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CONVICT AND RUM HOLE.
TWO MJBJECTS THE SOL.ONS DIS
CUSSED YESTERDAY.
Th Punishment Question Tabled Tem
porarily by the Senate—The House
Defeats the Bill to Restrict the Sale of
Liquor if the Anti-Prohibitionists
Carry Atlanta.
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 7.—ln the Senate to
day the following bills passed:
To define the liability of telegraph com
panies for delay in transmitting messages
and prescribing liability for the same in
certain cases.
To incorporate the town of Ocean City on
Tybee Island, in Chatham county.
To change the manner of electing trustees
of Effingham Academy.
To incorporate the Title Guarantee and
Loan Company of Savannah.
A bill to appropriate the proceeds of the
hire of misdemeanor convicts in the counties
comprising the Northern judicial circuit to
the payment of casts.
Providing a registration law for Clay
county.
A bill providing for the better organiza
tion and equipment of the volunteer com
panies of this State.
For the relief of J. F. Farmer, Tax Col
lector of Jefferson county.
A bill amending the charter of Harmony
Grove.
Appropriating $125 for the pay of the
clerks employed by the joint committee
appointed to investigate the affairs of the
Western and Atlantic railroad.
To amend the charter of the town of
Way cross was read for the third time.
To incorporate the town of Tarver in the
county of Echols.
To incorporate the Atlanta Mortgage
Guarantee Company. Passed as amended.
To incorporate the town of Belton in the
counties of Hall and Banks.
To extend the corporate limits of the
town of Sparta, in Hancock county.
For the relief of the National Life Ma
turity Association of Washington, D. C.
To authorize the Mayor and City Council
of Daiton to operate and manage water
works.
PUNISHING CONVICTS.
The bill providing for the punishment of
convicts in this State lieing the special or
der for the day. was then taken up. Mr.
James opened tho discussion, and spoke at
length in favor of the bill. He said he had
no maudlin sentiment for these convicts,
but he thought that they should he at least
treated with some degree of humanity. He
said that the men who were placed as guards
over the convicts were ruffians und men
noted for their violence and inhumanity.
He thought that the police surveillance
of the convicts should lie in
the hands of the State and with
the lessees. He had no particular charge
to make against the lessees, hut he wanted
to throw some restrictions arouml tho lease
act, which was the purpose of this bill. He
wanted to see humane men put over the
convicts; men who would not inflict a
greater punishment thau was prescribed by
law. He read from several decisions to
show that this bill would not be inconsist
ent with the terms of the lease act. Mr.
DeJamette moved that the bill be tabled,
and that 100 copies lie printed for tho use of
the Senate, which was agreed to.
Mr. Jackson, of the Thirty-seventh dis
trict, offeird a resolution to the effect that,
as the managers of the Piedmont Exposi
tion had extended to the Senate an invita
tion to lie at the opening of the exposition
on Monday.
lie it resolved by the Senate, That the Senate
adjourn on Monday at IS o’clock for that pur
pose.
The resolution was agreed to.
In the House.
In the House to-day the special order was
the bill to amend the charter of the city of
Atlanta, so that, if in the event that at the
next election Fulton county goes wet, the
sale of liquor shall lie restricted to within
an area of one-half a mile from the artesian
well, on the business streets, and fixing the
license to sell spirituous liquors at $1,500 a
year. The bill provided that the provisions
of the measure were not to go into effect
until voted on and ratilied by the people at
an electiou to be held in December.
Mr. Howell, of Fulton, introduced an
amendment by request of the City Council
restricting the sale to what is known as the
“zigzag" limit, a limit framed to favor cer
tain interests. Mr. Howell urged the pas
sage of the bill as amended. He reviewed
the last prohibition election and said that
the object in amending the charter was to
settle tlie question and do away with a bit
ter light that threatens to come if a compro
mise is not effected. The City Council
wants the bill passed, and that body spoaks
for Atlanta.
Mr. Bray, of Fulton, opposed the bill,
first, because it was open to the objection of
class legislation, undemocratic in its opera
tion and effect, and contrary to the spirit
and genius of republican and democratic
government; second, that the people did not
esirethe projiosed legislation. The fixed
policy of thq State was that of local option,
and this bill was an interference with this
law. Third, that the good faith in the opin
ion of the people expressed at the l>allot-box
nearly two veras ago required acquiescence
in tho law as then enacted. He was
satisfied that the Prohibitionists and a
majority of the Anti-Prohibitionists not in
terested in the sale of whisky or other
■wise were opjxxsed to it. Their views were
reflected in the remarks made. He pro
fessed to know something of the views of
the people of Atlanta, having resided there
from early youth to the present with but
brief and short intervals, for the past forty
years. He knew that the wealth, intelli
fence and virtue of the community of
rave, intellectual, generous men, and of
bright, beautiful, lovely and chaste women
W#ve opposed to seeing the city rent and
\tom by two elections, alike damaging the
material interests and morality of the
city. He believed in the principle
of local option, which had been estab
lished by the courts as constitutional,
and that experience had tested it
as a correct arbitrament of the subject.
The submission of the question was the only
true test to determine the progress of
opinion, and the desire of the people. He
api waled to the Prohibitionists mid Anti-Pro
hibitionists, and to the Democrats, and to
all who believed in the principles of popular
government to stigmatize this attempt at
class legislation, and subversion of the true
principles of the government.
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ALL CLASS LEGISLATION.
