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VOL. 6.—NO. 25.
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
AT HOME AND ABROAD.
Rebellious Soldiers—Death of a Prominent 1
Confederate—A |Millionaire’s Nephew (
in Trouble—The Old Liberty Bell-
Miscellaneous News Items.
Tucson, Arizona, January 23 - —A few '
days since Roswell C. Whales, as Indian
agent, with the assistance of a troop of cav
alry from Fort Lowell, forcibly ejected J.
W. Berger and family, residing on the Papa
go reservation, from their houses. The
Papagos, under Whales’ instructions, pil
laged Berger’s house. Berger claimed he
was living on the reservation by right of a
Spanish title which had been twice recom
mended for approval by the government by
John Wasson, Surveyor-General of Arizona.
The papers are now in Washington. Yes
terday Judge Fitzgerald, on proper applica
tian, ordered the sheriff to put Berger in
possession of his premises again. Sub-Agent
Hart and Lieutenant Mason, in charge of the
troops on Berger’s ranche, treated the order
with contempt. The court yesterday issued
an o der to bring Hart and Mason before
it. A conflict is expected, as it is believed
the soldiers will not submit to arrest.
BURNED TO DEATH.
A Sad and Horrible Scene.
Charlestown, Jan. 23.—The scene pre
sented to the jury of inquest held over the
remains of George B Logan, who was found
dead at his residence near Principio, was
indeed a sad and horrible sight. When
Logan was found he was lying face down
in the firepbce. The flesh was burned en
tirely off one side of his face and the fingers
of his right hand were also fleshless.
Very little evidence could be obtained
by the jury, but from what they
could not learn, it is suppos-d that while
asleep he fell from his chair into the fire,
and as he was quite feeble, was unable to
extricate himself, and was burned to death.
The jury rendered a verdict of accidental
death by falling into the fire. Coroner
Samuel Logan took charge of the papers and
other valuables found at the house to await
instruction from the proper authorities The 1
body was interred at the Asbury Cemetery.
THE OLD LIBERTY BELL.
Sent to New Orleans with Much Pomp.
Philadelphia, Jan. 23.—At 8 o’clock
this morning Farrell’s safe wagon and six
horses, all decorated with red, white and
blue ribbons, drove up in front of Inde
pendence Hall. The old Liberty Bell was
soon transferred to it. The line of march,
headed by McCurg’s Band, and 500 police
men in the rear, was then taken up for the
Pennsylvania Railroad Depot, West Phila
delphia. All along the route the old revo
lutionary relic was cheered vociferously by
the crowds who had gathered to witness its
departure. The special train bearing the
bell and the delegation of the City Cou icil,
appointed as its escort, left for the New Or
leans Expositit n at 10 o’clock.
A PROMINENT CONFEDERATE DEAD.
Col. Thomas Williams, Assistant Com
missary General.
San Antonio, Texas Jan. 23.—Colonel
Thomas Williams died yesterday of paraly
sis. He was a graduate of West Point, and
on the outbreak of the war was commissary
at this point. He resigned his comm'sdoo
in the United States Army and entered the
Confederate service and took active part at
Richmond in organizing the subsistence de
partment for the Confederate armies, for
which he afterwards was commissioned
Assistant Commissary General of the Con
federacy .
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A MILLIONAIRE’S NEPHEW IN
TROUBLE
His Own Father Refuses to Recoguiza
H in.
Troy, N. Y , Jan. 23. —Albert Sage, a i
nephew of the millionaire Russell Sage, was j
sentenced here yesterday to six months’
imprisonment, at hard labor, in the Albany
Penitentiary, for failing to support his three
motherless children. Albert’s father de
clined to swear that the defendant was his
own son, sayinp: “You can’t tell about these
things, you know.”
QUAKELLED FOR LOVE. ’
One Friend Kills Another.
Dallas, Tex., Jan. 23.—John Kearns
and Albert Kennedy, friends of long stand
ing, recently became enamored of the same
lady. Last night they quarrelled and each ,
attempted to demolish the other with a :
club. Kennedy finally stabbed Kearns in
the back. The wounded matt was ta-< it to
the hospital, where he will die. His as
sailant surrendered himself.
