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JNO. SMITH T.OF MISSOURI
▲ COLONEL WHO WOULD HAVE
BEEN FAMOUS WITHOUT THE T.
The Lurid Career of An Ideal Southern
Desperado -Alter Countless Adven
tures He Falls a Victim of Fever in
Tennessee.
Prom the St. Louis Olobe-Democrat.
In all of Missouri’s early history there is,
perhaps, no man, reminiscences of whose
career are as thoroughly lurid as that of
Col. John Smith T.,of Ste. lienevievo, who,
after killing fifteen men in duels and brawls,
was at last permitted by an inscrutable
providence to die a natural death in hts bod,
attended by faithful servitors.
In a recent lecture before the Missouri
Historical Society, fieri. Firman A. ier,
incidental to a history of earlj - days in Ste.
Genevieve, gave a short sketch of this re
markable man, whom lie designated as John
Smith TANARUS., Judge and desperado. The affix
of “T.” was made by Col. Smith to distin
guish himself from other John Smiths of
the day, and to commemorate the fact that
he had lived in Tennessee Originally a
native of Georgia, he located for awhile in
Tennessee, but came to Missouri, then
known us Upper Louisiana, in about 1798,
settling in the Ste. Genevieve district,
and giving to his homestead the name
of Shiblioleth. Col. Smith seems to have
been an ideal desperado, being described as
tall, slight of build, wiry in person aud
mild-mamnered, even apparently courteous,
except when aroused by some real or fancied
insult. Then his appearance was most
ferocious. His features would become dis
torted with passion ami his eyes would
fairly blaze with wrathful tire. Col. Smith
was a dead shot, if ever one lived, and
always went armed to the teeth His per
sonal equipment consisted daily of two large
pistols swung to a belt abut his body, two
smaller pistols carried in the outside pocket
of his coat, ami a large hunting knife of
the bowie pattern, which re|Ksed in his
bosom. His home was a perfect armory.
He owned a slave whom he called Dan, who
was a fine gunsmith. He built a shop for
Dan, and that slave’s only duty was the
manufacture and repair of rifles, pistols and
shotguns for his master. These weapons
weif reputed to be the truest and best in
the Western country.
About the time or At . rr’s expedi
tion down the Mississippi river there came
to Ste. Genevieve an Austrian named Otto
Schrader, who had lieen aide-de-camp to the
Archduke Charles in the first battle with
Napoleon. It was in this same battle that
Marla Lcrtnse. then a Princess, aged 0 years,
had to be sent away to keep her from falling
into the hands of Napoleon—Maria Louise,
who, a few years later, when she became a
woman, fell into the arms ami fond em
braces of Napoleon as his wife. Schrader
was mode Coroner shortly after taking up
his residence in Missouri. Col. Smith, who
was then Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas, something like the County Court of
to-day, and Henry Dodge, afterward a Sen
ator "from Wisconsin, was Sheriff of Ste.
Genevieve district. Smith and Dodge were
at the time sworn friends, although they af
terward became deadly enemies. They were
fired with Burr’s ambition to go over to Mex
ico ami the Spanish provinces, and con
cluded to join the expedition. They pur
chased a fleet of canoes, and, well supplied
with arms and provisions, started down the
Mississippi to join Burr. At New Madrid
they were met by President Jefferson’s
proclamation declaring Burr and his whole
enterprise unlawful. Much disgusted, the
Missourians sold their canoes, purchased
horses and rode back to Ste. Genevieve.
When they returned they found the little
town in great excitement. The grand jury
was in session and had actually indicted
both of them for treason. Dodge at once
surrendered himself, whereupon, lieing a
man of wonderful physique, he took off his
ccat, rolled up his sleeves, and actually
whipped nine of the grand jurors. The
other three ran away. Col. Smith lived out
in the country. The next day he was just
about sitting down to dinner, when, looking
down the road, he saw Schrader, the Coro
ner, coming after him. Smith went to the
door and called out to Schrader: “I know
what you have come for; vou have
come with a writ to arrest me. ff you at
tempt it you are a dead man. It was a great
outrage to arrest me. lam as good a friend
of the United States as t here is in this terri
tory. Mr. Schrader, dinner is just ready.
Get down and come in and take dinner, hilt
mark, if you attempt to move a finger or
make a motion to arrest me you are a dead
man.” Schrader got off and came in. Smith
pointed to a chair at the table, and then
cocking a pistol laid it beside a plate and
sat down opposite. The dinner progressed
as pleasantly as possible under the circum
stances, the host plying his guest with the
delicacies the meal afforded. After dinner
the couple rode into town again, but Smith
was not a prisoner, nor was he ever arrested
on that indictment.
The inhabitants of upper Louisiana ap
pointed Smith to attend to their interests in
Congress, says one authority. Others say
he elected himself, and such was the terror
that his name inspired that no one dared to
question his assumption of the title of Ter
ritorial delegate. Be that as it may, he
twice visited Washington, and was accepted
as the Territorial delegate. During his stay
in the national capital he considerately re
frained from killing any one, and e'. eu
found it impossible to scrape up a duel jyjth
any of the fire-eaters that abounded there
dfcruig the first half century of the existence
0t the republic. While abiding the results
of the Presidential suppression „f Aaron
Burr’s ambition, he, like faostof his class,
looked upon Mexico as field for adventure
and gain, and in 1840 entered that country
alone to rescue a, brother, who was im
prisoned in a t'hihuahua mine, and while
on that mission endeavored to create a revo
to mis he was not successful. In
1806 he.R as appointed one of the Territorial
Jno|Jfjs of the Court of General Quarter
SSssions. This body met at Ste. Genevieve,
and Col. Smith was a member of it up to
the admission of the State into the Union.
Even while occupying this judicial position,
his primitive ideas of the rights of property
underwent no change, and recruiting a
large body of desperate men he endeavored
to seize and hold the lead mines of Dubuque
and Galena, reported then to be of fabu
lous richness. The mines were in possession
of the Indians, and Smith’s party, after
several bloody engagements, were forced to
withdraw with a loss of fully half his men.
