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RICH MEN.
MILLIONAIRES WHO MADE MONET
IN RAILROADS.
How Georgia's Wealthy Senator Has
Piled Dp a Fortune, the Exact
Amount of Which Nobody Knows
Messrs. Magee, Cole, Inman and
Other Meu Who Can Draw Big
Checks.
Pom the Philadelphia Press.
Chattanooga, May 15. —Southern rich
men are a comparatively recent institution.
Before the war the riotous, reckless plant
ers, who used to stake their crops and
darkies on the turn of a card on the Missis
sippi river steamboats, or bring their ex
travagant families to the old St. Charles in
New Orleans for the winter, were con
sidered rich, but their wealth was not of a
very tangible character. It was seen in
what they threw away instead of what
they had and would not be estimated very
high now in these days of close business
habits, big corporations and almost
unlimited holdings of iron, coal and
railroad stock*. After the war Northern
and Eastern men got hold of what there
was to be'made in the country and until a
year or two since, to parody somebody’s say
ing about Ben Franklin as a great Pennsyl
vanian. the rich Southern capitalists were
from New York and Philadelphia. That is
still a fact to a large degree; but, with the
extension of the railroad system and the de
velopment of mint*, and manufactories, there
have come to the front a few genuine South
ern millionaires, living in the South, inter
ested in Southern property and known from
Richmond to New Orleans as distinctively
Southern men.
CHARLES 11. MAGEE.
The wealthiest of them, and probably the
one best known in the East, is Charles M.
Magee, of Knoxville He is a railroad man,
President for many years of the East Ten
nessee railroad, ana a very extensive holder,
not to say manipulator, of stocks in various
Southern lines. He mode his start in life as
a school teacher in the thinly-settled farm
ing country in the Northeastern jiart of
Tennessee and thrashed and coaxed knowl
edge into many of the middle-aged grangers
who now come over miles of rough country
roads to see hi* splendid house. His effoits
in school teaching were probably more
valuable to his scholars than to himself, for
he gave it up after a few years
and went into politics long enough
to get into the Tennessee Leg
islature. That profession evidently did not
suit him, either, and in a term or two he
abandoned it and took a flesh and final
start in the East Tennessee railroad. The
progress of the road afterward became his
own history. He prospered with it, rose to
be it* President and made his big fortune
through its profits and his lucky transac
tions with other roads. When the" East Ten
nessee was sold in 1882 to George A. benny,
of New York, he got a Hock of the bond-,
and mortgages.and when fSenay failed in 1884
forced a foreclosure of the line in which it was
incorporated, and, it is said, made great
profits in both phases of the deal. Two
millions each way, or #4,000,u00 altogether,
is the amount his friends credit him with
adding to his forturu. In the Terminal
movements lately he is said to have made a
great deal of monev, and his whole fortune
6 now estimated >i lie somewhere in the
neighborhood A $10,000,000. Outside of
railroads ’> has only a comparatively
small amount of business, though he has
within the ]>ast few years showed his faith
in the New bouth industries by investing in
ccitf property.
Mr. Magee in apjiearance is peculiar
enough to be noticeable anywhere. He is
over 0 feet tail, very slender, and of a pe
culiar aggressive movement in his striae,
which makes him seem always very full of
important business. His nose is Roman,
his eyebrows large and bushy, his cheek
bones prominent and his countenance sun
burned and sallow. He wears a moustache
and goatee slowly becoming gray, and has
light-brown hair, which is lieginning to
snow a few streaks of the sand color. In
Tennessee, whatever may be his concessions
to fashion in New York, he wears a plain
gray suit, neat, but not noticeably good,
and a big, comfortable soft liat, of tho style
common down here below the Ohio. He
spends a great deal of time in New York in
connection with his railroad enterprise*but
is till very often at home, and regards him
salf always as a Tennesseean. •
E. W. COLE, OK NASHVILLE.
His rival for the position of tho leading
Southern railroad investor is E. W. Cole, of
Nashville, a tall, heavy, vigorous-looking
gentleman, who reminds people who have
seen national politicians very much of Sena
tor Cockrell, of Missouri. He has his resi
dence in Nashville, lives there practically all
the time and has his money in Southern
concerns which it takes very few trips to
New York to manage. He liegan life poor.
His friends have heard him tell often how
he first rode into Nashville on a crippled
mule, with his cash capital of 25c. In his
pocket, and mighty slim prospects of lying
able to make it up again if it became, as the
Insurance men say, “impaired" by any
boo heavy expenditure for dinner. He
got into a railroad office after
lomo trouble, and then, like Magee,
roee from one position to another until he
bcame President of the Nashville, Chatta
aooga and St. louts road. A few years ago
die rood was sold to the Louisville and
Nashville, and with something like $2,000,-
900 as the result of his years of work he
began investing in real estate. His luck
(tayed with him as steadily as when in the
Railroads, and he made more monev prob
ibly than anybody else in Middle Tennessee
while the boom lasted. At present he has
gone largely into the coal and iron enter
prises in Alabama and Tennessee, and is
sow president of anew iron and coal com
nany which carries in its title the names of
noth State*. At Sheffield, where its princi
pal plant is located, it is getting five fur
naces ready for operations and will mine
both coal and iron from an immense extent
if rich territory.
Mr. Cole is interested in so many other en
terprise* that nobody except himself stems
sompetent to give the full lint. He is a
great Methodist, just as active in the affairs
f the church as in wordly matters of iron,
-oal and real estate, and ut his workroom ut
bis house in the evening has a string of
sailers from the mines, furnaces and real es
tate offices, very plentifully sandwiched
with preachers, presiding elders and promi
jent sisters, who want ls>th counsel and
More substantial help. Very often a “con
terence” in tho vicinity of Nashville causes
l stop in his other business, and firings
srowds of impatient speculators and tner
shant* into anything but a Christian frame
f mind.
