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VOL. 6.—NO. 130.
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
LATEST EVENTS BY CABLE AND
WIRE.
Disastrous Fire In Now York—A Number
of Families Rendered Homeless—Sur
render of Chief Poundmaker- Con
tinuation of the Defense in the
Cluverius Trial—Cause of the
Delay of the Afgho-Rus
sian Negotiations.
New York, May 27—The vast furniture
factory of H. Herman & Bros., at Mangin
and Tomkins streets was discovered to be on
fire at 3:30 a. m. It was an old building
occupied by the Singer Sewing Machine
Factory and was saturated with oil. The
building is surrounded by miserable tene
ment house occupied by the poorest classes
in the city. The fire was intensely hot and
nearly a hundred families were driven
from their homes. They rushed out
in their night clothes and were com
pelled to camp on the riverside
where they shivered in the chilly wind of
morning. The flames spread so rapidly that
the firemen gave up trying to save the
factory, and directed their efforls toward the
surrounding property, which setmed in im
minent danger of being consumed. Several
extra alarms were sent out. The factory
was filled with furniture and the loss will be
very heavy. This being the busy season,
over 3,000 persons will be out of work. At
5-30 special calls were sent out for more
engines.
THE CLUVERIUS TRIAL.
Continuing; the Testimony for the Defence
Richmond, Va, May 27—Soon after
court met this morning, in the Cluverius
case, counsel for the defense moved that
the place of holding court be changer >
that it was necessary to do so for the bene
fit of the health of all concerned in the
trial. It was suggested that the hall of the
House of Delegates could be obtained. The
court stated it would look into the matter
and decide.
The defense offered as evidence a
written Statement of Miss Millie
B-ay, that she had been
engaged to be married to the prisoner
for two years, and that Miss Lilian Madison
was fully aware of it.
Wm. B. Cluverius, brother of the prison
er, testified that his brother came to Rich
mond March 12th to attend to
legal business. Had never known
his brother to wear any watch
key but the one given him by his aunt.
His brother had not worn the key for a
longtime. Witness brought the key and
the pie:e of charm chain to Richmond, as
he had seen in the papers that a key had
been found at the reservoir. His brother
had made no effort to conceal the piece of
chain, but simply took it from his long
chain and threw it on the table. The key
found at the reservoir witness had never
seen; nor had he ever seen one like it.
Witness was subjected to a rigid cross ex
fUwißStiop, but he stood the test remarka
bly well.
AN IMPORTANT DECISION.
Interesting to Americati Residents in
Mexico.
LAREbo, Mex., 27. —A decision of the
Supreme Court of Mexico received here
yesterday is of utmost importance to for
eigners owning property in that country. In
1884 the municipal authorities of Laredo,
Mexico, Confiscated real estate in that city
owned by Mr. Thus. Wilsb, alleging that
he Could not hold property in
Mexico, being a foreigner. An
injunction to stay proceedings was
obtained from the District Judge of Laredo
who ruled that the seizure was illegal. The
case was appealed to the Supreme court of
Mexico which affirmed the ruling of the
District Judge, also declaring that the feder
al government could not appropriate the
property of foreigners without directly vio
lating the constitution, much less a munici
pality. Yesterday Mr. Walsh crossed the
river and his property was restored to him
by the Municipality.
THE SAVAGE APACHES.
A Number of Murders Committed by Them
Denning, N. M., May 27 —News has ar
rived from Alma that the Apaches have
killed there an old man named Benton, two
brothers named Sutler, Pete and Ornon, Jim
Montgomery, M. Smith, W. R. Lyon, a part
ner of Mr. Harris, name unknown, and a
number of others who can’t be identified.
A letter received here says that 24 bodies
have been found within a radius of 24
miles.
OUTRAGE BY INDIANS.
Troops in Hot Pursuit.
Denning, N. M., May 27.—Thirty In
dians have passed near here heading for
Mexico, with cavalry in close pursuit. The
bodies of five Americans, killed by the In
dians, were found at Blue river on Monday.
The stage running from Eagle to Grafton
Mining Camp, in Black Range, has not been
heard from. It is supposed it has been taken
by Indians.
Russia Still Making Demands.
London, May 27.—1 tis reported in Ber
lin that the settlement of the Afghan diffi
culty is still delayed by Russia’s demand for
Zulfikar, a claim which has the approval of
Germany.
