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BOSS BUCK IN THE CITY.
BIS ERRAND SAID TO 11BAN A
CHANGE OP POSTMABTERS.
Tha Party Autocrat to Confer Vith
the Office-holders end Office-seekers
To-day—Dick Dow, the Diplomat of
Buck’s Cabinet Said to Want the
Postoffice Himself- Feeling of Eis
pleasure That Dow Was Sent Down
Here and Unloaded on the Party-
Collector of Customs Johnson on the
Poetoffice Situation.
CoL A. E. Buck, chairman of the repub
lican state executive committee, is in the
city and registered at the PulaskL The
visit is a preconceived one and one which
CoL Buck has intended to make ever since
his return from Washington, about a month
ago.
TO SETTLE THE POSTOFFIOK MATTER.
The significance that attaches to the visit
is thought to pertain to the postoffice.
While here Col, Back will confer with the
party leaders, it is thought, with a view of
uniting them in their support of Joseph F.
Doyle for postmaster, and the pressure will
be very strong upon CoL Buck to recom
mend an immediate change in the Savan
nah po-toffice.
CoL Buck was not expected until to-day,
but it seems that the local republican lead
ers were getting restive, as the tune of the
congressional election is so near, and that
the urgency of immediate action ha* been
pressed upon the party hois in the state
until he lias come down to Savannah to
look over the ground before taking action.
DICK DOW, LIKE BARKIS, IS WILLIS’.
There is a well-grounded belief that Dick
Dow. an employe or the customs office
under Col ector Johnson, is pi >tting for the
appointment of himself for postmaster, and
that the bittern, ss of the factions
which existed before the assembling
of t;.e republican congressional convention
at Waycross was encouraged rather than
discouraged, and that he led both Doyle
and Porter to believe he was their friend
when he had the postoflice bee in his own
bonnet, and it is also said that he inspired a
1-tter published in an Atlant i paper show
ing tout some distinguished republicans of
Georgia had not been properly recognized,
himself among tho number.
There is n feeling among the republicans
Mro that Dow, an Atlanta man, ought to
hi: ve been provided for at home and not
uni adcd on the party bore. It is believed
that Collector Johnson would not have
objected to this, but he could not well re
fuse to accommodate Col, Buck, and con
sented to provide for Dow. The latter
takes the credit for diplomatic work in
having Capt, Doyle brought before the con
vention by Sneison and Pleasants, but this
claim is not conceded by either tho Doyle or
anti-Doyle faction.
COLLECTOR JOHNSON'S VIEWS.
Collector T. F. Johnson, in alluding to
the postofficj scramble, says that the nomi
nation of Capt. Doyle for congress means
Joseph F. Doyle for postmaster, which is
taknn to indicate that Mr. Johnson, who
has ail along been friendly to Porter’s can
didacy, and recommended ids appointment,
is now unwilling to antagonise Capt.
Doyle’s son further since the doughty cap
tain is willing to sacrifice himself in a hope
less race for congress.
MONEY LEB3 STRINGENT.
Why There ia Such a Local Scarcity
of Fractional Coin.
‘•How is the money marketf” a bank offi
cial was asked yesterday.
“Well, If yon want to make the compari
son with the condition of the money market
three weeks ago, it is much easier. I tell
you it took hustling to get the money in
bank to count, and now it takes hustling to
count it. It was absolutely impossible to
get currency, and for a time all we could
get was gold.”
“Is this the reason them has been so much
gold in circulation in Savannah lately f’
“Ye*. It was passed out as soon as it was
received, for there wob uo curreucy to be
had.”
“How do you account for the scarcity of
half dollars ana quarters in Savannah 1 ’ the
bank official was asked.
“It is easy enough to account for. The
demand for silver dollars and fractions of a
dollar from the interior to be paid to the
cotton harvesters is making fractional parts
of a dollar scarce, and I don’t believe there
is a bank in Savannah that has SSOO in
halves and quarters. But this money will
p etty much ull get back by December, aid
then there will beau abundance of small
change.
“Was there any material advanoe in
interest on loans here du: iug the money
stringency f” was next asked.
“Not to regular customers. They were
charged 7 per cent, right along as before,
lUt 8 per cent, was asked aud obtained
readily from outsiders. They were very
glad to be accommodated at anv price.”
Savannah tianks dnring the'tightness of
the money market carried their customers
right along, altcaugh it was a close oall,
aud it is learned tliaf as a matter of fact
the stringency nere was not felt so severely
as it was in other directions.
RAINS IN THE COTTON REGION.
The Low Area Moving Northward—A
Rift in the Clouds Predicted.
The low area is moving slowly north
ward, and the prospects are that while the
weather will be threatening to-day, with
rain at intervals, there will bo no such pre
cipitation as has characterized this section
for the last two or three days. Warmer
weather is predicted for to-day. The low'
area is expected to move out of the South
Atlantia states within the next forty-eight
hours, and possibly in twenty-four hours.
Until it does no suroeasa of ram can he ex
pected.
The r inf all at Savannah for the twenty
four hours ending at 8 o’clock last night,
•was 457 inches, but large as this is
Charleston eclipsed it with a fall of 5.44
Inches, nnd Wilmington distanced Charles
ton, for up to 8 oclock last night 8.58 inches
had fallen In twelve hours, ad it was still
raining. Rains were heavy at Albany and
Fort Gaines. There was no raiu in Texas
nor in Arkansas yesterday. Very little is
reported in Louisiana and the
extreme southern portion of Mis
s.sstppi aud Alabama. Rains were
heavy in Georgia, North Carolina.
