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.Cimuuinnl) Bailg ©mea VOL. 6.—NO. 21. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS AT HOME AND ABROAD. Explosion of a Corn Crib —The Swaim Court Martial A Murderer Sen tenced After Many Years—• Cold Weather in Texas—Mortality Among Convicts Minor News Items. Royston, Ga., Jan. 22. —James Shirley, of this place, packed his corn tightly in cribs and left it uncovered. The rain yes terday caused the corn to swell until it burst the crib open violently and an ear of corn struck a negro on the temple, killing him instantly. EMORY SPEER. His Confirmation to be Vigorously Opposed —The Savannah and Macon Bars Urge Against It. Special Dispatch to the Daily Times. Washington, Jan. 22.—Representative Nicholls to-day received a telegram from General A. R. Lawton, Chairman of the Savannah Bar Association, stating that the Association had adopted a resolution urging the Georgia delegation to oppose Speer’s confirmation as U. S. Judge for the South ern District of Georgia. Representative Blount also received a similar dispatch from from Mr. G. W- Gus tin, representing the Macon Bar Associa tion. Mr. Nicholls yesterday had a personal interview with Senator Brown on the sub ject, but the latter’s reply was unsatisfactory and non-commital. Mr. Blount says Mr. Brown will probably support Speer’s continuation. Senate' Col quitt and every Democratic Senator except Brown will make an urgent effort to defeat Speer. A DEATH HOLE. Mortality Among Tennessee Convicts. Nashville, Jan. 22. —A sensation has been caused by the report of the Chairman of the Committee on Prisons to the State Board of Health, regarding mortality among prisoners in the State Penitentiary here. The report says that out of 1,323 convicls, 205 have died within two years. The ground on which the prison is situated is largely composed of night soil and other filth, having been used as a burial place so; such matter before the prison was built. The water which is used in the prison fil ters through this poisonous soil. JUSTICE AT LAST. A Murderer Sentenced After Many Years. Little Rock, Ark, January 22—In 1879 a band of disguised regulators took Franklin Hall from his home in Clay county and whipped him severely for abusing his family. Five of the band were recognized by Hall who threated to kill them. Three nights later Hall was assassinated and Fav ette Milton was arrested for the crime and convicted. On the evidence of the lawle s gang, backed by powerful influence and money, he got the case appealed, and a stub born fight for his life has been made in the courts The Supreme Court has just affirmed the verdict of the co rt below, and Milton’s sentence to be hanged will be executed on the 30 th inst. COLD WEATHER IN TEXAS. New State Officials Inaugurated. Galveston, Tex., Jan. 22.—Telegraphic communication with Austin has been irn peded for two days past on account of sleet and snow. The mail brings information that Governor Ireland and Lieutenant Governor Barnett Gibbs were duly inaugurated Tues day and entered upon the duties of their offices. FIGHT WITH KNIVES lu Which Two Men are Killed. Augusta, Ga , Jan. 22. - Bud Coffell and Ed Johnson intruded upon a dancing party a few nights ago, and a dispute arose between them and two brothers named Bill and Warren Lowe. The result was a fight with knives, in which f'otell aud Johnson were fatally stabbed. The Lowe brothers have been arrested. BUSINESS IMPROVING. 100.000 M“n Gone To Work. Baltimore, Md, Jan. 22—The Man ufacturers Record has official reports show ing that 100, OqO men have gone to work in manufacturing enterprises since January Ist. A Village Flooded. Canajoharie, N. Y., Jan. 22. The wa ter rose suddenly yesterday and fl-oded this village. Thirty houses are surrounded, and in some of them the ground floor is subs merged The New York Central tracks are in danger. Steam Line Transferred. Galvesmon, Texas, Jan. 22 —An order has been promulgated discontinuing the Morgan line of steamers, plying between this port and New York, and transferring them to the New Orleans and New York line. Schuyler Colfax’s Will. South Bend, Ind., Jan. 22. —The will of the late Schuyler Colfax disposes of property valued at $550,000. It all goes to the family 1 SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1885. THE SWAIM COURT MARTIAL. Views in Regard to the Probable Verdict —The Charges Against Morrow, Etc. Washington, Jan. 22.