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Georgia Affaire.
i:v ef Columbus Intends to present
ic-er Heckle, of No. 5, Defiance Fire
v Macon, a handsome gold modal
cation of the services rendered by
ing the late fire in that city,
i.ilc tramp at police headquarters in
u , ()n Saturday last saw a black bot-
the mantelpiece, which she sup-
i contain whisky. As the officers
heir backs upon her she seized the
tt!e and took a hasty drink. It
to be carbolic acid, and wherever
i. 'fantv touched her face and lips
i was entirely removed. A doctor
ed in and poured down her throat a
: "A'eet oil and a milk punch, and sent
to the City Hospital. The Times
j. ,. will recover, since, as she is a
h, r digestive organs are proof even
rtiomasville Times asserts that there
ittK; rowdyism there during the rc-
;i.lays as in any other locality in the
i i fact it claims that Thomasville is
I Georgia town.
neiiting on the late county election
ks, the Quitman Free Press says:^“As
a > it may appear, it is nevertheless
it the colored voters stuck closer to
miration than the whites, a large
7 of the votes cast for Independents
vhite votes." Will Messrs. Blaine,
i, , and Edmunds, of “Vairmount,”
make a note on’!?
iow Atlanta, having laid claim to
r excellence in everything else,
o the front and declares, through
vj (iazitle, that her streets “are the
comparatively’, of any city in the
;.»$ by the late fire in Gainesville is
I • v the Firjlt at twenty-five thousand
K,ve of the best business houses in
, and among them the office of the
;,.<r : /i'Ui. were destroyed.
Viday, the 3d insti, the village of
r,. was visited by a disastrous fire,
nllicted a loss of between eight and
Irecusboro Herald reports that as a
thing farmers in that section are in
spirits, and their prospects for the
\ ear are regarded as very favor-
ig the year 1878 one hundred and
\ o marriage licenses were issued by
Unary of Talbot county. This is a
number than lias been known for
years. And yet people talk about
lasville Times: “One more election
ipal) and the agony will be over,
ould it work to have elections only—
>, say about every fourteen or eleven
We’re in about the right mood to
motion to that effect, if we can get
That the course of true love never yet ran
smooth has been again singularly exemplified
m Albanv. The Advertiser says : “One day
this week a colored minister of the city pre-
,-ented a marriage license to Ilis Honor
Mayor Wilder to see if it was ‘all right.’
The date of the paper showed that it was
issued in the year 1875. An explanation
followed which showed that the prospective
groom had served a term of three years in
the penitentiary, which accounted for the
date . *f the license. His ‘true love’ had not
forsaken him, however, and all was well in
Rome “A colored man named
8am Lane, late Thursday evening, rode a
horse down to the Oostanaula to water. He
rode in at the Flat Hock, where the city has
been blasting, and his horse stumbled and
pitched him off into the river. Lane was
rapidly borne down stream by the strong
current, but directed his course for the
drift at one of the bridge piers, and was
nearly in reach of It when he was drawn
under by the suction and drowned. He has
borne a good character In the city, and we
regret hissudden death.’*
The ('amilla reporter of the Albany Ad
vertiser writes to that paper : “Laborers are
making a feeble start to work. Wages
range from six to eight dollars per month.
Farmers generally give some portion of the
crop. What the farmer wants is the time of
the laborer. Laborers should be like sol
dier*— ready to obey orders. The manner of
canvassing’for election of officers now in
vogue is disastrous to a proper control of
Quitman Reporter: “Last Friday night
little Annie, daughter of Dr. Snow, after
disrobing herself for lied, turned her back
to the fire for the purpose of warming it,
when her gown took tire and in an instant
blazed over her head. Her mother, with
great presence of mind, instantly threw a
blanket over her and smothered the ll&me.
\\ hile she has been a severe sufferer from
the burn—ii haviug blistered her entire
back—it is believed, so wc learn by her
physician, that she has passed the crisis in
tier case and will soon be well again. Little
Annie is a great favorite with all who know
her, and the entire community sympathize
deeply with her anxious parents.”
Calhoun Timm: “A large eagle was shot
on Christinas day at the farm of Colonel
I’eters by a son of Mr. Graves Boyd. The
charge tired at him was only squirrel shot,
which disabled but did not kill liinj. The
monster bird measured seven feet from tip
to tip, and was of what is known as the
black variety. He was brought to town
alive as a curiosity. After a little confine-
men! he died, and his carcass was seni to
Atlanta.”
Covington Enterprise: “A white man by
the wane of Cooper came near *freezing to
death a few nights since about three miles
from Covington. It appears t hat the young
man was riding a horse and became so f oJa
that he could not ride, turned his horse
loose and laid down in the corner of the
fence to await the coming of a party of hun
ters. lie went to sleep aud gll his limbs
were frozen. Even the flesh from Lis Jegs
vere ready to drop from their bones. Bui
liis faithful dog, lying close beside him,
>eemt'd to take in the horrible situation of
his masi'ir, and making his bed upon the
legs of the frozen man, warmed them to
life again. It was by the heat of this dog
that Mr. Cooper was enabled to get up and
walk, clsewise he T*’ould have frozen to
death.”
The proprietor of the Atla'.ta Planter and
Graiuje, on Monday of last week, had his
pocket picked ol about one hundred and
twenty-live dollars. Alluding to the same he
says: “It is not the loss of the money we
mind—oh, no! not that, but it is the Irregu
larity of the thing that gives us pain. In
the first place it was a little irregular for us
to have had the money, and, second, to have
lost it after we had a hold, was horribly
irregular. We would rather have lost that
money betting on a dog light: that would
have given us at least the consolation of a
chance. We think we hear a howl of sym
pathy from all the climaxes.’’'
Sr® (Boofls.
J. II. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1879.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
Florida Affairs.
The Trade S. ntinel, published at Sanford,
is very severe against one William Hewett,
of 184 Washington street, New York. It
denounces him as “an unmitigated scoun
drel, who has already swindled large num
bers of hardworking and industrious farmers
and others.”
The Feruandlna Mirror advocates the
claims of Hon. D. L. Yulee as United States
Senator vU-e Conover. He declining, it
wants Hon. Robert Bulloch, of Marion
county, to enjoy that honor.
HA correspondent of the Jacksonville
Union from Mandarin, Fla., writes that the
thermometer at that place fell to twenty-
eight degrees above zero, and the younger
oraDge trees were somewhat affected by
the freeze. It is generally believed, how-
Vrer, that they will come out all right.
The Jacksonville Union thinks that the
present division of Florida into Congres
sional districts is, to say the least, a very
singular one, and it hopes the Legislature
now in session will make a change in that
direction.
The following are the seizures by a
United States officer of timber at Milton,
on Thursday, the 2d : Milligan, Chaffin A
Co., 4,000 pieces, worth $10,000, bond $38,-
000; J. R. Miras «fc Co., 6,000 pieces, worth
$9,000, bond $42,000: J. Gundershiner &
Co.. 700 pieces, worth $1,200, bond $5,000;
M. C. Stokes, 500 pieces, worth $900, bond
$4,000; W. D. J. Collins, logs, bond $8,000;
total bonds, $87,000.
The Florida Supreme-* Court has ordered
the State canvassing board to count the re
turns from Madison county which had been
rejected by the board on account of fraud.
Now the question which will come before
the next Congress to determine is whether
the Supreme Court or the canvassing board
is the proper authority for deciding who is
and who is not entitled to the certificate of
election. It must be borne In mind that in
1870 it was decided in Washington by the
electoral commission iu the matter of the
Hayes electors, that neither the Supreme
Court, the Governor of the State, nor the Le
gislature could “go behind” the dictum of
the returning boaad. Acting upon this pre
cedent, it is quite likely that the lower
house of the Forty-sixth Congress will de
cide that this action of the Supreme Court
is aliunde.
