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THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 2S. 187*.
tapping the
Dr. Back, Sheriff of Gibson county, Mias,
yesterday, in attempting to capture Harrison
Page, the negro desperado who killed the
Chancery Clerk of that county two years
a«ro. was ohot In the bowels, and i* dying.
One of his deputies was shot from a window
and killed, and another was knocked into a
cistern and left for dead, but has since re
vived. Still another of the posse, while
riding near Page's house, was shot in the
face, arms and leg. He is still alive. The
assassin escaped, though several of hia ac
complices were captured.
Tnree white prisoners confined in the
Richmond (Va.) jail, in the J were
awaiting motions for new trials, they each
having been sentenced to five years in the
penitentiary for entering a guest s room a:
the Exchange Hotel and robbing the same,
daring the late State Fair, escaped last even
ing. It is rumored they escaped through
the negligence of the officers on duty, who
have been suspended pending an investiga
tion.
The Marquis of Lome, the Princess
Louise and suite departed from Halifax yes
ter da v morning at 11 o’clock amid great
cheering of the populace and a salute fired
from the citadeL
Captain Schwenzen, of the Pommerania.
was saved by being picked up by life boats
of the City of Amsterdam. It was very
dark, but he was found floating on a piece
of wood. His nervous system is so pros
trated that he is under medical treatment
and will converse with no one. The names
of thiry-Jbree passengers who were saved
are reported in addition to those heretofore
given.
Thirty-six passengers of the sunken
steamship Pommerania have landed at Cher
bourg. Twenty others whose zfcmes are on
the steamer'* passenger list, have not been
accounted for. Two female children, aged
respectively about three years, remain In
Dover and have not been identified. Infor
mation of Captain Schwenzen (reported
yesterday as lostj has been telegraphed for,
and in reply it is stated that he left immedi
ately for Rotterdam.
Tuesday night while Count Andrassy and
a Bumber of the Austrian delegation were
being entertained by M. Tiza, the Hunga
rian Prime Minister, a bomb exploded in an
alley between the fortress, the theatre and
the Minister's palace. The missile was
charged with dynamite. The windows of
the palace were shattered but no one was
hurt. Great excitement prevails over the
outrage. There is no clue to the perpe
trator.
The seventy-third call for the redemption
of five million 5-30 bonds has been issued by
the Treasury Department.
The revenues for the fiscal year from in
ternal sources amount to $115,000,000. The
Commissioner in his report argues against a
redaction of the tobacco tax, and also
against granting amnesty to violators of the
revenue law6, as he doe6 not think it works
satisfactorily. Considerable space in the
report is devoted to illicit distilling in the
South.
Governor Houston has been almost unani
mously elected United States Senator from
Alabama, to succeed Spencer. The Senate
voted for him solidly, while out of 93 votes
in the House be received 91.
At 1 p. m. yesterday K. W. Cobb delivered
his inaugural address and took the oath of
office as Governor of Alabama.
Six hundred cotton 6piunera at Oldham,
England, have resumed work.
Several assassinations in the interior of
Italy are announced. Whether or not they
are political in their nature is not stated.
Secretary Schurz, in hfs report, defend:
his administr^ion of Indian affairs, and
believes that, if aided by CoDgrese, his
policy would in the end be sa isfactory
He claims that reports of an outbreak
among the Red Cloud and Spotted
Taii Sioux are unfounded, as these
tribes give evidence of a loyai
spirit. He dwells at great leDgth upon
the timber depredations on the public lands,
and says that in all parts of the country,
but notably in the South, his warfare
against the timber depredators was stub
bornly resisted. He ha; succeeded in limit
ing tbe depredations to a great extent, but
cannot entirely suppresi them without
hearty co-operation from Congress.
The British Lave occupied tte Kururn
Fort in Afghanistan. The Afghans,
usual, are fleeing before their advance.
The estimates for carrying on the city
government of Xew York for the next
yew amount to $30,641,705, which is
$1,198,577 less than was asked for the
current year; but as the sum actually al
lowed for the past year was $39,079,977,
the estimates for 1879 are, in fact, $56:
C2S in excess of the allowance for 1878.
This is a poor exhibit for the taxpayers,
who have been confidently looking for
ward to a reduction. The most for
midable items are the following: For
the State, $3,751,062 19; Police Depart
ment, $4,106,611 25: Board of Educa
tion, $3.584,000; salaries for city and
county courts, $1,219,940; Fire Depart
ment. $1,291,842 50; interest on the city
debt, $8,715,591 97; Charities and Cor
rections, $1,355,541.
Boston has an interesting family-
father, mother and ten-year old daughter
—that lives in a great mansion without a
servant, only having a woman come
from time to lime to do the heavy house
work. For years the inmates have lived
on fruit and vegetables only. The
child is kept in a glass case—her play
room, study and nursery all being at the
top of the house, where the walls and
roof are of glass, the continual sun bath
being comidered necessary to the child’s
rbvsical and moral health and wellbeing.
The mother, formerly a normal school
teacher and a great student, is the child's
teacher, and, with the exception of her
daily airing in the handsome grounds of
the place, the little girl never goes out,
and rarely does she see another child.
Malarial Fever en Cuba.— La Ban
dera de Saiitiago de Cuba of the 20th
insL, says: “A very persistent pesti
lence of malarial, typhus and paludic
fevers has broken out in Colon, Sagua
and Cardenas, proving very fatal and
baffling the combined skill of the local
doctors. The suffering is great, and ap
peals for help are being made by the au
thorities and priesthood in behalf of the
many afflicted. It arises from the ef
fluvia emanating from the inundated dis
tricts decomposing immense quantities of
vegetable matter into deleterious gases.
Over fifteen hundred cases have been re
ported to’the local boards of health, out
of which four hundred and eighty-two
deaths had occurred up to the 15th Inst.”
That **.Solid South” Bagbear Again.
JuSt as we anticipated so it has turned
out. The entire Radical press and lead
ers of the North are, day after day, and
all the lime, unceasingly and persistent
ly sounding it into the ears of their
credulous hearers and readers as a most
startling fact that the South is “solid.
This is the never-ending burden of their
song, ceaselessly uttered as a most por
tentious warning of danger to the
North.
That the South -is almost solid for the
Democratic party, we admit. But that
it is so solid for the reasons that these
Radical leaders and journals delight to
ascribe for its solidity, we deny. The
one object these men have in dwelling so
pertinaciously and persistently on this
well worn subject is, that, according to
the instincts of Radicalism, they
desire to keep up sectional agita
tion and strife, to risk the hap
piness and prosperity of the whole
country so that the Radical party may
make political capital therefrom, and to
prejudice the North against the South
with a view of a bloody-shirt campaign
in 1880. Hence thev falsely declare to
the North that the South is solid only
because she hates the North; that she
hopes to win on the forum what she lost
in the field, and to secure this solidity
she “bulldozes” and intimidates the negro
voters within her limits, and entirely pre
vents them from exercising the right of
suffrage unless they consent to vote the
Democratic ticket.
Everyone of these charges are false in
toto. The South is not in favor of hos
tility to the North—all her interests
would forbid such a policy. She does not
desire to secure legislation for her special
benefit, or to control the country as
section—she has seen too plainly the
effect of Radical sectional legislation
the past, and realizes too well by sad
experience how fatal to the welfare of
the ^j( r> country is such a course.
And as to negro intimidation, ant-
one who may be present during an
election in the South can see for him
self how negroes walk up to the polls
and deposit their ballots as freely and as
completely protected as does the most
prominent and wealthy white citizen.
As has been truly said, all the election
frauds practiced in this way in the South
would hardly together amount to what
is practiced at many a single precinct in
the Radical cities of the North, notably
in Philadelphia.
