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J. H. ESTILL, Proprietor.
W. X. THOMPSON. Editor.
THL'ESDAT, APRIL S. 1880.
TAPPING THE WIRES.
It Is now believed that the Injuries pre
viously reported as having been perpetrated
on the colored cadet, Whittaker, at West
Point, were inflicted by himself. He was ex
amlned and found to be not hurt, and there
is no Indication, so far, that any white
cadet had any hand in the alleged outrage.
The New York Herald's theory is that Whit
taker took this way of escaping the conse
quences of his own deficiencies, and
avoiding the disgrace of failure.
When Prince Bismarck tendered his resig
cation, the Emperor declined to accept ii
using the word “never.” It is believed
now that the Chancellor will remain in
office. It is thought that he cared very little
actually about the result of the vote on the
stamp tax bill, but that he made use of that
as a pretext for complaining of the manner
In which the Bunde6rath is constituted,
matters stand now, Prussia, though much
more largely interested in the empire than
any other member thereof, can be controlled
by smaller kingdoms and principalities, and
this is what Bismarck desires to obviate in
the future.
All the hotels and beer saloons of Borden
town, New Jersey, were closed on Tues
day, the City Council having refused to
grant them licenses. Bordentown has been
a chartered town for thirty-one years, and
this is the first time in Its history that Its
public houses have been closed.
In the Senate yesterday, Mr. Wheeler
being absent, Hon. Allen G. ThurmaD
of Ohio, was elected President pro tan.
On taking his seat, he thanked the Senators
for this renewed evidence of their confi
dence and esteem. After the transaction
of some unimportant business, the Senate,
on the expiration of the morning hour, re
sumed consideration of the bill to ratify
the agreement with the Utes, which was
discussed until adjournment. In the
House, several minor matters were discussed
and disposed of during the morning hoar,
after which the House proceeded to discuss
the army appropriation bill in committee of
the whole. During the discussion, quite an
exciting scene occurred between Messrs.
Sparks, of Illinois, and Clymer, of Penusyl
yania, in which the former gave the lie to
the latter. Mutual explanations followed
however, and the quarrel was amicably set
tled. Pending discussion on the clause pro
hibiting the spending of any part of the ap
propriation to defray the expenses of the
army as a police force at the polls, the House
adjourned.
The Iowa Democratic Convention yester
day, after adopting resolutions affirming
Democratic principles and in favor of the
two-thirds vote in the National Convention
appointed delegates to Cincinnati,who were
instructed to vote in that convention as a
unit.
A Berlin dispatch states that the vote in
the Bundesrath on the imperial stamp tax
bill will be reconsidered, and that Prince
Bismarck’s views will be agreed with. The
final decision of the Emperor in regard to
the latter’s resignation has not yet been
made public.
There are signs of a new method of Mo
hammedan fanaticism in Turkey. A paper
Known to be in intimate relations with the
Grand Vizier, denounces the civilization of
Europe in bitter language, which will be
likely to iocrease the already frequent as
sassinations of Christians in the Turkish Em
pire.
The Rhode Island election yesterday re
sulted in no choice for Governor and
Lieutenant Governor by the people. The
Legislature, however, is largely Republican
which will ensure the election of Little
field, the Republican candidate. A large
majority of the Assemblymen elect, it is
said, favor the re-election of Senator Bum-
side.
In the Chicago election, held Tuesday, the
Republicans elected ten Aldermen, the
Democrats eix, the Independents one, and
the Socialists cne. The complexion of the
body will be about the same as last year.
At a meeting of the directors and large
bondholders of the Selma, Rome and Dalton
Railroad yesterday, in New York, it wasdecl
ded to organize for the purchase of ali classes
of securities of the road. The Farmers'
Loan and Trust Company of New York was
appointed transfer agent for the stock.
An appeal has been issued by the com
mittee having the matter In charge, to all
the members of the Protestant Episcopal
Church throughout the country, for $200,000
to endow a General Theological Seminary
in New York. The committee desire to en
dow the office of dean and four professor
ships lu the sum of $50,000 each.
Returns from the Parliamentary elections
yesterday show the election of 16 Liberals,
14 Conservatives and 2 Home Rulers. The
Liberals gain 9 seats and the Home Rulers 2.
Herbert Gladstone, who was defeated for
Middlesex, will stand for Leeds.
The Sharpe crevasse near New Orleans
has been closed, and everything will soon be
working all right again.
The Connecticut Radical Convention yes
terday adopted resolutions to the effect
that the Republicans of that State would
support the nominee of the Chicago Con
vention whoever he might be. Delegates
to Chicago were then appointed, and it is
thought they stand: Blaloc 5, Edmunds 4,
Washburne 3.
The morning sky this month will be
peculiarly brilliant, owing to the presence
of four of the principal planets, Jupiter,
Saturn, Venus and Mercury, which will
be all crowded together in the constella
tion Pisces. Saturn has not yet joined
the others, but he will pass from the
eveniug to the morning sky to day. This
juxtaposition of so many planets will
lead to a series of interesting conjunc
tions, some of which will be quite close.
To day Mercury and Jupilcr will shine
side by side, and the waning moon Dear
by will add to the beauty of the scene.
On the 15th Mercury and Venus will pass
near one another, and on the 16 th Venus
and Jupiter will be in conjunction.
The Manhattan Elevated Railroad
Company, which operates the New York
elevated roads under leases, is not now
earning enough to pay the necessary 10
per cent, dividends guaranteed under
those leases, and which is indispensable
to their continuance. It is believed gen
erally, therefore, that the lease must be
annulled, and that the roads will revert
to the original companies.
Senator Edmunds says he is uncom
promisingly in favor of Grant. That is
a preference not very much in accord
with the Springfield Republican's formal
analysis of Edmunds’ beautifully pure
and guileless and incorruptible nature.
The endorsement of Grant is an endorse
ment of Grant’s two terms’ record,which
makes the few honest Republicans blush
when they think of it.
John Sherman’s name is in the list of
rich delinquent tax payers in the District
of Columbia. Mr. Sherman, although a
poor farmer who has to repair his own
fences, is down in this list as owner of
twenty very valuable pieces of Washing
ton property. During the last few years,
on a salary of $8,000, he has become a
large property owner.
The Two-Thirds Rule.
The last National Democratic Con Ten
tion, held at St. Louis in 1876, passed a
resolution that “ the States be requested
to instruct their delegates to the National
Democratic Convention to be held in
1880. whether it be desirable to cohtinue
the two-thirds rule longer in force in the
national conventions, and that the com
mittee insert such request in the call for
the convention.” In pursuance of this
resolution, the Democratic State Ex
ecutive Committee, at its recent meeting
in Atlanta, passed a resolution, in which
they requested that the people in their
primary assemblies, held to appoint de
legates to the State Convention to meet
in Atlanta on the first Tuesday in June
to select delegates to the Cincinnati Con
vention, express their views on this sub
ject
Thus the question of the continuance
of the two-thirds rule, which, since its
adoption in 1832, nearly half a century
ago, has governed the Democratic nomi
nating conventions, is remitted to the
people. In the primary meetings
soon to be held the subject will
have to be considered, and it is
for the purpose of informing our read
ers in regard to it that we print
from the New Orleans Democrat the
article on our first page giving the
origin and the history of a rule which
has so long been regarded as a part of
the common law in National Democratic
nominating conventions, and which
has served in times past to unify and
consolidate the party, and thus secure
the triumphant election of its nominees.
