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GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NIWB or TBS TWO BTATB3 TOLD
IN PABAORAPH&
fe OrMk Held on a Grave Charge at
Okttnmhua —The Murderers of Wllliam
Callows? In Jail at Athens—The Gov
•raor Asked to Commute Von Poll
alts' Sentence to Life Imprisonment.
GEORGIA.
Rev. Bats Jons* Is about to purchase a
residesoe in Marietta.
Work will begin on Monday on the ereo
ttoo of the Masonic temple at Griffin.
Ground will be broke for the erection of
fee new Methodist ohuroh at Waycross
feu week.
Lsstsr Markham, one of the oldeet of
Madison's oltlsans, died last Sunday morn
ing, aged 74 years.
Pope Leech, the young man injured by a
fall ai Zetella a few days ago, ia slightly
better, though bs Is still in a precarious oon
ttUoa.
Beverly Davis of Greece ooenty died zud
flewly Thursday night at ths horn# of hie
crasher. Jaoob Davie, on the Dean's Bridge
read, six miles from Augusta
VP. B. Ellington'* store and stock of
(esterai esarehaodlss at Heueey, Ware
Kxxaty, was burned last Wsdneaday night.
tV amownt of Insurance is S3OO.
The Mesas Land Company is in a fair way
to he put ob a firmer and better basts in a
very short time It V expected that every
toiiar of the Indebtedness will be settled et
on early date.
Georgs Hoedley of Ohio is et Atlanta.
Mr. Headley is a son of tbs ex-governor of
fee Boekey* state He Is now doing the
sooth on a pleasure trip and wOl be In At
lanta several days
Ths municipal election at Wayoroas for
sisiyor and board of alderman, will be on
the first Saturday lu January. A school
sommisstoaer for the city will also bs
sleeted on the same day.
An application for a charter for a fruit
and vegetable canning factory In Tifton boa
beam died and published. The capital stock
has been felly subscribed by men who mean
buahies and wort on the buildings and
equipments for ths plant will soon begin.
At Athens Wednesday nights negro thief
Succeeded la stealing from A. J. Booth at
ais atora on Lumpkin street, $5 30. Mr.
Booth was making change when the negro
made a grab and captured the pll* Pursuit
was given and he woe chased for quite a
kite lira, but made good his escapa.
A few days ago Mrs. Henry Harvey of
Moose went up to Dalton to visit her father,
Mr. Base. She carried with her Henry, Jr.,
a bright little fellow just about to walk.
Last Tuesday the little fellow fell Into a fire
end was very painfully burned. Mr. Har
vey went up to Dalton, bat it was Dot
thought that the Injuries were very serious.
Thursday Mr. Harvey lent a telegram to
Moose stating that the boy was dying.
The thooknnlders of the North and South
Railroad Company met at Rome Thursday.
The object of the meeting was to ratify the
tolling of the road to too Rome Eleotrlo
Street Car Line. The trade was quickly
ratified, and Rome’s street car linea are now
praotioally under one management. The
trade wae made last week, and the prioe
fixed was $3,700, and the stockholders on
Thursday merely officially consummated It.
Slatbom, a little town on the Georgia,
Carolina and Northern railroad, ia the scene
of aooe little disturbance between what
claims to be the mayor and oouudl and
some of the oitisens. Without a charter
the people elected a mayor, o< uncil and mar
ihaL All ware sworn in and the marshal
Immediately entered upon bis duties and ar
rested several parties the first day. But
when they were arraigned before the 11 my r
and council the point was raised that there
bad never been a charter, and, therefore,
the whole proceedings were null and void.
Tile was really the com and the august body
ware persuaded to let the offenders go after
a long wrangla and dispute. A charter will
be applied far at odob and Slatbom will yet
be an incorporated town.
The perpetrators of the brutal murder of
William Calloway at Athene ou the nlgbt of
Bept. 18, are believed to be safe In jail at
last. Chief Davis received a clew some
three weeks ago that a young negro named
Walter Gbolston, then in custody in Lex
log ton far a deadly assault, bad claimed to
know who bod murdered Calloway. Mr.
Davis merit to Lexington to see Gbolston,
whom he hod dealt with on prior occasions,
and ned a talk with him in the presence of
Bberitt Max-ell of Oglethorpe oounty and
he finally and voluntarily recounted what
bs alleged to be the history of the murder
of Calloway. He implicated two other
negroes, Asa Hunt aud Joh Smith, as the
actual murderers, and stated that the ob-
J* 01 of the crime was to obtai . the money
'f the Athens dispensary, believing that
'Mr. Calloway carried it home with him
very evening. Oholeton was brought to
Athens Hunt was promptly located and
jailed upon a blind oharge; and now Smith
l as hewn captured and brought In from Jef
ferson oounty.
Last Friday morning a frollo In the out
skirts of Lake Park, Lowndes oounty, re
sulted in the serious cutting of Flirl Hltiely
by Welter Hunter. A half dozen hoys aud
as many women had been dancing all night.
At 4 o’clock the fiddler felt that be should
have extra pay for further services. Ac
cording to ths time-honored custom the boys
chipped in. Hunter and hinely among the
reel. Hunter failed to get a partner for the
next set, and insi-ted tbst since he had
paid he would dauoe or the rest should
not, Hinely tried to reason with him,
and offered to give back the money that
Hunter had paid in. This lead to hot
words, and before any on# suspected that
these was danger of serious trouble. Hunter
drew his knits and began slashing Hinely.
Spectators interfered, but not till Hinely
was slashed to ribbons, aud be fell from the
start of wounds received. Dr. Taylor was
Summoned, and upon examination found
ssvsral light o ts upon the hand—one upon
the wrist, a stab lu the shoulder, and a
ghastly gash tour inohes long and two
inches deep under the right nipple. This is
a most serious wound, and leaves him still
In a crltioal oonditlon. Hunter was
arrested.
Aleck Mitohell, a Greek, who runs a
trait and confectionery stand up on Broad
between Twelfth and Thirteenth street* at
Columbus, ia confined in a oell at police
headquarters on wbat may prove to be a
very serious charge. He has had a youug
lady clerking for him during Christmas
week, and Friday morning about 11 o'olock,
It is alleged, he mode improper proposals to
bar, and when she angrily resented hit in
■Clanoe, threatened to take her by the hair
and use violence. She ran past him out of
tba store crying and went borne where the
reported tbe matter to her father as soon
a| be earns in. He was very much en
raged and immediately started out to look
for Mitchell. He couldn’t be found
apd fee feels were reported to tbe police
and ell were instructed to keep a sharp
lookout for Mitchell. Finally he was seen
by Officer Osborne near tbe Ceutral hotel
and arrested. He now oocupies a cell In the
station house to await developments.
Hs is a young man about 23 or 24 years'
of age, and bas been in this oountrv about
five years. He strenuously denies the
obargs.land says tbst be told tbe girl to
wash out some candy jars and put fresh
eandy in them and when she refused to do
It bs told har that sba could go. and that he
knew nothing of the charge until be was ar
rested Thursday afternoon about 4:90
o'clock.
Brunswick Timet : Until late Thursday
evening tba Insurance men of Brunswick
were in eonfsrenoe at tbe offices of O'Con
nor & Thomas on Gloucester street, having
under consideration a mat er of great im
portance to themselves and to tbe public.
The agents heretofore have been carrying
ob their book* from month to month and
year to year very large amounts of unpaid
premiums. For these unpaid amounts the
agants had to make the oompames they rep
resent secure in all events, end a Timet man
learns upon Inquiry that some of the agents
have suffered severely. A tour among Its
agents reveals the foot that they
now have on their books at eaoh
agency from $4,000 down to SBOO
against Brunswick parties for unpaid pre
. tnlum*. Their companies have instructed
them to discontinue this credit business.
