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VOL. 6.—NO. 75.
SHOVERS OF QUEER.
A COUNTERFEIT DE Ji IN NEW YORK
BROKEN UP.
Two Clever Arrests—A Trunk Full of Had
Coins and a Thoroughly Equipped Mint
for Counterfeit coinage Discovered—
The Operators Placed in J ail— How
Many Cents Can be Made from
a Pound of Copper, Etc.
[Owing to an accident to the telegraph
wires between this city and Augusta, our
report is very meagre to-day. This we
greatly regret, but, as the accident oc
curred about 12 o’clock, too 1 ite to be re
paired in time to enble the full regular
press reports to be received, it is unavoid
able.]
New York, March 23. —Chief Drum
mond, of the Secret Service Department,
and his men made two clever arrests Friday
when they captured Harris Rodansky and
Joseph Kalpon, Polish Jews, at No. 69 Es
sex street, surrounded by many implements
usedin counteTfeiting, some of which were
constructed with surprising ingenuity. One,
three and ten cent pieces, to the number of
about 5,000, were found in a dark bed room
on the second floor, where the prisoners car
ried on their work, and quantities of pure
copper and German silver were seized. The
prisoners were 1 eked up in the Ludlow
street jdl and will be arraigned before
United States commissioner Shields to
morrow morning. Rodansky asserts that
Kalpon invented the machinery, but admi's
that he worked it. Kalpon declined to say
anything. The penally for counterfeiting
one and three cent pieces is three years or a
fine of $1,090, or both, and for making dimes
ten years or a fine oi $5,000, or both.
For many months past people in all parts
of this city and vicinity have complained
they have had palmed t.fl on them spurious
coins. The number of these pieces has be
come general enough to call for comment in
the press. The Secret Service people have
followed up many clues, but it was not
until Thursday of'last week that the right
one was obtained.
On that dry a workman told Chief
Drummond that a Jewish jeweler had given
him several bad one and three cent pieces
in making change after doing some repairs
to a watch. The jeweler called himself
Morris Rodouski. Search for the jeweler was
at once instituted. It was learned that one
Harris Rodansky had dealt in diamonds
and jewelry at No. 51 E'dridge street, but
suddenly disappeared just before the officers
went to cal' upon him. The neighbors said
he had gone to Poland. Inspector Charles
E. Etves was detailed to look up the man
After a patient search thr ugh the Elev
enth ward and vicinity, where the Polish
Jews have colonized, Eives found that Ro
danskv has rooms in the tenement house at
No. 19 Essex street. The inspector made
inquiry in the butcher shop on the ground
floor of that building just as Rodansky hap
pened to be going up to his rooms in the
rear of the second floor. The butcher point
ed cut the jeweler. The inspector secretly
twisted the spring of his watch and then
sought the jeweler. Rodansky pretended
that it would take him two hours to repair
the watch. At the end of that time Eaves
returned and was charged forty cents for
the work. He tendered a dollar bill it
payment. Among the change he received
were two counterfeit three cent pieces and a
bad penny.
The next day Chief Drummond sent his
office cl ick to be fixed, although it was in
good order. Rodansky found an injury to it
and charged 25 cents for bis labors on it. A
half dollar was offered by Mr. Drummond’s
son and in the 25 c -i: s leiursied were coun
terfeit ten, three and one ce n * pieces. The
officials now felt sure of their man and In
spector Frank Blackwood was detailed, to
gether with Deputy United States Marshal
Brooks and four assistants, to make the
necessary arres's. Blackwood broke the
crystal of his watch and presented himself
at the jewdsr’s door, but while awaiting an
answer to his summons Rodansky entered
the house from the street. He was at once
taken into c study and the rear apartment
was broken into. A scene of disorder and
filth presented itself. Joseph Kalpon and a
woman, who was represented to b- Rodan
sky’s wife, were within. K dpon was arrested
and the woman went into hysterics.
