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THE BRUNSWICK TIMES.
VOLUME 8, NO. 54.
HE HOISTS
HIS HAT
To Cleveland, Does Major Mc-
Kinley When They
Meet.
GROVER’S CEREMONIOUS CALL.
The Coming Man Greets the Outgoing
President—Hobart On Hand- Prom
inent Politicians Present.
By telegraph to the Times.
Washington, March 3.—“ Tin king
is dead—long live the king!” might
well be the motto of the national cap
ital tonight. Both the incoming and
outgoiug presidents are here. Shel
tered by different roofs, surrounded
by different circumstances, the orbits
of McKinley and Cleveland have
touched in passing. The latter is ill
and at the end of his public career;
the former looks in the best of health,
and will for the next four years at
least, be making history.
PRESIDENT-ELECT’S PRESENT.
The president-elect rested well and
was exceedingly well pleased with the
quiet dinner and evening which he
passed at the white house with the
president and Mrs. Cleveland. A com
mittee of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon
college fraternity called on him this
morning and presented him with a
beautiful dii.mond-set badge, the of
ficial emblem of the society. Mr. Mc-
Kinley is a member of this fraternity
and takes great interest in it.
The president and president-elect
exchanged calls of ceremony this
morning. Quite a crowd had col
lected near the portico in anticipa
tion of Major McKinley’s arrival and
hats were removed with a slight cheer
when he alighted, followed by Secre
tary J. Addison Porter and the in
auguration committee.
HOISTS HIS HAT.
Mr. McKinley acknowledged the
ovation by smilingly lifting his hat
and nodding to the assemblage and
then walking quickly into the main
corridor, whence he was at once ush
ered through the great stained glass
screen to the blue room, where Presi
dent Cleveland and Secretary Thurber
stood expectingly.
The interyiew was brief, and within
two minutes of his entry the presi
dent-elect and those accompanying
him drove away. President Cleveland
and Secretary Thurber returned the
call at noon.
HOBART IS ON HAND.
Vice President elect Hobart arrived
at the capitol before the senate met
this morning and went immediately
to the vice president’s room.
Perrine Grant Perfectly Proper.
By telegraph to the Times.
Washington, March 3. —The report
of the senate public lands committee
on investigation into the Perrine grant
in Florida declares that the committee
found nothing irregular or unusual
in the granting of the patent for lands
or Jin any circumstances connected
therewith. This is the case in which
it was alleged a patent was issued be
cause of the relationseip of President
Cleveland to the patentee.
Cleveland’s Condition.
By telegraph to the Times.
Washington, March 3.—The presi
dent is appreciably better this morn
ing. He is still keeping his room and
taking care of official business there.
The mass of business requiring his at
tention is very great, and the presi
dent is giving close attention to it and
saving himself as much as possible for
ttie very fatiguing exertion of tomor
row.
A Family Feud.
By telegraph to the Times.
Lawrenceville, March 3.-8. J. Lock
ridge attempted to kill bis whole fam
ily here today. He wounded two of
his sons, but neither will die.
CLOSE OF CONGRESS.
That Body Now at Deadlock —Confer
ence Committees Ordered.
By telegraph to the Times.
Washington, March 3.—ln the sen
ate this morning the conference report
on the District of Columbia appropria
tion bill was presented and explained
by Mr. Teller. The report was agreed
to and a further conference ordered
on the matters still left open. A fur
ther conference was ordered on the
sundry civil bill.
The final conference report on the
postoliice appropriation bill was pre
sented and agreed to. A partial con
ference report was made on the In
dian appropriation bill and was agreed
to.
Conferees on the naval bill at 2
o’clock reached a partial agreement,
including only the insignificant
items. All questions relative to the
armor plate and the increase of the
naval establishment were disagreed to.
HOUSE HAPPENINGS.
The house galleries were filled when
the house met at 10:30. The disagree
ing conference report on the Indian
appropriation bill was presented.
Mr. Cannon moved to suspend the
rules and nonconcur in all senate
amendments to the general deficiency
bill. Roll call resulted in yeas 183,
nays 75, so the rules were suspended
and the bouse nonconcurred in the
senate amendments and conferees were
appointed.
HOODOOED THE JURY.
A Witch Doc'er Figures in a Curious
Case.
By telegraph to the Times,
Savannah, March 3.—A curious case
was heard here this morning in the
superior court, and in which one
Frank'Lewis was charged with lar
ceny after trust. The prisoner, who
is an East Indian, enjoys a local rep
utation as a hoodoo doctor, and was
called in by E. G. Eden in that capac
ity last January. After obtaining
considerable money of Eden the pris
oner borrowed a valuable gold watch
to use in his incantations, which was
promptly pawned. The hoodoo phys
ician brought iu an unpaid bill
against his patient, and, after stating
his case, was promptly discharged by
the intelligent jury.