Ths Brunswick agendas are: W. B. Bur
roughs, U'Cooaor & Thomas, Scarlett &
Dent and Harvey & Beach, and yesterday
they issued an tics, which reads: “Acting
under peremptory Instructions from our
respective companies, ths publlo ts hereby
: notified that on and after Jan. 1, RUM, all
! premiums for fire Insurance mast be paid
in cash on delivery of policy. Failure to
pay cash as above will necessitate the oan
oel atl n of policy." The agents say this is
the only way to insure prompt return* of
insurance money from the companies and
a eo to guarantee to the oompaolee strict re
turns of premium money.
Great Interest baa been awakened by the
case of Dr. J. R. von Pollnitz, the man who
I* sentenced to be banged In Balnbrldge on
Jan. 0. Ha killed his wife in a drunken
frensy by knocking her down and stamping
her tn the abdomen. Oov. Nortben hea
been besieged with letters written to him
asking that Von Pollnitz'* sentence be com
muted to life Imprisonment. The governor
Is also In receipt of a letter from Mrs. M. P.
Lyles of Linden, Ala., a sister of Von
Pollnitz, asking for meroy tn bts behalf.
Hbe says the ooudemDed man Is a grandson
of Baron von Pollnitz, who settled In South
Carolina and dropped the von from his name
soon after he came over from France and
she cannot understand why her brother
took It up again. She (ays she
knows her brother ia not worthy
of the interest taken in him, and
that if ha committed the crime he ought to
be punished, but she begs for tbs family’s
sake that be be spared. She says bs has
been married twios before he took onto
bimself tbs wife he murdered lost summer.
He is a graduate of th University of Vir
ginia am served in the confederate army
as a surgeon, ami was wounded three times.
During ths war be wee sent to the asylum
In Georgia and remained there for several
months. His first wife was Mist Means, a
niece of Gov. Means of South Carolina.
She died and he married Miss Hea 1 rook, a
Diece of Gov. Seebrook. There Is one child
from the first marriage, a young lady who
is tn a hospital tn Virginia. The second
wife died in South Caroline leaving an in
fant 11 days old and six other children.
The doctor deserted them aud tinoe then
bis friends have heard nothing from him
until they read of hit being condemned to
death for murdering his third wife.
Augusta Kvening Ilsrald: A few min
utes before tne midnight train on the Geor
gia road palled out of the depot last uigbt, a
back drove rapidly up to the Campbell
street end of the building and three people
alighted. Two of them pnrohased tickets (a
man and woman i, their baggage was checked
end they boarded the train. A minute
later Sergt Snedd entered the oar where
the trio was sit ing and informed the two
that had bought ticket* that they mast go
to headquarters with him. At first there
wa* a discussion, but finally, seeing that he
was a policeman, they oonseuted. The bag
gage was taken off the train os it was pall
ing out aud the four went to the barracks.
Arriving there the womau, who gave her
name as Mies Hawkins, was questioned os to
wnat she bad done with the child.
It seems that a policeman on duty on
upper Greene street had seen the hack con
taining the persona mentioned and a small
baby, drive to a barroom and afterward
drive in the direction of the depot. He sus
peoted that the child would be left behind
and so telephoned to the barraoka for a man
to go to the depot, and if it was found that
the baby was not along to arrest ths pair
for deserting ths child. Miss Hawkins said
that the behy was left with a Miss Powell,
whose hu*band war one of ths party; that
the other man was her brother aud that they
bad started on a visit to their father in
Uanoock county. The ohild is, of ouuree, a
natural one, aud Miss Hawkins said that
her father w. uld not permit her to enter
the house with it, consequently she bad left
it behind, but in good keeping. The ao
count of the other* coincided with this, and
they were allowed to leave. So the story of
cruel desertion of a child by its mother,
wniofl the reporter had expeoted, was lost.
FLORIDA.
Dr. C. O. Myers has on exhibition at
Sioolair & Gore’s office at Orlando a water
melon fr 010 a volunteer vine : hat came up
late aud ripened its fruit weeks
since. He has auother at borne and will
save them for the February fair.
“Over tbe counter,” in tbe United fttates
laud office at Gainesville, during the past
month, there have been more homes ead
entries than have been recorded in the
office for any month lu the past five yeara
There have also been 160 applications for
homestead entries.
The Fruit Growers’ Bank of OrlendOjMn
der the management of Judge C. G. BTitt
and others, will, under tbe lews of Florida,
soon be made a state bank with a capital
■took of $30,000. The Institution is now in
process of formation and those In obargs
are only awaiting the necessary papers from
the controller.
An attorney In London, England, writes
to know the whereabout* of Mrs, William
Edward Cotter and her daughter, who the
attorney says resided in Apnlacbioola in
1883, but diligent inquiry falls to reveal nny
information about the parties. Tbe letter
state' that the hue and was killed before
Riohmoud in 1832.
Tuesday Capt. Broadbent of the life sav
ing station at Pensacola found the sloop
Clara floating near Santa Rosa island, and
rescued from the wreck five people, two
ladies, two men and a boy, Tbe rescued
parties are tUll et tbe life saving station
and no particulars could be gathered save
the bare facts given above.
Miss Dorothy Usner, who arrived at Or
lando Wednesday night from Jacksonville
over the South Florida railr ad, is in bad
luck. Thursday afternoon when she went
down to get her trunk it was found that the
lock had been picked, and upon further ex
amination it was discovered that the trunk
had been rifled of SSO in cash and at least
S3O worth of valuables. Miss Usner imme
diately oonsulted an attorney, J. Edward
Allen, and made a sworn statement of the
condition or the trunk and the missing
money and valuables. Just when, how aud
by whom the trunk was robbed is not
known, but the South Florida Railroad
Company will investigate the matter.
Bartow Courier-Informant: There is a
fair, smooth-faced, rather effeminate look
ing youth in this oity, who had a world of
fuu on Deo. 17. It entered into the head of
this youth to attire himself in female ap
parel, and create a sensation lu a certain
hotel at whioh he boards, and his success
far exceeded his expectations. Except one
person, who furnished the female apparel,
not a soul in tbe hotel recognized him or
suspected that he was other than Miss Flora
Le Bovgal of Tampa, whom be represented
himself to be, and he made such a “■tun
ning” appearance that a certain Orlando
gent, who was a guest of tbe hotel at the
time, sought and obtained an introduction,
saying he ' 'had often heard of the family -
bad even seen tbe parental mansion
in Tampa—aud was delighted to
meet Mias Flora." Then he solioitel
the extreme pleasare of escorting the youug
lady (?) to the circus; which high privilege
was graciously granted and the coupls
occupied a conspicuous position on one of
the top seats, where the Orlando gallant
made himself vary agreeable, discussing the
fine points of the zoological speoimeus and
talking learnedly of the mysteries and
wonders of the saw-dust ring. After the
circus the Orlando gent returned to the
hotel with the fair damsel (that’s what he’ll
think when he learns how t adly he was
■old), and obtaining permission to visit
her (?) at her home in Tamps, politely bade
her good might. He took the train for
Orlando next day and is now no doubt
dreaming of the happy hours be will soon
spend at Tampa in the delightful society of
ths bewitching Miss Flora La BoygaL
“I am getting quite heavy," remarked
the ooal dealer. “You don't look it," re
joined the sarcastic person. “Haven’t you
been weighing yourself on your owo eoalss r
Washington Star.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JANUARY 1, 1893—SIXTEEN PAGES.
COMMERCIAL.
SAVANNAH MARKETS.
OFFICE MORNING NF.WB, I
Savannah, Ga., Deo. SI, 1892. (
Nora —There was nothing doing oa 'Change
during yesterday and the day wee generally ob
served ox a semi-holiday. Both the Ootton Ex
change end the Board of Trade were closed and
will continue so until Tuesday. The exchanges
throughout the country were also closed, hence
the scant telegraphio market reports.
FjnaNoial—Money Is In ectlve demand.
Domestic Ezchanps— The market Is easy
Banks and bankers are buying at 14 per oeot
discount and selling at p*r®)f per cent pre
mium.
Ftoreicn Sxokanos The market Is dull but
Steady. Sterling commercial demand, $4 8644;
sixty day*, $4 84)4; ninety day*. $4 B3U; franco.
Part* and Havre, sixty davs, S3 1944; Belgian,
sixty days. $5 -JOH: marks, sixty days. 84 llTiec.
