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THE SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES. VOL. 6.—NO. 11. “BUCK” GRANT’S STORY HE SAID WARD CONFESSED THAT HE WAS A RASCAL. Robbing Every Member of the Witness’ Family—How Six Thousand Dollars Were Lost in One Day—His Wife Got None of the Proceeds of Her Investments. New York, Jan. 6.—' r he following is a detailed account of the testimony given Saturday by young Ulysses 8. (“Buck”) Grant before Referee Cole on the applica tion of Jerome B. Chaffee, to determine the title to securities to the amount of $500,000 placed in the hands of the younger Grant, and by him turned over to Grant & Ward. Witness told his story at length : He had decided to make the assignment, but tried to get back the securities in question to put them into the general fund of the estate, and then make an assignment. The securi ties were secured before the assignment, and then witness quietly held them and waited until Mr. Davies made a demand, when he surrendered the keys of the safe and box. Witness had one or two months ago received and corr cted a contract ac count received from Ward since the assign ment, and had corrected and returned the same. On that account were erasures of amounts of checks paid to Mr. Chaffee. Everything ou the account was in the HANDWRITING OF FERDINAND WARD. When money was paid to Chaffee witness drew a check on his bank account with Grant & Ward, and deposited the check to the credit of J. B. Chaffee. Witness never had known of any government contract or direct dealings with the government. "When Ward paid witness money on the contracts that Ward was understood by wit ness to have, it was done by memorandum to the bookkeeper who credited witnesse account, and CREDITED ward’s “SPECIAL” aCCOUnt. The witness had put into the contract account of Ward $150,000 of Mr. Chaffee’s, aud when the failure took place the witness had more in than Chaffee. Witnesi saw Ward the day after the failure and asked him about affairs. Ward’s nerves were unstrung and he cried a great deal. Ward said that he had been a very great rascal; that he had ROBBED EVERY MEMBER of the witness’ family; that he had robbed them totally, and that he humbly admit ted it. Witness told him in reply that he believed he was a scoundrel and that the most he could do would be to tell the truth. Ward took Chaffee’s funds as late es No vember, because he would have failed then if he had not taken them. Winess had no idea of the magnitude of the so-called gov ernment contracts until after the failure. Witness up to the date of the failure be lieved the firm was rich. Witness looked over the surplus, which was large, and his personal account was a good one. Fish, Grant and Ward were the first members. Witness put in SIOO,OOO cash, and supposed Ward and Fish did, but has since found that Ward had put up worthless securities and Tish PUT IN NOTES OF WARD. Monthly statements of profits were made out by Ward and handed to members of the firm, and were divided in thirds until wit ness’ father came into the firm in Novem ber, 1883. The firm first bought and sold mining stocks, and later went into railroad stocks. The witness supposed bis part was to find business, but he soon found he was reduced to the position of doing nothing. GENERAL GRANT SELDOM CAME TO THE OFFICE, but each month would ask how they were getting along. Ward was the only one who acted for the firm. One day witness in Ward’s absence ordered a purchase of stock for the firm. Ward came in and said I bad no right to do so, and the order was assum ed by me personally. It resulted in a loss of $6,00Q in one day. [Laughter.! THE CHAFFEE SECURITIES $400,000 four per cent, governments, $125,- 000 railway bonds, aud $70,000 in mining stocks, were sent irom Mr. Chaffee to wit ness to be kept in his box. The wife of winess drew the interest on the governments, having power of attorney from her father, Mr. Chaffee. The first year of witnesses marriage his wife thus realized §16,000, and last year $27,000, the amount being in creased by reason of profits on investments of previous income from such source. In referring to his wife’s financial trans actions, Mr. Grant said he always acted as her financial agent. Whenever he saw a good opportunity for investing her own money or the firm’s money for her, he did so. His wife never had the use of her money, as she was kept continually INDEBTED TO THE FIRM. Mrs. Grant got none of the proceeds of her investments. She was simply credited with that amount on the books and was never ac tually benefited by the transactions. THE SO-CALLED CONTRACTS, Ward said, were of his own working up, and he would guarantee any one who put in money, and he took witness down into some vault and showed a private box of his pack ed with securities to the amount, Ward said, of $1,500,000. Witness loaned Ward $150,000 before he got the SIOO,OOO of Chaffee. On May 20, 1883, Chaffee gave a cheek ofsloo,ooo to the witness, who loaned it to Ward with a receipt guaranteeing profits. WOMAN’S RIGHTS. A New York Decision in Their Favor. New York, Jan. 6.