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VOL. 6.-XO. 57.
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
LATEST HAPPENINGS AT HOME
AND ABROAD.
Arraignment of the London Dynamiters—
Chances for an ExrraS ssion—A Youth
ful Murderer and Thief—Congres
sional Proceedings and Gen
eral Items.
Fort Smith, Ark, Feb. 2.—George
Hughes, a boy about 18 years old, hailing
from Cleveland, O , s'arted on a tramp of
the Cherokee Nation, and last Friday night
stopped at Camp Creek, nine miles fr< m this
city. He was given a room with a man
named Pugh, and during the night got up,
knocked his bedfellow in the head with a
billet of wood, robbed him
of SBS and fled, coming back
to this city. Pugh died from his injuries
yesterday, and Hughes was arrested at a
farm house four miles from town, just after
crawling out of a corn crib, where he had
spent the night. Eighty dollars of the
stolen money was recovered. He had spent
the rest at a low resort in this city Saturday.
He acknowledged that he struck Pugh four
times, but says he didn’t think of killing
him.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
This Morning’s Work of Both Houses.
Washington, March 2—in the House
to-day Mr. Randall, of Pennsylvania, from
the Committee on Appropriations, reported
back the Naval appropriation bill with
Senate amendments and asked that they be
considered in the House as in Committee of
the Whole. So ordered.
When the Senate met at 9 o’clock this
morning there were but six Senators in their
seats. The Journal was par ially read, when
on motion of Mr. Hale, its further reading
was dispensed with.
Mr. Hill made a personal explanation
respecting cer ain communications received
by the Senate from the Department of the
Interior, on the subj ct of the reports of
special agents. Mr. Hill took the ground
that the reports called for had been delayed
and made unnecessarily voluminous, with a
view of preventing their consideration dur
ing this seseion of Congress.
The Senate then took up the Sundry
Civil Bill. Considerable discussion took
place on the subject of increasing the limit
for the completion of a public building at
Columbus, Ohio, to SIIO,OOO, as proposed
by the House, the Senate Committee having
reduced the limit to $50,000. Mr. Beck
took the ground that this question should
be carefully considered, as its decision by
the Senate would govern a number of cases.
BUTLER AND ROSECRYNS.
Sharp Controversy Going On.
Boston, March 2. The publication of a
letter from General Rosecrans yesterday
morning, setting forth that discrepancies
were found in General Butler’s accounts
amounting to over $ 00,000, has brought on
a sharp reply from Butler.
SERIOUS STRIKE.
All Trains L. and F. R. R. Abandoned.
Olean, N. ¥., March 2 —All trains on
the Lackawana and Pittsburg Railroad have
been abandoned owing to all the employes
of the road striking for back pay for the
past six months. The men will not resume
work until all wages due them are paid -
New York Produce Market.
New York, March 2.—Flour dull and
unchanged. Wheat, No. 2 red, winter,
March, 87J ; April, 88} ; May 89}. Corn
No. 2, mix’ d, 50J ; March, 49} ; April, 49} ;
May oats, No. 2, mized, March, 37 ; do April,
36}. Rye firm ; No. 1 71}. Barley nominal
Pork dull; mess,sl2 50a12 75. Lard, $7 20
March; $7 27 April; $7 2} May. Molasses
steady; 40a52 Turpentine quiet; 32. Rosin
dull; strained to good, $1 20al 25.
Petroleum dull; crude in cases at 6}a7|
Butter steady; western imitation creamery
choice at 21a22. Cheese quiet; Ohio flat
prime to choice at lOplli. Eggs
weak and lower; State at 26; West I
ern 25a26. Rice nominal. Sugar dull, I
refined cut loaf 6}a6 5-8, granulated 6}. [
Tallow stetdy, prime city 6 3-16.6}.
Freights dull, gry,jn Liverpool 3d, Coti}?
weak, f a i r cargoes 9},
Trial Os Dynamiters.
London, Feb. 2. —Harry Burton and Jas.
Cuhning'ham, who are charged with treason
hnd felony, in having caused the recent dy
namite explosions, were brought up at Bow
street Police Court again to-day for their
fourth examination.
