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J. H. E-STILL,
•d- re ^ r ” ’ Savannah. Ga.
null hi
of
10 cut in
Sndtobe!
U(J0 boxes'
Dalton 1
Wind 'Jin,
been down
Jberdayh
ndieulous
nUgratiuo- ,
Old Uncle
Horne's nlj
w biehhel:
^twenty
fc?for nil
help alnn<r .
ia Affairs.
nts of Bartow recently
son to deliver him an
’j>ossums at fifty cents
it the boy could not
ivo or three at the out-
his surprise when four
young man drove up
lsed himself by saying
.inted two nights, and
il nights for catching
ic contract was forth-
i* ground that the mar-
stocked.
, been raging in Dublin,
subside.
half cents a dozen in
( ' aPV j rtivT says : “Two men in
•rif i cadi other’s daughters. They
u t!i, r'- father-in-law; hence, each
ijj in-lu'-v : and their wives are each
i-p-daughtcr; hence, each other’s
„. r •’ Yes, and since each man is
,,f bji f.tther in-law, he must be
iother-in law. And by the same
reasoning each lady is her own
x w. And then, if they are blessed
•eing, each man will be grand-
his father’s child and, as a matter
. hi.- own <: rand father. If you can
u;h« r relationship out of the par
It makes our head ache to go
North Georgia counties,” says the
/■ “will have no sales by
r j:7> in March. Catoosa, Murray
liel.l are the counties referred to,
uid b< hard to find three better or
i-peroiis counties anywhere than
hales of cotton have been
rom Irwinton this season,
any kind of currency is good in
.unity. An exchange says one
c there takes recipes for the cure
ati.-m in payment of his share of
inittce of Augusta’s citizens ap-
o canvass the city for subscriptions
;ate Fair have met. with flattering
Three thousand dollars is the sum
o insure the next exhibition in
and the Chronicle says that sum
,;>ed ou Broad and Reynolds streets,
h* City Council will put the fair
ui order the fair there may be re-
-ingul ir .-hootingaccident occurred
i Thur- lay afternoon. As a gentle
walking along the street, carrying
barrelled shotgun with the muzzle
e guu came to pieces, the barrel
i the ground and the stock remain-
; hands. As the barrel struck the
he caps ‘on the tubes exploded
pou.-ly and the double charge of
took effect in a group of convicts
not more than thirty feet away,
of them were severely wounded.
iid was summoned at once, and so
apathy was felt for the unfortunate
tt on account of this mishap, an
il be made to effect their release,
ve received a communication from
who w rites that he has lately been
it to Colonel Cloud, in Scriven
ttid while there was shown on his
raturu of lime rock and marl, pro-
to he very rich by geologists and
u engaged in manipulating and
turing fertilizers, and to be worth
ment ran so high in Atlanta over
of the woman which was discover-
soap factory there, that one gen-
ad the grave of his recently deceased
aed to see if it had been desecrated,
t been touched, and the general con-
ias been reached that the body in
factory was that of an imported
may appear, the Columbus
he festive tramp. Speaking
: “Let all come. Columbus
jem. Our Mayor rubs his
[>s an auxious lookout for
shal, aided by the entire po-
the Sheriff and all the city
for them. Let the tramps
ther cities are mourning be-
presence, while other edi-
arlicle after article com-
• troublesome existence and
ad red ways in which to deal
ambus offers hers arms to
and her press, seconding the
ivites them. Let the tramps
• work for them. Everyone
ihe city has a most bospita-
Th** Chief o' Police, or some
take him immediately in
him dose and snug quarters
i morning. He is then, in
eded by a guard of honor,
glit up iu the rear by
ho will see that no harm
brought before His Honor
• Mayor, in the most polite
itig manner, engages in con-
on for five minutes, after
•u :u equally as great state
iah a .man who entertains
brick hou*£. Here during
honored guest is securely
: the day he is adored with
"■ n z attached thereto a grace-
he shape of a ball, and stili
•iy guarded, by men with
in order that no harm
m. he is permitted to serve
' city of his aaoptiGD, and
•'» he hag chosen to be his
•f >rc yesterday the Mayor
tin ' looking tramp to the
• 1 valuable service for cuf
iay two otlicrs were taken
y cared for. Again we ex-
ion: To one aud all of tbtf
tramps now receiving ill
places, we 6ay come.”
‘'The turpentine business
in a healthy condition, but
'■11 us they have failed to
hand* as they desired to cut
field hands don’t make
I imported tarheels prefer
: inity of railroads. It T0-
wintcr’s training for a raw
in expert box cutter. With
h'-y are now cutting about
\Yhih
InilC/ht: “'if Senator Windy or
k whatever his name is, had
lo re in Whitfield county the
w "aid have seen how extremely
•• is making himself about
k colored man of the South.
[Hilly Pitner, out on Captain
['*. above Dalton, wanted to
>nd and lie gave a working, at
i forty workmen—twenty white
do red who putin a solid day,
pl.borly accommodation aud to
‘‘lever darkey. They cleared
rails r au< * 6 PDt three thousand
kbits lo “ eie Dilly, we are told, set two
of th froiu Btem to stem with one
•kid* -fashioned country dinners
turn a.,* ' ls ODe the ways the Ku-Klux
^oatmour county.” J
- .i ^lumbus Enquirer: “Sheep
extent /" action of the country to any
seem • la , C0IU PW^tively unknown, but none
to ii aV p Uoubt it6 being profitable. We are
^us re « u i? r 6 becp ranch near Colum-
Hvdrr 1??' Fre( I- D. Gordon aud Frank
ta mp Aupendal, Mass., under the firm
refnij,- 1 * 1 or doD A Ryder, have located a
the ee P ranch ou what is known a*
with nn '?T iHantatlon. They will begin
the nnmk °^ san fi head, ar.d will increase
to t .,“? er H-om time to time. They wish
•ellhiEf hee P* a n<I auy desirous of
them” 0111(1 bo well to communicate with
*t(>iin^P mmunicall0U8 addressed to them
Rumbus will be received.”
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1879.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
Quitman Jteporler: “Wonder if Colonel
Pendleton of the \ aldosta Tima could not
gtve us the history of Captain Chesser,
who. It Is said, lives on an island in the
OKefenokee swamp, and has raised since
his residence there eleven children aud
thirty-six grandchildren, having lived there
about forty years, during which time he has
never had any sickness, or any use for medi
cine in his family, losing but one, and that
from a rattlesnake bite. It is also said that
their diet has been largely on game, fish
and honey. Our informant tells us of an
other family (Bill Griffin) who has raised
twenty-two boys, their habits and mode of
living being the same as Captain Chesser’s
family, aud with the ‘same results—no sick
ness, no deaths, no use for medicine or civili
zation. Those who are seeking perpetual
happiness here below, and want to be freed
from all the vices incidental to civilization
will do well to take themselves to the Oke-
fenokee.”
Perry Home Journal: “We hear of an at
tempt made several days since by a negro
desperado to murder one of the best of our
citizens in the northeastern part of the
county. The gentleman had reproved the
negro for swearing around his house and
lot, and the negro waylaid him as he came
out of the gear house door aud assaulted
him furiously with a club, hitting him
several terrible blows, stunning him badly.
The negro then ran away. The gentleman
had his horse saddled up and followed
with his breech loading shotgun.
About a mile from the house he came
in sight of the scoundrel and halted
him, intending to effect his arrest, but
he kept moving on. llis pursuer then fired
two loads of bird 6hot at him, but without
effect. The negro kept going, and the geu-
tleman kept poking in the cartridges and
firing bird shot until over a hundred of
them had been deposited iu his thick hide.