BgcTHinmo—Ths market Is steady, with a
better feeling la the securities of ths Central
system. Citizen*' bank (took Is in good de
mand.
B TOCOS AND Bonds -City Bonds - Atlanta 8
rt oent. long date, 109 bti 111 asked; Atlanta
per oent, 114 bid. llfissksd; Augusta 7 per
oent, long date. 1(M bid. 1)4 asked; Augusta 6
rT cent, long date, 10M bid 116 asked; Columbus
percent, lftrtt bid, lost)asked; Mooon 6 per
cent, 11614 bid 11-444 asked: new Savannah 5 per
eont, quarterly January ooupoas 10144 bid, 106
asked; new Savannah 5 per oent February cou
pon*. 10414 bid. 10444 asked.
Stats Hinds—Georgia new 444 par cent 112
bid. 114 asked; Georgia 7 per oent coupons
January sad July .maturity 1496,)m4btd, 11214
asked; Georgia *l4 per deal, 100 bid. 101 aaked
Railroad Blocks —Central oommon, 53
asked; Augusta and Savannah 7 per cent
guaranteed, 107 asked: Qeorgla oommon, 170
asked; Southwestern 7 per cent guaranteed. In
cluding order for dlv. 9144 bid 92V4 asked; Cen
tral 6 per cent certificate*, with order for de
faulted Internet, 69 bid, 81 asked; Atlanta and
West Point railroad stock, 99 bid,
lOOa-ked; Atlanta and West Point 4 per oent
certificates, 96 bid, 98 naked.
Railroad Bonds— Savannah, Florida and
We-,tern Ballroad Company general mortgage
6 per rent, interest ooup >n*. Oetober, 10944 bid
11014 asked; Atlantia and Gulf firm mortgage
con-olklnted 7 par oent coupon, January and
July, maturity 1897, ;94j bid, 11014 asked;
Central Railroad and Banking Company
collateral gold 6s, 76 bid. 86 asked; Central
consolidated mortgage 7 per oent ooupons
January and July, maturity 1699. 104 bid 108
asked; Savannah ami Wastern railroad 6 per
cent, Indorsed by Central railroad. 96 bid,
69 asked; Savannah. Americas and Mont
gomery 8 per oent. 70 bid, 71 asked; Georgia
railroad 6 per cent. 1910, 113 bid, 114
asked; Georgia Southern end Florida first
mortgage 6 per oent, 77 asked;
Covington and Macon first mortgage 8 per
oeot, 70bid, 80asked; Montgomery andEufaula
first mortgage per oent indorsed by Cen
tral railroad, 108 asked: Char
lotte, Columbia and Augusta first mort
gage JO* bid, 104 asked; charlotte,
Columbia and Auguste, second mortgage,
110 asked; Charlotte, Columbia and
Augusta, general mortgage, 8 per cent,
101 asked; South Georgia and Florida Indorsed
flrato, 105(4 bid, 107 eased; South Georgia and
Florida, seoond mortgage, 104)4 bid. 106 asked;
Augusta and Knoxville, first mortgage, 7 per
oent, 9644 asked; Gainesville. Jeftereon
and Southern, first mortgage, guaranteed
100 asked; Gainesville, Jefferson and South
ern, not guaranteed, *9 asked; Ocean
Steamship ft per cent, due in 1980
10844 asked: Gainesville, Jeff arson and South
eru, seoond mortgage, gu.ranteed, 99 asked |
Columbus and Rome, first mortgage
bond-, tndoreed by Central railroad, 86 bid,
67 asked; Columbus and Western 6 per ceut
guaranteed, 101)4 aaked; City and Sub
urban Railway first mortgage 7 per cent. 100
bid, 102 asked; Savannah and Atlantic ft per
cent indorsed, (7 bid, 6V asked: Electric Rail
way Company 6 per oent mortgage. 100 bid.
102 asked.
Hank Stocks, etc.—Southern Bank of the
Btate of Georgia, 236 asked; Merohants’
National Bank, 120 asked; Savannah
Bank and Trust Company) ex div, tot! bid, 107
asked;National Bank of Savannah, 13314 bid, 185
asked: Oglethorpe Savings and Trust Company
ex div,llob!d,ll2uked;Cltizen'Bank.ex dlv.ioi
bid, 102 asked ;Chatham Real Estate and Improve
ment Company. 62 bid. 53 asked; Germania
Rank, 100 bid, 108 aaked; Chatham Sauk, 66V4
bid, 54 asked; Savannah Construction Company.
62 bid, 80 asked.
(las SI cks. —Savannah Goa Light stock, 21
bid, 22 asked; Mutual Gas Light stock, 26 bid;
Eleotrlo Light and Power Company, 67
asked.
Apruc*—Choice Baldwins, $8 56®3 76 barrel.
Bacon Market firm The Board
of Trade quotations are ns follow*: Smoked
clear rib side*. J*o; shoulders. 8)4c: dry salted
clear rPS sides. s4*o; long clear. 9ssc; bullies,
shoulders. 7U-; hams, 18tfc.
Bzooino and Ties—The market steady.
Jute bagging, 2)48>, 7c; 23), C)4o; 14415
60; quotations ore for large quantities; small
lots higher; sea inland bagging in moderate
supply at 13® 18(4° Iron Tias— Large lota,
$1 02; smaller lots, $1 07.
Butter- Market higher: fair demand. Goseh
an. 23)4c: gilt edge. 27)q®*8)40; creamery, 29)4
® 8014 c; Elgin. 31 He.
Uahssos— Southern, B®9c
Cbskss—Market firm; fair demand, lU4®IB.
Corn*—Market firm, quote 1 at for Mooho,
27®29e; Java, 32®81e; i *berry. 240; fancy or
standard No 1, 2i)4e; choice or standard No 2,
s <H4c; prime or standard No A 20c; good or
standard No A 19)4c; fair or standard No 5,19 o;
ordinary or standard No t, Ito; oommon or
standard No 7. 17)4o.
Dried Fruit— Apples, evaporated, 10)4o:com
mon, 6)4®7)4c. Peaches, UaiUorma evaporated,
peeled .22® 24c; California evr oorated, nopeeled.
13®16c. Currants, 5®5)40. Citron, 16a Dried
apricot*, 14c.
Hit* Goods—The market ts quiet, but
firm; good demand Prints, s®BVqu; Georgia
brown sbirtiag, 1-4, 4(40; 7-Bdo. 5)40: 4-4 brown
ah voting, C)4c; white oinuburgs, 3c; checks,
4b ; ®6c; brown drilling, 6)4'1>7)4c.
Flouk—Market dull. Extra, $3 00; family,
$3 25; fancy, S3 75; patent, $4 SO; straight,
*4 00.
Fisa—Market firm. We quote full weight#;
Mackerel, No. 2, $7 75@H 50. Herring, No.
1. 25c; scaled, 25c. Cod, 6®Bc. Mullet, half
barrel. $4 00.
Grain— Oorn—Market ts * toady. White oorn,
retail lots, 64c; job lots, 620; carload
lots. 60c: mixed oorn, retail lots. 63c: job lots,
61o; carload lots. 69c. Oato—Mixed, re tad lots.
60c; job lots, 47c; oarload lots, 45c. Texas rust
proof, retail lots, 52c; j b lot*. 60o; carload lots,
4Sc. Bran— Retail lot.sl 00; Job lots, 95c;csrlnad
lots 90c. Meal Pearl, per barrel, $2 90; per sack,
$1 40; oity ground. $1 20. Pearl grits, per bar
rel, $3 10; per sack, $1 45; city grits, $1 30 per
sack.
Hat—Market steady. Northern, none. West
ern in retail lots, $1 00; job lota, 25c; oarload
lota 900.
Hints. Wool, Era Hides, tbe market is
very weak; receipts light: dry flint, 614 c;
salted. 340: dry butoher. Sc. Wool market
weak; prime Georgia, free of sand burs, aud
block wools. 20t4®21c; blocks, 15)4®10a Wax,
20a Deer skins, flint 22c: salted, 17a Otter
skins, 50c®$4 00.
iuoN-Market very steady; Swede, 4%®5c;
refined, 2)4c.
