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VOL. 6.—NO. 36.
THE WAR IN SOUDAN.
TERRIBLE DISASTER TO THE BRI
TISH FOWS.
Great Excitement in London —Dynamite
Outrages Eclipsed— Khar to um Captured
by the Rebels—General Gordon a
Prisoner of War Very Little
Hope for Stewart’s Army—
Mr. Glad stone, Reported as
Contemplating Resign
ing.
London, Feb. 5. —A dispatch from Gen
eral Wolseley states that Khartoum has
fallen, and that it is reported that General
Gordon has been made a prisoner of war.
Mr. Gladstone has called his Cabinet to
gether for the purpose, it is stated, of re
signing. The greate t excitement prevails
THE ABOVE CORROBORATED.
London, Feb. s.—'l he confirmation of
the fall of Khartoum has caused the wildest
excitement throughout the city, far exceed
ing in intensity any that has been aroused by
any of the startling events of the past few
weeks. The Government officials and their
sympathizers hope that the news will turn
out to be greatly exaggerated, and express
their belief that Gordon has not yet been
driven from the Citadel in the centre of the
city. Mr. Gladstone, on hearing of Gen.
Wolsely’s despatch, proceeded at once to his
official residence at Downing street, and
immediately issued a summons to the mem
bers of his Cabinet, requesting their presence
at once. Mr. Gladstone appeared to be
greatly agitated, and his action in calling a
meeting of the Cabinet is, it is believed, for
the purpose of tendering his resignation.
THE STREETS ARE THRONGED
with people anxiously discussing the omin
ous intelligence and gra*e fears are enter
tafned that none of Gen. Stewart’s little
band will ever recrcss the desert. Not since
the passage of the Dardanel es by t’ e
British fleet during the Turco-Russian war
has there been such wi'd excitement in th s
city. On every street corner groups of ex
cited people are discussing and speculating
as to the result of this new disaster in Egypt,
and on the action of the ministry.
As the news spread throughout the city
the crowds began to gather in front of the
War Office, newspaper offices and o'h-r
n ws centres, for the purpose of obtaining
the latest information. The report was
subsequently confirmed by the announce
ment that dispatches had been received at
the War Office from General Lord Wolseley
dated at Korti, in which he states that a
native courier from Metemneh had arrived
at his headquarters with the
STARTLING INFORMATION
that Col. Wilson had returned from Khar
toum, to which place he had been des
patched with a small force on a steamer
found at Metemneh at the time of iis cap
tore, and repor'ed that Khartoum had been
captured by the eni-nir, and that General
Gordon had been made a prisoner of war.
Col. Wilson, said that all along his retreat
from the ill fated «ity he was constantly
harrassed and subjected to heavy fire from
the enemy’s guns. Many of the shots
struck the steamer, but, without d< ing
serious damage. Everything went c mpa
rative!y well until within a short distance
of Metemueh, when his vessel ran ashore
on one pl the many islands and was toally
Co). Wilson stales that Khar
toum fell on the 26th of January, and he
arrived oft the city two days after its fall
He expressis belief that the capture of th'
city was brought about by th®
TREACHERY OF SOME NATIVES
that General Cordon had pressed into his
service. Colonel Wilson with his little
force, at last accounts, was still on the island
in which he was wrecked, awaiting a steam
er to take him to Mete imeh. .
The courier reports “adds General Wolse
ley,” that the fall of Khartonm has cast a
general feeling of gloom throughout General
Stewart’s camp, and that fears were freely
expressed that unless reinforcements soon
arrived their fate would, in all probability,
be soon sealed.”
A TRIBUTE TO GENERAL LEE.
General Lord Wolseley, in a private letter,
says,: “I have personally known but two
heroes in the course of my life; one was
General Lee, the other, General Gordon.”
ANOTHER ACCIDENT AT SEA.
The Steamer William Kennedy Overhaul
ed in a Crippled Condition—Her Otii
ctrs, Crew and Part of the Merchan
disa Saved —'I he Ship Forced to
be Abandon* d in Mid-Oc< an.
Special Dispatch to Savannah Daily Times.