Miss Cleveland on Temperance.
New York, May 27.—The Sun publishes
a long commentary by Miss Elizabeth Cleve
land, s'ster of the President, upon Rev. Dr.
Howard Crosby’s well-known work in favor
of temperance.
WESTERN PRODUCE.
Wheat Lower Than for Twenty-Two
Years—Very Little Outside Business,
and the Market Tired.
Special Dispatch to the Daily Times.
Chicago, May 27. —Everybody has looked
at the almanac and chart, and everybody
knows, or thinks he knows, that there is no
good in bulling wheat in June. Nobody
pays any attention to the facts that during
the past 10 years wheat in June has been
lower than in May only four years, and that
only once in 22 years has wheat sold so low
in June as it is to-day. The market acts
tired. There is very little outside business
done now, and the activity of the pit is
laigely a series of skirmishes between scalp
ers.and privilege men. A good deal of grain
is being sold out for country holders who
have held on so long, hoping against hope,
that they have become discouraged and
are quitting the deal in disgust.
Reports that the Minneapolis Millers’
Association has made a further reduction
of 2c in their buying prices and that many
mills in that section were closing, also helps
along the weakness and has emboldened the
bears to organize a raiding party. “Exces
sive supply” is their cry and the speculative
mind as well as eye and ear, has grasped and
clings to the fact that “stocks are large.”
When they say this, they of course mean
wheat, for stocks of grain in Chicago are
2,000,000 for less than a year ago, and the
same is true as to the visible supply. The
other great bear argument is “lack of for
eign demand” and a belief that Europe can
get along without American wheat. Exports
since July Ist, however, have footed up in
round figures 125,000,000 bushels of wheat
which is way above the average for any
group of years; and notwithstanding the
stocks abroad are small.
“It is because general business is bad, be
cause speculation is dead and because every
body has become a bear by recent expe
rience, that wheat is on a lower export
basis than it has been in 200 years prior to
the present crop year —that wheat in Chi
cago is 90 cents instead cf $1 40,” said
Ludlow to-night.
Corn is depressed by increased receipts
and the expectation that they will grow
i rapidly from this time on. It must be re
membered however, that there has been
this same promise cf big arrivals several
times before, and each time it has proven
a d'sappointing allusion. There ought to
be some increase at this time of year, but
just st present it is hard to see what it is
to ::ome from, as railroad officials declare
that there is little corn cribbed in Kansas,
Missouri or Nebraska. Long, Leopold,
Bloom and Jones have lately been heavy
sellers. Baxter also talks bearish, but it
is noticed he sells but little. Still the
crowd have about conclueded that the tide
is turning and are inclined to get on the
“short” side.
Official figures of the amount of com in
store here are this week the biggest bur
lesque yet issued. La«t week official stocks
were published at 594,000 bushels. Re
ceipts for the week are given at 607,700
bushels, and shipments at 1,408,700
bushels. If these figures are correct, the
elevators are 200,000 bushels worse than
empty.
Provisions show no improvement. The
fear of large receipts of hogs makes the
number of buyers swel l .
A NEGRO INSURRECTIONIST.
Desolating Valuable Plantations in Ctiba.
Havana, May 27.—Limbano Sanchez,
who leads a filibustering party which landfed
in Cuban sail May 19, is a negro who has
won a reputation as a daring participant in
former insurrections. He has begun a re
lentless use of the torch, and the sugar plan
ters of the Santiago district arc in dispair.
New York Stock Market.
New York, May 27.—At 1:30 p. m. to
day quotations were:
Union Pacific f’4'4
Missouri Pacific - 95%
Western Union Telegraph Co G'%
Louisville and Nashville 33
Texas Pacific l.zs
Denver and RioJGrande ■>%
Michigan Central 48}-?
Delaware. Lackawanna & West’n 102■ „
Northwestern 93%
St. Paul 88%
Chicago, Bnrlfnaton and Quincy 121%
Oregon Transcontinental 13%
Northern Pacific - 35%
Rock Island 114%
Jersey Central 36%
Memphis and Charleston 36
East Tennessee, Va. & Ga (coin) 21%
East Tennessee, Va. <t Ga. (pld) 5%
Philadelphia and Reading 14
Omaha (com) - 20
Omaha ipfd) 71
New York Central 84%
Kansas and Texas 18
Erie 9%
Surrender of Poundmaker and His Braves.
