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VOL. 6.—NO. 43.
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
The Work of Both Houses This Morning.
Washington, D. C, Feb. 13. —The
House was called lo order at 10 o’clock this
morning. On motion of Mr. Payson, of II-
Sin.is, the House concurred in the Senate
amendments to the hill to prevent the un~ :
lawful occupation of public lands.
Mr. Willis, of Kentucky, moved to go
into Committee of the Whole, on the River
and Harbor bill, and pending that to limit
the debate to one and a-half hours.
Mr. Reed, of Maine, made a point of or
der that the debate could only be limited
to paragraphs, but after discussion the
chair overruled the point of order, on the
ground that this was neither a
general appropriation nor a revenue
bill. Mr. Reed appealed from the
decision of the Chair, and the hour allowed
him for the discussion of the appeal was
divided between Messrs. Hiscock, of New
York; Long, of Massachusetts; Cannon, of
Illinois; Young, of Tennessee; Bayne, of
Pennsylvania, and otheis
In the Senate, after the transaction of
routine business, Mr. Dawes reported the
Indian Appropriation bill. Mr. Ingalls rose
and laid he had heard it intimated that
the Republicans were endeavoring to
prevent progress on the appropriation bills,
so as to necessitate an extra session. Hr,
therefore, asked Mr. Allison, Chairmain ot
the Senate Appropriation Committee, to
state the condition of all the appropriation
bills before the committee thus tar received,
and the status of the appropriation
bills generally. Mr. Allison replied
that the Military Academy and army bills
had been passed. The District of Columbia,
consular and pension bills were in confer
• ence. The Indian bill had just been reported
to the Senate and the Agricultural bill would
be reported to ihe Senate on Monday nex'.
The Post Office, Legislative, Naval, Fortifi
cation, sundry Civil and Deficiency bills bad
not vet come from the House. So far
as the Senate Committee is concerned
the work of the Committee was well in
hand and there need be no apprehension of
delay on account of the work of the Senate
Committee. Mr. Beck said that in his expe
rience of eight years as a member
of the Committee he could not
recall a time when the work of the two
Houses was better up than it seemed to be
now in the two Appropriation Committees.
Sale of “ Arabian Nights” Prohibited.
New York, Feb. 13.—Anthony Com
stock, of the Society for the Suppression of
Vice, has forbidden the sale of the “Arabian
Nights.” The edition objected to is known
as the “Villion Translation,” and is pub
lished tn elegant form, and sold by sub
scription only. It is a more literal transla
tion than the common one.
A New York Village Burned.
Lyons, N. Y. Feb. 13. —Nearly all the
business portion of Ovid, N. Y., was de
stroyed Wednesday by fire. Abram Covert,
the wealthiest merchant in the village, be
came demented over his losses and cut his
throat, but may recover. The total loss is
about $14,000.
Dynamiters Arrested.
Berlin, Feb. 13—Two men subsequent
ly identified as members of an anarchist
society, were arrested to-day at Lubokue. A
number of dynamite cartridges, seditious
pamphlets and placards were found in their
possession. They were held for further in
vestigation.
Probabilit.ieM.
Washington, Feb. 13. —For the South
Atlantic States light rains and snow and
generally cloudy weather; northerly winds,
slightly colder in northern portions, nearly
stationary temperature.
Victory for Woman’s Rights in Texan.
Austin, Texas, Feb. 13. —The Legisla
ture has enacted a law requiring all heads
of departments to give at least half the
clerkships in their offices to women. This
is considered a great victory for the Wo
man’s Rights party.
They Felt Him.
San Francisco Chronicle.
When a well known member of this com
mimity, now dead, was State Senator from
this city, he was mgaged in some very rad
ical measures which sorely cut into many
whom he thought were in need of reform.
They abused him very thori uglily, but in
honesty he maintained the light strongly
A friend of his fr rn this city visited him
in Sacramento while the measures were
pending.
“Well, what do they say of me in San
Francisco?”
“They d. n’t speak very well of vou.”
“What do they say about me? That’s
what I want to know.”
“Well, they say very rough things aboil’
you. 1 don’t care to”
“Speak it out. Tell me how they talk ”
They call you a liar, a scoundrel, a thief,
an ignoramus, an idiot—everything they
can think as that’s bad.”
