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ESTABLISHED 1850.
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
The (Gubernatorial Delegates of Effing
ham and Lowndes—A Strange Wild
Heaat on the Rampage at Marietta—
Kailroad Rumblings—A Terrific Hur
ricane at Dalton.
OEOROIA.
At a meeting of the citizens of Effingham
county, held on last Saturday, 3lst ult., the
(o)lowiug named gentlemen were selected as
delegates to the convention soon to be held in
Atlanta for the purpose of nominating a
candidate for Governor, namely: E. Bird
and Dr. R. G. Norton. Alternates, A. F.
Kahn and Maj. O. E. Smith. These delegates
an* uninstructed.
The deaths in Augusta last week aggregated
only nine.
At a Democratic mass meeting held at Val
dosta Saturday the delegates to the Guberna
torial Convention were instructed to cast the
vote of Ix>wude* county for Governor Boyn
it.n. .
B. B. Williams, of Oglethorpe county, who
shot a negro near Winterville recently, has
been bound over in a bond of |l,ouo, charged
with assault with intent to murder.
Athens is economizing tlfty dollars worth
per month by reducing its police force one
man.
As no one can longer be found who is will
ing to devote his services free of charge, Ath
ens is waking up to the advisability of living
a salary and appointing a city physiriau.
Captain Henry Wells estimates that it will
cost about $40,000 to get the railroad from
Athens to .lug Tavern ready for the iron.
Dr. Hardeman, of Harmony Grove, recently
made the rare discovery of a rabbit aillicled
with a tape worm.
Martin O’Bryan, night clerk of the Sergeant
House at Rome, fell from the balcony in front
of H. 11. Smith's cotton office Saturday after
noon, sustaining serious injuries. His collar
boue was broken, and fears of internal inju
ries are felt.
Last Wednesday night a beast which has
been infesting the suburbs of Marietta went
into the heart of the city aud made general
havoc. In Mrs. Mansfield’s yard it killed tjio
watch dog, a fine setter. From the marks of
the teetli on the neck and head of the dog it
looked as if the beast had seized it from
behind, and hail broken its neek witli one
snap of its jaws. Four or five different |>er
sons were out hunting the night following,
but none of them saw or heard anything of it.
The price of gas at Athens has been reduced
to $3 50.
The young ladies at the Athens Lucy Cobb
will give a grand entertainment to the Press
Convention in May.
Over two thousand pounds of public docu
ments were delivered from the Athens |s>-t
office on Friday.
The town of Butler was visited by a storm
hi* rive o'clock Saturday. A colored church
aan many trees and fences were blown down.
V colored horse thief confined in the Deca
tur jail house purposely set fire to the straw
in Ins cell Friday night. Beyond nearly suf
focating some of the prisoners and creating a
little excitement nothing serious resulted.
A negro child, on the place of Henry Hanes,
near West Point, fell from a chair and broke
its neck.
West Point is agitating the prohibition quea-
tion.
Extensive preparations arc Iteing made by
Atlanta lodges for the celebration of the sixtv-
M\th anniversary of American tdd Fellow
ship. It oceurs on the 261 hof April.
The resorts generally, of North Georgia,
will soou lie open for x isitors.
Atlanta is to have an immense -hoe factory.
A Boston firm obtained all the data for their
information through Mr. 11. Williams, and
have, upon his report, determined to estab
lish a shoe factory . They will move the ma
chinery and labor from' Boston. They will
work one hundred hands.
Atlanta will soon have an official railway
guide with time table and fares to all leading
point*. K. D. Mann is to get it up.
The regular meetings of the Georgia Rail
road Commission are hel l on the Tuesday
after the fourth Monday in each month, hut
there are frequently special meetings to hear
and determine claims for ami against some of
the lines in the State.
A general change of schedule on the Ala
bama division of cue East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia Railroad took place yesterday.
The Augusta, K|l>erton and Chicago Rail
road is progressing favorably. Tlie surveying
cor is- has very nearly completed the survey of
the entire line, and the work of grading will
soon lie actively under way. The road will
be a feeder to the Augusta stud Knoxville.
The Austell Refrigerator Car Company, an
Atlanta enterprise, will have to build a num
ber of new cars to meet the demands, of the
coining fruit season. The success of -licit
companies Sms been remarkable. The Tiffany
Company, operating from Chicago and Cin
cinnati, started with very fexv cars. It now
lias eight hundred, and recently ordered one
hundred more for the coming summer bttsi-
Tiie bridge for the Coosa river, which Hie
Georgia Pacific will reach during the next
month, in its constant push beyond Anniston,
is to tie one of the liest of iron bridges. It is
to lie made by the Buffalo Bridge Works, and
most of it is now complete. Major Temple,
the Chief Engineer of the road, will send an
agent for the bridge in a day or two. It will
lie put into place over the Coosa before the
end of August. Construction front Birming
ham toward the river will begin in June.
Southern general freight agents are trying
to get more freight cars with the adjustable
tracks to do the spring and summer business
between the South and the West. The gauge
changes from 4 feet s l inches to 5 feet after
the Ohio river is crossed. The new schedule
on the Georgia Pacific gives another compet
ing line from Atlanta to Montgomery. Mobile
and New Orleans. Through rates will be put
•mat once to these (mints, and tlie trains at
Anniston make close connections with through
Pullman sleepers to all the points named.
A heavy rain set in at Dalton Satuniay
morning about daylight, soon followed by it
heavy wind storm, doing considerable damage
to property in the city. The heaviest loss was
sustained bv the Dalton .Steam Mill and Gin
ning Company. Their building was demolished
and the machinery and engine damaged to
some extent. D. B . Eovenian'e dry goods em
porium was bereft of its tin rooting, allowing
torrents of water to pour in on the goods,
though not doing any great damage. The win
dows and roof of Cowry's market house were
blown off. The Gordon street foot bridge,
across the railroad tracks, was stripped of its
railing and palings. A. Bohlander, black
smith. had his shop blown down upon him.
painfully bruising him. Tile Colon and Metho
dist Church was considerably damaged, as
were also three or four small houses, several
store fronts were scattered on tlie sidewalk,
street lamps, signs, fences, trees, etc., were
prostrated, and windows and window glass
were destroyed. No lives were lost, but con
siderable excitement prevailed for a -hurt
tune, as the storm happened just aliotit the
tune everybody was rising. There was con
siderable joss to pmperty holders iu the city
oti fencing and outhouses. It was the most
severe storm felt at Dalton iu several years.
FLORIDA.
The City Council of Gainesville is asked to
charter a street railway comi>any.
The f*le of the Tallahassee ami St. Marks
Railroad has iieen postponed to May 22d next.
Ex -Governor Drew has made a final trans
fer of all his Ellaville property to I-ouis ltueki
and received the consideration therefor —
s7±,noO. Mr. Bueki will locate at Ellaville.
Peter Cone, late Sheriff of Nassau county,
died at his residence in Conesville on the 2Sth
ultimo.
Madison is bound to have anew hotel.
William K. Howell died at his resilience,
five miles from Madison, a week ago Saturday.
The natives are outgrowing their antipathy
to the Lake City Street Railway.
Lake City's exports last year reached $575,-
nuO, not including lumber.
Columbia county has never been visited by
an epidemic. .
A meeting of the citizens of I.ake City,
called for Friday of this week, has for its ob
ject fix' opening of the city schools.
V hugi* alligator, judged to lie about sixty
vears old wk* seen in Lake DeSota Wednes
day morning. He was the flrst *' en in the
lake in several years. . Whence he eaine is a
mvstery
• in the 1-ake City markets eggs and poultry
are in good ilemand. Gooil beef is very
scarce, and five cents per pound is offered for
cabbage.
The site of the former wild orange grove at
>range Pond is now under cultivation.
Lake City asks the Common Council to post
up the names of its streets on the corners.
The Colombia County Light Infantry will
celebrate-its fourth anniversary in June next.
Mrs. W. E. Reynolds, of Orlando, was the
victim of a negro outrage on Saturday week.
The perpetrator, at last accounts, had not
been captured.
Friday afternoon as thesteamer.il. T. Bay a
and John Sylvester were coming down the
river from Palatka to Jacksonville, the latter
ran into and damaged the former to the ex
tent of S2SO. The steamers' crews have long
been made inimical by the rivalry existing
between the craft* and each Captain is em
phatic in blaming the other.