Chicago, May 37. —A dispatch to the
United Press from Battleford, says: “Chief
Pountfmaker and thirty of his braves sur
rendered to General Middleton at midnight
with 200 stands of arms. They are now
held as prisoners of war.”
England’s Prospects Rejected.
London, Mar 27.—A dispatch trom Con
stantinople says that the Turkish Govern
ment has rejected Euglind’s proposal for
the occupation of Suakim.
Jell'erson C. Davis Shot Dead.
East Liverpool, O„ May 27.—August
Bratt shot Jefferson C. Davis, a drummer,
dead at the Ca’dwell Hose last uight for the
betrayal of Bratt’s daughter.
Hunt’s Remedy cures speedily bilious head
ache, costiveness, dyspepsia, strengthens the
stomach and purifies the blood.
For fancy white and colored shirts, open
front, L. Ereid’s is the place.
To convince yourself that 15 or 20 per
cent, can be saved, two or three dealings,
call at L. Freid’s.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 27. 1885.
FROM WASHINGTON
A GLOWING TRIBUTE TO VICE
PRESIDENT HENDRICKS.
A Man Combining all the Qualities of a
Patriot and Statesman His War
Record All that the Most Loyal
Could Desire —His Visit to
the White House and His
Relation With the
President.
Special Dispatch to the Savannah Daily Times
Washington, May 27.—One of our well
known judges speaking of. the slighting
manner in which many papers have been
speaking of the Vice President, said to day:
“In the possession of all those superior
qualities that combine to make a superior
man—large intellect, culture, refinement,
generous heart, equable disposition, courage,
patriotism, honesty of purpose, integrity,
faithfulness to friends, appreciation of merit
in others and good wishes fcr all his fellow
men —Thomas A. Hendricks stands dis tin
guished and pre-eminent, far above many
leaders of the party whom I could name. It
is folly and absurd to say that the great
Republic is in danger with such a man at
the helm. Mr. Hendricks is a man of
conservative mind and action, a statesman
of much public experience, a good lawyer
and solid citizen with an atfactive charac
ter in domestic life. During the late cam
paign some of the Republican papers pur
sued Mr. Hendricks in season and out of
season with the charge that he was ‘dis
loyal’ to his country during the war and
that he declared he would never vote a man
for the National Army, nor a dollar to feed
it. That is, that he said this in the United
States Senate during the war.
Mr. Hendricks informed the writer that
when in the Senate from 1863, onward for
six years, he deemed it his patriotic duty,
however much he might criticise minor de
tails of the administration, and the conduct
of the war to vote men and money without
stint to whip the organized Confederate
armies and restore the Union intact, and
that he so voted on every bill appropriating
money and calling for men for that war
purpose.
During the late campaign a well-known
partisan spent a whole day at the Capitol
library searching for one word in the Con
gressional debates from Mr. Hendrick’s lips, ;
while Senator, antagonistic to the war fur
the Union, or expressing sympathy, remc-1
tedly or directly, for the South,
and no such word was found. The
record fu’ly sustains the assertion of
Mr. Hendricks to the writer. McPherson’s
committee tried to blast Mr. Hendricks with
some such record, but failed to find a foot
hold. With a man of such brilliant attain
ments and admirable character, utterly in
capable of a mean and dishonorable act, of
sober and refined habits, noted for his gal
lantlry and courtesy and high honor for
womanhood, consoled by a nolle and intel
lectual wife, as Vice President, the country
is satisfied.
It is true that Mr. Hendricks visits the
departments frequently and is often a caller
at the White House, but why should he
not? It is sneeringly said that he interests
himself in obtaining offices for his friends.
He has urged the appointment of not more
than half a dozen persons, two of them
have been given good positions, and he is
satisfied. Mr. and Mrs. Hendricks have
gone to Indiana to spend several weeks.
ATLANTA FLASHES.
Pathetic Scene in Court—Minor Mention.
Special Dispatch to the Daily Times.
Atlanta, May 27.—One of the most
pathetic incidents ever seen in a court
room in Atlanta occurred yesterday after
noon in the City Court. Judge Marshall
J. Clarke was presiding, and a habeas
corpus case was on trial involving the cus
tody of a little child. The parties to the
suit were all well-to-do people of good social
position. Four years ago the wife of Jas.
