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VOL. 6.—NO. 23.
NEWS
AT HOME AND ABROAD. |
A Wedding in Indian Territory Rudely
broken Up—An Old Man Beaten by
Tramps—A West Virginia Judge
Impeached—The Markets and
Other Matters of Interest.
Fort Smith, Ark., Jan. 21 -At Web
ber’s Falls, about 75 miles from here, in the
Indian Territory, a few days ago Mr. Bald
ridge was married, and the festivities were
celebrated in the usual boisterous manner at
the house of Mr. Davis, who dispensed much
whisky. The dancing and revelry lasted
till interrupted oy a pistol shot from the
outside, and young Baldridge dropped dead
This was an incentive to promiscuous firing,
for all hands began shooting at rmdom, and
only stopped when overcome by a drunken
stupor. When quiet was restored it was
found that Miss Butler, an Indian girl, was
wounded in the hip, Miss Smith was slightly
wounded, and Joe Nuskrat was shot through
the hand The impression is that Baldridge
was murdered by the friends of Jesse Far
man, whom he killed some years ago.
CUBAN FILIBUSTERS.
Alarm of the Spanish Minister at Wash
ington.
Washington, Jan. 21--The Spanish
Minister on Friday last called the attention
of the Secretary of State to information
which had reached him regarding a filibus
tering expedition trom the coast of Florida
destined fir Cuba, and requested prompt
action on the part of our authorities. The
Secretary of State at once communicated
with the Secretary of the Treasury and
the Secretary of the Navy. The former
on Saturday sent telegraphic orders to
the commander of the revenue cutter at
Key West, to report to the Collector of
Customs, who was instructed also to be on
the alert and prevent the sailing of any ex
pedition. For some reason the Spanish Le
gation have been extremely anxious aboiu
the matter, and are more concerned about
the violation of our laws than our own offi
cials, who are not disposed to believe there
is just cause for any great uneasiness.
AN UNIQUE QUESTION.
Is an Indian a Citizen or Foreigner?
Washington, Jan. 21.—The recent refu
sal of an Indian of the Cherokee nation to
answer the summons of a Congressional
Committee, by which he was desired as a
witness, on the ground that he was not a
citizen of the United States, but a foreigner,
raises what is regarded as one of the most
unique questions that has come up in Con
gressional circles in many years. Some
members of Congress doubt if a precedent
has ever been established governing the
present case. The “Constitutionablawyers,”
of whom there are a number in both the
House and Senate, have now as deep a
problem to solve as they have had in many
a day.
NO MONOPOLY.
The B. & O. Company Wins a Sult Against
the Western Union.
Indianapolis, Ind., January 21.—0 n ac
count of exclusive con ract between the
Western Union Telegraph Company and the
Bell Telephone Company, the Telephone
Exchange of this city refused telephone con
nection to the Baltimore and Ohio Company
A suit was brought to compel the telegraph
company to furnish the same facilities to
the Baltimore and Ohio Company as were
furnished the Western Union. The suit has
just been decided in favor of the Baltimore
and Ohio Company.
A DASTARDLY OUTRAGE.
Au old Mau Knocked Down and Bsaten.
Anville, Pa., Jan. 21.—Night before
last a poor old man named Jacob Fox, was
knocked down on the pike road eight milts
from here by men who evidently expe. ted
to rob him, but finding nothing they gave
him a terrible betting and left him lying
in the road for dead. He is not expec ed
to recover. It is supposed that his as
sailants were members of the infamous
“Buzzard gang.”
A JUDGE IMPEACHED.
Unpardonable Immorality the Cause.
Pittsburgh, Pa, Jan. 21—The follow
ing appears in the morning papers from
Wheeling, W Va.: “Articles of impeach
ment have been drawn up against Judxe
Guthrie, of the Kanawha Judicial Circuit.
They are founded upon alleged immorality
of an unpardonable character, and the em
ployment of official authority for the pur
pose of furthering political ends.
Emperor William Improving.
Berlin, Jan. 21.—The Emperor Wil
liams’ condition is much improved to-day.
His physicians say that all danger from his
indisposition caused by the cold he con
tracted a few days since, has pa-sed.
Probabilities.