Fernamlina is impatient tor the commence
ment of a railroad to the beach. A company
is atreadv organized.
General Gordon has begun to build the
southern Railroad to Key West. It will not
be completed this year.
< apt. H. H. Weathmdord ami A. W. Clarke
are among the recent dead at Cedar Key.
Chleken thieve* are numerous in Altoona.
Thera ware 870 arrivals by rail in Jackson
ville Friday.
The Governor has written a letter to M. C.
■ _ t •• " - . ssgaHjffgapg
We Sitraiimih, 3Eormni|' JJam
Jordan, a Justice of the Peace in and for Du
val county, requesting his immediate resigna
tion.
The Sanford water works are reported far
advanced toward completion. Already the
engine ha* been fired up and the tanks filled
with water. Some necessary fixtures are
awaited.
Rev. O. H . Ransom, a prominent superan
nuated preacher of the Florida Conference.
Methodist Episcopal Church South, died at his
home at Apopka, on Monday last.of consump
tion.
Rt. Rev. Bishop Moore, of St. Augustine,
arrived in Tallahassee on Thursday morning,
and celebrated High Mass at the Catholic
( hurch there on Sunday.
It is reported that a whale between seventy
and eighty feet long went ashore on the north
beach, near the St. John's bar, a few days
ago.
A one-horse farmer of Columbia county,
seven years ago commenced operations with
lus one horse, with an indebtedness of over
ILSOO hanging over him. He is to-day free of
debr, with ample money.on hand anil over a
year's provisions to sustain his family.
Anew steamer is to be put on between Jack
sonville. Key West and Havana. She will lie
built during the coming summer. She is to lie
built of iron, will lie 260 feet in length by ;so>
feet beam and 8 feet between decks. She wilt
lie supplied with great power, and will have
accommodations for lou first-class and 40 sec
ond-class passengers, and constructed upon a
model to draw only ten feet when loadeiE
Jacksonville is to lie provided xvith letter
carriers, and boxes will be placed in conveni
ent places for the reception of mailable mat
ter.
A capitalist conlemplates.the establishment
of a large bucket anil broom factory ou the
island near the railroad bridge at Chatta
hoochee.
A steamship line between Jacksonville and
New York, to run in connection with the Flor
ida Central and Western and the Pensacola
and Atlantic Railroads, is being talked of.
Key Cargo, noted for its fine pineapples and
the large yields of this fruit, is rapidlv im
proving, aud has now quite a flourishing set
tlement.
In the future there will lie a daily mail from
l’ensacola to Jacksonville and Fernandina.
The Halifax Journal says “Doc” Hardsell,
on Saturday last, shot a blue heron measuring
•i feet 10 inches from tip to tip of its xvings, and
standing 5 feet 9 inches high.
The Tribun* savs a whale about fifty feet
long was seen in the East Pass of the Apala
chicola Bay last xveek. Undoubtedly lie had
come south on account of tlie severe weather
in the Arctic.
An artesian well is lieing 1 mred in the pub
lic square at Gainesville.
The Florida Southern now runs a fruit and
vegetable train to Ocala from l’alatka on
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
Eggs are selling for 30 cents a dozen in
Braidentown.
Three hundred and twenty-five crates of
vegetables, embracing tomatoes, snap beans,
squashes and cucumbers, were shipped from
Braidentown last weeß.
Apalachicola continues to grow in popula
tion. Every steamer brings crowds of people.
There is not a house to he rented.
John A. \V hitney. late editor and proprietor
of the Fernandina Erpret, died in that city
last week.
Anew Catholic church, with a ground floor
l.Vi by 82 feet, and a seating qapacitv of 1,300
lM>ple, existing $30,000. is to be built fit Pensa
cola.
On the first inst. J. A. Erickson retired
from tlie proprietorship of the Prevatt House,
and will leave Cedar Key for a period of some
months. This step is occasioned by tltedeli
rate state of his wife's health. He has dis
puted of his effects to Mrs. Belle Murphy, a
cultured and affable laxly, who has had ex'pe
riettce in conducting a boarding house.
The orange receipts in Jacksonville for the
Past week have been as follows: Post line. 473
mixes: Do Bary line, 700 l>oxx*s; Independent
linx*, 450 1 sixes. Total, 1,625 boxes.
The total number of visitors arriving at
Jacksonville last week was 1,649.
The first Florida encumbers solxl iu New
York for $1 30.
Mr. s. J. Revel has been appointed a Count v
Commissioner for Liberty county.
The liquor dealers of Jacksonville and the
State have arranged to test the constitution
ality of the new local option law.
only one more span on the Apalachicola
bridge remains to lie finished. Its completion
xx ill make the consummation of the Chatta
hoochee Railroad extension enterprise.
1 JOTTINGS FROM DARIEN.
Gleanings from the Fieltls ami in tlie
Town.
Dariex, March 31.—The Atlantics have
been practicing up recently. They make
a pretty picture on the green sward at
the lower end of Broad street, anti people
really enjoy watching the game. It is
their intention to beat the Altamahas
next time.
Our fire engine, SUsby No. 5, is said to
lie the finest piece of the kind South, and
the agent has obtained the Commission
ers' consent to stop over in Savannah and
challenge any engine to equal the “Rufus
K. Lester,” of Darien. The honorable
Mayor w ill thus have tin opportunity to
review anti interview his namesake.
By the way. Savannah had better give
us a lift with that railroad of ours before
Brunswick outs her out. That road will
lie built. Darien herself may not get
much of the loaf, but she wili ilo some
careful fishing when the time comes,
especially as her neighbors seem so
chary of their bait.
Any one who can walk with a quiet
mind from St. Andrew’s Church straight
down to “Cat Heatl,” glancing across the
gleaming river, with its play of purple
and gold lights, to the rich brown of the
rice fields beyond, bordered and dotted
with groups of and trees, here and there
congregated mills and dwellings on the
one side, on the other the large yards and
gardens planted with ornamental and
fruit trees, surrounding neat and often
pretty dwellings, with great squares of
grass' between the blocks,and all under the
sheltering arms of our (tear old live oaks,
and delilterately say he “hates Darien”
ought at once to leave her and never
return. We want capital, and xvould like
jteople of energy and capital to come iu
and open up other avenues of industry
that now lie closed for the want of them.
Timber, turpentine and rice being already
open, can Ik* kept going; but mills for
manufacturing palmetto papef, lathing
machines, .shingle making of the lasting
cypress, moss drying, and such things.
Of the latter, Mr. tl. A. Ravenel has been
making trial on a small scale for a year
or two very successfully. More machinery
and more capital would make the labor
less and the profit more. Wonder if this
elastic fibre could not lie woven and a
kind of carpeting made of it? Palmetto
ought to make a matting equal to
any if woven on strong chain, and
such quantities are to lie had for the cut
ting. Peaches are aliout the size of
shelled almonds and pretty abundant.
Mr. James Walker has large’ beds of green
{teasin bloom. His garden is always worth
looking down up literally, for it lies in a
basin about twelve or titteen feet below
the bluff along which the street runs.
For some days our iKistofiice door has
worn a hood of mourning for the Post
master General.
The Debating Club last week discussed
the question “Is Deception ever Justifia
ble?” The affirmative, we regret to say,
got the upper hand. In publishing the
next question for xlebate in the Gazette
the club shows an interest in itself and
a desire to interest others not before
manifested. It is a good move.
On the Ridge, Mr. J. A. Foster, of the
Hilton Timber and Lumber Company, is
atlding a wind mill tower to his already
handsome villa, to l>e used in pumping
the water from the tank placed in the
second story to the apartments and to the
kitchen—pipes running from the tank to
these.
If the Gazette or the Gazette's head is
going to leave us, we have not heard it of
ficially,* and you know no other report is
received as final.
Six clearances during the week show a
little more animation in titnlier matters.
“Black Maria,” as Mr. Ingram’s rather
suspicious looking Rixlge hack is called,
has proved such a success as it conveni
ence that we confidently look for a “White
Mary Ann” to be added to the line this
summer.
The court house square is nicely dug
up, and now for those handsome groups
of foliage to mingle with the green I pro
posed last spring, and flowers, fountains,
swings and benches, aud a guitar swung
to a troubador by moonlight struck. Da
rien going down? Not a bit; only settling.