A correspondent of the Jacksonville Sun
and Press thinks that so far from the recent
cold weather being an injury to the orange
trees, it will prove a benefit to the fruit
growers of the State at large. He says that
insects with their eggs deposited in the
trash and in the crevices of the bark of the
orange trees, to be hatched by next spring’s
sun, have been destroyed, which otherwise
would have proved troublesome to the
groves. He thinks the health of the coun
try will also naturally be better.
A bill was favorably reported in the Sen
ate, Tuesday, directing the Treasury offi
cials to pay McLiu, late of the Florida re
turning board, and more recently appointed
by Hayes to a New Mexico Judgeship, the
money which he claims for his brief services
on the bench.
It is claimed that Senator Sargent, of
California, who was lately at death’s door,
owes his recovery entirely to the healing air
of Florida.
Gabe Brown, accused of the murder of
Jagob Syples, in Jacksonville, has been
found guilty of murder in the second de
gree.
To-day week, the 21st instant, the Florida
Legislature will proceed to retire Con over
to the shades of private life.
Bishop Beckwith is enjoying a very pleas-1
ant visit from his arduous labors in Florida.
A correspondent of the Tallahassee
Floridian gives an account of the “cold
Sunday” of 1835, as follows: “The unusu
ally ‘cold term’ which we have just ex
perienced, so remarkable in this semi-tropi
cal country, brings vividly to mind the
disastrous day of the above date, long re
membered by the citizens of Florida as the
‘cold Sunday.’ On that day, or the night
preceding, a cold ‘wave’ spread its icy nail
over the land, in its length and breadth,
from the Perdido in the west to St. Mary's
in the east, and to the Miami in the south:
freezing to death every orange tree and
bud, and every warm-sapped shrub.
The trunks of old orange trees, which
had flourished long before the exchange
of flags, were killed into the earth, and
it was feared were in ‘articulo mortis,’
but the roots lived, and in the spring put up
a plentiful supply of shoots, which are now
prolific bearers. No record exists of the
exact temperature, but its effects were to
freeze to death millions of fish, and vast
areas of oyster beds were all apparently
killed, but* like the orange trees, repro
duced a crop of much improved bivalves.
The theory entertained at the time was that
a large iceberg had floated down and was
6tranded on our coast, but this is only
theory. The writer of this was on horse
back the best part of the day, but remem
bers well sitting at the dinner table, but
toned up in his* overcoat, with fur cap and
gloves on, and this?u a room with a large
fire.”
“F. II. T.,” in the Philadelphia Times
thus describes Christmas iu Florida: “Upon
Christmas eve we sat comfortably upon the
porch of our hotel at St Augustine, watch
lug a glowing sunset, and when the mail
brought the papers from Jacksonville, tell
ing of your mantle of snow, of blockaded
trains, zero and ice, we certainly felt a long
way from home, for that day had been
spent indolently strolling beneath heavily-
fruited orange bowers, picking and partak-
iug at will, and complimenting our lady
friends with rosebuds. Nothing, indeed, so
well portrays the magnificent breadth of the
republic as its varieties of winter weather.
Yet it is not all May with us, for as 1 write
upon the little mail steamer Georgia I look
out upon the St. John’s aerossa perspective
as angry and bleak as we often see upon
our Northern lakes. Such days are rare,
however, iu Florida. We are in the edge
of your cold wave. The hotel men
regard this same wave with compla
cency, for they know that it will
send thousands Socking hitherward, to
whom the name of the flowery State has be
cornea synonym of refuge from pulmonary
destruction. Up to this time the season
may hardly be considered as under way. It
is only the anxious invalids and their
friends, the cottagers and the owners of the
orange groves, the guide book men, the
ticket agents and those who cater in other
ways to the tide of travel who have yet put
in au appearance. These are legion, but as
compared with those who follow after the
holidays and cluster like bees about the cen
tres of diversion they count as but a few
sands. From January until May, Fernan-
dina, Jacksonville aDii t>l. Augustine, u it h
many intermediate points, bear a close re
semblance to our seaside resorts of Jersey
la midsummer, and at the hotels we meet
the same faces and sometimes note the same
costumes which were familiar at Atlantic
City or the Cape in the height of the past
season,”
Under the head, “The Tampa and St.
John's Railroad a Certainty,” the Sunland
Tribune remarks: “On last Monday the
President of the T. I\ C. «& St. John s R. K.,
Cant. John T. Lesley, contracted with
Messrs. Armstrong, N an Fleet «Si Co., of
Chicago, 111., to build this road. This con
tract was made by the President of the com
pany in accordance with instructions from
the Board of Directors, to which the con
tractors had submitted proposals to do the
work. The contractors expect tq commence
work towards the eud of the present month
and push the road- through to rapid com
pletion. Mr. Armstrong arrived here last
week and having dispatched the business
which brought him here, tt>-wit: contracting
to build this road, he Left on last Tuesday s
steamer on his return to Lhi<ta^o to
perfect arrangements to go to work tu
onuz. It is with supreme satisfaction, as
may be weil imagined, that we can assure
our readers that Iht* roiL‘} t of such vital im
portance to the development aud ma.erial
prosperity of this section of the Stftte, aod
especially tire tiuif coast radon, is surely
going to be built. By this road \wll not
only one of the most desirable portions of
the State be opened to immigration and
supplied with transportation, hut it will
prove highly advantageous to both the Sti
John's a”d Gulf regions by placing the one
in more direct communication with the At
lantic ami the other with the Gulf. Its con
struction will, moreover, have C-*' effect oi
hastening a road to this point from
north. It is a project iu which the whole
of South and East Florida should feel the
deepest interest.”
The Enormous Duty on Quinine.—
A few d^ys ago a skillful physician who
has had long experience ip the New
Y’ork city hospitals said that quinine
has become so much of a luxury that
explicit orders are in force requiring
that when substitutes for quinine can be
found they must always be used. The
duty on sulphate of quinine is twenty
per centum ad valorem aud the price of
the drug in our markets is advanced
nearly or quite that amount. In the
South, where immense quantities of
quinine have to be used every year, the
substitution of less efficient but cheaper
medicines have Ijecome so common that
we have no hesitation in saying that
thousands of deaths can be traced to
this cause alone. In the light of these
facts the Ways and Means Committee at
Washington, with Mr. Fernando \\ ood
at its head, will shoulder a grave moral
responsibility if it does not report
promptly the bill abolishidg the Phila
delphia monopolists* blood tax and al
low Congress a fair show to give the
people a free shake, —3'. Y. Post.
BY TELEGRAPH.
NOON TELEGRAMS.
CONGRESSIONAL ACTION ON THE
HEATH OF MR. SCHLEICHER
A p logy of the Hey of Tunis to
France.
FURTHER LABOR TROUBLES IN
ENGLAND.
Burning of a Brewery in Newark.
ACTION OF TUE SENATE ON MR. SCHLEICHER’S
DEATH.
Washington, January 13.—In the Senate,
immediately after the reading of the jour
nal, a message was received from the House
announcing the death of Hon. Gustav
Schleicher, and the passage of a resolution
by the House providing for the appoint
ment of a committee of eight Representa
tives and three Senators to arrange for the
funeral, and to accompany the body to
Texas. The resolution was agreed to, and
the Vice President appointed as the com
mittee Messrs. Cope, Bayard and Hamlin.
At 12:55 p. m. a message was received
from the House inviting the Senate to at
tend the funeral of Hon. Gustav Schleicher.
The invitation^ was accepted, and the Sen
ate, as a mark of respect to the memory of
the deceased, took a recess until 3:30 p. m.
TUE HOUSE ON MR. SCHLEICHER’S DEATH.
Washington, January 13.—Iu the House,
Mr. Swann, Chairman of the Committee on
Foreign Affairs, submitted a report of the
proceedings of that committee touching the
death of lion. Gustav Schleicher, bearing
testimony to his unexampled merits,
his honest statesmanship, and the kind
qualities of their late colleague, directing
the payment of the remainder of his salary
as a member of the Forty-fifth Congress to
his bereaved family, and requesting the
next Congress to make a similar appropria
tion of his salary as a member of the Forty-
sixth Congress. *
The report was unanimously adopted;
and, after agreeing to a resolution making
arrangements for the performance of the
burial service in the Hall of the House at
3 p. m.. the House took a recess until
2:o5 p. m.
