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2 QUEER FAMILY HISTORY BELATED BY THE GRANDMOTHER OF LIEUT. PERKINS’ BABY. Bhe Believes Her Divorced Husband Instigated the Proceedings to Re cover the Child-Alienated from Her Father. From the New York Sun. Poughkeepsie, Aug. 34. —Mrs. Annie Elizabeth Coxe. the grandmother of Lieut. Perkins’ baby, has made a statement charg ing that William Knox, from whom she Was divorced, is at the head of the proceed ings against her to secure the possession of her grandchild. She says that in 1879 Knox had an office at .819 Broadway, New York, as agent for the Clyde Steamship Company and Georgia Central Railroad; that he overdrew his account $1,300, and aaked her to sell her property to help him <mt, although he hadn’t lived with her for over two years. She refused, and he went to her personal friends and borrowed m<mey. At the time she refused he knocked her down, when her daughter interfered and drove him from the room This was at the Ashlan House, New York. Mrs. Coxe added: “My mother was Miss Harriet Perkins, of Franklin, Tenn. She was the daughter of Judge Nicholas Perkins, of the Supreme Court. She was also a great niece of Henry Clay and niece of Jolrn Bell, once a candi date for the Presidency, and first cousin of Mrs. Stonewall Jackson, who was the aunt of Lieut. Perkins. With this blood in his veins I do not think that Lieut. Perkins could possibly lie capable of being the insti gator of such a proce.'ding as is now pend ing before Justice Barnard. The people who are doing this go by the name of Knox, and they live in Alabama. “The day my daughter drove Knox away, Knox swore he would hunt me down to the day of his death, and that he would make me call on the mountains to cover me. He said he hoped to see the day when both my daughter and myself would be beg gars at his mother’s door. After that he never came near me until my daughter died, and then right away he begun his per secutions, even while my daughter lay dead in the house on Lexington avenue. Last spring, when my daughter went to Alabama in a delicate state of lieultb, intending to stay with her grandmother, hoping to save expenses on account of her husband’s limited means, her grandmother drove her out of her house before the first week expired. Lieut. Perkins must know where I and the baby are. I gave my ad dress to the people at the house in Lexing ton avenue, and asked Father Collaton, of St. Stephen’s church, who was present when my daughter died, to give iny address to Lieut . Perkins at any time he applied for it, and 1 have bean looking for Mr. Perkins to come here or send a letter since Aug. 11. “I have been estranged from my futher, Robert E. Coxe, over twenty-one years. I am his daughter by his first wife. After my mother died, he married the daughter of the late Thomas L. Davies, of this city, who is in every respect a noble woman. My daughter elojxsl with Lieut. Perkins. They wore cousins and I, therefore, ob jected to the union. I don’t blame the Lieutenant for it. My daughter knew I would oppose it and, therefore, she favored the elopement, but that is all past. I helped nim to pay his hotel bill, and he would not have "graduated from the Naval Academv if it had not been for me. He was well up in his studies, but there was trouble übout his physical condition, the examining surgeon deciding that he was a little ‘off’ in his head. I pleaded for him, got the Admiral of the Navy interested in im, went to President Arthur and got him interested, got Allan Campbell and the Secretary of the Navy interested, and finally he went through all right and took a long sea voyage to the Mediterranean, and returned iii excellent health. Previous to this he Ixdieved that there was something S -owing inside of him thart was eating him. e thought it was a cancer or something else. “I don’t know whether what I am going to tell you had anything to do with his con dition or not, but his great-grandfather married a cousin, his grandfather married a cousin, his father married a cousin, and his wife, my daughter, was his own cousin. If he comes here and says he gave Mr. Fer ris power of attorney to take the baby, I shall think him insane, because there was insanity in the family. When he decided that the child must be taken South, it had been only eight days horn, and its condition was such that it required close medical at tention. I persisted that tho child should go with the nurse and myself. It seemed (o me that God's providence threw the nurso in my way, she is so noble and so good. “My grief is great. Here I am. daughter less, trying to do the best I can for my dead daughter's child, deserted by my father, and hunted by a man once my husband. My father's conduct toward mo is breaking my heart. For years, on every anniversary (if bis marriage with my mother. I have writ ten him a gentle, lov'ing letter, asking for a father’s love. I also write him on every an niversary of the birth of niv daughter and wrote him when iny child died, filial, loving letters, and have never received any answer to any one of them, and I believe it is kill ing me.” Here Mrs. Coxe became overwhelmed with grief and vyept. Resuming, she said: “Can you blame me for feeling that I have no' friends? After my mother died, and the time came for settling the estate— possibly $20,000 —my father would concede nothing. Of course I was entitled to iny share, and be paid it to my agent in worth less notes, and I was compelled to hire a lawyer to protect myself. 