CRONHEIM ARRESTED.
He is Charged With the Embezzle
ment of $2,000.
By tc.egraph to the Times.
Atlanta, March 3. —H. Cronheim,
editor of the Pythian Lodge Secret,
was arrested today on a charge of em
bezzlement. It is alleged that he em
bezzled $2,000 from the Live Stock In
surance company.
Cronheim is well known throughout
the state. He gave bond and was re
leased.
Railroad Robber Caught.
By telegraph to the Times.
Savannah, March 3.—The robber who
stole a satchel containing SI,OOO worth
of diamonds from Mrs C. W. Harris
on the Florida Central and Peninsula
vestibule between here and Co’umbia
last month has been arrested in Jack
sonville. He proves to be one George
McKinney, a brakeman on the road.
All flavors of delicious soda water
and the refreshing warm weather bev
erages at W. J. Butts’.
A Municipal Muddle.
By telegraph to the Times.
Nashville, Tenn., March 3.—Chan
cellor Lindsay today issued an order
placing the police and tire depart
ments and mayor and chairman of the
public works in arrest for contempt of
court. They all gave bond.
Tired of the Team.
By te'egraph to the Times.
Augusta, Ga., March 3. —The Au
gusta ..haaaball£eam~ut_the—gou4he&s&~
ern league is practically abolished.
The local committee in charge met
last night and decided that the people
didn’t want it.
When the wpather is warm, seek
those things that are cool. Butts,
soda fount can supply you.
BRUNSWICK, GA„ THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 4 1897.
THE CABINET
CHANGES.
Olney will Not Accept the Po
sition Harvard Has to
Offer.
HE AND HERBERT WILL HUSTLE
For Practice Like Everyday Lawyers—Bliss
Slated for a Soft Thing—Senator
Sherman’s Resignation.
By telegraph to the Times.
Washington, March 3.—Secretary
Olney has definitely concluded not to
accept the professorship of interna
tional law at Harvard, tendered him
by President Eliot, but will resume
his law practice in Boston in the
course of a month. He intends to re
main in Washington for a week after
the inauguration.
Secretary Herbert expects to locate
in Washington to practice law. He
will take as a partner his son-in-law,
Mr. Benjamin Micou. Mr. Micou
was practicing law at Anniston, Ala.,
when the chief clerk of the navy de
partment died and Mr. Herbert in
duced him to take the position until
the close of this administration.
Cornelius Bliss has accepted a port
folio in McKinley’s cabinet, and will
probably get the interior department.
Sherman’s Successor.
By telegraph to the Times.
Washington, March 3.—Gov. Bush
nell, of Ohio, at 4 o’clock this after
noon received the resignation of Sen
ator John Sherman, to take effect on
Friday, March 5. On that day Mark
A. Hanna will be sworn in as successor
to Senator Sherman.
Cold soda at Butts’.
THERE WILL BE LIGHT.
President Tremere Here to Install
the New Incandescent Plant.
Mr. Charles A. Tremere, of Jackson
ville, reached the city yesterday after
noon.
Mr. Tremere is the president of the
Johnson Law company, electrioian’.
He is here to install the new inoandes
ccnt electric lighting plant of the
Brunswick Light and Water company.
He is awaiting the arrival of the ma
chine ordered by the company, which
is expected to be here by Saturday.
The machine, which is to be put in
at the company’s electric power house,
is one of the very latest improved
make, alternating current, capable of
furnishing 4,000 incandescent lights.
Mr. Tremere’s work will be to in
stall the lights and to wire the houses
which will take the lights. He says
that if the machine, which has been
shipped from Lynn, Mass., gets here
by Saturday, he will have the incan
descents connected and ready to be
turned on in two weeks.
Mr. Tremere is also prospecting
with a view to establishing a branch
supply bouse of his company here for
furnishing and fitting all electrloal ap
pliances, etc.
The Light and Water company as
sures the public that it will give the
best of service with its new plant and
at rates within the reach of all.
Buggy Harness, Wagon Harness,
Bridles, Lines, etc. A. J. Ingram,
Monk street.
ONE FOOT MORE
Col. Goodyear Not Doing a Thing to
the Aransas Pass Mud.
Col. C. P. Goodyear last night re
ceived a telegram from William I’.
Jenkins, chief engineer of the Aran
sas Pass Harbor Improvement Cos.,
stating that, since Col. Goodyear left
the Pass, another foot of depth had
been gained on the bar.
The news was very gratifying to
Colonel Goodyear, as it will be to his
many friends.
Carstair’s Monogram Whisky, the
best in Brunswick, at the Arcade.
CORDELE’S
CATASTROPHE.
A Rear End Collision Gets in
Its Fine Work Yes
terday.
THREE TRAMPS’ TERRIBLE TRIP.
