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THE BRUNSWICK TIMES.
VOLUME 7, NO. 74.
A TENNESSEE
- TRICK,
Richardson Raises a Point of
No Quorum in the
House.
DEEP WATER FOR DARIEN.
Captain Carter Recommends Entensive
Improvements for the Harbor There
at a Considerate Cost.
Washington, March 27. —The neces
sity of the continued presence of a
quorum of the committee of the whole
was demonstrated at the beginning of
today’s session. To the first paragraph
that was read after the house had gone
into the committee of the whole on the
tariff bill, Mr. Richardson, of Tenn
essee, moved an amendment reducing
the duty on whiting from one cent to
half a cent. On a division the vote
was : Yeas, 14; nays, 37, and upon the
announcement Mr. Kicbardson made
a point of no quorum. He said that a
measure of this importance should not
be considered by fifty men only.
Mr. Dalzell then innocently in
quired : “Where are all the democrats
this morning?”
* Mr. Kicbardson replied : “Evident
ly with the republicans. There are
proportionately as many present on
this side of the hall as on yours.”
(. heir man Sherman counted slowly,
and by means of this device in ten
minutes was enabled to announce that
101 members were present and that the
Richardson amendment bad been re
jected.
A REASONABLE RECOMMENDATION.
A report was received today from
Captain Carter, of the corps of engi
neers on a survey of the harbor at
Darien, Ga., in which he recommends
a channel 300 teet wide and 24 feet
deep at an estimated cost of from
$15,000 to $70,000. according to the
dredge used.
ANOTHER ARGUMENT.
Ventila'ing the Alleged Case Against
the Duuutli ss.
Jacksonville, Fla., March 27 —ln the
United States court this morning ar
gument was heard upon the excep
tions to the libel in the case of the
United States vs. the steamer Daunt
less. This libel charged the stearapr
with violating the navigation laws
by not being provided with the num
ber of life boats and life rafts as re
quired by law. The government was
represented by Frank Clark, United
Stares district attorney ;and the claim
ant was represented by Judge W. B.
Young.
The court sustained the exceptions
but allowed the libellant to amend its
libel Judge Young then moved that
the two cases pending against the
steamer Dauntless be set for hearing
The court set the cases for final hear
ing on April 15.
Our stock of tan shoes for men and
ladies is the largest and most complete
of any ever shown in Brunswick. Pal
mer’s.
AN AGENT ARRESTED.
Savannah Insurance Man in Trouble.
His Side of the Story.
Savannah, March 27.—The friends
of Mr. R. J. Davant, Jr., were sur
prised to learn that he had been ar
rested on a warrant sworn out by Ed
gir S. Wilson, of the Macon Fire In
surance company, charging him with
larceny after trust in the sum of $650.
The Macon company is going out of
business and the misunderstanding
between Messrs. Davant and Wilson
arose when they came to settling up
the affairs of the company in Savan
nah. R. J. Davant & Son have been
the company’s agents here, and claim
that the balance due was withheld
simply to bring about some under
standing as to the renewal of the busi
ness.
M E CHURCH CONFERENCE.
An Interesting Session of the Balti
more Conference at Staunton.
Staunton, Va, March 27.—This is
the fourth annual session of the Bal
timore conference of the Methodist
episcopal church, South. Three inches
of snow covered the ground, and the
weather is remarkably cold for this
season of the year.
The session opened with prayer by
tile Rev, J. W. Shirley of Gardeuville,
Md. Bishop Galloway of Mississippi
presided, and quite a discussion was
precipitated by the commitee’s report
on the constitution for the Epworth
Leaugue board for this conference.
The question at issue was as to the or
ganization, and the report proposed a
new system of organization, unifying
the local policy with the general dis
trict organization.
After considerable discussion, this
uni'ying report was adopted.
Bishop Galloway made the most im
pressive and effective speech of the
day in charging nine members, J. H.
Dill, W. D. Keene, J. B. Hanny,C. D.
Bulla, H. H. Sherman, J. J. Ring, G.
H. Echols, M. P. Weikie and C. F.
Moore, who sought full relationship
with the conference.
The feature of the day was the spir
ited fight between Charlestown and
Hinton, W. Va., for the honor of en
tertaining the next year’s conterence.
After many speeches and much debat-'
ing 111111011 was finally selected and
the choice was made unanimous.
The trustees of Woman’s Parsonage
and Home Mission societies made a
very encouraging report.
KEN lUt KY’ri KICKERS.
