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<2lie Savannah (Tribune. published by the Tribokb Publishing Co.) J. H. DEVEAUX, Mamaqbr. , B. W. WHITE, Solicitor. j VOL. 11. 1 BTEWIjY fitted up. LABORING Yen’S HOME Restaurant & Lodging, Wm. B. Brown, Proprietor, 182 Bryan St., SAVANNAH, GA. Meals at all hours. Choicest brands of irines, liquors and cigars always on hand. BENNETT’S HUMAN HAIR EMPORIOM. Ladies’ and Gents’ wigs made to order, j /Llso Fronts, Toupees, Waves, Curls, | Frizzes and Hair Jewelry. We root and make up ladies’ own combings in any j desirable style. W T e have character Wigs | end Beards of all kinds to rent for Mas- ■ querades and entertainments. Ladies and children Hair cutting and shampooning. Also, hair dressing at your residence if i required. We cut and trim bangs in all of the latest styles. Cash paid for cut hair and combings of all kinds. All goods willingly exchanged if not satisfactory. Kid Gloves Cleaned. R. M. BENNETT, No. 50 Whitaker St. Savannah, Ga. FRANKLIN F. JONES, AT STALL HO. 31, 11l THE MARKET, Announces to his friends and the public that he keeps on hand a fresh supply of ; the best Beef, Yeal and Mutton, also all kinds of game when in season, and will j be glad to wait on "his customers as usual | with politeness and promptness. His prices are reasonable and satisfaction is guaranteed. Goods delivered if desired. DON'T FORGET. STALL NO. 31. GREEN GROCERY. HENRYFIELDB THE OLD RELIABLE GREEN GROCER WOULD inform his friends and the public that he still holds the fort t his old stand corner South Broad and East Boundry streets, where he keeps on hand constantly, a full supply of fresti Beef, Veal, Mutton, Pork, Fish, Poultry, Eggs, Game and all kinds of Vegetables. Prices reasonable—to suit the times. Goods delivered if desired. EVIDENTLY A CRANK A .Ma n Creates a Sensation in Chattanooga, Teun. A genuine sensation was created in Chattanooga Friday by the arrest of a man who gave his name as Doyle. Doyle took supper at a Restaurant in the city Thursday night, ana refused to pay the proprietor, and was in consequence arres ted. In submitting to the arrest he took occasion to lavish epithets on the propri etor of the restaurant, and another war rant for profanity was secured. He was taken before a city magistrate and com mitted to the county jail in default of j 1500, and remained in cell all night. Fri day morning, on his agreement, j to pay the cost of the arrest aud the restaurant man the warrant was withdrawn. After this was done, he having in the meantime taken on a good supply of whiskey, showed to the as tounded officers and bystanders rolls of : Greenbacks that were bestowed in various j parts of his person, amounting in all to j Ho,ooo. This at once excited surprise, and it was at once set down by the offi cials that Doyle was one of the notorious express robbers about which so much has recently been said. Deputy United States Marshal Hill telegraphed the man’s de scription at once to various places in hopes of identifying the man but received io answer- Doyle, as soon as he got free, i est on the first train for parts unknown, le was evidently # “off” in some way, and he officials think they have caught it ‘ich if they can only find out who he is. I A TEXAS BATTLE. , A special from San Augustine, in East j exas, near the Louisiana line, says a j ■erribie fight occurred Friday morning ! Bto miles below Hemphill, in Sabine | ►maty, between Captain Scott and his j ■trio company of state rangers on one ' ■de and old Willis Connor and his sons ; ► l he other. Three of the Connor fain- 1 » and one ranger were instantly killed, I w' ‘ ( ‘‘plain Scott and another of hi* at r ' Wt ‘ re badly, if not fatally, wounded, j ■ IK ‘ the Connor boys escaped, but the ■nger* are in hot pursuit. The Connors j Sfought on the fight by firing from am- J 1 u P° n the rangers, who were hunt j ►.'timber thieves. A doctor has [>een ■ j or by the rangers to attend the ►unded. SAVANNAH, GA., SATURDAY, APRIL <1.1887. | WASHINGTON GOSSIP. ' ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM OUIi NATIONAL CAPITAL. IVhat l« Being Done by the Heads of Onr Government—^The Week’s Review. NEW POSTAGE STAMPS. . Post-office department officials are hav | ing prepared a series of new designs of embossed stamps for stamped envelop s , of one, two, four and five cent denonii- \ nations. The head of Franklin has been selected for the one cent stamps, and heads of Washington, Jackson and ! Grant for the two, four and five cent de nominations, respectively. The general j design of