Newspaper Page Text
2
ABOUT LECONTE PEARS.
FACTS IV THE HISTORY OF THIS
PROMISING FRUIT.
Harvesting the Pears-How They Yield
—Growth of Their Culture—Where
They are Marketed—lncreased De
mand for Younz Trees—Somethin*
About the Blight—Theories Concern
ing it.
Thomasville, Ga., May 31.—Like the
dia oTerv of the Carolina pkosphat ‘S, the
introduction into Southern Georgia of the
LeConte pear has ..ddei many hundred
thousands of dollars to the resources and
taxable values of that section of toe state.
The earliest pear to ripen on th • continent,
and coming into market almost before the
blossoms of the same fruit bare fallen in
the northern portions of tne union, it is
sought after with avidity, and the demand
Is only limited by the production. A suc
cinct notice of the
ORIGIN AND HISTORY
of this popular pear may not be devoid of
interest at this juncture.
In 1856 Maj. John LeConte, an uncle of
the two distinguished professors of that
name in the University of < alitor, ia. sent
from New York to his niece in Liberty
county, Georgia, Mrs. Jane Harden, several
young pear trees labeled of the “sa id
variety.” These were duly planted, bu.
only one of them survived. Tnisbore fruit
in 1860, but prosed to be anew va. iety
essentially differing from the “Sand.” l'he
distinction can be detected at a gl ince, as
•was shown me ii an o. chard near Thomas
ville, where the two aro growing side by
aide
From the this single stock,
which is still in full bearing, have been
propagated all the pear groves of the stare,
anti the countless young trees which have
been shipped elsewhere.
A peculiarity of the pear is the fact that
it is the only known varie y that can be
grown successfully from tne cutting, and
until recently has never been affected with
blight. Tne principal
PEAR COUNTIES
of Georgia are Tnomas, Brooks, Lowndes,
Lee, Macon, Mitchell and Liberty; but
groves are springing up, more or 1 ss, all
over the southern portion of the state, and
even as far nortn as Griffin.
The largest orchards ere located in the
vicinity of Thomasville and Smithville. A
few exceed 100 acres in extent, the ages of
the trees ranging from one to twenty years.
When properly cultivate! the young trees
commence to bear after the fourth year,
but the yield is comparatively insignificant
until they are seven years old. After that
period, if the seas >ns prove favorable, the
average annual increase of fruit may ne
reckoned at about 35 per centum. On the
10th of July or thereabouts, the
PICKING SEASON
begins, and continues from three to four
weeks. Tbe fruit is put up in ci a*es and
barrels, well ventilated, tne former c io
ta! ing seven eight hs of one bushel. New
York, Boston, P iladelphia a id Baltimore
are tho principal markers, toe majority of
the ship rents going to New York.
A fair average for the oldest tr e is te 1
bushels, tbougn In exceptional instances
the yield is much larger, m muting up to
twenty-five and thirty o.shels. Tne lar ,e-t
prcd ction on iecord is forty-two bus els,
which was obtained from a tree grown by
Mr. John McKinnon of Thomts county.
This seems to be a well attested fact.
RULING PRICES.
Last year (18S8) the price obtained per
crate varied from $1 5J to $2 25. ba rels
bringing ail the way from $5 to $8 50 eaoh.
Outside of the home consumption Thomas
county the past season shipped per exnress
62,000 crates, which nett and over 41 per
crate. The barrels are included in ibis
statement, whicn was obtained from the
express agent at Thomasville.
EXPRESS CHARGES.
The present rates are a< follows:
From Thomasville by steamer via Savan
nah to New Yore (cratesi ,40c.
From Tbomasvil e by steamer via Savan
nah to New Y rk (bols.l 80c.
From Tbom&svi.le bv steamer via Savan
na i to Pniladelpbia (crates) 40c.
From Thomasville by steamer via Savan
nah to Philadelphia mb.-i. i BPo.
From Thomasville by steamer via Savan
nah to Baltimore (c.ates) SBc.
From Toomasvilie by steamer via Savan
na i to callim re ibnls.) 78c.
From Th unasville by steam r via Savan
nah to Boston cates) 400.
From Thomasville by steamer via Savan
nah to Boslod (obis ) 80c.
If forwarded by rad fro n 5 to 14 cunts is
added on crates, and double that amount
for barrels. These rates, which are not
high, may ba in dified still further at the
opening of the liarve t season.
PEAR ACREAGE.
The best po.ieu pear growers estimate
the orchards of Th mas county to cover
2,000 acres. Brooks comity is also engaged
largely in tho bu-ines , and indeed all alo g
the line of the Savannah, Florida and
Western, the Thomasville and Albany, aud
tbe Southwestern railroads young groves
are frequently to be seen. The nortuer i
tier of Flo ida counties also have invested
heavily in this industry, and are reaping
rich returns from it. This is especially
tiue of the region ab mt Tallahassee, Mad -
eon, Monticelio an 1 Lake Citv. It is im
possible to form a correc idea of the grand
total in acres devoted to the
cultivation of LeContG pears, but it would
doubtless foot up very largely. The presi
dent of (he Horticultur 1 Association of
Thomas county, Mr. H. H. Sanford, say
the demand for young trees the past winter
and spring was never so great. All the
nur.-eryinen sold out clean. They were
shipped even to di-'a it and remote secti ns
of the country. The question is sometimes
asked, Why is it that capitalists are so
eager to invest in pear o chardst The
answer is obvious. Because thev have
enriched many individuals, and 'if well
managed always prove remunerative.
MR. L. L. VARNEDOE
was the first to bring the scions of the
parent tree from Liberty county aud
demonstrate that they could be propagated
from the cuttings. He is, therefore, the
father of the new industry. Ii quired < f
him what was the result of his fru.t ‘ale of
LeConte pears. He replied thus: “la 1575
I sold snv first crate of pears in Boston, and
it brought sl2. Ihe next year they readily
commanded in the north rn mirkets front
$6 50 to $7 per era e.” No wonder, then,
that everybody winted to plant a pear
orchard, and lams around fhcmasville
went uo like mag.c, and are still tn great
demand.
