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Satumnal) StJitlmg Crimes.
VOL. O.—NO. 44.
THE FEDERAL CAPITAL
DECLINE OF THE SOCIAL SEASON.
Sickness in High riaces—Lent Making In
roads on Receptions—Society Cooling
1 Oft*—A Chance for Dude Depart
ment Clerks to Sober Up and
Resign Respectably.
[Owing to the wires being down in the
North and West yesterday and last night,our
telegraphic report is rather meagre this
morning. This is greatly to be regretted,
but it was a matter over which we were
powerless to exert a controlling influence.]
Washington, Feb. 14.—Those people who
planned to do a land office business in call
ing upon the wives of Cabinet officers and
people of the upper ilk to day found even
fewer doors open than usual. Sickness and
other clr umstances have prevented the full
Cabinet circle from having open homes as
usual this winter, and now, by reason
of her husband's indisposit on and her own
rheumatism, Mrs. Carlisle is unable to hold
her formal receptions. Mrs. Chandler has
not been able to receive for some weeks, and
probably will not do so any further this sea
son. Mrs. Lincoln has- not been at all in so
ciety this season, as, indeed, she has not
from the beginning of he*' husoand’s term, a
series of afflictions having kept her out
of society during the entire time. At
the other residences where the cus
tomary Wednesday receptions were in order,
there were large numbers of people, many
of them thinking this the last day of the sea
son. And so it is, in some cases at least. Mrs.
Brewster,who is a devout Episcopalian, would
not think ot continuing her receptions during
Lent. Mrs Teller, who is a Methodist, will
make her receptions very informal, if she
continues them, out of regard for those who
keep Lent more rigidly. So, with Mrs. Brews
ter not receiving, Mrs. Chandler ill, Mrs. Car
lisle detained in her rooms by the circum
stances referred to, and the others of the Cab
inet group inclined to observe the season
wh ch affords rest as weil as time for religious
duties, this is probably the busiest day that
callers will have during the season yet In a
general way, however, society is beginning to
cool off' a bit, for most of the important sopial
events of the “to be continued order” have
passed away. The President’s receptions, the
series of evening receptions at General Sheri
dan’s, the Friday evening receptions at the
Russian Minister’s, the Wednesday evening
germans and numbers of other serials
of this sort are things of the past., so far
as the present season is co cerned. It is a
good thing, too, for it will give some ot
the dude government clerks a chance
to sober up and write their resignations in a
condition of semi-respectability after the 4th
of March. There is a certain ciass of young
fellows highly connected, who cling to small
clerkships here, mostly for the hold they
have on society during the social season, and
who never miss anything that has the sem
blance of a party when they can get at it. ln
deed,someof them do not hesitate, if they
are not invited, to go without an invitation.
This was especially noted after the reception
at the residence of the Japanese Minister, a
few days since, that there were numbers
present who were not invited at all, and
numbers of those invited brought other than
the members of their immediate families
with them. To these young fellows, who
make a business of this sort of tiling, tne
pun-h bowl and the lunch table are the child
attractions at these places They camp in
that vicinity, and vibrate from the one t<>
the other.
THOMAS VILLE’S NEW HOTEL.
Formal Opening of the Piny Woods
House —A Delightful Hop —Handsome
Dresses, Go .cl Music and Ev t rything
Elegant.
Thomasvillk, Feb. 13.—The Piny Woods
Hotel was formally opened last night by Mrs.
M. A. Bower, pioprietor and Mr. E. A.
Gillette, manager, by a grand ball. It was
attended by all the guests of the hotel, nearly
everybody in town, and many strangers, in
cluding a number from Albany, Quitman
and Monticello, Florida, and some from your
own city, prominent among whom was Mr.
D. J. Maclntyre, formerly of this pla e.
It proved in every respect a delightful oc
casion. Dancing terminated promptly at 12
o clock. The refreshment room was open all
the evening, and the tables, which were liber
ally supplied with the good things of life,
were liberally patronized. Everything with
out exception was elegant and delightful.
The dresses oft he ladies were the handsomest
ever seen in Thomasville. The entrance,
dining hall and pallors were beautifully
decorated with flowers and evergreens. The
music was very good, and the entertainment
was thoroughly enjoyed by all present.
The Piny Woods is one of the best hotels
in the South. It is now full of guests from
the North, seeking health and pleasure in
our balmy, genial clime, and under its pres
ent management is destined to become well
and popularly known ail over the country.
The opening ball of Thursday will ever be a
delightful memory to all present—to home
people as well as to the stranger \gilbin our
gates. M.
ELECTION C »N « ESC EXPENSES.