Washington, Jan. 21.—For the South
Atlantic States: Rains generally, followed
by fair weather, with slight change in tem
perature and Northerly winds.
Desperado Caught.
Augusta, Ga., Jan. 21—John A. Smith,
a noted desperado, who, on December 31st
last, shot Bonnor Barker dead in the pres
ence of his young wife, was caught Monday
last in Black Jack Mountain.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1885.
ATLANTA AFFAIRS.
C jnnllng on Speer’s Confirmation—The
E. T. and G., Railroad Case—Visiting
Knights Templar.
Special Dispatch to the Daily Times.
Atlanta, Jan. 21 —It is understood here
that Hon. Emory Speer, the new Judge of
the Southern District, will make his home
in Atlanta. Mr. Speer has made no utter
ance on the subject, but it is believed by
his friends that he will live in Atlanta, at
least for some time. He expected to
leave Washington last night. Whether he
did or not is not known. Col. John E.
Bryant has returned from Washington. It
is expected that Mr. Speer will hold the
March term of the Court in this District.
Judge Boarman, of the United States
Court has been engaged yesterday and to
day in the trial of the East
Tennessee Railroad suit. The Times'
readers are familiar with the history
of the case. The fight is an effort on one
side to sustain the Georgia receiver, Judge
Dorsey, and an effort on the other side to
fire Dorsey and establish the Tennessee re
ceiver, Major Henry Fink in control of
affairs in tnis State, as well as in Tennessee.
The case was removed to the United States
Court from the State court, and the first
question sprung yesterday was a motion to
remand the case to the State courts. This
motion was made by the counsel who favor
sustaining the Georgia receiver. Argu
ment was made by several eminent lawyers,
among them Hon. A. O. Bacon and Mr.
Baxter for the road. The argument was con
cluded this morning, and the Judge ren
dered his decision overruling the motion to
remand. The case then went to trial on its
merits.
The Capitol Commissioners will meet at
3 o’clock to-day. Captain Evan P. Howell,
the new Commissioner, was sworn in this
morning, and will sit with the Board.
The city is filled to-day with members of
Mary Commandery Knights Templars, of
Philadelphia, on their way to New Orleans.
They are being entertained by the citizens
and local Knights. They will swing around
■ through Florida and be in Savannah on
! Saturday, 31st inst., arriving at sa. m, and
I leaving for Charleston at 11 p. m.
FRIGHTENED TO DEATH.
' Terrib'e Experience of a Young Widow
With Tramps.
Hoknellsville, N. Y, January 21.
Week before last Dr. W. R. Champion, of
■Cochran Station, on the Allegheny Valley
Railroad, was rua over and killed by the
cars on that road. He had been married
but a short time and left a young widow.
She did not return to her residence in
Cichran after her husband’s death until last
Friday. She found two tramps in her bed,
and a third tramp in bed in another room.
They sprang from the bed and rushed at her,
but she ran screaming down the stairs and
escaped from the house followed by the
tramps, who pursued her some distance.
She reached a neighbor’s house, where she
fell to the floor unconscious and died in a
sho t time. The tramps escaped.
HI New York Produce Market'
New York, Jan. 21. —Flour dull; City
Mills extra, $4 90; common extra Minneso
ta, $3 10 to $3 60; St. Louis, common to fair
extra, $3 10 to $3 75. Wheat, No. 2 red,
January 90}. Corn, No 2 mixed, January
51} Gats, No. 2 mixed, February and
Mirch 36. Pork dull; mess 1350. Molasses
dull, 40152. Turpentine nomina l , 30ja
31. Rice dull, Carolinas aid Louisiana,
common to lair, 4}as}. Sugar firm, re
fined cut loaf 6 3-4, granulated 6}. Tallow
steady, prime city, 6J.
Reduction in Rates.
New York, Jan. 21.—This morning the
West Shore Railroad Company will form
ally announce a reduction in its immigrant
rate to the same figure as the Pennsylvani ,
namely, $1 from New York to Chicago and
St. Liuis and intermediate points.
Death of Noted Banker.
New York, Jan. 21. —Mr. Abraham
Seligman, head of the Frankfort, Germany,
house of J. W. Seligman, bankers, is
dead.
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ARSENIC IN THE KITCHEN.
Three Young Ladies Mysteriously Poisoned
at a Party.