He then stopped and surrendered. An ex
amination proved that the negro was
comparatively unhurt, ..in fact not half as
badly used up by the shot as the gentleman
was by the club. He was singularly cool under
the circumstances, and carefully avoided
using anything but bird shot.”
ttlaiiie In the South.
Thomasville, Ga.., February 14.—Editor
I Momiiui New: It seems that the “Sunuy
South” is the promethean fount from which
certain Northern statesmen draw their in
spiration, and but for their early pilgrimages
to the “laud of cotton,” to “turn an honest
penny” by school teaching, the world would
probably never have heard of Wm. II. Sew
ard, the “little bell tinkler,” in the great
American civil war—and now we have it
that Senator Blaine, who expects to be
President, had his frigid genius warmed
into life by residence a3 a school teacher in
the Sunny South. The story was told by
\FUjaro, Washington correspondent of the
Detroit Free Press, in January last, as fol
low's :
“Apropos of Blaine the following state
ment was recently made to your correspon
dent by a prominent member of the House
Ult will be remembered that somewhere
about 1S48 or 1849 young Blaine was
school teacher in Kentuck}’. He was not
only a school teacher—he was also an aspir
ing politician—not only an aspiring politi
cian, but an extreme, fiery Bourbon Demo
crat. On one occasion during his sojourn
in his first adopted State, Cassius M. Clay
nominated himself as a candidate for some
office or other on an emancipation platform,
and took the stump in support of his cause.
He was announced to speak at some point
not far from Frankfort. Blaine’s Demo
cratic zeal glowed at white heat within him;
he skirmished around and succeeded in bor
rowing ten dollars to enable him to go forth
and reply to Clay. He went forth, but not
even tradition has preserved auy account of
the reply. However, the gentleman, now an
old man, from whom Blaine secured the ten
dollars, has collateral evidence of the occur
rence in the shape of a promissory note
w’hich he still preserves as a precious
leminiscence, and values most highly.”
But what is remarkable about these
Northern intellects warmed into genius by
the Southern sun, noue of them seem to ex
hibit any gratitude for the benefits of our
clime; but, on the contrary, as soon as they
have “turned the honest penny,” they put
back to their frigid homes in the North,
and forthwith conspire against and plot the
destruction of the hospitable people who
received them kindly, and helped them on
in the world. It seems that our climate and
society have not the effect to make North
ern men great and good, but to make them
great and evil. William II. Seward did the
South all the harm he possibly could, but
he would have made concessions, as did
Horace Greeley, for the Presidency, and Mr.
Blaine is .following in their footsteps, a
bolder, but not abler man. Ambitious men
do not generally like rivalry, nor can they
tolerate haughty indifference or contempt
of their egotistical claims to abil
ity. Such obstacles to their ambi
tion arc likely to produce one of
two effects—eilher to extinguish their light
altogether, or drive them into unscrupulous
demagogism in the struggle for power to re
venge. The two great Northern lights iu
question probably saw just enough of the
South to learn that their peculuir talents were
not available here, and that if they were to
become great leaders iu their country they
must return to their own more populous
section, where prejudice, and not patriotism,
was the engine put in motion to move the
masses. Like the repenting prodigal, they
returned and were eminently successful—
and like Saul aud David, the one slaying his
thousands and the other his ten thousands.
These men were not great, but bold and
astute. They knew how to throw themselves
upon the tide and seize upon Fortune as she
drifted in the tumult. Southerner.
A TEREIJ5LE LAND SLIDE.
Workmen Burled Under 6,000 Yard*
of Earth—Mx Men Killed—Other*
Injured— Scenes at the Disaster.
Kansas City., Mo., February 11.—
About 7#0 a. m. a cut ninety feet deep,
being made for the Chicago and Alton
Hail road, caved in while teams and men
were at work. The earth first began
sliding at the top of the south wall of the
cut, and, accumulating in quantity and
force as it descended, spread, on reaching
the bottom, clear across the excavation,
and piled itself twenty feet high against
the opposite wall. The laborers, at the
first alarm, rushed frantically toward the
outlet of the cut to escape, but their way
was almost entirely blocked by the
wa'-ons. which at that lice were stand-
ine squarelv across the excavate, and
six ot' the'men tyere overwhelmed by
the huire mass of earth aud sank
down ‘to die under its ponderous
weight. Those who ^escaped, dazed
with horror though they were, rushed
with desperate energy upon the earth
and with fraDtic speed set to work to
uncover their buried comrades. After
three hours of untiring labor six dead
bodies were brought to view. An im
mense crowd of people collected at each
end of the cut, and could ouiyne kept
cut of danger by the utmost efforts of
the police. Women and children of the
workmen in the cm came running from
ail directions, rushing excitedly ttrpuvh
the crowd, easing the names of husband,
father or hrOtiiur. whom they
fearvd had been crushed ,o death
They could hardly be restrained
from breaking through the line,
mid the scene was heartteauiiig. ihc
walls of excavation are about ninety feet
htah and almost perpendicular. There
is no rock there, and nothing to sustain
them hut their own cohesion, and smaU
elides have been frequent, on nobody
has been hurt un'il uow. flic stop,,
of the walls when first cut was one foot
to ten feet. Finding they would not stand
at that angle, the engineers of the road
ordered the slides cut down to siant On
thrw to U feet- This, however, was
insufficient, as the terrible catastrophe
attests. This deep cut was caused by
the city refusing the railroad wirngW
the right of way uiong tire river front,
hut giving them the privilege of HSingan
alley in the rear, running parallel witu
the high bluff of the river.
Uow He Placated Hee.— A woman
in a Kansas Pacific Railroad car sat fac
ing a man who, with one eye at least,
seemed to be staring fixedly ut licr. Sbc
became indignant, and said; Why do
n-ou look at me so, sir 1 ' He sard that
he was not aware of having done so,
hut she insisted. “I beg your PJfdon,
madam, bat it's this eye is it not. lift
in"- liis finger to his left optic'. j es,
sir it's that eye.” ‘‘Well, \
eye won’t do you any harm; it s a glass
eve, madam-onlv a glass eye. I hope
you'll excuse it. But, upon my> soul,
I'm not surptUed that evea a gh^ eye
should be interested ia so pretty a wo
man.” The explanation nnd tue com
pliment combined to put the woman in a
good huwor.
BY TELEGRAPH.
NOON TELEORAMS.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
Protest- Against the Order of the
Privy Council.
NEW CATHOLIC DIOCESE* TO BE
CREATED.
Cotton Mill in England to be Closed.
ELECTION OF A FRENCH LIFE
SENATOR.
VIISCELLAX tOl'S 1TEVIS.
PROTEST OF THE PEOPLE OF LIVERPOOL
AGAINST THE ORDER OF THE PRIVY
COUNCIL.
Liverpool, February 14.—At the meet
ing of the Liverpool Health Committee yes
terday the Town Clerk stated that the re
cent order of the Privy Council would en
tirely prevent shipments of live stock
from the United States to Liverpool, be
cause Liverpool is not registered under the
act as a foreign animals’ wharf. The
only ports so registered are London,
Hull, Grimsby, Hartlepool, New
castle, Plymouth and Sunderland.
The committee decided to address
a letter to the Privy Council calling at
tention to the disastrous effect of the order
on the port of Liverpool and the popula
tion of Lancashire ami Yorkshire, and ex
pressing the hope that the arrangements now
being made by the Liverpool Dock Board
may lead the Privy Council before the third
of March to define the part of the port of
Liverpool where foreign animals may be
landed.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Washington, February 14.—The Vice
President laid before the Sen
ate the credentials of the ILon. Benjamin
F. Jonas, elected United States Senator
from Louisiana, and the credentials of the
Hon. James B. Groorae, elected United
States Senator from Maryland, which were
read and placed ou file. Mr. Ransom, of
North Caroliua, presented the credentials of
the lion. Z. B. Vance, elected United States
Senator from North Caroliua, which were
read and placed on file.