6 H. S. B.
THOMAS COUNTY.
Delegates to the Gubernatorial Conven
tion —Pushing Kail road Surveys.
Thomasville, March 31.—At a mass
meeting held to-day the following dele
gates ami alternates w ere elected to repre
sent this county in the Gubernatorial
Convention! Delegates—A. P. Wright, A.
C. Stephenson, Wm. Stegall and 11. W.
Hopkins; alternates—Jno. H. Coyle, S.
G. McLendon, Dr. M. R. Mallette and A.
T. Mclntyre, Jr.
Resolutions were adopted presenting
the name of Col. A. T. Mclntyre as a can
didate tor Governor. The ' Times this
morning, in a leading editorial, strongly
urges the claims of South Georgia, and
in highest terms Colonel Mc-
Intvre. Nex’t to Mclntyre, the delegates
are jiiost likely for Crawford.
The engineer corps of theT., T. & G. R.
R. are in the field, and are pushing their
surveys quite rapidly. ***
A dressing to beautify gray hair every
family needs. Parser’s Jlair Balsam never
falls to satisfy.
DEATH THRICE DODGED.
THE RARE GOOD FORTUNE OF
A MISSOURI MURDERER.
How ltis Life was Saved by the Supreme
Court—Savannah Held to Its Bond—
Howe's Successor Not to Be Named
Soon—An Unusually Interesting Wash
ington Grist.
A\ ASHIXGTOX, April 2.—A decision was
rendered bv the United States Supreme
Court to-day in tlie interesting criminal
case of C'hartes F. Kring, plaintiff in
error, against the State of Missouri,
brought there upon a writ of error from
the Supreme Court of that State.
Kring, the plaintiff' in error, on
January -4, 1875, shot and killed a
woman named Dora Broesers. At the
March term of the St. Louis Criminal
Court in the same year he was indicted
lor murder in the first degree, tried, and
found guilty and sentenced to be hanged.
Upon an appeal the judgment of the
Criminal Court was reversed, and anew
trial ordered. Two more trials followed,
in both of which the jury failed to agree.
Upon the fourth trial the prisoner made
an arrangement with the State’s Attorney
to plead guilty to murder in the second
tlegree upon condition that his
sentence should lie imprisonment for
a (icriod of not longer than,
ten years. Under this plea, however, he
was sentenced to imprisonment for twen
ty-five years, lit* again appealed aiicUthe
judgment of the lower courts was reversed
by the Supreme Court, and the cause was
a second time remanded. Upon his next
trial the prisoner refused to withdraw
his plea of guilty of murder
iu the second degree or tit make anv other
plea, whereupon the court ordered a plea
of not guilty to lie entered for him, and
he was again tried for murder in the first
degree, found guilty, und sentenced to
death. He appealed successtvelv to
the Court of Appeals and to
the Supreme Court of the Statx*.
In both of these tribunals the judgment
and sentence of the court below were af
firmed. Sentence was then ordered to lie
executed February 24, 1882, but before
that time Judge Miller, of the Supreme
Court, granted a writ of error and the
case was brought here for a final review.
Under the constitution and laws of
Missouri in force at the time the offence
was commuted and the indictment found
tlie prisoner could not be tried for murder
in the first degree after he had been con
victed of, or pleaded guilty to murder in
the second degree, but under the consti
tution of 1875 as construed by the Su
preme Court of Missouri one indicted
for murder in the first degree and con
victed or sentenced on a plea of guilty of
murder in the second degree may lie
again tried tor murder in the first degree
in case of an appeal and reversal. It
was contended in all the courts by the
prisoner’s counsel that a section of
the State constitution of 1875 adopted sub
sequent to the time the offense was cont
inued, and subsequent to the finding of
the indictment, could not be applied to
the prisoner's case: that it changed the
punishment; that it was an ejr post facto
law, and as such repugnant to
the Constitution of the United
States. Justice Miller, in a long
and carefully written opinion,
rendered the decision of this court, which
may Ik* briefly summed up as follows:
“Aveareof the opinion that any law passed
after the commission of an offense which,
I in relation to that offense, or its con
sequences. alters the situations of the
party to his disadvantage, is an ex
post faeto law. No one can be
criminally punished in this country ex
cept according to the law prescribed for
his government by the sovereign authori
ty liefore the imputed offense was eom
j mitted, and which existed as the law at
tlie time. The provision of the eonstitu
| tion of Missouri which denies to
! the plaintiff' in error the
; benefit which the previous law gave him
of acquittal of the cltaige of murder in the
first degree on conviction of murder in the
! second degree is, as to his case, an ex post
facto law within the meaning of the Con
stitution of the United States, and for the
error of the Supreme Court of Missouri in
holdingotherwise, its judgment is reversed
and the case remanded to it with direc
tions to reverse tin* judgment of tin*
Criminal Court of St. Louis, and for such
further proceedings as arc not inconsist
ent with this opinion.”
Chief Justice Waite and Justices Brad
ley. Gray and Matthews dissented.
This decision, rendered by a bare ma
jority of one, finally relieves tlie prisoner
from the sentence of death, which hits
been hanging over him for the past seven
years.
SAVANNAH HELD TO ITS BOND.
A decision was also rendered in the
bond case of the Mayor and Aldermen of
the city of Savannah, Ga., against Eugene
Kelly, which was a suit to enforce the
guarantee of the city endorsed upon a
series of bonds of the Savannah,
Albany and Gulf Railroad issued in
1559. The court held that the act
of the State Legislature of 1838
authorized the guarantee made by the
city of Savannah upon the bonds of the
railroad company and that it constitutes
a valid and subsisting liability. Tlie
judgment of the Circuit Court is therefore
affirmed. Tht? Chief Justice announced
to the bar this afternoon that tin* United
States Supreme Court would discontinue
hearing of arguments April 27th, and
would adjourn lor the term May 7.
A DECISION REVERSED.
A decision was also rendered by the
court in the tax case of the Memphis and
Charleston Railroad Company against the
United States. It was brought here upon
writ of error from the United States Cir
cuit Court for the Western District of
Tennessee.- This was a suit instituted by
the United States to recover taxes
alleged to be due from the
company under the revenue
acts of 1862. 1864 and
1866, on account of interest coupons
and dividends paid between July 1, 1862,
and January i, 1888. This court holds,
first, that it was not a valid defense of the
company to show that its income during
the time specified came from
property which was within Confederate
territory. The property, although within
the Confederate lines, belonged to the
company, and tlie income derived front its
use was’actually paid out by the company
in dividends to its stockholders and to
discharge the corporate debts for interest,
and was therefore liable to the tax. It
would have been proper for the court be
low to direct a verdict for the United
States which was given in this branch of
the case.
Second. Where it appears, as in the
second branch of this case, that at the
end of the civil war, during xvhich the in
terest has fallen in arrears and the earn
ings have been substantially suspended,
tlie company in reorganizing its affairs
for future business either funds its past
due chupons in anew issue of bonds or
pays thx-iii from the proceeds of the sales
of new bonds. Such facts constitute a
complete offset to a suit for the recovery
of the tax charged on such payment of
interest.
Third. The compromise made between
the United States and the company in
1876 was, as shown by the papers in evi
dence, confined to the claims ot the Unit
ed States for taxes and penalties grow
ing out of the interest which matured be
tween May, 1866. and July, 1869. The
judgment of the Circuit Court is reversed
and the cause remanded for such further
proceedings, not inconsistent with the
opinion of this court as justice may re
quire. The opinion is by Chief Justice
Waite.
ANOTHER RAILROAD CASE.
A decision was also delivered to-day in
another case affecting this same railroad,
viz; the Memphis and Charleston Rail
road Company, against the State of Ala
bama for use of Jackson county. This
was an action brought by the State in one
of its courts against the railroad com
pany, whose road passed through
its limits, to recover the amount of
the countv tax assessed upon the road's
property. The question raised here is
whether the suit was removable from
the State to the Federal courts on the
ground that the railroad was a corpora
tion of Tennessee. This court holds that
the Memphis and Charleston Railroad
Company is made by the statutes of Ala
bama an Alabama corporation, and
although previously incorporated in Ten
nessee, it cannot remove into the Circuit
Courts of the United States a suit brought
against it in Alabama by citizens of Ala
bama. The decree of the Circuit Court is
therefore affirmed. The opinion is by
J ustice Gray.
