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VOL. 6.—NO. 95.
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
LATEST HAPPENINGS REPORTED
BY CABLE AND WIRE.
Another Consultation of the British Min
istry—The Viceroy of India Regards
War Inevitable—A Negro Fiend Con
fesses his Crime-Gen. Grant’s
Condition More Favorable-
Miscellaneous Ntws
Items.
London, April 15.—3:30 p. m.—The
members of the Cabinet were again hastily
summoned to a cabinet meeting this after
noon, and at this writing they are still
sitting.
In a speech delivered to-day at Lahore,
the capital of Punjaub, Lord Dulferin,
Viceroy of India, said that the recent at
tack by the Russian Gen. Komaroff, on the
Afghans appears to have been entirely un
provoked. He added that while he was
anxious for peace it was impossible at this
moment to foresee the end of the present
crisis.
TURKISH MARAUDERS
Wreck a British Consulate and Wound
the Consul.
London, April 15. —A dispatch from
Erzeroum, the capital city of Armenia, in
Asiatic Turkey, via Trebizonde, states that
marauders entered that city and attacked
the British Consulate. The building was
wrecked and the Consul wounded. The
English Government has made a demand
on Turkey for the arrest and punisument of
the offenders, and that proper reparation be
made to the Consul
THE NEW GEORGIA BONDS.
Bids Opened To-Day—A Handsome Pre
mium Offered by Parties lor the
Entire Issue.
Special Dispatch to the Daily Times.
Atlanta, April 15.—Bids on the new
Georgia bonds were opened at noon. There
were four bids for the whole issue. Netter,
of Cincinnati, and Wolf & Co., of New
York, <ffer to take a four ano
the half per cent. bond at par.
Moses Taylor & Co., of New York, offer one
hundred and four for the live per cent,
bonds. John H. Inman offers one hundred
and a quarter. There were few Georgia
bidders. The Governor is now considering
the bids.
GENERAL GRANT.
His Condition Still Improving.
New York, April 15, 9 a. m.—General
Grant has enjoyed a refreshing
eight and a half hours. His pulse is 74,
and of fair volume—temperature nominal.
He is inclined to be cheerful and chatty
and has at present no pain in his throat
nor has he suffered from it any during the
night.
(Signed) Geo. F. Shrady, M. D.
A STATE SENATOR DENOUNCED.
For Refusing to Express Sympathy for
Grant.
Grand Rapids, Mich, April 15-An
indignation meeting was held here last
night, and attended by an immense crowd of
all political parties, to denom.ce Slate
Senator and Mayoi- 1 John L. Curtis,
for having refused to vote in the Senate on
resolutions of sympathy for General Grant
FIRE IN NEW ORLEANS.
An Old Landmark Destroyed.
New Orleans, Apr 1 15.—One of the old
landmarks of the city was destroyed by fire
yesterday. It was the old Globe ball-room
at the head of the < 11 Carondelet canal, at
Congo square. It was a quaint old edifice,
of old Spanish masonry, and before the w.ir.
was famous for the creole-quadroon dances
given in its great
A NEGRO MISCREANT.
Confesses his Crime Before Being Lynched
Chattanooga, Tenn , April 15.- A gen
tleman who has arrived from luka. Miss.,
says Johnson, the negro who was lynched
there for an assault on an aged white wo
man confessed bis crime before being lynch
ed and also stated ■ hat he had assaulted
and murdered a lady near Brunswick, two
months ago.
A LATTER DAY SAINT
Denounced For Pleading Guilty to Polj
gamy.
Salt Lake City, April 15.—The Mor
mon organ denounces Orson Arnold’s acti in
in pleading guilty of polygamy and promis
ing to abandon it. The paper says the ex
ample is one that no consistent Latter Day
Saint can fell aw ■
STRIKE ENDED.
Terms of Arbitration Agreed to.
South Norwalk, Conn., April 15.—The
hatter’s strike is ended, both sides agreeing
to the terms proposed by the arbitrators, and
which are most favorable to the men, who
were striking against a reduction.