—The Swaim court martial is expected to come to an end soon. The outside opinion is that the court will find General Swaim guilty of the charges, not because of the evidence ad duced substantiates them, but because of the inside pressure on the part of the War Department to get him out of the army and make a place for some other officer. The talk among army officers, however, is that the court will acquit Gen. Swaim, and that the verdict will be followed by new charges on the part ol the Secretary of War, necessitating a new trial. The cost of the trial thus far is esti mated from twenty to thirty thousand dol lars. The same court is to try Col. Morrow for alleged duplication of his pay accounts, and unless new charges are preferred against Gen. Swaim it is ex pected the court will begin taking testimony in the Morrow case. The prosecution is likely to find itself by next Monday embarrassed by the fact that the duplicated accounts were all destroyed when Co'onel Morrow gave a new voucher to cover his pay for a couple of years in ad vance. The brokers who held the dupli cated accounts will refuse, it is understood, to testify against Colonel Morrow, and if they do this it is going to be difficult to make out a case against that officer, although many persons in Washington knew all about the affair at the time it occurred, and enter tained no doubt but that the facts were also known to the War Department a year be fore charges were preferred. THE STATE CAPITAL. Miscellaneous News Items. Special Dispatch to Savannah Daily Times. Atlanta, Jan. 22. —Two freight trains on the Central Railroad collided near Jonesboro yesterday afternoon. Both en gines and several cars were greatly dam aged, but no one was hurt. The track was cleared last night, and the midnight trains went oat as usual. The East Tennessee Railroad suit is still in progress. The Capitol Commissioners are still in I session. Nothing of interest has beeu done so far. The Constitution figures up this morning that a million and a half dollars worth of buildings were erected in Atlanta last year. THE EXPOSITION. A Handsome Subscription. New Orleans, Jan. 25.—Major Burke made a statement of the Exposition finances yesterday at a meeting of the Cotton Ex change, and $40,000 was subscribed towards the £60,000 which he said would tide the enterprise over its difficulties. New York Stock Market. New York, Jan. 22.—At 1:30 p. m. to day quotations were : Union Pacific 113% Missouri Pacific 33% Western Union Telegraph Co □;% Pacific Mail Lake Shore "0% Louisville and Nashville 23% Texas Pacific 23% Denver and Rio Grande .8% Michigan Central •» Delaware, Lackawanna A West’n 84>., Northwestern 39% St. Paul ;2*» Chicago, Burlington and Quincy U<% Oregon Transco'utinental 13% Northern Pacific 38 Rock Island Jersey Central 32% Memphis and Charleston 25% East Tennessee, Va. A Ga (coni) 3% East Tennessee, Va. A Ga. (pfd) a Philadelphia and Reading l->% Omaha (com) 24% Omaha (pfd) .". 8-;% New York Central M>% Kansas ami Texas Now York Produce Market. New York, Jan. 22. —Flour dull and unchanged. Wheat, No. 2 red winter, Jan uary 92; common, No. 2 mixed, January 521. Oats, Na. 2 mixed, January 36}. Pork dull, mess sl3 25a13 50. Molasses moder ately active; domestic grades 4§.to 52 Tur pentine steady at 301a31. Rosin dull; re fined cutloaf fi|; granulated 66}, confec tioners standard SJaSJ-. Tallow steady; j prime city 6J. Chicago ’Change. : Chicago, Jan. 22. —At the opening wheat was firm and a trifle higher; February, 80c; March, 80} c; May, 86jc. Corn steady but quiet; May, 41}c. Oats firm and higher; May, 31Jc. Lard steady at $6 85 March Pork steady at sl2 40 May. Bulk meats dull at $6 15 March; $630 May. Adjourned Out of Respect. Washington, Jan. 22.—The United States Supreme Court adjourned over to-day as a mark of respect to Justice Matthews, whose wist died this morning. A K 20.00 Biblical Reward. The publishers of Rutledge’s Monthly offer twelve valuable rewards in their Monthly f r February, among which is the following : “We will give S2O 00 to the person telling us the longest verse in the Old Testament Scriptures by February 10th, 1885. Should two er more correct answers be received, the eward will be divided. The money will be forwarded to the winner Februiry J sth, 1885. Persons trying for the reward must send 20 cents in silver (no postage stamps taken) with their answer, for which they will receive the Monthly for March, in which the name and address of the win ner of the reward and the correct answer will be published, and in which several more valuable rewards will be offered. Ad dress Rutledge Publishing Company, Eas ton, Penn.” Probabilities. Washington, Jan. 22.