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Newspaper Page Text2 CAPITAL OF THE STATE. A CONDUCTOR CHARGED WITH MANSLAUGHTER. Ho Will bo Taken to Alabama for Trial Prominent Merchants in a Row—A Flag-man's Horrible Death— The Color Line Causes a strike—A New Trial for a Glynn County Man. Atlanta, Ga., Feh. 2L—J ha Dobbs, formerly a conductor on the Georgia Pacific railroad, was arrested to-day at the instance of Louis Reneau, local freight agent for that line, on a charge of man slaughter. The arrest grows out of the killing of Engineer William Berry in a col lision at Riverside, Jan. 17. Conductor Del.be, while waiting on a siding not long enough to accommodate all his cars for a belated Atlanta-bound train, allowed his own to be run into by one following him westward, for which he had failed to iook out. Without stationing a flagman properly, he went to sleep, and mistook the time on awakening. Tue day after the emash-up Conductor Dobbs resigned. The accident happened in Alabama, and he will be taken to that state for tr.al *i the arrival of extradition jiapers, without •which he declines to go. A FLAGMAN KILLED. At Edwardsville, ou the Georgia Pacific road, flagman Marshal Martin was killed last night. He was running on the top of the cars, signaling the engineer, when ho made a misstep, fell t*twe*-u two cars, and had the entire right side of his body, from the ankle to the shoulder, crushed under the wheels. MERCHANTS IN A FIG/IT. J. H. Franklin and Samuel Wilkins, two prominent me: chards, who occupy adjoin ing stores on Mitchell street, after an alter cation, pitchtd into one another this nfternoon, a’d the f inner cut Mr. Wilkins severely about, the back and neck. The trouble was caused by a dray which had delivered goods at Mr. Franklin’s while standing in front of Mr. Wilkins’ store. Mr. Wilkins obj' cted to this, and insisted that tlm team be driven up. He was pulling Mr. Fra k lin’s beard when the cutting was done. The •wounds are not considered dangerous. A STRIKE. There was a strike, or rather a walkout, to-day at the new barracks for county con victs. The white carpenters engaged m the construction of the buildings quit, work in a body because the foreman, a Now Yorker, discharged several white men yesterday and replaced them with negroes. GRANTED A NEW TRIAL. William Seabrook, who was sent to the penitentiary from Glynn county for seven years last June for assault with inteat to murder, has been granted anew trial, and released from the Chattahoochee brick yard to-day after giving bonds. MEMORIAL DAT PLANS. An idea which originated with Col. John Mill-edge promises to make Memorial day in Atiafita this year a day of unuaml inter est. It is proposed to send Invitations to all of the more prominent ex-confederates throughout the country to meet in Atlanta and unite in doing honor to the confeder ate dead. Gen-. Beauregard, J. E. Johnston, and Kirby Smith are among those whoso presence will be requested. A HEAVY FINE. Some time ago, on a rainy dav, George W. Thorpe, a well dressed drummer from New Jersey, while under the influence of 1 quor, si< z ‘d a rubber coat which he found in front of a store on Marietta street. To day he was fined 571 for the offense. His relatives paid the money. A REWARD FOR A MURDERER. The governor has offered 5100 reward for the delivery to the sheriff of Mclntosh county of Charles Reeves or Ro.tl, who killed R. E. T. Growald Feb. 1. HUSSAR OFFICERS COMMISSIONED. Commissions were issutd to-day to the newly elected officers of the Georgia Hus sars. M'FARLIN’B STORY. He Faya He was So Drunk He Didn’t ,Know Any One Had Been Shot. Tallahassee, Fla., Feb. 11.—The cowardly murder of Deputy Marshal Saunders at Quincy has been the general topic of conversation in Tallahassee during the past week, and a leading question has been, “What became of McFarlin?” The pre-s dispatches from Quincy have given very meager information, and no mention of what became of McFarlin after the shooting has been made. This led the gen eral public to believe that there was a strong chain of circumstantial evidence against him, and that he had left the country. A prominent citizen of Quincy was here yes terday and from him the Morning News reporter learned the following facts, which throw some light upon McFarlm’s where abouts and long silence. UNDER ARREST. McFarlin waikel hack into Quincy on the afternoon of the killing, and was im mediately arrested and lodged in jail, hut was in such a state of intoxication that he could not talk. He had become drunk on beer, and did not sober up sufficiently to give any account of himself uutil Saturday evening. He then told his story, which was, in substance, that in driving along the road in a deep cut, on the way to Sauta Clira plantation, one of his companions remarked that it was time to take a drink. He was sitting between Saunders and Sheppard, and was driving He stopped the horse, got out, and started to walk arouud the buggy to got out the beer. THE SHOOTING. Just then he heard two or three pistol or gun shots fire close by, the horse plunged forward and left him standing iu the road, and, thinking that Saunders or Sheppard had fired the shots and driven ahead to play a joke upon him and keep him from drinking the beer, he got mad and started to Walk back to town. He knew he was very drunk, and by the time he reached town i ad become so muddled that he did not know what was going on, and did not even know that Saunders had been shot until tie sobered up Saturday. The Morning News man also learned that the wounds which caused Saunders’ death aneed downward, and had evidently been firea from the emuaukmont above the road. A Marriage. Sandersville, Ga., Feb. 21.