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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24. 1881.
TAPPING THE WIRES.
The House met yesterday In continuance
of Tuesday’s session. The sundry ctyil bill
iras taken up, and Mr. King, of Louisiana,
moved to strike out the clause prohibiting
the use of more than $25,000 of the unex
pended balance for the prevention of the
spread of yellow fever and other epidemic
diseases. The amendment was later
rejected. In the session of yester
day, which began at eleven o’clock,
discussion arose between Messrs. Cox, Frye
and Conger in reference to the apportion
ment bill, which, owing to the refusal of
the Republicans to vote, the House did no’
take up. Mr. Cox gave notice that he would
call the bill up to-day. The sundry civil
bill was considered in committee of the
whole, and a heated discussion arose on
a motion of Mr. Thomas, of Illinois, to
strike out the item for the purchase of the
papers of the late Generals Bragg and Polk.
The motion prevailed. The House then
took a recess till 7:30 o’clock. The evening
session was devoted to the consideration of
District business.
In the Senate yesterday, Mr. Kirkwood
reported a bill for the relief of the Poncas.
Mr. Batler argued In favor of the amend
ment to the river and harbor bill providing
for a survey of routes for the Blue Ridge
canal. The fortification and Congressional
library bills were passed. Vice President
elect Arthur was on the floor, and was in
troduced to the members by Mr. Conkllng.
Mr. Blaine also appeared after his lengthy
absence.
The sessions of the Georgia State Agri
cultural Society, at Thomasville, are largely
attended and excite much interest. Yester
day addresses were delivered by Prof.
White, of Athens, Hon. B. F. Crayton, of
South Carolina, and Col. C. W. Mabry, of
Burke county.
The prolonged dead-lock in the Pennsyl
vania Senatorial Convention of the Legisla
ture was broken yesterday by the factions
uulting on John I Mitchell, who was elect
ed to succeed Mr. Wallace.
The Irish World has remitted a total of
$65,0C0 to the Land League Treasurer.
A special to Milwaukee, from Senator
Carpenter’s bedside, says: “He must die
soon.” They are already picking out his
successor.
An amendment to increase the duty on
American wheat was defeated Id the krencta
Senate yesterday through the efforts of M.
Jules Simon.
The New York stock market opened
strong, but later a depression set In which
continued with slight recoveries to the
cloee. It was accounted for by stringency
la the money market. The transactions
aggregated 381,000 shares.
B. A. Boseman, the colored I’ostaiaater
of Charleston, died yesterday.
Mr. Parnell embarked at Dover for
France yesterday.
The Senate Judiciary Committee met yes
terday, but again*potponed action on the
Bominations of Stanley Matthews and Judge
Billings.
The caucus of the House Republicans
yesterday determined to oppose any appor
tionment bill fixing the number of Repre
sentatives at less than 319.
The second day of the Augusta races
brought out a good attendance. Guy, Gold
Bug and Dilgasian were the winners in the
events of the day.
The correspondent of the Manchester
Guardian says Mr. John Bright favors
taking up the land bill and laying aside the
arms bill. It is believed that the Ministry
would gladly lay the arms bill aside if
satisfied they could do so safely, in the
House of Commons, Mr. Gladstone gave
notice that If the consideration of the coer
cion bill were not concluded yesterday, he
would give notice of a motion that the bill
and the amendments be put forthwith at
seven o'clock this evening, and that debate
on the bill be immediately thereafter com
menced. The consideration of the bill was
not finished when the committee rose. It is
thought it will not reach the Lords before
Monday.
The counsel for Wm. 8. Williams, In his
unit against the Western Union Telegraph
Company, applied yesterday for an order for
an examination of the directors of the com
pany, so as to be able to amend his bill.
Ex-Judge Porter, for the company, opposed
the application. The decision was reserved.
Eight persons were burned to death at
East Liverpool, Ohio, yesterday.
A strong effort Is making in England,
backed by tne entire strength of the Con
servatives, to work up public feeling in
favor of the continued occupation of Can
dahar. Colonel Gordon is out in a letter in
favor of its evacuation.
A Vienna dispatch states that the ex
planation comes from Athens that the call
ing out of the Greek reserves is not intended
to Intimidate or provoke.
General Hancock has telegraphed Colonel
Corbin, of the inauguration committee,
that he will be present at the ceremonies.
Advices from Panama state that the Pe
ruvians are iu a wretched state. Distress
prevails even among Its well-to-do. Mar
tial law has been proclaimed, osring to the
fact that the Peruvians are loyal to their
absent rulers. Thera is no one with whom
to conclude peace.
Col. A. W. Drayson writes the Lon
don Daily Neve* from Halifax, Nova
Scotia, to announce that he has made an
astronomical discovery, the result of ten
years investigation. It is: “That the
earth rotates annually once round a
second axis, which second axis is not
coincident with the axis of daily rcta
tkm. This movement is due to the fact
that owing to the preponderance of land
above the water in the northern hemis
phere, and owing to the mass of land
in Asia, Europe and Africa on one side
of the earth, the centre of gravity of the
earth is not coincident with the centre of
the earth, and, consequently, is not
located in the plane of the equator. The
results of the discovery are most impor
tant, as the changing positions of stars
from month to month can, by the aid of
this discovery, be calculated, so that the
endless observation of scores of com
puters at various observatories become
oo longer necessary.”
Washington's Statue in Wall
Street.— A number of Leading mem
hers of the New York Chamber of Com
coerce have issued an appeal to the citi
zens of that city soliciting subscriptions
towards the statue of Washington which
it is proposed to erect in front of the
sub-Treasury building, on the corner of
Wall and Nassau streets, in that city;
that being the identical locality upon
which he took the oath of office on
April 30, 1789, as the first President of
the United States. The statue will be
of bronze, and in all respects a complete
embodiment of the exalted character of
Washington, together with the great
event it is intended to commemorate.
Archbishop Larny, of Santa Fe, is in
luck. The New Mexican of the 9th
Instant says great excitement prevails
among mining men in Santa Fe, caused
by the recent rich strike in the New
Placers of free gold- Assays run to
$50,000 per ton, and two bucketfuls of
ore taken from the vein contained f 1,000
in gold. The vein Is four inches wide,
wire gold showing throughout At the
foot of this mine, lying in places in the
ground, was taken a gold nugget worth
$2,000. The mine is now owned by
A’atholic Archbishop Lamy, of Santa Fe.
The Central ftailroad.
In a recent letter from New York to
the Atlanta Constitution “H. W. Q.”
states there is a movement on foot to
interest certain New York capitalists
in a syndicate for the purpose of buying
up the stock of the Georgia and Central
Railroads, with the view of getting con
trol of the same, to be worked in their
interests. The writer says that last
summer some parties from Georgia, who
constitute an anti-Wadley clique, visited
New York and made the proposition
above referred to, but failed in their
efforts, receiving no encouragement
from the parties approached. Re
cent developments, however, have
satisfied "H. W. G." that the
scheme is to be revived, and that there
is a probability of its being carried
through.
So far as the Central Railroad is
concerned, we regard the rumor of such
a movement as utterly absurd. Further
more, we do not believe that there are
any “parties from Georgia” opposed to
Colonel Wadley’s management who
would undertake the accomplishment of
a scheme so utterly impracticable and
unwise. The promulgation of such
reports may have the effect of running
up the price of stock, and thus serve the
ends of speculators; but, at the same
time, such statements as that of “H. W.