Mr. Varnedoe will ship this season 400
barrels, or about 1,2 0 bushels.
WHAT IS THE BLIGHT?
Accompanied bv Mr. Tuo.nas E. Black
shear, I visited a number of tne largest
ore .ards in ,he vicinity, among them that
formerly ow ed by himself, embracing
fifteen acres which he sold last year for the
snug sum of £-24,000, it wasone of tne brag
grove* of Tbi masville, but is now affected
to some extent with the prevailing disease.
Much of the fruit has heeu blasted,
and tbe leaves and ends of the
boughs are black, and, in some
instances, even the limbs are dying, still
tbe trees have a moderate crop remaining
upon them.
Blight made it3 appearance in March on
the bloom buds, destroy ,ng a very consider
able percentage of t dii iaffore tbe foliage
had put forth, ad afterward extending
some distance up the boughs. It is almost
entirely confined to the old _ roves, and those
most liberally fertilized. Very se dom can
any symptom be t liservt and on trees less
than four or five year* old. Tito . retards
that have not been fertilized fare th..
best. Tins the : cbie g ve above men
tioned, whicn has suffered so much, was i
always kept profusely enriched with com
mercial fertilizers and compost, while per
contra , the 80b stately trei sof Mr. L. L.
Varnedoe, which are almost wholly free
from disease aud bending under their bur
! den of fruit, have never been fertilized at
all. In the language of Mr. T. E. Blackshear,
j than whom there is no more experienced
: aid intelligent fruit grower in this region,
: “it is the petted aud pampered orchards that
: are suffering.” lathe cou sa of our ride,
i wbicu extended to Mr. L. L. Varncdoe’s
I farm, I found this remark fully substau
tiated in the condition of the groves seea
by the way.
Those that had been the most neglected
were the healthiest. There is no disguising
the fact that in tbe old orchards the
BLIGHT IS QUITE GENERAL.
Owing, however, to the great abundance
of fruit ou the younger stocks the pr-se ,t
season, despite the losses from tbe old trees,
which in some orchards will amount to one
half, President H. H. Sanford is of the
opinion that as tnanv near will be marketed
tins year at in 1888, and some growers
assert that the yield will be even greater.
It is claimed that if tho blighted limbs are
removed, the trea will recover its former
vigor. But in some cas-*s almost all the tons
of the trees are already dead Under
these circumstances, the remedy, of
course, would be to cut them down below
the affected parts. Mr. Blackshear bel eves
that the blight was caused by tbe cod in
January when the fruit buds were just put
ting t rth, with no foliate to protect then.
Another theory held by soma, is that the
disease is due to the ravages of a minute in
sect that has perforated tue muer cuticle of
the bark a id -aps the life of the limb.
Others still,and they are in the majority,
affi in tba' neither quidnuncs nor any one
else cun offe a satisfactory solution of tbe
bligat p'obiem.
A SCIENTIST TO THE RESCUE.
Just at thicriticaljnoment,Uncle Sam has
sent nil attache of the department of agri
cultu e, Prof. M. B. Waite, to bring i- tit
out of darkne-s and lay bare the causes of
this dire visitation.
Tue pr lessor is a very bright and culti
vated gentleman, but as dumb as an oyster
when interrogated by a press representa
tive.
Happily, however, when taken off guard
in his i itarcourse with tbe citizens, be hat
unwarily let fall some inkling as to tbe re
sult of his investigations. According to the
information given me by several intelligent
citizens, who believe they report the pro
fessor correctly, he pronounces this blight
precisely the same as that which attacks
tbe pear trees of the north and west. More
over, he savs it is caused by
VEGETABLE BACTERIA,
and may be communicated to pear orchards
from tho crab apple, hawthorn, or any
other tree of a kind ed nature that may
chance to be inffect wi with them. No rem
edy in the premi es was suggested. I give
tbe statement precisely as it was received,
without any personal indorse ment. 1 1 my
explanations, however, I observed that the
Duchess and Ba- tlett jiear trers w ere sim
ilarly affected, but in much greater de
gree.
The professor has a superb microscope
of 2,500 magnifying power, which assists
him n > little in his investigatio s. He is
doing his work thoroughly and seems
resolved to throw all possible light upou
tbe situation.
For the statements and facts which have
been used in this communication I am
mainly indebted to Messrs. H. H. Sanford,
Thomas E. Blacks near, L. L. Var ledoe, J.
O. Varnedoe. A. T. Mclntyre, S. J. Cassels,
H. H. Hopkins and express and railway
officials.
Five Weeks on a Burning ; hlp.
Front the London Daily Telegraph.
The luma i liner City of New York, from
New York, a: rived at Queenstown yester
day morning with particulars of the ar
rival at Hio de Janeiro on Aoril 28 of
the London steamer Parkhurst, 1,538 tons,
with her cargo on fire and her conman ler
and several of the crew disabled from the
severe burns leceived in endeavoring to ex
tinguish the fire, which raged during the
greater part of the voyage from Hull to
Rio de Janeiro. The fire was first discov
ered on March 28, ami in a short time had
such bold of the vessel that Capt. Rob rtson
believe l she was doomed to destruction, ad
had the lifeboats got out and provisio ied.
Everything that could be done to extin
guish the fire tvas done, but, despite
(he best efforts of tbe crew, the
fire spread through the cargo, and
soon the >ide3 of the vessel above the water
became red hot, aud the decks could only
be walked ou by spreading wet sails ou
hem, aud kreping them c ntiuually sat
urated. Holes were made in the deck, and
high pressure steam from the donkey boiler
" as iujected on the blazing cargo with go id
re-ults. Water was als > pumped in in large
quantities; hue on April 25 ibe fire again
increased and reached the coal bunkers.