We take it that the masses of the
Northern people are intelligent persons
capable of thinking for themselves, and
that they a-e naturally interested in the
welfare of the South as of other sec
tions of the country, since Southern
prosperity must be advantageous to them
selves personally. To all such we wish
to state a few truths—so plain they can
not be disputed, and so simple that they
are, of themselves, sufficient to forever
overcome the sophistical reasonings and
false statements of Radical Southern ma
ligners.
The South is solidly Democratic for
two main reasons. First, because she
sees the Democratic party to be the only
national constitutional party in the coun
try, and, second, from motives of self
protection.
Regarding the first, all the people of the
whole Union know that the main object of
Radicalism has ever been Southern op
pression. They have seen Southern
Legislatures forcibly Liken possession of
by United States soldiers. They have
seen the will of the people of Southern
States set aside at the point of the bayo
net They have seen force bills intro
duced which, but for lack of time,would
have passed, in a Radical Con
gress, the effect of which would have
been to make the South but a conquered
province, to be ruled, despoiled and
plundered at the will of a totally irre
sponsible military dictator. The e
things, and many others of like nature,
the people of the United States have
seen as the result of Radicalism, and for
these things they themselves, first four
years since, and again two years ago,
and a third time a fe.v weeks past,
arrayed themselves in opposition to the
Radical party. And while this is the
evil spirit which has always
possessed Radicalism, the Democracy, on
the other hand, have ever unswervingly
labored for the equal rights cf all the
States, and for liberty, freedom and con
stitutional Slate sovereignty. It is there
fore becausejthe Radical is a sectional,
and the Democratic a national party, that
the South affiliates with the latter.
Of course the desire of self-protection
against these specially mentioned evils of
Radicalism would naturally influence
the South; but this section has to protect
itself against the Radical party in other
ways also. The people of the whole
country know well enough that Radi
calism in the South means simply car
pet bagism, incendiarism, thievery, fraud
and corruption. This is, tersely stated,
the only record Southern Radicalism has
made for itself. It is needless to dwell
upon it, but the people of the South
would not be human if they were willing
to vote for a return of such affliction upon
her, and no sensible man can expect
them to do so.
We state these plain facts once more,
though we have so often dwelt upon them,
because of the efforts specially being
made at this time to malign the South,
and to create against her sectional preju
dices for no other reason than because
she refuses to aid her enemies to fasten
chains about her, and abridge her consti
tutional rights. Because, in short,she doe3
not say to Blaine, Conkling, et id genus
omne, that she knows they hate and
would destroy her, but, nevertheless,
she will vote to give them the power to
Cxetpesded Balasces.— At the end
of the Iasi fiscal year there was an unex
pended balance of $33,410 on account of
the appropriations for the expenses of
the impeachment trial of W. W. Bel
knap, $447 on account of the expenses
of the electoral commission, and $11,143
for expense ot conveying the electoral
vote to Washington. These unexpended
balances have all been on hand for much
more than a year.
Of the thirteen letter carriers at Mem
phis, all stood at their posts during the
epidemic, eleven were attacked with the
fever and two died. Among the five
substitutes appointed there were two ad
ditional deaths.
carry out against her their venomous de
signs. We trust our Democratic breth
ren of the press of the Union will meet
Radical slanders against the South with
these simple truths, and will thereby re
fute such slanders, and overcome unjust
sectional prejudice. If the right thinking
men of the North will consider these
things, all the falsehoods ever concocted
by the fertile brains of the Radical falsi
fiers will have no weight with them, but
Enlarging the Sphere*of the Green
back.
Secretary Sherman's remarks to the
Baltimore bank Presidents have, says the
Sun, excited criticism in some quarters
which has the appearance of being capti
ous, but the general impression made
upon mercantile communities is favora
ble. The Secretary evidently expects to
aid in maintaining the party of green
backs with coin by increasing their uses
and enlarging their sphere of action.
Thus, although he did not- expressly
state the fact, it is apparent that he ex
pects a greenback, which is at par with
gold and is also receivable for customs,
to take the place, since it is capable of per
forming all the duties of a clearing house
or coin certificate. The New York
Bulletin calls attention also to the im
portant circumstance that this new use
of greenbacks “will vastly riiminUh
the occasion for making distinctions be
tween silver and other currencies. ” “In
other words,” it says, “the greenback
will do all the work of gold and silver,
excepting only the settlement of forei u
balances.” As these balances are now
all in our favor, when resumption is ef
fected there will be practically no object
to be attained by the conversion of notes
into coin, and the supply of gold and sil
ver will be ample for all purposes of
banking reserve. That supply is stated
by Comptroller Knox, from data furnish
ed by Dr. Linderman, director of the
mint, to be as follows:
Etaim&ied coin and bullion in the
country. June 5W, H377.. $242,855,858
Estiman d product of mines for the
year 99.C0n,o»
Importations for the year ... . 29.921.314
Total
Deduct exportations
Used in the arts, Ac...
$371,677,172
.. $11,697,555
. .. X7.535.670
$ 39.233.225
Total estimated amount June
18^
33,
$332,413,947
It will be seen from these figures that
we have not only during the year retain
ed the entire bullion product of our
mines of gold and silver, but have re
ceived from abroad $18,123,759 of coin
and bullion in excess of our exportations.
Of this amount of $332,443,947, $244,’
353,390 is in gold coin and bullion, and
$88,090,557 in silver coin and bullion.
Director Linderman also estimates that
between June 30 and September 30 the
coin and bullion in the country has in
creased at least $26,000,000. If this
rate of increase should be maintained up
to the 1st of January, the coin and bul
lion in the country at that date, upon the
basis of the director's estimates, will be
$384,443,947.
Warning to Locomotive Engi
neers.—Drs. Charles M. Cresson and
Robert E. Rogers, of Philadelphia, wel
known as experts in chemistry and
dynamics, were appointed by the Read
ing Railroad Company to inquire into
and report upon the causes of the recent
explosion of the boiler of the express
locomotive “Gem,” at Malianoy City, by
which five lives were lost. Their report
which is designed to cover the whole
scope of a mo3t careful investigation,
not yet made public, but they have
arrived at the following specific conclu
sion, which wc give in their own
language : “We are therefore of th
opinion that the explosion of the boiler
of the locomotive ‘Gem.’ was produced
by the projection of foam upon the
heated crown bars of the furnace,
caused by suddenly and widely openin
the safety valve, at a time when tbt
water had been permitted to get so low
as to overheat the crown of the furnace.
This is an important matter, that should
be carefully noted by locomotive and
other engineers, for it will show them
that there are conditions in which th
sudden and wide opening of a safer
valve, or of a throttle valve, may pro
duce disastrous explosions instead
relief to the boiler.
ol
The electric light, known as the “Ra
pieff light,” has been tried successfull.
in the office of the London Times. It i.
described as a useful and agreeable light
which can be moderated and arranged tc
suit all circumstances, and an enthusias
tic spectator writes to an English papei
that “the sooner gas share-holders begiu
to hedge by investing in electric shares
the better.” As, however, gas stock
have recovered somewhat from the panic
they first experienced on the announce
ment of Edison’s discoveries, it wou d
seem that the holders have come to the
conclusion that the electric light will not
be made practically available to take the
place of gas for general use. That it
will supplant gas for the illumination of
public buildings and crowded thorough
fares is pretty certain. The fact that it
supplies abundant illumination without
heat or noxious odor will make it de
sirable for use in places of public as
semblage and especially in legislative
halls.
One of the New York Tribune's lying
Bohemian correspondents having asserted
that at the recent election in Charleston
Mr. Daggett, foreman of the News and
Courier office, put 2,500 fraudulent bal
lots into the ballot box, the News and
Courier says : “The statement concern
iDg Mr. Daggett, made in a Washington
telegram published in the New York
Tribune of the 2d, is as utterly false as
the statement made by E. W. M. Mackey
and published by the Tribune. We are
not higgling about numbers. Mi. Da^
gett put only one ballot in the box, the
ballot he cast himself. The Tribune, we
judge, will be afforded an early oppor
tunity of eating its words, or paying for
the injury it wantonly does to a respecta
ble and respected citizen. ”
must be received with the contempt they
so well de-erve.
