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2 A PANIC IN A CHAPEK THE GALLERY AT LUCY COBB ON THE POINT OF FALLING. Shouts From Its Occupants Cause a Stampede During Commencement Exerciser—Cries of Fire Add to Qie Terror of the Audience—A Miraculous Escape From Loss of Life. Athens, Ga., June 28.—Last night, just aft> r one of the largest audiences ever seen at fmmen cement exercises here had assem bled in the Seney-Stovall chapel at the Lucy Cobb Institute, and the aisles had been filled witn ladies, a voice from the gal lery exclaimed: “Look out, the gallery is slipping.” Almost simultaneously the au dience rose to their feet, and women and children screamed for help, while those who succeeded in getting out of the windows and doors were yelling fire. > EFFORTS TO PACIFY THE CROWD. A great many gentlemen endeavored to lent the panic-stricken audience, but they being conscious of some immediate danger scarcely noticed the screaming of those without, and the clouds of dust created by the moving throng within led many to believe that the chapel was on fire. At last through the perseverance of several gentle men the disturbed crowd was somewhat pacified, and at this time the curtain rose and the exercises began, but during the whole entertainment, which was most in teresting an axious look and nervous man ner could be easily detected throughout the audience. AN OMINOUS CRACK. A short while after the chapel had been completed in 1882 a large crack was dis covered just over the front door. The authorities had the gallery examined by ex perts. who pronounced it perfectly safe, hut several prominent citizens testify that last night a part of the gallery slipped away from the wall three inches Fortunately no one was hurt, notwithstanding that several made their way from the centre of the building to the doors. Several ladies are reported to have fainted. The exercises were resumed to day and will continue until Wednesday as usual. MERCER’S CLOSING YEAR. The Competitive Junior Oratorical Contest. Macon, Ga., June 28.—The rain this morning prevented a large attendance on the exercises of Mercer commencement, which were continued in Masonic Hall at 10 o'clock. They gonsisted in the delivery of the alumni oration and literary address, the former by Hon. Thomas G. Lawson, of Eatonton and the latter by Rev. R. H. Harris, of Columbus. Both were well con ceived and were received with marked en thusiasm. To-night the competitive Junior oratorical contest came off lcfore a large and enthusiastic audience. The following (eieedd speakers were on the programme: “What perseverance has done,” Barney M. Foreman, of South Carolina. “The demand of the times,” Stanley S. Bennett, of Brooks county. “Georgia, the gem of the South,” J. Al be.-t Carroll, of Mitchell county. “The Irish coercion bill,” James D. Kil patrick, of Morgan county. “The power of great names.” James W. Overstreet, of Scriven county. “Duty of her alumni to Mercer Universi ty,” A. Dudley Williams, of Bibb county. “Pro principis,” Carl W. Steed, of Bibb county. “The Weakness of the United States Navy for National Defence,” Joseph H. Drewry, of Spalding county. At the conclusion of tin.* contest, Dr. F. M. Ellis, of Baltimore, delivered the first senior medal for excellence in English com position to Robert E. Ryals, of Macon, and the second medal for the same to Leander Kennedy, of Dougherty county. To-morrow at 10 o'clock the exercises of commencement day will take place. Asa part of these exercises the diplomas, medals for declamation and the junior medal for oratory will be delivered by Hon. Lloyd Cleveland, of Griffin. GEORGIA'S CAPITAL. Southern Editors—Pope Respited—The New Capitol. Atlanta, Oa, June 28. —A large nu in tier of representatives of the leading newspapers of the Houth, members of the Southern Press Association, are in the city to attend the meeting of the association tomorrow, called by the Executive Committee, The aommittee was instructed at the Richmond meeting to issue a call after a confer ence with the Associated Press in New York if necessary. The Executive Committee had a lengthy session to-night, formulating the business for to-morrow. At the meeting were H. K. Ellison, of the Richmond DisjeatcH, Presi dent; Adolph 8. Ochs, of the Chattanooga Times, Secretary; C. H. Jones of the Jack sonville Timcs-Union; J. H. Estill. of the Savannah News; Patrick Walsh, of the Augusta Chronicle; J. F. Hanson., of the Macon Telegraph; K. W. Dawson, of the Charleston Sews and Courier; W. W. Screws, of the Montgomery Adrertiser; J. W. Lambert, of the Natchez Democrat; 8. D. Poole, of the New Orleans Tunes-liemo erat, and 8. D. Poole, of the Picayune. POPE RESPITED. Tho Governor issued an order to-day re spiting Henry Pope for sixty days. Besides tne reasons wired last night’ it ’is claimed that Pope's attorney failed to maker a motion for anew trial at the request of the presiding Judge because he was apprehensive that a (toh would hang the prisoner or some good aien be killed in an effort to protect lyin. An extraordinary motion for anew trial ■ill be made. Robert Htrickier, a negro ’living at Su sanee, Gwinnett county, this morning brought to the