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A FIGHT ON THE FREE LIST.
Seven Democratic Senators Unite
Against It.
They Demand That Coal, Iron and
Sugar Shall Be Put on the Dutiable
List— Crisp Will Appoint a Confer
ence Committee Which Will Hold
Cut Against the Demands of the
Sanators.
■Washington. Feb. 26. It leaks out that
there was a furious time in the caucus
tiiis evening. Senators Gorman, Gibson,
Briee. White and Caffery, of Louisiana,
ar.d Hill and Murphy have combined to
defeat the bill as the finance committee
insists upon reporting it, and wish to
amend it all along the line. The spirit of
democracy is as rampant in the Senate as
it was in the House, and the majority will
light this •■conservative” element, as it
terms itself, on every schedule.
THE FIGKT ON THE FREE LIST.
The committee has refused to protect
anv isolated article which this or that
senator has come forward demanding pro
re-ion for merely to make him more
aoliu with his constituents The combi
nation want coal, iron aud sugar removed
from the free list, and it is around these
articles that the fight will be waged.
Senator Gorman has got 40 cents put
on coal and demands 00. The sugar trust
demand a discrimination in favor of re
fined sugar and the sugar men favor
it with senators Brice, Vest and the New
York senators back of them. The fight
is exclusively around the free list, and
those who have posed as the leaders of
the party want a tax on necessaries.
WILL BE OVERTHROWN.
Be it said to the credit of the party in
the Senate that this sordidness will be
finally overthrown. The House stands
back of those who cling to the platform
on the tariff in the Senate, and should the
so called ' conservatives” force a recom
mittal of the bill it will come back to
them in the same shape it now stands,
When the conference comes Speaker
Crisp will see that such men represent
the lower branch as will stand between
the people's interests and the selfishness
Of sordid senators.
THE FINANCE COMMITTED WORK.
By the Associated Press.
Washington, Feb. 36. The Senate
finance committee did not meet to-day,
despite the notice sent out by the chair
man, and the telegraphing for members
who were out of the city. Promptly at
10 o'clock a number of members were
present, but not a quorum, and the mat
ter went over until to-morrow.
The democratic senators met in confer
ence this morning for an hour and a half,
and this afternoon for almost four hours
without reaching positive conclusions in
any matter connected with the tariff bill.
They did. however, take a long stride in
the direction of getting together, and it
is probable that at the meeting
to-morrow, to* which time, at 5 o'clock
this afternoon, an adjournment was taken,
much progress will be made. The
discussion to-day was on general lines,
and was ireely participated in. No prop
osition of any sort was put to the confer
ence, and no vote was taken, but before
the bill is laid before tho finance commit
tee every disputed schedule will be dis
posed of, and action taken that will en
sure the united support of the party.
THE FIGHT OVER SUGAR.
Sugar to-day, as it has been in the past,
was a bone of contention, and while the
committee has gone a short distance to
meet the sugar men, they have not, as
those senators look at it. gone far enough.
The terms of but few schedules were
made public to-day, and it was noticed
1 that the members of the sub-committee
clung tenaciously to the copies of the bill
they carried. This committee offered a
duty of 1 cent a pound on raw sugar, and
an additional % of a cent on refined.
Senator White, of Louisiana, made a vig
orous speech for more duty, in which he
was ably seconded by Senators Caffery
and Gorman, who favored a duty
of at least % of a cent
on refined sugar. The democratic
senators are convinced that they
must give a duty, but are opposed to
yielding the cent and a half the Louisiana
men demand. The latter believo, how
ever, that they will get a fairly good
duty and are inclined to believe that it
will not fall below cents When the
conference adjourned this subject was
under discussion.
50 CENTS ON COAL.
It is definitely settled that coal will
nave a duty of 50 cents a ton.
A number of ofherclionges have also
been made by transfers from the free to
the dutiable list of such articles as will
yield revenue. Among them may be men
tioned apples, green and ripe, dried and
evaporated; pineapples, dates, cocoanuts,
olives, green and prepared.
In addition to these, fruits, bolting
cloth, bone and charcoal and coke are
maue to yield a duty. Plaster of paris
and sulphate of lime, unground; shotgun
oarrels, forged and rough bored, all have
been transferred to the dutiable list.
