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Savannah Daily Times
VOL. 6.—NO. 183.
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
LATEST EVENTS OF INTEREST AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
Great Excitement Over the Illinois Sen
atorghip—Jonn A. Logan Re-elected
—Attempt to Burn Ocala, Fla.—A
Fanatic’s Foolish Fr< ak—Serious
Alarm in England Over the
Anglo-Russian Troubles
—General News Items.
Springfield, 111, May 19. —There is
great excitement over the Senatorial ques
tion around the hotels this morning. The
friends of the rival candidates are on the
ground and are working like beavers. The
Republicans are I opeful and the Democrats
active. Judge Tree is surrounded by his
leading lieutenants and Col. Morrison appears
to be doing what he can for him.
The Republicans have all their best
workers on hand, and claim that when the
roll is called at noon every one of their 103
members will answer to his name.
There is an impression that a crisis has ar
rived. Farwell’s supporters are more out’
spoken than usual, and there are intimations
that if the necessities of the case demand it,
there will be a disastrous break from the
Logan ranks.
LATER —LOGAN RE ELECTED.
John A. Logan has just been re-elected
United States Senator. He received 103
votes. The Democrats did not vote.
HONORS TO MINISTER PHELPS.
Formal Presentation to Her Majesty, the
Que. n.
Windsor, May 19.—Retiring United
States Minister J. Russell Lowell, accompa
nied by his successor, Mr. Edward J.
Phelps, arrived here from London by special
train this morning, in compliance with the
command of the Queen, Her Majesty having
appointed to-day as the date of presentation
of ihe new minister to Court. Immediately
on their arrival at the depot they entered
carriages in waiting and were at once driven
to the castle. After a short delay they were
ushere i into the presence of the Queen. Mr.
Lowell introduced Mr Phelps to her
majestv and after going through a few for
malities the }new“ minister presented his
, credentials. MinisterLow.il has vacated
De i„i, rooms occupied by the American lega-
J ’ London, and everything is now in
the day f or t | le i mnae( Ji a te installation of his
ranged t
doubt les. < ■ -r- -tr
out: LeICUICIDE OF A MILLIONAIRE.
Sterling at
a. m., or aftug His Fortune Fleeing from Him.
arriving a
ried out
resu]'Jacksonville, Fla., May 19.—Norman
anJB. Harw >od, who eight years ago was a
millionaire of Minneapolis, Minn., and after
losing his money in speculation, came here
and acquired another fortune, committed
suicide Sunday night at Daytona on account
of judgments having been obtained for
nearly the entire amount of his property by
his former creditors.
A RELIGIOUS FANATIC
Starving Himself to Death,
Bloomington, 111., May 19.—At Farmer
City, a man named Samuel Nutt has been
publishing a paper called the Spirit of
Truth. He has not tasted food or drink in
eleven days, and declares that he will not
until he has fasted forty days. He claims he
is doing this as a sacrifice to the Lord, t and
to manifest his obedience. Nutt claims to be
a prophet.
THE ANGLO-RUSSIAN TROUBLES.
Serious Alarm Felt Over the Situation.
London, May 19.—The Times says that
although nothing has happened to jus
tify any serious alarm because of the unac
countable delay manifested by Russia in
ratifying the preliminary agreement be
tween Mr. Gladstone and Baron de Staal,
yet i he siiuation cannot be regarded without
anxiety by pers ns who are well acquainted
with ail the bearings of the question.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.
Losses One Million Dollars.
London, May 19.—A destructive fire
broke out this morning in the warehouse of
Mitchell & Co., importers of mohair at
Bradford A large quantity of valuable
goods was stored in the building, and before
the firemen could get control of the slimes
property to the amount of $1,000,000 was
destroyed
FIRE AT OCALA.
Attempt to Burn the Town.
Jacksonville, Fla., May 19.—Five
stores on the public square at Ocala were
burned Monday night. The destruction of
the whole town was barely averted. There
have been seven attempts to burn the place
with n a few Weeks.
A Short Cut to Fortune.
New York, May 19—Brigadier General
Hazen has sued the New York Times for
SIOO,OOO damages for editorially charging
him wi h responsibility for the failure of
the Garliagton relief expedition.
Fam us Painter Dead.
Paris, May 19.—Mr. de Neuville, the
famous painter of military pictures is dead.
THE CLUVERIUS TRIAL,
Evidence Adduced This Morning.