THE VACANT POSTMASTER SHIP.
The opinion of the Attorney General on
the subject of the President's powers in
regard to filling the vacancy in the Post
Office Department is in effect that the
President can make one temporary desig
nation for ten days onlv, but the Attorney
General further" holds, however, that
the First Assistant Postmaster General
can lawfully act as Postmaster General
for ten days without such designation.
Bv this construction of the law the Presi
dent is allowed twenty day* from the date
SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1883.
of the creation of the vacancy within
which to make the appointment.
The opinion is withheld from publica
tion. It is stated at the Executive Man
sion, however, that it coincides with and
is in effect the same as that rendered by
Attorney General Devens in a case where
there was a vacancy in the office of Secre
tary of the Navy.
The President will probably leave this
city on Wednesday morning next for Flor
ida. and it is statext at the AVhite House
that no appointment will be made until
after his return.
THE BIG COUNT.
The examination of the cash in
the Treasury is progressing satis
factorily. There are sixty persons,
including female counters, engaged
in this work under the supervision of the
general committee. The different divis
ions of the office are in charge of sub
committees detailed from other branches
of the Treasury Department. The count
so far lias shown a deficit of five cents in
one bag of silver and an excess ot six
cents in the accounts of the interest
teller. It is supposed that this discrep
ancy will lie explained as the count pro
gresses. The cash is being counted twice,
the first lime by the committee and
again by representatives of the Treas
urer. It will require two or three
weeks to complete the examination.
THE PUBLIC DEBT.
The debt statement issued to-xlav shows
the decrease of the public debt during the
month of March to be $9k,344,826 27; cash
in the Treasury. $.115,034,983 hi; gold oer
tifioates, |74,98!>,720; .silver certificates,
$•1,625,331; certificates of deposit out
standing, $9,715,000; refunding certifi
cates, $384,450; legal tenders outstanding,
$346,681,010: fractional currency outstand
ing, $7,010,578 81.
ROLLING UP THEIR SLEEVES.
Treasurer Wyman and Assistant Treas
urer Graves formally entered upon their
duties this morning.
BUND AND FORGETFUL.
The Decrepit Star Boater Witness Still
on the Stand.
Washington, April 2.— The first star
route trial lasted fifteen weeks. The
eighteenth week of tlie second trial
began this morning, and the end still ap
pears to be a long way off. Ex-Senator
S. W. Dorsey again took the stand, but
his memory was again at fault upon
nearly every point of inquiry. Ilis an
swers were generally that while he did
not recollect lie was not prepared to say
that the facts were not as suggested by
the inquiries.
Mr. Merrick demanded a return to his
notice lor the production of the letter
press copy books.
Col. Ingersoll said that they had no
books containing letters of the’date de
scribed.
Col. Bliss thought that the answer
should be made under oath.
The court ruled against the prosecution.
The xvitness said that he had had his
letter books examined, but had not found
a letter to John Dorsey under date of De
cember 9, but that the book was mutilated
at that place and in other places. The
same questions were put in regard to
the Hosier letter of May 13, 1879. " Objec
tion was made by Colonel Ingersoll. who
availed of tlie opportunity to explain his
theory that Mr. Rerdell had gone
through the copy books and taken
from them every letter that could l>e of
any possible use to the defendants and
given them to tlie government in part con
sideration of its protection. The other
letter he had forged and manufactured.
Now his client purposed standing upon his
legal rights and accepting anv
consequences that might laffail
him from any inferences
caused by this conduct rather than bring
the books into court and let inferences lie
drawn that might touch other people.
The counsel could rest assured that they
would see none of them, not one, no mat
ter if it contained on lx - poetry about
spring. Tlie witness stated that an ex*
animation of the hooks revealed the fact
that pages had been torn out.
Mr. Merrick inquired if the witness had
examined the index to ascertain if the
letter books had ever contained the letters
described.
Colonel lugersoll objected, blit the ques
tion was allowed, and the witness answer
ed that he had not asked the question of
Colonel Love,who had examined the books.
Colonel Ingersoll positively refused to
produce the index, and the witness added
that he was not sure that it existed. In
the course of the examination Mr.
Dorsey said that it was a mis
take to suppose that the profits ot
these mail routes were large. In some
eases they netted a loss, and on one
Nevada route this loss was augmented by
reason of Mr. Rerdell having stolen from
Messrs. Hosier & Dorsey $4,900. The wit
ness was out short in his narrative of the
particulars of this transaction bv an ob
jection which was sustained by the court.
Mr. Dorsey was still on the stand when
tlie court adjourned.
CUT OFF AMONG THE DEAD MEN.
Another Accident at the 111-Fated Dia
mond Mine.
Chicago, April 2. —The Diamond" mine
was the scene of excitement yesterday.
The fact that the bodies discovered were
to be brought out drew a large crowd,
and when about 3 o’clock news was
brought up that the party w hich had gone
down after the bodies had been impris
oned oil the roadway while putting the
bodies in coffins, tlie excitement among
those assembled was intense, and
the wives and relatives of the
men were wild with grief. A
party was sent to search, and when this
second party had nearly reached the point
where tlie bodies had been discovered thev
found that a large quantity of stone had
caved in and blocked the narrow passage.
The men wore liberated, but one "of
them was so prostrated that lie had to be
carried home. They said when they
reached the surface that they would never
go in again. The other searchers who
have been working there also say that
they would not go down again, and" It is
thought that no further search will be
made, as no one can be found who is will
ing to go down. The bodies were taken
out about 4 o’clock and placed in the
morgue, where the crowd viewed them.
They were identified only by their clothing.
ENGLAND’S CROP PROSPECTS..
Tlie Outlook Brighter hut Trade Still
Quiet anil Unchanged
London, April 2— The Mark Lane Ex
press, in its review ot the British grain
trade during the past week, says that the
possibilities of a favorable harvest are
now very much greater than they have
been at any period since the beginning of
tlie current year. No fresh feature in the
wheat market has been reported since the
Easter holidays. The demand has been
feeble and prices tend downwards.
Foreign wheats are nominally unchanged
in prices and there is but a scanty de
mand. Flour continues in liberal supply.
Maize is cheapening. Barley is quie't.
Oats are dull. Cargoes off the coast are
neglected. Eleven cargoes have arrived,
font.have been sold, nine have been with
drawn and eight remain. About twenty
more are due. The sales of English
wheat during the past week were 61,805
quarters at 425., against 35,379 quarters at
455. Id. during the corresponding period
last year.
A Plea for Salisbury.
London, April 2.—The Times publishes
a letter from Lord Randolph Churchill, in
which the writer makes a strong plea in
support of Lord Salisbury’s claims to the
sole leadership of the Tories. Against
him, says Lord Churchill, are directed all
the malignant efforts of envious medioc
rity. and he, partly troru an exaggerated
idea of political loyalty, is in danger of
being sacrificed to internecine jealousies
of the most useless of his former col
leagues. The present management of af
fairs by the junta has resulted in a series
of neglected chances and has been sig
nalized by cowardice and by inopportune
combativeness.
Weather Indications.
Office chief signal Observer,
Washington, D.C., April 2.—lndications
for Tuesday:
In the South Atlantic States, occasional
rain, followed by partly cloudy, slightly,
warmer weather, northerly winds, becom
ing variable, and higher barometer in the
southern portions.
Cincinnati’s Election.
Cincinnati, April 2.—At 11 o’clock to
night not a single voting precinct has
Iteen counted, showing an unusual amount
of scratching. A few unofficial returns
show gains for Mr. Sadler, the Republican
candidate for Mayor, while Mr. Shelbv,
the Republican candidate for Comptroller,
runs far ahead of his ticket.
Mrs. L. P. Summons, Wadley,Ga., says:
“Brown’s Iron Bitters cured me of weak
ness, nervous depression and low spirits.”
A LULL IX THE STORM.
IRISH AFFAIRS A TRIFLE LESS
LIVELY.
England’* Detectives *t be Made Thor
oughly Acquainted with Explosives
and their Dualities—Threatening Let
ter* Still Touring In—Mr. Parnell’s
Voice Again BaDed iu the Commons.