executive office his son, a yl4 years old, who was bit by a dog sup posed to be mad this morning. He says a oca I physician advised him to come to the Governor, who had a loadstone, and would lave the boy’s life. The boy seemed to be in no danger and Ims developed no symp tom* since the Governor failed to treat the Use. THE CAPITOL COMMISSION. The Capitol Commission to day approved (lie estimate of the cost for the month since ;be last session and a warrant was drawn ’or (17,44*, for the quarter. The board b-ignated the hard wood trimmings for the lom and blinds, ■electing plain polished Mid bronco hinges, etc., and gave the con wtom permission to use the Yale lock h.lwl P>r in the specification or any equally Y' A pattern to lie approved by the archi * i The commission also designated the ' vie of the inside work for the several t-perfment*, selecting white oak for the Su preme Court and Ikiw Library, red oak for be it-nate Chamber, cherry for the House 4 I>. -i-w-fj tali vex awl State Library. The random. rotunda, ano stairways are to be Imsbtd in red oak. The total amount of *ofk dlone on the building to date has cost (444yf17 11. The matertal on the ground is mt#U* t/fi. Tiec pristf-iyal keener of the penitentiary Mu s.vV a lint of the convict* dfsehargid tor July. The Ur, —ml trsnineteen, among wtjems *re Cbarle* Ihrvan, sent up from for three years, who gets out July CHAVumoxn to a duel. Jw'.sesu Xar.sMgso Dtmmm Eeelca a 1f i J >ng wrtVb JUlvser fcarrott ib.v.nt, (is , Jmm —VmUtrdmy the OV/i 4 f/iset a I tie* p*;er piMikiel me* ‘emitmaM mm mime* on Moj, J. ' i***ne ‘ iiiisuir st Hem tager mt Urn Gunrria /.* *J§ DtH* ■* MAo\*/% >l* mmm&& I*9***+ 'f4m ***** ■** ft ‘ JMfk. TfUtril fflyiTr ' an attempt at blackmailing, to connect Maj. Greene with the perse >Ui H" i in was denounced in the ..Sit -, and the publication pretty generally circußhß*"*- ch ai.lenged' In the afternoon paper to-day appeared an advertisement regarding the' aoove. in which General Manager Greene denounces Col. James Barrett as a poltroon, and ac cuses him of giving offense and refusing to give satisfaction. Col. Barrett, it seems, is editor of the Globe and Lance , and in an ©<litorial paragraph called attention and gave indoi-sement to Davis' letter. Manager Greene demanded personal satisfaction of Col. Barrett, who replied that he did not recognize the code, but could be found at his usual place of business by Maj. Greene. Hon. Joseph B. Gumming, who acted in behalf of CoL Barrett, also pub lished a card detailing a personal interview witli the latter, in which he refused to resort to the field of honor. Ail this appears in the Evening AVu-s of to-day. and the affair has caused a genuine sensation. Col. Barrett admits his editorial connec tion with the Globe and Lance, hut dis claims any indorsement of the objectionable attack on Maj. Greene. The high standing of the gentlemen concerned in the affair adds to its sensational character. Col. Barrett is an honored and well to-do gentleman, and living near the city; he was at one time part owner of the Bath Paper Mills, and in the last Legislative election stood as the Knights of Labor candidate, but was defeated. Maj. Greene, as General Manager of the Georgia Railroad, is favorably known the Htate over, and both stand high in the public estimation. The matter now stands as re lated above. In justice to Col. Barrett, it must be stated that he considered the affair solely or. i between Hight Davis and Maj. Greene, and, not considering himself responsible for the attack on Maj. Greene, he did not think it right that he should be held responsible. On the trial Hight Davis was exonerated from the charge of seduction, for which he was discharged by Maj. Greene. Davis has many friends in Augusta. DANGER OF A RACE WAR. The Situation in Upper South Carolina Very Serious. Augusta, Ga., June 28. —Things are getting lively in upper Carolina. Specials from Greenville report great excitement Young men from Dacusville, Pickens coun ty, and Fairview, Greenville county, are in Greenville buying arms and ammunition, lawless whites are banding with the negroes and adding to the strife. In the Dacusville section a great meeting is to be held on the Fourth of July, and unless the State authorities take some action there is bound to be trouble. The worst part of the affair is that the white people are frightened to the fighting point and will resort to arms on the hast provocation. The Augusta Chronicle, prints to-morrow a special re ceived at midnight saying it is rumored in Greenville that a body of blacks are march ing toward that city and that there is much anxiety, though the rumor failing of verifi cation the authorities are taking no extra ordinary precautions. FLORIDA'S NEW RAILROAD. The Alabama and Atlantic to be Built Without Delay. Palatka, Fla., June 38.