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Strommal) Sim VOL. 6.—NO. 22. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS THE U. 8. JUDGE«HIP. The Georgia Delegation to Oppose Spier. I Special Dispatch to Savannah Dally Times. f Washington, Jan. 20. —Emory Speer’s t nom nation will be presented to the Senate ( this afternoon. Representative Nicholls ( says the Georgia delegation will try and prevent Speer’s confirmation on the ground ] that he is unpopular, and is considered < unfitted for the Judgeship by nine tenths of ! the people of the State. speer’s name SENT IN. I The President to-day sent the name of Emory Speer to the Senate as United States District Jddge for the Southern Dis- . trict of Georgia. ' THE FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. , Work Done in Both Houses This Morning. Washington, D. C., Jan. 20.—1 n the Senate, Mr. Manders from the Committee , on Printing, reported a joint resolution pro- ■ viding for printing the descriptive cata logue of the Government publications which was, by unanimous consent, taken up and . passed. 1 Mr. Bayard offered a bill to provide for 1 an improved system of signal and side lights for vessels under way, which was referred to the Committee on Commerce. In the House, on motion of Mr. Chase, of Rhode Island, 4 o’clock to-morrow was set for consideration of the Senate resolu tions on the death of Senator Anthony. Mr. Oates, of Alabama, from the Com mittee on Public Lands, reported a bill to prevent aliens and foreigners from acquiring titles to or holding lauds in the United States. The morning hour having been disposed I of, Mr. Ellis, of Louisiana, moved to go into I committee of the whole on the Indian ap- ! propriation I ill. This wes resisted by Mr. I Willis, of Kentucky, who desired considera- , tion of the Education bill. The House , finally decided to consider the Appropria- | tion bill. ATLANTA AFFAIRS. Various Items from the State Capital. Special Dispatch to the Daily Times. Atlanta, Jan. 20. —The United States Court opened here to-day, Judge Boarman presiding. The Judge reached the city yesterday afternoon. Emory Speer, the District Attorney, is still in Washington, and Mr. Haight, the Assistant District At torney, is attending to the business. Governor McDaniel spent yesterday with his father at Allatoona. It was the 75th birthday of the Governor’s father. Dr. H. H. Carlton, President of the Sen ate, is spending a few days in Atlanta. Yesterday afternoon Miss Richardson, a prominent society lady of Atlanta, who re sides at 17 Wheat street, was run over by a runawav horse attached to a dray. She was knocked down and painfully hurt. Gov. McDaniel has received a nun her of letters commending the manner in which he dealt with the Lockett convict matter. FEROCIOUS TIGERS KILLED. Believed to Have Escaped From a Circus. Raleigh, N. C., Jan. 20 -Some men hunting on Black river in a great swamp, near the South Carolina line, killed a black tiger six feet long. The animal died hard after killing two dcgs, and ore of the hun ters had a narrow escape. Another tiger of the same species and equal size has beea killed in Sampson county. It had killed a cow, several sheep and a colt. It is believed that these tigers are those which escaped from Robinson’s circus near Portsmouth, Va., last autumn. CARL SCHURZ Receives Distinguished Honors in North Carolina. Raleigh, N. C, Jan. 20.—Carl Schurz is here, and was yesterday invited to a seat on the floor of the Senate. Many courtesies were tendered him by the Governor and citizens. He returned in the evening and afterwards attended a reception arranged in his honor. He goes to Wilmington to-day. MRS. EDGAR A. POE. Her Remains Placed by the Side of Her Husband. Baltimore, Jan. 20. —The remains of Edgar Poe’s wife, Virginia Clemm, were buried at Fordsham, N. C., in 1848. Yes terday, on the 76th anniversary of Poe’s birth, her remains were brought here and deposited beside those of the poet in the Dutch Presbyterian Church. THE N. Y. SENATORSHIP. William M. Evarts Elected Albany, N. Y, Jan. 20.—Willi m M. Evarts was to-day elected United States Senator for the term of six years from March 4th 1885, in place of Mr. Laphan, whose term expires. All the Republicans voted for Evarts, and the Democrats for Edward Cooper. Absconded. San Francisco, Jan. 20.—1 tis rumored that John McLaughlin, of G. W. Tyler’s law office, who obtained $25,000 from Gen eral Barnes, senior counsel for ex-Senator Sharon in his divorce case by a spurious agreement, has absconded with the money. I LABORING MEN. No Sympathy for Them by the Executive or the Senate. Washington, Jan. 20.