Triple Murder and Suicide.
St. Joseph, Mo., 15 In Holt county,
Monday night, a farmer named Wm. Clark
shot and killed Mrs. Hardin, a widow, aged
42 and her daughter Annie aged 16; also a
boy of the family aged 14 and then killed
himself. Clark had been threatened with a
suit for damages for alleged intimacy with
the girl.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1.5, 188.5.
DISABILITIES OF EX-CONFEDERATE-.
Comparing the Cases of Generals Lawton
and Jackson.
A special dispatch from ’Washington refer
ring to Gen. Lawton’s return to Georgia
says his commission as Minister to Russia has
not yet been issued. Some of his friends, who
insist that he is not ineligible, take the ground
that even the pardon issued to him by Presi
dent Johnson was not necessary to relieve him
from the effect of the prohibition contained
in the 14th amendment to the Constitution,
because prior to the act of 1862 officers of
the army were not required to take an oath
“to support the Constitution of the United
States.” The sixth article of the Constitu
tion requires that “all executive officers” of
the United States shall be bound by oath or
affirmation to support the Constitution, and
the act of 1879. prescribes the form of oath.
By the act of June 11, 1812, every officer in
the army was required to take an oath to
“bear true faith and allegiance to the United
States of America.” Such eminent lawyers
as Wm. M. Evarts and George F. Edmunds
hold that the oath taken by every public
officer, whatever be the form of words em
ployed, binds him to support the Constitution
of the United States.
The case of General Jackson, who was
nominated and confirmed as Minister tc
Mexico, is different in some respects from
that of General Lawton. A careful and
thorough examination of the records fails to
show that the political disabilities of Gen
eral Jackson have been removed by Con
gress, and it is not known that he received
a pardon from Andrew Johnson. Genera!
Jackson was United States Minister Resi
dent at Viena before he took up arms against
the government. Since he has been ap
pointed “by and w.th the advice and con
sent of the Senate,” and he received his
commission, someofhis friends, who do not
deny that his political dis abilities have not
been removed, regard his case as setll.d and
his tenure secure, In this they seem to be
in error. By section 14 of an act approved
May 31, 1870, the substance of which is
embodied in secti n 1,780 of the revised
statutes, it is provided : “That whenever
any person shall hell office,
except as a member of
Congress or some State Legislature, con
trary to the provisions of the third section
of the 14th article of amendment of , the
Constitution of the United States it shall
be the duty of the District Attorney of the
United States for the district in which such
person shall hold office, as aforesaid, to pro
ceed against such person, by writ of quo
warranto, returnalle to the Circuit or Dis
trict, and to prosecute the same to the re
moval of such person from office; and any
writ of quo warranto so brought, as afore
said, shall take precedence of all other
causes on the docket of the court to which
it is made returnable, and shall not be coi -
tinuable ui 1 *ss for cause be proved to the sa
tisfaction of the Court.”
KILLEIf FOR SIXTY CEN I S.
Michael Commiskey Shot D wn and His
15o<ly Flac <1 on the Rail oad Track.
Wjlkesbarre, Pa., April 13—Last even
ing about 8 o’clock Michael Commiskey and
Andrew Maduro, two Hungarians, called at
the saloon of Charles McNamee, in the north
ern suburbs of the city. They drank con
siderable beer, and, seeing that they were be
coming intoxicated, the proprietor refused to
give them any more. This fed to a quarrel
and McNamee put them out. The two then
proceeded on their way home. The supposi
tion is that they quarreled on the
way, when Maduro pulled out a re
volver and shot Commiskey dead. He
then placed his victim on the railroad track
thinking that a train would come along and
hide all evidence of his bloody deed. The
engineer of a passing engine, however, dis
covered the remains and brought them to
this city. They presented a horrible sight.
The dead man must have fought fiercely
and his head was almost beaten to a jelly,
undoubtedly with some heavy, blunt in
strument. There was als? a pistol ball
back of the head. The scene where the
struggle took place was bespattered with
blood in all directions.