—Judge McAdam yesterday decided that Miss Jennie Turner, stenographer, is legally capable of acting as she has done in the capacity of Notary Pub lic. He thinks that as the State Constitu tion does not use the word “male,” except in regard to suffrage, there is no bar to a woman’s holding public office. Look through the locals for cheap dres« goods at L. Frieds. DOUBLE MURDER. Wealthy Ranchmen Killed by Mexicans. Uvalde, Texas, Jan. 6.—Word has been received here of the discovery of a most atrocious double murder perpetrated near the Kinney county line in Uvalde county, about 40 miles from the Mexican border. The bodies of Henry Kuhllan and his partner, Joseph Stein, two wealths- Ger man sheep men, were found at different points on the sheep ranch, both fearfully mutilated with an ax. They had been dead several days. Their flock of sheep running over the neighboring ranches many miles distant, attracted attention and led -the neighbors to visit their camp. The pockets of the murdered men had been rifled by bloody hands, and everything of value in camp was gone. A shepherd’s sling, such as are used by';Mexicans,was found near the tragedy covered with blood. The Sheriff with three deputies, is scouring the country in search of a party of straggling Mexicans known to be in the vicinity, and certain death awaits their capture. HORRIBLE TREATMENT Os an Irresponsible Lunatic. Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 6.—Sunday morn iog Frank Babcock, an inmate of the insane asylum, attacked J. Y. Craver, an attend ant, knocking him down. Craver and John Flattery, another attendant, then knocked Babcock down and stamped him with their feet, breaking six or seven ribs on each side of his body, and driving them into his in testines. Babcock died in half an hour. He was subject to epileptic fits, and it is claimed had one at the time. A coroner’s jury re turned a verdict that he came to his death from violence at the hands of the attend ants, who are now in jail on the charge of murder. THE FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS The Morning’s Proceedings. Washington, D. C, Jan. 6 —ln the I House to-day Mr. Ellis, of Louisiana, from I the Committee, resolution appropriating I $50,000 for the support of destitute Indians in Montana, and it was passed. The morning hour was dispensed with, and the House went into Committee of the Whole on the pension appropriation bill, Mr Rogers, of Arkansas, in the chair. In the Senate replies were laid before the body from the Secretary of the interior to the resolutions calling for information as to the appraisement of Cherokee lands west of Arkansas, and as to leases of land by In dians, for grazing purposes, on the Crow Re ervation and in the Indian Territory. New York Produce Market. New Yorr, Jan. 6.—Flour dull; city mills extra, $4 70a4 75; good to fancy extra state, $3 50a4 50; good to choice extra western, $3 90a5 60; common extra Minne sota, s3a3 60. Wheat, No. 2 red winter January, 91J. Corn, No. 2 mixed, 51$ January. Oats, Na. 2 mixed, 35f. Pork dull; mess at sl2 75. Molasses steady at 40c for good. Turpentine, dull; 30Ja31c. Rosin, quiet; strained to good at $1 22Jal 27J. Petroleum, dull; refined at 7jc. Eggs, dull and lower. Sugar, dull; refined cut loaf at 6Ac; granulated at ssa 5 15-16 c. Tallow, dull; prime city at 6c. Chicago 'Change. Chicago, Jan. 6.—Wheat opened weak and lower; February 81, May 87J. Corn weaker at J to J lower. January 36 J, Feb ruary 365, March 37. Oats steady; May 295. Lard easier; $6 85 for February, $7 for March. Pork lower; sll 65 for February, §ll 75 for March. Bulk meats dull; $5 95 for March, $6 05 for April. Old Coins that Were Hoarded. A nice old lady of 80 years, living in Hartford, according to the Times of that city, made a Christmas present on W’ednrs. day to one of her relatives of one Peruvian, three Spanish and two Mexican silver dollars, and one silver five franc piece. The Spanish dollars were coined in 1806, 1808 and 1817; the Mexican in 1827 and 1835; the Peruvian in 1837, and the five franc piece in 1826. They were enclosed in an old oxheart pouch. These coins were collected when new. They show no evi dence of use or wear. Two of the Spanish dollars have been in the family over seventy years, and one of them over sixty years; and the others fcr nearly half a cen tury. They have been kept as a sort of re served fund against the contingencies of a failure in the paper curreney. Had they been put at compound interest at 6 per cent, when first received by the old lady’s father, the total amount now would have been over S4OO. Assuming that each one had been put on compound interest one year after it was coined, the total would now amount to about SBOO. Having been preserved so long, these coins, with their ox heart pouch, will probably be handed down to coming genera tions as family relics. Mills Starting Up. Chicago, Jan. 6.