“Ah, said the Senator, rubbing his hards
in glee and chuckling in perfect enjoyment,
‘they feel me, my boy, they feel me!”
“ROUGH ON RATS.”
Clears out rats, mice, roaches, flies, ant
ned-bugs, skunks, chipmunks, gophers. 15
Druggists.
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
cago National Hotel Renorter.
At L. Fried’s, the reason you are not forced
or talked half to death to buy goods you do
not like,is because he carries a large and well
selected stock. Also sells so cheap that you
will find it no trouble to buy or get suited,ns
be intends to carry out as headvertlses.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, FIRDAY, FEBRUARY 13, ISBS.
A TERRIBLE FIRE.
Tha Philadelphia Alms House Burned— |
Patients Roasted Alive.
Philadelphia, Feb. 13.—The latest re
port from the Alms House fire this morn
ing is that twenty-eight of the inmates have
been burned to death. This number of vio
lent patients were confined in cells on the
third floor of the south wing, and could not
be reached, although repeated efforts were
made to rescue them alive. Eight of them
were taken out dead, and the others have
not been accounted for. There is no doubt
that they are lost ajfd their remains are
among the ruins. *
New York Stock Market.
New York, Feb. 13.—At 1:30 p. m. to
day quotations were :
Union Pacificso
Missouri Pacific y 5%
Western Union Telegraph Co 61%
Pacific Mail 55%
Lake Shore
Louisville and Nashville
Texas Pacific W/a
Denver and Rio Grande
Michigan Central. 62
Delaware, Lackawanna & West’no7
Northwestern 94%
St. Paul 73%
Chicago, Burlington and Quincyl2l%
Oregon Transcontinental 12%
Northern Pacific
Rock Island
Jersey Central
Memphis and Charleston 32
East Tennessee, Va. & Ga (com) 3%
East Tennessee, Va. & Ga. (pfd) 6
Philadelphia and Reading 17%
Omaha (com) 27%
Omaha (pfd)
Kansas and Texas- }”4
Erie--
He Showed His Hand Too Quickly.
A young lady, the daughter of a gentle
men near Hawkesworth, England, was
courted by a gentleman who, though agree
able to her, was disliked by her father. Os
course, he would not consent to their union,
so she determined to elope. The night was
fixed; the hero came. He placed the lad
der to the window, and in a few minutes she
was in his arms. They mounted a horse
and were soon at some distance from the
house. After awhile the lady broke silence
by saying: “Well, you see wbat a proof 1
' have given you of my affection. I hope you
I will make me a good husband.” He was a
surly fellow, and gruffly answered: Per
haps I may, and perhaps I may not.” She
made no reply, but after a silence of some
minutes she suddenly exclaimed: “Oh,
, what shall we do? I have left my money be
' hind me in my room.” “Then,” said he,
' “we must go back and fetch it.” They
were soon back at the house, the ladder
! was again placed and the lady remounted,
while the ill-natured lover waited below,
j But she delayed to come, so he gently call-
I ed: “Are you coming?” when she forked
out of the window and sa’d: I‘Perhaps 1
may, and perhaps I may not;” then shut the
window and left him to return upon the
horse alone.
New York Produce Market.
New York, Feb. 13.—Flour dull and
unchanged. Wheat, No. 2 red winter, Feb
rtiary, 90}. Corn; No. 2 mixed, March, 49};
do. April, 49}; May, 49}. Oats; No. 2
; mixed, 37 for February. Pork dull; mess
I sl4 25. Molasses, prices range from 40 to
53. Turpentine dull at 30a30}. Rosin
steady; strained to good, $1 22}al 27}.
Sugar firm; refined cut loaf. 6}a6|. Coffee
steady; fair cargoes, 9}.
Chicago ’Change.
Chicago, Feb. 13.—Wheat opened lower;
February, 76}, May 83}-aB4. Corn dull and
j nominal; February, 36}; May, 46j. Oats
nominal. Lard dull; March, $7 07}; May,
$7 25. Pork slightly higher; March, sl3 15;
May, sl3 35.
City Court.
City Court met at 10 o’clock this
morning, Hon. Wm. D. Harden, Judge
presiding, when the following proceedings
were had:
Wm- Munsen & Son vs. Wm. Russak. In
Re. Rule and answer. Upon hearing the
petition and answer the rule is discharged
at movant’s costs.