—For the South Atlantic States, colder fair weather, north erly winds and higher barometer. THE REAGAN BILL. LITTLE PROSPECT OF ITS BECOM ING A LAW. The Senate Opposed to It and Insisting on a Commission—The Reason for the Opposition—Easier for a Camel to go Through a Needle’s Eye Than for the Present Senate to Pass this Measure. Washington, Jan. 22. —It is a general expression of opinion that the recent vote on the Slater amendment to the Cullom inter-State commerce bill is a clear indica tion that the Senate will not pass any mea sure on that subject that will be acceptable to the House. The Slater amendment pro vided that no greater chargts should be made for a short haul than a long one and it was voted down by 32 to 11. This propo sition is the very essence of the Reagan bill. The Senate insists on a commission, the very thing which was rejected by the House The House committee reported a bill pro viding for a commission, but the House would have nothing to do with it and passed the Reagan bill by a large majority. Now the Senate proposes to foist upon the House that provision which is most objectionable to it and make it swallow that or get noth ing. The Senate wants a commission and the greater the number of commissioners the better. Senator Cullom’s bill proposed three Senator Allison wanted to amend by making five the number, and then Senator Harrison jumped in at the last moment with his amendment increasing the number to nine. Senators explain their vote against the Slater amendment by saying that it did not go far enough. They say that “it is as un just to charge as much for a short haul as a long one as it is to charge m re for a short than a long haul.” For the reason, there fore, that the amendment did not prescribe rates that freight would be charged for in accordance with the distance it is trans i po t?d, which everybody ag ees could not be done by Congress, these Senators voted against doing anything at all towards pre venting unjust discrimination. It is the general opinion that a commission would be useless, if not worse than usele-s. Tie commissioners would have to be of adaman tine morality to remain honest iu the presence of the bribes that would be offered for dishon est conduct. It is thought by those who have watched their course in this matter closely that the reason the Senate is so de termined to have a commission is that the House will not agree to it, or if it agree that the commission will prove worthless for the purpose for which it was created. Fu ture discussion will probably discover more clearly the object of the Senate, as the question will be upon the striking out of all after the enacting clause in the Reagan bill and the substitution of the Cullom bill pro viding for a commission. Eighty per cent, of the members of the Senate are lawyers; most of them are cor poration lawyers The remaining twenty per cent, are, with one or two exceptions, capitalists and members of corporations which act in sympathy with railroad cor porations. It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for any adequate measure prohibiting any tar-jus discrimination in the carrying of freight to pass the United States is a summary of the opinion of the supporters of the Reagan bill. Mr. Reagan wanders over to the Senate every afternoon and stands around in a uis consulate way, with his bands in his pock ets, with no one to comfort him. There is a strong suspicion that three or four Sena tors favor the Reagan bill, but it only a suspicion. WAS THIS MAN A TRAITOR? Jefferson Davis’ Farewell Speech. Jefferson Davis made a long farewell speech on Thursday, the 10th of January, 1861, at the commencement of which he said: “Tears aie now trickling down the stern face of man, nd those who have bled for the flag of their country and are will ing now to die for it stand powerless.” As he proceeded, he referred to the possession of Fort Sumter, and slid that he had heard it said by a gallant gentleman that the great objection to withdrawing the garrison was an unwillingness to lower the flag. “Can there,” said he with dramatic effect, “be a point of pride against laying upon that sacred soil the flag for which our fathers died ? My pride, Senators is different. My pride is that that flag shall not set between contending brothers; and that, when it shall no longer be the common flag of the coun try, it shall be folded up an ’ laid away, like a vesture no longer used; that it shall be kept as a sacied memento of the past, to which each of us can make a pilgrimage.and remember the glorious days in which we were born.” In concluding his remarks, Mr. Davis invoked the Senators to so act that “the angel of peace might spread her wings, though it be over divided States; and the sons of the sires of the Revolution might still go on in friendly intercourse with each other, ever renewing the