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Georgia Affairs.
(arietta “and North Georgia Kailroad
fi . u completed as far as the town of
in Pickers county, and ru exci’-sion
gain pa-sed over the road on the 26th.
T - Atlanta Mattress Company's building
mi macuinerf were destroyed by Are Wednes
day last, lae loss is eetimated at J4.OCJ.
tc • ~t by the State to annul the Btate
v ail i> „se. Senator Brown says that the
-un fir ii are unu nab:e, and that it must
lit in a verdict against the State.
O : Seaborn Kee-'e begins the canvass of
t , . iifhth Congre -uonal district this week,
*:•: -very prospect of a successful result.
Tt Board of Health of Augusta has put a
ms quarantine on unhealthy cabbages
t*snr introduced into the city.
Tuitees of Wesleyan Female College at
g. . have postponed opening that in
. • i. until the first of November. This is
j ,n order to fin Si the building before the
exercises are resumed.
Th- -t rin damage to the cotton crop in Lau
ren.*; Hinty is e-'tic ated at S2'i,COJ.
Seaman has recrived this see son S'T hun
jre. of cotton, ail of good clars end in
Lawson Journal announces this legal
maxim lie that kills a man when he is dunk,
must be lian.-ei when lie is sober.”
art Sian well bring bored a; Dawson has
fetched ttie depth of Its? feet.
It r -ir McNulty is editor of a college col
a: ■ i the Dawson Journal, run in the interest
• - ;Uth Georg a Male and Female College.
W the Professor should pay particular
At. un to bis French compositors, and not
su:T --1 un to us • such language as "Comme il
fou‘- i> mot font il ne pas Fran raise." It
u .atmally cracker E igii-h. (See Long
•ueet s Georgia Scenes.)
h. ■! toon county one day last week, a party
* banters with their hounds started early is
t.v ni. rning on a fox chase. A trail wrs soon
■ -u s, and after awhile the sport b -came vet /
exciting. The fox lei them in eve.y direction,
as tney are known to do when hotly pursued.
And ti ciaily struck out in a straight line for
Oglethorpe It was pursued ror miles and
tin;--., and the excitement wrs kept up until
la:- n the day. Finally the hounds cap,ured
h. tv inters came up and found it to be—
n ,t a fc x, but another dog.
dii :ue public roads in Houston county lead
lag to Perry, the county seat, are now passa
ble. the effects of the recent storm having been
repaired and the bridges placed in condition to
be traveled over.
Tae chestnut crop in the m ountains of Noi th
Georgia is said to boa failure, while in the
region it will be an abundant one.
The Catoosa Courier, the Dade County Oa
utie and the Lafayette Messenger have been
consolidated, and will hereafter be un under
use management.
Tim Home cotton factory has been completed,
l , ust brick having beau laid on Wednesday.
It is said to be a model of beauty and fine
workmanship, and an ornameat to the city.
The machinery wiii be planted immediately,
uJ the factory put in active operation.
The strike of the waiters of the Rome hotels
•till c utiaues. The proprietors have deter
mine i under no consideration to employ again
those engaged ia it, and have sent to At anta to
procure the needed supply.
A rauroad meetiug has been called at Spring
’yU l Murray county, on the first Tuesday in
Lee Tier. .£ .*<; into consideration the grant
mg of the right of way in Murray county to
the liamesv;;!,' and Dalton Kailroad.
Tie indications are that Cartersviile will re
ceive more cotton this fall by several thousand
than she has heretofore.
It is rumored that there is some illicit distii
mg carried on in Macon county.
fhe spoke and handle factory at Henderson,
Mar.on county, continues to boom. The pro
pr.e%*r gets orders from all the large cities in
Georgia for his wares, which are said to be un
excel--1 by any made at the North.
At the municipal e.ection held at Elberton
Thursday, the following gentlemen were elect
ed J. I Chandler Mayor, and R. F. Tate, J.
! Beard, A S. OM.ver, S. L. Carter and J. T.
McCarty, Couaciimen.
Bhinbridge has contracted for a county jaij
t oc t |BJS. It must be a small affair, but
Cos fortunately, the county does not need
much accommodation for her jail bird*.
The steam engine, Thoneteska. for the A1
bury Fire Department, was tested Tnursday
at Macon, with ICO pounds of steam and 225
water pressure. She threw a stream perpen
dhMlarty lob feet.
The editor of the Perry Dome Journal quit
'*• * 2 tobacco on the second day of last Au
gur:. and he now weighs fifteen pounds more
tea;; be did at that time, notwithstanding the
fact that he was quite sick with fever for seve
ral weeks between that time and now.
Ttlt jntph and Messenger : "Since the storm
i.e ir, .) eu all the luiil darns in and around Bibb
v J ! U F; t ' l '“ noil of Mr. Henry B. Davis, at
-vi < all a pond, has been steadily grinding
c.gl.t -Old day for four counties. Hegrinds 100
£’•' ”'D the da> time and SO bushels at night.
The us in to the mill is the finest in the world.
J- ‘s impossible to wash it away, and besides
--■Eg about thirty feet high and thirty feet
the*, it ;s 191 miles long. Just think of U :
A tm. lam UM miles long ! For the benefit of
. ur l-of tuwn readers we will mention the
‘A-: mat the Central Railroad embankment, is
the cam.”
" J. Collins, if Oglethorpe, Ma-on
c ty. the In epend-nt candidate for Repre
ta vc, in opposition to Hon. James M. Du
r. - • regular nominee, has retired from the
h* '. us ie tving Mr. DuPree and his colored
oppor.ei.t, Richard Hubbard, in tbe field. Hub
‘ - -ime darkey Mr. DuPree difeated
• ; --e two years ago. Mr. DuPre. will
a -'. ■ ur next Representative without a
the Democrats and property owners
lot] are not prepared to turn over
t ' '' • -to the "mongrel crew.” As to
‘ ■*■*• - vice he will be one of the oldest
;'n -is me next House—having been a
tnemorf of mat body ever since 1877.
Florida Affairs.
tr. ,
.... astitement a few days s’nce, on
y of one of our Florida exchsu -es.
• ' -tying on the Pensacola and Atlantic
’ ' ii iiai been temporarily suspend i.
- - f e: utendent Chipley says trs :k laymg
; I'fessiiig at airee pointt oa the roal, nd
'• w-.-ea the first tumors of yellow fever at
. '— .a commenced the company took pre
' which will prevent auy delay in fhe
construction of the road.
A 1 4;i hery on an ex:easive tca'e is about to
t>c '-arted in Apalachicola. Two entet prising
young citizens of the city are at the head of the
m 'vntent who have cash and energy.
A the Conservative DemocraUc primary
held for Frankiia county for the non nation
ol an Assemblyman from that county, quite a
Urge vote was polled, and Jame i F. Grady
recr vet the unanimous vote of the party.
1 odhes are quite warm in Jackson county.
- ir. John W, Pooser has declined the nomi
ha.iou as a candiiatof the Democratic party
■ “ -cSson county, and the convention hrs
or-iered to reassemble to Domioste an-
I Liter ciodivi4te.
■ _ r loss Jackson county sustained by the
| recent storm is estimated at sioo,ooo
A Jefferson county negro went up into a
tree to shake a ••’possum” out, but instead of
accomplishing that feat shook himself out and
broke his neck in the fail.
ihe Brooksville f'.orida Crescent in its next
issue will be enlarged to a twenty-eight col
umn newspaper, and otherwise improved.
The yellow fever record at Pensacola, up to
the iSth instant, was 517 cases and fifty-four
deaths.
In consequence of the rigid quarantine
against Pensacola, there will be no full r , tm
of the Superior Court of Santa Rosa county.
BA correspondent of the Jacksonville Times
thinks it will pay better ia Florida to raise
cabbages than pineapples, for the following
reasons: Cabbages are raised from the seed in
four months. It will keep no telling how long
after it is ripe. It can be raised anywhere.
Frost lines do not cross it. It does not require
ftarawßii ipmwng — SJmvi
*l. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
any coddling, and it sells readily at from thirty
to fifty cents per head. Ihneapples are raised
in two years. It will keep If wrapped in a
flannel nine days. Occasionally it is raised In
Florida. It must be coddled at least once a
week, and it sells at from eight to fifteen cents
per head.
The next meeting of the General Passenger
and Ticket Agents’ Association wi”. be held In
Jacksonville next March. The association baa
over six hundred members, go Jacksonville
may look cut for a rish on the occision.
A number of laborers have arrive*, at Tampa
to work on the Jacksonville, Key West and
Tampa Railroad.