—A Morning News reporter has investigated the rumors concerning the Alabama, Florida and At lantic railroad, and finds that the money for this enterprise is now secured. The reporter saw the mortgage to the Mercantile Trust Company of New York providing for $5,- 500,(MX) for the completion of the road, and the document was filed at Tallahassee yes terday. The road will lie some .500 miles in length. The northern, or western, division begins at Ocala, thence runs through the counties of Marion, Levy, Alachua, Lafay ette, Suwannee, Taylor, Madison, .Jefferson, Wakulla, Leon, Liberty, Gadsden, and Jackson county to the Alabama State line. From Ocala south the line (asses through Orange, Brevard and Dade to the Atlantic. Work will commence at Woodbridge, in Orange county, very soon. John A. Prentice, the originator of this line, formerly tbe Apopka and Atlantic, has the contract for seventy-five miles, and will go to work within ninety days. He will also lie the sufs-rintendent of the Southern division. The line goes through a fine farm ing country, and doubtless a large business will be realized soon from the line itself. It •will help the northern counties very much vuid add very materially to their population and prospects. A “grape vine” rumor has it that Maj. St. Clair-Abrams has secured #9.5.000 for the completion of his line from Tavares to Kis simmee. He is now in New York arranging that and other enterprises. Heavy rains prevailed through Duval, Putuani and Bt. John’s counties to-day. SHOT THROUGH THE LUNO. Two Farmers Involved In a Fatal Quarrel at Hawthorne. Hawthorne, Fla., June 28.— A serious shooting affair occurred in the southern out skirts of town this morning about 8 o’clock, in which Thomas C. Holden shot IV. 11. Henson through the left lung, from which he is- suffering greatly, and it is feared that be has lost much blood internally. The wound is considered dangerous, but the pa tient is being ably treated by Drs. W. W. and \V. C. Johnson. The cause of the shoot ing cannot be learned, as neither of tbe par ties has made any statement that has lieen made public, and there were no witnesses to the affair, although it is reported that Hol den was defending himself against the ap proaches of Henson who had a drawn knife. Both parties are farmers, stand well in the community, and have heretofore been friends. Millen'e Tournament. Mii.Len, Oa., June 2H.—This was the sec ond day of the tournament of the National Gun Association. The weather was clear and pleasant. At the sweepstakes contest this morning Augusta was in the lead, win ning most of the sweepstakes. The Forest Citys, Chatfiams and Millen were about even. The Augusta club was compelled to return to Augusta to-night and were allowed to make their score for the medal, whieh contest takes place to-morrow. Augusta's score for the modal was only 37 out of a possible 60. This is far below their record in the first part, of the day for the sweep stakes. The shooting this afternoon was very poor. Something Better. From the Wall Street Fetes, “You ain’t speculating any in cotton now. I hear,” he observed to Uncle Joe Rogers, of Richmond, the other day. “No, sah—no, sail. Dat is, I ain’t buyin’ any fuchers any mo’.” “Got sunthin’ better f" “A good deal bettab, sah. I’ze night watchman at a compress, an’ I speculate in de raw material now. It’s all rise an’ no fall in dat.” A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune writes of a visit to the American legation in London: Mr. James Russell Lowell was the most conspicuous of Mm. Phelps' callers. He came in about 5 o'clock with Ins most impressive manner. Alter sinking hands with Mrs. Phelps he went around the room looking for old friends, of whom lie found many. He slakes hands in tlx 4 latest English fashion, the fashion which was Introduced ill Washington last winter hy Mrs Helyur. the ife of one of the under secre • ■ J the British legation. This style of hand shaklo- I hat eno doubt, is very amusing to the „no ernpl tys It, hut it is not an agreeable w- sote/tj to one not prepared tor it. The tinners ■or tlghtiy grasped by the English hand shaker, *gf at the seine time he lifts his elbow on n line with fak shoulder He then suddenly brings fra b nod >loe to his breast with a jerk, and he* droja it so quickly that one not accus kkred to tbia v|olei,/jr Is In danger of losing bis rrnrr ■ ben tie- dead drop follows the ener *■*-' frr Zr lsnrell haa this band-shake to yrf‘r>i,- r . ,a fact I hare never wen an Eng 'rOtaiMat Vi seemed to do the jerk and drop wM* wX MslOftttMMi and dash aa does Mr. 1 e.m tr-fi r ,iE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY. JUNE 19, 1887. f) A GREAT ENGINEERING FEAT. An Iron Bridge Weighing 1,600 Tons Moved from Its Position. The New York Times has the following dispatch from Philadelphia: Two thousand people saw a wonderful achievement of engineering skill at Holmesburg Junction on the New York division of the Pennsyl vania railroad to-day. Thirty-two men moved a distance of fifty feet the iron bridge, weighing 1,600 tons, that spans the Pennypock, and they accomplished the great task in the remarkable time of 11>£ minutes. The engineers of the road had been long making preparations for the work of to-day. Some time ago the company decided to build a four-arched stone bridge in the place of the iron structure over the big creek. The iron bridge had to be moved west fifty feet that it might be used until the stone bridge is bunt and ready for service. Six weeks ago the men began the big