Lloyd Phelps & Co. vs. Henry Miller.
Judgment against defendant in the sum of
S3BO 03 and interest and cost of suit
John W. Winn vs. the Planter’s Rice
Mill Co. Action in trover. Jury trial. Ver
dict of guilty rendered against the defend
ant and recommended that, plaintifl recover
i ihe property sued for to wit: Four hundred
and twenty-four bushels gold rough rice
and 509} bushels white rough rice.
W_ A. Jones vs. the Planter’s Rice
Min Co. Action in tiover. Jury trial.
Verdict of guilty rendered against defend
ant and recommended that the plaintifl re
cover the property sued for to wit: Nine
thousand three hundred and thirty-three
and a—half bushels white rough rice.
Petit and tales jurors were discharged
until Monday morning at 10 o’clock, to
which time court adj urned.
STRANGE WORLD THIS
And some funny people in it, too. You
have all come in contact with some that
are never satisfied. They grumble from
morning until night—we heard a man
even grumble in bed. That man would
grumble at any thing ar.d every thing,
without reason; but this week we heard
a gentleman grumble with good reason.
He bought a suit of clothes and paid a
iocd old fashioned price for it, and, hap
pening to come into the “Famous,” he
was shown a snit of the same class of
goods, and our price was $8 less than he
had paid. That gentleman had good rea
son to find fault, and grumbled at his
bad luck; but it will be a good lesson to
him, and he will buy of the “Famous”
next time We are through taking stock,
and now comes our annual clearing sale.
We will sell you anything in our line at
manufacturers’ cost. Our prize system
has worked charmingly, and we made
dozens of people happy by giving them
prizes. We will keep it up. Call, and
we will not only give you better goods,
cheaper than you can buy any where, but
give a prize to every twentieth purchaser
in the bargain. “Famous,” 140 Congress
street.
THEGREATEXI’OSITION
HOW IT IMPRESSES A GEORGIA
VISITOR.
What Georgia is Contributing Towards the
Fair—A Creditable Exhibit Due to Indi
vidual Exeitious—The Exhibits of
Other States—An Interesting
Communication.
New Orleans, February 9,1885.
Editor Savannah Daily Times—The
first visit to the great Cotton Centennial
Exposition by your correspondent was made
to-day, and although my information is as
yet limited, I have determined to give you
the result of my first visit and keep you ad
vised in future as new discoveries are made
Os course the chief interest to Georgians,
outside of their general interest in the ex
hibition, is to see what our State, or rather
I should say a few individuals in the State,
have done towards attracting the attention
of the thousands who daily visit this great
fair to her resources. Notwithstanding the
humiliating fact that the great State of
Georgia has not contributed a dollar towards
exhibiting her boundless resources to the
world, a few of her enterprising citizens
have caused, by their united efforts, a dis
play to be made, of which no Georgian need
be ashamed. Os course much of this credit
is due to Savannah, but still other portions
of the State have made their contributions.
Savannah, through her sterling institution,
the Cotton Exchange, exhibits a handsome
walnut stand containing sixteen cases of ;
type samples of upland and sea island cotton,
cotton seed and seed cotton; also the mode’s
of the two steamships, the “Savannah” of 1
1819 —the first steamer that ever crossed the
Atlantic—and the “City of Savannah” of j
the present day. The pamphlets descrip i
tive of the above exhibit and also
containing other interesting infoi mation are
much sought alter by parties interested in ■
Georgia affairs. The Board of Trade’s con
tribution forms no small feature of Georgia's
display, and the case of rice samples, rosin j
and turpentine, sections of trees showing i
the mode of turpentine farming, McMillan’s :
copper still and appliances for distilling, aie
conspicuous and attract much attention.
Augusta, through the Augusta factory;
I Algernon mills, Sibley mills and J. P.
King factory, makes an admirable display
I of her manufactured goods, embracing shirt
ing, sheeting, drills, checks, etc., whi'e the
Georgia Chemical works exhibits a large
case containing samples of all its articles of
manufacture connected with chemi, al fer- ■
tilizers.