The Situation in Connecticut.—
Gen. J. R. Hawley’s chances forelection
as United States Senator from Connecti
cut are not to be affected by the peculiar
circumstances of the case. He has just
been eleettd as a member of the next
House in a Democratic district If he is
elected to the Senate this would necessi
tate a new election for the House of Re
presentatives, and the Democratic
chances for carrying the district would
be much better than the Republican. It
a Democratic member was elected in
General Hawley’s place it would divide
the vote of the State, and in the event of
the election of President being thrown
into the House of Representatives, Con
necticut would have no voice in deter
mining tbe result.
Mr. Montgomery Blair is out in a let
ter maintaining that Tilden is the only
available Democratic candidate for the
Presidency in 1880. He will hardly suc
ceed in making the Democracy believe
this.
The Radicals insist that the heavy fall
ing off of their vote in some of the heavy
negro districts in the South is evidence
of violence and intimidation. If this
reasoning is correct, then it appears that
the worst kind of bulldozing must have
been practiced, without exciting com
ment, in the law-abiding State of Maine.
Waldo county, whose vote is the cause
of Eugene Hale’s retirement from Con
gress, gave in September an opposite n
majority of three thousand, a number
nearly three-fourths as large as the entire
Republican vote in the county in 1876,
when the Republicans had a majority of
eight hundred. In the town of Munroe
the vote in 1876 was Republican 238,
Democratic 82; in September it was Re
publican 60, opposition 231.
The New York Graphic very grapbi
cally describes the New Yoik Clearing
House Association and its position with
regard to silver, by a cartoon, in which
the association is represented as a huge
bull on a railway track, with a little bell
on it labeled ‘ ‘national banks. ” The bull,
with a satisfied, indifferent countenance,
is all unconscious tha tthe United States,
in shape of a railway train, bound for
the depot of Resumption, with Uncle
Sam for engineer, is bearing down upon
him. One taking in the situation is im
pressed with the idea that the bull is
certain to come to grief.
Notwithstanding their gushing affection
for the poor negro, they play some ugly
practical jokes upon him. A few days
ago, inWatertoAn, N. Y., a poor ine
briated darkey was set up against a build
ing and pelted with mud until he died.
Franco-American Yiew» on a
Term.
The Courrier des Etats Unis, alluding
in one of its articles to the comments
made by some of the Republican organs
upon the proposed renomination of Gen
era! Grant for the Presidency by the
9olid North, says: “A rumor whispers
the candidature of General Grant. Should
it happen, it is not improbable that it
would secure a portion of the colored
vote. But, admitting that there is a solid
North, it is doubtful whether it would
solidly support the General for the Presi
dency. It would be very difficult for
the Republican party to unite upon this
nomination, its most prominent leaders
not being Grant men. There is, espec
ially, one of this number, who is proba
bly the strongest, but certainly the
most influential, who has erected
barrier between himself and the
predecessor of Mr. Hayes. It
Mr. Conkling. It is he who said that
•if Gen. Grant believed that he could
depend on the support of the Federal
army, he would not hesitate to insure by
force of arms the success of the Repub
lican conspiracy in the installation of
Mr. Hayes.' It was Mr. Conkling who
said also: ‘Thanks to the electoral com
mission, it has been attained by such
means that when they become known
they will condemn Mr. Grant’s adminis
tration.’ After all this it would be
absurd to suppose that Mr. Conkling and
his friends would support Gen. Grant
for a third term; for Mr. Conkling is not
a trifler.
“It is not merely the opposition of Mr.
Conkling and his friends that Gen.
Grant’s candidacy would receive. When
the General left for Europe, his public
life was considered ended, and out of
consideration for his former services and
respect for the American name, by a sort
of implicit consent, a profound §ilence
was observed as to his political career,
and a flattering veil was thrown over his
eight years’ adminislra'ion of corruption
and despotism, in which he seriously
compromised the honor and prosperity
of the country. But the very moment
when the leaders of this execrable ad
ministration shall attempt to bring him
back again into prominence, the remem
branee of his past career will be revived
and a cry will be raised to defeat their
audacious and shameful scheme.
™ BY TELEGRAPH.
The Washington Star of Monday says
"The almost unanimous icutimentof the
members of Congiess who Rave arrived
in the city is that there will be no extra
session of the Forty-sixth Congress. The
estimates are pared down to the lowest
possible limit, and there will be little an
tagonism to any of the appropriation
bills. Not a few of the Democrats as
sert that they will pass a bill in the
House to repeal the existing law which
provides for the appointment of Federal
election supervisors. While it may be
possible to get it through the House as a
direct proposition, it will hardly be
passed by the Senate. The only real
danger of any of the appropriation bills
failing would be brought about in case
the supervisor law cannot be repealed by
the passage of a bill to accomplish that
purpose, when there might possibly be an
effort to tack it to one of the regular ap
propriation bills.”
Horrible Cruelty in an Insane
Asylum.—The Minnesota legislative
committee of inquiry in the charges of
cruelty at the State Lunatic Asylum
have found the charges sustained in two
cases, in which the death of the patients
was indirectly caused or hastened, one
man being strangled by forcing food
down his throat, and one being scalded
to death in a hot bath. John Betts and
Mrs. Myors, assi.-tants in the hospital
are held responsible for these acts.
There are also deficiencies of $4,000 in
the accounts of Rev. A. II. Kerr, Treas
urer of the Hospital Board.
It is understood that Judge Thurman
will be made President pro tem. of the
Scnr<te when the Democrats obtain the
majority in that body.
A Criminal Romance.
betc York Herald. 22d.
Mr. Peace is an English murderer and
burglar <*f attainments. His story, as
told in the lleraUl yesterday may be re
garded as one of the strangest revelations
m the history of crime. About his early
youth we are not informed, but burglary
ind picture dealing appear to have been
co-ordinate professions with him until
two years ago, when he fell in love with
another man s wife. The lady rejected
his suit, and he threatened to murder her.
The husband, Mr. Dyson, moved his
household to another place, and in about
six weeks Mr. Peace waited for the lady
i u the back yard of her house and fired a
pistol at her. He missed her. Mr. Dy-
son came to the door to see what was the
matter, and received a bullet in his
uead. He died. The detectives
scoured the country” for Mr. Peace,
but he slipped througn their fingers; he
_ven managed to have the idea prevail
ihat he had killed himself through re
morse. This simple tale of lust and
murder is, however, only the prelude to
a career of crime which makes ail the
romance about Claude Duval, Sixteen-
tring Jack and the dandv Barrington
fade into insignificance. For two years
after his escape, having settled down in
ihe suburbs of London, he led the life
of a burglar and a gentleman—very
much burglar and very much gentleman.
So’much of a burglar was he that he
seems to have worked out three districts
successively, and so much of a gentleman
that his establishment at Peckbam was
the pride of the neighborhood and himself
one of its most honored residents.
Now, here was a murderer with a price
on his head ravaging whole neighlior-
uoods at his ease and playing violin solos
between times, while {he astute eet*-c-
lives of Scotland Yard declared them
selves unable to account for it. It was a
wonderful caieer, but here is the con
soling part of it—it came to grief. In
one of his nocturnal raids he dropped
into the arms of a common policeman.
There was a struggle and some shooting,
but the burglar went to jail; and bit by
bit his story was unravelled. He will
doubtless be hanged for the murder. All
there is to be said about this case re
sumes itself in the thought that rascality
is the surest guide to its own detection.