-he Bupeiior Court of Brevard county is In
session, and will try the c“se of Allen Padgett,
charged with the murder of Long.
D. G. Ambler and other citizens of Sumter
count£%ave applied for a charter to build a
railroad from the Kimborough section of Sum
ter county and connect with the Florida Tropi
cal Railroad. It will be four miles in length.
Tallahassee is making an effort to organize
an artillery company, to be called the Govern
or s Guards. Tney are in for the cannon law
down In Tallahassee.
W. P. Horn, the Democratic nominee for the
Assembly in Baker county, is represented to
be one of the best farmers in the Btate.
The Democrats of Columbia couDty have
nominated 8. L. Nibblack for the Senate, and
Moore, Getzen and Talbot for the Assembly.
s been nominated for the
t* an< * '! r 'l uliy for the Assembly by the
Ih-mocrats of Wakulla counjr. Both favor a
constitutional conrention.
tC? ttr t u ’ tbe veteran Democrat of
boen nominate i for the
Ctyatt *nd Bitch for the Assem
bly. All are lor a convention.
effort is being made by Mr. Cohen to or
h qLr„ e i a 9l Jtnpan V *nd introduce patent fruit
f h ' . ®i. BonticeJlo, and be prepared to utilize
the berty and fruit crop of 1883.
cMe ekin and Newsome, the pres
ent Assemblymen from Putnam county, were
renominateu at the Democratic convention
uT f Y at .i a ? tka ? n Wednesday on the first bal
lot ror the Legislature, amid great applause.
Mr. Childs, .of Washington, a government
agent m the matter of Florida ianua, reached
JacnonjUle Wednesday. Mr. Childs ccmes to
rh)iida for the purpose of surveying, laying
ri # tJle government landlin
r lorida from State and otner lands. He left
ihu.sday for Palatka, en route to Tampa,
x? r^ the P ursuit of this object. Mr. J.
M. Dancy, County Surveyor of Putnam, goes
along with him the duly accredited repre
sentative of the State of Florida, to look after
the State’s interest and the proper separation
of lands.
A Gainesville correspondent of the Jackson
vi.le Time* writes to that paper an amusing ac
count of a scrimmage between two members of
the school board as lollows: “Dr. Perry, a mem
ber of the boarj, telegraph* 1 from Waldo
Tuesday morning to County Superintendent
Shea’s not to take any action in regard to a
teacher for the Campville ec iool until he ar
rived on the 2 o’clock train. Mr. Sheats, how
ever, did not heed the request. When the
Doct jr arrived he and Mr. Sheats met in the
court house, and after a few vigorous remarks
on both sides, Mr. Sheats seemed to po.sess
himself of about seventeen arms and eveiy
hand held an ink bottle. He showered a few
all over the Doctor, when the Doctor, reaching
around behind himself, drew to the astonisheu
gaze of the Superintendent of Public Instruc
tion a large hoi se pistol which he succeeded in
cocking. He then ex' aided it at arm’s length
toward the oj-erator of the ink bottle batr >ry.
He was about to practically teach the ycun<
idea of the county how to shoot, when sever?
other friendly powei : interfe.ed in the inter
ests of humanity. They could stand seeing a
man shot with an ordinary weapon, but to see
a humeu creature blown to minute fragments
was too too. 8o the battle ende i. ”
Jacksonville Tim-': "A meeting of the Di
reetois of the Farmers’ Cooperative Union
was held in th's city yes’ rday. T ie organiza
tion of the board was completed bv the elec -
tion of tbe io'lowing office,j: J. N. C. Stock
ton, of the firm of Ambler. Marvin & Htock,on,
Treasurer, and Jesper 8. Greer, Secretary and
Agent for Jacksonville, Avery interesting re
port wps mr le by the Pr ident, E. F. Pa’ne,
who hrs Ju-c returned from the We it, where
he hrs been to consult the various ra-lroad su
pei.ntendents in relation t > a schedule for the
rapid trr it of fruits and vegetables, and
at low ra* •of freight. He h. - arranged
for special tra-ns, reducing the time and tbe
rates of freight at least one-ha'f of whet they
were last season to Chicago by car lo- \ R;
frigerat or cars w ril be put on for per shabie
fruits r-> soon rs the busine i wilt warrant.
This Union hrs secured a simple and effective
plan for preparing the orange, with but little
cost, so that they will keep perfectly sound for
months This mode of pr oklngorrdgeswill be
worth milliors of dollars to the orr ige grow
ers annually, for it wider hance the value of
every box of orang. - from one * > two dollars
per box. The Northern and Ws s* ij agents
will be appoint I as soon es possible. The
union wi' commence active operations on the
Ist of Oct it r. Colonel Jr ?F or F. Gr er, who
his ben aq vnt, i r ;ent of the Far met s’ Ci
ocerative r’or wr s a me t su c sful mer
cjrn of Ma on, Georg’? and the pion -r iu
the shipment of peach from Middle a.
He removt 1•i Gr ni >ve hprings on e’count
of rheutß9t : sm, of which he has b n com
plet >lv cr-i • The f o-op .ave Ur'on has
oeen ,ortuna’ in securi- g a competent busi
ness man who so thorougo’y c ■derstauds the
fruit business.”
To the Voters of Wayne, Pierce and
Appling.
Wayne County, September 28. —Editor Morn
ing Setts: I see an address in the Weekly News
to the white voters of Wayne. Pierce and Appling
from one J. D. Oxner, who commences his ad
dress by an unfounded statement, viz : That
“we have two Independent candidates for
Senator—Rev. A. Clark and Col. S. R. Harris.’’
We have but one Independent candidate for
the Senate, Col. S R. Harris, who is a self
constituted candidate, and well Is it known to
Mr. Oxner and to the voters of this district. It
is also well known that Mr. Clark is the stand
ard bearer of the regular Democracy
of this district. Mr Clark was solicited
by a regular Democratic County Con
vention, held at Jesup, to run for
Senator, and, as under the rotation system
Wayne county was entitled to the Senator this
term, our convention recommended Mr. Clark
to the voters of Pierce and Appling as our can
didate. There was no District Convention
held, but it was generally agreed and under
stood all over the three counties that Mr
Clark should be the regular candidate. The
white men of this district have no objection to
the negroes voting for Mr. Clark—they say he
is such a pun and good man that they are
compelled to support him, and that if the
Democratic party would always put up such
men that they would never vote against the
Democratic nominee.
The white people of this district do not ask
any advice from Mr. Oxner. nor do they pro
pose to allow h’m to dictate to them as t ■> whom
they shall vote for. We expect to buiy both
Mr. Oxner and Coi. Harris on the4th of i’etc
her under a deluge of Clark votes. I have
krown Mr. Clark personally for upwards of
rwelve years, and there is not in the State of
Georgia a better or a purer man. He is an hjn
est, upright. Christian gentleman and a minis
ter of the Southern Methodist Church, and if
elected Senator will serve us in the future as in
the pest, honestly and honorably.
I have nothing to say against Col. Harris’
character. lam sorry that he lias proven so
recreant to his Democracy as to run as an in
dependent candidate. Inis is the second or
third time Col. Harris has offered for office
as an Independent. CoL Harris Is youDg in
years es yet, and he could have i Horded to
nave waited inside of the party. If he had he
WAuld have undoubtedly, in the future, have
reached the goal of his ambition—legislative
honors. White Voter
New York Stock Market.
New York, September 29. — Share specu
lation opened irregular, but prices in the
main was & fraction lowsr than at the close
yesterday. Manhattan Elevated, however,
was 1 per cent, higher. In the early trade
an advance of % to 1 per cent, took place,
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western lead
ing therein, but the market Immediately
after became weak, declining 2 per cent. In
Louisville and Nashville, to 67%, and % to -
% per cent. In the rest of thell-t, the latter
for Oregon and Trans Continental and Kan
sas and Texas. Subsequently a recovery of
% to 1 per cent. Jtook place In Alabama
Central, after which the market again be
came heavy, and when near midday sold
down %to ljq per cent, Denver and Rio
Grande, Louisville and Nashville, and Nor
folk and Western being the greatest suffer
ers In the decline.
In the early part of the afternoon prices
sold up % to I % per cent., the latter for
Louisville and Nashville and Denver and
Rio Grande, but the market subsequently
becams weak, and In the late trade recorded
a decline of W to per cent., In which
Louis vl’le and Nashville, Alleghany Central,
Oregon and Transcontinental, Reading and
Omaha, were prominent, while New Jersey
Central dropped to 76 from 75%, recovered
to ana again receded to 76^.