Richmond, May 19.—At the opening of
the Cluverius trial this morning two hours
were consumed in arguments as to admitting
the introduction of certain letters as testi
mony. The Court reserved its decision
and the examination of Mrs. Dickinson
was then resumed. Her testimony in the
main was about Miss Madison’s acquaint
ances at witnesses’ home and some of her
movements. Lilian was at times very much
depressed, but witness did not know the
cause. She was kind and amiable. Bags
of clothing and other articles of wearing
apparel found at the time of Lilian’s death,
were here put in evidence.
John L. Oliver, county jiilor, of King
and Queen county, testified to executing the
search of Mrs Tuts'.all’s house, and finding
an overcoat and hat, belonging to the pris
oner.
Ellett Richardson, of King and Queen
testified to coming to Richmond about the
10th or 12’.h of March, with the prisoner,
and that he then wore an overcoat and hat
simi’ar to the one now in court.
James L. Guthrie, assistant postmaster at
Bral, King and Queen, had received letters
for mailing addressed to Miss Madison at
Millboro Springs, which he believed were
in the handwriting of the prisoner.
AN AFFRAY IN COURT.
One Editor Spits on Another and Runs
Away.
Memphis, Tenn, May 19—In the crimi
nal court yesterday morning, vValker Ken
nedy, editor of the Sunday Times, walked
up to Attorney General G. P. M. Turner,
and spat in his face. Turner sprang up,and
drew a pistol upon which Kennedy fled,
protecting himself by hiding behind the
spectators. Turner is editor of the Scime
tar and the two editors have indulged n
bitter personalities in their papers. Kennedy
will doubtless be punished for contempt
of court, and Turner for carrying concealed
weapons. ;
THE DISPATCH BOAT DOLPHIN
Makes Another Failure hi Her Third
Trial.
New York, May 19. —The Dolphin
started out yesterday for anol' er attempt to
run six hours at the maxim! a speed called
for in the government’s specifications. After
running 18 miles the crank pin journal be
came heated and the vessel slowly returned
to the city. Mr. Roach still maintains that
the machinery is exactly as required by the
Government Inspectors, and says /; .that if
there is anything wrong about itjiliey are to
blame.
New York Stock Market.
} New York, May 19 —At 1:30 p. m. to
) lay quotations were:
Union Padtlc 53'.(
Missouri Pacific 92%
Western Union Telegraph Co 511%
Pacific Mail 51%
Lake Shore 52%
Louisville and Nashville 34%
Texas Pacific 19%
Denver and Rio Grande 6
Michigan Central 50
Delaware. Lackawanna <fc West’n ill!
Northwestern ui%
St. Paul 70
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy 123%
Oregon Transcontinental 14
Northern Pacific 39 1 „
Rock Island ..111%
Jersey Central 35%
Memphis and Charleston 37
East Tennessee, Va. <S Ga (com) 29%
East Tennessee, Va. & Ga. (pfd) 5%
Philadelphlaand Reading 15
Omaha (com) 26%
Omaha (pfd) 72%
New York Central 84%
Kansas and Texas 18%
Erie 10%
♦
Chicago ’Change.
Chicago, May 19.—Opening market 9:30
a. m. For some unexplained reason the
tickers were all cut off again this morning,
and it is i Imost impossible to procure the
opening quotations. It is supposed that
some bucket shop was getting them, and
the Quotation Committee desire to
discover the leak. Wheat and oats
opened strong and a trifle higher than yes
terday’s close. Corn lc better. Provisions
•5c better Wheat opened for May 89 j. Corn
for May 49]. Oats for May 34}. Pork for
June sll 10. Lard for July $6 85. Ribs
for June $5 65.
New York Produce Market.
New York, May 19 —Flour dull and
unchanged. Wheat No. 2 red winter
$1 93J, June, corn No. 2 mixed,
May 56 3-8 Oats No. 2 mixed June
39} bid. Pork dull mess,
sl2. Lard, 7.03 June. Molasses dull, 18}
for 50 test; superfine quiet at 32}a32}.
Rosin, strained to good, $1.07} al. 10. Rice
unchanged Coffee dull; fair cargoes, B}.
Probabilities. .
Washington, May 19.—Indications for
the South Atlantic States local rains and
partly cloudy weather, winds shifting to
easterly, and then becoming variable. Slightly
cooler.
