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ro TRY ELIXIR'S VIRTUES.
DR. WEGEFARTH TO TEST THE
NEW DISCOVERY TO-DAY.
Physicians Anxiously Waiting the
Result ofthe Experiment—Dr. Long
fellow’s Formula to be Used—An
Old Colored Man Suffering with
Rheumatism to be the Patient—How
the Test Will be Made.
Dr. J. A. \V. Wegefarth will make an
experiment this afternoon with the Brow.i-
Sequard elixir, which is attracting so much
attention throughout the country.
The utmost precautions will bo taken in
the preparation of the elixir, ami tho exper
iment will bo made with a colored man t>.
years old, who is a hopeless rheumatic
patient, corresponding closely to the col
ored man ■ f 70 so successfully treated by
Dr. Longfellow of Cincinnati.
Dr. Wegefar h says ttiat be will follow
closely the formula f Dr. Longfellow, and
will noi use water. He has arranged with
a butcher to furnish the glands of a lamb
immediately after tho animal has been
slaughtered, and they will bo placed in a
vessel antisept.cahy treated, ands > wrapped
up in cotton as to preserve as far as possible
the normal heat of the glands.
THE ELIXIR ITSELF.
A fast horse will be used in bringing the
glands to the city, where tlioy will be first
chopped fine, triturated in 11 much shorter
time by a chemist than I)r. Longfellow’s
chemist took for trituration, the elixir ex
pressed from the mass by pressure, and
within an hour from the time of tho ani
mal’s slaughter, the elixir, after first being
subjected to a close scrutiny under the
microscrope, will be hypodermieaiiy ad
uiinisto.ed to tho patient, if the microscope
examination does not reveal the presence
of spi ip sor tuborculo&i* conditions.
A glass hypodermic syringe, of a capac
ity of one drachm, with a small needle will
be used, and one drachm of the elixir will
be injected under the cuticle of the patient
who has consented to undergo the experi
ment. The treatment will be witnessed by
a few physicians ami friends of Dr. Wedge
fartb, and the result will be watched closely
by the medical fraternity, and the public,
and if it should result favorably, the
Bruwn-Sequard olixir will have received a
big boom here.
OTHER EXPERIMENTS TO FOLLOW.
Dr. Simmons, assisted by Dr. J. (f. Kel
ler, will test the elixir next w eek. Dr. Sim
mons has completed a regular course in
medicine, supplemented by four years at
Bellevue hospital, New York, and has
located here. In the past two weeks he has
been investigating all that pertains to tho
elixir. He proposes to use ttie glands of
a lamb for his experiment, and will
first l>o careful to satisfy himself, that
no spore life exist* in the elixir, and that
the glands are from none but a healthy
animal. Dr. Simmons has been waiting to
note the effects of experiments by the medi
cal profession in other cities, ami if jiossible
to profit by any mistakes that have fol
lowed the use of the elixir elsewhere. The
heat of this Mi mate warns the medical fra
ternity that tho experiment must be made
very soon after ti.e glands have been re
moved from the animal.
The reports are conflicting from tho cities
ot the north. Dr. Longfellow of Cincin
nati estimates that favorable results have
followed in 50per cent, of bis cases.
THE CINCINNATI TESTS.
Dr. Meade of Cincinnati reports two
successful cases treated last Tuesday, one,
a business man so crippled that he tiad been
unable to wulk for two years and had to bo
carried from his carnage into the physi
cian’s office, in fifteen mb utes after receiv
ing the elixir arose from his chair and
without pain walked out of the office and
entered his carriage, while the second pa
tient who had been unable to walk, except
slowly and with great difficulty, a few-min
utes after the elixir had been administered
ran a square.
Drs. Bryan and Hunter of Wapakonota
report a confirmed rheumatic cured in 2hj
hours after treatment. They also report
three other cures. As the Savannah phy
sicians are on theeveof experiments it may
be well for them to know how Drs. Bryan
and Hunter obtained the elixir. They se
lected the glands of two healthy 4-moiuhs
old lambs, and while yet warm triturated
them in a mortar kept warm by standing
in warm water, and then expressed the
elixir from the pulp through white silk.
The result was a pinkish, milky-leokmg
fluid, which was used on nine patients im
mediately. From one to two drachms of
the elixir were used on each patient ac
cording to the severity of the case.
A CURE FOR THE MORPHINE HAHIT.
At Lima, 0., the same favorable reports
are made, and it has been discovered that
the elixir will cure the morphine nuti opium
habit.
From Harrodsburg, Ky., it is reported
that a mau of 72, unable to walk for years,
has been cured by the elixir, administered
in two injections with uu hour interval be
tween them. The old gentleman is said to
have afterward walked a mile, although ho
had been hauled iu a buggy to Dr. Wiley’s
office.
Favorable results arqreported from other
Ohio and ludiaua cities. The experiments
at Philadelphia and Pittsburg have not been
favorable. The unfavorable symptoms re
ported are high fever and abscesses, but tbe
medical fraternity who are inclined not to
condemn too hastily, think that proper care
was not exercised in the glauds selected in
the preparation of the elixir.
TOO MUCH FOR HIS FINGERS.
Judge Falllsrant Sets Aside James
Harrigan'e $4,240 Verdict.
Judge Falligant, in the superior court
yesterday, set aside the verdict of $4,240
awarded the plaintiff in the damage suit of
James Harrigau against the Savannah,
Florida aud Western Railway Company,
and granted the railway company’s motion
for anew trial.