A special dispatch from Charleston, W.
Va., says: Night before last Misses Annie,
Blanche and Jennie Burns, aged 24, 19 and
15 years, who reside at St. Albans,this county,
attended a party at a neighbors. Yesterday
morning they slept until after the
breakfast hour, when they arose and pre
pared their own meal. The water used in
preparing their breikfast was taken from a
barrel near the house. Shortly after par
taking of their breakfast the young ladies
became very sick. A doctor was sent for,
who discovered symptoms of poison
and administered antidotes, but it re
mained a mystery as to how they could
have taken poison until some one suggested
that poison might have existed in the
wator used. The doctors made an exami
nation of the water in the barrel, where
arsenic was discovered Some of the white
powder was found on a small piece of ice in
the barrel.
One of the young ladies is out of danger,
but the other two are very ill from the ef
fects of the poison, and it is feared that
they will not recover. The ladies are
children of Captain Burns, carpenter of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Rulway, who was
sentfrom home at the time of the occurrence
The family has lived in St. Albans
a long time and are highly respected. Why
they should have been poisoned is more
than any one can tell, as they are not aware
that they have an enemy. No one is sus
pected as yet, but detectives are at work on
the case.
WESTERN PRODUCE.
MOVEMENTS IN THE SPECULATIVE
WORLD.
The Markets Active and Irr gular—Lo
cal Traders Inclined to the Bear Side,
But Outside Operators Feel Bullish
—A Variety of Opinion—Corn
and Provisions.
Special Dispatch to Savannah Daily Times.
Chicago, Jan. 21—Speculative markets
' on ’change are still active and irregular.
1 Local traders are generally inclined to the
“bear” side thinking the recent advance has
been all that circumstances warrant, while
! outside operators seem to believe in higher
prices and are the principal sustainers of
the market. At present the facts appear to be
against the “lambs.” Receipts are increas
ing again, there are hourly rumors of ad
ditional failures at the East, and the recent
i snow storm extending generally over the
i wheat belt will prevent any f irther injury
■ to the growing crop, so that it is only by
the most persistent buying that lower
’ prices have been prevented. While the
market never was freer from “deals” or
i corners of any kind, yet it is largely un
der the influence of local “scalpers” and
i quick traders, who are reaping a rich har-
> vest. As an instance of this, it may be
' i noted that on a recent day fluctuations in
■ the wheat pit were over 6 cents per bushel,
, and yet the extreme range from
• the highest to the lowest point of the sees
■ ion was not over two cents, the inference
■ from which is that quick trades is likely
i to be the successful policy for some time to
i come. Receipts of wheat are large, but ■
most of the increase is at Minneapolis,
• ! which is accounted for by the millers bid-
I ding up for wheat so that their receipts are
i mostly drawn from southern Minnesota,
I northern lowa and Wisconsin, instead of :
l their own natural source of supply. There j
' I can be but slight increase in grain from the I
I North, as most of the farmers in that section
; had sold all they had befors the rise c.ime.
Foreign markets continue strong with a re
ported higher tendency. Still, as before
said, some of our largest dealers now look
for lower pric s before any further healthy
advance
Thus George Brine says: “Recent failures
I although it is to be hoped not foreshadowing
; any extensive financial disturbance, have,
nevertheless, had a depressing influence,
! and will deter many investors. Later on
. I weather contingencies may cause a higher
j- i range, but without this or some other stim
i ulous now unforseen, 1 believe a material
decrease of stocks must precede any
! bulge.”
[ Sandb'.o m, however, who has been a bull
on everything for the past six months, says:
“Wheat goes up easier than it breaks, and
1 the chapter of accidents liable to come
■ makes the bears tired'”
| Corn rules Strong, and were it not for its
I weak surroundings would be called decided '
|ly bullish. This is partly due to reduced I
I Eastern freight rates and partly to the fact |
I that the crop bids fair not to come to mar-
I ket to any extent until prices are higher.