G.,” uncontradicted, are calculated to
produce a wrong impression abroad,
and to excite apprehension in the minds
of some that there is dissatisfaction
with the present management of
ihe Central Railroad. For this
reason only are we induced to notice the
statements made, and we propose briefly
to show the fallacy of any such move
ment, and the absence of any cause for
such a movement
The Central Railroad Company was
never more prosperous than at present,
its business has increased enormously,
and its affairs have been and- are
now managed with rare ability and
judgment The stockholders are re
ceiving good dividends, and the market
value of the stock is greater than it has
been for years. Hence, there is no cause
for dissatisfaction on the part of stock
holders, and, m fact, many who
a few years since were opposed to Col
Wadley’s policy, have been convinced of
the wisdom of his management, and are
now among his firmest supporters and
friend i. So far as we can learn there is
no anti-Wadley clique in Georgia, and
careful inquiry reveals the fact that the
utmost confidence and satisfaction is felt
in the present management of the com
pany. What, then, can be the motive
of these ‘‘parties from Georgia” in seek
ing to throw the control of this large
and prosperous railroad, is which the
entire State is vitally interested, into the
hands of foreign capitalists, who
would certainly not study the in
terests of this section in its
management Admitting; however, for
the sake of argument, that there might be
such a scheme on foot, what possible
chance would there be for its success?
There are about three thousand stock
holders of the Central Railroad, many
of whom owe qply one or two shares.
The difficulty, therefore, of buy
ing up this stock is apparent, and such
an effort could not be prosecuted secret
ly. Again, the largest stockholders are,
without an exception, the personal
friends of Colonel Wadley, and warjn
supporters of the policy be has pursued.
If, therefore, any attempt was made
to buy up the stock for the
purpose of acquiring control of
this splendid property, it is evi
dent that these large stockholders would
promptly rush to the rescue ana prevent
the accomplishment of a scheme that
would undoubtedly work great Id jury to
the interests of this State and section.
The management of the Central is now
in the hands of Georgians, whose policy
is to develop and benefit the varied in
terests of the sections through which the
road passes, and we do not think the day
will come when its control will be al
lowed to pass into the possession of
Northern railroad magnates to be run
ip their interests.
Garfield a Minority President.
The Baltimore Sun recently gave a
carefully prepared table of the Presi
dential vote, by which it was shown
that General Hancock’s majority over
Garfield was over six thousand. Since
the Sun’* compilation, full and complete
returns have been made from all the
States, which enables the Cincinnati
Enquirer to give a complete and accu
rate statement of the vote by States.
The following is a recapitulation of the
popular vote as given by the Enquirer :
General Garfield 4,416.584
General Hancock 4,424,690
Mr. Weaver 313 893
Neal D0w....;,.,,,., 10,791
Scattering 3.255
Total vote w, 169,213
Hancock over Garfield 8,106
Garfield’s minority 336,045
By these figures it will be seen that
General Garfield, though legally elected
by a majority of the electoral college, is
a minority President.
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National Bank’s ani) tij£ Funding
Bill —A Washington special to the New
York World saye; “ft is not unlikely
that the changes in tbs funding bill, as
passed by the Senate, will be accepted
by the House without the intervention
of a conference committee. Should vio
lent contraction occur the sliding scale
of interest authorized on the notes to be
issued at a rate not exceeding three per
ceDt may prove providential, for if they
were to be issued at a lower rate they
would be likely to circulate as currency.
No doubt is felt that the Secretary of the
Treasury would, under such circum
stances, exercise the discretion vested in
him to protect the public. A bill is on
the calendar, Jj°weyer, reported recently
by the Ways and Committee, re
lieving the tax on circulation, ft has
many supporters, and is likely to be con
sidered with fair prospect of success. ”
One of the difficulties that besets the
effort to secure the peace the Chilian
Government has conquered lies in the
fact that if if retains as indemnity the
country to the northward of Chili and
south of the river Lo*, whipb contains
the nitrate beds, out of the management
of which the war originated, Bolivia
will be shut out from the Pacific Ocean.
As Chili undoubtedly wishes to make a
peace which will be more than a truce,
it is not desirable to leave Bolivia with a
standing grievance. Money indemnity
is out of the question, and the only pos-
sible solution seems to be to furnish Bo
livia with an ocean harborage by giving
her another slice of Peruvian soil. This
is hard on Peru; but for Chili the policy
has a double ady&ntage, inasmuch as it
would interpose a strip of Bolivian terri
tory between herself and the more
formidable of her allied antagonists.
A bill wbich provides handsome com
pensation for all those who will engage
in “the destruction of Indians and
skunks” has been favorably reported on
by a special committee of the Colorado
Bouse of Representatives. Jfow, says
the Rost, let the Boston philanthropists
protest
Proposed Railway Commission In
Alabama.
The subject of the establishment of a
railway commission in Alabama has
for some time past occupied public at
tention in that State, and is now being
considered in the Legislature. Many
opinions pro and con have been ex
pressed through the medium of the
press, and the main question of interest
now is whether the proposed commis.
sion shall be invested with arbitrary
powers, as is the case in Georgia, or
whether it shall be made an advisory
board to act as umpire in all matlers at
issue between the roads and the people
of the State.
In Monday’s issue of the Montgomery
Advertiser a long and very interesting
letter on this subject, from the pen of
Captain W. G. Raoul, Vice President of
the Georgia Central Road, is published,
the Central being largely interested
in railway property in Alabama,
and having under consideration the
propriety of extending some of its lines.
In his letter Captain Raoul expresses
himself strongly in favor of a commis
sion. He takes the ground that the
railroads are very desirous that the peo
ple should understand fully all the diffi
culties with which they have to contend
in a satisfactory adjustment of rates,
feeling assured that when these difficul
ties are more fully understood by the
people there will be very much less
complaint, and he is of the opinion
very decidedly that this desirable under
standing can be arrived at through a
commission more readily than through
any other medium. But while he favors
a commission he desires one which can
accomplish all the good possible, and,
while protecting the people, “at the
same time protect the road 9 against an
injudicious exercise of arbitrary power,”
and hence he favors an advisory com
mission.
He proceeds in his letter to justify his
position by a strong line of argument.
He contends that the passage of a law
investing a commission with absolute
power over the roads would be injurious
in many respects to the best interests of
the State. Such a law must necessarily
have the effect of preventing further
construction of lines, both because it is
possible that its execution might fall
into the hands of men unfit for the posi
tion of commissioners, and who might
work great damage to railroad in
ve3*ments, and also because of the un
certainty what policy the State, through
its commission, might pursue in inter
fering with railroad management. Both
of these facts would certainly deter capi
tal from being invested in enterprises so
hampered and restrained by an Injudici
ous law, for, as Captain Raoul well says,
.“it is a pretty generally settled fact that
those who control money in large sums
are reasonably prudent.” An illiberal
policy, therefore, towards the roads
would certainly put an end to railway
construction in Alabama, at least “until
the test of time and the verdict of expe
rience had been fully obtained upon the
operation of the law, and this may con
sume some years.”
This is the main argument used by
Captain Raoul in support of the estab
lishment of a commission in Alabama,
which shall be a board of arbitrators
between the people and the roads. The
remainder of his letter is devoted to sug
gestions as to the proper personnel of the
commission. If it is to be arbitrary,
he thinks it will be necessary, for the
proper protection of the roads, that
one of its members should be “ a
jrailrpad man.” Not that he might
influence the action of th.e board, but
that the roads might have tJjpix siffe fitly
presented when grave questions are un
der deliberation, and which, under an
arbitrary commission, are likely to be
decided without the full hearing that
would be had under the operation of an
advisory commission. Should the board
be advisory, however, he thinks the ap
pointments should all be made by the
State, because then it would be more
likely to have the confidence of the pub
lic. On this point he says:
“The whole basis of sucee-s of an advisory
commission wjll rest in the personal ability of
the members, and the confidence they can
command of the public, and any voice of the
railways in their appointment would, to a
great extent, weaken public confidence. If
this commission does its full duty, it twill be
called upon to decide as often against the pub
lic as against the roads, and perhaps even of
tener; and for the public to D3 satisfied with
their findings Hie coir.mission bust possess
their confidence. What the road# neod. Is A
better feeling between the public am}
themselves, and so soon as the public
have an easy means of securing redress for
grievances—real or imaginary—a step will
have been made in the proper direction. This
means will be frequently resorted to, and
both sides will be heard, and evidence pro
duced and questions discussed, and the decis
ions of the board will be written out with the
reasons to support them. etc. All this will
aid in informing the public upon detail of
transportation management, o’ which they
have heretofore had no knowledge, and this
education will disp* 1 all prejudice resulting
from a misunderstanding of facts."