Mr. Weil, of Fulton, said that the whole
question of prohibiting the sale of liquor
was class legislation. At the last election
It was held that the objection to selling
liquor was that it was sold in all localities,
and not restricted to any portion of the city,
l'he Prohibitionists opposed the bill because
they thought that the passage of it would
give the cause that they advocate a black
eye. He said that Atlanta voted against the
sale of liquor, but she wanted it, and got all
the wanted. He wanted its sale restricted
md inspected, so I hat the people could get
ivhat they wanted and get the best.
The previous question was called and Mr.
Howell concluded the debate. He stated
ihat the bill was introduced in the Council
sy a Prohibitionist and was passed by pro
aibition votes. Before proceeding further
ae desired to say in reference to a remark
naue in his first speech, that the question
(vas not to be literally taken but was drawn
from an inference. Ho had stated that a
Minister of Atlanta, who had figured con
ipicuously in the prohibition cause, said be
!ore the Corporation Committee that he
would rather see Atlanta deluged in
whisky than to vote for the re
itriction bill. The minister referred
o hail stated in so many words that he
wiuld rather have unrestricted whisky as it
vas before than to vote for such a bill,
this meant a deluge of whisky, and those
rohibitionists who so vigorously opposed
he effort to settle this vital question,
hawed that their course was a fraud and a
delusion, and that the truth was not in it.
It was the hot-tied of hypocrisy. He was
tired of this everlasting strife, and with the
good, conservative, people of Atlanta,
ho wanted it forever settled. He
was tired of the infamous system
of shadowing every doorway by paid de
tectives and hauling innocent parties to tlm
station house to be made to submit to the
indignityjof a public search. (Applause.) He
was tired of seeing the pulpit daubed with
pilitical infamy and debased with personal
blackguardism. (Applause.) He thanked
God that the day had come when the con
servative citizens of the city had come to
getlier and agreed to make an honest
effort to settle harmoniously this question
which had caused so much tumult. He
read a petition signed bv property owners
representing several million dollars urging
I the passage of tho bill. The conservative
men of both sides wanted it, the City Coun
cil recommended it and every Anti-Prohibi
tionist organization in the city had indorsed
it. He closed in a strong appeal for the
passage of the bill.
The amendments were taken up and ad
vocated.
On a vote the bill was lost by G'.l ayes to
40 nays.
COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS.
The second special order of the day was
the hill of Mr. Chandler, of De Kalb, to
regulate tho sa'c of commercial fertilizers
and manures in this State, to prescribe pen
alties and forfeitures for violations of the
provisions of the act, and to repeal the
existing laws for the inspection of fertil
izers, and to provide for the appointment
of a State Chemist to aid in carrying out
the provisions of the bill. The bill came
bef<.'e the House with a favorable report
from the Committee on Agriculture. The
bill does away with the inspectors of fertil
izers, and makes the manufacturer, agent
or dealer pay a license of SIOO each on
every brand of fertilizer manufactured or
sold. It also requires the State Chemist to
analyze samples sent to him either by the
manufacturer, agent, seller, or consumer.
In short, the bill contains the features em
bodied in tlie Alabama law with reference to
the inspection and sale of commercial fer
tilizers. On a vote the bill was lost by (17
yeas to 4-'S nays, failing of the constitutional
majority.
At the afternoon session bills on third
reading fared as follows:
A bill to amend section 1455 of the Code so
as to elect the Commission of Agriculture
by the jieople’ as the Governor and State
house officers are elected, came up.
Mr. Atkinson said that tho Agricultuaal
Department was now knee deep in all kinds
It legislation that came up. Evidence of
fliis was seen every day. He indirectly re
ferred to the fact that the Agricultural De
partment was responsible for the failure of
the oil bill in the Senate. He said that just
so long as tlie Commissioner of Agriculture
is appointed by the Governor the depart
ment will be a jiower in jiolitics. The farm
era of Georgia will next year risk the sum
of $5,000,000 for guano on the integrity of
the department, and the farmers should be
allowed to name the man who is to give
them the protection that they are entitled
to. Every year tlie Commissioner is in
trusted with the spending of SIO,OOO, out
side of salaries, ami the jieople who have to
pay the money should name the man who is
to disburse this money. This department
is a jxilitical marplot. Ho read a list of
purchases, showing that Kaffir corn hail
been purchased at from $4 to sl2 jier bushel,
and the list read $1 25 per bushel. When
Mr. Atkinson had concluded, tlie vote was
taken, and the bill was jiassed.
DECORATING FOR CLEVELAND.
On motion of Mr. Mays, of Washington,
the bill was immediately transmitted to the
Senate.
Mr. Aruheim offered a resolution in
structing the Governor to draw his warrant
on the Treasurer for S4OO, the money to be
used in decorating the State House and the
Executive Mansion ujxin the occasion of tlie
visit of tlie Presidential jiarty to Atlanta.
The resolution was referred.
The bill to cut down the apjirojiriation
for the Agricultural Department from
SIO,OOO to $5,000 was taken uji and Mr. Cal
vin made a sjieech in its favor. Tlie bill
passed by a vote of 108 to 1. The bill was
ordered transmitted to the Senate.
The bill to establish an exjieriniental sta
tion for the State in connection with the
Agricultural Department and to provide
for an appropriation of SO,OOO for its main
tenance came up. Mr. Calvin stated that
the object of the bill was to make available
$15,000 annually which the United States
government lias appropriated toevery State
in tlie Union that establishes an agricultural
exjlerimenta! station. He moved that the
committee rise and report the bill back with
a recommendation that it pass. The motion
prevailed. The bill on a vote was lost by
70 to 08, not the required two-thirds ma
jority.