New York. Feb. 5 -The steamship
Tallahasse, Captain Fisher, which sai’e 1
from Savannah February 2, has arrived
here with merchandise and passengers. On
the third of February at 3:30 in the after
noon she passed the steamship
Wm Kennedy of, and from Baltin:'.;,
for Charleston with her shaft broken at;
leaking badly. The Tallahassee took her
in tow, intending to run into Cape Henry.
After towing her one hour, she parted
her hawser, and finding the
leak gaining rapidly and with a
bad sea and night coming on
Captain Parker and the officers transferred
thecrew, numbering 21, without accident,
to the Tallahassee. The crew departed for
Baltimore to-day on the 1 p. rn. train.
Probabilities.
Washington, Feb. s.—For the South
Atlantic States, local rains, partly cloudy
weather, westerly winds, shifting to north
erly in northern sections and slightly colder,
except in the extreme portion, and station
ary temperature.
All Bosh.
New York, Feb. s—Herr Most said last
night that the story of impending Socialist
riots in Pittsburg was all bosh.
Abandoned.
New York, Feb. s.—Mr. Jay Gould has
abandoned his Southern trip.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1885.
FROM ATLANTA.
An Ovation to Vice-President Elect Hen
dricks—Savannah Excites Surprise in
Base Ball Circles—Pretty Lula Hurst
Atlanta, February s.—Vice-President
Hendricks is here to-day on his way to
New Orleans. He arrived at 4a. tn-, and
was tendered a magnificent breakfast at 9
o’clock at the Kimball House. After that a
reception was held at the Young Men’s Li
i brary. The reception amounted to an ova
tion, for Atlanta is wild over the grand old
I Democratic leader. He left at 1 p. m. for
New Orleans.
1 Considerable surprise was created here by
1 the appearance in the Constitution of the
■ base ball news from Savannah. It is well
. known here that the Atlanta club is not in
I the Southern League, but is in the Soutjh
-1 eastern League. Every club in Georgia,
except the Clinches of Augusta, is in the
Southeastern League, having seceded from
f I the Southern League, as is also Chattanoi ga,
| Montgomery and Birmingham. The Atlanta
base ballists are astonished that Savannah
! should join the Southern League, when it
I paiticipated in the formation of the South-
■ I eastern League, and when its going into the
Southern will shut it out from playing with
i either Macon, Columbus or Atlanta. It is
earnestly hoped here that Savannah will
• remain with the Southeastern which has a
, compact and popular circuit made up of
i Atlanta, Chattanooga, Montgomery, Macon,
Columbus, and the Browns of Augusta. It is
said that every game played in Memphis,
: New Orleans, or Charleston, will be at a
i loss, owing to the distance of those cities,
and the jumps required to get to them, and
• their indifference as to base ball. Themana
gers of the Atlanta club state p siiively that
they do not belong to the Southern League,
. but seceded from that League because of the
distance to New Orleans, Memphis and
. Charleston, and because of other reasons
. which they considered good and sufficient.
, Mr. Clarence Knowles one of the managers
■ of the Atlanta payers, said to the Times’
; correspondent to-day : “Weearnestly hope
. i hat Savannah will stick to the Georgia
, clubs and not make an alliance with Mem
phis, Nashville and Charleston, which must
prove ruinous from a financial point ol
view.
. The Southecstern League is under the
• full protection of the National Arbitration
, Committee, their papers having been re
■ ceived to day by Mr. Walter R. Brown,
. Secretary.
Lulu Ilurst is in Atlanta to day. She is
wonderfully improved by her recent travels,
and is no longer the angular, awkward girl
1 she once was. She is as pretty as a pink,
dresses stylishly, laughs and talks like a
society queen, and is quite attractive. She
has traveled all over the United States, and
I says she admires most the lovely scenery of
I California. She will be at DeGives’ Opera
| House here on the 16th.
Oscar Curry, who was killed in the East
Tennessee. Virginia and Georgia Railroad
accident at McDonough, right; before last,
: was buried here to-day
AN AGED CRIMINAL.
’ Horrib’e Talc From West Virginia.