The Senate resumed the bill for restrict
ing Chinese immigration. Mr. Blaine spoke
at length in favor of the bill. At9p. m.,
without acting on the bill, the Senate ad
journed.
In the House the regular order of business
of the morning hour of Friday is in pro
gress, and the bill for the retirement of Gen.
James Shields has been, amid a good deal
of confusion, referred to a committee of
the whole.
The House is in committee of the whole
on the private calendar.
LONDON ITEMS.
London, February 14.—The Lower Heyes
cotton mill at Macclesfield, employing one
thousand hands, has given notice that it
will close indefinitely a fortnight hence, iu
consequence of the depression iu trade.
A strong whip has been issued by both
sides for the division which is expected
to-night in the House of Commons on a
motion by Mr. Meldon, Home Ruler, mem
ber for Kildare county, iu favor of assimi
lating the Irish borough frauchise to the
English and Scotch. The Liberals will unite
with the Home Rulers against the govern
ment on the; question.
NEW’ DIOCESES TO BE CREATED IN THE
UNITED STATES.
London, February 14.—The Standard's
correspondent at Rome says • ^ “A decision
has just been reached at the Vatican to cre
ate certain new dioceses in theUuited States
in consequence of the growth of the church
in that country.”
AFFAIRS IN FRANCE. *
Paris, February 14.—The Left will to-day
elect Count de Montalivet, former Minis
ter of Louis Phillippe, a life Senator, vice
M. Paul Morin, deceased.
Rear Admiral Fonilley, of the Mediter
ranean 6quadrou, is dead.
NOMINATION.
Washington, February 14.—Horatio C.
Burchard, at present the Representative in
Congress from the Fifth Illinois district,
was to day nominated to be Director of the
Mint.
weston’s tramp through England.
London, February 14.—Weston arrived
at York this morning, having walked 1,337
miles. He is 1PJ miles behiud time.
EVENING TELEGRAMS.
SEVERE EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS
IN SOUTH AMERICA.
Action of the Democratic Caucus.
PROPOSITION'S FOR COMPROMISING
TUE VIRGINIA STATE DEBT.
Ballot Box St offer Sentenced.
LIVERPOOL WEEKLY COTTON CIR
CULAR.
Foreign and Domestic Items.
THE DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS.
Washisgtos, February 14.—An adjourned
meeting of the eacus of Democratic Sena
tors was held this morning, at which there
was a further discussion concerning the pro
posed efforts to obtain by amendments to
the appropriation bill a repeal of the
laws authorizing the appointment of Federal
supervisors of elections and prescribjug test
oaths for jurors and a modification of the
law in regard to the mode of drawing
jurors. Although no action was reached
the sentiment of the caucus was almost
wholly iu favor of piovidiug for the repeal
of the test oath sections in the manner
indicated at the joint Democratic
caucus held ip the House on
Monday night. The question whether it
would he proper to attach the
propositions referring to the drawing of
jurors and the amendment for the repeal of
the election law to an appropriation bill
were very generally discussed, and the
prevalent opinion was opposed to such
action. The statement with reference to the
previous joint caucus being conclusive as
.eo-ards the measures in question,
is "said by prominent Democratic Senators
to be exaggerated, as certain resolutions
were" introduced at that meeting which
!_ould not be expected to he binding upon
the Senator?, and furthermore that they
were hot so intended. The final question
as to what course is mosji practical to be
pursued will probably bg determined at a
future caucus. The action of tue IL*use iu
disposing of these matters finally will have
considerable influence as to how the Demo
cratic members of the Senate will act,
ELPTUQUAKE SHOCKS IN SOUTH AMERICA
Tan*¥4» February 14.—An Arequipa pa-
per states that that pity was visited on the
ni 'htof the 9th ult. by the must, severe shoek
of’earthquake that lias been felt then, since
.be memorable earthquake which destroyed
the city on till' 13th of August, 186S. It
occurred at about UtfcQ p, m., an hour at
which the greater part of the iuuab,tants
were reposing. The fright was genera!
People Quickly left their houses and ru-hed
frantically through the streets, fearing
- repetition of the shook and destruvtiog
of thejr hofpe6. fortunately, however, noth
in" further occurred', hut the general im
pression was that a few day, rnorg would
brine- serious news from some other part „f
the republic, as has generally been the case
OB ether occasions. ,
A’long .Bdyiolent shock of earthquake
is also announced a. haying been felt at
Iquique about midnight ou ine 14th u,t;mo,
which was accompanied by a curious sub
terranean noise. It caused much alarm,
particularly le theatre, which was full
of people at the time.
ENGLISH REGIMENTS TO SAIL FOR NATAL.
Torokvi), D>T., February 14.—A London
dispatch'published h»ra this morning says
the following regiments and battalions are
to sail immediately for Natal. the Seven
teenth Lancers, the First Dragoons, the Fifty
eighth Regiment of Infantry, the Ninety-
fourth Regiment of Infantry, the Twenty-
first Regiment, the Ninety-first Regiment,
th» Sixtieth Regiment of rifles, a de
tachment of Royal Engineers, and a bat
tery of Royai Artillery. There is
much bustle and excitement at each
of the headquarters of these regiments. The
following is the composition of the English
forces in Sou’h Africa: Third, Fourth,
Thirteenth Twenty lourth, both battalions
of the Eightieth aid Eighty-eighth,. Nine
tieth and Ninetv-ninth Regiments; in all,
nice battalions, or 7,500 officers and men
In these force., in the ranks there are 4 518
Englishmen, 3-so Irishmen anu 301 Scotch
men. Forty-eight of the officers are lnsfc,
and 178 English.
STIlIKB OF COTTON WEAVERS.
London, February 14.—Two thousand
weavers struck work at Aahton-under-Lyne
today.
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Office of the Chief sIgnal obsbrteb,
Washington, D. C., February 14.—Indica
tions for Saturday :
In the South Atlantic States, - colder
northerly to easterly winds, rising barome
ter, partly cloudy weather, and possibly
light rain or snow* near the coast.
In the Gulf States, northerly to easterly
winds, partly cloudy weather, a slight rise
in barometer, followed in the western
portion by slowly falling barometer and
slowly rising temperature.
Iu Tennessee and the Ohio valley, partly
cloudy weather, and light variable winds,
slight rise, followed by slowly falling ba
rometer and slowly rising temperature.
In the Middle States, northwest to south-
wrest winds, partly cloudy weather, and
areas of light snow; and in the Middle At
lantic States, lower temperature and rising
barometer.
WEEKLY COTTON CIRCULAR.
Liverpool, February 14.—This week’s
circular of the Liverpool Cotton Brokers
Association says: “There was a good
demand, with hardening prices early iu the
week, but since Tuesday the market has
been dull. Quotations are but little
changed. American was in fair request
throughout the week. The supply is greatly
curtailed by the strike. Prices advanced
i^L, but with an increasing desire to sell.
Quotations arejouly 1-lCd. higher. Sea island
is in limited inquiry at unchanged prices.
Futures opened firm during the early part
of the week and advanced 1-lGd. to 3 32J.,
since which time the market has been dull
ana quotations have declined 3-32J. to Isd.
showing a final decline of l-32d. to 1-lGd.
since last Thursday.”
SENTENCE OF A BALLOT BOX STUFFEB—
PROPOSITION FOR SETTLING THE VIRGINIA
STATE DEBT.
