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GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
thb sews op the two states
TOlil> IN PARAGRAPHS.
fJnako Bite Cured by Applying the
Flesh of a Newly Killed Chicken-
Chops Off His Little Brother’s Finger
—Two Thousand Prevented from Vot
ing In Sumter (jpuuty.
GEORGIA.
Herndon thinks of boring an artesian
well.
Albany is bound to have a high school
for boys.
J. F. Myers will soon start a paper at
Guyton, Effingham county.
There are several applicants for gov
ernment positions at Athens.
Treasurer Hardeman nas his letter
heads stamped with two keys.
Material is being placed on the ground
to build the Waynesboro bank.
The Americus Republican prints a page
of tax defaulters for the years I*B3 and
1884.
Tbere are a number of parties in Athens
who are amusing themselves raising silk
worms.
The old Liberty bell passed through At
lanta Sunday. It was available for in
spection for several hours.
A Sabbath school of about thirty mem
bers was organized at Shady Grove last
Sunday by Calvin Henderson.
Maj. Wilkins will soon tear down his
warehouse at the depot at Waynesboro.
Whether he will rebuild is not known.
Commencement exercises are now in
progress at Luoy Cobb Institute at
Athens. They will close to-morrow night
with the graduating exeroises.
The city authorities of Waynesboro
have just completed the takingof the citv
census, and the population foots up 55S
whites and 902 colored, a total of 1,460.
.lodge Hutchins hag refused to grant a
new trial in the case of Mrs. Bain against
the Athens foundry, for damages. The
case will be taken to the Supreme Court.
Gov. McDaniel fls at Dahlonega attend
ing the commencement exercises of the
North Georgia Agricultural College. W.
F. Glenn, of Dalton, will deliver the com
mencement address next Wednesday.
William Jones, formerly of Liberty
county, but lately residing in Thomas
county with his son, Dr. S. .J. Jones, died
Saturday morning. He was in his S4th
year, and leaves a wife and four children.
Kimball, Wheeler & Cos., of Atlanta,
have just closed a contract for furnishing
plans for anew court house for Ogle
thorpe county. The cost of the court
house is $20,000, and the plans are very
handsome.
Tennille correspondence News, June
15: Mrs. Isaac L. Smith departed this
life at 7 o’clock yesterday evening, aged
§3. She leaves a husband and live children
to mourn her loss. There is considerable
sickness in this vicinity.
There are over 2,000 voters in Sumter
comity who cannot take part in the com
ing election by reason of not having paid
their taxes. About three-fourths of this
number are blacks, and yet their
taxes generally do not amount to more
than sl.
Argument in the Ralston will case was
begun In the United States Court at At
lanta yesterday. Mrs. Ida Ralston seeks
to break the will. George B. Turpin, to
whose children Mr. Ralston willed the
$50,000 worth of property in question, is
the defendant.
The city assessment on the Kimball
House is $450,000, which entails a tax of
$6,750. The assessment on the Markham
llouse Is SIIO,OOO. The highest assess
ment on a private residence in Atlanta is
$40,000. which is placed on the home of
Col. John T. Grant.
On the Buena Vista Railroad, near El
lavilie, last Thursday, little Tommie, the
livo-ypar-old son of Mr. L. W. Dixon, of
that place, fell into a stock-pit which was
full of water. The little fellow would have
drowned had not his oider brother, Win
stead, gone to bis assistance and pulled
him out.
Two of Ben Matthews’ little boys, Cary
and Robert, were playing with' a little
wagon wheel at Dallas, last Wednesday.
Cary was hacking on it with a hatchet
and Robert put his hand on it to take it
iiwaV from him. when the stroke of the
hatchet cut the forefinger off of Robert’s
right, hand.
A# I’olieeman Gillam, of Rome, went
ell duty Friday night and started
info his house he was encountered
by a large dog which suddenly
made- a lunge at him. The dog
ntiseqd its mark, however, and Gillam
}!i!ld down on him with his pistol, killing
him instantly.
Mr. Jester, of Athens, carries a large
sear on bis hand that was made by a rat
tlesnake when he was a boy. Mr." Jester,
when he found he was bitten by a rattle
snake, immediately made tracks for
homo, and his brother killed a chicken
and split, it and put the wounded hand
into the quivering flesh of the chicken.
The flesh ot the fowl turned perfectly
gr< n as the poison was drawn from the
ii nd. Mr. Jester was entirely cured by
the operation.
X negro man ott Mrs. Garrard's planta
tion in Baldwin county, it is SHid, pun
ished his wife for leaving him a few days
ago and locked her up In a room of his
h mse at night. The next morning she es
caped from the house and went to Mr.
Garner’s place. Ho followed her and as
soon as he tound her commenced shooting
at her with a pistol. One ball took effect
in her arm, and, as she fell to the ground,
he became alarmed and ran off. He has
not been arrested as yet.
Dr. David Bagiev, who died last week,
was a remarkable man. For a quarter of
a century or longer he has been an
itinerant physician all through the
counties of Dooly, Worth, Colquitt,
he, rieii, Lowndes and others lying east
ward. He niHde it a rule to visit his
patients monthly, and he was very
punctual. He would require a sort of
retainer’s fee of Horn $5 to $lO, and so
touch monthly from each patient. He
dealt with old chronic ailments princi
pally. Ho was a botanist, compounded
his own drags, and many of his patients
"">uld have no other physician. He knew
c'c. v bridle path In all the great piney
V- 1-i region, ar.d was never at a loss (or
* lodging place.