A 550.000 Fire
Dallas, Texas, March 2—At 11 o’clock
last night a fire was discovered in C. D.
Evan’s dry goods store, and spread to Bar
ber’s music store. Both establishments
were burned. Loss about $50,000. In
surance unknown.
Champion sculling Match.
Sydney, N. S. W. March 2—The scu’ling
match at Sydney, A istralia, betweed Beach
and Clifford, for the championship of the
world, was won by the former.
Probabilities.
Washington, March 2.—For the Sont h
Atlantic States, fair weather, slightly colder
on the coast, nearly stationary temperature
in the interior and westerly winds.
Increasing Prospects Foran Extra Session
Washington, March 2—The prospects
for an extra session of Congress, appears as
time goes on, to increase rather than di
minish. r
Ovation to H. R. 11.
London, March 2. —The Prime of Wales
I visited the Stock Exchange to-day, and re
ceived a perfect ovation. .
TERRIBLE DOMESTIC TRAGEDY,
A Brooklyn Woman Kills Her Husband
to Save Her Own Life.
New York, March 2.—The relations be
tween Mr. and Mrs. William F. Fox, who
live at No. 150 South First street, Williams
burg, for a long time past have been of the
most disturbing character. Early on Fri
day evening Fox became enraged at his
wife, who is said to be a very respectable
woman, sober and quiet, because she would
not give him ten cents to buy a drink.
Finally, after quarreling with his wife
and begging her for the money, Fox said :
“You might as well say your prayers, for I
am going to kill you to-night. I’m going
oit now to get drunk, so as to give me the
c urage to do it,” and then ran out of lhe
house.
Fox was then drunk, but when he came
bick shortly after midnight he was perfect
ly crazed from drink. Mrs. Fox "was lying
down with her c othes on, and at her hus
band’s request got up and prepared him a
cup of coffee. Fox then repeated his in
junction for her to say her prayers, and
seizing her by the throat attempted to throw
her down. The woman broke away from
him, when the brute picked up a heavy
dish containing steaming oatmeal and threw
it at her The missile, with its contents,
struck an infant child lying asleep in its
cradle, and the oitmeal badly scalded it
about the face and body. Mrs. Fox then
ran into an adj >in'ng room, and when her
husband followed her she picked up whai
she supposed to be a shovel, but which
proved to be a short handled axe, to defend
herself. Fox sprang at her, but as sh<-
jumped out of his way, he fell prostrate on
ihe floor. Mrs. Fox shoved him out of the
room, but Fox smashed in the locked door,
and advancing toward th« desperate wo
man, again attempted to throw her
down. This time the woman used her
weapon and dealt her husband a heavy blow
with it over the head. Fox convulsively
sprang forward, and as he caught his wife’s
dress she struck him fl’e times again with
the axe. He sank to the floor covered with
blood and M>s. Fox ran out screaming foi
help.
A physician found that the brutal hni
band was fatally wounded. He was removed
to St. Catherine’s Hospital and his wife was
arrested. She was arraigned before Justice
Naeher, who committed her to await the
result of Fox’s injuries.
MYSTERIOUS MISS GARRISON.
The Heroine of a Strange Disappearance
Marries a Widower.
A special dispatch from St. Louis, Mo.,
says: One of the sensations of St. Louis
which attracted attention in the country was
the mysterious disappearance of Zerelda
Garrison, the beautiful granddaughter of
Commodore Garrison, some months ago.
■she was a pupil at St. Mary’s Academy
here, and one dayshestrangely disappeared.
The affair created great excitement at the
time. Large rewards were offered for the
recovery of the lady, dead or alive. The
river was dragged, the police were sent out
in all directions, and all the local and out
side detective talent was brought into play.