In tne final dealings there was a general
recovery of % to % per cent., the latter for
Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and In
dianapolis, and Allegheny Central, and the
market closed irregular but in the main
firm, but with prices generally % to 1% be
low yesterday’s close, Louisville and Nash
ville, and St. Paul, Minneapolis and Mani
toba leading in the decline. Transactions
aggregated 401,000 shares.
Riots |in Pressburg.
Vienna, September 29.—Advices from
Prersburg report the occurrence of antl-
Jewish riots at that place. The mob broke
the windows of many houses occupied by
Jews. The militaiy finally restored order
after making forty arrests. The military
are confined to their barracks.
The Japanese
carry their tooth-picks In their back hair,
and always use them after eating anything.
They take care of their teeth, and the teeth
take care of their stomachs. Use tooth
picks freely, clean with Bozodont, and bad
ieeth and breath will be scarce.
THE TARIFF COMMISSION.
In Session In Baltimore—The Fertilizer
and Palmetto Interests Present Their
Claims.
Baltimore, September 28.—Eight of the
nine Tariff Commissioners arrived here this
morning. A brief morning session was
held, but, no witnesses being present, a re
cess was t \ken until 2 o’clock, at which
time the interests of manufacturers of
chemicals and fertilizers contain
ing sulphuric or muriatic acid,
were represented by R. W. S. Rasin, o*
Baltimore. He said that this Interest was
one of the largest in the State,
and was equally large in the
Southern and Western States.
He read petitions asking the
commission to make such recommendations
as will give to the American manufacturers
of sulphuric and muriatic acids and agri
cultural fertilizers such protection as they
are entitled to. They say that it does not
stand to reason that American manufac
turers, with their expensive plant and
large capital and costly skilled la
bor, can compete with the foreign
article that costs the compounder of artifi
cial chemicals notbtng. It was a common
th‘ng for heavy goods to be imported from
England to Germany at merely nominal
freights, and a whole cargo had
been known to be imported in bal
last, wbllst such goods could not be
shipped from Norfolk to Savannah at less
than from f’2 , r )to $3 per ton. The manu
facture of these chemicals and fertilizers
had grown to be a business of great mag
nitude, from ninety to one hundred mil
lions of dollars being Invested in it in
Baltimore, Charleston, Atlanta, New
Orleans, Richmond and other cities.
One-third of these investments
in Baltimore were now idle, whilst the im
ports of European articles had increased in
five years from a few hundred tons to 75,000
tons it) 1881, and consequently the Drice of
sulphuric acid had fallen from fl ?5 per
hundred pounds, giving a fair living profit,
to 55 cents, involving a ruinous loss.
Some half a dozen similar, petitions,
signed by the principal manufacturers of
chemicals and fertilizers, were presented by
Messrs. Rasin, of Baltimore; Jackson, of
New Tork, and Allen, of Philadelphia,
the general suggestk n being that a duty of
30 per cent, be Imposed on foreign chemi
cals, and that Spauleh pyrites or sulphur
ore be admitted free of duty. It was stated,
however, that as to the latttr point, there
was not a unanimity of sentiment among
the chemical msnuracturers.
Silas L Loomis, of Fernandlna, Florida,
presented the claims of the manufacturers
of palmetto fibre to protection under the
tariff. He said that it had been found by
experience that fibre made from palmetto
could be used in the making of matting,
brushes, carpets, hats and cloth. He
asked that bamboo and rattan and cocoa
fibres that are now on the free
list be taxed from one cent per pound to
four cents. When partially worked into
rope or fibre he used a machine by which a
ton of palmetto fibre was produced dally.
It competed with jute, hemp, tamplco, and
almost all of those foreign fibres coming
from the palmetto family.
THE TURF.
Result ot Yesterday’s Races at Louisville
and Brighton Beach.
Louisvn T e, September 29.—A heavy rain
th's morning made the race track fetlock
deep with mud. Toward noon the stoim
subsided, and the weather in the afternoon
was clear and warm.
The first race, association purse, $250
divided, for two yea’-olds, five-eighths of a
mile, Olivette won, Exeter second, Pike’s
Pride third. Time 1:08%.
The second race, for great American stal
lions, for tore ver'-olds. $714, $1,773 added,
of which s■' ) ’ > . ’cond, third to save his
enhance f ', one and three-quarter miles,
Boitmn won by a shori, length, Babcock
second, Dive Tandall third, l.me 3:10)^.
The third race, a -ociation puree,
dlt ided, one and on: eighth miles,| Apollo
won, Hegiaz s.cond, Ruth third. Time
2:05.
The fouito race, association purse of
S2C I, one mile, Alack Ameut was an easy
winner, P ymond second, Gus Matthews
th'-d. Time 1.51%.
New York, September 29.—At Brighton
Beach, the first race, for a purse of S2OO,
divided, for maiden three-year-olds, three
quarters of a mile, Medusa won. Tim
Flaherty second, Kite third. Time 1:32.
The second -ace, for a purse of S2OO,
divided, one mile, Little Dan won, Wake
field second, Perplex third. Time 1:50.
The third race, for a purse of S2OO, di
vided, for two-year-olds, seven-eighths of
a mile, Harry Mann won, Caramel second,
Lena third. Time 1:37%.
The fourth race, for a purse of $250, di
vided; one mile, Ida B. won, George McCul
loch second, Mamie Fields third. Time 1:48.
The fifth race, for a purse of $250, one
and a half miles, over six hurdles, Buster
wod, Black Crook second, Camlllus third.
McGowan fell at the fifth jump, but was re
mounted and ridden out. Time 3:01.
IMPORTANT DECISION.
The Power of the Illinois Legislature to
Regulate Rates to Points Outside the
State.
Springfield, 111., September 29.—An
opinion was rendered by toe Illinois Su
preme Court yesterday, in the case involving
the question of the power of the State Legis
lature to regulate the rates charged by rail
roads for freight carried t,o points outside of
Illinois, and whether the act prohibiting un
just discrimination iu such rates is not in
contravention of the Constitution of the
United States. The case Is one wherein a
66 per cent, larger rate was charged on a
haul from Gilman to New York than on a
haul from'.Peoria to New York, though the
distance from Peoria is greater by eighty-six
miles. It was held by the court that the
charge was unjust, excessive, extortionate
and unlawful, and In effect tbe court up
holds the authority of the Railroad and
Warehouse Commissioners to regulate
fr. !ght charges from points in an outside
Stale.
Cotton in Liverpool.
Liverpool, September 29.—This week’s
circular of the Liverpool Cotton Brokers’
Association says “Cotton has been in
moderate demand, and prices have general
ly receded. In American there was some
pressure to sell. Prices were irregular, and
are generally 11-16d. to %and. lower. There
has been small request for sea island at un
changed rates. Futures have been weak,
and with considerable pressure to Bell.
Prices declined 5 321. for September and
7 64@1-64d. for other positions.”
Failures for the Week.
New York, September 29.—The failures
for the las: seven days, reported to
R. G. Dun <& Co.’s Mercantile Agency,
number 125, of which 109 occurredln the
country and 11 In New York city. Garton,
Chapman & Cos., straw goods dealers, have
suspended. The only announcement In re
lation to their business so far published is
that preferences have been given to the
amount of 139,000.
A Republican RJected.
New York, September 29.—A New Or
leans special to the lime s says : “The Re
publican Btate Central Committee have re
jected the pretensions of Morris Macks as
the Republican nominee in the Second Con
gressional district, and sustained Henry
Demi?, the nominee of the St. John Con
vention. Macks declares he will run any
how.”
Newmarket Races.
London, September 29.—At the New
market meeting tc-day the first
October two years old stake, Astler’s black
filly Lovely bay colt Ladislas
ran dead heats for the first place. Lord Cal
thorp’s chesnut filly third. Five started,
Including LorlUard’s chestnut filiy Weno
nab.
Destructive Fire.
Emporium, Pa., September 29.—About
2:30 o’clock this morning a fire broke out in
the Democrat office at Ridgeway, Pa., which
destroyed seventeen of the principal busi
ness places, Including two printing offices,
a bank and the Hyde House. Loss f159,000;
Insurance 950,C 50.
The Case of Mr. Gray.
Dublin, September 29.— Judge Lawson
has announced that he will make a state
ment to-morrow In connection with the caie
of Mr. Gray. It is confidently asserted tnat
Gray will be released to-morrow.
For women In delicate health, no medi
cine equals Hunt’s Remedy. All female
complaints are speedily cured by Hunt’s
Remedy.
SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1882.
BASE BALL.
The Chicago League Claims the Cham
pionship Excitement in Providence
Over an Attempt to Break the Com
pact.
Chicago, September 29.—Yesterday’s vic
tory over the Buffalo club gives the Chi
cago League the championship for 1882.
The Chicago club has won fifty-four games
with one more game to play. The Provi
dence club has won fifty-one games and has
two more games to play, so that winning
both it would still be a game behind the
Chicago club. It is understood that ihe
Providence club proposes to protest the
game won by the Chieagos from the Buffa
los in Buffalo, as illegal, having been played
within Detroit and Buffalo schedule dates.
Boston, September 29.—A Herald special
from Providence says there is much excite
ment in base ball circles there over what ap
pears to be an txfObt of an attempt on the
part ot the Chicago Association to break
the compact made at the recent meeting in
Philadelphia, the existence of which was
heretofore unknown. It was rumored on
the streets last evening, and that
was the first heard of the agree-
ment here, that the possession
of the championship pennant was not to be
decided by the . esult of the games played
as per schedule, but that another series of
nine games was to be played by the Ctiicago
and Providence team, which was to settle
the question of superiority. A fourth ru
mor was afloat to the effect that this com
pact, made at Philadelphia, had been, or
was to be violated In the interests of
toe Chicago club. President Wlnship
of the Providence club, received a message
from Spaulding, representing the Chicago
association, in which he asked if it would
not be well to Ignore toe Philadelphia com
pact and settle the championship by the
present schedule, as he had been
advised that that compact was illegal,
unconstitutionr' and not binding.
Wlnship telegraphed that he should live up
to the compact and expect the other sign
ers to at ] so. He gave Spaulding until 2
o’clock yesterday afternoon to accept and
abide by the compact, when, if no answer
was received, he should make the matter
public. No answer was received. If the
compact is declared void, efforts will be
made to have the vote whereby the Buffalo
games were transferred to the Chicago dia
mond field also declared illegal.
Baltimore, September 29.—Baltimores 6,
Athletics, of Philadelpla, 12.
THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIR
GINIA.
Governor Cameron Appoints a New
Boaril of Visitors—The Old Board Re
fuse to Surrender Possession.
Richmond, September 29—Gov. Cameron
a few day 8 ago appointed anew Board of
Visitors for the Medical College of Virginia,
in this city, thereby summarily displacing
the old board. This action created much
excitement and indignation in medical cir
cles, and is being severely criticised by the
press and public. The old board, however,
upon the best legal advice, determined to
hold on. It is claimed that the Governor,
under the law, had no right to remove them;
that he could only fill vacancies, and that
no vacancies existed.
To day there was a meeting of the new
board at Ford’s Hotel,{where they proceeded
to toe Medical College to take possession.
Upon arriving there they met with resist
ance, the old board having the place
guarded by policemen, who proceeded to
take the intruders into custody.
New York, September £9.—A special dis
patch from Richmond says that Lieutenant
Governor Lewis, who is the President of the
new board, notified the pplice and faculty
that he would hold them responsible under
toe law for the indignity and illegal arrest.
YELLOW FEVER
Reports from the Southwest- Suffering
for Food.
Galveston, Texas, September 28.—A
Brownsville special says: “No new cases of
fever has been reported for the, twenty-four
hours ending at 10 o’clock this morning.
There have been one death from fever sines
that hour. Dr. Matos was taken down with
fever this afternoon. In Matamoras, in the
twenty-four hours ending at 9 a. m., three
deaths have occurred, two from fever.
Thursday there were nineteen new cases and
three deaths reported at Reynosa.
“The steamer Esturas,from Vera Cruz,has
arrived at Bagdad, bringing a number of
passengers. Dr. Combe has been telegraph
ed for from King’s rauche. It is feared they
have fever there.
“The people living in Arroyo. Colorado*
outside of the cordon, are suffering for
want of food. They cannot go to Corpus
Chrlstl or enter Brownsville. A soldier died
at Fort Brown to-day. Major Wetherill is
convalescing.”
Improving Lake Poncliartrain.
New Orleans, September 29.—A Baton
Rouge special to the Picayune says: “Act
ing on the request of the City Council of
New Orleans, Governor McEnery has ap
proved of the additional allotment of $lO,-
020 for closing Bonnet Carre crevasse. This
insures the closing of the crevasse, and will
restore clean salt water to Lake Ponchar
train, instead of muddy Mississippi water,
which has filled it for several years. The
watering places along the Mississippi Sound
will also greatly benefit by the change.”
A Fatal Runaway.
Albany, N. Y., September 29. —Assem-
blyman Asa J. Parker, Jr., was driving to
day with his wife and two other ladies,
when the team took fright and ran away,
Parker was thrown out, his lqg broken and
skull fractured. The team ran a short dis
tance further, until they ran against a tree,
throwing out the three ladies. Mrs. Lewis
Rathbone, of Albany, was killed. Mrs.
Parker and Mrs. C. H. Strong, of Savannah,
a sister-in-law of Mrs. Parker, were slightly
Injured.
The Liverpool Grain Market.
Liverpool, September 29.— The leading
weekly grain circular says: “Grain con
tiuued quiet and dull, and prices were gen
erally 1 shilling per quarter lower on spot.
Since Tuesday wheat has been in retail re
quest. Corn has been dull and lower to-day.
Wheat was rather more active, and a fair
business was done. Flour, In retail demand,
sold at unchanged rates. Corn was in small
consumptive request, and prices were 3d.
lower.”
New Y'ork Stock Market.
New York, September 29—The Post's
cotton market report 6ays: “Future de
liveries at the first call lost 7 100 c. recovered
part of the loss, but declined sgaln consid
erably. At the third call September brought
11 45a1l 48c., October 11 30all 29c., Novem
ber 11 07all C6c., December 11 06all 05c.,
January 1113 all 12c., February 11 21all 22c.,
March 1132 c., April 1144 c., May 1155 c.,
June 11 65a1l 66c.”
The Mincing Lane Market.
London, September 29.—1n MincingLane>
sugar transactions have been moderate and
rates steady. New red leaf Congou tea sells
slowly. Tne supply of India has not mate
rially decreased. Bome sorts of Indian de
clined In price. In coffee, plantation Cey
lon fias advanced ls.a2s., good colory is
getting scarce. East India and Costa Rica
are firmer. Rice Is declining and prices fiat.
Another Strike Ended.
Wheeling, W. Va., September 29.—The
all-rail manufacturers hare signed a scale,
and by Monday all the iron mills in this dis
trict will be in full operation. This settles
the long strike of four months, and the
workmen and all concerned are consequent
ly jubilant.
Damaged Cargo Sold.
Halifax, N. 8., September 29. —The dam
aged portion of the cargo of wheat on the
steamer Antwerpla, from New Orleans for
Hull, which put Into Sydney, C. 8., In dis
tress two weeks ago, hss been sold at auc
tion, realizing 60 cents per bushel.
Unable to Agree.
Philadelphia, September 29. —The jury
in the star route prosecution reported this
morning that they have been unable to agree
upon a verdict.
All Suspects Released.
Dublin, September 29.—A1l suspects in
custody have oeen released in view of the
term of the expiration to-morrow of the co
ercion act.
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are ground with scientific accuracy. They
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ENGLAND AND EGYPT.
The Recent Explosion to be Investigat
ed—Supposed Incendiarism—Troops to
be Retained in Egypt—Arrival of
Wounded at Portsmouth.
London, September £9.—The government
has telegraphed to Cairo ordering that au
Investigation be made into the cause of the
explosion which occurred there yesterday
and that the result of the inquiry be
promptly reported.
The transport Carthage has arrived at
Portsmouth with 11 officers and 101 men
wounded at Tel el Kebir on board. Five
others who had been wounded died on the
voyage.
The 7 irnss, in a leader, says: “It has
been decided to retain, for the present,
12,000 men in Egypt to carry on and con
solidate the work for which the suppression
of Arab! Pasha does little more than clear
the way.”
Cairo, September 29.— The authorities
consider that the country generally te eo
rapidly turning to Its normal condition that
a future display of force is unnecessary.
