The morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, May 03, 1891, Image 5

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Newspaper Page TextROTTEHSOX the track. , hB season OPENS TPIS WSt K aN j Pi OMiSES GSE AT THINGS. , ricC jpal Events Forecast, With a \Vo.d About the Horses That Miy Mas R-c;rds—Sunol’a Chances- Keiion and Btamboul After a New SuKion Record-Some Bg Furses cSfe.ed. < Copyright.) s r x York, May 3.—The trotting season n t be east opens this week. The programme |f southeastern circuit names Tuesday, l)s y , as the opening day, and the gentle nPn s anving park, Baltimore, as the place, gesiies Baltimore this circuit iuciudes Philadelphia. Pittsburg and Washington. if 9 r 12 the trotters will be at Beimont ?ar i, Philadelphia, and a week later they Bill have moved to Point Breeze. May 26 inU find them at Homewood park, Pitts- Kjrr. and on June 2 they will be back again I, Baltimore at Pimlico track. From there jey will go to Washington for thoraces (ticb begin June 9. facl) of these meetings will last four days, c j, as liberal purses will be given, some of t e nest trotters in the east will contest in s? various classes. Fairmont park, Philadelphia, will also in durate its season May 5, and Fleetwood ur'fc. New York, will follow a week or so iter. In fact this week marks the real be aming of a season which promises to in lude as much of interest to lovers of a good or— as any tnat has gone before. A survey < the tracks where the flyers have been itr.bered up during the early spring, shows •> much good work that horsemen have iredicted phenomenal results for the season, ast year was remarkable not so much for ndividual performances, as for the great number of young horses showing speed unusual for their age, and almost certain to develop into genuine wonders under good handling. Indeed so favorable is the pros pect and so evident the increase of popuiar interest in the trotting turf, that it seems worth while, just as the season is opening to forecast its principal events, be fore speaking of the noble animals whose performances will be the theme of world wide comment. The lesser circuits, and the meetings at numberless parks throughout the country are subsidiary to the interest in ti e great event of the season, the grand circuit, in which the speediest of the trotters will try conclusions. The grand circuit meetings are in every way the biggest of the year. They take place on the finest tracks and the largest purses are given. They are attended by enormous crowds of people; it is nothing unusual for 20,C00 spectators to gather at one of these meetings. They take place in the height of the sea-on after the horses have been tried ad gotten in trim at the ■minor meetings, and when enthusiasm runs high among the backers of the most prom 'isuc. 7he cities in the grand circuit are Pitts burg. Cleveland, Buffalo, Rochester, Pough kee.sie, Hartford, Springfield, Nov York and Philadelphia. The initial meeting will take place a Homewood park, Pittsburg, ab ut the middleof July. Unusuallyhaud emne purs s will be offered in the 3:20, 2:23, 3:37, 2:30 and other classes for trot ters, and the 2:17, 2:20 and 2:25 classes for pacers. 11 horses that will contest at the open ing me ting will go through the circuit, i'robably they will be seen next at Cleve land, then at Buffalo. At Rochester they will appear Aug. 11. Here the great Flower City stakes of SIO,OOO for horses t. at can trot better than 2:30 will be won. After Rochet ter ermes Poughkeepsie, and then the great meeting at Charter Oak Park, Hartford, w hen the big purses will bo of fer and in the fastest classes. Among the many notable horses that will be seen on the gland circuit this season will be Margaret S., 2:12j- 9 (the biggest winner < a the circuit last season); Homestake, 2: H■ i ; Leopold R05e,2:15%: Mocking Bird, 2:16 : ;:: Pixley, 2:16; Rosaline Wilkes, 8:14.%; Mambrino Maid, 2:l7k' McDoel, 2:lsk'; l'nrmlico, 2:10,.*; Keno F., 2:17; Walter E., tils; Alfred 8., 2:l6k'; Simmocolou, 2:19; btevie, 2:19; Nauev Hank?, 2:14k; Miss Alice, 2:lJj£; St. Eimo, 2:18%; Maggie &, 2:lk Alvin, 2:16, and a host of others with records well under 2:30. idle only one of the great campaigners Purely out of the race is Prince Regent, A.,, who made a grand showiug last year ad was the pride of his owner, C. J. Ham.in of Buffalo. Great things were ex pected of him this season, and his death tr in pneumonia, April 11, was universally regarded as a pity. Outside tbe circuit the three horses which will be watched most closely are Sunol, kelson and Stambou!. That the handsome daughter of old Electioneer has not, in the last two seasons, reduced her marvelous l'eeord as a 3-year-old, 2:10%, affords no reason to hoIiPTO that she