The experience of half a century has
demonstrated the wisdom of a rule
which, while it holds factious combina
tions in check, is alike fair and just to
majorities and minorities, tending alw r ays
to ultimate unity, harmony and victory.
It has had the approval of the wisest,
purest, and best Democratic patriots and
statesmen in the past, and has come to be
a time-honored usage of the Democratic
party. No new need exists for its abroga
tion. while there are perhaps special reas
ons why it should be steadfastly adhered
to. We feel that a departure from it at this
time would be a dangerous innovation,
and we sincerely hope that the Democ
racy of Georgia, in their primary meet
ings, will instruct their delegates to Cin
cinuati to vote for the continuance of the
two-thirds rule.
Profits of Cotton Culture.
A South Carolina correspondent of the
New York Bulletin, a planter himself,
has been inquiring amongst his neigh
bors in regard to their acreage in cotton
for this year as compared with 1879. He
says that he finds that they are planting
nearly fifty per cent, more in 1880 than
was grown last year, and adds that
‘ ■ from the best information obtainable I
am diposed to place the increase in South
Carolina at not less than thirty-five per
cent over that of 1879; aod the increase
is more likely to exceed this percentage
than fall below it.” The same causes
which operate in South Carolina are at
work all over the South to foster the
increase in the surface planted in
cotton, and this increase is in ad
dition to the taking up of new lands
and the natural extension of cul
tivation in the Southwest. Thus it is
fair to infer that the cotton crop for 1880
will be very large. The secret of this
renewed stimulus to the growth of the
great staple is that cotton cultivation is
more profitable than ever, even at pres
ent prices. It is the only cash product
of the country, and practically all the
crop made is sold. The average esti
mated cost of raising, ginning, baling
and delivering the crop at the railroad
about $11 per acre, and the average yield
of the South is 191 pounds per acre
that is to say, the cost of raising cotton
at 5J cents per pound. The planters
have received an average of about 111
cents per pound for it delivered at the
railroads, thus making a profit of about
5} cents per pound on at least five mil
lion bales of 450 pounds each—2,250,
000.000 pounds-—or $124,000,000 clear
profit. This is a very good business,
and it suffices to explain the constant
and rapid recuperation of the South
under its influence and operation. Yet
the exhibit seems rather rosy.
Editors Disbarred as Attorneys
Judge Patterson, of the Lancaster (Pa.)
Court, on Saturday filed an opinion in
the case of Messrs. Steinman and Hen
sel, striking them from the roll of the
attorneys of the court. These gentle
men have been disbarred as attorneys
for doiog their duty as editors. They
were editors and publishers of the I.an
caster Intelligencer, as well as attorneys,
and in the former capacity, having com
mitted no offense as lawyers or as citi
zens, ventured to comment upon a ease
of notoriety that had been tried and ad
judicated upon. The court had, there
fore, done with the case. It was on trial
only before the bar of public opinion,
and there Messrs. Steinman and Hense) in
the discharge of their professional duty as
editors, proceeded to arraign it. For this
they were charged with contempt of
court, but the rule for contempt was dis
charged because the alleged misconduct
was not committed in the presence of
the court. The rule to disbar, however,
was made absolute, and the names of
Steinman and Hensel were struck from
the roll of attorneys. This proceeding
excites considerable feeling in Pennsyl
vania. and the Philadelphia Times says
that “if Judge Patterson has acted with
in the legitimate powers of the courts in
this case, then is the boasted freedom of
the press, so clearly defined in our fun
damental law, a mockery and a lie, and
every journalist who happens to be
member of the bar is a mere plaything
of the ignorance or malice that some
times crawls or climbs to the bench.”
What the Mayor of Topeka Says About
the Exodus.
According to the Washington Post the
Republican Mayor of Topeka, Kansas,
is the most important witness who has
testified before the Exodus Committee
since the investigation began. Being a
Radical of the strictest sort, a leader of
prominence in his locality, his evidence
cannot be denied or deprecated by his
political brethren. They must admit
that what he says is true, for he speaks
of what he knows, what he has seen and
heard. His explanation of the wild
tales of terrible persecution told by the
negroes who have gone to his State is
the best solution of that matter yet pre
sented. It was brought out by Mr. Win-
dom.who happened, as usual, to get hold
of the hot end of the poker. According
to the Republican Mayor of Topeka, the
negroes were made to believe that pro
visions, clothing and other good things
would be given to all the colored people
who had fled from cruel persecution.
In order to have a claim on those
things they must make it appear that
they had suffered awful wrongs in the
house of bondage, and had fled froifi
torture to find relief among a civilized
and Christian people. On this hint they
spoke, as did Othelio, and told of moie
“hair breadth ’scapes” than he recounted
to Desdemona’s father. Not even the
children of Israel in Egypt had endured
the tortures inflicted on them. They had
come off with life only, while hundreds
of their brethren and sisters had been
killed by the “bloody handed rebels.’
But they soon learned that the gifts
which were to be given were not forth
coming, and then they wanted to get
ba k into the jaws of the hell from
which they had fled. Then they con
fessed that they had lied, and told why
they had done so. This interesting Re
publican witness says he has personally
aided between one and two hundred
of the exodusters to get back to their
old homes, and he advises ail of them to
risk all of the dangers to which they are
xposed down South, rather than take
the chances of freezing and starving in
Kansas. We hardly need be told that
Mr. Windom did not like the remarks of
the Mayor of Topeka.
Brazilian Enterprise.
The Rio A'ewt. published at Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, in its issue of February
24, gives an account of the successful
survey of Sao Francisco river, from its
mouth to the head of navigation, by an
expedition under charge of Colonel
Roberts, which has been engaged six
months at the work. The expedition
reached a point 1,300 miles from the
sea. The Aims thinks that while it can
not be claimed that this expedition at
tained anything like the glory of a
Stanley, in achieving a world wide cele
brity by his clear cut and distinct dis
coveries in Africa, yet a deservedly well
kuown and highly esteemed African
explorer, Captain Richard F. Burton,
gave to the world two ponder
ous volumes on his descent of
the Rio Sao Francisco, a task much
more easy than its ascent, to say nothing
of the careful observation made by the
chief regarding the future navigation of
the river and all its practical possibilities.
The News also states that the Emperor
Dom Pedro is heartily seconding and
sustaining Colonel Roberts, as the head
of the hydraulic commission, in improv
ing the rivers and harbors oi the empire.
With such a liberal-minded and enlight
ened ruler as the Emperor Dom Pedro
there is no good reason for a want of
prosperity in the Brazilian empire, and
we are inclined to believe that the speedy
development of commercial relations
with this country, on a scale commensu
rate with its importance, will solve a
problem in whicb the people of both na
tions are vitally interested.
The Yagabond Nuisance iu Switzer
land.
The people of Geneva, Switzerland,
complain that their city is overrun with
alien vagabonds. The nuisance appears
to be really a serious one. The number
of arrivals at Geneva each year exceed
a million, and many of these visitors re
main behind. The result is that Geneva
is filled with aliens, not like our emi
grants, people who have come to settle
in the country, to make it their home
and to become good citizens, but who
are, for the most part, vagabonds that
have been run out of France, Germany
and Italy. The invasion into the canton
from Germany is very large, as people
can enter Switzerland without any trou
ble, but when they attempt to go back
again to Germany are refused per
mission to enter the country be
cause they are without passports. The
French citizens in Geneva also far ex
ceed in number the natives, who are now
in a hopeless minority. The criminal
statistics of the canton show a heavy in
crease in crime, which can be traced
without difficulty to this foreign invasion.