—After long idleness, the Northside Mills of the North Chicago Rolling Mill Company, will resume opera tions in about three weeks. The employees, 2,000 in number, have agreed with the management upon a schedule for the year. Death of the Bishop of Loudon. London, Jan. 6—Right Rev. John Jack son, D.D., Bishop of London, died suddenly to-day at dis residence in Fulhaen place. Coal Works Burned. Loss SIOO,OOO. Liberty, Mo., Jan. 6. —The Osage Coal Company’s works burned here yesterday. Loss, SIOO,OOO. “ROUGH ON PAIN” PLASTER* Porous and strengthening, improved, the best for backache, pains in the chest or side, rheumatism, neuralgia. 25c. Drug gist or mail. SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1885. WESTERN PRODUCE. STRONG SPECULATIVE FEELING. The Bulls Having a Turn—The Wheat Market on a Boom—Stocks Also Strong Corn Quiet — Feeling in Provi sions Mixed. Special Dispatch to Savannah Daily Times. Chicago, Jan. 6. —The bulls on ’Change are having their turn with a vengeance now. Nobody appears to have the nerve to step in front, on the present feeling, and sell short, while outside orders during the past few days have fairly poured in. Ad vices from the country, too, rejxirt that the cold snap has not alone prevented shipments but had covered the winter wheat fields with ice. Several times Blits, Baker, Hamill, Lindley, and other big traders who sold out near the close of the week, have attempted to carry out their programme of jumping on the market until they could buy at a decline. Their best efforts, however, produced only slight sags, aud they had to load up at cur rent prices Stocks and Liver- ; pool, January 1, are announced to have ; been about 5,000,000 bushels wheat and 590,000 barrels of flour, or reducing the flour to wheat, about 10,500,000 bushels less than last year. Stocks in other markets abroad are said to be correspondingly small, and private advices received by brokers here say that millers, bakers, and other consum ers, have pursued the “hand to mouth” policy in buying so long that the invisible accumulations ordinarily held, do not exist. “The best foreign statisticians said early in the crop season that the world’s wants nearly equaled its supplies f >r the crop year, but the theory of overproduction has been so pounded into the minds of the trade by newspapers that it had begun to to be a widespread belief that | wheat was a worthless commodity, and it ' would be necessary to give it away to get rid of it.” “The movement of this crop from pro- j ducei’s hands, as shown by receipts at pri- \ mary markets,”it is claimed by G.S.Evering , ham, “is the la’gest on record and fully in proportion to the size of the crop, as com pared w ith other years. The increase in population causes a comparative increase in the home consumption, which will prob ably be further stimulated by the dull times and low prices which have ruled so long. The natural deduction is that the propor tion of the wheat crop remaining in first hands is not larger than in other years, and quite probably smaller. If, therefore, mar kets can advance, as they have done the last eight days carrying the weight of such an immense visible supply, I do not believe that the invisible supply will materialize in sufficient amount to reverse the move ment.” Another feature which is exciting a good deal of comment just now is in the improved methods of gathering statistics. One of the results has been to place a larger proportion of the crop “in sight,” new places being added to the statement each year, and as comparisons are made with the y ears before, the production of the country seems to be increasing much faster than it really is. While the speculative spirit of the new year has started in strong with stocks and wheat, it has thus far failed to get hold of corn to any great extent. The September corner in this grain hurts the trade and traders immensely, and it will take some little time to recover from it. It will be remembered that after the McGeoch deal in lard the stuff was almost abandoned for a long time, and in fact trading in both pork and lard is not yet what it was before the manipulation took place, and so it may prove in corn. The feeling in provisions is mixed. Every body is watching the packers, and the great question is, whether they propose to sell, against their production or hold for a rise New York Stock Market. New York, Jan. 6- —At 1:30 p. m. to day quotations were : Union Pacific .. . ■ Missouri Pacific 92% , Western Union Telegraph Co Pacific Mail 55% : Shore.. 