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Siwamml) Dailnomii. VOL. 6.—NO. 19. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. AT HOME AND ABROAD. - Heavy Swindle of an Ex-Governor—A Hase i Ball Bat as a Murderous Weapon— Congressional Proceedings—Markets and Minor Matters., Sterling, 111 , Jan. 15.—Guy M. Gali, a lad of seventeen years, son of L. T. Galt, and Jacob Rhinehart, aged twenty-seven, both of this city, committed suicide by ! poison, the causes therefor being unknown, i Young Galt was attending the military school at Chester, Pa., and was home for the holidays. On his way back to school he got oS the train at Chicago, returning to his home in | Sterling without assigning any reason, and was sternly reprimanded by his parents I for his action. Purchasing a box of rat poison, young Galt went to Hewe’s livery stable where Rhinehart was employed, and j while there took the fatal dose that resulted in his death. Rhinehart seemed much affected by Gait’s death. box containing some of the poison which Galt had taken, he, too, swallowed some of the bane, and informed his employer what he had done, saying he wanted to die, and refusing all assistance or remedies. Both victims were highly respected,'and the motive for their rash action is un known. A Coroner’s jury rendered a ver dict of death by his own hand, assigning no cause. THE FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. This Morning’s Proceedings. Washington, Jan. 15.—The Speaker laid before the House a communication from , the Commissioners of the District of Co ' lumbia. asking for an appropriation of $lO,- 000 to enable them to preserve public order during the ceremonies attending the dedica tion of the Washington monument and the inauguration of the President-elect. Re ferred. Mr. Wilkins, of Ohio, called up as a spe cial order the Senate bill to provide for the issue of circulating notes to banking asso ciations, generally known as the McPher son bill. Mr. Wilkins addressed the House in explanation of the bill. In the Senate: A bill was introduced and read twice, and referred, allowing one year’s salary to the widow of the late Secre tary of the Navy and Minister W. H. Hunt, and increasing the pension of the widow of General G. W. Thomas to $2,000 per an num. The naval committee reported favor ably a bill for the relief of sufferers by the wreck of the Tallapoosa. KNOCKED SENSELESS. A Teacher Kills a Pupil With a Base Ball Bat. Charleston, 111 , Jan. 15.—A young school teacher in Hickory township, named Tichnor, hit one of the pupils named Welch on the back of the head with a base ball bat, knocking him senseless, and injuring him fatally. Young Welch becoming unruly in school, young 'l'ichnor called on the direc tors and had him expelled. Tuesday even ing Welch returned to the school house, and ) raising the window, stuck his head in the room, and made remarks of an uncompli mentary nature. He then went to the door and came into the room. The teacher met him and his eye falling on the base ball bat, he seized it and struck Welch, knocking him senseless. A doctor pronounced the injuries fatal. Welch is 18 years old and weighs 150 pounds. No arrest have yet been made. MINISTER TAFT. Talk About His Being Nominated for Gov eriior of Ohio. Washington, Jan. 15.—Inasmuch as it is probable that Minister Taft will be re called from the Russian mission, there is talk among Ohio Republicans in Washing ton of nominating him for the Governorship of that State. They contend that as' the election coming after the inauguration of the Demo cratic administ’atio , a man of nations reputation, one wnose views are as pro nounced on national issues as are those of the Republican party itself, s .ould be nom inated Ohio also elects a Legislature which chooses a successor to Senator Sher man. A NEGRO EXODUS. The Movement Encouraged by Prominent C»lo ed Persons in Washington. VVAsuingion, Jan. lo—Thc moVemeu toward an exodus of colored people from the South, which began soon after the re cent Presidential election, is again beii. o revived, and tl e leading people among the white population are much concerned over the matter. They and their newspapers are circulating dism . i stories of suffering a d hardship among I those colored people who went from the South to Kansas a few years ago. Prominent colored men here in Washington are en couraging the exodus and propose to aid the movement in every way within their power. DAFTATN PHELAN’S CONDITION. A Denial by O’Donovan Rossa. New York, Jan. 15.