Some very important additions have
been made, however, to the free list, and
it is said that diamonds and other preci
ous stones. uncut, which have given a re
venue of £1,00(1000 a year are stricken
from the dutiable list.
The lead men derive very little satis
fr?m the situation, for it is now
said that lead of all descriptions and lead
ore together with all lead products, are
X) be put on the free list.
SOUTHERN LUMBER INTERESTS.
- n^™ at , ors PfS ll and Morgan of Alabama,
pone this afternoon in advocacy of a
i‘”? oa lumber to protect the great
umber regions of their state. They also
~V UW a u uty on iron ore and while asking
wdir Dts a ton ' * s said they would be
willing to accept 30 cents. It is thought
the;, may get to cents.
f-^f, nator Wi'ite, of California, spoke for
atl( i Senators Faulkner, Camden
and Gorman for coal.
hu/'frJf* °“ whisky has been discussed
U - e ’ au< i -l* c final disposition of this
article is uncertain.
w, 1 !' ir4 V tl,e discussion this afternoon
' est too ' { Senator Brice to task
wa a u u nterview in a New York paper, in
i ,‘ he quoted certain statements made
rnmm'n. lca , ns concerning the finance
na i 1 ' nator Brice replied that it
Uif- .t.', Ue difference as to who made
k- ~t atements , bfi® essential fact to be
trui 0 " as wfictfcßr or not they wero
eavors a compromise bill.
.Stator Brice denied that he was mak-
Ui .. 1 , ?,9 r wool, but said ho wanted
■' ' a mil constructed in which all
uvi. lo rats could agree.
1 i„!i " rt abfcches were made by Senators
t, I. , n^ ai f'kurn, liausom, .lones and
and i e' ?“ 'ndicating a desire to have the
i ,in ' Points settled before the bill was
o; ' , Public. It was understood, and
tv 1 ,'. a .V as br °ught out in the debate,
t, " ls l °uld bo accomplished, the
v . , rats would do very little talking
■ toe bill came before the Senate.
v srss ion of the Senate to-morrow
7 very brief, for another early ad
"neni will t>e taken to permit the
, ?f “caucus during the afternoon.
), ' Probable that, after the whole bill
to i, ! ; a discuss, and, an effort will be made
1 tiie scnmor.i io the action reached.
u oumtir ny Cleveland.
; . ,a ■'f 1 ttl| eus was the result of a talk
1- . 7 lir 'j* ' 1 c ban with Preaident Clove
me day last week. Tho senator told
„ < resident tiiut the democrats wereall
i., . l 'I I *', * fav ‘* film uu idea, from his
’ ml of view, of how the tua.orily of Un
finance committee was proceeding inmak- '
ing its bill, about which no other demo
cratic senator knew anything. Sen
ator Brice told the" President
this coarse was irritating a
number of demo, rats and the
result would be trouble in the Senate,
when the bill came in, w ith a prospect of
its recommittal. The President then
suggested that the democratic senators
should confer together and have an un
derstanding before a report was made by
the finance committee. At Senator
Brice's instance the gathering was held
in Senator Butler's committee room last
Thursday, when the initial steps were
taken that led to to-day's caucus.
It is thought that it will be impossible
to go over the whole bill before Wednes
day afternoon.
JUMPED HIS LAST CLAIM.
Justice Overtakes the Terror of a
Western Mining- Town.
From the Colorado Sun.
It was New Years eve in camp and the
Gold Fugget saloon was doing a heavy
business all along the line. Drinks were
being dispensed over the counter, and in
the rear faro, roulette and draw poker
were flourishing.
Pete was in high humor. He had
“bucked the tiger” successfully to-night,
and had quit .enough ahead to work his
claim in Corkscrew gulch.
True, he had not done his assessment
work this year, and by law anybody could
“jump” the "Lone Star” that very day at
midnight. But Pete was not the man to
be fooled with, as he already had two
graves to his credit in Doc Turner's ranch
(the name applied to the cemetery in
honor of a local doctor), which contained
the bodies of two “tenderfeet” who had
“differed” with him and were accident
ally shot. So the inhabitants of Galens
ville concluded he was a safe man to let
alone, and he laughed at the idea that
anybody would be so foolish as to “com
mit suicide,” as he termed it, b.y attempt
ing to jump his claim.