memo ries of a common origin; the sections, by the diversity of their products and hab its, acting and reacting beneficially, the commerce of each might swell the prosperity of both, and the happiness of all be still in terwoven together. “If there cannot be peace,” he said, “Mississippi’s gallant sons will stanl like a wall of fire around their State, and I go hence, not in hostility to you, but in love and allegiance to her to take my place among her sons, be it for good or for evil.” Ben. Perley Poore. “ROUGH ON COUGHS.” Ask for “Rough on Coughs,” for Cough Colds, Sore Throat, Hoarseness. Troche 15c. Liquid, 25. The recent cyclones in the B>outh and West have done terrible damage to life and prop rty, but there’s one comfort left—the people lamor for Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. FROM WASHINGTON ■ Talk Over Speer’s Nomination—General Opposition Thereto—Chances of Con firmation Not So Bright as Might Be. : Special Correspondence Daily Times. Washington, Jan. 20.—Mr. Emory Speer has captured the Presidential nomination for the office of United States Judge for the Southern District of Georgia, notwithstand ing the fact that several more worthy gen -1 tiemen were applicants for the place. The - nomination is one thing, but getting con -1 firmed by the Senate is an entirely different matter. Should the Georgia delegation in ■ Congress make the determined fight against > Mr. Speer’s confirmation which they now - propose, his chances of being the successor , of Judge Erskine are not so bright as the . friends of Mr. Speer are trying to paint them. Senator Colquitt is quite indignant at , Mr. Speer’s nomination, and will use all , honorable means in his power to prove to his fellow Senators that the confirmation of Mr. Speer will be a great injustice, if not an - insult to the people of Georgia, especially ■ those who reside in the Southern Judicial I District. The Senator says further, that I President Arthur has made a strange mis take in making such an appointment after ■ allowing the office to remain vacant over . twelve months. It is not in accordance with the principles that he has laid down to jus . tify certain other appointments in the South If it was found that a Republican had to he appointed, there are many men in Georgia who are for better qualified for the office than Mr. Speer. He cannot command the respect of the members of the bar, nor of the | people to whom he is expected to deal out justice. I Ex-Senator Norwood was on the floor of j the Senate to-day, and held a long consulta- ' tion with Senator Colquitt on the subject of ! Mr. Speer’s confirmation. He says that a vigorous fight will be made against the con- I firmation and that it will be almost impossi ' ble for a majority cf the Senate to disregard such appeals as will be made against it by I the people of Georgia. Members of the bar throughout the State will hold meetings, and i draw up pelitions protesting against Mr j Speer’s confirmation. The strongest kind of , pressure will be brought to bear upon the President, in the hope that he will reeog ! nize the error he has made and withdraw the obnoxious nomination. Mr. Norwood , ; says there would be no serious objection to such a man as Mr. Goodyear, who was t among the candidates, or in fact any man . who was popular among the profession and the people. , Representatives Blount, Nijholls and J Crisp are outspoken in their opposition to ; Mr. Speer. Mr. Crisp says such an appoinl ment is an outrage upon the people who live r in the Southern district. L. ’ MACON MATTERS ’ Excirem-nt Over the Supposed Discovery of au Oil Well—Opposition to Speer —Social and Other Matters. Special Correspondence Daily Times. , Macon, Jan. 21. —To-day Mrs. Mary 1 Dean, who occupies rooms over the store of Messrs. W. C. Turpin & Co., Fourth street, I sent a servant out to get water for the pur pose of washing; the girl went to an old > well iu the rear of the store and drew some ■ water; it had the appearance of oil; she i called Mrs. Dean to look at it. She sai : “I believe my soul it is kerosene oil./ : Mr. Turpin was sent for. He was aston ished, and had several buckets drawn, which proved to be all alike. He called several i gentlemen in to examine it. A paper satu- ■ rated with it burned quickly; and lamp was i secured, and the substance gave a brilliant light. It was declared that an oil well hed been discovered. The well is 29 feet deep, I and has not been used in seven years- It became dry about sev; n years ago. Consid erable excitement has resulted from the ; discovery. 