—Captain Phelan w continues to improve. O’Donovan Rossa / denies the truth of the statement in the ? Kansas City Times, that Phelan was one of his ten men selected to be sent from Ameri ca in 1883, to kill Carey, the expenses to be paid out of the skirmishing fund. SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1885. ATLANTA AFFAIRS. ■ C/Hi cal Condition of a Capitol Coin mlssioner—Personal Men. ion. Special Dispatch to Savanna h Daily Times. Atlanta, Jan. 15—Major B. E. Crane, one of the Georgia Capitol Commissioners is at the point of death from a complica tion of spinal troubles. Major Crane is a member of the firm of Langston & Crane, wholesale grocers and cotton buyers, and is I one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. His physicians hourly expect his death, and say I his recovery is impossible. Hon. O. A. Lochrane, who has lately re signed the position of general counsel of the Pullman Car Company, has returned to Atlanta and will make this his home per manently. | Governor McDaniel has not yet returned I from Walton county. The Secretaries in : the Executive office are very busy mailing commissions to the various county officers. i Contests were filed to-day in the matter of ; the Sheriff's office, in Early and the Tax | Receivers office in Rabun county. CLEVELAND’S IDEA. He Will Give No Rewards. Washington, Jan. 15—Ex-Congress man Willis, of New York, yesterday said: “If New York can present a good and suita ble man for the Treasury he will probably be appointed.” “Who is a good man?” “Oh, Hewitt, for one. He would be the very man if he had robust health. The talk obout Whitney is all speculation. I don’t believe that Whitney will be chosen. Yes, it is true that he did help the National Committee. He helped to raise money at a time when it was badly deeded But so did others. Four men aided in raising that money. They are Hewitt, Flower Cooper and Whitney. Now, Whitney did no more than either of the others. But Cleveland is not going to pay any debts of gratitude. That’s certain. His idea is that if any Democrats rendered special service in the campaign they can best be repaid by having a good, safe and popular administra tion- He will not undertake to reward them i individually.” THE UNITED PRESS. Officers Elected for Ensuing Year. New York, Jan. 15. —The annual meet - ing of the United Press was held yesterday at St. James’ Hotel and the following named officers were elected for the ensuing year: President—C. H. Taylor, Boston Globe. Vice President —E. H. Butler, Buffalo News. Treasurer —C. R. Baldwin, Waterbury American. Secretary—Walter P. Phillips. A HEAVY SWINDLE. An Ex-Governor Duped Out Off 8560,000 Boston, Mass, Jan. 15—It is learned that shortly before his death, ex-Governor Colburn, of Maine, was swindled out of $560,000 in Topeka, Salina, and Western Railroad securities, by a conspiracy of Bos ton sharpers. He declined to prosecute the men, and stood the loss without complaint. New York Stock Market. New York, Jan. 15. —At 1:30 p. m. to day quotations were : Union Pacific U>% Missouri Pacific 93% Western Union Telegraph Co 57 Pacific Mail 55-% Lake Shore 61% Louisville and Nashville 25 Texas Pacific 13% Denver and Rio Grande 9% Michigan Central ,i( )% Delaware, Lackawanna At West'n SAi Northwestern ‘J'.’Js St. Paul "•»% Chicago, Burlington and Quincy 1J !, % Oregon Transcontinental 13% Northern Pacific W Rock Island IWJ% Jersey Central 37% Memphis and Charleston 30 East Tennessee, Va. & Ga (com) 3% East Tennessee, Va. A Ga. (pid) 5% Philadelphia and Reading 17 Omaha (com) 2«% Omaha (pld) ■■■ New York Central 33% Kansas and Texas Hi% , Erie 13% New York Produce Market. New Y'qbk, Jan, 15—Flour dull. Fine, $215 2 35| Superfine, $2.85a3.30. Wheat, NO. 2 red winter for February 94; do for March, 95 3 4; dofor April 87 l-2bid. Cohn, No. 2 mixed for January 53; do foi- Febru ary; 50 5-8 bid for February. Oats,No. 2 mixed, for February 37 34; dos r March 35 1-2. Rye firm. Canada 71c. Barley un changed. Pork dull, but firm at 13 25.25 Lard so; January 7 18. February 720 March, Molasses steady at 40J; rosin firm; strained to good, $1 25al 30. Petroleum quiet; case, 9 iIOJ. Sugar firmer; refined cut loaf, 6J:’ 6}. Coffee quiet; fair cargoes, 9j. Hawkinsville Election. Special Dispatch to the Dally Times. Hawkinsville, Jan. 15.—At the elec tion held in this city yesterday, the follow ing ticket was carried: Mayor—W. A. Jeters. Aldermen—J. P. Brown, Robert J. Tay> i lor, A. Adams, S. A. Merritt, J. J. Joiner, H. C. Rekell. Cotton Manufacturing Company Assigns. Columbia, S. C., Jan, 15.—The Red Bank Cotton Manufacturing Company, Lex ington county, has made an assignment. The assets are $70,000, and the liabilities less than $27,000. Probabilities. Washington, J Jan. 15.