Lemons -Fair demand; Messina $3 50®3 75.
Lakd— Market steady; pure iu tierce*. 1114 c;
foihtins, UH; oumpouud, in Heroes, SHc; in 501 b
tins, 9c.
Aims, Oalcimsd Blast** and Ceihnt—Ala
bama and Georgia lime in fair demand and sell
ing at sllO per barrel, bulk and carload lots
special; calcined plaster, $1 60 per barrel; hair;
4®6c; Kosendale cement, *1 SO® l 40; Portland
oeineut. retail, $2 50: oarload lots, *2 25.
Liqi'OHS— Market firm, llign wine basis |1 30;
whisky per gallon, rectified. 100 proof, $142
®l 70; choice grades. $1 30®S 50, straight,
*1 75®4 00; blended St 00®5 00. Wines—Do
mestic port, sherry, oatawbo, low grades, 8 ®
860; tine grades, $1 00®l 60: California light
muscatel and ongeiioa, *1 36®l 76; lower proof's
in proportion. Gins lc per gallon higher. Rum
So higher.
Nails—Market very firm, fair demand;
3d. $2 90 ; 4d end sd. $2 60 ; 6d, $2 30 ; 8d
$3 15; lOd, $2 10; 12d. g 2 05 ; 80d, *2 OO; 50d to
60d, 3: 90; 90d. $t 09; 40d, $1 95.
N its-Almonds, Tarragona, 18®19o; Ivlcaa
16® 17o; walnuts. French, !4c: Naples, 160; pe
cans, lie: Brazils, Vfeioe; Alberts, 13<40; eoooa
nuts, $1 76®5 00 per hundred, assorted nuts,
60S) and 25S boxes. 12®13c (ter tt>.
Oranges—Florida per box. $2 25®2 50.
Onions—Orates, $1 26; barrels. $8 <6®3 50.
Oils—Market steady: demand fair. HlgnoL
40®50c: West Virginia black, 10®13O; lard, S2c;
kerosene. W)o; neatefoot. 50®75c; machinery,
18®26o; linseed, raw, 510. boiled 53c; mineral
seal. 18c; homeughL 14o; guardian. 13c.
Potatoes—ulto, barrels |3 00, socks $2 75; de
mand fair.
Shot—Higher; drop to B $1 55; B and
larger, $1 80; buck, $1 85.
Salt- -Tbe demand is rood and market
firm. Carload lots 620 f. o. b.; Job lots 75® 80c.
Sugars — Market steady; quoted at for cut
loaf. sJ*o; crushed, 5J40; powdered. 5-1*o; XXXX
powdered, 55*0; standard granulated, 6)40;
fine,.s4o: granulated, 5*40; cubes, s)gej mould A,
sc; diamond A, 4%0; oonfeotloners’. lygc; wtilto
extra C, 4)fo; extra 0,448 c, golden C, 44u:
yellows, 4 Go.
Hvaup—Florid* and Georgia, new 224,43.60;
market quiet for sugar house at 3i®4oc; Cuba
straight goods, ;26®500; auger house molasses,
15® 20c.
Tobacco— Market quiet end staody. Smoking,
domestic, t2®6o: chewing, common, sound.
22®*40; fair, 2®360; good. 66®4m0; bright, 60®
hio; fine fancy. 75®80c; extra tine $1 00®I 15;
bright Danse, 22®40c
Lumber—Foreign demood quiet; coastwise
fair. The anils are geueraUy full at work
until the holidays. Some or the smaller mills
are inquiring for orders. We quote:
Easy sizes sll 50®IS 00
Ordinary sizes 12 00®16 50
Difficult sizes 140><525 00
Flooring boards. 14 50®22 00
Shlpetuffs 16 504625 00
FREIGHTS.
Lumber—By soil—The market Is dull;
tonnage la offered freely, with little
or do demand. Tbe rates from this
and near-by Georgia ports ore quoted
nominady at $4 28465 and for a range Includ
ing Baltimore and Portland, Ms Timber 60c® 1 00
higher than lumber rates To the West Indies
and Windward, nominal; to Rosario, sl6 00®
17 0), to Bueraos Ayres or Montevideo. sl*so;
to Rio Janeiro, 815 00; to Spanish and Mediter
ranean porta, 012 00; to United Kingdom for
orders, nominal for lumber, iit 5s standard.
By Sr*AM—To New York, $7 00: to Philadel
ptaa, $7 00; to Boston, $8 00; to Baltimore,
Natal Bros**—Tbe market is nominal
for spot vessels. Foreign—Cork, etc., small
spot vesseis. rosin. 2s Hid end Is 7)41; Adri
atic, roam, £. 7)Ad; Genoa. 2s :Vsi; South
American, rosin, 800 per barrel of 280 pounds;
Coastwise—Steam—to Boston, lie per 10035#
on rosin, 90c on spirits; to New York,
roetn. 7t40 per lflOlbs. spirits, 6'; to Philadel
phia, rosin. 7)4c per KMtbs, spirits, 80c: to Balti
more, rosin, Sue, spirits. 7ho.
Cotton -By Steam—There is a little better
dense I for room. The market, however, is
auiet and rates are more or less Irregular.
Rates are per 100 pounds:
Liverpool. 39c
Havre 45c
Bremen Soe
Barcelona 52c
Genoa 62c
Liverpool via dfew York 3ic
Liverpool via Boston. 36c
Liverpool via Baltimore 30c
Havre via New York 44c
Revel via New York "... 59a
Genoa via New York 53c
Amsterdam via New York. 500
Amsterdam via Halil more 480
Antwerp via New York 420
Boston ¥ hale $ 1 26
New York $ bale 1 00
Philadelphia 9 bale 1 00
Baltimore 1 00
Rick—By Steam-
New Y ork *p harr-1 50
Philadelphia barrel 50
Baltimore $ barrel...... 60
Boston V barrel
COUNTRY PRODUCE
Grown fowls pair . $ 70 a"5
Chiokens 44 grown N pair 45 dso
Chickens lialf growu $ pair 35 ®45
Turkeys $ pair 1 50 442 00
Turkeys, dressed. V lt> 20 ®
Chickens, dr.-seed, lb 14 ® 17
Geese Tfl pair 1 00 461 25
Eggs, country. $ dozen 16 ® 20
Peanuts, fancy h. p, Va fi 16 5)4®
Peanuts, h. p. 19 lb 4)4®
Peanuts, small h. p., Nl6 4 ®
Sweet potatoes, S bush .yellow... 55 4680
Sweet potatoes. 9 bush , white.... 40 ®SO
Pocltbt Market is quiet; demand
■low.
Eoan—Market is firm and stock ample, de
mand fair.
Peanuts—Ample stock, demand light, prices
firm,
MAHKSra BY THSLMGRAPa.
FINANCIAL.
New York, Dec 81, noon.—The following
were the opening quotations:
Erie 24 .
l ake Shore 127)6
Northwestern .. lll)J
Norfolk aud Western preferred
Richmond and West Point Terminal 7)4
Western Union 90)|
The weekly state meat of the associated bonks
Issued by the clearing house to-day, shows tbe
following changes:
Reserve increased. $ 662.075
Loans ’-creased 466U00
Specie decreased 917,000
Legal tenders i creased 1,634,800
Deposits Increased 210.300
Circulation decreased 77,400
Banks now hold $6,839,650 in exceto of the
requirements of the 25 percent, rule.
Maw Yoax, Deo. 81, 6:00 p. m.—Money
on call bos been easy at 4 per ceut.; prime
mercantile paper s®ii per cent. Sterling ex
change steady; posted rates, $4 ,86®4 88)2;
co mercial bills, $4 81)4® 485 and $4 87®
4 87(4- Government bonds closed steady State
bonds neglected. Railroad bonds generally
firm
Nirw Yorx, Dec. 81.—Treasury balances:
Coin, $86,241,000; currency, $6,871,000.
