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.Cnwannnh Bailj 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 . - 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 J being exact. See? e Sweet Gum and Mullein. The sweet gum, as gathered from a tree of i> the same name, growing along the small streams in the Southern States, contains a ' stimulating expectorant principle that loos -1 ens the phlegm producing the early morning oongh. and stimulates the child to throw off the false membrane in croup and whooping 8 sough. When combined with the healing e mucilaginous principle iu the mullein plant i of the old fields, presents In Taylor’s Chero ’ kee Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullein, the 8 finest known remedy for coughs, croup, whooping cough and consumption; and so -> palatable any child can take It- Ask your druggist for it. Send two-cent stamp for s Taylor's Riddle Book, which is not only for - the amusement of the little ones, wno will gather around your knee to hear the puzzling ’ ouest ions, but contains Information for the 8 health and welfare of every home. Manufactured by Walter A. Taylor, prqpri -3 rtor Taymr’s Premium Cologne, Atlanta, Ga.