In September, 1860, Smith went to Ste.
GenovieAe, and while indulging in liquor
with an old citizen mimed Samuel Ball at
the tavern of William McArthur, they
quarreled, and Smith shot Ball through the
head. Mrs. McArthur, a brave woman,
beard the shot, and running into the room,
saw Ball lying (lead on the floor. She de
nounced the killing as a cowardly act, and
demanded of Smith that he surrender his
pistol. Producing the four weapons which
he always carried, he handed them to her
with a courteous bow, aud said: “Take
them, 1113- daughter.” He surrendered to
the authorities and a week later was tried
and acquitted before the Circuit Court. Ac
quittal always followed hi s arrest and trial.
No jury would have the temerity to convict
him.
An incident is told of him that is charac
teristic. He had had trouble with the Perry
family of Mine La Breton, about some
mining claim. One day, while riding to
Ste. Genevieve, he overtook Samuel Perry
on the road. After a courteous salutation,
tlie Colonel remarked to Mr. Perry: “I very
much dislike the idea of having any diffi
culty with you, sir, but it must come sooner
or later. The opportunity presents ilself
now to settle our affairs as becomes gentle
men. I have two friends here,” drawing u
pair of pistols, “and you aro at liberty to
avail yourself of the services of either.”
Mr. Perry replied: “I would be happy to
accommodate you, Colonel, but unfor
tunately I am on my way to Hte. Gen
evieve for the purpose of transacting im
portant business intrusted to me. Asa man
of honor I must discharge the obligation I
am under, aud vou will annrociate mv !
situation when 1 say that I cannot to-day
jeopard those interests.”
“I think I understand you, sir,” replied
Col. John, “and must accept your explana
tion for the present. I deeply regret., how
ever, that our business cannot be settled in
the rational manner I have suggested.”
Three months later they met on the field of
| honor, and Perry fell on the first fire with a
bullet in his brain.
Lionel Brown, a nephew of Aaron Burr,
lived at Potosi, in Washington county. For
some alleged remarks reflecting upon some
of the lady members of the Brown family
Lionel sent a challenge to Smith. Augustus
Jones, then of Potosi, and still a wealthy
resident of Texas, was Brown’s second, and
Col. McClanahan acted for Smith. The
parties went to Herculaneum, on the Missis
sippi river, and crossed over into Monroe
county, Illinois. The ground being meas
ured off, the pistols were cocked and placed
in the haud-s of the principals. The con
ditions were that as soon as the principals
signified that they were ready, one of the
seconds should deliberately count “one,
two, three.” Neither party was to shoot
before the word “one” or after the word
“three.”
Smith, who was a remarkably quick man
in all his movements, fired witli the rapidity
of lightniftg as soon as the word “one” was
uttered, and Lionel Brown fell dead with
a bullet in his brain before the word “three”
was uttered. Smith was not touched—in
fact, Brown’s pistol was discharged in the
air as he fell.
In the year 1829, Col, Smith went to
Nashville, and challenged the historic Gen.
Sam Houston, afterward President of the
Texas Republic. Gen. Houston refused to
a* ept the challenge, but published a card
in which lie said lie had “no disposition to
court a quarrel with Col. Smith of Mis
souri.” At the time Houston’s action was
looked imon as a square back down.
The killing of Bail in 1880 was the last of
Smith’s homicides. While on bail await
ing trial for the offense, he came
to St. Louis. He was described then
as having hair perfectly white,
lie wore a buckskin hunting-shirt
and a pair of shoes with the tan on them.
“He seemed,” says John F. Darby in his
“Personal Recollections,” “from his venera
ble appearance, to have a sort of Daniel
Boone aspect about him, whicli attracted
the gaze of every pne. ” When the guests
of tjie Planters House learned who he was
their dread of him was unbounded. He
had the fire to himself, aud when he
walked on the streets he was hastily given
the greatest possible amount of room.
At about this time he went up to Jeffer
son city during a session of tiie Legislature.
The Hon. James S. Rollins,then a young man
of 25, had just returned from a tour
of the State, on which he had attracted
general attention by his eloquence in the
temperance cause. Old Smith was in the
City Hotel barroom and office one night
considerably the worse for liquor, when
young Rollins came in. Smith heard the
name, and, calling the young man up, said:
“You are the young man whose temperance
speeches have earned for you the name of
the silver tongue, aren’t you f”
“My name is Rollins,” modestly replied
the gratified orator.
Old Smith turned to the bar and filled a
tumbler with whisky. Then whipping
out his bowie knife, he said: “Well, Mr.
Silver Tongue, I want you to join me in a
drink.”
“I have never taken a drink in my life,”
Rollins protested.
“No, sir, you never will unless you take
this one right now," and the glistening blade
was flourished. Rollins drank the liquor
It made him very sick, but it did not kill
him, and Smith certainly would have done
so if he had persisted in liis refusal. There
are hundreds of stories afloat, many of
which are no doubt apocryphal, of this na
ture. One of the most absurd is that when
iu his cups he would draw his pistol and
make his son-in-law, James M. White, who
was a large, stout man, dance until ex
hausted. Col. Smith had but one daughter,
who first married John Dedrich, by whom
she had a son and daughter. On his death
she married Mr. White, by whom she had a
large family. Their descendants are among
the best families in Missouri. The Kennet
family is a branch of the Smith family.
Judge J. Gillespie, of Edwardsville, once
met Col. John Smith T. on a steamboat, and
gives an interesting account of the meeting.