Their injuries Are Fatal--An Employe In
stantly Killed-Several Cars
Smashed
By telegraph to the Times.
Macon, March 3.—A terrible wreck
occurred on the Georgia Southern and
Florida railroad, three miles north of
Cordele, at 3 o’clock this morning.
Freight train No. 18 suddenly part
ed, the second section running back;
the first section reversed and went af
ter it, when in some way the two sec
tions collided with terrible force.
Three cars were totally demolished,
but all but two of the train crew es
caped serious injury.
Fireman Hugh O. Jordan, aged 36,
was taken out from beneath the wreck
dead, and Allen Cuthbright, a white
braseman, had his leg broken.
Three tramps, who were stealing a
ride on the train, were also caught in
the wreck and so badly crushed that
their death is looked for at any mo
ment. The names of the unfortunate
men cannot be ascertained, as they are
now lying in an unconscious condi
tion, with nothingon their persons by
which they may be identified.
FITZHUGH JR.
He Will Be At Dungeness Today,
and May Come Through Here.
Fitzbugh Lee, jr., son of Consul Gen
eral expected at Dungeness to
day, as the guest of Mrs. T. M. Car
negie. Mr. Lee will spend several
days there. His visit is principally to
see the grave of his illustrious ances
tor. General “Light-Horse Harry”
Lee.
Mr. Lee will probably pass through
Brunswick on his return.
Mr. Lee is a graduate of the Vir
ginia Military Institute, which insti
tution he attended from 1892 to 1894.
Afterward he attended the Vander
bilt University at Nashville, where he
completed a course in mechanical en
gineering.
The ladies know that Liberty Bell
Baking Powder makes line bread.
“Ed.” Stokes Here.
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. D. Stokes, of
New York, spent yesterday at the
Oglethorpe, taking a drive about the
city in the afternoon. “Ed” Stokes,
as be is familiarly known, is the pro
prietor of the noffinan house, and at
tained notoriety in 1872 by his sensa
tioual shooting of “Jim” Fisk. Mr.
Stokes recently married Miss Acosta,
one of the belles ot New York society.
He visited the Oglethorpe on his wed
ding tour.
Insist on your grocer furnishing
you with Ferguson’s breakfast bacon
and bams.
Was One of the First.
Mr. and Mrs. E. B. McCagg and
Henry W. King, of Chicago, were at
the Oglethorpe yesterday. They went
to Jekyl to spend some time. Mr. Mc-
Cagg was one of the original members
of the Jekyl Island club, and was one
of the committee which recommended
the building of the elegant club house.
Drink Carstair’s Monogram Whisky
at the Arcade.
Annandale Sails.
r fhe British steamship Annandale
sailed yesterday for Liverpool and
Manchester. The Annandale has a
cargo of 2,061 bales cotton, 100 tons
cottonseed, 100,000 feet timber and 070
tons pigirou, valued at $84,635, from
the Brunswick Terminal company.
Ferguson hams, shoulders and break
fast bacon at 7 he Downing Company.
AFTER THE FAIR.
A Gified Lady Writes’ Her Impres
sions for The Times.
The great fair is a thing of the past,
and success most positive is the crown
of its beneficiaries, the Brunswick
Rifiemeii.
The verdict is “well done,” without
a single unpleasant episode to mar the
reminiscent hour. Generous as were
the contributions, the attendance and
patronage proved it none too great.
Everybody went, and it was wonder
ful that Ihe terrible weather no more
deterred the ladies than the gallant
city beaux and sturdy soldiers.
The artistic arrangement of the
booths, the ice cream parlor, the din
ing rooms, etc., recalled to memory,
seems an exquisite painting from some
ideal life.
I scarcely think the “ice cream la
dies” know how “warmly sweet” they
appeared in their red jackets, dark
skirts, coquettish caps and aprons.
They were by far the most picturesque
feature of the fair, and there is no
doubt as to the excellence of the cakes
and creams they served so daintly.
In the dining halls the coffee was a
“nightly joy,” while the very appear
ance of the matronly officials made us
feel like saying, “Mamma, please give
me something t’eat.”
The booth in charge of Mrs. Coates
was so pure and temple-like that it
needed little imagination to create the
fair maids who assisted her into god
desses.
There is no doubt that the candy
booth was a mine of money and a
great source of fun, whereat the pre
siding ladies ruled with a courtesy
and tact that was marvelous.
Mrs. Joerger’s booth was an ever
flowing canal of revenue, thriftily and
skillfully managed.
The King’s Daughters shed a benign
influence, not only over their own
lovely booth but throughout the hall.
They are, and must ever be, a pro
nounced success.
“Japan invaded,” should have been
written over the Japanese booth. It
was prominently characteristic, if we
may trust the comparison with pic
tures of the Flowery Kingdom.
