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THE GREAT 80TJTHEBN SOLDIER.
Recollections of Robert E. Lee In Pub
lic and Private Life.
Prom the New York Sun.
Washington, -May 24-With the ap
proach of the Lee monument ceremonies at
Richmond every: hirig relating to the ca
reer and character of the great soldier who
led the Army of Nortnern Virginia acquires
afresh interest. Especially timely, there
fore are the reminiscences which Col. \V il
liam Preston Johnston contributes to Bet
ford's Magazine. , ,
Col Johnston first saw Lee in 1855, when
his father, Albert Sidney Johnston, had
been appointed colonel of the Second
cavalry, with Lee as lieutenant colonel.
President Pierce, or rather Secretary Jeffer
son Davis, was anxious that this now organ
ization should be a crack regiment, and in
the appointments to it made seniority
subordinate pa skill and experience. Young
Mr. Johnston was requested by his father
to call upon CoL Lee and pay his respects.
He did so, and at the first glance the
thought flashed through his mind: “It was
thus that Washington looked!” With his
“rich, brown coloring, dark hair and eyes,
aquiline features and snapely limbs,” CoL
lye appeared to Mr. Jo msLon one of the
handsomest men he had ever seen. His
dignified yet easy posture, the "perfect
poise of his bearing,” especially struck the
visitor.
Not until eight years later did Col. Johns
ton, who bad then become an aide-de-camp
on Mr. Davis’ staff, again see Gen. Lee.
The night after the battle of Fair Oaks,
where Gen. J. E. Johnston was severely
wounded. Mr. Davis told him that he had
determined to put Lee in command of the
army of Northern Virginia, because, unlike
some other generals, he had urged prompt
aggression. After Hooker’s defeat at Chan
cellorsville, Gen. Lee went to see Mr. Davis
at Richmond, and Col. Johnston then had
some conversation with him:
I congratulated him on the results of the bat
tle. and added: “You have met a terrible loss,
general. In the death of Gen. Jackson." He
said, with great feeling: “An irreparable loss,
colonel; a loss like a man's right arm. Why,
sir. there is nobody w-ho moves like him. I
ordered Gen. to move at 3 o'clock in the
morning with a division, and Gen. Jackson at 7
with his corps, and at it o’clock Jackson was
ahead of him."
Gen. Lee, in addressing me, employed a cer
tain peculiarity of pronunciation, which I often
observed afterward, as “coronel.” He spoke
very pure English, but had a fen' Virginia
provincialisms m pronunciation, such as ‘ won
nut'’ for ‘■walnut.”
What always struck Col. Johnston was
the slowness of the southern people, as well
as the northern, to recognize the audacity
of Lee’s military conceptions. This he
partly accounts for by the evenness and
self-control of Gen. Lee’s bearing and habits
of thought, which preveuted those who
came in contact with him, and hence all
others, from fully appreciating the ener
getic boldness covered uuder his composed
demeanor:
This equanimity withheld him from doing and
saying those startling things which especially
Interest the biographer or reader. It was not the
manner with which he did things, so much as
the result he seemed to accomplish easily and
and almost as a matter of course, th at won him
his renown. He always appeared to me per
fectly poised, and to meet great and small
issues with the same careful, yet undisturbed,
measure of effort. In laylDg out a walk or
flower bed he was as painstaking as in mapping
out the plan of campaign.
An instance of his simplicity of manner
and equanimity was observed by Col. John
ston after the battle of Cold Harbor, when
he offered to take back to Richmond any
message desired for Mr. Davis. Lee, as if
half soliloquizing, answered that he hardly
understood what Gen. Grant had meant by
hi 6 attack that morning, since it was too
heavy for a feint, and yet be could hardly
have expected to break through the confed
erate lines at that point:
I said: “General, I suppose Gen. Grant will
continue to move by bis left ana cross the
Chickahominy?” ’'Yes,’’ he replied; "across
the Chickahominy and across the James. 1 think.
Yon can tell the President I will make him cross
the Chickahominy as low down as I can. By
what road do you return to town, colonel?”
1 ‘By any road you wish, general, if I can serve
you,” I answered. “Then please go by the Nine
Mile road and tell Capt. to move his bat
tery down the Chickahominy and open on the
enemy, which may induce him to cross lower
down.” He also indicated specifically the po
sition of the battery, the roads to be taken to
find it and the new position to be taken by it.
What struck me in this day’s intercourse with
Gen. Lee was his entire lack of self-conscious
ness and the composure with which he met
events so momentous as those of the bloody
day of Cold Harbor. None of us, however,
realized the slaughter of the foderals until we
saw the New York papers some days later.