—Laboring men have about concluded that the Executive and the Senate have little sympathy with them, if they are to judge by the anxiety exhibited to comply with the measures in troduced for their benefit. Through Mr Arthur’s failure to appoint a Chief, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which was established by law several months ago, is yet unorganized, and through the indifference of the Senate the bill pro hibiting the importation of foreign labor under contract, which passed the House of Representatives on the 19th of last June, has not been called up in the Senate during this session. The bill passed the House by a vote of 102 to 17. It was before the Senate on July 5, but was postponed to the second Thursday in December, on motion of Senator Brown, because the session was too near its close to discuss the measure as it deserved. It was not called up on the second Thursday of December and no at tempt has since been made to call it up. Senator Blair, in whose charge it is, says it can be called up at any time by a majority vote of the Senate, but that he has not yet had what he considered a good opportunity, on account of the interposition of other bills, and that he does not desire to move its con sideration till he has a good prospect of succeeding. The truth is that while Mr. Blair and a few other Senators favor the bill the majority are opposed to it, though they may not have the courage to vote against it if it can ever be got before them. THE NICARAGUA TREATY. The Efforts to Postpone or Defeat a Rati fication. Washington, Jan. 19.—The opponents [of the Nicaragua treaty have been veiy j active in the vicini’y of the capital for a } few days past, and express the opinion that | the measure will surely fail of ratification Iby the Senate. Captain Eads, who knows I that the construction of the canal would | destroy all chances of his Tehuantepec ship railway scheme, has been among the most energetic opponents of the treaty, and he declares that its defeat was practically as sured. There are Senators who think a vote will not be reached this session because of the general desire of members for debate, the speeches in every instance being par ticularly long and exhaustive. The trans continental railway lines, as well, as the Panama people, are arrayed against the Nicaraguan project, and they are bringing forward every influence in their power to defeat or postpone a ratification of the treaty. New York Stock Market. New York, Jan. 20.—At 1:30 p. m. to day quotations were : Union Pacific 49% Missouri Pacific 95% Western Union Telegraph Co 57% Pacific Mail 55% Lake Shore WJ/s Louisville and Nashville 24 Texas Pacific 12% Denver and Rio Grande Michigan Central >?, Delaware, Lackawanna & West’n 80% Northwestern Bj% St. Paul <B% Chicago, Burlington and Quincy 118 Oregon Transcontinental 13% Northern Pacific —— Rock Island W’% Jersey Central 31% Memphis and Charleston 28,2 East Tennessee, Va. & Ga (corn) •_>% East Tennessee, Va, & Ga. (pfd) 5 Philadelphia and Reading lb Omaha (com) 25% Omaha (pfd) 85 New York Central 8b Kansas and Texas 18% Erie 13% New York Produce Market’ New York, Jan. 20.—Flour dull and un changed. Wheat for February 91}; March 93§; April 95: May 96}. Corn No. 2 mixed, for January 52; February 50J,March 50. Oats No. 2 mixed, 36} for January; February 36}. Pork, mess sl3 50. Lard $7 13 for February; March $7 22. Molas ses firm, ranging from 40 to 50c. Turpen tine quiet, 30fa31. Petroleum dull, re fined in cases, $7 75. Butter steady, i Western imitation creamery choice, 21a22. ■ Cheese steady; Ohio flats, prime to c oice, | 9jalO. Eggs firm; Western, 30; State, 30a | 31. Sugar dull; relined cut loaf, 6}; gran- ! ulated, 6,}; confectioners’. 6 94at>. Tallow ! steady; prime < itr, 6}. Freights dull: grain | to Liverpool, 4J. Coffee slerdy; fair car goes, 9|. Chicago ’Change. Chicago, Jan. 20—Wheat opened steady; February 79 j, March 80j, May 86|. Corn steady; 38§ for February and March; 41} for May. Oats steady; 27; for March; 31} for May. Pork firm; sl2 51} for May. Lard firm; $6 85 for February; $6 95 for March. Accidentally Shot. Dallas, Texas, Jan. 20—On Lelot’s plantation nine miles from here yesterday, one of the Lelot boys was killed by an elder brother who was shooting with a pistol at a tree The bullet glanced from the tree and hit the boy. Harbers Convention. Goldsboro, N. C., Jan. 20—A convention of barbers of the State has just ended its deliberations here by calling upon the Leg islature to make apprenticeship a necessary prerequisite for any one entering the tonso rial profession. Bad News from the Exposition. New York, Jan. 20.—A New Orleans} dispatch says that the Exposition finances are in such bad shape that the Exposition ! may be placed in the hands of receivers. Lynched by Masked Men. Tyler, Tex., Jan. 20.