. | Cincinnati, February 5. —A special
from Petersburg, West Virginia, to the
j Times-Star relates a horrible story of hu
, I man depravity. It says that Elijdt
Elijah Wease, aged seventy-five, was ar
rested for the murder of Hiram Ault, in Oc
tober, 1861. Wease was arrested at the
time and confined in jail at Moorefield. He
5 was then removed to Harrisonville, but was
released by the Union soldiers.
I There were only two witnesses to the
. murder, George Reed and Annie Gunn.
Reed was killed in the war. Anne Gunn
. disappeared. Wease went to Virginia and
t stayed till two years ago and then came
| back. Recently a sister of the murdered
. man visited in the West. She there met
, Anne Gunn and was told the story of her
brother’s murder. She came back and had
j Wease arrested. The fact of his former ar
i rest was proven and he was bound over to
the grand jury.
’ Later in the day the astounding discovery
. was made that Wease was captain of a band
> of desperadoes, who committed robbery and
murder. Twelve murders are charged to the
j old man. He has confessed to six, among
others that of his own son. The method wa
. I t.o take the victims to a place called the
j “Leap” and thiow them over.
At the place de-ignated, the remains oi
five men were found at one time They
were discovered by dogs bringing the leg
and arm - f a man home. The murderer
was not suspected then. The men killed,
with exceptions, were killed because they
1 were Union men. He also confessed burn-
■ I ing ninny houses. The whole country is
laroused.
Owing to the lack of ’ legraph facilities
I names and details are difficult to get at.
j New York Stock Market.
( New York, Feb. s.—At 1:30 p. m. to-
■ day quotations were :
Union Pacific ... 4D%
Missouri Pacific 96
Western Union Telegraph Co 61%
Pacific Mail »»...».., 55%
Lake Shore ....»...»»» 62%
Louisville and Nashville 24
Texas Pacific 12%
Denver and Rio Grande 8%
Michigan Central 55
; Delaware, Lackawanna & West’n «... 93%
Northwestern 92%
St. Paul 73%
Cliicago,Burlins:ton and Quincy 120%
Oregon Transcontinental 12%
Northern Pacific 38%
Rock Island 100%
Jersey Central 33
Memphis and Charleston i. 27%
East Tennessee, Va. & Ga (com) 3%
EastJTennessee, Va. & Ga. (pld) 5%
Philadelphia and Reading 16%
Omaha (com) 26%
Omaha (pfd) 87%
New York Central 88%
Kansas and Texas 18 -
Erie 12%
Chicago ’Change.
Chicago, Feb. s.—Wheat opened firm
and higher, 79 for March, April 80; May
sold at 85. Corn firm, March 37J, May 40}.
Gats steady, 30 j for May. Lard firm at
$7 00a7 02}, March $7 15 bid. Pork firm,
May sl2 70.
ROSSA’S NEMESIS.
THE ENGLISHWOMAN WHO SHOT
HIM.
> Interview by a Reporter—What Bhe
I Has to Say for Herself A Pronounced
JEnglisli Woman Subject to Fits of
Excitement—lnsane on the Sub
ject of Russa.
Philadelphia, Feb. 5.—A New York
I correspondent of the Times sends that paper
the following interesting interview concern
ing the woman who shot Rosea.
No. 60 Clinton Place, where Mrs. Dudley
I has been living, is one of several large
, boarding houses for business women, kept
. by Mrs. Sarah H. Legget, a respectable and
, benevolent Quaker lady, well known in this
city. It is the rule to require references,
and none but respectable women are enter
tained. Men are seldom seen on the prem
ises. A reporter brought to the house the
news of what Mrs. Dudley had done, and
horrified the good natured housekeeper.
“I know very little about Mrs. Dudley,”
, said Mrs. Brown, “except that she stayed
here a few days and paid her board.”
“Did she bring you any references?”
“Yes, she did; she mentioned the name of
Dr. Thomas.”
“Which Dr. Thomas?”