-—For file South Atlantic States, weather cloudy, with east erly winds, lower barometer. LIFE preserver. If you are losing your grip on life, try Wells’ Health Renewer.” Goes direct to weak spots. IS IT A CANCER? GENERAL GRAN C FORCED TO STOP SMOKING. Suft-. ring wi'h an Ass ction of the Tongue Which .May or May Not Be a Cancer— His Physicians Hopeful of Recovery. Philadelphia, Jan. 15. —The Bulletin publishes the f llowing interesting state ment of General Grant's condition: Discus sion over the troubles which seem to come thicker and faster upon General Grant has been renewed of late upon the report that the old leader is a sufferer from a cancer of the tongue, and that he is really in a very serious way, with the chances of a fatal termination of the case. Another report had the General lying speechless and bare ly able to take nourishment from a heavy swelling in the base of his tongue. The facts are that the ex-Pres'dent has had a very hard time of it with a complication of troubles, and that in consequence he has been advised to set aside his habit of exces sive smoking, and that he has done so with a sharp decision which more than surprised the physicians who were in attendance upon him. This mouth disease, whatever it may be, came upon the General during the past summer while he was at his Long Branch residence. It came first as a swelling at the back part of the tongue, and little attention was paid to the irritation by the patient. It grew worse and he consented to consult physicians who were at the Branch. They did him little good with their prescriptions and the swelling grew worse, becoming so bad that in September, when Dr. Fordvce Barker, of New York, the Grant family physician arid a particular personal friend of the General, came from an European | trip, the tongue had grown to such a size | that it almost ceased to be an organ of i speech, and the patient was, perforce, even more tactiturn that was his wont. Dr. Barker recognized at once the pos i bility of a bad outcome to the trouble and i i began a vigorous campaign against the growth. Under his ministrations the trouble ' was largely gotten rid of, though as yet it | is very painful and threatening and requires constant treatment and attention. A bad tooth at the angle of the jaw had for a time been a source of annoyance to the old solo dier, and this was removed after a painful operation, which the General bore without a flinch- This gave mucli relief, but, in the opinion of the attending doctors, the habit of heavy smoking had much to do with bring ing about the irritation, and made it diffi cult for them to correctly diagnose the case. There was a chance that it was the beginning of a cancer which was eating into the base of the tongue, and which would require a serious and possibly fital operation to remove, or it may have been simply a lesion, which is known to follow the excessive use of tobacco, but which is curable by siu.p'e remedies and an abstinence from the use of tobacco in any [ form for a time. In place of the dozen or score of cigars which the General was in the habit of smoking daily, he was ordered to light no more than three cigars each dry then to consume but half of e ci of them throwing away the remaining half of each cigar with the larger percentage of nico tine remaining in it. Gen. Grant used a bit of his own judgment in addition to that re ceived from the doctors, and after his own way went them two better in the cigar cutting scheme and voluntarily dropped to a single half cigar per day, and after a week of this flung aside the weed entirely, I and for nearly two mouths did not put a lighted cigar in his mouth. The result of all this has been a marked improvement in the symptoms, and now the whilom smoking sphynx has become the hard-working scribbler, spending much of his time in putting his remembrances of war matters into writing. On Christmas Day he had intended taking an enjoyable holiday puff and did indeed light a cigar, but with the first cloud of smoke the reso lution he had formed to smoke no more came back to him and he flung the Victoria away and entered the new year the most ardent ha’er of the weed, so far as he is ! personally concerned. When asked directly whether there was danger of a cancer at the base of the tongue somewhat similar to that which proved fatal in the case of Senator Ben Hill, of Georgia. Dr. Baker replied that it was impossible for him to say. In fact he was not sure that the smoking was tLe c.use of the trouble, but it had ao doubt been an irritant of the swelling, and since the habit had been refrained from there had been