can never get down to 2:08>4 , and carry off the honor so long held by Maud S. Sunol is six years younger than Maud S. was when she made her record, and she should get down to it if she lives, and escapes accident. There are many who believe that she will certainly get down to 2:09 this season. She is now in prime condition at Senator Stanford’s Palo Alto farm, according to latest report*. I have heard horsemen comment upon Sunol’s chances, and the most unfavorable criti cism they express is that she is a sprinter; or, in other words, that she makes fast time hv virtue of remarkable spurts rather than by steady work from the start. Passing from the queen to the lesser dig nitaries we come to a group of four 5-year olds that will appear in one of tbe greatest events of the season, the stake race to be trotted on the kite-shaped track at Inde pendence, la,, during the summer meeting. They are Alabaste , Margaret 8.. Nancy Hanks and Allerton. It will probably be the most stubbornly contested race ever witneseed. There was a report last year that Nancy Hanks was “done for;” that her fore legs bad given out, and that the great expectations she had raised by her splendid work were never to be re alized. There was nothing in it except that she was a iittle out of condition. She is in fine form now, and there is no question that she will lower her record, barring accidents. The same story was told about Allerton after the great Expectation stakes >n 1 Detroit in July, but he is all right this year. In fact, the four trotters named are ell in prime condition, and they will be saved for this event. Nancy Hanks is known us the great uubeaton, a title which explains itself. She is the property of H. Boswell of Lexington, Ky. Leaving the trotters for a moment, there mould be good work done by the pacer this ••ason, and the beating of Johnston’s reco- and of 2:06)4 is not an unreasonable expecta tion. Hoy IVilkes, 2:08% is the nearest to ■t, but tbere are others with perhaps au even better chance for the honor. Hunter <A Holly’s bay gelding, B. 8., should show up well. Last year at Terre Haute, Ind., he s'arted in’the free for all against Hal Pointer, Adorns, and a couple more of good ones. Hal Pointer won in straight heats u-ith 2:09%, 2:12% and 2:13, the fast est three consecutive heats ever paced in a race, g g finished second in each heat, being baatou by a nose in the first, which 6hows that his record of 4:13% does not f Tow his speed. He Is by a Tennessee saddle horse out of a mare of unknown breed, v bile Hal Pointer is by the celebrated sire of pacers, Gibson’s Tom Hal. One of the most likely horses to beat tbe pacing record VY inalow Wilkes (a brown horse by black Wilkes) who made 2:14% as a 4-year old last year. Returning to trotters, the Southwestern circuit should have some interesting meet "igs, for tbe managers have put up some fr„a: p U r-e*. This is tne programme: 1 bicago, HI., Aug. 17 22, $50,000; Inde pendence, la., Aug. 24-29, $75,000; Kansas , Tty, Mo.. Aug. 31-Wept. 5, $26,000; Bt. J-ouis, Mo., Sept. 7-12, $40,000; CtDciuuati, ' ■ Sept. 14-15, $20,000; Cleveland, 0., ~*Pt. -T-2A *55.000; Richmond, lod., Sept. -'-Oct. 3, ijo.OOO; Terre Haute, lod., Oct. ‘’ hJ. 145,000, Lexington, Ky., Sept. 12-17, 135.000, and Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 19-24. 12.-1,000. Grand total, #351,070. The-e are good figures, and it may be said, in a general way, that purses will be c nsid ** ®biv higher this year than ever before. Ihe grand circuit purses are not vet an nounced, but they wilt bo notably high. It will be a great struggle between the two wonderful bullions Stamboul and Nel soil, the former with 2:11 and the latter with 2:lo>* and the record. Nelson started last season with a record of 2:141*, nv.de at Hartford Aug. 28, 1889. and Staiiib ill w:th 2:T2’*, made at Nopa, Ca!., Nov. IS, ISB9. Nelson gradually reduced his record dur mg 1890 uutil Oct. 31, when, at Cambridge City, Ind., he got it down to 2:10)*'. Stam boul also made numerous attempts during the summer and fall, and finally, at Stock ton, CaL, Nov. 26, he reached a mark of 3:11. It was generally thought that the western horse would beat the rec ord, and it is claimed that he would have done si had not the lues been against him. He had bad weather almost every time he made an attempt, and this is worth considering when it is remembered that Nelson’s title to be a king was won by only a quarter of a second. Still that difference would show up in a race for a horse of Nelson’s class goes ten feet in that little fraction of time. The chances are good that both will lower their records. “The contest is especially interesting be cause it is the far west against the far east —California against Maine—the most de