In a dark imide bedroom presses, dies,
stamps, pm.-■! e*, m Hing machines, ham
mers, anvils, cru'io,, sfi r me> ting ami shea: s
were found. Atuodg the machinery was an
oblong wrought iron press about two feet
long, with a literal movement, which
worked absolutely noiselessly. Experts say
it is one of the cleverest instruments known
in the history of counterfeiting. There was
also the model of this press, which went to
show that the article had been made there.
A pile-driver press had been thrown aside
as old-fas .ioned A “reeling” machine, for
roughening the edges of the coins, was also
picked up, and there were rolls of German
Silver and sheets of copper. Drawers, b >g
and trunks scattered about were lull f
counterfeit coins—all of one, tiire or ten
cent denomination. There were seve-al
partially destroyed legitimate coins, which
had probably been used as guides.
The men were taken to jail. Rodansky
said he was forty years old and had been in
this country thirty years, though he spoke
English very imperfectly. Both prisoners
are typical Polish Jews, with swarthy coun
tenances, black hair and eyes and black
beards. They wore dirty clothing and their
quarters were in a squalid condition. In
Rodansky’s pockets we-e found several pawn
tickets, some for valuable diamond ear-rings,
which had been pledged to him. When one
of the three-cent pieces was shown to a special
officer at the Sub-Treasury that official said
he could not distinguish it from a good coin.
Cashier Floyd, of the Sub-Treasury, says
that a pound of copper costs twelve cents and
out of it 120 cents can be punched.
CATARRH OF THE BLADDER.
Stinging, irritation, inflamation, all Kid
ney and Urinary Complaints, cured by
Buchu-Paiba.” sl.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1885.
GENERAL GRANT NOT SO WELL.
Confined lo His Room and Showing Evi
dences of Weakness.
New York, March 22.—“1 do not know
that father was excited by my sister’s ar
rival,” Colonel Fred Grant said last night.
“If he was he did not show it outwardly.
But he is very weak, and it takes little to
distmb him. He was res less Lst night,
sleeping only fitfully. Three weeks ago he
was able to go all over the house. Until
three days ago he could more about on the
second floor. Now he cannot leave his
room The doctors bulletin the condition
of his throat. There is a good deal the
matter with him besides the throat trouble
His constitution is very badly impaired
He is evidently getting weaker every day.”
General Grant rose late yesterday, snaich
ing short n ps during the morning to make
up in part for the sleep he had lost during
the night. He was s ill without pain, and
ate a light breakfast toward noon. Liter in
the day he took about the average quantity
of food, all liquid. When Dr. D mglas
called in the afternoon lie found the Gen
eral’s throat about as it Lad been for sever
al days, and his patient strongly disposed
to keep quiet and sit in the sunbeams which
poured into his bedroom wind iw He
passe I the afte-noon dozing and geting such
comfort as he could from the bright w rath
er. S. me member of the family was always
with him, but it was not a chatty day for
the patient and he had little to say. He
was unfit to resume work on his book, but
did not complain beyond expressing simple
regret. In the evening the Rev Dr. New
man, Gen. B ideau, and one or two other
friends sat with him in his room. He took
food while they were there, but without
apparent relish.
Dr. Douglas says that as the General never
ate heartily it is not strange that he does not
appear to relish food, but that he really con
sumes more than was his habit in health:
that what he takes is very nutritious, and
that it agrees with him.
At the annual Conference of the New
Jersey Methodist Episcopal clergy, at New
Brunswick yesterday, a resolution was adopt
ed expresssing the affection and sympathy of
the Conference for General Grant and be
speaking the prayers of the church for him.
The Robert E. L;e Camp of Confederate
Veterans, of Richmond, at a meeting on
Friday night, passed a resolution of sympa
thy, which was yesterday mailed to Gen.
Grant by Capt. John R. Cooke, Commander
of the Camp. The preamble recited the
friendliness that General Grant manifested
toward the Confederate soldiers at the close
of the war, thus proving himself a true sol
dier The resolution was as follows:
“That we tender our hearty sympathies
to him in his severe affliction and our hope
that he may, by Divine Providence, soon be
permitted to regain his health and to pass
his remaining years in peace and happi
ness.”
