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2 STATISTICS ON STRIKES THE BUREAU OF LABOR SUBMITS ITS ANNUAL REPORT. Six Tears Covered in the Report—The Showing Made by Each Year—What the Strikes Cost Employer and Em ploye in Dollars-The Number of Men and Establishments Involved. Washington’, Dec. 29.—Commissioner Carroll P. Wright lias submitted to the Sec retary of the Interior the third annual re port of the Bureau of Labor, which relates entirely to strikes and loe.kous for a period of six years, ended Dec. 31, 1*5(1. This re port is regarded as of special importance, as it is the result of the first general Investigation ever mado by any nat on of the facts concerning strikes and lock outs for any extended period of time, or for any wide extent of territory. The report covers about 700 printed pages, and gives details of each strike and lock-out oecuring in the United States during the period named. It exhibit* the facts belonging to each industrial trouble for each locality where trouble was found, without attempt ing to establish or decide upon the connec tion between them. THE SHOWING BY YEARS. The following statement shows the num ber of strikes occurring during each of the last six years the number of establishments involved and the average number of es tablishments involved in each strike: In 1881—-471 strikes, involving 2,928 es tablishments, being an average of 0.3 estab lishments in each s.rike. Ia 1883—171 strikes, 3,105 establishments, average 4.6 establishments. In 1883—478 strikes, ‘3,759 establishments, average 5.8 establishments. In 1884—448 strikes, 2,367 establishments, average 5.3 establishments. In 1885—645 strikes. 2,384 establishments, average 3.5 establishments. In 1886—1,412 strikes, 9.893 establish ments. average 7 establishments. Totals, 3,903 strikes, involving 22,336 es tablishments, the general average being 5.7 establishments. THIS TEAK’S record. In 1887, the report says, there were, ac cording to the best information obtainable, 553 strikes, the details of which are not ob tainable. The report shows that, during the six years covered by the investigation New York bad the largest number of establ sh metits affected, both by strikes and lockout.-, there being for the former 9,247 and for the latter 1.528. The building trades furnished <1,060 of the total number of establishments engaged in strikes. The total number of employes involved in the whole number of strikes for the en tire period is shown to have been 1,818,004. The number of employes originating striKes was 1,020,832. The number of em ployes in all establishments before the strikes occurred was 1,662,045, while the whole number employed in the establish ments involved after the strikes occurred was 1,616,247, a loss of 25,798. THE NEW EMPLOYES. There were 103,088 new employes engaged after the strikes and 87,483 were brought from other places than those in woich striked occurred. In 2,182 establish ments lock-outs were ordered dur ing the period named. In these there were 173,995 employes before the lock-outs occurred and 109,436 after the lock-outs, while the number actually locked out was 159.548. There were 13,976 new employes retained at the close of look-outs, and 5,682 were brought from other places than those in which the lock-outs occurred. “It should be remembered, however,” says the report, “that these figures do not reurese t the actual number of individual establishments or different employes engaged, as in many cases t here have been two or more strikes or lock-outs, affecting the same establishments in the same year. Iu such cases the establish ment and the number of employes engaged are duplicated.” HOW THE SEXES WERE DIVIDED, Of the whole number of employes in volved in strikes during the six yeai-s cov ered by the report, 88.56 per cent, were males and 11.44 per cent, were females. Of those involved in lock-outs during the same period 68.78 per cent, were males and 31.22 per cent, were females. An examination of the tables appended to the report shows that New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Ohio and Illi.iois represent 74.74 per cent, of the whole number of establishments affected by strikes throughout the country, and 90.80 jier cent, of the lock-outs. These five States, it is stated, contain 4 per cent, of all the manu facturing establishments, and employ 58 per cent, of the capital invested in the mechan ical industries of the United States. Of the 22,336 establishments in which strikes occurred, in 18,342, or 82.12 percent, of the whole, the strikes were ordered by labor organizations, while of 2,182 estab lishments in which lock-outs occurred,l,7s3, or 80.34 per cent., were ordered by combina tions of managers. THE TIME LOST. Of the whole number of establishments subjected to strikes there were t emporarily oios and for business 13,443, or 60.19 per cent., and on account of lock-outs 63 00 per cent The average durations of the stoppage on account of strikes was 23.1 days, and for lock-outs 21 days. The results of the strikes, so far as gaining the objects sought arc concerned, are shown to be as follows: Success followed in 10,407 cases, or 46.59 per cent, of the whole; partial success in 8,004, or 13.45 per cent, of the whole, •fid failure followed in 8,910 cases, or 39.89 per. cent of the whole. By lockouts 504 establishments, or 25.85 per cent, of the whole, fueceoded in gaining their point; 190 or 8.71 per c nt. partly succeeded, and 1,305 or 59.80 |jer cent, failed. As to tbe causes or objects of the strikes it is