Richmond, Va., February 14.—In the
United States Circuit Court to-day, Alexan
der Vaughan, who was convicted yesterday
of ballot-box stuffing iu Petersburg in
November last ,was sentenced to one year’s
imprisonment in the jail of that city and to
pay a fine of two hundred and fifty dollars,
with costs of the prosecution.
Iu the Senate to-day, the report of
the joint committee on finance, em
bracing the proposition for the settlement
of the State debt,was made the special order
for Monday next at one o’clock. In the
House the same report was placed on the
calendar. Under the rules, both Houses
adopted resolutions providing for uight
sessions on and after Monday.
RUMORED IMPEACHMENT OF THE FRENCH
MINISTRY.
London, February 14.—The Daily News'
Paris correspondent, who is a. good repre
sentative of the opinion of the advanced
st-ction of the Left, says: “It is rumored
that the report of the committee on the acts
of the Ministry of the 10th of May will pre
sent such a crushing case iu favor of im
peachment that the Ministry will be unable
to prevent the Chamber of Deputies from
voting for it.” A majority of the special
correspondents of the Loudon papers, how
ever, believe it will be rejected.
THE SHOOTING OF “OOFTY GOOFTY.”
New York, February 14.—Mary D.
Hooper, who shot Augustus Phillips
(“Oofty Goofty”), was arraigned at the
Jefferson Market Court to-day. Phillips in
an affidavit claimed the shooting was not
willful, and retracted the statements to the
contrary, which he said were made while
under the influence of medical narcotics.
The woman was held in $2,000 to answer,
Phillips furnishing $500 of the amount.
REASSURING REPORTS OF THE PLAGUE.
Paris, February 14.—The Official Journal
says the latest reports of the plague are re
assuring. It has not increased and ener
getic measures have been adopted for its
suppression. The French Government has
dispatched a physician to investigate the
disease. The reports that the plague has
appeared iu Turkey are unfounded.
MURDERER HUNG.
Raleigh, N. C., February 14.—John Ed
wards, the murderer of Kader J. Ballard,
a peaceful citizen of Johnston county, N.
C., ou the 9th of October last, was hanged
to-day in 8mitbfield, Johnston county. His
execution was ordered January 17th, but
respite had been obtained.
MURDER AND ROBBERY.
Danville, Va., February 14.—J. W. S.
Parker, a merchant at Greensboro, N. C,
was knocked down and robbed near his
home last night and died from his injuric
to-day. Joe Mendenhall lias been arrested
ou suspicion of tbe murder aud is threat
ened with ly nching.
DROWNING OF A SEA CAPTAIN.
New Orleans, February 14.—Captain
Dingley, of the ship Caraperdown, while
going aboard his vessel last night, fell from
the gangway into the river, aud was
drowned. lie was a native of Nova Scotia.
FAILURE TO FORM TUE AUSTRIAN CABINET
Vienna, February’ 14.—The Presse Frein-
denblnlt states that the attempt to reconsti
tute the Austrian Cabinet has failed for the
present.
DOCK LABORERS ABOUT TO YIELD.
Liverpool, February 14.—It is understood
that the strikers have left it to their dele
gates to make the best possible terms with
the steamship owners.
W. H. Howard was an express agent
in Omaha, where he lived with his wife.
He went one day to a place a few miles
out of the city, collected thirty dollars
for his employers, and did not return to
his homo. H|s .disappearance w r as a
puzzle. He had deposited in a bank,
just before going away, a large sum of
money belonging to the express com
pany'. and that was regarded as proof of
his honesty, llis social and family re
lations were happy, and he was temper
ate. After five months, when his wife
had given up searching for him, and was
preparing to return to her parents in the
East, she received a letter from him.
dated in St. Paul. She went to St. Paul
and found him there. He was very ill.
It appears that he was attacked on his
way back to Omaha by robbers, who
supposed that he was carrying a great
deal of money. They bouud and gag
ged him, carried him into the woods,
beat him terribly, and left him. He was
taken to a hut by some woodchoppera,
but be was delirious,and they could not
learn who he was. lie slowly recovered
strength, but remained insane, and in
that condil ion wandered aw’ay\ When
he i.ame to his spnses he wbs in St. Paul.
Singular Accident.—In New Y’ork.
Monday, James Dick, 4 labqrer, stepped
off the railroad track on 135th street in
front of a locomotive, and as the train
passed, he saw dangling from the ca
boose, or rear car, a long rope. He
stooped and caught the rope with his
right hand and was thrown off his feet.
James Wilson, a brakemau on the train,
shouted to him to let the rope go. This
he could not do. for the rope had, as he
caught it, coiled itself around liis arm
and neck, and he wgs (Jigged as far as
13bth street, at which place the rope was
cut by brakeman Wilson. Wilson then
sprang from the train and ran back to
where Dick lay. The man was uncon
scious, with the rope coiled about his
arm and body. His clothing was torn to
shreds- 11 wrs found that liis skull had
been fractured, liis jawbone crushed, and
the flesh torn from his limbs aud body.
His recovery is considered improbable.
Two boys came' from Springfield,
Mass., to New York, in 1865, on an ex
cursion got up by' two of the churches
‘to see (he Great bastetn. One of the
boys went through'on a half-fare ticket,
saying -that was under fifteen y’ears of
age, though he w*s ready oyer it. He
now lives in Hartford, Conn., and has
just written to the churches that he is
willing to pay the difference in the fare
with iqtere«t. His conscience has been
troubling him.
Walking matches are the chief attrac
tion advertised by the orthodox Hebrew
fair in Boston. The first pri/.e in a lot
tery' is “the late James Fisk’s $10,000
opera glass, set with 500 diamonds,” and
among the other prizes are sapphires
worth $30,000. Ua<ch purchaser of a lot
tery ticket has the privilege .qf voting on
the question of who shall receive the
Governor’s carriage, the candidates be
ing Thomas Talbot, Alexander H. Rice,
J. D. Long, and Benjamin F. Butler.
A gentleman iq Dayton, Ohio, who
ten years ago became guardian of his
granddaughter, and took charge of the
estate of twenty thousand dollars left
her by her father, has just surrendered
it, increased to forty thousand dollars,
upon her attaining her majority.
The man who lights up the blankej
mill of H. N. Kenyon, in Richmond, R.
L, dropped his kerosene lamp Monday
night, and the mill was burned down.
Loss, tea thousand dollars.
LETTER FROM TALLAHASSEE.
Funeral Honors Co the Late Senator
^IeAulej—Captain D)ke-The .flof-
fett Bell Punch Defeated—Railroad
Lesifclation — Lieuteuant-Covernor
Hull Vindicated—Judjje Archibald
to be Impeached—A Submariue
Volcano — .THacellaneoas, Legisla
tive, Etc.
Special Correspondence of the Morning Scics.
Tallahassee, Fla., February 13.—The
death of Senator McAuley is the first occur
rence of the kind that has taken place for
many years during a session of the Legisla
ture. The deceased gentleman was greatly
respected, and bore a high reputation for
solidity of character and strict integrity:
The funeral services held last Sunday were
quite impressive and were numerously at
tended. Under the direction of the Ser-
geants-at-Arms of the Senate and House,
the Assembly Hall was handsomely draped
for the occasion with heavy festoons of
dark cloth, relieved by Roman crosses and
white rosettes. The painting of Washing
ton over the Speaker’s chair bore also the
sombre emblems of mourning, as did also
the vacant desk and empty chair of the
dead Senator. Dr. Harrison, the Chaplain
of the Senate, read the beautiful funeral
ceremony of tbe Episcopal Church, and de
livered a sermoa iu keeping with the occa
sion. The remains were deposited in the
city cemetery, there to rest quietly for the
resurrection.