In the good old days, when Americus
w:n young, they used to have sorno high
chi times. A gentleman who remembers
Uio,. day s Bays that nt such times hh
1 "lions, or any special attraction suf-
Pc cm to draw a crowd, they used to arm
t; i ms. Ives with hickory sticks and go at
J' rough-and-tumble. There was a stand
" c loud between i’nndtown (now Ella
v, Hc) and Danville. When the two par*
t‘ - chanced to meet here they were sure
pi have a regular battle, and If a Danite
''cut, to I’ondlown, or vice versa, at elec
on time they generally cleaned hint up.
<p;ei. they took the Sheriff and carried him
j 1 the woods and kept him away till the
1 cal hours ol sale were past, so as to pre
v, 'nt him sidling some lands that were
tdvorUsed to lie sold at public outcry.
Thursday evening the figure of a man
" lt!4 60011 stealthily emerging from the
""oils near the track ot the Central Bail
?! '*<•, about a mile oast of Bronwood.
1 wo white men, who hunpeninl to be near,
"'re attracted by tbe suspicious move
ments ot tlio figure, and concealing them
•"il'os watched it. The invste
rt"u figure looked up and down
ww track, and being satisfied
that be wss unobserved, picked up an
!. r ' ,n raw and laid It across the track.
I no two men rushed forward to capture
ti! *’ rut,! h. who proved too fleet for them.
, '"7 got close enough to the fugitive,
however, to Identify him as G. W. Abrams,
a negro living in the neighborhood. On
I riday morning officer Cooper, of Albany,
who happened to be in Smitbville, sue- |
ceeded in capturing the culprit, and
turned him over to the Marshall ol that
place.
About 12 o’clock Friday night a tragedy
W’as enacted in Walker county which
may result in death to one of the partici
pants. The principals to the affair are two
colored youths. It seems that the parties
were rivals to the hand and heart of a
dusky damsel, and one of them becoming
terrible jealous of the other swore ven
geauce. Both parties attended a
school exhibition Friday night at
the Chattooga Church, which is about six
miles from Lafayette, and after tbe close
of the affair th,e boys got into a quarrel.
Ihe quarrel waxed warm, and one of
them pulled out a pistol and planted it
against his antagonist. The trigger was
pulled, the ball entering under tbe
shoulder-blade of the left side, going
through the lung. The negro is in a criti
cal condition, and is not expected to live.
The would-be murderer left for parts un
known, and has not been board of siuce.
The Indians were a wise race in many
ways, and in no particular did they show
their sagacity more than in the selection
of the sites for their towns. They gen
erally selected a place where the lands
were fertile and the country abounded in
same, and if possible near a good fish
stream. They did not cut away the large
timber, but only cleared away the under
growth, and raised their crops of corn
and pumpkins under the shade of the
larger trees. These towns were always
healthy. The whites who first settled the
country always settled in the old Indian
towns. Not far from where Americus
now stands there was a large Indian
town, and one of their most trav
eled trails originally ran near where
the court house has since been
built. Near Magnolia Dell was a favorite
crossing place on Muckalee creek. They
must have enjoyed themselves in these
beautiful woods, which were well stocked
with deer and turkeys, and the streams
tilled with fish. For many years prior to
their removal there were a great many
wild bees, and although Mr. Indian hated
the bee because he was the herald of the
pale face, yet he was exceedingly fond of
the honey, and would labor assiduously
with his little tomahawk felling the
gigantic pine where the bees had laid up
their winter stores.
Speaking ol the work of the board of visi
tors at the State University at Athens Col.
I. W. Avery, the Chairman, says: “The
board found the university in a much
better condition than they did last year.
There was a higher grade of scholarship,
a greater excellence in all minor details
and a very fine senior class with a very
high average. The hoard went more
thoroughly into the matter of scholarship
and into the methods ofteaching than any
previous board had done in a long time,
and made a close and searching investi
gation into every matter connected with
the and scholarship of the in
stitution. The board questioned the fac
ulty very closely in regard to their
methods of teaching, and they became im
pressed with the fidelity and skill of the
whole faculty. The board discussed a
great many of the matters connected with
the curriculum of the universiiy, aud
found that there were deficiencies grow
ing out of the need of more money, and
that the needs were of such a nature as
should be supplied and the deficiencies
corrected. For instance, they found that
there was no chair of botany or natural
history, an absolute essential, especially
to those who are studying agriculture.
They found that the supplemental farm,
while it is very finely conducted, needs
more money In order to he run properly
and bring out its full value. There is a
large building there with 36 rooms splen
didly adapted to college purposes. This
building they are utterly unable to use
because they cannot pay teach
ers for it, and Prof. White,
who is at the head of this
department, has advocated that a part of
the money from the inspection ol fertili
zers he used in perfecting this farm, and
in putting it upon a proper basis. There
are only four special students in agricul
ture, whereas there used to lie a great
many, and the reason of it is they have
not enough money to properly run the de
partment of the institution. The board
discussed the value and necessity of en
larging the technological facilities of the
institution. As it is they now train
physicists, chemists and engineers. Thev
ought to be able to turn out practical
workers in wood and metal, telegraphy,
stenography, and kindred matters. The
board realized the necessity of enlarging
these technical facilities of the institu
tion.”