LYNCHED BY HIS OWN RACE.
A Colored Man Hanged for Murdering
His Wife.
Memphis,Tenn., March 23.—Information
has just been received here of a lynching
that took place near Artesia, Miss. The
victim was Jake Doss, colored, and the
lyuchers were all of his own race. It seems
that Doss separated from his wife with a
view to marrying another woman, and had
urged the former to agree to a divorce,
which she refused to do. Finally Doss pre
tended to repent his desertion, and went
back to his wife. A few days after the re
conciliation he urged her to go with him to
Artesia, about six miles off, on a pretense of
having her look at a horse he thought
of buying. As they were crossing a bridge
on the way home he hit her on the
head with a club, fracturing her skull. She
fell into the creek below and sank to the
bottom. Within 48 hours Doss married his
paramour and went to Starksville. Suspi
cion was aroused by the sudden marriage,
coupled with the disappearance of his form
er wife. A search was instituted and ti e
victim’s body was found in the creek with
the skull crushed as stated. The chain of
circumstantial evidence was completed by
the testimony of several persons who saw
Doss and the woman just bsfore tbeyreached
the bridge the afternoon of th a murder. A
warrant was sworn out charging I) 'ss with
murder, and he was arrested in Starksville
and brought back to Artesia for preliminary
examination prior to incarceration in the
jail at Ck Limbus. The same night a body of 20
or 300 colored men assembled in Artesia
and proceided quietlv to the store in an
upper room of which Doss was confined in
co urge of an officer. About a dozen of the
mob ascended to the room, surprised and
bound the officer, and led his prisoner down.
They then placed Doss in the centre of the
crowd and started for a trestlework on the
railroad, a few hundred yards distant, where
they hanged him io the most approved
style. The body was cut down the next
morning and a Coroner’s inquest held. A
verdict of “death *by hanging at the hands
of parties unknown,” was rendered .
THE RUSH FOR OFFICE OVER.
Applicants Gone Home to Walt Fatlentl
Washington, D. C. March 23—Senator
Cockrell of Missouri, speaking about the
pressure for office, said that it was less now
than a week ago. Many applicants had
gone home to patiently wait for vacancies
to occur. So far as Missouri was concerned,
the Senator said, he had no more applica
tions from Democrats than he had formerly
from republicans. Many former residents
of Missouri,,now living in the teiritories
have ssnt their applications to the Senators,
and the latter are kept busy in consequence.
Terrible Boiler Explosion.
Columbia, S. C., March 23.—The boiler
at the State Penitentiary ex, 1 >ded Satur
day, knocking out the end of a three story
factory building, dem< lishing seventy-five
feet of the prison yard brick wall, and
killing two men, one being a member of the
noted gang of Lowery ou'Lws.
CURED BY PRAYER.
What a Roman Catholic Priest Says About
HisSlstir.
Chicago, March 23.—The Rev. Father
Maurice J. Dorney, of the Catholic Chutch
of St. Gabriel, located near the stock yards,
has created something of a sensation by an
nouncing that not only has he become con
vinced that miracles are wrought daily by
the assistance of the Virgin Mary, but he
even has in his own family a living illustra
tion. His sister Johanna, he says, has been
afflicted with a chronic trouble. Yielding
to her requests he took her abroad and visit
elthe celebrated waters of Lourdes. He
arrived there August 2 and began a novena,
or nine days’ prayer. On the ninth day the
young lady visited the baths, and just as
Father Dorney had finished saying mass she
came before him perfectly cured, whereas
formerly she had been unable to walk or
bend over. Johanna is now the
heroine of the parish Every one
knew of her condition when she went away,
and the whole parish is edified by what they
deem the kind intervention of the Blessed
Virgin on behalf of the child. Without any
other incentive than the sight of the cured
girl, the congregation at St. Gabriel’s has
reached a pitch of religious fervor that
prompts the faithful to fill the auditorium
every night to offer thanks to God and the
Blessed Virgin, whether regular formal ser
vices are announced or not. Hundreds of
even more miraculous cures than that of his
sister, Father Dorney says, came under his
personal observation, and he now proposes to
deliver a public lecture next week and an
nounce his emphatic belief in the personal
aid of the Virgin Mary in modern times, and
show to the audience his sister as proof of
his position.