All through Tennessee his residence has
the reputation of lying one of tbe finest in
she West. It is on one of the main business
itreets, near the principal hotels and almost
tpposite u new theatre whose brass band is
Fung to make it unpleasant for the Metho
list gentlemen who naturally will come
•ound to call just about the time it is lie
tinning to play. It is wide enough in front
for large rooms on either side of an octagonal
Jail, and in tlie rear gives still more
Soor space by wings extending in
dttier direction. In front, above
-be doorway. is the Homnn
s-elcome “Salve,” and inside nn arrange
ment of balls and rooms very successfully
Modernized from the strict Pompeiian
Bod'd. Tlie floors are Roman mosaic, the
tellings of wood, tho renr hallway square
Mid pillared like the court it imjtatcs, und
the whole arrangement cool, wide ami airy
an extent which is appreciated in this
nimnicr climate. Mr. (.'ole apparentlv
•njoy* his wealth, but is forced to be an
ixtrornely hard and steady worker by the
great number of his enterprises.
WEALTHY SENATOR BROWN,
Senator Brown is not by any means to be
teglected in considering wealthy railroad
men of the South, indeed, a great many
teoplo will say he ought to lie put first. Hi*
Interest* are wonderful even to people who
are used to hearing about Wall street kings,
and the estimates of his money run
away up toward #15,000,000. No
body real])' knows how rich he is. The
nearest approach ever mode to the discovery
was when an Atlanta reporter, with enter
prise far beyond his discretion, undertook
to find out by asking the old gentleman
himself. “Senator,’’ said he, when he had
got firmly sea to 1 in the Senator’s office one
evening, “people say you are very wealthy,
and in writing about you I would like to
say whether you are worth one million or
two.’*
“My son,” said the old man reflectively,
with a mixture of sympathy and benevo
lence in his tone, “a million dollars is a
mighty big lot of money,” and that was the
valuable information the young man carried
away with him.
To be seen at his best, the Senator ought
to be pictured on one of the roads near his
plantation, with one foot on the hub of a
one-ox cart and his silk hat far enough on
the back of bis head to let the farmer's fam
ily in the front seat see the full expanse of
his brow. His black coat-tails then dangle
down unaffectedly and his long white beard
furnishes employment for the hand that is
not occupied in holding on to the cart. He
talks that way about the crops and the Bap
tist meetings to a great many of the fanners
he meets, and seems to like the talking just
as well as the farmers do. They are all for
him for anything, and will see that he goes
back to the Senate as long as he wishes to.
Henator Brown is the most remarkable
man in the South, He lias been successful
in everything. He went into the railway
business and became President of the best
line, and, in fact, almost all the lines of his
State. He tried politics, was Governor, and
is United States Senator with a life leas*!.
A$ a jurist his abilities were unquestioned;
as a manufacturer he put his mills at the
head of the establishments in Ills section; as
a coal operator he is proliably the largest in
dividual owner of paying mines in the
Southern regions. His business facilities,
estimated in dollars and cents are as good
as those of any man who started with him
and suffered the reverses of the war, and
his religion faculties, estimated by
his influence, extend further, probably,
than those of any other man in the
Baptist church of the South. He is
slow in his movements, but his mind is ver
satile. To mention his business enterprises
would be to give a list of nearly all the pay
ing concerns in Georgia and Southeast Ten
nessee. He is head of the Western and At-
lantic railroad, the line from Chattanooga
to Atlanta; the owner of a line which trans
port his own coal; the powerful stockholder
In the Dade Coal Company; the President of
the Rising Fawn Furnace Company, with
its great tracts of ore; President of the Chat
tanooga Iron Company, and in short, in so
many other enterprises that his name crop*
up in every mention of iron, coal orrailrond
interest in the three States. lie is appar
ently not thoroughly appreciated at, Wash
ington among the noisier talkers of the
Senate, but traveling through this country
one is forced tp Know something of his im
mense po ywt.
/ JOHN INMAN AND OTHERS.
Still wealthier, according to report, than
Brown or Magee, though no longer claim
ing the South as nis residence, is John In
man, of New York, who was born, brought
up and made his money in Georgia and then
moved to New York to attend to railroad
interests. He comes South two or three
times a year yet, but controls Southern
railroads from his New York office. He
made his first money in cotton brokerage
in Atlanta after the war, and then went
iuto railroad management. He
is now a director in the
Ijouisville and Nashville, Nash
ville, Chattanooga and Bt. I/nils, Rich
mond and Danville, Georgia Pacific, East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia, Norfolk
and Western, and he is interested practi
cally in every other Southern line. His
fortune is estimated pretty well up to $20,-
000,000, and people here believe that he has
more money than any man who ever made
his start in the South.
Other Southern railroad men, known from
the Ohio to the Gulf, are Milton H. Smith,
First Vice President of the Louisville and
Nashville, and M. H. Stahlman, Third Vice
President of the same road. Neither of
them is rich, however, and their reputation
rests entirely on their abilities as railroad
managers.
A FRENCH CHESTNUT.
Curious Story of a Tree in the Garden
of the Tuilerles.