—A band of masked men Sunday night, at the village of Lydial, took Daniel Lutton from a negro’s house and lynched him. SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1885. THE FROZEN NORTH. TRAIN IMPRISONED BY SNCW. I W I 1 A Thousand Men and Twenty Locomo tives Unable to R- lease it— Terrible Suffering Among Passengers lce and Snow Ferry Feet Deep— A True Story That Reads Like Fiction. A correspondent writing from Portland, Oregon, says: The experience of the pas- i sengers on the snow-bonnd train on the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company’s Road, is probably without a parallel in this country. The train became fast in the snow on December 16,and the efforts of more than one thousand men, a score of locomotives and half a dozen snow ploughs have been pow erless thus far to release it. Snow began falling on the 16th, accompanied by a high wind, and before night the Columbia and Wallamette valleys were completely buried. The west-bound train of the Northern Paci fic came along with about J 50 passengers on j board, and had no great trouble until it | reached the Dalles, though the suow was three feet deep. At that poiut a snow I plough was sent on ahead, and the train ' followed. After leaving Hood river the ’ plough became stalled when about four I miles the other side of Wyeth, and the } train was forced to come to a stand. Every j able-bodied man on the train took a } shovel, and repeated efforts were made . to clear the track. The wind was high and the snow dry, and shoveling was found to be useless Repeated snow slides from the I mountains soon convinced the conductor that there was imminent danger of the | train being buried, and he backed up to a [ trestle, which had only just been gained | when a tremendous slide occurred, covering | the engines and baggage cars almost out ot sight. The snow storm continued with una- I bated violence, and the wind, which soon , oecarne a hurricaue, was intolerably severe. With the locomotive covered and the track I , ahead of and behind them buried to a ' depth of 40 feet in snow and ice, it became : : evident 'hat a tong siege was at hand. There 1 was little food on the train, and great con ! sternatii.n prevailed for a time, more espe l j cially among the women aud children, ot i , j whom there were many. . . The next morning the conductor sent ; , | two trainmen to Cascade Locks for food, j . The distance was eleven miles, and the trip ‘ in the blinding snow and cutting wind was : f; one of great difficulty. When they arrived jat their destination the men had much ; ' ' trouble in inducing any one to make the return journey with them, but they at , length found men willing to undertake the , errand, and succeeded in reaching the train ■ the next day at 2p. tn. with several hun- i dred pounds of provisions on tobogans. In I the express car were found a tot of jack rabbits, two quarters of beef and several I cases of oysters in cans. These were cooxed j and served along with the other rations, ; each passenger receiving a regular allow- ! ance twice a day. After this the railroad company organized exi editions at Cascade Locks every two or three days to carry food to the beleaguered train. The provisions taken were such only as could be packed easily and were carried on poies, a man at each end. The sufferings of these messen gers in making the trip were frequently terrible. Several of them were overcome by fatigue and cold, and had to be carried by their companions. After this had been going on for a few ■ days the authorities notified the passengers i that food could not be furnished for so many ‘ in that way, and that all able-bodied men • would be expected to abandon the train and set out for Cascade Locks on foot. Twenty five started the next morning in a driving suow storm, and all made the Locks that evening except four, who had to be left at a farm house. Many suffered from frozen faces, hands and feet. The next morning thirty-five more starter 1 , and all made the journey safely, although some of them were | in a pitiable condition. The snow was from five to fifty feet in depth, and much of the j ' way the path lay along hillsides so icy that ! a misstep would have ended at the river far i below. In seme places the travelers had j to cut holes in the icy crust for their hands ' and feet, and crawl along with the greatest ; j care. Some other small parties left the ’ j train afterward. The women and children I wept pitifully when the men left, fearing i that they were to be abandoned to starve and ■ ! freeze; but the assurance of the conductor, that they would be safely guarded by the ■ I train bauds and the men who were not : I thought able to make the trip after a time piq | i them at ease. Thus relieved of one-half of the passen gers the transportation of food became a less difficult problem. Several times during ' the last two weeks it was thought that