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2 FLORIDA’S CAPITAL CITY. ROUTINE BUSINESS PUSHED FOR WARD RAPIDLY. The Railroad Bill to Pass-Many Other Important Measures That Have Gone Through the Mill—lnvestigating the Okeechokee Draining Company. Tallahassee, Fla., May 23.—The Sen ate to-day, by a vote of 21 to 4, passed the House railroad commission bill with an amendment providing for an appeal from the decisions of the Commissioners to the yoard of revisors, composed of the Comp troller, Treasurer, Attorney General, Sec retary of State and the Commissioner of Agricultura The bill will be sent to the House to-morrow for the ratification of the Senate amendments. Then it goes to the Governor for his consideration. The Senate passed to a third reading the bill appropria ting $7,500 for the Agricultural College at teke City. The bill for the encouragement of sugar "raising in Florida was indefinitely postponed. The Senate considered the bill directing the Attorney General to take steps to have the land grants not carried out by the rail roads declared forfeited, so that the State can convey the land to actual settlers and others, but no final action was taken. INVESTIGATING DISSTON'S WORK. A joint committee from the Senate and House are now investigating the territory in the vicinity of Kissimmee, included in the district claimed to have been drained by the Okeechobee company. BILLS PASSED. The House passed the bills legalizing the town government of Bartow, regulating the sale of seed cotton, establishing criminal courts of record in the counties of Orange and Escambia, incorporating a business col lege at White Springs, Columbia county, and providing that county seats shall be at least five miles from the boundary line of the county, so as to be near the centre; also a bill for the incorporation of building and loan associations. The jioll tax prerequisite bill was indefinitely postponed in the House by a vote of Bfi to 23. This finally nettles this matter in this State as to making pay ment of the poll tax a qualification for voting. NEW APPORTIONMENT. A hill making the apportionment of the representation in several counties was in troduced in the House. One representation is allowed from each county, but no county is given more than three, instead of four, as heretofore. The counties of Duval, Leon, Jefferson, Jackson and Sumter lose one each, and Marion gains one: one Senatorial district from West Florida is transferred to South Florida, and each of the newly made counties is added to other Senatorial dis tricts so as to make the number of Senators the same as now—thirty-two. This allot ment will be violently assailed by the coun ties demanding a larger representation, and much discussion and wrangling is expected over this measure. CONFIRMATIONS. The Senate to-day confirmed M. R. Cooper, County Judge for St. John’s county; Richard McCanathy, County Judge for Marion coun ty, and Jacob Kogger, L. M. Merrett and John Mooney, Commissioners of Pilotage at the port of Pensacola. It is rumored to-night that Gen. Finley will be appointed Judge of the Fifth circuit this week. SOUTH FLORIDA WELI, REPRESENTED. The new tjjieaker, Mr. George H. Browne, of Orange, has had some exjierience while presiding at different periods of the session. He is rapidly learning the arts necessary in a presiding " officer, and his rulings so far have given entire satisfaction. South Florida now has the presiding offl oers of both the House and Senate. Gov. Mabry, of Sumter, is a model Presi dent of the Senate. It is noticeable that many of the measures of great import have not been considered at aii. and as tne end of the sesraon approaches it becomes evident that tne bills needing nrist thoughtful consideration will be passed without care or ceremony. AN EXAMPLE FOR OTHERS. Senator Pasco has expressed his determi nation to address himself to acquiring infor mation as to the ness Is of the people of the State in their relations with the Federal government, that he may inoje effectually and acceptably serve them when he reaches Washington. To this end he will visit the different sections of the State to inquire into their demands, and he will take par ticular care to acquaint himself with the his tory and conditions of the claims of the State of Florida held against the general government. The commercial necessities of the State in the matter of coast and harbor improve ments will receive his sjiecial attention. CONFIRMATIONS. Mason S. Moreno, to be Collector of Reve aue of Monroe county. John C. Calhoun, to be Clerk of the Cir :uit Court of Taylor county. J. J. Gornto, to be County Judge of Tay lor county. John M. Jenkins, to be Assessor of Taxes ’or Taylor county. W. A. Giles, to be County Judge of Wakulla county. John C. Douglass, to be Collector of Reve tue for Walton county. MORE THAN 105 YEARS OLD. lath of a Jerseyman Who Found Virtue in Applejack. From the New York World. Mata WAR, May 311. —James Preston died It his old home at Brown town yesterday. He was just 105 years and 5 months old. His faculties he retained up to the time of lis death. Preston was Ixirn of Scotch parents in the Highlands of Sootland on Dec. 30, 1793, and he came to this country ibout ninety years ngo, settling at first in New York. Afterwards he moved to Phila