1 i The Macon bar held a meeting to-day protesting against the confirmation of the ’ I nomination of Emory Speer for District 'I Judge. The result was telegraphed the - j Georgia Senators. I The students of Mercer University will begin a monthly paper called the “Clarion” next Friday. The officers of the various fire companies 1 I will meet to-morrow night for the purpose 1 1 of nominating a candidate for Chief of the , department, to conform with the result of order issued from the City Council last night ordering a new election. i j The members of the Southern Cadets i will fit up a nice gymnasium. An athletic , association has been formed by them. . The social world is gay. To-morrow night , a dance by the Social Thalians.and Friday 1 night a dance by the Purians ’will be the i two occasions of the week, and both promise unlimited pleasure. Wynton. City Court. ' City Court met at 10 o’clock yesterday i morning, Wm. H. Harden, Judge, presiding: ■ Maggie Spang vs. George Deiter. Breech , of promise. Case still on trial at close of . this report. , The case of William Frazier and wife vs. : the Charleston and Savannah Railway i Company. Action of damages for injuries ■ received by the wife, caused from the throw ing off of an engine tender a large piece of iwi, is set for trial at 4 o’clock this after noon. A Momentous Question. New York World. The momentous question which is agitat ing the California Legislature j ust now seems to be whether the Pacific rai Iroads or Claus Spreckles shall own the next alleged United States Senator from that Sta te. In any event some great corporation will have another superserviceable instrument in a body already packed with representative ! of special inteiest. ‘ROUGH ON ITCH.’ “Rough on Itch” cures humors,eruptions ringworms, tetter, salt rheum, frosted feel hilblains. Linen collars, latest styles, standing and tarn-down, reduced from 15 to 10 ce at L dried’s. PARKS AND GROUNDS. THE LUNGS OF OUR AMERICAN CITIES. . How Public Taste in This Direction Has • Grown—Central, Fairmont, Druid Hill and Other Notable Parks—The Fore , sight of Oglethorpe—What South ern Cities are Doing in the Way of Health, Pleasure and Beauty. From the Southern World. BY SYDNEY ROOT. In the youth of our American cities no one could have anticipated their prodigious growth, few understood the laws of hygiene ■or thought of the beneficial results to the 1 health and morals of their broad, open | I spaces in or near the centres of population, [ and few indeed cared for the refining influ- ences growing out of highly improved and ■ well gept parks. 1 Since the remarkable development < taste in this direction during the last twen ; ty-five years, the well-meant efforts of iur | I fathers seem almost ludicrous. But what I j was done was largely beneficial. Take the I city with which we are most familiar, New York, for illustration. What a blessing was that triangular bit of ground of perhaps eight or ten acres opposite the Astor House, i known as “The Park.” What a joy it was to I the overworked dwellers of the city! and when the great fountain was put io, which by the way was one of the finest in the country, what a delight it was to us strangers to visit the park and see the spray thrown 30 feet in the air. Two miles up Broadway was a nice little place, which being round, was called Union Square i and still farther, almost in the country, was i Madison Square, where 30 years ago, the I corner stone of a great monument to Wash- | ington was planted with great pomp and ceremony. The stone is probably there yet, it never sprouted, and Madison Square is quite down town. Other cities were scarcely as well pro- | vided. Chicago had two small squares. St Louis, somewhat better off, had LaFayette Park of about twenty acres. Boston, it is true, had ti e “Common,” in which was the historical frog pond, but the place was little more than a common. Major I’Eafant, un der the eye of Washington himself, had laid I out the capital city on a grand scale, but the open spaces, which are now so beautiful, were then without form and void. I suppose the first impulse towards a , wider and more artistic improvement came from the lamented Downing—one of the most accomplished landscape gardeners in the world. The country sustained a great loss , when, through his unselfish heroism, he i lost his life in striving to rescue the passen- ; ! gers from the ill-fated Henry Clay which I : was burned just below West Point. He I was just before then engaged in beautifying the public grounds in Washington, where LaFayette Square and the Smithsonian grounds still testify to his wonderful culture and skill. Out of the interest Downing excited sprang the Central Park of New York, the practical details of which were