Four fifths of the murders are foreign;
four-fifths of the inmates of the lunatic
asylum, five-sixths of the persons ar
rested by the police and so on. The re
sult is the people of Geneva have organ
ized a Know-Nothing movement, and
will endeavor so to frame their laws that
Geneva will not become the headquarters
for all the Socialists, Communists
tramps and cut-threats of Europe.
Avoiding the Corner in Ice.—The
New York Shipping List states that in
view of the announcement of the ice
dealers of that -city that one cent per
pound will be charged for ice the coming
season, many brewers and meat packers,
who are large consumers, are putting up
ice machines in their establishments for
the purpose of making their own ice.
The cost of labor is the principal item in
the expense. It takes an engineer and
one workman to run a six-ton machine,
and it requires no more men to run a hun
dred-ton machine. The cost of the ice
will be from $1 25 to $3, according to
the rapacity of the machine. A fifty-
ton machine will produce ice at a cost of
$1 35 per ton. The same paper an
nounces that the Maine dealers have ma
terially modified their views, ample sup
plies of stacked ice, to be moved before
May 1, now being available there at
about $2, free on board, and some con
tracts for housed lots are understood to
have been made at the same figure.
Blaine’s Chances for the Republican
Nomination.
Mr. J. W. Bartlett, the Secretary of
the Blaine Headquarters at Washington,
calculates that the Maine statesman will
enter the convention with over three
hundred votes. He estimates on three hun
dred and fifty-nine, which wiil be within
twenty votes of securing the nomina
tion, and predicts that after the first bal
lot many votes that were cast as compli
ments for other favorites- will crowd to
the Blaine column. The States from
which the three hundred and fifty-nine
votes arc expected arc the following:
Alabama 3, Arkansas 2, Cali
fornia 12, Colorado 6, Connecticut
6. Delaware 0, Florida 4, Georgia 8, Illi
nois 21, Indiana 28, Iowa 22, Kansas 10,
Kentucky 5, Maine 14, Maryland 10,
Massachusetts 10, Michigan 22, Minne
sota 10, Mississippi 7, Nebraska 6, Ne
vada 6, New Hampshire 10, New Jersey
10, New York 15, Oregon C, Pennsylva
nia 20. Rhode Island 5, South Carolina
Tennessee5, Texas8, Virginias, West
Virginia 10, Wisconsin 20, Dakota 2,
Idaho 2, Arizona 2, New Mexico 2, Mon
tana 2, Washington 2, Wyoming 2, Utah
2, District of Columbia 1—359.” From
this showing of his young secretary,
Blaine would appear to be the comiDg
man for the National Democracy to beat.
Political Assessments.—A special
report on the alleged frauds in the elec
tion of 1878 in relation to political assess
ments upon Federal officeholders, has
been submitted to the Senate by Senator
Wallace. It states that both the spirit
and the letter of the law has been vio
lated. The Secretary of the Senate, Mr.
Gorham, who was at the same time Sec
retary of the Republican Congressional
Committee, sent out circulars urging the
necessity of contributions on the part of
officeholders, and indicating the amount
expected from each; $106,000 was raised
and a portion of this amount was sent
and used in close Congressional districts
to aid in the election of Republicans.
The report declares the system of assess
ments for political purposes to be vicious
in its tendency and contrary lo law. The
important part of the report is the out
line of a new bill, with heavy penalties,
including the vacation of office and po
litical disabilities, in place of the present
statute.
For Europe.—The steamers sailing
from New York for Europe on Saturday
last were the City of Berlin and Spain
for Liverpool, the Anchoria for Glasgow,
the Galatia for Bristol, the Nederland
for Antwerp, and the Main for Bremen.
All carried full average cargoes of do
mestic products and other goods. It was
noticeable that every vessel had grain on
board, evidencing that there was a better
export demand for cereals, and that a
stimulus has been given to that branch
of trade. There was also considerable
fresh meat and live stock, the total
shipments being something like879 head
cattle, 100 sheep, 4,200 quarters fresh
beef, 1,275 carcasses sheep and 200
dressed hogs. A feature of the Bremen
steamer manifest was the item of 250
barrels of seed oysters. These are
destined for the oyster beds of Holstein,
and go to replenish the diminishing stock
on hand.
The Richmond Commonwealth says:
“There have been many persons who
have been led to believe that as Judge
Field was put into the Supreme Court ny
Mr. Lincoln in 1863, he was therefore a
Republican then. There was never a
greater mistake than this made. Judge
Field has always been an old time An
drew Jackfon Democrat of the straight-
est sect. We will mention, however, in
adlition to what is said, that Judge Field
was elected to the bench of the Supreme
Court of California in 1857, when a Re
publican or Whig had about as much
chance to be elected to an office in "Cali
fornia as a mouse would have to over
throw St. Paul’s steeple. Iu 1856 the
vote of California for President was
For the Democratic nominee, 53,365; for
the Republican, 20,691; for the Whig,
36.135. We would have liked to see a
Whig or a Republican elected to the Su
preme Bench of California in 1857."
BY TELEGRAPH
THE RAILROAD SITUATION.
The Contract Between Presidents
Newcomb, Hadley, Brown and
Alexander Concluded.
A CLOSE AND PERMANENT ALLI
ANCE FOR-WED.
A Through Line Between the West
and the Sea to be Opened at Once.
MR.
WADLEY VERY HOPEFUL OVER
SAVANNAH’S FUTURE.
MINOR RAILROAD ITEMS.
Special Telegram to the Morning New*.
Atlanta, April 7.—The railroad men all
met here to-day and confirmed their agree
ment, and everything is now all right.
Messrs. Wadley, Raoul and Rogers, leave
for Macon to-night. Col. Haines goes home
to-night after addressing the Railroad Com
mission. Messrs. Newcomb and party
left for Louisville at seven o’clock by spe
cial train.
The Georgia Western is not to be built,
but a cheap rate is to be given coal to At
lanta by Messrs. Newcomb and Brown.
There Is intense excitement here over a
decline in Louisville and Nashville stock,
several citizens have met with large losses.
Mr. Wadley is very hopeful over the
future prosperity of 8avannah.
By the Associated Press.
Atlanta, April 7.—For more than a week
the railroad Presidents of Georgia have
been in session for the purpose of consult
ing with President Newcomb, of the Louis
ville and Nashville Railway. The confer
ence was closed to-day with the announce
ment that a close alliance had been
formed between Mr. Newcomb and
the Georgia Central and Western and
Atlantic and Georgia Roads, by which the
course to the sea is clear, and all the lines
are combined in one system. Mr. Newcomb
has made no leases, but has, it is said, re
ceived assurances that the alliance will be
permanent. Through lines will at once be
organized and an office will be opened in
New York.
JEALOUS VIRAGOES.
They Poun^ Each Other with Sticks
of Wood.
Special Telegram to the Morning News.
Davisbobo, Ga., April 7.—Two negro
women got into a row on the streets here
this evering. Each used heavy pieces of
wood for weapons, and both were danger
ously wounded before they could be parted.
The cause of the difficulty was something
shout their respective husbands.
MIDNIGHT TELEGRAM®
THE SELMA, ROME AND DALTON
RAILROAD.
Appeal to the Members of the Pro
testant Episcopal Church of
the United States.
YESTERDAY'S PARLIAMENTA
RY ELECTIONS.