MORE BRITISH LABOR TROUBLES.
London, January 13.—A strike of the cot
ton operatives at Preston is feared on the
23d, when the 10 per cent, reduction will be
enforced.
In consequence of a resumption of work
by the railway, the conductors at Leeds are
all striking.
Railway employes at Bradford have asked
and been granted a reinstatement ou tbe
terms offered by the railway directors.
THE BEY OP TUNIS APOLOGIZES.
London, January 13.—Ben Ismail, the
Prime Minister of Tunis, repaired on Friday
in full uniform and accompanied with a nu
merous suite to the French Consulate, and
ou behalf of the Bey tendered a full apolo
gy. The Consul of France received Ben Is
mail surrounded by all his staff and the offi
cers of the French fleet stationed off Tunis.
BREWERY BURNED.
Newark, N. J., January 13.—Peter
Houck's brewery was burned this morning,
with the malt house, ice houses and other
buildings. The loss is estimated at $100,000,
partially insured.
congressional proceedings.
Washington, January 13.—During the
morning hour the Senate passed, without
discussion, a bill for an appropriation of
$250,000 for tbe fire proof building ad
joining the Smithsonian Institute.
EVENING TELEGRAM8.
FATAL R ‘ ILWAY ACCIDENT
OHIO.
IN
Senator Thurman Furnishes In
teresting Information to the
Blaine-Teller Committee.
IMPOSING OBSEQUIES OF TIIE
LATE HON. GUSTAV
SCHLEICHER.
ACTION OF CONGRESS REGARD
ING HIS DEATH.
Desperate Encounter with a Burglar.
IVIIftfcllaneouK and General Note*.
AFGHAN—BRITISH MATTERS.
London, January 13.—A Calcutta dis
patch says that the troops of the Peshauwa
and Kuram columns are now settled in quar
ters which, unless unforeseen events occur,
they are intended to occupy for the next two
months. Generals Browne’s and Monde’s
divisions are echelonrud iu mutual detach
ments extending from Jellalabad to Nowsh-
ra. This extension and distribution of
forces, besides affording requisite protection
to the entire line of the road, has the advan
tage of diminishing, as far as possible, the
strain upon the commissariat department.
Major Cavagari has friendly letters from
most of the (Jabuland Ghilsai chiefs.
An imposing darbar was held at Jellala
bad on the 1st of January by General Sir
Samuel Browne. Most of the local Khans
and influential men of the neighborhood
atteuded.
Major Cavagari, addressing them, ex
plained the Viceroy of India’s proclama
tion. lie commented on the fact and
the eveuts as manifesting the strength of
the British Government and the failure of
the Ameer's resistance, and repeated an
assurauee that we have no quarrel with the
people of Afghanistan.
The principal Khan replied in language
which may be taken for what it is worth,
expressing contentment with the change of
authority and freely offering his services.
The health of the troops at present is
good, and they are settling themselves down
comfortably in their different camps. With
the wet weather, however, there will c-er
tainly come mors sickness, but not sufficient
to make a serious inroad upon the strength
of the force. The most unhealthy positions
are probably Al> Musjid and Dakaka.
General Stewart’s troops marched through
Caudaharon the Othinst., and are encamped
ou the Ghusner road. Supplies are being
plentifully offered by the people, who show
a friendly spirit along the whole of Stewart's
line of march. Iu fact, the population has
been quiet, there having been no molesta
tiou of the baggage, or attempts to inter
fere with the progress of the column.
A ROBBERY.
Cincinnati, January 13.—Robert II.
Murphy, a grocer on Grand River avenue,
Detroit, suspecting that burglars had been
attempting to enter his store, last night con
cealed himself and awaited developments.
He soon heard a burglar enter the rear door
by ineaus of a false key. A struggle ensued.
Murphy seized an iron wedge and struck
the burglar several blows upon the head,
felling him to the floor, but the fellow re
gained his feet, and, choking Murphy into
insensibility, escaped.
An hour i*Azr ? man applied at the police
station for medical attention, saving that
lie had been waylaid and beaten by robbers-
Murphy, regaiuing consciousness, proceed
ed to the same station house, where he
idenwued ’he party as the burglar. The
latter admitted the fact and said that the
fear lest he should die unless big wounds
were dressed, prompted bhn to go to the
station houoe.
MORE A BOLT LABOR TROUBLES.
London, January 13.—A Baris dispatch
says that the velvet manqfacurers of Saint
Etrenne have resolved to reduce tbe wagps
of their operatives twenty per cent., as the
only means of facing foreign competition.
Tbe judging from the uncertain
and divided councils at the various
meetings of the Midland Railroad emp!l‘ vcs *
editorially declares that it is not too much
to say that they are ready to r.etijm to
duty*if the olive branch was held out.
The moulders, fitters and blacksmiths of
the railway rolling stock works, at Barrow-
have struck against the extension of the
hours of labor from fifty-four to fifty-nine
hours & week.
FATAL RAILROAD COLLISION.
Cincinnati, January 13.—On Saturday
night a west-bound freight train on the Ma
rietta and Cincinnati Railroad, when near
Mineral City, broke a coupling. The extra
freight train following it ran into its rear
just as it reached a trestle thirty feet high,
crusbiug the caboose. Three passengers
jumped from the caboose, alightiog on the
6olid ice of the stream below. One of them,
Washington Reifsnyder, was instantly killed,
and William King was fatally injured. John
Betts had his feet crushed.
ACTS APPROVED.
Washington, January 13.—The President
has approved the act authorizing the ac
counting officers of the Treasury to pay the
claims of Tennessee for keeping United
Mates military prisoners; also the act to re
lieve the political disabilities of Manning
W. Kimmell, late of Cape Giradeau county,
Missouri.
SENATOR THURMAN GIVES MR. TELLER SOME
INFORMATION.
Washington, January 13.—Senator Thur
man h<*s addressed the following to Senator
Teller, Chairman of the select committee
of investigation:
“U. S. Senate Chamber, January 13.
“Dear Sir—Again complying with the
request of your committee for information.
I have the honor to send you in my state
ment No. 3, to-wit:
“First. An officially certified copy from tbe
office of the Secretary of State of Florida of
au affidavit of James II. Paine, showing
misconduct aud a violation of law by Fed
eral officials at the late election in Duval
count}*, in that State.
“Second. A like certified copy of an affi
davit'of James M. Whitaker, relating to the
same subject, and to the intimidation of
Democratic voters by armed Republicans.
“Third. A like certified copy of ana ffidavit
by S. C. Tucker, proving that at the late
election at precinct No. 12, Alachua county,
the United States Supervisor of Election, N.
P. Gouelle, insisted that the ballots as they
were cast should be numbered to correspond
w’ith the number of each voter’s name as it
appeared on tbe registration list, and that
in compliance with his demand the larger
part of the ballots were so numbered, and
the secrecy of the ballot was thus effectu
ally destroyed.
“Fourth* A like certified copy of an affi
davit of Robert M. Witherspoon, County
Judge of Madison county, in said State,
showing his illegal arrest aud detention by
a United States Commissioner and a United
States Marshal in order to prevent the dis
charge of his duties as one of the board of
canvassers of the late election in said
county.
“Fifth. An affidavit of Edward S. Fran
cisco, a colored citizen of Duval county,
Fla., and a member of tbe Board of County
Commissioners of said county, proving the
intimidation practiced in that State to pre
vent colored citizens from voting the Demo
cratic ticket.
“Sixth. An affidavit of Jas. (.’.Williamson,
a colored citizen of the same county, to the
same effect.
“Seventh. A certificate of the Sheriff and
County Judge of said county and President
of the City Council of Jacksonville, and of
the City Clerk and City Marshal, attesting
tlie good characters and standing of said
Francisco and Williamson.