The explosion at the railway station yes
terday cofirn-vi <■’ hrri* ir.tc’i-vals for over
three houi ; v .. efforts of toe
military, although they were hampered by
the lack of pumping gear, the ire was pre
vented from aud anally gotten
under control. The passenger station was
saved, but all the freight sheds
containing ten days’ provisions for toe
army, and about ten hundred trucks of am
munition, were destroyed. It is reported
on good authority that five men were
killed and twenty wounded. The railway
officers express the belief that the fire was
of incendiary origin. They noticed that the
trucks on two separate lines of
track blazed up simultaneously. Sutse
quent to the first explosion two Arabs
were seized in the act of firing tiucks, but
escaped. The fire began among the ammu
nition captured from the Egyptians. Some
accounts attribute the explosion to an ac
cidental blow on a percussion shell
while the mllitaiy, at the request
of the railway authorities, were
reiOviDg the ammunition, wbich
had been stored in the railway shed for some
days. It appccs clear, however, that the
Arabs endeavored to spread, if they did not
cause the fire. The traffic of the railway
will not suffer 6erious interruption. Troops
patroled the streets last night. The loss in
stores and ammunition is estimated at £15.-
03.
THE KEWANEE BANK KOHBERY.
The Last of the Thieves Arrested by De
tective Pinkerton.
New York, September 29.—A Chicago
special says: “Fat J. Dunkle, of Des
Moines, lowa, formerly travelling salesman
for Wanamaker, of Philadelphia, the myste
rious fourth and last of the Kewanee Bank
robbers, has just been captured on toe
plains near Battle Mount, Montana, by
Detective Pinkerton, and $1,500 In
cash was recovered. He is the short,
thick-set man who so ciuejly maltreated
Miss Palmer, the assistant to Cashier
Pratt. His share of the plunder was $2,000.
Dunkle is 25 years old, and lived in Des
Moines, lowa, where his father for many
years was a merchant, and occupied emi
nent social positions. Young Dunkle was
highly esteemed and never before known
to be engaged in any questionable busi
ness.”
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.
Henry Edward Knight, Alderman, of
Crippiegate ward, has been elected Lord
Mayor of London.
An international conference will meet In
Paris on October 16th to discuss the protec
tion of submarine cables.
The Manchester Guardian ot yesterday,
in its commercial article, says: “Business
has been small and without improvement
and prices were steady.”
The German Government intends to de
vote its attention to the execution of a
project for the construction of a canal con
necting the North sea with the Baltic.
Mayor Sinclair, of Morgan City, La., who
is in Washington, says Morgan City only
escaped a recurrence of the fever epidemic
through the enforcement of strict quaran
tine against Texas ports.
James Elliott, toe pugilist, has been ar
rested in New York, and committed in
default of SI,OOO bail, on the charge of hav
ing made au agreement to meet “Tug”
Wilson in the prize ring.
Tbe floods in the Tyrol have reduced
hundreds of wealthy land owners to
poverty. The laboring class is in terrible
distress and the approach of winter greatly
aggravates the situation.
William R. Burke, twenty-three years of
age, died in Brooklyn, Wednesday night, of
lockjaw, caused by a wound in the hand,
from the explosion of the cap of a gun
which he was examining.
The Secretary of the Navy has received
the following cable message from Minister
Hunt, at St. Petersburg: “Gilder has ar
rived here, accompanied by Henry Wilson,
of the Jeannette. Both well.”
The addition of the names of John Kelly
and Augustus Schell, of Tammany Hall,
and Col. M. C. Murphy, of Irving Hall,
completes the representation of New York
city on the New York Democratic State
Committee.
Rev. Mr. McClenihein, pastor of the Uni
ted Presbyterian Church, of Avondale, Co
shocton county, Ohio, was savagely beaten
with a club by Robert Hood, one of the
elders of the church, because of a quarrel
growing out of a church trial.
A dummy car used for carrying passengers
across the International bridge at Toronto
ran into an open draw yesterday and fell
into Niagara river. The engineer and one
passenger were killed. The conductor and
two passengers were badly injured.
A watchman named Carroll,while on duty
at the United States arsenal at San Antonio,
Texas, was assailed by an employe named
Panley, who used vile epithets and pointed
a double barreled shot gun in a threatening
manner. Carroll drew a revolver and fired
two shots at Panley, mortally wounding
him.
It was discovered Tuesday that a ton of
arsenic had been carried by the floods from
Crump’s label factory in Montclair, N. J.,
and had flowed into Second river. Second
river empries, however, below the water
works of Jersey City and Newark, and at
the rapid rate at which toe river is running
it is thought the arsenic was swept out into
the bay and thence into the sea before the
tide could turn.
A sensation has been created in Troy, N.
Y.,by the discovery that K C. Frost and
George P. Frye, highly respectable young
men, have been committing a series of
burglaries. Twelve hundred dollars’ worth
of stolen property was found in Frye’s
house. He has not vet been arrested, but
Frost is in custody. Frost, who was a mem
ber of the Methodist Church, robbed his
own pastor’s house.
The New York Sun says that many of toe
hairs on the head of Andrew Van Emburgh
have turned gray since Saturday night, all
of which he passed with his wife on the
porch of his house at Hoboken, N. J., while
the pouring flood made every timber trem
ble and shut off all possibility of escape.
“I would no’,” he says, “go through the
ordeal of those dark hours, with death star
ing us in the face, again for ten square miles
of this country.”
Weather Indications,
Office Chief Signal Observer, Wash
ington, D. C., September 29.—Indications
for Satruday:
In the South Atlantic States, partly cloudy
weather, local rain in the southern portion,
easterly winds, barometer; or
higher temperature.
In the Middle Atlantic States, fair
weather, northerly winds, and stationary or
higher barometer and temperature.
In the East Gulf States, partly cloudy
weather with local rains, southerly winds,
and stationary or higher barometer and tem
perature.
In the West Gulf States, fair weather,
southerly winds, and stationary or higher
barometer and temperature.
In the Ohio valley and Tennessee, partly
cloudy |weather with local rains, southerly
winds becoming variable, and stationary or
higher barometer and temperature.
Sentenced to be Hanged.
Dublin, September 29.—Walsh,a younger
brother of Walsh who was hanged recently
In Galway, has been found guilty as acces
sory to the same murder for which the
elder brother suffered death, and has also
been sentenced to hang on October 28.
When sentence was pronounced Walsh be
came greatly excited and cried out that jus
tice would yet overtake his false accusers.
Or rich and poor, if you’re not won,
To brush your teeth with Sozodont,
You’ll one day suffer deep remorse,
For soon they’ll crumble In decay,
And soon you’ll cry, “Oh, lack-a day,
That J had never changed my coarse.”
A NEW YORK SWELL.
The Last Importation with Quizzing
Glass, l ntauned Shoes and Green
Trousers.
-Veto Tork Letter to TV askington Star.
The society man of the present day in
New York usually inspires a sentiment of
sympathy or pity in the heart of the casual
observer, so very uncomfortable does he
look in trying to be stylish. A man of fash
ion some years ago, wnen loose garments
were the tning to wear, presented an easv
and breezy appearance, but now he cannot
be 6tylish without being uncomfort ible.
The terms sre synonymous. Inis was
brought forcibly to my mind to-day by the
anpee ranee of the son of a wealthy
Vail street banker. I don’t suppose
he would care if his name was pub
lished, as he is used * i seeing it
in all the si :le!y papers, and Is the acknowl
edged leader of the more exclusive society
men of New York, but I won’t give it this
time. His brother, who is in Washington
during the session of Congress, never
achieved distinction as a society man, or In
any other way indeed, except In fighting a
former Secretary of Stale. Nor was his
father ever much of a society man. He,
however, lives for nothing else. He has
just returned from England with an entirely
new and absolutely correct wardrobe, and
has already bee-un to evh’lrit !t. He iu shou,
but fairly well formed, and he constantly
wears the single glsss, while his accent
f Monishes Americans—and Englishmen, too,
I fear. When I saw him he was coming
around the corner of T wenty-eighth street
Into Fifth avenue, and fhe windows
of the swell little Knickerbocker
Club were alive with weak-look-
Ing faces, convulsively holding the single
eyeglass, and qazing eagerly at the latest
Imported clothes. The young man (he Is
about thirty) did not walk easily. He had
on a pair of dead black shoes, with untanned
leather tops. They were decorated by fancy
stripes along toe sides of the foot and over
the toe, and were so absu-dly narrow that
they looked like deformed feet, and
rendered the movements of the young man
far from graceful, though he struggled hard
to preserve appearances. His legs were
covered by a pair of trousers that were
simply amazing, so tight were they cut. It'
would almost be impossible to sit down
without splitting them across the knee, as
far as can be judged from appearances.