“Really, I cannot say which. The name
of the reference was apparently so respecta
ble and her appearance was so prepossessing
that I neglected to inquire, as I ought to
have done. She said she was a trained
nurse, having studied, not at Bellevue Hos
pital, but in Paris, and that she had been
recommended to Dr. Thomas and had at
tended patients fir him. Ido not know the
name of any patient she attended, but she
told me she was going out to attend a pa
i tient for Dr. Thomas a short time after she
first came here.”;
AN ENGLISH WOMAN.
“When was that?”
“I should say it was about three weeks
' ago. She remained away until about three
1 days ago, when she came back and asked me
whether she could have a room. I told her
‘ | she could, and she took a small one alone up
1 stairs, the same that she had before. She
told me that her patient had died. She said
i she was an English woman and a widow and
had lost her children as well as her hus
; band.”
’ “By a dynamite explosion?’’
“She did not say that. She told me that
1 she had been in this country but a tew
■ weeks.”
“Did she have any baggage?”
“Only a satchel, which she left here and
which is here now.”
“Did you ever hear her say anything
about O’Donovan R ssa?”
“No, 1 never did, but have heard some of
i the ladies say that she spoke excitedly
• I about him and the dynamite horrors in
j England. I saw her last this afternoon,
about 3 o’clock or later. She came to me
and gave up her key and went away. She
I said she thought she woo hi not be back to-
I night. She was calm and placid and’lady
j like as usual. From what little I saw of her
.[judged her to be well educated. She
I talked like one accustomed to society.”
BUT LITTLE KNOWN OF HER.
Seated in the parlor chatting after dinner
were a dozen of the ladies who board in the
house. “I think you will learn me st from
the housekeeper,” said one matronly bust
; ness woman. “We know very little of Mrs.
Dudley and nobody in the house was inti
mate with her.”
“Was she a pronounced English woman ?”
inquired the reporter.
“Indeed she was,” said a young business
woman. “She talked very hard about this
country and she did not like American
girls. She spoke often about O’Donovan
Rossa and the dynamiters.”
‘ Was she here at the time of the blowing
■ | up of the Tower of London and Parliament
j House ?”
“Soon after, and she was never tired of
> ■ talking about it.”
I “Yes,” chimed in a round-faced, merry
• j business woman, “I heard her talk very
I i bitterly against Rcssa. She had read much
I , about him and his doings and she felt very
• I much excited about the work of the dyna
: I miters tn England. She had several copies
lof Kossa’s paper here, aud said many times
; I that this government ought to stop such
teachings here; that no such work wou’d be
I j allowed in England, that the government oi
I this country was rtsponsible for it. She
; once said passionately that she believed
Rossa would cieet himself s .me of the vi r .-
, lent work that he is fond ot advocating. She
■ spoke as if she thought he deserved fit.”
“But dropped no hint of her personal in-
> tentiors toward him?”
“Why, no; she was such a lady-like, edit-
i cated woman and so frail that you would
never expect her to do such a terrible deed.”
INSANE ON ROSSA.
“Do yon think she was in her right
mind?” was asked of another business wo
man.
. “Well, I must say that she did not seem
to me to be perfectly sane when she got
■ talking about Rossa and the dynamiters,
i She did say some things that left an im
pression on my mind that she had had a
! relative injured in some of the dynamite
explosions. I would not be certain, but I
have an idea that she has been led to this
■ terrible deed by some conviction that Rossa
' was instrumental in making her a widow.”
“I do not think she had any mere per-
' sonal motive,” said another business woman.
“She was as much of a devotee of England
! as Rossa claims to be of Ireland. She be
lieved that she was doing a patriotic duty
i in shooting the enemy of her country. She
was never tired of talking about it, and,
’ though she never spoke of assassination, she
' did talk in away that, now that I recall it
in the light of her shooting of Rossa, makes
it certain that she was convinced “that she
had a patriotic mission to shoot him.”
“BUCHU-PAIB I.”
Quick, complete cure, all Kidney, Bladde
".nd Urinary® Diseases, Scalding, Irritatio.
Stone, Gravel, Catarrh of the bladder, $1
Druggists.
FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
This Morning’s Work in Both Hotise?.