the new series is uniform. On | the upper side and following the oval shape of the stamp is the legend. “United States Postage,” Instead of “U. S. Post age,” as on the stamps nowin use. This new series will be ready for use about May 1. The border of the one cent adhesive stamp has been slightly modi fied to conform tofihe design of the two cent stamp. THE NEW SECRETARY AND ASSISTANT. The president signed the commissions of Charles S. Fairchild as secretary of the treasury, and Isaac H. Maynard as assistant secretary of the treasury Friday. Mr. Fairchild at once entered upon the i discharge of his new duties. The officers i and many clerks of the department waited | on him early and extended their congrat- ! ulationa. The crowd became so great ! that he was compelled to abandon, for a I time, all ideas of attending to the cur- ; rent work claiming his attention. He caused a temporary halt by announcing j ! that he would receive his official friends | j informally in the afternoon after he had I i disposed of his mail. He received a I profusion of flowers and congratulatory j j letters and telegrams from all parts of the ! country. A majority of the telegrams | were from bankers and business men. ; Judge Maynard in accepting his new office will suffer a loss of $5,000 a year in ( salary. He makes the change at the peisonal solicitation of the president and Secretary Fairchild, with the latter of whom he enjoys the closest personal re lations. THE COMMISSIONERS MEET. On Thursday all of the interstate com merce commissioners had arrived in the city. Mr. Bragg, the last one to arrive, came in on an early morning train. They all met at the white house and were introduced to each other by the president. They were besieged during the day by numerous correspondents, all of whom utterly failed to get any ex- ; pressions from either of them. At 3 o’clock they called on the secretary of the interior, before whom they took the oath of office and received their commissions, j From thence they repaired to rooms pre pared for them on F street, where for some time to come they are to perform the duties of official railroad regulators. Judge Cooley was made chairman of the commission. Further organization will be perfected at once, but nothing will be done before April sth, at which time the law goes into effect. There are no five men in these United ! States who are attracting the attention . of so many people. This little body of j men is to hold in its control thousands of ‘ millions of property and the rights of sixty million people. THE NEW DOCKS. Secretary Whitney has approved the report of the board appointed to select sites for the two new dry docks author ized by the last congress. The docks will be located at the New York and Norfolk navy yards, and will be built by contract on the general plan of the Simp son dry docks. They will be constructed of timber, and the dimensions will be , about as follows: Length, 485 feet; width, at top, 1*25 feet; and the width at the bottom 60 feet. The amount of money available for their construction is $1,100,000. The New York dock will j cost more than the dock at Norfolk, i owing to the difficulty of obtaining a good foundation. A good foundation of the blue clay and gravel can be obtained I at Norfolk at a depth of 35 feet, while at New York innumerable quick sands and i springs are found at a similar depth, ne ! cessitating heavy piling to obtain a foun ! dation capable of supporting a vessel of 0,000 to 10,000 tons in weight. The | exact location in the yards of the two docks cannot be determined, but borings will be made within a short time to as. certain the nature of the foundation. A clerk in Louisville invested SSO in pork at a bucket shop the other day and I succeeded in running it up to $-5,000. Then he determined to make it SIO,OOO and quit and get married. His $5,000 crept up to almost the desired amount, ancl then the market took a turn against him, and in a few lours he didn’t have even the original SSO. He will not mar -1 ry this spring. HE SOLD THE RACE. Tk# Cuptniu of tlio Defeated Yacht, Daunt, ten* Tell* u Talc. A special from London dated Wednes day, says: Yachtmen were astounded to-day to learn that Captain Samuels, captain of the Dauntless had severed all ; relations with Caldwell H. Colt, the ! owner of the defeated yacht, and after | denouncing all on board had left the vessel. Soon a dozen or more prominent yachtmen boarded the Dauntless to get j further particulars. But little iuforma- I tion was volunteered to them by Mr. I Colt, who looked