They were as tight as eel skin all the way
down, fitting around the ankles as snugly as
a stocking. This remarkable expose of a
man’s developments is cot advisable when
his legs are not up to tbe standard. The
trousers in question were a very light green
with dark stripes. Above them was a vest
that stretched from the chin to a line just
even with the hip bones, and was cut straight
across. The vest was of light material and
looked odd, It was so extremely short. The
cutaway coat was bottle green, and fitted
like a jersey. It was indeed a trial of the
tailor’s art in one sense, but it is far too
tight to be becoming. The sleeves were
nearly as tight as the trousers, and the coat
tails were very long, hanging as far down
behind as the knee. He wore a collar that
lapped over in front, and was cer
tainly higher than any other collar
I ever saw in America. It forced his
chin up in the air, and caused the
sunlight to scintillate on his single glass.
Around the neck was a green scarf with a
hound’s head in diamonds for a pin. Above
it all was one of the huge English Derby
hats with a great curling brim and heavy
crown. He wore yellow gloves, and carried
a stick with a twisted handle by its lower
end, so that the handle dropped nearly to
his feet. The vacant stare completed the
eff“Ct, and he limped along while the others
envied him! This is no ideal sketch, but a
faithful picture of a leading society man in
New York in the year of our Lord 1882.
Post Office Abuses In South Carolina.
Charleston News and Courier.
In the article on Jay Gould’s effort to
“corrupt American journalism the News and
Courier suggested some reasons why it
would be especially injurious to the South
for the United States Government to have
control of toe telegraph service, as it now
has of the mails. We said: “Herein the
South to-day Democrats do not venture to
place important communications in the post
offices managed by stalwart Postmasters,
when there Is any mark on toe envel
ope or anything In the address to
Indicate the nature of the con
tents. In South Carolina It certainly Is
not safe to Intrust political communications
to the mails when sure and prompt delivery
is requisite. It is not unusual for respect
able citizens to be obliged to change their
post office and s?nd several miles for the
letters which should be delivered at their
very doors, because they .know the Post
masters near them to be ignorant or unwor
thy of confidence.” The New York Herald
republishes the remarks ot the Hews and
Courier with the following comments:
“This is so grave a charge that our Southern
contemporary could hardly have made it un
less insanely suspicious or able to prove its
correctness. If the statement is true it indi
cates lower depths of meanness in machine
politicians than have yet been charged at the
North, and if the facts are as stated the blame
all lies with machine managers at the national
capital. Postmasters are not appointed in
South Carolina on thejlndorsement of Senators
and Representatives from the State, for all of
these gentlemen happen to be Demo
crats, and as such have nothing to do
with the filling of government offices
in the State. Assistant Postmaster General
Hatton, who is npw, we believe, charged with
the duty of saving the Union so far as it can be
done by changing Postmasters, should compel
the News and Courier to prove its statements
and give names of guilty officials, for although
most South Carolinians who avail themselves
of postal facilities are Democrats they are not
at all likely to ever see the superior virtues of
the party of moral ideas while they are unable
to intrust their letters to Republican Post
masters ”
We assure our contemporary that there
will be no difficulty in proving the correct
ness of the charges we have made, if the
investigation be conducted with zeal and a
desire to get at the truth. We have kno Pl
edge of the fact that Democratic organiza
tions in this State habitually direct their
officers to use plain envelopes for communi
cations to be sent through toe malls, In order
that the nature of their contents may not
be susoected by persons in the postal ser
vice. We know, likewise, that where politi
cal circulars are ordered to be sent to the
Democratic organizations in different coun
ties the rule is to dispatch the circulars
in small quantities, at diff-rent times, so
that the bulk and number shall not arrest
attention and invite danger in the malls.
We ourselves receive, from time to time,
political documents by the Southern Ex
press Company from points in the Interior,
because the senders fear that the packages
will be tampered with If sent by mail. We
have received letters from different parts of
the State within the last two or three weeks
in which we are requested to forward
political communications by the Southern
Express Company, and * not by mail,
if the communications are important.
We know of an Important political paper
which was duly mailed for a point not fifty
miles away, and never reached its destina
tion. After several weeks had eiapsed in
quiry was made about it, and the paper,
stripped of Its wrapper, was returned to the
sender without explanation. We know also
that summonses to attend political meetings
which were mailed simultaneously to the
members of political committees residing
within a mile or two of each other have
varied from one to three days in
the time of their delivery, and fre
quently have not reached the persons to
whom they were addressed until after the
meeting designated iu the circular had been
held. Only a few weeks ago a case was re
ported to us where citizens had been con
strained to change their post office and send
several miles for their letters, because of
the character and situation of the Post
master. All this Is no news In South Caro
lina. We have become so accustomed to it
that it is surpriring to us that anybody
should be surprised at it.
The people of South Carolina are accus
tomed to eee the post office In this State
managed for the benefit of the Republican
part? without reference to the wishes or
convenience of the public. This has been
the practice ever since 1868. Up to the
time when South Carolina fell into the
bands of the Republicans, there had been
but two Postmasters at Charleston from
the establishment of the independence of the
United States. The first Postmaster was
appointed by George Washington, and the
second Postmaster, Mr. Alfred Huger, held
the office until after the war ended,
when he was removed and succeeded b?
Mr. Trott, a Republican appointee. In
olden times there was absolute petmanancy
In the government service In this State, but
the Republicans hare changed all that. The
offices are the prizes of politicians and the
rewards for political services. There are
exceptions, of course, In the upper part of
the State, but in the middle and lower
counties the rule Is to fill the post offices
with euperservlceable Radicals without
regard to character or capability. The public
convent nee and the sanctity of private
correspondence are ignored In the move
ments of the leaders here, and of che stal
warts at Washington. From the Poet Office
Department, therefore, we can expect no
relief. Assistant Postmaster General Hat
ton has publicly announced that he intends
to remove every Postmaster In the South
who Is not In sympathy with the admistra
tton—that is, ever? one who is not ready for
any dirty work that may be demanded of
hint m the interest of President Arthur's
renomination two years hence, and the like.
The effect of the circular was seen at the
meeting of the State Republican Conven
tion, at Columbia, two or three weeks
ago. Postmasters who had for
years applied themselves diligently to
the business of their offices, and
hsd let politics alone, were found among the
delegates, and were eagei to do the blading
of the managers. The white men in the
convention were, nearly without exception,
persons in the government service, and
and most of these wee Postmasters or
officers in the Internal Revenue Depart
ment. A number of changes in the man
agement of the poet offices have been made
during the lrit six months, and we assure
the Htro'i that if it will examine them it
will find that, in every instance, toe change
has been from gc >d * > bad, or from bad to
worse, and that toe only object was to re
ward some needy and equaßy unscrupulous
hanger on of the Radical thieves and dema
go aee in South Carolina.
rihe Hcro'i will not be surprised that toe
perpetual ir itation caused by the prostitu
tion of Federal offices tet political purposes
in South Carolina causes the white people
to look with bitter aversion upon the Re
publican party which is responsible for these
abuses. Jnst as thejilllteracy and the preju
dices of the negro population degrade toe
suffrage, ro toe debasement of the public
offices brings toe government, in Its present
hands, info contempt The incapacity
and pa. isanship in Federal offices to
South Carolina are in proportion to the
ignorance of the colored voters and
toe rapacity and the un6 upulousness of
their leaders. There is more stupidity and
illiteracy in the Republican party in South
Carolina than there is In any other State in
toe Union, and in like propoition the ad
ministration of public offices is more ineffi
cient, more one-sided, and more repugnant
to the public Interest. The Herald can get
at the whole truth if it will send a member
of its staff to Investigate the charges we
have made, and it will find, too, that toe
News and Court.r has merely touched the
surface of a grievous sore.
A DUEL IN THE DARK.
A Thrilling Romance from a Texas Min
ing Camp—How a Ventriloquist’s Art
Served Him In a Crisis.
Dallas Special to St. Louis Republicar.
The Er nitij Titr :& publishes a letter from
Carrizo Pass, f. 3 miles west of Dallas, giv
ing an account ot a hostile meeting between
two mineu in the Pecos Miffing Company’s
camp, twenty miles north of the Mexican
border, l?n Monday night. The duelists
were George Hollenbeck and Wm. Stratton,
both New Yorkers, bou and teared near
Pelmyra; they wele of rich descent of the
efly Hollanders. They were educated at
Cambridge; the former graduated as a law
yer and the latter as a physician. They
came out of college about the same time of
Lincoln’s first cr’l for volunteers to suppress
the Southern rebellion. They enlisted
an went through the war,
se ng to Colonel Gordon’s One Hun
drfe and Forty-fourth New York regiment.