The Eagle and PLcen’x Manufacturing j
Company brings Columbus to the front by
its display of a double case of all articles
manufactured by that solid company
drills, sheeting, shirting, domestics, checks,
towels, blankets and a number of other arti
cles. The remainder of the Georgia space
is filled with tables and cases containing a
. choice collection of minerals, the private
property of Mr. N. P. Pratt, the gentleman
who has charge of the Georgia exhibit. A
sample of graphite or black lead, from
Graves’ mountain, Lincoln county, is pro
nounced by experts as equal to the best
Ceylon grayhite, which is acknowledged as
superior to any yet discovered. The as
bestos, from Rabun county, is also much ad
mired by those familiar with this class of
. mineral, and is said to be of supe
| rior qmlity. An extra fine qual- j
I ity of mica is also displayed ■
a pyramid of emery wheels manufactured
by a company in Springfield, Mass., is made
from the corundum mined in the hills of I
Georgia, which is hauled thirty-eight miles
by wagon and thence transported many
miles by rail. This Springfield company,
who also have a factory in Chicago, will use
no other corundum except that procured
from Georgia, in the manufacture of their
wheels. Mr. Pratt has also in his collection
fine specimens of free gold, iron, and copper
ore, and a hundred others of greater or less
importance. All of the specimens have been
attractively arranged and are labeled with
names and analysis, the latter a feature not |
generally found in the exhibits of other I
States. Why our people should ever send off!
for any of these articles when they are at
our very doors, is a mystery which I hope
will some day be solved, to our great ad- j
vantage.
Having finished with Georgia, what can I ,
say of lhe other States? I have seen so much,
and having so much before me the subject is
bewildering. All the State exhibits are in
order with perhaps the exception of New
York and Pennsylvania, they alone being
behind their more enterprising rivals. Nearly ■
every State has some ornamental feature of
attraction erected within its space, made |
with a view to display its resources. The ,
Western States, notably: Kansas, Dakota,
Minnesso’a and Nebraska, vie with each
other in displays of grain, which are mag
nificent and arranged in a manner which
necessitated the taxing of the ingenuity of
artists in this line. I’yramids of giaiu
forty to fifty feet high arranged in all con
ceivable devices, and surrounded by thou
sands of articles, special features connected
with each State—to enumerate which,
would tax the gentleman who compiles en
cyclopedias. South Carolina has a pyramid,
in shape like those of Egyptian antiquity,
leade entirely of her phosphate rock.
Maryland has a pavilion made of tobacco .
maves. North Carolina a pavilion made of
mica. Louisiana’s pavilion is erected of sugar
cane. Georgia’s of nature’s woods. Cali
fornia’s pavilion of soap from the manufac- '
tory of the Standard Soap Company, of San ■
Francisco. Colorado has a mineral cabin
constructed entirely of gold and silver ore. ;
Other features of attraction are to be found: j
At first the Louisiana space, “King Cotton” . i
and his wife, “Louisiana,” made entirely of ;
cotton, even to the minutest details of ex- I ■
pression of the features of the face. At the j
Dakota exhibit, “Wonderland” will attract i
the passer by; it is a mound of dirt, cover
ing considerable space, sodded with grass,
trees growing, and stufted specimens of
nearly all the principal animals of that j i
State. i
The Chicago, Milwaukie and St. Paul ■ I
Railway make a beautiful display of the ]!
products along the line of its railway, the 11
chief attraction being a pavilion and a train •’
of cars, with locomotive, constructed of
every conceivabe kind of grain.
Our Savannah, Florida and Western '
Railway displays a handsome bas relief I
map of Florida, its system being lined in ;
gilt.
Other Georgia railways make fine displays I
—the mineral exhibit of the Georgia Pa
cific being prominent—in this exhibit will
be found one lump of coal which is quite
large enough to fill any grate in Savannah,
its weight is 14 tors, measure 12 feet, by
eight feet and four feel six inches thick. The
cost of getting this scuttle full of coal to the
grounds, was S4BO, and after its arrival it
cost $250 to take it from the cars and place
it in position. Mr. Pratt, mentioned in con
nection with th® Georgia exhibit, has charge !
of the displays of the Georgia Pacific Rail,
way. This piece of coal, the silver brick
from Mexico, (I should have said silver
mountain) weighing several tons and valued
at $114,000 and a lump of copper ore
weighing 7,300 pounds, from Arizona, I
thought I would bring home and surprise the
boys, but alas, I could not get them all into
my vi st pocket at once, and had to aban
don the project.