This case is getting to be a conspicuous
one on the calendar, having lieen twice
tried in the superior court, Harrigau get
ting a verdict on the first trial, and a
new trial being denied, the case was
taken to the supreme court, wnich re
versed the decision of the court below and
remanded the case for a second trial, one of
the grounds being that the amount of the
damages found was excessive, but on the
second trial the verdict was for a greater
amount than on the first trial. The second
verdict has now been set aside aud a third
trial will be had.
Harrigan, while making a hammer handle
for Hayden, a fellow mechanic in the em
plow of the railway company, had
three fingers taken from his’ hand
by a buzz saw, an accident which he
claimed was due to the defective table on
which the saw was operated. The company
denied that the table was defective, aud,
besides, said that Harrigan had no business
to be making hammer handles for the em
ployes of the company.
A Lunatic Cured.
John Fioklin, a colored man of East
Savannah, sent to the asylum from this
county May 21, 1850, was discharged from
that institution yesterday, a cure having
been effected, and he will be sent home to
Savannah to-day.
To be Taken to MU. edge vile.
Edward Ray, the colored antichrist, who
was adjudged a lunatic in the court of or
dinary this week, will be taken to the
asylum at Millegeville this morning, in cus
tody of Deputy Sheriff Simmons.
Hog Cholera in Eulloch.
Farmers report cholera among the hogs
in Bulloch and surrounding counties. The
loss of stock in Bulloch by cholera is very
great. J
INVITED TO SAVANNAH.
Delegate O'Koeffe’a Part in the Big
Catholic Temperance Convention.
A. N. O’Keeffe returnel Sat up lav morn
ing from Cleveland, 0., where be w ent as a
delegate from Georgia to the annual con
vention of the Catholic Total Abstinence
Union of America, which was in session
there Wednesday and Thursday, of last
week. Mr. O’Keeffe i* the southern organ
izer of tne union,and was one of the active
participants in the convention, and after it
adjourned was ono of thru s(>eakers who
addressed a Cleveland audience of nearly
0,000 parsons, on total abstinence.
Mr. O’Keeffe tried to get the noxt annuai
convention for Savannah, and while he did
not succeed, he got second choice, for he
threw his influence in the scale for I’iUS
burg, as against Chicago, iti the followi g
little speech, having first felt his ground
for Savannah for 18W1, where h'> expe ts
tho convention will then be held. Mr.
O’Keeffe said
>lk. I'resident: Yesterday I invited the
convention lo meet at Savannah. 1 thought
that we had claims upon it which hardly any
other part of the country could have. Chicago
is nominated, and 1 notice that the eonvention
has been held m that city twice. Pittsburg Is.
I find, on the same footing with Savannah,
therefore I withdraw in favor of Pittsburg
After this a vote was taken, resulting in
favor of Pittsburg over Chicago by a vo e
of 442 to 237, and the convention wid lie
held in the former city the first Wednesday
and Thursday in August, lb'.tO.
Mr. O'Keeffe was pleased with the Forest
City on the lakes, aid he says that if like
care was taken of the beautiful avenues of
Savannah it would deserve still more the
ap(iellatiott of the Forest City of the South,
and would more tnan rival Cleveland in at
tractive .ess.
M. J. Barrett of this city vras also a dele
gate to the convention at Cleveland, but did
not remain until the convention closed its
sessions, returning homo last week.
TWO HOUSES BURNED.
The Southern Section Getting Its
Share of Fires Now.
Two frame dwellings on Eleventh street,
east of Habersham, burned last night. An
alarm vras turned in at 8 o’clock from box
38, at Waldburg and Price streets, by one
of the firemen of the No. 2 hose reel, but
the fire was so far beyond tho limits of the
water mains that Chief Puder turned back
the department at Drayton and Anderson
streets. Assistant Chief Mouro aud one of
the firemen drove out ill a buggy to the
scone of the fire, and tore down some
fencing to prevent the Haines from spread
ing to houses in near proximity.
One of the buildings burned was a two
story frame, owned by Ptio-be Smith (col
ored!, valued at SBOO and partially insured
in Wheaton’s agency, but the woman did
not know to what amount, as her insurance
policy, bank book and household effects
burned. Slio was absent from home when
the fire started.
The other building was a one-story frame,
valued at SSOO and owned by Nancy Ber
rien (colored), who is absent from homo,
visiting lu tlie country. J t was not learned
whether there was any insuranco on tho
house or furniture, which wore totally
burued. The origin of the fire is unknown.
LIVE COALS ON A ROOF.
A Shed at the Philadelphia Steamship
Wharf on Fire.
An alarm was turned in from box No. 42
at 2 o'clock, and engine companies 1,3 and
3 aud hook and ladder company responded.
The fire was located on ttie covering be
tween the roofs of the two sheds at tho
Philadelphia steamship lines wharf. The
police at the wharf used the hose ou the fire
and by the time the fire department reached
the wharf the lire was about out. The
damage was slight. The fire was
caused by burning coals, which tho w ind
blew out of a tinner’s stove. The tinner was
soldering the roof and when tho rain cam j
up, he left his store on top of the shod, to
get under shelter and the heavy wind
emptied the contents of the stove on the
covering between tho two roofs. S ergt.
Laugbeil, of tho Ocean steamship force
turned iu the alarm.
FUNERAL OF MOSES FER3T.
The Wholesale Grocery Houses to
Close During the Services.
The remains of the late Mo.ses Feist
whose death occurred iu Now York Tues
day night, will arrive from the north th is
morning accompanied by Joseph Strouss aud
will be taken to the family residence, No.
108, Liberty street. The funeral will take
place at 3:30 o’clock this afternoon.
In respect to the memory of tho deceased
the following firms with which Mr.