FLORIDA.
Gainesville’s schools are all closed.
A windmill is being built at Tainpa.
There are a good many land buyers in
Bartow.
W. H. Hankins is building anew store
at Bartow.
Five rooms are being added to the Web
ster House at Bartow.
A. B. Snavefy, of Archer, died in the
North a day or two ago.
Quail shooting, deer hunting and fishing
are good around l’ine Level.
The brick foundation for the new M. E.
church at Orlando is laid.
Three petitions for liquor licences are
in circulation at Titusville.
A firm of shoe dealers contemplate
erecting a brick block at Orlando.
There is a strong probability that Pal
metto will have a 50-room hotel soon.
At Kissimmee the contracts were let for
the erection of five new dwellings last
week.
The boring of an artesian well at the
Gainesville Opera House has been aban
doned.
Charlie Howard is at present carrying
the mail between Titusville and Can
averal.
,J. N. Hooker & Cos. are having a largo
warehouse built in the rear of their store
at Bartow.
It is rumored at Tampa that the steamer
Margaret will soon take in Punta Kassa
in her route.
Business generally is lively at Fort
Meade, and thrift and progress are every
where manifest.
Tampa Catholics will soon erect a large
school building on their lot in the north
ern part of town.
The new steam tire engine was shipped
for Orlando June 2, and la expected to ar
rivo about the 20ih.
Tampa bolioves that trains of the Flori
da Southern Bail road will he running into
that place by Aug. 1.
There are three men being groomed Tor
the Mayoralty of Tampa—one doctor, one
merchant, and one lawyer.
O.F. Laney, of Titusville, has accepted
a position as one of the assistants at the
light house at Jupiter inlet.
The Tom AJtan residence at Port Orange
is said pi Us the finest on the Atlantic
coast south of St. Augustine.
There is quite a boom at Owen. Two or
three new buildings aro being built and
several now groves being planted out.
The remains of young Palmer, who died
at LaGrange recently, have been for
warded to his home at Worcester, Muss.
It is rumored that a syndicate has been
formed North to build a SIOO,OOO hotel in
Tampa, and that work will commence on
it by fall.
The medical department of the Florida
University lias not moved yet and is not
likely to move if any eftort Is made to
keep It at Tallahassee.
W. T. .Jackson has purchased the build
ing he now occupies as the Itocheiuont
Hotel, at Gainesville, and will add to it a
thirty, perhaps fifty, room addition.
Charley Ham and Btaker, two of tho
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, JUNE tfi, 1885.
remnant of the Seminole Indians in
Florida, were in Bartow last week, and
were induced to have their pictures
taken.
The Bartow Informant demands that
the proper authorities give immediate at
tention to certain places in that town
which endanger the health of everybody
in it. .
At Tallahassee the steamer Wslkatom
iea is all ready to slide on the train and
take to St. Mark's and launch. She will
soon bo making daily trips to James
Island.
?■. T. Harris, proprietor of the Gaines
ville (oundry, baa turned out 25 cluster
columns for the Montezuma hotel ol
Ocala; also, 150 feet of heavy oast fencing
for the Ocala cemetry.
Orlando will vote July 25 on the ques
tion of issuing $50,000 in bonds for erect
ing water works and establishing a sys
tem of drainage. The SIO,OOO school pro
ject is also still on the tapis.
At the next meeting of the Tampa Board
of Trade a resolution will be presented
asking Congress to donate the Fort
Brooke reservation to the town of Tampa
under the town site act.
At Fernandina, in the Circuit Court, the
trial of John C. Counts for the murder of
Alexander Hamilton, colored, was con
cluded and resulted in a verdict of ac
quittal. The defendant’s plea was self
tlefense.
The young men of LaGrange and Titus
\ille are anxious to arrange a match
game of base ball for July 4, and in order
to make a success for that occasion will
play any club in V olusia or Brevard
counties.
Cadet Hills, of Tampa, was the only one
out of the entire number of scholars at the
Bingham (N. C.) school who attained the
highest degree of proficiency. The high
est mark any oadet can attain is 50, which
is perfect.
The books of the Tampa Street Railway
Company were opened for subscriptions
on Wednesday and $40,000 in stock was
taken. One capitalist in Tampa will take
150 shares if the project is pushed In a
busiuess-like manner.
Tbe lamonia Lake region was visited
Tuesday by a heavy wind storm. A few
trees and fences and much corn was
blown down, but the corn is gradually
straightening up again, and the damage
is thought to be only slight.
The suit brought against J. A. Mereier,
of Jacksonville, on account of certain
strictures against the Aldermen of Fer
nandina for tbeir strict quarantine regu
lations during the small-pox epidemic at
Jacksonville, has been dismissed.
As evidence of the rapid development
and improvement of the Manatee region,
it may be mentioned that there are "now
King built tour substantial wharves and
warehouses, three of them at Palmetto,
on the north bank of the Manatee river,
and one on the opposite bank at Braideu
town.
No clue bas yet been obtained to the
fate of Clay county’s missing Sheriff, Mr.