As soon as the murder became K wn it
was the general belief that McNamee and
some of nis friends had murdered the man,
but at a hearing to-night those arrestee
were <ti“nharged, there being no evidence
against them. Madmo is beyond a>l doubt
the murderer, and his object was to rob his
friend of sixty cents he had on his person
at the lime they started away from the ho
tel. He will be arrested to-morrow. The
murdered man was aged thirty years.
Chicago ’Change.
Chicago, April 15.—The markets opened
excited, and from 2 to 3 cents lower than at
previous day’s close on grain and provisions.
Pork was off 30c. per bbl. and lard and ribs
were 10c. per 100 lower. The following are
the quotations: Wheat —May, 88}a88}c.;
June, 91}c ; July, 93}c. Corn—47lc. May;
June, 47 jc ; Juiv, 48c. Oats —May, 351 c.;
June, 35}c. Pork —May, sll 971; June,
$' 2 10; July, sl2 20. Lard—May, $6 95;
June, $7 02}. Ribs—May, $5 97}; June,
$6 10; July, $6 15.
No Danger of Abuse of Labor.
New York Times.
Whatever may be good reasons for re
taining .Republicans in office in the
Washington Departments, the fact that such
Republicans are abetting the office-seeking
schemes of Democratic Senators is certainly
not one of them. It ought, however, to be
clearly understood that there is nothing in
the letter or spirit of the Civil Service law
that puts the slightest check on the power
of discretionary removal of subordinate of
fleers coming under that law. As men
thus removed must be replaced by compe
titive examination there is no danger of
abuse of the power of removal, the free ex
ercise of which is essential to discipline and
efficiency. As to the offices filled with the
consent of the Senate the conditions are, of
course different.
THE ROYAL VISITORS
REi EIVE AN ENTHUSIASTIC RE
CEP HOU IN CORK.
Th* Day Balmly and Beautiful—An Im
mense Concourse Gathered to Receive
the Prince and Princess of Wales
City Ofti via’s Express Undying
Loyalty to the Queen and Roy
al Family.
Cork, April 15—The Prince and
Princess of Wales, arrived here this morn
ing. The weather is beautiful, su ■ shinin'-
brightly and the air balmy and springlike.
As the train bearing the Roval party
s earned up to the station de f n ng cheers
arose from the multitudes ga tiered in and
around the depot, while numerous bands ot
music played 1 yiil air c . The streets
in the vicinity oi the station
were jammed, whi'e the enthusiasm
manifested surpassed the expectations of the
m >st sanguine. As the Prince stepped
fram the train he was met by a deputation
of officials • f the citv, who presented him
with an add e s welcoming him t > the city
of Cork and attes ing their undying loyalty
to the Queen and members of the royal
fimily. The Prince ami party were then
escorted by a strong force ot military and
police to carriages in waiting and driven
through the principal streets All along
the route the royal party was enthusiastic
ally cheered.
The Locomotive in Winter.
Mechanical Engineer.
A locomotive cab in winter is a dreary
place. It is bad in daytime, but on a win
ter night, when the snow flies fast, the loco
motive cab is a go< d place to keep out of.
Even in the day it is impossible to see anv
thing if a snow storm prevails. The ra’D
run right up into the air. Nothing, cun be
seen ahead but a jumping ;fl place. The
windows are frozen up er covered with
snow, and from innumerable cracks and
crevices around the floor where it joins the
boiler come draughts that bite and sting.
The engine caws like a crow—haugb,
haugh, now fast, now slow, according as the
drifts cover the track or uncover for a brief
space, and when it strikes a drift it throws
the snow in blinding clouds all over
itself, just as the spray flies over a
vessel snipping a sea. The track is roug ,
for the frost has disturbed it, and the engine
lurches ahead, staggering to and fro like a
drunken man. There are few more impres
sive spectacles in this world than a power
ful locomotive laboring through a heavy
snowstorm. To the observer beside the
track it looms up through the gloom tre
mendous and awful. The locomotive seems
the embodiment of the Death Angel, mov
ing swiftly and noislessly. The snow has
muffled tlie whir of the rolling friction of
the wheels on the rails, and the train glides
by I k the u . u > tan a’ pagean J 4 a dream.