South Carolina, Alabama and Tennessee,
end th* low area is moving north, extend
ing from the Atlantic coast to the Ohio
vailay.
The general prevalence of rains in the
south tends to lower the temperature
throughout the cotton belt. At Savannah
the maximum was but 72’ and the mini
mum went 6° lower.
The rains drove the cotton and rice har
vesters from the flelas, and further damage
to crops must result from the heavy raui
tall.
OUT RAN THE DESSOUG.
The Tug Cynthia Sights a Balling
Fleet Bound Southward.
The tug Cynt'nia No. 2, Capt. Charles
Haines, arrived here yosterday from Phila
delphia, where she bad been to have new
boilers put in. Her running time from
there was sixty-nine hours. She came out
of the capes with the steamship Dessoug
aud got here first. She bad good weather
until Wednesday morning, who i
she ran into a northeast gale
oil Frying Pan lightship. It blew great
guns and she shipped a hoavy sea, but she
proved herself to boa ffne sea boat.
Capt. Haines says that he passed a large
fleet of sailing vessels off Huttenu bound
•nutbward. Capt. John Williamson came
down in the Cynthia as pilot.
THE FBOOTOWN SENSATION.
Desperation of Koea Heller's Husband
to Obtain Her Remains.
The body of Rosa Heller, who died at
Mrs. Susan Strickland’s boarding house on
Sims street near Lumber, about 3:30
o’clock Wednesday afternoon, was
buried by Undertaker James Henderson at
Laurel Grove cemetery yesterday morning.
This b> the ci.se of which mention was
made In yesterday’s Morxi.no News of the
fierce contention over the dead woman’s
body by her husband and alleged lover, as
to who should have charge of tha body.
The information, as published in yester
dav’s Morning News, was brought to this
office at a late hour by a Mr. Barditt, a
Frenchman, who claimed to room in c!< s<*
proximity to the house, and the night being
inclement, the hour late and the place re
mote, the information was received and
published without vouching for its correct
ness, which was true only in part. It ap
pears that Barditt had a motive at the bot
tom for making the case, bad enough at
best, even worse than it was.
The story of Rosa Heller is a sad one,
indeed, and relates to a young life blighted
by the revolting brutality of one who should
have been her protector, hhe was 18 yeais
old at the time of her death. At 14 years of
age she was married, in Charleston, to
Herman Heiler, a man much older than
herself. From the very begin
ning of * their married life Heller’s
conduct toward his girl wife is said to have
been brutal in the extreme, and the cruel
ties said to have been practiced upon her
were inhuman and fiendish and more like
the acts of an insane person than a man in
his right mind. It is said that on several
occasions he attempted to take her life.
After having beaten and starved her, as
she related the story, Heller set her adrift
about a year ago, telling her that she was
not his lawful wife, as he had a wife and
two children elsewhere, at the same time
exhibiting the pictures of hi* alleged chil
dren by a former marriage.
The woman, who bad had to make her
own support while living with Heller, was
thrown upon her own resources. She found
her way to Augusta and afterward to Burke
oounty, where she met an old man named
Strange. 8 range took a fancy to the
woman, or girl rather, and wanted to marry
her. To this she agreed, and there was
some kind of oeremouy performed, but not
a legal marriage. She lived with Strangs
until his death, a Bhort while afterward,
and then came to Savannah, where she se
cured a placo os a houseglrl in a respectable
family.
Heller learned that ltosa was in Savan
nah and followed her here. He endeavored
in every way, by persuasion and afterward
by threats, to get her to live with him
again, hut she refused to do so. Because
she would not live with him he prosecuted
her for bigamy about six months ago,
and mention of the case was made
in the Moaning News at the time, the
woman’s name being then given as Rosa
Strange. In the preliminary hearing before
Justice Hheftall Rosa stated her connection
with Strange, and said that she lived with
him because he was kind to her and was
able to take care of her, but she did not
consider herself his wife. She was com
mitted to jail, however, but was afterward
released by order of the solicitor general.
Rosa had been working at the Empire
Steam Lau, dry prior to her death and
boarding with Mrs. Strickland on Sims
street. Hfiller still continued his efforts to
get her to come back to him, and threatened
to kill her if she did not.
About two weeks ago Rosa was taken
sick and was sent to the St. Joseph’s In
firmary. Heller called to see her at the
infirmary, and her detestation and fear of
himwete such that she jumped fr. m her
bod and thr ugh a window to escape from
him. Realising that her illness was mortal
she begged to be se.it back to Mrs. Strick
land’s, which was done.
Last Wednesday afternoon, when Rosa
was dying, Ile.lor stood at the bedside of
the woman whose life he had wrecked, and
made her last hours miserable by his pres
eooe. Her detestation of him was such
that even in her dying moments she turned
her head away from him and refused to
look at him.
The last request of the dying womon to
her friend, Mrs. Strickland, was, that she
should be buried decently, and that Heller
should not be allowed to have her body.
Mrs. Strickland promised to carry out her
request, which she taitbfully did. She noti
fied Undertaker Henderson of the death
and requested him to take charge of the
body, which was done.
Heller was bent upon securing the body
of the deceased. He called upon Under
taker J. Goette and requested him to take
charge of the remains, without informing
him os to the nature of the case. Mr.