the shovellers and snow ploughs would be able soon to relieve the train, but just as they ap peared to be gaining on the snow and ice a little a fresh storm would set in, and then things would be worse than before. The train is surrounded with snow, and the track at that place for about four miles is covered in many places to a depth of forty feet with solid ice. During the high winds the spray from the numerous falls was blown upon the tracks, and this, freezing, caused the forma tion of hills of ice, which could only be re moved by blasting. In the cars the passengers made them selves as comfortable as possible. Thus far there has been no sickness, though there are scores of children aboard, and the opportu nities for exercise are necessarily limited. When the coal gave out the brakemen went i out and chopped wood, ‘which was found near by in abundance. Hundreds of men have been working on the track with picks and shovels, and there is now hope that the blockade will be raised. It has been found that the only way to make permanent pro ■ gress without destroying the track is to pick j the ice out in chunks and carry them away. At first there was plenty lof whisky and tobacco on the i train, but when all the travelling I men’s samples had been consumed the peo i pie who used these luxuries had. to do with out, for the men who packed provisions to the train refused to be loaded with any thing but necessaries. Although the pros pect that the train will soon be released is I now good, it is not forgotten that things have appeared equally favorable many times btfore during the pa tl6 days. If we have no more storms or severe cold it will not take long to open the road. The passengers on the train are as cheerful as could be ex pected,but the experience is one which they will never forget. Most of the men who walked to Cascade Locks continued on to Portland in parties of 10 or 12, also on foot. The distance is 55 1 miles, and much of the route is very dan gerous. Nearly all of them have arrived I here in bad condition. A few are laid up at farm houses on the way. One party took the railroad track, and by clinging to the telegraph wires most of the way, the snow being so deep that they could easily reach them, they made the trip without much trouble. The blockade has cost the railroad company about $5,000 a day for shovelers and plows, and has caused an entire suspen sion of business by the Northern Pacific. Mails now go East by steamer to San Fran cisco. THE CHATHAM ARRIVES. An Unsuccessful Attempt to Stop Her at Philadelphia. Baltimore Sun of 19th. I The new iron steamship Chatham, built I ' by the American Shipbuilding Company of Philadelphia for the Merchants and Min ers’ Transportation Company of this city, \ arrived here at 8 o’clock last night, having left Philadelphia at an early hour Satur day morning. The Chatham came in com- i mand of Captain Wm. A. Hallett, and Mr. | Wm. Plummer, the assistant to the Presi i dent of the steamship company, was also lon board. Dispatches from Philadelphia say the Chatham left that city surrepti ; tiously to avoid being held by an attach j ment issued at the instance of Neafie & j Levy, who built the engines. The Ameri can Shipbuilding Company, which had the contract for building the vessel, failed and j went into the hands of a receiver. I One of the principal claims against I the company was that of Neafie & Levy for $31,000 for the engines. This firm, had an injunction issued lon Friday by the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas restraining the American Shipbuilding Company from allowing the Chatham to leave. The officers of the Mer- ; 'chants and Miners’ Company, however,! I heard of the order, and as they had had j the steamer regularly transferred on Thurs day and had paid for it, they considered they had nothing to do with [the injuntion of a Philadelphia court. They theretore i got up steam and left early Saturday morn ing. As the men on the wharf of the ship building company refused to cast off the lines, those on the steamer cut the hawsers As soon as they got out of the river they caught the storm, but the steamer behaved ! nobly. Her commander pr ceeded slowly j as he did not wish to put the machinery .to j too much test on the initial trip. A num l ber of tools and garments belonging to men ! who had beea working on the Chatham on | Friday were brought along, and will be sent I back. The Chatham cost about $300,000, all of i which has been paid but the bill of Neafie & Levy, and this the Merchants and Miners’ Transportation Company had guaranteed. The owners have paid, including Neafie & Levy’s bill, fully SIO,OOO more for the steamer than the contract price. The Chat ham is not quite finished, but will be com pleted at once and put on the Boston line. | She