With its black breath, its snorts of fire, its
hoarse voice, it is truly Apollyon, the de
stroying angel, and the man must be unim
pressibie indeed who does not thrill at its
advent.
The Great Condescension of a King.
There is a great rage for historic inci
dents which occurred a hundred years or so
ag ' in cultivated society, just at present.
Among the most interesting and remarka
ble, and not without a tear or two of quiet
psihos, is one handed down for the past
three generarions by the ducal house of
Leicester. It had a servitor in the family
who seemed to take a great pride in a pair
of breeches sadly needing repairs back aft.
On all state occasions he would appear in
these dilapidated garments, much to the
scandal of the court. One day King Geo ge
the IV. visited Leicester House, and sure
enough Mopson, the butler, was on hand in
his notorious breeks, conspicuous with the
roof blown off their gable end. The King
himself observed him and exclaimed: “Why
don’t the man put patches on his feathers?”
“I would die firs’, your Majesty!” tried,
humble Mopson. “Your Majesty once did
me the honor to kick n e there, and to my
dying day will 1 not cover your Majesty’s
great condescension!” “Well, writ,” said
King George, touched by this evidence of
loyalty, “out of courtesy to the ladies, my
good man, put patches on and come to me,
and I will kick you again.” George the
IV. was a kind hearted man, and could thus
bend the dignity of the royal sovereign to
the softer impulses of his nature. —Pitts-
barg Chronicle.
New York Stock Market.
New York, April 15.—At 1:30 p. m. to
day quotations were:
Union Pacific 46%
Missouri Pacific 93%
Western Union Telegraph Co 58%
Pacific Mail 54%
Lake Shore 59%
Ixiuisville and Nashville 32%
Texas Pacific 10%
Denver and Rio Grande 7
Michbaa Central 56
Delav a e, Lackawanna Ji West’n 107%
Northwestern 98%
St. Paul 73%
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy 123
Oregon Transcontinental 12%
Northern Pacific 40%
Kock Island 1)5
Jersey Central 38
Memphis and Charleston 40
East Tennessee, Va. & Ga (com) 22%
East Tennessee, Va. & Ga. (pfd) 5%
Philadelphia and Reading 16
Omaha (com) 24%
Omaha (pfd) 85
New York Central - 90-%
Kansas and Texas 18%
Erie - 12%
New York Produce Market.
New York, April 15. —Flour dull and
unchanged. Wheat—No. 2 red winter $1 01}
for May, $1 02} for June, $1 04} for July.
Corn No. 2 mixed, May 54}. Oats—No. 2
mixed,May 40}.Ryeatd barlevnominal.Pork
dull—mess sl3 37}. Lard $7 28a7 30 May,
$7.36a7 38 for June. Mi lasses quiet, 50c
for best. Turpentine steady at 31c. Rosin
dull $1.10a1.12}. Freights nominal. Rice
qniet, Carolina and Louisiana, common to
fair, 4}as}c. Sugar quiet, refined cut 1 >af,
6ga6J; granulated, 5 15-16. Tallow strong
er, prime city 6. Hay nominal. Coffee
dull.
Probabilities.
Washington, April 15. —For the South
Atlantic States, fair, warmer weather, fol
lowed on Thursday by partly cloudy weather
and local rains; wind generally from south
east and southwest; lower barometer.
MACON MATTERS.
The Great Bicycle Race—Polhill Wins—
General Notes.
Special Correspondence Daily Times.
Macon, April 14.—Some very interesting
and exciting bicycle races occurred at Cen
tral Park this afternoon. John S Prince,
the champion of the world, opened the fun
in a half mile handicap with John H. Pol
hill, of Macon, the champion of Georgia.