THE FINANCIAL SITUATION.
No Important Developments—Much that
is Reassuring in the Outlook.
From the Financial Chronicle of Saturday.
In commercial affairs there have been
no important developments during the
past week. We do not see any reason for
modilying our previously expressed opinion,
that ever since since the first of December
an improvement somewhat fitful to be sure,
has been in progress. Improvement, how
ever, do's not mean we are so securely es
tablished on the new road to prosperity thai
there are to be no more liquidations, or
that demand has in all cases overtaken
production. The latter is certainly not
true as to some branches of the cotton goods
trade at least, and to makegoods to be slaugh
tered, as they must be while the relative
prices for them and for the raw material 'are
as now ruling, does not seem to argue any
surplus wisdom in management. Where ever,
therefore, current requirements do not ab
sorb current supply, the stopping of spindles
is likely in the end to be the forced result.
As a rule in all departments, less goods at a
less cost have of late been thrown upon the
markets, and it need discourage no one should
csrcumstances for a time make such a policy
imperative again in some quarters where the
decrease in quantity produced was a very
temporary movement.
That course seems even more desirable in
view o' the improving demand in our dry
goods trade the past two or three weeks.
Evidently there is a very fair distribution
of goods in progress, but in certain conspic
uous cases prices do not cover cost, and de
not seem to improve any; in fact, instead of
being sustained, they are more frequently
cut, to induce purchases. But aside from
this feature —which may possibly pass
away under an improving demand,
though more likely will not cure
itself except as suggested, through
an enforced contraction in pro
duction the commercial outlook has
mueh in it that is reassuring. The
weather continues unusually cold and
wintry, checking development to some
extent, yet buyers, especially from
the West, are more largely repre
sented in our markets than they ever
were, while the reports from the various
centres of trade East, West and South,
though to less extent from the latter,
are in general fairly favorable. Still,
purchasers are everywhere cautious and
show great disinclination to stock up,
satisfying themselves rather by simply
providing for immediate wants. Ibis
policy is, however, not an indication of
lessened requirements for the country
trade; it is mainly the outgrowth of the
constant decline in prices which has been
a feature of the past three years, leaving
the country merchant all the time
io the unfurl nite position of haying any
surplus slocks he carried over costing him
more than current rates; thus he has been
taught by experience that his only safety
lay in keeping his shelves bare and trading
f.om hand to mouth.
A Fireman ‘a Noble Deed.
San Francisco Post.
History has never recorded a more heroic
act than that performed the other day by
Frank C Leach, a poor fireman on a freight
train of the Oregon Railroad and Naviga
tion Line. A land slide threw the engine
and several cars of the train into the Co
lumbia river. The escaping steam scalded
the fireman from head to foot. He was in
jured beyond hope of recovery. But, not
withstanding Lis intense suffering, he swam
some distance out in the Columbia river and
rescued another man who had been thrown
into the water from the engine, and who, he
saw by bis struggles, was unabL to swim.
Leach’s flesh was trailing like ribbons from
his neck and shoulders, and his hands so
blistered ‘hat touching with them was an
agony of pain, but he grasped the drowning
man and brought him safely to shore.
That fireman had a giant heart. He must
have been nobly unselfish. His deed was
sublimity of heroism.
ROUGH ON ITCH.’
“Rough on Itch” cures humors, eruptions
ringworms, tetter, salt rheum, frosted feet
hilblains
A beautiful l>ne of tinsel and laces for has
trimmings at Altmayers opening to-day and
to morrow.
Ruchlngs In endless variety at Altmayers
opening, to-day and to-morrow.