Bad N w» to Certain Parties.
Washington, D. C., Feb. 14.—At a meeting
of the Hou<e Committee on Elections
it was determined t hat no action will be tak
en on claims for expenses in contested elec
* tions in any other i han this Congress. There
are a vast number of those claims before the
committee. : :regating a large sum andcov
erin mi y Congresces. In contests of Mc-
Lean vs. BroaUhead, Miss.. Massey vs. Wise,"
Va.; and Pool vs. Skinner, N. C,, action will
not be urged up n the House, as reports have
been made iu favor of the sit7ing membrs A
meeting of the committee is tobe hei t
at which a conclusion will probably be ef
fected in the case of Fredericks vs. Wilson, of
lowa.
CHICAGO MARKETS.
Yesterday,s Quotations of Western Pro
duce.
Special Dispatch to the Daily Times.
Chicago, Feb. 14.—Wheat was very quiet,
trading being largely local. Scalpers are
generally bearish, »ut afraid to sell short, as
83%has been the turning point so often. It
closed to-day at 83%. Should it go below 83%
on Monday, it will doubtless sell under 83,
when buyers can take hold with confidence.
Corn is steady and dull with large receipts
expected, and small movement on account of
the railroad blockade. The tendency Is
slightly lower. Provisions are slightly lower,
but do not decline as easily as expected,
closing to-day at sl3asls for May pork; 7.17%
for Mav lard; (5.70 for May ribs. The trade
generally expects lower prices next week,
but expected large receipts are olten fully
discounted before they come.
Mayer’s Magic Soap is the most economical
in the market. Saves time and money. Man
ufactured by William Hone £ bo.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 15, 1885.
MR. CLEVKUAND WRITES A LETTER
1 In Which He Enumerates Some Wise
Piinciples.
New York, Feb. 14. President-elect
Cleveland, iu a letter of regret at his inabili
ty to attend a banquet recently given by a
Cleveland and Hendricks Club in Erie coun
ty, wrote:
“In addition to what is said as a motto for
your club, I wish to say that the preserva
tion of personal right, the equality of all
citizens before the law, the reserved rights ot
the States, and the Supremacy of the Federal
Government within the limits of the Cohst i
tution will ever form the true basis or our
liberties, and will never be surrendered
without destroying the balance of rights
and the powers which enables a continent to
be developed in peace and social order to be
maintained by means of local self-govern
ment; but it is indispensable for the practical
operation and enforcement of these funde
mental principles that the Government
should not always be controlled by one poli
tical power. Frequent changes of administra
tion are as necessary as constant recurrences
to the popular will; otherwise abuses grow
and the government, instead of being carried
on for the general welfare, becomes an instru
mentality for imposing heavy burdens on the
many, who are governed for the benefit ot
the few who govern. Public servants thus
become arbitrary rulers.”
A CONSPIRACY
To Kill a Witness iu the U. S. Courts—The
Conspirators Arrested.
Special Dispatch Daily Times.
Macon, Feb. 14.—Six negroes, Thomas Ad
ams, Anderson Green, Zeb Thomas, John
Bray, Squire Whitehead and Wash Clieely,
were arrested by Officers Mose’y and Raley
in Warren ton yesterday, charged with con
spiracy and intimidation of a witness, Frank
Rhodes, in a case of the United States vs.
Jas. Whitehead, charged with selling whisky
without license. tt
Tne witness was coming to the united
States Court to testify. He was beaten and
abused, and threats were made to k 11 him it
he testified. The case was heard before U. S
Commissioner L. M. Erwin and continued
until Monday. Much excitement exists in
Warren county over the arrest, of the pris
oners.
A HORRIBLE STORY.
Fiendish Work of an Inhuman Undertaker.
Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 14.—A horrible story
is told of a colored undertaker in this city.
Last Thursday he buried the child of a re
spectable colored woman residing on Ala
bama street, and because the mother was uu
able to pay at once $2 due him, he dug up the
body, took it out of the coffin, returned it to
the house and laid it on a board, and told tlx*
frantic mother that when the -S2 were paid he
would again bury her child. The neighbors
arose with indignation, and the white people
in the locality at once subscribed sufficient
money to have the remains decently re
buried.
THAT £IO,OOO REWARD.
Pat Joyce Wants it Understood that Ros
sa and He Didn’t Offer It.
In relation to the reward of SIO,OOO that the
“Shaun O’Neil” offers in O’Donovan Rossa’s
i paper for the body of the Prince of Wales,dead
or alive, a gentleman connected with the
New York United States District Attorney’s
I office said: “There is no law under which
1 I Rossa could be prosecuted for publishing
that.”