When Lee became president of Washing
ton College, after the war, Col. Johnston
■was made professor of history and litera
ture there. In his intercourse with the
faculty Gen. Lee was always courteous,
kind, often disposed to be rather playful,
and he insisted on deferring much to their
opinions. Then, again, Col. Johnston noted
that Gen. Lee never too* an ungraceful
posture. “No matter how long or fatiguing
a faculty meeting might be, he always pre
served an attitude in which dignity, doco
rum and grace were united. He was a
very well built man, with rot <ded body
and limbs, and seemed, without the slight
est affectation or effort, to sit or stand or
walk just as a gentlemen should. He was
never in a hurry, and all his gestures were
easy and significant. He gave u minute
attention to the details of his office, and
liked to talk about them. I soon perceived
that he did not like to discuss the events
or incidents of the war.” He took a great
interest at that time in editing the
“Memoirs of the War in South
Carolina and Georgia,” by his father,
Gen. Henry Lee, for which he wrote a pre
face. Among the many letters he re
ceived were somo very queer ones, upon
which he commented humorously as he
turned them over to Col. Johnston for a
reply. The latter’s work he revised with
freedom and with a critical skill and deli
cacy of touch which inspired respect for his
literary ability. He was an agreeable com
panion, not exactly witty nor very humor
ous, yet exceedingly fond of gaiety and
vivacity in others, even if, in young people,
it went to a boisterous outbreak of spirits.
He liked to give a light turn to table talk,
taking care that anything he said should
not be so caustic as to wound.
Reading his letters, one discovers this playful
spirit in many of them, as. for instance, in his
letter to the spiritualists, who asked his opinion
of Von Moltke and the French war. He wrote
in reply a most courteous letter, in which he
said that "the question was one about which
military critics would differ; tbat his own judg
ment about such matters was poor at best, and
tbat inasmuch as they had the power to con
sult (through their mediums) Caesar, Alexander,
Nap iron, Wellington, and all of the other great
captains who have ever lived, he could not think
of obtruding his opinion in such company."
I remember addressing one correspondent for
him as “Dear Miss.” In reading my draft, he
drew his pen through the word "dear,” and
added the name, smilingly, as he said:
“Colonel, I would not tike the liberty of being
so tender to the lady, and I really do not be
lieve she is dear to me.”
Gen. Lee did not talk politics, but he felt
very deeply the condition of the country, and
expressed to me several times in strong terms
his disapproval of the course of the dominant
party.
Once the conversation turned on a book
about the Custis family, the ancestors of
Mis. Lee. The volume described one vixen,
whom her husband could not reform.
“You see, colonel,” said the genera), look
ing toward Mrs. Lee smilingly, “it will not
do to try conclusions with these Custis
women. They always come out best.” Mrs.
Lee made some apt and pleasant reply. An
other anecdote is told of his asking two
little gills if Traveler, the horse he was
riding, was not the prettiest hnrso they
ever saw, and then laughingly offering to
let them kiss Traveler as a reward for their
good opinion. He was hospitable, and gave
his money freely, perhaps even had in
herited a tendency to be profuse; but this
had, at all erents, been curbed by some
what straitened circumstances in early life,
when 'his means had been narrow for what
was exjiocted of him.” His manner of life
was simple, not a 1 all luxurious.
, l j 1 ?' 3ept. 28, 18 1 0, he attended a meeting
of the vestry of Grace church, aud there
“*4? a generous subscription to improve
the building. Returning to his Lome, a few
rods distant, he found bis family at the tea
table, waiting for him, and took his place
to ask a blessing on the meal. “As he stood
with his hand on the chair the fatal stroke
fell, and he sank down speechless, never to
rise again.” Ho died on Oct. 12.
It von lisve over-indulged in eating or
drinking take a dose ofeinitnons Liver Regu
lator.—Adv.
EARLY OUTLAWS OF SAN LUIS.
Desperate Mexican Bandits Who Isade
of Death a Sport.
From the New York Pres*.
From out of the west there comes to the
Press' writer there some old stories of ban
dits of the early days, and he retells them
to you here to-day. The pioneers of the
Central California counties have many in
teresting and curious stories to tell of the
footpads, highwaymen, and small but well
organized bands of robbers who infested
the hills and drove off sheep, cattle and
horses, even as late as twenty-five
years ago. There was, in some cases,
another side to the story, a side that one
seldom hears of, but that is worth taking
into consideration. Most of the robbers were
Mexicans, who had hung around the great
Spanish ranches in the old days doing noth
ing but vaquero work, and, in fact, looking
wir.ii intense scorn on any manual labor.
Driven from the valleys to little huts and
shelters in the mountains, they became
mere thieves, but they themselves held that
the grudge they bore to the American set
tlers was praiseworthy, and they felt that
they only visited upon the “gringies” a
righteous retribution for sins against their
race. i
After the turmoil of the first settlement
of the richer valleys, and the refluent wave
from the mines toward the farms iu the
later 50s, the idle class of Mexicans and a
number of degraded white men drew close
together and formed a large body of out
door criminals, fierce riders and dangerous
characters.
There were some Spaniards of nerve and
brains who took sides with the Americans
and were of great service; one of the most
remarkable of these was a famous grizzly
bear hunter, Kamon Romero of Sail
Leandro, who accompanied Sheriff Harry
Morse of Alameda in his great expedition
after Tiburcio Vasquez. Romero once
killed two outlaws with his immense
Mexican knife or “machete” before they
could draw their pistols.