lightful climate on the continent against the most exasperating, so far as the effects upon human beings are concerned. Cer tainly the friends of Stamboul are building hopes upon climatic conditions, but they should not forget that while the Pine Tree stats is not a nice place to live during the winter, and can boast of only a handful of citizens free from catarrh, it’has produced many a good horse for the trotting turf with lungs and bronchial tubes as good as if they had never known what it was to breathe an atmosphere composed of Labra dor fog and the germs of tubei cuiosis. Another interesting event for the trotting turfmen will be Mr. Hamlin’s effort to break the team record of 2:13 now held by his Belle Hamlin and Justine. The former has a record of her own of 2:12% and Justina of 2:20. Mr. Hamlin’s first effort to get them down below 2:13 will bo made at the spring meeting at Buffalo to be held in a few weeks. A6 both animals have wintered well and are in splendid condition there is every reason that anew record will be made. The team has lowered its record ■ every season thus tar since the two hand, some animals were first driven together. Good judges believe that 2:11 is not wholly out of question for this team. Mr. Hamlin, by the way, has missed his old-time opponent in debate, that distin guished gentleman who has turnad his at tention from raising fast horses to building last ships —Secretary of the Navy Tracy. Their rival views on the question of de veloped or undeveloped sires used to enliven the pages of the best sporting publica tions. The secretary has been made an honorary member of the reorganized Fleet wood Park Association; his son, Frauk, still runs the Mai shlatid farm of 650 acres in Oswego, N. Y., a’d it is not improbable that when Secretary Tracy lays down the cares of office, he will again go into the horse breeding busiuess. Anew eastern circuit includes Pimlico (Baltimore), Point Breeze and Belmont (Philadelphia), Fleetwood (New York), Nar ragansett (Providence), Mystic park (Bos ton), and Charier Oak (Hartford). The purses offered are good and should attract speedy horses. A discussion of the trotting prospects may properly include something about the rules. The National Trotting Union of Great Britain, an organization which has borrowed most of its ideas from this side of the Atlantic, has recently adopted the American rules. They might have intro duced some changes with profit, as is shown by the many cases of fraud exposed every season. One of the greatest evils which honest trotting turfmen have to deal with is the professional "ringer.” He is to be met with in every section of the country where trot ting meetings are held. A "ringer” is a fast horse entered under another nsmo than the one he is known by in slow classes, where it is an easy thing for him to win race after race and put money in the pocket of his dishonest owner. Of course a ringer is entered in races in a sec tion of the country where he is not known. Asa rule the grand circuit is safe from the ringer, because the horses that race at grand circuit meetings are the most promi nent ones, and are therefore well known. Honest horsemen fear a ringer as a snake in the grass, because they know not when or where he will bo met with and he is hard to detect. Under the rules of the National Trotting Association “ringing” is punished by ex pulsion, but in spite of being thus sum marily dealt with, when discovered ho does not disappear. More stringent measures should be taken. Civil laws should be passed in each state imposing a heavy pen alty upon any one convicted of "ringing.” The state of Maine has already taken the initiative step by the legislature passing a bill creating a lien upon a disguised horse, for entrance fees and debts contracied on the ringing tour. Other states should fol low suit. While the laws of the state could be made to cover such dishonesty, there are many things of almost daily occurrence during the season that do not come within the scope of law, but for which the trotting turf at large is responsible. Reform is needed in many ways, but more particularly m tbe mode of conducting trotting meetings. To begin with, instead of having judges who are appointed to preside by those in charge of certain meetings, there should be regu larly salaried judges—men competent to decide in all differences liable to occur—who have no secret interest in a contest and who are known to be conscientious in the dis charge of their duties. They should be given power to call down any unscrupulous action on the part ot a driver and to punish him with either a heavy fine, suspension or expulsion. Their authority and decisions should be supported by the governing body of the association employing