There is a curious story about a chestnut
tree iu the garden of the Tuileries, which a
Paris pa|ier has just recalled. It is known
as the ‘‘Chestnut of the 20th of Mareh,” and
the peculiarly about it is that it always puts
out its foliage before any other tree in the
garden. This year, however, it has violated
all its traditions; its leaves did not appear
until after many of ito neighbors hud begun
to show their foliage, and it is this fact which
recalls the following htory: One day when
Louis XVIII. was talking with one of his
courtiers, Count Limoleon, about the
weather, the latter imprudently alluded to
the famous chestnut tree. “What is the
chestnut tret! of the 20th of March T’ inquired
the King. “I hear someone speak of it
every year.” The Count saw that he had
made u bud mistake, but tried to repair it.
“Sire,” he replied, “every one avoids speak
ing to your Majesty of this chestnut tree,
because it is a souvenir of one of the most
unhappy episodes of your reign.” “What
is that?” asked the King. “The 20th of March
is the date on which the usurper Bonaparte,
after his escape from the Isle of Elba,
arrived in Pun* and took up his residence
in the palace of the Tuileries." “Well I
know that,” replied the King; “but what
has it to do with the chestnut tree?" “The
followers of Bonaparte observed that on
that day there was one tree in the garden
which was covered with leaves, while the
others had none at all, and the mob from
Paris came to see the tree which it was said put
forth its leaves in honor of the usurper."
“Well,” said the King, "this merely proves
that trees are like men in some respects:
they do not ail have the same opinions.
And did you say that since my second res
toration this particular u-ee liad continued
to have leaves on the 20thof Marchf “Yes,
sire, it is true.” The reply seemed to
annoy the King, and, although he said noth
ing about it, the courtiers decided it would
be best to cut down the Bonapartist tree
and substitute one that was more proper
and loyal in its habits. But what happens f
The year passed, and as fhe King did not
say anything more about the tree it was tie
lieved by the courtiers that he had forgot
ten all about it. They were very much as
tonished, therefore, when on the 20th of
March, 1824, the King, who never went to
the garden of the Tuileries, expressed a wish
to see the famous chestnut tree. Their
amazement was extreme, however, when
they arrived at tlie garden and found the
tree in full bloom, with even more loaves
and flowers than before. The r mortification
may tie imugined. The King, however,
reassured them by remarking, after he had
taken a good look at the tree, “Well, let it
remain and represent the Boiia|>artist
opinions it will. So long as this is tlio
only thing which conspires against us the
Bourbons Itave little to fear.” The tree is
still in the garden of the Tuileries, but it is
not the one which bloomed on the jbth of
March, 1815, when tho Emperor returned to
Paris.
A ghost has been performing strange
antics in the old brick school house ou Green
street, in Middletown, Com*?, and the citi
zens are being much wrought up over tho
master. The phantom is supposed to lie
that of old Richard Hyland, the eccentric
janitor of the building, who died recently,
and whose spirit now flits through tlie
empty rooms of the school house at night
and lights them up with unearthly light.
People who live near the school house have
seen the old fellow poke his grim visage
through the windows at night and then, re
tiring to tlie tops of tho desks, dance an un
canny war dance in tlie glare of a ghostly
light. Tho children refuse to go to the
school any longer, and tho affair is to be in
vestigated.
THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1887.
A BABY IN' THE ASH-CART
DUMPED ALIVE INTO A SCOW
WITH THE REFUSE.
It Was Nearly Dead When Exhumed
With a Pitchfork- None of the Drivers
Remember Picking Up the Basket in
Which the Waif Was Packed lt Is a
Pretty Baby Boy, and Hla Life May
Yet Be Saved.
Prom the ,Ve7 York World.
The unfortunate little waif whose strange
and eventful career in an ash cart and sub
sequent Jf indirig in a mountain of garbage
and ashes on a public scow at the foot of
West Twelfth street, during the first Sab
bath hour, was told yesterday, is still alive
and doing well.
When the little stranger was brought to
police headquarters at 1:15 yesterday morn
ing he presented a pitiable sight. The rough
handling he had received while en route
from the area where the basket was found
and thrown into the cart, the ashes and
garbage which were thrown over it, and
probably half an hour later the being
dumped together with the load of filth a dis
tance of 15 feet to the scow alongside the
public dump, hail considerably shaken up
tho baby, loosened the few articles of cloth
ing that had been wrapped about it, and
completely coated its body and face in ashes
and other refuse.
With tears in her eyes and many expres
sions of pity Matron Webb received her
charge from the officer that had carried it
tenderly from the station house, yet seven
hours later a visitor to Matron Webb’s
rooms was, at his request, shown the baby
that had such a miraculous escape, and
found it still begrimed with ashes and dirt.
On its back, in a little crib behind the door,
lav the little waif. Its ears were still filled
with ashes and cinders, the little nostrils
were all but completely stopped with dirt,
and while the mouth was comparatively
free, the little sufferer’s eyelids were fairly
weighted down with ash (lust. The wretched
little being essayed to open its eyes, but I he
instant the lids were partially raised the fine
ashes trickled into the sockets. The eyes
closed instantly, and the feeble cries of the
baby showed how severely the little one was
suffering.
The baby had been given a little brandy
and milk by the Matron and then put into
the crib without being washed or cleaned in
the least. When spoken to about it Mrs.
Webb said that she had been up nearly all
night, looking after the dozen or more of
lost children that were brought in, and was
tired out. Then she instructed her servant
to get some warm water with which to
bathe the foundling. Once clean, it pre
sented a better appearance, and proved to
be a pretty baby. The boy, who is about
three or four weeks old, has black hair and
eyes, with long eyelashes, a small mouth
and regularly cut feature*. Its body was
slightly emaciated and its face a little
pinched, having the appearance of starva
tion.