—Joseph Tyler, in tlfc employ of Mr. Jones of Te mille, whs married yesterday to Miss Sallie Wicker, one of Sandersville’s fairest daughters. Beck Speaks at Waycross. W'aycross, Ga., Feb. 21.—J. B. Beck, state lecturer, addressed the farmers’ alli ance here to-day. Four counties were rep resented. He leaves for Coffee c ounty to night. Claims to be u Murderer. Columbia, S. C., Feb. 21.—William Smith, colored, who is under arrest here, c.ainis that t e shot ad killed a negro named Rube Johnson iu a billiard room at Da: ien some time ag . It is not known yet whether his story is true. Kidney directions or years’standing cured by Mnunona Liver Regulator.—J. \v. I‘oynts. Important to Florida Tourists. Hotel Plaelde, Jacksonville. Fia., entirely new Most, elaborately furnished, best equipped and most modern hotel in the city. American and European plan; rooms on suite. Passenger elevator and complete appointments. Most central location in the city; oinnibusses meet a lr am<. Hate.. $3 to $1 per day. European plait *1 and upward per day. F. it. Kooisua. Manager. FLORIDA'S CAPITAL. The Municipal Election—A Blooded Colt Sold to a fcavannahian. Tallabassee, Fla., Feb. 2L—Tht mu nicipal election Tuesday was a very quiet affair. There was only one ticket in the field, the one brought out at the democratic mass meeting last week, and there was only a fight vote polled. The newly elected official, arc: Mayor, R. B. Car;suiter; mar shal, Henry Berureuter; tax collector, John t. Collins; tax assessor, IV. H. Chancy; cle: k and treasurer, J. L. Demiliy; council man. W. M. Mclntosh, Jr., F. C. Gilmore, R. A. Whitfield, and Julius Bali. Five councilmea hold over from last v ear. ACCIDENTALLY killed. Mrs. James \V. Parish was accidentally shot and killed near Wewahitcnka last week. Her husband is the man She; iff Pearce cantered in California some months since, he bei g charged with killing two negro log-raft hands. At the fail term of Calhoun county circuit court he was tried for the killing of one of the negroes at.d cleared, the evidence going to show that the shooting was in seif-Jefense. The evi dence in the other case is tho same, and the geneial belief is that lie will he proven inno cent of the crime at the spring term of court. Tne sudden taking off of Mrs. Par ish left his four little children without any one to caro fur them, and upon request of Shcr.lf Pearce t:ie court immediately or dered ..is release from jail Lore on his own recognizance, so that he might go to his sandened home uu 1 proton* h.s helpless babies. F. J. Pons, Jr., and wife, and Cadet Lieut. Ernest Pons are visiting tueir paronts, ritate Treasurer and M.rs, F. J. Pons. BLOODED HOUSES. Senator P. Houstoun, proprietor of Lake land Park, near Tallahassee, is paying special attention to breeding fine trotting and racing horse-:. He lecently s -Id to a gentleman in Savannah his standard-bred colt Pride, a b-autiful 2 l j-year-old animal. The price paid was $4 0. Pride’s dam is tlie celebrated mare Mabel Franklin, by Alambriuo Thomas, with a record of 2:23. His g;an l dam was by Morgan Blackbawk. Mabel could trot in 2:35 wunout. any regu lar training. Senator Houstou i lias also sold two fine bred young horses to a gentle man in Key West. INDIAN CORN IN TASSELL. W. M. Meins eh, Sr., has Indian corn in full t ssell and will s<on have roasting ears. B. C. Wnitfield is experimenting with Japanese chestnuts and thinks they will do well here. Miss Mamie Mann, daughter of ex-Sena tor A. S. Maim of Brooksvill% is the guest of Miss Virginia Williams. Cnarles M. Merriam of Chicago, who o ans valuable property here, is among the recent arrivals. THU SAUSAGE BUYER. How He Has the Butcher at a Great Disadvantage. Front tlte New York World. The Frenchman who recently started the horse-sausage factory in New Jersey did not, it seems, take all the butchers in to his confidence. Because of th s oversight ho placed toe butc.iers at a great disadvantage in dealing with customers of an inquiring turn of mind, as will be seen in the follow ing case: “Yos.” said the butcher, when the re porter dropped in to pay his resp"cts, “we have some queer customers. Now, there was the fellow who came in yesterday to buv some sausage. “ ’ls this sausage well broken?’ ho asked. “Certainly,* I said, supposing he referred to the grinding. ’lt is us well broken as any sausage ever sold.’ “ ‘Glad of that,’ he said, ‘for I want this as strictly family sausage, ad don’t want any of the children, or my wife, or my wife’s folks to get hurt. Of course it won’t scare at tho c rs, ’cause sausage that scares at the cars ain’t safe, no how. How is it for quart -r-crack and grease-heel? Nothing the matter with its wind? No stump sucker, or anything like that, I hope, ’cause a stump-suckor is tile all-li edest meanest thing alive. I used to have one when I was driving stage out west. Whenever he would get a ebaneo he would seize hold of a hitching post, a fence rail, or anything like that, and pull a wav as if he was going to suck up huge leviathan from the vasty deep.’ “I thought the fellow was crazy,” said the butcher, “and so I sort of humored him. 1 told him i would suffer everlasting torment before I would sell a friend sausage that wasn’t all right in every particular. “‘How about its pedigree?’ he weut on. ‘Comes of good strain, I hope; ’cause much depends on that, you know.’ “I told him I knew much depended on that, and I was sure ho would find its pedi gree all right. “ 'Registered, I have no doubt,’ he eon tinued. ‘Y r ou need not hesitate to say if it has ever been in the street car service, ’cause with me that is no objection. Mr. Bonner’s great Auburn horse used to dr ig a street car, you know, and a brother of Jay-Eye-Seo is now toiling on a street car line in St. Paul.’ ‘‘l began to got tired of all this rot,” said the butcher, “aud asked the feilow if he was buying a few links of sausage, or filling a government contract for mules.” “ ‘That’s just it,’ ho said. ‘X don’t know. However, I will not buy before to-morrow, and in the moan time you can hitch It up to a road-wagon and I will make up my mind what I will do.” Got a Seat Beside His Girl. From the New York Herald. A young rasa and his best girl got into a Third avenue “L” car last evening at the Fifty-third street station, and looked around for a seat. It was just about the time that the people were going to tho theater, and the car was crowded. There were two seats down by the door, however, at which the young couple had entered. One was on eitder side of a musi cian in uniform. The young man put his sweetheart iu the nearer seat at once, and then stopped and asked the musician to take the one beyond him. The fellow never movel, looked up or answered, lie attract ed tue attention of the persons in that end of the car, and their looks and vvhisuors rou ei the rest of the passengers. All eyes were directed ns tne young man standing in front of his girl and h aiding on by a strap and tho musician sitting sullenly in his seat with his small instrument iu his lap. The girl was smiling and blushing and gazing at the young man out of a pair of beautiful blue eyes in a manner that might compensate him for any mo nout of hardship encountered in hor behalf. She was a very pret y girl, with teeth as white as snow, and there were many mnu in the car who would bo glad to have a chance to hold on by a strap for her sake. Her little hands were folded m >ilastly in her lap, and a pair of patent leather tipped toe gaiters poeped from beneath her dra peries. Ho was a lucky young man, though he wasn’t quite comfortable, as ha saw he was occupying the attention of the whole car. He looked back unutterable love, of course, on the fair maiden as he hung on by the strap, aud prese tly, as if shocked by the same impulse, three men went over to the instrumentalist. “Got up!” they said between their teeth, as if witu one voice, and the musician rose enough to get free of the division aud drop ped heavily into the next seat. The nearest man of the three motioned the young man to the empty seat. He thanked them aud took it. Tiia girl bowed, and a barely audible “Thank you!” escaped her ruby lips. The three men took off tnelr hats to her and returned to their places, greeted by the plaudits of the ear. One of Sam Jones’ Lucky Finds. “Thank God! there is one man who never spoke a cross word to his wife,” said Sam Jones at an Omaha meeting t le other night, as a round-faced, good-natured man rose in response to Ham’s question if such a person was present. Tue good-natu od man smiled a bland smile and said: “I haven’t any wife; I’m a bachelor!" THE MORNING NEWS : SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1890. j TRADE STILL HOLDS UP. SEVERAL SIGNS OF IMPROVEMENT DURING THE WEEK. Cooler Weather Has Helped Some Branches—Wheat Stronger and a Firmer Tone In Eastern Iron Mar kets—The Country's Foreign Trade Not as Good as it Was Two Weeks Ago. New York, Feb. 21.—R. G. Dun & Co.’s review of trade for the past week is as follows: While the prevailing Impression in busi ness circles is ratter less confident than it was a week ago, there were several signs of improvement. Cooler weather has caused a little in re activity in some lines of trade. Wheat is a little stronger, and there is a firmer to. o in tho ea-teru iron markets, while a reduction in the Bank of England rate from 6 to 5 per cent., with its large gain of 54,315,000 g aid during the past week, diminishes tho chance of inconvenient de mands from abroad. GENERAL TRADE. On the other hand, general trade is not increasing in volume or in profits, and whilo it- soundness is indicated by the occurrence o fewer failures than many expected, as a result of the phenomenally unseasonable weather, complaint of slow collections is common and rather increasing. Clearings through the bunks at New York fed bel -w those for the corresoonding week last yea 5.2 per cent.; at Bos*"n, Philadelphia and Chicago together the increase was hardly 1 per cent., and at all other citi<s only at) >ut -1 per cent., which is a considerable decline from tne recent rate of gain. At Pittsburg ir >n is weaker, becau e of increased southern competition, with a duller coal trade, but business In glass is good. THE FOREIGN TRADE. The foreign trade of the country is not as favorable as it was two months ago. The extraordinary outgo of c itton has passed, and theexports in January show an increase in that item of $1,50u,030, and in ali the principal items of about 52,000,003, which indicates an excess of exports over imports of about 510.000,000. In the three weeks of February the exports from New York show scarcely any increase and imports an increase of only 3 per cent., i idieati ig thus far an excess of imports. The cotton exports this week have been 15,000 bales larger than a year ago, but for the month thus far 30,000 bales smaller, but speculation has pushed prices still higuer by 1-10 cent. THE IRON MARKET. It is difficult to account for the better tone