them. Such a condition of things prevails on the run ning turf, and it is worthy of emulation. The only wonder is that it has not been put in practice on the trotting turf before, es pecially at the grand circuit meetings. The way drivers have now of scoring re peatedly until thev think they have the best chance and of nodding to the judges for the word and then tbe judges yelling “go!” should also be done away with. Regular starters should be employed and should have full charge of getting the horses off. They should also be men of judgment, cool headed, and with thorough knowledge of their duties. Unfair starts would be less frequent than is the case by tbe present plan. Still another reform should be instituted, and that is in the average weight of drivers. At present little attention is paid to this fact, and yet at ofttimes horses of about equal ability have a vastly different quan tity of humanity to pull, tbe difference frequently being from twenty-five to fifty pounds. The reason is that if a man is known to be a good driver, and as good drivers are scarce in comparison to the large number who doign to handle the ribbons, his weight is not taken into consideration. On the run ning turf weight Is known to count a good deal, hence the weight that a horse is made to carry is reckoned as the most important factor in counting on his ability to win. If weight, therefore, on a horse’s back is thought to make a difference surely the same conditions pre vail when ho has weight to draw as when he has weight to carry. There should be handicaps on the trotting turf as well as the running turf. That is a horse that has previously won a race of the 2:20 class, for instance, in 2:lfi%, should be given more weight to pull than a horse that has norm beaten 2:19, and is yet eligible to tbe 2:20 class. It might be claimed that this is drawing it and wn too fine, but every point counts to a close race. W. K. RichAHDitox. Kohler's, clothwg or gents’ furnishing goods, 158 Broughton street— Ad. THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, MAY 3, 1891-TWELVE PAGES. A THXAS QIBLIBNEW YORK. Some of tho Queer Things Which At tract Her Attention. (Copyrighted). Nkw York, May 2.—" Great Scott! “Why, I never was so glad to see anybody in my life:’’ I was walking along Bread way thinking that it takes a few hundred thousand people to make utter loneliness, when these words smote on my ear. A large hand also smote my shoulder, its mate grasped my hand warmly, and I locked up with startled eyas at Jim Bexar, whom I saw last six months ago in West Texas. Jim is a Devil’s river cattle and sheep ranchman, and be has gotten rich at the business. That means that be has m -Ye grit and courage than most men; that he has laughed at hardship, pnvati n and loneliness, "stayed with" the sheep through good and bad luck, in all weathers' and all sorts of seasons, lodging and fanug pretty much as they lodged and fared—under the open side-, and t:,at ms uniHm-bing pluck and patient persistence have earned their reward. Ho i a big fellow in every sense of the word—even iu West Texas—and uncom monly i audsorae, toe, ad as I looked up at bis six feet two of stalwart grace, aud noted how his splendid figure and his un conscious, lordly swagger became the ele gant suit aud fetching light overcoat he wore, I felt awfully proud of him. "You’re just stunning, Jim,” I said; “I wonder what made me neglect to fall in love with you last year. Come on, lets go on a reg ular tear. You take me to Deltnonioo's, or I’ll take you, and you may talk a whole hour, aud I won’t say a word.” So we went, and I never enjoyed any thing so much in my life. Now I’ve been here weeks and weeks, and I’m absolutely blase. But Jim! Jius had never been in a very big city before— not even Chicago or St. Louis, as many car-loads of beef, mutton ar.d wool as he has shipped there. The mixture of lively interest and curiosity, a certain degree of ignorauoe, native aplomb and audacity, and the cool, easy air of the man who is "a big fellow where he comes from, were irre sistible. “Why do you reckon it is there’s so many more blonde women than men in New York?” he began. “Why it seems to me more than half the women I meet have got some sort of light hair; anywhere from tuzzy stuff, almost white, to out aud out o range. Now look at that girl’s over there. For the Lord’s sake! It is painted some way ?” But I had agreed to keep still if it choked me, so Jim went ahead. “The funniest thing I see anywhere is a man—great two-fisted fellow as big as me, or nearly; old chup, too, maybe, leading along a uiamed little two-by-nine coyote of a dog with a red necktie onto its neck. I saw two of ’em up in the park this morning, and I’m dam —beg your pardon, I’m blessed —it I