Wisconsin’s Senator
Madison, Wjs., Jan. 23-The Demo
cratic legislative caucus last night named
Gen. E. S. Bragg for Senator by 22 votes
to 19 for .all other candidates, and then
made the nomination unanimous. The
nomination is, of course, merely compli
mentary.
mothers.
If you are failing; broken, worn out an
nervous, use “Wells’ Health Renewer.” $1 ,
Druggists.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1885.
THE FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
This Morning’s Proceedings.
Washington, Jan. 23. —When the Hom e
was called to order this morning there was
displayed on the right of the Speaker an
elegant silk flag bearing the stars and stripes
and as soon as the journal was read, the
Speaker laid before the House a letter from
the Woman's Silk Culture Association, of
the United States, presenting the flag,
made of American silk, raised by
American women and children, ruled by the
women of the Association, and spun
dyed and woven by them, to the (House of
Representatives as a memento of the success
attained in silk culture in the United
Slates. Mr - Kelly, of Pennsylvania, offered
a iesolution accepting the flag, and com
plimenting the exquisiteness of the fabric
and the perfection of its colors, regarding it
as an evidence of the rapid progress made
in American silk culture, providing that
the flag be hung in the hall of the House
as a national emblem, and preserve it as a
memento of the tact and energy of the
Woman’s Silk Culture Association.
The resolution was adopted with one dis
senting voice, that of Mr. Hammond, of
Georgia.
THE QUEEN OF WALL STREET
Examines Htr Securities —All Found
Correct.
New York, Jan. 23. —Mrs. E H. Green,
the Queen of Wall street, visited her bank
ers, John J. Cisco & Co., yesterday. They
have failed since she last called. She de
manded her box of securities. It was placed
in her hands. She found them untouched ;
not one was missing. Imagine her feelings
as she counted her bonds and stocks in
that box, worth §25,000,000. As the firm
held them in trust the assignee
is bound to return them to her, but for the
present she left them with the firm. Her
cash deposit with the house must remain
the same as all other deposits, in the hands
of the assignees, until he can get the funds
to return them. She will have to share
alike with other depositors. Nothing could
be learned as to,the disposition of the loan of
§BOO,OOO made by the firm to her husband,
■ but is understood that it has not yet been
I paid
ATLANTA AFFAIRS.
The New Capitol—The E. T., V. & G. Rail
road Case—Emory Speer.
Special Dispatch to Savannah Dally Times.
Atlanta, Jan. 23.—The Capitol con
tractors have announced that they will
spend this year about §150,000. The have
spent so far less than §7,000. The Board
of Commissioners adjourned yeste-day
afternoon to meet on the usual day next
month, namely, the third Wednesday.
The East Tennessee, Virginia and Geor
gia Railroad case is still pending in the
United States Court. The Judge has not
yet decided the motion to reman i but has
the case under consideration. The decision
may not be rendered before Monday.
Dr. Hawthorne, of the First Baptist
Church, delivered a lecture last night on
“Great Orators, Ancient and Modern.”
It is believed here that Senator Colquitt
will not succeed in his effort to defeat the
confirmation of Emory Speer.
New York Stock Market.
New York, Jan. 23.—At 1:30 p. m. to
day quotations were :
| Union Pacific
Missouri Pacific W
Western Union Telegraph Co 57%
Pacific Mail 55%
Lake Shore 61%
Louisville and Nashville 23%
Texas Pacific 12%
Denver and Rio Grande 3%
Michigan Central 55
Delaware, Lackawanna <t West’u Bir%
Northwestern 89%
St. Paul 73
Chicago,Burlington and Quin ty 113
Oregon Transcontinental 13%
Northern Pacific 38%
Rock Island 107%
Jersey Central 33
Memphis and Charleston 28%
East Tennessee, Va. & Ga (com) 3
East. Tennessee, Va. & Ga. (pfd) 4%
i Philadelphia and Reading 15%
I Omaha (com) 24%
: Omaha (pfd) 85%
New York Central 86%
: Kansas and Texas .. 15%
Erie 13%
New York Produce Market.
New York, Jan. 23 —Flour steady.
Fine, §soa2 90; Superfine, §2 90a3.25.