Prince give Polhill thirty yards start,
thinking he could easily win the race. He,
however, found Polhill a most skilful and
rapid rider. Polhill won this race in
1.27 2-5.
Prince loses S2OO b? this, he having
offered that sum to any man in the South
to beat him.
The next race was between W. J. Morgan
and Joe Ruhl’s trotter, "Bism-irck”—best
two in three —half mile heat. Morgan won
by a record of 1 34 in the first heat and 1.30
in the second.
After this Prince and Morgan had a three
mile handicap, Morgan having 200 yards
I start. This was very exciting and close.
I Prince won by twenty yards—time 9 29 2 5.
There will be other races on the 17ih inst.
Prince and Morgan wi'l visit your city
| soon and make the same offer to any one
’ who can beat them. Prince is a fine rider,
1 very graceful and easy in his movements.
I Morgan, however, is the more graceful of
the two.
A very singulir accident occurred yes
terday morning to afi eman on train No.
53 from Savannah, at the coal chute near
the C. R. R , shops. The matter has been
kept very quiet and tc-day the fu'l particu
lars have come to light. Jno. Grubbs was
the fireman and while endeavoring to knock
laose the iron pin which held the door of
the chute he lost his balance and fell lx low,
a distance if 20 feet. He was picked up i
senseless and placed in the baggage car and I
carried to meeting point of train No 52, |
b' und for Savannah. On reaching Macon
at 7:35 Dr. Matteau was hastily summoned
but arrived too late for any service. He is |
badly biuiscd about the head and legs. His i
home is in Savannah.
Tc-morrow our city will take a 'general
holiday. The Firemen have their . annual :
! contest and the Southern League games
' open here with the Chattanooga’s, who ar
rive to-night. A funny story is told about
| Mack, our 21 baseman, as to the manner in i
[ w ich he came to sign for SIOO per month
when he can get S2OO. He and Burk lew
I the captain of the Macon’s, were in New
Orleans during the winter and Burkalew
acting for manager Leslie, bantered Mack
for a contract fur the season. Mack would
not. listen to the ofler made and indignantly
refused. He soon spent all his cash and
went to Burkalew to borrow SIOO
and fEurkalew rtfused to lead him any
thing unless he would sign with the Macon’s.
His eagerness for the loan soon caused him
to make a contract on the terms proposed,
and now Macon has a player for whom
Philadelphia offered S2OO per month and
i SSOO bonus for his release.
Harold.
POPULAR SCIENCE.
Prof. Miall says that there are to be found
associated with seams of coal, and < spec ally
I with the underlying shale, the flattened im
pressions of creatures which once bad life,
though at first strenuously doubted.
A brilliant black varnish for iron, stone or
wood can be made by thoroughly incorporat
ing ivory black with common shellac var
nish. The mixture should be laid on very
thlt. But ordinary coal tar varnish wil
serve the same purpose in most cases quite
I as well, and it is not nearly so expensive.
Lenses for the great Lick telescope are
I said to have been at last successfully cast,
and need only polishing to be ready for use.
; The San Francisco Call says: “In looking
1 through this telescope it is reckoned that
the moon will be brought within thirty
miles of the earth, and that discoveries will
: be made on that planet to solve problems
heretofore held to be unsclvable.”
I The treeless condition of parts of the South
American pampas, of the La Plata region,
at least, is attributed by Mr. Arthur Nicols
:to the work of an omnipresent ant, which
j feeds upon leaves and quickly destroys tree
I seedlings and other tender plants as soon as
'the leaves appear above ground. Indian
corn grows freely on these plains, its growth
beiug so rapid that the insects do not suc
ceed in completely devouring the young
plants.