63 Louisville and Nashville 26% Texas Pacific 13 Denver aud Rio Grande Michigan Central 55 Delaware, Lackawanna <S West’n 89 , Northwestern St. Paul ”4% i Chicago, Burlington and Quincy 118% Oregon 14% Northern Pacific - *O% Rock Island 107/4 Jersey Central 36/s Memphis and Charleston 25 East Tennessee, Va. & Ga (com) 3% East Tennessee, Va. & Ga. (pfd) 5% Philadelphia and Beading 16% Omaha (com) 26% Omaha (pfd) - 8-’% New York Central - 88% Kansas aud Texas 18% Erie D/4 A Philanthropist and a Woman of 180 Pounds. Detroit Free Press. Yesterday as a woman of 50 years and 180 pounds was passing the City Hall, she struck the spot she had been looking for ever since the first freeze-up. An exclama tion of astonishment was followed by a yell of alarm, and while she was wondering what made the sidewalk bob around so she sat down in four Paris styles. Close behind her was a philanthropist, and as he rushed to her assistance he said : “Never mind, madam. The day is com ing when everybody will be provided with air-cushions, and a fall will make our porous plasters stick the tighter. Allow me to send a messenger for a derrick to hoist you on your pins again.” She refused his offer, and after a struggle reached her feet. Then she seized the fence with one hand, and waving the other in the air she screamed out : “Air cushions ! Derricks I Pins ' Porous plastersl You old bow-legged, bald-headed bean pole, if my husband doesn’t hunt you downjind make you eat your ears I won’t live with him another day! Go on with you 1” And the broken hearted man went on. MACON MATTERS. An Elopement Foiled—A Sensational Scene—The Hawkinsville Poker Game —Alleged Fraudulent Assignment. Special Correspondence Dally Times. Macon, Jan. s.—When Mr. George A. Taylor went to the residence of Mrs. F- Reichert in Vineville last night for the purpose of eloping with her daughter, Mies Annie, he was met with a cold reception and fired out of the house. Taylor and the young lady have been sweethearts a long lime. About three years ago she went to North Carolina on a visit, and while there he left his business and followed her. Tne parents objected to his paying her attentions, | and denied him the house. She was true i and would meet him at different places. On one occasion she received the attentions of lan other young man, and he attempted to ' commit suicide by taking morphine. Some- I tune ago he stole money from Messrs. W, C. Turpin &Co , and left for parts unknown ; He turned up in jail in Greenville, S. C., and was brought to Macon on a requisition from the Governor. He was placed in Bibb county jail, and while there the young ! lady kept up a correspondence with him, ' and said she would marry him. When he was released he called at the house 1 and wis driven off She promised to marry him if he would secure some honorable em ployment. He did so, and last Snnday i night they met clandestinely and took a j long walk, during which the arrangements were made to run away and marry last night. Taylor secured the license, and yes terday morning told the young lady of it in a note, which was answered by her mother, who invited the young man to call. He went and had an interview with her in the presence of the daughter. She told him she would never give her consent to the union. She then turned to her daughter I and said : CHOOSE BETWEEN HIM AND ME. She walked over to him and, throwing I her arms around his neck, kissed him. He j left telling her he would return late in the afternoon. He secured rooms at the Flint House, and Rev. J. C. Toole to perform the j ceremony. At the residence of Mrs. Gaus heimer a sumptions repast was served, and a paityof friends gathered. When he went i for her at the appointed hour, a brother met 1 him at the door and did not ask him in. I He pushed him away and went to her room, I where she was waiting for him. He took I her up in his arms and made a dash for the door, where he was met by her mother. He turned quickly and tried to jump out of a two-story window with her in his arms, but was prevented by the parent. She snatched her from him and locked hei’in the room. She then went for him with the fury of a wild cat, and ran him from the house. He was much exci'ed, and told a number of friends. He wrote to her mother a note to day, telling her that he had been very inti mate with her, and he deemed it his sacred duty to