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Sailg ®tmea 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. *..*-« 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.” 40,000 Pieces of Select Music at Only Ten ’ Cents per Copy. I 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’ 1 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 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 I 4,000 pieces, nor 39,999 pieces either. We ! mean precisely 40,000 pieces, and not even i one more or less. It’s a wav we have of being exact. See? $0 00 A YEAR THE AMERICAN COUNTESS Interview With Mademoiselle Rhea’a Manager, Yester lav, a Times reporter met Mr. E 4 G. Stone, the business manager of Mlle. Rhea, at the Marshall House,and had a short talk with him regarding this brilliant and. talented actress. “As you know,” said that gentleman, “Mlle. Rhea has been here be fore, and for a wonder, she did not do a 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.