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VOL. 6.—NO. 35.
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
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EVENTS OF CURRENT INTEREST.
Sto. ies Ab nit Mrs. Dudley, th3 Attempted
Assassin of O’Donovan Rossa—London
Standard’s Advice to Parnell—Latest
Crimes and Casualties—Dyna
miters Arrested in Canada
Congressional Proceed
ings, Etc., Etc.
Dallas, Texas, Feb. 4—News reached
this city last night that 7 woodchoppers were
poisoned at dinner yesterday, 12 miles from
the city; that Wm Stroud, John Haynes, G.
Tripp and Bob McCall, were in a dying con
dition, and that 3 others, James Sneed, 1.
Lawrence and Wm Bell were suffering
violently The poison was in coffee, and an
i ivestigatian discovered a o min thedreps
which was pronounced to be a centipede. 1
is presumed that it had been dipped up in
the water vessel from a creek near the camp
Physicians have gone to the unfortunate
men.
GENERAL K. LAWTON
To be Urged for the Position of Postmas
ter General.
Special Dispatch to Savannah Daily Times.
Washington, Feb. 4 —Representative
Nicholls, ex-Senator Norwood and probably
other members of the Georgia delegation,
will visit Mr. Cleveland and urge the claims
of General A. R. Lawton, of Savannah, for
the position of Postmaster General in his
Cabinet. A leading member of the delega
tion states that while he considers General
Lawton well qua!iff >d for a Cabinet posi
tion, he will not join in recommending Jhim
unless the joint meeting of the delegation
endorses such action. He would like to see
Georgia represented in the Cabinet, and
while Messrs. Gordon, Hammond and Law
tou are equally witling to serve in such ca
pacity, a unanimous recommendation would
probably have a better effect than a divided
delegation.
THE SHOOTING OE HOSSA.
Statements About Mrs. Dudley—Advice to
Parnell.
New York, Feb. 4. —Mrs. Dudley seemed
annoyed and hurt yesterday when told of
stories telegraphed from London of her
career there and her attempts at suicide.
She refused to confirm or deny the state
ments, saying that her private life was no
part of the public’s business.
London, Feb. 4 —The Standard advises
Mr. Parnell to take the shooting of Rossa
well to lie irt. Stranger things have hap
pened than that a leader should share the
late of a subordinate.
SHOT HER HUSBAND.
A Drunken Man Murdered by Ills Wile.
Mobile, Ala., February 4.—William
Wicke, was shot by hi’ wife yesterday. The
man had been drunk for some time and
treated his wife very brutally. She finally
took refuge in her brother’s house. Wicke
went to the house, seized her by the hair
and tried to push her upon a hot stove.
Mrs. Wickethen procured a revolver belong
ing to her brother and fired twice at her
husband inflicting serious wound’. She has
been taken in custody, but public sympathy
is manifested for her.
A FATAL QUARREL.
One Boy Shoots Another.
St. Louis, Feb. 4.—Near Carbondale,
Illinois, yesterdiy two boys returning from
school quarrelled and agreed to fight out
their differences. The other boys formed a
ring and the two began to spar. One of
them named Tom Beckett, seeing that he
was getting whipped, pulled out a revolver
and instantly killed bis antagonist.
A Young Lady Seriously Wounded by a
Hog.
Lexington, Ky., Feb. 4—As M-s
Annie Lee Bowman, aged 21, was driving a
stray hog out of a lot near the residence of
her father, Hen-y Bowman, four miles fr< in
here, the I og sudd nly turned and rushed
at her, aud cut a gush five inches long and
quite deep in her right thigh with his tuk.
The wound is serious and may prove fatal.
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Pensioning North Carolina 8 Idiers.
Raleigh, N C.. Feb. 4.—Toe State
House of Represent itives yesterday passed
a bill to pension ex-Confederate soldiers
who lost limbs in the service of the State, r
who by means of wounds are incapacitated
for labor.
Murderer* Lynched.