“Eighth. An afiidavitof John B. Marshal,
of Madison county, Fla., showing miscon
duct on the part of United States Deputy
Marshals, and the intimidation practised by
them at the late election in said county.
“I have a number of letters from the
North and West which make specific
charges of intimidation and bribery, that
it would be proper that I should lay before
your committee, but I withhold them until
the wishes of the writers in this respect
cau be ascertained. I have the honor to be,
very respectfully.
“(Signed; A. G. Thurman.”
LAND CASE IN THE SUPREME COURT.
Washington, January 13.—The ease of
Benj. Scull and others against the United
States, in which a claim was set up under a
Spanish grant to 11,000 square miles of
laud, embracing twenty-four counties in
Missouri and Arkansas, was to-day decided
by the United States Supreme Court ad
versely to the claimants. It is held that no
adequate survey of the alleged grant has
ever been made, ami that no sur
vey cau be made which will corres
pond with the terms of the concession, ow
ing to the erroneous ideas which were en
tertained at the time it was made as to the
sources and direction of the White river, by
reference t© which it was intended to be lo
cated.
BROOKLYN ITEMS.
New York, January 13.—Madame Ander
son, the Brooklyn pedestrienne, this after
noon was iir good condition. There is every
prospect that she will complete the task at
II o’clock to uight.
Messrs. Flaherty and Burnett, Commis
sioners of City Works, Brooklyn; Michael
Daly, Inspector of Sewers, and Peter Melin,
Water Purveyor, were arraigned in Kings
Couuty Court of Oyer and Terminer, to
plead to-day an indictment charging them
with a conspiracy to defraud the city of
$50,000. The counsel put iu a demurrer,
upon which argument w as heard.
FUNERAL OF HON. GUSTAV SCHLEICHER.
Washington, January 13.—Tbe funeral
obsequies of the late Gustav Schleicher
were very imposing, the Supreme Court,
the President and Cabinet, the Senate and
House, paying reverential respect to the de
ceased Congressman. The services were
conducted by the Chaplain of the House,
assisted by the Chaplain of the Senate, at
the close of which a mournful cortege fol
lowed the remains to the depot. The seat
of the dead Representative in the House
was draped in mourning to-day.
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Office of the Chief -Signal Observer,
Washington, D. C., January 13.—Indica
tions for Tuesday:
In the South Atlantic and Gnlf States,
Tennessee and the Ohio valley, falling ba
rometer, warmer southeast to southwest
winds, increasing cloudiness, possibly fol
lowed by rain.
In the Middle Atlantic States, south and
west winds, falling barometer, w’armer clear
w’eather, possibly occasional rain or snow.
THE SLGAR TARIFF.
Washington, January 13.—The Commit
tee of Ways and Means to-day, after fur
ther discussing the sugar tariff question,
agreed by a vote of six to four to submit to
the House a bill fixing rates as follows:
On all sugars, syrups, etc., not above No.
13 Dutch standard, 2 41 cents per pound;
on all sugars, syrups, etc. above No. 13 and
not above No*. 16, Dutch standard, 2.75
cents per pound, and on all sugars above
No. 16, Dutch standard, 4 cents per pound.
THE TAMMANY INJUNCTION CASE.
New York, January 13.—The Supreme
Court, at chambers, was crowded to-day
with politicians interested in the hearing,
to show cause why the temporary injunc
tion restraining the Tammany society from
initiating members elected New Year’s eve
should not be made permanent. Counsel
for the society requested au adjournment
until the 27th instant. The motion was
granted.
SUCCESSFUL LECTURE FOR LIEUTENANT BEN
NER’S FAMILY.
Willmington, January 13.—A recent lec
ture by the Hon. George Davis, ex-Attorney
General of the Confederate States, for the
benefit of the widow and children of Lieu
tenant Benner, netted two hundred and
fifty dollars, the largest amount ever real
ized from a lecture in this city, save from
one by Edward Everett in aid of the Mount
Vernon Association.
missing vessels.
Boston, January 13.—Grave fears are en
tertained for the safety of the steamer
Homer, Captain Walker, which left here
December 17th for Liverpool, aud has not
since been heard from.
Portsmouth, N. H., January 13.—The
owners of the ship Jean Ingelow, of this
port, have received no tidings from her for
months, and give her up as lost.
RULES TO PREVENT COLLISIONS AT SEA.
London, January 13.—The governments
of Germany, Great Britain, France, the
United States, Belgium, Spaiu and Portugal
are said to have agreed to the rules drafted
at Berlin to prevent collisions at sea.
JNATERRIFFIC CALC.
West Hartlepool, January 13.—The
steamer Averill has arrived. She encount
ered a teriffic gale on the passage and lost
overboard most of her live 6toek.
DEATH OF A PRINCE.
TnE Hague, January 13.—Prince Henry,
of the Netherlands, brother of King Wil
liam, died to-day.
Things to Think About.—If we
thought half as much about the security
of our plumbing and drainage as we do
about trifling matters ot arrangement
and decoration, we should lead healthier
and ionger lives, aud our children would
have better chances iu “the struggle of
existence.” We could spare a little of
the current enthusiasm over ceramics,
tiles and brie a-brac if the surplus could
be devoted to awakening an intelligent
Interest in the construction of drains.
We erect cCff* v houses, and fill them
with furniture and paintings aZ‘l *1! the
luxuries of life, and then sit down con
tentedly to breathe air which our plumber
has poisoned for us. It would startle
people if they could know how many
houses there are, costly and well ap
pointed, into which poisonous air from
the city sew’ers finds r onstant vent in un
suspected places.—Boston Journal.
A statistical review of the battles
fought by Austrian troops since 1495 has
just been issued by the military au
thorities, which shows that in that period
the aggregate losses in killed and
wounded have amounted to 1,085,931,
including 261 Generals and 17,096 offi
cers, while the prisoners taken by the
enemy were 56 Generals, 4,174 other
officers, and 289,041 non-commissioned
officers and men. As to trophies and
captures, the account stands: Guns
taken, 4,101; los’, 1,805; colors and
standards taken. 2,033; lost, 969: horses
captgred, 13,682; lost, 129,227: wagons
captured, 11,833; lost, 3,910. .
OLR FASHION LETTER.
The Guy Sestmon in iiothaiu-Tbe
New Fabric lor Full Drens— Artifi
cial Flower* and Other Trivmlns**
—A Superb New Year’** Costume—
An Elegant Reception Ore** —
Black Velvet*, Satin* and Gro*
Grain Silks in Vogue Again—Boon,
Slipper* and Stocking*— Eighteen-
Button GIovc»“‘*Tea*’ the Novelty
of the Sea*on—Striking Style* Tor
Young I.adiea.
Special Correspondence of the Morning Nines.
New* York, January 11.—A6 accurately as
the seasons come and go, the holidays al
ways usher in gaiety and festivity, and from
Christmas until Lent our Gotham leaders of
the ton, our fashionable belles and myriad
of lesser lights are engaged in one shifting
scene of excitement. Despite the dark
clouds which have lowered on our financial
horizon, the silver lining has shed a wonder
ful radiance over the extensive preparations
for our gay season, for seldom has the dis
play been more varied, rich and artistic—as
though our diplomatic merchants felt that
with contracted puifees the temptation must
be so much the greater to get them to open
at all.