shown that increase of wages was the principal one, 42.44 per cent, Other leading causes are given as follows: For a reduction of hours, 10.45 per cent.; against a reduction of wages, 7.75 per cent.; for increase of w ages and reduct ion of hours, 7.57 per cent.; uguinst increase of hours, a little more than yC t per cent. Tt.e total for the five leading causes is 77.83 per cent, and for all other causes 22.17 per cent. LOSSES OF BOTH SIDES. Dlscla niing absolute accuracy the rejxjrt gives the losses of employee and employes resulting from strikes and lock-outs astol lows: Losses to strikers during the six yeai-s, covered by the investigation, $51,816,135; loss to employes for lock-outs during the same period, $8,132,717, or a tot al wage loss to employes of $59,948,883. This loss oc curred for both strikes and lock-outs in 24,518 ' stablishments, or an average loss of $3,445 to eacb establishment, or nearly $4O to each st: liter involved. The assistance given to the strikers during the same period, so far as ascertainable, amounted to $3,335,057, and to those suffer ing trom lock-outs $1,105,538, or a total of $4,430,595. These amounts, however, the commissioner says, are undoubtedly too low. The employe, s’ losses through strikes for six years amounted to $30,73i,653, and through lock-outs to $3,433,361, ora total loss to the establishments involved of $34 -i 164,914. Appended tables also show that, the chief | burden of the strikes was Ijorae by thirteen 1 industries, viz: B. sits and shoes, '352 ostab- I lishmeuts; brick-making, 478; building trades, 6,000; clothing, 1,738; cooperage, 484; food preparations, ~419; furniture, • 491; lumboi, 395; metals and metallic goods, 1.585; mining 2.060; stone, 408; tobacco, 2,959: transportation, 1,478. These repre sent 89 35 per cent. of the whole number subjected to strike*. Jn lock-outs five trades bore 80 }>er cent, of the whole burden, as follows: Boots and shoes, 165 establishments; bul.diiig trades, 531; clothing, ’<'73; metals and metallic foods. 76, ajii.l tpbacoo 220, or a total of ,74SL Beside* completing the tbdd work for this report and the compilation of the inf ~.rma tion the bureau has carried on aim st to completion the investigation begun last year concerning the moral, physical and eco nomical condition of the working women of tlie great cities, and has continued its in vestigation into the cost of the distribution of the great staple products. It has also undertaken, according to Congressional in struction, the collection of statistics of mar riage and divorce in the United States, a re port of which may be submitted before the close of the present session of Congress. A CONGRESSMAN'S WIFE DEAD. She Fell on the Street In a Spasm and Eer Identity Th :n Unknown. Washington, Dec. 29. —Mrs. Titylor, wife of Representative Ezra B. Taylor, of Ohio, Garfield’s successor in the House, wes stricken with apoplexy this afternoon in the street not far from her homo, and re moved to the Providence Hospital, where she died before her husband or any of her friends knew she was ill. Mrs. Taylor went shopping about noon. When she did not return at her usual hour for dinner her husband became very uneasy Picking up an evening newspaper he road this para graph: "About 12:30 o’clock to-day a well dressed ladv, apparently 59 or 60 years old was found lying on the pavement nt Connecticut avenue and L street, where it is supposed she had fallen in a spasm. She was unconscious at the time, 'the police ambulance was sent for and she was re moved to the Providence hospital. The poLk-e could not find any person who could identify her. On a handkerchief found in her pocket was tlie name ‘Bosworth.’ At 2:45 o’clock she died with out having recovered conscious ness.” lfe almost fainted as he real tlie last words. Bosworth was his wire’s name when he married her. Hurrying to the hospital he found her dead. They were only married n month. In their youth they were engaged, but the engagement was broken off. Both married. His wife died and her husband died. So they were married. They were very happy for a month, and now she has died. SUNK NEAR LAND. Lose of a British htsamer With a Cargo of Merchandise. Baltimore, Dec. 29.—Capt. Seavey, of the schooner Annie I. Grace, at this port, from Boston, reports that on Dec. 24, as bo was passing South Shoal lightship, off Nan tucket, he saw a small boat put off from the lightship a mile distant and bear down to meet her. Capt. Thornton, of the British steamer Newcastle City, from Newcastle for New York, who was on board the small boat, reported that his ship hod been lost, with a heavy cargo of asserted merchan dise, on the morning of the preceding day. The crew, all told, numbered twenty-five, and they had sought refuge on the light ship. It appears, from the statement of Capt. Thornton, that his vessel was on the inside, between the lightship and the land, where the water is from two to three fathoms deep, while the steamer drew over tw nty-five feet. When asked by Capt. Seavey how it occurred, he replied that nis ship “took bottom.” The sea was very high at the time, and the bot tom of the Newcastle City was crushed in when she struck the hard sand. The officers and crew had much difficulty in escaping from the wreck. Capt. Thornton made no request to be taken on board the schoo.er and returned to the lightship. The steamer’s cargo, consisting of iron, cement and fire bricks, was valued at $75,000 and is fully insured. The vessel was worth SIOO,OOO and is only partly insured. The wrecked steamer Newcastle City was a screw vessel of 2,129 gross and 1,384 net tons. She was 285 feet long, 36 feet bread and 24 feet deep, and was built at West Hartlepool, Bug,, in 1882. INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT. The Effort to Secure Legislation at This Session. New York, Dec. 30, 3 a. m.