Pat Joyce said : “Sure, it’s not mesclf or
Rossa who offers the reward. Tis the Shaun
< >'Xeil. who sent the dispatch to us in cipher
from Dublin.”
Holding up six or eight pages of manu
script written with r d ink, Mr. Joyce said:
“This is a red letter day for us.” One of the
pages contained this:
“To that putrid hell hound, O’Donova
Rossa ! Fiend, beast, slayer of women and
children! I’m a friend of the Queen, God
bless her. Take notice ! For months I have
practiced in my lonely chamber upon a
figure, with a keen-edged, serrated and
trusted dagger steeped in the
poisonous virus of a dead murderer and
tipped with corrosive poison. My aim for a
heart is unerring, swift and strong, On Feb
ruary 171 will hunt you. I will find you,
even though you may be in the infernal
region*. My cold and venomous steel will
crash through your ribs. A Rustler.”
Mr. Joyce said he was afraid.
WEDDED TO A JAILBIRD.
A Wealthy Ohio Girl Marries a Man She
Had Never Seen.
A special dispatch from Newark, Ohio, says
Last July Charles Klett was placed in jail here
under a sentence of 00 days and a fine of SSOO
for stealing chickens. In the jail at the same
time was Jacob Houck, an old insane resident
of Burlington township. Houck had a daugh
; ter named Anna, 19 years old, weighing al
j most 200 pounds and about 4% feet in height.
Houck was released from jail in a short t ime
and on going home related to his daughter
Anna what a nice young fellow Klett was
The girl became interested in him and wrote
to him. Her letter was answered and the
correspondence was continued.
' she was anxious to know wiiat brought him
; there. He answered that with some compan
ions on a spree lie had drawn cuts to see who
would secure a chicken to roast, and it fell to
his lot, which got him in jail. January 31st
KRtt was discharged. Miss Houck never saw
him until yesterday, when they met and pro
ceeded to Burlington township, whore the
courtship so strangely begun was consum
- mated by marriage. Miss Houck inherited
about SIO,OOO worth of property from her
mother. She owns a line farm, on which sli6
and her husband will live. Very little is
known here of Klett, except that he never
did any work.
Prevention ot Cholera.
Washington, Feb. 14.—The Secretary of
the Treasury has written to Collector Robert
son that a number of requests have been re
ceived here from rag importers for permis
sion to store rags in Brooklyn arriving from
foreign ports without subjecting them to the
Treasury order requiring them to be disin
fected, but that these requests cannot be
granted. The department holds that as the
order requiring rags to be disinfected was a
sanitary measure to prevent the introduc
tion of cholera and other diseases into the
United States, the rags upon arrival must be
sent to the Baltic stores for immediate disin
fection.
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Many unscrupulous dealears may tell you
uhey have remedies for Coughs and Colds
equal in merit and in every respect just as
good as the old reliable Dr. Bosanko Cough
and Lung Syrup, unless you insist upon this
remedy and will take no other, you are liable
no be greatly deceived. Price 50 cenis and sl.
ttoidby Osceola Butler and E. J. Kieffer.
Any one who uses the Magic Soap once wi 11
use no other. Our circulars are reliable, and
the soap will do all we say. William Hone
£ Co.
GRAIN ANI) FORK
SPECULATIONS IN THE GREAT
WEST
Bulls and Bears Bo It Exci ed—Approach
ing End of the Packing Season—Lower
Prices Anticipated—'The Corn and
Wheat Outlook.
Special Dispatch to Savannah Daily Times- j
Chicago, Feb. 14.~Provisions have sudden j
ly jumped into prominence on ’Change. The
little pit where all the winter trade has been
slow and tame, and which at times has been
almost deserted, is once more crowded to
overflowing and the howling of excited oper
ators there rivals the roaring of the bulls aud
bears of the wheat crowd. The end of the
packing season is rapidly approaching. The
packing houses are full of produce and man
ufacturers no longer have any object in keep
ing down pork, lard and ribs In order to de
press the prices of live hogs. Receipts ot the
• animals have been liberal, but not up to ex
pectations, aud the big arrivals of “broad
black backs” anticipated during February
don’t seem to materialize. From this time on
throughout the summer, packers control the
provision market. In fact, they control it
the year round, though they are not anxious
to show their hands during the “season ' lest
farmers either hold back their shipments
or ask more money tor them. Hogs this win
ter have been high and it has been main
tained all along that it was impossible to pay
. $4 50 and $4 85 for them and, after putting
them in a barrel of pork, make money out
of the product at sll and sl2 per barrel.