which cloa lv exists in the iron market here and at Philadelphia, unless it be due to a hope that bouthern iron, which is now moved from Suetlieid at fd 25 per too to Pittsburg, and selling there somewhat largely, may hereafter effect western rather than eastern markets. Theproducion has been so large that serious question exists as to the adequacy of the demand, and yet the resumption of work at the old wages by the striking c al miners ii Ala bama will put three large new furnaces into operation speedily. For Bessemer pig there is no demand in Philadelphia. The bar market is not satisfactory, plate and s ruc ural mills are st.ll busy on old orders, but doing little new business, and there aro reports of steel rails offered at less than *35 per ton. Cotton manufacture is active, but must soon feel tho high cost of the material. Gotham’s money market. The local money market has been easy at unchanged rates, although tho treasury has taken in since last Saturday 52,400,000 more than it has paid out, and interior exchanges with some cities are adverse. Itis hardly to be expected that the banks will be able to gaiuiu strength until April, hut a decline in foreign exchange to 44 86)4 puts further away the possibility of gold exports. Tue business failures occurring through out the c luntrv du ing the last wo k num ber for the United States 230 aud for Cati ada 41, a total of 271, against 302 last week. Horses in the British Army. l'r )'a the London Daily Telegraph. The official returns of the number of horses and mule3 used in the British mili tary service, just rendered to the war office, show that there are now actually 24,490 animals at work for ridi ig or draught purposes, exclusive of those belong ing to officers, the total being about 1,200 below the number voted in the army esti mates. Of the 24,000, 14,000 are borne upon the British establishment, aud 10,400 upon the Indian, both being below tueir proper numbers, though the British estab lis: intent much more closely approaches the numbers allowed than the Indian. Tne thirty-one cavalry regiments take the largest share of the animals, but tlieir total is only 11,800 horses to mount 18,000 men, leaving about one-third of the troopers dis mounted. The royal horse artillery has of both ridi ig and draught horses 2,700; the field batteries, 7,400; the mountain batteries, 220 mules, and tho garri son batteies, about 100; the whole number of draught and riding horses and mules for the artillery, including twenty two horse batteries and eighty-two field, being 10,500. The army service corps has 1,300 horses, the royal engineers 400, and the Infantry battalions 550, but these last figures, as well as the regimental transport animals, include the horses of the mounted infantry c unpanies iu Egypt and South Africa. The nine cavalry regiment* in India absorb 4,300 of the 11,100, and of the remainder all are in the British islauds, with tlie exception of 350 with the Inuis killing dragoons in Natal, and 500 with the Twentieth Hussars (mounted infantry) in Egypt and South Africa, the 1,200 nou-com linssioued officers aid meu of the three household regiments have 800 horses be tween them, and the corps Lest provided with mounts is the First Dragoon* Guards in Bengal, who have 500 her As for 600 men. Tlie regiment showing the lowest horse strength i* the Caribineers at Leeds and und Birmingham, who have 250 for nearly double that strength in men. Is the Sun Blue? From the St. Louis Republic. Ore of the shining lights of astronomical science has this to say iu regard to the color of the sun: “It may be asked: ‘What, suggests the idea that the sun is blue?’ My own atten tion was directed this way many years ago, ween measuring the heat a id light from different parts of the suu’s disc. It is k.sown that the fun has an atmosphere of its own, which tempers its heat, and, by cutting off certain radiations and not others, produces the spectral lines with which we aro so familiar. These lines we usually study in connection with the ab sorbing vapors of sodium, iron, etc., wuicti produce them, but my own attention was par icularly given to the regions of ab sorption, or to the col rit caused. In these investigations I found that the sun’s bod z must be of a deep bluish color aud that it would shed deep blue light, except for the solar atmosphere, which is usually spoken of as being colorless, but which really pla . s the part of a reddish veil, letting a little of the blue appear on t .e ceuterof the sun’s disc, where it is the thinnest, aud staining the edge red, so as to appear to a delicate test as being a pale aqua marine in the cen ter and a deep’ garnet around the edge. Ihe effect I found to be so im portant that, were this all but invisible solar atmosphere diminished only by a third part, the temperature of all temperate zones would ri*e higher than any torrid zone, and make tho greater part of tiio world uninhabitable. These stu iles directed my attention to the great practical importance cf studying the action of our own terrestrial atmosphere on the sun, and the uutece lent probability that our own air was also, and independ ently having the effect of making a really blue sunshine and sun appear as white, when it should bo of a cerulean hue.” RACE PROBLEM SOLUTIONS. A Few of Those Which Have Been fcugg sated. Chester,Fla.,Feb. 18. — Editor .Morning Xeics: Since the abolition of negro la very in the south it hu* been my fate to have lived in two aij ini g counties ir* two ad joining states where the negro element largely predominated; and 1 am pleased