—The World , in its city column to-day, says: “If the combined.efforts of authors and publishers can bring it about, the present session of Congress is likely to pass some measure pro viding for iuternatiouai copyright. At the suggestion of George Walton Greene. Secretary of the Authors Copy right League, concerning the desirability of appointing a committee from the Authors’ League to secure an international copyright, a call was issued for a meeting of publishers at Delmonico’s yesterday afternoon. The call was signed by all the publishers of this city and Boston, the J. B. Lippineott Com pany of Philadelphia, Cushing & Bailey of Baltimore, Robert Clark of Cine n nati, and A. C. McClung of Chi cago. The meeting yasterday afternoon was accordingly a thoroughly representa tive one. It was decided bo organize with the name of the American Publishei-s’ Copy right Association. 'William H. Appleton was elected President; George Haven Put nam, Secretary, and Charles Scribner, Treasurer. The Executive Committee is composed of the three officers above named and Joshua W. Harper, A. D. Randolph, and Dana C. Estes, of New York; Henry O. Houghton, of Boston. and Craig Lippineott, of Philadelphia. The membership is limited to American pub lishers who favor tho international copy rignt. The Executive was instructed to co operate with the Author’s Committee to do whatever might bo done to secure the pass age of an international copyright measure at the present session of Congress. PROHIBITION IN MISSOURI. Kansas City Saloon Keepers Have a Regular Jubilee. Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 29.—There was a jubilee of saloon keepers last evening when it became generally known that Re corder Davenport ha 1 declared tho Sunday closing ordinance unconstitutional. The decision considered at gi oaf length tho right of the Council to give tlie Recorder power to impose greater penalties thnp those allowed by the charter, and holds that the Council did not have such power as that. Part of the ordinance being void, the whole was, and revocations of license was intended as part of the penalty and could no; hold. The Judge referred to the fact that 1,200 signa tures had been obtained pledging him sup port in case he upheld tho ordinance, and stated that he could ouly decide in the way he thought, whether public opinion was with him or not. The case will be taken to the Supreme Court by the temperance element. LOADED WITH RUM AND WEALTH. A Narrow Escape from Freezing to Death in the Gutter. Cincinnati, Dec. 29.—Patrick O'Brien, of lowa, was picked up lad night insensible from liquor and cold in one of the worst localities iu tho city, and was taken to tho station houre. He bail SB,OOO in cash, $6,000 in checks and a quantity of valuable jew elry on his person, but be would have been frozen to death if the jiolice had not found him. Upper Berths Under the Ban. Bt. Paul, Minn., Dec. 20.—The State j Rail, ouil Commissioners to-day issued per i einptory orders that after January ouch upper berth in any sleeping car run or operated u)>ou any railroad in this State shall be and remain dosed wlieue .'or the berth under the same shall ba occupied by a passenger, until such upper berth shall be needed for actual occupancy by some other j passenger requiring the same. Lack of Orders. Pittsburg, Dec. 29.—H. K. Porter & Cos., locomotive manufacturers, have suspended one-third of their employes on account of luck of orders. When the trade improves the meu wifi be given their old uositiona HIE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1887. RAILROAD BUILDING More Miles of New toad Completed This Year Than in Any Previous ne. Chicago, Dec. 29.—The Hallway Age to morrow will say: The year 1887 has sur passed all other years in the extent of rail way mileage construction in the United States. When six months ago the predic tion was made in these columns that the total new mileage for the year would not be less than 10,000 miles, with a likelihood of sui-pas-ing the record of 1882, the year of the greatest railway construction in the history of tiie country—it was not generally be lieved. But figures obtained b>-careful in vestigation throughout tlie year and con firmed by official information now prove the prediction to have been more than war ranted. Our returns show that during 1887 no less than 13,724 miles of new main line tracks were added to the railway systemso. the United States, no account being tak n in this of hundreds of miles of side track built, nor of thousands of miles of main linn tracks re-laid. While the search has been unusually thorough and the totals cor roborate the record kept from week to week it is not improbable that some scattering additions may yet be received, so that it is safe to state that during 1887 nearly, if not quite 13,000 miles of new mam line tracks were constructed. From a table showing the number of lines and miieage laid in each State the following is extracted: Stall'. Lines, itiles. West Virginia 3 53 Virginia 4 64 North Carolina 10 184 South Carolina 7 101 Georgia 8 281 Florida 10 193 Ai ibama 15 515 Mississippi 5 99 • Louisiana 4 65 Tennessee 10 68 Kentucky 8 168 A GALE ON iHE COAST. Great Damage to Shipping In Nova Scotia and ivaine. Halifax, N. S., Dec. 29.