As to w-hore the stranger came from or
who abandoned him, everybody seems to be
in the dark. Strenuous efforts will, how
ever, lie made to discover the guilty and
punish them as severely as the law will ad
mit. The Fifteenth ward only has its garb
age and ashes removed during the night,
and the dump for that section of the city is
at the foot of West Twelfth street. Satur
day night only four carts were engaged in
this task, and although the drivers ot each
were closely questioned by World reporters
immediately after the finding of the waif,
no one knew- aught of the basket. The lat
ter is on ordinary receptacle, made of wide
strips. It is about 18 inches long by 12 wide,
ana 8 inches deep, with a stiff handle. There
was just room enough in the basket to
squeeze in the child as it was wrapped in its
coverings. The latter consisted of"p long
white flannel skirt and an unbleitritcrtmuslin
slip or dress.
In the bottom of tho basket was last Fri
day’s Do Hi/ News and a copy of the Morn
ing Journal of May 8. A long black stock
ing, much torn, had been doubled up and
placed under the child’s head, persumably as
a pillow. An old, ragged, black shawl with
white stripes was, wrappea about the boy,
and thus stuffed into close quarters he was
set adrift.
The scows on which the city’s ashes and
refuse are removed are of two classes—flat
and bin, the latter being self-dumping scows.
The scow- on which the baby was found is a
flat one. Had it been of the other kind the
little innocent would ere this have found a
watery grave and no one be
any the wiser. The garbage on
the self-dumping scows goes direct
from the cart into the bin, and thence it is
dropped into tho sea through the bottom of
the bin. Thus, it is never handled after it
is once thrown into the carts. On the other
hand, all the garbage and ashes dumped on
to the flat scows have to lie rehandled by
men known as trimmers, who are armed
with huge pitchforks having four broad and
sharp tines. Thus it was by the merest ac
cident that the child’s life was saved. Hav
ing escaped being drowned it was a miracle
that prevented its being smothered in tho
ash heap, or, more horrible still, impaled on
the tines of a trimmer’s pitchrork.
The flat scows hold about 400 loads of
refuse and up to midnight Saturday this
one was about half fun. At that time
three of the four carts dumped their loads
simultaneously. The fourth one liad depos
ited its load a quarter of an hour previous.
The trimmers, of whom there are two on
each scow, liad not handled any of the
ashes dumped during the previous hour, so
that there was an accumulation of at least
eight loads when they began their task. At
12:15 a.m. James Julian, one of the trim
mers, came upon the Imsket underneath a
load of ashes and other refuse, and, picking
it up on his fork, pitched it some ten or
fifteen feet away to even up the load. As
the basket rolled over the taint cry of an
infant startled those on the scow, who
listening for a moment heard the cry
repeated. It was traced to the basket, and
with a bound, Pietro Barro, the head trim
mer, jumped over the heaps of rubbish,
picked up the basket and tore off the ragged
and now filthy shawl.
“My God!’’ he shouted, “it’sa baby; alive
baby, and with his strange find he scram
bled up on the dock and into the little shanty
occupied by Timothy Sullivan, the night
watchman. The basket was filled with
ashes, decayed vegetables and other rubbish,
which the kind-hearted man hastily re
moved. Tho baby’s face was as cold as
stone, and it gasped as if in Hk death throes.
A fire was burning in a stove in the hut, and
Sullivan thawed out the little waif by hold
ing his large warm hand over it. Police
man Shanahan took the tiasket and its con
tents to the Charles street station, and
thence Sergt. Grainger sent it to Matron
Webb by Patrolman McCarton.
When the baby was brought into the sta
tion house Police Commissioner Voorhls was
present. Ho was the first to express pity for
the waif and with his own hands tried to re
suscitate it.
“It is a shame and an outrage,” said the
Commissioner. “It is worse than murder,
and nothing must be left undone to ferret
out this cruel and heartless wretch.”
Sergt. Grainger at once detailed Detec
tives Valleant and Burleigh to follow up the
case and, if possible, arrest the mother, or
whoever abandoned the child. It will lie a
difficult job, however. The Fifteenth ward
is large, extending from Fourteenth street
to Fourth avenue, to the Bowery, to Blocker
street, to Broadway, to Houston street, to
Sixth avenue and thence to Fourteenth
street. An ash cart will hold the refuse
from more than a block of buildings, and
even if it could be found out which of the
four driver* brought tho basket to the dump
he would be at a loss to know where he
Sot it. Tho drivers are Andrew Galligan,
ames Law lor, Frank Kelley and James
O’Brien. AH of them declared positively
that they have no recoUeeollectloil of hand
ling the basket. If it had been placed in
side of an area alongside of an ash barrel,
and the driver supposing it to be rubbish,
liad thrown it Into the cart, he certainly
would remember the circumstance. Then,
again, the basket is too larg- to admit of its
being placed in a barrel and dumped there
from without some difficulty Besides, a
standing rule of the street cleaning depart
ment is for the driver to open and examine
any and all packages, bags or boxes that
are tied up and have a suspicious look about
them.
The supposition among all the men is that
while one of the drivers was away from his
cart, probably getting a drink before the
saloons closet! Saturday night, some mother,
or probably someone paid to get rid of the
child, stealthily slipped the basket into the
cart. When tlie dnvei returned he unsus
piciously proceeded with his work and
threw barrel after barrel of ashes into the
cart until it was full, when he took it to the
dump where it was subsequently found and
the waif so miraculously rescued. Fully
a hundred persons along the route through
Twelf th a*d adjacent streets where the carts
passed Saturday night were questioned yes
terday concerning the disappearance of a
baby, or as to their having seen anyone
with the basket, but no one seems to nave
anv recollection of such a circumstance.
The baby was last evening sent to the
office of the society, at Eleventh street and
Fourth avenue.