London, April 2.—On account of the
steady stream of letters eontainingthreats
of death and destruction of buildings
which continue to lie received by promi
nent persons and government function
aries, the previous precautions against the
execution of these threats are not only not
remitted but new ones are also being de
vised and carried out. This is particu
larly the ease in London. The gas works
are carefully guarded against surprises,
and none but known ami trusted bands
are allowed on the premises,
Mr. Parnell has received from William
Redmond, who has goae to Australia to
organize Land Leagues in that country,
a report "that he has been successful be
yond all expectation and that the pros
pects are brightened for Ireland on ac
count of his visit.
The war office has taken the question of
explosives in hand with vigor and deter
mination. Among other measures taken
for the purpose of thwarting the dvna
mite workers it has ordered that experi
ments be undertaken with it view to pre
paring an analysis ot various forms and
component parts of all substances that
are capable of being employed as explo
sives. The result of their work will be
given to the police and it is believed that
the ingenuity of the men who are now
engaged in the manufacture and use of
these diabolic contrivances will be
thwarted by this means.
The St. James Gazette, publishes an
anonymous letter which lias come into
the possession of one of its editors, and
which asserts that the Fenians are en
gaged in sending packages containing
linen infected with small-pox to persons
who are obnoxious to the Irish National
party.
Three constables from Balia, Ireland,
have gone to America in quest of Hynes
and Fahey, suspected of having mur
dered a man named Yeerick in June, 1880.
The crime created much sensation at the'
time, as it was believed to be a political
murder. The arrest of twenty-six persons
last week at Ballinrobe on a charge of Ite
:ng accomplices in the murder revived
recollections of the crime.
In tin* House of Commons this after
noon Mr. Parnell said that the report of
an interview with Mr. Kell yand himself
printed in the French papers recently was
substantially accurate. The interesting
point of this statement is that the inter
view quotes these gentleman as saying
that the British Government took the’ini
tiative in regard to the matter of
the Kilmainham treaty and that
they first made overtures to
Mr. Parnell while he was
in jail. They are also reported as saying
that tlie statement made bv Lord Carliug
ford to the effect that Mr. Parnell himself
made the first overtures was inaccurate
and untrue.
Premier Gladstone arose at the conclu
sion ot Mr. Parnell’s avowal, and indorsed
tht* correctness of Lord Carlingford’s
statement. He, however, reiterated his
refusal to appoint a committee of inquiry
into the matter.
Duimx, April 2.—The reports from
Limerick say that owing to the improved
condition of affairs in that city, the extra
force of police which has been kept up for
some time past, has been materially de
creased, this being done on the advice of
Clifford Lloyd, the Magistrate at Limerick.
DULL GAMES OF BILIiLYRPS.
An Uninteresting Day at the Chicago
Tournament.
Chicago, April 2.—The billiard game
between Morris and Wallace this after
noon was devoid of interest, as Wallace
did no fine playing. Morris ran away
front him, and won easily. Morris scored
GOO, averaged 10 30-57, and his highest run
was 89. Wallace scored 356, averaged
6 20-56. and his highest run was 35.
To-night’s game between Vignaux and
Sexton drew a very large audience, in
cluding many ladies. Sexton’s strong play
in his game with Schaefer boomed his
stock and he was freelv backed at 40
against 100. In the mailt be failed to jus
tify the estimate, for he opened the game
very weakly, so that in the 4th inning the
call was Vignaux 223 and Sexton 33.
In the 6th Vignaux had 302 and
Sexton 33. Vignaux showed him
no mercy, but from the very first shot went
lor big results and got them. The result
was to smother Sexton so that for the first
fourteen innings he averaged less than
5 against an average of over 30 by the
Frenchman. The call at the close of tlie
fourteenth inning showed Vignaut 442
and Sexton 66. With a rapidly executed
run of 90 in his fifteenth inning Vignaux
brought Ids score up to .338, Sexton hav
ing but 67. A miscue in the sixteenth in
ning ended Vignaux with a run of 41. He
missed an easy cushion shot in the
seventeenth, and in the eighteenth
halted on a very hard shot.
Indifferent play was now the rule with
Vignaux, who seemed disposed to allow
Sexton a chance to reach at least a total
of 100, but the New Yorker could not im
prove his opportunities, and in the twen
ty-first inning Vignaux put an end to Ids
misery. Vignaux scored 660, averaged
28, and his highest ran was 146. Sexton
scored 87, averaged 4 3-21, and ltis highest
run was 20.
ALL QUIET AT SAN CARLOW.
The Indians of the Agency on their Good
Behavior.
Washington, April 2. —Secretary Tel
ler to-day received from Agent AVilcox, at
San Carlos, Arizona, the following tele
gram, dated yesterday: “The Indians at
the agency were greatly excited last night
by the reported presence of one or more
Chiricahuas on the reservation. At 3
o’clock tliis morning Lieutenant Davis,
with one hundred scouts and friendly In
dians. passed up the San Carlos river
twelve miles, to the camp of Na
daski, Chief of the White Mountain
Indians, where they found a buck named
Reach, who went out with the Locos band
of tlie Chiricahuas on April 19th last.
Nadaski and Peach were brought in and
the former was tried and ordered to Camp
Thomas to be placed in irons with a re
commendation that he be sent to Dry Tor
tugas for life tor harboring renegades,
threatening to burn the agency, kill
the employes, go on the warpath with the
Chiricahuas, and for endangering the
peace of the reservation. In hopes of
obtain’ng information Peach will be held
here for three or four days. The Indians
here will see to it that lie does not escape.
All is quiet. The conduct of the Indians
last night proves their loyalty.”
San Francisco, April 2.— Advices
from Hermosillo say: “It is stated offi
cially that there is’not a single Apache
in Sonora. The last were driven across
the Arizona line Saturday. They were
about 206 strong. Gen. Crook and Gen.
Carbo have been in consultation by tele
graph for four hours. It is thought that
the Mexican troops will co-operate in
Arizona.”
MURDER IN A BARROOM.
Ail Inoffensive Citizen Brutally Killed
at Hampton, Va.
Fortress Monroe, April 2.— A brutal
murder occurred about 11 o’clock Satur
day night in the barroom of Barnes’ Hotel
at Hampton, Va. It appears that Thomas
Phillips, a quiet, inoffensive citizen, was
passing the hotel on his way home when
he was met by an old acquaintance named
Pat Joyce, who invited him in to take a
drink. Phillips refused to drink, but
accepted a cigar. While standing at
the counter of the bar. Joyce, without
any provocation whatever," deliberately
shot Phillips through the heart. After
shooting him Joyce placed the nistol in
Phillips’ pocket and fled. He was arrest
ed later and lodged in jail. Jovce was
employed as a clerk at the Natio'nal Sol
diers’ Home. Phillips leaves a wife and
four children. Fears were entertained
yesterday morning that Joyce would be
taken from jail and lynched, and an extra
guard was placed on duty at the jail last
night.
Poor Satisfaction.
Cincinnati, April 2.—The case of G.
R. Wahle against the Cincinnati Gazette
Company for $50,000 damages for libel,
terminated to-day in favor of the plaintiff,
the damages being assessed at $5. The
matter complained of was published in
the Cincinnati Gazette while Mr. Wahle
was Postmaster and had reference to his
action in refusing to forward the Gazette
through the mails on the ground of non
payment of postage.
Leo Noble, Savannah, Ga., says: “I
have been taking Brown's Iron Bitters for
blood troubles, it has greatly relieved
me.”
GONZALES ON MEXICO.
He Paints the Condition of the Country
iu Glowing Colors.
City of Mexico, April 2.—ln his mes
sage to Congress the President states that
the Guatemalan question is definitely set
tled and that Mexico enjoys peace with
all foreign powers. He will present a
draft of the commercial treaty with the
United States to the Senate for ratifica
tion when he deems that the proper time
has arrived. He considers this treaty
beneficial to both countries, but an
nounces that it has not been ratified by
the American Senate. He congratulates
Congress upon the peace prevailing
throughout the country and states that
the few disturbances that have occurred
since last September were purely local in
character and have all terminated satis
factorily. The postal reform authorized
by Congress would, he said.be introduced
very soon and he expected would
produce substantial benefits to the
country. The Treasury receipts for
the first half of the present
fiscal year were larger than those for
the same period of last year by nearly
$1,600,600. but the importation duties are
falling oil', which he explains bv saving
that when the Central and the National
railroads began the construction of their
roads they drew 'all their monev from
abroad. Since they have completed long
seetious of their lines traffic receipts
with the government subventions
have diminished their needs for
foreign money. Th * sudden introduction
of such large amounts of foreign monev
lowereddiscounts and facilitated busi
ness. Since these companies have ceased
drawing all their money from abroad,
money has become scarce and interest has
increased, consequently orders for foreign
goods have slightly decreased. He savs
that the development of all t’h'e
national industries has steadily increased,
•and he is confident that the present pros
perity will remain uninterrupted, but
recommends Congress to bo prudent and
economical. He refers with satisfaction
to the rapid advance of railroad work, es
pecially on the Central and National lines.