Mr Gillespie had heard much of this char
acter from Missouri miners, who had been
at Galena in the early days, and had long
experienced a curiosity to see him. It was
in 18:14, and Mr. Gillespie was on his way
North, when at Cairo Col. Smith, attended
by his servant, got aboard, on their way to
Selma. They were both armed to the teeth
—in fact, loaded down with rifles, pistols,
and bowie ktiives, and Smith carried in ad
dition a gun made to resemble a huge walk
ing-cane. The cabin in those days was on
the lower deck, and as soon as it was known
who was aboard a hurried consultation took
place among the passengers, and it was de
termined to make common cause should
Smith have a difficulty with any of them
Smith seemed to feel that the passengers
looked askance at him, and, pushing his
way through the crowd, with a scowl before
which they all fell back, he took a BS3j Sift
the guard at the rear of the jjjieel an( j
looked out upon the scenery Gillespio
who was a young man, Allowed his curiosity
to know tins man oyeFcome his fear of his
person, and_pepping forward introduced
himself. He was very coldly and siqier
eilioqsJy received, but soon became cordial
ai’fl communicative, and remarked upon
Jiie evident aversion in which he was held
by the passengers. Gillespie replied that the
passengers looked upon him as a dangerous
man, having killed so many men. He re
plied that he had; that circumstances had
thrown hint into the society of the most des
perate and lawless men in the world, and
that he had been obliged to light his way
through, and in doing so he had endeavored
never to allow any one to get the advantage
of him, but, said he very emphatically, “I
assure you, sir, that I never killed a man
without being able to lay my hand upon my
heart and declare most severely before God
that I was fully justified.”
The young man then brought up the sub
ject of Smith’s difficulty with Gen. Jackson.
The Colonel replied that the trouble grew
out of the circumstance of his contemplated
entry oi some lands in Arkansas upon which
there were some medicinal springs. He ap
plied to the General Land Office to enter
the lands, when he wan informed that they
had been withdrawn from sale, upon the
suggestion of Gen. Jackson Smith said
that Jackson knew of his intention to enter
the land, for it hail been communicated to
him in confidence, whereupon he sent a
challenge to the General, who paid no at
tention to it, but prepared himself for a
street fight. Smith went to Nashville in
the meanwhile, which was Jackson’s head
quarters. One morning when Smith was
dismounting from his horse in front of
church one of his pistols was accidentally
discharged, to the great consternation
of the assemblage. Gen. Jackson heard of
this, and was greatly enraged. Mounting
his horse, he swore by the eternal he would
kill Smith. The Colonel heard of this and
left Nashville, Asked by Gillespie why,
after having gono to Nashville tor a light
with Gen. Jackson, lie iiad left when told
that Jackson was seeking him, Smith re
plied: “I wanted a fair fight with Jackson,
but I knew, after what had happen'd, lie
would be upon me with liis myrmidons.”
Mr. Gillespie at this juncture asked Smith
wliat he thought of Gen. Jucskon’s courage.
He replied: “When not excited Gen. Jack
son is not destitute of prudence; but if you
ixcite him, and this earth was a magazine
of gunpowder, he would hurl a firebrand
into it and blow the world to atoms to
obtain satisfaction.”
In the course of the trip Col. Smith asked
his young acquaintance to take a drink,
but when the latter declined, Smith replied:
“Young man, you are right; it is a very
bad habit to fall into, and has been my be
setting siii through life.”
Gillespie said, when speaking of tins ad
venture: “I believe that when perfectly
solier Smith would behave like a gentleman,
but that if he became ever so little under
the influence of liquor he would be as fero
cious as n tiger.”
On the occasion of this trip he did not
taste Honor, ami was wliat might lie called
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1887.
a mild-mannered man. Gillespie slept in
the berth above Smith's, and watched him
disrolie with much interest, particularly as
he divested himself of his armory, adjust
ing his pistols, bowie knife and shooting
cane where lie could lay his hand on them
in an instant. Some of the passengers
warned the young mail that lie was taking
a great risk; that he might make some
movement during the night, and Smith
thinking he was attacked, would commence
shooting up through the berth; but the
night passed without incident.
Col. John Smith at last became too much
of a good thing even for a country where
human life was, strangely, not valued very
highly; strangely because of the sparse pop
ulation, and he was forced to leave the
State. Accompanied by n single love, in
all probability his armorer Dan. he went to
Tennessee, and was engaged in opening a
cotton plantation on the banks of the Mis
sippi, below Memphis, when he was stricken
down with the fever of the climate, and,
being advanced in years, succumbed, dying
in the arms of his devoted slave. Thus
ended the remarkable career of one of the
most desperate men of the century. He is
known to have killed fourteen men in duels
and brawls, and all the early historians of
Ste Genevieve agree that this constitutes
but a portion of his performances. His
remains fire buried at Selma, on the Keu
nott estate.
WINTER WORK IN COLLEGES.
Physical Training for Girls—Some
Points About the Fall Bonnets.
New York, Oct. 15.—There are some in
teresting names on the list of the classes at
Smith College this fall—the daughter of ex-
Gov. Robinson, of Massachusetts; of Judge
Barrett, of Vermont; of Simon Sterne, the
New York lawyer and writer on social sci
ence, and Dora Goodale, the poet. It is just
nt this season when the colleges are settling
down to their winter s work that one looks
for evidences of healthful growth in the
girls’ schools and seldom fails to find them.
Smith has anew observatory completed
during the summer, and under the direction
of Miss Mary Byrd, a graduate of Michigan
University, and for four years one of the
directors of the observatory of Carleton
College, Minnesota. Miss Byrd is a practi
cal astronomer and has done original work.
An essay of hers was recently translated and
republished in one of the French scientific re
views. Smith is also for the first time to have
a resident woman physician, Dr. Grace Pres
ton, one of its own alumna-, who has since
taken medical degrees at Boston University
and in Paris. Dr. Preston will lie demon
strator and lecturer on anatomy, physiology
and hygiene, and it is believed that the
presence of a physician of the students'
own sex in the school will go far toward
solving the problems of physical and men
tal culture as they present themselves in the
daily lives of girl students.
THERE IS NO ONE SUBJECT
to which girls’ schools are paying more at
tention nowadays than physical training.