I Receipts are a trifle heavier, but the deman 1
j is so good that shipments show a much
| larger increase. The weather also, which
I helps wheat, has the opposite tendency on
corn, as it not only interferes greatly with
| farmers deliveries, but prevents the grain
' from passing into /contract” grades. Hence
■ : the January “shorts” are becoming rather
nervous and near by options show the great
' i est strength.
| The opinion of exaggerated crop esti-
I i mates is likewise daily gaining more be
. ' lievers, and even the Agricultural Bureau,
iin its January report, will slightly reduce
l its former figures. It is to be remembered,
j too, that depleted granaries at the start
' I caused large quantities to go into immedi
ate consumption.
, Provisions, although quiet and lightly
I traded in, are well sustained. The number
> i of hogs packed up to date is 1,927,000, i
I I against 1,697,000 for the same time a year i
' i ago. From continued liberal receipts many I
, ' infer that the supplies of hogs are a'most
unlimited, but the marked deterioration in :
' : the quality leads many conservative men to
‘ the belief that farmers are making undue I
i haste in selling them, and that the end is i
I rapidly approaching.
New York Stock Market.
New York, Jan. 21. —At 1:30 p. m. to-
1 day quotations were :
■ Union Pacific 48% I
' Missouri Pacific 93 |
, Western Union Telegraph Co 57%
I Pacific Mail 55% .
i Lake Shore 60% !
Louisville aud Nashville 23%
Texas Pacific 12%
Denver and Rio Grande V I
Michigan Central I»
Delaware, Lackawanna it West'll M%
Northwestern BU%
St. Paul 73%
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy 118
Oregon Transcontinental 13%
Northern Pacific 37%
Rock Island..— 1111%
Jersey Central 33%
Memphis aud Charleston
East Tennessee, Va. & Ga (coml 3%
East Tenuessee, Va. <t Ga. (pfd) 5
Philadelphia and Reading 15%
Omaha (com) 25%
Omahal(pfd) - 86
New York Central 86%
Kansas and Texas 16
Erie - 13%
Chicago ’Change.
Chicago, Jan. 21—Wheat opened steady;
February at 79}; May at 85}. Corn easier
at 371 for February; 37} for March; 40; for
May. Oats dull and easier; May at 30a30}'
Lard steady at $6 85 for March. Pork dull.
Bulk meats nominal.
Daniel O’Connell’s Son Dead.
Dublin, January 21.—Morgan O’Con
nell, second son of the celebrated Irish agi
tator, the late Daniel O’Connell, is dead.
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
andLiverl Remedy, and has been completely |
cured.”
Linen collars, latest styles, standing and i
t irn-down, reduced from 15 to 10 ce at L
fried’s.
Overcoats, nobby aud resonable In price, for '
children from 2% up, can be found in large
variety at B. H. Levy * Bro.’s.
ENGLAND AROUSED.
Putting Fleets and Armies in Order for
Vigorous Action.
j London, Jan. 21—British army and
naval circles have been stirred tin by an ex
traordinary conference at the War Office,
and the excitement has spread to all classes
! The fact that it should be deemed necessary
j to hold a council of war on Sunday was suf-
■ ficient in the present feverish condition
of the public pulse to create alarm, but
j the rumors prevalent are so numerous and
;so varied as almost to convince one that
} England is <>• the verge of a great
’ ; war. It is said that orders of the most Ul
! gent character have been sent to the dock
, yards and arsenals, and that at this very
moment all serviceable naval vessels are
being prepared for sea, while ordinance
. stores are being overhauled and small arms
| inspected for the use of the army. Troops
from Ireland, Gibraltar and Malta, it is al
leged, have been ordered to hold them
. selves in readiness for instant service,
I and one rumor says that word has
gone out to the India to detain all steamers
of the merchant marine in port and all those
lon their way to India for the transportation
jof troops to Egypt. The reports all appear
jto agree that the scene of the conflict, if
there is to be any, is Egypt. The theory
entertained by those not carried away with
the prevailing excitement is that the
answers of the powers to the English propo
sals in regard to Egypt have convinced the
Cabinet that the time for dillydally—
■ ing is past, and that if England would
[ maintain her position in Egypt, or even
as a first-rate power in Europe, she must be
prepared to assert her influence by
I other means than diplomacy. The rumors,
las far as can ba learned, are greatly exag
gerated, but there is little doubt that a
I heavy force, both naval and military, will
be concentrated as soon as possible in Egypt
and on the Red Sea. It is believed that
such a demonstration will promptly put an
i end to the intrigues agai-st England, of
which Bismarck is thought to be the master
spirit.