The outlaws of the Mexican type were
terrible antagonists to the first settlers in
all the coast counties; for years they m ide
San Joaquin county unsafe, until men like
brave and jovial old Tom Cunningham
took the war path; they terrorized many
districts in Ventura, Santa Barbara anil
Los Angeleß, but they held their own as
long in San Luis Obispo as anywhere else
in California, because San Luis’ is a wild,
mouutainous country, which was one of
the last strongholds of the native Califor
nians, and one of the last districts to be
reached by the railroads.
One of the great San Luis outlaws was
Manuel Lopez, who committed at loast half
a dozen murders in the county. Harry
Morse, Tom Cunningham and Calderwood
of Santa Cruz got trail of him in 1874, in
the Jolon region and about the rocky San
Antonio pass. Lonez was with a band of
stolen horses, but although he was seen, the
pursuers’ horses were too exhausted, and he
escaped and probably went to Mexico, as
every wise outlaw did when these three
officers camped on his traiL
As an old pioneer of 8a i Luis told me one
day, sitting under a “bull pine” tree by his
log cabin:
“Old San Luis was a tough place. Lots
of Mexicans wuz up an’ down the hills and
gulches, from I’iedras Blancas past Cayucos,
Toro, Moro, San Luis an’ south to Gaviota.
Lots of men had married Spanish girls and
Mexican women, or mebbe they wuz a
courtin’them an’ havin’ fights about it;
generally there wuz a dead Mexican after a
row, but not always.
“Then the Mexicans got even; half a dozen
of them would r ide up to a traveler, an’
throw their riatas over liis head, rob him,
an’ mebbe drop him over a cliff. Worst of
all were the daredevil, freebooter Mexicans,
such as those that infested Contra Costa,
Alameda, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara and
Monterey; they were all the same sort, an’
sich riders the would never saw.
Everybody went on horseback, an’ horses
cost mebbe a couple of dollars. A five
doliar horse wuz an extra good mustang.
They wuz wicked sinners, too, the mus
tangs, an’ not fit fer a Christian ter ride.
W hen the Americans brought a better stock
the Mexicans stole it; then, if they were
caught, the boys had a necktie party.
"San Luis wuz a Mexican town; jest a
few bold an’ keerless Americans there, an’
all the rest Monies’ an’ wickiups. That’s the
kind of a county old San Luis wuz thirtv
years ago. I tell you, young feller, to sit
here an’ see the corn fields tossed out on the
mesa, an’ the wheat over van’ ail’ the top of
the school house way down in the gulch, an’
actually apple an’ peach trees agrowin’ in a
man’s dooryanl, is astonishingly good to an
old pioneer. T hey tells me that old San
Luis is agoin’ to be a famous fruit county.
Them fellers thet used ter rip an’ tear about
tbe gulches an’ make honest men afraid of
their lives are all dead an’ gone, an’ here I
be yit.
“Did I ever tell yer about old Uncle
Wright? He wuz the wust man to cuss in
all San Luis, an’ old Faxon at Ballard's wuz
tbe wust one in that county. We were
reckless young fellers them days, an’ we
wanted ter hev’ a barbecue an’ have the
main attraction a cussin’ match between
Wright and Faxon. We sent a man down
to Faxon, an’ ho sent us word that it wuz
onfair to burn up the cattle feed in San
Luis. He cussed sayin’ it so much that the
man comeback pretty white, but we sent
him off to see Wright, an’ Wright said it
wuz unpossible fer him to go ter Ballard’s,
for he never could cuss a cuss worth outside
his own county. The captain of a coastin’
schooner heard that, an’ laughs right out;
he said thet once he hed to put Wright
ashore ter keep tbe schooner from going
straight ter Davy Jones.
“About the greasers? Well, there wuz
some hundred or so of notorious ones, but
most of them wuz brung ter grief elsewhere.
They went to richer counties to rob and
murder folks, and then the sheriffs got after
them with rifles. We had all the famous
ones here one time or another: Procopio,
Chaves, Three Fingered Jack, an’ Vasquez
knew the Mexican fondas and whisky
shanties as well as anybody did.”
The old pioneer went on in his simple, gar
rulous fashion, telling the stories of the days
of the outlaws. Here they had robbed and
murdered a party in the Upper Salmas,
there they threw the body of a traveler
from the rocks into the ocean. Their re
treats were in the northern part of the
county and the extreme southwest. Thenco
they could escape into the San Joaquin. A
whole family of strangers was murdered in
an old adobe under the most terrible cir
cumstances, and the perpetrators were
never discovered. Ross Browne describes
in a powerful sketch the Upper Salinas val
ley before it was fenced or subdued bv the
plow, the broad “Salimas Plains,” the
dangerous river crossings, the old mission of
San Miguel, the older San Luis, the great
herds ot cattle, the grizzlies feeding on the
hillslopes aud the tierce, brutal outlaws of
both the degraded American and the Mexi
can types; it has never beon done better; it
may stand for all time a characterization of
the period of struggle in old San Luis, when
Santa Barbara and Monterey were driving
out their desperadoes, and a few frontier
offl ers were selecting the most fearless of
the early American farmers and cattle
raisers to arm aud ride with them into the
hills.