upon the sudden de- I parture of the famous skipper as an out | rage. He declined to make a statement I beyond the assertion that Captain Samu els and five of the rew had deserted the vessel without satisfactory cause. Cap tain Samuels is particularly bitter against ; his former employer, and says in a most | positive way, that Mr. Colt is responsible j, for the failure us the Dauntless in the | race. He charges that shortly after the yacht lost sight of Fire Island* light, Mr. Colt became abusive. His language was ungentlemanly, and it was only when, Captain Samuels alleges, he was accused of trying to allow the Coronet to obtain an irrecoverable lead, that he refused to j listen further to his employer’s utter ances. During the passage across, the i progiess of the yacht was handicapped by her owner. When Captain Samuels saw that Mr. Colt’s ill-advised instrue- I tions were acting to the detriment of the | vessel’s speed, he determined to fiJ! the place for which he was engaged, or re- I linquish all responsibility. But Mr. Colt I disregarded his protests entirely and con tinued to give orders to the various men ; at the wheel, notwithstanding Captain ; Samuels ordered otherwise. Finally, | Captain Samuels says, the control of the | vessel devolved upon Mr. Colt, and he, ! the captain, had only an outside voice. | He therefore, attributed the defeat of | the vessel to the mismanagement of her owner, and his interference with the : standing and well regulated rules of sea. A HORRIBLE MURDER. A Fiend Murders nud llu-n Bums Ills Wile near Ada, Ala. The particulars of the most horrible crime in the criminal records of Alabama have just come to light. Last Tuesday morning Tarletou Steele, colored, mur dered and then burned his wife, near Ada, in Montgomery county. About two o’clock in the morning they had a quarrel and hot words led to blows. Tarleton struck his wife on the hoad with an axe handle, killing her almost instantly. He then took the body and carried it off to a lonely place in the woods, a mile from ; home, threw it in a gully, piled trash and straw on it, then poured kerosene oil on the heap and stuck fire to it. He then returned home and left the body to be cremated. The gentleman on whose place he was living missed the woman, but said nothing about it, and the mur derer remained on the place a day and night after the crime was committed. Thursday morning he went back to the woods and found that the body had not been entirely burned up. He put trash on the remains, but having no match to start the fire again he lied. Suspicion had been aroused, and the i neighbors searched the woods and found j the remaining portions of the body. The I murderer was captured ten miles distant ; and brought to Montgomery to jail. He I made a full confession of the terrible deed, and says he burned the body to conceal the crime. The murderer is a -mall black negro about twenty-five years old. THE LONGSHOREMEN SUIT. The Case Against the Longshoremen Stri ker* in Court. Louis F. Post filed Monday, with the j clerk of the United States ciicuit court I of New York, answers to James T. Quinn, Timothy B. Putnam, Patrick Mc- Gartland, John J. McKenna and James McGrath, Knights of Labor, against whom the Old Dominion Steamship com pany brought suit for $20,000 damages, and who were held in bail for trial. The case grew out of the boycott of freight 1 handled by the company. In their an swers Quinn, Putnam and McGartland deny all other allegations and claim that the longshoremen were “locked out” by the company because they refused to ac , cept a reduction of wages; that employes were paid by the hour only, and were under no contract for any term of service whatever: that the longshoremen met in a peaceable and orderly manner for the purpose of maintaining the rate of wager of their craft, and that they, the defend ! ants, only acted as mediators to settle the dispute. McKenna and McGrath admit being officers of the Ocean associ ; atiou of longshoremen, and claim that | they were justified in their actions, being under no contract to the Old Dominion company. The defendants ask for judg ment dismissing the case, with costs. | " f AN EX-GOVERNOR SUICIDES. Ex-Governor Itevnolila, of' Missouri, .lump* Down nn Elevator Hbntt. Hon. Thomas C. Reynolds committed suicide at the custom house iu Bt. Louis I Wednesday afternoon by plunging dowu ; au elevator shaft from the third floor. He fell the distance of eighty feet and ; crushed in his skull. The cause of the | act was mental derangement superin } duced by hallucinations