Washington, D. C,Feb, s.—ln the
Senate to-day, Mr. bherman introduced a
bill to authorize medals to be struck off'in
connection with the inauguration
of the Washington Monument.
lOn motion of Mr. VanWyk a
concurrent resolutions was adopted calling
I on the Secretary of the Interior, for a report
as to the amount due the United, States by
i the Union Pacific Railroad Company,
j In the House, Mr. Belmont, from the
j Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported a
1 resolution calling upon the President for
I copies of further correspondence in
I relation to the Congo Conference. Adopted.
| Mr. Randall, of Pennsylvania, from the
| Committee on Rules, reported back
' Mr. Holman’s resolution to amend | the
' new rule which went into effect yesterday,
I so that an objection shall be called for after
J a debate cf ten minutes instead of prior
I thereto.
Mr. Reed, of New York, denounced the
rule as one of a progressive system, which
has been going on for a long period to ob
struct the transportation of public business.
The whole session, he contended, had been
wasted un'il now. Ther wasbutjfour weeks
left, and that time was mortgaged by the
appropriation bills.
A DOUBLE TRAGEDY.
Two Men Kill Each Other.
Albany, Ga, Feb. s—Tn5 —Tn Worth county
Sheriff Shivers and Mr Boatright were con
versing ytslerday, when suddenly thev
were seen to draw revolver”, clutch each
other and fire. Both men fell dead, their
i arms grasped together.
New York Produce Market.
j New York, Feb. s—Flour dull and
unchanged. Wheat—No 2 red winter Feb
ruary at 90J.’ Corn No. 2 mixed at
I 50} for February. Oats—No,
; 2 mixed at 3'j. Pork dull;
i miss 13 25a13 50; barely nominal, tnrpen
; tine dull at 31, rosm quiet, strained to good
' 1 25al 271, sugar refined quiet, cut loaf
6 5-8, granulated 6j.>6}, tallow firm, prime
i city 6 3 16
MR. POTTS’ DE\L IN PORK.
Technical Phrases that Puzzle a Good
Housewife.
Syracuse Standard.
“I think, my dear, March pork is a good
i purchase,” said Mr. Potts, taking another
pinv -ke an t skimming o er the morning
| paiqir
| “I guess w.» don’t ne-d any, thank you,”
said Mrs. P ilis ‘lf you -ee any good Octo-
I her butter an . where, •. i might send up a
|jar” r
“You don’t ’in'»rst.nnd me, myd--r 1
Imein a little sp> i-ulation. Let me show von
I now it works. Now, I buy 250 barrels ol
pork at $12.37 j n barrel.”
“Heavens and earth, Mr. Potts, where are
you going to put it all?”
“Don’t be so fast, wife. I don’t er r see
I the pork, myself, or have anything to do
i wit It, it.”
i “I thought, you just said you were going to
send up 250 barrels.”
“No,-1 didn’t. The pork I am going to i
buy is way off' in Ch icago.”
‘How do you know whether it is good or
not, then?”
“Dear me, wife, what do I care whether it j
is good or bad? I merely go long.”
“You mean you go along minding your
own business.”
“No, no; that’s a technical phrase. Let
me explain it to you. You see when I go
long, the bucket shop goes short.”
“Short?”
“Short, Mrs. Potts.”
“Short of pork.”
“Why don’t they get some more, then?”
“Good Lord, wife, the whole thing is
plain as day. Here I go to a bucket shop
and buy 250 barrels of pork. That don’t
you see, makes them bears and me a bull.”
“Don’t you know any better, Mr. Potts,
than to talk like that before your own
children ? I should think you’d be ashamed
of yourself, sir. You get worse and worse,
every day.”
I “You don’t know what you are talking .
1 about, Mrs. Potts. When I buy 250 or 500 i
barrels of pork, it shows I feel like a bull.” |
“[should think you’d feel like an iciot.” j
“I buy 250 barrels of pork, as I said be
fore, Mrs. Potts, and cover it with margirs”
“What kind of margins?”
“Oh, 5 cent margins to begin with.”
“I shouldn’t think margins as cheap as
that would be good for anything. You'd
better let me pick them out for you, Mr.
Potts. Men never know about such a
things.”
“I buy 250 barrels of pork. Mrs. Potts,
and hold on to it until March.”