undertaking with the building of trestle ap proaches to both sides of the creek at the point where the iron bridge was to find a new bed. The trestling had an average height of twenty-four feet, and is on a line with the grade of the old railroad. The timbers of the western approach covered about 276 feet, while the eastern approach is 300 feet long.. Piles were then driven in the middle or the stream, on which was reared a strong trestlework fifty feet long and on a level with and contiguous to the stone pier under the bridge. Trestles of the same length and height were then built on both banks of the creek and in a continu ous line from the stone abutments. These timbers were to serve both as the resting place and as the carriage way, over which the 34-foot-wide bridge was to be gently moved to its new foundation. Two new iron rails were laid along the wooden pier in the stream and two rails on either of the wooden abutments, and then the rails were slipped under the centre and both ends of the bridge. The rails were well greased. A trial late yesterday afternoon showed that everything was in good working order, and it was de termines! to move the bridge this morning after 11:04 o'clock, when the fast mail train whieh leaves New York at 9 o’clock swept by. and before the approach of the Phila delphia express which leaves Jersey City at 10 o’clock and passes Holmesburg Junction at 12:19 o’clock. Long before the hour to day, people began to nock to the scene. An army of workmen appeared. Over 300 Italian and Irish laborers were marshal ed on both sides of the bridge, while four gangs of carpenters were under it. George IV. Mershon, the master mecnanic of the New York division, had charge of the removal. He placed two men on each side of a crab, making a force of thirty-two men to man the machines and the bridge. Old Billy Lair, a foreman of carpenters, was planted on the pier. Foreman Kinney, from Morristown, bad charge of the men at the eastern abutment, while Master Mechanic Mershon directed affairs from the western end. Supt. Crawford, Assistant Engineer Brooks, of the United Railroads of New Jersey; Assistant Engineer Gest and several other officers of the New- York Division, stood near the ‘ crabs" in the centre of the bridge. Every man was at his post, and the great throng of people was watching with eager interest when the whiz of the fast line was heard, and the train thundered over the bridge, seven minutes late. As it clashed away Superintendent Ford gave the word to his army of laborers, and it was a scene of transitory animation as they tore up rails and cut away the fastenings of the bridge. The bridge had no sooner been released than Mr. Mershon gave the signal, and the thir ty-two men began to wind the “crabs.” As the bridge began to slowly move more men went on it pouring oil on the tallow-greased railß. Superintendent Crawford and the other officers held watches in their hands as the big iron structure moved calmly toward the eud of the trestling. At one time the eastern end began to lag. but it was only for a few moments, and soon the bridge slid over the rails to its resting place without a mishap, and in the brief period of eleven and a half minutes, while a mighty cheer went up from the people. With light ninglike rapidity the gangs on both sides of the creek tore up and laid down frogs, switches, sleepers, and moved the raiLs to the new bed. They soon had the rails con nected with the two tracks on the bridge. A half hour after the bridge had been cut loose a heavy construction train was run over the structure, and at 12:19 the Phila delphia express dashed across. The work was a success, and to-morrow morning Con tractor MeFadden’s men will t>egin to tear down the old stone pier and abutments, and before two months the new stone bridge will be in service. THE HOUSE GONE LONG AGO. A Mistake About the Birthplace of Andrew Johnson. A Raleigh, N. C., dispatch to the New York Times says: A recent number of Harper's Weekly contained a picture of the house in which Andrew Johnson was bom in Raleigh. No doubt the Harpers were honest in their belief that it was the verita ble bouse in which Johnson first saw the light, but their information was incorrect. He was born in a house which has long since lieen demolished, and which stood on the lot now occupied by a dry goods store, on Fay etteville street. After Johnson became President the Federal officers and men sta tioned in Raleigh in 1865 naturally took con siderable interest in his early history, and one day two officers qjilled on old Mrs. Susan Stewart and asked her to tell them what she know of the early life of the Presi dent, saying that they had lieen directed to her as one who had known him in his youth. The old lady replied that she had known Andrew and his parents, and that she had named him. She said that at the time of his birth his (>areiits lived on the back part of her mother’s lot, which was on Fayette ville street, about where the store now stands, as stated before; that she (Mrs. Stewart) was a gay young woman, and one night when dressing for a ball received a message from Polly Johnson asking her to come out and look at her new