Goette prepared a coffin, and, in company
with Heller, drove to the house. When
Mr. Goette learned that Mr. Henderson was
in charge, and had become better informed
about the case, Mr. Goette im
mediately refused to have any
thing to do with the matter.
Heller 9wore that he would have the body
at any cost. That night he went to Capt.
W. D. Dixon, making the same representa
tions to him that he had made to Mr.
Goette, and asked Capt. Dixon to take
charge of the body. A ooffln was prepared
and Mr. W. T. Dixon drove down with it,
but when Mr. Dixon learned from Mr. Hen
derson how the matter stood, he washed his
hands of the affair and drove back.
Heller was persistent and desperate in his
efforts, and came back to the house late at
night, cursing and threatening to break
down the door If he was not admitted, and
as he was kicking at the and o." a policeman
was called upon and took Heller away from
the house.
Yesterday morning Heller renewed his
efforts to secure possession of the body. He
endeavored to get a possessory warrant in
the magistrate’s courts for the body, but
was unsuccessfuL Justice Naughtin peremp
torily refused to listen to the fellow. By
representations to Dr. N rton, who at
tended the woman, Heller secured a
death certificate, and with this ob
tained a burial permit from Health
Officer Brunner, and the desperate
man endeavored to secure police interfer
ence, hut without success. Mr. Henderson
laid the whole matter before
the health officer and was
given a duplicate certificate, and the
body was buried about 10 o’clock yesterday
morning. Heller vowed that he would take
tho body and jump into the Savannah
river with it before anybody else should
bury it, but he did not attempt to carry his
throats intoexeention.
Kev. Mr. Royal of the Baptist church
conducted the funeral services, and the
body of tioor Rosa Heller was laid to rest at
lust, without further scandal, under the
shadow of the oaks at Laurel Grove.
AN EVEN DOZEN.
How the Mayor Disposed of Yesterday
Morning’s Docket.
Twelve prisoners were before the mayor
yesterday morning.
Robert late and James Murray, both col
ored, wore turned over to the city court for
larceny of four bags of shot from the
wharf of the Ocean Stoamship Company
Sept. 22.
J. 8. Parker (colored) was tilled sls or
thirty days for threatening, while under
tbe influence of liquor, to kill a negro wo
man with a knife.
Henry and Charles Canfall (colored) were
charged with cutting James Washington
(colored) in the Old Fort Wednesday mght.
Henry was fined sls or thirty days, aud
Charles was discharged.
Annie Hampton (colored! was finol $5 or
ten davs for disorderly conduct.
A. K. Ellersou, a white man, found drunk
at the Coast Line depot, was ordered to con
tinue his vooation of counting crossties on
his way ont of town.
HELL'S llAlii BALSAM.
If gray, gradually restores color; elegant
tonic dressing, 50c., $1 00, Druggists, or $1 (X)
size prepaid by express for $1 00. E. S. Wells.
.Jersey City. ROUGH ON TOOTHACHE. In
stant relief. 15c. —AUv.
THE MORNING NEWS : FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2S, 1890.
CONFLICT OF AUTHORITY.^
Secretary Wlndom Appealed to for a
Ruling.
Secretary of the Treasury Windom has
had a knotty case submitted to him for
solution growing out of a conflict between
the routine regulations of the custom house
and the laws of Georgia. The case is clearly
set out iu the letter addressed to Secretary
Windom yesterday by Messrs. Garrard &
Meldrim, attorneys for the legatee, asking
Secretary Wind-mi’s ruling in the matter.
The letter is as follow i:
“On Sept. 20, 1890, John N. Judkins of
fered for record at tha custom bnuse in this
city a certain receipt made by him for the
steam tug “Maggie,” tackel, apparel, etc.,
to W. J. Cleary and C. C. Ely, executors of
the last will of George T. Byrnes, deceased,
said tug having been devised to Judkins as
legatee under the will. Attached to the
receipt was a certificate of delivery and
also a certified copy of the probated wilL
“The officer in charge, as well as the col
lector. refused to record, contending that
the executors should make a regular bill of
sale upon a form which was furnished aod
which form, we understand. Corresponds
with a like form In the record book kept
for that purpose. The form is popularly
known as catalogue No. 520, and is drawn
agreeably to sections 4192 to 4196, both in
clusive, of the Revised Statutes.
“It is contended on the part of the execu
tors that they have complied with every
requirement of the laws of Georgia, and
this is true. And it is alleged on the part
of Judkins, the legatee, that the record of
the paper offered by him should not be re
fused because it has not complied with the
exact regulations of the custom house, and
particularly as the provisions of the sec
tions of the Revised Statutes above referred
to are complied with in spirit as well as iu
letter. We maintain, as a legal proposi
tion, that the word ‘conveyance,’ as used in
sections 4192 and 4193, means a transfer of
any kind, and certainly a transfer by will is
the very highest tuna of conveyance.
“In order that the entire matter may be
thoroughly understood a oopy of the receipt
and will is herewith enclosed for your per
sonal insoection.
“Inasmuch as there is a conflict between
the laws of Georgia, as we understand them,
and the routine regulations of the custom
house here, it was agreed between the col
lector and ourselves that the question
should bo submitted to you for determina
tion, and that we should obtain at the earli
est possible moment your ruling la the
premises. We, therefore, submit that mat
ter to you and trust that in view of all the
circumstances you will make a ruling at
your earliest possible convenience and
commnnicate it either direct to us or
through the collector of the custom house
at this port.