didn't want to knock their heads together. I asked one of ’em—sort of preacher lookin' follow —if his dog would bite; and ho said, as solemn as a church, O, no, it was quite amiable! “But say, I went up to the stock exchange a little while ago, aud so the way they handle stock there! it was a regular roundup! “It looked like all the cattle—l mean men —had been thrown inoDe buuch; then every fellow seemed to have got his stock mostly out, in a little bunch sort of to one side. Each one of these little bunches had a little s.gn up with the name of the outfit on it; and all round between these bunches the loose cattle was kind of milling aud milling, uneas , like trail cattle act after tie hard a day’s driving, or when there's a norther threatening; when, to save your reck, you can’t gat tho grumbling fools bed led down. They were jawing and winding round and round, snaking their horny—l mean their hands—and it looked to me like a stampede any minute. Every once in a while some follow’d cut out one of these loose steers —or men—from the mill ing herd, an’ run him into his little bunoh. Then thev’d rare an’paw, an’shake their hor—bauds, an’ yell like Oomanchcs. "There was a lot of little yeariings—sort of lonely looking little critters, like they might be mavericks—in gray, kept dodging au’ trotting ’round amongst the hero. “Every once iu a while a row would break out in one of the little bunches of some fel low’s brand in one of those sort of side draws, a whole lot of the loose cattle would run in among ’em, some of the other brands would break away and join ’em; there’ll be a regular hullabaloo, and tne wnole prairie in wild confusion. “I remember one spring up in tho Concho ooumry the boys got awfnl smart and thought they’d have a big roundup, the biggest roundup anybody ever saw. So they just kept rounding up and rounding up—throwing ’em all into one bunco—till they had the whole prairie covered out there on the middle Concho. There was such an everlasting herd they couldn’t do a thing with ’em. They had to turn ’em loose ar.d let ’em scatter out, and round up the next week in some sort of reasonable size, and they were iucky they didn’t have a fntl-grown red-eyed stamp de on their hands for their smartness. "And that’s the way it looked to me here, when all at once the thing broka loose, just as matters had been getting sort of oaluned down and straightened out a little. "A fellow about my size—yes, he was, or nearly as big (in answer to my doubting look)—came walking out of that sort of dry arrjiyo that runs round one end of the place. By George, be wns a fine looking fellow! And be came walking out of that arroyo across tbe divides, and into tbe main draw, as proud and slick and sassy as a wild mustang after the April rains, when grass is grass. “I’m blessed if that ‘ whole herd—except the mavericks—didn’t pitch itself bellowing, hooking and snorting onto that fellow, the minute he came out well into the middle of the draw! I’ve seen some steers have a sort of winning way to catch that kind of thing. I’ve seen herds turn like that, all together, on a strange steer, that came visiting, and didn’t wm9 time part his hair to suit ’em. And, by George, I’ve seen the steer do ’em like this feliow did the crowd this morning?” Jim suddenly threw back his head and laughed, a great mellow, deep : chestd laugb, so that my champagne glass bopped nervously about and bit its head against the water jug: and a square faced, curate looking waiter approached hastily, with an expression of mingled solicitude and re prohation. Do you remember the scene in 1 ‘Girofle Girofla” where the gigantic pirate with his rolling eyes, fierce mous tachios and generally full and terrifying appearance is roar.ng and charging up and down the stage, like a South African lion with mustard in bis eye; when in comes some henchman or servitor—a mere ordi nary human —with some mollifying mes sage; tbe bellowing giant finally becomes aware that someone is trying to say some thing to him; he turns round suddenly and perceives the timid messenger, when, with out going near him, be puffs out his vast chest and Plows contemptuously toward him, whereupon the fellow falls all over himself and clean off the stage. Well,.when Jim straightened up his shoul ders abruptly and looked at the waiter, it reminded me of that incident. “Beg paw doo,” said the fellow confusedly, and went back exactly as though that look bad some sort of propulsive power. Jim Lughed again. I laughed, too, this time, and tbe champagne glass responded sympathetically with a little hysterical gig gle against the water jug. “You never saw anything so pretty in your life,” said Jim. “They come cavorting all around that fellow like mad. They howled like timber wolves, they