baby. She went and found Polly the mother of a fine boy. After admiring the future President she asked his mother what she hail mimed him. Polly replied: “Miss Susan, as you made all nis little clothes for him I want you to name him.” Miss Susan said: “Well, Polly, I will name him Andrew Mc- Donald”—after the hero of a novel she was then reading. Jake Johnson, Polly’s husband, was sitting by the fire and said: “Miss Susan, don’t give him such a long name: I will never recollect it. Call him {iluin Andrew. ” And that is the way he got its name, aooonllag to the venerable lady. Mr*. Stewart further said to the two cu rious officers: “Gentlemen, you are in the army of that same Andrew Johnson; I wish you would toil him that the old woman who gave him the first rag that ever covered his nakedness, and who named him, is now tot tering on the brink of the grave, and that she would like to see her grandson, George Whiting, who is a Confederate prisoner of war, once more liefore she dire.” The above facts were related to vour correspondent by that same Gs)rge Whiting after his release from prison on Johnston’s Island. The late Chief Justice Ruffin is authority for saying that Chief Justice Leonard Hen derson was the father of Andrew Johnson, and not United States Senator William H. Haywood, as was generally lielieved. Judge Ruifin said that this information was iin parted to him by Judge Henderson and then by Polly Johnson. At all events that ques tion which is said to tax the powers of the wisest child greatly vexed President John son. because when ho eaine out to Raleigh to be present at the erection of a monument over Jacob Johnson, his mother's liuhlnukl, in his speech lie said that he had come to the place of his birth to do honor to the man who “is said to be my father.” The anti quarians of the town were greatly divided as to the exact location of the grave, and Col. James Fontleroy Taylor among others contended that the’ monument was srectod in the wrong nbuse. A TREACHEROUS CROWD. Reminiscences of One of Craig Tolli ver’s Gang. From the Cincinnati Enquirer. Anent tbe recent killing of Craig Tolliver and a portion of his Rowan county gang, Lewis Clark, of this city, formerly a resi dent of Vanceburg, Lewis county, Ky., tolls some interesting experiences had with Hy Cooper, one of the crowd that met death at the hands of the Sheriff tbe other day. “When I was a boy.” relates Mr. Clark, “the Cooper family resided near my own near Vanceburg, and were considered well to-do, and even quite wealthy. He was. as a boy, considered a vicious brute, and was almost constantly displaying his meanness. At one time he nearly' gouged one of my eyes out. Cooper was strong and very powerful, while I was considerably' smaller. When the war broke out we both enlisted in the Sixteenth Kentucky Infantry. Shortly after that I was detailed to hunt cooper up and bring him to the regiment, he having deserted. Taking a companion with me we went to his home and placed him under ar rest. He swore he would not go and made all sorts of threats, but I bucked and gagged hun and compelled him to mount behind my companion and took hun along, swearing he would kill me if be ever got a chance. I afterward raised a compauv, of which I was made Captain of the Tenth Kentucky cav alry', and did not meet Cooper again until after the war closed. On my return home I found that he hail declared around Vanceburg that he would kill me on sight. Meeting him in a saloon one day, I walked up to him and asked if it was true that he intended to kill me when we met. He replied that he had said so, but that he had since changed his mind, and desired to shake hands and let bygones be bygones. Know ing his treacherous, cowardly character I refused his hand and turned to walk away, when he sprang at me from behind arid threw me partially to the floor. Recover ing myself, I PULLED MY GUN AND BLAZED AWAY as he was going over a back fence, the bul let striking him in the forehead, and, run ning around the skull, lodged in the back of the neck. He passed around the building and out on the street, where I gave him a second shot, only a flesh wound, and one of his relatives gave him a horse, on which he left the neighborhood for a time. I was satisfied he intended to kill me, for I had been bushwhacked twice before I met him, and I was certain he did the whacking. The whole Tolliver gang was made up of mffn who were too treacherous and cow ardly to meet their foes openly, unless out numbering them. They always shot in the back.” Mr. Clark was for a number of years in the revenue service, his duties requiring his services in Rowan and Lewis counties and that vicinity, and he came in contact with these people frequently. Clark also declares * that the first gun of the war was fired in Lewis county, and not at Fort Sumter. The people there were about evenly divided on the Union question, and many a pitched battle was fought before hostilities actually opened. Mr. Clark is now a contracting painter. The Savannah Weekly News. Sixteen 3?ages. For Saturday, July 2, 1887. READY THIS MORNING. CONTENTS. First Page— Nora of the Adirondacks; The Tombs of the Lees; Electricity's