Educators have been made almost super
sensitive on the subject of feminine ability
to stand mental culture. Accordingly tho
alumnae of Smith are raising money for the
more complete equipment of the gymnasium
and ground will be broken at Vassal'for a
new gymnasium in a very few weeks. Vas
sal-, by the way, has flourished greatly since
Dr. Taysor assumed the Presidency aud is
opening the present year under the most
promising auspices. The Laboratory of
Chemistry and Physics has been enlarged
through the generosity of John Guy Vassar,
who with his brother, Matthew Vassar, Jr.,
originally built the laboratory, which beaiis
their name. Vassar has anew fire service
this fall more complete than most things of
its sort in the country. Dr. Elizabeth B.
Thelberg is the newly appointed resident
physician; Miss A. M. Ely, of the New York
Normal College, has been appointed Pro
fessor of Mathematics, and Miss Lucy M.
Salmon, a fellow of Bryn Mawr and anthor
of “The Appointing Power of the Presi
dent,” Associate Professor of History. Miss
Bertha Robinson, a daughter of the Rev,
Dr. Robinson, President of Brown Univer
sity, is one of the new teachers of English.
“HOTBEDS OF FLIRTATION"
expresses a very usual opinion of 00-educa
tional schools. Asa matter of fact it is cu
rious to note the wide differences in the
relation of the sexes that exist in different
institutions. There nmy be or may not, be
schools where the students flirt; there cer
tainly are schools w here it is not at all unu
sual for them to fall in love, contract en
gagements and in due time get married. I
have in mind instances where as many as 40
per cent, of a certain class paired off to take
life’s journey together after passing the pre
liminary harriers of deferential and integral
calculus iu company, and I am hound to add
that these marriages, so far as 1 have been
informed of them, have turned out most
excellently well. The mingled rivalry and
good fellowship of tiie classroom seemed to
give good opportunity for that full and i'air
acquaintance which ought to precede mat
rimony, better opportunities probably than
are offered by the more guarded intercourse
which. sanctioua. Young men and
young women students btSSoiiie good eoiiv
rades, and they stay good comrades, under
standing one another thoroughly, after
they have settled down to life’s business to
gether.
Such cases as these are n it, however,
typical. A great majority of the co-eduea
tional colleges are more after the pattern of
Boston University, where, as one might ex
pect perhaps from the non-marrying repu
tation of the Hub, no attachment, no espe
cially intimate intercourse, not the faintest
suspicion of u flirtation liel ween students of
opposite sexes has been known since tile
foundation of the school. The after fortune
of every student is accurately known
through the full records kepi by the gradu
ating classes, anil a year or two ago, when
I last gave any attention to the matter, the
only marriage that had within theammlsof
the college taken place between ex-students
was that, of a daughter of the late Bishop
Gilbert Haven, whose acquaintance with
the man who became her husband was
formed after her successful graduation.
Asa matter of fact the atmosphere of a
co-educational school, whether the relations
of the students remain those or simple col
lege friendship, as at Boston anil in most
other schools, or ripen into something
warmer, is apt to be clearer and more
healthy, with less of sentimentality about
it than where the sexes are kept apart and
each invests the other with a romantic gla
mour which a little observation one of an
other’s struggles witli Cicero’s Ur Amicitia
would do wonders to dispel.
There is a New England legend that mis
sionaries used to resort to Mount Holj'oko
Seminary to pick out wives on the eve of a
voyage to the land of the heathen. The le
gend may be a slander, but there is hardly
a seminary town in the country where theo
loguesof any denomination abound in which
lieing ministers’ wives has not become a re
cognized profession among the feminine
population. Other students are not so much
given to matrimony, because there is no
other profession in which a wife is such a
necessary artido of one’s stock in trade, but
separating the sexes is not going to hinder
love making. Tne chances are that in the
co-educational school the student masculine
will still pass his leisure hours with the so
ciety girls of the college town, while the
student feminine will attend strictly to her
own business, which is that of beating him
in the class 100m —sire having, as a Harvard
oarsman put it, nothing else to take up her
mind—if she can. If it; turns out differ
ently it would be hard to bring forward,
from fact or theory, any reason why a col
lege marriage should not be quite os wise
and quite as happy as most other kinds.
THE FALL BONNET
is the most deceptive thing on earth. It
looks simple, innocent, utterly without wile
or guile, almost Quakerish iu its demure
ness. It is the most unassuming bit of
headgear that tho city has seen in years. It
wile- a woman’s heart anil yet more a man’s
by its pretty, engaging modesty, in point
of fact that unpretentious little concern
that almost persuaded you bonnet wearers
had for once forsworn the vanities of earth
and were planning a return to quiet nun’s
jC'ay is tin - most delusive bonnet on earth,
it is the must difficult bonnet to build that
ever a milliner undertook. It is the most
expensive bonnet ho pay for that ever de
pleted a masculine poeketliook. It is the
most coquettish bonnet on the head that
ever a witch of a woman wore. It is a de
lusion and a snare from nodding aigrette to
strings.
In the first place, contrast is easy and
harmony is hard. Bonnets used to affect
contrast, just now harmony is their lay.
The present ideal of a bonnet, the bonnet
that every woman expands in raptures over
when she sees it, employs but one color
throughout, and to make deception doubly
deceptive, that color is no color at all.
Bonnets to be successful, as every good
bonnet aims to be, must just now be “flo
rescent.” You take it dui! rod and a curious
olive green and you weave them together in
ribbon and velvet, warp of one, woof of tiie
other, and the result is a changeable fabric
that is one hue in one light and twenty linos
ill another, hut that gives the general effect,
soft in the velvet or plush, metallic in the
ribbon, of a copper tint that is everybody’s
favorite tint this year. You cover your
bonnet frame with the florescent plush —by
proxy iu shape of the most deft milliner
you can light upon, of course—puffing it
about the face a trifle and planting a knot
of your florescent ribbon in the same tints
on top, upon the hair. Then you take a
cluster of florescent ostrich tips—feathers
take to the changeable hues very kindly—
thrust a florescent aigrette into tho middle
of the bunch and plant it well back upon
the crown, not standing bolt upright, to
annoy concert or theatre audiences, but
nodding gently toward the front. You tie
it with florescent strings and your task is
done. It is a bonnet that offers no chal
lenge, its color alters with every flicker of
light, but it is at every instant of the same
color all over. It looks as if you might
have trimmed it yourself, and yet only a
very few milliners can make a success of it,
and it costs you 835 where you used to pay
sls. It is not a bonnet in whose good faith
or sincerity one can put any faith It is a
■subtly capricious bonnet, but it is a very
charming bonnet after all. E. P. H.