Ferst was more or less associated
will close tlieir places of business from 3:;!0
until 5 o’clock, during the funeral services:
A. Ehrlich & Bro., A. Letiler & Bon,
George IV. Tiedeman A Bro., Henry Solo
mon He Bon, B. Uuekonheiraer A Sou,
U. Davis &, Bon, Mendel A Deitsli, Bpstein
& Wannbacher, Grady, DeLettre A t'o.,
A. B. Hull A Cos., C. M. Gilbert & Cos.,
N. Dewald A Cos., Salomon Cohen, Lava
iiuugil A Brennan, Isaac Haas, Herman A
Kayton, Harmon A Cope, Smith Bros.,
11. Myers A Bros., Lee Roy Myers A Cos.,
M. V. Henderson, Charles E. Stults A Cos.,
Fretwoll A Nicholls, Byck A Solig, Haines
A Daniel, Moore A Johnson, Moore, Hull A
Cos., J. McLaughlin A Sou.
THE REGIMENT GOT IT.
The $ 1,500 Capital Prize to Go to the
\ Armory Fund.
The committee in charge of the regi
ment’s prize drawing at TybeeTuesday was
busy all of yesterday getting in the lists of
tickets sold. A full printed list (if the
prizes will he sent out this afternoon.
The luoky ticket, No. 7,t>lS, which drew the
capital prize of $1,500 was held by the regi
mental committee, and that much goes i .to
die armory fund with about S4OO of smaller
prizes. The s.'>oo prize was drawn by C. E.
Spencer of Dade City, Fla. The regiment
expects to clear about $3,500 by the draw
ing.
Looking Over the Fire Alarm System.
A. C. Wuerpel, chief of the volunteer
fire departmeut of Tamiia, Fla., was in the
city yesterday with a view to investigating
the fire alarm system here, l amp* has just
completed a system of water works, aud
Mr. Wuerpel wanted to learn something of
the Uamewell system of operating the we
alarm boxes. Chief Fireman Ruder spent
the forenoon with Mr. Wuerpol, driving
him around to the eugiue Hiid hose reel
houses, and explaining to the visitor the
manner of operating trie fire alarm boxes.
Mr. Wuerpel expressed himself pleased
with theUatnewoll system, which, it is un
derstood, he will recommend to the Tampa
authorities. He left for homo yesterday
afternoon, highly pleased with the courtesy
extended him here.
Poll Fools a Car Conductor.
“Stop the ear, stop the car,” shouted a
j lusty voice at J. 11. Helmken’s store on
: Whitaker street yesterday, aud the con
ductor had the oar stopped promptly, but
bo passengers were in sight, and as the car
again started the cry rang out, “Stop the
car,” and once more it w.-is brought to a
stand still, but tho m eking laugh of a
pa rot caused the conductor to signal t ie
driver to go ahead, while the atmosphere
of the rear platform was Cimmerian with
tbe expletives applied to the blanket)- blank
yellowhoadad "critter” that had caused too
uunoyance.
The Biggest Picnic.
Are you going to the picnic next week?
B. H. Levy & Bro.’s big picnic. Bee pro
gramme in Sunday’s News.
THE MORNING NEWSc FRIDAY, AUGUST 16,' 1880.
MERINES NOT THE MAN.
The Charges of Assault with Intent to
Murder and Robbery Not ouatained.
The preliminary trial of “Bob" Marine*,
charged with assault with intent to murder,
ro bery and obstructing legal process, came
off iu Justice Sheftad’s court yesterday
afternoon. Mennes was discharged upon
the charge of robbery, and Solicitor General
Fraser made the first cnarge assault aud
lottery instead of assault with intent to
murder, lieinpsey Griffin. Esq., represented
Merines.
Mennes was brought from jail by Con
stable Isaac Nathans. His wife met him at
the magistrate's office wuh her babe in her
arms. Solicitor Geueral Fraser took up
the case of robbery first. Maiuon made his
statement, which is substantially the same
as that published in the Morning News
the day the alleged robbery is said to have
taken place. Ho said that he was in Mr-.
Barnwell's bouse ou Indian street. He
went there to deliver a message. He was
drinking, but was not (lruuk. When he
went outside the house, Meriues was stand
ing by a tree-box on the street, and when
Maiuon passed Merinos knocked him down
and took from him a gold w atch and chain,
finger ring and $77 20. He said that be did
not know Mennes, but when Merino* stor'd
up iu the court he said that it was the mau
who struck him and took his money.
Manion said also tk.'t Marines took from
him a knife, which he understood was at
the jail. It was found on his person. The
knife was sent for, but he could not swear
that it was his. Mrs. Barnwell was intro
duced by the defense. She said that Me
rinos had not been inside of her houss since
April. She said that “Cracker Charlie”
aud a man by tho name of Suliivau had
told one of her friends that they beat
Manion. She asked Mauion for
money when a game of oards
was proposed, but all that he
exhibited was a load dollar. She went out
of tho room and went to sleep, and Marion
said Meriues came iu while she was asleep
and that the party weut out before she
came back into the room.
James Garrity testified that he met
Manion on South Broad street and that he
hail his watch then. Manion told him that
he had been robbed.
B. I). Crane testified that the knife,
which Mauion said resembled the one taken
from him, was like a knife that he swapped
to Merines.