“I thought you said you wouldn’t have
any to hold on to.”
“As I said before, Mrs. Potts, I buy 250
barrels of pork and hold on to it until March
comes, and the pork, according to my way
of thinking, is worth a dollar or two more
a barrel than I gave for it, and I’ll be any
where from $250 to SSOO ahead. What
do you think of that, Mrs. Potts?”
“Where is the SSOO coming from?”
“From my deal.”
“What deal?”
“The deal I just told you about.”
“I haven’t heard a word about a deal,Mr.
Potts. I guess you’re out of your head this
morning. I don’t know what has got into
you lately.”
Worth Squabbling For.
Washington Star.
Imagine an area about the size of the
United States, rich in soil, teeming with
natural wealth, traversed in every direction
by great navigable rivers, and sustaining a
swarming population, and we get a faint
idea of the importance of the Congo ques
tion. The Congo region is a very rich
plum, a second India, in fact; and Eng
land’s rivals, which have seen their neigh
bor gobble up the prize lands of Asia,
do not mean to let her repeat history in
Africa.
J tTry L. Fried’s BLOO -white »blrts for fit and
i'lallty.
FAST MAIL SERVICE.
; THE NECESSITY FOR ITS CONTIN
j j L ANCE.
An Interview With Prominent Railroad
* 1 and Business M+-n—How (lie Commer
i | rial Interests of Savannsh and Oth
er Citiea Would be Affected by
its Cessation—A Matter for
Prompt Attention of Con
gress. •
Richmond, Petersburg, Augusta, Wil
mington, Jacksonville and Savannah, are at
present interested to no little extent in th,
; action of Congress regarding the making cf
Jan appropriation forsustaining the fast rail- I
way mail service between New York and
t Jacksonville,or it might be said,between the
former place and New Orleans. Congress
! votes an appropriation for the purpose ol
| running an extra fast railway mail train be
’ tween these points, and unless the appro
j priation is again made before the adjourn
ment of the present Congress the fast raiL
way mail service will be done away with
at least for the time being—after the first of
i June, at which time the fund appropriated
will have been expended.
“This fast mail service is a special one,”
si-id Capt. R. G. Fleming, Superintendent of
the Savannah, Florida and Western Rail
way yesterday to a Times reporter. “The I
government furnishes the railroad compan
ies with the plan of the ca s they want for
the fast mail, and the companies build
them. The government makes the schedule
upon which they are run, specifies the
speed at which they shall go,
and pays a certain sum per
annum to the companies for running
j the fast mail cars. Os course the railroads
| have the privilege of running other cars in
the train besides the mail car. At present
daily trains are run between New York and
Jacksonville, and should the appropriation
be discontinued, the fast one, which runs on j
a schedule of 36 miles an hour, would be I
taken off, and the local train would have to |
do the whole work now done by both. The ,
cause of this lies in the fact that it does not I
pay us to run this fast mail train directly, i
but in an indirect way. We manage to build I
up the business of the road in other ways, |
thus saving ourselves.”
! “What, in your opinion, is the cause cf
the non-recommendation of the appro; na
tion.? It is an important one, the govern- -
ment is able to stand it, and all are inter-
l ested in it, both North and South.”
I “As to that, lamat a loss for an answer j
and can say nothing. It may be that th.
sub-committee, whose duty it i«, has had too
much work to do, hence could not get to '
'jor it may be remissnesS on their part. Ido :
: | not know which it is, but it remains paten
that nothing has been done, and little time
i remains in which something may b- ,
| done. Congress adjourns soon, the
1 inauguration is approaching a; an
anil will bring confusion with it, hence th.
appropriation must be made soon, or th
time will have passed when anything can I
done There is scarce a doubt in my l ino
lhai Congress would pass the bill immedi
ately should it be properly pressed lii
important, as before said, but I will explain
in detail what it means to Savannah am:
other places to lose this service. Train No
IS leaves New York at 9:30 p. m. Sunday,
I and arrives in Savannah at 11 a. re. Tuesday .