TRAIN MORE RABID THAN EVER.
Another Incendiary Speech in Its
Humeorous Aspect—To Suppress the
Crank.
Chicago, Oct. 18.— Turner Hall was
crowded last night when George Francis
Train preached Anarchy in terms as rapid
as were ever heard at the Lake Front or
the Haymarket. His caution of the night
before was thrown aside, and he excelled
himself in his defiance of the fifty policemen
in citizens’ clothes who were there osten
sibly to suppress him if he grew “inflam
matory.”
“I am here,” he said, “to emancipate
Chicago from the rule of tho biggest band
of ruffians I ever saw and to dump the
whole corrupted concern into the lake. All
in favor of dumping tho corrupted concern
into the lake say ‘aye.’” [Aye, with
cheers.]
“I am a gentleman,” Train shouted. “I
have been the honored gue-st of statesmen
and law-givers, and i’ll not be insulted by a
miserable mayor and ruffianly police. All
in favor of my not being insulted say ‘aye.’”
[One wild, uproarious “aye.”]
“They try to dulldoze me and threaten to
arrest me. They dare not. If you tell me
something stronger to say I’ll say it. All in
favor of carrying firearms say ‘ave.’”
As the hoarse and prolonged yell subsided
Train, with blazing eyes, stood on tip-toe
and shouted: “Let every man carry fire
arms in his pocket and defend himself.
I’ve get game boys by me to-night. Will
the police now step forward and arrest me
if they ilaref”
Amid the tumultuous uproar which fol
lowed the scores of police present glanced
for orders at Capt. O’Doiinel and Lieut.
Slayton, but these chiefs merely blinked
their eyes nervously and did hot move.
Train introduced Mrs. Parsons, who spoke
for a quarter of an hour in her usual style.
“The Supreme Court,” said she, “said that
Parsons entered the conspiracy when he
went upon the Haymarket armed with
bombs. How much for truth and valor!
Here’s the bombs that Parsons took that
night and had with him upon the wagon.”
So sayiifg, she seized her two children, a
hoy an Ia girl, and lifted them upon the
table. The audience cheered for nearly five
minutes.
“Three cheers for the bombs,’’ bellowed
Train as soon as he could be heard, and once
more the tumult arose.
Train called for volunteers to sell his
paper in the audience, and in the face of
the fact that the police had said it should
not be sold in the hall, the eager salesmen
exceeded fho supply, and the papers were
distributed without interference.
The Mayor this morning directed the Po
. lie ■ Department to summarily suppress
Train and to not permit him to speak again.
If he makes any further demonstrations he
will be take-: to the lock-lip and kept there
until he can be legally adjudged insane and
committed t . u lunatic asylum.
Train, finding the police determined to
suppress his further utterances, has left the
•iiy&ud gOOb io ;-hWingfield.
An Italian’s Revenge.
. From the Chicago Sews.
At Montecoro, in the province of Campo
basso, in South Italy, one Paolo Carfagnini
loved tim daughter ot one (fiovanelli. The
latter refusing his consent, Carfagnini way
laid him, gagged him. anil kept Him locked
up ill his house until he should give his con
sent and ass g.i his property to the lover.
Thereupon Carfagnini was condemned to
five years in the penitentiary, -tug. 4(1. his
time being up, h was set free, and returned
to Montecoro, determined to lie revenged
upon tile family of t>: v.auelli, whom he
accused of having caused lus disgrace. The
priest of the church of Montecoro was a
son of Giovauelli and a brother of thebe
loved of Paolo. He was officiating in the
church before three or four women when
Paolo entered, lie kept nut of sight until
the time when the priest turned his back upon
the people, wlien he ran forward and
plunged his dagger three times into the
back, of the unfortunate man. One of the
peasant girls sprang forward and seized the
arm of the assassin again uplifted to strike,
mid during the struggle the priest had time
to run away. But before reaching the open
air he tumbled and fell, and Carfagnini,
who had meanwhile disengaged himself
from the girl, placed a revolver to his ear
and shot him dead. The murderer stopped
in the church and awaited the arrival of the
Ulovanelli family, bent on lynching him.
He re: ire 1 to the clock tower and latrricadod
thod<strand stairs, shooting from behind
the door and balustrade upon the parents
and brother of his victim, hut without hit
ting any of them. When the church filled
with jieasants and preparations were made
to break open the door, he put a bullet
through his own braiu.
A Long Word.
From the Americus (Gta.) Republican.
A certain Sumter county man, while on a
visit to Alabama, took three drinks of fine
old French brandy one morning, and started
in his buggy through the woods. A little
way out from the town, he found a bill
posted around a tree with “Ventriloquism,”
beading it. He stopped, and tried to make
out the word, hut as the paper lapped
around the tree, the letters joined.‘and it
was more thnn he could decipher. There
was no beginning nor ending t > the word.
He walked around the tree five hours trying
to make out, the lirst word, wore out a pair
of I mots, and sank at the roots of the tree
exhausted. A 10-year-old hoy happened
along, spcll 'il the word aud sent the man
back to Sumter to loan, to spell.
Lung Troubles and Wasting
diseases can be cured, if properly treated in
time, as shown by the following statement
from D. C. Freeman, Sydney: “Having
been a great sufferer from pulmonary at
tacks, aud gradually wasting away for the
past two years, it affords me pleasure to
testify Unit Scott’s Rmui.sion of Cod Liver
Oil with Lime and Soda has given me great,
relief, and I cheerfully recommend it to all
suffering m a similar way to myself. In
addition, I would say that it is very pleas
nnt. tit t-4 Irt* v
A Privilege of Citizenship.