Peculiarities. Second Page The Queen of Hearts; Was He Really Killed; Anti-Britain; Warlike Mission aries; An Attorney in Tears; Mrs. Cleveland's Request; Yellow Fever in Check; A Half- Hanged Woman; A Napoleon of Finance; Jay Gould's New Car; Are They Mummified Aztecs; A Ghastly Joke; A Somewhat Mixed Case. Third Page— Fidelity Only in Name; Wash ington Pointers; A Refuge Provided; Echoes of the Jubilee; Dr. McGlynn in Arms; A Maniac's Deed: Texas Train Robbers; Live Gotham Topics; Anybody But Americans; Twelve Thousand Dollars in a Vest Pocket; sVriting Official History. Fourth Page— Wilderness Redeemed; Slay flower and Sachem Win; Faneuil Hall's Rioting; Buffalo Bill in London; Jacksonville’s New Wards; Funeral of Mias Hardeman; The Freed man's Enterprise; A Chapter of Scandals; Bos ton's Budget; No Convicts Killed. Fifth Page— Wali Street in a Whirl; The Su preme Court Vacancy; Rolling Mills Burned; In an Angry Mood; In the Marts of Trade; A Blaze at Jacksonville; Champlain’s Heroine; Didn't Want to Disgrace Him; A Conductor Killed; Five Years in tbe Pen; St. John's Day; Cowliided by a Mayor; Welaka Wrinkles. Sixth Page —Queer Street Musicians; Ne vada's Lost Miners; Queen Victoria’s Thanks; Princess Racovitza; Dining With Exiles, illus| trated; New York as a Summer Resort; A Fight with Smugglers; Georgia's Capital; Telegraphic Items. Seventh Page— Agricultural Department: Remedy for Insects; Buckwheat; Something About Cut Worms; Fruit Trees and Soil; Util izing Feathers: Florida and California Oranges; How to Destroy a Pest; The Dust Bath; House hold; Farm Notes; Popular Science. Zach Chandler's Plan; Some Reflections in Court; Lamar and the Supreme Bench. EtoHTn Page— Archers for the Lord, Talmage Tells How the Mighty Nimrod May Be Outdone; Condition of the Crops; Commencement Ser mons; $1,250,000 Lost by Fire; Lutherans and Socialism; Civil Service Tests; Fairchild to the Rescue. Ninth Page— Dixie's Road to Riches, A Long Stride Forward in the Year's First Quarter; In Camp Amid the Ruins, A Sad Scene in the Fire- Swept Town of Marshfield; Labor's Constitu tion, The Knights Vote in Favor of the New Rules; Sharp at Death's Door, Fears that He Will Drop Dead in the Court Room; General News Telegrams. Tenth Page— The News in Georgia, Gathered from Correspondents and Exchanges. Eleventh Page- Round About in Florida; South Carolina Items of Interest; Slipped on the Ways; Augusta Happenings; Granted a Respite; Naval Stores Legislation. Twelfth Page— Editorial: The Continued Abuse of the l*resident; The Negro's Future; The Immigration Question; Holman and the Ijiltor Movement; Cincinnati's Broken Hank; The Use of Military Titles; Cardinal Persieo. Sharp a Bodily Wreck; Eight Die in Their Tracks; Davis and the Flags; Brief Telegraphic Summary. Thirteenth Page.— Local Department: A Rainy Day; Robbed of the Family Plate; The Youthful Patricide; To Be Buried at Home; Walked Off the Boat; Farewell t.. School; (Tacksmen at Work; Getting Even With an Enemy; Blun Brought Bock; A Cotton Press Sold; No New Laws Wanted; The New Western Line; Two Bold Thieves; Under a Pusher. Fourteenth Page —England’s Royal Lino; The Cash Girl Lunches Well; Ignorant of Their Own Country; Vailandigham; The Sleep of Death; He Took His Own Dog Thereafter; Sjieakor Carlisle. Fifteenth Paoe—The Bald Knobbers; Trans fusion of Blood; Sizing Up the Mugwump; A Low Ebb; Scandal Mongers; Omnia Vinclt Amor; Current Comment; Bright Bits; Personal. Sixteenth Paoe -Commercial and Financial Review of the Week; A Panic in a Chapel; The Gallery of Lucy Cobb on the Point of Falling; General News; Miscellaneous. Just the paper to send to your friends. Single copies 5 cents. For sale at Estill's News Depot and at the of fice, 8 Whitaker street. Appel & Sehuul are selling their Straw Hats at remarkably low figures. MARRIAGES. C ARVER—J OYN SON. J une 1, at Christ Church, Claughtoo. Birkenhead. England, by the Rev. Canon Rooson. Fra.vi Hek-toxCsbvik of Birkenhead, youngest son of the late John Carver, of Whallev Range, Manchester, to Isabel, only child of the late Thomas Joynson, Jun., of Liscard. and granddaughter of the late James G. Mills, of this city. MEETINGS GOLDExIrI LE LODGE NO. 12, I. O. O. F. A regular meeting of this Lodge will be held THIS EVENING at $ o'clock at new halL Election for officers. Members of other Lodges and visiting brothers are invited to attend. Bv order of C. S. WOOD, X. G. H. G. Ga.vahl. Secretary. _____ CATHOLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION A special meeting of the Association will be held THIS rWednesday) EVENING, at 8:15 o'clock. A full attendance is requested. P. F. GLEASOX, President. J. F. Habtt, Secretary. CATHOLIC LIBRARY HALL ASSOCIA TIOX. A meeting of the subscribers to the stock of the Catholic Library Hall Association will be held THIS EVENING at *:*> o'clock, at the Cath olic Library Hall, for the purpose of perfecting a permanent organization and the election of officers and a board of directors. P. F. GLEASON, Chairman. SPECIAL NOTICES. SPECIAL NOTICE. From this date and until further notice the STEAMER KATIE will be withdrawn from the Savannah river, for the purpose of general over hauling. Due