For two diys and iiigntj the crew w rked
bard to remove tbe coal. Several of the
men, being rendered insensible by ths suffo
cati g s.u ike and imense heat, had to be
c trried on dec ;. F r three days the c .bm
was rendered uninhabuable, and four of
the crew nad a narrow escape from suffoca
tion iu the forecastle. Several times the
crew thought they would be driven
to abandou t e vessel; but, e.icou age 1 by
the commander, who was foremost in fixat
ing tbe flames, they managed to stand by
t e ship, and succeeded in taring her i.ito
Rio de Janeiro, the cargo being tnea still in
flames. Capt. Robertsou and seven of the
crew were badly burned and almost
blinded, and it is believed that in st of the
3,000 tons of cargo is destroyed by fire aud
water. The Parkhurst belo gs to Messrs.
Carlisle & Cos., La idea hall street, London,
aud is anew vessel. Tue Braz ban govern
me t ha. decided to preieut a gold medal to
Capt. R ibertson in recognition of his brav
ery aud s.,ilJ.
Fires on Cotton Laden Ships,
From the Boston Advertiser.
It lias been conceded by most recent
writers on the subject that ves els which
are freig .ted with Ante icin cotton are
more liable to accidents by fi e than those
which carry cottou ba.edin oth r countries.
It is said tuat many foreign insurance com
panies fix their rates on tnis suppodtiou.
l'he fire on the steamer Rugia, wmch cams
near destroying both cargo and vessel, has
br ught this subject again before the pa >-
pie. It certai .ly seems due to the national
credit that the prese it dangerous c mditiou
of affairs should be remedied, if it lies
within tbe power of the govenmuut to cor
rect t e existent evils of cotton j acking
and trausporiation. The great • ecurreuce
of fires on vessels carrying c tton was until
qui.e lecently, accounted for by the theory
of spontaneous comoustion. This theory
was especially plausible irom the fact that
in the United’ Slates the ntanurac m e of
cotton see i oil, a highly inflammable
product, was carried so often in
close proximity to cotton press3j,
and also by the fact that tbe bales
of cotton were carried in cars that had pre
viously been used in the transportation of
the oil. The statistics on the suDjict, how
ever, will bar ily warrant tne belief that
tbe presence of cotton seed oil in the t ales
can be takea as tne o .ly cause for toese
fires. The poor manner in which the Am tr
ican prod net is p icked is without parallel
iu the commercial world, except, pernaps,
m the manner in which savage nations ex
po t their sugar or otu r na ural products,
ad may be held to account for many ooea i
coiiflagrutioim. A com arison between the
method "f cotton baling here and its pack
ing in China discloses much to the credit of
the other nation and nothing como.inen
tary t > our own. 1. is extremely advisable
that both cotton piasters and export
ers pay more attentio i to tnis matter aud
adopt the nc-cr sary reforms, wuich era
demanded alike iu the in erestof hu.na ity,
the condition of flu Americm cotton trade
and our credit as an intelligent aud progress
ive nation.
Ail About Augusta.
Augusta. Ga., May 31. —Robert Good
rich, a workman ou anew building being
erected ou Campbell s red, fell off tne
building, a dis anc • of thirty-five feet, to
day. No bones were broken but he su
tai ied severe iote ual injuries. He fell on
tne limb of a trc: which broke his fall and
prevented in-taut de .th.
O'.erco.ts are in demand to-day and
housekeepers got out blankets for to
nioht.
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, JUNE 1. 1889,
STORIES OF HOR 3 THIEVES.
It Takes an Able Rascal to Get Along
Out West.
From the yew York Sun.
Purcell, I. TANARUS., May 25. —Tne wiping out
of the Indian territory as a reserve for an
Indian hunting groung by the opening of
Oklahoma an 1 other lanls to white setUers
will well-nigh destroy the occupation of
one of tbe most hardy, bold, industrious,
aid intelligent sorts of frontiersmen
—the horse thieves. Tbe territory
has been for years, and still is, the
horse thieves’ Garden of Eden, but horse
thieves and grangers do not thrive wall in
the same field, ands > one or the other must
go. The horse t iief general y goes when
the granger comes, aud if he does not go
by the aerial cable route it is not tbe fault
of tho granger. ’I he truthful stories of
their de. d> are in every man’s month in
tnis country, and one who h-ars tuem is
apt to find himself admiring the horse
tnieves in spite of their dishonesty.
There was Bill Towerly, the boy horse
thief of Atoka. H.s appellation suggests
(he title of a wild west novel, a id coulu ah
his adventures be related up to the tim* he
was killed, the story would be among the
inostiuti esting in tbe annals of frontier
crime. Only tue manner of his taking off
ca i tie related, beyond the fact t nat he was
a born horse thief, his father having trained
him to that occupation from youth.
In December, 1837, Deputy United States
Marshal E. A. Stokely took a posse, con
sisting of William Moody, John McAllister,
aiidJaines Wallace, to the home of old
Towerly, five miles cut of Atoka. They
bad learned from a neighbor, who pur
chased immunity fra minor offense by be
traying them, that botu Bill and tbe old
man e e at ho ne. The old man was
wanted for killing a marshal at Fort Smith
a month before. Bill had simply
stolen a horse. As daylight came, on
the morning of the 3d, the posse
reached the edge of the clearing
about the Towerly house. The raid ou the
house was not well carried out in some par
ticulars, for as the marshall dashed out of
the woods, hoping to take the men by sur
prise, Bill c iolly stepped out of the do r,
six-shooter in hand, aid opened fire. He
might have shot through the window had
he so desired, and so had the drop oa the
officers. But he was overconfident in his
marksmanship. His first sh it at Stokelv
missed tho mark, because Stokely’s horse
was cantering abo it in an aim-destroying
mi ner, a trick he had been taught.
B fore Bill could cock his weapon again
Stokely shot him through the right leg and
Moody shot him through the right shoulder.
Both balls crashed through bones and made
very ragged wounds. Tue boy (he was just
20 years old, fell to the ground a id his re
volver dropped from his hand. Stokely
leaped to the gr rnnd and ran toward him.
Bill rolled over on his wounded litnbs
without a groan, picked tho revolver fro n
the ground with his left baud, aud shot the
officer with it twice through tie body.