The office of tfie Floridian is near the
capitol, and 1 drop in occasionally to hear
the click of the types and the rolling of the
presses. That old veteran, Capt. Dyke, is
still at his post of duty, apparently as ac
tive aud vigorous as when I met him first at
the Charleston Convention in 1860. He is
thoroughly posted ou the history and sta
tistics of Florida, and has no equal in the
State on these subjects. Mr. Fapy, who
has recently purchased an interest in the
paper, controls the local columns, aud is a
graceful writer.
After a long struggle, aud plastered from
head to foot with amendments, the Moffett
punch bill passed to its third reading only
to be remorselessly slaughtered. Many
who were originally the friends of the
measure lost their interest in the bill in its
mutilated condition, and made only a fee
ble resistance to the attacks of its oppo
nents.
Several very important railroad bills have
been recently introduced into the Legisla
ture. One is intended to prevent extortion
and unjust discrimination in the rates charg
ed for the transportation of freight and pas-
seugers on railroads in this State, aud to
punish the same, The bill forbids more than
a reasonable rate of toll and compensation,
and unjust discrimination in the carriage of
persons aud produce, aud prescribes penal
ties therefor.
Auother bill directs an investigation iuto
the sale of the railroads in this State, and if
they find that there was any illegality con
nected with the matter, to have the sale set
a-ide. The other bills are connected with
t ie internal improvement fund, and are of
great importance.
As was confidently expected by the friends
of Governor Hull, the investigation ordered
by the Assembly as to the charges made
against that gentleman has revealed nothing
of a damaging or even suspicious character.
Nat Poyntz, the person to whom the “ sug
gestive ” letter of the Sun and Press was
written, has been before the committee, and
bis evidence shows unqualifiedly that Gov.
Hull never hinted at auy corrupt practices,
and made no offers of money for falsifying
electiou returns. The entire testimony thus
far has removed all doubts as to the com
plicity of Gov. Hull in the Brevard frauds,
and has left him without a stain upon his
reputation. Allen, upon whose evidence
Lee, Wright and Johns were convicted, can
not be found in Orange county. He is
wanted by the committee of investigation,
but has disappeared. It is surmised that he
is either in lading by the Radicals, or that
he has left his country for that country’s
benefit. Other witnesses are expected, and
a report will probably be made this week.
The preliminary steps have been taken
for the impeachment of Judge Archibald, of
the Fourth Circuit, and a committee has
been appointed to prefer charges. Serious
allegations have been made against his con
duct as a Judge, aud the whole matter will
scon undergo a thorough investigation.
Much* time appears to be wasted in the
Legislature in the reference to committees
both in the House and Senate of joint reso
lutions as to mail routes, memorials to Con
gress, etc. It would seem advisable that
all papers of this nature should be placed
in the hands of a joint committee, who
could act upon the whole batch at once,
and obtain prompt action. The present
process is cumbrous and tedious, and con
sumes much of the time of the session.
A lew weeks since it was stated that there
was a current of poisoned water iu the Gulf
to the north of Key West aud that thou
sands of dead fish had been seen floating or
stranded upon the shores. The fact at
tracted much attention and gave rise to nu
merous theories. The most reasonable ap
pears to be that the mortality among the
tinny tribes was caused by the noxious gases
and vapors ejected by a submariue volcano.
It is said that masses of pumice stone have
been discovered upon the Gulf coast, and
the recent earthquake gives force to the
supposition. I have been informed that in
Taylor county the traces of a recent up
heaval are plaiuly manifest, and the myste
rious pillars of smoke in Taylor aud Jeffer
son counties may have some connection with
these safety valves of Dame Nature. There
has never been made a geological survey of
this State,and a thorough exploration might
disclose more things than are dreamed of in
our philosophy.
Mr. J. D. Walker, just elected to the
United States Senate from Arkansas, is a
cousin of Senator Call and a nephew of ex
Governor Walker, of this State.
A bill has been introduced to merge the
seminary fund into the common school
fund. If it pass it will have the effect of
destroying the two academies at Gainesville
and Tallahassee. The bill meets strong op
position, but the outlook at present is that
it will be passed.
An occasional effort to adopt a resolution
that the Legislature adjourn on a specified
day indicates that some of the members are
becomiug homesick. There is sufficient
business now in the hands of the com
mittees, and much of it Of an important
and indispensable character to detain the
Legislature for the full period of sixty days
allowed by la\y.
In the Senate, 119 bills nave neen intro
duced, and 304 in the Assembly, tiy reso
lution, no new matter can be presented in
either body after the 15th inst.
The bill for calling a constitutional con
vention in June of this year was defeated in
the Senate this morning, by a vote of 15 to
13. Most of the members expressed their
views, aud quite a spirited aucusslou en
sued. W. II. B.
The Great Canal. Etc.
Florida, February 11.—Editor Homing
News: A most interesting communication
appeared in the late Weekly News under
the above heading from one of your Georgia
correspondents. May I, writing from
Florida, and in the interest of our State,
venture a few suggestions in connection
with this great projeety
A notice appeared a month si ace in a
Jacksonville paper, stating that certain
‘private parties” were about to ask the
Legislature of our State for a charter, con
cessions, privileges, etc., to construct “a”
canal through some undefined portion of
our Statu.
Surely, sir, the present is a most unseemly
and inopportune time for any “private par
ties” to make any such application, and we
earnestly hope our legislators will not allow
themselves to be entangled in any such
schemes.
Why should any of our State lands, or any
public property of auy Kina, “credit" or
other, be alienated or lent to aid a doubtful
speculation, when we are well assured of
the perfect honesty and sincerity of the na
tional government to undertake and carry
out this great national work lor ihe benefit
of our whole people.
More than this, we can well understand
how keenly certain powerful corporations
are watching tbe result of the present sur
vey, and with what ‘^exceeding great Joy”
they would point to the proposal of any
“private parties to undertake the construc
tion of this work at their private cost,” and
so defeat an appeal from the government to
Congress for its u bona file" inception!
As a true exponent of the wishes of this
section ; mav we invoke your powerful and
friendly aief in this mauev, ana impress on
our legislators their imperative duty not to
attempt to thwart the present earnest efforts
of the national government by coquetting
with any “ private parties” on a subject of
such enormous magnitude and vital impor
tance to our own country and the outer
world as the “construction of the great
canal,” by which, indeed, will be effected
the junction of the Mississippi and Atlantic.
Yours, most respectfully,
Tallahassee.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
The Question of An Extra Session of
Congress— An Amendment to tbe
Legislative aud Judicial Appropri
ation Bill- Sharp Practice in Ala*
bama-WindomN Colored Emigra
tion Scheme — Senator Edmunds 9
Conscience.
Special Correspondence of the Morning Netcs.
Washington, February 13.—From time
to time in this correspondence mention has
been made of the probability of an extra
session of Congress being called. Whether
there is to be one is now the leading topic
of discussion in political quarters. It is
hard to get at anything that will definitely
settle the question—it might be said that it
is impossible to do so. In the hurrah that
goes with every question of equal impor
tance flushed in the political arena, the ma
jority of people jump at yes for an answer.
The more careful, however, want to take a
look around, a doubting look, before giv
ing a verdict, and are content to await for
the next ten days to show whether there
will be a necessity for an extra session.