to state that I have never seen the negro voter intimidated, nor have I seen him oppressed by the white man. No doubt rare acts of cruelties have been inflicted by reckless men upon the negro race, and no doubt such acts and i judicious expressions have pr wed preju dicial to our o vn section, but they should tot have been made the sen time t of our people. In searching the annals of southern crime-, the greate-t and most heinous were perpoirated by and noon our own race. The murder of the Woolfolk family of Georgia, aud the mu dor of the Hawes familyof Alabama, attracted little attention outside of tho state. Yet, Lad it been a negro family killed, or whipped, and, more uiipani. nab o still, had too many democratic tickets been voted at one precinct, lamentations from ourp>- litical opponents would be l ea and all over the nortn of violent outrages being inflicted upon tbe poor negroes ia the south. Most unfortunate has it bee i for us that the Republican ;iarty committed one inexpli cable blunder that has intensified their animosity toward the south. And unfor unateiy, too, for the negro, he has foes, and they are not confined to the smthera peo ple. Tbe southern enemies north uud tne negro enemies south are the race disturbers, and against which th southern press unitedly stands. It is the same reckless spirit ot the white man, that to my knowledge br u;ht on the ciiflct between the wnite and red races of Florida tnat 1 and to the deportation of the red race trom the state. Every observer of passing events secs nature’s efforts in bringing about a wi e and amicable solition of tho race p obiem. It is noticeable in every city, town, or hamlatthr mghoutthe repub lic. And that is the reparation of the races. The views regarding th) race problem aro quite different among the white and colored repu licans. .Mr. Ingalls sa.s jus tice is the solution. Though a learned man, he appears to kn iw but little of the south. Why, to give justice moans filling the peni tentiary. And while the negroes fiae from justice, some whites flea from inj istice, not wishing to be tried in the United States Court in Jacksonville, Fin., by a packed republican jury of the worst element that could be found, designedly to convict, guilty or not guilty. Mr. Bruce is a mu latto republican, and recommends edu cation. Why, millions and millions of hard-earned southern money for twenty-five years has been expended, and it an impartial committee was to in vestigate their conditi >n regarding mor ality, honesty and virtue among the ig norant ex-slaves ad the educated freedmeu they can tell whether or not their money was judiciously expended. Mr. Douglass says amalgamation, or as be expresses it, the whites and the negroes will coalesce and become homogeneous. This is repulsive to every one with race pride. He is a inula to with a white wife, with no particular race. Tbe mixing of the races is unconge lial, and is noticeable among tho lower as well as the higher order of animals. Force, by degrading the superior and elevating the inferior, may for a brief period bri ig about an un natural coudition, but violent retribution will follow violations of divine laws. Mr. Houston, some years ago, was a successful horse l a ser on Golbot Island, Florida, until ho triod to blend tho higher and lower order of tbe horse race. It was found there was no affinity betwee i the jacks and horses, for they never mingled even when social equality was encouraged, and the experi ment proved wholly unavailing. C. Hardee. CHILD IN SURANCE. The Terrible Crimea It Leads To—A New York Case. New York, Feb. 12.—The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children will endeavor to prevent the return of the little 5-ye r-old child, May Collins, to her step mother, Mrs. Hannah Collins, of No. 34 Greenwich streot. It is claimed that Mrs. Collins maltreated the little one in a shock ing manner. When taken in charge a month ago, May’s left cheek was swollen to twice its natural siz % there were two cuts on h r head, the third finger of her left hand was cut to the bone, her nose was bruised, and her right arm was broken. “Wo have just found out,” said Hupt. Jenkin3 of the Society for the Pre vention of Cruelty to Children, when visited yesterday at the society’s headquar ters, “that Stepmother Collins hud little May’s fife insured in the Metropolitan In surance Comoany for 540. “This insuring children under 9 years of age is a tumble thi >g, and the legislature should pass a law prohibiting it. There is great agitation going on in England no w about It. A i attempt is also being made in Pennsylvania to prevent insurance com panies from insuring small children. The case of the Wakoley woman in Phildelphia, who murdered her two children so that s o might collec the burial insurance on their lives, stirred up the community there to the horrors of tle thing. A bill was intro duced in tho legislature to abolish cnild in surance, but 1 believe the insurance com panies defeated it. “In England the Society for the Preven tion of Cruelty to Children had a case of a woman who deliberately starved her child to death in order that she might collect the insurance on its life. The society over taere is at present trying to have the insurance of children under 10 years of age abolished, and I hope they will succeed. “In three-fourths of the cases of neglect and inhuman treatment of children that our society attends to in a year we find that the guardians, parents or step-parents of the children have insurance on their lives. I believe that there are to-day