Lack of space prevents us from giving
Captain Raoul’s letter in full, but we
have, in this synopsis, endeavored
to present a very clear outline of his
views on a subject of &s yifa} interest to
Georgia as it is to Alabama. Since judge
Woods’ recent decision, the right of a
State to control railroads within her
limits has been settled beyond dispute,
but it is still a question open for discus
sion and worthy of careful consideration
how that right should wisely be exer
cised. The views we have expressed
from time to timp in these columns
on this subject coincide fully with
those of Captaiu Raoul. An arbitrary
commission, such as we have at present
in Georgia. Is certainly liable to work
serious injury to the best interests of the
railways, and. by checking all railway
enterprise, to the entire State. An ad
visory commission, however, empowered
to hear and determine all grievances,
either of Ike public or the railways,
would fully maintain the right of the
State to supervise the roads, and would
work satisfactorily to all parties con
cerned.
The ‘.‘higher civilization” of Massa
chusetts jj too high. It is so
very high that it does not j.eaf.l} dqwn to
that class of the people who most need
civilization. Last year there were 17,053
persons committed to the jails and houses
of correction, an increase of more than
S thousand over the previous year, due
to drunkenness. Crime against person
cumbered 1,674; against property, 2,105;
ag&aist publj}} order and decency, 13,274
—10,484 of which wie drun&mness.
The people are now taxed $3,000,000 a
year for the care of the criminals of the
State. Verily, the pilgrims of the
“Rock” would be horrified at these sug
gestive figures.
The following shows the approximate
distribution of the total population of
the United States among the several
classes, according to the last census:
Males females 24,632,284, na
tives of the United States 43,475,506,
foreign born §,<57,360. whites 43,404,877',
colored 8,577, |s|, Indians and half
breeds not in tribal relations qn reserva
tions nndr the pare of the government,
85,122, Chinese 105,463, other Asiatic*
255. The number of females to every
100,000 males is 96,519, against 97,801 in
1870. The number of foreign born per
sons to every 100,000 natives is 15,359,
against 16,879 in 1870.
Chief Justice Chalmers on Negro
Suffrage.
In the Nonh American Review for
March Chief J ustice H. H. Chalmers,
of Mississippi, has a paper on the effects
of’ negro suffrage. He discusses the
subject with judicial fairness. He be
lieves that the blacks’ “right to vote, as
a race, is as fixed and irreversible as
their freedom, and the fifteenth amend
ment to the National Constitution is no
more likely to be repealed than the
thirteenth.” While freedom of the
blacks is thus acknowledged, and their
right to vote unquestioned, there are
grave difficulties in the case where the
social inferior threatens, at every elec
tion, to become the political superior.
That “inborn sense of superiority which
every white man feels, that instinctive
recognition of his own inferiority that
every negro evinces in his every action,”
will be eradicated in the Southern States
when it no longer exists in the Northern
States, and not sooner. He questions the
theory that perfect political equality can
coexist with a social inferiority depen
dent solely upon differences of race.
Thousands of honest, patriotic men in
the South are pondering this race prob
lem with the purpose to work it out ou
the plane of equal political rights for
black and white. It would be the
heighth of madness for the national
government to again interpose for the
purpose of adjusting these questions in
favor of the blacks. They should be
left to be settled by the people affected
by them. “In this work,” the Judge
says, “the North must aid and not ob
struct. They must understand, once
for all, that the Anglo Saxon race will
not be governed by the African, and, if
they are wise, they will content them
selves with aiding those who propose
that the African shall be wisely, justly
and fairly governed by the Anglo-
Saxon.”
Governor Murray, of Utah, says the
time has come for uprooting Mormon
ism. It caqie twenty years ago. But
the institution has been spreading all the
time. The United States Congress pass
ed a law against bigamy, but bigamy,
double, treble, quadruple and more,
exists all oyer Utah, and is spreading
into lowa and other places. The inge
nious foundation of polygamy is woven
into a religious creed, and the Bible is
quoted by the Mormons to sustain it.
Now, the trouble with Mormonism is the
the difficulty of legislating or shooting a
religious belief out of the heads of a
people. That polygamy is demoralizing
or crushing to the society in which it
exists—that it degrades and humiliates
the women—there can be no doubt.
Bigamy can be punished. By enforcing
the laws rigidly in State and Territory
in regard to it the abomination may be
broken up; but so far the laws have
been successfully defied in Utah. Gen.
Garfield’s friends report that he will at
tack Mormonism in his inaugural and
pursue it in his administration.
Yerily, Iffe Ijritish Government is
descending to decidedly contemptible
methods in dealing with the Land League
agitation. There is no doubt that letters
to the League’s officers have been opened,
photographed and then forwarded—the
exercise of a governmental power which
only can be justified in the presence of
graver emergencies than existed or are
likely to exist. And now the Home
Secretary has been detected in an attempt
to taint Mr. Parnell with Fenianlsm,
through tl}e presence of M r - James
Stephens in Paris at the present time.
The truth is that Mr. Stephens has been
there several months in an enfeebled
condition, snd ijjore occupied in mend
ing his ill health than in promoting
Fenianlsm, If, as Is alleged by their
opponents, the Land League leaders
have made some blunders, the govern
ment appears to be engaged in an earn
est effort to eclipse them, and to be like
ly to fully succeed.
The service of writs in all countries is
unpopular, but it is not in Ireland alone
that public opinion asserts itself in a
vigorous shape against it. A legal func
tionary with his clerk went to serve a
writ in a village known as Matella delos
Canos, in Salamanca. The visit was
met with a popular demonstration. The
men, as in Ireland, kept aloof, but the
women gathered in force to oppose the
legal invasion. The officers too^' refuge in
a house, but in a brief time the windows
were all smashed by the irate ladies. An
tempt to force the doors having been
unsuccessful, petroleum was suggested,
whereupon the imprisoned garrison got
out of a window at the back of the
house. They were hotly pursued for
twenty minutes, and had covered two
miles when they were run down. The
clerk became unconscious and after
ward died, and his superior was half
dead when rescued by the police.
“Boycotyjpj” promises to become a
weapon of universal adaptation. It has
just been introduced into France, at
Saumur. There is a famous cavalry
school there, a very aristocratic estab
lishment, which always contains a num
ber of the gilded youth. The Commis
saire de Police in Saumur, who seems to
be a disagreeable type of an official, ex
cited the animosity of some of these
young gentieiueu. T4 e 7 applied to the
Mayor for his dismissal, which being re
fused, they boycotted the town. The
school consists of six hundred and fifty
members, and for a fortnight not one of
them entered a store or made a pur
chase. Local trade became paralyzed,
and the Mayor had to give in.
We have had accounts recently of a
marriage ou the ipa and a marriage by
telegraph—the minister in the latter case
being at one end of the wire while the
bride and groom were at the other.