The first point to be considered in this con
nection is the condition of the absolutely
necessary work required of Congress. If that
work is not completed by March 4th next,
there will have to be a called session to
give the lubricating oil to the government’s
wheels. A look in this direction 6hows this
work to be far behindhand. With close at
tention to businees there would not be
much difficulty in getting through. At
this juncture arises the question whether
such legislation that wili briug in
direct conflict the House and
the Senate will not be attempted to be in
corporated in the appropriation bills, that
their passage between now and March 4th
will be impossible. This is the hard point
to determine. The Democrats have practi
cally decided to put the repeal of the test
o itfi to the sundry civil bill, and the repeal
of the sections of the revised statutes au
thorizing the appointment of supervisors of
elections to either that bill or the legislative,
executive aud judicial bill. The Republi
cans of the Seuate have decided to make no
great opposition to the first measure, but,
on the other hand, have decided to resist to
the utmost the last. It is evident that if
the Democrats persist in their just demand,
aud the Republicans in the Seuate persist in
their partisan refusal, that the bill ou which
the proposition is put as a “rider” will fail.
With iis failure, there does not seem to be
any means of avoiding an extra session soon
after the expiration of the present fiscal
year, June 30th. The Republicans are try
ing to get up sympathy for themselves iu
the stand they propose to take, bv saying
that the only reasons the Democrats insist
on the repeal of theTederal supervisors law
are, first and principally, that they hunger
for the spoils' that will come, with
both Houses under their control; and
secondly, because they fear that ifthe prose
cutions uow pending against several Demo
cratic members elect are allowed to go on
under the Federal supervisors law, those
gentlemen will be sentenced to the peniten
tiary, and the Democratic majority so much
reduced. The only color to the first reason
assigued by tbe Republicans, is tbe fact that
a large number of gentlemen here who ex
pect to come into office under the reorgani
zation of the Senate andthellouse, are anxi
ous to come in as soon as they can, and are
using what influence they have to bring
about a session of Congress earlier than the
first Monday in next December. Democrat
ic members of Congress cannot be influenced
by the persuasions of these geutlemen. They
are not so impatient but they can wait. The
second reason given by the Republicans for
opposing the repeal of the supervisors law
would, instead of redounding to their inter
est, seem likely to strengthen the Democrats
in insisting on the repeal of those infamous
election laws. As stated previously, that
reason is that the Democrats are afraid if
these laws are not repealed immediately,
some of the Democratic members elect may
be convicted of frauds in the
late . election. With the examples
before their eyes’ of Judge Bond in
Baltimore, without the slightest degree of
justice, using the obnoxious laws to punish
only Democrats i and of the Attorney General
of the United States lowering the dignity—
if it has an}'—of the Department of Justice
and ordering his subordinates to use every
means of convicting Hull and King, Demo
cratic members elect from Florida aud Loui
siana, respectively, it is rather to the credit
of the Democracy that it should insist on
having those laws repealed immediately.
There are, however, quite a number of
Democrats who are unwilling to pqt tbe
expeuse of an e^tra session on the country
in order to gain immediately what will come
In time; and on tbe other hand, there are
some Republicans in favor of not resisting
now what is bound to come in time. Upon
the action of these two classes of both par
ties depends the yes or no of an extra ses
sion. It is impossible to say what several
days may bring forth , but the shrewdest
anil most careful politicians of both sides,
as a general rule, hold the opinion that a
conflict between the House and Senate is
goiDg to be avoided.
An excellent amendment to the legisla
tive and judicial appropriation bill was made
to-dav upon the motion of Representative
Hewitt, of Alabama. There seems to be no
reason for doubting that it will not be
favorably considered by the Senate and be
come a law. The amendment requires the
Marshal or officer making an arrest far
violation of election lav;c to carry his
prisoner before ihe nearest official au
thorized to act upon jt. This will prevent
Uuited States Marshals dragging their
prisoners around the country at a great ex
pense iu order that they may get larger fees
and have them tried where they think there
is the better prospect of decisions adverse
to the prisoners being bad.
A litile bit of news which 1 have not seen
in any of the Southern papers comes from
Alabama. It is about the recent trial of
Mayer and Turner in that State for refusing
to give up the t allot boxes of the late
elections. Mayer is the District Attorney,
and Turner is the Marshal. Turner $^ot in
formation that Ru was to be arrested by-
order of the State court, and telegraphed
here to Devens asking what he was to do
about it. There w-as no thought by
Mayer that he too w-as to be arrested.
Mr. Devens answered directing Maye r
to prepare the papers nec^- sary iiu a v^rit
of habeas Curpu* ana be ready to go before
the Judge with them as soon as Turner was
arrested and thus save him from going to
jail. Mayer had just finished the papers
when a Marshal of the State wuu*.t sfeppeq
into his ornce. The Marshal touched the
District Attorney on tl^e shoulder, showed
him his warrant and said, “You arc my
prisoner.” Mayer was “never so surprised
in all his life.” * For a moment he did not
know what to do. For once in his life a
thought struck him. He asked for a short
time to look over some of his papers, ^’be
officer consented. Maye* looked over some
of his papers—the same ones that he had
made out to keep Turner from jail. He
quickly changed them so that the writ of
habeas corpus wnuk* ap^ly to #iihsel/.
He tueu went with the officer/ The writ
was honored and he kept himself out of
jail. Iu tbe meanwhile, Turner had also
been called on and arrested. Without any
jesting “he was never so surprised in all his
life,” when he found that there was no writ
in his behalf and that he had to enter
upon a term of durance vile.
Although Senator Windom’s scheme for
colored emigration h*s not the ghost or a
chauCb o£ becoming a ^art of the country’s
legislation, it has produced results. * It has
caused a lot of colored officeholders here
to take the negro race and hold it up by the
tail. These officeholders suddenly awake
to the idea that something must be done
for their race in the South. ~ They seem to
be also taken with the inspiration that they
are the very men to do this something.
After incubating for about tfirev; veeks,
they have come to the conclusion that the
best way to hold their race up by the tail
before the country will be to call a National
Colored Conference, where they can venti
late their ideas and get into the newspapers,
and perhaps in the long run get into other
olfices when they lose their present ones.
They expect that the eonyeutmu at hfashville
on tne sixth of May next will be largely at
tended, and that its results will be most
beneficial to “the race.” “We expect,”
said one of the committee having the ar
rangements for the conference in charge,
“to calf me attention of the country to our
condition, and create sympathy for us.
We will recite our wrongs, socially as well &e
politically. Senator Windpm’s plan for col
ored emigration will he considered. In
fact, wq want the country to know that we
have rights by law that are not ac
corded us, and that we intend to demand
those rights. We will make the confer
ence a success In point of attendance, and
the class of colored men who come to it.
The future of the race in politics wfil he
thoroughly considered.” Despite tnu class
qf men wqo ar£ making this new movement,
from all appearances the coming confer
ence promises to be one of both inter
est and importance, if the leaders do
not, as is frequently the case with •imiJar
meetings among themselves, get to quarrel
ing among themselves. Borne colored men
here say that they will attend and propose
the segregation of the colored race
from the Republican party, if not from
politics altogether. The Secretary of the
meetings that have led to the call for
the conference is named Johnson
and.is a messenger at Secretary Sherman's
door. I asked him what the whole thing
meant anyway. He said he would write it
out. The following is what he wrote:
“In anticipation of the campaign of 1880,
and the determination of the colored voters
to insist upon the full exercise of their elec
tive franchise, it has been determined in a
conference of leading colored men held
here, of which Governor Pinchback was
Chairman, to take steps looking to a i
tional convention of colored citizens of the
Uuited States at an early day. Among the
colored citizens present were John R. Lynch
of Mississippi, Richard T. Greener of South
Carolina, James B. Deveaux of Georgia, R.
Dumont, of Louisiana, Merrimon Howard
of Mississippi, and James D. Kennedy.
Nashville, Teun., was chosen as the place,
and May 6th next the time for the meeting.
The Chairman was authorized to appoint an
executive committee of fifteen to extend
invitations and to arrange for transportation.