In the midst of the excitement Miss Garri
son walked into one of the police stations and
told this story : She had started for St
Mary’s aud two men had followed and
drugged her and then took her to a room
down town. Later two other young men
joined the first two and she had ;played
queen, as she said, for the four. They had
not forcibly detained her, but she felt a?
though it would be dangerous to leave
them, and so she had remained where she
was. Later four arrests were made, and the
parties arrested, while acknowledging that
they were the four referred to by Miss Gar
rison, claimed that she had remained with
them of her own free will. This statement
caused another sensation, and, as the men
were not prosecuted.it was generally thought
that they told the truth.
Miss Garrison disappeared and was not
seen in St. Louis again until to day. It ap
pears that when she left here she traveled
from West to East, and during several days
in midsummer visited at the residence of an
Episcopal minister in Carindelet. Before
her friends were fully aware of her pres
ence, and before they could renew oi l ac
quaintance, Mbs Garrison left f,r another
c ; ty, and after spending some time at Vvau
kts’a, Wis., finally lock up her resiunce
with her mother on Michigan avenue, : ti
Chic'go, as erwar’s Jiving on Ad u
square. Tl was then tlut she ma te th
acquaintance of Mr. A. Neuville, a French
gentleman, who was so smitten that he pros
ecuted his devotions, and was finally accept
ed as her affianced. The wedding was set
for about February 15, but came near being
set aside by the sulden illness of the groom,
caused by a hemorrhage of the lungs. This,
however, speedily passing ofi, the marriage
ceremony took place, but so quietly that not
many of the bride’s friends in this city were
made aware of the cu lmination of the court
ship. This ignorance on the part of her
acquaintances in St. Louis was also increased
by the fact that Mrs. Neuville was most
frequently known in Chicago by the name
of Miss Alene GarGson, by which she is
scarcely, if at all, remembered here.
Mr. Neuville is the representative in Chi
cago of three large Eur opean concerns. He
is over forty years of age and was a widower
with no children. His fi.st wife was killed
in New York a year or so ago by a runaway
horse. He is of medium height, of ccmpar
aiively slight build, and to a very pleasing
address adds a face that is called hand
some. The bride, whose father is dead, is
the youngest daughter of Mrs. Abe Garrison
and is a sister of Mrs. Charles J. Norris,
wife pf the clerk of the Planters’ House.
The couple came down from Chicago to day
and are stopping at the Planters’ House,
passing their honeymoon in a quiet way.
A household is to be appointed to Princess
Beatrice and Prince Henry of Battenberg on
their marriige. The Princess is to have
two ladies in-waiting, the bridegroom two
equerries and a comptroller; but the ap
pointment of the latter functionary seems
superfluous, as the couple are to reside per
manently with the Queen.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1885.
WARM RECEPTION
OF TWO ROBBERS IN LINCOLN,
NEBRASKA.
Curious AtUmpt to Rob the State Treas
ury—The Plan Foiled, and the Robbers
Fired Upon—One Mortslly Wounded
and the Other Captured—All
the Money R. covered.
Lincoln, Neb , March 2. —An unsuccess
ful attempt to rob the State Treasury was
made at 1 o’clock Saturday afternoon. One
robber was mortally wounded aud one cap
tured. Three hundred dollars was taken,
but it was recovered. The wounded robber
died at 4 o’clock. His name was James
Griffin, a noted criminal, who has killed his
man and been engaged in a number of small
thieving affairs. The captured man is Alvin
McGuire, another notorious thief, who has
also scored his man. It transpires that the
third man, who escaped, was in collusion
with detectives, and decoyed the other two
into the daring crime.
The following details are from the Scat e
Journal extra : About 2 o’clock in the
afternoon three men walked quietly into the
State Treasurer’s office, drew revolvers, and
said to Deputy Treasurer Bartlett, who
stood behind the railing, ‘Hold up your
hands.’ The muzzles of the pistols almost
touching his head through the railing.
Bartlett answered, 'What does this mean,
men? Is it fooling or business?’ But hio
hands were up all the same.’ ‘No talk,’
answered the man who acted as leaner.