1 Wheat, No. 2 red winter for February 92}.
I Corn, No. 2 Mixed 59} for January. Oats
No. 2 mixed 52} for February. Porte dull;
mess §l3 50. Molasses nominal. Turpen
tine firm at 30}. Rusin dull.
Chicago ’Change.
Chicago, Jan. 23.—At the opening, wheat
was steady, February 80 J, March 80}, Mi y
86}. Corn firm, February 38, May 41f.
Oats steady, 31} for May. Lard firm, §6 82}
for March, May §7 00. Pork steady, May
§l2 40, bulk meats nominal, March §6 15,
May §6 30.
Missionaries for Congo.
New York, Jan. 23—A party of white
Methodist missionaril, s and their families,
numbering altogether about 50 persons,
sailed on the City of Montreal yesterday.
They will settle in the Congo region of
Africa.
Check Forger Sentenced.
Memphis, Jan. 23. —Dx. Henry Leo, the
notorious check forger, pleaded guilty on
15 indictments yesterday. He was sen
tenced to 15 years in the penitentiary—five
years on each indictment.
Probabilities.
Washington, Jan. 23. —For the South
Atlantic States, warmer weather, with rain;
northeasterly, shifting to easterly winds,
falling barometer.
II For the latest style and low prices In gent’s
arnishlng goods, L. Fried’s Is the place.
A GREAT LAW SUIT.
A SCRAP OF INTERESTING HISTORY.
Ben Butter’s Son Suing Steve Elkins fur
100,000 Acres of Land—How Elkins
Made a Fortune Through His Offi
cial Position—Transactions That
Savor of Crookedness.
Cincinnati, January 23. —The Times
Star publishes a special furnished by its
New York correspondent, which makes
quite interesting reading. It states that
when Stephen B. Elkins, the personal and
intimate friend of Blaine and the manager
of his late Republican campaign, was a del
egate in Congress from New Mexico he
made an immense amount of money by act
ing as counsel for the claimants to the big
land grants in that Territory. Elkins and
his law partner, Thomas B. Catron, secured
their clients by using the argument that the
former was able as a member of Congress to
secure a confirmation of the grants. They
charged fabulous fees for their services.
’ When their clients did not have money to
pay them they took in payment for their
services an undivided interest in the lands
themselves.
Elkins & Catron amassed fortunes in this
business, and, besides the money realized,
they came into possession of vast landed
possessions. Much of the land they hold
to-day, although they have been trying very
' hard of late to find purchasers for it. Before
' Elkins was elected to represent Mew Mex
' ico in Congress, patents to but few of the
lands had been issued. It was his duty, and
I an obligation he owed his constituents, to
secure the confirmation of valid grants by
i act of Congress, and the subsequent issuance
1 of a patent by the General Land Office
1 Elkins and his partner, however, gave the
owners of the grants to understand that they
could not hope to succeed in their efforts to
! secure a title unless the firm of Elkins &
Ca'ron was retained for that purpose.
1 It is said that of the large numbar of
1 patents issued during Delegate Elkins’ two
1 terms, not one was secured except the firm
' was handsomely paid. The Mora grant of
420,000 acres was regarded as a valid grant,
1 and one to which there was a clear title
■ I There were score sos interests represented
1 , in the ownership of the grant. Many of
' the owners were poor Mexicans who had not
a dollar of ready money, and the little else
j beside their rude huts and a few sheep,
‘ goats, burros and cattle. Elkins & Catron
employed an agent, who attempted to buy
out the claim. But few purchases could be
made, and the firm adopted other tactics.
They brought together as many of the
owners as they could, and impressed them
with the comparative worthlessness of their
claims until a patent for the grant had been
issued. It was represented that it was diffi
-1 cult to secure a patent, and in payment for
their services demanded a large interest in
the lands. A majority of the claims were
assigned to them, and after a time the grant
was confirmed and patented. This accom
plished, it is claimed that Elkins & Catron
refused to keep their agreement with many
of those had made an actual transfer to
them, wh n they supposed they were merely
giving them power to act as trustees Many,
it is alleged, were never paid a single penny
for their interest. Efforts were made to
partition the grant, which was held as an
undivided interest represented by many
claimants.