—A terrific south east gale prevailed last night, and caused extensive damage to shipping in the harbor. All the vessels in port were more or less in jured, and in some cases wharves were dam aged. Several vessels sank and others were wrecked at their wbarvas and in the barlior. The wind at St. John, N. 8., reached a velocity of seventy to eighty miles an hour. Some damage was done to tne wharves and shipping, but nothing serious. UNPARALLELED FURY AT ROCKLAND. Rockland, Me. . Dec. 29.—A southeast gale raged here all night with unparalleled fury, doing great da t age to shipping m this” harbor, washing away wharves and w. od, demolishing windows, blowing down chimneys and doing other damage. One sejiooner in the harbor was blown on the rocks and wrecked, another sank at her wharf, two others are practically wrecks, and minor damage was done to many others. A FREIGHT RATE FIGHT. i The War in Illinois Still Being Pushed Vigorously. Chicago, Dec. 29.—The Illinois freight rate war is still being prosecuted with vigor, but as the roads are not publishing regular tariffs, but make private rates to shippers, there is not as much excitement as there would lie otherwise. What the exact rates from Chioago to East St. Louis and other Illinois town’s are, is hard to tell, but it is generally admitted that they are very low. There is little freight being shipped West from Chicago to Illinois pom s, notwithstanding the low rates, but as far as can lie ascertained the Chicago and Alton road gets the bulk of the business. This road seems determined to keep about Id per cent, below competing lines. From St. Louis the rates to Chicago and all Illinois points are getting as badly demoralized as from Chi cago west. The general opinion is that the war will not long be confined to Illinois, but will spread to all the territory west. Low II inois rates naturally affect rates to points beyond as the combined locals are less than through rates. PLEADS GUILTY. Huggard Afterward Called to The Stand as a Witness. Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 29.—Just be fore the Commonwealth closed this evening iu the trial of Thomas L. Huggard, cashier of the Shackamaxon Bank, Samuel P. Mil ligan, paying and receiving teller, and George W. Bumm, and William H. Bumm, sons of the late President of the bank, charged with conspiracy to defraud, the counsel for Huggard,” who previously had remained a silent participant in the cause urose and raid: “May it please the court, I desire on be half of my client to withdraw his lea of not guilty anil enter one of guilty.” The plea was accepted and Huggard was called to the stand as a witness for the Common wealth. Tlie Shackamaxon Bank suspended May 29, 1887, with a s ortage of $400,000. Legal proceedings were begun iu the civil courts for the purpose of collecting from the stockholders sufficient moneys to liquidate the debts, and criminal suits charging conspiracy to defraud were brought against Huggard, Milligan and the Bumm brothel’s. A GREEN GOODS DEAL BUSTED. Crooks Caught Dickering With a Quartette of Countrymen. New York, Dec. 29.—“ Green goods” men were arrested in a saloon to-day while they were negotiating with four country men for the sale of mythical counterfeit money. '1 he intended victims were Jeffer son Davis Lawrence, a grocer and farmer, and Tuily J. Losior, a sa'oon keejier, both of Sumter county, S. C.; anil John C. Wilson and Cornelius Price Hampton, farmers, both from Yancey county, .N. C. Two of tlie green goods men were lined $lO each for vagrancy; a third, named Morris, was held for examination in default oi $10,090 bail. Lawrence and Losior wen committed to the House of Detention, as witnesses against Morris and Wilson and Hampton were let go after being soundly lectured by the court. RUN DOWN IN A SNOW DRIFT. An Engine Dashes into the Rear of a Pa senger drain. Minneapolis, Dec. 29.—The cannon bull express which left Chicago on the Albert Lea route, Tuesday at 12:05 o’clock ran into a snow drift near Ely, la., twelve inlet from Cedar Rapids, at. 2:30 o'clock yester day morning. Before tue drift ooulil bi cleared away a freight engine drawing n caboonsadasheil into tlie rear of the train, telescoping the dining car and crushing the ends of nearly all the cars on the train, a well as damaging the second engine, the train living a double-header. Several peo ple wctc seriously injured and nvuiy suf fered bruises, but none were killed. The train reached here last night at midnight, over fifteen honra late. OLD BOREAS ON A HIGH. The Spree the Worst Ever Known to the People of r rederick. Frederick. Md., Dec. 29.—This city was visited early this morning by the most vio lent wind storm ever known by the oldest people here. A number of houses were un roofed and large trees were uprooted. Rev eral wagons and tlie Jefferson mail coach were uplifted and dashed to the roadside, completely demolishing them. Pedestrians were afraid to venture on the streets. Much damage is reported throughout Frederick county. Rest assortment of Gentlemen's Slippers ever shown, can be seen at Rosenheim's I Shoe Store. GEORGIA'S RAILROADS. The Brunswick and Western Purchase —The Central’s Annual Election. New York, Dec. 29. —The negotiations for the purchase and sale of the Brunswick and Western railroad were concluded to day. The entire capital stock was formally delivered to the purchasing syndicate and duly paid for. This syndicate includes prominent capitalists largely interested in the Savannah, Florida and Western