delphia. When about 50 years old he went to Browntown and, purchasing a small farm, settled down with his wife to |>uxs his t>ld age in peace and quietness. lie married before he was 35 years old a New York idy who died n number of years be fore he came to the State. His daughter, Mrs. Jane Bronson, who kept house for him, x 05 years old, and his oldest son, John Preston, is about HO years old. He had children, grandchildren, gront-grandchil- Iren and great-great grand h i Idren. One ion lives in New York, another in Pennsyl rania, one in the South and one ut Brown wn. His son and a grandson went to the war and fought for the suppression of ilavery, and the old gentleman, who took a rigorous interest in such matters, would lave gone himself, but was kept at home by lis anxious relations. He was very patriotic, ind took a very active inteiest in’the doings >f Oongret*. He read the papers closely uid wns perfectly familiar with all public yVwtts. lAitely the efforts for home rule in Ifeland occupied muclcof his attention, and te died hie ling for self-government for the bncrald bile. Up to the time of his death Mr. Preston nanaged and directed the work on the lomestend farm, consisting of about 300 icres. He was in the habit of walking all over the pltwe, with his old-fashiohed locust cane, daily, stein,; that the fences were kept in order and that the bushes were properly trimmed. At times he would ramble away from home and u general search would lie instituted for him, but the old man always turned up all right. The family say that M lias been a can* for the last half dozeu years, ifis age kept them in constant fear of some accident Is-falting him. Everybody knew J6hn l'reeton and everybody liked him. “When he was in his I doth year Mr. Pres- Ivti walk's! home from South Amboy, a dis tance of over eight miles, in less than two bdurs. Since then he has Cut up a o*nl of wnod just to show people what he could do. His hospitality was one of his most pro nounced characteristics. His Imard was open to every one. Every night liefore re tiring he would take a drink of old Jersey applejack, and he attributed his old age and good health to this practice. He was never known to have a sick day, and Dr. A. J. Jackson, his physician, said to-night that he died from old age and that alone. The coffin was ordered from New York to-day by Laird & Stephens, of English town. On the silver plate it bears this in scription : •’ * • : James Preston, : Died May 22, 1887, Aged 105 years and 5 months. * • His funeral will take place to-morrow, and his old friends and neighbors will follow to the grave the body of the oldest man in the Atlantic States. LOCKED UP HIS REFRESHMENTS. Why Admiral Chandler and Capt. Sel fridge Are Said to be Enemies. From Washington Letter to Few York World. Secretary Whitney is generally com mended by the officers of the naval service resident in Washington for his action in the Selfridgc matter. There is a strong disposi tion in the service to condemn Rear Admiral Chandler for deposing Capt. Self ridge so summarily and ordering him to report to the department, 7,000 or 8,000 miles away, without the formality of an inquiry on the station. Since Capt. Selfridge has been in Washington, he, in conjunction with Rear Admiral Selfridge, retired, his father, has worked up a considerable sentiment against Admiral Chandler. The jjosition of the Sec retary was rather difficult. He could not exculpate Capt. Selfridge or let him down easy, even had he been disposed to, without condemning the Admiral, which would have been a serious matter from the standpoint of discipline. It is admitted that he has adopted a judi cious courso in ordering a court of inquiry to visit Japan to ascertain on the spot all of the facts connected with the criminal blun dering of the Omaha's shell practice, which caused the death of a number of Japanese. The stories that have reached Washington, official and unofficial, are incomplete and do not quite hung together in some essential re spects. The Secretary very naturally, there fore, wants to know what the facts are. Capt. Selfridge is ordered to return to the Asiatic station and appear as a witness be fore the court of inquiry. It is believed the circumstances, when as certained, will develop a case of extreme carelessness and ignorance of the laws of Japan and of international law, while it is also believed that the course of the Admiral will not be found defensible under good naval practice. The inquiry will proceed immediately. A story is going the rounds here to the effect that the bad blood between Chandler and Selfridge, which is alleged to lie at the bottom of the row, data! back nearly twenty years, when they were on duty at the torpedo station at Newport. The story runs that both officers were more or l<;ss convivial in their habits and frequently en joyed each other’s choice refreshments. This state of things is said to have gone on quite swimmingly for sometime, when from some unfortunate circumstance or combina tion of circumstances Self ridge ordered his steward or yeoman to lock up the refresh ments during his (Selfridga’s) absence from the quarters. This is said to have led, on one occasion very soon afterwards, to an embarrassing disappointment to Chandler, who had called in the abseneo of the host but