“Wo may mention iu this connection that
we offered to attach to the receipt, etc., in
question, a copy of the license which usually
accompanies a bill of sale.”
A FRIGHTENED HUSBAND.
A Railroad Engineer Taught by His
Wife Not to Talk Back.
A man representing himself to be a rail
road engineer spent Wed-esday and
part of yesterday in search of his
wife. According to the man’s story
he had sold his home in Alabama, and
ho aud his wife were on their way to South
Carolina to make their home, but while
they were in Atlanta the man either lost
his natch or it was stolen from him.
By mutual agreement the wife retained
the proceeds of tbe Bale of the Alabama
property and their combined savings of a
married life of nearly a quarter of • cen
tury, proceeding on to Macon, the husband
remaining at Atlanta to try to recover his
lost watch, and they were to join each other
at Macon in a day or two. The husband
kept out of their surplus funds S2O.
On Monday the man abandoned hope of
recovering his ticker and ran down to
Macon, but his wife was not to be found at
the hotel where it bad been agr e! she
should stop. The now perturbed husband
called on Chief Kenan of the Macon police
to aid him in a search for the woman who
had all the family wealth amounting in
ourrency and negotiable paper to about
$9,000. After a thorough search of tbe city
at the hnsband's request Chief Kenan wired
Chief Green of the ttavannah police depart
ment giving a description of the woman,
and asking that she be shadowed, as it was
learned that the wife had left almost im
mediately for Savannah after her arrival at
Macon. She staid only long enough at
Macon to instruct the postmaster to for
ward her mail to Savannah, giving three
addresses to which they should be sent,
only one of which was in her own name.
The husband came on to this city and
Srofli cuted his search here in company with
letectivo Basch until the wife was found,
but the sequel shows that the man’s story
was not strictly correct.
It is said the true story is to the effect
that there was a quarrel between the two,
and the woman concluded, in a moment of
passion, to leave her liege lord and proceed
on her wav without him, and she acted on
the impulse, and, as tbe money was her
own, she carried it along with her. When
the two met iu Savannah they made up and
continued their journey together. The
wife, however, gave the old man a scare
that he is not l'kely to soon forget, and
hereafter he will be careful how he talks
back.
CITY BREVITIES.
The steamer Wm. M. Wadley came down
off Wiilink’s marine railway yesterday
ofter having been overhauled and repaired.
There was a swell wedding in colored cir
cles last night at St. Phillip’s African M. E.
church. F. L. Dixon, a waiter at the
Screven house, and Viola Stokes, being the
contracting parties.
The British steamship Roxburgh Castle
was cleared yesterday by Messrs. A. Minis'
Sous for Barcelona with 5,300 bale* of up
land cotton, weighing 2,677,519 pound*,
valued at $277,946 W.
Dr. George H. Stone is making consider
able improvements on his lot on the south
west corner of South Broad and Habersham
streets. The greater portion of the obi
tenement bouses are being torn down, and
will be replaced by new tenements, and the
old one* will be remodeled.
Mr. Robinson, of the banking bouse of
Messrs. H. F. Dutton & Cos., of Gainesville,
Fla., was in the city yesterday on his way
home from the north. Mr. Robinson has
been north visiting the eastern mills and
reports a good prospect for sea islaud cotton
this season in the way of manufacturing.
Dr. Sheftall cut a pistol ball out of the
ieg of a 16-year-old uegro boy by the name
of Paul Thomas yesterday. Thomas said
he was shot by another negro boy iu the leg
in Cooper Shop lane the day before, but
be claims not to know the name of the
boy who shot him. The bullet struck the
right leg above the knee and came out near
below the hip.
Mr. William Kehoe is confined to his
bouse by a painful fracture of his left fore
arm, which he sustained by being thrown
from his buggy on Congress street, Wednes
day morning. Mr. Kehoe was driving
along the street Just as a shower came up,
and when in front of C. H. Dorsett’s office
bs buggy was caught between two heavy
wagons that were hurrying to got out of the
rain. A shaft of the buggy caught in the
hind wheel of one of the wagons and was
snapped off, and the swingle-tree was also
broken. The horse became frightened and
attempted to run, throwing the buggy,
which was still liung to the wagon, upon its
side. Mr. Kehoe fell upon the pavement
aud the buggy struck his left arm, causing
the fracture. He wa3 carried into Mr. Dor
sett’s cfttice and Dr. Owens was called in
and rendered surgical aid.
A Refreshing Beverage
For breakfast, luncheon and supper is
Sirocco Tea, Introduced in this market by
tiio growers, direct from their gardens in
India and Ceylon. Davidson & Cos., 1436
Broadway, New York. Savannah agents,
Lippwau Bros,—Ativ.
(jUAYIS.M IN POLITICS.
POSTOFFICB EMPLOYES GET A
CIRCULAR LETTER.
They Are Asked to Contribute to the
Republican Congressional C ampaign
Fund—The Secret Circular Falla Into
the Hands of Some of the Un terri
fied Democracy and Leaks Out—
The Savannah Republicans Fly in
the Face of Civil Service Reform—
The Internal Revenue Officers and
Customs House Officials Hera and
at Brunswick Also Appealed to for
Boodle.