marry her. The young lady received the note and burned it up before her mother saw it. The young lady said to-day she w >uld not marry Taylor, and would abide the con sequences. The affair has created a great sensation here both for the singular state of affairs and the frank admission of the young man. the poker matter in court. This morning Judge Simmons heard the habeas corpus in the case of Sylvanus Cole man, the poker player, who cle. ned out Hawkinsville the other night. Hon. R. W. Patterson appeared as counsel for the de fense, and Solicitor-Genera) Hardeman for the State. Coleman was placed under bond of $l5O to appear at the May term of Pulaski Superior Court. He refunded the money and was released. A FIRM CLOSED. Saturday night the notion store of Messrs. Newman & Thorner, was closed at the in stance of Thomas Willingham, Jr., as coun sel for Messrs. Bates, Reed & Cooley, of j New York, who alleged that the assign ment recently made by the firm was done in a fraudulent manner. Mr. Samuel G. Wertcott was appointed temporary receiver. The case will be heard Friday, the 9lh, be ; fore Judge Simmons. Wynton. Me Wanted His Wife Walked Through the Rest of that Dance. San Francisco Ingleside. The other night at Compton Hall a mas querade ball was in progress We put on I black dominos and joined the revelers. A quadrille was about to begin. I saw a sylph i in pink, with a white lace mask, seated on a bench along the wall. “May I have the pleasure ?” said I, bolily. “Well, I had a partner for the dance, but I guess he ain’t going to turn up,” she an swer, d, in that tingling voice that betokens the democracy. We joined a set which was forming near by, and the dance struck up. At the calls to swing partner or vis-a-vis, each couple would embrace and indulge in a half-minute waltz. To be in the fashion I did likewise, my partner nothing aAerse. Looking around after the first figure I noticed that a short little man in our own set was glaring at me in the most ferocious manner through the eye holes of his sk y blue mask. I glared back undaunted. The second figure was danced with more turns and more waltzing. The little brute glared fiercer than before. Presently, as I passed him in the dance, he hissed in my ear: “Just walk my wife through the rest of this, will you?” And I meekly did. Her Figure Was Good. Snobberton —“Ah, Dudley, I understand you are to be congratulated. Is the fair one pretty ? ’ Dudley—“ N-n-no. Can’t say she is.” Snobberton —“Good figure ?” Dudley—“Y T -ye es. ’Bout a million.” Probabilities. Washington, Jan. 6. —For the South Atlautic States, generally warmer, partly cloudy weather and local rains, followed by fair weather. The prettiest goods for men, youths an boys in the city can be found at B. H Levy Bro.’s. THE M.&M.T. COMPANY INTERESTING HISTORY OF THE LINE. Thirteenth Anniversary of the Sailing of Its Pioneer Ship, The McClellan- Starting from Small Beginnings and Growing to a Large aud Important Corporation- Ships now in the Line. The Baltimore Sun of Friday, contains an interesting sketch of the thirteenth an niversary of the Merchants’ and Miners’ Transportation Company, represented at Savannah by Messrs. James B. West & Co In the resume mention is made of the steam ship Wm. Jenkins, which itisintimated was burned by the State authorities in 1861, at I her wharf in Savannah. The agents of the I Savannah and Baltimore Line then were ; Messrs. Crane & Graybill, (H. A. Crane and j J. H. Graybill, deceased). We have made inquiries of a number of of our older citizens for information as to | the burning of the Jenkins, and find the general impression that her destruction was caused by accidental fire. She assuredly could not have been burned at the instance of the government, as that would have been an act of folly; the authorities had need of all steamers and sailing craft, and while steamers were seized about that time for use of the government, they were not des troyed. If the fire that destroyed tbe William Jenkins was not accidental, it was the act of an irresponsible incendiary, I there being at that time around Savannah | a number of hard cases : The following is the article from the Sun: Y’esterday the sidewheel steamship Mc- Clellan, of the Merchants and Miners’ Transportation Company, pulled out from the wharves at the foot of Long Dock and started on her regular trip to Charleston, | 8. C. There was nothing in the event par- j ticularly worthy of notice, but those who I gazed at her obsolete style perhaps forgot | that on the same day thirty years ago she | left about the same locality as the pioneer I steamship of the wealthiest and most im portant steamship line ever connected with the port of Baltimore. Thirty years ago