Pirn AND POINT.
On the Ragged Edge.
Philadelphia Tinies.
Logan still hangs on by the eyelids at the
Illinois Capitol.
Where is the Authority.
New York World.
It is said that O’Donovan Rossa is pre
paring a document to prove that Captain
Phelan is a traitor to the Irish ciuse, and of
course it will indorsed by Assassin Short I
and made a part of the pleadings; But
wnere is the authority of extirpating Irish
treas >n in this country with a butcher knife?
A Nonsensical Controversy.
New York Mercury.
Yesterday President Arthur sent to the
; Senate, in accordance with Senator Haw
i ley’s resolution, the communication of Gen. |
: Tecumseh Sherman relating to the so-called j
j personal ambitious policy of the Confederate I
Executive during the late war. It was laid i
on the table, and ought to have been laid I
under it, as it is the most nonsensical con- I
troversy on record. The matter had no |
business at all in the Senate. When will j
General Sherman learn to let the past alone
and look to the present?
TEA TABLE TOPICS.
It is a shameful thing to be weary of in- |
quiry when what we search for is excellent. >
—Cicero.
I find the doing of the will of God leaves |
me no time for disputing about His plans.—
George MacDonald.
Faith is letting down lour nets into the
untransparent deeps, not knowing what we
shall take. —F. W. Faber.
He that studies books alone will know
how things ougi. to be; and he that studies
men will know how things are. —Colton.
Youth is brave because it can not foresee
the dangers of the future; old age is timid '
I because it could nut cope with the ambus
caded dangers of the times.—Whitehall
| Times.
If ideas and words were distinctly weigh
ed and duly considered, they would afford us
another sort of logic and critic than what
we have been hitherto acquainted with.
—Locke.
Death of a Great Indian Prince.
London Times.
The death is announced, at the early age
of 25, of the Maharana of Udaipur or Me
war, a chief who, if he did not rank as one
. ot th? great feudatories of the Indian Em
pire, had the distinction of being the
head of the house which is universally
admitted to be the oldest and
purest among Rajpoot princely families, the
origin of which is lost in antiquity, which
is the only Indian dynasty that has held its
present territory for eight centuries, and
boasts that it alone of Rajpoot families re
fused to give its daughters in mar
riage to the Mogul Emperors. The
deceased Prince succeeded about ten
years ago. He is described as a young
man of great promise. One of the most
notable events in his short life was that he
succeeded in putting an end to the historical
feud between the two great Rajpoot houses,
Udaipur and Jodhpore. The news of his
death appears to have been received with
great regreat throughout Rajpootana.
A New Army Bread.
Army and Navy Journal.
It is stated that Professor Wicken
sheimor, of the Berlin University, has
succeeded, after a number of experi
ments, made at the request of the
German War Ministry, in preparing a
! kind of army bread which is as fresh
I and edible after nine week’s storage
jas on the first day of its manufacture. He
i has also prepared mutton so that its meat
■is said to be as tasty after being kept for
I seven and a half months as that of any
i animal freshly killed, only a little more
time being required for the former in cook
i ing it.
MRS. EDGAR A. POE.
HER REMAINS LAID BY HER HUS
BAND’S SIDE.
Exhumed After Thirty-Six Yearn of
Burial Reinterred at Westmin
ster Church Baltimore—lm
pressive Ceremonies —Re-
markable Incident.
Baltimore Sun.
Yesterday was the 76th anniversary of j
the birth of Edgar Allan Poe. It was
made the occasion for the reinterment in i
Baltimore, by the side of the dead poet, of!
the remains of his wife, Mrs. Virginia
Clemm Poe, who died at Fordham, New
York, in 1848. These remains were I
brought to Baltimore from the Dutch Pres
byterian churchyard of Fordham by Hon.
Luther R. Marsh, president of the park
commission, New York, and W. Fearing
Gill, Esq., the biographer of Poe. The re- I
interment took place at 3:30 p. m., in the j
graveyard of Westminster Church, Fayette j
and Greene streets. Among those present
were the Hon. Luther R. Marsh, who deliy- I
ered the oration on Shakespeare at the Poe
Memorial Festival in the metropolis; Miss
Sara S. Rice, who projected the Poe monu
ment erected here in 1875; Prof. Andrew 8.