The finance committee of the republican
congressional committee do not appear to
hold civil service reform in very high es
teem. The exigency of politics with them
seems to have caused them to forget that
one of the shining planks of the annual
platform of the grand old party is f r civil
servioe reform, but it appeas that th y
ask aid of the government employes with a
big “A.”
A RAID OS THE POSTOFFIC* CLERKS.
The employes of the poetoffice have all
received a very neatly printod request from
James E. Whiteman, the chairman of the
finance committee of the republican con
gressional committee of the First district,
requesting a contribution from them to the
republican oampalgn fund to be expended
in the election of the republican candidate
for oongress.
Bome of the employes of the postoffloe
are democrats and they have no inclination
to contribute to the republican campaign
fund.
While it is fully understood that all re
publicans appointed to government posi
tions under the present administration are
expected to contribute, the democratic office
holders seriously object to helping to swell
the republican campaign fund, and from
one of them the following circular has been
handed in to the Morning News:
A REMITTANCE ASKED FOR.
FINANCE COMMITTEE:
J. E. Whiteman, Chairman.
J. Mcßride, Treasurer.
R. W. White.
Rev. Flovd Snelson.
E. R Belcher.
Rooms Rbp. Cono. Com., Ist Hist. Ga„ I
Savannah, Ua., Sept. 24, 1890. )
sir— The republican district convention held
at Waycross, Ga., Sept. 16, unanimously nomi
nated Capt. M. J. Doyle of Savannah as their
candidate for congress, and knowing your zeal
and devotion to the cause of republicanism, we
take pleasure in asking your aid in tbe further
ance of said cause by donating such an amount
as you conveniently can to assist the campaign.
Please remit to my address, and I will for
ward receipt for the same. Your*, respect
fully, James E. Whiteman,
Chairman Finance Committee,
Savannah, Ga
It is understood that all of the officials of
the custom house, from Collector Johnson
down to the canary-colored messenger, have
recoived copies of the oircular. which has
also been sent to the deputies collector of
internal revenue here and at Brunswick and
to Collector Doveaux and his corps of
assistants at the Brunswick custom house.
LOCAL PERSONAL.
R. C. Glover left for Augusta last night.
Maj. H. P. Smart went to Macon last
night
Miss Bertha Dunning of Atlanta is visit
ing her friend Miss Bessie Farr.
Mrs. Maurice Deitsh and Mr*. Herman
Myers left for the north yesterday.
A. Leffler arrived home on the City of
Birmingham yesterday morning from New
York.
T. M. Cunningham returned from New
Y. rk yesterday morning on the steamship
City of Birmingham.
C. P. Miller was among the passengers
returning on the steamship City of Bir
mingham from New York.
Capt. Johu Taliaferro, accompanied by
his summer school boys, returned from
Virginia ■ esterday, and will reopen his
school on Oct 1.
Chr. G. Dahl, wife and child returned
home on the City of Birmingham from
New York. Mrs. Dahl has been on a visit
to Norway where she spent the summer.
Jacob Paulsen and son returned home
yesterday from Europe on the steamship
City of Birmingham from New York. Mr.
Paulsen is looking quite well and his trip
seems to have benefited him very much.
George W. Eley, traveling passenger
agent of the “Sunset Route,” on the South
ern Pacific, with headquarters at Mont
gomery, is in the city, as is also W. P.
Davison, the agent of the Central railroad
at Macon.
The many friends of DeWltt Bruyn will
be plea-ied to hear that he has recovered
from bis late severe illness and has returned
to Savannah to make his home here. Mr.
Bruyn came to Savannah to superintend
the building of St. John’s ohurcb over
thirty-five years ago. Since that time he
has made thi* city his home, with tb ex
ception of a yea*or two in Alabama and
last year la Brunswick.
“LIGHTS AND SHADOWS.”
Gayler’s Great Melodrama at the
Theater Next Tuesday Night.
"Lights and Shadows” is booked for the
theater for Tuesday night. Sept. 30. The
St. Louis Globe-Democrat thus speaks
favorably of the popular play. It says:
“A melodrama of much merit iu action,
dialogue, situations and scenic splendor is
holding the b( arda at the People’s this week.
It is called ‘Light* and Shadows,’ and is
from the pen of Mr. Charles Gayler. The
scenes are laid in New York city, and well
display the happiness and wretchedness that
life in the metropolis presents. Some of the
stage settings are very beautiful, and the
meohantcal effects are sometimes amazing,
as in the third act, where the hero and
heroine, being confined under a dock at the
river front, their lives are attempted by
river pirates, who attempt to drown them
by admitting the water that rises at flood
tide. In the brief space of forty seconds
2,400 gallons of water rushes from a hidden
tank over the stage.”
A BRACE OF ROBBBRIEB.
Two Stores on Broughton Street
Raided Wednesday Night.
Thieves effected an entrance to the mer
chant tailoring store of J. F. Kennedy night
before iast and carried off cloth valued at
from S2OO to S3OO. The entrance was from
the lane side, the thieves boring out a piece
of wood large enough to reach inside aud
turn the key in the lock of the back door.
Thieves also effected an entrance to the
ice cream saloon of J. H. Johuson Wednes
day night and tapped the till. Some sls
or S3O was extracted. No clew to the
thieves is reported by the detectives.
A Reprieve for the Condemned.