Merines said in his own defense that he
em at home when the alleged robbery took
place. Mr. Garwes, a merchant at Duffy and
West Broad streets, was introduced, and be
swore that he saw Merines go into his house
and lock the door at 8:30 o’clock, but he did
not know whether he remained there. Ho
said Merines was drinking. After the evi
dence was in, the case was argued a few
minutes, and Justice Sheftall held
that the evidence was not sufficient
to hold the prisoner, and he was
discharged. Solicitor General Fraser said,
alter the evidence was taken in the assault
with intent to murder charge, that he
would withdraw that charge and make it
assault and battery. The bond was tlxod
at SSOO. Tho defense waived examination
on tho charge of obstructing legal process
and Merines was remanded to jail. Mr.
Griffin said that ho will endeavor to have
the case of assault and battery brought up
iu the City Court to-day.
THE PLANTERS’ BETE NOIR.
The Caterpillar at Work on the
Cotton.
Late reports from Florida, South
Georgia and Carolina report an excess of
rain, resulting in the appearance of the
fostive caterpillar in large numbers in many
of the sea island plantations, as, well as iu
uplands. As yet, however, lie has not been
very active, and very few letters speak of
any or much damage to tho cotton plant
from the worm.
There are, however, numerous reports
coming to hand of shedding. There has
beon entirely too much rain for any benefit
to tho growing cotton, and further wet
weather will lie very damaging to the
plant.
Considerable anxiety has been caused
recently on the South Carolina sea islands,
and in fact in the entire lower portion of
Carolina by the appearance of the cater
pillar, the bete rioir of the cotton planters,
which the .Yews and Courier reports say
has attacked the cotton with such a force
that the crop is already damaged a great
deal. Last week the caterpillars commenced
tlieir ravages on the sea islands, and rumor
says that the force, or rather the number
of the insects has increased wonder
fully, and unless something is im
mediately done to check the inroad
of these deadly foes to the cotton, a consid
erable loss will result. So great was the
increase of the caterpillars last week that
one of the prominent planters on James
Island, who was ausent from home, had to
return home ou the receipt of a tele-
gram telling him of the damage
that was heiug done to his cotton crop
by the insects. By dint of hard work
the caterpillars were prevented from d> >iug
much more damage. It costs a deal of
money to stop the inroads of the insects,
and many are the remedies suggested for
tho extermination of the pests.
Ira Dickerson of Bulloch county, forty
eight miles from Savannah, was in the city
yesterday. He said that the excessive rains
have damaged the cotton and potato crop
to an alarming extent. A month ago tho
prospect for the largest yield since 1855
was ttattering, but ‘he does not
believe that half a crop of cotton
will be made now. The potato crop, he
said, will be damaged more than ono half.
The rain is causing cotton to shed very
fast, The lower bolls are dropping off.
The cotton was about to open last week,
during the short time that the weather was
good, but since the r unset in again, it will
not open, and it may rot in the bolls.
A DELIGHTFUL ENTERTAINMENT.
An Evening of Music, Recitations and
Dancing.
Tho musicale at Capt. Kobert G. Flem
ing’s last evening in aid of the building
fund of the Independent Presbyterian
church was a success financially and so
cially. The large parlors were well filled,
aud everybody seemed to get a great deal
of enjoyment out of the evening’s enter
tainment. Capt. and Mrs. Fleming, as
sisted by their daughters, were so mindful
of their guests that the evening could
hardly have been otherwise than ajpleasaut
one. Each feature of the entertainment
met with hourly appreciation. Mrs. Posted
sang some of her sweetest songs; Mr.
Walker’s singing gave great pleasure,
and the instrumental music by Mr.
Douglass and Mr. Richards was
received with anplause. Mr. Hanley
gave several reeitutibus, aud they were so
good that his audience would gladly have
listened to several more, aud Mr. McAlpin
contributed to the enjoyment of the occa
sion by reciting some humorous selec
tions. Refreshments were served when
the programme was completed, and then
dancing was indulg-ed in for a little while.
More of such entertainments would be
appreciated by those who remaiu iu the
city during the summer.
Lost. —"I don’t know where, l can’t tell
when, I don’t see how-—something of great
value to me, and for the return of which I
shall be truly thankful, viz: a good appe
tite.”
Found “Health and strength, pure
blood, on appetite like that of a wolf, regu
lar digestion, all by taking that popular and
peculiar medicine. Hood’s Bursa pari 11a. 1
want every body to try it this season.” It
is sold by all druggists. One hundred
doses one dollar.
He Stole a Hat.
Policeman Anglia lodged 1 James Wilson
(colored) iu the barracks at 6 o’clock last
night on the charge of haviug stolen a hat
from Elias Brown’s store at*.Congress and
Jefferson Greats.
ONCE A BAY STREET MAX.
MRS. M AYBRICK’S FRIEND BRIERLY
FORMERLY OF SAVANNAH.
Those Who Knew Him Here Wonder
How He Came to be Her Favorite—
Brierly’a Story of Hia Connection
with the Famous Case Another
Than Mrs. Maybrick Had a Claim on
Him.
The interest in the Maybrick case is not
confined to the other side of the water, but
is the general topic of conversation and
comment on thi> side of the Atlantic, and
particularly the gossip of Savannah,
because the mau Briefly who figured iu the
case is believed to have been at one time a
resident of this city, and a member of the
cotton exporting house of Brierly, Maitland
& DougalL Mr. Brierly was here only one
winter and then went, back to England.
A cotton broker on the Bay said yester
day that he could not conceive how Brierly
could make a favorable impression on a
lady, as he was, when here, a raw-boned,
uncouth young Englishman, and anything
but an adonis. He in ide few acquaintance-,
and was not, generally speaking, a popular
man. The opinion is, however, geueral
hero, that the letter from Mi s. Maybrick to
Brierly, which was intercepted, did as
much as anything else to bring about the
woman’s conviction. Mrs. Maybrick has
lioen sentenced to be hanged on Monday,
Aug. 2tJ, but a strenuous effort is being
made to have the woman reprieved.