Speculators, however, who don't run packing
houses considered this simply sharp play on
the part of those who do. So they sold and
talked bearish and talked bearish and sold.
As usual, Armour’s brokers were about aud
quietly took the majority of these offerings,
and without making any fuss about it, have
encouraged every body to sell. Other pack
ers too have not been averse to buying, and
as the first of March approaches, the market
!* bids fair to be in much the same position
that it was at the same, time in ISB4, with this
exception. Last year it was Armour against
i everybody, packers included. This time
■ other manufacturers also own speculative
options to a greater or less extent, and out
sides, local operators and scalpers
represent the short interest. All the “fences
have been put up quietly. Now Col. r Myoritc,
Armour's right baud man, isaetively bidding
. for the stuff and >Lt> pork is the talk, i'iniv
will doubtless be, as there always is, many
down turns to shake out toilers and attract
short sellers, but it seems to be an undis
puted fact that the market is once more in
control of Armour & Co. Stocks are light and
' the shipping demand good, shipments of
• products for last month being nearly double
. those for the corresponding month a year
ago, and so nearly equalling the supply that
' scarcely anything was added to stocks.
1 Operatives iu the speculative pit have cou
! traded to deliver at sUasi2 something like
200,000 barrels of pork, which they dc not
; own. None but winter-made pork can be useu
io fill these contracts, and the packers alone
have got this io sell.
Wheat is active but the course ot prices
very erratic. Operators, big and little,,are
I working for “escapes,” and nobody stands
any time on their trades. War news is tin
principal theme of the bulls, but the fact that
British and other foreign markets which
should naturally be the first to show the in
rtuenee of the trouble, r-main stumpy, goes
goes far to allay the fear of the bears here,
“It's impossible to predict .what a lot ot
reckless speculators wiii do, said Bliss to
night; “but I see nothing of a legitimate char
acter on which to base an advance.
“I shall wait for the wheel ot time to throw
up something to stand on before I begin sell
ing wheat,” said Bodman.
Lindblom says: “Producers are determined
to sell their grain at any prie.. and why should
anybody i-e asked to carry at great expense
what the producer himsplf does not want to
carry at no expense. This piling up ot im
mense supplies where buyers can see it and
show that it is to b- had at their own prices,
muff cease or prices will drop to figures i hat
will not pay for hauling the wheat to mar
ket.” . . .
Corn is steady, large receipts are expected
soon and Eastern shipments are restricted by
wa n t of fre igh t room.
“Ther ’ll come a time later on, said a
dealer to-day, “when wagon roads West break
up and farmers’ deliveries are stopped, that
the railroads will be clear and will want busi
ness badly even at lower rates. Then per
haps corn will take a boo n.”
4N ABSCONDING DEBTOR.
Tne Jewelry Store of E. L. Granger Seized
by the Sheriff on the oi Dr. Si.
monds.
News and Courier.
The jewelry store of K. L. Granger, 340Kingst.
was seized by the Sheriff yesterday under an
' attachment issued in a suit forsl,soo, brought
by Dr. Andrew Sintonds, President of the j
First National Bank. The attachment was j
; made under the Absconding Debtors' Act.
! The circumstances of the ease are set frt h
I in au affidavit made by Mr. ILnry Orinch, of
. 312 King street, who states that he is the en
dorser of a note (or 51,500, made by K. L.
Granger on January 7, payable in thirty
. days and held bv tlie First National Bank;
that Granger left this city on the sth ot the
present month, saying that he was going to
■ Savannah to sell some goods, and that he
> would return on the 1 flowing Sunday, but
, tlmt he has never returned to the city. Yes
terday morning Mrs. Granger showed him a
i letter from her husband in which he stated
i that he did not intend to return to Charles
• ton; that he had been robbed of his goods,
(supposed to be diamonds and jewelry) and
‘ that she had better return to her parents,
- who are supposed to live in Chicago. Upon
’ this affidavit and that of Dr. Simonds the at
' tachment was issued and the store seized by
the sheriff.
The affair created some talk on the street
• Granger has lived in Charleston a number of
> years, and until la t year kept a cigar store
■ and liquor saloon at N 0.344 King street. Bast
l year he opened a jewelry establishment at
' No. 340 King street, which was handsomely
' fitted up for the purpose. It is not though’
1 that he owes much over the 5t,.500 in tais city.
' His principal creditors, it i» thought, are in
the North. The condition of his stock can
not be ascertained until an inventory lias
been made.
MACON MATTERS.
The New Street Railway Company—The
Eire Department Complications.
MACON, Feb. 12.—Mr. T. J. Carling, Presi
dent of the Macon Street Railroad Company,
i is in New York. He has contracted for steel
rails and cars for the full equipment of the
road, which will be completed in two months.