Spiritualism is commonly thought to
be a belief or superstition (superstition
is what others believe and we do not),
peculiar to and confined within the limits
of civilization. But the natives of the
Marquesas Islands are reported to be
spiritualists of the most uncompromis
ing sort. They think that they are al
ways surrounded by spirits which, or
whom, they do not fear sertong as it is
daylight. As soon as it is dark, how
ever, they are in mortal dread of ghosts,
never venturing out alone. Then they
go in pairs, or by fours, fives, or sise^,
imagining that, if they be alone, bad
spirits may seize upon and carry them off
easily and'suddenly. It is supposed that
such spirits are in search of human sac
rifices which they were unable to procure
while in the flesh. When a native dies
his spirit turns into a ghost, it is thought,
and returns to the place where he has
lived. If he, or it. can find no human
sacrifice, he is obliged to depart to Domi
nique, the wildest and most sterile of all
the islands, and from there leap into the
sea. As he can never come back to earth,
this is the close of his ghostly career.
The natives also have mediums who
claim to have power to summon and con
trol spirits, and as they are intensely su
perstitious the mediums there, ns here,
do a good business. The priests are
usually the mediums, and they interpret
1 the mysteries of the invisible world
. j t le ignorant laity. They make great
prolessions of sanctit}*, ana manage the
poor savages as they choose, and, unlike
our mediums, they are never exposed as
arrant imposters.
THE STATE LEGISLATURE.
BUSINESS PROGRESSING SLOWLY
SEVKRAL
NEW BILLS
DICED.
One to Declare Null the Endorsement
of the Northeastern R. R. Bonds.
THE QUESTION OF RECESS OR
RECESS CONSIDERED.
NO
SDccial Telegram to the Morning .Veter
Atlanta, November 27.—The business
of the Legislature progresses slowly. This
is the nineteenth day of the session, yet not
a bill has yet been finally passed. The
House will reconsider the election liquor
bill on Friday.
Mr. Chambers, of Wilkinson, is Chairman
of the House joint committee to equalize
the labors of the judicial circuits.
Majority and minority reports on abolish
ing the Agricultural Department were pre
sented.
Mr. Adams secured a second reading of
the bill allowing purchasers of railroads to
complete their lines. This bill has the pro
posed purchase of the Albany and Bruns
wick Railroad in view.
On the call of counties several new bills
were introduced. Mr. Sheffield, of Miller,
introduced one declaring null and void the
Governor's indorsement of the North
eastern Railroad bonds, and prohibiting
the payment of the interest or principal of
the same. This bill strikes at the root of
the matter and opens up the history of the
transaction for discussion.
Mr. Alston, of DeKalb, introduced a reso
lution to the effect that the Legislature has
passed no bills, and probably may not do so,
because of constitutional obstacles, and call
ing for a joint committee to so amend the
constitution that legislation may be
expedited at future sessions. A majority re
port was presented favoring no recess and a
long session, together with a minority report
favoring a recess from December 5th until
July 15th. It was made the order of the
day for Thursday of next week.
No local legislation bill has yet been
agreed upon.
The investigating committee are to pre
sent a printed report.
There will be no session of the Legislature
to-morrow. Several bills passed the House
to-day.
Judge Hall, of Spalding, introduced a
bill to enable the State to collect the tax
fi. fas. now out against railroads for taxes.
The Senate passed the Tax Collector bill
by a substitute, but will attempt to recon
sider Friday. This is the regular course on
all bills in both houses, and no progress has
been made yet.
More bills to change the Code and amend
the constitution were offered in the Senate.
A BLOODY AND FATAL CONFLICT.
Port Gibson, Miss., November 27.—Dr.
Buck, Sheriff of Claiborne county, having
received information before daylight this
morning that Harrison Page, the negro
desperado who assassinated the Chancery
Clerk of this county two years ago, was at
his house three miles from town, went out
with his deputies to arrest Page. One of tbe
deputies, Robert I.um, was shotan*? instant
ly killed from a window. Tht Sh-.riiT. on
forcing the door, was shot in the boweli.Lu -•
and arm. and is dying. Thomas Harwood,
another deputy, was knocked into an old
cistern and left for dead, though he has
since revived and is not seriously hurt. A
posse left town immediately, and Charlie
Wellman, one of the posse, while riding
near Page’s house, was shot through the
face, arm, leg and hand. He is still alive.
The assassin escaped, though several of his
accomplices were killed.
ESCAPE OF THREE ROBBERS.
Richmond, Va., November 27.—John
Bradley, J. H. Murray and John Thompson,
all white, who were convicted a few days
ago of entering and robbing the room of a
guest at the Exchange Hotel, during the
week of the State Fair, and sentenced to
the penitentiary for five years each, escaped
from the city* jail last* night, where they
were confined awaiting the decision of a
motion for a new trial. The escape points
to carelessness on the part of the
jail officials who were on duty at the time.
J udge Christian has ordered the suspension
of the officers until an investigation is had.
The thieves are supposed to have been
originally from Chicago.
STILL JUBILATING OVER THE MARQUIS AND
PRINCESS.
Halifax, November 27.—The railroad
staliou was crowded to-day to witness tbe
departure of the Governor General and
Princess. Buildings were beautifully deco
rated and crowds were present an hour before
the time for leaving. The vice regal partv
were received by a guard of houor from
the Sixty-third \ olunteer Rifles. The Mar
quis and Princess went at once to their car,
and remained on the platform till the train
at eleven o’clock started, amid immense
cheering, a salute being fired at tbe same
time from the citadel.
CAPTURE OF KURUM FORT.
London, November 27.—A special to the
Standard says: “Fort Mahomed Azim, other
wise called Kurum Fort, was occupied by
tbe British troops this morning. The
Afghan garrison fled to Peirw&r, at the
northern extremity of the Kurum valley,
where they are expected to offer resistance
to the further advance of Gen. Roberts.
One dismantled gun was found in Kurum
Fort.”
Mi KNIGHT TELEGRAMS
NOTES FROM XU. SCHIRZS
FORTHCOMING REPORT.
Rescue of the Pommerania’s Captain
and Passengers.
A NEGRO DESPERADO KILLS THREE
MEN IN MISSISSIPPI.
1 he English Occupy Fort Mahomed
Azim.
ESCAPE OF THREE THIEVES FROM
RICHMOND JAIL.
Sundry Hem* of Interest.
NOTES FROM MR. SCHURZ ? S REPORT.
Washington, November 27.—The Secre
tary of the Interior devotes much of his re
port to the Indian policy of his department
as skeiched by him last year, whirb. be says,
seemed to meet with ’general approval as
far as public opinion expressed itself: and
he believes that if proj»erly aided by Con
gress and uninterfered with by the whites
it would in the course of time bring
satisfactory results. He describes tbe
circumstances which led to the removal of
the Red Cloud and Spotted Tail tribes to
their reservations, and reports that these
Sioux so far have given evidence of a loyal
spirit, and tbe rumor current of a disposi
tion on their part to break out in hostilities
are entirely unfounded.
In regard to tbe outbreak of the Bannocks
last spring, Secretary Schurz says that it
must be admitted that they were insuffi
ciently supplied with food, which, however,
was owing to tbe appropriation by Congress
being utterly inadequate to their wants.
Concerningtbe outbreak of three hundred
Northern Cheyennes, the Secretary corrobo
rates the statement heretofore made by the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs in a special
report on this subject, showing that it was
Dot caused by hunger, nor by any neglect on
the part of the government officials to fur-
them supplies according to the treaty; but
that, on the contrary, they received ample
supplies, and more than they were en
titled to.
The Secretary devotes considerable space
to the subject of the timber lands. Refer
ring to the measures taken by the depart
ment for the suppression of timber depreda
tions, he says that it was expected that they
would meet with stubborn opposition on
the part of lumbermen and others directly
or indirectly interested in these depreda
tions. Here and there the proceedings of
the special agents of the department were
complained of as oppressive and otherwise
improper, and in every instance carefnl
inquiries into the facts were instituted.