that he was ! about to become insane. In his pocket , book was found a letter to his wife, stat ing that two years ago he contracted malaria at Aspinwall and had failed to | recover, the disease settling in his spine. Recently he had been troubled with j insomnia and frequent nervousness, j Visions invited him to join his dead friends, and fearing lest he should be a | burden to his wife by becoming a luna tic-having twice before been troubled | with dementia, and his estate of $25,000 | being in order, unimpaired and product- I ! ive, he determined to end his life. Governor Reynolds was born in Char leston, 8. C. He studied in the university of Virginia, and continued his studies in Germany, graduating at Heidelberg in j 1842. lie spent one year in the university of Paris; and was admitted to the bar in > Virginia in 1844. He was secretary of ; the United States legation to Spain in 1846 and 1848. In 1850 he located at St. Louis. Iu 1860 he was elected lieutenant governor of Missouri on the same ticket with Governor Caleb Jackson, and in the civil war sided with the confederacy. At the close of the war he went to Mexico, In 1868 he returned to Bt. Louis. He was a member of the commission sent to South America alxut two years ago in the interest of commerce with the United States. In 1854 he fought adu 1 with B. Gratz Brown, witli rifles at thirty paces, on the islands opposite St. Louis, over a political discussiou. Mr. Brown was hit iu the knee, but Governor Rev nolda was not touched. It is believed that Governor Reynolds only intended to maim Mr. Brown. THEY WANT THE OFFICE. Quo-Warranto Suit* Brought In a Norib Carolina Coart, A case of quo wairanto, involving the right to the office of register of deeds of Ashville, N. G'.,the fees of which amount to about three thousand dollars per an num, has for several months awakened a deep public interest at that place. A democrat, J. R. Patterson, is the present incumbent, and the relator is Robert Cole, a republican, elected at the late election and failed to file a bond on the day directed by the statute. A learned argument was made by Major W. 11. Malone for the relator, and by Captain \I. L. Carter for the defendant. His honor, Judge Graves, decided in favor of ihe defendant and the relator appealed. A decision was also rendered in the J -imilar coupon tax case of 11. A. Carper, I jailer of Pulaski county, Va., against Richard L. Fitzgerald. Appeal from the I United States circuit court for the cast j ern district of Virginia. Fitzgerald, the | appellee in this ease, is a traveling sales- I man for the firm of Austin, Field & Co., of Philadelphia. He was arrested in Pulaski county, Va., for doing business without license, after he had made an of j fei of tax-receivable coupon in payment for such license. Upon a writ of habeas corpus he was discharged from custody by Judge Bond, of the United States circuit court for the eastern district of Virginia, sitting as circuit judge, in chambers at Baltimore. The state of I Virginia, ihrough its jailer, appealed from Judge Bond’s decision to the court at Asheville. This court holds that the act of March 3, 1885, allows appeals in habeas corpus cases only from a decision of the circuit court, and that the decision of the circuit judge sitting in chambers is not a decision of the court, even al- I though such judge may order the papers ! filed, and his order recorded in the eir j cuit court. The appeal is, therefore, dismissed. Opinion by Chief Justice Waite. FOUR MEN DROWNED. I hey go Under While Baiting Timber Dowu the Oconee Blver. J. M. Smith, of Dublin Ga., start'd, ■ last 1 hursday, a large raft of timber down the Oconee river to Darien, with a ' j crew of four men. He ordered the crew | to run night and day. On Friday night, while turning abend in the river, the raft broke to pieces and I all of the crew except the pilot were drowned. He saved himself by clinging J to the floating timoers until he could reach the bank. It is said that the raft - contained eighty-six pieces, which would I average 1,000 feet each. The raft, it is said, was poorly put to -1 get her, and one crew refused to go on it, j when Smith employed another. Smith was warned by old river men not to at i tempt the running of such a raft, as it would lie wieekeu, but paid no attention ! to the warning. His timber is a com j pleteloM. j $1.25 Per Annum; 75 cents for Six Months; 60 cents Tnr- e Months; Single Cop:es ( 6 cents —In Advance. j BUSINESS STATEMENTS. m Failure* in the Country During the Lut Three Month*. Mercantile failures for