did not find the refreshments. This circumstance was so construed by Mr. Chandler that a very lively coolness between the two resulted and has been kept up ever sine*, not only on the part of the gentlemen immediately eoncemed, but also on the part of numerous sisters, cousins and aunts. It is now thought by some people that the Admiral has improved this opp< >r tunity, the first that has come to him after twenty years of vigilant watching, to square the refreshment grudge. It seems ridicu lous to ascribe the big naval fuss on the Asiatic station to so trivial a source, but there is very good authority for believing that the Newport incident has not been without its influence, even after the lapse of twenty years. ORIGIN OF THE CHICAGO FIRE. A Visit to Mother O’Leary—A Surviv ing Calf. From the Chicago Herald. It is positively known that the conflagra tion which destroyed Chicago originated in the one-and-a-half-story barn of Patrick O’Leary, at the rear end and on the east line of the lot numbered 137 DeKoven street. The flames first burst from the roof of this barn, which had boon stored with hay the day before. These flames wore seen at the same time by two witnesses—William E. Lee, 175 feet distant southwest, at the northeast comer of Jefferson and DeKoven streets, and by Mary O*ftorke, who stood at the northwest window of her house, a point sixty feet southwest of the burning barn. There were in the barn six cows, a calf, horses and other animals, and birds of various kinds. The only inmate of the ham that did not jierish was a calf. It would probably be possible to follow the history of this noted animal The bam was on an alley, and the O'Learys lived in the rear of a cottage that fronted on DeKoven. The front was occu pied by Patrick McLaughlin. Mrs. O’Leary, a large and powerfully built woman, run a milk business. She milked at sp. m., and was naturally in lied at H:45 p. m., when the fire broke out. Milk sellers are probably the first people out of bed in u city. The Mel jiughlins that night celebrated the ar rival of a relative from the old sod. Their late hours would naturally annoy the O’Learys. Some trouble-maker told Mrs. O'Leary that her neighlxu-s lmd gone to the liarn for the purpose of getting milk for oyster soup. This Mrs. O’Leary never be lieved. A broken lamp was said to have lieen found in the ham. The celebrity Hint came to Mrs. O’Leary soured a nature which was liellicose ut the iiest. Tiie injustice of attributing to her a catastrophe in which she was a leading suf ferer hardened her heart against reporters. There also lingered in her mind a fear that there might be something criminal in the charge. Thirteen years later her estimable son, Fuggy O'Leary, killed his wife and sis ter-in-law and went to prison for it. This trouble turned the Amazon into a fury. The last journalist who paid Mother O’Leary a visit bare eseajied alive. She now lives in a shanty some three miles south of*DeKoven street. The O’Leary cottage was not burned. It was demolished, in later years, and a substantial two-story brick house erected at the fatal No. 187. The Chicago Historical Society has put up a tablet on the front of this house. The exact origin of the great fire can never be known unless spniebody other than any inemlier of the O'Leary family shall reveal the secret. It is reasonably well established that the O’lxarys were in bed. He Had His Own Way For Once. from the Omaha World. Omaha man—lf you think ] am going to take a house way out there on the prairie you are mightily mistaken. Ambitious wire—But just think of the society there. It is a lovely suburb, and everv’family just as nice ns they can lie. “That’s all very well, hut 1 suppose you know I’ll have to ride no telHnjf how long in a street car all winter, with tlie thermome ter way down below nowhere.” “But other men do that. The Highflys live there, and the Topnotches and the Hangups and the Pretties and " “Miss Belle Pretties parental” “Yes, and ” “Why, she goes to the high school and will lie coming down every morning about my time and going back every afternoon at just the same hour that I ” “Come to think, it is rather far out, dear.” City, Beaehore and suburbs. Boston and Its environs, fiend 10 cents In stamiis to United States Hotel, Boston, for complete mans and Interesting historical •natter UeuMti'iilJv Illustrated. THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1887. ADVENTURE WITH A LION. Frank I. Frayne’s Pet Has a Very Lively Outing. Font The Feta York Times. Frank I. Frayne, an actor, who, in his play of “Mardo,” rescues an all-important document from the cage of a big lion, to the wonder and delight of the galleries, had a narrow escape a few days ago from furnish ing a meal for the animal. The battle be tween the man and the lion took place at a dreadfully unfashionable hour; its scene was an old tern, and there were no specta tors, but it was marked and ended by as •clever a bit of quick-witted work as ever lion-tamer did for the delight of thousands. A twist of a rope around an iron ter settled the fight, and when Mr. Frayne counted up his losses he found it had cost him a valu able horse and a lacerated arm to get his unruly pet in its rage agai% Not long ago Mr. Frayne bought a pleas ant farmhouse three miles from Madison, N. J., renovated