BATTLE OF OKEECHOBEE.
Col. Z. Taylor’s Description of a Fight
With the Indians.
Capt. F. A. Hendry furnishes the Myers
Press with the follow ing copy of Gen. Tay
lor’s report of the battle of Lake Okeechobee,
fought Dec. 25, 1827:
General: A part of my force left Fort
Gardner on Dec. 19, and I "left with the Iml
ance (excepting a small force to protect the
supplies at that fort), on the following morn
ing, and after a rapid march down the Kis
simmee, of which movement I advised you
in my tetter of Dec. 19, I reached its banks
again on the evening of the third day. about
fifteen miles above its entrance into
imlce Okeechobee, and learned from a
prisoner I captuml on that day that
Alligator with all the war spirits of the
Seminoles, with Sam Jones and 175 Mic
rausakeys were encamped about twenty-five
miles in advance on the east side of the Kis
simmee. I crossed the Kissimmee
(where I left Capt. Munroe with his
company, the pioneers, pontoniers and a
large portion of the Delaware Indians, w-ho
declined going, alleging that their feet and
legs were so badly cut by the saw palmetto
that they could not march any further)
the next day, taking the captured
Indian with me as a guide, who
went very reluctantly, in pursuit
of the enemy, and after passing several
cypress swamps and dense hummocks, I
reached the vicinity of the evening’s en
campment op the morning of Dec. 25, and
although occupying one of the strongest and
most difficult places to approach and enter
in Florida, which no doubt had been selected
for the purpose of giving me battle there, as
I was informed by a prisoner I took the
evening previous, but relying on the valor
of the officers and soldiers of my command,
as well as on the skill of the former, I did
not hesitate a moment in bringing them to
action.
After making the necessary arrangements
I entered a swamp nearly a mile in width,
impassable for horse and almost so for foot.
I reached the hummock in which they were
stationed, between 12 and 1 p. m., when the
action commenced, tho enemy opening a
warm fire on the volunteers, who composed
the first line, a great portion of whom fell
back in rear of the Fourth and Sixth In
fantry; which corps, under one of the
warmest and most destructive fires ever
experienced from Indians, particularly
tho Sixth, pressed forward, gained the hum
mock, and after a severe struggle for more
than an hour, after tiring joined by the
First infantry, which were held in reserve,
and two companies of the Fourth that had
been detached to the right, who joined a
short time before the close of the battle, the
enemy was completely routed and driven in
every direction, and were pursued by the
troops until near night and until they were
completely exhausted.
The victory was dearly purchased, but I
flatter myself that the result will be
equivalent to the sacrifice made. The
enemy made his greatest efforts to break
the centre of the Sixth, killing and wound
ing every officer of four companies, with
one exception, and every orderly sergeant
of those companies, killing its gallant com
mander and adjutant, who fell where they
fought in the hottest of the action, and
mortally wounding the sergeant major,
who is since dead.
The next day was employed in the sad of
fices of interring the dead and taking care
of the wounded, all of whom were brought
back across the morass to camp that even
ing with one exception, not being able to
find the body, and in constructing litters to
convey the wounded to the place where 1
left my wagons.
I am thus far on my way to that point
and shall reach there to-morrow, where I
shall take as good care of the wounded as
possible and also recruit rny men and horses
at my- several advanced depots particu
larly the latter, before I can again take the
field.
The enemy, all things considered, proba
bly suffered equally with ourselves; they
left ten bodies on the field, besides carrying
many off without doubt, as there were
tract* of blood to the banks of the .Okee
chobee lake, on the borders of which the
battle was fought.
Wishing you health and success, I remain,
General, your obedient servant,
Z. Taylor,
Colonel Commanding.
Maj. Oen. T. S. Jr sup. Commanding Army
of South Florida.
P. S.—As soon as I can do so I will make
you a more full report of the battle and my
operations.
I am now writing without candle, with
pine knots as a subststute. in a cabbage tree
hummock in the centre of a large prairie,
on a very dirty sheet of paper, w-hich is the
only one in camp.
Da-vfld Pingree’s Land Speculation.
From the. Levriston(Me) Journal, May 14.
An Augusta lumberman tells the follow
ing story of Sam Smith, one of the best
known lumbermen in tho Penobscot region,
forty- y-ears ago, and who knew about all
there was to be known of the Maine forest.
Smith failed and was left without a cent.
Ho disapjieared soon after and for eight
months was not heard from. Olio day he
appeared in Bangor in a threadbare and
ragged suit of clothes, with an old white
hat on his head, and a general air of depres
sion. There was a big land sale that day in
which eleven townships, all heavily wooded,
were sold by tho State. A pool had been
formed by a party of long headed
lumbermen to buy" the land for a
song. One of them suggested that Sam
Smith be invited to join the number, bnt
the rest laughed at the idea of taking a street
loafer, what would be called a tramp now
days, into their counsel*. The bidding be
gan, all of the offers tiring ridiculously low.
A smile went round the company as Smith
lounged up and bid slightly alsive the others.-
“Let it go," said the pool men, “he can’t
pay a dollar. ” The eleven townships were
accordingly knocked down to him. But
Sam soon showed them that he had the best
of the joke. From an inside pocket of his
old coat he pulled out the $5,000 required to
be i>ukl down and offered to pay more.
This placed him on his feet again, "it after
ward transpired that Dave Pingree, of
Salem, was hacking him and they realized
over $1,000,000 on the lumber taken off the
250,000 acres in tho#' eleven t*nvnship6.
Mrs. Gordon 1 * little boy, of Cairo, UL,
acted strangely one morning a week ago
and was put to bed. Suddenly he called to
his mother and said: “Papa has come back.”