The Bnndesrath to Agree nillT Bis
marck.
ACTION OF THE IOWA DEMOCRATIC
CONVENTION.
Mohammedan Outbreak in Tnrkey
Imminent
THE RHODE ISLAND AND CHICAGO
ELECTIONS.
Tartar Raid in the A moor.
The Boston Journal, a strong protec
tion organ, says the United States “ can
not afford to put a tariff on Chinese rice,
and thus run the risk of offending that
government so that it will retaliate by
placing restrictions upon the products of
this country.” The protectionists fre
quently forget themselves in this way and
strike at their own trade theories. Their
fundamental doctrine is that all imports
from foreign countries should be taxed
sufficiently to keep them out so that the
home article can be sold at an exorbitant
figure. Of course, the imposition of pro
hibitory duties brings about retaliation,
and that cuts down foreign trade to the
minimum. The exchange of products
is the basis of trade, but that is not the
protection theory.
Boutwell, who as Secretary of the
Treasury under Grant did not prove a
brilliant success, is desirous of seeing the
General restored to power for an indefi
nite lease, as to time or extent. Bout-
well knew how to pour out money from
the Treasury “to move the crops” on the
eve of a Pennsylvania October election
which was expected to decide Grant’s
fate as a candidate, if he could cot make
a brilliant record as the financial head of
the government. He and ex Governor
Rice, Red River Banks, Washburn and
others unite in a public address to the
Massachusetts Republicans in favor of
Grant; but it will have but little effect
upon the party there—they don’t like the
idea of more Grant, and won’t be per
suaded.
The secret of Bismarck's dissatisfac
tion with the result of the English elec
tions is to be found in the fact that with
Liberal Ministry in power it will be
impossible to maintain a secret ‘‘under
standing" with England inimical to
France. Lord Beaconsfleld’s steady sup
port of the Bismarckian policy has had
the effect of isolating France, and his
downfall will lie a great gain for that
country and a corresponding loss to Ger
many.
Judge Field on Chinese Immigra
tion.—Judge Stephen J. Field, of the
Supreme Court, has written a long letter
to a friend in California, taking sub
stantially the Pacific coast view of the
immigration of the Chinese, and saying
that it would be wise, just and politic,
and not in conflict with our traditional
policy, to insist upon a revision of our
treaty so as to place the Chinese in this
country upon the same footing as Ameri
cans are now placed in China, and thus
restrict them exclusively to the business
of foreign commerce.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat having
said that “Grant’s strength in Ohio is
greater than Blaine's, and with Sherman
out of the way the vote of Ohio will be
given to Grant in the Chicago Conven
tion,” the Cincinnati Commercial ad
dresses itself to our esteemed contempo
rary as follows:
“If you should go into the woods with
as little woodcraft as you display politi
cal knowledge you would soon be a lost
lunatic. The vote of Ohio will not in
any case be given Grant m the Chicago
Convention, and if he is nominated the
electoral vote of Ohio will be given the
Democratic candidate. But the G.-D.
should know that the latest leakage of
first-class confidential news from Wash
ington is that the Grant syndicate are
alarmed and troubled to find a man.
They claim that neither Sherman nor
Blaine is possible. They admit that the
Grant experiment is a failure. The coun
try does not respond. His nomination
would be fatal. But they claim to be
able to name their man, and they are
reluctant to name Washburne. Come,
G D-, pick up the points, hearken to
the key-note, and prepare to pucker, for
whistling time will soon be here.”
A Disclaimer.—Mr. Abram S. Hew
itt, on behalf of Mr. Tilden, declares
that the latter has not interferred “in
the slightest degree” in the contested
esse of Donelly vs. Washburn, from the
third district of Minnesota.
The title “Duke of America” is a bur
lesque title applied to Grant by a bur
lesque King. So far it is very appropri
ate, for Grant is a burlesque statesman, a
burlesque orator, and, above all, a bur
lesque nobleman. But why did he ac
cept it? Must we again ask the oft-re
peated question, “Did you ever know
Grant to refuse auything?”
The Effect of Dime Novels.—Four
sanguinary heroes, ranging in age from
twelve to fourteen years, were captured
in New York Friday, as they were about
to embark on a Texas steamer with a
capital iu hand of fifty dollars, a revol
ver and a bowie knife. They were in
search of adventure. They thirsted for
gore and greasers, and thought they
would find them both in ample quanti
ties in the Lone Star State. Of course
they had been reading dime novels.
Sfeclal Hotel Tariffs.—There does
not appear to be any reason for doubt
that the hotel keepers at Cincinnati have
resolved to enforce a very steep tariff of
prices during the period of the meeting
of the Democratic National Convention.
Several letters received in the last
few days in response to applications for
rooms, furnish abundant proof of this.
A second class hotel, for instance, con-
ducted ou the European plan, asks eight
dollars per day for a small room only,
exclusive ot meals, and is quite inde
pendent about that. It may or may not
be true, as asserted, that the Tilden and
the Tammany wings of the New York
Democracy are engaging rooms for the
convention by the wholesale at fabulous
rates, but there is no excuse under any
circumstances for the Cincinnati hotel
keepers demanding more than the usual
rates.
MOHAMMEDAN OUTBREAK IN TURKEY IMMI
NENT.
London, April 7.—The Constantinople
correspondent of the Times says there are
signs ot a new outbreak of Mohammedan
fanaticism In Turkey. He cites an article
from a paper known to be in Intimate rela
tione with the Grand Vizier, which de
nounces Europe in bitter language aa the
author of the outrages upon, and perse-
cations of Mussulmans in Eastirn
Roumeiia, and Invokes a million
curses upon such civilization as that of Eu
rope. The correspondent says such lan
guage is sure to increase the assassinations
of Christians, which are already frequent
and unpunished. The Porte has stopped
the work of Baker F&sha in Asia-Minor.
APPEAL TO THE MEMBERS OF THE I*. H.
CHURCH.
New Yoke, April 7.—An appeal to the
membersof the Protestant Episcopal Church
throughout the country for the sum of
$280,000, to endow a General Theological
Seminary in this city, has been issued by
the committee charged with the duty of
securing an additional endowment.
The appeal seta forth that the Seminary
has educated more than a score of Bishops
and more than one thousand two hundred
clergymen, representing every diocese and
every school of thought in the church. The
committee wishes to endow the office of
Dean and four professorships In the sum of
fifty thousand dollars each.
THE RHODE ISLAND ELECTION.
Providescb, April 7.—The State election
to-day resulted in no choice for Governor
and Lieutenant Governor. Returns from
thirty towns, Including one ward of this
city, give Littlefield, Republican, 6,250;
Kimball, Democrat, 4,290, and Howard,
Prohibition and Independent Republican,
.814. The GeDera! Assembly wiil be three-
quarters Republican, ensuring the election
of Littlefield by that body. It is under
stood that a large majority of the Assembly-
men elect favored the reelection of Senator
Burnside.
THE SEI.MA, ROME AND DALTON RAILROAD.
New York, April 7.—At a meeting of the
directors and large holders of the first and
second mortgage bonds of the Selma, Rome
and Dalton Railroad, held here this after
noon, It was decided to organise for the
purchase of all classes of securities of the
road. The Farmers Loan and Trust Com
pany of New York was appointed transfer
agent for the stock. The meeting agreed
that an appeal be taken from the recent de
cision of the State court of Alabama to the
United States Supreme Court.
THE IOWA DEMOCRATIC CONTENTION.
