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the COMINI. WEEKS PL AYS.
l sight at the Circus and Richard,
The Lion-Hearted.
jjejlie McHenry to Make Her Bow to
S ivannah Theater-Goers Tuesday
jj ;) jht- Robert Downing- and Eugenie
Blair to be Here Thursday Night in
Richard Cceur de Lion The New
Edition of the Devil’s Auction Next
Week.
Tuesday night, Nellie McHenry in -‘A
jjjjrlit at the Circus.”
I : ursday night, Robert Downing in
••Richard the Lion-Hearted.”
These are the coming week's attractions
g . the theater.
Miss McHenry is anew attraction here.
a" .Night at the Circus is a mixture of
so '-, dance and fun in the usual way, in
fit ion to a grotesque side view of life
J.ujj the performers in the white tents.
Tii.-rc is more of the play itself by H.
Grattan Donnelly than is usual in the
vehicles of variety specialties, and for
Miss McHenry is provided the double
character of twins, one of whom is a de-
E .in quakeressand theothera frolicsome
c-ir.-us rider. During the first two acts
11,equestrienne makes fun by taking the
plan'of her sister as governess to four
demure but roguish girls. The last act is
i.ia\ed in the tent dressing room of the
•■Greatest Show on Earth,” with Miss-
McHenry in the guise of Mile.
Electra, the queen of the arena.
It is full of saw Must. spangles, lioop-la
and band-wagon flavor. The play opens in a
lav office and closes in a dressing tent of
the great imperial dirctfs. The droadful
office boy is on hand, and so is the pretty
typewriter, whom the patrons embrace
in a way to send the chills down the
backs of the suspicious wives. Both
members of this firm have wives. It
transpires that a visiting governess is to
be engaged by one of the wives and that
Mile Electra. queen of the arena, stands
in need of legal advice against a cruel
manager. In the second act the people
all rendezvous at a summer hotel. The
demure little governess who, of course, is
only a dashing queen of the arena in dis
guise, proceeds to get everybody by the
ears. There are plenty of songs and
dances above buffoonery, constituting an
entertainment which a visitor can come
away from without self reproach for
having laughed at it.
Mr. Downing comes to Savannah this
season with a company of extraordinary
strength, associated as he. is with the sup
port of his beautiful wife, known to the
stare as Eugenie Blair, making perhaps
two of the most conspicuous peo
ple now before the public
engaged in the presentation of plays
belonging to the legitimate drama,
in the company are also Edmund <.‘oilier,
Thomas A. Hall. William Frederic, Rose
Osborne and May I/indley, actors of recog
nized ability who stand well throughout
the whole country, all of whom have sup
ported some of the best players known to
the American stage. Mr. Downing prom
ises this year a most complete staging and
costuming of all his plays. It is doubtful
if Booth and Barrett, when they were
playing jointly, exercised more taste and
historic correctness in the use
of costumes than is this year
being accomplished by Mr. Downing.
‘‘Richard, the I .ion hearted’’ had its first
production at Chicago less than a year
ago. Everywhere it has been presented
it has been received with favor. It is
tflmssic in its construction. The best dra
matic critics in the country have been
l high in its praise. It is a play rich with
| historic lore. It gives a graphic idea of
f the reign of Richard I. Those who have
read Macaulay or Hume are by no means
unfamiliar with the intense dramatic
career of Richard Our delylonl.
Vale's new edition of tho ‘‘Devil's Auc
tion" will he litre Tuesday aud Wednes
day nights. Sept. 19 and ‘JO. It will be
the next attraction following Robert
Downing.
The Manola-Mason Company in “Friend
Fritz," opened the new Macauley theater
in Louisville, K.v., last Monday evening,
and played to over six thousand dollars ou
the week, an indication that the hard
times have not affected theaters in that
part of the country.
Manager Robert .B. Monroe will at an
early date give a production in this city
of-ruder the City Lamps,” by Leander
Richardson, a critic of plays and players
for many years. The play was produced
a few weeks at the close of last season
and was a hit.
PLENTY OF COUNTERFEITS.
A Bogus Five-dollar Silver Certifi
cate in Circulation.
Agents of the United States secret ser
vice of the treasury, say that anew
counterfeit $5 silver certificate of the
scries of 18S6, containing the portrait of
General Grant, a small carmine seal in
tin* right-hand corner, check letter H,
with small figures 13 to the right of. the
Mter B (indicating the plate number), is
m circulation.
'fhe counterfeit is of the issue with five
shver dollars represented on the back.
I he portrait of General Grant is dark
and scratchy, the numbering irregular,
aiei the hack a dark bottle green ; whereas,
the genuine is more yellowish green in
co ' or - Most of the notes seen have been
creased to represent the parallel silk
threads.
Since 1891 the genuine of this issue
hus. like all other notes, been printed on
the new fiber paper, and anew design
used for the back, in which there is a
"■hue space at each end, showing dashes
°i red and blue fiber.
INVITED TO JACKSONVILLE.