Wretched men and women long condemned
to suffer the tortures of dyspepsia, are filled
with new hope after a few doses of Hostetter’s
Stomach Bitters. This budding hope blossoms
into the fruition of certainty, if the Bitters is
persisted in. It brings a reprieve to all dys
peptics who seek its aid. Flatulence, heart
burn, sinking at the pit of the stomach between
meals, the nervous tremors and insomnia of
which chronic indigestion is the parent, disap
pear with their hateful progenitor. Most benefi
cent of stomachics! who oau wonder that iu so
many- instances It awakens grateful eloquence
in those who, benelitted by it, speak voluntarily
in its behalf. It requires a graphic pen to de
scribe the torments of dyspepsia, but in many
of the testimonials received by the proprietors
of the Bitters, these are portrayed with vivid
truthfulness. Constipation, biliousness, mus
cular debility, malarial fevers and rheumatism
are relieved by it.—Adi).
When you go tu the springs take with
you a bottle of Bradycrotlne for Headache
— AUv.
, BAKING POWDER.
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—U. S. Gov’t Report, Aug. 17, 1889.
Rdfol
I\ , jE®a® Powder
ABSOLUTELY PURE
RAIL AND CRO3BTTB.
Dave G. Hall of New Orleans has been
appointed traveling passenger ageut of the
Central of Georgia at Birmingham, to sac
oeed W. H. Winston, resigned, the appoint
ment to take effect Oct. L
Work on the Thomasville end of the
Georgia Southern branch to Tbomasville
will begin next Monday. The main camp
will be pitched sixteen miles from Thomas
ville. Hands are being gathered this week.
Among the realty transfers recorded in
Baldwin county, and published in the
I)aphDe Times, is one by the Mobile and
GirM-d Railroad Company to the Vankirk
Land aud Construction Company, the lands
k iown as the Girard railroad’s lands—con
sideration, to be afterward paid, 9142,000.
All the limited trains of the Pennsylvania
are now fitted up with the most elaborate
conveniences for the traveling public. They
include a barber shop, a smoking room and
a writing room. These may be called the
stationary conveniences. The cars are also
supplied with a maid whose exclusive atten
tion is given to the requirements of the
ladies, and a typewriter who writes letter*
either by dictation or from manuscript. No
chai ga whatever is made for the services of
the operator.
A change ia the Bout hern Railway and
Steamship Association classifications that
will be adopted on all southern roads goes
into effect Oct. 1. On cotton piece goods—
calicoes, oanton flannels, cotton warp, cot
ton rope and twine, cotton varn, plaids,
domestics, cotton duck, drills, cambrics,
osuaburgs, sheetings, tickings, window hol
lands, cottonades, cotton jea is and cotton
shirtings—will be advanced from sixth to
fifth class. Lemons and oranges in boxes
will be advanced from fourth class to third
class.
The Macou Ne ws says that there is a little
flurry in the bonds of the railroads of the
Macon Construction Company. They are
advancing. There is also an advance la the
st ok of the Macon Construction Company.
It la understood that telegrams have been
received from President W. B. Sparks of
t e Macon Construction Company, who has
been in New York several months, stating
that he has succeeded in making all neoes
sary money arrangements for the successful
carrying on of his railroad enterprises at
Macon.
For a long time past the management of
the Cincinnati Southern railroad has been
seriously contemplating the remodeling, or
rather the rooo: struction of two or three of
the more important of the road’s twenty
seven tunnels. It has now been decided to
reconstruct tunnel No. 27. so as to make It
of perfect barrel form. During this work a
temporary track will be laid around the
tunnel, or on the hill above it. The contract
for the work will shortly be awarded jointly
to Headmaster Mullane aud VV. C. Squires.
The latter built nearly all of the Cincinnati
Southern tunnels.
Auditor W. T. Heflin, of tho Georgia
Southern railroad, is dangerously ill. He
had but recently recovered from a long and
severe illness when he attempted to resume
work, and a relapse came which put him in
a more critical condition than before. He
insisted on going down the road with the
last pay train in spite of the advice of Mr.
Hoge and others. He was determined to
"keep up with the procession.” atidfelt that
he could not remain idle as long as he was
out of bed. Mr. Heflin is a valuable man
to the Georgia Southern, aid his employers
are anxious that he should be restored to
full health and usefulness as soon as pos
sible.
The Birmingham Age-Herald is responsi
ble for the following amusing story of the
Birmingham, Cahaba aud Water Valley
road: “Anew railroad, the Birmingham,
Cahaba and Water Valiev, with a connect
ing line of the Birmingham Freight and
Mineral railroad, was to be built to belt the
Birmingham district, to tap Heola, Vulcan.
Coalburg and other mines, and tapping the
Cahaba, where it is navigable, float iron
and coal by water to the sea. J. W.
Worthington, H. F. Deßardeleben and Col.
Thomas tjeddon are among the directors,
and Thomas Worthington is the president
of the new road. A meeting of the
officers aud directors was held
yesterday iu the office of J. W.
Worthington & Cos., and it was there
resolved that work begin at once and
that the grading contract be let inside of
thirty days. The new road will have it*
headquarters in this city. The shops and
yards will be either located in this city or at
Henryellen. At the back of the syndicate
the Louisviile and Nashville looms up, and
Birmingham will have a water route to the
sea, like Sheffield has. This is all well
enough, and sounds very true and glowing,
but it is also said that the whole thing is a
hoax, aud the Birmingham, Catiaba and
Water Valley and the Birmingham Freight
aud Mineral roads originated in the brilliant
mind of W. P. Carney, the well known
aud genial contractor, and it is
further said that the whole story
is this: Several years ago Mr.