Marriage by telephone is another modern
fashion, and in summer marriage in a
balloon is sometimes resorted to/ Such
performances (Jo qqt g|ye the Impression
of an overwhelming sense qf solemnity
on the part of the people thus married.
But it is to be observed that there are
preachers and magistrates willing to turn
the ceremony into a sensation.
The beer portion of the census is com
pleted. It shows that there are 2,269
breweries ip tpjs country, producing 12,-
800,900 barrels a year, about eleven gal
lons to every man, woman and child in
the country. The increase in 1879 was
2,619,742 barrels. New York was the
greatest producer; then came Philadel
phia, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Brooklyn
apd Milwaukee. The revenue received
by the governor from beer in 1880
was $10,729,320.
The New Orleans Times is mystified
by the number of fires which have oc
curred in prominent business houses in
that city since the beginning of the
year, and that there ape spine facts
ponnected with them that seem to justi
fy the suspicion tffat they were in
cendiary, It w|U be remembered that
some of the Incendiaries guilty of firing
so many cotton ships at that port last
year were discovered and punished.
The Grand Military Inauguration
Pageant.
General Sherman, who by virtue of his
office of General of the Army, has the
management of the grand military pa
geant on the occasion of the inaugura
tion of President Garfield, seems not to
have given satisfaction to the local and
visiting military organizations, nor to
the public at large, by his arrangement
of the line of march and the order of
the procession. A correspondent of the
Washington Star says:
“It wou Id appear from the programme
of the military parade issued by General
Sherman, chief marshal for the 4th of
March next, that the regular troops are
to be the only distinguished men at arms
on that day; that the visiting militia
from different and remote parts of the
country are to be a secondary affair; as it
were, doing a sort of police duty on the
avenue by lining the curbs, obstructing
the view of citizens on the walks,
posting sentinels, etc. Most of them
might object to loafing on a curbstone
for several hours and presenting arms
to the regular army. Citizens who have
paid fabulous prices for windows on the
avenue, and obtained fee simple rights in
eligible sites near the capitol, arc to see
only a portion of the parade—and that
the distinguished “regulars" on their re
turn down the avenue, and such p irts of
the militia police as are stationed in that
quarter. By the arrangement of march
proposed, only the elect and those fortu
nate enough to secure seats on the exclu
sive grand stands near the Treasury and
Executive Mansion will see the entire
mass of troops parade. Over and above
this the numerous civic organizations and
veteran corps present to partici
pate in the ceremonies have not been
thought of sufficient moment in the pro
cession to entitle them to much consid
eration. They will be permitted to
form where they choose and straggle on
behind like a lot of camp followers.
Every reasonable person knows that
Pennsylvania avenue cannot possibly ac
commodate on its sidewalks the thou
sands of visitors and people, in the city
to witness the inauguration!; who are
either unable to secure sites or cannot
afford to pay the outrageous and exorbi
tant prices demanded on the stands and
for windows.”
Careless and IVa-teful Cotton Picking.
Memphis Avalanche.
Mr. Edward Atkinson, of Boston, is
deservedly regarded as high authority
on cotton manufactures, but in his
late interview with a reporter of the
New York Herald, he says much less
for the cotton States than lie might
have said, and has very imperfectly
explained the difficulties now at
tending the gathering of the cot
ton crop. He is reported as saying :
“There is np great staple of the world so
wastefully handled and prepared for market
as cotton, unless it be sugar. Sugar still rests
to a great extent under the blight of slavery,
but that burden has been removed from cot
ton. and there is no reason why there should
not be decided improvement In its culture and
handling. * • * If it were properly picked
and carried to the gin all of It that is now
ginned below middling would command from
two to five per cent, more, because.it would be
rid of the motes, leaf and dust that level it to a
low gride.”
Here is where Mr. Atkinson is not in
formed. If he will consult any cotton
planter who cultivated cotton before the
war, he will learn that the raw cotton
was not then gathered as carelessly as it
is now. Then the Degroes, who were,
as now, the chief laborers in the cotton
crop, were not suffered to gather trash
and bolls with their cotton as now. They
were compelled to pick it clean, and
such trashy, dirty, bolly cottou as now
goes into every gin house in the South
was prohibited under thp fpar qf punish
ment. Then (here was no hiring of out
side hands to gather big crops for fear
they would be lost, and, of course, there
was no hurried picking at $1 per 100
pounds. All this is changed. Every
negro engaged in cotton culture now has
a direct interest in the cotton he culti
vates; and he is more interested in the
quantity than the quality. If he is a
tenant, or works on shares, he generally
hires cotton pickers as soon as his cotton
begins to open so fast as to cause fear
that he may lose much of it unless
picked out before winter sets in. Hired
hands do their work hurriedly and care
lessly, and as they are paid by the quan
tity picked, they often pick one-fourth
of that in bo|ls. They don’t stop to
pipk out trash or bolls from the cotton;
tqo much time lost at that. The result
is such an amount of trash in the seed
cotton as was never known twenty
years ago. Then again, quantity being
the magnet, the tenant dislikes to see the
cotton lying on the ground, and he picks
that up as he goes along, and throws it
into his bag. Often it is full of dirt and
dust from beating rains, and that ex
plains the dust and sand, or dirt, alluded
to by Mr. Atkinson.
The simple truth is, all or nearly all
the trouble he discusses about cotton
comes from the carelessness of picking
it out. If Mr. Atkinson had spent a
week or two on cotton farms, and had
seen for himself the condition of the
cotton when carried from the field to
the gin house, he would frankiy admit
that the removal of the “blight of sla
very” from the negro race has not
improved the modes of preparing
cotton for he gin. And the cot
ton grower may admit, at once,
that there is ' |mt one remedy for
this evil Any one who will visit the
ginning establishment of Speers, on
Vance street, Payne, on Poplar street, or
Benjes, on Auction street, will easily see
that the trouble is almost entirely in
picking. It is positively amazing to be
lieve and to see that men who grow cot
ton can be so utterly slovenly and care
less as to the gathering of what costs so
much time ana labor. Bales are seen at
each of these busy hives of industry which
are so full of bolls as to cause one to ask,
“Was the cotton picked with the bolls,
or the bolls with the cotton?” Of
course the dirt abounds, too. At each
gin is a machine whose only duty is to
separate the bolls from the seed cotton,
and it maj truly be said that the dirty,
slovenly mode of picking out the cotton
crop has given birth to anew invention.
It has compelled the introduction of
new machinery in connection with the
culture of cotton, and the man who can
turn out a cheap and good
machine that can be attached to
any machine, and that will
separate the bolls from the cotton before
carrying the latter to the hopper and
gin, will have a bonanza worth millions
to him. The negro will never pick out
cotton as R euoqid be. Re i§ generally
a far better cotton grower than the white
man, but when the crop is laid by, and
when his “trash gang” of girls and boys
and hired hands begin to pick, then look
out for bolls. The cotton will always
be carried to the gin house in the condi
tion Mr. Atkinson deplores, and fljtthere is
but the one remedy for this evil, we trust
some genius will stumble upon a plan
for attaching to every gin a machine to
separate bolls from the cotton. Of
course it must be cheap, or it would not
find 1 general'use. 1 '■ T
Vindication of Mr. Parnell.