The old year had but a few minutes to
live when Hank Smith tied up his horse
among the tall, snow-laden pine trees
near the “Lone Star,” and loosening the
thongs which fastened a pick to his
horse’s saddle, and transferring a couple
of sticks of dynamite and some candles
from his saddle-bag to his pockets, shoul
dered his pick and slowly mounted the
tortuous trail.
He had long waited this moment. Four
years he had owned the Lone Star
himself, but sickness came and he could
not work his assessment, and when he
returned to the prospect and found Pete,
armed to the taeth in possession, he
had accepted his hard luck with good
grace, but had “raid” for Pete ever since.
But now, at last, his opportunity had
come, and he determined to regain his
property and defend it at the risk of his
life, if necessary.
The tunnel was soon reached, and
moonlight streaming aslant its black
mouth easily disclosed to his eyes Pete's
location stake.
He looked at his watch. It marked ex
actly midnight.
Reaching down he fiercely wrenched
the stake from tho ground and flung it
far from him down the mountain.
He then lit a candle, aud, finding a
board, quickly sharpened one end of it aud
smoothed off the broad end, wrote his lo
cation notice on it—rechristening the
claim firmly in Lhe “Hopes”—and planted
the stake the “Bright Ground.”
Thinking he would go into the tunnel
and '‘see how she looked.” he picked up
his candle and pick and started in.
Just as he did so he thought he heard a
whistle. He paused and listened. Some
one was coming un the trail below, whist
ling softly. Quickly dousing the light, ho
crouched behind a big boulder just at the
mouth of the tunnel and drew his revolver.
A few minutes later Pete stepped in
view, with a week's supplies in a sack
slung over his shoulder.
Before he could put down his burden,
Hank suddenly rose up before him with
the muzzle of the pistol almost touching
the other's face.
“Hands up!” he cried. “I've got the
drop on her now!”
Pete, seeing tho other man had a full
hand, prompiy threw up his, while Hank
deftly relieved him of his firearms.
“'Tain’t worth fighting about, any
how,” said Pete, carelessly. “There ain’t
a pound of erem the hull claim.”
“Oh, come off!” said Hank. “How
about all that ore you shipped last sum
mer?”
• “That was out of a pocket I struck
which petered out very quick, but if you
don’t believe me I'll go in lhe hole and
show you,” aud taking a candle, Pete
started In the tunnel. Hank following,
but keeDing his hand within easy reach of
his gun.
The breast of the tunnel was soon
reached, aud Pete, holding his candle up
before it, said: “There, now, what did I
tell yer? It s nothin' but dead rock.”
Hank took a candle and carefully ex
amined the breast, roof and sides,‘but not
a trace of mineral could be seen.
“ You’re welcome to her,” said Pete;
I’ve blown in all the money I want to;
you can have a iblast of her now, if you
want to.”
Hank did not reply, but appeared to be
lost in thought. Finally he said: “Hold
my candle a minute. Pete.” and, taking
up his pick in both hands, he struck the
breast a heavy blow, and the rock aud
mud with which Pete had plastered it to
fool curious and unwelcome visitors fell
away, exposing a vein of glittering white
metal.
Almost at the same instant there was a
deafening report, and Hank fell to the
ground with a bullet through his heart.
Pete, with a smoking revolver in his
hand, which he had snatched from Hank's
belt as he struck the blow, stood over
him with a grim smile as he muttered:
“Another accident.”
But retribution was close at hand. Tho
reverberations of the shot had hardly
died away among the neighboring peaks
whau a rock, which had long been loose,
started by the sudden shock, fell from
the roof, bringing tons of earth with it,
and Pete and his third victim were
crushed into a shapeless mass.
ATTACKED BY FIERCE LIONS.
Terrible Predicament of a Circus At
tendant—The Lights Went Out.
From the Baltimore American.
San Francisco, Feb. 14.—Carlo Thie
man, attendant at Col. Daniel Boone's
wild animal show at the midwiuter fair,
was attacked by three lions last night
night and so horribly mangled that he
may die. The evening performance had
been in progress in Eoone’s arena for
about half an hour, and tho circular en
closure was filled with people. The wild
animals are exhibited in a large cage in
the center of the arena, and it was time
for the lions to go on. Three huge beasts
—Parnell, Romeo and Commodore—were
led into the cage by Thieman,
preparatory to Boone's entrance. Sud
denly, the electric lights went
out. There was a short interval of
silence, when suddenly a shriek of agony
came from the cage. It was followed by
a war of enraged lions, the crunching of
their terrible jaws, aud the groans of tho
man in the cage, ’lhe largo crown of
spectators became panic-stricken and
started for the doors. Women shrieked
and fainted, but tho crowd was finally in
duced to remain seated by attendants
who had retained their presence of mind.