A' Re close of the wa" they returned home,
but finding professional pursuits too tame
for them they concluded to go West. Be
fore they left home a difficulty arose be
tween them which was prevented from
ending In bloodshed by toe interposition of
mutual friends. Before they had a chance
to meet again Stratton sought out his for
tvne in the far West. He wandered to Ce'i
fornia where he went to work as a miner.
Hollenbeck went in the same direction, but
stopped at Colorado, where he also b came
a miner. They never heard of each other
after this. They have since followed the
business of mining, but have never become
as rich as they at first expected. A few days
ago they met in the Pecos Mining camp
and recognized ea?h other. The school
and social polish had been rubbed
off by tbe trial and hardships Incident to life
in the mining camps. Hollenbeck was over
joyed to meet Stratton, who repelled him
and said they would settle that little unfin
ished difficulty which arose between them
at their last meeting. Hollenbeck said he
had forgotten all about the difficulty referred
to, and entertained no ill-feelings whatever
against him. Stratton insisted on a settle
ment according to the code. Hollen
beck said if nothing short of that
would do he would accommodate
him. Accordingly airangements were
consummated for a duel. They were
to fight with pistols In a dark room. Each
was to announce ready, after which a third
party was to count three, when thev were to
fire. The room was as dark as Egypt. They
went into It and announced ready from ap
poslte corners. “One, two, three,” and
Stratton fired. Stratton fired a second
shot, but the only response from Hol
lenbeck was a groan. Stratton, be
lieving he had wounded Hollenbeck,
fired a third shot in the direction
of the groaning. The report of a pistol
came from a corner directly opposite from
where toe groan appeared to proceed from,
and Stratton fell. No more shots being ex
changed, the miners opened the room and
entered. A light revealed the fact that
Stratton had been killed, while Hollenbeck
was unhurt. Hollenbeck is a ventriloquist,
and on entering the room took his stand in a
diagonal corner from his adversary, and to
make him believe he was In the opposite
corner threw his voice In that quarter of the
room, where the bullets from his adversary’s
pistol harmlessly burled themselves In the
wall. It had been so long since they bad
seen each other that Hollenbeck’s ventrilo
quism had entirely escaped the memory of
Stratton. The affair has caused a great deal
of excitement through tbe camp, but as any
thing is called fair in such business, no fault
is found by the miners with the strategy
employed by Hollenbeck.
The Mails at the South.
Baltimore Sun.
That the mail service is in a very demora -
(zed condition In some parts of the South
we have reason to know, have so asserted,
and have published facts In proof of it!
That Southern Maryland is also badly reived
we have been often assured from complaints
that have reached us from that quarter.
But South Carolina *s in a much worse way
If it be true, as stated by the Charleston
News and Courier, that the stalwart Post
masters of that Btate cannot be trusted It
says:
“Here in the South to-day Democrats do
not venture to place important communica
tions in the post offices managed by stal
wart postmasters when there la any markon
the envelope or anything in the address to
indicate the nature of the contents. In
South Carolina It certainly is not safe to in
trust political communications to the mails
when sure and prompt delivery is requisite.
It is not unusual for respectable citizens to
be obliged to change their post office and
send several miles for the letters which
should be delivered at their very doors, be
cause they know the postmasters near them
to be ignorant or unworthy of confidence ”
If these charges are true, It is incumbent
upon our Charleston contemporary to lay
before the Post Office Department the facts
on which they are based. That the mails
are badly handled at the South we have
been aware from our own observation and
experience, and especially la parts of Vir
ginia, where Gen Mahone’s influence has
been exerted. But if letters and newt
papers were so alow of dellv* ry as some
times to take three days In going three hun
dred miles to post offices directly on the
line of toe railroads over which the malls
were carried, they did finally reach their
destlnatlo . Tr.c a ,uto Carolina complaint
is of a different kind. It charges suppres
sion of D mocratlc communications, and It
ought to be made known whether the gov
erment sanctions it.
A Wholesale Poisoner Arrested.
Philadelphia, September 29—W. G,
Whitaker, living in the suburbs of this city,
was arrested to day charged with putting
arsenic in a pail of water, from which tea
was made for his femily. His wife and six
children and one boarder are sick. Some of
them are not expected to live.
Shoe Factories to Close.
Biddeford, Mb , September 29.—The
shoe manufacturers of tnis city and Saco
have decided to close their factories as soon
as the work now on hand is disposed of
Three factories have discharged their cut
ters. Tney have chosen this course rather
than sutmlt to the demands of the striking
workmen. 6
The coldest place on the earth is not, as
has hitherto been believed by meteorolo
gists, Takdtsk, in Siberia, but Verkoyansk
‘ n J h ® uT reK,OD ' W l * ln sixty-seven and
Yana iu e |owt north latltude - on >e river
is fort. ? “ ean wlnter temperature
is forty eight and six tenths degrees below
the c K old of
the corresponding pole in
uunH o * te i cf? t 0 the northward of the Parr?
no t and tn . e u ine j° lQln k these two places
wWh ? tP K M 8 , throa K n the north pole Itself,
iTni Cls th “’ 111 411 probability, outside the
I" 1 ® of greatest cold. On the other hand,
the greatest heat ln the tropics Is not at the
eqaator, but some distance north and south.
Mushroom Catsup.—Throw salt on
them and set them by a slow fire; then
strain the liquor; add garlic, shalots,
pepper, mace, ginger and cloves to taste;
boil slowly, skim well; bottle and cork
tightly; in two months boil again, adding
a little spioe and stiek of horseradish.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
THE LUMBER INTEREST.
Savannah Lumber merchants Be
fore the Rallroaa Commission.
The Railroad Commission • had a meeting
at Atlanta on Wednesday to consider certain
complaints lodged by the lumbermen, and
to hear the railroad representatives in the
matter of the reduction of lumber rates on
the Central and the Macon and Brunswick
division of the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia Railroad. The lumbermen were
represented by L. Johnson, George Haslam,
D. C. Bacon, T. B. Thompson, A. G. Smart,
E H. Bacon, Mills Perkins, E. R. Carr, J. 8.
Bells, F. P. Allen and John G. Rountree.
The railroads were represented by W. G.
Raoul, Vice President, and G. A. White
head, General Freight Agent of the Central
Railroad, W. V. McCracken, Superintend
ent, J. R. Ogden, General Freight Agent,
and J. J. Griffin, Assistant Freight Agent of
the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
Road; Wallace McPherson, General South
ern Agent of the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad.
The complaint of the lumbermen was that
the reduced price of lumber and the de
creased demand, together with the low
rates of freight which the Savannah, Florida
and Western Railroad had put In force,were
such that their mills would have to cease or
a reduced rate would have to be given them.
They complained that several mills on the
Central had already stopped, and that the
owners were still feeding their mules; that
the Commissioners’ rates which were gtven
in 18£0 were higher than the rates hereto
fore charged by the railroads. But as the
price of lumber was then from sl6 to $lB
per thousand, they did not complain. Now,
however, lumber was only sll 50 to sl3;
whereas In 1579 it was worth sl2 to sl4, and
the rates then were much lower than the
present rates allowed by the Commission.
They also complained that the Savannah,
Florida and Western Railroad mills were
getting all the trade, as the rates were very
little more than one-half of the Commis
sioners’ rates. The railroad men stated that
the Savannah, Florida and Western Railroad
had merely put these rates Into effect in
July to last until November Ist, when
the Commissioners’ rates would be re
instated. A considerable discussion was
held by both sides. Major McCracken
stated that since his railroad had been com
pleted to Atlanta from Macon he had re
duced the rates on lumber five dollars per
car to Atlanta, and that their rates from all
other stations would be, so soon as the road
was completed to Rome, very much lower
In proportion than any printed rates of any
railroad that he knew of In America, being
for four hundred miles only three-fourths of
a cent per ton per mile, and that If the
present rates were continued In force on
short hauls they expected to put these lum
ber rates Into force over the Norfolk and
Western, East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia, Memphis and Charleston and
Shenandoah Valley Railroads, and thus give
lumbermen In Southeast Georgia an outlet
as far north as Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,
New York and other points. He contended
that
TO REDUCE THE BHORT HAULS
on his railroad was ruinous to them because
It forced their lumber to go to Jesup and
there be turned over to the Savannah,
Florida and Western, thus cutting them out
of a back haul of a long distance. The
Commissioners requested the railroad men
and the lumbermen, if possible, to agree
upon some rates which would be satisfac
tory to both sides In order that they might
go Into effect at once. If the commissioners
had to Issue a circular it would require
thirty days under the law before the new
rates could take effect. After considerable
discussion, Capt. Raoul agreed to take the
Commissioners’ standard rates for lumber—
class P—for all distances on the Central
Road and Its leased lines and branches and
deduct 20 per cent, therefrom, thus making
a continuous rate for lumber between all the
points on the roads controlled by him and
the mills on his road at 20 per cent, less
than the maximum rates allowed by the
Commission. After a consultation this offer
was accepted by the Commissioners. The
rmmlsston adjourned at 7:15 p. m. The
lumbermen were expected to have a con
sultation with Maj. McCracken subse
quently. The new rates on the Central are
to take effect on the Ist of October as spe-
C'al rates.