T. Miller, a railway postal clerk, died,
leaving a little girl. The baby was com
mitted to the care of the maternal grand
mother, Mrs. William Wallace, and the
father regularly supplied money to defray
the expenses cf his baby. The child is now
a pretty little .blue-eyed girl of four and a
half years, with an unusually bright and
sunny face. Several days ago the father
took the child, and the grandmother brought
this suit to recover possession. After two
or three days hearing of the case Judge
Clarke, about 6 o’clock yesterday afternoon,
awarded the custody of the child to the
grandmother. The child was in the father’s
possession during the trial. His counsel
made a strong effort to induce the Judge to
let the father keep her until the end of the
litigation, but the judge declined. The part
ing of the father and his child was one of
the most painful scenes ever witnessed in
any court room. After kissing her aunts
and other relatives on the paternal side her
smiling face showing that she did not
realize the situation, the little girl said,
“good-bye papa” and put her arms tenderly
about her fathers neck. The father kissed
his little daughter affectionately, three or
four time but said nothing; and she was led
away by her grand mother.
The new officers of the Young Men’s
Literary Association were installed last
night. ;
The railroad commission is still consid
ering the application of the railroads on an
increase in the rates on local freights.
Probabilities.
Washington, May 27. —For the South
Atlantic States, local rains and partly
cloudy weather, southwesterly winds, sta
tionary temperature.
ROUGH ON PAIN.
Cures colic, cramps, diarrhoea; externally
for aches, pains, sprains, headache, neural
gia, rheumatism. For man or beast. 20
andsoc.
At L. Freid’s you will always be treated
right, as he tries to please all.
THE FAILURE OF PRIVATE ADVER
USING.
Why Cards, Circulars and the Like Are
Failures as Advertising Mediums.
New York Commercial Bulletin.
Within the last few years it has become
the fashion with some people to do their
advertising in their own private way, in
stead of through the newspapers. Some
distribute cards, some circulars, some
pamphlets, some almanacs, and some in
conceivable monstrosities of oddity, circu
lating them by the hundreds and thousands
through the mails. The printer’s art has
been taxed to the utmost to gratify the
tastes of these advertisers. Some of the
finest, as well as some of the basest, speci
mens of the art of engraving, of chromo
lithographing and of color printing are
being produced for these purposes
and every conceivable style of fancy paper
it brought into requisition. The advertisers
vie with each other in the elegance of their
designs and the ccsthness of their devices,
taking it for granted that the receivers will
conform their estimate as to the status of the
advertiser to the artistic pretensions of his
advertisement. .Some people may regret
that the noble art of printing, at the period
of its highest achievements, should be sub
jected to such debasing uses; but to those
who thus employ the art, it should be
equally a matter of concern that the debase
ment so completely fails of the object for
which it is intended. With him who
notices such advertisements at all,
the first feeling on receiving one of these
superb specimens or typography of engrav
ing is apt to be one of disgust that it relates
to the artistic pursuits of his butcher or his
bootmaker, or that the subjects of its elegant
illustrations are chairs and tables, refrigera
tors and brooms, he throws'it down with an
indefinable grudge against the man who has
beeri guilty of such a ridiculous prostitution
of art, and without exactly knowing it, he
is distinctly convinced that a tradesman who
spends so much money in such an incon
gruous way is not likely to be endowed with
the common sense of a good man of business
or to sell cheaply’.
In truth, however, those who take any
notice whatever of this flood of announce
ments form but a very small percentage of
those who receive them. They have come
to be the nuisance of both the parlor and
the counting room. At home they are
never opened but with disappointment, be
cause they qome in the place of letters really
hoped for. In the office the merchant finds
his morning mail stuffed with these intru
sions upon the serious affairs of his business,
which he inwardly curses or impatiently
consigns to his waste paper heap. In short,
if a public vote could be taken, it would
unanimously’ declare these drumming miss
ives to be an intolerable nuisance that
should be denied the privilege of the mails.