Savannah Cyclers Given a Chance to
Win Prizes Thera.
1 lie race committee of the Jacksonville
Atlil, i,. ail( i Bicycle Club has invited
tl" 1 Savannah” to Jackson
'n i next Thursday to participate in the
v iub s races there, postponed from Friday
on account of the rain.
Ail tiie open races, throe miles.
", 1 mile, quarter. novice and
■"'two boys’ races, will be re-opeued
and entries can be sent in till Wednesday
u-iu at li o’clock. The official handi
r j Ol . |,'i or j t | a j s oul 0 f tiie state,
vuv it n°t for that fact the handicaps
"ciml fie reopened.
race (oaimittc”, in extending the
„ / nvitation to Savannah riders, says:
j," •'(K'ksonvllle riders greatly appreciate
1 many kindnesses received at the
c is (li ifie elub there and desire to
mby rev j_ .'o ate.
GAVE HIMSELF UP.
bi At an Watlo’s Partner Surrenders
to the Solicitor.
M. Burke, who was one of tin l men in
' '* by the grand jury of the city court
'■ beeping a policy lottery, went to the
< lie of the soiicilor general yesterday
il: ; 1 surrendered himself.
ake was one of tne men who worked
a the old negro El ward Wade. Ho
jl "is shop near the Charleston wheel
• {"CTesa aregt, lane b •twcu Drayton
“ ul ‘- Hisfcoul was fixed at S3OU
h i’ ,ou Ch Lord Roberts is one of the bravest
1; ■';! !ini * va’rtainly the best general in the
U ,7/' arm vV- h 1 has a horror of cuts, and
uu °t it In a room with one.
THE WEEK AT POOLER
Personal and Social Gossip In the Lit
tle Village.
Miss Tilley Picket is u guest at the
home of li. J Herb.
Rev. (i. 1. Reverie will hold services at
the Methodist church to day.
Miss Louisa Zink visited at the home
of Mr. George Schroder last Sunday.
Mrs. McConnell has returned home af- j
ter an extended visit to Walthourville.
Mrs. C. C. Hill is speuding a few
days with her mother. Mrs. A. Sheftall.
Mrs. Stunt and daughter are visitors
at tlie home of Mrs. J. Symons, ou Rogers
street.
Miss Leila Hurst, of Egypt, is spending
a month's vacation with her sister, Mrs.
W. Moray.
Rev. R. W. McConnell left for Atlanta
Thursday to spend his vacation. He will
be absent until Oetoher.
The Pooler Rifle Club will hold its reg
ular monthly meeting at the home of G.
E. Bovans Thursday evening.
Mrs. Solomon Shoftall is visiting at
the home of Mrs. Thompson, on Newton
street, and expects to make Pooler her
future home. ,
A hop was'given at Patterson Hall, last
week.-by the young men of Pooler, com
plimentary to the visiting ladies. Dancing
was indulged in to the early hours and all
had a most enjoyable time.
Miss Emma Zink entertained the mem
bers of the Pooler Broom Cadets at the
home of Mr. George Schroder Monday
evening. After partaking of the hospi
tality of Mrs. Schroder, dancing was in
dulged in.
Miss Virginia Sheftall has been elected
sergeant of the Pooler Broom Cadets in
place of Miss Agnes Blackwell, who has
moved to Savannah. The ladies are pro
gressing rapidly in their drill and expect
to give an exhibition at an early date.
Miss Annie E. Green gave a birthday
party to her juvenile friends at the home
of her aunt, Mrs. E. Hussey, on Skinner
avenue, last week. After partaking of
the good things and indulging in juvenile
games, the little ones returned home highly
pleased.
The Pooler base ball club defeated the
Nancy Hanks last week, by a score of 15
to 2. The feature of the game was George
Richardson’s playing on first for the Nancy
Hanks. Mr. E. L. Patterson umpired
the game and it looked at times that he
would never umpire another game. The
batteries were Brown and Patterson for
the Poolers, and Ham aud Bourne for
the Nancy Hanks.
A meeting of the citizens of Pooler was
held at the Baptist church Tuesday even
ing, when G. E. Bevans, D. C. Newton
and Dr. W. X. Bleakney were appointed
a committee to lay before the school board
the necessity of Pooler having a school
house built. Tim petition of W. H.
Bourne for principal of the school was
unanimously indorsed. The meeting ad
journed until next Tuesday evening to
receive the report of committee.
THE CHESS CLUB’S MEDAL.
It Goes to Maj. A. L. Hartridge as
Champion.
The Savannah Chess Club has become
one of the social institutions of Savannah.
The interest that has been taken in it has
resulted in building up an influential
membership. The club has just awarded
its last medal. Secretary Thomas Dykes,
in presenting the medal to Maj. A. L.
Hartridge, says in his letter of presenta
tion :
“I take pleasure in presenting you With
the club’s championship medal for session
ending Aug. 31,1893.
“In doing so. I desire to notice the sig
nificant feature of the tournament as hav
ing been one intensely interesting and
eminently marked with bright playing.