Wright. A reward of SIOO has been
offered for information that will lead to
his restoration to his home or the recovery
ot his remains. The searchers have been
unable to find any trace of him beyond
the point where his traoks became obscure
in the pine woods near a large swamp.
It is generally believed that the Sheriff Is
dead, but a few persons express the opin
ion that he has fled.
Tampa Tribune-. Capt. McKay’s new
steamer—the Cumberland—arrived in
port Friday morniDg, having left Savan
nah last Sunday evening. She brought
the mail from Key West, and will take the
place of Washburn on the route between
Tampa and Key West. The Cumberland
is 130 teet long, 18 feet beam, draws
feet of water, and is a good ten-knot boat.
She has compound engines and the latest
improved machinery. Capt,. McKay will
have her fitted up in first-class style for
carrying passengers.
Tallahassean: The question as to date
of original charter of Grand Division of
Sons of Temperance, State of Florida,
having been mooted, we made inquiry and
were shown a traveling card printed on
parchment and granted to Mr. J. B. Col
lins as a delegate to represent the Grand
Division of Florida in the National Divi
sion which was held in Philadelphia, Pa.,
in June, 1859. The CBrd is dated Monti
celio. Fla., May 25, 1859, and tbe seal ol
the Grand Division attached bears date
Dec. 8, 1844. From this we see that the
above was the first and original Grand
Division of Florida.
Tallahassean: Since the inquest was
held on the body of young Edmund Du-
Bois, found hanging in his father’s barn
last Sunday week, new evidence, it is
claimed, has been ferreted out that con
nects the colored man, Henry Mann, more
closely with tbe affair than was at first
thought. Justice West decided to retain
the prisoner until further developments.
A most searching investigation nas been
going on for more than a week. About 30
witnesses have been summoned, and
many of them closely examined. Tbe evi
dence is purely circumstantial, but it is
said that a pretty well connected chain
can be gathered when it is ail in.
From reliable sources it is learned that
Leonard G. Dennis, the ‘-Little Oiantof
Alachua,” whose death recently occurred
at Gainesville, did not, as reported, die ot
excessive drinking, drinking a quart of
whisky on a wager, nor of delirium tre
mens, but of hardening of the brain. His
malady made him quarrelsome, and,
toward the last, it was feared he
might involve himself in some serious
act of violence. He did not do so, how
ever, but passed away quietly irj bis bed.
For some lime past he had slept in a room
with bis nephew, and at about 3 o’clock
on the morning of the duv be died he rose
and began dressing. His nephew woke
and asked what wns the matter. He re
[Afd to the effect that he did not feel well
a™ preferred to sit up. Then he sat
down in a rocker and put his feet on
his bed. The nephew again feel asleep
and lift) not wake till 8 o’clock, when he
tound his uncle sitting In the same posi
tion, not asleep, but wholly unconscious.
Assistance was called and vigorous
restorative* applied without result. He
laid all day in the same otupor. and at 5
o'clock in the afternoon breathed Uls last.
Facts, i't'oiri the Farms,
GKOUUIA.
Some excellent cotton around Gerard.
Burke county, has been cut off one-third
or more on account of lack of rain.
The plum, blackberry, huckloberry and
dewberry crops aro unusually prolific
and abundant this year in Dougherty
county.
In the Glades district of llnldwin county
graiu Is being harvested, wheat promises
an average crop aud oats a lair yield,
though there Is but little sown.
A stalk of cotton two feet In height
and thirty aquari a on it was taken from
one of S. A. Gray’s plantations in Burks
countv Friday, nmt while he does not
claim that bis crop will average as good,
be hss much cotton ev,‘ti better. Mr.
Gray says the crops on all his plantations
are remarkably good. He Is one of
Burke’s best and largest planters, culti
vating several farms, and running about
fifty plows In all.
Albany Mew* and Advtr titer: We no
ticed some squusli and encumber vines
yesterday morning that were dead. A
few days ago ttiey were green. On inspec
tion the vines were found Pi be covered
by small bugs with a shield-like white
shell on the back and the wickedest of
Isiw legs. They are likely Bherman bugs.
Will they attack the melon vines? It will
not he amiss to have an eye to them.
Vinos wither under their touch.
FLORIDA.
Crops continue promising in Leon
county.
Bartow is well supplied with pine
apples, watermelons and oocosnuts.
11. L. Scranton will sum a poultry farm
at Tampa. He bas purchased a 12-acre
tract for the purpose.
Shipments of vegetables still continue
from Palmetto, though the bulk of the
crop has already gone to market.
The recent rainfall has put field crops
and the different varieties of fruit trees
around Fort Meade in fine condition.
B. IL Doss, of Leou county, is jubilant
over his cotton crop, lie says that some
of his cotton had two blooms to the stalk
as early as last Wednesday. He has just
discovered the first worm oti it.
A Tallahassean set a hen not long since
on a lot of -her own eggs and six turkey
eggs. In due time she hatched off a brood
of little chickens and four young turkeys.
She carried them all together until the
other day when an old turkey hen came
along, and having no babies of her own,
adopted the four little turkeys. The old
hen protested against the robbery, but it
was no use, the old turkey captured the
little ones and all are now happy.
Altoona Index: A number of items
have been published in regard to Dr. J.