Then he turned on the other marshals and
fired three more sh ts.
Meantime the other marshals had not
been idle. In fact, t ley had had about the
liveliest time thev had seen in a year. Bill’s
mother a id sister, both stalwart women,
followed him out of the door, and as Mar
shal Moody had drawn down his six-shooter
f>r a second shot at Bill they jumped on
him. The pistol went off harmlessly, and
then in spite of his struggles the two women,
by p llliug, clawing, scratching and biting,
got t e o.ficer into the house, and. shutting
the and or, held it. The other marshals wert
kept busy by the old man, but somehow
neither he nor they hit auy one when they
fired.
Finding himself caged, Moody ran to the
window and saw S'okely fall at B It’s fire.
Tuereupoa he opened fire turough the w in
dow, every ballet striking the boy. Bill
fired bock one shot that hit the window sill.
It was h s last cartridge. Throwing the
etnpiy weapon toward the corner of the
house, where his father was standing off
the other officers, he yelled:
“Load ’er quick, pap; we’ll do* for the
whole ouifi .”
At the moment of making this cheerful
remark he had been hit by seven bullets,
and a moment later the eig ith—it was from
MuO ly’s last cartridge— struck him in the
neck and he fe 1 dead. Tuen the old man
surrendered. The old man has since been
hai ged.
Jack Farley, the stage driver between
Meade Center, Kits., and Beaver Citv, No
Man’s cand. told the reporter of a “little
scrimmage,” as ne called it, betwee i ahorse
tnief and tbe owner of a stolen horse.
“I was with a bunch of cattle down
among the Osages,” he said. “Oue day a
man came riding along, carrying a Win
c .ester and a six-sooo er. 1 had only a six
shooter at the p unmel of my saddle.
“ ‘Did you see a half breed looking so and
so?’ says he.
“ ‘I did,’ says I.
“ ‘Was h j ou such and such a horsef says
ha
“ ‘He was,’ says I. I had noticed the out
fit as it went bv.
“ ‘ Well, that’s my horse, stranger. I wish
you’d go along and help me get mm,’ says
he.
“ ‘I expect so,’ says I, ‘but he had a Win
chester and two six-shooters. I ain’t a
caring about meeting a Winchester with a
six-shoo.er,’ says I.
“ ‘l’ll 1 nd you my 'Winchester, then,’
says he, and so I went along. The ba f
breed had gone to the li m e of an old In
dian dow i the bottom land of Big Caaey
creek. The road ran east and west pa t the
house. The owner of tne h trse went around
through the timber and struck the r ad east
of tbe house. I took the road west of it,
and so we closed in. As I gat where I
could see the house I saw the thief bef re it
wita his hand >=n the saddle. He sa vme at
once, an i, jumping on the ho se, started
down the road o ily to meet the owner ot
the horso before he had gone ten t o Is. The
owner had his six-shooter drawn; the thief
had to draw his. The thief made ami take
there, ehi You bet he did. But he as
game. He sat there ad fired every
cartridge in his pis 01, altiough the first
shot oft; e other feilow bored hi n right
through the left nippie and came out of his
back. I saw the dust fly as toa bullet came
through his jacket.”
Up in ti e northeast corner of the terri
tory, near the Qunpa v mi sioo, lived a
col rod mau, a year or so ago. who wa- a
great favorite among the mission people,
t ie government agent, and the Iniims in
geue a!, including the sq t w rue v. Among
the latter war ex-Chief Peri of the Peo ran
Peri loves goo ! horses, and breads them
every year. But he was then havi >g hard
luck. oie after another of a bunch of good
ones was stolen, and uo trace could be
found of thief or horse. Finally his son
in-law, J. P. McNaug .ton, concluded to
try do ective work. He began by lear ing
whether each man living within ten miles
of Peri’s was at horns or not on the uay
after the last horse was stolen. Several
were not at home. Then he looked up the
licatioi of tuesa men on the day after
an taer horse ha 1 been stole . By follo w
ing this p;an he h id, at the end of a mouth,
learned that the popular darky had been
away from bo.ne the day following the d.s
appearance of every one of Peri’s horses.
The darky was arrested. Tue mission
people, the agent, and many others
were indig iant. So was the darky.
At the trial the darky came clear
mump lantiy for lack f proof. Two days
later one of ilcXaughton’a horses disap
i peered. The darky was not at borne too
next day, but on the night of t.ie next day
thereafter he attended prayer meeting at
the Mission school house. But he dirt not go
home afterward, as he ha l promised his
wife he would do. He disappeared mysteri
ously. His wife suit t e neighbors to hunt
for him. They found him hanging by the
neck to the limb of an oak down in the
Springs river bottom. Within two days
jflcNau'ilitoa had recovered his horse and
one of Peri’s. It is supposed that the darky
told where they could be found before he
died.
A couple of months ago an old Oklahoma
bo >n er named Bucher bad a horse stolen
[under novel circumstances. Bucher live 1
a few miles out of this p'.ac i on a rented
farm. He was in town one evening to bar
I supplies, and left his horse hitched to a post
|in front of a restaurant near the depot. As
night came ou Deputy United Sta es Mar
shal John McAllister, wno was one of tne
posses present when Bill Towerly was
killed, as just related, ve it into the dancs
house kept by Caarlev Stines. McAllister
was not welcomed as enthusiastically as he
thought he should have been, and on leav
i g tne place drew his six-shooter. Walk
ing across the street, he began firing and
at the door-k 10b of t..e danca heusi, just
to scare tne girls, as he said. Stines re
sented by coming i ut with a Winchester
ad shooting McAllister through the right
lung.
Then Stines concluded that be had better
go away from ther* at one:, so be jumped
on tne back of tu-* horse and rode
out of town. The horse happened to be
Bucher’s.
The other marshals organized a posse and
fart / n.iles north of here they overtook
Stines. Bines did not survive tne over
taking. Bucher got his horse again. It
had been ridden almost as near to death as
the thiof rode. McAllister lived long
e lOuglt to 1 arn that Stines was dead and
buried. Then he ai >d.