suggested by a Virginian. The work on this noble j pleasure ground of 864 acres has been in progress over 25 years, at a cost of about j i $15,000,000. It is claimed that this is the most elaborate work of the kind in the I world. In my somewhat extended travels in this country and Europe I have seen no ! park which, combining nature and art in high perfection, equals Central Park, and it is to be observed that the city, which paid the cost, more than recouped from the in- , creased assessments of adjoining lands. To Frederick Law Olmstead and Richard Vaux belongs the credit of designing and perfect ing this exquis.te work of art. New York setting the example, a gener ous spirit of emulation spread through the country. Philadelphia commenced Fair- i mount Park, a lordly domain of over 2,700 acres (the largest single park in the world) i lying picturesquely along the nanks of the ; I Schuylkill. Baltimore fo’lowed with su-. I perb Druid Hill. Chicago began to encircle i ’ that miracle city with a chain of parks, beautiful South Park, covering 1,000 acres, = and St. Louis, not to be outdone, pro ceeded to lay out a series cf parks, one of which, Forest Park, em braces 1,300 acres. As all this requires a I long time and heavy sums of money, most i of these great works are still incomplete, Central Park alone approaching the time I when the “construction account” can be , closed. To give an idea of the thorough way in which this kind of work is done, it may be mentioned that the best and most I durable roadways cost from $15,000 to $lB,- | 000 a mile. The above refers to new work. Pend ing its progress old Boston has braced up, i beautified the historical Common, added on j i the “Public Gardens,” and projected many j enterprises away out from the tangled maze of the streets of New England's hub, while Washington (with government aid) working upon the plans of its illustrious founder, has expended over $20,000,000 on its streets and parks, so that it is now one of the most beautiful cities in the whole world, in evi dence of which it is to be noted that some 300,000 trees have been planted during the last 12 years. All of these grounds have been adorned | with costly statuary, fountains and sculp- j ture —Washington and Central Park pro- I fusely—the former furnished by the govern- i ment, and the latter generally by liberal and public spirited citizens. This generous i aid extends to all the parks in the country, is, for instance, the donation to the South ; Park of Chicago of a superb fountain, cost- j ing $25,000, by Mr. A. ,J. Drexel in mem- I ory of his father. The limits of this paper forbid me to 1 speak of the great pleasine grounds of Eu rope, many of them the growth of centu ries. The liberal scale upon which the pe< pie have been provided with breathing : places in the midst of densely peopled cities, may be shown by the fact that mem bers of Parliament often drive, in a nearly direct route through the London parks, to Westminster Palace, for seven miles, with out seeing a house. Looking over our Southern world, as com pared wi'h the grounds mentioned above, we see but moderate results from ths recent S6OO A YE VR a'ithetic awikening. This comes from two causes: First, the general devastation anil ’ desolation of the late war, and second, our cities, in the nature of things, being gener j ally small and their surroundings affluent of sylvan beauty, highly kept parks were I not thought of. Savannah, the city every s J body loves, has numerous little squares provided by that wise thinker, Oglethorpe, j and in late years a broad space of perhaps I fifty acres, called, for want of a name, “The- I Park” and the “Park Extension,” in the former of which, en passant, is a replica of the famous fountain in the Place de la (lon cord. Macon has a large and lovely park on the banks of the Ocmulgee, which is the ! seat of the Georgia State fairs. I think it j has never been highly improved. Os course j all our cities have, generally, “squares,” ! but they can hardly be called parks, al though they are a great boon to the citizens. ' Coming nearer home let us look a moment |at the “L. P. Grant Park” of Atlanta. This ; came trom the munificence of the public spirited citizen whose name it bears, who gave the town 100 acres of valuable land on , the southeast edge of the town “for park I purposes forever” Accepting the donation, the city appointed a commission to take charge of the proposed improvements. The ground, which was quite rough, but i with an agreeable variety of hill and dell. I watered by numerous springs and covered with a magnificent flora, was singularly picturesque and well adapted for park