‘Just hand out the money, and be quick about
it.’ Barlett passed out through the railing
about S3OO, saying in a loud voice, ‘Here it is;
help yourselves.’ Two of the men then turned
to the door, the third backing out and cov
ering the retreat with a cocked revolver
drawn on Bartlett. The loud tone employ
ed by Bartlett was a signal to Detectives
Pound and Davie, who were concealed in an
adjoining room. Hearing it they stepped
into the hall just as two ot the robbers pass
ed out of the Treasurers public door. The
detectives shouted ‘Halt!’ but no attention
was paid by the fleeing men, who afterward
pioved to ue Jim Griffin and Al McGuire.
Griffin being one-legged, was behind. A mo
ment later the report of a shotgun
was heard. Griffin fell on the porch
steps with ten or twelve buckshot in
his back and right shoulder. McGuire was
captured before he could mount a horse,
which was tied to a post about 40 feet from
the door. At the moment the gun was fired
in the hall, the third man, who is unknown
unless to detectives, stopped, closed the dour
instead ot passing through, and, turning,
went through a door behind the railing, ran
across the rcotn, jumped out of an open win
dow, and made his escape. No pursuit of
this mysterious individual seems to have
been made.
The m< ney was recovered by Pound, who
returned it to the Treasurer. It appears
that Pound and Davis knew an attempt
was to be made, and had an understanding
with Bartlett that he should talk to the
robbers loud enough to be heard in their
place of concealment. The descent has
been looked for any day during the past
week. The robbers had visited the Cap
itol several times, but some hitch in ar
rangements deterred them from the robbery
before. There is a myst tr abou the
affair, especially the part taken by the de
tectives, that has created almost as much
curiosity as excitement. This may be
cleared up when the escaped robber is ar
rested, if he ever is ”
New York Stock Market.
New York, March 2 —At 1:30 p. m. to
day quotations were :
Union Pacific
Missouri Pacific til
Western Union Telegraph Co ■■s9
Pacific Mail 50
Lake Shore
Louisville and Nashville3l%
Texas Pacific l3%
Denver and Kio Grande. 8%
Michigan Central.
Delaware, Lackawanna <S West’nlo3
Northwestern 94%
St. Paul
Chicago, Burlington aud Quincyl2l
Oregon Transcontinental 13%
Northern Pacific 42%
Kock Islandll3*
Jersey Central 37%
Memphis and Charleston3y
East Tennessee, Va. & Ga (coin) 3%
East Tennessee, Ya. & Ga. (pfd) 7
Philadelphia and Heading 17
Omaha (com) 25%
Omaha (pfd)Bo%
New York Central-93%
Kansas aud Texas 17%
Brie —l%
Chicago 'Change.
Chicago, Mach 2—Wheat opened dull
and lower; May at 79}. Corn lower and
quiet at 41 f,r May. Pork higher and
stronger at sl2 70 for May. Lard firm and
unchanged at $7.02} for May, Short ribs
at $6 37} f r May.
The Cost of the White House.
A Washington correspondent writes:
Most people believe that the $50,000 a. year
which the President gets as his salary is the
sum total. This is a mistake. The esti
mate of the amount which Congress is to
appropriate this year lies before me, open at
the page relating to the President. I see
that $36,064 is asked for him in addition to
his salary of $50,000 to pay the salaries of
his subordinates and clerks. His private
secretary is paid $3,250, his assistant private
secretary $2,250, his stenographer SI,BOO,
five messengers each $1,200, a steward SI,BOO,
two doorkeepers who each get $1,200,
four other clerks at good salaries,
one telegraph operator, two ushers
getting $1,200 and $1,400, a night usher
getting $1,200, a watchman who gets S9OO,
a man to take care of fires who receives $864
a year. In addition to this there is set down
SB,OOO for incidental expenses, such as sta
tionary, carpets and the care of Presidential
stables. And further on, under another
heading, there is a demand for nearly $40,-
000 more. Os this $12,500 is for repairs
and refurnishing the White House; $25,000
is for fuel, $4,000 is for the green-house, and
$15,000 is f. r gas, matches and the stables.
The White House, all told, costs the coun
try in connection with thu President con
siderably over $125,000 a year.
A Texas paper calls attention to the fact
that that Slate is larger than 214 Rhods
Islands.
Complaints About the Port of Charleston,
South Carolina.