rail way and it is therefore fair to assume that hereafter the road will tie run and operated in harmony with the Plant system. COMING TO SAVANNAH. To-morrow night a party of distinguished gentlemen, prominently identified with tlie Georgia Company, will leave for Savaunah to attend the Central railroad’s annual elec tion. The partv will consist of James Swann,►Emanuel Lehman, Alfred Sully, John C. Calhoun and John C. Kessler, of Kessler & Cos. Messrs. Swann and Lehman are appointed by the Georgia Company as a committee to cast its vote at the Central election, an*. elm being a majority of the whole Central stock, will determine the re sults of the election. TO TAKE A RUN THROUGH THIS SECTION. After their special business Is over in Sa vannah, the party will probably make an extended trip through the South, visiting the coal fields of Alabama, tho mineral regions of Georgia and T nnessee, and several of the principal cities of Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee • The party is a thoroughly representative company of influential and strong men, financially They are firm believers in the flattering prospects of the South and liiieral contributors by investment and indorse ment of its vast development They deserve a hearty welcome and most generous treat ment wherever they go, and such reception of them will tie hospitality and courtesy well bestowed. GEORGIA’S CAPITAL CITY. A Man Who Claims to be a Priest Ar rested for Drunkenness. Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 29.—At the Metro politan Hotel, near the union depot, early this morniug an intoxicated guest created such a disturbance that a police officer was called in. He took him to the station house and locked him up. The man was large aud dressed in clerical robes. He arrived last night and registered as J. B. Northman, Belmont, N. C. At the station he claimed to be a Catholic priest of St. Louis, but said he had just left St. Mary’s College at Belmont, N. C., where he had been a professor for the last six months. He stated that he was on his way to St. Louis to meet Archbishop Kendrick who was to assign him to other duties. After an investigation of the matter iu which information was sought from Father Reily, Chief Connallv pronounced North man an impostor. He plead not'guilty when arraigned before the Recorder for drunkenness and disorderly conduct, but was fined $5 and costs, which he paid. He has since left tlie city. The condition of Col. Phillips, of Mari etta, was favorable to-day, and it is thought that he will rapidly recover from the wounds. Bullock, who shot him, was at his store in Dallas to-day and walking about .he streets. No effort was made to arrest him. It is stated that he and and not leave the town at all after the shootin r. Charles H. J. Taylor (colored), United States Minister to Liberia, is here. COLUMBUS CHAPTERS. Death of a Prominent Citizen—Charged With Robbing His Room--., ate Columbus, Ga., Dec. 29.—Amery Dexter died at 7 o’clock this morning of pneumonia, after a brief illness. Mr. Dexter was one of the most pfotninept mon of the city. He was the Secretary and Treasurer of the Columbus Gaslight Company, Secretary of the Georgia Steam and Gas Pipe Comp iy, aud a director of the National Ba k f Columbus. Eagle and Phenix Manufact. ri .g Company and Muscogee Oil Mills. Yesterday a young man named Zach Weems took out a warrant for auother voting man who had been living with him. Weems had saved his earnings, and aceu mutated about SIOO. While at dinner yes terday he discovered that his money was missing, and an investigation proved that his friend had also disappeared. Officers are still holding the warrant against him. The new stables for the street car com pany are being erected in the old Chatta hoochee depot yard and most of the heavy grading for the new dummy line has heeg completed and track-laying will commence next week. At the City Council meeting last night the retail liquor license was fixed at SSOO. Rev. G. G. N. McDonell, for two years pastor of St. Luke's Methodist church here, left this morning for Thomasville, his new field of labor. J. M. Delacv, successor to Delacy & Tollman, of Greenville, has sold his stock of goods to George P. Swift and Mr. Ham burger, of this city. RAISED FROM $1 TO SSO. A Stranger Passes a Bogus Bill on a Way-cross Druggist. Waycrosk, GA-,Dec. 29.—Last Mouday a gray-bearded stranger about 50 years of age called at the drug store of Redding & Walker, of this city, and after purchasing a vial of cough drops asked Dr. Redding to change a SSO note. Dr. Redd ng assented. To-day in laying some bills tlie note was discovered to lie a $1 silver certificate, in geniously raised to the denomination of SSO. iho figures 50 were pasted on the front aud back in such a manner as almost to defy detection, tlie color and hue of the paper corresponding to the dollar note to which they woie pasted. The word “,.fty” was pasted over the word "one” preceding “dollar.” The profile of John Quiucy Adams was also pasted uniquely upon the face nt the note. The direction the counterfeiter took when he left Waycross is not known. MACON MENTION. Woolfolk Arrivos - A Small Child Bad ly Burned at a Party. Macon, Ga., Dec. 99.