Virginia City in Flamrs.
Ogden, Utah, May 19—All telegraph
wires on the direct route west from here
have gone down in a lire that is raging at
Virginia City, Nevada*
Victor Hugo.
Paris, May 19.—Victor Hugo is rapidly
sinking. His condition is considered very
critical and his physicians express the be
lief that his death is only the question of a
few hours.
Grant’s Condition.
New York, May 19—General Grant
did not experience much pain last evening
nor through the night, and after the usual
number of hours sleep, he awoke this morn
ing with little or no pain.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MAY 19. 1885.
THE BUSCH ZOUAVES.
A Description of their Mobile Drill—What
Savannah Can Expect.
The Times briefly mentioned that the
celebrated Busch Zouaves, of St. Louis, had
signified their intention of entering the con
test to be inaugurated by the Chatham Ar
tillery at their centennial, in May, 1886. As
few of our people have ever seen one of these
competitive zouave drills, the following des
cription from the New Orleans Times-Demo
crat will be read with interest:
A Zouave drill is not a military perform
ance, but a hop, skip and a jump business
which is very much like gymnastic?, and
which affords a great deal of amusement to
spectators. The Z niaves look a great deal
like the alleged Turkish candy vendors that
are seen about the street corners, and also
bear a close resemblance to those mysterious
individuals who every year ride awkward
horses in the Rex parade. When the Zou
ave gets out on the street all alone, and his
baggy trousers commence to float and flap
in the wind like a red shirt on a clothes
line, he invariably attracts a great deal of
attention, and is followed as a general thing
by or 300 small boys, who make his
heart very sad. On the drill ground, how
ever, with his company, the individuality of
the Zouave is lost in the bi lbws of red pan
taloons and he feeh more at ease, because
misery loves company, and he knows the
funny remarks which are made concerning
the personal appearance of the Zouaves are
not directed entirely against himself.
The drill of the Zouaves, however, is a
revelation in acrobatics, and the manner in
which they hop up in the air and twill
their legs and flap their arms and twist
would cause a cat to go off' and jump down
an old well. The Zouaves cannot execute a
movement without flying around like a
spinning wheel and turning two or three
handsprings. For instance, when the com
mand is given to fire, they throw their guns
in the air, catch them as they come down
again, and then stand on their head while
they load and pull the trigger with their
toes. The next moment the captain com
mences to give his commands, as if he
was running a singing class, and
th” tumble over each other,
Ldtra balance themselves on the
rims of their ears and brandish their guns
in the soft sunlight, or kick the nearest man
in the stomach. After becoming tired of
this sport they get on their hands and knees
and gallop around each other like young
calves in a barn yard until the urchin with
freckles on his face the size of cathartic pills,
who is perched on a fence near by, fairly
screams with delight and grows so inter
ested that he loses his balance and drops
headforemost into an old woman’s pie
basket. The hopping, tumbling and roll
ing continues until the long, thin man
from the country grins with pleasure and
says: “Dog my cats if that thar haint euttin’
up more shines then ’er jay bird in roastin’
ear time.”
Military men have never yet explained
why it is necessary for Zjuaves to turn
somersaults and use each other for step
ladders in getting over high fences. The
impression, however, is that the acrobatic
training is to enable the Z >uaves to handle
themselves rapidly when they stray away
from camp and suddenly come face to face
with an unexpected enemy. For instance,
suppose a zouave should be walking in the
flower decked fields alone with his thoughts
and his dropsical pants, and a bull should i
suddenly espy him. The chances are that
the sight of the zouave would scare the buli
so bacly that he would throw his tail
straight up toward the blue heavens and go
skimming over fences and hedges like a
mountain lark; but in case the bull did not
get scared, it is safe to assume that the
zouave would, and consequently his gymnas
tic acquirements would enable him to walk
to the top of the nearest tree as easily as if
it was a marble stairecase.
It is a notorious fact that a brindle bull
on one occasion dropped in on a Zouave
picnic, and threw cold water on the festivi
ties by lodging the Zouaves iu the sur
rounding trees, and refused to allow them to
come down until he had turned over all the
beer barrels, and demolished the lunch
briskets, and it may be that the Zouaves ex
pect an emergency of this kind when they
appear in public, and are determined to be
in condition to meet it successfully.
An Extensive Business.
From the Unlversallst.
There may be some readets of this paper
who do not realize the immensity of the
newspaper advertising business of the coun
try. We give one, illustration ; Messrs.