BRIERLY INTERVIEWED.
Brierly has been interviewed by the Liv
erpool reporters of the New York Hernlcl.
His statement does not contain a denial of
an intimacy betw. en himself and tho con
demned woman, but an admission that they
had three meetings, but that the last was
long previous to Mr. May brick’s death.
Brierly says, however, that he has been
maligned, persecuted and misjudged, aud
that it has broken up his business, so that
he will have to leave Liverpool. He claims
that the last time he had seen her was
April 6, when she came to him
and told him about heT husband beat
ing her and dragging her about
the room, and Brierly claims that the inti
macy between Mrs. Maybrick and himself
ended on March 21, and did not extend dur
ing tho period covered by the trial, as the
judge who presided at the trial stated and
assumed to be true.
MORE THAN ONE WOMAN IN LOVE WITH HIM
It turns out that Mrs. Maybrick was not
the only woman in love with Brierly, as
the Baroness von Roque, mother of Mrs.
Maybrick, has discovered. According to her
story a Mrs. Briggs, a divorced woman,was
a power in the Maybrick household, anti
she had a sister, Gertrude Janiar, whom she
would have preferred to see marry May
brick, but as he ha i married the daughter
of Baroness von Roque, so that Gertrude
centered her affections on Brierly, but he
did not appear to reciprocate the affection,
and when he left the fair Gertrude alone in
the coach, and took Mrs. Maybrick to the
grand stand to see the Prince of Wales, the
envious Gertrude got her brother-in-law,
Hughes, to bring about a quarrel between
Maybrick and his wife, and Mrs. Briggs
told Maybrick about the intimacy between
his wife and Brierly, and on the
day of Maybrick's death Gertrude’s sisters,
Mrs. Hughes and Mrs. Briggs, ransacked
the house for evidence to bring about tho
suspicion that Mrs. Maybrick bad poisoned
her husband, and the Briggs woman added
in charging the murder on Mrs. Maybrick
that the mother of the latter ,had poisoned
two husbands.
CAUSED BY A WOMAN.
The Herald, which seems to have smoked
the conspiracy out, says the whole of the
domestio quarrel which followed the grand
national meeting was caused by a woman.
That woman was herself iu love wit h Brierly
and it was she who, through Maybrick,
made the trouble. She was a near relative
of a woman who constituted herself public
prosecutor before Maybrick’s death, and to
that end was a most skilled traitress to Mrs.
Maybrick during all the time of the pro
ceedings, in which the latter gave her her
full confidence.
Brierly seems to feel the full share of his
responsibility for the trouble surrounding
the condemned woman, and he has prepared
and certified to a statement covering ail the
grounds, which he has placed in the hands
of Mrs. Maybrick’s lawyers to be presented
to tne Home Secretary. Brieriy says that
his “only desire now is that the terrible
misfortunes of the woman, whose treat
ment lias been scarcely fair, may not be
further increased by me.”
CITY BREVITIES.
Pulaski Council No. 153, R. A. meets this
evening.
Myrtle Lodge No. G, K. P., holds a regu
lar meeting this evening.
The pilot boat Neoa will come off tbe
wavs to-day looking as pretty as a picture
and as stanch as hearts of oak can make
her.
Dr. Weed, clerk at J. T. Shuptrine’s, on
Congress street, while examining a pistol
yesterday let the hammer fall and the
weapon discharged, the ball eutering Dr.
Weed’s left hand and passing through it.
Dr. Sheftall dressed the wound.
Complaint is made by farmers coming
over the pipemaker bridge, six miles out
on the Augusta road,that the bridge is unsafe
to cross. The kigh water has caused one of
the sections to partially collapse about the
center and It is extremely difficult to cross.
RAIL AND CROSSTIE.
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Two new passenger engines have been re
ceived at Columbus for the Columbus
Southern road. Two consolidated engines
are now on the way.
About all of tho Central railroad em
ployes who were being examined on the
new rules whioh that road is about to adopt
have been examined.
Advices from Montgomery, Ala., say that
Frederick Wolffe of New York is there to
look into tho affairs of the Cincinnati,
Selma aud Mobde railroad, in which he is
largely interested.
Tho East Tennessee, Virginia and Geor
gia has applied to the Loudon Stock Ex
change for quotations of $500,000 a lait .onal
equipment 5 per cent, gold bonds, Nos 2,501
to 3,000, and the Mexican National railroad
for quotations of SIOO,OOO additional 6 per
cent, gold bonds, Nos. 11,201 to 11,300.
Baae Ball Notes.
A match game of cricket will be played
this afternoon at the new base ball park,
1 etweon the Harp and Shamrocks and tho
Forest Oitys.
On account of the grounds being too wet,
the game of ball between the Chatham
Artillery ami Georgia Hussars has been
postponed until Monday, Aug. 19.
Brown’s Iron Bitters is a specific in all
cases of swamp fever, intermittent fever
or malaria of any name. Low, marshy
ground, stagnant pools ot water, decaying
vegetable matter, changes of climate while
suffering from general debility, all produce
malaria. Brown’s Iron Bitters cures all
forms. Don’t use quinine. It creates eon
stipatiou, produces headache, and not infre
quently rheumatism and neuralgia. Brown’s
iron Bitters never does. It will cure them.
Fall Gardening.
The time is at hand for planting white
cabbage, rutabaga turnips, beets, etc.