The amount of lumber manufactured in
Southeast Georgia ji, astonishing. Below
are given shipments for some of the mills
on the Central: Jarrett & Bro., 30 cars per
month; Power, Cooper & Cos., 30 cars; J.
Kline, 50 cars; Perkins <S Bro., 50 care;
Btuart & Bro., 50 cars; Donavan & Perkins,
75 care; R. N. Donavan, 50 care; I. N. Colly,
25 cars; Rountree Garbutt, 50 cars; Wadley
& Cos., 50 cars; making a total of 460 cars
a6 the average per month. On the Macon
and Brunswick the shipments were as fol
lows: J. I. Colcord, 130 care; A. B. Steele
& Cos., 76 care; L. Johnson & Cos., 200 cars;
C. W. Pike & Cos., 175 cars; Haslam &
Hawkins, 175 cars ;J. J. McDonough, 375
care; or 1,130 cars per month. The ship
ments over the Savannah, Florida & West
ern are as much as the shipments on both
these lines. Tne shipments given are made
by the gentlemen who were before the Com
mission yesterday. In addition there are
heavy shipments of saw logs. In fact, the
lumber Interests of Southeast Georgia are
far larger than Is generally supposed—At
lanta Constitution.
Don’t Die In tlte Honee,
“Rough on Rats.” Clean out rata, nice,
roaches, bed-bugs, lies, aut% uaolM, ufcip
'!i iinka, Hetoa*u. Ms.
stwts, <gt c.
POCKET KNIVES.
TABLE KNIVES.
CARVERS.
SCISSORS.
RAZORS.
Silver Plated Ware.
Cooking Stoves.
Cooking Stoves.
Cooking Stoves.
AN endless variety of sizes, styles and pat
terns at low prices. Sole agent for the
celebrated “FARMER GIRL” STOVE.
MACK HOPKINS,
167 BROUGHTON STREET.
Zivtt ablator.
fcReGOL/mijy
keep the liver In healthy action.
CONSTIPATION
Should not be regarded as a trifling ailment.
Nature demands the utmost regularity of the
bowels. Therefore assist nature by taking
Simmons Liver Regulator ; it is so mild ana
effectual.
BILIOUSNESS.
One or two tableepoonfuls will relieve all the
troubles incident to bilious state, such as Nau
sea, Dizziness, Drowsiness, distress after eat
ing, a bitter, bad taste in tbe mouth.
DYSPEPSIA.
The Regulator will positively cure this dread
ful disease. We assert emphatically what we
know to be true.
COLIC.
Children suffering with colic soon experience
relief when Simmons Liver Regulator la ad
ministered.
Th. Regulator restores the enfeebled diges
tion and enriches the impoverished blood.
HTT*ke only the genuine, which always
has on the wrapper the red Z Trade Mark and
signature of J. H. ZEI LIN & CO
FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS,
mrni&mi
OiREI'iTrMC* t
MRS. K. POWER
BEGS TO ANNOUNCE THAT ON
Thursday, September 28,
She will open to the inspection of the public
the most complete
AND ONLY EXCLUSIVE
-LINE OF
CHILDREN’S GOODS!
Ever exhibited in Savannah, selected person
ally during her recent visit to New
Yoric, comprising all the
Latest Stitches and Patterns-
Also, a full line of
MILLINERy !
MRS. K. POWER,
168 Broughton St, Savannah, Ga.
CtaiOotSale
I ['ROM this day. in order to make room for a
1 large and varied stock of Fall and Winter
Goods, the following inducements will be of
fered
For 20 Days Only.
3-button KID GLOVES for 25c , formerly $1 00.
3-button KID GLOVES for 35c., formerly $1 35.
4-button KID GLOVES for 50c.. formerly *2 00,
but good.
5-hook KID CLOVES for 75c., formerly $2 00.
7-hook KID GLOVES for $1 00, formerly $2 25.
Special sale in CHILDREN’S HOSIERY, in
all sizes and colors, for one-half of the regular
price.
LADIES’, GENTS’ aud CHILDREN’S HAND
KERCHIEFS for less than the wholesale price.
CORSETS. RIBBONS. FINE IMPORTED
FEATHERS, FLOWERS, SILKS, etc.
A few pieces of that fine FRENCH BUNTING
left will be closed out cheap. This Is a special
inducement. Ladies, call and secure the first
bargains.
H. C. HOUSTON,
149 BROUGHTON BTREET.
Cotton Sartors.
W. W. GORDON. HKNRY BRIGHAM.
V. D. BLCODWORTH.
W. W. Gordon A Cos.
COTTON FACTORS
-AND-
Commission Merchants,
112 Bay Street, Savannah, Ga.
LIBERAL ADVANCES ON CONSIGNMENTS
OF COTTON. .
JOHN FLANNERY. JOHN L JOHNSON.
JOHN FLANNERY & CO.
COTTON FACTORS
—AND—
Commission Merchants,
SAVANNAH, OA.
BAGGING AND IRON TIES FOR SALE AT
LOWEST MARKET KATEB. PROMPT AT
TENTION GIVEN TO ALL BUSINESS EN
TRUSTED TO ÜB. LIBERAL CASH AD
VANCES MADE ON CONSIGNMENTS.
.. -
T. W. ESTES. A. O. M’ALPIN. FRANK C Q ARM ANY
ESTES, Hem HO,
COTTON FACTORS
—AND—
Commission Merchants,
108 BAY NTUEKT,
SavannaH, Qa.
WEsT^KOs!!
Cotton Factors
-AND—
Commission Merchants.
L'm™*®™ 4 ’"'” 0N °°''-
gSSH attention- mven to all
Iron ttortsT
Ptanii iron fork
WM. KEHOE & CO.,
Manufacturers of
Castings
OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS.
Sugar Mills and Pans
A BPECLALTY.
'T’HESE Mills are of the best material and
A workmanship, with heavy wrought iron
shafts, and rollers of the best charcoal pig iron,
all turned up true. They are strong and dura
ble, run light and even, and are all guaranteed
capable of grinding the heaviest, fully ma
tured cane. All our Mills are fully WARRAN
TED FOB ONE YEAR.
Our Pans being cast with the bottoms down,
possess smoothness, durability and uniformity
of thickness Having ntißurpassed facilities.
WE GUARANTEE OUR PRICE - to be as low
as any offered.
SAVANNAH ....(iEOKUIA
N. B.—The name PHCENIX IRON WORKS is
cast on all our Mills and Pans.
McDoaoQg.il OaliaiiS
MACHINISTS,
IRON FOUNDERS,
Bailer Makers & Blacksmiths.
VERTICAL and TOP-RUNNER CORN MILLS.
Ii'NGINES and BOILERS for sale and mad
-J to order. GIN and MILL GEARING. i*U
GAR MILLS and PANB.
SAVANNAH, - - GEORGIA
JUST RECEIVED
LAMPS,
CHIMMES,
BURNERS,
Grardon Seeds.
INO R sale at reasonable prices. Always on
V hand, a full line of Drugs and Median g
the beet that can be had. Prescriptions caie
fully compounded.
DAVID PORTER
Corner Broughton and Habersham streets.
CEMENT. ~
2,000 Bbls, Rosendale Of meat
FOR SALE BY
C. L. GILBERT & UP.
NBSTLE’S
swiss condensed MILL
M ANUFACTURED only at Vevey, Switzer
ITA land, we guarantee to be the nchent and
purest ln the market, and free from aduitera
Uon of any kind. If you wish the beat be sum
to ask for the “NEST” breed aud take no
Other. For sale by ah grocers and druggists.
THOMASILEEMING A CO., Bote Agent*,
i8 College Place, „
NICK HEAD
ACHE.
i For the relief and
of this distress
ing affliction take
Simmons Uver Reg
ulator.
MALARIA.
Persons may avoid
kali attack* by occa
sionally taking a
dose o' Simmons
Liver Regulator to