Lord & Thomas, who have charge of our
advertising department, now own and con
trol the entire advertising space of all the
religious press of Chicago and St. Louis and
the Northwest, with possibly one or two un
important exceptions. It requires a vast
amount of work to gather and arrange the
advertisements for all these papers; and yjet
this firm have their business under such
system that every paper gets its proper ad
vertisements and at the right time and at a
great saving in money to the advertiser and
of endless time and worry to the publisher.
This firm, with their headquarters in Mc-
Cormick Block, Chicago, now have offices in
New York city and St. Louis, both under
experienced and competent managers. We
see no reason why Lord & Thomas, with
their facilities, could not manage the ad
vertising department of every religious
paper of any value to advertisers in the
whole country, as they now do in the North
west. We surely would recommend all
publishers who wish to rid themselves of
this part of their work to place their adver
tising business in the hands of this reliable
firm. The above is only a small part of the
business done by Lord & Thomas. They
send advertising to every newspaper in the
United States and Canada ana a large
amount to England and France. We have
found these gentlemen every way reliable
and can commend them heartily to our
readers desiring to use the religious press
for advertising purposes. ]
Hunt’s Remedy cures speedily bilious head
ache, costiveness, dyspepsia, strengthens the
stomach and purifies the blood.
L. Freid never advertises to sell at or
below cost, but guarantees good value for the
money.
THE WHEAT OUTLOOK.
A CONSERVATIVE VIEW OF PRICES
AND CHANCES.
The Bulls Having an Easy Time—A Vari
ety of Opinions Concerning the Proba
ble Yield—lmpossible to Reach a
Reliable Estimate at This Time
—Statement of the Present
Situation Advice to
Speculators.
The following review of the wheat crop
is comprehensive and intelligent. The
figures given are compiled with great care
and may be regarded as perfectly accurate.
The circular is issued by one of the most
prominent houses in the country.
Excepting a small reaction now and then,
prices advanced steadily in the early part of
the week under review, until they were
almost five cents higher than at the date of
our last report. Nothing but crop news was
responsible for this advance.
Every day the market was kept supplied
with advices about the crop, and as these
were without exception of an unfavorable
nature the “bulls” had easy work to advance
prices. Opinions as to the extent of the fall
ing off in both the winter and spring wheat
crops differ still widely. The Department of
Agriculture at Washington estimates the
winter wheat crop at 240,000,000 bushels,
which is equivalent to a falling off of about
120/100,000 bushels, while the spring wheat
planting is estimated at only three-fifths of
what it was on the Ist of May last year. The
Commissioner of Agriculture of Ohio goes
further, and states that the shortage of the
whole crop will be 200,000,000 bushels. But
I as his figures of the crop of individual States
differ considerably from the figures given by
the Commissioners of such States, it is only
reasonable to suppose that his views are ex
aggerated. Moreover the Washington De
partment agrees pretty well with the Com
missioners of the various States; and its esti
mate may therefore be taken as pretty nearly
correct.
To arrive at any figure approximating the
result of the spring wheat crop is impossible
at this date. Estimates of decreased acreage
| vary all the way from 10 to 25 per cent., but
■ some state the acreage will show no decrease
|at all. The seeding is probably completed
by this time, but the weather continues cold
and the season backward.
Undoubtedly, and after making all due
allowance for exaggerated reports which are
sure to crop up here and there, either from
a feeling of despondency among the farmers,
or from interested motives on the part of
speculators, the prospect for this year's wheat
crop is gloomy, worse than for years. No
wonder, then, that “shorts” should have be
come alarmed. If about one-half of the
advance was lost subsequently it was due not
to any change for the better in the crop re
ports, but to a natural reaction after the
liquidation of a considerable part of the
“short” interest, and besides to the fact of
! Europe remainingso apathetic and exporters
practically out of the market. The reaction
was only temporary, however, another ad
vance of Ic. was soon established, and al
though not maintained at the present writing
the market keeps its steady tone.
The export demand, as said above, has
amounted to next to nothing in this market
during the week, but beyond a passing in
fluence, it has rot occupied the minds of
l operators much, especially ss shij ments of
about 2,000,000 bushels reported from Du
luth, although representing old business,
left the impression that the wheat was mov
ing fast enough. The large decrease in the
visible supply on the other band, was given
but little attention, as it had been geneially
expected beforehand.