K. Webster .t Son’s famous strawberry
patch at this place. Some of the state
ments are absurdly incorrect. We give
the following figures, obtained from I)r.
Webster himself, and they may be relied
upon as correct: The ground cultivated
to strawberries is just nine-sixteen the ot
an acre, and there were picked this season
3.500 quarts, or 100 bushels. Berries were
picked early in January for tamily use,
and have been used daily ever since; but
the first shipments were made in Febru
ary, when they netted him about 75 cents
a quart; during March the same. In
April the price dropped to 50 cents per
quart, and during May to .'45 and 40 cents.
Recently the local markets have been
supplied at 15 cents. Dr. Webster esti
mates that an acre, properly bandied and
on suitable ground, could be made to net
the owner SI,OOO.
Tampa Tribune: Wm. B.Henderson re
turned Saturday from Havana, where he
had been for the purpose of meeting with
the Cuban cattle buyers looking toward
tbe revival of the cattle trade with South
Florida. While there he met with the
Butohers’ Association and conferred
with them in reference to the matter.
He also visited the different slaughter
pens to see the class of cattle used, and
how thev compared with the Florida
cattle. At the time of his visit they wen
killing Honduras cattle that had been m
pasture on the island eighteen months,
and he says that they were the finest
cattle he ever saw. The native cattle
that they were butchering were also very
fine. The result of his investigations is—
taking into consideration the heavy duties
on cattle, the scarcity of money on the
island and the unsettled condition of
affairs there—that, if we expect to do any
cattle business this season, the prices wil l
be extremely low. and it will be at a loss.
Felix L. Taylor, of Clearwater, early
last fall, set about one-quarter of an acre
of well cow-penned and carefully pre
pared land in egg plants, and, not being
able to give them the attention required,
he lost quite a number of the plants, but
thinks he saved enough off of the quarter
aero to plant one-fifth of an acre in a
good stand. After he set them out he
found time to work them but one time,
and that was done with a hoe. A plow
was never put among them at all. His
first shipment was made on Dec. 20, and
that, and one other made during the
month of January, did not pav him
on account of cold weather North, amt
there being no market for them at that
season. These first shipments were tin
very finest of the crop. One dozen filled
a half barrel crate. The best returns be
received was $2 85 clear ol expenses. He
shipped in all from the little patch 55 half
barrel crates and 39 vegetable crates, aud
letquUe a number spoil on account of there
being no market when they were in the
right condition to ship. Besides lie has
on hand 10 or 15 crates which will be
thrown away, as the market has failed
for them. He has received for 55 half
barrel crates s6l 77, and has the 39 vege
table crates yet to bear from.
A STOLEN CHURCH.
How a Dispute Was Settled and How the
Edifice is Now Going to Ruin.
From the Sew York Mail,
In the early part of last century Wick
ford and McSparren, two email towns
near Newport, R. 1., engaged in a quarrel
over an Episcopal church building, which
was among the first edifices of the kind
erected in New England. The church
was at McSparren, which had been dis
tanced in size and importance by Wick
ford, and the latter determined, after many
stormy scenes in the vestry, upon a spe
cies of cdup d’etat.
The road from where the church was
located to Wick ford was every rod of it
down hill, and, while It might prove a
comparatively easy matter to get the house
down there, it would prove literally an
up-hill undertaking to get it back again.
Accordingly, one evening the Wlokford
ites mustered their forces, collected all
the ox teams for miles around and went
up there. The house was quickly placed
upon wheels, and, while the residents of
McSparren Hill were slumbering quietly
in their beds their meeting-house was on
its way to Wickford. Great was their
astonishment when they looked towards
their cherished house tu the morning to
find naught but tbe foundation walls re
maining where tho house iiail stood at
sunset the night before. There was some
very vigorous language used, which was
received by the W ickfordites with all tbe
complacency of men who were aware of
the fact of possession being nine points oi
tbe law, and of it* being literally an up
hill job to get the house back again where
it started from. This was in the year
1800,, and the house has remained on Us
present site ever since.
Some ten or twelve years ago the cor
poration built a neat church edifice on
the mam street of the village, with a tower
and a dock, and the old church has not
been used since. It has not, however,
ceased to be an object ot public, interest.
It is visited every year by hundreds ot
people from different parts of the country,
many of whom have inscribed their names
iu pencil on its walls. Tue house is Uul
succumbing to tho ravages ol time. A
gale of wind in 1869 denuded it of its
tower. Every year its power of resist
ance is becoming less, and unless some
thing is done before long in the way of re
pairs this interesting relic will not be in a
condition to enter.
FLIRTING WITH a PKINOKSB.
A Field Marshall Who I* Intimate with
Royalty.