three months ending with Thursday, as reported by | R. G. Dunn & Co., are 3,007 in number, against 3,203 for the same quarter of | 1886. Liabilities for the first quarter of * the present year are $32,161,000, against s $29,681,000 for the corresponding quar ter of 1886. The geographical distribu- \ tion of failures is somewhat unusual, the liabilities in the middle states amounting to sl2 000,000, showing an increase of $6,000,000 as compared with 1886, and in New York city the liabilities for the first three months of 1887 were $5,000,- 000 as compared with $2,900,000 in the corresponding quarter of last year. In all other sections of the country, except the middle states, the failures are much less in number and amount than the average for the first quarter, and the to -1 tal lesult is much less than previous years. In Canada the failures for the first quarter of 1887 are 393 in number as against 389 for the corresponding quar ter of last year. Liabilities for the quar ter just closed are $3,602,000 as com pared with $3,442,000 for the same period tn 1886. TO BE DISCHARGED. Tho (ollon Factor* #f New Orlcnn* W'lll Have No Union .Men. At a meeting of the cotton factors and cotton buyers of New Orleans Friday, President Walnisley in the chair, the fol lowing joint resolutions were adopted: Whereas, The experience of six years has demonstrated that business can no longer be profitably conducted, as cottou labor unions of this city are now organ ized. us our business is constantly being rupted aiul is liable to interruption at any time, we having practically no con trol over our employes; and as our busi ness is virtually suspended in conse quence of a controversy which we did not originate and in which w e had no jiart; be it, therefore, Resolved, By the cotton factors and buyers of New Orleans, that we pledge ourselves to discharge the weighers, elasaers, and others employed by us un loss they shall at once resign from all or ganizations that may in any way impede the commerce of the city of New Orleans. The following resolution was then adopted with but two dissenting votes: Resolved, That the New Orleans col ton exchange in general meeting assem bled, indorses ami approves the action <>- 4 the cotton factors nnd cotton buyers, embodied in the general resolution he <„ with presented. COKItUPTION IN OFFICE The grand jury of Chicago investigated a job Tuesduy connected with the build ing of a sewer from one of the public schools and it is said has as good as do- . cided to indict the two contractors and county commissioner on account of their share in the transaction. The story goes that the commission will be charged with bribery, a penitentiary offense, and pun ishable with greater severity than any of the other charges against the boodlers. Conspiracy will be charged against the contractors and the evidence is repre sented to be conclusive. A common rumor has all along stated there was $5,- 000 involved in the artesian well job at Raven wood, and that this money was di- i vided among the commissioners and one warden. The jury gave up part of their time to-day to tiud out the truth of this story. Witnesses are said to have per sonal knowledge of the transaction. THE SNOW imiFTri OF CANADA. The snow blockade on the inter-Colon ial railroad is unprecedented. One train has been one hundred hours in covering two miles and snow drifis where it now stands completely cover the telegraph poles. The outgoing English mail, i which left Fridav, is still stuck between Riviere de Loup and Kemouski, while ' the increasing English mail and an emi- I grant special train are likely to remain j over tonight at St. Flave. Every effort is being made to have the line cleared I and no exqien.se will be sjiared. lhe I Canada Pacific railroad cancelled al! <nit j going trains Monday and Tuesday. I he | drifts on the road arc very deep. UAILKOADH AND NKWHPAPEU*. Cincinnati newspapers apjreared Friday without the customary column giving the j time of ajrival and departure of trains. I This is m accordance with the projxisition made by the newspapers, jointly, in view of the stoppage of jiasses to stoji the free 1 publication of matter for the lienefit of the railroad but but to accept tickets in jiaynieut for all advertising. The railroads replied, accepting the proportion for ad -1 vertisements which they should order. and inlinialing that the daily publication I of time tables should not be regarded aa 1 r.u advertisement. , : •. | .v. ■ JBp®" l 1 M ‘ 1f,./ ’ * v . ’ - .. t 4:.. j* i 'iCmi ii'irlpiii mil V iilßMtiWiißMi