Such inquiries resulted almost uniformly in
the vindication of the agents. When it was
found that private property had been seized,
together with timber unlawfully taken
from the public lands, or with lumber
manufactured therefrom, which was some
times unavoidable, prompt restitution was
ordered. An officer of tbe Treasury was
detailed for that purpose and sent to the
State of Louisiana, where charges of im
proper practices on the part of our timber
agent had been preferred with particular
urgency. An elaborate report reudered by
that officer not only justified tbe conduct of
the agent whom this deparment employed
in that State, who died of yellow fever, but
it puts the extent of the depredations com
mitted there, and the necessity of their sup
pression, in tbe clearest light.
In several States, especially in the South,
the local authorities were resorted to by in
terested parties for the purpose of hamper
ing and baffling the efforts of this depart
ment by a variety of expedients, which, in
6ome instances, were not without effect. In
spite of these difficulties, it may
be said that, in some parts of tbe
country at least, depredations on the timber
lands of the L'nited States have already been
greatly limited in extent; but we cannot
close our eyes to the fact that anything like
complete success In suppressing these un
lawful practices is impossible, unless the
efforts made by this department for the
jrotection of public property meet with
iearly co-operation on the part of the legis
lative branch of tbe government.
CAPTAIN OF THE POMMERANIA SAVED—LIST
OF SURVIVORS.
Rotterdam, November 27.—It is impos
sible to converse with Captain Schwenzen,
who is under medical treatment, his nervous
system being strongly affected. He has re
ceived nobody. The Captain of the City of
Amsterdam gives the following information:
“It was very dark on the night when the
Pommerania was off Folkestone. Captain
Schwenzen left the bridge for a mo
ment, when he felt a shock. He
Immediately returned to the bridge, but
be cannot well recollect the subsequent
events. The City of Amsterdam, which was
assing at the time, heard the cries for help,
_ut could see nothing. Nevertheless, she
lowered her life boats, which found Captain
Schwt-nzen floating on a piece of wood. It
was theu about 12:45 o'clock. Capt. Schwen-
zeu's watch had stopped at a quarter-past
Tbe following is an additional list of the
saved: Gust. Schorr, Chicago: Wa Jesse,
Norwalk, Conn : Hear? Schmidt. New Nork:
John RdckelmanD, LaCrosse, Wis.; Louise
Rassman, Philadelphia; Martin Appel, New
York; Master Theo. E. Charder,Green Point,
L. L; Jurgen B. Bannick, Davenport,
Iowa; John W. Johnson, Jamestown,
N. Y.; Geo. Krauss, Delaware, O.; Michael
Krauss, Delaware, Ohio: Fred. Peterson,
Williamsburg, New York: J. C. O Lesin,
Omaha, Nebraska: Uemmong M. Fasmus-
sen, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Jas. Lockner,
LaCrosse, Wisconsin; Carl Kullwelr, New
York; Wm. Reiman, Toledo; Ferd. Rutz,
New York: Aug. Becker, Buffalo, New
York: Aug. Beyeser, Buffalo, New York:
William Waheine, Detroit, Michigan: Louis
Talinski, Buffalo, N. Y.: Leo Weitzenhofer,
New York; Louis Hordefor, St. Joseph,
Mo.; H. C. Hinkelnan, Hoboken, N. J.: H.
Strop, St. Louis, Mo.: John Haak, Chicago:
Fred. Zudz, Chicago; H. Stengel, New
York: R. R. Schneider, New York; Henry
Schmidt. New York; Arnold Prink, New
York; Wilh. Hegerman, LaCrosse.
STEAMER DISABLED.
London, November 27.—The Allan Line
steamer Circassian, which left Liverpool
for Halifax on the 21st instant, has put
back to the former port, with her machinery
damaged.
A Step Backward.
Philadelphia Evening Telegraph. Ind. Rep.
The "prominent officer of the govern
ment” who, according to our special dis
patch from Washington, has expressed
the opinion that the nomination of Gen.
Grant bv the Republican party as its
Presidential candidate in 1880 will be a
step backward which a progressive or
ganization like the Republican party
cannot afford to take, is an exceedingly
level-headed prominent officer. Without
stopping to inquire whether this promi
nent official may or may not have Presi
dential aspirations for himself, which
would be materially interfered with
should there be a serious attempt made to
run Grant for a third term, we can quite
heartily concur in his belief that the Re
publican party would indeed be making
a step backward should it attempt again
to make Grant its standard bearer. The
prejudices against a third term—preju
dices which are ii respective of the merits
or demerits of this or that individual—
are very much more potent than a great
many of those who most anxiously de
sire to bring about a revival of Grantism
with all its variegated unpleasantness are
willing to bring themselves to admit.
These prejudices would militate against
a third term project in behalf of a much
stronger candidate than Grant can pos
sibly Tx?, and were Grant to be made a
candidate, they would be strongly rein
forced by sentiments that are not at all
in the nature of prejudices. The feeling
against Grant, as a possible candidate for
the Presidency, is not at all in the nature
of prejudice, for the people of the United
States tried Grant for eight years and
found him most lamentably wanting in
most of the essentials of a good Presi
dent.
The professed friends of General
Grant are doing him a grievous disser
vice in attempting to represent him as
the possible, and probable, choice of the
Republican party in 1880, and he will do
himself greater disservice should he per
mit himself to be made the catspaw of
the Chandlers, and Biaines, and Conk-
ling*, and Babcocks, and all the rest of
the unpleasant coterie who did so much
to make his eight t’ears' administration
of the Executive office an offense to the
just men of all parties and all sections. A
vast majority of the American peo
ple have the most cordial senti
ments towards General Grant. They
cannot forget, and have no desire to
forget, his great and invaluable services
as the commander of the Union armies
during the rebellion; and it is their keen
appreciation of these services that makes
them willing to go as far as can be gone
in the direction of forgiving and forget
ting the unpleasant features of his Presi
dency. If. however, he again becomes
a Presidential candidate, an overhauling
of his record as a civil administrator will
become a necessity: and, apart altogether
from all other considerations, the Repub
lican party cannot afford to go into the
campaign of 1880 with a candidate
who has been tried and found wanting,
and in whose behalf it will be necessary
to carry on a defensive warfare. That
no considerable portion of the Republi*
can party wishes to have Grant for a
Presidential candidate in 1880 is as sure
as daylight, and it is just as sure that if
the Democrats should have the wit to
nominate against him a first-rate man—
such a man as Senator Bayard, for in
stance—they would make such a clean
sweep that there would be no room for
doubt, controversy, or counting out.
5Sfir Adrertisrumits.
THA>KSU1\ 150 RACES
Amusements.
¥frS0K2l.
Thunderbolt Park Course
TO-DAY.
SlOO
TROTTING RACE FOR
Closed with the following entries:
C W. Kenne-Iv enters a g Cracker Boy
Pat Somers enters a m_ lri-h GirL
M. J. Dovle ente s b. c. Aleck St phena
Race to be called punctually at 2:30 p. a.
RUNNING RACE.
Half mile and repeat, closed with the follow
Ing entries:
Joseph Roos enters b. e. Blind Tom.
W. p. Dowling enters b. g. Mike D.
The Savann&u favorite. Fauehaballagh. will
give an exhibition o speed against time.
Bar privilege awarded to Thoa >aright;
Gaming and Pool privileges to W. T Birch.
Go to Thunderbolt and lias e a Good
Time.
EDW. J. THOMAS.
nov28-lt General Agent.
THAN KSGIVING
OYER—
Coast Line Railroad.
TROTTING AND RUNNING RACES
AT THUNDERBOLT PARK COURSE.
(See advertisement elsewhere.)