From a Lawton Letter,
I caught tho Duke of Cambridge the
other day in a funny position. I bad busi
ness with an aid-de-camp, and In a mis
take went into tho Duke’s room, lie had
bis easy toggery on and was at the win
dow looking upon tho park und grounds
of Marlborough House; and. oh, shock
ing, making signals apparently of a most
affectionate character to a young ladv at
an opposite window. In the ardor of Ills
signaling business the Duke had not
heurd my footsteps on tbe enrpet, and I
thought the best thing I could do wai to
discreetly and silently back out. As
I did so the lady leaned forward
and the sun ahone on her
faco and I recognized the Princess of
Wales, who, with some of tbe youngsters,
was sitting In a sort of exposure, enjoy
ing a bit of gossip by signal with the old
warrior, on whose every movement at
that moment the eve* of all Kuroite worn,
figuratively,’upposed to be resting. In
stead of signing warrant* creating armies
to march forth to destruction, the old boy
was diverting himself in his peculiar and
unique manner with the young folks of
the royal family. I afterward learned a
regular code of signals had boon estab
lished by tlie Field Marshal by
which he could communicate with the
Prince or Princess, lie sits facing the
window, and tbe moment Albert Edward
or Alexandra appears up lie jumps. "Are
you coming over to have a bit of ten
derloin f” asks Albert Edward. “Afraid
1 shan’t be able,” replies the coniraander
in-chief. “There's such a lot. to do. llart
iugtou is coming up directly, ami he’s
such a deuce of a fellow, with ins wanting
to know and his parliamentary questions.
Hut I’ll tell you directly. Did you say
onions or mushrooms?” “Oh, tic,” re
sponds the Princess; “mushrooms, of
course.” “Oh, well, that decides it,”
says the Duke; “it I can’t have beefsteak
and onions I’m not coming over.” Albert
and Alexandra confer. "It’s all right,”
signals Albert; “muons it is. You better
say ‘yes."” “Well, Hartington may go
hang; C’H be over in an hour.” Amldowa
go the windows.
THE MOUNT VUK NON FINANCES.
A Detailed Report, of Receipts amt Ei
pemUtures Etude I'ubtio.
Arum the Waihinjton. Poet.
The Mount, Vernon Ladies’ Association
makes the following report to the public
of its thiunoiul condition, as approved by
the recent council; “The funds of the as
sociation are in .better condition than
heretofore, the surplus of revenue fiom
‘general receipts accounts,’ by which is
meant from boat, entrance fees and sales
on the place, after payment of expenses,
being $2,945 60. The principal of tbe en
dowment fund, wlucti is invested in gov
ernment securities, amounts tos3o,ooo,and
the balance of interest therefrom, in
hands of the treasurer,is $2,502 80. That
sum, with the balance above mentioned,
$2,945 60, ban been appropriated to much
needed repairs to mansion and tomb, and
to the improvement of the grounds. The
very foundations of the old mansion have
to be carefully watched and protected;
the walls and fences enclosing the estate
require constant repair, drains have to be
kept in order, und roads mended, the pe
culiar nature of the soil making continual
vigilance necessary. The lollowing ap
propriations were decided on by the Grand
Council: $1,200 for repairs on mansion;
$1,600 for anew wharf; SSOO for repairson
tomb; SBOO for improvement of garden
and grounds, and rebuilding portions of
garden waits and lending'; leaving o
balance of $1,348 40 to meetany additional
expenses for repairs that may be found
accessary during the year.”
The Origin of Alice Howard.
Peril letter to the Chicago Tribune.
Yet there arc curiosities less easily ex
plained, amt where the philosophical
enthusiasm of Michelet would have been
utterly at a loss. Take, fur instance, that
which so strangely fascinates everybody
when some demi-mondaine turns into
hard cash her jewels and her furniture,
her hotel and her picture gallery, and
which 1 can only qualify as unhealthy.
Great ladies and bourgeoises, hunest wo
men both, visiting the palaces ol these
creatures seem to ho like Eve’s nieces
playing with bits ol the half-eaten apple
or tying the serpent tempter around their
thoats simply to judge how ho would look
as a necklace.
A fortnight ago it was Mile. Lue.io
Kern’s orchard, this week the news
papers have sung the praises of ftliss
Alice Howard, ot her l.ancrets and her
Melssoniers, ot precious tapestries, of her
wondrous specimens of goldsmiths’
work, aud a moralist remarked that the
difference nowadays between Hem-lope
and Aspasiu was that the first spin their
wool, while the others buy it—but in the
shape of Flanders tapestry.
Naturally, the story of this sale of Miss
Alice Howard’s honbonniere is grafted
with a legend. It was pretended that
this beautiful I’arisianized English girl,
bidding farewell to the devil, his pomps
and vanities; deserting Paris, its e-amel
ias ant; its ISo’s de Boulogne, was about
to marry a Scotch nobleman, and, “the
world forgetting, by the world lorgot,”
hencerorth ami forever would keep her
heart in the Highlands on the bunks/ of
Loch Katrine. Others again forged for her
a genealogy by which she was made the
relative of a so-called “Lady” Howard,
whose name was intimately connected
with that of a President of the French
republic, who, thanks to her generosity,
was aide to take those first steps which
placed him on an imperial throne.' Ro
mance is always mixed up with every
thing nowadays, slid is served up with
all sorts of sauces even in this age of
realism. It would la-too humiliating to
national female pride to admit that this
cannibal of hearts, this ghoul who has
devoured millions and driven a dozen
simpletons to suicide or dishonor, should
have been nothing but a maid oi
all work in London, a bullet-dancer at the
Alhambra, a sculptor’s model alter she
had been left a waif and stray on the
streets of Paris, ignorant ot one word of
the French language, by u disreputable
blackleg, with nothing but a lovely lace,
a faultless figure, and an entire absence
ot scruples uiyl principle. In ten years
time (and for nine years out of these toil)
this creature grew to be the acknowledged
queen of continental beauty, and whether
she really does retire to private life ami
respectability or remains still in France,
sue will nomi the less have been a bril
liant apparition, the perfect image of
beauty, sovereign and implacable, a Ve
nus of marble, worthy of the chisel of
Praxiteles, with something of that icy
charm which the Illustrious Gounod at
tributes to Mrs. Georgina Weldon.