A circular will be sent out stating the object
of the conference, which is mainly to con
sider the situation of the colored people in
the South—their educational, moral, social
and political condition, and the subject of
immigration. It is expected that this will
be the most influential gathering of colored
men ever assembled in the United States. The
following compose the executive committee :
P. B. S. Pinchback ex-officio Chairman, J.
Wesley Cromwell of Virginia, John R. Lynch
of Mississippi, Rev. J. C. Embry of Kansas,
Prof. R. T. Greener of South Carolina,
James B. Deveaux of Georgia, F. L. Car-
dozo of South Carolina, R. D. Beckley of
Virginia, Isaac Myers of Maryland, Prof. J.
C. Corbin of Arkansas, N. W. Cuney of
Texas, J. C. Napier of Indiana, A. T. Au
gusta, District of Columbia, U. C. Bruce of
Kansas, F. G. Barbadoes of California.”
In the Republican caucus yesterday, Ed
munds not only kicked up a row by declar
ing for Butler aud against Corbin in the
Senatorial contest which was known as the
Butler-Corbin contest, but created a great
deal of fuu. His declaration that his con
science would not allow him to vote for the
Radical Corbin was regarded as a huge joke.
The idea of Edmunds hav.ng a conscience
was so inexpressibly funny to even his col
leagues that they had to laugh. It doe6seem
a little curious that Edmunds should lay
claim to a conscience, but as he killed the
attempt to unseat Senator Butler we will for
the once let that pass. By the way, speak
ing of Republican caucuses brings to mind
the fact that they are not conducted with all
their past unanimity. The feeling engen
dered over the Conkling fight and other mat
ters has not left all serene in the Radical
Senatorial camp. A caucus of the Radical
branch of the Senate nowadays means al
most always a tight of greater or smaller
proportions. Potomac.
OUR ATLANTA LETTER.
Weather—VlMiling Legislator*—Cot
ton Factory—.Tllnor Topic*—Camp
bell and lVrenn Vivlt Catooma
Spring*-Elegant Sign of Savannah
Line-General New* Item*-Fln**.l
Paragra pli*.
Special Correspoiulence of the Morning News.
Atlanta, February 13.—Street auctions,
prize package peddlers and blind fiddlers
are flouri3hiqg here during our mild
weather.
Quite a number of Seuators and Repre
sentatives of the Georgia Legislature are in
the city. They report that the people are
not prepared to indorse West Murphy and
*his fee.
In my next letter I hope to be able to
touch up the Atlanta Steam Cotton Factory
enterprise (?) that has dragged its slow’
length along for several years, and is still
in the fog as to the future,
minor Tones.
Mr. J. B. Campbell, the popular manager
of the St. Jamas Hotel, of Jacksonville,
Fl^,, is in tbe city. Mr. B. W. Wrenn, who
has leased the famous Catoosa Springs for
ten years, is endeavoring to secure Mr.
Campbell as manager. No bettor selection
could be made, and it is generally hoped
that he will accept the position.
The Southern Express Company has had
its annual “old boss” sale, and Captain
Hulbert succeeded in getting up consider
able fun at the auction mart. Xt is like
buying a pig ip q Lag, *Ij<1 many a poor
fellow £ota’»inalJ return for bis money.
Others, however, were mofe lucky, and in
some instances carried off valuable articles
at very low prices. Chance games are
always popular, and “old boss” saios will
never lack for cqstouier*.
an elegant sign.
The Central Railroad office in this city is
just now* the centre of attraction. Mr. Dave
Appier, the General Agent, is always
W.
actrrf yitls.
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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 witil 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 satished 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.
BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.
The genuine are never sugar coated.
Every box lias 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 genuine Dr.
C. McLane’s Liver Pills, prepared by
Fleming Bros., of Pittsburgh, Pa., the
market being full of imitations of the
name McLuue, spelled differently but
same pronunciation.
nov6-Tu Th&S&Telly
fainting.
alive to the interests of Savannah her
railroad and steamship lftus, ana* never
loses an opportunity te ju-omote thorn. His
latest “bit’’’ is iu the shape of an elegant
sign, painted on the large window of his of
fice, which attracts universal attention.
I notice it in my 1 tter because it, is not
only the handsomest thing of the kind in
Atlanta, hut on account of its Sj*propriatc
artistic merit«. “ Miv-annah’ Line, Freight
and X’x,s-enger. D. W. Appier, Agent,” is
the legend. The first two words are superb
ly colored aud embellished, the centre of
the “S” containing a railroad locomotive,
and the centre of the “X-’* exquisitely
beautiful steerpfriijp. During tbe painting
qf thin §6?^ iue police were constantly em
ployed in keeping the sidewalk open, so
great was t\\e ciouil of spectators. The
“Savannah Line” was never better adver
tised, and this 6igu befug “ a thing of
beauty,” it ought to reinaiu “ a joy forpy^r
to the passers by.
ttkhMKAft, NEWS ITEMS.
in my last letter I alluded to “religious
trumps.” The Rev. John Peddle, a Baptist
divine of Chicago, calls these peripatetic
preachers “carpet-bag evangelists” an^ re
fuses to fellowship them.
The people of tUvMinnh have not forgot
ten Gennrai Mm. B. lUzen, U. S. A., now
Colonel of the Sixth U. & Infantry. He
charges that General D. S Stanley,U. S. A.,
who is Colonel of the Twenty-Second In
fantry, has been slandering him for the past
seven years, and demands a cogrt partial.
If Stanley fails to proye biutemenU then
he^iu tom -tiui; he put on trial.
Z^oUiiug new has transpired in the Blair-
Granger case. Captain Blair is being tried
by court martial, and his supposed former
wife, Mrs. Nichols, has sailed from Glasgow
for New York, to be present a^d tesufy.
General R;< hard Major of the Fifth
G- S. Artillery, is a iqember of the court
martial, which is ooraposed of Generals
Ayr**g, De Hussy, Branuan and other promi
nent officers. Coloutl Elliot F. Sheppard
and General M. T. McMahon, able lawyers
of New York, are counsel for Captgin III air,
who says he lived with b^t noVer married
the Glasgow whose two children he
auj.ported'as his own.
final paragraphs.
Atlanta is wasting g gaud deal of righteous
indignaj.ic.L over Savannah’s “sacred con
cert” on a Sunday night, forgetting that the
same thing, in a more objectionable form
has occurred here. Another case ci ‘^beam”
aud “mote.”
General Anderson, our new Chief of
Police, is “after”, the young men who carry
pistols, and the women who occupy
rooms on business streets fc*r purposes
of prostitution. It will end mostly
in news t qijf, as these classes
i»ud fcheir'fi leiids and supporters are too nu
merous and influential to be put down in
this manner.
The latter evil is ofie grows but of
the large Burnt**,- of vacant roon^ and floors
OZ the business streets of Atlanta. Proper
ty owners are suffering from decline to rents
and cannot, therefore, keeq the**’ rooms
empty. They prefer to them to men
and wompn id luu»a character, aud the evil
a^oumed gigantic proportions. An at
tempt to eradicate the evil will raise a howl
from the already overtaxed property owners,
unless a better class of tenants can be
found. Chatham.
JOHN OLIVER’S
Paint and Oil Store.
STEAMBOAT,
RAILROAD AND MILL SUPPLIES
• SASHES, BLINDS,
Doors, Mouldings, &c.
NO. 5 WHITAKER STREET,
ap25-tf Savannah, Ga.
ANDREW HANLEY,
No. 6 Whitaker Street,
Paint and Oil Store
RAIEROAD, STEAMBOAT AND MIT.I, SUP
PLIES.
Doors, Sashes, Blinds, Etc
Plain and Decorative >Vall Papei,
LIVE PLASTER AND CEIVENT.
Sole Agent for the celebrated “ HOME
LIGHT” OIL.