the dwelling, and called it “Echo Dell.” He had a prosperous season on the road, and at its close a few weeks ago ho removed his lion and other pets to his farm and settled down to enjoy country ease. An old-fashioned, heavy-beamed barn stood near the house, and one side of its lower floor was turned into a menagerie. The lion, which used to be called Duke, but is now known as Ingersoll, in compli ment to Col. Bob of that name, occupied a ' big cage of iron and oak near -the back of the barn. Between it and the door stood three other cages, one tenanted by an intel ligent laughing hyena dubbed Gabe, an other by a striped hyena, Abe, and the third by a pair of innocent white rabbits. Opposite the cages were the stalls for the horses, and aliove were the old-time hay lofts beloved by ancient barn builders. Two boors, three fine dogs and three horses were in the lot outside, a valuable horse of Mor gan stock was alone in the stalls, and the caged animals seemed as nearly good na tured as usual when the doors of the barn were barred on the evening of Sunday week. . Ingersoll dozed invay peacefully till the first light of morning awoke him. Then be rose and lazily began to rub hintself against the barred door of his prison. The catches at the bottom had not been made fast, as usual, and the big animal’s motion pushed open thedoor until there was plenty of room to pass out. Ingersoll wanted breakfast, and the horse was the handiest dainty; so with one big roar that set the hyenas to doing their prettiest in the way of noise, he made a spring that carried him clear over the 3-foot front of the stall and upon the back of the horse, which went down like a shot, and lay kicking and neighing franti cally on the boards with the lion tearing its neck open with neatness and dispatch. The din in the barn woke Mr. Frayne, who put on his clothes faster than he ever had before, and ran out to the scene of action. Once inside the barn he picked up a stout rope that was lying on the floor, hastily made a noose at one end, and threw it at the lion’s head. At the same time he gave a loud shout, and the big brute turned his head just in time for the rope to settle round his neck. • Frayne and the lion both jumtied—Frayne back to the big cage and the lion full at his master, but the actor had just an instant’s start on Ingersoll. Quick as thought he passed the end of the rope that he still held around the first bar of the grated door, and pulled with all his strength. The lion was just in the act of leaping, and his spring carried him to the cage, and Frayne’s rqpo pulled him into it. Frayne slid forward the grating before the lion could spring again, and the big animal was caged. But Frayne was close up to the bars, and the lion strack him once with his fore paws, ripping open his arm. Ho far everything had been done quickly, but it was an hour before the usual order of things was restored. Mrs. Frayne and the other members of the family had been roused by the tumult, and that hour w r as a very anxious one for them, for until it was over none of them was permitted to enter the tern and see how matters had gone. .Frayne’s hurt was not serious and ho was able" to leave home on a trip next day. The horse died from its wounds and was buried, and the hyenas were with difficulty per suaded that life would go on as usual again. Last night Ingersoll lay in his cage and showed visitors a fine set of teeth. Fred Knight, his keeper, poked him up and the lion moved lazily aliout his narrow quar ters. His short but exciting outing has left him lame, but otherwise he seems in good condition. He is 13 years old and has the reputation of having killed his man on two occasions. Ho quiet had Ingersoll's outbreak been kept that the people in Madison had heard only vague rumors of it last night. STABILITY OF THE SOUTH. Judge Kelley Regards Florida as Des tined to Rival California. From the Philadelphia Times. Judge Kelley arrived at his residence in West Philadelphia yesterday, after an ex tended tour in the Southern States. The veteran protectionist devoted a good deal of the time to an inquiry into the economic condition of the Stab's of Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee, and the result of his observations has been the preparation of a series of papers which will be published almost immediately. Speaking to a rei>orter he said: “I wrote while In Aniston, Ala., an elaborate paper upon the condition of Florida, the final proofs of which I road yesterday in Wash ington. It will appear in Saturday’s issue of the Manufacturers' liecord, a journal devoted to Southern industries that is pub lished in Baltimore. At Washington I pre pared a second letter on Aniston, under the title of ‘A Romance of the New South, by the late Gen. Tyler, Samuel Noble, Alfred L. Tyler and their colleagues.' I also wrote another, entitled ‘South Pittsburg: the Inevitable Centre for the Mineral, Timber and Agricultural Products of the Segue chee \ alley.’ I hold these letters subject to final revision, but. they will ultimately ap |iear in the Manufacturers' Hccordu.tinter vals of about two weeks. “I propose, also, to add two more, one on the relations of Alabama, Georgia and Ten nessee, to the iron trade of the Union, and the other on the remarkable agricultural development of the New South in contrast with the poverty entailed by the old system which devoted the land ami lalior of the sections exclusively to the growing of cot ton. “I devoted.” continued Judge Kelley, “nb< >ut a month to the study of the resources of Florida, and I think that the letters I have prepared will satisfy my countrymen, as my inquest satisfied me, that Florida is destined to a pre-eminence similar, if not •equal, to thnt of California, which 1 have more than once characterized as an enlarged Sicily." The river thyme, which has been gene rally voted a nuisance, choking up ponds and rivers with its rapid growth, is now thought to lie a remarkable health plant. A German doctor has discovered that in his district malaria and diarrhoea have de creased since the water thyme began to in fest the streams. The plant feeds on de cayed vegetable matter, etc., which are supposed to hissed disease germs. The saturating treatment for typhoid fe ver is being popularized in the columns of the Southern I‘rartitioner. Dr. G. IV. ltonfro ooncluds an articlr on treatments os follows: “Saturate your patient with tur pentine and pickle him in acid, and he will not die of typhoid fever.” Dr. J. W. Grace offoas, as an amendment: “Saturate your patient in turpentine, pickle him in acid, smooth him out with opium and salt him down with quinine and he cannot die.” Harriott Houao. Concerning a popular hotel in Savannah, On., the Florida Times-Union says: “We note from the hotel arrivals as published in the Savannah papers, tint the Harnett House still leads all the oth >r hotels in the city. In fact they have as nmnv as the others combined. There is a good install ment of Floridians always regLtcred there.” The Savanna!) Weekly News. Sixteen Jdages. For Saturday, May 28, 1887- NOW READY. CONTENTS. First Page— Who Bides His Time; The Cap tain's Orphan, an illustrated story'. A Million aire Who Don't Know How to Give Dinners; Some Well-Filled Wine Cellars in New York City, illustrated; Dutch Etiquette. Second Page— Clause Four of the Interstate Law a Yoke; A Mob Attacks O'Brien: Negro Education; Ruin of a Cattle King; France's Crisis; Surrounded by Fire; Executed by Soldiers; Tried for His Murder on Circumstan cial Evidence; Knights Templar Meet at Atlanta; Pasco to be Florida’s Senator; Cut by His Mate. Third Page—The Florida Senatorial Fight Settled by the Election of Mr. Pasco; Florida’s Metropolis: Georgia’s Capital City; Another Jail Delivery; Southern Presbyterians; Depew and Conkliug; Chicago Builders Deal a Blow at Trades Unionism: Dr. McGlvnn's Oddities; Rob bers Board a Train; A Crazy Man Awaiting Trial for Murder; A Strange Story; The Inquisi tive Elephant; Miscellaneous. Forirni Page—A Desperate Attempt to Stone O'Brien to Death; Revocation of the Suspension of Clause Four Hinted At; Charleston Wants Clause Four Enforced; Death of Ex-Gov. Win. Smith, of Virginia; Grand Preparations for the National Drill; $2,000,000 in Smoke; Forfeited Land Grants; Three Per Cents Called In; Miners in a Mob; Episcopalians Shocked; Florida’s Legislature; Tracking the Train Robbers; Mexican Plots; The Blasphemer's Trial: Another Comet; The Georgia Lottery Case Remanded to State Courts; Miscellaneous. Fifth Page— Gotham's Police Force; The Latest Innovation in Feminine Gear; Florida's Lawmakers;-St.'Stephen's Church Endangered; O'Brien’s Victory'; Presbyterians in Council; Germany Views the French Crisis with Silent Complacency; Non-Dependent Pensioners; 25- 00;),000 Acres of tend Thrown Open to Settle ment; Atlanta's Budget; A Prodigal Son Found on the Scaffold; Fashions of Note Writing; Revenue Changes; Finding Pharaoh. Sixth Paoe— Sonora's Old Mines; Mark Twain’s Fight; Slaves in Mexico; The Gardens of Egypt: Two Genuine Fire-Proof Salamanders Taken to New York; A Picture of Pandemonium; Boston and Omaha; The Mysteries of Mormon ism; News for theAstors; Romances Retailed in the Unromantic West; An Able Story; Bought Like Cattle; Slightly Acquainted. Seventh Page— Agricultural Department: Po tato Experiments; Ashes for Manuring Pur poses; Manuring Plants: The Georgia Crop Re port for May; Rotation in Crops; Something About Figs; Farm Notes; Household; Popular Science. The National Drill; Steamers in Collis ion; A Rich New York Family; Arrested for Brushing a Fly from His Nose. Eighth Page— Rev. Talmage on Remembering Seamen at Decoration Time; Indian Traders Present a Long List of Grievances; Tallahassee Matters; O’Brien at Niagara Falls. Ninth Page— First Day of the National Drill; Southern Presbyterians; Attorney General Gar land Don’t Want the .Judgeship; The Pope Wishes for Universal Peace and More Power; Deliberating as to the New French Cabinet; O’Brien Warned; An Edict Against the Labor Unions; Georgia's Capital City; Storm at Co lumbus; Jail Delivery at Jacksonville; Florida's Legislature; Minor Telegraphic News Items. Tenth Page —The News in Georgia, gathered from correspondents and exchanges. Eleventh Paoe— Round About in Florida; Yellow Jack at Key West; Isidore Garuee. While Drunk, Stabs His Bosom Friend; Flor ida's New Speaker; Atlanta by Wire; South Carolina Items; Columbus Happenings; Brief Telegraphic Summary. Twelfth Page Editorial: Lamar on the South; Mr. Lamar's Allotment Scheme; Re markable Immigration; “Extra Billy” Smith; The Florida