The House met at 7:30 o’clock this even
ing, and several hills were read for the first
time.
A communication was received from the
managers of the Piedmont Exposition, ac
companied by complimentary tickets. On
motion of Mr. Bate, of Pickens, the coni
tnuuication and tickets were received, and
the regrets of the House were returned, that
owing to the rush of business, the members
would be unable to attend in a body.
Mr. Atkinson, of Coweta, introduced a
resolution calling on tho Governor for an
itemized account of tlie expenditures of the
departments for the jiast two years.
Supreme Court Decisions.
Atlanta, Ga., Oct 7.—The following
Supreme Court decisions were handed Mown
to-day:
John J. Falvey, vs. H. W. Jones; from
Fulton affirmed.
John Hockenhall, vs. J. S. Oliver from
Fulton affirmed.
In the Superior Court to-day Henry Mc-
Crary, colored, was convicted of burglary
and sentenced to ten yeara in the peniten
tiary. McCrary broke into the residence
of John Williams, near Atlanta, ami stole
therefrom a pair of pants and jar of pre
serves.
Macon Mention.
Macon, Ga., Oct. 7.—F. H. Riehardson,
the newlv ajijKiinted editor-in-chief of the
Telegraph, arrived in the city to-day from
Atlanta and will assume charge of affairs
to-morrow.
The State Fair’s prospects grow brighter
every day. There is little or no foundation
for the rejxirt that Mr. Carlisle will lie in
vited to offset Mr. Randall at Atlanta. The
association does not jirojiose to run the fair
on a political schedule, especially on sueh a
red hot one as that.
Railroad Rates in Florida.
Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. 7.—The Flor
ida Railroad Commission publishes its
schedule to-morrow prescribing the rates
and regulations for the various railroads of
the State. Passenger rates are made uni
form at 3c. jier mile. The freight charges
are graded and the classifications and stan
dard of the Georgia Railroad Commission
are closely followed. It is believed that the
new rates will greatly promote the pros
perity of Florida by insuring railroad
transportation at moderate cost.
Columbus Chips.
Columbus, Ga., Oct. 7.—-An accident oc
curred on the Columbus and Western rail
road this evening to the train from Atlanta.
Just before it crossed the bridge at this city
one of the piston rods broke, and Engineer
John Kell and Fireman James Struppa,
jumped to keep from being scalded. Kell’s
shoulder and knee joint were sprained.
Strupjia also had an ankle sprained. No
other damage was done, but the train was
delayed an h nr and a half.
No Barrooms In Leon.
Tallahassee, Fla., Oct. 7.—Leon coun
ty Etill has no barrooms, in consequence of
the failure of the liquor dealers to secure
jirojier petitions to secure license. The
County Commissioners meet on Monday,
but it is not all certain that tho jietitions
now ready to present to them will be recog
nized as legal, and tho chances are that
Tallahassee will have no liquor shojw.
Comptroller General Barnes is improving. 1
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY. OCTOBER 8, 1887.
DAVIS AND THE FAIR.
He Will Come if His Physical Condi
tion Permits.
Macon, Ga., Oct. 7. —In order to set at
rest the doubts expressed by many jiajiors
of Mr. Davis’ coming to the Georgia State
Fair to review the surviving Confederate
veterans on Oct. 20, the following letter
was given out to-night by the President of
the State Fair, Hon. W. J. Northern
Beauvoir, Miss., Oct. 3, 1887.
President W. J. Northern :
My condition is not materially altered since I
had the pleasure of seeing you here, Lilt I have
lietter reason to hojie that it. may 1m; in my
power to attend the Confederate reunion tit
Macon than I theu had. It has been my sincere
desire to lie present on that occasion, and it is
now. as when we inet, only a question of physi
cal ability to do so, 1 ain resjiectfully and truly
yours. Jefferson Davis.
A MYSTERIOUS PITCHER
Which Has Interested the Curious for
Twenty Years.
Charleston, S. C., Oct. o.—Having
some business witli Mr. .1. Hamilton Wilson,
tlie efficient paymaster of the South Caro
lina railroad, I called upon him some time
ago and chanced to mention tlie fact that I
intended to make a trip over the line iii a
tow days, whereupon, in the kindness of his
heart, lie invited me to accomjiauy him on
a round trip on the jiav train, i thankfully
accepted the invitation, and lately we
started out under tho conductorehip of
Cajit. William H. Carsten, n whole-souled
gentleman and veteran conductor. The
train was pulled by engine No. it!, with Mr.
Henry Brickman, an exjierienced and re
liable engineer on the foot board.
The trip to Augusta, Columbia, ('amden,
and back to this city, was made in three
days, and it was indeed a pleasant one.
Mr. Wilson is a most affable and enter
taining gentleman. Cajit. Carsten has been
with tne company from boyhood, and when
ever there is some very important, or diffi
cult train to run, Capt. Carsten is callod
upon to handle the bell line. During the
trip my attention was called to wiiat is
known as
“that mysterious pitcher.”