great improvement. There was n t now any ma terial trouble from the pain of the swelling, since it had been treated with the new anaesthetic uriate of c.caline, and the parts had taken on a natural appearance, with an absence of the undue redness of the sur face. Dr. Barker refused to commit himself either pro or con on the cancer theory, de clining to say that he was convinced that no such serious trouble was impending, and on the other hand saying that he could not fairly announce that there was any real danger of a cancel as 'far as the case had developed. Chicago ’Change. Chicago, Jan. 15—Wheat opened weak and lower. February, 88f; May, 86|. Corn firm and slightly higher; January, 38J; February, 38; May, 41J. Oats steady; May, •30J-. Pork, firm;sl2 25 for February; sl2 30 for March. Lard firmer; $6 92J for Feb ruary; $7 02j for March. Escape of a Murderer. Binghampton . N. Y , Jan. 15—Meskin, who killed Katie Brodhaust in Elmira, es caped last night from jail here. He is under sentence to be hanged next Wednesday. “ROUGH ON RATS.” Clears out rats, mice, roaches, flies, ants oed-bugs, skunks, chipmunks, gophers. 15c Druggists. Clean teeth, healthy gums and a pure breath by using Holmes’ Wash and Denti frice. Try a bottle. SOUTHERN OPINION. A Manly Letter from a Confederate Officer. In the Chicago Times of a recent date, | we find the following, which will be lead with much interest here: R'VER Point, III—To the Editor : In the interest of intersectional peace and amity, I ask permission to lay before your numerous readers some extracts from a let ter just received by me from the South. The writer, formerly a distinguished officer in the Conlederate army, is a highly intel ligent, sagacious, and honorable gentleman, whose testimony as to the disposition and temper of the most influential classes of Southern society is entitled to great weight. If in any degree his views should tend to relieve any minds oppressed by the crystal lized stupidity of Bourbonism, who have slept through the last quarter of a century, and still fancy they bear the drum and trumpet of war, my purpose will have been answered. Respec’fully, R. Walter Heurtley, M. D. “To us at the South, it” [Cleveland’s election] “seems almost too good to be. true. * * * During the few days in which the matter was in doubt, people were for the most part quiet and sell-contained, j but when the certainty of success came everybody was the more excited be-1 cause of the previous repression. * * * | Cannon were dragged from the arsenal, and began to give utterance to the general re joicing. From every building ani every spire, in 10 minutes after the final dispatch was received, the flag of the United States floated; and in front of the cotton exchange and board of trade an excited crowd of citi zens of all classes gave noisy expression to their feelings. Os course there had to be speech-making. * * * Through every speech there rang this refrain : ‘Thank God, this is no longer a nominal union; we are one people at last?’ There wasno manufactured feeling about the affair; it was genuine, heartfelt, spontaneous. * * * And note this significant fact : Not a I speaker alluded to public offices. Not one j i word was uttered that can be construed into ! hatred or malice agiinst the other side; I but every man who lifted up I I his voice gloried .in the : fact of being once more a factor in national affairs, in the knowledge that our old State was no longer a ‘conquered province,’ but a sister State, having equal rights with every other in the Union. Looking back analy.- tically at my own feelings at the time, I find that 1 was moved by the exhibition of the flags as much as by any other circum stance of the day—l found my heart thrill ing with a pleasure in looking at them, and realizing that they symbolized a union in which, at last, I had the same voice and the same pride as any other citizen from Maine to California. Ever since the war ended I have in all things tried to do my whole duty as a citizen of the United States, as well as of Savannah; but from that day” (of the election) “I can date a returning pride in saying civis Americanus sum. N ow surely, as an individual, I have not differed from those around me; and, surely, without l reference to collateral issues, it is worth a change of administration to bring about such a change in the hearts of the whole Southern people, and to end an alienation that at one time seemed without end. “And now we want our brethren of the North to believe that this change has actually taken place. Let them credit the declarations that they find in the public press throughout the South. We