The work on the revision of the customs
tariff, lie says, continues, and will require
several months more. The message con
cludes by congratulating Congress and
the country on the satisfactory condition
of affairs, '
RISING INCH BY INCH.
Another Overflow Precipitated ly the
Recent Bain.
New Orleans, April 2.—The river rose
three inches yesterday, and is now only
one inch below the height attained last
year. A special to the Times-Democrat
from West Melville says: “The Atchafal
aya river is still rising and eighteen inches
more of water are expected here and
probably more in the swamps along the
line of -tlie Texas Pacific Railroad. A
considerable portion of the track
will be washed away between this
place and Baton Rouge junc
tion, a distance of fortv miles,
but when the water subsides a large
force of men will soon put the track in re
pair. The water in Fordoche Bayou is
rising an inoli daily and is now running
through the levee a mile and a half above
the railroad crossing, submerging many
small plantations. Dr. Hill’s plantation
has only 130 acres above water. Tlie
levees on the lower Fordoche are all good
with 18 inches above the water. The
Grosstete is rising but the levees are se
cure.
England's Finances.
London, April 2.—Returns for the
financial year ending March 31 are all in.
They show that the revenue of Great
Britain was £89,004,000, and the total ex
penditures were £89,086,(XX). The Times.
in commenting on these figures, says:
“We may assume that the greater part of
the additional funds w hich were voted for
prosecuting the war in Egypt were de
frayed from this total of expenditures.
The prospects of the budget tor the coming
year thus appear to be very satisfactory.”
Wrecked bv a Rock.
St. Louis, April 2.—The Iron Mountain
train, due here this morning at 6:17
o’clock, struck a rock of several tons
weight, which had rolled down on the
track at Brushberg, twenty-five miles
trom here. The engine rolled down the
bank into the river. A baggage car and
smoker were also thrown from the track.
Engineer McGovern and his fireman, wlio
jumped front the engine, were both se
riously injured. The passengers were un
hurt.
A Horror Made More Horrible.
Paris, April 2.—Later accounts of the
boiler explosion at St. Dizier yesterday
show that the number of persons killed
and injured is much larger than was at
first reported. Thirty-one persons were
killed outright, and the number injured,
it is now stated, reaches sixty-five. Many,
it is feared, are fatally hurt.'
1,0OO;OOO Francs Embezzled.
London, April 2.--A dispatch to the
Central News from Brussels reports that
a sensation was caused in financial circles
there Saturday over the discovery that M.
Vandamme, a prominent stock broker, had
embezzled the sum of 1,000,000 francs be
longing to persons who deposited money
with him. M. Vandamme was arrested
and lodged in prison.
Wedded in Infancy.
Madrid, April 2. —The marriage of
Prince Louis Ferdinand, of Bavaria, to
the Infanta Maira Della Paz was cele
brated in the chapel of the Royal Palace
to-dav w’ith the usual state ceremony.
The Patriarch of the Indies pronounced
the marriage, and the King and Queen of
Spain acted as sponsors.
Giving New Bonds for Old.
Raleigh, N. C., April 2<—State Treasu
rer Worth is preparing to exchange the
balance of the old outstanding bonds of
the State for new 4 per cents. Under a
recent act of the Legislature tlieexchange
win be made at the Bank of the Republic,
in New York, from April 10th to 13th.
Marching for a Portfolio.
Paris, April 2.—lt is believed in mili
tary circles that Gen. Uampenon, recently
commander of the fifth division of the
Third Artillery Corps, will shortly suc
ceed Gen. Thibaudin as Minister of' War.
Into tlie Jaws of Death.
Cleveland, 0., April 2.—John Leonard
and John Murphy, both of Salem, stepped
oft' of a train this morning at Alliance
Junction upon a parallel track, and were
struck by another train and killed.
A New York Highwayman Sentenced.
New York, April 2.—David Kidney,
convicted of robbing a broker’s messen
ger boy In a down town street last July,
was sentenced to State prison for 18'/,
years.
Drew 4115,000.
Ticket No. 8,564 drew the $15,000 prize
in the last monthly drawing of the Louis
iana State Lottery, and the Allentown
papers say the ticket was held by J. Allen
Schaeffer, a bookseller and a well-known
business man on Seventh street, that city,
who invested a dollar in the scheme,
thinking never to hear from it again. Mr.
Schaeffer received his first information
through the newspapers, which pub
lished the numbers winning prizes on
W ednesday.
The Item says: “This is probably the
best investment he ever made. We'have
heard of no one yet who begrudges him
the bonanza which he has suffdenlv ac
quired, only most people regret that
they are not privileged to enjoy a like for
tune. Mr. Schaeffer has persevered and
struggled in his business, frequently
against adverse circumstances, but he
kept pushing along and succeeded in
building up a prosperous trade, which,
with a little more capital, will be placed
on a very substantial basis.”
It is probable that the good luck of the
Allentown man will have the effect of
stirring up the interest in the lziuisiana
gtate Lottery already felt in this vicinity.
We frequently hear of small gains, and
these have kept alive the desire on the
part of many to invest. Such a prize as
that drawn bv Mr. Schaeffer will give a
new impetus to business. Whatever may
be the objectionable principles of a lot
tery, whatever a man wins on a Louisiana
State Lottery ticket he is as sure to get in
full as the cash on a good check on a good
bank.— Easton ( Pa.) Free Press, March
16.
Schaeffer, the book man, who made the
big hit in the Louisiana State Lotterv the
other day, got his money yesterday per
Central Express Company. It wasn’t
much of a package, the amount consisting
of three five thousand dollar bills. Mr.
Schaeffer will continue in business, and
says he will not allow his good fortune to
spoil him one bit. On the contrary, he
avows his intention never to purchase
another lottery ticket and to put all his
energies and all his fortune into the busi
ness which, thus far, he has made a great
success out of a small beginning through
hard work.— Allentown (Pa.) Chronicle
and .Vet cs, March 28.
BIG FEES AND BIG STEALS.
HOAV THE PUBLIC IS ROBBED
BY SECRETARY TELLER.
Countless Acres of the Public Donmiu
Signed Away Just to Curry Favor with
Lord Roscoe—Pleasants’ New Bond
. Not Forthcoming— A Crank on His
Travels.
AVashington, April 2.—One of the
best paying branches of the practice of
law in Washington is that which pertains
to government departments. There are
some large fees paid for the successful
management of cases before the depart
ments. It is said that Senator Conkling
recently made $5,060 by very little work.
The story goes that a certain land
jawyer here was given a case
involving a very large amount of land.
If he succeeded in convincing the
Secretary of the Interior that his clients
owned the land, aud that a patent should
be issued to them, he was to get SIB,OOO.
He tackled the case. He argued it before
the Land Office, before the Assistant Sec
retary, and finally took it to Secretary
Teller himself. At every turn he was de
feated. He could not get the land for his
clients. He saw but little hope of ever
getting that SIB,OOO. He wanted that
money—he needed it in his business, as it
were. He finally thought of Conkling.
He wrote to the ex-Senator, giving all the
details of the case, and offering him $5,000
if lie would get favorable notion from
the Secretary of the Interior. In two
days Conkling came to AVashington. He
went to see Teller. Teller was pleased to
see him. He expressed great gratification
that the ex-Senator should call on hint.
Conkling was also pleased. He was the
gladdest kind to meet Teller. They talked
pleasautly for aliout fifteeu minutes on
various topics. Then Conkling broached
tlie real object of his visit. In a short
time Teller had signed the papers giving
a decision as Conkling wanted it. Teller
doubtless thinks he has Conkling under
obligations to him now . Conkling walked
up to his hotel, stopping on the way at
the lawyer’s office, and getting a check
lor $5,000. He went back to New York
tit at evening. He took the check with
him.