1 was absent in Europe educating iny child, and when I returned the matter came up in a Court of Chancery. My father’s attorney wrote ask ing if it could not be compromised, and I offered to take half the amount due me, af ter having written my father an endearing letter imploring for a return of tho old love os between father and child, and the matter coldlv and formally set tled, and to this day I have been alone in the world.” The Church Row. Ilev. J. IV. Wilson, tho baptist preacher who hus been the subject of the correspond ence between. Rev. A. E. Williams, of Fort son, (So., and Rev. R. H. Harris, of Colum bus, Ga., writes the following card: Cataula, Ga., Aug. 20. — 1 do not seek notoriety of any kind, but since tho publi cation of the two letters of Rev. A. E. Wil liams, lam foroed to say a few words. In my sermon at Hamilton 1 did not “deny the immortality of the soul.” I said, 'inci dentally, in speaking of the mission of Christ, that “if man has an immortal soul, then it wu tho mission of Jesus to provide for its salvation, otherwise he lgu. no mission.” With regard to the tpunperanoe question, I never did “Sight prohibition with might and main on tiio ground that liquor is a harmless bevorage.” I never have proclaimed any such doctrine, in the pulpit nor out of it. With regard to re stricted communion, I have only to say that m v opinion on that subject is none of bi o tlier Williams’ business; nor am I amenable to tuiy other man for it: and, in conclusion, permit me to say that no man can legit,- mately construe the curd of brother Harris us an indorsement of me, nor of any doc trine 1 preach. Brother Hißhamr heard nn preach in his life, und he has never had any conversation with mo on any of these questions. If I atn preaching heresy, there is a proper way to reach me without telling the Columbus association wliat it “cannot otherwise than do,” in tho columns of u secular paper. J. W. Wilson. A nu n arccTLATOB in Paris of “shady” repu tation, being very anxious to jmssosssome deco ration. boldly asked the Emperor Dorn Pedro to bestow one upon him, as he had alreadi done to M. de Lessens and others "No,” said tlie old monarch “I can’t do It People would think me a fool. Well. 1 could stand that. Bui they would also think you a knave, and 1 cannot have anv pwsf-i.s of such mentation in niv order " CHARLESTON JOTTINGS. Wharf Improvements Proposed—The Rice Crop- Municipal, Politics, Eic. Charleston', Aug. 37. —Charlestonians who are clear-headed enough to look below the surface of things, and who are candid enough to admit an unpleasant truth when it stares them in the face, say that the great drawbacks to the prosperity of the city are, first: A want of unanimity on the part of its leading citizens, and, second —(let it be written in fear and trembling) a want of public spirit on the part of many of its wealthy citizens. This seems to be a hard thing to say of one’s native city, but it isa lietrmed truth which there is no possibility of evading. THE WHARVES. The meeting of the wharf property owners, which took place on Tuesday last, affords a striking proof of this. Mention has lieon made in tins correspondence of the project to extend the railroad to the wharves. That this is absolutely necessary to build up the city no one denies. The project to extend the railroad tracks along the water fronts was started three years ago by somo long headed citizens. Mayor Courtenay took hold of it, and an effort was made to carry it out, the plan then being for the city to build the track and allow all the railroads to use it. At once there was raised the cry that it was a job. Some of the wharf owners refused to sell the right of way through their proj>- erty, and the plan was abandoned. Then came the cyclone (1885) and the earthquake (188*1) and things be gan to look pretty blue for old Charleston. Still the city rallied; its waste places were rebuilt and people began to look up again. It was hoped that by this time some peoplo who had large money interests in the city would be awake to the necessity of doing something to get rid of the threatened stagnation, and the river side railroad project was renewed. This time, however, the city decided to abandon the project of undertaking the work itself, but offered to grant the franchise to any responsible company or corporation who would undertake it. The consent of the wharf owners was first necessary, and it was for this reason that the meeting was called on Tuesday last. Of the result of that meeting the readers of the Morning News have already been advised. About 40 out of 130 wharf owners attended. There was some quarreling and bickering, and the meeting adjourned without doing anything. Avery rich wharf owner had taken the opportunity offered by an enter prising interviewer on the day of the meet ing to throw a thousand hogsheads of cold water on the project, and thus succeeded in dousing it very effectually. The riverside railway project may be considered as dead, and Charleston will try to go on in the old rut for tho next 300 years. THE GROGHAN MURDER CASE. There have been no new developments in the Orogbun murder case. Tho newspapers have been filled with vogue rumors about an alleged clue, which it is said sundry citi zens are engaged in working up, but nobody believes that the murderer of Croghan will ever be brought to justice. It is said now that the murdered man had drawn a large sum of money from the bank on tho day of the murder, and that the money has not yet been found. This is the duo that the citizens are said to be working up, and it is also whispered that suspicion rests upon a relative of the murdered man. But as the relatives of the murdered man have offered a reward of SSOO for the arrest of his mur derer, the theory does not seem to bo able to hold water. THE RICE CROP. The reports usually prevalent at this sea son of the year are now being published, of disasters to the rice erojis on the Santee. From tiie best information obtainable it is learned that these reports are exaggerated. Sifted down, it apjioars that the negro squatters and tenants on north Santee are in a liad way, owing to the floods, but these planters are mere seratchers, and their crops amount to very little. The large plantations on Santee are said to lie in ex cellent condition, with tho prospect, barring u September gule, of making splendid crops. Nothing has been heard of the invitation sent to President Cleveland to visit Charles ten, and no answer is expected. Charleston would like to have the President come. The Mardi Gras will take place whether ho comes or not, and tho committees are map ping out an elaborate and attractive pro gramme of amusements —Oct. 31, has been fixed