At a jxiint about 114 miles from this city,
in Aiken county, on the Augusta division,
and near to Montmorenci station, on the
right hand side of the line going westward,
stands an unpretentious old-fashioned log
house, which some twenty-five years ago
was occupied by a family by the the name
of C , who had but recently started
out to light the battle of life. Almost di
rectly in front of tlie house, about thirty
feet therefrom, and lietwoen it anil the rail
road track, is a well. Near the well is an
ordinary cypress jiost about five feet high,
and on the toji of that post stands a common
white jiitcher. One of my in.ormants lias
been traveling uj> and down tlie road for
the jiast twenty-one years, lias passed there
at all times of the day and night, has looked
for that pitcher a thousand times and has
always seen it there just the same, through
that long series of years. Neither storms,
earthquakes nor the hand of man has ever
disturiied it.
Tradition says that nearly a quarter of a
century ago. soon after the family above re
ferred to had settled there, tlie wife, a young
and beautiful woman, went to the well for
water. Just as she had jilaeed the jiitcher
on the post she was struck by lightning and
instantly killed. No one ever attempted to,
or even thought of, removing the pitcher
from the sjiot in which it had been placed by
its fair owner. In course of time a kind of
superstitious dread, with respect to the
jiitcher, seemed to take possession of tiie
remaining inmates of the house and those
who frequented the place. The pitcher,
therefore, was permitted to remain. Many
years ago the family move 1 away, leaving
the jiitcher where the hand of the once
happy mistress of the house had jilaeed it,
ard there it is still. The home is
now occupied by negroes. None dare,
touch the jiitcher, however. It stands to
day as it did twenty years ago. Tlie train,
men of the road look for it regularly as
they go and come. It is always there as if
it were nailed to the sjiot, and there it will
probably remain until broken by accident,
or tin- jiost which supjiorts it rots and per
mits it to fall to the ground.
HAWTHORNE PERSONALS.
Notes About People Which Their
Friends Will Read With Interest.
Hawthorne, Fla., Oct. G. —Mrs. S. L.
Hawthorne is visiting her parents. Dr. and
Mrs. McFadden, of Loehbie.
Miss Helen Urie, one of our fairest belles,
spent two days last week in our prettv
suburb, McMeekin, the guest of Mrs. D. E.
Cooper.
F. Sherfy, of Lawrence, Kan., has re
cently located here.
Mr. W. T. Braswell and daughter, Miss
Rebecca, spent the summer in \Vilson and
Hendersonville, N. C. Mr. Braswell re
turned last week.
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Jolly returned re
cently from a trip to Northern Alabama,
Chattanooga, Tenn., and Cincinnati. O. On
their way up they called on Gov. Gordon,
of Georgia, and were received with the
courtesy and cordiality which endears Gov.
Gordon to strangers and friends alike.
Messrs. W. B. Adkins and Will Garvin
left last week for the East Florida Semin
ary, at Gainesville, Fla., to enter on the
jiresent scholastic year as pupils.
Rev. J. L Lyons, D. D., returned last
week from his summer vacation North to
resume his pastoral duties hero.
The Presbyterian church, of Hawthorne,
has been presented with a beautiful silver
service for communion, the donor, it is un
derstood, being a sister of Mrs. J. L. Lyons.
The interchange of freight between the
Florida Railway and Navigation and Flori
da Southern railroads at this place adds
quite a business-like air to our town. The
freight consists mostly of brick ami lutiilier.
Sydney J. Waits has just returned from
Lexington, Ky., where he has graduated in
the business college there. He lias accepted
a jiositioii with J. M. Waits & Cos., of Loch
bie, as bookkeeper.
Jerry Berbcur (colored) was arrested hero
Monday for stealing, on receipt of a tele
fram from Sheriff Epjieraon, of Starke,
’la. Marshal Thigjien captured the rogue
and lodged him in tlie calaboose, but he
made his escape about dark, ami has not
yet been recaptured.
Mr. J. S. Jolly left Monday for a two
weeks’ vacation in the North.
Mr. J. S. Weeks, a pioneer young mer
chant of Fort Meade, Fla., is tho guest of
his father, Mr. R. R. Weeks, of Hawthorne.
He will be married on Sunday next to Miss
Taylor, of Hawthorne.
A ROBBER’S TERRIBLE JUMP.
Hurling Himself From a Train in
Order to Escape Capture.
From the Washington Star,
Cairo, 111., Oct. 4.—As the morning pas
senger train coming north pulled out of
Martin, Tenn., the conductor discovered a
negro on the rear platform. After paying
his fare he asked for change for a biilj ex
tending at the instant a S2O greenback
selected from a large roll of money which
he took from his inside pocket. UjKin being
asked the denomination of the bill lie
wished changed he promptly replied $5. His
ignorance of tlie size of tne bill,’and tile jxw
session of what appeared to be several hun
dred dollars, excited the suspicious of the
conductor, who communicated with a com
mercial traveler. The latter ajiproached
the negro, ami with threats forced him to
confess that he had robbed a store down the
road, but declined to say where. He offered
to give up the money, but asked that he lie
allowed to find the conductor and recover
the S2O bill. He then dashed through the
cars and jumped from the rear platform,
while the train was going twenty-live miles
an hour, near McConnells station, six miles
lielow Fulton, taking the money along. He
was seen to turn end over end down the
steep embankment, finally jumping up and
taking to the timber. The Marshal at Ful
ton was notified, and with a posse is now
scai’cbimc the locs litv
MISS SARAH JEWETTS ILLNESS.
It Was Caused by Dangerous Drug
Prescribed by an English Physician.