From the N. Y. Maritime Register.
Congress has been asked to appropriate
large sums of money for the improvement
of Charleston harbor. No objections can be
offer’d against these appropriations. Charles
ton is the outlet of a large district which
needs the advantage arising from the
vincii ity of a deep water port. But all
these advantages are neutralized by the
action of Charleston itself Instead (f
building upon these and attracting trade
by inducements which other ports are find
ing so necessary, it follows a trade policy
which ship owners and shippers find too
costly for 1 heir business. Complaints cf high
port charges at Charleston are of long stand
inging. Complaints of indifferent shipping
facilities are not infrequent. The success of
ports immediately North and South of i
Charleston, and the divergence to them of
trade that should go to Charleston shows a
want of enterprise or public spirit truly
lamentable These complaints may be ex
agerated. They have, however, sufficient
foundation in fact to warrant a careful in
vestigation. It will not do simply to deny
them. It must be proved that there is no
ground for them. If this is impossible then i
it must be shown that the causes of them
have been discovered and removed. The
comparative s nallness of the trade of
Charleston is surely not due to foolish prej
udice against the port. It must be owing
mainly to the fact that exporters and shi"
owners find less profit in trading there than
at other ports on our South Atlantic sea
board. And the difference in profit is very
often found to be made by charges and
burders connected with the port.
The business men of Charleston held a
meeting last week to consider a most serious
charge against their port, brought by Messrs.
Knoop, Frerichs & Co., of Bremen. This
house wrote to Messrs. Knoop, Frerichs &
Co, of Charleston, under date of February
3d, as follows :
“We feel compelled to draw your atten- I
tion to the very unsatisfactory state of your
port.
“In the course of this season three vessels
that we know of, viz : steamships Cairns
muir, Jenny Parker and Harbinger,stranded
on the bar at the entrance of your harbor,
under circumstances of a very unpleasant
nature These frequent accidents have con !
siderably startled both our and-the English j
underwriters, aud from casual remarks
issuing from insurance circles we must sur
mise that ere long shipments from your port
will have to pay insurance rates so much
elevated as to drive business from Charles
ton to other markets. * * *
“The bar has been a cause of great annoy
ance for years past, many ships declining
altogether to load at your port, and the cir
cumstances which have transpired in con
nection with the recent stranding of the
steamship Harbinger, an altogether scan.-
dalous affair, have contributed to further
heighten the feeling of distrust and misap
prehension with reference to everything
connected with the shipping from your port.
If your authorities cannot be prevailed upon
to materially alter the present sta'e of
things, the consequences, as far as the luiure
prospects of your market are concerned, (
must prove very serious ”
This is no vague complaint, arising from
lack of business or dissatisfaction ah' ut set
tlements, but a serious charge brougnt by a
responsible firm, who are anxious for the
welfare of the port, and who really want its
trade to prosper. The fault in this case is
found to be in the pilotage system of Charles
ton, which evidently must be about as bad
as it i« possible to be. At the meeting men
tioned above, a report was received from the
marine underwriters of Charleston, which
stated that after due investigation a com
mittee of the underwriters were of the
opinion ‘ that there was ample water in
one or more channels of this harbor to
permit the free passage of the vessels re
ferred to (in the letter of Messrs. Knoop,
Frerichs & Co.) add that it was the fruit of
the pilots in charge that they stranded.”
It was also shown that the ship channels to
Charleston harbor are as deep as advertised.
A committee was appointed at the meeting
to investigate the condition of the pilotage
service of Charleston and to secure reforms
in it that would prevent the recurenco of
cases similar to those above mentioned.
That this reform should at once be brought
about is evident. Underwriters will not
discriminate too closely between bad or
careless pilotage and shadow ship channels
when grounding of vessels is of frequent oc
curence. They will simply let the port se
verely alone. And when they depart, those
who want insurance will depart
with them. Now, however, that the mat
ter is taken in hand and active measures are
immediately promised to remove the cause of
frequent strandings of vessels at Charleston,
underwriters will no doubt look once more
to that port for profitable risks. But while
the merchants of Charleston are at work in
this matter they might at the same time
endeavor to scale down their port charges.