' A commission was appointed bv the
courts to make a divi-ion of the land. Frank
Springer, one of the ablest attorneys in the
Territory, had charge of the matter, but
every attempt made by him to have his re
port accepted by the court, and the parti
tion confirmed, was defeated, it is claimed,
'< by Ekins A Catron. Everything was ami
. cably adjusted to the satisfaction of the
, rightful owners, but for some unaccountable
• reason Elkins Catron were opposed to a
‘ final settlement. There have been several
, suits iu the courts already, in which their
title to the 100,000 acres or more claimed
’ by them ha< bee t contested, i’aul Butler,
a son of General B. F. Butler, represents an
interest with them. Butler has been anx
j icus to have the matter settled and tight the
> case out alone with the contestants.
He has just begun suit in the United
‘ States Circuit Court in this district against
, : Elkins, to compel the latter to give him a
■ deed to 100,000 acres in tne gran*. General
• ' Butler agreed about February, 1884, to pur
( chase the land at 75 cents an acre, provided
tithe title was clear. It was worth much
’ more than that price, as some of the land is
in the best agricultural section in the Ter
ritory, and the rest is r ch in minerals and
■ is excellent grazing land. He sent O D
• Barker to New Mexico to examine the
titles, and found that there were flaws in
, many while others were clear. Despite
• these objections Buller offered §75,000 lor
’ the land, which he declared Elkins agreed
to take. Several deeds were drawn, but all
of these instruments were objectionable to
either Elkins or Butler. The latter now
. asks that the court compel Elkins to make
out a proper deed, and meanwhile the de
fendant is enjoined and restrained from dis
. posing of any part of the property.
The Merchants and Miners* Line.
Baltimore Sun, 22d.
Capt Wm. A. Hallett, of the new steam
ship Chatham, of the Merchants and Miners’
Transportation Company, entertained a num
ber of representatives of the press yesterday
afternoon on board the vessel, at foot of
Long dock. They were shown through the
ship previous to sitting down to a handsoma
collation, served under direction of Mr. W’
A. Hallett, steward of the vessel. A large
number of gentlemen, including business
men of the city, visited the Chatham and ex
pressed themselves in high terms of the
character of the vessel. The Chatham will
sail for Boston to-day. The steamship De
catur H. Miller has had the ho e in her side
repaired at Malster’s and floated out of the
dry dock. As soon as some interior work is
completed, she will go into service. Ihe
propsllor Seaboard, of the Bay Line, char
tered by the Merchants and Miners’ Trans
portation company as a transfer for freight
between Norfolk and Baltimore, was yester
day withdrawn.
ONLY A RUMOR.
The Transfer of the F. R. & N. Co.’s Rail
roads.
. Florida Herald.
For several days friends have reminded
the editor of the Herald of the rumored sale
or transfer of the Florida Railway and Navi
gation Company’s railroads in this State or
the branch extending from this city to the
Chattahoochee river, to the Louisville and
Nashville road and the Transit and Penisu
lar Divisions to the Savannah, Florida and
' Western roads. To ascertain whether there
was any foundation for these rumors a
Heralder was dispatched to interview Capt.
■ Maxwell, General Manager, and Mr. C. D.
, Willard, Vice President of the Navigation
Company’s roads.
Captain Maxwell assured the reporter
I that he knew nothing whatever of such sale
I or transfer, but had heard of it several
times within the past few days. If there
was such a thing contemplated he was ig
’ norant of the fact, and didn’t believe he
> would be if there was.
’ He says there may be some foundation for
the rumor, but don’t believe there is.
1 Mr. Willard was emphatic in his denial
' of the rumor, and said he didn’t know from
i what source it originated. “There is no
truth in it at all,” he remarked, as the re-
1 porter was leaving his office.
Bric-a-brac.
Philadelphia News.
The owl is a favorite figure in fancy deco
rative articles, lamps, clocks, andirons and
candlesticks.
Large cut crystal balls are popular as um
brella handle tops. They are ornamented
by having a colored bow tied just above
them.
Kate Greenway children all in a row,
pug dogs in a row and kittens in a row are
found among fancy-paper weights in metal
and in brass.
Pretty designs for whisk-broom cases are
made of fancy brasswork in the shape of a
horseshoe, with a medallion in the centre.