Boston, Oct. s.—The Traveler prints the
following by authority: “The sad facts re
garding the illness of Miss Sarah Jewett
were made public in the i>apers yesterday,
but before pronouncing any judgment on
the l>euutiful and talented woman, whose
professional career lias been so disastrously
interrupted, let the truth be stated and the
blame be accredited where it is due. Some
seven years ago Miss Jewett went to
England in the summer, after a
peculiarly arduous season of pro
fessional achievements and triumphs
which bad greatly overtaxed her energies.
She was suffering from insomnia and ner
vous exhaustion, and consulted an English
physician. He prescribed for her a sleeping
potion which was composed of orange
flower water and chloral. There was the
beginning of Sara Jewett’s ill health and ill
fortune; and until medical science is so far
advanced that physicsans are too intelligent
and too moral to prescribe the most appall
ing and dangerous of drugs, until we see
that day let us hold in charity the mistake
of a young, unexperienced woman, ambi
tious in her art, an 1 who gained such
swiff relief from following the
advice of a physician eminent and honored
in his profession. There lies the blame—the
crime, for it can lie called nothing else—
that has ended in such overwhelming dis
aster lor an artist whose future outlook
was among the fairest on the stage. Miss
Jewett came of a refined family; her social
sphere is of the highest. She was an
especial favorite and almost a protege of
the poet Ijongfellow. She has beauty, ex
quisite culture and refinement, grace and a
winning sweetness that gives to her presence
a never failing charm. This insidious habit,
first acquired by the professional counsel •!
an eminent medical practitioner, fastened
itself deeper and deejier upon her until the
sad and inevitable result is reached.’’
WHIP AND SPUR.
A Big Crowd Out tor tae Sixth Day’s
Events at Latonia.
Cincinnati, Oct. 7.—This was the sixth
day of the Latonia Jockey Club’s races. The
weather was flue, the track excellent, and
one of the largest crowds of this meeting
was jiresent. Following is a summary of
the events:
First Race— Selling purse; seven furlongs.
Monocrat won by a length, with Malaria second
and Walker third. Tim- 1:3344
Second Race—One mile. Embus won in a
canter by two lengths, with Estrella second and
Chance third. Time 1:43.
Third Race-Selling purse; live furlongs.
Ramble won by half a length, with Balance sec
ond and Jdlia Miller third. Time 1:034j;.
Fourth Race Free handicap; one mile and
half a furlong. Dad and Sour Mash ran a dead
heat, with Macola third. Time 1:50.
Fifth Race—Kimball tai:es for 4-year-olds;
six furlongs. Macbeth won in a gallop, with
Benedict second and Billy Pinkerton third.
Time 1:16%.
A POOR CARD AT JEROME PARK.
New York, Oct, 7.—A very inferior card
at Jerome Park td-day caused a decided fall
ing off in the attendance. Betting, how
ever, was brisk. Following is a summary
of the day’s races:
First Race—Handicap for all ages; three
quarters of a mile. Mil nie Huut won, with
Stuyvesant second and Sam Harper J. third.
Time 1:17.
Second Race—Handicap for two-year-olds;
three-quarters of a mile. Belinda won easily,
with Omaha second and Ilixiaue third. Time
1:1744-
Third Race— Handicap for all ages: one and
one-sixteenth miles. Ben Ali won. with Arun
del second and Joe Cotton third. Time 1:54.
Fourth Race- Handicap for all ages; one and
three-eighth miles. Linden won, with Santa
Rita second and Bassanio third. Time 4:4644.
Fifth Rack -Selling allowances; one time.
Brait won, with Belmont second and Nettle
third. Time 1:4544- The winner was entered
to be sold for SI,OOO, and was bought in for
$1,105.
Sixth Race ■ Handicap steeplechase over the
short course. Jim McGowan won, with Gold
Fellow second and Van Cluse third. Time 3:18.
MISS LIZZIE BUDD’S MARRIAGE.
A Long Branch Beauty Makes a Very
Strange Marriage.
From the Philadelphia Press.
Long Branch, Oct. 4.—An announce
ment which lias shocked the good families of
this neighborhood, is that last week Miss
Lizzie Budd was married by Justice Ed
wards to Jesse Cramer. Miss Budd has the
reputation of being the jirettiest girl in the
county. Her father is a prominent official
of tlie New Jersey Southern railroad, and
has bestowed upon her a most liberal educa
tion. He is in more than comfortable cir
cumstances, and she lias been prominent not
only in tlie social circles of tne permanent
residents, but also in the entertainments at
the hotels in summer. Last season she was
said to bo the most daring and graceful
woman fider oil the Bluff, and her fondness
for athletic exercise has given her a robust
and beautiful figure. Last August, in com
pany with a party of young laditu from
West Philadelphia, she drove out into “The
Pinas.” In this wilderness, amid a settle
ment of squalid negroes, Cramer keejis a
small grocery store.
Miss Budd is said to have formed an at
tachment for this man. It is alleged that
several clandestine meetings followed, re
sulting in the marriage last iv(>ek. Cramer
is 47 years old, anil is said to be illiterate.
His wife accompanied him to his home im
mediately after the wedding, and thereby
tlie correspondent of the Press -aw her to
day. Her surroundings are repulsive in tue
extreme, but she declared that she would
not leave her husband. No other white
jieojile live within five miles, and most of
the negro settlers are the most miserable
and wretched jieople in this section of the
State. As the girl is of legal age her
imrents can exercise no compulsion over
tier, and she is deaf to their entreaties to re
turn home.
TRAGEDY IN MID-AIR.
Body of Lineman Corliss Discovered in
a Mesh of Electric Wires.
From the Boston Globe.