Work will begin March Ist.
Mr. D. W. Stroud, a prominent railroad
man, spent the day in this city. He is Presi
dent of the Citizens’ Street Railroad ot
Springfield, Ohio, with a capital of *200,003
aud he also owns 8150 000 worth ot stock in
the Street Railroad, of Cleveland, Ohio. He
wants to buy an interest in the Macon Street
Railroad.
The matter of the Macon Fire Department
has assumed another complication. A writ
<tf quo warranto will be served by Col. W. 11.
Wylly. counsel for J. 1.. Kennedy, before
Judge Simmons to serve rule nisi on E. B.
Grace, recently appointed by Council, why
and by what authority lie holds the office oi
Chief. Kennedy claims to be Chief amt says
Council has no right to appoint Grace.
WYNTON. ,
SUNDAY CLOSING OF SALOONS.
A Movement for the Vigorous Enforce
ment of tlie Laws.
Editor Daily Times.—To-day ctm j
mences a vigorous and faithful enforcement 1
of our law as to the closing of all bar room*, \
saloons and resorts where liquor is said. We
had occasion a short time past, in speaking
of this contemplated move, to offer sugges
| tions, which seems to have met the sanction
of our dealers, as they have determined
that the enforcement of the law shall he
universal, and that if one liquor saloon is
clos d all shall be, and that there shall be
no discrimination. When it becomes
thoroughly understood that the dealers
themselves shall see to the vigorous prose
cution of all who violate the law, there will
i be no “side openings,,’ “alley way en
; trances,” or devices resorted to to defeat the
ends of justice and make the law a nullity.
' | Os the wisdom of our laws as to closing on
' the Sabbath, no man of judgment can
question. It is just, it is human, it will
tend to diminish crime. Here in the city
1 and surroundings we have nearly four hun
dred bar rooms, and whilst it can be truth
\ fully said that many of them are
; quiet and eieeedingly orderly, and
* are conducted in the best possible
. manner, yet it is likewise true that v e have
a large number that are of the lowest and
> vilest, and are the receptacles for all kinds,
classes and grades of degradation—places
; where parties gather to gamble, curse and
[ m <ke use of the vilest profanity. ’Tis in
such places that we have our periodical
murders and and cutting scrapes, all chiefly
; the rtsalt of the class who resort there and
. nrink the “stuff” called liquor that is used.
I We believe that the good order, peace and
I dignity of the city will be greatly subserved
I by this Sunday closing. Crime will be less;
the Mayor’s Court will lose its patronage;
; our pleasant resorts will be more sought
' | after, and hom?s made happier.
; i We congratulate our prominent liquor
! dealers on their determination to see this
■ law enforced sucressfu ly. It is the right
■ ! move, and com s from the right direction,
and will tend more to a lay liie h stile sen
. j timent which seems to have existed against
. them in the past than any move they have
. ever made. Let all close —no exceptions—
. j and if any one liquor dealer opens, then let
■ i him do so at his peril We need Sunday as
| a dsv of rest and retr at’on Liar-keeper.
i wz ’( n, dealers require it, and the happiness
1 and comfort of Society demand it.
At the Altar.
On Friday last Hon. James S Hook, of
■{Augusta, was married at ttie Christian
{ Church of that city to Miss Lula C. Mays,
formerly of Lexington, Ivy. Judge Huok
! has many friends so this city, who will read
with interest the foiiovi ig notice ot his
bride and himself pu > is . ■ i in the Augusta
i hr’nioie of Friday :
“This lady came to Augu-ta about one
. I year ago from Lexington, Kv., in search of
milder climate for her health. She spent
j last winter in Summerville, passing the
summer months in the sky land of North
1 Carolina, and returned here 'n the fall. Mrs.
Mays has not only regained her health in
the sunny southland, but has many Iriends
i among our people, who were attracted
' by her refinement and cultivation. She is
j a lady of rare literary and artistic accom ■
plishments, ar.d will be a congenial com
panion for Judge Hook, who is one of
the most learned and eloquent members of
the Augusta bar. As practitioner, pleader
' and advocate he is well known, and in the
fields of the scholar as well aßin the powers
of the orator is well versed and highly en
dowed. Few men are more genial and kind
i ly in nature, and his friends of the profes
sion aud among the people unite with his
interesting family in wishing Judge and
Mrs. Hook much happiness- The bridal
couple left on the Port Royal train yester
day, immediately after the ceremony, for
! Savannah, where Judge Hook has many
j relatives and friends.”
1 During their stay in Savannah Mr.
and Mrs. Hook will be guests at the Screv-
I en House.