All the games have been most keenly and
closely contested, which reflect and testi
fy much to your ability as a player of the
noble game.
“The admiration of the club is due, and
you unquestionably have it; it is proud of
the now present holder of its medal. The
members wish me to . express their con
gratulations.”
Maj. Hartridge replied, thanking the
members of the club for their friendly ex
pressions.
HE WAS A SLICK THIEF,
But Detective Morgan Was Too Much
For Him and He Was Caught in
-a Trap.
Henry I .ark, an experieneed negro
crook, thief, shoplifter and criminal of
various other pursuits, was very neatly
captured while working one of his dodges
last night, by Detective Morgan, who has
been on the lookout for him for some
time.
Lark is just out of the penitentiary,
having served a six-year term there for
burglary. Detective Morgan thinks
he is also an escaped convict and that he
has been sentenced on another charge
since his discharge front the penitentiary.
Lark had a way of going around to va
rious stores Saturday night and helping
himself to various articles while the pro
prietor was not looking. He has been
suspected of this for sometime. He gen
erally had an accomplice with him who
carried a basket into which various art
icles were hidden away.
Last night Detective Morgan put a man
on his track. Lark went to several shops
and stole a number of articles. He was
not caught in the ret, however, until he
went into L. Bluestein’s store on Bryan
street, when the man whom Detective
Morgan had put to watch him saw him
take a pair of pants and throw them into
the basket which was carried by another
party. The detective was soon on hand
and Lark was at once given a ceil in the
barracks.
CITY BREVITIES.
Two people were injured yesterday on
the Electric railway by being struck by
the gates to the market bridge.
The Jewish New Year begins to-night
at sunset. Special services will be held
at the synagogues. To-morrow will be a
holiday among the Hebrew people.
The walks in the Para extension are
very much washed out and badly torn up
as a result of the recent rains, and they
need attention. Especially is this true
from Bolton street out to New Houston.
The water will be shut off at 9 o’clock
to-morrow morning on liiver (or Bay
street extended) from East Broad street
to Hart<§n's wharf for the purpose of
putting in hydrant, and will be oft sev
eral hours.
Miss Nellie Walsh and Miss Emma
Meyer have returned, after an extended
business trip north. They have visited
all the different art palaces, and have
purchased a feast in this line for the la
ities of Savannah. They will also carry
a pr.'try line of dress trimmings and
gloves this fall.
C. L. Giover, P. S. Glover, Itawls
Moody and Leon Stewart, who were
committed to jail some days ago on a
charge of forging the natn : of Mr. Milton
Orr to an order which was presented to
IV. E. Stokes, the boarding house keeper
on West Broad street, were discharged
from custody yesterday after a brief pre
liminary hearing, as Mr. Stokes decided
not to prosecute the -ase.
Other Markets.
New York, Sent. 10, l p. m.—Cotton quiet;
middling uplands She middling Orleans
middlings ales 381 bales.
Futures closed stead 1 with sales of L.1.1.X)
tales, as follows: September delivery 7 c.
October delivery - ■ c, November delivery
s ’,(.'. December delivery - c January de
livery -. • February delivery * ice, March
delivery 8 AL, April delivery 8 71c, May ueliv
ev>i sue.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 10, IS9T
ALL RELIGIONS Tl) MEET.
The Grtal Piiliincii al the World's
Fair This Keek
An Urique Assemblage of All Beliefs.
Two Days Set Apart for Theosophy,
During Which the Principles of the
New Faith Will be Presented- Mrs.
Annie Besant’s Life Work--Bud
dhists. Brahmins and Christians on
a Common Basiß.
One of the features of this week at tho
world's fair will be the parliament of re
ligions. Two days have been set apart
for the exclusive presentation of the
principles of theosophy .and the thousands
of people who attend will, for the first
time, find out definitely what theosophy
is. The Theosophieal Society, though in
existenc eonl.v eighteen years,has grown to
such proportions that the management of
the fair granted it two days at the par
liament. The Theosophieal Society was
founded in New York by Mme. Blavatsky
in 1t75, and it now lias branches in evein
part of the world. In America there are
75, in Europe 50, and in India 150, besides
which a dozen or more are scattered in
out of the way places like Peru and the
west.
IX UNIQUE GATHERING.
The parliament of religions will be
the most unique that has ever been held,
since never before in history have reli
gionists from all over the world met for
the purpose of comparing their respective
doctrines. Theosophy includes all reli
gions, so from the theosophieal platform
all religions will be expounded. Buddhist
theosophists will tell of Buddhism, Brah
min theosophists will talk on Brahmin
ism, Hebrew theosophists on Judaism,
Catholic theosophists on Catholicism,
Protestant theosophists on their particu
lar creeds. All will meet harmoniously,
since this doctrine of brotherhood is the
one thing fn theosophy that all who
would join must subscribe to.
THE THEOSOPHISTS' BELIEF.