THE MADISON MYSTERY
THE ALLEGED MURDERER IN
COURT.
i How He Behaved Himself—Great Excite
ment Over the A flair—Crowds Still
Visiting the lie Her voir Where Pretty
Miss Madison Was Drowned—The
Police Busy Knitting Together
the Chain of Circunistin-
, tial Evidence Against
Cluverius.
I Richmond, March 21.—The bitter cold
weather has not deterred the crowds from
to-day visiting the city reservoir and look
ing in the basin where pretty Fannie Lillian
Madison found her mysterious death. The
’ keeper has finally been compelled to lock
the gate. The excitement over the affair is
■ so great that it is the one theme of conver
sation in the parlor, at home, on the busi-
’ nets exchanges and at the clubs. The be
[ trayed girl’s career up to this one slip, which
caused her sad end, has been pro-
I nounced beautiful and symmetrical by all
who knew her. She was an earnest
' member of the Baptist church, as is also
. Thomas J. Cluverius, the young lawyer who
is charged with her murder. The poor
I girl’s funeral took place to-day. In order
. to avoid increasing the excitement, there
. was no ceremony at the chapel or grave,
, and her remains were simply followed by
her ageu father and nearest relatives, who
I wept bitterly when they were consigned to
j Oakwood Cemetery. When brought before
[• the Police Court this morning, Uluvevius
was Stif possessed. The streets were
I thronged with crowds, who attempted to
I get a look at the young lawyer. He bore the
! scrutiny well, and seemed not at ail embar
t i rassed. He kept most of the time behind him
: his right hand, which was scratched Oace
|in a while he exhibited anxiety. His case
| was continued until the 30th. His counsel
declined to let him make a statement before
1 ' the coroner’s jury. Many of his former col-
- legemaies live here, and express surprise
■ | that the man they knew as “Smiling Moses”
should have been deemed guilty of such a
’! crime. The police are busy knitting the
I chain of circumstantial evidence with which .
, ■ they hope to hang the young lawyer. The I
• | contents of Miss Madison’s trunk, which
reached here list night, have not been di
i vulged- She had therein two letters from
' Cluverius, which the officers allege contain
1 language and sentiments too revolting for
1 publication. The citizens are talking of
■> getting up a purse to empl y additional «mi-
- nent counsel to aid the commonwealth’s
3 attorney in ferreting out and prosecuting
' the murderer. The crime is considered a re
r flection upon the ci'y. Once while he was in
> the custody of the police Cluverius hummed
- one of the gospel hymns. The young man
s has engaged as additional ccunsel Judge W.
• W. < rump, the greatest criminal lawyer in
1 the State. The colored barber at the hotel
' where Miss Madison stopped last Friday
I was in court to-day, and pointed out the
prisoner as the man he saw come to the
' hotel and leave with Miss Madison the same
evening. Cluverius yesterday s ated that
he did not see Miss Madison at all during
his visit here last week. The court room
was densely crowded, and many persons
were on the sidewalk, being unable to get
in. It was with great diffi ulty that the
police could make their way through the
1 crowd on entering and leaving the court
■ room.
A SCARE EXPLODED.
A Manufacturer of Cod Liver Oil Suspected
of Being a Dynamiter.
I Waltham, Mass., March 23.—Some
time ago Mayor Johnson, of Waltham, re
ceived complaints from citizens that un
known parties were secretly engaged in
manufacturing strange compounds in a build
ing on Prospect Hill. The imagination of
man, assisted by the beautiful fancy of wo
man, had magnified the importance and
deepened the mystery of this work, until
common rumor asserted that it was nitro
glycerine or dynamite that was being made.
The Mayor asked the Chief of Police to in
vestigate, which he did. He was shown the
outside and inside of the manufactory, and
it was explained that the parties were
making a new kind t f patent medicine re
sembling ccd liver oil. To do this loads of
animal intestines were received from the
lower towns, which by chemical appliances
were transformed into this most delightful
remedy. The use of this slaughter house
refuse accounted for the odor which the citi
zens have noticed and it is because of this
odor that the work is prosecuted at nights.