—Tom Woolfolk was brought back from Atlanta this evening and lodged in the Macon jail, where he will remaiu until bis case is finally determined. List night at a gathering of young peo ple at the residence of W. B. Petiy his daughter Sallie. aged 4 years, while at tempting to reach an article ou,t h mantel, found her drees in the fire. Her s reams attracted no attention, aud when she was reached she was euvelopsd in flames. Tho fire was extinguished, but not until her oody had been horribly burned, and the skin on her face had peeled from the intense boat. Her hair was entirely consumed, and her head ivai badly burned. It is thought that she cannot recover. AUGUSTA’S EXPOSITION. Judge Rooney Grants a Cnartor. Which the stockholders Will Adopt. Augusta, Ga., Dec. 29.—Judge Roney of tlie Superior Court to-day granted the Augusta Exposition Company a charter. At the i oxt regular meeting, to occur Jau. 3, tho stockholders will adopt the charter and elect twenty-five directors from among the most prominent citizens. It is probable that James Tobin, of the firm of C. 11. Pbinizy & Cos., will lie elected President. A lively set-to is anticipated over the Secre taryship. The steamer Advance arrived at 1 o’clock this morning and wifi leave ou her return trip at 5 o’clock Saturd y morning. The steamers Progress and New Soute will be ready for service in a very short time. Taylor & Carr’s Philadelphia Shoes can be found in every stylo at Joseph Rosen heim Cos.;: FLORIDA'S METROPOLIS. A Colored School Teacher Forrnd Dying Near a Saloon. Jacksonville, Dec. -9.—D. W. Tillman, a colored, school teacher, arrested last week for forging Superintendent Babcock’s name to school warrants, was found in a dying condition at the rear of Ricker’s saloon this morning. Last night Tillman was at Baxter’s saloon, near the Brooklyn bridge and while there exhibited#.roll of paper money. He afterward went to Ricker's barroom, at the corner of Bridge and Bay streets, and gave Ricker #45, with a request that he eep it until called for. Tillman appeared then to be sober and quite cheerful. The next time be was seen was nlxjut daylight this morning, lying at full length on his face o 1 the ground in a small inclo ure at the rear of Ri ker’s building. He was unconscious, had a contusion above his left eye and signs of a blow across his left wrist. He was frothing at the mouth and was apparently suffering in ternal pain. The dying man was taken up and carried into a small room beneath the stairs 6f Ricker’s building and a physi cian called. Dr. Romero, upon seeing the man, pronounced it his belief that he had a fit, but afterward said that it looked like foul play. Indications of a struggle where he was found this morning were visible. Till man w'us sent out to his brother's in LaVilla, where lie expired about 9 o’clock this morn ing. There is a feeling among Tillman’s acquaintance that he was waylaid and knocked down last night for the purpose of robbing him of his money. It is also stated that his skull was fractured by the blow above the eye. A post mortem examina tion will be held in the morning and an in quest held. Sheriff Holland is working up the ease, but nothing haa develop'd yet. Ozias Buddington, Superintendent of the Western railway of Florida, who was re cently shot at Green Cove by a negro named Sherman Bramm, is getting better and hopes are now entertained of his recovery. Dr. Merrill, of Green Cove, in a letter to Dr. Summers, this evening, made the state ment At a meeting to-night of the stockholders of the Florida Savings Bank and Real Es tate Exchange the following 018 cere we e elected for the ensuing year: J. C. Greeley, President: John F. Rollins, Vice President; Harwood Morgan, Secretary and Treasurer, vice L. D. Hosmer, resigned. Mr. Rollins is widely known all over the State, and filled for many years the position of Re ceiver of Public Monies, at Gainesville. John P. Wall telegraphs to-night that Tampa refugees muy return to their homes in safety. At the examination here to-day for the West Point appointment, Charles P. Sum tuerall, of Le sburg, won the prize, and H. K. ’Wheeler, of Gainesville, was appointed alternate. The former secured fifty out of a possible sixty, and the latter forty-nine. A Council meeting will be held to-mor row to try and raise money to pay off the city employes, as the Treasurer refuses to pay these warrants. A WEiCK OJND ADRIFT. Her Small Boats Gone, but Nothing Heard of the Crew. Pensacola, Fla., Dec. 39. —The fishing smack J. P. Allen arrived in Pensacola last night from a fishing cruise. She re orts baviug found the wreck of the fishing smack Lizzie Ella on Tuesday of this week in the neighborhood of the entrance of St. Joseph’s Bay, on the Florida coast. The smack was badly stove in, bearing the ap pearance of having been run into by some craft. The Lizzie Ella was a 16-ton smack and was owned by the Pensacola Ice Cony any of this city. Sue carried a crew of six or seven men. When the wreck was found no one was on it, and the boats were also gone. There is a possibility that the crew made good their escape after the casualty by using the small boats. There h ive been no tidings of the crew up to this time. Fire at Albany. Albany, Ga., Dec, 29.—The dwelling house corner of Flint and Mmroo streets was burned at 1 o’clock this inojrning. The los is #1,500. The house was injured in the Southern Mutual Insurance Company for SBSO. It was the property of J. R. DeGraff enried and was occupied by A. Garner, whose furniture was mainly destroyed. The furniture is insured in the Factors' ami Traders’ Company', of New Orleans Tor #SOO. An Alleged Burglar Shojf;. Green Cove Springs, Fla., Dec. 29.