have many faults down in this section; nobody knows them better than ourselves. But we are not ‘given to lying,’ and when we stretch out our hands in amity and say ‘let ius be brothers again,’ there is no hidden meaning in it, no deception; our hearts go with the words. The very devotion that the Southern people showed for a cause which they believed to be right ought to convince the North of our truth and honor. ‘Old things,’ however, have passed away and as a mighty united people, governing our selves with wisdom and probity, a future stretches before us that Rome in her palm iest days did not attain.” City Court. City Court convened this morning at 10 o'clock in monthly session, Judge AV. D. Harden, presiding. The following cases were disposed of: Mrs. Mary Feeley vs. Lafayette E. Dancy. Action on account. Verdict for plaintiff by consent, in the sum of $1,002.8 principal and interest from October Ist, 1884. Thomas J. Bird v... James K. Clarke. Ac tion for damagesi Case dismissed by plain tiff’s attorney. Court then a'journed until to-morrow at 10 o’clock. Port Notes. Messrs. A. Minis & Sons, cleared to-day, the Bri ish Steamship, Budapest, for Bre men, Germany, with 3,624 bales of upland cotton, weighing 1,681,506 pounds. Total valuation $,775.10. Sweet Gum and Mullein. The sweet gum, as gathered from a tree ol the same name, growing along the small streams in the Southern States, contains a stimulating expectorant principle that loos ens the phlegm producing the early morning sough, and stimulates the child to throw on the false membrane in croup and whooping sough. When combined with the healing mucilaginous principle in the mullein plant of the old fields, presents in Taylor’s Chero see Remedy of Sweet uum and Mullein, the 1 Inest known remedy for coughs, croup, whooping cough and consumption; and so palatable any child can take it. Ask your j druggist for it. Send two-cent stamp for Taylor’s Riddle Book, which is not only for he amusement of the little ones, who will gather around your knee to hear the puzzling questions, but contains information for the lealth and welfare of every home. Manufactured by Walter A. Taylor, propri- | •tor Taylor’s Premium Cologne, Atlanta, Ga. Dr. Bosanko. This name has become so familiar witn the most of people throughout the United States that it is hardly necessary to state that he is the originator of the great Dr. Bosanko Cough and Lung Syrup, the people’s favorite remedy, wherever known, for Coughs, Colds, Consumption and all affections of the Throat and Lungs. Price 50 cents and 81.00. Sold by Osceola Butler and E. J. Kieffer.—Adv. jpor the latest style and low prices in g ente furnishing goods, L. Fried’s is the place A LIVELY FUSILADE. TWO MEN WHO WANTED TO SEE THE EDITOR. What Comes of Demanding Satisfaction —All Three Wounded, and One Likely to Die—Ten Shots Fired before the Affray Stopped. A special dispatch from New Orleans says: The editorial office of the Mascot was , to-day the scene of a serious shooting affray. I James T. Houston and Robert Brewster, I two gentlemen of prominence in the city called at the office about noon and inquired for George Osmond, the editor. They came to demand satisfaction for an editorial pub lished in Saturday’s issue of the Mascot re flecting on Judge W.T. Houston, brother of ! the former. Houston struck Oimond with I a heavy cane, when the latter drew his re- j volver and shot him through the right hand. Houston was just pulling out his revolver when the shot struck him and his weapon fell to the floor. Picking it up with j his left hand he turned it loose. A general fusilade was opened and none of the trio escaped the shower of bullets that whistled j about the sanctum. Ten shots were ex i changed and all of the party seriously ' wounded and one probably fatally shot. I Great excitement was caused in Camp street by the rapid succession of shots. It s mnded as though a bunch of fire-crackers had been set off on the top floor where the Mascot office is located. Immediately after the shooting Brewster and Houston came down stairs, both bleed ing from their wounds. Houston was placed under arrest, but he and his companions were permitted to go to the hospital. Os mond followed them to the sidewalk a few minutes afterwards, holding his wounded hand, which appeared to cause him much pain. He blew a police whistle, which brought an officer to the scene, who prom pt ily arrested him. He was also taken to the ; hospital. He was shot in the palm of his j right hand, the ball going up into the arm as far as the elbow. It was taken out with great difficulty. After his wound was dress ' ed he