Excuse this disconnected letter as I am 1
mixed, but will try and improve on same
in my next. Affectionately,
Grover.
AN INSINUATING BEGGAR.
A Female Who Uses Tears to Good Effect. <
A day or two ago the New Ytrk World
published a special from Albany, Georgia, ,
stating that a Miss Cole, of Texas, as she i
registers her name, is just now enjoying no
toriety in this State. Several days ago she
arrived in Albany with blonde face and wav- ,
ing curls, and represented herself to be the ,
daughter of a Kentucky clergyman, but
latterly of Marshall, Texas, now on her way (
to the bedside of a dying brother in Cedar
Keys, Florida. She became an object of|<
svmpathy. While in a group of new made 1
friends she suddenly discovered that she had I
been robbed of her ; urse while on lhe train, ; 1
and began crying. The hearts of the > ei.ev- 1
, oletil beholders were moved, and her loss |1
! was made good oy very generous subscrip- i 1
. tions. ; 1
: The City Marshal, however, did not be- ! '
I Sieve her story ai d arrested her as being lhe
original of Miss Annie Blanchard, who had
! victimized Atlanta. She wept and pleaded,
and gave names of persons in different towns !
in Keniuc .y, to itidoise her. Telegrams
sent to these addresses failed to bring a re
sponse. While she was thus held a pris
oner it was deve! ped that under the name
given she had taken i. North Carolina
ias a lady in distress fiom New York, and |
lin Macon as a lady from Texas. She makes
j from SIOO to S2OO in e ery ’own wsited. i
I The Mayor gave so r until train time to j
skip, and the 1. st seen i-t her was through
a car window as si.e wo.ved an adieu to the
Marshal.
We were inform- 1 tl is morning that a
young woman wn ■ o rrtsp'iip'... exactly with
the above description is in lhe en- --na
! Legging tour. Yesterday she was in the
store of a prominent druggist and put up a
pitiful tale of distress, saying that she was
in a very unhappy condition and needed as
sistance badly to reach her home in Nor
folk, Va. Ladies in distress hardly ever
•aise money by that means, and it may be
well for our citizens to be on their guard
against her wiles.
THE WASHINGTON RECEPTION.
1 A Successful and Pleasing Entertainment. \
One of the most pleasant as well as suc
cessful amateur entertainments occurring
here this season was the Wednesday night
and Thursday matinee reception of General
and Mrs. George Washington, at the Savan
nth Theatre. The attendance was large,
and the receipts will go to swell the coffers ,
of an institution every way worthy of the
most perfect confidence of the people, name- j
ly, the Episcopal Orphans’ Home Building I
, fund. The occasion was an enjoyable ore ;
1 to both audience and the little actors and .
actresses, who so well took off the parts as- ■
I signed them. The tableaux were a sur
prise to the little folks, who were kept in
ignorance till the last moment The enter
tainment wound up with a grand representa
tion of the Virginia Reel. The characters
■ represented and the young misses and mas
ters representing them were as follows:
I Gen George Washington.... R W Cunningham
Thomas Lee Duncan McFarland
Thomas Jefferson William Wade
Count de Rochambeaußryan Williams
Gen. Anthony Wayne Julius LeHardy j,
I Marquis de Lafayette Edward Deinere
Governor de Witt Clinton George Zirzinia |
i Count de EstaingWilliam Raoul !
Admiral de GrosseDrayton Linali !
; CharlesCarrold, of CarroltonChas. Owens I
Alexander Hamilton Andres Moynelo
Gov. Archibald BullochNoble Banks
General MoultreeClarence Connerat
!‘<en. Lachlan .Mclntosh .Dearing Harden
Sir John Templeßobert Gadsden
Baron Steuben Joseph Guerard
Aaron Burr Frank Wilder
General Knox Mr. Geo. McAlpin
Master Geo. Washington Parkes Custis
Master Thomas Wayne,Jr. ;
PAGES.