at least 100,000 children under 7 years of age that have a burial insurance upon their lives in the state. The insurance agents are constantly going through the tenement h use districts getting people to insure their children. The highest insurance they take on a child is about 5120. “Take the case that we had a short time ago, when we succeeded in sending the Du bois woman to tbe penite itiary for a year nnd a half for burning her child Delia with h >t irons and throwing red pepper oa the burus. The child of the Dubois woman was insured for 5100. I tell you that it is enough to make one’s flesh creep to think of the temptation it gives to drunken, brut il mothers who have lost the natural instincts of humanity.” Electric Lights and the Eyes. From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The men who made the electric light the indispens ible thing ;o us that it is to-day must go a sup further and invent some means of softening it, or we will become a nation of blind pe >ple in a lew more gen erations. No eye can sustain the glare of the electric light that now meets the gaze everywhere. It is ruinous to the sight and induces paralysis of the eye. Any defect in tho eye is readily transmitted to children, a id we can easily see what weak and un heal hy eyes people will have after the elec tric light has beeu at worK upon several de grees of ancestors. We are much too reckless in our use of the light when a little caution would relieve the eye from the danger. There is no good reason why a spectator in a theater or ball shml i have (6 look at an electric light or past ono in fixing h>s eyes on the stage, and vet this is what he must do n >w ami thou. N >r should one read or write by the electee light, yet there a ea large number of people in St. Louis and every large city who never use any other light for night work. The only light the eyes will stand healthfully is a soft iainp ligUt, and people will have to pay in the future forgiving it up contempt uously as they have done. MILITARY ORDERS. OGLETHORPE LIGHT INFANTRY. HraDQr asters O L. I. The Company will assemble at the Armory SATURDAY. 22d inst., at 9 o'clock am., in fu.l unitorm, for parade. CAPT. W. S. ROCKWELL, Commanding. C. F Law, Orderly Sergeant. REPUBLICAN BLIEg. Headquarters Republican- Bi.rES. I Savannah, Ga., Eeb. 2k, lo'iO. f The Company wdl meet at th-ir Armrry Tills MORNING at 8:30 o'clock, in uniform, with helmet and plume, to celebrate the day. By order W. D. DIXON, Capt. Com'd’g. George Grioor. O. S. SAVANNAH HIBCH ZOUAVES. You r.re hereby ordered to appear at vour Armory SATURDAY, Feb. 22, at 10:30 o'clock a. m., in full uniform, to parade with the Bar tow Light Infantry, In honor of Washington's birthday. By order of CAPT. A T. MARMELSTEIN, Jr. Oeoroe D. Marmklstein, Ist Sergt. B 4 R TO \V~LIGHT IN FA ,\ TRY You will appear at your Armory, in full uni form, THIS (Saturday) MORNING nt 10:15 o'clock, for parade with the Savuntiah Bunco Zouaves, in honor of Washington's birthday. By order of G. B. PRITCHARD. .lit.. • Captain Commanding. E, C. Rvals. First Sergeant. CHATHAM ARTILLERY. Huadquarjers Chatham Artillery, ) Feb. 21, 1890. ( The company will assemble at the armory on SATURDAY, the 221 inst., at 9:15 o’c.ock a. m., in fatigue uniform (witho it side arms), to eele tiie anniversary of the birthday of Gen. Wash ington, and will march to the depot of the Savannah and Tybee railroad and there take cars for Tybee, where the day will be spent in social festivities at the C ub House. Honorary and Pay members are most ear nestly requested to participate. By order of JOHN F. WHEATON, Captain Commanding. Harry S. Dreese, Orderly Sergeant. GEORGIA HUSSARS. Headquarters Georgia Hussars, 1 Savannah, Ga,, Feb. 20, 1890. j General Order No. 12; The company will assemble in \ . X| front of tile Drill Room SAT UR- aJemu DAY, 22d inst., at 12 o’clock in full uniform (blue helmets with spikes), Mounted, Armed and a Equipped for a parade in honor# B of Washington's Birthday and a N y Tilt at the-Ten Broecg Rum ...-n.—.- Grounds tor prizes. By order of G. B. PRITCHARD, First Lieutenant Commanding. J. T. Shuptrise. Acting First Sergeant. To accommodate those desirous of witnessing the Tilt the Central Railroad Company will run a special train to and from the gr junds. Notice of this schedule will be gives ou Friday and Saturday. To accommodate those desirous of witnessing the Tilt the Central Railroad Company will run a special train from its depot at 2:30 p. m. (city time), and a return train from the race grounds at 4:48 p. m. icity time). SAVANNAH VOLUNTEER GUARDS. Headquarters Battalion 1 Savannah Volunteer Guards, V Savannah, Ga, Feb. 15, 1890. ) General Order No. 12. 1. The Corps is ordered to assemble at the Arm ory uniform and, armed and equipped, (fatigue coats and fatigue caps) on SATURDAY, 22nd inst., at 9.15 o'clock, a. m., for target practice an l parade. Members unable, to report for duty at said time and place, will assemble at 4:50 o'clock p. m., on that day at the Tybee depot, uniformed, armed, and equipped as above, to join the corps on its return from Tybee for parade. 