Naw Yore, Dec. 31—Considering tbe time
taken up by tbe New Year’s frolio of the
brokers at the stock exchange, tbe stock mar
ket showed a fair degree of actiriiy and de
cided strength. Bales aggregated 126.01 X) shares,
and many stocks scored short) advances. The
bulls were in control, a fsot whioh seemed to be
recognized by the shorts, who displayed no
little anxiety, and accordingly rushed to
cover. Dealing* were well distributed
throughout. Manhattan led the upward move
ment. That stock rose 4 points to 136)4, and
reacted to 105)4' United States Rubber was a
close seoond, rising S>) to 46'q, an l preferred
2)4 to 93. The former subsequently receded to
441„®45. The general list Improved H® 1)4 per
cent, with Union Pacific in the lead New Eng
land was steady at 43)4®45% Reading gained
nearly a point. Final quotations showed a re
action of % to ts per oent. from the highest
point In the general run of stocks, but tbe mar
ket closed strong m tone.
Tbe following were tbe closing bids:
Western Union ... Omaha 47)4
Adams Express.. 150 Omaha preferred. 117
American Exp . .117 Bt. Paul 77)4
United States Ex. 58 do preferred... 12l)4
Wells Fargo Ex.. 141 Nash., C. * St. L. 86
G, O, O. & I ... n9H WaDash 11)4
N. Y. Central 109)4 M abash preferred 21U
N. J. Central 126 Chicago, B. &Q.. 97)4
Illinois Central . 99)4 Peoria, D. & E.... 164i
Miobigan Central. 104 Manitoba 112
Ohio Central 50 OregouNavigation 72
Northern Paolflo.. 15)4 Richin'd & W. Pt
do pref.. 47)4 Terminal 7)4
Central Pacific... *7)4 Baltimore & Ohio 04
Union Pac1f10..... 3vt4 ( ’regonimp'ment. 101)4
Missouri Pacifio.. s>>H Alabama class A.. 102
Texas Pacific .... 9)4 Alabama class 8. . 106
Manhattan Kiev . 155)4 Alabama class C. 04
Alton AT. H 33 Louisiana consols. 98)4
do do pref 150 Tennessee 01d5.... 62
Canada Southern. 56 Riehmon i * Ale..
Canada Paolflo .. 88)4 Norfolk &W. pref. SeW
Chicago & Alton.. 140 East Tennessee ... 3)4
Chesapeake* 0.. 22)4 do do pref.. 28
Delaware 134)4 CottonUiL 43)4
Dela., Lack.£W l.Vi'i Cotton Oil pref... 81)4
Denrer 16)2 Tenn. new set.6s. .103
Erie 24 do do 5*.. 102
do preferred.. 54 do do 3s 77
Kansas Jt Texas 14 Virginia 6s 50
Lake Shore 127)4 do ex mat ooup 37
Lake Erie & W... 22)4 do oonsoli’ted. 60
do do pref.. 76 Brunswick Cos 8)4
L’vllle & Nash... 7134 BilverCertiflcates. 8274
Northwestern 111)4 Am Sugar itetl .11 1 W
do preferred. .111)4 do do oref.. 99'
Ontario A West . 18)4 NorthOarolina As 99
Ohio & Mississipol 2144 NorthOarolina6. 128
do do pref.. So. Caro. Browns 96)4
Pacifio Mall 26)4 Memphis Jt Char. 50
Quiolcsilver 8)4 Mobile and Ohio.. 35
Quicksilver pref.. 16 Richmond * I)an.
Reading 52)4 Tennessee 00a1... 36)4
Kook Island. 82% do do pref. 96
OOTTON.
Galveton, Dec. 31.—Cotton-Holiday; mid
dling -c; net reoeipts 2.C68 bales, gross none;
sales 41 bales; stock 135,074 bales; exports,
coastwise 238 bales.
Norfolk, Dec. 81.—Cotton—Holiday; mid
dling —o; net reoeipts 842 bales, gros none;
sales none; stock 48,476 bales; exp. rts, coast
wise 365 bales.
Baltimore. Pec. 31.—Cotton—Holiday; mid
dling —o; net receipts none, gross none;
sales none; stock 32,48. bales.
Boston, Dec. 31.—Cotton closed quiet;
middling 9Jbc; net receipts 97J boles, grow
6.6.>6; sales none; stock none; exports, to Great
Britain 103.
Philadelphia, Dec. 31.—Cotton closed dull;
middling 10)c; net reoeipts 683 bales, gross
2,473; sales none; stook, actual. 10,253 bales
Monox, Dec. 31.—Cotton—Holiday; mid
dling —c; net receipts 438 bates, gross none;
sales none; stock 44,135 bales; exports, coast
wise 173 bales.
MiHPnis. Deo. 81.—Cotton closed steady;
middling 0)jc: net reoeipts 693 bales, gross
none; sale*3,ooo bales;stock 117,266 bales.
Augusta, Dec. 81.—Cotton closed firm;
middling 09ve; net receipts 180 hales,gross none;
sales 2n bales; stock 46.886 bales.
Charleston. Deo 81. —Cotton— Holiday;
middling —c; net receipts 898 bales, gross
none; eates none; stock 5-.490 bales
Cincinnati. Dec. 31.—Cotton closed Arm;
middling Lie; net receipts t. 206 bales, gross
none; sates 'OO bales; stock 6,238 bales.
Louisville, Dec. 81.— Cotton closed steady;
middUug9 13-160; Det receipts none, grow none;
■ales none; stock con*
St. Louis, Dec. 31. Cotton ciosed steady;
middling 0 !3-lCc, net receipts 2.499 bales, gross
4,281; sales none; stock 83.492 bales.
Houston, IKsc. 31.—Cotton-Holiday; mid
dling —o; net receipts 1.533 bales; gross
none; sales nnne: steak 39.694 bales
New Yore, Deo. 81.—Tbe total visible supply
of cotton for tbe world is 4.4*7.335 bales,
of wijoh 4,0.455 bales arc Amerioan. against
4.032,255 aud 4.214,955 bales, respectively, last
year. Receipts at all interior towns for tue
week 86,723 bales. Receipt* from plantations
176,445 bales. Crop in sight 4,716,67. bales.
GRAIN AND PHOVISLINS.
New Yore, Dec. 81. 6 p. ra.—Flour quiet and
"toady; R>w extra $2 U)®9 53, winter wheat low
grade* $2 UO® J 55; patents $S 85®4 15; Minus
sota dear $2 to®3 60; straight* $3 60®4 10;
patents $4 25(2, < 75; southern flour quiet but
steady; common to fair extra $J 10®3 10; good
to choice extra $3 15464 25, Wheat firmer with
options dull; No, 2 red 79Ue tn store and ele
vator; 80)4e afloat; ungraded red 77)4®80o; No
1 northern 83®8fityefNo k northern 7944 c; No.
3 spring 7344a; options dull but firm end 44®Ho
higner; May and Jauuary were most scuts;
No. 2 red January delivery 79c; February deliv
erv 79)4c; March delivery 8044 c; May delivery
S2*4c. Corn dull and firmer: No. 2 49c In elevn
tor; 50)4c alloat; ungraded mixed 49®49>-ic;
Mo. 3 steamer mixed 48)4®50o; options dud,
closing steady at H®)ftc advance: May and
January were most active January delivery
49)40 ; May delivery 1 1)40. Oeta dull but steady;
options were neglected; January JellveiT 3044 c;
May delivery 89c; mixed western 16®38c;
mixed western, white. 40®48V4c coffee—Op
tions steady and unchanged to 5 points down
and closed steady 6 down to 5 up; January de
livery 19 25; March delivery 16 05®16 15; May
15 90® 15 96; September delivery 15 80; spot
Rio quiet and steady; No. 7 17@17)4c. Sugar-
Raw dull and firm; fair refining 3®3 116 c; can
trffugal* 96° teat 3 7 16c; reflDed firm and in
good demand; No 6 4S-ltat44c; No. 7 4H®
4 6-lftc; off A 4V 4 ®410c; standard A 4 11 19®
4)6o; out loaf 3 6-16®5lsc: granulated 4 11-16
®sc. Mole-set dull; foreign nominal; New Or
leans steady and In lair demand; open kettle
now. good to choice 25®370. Hides dull but
steady. Wool dull and firm; domestic fleeoe
2.*®32c; pulled 20®62c; Texas 13®21c Pork
strong and fairly active; eld mess sls 00®
15 25; new mess sl6 00®1650; extra prime nomi
nal. Beef dull but firm; family $8 00®10 00;
extra ntesa $6 *s®6 76. Beef bams quiet and
steady. Tieroed beet quiet and firm; city extra
India mess sl6 60. Cut meats firm tickled bel
lies 9)*®9)6s; pickled shoulders 8)40; pickled
him* 1 1)4®1 l) 4 c. Middles firm. Lard dull
but steady; western steam $lO 35; city $lO 00;
January delivery JlO 80; May delivery $10:6;
refined quiet; continent sll ;5; South America
111 26. Freights to Liverpool quiet end steady;
cotton 6-64d; grain nominal at l)td.