MR BAXNON. MR. AMBOS and MBS. MOXO-
HaN are prepared, at
THUNDERBOLT,
To entertain their friends with a good Kish,
Oyster or Game Dinner.
MR. JANSEN, at the
8CHUETZEN PARK,
Has all preparations for a Turkey Shooting and
Target Practice, ai d will be glad to entertain
gentlemen and their families, who wish to
sp-nd a pleasant day at this beautiful Park.
All are invited
NO ENTRANCE FEE.
SPECIAL SCHEDULE.
Cars leave city EVERY HOUR in morning
from 8 until 11 o clock. In afternoon EVERY
HALF HOUR from 2 until 5 o'clock.
RETURNING. lea*e Thunderbolt andSchuet-
zen Park EVERY HOUR in morning from
until 1 o'clock. In afternoon EVERY HALF'
HOUR from 3 until 6 o'clock.
EDW J. THOMAS.
dov27 2t General Agent
LEcTiKEs m mum
—or—
Rev.W.E. MI NSKY.D. I).
r £ , HE undersigned offer for sale, at wholesale
and retail, the above work. It contains
about 550 pages 12mo. with excellent engraved
likeness or Dr. 31. Price, per mail, post paid.
$2. Liberal discount to preachers and dealers.
Address J. W. BURKE Si CO.
nov2S-tf Macon. Ga.
NOTICE.
McCOY is not antlu-rized to transact aDV
business for. or collect anv moneys due
to D. G. ALLEN or ALLEN A LINDSAY.
ALLEN A: L1ND6AY.
norS^2t Br D. G. Allen
OTATE OF GEORGIA. Chatham i'oi
O STEPHEN El.: IOTf has applied
‘OfNTT.—
applied for ex
empt ion of personalty, and I will pass upon
the same at 10 o'clock x. on the NINE
TEENTH DAY OF DECEMBER. 1878. at my
office.
Novembeh 27, 1878.
JOHN O. FEbajtX.
nov28Adec72t Ordinary C. C.
ai'atrhrs. ^circlru, Sr.
SAMEL P. IJA'ilLTOA,
SAVANNAH THEATRE.
THl HSDAV, XOVEnBEH 28, 1878.
THE JSo. T. FORD
Amateur Association
of shoes at my store on baiurtiaj.
ber 16th. giving in payment a five dollar noj
and leaving a blue sun umbrella, will hearVji
something to her advantage by .-ailing at -r-
store as soon as possible. A. 8. XIC'HoLs v7
„ ^ possible. A. 8. NICHOLS
198 Broughton street.
Will give an entertainment for the
of the
G O to JACOB QULVT S store* lo-riav ar
one of those moe Mi- ~ ~ ‘
SAVIMAH PORT SOCIETY.
Mince Pies to- Thaz*L
. gmng dinner, corner Jefferson street
„ j Broad street lane, and corner Ab- room
At which will be presented a very attractive
programme, comprising the beauti
ful and romantic Two-Act
Drama entitled
THE MINER ALLI!
AN OLIO OF SONGS. MUSIC. SPECIALTIES.
To conclude with the famous
Braimagan’s Band !
By Special Request.
Tickets tor sale at the usual places. For fur
ther particulars see small bills.
novl9.2K.J7.28ATel24
The Best Show in the World.
SAVANNAH THEATRE.
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 29
AND 30.
MATINEE SATURDAY AT 2 O'CLOCK
BARLOW. WILSON.
PRIMROSE A WEST S
MINSTRELS!
ENTIRE
NEW S H O \V
SEASON!
THIS
NEW PEOPLE!
NEW SPECIALTIES
Houses crowded to the doors with the elite of
society everywhere. The Minstrel Honarchs in
their New- Programme of merit and brilliancy.
Prices $1 00. 75c . 50c. Seats secured at Bren's
Ticket Agency. No extra charge.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
Entire change of Bill every performance from
overture to afterpiece.
nov265i
tfrorrms 3nd ?roristons.
RECEIVED DIRECT THIS DAY.
V N invoice of that splendid TOKAY WINE.
Also,
TORT. SHERRY. CLARET and RIESLING.
From the leading California vintners.
Liberty gtreeta.
YyOODCOCK, Snipe, Qua !. TeaL Suma~
T ' ^2°^ Veniaon for dinner this ^
at FRHL'S.
nov^g-n
B LUE POINT. Rockaway and Morris Core
Oysters, at FP.EILt*. nov^P
novS^lt
4 GRAND TURKEY LUNCH will be serv*
A at JEFFRt.3 S Brokers' Wine Pa.- \
7 Drayton street, at 11 a. m. r .
T ^UNCH a la Cafe Brunswick, a: FROL'S,
novS-if’
M aatefl.
TYTANTED TO BORROW, rent or b* — ;
>> Sadde Hor^e. Apply at LUD. L\ "
BATES' Mu<ic Hou^e. &
w ANTED, a com pet nt C-ok. ar - r mx
» * comer Drayton and Wald burr
nov28-2t
1>URCHASER 4-year old sac h- — j
1 Horse: guaranteed. Apply Cape. BELls
Stable. Broughton street. oovds-n
\ SITU A , I* »N Wanted, by a m;: ii*
VArnft* va Aa li.lif ■p. 1 — A■ a . -4 - k.® .
woman. u> do light work and mto- h*-rS
useful in a fair.: y: wages no object: rer-w**.
if required. A pply at this oflfc-*- n, »
U TANTED. 1<> .<« Trade DeOare. at so
s. p Hamilton. co«d-.- b.
Broughton stre* i*
Ai
•i asd
tion as cook or house girl in a j
family. Address* M.. this office. no .^r^
^EWSPAFL. PRES- WaNTEI-
at
_ hand Printing
for a nine column paper. Chase* and k
same.
We have for sale. Chases and Rule* f- *r a fl
column paper. Address, stating ,
terms, J. P A. DcPONT
Editor and Proprietor Okefeen c-a-
nov23-6t Da?' ±
CM \ E thousand d.>! »'■» worth
T H
HANK FURNITURE A SI) ClOTHKa
WANTED —The highest cash grits paid far
such at the SkjC N.» HANDSTORE, c-,m-r ,y
East Broai and Broughton strw-->
waited on at their own houses bj Mm Xr
novl3-lm
CENT apiece ; r PINT BEE.. . Z ..La.
Freight will be pi^iu by me on .-j - ty
railroad or steamer. HENRY SANDERS,
Cor. South Broad and Jefferson sta.. savannah.
ocC25 t?
ii b . r of --ny
oj commum-aiing whi. -UEOC
is, care ci eSee, Sarazaah. Ofa
MALAGA GRAPES, in kegs.
> T JES, POTATOES. CABBAGES, etc.
M El .WIN'S SUPERB MEATS.
D ES. FI -P. RAISINS. PRUNES. CUR
RANTS, CITRON and other dried fruits.
FLORIDA ORANGES.
( ED PIGS’ FEET, in half and quarter bbls.
M LX ID and PLAIN PICKLES, loose and in glass
FRUIT JELLIES, in 5 and 10-Ib. cans.
TOWN TALK BAKING POWDER
CHIP BEEF.
New Pickled and Smoked HERRING.
CONFECTIONERY and FIREWORKS in great
variety. And last, but not least.
GOLD DUST. .So
REEDY’S,
21 BARNARD STREET.
n«v27-tf
RUSSAK * CO.
—art. omkisi;—
J.- RUSH GOOI>S in cans.
MACKEREL. SALMON". LOBSTERS.
ASPARAGUS. VC1SCES. DAMSOS.
PLUMS, CHERRIES. STRAWBERRIES,
PURE KEROSENE OIL at 15 cent*
2 2 BARNARD
novaatf
STREET.
FRUIT CAKES!
DIAMONDS.
JEWELRY.
I EMON SNAPS.
^ Rockaway FRUIT.
SIL7BR k PLATED WARE,
CLOCKS. CLOCKS.