Theosophists may believe what they
please, but they must regard all men as
sons of one God, and all religion as rivu
lets flowing from a common source—the
ocean of Truth. Thus a Christian is at
liberty to believe his religion better than
that of the Buddhist, but lie is no
theosopliist if he claims that his religion
is the only true one. The great mass of
theosophists believe that Buddha, Jesus,
Confucius and all other great religious
teachers are men who have evolved to
perfection through having lived many
lives on earth, and that they constitute
a secret brotherhood from which mem
bers are sent now and then to
toach humanity. According to
this* view for example, Jesus,
who taught Christianity, might have
been the incarnation of Gautama, who
taught Buddhism. Not only do the va
rious delegates tolerate each other's reli
gion, but most of them agree that the doc
trine of reincarnation is taught in their
respective religions. In America and Eu
rope, although nearly all the theosophists
are either Christians or Hebrews, thedoc
trine is almost as fully accepted as by the
Asiatics.
Probably the most widely known of the
delegates is Mrs. Annie Besant, of Lon
don, famous as a lecturer, friend of the
working girl, thinker and theosopnist.
MRS. BESANT’S BISTORT.
Mrs. Besant’s life history is a stirring
one. She married early, taking as a hus
band the Rev. Besant, a brother of Walter
Besant, the novelist. There was no per
sonal love in the union. She was impelled
by love of Christ, thinking she could bet
ter serve Him by joining her life to that
of a minister of the gospel. Mrs. Besant
had strong views on the subject of right
and wrong, and it was not long before she
discovered qualities in her husband that
seemed to her very "unlike the ideals of
Christ. She obtained a divorce on the
ground of cruelty, but an English blue law
gave the husband the guardianship of the
children. Then came a terrible internal
struggle. Should she abandon her chil
dren or her convictions ?
She renounced Christianity and became
an infidel. When her children came of
age, both of them left their father and re
turned to their mother. Meanwhile Mrs.
Besant became a member of the secular
society, gnd. associating herself with
Charles Bradlaugh, M. P., together they
made war on dogmatism.
A CHAMPION OP THE POOR.
Mrs. Besant then discovered the awful
condition of the laboring classes of Lon
don. and from that time on she became
their champion. She exposed the abuses
to which the poor match girls of London
were subjected, aud in public lectures day
and night made piteous appeals for re
form. Her eloquence stirred up parlia
ment and many reforms were legislated.
It was due mainly to her agitation that
Burns was given a seat in parliament as
a representative of the labor
ing classes. Mrs. Besant’s efforts
resuit'ed in awakening the working
men and girls to their rights, and under
their guidance they organized. She was
a socialist almost before she new it, and
one night found her in Trafalgar square at
the head of the column of an army of
workingmen, with a regiment of soldiers
charging down upon her with fixed
bayonets. But she stood her ground, and
her bravery won for her the admiration
of all England.
A CONVERT TO THE NEW FAITH.
Mrs. Besant then becanle the pupil of
Huxley and under his tutorship proceeded
to educate herself aiong the lines of
science and philosophy. One day at the
office of the Review of Reviews there
came a book called the “Secret Doctrine.”
It was by Mine. Blavatsky. Editor
William T. Stead tried to review
the work, and giving up he sent
for Mrs. Besant and asked her to
undertake it. Mrs. Besant was at once im
pressed with the mine of original thought
contained therein, and she sought Mme.
Blavatsky for an interview. A friend
ship sprung up b‘Btw een the two, which
not even death severed, and tho rarfe phe
nomenon of oue great woman acknowledg
ing herself small in the presence pf an
other, content to be a disciple, was exhib
ited to the world. It took months to digest
enough of the work before a review could
be attempted, and at the expiration of
that time Mrs. Besant was a convert to
theosophy. One of her acts of philan
thropy was the founding of a
club for the working girls of Lon
don three years ago with $5,000.
TUT FIRST THEOSOPHIST IIEHE.
William Q. Judge is the most promi
nent of the theosophists in America. He
is president of the Aryan'Theosophieal
Society in New York, general secretary
of the american section of the theoso
phica! society, arid vice president of the
t licosophical society'all over the world.
He is a lawyer, author and thinker, and
it was through him that the first theoso
phical society in America was estab
lished. At one time, about eighteen
j ears ago, he was the only tlieosophist
in New- York, in fact he was almost tno
only man in the metropolis who knew
that a philosophy of that name existed.
SACRIFICED HIS CASTE.
Prof. Ganendra Nath Chakravarti,
a high caste Brahmin, will be considera
ble of a curiosity in the parliament. A
high Brahmin cannot cross the seas away
from his native country without sacrific
ing his c aste, and as the rank of a Brah
min is supposed to be higher than that
even ot the native kings it is very sel
dom. indeed, that a Brahmin comes to
America. The professor thinks less of
his rank than he does of theosophy, how-
ever, and he has •aoritnx'd it. So he
came to this ixiuntr.v n plain Hindoo Al
though a delegate only to the the '••pineal
convention Prof Chakravarti has been
asked by the theological board of the
fair to represent theosophy at the parliu
ment of religions. The youngest repre
sentative of a great religious s> stem will ,
be Mr. H. Dharmapala, who represents
the millions of Buddhists who form the
creed known as the Southern Buddhist
church, Although chosen by the Bud
dhists to represent them Mr Pharmu
pala is a tlieosophist as well as being a
Buddhist, and it is expected that lie will
take part in the theosophieal convention.