will be open for inspection of the direc- j tors and the press to-day at the Boston steamship wharf. In reference to the difficulty in Philadel phia, Mr. George J. Appold, President of the Merchants’ and Miners’ Transportation Company, says the time of the sailing of the Chatham was advertised in the Philadel phia papers. The boat was built by the American Shipbuilding Company, which is now in the hands of a receiver, for the Mer chants’ and Miners’ Transportation Com pany. The company has paid to the Amer ican Shipbuilding Company all that they i owe for the building of the vessel, including several bills assumed by them. Among the bills is that claimed by Messrs. Neafie & Levy for putting in the machinery. The machinery, Mr. Appold says, was not fin ished in time, which delayed the comple tion of the boat for about three months. The American Shipbuilding Company therefore claimed damages amounting to as much or more than the bill of the firm who ' put in the engines, etc. The builders, therefore, requested the Merchants’ and Miners’ Company to hold the money due ! Messrs. Neafie & Levy until the case as to the damages was adjudicated. The owners jof the Chatham, therefore, refused to pay the bill, as requested, and Mr. Appold says that is the reason, he supposes, proceedings . were taken such as reported. 10,000 Pieces of Select Music at Only Ten Cents per Copy. What do you think, Music buyers? Full Sized Sheet Music, printed on heavy Music Paper, at only Ten Cents Per Copy. Same Music as is usually sold at from 30 cents to $1 50 per copy. Vocal and Instrumental. One thousand subjects from best composers. Standard Reprints and popular Copyrights. What does it mean? Just this. As a live business house, we propose to furnish what our patrons want, and to this end we have secured exclusive control of Evans’ 10 Cent Music for several Southern States, and purchased at one invoice 40,000 copies. This enormous stock we have for four weeks past been classifying and putting on our shelves. It has been a long and weary i task, but at last we are ready to lay our hands on any piece call for. Complete Catalogues of this Music are furnished free to all Music Buyers. Call or send for them. We have other surprises in store yet in the way of cheap Music. Wait for our next week’s announcements. Ludden & Bates’ Music House. N. B.—'When we say 40,000 pieces of Music at one purchase, we do not mean 4,000 pieces, nor 39,999 pieces either. We mean precisely 40,000 pieces, and not even one more or less. It’s a wav we have of being exact. See? “ROUGH ON RATS.’’ Clears out rats, mice, roaches, flies, ants oed-bugs, skunks, chipmunks, gophers. 15c Druggists. THE NEGRO VOTE A PURCHASEABLE COMMODITY. A Practice of Buying It Discussed—What a Colored Organ Says ou the Subject- Degrading to Southern Civiliza tion—A General Registration Law the Remedy. Augusta Evening News. The Georgia Baptist, published in this city and edited by Rev. W. J. White, takes part in the discussion about buying votes at elections, and places the blame prima rily and chiefly upon the whites. He writes forcibly about a matter which is a disgrace to white and black men alike, and we republish his editorial below. The buying of votes by anybody is a foul blot upon the freedom of the ballot and of con- ’ science, and public opinion should compel our law makers to give us a State registra tion law as the only remedy for this crying 1 evil of the times. i Whether the white or colored people} l must be chiefly blamed, it is certain that ! the whites must bear a large share of this ! I burden, for if they did not encourage the negroes to sell themselves, or if they would unite and stop the purchase of votes, the remedy would be at hand. Unfortunately | there are many who will not quit corrupt practices, and so long as the negro vote is in the market it will be purchased. For [ these reasons we think a State registration i law the only remedy, and we call upon i white and colored men alike to unite in j compelling the Legislature to provide the remedy as soon as possible. The article of the Georgia Baptist on the subject is as follows: “At the election of county officers last week in Richmond county it is claimed that many colored votes were bought and sold. A good deal has been said in the Demo- i cratic papers of Augusta upon the subject both editorially and by contributors. That the ballot box should be thus prostituted is [ to be deeply lamented. But it is no new I thing in Augusta. The practice of buying votes was in full blast here long years before the colored man was allowed to vote. It is within the memory of persons now living i ! that thirty years ago voters were penned ! jup by candidates and their friends in this | ■ city, a day before the election, and ' I marched, after