was taken to the Central Police Sta- j tion and locked up to answer the charge of felonious assault with intent to kill. Brewster was shot four times, once in the left arm, once in the thigh and twice in the j body. The latter are of a serious nature, i One ball passsd completely through the body and the other entered just below the : heart. Half an inch higher it would have ■ pierced that organ. Houston received but one shot, as mentioned In an interview with a reporter Osmond stated: “1 was sitting at my desk in my office when about 12 o’clock the two men came in. Houston I knew, but the other I‘ knew only by sight. The former asked me if my name was George Osmond. I answered ‘Yes,’ and he struck me over the head with a club, pulled his pistol and began shooting. I fired two of the ten shots and struck Houston. The man who was with him kept shooting at Z mneck, my partner, who was throwing things at him. I have not the slightest idea what he shot or tackled me for.” Adolph Zenneck, a wood engraver, and one of the owners as the Mascot, corrobor ates Osmond’s statement. He explained that “the man with Houston commenced shooting at me, when I threw the top of the stove at him. He was desperate, and kept peppering away at me, but did not hit me. When Houston went out 1 followed him to the stairway, and he shot at me, but I escaped.” Houston, who is State Collector, says he only drew his revolver after Osmond had used his. He had gone there to punish the editor. Robert Brewster is State Register of Vo ters. The surgeon at the hospital informed an intimate friend that he could not re cover. ;He is very weak and sinking rapidly. A MACON ROMANCE. True Love and Fidelity Rewarded at Last. Special Correspondence Daily Times. i Macon, Jan. 14.—One Sunday morning about a year ago, Mr. B. L. Willingham and . his son Broadus, were seated in Christs’ Church. A little ways further up sat about one hundred Wesleyan Female College girls. In the center of the group was a young lady, ; graceful, handsome and stylish. The young man turned to his father and said: “See that ' j young lady! well I’m going to marry her; I . | want her for my wife.” The young lady . i was Miss Annie Lou Rushin, of Tallasee, Ala., then in her senior year. The father . smiled and dismissed the thought. Not so with his son, he watched her intently throughout, and when the service was over he still kept his eye on her. He bad never met her. About two months after the event ’ a small boy was seen plodding up the steps ■ of the college. He carried a huge basket of ' flowers, nearly as large as himself. He was 1 met at the door by Dr. Bass, the President of the institution, who, when he took the basset, spied a little card with the inscrip- tion, “For Miss Rushin.” He asked who had sent it. The boy grinned and said, Mr. Broadus said not to tell. It was several months before the couple were introduced to each other. They met during commencement and loved each other from the first. After the exercises she re turned home and a correspondence follow ed. About three weeks ago she returned to Macon to visit friends. The couple were together very much. New Year’s she was I invited to receive with Mrs. E. J. Willing ham, and that evening he addressed her. She told him to wait until March. He told i his parents and they were pleased. Sunday afternoon he grew impatient, and asked her i to marry him. She refused, but told him if i he went home with her, and her parents I were willing, she would do so. The pair left for the home of Dr. James K. Rushin yesterday. To-dav the young man’s father received a telegram from him saying he would marry 1 at 2 o’clock to-day. They were married and ' went at once to New Orleans. The groom is a member of the firm of C. B. & B. E. Willingham, cotton warehouse. He is a ponnlar young man and Las .lie confidence ' of the people. Wynton. $6 00 A YEIR. MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS. j Election of City Officers—Contracts Awarded. The I’st meeting of the present City Council was held last evening, when the election of city officers, the awarding of ! contracts and the finishing up of business was attended to. The Council Chamber was ■ thronged with an eager and interested crowd. There was no opposition in a ma- I jority of the offices, and the present incum ' bents were re-elected, as follows: Clerk of Council—F. E. Rebarer. . City Treasurer—Major C. 8. Hardee. City Marshal—Captain L. L. Goodwin. Chief of Police—General R. H. Anderson. Assistant Chief of Police—John Green. City Surveyor—John B. Howard. Health Officer —Dr. J. T. McFarland. ! Keeper of Laurel Grove Cemetery—A. 1 