Off For New Orleans.
Yesterday morning quite a large party of
Savannahians left via the Savannah, Florida
and Western Kiilway for New Orleans,
Among them were Messrs. James B. West
and wife, F. M. Hull and wife, J. K Clarke,
wife and daughter, and C. C. Hardwick.
Last night another party cemprising of
Messrs.-C. H. Harrison, and Herman Myers
with six ladies, J. M Henderson, wife and
daughter, J. M. Donnelly and wife, Charles
R. Ford. This morning Dr. Osceola Butler
and wife, and a number of others will leave.
The sleepers went out lull and a number
were compelled to do without sleeping car
accommodations. About 34 will leave this
• morning.
The Central Railroad train left last
night crowded. Among the excursionists
were the following :
Dr C C Schley, W H Schley, Mr A Hass, Mrs
A Hass. M S Boykin, Mrs S P Goodwin. Miss
C S Goodwin, Miss A J Andrews, Miss M V
. Warren, Mrs Mildred G DeMartin. Jacob
; Cohen, Miss Cohen, Mr F Clark, Mrs M A
Clark, Miss CE Clark, Rev Mr Mendes, J L
Langley, Mrs J L Langley, G A Osburn, W H
Whitney, Mrs W H Whitney, C A Mathews,
Mrs C A Mathews, H M Haygood, Miss Ella
M Haygood, Chas T Malloy, Miss Fannie
Malloy, F K Brewer, Aaron Ferst, Chas H
Malloy, Miss Mary H Malloy, Jake Sternberg,
C M. Richmond, W M Mason, CK Henderson,
A A Solomons, Jr, Miss Hendricks, Charles
Gassman. J A Whitney. Mrs J A Whitney, C
K Edwards, Mrs Chas Hamilton.
A Dramatic Song Writer.
W. J. Scanlan.the Irish comedian,is to day
one of the wealthiest gentlemen in the pro
fession, having made his wealth through his
musical genius a- an actor. He has written
such songs as “I’e k-a-B-io,” which alone
paid him $28,G00; “My Nellie’s Blue
Eyes,” and his latest, “Something lor the
Babies,” are said to he equal to ‘ Peek-a
--“oo.” Mr. Scanlan’s next engagement in
New York will take place at the expiration
|of Henry Irving’s engagement, when he
} will produce bis new play, written by J. H.
i Ivnox, editor of the Texas Siftings. Mr.
J Scinlan begins an engagement at the Sa
vannah Theatre on next Friday, playing
| tWJ uigh'.s, mid "aturJay matinee.
A SERIOUS MATTER
! WHICH SHOULD HE THOROUGHLY
INVESTIGATED.
I W- ry Unptaaaant Discovery at the Mar
i ket—lmpure and Unwholesome Meat
Off'ered for Sale—The Practice
Said to he More Common than
Even Imagined—Crooked
Practices of Disrep
utable Butchers.
j A case needing the most vigorous atten
j tion of the municipal authorities for many
reasons came to the notice of a Times re
porter yesterday morning. A well known
| gentleman of the city was in the market
| early in the day, and was approached by
I Mr. I. G. Cohen, a butcher in the market ,
| who asked him if he wanted to bny some
1: n ee veal. He went to tne stall of that
1 j butcher, and there found two “sbnks” on
| the block. He immediately recognized them
as such, and asked Cohen where he got
' them. Cohen said that a negro bn’cher
• named Frank Smith had sold thmp to him
for veal. He did not suspect anything
: wrong until he wpnt to Smith’s to get the
I heads, feet and livers. They could not be
i found. Then he made an examination of
the lungs of the animals and found
1 that they had never been filled
with air, proving that they
had never been born. He notified
Smith, who immediately rushed the two
carcasses into a wagon and had them re
moved from the market. Smith, who is
a butcher of a very unenviable repute, hav
i ing been implicated in more than one case
jof doubtful ownership of cattle, besides
other disreputable scrapes, denied at first
that he had done the deed, saying that his
hired boys had butchered the two cows and
{ dressed the unknown calves while he was
! sick in bed. He protested *‘’fore God be
I didn’t know nuthin hout the slinks, cause
he was sick and could not go to the butcher
pen,” etc The boy was questioned and de
nied that he had done it, but charged
I -Smith with the act, flatly swearing that he
had gone on the wagon to the pen, butch
| ered thecattle aud brought them to the city,
i Some one else had seen Smith on the
wagon coming to the city. When
with this the rascal
; ! acknowledged the whole thing and begged
Mr. Cohen not to prosecute him and he
- would settle the affair. He went to the
gentleman to whose attention Mr Cohen
first brought the matter, and begged him to
! use his influence in saving him from prose
s i cution, but of course without success. The
, gentleman, in walking through the market,
stopped at another h"tcher’s stall and exam
> ined a veal, stating that he was looking for
j “slinks.” The body of the calf—not a
1 “slink,” however—was promptly removed
i j from the market. The reason of this was
that it was not what it should have been
and things look’ d a little dubious, so the
proprietor spirited it away. This is only
on ■ instance of the many cases of the kind
crostantly occurring in the market,
and which will keen on occurring
so long as the present system of conducting
the public market is tolerated. It isstated, on
good authority, by a gentleman who knows
what he is talking about, that there
1 are some butche-s in the market who
would recoil from eating beef sold to their
| customers as of the best quality. Os course
j the reputable butchers are anxious to have
{this ) emedied
j A countryman will come to the city and
sell a beef for two or three cents a pound to
i some unscrupulous butcher who, sometimes,
without any knowledge of what disease it
died with —and sometimes with a full know
ledge—sells it off to his customers as the
“choicest” and “juiciest” in the market.