From the Neuman (Qa.) Hera’d.
Up to this writing President Cleveland
has not formally consented to make a
speech in Newnah as he passes through next
Wednesday night en route to Montgomery.
He has not even signified n willingness to
stand on the rear platform of the coach and
wave his night robe at us, but no circum
stance, or combination of circumstances,
can prevent us from sitting on the fence and
see him go by. This is one of the in
estimable privileges of American citizenship
that cannot be abridged.
LIST OP VESSELS
Up, Cleared and Sailed for this Port.
STEAMSHIPS.
Orandholm (Br), Masson, Three Rivers, sld Oct 0.
Waterloo (Br), Hewes. Cardiff, sld Oct 9
Elpis (Br), Burnett, Philadelphia, sld Oct It.
Gladiolus (Br), Sinclair, Philadelphia, sld Oct 14.
Wetherby (Br), Smith, Philadelphia, cld Oct 14.
Maude (Br), Clanton. Philadelphia, cld Oct 13.
SHIPS.
Ceylon (Br), Owen, Rio Janeiro, sld Sept 6.
BARKS.
Carolina Falanga (Ital), Scotto, Liverpool, sld
Aug 13.
Francisca de Villa (Sp), Perares, at Liverpool
July 28.
Sereia (Port). Dos Reis, at Liverpool, July 23.
Fulda (Nor), Kouff, Buenos Ayres, sld July —.
Freia (Non. llaulY, at Buenos Ayres. June —.
(tier (Br). Shields, Glasgow, si ( Sept 5.
Ribes(Aus), Rocovich, Bordeaux, sld Aug 24.
Brabant (Belg), deVries, Antwerp, sld Aug 31.
Agostina 8 (Ital), Bertolotti, Liverpool, sld May
13 via Table Bay, at Rio Janeiro in distress
Aug 24.
Melcbiore (Ital), Izzo, at Buenos Ayres Aug 10.
l’hison (Aus), Cosulich, at Venice Aug 15.
Sarah (Br). McMullen, Bahia, sld Aug 13.
Charlotte A Littlefield (Nor). Moller, Hamburg,
sld Sept 6.
Stanley (Nor), Clansen. at Buenos Ayres, Aug 15,
Olof Glas (Sw), Andersen, Cevita Veehia, sld
Sept 10.
Linnea (Nor), Hansen, Santos, sld Aug 18.
Hesperia (Nor), Nielsen, Hamburg, sld Sept 15.
MedusaiGeri,Schmidt,Grangemouth,sld Sept 15.
Felix Mendessohn (Ger), Fretwurst. at Bremen
Sept 9.
Viig (Nor), Gregertsen, Hamburg, sld Aug 15.
Almaria (Nor), Jacobsen, Buenos Ayres, sld Aug
10.
Anita Berwind. Mcßride, Philadelphia.cld Oct 12.
Memlo (Br), Horn, Liverpool, sld Sept 29.
Glimt (Nor), Olsen, Santos, sld about Sept 12.
Niobe (Non, Olsen, at Buenos Ayres, Sept 27.
Unicorn )Bn, McDougai. Rio Janero. sld Aug 29.
Remittent (Nor), Pedersen. Liverpool, sld July
31 via Buenos Ayres.
Cato (Nor), Andersen, Santos, sld Sept 7.
Subra (Nor), Otterbek, Hamburg, sld Oct 1.
Brodrene (Nor), Bie, Liverpool, sld Oct 3.
Welgunde. Meehan, at New York, Oct 7.
Adele (Ital). Astarita, Oporto, sld Sept 25.
Tikoma (Br), Pugh. Liverpool, sld Oct 12.
Verena (Nor), Nielsen, Rio Janeiro, sld Sept 22.
SCHOONERS.
Annie Bliss. O’Donnell, Philadelphia, cld Oct 12.
Jno K Souther, Pillsbury, Philadelphia, up Sept
21.
Win H Fredson, Saunders, New York, cld Oct 12.
John R Penrose, Evans, Philadelphia, cld Oct 11.
Henry Waddington. Magee, Boston, up Sept 28.
John H Cross. Rawley, Providence, up Oct 7.
Ida Lawrence, Young, Baltimore, ski Oct 14.
Jesse W Starr, Smith, New York, sld Oct 10.
Alfaretta Campbell, Campbell, , sld Oct—.
Clias E Young, Corson, Baltimore, up Oct 14.
OFFICIAL MORTUARY REPORT.
Of the City of Savannah for the Week End
ing Friday, Oct. 14, 1887.
Whites. Bl’ks&C’l’d
reuses Of Death ° ver Un- ! Over I Un-
Causes or Death. 1(| derl0 l 10 der 10
|m. F. M. F. M.( F.iM. F.
Brain, congestion of 2 j. .1...
Bronchitis ! 1..J...1 ... 1... 1
Cancer of uterus |... 2; ... i ... i ... ... !
Consumption, lungs j 1 2: 4;
Convulsions ...i 1
Croup . .!... ... 1
Fever, congestive.... j... I Ij] ... |. 1... 1
Fever, continued i j ... 1
Fever, congestive mal ....... 1 ...j 1 ...
Fever, malarial, typho .. | 1 j--. |
Gastro Enteretis 1]...1...!. ~|...!...
Heart neuralgia '...j .J .. .i... H... 1 1 .
Heart,valvular dis. of 1
Hemorrhage,internal 11... 1;... j|.
Inanition 1 1 1 ...
Jaundice 1 .......
Laryngitis 1
Marasmus ..J ...I ...!... lj 1
Pneumonia ... ... . ... j ... i 1j...
Undefined 1 ...
Total 4 5 It 8 Sj 8 5 5
RECAPITULATION.
Deaths in city -Wilises, 13; blacks and col
oivd, 20; total 33. Kaeiusive of still births,
whites, 1; blac!:s and cl ared, 0. Premature
births, black* un i colored, 1.
SUMMARY.