Master Thomas Bassinger and Thomas Raoul
Mrs. George Washington Page Wilder
Dolly Payne Lina Woodbridge :
Lady Katherine Sterling Maria Nisbet ,
Miss WolcottEUse Rauers
Mildred Washington Janie Cunningham
Judith Livingston Meta Harden
I*ady Christine Griffin .Mary Arnold
Miss HabershamMarie Habersham
Miss MontcriefMarie Moynelo
Miss Chew Louise Chisholm
Countess de EstaingGussie Bond
Mrs. de WittClintonLonie Guerard
Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Maud Smith 1
Miss Bayard Mabel Stoddard i
Lady Temple Alice Connerat ,
Miss Van Berkel Thyra Steen
Baroness Steuben Virgie Hamilton
Countess de GrasseFlorence Nisbet I
MlssAllenMoraMoynelo !
Mrs. MoultrieLillian Hamilton I
Eleanor CustisEleanor Green i
Rebecca MotteMary Comer i
WAITRESSES.
Alice Thomas, Eleanor Fleming.
— « 11
“I would not live alway,” says the Psalm- I
ist in a moment of pietic raptqre. “I would 11
not either,” says Josh Billings, irreverently.
So we say—but then while we do live, let us
hold on to our health and spirits. The
surest way to do this, is to lay in a supply
|of Dr, Bull's Cough Syrup. Try it.
THE FEDERAL CAPITAL
A CHAPTER ON CHURCHES.
Where President Cleveland Will Worship
—How the Attendance of the Chi* I
Executive Always Helps a Church —
A Place of Worship Built in
Anticipation < f Blaiu”s Elec
tion— Reininiscenses of
Guit eau.
Special Correspondence Daily Times.
Washington, Feb. 11.—It seems to be
generally supposed here that Mr. Cleveland,
when President, will attend the New York
Avenue Presbyterian Church. The church
edifice is about three squares from the
White House, and it is natural that a
Presbyterian President should go there, as
Lincoln did in his time. Nothing, how
ever, has been said to any of the officials of
the church to indicate that the President
elect has thought about the matter. Some
overzealous persons, who did not appear to
have any authority whatever to speak for
Mr. Cleveland, busied themselves soon after
the election and induced the church authori
ties to take steps to provide a pew for the
President-elect. There is not an unrented
or vacant pew in the church. No one could
be turned out to make room for Mr. Cleve
land, so the pastor, Rev. Dr. Bartlett,
offered to surrender his pew in case Mr
Cleveland chose to come and listen to his
sermons.
There is always something of a flutter
here among church people when a new
President is about to be inaugurated. It is
supposed to be a great prize tor a church to
secure the President as a pew holder. The
Metropolitan Methodist Church and Rev.
Dr. John P. Newman were widely adver
tised on account of the favor shown them by
President Grant. Grant was a great curi
osity. Most every stranger who came to
the city wanted to see Grant. He exhibited
himself publicly at the Metropolitan Church j
every Sunday morning. Consequently the
church was crowded. When he came out j
to take his carriage there used t” be a double
line of spectators stretching from the
church door to the curb. After a
wliiie an arrangement was made
by which Grant left the church
by a private door in the rear and escaped,
the gaping crowd. For a time the Met o
i politan Church seemed to prosper greatly.
Officials who wanted to be as near the
throne as possible, were easily converted to
Methodism, and rented pews at the Metro
! politan. The result was that the church,
i supposing its prosperity was enduring, made
j great outlays anticipating future revenues.
When Grant and Newman retired from the
church, the congregation rapidly dwindled
in size and it was left almost hopelessly in
j debt.
Hayes patrorized the Foundry Church,
another Methodist Church, but did not
prove to be much of an attraction. The
Church however, suffered a little, by impru
dently it creasing its expenses, on account
. of the favor shown it by Mr. Hayes.
Garfield was a member of the Christian
i Church, occupying a little frame structure
in Vermont avenue. After his election, the
j members of the Christian sect all over the
i country contributed liberally to build here
a handsome Church which would be a credit
to the denomination. Garfield’s pew in the
' little wooden Church was under one of the
windows, and it was through this window
the assassin, Guiteau, first intended to shoot
! him. Guiteau stole around the Church one
' Sunday morning, with his bull-dog pistol
ready. He saw the President, sitting in the
pew with his wife and family, and faltered.