upon as the date for tho commence ment of the festival. CITY POLITICS. The municipal campaign is about to open. Mayor Courtenay will not run again. Thus far the following candidates have appeared: Capt. George D. Bryan, Alderman E. F. Kwcegan. Alderman A. W. Eckel, ex- Mayor W. W. Sale, Capt. F. W. Wagoner, Alderman R. C. llarklcy, County Commis sioner E. R. White, Mr. J. A. Enslow (mer chant), Maj. C. Theodore Ellis, Maj. E. Willis (ex-Alderman), Mr. J. W. Barnwell, Col. W. J. Gayer, Alderman C. S. Gadsden, Alderman James F. Redding, John Mc- Elree, State Senator G. Lamb Buist, and others whose names cannot lie now recalled, with tho usual stud of dark, horses. It will be understood that ths gen tlemen whose names have been mentioned, above havo not appeared in the field, but ore only spoken or in connection with tho office. The young Democracy will proba bly support Capt. Bryan, who is a son of ex-Judge Bryan, and has been Corporation Counsel for a number of years. AN OLD GARDEN. Some of the Ohansren Which Have Taken Place at Madison Square. New Yobk, Aug. 27. —The dingy yellow walls of Madison Square Garden have re tained tho solMf, tinnlluriug aspect of a de pot from the beginning, but sineo the Har lem railroad vacated the place the interior lias bei'n used for such a variety of purposes that the veteran quarters must bo (fizzy try ing to maintain their identity. Barnum’s majestic pomp has filled the huge centre with tailback und the mazy evolutions of horses and riders. Jumbo used to tread with regal dignity beneath tho dingy raft ers. Then the large societies, notably the German ones, such as the Anon anil the like, held balls there. Then horse shows, dog shows, poultry shows, cow shows ami inan shows of every kind. All the animals have hail their turn. Aspaamodiceffort was made of late to revive that operatic chest nut, “Pinafore,” with a real lioat and real, wet water. Rumors are always starting up about the old place to the effect that some stock company has Imught it and that a superb opera house or mugnifleent theatre will lie erected and nil the dingy features of the lunil'eriiig garden lie effaced. So one may look for anything there, anti the New Yorker would receive with like equanimity the news that Patti was to shower $7 notes around the raftersjor tho Boston dariing, John L., was to reduce any opponent to pulp at fisticuffs. The superlative hitter of our day has made several groat hits there, so that the ribs of the spectators were squeezed till they ached. His last appear ance was on tho dav Miss Carrie Astor was married to Grow Wilson. Tho gilded youth who witnessed the tving of the knot at the Astor residence on Fifth avenue and Thirty fourth street hastened down, in their dress coats, to tho Garden to see Sullivan thump someone. The last use to which it has 1 >een put, if not new to the Garden, is one of the most appropriate. It was opened Monday even ing as a concert garden. Several modifica tions have been made to adapt it to this use. In the cintre is a broad wooden floor, w here erst tlie tnnliork lay. In the middle of this floor is the band stand, where Gustav Hinriehs wields the baton over sixty mu sicians. Potted plants surround it, aud a slate-colons! soundingboard of very slight concavity hangs above. Bniall tables and unpainted wooden chairs till this broud space. A promenade for those who care to walk surrounds it. Then there is a tier of boxes, and the seats as usual. Those who sit in ‘hr*" seat* mar not have beer or TIIE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 1887. refreshments served to them there. If they hunger or thirst they must come down a ! hit from their exclusive height and mingle I with the bibulous and hungry throng on the j floor. The crowd is chiefly bibulous, though ; cuts and wild dishes arc served. The wine j list goes from Clysrnic water to brandy and J champagne, extra sec, at $3 50 a bottle. The purchaser of this must lie extra sec himself. Most of the gay crowd linger over the foaming beer. When one entered the familiar old grimy interior last night he saw circles and great bands of colored gaslights mingling with the glare of the electric carbons, scenic hangings on the lofty walls, and the floor covered with green shrubs and trees. The strong perfume of past menageries yet lingered in the place. As the visitor started on the round a gust of wind struck him, and he clapped his hand on his hat. Glancing in the direction of the blast he saw a square aperture in the wall, over which was blazoned in big red letters "Long Branch Breeze.” An American flag planted in the path of the gale stood out ns stiffly as if it were sheet iron. This is one of tho four vents through which iced air is forced into the building at the rate of 200,000 foot a minute. On a hot, sultry night it undoubtedly would lie a delicious tempering of the close air. Unfortunately, on the night of opening tho weather was cool enough to wear a top coat, and the “breeze’’ was so great a success as to send several people homo with a cold. The other air vents were labeled “Atlantic City Breeze,” “Newport Breeze” and “Saratoga Breeze.” This was a rather slow, heavy bit of humor. Why a “Saratoga Breeze” is hard to tell. Tbnt quoen of the spas is not allied to .Eolus. Somebody tried to solve it by saying the breeze was worked by springs, but this was saddening, too. The programme was n popular one. Wagner elbowed Strai-ss, Rossini fluttered away from Brahms, and Verdi ami Weber tried to be friendly. Brahms’ “Hungarian Dances” was applauded so heartily that, it was repeated. This was tho only number that was given a second time. But Wag ner’s “Ride of the Walkures” brought down the house. That stormy, tempestuous, weird cross-universe run of the drastic maidens was demanded again by the most insistent applause. But Hmriehs only bowed his thanks. Noudorf’s concerts last year at the build ing in Fifty-ninth street, near the park, were a great success, and there is no doubt these will take equally well. Neudorf is in Boston this year. Hinrich lias been asso ciated for a long time with Theodore Thomas’ orchestra, and is a good musician. John J. a’Becket. HOW TO SEE THE ELEPHANT. An Amusement a Good Many Peoplo Indulge In. New York, Aug. 27. —“Slumming” is the visiting of the slums cf a great city by the blase fir tho curiosity seeker. The aristocratic practice is Raid to have been started in Paris by Louis Napoleon, and to have been made popular by the Prince of Wales in London. No matter what the origin, the pleasure bus lieen naturalized, ami is regularly enjoyed by the wealthy men, and frequently by the wealthy women, of the metropolis. A guide is secured, who usually is a de tective or ex-police officer. His fee is from $25 upward and the expense of the voyage, which will nin from S3O into the hundreds. A pleasanter and more economical way is to secure some friend who has slummed be fore and Who knows where to go and what to do. The party dress in plain clothes, leaving liehind them all jewelry. Tho men should be provided with stout canes and the women with traveling dusters and light rubber shoes. No party can explore all the slums of New York in one visit. There are too many, their number being among the hundreds, and the time required to see them lieing at'the slightest estimate 310 hours, or nine consecutive days and nights. A typical trip would begin at 4 o’clock in the afternoon at Chatham square with a short trip through Chinatown. The joss house, grocery, dry goods store, vesta urant, policy shop, barber, tan-tan (the Mongolian faro) establishment, Masonic Hall and board ing-house should all be visited. At tho res taurant a light lunch is in order. From Chinatown it is but a stone’s throw to Little Italy or Mulberry liend. Of interest here are tho sour beer dives, the stale bread and food p*'(idlers, the padrone system, the low Neapolitan rest aurants and Murderers’ Alley and Mary Blake’s. A block away is Baxter’s bend, in which there is a Malay colony, a vory decent and very interesting dance house frequented by negroes, Hindoos and Orientals, Italian flancing cellars, a Polak barroom, an out side waking establishment, and any mrni lior of horrible and decaying tenements. From here the visitor passes through the famous Five Points, crosses Park Row, and enters the river front district. Hero he finds the sailors’ boarding houses, the bucket shops and the half-dime cellars. These last are where a night’s lodgings cost sc. A call at the Oak street station house and a look at the inmates is the next stop. From here the sightseer proceeds to Pell, Bayard and Chrystie streets and sees the hideous forms of poverty and low vice there preva lent. A half hour may then be profitably passed at the Oriental Theatre ami the Rou manian Opera House and a better knowledge of tiie polyglot nature of Gotham obtained. Five minutes to see sparring at some re sort on the Bowery, ten minutes to the dives of Hester street, fifteen to a Crosby street opium joint, ten to Hairy Hill’s celebrated home of amusements, ten more to n queer establishment, in the vicinity, ten to the Russians of Elizabeth street, and then off to the east, side. Here, around Second street. Second and First avenues, ore the head quarters of the Socialists, Anarchists and Communists. Further south is George town, or the New Jerusalem, a city where Hebrew is the vehicle of daily speech; and further east is the awful tenement quarter, where the tenement house eigurinakers live and die. To the north is Sebastopol, with its thieves, murderers and abandoned women. Back again to the west side. At the Bat tery are the cheap hoarding houses of more than forty nationalities. On Greenwich street are the headquarters of the Turks and Armenians; on Thompson and its en virons is the Ethiopian colony, and further north are Rattle Row and Hell’s Kitchen. Nor should tho centre of Manhattan Island lie overlooked. The sporting houses of Sixth avenue, the gambling dens of the side streets, the French Mmlnme's and tho numerous other places ami palaces dedicat ed to sin and gin, are ail interesting evi dences of tho growth of American civiliza tion if not of its morality, Christianity or decency. Long before this route has been finished the traveler has seen the sun rise and set several times. At it* end let him him go to his home, whether he has been away one half of a night or more, get a complete change of wear and underwear and adjourn to the nearest Turkish bath. From here let what he ha< worn' Im> sent to the nearest, cleaning and scouring establishment. It would he well if there were some such place for tho soul ns well a* for garments, tor if ever a man needs complete spiritual renova tion it is just after sucli a slumming as has been brietly sketched in these lines. William E. S. Falks. Stalking a Flagstaff. FVow the Boiton Journal. A Falmouth sportsman went out for lieaoh birds recently. A glance across West Falmouth meadows allowed him the long neck and head of n blue heron. Straightway lie began to wrig gle along the marsh toward the game. Every now and then he would raise Ids head to make sure that his prey had not bitted to fields more green, and then another rod of wallowing through green ooze ami slimy mud. At last lie emne to an atm, and raised to his knee—to find that lie had l>een stalkiug the flagstaff amt pen nant of a sloop in West Falmouth harbor, a mile away. Miss Maiuon I.ka, of Philadelphia, is the latest Ainertean actress to scon' a hit In London. She recently placed Audrey In “As You Like It" so well at the Haymarket as to rroeive I'avnrahl > mention in evory London newßjiaiier Strange to relate Miss tea has no idea or becoming a star on short not toe, anil she will remain in F.nglvnd ei ■ - sirs STOCK BROKERS BOWED DOWN. Russell Sage’s Way of Saving a Nickel. New York, Aug. 27. —“I tell yer it’s a holy terror down here,” remarked the driver of a hansom waiting for customers the other day, opposite the Stock Exchange. ‘These brokers can’t be making much money.” And he crossed his legs on his high perch, leaned over on his knee and ruefully pulled at a red moustache. He had a beard of a week's growth, and one eye wus bloodshot, partly, doubtless, from exposure to