—A. Curry was seriously wounded to-d#y while resisting an officer and attempting to run from’the Deputy Sheriff, wh p tried tb arrest him. He is charged with burglary. \ A Valuable Medical Treatise. The edition for 1888 of the sterling Medical Annual, knov.n as Hostetter’s Almanac. |s now ready, and may be obtained, free of cost, of druggists and general country dealers (in all parts of the United States, Mexico and iiideed in every civilized portion of the Western Hemis phere. ’ This Almanac has been issued regiul rly at the commencement of every year for over one-fourth of a century. It combines, with the soundest practical advice for the preservation and restoration of beal|h. a large amount rtf’ in teresting and amusing light reading, and the calendar, astronomical calculations, ohifono logical items, etc., are prepared with great/care arid will be found entirely accurate The ijssue of Hostetler's Almanac for 1888 will probjably be the largest edition of a medical work lever Subiished in any couutry. The proprietors, [essrs. Hostetler A Cos., Pittsburgh, Pat. on receipt of a two-centstainp, will forward a cjopy by mail to any person who cannot procurejone m his neighborhood. j We Bob Up Serenely. The week after Christmas to some jare pleasant recollections of the day that mas passed: to others painful reminders of |the night that followed. Our ideas are suf ficiently clear and collected to notice that we have some stock left yet—note ri ously Overcoats. All know that <mr severe t, meanest and rawest win ;er weather is still ahead of us, therefo. e if you need an Overcoat don't buy till you ve seen us. We can give you a |>oiuter am* a bargain or so in these comfortable gar ments. We can sell you an Overcoat Jut just whatever price you want to pay, giv ing good value in every case. A f<P' v Smoking Jackets are left, a neat prese.ut and a useful one al any season. I We have a good many broken suits Unit we want to sell at “bruken prices,” alsoyi large lot of odd garments, a coat here a vefct the.e, a matchless pair of pants, all ojtr best and most stylish goods, but we value their room above their company. Our Fits’-: uis ing Department is yet complete, and tmo many ai tic.es needed in a gentleman’s wartd robe’eau lie had of us much under exclusive “furnis ing store’’ prices. Those who 10-lieve -lieve in dressing nicely can suit thetnselvte# from our handsome stock of tailor-Httiieg suits at about tk cost of “misfits” else where. No time like the present. Slaejk trade makes low prices. V Tho Big Golden Arm, I Simon Mitchell, ) 159 Brcughtou street./ Joseph Rosenheim & Cos. are sole agertU in Savannah for Slaey, Adams & Cos. a® Taylor & Carr’s Gcutfemen’s Fine Shoes. \ Each and every article marked in plop figures, and strlctlv one price. Apptjl & Schaul, C jtbiug, Hats and Furnishings. The nobbiest line of 25c. Scarfs in jail shapes, satin backs, at Appel & Schaul?, One Price Clothiers, 163 Congress stray;, opposite the Jdarket. Joseph Rosenheim & Cos. have the repubi tiou of keeping the best makes of Shoe* it lowest prices. / Appel & Schaul still have their own Tiff oring Department on the second floorl in order to make any alteration necessary Vor a perfect fit J I CANDLER CHAT. Preparations for Opening the Lake Weir Chautauqua. Candler, Fla., Dec. 29. —Extensive preparations are going on for the opening of the Chautauqua at Dike Weir this win ter. Machinery is to be placed in the mag nificent steamer White Wing, and it will run in connection with the Florida Southern i ail wav. Passengers will be transferred from tlie, ears to the steamer at Weir Park. R. L. Martin. Esq , will open the Weir Park Hotel, and is now building a wharf in front of the hotel for the steamer to take on passengers. Rev. Sam Small will be one of the leading attractions at the Chau tauqua this winter, and the management also hope to have Rev. Sam P. Jones visit us again. F. A. Springstadt, of this place, is agitat ing the question of having a canning factory built at, this place, parties in Michigan will put up the factory. If wo can secure this it will be a boon to our portion of the State, ns the thousands of bushels of vegetables that are annually tais and in this section will find a home maiket at a fair price that will pay the growers much better than shipping North, and ruq the risk of getting nothing. In a few years there will be a vast amount of fruit here, such as peaches, plums, pears, etc., that will pay a canning factory hand somely as people would much prater to sell their fruit and vegetables toauomemarket. MEETINGS. LIVE OAK LODGE 510. sTI~CL 0?F. A regular meeting iif this Lodge will be held THIS EVEN ING at 8 o’clock. Election of officers and there will be an mitiation. Members of sister lodges and visiting brothers are invited. T. A. WARD, N. G. Attest: A. R. Fawcett, Sec. Pro Tem. REPPARiI IRON COMPANY. Savannah, Ga.. Dec. 21. 1887. The annual merting of the Stockholders of the Reppard Iron Company will be held at the Company’s office. 70 Hay street , on MONDAY, Jan. 2. 1888, at 1 clock p. m. At this meeting the Board of Directors for the ensuing year will be elected. NORTON FRIERSON, Secretary and Treasurer. SPECIAL NOTICES. Advertlsemen' inserted unde-• “ Special Notices" will be charged $1 00 a Square each insertion. no! ICE TO cnY C4URT JURORS. The Traverse Jurors of the City Court need not appear until 10 o'clock a. m. on TUESDAY, January 3d, 188'. By order of JUDGE HARDEN. P. M. Russell. Clerk. lAEAV YEAR’S AT THUNDERBOLT. If the four entries to the Trotting Race are made by 6 o'clock TO-MORROW AFTERNOON, according to the original ad, the race will go on. If not made at that hour the race is declared off. M. J. DOYLE, Market Square. DRESSED TURKEYS PAR EXCEL LENCE. A duplicate shipment of the elegantly Dressed Turkeys we had for Christmas, to arrive for New Year. Send your orders as before, in time, to JOHN LYONS A CO. NOTICE. Neither the Captain nor Consignees of the British steamship KATE, whereof Duikie is Master, will be responsible for any debts con tracted by the crew. A. MINIS A gONS. Consignees. FOR RENT, From Jan. Ist, 1888, the COSMOPOLITAN SHADES. 