notice will be given of the re sumption of her route. JOHN LAWTON, Manager. LAST NOTICE. State and County Tax Returns, ISS7. The office for Tax Returns will close on SAT URDAY, July 2d, prox., at 2 o’clock p.m. The law requires that a double tax be assessed against all who fail or refuse to make returns within the time prescribed. JOHN R, DILLON, R. T. R. C. C. UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA. COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES FROM JULY Bth TO JULY 13th, INCLUSIVE. JAMES.COBB, Secretary. . ELECTION NOTICE. CITY OF SAVANNAH, ) Office Clerk of Cornell., r Savannah, Ga., June 16th, 1887. j Under and by virtue of a resolution adopted by Council at meeting of June 15th, 1887, Coun cil will elect at its next regular meeting, that is to say on WEDNESDAY, June 29th, 188*, a Cor poration Attorney to fill vacancy occasioned by the resignation of H. C. Cunningham. Salary 5i.500 per annum. Applicants must hand in their applications to the Clerk of Council at or before 2 o'clock"!*. M., WEDNESDAY, June 29th, 1887. By order of Council. FRANK E. REBARER, Clerk of Council. 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 no other. $1 00 a bottle. Freight paid to any address. B. F. ULMER, M. D„ Pharmacist, Savannah, Ga. PICNICS. FOURTH OF JULY, 1887. % G-zcam-cL Pionio OF THE Catholic Library Association, AT GREENWICH PARK. Schedule —Care leave Bolton street at 9:30, 10:35 and 11:45 A. M.. and 2,3, 4 and sp. m. Tickets 50 cents, for sale by members of the association and at Connor's and Fernandez’s stores. BUTTER. BEST Table Butter ONLY 25c. per lb. SUAE MS., 22 and 22 1-2 Barnard St. FRUIT. PEACHES! Receipt *in large quanti ties packages to suit allwj'j " r ers. For Safe Very Cheap A. H. CHAMPION. MAC iIISKSI. J. W. TYNAN, Engineer and Machinist, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. Corner West Broad and Indian Streets. ALL KINDS OF MACHINERY, BOILERS, Etc., MADE AND REPAIRED. STEAM PUMPS, GOVERNORS. INJECTORS —AKD Steam Water Fittings 9F ALL KINDS FOR SALE AMUSEMENTS. SAVANNAH THEATRE' Tuesday and Wednesday, JU'NTK 3S AND SO. GRAND FAMILY MATINEE Wednesday Afternoon at 3 O’clock. THE EVENT OF THE SEASON The First and Only Double Bill. THE FORDS! In DRAMA AND FARCE The Beautiful Pastoral Drama D O R Al ! Founded on Tennyson s Poem. To be followed by the Roaring Farce THE YOUTH WHO NEVER SAW A WOMAN. Prices 75c.. 50c.. and 25c. Seats on sale at DAVIS BROS.' without extra charge. Matinee Prices 50c.. and 25c. Box Shuet opens Monday at 8:00 o'clock. EXCURSIONS. Clarion If Sami RAILWAY. Summer Excursions Commencing SUNDAY, MAY Jsth. th't Com pany will sell round trip tickets tp CHARLESTON, BEAUFORT AND PORT ROYAL, By following Trains and at following Rates: By train leaving Sundays only, at 6:45 a. m. : re turning. leave Charleston at 3:35 p. m., Port Royal 3:30 and Beaufort 3:45 p. x. same day §1 00 By train leaving Sunday only at 6:15 A. m. ; re turning, leave Charleston Monday morn ing 82 00 By train leaving Saturday at 8:23 p. M.; return ing, leave Charleston Monday morning... $2 50 By train leaving Saturday at 12:26 p. m. ; return ing, leave Charleston Monday morning. .$3 00 Tickets for sale at WM. BREN'S, Bull street and at Depot. E. P. McSWTXEY, Gen. Pass. Agent. Charleston & SavauQalißy. To! Ikllit litis! Through Pullman Service. COMMENCING June 12th a through Pullman Buffet service will be rendered daily be tween Savannah and Hot Springs, N. C., via Spartanburg and Ashville. Leave Savannah , 12:20 pm Leave Charleston 4:55 p m Leave Columbia 10:20 p m Arrive Spartanburg 2:20 am Arrive Asheville 7:00 am Arrive Hot Springs 9:00 am EXCURSION RATES. To SPARTANBURG $.13 30 To ASHEVILLE XT" 15 To HOT SPRINGS 17 15 Sleeping car reservations and tickets good until Oct. 31st. 1887. can be had at BREN’S TICKET OFFICE, Bull street, and at depot. E. P. McSWINEY, Gen. Pass. Agt. Charleston and Savannah Ry. Reduction. in Rates -TO NEW YORK. THIS company has now on sale tickets at sls to New York via Atlantic Coast Line and the magnificent steamships of the Old Dominion S. S. Company, sailing from Norfolk, Va., every Monday. Tuesday, Wednes day. Thursday and Saturday, arriving at New York on following evenings. Meals and state room on steamshiiis i da led. Passengers should tune train 78 leaving Savan nah at 8:23 p. m. on days previous to those men tioned above. This route affords a delightful sea trip, avoid ing Cape Hatteras. Pul'man accommodations and elegant state rooms secured on application to Wm. Bren, T. A., 22 Bull street, or J. B. Oliveros. T. A., Depot. E. P. McSWINEY, Gen. Pass Agent. FOR CHARTER. FOR ~ EXCTJIfsIONS! TTARGE WARSAW, Towed by Steam Tug IT WIN PEN NY. Church and Sunday School Picnics solicited, being provided with Awnings, Benches. Stools and other requirements for the safety and comfort of passengers. Tybee Bell Buoy, Warsaw. Potter's Grove and otter points selected by committees. Apply to GEO. F. BYRNES, office No. 6 Drayton street. bankers! EM DEPARTMENT -OF— SAVANN AH BANK & TRUST CO. 4% Allowed on deposits, subject to Bank regulations and contract. BRICK. Wm. P. Bailey & Cos., BRICK MANUFACTURERS, KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND, in