Chicago, Feb. 4—A dispatch to the
United Press from Des Moines, lowa, says,
that Cicero Jellerson, John A. Smith and
Joel J. Wilson, accused of the murder of
Hindman Jellerson, were lynched early
this morning.
The Illinois Senatorship.
Springfield, ill, Feb. 4—The Demo
cratic Senatorial cauces will be held tonigh'.
The present indications are tiiat W. R.
Morrison, will be nominated on the first
ballot.
General Grant Recovering.
New York, Feb. 4. —Dr. Fordyce Barker
said last night that General Grant was
steadily recovering from the tonsil and
tongue soreness caused by his excessive
smoking.
Probabilities.
Washington, Feb. 4.—For the South
Atlantic States partly cloudy weather and
light local rains, southwesterly winds, slight
chargts in temperature.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1885.
FROM ATLANTA.
Domestic Infelicity—A Discarded Father
Creates Troubl j in a Family—Con
victs Frustrated in a Plot to
Escape—Minor Matters. ,
Special Dispatch to the Daily Times.
Atlanta, Feb. 4. —A man named W. E.
Harris, who is from New York, has created
something of a sensation by coming here
ind breaking in on the quiet bliss of a
re-pectable family. Harris says that eight
years ago he was married to a pretty girl of |
Utica, New York, who had just turned her
twentieth year. A year later a baby boy
was born. It appears that the young pair
did not get along nicely. The wife would
vary the monotony cf housekeeping by
staving salt cellars, knives, saucers and other
handy articles at the head of her spouse, 1
and he would retaliate by dragging her
around the house by her bangs, and even
' went so far as to threaten to cut her throat ’
with a razor The result was a divorce, and
the boy was awarded to the care of the ’
mother. The young wife, now a sedate
woman of twenty nine, married a man 1
named Ross about three years ago, and now j
has a pretty baby several months old. The
son by the first marriage is a bright boy of ’
seven years old, and the father has come ‘
from New York to see him. He has. been '
refused that privilege, and says he will see
the boy, or stay here all summer. The boy
has been taught to believe that his father is I
dead. The house is guarded by a policeman 1
in citizens clothes. All the parties are well- 1
to-. 10.
L ist night the guards at Lockett’s camp ■
on the river discovered a well orgaized plot 1
< fseven'y five convicts to escape. The ar- '
rangement was to have a general stampede
at sundown when quitting time arrived.
Captain Nelms went out to investigate the
affair and reports everything quiet.
An effort is being made here to organize j
■i a jockey club. It is proposed to purchase ;
land and prepare racing grounds, ami to I
offer such purses as will attract tne best -
racers. It is thought that a Southern cir
cuit can be established.
I Atlanta has been enjoying a season of real
I ■ spring weather for several days.
FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
This Morning's Proceedings.
Washington, D. C., Feb. 4.—ln the
Senate to-day, the Chief Justice of the
: Dominion of Canada was granted the privi- i
F i leges of the Senate, and was introduced to I
■ the Senators individually, by Justice Gray,
of the Supreme Court.
The chair laid before the Senate the com j
I munication from the President, recommend
ing such legislations as may be necessary to |
place Gen. Grant on the retired list of the
’ ! United States army,
Mr. Plumb from the Committee on appro
J bations, reported the District of Columbia ’
appropriation bill with amendments.
New York Stocx Market.
; New York, Feb. 4—At 1:30 p. m. re
lay quotations were : .
| Union Pacific I*. 1 '
M issouri Pacific !•> -
Western Uuiou Telegraph Co ;
Pacific Mail 54%
! Lakeshore
Louisville and Nashville 21
Texas Pacific 12% j
Denver and Kio Grande \
Michigan Central 55
Delaware, Lackawanna & West'n ..I'2
■ Northwestern !»l ’.
St. Paul '
’ Chicago, Burlington and Quincy IU".