A medicine indorsed and used liv physicians
and druggists—Summons Liter Regulator.—
Adv.
In the town of Mayfield, Cal., Jose Ignacio
Aureque has been confined to his bed for
thirty-five years. He was injured by an acci
dent in a mine, and has not been able to put his
feet to the ground since. His only attendant is
an adopted son, who has devoted his time and
means to the support of the aged invalid. A
good woman of Menlo Park has contributed $6
a month from her pr.vate purse for the past
, twenty years.
THE MORNING NEWS : TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1890.
Local Record for the Morning News.
Local forecasts for Savannah and vicinity
for to-day: Threatening weather and rain.
Special forecast for Georgia:
RAIN Kains, variable winds, stationary
I temperature, fair Wednesday.
Comparison of mean temperature at Savan
nah, Ga., May 26. 1890, and the mean of the
same day for sixteen years:
„ „ Departure Departure
Meas Temperature, from the j
normal ~ hoo
for 16 years May 26, 90 --or j ’
77 I 76 1 1 -j- 371
COMPARATIVE RAINFALL STATEMENT.
Amount Departure
Amount for '“}* since Jan.
for 10 years Vlay og •*) _ 1, 1890.
10 I .22 | -1- .12 - 9.46
Maximum temperature, 81; minimum tem
perature. 72.
The hight of the river at Augusta at
7:33 o’clock a. m. yesterday (Augusta time)
was 7.0 feet—no change during the
past twenty-four hours.
Cotton Region Bulletin for twenty-four hours
ending 6 p. m.. May 28, '.►oo, 75th Meridian time.
observations taken at the same moment of
time at all stations.
Districts. Average.
Nave. Max. ’ Min. Rain
* tioM Tem P Temp f<Ul - r
Atlanta 12 78 66 1.93
Augusta... 12 82 60 1.07
Charleston. 7 82 65 .60
Galveston 19 82 62 . 07
Little Rock. .... 13 80 56 .00
Memphis 15 SO 60 .09
Mobile 9 80 64 .82
Montgomery 7 76 66 2.31
New Orleans 10 82 66 .18
Savannah 18 85 68 .51
Vicksburg 5 78 €6 .58
Wilmington 10 84 66 . 45
Summary
Means
stations op Max. Min. ;Rmn
savannah district. Temp Temp failLt
Alapaha 84 66 . 22
Albany 88 70 .05
Bainbridge. 84 72 .82
Eastman 84 68 . 97
Fort Gaines 84 68 .90
Jesup 92 66 1.50
Live Oak 92 60 96
Millen 92 70 .00
Quitman 90 66 48
Savannah 81 72 .19
Smithville 82 70 .11
Thomasville 80 08 .40
Waycross 89 6? .00
Summary
Mean’*,
Observations taxen at the same moment of
time at all stations for the Morning News.
Savannah. May 26, 7:36 p. m.. city time.
Rainfall
1 q Velocity
, £
> Direction...
|- j
Temperature...
Name
or
Stations.
Portlanu. ! 60.S K.. lOjCloudy.
Boston | 68 S 14 .Oljßaining.
Block Island j 66 IS E 12! j Cloudy.
New York city 00 SE 12 06; Raining.
Philadelphia ! 66; E 6j 02 Raining.
Washington city...! 66; 8 6' .82;Raining.
Norfolk 72! S 8 .06 Raining.
Charlotte 66 S 2.4oßaining.
Hatteras 74 S 14! .. Cloudy.
Wilmington 74 S 10 jCloudy.
Charleston '6 S W 8 .16 Cloudy.
Augusta 72 N 8 04 Cloudy.
Savannah 74 S 6; .22 Raining.
Jacksonville. 74; S 14 .28 Cloudy.
Tampa 74i E ..I .28 Cloudy.
Point Jupiter,Fla. 78|S E 10l Cloudy.
Titusville '7B! S 20| .08 Cloudy.
Key West 80;S E 8 P’tly cloudy
Atlanta 66j N . I.s4'Raining.
Pensacola 74 S 6 04 Cloudy.
Mobile 74 S W .. | .10 Cloudy.
Montgomery 70 E ..! 52 Raining.
Vicksburg 74! N 6 .30 Cloudy.
New Orleans. 70 1 N ~ .72 Cloudy.
Shreveport 80 N E 6 Cloudless.
Fort Smith 78 N E 6 1 Cloudless.
Galveston 76 E 6 *T P'tly cloudy
Palestine 78 X E 6..... Cloudless.
Brownesville 78| N 8! Cloudless.
Knoxville 68 ;S E.. X 6 Cloudy.
Memphis 76* N P’tly cloudy
Nashville 72* N Cloudy.
Indianapolis. 66 NW 6 Cloudless.
Cincinnati 72INW 12 ... Cloudy.
Pittsburg 70 W ..1 P’tly cloudy
Buffalo 60NE. ... Cloudy.