2. The Quartermaster will furnish ammuni tion for toe target practice, but members have theprivile Ige of supplying their own cartrid es. 3. Un-uniformed members intending to com pote for prizes, will accompany the corps on the train leaving Tybee depot at 10:06 o’clock a. m., city time. By order of LIEUT. COL. GARR ARD, Commanding. Wm. P. Hunter. Ist Lieut, and Adjutant. SPECIAL NOTICES. On and after Feb. 1, 1890, the basis of meas urement of all advertising in The Morning News will be agate , or at the rate of gl 40 an inch for the first insertion. GILT EDGE INVESTMENTS IN REAL ESTATE. That splendid location on Bay street, south east corner of Whitaker, 80x90, being one of the best stands on the Bay for auy character of business. This properly is being offered on ac count of the removal of the owner from the state, and can be purchased upon very easy terms, and at a bargain. ALSO, The store, 30x90, on the south side of Bay street, being the third west of Whitaker. This is a very desirable portion of Bay st eet, and while the store may not be large enough for some li es of business, sufficient adjoining property can be purchased to enlarge the area. ALSO, A dwelling on Bolton street, near Abercom, southern front, and surrounded by a splendid class of dwellings. ALSO, Two very desirable residences on New Hous ton street, near Barnard. These are just the size houses most in demand, and are located in a first-class neighborhood. ALSO, The valuable business site and dwelling on the southeast corner of Bay and Habersham streets, where a tine business is now being done. M. J. SOLOMONS. OCCUPIES ONE SQUARE ON BARNARD, HANLEY’S 2 K> wj M g NEW g a BUILDING, H Now being completed, is the largest establish ment of the kind in the south. BUILDERS. CONTRACTORS. The public should get our estimates on SASHES, CEMENTS. MANTELS, DOORS, PLASTERS, LOCKS, BLINDS, PAINTS, HINGES, FRAMES, OILS, KNOBS, And Builders' Hardware of every description. We duplicate manufacturers’ prices; are relia ble: can fill any sized order promptly. Located temporarily Bay and Whitaker streets. A . HANL EY . PLASTICO. Plastico is properly Anti-Kalsomine and Anti-Wall Paper. It possesses advantages over paper and kalsomine3 that it ought to displace them entirely, both for plain, cheap work and the most elaborate, as it will keep buildings in better repair a; a less cost, and much less, if the cost and inconvenience of removing old coats of kalsomine and wall paper is consid ered, and the saute material is adapted to HEAVY RELIEF WORK, Modeling, Combing, Stippling, Blending, etc. It produces any de gree of this work in solid tints, the outer color being maintained all the way through to the wall or base, through the blended portions and all, so that any abrasions are the same color as the surface. Sets slowly, and yet harder than the wall itself, and hardens with age. Call and examine specimen of work. LLOYD & ADAMS, Sole Agents. A R HTI DRESSING For the hair is had in BUTLER’S COMPOUND QUININE HAIR TONIC. It prevents the hair from dropping out, thor oughly eradicates dandruff and keeps the scalp clean and in a healthy condition. Asa toilet dressing for the hair and mustache it is un equaled. Only at BUTIJER’S PHARMACY, Cor. Bull and Congress Sts. SOUTHOVER LOTS. The best chance for an investment ever offered here are these lots. They are cheaper than some other lauds offered by the acre Mi. Mulligan, living on the place, will show them, or I will send any one wishing to purchase in a buggy to see them at any time. W. G. WOODFJLN, 118 Bryan St. SPECIAL XOTICES. PILSENBEER THE SAVANNAH BREWING COMPANY Beg to inform the public that on and after MONDAY, 20th Inst., ALL LEADING GROCERS .AND DEALERS Of this city will attnd to and promptly fill all orders for family use of the Savannah Brewing Company’s EXTRA PILSEN BEER, MUNCHENER HOFBP.AU BEER, A pure and unadulterated brand of choicest Bavarian Hops of our own importation. THE SAVANNAH BREWING COMPANY Will discontinue the direct delivery from that date. WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN GOLD. It is a broad assertion, but nevertheless true, that Ulmer’s “Liver Corrector,” a faultless family medicine, is worth its weight in gold. Prominent medical men indorse it, and thou sands of citizens who have used it bear willing and cheerful testimony to the above assertion. Silver medal aud diploma awarded over com petitors. Prepared by B. F. ULMER, M. D., Pharmacist, Savannah. Ga. Price, One Dollar Per Bottle. If you cannot obtain the “Corrector" from your druggist, send your orders direct and it w ill be forwarded by express, freight paid. KEME M B E R , SATURDAY’S ) 'a ' - SPECIAL PRICES / / —AT— H EIDT’S. IMPORTANT TO LADIES. MRS. J. H. REED, op Buffalo, N. Y., Designer an 1 Maker of the Lat >st Styles of FINE HAIR GOODS, including COIFFURES BRAIDS, FRONT PIECES, WIGS, Etc., is at the PULASKI HOUSE for a few days, and invites you to call. notice; DR. E. H. NICHOLS Has returned to the city, and will resume the practice of his profession. POTATOES. Just arrived, another lot of those CHOICE EARLY ROSE SEED POTATOES, And the Best Table Potato offered in this market. _H AYNE S_ & ELTON. BUJBT PEAS AND BEANS. Just arrived and still coming in, large quanti ties Buist Premium Peas, Philadelphia Extra Early, Black Eye, Marrowfat and all other varieties at lowest market price. Call and see me. Yours, E. J. KIEFFER, Corner West Broad and Stewart Streets. ASSESSMENT OF REAL ESTATE FOR 1890. CITY TREASURER’S OFFICE, I Savannah, Ga., Feb. 6th, 1890. ) The Assessment Book, containing a general re-assessment of R"al Estate for taxation dur ing the year JBjo. having been duly filed in this office for the inspection of taxpayers, notice is hereby given to all concerned to make objection if any tney have, within THIRTY DAYS from this dale, otherwise the assessments and valua tions therein contained w:l! be final, and shall form the basis upon which to estimate the tax to be collected. Objections to valuations made by the