Oregon Transcontinental 12'.. ■
Northern Pacific i*>% i
Rock Island 109% ,
Jersey Central 33% |
Memphisand Charleston 27%
East Tennessee, Va. & Ga (com) 3
East;Tennessee, Va. & Ga. (pld; 5% i
Philadelphiaaud Reading 16
Omaha (com) 2ti
Omaha (pfd) 87 > .
New York Central 88% 1
Kansas and Texas 15% |
Erie 1 % ■
1 New York Produce Market.
New York, Feb. 4 —Flour dull and I
unchanged. Wheat, No. 2 red winter, !
r February, 89}. Corn, No. 2 mixed, 49f; I
' February, 49 Oats, No. 2 mixed, 36} I
. for February; 35} for March. Pork quiet; .
mess, sl3 25. Molasses steady; domestic |
grades, 40a02. Turpentine nominal. Rosin I
l ! dull; strained to c ood, $1 25al 274. Rice
firm; Carolina common to fair, 4:fasj. Sugar
- I firm; refined cut loaf, 6|; granulated, 6J.
Tallow firm; prim?, 6ja6f.
Chicago 'Change.
Chicago, Feb 4.—Wheat opened firm,
March 77}, bid May 83j. Corn firm; March
• 36}, April 36}, May 39}. Oats firm ; May
30 j Lard steady; $6 97} March, $7 15
May. Pork steady ; sl2 37} March. sl2 65;
May. Bulk meats nominal.
Dynamiters Arrested.
: Montreal, Can., Feb. 4.—Two men
■. found with dynamite were arrested here I
yesterday.
The Biggest Artesian Well in ths World.
Savannah had better bestir herself on the
subject of the artesian well project. The
Charleston News aud Courier of to-day
,! says:
“The centrad has been signed for the con
struction of a new Arte-ian well in the city
of Charleston. It is expected that its capa
city will be three or four miTion gallons a
day, and this, with the supply of water now
obtained from the well on Marion square
and the well in George street, will give
I Charleston more water than the people
| are likely to require for many years to
come.
j “Under the contract the well will be 2,-
000 feet deep and at least six inches in di*
I ameter at the bottom. The work will begin
i within sixty days, and two sets of tools will j
I be used, anil a sufficient force of hands em
ployed to enable the work to go on without
interruption.
“The contractor expects to finish the new
I well in about six months, and regards it as
! the most important work of the kind ever
I undertaken. When completed, on the scale
| proposed, it will be the most important and
j valuable Artesian well in the world.”
GOVERNMENT CLERKS
STILL ON THE ANXIOUS BENCH
Very Unhappy Experience ot Those Who
Seek Government Positions —How Men
Are Unfitted by Thein for Hard
Work—A suggestion as to How
the Civil Service Can ba
Profitably Reformed.
Ph'LADelphia, Feb. 4.—Tne Washing
ton correspondent of the Times has been
interviewing the Government clerks, who
are now anxiously awaiting their fate at the
hands of the incoming adm.nis ration. He
writes as follows :
This is the last month of an unbroken
domination in the government by the Re- ,
publican party for the period of twenty-four
years. It brings thousands of employes in '
Washington alone face to face with an un
certain future. Since the revolution of No- (
vember it has been contemplated, with i
conflicting hopes, doubts and tears. Many \ .
have employed the interval in putting their I
houses in order, preparatory for the impend- . .