a big breakfast on election day, to the polls and voted as machines. No doubt our older citizens will remember the large sums necessary to purchase the Pinch Gut and Bloody Six Hundred vote. We do not mention this in justification of the practice, but to show that the colored man’s enfranchisement did not bring with it vote buying or vote-selling. And, again, we shall insist that the colored voter is in no } way responsible for the present deplorable prostitution of the political franchise. The sin lies at the door of the white people. Not only the sin in its practice is chargeable to the white people, but j its very conception is the product of ; their fertile brain. The colored man was : enfranchised by the Republican party against the most solemn and bitter protest of Democratic leaders. Coming into the enjoyment of this high prerogative the col ored man felt a reverence for the ballot that would have forever prevented an intention- ! al misuse of it. To him it represented not, only the sovereignty of his country, but i his own manhood. This has been attested by the fact that thousands !of them have willingly laid down their lives rather than prostitute their ballots to personal or selfish purposes. So long as the colored man thus regarded his ballot it could not be bought. The white man understanding this adopted every ' imaginable device to prevent the untram melled casting of the colored men’s votes as the expression of their political opinion. This accomplished it was an easy task to allure the colored voter with the promise of some benefit by casting his vote for some man whose political opinions were different from h’s own. And again if votes are bought, it must be by those who have something with which to buy. Here the white man comes in again. For instance take the Ricbm< nd county case and every single cent of money paid for colored votes was pulled out of the white man’s well filled pocket and the vote thus sold was cast for some white man. The end of the whole matter is that the elective fran chise has been terribly debauched, and that it has been done to elevate white men to i positions of honor and trust at the behest of the white people themselves.” .Cotton Mills Starting Up. Springfield Republican. Mills are starting up all around. A large dealer in wool and cotton who has been around among manufacturers in this and I adjoining States says that he finds the stocks of goods well cleaned up, and a verj ’ hopeful feeling prevailing. Manufacturers regard prices for raw material as at the bottom, and see no reason why a good year for business should not be enjoyed. Many are laying in large stocks of cotton and wool at present prices. New England seems to be exceptionally well situated. The proportion of idle laborers is less in this section than in some others according to the returns made to Bradstreets Weekly. There will be a considerable resumption of labor in the next month in this section wherever it has been suspended Murderer Executed. Galway, Jan. 20. —Thomas Parry suf fered the extreme penalty of the law in the jail yard here, this morning, for the murder of Miss Alicia Burns, his sweetheart. Probabilities. Washington, Jan. 20. —For the South Atlantic States partly cloudy weather, local rains Northerly winds, slight changes in temperature, falling barometer. Defaulting Treasurer. Buffalo, N. Y, Jan. 20—A deficiency of $250,000 has been discovered in the ac counts of the Treasurer’s office- Mr. Stephen A. Alpin, Washington, D. C., says: “A member of my family having been troubled for several years with kidney disease was induced to use your Hunt s [Kidney and Liver] Remedy, and has been completely cured.” $(>OO A .YEVR LEE’S BIRTHDAY. Its Enthusiastic CeHbration Yesterday- Presentation to Major Schwarz. The 78th anniversary of the birth o General Robert E. Le?, the Chieftain of the South, was celebrated by the military of Savannah yesterday in the usual style. Although the day was one of the most disa greeable of the season, the display was bril liant, the usual number of lady spectators however, being missed. At 3 o’clock the companies forming the brigade marched into South Broad street and formed into line as follows: First Vol unteer Regiment, Savannah Volunteer Guards Battalion, Georgia Military Acad emy Cadets, Chatham Artillery, Georgia I Hussars. The parade was through South Broad, Abercorn, Bay, Bull, and Drayton streets to the Park Extension. Along the streets through which the brigade marched there was quite a crowd of i spectators. The parade ground was well ; filled with spectators who remained, not ! withstanding the weather. A halt was l ordered and the regiment drew up on the western side of the field as soon as the column had filed inside. The colors were j then fixed and the remaining columns passed in review. The brigade being dis : missed, the companies formed independently and went through the manual of arms and field manoeuvres in a graceful and correct manner. The cadets gave an exhibition j drill which was up to the standard usually maintained by this excel’ent corps. The Guards, accompanied by the cadets of the Georgia Military Academy, withdrew from the field and went to the Oglethorpe Barracks, where the Guards entertained the cadets. 