the blazing sun. He had a very presentable horse ana con veyance. * ‘ Look at them carriages,” he continued, dolefully. “Just look at ’em. Only a hand ful on one block. Used to be nearly two blocks of ’em, and brokers just jumped for ’em. Now my expenses for this rig are about $3 50 a day, countin’ board for tho horse, repairs, my time and so on. What d’ye think I made the other day? Fifty cents. That happened two days hand run nin’. “I used to make in good times sti and $7 a day. Now if yer make $2 or $3 a day yer doin’ well. Where do the cabmen go in these dull times? Oh they go off up to Un ion square, Madison square. Thirty-fourth street and other ferries and the steamboat docks. That man with a coach over there comes down hero when there ain’t no funer als going on. It’s enough funeral for him down here only he don’t make nothin’ out of it yer spe. What we wants is a bull market. Tnat’s what they say. I’m in favor of it to onct.” Ho heaved a sigh and relapsed into gloomy silence. The wail of Cabby. He is not the only Wall street man bowed down with disgust, Business is (lull. Commissions are few. Expenses are heavy. New suits are scarce. Brokers who once had half a dozen new suits every summer now wear tho half dozen changes of last year, which betray the rav ages of time. They don’t hire cabs, han soms or coaches. They walk, or they take the Broadway cars or the elevated road. They used to clamor for cabs, and cabmen were magnates who laid down their own law as to prices. Now all is changed Cabby sits on high like a grim Moloch waiting for victims, but they came not. Few brokers are out of town. They are scarce at Newport, Saratoga and Bar Har bor. There are not so many as usual at Long Branch. Many of those who havo left town have not gone to tho $5-a-day hotels. They say it is healthier at the small hotels or hoarding-houses in out of the way places at $1 50 a day. Up in the Adirondack hunt ing regions a broker in good times would pay high board and hire a guide at $5 a day. Now he and other brokers go to a cheap boarding-house, and half a dozen will club together and pa)- a guide $3 a day. That is a tax of 50c. each, instead of $5, a saving of 1,000 per cent, Plenty of Wall street brokers are now at obscure and unheard of villagos, far from the madding crowd, living on novel fare for $7 a week. They say it is healthier than Newport or Saratoga—late dinners and languid breakfasts, l'hey arc right. But a dull market, not the doctors, opened their eyes. Hundreds of brokers have remained in the city. There are fow big dinners. With the mastit is no longer champagne: it is beer. Beer and sandwiches, the latter, too, often furnished gratuitously by the estab lishment which provides the beer for a money consideration. Beer and a free lunch! The iron has entered the soul of many a once haughty broker. You may laugh, but it is no joke—to him. A Wall street phil anthropist, filled with a .benevolent desire to emancipate tho relics of better days from the degrading thrnlldom of beer, said the other day: “The boys ought to take a hint from a little exploit of Uncle Russell S.age. He went into a free lunch place on one occa sion and begun munching a sandwich. Presently an acquaintance entered and called for a glass or whisky. “Let mo have the 15c., will yon?” said the economical Sage Russell. His friend handed it to him. Sage added 10c. to the 15 and then turned to the barkeeper and ordered two drinks of whisky'. “Two for a quarter, you know.” said Sago, in explanation to his astonished friend. “You don’t pay any more than you would in any case, and I save sc. If the brokers will pool their issues and unite on this Basis, whisky may vet bo within the reach of many who now look and long, munch gift sandwiches and pull at humble beer.” But I said that many brokers remain in town. They do. It is one of the solemn facts of the season. Some of them take 50c. trips to Coney Island. For instance, let us say the broker takes the 6:50 p. m. boat for the Iron Pier. He arrives thereat 7:50; stays there t'll 8:50; gets back to New York by 9:50. He has three hours of cool pleasure for 50c. A large number of brokers take these trips, some every once a week. “Well,” said a broker in referring to this fact, “it does them more good to go down there in a quiet, economical wav than to go off to summer resorts and spend their money for whisky.” But the dullness of tho stock speculation has its serioqs side. Brokers don’t- laugh about it. Some houses have given up pri vate wires, discharged stenographers and telegraph operators and closed branch offices. One firm told their clerks that they could take tho usual two weeks’ vacation with pay and stay two months, if they liked, without pay, agreeing at the same time to employ them on their return. But there is an old saying: “When things get to their worst then they im prove,” and having doubtless reached the worst we may not unreasonably expect a better business in stocks und more cheerful times this fall. Oscar Willoughby Riggs. A MOTHER’S SORROW. A Piteous Tale of Woe Narrated by a Deserted Wife on a Passenger Train. From the Philadelphia Netoi. “My baby is dead!” A half suppressed scream, partly drowned by the noise of tho flying train, attracted the attention of half a dozen passengers in a crowded West Jersey railroad train from Atlantic City this morning. A brown-eyed woman, fair-faced and shapely, sat in the rear end of the car, with a baby in her lap. The poor little tiling was wan and pale, and seemed gasping for breath with every jolt of the car. At Newlleid the mother arose from her sent, and procuring a glass of ice water sprinkled part of it iri the '•hild's fare and moistened its lips with the tips of her fingers. A faint smile hovered around the little mouth, and tho cold water seemed to revive the babe, for it gave two or three deep inspirations and its thin lit tle hands moving uneasily before became still. The smile became sot, and the eyes closed, and it. was then that the mother (■ril'd out, as she pressed the wasted form to her breast and sobbed uloud in her agony. A sympathetic