tried to smash his hat down on bis skull, and to upset him by rushing on ta him dozens at a time. I never saw him hit a soul. I never saw him strike out He just sort of waved his arms round; and every time he waved ’em a whole lot of fellows would fall around ail over tbs floor. “By and by a whole brand over in a back draw broke away aud stampeded for him. The dust flew; be must have sort of gone down, for I couldn’t see him, bit tbe uext muiute he came up in the middle of the pile waving his arms and knocking ’em ■llly every wave. “Hooray.” *avk I. “Give it to 'em. George! Great *Scott! Let me down there and we'll clean out the who.e herd! “One of these little alick gray, things— tsbem mavericks—came trotting up and said something about order, or putting me oat, but he seemed to change his mind after he found me. Just then a little old l>el! sounded like it docs in Sunday school, and the whole biessed herd just sort of melted away. “The little gray maverick explained the whole business to me. All about ‘puts’ aud ‘calls, - and the rest of it, I asked him what the dickens they all pitched onto the big fellow for.and he said: 'O, he's anew mem ber; Thev tried to rush him; they always 'rush the new ones.’ “So now I just want to join that concern and be ‘rushed’ once, about like he was, and I’m ready to go back to Texas .” At.icE M ioGowan. A WOMAN EXPLORES. Alexlne 7 inne Wes Hailed by Central Africans as Tbetr Deliverer. From the llhottrated American. Alexandria Petsouelia Francina Tiune, or, as she was usually called, Alexins Tinne, was born at The Hague, Oct. 17, 1835. She was the only child of a rich merchant, Philipp Frederick Tinne. in his second mar riage, with Henrietta Maria l.uisi, eldest daughter of the Dutch Vice Admi;a! Baron Theodore Van Copellati, known in history as having co-operated with the English ad miral, Sir Edward Pellew, later Lord Ex mouth, in the bombardment of Algiers, at the time when Christian slavery was abol ished there. She was left one of the richest heiresses in Holland, and her hand was sought after by a host of admirers. But she preferred travel, and, accompanied by her mother, aud provided with introduction- from the Queen of Holland, she vi-ited England. Ire land, Germany, Switzerland, Southern France, Spam and theu, attended bv the artist Sail, Sweden and Norway, reaching the hight of the North Cape. Returning from the north, she then returned wistfully to more sunny climes, and, t companied by her mother and au aunt, Mile. Van Capel lan, she journeyed over Italy afid to Con stantinople, Smyrna, Palestine and Cairo. At the latter city the excitement caused by the starting out of Speke and Grant for the lake regions of Central Africa took pos session of her, and the desire to become an explorer was further increased when Sir Samuel Baker arrived in Cairo, accompa nied by his wife, who later started with her bus: and in the footsteps of the afoieuamed Englishmen (May. 1861.) Before the close of that year Miss Tiuuie had determined to make a journey up the Nile as far as Gon dokoro. Tho most interesting portion of tho jour ney was that through the land of the Nbil look negroes, witn whom Mile. Tinne became a great favorite when it was known that she w as not connected in any way with the slave trade. Now and then, to escape the ennui aud restrictions of the steamer, she would go ashore, and. mounted on her horse, gallop through the villages along the bunks of tho rivor. The natives, who had already heard of her kindness to tne people of their tribe and color, clapjied their hands aud shouted: “She is tho daughter of tho sultan.” They even believed that she had coma to aid them against tho oppressions of the slave-traders, and this opinion spread far and wide among the nativos of Northern and Eastern Africa; it spread with amazing rapidity from village to village, was taken bv tho caravans into the most distant oases of the Sahara, aud was even heard by Rohlfs when in tho oasosOf Audscbili. The report said: “She is the lovely, white daughter of the Sultan of Stamboul, spending blessings freely with both hands, a#d winning all hearts.” Such is the legend about hor which will probably bs baurled down among the Shil looks for agos to come. On a subsequent expedition in Africa she was murdered. A Memory and a Nama. nv r. c, onLE“BY. ’■ Sweet as the breath of morn in May, lint faint as fragrance from a hook Between whoso leaves wild violets lay— Or as the DaystaVs tiniest rav Reflected from a glassy brook— ! " An image dwells within my mind. And leaves a touch of sadne-s there. Which passing time, at last grown kind. Has made me not regret to wear: And where once burned hot passion’s flame Are left a memory and a name. A dreamer in the ranks of men, An