All orders will receive prompt attention.
dec2l-tf
PAINTING
CHRIS. MURPHY,
House, Sign and Ornamental
PAINTING.
Orders for Work of Every De
scription in the above
line Solicited.
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Paints, Oils, Glass, Brushes,
VARNISHES, ETC.
\I, r M. P. MoKKNNA, 133 Congress street
* 1 doaiers in PAINTS. OILS, etc., HOUSE.
SIGN and DECORATIVE PAINTER. Persona)
superintendence given to all work. Orders for
any goods in my line will receive prompt at ten
tion. dno4-tf
NOTICE TO DEBTORS AN!} CREDITORS.
OTATE OF GEORGIA, Chatham County.—
O Not;c© is hereby given to all persons hav-
iug demands against ANDREW J. MOLONt Y,
late of said county and State, deceased,
to present them to me, properly made
out, within the time prescribed by law, so a?
to U»eir character and amount; and all
persons indebted to said deceased are hereby
required to make payment to mp
January 10, 1K0.
^ .. W. W. MACK ALL, Jb.,
Administrator estate Andrew J. Moloney.
janll-SOt
dec3-4m
Seed and Table Potatoes^
OAA BARRELS, on consignment and for Rale
iUU low by GEO. C. FREEMAN",
tM Bijan street.
febJO-tt
JOHN G. UUTLEK,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer In
Paints, Oils, Glass, Varnishes, Etc.
V LSO, a full line of WALL PAPERS. House,
Sign 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
2umbfr, &r.
BACON & BROOKS,
PLANING MILL,
Lumber and Wood Yard.
O RDER BOXES can be found at D. C. Bacon
& Co.'s, Post Office^Branch & Cooper’s,
A. M. & C. W. West's, J Weichselbaum's and
H. Burford &. Co.'s. janl7-tf
D. C. BACON & CO.,
TIMBER,
Lumber, Shingles,
LATHS, PICKETS, Etc.
Wholesale and Retail
je2R-tf
furt.
CE ABLE SUE. DIXON.
On hand and now landing per schooner Fannie
Tracy, the best grades of
ANTHRACITE, BITUMINOUS & FAMILY
C O A_ L !
Especially adapted to th s market. Low prices
and prompt delivery guaranteed. Special In
ducements offered to manufacturers, dealers
and public institutions. Orders can be left at
De 1 annoy’s Cigar Emporium, Thos. West's
Grocery Establishment and at my residence,
No. 60 Broughton st. CHAS. H. DIXON,
Office and Yard Lamar’s Wharf, foot of Ga*
louse. febd-tf
Itaj ©ocas.
GRAY & O’BRIEN.
500 CLOAKS!
B
ERLIN BEAVERS and BASQUE CLOTHS,
at 50 per cent, off cost of manufacture.
BEAVER CLOAKS $7 50. $8 and $10, former
price $15, $30 and $85. These goods have got
to be sola. No reasonable offer refused.
DIRECT IMPOUTATIOX
10.000 yards of HAMBURG EMBROIDERIES.
FRENCH NAINSOOK EDGING and INSERT
ING.
JACONET EDGINGS and FLOUNCINGS.
5,000 yards EDGING, 2c., 3c.. 5c. and 6c.
Those goods are guaranteed full 50 per cent,
less than any such goods in this or any other
ci*y.
100 pairs 10-4. 11-1 and 12-4 BLANKETS, just
received, at a great reduction iu price.
20 pieces BLACK CACHEMIRE, just received,
75c., former price $1 15.
Our entire stock of DRESS GOODS. All
Wool, Black and Colored, reduced about 33tfje.
Our entire stock of other styles of DRESS
GOODS are merited down 25 per cent.. In order
to close this season's purchase.
Ladies' MERINO VESTS, very nice goods. 50c.
Gents' MERINO VESTS, 50c., 75c., $1, excep
tional value.
Boys’ and Misses’ VESTS, full line, from
35c. to $1.
200 dozen DAMASK and IIUCK TOWELS,
from $1 per dozen to $12.
The best and largest LINEN HUCKABACK
TOWEL in this city for 25c.
5 pieces Ponson's and Tilliard BLACK SILKS,
very heavy, and not usually offered in this
market.
GRAY & O’BRIEft,
feb3_tf
B.F.McKEIA&CO.
13? BROl(;ilTO\ STREET,
BETWEEN BULL AND WHITAKER STS.
WE HAVE JI. oT OPENED:
\ LINE of elegant CREPE LISSE RUCII
1NGS. plain and silvered-edged.
A new line of Children's FANCY HOSIERY,
choice styles and colors from 10c. pair up.
Children's elegant FRENCH and ENGLISH
FANCY HOSE.
A handsome assortment of Children's Col
ored Bordered LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS,
at 10c.
CORNETS.
An extensive assortment of first class Cor
sets, including—
THE IMPROVED SPOON BUSK,
THE DOUBLE BUSK.
THE CROSS BONE,
THE DOWAGER, ABDOMINAL,
THE PHENIX, NURSING, aud
THE 50c. LIZZIE,
The best Corset to be had at th© price.
KID GLOVE N.
Evening shades 3-button KIDS, 50c.
Dark shades 3-button JOUY1NS, 05c., usually
$1 25 to SI 50.
Black 3-button Kn>S, good at 75c.
Dark colors 2-button, 40c. up.
SHIRTS.
We are now offering in all sizes the celebra
ted QUAKER CITY DOLLAR SHIRT, made
of Wamsutta Shirting, and admitted to be
among the best made and best fitting Shirts
ever offered for sale.
Full lines also, of the QUAKER CITY 75c.
SHIRT.
Gentlemen's LINEN COLLARS and CUFFS
Gentlemen s LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS,
hemmed and ready for use, from luc. up.
iT 1 SACRIFICE!
The balance of our stock of Ladies’ DRESS
GOODS and other WINTER GOODS we are
offering at a sacrifice.
B. F. McKENNA & CO.
Carriages, ffuflaies. &c.
SAVANNAH’S
Enterprise Carriage Works.
FETZER & SAM BERG,
PROPRIETORS.
West Broad and Duffy Street*.
H AVING had long experience in the busi
ness. and with unrivalled facilities, we are
prepared to do work in the best style and at
the shortest notice.
jan20-!m FETZER & SANBERG.
TUE SAVANNAH
Old stand of McKee & Bennett,
Corner Bay and Went Broad Streets.
A N extensive stock of Carriages. Phaetons.
Buggies, Wagons, Harness, Whips, Um
brellas and material of all kinds for th© build
ing and repairing of vehicles. In addition to
the above a general workshop with competent
hands to build and repair all kinds of vehicles,
at prices to suit the times. All work guaran
' jrotected. A. K. WILSON,
-tf Proprietor.
JfroB and grass ^sunders.
McDOMGH&BALLMTYM
IRON AND BRASS
Founders and Machinists,
East Broad St., near A. &. G. R. R. Depot,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
Iron Fronts for
Stores.
BRACKETS,
IKON RAILING,
CASTINGS
Of all kinds, and
ARCHITECTURAL
IRON WORK,
For Churches, Stores and Dwellings made to
order.
SUGAR MILLS & PANS
A SPECIALTY.
declO-Shn
Ed. Pinaud’s Perfumery,
FINE TOILET SOAPS,
AND BRILLIANTINK FOR THE HAIR.
For sale at
L. C. 8TRONG’S Drug Store,
feb7 tf Cor. gull and Perry st. lane.
WRAPPING PAPER.
F >R SALE, OLD NEWSPAPER8, suitable
for wrapping paper, at Fifty Cent* per
hundred. Apply to
octfS-tf MORNING NEWS OFFICE,