“That is foolish talk, Charley,” said his
mother; “your papa is dead and cannot
come back.” “But he’s sitting on your choir
there and laughing at you,” said the boy.
Thinking that the child was becoming de
lirious, Mrs. Gordon sent for a doctor, but
while the messenger was absent the little
fellow said; “Papa tells me that John won’t
find the doctor at home, and that yon must
now kiss me good-by.” A moment later the
child became unconscious and soon died,
while the messenger on his return reported
that the 'l'ysician was out of towu.
IX MKMORIAM.
One rear ago to-day little Anna Belle, young
est daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Samuel A. White,
departed this life, aged 1 year. 11 months and
28 days.
It was with deeply sorrowing hearts, known
only to those who have suffered n like bereave
ment, that the fond parents consigned to the
dark and lonely grave the form of this precious
little darling.
Stricken in the very midst of perfect and ro
bust health, made the blow only the more crush
ing.
words are truly inadequate to describe the
deep anguish of that fearful partiug. and when
we remember that this v.-as the fourth time
those parents were called upon to give their
darlings up. can we wonder that their hearts
were well gigh broken. The following lines
were written soon after her death, and are affec
tionately inveribed to her memory:
Smooth the bright ringlets of beautiful hair,
Gently away from the marble brow.
So placid in death, and so wondrous fair.
A et so cold and white in its beauty now;
The snowy hands we'll cross on her breast,
With only a pure white rosebud there;
The dear little feet have at last found rest,
That went pattering everywhere.
And her lovely eyes, so brown and bright.
That twinkled in babyhood s happy glee,
Are closed forever, and all is night.
To those beautiful eyes as well as to me;
Her sweet little lips, that with me have smiled,
Are white and cold as the driven snow,
That I kiss and kiss with an anguish wild.
While my heart lies crushed with the fearful
blow.
Oh! Heaveuly Father! Thy chastening rod.
Seems more than my broken heart can bear;
For strength is ray fervent prayer to God,
That I yield to Him this idol dear.
This sweet little one, I loved with a love,
That made me regard her as all my own;
That I worshiped instead of my God above,
Believing her mine and mine alone.
Oh, Father, in mercy remember me,
And change this hard and rebellious will;
May the love that I gave her be given to Thee,
May I hid this murmuring heart lie still;
Oh, may I remember this darling mine,
Is saved through the blood of Thine only Son;
May I trustingly yield Thee that which is Thine,
And faithfully whisper, "Thy trill be done."
Savannah. Ga., May 18th. 1887.
MEETINGS.
I. O. O. F.
MAGNOLIA EN- Jt
Odd Fellows' Tem- -
pie, N. W. corner Bar- ' a ”‘WHn|L O.R
nard and State streets. rir'Blli
Regular me (-ring //’ MAvi.Mtk
TIHS <Wednesdav
EVENING at 8 o'clock.
JOHN RILEY, C. P.
J. 8. Tyson. Scribe.
GOLDEN RI LE LODGE NO. 12, I. O. O. F.
A regular meeting of this Lodge will be held
THIS EVENING at 8 o'clock at new hall.
Members of other Lodges and visiting brothers
are invited to attend.
By order or C. S. WOOD, N. G.
H. G. Ganahl, Secretary.
TRAVELERS’ PROTECTIVE ASSOCIA
TIO.N.
The Annual Convention of the Georgia State
Division of the Travelers' Protective Association
will be held in Macon on MAY 23d and 24th next.
T. P. A.'s and all other traveling men are re
spectfully invited and cordially requested to at
tend. Reduced rates will be given from your
town.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
""grand FAMILY EXt IRSION.
STEAMER POPE CATLIN will leave Kelly's
Wharf, foot Bull street, on WEDNESDAY, MAY
18th, at 2:30 p. m. for a trip around TYBEE BELL
BUOY, returning via LAZZARETTA CREEK,
affording a tine opportunity to enjoy the sea
breeze. Fare 50c.; children half price. MUSIC
and REFRESHMENTS on board.
This steamer can be chartered by excursions
by applying to the Captain on board.
NOTICE.
Extension of the Birmingham and Atlantic
Air Line Railroad.
At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the
Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad Company,
held at the office of the Company, in Griffin,
(ta., May 16, 1837, the following resolution was
unanimously adopted:
“Be it resolved. By the Board of Directors of
the Birmingham and Atlantic Air Line Railroad
Company, that the said road be extended from
Greenville, Ga., a point on its line of road, to
Savannah, Ga., said extension to be constructed
and operated as a branch road. Th<* same
to pass from Greenville, in the county of Meri
wether. on through said county into the county
of Upson, in the direction of Tliomaston, in said
county; thence in as direct a line as practicable
through Upson and Monroe counties into Bibb
county to the city of Macon; thence in a direct
line through the county of Twiggs, and through
the county of Wilkinson ipto the county of Lau
rens, to the town of Dublin; thence from the
town of Dublin on through the county of I.au
reus, through the upper part of the county of
Montgomery; through the county of Emanuel,
through the county of Bulloch, through the
countv of Tattnail, through the county oflirvan.
into the county of Chatham, to the city of Sa
vannah. Through all said counties in as direct
a line as practicable from Dublin. Ga., to Sa
vannah, Ga., the said branch road from Green
ville, Ga., to Savannah, Ga., being about 220
miles in length." W. H. WILLIAMS,
Ass't Bec'y B. & A. A. L. R. R. Cos.
THE BAFFLE
That was to have taken place last Monday even
ing at Joyce & Hunt's, for the benefit of Mr. J.