The work has been in progress for a year
past, the goods being shipped to New York.
An Actor’s Sad Bereavement.
Denver Republican.
The glitter of stage display and the glam
our which is thrown around the life of a suc
cessful actor are all that the audience sees.
It cannot look behind the scenes nor into
the heart. It knows nothing of the drudg
ery of an actor’s life nor the anguish which
wrings the heart, though the actor seems to
be free from care. He cannot diasppoint an
audience. It has paid to see him and he
must exhibit himself. The inexorable de
mands which an actor’s life imposes were
never better or more painfully exem
plified than at last night’s perform
ance of “Monte Cristc.” The vast
audience did not know that poor Jim O’Neil,
who lived as “Monte Cristo,” was heart
broken. It did not know that at that mo
ment his little child lay dead in far distant,
New York, and that the agonized mother
had just taken a fearful farewell of him to
attend the burial of the dear little one. It
laughed and clapped its hands and gave no
thought but to the actor’s genius, and
dreamed not of the inward weeping which
was drowning his heart. But actors are ac
tors, and they must strut upon the stage
though their hearts break. God pity them;
their lot is a hard one.
The newest line of plaid and stripe sash rib
bons at Altmayer s opening to-day and to
morrow.
MRS. W. W. LANDBUM.
One of the Most AfT. c.ing Funerals Ever
H. Id in Richmond.
The many friends and acquaintances of
Mrs W. W. Landrum in Savannah (whose
death was noted in the Times of Thursday)
will read with melancholy interest the fol
lowing account of her funeral in Richmond
as published in the Dispatch of that city :
The funeral of Mrs. W. W. Landrum ai
the Second Baptist Church at 4:30 o’clock
yesterday afternoon was one of the largest
and most affecting ever held in Richmond
The church filled with weeping friends spuki
eloquently of the esteem in which this ac
complished young woman was held, and at
the same time attested the love and sympa
thy of the community for the stricken hus
band, Rev. W. W. Laudrum.
The church was very tastefully and ap
propriately draped, and the whole scene was
in unison with the sad occasion.
After a sweet voluntary by the choir Rev.
Dr. Coiey made an invocation prayer and
Dr. J. William Jones read the hymn, “There
san hour of hallowed peace,” which was
very sweeilv sung.
Rev. S. G. Clopton read appropriate se
ll ctions of Scripture, and Rev. Dr. H. A.
Tupper (the life long friend of Mr. Lan
drum’s father, as w-11 as bis own) made a
touchingly beautiful and appropriate
praver.
Rev. Dr. C. H. Ryland announced as the
next hymn,
“Asleep in Jesus, b’essed sleep,”
which was sung in very tender and touch
ing strains
Rev. Dr. W. E. Hatcher then made an
exceedingly felicitous, eloquent and appro
priate address. After alluding to the sor
row which the tidings of this death had
carried to friends at a distance— (to ministers
far and wide, to the sons of Mercer Univer
sity, of Brown, and of our Thet logical Sem
inary who knew and loved our brother; to
bis father and mother in New Orleans, who
had buried ell of their sons but him; to his I
sister in another State, and to her home in !
New England)—he said that the centre of I
this great sorrow was here in the church
and community where our brother is so 1
highly honored and where our tister was so
dearly ln-ed.
He paid a tribute of rare beauty and ap- i
propriateness to the life and character of Mrs. i
Landrum; spoke of how she had won the 1
hearts of the people by her labors of love in
the church, and turned from this scene of
sorrow to raise a piean of triumph at her
glorious death in the faith of the gospel, and
to contemplate for the comfort of the living,
her “crown of rejoicing” and her sweet rest
beyond the river.
Dr. Hatcher was in his happiest vein, and
there were no dry eyes in the vast throng
during the delivery of his address.