yesterday, when as the steamship Jos. Whitney, the present McClellan, sailed from Baltimore for Boston on her first trip, she was the pioneer steamship of the Mer chants and Miners’ Transportation Com pany. She had left Boston December 28, 1854, arriving here after a run of sixty ; hours. Her career covers the progress of the company from its inception as an ex- I periment until it has grown to the full vigor i of a great corporation. The old vessel seems to be considered a pensioner on the I list, and her age crops out in bold relief; when she is brought alongside the hand some modern vessels which now compose the fleet of the Merchants and Miners’ Company. The Merchants’ and Miners’ Transporta tion Company was incorporated by an act of the Assembly in April, 1852, with William • Woodside, Hugh Jenkins, Benjamin De- I ford, John H. Elen and Edward Williams as incorporators, ‘ for the transportation of merchandise and other things, and the con veyance of passengers between the cities of Baltimore and New York or elsewhere.” I’he term of incorporation was for twenty years. The purposes for which the act was ; originally intended were abandoned. At this time there arose a demand for a line of j steam communication between Baltimore I and ,Boston, and the charter was trans- I ferred to a number of gentlemen having the latter measure in view- After some delay two wooden sidewheel steamships, with ; about one thousand tons capacity, were forthwith built. They were named the Joseph Whitney and the William Jenkins. John A. Robb built the Jenkins in Balti- ; more and John English the Whitney in New York. Capt. Solomon Howes, of Chatham, Mas”., and Capt. Wm. A. Hallett, of Hyamis, in the same State, commanded the pioneer vessels, Capt. Howes having the honor to command the Whitney on her first trip as mentioned above. Both are in active service to-day. Capt. Howes is the admiral of the Merchants’ and Miners’ Transporta tion Company’s fleet by courtesy and by reason of his long service. Capt. Hallett will command the new steamship Chatham, recently built in Philadelphia by the Ameri can Shipbuilding Company, which is ex pected to arrive here in a few days. The Boston line prospered, and in 1859 I the outlook justified the company in build- I ing the iron sidewheel steamships S. R. ' Spalding and Benjamin Deford, which were constructed and launched that year by Harlan, Hollingsworth & Co., of Wilming ton, Del. The volume of carrying trade, however, contracted, ,and was not sufficient to keep the four steamers regularly employ ed. The experiment was then tried of obtaining business between Boston, Savan nah and Baltimore. It was during the ex citement and agitation which preceded the late civil war that the William Jenkins was set fire to and burnt at her wharf in Savan nah in the spring of 1861, proving a total loss. In 1859 the company started a line be tween Baltimore and Providence, R. 1., but it was abandoned. It was subsequently started about ten years ago, and ever since has been maintained with good results. Three steamers are now regularly employed on the line. The breaking out of the war in April, 1861, for a time interfered with legitimate business. In September of that year the steamship Joseph Whitney was sold to the War Department as a transport, and her name changed to the McClellan. The Merchants’ and Miners’ Company purchased her in 1867 from parties who had bought her from the government. During the war the steamships S. R. Spalding and Benjamin Deford were em ployed in government service, and the Boston line was abandoned. The business would have yielded good returns and pre vented it falling into other channels, but it was thought that the government service would, in a measure, compensate for the loss. Notwithstanding the remonstrances and protests of the directors of the com pany, the two steamers were retained by the United States Government and sold in 1865 , at public eale, passing into o', her hands. Under the names of the Bia Jacinto and $6 00 A YE kR. San Salvador they ran between New York | and Southern points. Both have been since 1 JSt. I In 1864 a wooden screw steamer built | at Goodspeed Landing, Conn., by William o Kispeed, was purchased before all h r ma I chinery was in. She w:.s named the William Kennedy. Just previous, however, the ; steamer Fung Shuey was bought, but was | soon dispos id of at private sale. The same year saw the wooden screw steamer George Appold added to the line. She was built by I John Lynn tn Philadelphia. The iron I screw steamship William Lawrence, was | built by the Atlantic Works in Boston, fol lowed. By purchase in 1876 the merchants and Miners’ Company acquired the franchise of the old Baltimore and Savanah