Detroit 64 W 8 Cloudless.
Marquette 46 S E P’tly cloudy
Chicago 64 W 14 .... Cloudless.
Duluth 52 NW 6 *T Cloudless.
St Paul. 82 W 10 .... Cloudless.
St. Louis 68 N 8 .... Cloudless.
Kansas City. 72 NW Cloudless.
Omaha 68 NW Cloudless.
Cheyenne 68 S 20.... Cloudless.
Fort Buford 66 E Cloudless.
St. Vincent 58 W 10 ..[Cloudless.
*T Indicates trace, tlnenes and hundredths,
W. A. Whitney. Observer Signal Corps.
FLORIDA’S METROPOLIS.
S. Ritzwailer Assigns—A New Hospital
and a New Bank.
Jacksonville, Fla., May 26.—5. Ritz
waller, a prominent dry goods merchant,
assigned this morning to Dr. H. Y. Rob
inson.
The Frankie Schumacher hospital, anew
charitable institution, will be formally
opened to-morrow afternoon.
Anew bank —the Merchants’ National—
was formally organized this morning. J.
L. Marvin was elected president, J. P. Tali
ftrro vice president and H. T. Baya cashier.
Its capital is §IOO,OOO. Ti e board of di
rectors consists of W. M. Davidson, T. W.
Robey, W. B. Clarkson, G. O. Holmes, J. E.
Hartiidge, R. B. Archibald, Charles Mar
vin and A. B. Camp! ell. Tee new concern
is very staunch and is composed of leading
citizens of the city.
BUDDHISM IN PARIS.
It Has 30,000 Disciples and Its
Feature is Fanaticism.
It was recently stated that extraordinary
progress was being made by Buddhist doc
trines in Vienna and other towns of Central
Europe, says the London Telegraph. It is
now said that a decided move in this direc
i ion is taking place in Paris. This phenom
enon is probably to be accounted for by the
fact that people who have discarded Chris
tianity find themselves unable to get on
after a time without some kind of religion
or philosophy, and so turn their attention
to any new thing in the hope of filling up
the vacuum. M. Leon de Rosny, one of the
most popular of the Sorbonne professors,
has been lecturing recently on Buddhism,
aud he says he could never have imagined
that it could have taken root in France as
it has done. He is of opinion that the
growing favor in which it is held is due to
the fact that, far from being in conflict
with modern science, it really contains the
principles of the truths expounded by our
savants. Its disciples are inoet enthusiastic,
and herein lies a danger, for they complicate
Buddha’s pure philosophy with a variety of
supernatural theories and dabble in spirit
ualism, hypnotism, and other uncanuy
practices in the forefront of which “magic”
may be placed; but M. Le >n de Rosny de
clares that the loaders of the movement
deplore this diversion, which is at variance
with Buddhist doctrines, aud proclaim
that they have absolutely nothiug
to do with the “occult sciences.” He fears,
however, that the most ridiculous extrav
agances will be indulged in, as no conception
can be formed of the amount of fanaticism
which is a special feature of the new school.
Every day he receives visits from dis
tinguished persons who affirm that they are
thorough-going Buddhists, and one of them
has just asserted that he has at least 30.000
co-religionists in Paris. The vice president
of the academy of medioine has entered
their ranks, and the captain of a French
frigate who returned from a cruise in
Chinese waters lately says that one-third of
his crew have embraced the doctrines of
Buddha. ________
“Lester must think lots of Emma. He takes
her up in the observatory every day.”
“Yes, the dear fellow loves lier above every
thing else, no doubt.”— Detroit Tree Trees.
BATTLES WITH BALL AND BAT.
The Results of the Day's Games All
Over the Country.
Washington, Mav 36. —Bali games were
played to-day as follows:
national league.
At Boston— *. b. H. K.
Boston 4 6 2
Cincinnati 2 3 2
Batteries: Getzem and Shalhasse, Rhines and
Harrington.
At Brooklyn— r. b. h. e.
Brooklyn .. 8 10 2
Cleveland 2 n 5
Batteries: Camtners and Daly, Wadsworth
and Zimmer.
At New York— R. b. h. e.
New Y'ork 5 5 2
Chicago 3 u 1
Batteries: Husie and Sommers, Hutchinson
and Nagle.
PLAYERS’ LEAGUE.
At Philadelphia (five innings, rain r. b. h. e.
Philadelphia. 6 5 1
Buffalo , 0 2 3
Batteries: Knell and Cross, Keefe and
Mack.
A t Boston— r. b. H. e.
Boston 8 11 7
Chicago 9 9 g
Batteries: Radbnurn and Kelly, Baldwin and
Farrell.
At Brooklyn— r. b . h. e.
Brooklyn ]5 15 3
Pittsburg 7 12 3
Batteries: .Murphy and Kinslow; Slavic,
Qui n and Carroll.
At New York— * r. b. h. e.
New Y’ork 2 10 5
Cleveland 6 10 4
Batteries: J. Ewing and Ewing, Bakely and
Sutcliffe.