Opposite B aver City, in the neut al ‘trip
of the I.idi n territory, a little creek fl>ws
into Beaver river. It is known as ihe
Mexican Arroyo. One day, wheo Beaver
City was first settlid, a par y of hunters
went over iuto the sand bills to shoot
prairie chickens, whicn were then numerous.
Oi the banks of the little s;ream the '
found the body of a man but recently dead.
He was dro-ised In the gi b, aid had the
features and general appea ance of a cit ze o
of Mexico. Ir. tba hacc of his heal was a
tiny hole. O t tbe ground near the body
was a handsome revolver, shooting a 22-
caliber cartridge. Tne e were" marks of a
camp near by, and a distant wago i
trail led to the west through the sand
hills. There was a trail of a lei horse,
aad one ridden with a saddle, as well.
“It looked,” said Rube Cuiicot, tbe livery
stable man of Beaver City, “as if the Mexi
can bad been driving along there and some
eastern matt hid come along and shot him,
and nad then driven away w.th the outfit.
No man out this way would carry such a
gun as that.”
Tne mystery made the people name the
creek after toe corpse—Mexican Arroyo.
On reaching Purcell tie reporter met a
bl ick-haired, blaet-eyed little gambler in
Red Stein’s barbs snop. The gambler w s
known as the Black Kid. He carried a
haudioma little silver-plated five-shooter
22-caliber pistol in liis vest pocket, and oc
casionally g iowel it to his counts with the
air of a man who shows a pocket piece or a
keepsake. It was a pretty little thing,
vaiua he only for the memories clustering
around it.
“My best girl in Denver gave it to me,”
he said to the reporter. "She used to have
a pair of 'em. Some tenderfoot from Phila
delphia, whose name I do not remeutb?r,
cave them to her when she was living in
Dennison. After she shook him she started
overland with aca uping utfit and a g aud
io 'king young Mexican for Denver. Some
where along the route the Mexican shook
her, aid she lost the mate to this thing.
She said she felt a sight worse about
10-iug t e jewelry than the Mexican, for
she s dd the Mexictn’s camp outfit for $225
iu De iver.” Tne best ove. land route from
Dennison to Denver runs up Beaver river
and across the .vl x cin Arroyo.
Amo ig the other criminals lying in the
jail at Fort S i.ith. Ark., awaiting trial, are
Jim Larney, J e Tulsa, Wiley S ill ad
Pug Wannasa v. They are charged wi h
killing Mose Mclntosh, a prominent mem
ber of tbe Creek nati m. They are mem
bers of one of tne most desperate gangs of
norse thieves th* territory has known for
years. Their lead <r is VV'esley Burnett, a
boy but 18 years of age. Burne t is him
self a Creek. His fat ier wits a white man
and bis mother a half-breed squaw. He is
small and slen ler, weighing no more than
110 pounds. He limps when he walks, from
the effects of a bullet wound received 1 hree
years ag >. He w.mid be called ha dsome
but for his eyes, which are larga and
glare about with a restless ferocity
that is said to be ternfving to pretty
nearly every one who sees bi n. He is
credited with fr >m seven to fiftoen mu ders.
His last was the killing of Mclntosh.
Burnett aud his gang had been running
horses out of tne territory in general and
the Creek Nation in particular for months.
Ha had escaped arrest, if not detection,
tnmugh the aid of frieuls and relatives,
ands imetim s by the aid of those who
feared his vengeance ill ca-o thev failed to
help hi.n. He cirried a Winchester and
two six-shooters, and was k town as a fa
mous shot; aid it therefore required no
litt.e nerve to undertake his arrest, even if
be was small and young.
Early in November, however, he was
located at tue house of Abe Carr, near
Okmulgee, with eight other young despera
d es. So respactab o Creeks, to tue numuer
of forty, he del by Muse Mclntosh, an
Indian policeman, set out to arrest the
whole outfit. Mclntosh led the posse t >
within lo g range of Carr’s hou e, waich
stands out in the open prairie, a id taen,
findi ig the hou e barricaded, they went
into a draw where they could c insult out
of range of Winchester rifles.
It was determi e 1 to attack |the bouse
front aid rear. Ten me i were seat to
make the attack iu the rear. Then the
main body of the troop swept over tue
prairie straig.it at the hons \ yelling at the
top of their voices. A volley was fired
at the house as the posse drew near,
but no reoly was made until tbe posse
git well within p stol ra 'ge. Then a door
aud two wi id nvs were o e ie 1 and Half a
dozen rifles we:e poked out and fired. Mcln
tosh fell dea I, snot, it is said, by Burnett.
Two horses were shot and two of the posse
were slightly wounded. The poise fired
another rou.i 1, and t.iis time Ga i . Lott of
tue thieves fell mortally wounded, while
Larney and Kuisa wore hurt.
Nevertheless, the killing of Mclntosh
caused the main party t < bait. Some of the
besieged took advantage of the stop to run
out oi the b ick door and jump on their
horses and flee to the wo ds, not so very
faraway. They hid a running tight wiou
tn se of the posse sent to cut off retreat.
The leader of the gang, Burnett, escaped
with tore s companions.
Burnett has since been seen in the neigh
borhood where the Mclntoshes reside, but
no one has ventured to try to get the <1 op
on him. He will eventually oe kil ed, of
course, for the Hi st marshal or policeman
tvao gets the c iance will shoot him. The
Creeks have offered a reward of SI,OOO for
him dead or alive.
Burnett’s mother is said to be a hand
some squaw, and unscrupulous enough to
use sucu influence as her beau v would give
her with leadmg men of tne Creek nation
to protect her b iy from danger.
HOW VICTO RIA PROPOSED.
An Interesting Btt of History Recalled
—The Queen’s Full Name.
From the Philadelvhia Press.
“I wonder how many people know that
Victoria the Good, as it has been suggested
tho Queen of England shall ba called, w on
she fed ii love had to do tne pr ■. osing for
herself?" said an Americtnized Englishman
the other morning, whose reminiscences
were called uu by mo fact that Queen Vic
toria will be 70 years old to-morrow.