pur poses. It required peculiar and careful treatment and an elaborate topographical survey and map was first secured and the work begun. Considering the comparatively small amount expended, the re sult is most gratifying. About four miles of avenues have been open ed and scientifically graded, some three miles of walks graded, over thirteen hundred feet of drain pipe of different sizes laid, and a general transformation effected which indicates the possibilities of beauty which the future holds for the good people lof Atlanta and Georgia. The superb bronze j sun dial (probably the most unique in the world) the gift of a former citizen of At lanta, W. F. Herring, has been worthily I mounted, a large bronze drinking fountain ! for horses and one for men have been set, and elegant pavilion completed. As the I purpose of this paper is not to glorify the Gate City, I will give no further details of what has been done or what is proposed, but without doubt the city fathers will cher ish this great gift of Mr. Grant’s, keep its management in intelligent control and out of politics, appropriating from time to time such sums as may be required, until the park shall become a thing of beauty and a i joy forever” i Other enterprises similar to the above, but for private use, are now projected on a liberal scale in and near Atlanta—as the Peters Park, on the north side of town, . which is intended for suburban residences. and which, under the present able s ment, will doubtless become a great acces j sory in stimulating a love of nature in its cultivated forms. You a k me how the present spontaneous ( movement in the South will resul ? I answer unhesitatingly, beneficially. The more rapidly the South grows and be | comes more densely populated, the greater | the necessity of encouraging a love of nature,, of presi rzing and beautifying some place as I near the centre as population as possible, , ample grounds where the overworked peo ; pie with their families may resort for rest , i recreation and communion with nature. Miss Mattie Vickers To-Night. Concerning the charming young protean; a’tress, Miss Mattie Vickers, who appears i at the Savannah Theatre to night, our con temporary the Nashville Banner, in a. , lengthy article says : “A new candidate for public favor in the I person of Miss Mattie Vickers made her first appearance at the theatre here last night, and she has been compared by some to Lotta and half a dozen others, but comes nearer being a second edition of the ‘Fairy ’ StaP of thirty years ago than any of those whose names appear upon the bills as her prototype. I’his ‘fairy star,’ if she may he ; termed such, is very clever and she is well . worth seeing by all who would j enjoy a hearty laugh. She had a very fair audience last night, and nearly all became her admirers early in the play. She can sing fairly well, dances with grace and a skill which can only be attained by long practice and careful study, imitates other actresses so vigorously that she wins hearty applause by it, anil she gives a very taking entertainment throughout. A capable comedian, in the i person of Mr Chas. Rogers, renders efficient aid by his humorous exhibits and tragic ca pacities, and the remainder of her company play as well as is necessary to make the piece go off nicely. If approbation is any , lest of merit, Miss Vickers showed plenty of it last night, and Mr Rogers was alsc ; awarded a fair mead of praise.’' A MURDEROUS ASSAULT The Assailant in Jai l . On the 20th of this month Henry Roberts a young negro about 20 years of age, and bearing a splendid reputation as an expert thief both in Augusta and this city, without any provocation whatever threw a rock at and knocked down a Mr. Samuel Lewis, living on Bryan, between Jefferson and Barnard streets. The rock struck Lewis on. . the head just at the edge of the hair and immediately over the eye. It seems that the negro I oy had had some words with him, or at least had attempted to, when he stepped j off a few rods, and, picking up a | stone knocked Lewis down. At first it was thought Lewis was dead, as he lay like a lop where he was floored. He however, managed to get up and was taken to the Savannah Hospital, wherehis wound was bandaged. Y esterday he had a warrant issued from the olli e of Magistrate Thomas J. Sheftall, for the arrest of the boy, but he had already been captured by the police and was then in the barracks. However, he was turned over to Mr. Sheftall this morning, aud by him committed to jail on the charge of assault with intent to kill. “ROUGH ON CORNS.” Ask for Wells’ “Rough on Corns.” 15e 4uick comnlete cure. Hard or soft corn, warts, bunions.