The lemonade and the cigar booths
were always so deeply surrounded by
men and boys that 1 have only a re
membrance of a succession of black
coats, rattle of dice and clinking of
glasses beyond and above which rose
the flower like faces of the ladies in
charge.
There was another booth that for
gracious courtesy was parexcelience.
I know notits exact designation, but
I think Mrs. J. E. dußignon was the
presiding genius with a group of pa
trician assistants.
Way up in a corner was a “gypsy
tent,” in front of which hung a tri
pod-supported-pot iu which “black
yarbs.” (or cabbage) were supposed to
boil, and emit fortune evoking steam*
The family was never at home when I
called —I only found a clamorous
crowd awaiting their destiny at the
reading of a palmist, somewhat new
ai her business.
On this bright ensemble, the Rifle
men looked with proprietary satisfac
tion. while Mrs. Bodet, a stately god
dess of order and ability, touched the
springs of pleasure with a skillful
hand.
The happy crowd looked, lauded,
purehased and enjoyed, while the
matchless filled the sou! of
music lovers with an exalted joy and
lightened the feet of the merry danc
ers.
Individually, I atn indebted to the
management of the fair for a succes
sion of most delightful evenings—
since the head of that wondrous body
placed a conveyance at my disposal to
go and return, and extended many
gentle courtesies to me while there.
Fannie Lou Dakt.
To Fitzgerald.
For tlie’TTramT Army RgpaWlC'En
carnpment, Fitzgerald, Ga., March 11-
10th, 1837, the Plant .System will Bell
round-trip tickets from Brunswick to
Fitzgerald, Ga., at rate of $5.95, limited
for continuous passage in both direc
tions. Tickets to be sold March 11.
12 and 13, limited to return March 16,
1897.
PRICE, FIVE CENTS.
'TWAS NOT LIKE
BANQUO’S GHOST.
The Court House Down,
Work of a Convict
Host.
NOT QUITE ALL GONE, BUT MOST,
A-d In Its Place Another’ll Rise to Be
Glynn County’s
Boast-
In the distant after day gray-haired
grandsires will entertain curious
crowds with the story of liow Glynn’s
old courthouse fell; and of how the
county commissioners silenced a con
tention by removing the bone thereof.
It was altogether unexpected—the
coming of forty convicts into the city
yesterday and the work they did. It
struck the opposition to anew court
house all in a heap. The afternoon
before they had been congratulating
themselves over the supposed fact that
the commissioners had abandoned the
purposed sale and decided to await
the judgment of the court.
But they hadn’t.
Yesterday morning on the Southern
train arrived Superintendent Lyles,
two guards and forty convicts. They
left the train at the Dixville crossing,
and came to the fated building at
double quick. It was an armed attack
on an eyesore—and the eyesore capit
ulated.
The work afforded the convicts in
tense satisfaction. They never bent
their brawn to a pleasanter task.
“Dis is where we got our time, boys,
yelled one. “Hit it heavy.”
“You won’t put no more stripes on
niggers,” said another.
And another, wielding an axe lust
ily, commented, “If we could just
tackle the jail next.”
The men worked well, and by the
time they suspended yesterday after
noon the entire second story was
down. The first story will go today.
HOW IT WAS DONE.
The commissioners decided on this
step at Tuesday’s meeting, but the
most persistent efforts of newspaper
men to ascertain what would be done
were of no avail. Yesterday—all was
made plain. It was like a surprise
party.
The following resolution, intro
duced by Commissioner IT. H. Harvey,
is wbat did the work:
“Whereas the oounty commissioners
have rejected all bids made on the old
courthouse building, believing tbat
more money can be realized from the
sale of same by having it torn down
by the oounty convicts; therefore be it
“Resolved, That the superintendent
of the convict camp be, and he is
hereby instructed to the old
building torn down, and have the ma
terial put in such shape tbat it will
sell to best advantage,”
KROM THE OTHER SIDE.
A Times man called on Judge Whit
field for a statement last night. The
firm of Crovatt & Whitfield repre
sents the petitioners for the injunc
tion against the sale of the now de
molished building. They are sup
posed to represent generally the oppo
sition to anew courthouse. Judge
Whitfield said:
“We made no protest against the
tearing down of the building. Our
petition simply sought to restrain a
sals. The demolition is entirely an
other matter. The building having
been destroyed, there is no necessity
for pressing the injunction matter
further. Ido not think it will be ar
gued Saturday, as it will houseless.
You can say, however, that we were
surprised that the commissioners re
fused to wait two or three days for
advice from their judge.”
what it means.
The sum and substance of the whole
matter is that the connty .cammission
ers, deciding that more money could
be gotten from the building torn down
than from the building standing, or
dered its destruction; the petition for
injunction is made unoperative, and
the desired end—the removal of the
eye-sore—has been happily accom
plished, and without expense.