Cincinnati, Dec. 31 Flour barely steady.
Wheat steady and quiet: No. 2 red 70c. Corn
quiet and steady; No. 2 mixed 41c. Oats barely
steady; No 2 mixed 34)4c. Pork quiet and firm
at sls 87)4. Lard steady at $lO 37)4. Bulk
meats firm at $8 82)4. Bacon firm at $9 87)4®
10 Ou. Whisky steady at $1 80.
Bt. Louis, Dec 81.—Flour was dull end un
changed. Wheat active trading and advanced
steadily and closed )4®4io above yesterday;
cash 6744 c; January delivery 63)4e. Corn ad
vanced tqo and closed firm; cash3oJ4C; January
delivery 374jc; May delivery 4144 - Oats slow;
cash 31c bid; May delivery 54)4c asked. Provis
ions firm but slow, with only a small job trade
at previous quotations
NAVAL STORES.
New Yoag. Dec. 81. 6 p. m.—Rosin quiet but
steady; strained common to good J. (2)4®
II 36. Hpirits turpentine dull and steady at
60U®31c.
Wilninoton, Deo. 31.—Spirits turpentine
firm at 27)4c. Rosin firm; strained $1 00;
good strained $lO6. Tar steady at $1 06.
Crude turpentine steady; bard $1 00; yellow dip
and virgin $1 70.
PITaoLkUk, OILS, ETC.
New Yors, Deo. 81—Petroleum dull and
steady. Cotton seed oil dull and lower; crude
41)4®42c; yellow 46c.
BIO*.
New Yore, Dec. 31—Rise In fair demand and
steady; domestio fair to extra 3)4®5)40; Japan
4)4®4)ic.
SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
Sun Rises. 7:28
Bun Sets 5:24
High Water at Savannah 6:83 AM, 6:22 pm
(Standard time.)
Monoat, Jan 1, 1893.
ARRIVED YESTERDAY.
fichr Jacob M Haskell, Doane, Richmond, Va,
with pyrites to tbe Commercial Guauo Cos,
vessel to master.
Schr Fannie Bi own. Hardens tie. Richmond,
Va. with pyrites to the Commercial Guano Cos,
vessel to Jos A Roberts * Cos,
ohr The Joaenhine, Townsend, Baltimore,
with guano to 0 R R & Bkg Cos, vessel to Joe A
Roberts & Cos.
Steamer Ethel. Carroll, Augusta and way
landings—W T Ulbaon, Manager.
ARRIVED UP FROM TYBEE YEBTERDAY.
Brig Robert Dillon, Leighton. New York, with
oil to order, vessel®o Geo Harries A Cos.
ARRIVED AT QUARANTINE YESTERDAY.
Bark Nlpotlni [Hal], Aste, Genoa, in ballast to
Chr G Dahl & Cos.
CLEARED YKBTERDAY.
Steamship Kansas City. Fisher, New York
—0 G Anderson.
Steamship RedfCross [Br], Coraey, Bremen—
Richardson & Barnard.
Bark Qaldregn [Nor], Hansen, Liverpool—
A Minis' Sons.
Bark Ole Bull [Nor], Muller, Antwerp—Chr U
Dahl 4 Cos.
Schr Charmer, Daboll, New York—Jos A Rob
erts & Cos.
Scnr l.iilie F Sohmldt, Van Gilder, Baltimore
—Jos A Roberts & Cos.
BAILED YESTERDAY.
Steamship City of Augusta, New York.
Steamship Wm Lawrence. Baltimore.
Bteamsblp Deaaoug, Philadelphia,
bteamulnp Bed Cross [Br], Bremen.
MEMORANDA.
New York, Dec 29—Cleared, schr Redwing,
Johnson, Jacksonville,
Anjer, Deo 26—Arrived, bark Adele [Ger],
rtecht, Savannah (snd proceeded for Sarnar
ang).
Copenhagen, Dec 24—Arrived, steamship
Castlegate [Br], Evans, Coosaw, 80.
Dartmoutu, Deo 29—Arrived, steamship Wi
venhoe (Brj, Clark. Fernandina for Rotterdam,
Liverpool. Dec 29—Sailed, bark Neptun [UusJ,
Hagmau, Mobile.
Point de Grave, Dec 26—Sailed, bark Zor&
[Aus], Octtanovich, Savannah.
Portland, Dec 69—Passed tbe Bill, bark Hal
men KoUen [Nor], Jobannsen, Bavannah for
Marburg.
tjueenstown, Dec 99—Arrived, ship Oregon
[Nor], Jobnsen, Pensacola.
Cardenas, Dec 23—Arrived, schr Myra B
Weaver, Weaver, Apalachicola
Havana. Dec 21— Arrived, schr John 8 Parker
[Br], Milberry, Pensacola
Kingston. Ja, Deo 20-Bailea, bark Cingalese
[Br], Thompson, Mobile
Sagua, Deo 23 Sailed, schr Gertrude Abbott,
Powell. Tampa.
Boston, Dec 29—Cleared, bark S G Hart, Pat
terson, Brunswick, Ua, to load for Rio Janeiro
Baltimore, Dec 29—Arrived, schr John H
Tingue, Burdge, Savannah.
Sailad—Schr Prescilla Soribner, Savannah.
Brunswlok, Ga Dec 29—Sailed, bark Hedwlg
Siebe [Ger]. Knoack, Darien.
Darieu, Ga, Dec 39—Arrived, schr Helen L
Martin, Fountain. New York.
Cleared--Schr Tena A Cotton, Cranmer, New
York.
Kdgartown, Dec 39-Balled, schr Roger Drury.
Hart, Boston for Satilla River, Ga
Fernaudlna Deo 29 Arrived, bark Clara E
Gilvery, GUkey, Ponoe; sohr Mary LCrosb,
Thlmm, New York.
Norfolk. Dec 29—Arrived, steamship Mer
chant Prince [Br], McDiarmid, Boston for
Charleston 1 coaled and sailed].
New Haven, Dec 29—Arrived, schr Wm Bmith,
Babbidge Fernandina
Philadelphia Deo 29-Arrived, schr Billie 8
Derby, Naylor, Charleston.
Delaware Breakwater, Deo 29—Sailed, sohr
Annie 8 Oonant, McDonald, from Brunswick for
Boston.
Wilmington, NC, Dec 29—Cleared, schr
Samuel W Hall, Muntford, Fernandina.
Jacksonville, Deo 29—Arrived, steamship
Bowden [Brl, Andersen, New York; schr Isaac
N Kerlin, Steelman, New York.
Cleared—Schr Turban [Be], Hill, Bermuda
MARITIME MISCELLANY.
New York, Dec 29 Arrived, schr Neva of
Shelburne, NS, Laurie (late Goodwini, Black
River, Ja Deo 1, with logwood, was fallen in
with Deo 26 off Nantucket during a strong NE
Can J heavy sea, leaking, by bark Chestlna
man, from Rockpori, Moss, for Charleston;
her crew requested to be taken off their vessel,
which was done with much difficulty, owing to
heavy weather: a prize crew from the bark,
consisting of Mate laurto and two seaman,
boarded tbe schooner, pumped her out end
brought her to this port, having experieuoed
heavy N and NW gales with high seas and in
tense oold weather and in on exhausted con
dition, owing to constant labor and exertion.