Senator; Remnants of the Carpet bag Era; Coroners’ Juries; Young Senators. Opening Ceremonies of the National Drill; Pres byterians at work; After the President to Visit St. Louis; Cleveland’s Wedding Anniversary; Though Very Weak, O'Brien Again Visits Can ada : Railroad Grants. Thirteenth Page- Local Department: Wil liam Prenty Accidentally Shoots a Negro; Beyer Not Guilty; John Harrison Dead; The Pythian Convention; Drowned From a Sloop; Shot by a Negro; Twelve Houses Burned; The Charges for Compressing to be Advanced; Killed by a Can non Shot; Business Men Discuss Compress Charges; Arrival of Cars for the Tybee Rail way : Base Ball. Fourteenth Page— "H. H. J.” on Florida's Outlook; She Wanted to be a Widow; The Chi nese Executioner; ’ Southern Millionaires Who Made Money in Railroads; A French Chestnut; Willie Sprague, Who Married His Step-Aunt, Seeks a Divorce; The Spinster and Her Tor ments; The Gamut of Crime; The Country Press Heard From on the Non-Free Pass Deal. Fifteenth Page— Stories Recalled for Which Col. Jack Wharton was Famous; How Adam and Eve Lived Long Ago Outside the Garden: Freddy’s Appeal; Mr. Evarts Got a Reply; Why- Barbers are Usually Irreligious; Current Com ment; Bright Bits: Personal; Items of Interest. Siextenth Page— Review of the Savannah Markets; Fruit and Vegetable Market; Condi tion of the Sea Island Cotton Crop in Georgia, Florida and South Carolina; The Celtic-Britan nie Collision; General Railway News: The Cen tral Railroad Pushing Its Alabama Extensions; Atlanta's New Roads; The Augusta and Chat tanooga. Just the paper to send to your friends. Single copies 5 cents. 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Carriages will be provided for mem bers who are unable to niaren. By order of WILLIAM SHEIHING, President. A. llellsk, Secretary. 1 GEORGIA HUSSARS. Headquarters Georgia Hussars. ) Savannah, Ga., May 28, 1887.) General Orders .Vo. 15; \. The troop will assemble THIS DAY (Thursday), at 112 Bay street, at 12 o’clock m., for the consideration of important B By order of , ~ W. W. GORDON, Capt. Lomd'g' Geo. C. Gaoxard, First Sergt. SAVANNAH YACHT CLUB. A special meeting of the club will be held at Fords' Opera House TO-DAY, 2fiTH May, at 12 o’clock, for the election of members to make arrangements for “Ladies' Day ” and to appoint time and place for the annual cruise. A full at tendance is desired, By order WM. IIONE, Commodore. W. D. Johnston, Secretary. SPECIAL NOTICES. READ THIS (V HU FILLY All Policies Issued by This Company are Incontestilile. Southern Department or the Equitable Life Assurance 130 Broadway, n.y. SOCIETY. Geo. T. G. White, Manager. Chas. P. Geddes, Cashier. GEORGE W. LAMAR, Agent, Savannah, Ga. PARTNERSHIP ASSURANCE. George Watson Hall, who was a member of the dry goods commission house of Lewis Bros. & Cos., of New York, was insured in the Equita ble for 8100.000. Proofs of his death were sub mitted to fce Equitable Society on the 4th of April, and on the same day the amount of in surance on his life, namely, SIOO,OOO, was paid to the beneficiaries. The beneficiaries were his partners in business, to whom the policy had been assigned. The firm has lost by death the labor, influence, skill and whatever personality belonged to an active partner, and by this loss it has received by' the Assurance Society the com pensation of SIOO,OOO. That is the' nature of partnership assurance. It gives solidity, safety and permanence to a business house, furnishing the means of continuingthese transactions after the skill and capital of a partner has been with drawn by death. I am Informed that the sur viving members of the firm are insured, one for SIOO,OOO and another for $25,000. The Equitable Life Assurance Society wrote this policy of SIOO,- 000 on Mr. Hall's life in February, 1885. The pre miums paid on it were $10,938. His life was also assure! by other companies, the total amount of his policies being $203,500. The above commends itself to the considera tion of all practical business men. Apply to GEORGE W. LAMAR, Agent, 11 1 Bryan street, or at Post Office. TO THE PUBLIC. We, the undersigned dry goods and millinery merchants, do hereby agree to close our respect ive places of business at 0:30 p. M., prompt, from June Ist to Sept. Ist., Saturday excepted: A. R. Altmayer & Cos., Crohan & Dooner, J. P. Germaine, Gustave Eckstein & Cos., I. Dasher & Cos., D. Hogan, Jacob Cohen, F. Gutman, David Weisbein, B. Golinsky, L. Fried, Gray A O'Brien, K. Platshek. P. J. Golden. S. Krouskoff, L. E. Byck & Son. Ladies will kindly co-operate with us in this movement and make their purchases earlier in the afternoon. NOTICE TO CITY COURT JURORS. The TRAVERSE JURORS of the City Court need not appear until FRIDAY MORNING, May 27th, at 10 o’clock. By order of JUDGE HARDEN. P. M. Russeli.. Clerk C. C. S. NOTICE TO WATER TAKERS. Office Water Works, ) Savannah, May 26th, 1887. f The water will be shut off at Nine (9) o'clock A. M. TO-DAY (Thursday) on Broughton street, from Whitaker to Abercorn street, for the pur pose of putting in a branch, and will lie shut off for several hours. A. N. MILLER, Supt. SPECIAL NOTICE. Ocean Steamship Company, I Savannah, May 25th, 1887. ) The steamship MERRIMACK having returned to Boston because of accident to her machinery, there will be no sailing for Boston on the 26th of May, as previonsly advertised. C. G. ANDERSON, Agt. FOR SALE. 