ing change. With the majority it is a I
hardship they hardly know how to grapple (
with. To such as have pluck it will prove
a blessing. Os the thousands who feel that ,
they have no chance of remaining or at best I
have only a frail hold on their positions i
very few will say that taking service in the I
government was not a mistake. In a ma- i
terial sense only a select few are better off ,
than when they entered. For the years
during which they have regularly drawn j
and spent their salaries the gains to be i
counti d are small at the largest, in most '
cases none at all. The years are gone, but ;
what can they show for them ? Whether - i
the salaries have been hundreds or thou i
sands, the general fact is the same ;
With some time has brought in i
creased needs, and the struggle is harder at I
the end than at the beginning. Could the
tact be known, it would be found that the
verdict would be little short of unaninu'y
against going into the governmet service for
men and women capable of entering other
avenues of employment. “Nearly twenty
years ago I eagerly accepted a clerkship,
with a thousand dollar salary. My present
i salary is fourteen hundred dollars. I have
not a month’s living ahead. lam fitted ;
for nothing else—at least, I feel so. lam
worse off tiian when I began, for I hare in
creased responsibilities, saying nothing of
the loss of years. With mysdary, were I
certain of it, I could continue to live as I
have done. But I feel that my door is
marked—that my time is up. It is a har
rowing thought. My days are wretched,
my nights sleepless. Every hour in my
mind is the peace-destroying question, what
am Ito do? It was a great mistake to re
main here. My case is that of hundreds
and hundreds of others. It is not so bad as j
some. I speak from personal knowledge.”;
This was said by a man on the down
grade of life. If he only knew it there is !
employment awaiting him somewhere. But '
he will have to work harder, and most;
likely, for a time at least, for less pay. j (
Work! Why, it is what the greater part |
have forgotten or never knew what it is.
Government positions—clerkships in gen- .
eral - rust men out. They are the best paid :
and the least worked men aud women of
any equal number in the land. That few
save nothing tells the rest.
But there are seme-fewest by far in
number—who have saved something; hand
some, the fewer still. These are the thrifty
by nature, the saving and the thoughtful for
the future To be dismissed will be no real
hardship to them. It will be a change im
mediately for the better. The rest will have
to realize this through hardship and a
struggle for which generally they are better
able than they think.
But whatever the condition of the pres
ent force in government employ, were they
to speak they would almost iu one voice say
'to the hundreds and thousinds who hope
for similar positions as the result of the re
■ cent political change: "Halt! Do any
' thing else that is honest.” Had the change
|of administration come sooner the state of
these government employes would not be so
| bad as it is What without serious reflre
j lion they were regarding all these years as a
; benefit thev now know was an evil. They
} have sacrificed years, energy, self assertion
; and their better faculties for the alluring
; ease. It will be well for their successors if
; an earlier change comes to drive them forth,
i disenchanted, to employments which though
the pay be no better, the enticements to
; pe.id a’l will be far less.
But there are hard worked men and
women in the depirtments. The worst is
| they get no better pay than the lazy and in
competent. The hard working aud compe
tent ought to go up higher, aud the lazy and
j inc mpetent down and out altogether. That
j would be a glorious reform and glory enough
; for any administration. It is the only thing
; that will benefit the service. It is the really
honest thing to do The Republican party
; deserve to be exp- lied for not doing it. If
the impending change could insure the sur
vival of the fittest, the countiv would have
conferred on it great and lasting benefits.
Many believe that this is the pivot on
which the future of parties in a gieat de
gree hangs.
Why Papa Doesn’t Send Valentines Any
More.
“Mamma, did papa ever send you a val
entine?”
“Oh, yes, darling, tons of them.”
“Were they all filled with hearts and little
angels?”
“Yes, dear.”
“Doesn’t he send you any more now?”
“No, precious.”
“Why? Don’t you like hearts as well as
you used to?”
“Certainly, my child.”
“Well, then, why don’t papa send you a
lot of ’em?”
“Because, my unsophisticated cherub, he
thinks more of his stomach than he does of
any heart.”
The little cherub says, “Oh,” and wonders
if this is the reason why papa growls when
his dinner isn’t ready.
To-morrow, Friday and Saturday will be
the last nights of the book sale.
WESTERN MARKETS.
The Bears still Confident—Bulls Basing
Th- -ir Hopes on the Weather—The Corn
and Provision Outlook.
Special Dispatch to the Times.