■ It frequently is very juicy—from disease. A
'< carload of cattle arrives at the
1 depot. The car is crowded as
- fully as possible to save freight,
■ and in the passage from point of
' shipment to destination the principle of
’ the “survival of the fittest” i 6 well exem
plified, the weaker cattle being trampled
• under foot by the stronger. Sometimes they
■ are dead, at others nearly so. These
maimed and dead animals are sold at any
price, placed in wagons and taken to the
pens and dressed and sold as good beef.
f Those which are not, are immediately killed
x in order to “save their lives.” Other meth
ods equally revolting are practiced daily.
' A whole volume could be writlen on the
t subject. Dealers in fish and vegetables are
, subject to the same remarks, and the amount
of fraud practiced is shocking. This mat
s t'r is one of great importance to the entire
s j population of the city, for many reasons.
In the first place, people do not relish the
j j idea of eating stuff not perfectly
r , pure and wholesome simply on the prin
| ciple of cleanliness. Then this unwhole -
r some food cannot bnt be productive of the
r most disastrous results to the health of the
i city every year —generally in the summer
numerous deaths, quite sudden, occur. They
t | baffle the skill of the best physicians who
\ try to diagnose the disease properly, but
fail for the reason that they do not know
what has been taken into the stomach,
j Many cases attributed to malaria might
much more properly be attributed to spoiled
.| or impure meat, fish and vegetables. It has
1 , been suggested that a well paid and experi
enced inspector should be appointed, whose
! duty it should be to visit all the yards, pens
and stalls and see that no impure stuff be
offered for sale or brought to the market.
Temperance Mass Meeting.
There will be a meeting of all the differ
ni emperance oaganizations of the city, as
w 11 as all other friends of the cause who
may feel disposed toattend,at Masonic Hall,
this afternoon at 3:30 o’clock. The Rev. T.
T Christian has been invited to act as
chairman of the meeting, and an invitation
extended to all the clergy of the city to be
j present and occupy seats upon the platform.
| Addresses will be made by Rev. C. H.
Mead, of Hornellsville, N. Y, the well
, known temperance evangelist of the Na-
I tional Temperance Society, and Mrs. Sallie
F. Chapin, of Charleston, S. C., a distin-
I guished worker and representativ eof the
j Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of
! America. Both of these are able and eU>-
j quent advocates of temperance, and all who
| may hear them this afternoon will certainly
] be very highly enierUined.
SOOO A YEAR
VALENTINE’S DAY.
Tlie I’ost Office Kept Busy Yesterday.
Yesterday was St. Valentine’s day, and
I the Post Office department was kept quite
busy all day handling the missives. The
customs of this time honored day have
somewhat deteriorated, as now $5 is con
| sidered quite a sum to pay for a Valentine,
whereas $25 or S3O was a common price 25
jor 30 years ago. Then comic Valentines
| were the exception, now they are the gen
j eral rule. The number passing through
i mails to-day was, as compared with that of
J tha same date last year, not so large by far,
| but notwithstanding this, the clerks in the
{ Post Office have been kept very busy, the
| mail carriers having gone out each time
j yesterday with fat pouches containing
{ | these missives, written generally in
j disguised chirography. Many, in fact the
I majority of them, were comic, selected with
i a view of hitting 4t some weakness of the
receiver, either real or imagined, of which
. j the said receiver is conscious. The man
,i who is in the habit of taking his gin and
, toddy was favored wiih a huge caricature
; j representing him with a devil astraddle his
» j back holding the tempting bottle under his
f nose. The old maid was made “too mad for
j | any use” at the reception of a hideous sheet
I representing her as a simpering girl of 75 or
, 80 summers, setting her cap for some man—
j any man—so it is a man. The young man
, who tninks he has brains, but
has nothing but sawdust in his
3 cranium, is forcibly reminded
of the fact. The entire list of infirmities
, to which the human form and mind is sus
\ ceptible is hit at by these comic caricatures,
j While some of them cut, and cut deep too,
, the majority do not, and are intended only
i as a pleasantry at a friend once in a year.