Finally lanterns were brought, and there
In the cage, with three lions munching at
Ills prostrate form, lay Thieman. Col.
Boone seized an iron bar and entered the
caffe. With shouts and blows he drove
the tw-asis from their prey and dragged
lhe unfortunate man from the cage, (t
was an exhibition of bravery seldom seen.
THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1894.
and the big crowd cheered the gallant
colonel.
Thieman was taken to the receiving
hospital, where his wounds, forty-three
in number, were examined. By one blow
from a lion's paw, he had been scalped
from the forehead to the nape of the neck.
Under each arm there were terrible bites,
whore the lions had attempted to reach a
vital spot. One of them nearly succeeded
for he just missed a large artery. The
man’s arms. legs, thighs and buttocks
were also bitten and scratched. At the
hospital he recovered consciousness, and
managed to tell the story. He says that
he was attending to some of the cage fix
tures when the lights went out. The big
lion Parneil, jumped for him. and knocked
him down with a blow on the head. Then
the other two lions, Romeo and Commo
dore, seized%im under the armpits, and
dragged him across the stage, while Par
nell made a general onslaught on his body.
The lions are all full grown beasts, and
have been exhibited as trained animals
for some time. Thieman has been an ani
mal tender for eighteen years, and was
considered one of the best in the business.
Col. Boone, in speaking of the affair,
says: “It has always been my custom to
have lanterns and lamps about the arena
in case the electric lights should go out.
as it's well known that wild animals, no
matter how well trained, will attack a
man in the dark. By some oversight the
lanterns were not in their usual place to
night. and it was some time before they
could be found.” To add to the horror of
the situation, the cage door oecamestuck,
and there was some delay in opening it
when Boone entered the cage to rescue
Thieman. After Thieman had been re
moved to the hospital the people left the
arena, as they had seen enough of wild
animals for one night, and the perform
ance was discontinued
The doctors think there is a possibility
of Thieman’s recovery, unless blood poi
soning ensues.
SANDOW THE SKEPTIC.
He Thinks that Samson Was an Over
rated Man.
From the New York Advertiser.
The stories of Goliath and David, and
Daniel in the lions’ den. and Jonah and
the whale, and Samson slaying 1,000 Phil
islians with the jawbone of an ass and
tearing down the roof garden on which
3,000 people were standing—these never
interested little Sandow. They have no
part in his thoughts now. Not only that,
Sandow is prepared to prove that the
Delilah story is fanciful and that hair
cannot grow on a strong man.
“No," he said, “the feats of Samson
never exercised any influence on me.
When I was 9 years old m.y father took
me to Rome and to Florence and showed
me the beautiful statues that the great
sculptors had made. I asked him why
the men of his day were not so magnifi
cently developed and if he was built like
the statues. He told me the men in olden
times were strong because they had to
fight with their strength and not with
their guns, as men fight now. I resolved
to develop my strength and to be like the
men represented in the statues. Such
money as I could obtain I spent for books
' and read a great deal of the history of
Rome and Greece, but I gave no thought
to Samson.”
“Do you believe that Sampson slew a
lion with his naked hands?” Sandow was
asked.
“The Bible says it was a young lion,”
answered Sandow. “Ho was about 6
months old. maybe. I would not be afraid
to contest strength with a lion, so far as
mere strength goes. If I was protected
against a lion’s teeth 1 could slay him,
and I would not ask for a young lion
either. How would Ido it? I would take
him by the throat and strangle him, or
with two fingers of one hand I would put
out his eyes.”
“What about the story that Samson
slew 1,000 men with the jawbone of an
ass?”
“Tut, tut!” said Sandow. “Maybe he
slew fifteen or twenty. Why did the other
980 not run away? Did they lie down and
wait to be killed.”
"Do you think that if a crowd of Phil
istines had seen Samson killing men right
and left with the jawbone of an ass there
wouldn't have been a stampede before he
had slain 1.000?”