They might also bring about changes that
would open up their connections West, so
that with better shipping facilities, cheaper
expenses for vessels and the removal of all
grounds of complaint, their port would be
come more important even than it was
twenty-five years ago.
Photographing a Thief in Action.
A special dispatch from Chicago says: A
Mrs. Curtis, carrying an alligator skin hand
satchel, which contained $22, entered a
photographic gallery in Peoria street to
have her photograph taken. Two men un
observed followed her into the gallery.
While the photographer was in the dark
ness of the camera he heard a great noise
and pulled the trigger, taking an instan- ,
taneous photograph. When he got his head
out of the curtain a man was rushing
out ot the door and Mrs. Curtis
was screaming. The hand satchel
was gone. Mrs. Curtis said that a man
had rushed in and snatched her satchel from
her lap. When the photographer looked at
the plate he was astonished to find that he
had a double photograph. Portions ot Mrs.
Curtis showed up through a maze of out
stretched hands, a fur hat and a brown
overcoat. He had photographed the thief
in the action. The De-Plains street officers
arrested Wm. Burns last evening. Some of
Mrs. Curtis’ money was found in his posses
sion, and he was fully identified by the
photograph.
WESTERN PRODUCE.
A WEEK OF EXCITEMENT AND
ACTIVITY.
Chances For a Further Decline or a big
Bulge iu Wheai About Equal—Carn
Firm aud Encouraging—Provisions
Steady.
Special Corespondence to the Daily Times
Chicago, Feb. 28—The past week on
’change has been one of great excitement
and activity. A big break has livened up
the wheai deal amazingly. The down turn
is peculiar, too, in that it was not caused by
any raiding at the bears but by the
“longs” themselves. For a month past the
market had been in the hands of the crowd.
There was a wonderful amount of grain
owned here and in the country, but it was I
in little jags ard much scattered. Holders
clung on week after week hoping somehow
to get out with a profit. They told and re
told all possible bull arguments from
ruined .crops to bloody wars between a 1
the great European powers. The “short” ■
I interest, however, wouldn’t scare and to
raise the market by sheer force
of buying with such stocks ■
as are now in sight is well nigb
impossible. Scalpers at the start boosted
prices up about }c., May touching 84}. The
best efforts, however, could get it no further
and the impression seemed to become gen
eral among the “longs” that there never
would be a better time to get rid of their
loads, so they commenced to realize all at
once. This started the break which the
enormous amounts forced on the market by
stop orders and exhausted margins soon
caused to develope into a panic. Os course
Nat Jones, George Eldredge and the
Adamses, who are always on hand when a
decline is under way, sold heavily and
helped on the weakness, but they took ad
vantage of the drop rather than engineered
it.
Whether there has been break enough
ye' is of course a question, but prominent
conservative brokers, with whom the writer
has talked, say that they would, at least, not
advise further “short” sales, as they regard
the chances of a further decline and a 3c.
bulge as about equal now. It is at just such
times as this, when the little bulls have all |
been shaken out, even to the second crop, |
and when success has made the bears willing
to sell any amount at any figure, that some
strong man or combination quietly puts in, j
tells his brokers to take all offerings, and
when the market is given a little twist, the
“shorts” seeing the tab'es turned, will do the
rest in their efforts to get out of danger.
Then, too, although soiree crop stories I
appear pretty flimsy, now the time for the
breaking up of the ice and snow can’t be far
off', and at that season the cold nights and
warm days have always, on paper, at least, j
caused a great deal ot damage to winter I
wheat, which has served to give the market
a good many sharp upturns, and there i
seems no reason why this year should be an
exception On the other hand, enormous
stocks, lack of export d-mand, and the al
leged duties to be imposed upon American
wheat by France and Germany don’t make
the outlook any too encouraging.