AMERICAN association.
At Brooklyn— r. b. h. e
Brooklyn 8 11 4
Columbus 4 7 5
Batteries: Mattimore and Bowes, Gastright
and O’Concor.
games postponed on account of rain.
The following games were postponed on
account of rain: Association —Toledo vs.
Rochester, at Rochester; Louisville vs. Syra
cuse. at Syracuse; St. Louis vs. Athletic, at
Philadelphia. League—Philadelphia vs.
Pittsburg, at Philadelphia.
DERBY DAY AT BROOKLYN.
Burlington Wipe, with Torso Second
and Kenwood Third.
Brookly’n, May 26.—The Gravesend
racing events to-day were as follows:
First Race—One mile. Civil Service and
Geraidme ran a dead heat for first, with Tor
mentor third. Time The Geraldine
people refused to run off ana Civil Service wins
the race.
Second Race—Mile and a furlong. Wilfred
first, with Salviae second and :Eon third. Time
1:54%.
Third Race —Brooklyn Derby, for 3-year
olds, one mile and a quarter. Starters: Bur
lington, Torso. Kenwood, Kingsbridge, Cyclone
Colt, Padishah, Sacramento, Lisimony, King's
Own, Centura.
Torso lei the bunch until nearing the stretch.
Here the field began to close up, and they made
the pace a fast one up the stretch, with Bur
lington winning by two lengths from Torso
second, a head before Kenwood. Time 2:12%.
Fourth Race—Six furlongs. Gregory won,
with Bella B. second and Eolo third. Time 1:15.
Fifth Race—Five furlongs. Retribution
won, with Servitor second and Pestilence third.
Time 1:02%.
Sixth Race—One mile. Quesal won, with
Minola second and Sam Wood third. Time 1:43.
AT LATONIA.
Cincinnati, May 26.—The track at La
tonia to-day was slow on account of the
recent rains. Following is a summary:
First Rack—One mile. Major Tom won,
with Vidette second and Germanic third. Time
1:49^.
Second Rack—One mite and twenty yards.
Birthday won, with Sam Ardo second and
Rollin Hawley third. Time 1:47*4.
Third Race—One mile and a sixteenth.
Sportsman won, with Flight second and Catalpa
third. Timel:63?g.
Fourth Race—One mile and a half. Huntress
won. with Outbouna second. They were the
only starters. Time 2:13^.
Fifth Race—One half mile. Woodford won,
witn Milt Y'oung second and Rhody Gal third.
Time 53 seconds.
MARKETING MELONS.
A New Company Organized for the
Wort at Atlanta.
Atlanta, Ga. , May 26.—There was or
ganized here to-day the Georgia and Caro
lina Exchange, with J. R. Forrester of
Albany as president and J. J. A. Alvey of
Atlanta as secretary. Of 20,000 acres
planted in melons .this year.it is asserted
that the owners of more than 19,000 have
signified their intention of going into the
exchange. The plan includes the purchase
outright or control of the entire melon
crop, which is to be sold in the north through
agents in the different cities. Someone
commission man in each city will act as the
exchango agent. These men have already
been selected, and are in fact interested
financially in the organization. Atlanta is
to be the distributing point. The number
of car loads to bo seat to each city has been
fixed in a way which will prevent any
market being overstocked. This year’s
melon crop is estimated at 10,000 cars,
valued at $500,000.
A Franklin county farmer has been a sort
of stationary traveler. He was born in 1819 in
New Vineyard, which was t hen in Kennebec
county, Mass. The next year Maine became a
state, and afterward that part of New Vineyard
was set off into Industry, Somerset, county.
When Franklin county was formed Industry
was made apart of it, and since then that cor
ner of Industry has been annexed to Farming
ton. Tims it happens that Charles Graham
of Farmington. Franklin county. Me., who is 71
years old this month, has always lived where
he wasjberu, aud yet has lived iu Massacnu
setts, la Industry and New Vineyard, and in
Somerset aDd Keuuebeo counties.
State
or
Weather.
SYRUP OP FIGS.
OX® EXJOYS
Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts 1
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, i
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys
tem effectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro
duced, pleasing to the taste and ac
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial iu its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for snls in 50c
and $1 bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it- Do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
LOUISVILLE, AY. NEW YORK, N Y-
MEDICAL
PONDS EXTRACT
Sunburn, Piles,
Chafings, Cuts,)
Eruptions, Boils,
Sore Eyes, Burns,
Sore Feet, fjSffiSiMjß Wounds,
Mosquito Bites, |IIIIBBB Bruises,
Stingsoflnsects, R§|p|£i Catarrh,
Inflammations, Soreness,
Hemorrhages, BUFF WRAPPER. Lameness.
* AVOID IMITATIONS. ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTE.
POND’S EXTRACT CO., 76 Fifth Avenue, New York.
MARRIAGES.
RANSOM—PUGH.-Married. in St. John’s
church. Savannah, Ga.. May 21st, at 6 p. m.. by
Rev. J. V. Lewis. Clarence Ransom of Wilson,
Niagara county. New York, and Emily Puge of
Montreal, Canada.