Editor Washington Star: I feel myself
called upon to state that “Home Ruler
Shaw” grossly wrongs Mr. Parnell vyhen
he ffeclaies that the latter ‘is following
“a programnie marked but for him across
the Atlantic.’’ Irish patriots who are
themselyes out of harm’s way were anx
ious fqr Mr. Parnell to pouifait himself
to their ways; but he was not the man
to endanger his constitutional agitation
and his own plans for its success by any
foolishness of the sort. This I have from
authority as reliable as Mr. Parnell him
self. Mr. Parnell when he was here accept
ed financial aid and favors for his people
as be now accepts the sympathies of
Frenchmen and fliDnlishmeu qf every
phase of political opinion. It is not his
place to repel Bradlaugh, Victor Hugo,
or any other party who extends to his
just cause their friendly aid. Manifestos
of the character of Mr. Shaw’s are to be
expected from the narrow anc j
deserters from Ireland's cause, Home
Rulers Bellingham and Sbaw. As it is
every Irishman’s duty tq vindicate the
character of the leaders of fhp land revo
lution In Ifeland, I'trust you will giye
these few lines a place in your columns.
M. A. B.
Porter’s Last Chance. —A Washing
ton special says: “The friends of Fitz-
Jobn Porter have fought q, long and des
perate fight to get option on his case, tyit
they have now about given it up. There
are pertain prominent Republicans in
both Houses wfco have determined that
no bill for the relief of Gen. Porter shall
pass. With this Congress undoubtedly
ends his last chance.”
OUB WASHINGTON LETTER.
The lusttignral—The Grand M*r*
thal’i Prugramnie -,The Appro
priation for Lighting Savannah
Harbor—Pushing Baiinuf-How
will Conker Deport HUnselt T
Washisoton, February 22. —The inaugural
procession, which is to be the feature of in
stalling General Garfield into the Presidency
of the United States, is causing quite a little
tempest among certain people. General Sher
man has been designated as grand marshal of
the occasion. The General has a war when he
is made boss of an affair to bj the boss not
only in name, but to the fullest extent of the
authoiity conferred upon him.
He has arranged a programme for the pro
cession which suits not many psople. Nobody
could arrange anything of a publi i character
in this city that the army of growlers would
not be found ready to setup their feeble howls.
A member of the House District Committee
once told me that of the total population of
thit magnificent city he regarded fully one
tbird those who had reached the age of
twenty-one chronic growlers. But we were
talking about Sherman’s programme, I be
lieve. There will be between twenty and
twenty-two thou and people in the
S recession. The inaugural address will
e delivered from the east front of the
capitol. The plaza there is a good-sized one.
but even with the approaches to it cannot ac
commodate a mass of one-fourth that many
and leave room for the people outside the pro
cession who want to hear the inaugural ad
dress. For this reason Gneral Sherman has
arranged for a procession of five thousand
to escort General Garfield to the capi'oL
This five thousand will represent every feature
of the show. There will be regular troops, the
navy, volunteers and civilians. After the ad
dress General Garfield is to sit on a stand in
front of the White House and review the whole
procession, which will fall in line behind, as
the five thousand who go to the capitot pass
the stations of the different organizations on
the avenue as they return from the capitol. It
will be a grand pageant. General Sherman’s
programme is semible. practical, and
has shown the way out of a big difficulty in
arranging and handling such a big crowd which
will pass and form on one street. But of
course the growler cannot see It. This time
the political organizations of doubtful charac
ter,which are inseparable from Washington as
her monuments and Potomac flats, are making
all the noise. These organisations are composed
of government clepks apd of those who hope
to be government clerks. They are going to
parade and they want General Garfield to
know it. They want to accompany him to the
capitol. They want to be cJnspicuogs, they
do They want to—make asses of themselves,
and are succeeding most admirably. They
se *m to think that if they can be seen in a con
spicuous place on the 4th of March the goose
will be immediately swung to a very lofty alti
tude, and they will ever after bask alongside
the flesh pots and live a life of ease on govern
ment provender. No one bat themselves can
see how the mere fact of proceishing—if I
mar use the term—is to help them. But
they think so. As General Sherman
hut not given them a prominent
Slace they c'on’t see why life
worth living. So they howl. The morning
and evening papers are filled with tne plaints
of these grumblers. Strange to say, they have
no effect on the grand marshal. He has pro
mulgated a programme, and it will have to be
abided by, that's all. Most people know where
the growls a e from, and the reason for them,
therefore they laugh.
SAVANNaH HARBOR LIGHTING.
The sundry civil bill which has been reported
to the House contains an appropriation of
sfin,oOO for properly lighting Savannah harbor.
This is what Col. Anderson came here for some
time ago. and worked fcr The ilem will re
main in the bill, and will be passed by that
boly. In the Senate It will be similarly treat
ed. There is no doubt about this. The appro
priation is therefore a practical fact, although
it has not yet become a law. The money will
be extended in the plan proposed by Col. An
derson, and which has heretofore been given in
detail.
NIGHT BESSIONS.
Night sessions are now in order in both
houses The close of every session brings with
it night sessions There is hat dly ever a quorum
present and no business of any importance is
transacted. But it gives many members an
opportunity of making speeches which they
could not otherwise oblain. The galleries are
never even decently filled to hear these efforts,
but in due time they appear in tbe Record,
which the member takes the trouble of send
ing to his constituents in large q 'antities, where
it Is hoped they have the desire 1 effect of
making tbe constituent believe that his imme
diate representative in Congress is a big man
in Washington. The night sessions also mean
that there is a hurrying in tha necessary
legislation. At the beginning of every
sessionthe Appropriations Committee starts
out and does big work in preparing the regular
bills. One or two of the minor measures of
this character are put through, and people
begin to think that this time, at least, the appro
priation bills will not be sl owed to go over to
the last minute. But the expectation is never
fulfilled. Congress moves very slowly, and
talks more in transacting a very small amount
of business than business men would devote to
the most important affairs involving immense
sums of money. New measures, in which
the average legislator is particularly interest
ed, must be pushed. The consequence is the
same old story. There is a rush at the close of
the tension to get through the nece sary ap
propriation bills. The talk and attempt to
get this or that measure through have failed'
it is true, but both of'them had to be gone
through with It would seem almost an im
possibility to remedy this evil.
CjNOER in the senate.
There Is great curiosity to see how Co.nser
wfil deport himself in the Senate. The first
thing thqt he will collide with will be the dig
nity of that body. The Senate surrounds it
self with an air of so called dignity, which
will not permit of ths liveliness and rough and
tumble fight, so common in the debates of the
House, and Conger is ths prime leader in all
debate of this character. He lives, thrives on
it, and is never content unless he stirs up a
breeze at least four or five times a day.
n fact, it is there that he lias made
his reputation. When Blaine went into
the Senate there wag considerable dis
satisfaction in that body on account of
tbe—to the solemn old senators—hilarious
and flippant manner in which he jumped
around and talked. He was fresh from the
House, where he had been the leader
in many a political wrangle. But
he soon toned dowD, and now has as much dig
nity as the best of them. Blaine, when he left
the House, was,in comparison, a perfect model
of deportment alongside of Conger. The latter
gentleman will have to curb his exuberance,
but it will take a great deal to bring him down.
His first collisions with the awftil dignity of
the Senate will be delightful to witness. Sev
eral members of the House say they are going
over to the other end of the capitol when Con-
Ser is translated to that wing, just to see how
e acts during his first days in that body.' Re
cently Conger was Very quiet. He did not, for
three whole days, net the’ House I'd a worry.
It is currently reported that he had gone in
training for the Senate and was learning how
to behave himself. This report was unfound
ed. however. He broke out afresh last Friday.
It was th n learned that for a few days pre
ceding he had not been fueling at ail well, and
was compelled, against his inclination, to keep
comparatively quiet.
personal,
Robert D. Walker, Jr„ a rising young lawyer
of Savannah, is |n the city visiting relatives,
and egpeota to remain at the capital until af
ter the inauguration. Potomac.
The Supreme Court of the State has
decided in the case of Mayo, Sheriff, tb.