Kerr, of the Western Female High School;
John P. Poe, Esq., the second cousin of the
poet, who superintended the interment, and
the Rev. J- S. B. Hodges, rector of St. Paul’s
Episcopal Church, who offered the following
impressive invocations:
“In the name of the Father, and of the
Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. We
recommit the mortal remains of our departed
sister to the ground-earth to earth, ashes
to ashes, dust to dust—looking for the gen
eral resurrection in the last day, and the
life of the world to come, through our Lord
Jesus Christ. Amen.
i “ ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the
Lord; for they rest from their labors.’
| “The Lord bless and keep us. The Lord
make his face to shine upon us and be
gracious unto us. The Lord lift up His
countenance upon us and give us peace,
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.”
A gentleman who has been recognized as
among the foremost of the friends of the
, poet, and who has been the author of appre
| ciative tributes to his fame, says:
“It has long been the wish of the family
I and friends of the poet that the rema ; ns of
his child-like wife, Virginia Clemm Poe. (a
sister of Mrs. Neilson Poe, of this city,) who
died in 1818, should be placed beside those
of her husband and of her mother, Maria
Clemm, which rest under the Poe monu
ment, in the Westminster Presbyterian
churchyard here. The anniversary of the
poet’s natal day was most appropriately
selected as the occasion for the fulfillment
of this tribute to his memory.
“It is a remarkable incident that Mr ,
Dennis Valentine, the Sexton of the Ford
ham Church, who officiated at the sepulture
of Virginia Poe, in 1848, should—still offi
j dating in the same position—deliver her I
relics to Mr. Gill in person, and that Mr. t
j George W. Spence, who, then a young man <
' of 25 years, conducted the burial of Poe in I
| 1849, and afterward his reinterment under I
j the monument in 1875, should also, as the j
official Sexton of the Westminster Church, .
be called upon to witness the last rites offer
ed to all that remains thatis mortal of Poe’s 1
i wife 36 years subsequent to the death of | 1
! the husband, by whose side her ashes are <
now laid af.er that long space of separa- '
tion.
“It is scarcely less remarkable that Mr
Gill, who was the first writer, to correctly
discover and locate the time and place of
Poe’s birth as at Boston, January 19, 1809,
should also be conspicuously instrumental in
memoralizing the first observance of an an
; niversary of his birth.
“It is a most fitting conclusion to the se
ries of tributes that have been paid to the
memory of Edgar Allan Poe here in Balti- |
more, where his literary genius was first ac- ;
knowledged, that the ashes of his child-wife
—Annabel Lee—should have been brought
back to rest in her native city beside her i ,
husband and his more than mother—her
mother —and that these three, bound in the <
closest ties of blood, should in death be at
last united, as they were ever a trinity of i
souls in the cruel battle of life, which they ■
bore together for many years as one.
“The present year will indeed be a nota- ,
ble one in the annals of the history of Poe. j
There have already appeared two new edi- j
tions of his complete works—one in London I
and one in New York—together with two
illustrated editions of the ‘Raven,’ one by
Gustave Dore, and in the spring the ‘Me
morial,’ a colossal mural tablet, representing
Fame crowning a bust of Poe with the lau
rel, will be placed in the Metropolitan Art
Museum in New York as a tribute from the
stage to a poet born of actor parents.”
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Manager,
Yester lav, a Times reporter met Mr. E 4
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large business. However, she was not much
; known here then, and I expect to fill the
house this time. The date fixed is the 28th
and 29th, without matinee. On the first
night she will open with Howard Carroll’s
great play, the “American Countess”—a
play which was witnessed by all the nota-
Ides of Washington, D. C., including the
President, on its presentation there. This,
was a decided compliment to the Mlle, as it.
was the first time the President has attend
ed a theatre in Washington.”
“Well,” said the reporter, “whatjis the
character of this new play?”