Heison the programme tospeakon theos
ophy as underlying all religions. Mr.
Dharmapala is only about 30 yours old and
he is highly esteemed in his native country
for his enthusiastic devotion anu purity
of life. He is one of the chief officers of
the Maha Bod hi Society of India.
WARSAW IN A BAD" FIX.
The Town Can Levy a Tine But Can
not Enforce Us Payment.
The Supreme Court May Be Asked
to Construe Warsaw’s Charter as
Judge Falligant Has Decided That
The Town Commissioners Cannot
Have a Man Imprisoned for the Non-
Payment of a Fine—Cases That Will
Go to the Supreme Court.
The town of Warsaw is a corporation
which has a power without the means of
enforcing it.
In other words the marshal of the town
can make an arrest for a violation of its
ordinances and the judge of the police
court can levy a fine, but if the guilty par
ty refuses to pay the fine the town au
thorities have no means of compelling
him to do it under their charter. At
least so Judge Falligant decided yester
day.
SENT TO JAIL.
The case was that of B. Wilson and of
W. H. Merritt of Thunderbot, who were
arrested for a violation of the town ordi
nances, and fined for their offenses. They
refused to pay the line, and were im
prisoned in the Chatham county jail.
They brought a writ of habeas corpus
before Judge Falligant, claiming that the
town authorities had no jurisdiction under
the charter to pursue the alternative
punishment of imprisoning them in the
jail. Judge Falligant decided in their
favor, and ordered that the two men he
discharged from custody.
NO POWER TO IMPRISON.
He heard argument on the case some
time ago, but postponed his decision until
yesterday in order to give the town com
missioners time to bring up some other
points that they asked to be allowed to
present. He said in his decision that the
acts of 1878-90 only authorized the estab
lishment of a police barracks, and that
was the express authority in the charter,
but that they had no jurisdiction to pur
sue the alternative punishment of impris
onment in cases where fines wfere not
paid. He did not think that payment
could be enforced in this manner, and he
ordered tho prisoners discharged from
custody.
A Final ‘Decree Taken.
A final decree was taken yesterday in
the case of A. Minis and others, including
D. H. Baldwin & Cos., intervenors, and
the fund before the court for distribution
was $2,728.75. An order was granted giv
ing all the parties to the suit the amount
due them with the exception of Mr. John
Schwarz and 1). H. Baldwin & Cos. They
were paid only in part and given judg
ments against Kei&ling for the balance.
George MacFarlane, formerly one of
Her Majesty Queen Victoria’s subjects,
who came to this country in 1877, was
made a citizen of of the United States by
Judge Falligant yesterday. A similar
honor was conferred upon Charles Gut
man, formerly a subject of the Emperor
of Austria, wljo came over in 1888.
Walter F. Hogan, of the Germania
Bank, applied for appointment as a notary
public.
CASES FOR SUPREME COURT.
Twelve From the City Court and Four
From the Superior Court.
Tho clerks of tho city and superior
courts have been busy for the past few
days preparing briefs of evidence and bills
of exceptions, records and other papers,
in cases which are to go up to the supreme
court at the October term.
The last of the records in tho cases from
the city court were completed yesterday
aud forwarded to Atlanta. They were
the cases of:
Benjamin Ficklin vs. the Savannah
Street railroad, in which the plaintiff got
a verdict for SSOO.
Jake Beasley vs. the Savannah, Thun
erbolt and Isle of Hope railroad, in
which theuilaintiff got a verdict for SIOO,
and Henry*Bryan vs. the Savannah Thun
derbolt and Isleof Hope railroad in which
the plaintiff was also given SIOO. The
other cases which have gone up to the
supreme court from the city court are:
The state vs. James McGarr, charged
with cheating and swindling, who was
given twelve months on the cnain-gang.
Cheney vs. tho Ocean Steamship Company
which was non-suited by JudgeMacDonell.
Demere vs. the Merchants’ National
Bauk, and Guilmartin vs. the Merchants’
National Bank, in both of which cases
verdicts were rendered in favor of the
plaintiff.
Wm. Dußose vs. the Savannah, Florida
and Western railway, in which a verdict
of SI,OOO was rendered in favor of the
plaintiff.
M. J. Falve.v vs. the Savannah, Florida
and Weftern railway, in which case the
plaintiff got a verdict for $2,370.
The Navassa Guano Company vs. the
Commercial Guano Company in which a
verdict was rendered in favor of the de
fendant, and Julia McGrath vs. the City
and Suburban railway and Alexander
Gardner vs. the same,both of which cases
were non-suited.
This is the largest docket that has
gone to the supreme court from the city
court in a long time. Judge MacDonell
has not met, up to this time, a reversal at
the hands of the higher court, but twelve
is quite a large number for them to look
for flaws in.