Estimates based on the various crop
figures issued by the authorities, are now in
order, and of course are made up to suit the
“bullish” and “bearish” tendencies of one
or the other. The following deserves
some attention and it is submitted to our
friends who may draw their own conclu
sions:
Bushels.
The vlsiblesupply on May
9 amounted to 37,900,000
Same time last year 20,300,000
Leaving a surplus 0f.,.. 17,690,000
Last year’s crop of wheat 513,000.000
Export estimated on the
basis of 014,000,000 for 10
months 138,000,01’0
Leaves 375,000,100
Estimated home con-
sumption 325,000,000
50,000,000
Carried over from last
year 60,000,000
Surplus, July 1, 1885 110,000,000
Government Estimates for 1885—
Winter wheat 240,000,000
Spring wheat 135,000,000 —375,000,000
Total supply 485,000,000
Deduct, for home con-
sumption 330,000,000
Leaves 155,000,000
Estimating export same
as this year 138,000,000
Leaves cn hand July 1,
1886 17,100,000
as agiinst 110,000,010 bushels on July 1 this
year.
Now, whether this estimate is too high or
too low is not the question. The fact remains
that our supplies for 1885-1886 will be very
moderate, and the question is how much
higher prices must go to equalize the smaller
supplies.
There is plenty of wheat for the present,
and there will not be any famine later on,
but it seems to us that wheat is selling at too
low a price, and that purchases in weak
markets will leave handsome profits in the
end. If our friends make up their minds
to that, we advise them to buy in the New
York market where the contract calls for
winter wheat, which aside from being worth
more than spring wheat, intrinsically, has
another advantage in the circumstance that
nearly all the deficiency is in the winter
wheat crop. In Chicago, on the other hand,
spring wheat may be delivered.
As further evidence of the lively demand
for flour, we mention that the outturn by the
Minneapolis mills for last week amounted to
153,000 barrels, against 100,000 barrels in the
corresponding week last year, being the largest
total ever recorded by Minneapolis mills for
any one week.
New line fancy underwear, just received at
L. Freid’s.
FEAST OF WEEKS.
O ne of the Most Solemn of Jewish Festivals
When the Israelites dwelt in the HAy
Land, they were commanded to appear at
Jerusalem at certain seasons three times in
every year for the observance of the three
great national festivals, viz: The Passover,
Pentecost, and the Feast of Tabernacles, in
order to commemorate their peaceful enjoy
ment of the Promised Land, and to express
their gratitude for the abundance of Divine
bounty which poured forth its blessings
upon them. The Festival of Weeks or
Pentecost will commence this evening at
sunset. The statute perpetuating the sacred
day is to be found in Deuteronomy, chapter
xvi, v. 9 -12, and was instituted in order to
establish one of the mest important facts
recorded in history, a fact which not only
the Jewish religious system but those of all
other nations wh > confess the authenticity
and Divine origin of the Mosaic Dispensa
tion are founded.
More than thirty centuries ago, on the
sixth day of the Hebrew month Sivan, a
multitude oi men, women and children,
numbering more than one million, stood
around Mount Sinai and heard God ex
<liim: “I am the Lord thy God; thou
shall have no other Gods before me.”
Since then the descendants of Jacob have
undergone viciseiiudes innumerable and ex
perienced countless changes of fortune ; but
still in prosperity, as in adversity, in good
as in evil report, honored or scorned, op
pressed or cherished, with sincere devotion
they have remained true to their office as
ministers and teachers of the grand moral
principles of the decalogue. The Jewish
l people observe the day as a day of rejoicing
[ in consequence of their ancestors being the
recipients arid custodians of the laws pro
mulgated at Sinai, and io honor the great
event the synagogue is beautifully dressed
with flowers and evergreens.
The service is so emn and impressive,
embracing a narrative of the Exodus and
the giving of the law, with selections from
the Prophets referring to these memorable
epochs in the nation’s history.
Tomorrow the day will be celebrated by
confirmation exercises at the Temple of
Mickva Israel. Rev. I. P. Mendes, the
minister, will officiate, and five young ladie?
will have the rite administered to them.
THE FORD DRAMATIC ASSOCIATION.
An Enthusiastic Meeting to Arrange for
Their Summer Season—Mr. Neill’s
New Play.