“But,” it was suggested, “the Bible
says it was anew jawbone.”
“New or old.” said Sandow, “it is non
sense to say one man could slay a thou
sand with a jawbone of an ass. I have
no doubt Sampson had a great reputation
and consternation reigned when the Pliil
istines saw him coming, but to slay a
thousand with a jawbone of an ass! Tut,
tut!”
“You remember,” it was said to San
dow, “that when Sampson had been cap
tured b.v the Philistines and his eyes had
been put out, and he had been brought
from prison to make sport for the multi
tude, he took hold of the two middle pil
lars of the house on which 3,009 persons
had been standing and with a mighty ef
fort pulled down the house, and over 1,01$)
were killed?”
“If he could do that, why did he not
make his way out of the prison?” was
Sandow’s query, and then he said: “Pos
sibly Samson did it. It all seems absurd
to me and 1 would pronounce it nonsense,
but I believe in God, and it may be God
gave Samson supernatural strength. He
did r.ot give me supernatural power, but
gave me good health and 1 developed my
strength. lam as strong as Samson if
you take from him the supernatural that
God gave him.”
• Do you think Samson’s hair had any
thing to do with his strength?”
Sandow laughed at the idea.
“Hair.” said he, “won’t grow on a
strong man. It grows only on the tender
osi spots,” and lie pointed to his mus
tache, soft as silk.
“There is no hair on my body, except on
my face and head, aud so far from believ
ing that hair adds to my strength I have
my hair cut every week.” Sandow
pushed up his sleeve ana showed the
great banks and knots of muscle, as hard
as cannon balls, and over which was no
doubt the thinnest skin in New York,
under which there was absolutely not a
particle of fat. “There,” he said, “you
3ee there is no place for the hair to grow.
The skin is too thin and there is nothing
unaer it but muscle. The story of Deli
lah cutting Samson s hair while he slept
to rob him of his strength is figurative.
She could have stabbed him or poisoned
him.' 1
“There is a story told of the groat
strength of one of my ancestors,” contin
ued Sandow, “who lived in the sixteenth
century. He was a sculptor. It is said he
once handled of block ot stone weighing
five tons, and that he could bold out at
arm's length a weight weighing 400
pounds.”
“What do you believe about that?”
“I believe it’s—not so. I can hold out
onlv 100 pounds. The stories of Samson
and the stories of my grandfather are ex
agerations. I have no doubt that a
thousand years from uow they will print
in the books that Sandow pulled down
the theater and killed thousand people
because they wouldn’t pay him his sal
ary.”
BETTEK GAS WANTED.
Bills No Smaller and the Quality of
the Gas Poorer.
Savannah, Ga., Feb. 2C.—Editor Morn
ing News: If you have gas in your office
you have, no doubt, noticed the very poor
light we are now getting. Can't you,
through your columns, call the gas com
pany's attention to the matter f We no
tice the f ills are just as large as when the
pas was good; though now the quality is
1-oorer. Mo he Gas.
M Airaand Gautier, a famous portrait
pululer <f Haris dle'l last wees at the ifti of
tw yea s lie ttrat attracted attention In IK7
n.v a picture ot a group ot Inmates of the hat
pettier* lunatic asylum.
TO BUILD A MUSIC HALL.
The Savannah Music Festival Asso
ciation Organized,
An Option on a Site Secured and a
Charter to Be Applied for at Once— A
Building With a Seating Capacity of
I, to 2,000 People and a Stage
Seating 500 People, to Be Erected.
The Estimated Cost, 810,000, to Be
Raised by Popular Subscription.
The Proposed Site on Gwinnett
Street, Between Habersham and
Price.
The Savannah Music Festival Associa
tion was organized yesterday afternoon.
A charter will be applied for at once and
stock subscriptions will be opened. The
purpose of the association is the erection
of a music hall in which to hold the an
ual music festivals.
The meeting to organize the associa
tion was held at the Lud
den <& Bates music house at
4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. It was
largely attended by those who have taken
an interest in the success of the festivals.
Coi. Charles H. Olmsted, chairman of
the festival committee, presided, and Dr.
Jaspersor. Smith acted as secretary.
Col. Olmsted stated the purpose for
which the meeting had been called, refer
ring to the fact that the organization
had been undertaken a year ago but was
deferred on account of the hard times.