F. Torlay. Messenger of Council—Luke Logan. Chief Fireman—Adolph Fernandez. Assistant Chief Firemen—Geo. Mouro. Superintendent .of Water Works—A. N. Miller. Captain H. C. Cunningham was re-elected Corporation Attorney over Mr. George W. Owens. R. C. Kennedy was elected Harbor Master over John D. Tenßroeck. For Clerk of the Market there were three candidates: W. H. Bordley, the present incumbent; Thomas Maddox and Charles E. Mallette. Mr. Bordley was re elected. For Keeper of the City Dispensary there were two candidates: Lewis Cass, the pres ent incumbent, and W. W. Lincoln. Mr. Cass was re-elected. Mr. Theo H Meves, the present keeper of Forsyth Park, was re-elected over John F. Daly. There was a lively contest over the posi tion of keeper of the Pest House. The can didates were Thomas Carr, Patrick F. Hig gins, William Yenken, Jamas F. Findley and A. McEvoy. Mr. Carr was elected on I the second ballot. For Port Wardens there were twenty eight candidates, five to be elected. The applicants were Charles Van Horn, John Power, Thomas H. Liird and Alexander • Abrams, the present incumbents, and S. M. Laffiteau, E. R. Hernandez, Thomas Daniels, W. R. Pritchard, L. W. Brickman, M. J. ! Desverges, John Reilly, Lemuel Davis, R. A. Pollard, Andrew Anson, P. M. Box, T. B. Marshall, T. C. Farr, James Clements, John F. Eiskamp, E. Flaherty, W. D. Oliveira, Thomas Clark, O H. Lufburrow, S. J. M. Baker, W. H. Patterson, Peter Donelau, D. L. Martin, L. Wiggins. Three of the present ienumbents, Charles Van Horn, John Power and Thomas H. Laird, were re-elected, and 8. J. M. Baker and W. R. Pritchard were elected. Chimney Contractor, E. D.—John Cas sidy. I Chimney Contractor, W. D.—Constantine Dubler. City Physicians—Drs. R. S. Sanders and B. P. Oliveros. Nival Stores Inspectors—C. D. Russell, [ M. G. Register, S. M. Chesnut, B. Holmes, W. H. Goodman, H. M. King, James G. j Wells, F. T. Givy, W. E. Bevins. Inspectors of Lumber and Tim 1 r—C. H i Hell, A. B. Laßoche, J. J. Rackly, W- E. j Merrill, G. P. Jordan, John G. Parry. The bids for cPy contracts were as fol lows : Scavenger Contract —Studer & Harmon, sl4,uvo. D. G. Heidt, city north of Ander son street, $16,000; city extension, $5,000. William Swoll, city north of Anderson street, $14,350; city extension, SI,BOO. T. F. Churchill, city extension, $2,000. The contracts for City Proper and Exten sion were awarded Captain Wm. Swoll. Major John Schwarz received the contract for supplying the Police Barracks with bread at 3| cents per pound. For City Printing there were two bids: Morning News, $600; Savannah Daily Times $550. The contract was awarded the Daily Times. An ordinance amending an ordinance passed at the last meeting of Council, granting the Central Railroad the right to build a track along the wharf front of the city was passed. A number of other matters were referred to the New Board and Council adjourned. Base Ball Notes. There is considerable talk going the rounds among the lovers of the diamond, ‘ regarding the chances of having a first class nine for the coming season. Although At lanta, Augusta, Columbus and Macon, have already formed nines, nothing definite has been done in the matter in Savannah. There are a few vague rumors about proposed nines being made up, and some little corres pondence has been entered into with parties in the North, but so far, nothing has been dine. The Dixies have not disbanded but seem to be reclining on their oars. It is suggested that those who feel an interest in the matter, call a meeting and organize a stock company, and get a first class nine up ofsuperior men who will be able to cross bats with the best in the country. Base ball has improved much since last season even, and Savannah is certainly large enough to sustain a really first class team. It is high time something were being done in the matter, and it can only be done by concert of action. Let the trial be made. Superior Court Court convened at 10 a. m , Judge A. Pratt Adams presiding, and the following cases were disposed of: The grand jury returned true bills in the following cases: State vs. J ames Hunter. Larceny after trust. State vs. Isaac Miller. Assault with in tent to murder. State vs. Nora Wilson. Misdemeanor. The grand jury was then discharged until i Friday, January 23rd, at 10 o’clock a. m. 1 Albany News and Advertiser: Savan nah is destined to become wealthy and pros- 1 perous beyond precedent, under the bene i ficient dispensation of the tariff reform era. . When Congress strikes the fetters from the a limbs of trade, Savannah will feel in all her e business arteries the impulse of a new and more prosperous life.