The superior court has but comparative
ly few cases to send up from this term.
The most important of these, and the one
involving the largest amount, is the case
of Freeman and others vs. Prendergast
and others, which, it will be remembered,
was decided in favor of the defendants.
The other cases which are to go up from
the superior court are:
The Bowker Fertilizer Company and
others vs. Cliffton, administrator, which
was decided in favor of the defendant.
F. I-*. Cook and others vs. Benjamin
Gammon, which was decided in favor of
the defendant,.
The Ambrose Harris habeas corpus
case, in which the habeas corpus was de
nied. arid the case of-M. L Jones vs. J. D.
Glover, receiver.
This is small docket,
but as a good many of the cases were
contined the chances are that there will
be a larger number to go up from the De
cember term.
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT.
Items Gathered Here and There
Among the Shipping.
The American bark Mary S. Ames,
which has been at this port for three
weeks, has been chartered by J. F. Minis
A Cos She will take a carp'of naval
stores to Java. Tilts is the first Ameri
can vessel in a numl>er of years chartered
to carry naval stores to the East Indies.
Captain Knowles, who has been in the
Ames for several years and makes con
tracts for her freight, prefers to take a
deep water trip to accepting the very low
rates offered for freight along the coast.
The Kansas City arrived yesterday.
She riqiorts September 9 at 8 a m , Capo
Romaim- bearing W S. distance about
thirty miles, passing a large vessel’s hull,
bottom up, in eleven fathoms of water:
copper purtly stripped oil. Also passed
a large lot of wreckage, logs, lumber,
etc , from Frying Fan to Tybee.
The steamer Alpha was hauled up on
Willink’s marine railway yesterday to ,he
overhauled and repaired. The damage
done by the storm, whieh forced hemp on
a mud bank near Bluffton. was not very
great, and she will be off the ways in a
few days, and will resume her regular
trips to Beaufort and way landings.
THE LAST PIRATE S MILLIONS.
An Arkansas Man Claims to Know
Where They Are on the Florida
Coast.
From the St. Louis Globe. Democrat.
There is $2,000,000 in gold buried down
on the Florida coast, aud St. Louis mer
chants have been asked to help recover it.
The exact location of the treasure is
known, and all that is needed to get it is
the requisite nerve and energy and the
paltry sum of SIO,OOO to fit out an expedi
tion. The directors of the Merchants’ Ex
change have it under their thumb,and are
jealously guarding it lest an enterprising
private citizen grab the good tbiugoffered
and secure the golden booty. The story
of the treasure reads like one of Robert
Louis Stevenson's romances, hut is
vouched for by the best of authorties.
Part of it is told in a letter that George
H. Morgan, Secretary of the Exchange,
has secure locked up in a burglar-proof
safe. The letter was received yesterday,
and it was directed to the Board of Di
rectors. After being discussed by the
Board it was committed to tho care of
Secretary Morgan, who allowed several
members to peruse it without seeing the
name. Then, when inquiries began to he
made about it and the interest to increase
the secretary concluded to place the
precious communication under lock and
key and await developments. To all en
treaties after that he was deaf, and the
only information that could be gleaned
was from parties who had been favored
with the privilege of perusal.
The letter is from a prominent Arkan
sas merchant. It consumes four large
sheets of paper, closely written, and
makes a number of very bold assertions.
The merchant starts out by telling the
“president and'board of directors” of the
exchange that he needs their aid to tho
tune of SIO,OOO. If he did not need it he
would go ahead and get the gold himself.
Upon his marriage recently, he says, lie
came into possession of a chart, a map,
and comprehensive guide to a portion of
the Florida coast where the money is hid
den. His wife received the data from a
New Orleans physician several years ago,
just previous to his death. Years before
this the physician, sitting at the death
bed of a poor patient, had been given tho
secret as pay for his services. Twenty
years before this deathbed scene the pa
tient had been intrusted with the papers
by another dying man in New Orleans.
This man was the last survivor of tho
party that had buried the gold.
The history bf the whole survivor’s ef
forts to regain possession of the treasure
he had helped bury was a pathetic one.
Worn out with fatigue he had landed in
New Orleans about tho close of the cen
tury. The frightful hardships he had un
dergone proved too much for pven his
frame of iron, and he was taken from his
sailor's lodging house to the hospital more
dead than alive. He still kept the pre
cious chart and map, however, deter
mined to return to the Florida coast as
soon as convalescent. His sickness lasted
nearly two years, and when he was finally
turned out of the hospital he was a physi
cal wreck. With dogged perseverance,
however, ho set out to prepare for his ex
pedition after the gold His appearance
was against him, though, and men to
whom he told his story regarded him as a
maniac. He all but succeeded several
times, but as each scheme seemed about
to develop, soino untoward event shat
tered his plans. The war of 1812 coming
on defeated what promised to be his
greatest expedition, and after that he had
not the energy to try again. Ho kept tho
papers until bis death, and only then did
he resign all hope of securing the fortune.