Key West, Dec 29—Bark London [Br], Ewan,
from Pensacola for Rio Janeiro, with lumber is
the vessel ashore at Tortuga*. She will be a
total loss; is being dismantled.
NOTICE TO MARINERB.
Pilot oharte and a nautical information will
be furr.isbed masters of vessels free of charge
in United States Hydrographic uffioe in the
custom house, captain* are requested to call
at the office.
RECEIPTS.
Por Central Railroad. Dec 31—1.914 bales 00-163
163 bales domestic*. 183 bbls spirits turpentine,
1,891 bbls rosin, 1 bdl hides, 6 pkgs vegetables,
327 pkg* mdse. 6 sacks rice, 32 casks clay, 6
oases egg* 3 bbls syrup, ito tone pig iron, 1 car
lard, 3 cars brick
Per Savannah, Florida and Western Ry, Deo
31—328 betas col ton. 2,717 bbls rosin, 187 bbls
spirits turpentine, 13 core lumber, 8 cars wood,
16 bins evrup, 2 oases leans. 75 cases mineral
water. 5 boxes wooden ware, 2 crates h rucks,
lto urates vegetables, it bbls vegetables. 9 mau
goez, 6 hay racks, $ cases caudles, 67 boxes
axes, 20 6bis rice. 66 socks rice, S boxes Iron
■bow cards, 1 car shingles. 3 cars cotton teed,
220 sacks oorn, 1 piano, 197 sacks rice, 35 empty
bbls, 6 boxes tobacco, 4 hales hides, 187 pkga
mdse, 40 boxes canned goods. 16 bbls fruit, 3,5:0
boxes fruit. 2 cases cigars. 6 cases toboooo, 4
iron drums, 2 chests tea
Per Charleeton and Savannah Railway. Deo
81—1 bals cotton, 48 bbls rosin, 25 boxes to
bacco. 1 boxes soep. 1 lamp, 1 bbl castings, 9
kegs t nuts. 25 cases potash. 4 bdla printing
paper. 1 crate p e ware, 1 car plow castings.
Per South Bound Railroad. Dec 31—60 pkga
toboooo, 28 bates domestics, 5 kegs whisky, 100
pkgs mass, 2 tacks c nuts, 3 bbls syrup.
EXPORTS.
Per steamship Tallahassee for New York—
-1,161 bale* upland cotton. 22! bags sea island
ootton, 8U bales domestlos and yarns, 280 bbls
rosin, 610 sacks ootton teed meai. 128 bbls cotton
seed oil, 40,000 feet lumber, 43 bbls fish, 40 bbls
oranges, 2,710 boxes oreugee, 44 boxes vege
tables, 47 tons pig iron. 217 oars, 834 pkgs mdse.
Per steamship Wm Lawrence for Baltimore
-235 bales upland ootton. 4 bales dome?tic-. 16
cases domestics, 1,699 bbls rosin, 79 bbls spirits
turpentine, 20 bales hides, 16 bdla hides, 21 bbls
rosin oil, 162 bbls pitch. 40 cases canned goods.
342 empty bbls, 24,116 feet lumber, 38 orates
vegstebles, 5 bbls vegetables, 1,883 boxes or
anges, 56 pkgs mdse.
Per steamship Red Cross [Br], for Bremen—
-7,600 bales upland cotton, weighing 1,627,249
pounds.
Per bark Guldregn [Nor], foe UverDool -3,360
bbls rosin, weighing 1,870,905 pounds; 103 bbls
spirit* turpentine, measuring 6,387)4 gallons—
Paterson, Downing A Cos.
Per bark i ile Bull [Nor], for Antwerp 2,250
bbls spirits turpentine, measuring 117,326 gal
lons: 060 bbls rosla, weighing 323,850 pounds—G
F Stahl.
Per so hr LUIIe F Schmidt for Baltimore
-427,147 feet p p lumber—X B Hunting & 00.
PASSESGERa
Per steamship City of Augusta for New
York—O Bunoh, Geo W Kelly end wife, C K
Burke. Miss E R Burke. Miss Katie Cooley, Mrs
M Cooley, Mrs Kste Wells H Jensen and wife,
F R Roe, A B Van Wyek, Prof Hiram Corson, J
E Dean, W 8 Belslnger, B Duryss and wife, Jos
H Odgen and wife.
Per steemhlp Tallahassee for New York—
A O Courtney, Jno G Oerter, R M Lester, D B
Lester, Mr Foster
IIEATIIMTANNA.
14,000 NATIVEB STILL PRAY TO
THE BPIBIT VUI.
Tribes In the New Hebrides Which
Sacrifice Their Weaklings and Wid
ows— Evident intent of tbe Religion
Is to Make a Fighting People.
FVom fAs New York Sun.
Queer it may be, bnt there are islands—
one in particular—ln tbe New Hebrides
group where cannibalism, infanticide,
human sacrifices, murder of widows, and
Inhuman warfare are still revered social,
religious aud martial customs of the people.
This is testified to in sorrow by the best
possible witness, tbe venerable and Rev.
John G. Paton, who has passed 84 years of
bis life in tbe Hebrides teaohlug the natives
about Jesus and bis lota Dr. Paton is now
in New York lecturing for tbe bensfit of a
fund to increase the work in bis missionary
field.
A Sun reporter met him in the rooms of
the Pretbyterleu board of foreign missions,
58 Fifth ovenue, and learned many Inter
esting facts about toe customs of tbe
Islanders.
Tbe group, which extendi for over 500
miles in length in the west Pacific, is
known as Melanesia. 80ms one has in
vented the word “negroid” to describe tbe
physioal characteristic of its dark, black,
crisp, curly-beaded inhabitants.
While the missionaries have made many
oonverts on the islands, on oue, tbe island
of Tanna, Chris ianity bas never gained a
foothold, and there Its 14,000 natives still
pray to tbe Spirit Vui, which Is incorpor
ated in stone idols, which they believe de
mands, besides prayers, offerings of shell
moi ey, food, aud of buman hvea
There seems to be a phase of something
approaching political economy In the selec
tion of the human sacrifices, for to some
extent there is observed a system which
conserves to the state its best fighters and
wealth producers, and ride it of lie least de
sirable men.
If bad lack in battle or husbandry or fish
ing suggests to the chiefs and sacred men
that Vui would be mors liberal in bis distri
bution of favors if some people were killed
before a stone Idol, it never happens that
the men who are moat adept with the bow
aud arrow, most accurate with tbe spear
and deadly with the war club, or even those
who ere famous oauolsts or fishermen, are
knocked In the head as sacrifices. Those
who are conspicuous In the rear when the
Battle is hot, who are clutnsy lu handling
the paddle, are more likely
TO OST THEIR QUIETUS
at such tunes. There la another tribesman
whose life i* sure to be thought neoessary
to obtain Vui’a good offioee, and he is the
fellow who has failed to revenge in insult
offered to him through his intended bride.
A male infant’s father buys a wife for
his son. That U, the female infant for
whom a prioe has been paid to Its parents.
Is engaged to the boy for whom she has
been bought, and the is impressed with this
sb soon as her young idea Is capable of
grasping tbe fact. All the members of tbe
tribe are told of tbe engagement also, and
this bit of society news Is iutended to warn
the young men from that girl when she is
old euough to begin making Degroid eyes.
Flirting, in other words, is not popular.
An engaged young man must not have
his mind distracted irom the pleasu; e* of
war by tbe bore of looking after his best
Kiri. Tbe 400 of Tanna ao not expect a
lover to take his sweetheart to the ru st
popular cocoa grove or ooral beaoh to keep
her heart from straying, and it dls approves
violently of any suob performance be ween
tne ticketed bride-elect and any other
young man.