Itenfroe and Wilson, that the resolution
of the General Assembly in 1879, direct
ing that executions issue against John
W. the?} Treasurer o| the State,
and his sureties, for the amount of
interest on the public monies which
had been applied by Mr.
Renfroe to his own use,
was unconstitutional. Chief Justice
Jackson rendered the decision. The
court holds that the State may perhaps
recover the amount after suit has been
regularly broqght ppep court, but
that exccutiop against the ex-Treasurer
and his sureties cannot be summarily
ordered by a resolution of the Legis
lature.
Charles O’Conor does not take a
hopeful view of our future, nor does he
think that we ought to be interfering
with Giest Britain in her attempt tfl
coerce Ireland, He recently said: “The
measureless bounty of Providence to our
great and fertile country has enabled us
thus far to endure steadily progressing
political evils. But I am of opinion
that every American hawing any
capacity for public usefulness can em
ploy himself more meritoriously in
checking the growth of governmental
evils at hotpe tfcgn in spasmodic inter
ferences with the harvest of official
ciime by those employed in robbing the
British Islands, India and Southern
Africa.”
Among the items in the sundry civil
bill is one to provide for tbg expenses of
another international looney commis
sion. The item to defray the expenses
of the McVeigh commissi- - g Btricken
out. The m°l'y to pay such expenses,
regating $6,000, was advanced in
1876 by the First National Bank of New
York. Ever since efforts have been
made to get an appropriation to refund
the amount to the bank, but these have
thus far failed. A peculiar item in the
bill is to pay for the value of a hearse
which was broken up in a runaway
while the funeral services of ex-Con
gressman Douglass, of Virginia, were
progressing.
A young lady of Indianapolis, Ind.,
caused the arrest of a young man for
breach of promise. The latter thought
he had compromised the suit by marry
ing the girl, hut found he was not a
free man until he also paid the costa.
A TYPICAL TEXAS TRAGEDY.
Why a Kind-Hearted Wan Took a
Clergyman’s Life.
Galveston .Yelp*.
The Uvalde Hesperian gives an ac
count of a fatal rencounter that reads
like some of the burlesques on life in
Texas, where neighbors are represented
as shooting each other in the most amia
ble spirit. The Hesperian’a story is only
too true:
Jack Kelly, who resides in the vicinity
of the Sahibal canon, near Waresville,
came into Uvalde and surrendered to
Sheriff Patterson, stating that he had
killed, in self-defense, the Rev. J. A. J.
Smith, on Wednesday, the 19th ult. Mr.
Kelly made the following statement in
regard to the tragedy: “ Someone must
have been speaking to Mr. Smith in re-
Sard to his having grazed sheep on
mith's land, and he knows no other
cause would have led to the affair. When
Kelly first saw Smith the latter was in his
buggy, following Kelly’s sheep. This vs as
aboutß:3o p. in.,and Smith had been with
them about two hours. Kelly then went
back to see if the sheep were going in
the right direction of his home, and
Smith was then still with them. As
Kelly was walking around the sheep,
Smith called to him to ‘’hold on.” They
were then about one hundred yards apart
Kelly then sat down by a small pecan
tree and there waited for Smith, who
drove up opposite within about ten feet
of Kelly, stopped his horses, placed the
reins over the dash board, saying: “Good
evening, Mr. Kelly,” ’ and pick
ing up bis Winchester, which was at
his side on the buggy seat At the same
time, Kelly arose and replied: “Good
morning, Parson Smith,” raisi jg his Win
chester, which had been lying across his
lap. Smith then fired and Kelly an
swered the fire, there being a very brief
interval between the shots of both par
ties, Smith fired one shot from his
Winchester, and jumped out of his
buggy on the opposite side from Kelly,
and fired another shot across the buggy,
which Kelly dodged by dropping
on his kDees. Kelly fired two shots
from his Winchester, which got out
of order at the second shot, and he drew
his six-shooter. Smith then fired be
tween the spokes of the hind wheels of
the buggy at Kelly, who fired twice
through the spokes of the same wheels at
Smith. Both then stepped back to the
rear of the buggy, and met at point
blank range, when Kelly fired a
shot which took effect in Smith’s
breast or stomach, and as Smith step
ped back several paces, Kelly fired his
last shot as Smith fell, the thot taking
effect in Smith’s head. Both parties to
the untoward affair enjoyed the respect
and esteem of the community, and have
means. Had not the practice of carry
ing weapons been in vogue in this sec
tion this difficulty would have been
averted, the bullet would not have cut
the thread of a minister’s life, and a
kind-hearted man, who never before had
a difficulty in his life, would not have
had to take that life.
It is asserted that within eighteen
months two and a half miles of the pro
posed channel tunnel between England
and France will have been excavated,
and that the work will be completed in
about four years. Still another grand
scheme, however, for crossing the chan
nel is contemplated, namely, a line of
steel tubes, sixteen feet in diameter, bah
lasted so as to make it weigh one and a
quarter ton to the foot less than the
water displaced, and held at a depth of
thirty-five feet below the surface, so as
not to impede navigation, by chains at
tached to caissons sunk to the bottom.
gtw gtflOTlismrotg.
Let Us Be Sure to Get What
We Pay For.
THERE are some purchasers wil'ing tfi pay
for a name and be In the fashion. Others
prefer to get the article they want, and to pay
for no more. In the year 1866 the city of New
York branched out into a golden eating-house.
We beg the pardon of finely cultured people
for using the English name. The windows
were French plate, at seventy dollars a
Ught. The window frames were gilt.
The floors were hard wood, and every room
was frescoed. In this pretty place, just where
you turn out of Broadway into Union Square,
the visitor found no dishes that were not
French porcelain, and no plated ware. Bolid
silver was the rule, and if the guest wished to
think himself an English Duke or a German
Prince, there were services of solid gold (or
said to be) if he was willing to pay for it.
All shoddydom went once, to say they had.
Then people found Delmonico’s and Taylor’s
good enough, and the gilt concern was bank
rupt, and is now the Wheeler & Wilson ma
chine store. It was sad, but it was a fact;
people would not pay for looking at fresco and
aishes. Now here is the moral, with another
illustration: This writer once went to Tiffany's
old p’ace on lower Broadway, to get a watch.
The salesman said, “Here is the Jules Jurgen
sen, of Copenhagen, and here the Dent, of the
maker or the Housee of Parliament clocks,
and here the Frodsham, used by the Admiral
ty, and here the great Swiss names, and all up
in the hundreds, and all good. And then here
is a watch withjour name on it. Frankly, we
don’t make it, and we could not get our name
on a Charles Frodsham. But it is made for us
by the old foreman of the best piaker in the
world. We buy the movement ouly, and save
the duty on the cases. W@ ca*e them here
and give a guarantee of perfect time, and
weight and standard of gold. We can sell you
the je at jqst half what you must pay for a
nqtiie.” ft was the best watch l ever had.
Rut frequently the great makers of goods
wifi stamp them as you wish. Callig last
week at one leading book store a lady was ask
ing for the John M. Cooper business pen. Mr
Cooper was dead, and in life he could no more
have made a steel pen than Tiffany & Cos
could have made a watch. But tbe article was
a fine Esterbrook, stamped with the name of
any firm buying in great quantities. The A. T
Btewart ’’night-gown cotton” was sold over the
counter when the merchant did not own a
dollar in the mills. The Macy dress braid only
meant that Mr. Macy bought by the ten
thousand gross. A Macon almanac, the best
made in the South, bears the name of every
firm that will take a thousand.