OPERA GLASSES.
BRONZES, CANES,
COCOANUT DROP CAKE
GINGER DROPS.
GINGr.R XU TS.
GINGER SNAPS.
ICED FRUIT.
O »MBINATION.
EXCURSION.
Also, a line of PLAIN CRACKERS
BISCUIT. AH fresh.
Heading.
4 FEW I»AY BOAlU , ER si can be ac’ mmo-
a -
. dated at 1-m tt-llv
nov-zs :t
street. Term* moderate.
P AVILION HOTEL, Sou’h Broad and Bull
s'reets. Savannah. Georgia.—Rates $2 i*r
day:$i2pir week. WM. H. JOHNSON. Pro
prietor. nov2l N&Teitf
jtsr .Sale.
\\"HITE CAMELLIAS for balls and parties.
* * Fresh daily, at GARDNER'S. Hull
street. nov^3t
O ATS.—LUX) bushels Red Ka>t-proof
■
Oats. Horn vari-:y. for sale a: centa.
Address U. W. ROUN IEEE, Quitman, Ga
nov^S-lt
1 y UST PROOF OATS,
t nov2>lt
P. H. WARD & CO.
I?L' 'RIDA OKaNGES $150 per hundred, at
U GAKDVER-S :> Bull street. Dovsb-V.
'OND-HAND FI KN.TT E —TL- w“.«t
O cash price paid for second Land ► umiture,
Stovea Carpets. Bedding, etc. New and second
hand Fur. iture always kept on Re
pairing and exchanging. Mattresses made to
order.
L. REMIOX.
IN Broughton.
Two doors from Jefferson street
noriMf
AW MUX FOR SALE desirAi-,. located,
I in -unniag order, wi’h iLvmg and Shingle
sbiaea land and improvements, an J ail ar-
purtuiiances complete i>> .ia .ufj.c .ring l.-m-
bernni&hngiea Foriurthcr in r '. mVi-m ad
dress or apply to MANNING ot McCaLL. bt.
Julian st reel. Savannah. <5a. no* i >ia
JLX)R SALE, near : uaventure. ou tbe Shell
Road, a few GARl EN LOTS, of front live (5)
to eight (S)
quire of
For particulars m-
B. J. DAY ANT, 114 Bay s
Executor estate W. H. Wfitbezger.
nov9-S,TuAThl m
L,X>R SALE OR EXCHANGE. 35 acres of very
A nice building iand. covered with large
shade trees, with aqu* -i.ict water, frelating on
three street*, seven m.nates walk from
and six and a half tuiies from State H use.
r , vaiueJ
and equipments
BUTTERFIELD.
nov2-lm
, Box 1.01L Boston,
G. F.
SHELL. IVORY AND PF. VRL CARD CASES
AND PORT.'IONNAIES,
A. 31.
nov25-tf
—AT—
Purses, Bags, Belts,
C. W. WEST’S,
159 LIBERTY STREET.
S.
REAL SHELL COMBS.
FRENCH NOVELTIES, ETC.
P. HAMILTON,
CORNER BULL A BROUGHTON STS.,
SAVANNAH, GA.
nov22-tf
Coi£ms St, Conpess St.
Waking Up the Babj.
Xashville American.
Just at dusk, of the other dismal day,
three children, the oldest of whom did
Dot seem to be over ten years old, were
huddled together on the rickety steps of
an old house on Beaublen street. A
pedestrian peeped over their heads to
read the numl>er on the door, and the
children looked so frightened that he
asked:
“Children, where are your father and
mother?”
“Father’s been gone off for ever so
long, and mother goes out to wash, and
hasn't got home yet," answered the old
est, a girL
“And are you all alone?”
“Yes, sir, but the baby is on the bed.
He’s been asleep an awful long time, and
we can t wake him up. If we could we’d
play hide and seek and let him find us.”
‘Is the baby sick?” asked the man.
‘We don't know, sir, but we can’t
wake him up. I touched him and touch
ed him. aud Charlie he tickled his feet,
but little Sandy never moved once. I
guess he is awful sleepy. Don’t you
think you could wake him up?”
“I’ll try,” replied the man as he went
in. and when the girl had lighted the
lamp he followed her into a bedroom in
which there was neither carpet nor
furniture. Pushed back against the wall
was a poor old straw tick and a single
quilt He bent over to look at the child,
and the first glance showed him that
little Sandy was dead. On the window
sill were some pieces of bread and a cup
of milk which the children intended to
feed him. The dead child's hand clasped
a rag doll made of an old calico apron,
and its thin little feet and pale face were
evidences that it had known sickness
and hunger throughout its brief life.
While the children waited for him to
open his eyes and romp with them and
drive the gloom out of the house, the
angels had whispered to him and his
eyes had enclosed to behold the splendors
of heaven.
Won't he wake up?” asked one of
the children, standing back in the
shadow.
Children, you must come in here
till your mother comes!” he said as he
left the room. .
Won’t he be afraid to wake up m the
dark?" they asked.
“He will sleep a long time yet,” he
whispered, not daring to tell them the
truth, and as he went out they put the
light on the bed room floor, that little
Sandy might not find the darkness
around him when his sleep had ended.
Poor things! They knew not, and they
could not see the crown of glory on the
dead child’s brow—a crown whose light
all the shadows of earth can never darken
in the least.
At the OI<l Stand, Opposite the
Pulaski liouse.
T HE subscriber is still to be found at the OLD
STAND. 135 CONGRESS STREET, where
he has a good selection of
Watches, flocks, Jewelry,
MACKEREL,&c.
/ \RANGES 25 cent* a dozen at
V' _ GARDNER'S.
nov36-3:
29 Bull street.
F lorida jewelry made to ok er.
Hatches. OucJE* and Jewel
fixed at A. L
, CIucjcs and Jewelry carefully
DES BOUILLON'S. 2, Bull street.
U'OR SALE Oak. Pine and Light* •> d. sawed
JO or *n Kick. All order* left at office corner
Taylor and East Broad «treeta. or dropped in
boxes through town, will receive prompt atten
tion. R. B. CASSLLS.
\ *7ERY choice laree FAT MACKEREL
i Very choice BONBfeMIMIMM
Very choice BONELESS CODFISH.
Very choice LONI> >N LAYER RAISINS.
Very choice new CURRANTS.
Very choice new CITRON.
Very choice new NUTS, all lrfn^g
Very choice fresh RUTTER
Very choice FLORIDA ORANGES.
Very choice APPLES.
All at REDUCED PRICES.
BRUCH & COOPER.
nov20-N£Teltf
Coffee and Tea Store,
139 BROUGHTON STREET.
STERLING SILVER BARE,
SILVER PLATED WARE, &c.
Which he sells at prices to suit the times.
Sole arent far the e ale of the celebrated DIA
MOND SPECTACLES and EYEGLASSES.
Watches, Clock* and Jewelry repaired.
CHRONOMETERS HATED BY TRANSIT.
F. D. JORDAN,
135 Congress st., opp. Pulaski House.
nov!9-6m
SACK,
AI) O I. P II
—DEAI.ES in—
WATCHES, JEWELRY,
FRENCH AND AMERICAN CLOCKS,
Spectacles and Silver-Plated Ware,
139^ BROUGHTON STREET.
SAVANNAH, - GEORGIA.
WOULD call the attention of the public to
I my gooda. Every article sold in my estab
lishment is guaranteed to be as represented.
In addition to Ihe qlwre, 1 have also received
a splendid line of
Musical Boxes^nd Accordeons,
Suitable for Holiday Presents.
Having twenty four years' experience as a
Practical Watchmaker. I can say that all work,
such n< REPAIRING aLL KINDS OF W ATCH
ES. JEWELRY. CL'I KS. MUSICAL AND
SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS, wil. b~ done in a
workmanlike manner, and consequently satis
faction given. novl6-2m
"YJ AND AUNG JAVA. O. G. JAVA.