Chatham county is noted for the finest
vegetable crops in the oountrv. The reason
for this is our gardeners realizo the neces
sity of buying nothing but the best seeds,
which they obtain from J. T. Bhuptrine &
Bro., who are headquarters in the south for
fresh and reliable seeds of all kinds.
Orders by mail huve same careful attention
as if bought in person. .J. X. ijjiuptrms &
Bro., 13a Congress street.
LOCAL PERSONAL.
H. Elliott of Sauss v is here.
H. Burns of Macon is in town.
T. W. Helm of Danville is here.
M. Doris of Lie Land, Fla.. is here.
I- C. Sihler of Jacksonville is in town.
C. L. Parker of Bt. Augustine is here.
H. B. Bryans of Atlanta is in the city.
John S. Lowery of Dawson is in town.
A. U. Moshburn of Atlanta is in town.
J. C. Turner of Columbus is in the city.
John F. Richbergof Naylor is la the city,
XVdliam C. Casey of Augusta i3 in the
city.
Charles W. Davis of Augusta is iu the
city.
W. McF. Alexander of Bainbridge is
here.
Charles U. Shepard of Charleston is in
the city.
A. J. Shearhouse came in from Spring
field yesterday.
Maj. William Letford came from Bryan
county last night.
William Neill of Milieu came down yes
terday to Savannah.
M. P. Wade, Esq., and S. A. Wade of
Sylvauia are in town.
J. C. Hunt and family, of Valdosta, are
uests of the Marshall.
Miss Anderson left yesterday for Aftou.
Va., to spend the summer.
T. E. Gaston, A. S. Allen aadT. B. Winn
of Brunswick are in tho city.
Charles Matthews, Jr., of Atlanta, came
down to Savannau yesterday.
Andrew Hanley returned yesterday from
tho north o i the Chattahoochee.
Scotia Tyson left for New York yester
day via the Atlantic Coast Line.
Y. T. Harrington and J. M. Harrington
of VVest Point, Ga., are iu the city.
Thomas Gamble of the Times will leave
to-day for Philadelphia on a vacation.
W. D. Thomas and family went up to
Atlanta last night on a visit to friends.
C. E. Stults and family left yesterday
via the Central railroad for Ciarkesville.
John C. Rowland and family left for
Asheville last night via the Central rail
road.
Mrs. Denis J. Murphy left for the north
yesterday on the Boston steamer City of
Macon.
B. B. Cubbedge and wife left last night
for Baltimore on an extended visit to that
city and other points north.
Mrs. Postell leaves for North Georgia to
day, where she will remain a few weeks,
and she will then go to New York.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Paul and family
were passengers on the steamer City of
Macon, which left for Boston yesterday.
R. G. Lewis aud wife and servant, John
F. Eden and wife and J. O. Jelks and wife
returned yesterday from a trip to the north.
They stopped at the Screven.
Henry I. Seemann of the Hartford Life
aud Annuity Insurance Company and Mrs.
Seemann will leave by to-day’s steamer for
an extended trip north. They will visit the
principal resorts and will be gone about a
month.
R- W. Powers, one of the proprietors of
the Pulaski, will leave to-day on the Talla
hassee on ajnonth’s vacation to his home in
Brandon, Vt. It has been two years since
he visited Vermont. Since he has been in
charge of the Pulaski house he has been
closely confined, and he has deferffid the
trip until now.
Contractor M. T. Lewmau, who has just
returned from Jeffersonville, Ind., where
one of his sons has been sick, reports a most
encouraging outlook for the farmers. The
rain has in some instances damaged cotton
slightly, but it is not likely that much dam
age will result from it now' iu the section
through which he passed. After Mr. Lew
man’s son got well enough Mr. Lewmau
threshed out 4,000 bushels of gram and
harvested about 300 tons of hay. His farm
is within a few hours’ ride of Louisville,
Ky. He raises stock on a large scale, and
he said that this year everytning points to
a good season for stock.
AT THF> COURTS.
Gossip Picked Up Here and There
in the Court Rooms.
Judge Falligant appointed yesterday F.
Jos. Ruckert, John Derst, Jos. Sognier,
Frank Worm and George Scwarz commis
sioners to fix upon the amount of money in
lieu of dower to be paid to Rosalie
Lenzer out of the $2,325, arising from the
sale of lauds of the estate of John Lenzer,
deceased.
The petit jurors in the superior court
have been excused until Friday of next
week, at which time it is probable court
will adjourn for the term.
R. l>. Laßochewasreappointedacommer
cial notary in the superior court yesterday.
11 i3 understood that the owners of the
steamer St. Nicholas will apply to the
United States circuit judge at Atlanta for
the appointment of appraisers to appraise
the value of the vessel, so that they cau give
bond for the amount of her value and enter
her in the trade.
In the superior court yesterday Judge
Falligant ado wed Salomon Cohen, former
receiver of the Savannah, Dublin and West
ern Short Line Railway Company, and R.
R. Richards, Esq., his counsel, compensa
tion to the amount of $250 each, to be paid
out of the funds derived from the recant re
ceiver’s sale of the railway property.
Before the Mayor.
Nine prisoners faced the mayor in the
police court yesterday morning, and judicial
displeasure fell upon all of them. The six
colored men arrested by Officer Cronin for
disorderly conduct on the steamer David
Clark were arraigned, and Henry Matthews
and Jim Smith were each fined S2O or
tliirty days, aud John Williams, George
Penn, Jackson Murphy and William Kiin
mins wore each fined $5 or ten days. Capt.
Boulineau was a witness in the case against
tbe prisoners.
Paul Farley and Isaac Daniels, tho two
colored men arres ed by Officer Douglass,
of the Central railroad police, for interfer
ing with passengers at the Central depot
were each fined $5, or fifteen days.