Bcrlinoton, Iowa., April 7.—Upon re
assembling the Democratic State Conven
tion adopted resolutions declaring their ad
herence to the principles of the Democratic
party, denouncing the policy of the Republi
cans and the continued usurpation of power
by the few as tending to imperialism,and as
sorting that the Democrats of Iowa are In
In favor of the two-thirds rule In selecting s
Democratic candidate. Delegates were then
chosen and instructed to vote at Cincinnati
as a unit.
LATEST FROM THE PARLIAMENTARY ELEC
TIONS.
London, April 7.—Returns from the
Parliamentary elections to day thus far re
ceived show the election of slxreen Liberals,
fourteen Conservatives, and two Home
Rulers. The Liberals gain nine seats and
the Home Rulers two. Herbert Gladstone,
who was defeated for Middlesex, will stand
candidate for Leeds, bis father, who
was returned for both Leeds and Midlothian,
having decided to accept the latter elec
tion.
THE BUNDESRATH TO AOHEE W ITU BISMARCK.
London, April 7.—A dispatch to Reuter’s
Telegram Company from Berlin says: “In
Parliamentary circles It Is considered certain
that the Bundesrath wiil reconsider the bill
passed by that body imposing imperial
stamp duties, and will agree with the views
of Prince Bismarck. The decision of the
Emperor with regard to the latter’s
resignation baa not yet been made known."
THE CHICAGO ELECTION.
Chicago, April 7.—Complete returns of
the city election yesterday show that the
Republicans have elected 10 Aldermen, the
Democrats 6, the Independents 1 and the
Socialists 1. This will make the complexion
of the next City Connell, InclndlDg three
Aldermen who hold over, about the same as
last year.
TARTAR RAID OH THE AMOOR.
London, April 7.—The Governor General
of Eastern Siberia has telegraphed to St.
Petersburg that the recent invaders of the
Arnoor region were not Chinese troops, but
irregular Tartars, acting without authority
of the Chinese Government They were
unsuccessful iu their attempt to croaa the
Amoor river.
THE SHARPE CREVASSE CLOSED.
New Orleans, April 7.—The Sharpe cre
vasse was closed tula afternoon, and the
water on overflowed plantations is running
off rapidly. Breaks on the Donaldsonvllle
and Morgan roads will be repaired, and
trains will run through by Monday.
SEWER-GAS IN HOUSES.
Its Origin and Prevention.
Some time since we published an illus
trated article on drainage from the Sani
tary Engineer, which was interesting to
many of our readers, and we now pre
sent another article on the same subject
by E. X. Dickerson, published iu the
New York Medical Journal:
It has been generally supposed that the
“sewer-gas” in houses is generated in the
street sewers, and forces its way through
the soil-pipes into the apartments; and, as
a consequence, the attention of engineers
has been directed to devisiDg means for
preventing this supposed ingress, and the
true origin of the evil has been generally
overlooked, and no adequate remedies
provided against it.
There is no such thing, practically, as
a pressure of sewer gas in the street sew
ers, inasmuch as they are open to the at
mosphere through man-holes and other
apertures, which permit the gas to escape
freely as fast as it is generated; and any
ordinary trap, interposed between the
house and the sewer, is entirely sufficient
to prevent the gas in sewers as usually
constructed and arranged from forcing its
way into the house. The true source of
this evil is to be found in the drain-pipes
of the house itself, whose interior sur
faces are coated with fermenting matter
deposited there from the fluids and solids
which pass through them; and so great is
the productive power of these coatings
that less than one half of a square foot of
the interior of a pipe, which never has
had anything in it except the discharged
water from "a bath-tub in use about six
months, will generate enough sewer-gas
to render a house unfit to occupy, as I
have demonstrated by conclusive experi
menu which may be repeated in almost
any house where there is a bath tub.
As usually constructed, bath-tubs are
provided with an overflow-pipe, leading
out from the tub near its upper edge,
through an opening in the metal which is
covered by a stellated shield. This pipe
joins the discharge-pipe, passing out from
the bottom of the tub and leading to the
soil-pipe; and a trap is then placed in that
pipe just beyond the junction of the two
When thi9 trap is filled with water, com
munication is intercepted between the
bath-tub and the soil-pipe, but there is an
open communication from the discharge
aperture in the bottom of the tub through
the overflow-pipe to iu aperture near the
top of the tub, so that air can be circulat
ed through this passage. By applying to
the discharge opening in the bottom of
the tub an India rubber tube, or any other
convenient pipe, and blowing through it
with the breath, the gaseouB contents of
this overfiow-pipe will be driven out
through the overflow aperture, and the
sickening odor which will be perceived
will demonstrate the existence of sewer
gas in these pipes. The “shower pipe"
usually supplied with bath tubs is a good
thing for this experiment, placing the
perforated end over the hole below, and
plowing into the other end.
The accompanying diagram, Fig. 1, il
lustrates the arrangement as it is ordina
rily used, and also shows the upper loop
of the hotwater circulating pipe in my
house, which, when a new water-back
had been placed in the kitchen range,
had its temperature very much increased,
thereby inducing an ascending current of
air by rarefaction in the overflow pipe of
the bath, carrying with it the sewer-gas
into the apartment, and no doubt also
promoting the growth of the low organ
isms in the pipe itself by the rise of the
temperature. This chance experiment led
me to the observation of the great gas-
producing power of so small an amount
of pipe surface.
Mint Sauce.—Chop fine half a cup of
mint, and add to it a cup of vinegar and
a tablespoonful of sugar.
I have removed tms overflow pipe,
closing up the discharge aperture and
subst ituting the old-fashioned stand pipe,
which serves both as a plug and an over
flow pipe; and I have examined the inte
rior surfaces of these discharge pipes,
and find them coated with extremely
minute vegetable organisms, not observa
ble by the naked eye, hut very distinct
and well defined under a microscopic
power of about two thousand diameters.
As the plumbing in houses is generally
organized, the great amount of sewer gas
gent rated at the surfaces pf the entire
system of pipes forces its way inte the
house; because the whole pipe system is
closed up inside of the house, except
where the basins empty into it, and a
deep trap is placed at the lower end of
the soil-pipe, and between the house and
the sewer. As the gas is generated in this
ramified retort, it must either force its
way out through the street trap, or
through the feebler basin traps of the
house, or through defective joints in the
iumbing work; and, inasmuch as the
street trap resists the most, the gak goes
into the house.
If, however, the pipe system is open to
the air through the roof, as it is now fre
quently made, then the excess of gener
ated gas. after the pipes arc fully charged,
will pass out from the opening above; but
the pipes themselves will be still fully
charged with sewer gas, which is con
stantly being supplied from the fermen
tation going on everywhere in the system,
and it will escape through any openings
into the house, and will diffuse through
the water of the traps, even though all
of the pipes arc in communication with
the soil-pipe opening at the roof. What
escapes from the opening at the roof is
obviously only the excess which is gener
ated momentarily, just ss steam blows
out at the safety "valve while the boiler is
fully charged. How much this amounts
to in any house may lie estimated by go
ing on the roof and observing the action
at the aperture of the soil pipe in a case
where there is a street trap cutting off the
sewer, and where, therefore, all that es
capes at the roof is momentarily gener
ated in the house itself. The odor which
is diffused through the atmosphere for a
considerable distance from the pipe aper
ture is sickening; and one whiff of it in
its concentrated form, as it escapes from
the pipe, will nauseate a strong stomach,
and generally produce stricture at the
forehead and headache, thus showing its
terrible effect upon the human system.
traps, although there may be no pressure
in the soil pipe itself beyond the second
trap; and these pipes are a fruitful source
of sewer-gas in houses.