idler in the toils of life; I saw thee in thy loveliness then— Lovely beyond all mortal ken— With more than earthly beauty rife: I looked and loved, and Nature smiled; Yet wished 1 not to call thee mine— My heart indulged no hope so wild— So weak was I, such charms were thine: But love like mine could never pall When set on that high pedestal. As when the dread simoon has swept O’er Lybia’s parched and glowing sands, And death his ghastly feast has kept And jackals howled and scorpions crept O’er whitening bones of caravans; The trav’ler. spent, ’mid seme, like these— All faint of heart and spirit sore, Beholds the green of distant trees Fringed round the limpid lakelet’s shore— The oasis before his eyes Gleams like a glimpse of Par adits; Thus while the echoing threnody Wells from a heart wnere all is drear; And things that are and things to be. Their brightness lost alike to me, No longer hold a power to cheer; This one sweet flower of memory—, An orchid on a withered stem— ' Brings back the days once dear me My only token now of them: A Pearl ast in a scoriae frame; A hallowed memory and a namo Savannah, Ga., April 2d, 1891 Kossuth is nearly blind, though his mind is as active as ever, notwithstanding bis 89 years. CORSETS. > V-r.TrT ■■ - ... 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Nervousness, Sleeplessness. Sic.* Headache,Diarrhea, Colic, Flatulency and ail into.mal pains Travelers should always carry a bottle of RADWAY'S READY RELIEF with them. A few drops in water will prevent sickness or pains from unwholesome drinking water or from change of water It is better than French Brandy or Bitters as a stimulant. Chills and Fever, Fever and Ague Conquered. There is not a remedial agent in the world that will cure fever a id ague and all other malarious, bilious and other fevers, aided by RAD WAY'S PILLS, so quickly as RADWAY'S READY RE LIEF. Price SOr. per hottlf. bold by DriicgUin. RADWAI iV C0,,1t Warren St . V \ SOAP. KIRK’S AMERICAN FAMILY SOAP BEST FOR GENERAL HOUSEHOLD USE. jruKHismne oouos. HATS, Shirts, Neckwear, Men’s Summer Underwear LaFAR, THE MEN’S FURNISHER. Has what you need NOW in DUNLAP'S SPRING HATS. NASCIMENTOS. Flexible STRAW HATS, MANILLA HATS. PAL METTO HATS, YACHT CAPS for Men and Ladies. ELEGANT NECKWEAR and HALF HOSE. ELASTIC SEAM DRAWERS in Jeans or Silk. NAINSOOK UNDER. WEAR and GAUZE GOODS. NEGLIGE SHIRTS in variety. Madras, Silk, Cheviot and Zephyr Cloth--anything needed by gentlelnen at La FAR’S, 27 BULL STREET. LEGAL* NOTIC ES. APPLICATION FOR OYSTER LEASE. NOTICK is hereby given that the OKMLKK OYSTER COMPANY ban applied to the County Cominission(*jß of Chatham county, under the terms of tha statute, for a lease of three hundred and fifty-seven and thirty five hundredths acres of oyster bottom in the county of Chatham, state of Georgia, described a j follows Beginning at a buoy in Wilmington river, about a,CO) feet below the mouth of Tur ner's creek, said buoy being 1,000 feet from low water merit on either side, and at a point where the river widens to 2,000 feet between low water marks on opposite shores: thence southerly by various coursss and parallel with low water line on the east side of said river 4,220 fefc to a buoy; thence southwesterly by various courses and parallel with low water line on the east side of said river 7.400 feet to a buoy ; thence south easterly by various courses and parallel with low water line on the east side of said river 4,310 feet to a boor; thence southeasterly by various courses and parallel with low water line on the east aid* of said river 7,11*0 feet to a buoy; Cheuce south 27 east 040 feet to a buoy: thence northwesterly by various courses and parallel with low water Ime on the west side of said river 7,300 feet to a buoy; thence north westerly by various courses and parallel with low water line on the wegt side of said river 4,Bsofeet to a bu y; thence notbeasterly by various courses and parallel with the west sldo of said river 7,800 feet to a buoy; thenco north erly by various courses and parallel with the low water line on the west side of said river 4,160 feet to the point of beginning; said lands b sing opposi e Wilmington island and between Wilmington andSkidaway Islands. VK6XTABLEI FRU ITS, ET C. “COW PEAS. CLAY. SPECKLED, BLACK EYE, PIGEON AND BLACK PEAS. N. C. and VA. PEANUTS. SEED PEANUTS, RAISINS. LEMONS, ORANGES, NUTS. SEED CORN, HAV. GRAIN AND R'KKIO, ETC., ETC. W, D- SIMKI NS LUMBER. McCauley, Stillwell & Ca, Yellow Pine Lumber, ROUGH OR DRESSED. Planing Mill, yard and office,Gwinnett stroat. Mat of 8. K and W. Ry. Dreasod Flooring. Ceiling, Moulding*, Weath erboarding. Shingles, Lathes, Etc. Estimates furmabud and prompt dellrary gua an toad. rpo COUNTY OFFICERS. -Boota and Blank* 1 required