THE ASSOCIATION’S PLAN.
The general plan then considered was
gone over and after some discussion, was
adopted as the basis of the present plan
of organization.
A name was first decided upon and
the question then arose whether the
association was to be a hall association
or whether it should also havo the con
duct of the festivals. It was finally de
cided that its purpose should be the erec
tion of a hall. A temporary organiza
tion was formed by the election
of Coi. Olmstead, chairman and
Mr. Jasperson Smith secretary. Com
mittees on charter, site and plans were
appointed, and steps will be taken to per
fect the organization as soon as a charter
has been secured.
THE PROPOSED BUILDING.
The Idea is to erect n building with a
seating capacity for 1,500 to 2,000 people,
and with a stage seating 500. the build
ing to be constructed with a special
view to festival purposes. The site pro
posed is on the. south side of
Gwinnett street, between Habersham and
Price. Mr. H. P. Stuart, owner of this
property, has given the committee an op
tion on very favorable terms. The loca
tions is probably the most eligible to the
city on account of its nearness to the
street car line. AH of the car lines in the
city pass within a block of the site. It is
proposed to capitalize this association
at *10,1)00, which the committee believes
sufficient to build and furnish the hall.
The shares will, probably, be placed at
*lO, in order to make the subscription a
popular one, though this has not been
fully decided. Mr. John Nicolson, Jr.,
will draw the charter, which will be se
cured at as early a date as possible. As
soon as this has been done, and a perma
nent organization has been effected, sub
criptions to stock will be opened.
TAKEN FOR SMALLS.
A Negro Afraid to Leave the City as
He is the Murderer’s Double.
There in a negro in Savannah, who,
from the descriptions of Abe Smalls,
which have been sent opt over the coun
try, would easily be taken fop Policeman
Neve's murderer.
The negro’s name is William Crutcher,
and the only differences between him and
Smalls are that he is about an Inch
shorter, and has a few pock marks on
his face which SmalLs lacks. Crutcher
says he has had an opportunity to get
work away from Savannah within the
last two weeks, but has- been afraid to go
for fear that he would be taken for
the murderer by some authorities and put
under arrest.
Chief Green has not investigated the
report that Smalls is in Pensacola, Fla.
Both Chief Green and Detective Hanley
are positive that Smalls is still in Chat
ham county, and equally positive
that he is not in Pensacola. The informa
tion that Smalls was there came in a
very roundabout way. Chief of Police
Tyler, of Pensacola, wreto Chief Con
nolly, of Atlanta, that Abe Smalls, the
negro who killed an Atlanta officer, was
in Pensacola, and could be caught with
ease.
There has been no Atlanta oficer killed
recently, but Chief Connolly found that
the description of ttie negro given by
Chief Tyler tallied with the description of
Smalls.furnished from Savannah. He ac
cordingly telegraphed Chief Green the in
formation he had received from Chief
Tyler. Chief Green, however,.had what
he considered positive information of
Smalis having been in this neighborhood
within the time that he was said to have
been seen at Pensacola. Tills was why
he did not consider it worth while to in
vestigate the Pensacola report.
A description of Smalls was sent to the
chief of police of Pensacola, with infor
mation as to why he was wanted here,
and the amount of the reward offered,
several days ago, and Chief Green does
not understand how Chief Tyler came to
telegraph Chief Connolly, of Atlanta.
LOCAL PERSONAL.
J. A. Coleman, of Rountree, is at the
Pulaski.
J. N. Harriman, of New York, is at the
Pulaski.
W. E. Knapp, of New York, is at the
De Soto.
R. A. Ivey, of Branford. Fla., is at the
Screven.
S R. Harris, of Jesup, is at the
Screven.
E. W. Gould, of Kansas City, Mo., is at
the De Soto.
W. J. Keenan, of Columbia, S. C., is at
the De Soto.
W. F. Cotter, of Jacksonville, Fla., Is at
the Screven.
Henry Allen Tenney and Mrs. ED P.
Tenney, of New York, are at thoDe Soto.
Mr. Louis Simpson and Mrs Simpson,
of Montreal, Canada, are registered at
the I)e Soto.
Mrs. M. J. Dunn, of New York, who ar
rived on the Kansas City, is visiting
friends on President street.