FUNERAL INVITATIONS.
WOODS.—Tbe relatives and friends of Sam
uel A. Woods and Clayton R. Woods and fam
ily and Maj. Charles S. Hardee and family are
invited to attend the funeral of the former
from residence, No. 151 South Broad street, at
10 o'clock a. m. to-day.
MEETINGS.
OGLETHORPE LODGE NO. 1, I. O. O. F
A regular meeting will be held in the new
hall, in second story of lecture room of Trinity
church THIS (Tuesday) EVENING at 8 o’clock
Entrance corner of President and Jefferson
The Third Degree will be conferred.
Members ot sister Lodges and transient
brothers are cordially invited to meet with us.
WM. B. SPANN, Noble Grand.
H. E. Wilson, Secretary.
STOCKHOLDERS’ MEETING.
The Stockholders of the Franklin Savings and
Security Company are requested to attend a
special meeting of said company, to be held
TUESDAY', May 27th. at 8:30 p. m.. at office of
Secretary, 131 Congress street Business im
portant. C. P. MILLER, President.
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 $1 40 an
inch for the first insertion.
POSTPO.YEUSAI.K OF LOTS
—B Y—
TYBEE BEACH COMPANY,
Advertised to take place to-morrow and next
day—27th and 28th instant—has been post
poned by request of parties residing in
ATLANTA, MACON AND AUGUSTA
until JUNE 25th and 26th next, when it will be
more convenient to be present at sale.
The undersigned, however, will be at Ocean
House, Tybee, to-morrow, from 10:30 a. m. to
2:30 p. m. (standard time), and will be pleased
to show any lots to purchasers, as the lots on
the Island, owned by
TYBEE BEACH COMPANY,
are always for sale at minimum price on appli
cation to D. G. PURSE, Chairman.
THE SOUTHOY EH LAND AND IMPROVE
PROVEMENT COMPANY.
Those wishing stock in this company (which
means the building up of a suburban village at
Southover Junction) should apply at once to
the undersigned, as the list is rapidly Ailing up,
and only 500 shares will be taken at present.
The shares are $1 per month for fifty months.
J. L. WHATLEY,
US Bryan Street.
LUCKY MEN IN FLINT’S WATCH CLUBS.
CLUB NO. 1-32.
CLUB NO. 2-39.
CLUB Nu. 3-18.
CLUB NO. 4—13.
CLUB NO. 5-11.
CLUB NO. 6—13.
CLUB NO. 7- 3.
CLUB NO. 8-14.
NOTICE.
During my absence from the city my asso
ciate. DR. T. J. CHARLTON, will take charge
of my professional work.
W. DUNCAN, M. D.
SAVANNAHS GREAT ENTERPRISE.
SAVANNAH BREWING COMPANY
PIL 5E X BEER .
THE PEOPLE’S FAVORITE.
THE SAVANNAH BREWING COMPANY
Beg leave to inform.the public that
ON AND AFTER MONDAY. 20th INST.
ALL LEADING GROCERS AND DEALERS
Or THIS CITY
WILL ATTEND TO AND PROMPTLY FILL
ALL ORDERS FOR
F A MIL Y US E
Of the Savannah Brewing Company's
EXTRA PILSEN BEER,
MUNCHENER HOFBBAU BEER,
A pure and unadulterated brand of choicest
Bavarian Hops of our own importation.
Pl'BE ARTESIAN WATER
Can’t be had. but
BUFFALO LITHIA, BOWDEN LITHIA,
Mattonis Geishubler, Bethesda, Apolinaris,
Hawthorn, Congress, Imported and Saratoga
Vicby, can be had at
BUTLER’S PHARMACY,
*
Corner Bull and Congress Streets.
SPECIAL CASE PRICES.
DON’T TRAVEL WITHOUT IT.
No traveler should be without a bottle of
DR. ULMER'S LIVER CORRECTOR,
To ward off the ill effects incidental to a change
of climate and water. This faultless family
medicine is gaining popularity daily, and was
awarded highest prizes over competitors.
Prominent medical men indorse it. Ask for Dr.
Ulmer's Liver Corrector and take no other.
Prepared by B. F. Ulmer, M. D., Pharmacist.
Price, §1 00. Sold by ail druevists.
___ SPECIAL NOTICES.
THE FLEAS
Which are such a pest at this time can
be exterminated by getting at HEIDT’S
25c. bottle
FLEA. ROACH AND BED BUG
EXTERMINATOR.
Try it; you can depend upon it.
DR. T. F. ROBERSON,
DENTIST,—
COPPER YVORKERS.
IcIILLAir BEOS.',
SAVANNAH, GA.
FAYETTEVILLE, N. C,
j. ——.
Turpentine Stills
AND FIXTURES.
General Copper Workers.
Repairing a Specialty.
PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING.
QET YOUR BLANK BOOKS
’’yONE BETTER THAN THOSE MADE BY O
VTCHOLS. HE HAS THE BEST
JN STOCK, AND YOU
OAN MAKE YOURSELF AND HIM rp
JJAPPY IF YOU WILL j
( NLY GIVE HIM AN ORDER FOR A SET.