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. DR. HENRY’ S FOLDING, DENTIST, Office corner Jones and Drayton streets. ULMER'S LIVER CORRECTOR. 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 So other. $1 00 a bottle. Freight paid to any address. B. F. ULMER, M. D., Pharmac.st, Savannah. Ga. PROPOSALS WANTED. PROPOSALS FOR COAL. Custom House, Savannah. Ga., ) Collector’s OFFICE, May 20. 1887. I (SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at this O office until 12 o'clock noon of SATURDAY, MAY 88th, 1887. for furnishing coal 1o revenue vessels at this |*irt for the fiscal vear ending June 80. 1888. The coni furnished to he anthra cite or bituminous as may lie required, of best quality, uniform in character:.to weigh 2,210 pounds to Ihe ton; to be (lelivered on board the vessels at such times and quonties as required, at localities cuddy accessible to said vessels, and to Is- subject to insjiection as to quality and weight. Bidders will na me the prices for both Steam in g and stove cool, and also their facilities for furnishing the vessels with fresh water and the charges therefor, The right is reserved to reject any or all bids and to waive defects. JOHN F. WHEATON, Collector. Proposals Wanted. TV IDS will be received up to the Ist of JUNE II for the buildings on the eastern half of lot on the comer of Whitaker, President and Suite streets, and also for excavating to the depth of 8' „■ lift the lot above mentioned, measuring 60 by 90 feet. The buildings to lie removed within ten days and the excavating to be finished by the first of July, 1887. Bids must lie made separately. The right is reserved to reject any or nil bids. J. H. !.STILL, D. It. THOMAS. T. M. CUNNINGHAM, RUFUS E. LESTER. Committee Union Society. TOOTH paste. FOR THE TEETH. /ORIENTAL TOOTH PASTE. Cherry Tooth ' / Paste, Charcoal Tooth Paste, Shlfflold’s Cream Dentifrice, Lyons’ Tooth Tablet’s. Arnica Tooth Soap, Thompson's Tooth Soap. Carbolic Tooth Soup, Tooth Powers and Washes all kind, at STRONG'S DRUG STORE, corner Bull and Pen' street lane. AMUSEMENTS. SAVANNAH THEATER MONDAY, MAY 30th, 1887. SOIREE MUSIC ALE —FOR THE BENEFIT OF— BETHESDA ORPHANS’ HOME, —by— MAD. ST. ROQUES-PLAYTER And her Pupils, assisted by Distinguished Musi cal Talent of Savannah. Reserved seats at Davis Bros. Box Sheet now open. Admission 50c. No extra charge for reserved seats. Tickets for sale at Davis Bros.’, Wm. Estill's and Ludden & Bates’. BASE - BALL TO-DAY. Ilm Orleans VS. . SAVANNAH! Tickets on sale at FERNANDEZ’S CIGAR STORE. Game called at 4 o'clock. EXCURSIONS. OM-Y' TWO DOLLARS -—FROM Any Regular Station ON THE LINE OF THE Savannah, Florida & Western Railway TO EITHER SAVANNAH OR JACKSONVILLE. A SERIES OP SPECIAL WEEKLY EXCURSIONS Will be inaugurated on SATURDAY, May 28. These Special Excursion Tickets will be sold only under the following conditions: They will be good only for such regular trains as named by station agent selling the same, and will lie sold only for such regular train as leave stations between the hour of 12 noon on Satur day and arrive at Savannah or Jacksonville by 12:06 noon on Sunday. Also from any regular station to Pablo Beach and return, $3, good to return on Monday follow ing (late of sale, or with Supper Lodging and Breakfast included, at Murray Hall Hotel, $5. Four regular daily trains Jacksonville to Pablo Beach. Special train (Saturday only) leaves Jacksonville for the Beach at 7:50 p. m. Full information given by local agents. WM. P. HARDEE, J. L. ADAMS, Gen. Pass. Agent. Pass. Agent. Savannah, Florida & Western Railway SIPLBOI^L Weekly Excursions -TO— FLORIDA ! Commenting on Saturday, May 28th. SAVANNAH TO Jacksonville and return $2 00 Pablo Bench and return $3 00 Tickets will be pood only on days and trains as given in the following SCHEDULE: Leave Savannah Saturday 1:30 p. M., 7:35 p. m., Sunday 7:00 *. u. Arrive Jacksonville Saturday 7:85 p. m., Sun day 5:30 a. M., 12:00 noon. Special train leaves Jacksonville for Pablo Beach Saturday 7:50 p. m. RETURNING, J,eave Jacksonville Sunday 7:00 A. M.. 2:05 p. M., 0:00 p. m. Arrive Savannah Sunday 12:06 p. m., 7:58 p. m., Monday 6:10 a. si. The $3 00 ticket to Pablo Beach will also be good to return on any regular train leaving Jacksonville on Monday following date of sale. Four regular daily trams Jacksonville to Pablo Beach. Tickets Savannah to Pablo Beach and return, including supper, lodging and breakfast at the elegant Murray Hall Hotel, $5 00. or the same with one and three-quarter days’ lioard, $7 50. Tickets at Bren’s and Passenger Station. WM. P. HARDEE’ J. L. ADAMS, Gen. Pass Agent, Pass Agent. HOTELS. WASHINGTONHOTEL 7th and Chestnut Streets, PHILADELPHIA, PA. JOHN TRACY, PROPRIETOR. RATES, 8a 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 mod-tii improvements. Polite attendance ami unsurpassed tail KITSELL’S PRIVATE HOTEL 91 FIFTH AVENUE, NEAR 17th STREET, NEW YORK. \MERICAN and European plans. I .oration most central. Rooms eu suite or singly. First-class board and accommodations. Prices reasonable as a boarding house. JAMES KITSEI.L, Proprietor. NEW HOTEL TO ON I, (Formerly St. Mark's.