Corn has been very quiet. There are not I
many who care logo short at present prices, |
while the number of those who would like I
to buy May around 40}c is large. This I
state of things keeps the market pretty well
pegged. The fact that prices have wi'h- I
stood the panic in wheat so stubbornly, too,
is regarded as evidence of an immense
amount of inherent strength, and holders
believe that when the latter market turns
on the up grade corn will go with it.
Provisions are about steady. The excite
ment in wheat and the absence of Mr. Ar
mour have placed this market somewhat
under neglect. Receipts of hogs this week
have been about double what they were last,
but they have sold well and have not had
much influence on the product, as the pack
ing season ends with this week. May pork
around sl2 75 looks cheap, and will doubt
less sell much higher before delivery day.
In the meantime there may be half a dozen !
bulges to scare “shorts,” and raids to shake
out tailers.
An Exliorter in Great Trouble.
Arkansaw Traveler.
A well known planter of South Arkan
saw, a man who has exhorted at more revi
vals than any worker in the State, had
trouble last week. While hauling cotton
along a muddy road, one of the steers broke t
the yoke and ran away. The old fellow
sat down on a log and said:
“Lord, you know pretty well what I have
done for the church, and how many priva
tions I have stoed without a whimper or
complaint. If you have observed me very
closely, you know that I never said a word
when my fences were washed away, and
that even when Josh Chandler beat me in a
lawsuit I did not murmur, but now, after
mature consideration, I am compelled to
say something. ‘Damn that steer!’ I think
that under the circumstances I am excus
able. Very few men would have stood
as much as I have, especially a man whose
wife is in a flout half the time, so I submit
the question: Don’t you think that I am
justifiable in the course I have this day
taken? Here I am, stuck in the mud. By
the time I can get another team the boat
will be gone, and I’ll have to leave my cot
ton or haul it back home. If I leave it on
the bank somebody will steal it, and if I
take it back home Anderson will catch it
with a mortgage. So, you see, lam pecu
liarly situated, and am, before any court in
the world, or out of it either, justifiable in
remarking, ‘Damn that steer ’.”
The Connecticut Senate has passed the
bill providing a State bounty of ten cents to
any person planting, protecting and culti
vating elm, maple, tulip, ash, basswood, oak,
black walnut, hickory, apple, pear, or cherry
trees, not more than sixty feet apart, for
three years along any public highway.
catarhh of the bladder.
Stinging, irritation, inflamation, all Kid
ney and Urinary Complaints, cured by
Buchu-Paiba.” sl.
Mr. and Mrs. William Peak, the seniors
of the once famous Swiss family of bell ling
ers, are inmatas of the Poor House of Cort
land county, New York.
S6OO AYE4R
AN IMPUDENT TRAMP.
Arrested and Brought to the Barracks by
a Trusty Coloied Man.
The festive tramp again marches to the
front, and this time in the role of a sewing
machine agent. A fellow about six feet
high and large in projiortion walked into
the yard of Mrs. C. A. Sandford, on the
Ogeechee road, and asked her if she had a
sewing machine. She said yes. He then
wanted to repair it. She said it was in good
condition, and that when it did get out of
condition she could get the responsible
party from whom she purchased it to put it
in order. The impudent fellow persisted,
and finally began to roundly curse and
blackguard her, using the most obscene and
foul Billingsgate. She ordered him off and
told him if her husband had been present
he would not have d ired act as he did.
I Cursing her and her husband he
stalked off quite impudently and
started down the road. Patrick Dennison,
a colored man, beard the scoundrel abusing
the lady and started down the road to catch
him. He was soon overhauled and brought
| back. Mrs. Sandiford told Patrick to take
him to jail or the barracks. The craven
wretch apologized to her and begged to
be allowed to go, but the lady was
j firm and ordered him off. He was brought
here and placed in the barracks, where he
gave the name of Billy Jackson. He acted
in a very nonchalant manner while coming
to the city, and seemed to think the affair a
good sort of joke. Patrick deserves much
credit for arresting the contemptible scamp,
who would not have dared do what he did
had the lady not been unprotected
Superior Court.
Court convened this morning at 10 o’clock,
Hon A. Pratt Adams, Judge,presiding, and
the following proceedings were had:
Gertrude J. Thompson vs. James A.