J OTS of BANKS and BUSINESS HOUSES C
OEND TO HIM FOR THEIR BOOKS. 93
O BAY ST
UNDERTAKERS.
J. E. HENDERSON. T. H. HENDERSON.
Tinas Mersm’s Sons,
UNDERTAKERS,
56 Drayton Street, Corner of Hull,
SAVANNAH. GEORGIA
—DEALERS IN
METALLIC CASKETS AND CASES,
ALSO WOOD CASES AND CASKETS.
Orders by telegram will receive prompt at
tention.
Residence: 135 York street, upstairs.
Telephone 238, both day and night.
CORN ICRs.
CHAS. A. COX
4C BARNARD ST.. SAVANNAH, GA.
—MAXUFACTURKa OF—
GALVANIZED IRON CORNICES
—AND—
TIN ROOFING IN ALL ITS ERANCHES
Estimates for city or country work promptly
furnished.
Agent for the celebrated Swedish Metafile
Point.
Agent for Walter’s Patent Tin Shingles.
FOOD PRODUCTS.
Forest City Mills,
MANUFACTURERS OF
FLOUR, GRITS. MEAL.
AND DEALERS IN
Corn, Oats, Hay, Bran, Seed Oats,
Seed Potatoes
AND ALL KIND OF MILL PRODUCTS.
STOVES.
THE NEW PROCESS
VAPO R STOVE.
The latest and best arrangement for Cooking.
It is simply wonderful and will
pay to investigate.
Cornwell & Chipman,
HARDWARE.
For Planters andGarffeners
Horse Kay Rakes, Buckeye and
Other Mowing Machines, Planet Jr. Horse
Hoes, Planet Jr. Cultivators, Lawn Mowers,
Potato Rakes, Etc. For sale by
PALMER HARDWARE COMPANY.
A.MTT SEM EXT 9.
TIEEIEj picnic
Wesley Monnmental Cbareh Sunday School
AT7 ILL be held at TYBEE, THURSDAY
y\ NEXT. May 29,h. The picnic tram wJ
leave Savannah Depot at 9:*) a. m, standard
and 10:06 a. m. sun time. Return will be mad<
at the usual schedule time— four minutes to sis
and ten o'clock p. m. sun time. Tickets 35 aur
They can be had at Yonge’s and
Heidt s Drug Stores, and at the train. The,
are good on any regular train. " J
HOUSE FURNISHING GOOIIi
ROYAL
MANHATTAN.
THE ABOVE IS A SECTIONAL VIEW
GRANGE
ON THE MARKET.
Full line of popular Cook
Stoves. Sole agency comer
Barnard and Broughton lane.
Successor to J. A. Douglas*
& Ca
MBBMB
STOVES
COM-
’ MON
• SENSE
J-+
ARGUMENTS are those that convince. Wi
never attempt ihe dictatorial Our warei
possess such intrinsic worth that people do the
talking for us. For instance, “The Souther!
Girl” has no equal on eartn. This applies to
the sex; the same, however, applies to oui
Cook Stove of this name, and likewise our “Iron
King,” both marvels of the improved inventive
age.
We also carry probably (we say probably—be
cause others claim the biggest) the largesi
stock of HOUSE FURNISHINGS in the city,
But this is not our “argument” day. hence a
personal visit will decide. Respectfully,
Norton & lanley,
Hanley’s Block.
PUBLICATION'S.
A. MTaTP
OF
SAVANNAH.
SIZE 30x34 INCHES.
SHOWING THE TRUE STREET AND PROP
ERTY LINES OF THE CITY.
pRINTED ON BOND PAPER and put up in
book form. Every property owner and real
estate dealer, and every other person interested
in the city should have a copy.
TRICE ONE DOLLAR.
FOR SALE AT
BUIS MS DEPOT.
PORTLAND CEMENT.
News
From T
-A.br oad.
IT'S the old saying, “One must go from horn*
to learn the news about oneself.*'
People who recently returned to the city pate
my immense establishment an especial visit be
cause they had heard so much about its magni
tude from strangers.
Savannahians nave no idea of the enormous
volume of trade done through my depot in a
fortnight. My shipments reach through thf
entire Southern States, and I am now lookec
upon as a “public enterprise" of Savannah. H
takes PLUCK and ENERGY to build such 2
REPUTATION. Business brought me capital.
Now I possess ALL. and people know where m
strike ROCK BOTTOM in BUILDERS' SUP
PLIES.
A. HANLEY,
HANLEY'S DEPOT.
BANKS.
'SAVINGS BANK7I
SAVANNAH BANK 4 TRUST CO.
4°lo
Deposits of $1 and Upward Receive!
ED U CATION AV*.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA.
SUMMER LAW LECTURES (nine weekly
begin 10th July, 1890, and end 10th Septem
tier For circular apply (P. O. University of '*(
to JOHN B. MINOR, Prof. Com. and Suit. Law