I was very nine i interested in reading re
cently tbe account of her betr thal. It had
always been expected that she and her
cousin Albert would eventually make a
matohof it. \V: en thev were Loth about IS
years old, he visited England, but did not
make much impression ou the newly
crowned queen. However, three years
later he male up bis mind to a “now or
never” game, and with his brother visited
her at Windsor Castle. Lke more hurnnle
lovers he was placed in a rather embarrass
ing predicament by the non-arrival of
his luggage, ad was thus prevented
from dining with her majesty on
his first evening a9 her guest. For
five da s did Victoria study him, and then
after first telling her advi er. Lord Mel
bourne, what she had decided to do, she
sent for Albert, saying that she desired to
see him p .rt;cuia:iy. One account ot the
affair, certa'u.y valuable for its ireyity,
reads as fodows: “What the queen toid
him was that she loved him with her wh 1
heart, and tea- s ;e desire i to be his wife.”
Bhe was accepted wituouc he?:tati n, as any
good-1 joking sovereign of 23 mig .it have
ho and to Lave been, a .and so they were mar
ried.
Another fact about her life wh ch inter
ested me was that sue vvus christened Alex
andrine-Victoria, with a hyphen, and not
“p ain” Victoria, as she is generally called.
Asa child she was called “Irina,” and her
maternal gra idm >ther, who had afo dness
for nicknames gave her tue endearing titles
of “Sweet Blossom of May” and “May
Flower,” becau e of her birth. Oddly
enouga two of her eight child:'© i were born
in the same month, Helena on May 25,1846,
aad Arthur on May 1, 1850.
A WAR INCIDENT.
CoL McEwen’s Romantic Story of the
Battle of Franklin.
Dr. Henry M. Field in the Evangelist.
While recalling personal reminiscences it
may be of interest to mention one commu
nicited to me by CoL McEwen:
“Gen. Kimball occupiel my house as his
headquarters. An incident occurred there
whicd was rather strauge to me. About 4
o’clock p. m., after the general had left
for tue field, there lingered a colonel
from Indianapolis in my parlor; he
was a lawyer and a nice man; he
asked my daughters to siog and play him a
piece of music. They hesitated, but I an
swered for t.ie.n. “Yes.” My daughters
asked what they should play. He replied
that he had uot been m a parlor since the
battle of Oak Hill was faught, and that he
did a- t know one piece from another, ex
cept field music. I then spoke up aud asked
the you g ladies to sing and play a piece
which had recently co ue out, ‘Jud Before
the Battle, Mother,’ telling the colonel that
it was new a piece. At my request they sat
and iwa a .and played and sang tue the piece
about half through, when I stepped
to the door and a shell exploded
within fifty yards. I immediately re
turnd and' said, ‘Colonel, if I am
any judge, it is just about that time now!’
He immediately -prang to his feet, and ran
in the direction of his regiment, but before
he reached it, or by that time, he was shot
through the lungs, the bullet passing quite
through him# He was taken back to the rear
and oa to Nashville. Eighteen days after I re
ceived a message fr >m him through an of
ficer, stating the fact of his being shot, aud
that tiie piece of music the young ladies
were executing was still ringingin his ears,
and had been every moment tuat his eye.
were open since he left my parlor the e voting
of tiie battle. In April, four months later,
after the war was over, he had sufficien.ly
recovered to travel, when he came to Frank
lin, as ho stated, expressly to get the young
ladies to finish the piece of music and re
lieve his ears. His wife aid more than a
dozen officers accompanied him. He found
the ladies, an 1 they sang and played the
piece through for him in presence of all the
officers, and they wept lik* children.”
MEDICAL,
Tates.
\K&
I
The Chiet Reason for thr marvellous suc
cess of Hood’s Sarsaparilla is found in the fact
that this medicine actually accomplishes all
that is claimed for it. Its real merit has won
Merit Wins a popularity and sale
greater than that of any other blood purifier.
It cures Scrofula, all Humors, Dyspepsia, etc.
Prepared on!v bv C. f T'wi t ’'‘"-'1 ' VT "*i
amusements!
SAVANNAH JTHEATER,'
ONE WEEK, COMMENCING
MONDAY,_JUNE 3.
Wednesday and Saturday Matinees.
( —VTvr TT 1 T T T
BIJOU OPERA COMPANY
IN THE FOLLOWING REPERTOIRE:
GlroMe Girona, Pirate* of Penzance, Bohemi
an Girl, Chimes of \ormandy, Biiiee
Taylor, Mikado, Olivette.
SUMMER PRICES, 25c . 3V. and oOc.
exc ursToxsT
bluff ton!
t
STEAMER GO?, SAFFORD
YITILL leave dock foot of Drayton street Sun
* ’ day morning at 10 o’clock, city time.
Fare for round trip only 60 cents. For informa
tion inquire of
FT. <3-. KENT.
Passenger Agent. Board Boat.
Sunday Excursion
—TO
BLUFFTON, S. C.
Str.ST. NICHOLAS
YITILL leave wharf foot of Lincoln street
VV SUNDAY MORNING at 10:80 o'clock for
BLUFFTON, S. C., returning to Savannah
about 7:SO p. m.
Fa e, iiound Trip, 50c.; children, 25c.
Tickets at office on the wharf.
C. WILLIAMS, Agent.
Charleston k Savannah Railway Cos.
SUMMER EXCURSIONS.
Commencing Saturday, May 4th, this
company will sell Excursion Tickets to
CHARLESTON by following trains, at follow
ing rates:
SATURDAYS.
Leave Savannah 12:33 p. M. R turning, 1
leave Charleston 7:20 following Mou- -82 50
day moraiog )
SUNDAYS.