Rev. Dr. Curry then led in an appropriate
and feeling prayer, and Rev. C. P. Scott read
the hymn,
“There’s a land mine eye hath seen.”
while the procession filed out of the church
and accompanied the remains to the Rich
mond, Fredricksburg & Potomac depot, to
be conveyed for burial to New Medford,
Mass.
A committee of the church accompanied
the stricken pastor, his two children, and
Mrs. Landrum’s mother, as they bore back
to her old home the cold remains of the
bright and happy bride who came thence
oily a few years ago, and the prayers of a
weeping church and hosts of friends are
following him.
De Lesseps on the Soudan.
Interview in the Taris Matin.
I have repeatedly warned the English
that to send an expedition to the Soudan
was to send soldiers to certain death. As
for ancient Nubia, or Ethcpia, it is a country
in which, as if in the sea, whole armies of
conquerors have been engulfed. Cambyses
left 100,000 men on the deserts, and he was
only too glad to return with a handful of
followers. The son of Mehemet Ali was
burned in his camp with his army. To
attempt to conquer the Soudan by force is a
dream. It is quite possible to give laws to
and govern these intelligent, heroical-
Ily brave races. In order to
reach Khartoum, whatever the route
taken, one must cross deserts in which there
is absolutely no water. An army, whether
going or returning, will always be an easy
prey to the warlike populations of Nubia.
These can turn on the enemy as many as
100,600 fighting men for whom death is
only a secondary consideration, and who
would be scoffed at by the women if they
returned to their villages without having
avenged the deaths of their companions.
The longer the struggle is continued against
the Soudin the more difficult will be the
effecting of a settlement. Two years ago it
would have been easy to negotiate; now it is
difficult, the animosity of these fanatical
soldiers having been aroused.
Arrested for Theft.
At 3 o’clock to-day the engineer of the
Gate City had a small 15-year-old boy ar
rested for stealing S3O from him while in
passage from Boston to this
place. The boy’s name is Joseph
Moriarity and he ran away from
home to see the South. He had $11.50 on
his person when arrested, but said another
boy stole the money while he watched and
divided with him.
Origin of a Noted Line.
The New York papers are now engaged
in what seems to promise a fruitless discus
sion, as to the authorship of this familiar line,
“Though lost to sight, to memory dear.”
Two or three correspondents ascribe it to
one Ruthven Jenkins. The most probable
origin is with a disgusted individual who dis
carded an ill-fitting, though costly suit of
clothes, and treated himself in its stead with
an elegant, neatly made spring suit at B.
H. Levy & Bros, fashionable clothing parlors
189, 191, and 193 Congress street. The
Messrs. Levy are displaying some new and
nobby designs in gents’, youths and boy’s
clothing, in connection with a full line of
shoes, furnishing goods, etc. They have also
some splendid bargains left in winter goods.
Their stock is replete with the best speci
mens of the tailor's art.
Clean teeth, healthy gums, a pure breath.by
usingHol.uies’ Wash audJUen til rice.
S6OO A YEAR
THE ELECTRIC LIGHT.
Its Beneficial Agency in Baffling Crime.
The New York Graphic is a great believer
m the electric lightas a preventiveof crime
md an aid to law and order and the pro
tection of life and property. In a late issue
of that paper it says:
“ The report of the Tenement House Com
mission, made on January 14 last, contains
at least one pertinent s“ggestion. It is that
electric lights in the poorer quarters of the
city would be very beneficial in banishing
crime. It would be well for the city
authorities to seriously consider this sug
gestion. Criminals love darkness. The
blackest crimes are committed under the
shadows of the blackest night. Thugs and
highway robbers do not ply their nefarious
occupations under the midday sun,
neither do they seek those street
corners which are made as light
as day by electric lamps to carry on their
trades. No one ever heard of a person being
strangled by a burglar or clubbed by robber
under an electric lamp. It is the dark
corners of the lightless slums where such
crimes are committed. It is in those quar
ters of the city around the wharves and
under the shadows of the swarming tene
ment houses where the narrow streets are
siraj ly crevices in the great blocks of build
ings that a man’s life is unsafe at night. By
all means let the electric light be introduced
at once. As a means of preserving the
peace and insuring the safety of our citi
zens it is only second to the policemen
themselves.”