A very enthusiastic meeting of this asso
ciation was held at Ford’s Opera House
last evening, the occasion being the reading
of Mr. James Neill’s new play, “Chip Red
mond,” in which the author will assume the
leading part. The Advisory Board in
structed the stage manager, Mr. J. C Shaw,
to engage an additional lady which will
make three professional actresses that
the association will have during the sum
mer season. Miss Augusta Chambers, an
j cld Savannah favorite, will be among the
number. Miss Helen Blanche, of the Lights
o’ London Company, has been engaged es
pecially to create 'he part of “Chip Red
mor.d.” She has never played in the South
before and her opening with the Fords will
be her first introduction to a Savannah au
dience.
The costuming of the characters, the
mounting of the play, tIS: scenic effects
and all minor details will be put on in a
high style of art. Mr. Neill read his play
to the association, and it was received with
great applause. The cast of characters was
given out last evening and rehearsal com
menced at once. The ladies engaged for the
summer will arrive here about J une 2. The
season will open about June 15. The Asso
ciation deserves cn dit for its efforts to give
the public pleasant entertainments during
the summer season. With such favorites as
Neil], Hanley, Readick, the Doyles, Miller,
Jackson and Schroeder, we can assure the
public that first-class entertainments will be
given during the season.
All on Account ol a Woman.
A colored man named Bristow Hunter
was to-day cut and badly wounded in the
bar-rocm of Edward Barnwell, on Jacksen
and Arnold streets. He attempted to take
a well known cclored woman named Maggie
Mitchell on the David Clark yesterday to
Beaufort, but Barnwell, who was one
of the committee, refused to allow
her to board the vessel saying he would not
let her go on board for fifty dollars. Bris
tow then got a sail boat and in company
with the woman followed the steamer.
Again Branwell refused toal'ow the woman
to go on board. To day Hunter went to
Barnwell’s bar room on Jackson and
Arnold street and said he came fora fight
or death. He attempted to jump
across the bar to attack Barnwell, when the
latter struck him on the head with some
blunt instrument making an ugly and dan
gerons wound. He then had a warrant issued
by Justice Tyson against Hunter, who gave
it to Constable James Adams to execute.
That official went to arrest Hunter, but
found the latter so weak from his injury and
so badly wounded that he would not execute
the paper. Dr. Stone, who was sent for, did
not appear up to two o’clock. In the mean
time Hunter is considered to be in a danger
ous condition.
Important to Planters.
Attention of planters, truckers and gar
deners is called to the advertisement of the
sale of guano at auction by Messrs. Me
Laughlin & Son on the Baltimore wharf.
This is the chance to secure good fertilizers
at a bargain.
Grape Juice for Communion.
The grape crop of A. Speer’s vineyard
last year was double that of any previous
year. His vineyards near Passaic have so
increased that be is able to keep a stock five
to six years ahead. They have become pop
ular wines among the best physicians in
New York, and largely used for Communion
purposes and for weak and aged persons.
For sale by Osceola Butler, Druggist,
comer Bull and Congress streets.
S6OO AYE 'R
IMPRISONMENT FOR LIFE.
Philip J. Herndon Hopes to Get a New
Trial.
A Times reporter called yesterday at the
Chatham county jail, for the purpose of
seeing and conversing with Philip J Hern-
young white man, who was sentenced
last Friday in Appling county to impris
onment for life. Herndon who was taken
to Savannah for safe keeping, is 27 year# of
age, a native of Appling, where he has
lived all his life. He was engaged in farm-*
ing, acd looks to be a quiet and harmless
man. He is charged with shooting and
killing a colored man named Henry Thomas,
at Baxley. The shooting took place eight
years ago, and on Friday, the Bth inet.,
Herndon was arrested on the charge and
indicted by the grand jury. He was tried
on Friday last the 15'h inst, and was de
fended bv T Williams, Esq, of Hazelburst,
Hilton & Son, of Baxley, and 8. P. Harris,
of Haslam, Wayne county.
The evidence of the State connected him
so strongly with the murder that the jury
found him guilty, with a recommendation
to the mercy of the court. Hon. M. L.
Mt-nhon then sentenced Herndon to im
prisonment for life, and remanded him to
Savannah for safe keeping, until the pen
itentiary guards could come after him.
Herndon informed the reporter that he was
the victim of a conspiracy, that he was con
victedon perjured testimony, and that his
counsel will arcue a motion for a new
trial before Judge Mershon in Brunswick
next week.