Malarious Debility Defied.
The multiform manifestations cogno
mened as malaria, aud producing depress
ed debility, can all be successfully defied ill
any locality by a faithful use of Duffy’S
Puke Mart Whisky. It promptly de
stroys the miasmatic spores which infest
the blood, and restores the whole system
to vigorous and heulthful action. Hun
dreds of the best people have derived Im
measurable benefits I row its use, und mul
titudes now keep a supply on hand as
their infallible rock of detense against
malarious troubles. Of all reliable gro
oi-rs and druggists. Selling Agents for
Savannah, Lippmuu Bros.
JlpoUitutriO iU.itrr,
rlfinlA jJ,/ |y, -
Sttr. ,
, . • f'-or.-’
Highest award wherever sxhtbtted.
GEO. MK V K lt. Sole Agent.
Depot and Office, foot at Abercorn street;
liraLcli i ? llj r*** 142 I lav
■ -
Pm r>ooio.
OMElfiil
A CHEAP
CASH SALE!
To Reduce Stock
Wo will commence on
HAY 11IIG
A
Clearance Sale
AT PRICES
Enormously Cut Down
As the goods of
fered in this sale will
be sold at a great
sacrifice,
TERMS WILL BE
STRICTLY CASH!
fruit, <§tt.
Lemons! Lemons! Lemons!
LEMONS! LEMONS! LEMONS!
LEMONS! LEMONS! LEMONS!
Oraww! Oranps! (tains!
ORANGES! ORANGES! ORANGES!
ORANGES! ORANGES! ORANGES!
EGYPTIAN ONIONS!
EGYPTIAN ONIONS!
EGYPTIAN ONIONS!
Bananas. Pcannts.
Raisins. Heinz’s Pickles.
Figs. Wilson’s Crackers.
A Choice Assortment o
FANCY GROCERIES, Etc.
Send for quotation, before ordering else
where.
J.B. REEDY.
169, 169, 169.
HAY, HAY, HAY!
LANDING TO-DAY:
CHOICE LOT EASTERN HAY.
IN STORE:
Potatoes, Cabbage,
Oranges, Lemons,
Corn, Oats, Bran, Corn Eyes,
Peas, Etc,, Etc,
FOR SALE AT BOTTOM PRICES.
W. D. SiMKINS,
101) BAY STREET.
FRUIT, ETC.
OKACHKB, APPLES, CIIKKRIEH,PLUMS,
1 GRAPES, and all other kitids of tresh
fruits in season.
MKHHINA ORANGES u>l LEMONS.
Virginia n<l Georgia PEANUTS.
CANNED GOODS of all kind*.
SUGAR COFFEE. TEA. FLOUR. 8 C.
MBATS, LARD, BUTTER, RICE, TOBAC
CO and WINES.
B SELECT and BAKER WHISKY $4 per
gallon.
IMPERIAL WHISKY $3 per gallon.
PINEAPPLE WHI-KY 41 per gallon.
OLD RYE WHISKY $1 50 pr gallon.
—ro* SALK bv—
A. H. CHAMPION,
1M CONGRESS STREET.
li.uuto uuD
JOHN G. BUTLER.
W M VY^r ,R A2i>t
PAINTS, RAILROAD. STEAMER AND
MI LI.HUPPIJ F.s.S ASli KS.DOORs.BLIN DS
snd BUILDERS’ HARDWARE. Sole Agent
furGEORGi A LI ME.C A LOIN ED PL ASTER,
CEMENTS, IIAIU aud LAND PLASTER.
0 Whitaker street, Havannuh. Ga.
Htiiml.ihri.
jTh. fox,
MASONIC TBMPLS, COR. LIBERTY AND
WHITAKER hTBBETS.
Summer Uroorto. ■
OCEAN HOUSE,;
TYBEE ISLAND.
1,
Marshall House,!
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, .
JOHN GRESNAN, Gen i Manager,;
WILL BE OPEN FOR RECEPTION OK 1
GUESTS ON
IS, 188 &J
THE TABLE will be kept up to theatand-1
nrd of fir*t-claiw Seaside Itenort*.
The ROOMS art- all nowlv furnished'’
throughout, and newly laid with Mattings. !
The ItOUsE will lie kept in every respect I
in the boat style, and the comfort, o-mvoni-4
eiict- and pleasure of the guests will bo Uiukcdr
ft ir.
Boarding by the Day, Week or Moafr
At reasonable prides, aud Regular Boardeiwq
will have the privilege when in thecityrt’
taking their Meals at the Marshall House. ,
Ttie hotel i supplied with artesian well*
w liter, which is highly spoken ot for Its modi* ‘
dual properties. j
TAL LIT LAH FALLS^
GEORGIA,
THE NIAGARA OF THE SOUTH.