When Garfield died the new Church was
completed, and called the Garfield Monu
mental Church.
President Arthur attends St, John’s Epis
copal church, an old church separated from
the White House by Lafayette square. St.
John’s parish is one of the wealthiest and
I most fashionable in the city, and had little
i need of the favor of the President. Nearly
all the Presidents before Lincoln’s time had
i attended St. John’s church, and a pew known
' as the President’s pew, had always been re
, served for the occupant of the White House.
The New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church, like St. John’s, is a flourishing and
wealthy institution. It includes many dis
tinguished men among its members. Mr.
Blaine worships there. One cannot get a
pew there at any price. Before tne Presi
dential election the general belief here, in
fluenced by Republican office holders, was
that Blaine would be elected. This belief
gave a great impetus to a project of build
ing anew Presbyterian Church in the north
west section of the city. Blaine was a sub
scriber to the enterprise, and it was ex
pected that President Blaine would attend
the new church. This edifice was to be one
of the handsomest in the city and was to
provide for the overflow of wealthy Presby
terians who could not get into the New
York Avenue Church. A large amount of
money was subscribed, and though Mr.
Blaine was not elected, his candidacv helped
the enterprise.
Mr. Charles H. Reed, formerly of Chicago,
is here trying to get a bill through Congress
to pay him $5,000 for his services in defend
ing the “lawyer, politician and theologian,”
the late Charles J. Guiteau. Mr. Reed
represents that he spent six months upon
the cise and never received a cent. Guiteau
left no property, except his body, and that
he willed to Rev. W. W. Hicks, politician,
theologian and surveyor of public lands in
Florida. Guiteau, living, had helped the
Rev. Mr. Hicks to considerable notoriety,
but the reverend gentleman had no special
use for Guiteau, dead. So the remnants
of the body, left after the autop
sy, were turned over to the
Army Medical Museum and the bones of
the cranky assassin now hang, neatly articu
lated, in one of the cases of the museum,
which, by the way, is in the building where
President Lincoln was shot. There is noth
ing, therefore, upon which Mr. Reed can
levy for his fee and he makes an appeal to
Congress.
Reed was not assigned to the case by the
court. He went into it voluntarily after lhe
trial had begun, evidently much pleased
with the chance to advertise himself. There
was a poor, old, gray-headed, plodding
lawyer out in Chicago tamed Scoville, who
had married Guiteau’s sister. IVhen Gui
S6OO A YE AR
teau’s tri il approached he came here to de-
I fend him. The court here assigned a young
lawyer of t* e District bar named Robinson
to assist in the defense. Robinsun could not
stay in the case. Guiteau began to abuse
him frem the first and Scoville’s notions
, about the case were rather cranky. What
little Robinson did showed that he intended
to endeavor to prove that Garfield’s death
was due to malpractice. It is possible that
| such a defense might have been more suo
cessful than the plea us insanity.
After Robinson left, Beed, who had been
j sitting in the court room promoting Scoville,
became openly connected with the case. In
, I closing the case, he likened Guiteau to Char
i lotte Corday. Before Guiteau was hanged.
> : he made a strong effort in the Supreme
j Court of the District to have the judgment
! reversed, on the ground that as the shooting
, ' was done here but Garfield died elsewhere,
I the crime was not completed here. He held
' ' that if there was a murder, the crime was
i committed in New Jersey, where Garfield
died. Scoville went back home after the
• trial broken in health and fortune. His
business was gone, and his wife, the sister
of the assassin, deserted him. He sought to
make something out of the trial by publish
ing a history of the proceedings, but it was
a failure.
There is little romantic interest con
nected with the name of Guiteau. He was
shown to be a person of no moral or social
standing, a miserable, hypocritical, cranky
impostor. The assassin was inspired only
by a feverish longing for notoriety. In the
story of Booth—however much his act may
be reprobated—there is a flavor of romance
which makes him an interesting, if exe
crated, figure in history, but Guiteau’s name
has already ceased to be spoken.
Bob.
OUR NEW HAMPSHIRE VISITORS.
The Formatiin ol the Club—Their Impres
sions of the South.