Carney was engaged in building a railroad
bridge across the Cahaba. He had a large
flat scow which he used to haul stone down
the river from the quarries to the bridge
This scow was dubbed the Birmingham
Cahaba and Water Valley railroad, and
much fun was elicited out of the general
managers and freight aud traffic agents of
the line. In a spirit of fun Mr. Carney had
printed a lot of annual Da*se, g.<xl on the
new road and signed with his name as
president of the same. These passes he
distributed around among his friends,
and every railroad man in the city
received one. The response was return
annual passes from the Louisville and Nash
ville, Georgia Pacific, Central of Georgia
and other roads. When Mr. Carney took
his celebrated California trip his fame had
preceded him es the president of the Bir
mingham, Cahaba and Water Valley rail
road, and he was wined, dined and inter
viewed from Sacramento to Los Angeles, all
the while keeping up the dignity of a rail
road king, and gravely assuring press aud
public that the Birmingham, Cahaba and
Water Valley railroad was the day star of
the new south.” The selection of Tom
Worthington as president was a huge joke
on that gentleman.
First Opera of the Season.
The “Gondoliers,” the latest comic opera
success by those great composers, Gilbert
and Sullivan, will be produced for the first
time in Savannah next Wednesday and
Thursday, Oct. 1 and 2. The management
claim that it will be the greatest production
of comic opera ever seen in the south, pre
senting the costumes and scenery used at the
Savoy theater, London. The company is a
large and strong one, numbering forty-five
people, and with their own orchestra.
Shk Ocoht To.—“No," said the society belle
at her toilet, “I never blush—though I do some
times change color.” And she tried an entirely
new brand of rouge.— Chicago Tribune.
“Dvspspsia.” says Carlyle, "kills ambition ”
But poets never have dyspepsia, it is their
readers that have it Boston Courier.
Thero is not a medicine sold that can be
substituted for Lamar’s Diarrhoea Mixture
— Adv.
Seeking Buried Treasure.
A trim little schooner has been laving off
Point St. George, above Crescent City, for
several days, says the San Frnuoisoo Chron
icle. She is under command of Capt. Gee,
who has with him a number of divers, who,
under his directions, are hunting for count
less stores of gold, which are said to be
thereabouts in 100 fathoms deep.
Twenty-five years ago, Aug. 6, a small
boat containing sixteen persons landed on
the beach at Crescent City. They stated
that they were survivors of the steamer
Brother Jonathan, which had been wrecked
by striking on a rock ten or twelve miles be
low Crescent City, and that all hands except
that boat load had perished. The boat con
tained Third Mate Patterson, a woman and
her son, and some Kanakaneck hands. A
boat was manned and went to the scene of
the wreck, but not a vestige of it remained.
The vessel was bound from San Francisco
for Victoria with a cargo of rich treasure,
and had on board over 250 passengers.
When Point St. George was reached a heavy
gale arose, little headway could be made,
and in an attempt to enter the Crescent
City harbor a rock cut through the vessel
and she sank.
Capt. Gee, however, cares less for the
resurrection of these stirring details than
for the resurrection of the famous treasure
which the Brother Jonathan was known to
contain. A sailmaker nano's! Wood, who
reside* on Third street,conceived the theory
about the exact lay of the lost treasure, and
fitted out a vessel to take soundings for the
submerged ship off Crescent City. The re
sult of hi*soundings was an algebraio minus,
whiob, as every schoilboy knows, is dis
mally less than nothing itself.
The search for the treasure has enlisted
more hunters than one might imagine.
There are a number of old skippers who
have looked it up with fruitless toil. One
of them, in conversation with a Chronicle
reporter, said that Capt. Gee would never
locate the treasure.
“He has never struck the right lay,” said
the salt-water prophet. “He has hunted
within a radius of fifteen miles off Crescent
City, when he should have made an allow
ance for time and tide and gone ont thirty
five miles.”
“What is the amount of tbe treasurer
was asked.
"One million dollars,” was the sententious
reply.” I tried at it myself,” he sighed, “but
failed.”
Those who know say that thousands of
dollars have already been spent in trying to
find the wreck. Capt. Gee himself has
heeded several attempts, but he thinks his
present one will prove sncoessful.
The Bunday Morning News
Will be found regularly on sale at th* fol
lowing places;
fistill’s News Depot,
Conner’s News Stand.
E. J. Kieffer’s Drug Store, corner West
Broad and Stewart streets.
T. A. Mullryuo & Co.’s Drug Store, We3t
Broad and Waldburg streets.
St. J. R. Yonge’s Drug Store, corner
Whitaker and Duffy streets.
McCauley & Co.’s Drug Store, corner
New Houston and Drayton streets.
W. A. Bishop’s Drug Store, corner Hall
and Price streets.— Adv.
“The Famous"
Is crowded with good thiugs in the line of
wearing apparel for men and boys for fall.
One thing is a settled fact, and of great in
terest to clothing buyers; that is that “The
Famous” is not a high priced house. We
aim to supply the best the market affords
at a reasonable price, guaranteeing every
garment to be as represented. Clothing
buyers have the advantage, by buying of
"The Famous ,” of getting good, reliable,
high grade clothing without having to pay
high prices.
* * *
For school boys we have put in an extra
large stock. Strong School Suits you oan
buy at $2 50 made especially for the pur
pose. Don’t sneer at tbe idea of buying a
good all Wool Boys’ Suit for that price.