After tea has been steeped in boiling
water for three minutes over five-sixths ot
the valuable constituents are extracted. At
the end of ten minutes the leaves are almost
entinly exhausted. Prolongedinfusion gives
no additional strength to the liquid, but it
does cause the loss, by volatilization, of the
flavoring principles Hard waters are to be
preferred to soft waters in the teapot, as the
hard waters dissolve less of the tannin out
of the leaves. The bearing of these labora
tory results on the art of making a good cup
of tea is obvious.
Dr. J. M. Anderson has reached the con
clusion that only flowering plants, grown in
well lighted places, generate ozone; and that
the mostordorous flowers produce the great
est quantity. The czone attacks the organic
matter of the air, and by oxidation renders
it inert; and Dr. Anderson does not doubt
that flowering plants in clear weather give
off enough of this natural purifying agent to
be of hygienic value indoors. Foliage plants
although yielding no ozone, may be of advan
tage in contributing to the maintenance of a
healthful degree of humidity in the atmos
phere of rooms.
For Abolishment of a Nuisance.
Editor Daily Times: As your columns
are ever open to the “accommodating spirit’
of the City and Suburban Railway Company
will you kindly give space to one not imbued
with this idea.
I beg to enter an earnest appeal, through
you, to our city fathers for abolishment of a
grievous nuisance. They have passed an
ordinance requiring street railways to water
their tracks; yet the City and Suburban Rail
way, in persistent disregard thereof causes
serious annoyance and injury to persons and
property on their lilies by the showers of
dust continually poured upon the latter from
the tracks of the former during many days,
after the copious use of water is recognized as
necessary. One of the Sufferers.
WESTERN MARKETS.
.SPECULATION ON ’CHANGE STILL
RAMPANT AND FEVERISH.
A Larg-Volume of Business Being Trans
acted—Unwonted Activity in i he Mar
ket—War the Only Idea Among
Traders, and the Bears
Disheartened and
Dispirited.
Special Dispatch to the Dally Tinies.
Chicago, April 15. Speculators on
’Change are still rampant. The markets
are active, excited and nervous, a 1 rger
volume of business being transacted than
for months past; in fact, dealers say they
have not witnessed so much activity or anx
iety since the memorable failure of June,
1883. War news has caused bullsand bean
to vie with each other as to which could buy
the most and quickest, and outside orders
kept pouring in, crop reports were entirely
forgotten, and receipts and shipments hardly
ever thought of. Consols have become once
more the guide, and every change in them
is watched like the ebbing pulse of a dying
friend. War is the only idea in the mini s
of most traders, and consols are considered
the only barometer to indicate the current
of official values. The recent rapid advance
in wheat here has struck the ring of con
stitutional bears pretty hard. Jack Cudahy, '
Billy Linn and and Jcnesare b.fing reported >
as cursing especially sore paws, while Norm ;
Ream is said to be wearing a smiling front I
because he has laid by a small fortune. I
ChaiKs Schwartz and John Lester are heav- i
ily “long,” and claim that the lu'ls have a
“sure thing,” on the ground that should war j
news all drop out, ruined cri ps in this coun
try are sufficient to sustain values at the I
present range, and even put them higher. I
“The crop,” laid Schwartz, “was spoilt I
last Dei ember. The damage was done by J
ice; we had a spell of warm rains ail over
the winter wheat belt, then a sudden freeze, :
covering the hills,with a coat ofice. On top i f
this came a heavy fall of snow, remaining I
all winter, but instead of being a benefit, it j
was an injury, preserving the ice coating |
and virtually smothering the crop below I
it. This is what is now being realized as ]
instead of revivi: g the plan',spring weather
only shows it to be past ah hope of resur* I
rection.”
An improved export demand is notice- ’
al le, but the markets jump so tast, it is
difficult for exporters to follow them, and I
it only requires some scare to make them
anxious buyers.
Foreign advices are likely to be the con
trolling factor for the present, and as no one
can tell what an hour will bring forth pre
dictions are us less.
Local speculators are nearly all “1 >ng”
while throughout the country eve.ybody
who ever dabbles in grain owns 5,000 or
10,000 bushels and a batch of peace news
would ca ne a lively shaking up.