Yesterday at 4:45, standard time, there
arrived a special train on the Charleston
and Savannah Railway consisting of two
Pullman sleepers, two combination dining
and sleeping cars, one provision and one
• baggage car, and containing a party of ladies
j and gentlemen, 100 in number, members of
the New Hampshire Club. They are en
| route to New Orleans, and were accompa
nied by the genial Capt. J. W. Craig, Mas
ter of Road and Transportation t-f the
j Charleston and Savannah Railway. Arriv
ed here the party took carriages and drove
out to Thunderbolt, and other places of in
, terest, in the city. At Charleston, at which
place they remained about fourteen hours,
they took a sttamer and sailed to I-'crt
Sumter, and other places of inteiest.
j This club is composed of sentlemen of
■ means and influential business connections
! in the State, and the wealth represented by
i them could be safely placed at $150,000,000.
i The club has been established since 1880..
At a meeting of several prominent gentle
men of New Hampshire, lieid at Boston, a
suggestion was made that the business
interests of that State would be benefitted by
having an organization of some kind where
by the business men would be brought
trgether to discuss the various industries of
the State, with a view of increasing the
same and developing its unlimited resources
for manufacturing and commercial enter
prises, and a proposition was made by Hen.
| G. B. Chandler, of Manchester, that an asso
ciation be organized to be known as the
1 New Hampshire Club. The suggestion was
accepted and the New Hampshire Club,
composed of the best and most prominent
business men of that State, is the outgrowth
lof it. The club, whose membership num
bers over 400, has been si’ gularly prosper
ous from the beginning. The club left New
York on Monday, Feb. 9th, and has passed
through Boston, Hartford, New Haven,
Philadelphia, Wilmington, Baltimore,
Washington, Richmond, Petersburg, Wil
mington, N. C, Charleston and Savannah.
Continuing they will stop in Jacksonville
three days and take a trip on the river,
! going thence to Pensacola, Mobile and New
i Orleans. Returning the same route will be
i followed. Altogether they will pass through
j fifteen States and the District of Columbia
and over sixteen transportation companies
lines, travelling 3,788 miles and making the
I trip, including stopovers, in 13} day».
Hon. J. C. Moore, of Manchester, N. IL,
j stated to a Times reporter that although the
I time of stoppage in all places touched has
I been limited, he as well as the partv gener
ally, have been more than agreeably im-
I pressed with the South and her people,
whom he says are hospitable to a fault. He
spoke of the splendid condition of the roads
I over which they had passed and especially
j complimented the Charleston and Savannah
I Railway on the splendid condition of the
railway as well as < n the general courtesy of
! the officials. Colonel Moore, who is a news
paper man, being proprietor of the Man
chester Union, the largest and best
daily in New Hampshire, says he intends tc
write an account of his impressions of the
i South and the people in it but wants to see
all he can cf them befoie saying anything
.at all. It was easy to see that the Club is
; composed of the best people of the State.
Os the number present forty-five of them
are ladies, and they are calculated to give
one a very fine impression of the female
population of that State. The party left
last evening for Jacksonville at 7:20, under
the charge of Mr. J. H. Griffin, Traveling
Passenger Agent of the Savannah, Florida
and Western Railway. He will accompany
them to that place and see to their comfort
as long as they remain on the Savannah
, Florida and Western Railway. The follow
ing is a list of a portion of the ladies am!,
gentlemen composing the party:
, Governor S. W. Hale and wife of Keene,
. N. H.; Colonel C. H. Sawyer and wife, of
. Dover, N. H., manufacturer of the Sawyer
f i woolen goeds; Col. H. E. Chamberlain and
| wife, of Concord, Superintendent of the
Concord railway; Perley Putnam, Esq.
. and wife, of Loconia, N. H., of the Loconia
. Car Works; Hon. A. A. Cox, of Enfield
i | Col. 11. A. Tuttle and wife, of Pittsfield
, Col. B. W. Hoyt, secretary and treasurer of
I the Club, Epping ; Hon. Charles Holman.
. j of Nashua; Allen N. Clapp, of Manchester:
. | Hon. Wonen Brown, of Hampton Falls :
i J Frank W. Fitts and Dr. Leonard French, of
Manchester; Dr. H B. Burnham, of Ep-
• ! ping; George T. Hewett, of Worcester
, j Samuel T. Brown, of Pennsylvania: cook
! and Col. William Dow, of Exeter.