In pianos, the same rule holds. There are a
few rich makers who are really deservedly
great. But not one of them holds a life lease
on the best workmen, and when the foreman
who has always made the piano (that the per
son whose name it bears never touched tfiFftn
ished), this first mechanic ot the' shops
when he has saved capital, starts Ila owa
manufactory. He may be a foreigner, brought
over to teach the principal the ways of Europe
He may be just come from the shops of the
great European makers, with capital, tools
materials and oapaoity. He can’t build a
palace with a theatre up stairs, as tome do
but he can have a shop that can turn out the
best work. He no longer sells his brain and
his work to the middle man or salesman, who
gills his name on the front, but he sells dire -t
to the country dealer or buyer, at a fair profit
on honest work. The palace of the salesman
on Fourteenth street or Fifth avenue cost hall
a million, and tomebodu has got to pay interest
and taxes on that. One German, or English
or Yankee i-.echanic dues his work in a shabby
shop of rough brick in the suburbs, where he
pays only county taxes, and only interest on
the best of lumber and material. He can
obviously, sell the same article at less that it
sold for when the salesman or middle man
who never did a stroke of work, got fifty
thousand dollars of personal expenses out of
the same instrument year y.
Eugene Sue, in the “Wandering Jew ” was
the first to make his heroine, JUST, in insisting
that the name of the mechanic, not of the
professed manufacturer, should appear oa
every article of art in her house. In sculpture
and painting it is the artfet whose name is on
it that does the walk, but nine-tenths of the
publishers can't set a lute of type, and a large
per cent, of makers are the rich sons of suc
cessful mechanics, but can’t now do the work
This is not so much the case with organs, for
here the instrument in its cabinet or portable
form is almost of American origin, and the
men still live who first taught tbe reeJs to
sing. But there are few good patents on
musical aha, like sewing
, ma. i-me;, the new makers only need
I to get the old machinery. If an eminent
firm, knowing just who to go to for a
fine and perfect instrument, can get a
splendid article at a fair profit on material and
making, and will sell it at a fair compensation
tor hanfifiqg and advertising, then the cus
tomer gets his money’s worth. It has long
beep known that the oommon English or Ger
man piano wou’d not stand the heats of East
or West India, and that to go in a box through
the Bed Sea was te arrive out of order. As
Bass made his best stroke in impartiag keep
ina qualities to East India ale, so did the
English makers learn and profit by the secret
Of making a piano to stand the climate
While the Southern States are not $ torrid
as India,the damp winter U*ma(e and long dry
summerLdq Myefeti* try ah instrument. T>-
grsStf makers do not count local tr**- „ . -
portant, and a proposal to —' ’ , as ln ?‘
to order Would . — *<uce instruments
work"*- —ot with contempt. But the
...on who once made their masterpieces
will do so. and a piano can be had. and an
organ, that will have the finest qualities when
unboxed, and keep them until the school girl
teaches her own children. These are cheaper
and, for the South, they are better. What will
you do about it?
Now. frankly, I have an axa to grind, and
my friend is Joseph P. Hale, of New York, the
maker of the ‘ Southern Gem" piano. I am
not a maker, nor a dealer, but a buyer. lam
grateful to the American Book Exchange, New
York, that I can buy a Chambers’ Encyclo
pedia at one-fourth the European cost. lam
grateful to a Philadelphia house that sells to
me dry goods at wholesale rates. lam grate
ful to Messrs. Ludden & Bates, of the Southern
Music House, Savannah, for proving to me
that I can get a fine piano, by ’an old
maker, and by one who owns three of the
largest piano factories in the orid, and at
the price of the cheap one*. I became con
vinced that a maker who could employ twelve
hundred men and turn out one hundred and
seventy pianos a week, and who does supply
one-fourth of the pianos now sold in America,
who is indorsed by Messrs. Ch ckerinsr & Sons
and hundreds more, is truly a wholesale maker.
He has broken down the fancy piano prices
forever, and 1 am grateful to all men who make
fine, reliable goods, so that we, the people, can
get them at just rates.
feb24-lt NEMO.
SAVANNAH THEATRE.
Commencing Thursday, February 24.
The first appearance in this city of the
Brilliant Dramatic Artist.,
MISS ELEANOR CALHOUN
Supported by the Eminent Actor,
MR. BARTON HILL,
And a Great Dramatic Organization.
THURSDAY,
ROMEO AND JULIET.
FRIDAY,
LOVE’S SACRIFICE.
SATURDAY MATINEE,
HUNCHBACK!
SATURDAY NIGHT,
The Great Parisian and New York success,
DANIEL ROCHAT.
Sale of seats will commence Tuesday, 22d, at
Bren's. _ fcb3t-3t
MASONIC TEMPLE.
OmiiDRE]N"S
MAH HI RAS_CAMIVAL!
THE LADIES’ CHUR JH AID SOCIETY will
hold a Fair and Children’s Mardi Gras
Carnival at Masonic Temple on MONDAY and
TUESDAY NEXT, in behalf of the St. Mat
thew’s Episcopal Free Church Mission. A pro
gramme of unusual attractiveness is being pre
pared. On Monday Evening a Concert will be
given by the best amateur talent of this city,
and after the concert the hall wfil be cleared for
dancing. On Tuesday Afternoon the Grand
Carnival will take place. AH children are in
vited to Ista in the masquerade. Prof. Sher
wood will form the procession at 6 o’clock, and
after the Grand March there will be music by
the band. Tempting viands, Ices, Coffee, Tea,
etc., and fancy articles of various kinds wiU be
on sale during the Fair. Prices of admission—
For children, l^c.; for adults, 25c. Tickets can
be purchased at the stores of Dr. O. Butler. Mr.
aP. Hamilton and Dr, L. C. Strong. feb24-td
NINTH ANNUAL GRAND
Masquerade Ball!
OF THE SAVANNAH
SCHUET2EN GESEUSCHAFT,
AT TURNER’S (BT. ANDREW’S) HALL,
TUESDAY, MARCH Ist, 1881,
ALL necessary arrangements wfil be made
to make this ball one of the grandest ever
before given. Tickets, admitting one gentle
man and ladies, $2 00, to be procured from the
Committee. JOHN SCHWARZ.
feb22,24,26.28, mhl&Te!27 Chairman
———s^——as
jMgmtgmmtg.
NOTICE.
I HEREWITH beg leave to inform my pat
rons and the public that owing to the de
struction of my premises (171 Bay street) by
fire on the morning of the 23d I have tempo
rarily secured the premises
NO. 176 BAY STREET
(JONES’ BLOCK),
Where, in connection with my Whitaker street
store, I will carry on the Door, Sash and Blind
Business. All orders will receive prompt at
tention the same as before the fire.
ANDREW HANLEY.
feb24 tf
NOTICE.
Shad, Fish and Oysters.
Notwithstanding the complete burnout
of my Fish and Oyster Establishment to
day, I am ready to fill ail orders in my line,
through the courtesy of L. Savarese & Bro.,
who have kindly tendered me the temporary
V s ® tl eir place ef business, OORNEK BAY
LANE AND JEFFERSQN BTREET.
GEO. A. HUDSON.
Savannah, Ga., February 23,1881. feb24-8t
geo7oecker & co!
Have (owing to the fire on the 23d) removed to
180 Hay Street,
DIRECTLY OPPOSITE.
We are prepared to fill all orders with our
usual promptness. Send them in. feb24 8t
Mice to the Trade.
W E are happy to state that our Factory
(though ip imminent danger for some
time) was not at all injured by the fire on the
mormag of the 23d. Our business wifi suffer
no interruption whatsoever, and all orders wifi
meet with the some prompt attention os here
tofore. Very respe.tfully,
SCHWARZ & ACOSTA.
feb24-3t
NO INTERRUPTION
-or—
BUSINESS!