woman in the seat behind loaned forward and said: “let me see your child, my dear; perhaps it has only fainted.'' and gently upturning the liabe’s face she looked at it. and then out of pure womanly sympathy began to sob too. "It is hanl, oh, so hard,” wailed the pretty mother, as she rocked herself to and fro; “he has been separated from me for more than six months, and I only got him hack t>-day, and now lie is gone from me forever. What have I done to deserve this last blow;” Efforts to comfort the stricken woman were made bv two or three kind hearted matrons, and by the time Camden was reached she had quieted down sufficient ly‘to tell her story, which was in many re spects a most remarkable one. a woman’s infatuation. “My name,” she said, as she placed tho dead baby on tile seat beside her, "is Emily Gatton Jessup. I was married three years ago last March to Caleb Jessup near the town of Dubuque, la. My husband is a native of Melbourne, Australia, and before he came to America be wo* engaged to lie married to u young woman, but broke off th-* tevli In-, • ■ I t— -tad her flirtln: with an English officer As I aftema-d learned, to my sorrow, this girl was madly in love with Him, and when he came here she followed. He had intended to settle in San Francisco, but she annoyed him to such an extent that he came to St. Louis and from there to a small village called Green’s Corners near Dubuque. “I met him first in St. Louis, and we were married after a year’s courtship. He told me all of his former life, and how he had been in love in Australia before he saw me. We removed to lowa, and for nearly a year we heard nothing of the woman who had followed him here. Fourteen months after our marriage our baby—this baby,” and the mother bent lovingly over the life less day beside her, "was born. I don’t think there were two happier people in the world than we were for a year afterward. On the day the babv was lft months old my husband came homo from Dubuque, and told me that he had been traced by the girl he had jilted, and that she had created a terrible scene when she learned of his mar riage. A few days later my husband went to Dubuque again, but did not tell me any thing further when he came home. ROBBED OP HUSBAND AND CHILD. “Within a week from that time his visits were made almost daily. Just twenty-one days after my husband had told me of his encounter in Dubuque I awoke one morning to find myself deserted ; not only deserted, but robbed of my child. Caleb left a note behind saying that while he still loved and respected me, he loved the other woman better. The cruelest part of his letter, how ever, was the concluding throe lines, in which he said that he loved our baby boy better than life itself, and he had determined to take him nlong and care for him as teu derlv ns he knew how. "I don't remember what happened for several days after tliat, but when I came to myself I sold out every stick and started East to get my baby. I traced Caleb to Chicago, and found he had been employed there as a waiter. Then a private detective found him in Pittsburg, but he p.ot away from me before I reached there. For three months I remained in that city and then heard he was in Philadelphia, and when I reached that city I again lost trace of him. I spent more than two months in vain search. I had $l,lOO in cash when I reached Chicago, but at the end of six months I had expended nearly every penny of it. I was just about ready to destroy myself when I got word through one of tho private agencies I had employed that Caleb was in Atlantic City, a waiter in a large hotel, under an assumed name. I fonnd th is to be true, and also that he was living with the woman he had jilted as his wife and that she was caring for my baby boy. “I went down there on Thursday iast, found my husband and my dear little child. It was all wasted to skin and bone, but I begged Caleb to give it to me, and I would ask nothing more. He consented, but made no explanation or offer to come back to me. I did not see his—his companion. I got on the cars, thanking God that I at least had my child, and now He has taken it from me;” This was the story told while the train rumbled along, and the travelers returning from the seashore made merry while one woman’s heart was breaking. She refused all proffers of assistance, and when the ferry boat landed at Market street wharf said she intended to take the first train for her home in the West. RIDDLEBERGER’3 EXPLANATION. The Recent Contempt Case—Why He Was Sent to Jail. Woodstock, Va., Aug. 3ft. —The Shenan doah Herald will this week publish a two column statement by Senator Riddleberger concerning his recent imprisonment for contempt of court. He say3: “ ’There live within the limits of this ‘Cor poration’ two pulpitless preachers. One is named Wetzel, the other Moore, and both now live in retirement. For a neighbor these quondam teachers of charity have one W. W. Jones, who has been arraigned sev eral times for offences, the gravity of which will appear further on. On several occasions I have defended Jones, but in each case it was for alleged wrongs done to one or both of these gentlemen. Jones is poor, deaf, and the last jury said crazy. Jones lives in a small house separated by a narrow road from an old out lying field of Moore’s which was permitted to grow up in black berries. For the offense of walking across this road and picking less than a pint (tin cup) of these berries this good Samaritan had Jones arrested for trespass, the trial of which resulted in a fine of $3 50 and costs, or imprisonment in de fault of payment. * * * One indictment is for stealing rails from J. L. Burner to the value of 30c., and tho other for stealing rails and posts from the Rev. Mr. Wetzel to the value of sl. This same Moore was again on the grand jury. It will be noticed that this last offense was committed more than a year ago, and, although cognizable by a Justice of the Peace, nothing was said or done about it till this same Moore got upon a special grand jury.’ “When the ease was called, Mr. Riddle berger was sent for, to ap|>ear in behalf of Jones. Owing to illness, he begged to be excused, but finally went. Necessity arose, however, for his leaving the court room; and the Judge appointed Gen. Williams to assist as counsel. On his return, Mr. Riddleberger decided to remain through the trial. Neither Wetzel nor Moore, he says, evinced a disposition to prosecute; but, during an other absence of Mr. Riddleberger from the room, a plea of insanity hod been filed, and the State’s Attorney urged its acceptance. Mr. Riddleberger came back in time to op pose this scheme, and to demand a verdict of “not guilty.” To pronounce Jones in sane meant to keen him in jail without a prescribed limit. But the jury found him so. “Mr. Riddleberger declares that the trial was in violation of the usual procedure, being without the form of a preliminary ex amination before a justice of the peßce. He insists that Jones was n victim of ‘grand juror malice,’ no one having been willing to prosecute the fellow until Moore got on the grand jury. “The obnoxious street placard Mr. Riddle berger declares ‘a fair delineation of tho oddities, cruelties and tyrannies of this mo mentous trial.’ When he appeared in court to answer for contempt he asked for an in quiry into the author of the placard, but to no purpose. He was fined and committed to jail for five days, to which nine more were added owing to a disturbance at the door. Mr. Riddleborger’s nephew was sher iff, and was not asked by the Court whether the prisoner was attempting to escape. Once at jail, Mr. Riddleberger received much kind attention from the townspeople. The Senator continues: •’“Now as to “the matter of the rescue. It simply amounts to this: That a number of young friends, entirely irrespective of poli ties, came to the jail and demanded that I should do as they directed. After half an hour or more of conference with Mrs Shull and others. I thought it best for all con cerned, including tho Judge, to go out. On Monday morning 1 returned of ntyown voli tion. That I was examined by two physi cians is not correct. I have learned that all the physicians of the town recommended that I should not l>o confined for a reason which they have known of without examina tion.” ’ Glass Eye Manufactories. From the London Figaro. More than 2.000,000 glass eyes are made every year in Germany and Switzerland, and one French house manufactures 800,000 of them an nually. The pupil is made of colored glass, and sometimes re 1 lines are |ialnted on the in tier surface to simulate veins. The largest num ber of these eyes are bought by lalsa rs who are exposed to tire, and are consequently haute to lose an ere. The expression of the’eyes is almost solely due to the movements of the up pereyulids. and this is the reason why we may see a man with a glass eye a hundred times be fore his infirmity is discovered. Inspector Byrnes tells about protecting Wall street from professional criminals. What the community requires is a rigorous law to protect a confiding public front the legalized Wall at re. I thieves, it is unjust to hound a bunko mail while the- ere r I lrn FUNERAL INVITATIONS. McMAHON.—The friends and acquaintance of Mrs. John McMahon and family are respect fully Invited to attend her funeral from the Cathedral of OurLtdy of Perpetual Help, at 4 o'clock THIS AFTERNOON. MEETINGS. DeKALB LODGE NO. 9, I. O. O. F. A regular meeting will be held THIS (Monday) EVENING at M o’clock. The First Degree will be conferred. Members of other Lodges and visiting brothers are cordially invited to attend. By order of H. \V. RALL, N. G. John Riley, Secretary. FOREST CJTV LODGE. AO. 1, R. OF P. A special convention of this Lodge will be held THIS (Monday) EVENING, at 8 o'clock. The Amplified third rank will be conferred. Visiting brothers and members of sister lodges cordially invited. T. E. BROUGHTON, C. C. Attest: S. O. Roberts. K. of K. and S. GEORGIA TEAT NO. 151, I. O. R. Attend an important meeting of the Tent THIS (Monday) EVENING, at 8 o’clock. Every member is earnestly hequested to lie present, as matters of vital importance will be Drought up. C. O. GODFREY, C. R. Attest: Thomas Hoynes, R. S. SPECIAL NOTICES. NOTICE. Will be absent from the city for ten days. All orders left at 106 South Broad street will have prompt attention. D. L. COIIEN. NOTICE. Neither the Captain nor consignees of the British steamship “Ixia,” whereof Churnshide is Master, will be responsible for any debts contracted by the crew. A. MINIS & SONS, Consignees. FOR RENT OR LEASE. That three-story store with dry, airy cellar, comer Bull, Congress and St. Julian streets. Possession when desired. Also, from Oct. Ist, 11-room brick house, with stable and servants’ quarters, No. 88 State street. J. C. ROWLAND, 96 Bay street. TO TIIE PATRONS OF THE BURGLAR ALARM COMPANY. Having been iuformed that certain unauthor ized parties have visited some of our patrons, representing themselves as employem of this company. I would hereby inform all of our pat rons, that the officers or this company are re quired to wear the official badge of the com pany. and no others are authorized by us to enter your premises or tamper with our wires or alarm boxes, under any circumstances. CHARLES WHITE, Sup’t. Savannah, Aug. 36, 1887. PARIS GREEN, LONDON PURPLE, PATENT WATER CANS, FOUNTAIN PUMPS For applying same. A cheap and sure method of destroying cot ton worms. Send orders or correspond with WILLIAM M. BIRD & CO., 205 East Bay, Charleston S. C. DR. HENRY S GOLDING, DENTIST. Office comer Jones and Drayton streets. ELMER’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. THE MORNING NEWS STEAM PRINTING HOUSE, 3 Whitaker Street. The Job Department of the Morning News, embracing JOB AND BOOK PRINTING, LITHOGRAPHING AND ENGRAVING, BOOK BINDING AND ACCOUNT BOOK MANUFACTURING, is the most complete in the South. It is thorough ly equipped with the most improved machinery, employs a large force of competent workmen, and carries a full stock of papers of all descriptions. These facilities enable the establishment to execute orders for anything in the above lines at the shortest notice and the lowest prices con sistent with