Thompson. Divorce. Second verdict rem- •
dered for libellant.
Sallie Mosely vs. John Mosely. Divorce.
Second verdict rendered for libellant.
Susan Seager vs. Albert Seager. Divorce.
Second verdict rendered for libellant.
Richard Stafford vs. Polly Stafford, fresh
verdict rendered for libellant.
Phineas N. Black 'S. Fanny A. Black.
| Divorce, fresh verdict rendered for libellant.
Belle Fu'man vs. Joe Fuiman. Divorce
i Fresh verdict rendered for libellant.
The grand jury was in session and ren
j dered several bills.
A large number of assignments were made
I for the ensuing week.
Mad. Janauschek in "My Life."
To-morrow evening the celebrated actress
Mad. Janauschek, will appear at the Savan
nah Theatre, in her new and immensely
, popular play entitled, “My Life.” The
I story and plot of the piece are said Io be
j beautiful and exciting. An exchange
l noticing it says:
“The double role of Mice, the blind lady
at Moorlands, and Circe Encore, the opera
bouffe singer, are taken by Mad. Janau
schek; her conception of the roles impress
themselves as being complete, and each part
is endued with unmistakable power and in
, dividuality; as the blind woman she is ten
i der, fond, pathetic and lovable; as the French
opera singer she is savageness and
I vulgarity personified, being a veritable fe
; male dragon; Her redeeming trait being her
love for Sir Lione l , which burns with a
' fierceness that even consumes the object of
its affection. There are several interesting
l situations in the play, which are given with
great dramatic power and force, and their
sequence is admirable, the plot being strong
' and coherent.
“The support is far above the average of
stars and the setting of the play is consum
mate. Mr. Stuart was admirable as Sir
Lionel, and the roles of Miss Rand, Mr.
Clements, Miss Hagger, Mr. Chaplin, as the
Bostonese, Mr. Bergman, Mr. Stevens, Mr.
Connor and Miss Nelson were all well taken
The applause was timely, and as a mark of
esteem Janauschek was recalled at the end
| of a couple of acts and at the final fall of
the curtain.”
Coming Attractions at the Theatre.
The March attractions at the Theatre
indicate that the season is drawing to a
close, and soon the curtain will be rung
down until another season is heralded. For
this month, however, there are so far eight
nights billed by four companies, of which
i Janauschek takes the lead, appearing
Tuesday and Wednesday, the 3d and 4th,
in “My Life.” Frank C. Bangs will appear
■on the sth, 6th and 7th in the leading role
of the Silver King Company. Lawrence
Hanley, Savannah’s favorite young actor,
will appear in a splet did role, which all
who have seen say is better acted by him
than by any one cf his predecessors. On
the 11th and 12th Plimpton will appear in
“Linwood.” This talented star supported
Booth in his European tour, and is pro
nounced very fine. ‘Ca led Back” will
also be played, and will be followed by a
a few other good companies the dates of
which have not, however, been yet fixed.
—Jane Arnold, acolored womrn, who was
arrested on Saturday night and kept in the
barracks till this m< rning, was committed to
jail on a charge of lunacy, by the Hon.
Hampton L. Ferrill, Ordinary. A warrant
has been issued for the arrest of John Wil
liams, als- colored, on the same charge, and
these tog' :her with two others, will he tried
by a Commission de lunatico inquirendo to
morrow morning.
“ROLGHON RATS.”
Cleeis cut rats, mice, reaches, flies, ant
o td-bugs, sinks, chii nulls,gcjh'te. 15
Druggists.
Although three, four, five or six cents
seems veiv little for the use cf a dollar for
a year, it is surprising what a large mm it
amounts to when left for a number ct years,
as in the case of a Connecticut man who in
1838 ccmmenced making deposits in a sav
ings bank. His total deposits irvra that
date until 1885 amounted to $1,965 25. Be
tween 1838 and 1858 he drew from the
bank $1,270 70; and yet, a few days since,
i on baling his bank book written up and
I balanced, be was ftund to have a balance
i on deposit amounting tv $11,273 33. .