Dying, he left them to his nearest friend,
with the promise that the treasure would
be searched for and found.
The same fate, however, that had pur
sued the unfortunate pirate seemed to
follow the second owner of the papers.
Try as he might, all his plans went by
the board, and he died as penniless and
as far from the treasure as the man from
whom he got them. Business and family
interests prevented the physician from
searching for the gold, though he had al
ways intended to make the hunt before
he died.
The writer of the letter to the Ex
change grows quite melo-dramatlc when
he describes the events leading up to the
burial of the treasure. It was in the
troublesome days of the close of thceight
teenth century, he says, when the Gulf
of Mexico was still a terror to owners of
merchant vessels from the presence of
the pirates who infested its roads of
travel and tree-grown isles. Foremost
among these marauders was the “Skipper
of Sawyer’s Key,” named from the coral
island ui>on which he pitched his rendez
vous, and to which he usually brought his
booty. His craft La Mort (Death), was
more dreaded than the cholera or yellow
fever, for the skipper knew no mercy. For
years his black flag waved over scenes of
carnage too horrible for pen to picture,
and the very atmosphere of the South
western Florida coast was shunned by all
vessels that did not bear regiments of
soldiers and double rows of cannon. The
last cruise of the pirate was a singularly
successful one. It was in the autumn of
year, when ships from South America
were bearing to England, France and
Spain many a rich planter’s profits of a
twelve-month. Some of the ships bore
ingots of gold and silver mined from tho
southern mountains. Many a fine lady,
bedecked with costly gems, accompanied
her lord to the old world. The same fate
that made the harvests rich And the
winds fair caused dozens of these vessels
to fail into the hands of the skipper
aboard La Mort. The planters were re
lic ved of their money bags and ingots, and
the ladies of their diamonds and rubies.
Before the cruise was over the skipper
had gathered in over $2,000,000 worth of
gold.
Finally he started for Sawyer's Key,
there to divide the booty and spend a
winter in revelry and drunkenness. But
ne never reached his port. A storm, the
like of which seldom ever visited the
Gulf, swept down upon i-a Mort and tcro
her shrouds from her masts as though
they were hut tissue paper. The helm
broke, the masts themselves snap|K-d like
pipestems in tho hurricane, and largo
waves rolled from stern to stem of the
ship, washing away the bulwarks and
scores of unfortunate seamen. With all
haste the longboat was launched and a
few of the crew loaned in the treasure, a
few provisions, and a supply of water, and
resigned themselves to the mercy of the
waves. The storm lasted three days,
and at the end only four of the
crew lived. The skipiier was among
the survivors. and directed that
the treasure be buried. A spot was
selected near Fonce de Ix-on Bay. where
they were washed ashore, aud with great
toif ana trouble a hole was dug and the
money planted. Oue of the party was a
civil engineer, and he made a sketch of
the spot and surroundings, being careful
to take such markings as could never tie
obliterated by time or the elomenWc The
little band of four them started toward
civilization afoot. From Pouee de I/•on
Hav to the habitations of man was a long
ami almost hopeless Journey. Swamps
impassable barred their way. and their
scant auiqily of provisions gave out. To
make a long story short, only one man
reached New Orleans. His companions
died one by one in the morasses. His
trials after reaching the Crescent City
have already been told.
The directors of the exchange are evi
dently inclined to look upon the scheme
with some favor, chimerical though it
may be. The pnqxisition of the merchant
is to pilot a searching party to the locality
where the treasure is buried, and then,
with the assistance of charts and instru
ments in the hands of a scientific man, to
locate the spot amt unearth the treasure.
He does not propose to surrender his
claims to the wealth, but, being without
tho necessary means to prosecute the
search, he will surrender one-half of all
that is found in case the merchants, indi
vidually or collectively, conclude to fur
nish him with iho means necessary to
carry out his plans.
That the pirates in the early days of
the republic concealed along the coast
vast sums of money and precious stones
of untold value there is hardly a reason to
doubt. Florida, at the time referred to,
was inhabited by wealthy Spaniards, and
the ships that visited the coasts brought
with them cargoes of immense value, and
carried away to the old world the riches
of the purchasers. At St. Augustine, the
oldest city in the United States, the peo
ple still talk about the depredations of
the pirates, and they firmly believe that
t here is treasure of almost fabulous value
buried somewhere along the const not far
from the city.
Of course the directors as a body can
not go into the scheme. It must be put
to a vote of tin'? exchange. “Money is too
tight now to go into a scheme like that,”
said one member when interviewed on
the subject. Moses Fraley read the let
ter and took the trouble to quote it from
memory to dozens of members. Mr.
Phil Schrimer wanted more information
before ho would commit himself either
one way or the other. He wanted the
letter printed in full and discusser!. Mr.
R. F. Annum, the first vice president and
acting president of the exchange, was
asked to give the letter for publication.
He consulted his secretary, Mr. George
H. Morgan, and after reversing his decis
ion twice, finally ordered the secretary to
treat the letter as a private communica
tion.