Master Frank Olmstead. of Anniston.
Ala., is visiting his grandparent, Mrs.
Hetterich, No. 85 Whitaker street.
Mrs. P. W. Meld rim and Mrs. Morgan,
who went to Washington to attend the
convention of the Daughters of the Revo
lution, returned home yesterday. They
are greatly pleased with the convention
and with their visit to Washington.
Rev. James ED Eldcns, the field editor of
the Christian Index, of Atlanta,Georgia s
great Baptist publication, is i n the city
in the interest of his .ournal aud will re
main here several days. The Index is one
of the prosperous newspaj>ers of the
south and should have a large clientele
in Baptist communities
If afflicted with scalp diseases, hair
falling out, and premature baldness, do
not use grease or atchoalle prepara
tions, but apply Hall's Hair Ueuewer.—
ad.
CITY BREVITIES.
The petit jurors of the superior court
have been discharged for the term, which
euds to-night.
K. D. Roberts, colored, was fined *5 for
disorderly conduct in the recorder's court
yesterday, and for carrying concealed
weapons, Recorder Wilsou seut him over
to the city court.
A letter was receivod at the office of
Ordinary Ferrill yesterday from Supt. T.
O. Powell of the state asylum for the in
sane, stating that Cora Barnett, colored,
from Chatham county, died there Friday,
E'eb. 38.
In the suit of Dwolle, Cann & Daniel
against Derby & Bohan, bail in trover
for eight bales of cotton, a verdict was
rendered in the city court yesterday in
lavor ot' the plaintiffs, there being no op
position on the part of the defendants.
Xaoh Hamilton and Willie Capers, the
two negro boys arrested for stealing a
velocipede, were dismissed in the re
corder's court yesterday. It seems that
another darky named “Cutty,” who
owns several machines, made a present of
the velocipede to the boys.
James Washington colored, who was
arrested in the market for stealing fish,
told Recorder Wilson yesterday that
Someone had “gib him de fish to' sole.”
The evidence was too strong against the
ue.- ro and he was turned over to the city
court.
John Giltam, colored, was tried before
Judge MacDonell in the city court yes
terday, and sentenced to pay a fine of $25
or serve three months on the chain-gang
for playing craps. He went to the gang.
GUlam was brought in to the authorities
from Willmmgton Island by Mr. Gus
Oemler.
The suit of L. Bluestein against the
Electric Railway Company, for the kill
ing of his son Barney by one of the cars
of that line, in which he asks *IO,OOO
damages, was called in the city court yes
terday but was postponed until this
morning when the jury will he struck.
The trial of the case will proceed to
morrow.
Bill Roberts, colored, indicted for the
burglary of Paris Hamilton's house, Sept.
13, 1893, pleaded guilty in the superior
court yesterday to larceny from the houso
under the value of SSO. Roberts stole
from Hamilton a coat and vest and sev
eral pairs'of pantaloons. The court sen
tenced him to pay a fine of SIOO and costs,
or serve twelve months on the chain
gang. He went to the gang.
The grand jury of the superior court
meets this afternoon to wind up all busi
ness before it for the term ana to make
its general presentments. It is expected
that the grand jury will advocate some
reforms somewhat on the line of those
mentioned by the grand jury of the city
court, and that the presentments will be
quite interesting. The court will adjourn
to-night at 6 o’clock for the December
term. The March term convenes next
Monday.
M’DONALD IN IT THIS TIME.
The Ex-Savannah Detective Figures
In Another Jug Episode.
Constable Charles B. McDonald has
figured in another demijohn episode in
Charleston, and this time there is hardly
a doubt that shooting was done.
The News and Courier tells this story
of the affair: Lawrence Williams, a
negTo, was passing with a jug of whisky,
when iie was stopped by McDonald. Upon
demand he gave up the jug, and was told
by the constable that if he carried any
more contraband liquor around he would
be arrested along with the liquor. Mc-
Donald took the liquor and Williams his
departure.
Williams says that he saw McDonald
standing on the pavement talking to
Chief Constable Gaillard. McDonald
called to Williams to halt and as ho did
not do so he pursued him and fired his
pistol at him.
Williams will prosecute McDouald for
assault with intent to kill.
A COMMERCIAL CONVENTION.
The Organization of Alabama to Bend
Delegates to Birmingham.