Men of business who resort to this method
of advertising cannot be ignorant of the
fact that the people whom they would
reach have become nauseated with it. They
must be aware that they themselves disre
garded all such appeals for p? r mage; and
what reason have they to suppose that
others receive their applications with more
patience? Sagacious advertisers are begin
ning to see this and are returning to the
old method of public announcement. The
newspaper is, in every sense, the best medi
um for advertising; and, for a given result,
it is by much the cheapest also. It reaches
a far greater number of possible cus
tomers than any private announcement
can; and it is more certain to receive
attention. The private circular is thrown
aside as a thing which people have come to
regard as a bore, and which is neglected be
cause its recipients have no time to attend
tp it. The newspaper is used in each hour
of leisure, and readers find interest in read
ing its advertisements as well as the news,
because of the variety they present and the
infoimation they convey respecting a wide
diversity of interests. It may be safely esti
mated that an announcement made through
the press is noticed by fifty readers, where,
made in a private way, it would reach but
one. If, therefore, the same amount were ex
pended in either cage, the result would be
fifty-fold better from the former method
than from the latter. There are, undoubt
edly, cases in which the circular is a bet
ter medium than a newspaper. Such for
instance, as were the matter is unnecessarily
lengthy, apd the cost of newspaper space
would therefore be very large. But such
casesare quite exceptionable, and the sooner
advertisers learn the folly of their present
large expenditures in seeking publicity
through private means, the better for
their pockets and their success.
REAL ESTATE AND BUILDING COM
PANY.
A New and Beneficial 00-operative Enter
prise.
By reference to our advertising columns
it will be seen that a meeting is to be
held to-night at Metropolitan Hall at
8:30 o’clock for, the purpose of or
ganizing the above Association. This is a
new enterprise in Savannah and presents
many features which are a decided improve
ment upon the old Building and Loan Asso
ciations.
The objects and work ings of this Association
will be fully explained at the meeting by
Mr. M. J. Solomons, who has had large
experience in building and loan associa
tions, and who is an active promoter of the
movement. A splendid opportunity is
offered stockholders in an association of this
character to secure a home on easy and rea
sonable terms, and no doubt the meeting
will be largely attended.
City Court.
Hon. Wm. D. Harden, Judge presiding
Court convened this morning at 10 o’clock,
when the following proceedings were had:
Venable & Hayman vs. James G. Watts.
Suit on draft. The plaintiff confessed judg
ment, which the court entered up for the
sum of SBO3 40 principal, $1 50 interest,(and
$lO 50 costs of suit. Lawton & Cunningham
for plaintiff's.
Myers & Appell vs. James G. Watts.
Suit on account. Plaintiff confessed
judgment for the sum of $585 principal,
and $lO 50 costs. Richards & Heywood lor
plaintiff.
TERRIBLE DISASTER.
SUDDEN COLLAPSE OF A TENE
MENT HOUSE-
It Sinks and Closes Like a Telescope-
Four Lives Lost and an Unknown
Number of Persons Wounded—The
House a Mass of Ruins
Before the Occupants
Could Escape.
Jersey, City, N. J., May 27 —A terri
ble disaster causing the loss of four lives
and more or less serious wounding of as yet
unknown numbers of persons, occurred
about 6:30 this morning. The four families
in Patrick Anderson’s 4-story tenement
house, situated on the west side of Colgate
street, between First and Second streets,
were about their usual avocations at that
hour, when they were startled by a low roar
as of a cannon at a distance. Then fol
lowed the creaking of timbers and the
building began to tremble. In arother
instant and before the now thoroughly ter
rified occupants of the building cot Id rea
lize what was happening
THE BUILDING HAD COLLAPSED.
It sunk down in the centre like a tele
scope and a cloud of dust went up in the air.
The shrieks of women and cries of children
alarmed the neighborhood, and the vicinity
was soon swarming with humanity. Strong
hands and wiring hearts were speedily en
gaged in the work of dragging away the
timbers, receiving the living and taking out
the dead. The screams of the wounded
who were pinioned down and crushed be
tween the timbers, were organizing.
Immediately after the disaster occurred
an alarm was given on the fire bell, and the
firemen quickly got to work and took out the
dead and these who had by a miracle es
caped. It has been ascertained at this writ
ing that
FOUR HAVE BEEN KILLED,
three children of Mr. Anderson, owner of
the building, and a young man
named Hayes, 17 years old. Mrs
Anderson, who lived on the first
floor had goqe to a neighboring
grocery to get something for breakfast.
When she returned her house was wrecked,
and the three children composing her entire
family dead. Her husband who is a. baker
at State Hill prison was absent at the time.
The number of wounded and the nature and
extent of their injuries has not yet been as
curtained.