* Ncwnan Street, near Bay, Jacksonville, Fla. r rMIF MOST central House In the city. Near 1 Post Oft'iw, Street Cars and all* Ferries. New and Elegant Furniture. Eloctrie Bells, Baths, Etc. !H) to $8 per day. JOHN b, TOuNl, Proprietor. R. A. UPSON, Manager. MARSHALL HOUSE, SAVANNAH, - - GA. EO. D. HODGES, Proprietor. Formerly of v * the Metropolitan Hotel. New York, and the Grand Union, Saratoga Springs. Location cen tral. All parts of the city anil places of inter est accessible by street cars constantly i-.tAKi.ig the doors. Sjiocl.nl indir-emcnts to those visit ing the city for business or pleasure. DUB'S SCREVEN HOUSE. r |''HJS POPULAR Hotel is now provided with I u Passenger Elevator (the only one In the city) and has l>oen remodeled and newly fur nished. The proprietor, who by recent purchase is also the owner of the establishment, spares neither pains nor expense in the entertainment of his quests. The patronage of Florida visit ors is earnestly invited. The table of the is supplied with every luxury fli/U JUia .markMkii home or abroad cuii afford. _ SUMMER RESORTS. WAR! SPRINGS, Meriwether County, Ga. WILL BE OPEN JUNE Ist., with first 01. accommodations at reasonable rates W w arm Springs are on the north side hf Mountains. 1.500 feet above sea levefanrt * rounded by beautiful and romantic The climate is delightfully cool anT mosquitoes, dust or mud. J ’ ’ N ° The Spring one of Nature's wonders c, 1.400 gallons of water (90 degrees tempera?,'.’"V per minute, affording the Peratura) FINEST BATHING feet'souare. SS *? FRESH. WARM WATER unlimited CLEAR - This water is a sure cure for Dyspeusin most cases of Rheumatism, Skin amt KiritSw Sprint There is also here a fii?e Chalyle at Amusements of all kinds provided Livery Stable, Bar and Billiard Saloon Band of Music for Ball room a*d Lawn ’ 1 ’ The Georgia Midland and Gulf Railroad ne running two daily trains from CohmftuSte arn i‘ iU - 0,1 the 15th of June U completed to Griffin, connecting there with t ,1 Central Railroad for all points and Two daily mails and Telegraph. For furthei information address ue| CHARLES L. DA\ IS, Proprietor. The Niagara of the South. TALLULAH, FALLS, GA, ON the Piedmont Air Line, in the Blue Ridg. Mountains, 2,000 feet above sea level 9 CLIFF HOUSE AND COTTAGES, Open from June to November. For full tieulars address 1 F. H. & F. B. SCOFIELD, Proprietors Late of Hotel Kaatuskill, Catskil] Mountains N.Y’., and Lela.nd Hotel, Chicago. Salt Spring litl, AUSTELL, GA. THIS New Resort Hotel, especially adapted for families, has reduced its rates to $7 per week. The accommodations are first-class in every respect. For further informr.tion ad dress T. J. MAY, Proprietor. Austell, Ga. MONWALE mm, Blount County, - Tennessee. r T''HIS Health Resort will be open Mav Ist. 1,88~. 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 pier month for July and August. Half rates for children. J. C. ENGEL. Prop. CLAFLIN HOUSE; Among the “Berkshire Hills." BECKET, MASS. Twelve Hundred Feet above the sea. Savan nah reference. Address A. G. CROSS, Proprietor. tie white smr spies GREENBRIER COUNTY, W. VA. The most celebrated of all the Mountain Resorts, and one of the oldest and mot popular of American Watering places, will open tor the season June 1. Elevation above tide-water, 2,000 feet; surrounding mountains, 8.500 feet. Send for pamphlet describing hygienic ad an tages, B. F. EAKLE, Sup t. the Columbian; SARATOGA SPRINGS, THE FAVORITE HOTEL OFSAVANNAHIAN3 Opens Jnne :25th. JAMES M. CASE, Proprietor, CLARENDON HOTEL, Saratoga Springs, Y, OPENS JUNE 25th. Popular rates $3 no per day P. STEINFELD. Proprietor. POPULAR PRICE S. Congress Hall. SARATOGA SPRINGS, Accommodates 1.000 persons. Kates. $3 per day for rooms, except those on parlor and first r.oori Open from June 18 to Oct. 1. CLEMENT & COX, Proprietors. H. S. CLEMENT, Manager. THE KENSINGTON. Union Avenue, opposite Congress Springs Par*, Saratoga Springs, N. Y. OPENS SATURDAY, JUNE 18th. For particulars address 229 Broadway, 18, N. Y., or 420 Gates Avenue. Brooklyn..' *• PAUL C. GRKNING. Propnetor._ LONG BRANCH. N. J. United States Hotel, A FIRST-Cl ASS FAMILY HOTEL, OPENS JUNE 25, 1887. LAIRD <Sc VAN CLEAT \TORTHERN HlLLS.—Boarders received**’ A “Brookside Farm,” a pleasant resort am g the celebrated Berkshire Ililis: 1,500 feet a** 1 sea level; good roads, beautiful drives and rain tiles; good table: terms from $6 to $9 per *Pj ’ Address J. A. itOYCE, Lanesboro, BerksbW county. Mass. _ DI TCHER HOUSE. PAWLING, N. Y.. on tho Harlem railroad; large brick structure, first class in i particular. Now open. Terms reasonable. - for circulars. WM. H. BUKROtUH. ■ proprietor^ CriAPON SPRINGB AND BATHS. Alkalf V Lithia and Superior Iron Y.ater*, i*“ • shire county, W. Va.- This celebrated mountai resort for health and pleasure; Baths or . temperature; a summer climate unsurpa- • charming summer home with its many imp meats, accommodating 800 guests, opens Ist. Send for circular and rate sheet (for cal and other testimony). WM. H. SALE, prietor. -—- THE WATAUGA HOTEL, Blowing I C. In the mountains of North .. VfySj! 4.000 feet above the sea. Easily accessible. - cal graduate on the premises. Ter ms i cstin North Carolina. Opened June Ist season. For information address "At- HOTEL CO., Blowing Rock, N. C. GRAIN AM HAY. _ Keystone Mixed Feed, SKID AND FEED TOW PE.IS. —ALSO Hay and Grain, 6.S.MCALPIN 172 BAY STREET.