Basin water-closets, also, are prolific
sources of gas under any possible sys
tem; because the trap under the basin is
always charged with excrements, and the
fermentation which occurs from the ba
sin side of the trap must necessarily ex
pel the gas, either through the water seal
of the basin, or out of the open hole in
the hopper through which the spindle
that works the. basin passes. These clos
ets are an abomination under any circum
stances, and should be always removed
and substituted by some of those closets
of the Jennings type which have no traps,
and in which an India-rubber-seated valve
closes the passage air and water-tight, and
is covered by a water-seal.
The true remedy for all these evils, and
it is entirely effectual, is to reduce by ex
haustion the pressure in the soil pipe below
that of the atmosphere, at the same time
supplying the soil pipe at its bottom with
fresh air from the cellar constantly flow
ing through it, whereby all the gas gener
ated in it is diluted and swept away as
fast as it is made, and the interior of the
pipes is dried by the warm air flowing in
below, and as a consequence fermentation
is arrested for want of moisture, one of
its essential conditions. Then see to it
that all the drain pipes leading into this
soil pipe from the basins and baths have
only one trap in them, and that one as
near as possible to the bottom of the basin or
bath: and that there are no"traps under
water closet3 in which to store excre
ments, and no overflow-pipes, such as
described above, to the bath-tubs; and
the house will be effectually protected
against sewer-gas.
Under these circumstances the only
source of gas not perfectly guarded is
the short length of pipe "between the
plugs and the traps in the basins and
bath tubs, and the overflow channels in
the basins. These may be made harmless
by connecting them, by means of a small
tube having in it a flap-valve, with the
drain-pipes beyond the traps, as shown in
the annexed sketch, Fig. 3, the effect of
which will be that a slight current of air
will constantly pass through the basins
into the soil pipe, removing with it all
the gas generated on these small surfaces.
My observations and careful experiments,
however, convince me that this last pre
caution is practically unimportant; be
cause, first, these surfaces need be very
small, and secondly, they are not exposed
to any current of air passing through
them, a3 U the overflow pipe of the bath
tub ; and as the gas is probably heavier
than air, it does Dot rise in sufficient
quantities to overflow the basins or bath
tubs.
Fig. 3.
A, wash-basin; B, air-tube; C, soil-pipe.
Of course, the perfection of the system
would lie attained in having exhausting
power enough to dispense with all basin
traps entirely, thereby causing a current
of fresh air to flow downward constantly
through the discharge pipes; but this is
not easy to arrange, in view of the vari
ous disturbing operations occurring in the
different parts of a ramified pipe system.
I am experimenting, however, on this
problem, and am of opinion that it is ca
pable of simple practical solution.
As I have the system now in-operation
in my residence, and have had it for
nearly two years, a current of air will at
all times flow downward through the dis
charge-pipe of any wash basin in the
house, if the trap under it be emptied of
water; but there is not exhausting power
enough to enab’e me to empty all the
traps in the house at once, and maintain
an air-current through all.
With this system, it will be perceived,
the traps only operate to prevent the air
of the house from flowing into the soil
pipe, and not, as in the ordinary system
to prevent the sewer-gas in the pipes from
flowing into the house, which it has no
tendency to do.
Objections against this system are con
stantly made by “practical” people, to
whom tbe idea of opening the soil pipe
into the cellar is so contrary to all expe
rience that it suggests at once an outflow
of sewer-gas. as it would happen under
the ordinary system, and who are clearly
convinced that sewer gas in the cellar
would be tbe result of emptying down
tLe soil pipe a pailful of water, which
they think, ought to operate as a piston,
compressing the gas and driving it out
before it into the cellar.
A moment’s reflection wiil prove the
fallacy of these objections. The soil pipe
is at all time3 full of fresh air, which is
flowing up through it; and if the current
were reversed for a moment, the only re
sult would be that the air which had just
flowed into the pipe would be expelled,
but there would be no sewergas to come
with it Experience, also, in several
houses which have adopted the system,
answers the objections. In all cases the
cellar is purified by the outflow of its air,
and no sewer-gas ever escapes. An in
spection of the system as it is working in
my house will remove any doubts from
tbe mind of the most skeptical, and
prove that sewer gas is effectually pre
vented by it. Of course the apparatus
must be well made, and it will always
perform its duty.
Flo. 4.
The English pilgrimage to convey the
banner of St. George to the Basilica of
Our Lady of Lourdes will leave England
for Lourdes early in June. About nine
days will be occupied going and return
ing. Cardinal Manning will place him
self at the head of the pilgrimage. Four
hundred noblemen and gentry of the
United Kingdom have already sent in
their names to Cardinal Manning's secre
tary as desirous to join the pilgrimage.
It is expected to be the most noteworthy
movement of the kind witnessed in
Eneland since the Reformation.
3tmusfmrnt5.
SAVANNAH THEATRE.
FRIDAY EVENING. APRIL 9th,
Ford’s Southern Comedy Co.,
In the Great Seven-Act Play entitled,
THE TWO ORPHANS.
“Were some of the clergymen tcho denounce
the theatre to witness such a play as that of the
'Two Orphans.' they could not avoid modifying
their opinions. Though French in its origin,
the vlay is so thoroughly wholesome in its tone,
and preaches so powerful a sermon against
vice, that its Influence must be altogether
good.’ *—Editorial, Daily Graphic, N*. Y.
Grand Family Matinee!
SATURDAY AFTERNOON. April 10, at 2.30
o’clock, THE TWO ORPHANS.
On SATURDAY NIGHT the Rollicking Come
dy entitled,
PINK DOMINOES,
All fun and laughter. Three acts of delict
ous humor. Admission fl, 10c. and 25c. No
extra charge for secured seats at Bren’s. Mati
nee admission 50c. children w5c. Secured seats
75c. Box sheet open this morning at 8:30.
apS-3t
Stic Adrrrtisfmftns.
Office of the Railroad Commis
sion of Georgia.
JAMES M. SMITH.
CAMPBELL WALLACE,
SAMUEL BARNETT,
l -
Commissioners.
Atlanta, April 5, 1880.
CIRCULAR NO. 3.
T HE following changes are made in the
standard ‘"Schedule of Maximum Rates”
for passengers and freights established by the
Commissioners:
1st. The Macon and Brunswick Railroad
Company make its maximum rates for freights
by adding (90) twenty per centum to the stand
ard rates of freights established by the Com
missioners.
2d. The Louisville and Wadley Railroad Com
pany is allowed to continue as its maximum
passenger rates those charged by it at present.
3d. Lumber, laths, shingles and staves will
be classed when in car loads at class O in place
of P. Tan bark in car loads will be cla&6 O.
By order of the Board of Commissioners.
JAMES M. SMITH,
Chairman.
R. A. Bacon. Secretary- ap8-Th4t
Cook's Grand Excursions
TO EUROPE!
lOOn For the Summer of lOOn
I 00U. Annual .VIA Y PARTY I ool).
GRAND ANNUAL EDUCATIONAL VACA
TION PARTY, ANNUAL MID
SUMMER PARTY.
Special facilities for attending the Passion
Play at Oher Ammergau. Pamphlet, contain
ing full particulars, wi n Map of Europe, sent
free on application. Tourist Tickets, for in
dependent travelers, by ail routes. Cook’s Ex
cursionist contains fares for over 1,000 Tours;
by mail 10c. For full particulars please address
THOMAS COOK 4 SON.