Satin, whiclKb*# 60 lon £ reigned the
favorite fabric for evening dresses, must"
now give place to moire pekiuee, w’hich is,
par excellence, the material for full dress
toilettes. It is in alternate stripes of moire
and satin. The favorite stripes are French
grey and ciel blue, green and flaxeu, but
solid colors are the distaxguc, are very
elegaut. and is in Ophelia pink. This is the
new grey tint of pink which tones down
any glaring effect. In the new shade of
lead white, which has just been intro
duced, they are really superb. The
lead white is a dull bluish grey
tint, which is extremely brilliant by-
gaslight, but it must be acknowledged is
most trying to sallow or pale complexions,
making them look ghastly; it needs rosy
cheeks and the rich, warm coloring of the
brunette. Far more becoming to every one
is the cream or ivory white, which softens
the complexion, and those ladies who pre
fer to dress in something very becoming
rather than appear iu the latest novelty
will continue to wear cream rather than
lead white, which after all is just as
fashionable, though not so new. White con
tinues to be the fureur for evening
dresses, from the richest pekinee to the
inexpensive mousseline de l’lnde, which lias
agaiu been resuscitated, and is as soft and
tine aud sheer as gossamer. Worn over silk
and profusely garnitured with creamy lace,
and brightened with knots of delicately
tinted ribbons, nothing can be prettier
for young ladies. Transparent tissues of all
kinds worn over silk are extremely popular;
tulle, crepe lisse, tinsel gauze, soft silk
grenadines, w'hich come in all tints, and
the chambery gauze, which is very effec
tive, by reason of its lustrous satin stripe,
and open lace like stripe.
Our beautiful artificial flowers, which for
some time past have made our evening
dresses, with tint involving tint, look like
charming bouquets, have, for the moment,
been deposed, and feather garnitures rage
in their place, marabout ruches and fringes,
feather agrafes and ornaments. Rich lace
is extensively employed iu trimmings. Laid
fiat on velvet, pekiuee and other costly
fabrics, it has much the effect of the most
exquisite embroidery, or delicate tracery in
silver threads. Embroideries iu colored
flosses, garlands of rose buds, iu all
the delicate tints of pink, contrast
ing with the leaves shaded from
the brilliant yellow green to deep
olive, are most effective. Another design
is the drooping scarlet fusia, with glowing
yellow foliage; these trimmings are used
alike on velvet and gauze. Indeed, the
rage for embroidery was never greater
than at present. It is not only employed in
every article of a lady’s toilet, even to her
stockings and slippers, gloves aud hats,
and all intermediate furnishings, but fancy
notions of every description are embellished
with it; even cologne bottles and whisk
brooms are dressed in embroidered slips
and bows and furbelows. Iu judicious
quantities gilt and silver trimmings are still
employed, but must be combined with
colors and shades with which they blend.
We must not omit the chenille ornaments
aud fringes, which are in especial favor, as
are fringes of all kinds.
A superb costume worn on New Year’s
day by a semi-brunette, with soft brown
eyes aud chestnut hair, was of rose pink
p'ekinee, in alternate inch stripes of moire
and satin, over a long satin train of the
same shade, properly trimmed with mara
bout ruches and fringe. The dress is made
of satin en princesse, laced In tbe back, the
low corsage is edged with the niching and
fringe, which also forms tbe very short sleeves.
The skirt aud immensely long train is fin
ished at the foot with a thick, heavy niching
of the satin fringed on both sides, which has
much the downy effect of the feather trim
ming. The drapery of pekinee is laid
in easy folds across the tablier,
and garnitured with three rows of
the feather niching and fringe,
which falls to meet the trimming over
the underskirt. The drapery is carried far
back and arranged in ample loops and folds,
which merely covers the train. Bows and
loops of pink watered and satin ribbon,
and agrafes of marabout tips are placed in
the drapery at the back aud depend from
the sides. Pink silk stockings and pink
satin slippers ornamented with feathers and
a buckle of Rhine pebbles, complete this
charming toilette.
A very elegant reception dress is of peon
or peacock blue velvet, and pekinee of the
same shade trimmed with the choicest
duchesse lace. The entire front is in one
piece, and of the pekinee, and closes on the
left side by small concealed buttons. This
edge is scolloped and bound with a full
rutile of duchesse lace coming from beneath
the scollops, which passes down to the foot
of the dress, covering where the pekinee
petticoat and the velvet train join; on
the opposite side where the tw’o join is a
plain row of the duchesse lace. At the front
of the petticoat is a full deep niching of the
moire and satin pekinee. The very long
velvet train is cut in turrets, and falls over
a heavy niching of pekinee. The fullness
of the drapery is arranged quite bouffant in
the back, and’ a rich duchesse lace scarf is
looped and intermingled with its folds. The
detni-long or Marie Antoinette sleeves are
enriched with very full ruffles of duchesse
lace, as is also the Pompadour neck.
The black yelvet druse uuanaoued for a
time has regained its lost ground, aud is one
of the popular fancies for young, as well as
middle aged matrons. The favorite model
is princesse moderately draped over a long
satin or velvet train, aud richly garniturod
with passementerie wrought with French
cut jet beads, and laminee fringe—more
quiet fancy inclines to curled ostrich trim
ming with deep Uhantilly lace, as French
imitation lace Which is used even ou very
rich garments. For fashionable matrons, past
middle age, a popular costume is plain black
satin, simply draped, and enriched with
braided passementerie and grass or whale
bone fringe, the latter being extensively
combined with satin on account of its
glossy appearance. Black satin dresses may
be enriched with brocade silk, plain or bro
cade velvet, aud brightened by long droop
ing bows of 6atin lined with old gold, cardi-
nad, or bieze, with parqre to match in color.
The heavy gros grain black tflk, which
never loses its prestige, is made especially
attractive by regular cascades of fringe
tumbling down the 6ides, trimming the
long underskirt sleeves and pompadour cor
sage. Evening ureas skirts are made rather
short in front, showing satin-slippered feet,
and unless for dancing, very long behind.
All these elaborate toilettes should be worn
with shields, which consist simply of a
foundation cut the same shape of the train,
covered with repeated rows of box-plaited
crinoline. On the bottom of this may be a
plaiting of muslin edged with lace. This is
fastened into the dress trains aud kept in
place by drawing strings; thus all fullness is
well towards the back; tfie front and sides
retain the clinging effect. Boots and slip
pers continue with very high heels and nar
row toes; for full toilette they must match
the dress in color and material. Slippers are
the most universally worn: these are orna
mented with rosettes, feathers and buckles
in gold, silver and Rhine pebbles. When
boots are worn with evening dresses, the
upper nart is composed entirely of straps,
ornamented with buckles, showing the
wrought silk stocking between. Gloves
are worn as long as the arm and
the purse will allow, extravagant fancy
affects eighteen buttons, but half that num
ber is au fait. The top of the glove is
fi-.ished with a ruffle of rich lace—cream
and lead white have taken the place of
tints to match the dTess. Too long black
gloves, with light toilettes, is one of fash
ion’s diverse lreaks—lauies imagine that
they make the hand look small. Mitts st|ll
hold their place. In round point aud Chan
tilly lace they are certainly exquisite, and
display to great advantage a dainty, jew
eled hand, and those who are fortunate
enough to possess the latter requisite will
not soon relinquish a fashion so greatly to
their advantage.
“Tea” is the novelty and success of the
season. It is intended to be, and is an un
ceremonious and social affair. Invitations
are from 3 to 6 p. m.. and ladies can either
go alone or avail themselves of escorts. A
fragrant cup of “bohea” is passed round,
with fancy cakes, and sometimes fruit or
ices. social chat with friends, sparkling
jests, and brilliant repartee, and a couple of
hours could hardly be passed mere ration
ally or pleasantly, even if the lords of crea
tion (as they like to term themselves) are
vastly in the minority. Here walking suits
are quite adraissible.thougli reception dresses
may be worn, still the former predominate.
Our very recherche 6treet costumes are
made of pekinee, in the dark shades of seal
brown, garnet and myrtle green, and pro
fusely trimmed with the long fleecy fur
which is so dressy and effective, a band of
fur even going round the bottom of the
underskirt in place of a flounce. But this
Northern, winterish style of trimming will
not interest our Southern readers. Curled
ostrich trimmings, the color of the dress,
shaded from light to dark, is very much
used ou rich costumes, and nothing
can be more elegant. Plush is very ex
tensively employed in street suits; the
paletot, revere cuffs, vest and bonnet
are of plush combined with gross grain
silk, satin or pekinee. It comes in all
the dark rich shades, and is an excellent
substitute for seal skin. Plain camel’s
hair and chuddah cloth are very popular,
trimmed with pekinee. For young ladies
who like striking styles there is the cut
away coat and vest. The coat Is shaped
and finished with scams and lapels like a
gentleman’s coat. . It rnav be made of
heavy cloth, velvet or plusn, with a vest of
the same material, or of corduroy or satin
matching the shade of the coat. No trim
ming is required, save haudsome inlaid or
wrought metal buttons, the jaunty style
being considered sufficiently attractive.