AN INTERESTING CASE
Against the Knights of the Golden Rule.
On the 6th day of December, 1882, Ste
jihen Newton, a well-known citizen, who
lived on Belton and Jefferson street, com
mitted suicide by shooting himself, at a
point near Cemetery street. He was a
member of Knights of the Golden Rule,
and was insured for $2,000. The
association refused to pay the
widow of deceased, Mrs. Laura
Newton on the ground that deceased had
violated one of the rules which said that if
any member of the organization died by his
own hand, or in other words committed
suicide, he would forfeit the insurance. Mrs.
Laura Newton and J. F Shuptrine, guardian,
et. al., sued the Knights of the Golden
Rule for the recovery of $4,000 based
on a contract. The case came up to-day in
the City Court before Hon. William D.
Harden and a jury. C. W. West, Eq. ap
peared for the plaintiffs and Colonel 8. M.
Bernhardt, of Louisville, Ky., geneial at
torney for the Knights throughout
the United States, and Isaac
Beckett, Esq. for the Association.
The points for the plaintiff were that the
deceased was of unsound mind and mentally
diseased when he committed the act, and
that when he signed the contract and sub
scribed to the rules of the Knights of the
Golden Rule, the suicide clause was not in
the by-laws. The defendant alleged gener
ally by the laws of Georgia, Alabama and
this place, that suicide vitiates a policy, etc.
When the evidence was concluded, his
honor, Judge Harden gave lucid explana
tion to the jury of sanity and insanity, and
held that in his opinion the suicide clause
in the articles of the Knights cf the Golden
Rule did not apply to deceased inasmuch as
it was interpolated alter he had subscribed
as a member. The court gave a clear and
exhaustive charge, and the jury took the
case at 2 o’clock this afternoon for consider
ation. It is an interesting case.
Grand Open Air Concert at Tybee.
On Thursday afternoon and evening Man
ager Breskan, of the Ocean House,has made
arrangements to entertain his guests with a
grand open air concert, which will eclipse
anything ever before beard on the island. It
is determined to make the occasion a grand
gala affair. As an addition to the concert
there will be dancing, and refreshments will
also be served at reasonable prices. A fine
programme has been arranged for the con
cert, which will be rendered by a brass
band of fifteen pieces. There will also be
an excellent string band on hand. The
tide will suit for bathing, and those who
wish to revel in the billowy waves can do so
to their heart’s contents. In fact, this occa
sion premises to be a grand one,and as an ex
cursion will be made to Tybee that day, the
steamer leaving her wharf at 10 o’clock.
The opportunity will be offered all who
wish to go. Remember this will be the
event of the season at Tybee, and don’t you
miss it. Manager Bresnan proposes tomake
it a big time for all who come.
Port Grape Wine for the Sick.
We can confidently recommend Speer’s
Port Grape Wine, which was awarded the
highest premium at the World’s Fair, a su
perior article of wine for the sick and debili
tated.
The vineyard and cellars are at Passaic,
New Jersey, near New York City.—Medical
Review.
For sale by Osceola Butler, Druggist,
corner Bull and Congress streets.
Lisle thread shirts_ for sale L.
Freid’s.
S6OO A YE AR
RAILROAD RATES.
Savannah Merchants and Business Men
Oppose an Advance*
On the 29th day of last month the sev
eral railroads doing business in Georgia
met before the Railroad Commissioners and
advocated the increase of rates on grain
and flour to the figures in force prior to the
issuance of circular No. 20, February 10,
1882., Arguments were heard and speeches
made on that subject, but no action was
taken by the Railroad Commissioners. Yes*
terday was designated for a hearing by ths
merchants and business men of the State in
opposition to the views of the railroads on
this matter. When the Board met yester
day there were present I. G. Haas,
Esq., representing the Savannah Boaid
of Trade, Colonel John N. Dunn, of
the Atlanta Board of Trade, J. R; Mobley,
of Social Circle; D. S. Hall and J. B. Park
er, of Greensboro; and J. W. Barrett, of
Dal ton. Col. Dunn first addressed the Board
of Railroad Commissioners in a strong and
forcible speech. He was followed by Mr-
Haas, of Savannah, who, in the first place,
took the position that the roads were adopt
ing a short-sighted pci icy in endeavoring to
advance the rates on flour and grain. He
said that the Central Railroad, for instance,
brings into Savannah probably three-fourths
of our supply of these articles, while they
do not distribute ten per cent of the amount
taken in. He adds if local rates be ad
vanced they will simply throw the traffic in
these articles in other markets, and corres
pondingly curtail our ability to buy. Mr.