WEALTH FROM REFUSE.
Talk With a French Contractor Who
Collects the Sewage of Paris.
From the San Francisco Examiner.
Charles Gaston, who has for yours
been connected with the famous firm of
Souffrice et Cie, who has been winning
wealth from the sewers of Paris, is among
the guests at the Palace Hotel, San Fran
cisco.
Mr. Gaston has not oome to San Fran
cisco with the idea of suggesting the
adoption of the Paris system in connec
tion with the sewers here, but, as an ex
pert in his line, he lias discovered in a
day thut San Francisco's system of the
sewerage is at least several degrees short
of the Parisian ideal.
“The work done "by the Maison Souff
rice in Paris,” said Mr. Gaston, yester
terday, “could not be carried ou so well
in Sau Francisco or in Chicago as in
New Ypi'k or Philadelphia or Washing
t*u, it-needs a stream, and Paris has
the advantage of the Seine, where there
is no tide. With the help of the Seine
MM. Souffrice have made an immense
fortune, and they have won it all from
the waste of a great city. All the sewers
of Paris, you most know, center in one
great sewer, which empties into the
Seine just below the bridge of Asnieres.
All the refuse, the greasy and dirty water,
the unclean waste of the shops and streets
pass into this and out upon tho river
again in one form pr another, and it is
from this we reap our harvest.”
Mr. Gaston said the firm had never
asked a sou for scavenging the city and
found themselves fully repaid by what
they collected in tho streets and on the
waters of the Seine. The founder of the
firm, as early as 1836, began the study of
how all waste material might be utilized,
lie afterward associated his sons and
then his grandsons with him and early in
the 'fids they took the job of keeping
Paris clean. They bolt a big factory at
Bourget and hud tho chiffoniers bring
there all the rags and refuse of the city
and they turned it into gold.
The next step was the development of a
specialty In the utilization of the waste of
the butcher shops and shambles. This
was all boiled in great vats and tho scum
was made into oil and candles and other
merchantable commodities. One set of
men collected the rags and waste that
engineers and machinists used around the
factories and machine shops. The grease
was extracted from these and purified,
the rags were sorted, the woolen stuff re
duced to powder for jfertili'.ation pur
poses and the cotton turned into paper
stock.
Mr. Gaston's personal superintendence,
when at Paris has been directly in con
nection with the collection of things
found floating on the water. The firm
got permission to construct short piers
out into the Seine below the point where
the great sewer empties, and on these
men stand with huge forks or spoons,
lifting out everything that floats along.
It is all carted to Bourget and boiled and
squeezed and sorted. The grease is
treated with lime,and is transformed into
soap and glycerine. The wood, hay,
stubble, corks and paper, when dry, are
used to feed the factory furnaces.
“You would probably be surprised,”
said Mr. Gaston, “to know how many
dead animals are picked up in the Seine
in the course of a year. I can give you
some figures that will astonish you, but I
can assure you they are less than the ac
tual records. I have known more than
8,000 dogs to be fished out of the Seine in
a single year. Calves, sheep, goats and
pigs mine along every day or two.
Scarcely a da.v passes without a goose or
a duck or a chicken being found, and rats
are very plentiful.
“Next to the dogs, however, come the
rabbits. The i>oor people of Paris all
have dogs, and most of them raise rabbits
in a backyard or on the roof. The latter
breed so fast that many of them are thrown
into the sewer, and then they are part
of the fish that come to the Souffrice net.
Cats come under the same category. All
these bodies are treated with chemicals,
and the different parts are utilized to the
best advantage.”
An incident in the industry developed
in this connection was referred to Ijy Mr.
Gaston as asticots. The eggs of the myr
iads of flies that congregate on decayed
matter at the Bourget factory produce so
many grubs that it was found possible to
supply them as bait for the entire fishing
contingent of Paris, and it is not unusual
for the firm to sell SS.IKK) worth of these
grubs during a single fishing season.
“Those connected with the Souffrice es
tablishment are often told,” said he in
conclusion, “that the original idea of this
great business was suggested by Victor
Hugo’s remark in 'i/cs Miserables’ that
‘Paris throws into tho water every year
25,000 francs.’ ”
Robert D. Wrenn, the new tennis champion
of the United States is a Harvard man of the
class of 'BS. His home is in Chicago. He has
been prominent in college athletics ever
since he entered, and has been a member of
the freshman base ball and foot ball teams.
Dr. James McLeod of Albany, who was
mentioned favorably a year ago as ihe suc
cessor of Dr. Howard Crosby, in the Fourth
avenue church. New York, has teen called to
the First Presbyterian church of Scranton,
Pa.
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49c; reduced from 75c.
One lot Gants’ Night Shirts.fancy trimmed,
at 39c and 49c: reduced from 65c and 75c.
Closing out balance of Gents’ Negligee
Shirts at little over half price.
100 dozen Gents’ Best 4-ply Linen Collars,
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Gents' Regular Made Half Hose, in tans,
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