Chicago, Feb. 4.—“ To produce anything
like a healthy advance in wheat values, it
is absolutely indispensable that the visible
supply should decrease very materially,”
Slid Robert Lindblom this morning. “It
must decrease at least 1,500,000 bushels per
week,” he continued, “or we will have the
same experience that England has had. In
my opinion there is no reasonable hope that
with 45,000,000 bushels in sight in May,
within six weeks of the new winter crop
prices will not reach as low a point as they
did in December—69e.”
The hopes of the bulls centre mainly
around the weather. This is now moder
ating, and should the snow sudden
ly be turned into water and
cold weather follow, they figure
that a sudden speculative demand would
appear and make it uncomfortable for the
bears, for a time at least. “Old Huth,” S d
Kent, Phil Armour and a number of other
heavy operators have bought considerable
grain in the expectation that something
like this will occur, and they will try to
advance the market if possible. Yet it is
believed they are bearish at heart, and will
not let an opportunity go by to unload at a
reasonable profit. Hence many experienced
traders are now predicting a scalping market
on a big scale for the near future with
prices gradually tending lower and advise
sales on bulges, of which there are sure to
be plenty, now that everybody is “short ”
The recent export demand has entirely dis
appeared, so far as new business is concerned,
and warm weather, while rendering crop
scares possible, will also set free all grain
accumulated along railroad lines on account
of snow blockades.
Said a prominent broker to-day: “Thtse
who buy May wheat take the same view of
it that we do of death—it is far, very far off,
but every day brings it nearer, and in
three months the storage and interest and
insurance that make the option valuable,
will be a charge on the bulls without en
hancing the value o' the property. lam a
natural bull, aud never could see much use
in the providence of nature for a bear ex
i eept to fill a hole—but self-preservation
, prompts me not u- get into that hole ahead
j of the bear, with him on top.”
Corn, while fairly active, is very steady
as compared with wheat. The movement
is more free, both receipts and shipments
showing an increase, and this is though,
like'y to continue, as large receivers say
they have liberal quantities delayed in
transit, and expect heavy d> liveries by
farmers, ye if the dem nd continues as
g >od as it is now the ch in-es will about bal
ance eich ither.
I “f: e f-.c is,” sts l a dealer, “iorn at 40
cents per bus..el ' ; tbeE iropean buyer is an
entiiely differ, nt thi g from corn at 60
cent*. Vt the latter price he c m get chi p
er :eeding stuff’elsewhere and goes wiiii /ii’
it; but at 40 cents it is the cheapest feed lie
can get, so he buys freely.
Provisions fluctuate within a narri range
being largely governed by the recequs of
hogs. These are fair and the qua ity iihich
a short time ago was the pco.-est o the
season, running as light as 65 hogs to the
car, has improved a good deal. Most dealers
lo >k for largely increased receipts as soon
as the weather moderates, but hogs cannot
be sidetracked like co-n or wheat so theie
cannot be any great accumulations. I'he
cash demand for product continues good,
shipments being nearly twice as heavy as a
year ago at this time,but the near approach
of Lent, will be likely to check the inquiry
and . produce duller markets for a few
weeks.
THE MONTREAL ICE CARNIVAL.
Grand Display at the Close*
A Montreal, Canada, dispatch says Sat
urday was the carnival day of felt and silk
hats. The weather was bright and the
warm sun enhanced the enjoyment of thous
ands. The toboggan hills were a sight even
to natives. There was never such a crowd,
and the slides were never in such good or
der. The streets were alive with. Equip
ages in the brightest harness dashed hither
and thither -a parade of blue blood, lovely
ladies and gallant men. In outdoor sports
there was a dashing game of hockey, Mon
treal beating Ottawa after the hardest strug
gle for years. In the snow shoe races
Larkin, of the Emeralds, beat McTageart,
of Montreal. Thousands enjoyed these
sports. The city seemed abandoned to
them, and blanket suits were actually more
numerous among the visitors than felt hats.