Detroit, Mich., Oct. 3.—A corpse hang
ing in a mesh of wires 60 feet from the earth,
the arms anil logs moving perceptibly like
“jack on a string.” Tliis was the ghastly
sight which greeted the people at!) o’clock
to-night on the corner of Woodward avenue
an and the Campus Martius. The discoverer
happened to be a man with a fire-alarm box
key, and he called the department. Three
ladders were erected in mid-air, and all fell
short of reaching the dead man, but finally
he was got down on the Hayes extension
ladder and carried into a neighboring drug
store. He had been dead some time, and
through his body, during the time he hung
on the wires, there had passed the electric
current of the entire Brush system, which
had made his limbs move a < if convulsively'.
The man was found to lx- Lineman Hiram
Corliss. Nobody knows how long he had
hung in the wires when discovered. An
immense crowd gathered to watch the efforts
to secure the body, an operation attended
with great danger, because the electric cur
rent was still on. Corliss, in repairing or
looking for a leak, had made a fatal find.
The Correct Position for Waltzing:.
From the -Vein York Sun.
At the session of the dancing masters’
convention, held recently, the correct posi
tion for waltzing was defined It was de
cided that the gentlemen should hold the
lady with his right forearm, placing his
hand flat against the back. No part of his
arm above the elbow should come in con
tact with her body. The lady’s left hand
should rest ujx)n the gentleman’s arm, about
four inches from the shoulder. Her right
arm should be held out perfectly straight at
an angle of about forty-live degrees flrom
the body. Her right hand should rest in
the gentleman’s panu with the knuckles up
permost. It is necessary that the lady shall
not bend her right elbow, otherwise they
will fail to give the mu ml support which
is a reuufsite of p-o.i l
A MURDEROUS MANIAC.
Captain and Crew Terrorized by a
Mad Swedish Sailor.
From the New York Sun.
The officers and crew of the three-masted
schooner Nettie Champion have lived in a
state of terror since they left Philadelphia
on their way to Boston three days ago. The
schooner is owned in Philadelphia, and
Capt. Shaw secured most of his crew at
that port. Among the new crew was Peter
Larsen, a stalwart young Swede. He de
veloped some eccentricities immediately
after the schooner left port. The captain
sent him aloft to unfurl the foretopsail. He
did so, but failed to secure it, and tne sail
snapped the reefing block. He came down
perfectly unconcerned, and when the cap
tain asked him whether he had tinished he
answered coolly:
“Ok, yes; that’s all right. I’ve done all
the work I’m a-going to.”
He acted so strangely that the Captain,
who is a mild man, did not think it best to
ust- force. Larsen went to his lierth and
remained there the rest of the day, only
coming out to get hi,, meats. The rest of
the crew were by this time thoroughly
afraid of him, and would not go near. him.
He kept to his berth the second day, but on
Tuesday night when the schooner was off
Fire Island he walked out on deck The
Captain and first mats were below deck,
eating their supper, and the only men on
deck were the man at the wheel and a deck
hand. Abel English, the steward, was sit
ting in the doorway of the cook’s galley,
with his feetjOut on deck. Larsen walked
up to him, and, when English first
got sight of him, he was bending
down with his sheath knife in his hand.
English jumped up, but, before ho could
get away, Larson was on top of him, and
brought down the knife with a sweep upon
his head. English rail out on deck pursued
by the Swede, who is the more agile of the
two, and who soou overtook his victim.
This time he planted the knife into the
steward’s back right between the shoulder
blades. With a cry of anguish the steward
sank upon the deck. The other two men on
deck at the time had witnessed the scene,
end appeared dazed by the mad antics of the
infuriated sailor. The latter, apparently
satisfied that he had done for the steward,
started off on a run for the deck hand, hold
ing the dripping knife over his head as he
went. The deck hand rushed down tiie
stairs to where the captain and mate were
at table. Larsen followed, but seeing the
captain stopped and went back again. The
captain, guessing that he would attempt to
murder the man at the whet*!, threw a re
volver to the latter aud tokl him to shoot if
Larsen should molest him. Larsen advanced
on the wheelman, but, seeing the pistol,
turned around and ran into the forecastle.
A sailor followed him and slammed shut the
door, locking him in. Then the others
came up and nailed boards across the door
and windows. Then they helped the cook
to his berth. Although serious, neither of
his wounds was fatal.
A council of war was hold, and it was
determined to put into this port and get rid
of the dangerous prisoner. Yesterday the
schooner dropped anchor in Buttermilk
Channel, just below Governor’s Island, and
set her Hag upside down as a signal of dis
tress. The police boat Patrol went down to
investigate. When Capt. Smith and De
tectives Wood aud Collins boarded the
schooner they found the crew in a demoral
ized condition Capt Smith released Lar
sen, and found him very weak. His actions
and answers to questions clearly suggested
insanity. When asked why he had stabbed
the steward he answered, because he had
not given him enough to eat. The other
sailors denied this. He was locked up in
the Church Street station to await the re
sult of English’s injuries. He will lie
arraigned before United States Commis
sioner Shields to-day.
SUICIDE OF A MINISTER.
He Had Preached the Doctrine of Per
fection and Thought He was Sinless.
From the Washington Star.
The Rev. Renry Clemtnens, a Free Will
Methodist preacher in Holmes county, Ohio,
committed suicide last Friday night under
very peculiar circumstances. He, for a
long time preached the doctrine of perfec
tion, and asserted that he was sanctified, and
therefore sinless in the sight of God. Amonjf
his converts was Miss Kate Uhl, who, not
long ago, became his wife, and labored with
him in his evangelical work. A few day's
ago it was noticed that his mind was beoom
ing unsettled, and a physician was culled in.
