & CO., Agents, Savannah Ga.
Springs open for guests the first day of June.
THOS. F. GOODE, Proprietor,
Buffalo Lithia Springs. Virginia.
dec27-Th SATu.eow.ly *
L ike its celebrated namesake, the
Seltzer Spring in Germany,
Tarrant’s Seltzer Aperient
affords a sparkling, cooling and ro'reaLjnc-
draught, and » at the s-rne t !& o . reliaWS
means of oTereomiag dj-spepua, a bilious or
irregular habit of the body, affections of the
iDdneja, rheumgtiaw, gout, languor and ion
of appetite.
mbbankS
S O JL. L E
FOR SALE ALSO
Patent Alarm blooey Drawer;
Coffee Mills, Spice Mills, and Store
Fixtures Generally.
Tbe Improved Type Writer.
Oscillating Pump (o.’s Pump-
SEND FOR CIRCULARS.
FAIRBANKS & CO.
311 RKOADWA Y, NEW YORK.
For Sale by Leading Hardware Dealers
8eplJ-F<SLTu<Stw4m
©durational.
Fashionable Dancing Academy.
. ——oaaj, i uursuay ant
afternoons from 3:30 to 5:30 o’clock. Ladies a
Gentlemen s evening classes Tuesday, Thurad
J*^Y m . ay mfffits from 8 to 9:30 o’ckx
iKSmS 8 on . or « d < lr ess Mad. LOU
tw£? TI « 1LR ’. 8 Dru « Store, Masoi
Temple, or at the Academy during sch<
hours. Children taken from four years <
and upward. Persons wishing teachers 1
schools in the country or towns will addrem
* oove * octy-ln
Academy or St Vincent de I*ai
Conducted by the Staters of Mercy.
LIBERTY ST., COB. ABEHCOR
THE Schotamic Season ta now open. In I
A dltion to Latin a; (l French, instruction
SlS’.ffif tj y Lit. B. COHEN. Appli,
tiorafoi admission may be mute now *
M A P^ LE J‘ 0< I I> Dt8TI ' n -'TE. Co
- ** mile* weet of Philadelp
SSS***- jc «eph shoutlhSe^
Proftssional gards.
WILLIAM B. ADAMS,
OFFICE OVER POST OFFICE,
savannah, ga.
notary public
*U MOTHERS SHOULD CAU
A of Dr. MOFFETT’S TEETHI
... ,“ A . (Teething Powders). Nothing equals it
* ri *lNations of teething, cholera infantum
ana the summer complaints of children, or for
the eruptions and sores -from which the little
.fellows so often suffer. Try it. For sale by
■epStt tf OSCEOLA BUTLER.
DR. F. LUCKAX’S
Yapor, Electro-Vapor. Sulphur aud
other Medicated Baths
Are administered from 8 o’clock a m. to 9
o’clock p. M.
Office 87 Broughton street, next to the Marshall
Houoa octl9-3m
PRESCRIPTION FREE.
TT'OR the speedy cure of Seminal Weaknees,
£ I*** Manhood and all disorders brought on
by indiscretion or excess. Any druggist has the
Ingredients. Da. JAUUE8 A 00.7130 W Sixth
street, Cincinnati. Ohio. deofrdJtwly
Commissioner of Deeds
ALABAMA.
ARKANSAS,
California,
CONNECTICUT,
DELAWARE.
FLORIDA,
ELLIN (>18
INDIANA,
IOWA,
KANSAS,
KENTUCKY
i88g uu '=
Maryland,
^achusehts.
ant
NE
©as Jittiag.
JOHN NICOLS
Gas and Steam F
WJJMBER AND DEALER IN GAS ]
t **x > nd door above
with Gas and Wat
improvement* at the aba