Haas- said the main competi
tor now for the business of
Southwest Georgia was New Orleans,
which has already come witbin eighty
miles of us. He urged upon the Commis
sioners' to consider what the effect of the
advance contemplated by the roads would
have upon Savannah trade, while we have
reason to believe that the rates from New
Orleans are being constantly reduced. Mr,
Haas called attention to the faet that
Jacksonville and Fernandina having equal
facilities for the trade of South Western
Georgia as Savannah threatens us in tie
same direction.
The speaker then t ook up the report of
Major Green, Mmager cf the Georgia Rail
road, showing a net decreae in the earnings
of the road for twelve moots, ending
March 31st, of 2.36 per cent. He
then challenged 95 per cent. of
the merchants of Georgia,
to make such a gratifying showing for that
years business, as this is more a reduction,
not an advance, as the tendency of every
thing is downward. He closed his argu
ments with a strong presentation of facts and
made a good showing why the local rates
should not be advanced. In this matter of
flour and grain alone were the representa
tives of the business men were
Irefore the Georgia Railroad Com
missioners as opposed to railroads.
Mr. Haas arrived in Savannah this morn
ing and was greeted by many of his friends
and numbers of the Board of Trade, who
were anxious to ascertain what the Commis
sion would do. He was unable to tell what
the body would do. Nothing was said or
intimated as to the course they would take.
OFF TO THE CONVICT CAMP.
A Number of Recruits to the Penitentiary
Force.
Mr. G. H. Williams, guard of Old Town
Camp No. 10 on the Central Railroad, came
into Savannah last evening for the purpose
of carrying some prisoners to the points
where the Penitentiary lessees designated
them to be apportioned. He took away
with him this morning Daniel Armighton, s
negro who stole two gold watches from a
colored man named McUliffe. He fled
to Macon, was recaptured, and Constable
James Sullivan brought him back to Sa
vannah. Judge Adams, on May 15th,sen
tenced him to imprisonment for a term of
ten years. Armighton pretended to have
a fit yesterday, but Dr. Bulloch, who at
tended him, said that he was shamming,
and he went away this morning firmly in
the belief that a change of air and a term
of bard labor would benefit him.
Philip J. Herndon, a white man, was also
taken away. He was foundguilty of killing
a negro named Thomas near Baxley,-Ap
pling county, Ga., eight years ago. He was
recommended to imprisonment for life and
was sentenced by Judge M. L. Menhon ac
cordingly on may 15th.
Titus Alvin and Scipio Alvin, negroes
from Liberty county, also accompanied Mr.
Williams. They are father and son and
exhibited such a maiked tendency for
taking hogs belonging to others that they
were arrested and sentenced by Judge
Adams May 20ih to two years.
Ben Howard, a negro horn the same
place, wanted to go the whole heg, too. He
was caught and will assist the Alvins in
laboring for the State for the next two
years. The guard and his prisoners left
this morning on the Central Railroad for
their destination. Mr. Williams said that
all the prisoners from Chatham county and
elsewere at Old Town, are doing well, and
are as contented as men can be under such
circumstances.;
BASE BALL.
A Match Game To-morrow Afternoon.
A match game of base ball will be played
to morrow afternoon at four o’clock between
the Amateurs and Warrens on the ground
at Whitaker and Anderson streets. It will
be for the junior championship of the city,
This will be a fine game as both clubs will
play their best to win the first gatiie of the
season. The Warrens will hate the fol
lowing players: , • ■
Mack, s. s.; Harrigan, c.; Cleary, I. f.;
Smifh, 3 b.; Quint, 1 b.; Brown, 1. f.; Houli
han, p.; Brennan, 2 h.; Sullivan, c. f.
The Amateurs will consist of the follow
ing:
Burnham, c.; Harinan, 1 b.; Dawson, 3 b.;
Nungeaer, p.; Cann, s. s.; Oppenheimer, c. f%
Dalton, 2 b.; Ennis, 1. f.; Stiuss, r. f.
The next game will be between the Hus
ears and Chatham Artillery on Friday next.