261 Broadway, New York. P. O. Box 41V7.
apj-Th.S4Tu3t
But, generally speaking, and in all cases
where I have examined the construction
in large houses, there are considerable
lengths of drain-pipes which lead from
wash-basin traps into water-closet traps,
and which therefore are not in direct
communication with the soil pipe. This
construction is preferred by plumbers,
because, under the theory that “sewer-
gas” comes from the sewers, and must be
intercepted in its passage to the basins,
this arrangement supplies two traps in
stead of one, and therefore makes it cer
tain that no street sewer-gas will force its
way through both, even if it blows in
through the street trap. In these double-
trapped drain-pipes all the gas that is
generated is under pressure, and it es
capes through the weaker basin or bath
Notice to Merchant Tailors and
Clothing Houses.
Crnr op Savannah. 1
Office Clerk op Council, V
April 8. 1880. J
B IDS wiU be received at the office of the
Clerk of Council until 12m, April 12th.
1880, for furnishing the police force with Sum
mer Uniforms. Specification* will be furnished
on application to the Clerk of Council.
The right is reserved to reject any or all
bids JOHN SCHWARZ.
ap6 td Chairman Committee on Police.
Wanted.
‘Se
well recomra-nded. Tpply Bow J ome
fourth door east of Jeff.rton. “
VV7 ANTED to purchase, a goo.) !' "
’ * with young calf. Apply 1 at thi.nm Cow
at No 7» Gordonstreet. ““ «
ape-lt
W A S2P’ ? 9et,U * 1 house servant, eoloren
▼ * Best references required Anrir P 1 **-
Gordon street, between 9and 11 a. m P apj^f* 3
W^nation
care Morning News office. ^USER,
4ER
apr-rf
W^. bouse servant, midd!*- aefcd
man- no faml'y. Good
TVjnaraiS?! SSferBmfSd
B eer bottles wanted -iwiiTirTj;
CFNTapieee for PINT BEIfftBOTTYs?
rretght will be paid by me on
railroad or steamer. HENRY b«'rtiyio bT
c£i§Xf h Bro * rt “ d Jefferaon s£a - s£2£h.
TTEIRS WANTED-TEXAS LANDS 77,
fax iUut.
TX)R RENT. Store corner Drayton and p..e~
U street lane. IS by 30 feet, ceatlv mUSEZl
plastered and Pointed, with two
rooms and closets up stairs: good
mods tions; this location is wrii S^pJ^S
“riwsa -apply 112 St Julian tor
fat £alt.
25 BOXES FLORIDA ORANGEs"
For sale at
apS-lt GARDNER'S. 33 Bull street.
QEDAR Boards for chests and rtwetiTcedu
Posts, for sale by
* p7-lf BACON <fc BROOKS
&
JjX)R SALE, fifty head firet-class*
MULES, suitable for Timber, Turpin
tine and Farming purposes.
ap6 ~ tf MORAN A REILLY.
'U'OB SALE, a desirable two story and huse
& CO., lUBay^SreeL 1 JS °*
I ^IRST regular sale MONDAY. April 5 isso
at the Great Southern Auction Hous>* »
lot CLOTHING. 1 lot HAT8. 1 lot SHOK \
lot UNDERSmBTS, 2 lot HOSIERY. Mo
soaf, etc. raMMw
Jj^ULL line of the celebrated Wooten CabiES
OFFICE SECRETARIES. Wooten ROTARY
DESKS. Patterns suitable for lawyers, mer
chants and everybody. Call and examine
desks and price lists. D. C. BACON & CO.,
Ag-ents, U Bay street. mh31-tf
FLORIDA CURIOSITIES -Alligator TeSh"
Jewelry, Sea Beans. Orange and Palmetto
Canes, at A. L. DESBOUILLONS' J-w-lnr
Store, 21 Bull street, opposite Screven House
mh&Mm
STEREOSCOPIC VIEWS still sold at
O a dozen. HAVENS,
mbl-tf 141 and 143 Broughton street.
SECURITIES OF THE FOLLC
RAILROADS WANTED:
and
Alabama Central.
and Montgomery, N.
Northern, S. and N.
8hreveport and Texas.
Sand list of above securities and any oth
held to KIRKLAND A MILLIKEN,
ap8-Th,8x£Tulm 47 William st.. New Yori
pSoarfiinfl.
G OOD BOARD, with or without room, can
be obtained at reasonable rat**s at loiU
State street, second door east of Barnard
apt>-’Iu.Th&S3t
£trrrt itailrosUs.
CHANGE OF SCHEDl LE.
S., 8. &8. R.B. Co., SrpT’s Omcx
O N and after FRIDAY, March 19th, the fol
lowing summer schedule will be ooserred:
OUTWARD.
O., Jackson
Alabama, V
LEAVE
SAVANNAH.
A HR VEISLE
OP HOPE.
LEAVE ISLS
OP HOPE.
aRI.IVE
MONTGOMKY
nd 10:25 a. m
ry *3:25 p. m
ia, 7:25 p. u.
10:55 A. m.
3:55 p. m.
7:55 p. m.
11:01 |f.
4:00 P. M.
8:'« p. M.
11:30 A. SL
4:30 p. Jt
8:30 p. jl
•***
nt, INWARD.
t LEAVE
monto’rt.
AR'VE ISLE LEAVE ISLE
OP HOPE. OP HOPE.
ARRIVE
SAVANNAH.
7:35 a. M.
12:15 p. h.
5:35 p. w.
8:05 A. H.
12:45 p. v.
6:C5 p. st.
8:10 a. y
12:50 p. m.
6:10 p. st.
8:38 a. m.
1:20 p. m.
6:38 P. *.
PROPOSALS
TT7TLL be received at the office of the Clerk
▼ > of Council until 12 m. WEDNESDAY’, the
14th inst, for rebuilding the wharf at tbe foot
of East Broad street. For particulars apply to
the undersigned.
JOHN B. HOWARD.
City Surveyor.
The right to reject any or all bids reserved by
the city.ap8-td
BELLIES,
Light and heavy average.
C hoice Georgia syrup,
fine eating potatoes.
GEORGIA HAMS.
For sale by
apd-lt C. H. DORSETT.
^air.
ST. PATRICK’S FAIR
St.
THE GRAND FAIR
By tbe congregations of Cathedral and
Patrick's Parishes will be opened on
Monday Evening, the 5th inst.
—AT—
CATHEDRAL HALL
The purpose of this Fair is to raise funds for
the building of
St. Patrick's New Church
now in coarse of erection. The public are cor
dially invited to attend and promote this lauda
ble object. apl-NATeltf
- ptucral *?atfr
ON DRAUGHT.
T HE following Saratoga Waters on Ice
GEYSER Water, VICHY WzVTEE,
HIGH ROCK WATER, EXCELSIOR WATER,at
OSCEOLA BUTLER’S
mh26-tf DRUG EMPORIUM.
Rakoezy Bitter Water.
F RIEDRICH8HALL BITTER WATER, HUN
YADI WATER, HATHORN WATER,
CONGRESS WATER, APOLLINARIS WATER,
by the dozen or case. Also EXCELSIOR
8PRING WATER on draught at
mh24 tf
L. C. STRONG’S Drug Store.
4furai5!!iQ9 (Soods.