Leave Savannah <5:45 a. m. Returning,)
leave Charleston 7:20 following Mon- v@2 OO
day morning )
Leave Savannah 6:45 a. x. Sunday morn-1
in?. Returning, leave Charleston -8* Do
3:10 p. M. same day )
E. P. McSWINET,
Gen. Pass Agt.
rTT I p MORNING NEWS carriers reaofc
111 * v <fy Ph rt of yie city early. Twenty-
AAA Li five cents a week pays for the Daily,
FUNERAL INVITATIONS.
RICE.—The friends and acquaintance of Mr.
and Mrs George A. Rice, Mr. and Mrs. H. P.
Smart and Mr. ani Mrs. J. D. Robinson, are in
vited to att-nd the funeral of A.vsiz Marie in
fant daugnter of the f rmer, at No. 5 Mont
gomery street, at 4 o'clock T 'IS ' K'+ißNonv-
MURPHY’.—The rr.at.ivea and friends of Mr.
and Mrs. N. J. Murphy are respectfully invited
to attend the funeral of their son, Nicholas J.,
from their resident-. 76 St. JuUan street, at 9:30
o'cloct THIS MORNING.
MEETINGS.
SAVANNAH BRANCH
The adjourned meeting will
take place at Armory hall, 8
p. m., SATURDAY, June 1. fri j
Important announcement* ! ST-J
and committee appointments. (fis* 1 - -a
By order /•SpSii £k
E KULMAN. pU j
President,
Max Robivsos. ©OUfflfkfrfg/ivnxKg
Sec, and Treas. /SstCIATT*
EVERGREEN CEMETERY COMPANY
OF BONAVENTCRE.
The annual meeting will be held on TUES
DAY, the 4th day of June, at 4 o'clock p. if.
M. A- COHEN. Sec. and Treas.
NOTICE TO ROAD COMMISSIONERS.
The semi annual meeting of the Board of
Road Commissioners of Chatham county will
be held at the Court House on SATURDAY,
June Ist, at 10 o’clock a. m.
G. BOURQUIN, Chairman.
R. Coakley, Secretary.
SPECLAL NOTICES.
Advertisement* inserted under "Special
Notice*” will be charged Jl 00 a Square each
insertion.
AT ACCTIOnT
BOOKS, BOOKCASES AND PICTURES.
C. H. DORSETT, Auctioneer,
Will sell at public outcry THIS DAY (Satur
day), June Ist, 18-9, at 143 Congress street,
commencing at 11 o’clock a. h.;
Two BOOK CASES, one being small and the
other large.
One very fine PAINTING of Ben HilL
One fine OIL PAINTING “Puss in Boots.”
Seven fine OIL PAINTINGS, copies from
“Old Masters.”
A collection of BOOKS, comprising many
scientific works of interest to civil or mechan-
ical engineers. Many of them rare and valu
able.
—ALSO—
Works Historical, Poetical and Biographical;
—ALSO—
A lot of Novels bound and in pamphlet form.
This is a good chance to replenish libraries
and to collect material for summer reading.
“WHEN I WAS AT SARATOGA LAST
YEAR
They sewed with their Sherbets, Ice Cream
and other Ices, and sometimes with Tea and
Chocolate, a curled or rolled Wafer, about
twice the diameter of a lead pencil, and about
as long. They were an Imported Wafer, and
were so nioe that I have been wanting some
ever since.”
“Yes, madame, I know what you mean. They
are called the Cigarette Wafer, and are one of
the famous Karlsbad Wafers. I have them."
“You have? Well, lam delighted to know
that. Please send me a dozen boxes.”
The finest table luxuries the world produces.
That's the aim.
Make it a point to read the Special Notice
column of this paper the first.
J. J. REILY,
Importer and Specialist,
30 Whitaker Street.
Telephone Call 165.
ELIGIBLE BAY STREET PROPERTY
FOR SALE.
Two elegant pieces of property located on the
best business blocks on
BAY STREET
Have been placed with me for sale. The owners
have no furtuer use for the property, and are
willing, rather than rent it, to give unusually
easy terms to reliable purchasers.
One of the pieces referred to is the Western
portion of the well-established house recently
occupied by Messrs. Guckenheimer & Son.
The other is equally well knows as for years
occupied by Bendheim Bros, as a wholesale
cigar and tobacco business.
It is seldom that such well located Bay street
property is offered, and as the term's can be
made specially ATTRACTIVE, the attention of
investors is particularly directed to this op
portunity.
M. J. SOLOMONS, 118 Bryan street,
NOTICE.
Savankah, Ga.. May 20, 188a
From JUNE Ist to SEPTEMBER Ist. or until
further notice. Banking hours will be from
o’clock A. M. to 2 o'clock p. M.
T. M. CUNNINGHAM,
Cashier Central Railroad Bank.
THOS. GADSDEN,
Cashier The Merchants’ National Bank of Sa
vannah.
„ JAMES SULLIVAN,
Cashier Southern Bank of the State of Georgia
JAS. H. HUNTER,
Cashier Savannah Bank and Trust Cos.
THOS. F. THOMSON.
Cashier The National Bank of Savannah.
GEQ. 0. FREEMAN,
Cashier The Citizen’s Bank of Siva inah.
CHAS. H. OLMSTEAD & CO.
FIBBER’S POINT HOUSE,
TYBEE ISLAND,
Will open on SATURDAY, June 1, for the
accommodation of guests.
Mrs Bannon will have charge of the culinary
department, and wi I be assisted by first-class
cooks. Mrs. Bannon's celebrated Fish Break
fasts at Thunderbolt will be a sufficient guaran
tee as to tue manner iu which that department
will be ruu. Tue house has been thoroughly
renovated aud put in first-class condition.
Large bath houses, fine dancing pavilion and
porches extending entire length of bouse. For
terms see J. H. FURBER.
ELEVENTH ANNUAL CRUISE SAVAN
NAH YACHT CLUB.
The eleventh annual cruise of the club will
begin on MONDAY, 3d inst. Yachts will be
in position, ready for the start, at 9 a. m. at foot
of Barnard street. Start will ba made at 9:30
a. M. scarp. Re ir Commodore F. S. Lathrop
will be Fleet Capt in, aad L. A. Falligant, M. i/„
Fie t Surgeon. Captains will report to the
Commodore on board the flagship Etta at 9:20
A. M. By order of
T. L. KINSEY, Commodore S. Y. C.
Attest: G. \V. Haupt, Secretary.