' Train No. 40 leaves at 4:30 a. m. M inlay,
and arrives in Savannah at 6:41 a.
m. Tuesday, bringing the Monday morn
ing papers from New York, a?
i well as all letters in twelve hours less '
' time than train No. 48 does. Keeping up a
j speed of thirty-six miles an hour, train No. [
40 slowly creeps up on No. 48 until she |
overtakes her at Fort Mudge and gets into
Jacksonville thirty minutes ahead of her
In plain words, we now get Mondays’ mi ru
ing papers and mail from New York on
Tuesday morning. Take off the fast mail and
Mondays’ papers will be read here on
Wednesdays, or twenty-four hours later
practically. Not only will this be a se
rious drawback to the local
interests of this section, but
there are large private interests also to be
thought of.
“No, I do not know what the amount of
the appropriation is, but it is not too large
for the Government to stand.”
“What difference will it make between
New Orleans and this place in the receiving
|of mails? I mean to say, will New Orleans
i reap any advantage by the change?”
I “None, whatever. There will be the loss
i of a day’s time all along the line, hence New
Orleans will be on the same basis with other
points, and Savannah will not be at a dis
advantage as compared with New Orleans
But should Charleston have this fast mail
service to the exclusion of Savannah, then
it would be a disaster of great importance to
the commercial interests of our city.”
The reporter called on a number of prom
inent merchants on the Bay, and asked an
expression of their views on the subject.
There is a singular unanimity of opinion
among them. No one wants the
fast mail discontinued. No one
thinks it would be a public
disaster to do so, but all
think it would be a great drawback
to the business of Savannah. It would
occasion considerable loss as the
merchants here could not turn their capital
over so fast as they do now by 24 hours, hence
it can be seen that the interest on the mil
lions of dollars passing through the mer
chant’s hands, specially cotton factors,would
amount to no inconsiderable sum, the loss of
which would be entirely borne by our mer
chants.
’ Among other things the going back to the
old regime would be a step of retrogression
instead of progression and fraught with
much inconvenience to the banks and those
doing business with them. One result would
1 be the raising cf the price of exchange, for
' interest on one day would have to be calcu
' lated on all. transactions. This would
1 amount to many thousands of dollars loss to
those interested and would be borne by Sa
vannah capitalists. Then the risk tak-
1 en in business transactions would be
materially increased froth the fact that a
factor or bank would feel more confidence
’ in a risk which could be closed in 36 hours
1 than in one requiring 60. A man’s paper
might be good at the end of 36 hours and
I worthless at the end of 60. If not a disaster
to many, it looks like the next thlsg to it,
S6OO A YEIR
i
and would be a terrib'e inconvenience, as it
• would upset the banking business in a great
measure for awhile, at least, and increase
- i the risk no little. In a word, this is a mat
ter in which the private and mercantile
interests of both the North and South are
■ ; concerned greatly, and as the time for the
I passage of the bill is quite limited, it be-*
I hooves Congress to take the matter in hand
I and give it tbe promptest attention.
THE GRATE OF ROSSA’S MOTHER.
i An Almost Forgotten Chapter of Local His
tory—l he Great Dynamiter’s Mother
Buried in St. Lawrence Cemetery.
Charleston News and Courier.
The shooting of O’Donovan Rossa in New-
York on Monday last revives a page of local
history in Charleston which will not be un
interesting just now. At the time of his
imprisonment in Ireland O’Donovan’s name
was as familiar as a household word
throughout America, and especially in
Charleston, where some of the members
of his family resided. It was whilst he
was in prison that his wile, Mrs. O’Dono
van Rossa, visited Charleston on
a lecture tour. She is remembered
here as a lady of refinement and culture.
On her arrival she was received by a num
ber of prominent Irish citizens, who showed
her the most marked attention. That was in
1868. The little woman was then giving
I readings and recitations throughout the
country for the purpose, as she avowed, of
raising funds to secure the liberation of her
husband. Her recitations at Hibernian
Hall were attended by quite a crowd, and
she was introduced to the audience by one
of the prominent citizens and was afterwards
entertained at his residence. Soon after
this O’Donovan mide his escape from jail
and came over to America.