F. DALY, is postponed until NEXT MONDAY
EVENING, May 23d, on account of parties not
making their returns in time. AU parties having
tickets for sale will please make their returns at
once, to ANDREW HANLEY.
NOTICE TO JURORS.
The Traverse Jurors of the City Court need
not appear until FRIDAY MORNING, 20th
inst, at 10 o'clock. By order of Judge Harden
T. M. RUSSELL, Clerk C. C. S.
May 18th, 1887.
CHATHAM GINCLUB.
The regular practice of the Club will be held
THIS (Wednesday) AFTERNOON, at 4 o'clock,
at the old Base Ball Park, and on EVERY
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON until further no
tice. By order of the PRESIDENT.
Savannah, May 18, 1887.
JUST OPENED.
A good assortment of SUMMER CLOTHING.
For sale very low by JAUDON,
W St. Julian street.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
Award of the judges of the Floral and Art Ex
hibition. held at Chatham Artillery Hall lost
week: "Messrs. Davis Bros., best-toned pianos,
diploma."
Please excuse us for mentioning the faet, but
ns this was our first competitive exhibit, we
feel naturally more or less elated. We carry an
elegant line of pianos always in stock, and from
the volume of business that we now control in
this line we imagine the above verdict is wide
spread and unanimous. We hsndie the Knabe,
Kranieh it Bach, Augustus, Baus & Cos. and
Estey pianos. Call or write. Prices and terms
liberal. DAVIS BROS.,
42 and 44 Bull street.
FOR BALE.
120 Horse Power ENGINE for sale at a bar
gain. Cylinder 20x30. About new and in per
fect order. A. B. HART.
Lake City, Fla,
I I.MKR'B LIVER COItHECTOR.
This vegetable preparation is invaluable for
the restoration of tone and strength to the sys
tem. For Dyspepsia, Constipation and other
ills, caused by a disordered liver, it cannot be
excelled. Highest prizes awarded, and in
dorsed by eminent medical men. Ask for Ul
mer's Liver Corrector and take no other. $1 <*)
a bottle. Fneigbt paid to any address.
B. F. ULMER. M. D.,
Pharmacist. Savannah, Ga.
SPECIAL. NOTICES.
TO THE PillLIO.
I hereby announce that I have the agency of
the ELECTRIC ROACH POWDER, the best
ever brought before the public.
I have tested it thoroughly in my bakery, and
I am now entirely free from roaches on the
premises. It can he safely used in Kitchens,
Residences. Bakeries. Hotels and Steamers.
The Powder is guaranteed by the Larkin
Chemical Cos. JOHN DERST,
92 Broughton street.
SUMMER RESORTS.
si; MME R B OARD.
GLENBURNIB,
MARIETTA, GEORGIA.
pjOUSE of fifteen rooms. Four blocks from
depot. Grounds two acres in extent. Table
supplied with the best meats, vegetables, fruits,
poultry, Jersey milk and butter. Water drawn
from a well blasted fifty feet in the solid rock.
Tatt and Salt Springs water on draught. Ad
dress Mrs. MARY J. WRIGHT, Marietta. Ga.
CATSKILL MOU N T AIN S,
GLENW r OOD HOTEL,
HE finest and healthiest place in the moun
tains. All kinds of amusements. Board $9.
Send for circular.
V. BRAMSON, Catskili, N. Y.
r T''HE WATAUGA HOTEL, Blowing Rock. N.
J C. In the mountains of North Carolina.
4,000 fret above the sea. Easily accessible. Medi
cal graduate on the promises. Terms the low
est In North Carolina. Opened June Ist for the
season. For information address WATAUGA
HOTEL CO.. Blowing Rock, N. C.
.MALE SPRINGS,
Blount Conntv, - Tennessee.
t 1
r pHIS Health Resort will be open May Ist, 1887.
A The most celebrated Dyspeptic Water
known. Elegant Hotel and Grounds. Excellent
Table. Telephone connection with Knoxville.
Rates: *1 per day : $25 per month for May and
June: $2 per day. $lO and sl2 per week, $35 and
S4O per month for July and August. Half rates
for children. J. C. ENGEL, Prop.
CLARENDON HOTEL,"'
Saratoga Springs, NT. Y,
OPENS JUNE 25th.
Popular rates $3 00 per day
P. STEINFELD,
Proprietor.
the Columbian;
SARATOGA SPRINGS,
THE FAVORITE HOTEL OF SAVANNAHIANS
Opens June 2.5 th.
JAMES M. CASE, Proprietor.
The “Mentone” Villa,
Sea Cliff, Long Island, N. Y.,
IS now open for the reception of guests. Terms
$lO to sls a week. All appointments strictly
first-class. This is an exceptional place for
Southern families to spend a pleasant summer
at. A. SPEED.
YVTHERE are you going this summer with
' 1 your family? For comfort, pleasure,
grand qnd picturesque scenery, delightful, cool
climate and nowerfullv tonic waters, try the
SWEET SPRINGS. WEST VIRGINIA,
accommodating comfortably 800 visitors. Hot
and Cold Baths; Water; Gents’ and Ladies'
Swimming Pools: a fine Brass and String Band.
Board per day, $2 50; per week. sls: per month,
SSO. For pamphlet address J. WATKINS LEE,
Manager.
Indian Harbor Hotel,
GREENWICH, CONN.
Will Open Saturday, Jane 18th,
Address WM. H. LEE.
Grand Hotel, 31st street and Broadway, New
York.
Mountain lake, Giles county, ya.
Elevation 4,000 feet. Pure, cool air and
water. No hay fever or mosquitoes. Grand
scenery. Unequaled attractions. Rates per
month S4O to SSO. Write for pamphlet. Ad
di-ess MANAGER.