Steamship Company, including the steamships America and Saragossa. They at once established a semi-weekly line, which has since been in existence. In 1883 they extended their en- I terprise to Charleston, S. C., making the fourth and last link in the chain of coast wise lines operated and controlled by them, all of which made Baltimore the terminus. There are now required twelve steamships, representing 13,543 78 tons to do the business of the combined enterprises. The fleet is now composed of the following first-class s.eam ships: Chatham, (just built in Philadel phia,) George Appold, Johns Hopkins, Wm. Crane, Alleghany, Sarragossa, Decatur, H. Miller, Wm. Lawrence, Wm. Kennedy, Berkshire, McClellan and Blackstone. With the exception of the Wm. Kennedy, Sara gossa and Blackstone, which were acquired by purchase, the other steamers were built under contract for the company. Seven are iron steamships. Mr. George Appold is President of the i company; Henry A. Whitney, of Boston, Vice President, Decatur H. Miller, Robert Garrett and Henry C. Smith, Directors. During its thirty years of service the M. and M. T. Company has never lost a vessel or a passenger. The most severe loss ever expe rienced was the sinking of the Decatur H. Miller by the William Lawrence on the ; night of November 27th last. The Miller has been raised and is rapidly being pre- I pared for service. The Lawrence, having ’ completed repairs, will take her place on the Savannah line to-morrow. MR. ARTHUR’S REGENT APPOINT MENTS. Guilty of a Lack of Courtesy to His Suc cessor. Editor Daily Times: Your recent edi torial on the subject of the President’s appointments should have received a warm j approval. The acts and life of the man Bryant are | as well known to the President as they are ; to every* man, woman and child in Georgia. I A fellow’ feeling doubtless induced this ap pointment. Chester A. Arthur was kicked out of the United States Custom House by one John Sherman, occupying at the time the position of Secretary of the Treasury. ■ The man Bryant met a similar fate at the I Custom House here. William Watkins Hicks was the spiritual adviser of Guiteau, to whom Arthur is in- ■ indebted for his position All this seems in : strict accord with the eternal fitness of things. The good people of this city would like ; to learn why A. N. Wilson is to be billeted lon them. His history and career are linked with the darkest days of our oppres , sion. | Mr. Arthur has no character to lose. He learned to eat well, sleep well and dress well by associating—in restaurants —in the New York with his superiors. But there is an absence of true gentlemanly feeling , about all he does * I Savannah, Jan. 6, 1885. ■<— ♦ - Court House Sales. Messrs. Kennedy & Blun, auctioneers, sold the following property this morning: One half of one third of lot No. 8, Car penter’s Row, with a small frame house, for $675. Three acres of land at Millen, Ga., for Book account of J. T. Cohen, for SIOO. Five City of Savannah Bonds, each $300; February coupons at sß4}, $1,323 75. Lots 1, 2 and 3, Screven Ward, and im provements, for $3,809. Three-fourths of lot No. 6, Heathcote Ward, and improvements, for SB,OOO. The balance ol the real estate was with : drawn on account of the inclement weather i Sales by I. D. Laßoche’s Sons : Three hundred acres of land in Effing ham county, for $175. The western half of lot No. 11, Warren Ward, and improvements, for $750. A portion of lot No. 29, North Oglethorpe Ward, for $225. A house and lot on the southeast corner of York and Price streets, for $2,300. A large number of horses, mules, wagons and buggies were also sold at fair prices. Sales by J. McLaughlin & Son : Two shares of Cotton Exchange, for $236. A residence on Barnard and Gwinnett streets, conditionally, for $4,300. Also, a large number of horses, mules, wagons, buggies, etc. ’ Sales by C. H. Dorsett: : Ten acres of land on the Middle Ground road for slls. Ten acres of land on the Montgomery ' road for $250. ! The w* stern half of lot No. 22, Wylly s ward, $340. ! A portion of lot No. 29, South Oglethorpe r ward, S3OO. ? Five hundred dollars of Central Railroad * debentures at SB7 on tbe 100 and S4OO at 1 SB6 50 <n :he 100. A lot of mules, horses buggies, and '■ wagons were sold and brought fair prices. The sale of Ferrell’s restaurant was post -8 poned on account of the inclement weather, s and a future time the date of sale will be ’ announced. e IKbiig Files.” —Sjmpteme: Moietur e Like perspiration, Intense itching, worse by 6 scratching, most at night, seems as if pin - worms were crawling. “Bwayne s Ointment e s a pleasant, sure cure. ’ Linen collars, latest styles, standing and ’• t irn-down, reduced from 15 to 10 oe at L. d Fried’s.