The Fruitless Search of a Mother for Her
Missing Sod.
This morning Mrs. Bower, who arrived
here ftom New York Friday before last in
search of her son, a full account of which
was published in the Sunday edition of the
Times following, returned from Jacksonville
and St. Augustine, where she has spent a
week in fruitless search for her missing boy.
Mrs. Bower is now at Rev. Richard Webb’s
home, on South Broad street, where she will
nmain until Wednesday, hoping to hear
something of her lost son. With a
view to aiding the distressed lady in the
search, a description of the young gentle
man is again published below, and other
papers are requested to reproduce it in their
columns to give it greater publicity and aug
ment the chance of his being restored to his
almost heart-broken mother:
His description is 18 years old, six feet
high, manly and graceful carriage, brown
hair, light complexion, wore a black derby
hat, brownish gray ulster, dark clothing and
button shoes, carried a Walthaui silver
watch No 2,500,008 tem winding hunting
case. Had about 112 with him. Mrs.
Bower says that abort 2 o’clock on the day
of his leaving he ci me home for his lunch,
and unusual thing lor him to do, and on
leaving said he was going back to his em
ployers, a large publishing house, in
New York. He was well educated,
of gentlemanly behavior, and refined
in his habits and associations. It is
thought that he had been a little deranged
from a recent illness during which he wok
much quinine, and wandered off white in
this condition. He was very quiet, a mem
ber of a Sunday school, the Young Men’s
Christian Association, and of very studious
hi b ts.
Mrs. Bower is a lady of refine
ment, culture and good social position in
New York, and other papers would aid
her no little in giving this description pub
lic! ty in their columns. Any information
about the son will receive prompt attention
at the bauds of the Chief of Police of New
York City.
City Court.
City Court met at 10 o’clock this
morning, Hon. Wm. D. .Harden, Judge
presiding, when the following proceeding
were had:
The State vs. Pavlo Pano. Receiving
stolen g> ods. Verdict of guilty’ rendered
and motion for new trial filed by defend
ant’s counsel.
State vs. Allen Mack. Larceny from
the house. Guilty. Sentenced to six months
on the chain gang.
State vs. James Rice. Simple larceny.
Guilty. Sentenced to pay a fine of $25 or
to be imprisoned three months with labor.
State vs. Billy Jackson. Vagrancy. Dis
charged.
State vs. Dan Williams. Assault and
battery. Guilty. Sentenced to pay a fine
of SSO or three months on the chain gang.
Charged With Assault and Battery.
This morning Henrietta Roberts, a 16-
year-old negro girl had Justice W aring
Russell, Jr, issue a warrant against Hen
rietta Owens, charging her with assault
and battery. The Owens woman had raised
the gill from a baby, and was the guardian
and mother of her in every sense, except
that she had never taken out letters of
guardiatship, hence legally she had no
right to chastise the girl. She had detected
the girl in acts which deserved correction
and administered, as she herself said, a
sound flogging with a leather strap.
There is no doubt of the moral right of
the woman to correct the child, but owing to
the fact that she did not have the legal
right it is probable she will suffer for hav
ing tried to do her duty by the girl.
Savannah Academy.
The roll of honor for the Sixth Scholast
ic month at this institution embraces
the following names :
Wm. Eckstein, Alfred Friedenberg,
Dearing Harden, Geo. Haskell, Gustaf
Johnson, Richard Lester, Thos. Lynch,
Fred Morgan, Rodolph Richards, Wm-
Waller and Chas. West.
George Garmany’s name was omitted bf
mistake last month.
You will not be asked to buy at Altmayer's
opening to-day and to-morrow.
We ask a critical examination of styles and
prices, as compared with other bouses, at
Altmayer’s opening to-day and to-morrow.
The finest line of Parisian-trimmed hats
and bonnets at Altmayer’s opening to-day
en to-morrow.