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2 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. Fashion Magazines FOR JUNE AT ESTILL’S NEWS DEPOT, NO. 23 BULL ST. Pnca Young Ladies’ Journal jg Demorest’s Monthly Peterson's Monthly ~ Godey's Monthly * L’Art de la Mode The Season Le Bon Ton Delineator Harper's Bazar New York Fashion Bazar Address all orders to ... WILLIAM EBTILL. City Delivery —OFTHE SAVANNAH MORNING NEK The undersigned is prepared to de'i' er Morning News (payable hi advance) at lowing rates: | )0 (# Six Months jjf) Three .Months 1 D One Month WILLIAM ESTILI* (Estill's News Denot. No. 23 Bull 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- , J. H. ESTILL,. £ *• RUF US E. Committee Unlo“