HOTELS.
WASHINGTON HOTEL
7th and Chestnut Streets,
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
JOHN TRACY, PROPRIETOR.
RATES, &2 50 PER DAY.
Centrally located, only a short walk from
Penn'a and Reading Depots. New Passenger
Elevator, Electric Bells, New Dining Room and
all modern improvements. Polite attendance
and unsurpassed table.
NEW '’HOTEL* TOG-NI,
(Formerly St. Mark's.!
Nevman street, near Bay, Jacksonville, Fla.
THE MOST central House in the city. Near
Post Office, Street Cars and all Femes.
New and Elegant Furniture. Electric Beils,
Baths, Etc. $2 50 to $3 per day.
JOHN B. TOGNL Proprietor.
S. A. UPSON, Manager.
HOTEL VENDOME;
BROADWAY & FORTY-FIRST STREET
NEW YORK.
A MERICAN PLAN. Centrally located. All
• V the latest improvements. Cuisine and ser
vice unexcelled.
Special rates to permanent guests.
1. BTKINFELD, Manager.
DUB'S SCREVEN HOUSE"
r PHIS POPULAR Hotel is now provided with
1 a Passenger Elevator (the only one in the
citv) and has been remodeled and newly fur
nished. The proprietor, who by recent purchase
is also the owner of the establishment, spares
neither i>ains nor expense in the entertainment
of his guests. The patronage of Florida visit
ora is earnestly invited. The table of the
Bcrm*en House is supplied with ivery luxury
that the market# at home or abroad can afford.
MARSIiALL HOTTsI
SAVANNAH, - - GA.
fl F/V D. HODGES, Proprietor. Formerly of
Y* the Metropolitan Hotel. New York, and tha
Grand Union, Saratoga Springs. Location cen
tral. All parts of the city and places of inter
est accessible by street cars constantly passing
the doors. Special inducements to those visit
ing the city for business or pleasure.
THE MORRISON HOUSE’
One of the largest Boarding Houses in the
South.
A KFORDR pleasant South rooms, good board
1 \ with pure Artesian Water, at prices to suit
those wishing table, regular or transient accom
modations. Northeast center Broughton and
Drayton streets, opposite Marshall House.
IMNN Tint A XL *BOOKBIXDEB.
Chips from the Old Block!
THF. WORKMEN EMPLOYED BY
GEO. N. NICHOLS,
PRINTER AND BINDER.
Their work has given repu
tation to the UMtublishmeut.
None better. j
PICNICS.
AID THE fltSl
A Mammoth Picnic
—UNDER THE AUSPICES—
BRANCH 38, C. K. OF A
—WILL BE OlVtOf—
Wednesday, May 18, 1887
AT MONTGOMERY,
FOR THE BENEFIT OF
ST. MARY’S HOME.
Tickets 25 and 50 cents. Can be purchaser
E. M. Connor s, J. B. Fernandez', W f r^
P. B. Reid's, Henry Blun's. M. Cooler's Kehre*
Iron 55 orlcs. and from members of th Ili-AmA,
Two bands of music will be in attendance
freshments on the ground. Dinner 25 i-emt
No baskets needed.
Cars leave Anderson street at 9:30 10-2 K
*i®' 3 3 : 4 6 :3 9' £ L*ave Montgomery at 10:3o|
EXCURSIONS.
laisilifllrai
RAILW A Y.
Summer Excursions
Commencing SUNDAY, MAY 15th, this Com.
pany will sell round trip tickets to
CHARLESTON AND WALTERBORO,
By following Trains and at following Rates:
By train leaving Snndays only, at 6:45 i. h. ; re
turning, leave Charleston at 3:85 p. m. and
sValterboro 3:40 p. m. same day §<
By train leaving Sunday only at 6:45 a. h,; re
turning, leave Charleston Monday 3:45
* $2 00
By train leaving Saturday at 8:23 p. m.; return
ing, leave Charleston Monday 3:45 a. h. . $3 00
Port Royal and Beaufort.
By train leaving 6:45 a. m. Sunday; returning,
leave Beaufort 3:25 p. it. same day. Ticket $]
for round trip.
Tickets for sale at WM. BREN’S, Bull street,
and at Depot. E. P. McSSVINEY,
Gen, Pass. Agent.
ICE.
ICE, ice, ice:
Kennebeclce.
Wholesale and Retail.
PRICES REASONABLE.
Families, Stores and Offices
served daily with any desired
quantity,
Ice packed for shipment by
experienced packers.
Large buyers will find it to
their interest to consult us be
fore closing contracts for their
supply.
KNICKERBOCKER ICE COMPANY,
• 144 8.. Y STREET.
—g I
WANTED.
Wool Wanted
The highest cash j
prices paid at all times j
for WOOL. Shippers J
will save money by
consulting me before J
selling.
M.Y. HENDERSON,
180 Bay Street, Savannah, Ga I
PUBLICATIONS.
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FOR JUNE
AT
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L’Art de la Mode
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Delineator
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—OFTHE
SAVANNAH MORNING NEK
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Three .Months 1 D
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PROPOSALS WANTED-
Proposals Wanted
BIDS will be received up to the litoj’JJf'*
for the buildings on the eastern 1
on the comer of Whitaker, President . _jjil
streets, and also for excavating to th i , ‘jjlf
10 feet the lot above mentioned, measui j s ((B
IK) feet. The buildings to be minored wim (0 ,
days and the excavating to he luusb
llrst of July, 1887. TANARUS) „ r Mit *
Bids must he tuude separately. The n
reserved to reject any or all Was- ,
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£ *•
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