If, however, any other young man “mis
behaves,” to quote Dr, Paton's language,
“or attempts to misbehave towaid the
bride-elect,” society demands that her ac
knowledged lover shall klli tbe foolish young
man guilty of that misbehavior, if he does
not do so It shows him lacking in warlike
spirit, and the next time there is a religious
ceremony, inoluding a human that
un warlike lover is certain to be seieotod by
the chief and eaored men to be olubbed to
death before a stone idol.
It is a vigorous Melanesian policy wbioh
seems to express a scientific regard for the
theory that tbe fittest shell survive, and the
plan might be studied with profit by the
medical gentlemen who are preparing a
plan for our next legislature, whereby the
race of New Yorkers is to be strengthened
and improved. So far as the testimony of
Dr. Patou goee, nothing very bad happens
to tbe woman in the case. The father of
tbe man who failed to fight for her sells her
to someone who is looking for a wifo; pos
sibly the man who had misbehaved.
Children are saorifloed, too. Their selec
tion for the deadly club man is made also
by the ohief and taored men. Tbe slokly
and physioaiiy unpromising are moat likely
to be cboseie, but in Tanna, as in other
more olvillaed countries, tbs mothers of
feeble ohildron
HATE A WAY Of LOVING THEM.
all the more for their infirmitiee; the sor
row occasioned by tbelr selection is es great
as if robust infants had been offered to the
stone idol.
Dr. Paton bad in his borne as servants
two boys who had escaped from Tanna dur
ing a sacrifice of children.
They told tbe doctor that they had been
In tbe circle ethers tbe bnroau sacrifice was
being made, ebd tbe sight of tbelr little
playmates being killed so frightened them
that they ran away and bid in tbe bush. Dr.
Paton convertied the boys to Christianity,
and then they returned to tbelr homes to do
missionary work among tbelr own people.
Their efforts were not appreciated, and
again they escaped, but both were killed In
a tight on their way back to Dr. Paton.
t) hlle oaunilieUsm is praotlced by ell ths
tribes of Tennu, as it was onoeon all the
Islands of the g roup. Dr. Paton does not
think that pe< q Is are killed only for tbe
purposes of af a tat. The bodies of thuss
killed in war oaly are eaten.
Tbe native roll giou is intended to make a
fighting people. A man who fights well Is
assured by the saored men that he will be
immortal and forever happy. Those who
do not fight will be devoured by the cod*
and be annihilated.
Some think that the spirits of those who
are eaten have everlasting life, a dogma
probably Intended to overoome anv natural
repugnance a man might have to war be
cause of the feast that be will provide if h
falls in battla
There does not seem 1 1 be much comfort
for women provided by those who arranged
tbe Melanesian religion. They have a bad
time of U all around. The erv on Tanna is
vet, as it ones was on all tbs Islands, “Ths
widow must go!"
The young bride provides for her future
taking off in this cheerful manner: In her
trousseau tbe principal article is a nsat
well-made and stout cord, which she puts
around her neck on her wedding day, and
wear* always thereafter until her d’-ath.
If her husband dies her father and her
father-in-law, or her brother and her
brother-in-law visit tbe widow with cere,
mony. Eaoh man takes bold of an end of ths
cord, which I* wound onoe around her
throat, each puts a foot on her hips, and
than both pull, ending quickly the grief of
the widow.
There ia another phase of Ufa on ths
Tanna which shows the abeenoe of civilis
ing Influences. The men, and not tba
women, s
DRINK KAVA AND QBT DRUNK.
Any one with a personal knowledge of
kava will not wonder that those who drink
it fight. It is made from the leaves of tbs
kava plant, whioh are first chewed to a
pulp by the women and then fermented.
Dr. Paton spoke of tbe awful blight of the
wicked whites. They are a source of moral
and physical distress, and oooasion the mis
sionaries almost as much trouble as ths
original heathen sins they have to over
come. Tnoee whites. Dr. Paton savs are
the off-soourlng of the civilized parts of ths
earth.
A scarcely-to-be-expected social feature
found among all tbe Melanesians onoe, and
still existing on Tanna, Is the olub Ufa The
upper olesses have sooial clubs and olnb
houses. There are various perfeotly defined
and well recognized social grades in their
olubs whereon a man’s rank and influence
depend at home and abroad. A olnb man
may go from Australia del Espiritu rtsnto,
or Malloolo, to visit tbe big volcano y asowa,
on Tanna, and there meet men from Am.
brym and Lopevi; and, although not speak
ing their language, if his olub grade at
home be proved satisfactory, the strangers
will rub noses with him with a rubof entire
sooial equality, as a club man and brother.
Dr. Paton says he bas information that
one, at least, of the Tanna chiefs has given
assuranoa that the missionaries will not
only be unmolested, but be welcome. There
are now on various islands of the New He
brides group 260 Christian schools supported
by tbe missionaries and 200 natives teaching
thegospel of Christ.
Where they abide cannibalism has ceased,
but from Tanna stories still oome of canni
balism, infanticide, human sacnficee and
widow killing. There the Christians will
make their next assault.
The Idol they worship ts made of black,
hard stone: tbe eyes are mother of pearl. It
Is about a foot high. In its hands it holds
tbe head of an Infant, tbe body of whioh it
Is supposed to have eaten. This idol •-
longed to a tribe which had worehipped it
for many hundreds of years, and it is cer
tain that thousands of humau lives have
een sacrificed before it lbe saored stoats
are also black, and in them the spirit of
Vui is supposed by tbe idolaters to dwell.
Near tbe end of eaoh stone some figure is
engraved. It is through that engraving
that tbe spirit is supposed to enter tbe
shine.
FUBUCATION6.
iriiiii
OUR NEW STORY
BY J. MONK FOSTER,
WILL BEGIN IN THE MORNING NEWS
SUNDAY, JAN. 8, AND IN THE WEEKLY
NEWS SATURDAY. JAN. 14.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PLOT.
The story deals with the lives and loves, the
hopes and struggles, of pitmen and pit brow
lasses The hero of the tale Is a miner; the
heroine a beautiful girl who works on the pit
bank; and one of the Coal Kings of Lancashire
plays a prominent part in ths drama.
In the opening chapter there is a brief de
scription of Sir Nicholas Carsland and his two
sons, who are half-brothers. The baronet com
menced llfo as a pit boy.and has made a fortune
out of coal. The elder son is a cold-blooded
schemer -the younger a Bohemian of the wild
est kind, whose escapades and misadventures
have alienated him from home and relatives.
The prodigal makes a last appeal to his lather,
and promises reform, but tbe baronet at the In
stigation of his elder son refuses to help tbe
scapegrace, who is living m lodgings in Lon
don.
In desr air, Sydney Carsland, the scapegrace
son, repairs to Carsland Hall, where he meets
wltb a frigid reception. He is told that he need
hope for no further monetary help until he set
tles down, selects a profession, and begins to
study in earnest. All thought of hard work is
distasteful to the pleasure-loving young man.
and for some time he hangs about undecided
what oourse to pursue.
At this point Sydney discovers that his brother
is engaged to a young lady who lives lu the
neighborhood, whom he had himself wooed in
vain a year or two before, and that the mar
riage is to take place shortly. He learns also
that his father intends to present the bride with
bis late wife's jewels, which are said to
be worth £IO,OOO. Tne precious stones are
in his father's room, and one night be obtains
possession of them, and flies, seeking safety in
a wood some miles away. Here he is attacked
by poachers, beaten senseless and robbed. Whea
he recovers be it lying in a cottage on the con
flues of the wood. Here he remains an outcast
and penniless, and in deadly fear of being ar
rested for robbing his father.
While at the cottage he passes under an as
sumed name, falls in love wltb and marries the
daughter of his host, who Is an old widowed
gipsy. A short time afterward be learns that
both his father and brother have oome to a sud
den end, and that be U wanted as the new bar
onet and heir. He resolves to leave his wife
and father-in-law forever without revealing hia
real identity, and goes back to Carsland Hall.
This forms only the introduction to tbe story,
the interest of which really begins when a su
perbly beautiful girl known as tbe “Whits
Gipsy" appears on the soeue in the picturesque
attire of a pit brow girl.
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