Ladies, especially, delighted to pitmenade
in blankets and moccasins. The blankets
were in all the colors of the rainbow, as
taste suggested. The carnival was drawn to
a fitting close Saturday evening by a pyro
technic display in the ice castle. At 8
o’clock the castle commenced putting on
chameleon airs and colors. Soon afterward
a floral shell was thrown. Another instant
and streams of fiery serpents, torrents of
red and blue lights, gusts of golden sparks
and rockets filled the air from all sides.
The main tower was ablaze with crim
son, the next story was in azure and
the side towers in green, while the
towers on the reverse side glowed in purple.
Through the almost transparent ice
could be seen the forms of the genii of the
fireworks like salamanders going about
in the fire. Balloons every few minutes as
cended to the upper heavens bearing lights
to steady them, while shells shot after them
as if attempting in jealous rage to climb
higher, but only to burst and illuminate the
upper air with color diversified and brilliant.
Through the air streamed hundreds of fiery
serpents, and for twenty minutes this glare
delighted the tens of thousands who gazed
upon it. At a late hour the Frenchmen’s
committees were parading the streets, sere
nading with bands and fireworks the pa*
trons who provided the sinews of mimic
war.
The book sale sell at private sale during
the day at auction prices.
fHEGREATEX POSITION
COMPLETE AND BEADY FOR VIS
ITORS.
More Favorable Prospect For the Futur*—
The Exhibits of Maine, Idaho and
Wisconsin—Fin mcial Enibarass-
inents—The General Govern
ment to be Asked for Aid
Resolutions Adopted.
Special Correspondence Daily Times.
New Orleans, La., Feb. 2 1885—The
(>ast month was not financial success for the
Exposition ; but with the present favorable
weather the second month will prove profit- 1
able.
While a little work is still going on in '
some departments, “the Exposition is now ,
complete and ready for visitors,” is the uni
versal remark.
MAINE
J. B. Ham, Commissioner, and W. F.
Blanding, State Commissioner, make it very
pleasant for visitors to their interesting de
partment, which is near the Government
space on the Northeast. Some forty-five
varieties of the forest timber are seen, from
which many useful articles are manufactur
ed. In ship building, Maine is ahead of any
other State, models and specimens of the va
rious kinds of boats are exhibited together
with their equipments Shingles of pine
and cedar, measuring twenty inches
wide, staves, boxes for fish and canned
goods, with poplar chips, which are reduced
to pulp and made into paper, are here seen.
Specimens of match wood, fir which one
company cut up a million feet of lumber,in
this business alone, are here shown. Fruit
boxes are manufactured in Maine and
shipped to almost every country for fruit
packing. Slate, plumbago, granite and
minerals are exhibited. An attractive ob
ject is a model lime kiln of modern structure
very superior to the old style for burning
limestone. Here is a very tasty display of
taxidermy, of the animals and birds of this
country. Probably the finest plushes for j
upholstering to be had anywhere are man
ufactured at Sanford by the Godail Man
ufacturing Company. Paper and cordage
is a speciality in manufacturing. It is said ■
Maine, which now produces three-fifths of
the sardines consumed in this country, by
its superior goods, has driven all foreign ;
competition away. A ship carpenter sends ;
a model of a full rigged ship which oecupitd
I 300 days in making; it is valued at $1,500.
IDAHO TERRITORY.
i Idaho, since the early days of mining
I stampedes, has not yet enjoyed the reputa-
I lion of being in a much better condition
! than the State of Nevada, which has grad-
■ | nally decreased in population since i s
admission as a Sate. But a small space
I was assigned the Commissioner, Colonel
1 ' G. A. Stro-ipe, to represent the Territory,
; but he has, n the most happy manner pos '
j sible, filled it with glittering specimens
I from an hundred rich mines, with grains
4 unexcelled beauty’, with curious marvels
! and a wealth of furs, paintings of its ; 1
| rrand scenery, and splendid specimens ot
I fruit.
j A-ong his specimensof minerals particu
larly noted for beauty aud excellence, ate
quarts from the Wood River and Salmon
River district, placer and quartz ipecimeus
frem the Coucer d’Alene camp which last!
year caused the greatest stampede in the
late record of mining excitements. The
c mmissioner says his Territory has been
but slightly prospected, and he doubts not
if an exposition is held in the next ten
years he will be able to represent the richest
mines of America with Idaho quartz
WISCONSIN.