large quantifies, at their yard on the SPRING FIELD PLANTATION, and will deliver the same in any part of the city upon the shortest notice The best Well Brick, Pressed Brick, Hard Brown Brick, Gray Brick, Soft Brown Brick. Office -Comer Bull and Broughton, at, SI MON (iA/fAN S CIGAR STORE, where all or rlers will receive prompt attention. IRON PIP A. RUSTLESS IRON PIPE! EQUAL TO GALVANIZED PIPE, AT MUCH LESS PRICE. Weed & Cornwell. SUMMER RESORTS. IMLE SPRINGS* Blount County, - Tennessee THIS Health Resort will be open May Ist, 1887, The most celebrated Dyspeptic Watei known. Elegant Hotel and Grounds. ExceUenl Table. Telephone connection with Knoxville Rates: 8l per day: §25 per month for May anc June: 32 per day, 310 and 812 per week. $35 ani S4O per month for July and August. Half rata for children. J. C. ENGEL, Prop. MOUNTAIN HOUSE Cornwall Heights, New York, ON slope of Storm King Mountain; elevatioi 1.2U0 feet. Now open for reception ol guests. Climate positive cure for malaria. Healthiest summer resort in United States; iu hours from New York by West Shore railroad, 2)4 by Mary Powell. Dancing in grand pavilion every night. Electric bells, new bowling alley, billiard parlor, tennis court, horseback riding Refers to Austin R. Myres, of editorial stad Savannah Morning News. Address J. \v, MEAGHER. The “Mentone” Villa, Sea Cliff, Long N. Y., IS now open for the reception of guests. Termt SlO to 815 a week. All appointments strictlj first-class. This is an exceptional place fol Southern families to spend a pleasant summei at. A. SPEED. DAGGERS WHITE’ SULPHUR SPRIXGS* BOTETOURT COUNTY, VA, YT7TLL open JUNE 20. Circulars to" be ha 4 t at this office. BEAN & TAYLOR, Managers. YU'HERE are you going this summer wit! T t your family? For comfort, pleasure, grand and picturesque scenery, delightful, cod climate and powerfully tonic waters, try the SWEET SPRINGS, WEST VIRGINIA, accommodating comfortably 800 visitors. Ho| and Cold Baths; Water; Gents’ and Ladies’ Swimming Pools: a fine Brass and String Band. Board per day, 82 50; per week. sls; per month, SSO. For pamphlet address J. WATKINS LEE, Manager. Mountain lake, giles county, va. Elevation 4,000 feet. Pure, cool air and water. No hay fever or mosquitoes. Grand scenery. Unequaled attractions. Rates pet month S4O to 350. Write for pamphlet. Ad* dress MANAGER. r| ''HE WATAUGA HOTEL, Blowing Rock, N, A C. In the mountains of North Carolina. 4,000 feet above the sea. Easily accessible. Medi cal graduate on the premises. Terms the low. est in North Carolina. Opened June lstfortha season. For information address WATAUGA HOTEL CO., Blowing Rock, N. C. r PHOUSAND ISLANDS.—Westminster Hotel, 1 Westminster Park, Alexandria Bay, N. Y. - “Unquestionably the finest location in the Thousand Islands."— Harper's Mayatine, Sept,, 1881 Send for descriptive pamphlet. H. F. INGLEHART, Proprietor. HOTELS. WASHINGTON HOTEL 7th and Chestnut Streets, PHILADELPHIA, PA, JOHN TRACY, PROPRIETOR. RATES, $3 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 modem improvemeuts. Polite attendance and unsurpassed table. Fifth Avenue Hotel, MADISON SQUARE, N. Y. "J'HE largest, best appointed, and most liber* ally managed hotel in the city, with the mosl central and delightful location. HITCHCOCK. DARLING & CO. A. B. DARLING, formerly of the Battle House, Mobile. HIRAM HITCHCOCK, formerly of the St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans. NEW HOTBLTtOGNT (Formerly St. Mark's.) Newnan Street, near Bay, Jacksonville, Fla. WINTER AND SUMMER. THE MOST central House in the city. Near Post Office, Street Cars and all Ferries. New and Elegant Furniture. Electric Bells, Baths, Etc. $2 50 to $8 per day. • JOHN B. TOGNI, Proprietor. DUB’S SCREVEN HOUSE. 'T'HIS POPULAR Hotel Is now provided with Ia Passenger Elevator (the only one in the citj)%nd has been remodeled and newly fur nished. The proprietor, who by recent purchase is also the owner of the establishment, spares neither paius nor expense in the entertainment of his guests. The patronage of Florida visit ore is earnestly invited. The table of the Screven House is supplied with every luxury that the markets at home or abroad can afford, MARSHALL HOUSE, SAVANNAH, - - GA. Ct EO. D. HODGES, Proprietor. Formerly of T the Metropolitan Hotel. New York, and the Grand Union, Saratoga Sprmgs. Location cen tral. All parts of the city and places of inter est accessible by street care 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. VFFORDS pleasant South rooms, good board with pure Artesian Water, at prices to suit those wishing table, regular or transient accom modations. Northeast corner Broughton and Drayton streets, opposite Marshall House. BATH TUBS. Bath Tubs AND TIN TOILET SETS. A LARGE SUPPLY FOR SALE CIIEAP AT LOVELL&LATTINIORE’S Hardware and Stove Stores. 155 and 157 Congress street, near the Market BTR IWBXBBT CORDIAL. mrnm man. A Small Quantity in a Glass of Water Makes a Delicious Drink. IN QUART BOTTLES —AT- A. M, & C. W, WEST’S. KIESLING’S NURSERY, White Bluff Road. P U nIL, BOU( 3 UETB - DESIGNB, Ctrl FLOWERS furntahed to order. Leave or Gera at DAVIS BROS.*, coiuor Bull and Ted Telephone call 24 a