NO SCENERY CAN EXCEL IT In beauty
and grandeur. Five falls, making a
total fall ot 460 feet, wll h unuyone l. 1 00 fee®
deep. You will find YOUNG’S HOTEL tb*
most desirable place U> stop at—2,ooo feet ot
verandah, ICO rooms, and Rosamunds a beauti
ful view of River and Gland Rapids; heautl- 1
ful fountains, toe cold springs. The falls are I
easy of access by stairways und bridge*. A ’
great deal of money has boon expended unae '
last season in the wayof a large skating Rink,
Dancing Halt aud Hilliard (mom and Soda •
Fountain. Amusements— fishing, hunting, 1
dancing, ten-pins, saddle-horses, buggies,
carriages, otc.
Board $2 per day, $lO per week, S3O to S4O
per month. Special arrangements with
rumilteH.
This place is roaehed by wayof the Pied
mont Air Line to Rabun Gup .Junction; i
tbere take the N. E. Railroad to Tallulah, j
Telegraph communication and Depot in 2U0 1
yards of the Hotel.
For further information apply to
W. D. YOUNG.
Propnotor and Owner.
COLUMBIAN HOTEt;
Saratoga Springs, New York.
M|t. JAMES M. CASE, of the Pulaski
House, will open this superior Family
Hotel about June 15. Elaborate improve
ments have been made. Cuisine under PROF.
FELIX LOUMKNA, late of Windsor Hotel,
New York. Rooms beautifully furnished,
facing Congress Spring Park. A (tendance
aud appointments unexceptionable.
Terms: *.'( per Usv; SIS 50 to 909
per Week.
Crescent Valley House,
PAW LET. VERMONT,
OPEN from June to October. A Beautiful
H Summer Resort. New und first-closed
Hotel. Rooms large, on suite or singly. Gas,!
Electric Bells. Tables unsurpassed. Bath- i
rooms, hot aud cold water. All modern im
provements. Prices from $7 to $lO per week.,
For plan of rooms, prices and circulars, ad
dress E. A. I.kVKNK, Manager, j
SEASON, 1885.
IMI.C OCONEE WHITE SULPHUR,
1 BPRINGB will heopen for the reception of]
gue-ts JUNE 15, under competent manage- i
meat. Resident physician and Western,
Union Telegraph office In the hotel. For
terms.address OCONEE WHITE SULPHUR 1
SPRINGS COMPANY. Bowdre P. 0„ Halil
County, Ga.
CAM SPRINGS AND BATE
Alkaline JJlhia Wafer*, also Fine
Iron Water*.
HAMPHIRE CO., WEST VIRGINIA.
NO Fugs, NO MALARIA. Where the,
sick recover, ami the well are always
happy. A lovely summer home. A mountain,
climate un-urpasued. bend for painph'atJ
Water on sale and pamphlet* free at OsCE-i
OLA BUTLER’S, Druggist. .Savannah. Ga.
_ _ W. H. SAi.E. Proprietor, t
THE GREENBRIER,
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. VA,
I M MEDI ATELY on tho C. and O. Ry. The
1 most celebrated of all the mountain re
sorts will open for the season Juno 1. Eleva
tion, 2.000 feet above the sea; surrounding
mountains 3,500 feel. Rates: s2l per week;
(75 per mouth of 20 days. Send for pamphlet.
U. F. F.VKI.E, Superintendent.
WBontva!e Springs!
BLOUNT COUNTY, TENN.
'I'HIS BEAUTIFUL SUMMER RESORT
1 is now open for the re eptlon of guest*.
Elegant table. Telephone connection with
Knoxville.
Rates or Boakd.—Per day, $2; per week,
$lO to sl2; per mouth, siia fi, $lO.
CATBKILL MOUNTAINS*
TKKMPKK HOURS
CxPENS JUNE 17. Terms, $3 5o per day.
" 70pectal arrangements by the month. Ad-:
dress J. 11. TREMPBU. .Ik, Plmmlcia, Ulster
Cos.. N. Y. 1
iUatrljeo ait& Jcnielrij.
Honesty is tie Best Policy H
This should be the rule of every merchant.
H ha* been mine for 37 years—all uiy life—and
I have Never Deviated from M Rale
And Nover Shall!
The public is convinced that it does not re
quire to lie a judge of Diamond* or Jewelry,
when they purchase of irie, as I take good car*
of even the mint Ignorant, f agree with what
is said by others, that tbere are unscrupulous
people in the business who have no regard as
to what karat or quality goods they sell, or 1
How Much They Overcharge
Their Customers.
Rut experience proves that the man who
treats the public with justice, that ■*,
Neither Deceives nor OvarrhurffM,
Is bound to do a successful business. **y
business has steadily grown aud is stilt in
sreasiug, for the public appreciate*
FAIR and HONEST DEALING.
Having a very large and desirable stock ot
DIAMONDS. WATCHES aud JEWELRY o*
band, and owing to the fact that the c.bsM off
the season Is near at band, 1 shall give greater
bargain* than ever before to reduce stock. !
M. STERNBERG;
157 BROUGHTON HTRKET,
Vegetable and Fruit CratusT
WE have * full stock on oar yard. Corne
r and Bart Broad WRhB. tWh
furnish by car load direct from mill when
BACON, JOHNSON, *
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