Montgomery, Ala., E’eb. 36.—T0-day
representatives of the commercial bodies
of Birmingham, Mobile, Montgomery,
Huntsville, and Tuscaloosa, met hero and
decided to issue a call urging all the
towns in the state to organize commercial
association and to send delegatesto astate
convention of the commercial bodies in
Alabama to meet at Birmingham on April
25 for the purpose of forming a permanent
state organization.
SMYTHE NOT IN DISFAVOR.
The Haytian Govornnunt Sends As
surancss to This Effoot.
Washington, Feb. 20.—The Haytian
minister has informed the department of
state, by instruction of his government,
that Mr. Smythe, our minister to Hayti,
is as acceptable to that government as any
minister who has occupied the position
for many years past. This is apropos of
the story that Mr. Smythe had incurred
the ill will of the Haytian authorities by
interfering in their affairs.
A REPUBLICAN RESIGNS.
Ho Was One of the Commissioners of
the District of Columbia.
Washington, Feb. 36.—Myron M. Par
ker, the republican member of the board
of commissioners for the District of Co
lumbia, has resigned on account of ill
health. It is understood that George
Truesdell, a well-known resident of this
city, engaged in the real estate business,
has been selected as his successor.
Perhaps You’re “Dotty” and Don’t
Know It.
From the New York Press.
Slang, like love, is a curious thing. It
comes, and then it goes. But why it
comes and why it goes no human creature
knows. There is the word “Dotty.”
Four years ago, in the Eva Hamilton trial,
transpired that that unspeakable woman
had a half-witted lover who called him
self “Dotty.” Charles Coote was then
playing in the Bijou theater Jn “Niobe”
and said of a man an the stage who did a
particularly foolish thing, that he was
getting Dotty. The word caught tho
fancy of a small circle and took place in
the directory of current Tenderloin slang.
It traveled across the ocean and was used
in the London music halls as a character
istic American expression Then no more
was heard of it until within a week or
two. Now it drops from the lips of thou
sands of New Yorktrs. If in the even
ing you indulge too freely in the cup that
cheers, you're “Dotty.” If in the morning
you wonder where you arc at, you’re
“Dotty.” If you are in love and knowjt
and the girl doesn’t, you're “Dotty.” In
short, if you do anything showing tem
porary aberration of intellect, you are
“Dotty.” I may add that if you use this
word in casual conversation, you’re
“Dotty,” and none more so.
John M. Swan, the new associate of the
British Royal Academy, first won fame as
the pointer of the “Prodigal Son. ’ which
was bought by the Chaulrey trustees for
$4,000. His studio is near the London
Zoological Gardens, where he docs much
of his worn.
I onald G. Mitchell, admired by hon
ileus of thousands as the author of
“Reveries of a Bachelor.' 1 may be seen
dully taking his walks along the roun'ry
roads near nia home in Connecticut, iie
ia 72 year* old, aud well preserved.
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DRY GOODS.
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4 cts.
SHIRT PERCALES,
Warranted Fast Colors.
5 cts.
FINE GINGHAMS,
Reduced From 8 Cents.
5 cts.
Bleached Sli i rt in^s,
Yard Wide and Soft Finish.
6 cts.
Outing- Suiting's.
Formerly Sold at 10 Cents.
IG cts.
PILLOW CASING,
Nice Quality, Extra Wide.
15 cts.
Bleached Sheeting's
Double Width and Heavy.
15 cts.
Feather Tickings,
Best Make, Reduced From
20 Cents.
12 2 cts.
Pride of the West,
the Best Shirting Made.
25 CtS.
LINEN TOWELS,
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Japanese AVash Silks
the Best in the City.
49 CtS.
II ABUT AI SILKS,
Colors Warranted to Stand.
59 CtS.
Real India Silks,
Elegant Line of Patterns.
69 cts.
Black Dress Silks,
Just Marked Down From
SI.OO.
79 cts.
B i* o traded Silks,
Cheaper Than Sold Any
where.
25 Cts.
A Lot of CORSETS,
Odd Sizes, at Half Price.
25 Cts.
FAST BLACK HOSE
for Ladies, Men & Children.
121 cts.
FAST BLACK IIOSE
Suitable for Boys or Girls.
83 Cts.
Large White Quilts,
the Regular $1.25 Article.
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