The wbisk-broom, to match, should have a
hammered brass handle.
A very tasteful ornament for the parlor
wall is a black satin banner, upon which is
painted a spray of white morning glories.
The top should have a gold twisted rod, and
■ the bottom should be trimmed with a row
of black and gold chenille balls. It should
hang from an old gold satin ribbon.
The costly China and Japanese sugar
plum boxes were used in Paris on New
Year’s Day in preference to those bought
. from the confectioners, for these were, as a
rule, execrable in taste. Boxes covered
, with embroidered silk or old damask were
, also employed.
Among fine novelti.s in glassware are
L epergaes for the centre of the table in pale
. blue and white-shaded striped glass trumpet
• fltwer form-, from a yard to a yard and a
t quarter in height, the slender tube rising
. from a heavy green glass calix resting on a
■ heavier thick French glass mirror, circular
. in form and scalloped around the edges.
! The expanded corrolla at the top is not more
than from six to ten inches in diameter, and
, the whole flower is only a slight exaggera
tion of the gigantic Datura Peruviana, a
beautiful weed of South America, Ute first
cousin of our Datura stramonium, the com
, mon “jimson (Jamestown) weed” of North
America.
The Oldest Senator.
New York World.
Justin S. Morrill, of Vermont, is the old
est United States Senator. He will be
seventy-five years of age next April. He
has had as long continuous service in Con ■
gress as either Clay or Benton, and longer
than any one at present in public life. He
has been in Congress since 1855. He was a
member of the House from that period un
til 1867. He has been in the Senate ever
since. He has been recently re-elected for
another term. If he should live to the end
of that term he would be 81 years old. This
would give him a record of thirty-five
years in Congress. This is a longer record
of continuous service than any one has yet
made in our history. There is no xeason
why he should not live to the end of his
term and even longer. The Senator is in
mest excellent health and looks fully as
well to-day as many men in the Senate 15
years younger than he. He appears to have
a better lease of life than his colleague, who
is nearly 20 years younger than he. A
stranger would not think there was much
difference between the ages of the Vermont
Senators.
A Phenomenal Paper.
Griffin News.
We publish this morning the prospectus
of the Savannah Daily Times, the phe
nomenal paper of the State, which in a few
months’ time has pushed its way into the
foremost ranks of journalism, and is now the
only eight-page evening paper in the South.
One of its recent popular features is the in
troduction of continued stories by the best
known modern writers, such as are being
published in the News.
A Metropolitan Look.
Atlanta Constitution.
The Savannah Daily Times having
adopted the eight-page form, has found it
necessary to adopt the pasting and cutting
feature. This gives it quite a metropolitan
look.
Resigned.
Cleveland, 0., Jan. 23.—0. H. Payne
■ has resigned the Vice Presidency and
, Treasuryship of the Standard Oil Company.
. He continues to be a Director, however.
THE HARNETT HOUSE, SAVANNAH.
Visitors to Savannah, Ga., will find the
■ Harnett House a comfortable and desirable
stopping place, where the charges are mod-
■ erate, while the uniform excellence of the
, table is a subject of general remark-.-Chi
i oago National Hotel Reporter.
THIN PEOPLE.
“Well’s Health Renewer” restores health
■ and vigor, cures Dyspepsia, Impotence
euxal Debility §1 j
CENTRAL RAILROAD.
A PLAIN AND SENSIBLE LETTER
FROM PRESIDENT RAOUL.
I
The Experiment of the Railroad Cominis
' sion and the Injury it Han Worked
to the State’s Ralroad
• Interests.
Augusta News.
Savannah, December 23, 1884.—W. II
I Moore, Esq., Augusta, Ga. —Dear Sir -
My absence from home has prevented an
' earlier reply to your letter of the 17th. The
fact that Major Wallace advised his friends
to invest in the stocks of railroads in Geor-
1 gia is convincing proof that he fails to real
. ize what must be ultimate result ol his own
work. Major Wallace is a very old man. It
has been many years since he had any
thing to do with the management of rail
roads, and then at a time when the short
links made physical management easy, and
the enoxmous rates charged made financial
management simplicity itself. He is, in my
opinion, working under a delusion, with no
comprehensive idea of the magnitude of the
subject he is dealing with, and I fear if un
checked in his policy, will destroy the rail
way property of the State.