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION.
The firm of HERMES & GOTTLIEB is THIS
D.YY dissolve I by mutual consent. N. I.
GOTTLIEB will continue the business on bis
own account, and assumes the liabilities of the
late firm. Parties indebted will make payment
to him. A. J. HERMES, Jr.
N. I. GOXTLIEh. :
Savannah, Ga., May 31,1889.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAs'hALL ASSOCIX!
TION.
The 23d installment on the stock of the above
association is now due and payable to the un
dersigned from Ist to 15th inst.
WM. McHARRIE, Treasurer.
JfN* Ist, 1889.
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION!
Savannah. May 31, 1889,
The firm of A. 8. THOMAS & CO. is THIS
DAY dissolved by mutual consent. Mr. a
THOMAS assumes all liabilities and succeeds
to the business. A. 8. THOMAS.
JOS. C. BRUNSON.
notice!"
I have THIS DAY associated with me, la
medical practice, Dr. WM. F. AIKEN of New
York.
Office. 98 Harris street. Office hours, 9 te
1:30, except Sundays.
J. P- 8, HOUSTOnt
NOTICE.
\li persons haring claims against the Steam
boats ADVANCE and PROGRESS, of the Au
gusta Steamboat Company, will present them
to P. G. BURUM, President, Augusta, Ga at
office for payment.
REMEMBER
The Special Prices SATURDAYS at
HBIDT’S.
200 pound case of those fine assorted
CHOCOLATE CREAMS,
* HEIDT'S selling at 25 cents. Just received.
FIRE SALE
ti still being continued by
BASCH BROS.
At ITI Congress street.
NOTICE.
WE HAVE A FEW HUNDRED GOOD
FLOUR BARRELS FOR R4T.V
—APPLY AT
HAYNES & ELTON.
FROG POND
CHILL AND FEVER CURE.
Something you can rely upon.
Depot. HEIDT'S. Try It.
82 DOZEN STRAW HATS
Just opened and for sale very low at
JAUDON’S,
ISO St. Julian street
DR. BEST
HAS RETURNED AND RESUMED
PRACTICE.
PURIFY YOUR HOMES.
USE PHENYLE,
The best disinfectant known. In daily use by
city authorities, and indorsed by our physicians.
Cleanly to use. Sold in quantities to suit. For
sale only at
BUTLER'S PHARMACY.
Corner Bull and Congress Streets.
IT NEVER FAILS.
ULMER'S LIVER CORRECTOR is guaran
teed to be a safe and reliable medicine for Dys
pepsia. Acid Stomach, Constipation, Nervous
Headache, Diarrhoea, Dysentery and other dis
eases arising from a disordered state of the
liver. Recommended by prominent physicians
and awarded highest prizes over competitors.
Ask for ULMER’S LIVER CORRECTOR and
take no other. Prepared by
B. F. ULMER, 51. D.,
Pharmacist, Savannah. Ga.
Price $1 per battle. If you cannot obtain the
‘‘Corrector” from your druggist, send your
order direct. anC it will be forwarded byex
press, freight ptid.
PAINTS,
OILS AND VARNISHES, LEADS, COLORS
AND MIXED PAINTS.
Berry Bros.’Hurd Oil and Varnishes. Afuli
stock of Paint end White Wash Brushes on
uand. Call and &iet prites at
ED\v"?VRD J. KIEFFER'S
Drug and Seed Store.
Corner Broad and Stewart streets.
RAILROADS.
SAVANNAH AND mETIEROAtt
IN EFFECT SUNDAY, APRIL 38, 1889.
Trains leavo Savannah daily, except Sunday,
Standard Time, at 9:30 a. m., 2:30 p. m., 3:40 p.
M. and 8 p. .
Leave Tybee 7 a. 11:45 a. M., 6:05 p. x. and
9 p. u.
Sunday schedule, in effect on and after April
28, 1889:
Leave Savannah 9:30 a. M., 1:80 p. a., 3p. at.
and 8 p. m.
Leave Tybee 6:45 a. *., 11:45 a. m., 5:30 and
6:45 p. st.
Fare for round trip. 50c.; half fare, 23c. Sea
son tickets at reduced rates. Family excursions
every Tuesday and Friday. Fare for round
trip, 35c.; half fare. 20c.
Trains leave from the company's NEW
DEPOT, on Randolph street, foot of President
street.
Tickets on sale at Fernandez's dear store,
or at Gazan's cigar store, under Pulaski House,
also at ticket office at savannah and tybee De
pot and Central Railroad Ticket Office.
Arrangements for special excursions can be
made by addressing R. E. COBB, Suderintend
ent, or H. H. WOODRUFF, Freight and Passen
ger Agent, Savannah, Ga.
R. E. COBB. Supt.
SHOES.
W . a. . DOUGLAS
$3 SHOE GENTLEMEN.
3 SHOE FOR LADIES.
Best la the World. Examine hi*
$5.00 Genuine Hand-Sewed Shoe.
$4 00 Hand-Sewed Welt rhoe.
$3.50 Police and Farmers' Shoe.
$2.50 Extra Value Calf Shoe.
$2.25 Workingman's Shoe.
$2.00 and $1.75 Hoys’ Scaool Shoes.
Fraudulent when my name and price are not
stamped on boitom. W. L. DuUGhAd,
Brockton, Mass-
Examine W. L. Douglas $2 shoes for gen
tlemen and la lies.
For sale by BYCK BROS., 17 Whitaker Street,
Savannah.
EDUCATIONAL. _
IT'RIENDSSCHOOL. Providence, R I. For
both 8 Founded in I*6l. Excellent
home. Students from IS states. All denoiuisa
lions. Thorough work in English, Science,
Classics Music and Art. Our certificate admits
to college. Address AUGUSTINE
LL B.