It is well known that this State makes a ;
specialty of cheese and butter, and claims to ;
show the largest and finest variety at the [
Exposition. While only a few samples are
within the space in the Maine Building,
three towers made of cheeses are promi
nently exhibited, an 1 one composed of
- orange-shaped and pine apple, is a beauty,
t Sheboyan county was in the Itad.
a Egerton is said to be one of the largest
markets for the sale of leaf tobacco in the
’ United States. Wisconsin took the premi
r um on one hundred varieties of apples
against seven competitors. In honey no
’ State can excell this in quality, while it is
a general industry by many and engaged in
’ by nearly every farmer. Wheat, cats, corn,
hay, vegetables and garden seeds,
are displayed in glass cases. Thirty ,
s new varieties of corn in ears '
and shelled are displayed. Beaver
’ Dam sends a fine lot of leathers, manufac
tured cloths and castimers, which compare ;
’ favorably with Eastern factories. Printing '
' and stationery is well represented. Wo- I
a man’s work is artistic and beautiful, and
occupies a prominent place in the State De
j partment. Miss Bodker, of Beloit, has in
3 this display one of the finest displays of j
’ needle work, enclosed in a gilt frame, ever |
’ exhibited, and can only be seen to be ap
preciated. Hundreds of people are collected
j around it daily. Mrs. Ely, the artist, has I
’ specimens of work showing sketches of!
I scenery and houses in Florida, notably the |
winter residence of Mrs. Alexander Mitch-
f ell, wife of the great railroad millionaire of;
the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul sys- I
5 terns. Milwaukee sends large photographs I
" of its twenty-eight public school edifices. C.
I D. Hoton is the Commissioner in charge.
At a meeting held by the American
“ Horticultural Society in this city,
’ in regard to the financial embarrass
ment of the Exposition management,
t Mr. George W. Campbell, of Delaware,
0., former Assistant Commissioner to the
' Exposition Universelle at Paris, also As-
J sistant Commissioner from Ohio to the
5 World’s Exposition at New Orleans, moved—
To the effect that the Exhibition having
assumed proportions beyond all expectation,
' and having grown upon their hands beyond
„ their control financially, be it therefore
i Resolved, That the American Horticul
tural Society earnestly recommend that the
Government of the United States shall
c further aid the management of the World’s
c Cotton Centennial Exposition by the loan of
$500,000, or of such such sum as shall be
necessary to carry its undertaking to a suc
cessful conclusion.
° The resolution was seconded and unani
mously carried.
S6OO A YEAR
THE LIGHT OF A WORLD.
Professor Proctor's First Lecture.
Oa Friday evening Prof. Proctor will de
iver his first lecture, under the auspices cf
he Georgia Historical Society, at Masonic
Temple. His first lecture is entitled, “The
Light of a World,” and will be exceed
ingly interesting. He lectured on this sub
ject in Charleston, and the News and Cou
rier gives a lengthy notice of it, from which
■ve make the following extract:
“After a few preliminary remarks,in an easy
coversationa! style, he proceeded to the dis
cusssion of his subject. The leading thought
■f the speaker was, of course, that a world
trows or evolves —in other words, that it
passes successively through various stages
'hat may fairly correspond to infancy, youth
middle age, old age and death.