good work. Corporations, mer chants, manufacturers, mechanics and business men generally, societies and committees, are requested to get estimates from the MORNING NEWS STEAM PRINTING HOUSE before send ing their orders abroad. J. H. ESTILL. AM US EM ENTS. FORD’S OPERA HOUSE, Corner Whitaker and St Julian Sts. To-Niizlit. August 29. \ GRAND CONCERT will be given by the Alabama Quartette, assisted by the best tal ent in the city. There will be many reserved seats for our white friends. The latest sours of the season will Ikj giveu. A Xylophone solo will lx played by Ft. Fiarris and It. West. Doors openat 7 o’clock; performance to com mence At standard time. Should the weather not prove favorable, the concert will be postponed uutll next evening. '.EXCURSIONS.' Charleston In! irtkliiliiiis! Through Pullman Service. COMMENCING June 13th a through Pullman Buffet service will be rendered daily be tween Savannah an I Hot Sprtugs, N. C., via Spartanburg and Aahville. Leave Savannah 12:28 p m Leave Charleston 4:55 pm Leave Columbia 10:30 p m Arrive Spartanburg 2:26 a in Arrive Asheville.. 7:00 am Arrive Hot Springs ,o:qd a m EXCURSION RATES. To SPARTANBURG ssl3 30 To ASHEVILLE 17 IS To HOT SPRINGS 17 13 Sleeping car reservations and tickets good until Oct. 51st, 1887. can lie had at BREN’S TICKET OFFICE, Bull street, anti at depot. E. P McSWINEY, < >(*(‘iin Hoti^te TYMEE ISLAND. GEORGIA SEA BATH!NO J and on tho Atlantic Comfort*t>l* neatly fur ! ninhod. Fan* th* !*• tin- market /ifT>i\U j Jiath.iitf sjiU •uL pitcd reriii> >n d*r-!t 1 \a >. !> 11 i * . INSURANCE STATEMENT. SEMI-ANNUAL STATEMENT —OF THE— Fire Insurance Association [LIMITED! OF ENGLAND, Furnished the Governor of the State of Georgia as required by the Act of the General As sembly, approved October 8, 1879. NAME AND LOCALITY. NAME OF THE COMPANY—The Fire Lt scrance Association [Limited], or England. LOCALITY—U. S. Branch: Nos. 57 and 59 William Street, City of New York, County of New York, State of New York. condition! I.—CAPITAL STOCK. Amount of the Capital Stock.... $4,500,000 00 Amount paid up in cash 500,000 00 11.-ASSETS. Cash on hand and deposited in banks to the credit of the com pany $ 71,735 jo Cash in the hands of agents, and in course of transmission 130,619 59 Stocks (par value, $605,000), mar ket value 699,190 00 description. Par Market Value. Value. U. S. 4 per cent, re g istered bonds $260,000 $333,150 Ohio 3 per cent. bonds 100,000 103,500 Georgia State bonds 25,000 27,190 Equitable Gas Co.’s Certifi cates 50,000 51,500 Lake Erie and Western rail road bonds... 25,000 25,750 Indianapolis and Cincinnati bonds 20,000 20,600 Newark, N. J., water bonds. 100,000 111,000 Brooklyn and Montaukb’nds 25,000 27,500 Interest actually due and uncol- • lected 8,388 51 Bonds—See stocks. Total assets actual cash mar ket value $899,933 20 III.—LIABILITIES. Losses due and yet unpaid ' Claims for losses resisted by the Company Losses'not yet due, including, $90,195 21 those reported to compani on which no action has yet been taken All other claims against the com pany 10,643 28 Re-insurance 460 883 50 Total liabilities $561,221 99 • IV.—INCOME— During the preceding Six Months. Cash premiums received $858,079 11 Interest money received 11,947 21 Total income $370,028 32 V. —EXPENDITURES—During the preceding Six Months. Losses paid $282,888 33 Expenses paid, including fees' and commissions to agents _ u and officers of the company.. iou,4ou at Taxes paid Total expenditures $413,338 87 HENRY T. BOTTS, Manager Southern Department. C TATE OF GEORGIA. County of Chatham— O Personally appeared before the undersigned HENRY T. BOTTS, Manager, who, being duly sworn, says he is the chief officer or agent of Fire Insurance Association, Of England, residing in said State, and that the reregoing statement is true and correct to the belt of his knowledge information and belief. HENRY' T. BOTTS, Manager Southern Department. Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 25th day of August, 1887. L. W. LANDERSHINE, Notary Public, Chatham County, Ga. HOTELS. Fifth Avenue Hotel, MADISON SQUARE, N. Y. r pHE largest, best appointed, and most liber ally managed hotel in the city, with the moat 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 HOT EL TO ON I, (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 ami Elegant Furniture. Electric Bella Baths, Etc. $2 50 to $8 per day. JOHN B. TOGNI, Proprietor. MARSHALL HOUSE, SAVANNAH, - - GA. / ' EO. D. HODGES, Proprietor. Formerly of ‘ 1 the Metropolitan Hotel, New York, ana the Grand Union, Saratoga Springs. Location cen tral. All parts of the city and places of inter est accessible by street cars constantly passing tbe doors. Special inducements to those visit ing the city for ousiness or pleasure. DUB’S SCREVEN HOUSE. r PHIS POPULAR Hotel la now provided with Ia Passenger Elevator (the only one in the city) anti has been remodeled and rtewly fur nished Tbe proprietor, who by recent, purchase is uiso the owner of the establishment, spares neither pains nor expense in the entertainment of his guests. Tbe patronage of Florida visit ors is earnestly invited. The table of tile Screven House is supplied with every luxury that the markets at home or abroad can afford. THE MORRISON HOUSE. One of tbe Largest Boarding Houses in the South. AFFORDS pleasant South rooms, good board with pure Artesian Water, at prices to suit those wishing tattle, regular or transient accom modations. Northeast corner Broughton and Drayton streets, opposite Marshall House. PROPOSALS WANTED. Notice to Contractors. 1) Ins for the building of tin* extension of the J Kufaula and Clayton railroad front Clayton to Ozark, forty miles more or lists, will Is: re ceived by the undersigned, at his office in Ba tatmab. Ga., not later than Aug. Slst. 1887. Specifications, plans and profiles on file at Sa vstmub, Ou. Right reserved to reject any or ftl. bids. M. 8. BELKNAP, General Manager C. R. It. and B. Cos. KIESLINGB NURSERY. While Bluff Road PLANTS, t UQ TUTU. DESIGN’S. CV\ 1 i'LOWEKiS turn to order. or t.i i\> ... .* * 4 . i,.,.i,t. . e uiier mill ttiiii Yort • •• • • *A4 o