To the doctor Clemuv-us asserted that in his
last sermon he had placed the standard of
religion too high for the people, that they
could never attain it, and that consequent
ly he had lied to them and had displeased
God. The physician prescribed perfect
quiet and rest, and gave the clergyman
some nervines. Friday night he arose
from his bed. took a loaded shotgun that
stood in a corner of the room, placed the
muzzle of the gun in his mouth, and dis
charged the weapon. His wife was awak
ened by the report, and lighting a lamp,
found the body' of her husband on the floor.
A Javanese Dreamer.
From the Amsterdammer Weekblad.
To transform men into all sorts of beings,
both vegetable and animal, from sweet
scented flowers to pigs and predatory ani
mals, .vea even into rocks of salt, was a
favorite pastime with ail the divinities and
magicians of old. But the transformation
of a happy couple into a pair of cannon is
something ineomjmrable—reserved to the
reigning divinity of the Island of Java, in
the East Indian archipelago. Setama was
the wisest of the wise men of Java, and
Prime Minister an t Governor at the same
time, and his wife. Setomi, the most beauti
ful and most adorable of women and an in
valuable helpmate in all her husband’s one
rous duties of government. Some night
King Sari had a dream that the Javanese
god had made him a present of a pair of the
most beautiful cannons in the world. He
called on his Prime*Minister and sent him
off to find the cannon. The minister took
his faithful wife with him and they wan
dered for years without finding the cannon.
At last they went into a temple and prayed
fervently to their god to let them find the
promised cannon, as they could not return
tothe King without them. That same night
(SetamaV son had a dream that he could find
the cannon in the same temple where his
parents had taken refuge. He goes there
but sees no trace of either his parents or the
camion. At last he goes to the conch where
liis parents had been sleeping and —lo and
behold!—there are ttie two cannon, wrapped
up in counterpanes like sleeping beauties.
After that the cannon were set up as mira
cle, workers in the temple—the he-cannon
for the male population, the she-eanuon for
the females.
The Best External Remedy.
Haley’s, Marion Cos., Ai,a., Dec. 33,
1885. —Allcock’s Porous Plasters are a
most invaluable household remedy. They
do all that is claimed for them. I sell many
hundreds every y r ear, and every day I hear
of tbeir curing coughs and colds, diseases of
the spine, liver and ague cake; in fact, there
is no disease that can be reached by an ex
ternal application that they do not cure.
8. J. Tiowell.
The lake of Merjelau, in Switzerland, has en
tirely disappeared.
HARDWARE.
EDWARD LOVELL & SONS
HAVE D/LOVED BACK TO
OLD STAND,
15d rfllOKilllUd j;
FUNERAL INVITATIONS.
HANCOCK.—The friends and acquaintance of
Mr. Nathaniel A. Hancock, anil of Mrs. M. J.
Ives, are resjiectfully invited to attend the fun
eral of the former, from 106 South Broad street,
SUNDAY MORNING, at 9 o'clock.
MEETINGS.
T. I*. A.
A meeting of Post D., Travelers Protective
Association, will be held THIS (Saturday) EVEN
ING, 8 o'clock, at Savannah Volunteer Guards
Armory. __ H. M. BOLEY, Secretary.
CITIZENS’ MEETING.
A Mass Meeting of the Citizens of Savann ah
will be held at MASONIC HALL, corner of Lib
erty and Whitaker streets, MONDAY NIGHT at
8 o'clock, to give expression of their sentiments
regarding the purchase by the United States
Treasury Department of part of the Oglethorpe
Barracks property as the site for the new Post
Office aud Court Rooms. The meeting will be
addressed by Hon. Thomas M. Norwood and
others. The presence of every citizen of Savan
nah is desired.
GRAND LODGE, F. AND A. M.
Office of Grand Secretary, I
Macon, Ga., Oct. 1, 1887. f
Grand Lodge of F. and A. M. for the State of
Georgia, will assemble in annual communica
tion on TUESDAY, the 25th inst., at 10 o'clock
A. M., in the Grand Lodge Temple in the city of
Macon. Officers and delegates will take due
notice and govern themselves accordingly.
A. M. WOLIHIN. Grand Secretary.
BURGLAR ALARM AND DISTRICT
TEI.EGR VPH COMPANY.
An adjourned meeting of the stockholders of
the above eumpany will be held at Metropolitan
Hall on TUESDAY EVENING, Oct. 11, 1887, at
8 o'clock. J. H. ESTILL, Chairman.
I. G. Haas, Secretary.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Advertisements inserted under “Special
Notices" will be charged $1 00 a Square each
insertion.
CHATHAM REAL ESTATE AND IM
PROVEMENT COMPANY.
Savannah, Oct. 8, 1887.
THE 28th INSTALLMENT IS NOW DUE.
M. J. SOLOMONS, Sec’t’y and Treas.
NOTICE.
Neither the Captain nor Consignees of the
British steamship BAYLEY, whereof Child
is Master, will be responsible for any debts
contracted by the crew.
A. MINIS & SONS, Consignees.
GRAND OPENING
At the COSMOPOLITAN SHADES, 176 Brough
ton street, Oct. Bth, at 7:30 o’clock. Milwaukee
Beer and Choice Liquors at low rates.