My letter in reply to his views is a true
statement of facts, and no good business
man can carefully study the situation and
say that my anxiety is not well founded.
I have, as far as possible, endeavored to
avoid controversies that would pl a 'e me in
the position of being obliged to state facts
that might add to the depreciation of the
stock of the company, already wrought by
the Commission, hoping a change in the
I policy of the State would enable us to re
cover lost ground and avert such a neces
sity; Lut now that relief seems so remote, I
feel in duty bound to speak out when occa
sion seems to invite it.
You put a very pertinent question when
you ask if “the removal of the restriction
imposed by the commission law will restore
the value of the stock ?” An answer to this
question cut be no more than an expression
iof personal opinion. It certainly could not.
[ values at once. Rates cannot be
j suddenly reduced without harming the roads
as they have done, and when once depressed
and the trade of the country becomes ad
justed to the new basis, they cannot be sud
denly advanced without harming commerce
1 by disturbing relative values; therefore, the
advance would of necessity be slow, yet in
time a part of the old earning power could
be restored, much of which has been reck
lessly forced away from the roads without
the corresponding benefits to the
public being at all adequate
even if it would be honest to offset the
losses forced upon the owners of the railroad
property by the gains secured to those who
. use that property in their business.
The depreciation in the market value of
the stock of railroads in Georgia has been
1 mainly from two causes. First, the forced
reduction of the earnings of the roads,
which really affects the intrinsic value of
the stock; second, the indisposition of pru
dent men to invest in a property they see
under the absolute control of persons not
only not of the owners’ selection, but whose
appointments art political, and whose selec
tion may at any time turn upon political
expediency, or be made to requite a political
obligation. This influence, while prevent
ing investments in the stock, does not in
itself affect the real worth. But limiting
the demand, as it does, when the original
owner is forced by necessity or influenced by
. choice to sell, it must be thrown upon a
dead market, and then this influence be
comes the most potent of all for depreciat
■ ing the market value. So to restore the
, value of railroad securities in Georgia, we
must accomplish two things, a return to just
1 rates, which is a process of time, and a
restoration of lost confidence, which is not
’ only a process of much longer time, but of
' patience and probation.
In order to begin the work of restoring
> lost confidence, we must remove the cause
! that has produced the effect, and the State
I must declare some fixed policy of justice,
and the conviction that similar measures of
1 ’ slow confiscation will not again be returned
> to, can only be established by the test of
1 | time. Laws giving security to property, in-
> fluence its accumulation and control its lo
1 cation,and confidence in these laws must ob
‘ : tain before values can become established on
' sound trade principles.
i In my candid judgment, the State, and by
1 | the State, I mean, all the interests, has
- j suffered in this experiment more than the
; most of those affected will ever believe, and
many years will be required to repair the
damage that has been done.
From the beginning of this unfortunate
, experiment my anxiety has been that the
plausible methods and slow and gradual
, progress of the harmful work would blind
, the general public, stockholders included,
. to the terrible dangers in which we were
becoming involved, till efforts at retrench
) ment to save the property from destruc
t tion had almost of themselves destroyed it,
, till it was run down to that condition of
’ physical inefficiency that economical oper
ation was impossible and higher rates a
necessity and confidence utterly gone.
Had we had our eyes opened by these se
vere lessons, and had begun to retrace our
t steps, we would then only find how diffi
t cult was the work of restoration and how
; much our State had fallen back in the
t march of progress, and how irreparable
had been the injury done to those of her
citizens whose money had been invested to
move the commerce, surely no less im
> portant to our prosperity than commerce
I itself.