At that time his sister, a Mrs. Webb,
whose husband was a member of the police
force of Charleston, resided in King, near
Tradd street, in this city. In 1870 Mrs.
j O’Donovau, the mother of the self-styled
i Ros-a, came to Charleston to visit her
j daughter and died while here. O’Donovan
, was notified of her death bv telegraph, he
I being al the time in New York, but did not
come on to attend the funeral. The old lady
I was buried in St. Lawrence Cemetery, where
j her remains now lie. A gentleman, who
went on to New York some time afterwards
and met Rossa, spoke to him of his mother’s
, death. Rossa told him that he intended to
■ visit Charle ton shortly to look after her
grave and either to erect a monument over
i it or to remove the remains North. But the
I promise wes never fulfilled.
, WHAT CHARLESTON IRISHMEN SAY ABOUT
ROSSA
j The shooting ot Rossa was di-cusseJ
' pretty freely on the streets of Charleston
yesterday, and the opinion was very gener
i ally expressed that he deserved a worse
j fate. “It’s only a pity that the bail did nut
put an end to his vile iife,” said one prom
inent Irishman “I’ve no sympathy with
the ras al. I heard His wife wh?n she was
here collecting money to get him oil of
: prison, and I contributed my share to that
object. If 1 had known what a curse he
‘ would become to the Irish cause f would
not have contributed to that lund.”
“My sympathies,” said another gentleman
an ex-President of the Charleston Land
i League, “are with Mrs. Dudley. Il’s a pity
she didn’t kill him. O’Donovan and his
■ crew are fools if they think they can carry
on their devilish work succtssfully. They
: don’t know the English people. English
men, whatever else you may say of them,
are not gas bags and blow hares like O’Don
; ovan and his crowd. They know how to die
I for their country. Tney’ll single out the
last one of these dynamiters wherever they
I may be and they’ll kill them one by one un
til they wipe out the whole tribe. Ireland
will never be freed by dynamite, and the
sooner Irishmen recognize this the better it
will be for Ireland.”
“It’s a great pity,” said another Land
Leaguer, “that something could not be done
to silence men like Rossa. I don’t endorse
the pistol policy, because it’s hard to tell
where it will end; but I’ve no sympathy with
men of the Rossa stripe. They do more to
injure the cause that we are trying tojuphold
than any other set of men. You can say that
not one dollar of the money raised by the
Charleston Land League has ever found its
way to Ros-a’s capacious pocket. We want
Home Rule for Ireland, but we want to get
it in a fair, legitimate and peaceful way.
We don’t believe that dynamite is an in
strument of civilization, and, even if we
did, we wouldn’t send our money to Rcssa.”
There were a good many other expres
sions of tbe same opinion to be heard on all
sides, but very few cf those who expressed
opinions were willing to have their names
published. One old gentleman, a policeman,
said he had heard that the British Gov
ernment had given Mrs. Dudley $75,000 to
shoot Rossa, another said: “That woman
has a gold mine. In less than a month she
will be covered with money from sympa
thizers in England. It is doubtful, however,
if she will live to benefit by the money.”
Exempt From Taxation on Brains.
Detroit Post.
“It’s a shame,” said a young dude, “thia
confounded tax, tax, tax is what is running
this country. I’m sick of it.”
“Do you think’ there is too much taxa
tion?” said the young lady he was boring
with his wisdom. (She said it because she
couldn’t think of anything else to say )
“Too much I I should say so. They tax
ns for everything. Why, confound it. the
' first thing we know there will be a tax on
brains.”
“Ob, well,” said she with a sigh of relief,
“that won’t matter.”
“How so ?”
“Nothing, only I was thinking that if you
went up to pay your tax on brains, the
treasurer would up and tell you you were
exempt before you ever got near the coun
ter.” *
, Wliy She Left.
Mistress: “What! going to leave already?
Why, you have not been here half a week.”
Maid: “I know it, mum, but I can’t stand
i it here. Things run too smooth like, mum.”
> “Why, what can you mean?”
s “You see, mum, I has always been in
r places where they kept three servants.”
1 “Oh! Ycu are lonesome then?”
r “No, mum, not lonesome; Jbut you see I
, iultscs the confusion a