“The title ‘The American Countess,’ well
| describes the play, as it is descriptive of the
trials and misfortunes which grow out of the
marriage of a rich New England girl to a
proud and cold blooded Italian count, who.
regards the marriage in the light of the sale
of his high sounding title in exchange for
the girl’s fortune. The result of this ill as
sorted union is the birth of a daughter, the
heroine of the play, who is an American,
through her mother and a countess by right
of her father’s title, hence ‘The American,
Countess.’ It will readily be seen that from,
such a basis the most intensely dramatic
situations may be built up. Mlle. Rhea is
delighted with the play. She says that
hereafter she wishes only to be known as
‘The American Countess.’ The scenery, of
which there are four magnificent sets, will
be entirely new, illustrating the Catskill
Mountains, the lakes of Saratoga and the
city of New York.”
I understand that ihl has one of the finest
wardrobe of any actress on the Americaa
stage ?”
“The costume she wears cist 20,000 francs,
and was made by Worth, of Paris, for the
Queen of Holland, who, on account of the
death of the Prince of Orange, went into
mourning. Mlle. Rhea then purchased the
i dress of Worth. The train is of black satin
brocaded with large roses of all colors and
ostrich feathers covered with gold. The
front is of yellow satin embroidered with
different varieties of roses in chenille and
j birds of paradise. The sides are trimmed
with Brussels lac?, and the bottom with gold
fringe over scarlet velvet flounces. The
hoddice is’ trimmed with ostrich feathers,
colored with gold. The effect is magnifi
cent. Nothing finer can be manufactured-
If it were covered with gold it would not be
as valuable.”
On her second night she will play Arca
dia. lam willing tu guarantee that no star
now on the road has a stronger support than
she.”
The R ices at the Gentlemen’s Driving;
Park.
The races at the Gentlemen’s Driving
Park, came ofl on the 19th as advertised,,
and was well attended. The affair was a
success in every way. The score was not
published yesterday on account of a decis
ion made by the judges, and against which
a number objected. However, the score is
given below in order to let the betters and
holders of pools understand the cause of the
delay. The decision of the judges will be
decided in some proper manner in a day or
two and given publicity in this paper.
The track was in excellent condition, and
the time made was index of a decided im
provement. The judges selected were
Messrs. J. G. Butler, Thomas West and
Wm. Bowen. The first was a trotting race,
best 3 out of 5, for a purse of $75; $65 to
the first, $lO to the second. No name, first;
Dora, second; Aida T., third.
No Name... |0 | 1 | 1 |0 I Dead Heat I J
Dora | 1 j 0 | 0 | 1 I Dead Heat I 0
Aida T | 0 | dis | 0 | 0 | Dead Heat | 0
Time: 3:17, 3:18, 3:21, 3:20 and 3:21.
The sixth heat was driven under protest
on the part of Dora’s driver and backers, on
the ground that she had won the race, and
that the judges were at fault in declaring
that the fifth was a dead heat. They should
have decided it was a foul, or not a foul. If
not a foul, Dara won, if a foul she lost.
The second was a running race, best 2 in
3, with the following entries: Biby H.,
first; Jim, second; Dandy, third.
Baby H I 1 I 0 fl
Jim \..................... | 0 1 I 0
Dandy | 0 | 0 ( 0>
Time : 2:19, 2:19 and 2:21.
Everything passed off pleasantly.
[communicated. ]
The Destructive Goat.
How long, oh! how long, isour patience
to be abused by the pranks of the festive
goat, who, tired of his dirt of home proper
and discarded linen garbage, and with the
every untried freedom of the streets is per
mitted to forage upon our flower gardens in
broad daylight, and with irreverent disre
gard of the sanctity of the place invaded;
over church yards at the hour of midnight
to feast his beastly appetite upon fine and
costly flowers.
Is there no protection against this intoler
able nuisance? Is there no law of the State
[or ordinance of the city that may be in—
| voked and enforced by the authorities to
j effectually protect us from the exasperating
I depredations of goats? If not, in the name
iof justice let some measure be speedily
adopted by the city government that will
do it. **•
PRETTY WOMEN.
Ladies who would retain freshness and
viyacity. Don’t fail to try “Well- Health
Renewer.”
THE HARNETT HOUSE, SAVANNAH,
Visitors to Savannah, Ga., will find the
Harrert House a comfortable and desirable
stopping place, where the charges are mod
erate, while the uniform excellence of the
I table is a subject of general remark-.-Chi
czgo National Hotel Reporter.