176 Broughton street, Fixtures and Shuffle Board. Apply in the SALOON. DIVIDEND. The Brush Electric Light and Power Cos.. I Savannah, Ga., Dec. 20th, 1887. f A dividend of THREE DOLLARS per share fi ll the earnings of this Company has been declared, payable on and after Jan lary 1, 1888, to Stockholders of record THIS DAY'. SAMUEL P. 11 AMII,TON. President. 6. S. CrCKENHBiMER, Secretary. ELECTION OF DIRECTORS. Auoubta and Savannah Railroad. I Savannah, Ga., Dec. 21, 1887. f The, animal election for seven Directors of the August i and Savannah Railroad, will be held at the Ba i ing house of Chas. H. Olmstead & Cos. on MOXDAY, January 2, 1888, between the hours of 10 a. m. and I r. m. W. S. LAWTON, President- MERCHANTS’ NATIONAL BANK OF SAVANNAH. The annual election for seven Directors of this Bark will be held at the Banking House, on TIJESi .VY, Jan. 10, 1888, between the hours of 12 and 1 o’clock. THOS. GADSDEN, Cashier. Savannah, Ga.. Dec. 11, 1887. KIEFFER’S DRUG STORE. I have now on hand a very large supply and excelled variety of Cleveland Peas anu Beans, considered the best in the market. Also. Paints. Oils, Brushes, White Lead, etc. A full line of Toilet and Fancy Articles for the holidays. Window Gla.'S cat to order. E. J. KIEFFER, Corner West Broad and Stewart street*. ULMER’S LIVER CORRECTOR. Tla vegetable preparation is invaluable for the restoration of tone and strength to the sys tem For Dyspepsia. Conciliation and other ill*, aused by a disordered liver, It cannot be exeiled. Highest prizes awarded, and in do -d by eminent medical men. Ask for Ul nter’s Liver Corrector and take no other. #1 00 a bottle. Freight paid to any address. B. F. ULMER, M. D., Pharmacist. Savannah. Ga. HARDW ARE.. MAUI) LUVKLL l SONS, DEALERS IN—- (Parker and Colt’s Breech Loading Guns. Brass and Paper Shells. Hunting Coats, etc. Chamberlin Loaded Shells. HATS. JUST EEAR —GENUINE— J. B. STETSON SOFT BATS Reduced to $2.00- More of Earl & Wilson collars at #2 00 per doz. or 20 cents apiece, WILL SELL STOCK IN BULK. Store to Rent and Fixtures for Sale. BELSINGER, 24 Whitaker Street. IKON PIPE. RUSTLESS IRON PIPE. EQUAL TO GALVANIZED PIPE, AT MUCH LESS PRICE J. D. WEED & CO. amusements. BAVANN THURSDAY, FRIDAY & SATURDAY, DEC. 29. 30 and 81. SATURDAY MATINEE. DECEMBER 81. GREATEST PRODUCTION OF THE SEASON. L. R. ShevveU’s Famous American Melodrama Shadows of a Great City, UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF CRARLES AND THOMAS JEFFERSON, _ —-PRESENTED BY— THE ORIGINAL CAST. Magnificent Scenic Effects, Including Lo calities in and About New York City. Seats on sale at Davis Bros-’s Dec 28. Next attraction: ROBT. DOn NING, Jan. I and 8. A CHRISTMAS CANTATA “KING WINTER” WILL BE GIVEN BY MRS. E. B. BURKE, ORr GANIST OF ST. JOHN’S CHURCH, AS SISTED BY THE LADIES RECTORY' SOCIETY AND SEVERAL LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, AND THE CHILDREN OF THESUN HAY SCHOOL. At Masonic Temple, Dec. 30, at 8 P. M. During the Cantata, an illustration wi!l|be giv en of the Music and Dancing of Spain, by a band of Spanish musicians, in costume. After the Cantata there will lie dancing, and refreshments will be served. Tickets 50c. Children 25c. To be had at Da vis Bros, Ludden & Bates, and at llalL PIANOS. ADELINA PATTI lO STEiNWAY^iIONS. Chicago, 111., January 4,1882. To Messrs. Stein way <£ Sons, New York: Dear Sirs— Allow me to express to you tbs great satisfaction and pleasure that I have ex perienced irom the use of your famous Pianos, w hich you have placed at my disposal during the concert tour now in course of progress in tbs United States. During my artistic career In the art centres of the world I have used the pianos of nearly all celebraied manufacturers, but none of them can be compared to youre-none possess to such a marvelous degree that sj mpathetic, poetic and singing tone quality which distinguishes the Steinway as peerless among them all. Before returning to Europe I shall select and ptuvha.se one of your Grand Pianos for Craig y-nos Castle, my residence in South Wales. Respect fully yours, ADELINA PATTI. Const an tinoule, September 4, 188 G. Messrs. Steinway ft" Sons, New York: Gentlemen - His Majesty was so pleased with the piano fortes you made for him that he has ordered two Fancy Upright Pianos They are to be made strong and highly tuned, but they need not be ornamented like the two last. His Majesty wanting plain but fine instrume,nts. so you will please i ay particular attention to the sound of these pianos. I hardly need recom mend you to do your best to content His Maj esty. for your pains are not lost. Please lose no time in filling His Majesty’s orders, for he wants the pianos as soon as possible, and let me know when we may expect them. They are to cost from ±i3o) to £.3' 0 each, the payments to be made as for the former pianos. Y ours trul HAKI BEY. Note. -Since the above order was filled His Majesty the Sultan of Turkey has purchased seven additional pianos of Steinway & Sons SCHREINER’S MUSIC HOUSE, AGENTS. SPORTING GOODS. gTtT w W storeof 0. S. 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