Whites. Colored. H
Ages. g-
M. F. >l. F.-
Under 1 year 1 ! 2j 1 r
Bet ween 1 and 2 year* ... | 2, 2 4
Between 2 and 5 years li 11 1 3
Bet ween 5 aqd 10 years I 2| 1 3
Between 10 and 20 vears... lj 1 j 13
Between 2 ) and :W years .. | j ’ 2 2
Between 3 > and 40 years . i 1 2 3
B *iwcen 40 and .V) years... 1 1 2| 1,5
Bet ween 50 ami 00 years... j 2 : 2
Between 00 and 70 years... 1 1 1 3
Bet ween 70 and so 1 l l
Total. .5; Jj 7 iH'm
Population—Whites, 2.3,675; blacks and col
ored, 19,111; total, 43.786.
Annual ratio per 1,0 population for week—
Whites, 25.8; blacks an 1 color,*,l. 51.6.
J. T. .IcFARI. VND, M. D„
Health Officer.
P. 1* I. MAMTAITt'BINO CO.
The weather to-day will be warmer
and lair.
TO I rrui trs
A Victim of inllammatory Illieniniiiisni Cored
—BY THE USE OP
Prickly ash, Pom root, Potassium.
Office Alapa ha Star, )
Alapaha, Oa., June 9. ISSO. i
P. P. P. U'fq. Cos.:
Oenti.fmkn About nine months Ago I
was attacked with Intlammalory Rheu
matism in my feet. buck, shoulder* and
breast. The pains were excruciating
and continuous. For six weeks I was
confined to my Vied, and part of tiie time
had to be assisted u turn over. At limes
1 could nol sit up, if to do so would have
secured a fortun *. My feci were swollen,
and t he h<r toms of tuem so tender that
walking wus a consuui* source of the
liveliest misery. It would be impossible
to express m words t he agony l c i lui ed.
I tried u number of rem * lies, so-c.tlled,
and som * of them rT >rd*M temporay re
lief. but- it v.as only temporary, and I
began to despair of finding a cure. I
had h *ard several gentlemen speak of a
new Rheumatism cure manufact are.l at
Way cross, and while 1 listened I doubted.
Finally I met twj or three j ar',b*s who
had tried this new medicine and had
been cured, and 1 decided to procure a
pint of it and lest it* virnjes. This I d ; (l,
ind was satisfied I iia l been benefited.
Well, to make a long story short, I con
tinued to take the mo licin * until I had
used three and a half quart bottles, ini-.,
proving all the while in my general
health, and noticing a steady decrease
in the Rheumatism When the half of
the fourth quart was finished 1 felt as
well as I ev *r did in my life, with only
an occasional touch of Rheumatism,
and since taking the first quart 1 have
been ahte to attend to my duties in the
office, not having lost a moment since
on account of my former enemy.
I shall take two or three quarts more
>f P. P. P., beginning about two mouths
from the time 1 leit off taking it; and l
am confident that the last vestige of the
dreadful malady will be driven irom my
system.
I do not say that P. P. P. wrought this
wonderful cure, but I do assert, in >st
emphatically, that 1 derived no perma
nent relief until after I took the first
bottle. Yours truly,
J. W. HANLON.
$1 will get a bottle of this great remedy,
P. P P It is a sure cure for Rheumatism.
For Sale bva!i Medici;r Dealers.
MARRIAGES.
. BLACKIE.—BOTTS.—Married, at the Church
of the Heavenly Rest, New York, on the 12th of
October, by the Right Rev. Henry C. Potter,
Bishop of New York, James Robertson Blackie,
Glasgow, Scotland, and Ellen Arthur, daugh
ter or Henry T. Botts, Savannah. Georgia.
IN MEMOKIAM.
In MEMORY OF CHASE SULLIVAN.
“Thy will, O, Lord, be done.”
On Thursday last all that was mortal of Chase
Sullivan was laid in its last resting place be
neath the shadowy oaks of Bonaventure, where
whispering winds are ever singing Nature's soft
requiem over the dead, and rip]'ling waters
chant their sad responses in undertones of
solemn harmony.
Friends were not allowed the sad privilege of
taking a last farewell of the bright boy whose
life was just budding into such fair promise.
Young as lie was, he had already won many
friends by his joyous, unselfish disposition and
thorough loyalty to his little playmates.
But what a chasm has been rent by the touch
of death in the circle of his home— t Hat sacred
spot where he drew his first breath, uttered his
first word, listened to tlie first tones of love.
Where his infancy was cradled, his childhood
nurtured, his first prayer offered and the last
breathings of his departing spirit watched with
the eye of affection. Here is avoid which can
never he filled.
There is an empty chair at the table, a vacant
seat in the family pew, a sweet voice silent in
the Sabbath School, a bright face gone from the
little choristers who gathered each year around
the Easter altar, but although
There’s an empty chair at the table.
An idle hat on the wall,
And the pattering sound of childish fee
Is heard no more in the hall
Yet amidst the hosts of Heaven
Doth a radiant angel stand,
And the child we have loved and lost on earth
Is safe in his Savior's hand.
MEETINGS.
CLINTON LODGE NO. 54, F. & A. M.
A regular communication of this A
Lodge will be held at Masonic Temple
THIS (Monday) EVENING, Oct. 17. at
8 o’clock. / ▼ \
The M. M. degree will be conferred.
Members of sister lodges and visiting
brethren cordiallv invited to meet with us.
HENRY BARTLETT, W. M.
Waring Russell. Jr., Secretary.
DeKALB LODGE, NO. 9 I. O. O. F.
A regular meeting will be held THIS (Monday)
EVENING at 8 o’clock.
The First Degree will he conferred.
Members of other Lodges and visiting brothers
are cordially invited to attend.
By order of H. W. RALL, N. G.
John Riley, Secretary.
SAVANNAH CADETS.
HEADQUARTERS SAVANNAH CADETS, f
Savannah, Ga.. Oct. 17,1887. (
You are hereby ordered to assemble at the
Oglethorpe Barracks in full uniform THIS
(Monday) EVENING at 8 o’clock. This being
the last drill before our departure for Atlanta,
it is desired and expected that every member
will be present. By order of
H. M. BRANCH,
Captain Commanding.