Mr. Kimball, Superintendent of the Life
Saving Service said to-day that he
would send a man to Florida in a short
time on business connected with the es
tablishment of the six new life saving
stations and houses of refuge on the
coasts of that State. The man will be em
powered to acquire title to the land
which he may select as sites for the new
stations. Mr. Kimball does not appear to
be in any great hurry about the work,
though.
Pleasants has not sent back the new
bond which Commissioner Haunt directed
that he should make. As Pleasants is al
lowed to retain his office, Baum wanted a
new bond. as.the old one was found not
to be w orth much. Some Georgia people
here say that Pleasants will be unable to
give a satisfactory boud. Raunt expects
to hear front Pleasants every day on the
subject. But he has not vet heard any
thing.
By the time this reaches you the Presi
dent will very likely be near Savannah,
although he may not leave until-Tuesday.
He has changed his mind about stopping
at Savannah, so Mr. Phillips, his private
secretary, informs me. He will not get
out of the special car in which he will
travel until lie reaches Jacksonville. He
goes to recuperate and to enjov his
favorite sport, that of fishing. He will
spend ten days or two weeks in Florida.
His stamping ground will be Indian river,
where he will fish and probably camp
out. lie will be accompanied bv his pri
vate secretary and Mr. Miller, of New
York, who is a personal friend of his. He
wants to avoid publicity as much as pos
sible. This is an outline of his plans,
•They may be changed. In matters of
where he will go, when he will go, and
how long lie will stay, the President is as
uncertain as a maiden’s fancies.
There came a crank, seedy aim of red
beard, to the AVhite House to-day. He
had evidently been for years a football for
fortune. His clothes had enough holes in
them to warrant their being used as a sieve
for gravel. But he was proud, and he
w alked as if he owned four lots on every
corner in the town. He was a gentleman,
too. At least he said he was. He had
just been told by the manager of one of tlie
charitable associations that he looked like
a thief, smelt like a moonshine distillery,
and could not get anything there. He was
mad about this. It was a slur upon his
character. He could not stand it. He
was at the AVhite House to be righted.
Just as soon as he got through telling his
story they quietly fired him out. “I al
ways have my Bible with me,” he said.
“To-day I dropped into a saloon to get a
drink. I had my Bible with me and lelt
it on the bar. The President knows that
I always carry my Bible with me and am
a constant reader of it. 1 will just see
him a minute and get a certificate of that
fact from him.” Potomac.
Ruined by a Kailroad.
Toledo, 0., April 2.—The banking
house of C. 11. Coy & Cos., formerly the
Commercial National Bank, ol' this city,
to-day made an assignment. It is under
stood that the bank has made large ad
vances to the Toledo and Indianapolis
Railroad Company, of which Mr. Coy
is Treasurer, and the suspension
is due to the failure of a New
York batik to honor its drafts
as agreed. Their liabilities are $160,000
and the assets equal about the same
amount. Assurances are given that the
depositors will sutler no loss. The bank
will resume if the collections on the part
of the railway company come in ns
speedily as expected.
I Know Whereof 1 Speak,
For I have used it extensively. I regard
Parker’s Ginger Tonic a most excellent
remedy for kidney, lun“and stomach dis
orders. It invigorates without intoxi
cating. J. Francis, lieligio Philos. Jour
nal, Chicago.
Jacksonville Goes Democratic.
Jacksonville, Fla., April 2.—At the
municipal election to-day the Democrats
elected their entire ticket, which included
a Mayor, Marshal, Clerk, Collector, Asses
sor, Treasurer and a whole Aldermanie
ticket, by the largest majority ever given.
Failures in Business.
New York, April 2.— Joseph W. Fra
zier, dealer in fire arms and military
goods at No. 290 Broadway, assigned to
day, giving preferences amounting to
$77,098.
An Internal Revenue Officer Saved.
Providence, August 21, IBs2.
Editor of Boston Herald:
Dear Sir—During my term of service
in the Internal Revenue Department of
the United States, at the time my office
was in this city, I was afflicted with a
severe attack of Kidney disease, and at
times suffered intensely. I received the
medical advice of some of our best physi
cians for a long time, without being bene
fited by their prescriptions. Being dis
couraged by the failure of the doctors to
help me, and being urged to use Hunt’s
Remedy by a friend who had tested its
merits, although reluctant to try a patent
medicine, I was finally induced'to try the
Remedy, and procured two bottles of it,
and commenced taking it faithfully ac
cording to the directions.
Before I had taken it three davs the ex
cruciating pains in my back had disap
peared, and before I had used two bottles
I was entirely cured. Whenever, from
overexertion or a violent cold, the pains
in my kidneys return, a few doses of
Hunt’s Remedy quieklv effects a cure.
Before closing I beg to mention the re
markable cure of a friend of mine in New
'York city, to whom I recommended this
valuable medicine. He was suffering se
verely from an attack which was pro
nounced by his physician a decided case
of Bright’s Disease of the Kidneys. I ob
tained two bottles of Hunt’s Remedy for
him, and he commenced taking it, and be
gan to improve at once, and w'as speedily
restored to health, and he attributes the
saving of his life, under the blessing of a
mercitul Providence, to llunl’s Remedv.
Another friend of mine in New York, to
whom I recommended Hunt’s Remedy,
was suffering severely from Kidney dis
ease, and was entirely cured of it after
using this wonderful medicine onlv a
short period.
Feeling deeply grateful for the great
benefits experienced bv my friends and
myself from the use of Hunt’s Remedy, I
feel jt to be my duty, as well as a great
privilege, to furnish you this voluntary
and unsolicited statement offsets for the
information of your large number of read
ers, many of whom are undoubtedly suf
fering from this widely-spreading scourge,
and L believe that it is the best medicine
now known, and it will cure all cases of
kidney diseases that can be cured.
I shall be pleased to confer with any
one who may desire an interview regard
ing the statements herein contained
Truly yours,
Richmond Hknshaw,
99 Messer street,
GERMANY’S REICHSTAG.
A Probable Dissolution and a Signifi
cant Election.
Berlin, April 2.—The statement is
made in well informed quarters in this
city that Prince Bismarck has under con
sideration the propriety of dissolving the
Reichstag after reassembling that body
on the 3d inst. if it continues refractory on
the question of the bill providing for an
increase of military pensions.
An election for a member of the Reich
stag for Stralsund took place vester
day, and the event excites great at
tention on account of its unexpected
result. Stralsund has for the last sixteen
years returned Conservatives. The latest
returns from the voting indicate the elec
tion of the Liberal candidate by a majority
of .300 out of the unusually strong total
vote of 16,000. The result is all tlie more
significant, as the entire official organiza
tion worked in support of the Conserve-,
tive candidate. The election was rendered
necessary by the appointment of Couut
You Beltrnegendattk to the Presidency ot'
the provinces.
Don’t Step on a Rolling Stone.
That is what Captain Allen, of the Fire
Department of AYorcester did,and that was
how he hurt his ankle so badly. After the
doctor set the broken bone, Captain Allen
used Perry Davis’ Pain Killer as a
liniment. The suffering was soon over,
and the Captain was well in a short time.
Knoffvfngthe accidents tb which firemen
are constantly subject, Captain Alien ad
vises everybodv connected with a fire de
partment to keep a bottle of Pain Killer
always on hand.
Italting yotoDrv.
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CHOICE FRESH FRUIT.
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150 Boxes Florida Oranges.
200 Boxes Messina Oranges.
200 Boxes Messina Lemons.
50 Cases Valencia Lemons.
50 Barrels Fancy Apples.
100 Hacks It. I*. Virginia Peanuts.
100 Sacks B. P. N. 0. Peanuts.
100 Sacks Tennessee Peanuts.
40,000 Cocoanuts.
50 Tubs fi. E. Butter.
10 Barrels Mott’s Older.
10 Trade Barrels Older.
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John Sullivan Schley,
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RELIABLE TESTIMON Y.
Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 6, mi.