“He laid down the indications by
which we might judge of the age, so to
speak, of a world. Assuming that ail worlds
have their beginning in heat, and that life
with them is a cooling off process merely,
the first stage would be,of course, the highly
heated stage, when the whole was in a state
of vapor. We would expect to seethe worlds
ihat are yet in this stage not only giving off
light of their own, but exhibiting great mo
tion, energy and disturbance of surface. Ap
plying this test, we find the sun is now ac
tually in this first stage, utterly unfit for the
abodeof life. What would indicate the second
stage, when, after perhaps millions of years,
some cooling, dependent, of course, on the
size of the body, had gone on, and the yet
hot body had become liquid or solid? Why,
of course, the presence of cloudy masses sur
rounding the body such as might be pro
duced by water poured on hot lava. He
showed then, and illustrated by many ex
cellent lantern slides, that the “Grant
planets,” Jupiter and Saturn, are now in
this second stage, unfit for life themselves,
yet helping possibly to make habitable the
moons that accompany them as the planets
do our sun. Similarly he showed that the
earth, a much , smaller body, had cooled
faster, and had come to be in the third
’tage, or fit to sustain life, and that Mars,
smaller still, was, by the evidence of its
scanty water power, fast on the way to the
fourth stage, or the stage of decay. The
lecturer showed that the water of the earth
and the air of earth must ultimately, per
haps in millions of years, disappear, as the
water and air of the moon have done, and
leave all a silent, dreary waste.”
These lectures are illustrated with the
oxyhydrogen light.
A CURIO S FIND.
Gigantic Remains Discovered in Cuyltr
Swamp—l’erhaps a Vein of Phosphates.
Yesteiday afternoon a Times reporter
stumbled upon a curious find iu the gro
cery s ore of Mr. J. F. Tietje”, cn West
Broad and New streets. The find consists
of a couple of crocus sicks of bones, evi
dently belonging to some animal of prehis
toric times. These bones were dug from
the bottom of the canal now being excavat
ed through Cuyler swamp, by the co nty
chaingang. They were picked up and sent
to the store of Mr. Tietjen, in order to ascer
lain, if possible, to wliat order of animal
they belonged. There are some
30 or 40 pieces altogether, ranging
l in si z°, from an inch and a half to twelve
inches in diameter. It is easy to see that a
portion of these bones are sections of the
vertebrae of the animal, alihough the
! bones are not complete, having suffered
much delay. To j udge from the size of the
remnants the animal must have belonged
either to the tribe of mastadon gigantics or
: megatherium, which are known to have, at
; some past time, inhabited this country. The
i veit b-ae are in length about six inches
each, and when intact must have b?en fully
a foot across from side to side and six inches
from the outer portion to the abdt mlnal
cavity. O,e large bone from its
conformation, probably a thigh bone,
is about 10 or 12 inches in diameter at the
point, and about 2 feet long. The depth at
which these ogseous remains were found is
said to be from 8 to 12 feet in the swamp.
Every one who has seen these bones seems
to agree as to what species of animal they
belong as thi above states, but whether
this country was at once the stamping
ground of these immese animals is a debata
ble question . It is known that the hab
i its of the mastodon were to roam in the
< swamps and then seek their food, and
it may be possible that at some time
in the dark past Cuyler swamp was the play
i ground of these monsters. It is suggested
i that this may be also a vein of phosphate
' which, if followed up, might develop an
! inexhaustible mine of that merchantable
! commodity. The large thigh bone will be
|on exhibition in this office for a few days,
j and opinions of the wise as to what species
jof animal it belonged will not be out of
order.
The reporter is inf >rm»d that bones of all
'kinds have teen found along the entire
! length of the five miles of the canal so far
j dug Among these, shark’s teeth well pre
served have not been uncommon. From
this fact, and that the depth at which they
have I een discovered, viz: eight to twelve
feet underground, it is safe to suppose that
| at some time in the past Cuyler Swamp was
a part of the sea, in which monsters of the
deep swam about as they now do in the
great Atlantic.
City Court.
City Court met at 10 o’clock this
morning, Hon. NVm. D. Harden, Judge,
presiding, when the following proceedings
; were had :
Maggie Spang vs- George Deiter, Jr.
Breach of promise. Case now undergoing
i I trial by jury.
I G. E. Bevans, E:q, has been appointed
Deputy Clerk of the City Court of Savannah,
> ■ ami will immediately assume charge of the
I I duties of that office.
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