asses sors must be iu writing, addressed to the Assess ment Committee, and appeals from valuations ns revised by tl,e Assessment Committee must tie addressed to council accompanied by an affidavit that the assessment is above the market value of the property. C. S. HARDEE, City Treasurer. MONEY TO LOAN. Liberal loans made on Diamonds, Gold and Silver Watches, Jewelry, Clocks, Silverware, Guns, Pistols, Clothing, Tools, and on almost anything of value, at the old reliable Pawn broker House, 179 Congress street. E. MUHLBERG, Manager. Highest prices paid for old Gold and Silver. TYBEE BEACH LOTS 80x200. I have three beautifully located lots. Nos. 50, 52 and 53, for Rale at very reasonable prices. These lots are between th >se owned by the Zorayda Archery Club and the Atlantic Club aud midway between the two hotels. C. 11. DORSETT, Real Estate Dealer. ~A CO\t. Special attention to the sale of a large Jersey Cow THIS DAY. Cox’s Lot, on West Broad Street. PRINTER AND BOOKBINDER. BUSINESS IS OPENING, And Business Men are needing their supplies of Office Station ery. Orders for Blank Book* and Printed Blanks of all kinds will have prompt and careful at tention if left with the Old and Reliable Printer and Binder, 93_gay. GE O. N. NICHOLS. VKGI£TABI,ES FRUITS. ETC. W. D. CHAMPION. Strawberry Crates and Baskets. A SHIPMENT OF THE ABOVE GOODS RE CEIVED THIS DAY BY A. E CHAMPION’S SON, Successor to A. H. Champion. ~ PRINT! Nt,; MERCHANTS, manufacturers, mervhaAics, corporotiot-s. and all other* in need (3 prmting, lithographing, and blank books can nave their orders promptly filled, at moderate prices, at the MORNING NEWS PRINTING HOUSE. 3 Whitaker KreeU amusements. SAVANNAH”THEATER EN'SAGEMKNT EITBiORDIMRt' Sat’dayMatinee, \ * tB, First production here of Mrs. Burnett’s worn famous play, LITTLIT LORD FAUNTLEROY! The Greatest Success of Modern Times' Under the management of Mr. T H Fren.-s L tL v B r ad \*'- Theat^r ' Grand Opera and Madison Square Garden, New York one, young or oi l. grave or giy, ran afford nuss this beautiful performance. Box sheer opens Thursday morning 9 o’clock. Resertei Seats $l5O. Admission Si, 50c. and 3c. tdmhf sion matmee 75c. and 50c. Res- rve l s ats marl nee SI. Next Attraction. Kate Casehon, Feb^t EOTSLs. .v'“ lei Mm, ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA. OPEN FROM DECEMBER UNTIL MAT. First-Class iu Every Detail. Reasonable Rates. ET**Rooms Secured by Mail or Telegraph j E. N. WILSON. Manager. PULASKI house; Savannah, Ga. ENLARGED AND REMODELED WITH PASSENGER ELEVATOR, BATHS. ELECTRIC APPLIANCES. AND ALL MODERN CONVEN IENCES, Making one of the best and most complete hotels of its size in the South. Cuisine and service of a high standari. WATSON & POWERS, Proprietors. THE T De Soto SAVANNAH. G-A. r J , HIS New and Magnificent Hotel wag opened for business JANUARY 1, 1890. For par ticulars, terms, etc., address the proprietors, JOHN A. BAKER & CO. TMzLe Seminole WINTER PARK, ORANGE CO., FLA. T’HIS new and elegant hotel, accommodating X four hundred guests, will be open'd Jan. Ist, 1890, under the able management of Mr. W. F. Paige, so well known as the successful man ager or the great "Kaaterskill" in the Catskill Mountains. It is superbly located upon high land between two beautiful lakes, the ground gently sloping to the shores of both, and from the promenade on top eleven lakes can be seen. Everything that human ingenuity can devise has been provided to make tuls beautiful house attractive and homelike for old and young. Sleepers from New York without change. All trains stop at Winter Park. Send for guide. Address W. F. PAIGE, Winter Park, Oranra Cos, 11a. TRI-MONT HOUSE, Centrally Located. Corner Pine and Forsyth Streets, Jacksonville, Fla. GEO. W. TAYLOR, Proprietor. GEO. R. REYNOLDS. Clerk. STOVhj. ABSOLUTE PERFECTION IN BAKING —AND ALL HEATS BOASTED IST THEIR OWII JUICES, BY USING THE WIRE GAUZE OVEN DOOR FOUND EXCLUSIVELY ON 1113 MARVELOUS RESULTS LOSS IN SHRINKAGE OF MEATS. Very few people know that the Shrinkage of Meat* roasted in a close oven is from thirty-five to forty p6i cent. All meat contains se venty-tive percent, of water and only twenty-five i>or cent of solid mat? or, and tea lose that i made in the roasting is made in the evapo ration of the juice which is the vital, rAET cl autAT, Effect of tho SOLID OVEN Doort A ten pound Sirloin, medium or well-done, will be JtEDUCED to BJX pounds and four ounces of liousted Meat, showing a loso of threo pounds and t** o **® ounces of juice. Whilo the loss isS7}4 poxcentof tha total weight, it shows the enormous LOSS OF FIFT* I'EB CENT OF THE JT'ICF. Effect of WIRE GAUZE OVEN Door. A ten pound Sirloin, medium or wall-done, will bs reduced to nine pounds and eight ounces of Roasted Meat, showi ns a loss of eight ounces of j uiqe. VVtuta this lom is five per cent of the total weight.it shows the very email loss of but seven per cent of jcic* Send for illustrated Circular and Price Lists. EXCELSIOR MAKF’GCO., ST. LOUIS, MO. For Sale in Savannah, Ga., by CLARK & DANIELS; Sole AgtS. BROKERS. F. G Wyliy, Stock and Bond Broker, OFFERS FOR SALE: 4 A AA A s.. F. &W. RAILWAY 6s. lU.UUU Ga. So. & Fla. 6s. 10;( 00 Darien Short Line 6s. 5,000 C. R. It. Debentures. 5,0j)0 Savannah 5 per cent Bonds. A. L. HARTR IDGB, SECURITY BROKER, rIUYS and sella on commission all claw"* * Stocks and Bonds. Negotiates loans on marketable aecuritl**. New York quotations furnished by private ticker every fit teen minutes. . * / 'v Itaw' CENTS A WEEK will have the • S K morning news delivered * P J joux house early EVERY MOW**