J. P LONG.
DR. HENRY 6 COLDING,
DENTIST,
Office corner Jones and Drayton streets.
NOTICE TO TAX PAYERS.
CITY TREASURER'S OFFICE, I
Savannah, Ga., Oct. 1, 1887. (
The following taxes are now clue:
REAL ESTATE, Third Quarter, 1887.
STOCK IN TRADE, Third Quarter, 1887.
FURNITURE, ETC . Third Quarter. 1887.
MONEY. SOLVENT DEBTS, ETC., Third
Quarter. 1887.
Also GROUND RENTS in arrears for two or
more quarters.
A discount of TEN PER CENT, will he al
lowed upon all of the above (except Ground
Heats) if paid within fifteen dai/s after Oct. 1.
C. S. HARDEE, City Treasurer.
ULMER’S LIVER C ORRECTOR.
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.
irUfi
A CARGO OF
Portland
Cement!
DIRECT FROM EUROPE,
—FOR SALE LOW BY—
ANDREW HANLEY,
savannah, cfa.
DRY GOODS.
HAVING RETURNED FROM MAKING FALL
PURCHASES I WILL OFFER
New and Desirable Goods
—FOR THE
all Season
FROM THIS DAY.
. call special attention to my stock of
Black Goods
And invite an inspection.
J. P. GERMAINE,
132 Broughton street, next to Furber's.
Addit ions to my stock by eyery steamer.
17*OR SALE, Old Newspapers, just the thing
for wrappers, only 16 c> its a hundred, 200
lor 26 cents, at the business oflleo.
EXCURSIONS.
Mil and Samili
RAILWAY.
Summer Excursions
Commencing SUNDAY, MAY 15th, this Com
pany will sell round trip tickets to
CHARLESTON,
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., same
day SI 00
By train leaving Sunday only at 6:45 a. m, ; re
turning, leave Charleston Monday morn
ing $2 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. MeSWINEY,
Gen. Pass. Agent.
CLOTHING.
If the Head of the Heap!
VND only our second fall season. Being very
busy since Sept. Ist with our Custom De
partment, we have neglected to inform our
friends and the public at large that we have on
hand and ready for inspection one of tne most
complete lines of
CLOTHING
For all shape men, boys and youths ever ex
hibited in our Forest City.
Our style of doing business STRICTLY ONE
PRICE TO ALL. with each and every article
MARKED IN PLAIN FIGURES (which has met
with so much favor since we commenced busi
ness) is sufficient to guarantee satisfaction in
every respect.
We have every department complete,
Hats, Trunks, Valises,
Gent’s Furnishing Goods,
to which we call particular attention to styles,
assortment and prices. Our specials this season
are as fo 1 jws:
Special Custom Department—Armenian Natu
ral Wool Sanitary Underwear (recommended by
all physicians), Screven’s Palent Elastic Seam
Drawers [to sea(m) them is to buy them], Earl
<N Wilson's Collars and Cuffs, Ward’s Reversible
Linen Covered Paper Collars, Chocolate Color
Imitation Camel Hair Underwear, Miller's New
York Fine Stiff and Silk Hats.
Our buyer is at present in New York, where
he will b • for the next ten days, and the public
can depend on anything new or novel in our
line which has come out since the season
opened.
Remember the number, 163 CONGRESS
STREET, opposite the market.
APPEL &SCHAUL,
ONE PRICE CLOTHIERS,
HATTERS AND GENT'S FURNISHERS.
BELT GREASE.
To Mill Men
TURNER’S TRACTION
BELT GREASE
—AND—
Belting Preservative
Softens leather and! Makes Rubber Belting
More Durable.
Tliis frrea.se effectually prevents slipping, ren
der's the belts adhesive, heavy and pliable
will add one-third to the power of the belt.
Its use enables the belt to be run loose and
have same power.
—FOR SALB BY—
PALMER BROTHERS,
SAVANNAH.
Recommended by
DALE, DIXO" f- CO.,
J. <r. TYNAN
and many others,
EDUCATION Ah.
Tlie Savannah Academy
Will open its Nineteenth Annual Session on
MONDAY, the 3d of October.
Instruction given in Ancient and Modern
Languages, Mathematics and English.
Catalogues at all of the book stores.
Office hours from Ba. m. to 5 p. m., comete- .
ing the 26th.
JOHN TALIAFERRO, Principal.
CHARLES W. RAIN. Univ.Va.,FirstAssi.stant.
THE OGLETHORPE SEMINARY
FOR
YOUNG LADIES AND CHILDREN.
AV r ILb be opened on TUESDAY, Oct. 11, at
* ▼ 1ft!) Drayton street, facing park extension.
Mrs R. W. Barnwell will assume charge of the
Boarding Department. If being exin'dienl to
have a resident French and German teacher,
tbe services of Mile. Marie Engelhard, a teacher
of large experience, have lieen secured. For all
desired information address.
MRS. L. C. YOUNG, Principal,
Corner of Barnard and Bolton streets, Savan
nah, Ga.
Uuivereity of Georgia.
P. B. MELL, D. D„ LL. D., Chancellor.
ens will begin Wednesday. October 5. 1887.
TUITION FREE, except in Luiw Department.
LAM AR COBB,
Secretary Board of Trustees.
MAUPIX'S UNIVERSITY SCHOOL,
TOllieott City, Md.
IXTH SESSION o[S‘ms ITiin September. For
• ’ catalogues address CHAPMAN MAUPIN,
M. A., Principal. ____
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