! Those who may feel hurt will probably
, j recover their good temper by next Valen
i tine’s Day.
A SHORE OFF DOBOY.
All Italian Balk Filling With Water—AU
Hope of Saving Her Abandoned.
Messrs. M. S. Cosulich & Co. recently
chartered the Italian bark Volpeni, Captain
Verdina, to report at Tybee, Doboy or Port
Royal for orders. She arrived at Tybee bar
on the 12th inst., and was ordered to Doboy
to be loaded with a cargo of lumber for some
port in Eugland. Messrs. M. S. Cosulich &
; Co. received a telegram yesterday morning
' { reporting her going ashore on the north shoal
1 off Doboy Friday in. Jit, and filling fas;. She
is a 733 ton zesse), built iu Savona, Italy,
in 1874. Her official number ’s 100, rates
|! L. 1.1. in the Italian register of Genoa, and is
| owned by Mr. D. Oneto, ofComoglie, Italy.
’ 1 She is insured in the Mutual Insurance
j Company of Comoglie, Italy, which com
pany is represented by Messrs. M. S. Cosu
| lich & Co. They leport her fully covered
by insurance.
A telegram received at 2 p. m. yesterday
reports the vessel full of water, anil that
there is no possible chance of saving her.
-J. A. Sykes’ Case Dismissed.
Y’esterday morning the case of J. A.
I Sykes, colored, charged with embezzling
; mail matter was again taken up and an ex
-1 amination held in the office of United
, States Commissioner Isaac Beckett. This
,| is the third attempt to have an examina
, ! tion, the two previous ones which were re
ported fully in the Times, having been in
' complete on account of the non-attendance
: through sickness of Edward Seegers, of
. Cincinnati, Ohio, an important witness. On
' Friday Seegers arrived in the city, and re
! ported to Marshal Wade. The case was
• called at 11 o’clock and Seegers was put on
1 the stand, it was expected to prove by him
that the lamp and razor set stolen had been
placed in the mail by him. When ques
• tinned he absolutely knew nothing to
’ which he could swear. The house for whom
‘ he had worked, had informed Inspector
’ Booth by letter that Seegers had
J packed and mailed the lamp and razor
• i set and stated even the hour of the day on
• j which he had mailed it, but he said that he
' ! hsd to mail, express or send by freight all
■ , goods shipped by this house, hut could not
- say if he sent this package or not, or whether,
s { if he sent it, the lamp and razor set had not
| been left out. Sometimes cases did occnr
‘ { where a part of an order was inadvertently
3 J left out and this might have been the case
• {in this instance. As it could not be proven
3 I that the articles claimed to have been strlen
’ { had ever been placed in the mails, the. case
■ against Sykes was dismissed. Seegurs is a
' j young man of about 24 years of age and has
! never been two miles out of the city of Cin
' | cinrati in his life until now. He could
not tell the population of his own city.
Superior Court
Court convened yesterday at 10 a. m.,
Hon. A. Pratt Adams Judge presiding, and
the following proceedings were had:
P. Killorin vs James Heagney. Certiorari
’ After heaaing argument the court rendered
a judgment sustaining the judgment of the
Sustice, and dismissing the certiorari at
] cost of the plaintiff in the certiorari
‘ Herman Myers et al, complainants,
' {and Heniy Miller et al., defendants. In
equity. Hearing had in part upon motion
i for injunction, etc., and further hearing
3 j postponed until Tuesday evening, at 4
, j o’clock.
A. H. Worthman et al., complainants,
’ { and Win. Russnk, defendant, in equity,
j ! Dismissed by complainants attorney.
, Emma Raymond et al., vs Louis Knorr,
, j administrator, etc., et al. Ejectment. Re
| mitter of Supreme Court filed and made the
judgment of this court.
i 1 The grand jury were in session during
. the entire forenoon, aud rendered several
s j true bills, and after making their genera!
i presentments —published elsewhere—were
. discharged fir the term.
PREETTY, WOMN
> | Ladies who would retain freshness and
r ! vivacity. Don’t fail to try “Wells' Health;