Ht<p Sitter* Cos.:
I um 74 years old, have lived 34 rears in
Philadelphia, and well known among tier
mans. l have been troubled 12 years with a
white swelling on my right foot,' aud getting
worse every year,'and very painful, and
breaking out in hot weather. I consulted sev
eral doctors, and they told nie it was incura
ble and I would have to take It with me in the
grave. Some time ago I lost my appetite, was
costive, had headache and fever; in fact, was
?. 0r : i? lc 1 s:l " * D ~lp German Democrat
that Hop Hitters was w hat 1 needed. 1 got a
bottle, took ii one week, and was as well
again as ever, and to my greatest surprise,
ng.it from the first, my swelliug went down
gradually, and I taking another bottle, got
entirely well of it. The wife of mv neighbor
had two such swellings on her legs, and three
bottles cured her. I think this is a great tri
umph for your bitters.
•John Stoll,
No. 4 Voting's Alley, aliove Willow st.
Stippshill, Ind., Nov. 13,1881.
Hear Sirs—l have read so much about Hop
Bitters and always being afflicted w ith neu
ralgia. weakness, diseased stomach, never
having much health 1 tried a couple bottles;
it has strengthened aud helped me more than
any medicine or doctor. 1 am now on my
third bottle and am thankful that it has help
ed me. I will advise all that are afflicted to
give it a trial. Lucy V ail.
Bent the World.
Rockville, Conn., March ii, 1882.
/Sop Sitter* Cos.:
1 have been takiug your Hop Bitters for
several weeks, aud they beat the world.
1.. S. Lewis, lewis’ axles machine.
Lkktoma, Pa., April, 18, 1882.
Hop Bitter^Co,
I have no! been well for three years, tried
almost every kind of patent medicines and
no less than seven doctors, one of Klralra, N.
V., noun have done me any good. I finally
tried your Hop Bitters and found them just
the thing. 1 have praised thorn so highly
there is a great number here who use them
witli great benefit and satisfaction.
Very respectfully yours, R. Hi nt.
Gentlemen—The “Hop Bitters” meet with
large sales and give general satisfaction. One
case in particular you should know of. Mr.
John 11. Green, <2B Spring Garden street,
Philadelphia, Pa., has been suffering from kid
ney affection, which superinduced rheumatism.
He tried physicians and remedies in rain. He
was obliged to take morphine to induce sleep,
bis trouble was so great. Beading vour ad
vertisement in the Christian at Horl, he w as
prevailed upon by one of his daughters to try
it. Three bottles effected a cure, and now he
is an enthusiast for “ Hop Bitters." He is one
of the oldest residents in the locality named,
and known as a gentleman of unusual probity.
Henry Totten,
072 North Tenth street, Philadelphia, l*a.
Office .Tklloway Mittal Ain Ass’n.i
Jei.loway, 0., March 18, 1882. j
Hop Bitters Manufacturing Cos.:
1 have been using your flop Bitters and find
them what you recommend them to tic for kid
ney disease, viz: superior to all others.
J. L. JII I.DEKBKAND.
Vertigo, Dizziness and Blindness.
Office Utica Morning Herald,!
Utica, February 18, ISB2. j
I have been troubled with vertigo since last
July, and have suffered greatly every night
after any considerable exertion from dizziness
and blindness. I tried two bottles of Hop
Bitters, and since then have been entirely re
lieved. Respectfully yours,
J. J. Flanigan.
Hop Bitters Cos.: June 13, 1881.
1 have been suffering live years past with
neuralgia, liver complaint, dyspepsia and
kidney complaint, and I have doctored with
fourteen different doctors, who did me no
good. At last I tried Hop Bitters, and after
used a few liottles I received a great beneflt
from them, and if 1 had used Hop Bitters
regularly I would have been well before. I
know them to he the lies! medicine in the
world for nervous diseases of all kinds.
James Counts,
Beelington, Barber County, W. Va.
Wieked for Clergymen.
“1 believe it to lie all wrong and even
wicked for clergymen or other pttblic men to
be led into giving testimonials to quack doc
tors or patent medicines, but when areally
meritorious article composed of valuable
remedies known to all. and that all physi
cians use and trust in daily, wc should freely
commend it. I therefore cheerfully and
heartily commend Hop Bitters for the good
they have done me and my friends, firmly lie
lieving they have no equal for family use. I
will not he without them.
“Rev. B. R., Washington, D. C.”
A good Baptist clergyman of Bergen, N. Y.,
a strong temperance man, suffered' with kid
ney trouble, neuralgia and dizziness almost to
blindness over two years after he was advised
that Hop Bitters would cure him, because he
wasafraidof and prejudiced against the word
“hitters. - ’ Since his cure he savs none need
fear but trust in Hop Bitters.
My wife and daughter were made healthy
by the use of Hop Bitters, and I recommend
them to mv people.— Methodist Clergyman,
Mexico, X. Y.
I had severe attacks of Gravel and Kidney
trouble. Mas unable to got any medicine or
doctor to cure me until 1 used 'Hop Bitters,
and they cured mo in a short time. —A SHstin
guished Sawyer and Temjterance Orator of
Wayne County , X. y.
Jraal^alro.
CITY SH ERIFF’S SALE.
TTNDER and by virtue of a fl. fa. issued out
U' of the City Court of Savannah, in favor
of CHARLES L. DeLAMOTTA against SU
SAN RING 111 LE, I have levied on all the
western portion of lot number thirtv-flve (85)
Washington ward and improvements, in tho
city of Savannah, being the lot upon which is
situate the frame house on Broughton street
numbered twelve, us the property of the de
fendant, and will sell said property in front of
the Court House, in the city of Savannah, on
the FIRST TUESDAY IN MAY NEXT, be
tween the legal hours of sale, to satisfy said
fl. fa.
Property pointed out by ulaintifl’s attorney.
Tenants in possession notified. Terms cash;
purchaser to pay for papers.
DAVID BAILEY.
Sheriff City Court of Savannah, Ga.
Savannah, Ga., April 2,1883.
CITY SHERIFF’S SALE.
I TNDER and by virtue of a fl. fa. issued out
U of the Honorable City Court of Savan
nah, in favor of EDWARD M. GREEN (sur
viving copartner) & CO. vs. RICHARD W.
WOODBRIDGE, I have levied upon one share
of the capital stock of the Savunnah Cotton
Exchange as the property of the defendant.
RICHARD W. WOODBRIDGE.
And will sell the same to the highest bidder
on TUESDAY, the Ist day of May, in front of
the Conn House door, in the city of Savannah,
county of Chatham, State of Georgia, between
legal hours of sale.
Property pointed out by plaintiff's attorney;
purchaser to pay for papers.
DAVID BAILEY,
Sheriff City Court of Savannah.
Savannah, April 2, 1883.
CITY SHERIFF’S SALE.
rTNDEK and by virtue of a fl. fa. issued out
of the Honorable the City Court of Savan
nah in favor of WYLLY P. JARRF.LL vs.
RICHARD W. WOODBRIDGE and RICH
ARD W. WOODBRIDGE as Administrator
of the estate of WYLLY WOODBRIDGE,
deceased, I have levied upon the following
property as the property of the estate of
WYLLY WOODBRIDGE, deceased:
The undivided one-half interest in all that
lot in the city of Savannah, county of Chat
ham and State of Georgia, known'on the map
of said city as lot number twelve (12) Warren
ward, with the improvements thereon, said
lot l>eing bounded on the north by a lane, on
the east by lot nnmbor eleven, on the sout h by
Bryan street, and on the west by Habersham
street.
And I will offer the said undivided one
half interest inai<l lot number twelve War
ren ward, as alsive ileecrilted. for sale at
public outcry to the highest bidder, before the
Court House door of Chatham county, in the
city of Savannah, on the FIRST TUESDAY
IN MAY, 1883, during the legal hours of sale,
to satisfy said li. fa.
Terms cash; purchaser paving for titles.
March 5, 1883. DAVID BAILEY,
Sheriff of the City Court of Savannah.
INSURANCE NOTICE.
rpHOSE who hold policies of the British
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informed that we are no longer agents for that
Company, and arc respectfully requested to
confer with us before renewing their policies.
We now represent the “Scottish Union and
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MINERAL WATERS.
/CONGRESS, HATHORN, BUFFALO
KJ LITIIIA. APOLLINARIS, IIUNYADI
JANOS, KAKOUZY and FKEDRK HSHALL
BITTER and BETHESDA WATER, by the
case, dozen or bottle, at
STRONG’S DRUG STORE.
“Truck Farming in the South,"
NOW FOR SALE.
Address the author, DR. A. OEMLER or
apply to
J. GARDNER, Agent (Seedsman),
Bull street.
Savannah,