MEXICAN RIO, LAGUAYRA.
MARACAIBO, MOCHA, and selected
RIO COFFEE roasted every day.
Pure TEAS at the low st prices.
SPICES of all kinds.
novl-tf A. J. MOLONEY.
HAMS, TONGUES
SAUSAGES!
A f ALAGaS 3u cents per pound ar
J1 ^ GARDNER'S.
nov26-^t ft Bull street.
LTOR SALE, t
U and lot of I
two LITHOGRAPHIC PRt-~~Ee
LITHOGRAPHIC STONE^ Ap
n - ESTILL - - strcc--
2o 2n»t.
TJNDR RENT large am! small rooms, on sec-
A ond ant' third fl . r . with of hath, etc
one room with southern expo*- ure. also, on the
premises, a large and airy Sianle. Apply to
125 Jones street. nov2^tf
F JR RENT, two rooms, one large, the other
smaii furnished or unfurnc-hed. with or
wiioont board, in a quiet family. Appir at
nov#-*1t
this office.
HT 0 k>w, small House, with >
A office. 64 Brough on stree:
nov^j ltATeilt
FiRM AXD PASTBBSoa
■' r rtn* or leas- For na^iculare
•ppij 1«1 O»rl!on UM
U'OR REN r. I offer for rent tae boo-.- now
X occupied by me, V. s3 Brought>n <r~ :
re h P ' ----fcSsRSfffiSS
LmSoZTJSSF™™- , UMTif **-“'•
JAOTSHUKKB,
110 Bryan street
©duratioaal-
B EST SUGAR CURED HAMS »t cents
per pound.
FRESH LOT CHOICE TONGUES. 50 cents each.
PHILADELPHIA BOLOGNA SAUSAGE 2l0
cunts pt r pound.
A. C. HARMON & C0-,
noril-tf 81 WHITAKER STREET. AfRS. STLVASUS REED S Boldine
6 an,) ?
H . VO N N E TV T O X,
(Formerly with Gomm A Leffien.
ilailroad ?rhrdulfs.
T ]
2S. itjrs. Grand Excursion to Isle of H<^pe
and Montgomery. Reduced Rates: Turkey
Shooting at d Fish Dint er at Isle of Hope, un
der supervision of Mr. B J. McIntyre. The
following special schedule, to supersede all oth
ers. will be observed on this day: Leave Savan
nah 10:25 A. X. 2:45 p. i. and 6:25 p x : ar
rive Isle of Hope 11 a. a . 3:20 p. jc. and 7.-20
p n.: arrive Montgomeij 11:35 a. 3:55 p. a.
and 7:45 p. «.: leave Montgomery 12:10 p n.
and 5.-05 p. x ; leave Isle of Hope 12:45 p. u. and
5:30 p m. : arrive Savannah 1:2o p. x and 6 p. x.
Fare to Isle of Hope and return. 4«* cents. Fare
to Montgomery and return. GO cents. Last con
necting street car leaves Bay street 25 minutes
before departure of trams. J. P. H. GAR
RETT. Acting Superintendent.
ScpExnnxxdent's Orncx 8., S. A S. R R..
Savannah, >'ov. £«. 1ST- nov26-3t '
FAMILY CROCERIES.
B oneless codfish, in s-j>. boxes for
family use: large LABRADOR BLOATERS-
toe PEAKS and GRAPES: new PRUNE*. CUR
RANTS and KaLSINS: new NUTS of all kinds
fresh DRIED APPLE*. PEACHES and FTGS
pure OLD TORT. SHERRY and SWEET < A-
TAWBA WINE; old SNOW HILL WHISKY
strictly choice: Dure MUST A -
ing purposes
Academy of St Vifaceat de Pant
Conducted by tbe Sisters of Mercy
LIBERTY ST., COR. A BEKCOKN.
'T'HE Scholastic Session is now open. la ad-
a COHE.V
— *}** hHunia**. of the school
The Collegiate course requires four v«
Eveiy pro* uoon is afforvWjortlU hSLthand
comfort. « well as the thor^T«faSS*“cf
strictly choice: pure MUSTARD OIL. for cook-
taBMB PIG FEET and PIG PORK
Cottou Jins.
NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS.
OTATE OF GEORGIA. Chathax
O Notice is hereby given to all person* hav
ing demands against EDWARD O'BYRNE,
late of said county, deceased, to present th^a
to me. properly made out. withu. the ume pre
scribed by law, so as to show their character
and amount: and all persons indebted to
deceased are hereby required to make payment
Nov—XX 19,1878.
THOMAS CLARKE,
nov30-W6t Execuuq- Edvxvd O'B/rnc.
MTTH TIES
AT REDUCED PRICES.
TO CLOSE CONSIGNMENT OF DUBOIS AND
KENNEDY
STEEL HOOK TIES!
will sell at HEAVY REDUCTION from
prices of the Arrow Ties, or any brand of Tiea.
Apply to
H. i COM & CO.,
ARENAS.
UO Bay Street, Savannah, Ga.
noT30-12utwtt-2p
BLUE STORE,
No^ 15*i Congress and 73 St Julian street.
I JULIA
Congress and Jefferson Streets,
MANUFACTURE DAILY
CHOICE GRITS AND MEAL,
THE BEST LS THE CITY.
Crain, Hay, Feed, Flour, Bacon
Filled with dispatch at lowest market rates, by
ic - L - MEKCKii -
SAL r jT.
Ten
Thousand Sacks
F or sale by
C. L. GILBERT &
WHOLESALE GROCERS.
Salt.
CO.,
DOT26-tf
COFFEE.
5.212 BAGS COFFEE.
Per Sortepu bark Hermes, direct from Rio
de Janeiro. Landing and for sale by
_WUED A CORNWELL.
H. V7. TILTON & CO"
bBIKEBS,
YV ‘SH to taform the public that ther are
J V aellmg CHOICE GROCERIES cheaper ud
of better qtmiity than any otb „ h<m^S5ma.
frim the pebiw-solicited at the —|—
M-ggss;
po per quarter : Girls
for Lush—. Y^^HarrartCHe^ ‘ L a-: *
References : Henry Solomca
bgtRgtora. asererencts : Henry Sc
Esq-, aaraanah: Capt. J. tv Cataarip. .
Jumua. JOSEPH SHORrUDGyT'H-. Prie-
cipaL
fnr29-lr
Swatl.
IT SIGLVrs BREAD STALL
EVERT HORNISG
HOME-MADE BREAD,
^linee.
GRAHAM AND RYE.
Cranberry and Apple Plea.
BREAKFA3T ROLLS.
SOT IKIIU,APE BREAD at the Baker,.
Udo?? tVERY EVENING at 6
'mgjiS&'SSSZ**- -o nmuer boa
D ' ' - THl M ENT,»—
rirrarms. &r.
DonMs Barrel Slot Gnus.
\\' E ,»{f 0 V?ri?fffor«leaaeIl asserted lo*
KuL^I^U^*- FU * E ^ ‘"‘ ^
DOUBLE BARREL SHOT OCXS*
•i about one-half their original cost To acy
of the BIG 1
oae wanting a fine Muzzle Loader, these <-
are a bargain. We have afc*o the PARKER
GUN and ENGLISH B&kEi'H LOADERS, with
a general am^rtmeot of article* for sportsmen.
Orders by mail promptly attended to. a
description of Guns fanu>hrd.
CRAWFORD Jt LOVELL.
155 Broughton street. Savannah, Ga.
novl<4-la>
pBIXTINQ. —Before you give your
.a y&i
Brougtuqa «treet*ia». ' Viut * l£er
you give your orders to
traveling anus for your pnnriztg. ge
„ 1 £eM°niing News Steam Pruning
House. & Vl hi taker street.