... J*ady Blg.
OUR NORTHERN HOME.
A Budget of .YliMcellaneou* Topic*
lrom the Hoo*ler State.
Correspondence of the Morning Sexes.
DESTRUCTIVE COLD WEATHER.
Muncie, Ind., January’ It.—That Polar
wave ! It struck this section of country on
the 23d ult. Residents of Georgia, Missis
sippi, Louisiana, Florida, etc., probably
know nothing* of weather so cold as to
freeze your ears, hands or feet w’hile walk
ing an hundred rods down the street, or as
to choke up common thermometers, and can
be registered only by spirits (not drinking
spirits). First, the cold breeze—other
wise termed the Polar wave—com
menced running the mercury down
to 25 to 35 degrees in Minnesota
and Oregon: then it came sliding or elbow
ing itself down here in latitude 38 degrees,
keeping the mercury down to that low
mark. The average register for two weeks
was about 24 degrees below. Live stock
have been freezing, work on out-door im
provements, etc., suspended, and it is feared
serious damage to the fruit crop has been
done.
It is said by those versed iu matters re
lating to fruit and trees, that peach trees
are killed at 18 degrees below zero: aud,
according to that experience, peach trees
are dead, dead, in this bailiwick. Th
greatest dependence is put iu the
apple crop in this State, and should
that prove to be destroyed also,
many thousands of dollars will have
been lost. But, there, it is not merely cold
weather that does tbe havoc, but irregular
sleeting weather. In Michigan, several
degrees further north, where snow falls and
remains for five months sometimes, and
where ice freezes to the thickness of three
or four feet, the finest and largest erops of
peaches, apples, pears, grapes, etc., etc.,
are raised in great abundance, and a heavy
crop rarely fails. I doubt not that citizens
of the extreme Southern States will enjoy
the lusciousness next winter of apples
grown the coming season in this State and
Michigan, where the thermometer danced
around the buds of that very
fruit, registered at thirty and forty
degrees below zero. The South may
well boast of the superabundance
of certain kinds of fruit she bears, yet in
in this sublime, cold, hot, rainy, muddy,
beautiful, warm, pleasant country, are
propagated fruit for the South also. In
our market are lemons and oranges from
your country—froze, shriveled, rotten: such
as you would fain feed your swine. Yet we
reverse the coincidence vice versa ; in the
Southern market are apples, etc., raised in
the Blue Jeans, or Ifoosier State, Indiana,
that would be as cumbersome to the ground
on which they wore grown, were they there;
however, they are relished, imperfect as
they are, by those not knowing from whence
they came. It’s strange ! yet it’s true.
FARMING AND FARMERS.
The wheat in the ground here, beiDg
deeply covered by snow, will not be
damaged, in all probability. That which is
now offered upon the local market is of a
splendid quality, and finds slow sale at 82c.
to 85c. per bushel.
Farming iu the North since the war has
been going steadily down. While the
farmers are blessed’ with bountiful crops,
which seldom fail being large, and never
failing in toto, the prices of products have
been steadily going do^n afso, aud more
rapidly than other commodities iu propor
tion. In the South I suppose it is different.
The prices of cotton goods and the crude
material, it is true, have wonderfully de
clined, yet the other staples, with grim ad
herence to commercial lines, have continued
quite firm.
THE CAUCUS—THE SOLID SOUTH.
As I write there are in caucus at our capi
tal, Indianapolis, a host of Republicans and
Democrats. This is the week in which the
Legislature will convene, organize, elect
officers aud map out a routine of work for
the present session—politically speaking.
On every train coming into the city are
carpetbaggers, private citizens, office
holders, and most numerous of all, office-
seekers. Hoosicre, Wolverines, Buckeyes,
Keystoners, aud residents, petifoggers, etc.,
from the Blue Grass and other States, are
flocking to that city like £& rnauy sneep to
the fold. Indiana, of course, is politically
after the style of the solid South. Her in
terests do not clash, but “dovetail”
with the solid South. The name of
Hon. *J. Q. Williams, Governor, is
respected by the majority of her peo
ple. The political banner of the State
bears the name of the revered ex Governor
Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks, for Pre&ident in
1880, aud the solid South will rally to her
support. The Democrat* *n ihe* present
caucus will »oor to "future interests of the
party, and I doubt not that many things
unique in the body politic hereabouts will
be done which will be interesting reading to
your Southern people and readers, of which
I will expatiate. My next will be more di-
vereined. Cedric.
WILL RESUMPTION FAIL 1
CousrcMman Bland Think* it Will
Without the Silver Coinage Free.
Washington Post.
The Post ran against Representative
Bland, of silver bili farp.e, last night, and
asked fiim what he thought of resump
tion. He replied that resumption, as
now existing under the Sherman pian, is
a snare and a delusion. “It is only
temporary,’ he said, ‘ and may last a
week or maybe six months. Permanent
resumption cannot be maintained with
out unlimited coinage of silver,
in my opinion. it might be
possible to maintain it, all other cir
cumstances being favorable, by coining
silver dollars up to the full limit of the
present law; but, I think to make it an
assured success, silver ought to be coined
at the rate of a hundred miUious pf dol
lar**. per year fo* the next four or five
years. Tfiat wouid make it a sure
thing. This talk about the currency
question being settled is wrong, too; it’s
a mistake It never will be settled until
there is unlimited coinage of silver. That
would put gold and silver on a par, and
effectually settle the courrency question.
I am confident Sherman’s resumption
will fail, and before very long, too. As
soon as there is a big foreign demand
for gold it will knock the bottom out of
resumption. Of course, if Congress
allows ttherman to sell all the bonds be
wants to he can maintain himself for
some time* but that would be imposing
a heavy burden upon every interest of
Late advices state that the “plague”
has reappeared on the northern shores of
th* Black Sea, where it is ■ supposed to
have been imported by tossacks return
ing from Turkey. Astrakan is the cen
tral point of infection, and the Russian
health authorities are making vigorous
efforts to prevent the extension of the
disease.
Foolish William Gray, of Dayton, O..
became so infatuated with a member oi
a traveling troupe that he followed her to
New Orleans, and, when she turned the
cold shoulder on him there, he shot him
self at the door of her theatre, though
with so poor an aim that he will recover.
A FATAL STRATAGEM.
By W lil<-h the Victim wan Killed
A Hake-Belief Thief Doe* HI*
Work Better than He Intended—
The Victim Shot iu the Brea*t and
Left for Dead.
Atlanta Constitution.
Bellton, Ga., January 11.—Our
us usually quiet town was on Thursday
morning thrown into a fever of excite
ment by the announcement of the killing
of John N. Wilson at the saw* mill of B.
G. Lindsay & Co., about three miles
above here on the Air-Line Railway. The
circumstances of the homicide arei as
near as we can ascertain, about as fol
lows:
There was a certain Mrs. Smith who
did the cooking for the white hands oT
the saw mill, aud woo lived in one end
of a double house built of logs, the
other being used as a commissary for the
mill. M. S. Garner, one of tbtf partners
in the mill, and James B. Garrison, the
sawyer, believed that Mrs. Smith had
been stealing from the commissary and
set about to devise a plan by which she
might be got rid of without trouble. As
Mr. Lindsay, the other partner, had the
utmost confidence in the honesty of Mrs.
Smith, and would not allow her dis
charged, they had to
- RESORT TO ^TiUTAGEil.