1 The Georgia Hussars and Chatham Ar tillery gave a field drill, after which they returned to their armories and were dis missed. Altogether the brigade made a 1 magnificent display, and was much admired Iby all. Colonel Clifford W. Anderson, acting Brigadier General, wore by his side the elegant sword presented him at the Sesqui-Centennial. His staff was well selected and won the admiration of the I assemblage. j After the exercises on the parade ground had been concluded, the brigade marched down Abercorn to Jones street, and thence j to the residence of Maj r John Schwarz, on the corner of Lincoln street. Here the dis— ( ferent commands were drawn up into as compact a body as possible, and came to pa rade rest. Sergeant Major M. Frank Molina and Lieut. E. C. Gkason came up in a car riage and stopped immediately in front of that gentleman’s residence. In response to a call the gallant Major appeared in the door, and it was evident to those who saw him. that he did not know what to look for. A | large crowd had assembled to see what was going to take place, and the sidewalks were lined. Capt. Geo. A. Mercer in behalf of the companies composing the First Volunteer Regiment of Georgia, made a speech in which allusion was made to Major Schwarz’s career as a soldier and a man, and refer ence was made to bis many loving servicts rendered the regiment, citing among others, the flag which then wav<d at its head as a reminder of this fact. He said he could not frame words into language sufficiently ex pressive to convey to him the esteem in which the members of the regiment held him. He was gratified to say that he had been selected by the regiment to present, as a token of regard felt by its members, this slight testimonial to their worthy Major. [Here Lieutenant E. C. Gleason held up to I the gaze of the crowd an elegant tilting I pitcher of the latest design and finest work i manship, and “oh! oh!” could be heard pass ing through the crowd.] Major Schwarz could scarcely speak but it was evident that a more genuine response had never been prepared. He expressed the sincerest thanks for this testimonial of regard from the brigade, ami said he would ever treasure it in his memory. Besides the pitcher there was a beautiful pair of solid gold sleeve buttons, with diamond solitaires. The pitcher is of hammered silver, of the latest design, hanging over a gold lined shell. The body of the pitcher bears a landscape scene. Two beautiful goblets rest on elephants’ tusks. The base upon which rested tbe pitcher bore the fohowing in- I scription: “Major John Schwarz, from the I Companies composing the First Volunteer ■ Regiment of Georgia, as a token of tlieir appreciation and esteem, January 19,1885.” The goblets bore the initials “J. S.” Sergeant Major M. Frank Molina, Lieu tenant E. C. Gleason, and First Sergeant A. B. Collins are to be congratulated on their finesse in arranging the surprise so nicely ! and quietly. I The Brigade then marched to the rendez i vous and were dismissed. At Armory Hall the Guards gave a hop, at which repre sentatives from every corps in the city were present. Major Schwarz was called upon by the officers of the several commands of the city, who poured upon him the warmest congratulations upon his restoration to health. He entertained all handsomely, and when the health of the host was drunk, Colonel Clifford W. Anderson was called on to respond for him, and did so in a most charming manner. Col. Wm. Garrard of the Guards made an eloquent speech in res ponse to calls. Altogether, the hour spent in his pleasant home was a most happy one, and when all withdrew, it was with wishes for the host’s good health and continued prosperity. LIFE PRESERVER. If you are losing your grip on life, try Wells’ Health Renewer.” Goes direct to weak spots. THE HARNETT HOUSE, SAVANNAH. Visitors to Savannah, Ga., will find the Harnett House a comfortable and desirable stopping place, where the charges are mod erate, while the uniform excellence of the table is a subject of general remark-.-Chi cago National Hotel Reporter. Two charming little girls were dancing “tho racket" in the streets. “What makes you so happy?" asked a gentleman. “Oh! our mas have thrown away all our horrid medicine, and we nave only to take Dr. Bull s Cough Syrup, and that ain't bad at all.”