A is the street sewer. 3 the sewer trap of the
»P
usual kind, the deeper the better: but almost
any trap is good enough. If any gas passes
the trap from the sewer, It is carried off with
the air flowing *nto the soil-pipe from the cel
lar. C is the s^and-pipe. opening into the cel
lar, and entering the soil-pipe below the cellar
floor. F is the soil-pipe itself, passing out
through tbe roof, and the top of which ought
to rise high enough to be above adjacent
roofa O Is the swinging, ventilating cowl.
I) is a wash-basin with the trap as usual. E
is a trap less water-closet, from which the de
posits now direotly down the soil-pipe, which
is sealed >ith water and a tight valve until
opened In use.
Sketch No. 1 shows the bath-tub over
flow; No. 2, the very usual case of a
drain-pipe double trapped; No. 3, the
prevention of the trifling evil due to the
small section of pipe inside of the basin
traps; and No. 4, the entire improved
system. The smsill pipe marked B in
Fig. 3 should be vety small—not more
than a quarter of au iuchindiameter.
Increasing Importations at Boston.
-The value of last week’s imports foots
up $2,734,094. This is by far the largest
week’s import of the year, and goes
ahead of any week on record for a long
series of years. The total valuation of
imports at that port since the 1st of Jan
uary, is $16,709,850, again of $7,616,172,
or about 83 per cent. The exports for
the same time foot up $13,329,349, some
three millions less than the imports.
ADDITIONAL ARRIVALS OF
SPRING CLOTHING, HATS, ETC
E l HEIDT'S spring stock of clothing for
• Men, Youths and Boys is now full and
open for inspection, and is the most complete
in variety or material, style and manufacture!
ever offered in Savannah, and having been forJ
tunate to place cash orders previous to the ad-l
vance in values is enabled to sell at low prices.I
Our stock of Straw and Summer HATS is
undoubtedly the best assorted stock In the
city, and is replete with all tbe latest novel 1
ties for Men, \ oung Men and Boys.
Also, a full line of the celebrated King of
Shirts, Celluloid Collars and Cuffs and Gents'
Furnishing Goods of every description.
E. HEIDT, 139 C ongress street,
mh29-tf Headquarters for Good Clothing.
gafcrni.
JOHN DEKST,
Variety Baker and Confectioner,
92 BROUGHTON, SAVANNAH,
1 8 prepared to supply CAKES for parties and
weddings at the shortest notice.
Also, a fine variety of imitation of EASTER
EGOS.
Orders by mail will receive prompt attention
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SOIREE.
P ROF. SHERWOOD will give another one of
his Sociable Soiree* for the benefit of his
evening class and their friends on THURSDAY
EVENING, April 8th, at his Dancing Academy.
La-lies who have received former invitations
are invited to attend. Gentlemen who are not
members of tbe class will be charged $1 ad
mission. THURSDAY EVENING, April 8th,
at 8:30 o'clock. ap5-4t
CITY MARSHAL’S SALE.
Citt Marshal’s Orricx, I
Savannah, Ga., April 7, 1880. f
I N pursuance ot city ordinance, will be sold,
on MONDAY. April 12, 1880, at 11 o’clock,
at the City Pound, one Dun Cow, marked
with crop slit and underbit in both ears. Also
at the same time and place, one red Heifer,
white spot on forehead, no private marks.
L. L. GOODWIN,
ap7-td City Marshal.
•Sundays this will be tbe last departing train.
Monday morning an early train will leave for
‘Montgomery only at 6:25.
Last connecting street cars leave the Bay 25
minutes before departure of trains.
Saturday nights last train leaves Savannah
at 7:40. instead of 7:25.
EDW. J. THOMAS,
mhlS-tf Superintendent
COAST LINE RAILROAD.
O N and after SATURDAY, tbe 14 th instant,
the fol'owing schedule will be run:
WEEK DAY'S.—Outward—Leave Savannah
7:15 a. m., 10:35 a. ar., 3:35 p. 6:% p. s.
Inward—Leave B-«naventiire6:15 A.M., 8:10a.*.,
1:00 p. m., 5:40 p m. Leave Thunderbolt 6:G5 a
m . 8:00 a. x., 12:50 p. 5:30 p. m. Saturday
night last car leaves city at 7:35 p. m.
SUNDAYS.- Outward—Leave Savannah 9:35
A.M , 10:35 a. M., 12:00 m.. 6 35 p m Inward-
Leave Bonaventure 7:10 a. m , 10:10 a. * , 11:30
a. m., 1:00 p. m , 3:10 p. h. Leave Thunderbolt
7.*00 A. K., 10:00 A. K., 11:20 A. M., 12:50p.M.. 3^0
p. m., and in the afternoon every half hour from
2:30 until 5 o’clock, last car leaving Thunder
bolt at 6 o'clock p m.
Passengers for Schuetzea Park take the 10:35
a. m. or 3:35 p. m. cars. Take street cars on
Broughton street 20 minutes before departure
of these suburban cars. Street cars leave West
Broad street every 12 minutes from 6:30am.
until 8:15 p. u. Last car leaves West Broad
street 9:Id p. m. Special cars to Thunderbolt,
Bonaventure, Schuetzen Park and Cathedral
Cemetery can be chartered at any hour to suit
visitors, from $2 to $10. FRANK LA MAE,
febll tf Acting Supt.
CITT MARKET TO BROWNSVILLE
-VIA—
Laurel Grove Cemetery.
Barnard and Anderson St. R. B., [
8avannab, Ga., December?, 1879. j
CARS on this rood run as follows:
Ten-minute schedule, with four cars, during
the week.
Five-minute schedule with six cars on Satur
day and Sunday afternoons. _
Cars will leave the Market EVERY HALT
HOUR from 8 to 10 every evening, except
Saturdays, when they will run every five min
ute*. Fare 5 cents; six tickets for 25 cents.
F. VAN WAGENEN,
dec7-N£Teltf Superintendent.
hctels.
TlieMarsliallliofise
WITH ITS
SPACIOUS VESTIBULE.
EXTENSIVE AND
Elegant Verandah,
Affording ladies a fine view of the promenade.
Airy and Well Ventilated Rooms,
AND
UNRIVALED TABLE,
IS PAR EXCELLENCE THE
Leading Hotel of Savannah
JOHN BRESNAN,
OCtl6-tf
fax £s!f.
Desirable Lots for Residences
FRONTING THE PARK.
OT No. 10 Lloyd ward, fr° ntin *
T No. 10 Lloyd ward, \ u
Whitaker, between Waldbur£ to
Houston streets. 60 feet, and running oa*-
Howard street 136 feet. , ,_^ r nnX
Also, H Lot No. 12 Lloyd ward.
Whitaker street, and running back to n
street 136 feet. , r ..ns*
Both these lots are in fee simple. For w
etc., call on
r. M. DEUp&'z
dec2-tf No. 2 Commercial Builm®#^
TO SAW MILL aw-
Two Second-Hand Portable Eo? 1 " 1 '
For Sale.
T WO Fecond-Hand Portable Biandr^,
GINES are offered cheap. One " b0! *
power, suitable for saw null; one i"
power, suitable for pump or pin.
running order. For terms and furtberp^.
lars address flAmnibefC®'
Superintendent Georxm Land and Lum
apl-tf Camps Telfair county.
'ennessee Beef & Mutton*
rpHE finest TENNESSEE BEEF and'
X in this market at wholesale or retail.
1 feW-tf
JOS. H. 1
gtall 6*. City Market.