John Johnson, for being drunk and dis
orderly in the police court room Wednes
day morning got off light, as he was fined
sl, or one day.
EDISON, THE INVENTOR.
He Can Calculate, but Generally Gets
Someone Else.
From the New York Sun.
Thomas A. Edison can look after details,
but doesn’t care to do so always. He has
about him almost all tho time able assist
ants upon whom he depends for routine
work. This was illustrated the day he told
how electricity would act upon the human
body. He had said that the temperature of
a tube of water tho bight of a man would
rise eight degrees ceutigrado under tho ap
plication of a certain current of electricity.
Mr. Cockrau asked him how many degrees
that meant on the Fahrenheit scale. “I don’t
know,” replied Mr. Edison, who had been
admonished by Mr. Cockrau a little while
before to tell only what he knew as abso
lute facts. “You don't know?” exclaimed
Mr. Cockran. “Well, surely you could
compute it f. >r us?” “1 don’t compute such
tilings.” “Well, how do vou find out then*”
queried Lawyer Cockran. “I ask some
body,” replied the electrician. “Whom do
you ask! - ’ “Oil, I have men to do such
things. Ar© ther© aiiy her© now? ! ’ oues
tioned Mr. Cockran, looking around at the
crowd, among whom were several of the
sub-wizards from Orange. “Yes, there s
Mr. Kennedyand straightway all eyes
were turned on Arthur E. Kennedy, an
electrician who testified later. Mr. Edison
turned the question over to Mr. Kennedy,
that gentleman looked up at the ceiling in
a calculating way and then gave the
answer. °
GIVE THE FARMERS A BHOW.
The Talk About a Free Market For
Them.
The free market for the farmers who
bring produce into the city to sell, was
widely discussed in market square yester
day. The greater number of merchants
favor a free market. The more they (con
sider the matter, the more practical aud
beneficial it appears to be.
The expen-e of converting Franklin
square into a market for the countrymen
will be very small, a merchant
said, and the benefits which
Savannah will receive wid overbalance any
expluse in making the market place. Not
one-half of the carts and wagons from the
country can get around that portion of the
market house set apart for them now. St.
Juliau street is crowded with carts many
days as far down as the square.
The farmers are unable to back
heir carts up around the market, and
they line them on St. Ju(ian street. In
this place few people except the hucksters
get to tho wagons, and the result is tnat tne
produce is sold for almost nothing to the
jieddlers, who take it into the market house
and dispose of it at high prices.
The merchant added that in the free mar
ket this trouble and annoyance is obviated.
The free market will be set apart for the
countrymen, and people who are unable to
go about Irom wagon to wagon will feel no
hesitancy in attending the free market.
The farmers are ela ed over the prospect!
of Savannah giving them a market of their
own, where they will be at liberty to come
and go when they choose and be exempt
from a tax. A large number of Bulloch
county farmers was in town yesterday with
produce. A Morning News reporter had
a talk with some of them. They say that a
free market will induce tiiose farmers
who quit raising truck for market
because they were charged li
cense, and many others, to raise stuff for
the Savannah market. In Buiioch county
there are at least 2,000 farmers who w ill
raise produce for the market when they
know that they will be protected from the
hucksters and people who defraud them
and get their produce for nothing.
Messrs. Ira Dickerson, 8. E. Hellmut,
William Lewis, C. M. Rushing, W. W.
Anderson, J. G. and T. B. Jones and J. G.
Neville, ail of Bulloch county, and a large
number of farmers from other adjoining
counties were in the city yesterday wita
produce to sell. They were very much
pleased with the attitude of some of the
aldermen relative to having the license for
selling removed. They said that the whole
of tho country around Savannah, where
produce is raised, will hail with joy the
effort to get them a market of their own.
The expeuse of getting into Savannah, they
said, including toll, is about 50 cents. Added
to this is the license which they have to
pay. Alderman Harris, who is interesting
himself in this matter, said last night that
he will ascertain to what extent the farmers
are taxed. He does not see anything in the
new city code making it legal for taxes to
bo oxtorted from them, and ho dues not
believe that they should be taxed.
A BALL PITCHER IN BATTLE.
How He Tossed Bombs into the Camp
ofthe Honolulu Insurgents.
From the Philadelphia Press.
San Francisco, Aug. 11.—Some pas
sengers by the Honolulu steamer, who wore
seen late last night, gave interesting ac
counts of scenes at the recent battle in
Honolulu. The day was won by a base
ball pitcher, who utilized his skill by throw
ing dynamite bombs into the bungalow
that formed the headquarters of the in
surgents and brought them to terms quicker
than rifle or cannon shot.
The blue jacket kept up a disastrous fir
ing all day, and it was finally decided to
throw dynamite on the bungalow. Bombs
were quickly made, but it was found that
there were no guns to fire them, it was a
long throw, and in their dilemma the
king’s guards secured the services of Hav
wood House, pitcher of the Honolulu base
ball club. House took up his position iu
the Coney Island building, just across a
narrow lane, aud overlooking the bunga
low. No attack was expected from that
quarter, and there was nothing to disturb
the bomb-thrower. House stood for a few
moments with a bomb iu his hand, as
though he were in the box waiting for a
batsman. He had to throw over a house to
reach the bungalow which he could not see.
The first bomb went sailing over the wall,
made a down curve ands ruck the side of
the bungalow about a foot from the roof,
and the yell that followed reminded one of
a day at tho Haight street grounds when
good pitchers were in the box. The bomb
had reached them and hurt a number of the
insurgents.
House coolly picked out another bomb.