Your questions, while not numerous, were
pertinent, and complete replies to them ne
c ssitated some elaboration, and I write you
at such length with the more pleasure, be
cause your letter is the first evidence I have
3 had that the stockholders of Georgia are
3 taking interest enough in their property to
make any pointed inquiry into its status
? oefore the State, and 1 feel some encourage
ment that the earnest efforts I have tried to
make to preserve its value and secure its
safety may be aided by their influence. Un
like most of the large railway properties,
1 where those holding a majority of the stocks
e are few in number, and can meet and coun
sel with the manager they have selected to
S6OO A YEAR
conduct their affairs, ours is held mainly by
our own citizens, widely scattered over the
State, the majority of the whole being held
> in small lots, yet in many cases constituting
a large part of the individual resources of
the holder, many of them women and
children, and otherwise unable to
- take part in affairs of this kind, and depen
dent entirely upon the management for
their protection—a management that is and
ought to be held fully responsible to them
fir the conduct of their affairs. Yet in point
of fact this conduct is wholly assumed by the
State, without a corresponding obligation
to their protection, even against reckless
sacrifice. When these features are con-
11 sidered, no one will fail to see how this
e responsibility upon the management of this
B property deepens, and how justifiable is my
anxiety for its safety.
I will be glad at all times to inform you
on this subject.
i I am, very respectfully yours,
i Wv G. Raoul, President.
RYAN HITS SULLIVAN.
An Impromptu Encounter Between the
I Pugilists at the Coleman House.
New York Special.
’ It transpired to-day that before the divis
ion of the money was made yesterday at the
. Coleman House Sullivan and Ryan struck
each other and were only prevented by
’ friends from indulging in a rough-and
tumble fight. Sullivan sat for a long time
with his head bowed down about to his
knees. Ryan walked in and then the war
began.
“I am sorry,” said Ryan, “that the match
did not come to a close.”
“So am I,” replied Sullivan.
“I can whip you right now and here,”
said Ryan. You are among your friends,
but I want to teach you a lesson.”
“You can’t,” replied Sullivan; “Im,
ready.”
“Put up your hands, John,” said Ryan
and immediately he let his right out and
planted a terrific blow on Sullivan’s nose.
Sullivan, who was unprepared for the on
slaught, let go bis left, but missed Ryan.
Then he tried his right, but Ryan met him
with a cross-counter in the region of the ribs,
which made the Boston Boy yelp. The
backers interferred and the whole thing was
stopped, not before, however, some of the
furniture was destroyed.
Superior Court.
Court convened to-day at 10 a. m.
Judge A. Pratt Adams presiding, and the
following proceedings were had:
Haslam & Hawkins vs. J. C. Thompson.
Appeal from Justice’s Court. Jury retired
with instruction of the Court to render a
sealed verdict.
The Grand Jury, in session, rendered the
following true bills:
The State vs. Jack Robinson. Burglary.
The State vs. N. B. H. Rivers. Larceny
from the house.
The State vs. John Barney. Misde
j meaner.
The State vs. Patrick Pierce. Assault
with intent to murder.
Court then took a recess until 10 a. m to
morrow.
Arrest of A. G. Layton.
A. G. Layton, the hotel desk advertiser,
concerning whose doings in Savannah noto
riety has been given, arrived in the city and
stopped at the Marshall House. He gave
out his determination, it is stated,
to commence suits against the Savannah
journals for publishing the particulars of his
transactions here.
This morning Mr. E. A. Schwarz, who is
one of the parties victimized, learning that
he was here, had a warrant issued
by Magistrate Molina charging him
cheating and swindling. He was arrested
and gave bond for §SOO for his appearance
to answer the charge.
Port Notes.
Messrs. Wilder & Co., cleared to-day the
British Bais, Wm. Gordon, for Liverpool,
Eng., with 2,600 bales upland cotton weigh
ing 1,211,991 pounds. Total valuation,
§134,000.
40,000 Pieces of Select Music at Only Ten
Cents per Copy.
What do you think, Music buyers?
Full Sized Sheet Music, printed on heavy
Music Paper, at only Ten Cents Per
Copy. Same Music as is usually sold at
from 30 cents to §1 50 per copy. Vocal
and Instrumental. One thousand subjects
from best composers. Standard Reprints
and popular Copyrights.
What does it mean? Just this. As a
live business house, we propose to furnish
what our patrons want, and to this end we
have secured exclusive control of Evans’
10 Cent Music for several Southern States,
and purchased at one invoice 40,000 copies.
This enormous stock we have for four weeks
past been classifying and putting on our
shelves. It has been a long and weary
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
3 4,000 pieces, nor 39,999 pieces either. We
mean precisely 40,000 pieces and not even
r one more of less. It’s a wav we have of
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