He says he has discovered some new evi
dence since the trial that will acquit him.
Herndon was married on the 21st of last
September. He takes his separation from
his wife keenly, but his conviction non
chalantly, and conversed with the reporter
coolly, while Jake Small, a coloreel man
serving time for assault and battery, Dan
iel Arrington, a convicted burglar, awaiting
transportation to “Old Town,” and Warren
Harold, a convicted car burglar of Bryan
c unty, were standing about him listening
to his story and occasionally breaking into
discordant laughter and expressions of
doubt as to the truthfulness of his state
ments and the sincerity of his motives. The
prisoner impresses a visitor quite favorably
as he appears to be a harmless, inoffensive
fellow. He wears a stubby black beard and
moustache, broad brim hat and homespun
clothes. He was not locked up in his cell,
but enjoyed the privilege of walking about
the lower corridor in the east side of the
jail. Herndon, though surrounded by a
motley crowd of whites, negroes, mulattoes
and others of an indescribable color, was
calm and collected ano spoke confidently of
his ultimate restoration to h's friends and
freedom.
Free Entertainment.
The free entertainment of St. John the
Biptist, T.A. &B. Society, at Catholic
Library Hall last night, was attended by a
very large audience, which gave frequent
evidence of its appreciation of the Society’s
effort for their amusement.
Mr. N. F. Thompson, the Society’s Presi
dent, opened the occasion by one of his
stirring and earnest appeals, directing his
arguments against the so called moderate
drinkers of society,aid showing the almost
inv-riable fatal result of “die first glass.”
Mr. A. N. O'Keeffe recited “Conquer or
Die,” leceiving much applause and respon
ded to a recall by giving “The Death of
Jasper.”
Mr. H. W. Readick, a favorite with the
audience, sang “Thou Art so Near, and Yet
so Far,” delighting the assemblage on his
recall by singing “Then You’ll Remember
Me.”
Mr. Charles Rossignol appeared on the
rostrum for the first time, and held the at
tention of the audience from first to last of
his declamation on the evi's of intemperate
drinking and its kindred ills.
The Readick brothers sang a duet, “The
Burial at Sea,” in capital style, and were
applauded to the echo, bowing their ac
knowledgements of the compliment.
President Thompson’s little son, Bain,
who is named after George W. Bain, the
“silver-tongued Kentuckian,” next recited
“The Drunkard’s Dream,” and captured
the house, responding to an encore by a
brief poem, concluding with this stanza :
“Every boy should do his best,
No matter where he stands, sirs,
But now I tiiink I’ll take a rest,
And let you clap your hands, sirs,”
which the audience at once proceeded to do.
Mrs. Tybring appeared next, singing
“L’esdave Mauresque” very beautifully
and effectively, responding to the long con
tinued applause by tinging “We’d Better
Bide a Wee,” one of the sweet old Scotch
songs which always please an audience.
Mies Helen Circo, ely followed, singing
“Alice, Where Art Thou ?” and was enthu
siastically applaucewhen she sang
“Norine ”
Mr. T. B, Catherwood declaimed by re
quest “Shaun’s Head.” It was given in
the most admirable style, and with a force
and power of a pleasingly irresistible
character. The piece is a strong one.
Mr. Thompson read a letter of thanks
from Father O’Brien, of Washington, in
regard to the proposed picnic for the orphan
boys.
Match This, if You Can.
Boy’s fast color navy blue flannel suite
from 4 to 12 years old at $3; yvuth’s from 12
to 17 years old, of the same flannel, at $7;
Men’s suits of the same goods, for $8; $lO
will buy an all wool cassimere suit: £l 5 will
buy a handsome suit that cannot be bought
elsewhere for less than $18; fine brown cork
screw diagonal dress suits for $18; the regu
lar price in other stores is $22; good pants at
$2 50. We will sell you for $7 the finest cassi
mere pants, made as good as any tailor will
charge you $lO for. Searsueker coats and
vests in stripes and plaids, beautiful goods;
at the low price of $2 50. Single boy’s
pants at sl. Straw hats cheaper than any
where in Savannah. Shirts, trunks, valises
and gents’ furnishing goods cheap, dirt
cheap. Famous New York Clothing House,
140 Congress street.
THE HOPE OF THE NATION.
Children slow in development, uayp
scrawny and delicate use “Wells* Health
Renewer.”