Corn is very strong. There is more anx
iety among the shorts to provide for their
May contracts, which, with the greatly
reduced receiptsand increased shipments
may lead to a squeeze bes re they are cov
ered. Lester is a heavy buy er, both per
sonally and through brokers, and those who
are sensationally ini lined predict a corner.
The visible supply again shows an increase
but it is rather apparent than real. Very
little of the.com in transit is on the wh Is
s le markets and not a large proportion of
that in store or afloat waiting the opening
of navigation. All advices from the coun
try predict light receipts till spring planting
is over. Estimates of stocks now in farmers
hands too—say about 600,000,000 bushels — I
give barely enough to supply the current |
home consumption to the close of Septem
ber indicating that the excess of last year
ever an average crop has been already used
up ; gone to fill the void left by previous |
deficiency.
Provisions are “water-logged” by the dull I
shipping demand, with little hope of speedy j
improvements as the South has already !
bought enough for a good way ahead. Hogs I
promise so well that leading packers pre
diet 4 cents before long, and this makes;
them bearish on product. Sympathy with i
wheat, however, sustains the market.
United States Circuit Court.
Hon. Emory Speer, Judge, presiding
Court met this morning at 10 o’clock, and
the following results were obtained :
N K. Bond vs. J. P. Thomas, motion to
set aside an agreement of parties in the na
ture of a settlement entire and of record.
After arguments, the Court held that rn
agreement of record is a judgment and can
not be set aside by motion.
United States vs. Joseph Hardwick. Re
tailing. Nol pressed.
! United States vs. W. H. Blitch. Retail-
I ing. Dismissed on payment of tax penalty
and all costs. i
| United States vs. John T. Parker. Re
tailing. Same disposition.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT.
Hon. Emory Speer, Judge presiding.
Court convened this morning at 10 o’clock,
when the following proceedings were had.
United States vs. V. H. Burns. Dismiss
ed on payment tax penalty and costs.
United States vs. David C. Finch. Re
tailing. Same disposition.
United States vs. D. B. Rigdon. Retail
ing. Same.
United States vs. Horace S. Blitch. Re
tailing. Same.
United States vs. James Wilson. Intimi
dating witness. Defendant called and failed
to appear. A motion was then made to have
his bond estreated and scire facias issued.
Court then adjourned until to-morrow
morning at 10 o’clock.
Badly Burned.
Yesterday morning a colored woman
named Martha Hollingsworth, who lives on
Bryan and Ann streets, visited her cousin
Bena Young, in East Savannah. She
sat before a fire and had her clothes burned.
She ran into the yard and had her person
badly burned by the wind fanning the
flames. Her dress and corset were all
burned off. Dr. Chisholm is attending her.
A standard specific and absolute cure is
found in the great liver and kidney medi
cine, Hunt's remedy. Beware of imitations.
S6OO A YE Hl
NARROW 7 ESCAPE
Fr nu Asphyxiation by Gas—A Singular
Affair.
There was quite an excitement on Brough
ton street yesterday evening, caused by the
exhalation of gas from a pipe at the junction
of Broughton and Drayton streets. The
Mutual Gas Light Company had a force of
workmen engaged in laying twelve inch
mains on Broughton street, and had reached
Drayton street. Here the Superintendent,
Mr. Ardrian N. Hayden, encountered an old
twelve inch pipe, which he found necessary
to cut so as to make an annex and addition
The gas at the works was shut off in the
meantime, and the work of cutting the pipe
was commenced. Suddenly a flow of gas
escaped through the fissures .thus
made and prostrated several of
the men engaged. The Super
intendent Mr. Hayden, was knocked uncon
scious and taken away, and Mr. John Col
lins, a foreman, was so stupefied and made
insensible from the asphyxiation that his
friends took him to the office of Dr. E H.
