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2 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. j I I I I 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. 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