WE beg to inform our friends and patrons
that our business will suffer no inter
rup Jon from the fire that occurred in the
premises adjoining our stores.
SOLOMON BROTHERS.
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Apples, Potatoes, Onions,
AND A FRESH SUPPLY OF NELSON’S
PURE APPLE CIDER,
IN STORE AND TO ARRIVE.
L. F. NELSON & CO.,
feb24 tf 176 BAY STREET.
FOR AMSTERDAM.
fjpHE A1 Norwegian bark
'. aptain Sorensen, mHBBv
having a large portion of her cargo engaged
and l)ing of small capacity, will havedia
pAtch,
For balance of freight room apply to
A, FULLARfON * 00.
_ BEANS at $3 75 per bushel
' EARLY 3JOHAWK BRANS at S3 so per
bushel EXTRA EARLY PEAS at 85 75 per
bushel, Black Eye MARROWFAT PEAS at
S2 50 per bushel. Also Corn and other Seeds
at same low prices. All guaranteed to ha
Buist si Fresh Seeds. For sale at
L. C l . STRONGS Drag Store,
Bull and Perry street i*n
©ats. ~
Rost Proof Seed Oats
OF CHOICE QUALITY, IN STORE AND TO
ARRIVE. FOR SALE BY
R. L. MERCER.
feb9-tf
f nfturtg' jEogfl,
THEY CRY FOR IT!
M ELLIN’S INFANT FOOD. Gerber’s Milk
Food, Imperial Gran urn, Nestle’s Milk
Food, Baby’s Cereal Food, Hamburg Tea.
Freeh supplies received every week at
G. M. HEIDT & CO.’S Drug Store.
feb!4-tf
SlOOOii
For any case of Blind, Bleeding, Itching. Ulcer
ated, or Protruding PILE 4 that De Blog’s
Pile Remedy fails to cure. Prepared by J.
P. MILLER, M. D., Philadelphia, Pa. Nona
genuine without hie signature.
decl&-S,Tu&Tb6m—2p
febß4-lt ' Apply at C&jSßj
Wanted to'rVnt
7 ’ rr 'armfdctiiri--,,... ’ a *oi*a
•ttar- 1 -;j|
feb23-2t
w dressmaking \r.“ 0a
V hitaker street. S J Usl
and all orders recei ve 5 ly h & ®o.
promptly filled,
W A ?o T kn D ow e Ih r aT
in the South are for
posite the Screven )[<>,,'<'
Ja7°tf heru S'"' ' ■
YY repair. Rates r<- i
instruments. T. B
between Bull and
Heirs wanted ~ te->• Te
persons who lost
LX’K rent. with^^r = 7
r eating southern m,V,n
fire places in each and on
T'o. R ENT j a store an 'iiTw^T'^'xß
A ingdon and Mercer
Broad. Apply at said „i
BOUHAN. sa ’ 1 P'ace to
RENT, offices 114 R r .7T~
Ijsttaß&vrM
1H ° witjFSs oVbatlt
York street. r s*
Ij’Oß SALE, the foHowj^T^T =:::::
ratus: 1 Bteam Drying p-
Platen 18x24; 1 Iron
Iron Casting Mould (Hoe's
They are almost new and „ '
Address J.H FS riLL.
TjX)RBALE, OYSTER*,.. fTTr^B
£j“i MupusK,E
mi
FOR SALETonelumdredTerlr
cleared land, 13 mile . W °'*B
First-rate stand for a grocm
and. Laroche & son, eiy <>* fl
TjX)R SALE, two fine
J? Heifer about to calf one iv *
two weeks old, Apply Sl Vort-
F® SALE, Twelve
the best wooded lands on p *B
wtintn two hours’ reach of ®
tainlng an immense quantity
h.ckory and fight wood for fueaf'B
lar and white oak for lnmL NutM
Some of the land wfll B
SSSSkSTK?- '■!’ - M
SALE, .30 Lot t at a
A 1 Broad and Anderson streets tv, B
*•B
--JPOR BALE, YELLOW
LUMBER, by tb© cargo.
D 1 C I RATO!(J
r £ , HE largest stock SEASONED FLCcjM
in the city. Call and examine our stock 1
gu g~ 26 tf BACON & BEO.J
BALE.—Go to 21 HuiTstre^lM
A the Screven House, for
Photographs, Copying and Frames. fiß
quarters for Views ot Southern
jan^-NATel^^^^-jgj
IjX>R SALE or rent on ionehmseltaß
Anderson street, 60x105 each’CM
south, between D-ayton and Aberco'msß
Apply 110 Broughton street. JOHN RIS
Trustee.
fl REWARD will be paid for icfonmtß
qpXttJ as to person who took inyhomM
bukgv from in front of my residence
mg about 7 o’clock, with proof to convict<■
joftmi,
THE 29th Popular Drawing of thei'onmß
wealth Distribution Company of
will positively take place MONDAY, F-traß
28, 1881. Whole Tickets $2, Halves 81. 1
feb24 Th&S2t
Mtmt ffaiU’oagg,
SCHEDULE; FOR FKBIU IKhl
MONDAYS. TUESDAYS, WEDNESDAY
THURSDAYS AND FRIDAYS. 1
OUTW’D, | INWARD. J
LEAVE I ARRIVE LEAVE | ulitß
SAVANNAH, i SAVANNAH. ISLE OE HOPE HOSTS™
6:4t ?, m. j 8:38 a. m. S:10 a, tt.j 7;:7i|
Monday morning train for Montgomery™
at 6:25 a. m.
Wednesdays additional train will lew iM
10:23 a. m. Returning leave Montgoiuerydß
p. a , Isle of Hope 5:20. j
SATURDAYS AND SUNDAYS. J
leave arrive leave UdlJ
SAVANNAH. SAVANNAH j ISLE OF HOPE: 2WTM
10:23 A. ii. 8:38 A. m. 8:10 a. *.[ 7:35x9
•3:25 p. m. 1:20 p. m 12:50 p. m.j 12:15P.fl
7:00 p. m. 5:50 p. m, : 5:20 P. a. 1:45 f.M
•Sundays this is the last outward train. 1
EDW. J. THOMAS, I
feb!2-tf guperinteDdettß
IT I II
TOO LATE TO MEND, REFORM OK Sill
MONEY, and you can't accowpli* ll 4n . v I
of these objects better thanun- I
der the auspices of
HEADQUARTERS
RED BANANAS.
YELLOW BANANAS.
RIPE BANANAS.
GREEN BANANAS.
And BAN ANAB any way you want theffl.
COCOANUTS, PEANUTS
COCOANUTS, PEANUTS.
POTATOES. PEANUTS.
ONIONS. PEANUTS.
CABBAGES, PEANUTS,
GREEN and DRIED FRUITS in fine W*
CANNED SAUSAGE - whole).
CANNED HAM SAUSAGE.
PIGS’ M EET.
MACKEREL.
HERRING.
CODFISH.
And a full line of FANCY GROCER
Fine WINES, LIQUORS and CHA*FA ( ’ >
J. B. KEEP''
GROCER AND IMPORTER*
CORNER BAY AND WHITAKEII
feb22-tf
CABBAGE 8
Fresh from the country every JM
:lori(fa Oranges and APP^
CORN, COW PEAS, OATS, <^fU
PEAS, HAY, Virginia and
NUTS. BRAN, COCOANUTS, Orara*. i
RUBT PROOF OATS RYE, 50( I „
and Peerless POTATOES, ONIONS, ew-
T. P. BOND' s
131 U, 153 AND 155 BAY STREET.
Ilutati.
v* X
& v \
aioisi. simlaf
$
BY ALL JOBBERY
ms S SWINC *
Production Doubled. Again
febl-TuATTtly