The deceased. Mr. Wilson, wa9 the
fireman at the mill, and was sleeping in
the commissary on the night of the
tragedy. The plan was that Garrison
should go to the back window of the
room occupied by Mrs. Smith, with some
cans of oysters and a hat, w hile Garner
wras to arouse Wilson and tell him some
one was in Mrs. Smith’s room, and have
him go to the back window where Gar
rison was waiting, when Garrison, upon
the approach of Wilson, w’as to jump
and run, fire his pistol as he went, and
drop the oysters and hat en route, while
Garner w'as to halt Garrison aud tire his
pistol in the air to create the impression
that he was a genuine thief. It seems
that Wilson approached Garrison sooner
than was expected, and struck Garrison
with a stick on the arm and shoulder of
the band in which he held the pistol,
and in Garrison’s haste to get away the
pistol was discharged, the ball
ENTERING WILSON’S LEFT BREAST,
goi‘ g downward through the heart, and
killing him almost instantly. Mr. Gar
ner fired his pistol as Garrison nassed,
and supposed Wilson would join him in
the pursuit when, to his surprise, upon
returning he found him dead, lie im
mediately aroused Mrs. Smith, Miles
and Lankersly, two white gentlemen in a
shanty near by, and gave the alarm, and
went to the shanty of Garrison, where he.
found him in bed,as it was agreed between
them be should be, when Wilson and
Garner should return from chasing the
supposed thief. He immediately told
Garrison w hat he had done, when in loud
lamentations he gave vent to his feelings
of regret and sorrow for the act. They
then repaired to the place of homicide,
carried the body into the house and lai i
it out as best they could, and sent as soon
as daylight for the Coroner and Justice
of the Peace in order that the proper le
gal steps might be taken in the premises.
When the Justice arrived Mr. Garrison
immediately gave himself up and w*as
placed in custody.
The inquest w as held on tbe body of
the deceased yesterday afternoon, and
the jury returned a verdict that Wilson
came to his death by a pistol shot in the
hands of Garrison, and a further verdict
that lie was willfully and maliciously
killed and murdered by the said Garri
son, with Garner as principal in the
second degree. The Coroner thereupon
issued his warrant against the said Gar
rison and Garner for murder. Sheriff
Suddeth, of Banks being upon the
ground, they w*ere immediately placed
in his charge. They were this morning
brought before J. P. F,chols, J. P., and
by Arnold, of counsel, waived examina
tion and gave bond in the sum of five
hundred dollars each to appear at the
next Superior Court of Banks county to
answer the charge of involuntary man
slaughter. J. B. Estes conducted the
examination on the part of the State, and
W. P. Price and W. F. Findley repre
senting the defense. Jt appears that
Wilson was not let into the plot of Gar
ner aud Garrison, for the reason that
Lindsay had the utmost confidence in
him and w’ould rely implicitly on what
he told him in relation to seeing a thief
run from the window, andw’ould then
be convinced of her dishonesty and send
her adrift. Mr. Wilson was a sober,
high-toned, Christian gentleman, and
they feared if their plan was marie
known to him he would not go into it,
and by imposing upon him he could in
the utmost good faith tell Lindsay what
he saw. Mr. Wilson was highly re
spected in the community, and leaves a
wife and nme children to mourn his loss.
Garrison resides in Atlanta, where his
family now are, and \s a hard working
man. Garner Jives in Buford, and for
high character and Christian integrity
no man stands fairer. The affair has
cast a gloom ov.jr the whole community.
The deceased and Garrison and Garner
were the closest personal friends, and
they more deeply regret the occurrence
than any others possibly could, and will
probably never cease to mourn the fate
of their friend, wham they innocently
caused to. v&me'lo his untimely end.
F.
The Polygamy Question—Delegate
Cannon ITuoftsy.
A Washington special to the Balti
more Sun says: “The recent decision of
the Supreme Court, pronouncing as con
stitutional and valid the laws of Con
gress to suppress polygamy, will soon
receive the attentive consideration of the
Cabinet. Heretofore only spasmodic
efforts have been made to enforce these
laws, and the consequence was that the
authority of the government over the
subject was more a subject of ridicule
than of apprehension to those concerned.
Now the situation has changed, and
Mormondom is in a condition of dis
quiet and uneasiness. Mr. Cannon, the
Delegate in the House of Representatives
from Utah Territory, is the possessor of
more wives than oue, and has therefore
a personal interest Jn the matter. He
has already liad conversations with
reference to the Supreme Court
decision with several promiaeut mem
bers of Congress and other officials. A
suggestion has been made, with the con
currence of Delegate Can non, that the
decision be considered as having a pros
pect fve effect, and that no prosecutions
shall be undertaken except on account
of polygamous marriages hereafter con
tracted. In behalf of this suggestion it
is urged that to do otherwise and to in
stitute prosecutions by the wholesale
against all Mormons living in polygamy
would be ruin to all the material inter
ests of the Territory, result in the break
ing up of almost every household and
convert the Territory into a social
and commercial desolation. By adopting
the suggestion it is urged that iu a gene
ration, a comparatively brief period, the
peculiar institution of Utah will have
disappeared without any violent meas
ures. There may be something in this,
but still the question which tbe President
and his Cabinet will have to deal with ia
whether they can condone polygamy in
Utah any more than bigamy in the Dis
trict of Columbia? Tbe question is a
delicate and a difficult one, and it calls
for all the wisdom and the good judg
ment which the President and his advis
ers can bring to bear upon it.”
A very lively interest has been excited
in Cincinanti by the appearance of $75,-
000 in bright silver halves of old date.
One theory was that tbe money was de
based ooin of Jackson's time, another
that it was stolen money. It proves to
be the saving of the Rappist Society of
Beaver county, Pa., which had the cash
buried in 1861, and has just concluded
that it is safe to dig it up. The loss in
interest by the prudence of the associa
tion is about $100,00a
£im 3?ills.
45 Years Before the Public.
THE CENUINE
DR. C. McLANE’S
CELEBRATED
LIVER PILLS
FOR THE CURE OF
Hepatitis, or Liver Complaint,
DYSPEPSIA AND SICK HEADACHE.
Symptoms of a Diseased Liver.
I JAIN in the right side, under the
edge of the ribs, increases on pres
sure ; sometimes the pain is in the left
side; the patient is rarely able to lie
on the left side; sometimes the pain
is felt under the shoulder blade, and
it frequently extends to the top of the
shoulder, and is sometimes mistaken
for rheumatism in the arm. The stom
ach is affected vith loss of appetite
and sickness; the bowels in general
are costive, sometimes alternative with
lax; the head is troubled with pain,
accompanied with a dull, heavy sen
sation in the back part. There is gen
erally a considerable loss of memory’,
accompanied with a painful sensation
of having left undone something which
ought to have been done. A slight,
dry cough is sometimes an attendant.
The patient complains of weariness
and debility; he is easily startled, his
feet are cold or burning, and he com
plains of a prickly sensation of the
skin; his spirits are low; and although
he is satisfied that exercise would be
beneficial to him, yet he can scarcely
summon up fortitude enough to try it.
In fact, he distrusts every’ remedy’.
Several of the above symptoms attend
the disease, but cases have occurred
where few of them existed, yet exam
ination of the body, after death, has
shown the liver to have been exten
sively deranged.
AGUE AND FEVER.
Dr. C. McLane’s Liver Pills, in
cases of Ague and Fever, when
taken with Quinine, are productive of
the most happy results. No better
cathartic can be used, preparatory to,
or after taking Quinine. We would
advise all who are afflicted with this
disease to give them a fair trial.
For all bilious derangements, and
as a simple purgative, they are un
equaled.
BEWAftE OF IMITATIONS.
The genuine are never sugar coated,
Every box has a red wax seal on the
lid, with the impression Dr. McLane’s
Liver Pills.
The genuine McLane’s Liver Pills
bear the signatures of C. McLane and
Fleming Bros, on the wrappers.
Insist upon having the gt .mine Dr.