Come and look at it and satisfy yourself.
Plenty fine Suits, also.
* * * *
Hats for fall in all shapes, colors and quali
ties, aud as in clothiug we guarantee to save
you money. Sole Agent for the Miller
Stiff Hats, the very best hat made.
“The Famous” Clothing House,
148 Broughton Street, Savannah, Ga.,
Adi'. — Bennett Hymes, Proprietor.
Sternberg’s Art and Jewelry Palace.
We are opening new goods daily.
Artistic lamps just In.
Have added a line of flue crockery ware.
Ornamental goods.
In jewelry, tne popular novelties.
Going to get married*
Got a friend who is going to step offl
We have wedding presents.
In fact, we make a specialty of wedding
gifts. 8
Get a diamond.
We have tho loose stones, beauties too.
Select your stone,
We’ll mount it or set it as you may desire
Siverware.
Exquisite creations of the silversmith’s
fancy.
Onyx clocks.
Onyx tables, brass or bron* table* and
stands.
Call iu and see our treasures.
You are wecome.
Just as glad to see you—even if you don’t
buy.
157 Broughton street.
M. Sternberg & Bro.— Adv.
A Word With You.
Dear Reader: We want your trade, and
by means of this “ad” are seeking to get
your attention and attract you to our
store. If you are a customer of ours we are
anxious to increase our business with you;
if you are not we hope you soon will be
as no honorable means will be spared to
attain this end.
That ,' vo kee P best qualities of every
thing all who deal with us will attest, and
while we kno .v cheap, trashy stuffs ’often
catch the unwary and inexperienced, we
prefer to maintain our well-earned and
wide reputation, and let somebody else sell
trash and shoddy. Nothing is misrepre
sented, as we would rather miss a sale than
deceive a customer, We guarantee you the
lowest possible figures. Our stock is the
finest, most varied and attractive we have
ever shown.
What we want you to do is to visit our
store, whether yon buy or not. We will
treat you as nicely as we know how, and
will not insist on selling you against your
inclination, but we do insist that you exam
ine our goods and see for yourseif if is is
not to your interest to deal with us.
We are anxious for your trade and influ
ence, and when you come to see ns we will
make your visit at least a pleasant one.
P. S.—See large "ad.”
Adv. Lindsay & Morgan.
She—George, dear, what do you think our
happiness is chiefly dependent upon*
his arm steals about her willowy
waist)—Lpon our surroundings, sweet—Bur
linoton tree Piets.
LUDDEX * BATES a. M. II
SOLID SHOT
And Hits the Bull’s
Eye Every Time.
We cell a genuine sterling Vinac
at $250, on easy terms.
We sell any atyle of celebrated
Chickering Pianos at lees than the
Xew York war* room price, or no
sale.
We seU a genuine Uathusheh
Piano at $325, regularly sold for
$BO5. Needless to praise this In
strument. Every one knows it.
We sell a Mason & Hamlin Organ,
the beet in the world; eleven stops
four sets reeds, five octaves, beau
tiful case, at $9B. Sold in Boston
warerooms at $99. Prove it, 0r
no Sale.
We alao give * six year*’ guaranty
and a Stool. Cover and 7
free. Our trade being by far
et In the *outh, we are
our customers the benefit
best prices for the very
ments known to the trade. "
LUDDEN & BATES a Ia
DRY GOODS*. ’
1891 Witter, i®
CEfIBAttDOOI!
137 Broughton Street.
f)UR FALL STOCK THIS SEASON IS THU
most attractive we cave ever exhibit*.!
Our prices will b • as low as any first-class house
in America, and lower thau those of the -•-,<*
major,ty of the trade. We do not“Lm
necessary to go into long descriptions of™,
various lines of goods, and we feel sure thatrou
would not read them if we did. It is iSv
necessary t° say that our reputation, so w'il
for always having trie best stock of
reliable Dry Goods, Motion*, Hosiery and Q- n .
tlemen a Furnishing Goods in this city shall be
mamtained during this Fall aud
CBMMI
COAX AND WOOD.
COAL, MOD, LIE
Cement ai Plaster.
DENIS J. MURPHY
Office 7 Drayton Street.
Telephone 49.
COAL AND WOOD
OF ALL KINDS AND SIZES PROMPTLY
DELIVERED.
ID- _R. THzLOxrxas,
HI Bay St. West Broad St. Wharves
Telephone No. 69.
HOTELS.
PULASKI HOUSE
Savannah, ga.
Management strictly fint-class.
Situated in the business center,
L. W. SCOYILLE.
THE MORRISON HOUSE.
C CENTRALLY LOCATED on line of street
1 cars, offers pleasant south rooms. v'“*
regular or table board at lowest summer rates.
New baths, sewerage and ventilation
the sanitary condition of the nouse is of
best.
Cor. BROUGHTON and DRAYTON STREETS
DAVIS* BHOs
PULLED!
Under arrest by one of our.fin.tsf. because**
practised thirteen hours a day on a '
Piano. Moral—lf you desire to be a Me. •
rather than a nuisance, buy oue of, toe
braied makes from the ’‘leaders - M ,,.,
Kranich & Bach, Conover. Emerson or j
rington. Guaranteed to retain their sweet ,
for ever; no tin-pan. no buzz-saw, but .
and reliable instruments at popular price*
terms.
DAVIS BROS