Thon he took a step back, made a half turn
ami sent it whizzing. It landed on the roof
of tho bungalow, smashed a hole four mou
could have dropped through and scattered
old iron among tho rebels until they thought
they were in a boiler explosion.
The base ball pitcher was too much for
the rebels. He beaved one more bomb, and
Wilcox came out aud surrendered.
A Novel and Cheap Elevator.
From the Scientific American.
A Berliu inventor has devised a simple
and inexpensive elevator for private dwell
ings, in place of the ordinary staircase,
which may suggest to some inventor a
better means of accomplishing the same
object. The Berlin invention is on the
principle of the inclined railway, and the
motive power is furnished by the citv
water, which is applied in the cellar; each
flight has its separate chair, so that, for
example, one person can descend from the
first to the second story while another is on
his way from the second to the third, or
still another is descending from the fifth to
the fourth. Ttie chair being only of the
width of tho human body, leaves a free
passage for airy who wish to walk up or
down instead of riding. It is s<?t in motion
by a simple pressure of one of its arms, anil
after it has been used it slides back to the
bottom step, its descent being regulated in
such a manner that the passenger is carried
with entire safety. The motive power is,
of course, more or less expensive, according
to the cost of water, this being, it is stated,
at Berlin at the rate of a little more than
one-tenth of a cent only for each trip.
Levy’s Big 1 Picnic.
B. H. Levy & Bro. give a big picnic next
week. See Sunday’s News.
FURXITUHB and CAKPKTS,
91 Bay Street
Our Stock is Not Exhausted Yet.
\ VELVET,Body Brussels,Tapestry.Extra Super
and Ingrain Carpets, Art Squares, Brussels
Squares, Window Shades, Lace Curtains. Cor
nice Boles. Matting, Oil Cloth. Linoleum, Stair
Linen, Upholstery Goods, Flushes, etc.. Rugs
and Mats.
Competent Workmen to Lay Goodi.
Barber Chairs. Commodes, Easy Chairs, Cab
inets, Desks. Wardrobes, Sideboards, Bookcases,
Mattresses, Pillows, Baby Carriages, Refrig
erators, Bedsteads, Parlor Suits, etc., etc.
Price is a secondary considera lion, as the goods
Must Be Closed Out
Call early and get the pick. A choice line
of Neiv Goods being added.
A. J. lILLEB, & CO,
91 BAY STREET.
W CENTS A WEEK pays for the
• 9 K~v DAILY MORNING NEWS, deliv
p lered EARLY EVERY AIORMNU
ui any pan f the city,
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POWDER
Absolutely p ure .
This powder never varies m ar „ , ,
strength and wholes*),nenes,. “ Ild
than the ordinary . kin is an 1 9c,JOl ®iiol
sold in competition with the **
tost abort weight alum or f >
Sold only in cans. Royai Basis, p 1
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PIANOS & ORG-AS.
20 YEARS’ EXPErTenoF- a err,
T' P '\
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"a'f KG:M ' m'i.li!Kit \I,
CHICKERING PIANOS,
MATHU3HEK PIANOS,
STERLING PIANOS,
ARION PIANOS,
MASON & HAMLIN ORGANS,
STERLING ORGANS. |
WATERLOO ORGANS.
Now is the time that
your Piano or Organ
needs attention. Un
equaled facilities for
tuning, repairing and
moving. Our Clearance
Sale still continues.
Bargains for spot cash
buyers. Terms to suit
every one.
Menom
_ DRY GOODS.
MAN y 001
137 BROUGHTON ST.
\XTE have received during the past week tha
T T following lines of seasonable goods;
SATINES.
50 pieces French finished Satines, beautiful
styles and colors, at 15c. yard.
Chambrays and Ginghams
190 pieces Chambrays,in plains, stnpeds, solid
colors and now side bands, at 12tfec. yard.
80 pieces lino Plaid and Striped Ginghams, ad
new tints and styles, at 10c. yard.
Unlaundered Shirts.
100 dozen Gents’ Unlaundered Shirts, mads
from good cotton, linen bosom and bands, ecu*
tinuous stay back and front, perfect fitting, m
50c each $
75 dozer. Gents’ Unlaundereil Shirts, P l3 j™
bosom, extra long and extra ’arge ooaiefc
Can't be matched anywhere less than V--
sell them at 75c. each. •
Umbrellas and Parasols.
300 Gloria Kllk Umbrellas, gold mounted
handles, at $1 50; would ha cheap at W
A full line of finer grades in Gloria, rij
and Twilled Silks, in oxidized, silver ana
inomui'igs.fuii Ladies’ Lockstitch Mini*
Underwear.
CBQHAMDOOftg
WOOD AM> COAL.
WOOD &COAL
OP ALL KINDS.
DENIS J. MURPHY,
TELEPHONE 49.
Office, 7 Drav; ton street, Citizens’ Bank! : -^Jj
KIE SLING’S NUBSERY.
W HITE BLUFF IiOAD.^
PLANTS, Bouquets, Designs, Cut
furnished to order. Leave orders gg|
BROS.’, cor. Bull and York sts. The V g,
way passes through the leley
DAVIS BROS. _ _
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IS now ready. The subscription
1 magazine is increasing by “ t orcul*
every month. It now has the (he South
tiouof any magazine published a s year
The subscription price is odd at conoort
Single copies 6c. each, sp4 o
and Estill s news depots, for auv
and rates see the proprietors at Uitar
41 and 46 Bull street.
Knabe, Conover and H*
rington Pianos, Story
and Kimball Organs. •
monthly installments., hi
discount for cash.
DAVIS BROS,
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