C. McLane’s Liver Pills, prepared by
Fleming Bros., of Pittsburgh, Pa., the
market being full of imitations of the
name McLane, spelled differently but
same pronunciation.
novf-Tu Th&S&Telly
fainting.
JOHJX OLIVER’S
Paint and Oil Store.
STEAMBOAT,
RAILROAD AND MILL SUPPLIES
SASHES, BLINDS,
Doors, Mouldings, Ac.
NO. 5 WHITAKER STREET,
ap25-tf
Savannah. Ga.
ANDREW HANLEY,
No. 6 Whitaker Street,
Paint and Oil Store.
RAILROAD, STEAMBOAT AND MILL SUP
PLIES.
Doors, Sashes, Blinds, Etc.
Plain and Decorative Wall Paper,
LIKE PLASTER AND CEJIENT.
Sole Agent for the celebrated “ HOME
LIGHT” OIL.
All orders will receive prompt attention.
dec21-tf
PAINTING
CHRIS. ¥URPHY,
House, Sign and Ornamental
PAINTING.
Orders for Work of Every De-
scription in tbe above
line Solicited. *
Jy3i.tr
Paints, Oils, Glass, Brnslies,
VARNISHES, ETC.
W M. P. McKENNA, 133 Congress street,
dealers in PAINTS. OILS, etc.. HOUSE
SIGN and DECORATIVE PAINTER. Personal
superintendence given to all work. Orders for
any poods in my fine will receive prompt atten
tion. dec4-tf
HEUEKMANN & O’NEILL,
138 ST. JULIAN STRUCT.
P A IN T IN
IN ALL ITS BRANCHES.
Gt
FRESCO AND SION PAINTING SPECIALTIES.
oct28 3m
JOHN G. BUTLER,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
Paints, Oils, Blass, Varnishes, Etc.
\ LSO, a full line of WALL PAPER8. House,
lx. Sijjn and Ornamental Painting done with
neatness and dispatch, at prices to suit the
times.
NO. 22 DRAYTON STREET, SAVANNAH, GA.
Also, have on hand and for sale the best qual
ity of GEORGIA LIME in any quantity.
mh25-ly
glintte and Au niniis.
A nineteen year old Illinois girl makes
$3U a week by trapping minks and musk
rats.
OLD OR NEW BUNDS FITTED WITH
Dearborn's Blind Awning Fixtures.
C AN be used both ways shown in cut, making
the best and cheapest awning known.
Ask your hardware dealer for them, or send
for explanatory circulars to the manufactur
ers.
BOSTON BLOWER CO.,
BOSTON, MASS.
Or to SAMUEL G. B. (XX>K & CO.,
Southern Agents.
decl3-F£Tulm Baltimore, Md.
Curtis*
tr ¥XkV MANUFACTURERS
ajAh mill supplies
"-. SE>Td for price list
8IHI3N.J& ST.LOUIS.
deo3-4ra
SAVANNAH NURSERY.
WHITE BLUFF ROAD. 9
PLANTS, BULBS and CUT FLOWERS. AH
X orders left at Capt. Blonk's and R. Hunt’s,
Bull street, promptly filled,
novl-tf GUSTAVE KIE8LING.
B.F.MENNA&CO.
137 KKOLGHTON STREET,
BETWEEN BULL AND WHITAKER STS.
GREAT REDUCTIONS!
CLOSING OUT SALE
—or—
WINTER GOODS!
I pROM this date we will offer our winter stock
at extraordinary reductions, without re
gard to cost. We would call special attention
to the following changes in prices of our
Fine Dress Goods
Black Silk Warp HENRIETTA CLOTHS, for-
merlv $2 50 per yard, now $1 87)$.
Black Silk Warp HENRIETTA CLOTHS, for
merly $2 per yard, now $137)4
Black Silk Warp HENRIETTA CLOTHS, for
merly $1 65 per yard, now $1 25.
Black HENRIETTA CLOTHS, formerly $1 25
per yard, now 87Ljc.
Black AUSTRALIAN CREPE, formerly 50c. per
yard, now 85c.
Black AUSTRALIAN CREPE, formerly 65c. per
yard, now 40c.
Black ENGLISH CASHMERE formerly 45c. per
yard, now 33c.
Black ENGLISH CASHMERE, formerly 5Tc.
per yard, now 40c.
Colored ENGLISH CASHMERE, formerlj 55c.
per card, now 40c.
Colored'ENGLISH TAFFETAS, formerly 50c..
now 30c.
Colored FRENCH CASHMERES, formerly from
very fine, 42 inches wule, formerly $1 25 per
yard, now 874£c.
Black .Ml Wool SaTEEN.formerly 85c., now 40c.
Black All Wool SATEEN,formerly 75c.. now 50c.
Black BAZ1TS CLOTH, formerly 75c.. now 55c.
Fine Black BRILLlANTINE. formerly $1 per
yard, now 75c.
Tailliard's Rich Black DRESS SILKS, warranted
pure, formerly $2 50 jH*r yard, now $2.
Tailliard's Black DRESS SILKS, formerly $2 25
per yard, now 31 85.
Handsome Lyons Black SILKS, formerly $1 50,
now 31 25.
4-4 All Wool Medicated SHAKER FLANNEL,
formerly 7fc., now 60c.
4 4 White All Wool SHAKER FLANNEL, extra
heavy, formerly 75c , now 60c.
FINE HOSIERY.
Ladies’ Extra Long Colored BALBRTGGAN
HOSE, silk clocked, formerly 85c. per pair,
now 50c.
Children’s Extra Long. Extra Heavy FRENCH
HOSE, 8)4 inch, formerly 70c. per pair, new
50c., smaller sizes of same at lower price?.
Children's Fine Colored BALBRIGGAS HOSE,
various sizes, at prices much under value.
Gentlemen s Heavy MERINO UNDERVESTS At
greatly reduced prices.
KID GLOVES.
Alexandre's 3-button KIDS, black and colored
Jouvin's and Empress 3 button KIDS, black
and colored.
3-button KII) GLOVES, evening shades, at 50c.
Ladies’ CLOAKS, BLANKETS and HEAVY
CASSIMERES at a great sacrifice.
janG-tf B. F. McKENNA & CO.
GRAY & 015R1EJV.
NEW SUPPLY!
BOYS’ BLOUSE OVERCOATS,
GRAY DIAGONALS and
BLUE TRICOTS, from 2)g to 7 years.
BOYS’ SUITS, full line in stock.
NEW SUPPLY!
MISSES' BROWN and BLACK BEAVJ
CLOAKS, at 50 per cent. off.
NEW SUPPLY!
OfWuidM BLEACHED TABLE DAMASK.
NAPKINS and SATIN-FACED DOYLIES.
300 dozen MISSUS' STRIPED HOSE. Just
open. Entirely new designs.
GRAY & O’BRIEV
dec28 tf
OUR WINTER STOCK
—OF—
Cloaks, Starts, Blankets,
CASSIMERES k DRESS GOODS.
WE OFFER SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS TO
PURCHASERS OF THE ABOVE GOODS.
4 FULL assortment of MOURNING DRESS
/V GOODS, BOMBAZINES, HENRIETTA
CLOTH. SILK WARP, AK31URE, SERGES,
CRAPE CLOTH, with a variety of other fabrics.
Our stock of BLACK ENGLISH CRAPE
comprises all grades, from $1 i>er yard up to
best goods imported.
5-4 BLACK CRAPE, for vailing, from 50 cen‘s
up.
KID GLOVE3, al! grades from 50 cents.
The best $1 KID GLOVE in the city.
HARRIS' SEAMLESS GLOVE, in black and
colored.
E. DASHER & CO.
jan!3-tf
(frorkmt ami tflassuarc.
CALL AT
BOLSHAW’S
AND REPLENISH YOUR STOCK OF
GLASSWARE !
PREPARATORY TO RECEIVING
NEW YEAR CALLS.
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Wesleyan (Mstian Advocate
MACON, GEORGIA.
Edited by Rev. A.G. If aygood, D. D.,
and Rev. John \V. Burke.
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