Nichi l's, on S uth Broad and Abercorn
streets, where he was attended to. He wae
afterwards sent to his home on President
and Houston streets, as his attending physi
cian found he would get pneumonia. Then
the proper remedies for gas were adminis
tered, and at 11 o’clock Mr. Collins
gratified his friends by being
aroused from his stupor Both he and Mr.
Hayden are at work to-day. This water
gas contains twenty per cent, of carbonic
oxide, while the coal gas only contains five
per cent., but in any case the oxide is suffi
ciently strong to poison almost with fatal
results' In all probability the prompt ap
plication of efficacious remedies in the cases
of Superinteid-nt Hayden and Foreman
Collin saved their lives last night. To-day
the route along where the pipe* are being
laid is pretty well crowded by parties who
learned of the the i flair of last night,
and who have a marked curiosity to learn
more of the nature of the accident.
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The Streets and Lanes
A Times reporter yesterday had an oppor
tunity of seeing how the streets and lanes
were kept clean, and how the Superintend
ent of the Street Cleaning Department, Mr.
Wm. Swoll, looked after the hygienic condi
tion of the city. He found everything from
the river front to the south side of Anderson
street, in those streets and lanes visited, in a
clean and healthy condition and observed
that the garbage and refuse matter were
taken up frequently enough to obviate all
fears of their doing harm. The Street Clean
ing Department is under the immediate con
trol, Supervision and watchfulness of Mr.
Swoll, who twice daily goes over the streets
and lanes and personally inspects everything
in connection with the workings of the men.
He has a full complement of men, horses,
mules and wagons and is, thereby, enabled to
cover the vast disti ict embraced by the city.
Mr. Swoll is now taking particular pains so
as to be in accord with and give
assitince to the sanitary corps which
have already commenced the work
of disinfecting. This work wi 1
be rigidly enforced, as ig previous years
and it will doubtless prove as efficient as
formerly. Under this system every yard
and outhouse in the city limits are visited
by a pcliceman who has a certain district t?
cover, and the cleanliness or the negligence
noted. These reports aie nude to police
headquarters where proper steps are taken
to enforce the laws by which the sanitary
condition of the city may be made as perfect
as possible. With this department aidid
by the p< werful machinery of the law Mr.
Swoll is working, and his duties are no fess
important, no fess responsible. He has to
case all the debris, decaying vegetable and
animal matter, slops, etc, to be removed and
deposited in a f lace where they wi 1 gen
erate no offensive odors or
disseminate disease, or urp’easant
i lness. The work to be done
is of necessity an unpleasant one, but it is an
important one and in all respects both with
the Superintendent and the Police Inspec
tors is carried out in the most satisfactory
manner. In a short time watermelons will
be in season, and the streets and lanes will
be, if a rigid vigilance on the part of the
authorities and a rigid enforcement ot the
law be not carried out, tilled with quickly
decaying rinds which are prolific sources
of sickness. A special ordinance, if we mis
take not, was framed for this thing and it
has been, and will be strictly enforced. At
present condition of the streets and lanes
is good, and it is hoped that they
same may be kept so all the summer.
Superior Court.
Court convened this morning at 10
o’clock, Hon. A. Pratt Adams, Judge,
presiding, when the following proceedings
were had:
John Boolean, complainant, tnl Waring
Russell, defendant. In equity. The sealed
verdict was opened and found to be in favor
of complainant.
The Grand Jury rendered a true bill State
vs. David Moses. Larceny after trust. They
were then discharged until next Tuesday,
when they will make their general present
ments and be discharged for the term.
State vs. Horace Brown. Assault with in
tent to murder, Case going on at 2 m.
—The steamship Ceinfuegos of the Ward,
line between Nassau and New York arriv
ed at Tvbee to-day with an excursion party.
The Tug “Republic” met her at Tybee
and will bring the party to the city this
afternoon.
“ Young or middle aged men suffering fron.
nervous debility and kindred weaknesses
should send ten cents in stamps for large
treatise giving successful treatment. World’s"
Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, New
York. .
Tourists to Yellowstone Park next season
might encounter a northwestern blizzard.
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