b y county officer, for (be uae of the court*, nr for office uae. supplied to order by kb- MORNING NEWS PKINTUK) ROUHK.I Vbta Mat street, baranaak. clothutb. COLL AT BROS, 149 Broughton Street. #IO,OOO STOCK OB’ CLOTHING Will be Sold at Less Than Manufacturers’ Lost. All Fresh Goods, Neat, Desir able Styles. This tremendous lot of goods were made specially t order, hut party not being in position to fulfill his contract, we had the good fortune to buy them at our own figure, and wc will at once give the public the benefit of this purchase. BONANZAS Such as wo are enabled to offeT now have never been heard of before. We cannot, for want of space, enumerate the items, and therefore invite one and all to iuspoct these bar gains at our store, 149 Broughton Street. COLLAT BROS. - ~ r ~~ ' 1 1 ■ - ■' 1 LL.HI RAILROAD*. Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad: FLORIDA TRUNK LINE-TIME CARD IN EFFECT APRIL 15. 1891. GOING SOUTH BEAD DOWN ~~~ QOINIjNOKTH REAP UP Doily. | | Dally. Daily. Dally. 12:30pm 7:o4au)|l,v Savannah Ar 7:sopm I*: 14 pm Lv Jacksonville Lv 0:10pm 11:26am l.v Callahan Lv I:4spm 7:*oan* 12:45 am ... 2:20 pm Ar Hawthorne. Lv 10:44 am 2:47pna 2:1! am 3:31 pm Ar Silver Spring* Lv 2:46 am 4:35 am 5:14 pm Ar Leesburg l.v 7:59am 10:34 pm 5:25am ..... 6:40 pm Ar Tavaroip. Lv 7:3oam 9:sopm 8:59 am 0:41 pm Ar Apopka Lv 6:37 am 7:22 pin 9:45am ... 7:lspm Ar Orlando Lv 6:o6am 6:sopm Ar Kissimmee Lv ~.. 6:07 am 6:o7pm Ar Dade City. l.v 7:loam 9:45pm 6:83 am 7:2Bpm Ar Plant Oily Lv 6:37am 8:35 pm 7:45 am 8:40 pin Ar Tampa. Lv 5:00 am 7:30 pm 8 30 pm B:2opm Ar Tarpon Springs Lv 7:llam 8:02 pm 8:83 pin Ar Sutherland Lv 6:57 am 6:30 pm .. 9:45 pin Ar St. Petersburg Lv 6:45 am *8:44 ntn *7:o4p:n Ar Dunellon Lv *B:36am 8:06 pm •3:(l6piil *10:00 am *8:00 pm Ar Hoin<leasra Lv *h:S4am 2:00 pm *2:00 pm SAVANNAH and fkrnanuina. 7:55 pm I I 7:04 ain |Lv Havannnh Ar] 7-50 pm I 6:45 am 9j4oam| | 2:55 pmjAr Fernandlna l.v 1 10:1ftam| 6:lopu> •Daily Except Sunday. t Dinner. Solid trains Callahan to Tampa and Orlando. Close connection at Tamp* with So. Fla FA R. for Port Tampa, Key West and Havana. Close connection at Owecstoro with 80. Fla. R. Ft for Lakeland and Hart w Close connection at Tavares with J. T and K W. Ry. for Sanford and Titusville. Pullman Buffet sleeping cars on night trama. Through short Hue Jacksonville to New Orleans, Jacksonville to Thoinasvllie. Montgomery anil Cincinnati. Tlokete sold and baggage checked through to all points in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Send for last map of Florida published, and for any information desired, to D I. MAXWELL, G. M A. O. MACDONELL, 0. P. A.. JaoksonviUe. S., YV. & M . ROUTE. Savannah, Americus and Montgomery Railway. - TIME TABLE TAKING EFFECT APRIL lnt, 1891. , 8:00 a m|1,v.... birminjham 10. R. R.) .At? TtOOpiS 10:00a in:Lv Chlldersburg(O. R. R.). Lv 5:05 pm 10:27 ain Lv Sylacauga (0. K. R.L Lv 4:4opm 2:15 phi Lv ‘Opelika (C. R. R.) Lv 128 pm 3 2’. p in Ar Columbus (C. R. R I Lv 11 4.3 a m 3:50 pm Lv Columbus (C. R R.) Ar 11 90 a m 5:54 pm Ar Ellavillp (C. R.R.) Lv' 9:o6am 6:lopm Lv * Ella villa (C. R R ) Ar B;soam B:4opmAr Americus (C. R. R) Lv B:9oam 7:00 pm Lv Americus (8 . A. A M.) Ar 8:00 am 8:27 p m Lv Cordele (S,, A. * M.l Lv 6:20a m 11:00pm Lv Helena (S , A. & M.) l.v 3:B6am 4:3oam Lv I.yousiC. R. R ) Lv l:Bsam 7:85 aro Ar Savannah (C. R R.) Lv 7:40 p m 6:20 pm Ar „ ( harleston<o. * S.) Lv 9 15pm •Meal stations. Sleeping cars between Columbus and Savannah. Passengers from. Charles, ton destined to points west of Savannah change cars at 0. <S 8. Junction W. N. MARSHALL, Gsn’l Sunt., E. S. GOODMAN, (Fen. Pass. Agt, J Americus, Oa. Americus. Go. j J M. CAROLAN, 8. E. Pass. Agt., M D. ROYER, T. P. A.. 1 Savannah. <a. * Americus. CFa. JNO. T. AROO, C. & B. Agt , Americus, da C. H. SMITH, G. E. A., E. A SMITH. W. P. Agt., Birmingham. Ala. New York, N. Y. *= =SSH ” " H WAGONS, CARRIAGES, ETC. THE ~~ LAT EST AND TH E B E ST. THE CLIMAX CABLE BUCKBOARD. Three Comfortable Vehicles in One. It Is the very uioest Vehicle in the world and is just the latest Style. r CALL AND BEE IT. T±l© “-A-ltiioHs:” IRioacL Cax*l3 STILL TAKES THE LEAD. 13. A. ALTIOK’S SONS, West Broad and Broughton Street*. IIA HI) A* ARt. ~ HARDWARE, BAR, BAND AND HOOP IRON, Wagon Material, NATAL STORE SUPPLIES FOIt SALK BY Edward Lovell’s Sons, 155 BROUGHTON AND 138-140 STATE STREET. BHOiUUa. a7~ET h artridgr SECURITY BROKER, Buys and sell* on commiaaiou ail claaaes of Stocks and Bond. Negotiates loan, on marketable eacurttiea. GROCERIES' butter; If Too Appreciate Fine Bnttei Seal Year Neit Order •', -TO- J, S. TON, JR., i CO. MSIsiCAL Buffalo lithia springs, v a., water Nat lire’s remedy tor Bright'* Duaeai. Oeut Kbeuuiauu Gout, UUoutnaUam.