R. P. Lovell, First Sergeant.
RAILRAOD LOAN ASSOCIATION.
The fiftieth regular meeting of the Railroad
Loan Association will be held THIS (Monday)
EVENING, at 8 o’clock at Metropolitan Hall.
WILLIAM ROGERS, President.
H. C. Cunningham, Secretary. •,
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Advertisements inserted under “Special
Notices" wilt be charged $1 00 a Square each
insertion.
The ladies and gentlemen are respectfully in
vited to visit the reopening of Sherwood's Even
ing Class at his Dancing Academy, Masonic
Temple, MONDAY EVENING, Oct. 17, at 8
o'clock.
NOTICE.
All bills against the British steamship MA
RION, Jeffells, Master, must be presented
at our office by or before 12 o’clock m., THIS
DAY, Oct. 17, or payment thereof will be de
barred. A. MIMS & SONS, Consignees.
NOTICE.
All hilts against the British steamship WAT
LINGTON must be presented at our office be
fore 12 o’clock noon, THIS DAY, Oct. 17,1837,
or payment will be debarred.
RICHARDSON & BARNARD, Agents.
UR. HENRY 8 COLUIMi,
DENTIST,
Office corner Jones and Drayton streets.
ULMER’S LIVER CORRECTOR.
This vegetable preparation is invaluable for
the reslorafian of iSAu 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 lake no other. $1 (X)
a bottle. Freight paid to any address.
B. F. ULMER, M. D.,
Pharmacist. Savannah. Ga.
FRUIT AND GROCERIES.
75 BARRELS APPLES.
.) - BARRELS EATING AND COOKING
ii) PEAKS, 59 Barrel* HERE, >X POTATOES,
25 Sflfcks RIO and .JAVA COEFEE, LIQUORS
and WINES of all kinds, SUGAR, CANNED
MEATS, Choice FLOUR, CANNED GOODS,
NUTS and RAISINS, New TURKISH PRUNES,
New CITRON. GUTTER, CHEESE. LARD,
SUGARS, SOAP. STARCH. CRACKERS,
BROOMS, PAILS. CRANBERRIES, GRAPES,
etc. For sale at lowest prices.
A. H. CHAMPION.
COC O AN TJTS
FANCY APPLES, ONIONS, CABBAGE.
POTATOES. TURNIPS, GRAPES, MIARS,
LEMONS, BLACK EYE PEAS (new),
FLORIDA ORANGES,
HAY AND GRAIN,
SEED OATS, SEED RYE,
BRAN, FEED, etc.
Close prices on large lots.
169 BAY.
W. D. SIMKINS & CO.
PRINTER AND BOOK BINDER.
1834.-FIFTY-THREE YEARS-1887.
At the rtusluess, anti up
with the Music all the Time.
GEO. N. NICHOLS,
PRINTING, BINDING
-AMD
blank BOOKS.
Everything complete for the
Best Work. No slouch) work
men. No poor work.
WANTED.
W la. IST TEI dT
inn nnn F ' KT I>INE R ■ ties,
IVU.UVV hewed or sawed on four sides,
7xß and feet long, delivered on vessel s rail
in Savannah or Brunswick. Apply to
J C. McNAUUriTON & CO.,
228 Dock Strwt, Philadelphia.
Pim.ADEI.IUOA (*et. 5. IKH7
CLOTHING.
WEARE PLEASED TO ANNOU NCE
THAT OUR
Fall Stock
is now complete and we will be
pleased to show our friends and the
public the prevailing and correct
styles in
CLOTHING, FURNISHINGS & HATS
For the season, whether they call to
supply themselves or only to se
“what is to be worn.”
Respectfully,
1 FALK A SIS,
Men’s, Boys’ and Children’s Outfitters.
Our Fall and Winter Catalogue is
now in the hands of the printer and
wil I be ready for distribution about
Octobe.r 20.
At the Head of the Heap!
VND only our second fall season. Being very
busy since Sept. Ist with our ( nstom 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 io
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 follows:
Special Custom Department—Armenian Natu
ral Wool Sanitary Underwear (recommended by
all physicians), Screven's Patent Elastic Seam
Drawers [to sea(m) them is to buy them], Earl
A 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 tbe number, 163 CONGRESS
STREET, opposite the market.
APPEL & SCII AI L,
ONE PRICE CLOTHIERS,
HATTERS AND GENT'S FURNISHERS.
THUS!
WE ARE READY
To exhibit our FALL AND
WINTER CLOTHING for
GENTS, YOUTHS, BOYS
and CHILDREN, it! its full
ness of variety, elegance of
appeavtoce and iwrfeetness
of FIT. UNDERWEAR,
FURNISHINGS. FALL
SHAPES ll' TATS.
THE CLOTHING PALACE,
161 CONGRESS.
B. 11. LEVY & BRO.
I!,. LEVY 4 H
BELT GREASE.
To Mill Men
TURNER'S TRACTION
BELT GREASE
—AND—
Belting Preservative
Softens leather and Makes Rubber Belting
More Durable.
This Urease effectually prevents slipping, ren
ders flu* bolts adhesive. heavy and pliable and
will add one third to the power of the l>elt.
Its use enables the belt to be run loose and
have same power.
—FOR SALE BY—
PALMER BROTHERS,
SAVANNAH.
Recommended by
DALE, ID von & CO.,
J. IV. TYNAN
and many others,
SEED OATS.
Rust Proof Oats, Seed Rye,
APPLES,
POTATOES,
ONIONS,
CABBAGES, _
And all kinds of VEGETABLES and FRUITS
By every stoamer.
25 Cars Oats, 25 Cars Hay,
50 Cars Corn.
GRITS, MEAL, CORN EYE BEAN, PEAS,
and feed of all kinds.
155 BAY STREET.
Warehouse in S., F. & W. R'y Yard.
T. P, BOND & CO.
DESKS.
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