The Roil Call Ignored—No Quorum
atcl No Election.
Frankfort, Ky., March 27.—The call
at today’s jyint session showed only
tifty-six members present, the anti-
Hunter republican, and tlie free silver
and gold democrats refusing to an
swer to their names.
The president of the session ruled
that there was no qnorum present, but
said lie would liberally construe the
statute requiring a daily ballot for
senator and ordered a roll call.
Thereupon those opposed to Hunter
again refused to answer to their
names.
Hunter received 56 votes and the
chair ruled I hat there was no election,
a majority of both houses not being
present and voting. The joint session
then adjourned. Several members
were present, and a fear that the Hun
ter men would plav some sharp trick
and elect their man after all caused
the opposition to prevent a quorum.
PEACE PROMISED.
Premi r Canovas is Confident of
Conquering Cuba.
London, March 27 —A dispatch from
Madrid to the Central News says that
negotiations for a conclusion of peace
are in progress between the govern
ment of Spain and the Cuban insur
gent leaders with favorable prospects.
SIGNS OF SUCCESS.
Madrid, March 27.—1 t is reported
that the Spanish squadron has cap
tured the rebel stronghold at Bacolar
island of Philippine islands. After
the adjournment ol the cabinet coun
cil heid yesterday Premier Canovas
informed a number of newspaper rep.-
resentatives who called upon him that
the Spanish campaign against the in
surgents in Cuba is nearing a success
ful close.
Misery on the Mississ ppi.
Quincy, 111., March 27.—The Missis
sippi river continues to rise here at a
dangerous rate. The water rose seven
inches yesterday and the gauge showed
fourteen feet above the low water
mark. Tbe river bottoms are all un
der water. The river is now seven
miles wide here and thousands of acres
of land are submerged. People have
been driven from their homes to the
hills by the hundred, and those who
have remained in their houses are liv
ing in the upper stories, and are com
pelled to use boats instead of wagons.
BRUNSWICK, GA„ SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 23 1397.
HE HAD A
HARD HEAD.
A Drunken United Stales Sol
dier Courts Death in
Vain.
THE BALL BATTERS HIS BROW,
But in Vain, Although the Rifle is Pressed
Against His Head-Glances and
Hits Another-
Atlanta,March 27.—Charles McLean,
a sergeant-major in the United States
regular army, stationed here, made a
desperate, but unsuccessful attempt at
suicide today while suffering from an
acute attack of alcoholism.
While alone at the barracks, he sud
denly laid hold of a loaded rifle, which
he put to his head and fired. At the
sound of the report his oomrades hur
ried to the scene, expecting to find
McLean dead. But although the muz
zle of the rifle had been pressed to his
forehead between the eyes, they found
nothing worse than a rocmfull of
smoke and a suddenly-sobered druuk
ard lying stunned on the floor.
By some miracle, the heavy ball had
glanced from the frontal bone and
passed through the ceiling of the bar
rack room, leaving the would be sui
cide comparatively uninjured.
McLean will live to drink again,and
the only person injured by his mad es
capade is an innocent soldier, who was
sitting quietly in the room above.
A Fatal Flood.
Quitman, March 27.—A negro was
drowned here today while trying to
swim across the river to fasten a rope
to a tree in order to prevent a bridge
from going down stream. The river
is rising rapidly and resembles an in
land sea.
The Weather.
Atlanta, March 27.—Fair Suuday,
warmer in northern portion.
All are invited to take a look at our
window. Nothing but colored shoes
in it. Palmer’s.
SONG SERVICE.
A Treat for Music-Lovers at the Pres
byterian Church Tonight.
Instead of the regular service at the
Presbyterian church tonight the even
ing hour will be devoted to a song
service, for which a special program
has been prepared.
The choir, composed of Mrs. Oro
vatt, Mrs. Raymond, Captain Tupper
and Mr. Ralph Waff with Mr. Geo. H.
Cook, organist,will be assisred by Miss
Bessie Fox.
In the songs the choir will be as
sisted by a chorus of twenty voices
and a brass quartet from the Marine
Band.
The following is the program :
Voluntary—organ and brass quartet.
Doxology.
Prayer.
Voluntary—bytbeohoir.
Song—“ Onward Christian S ildiers.”
Talk—“ Seeds of Kindness,” by the
pastor.
Song—“ Scatter Seeds of Kindness.”
Talk—“ Telling of Jesus,’’ by the
pastor.
Song—“l Love to Tell the Story.”
Offertory— Solo by Miss Fox.
Talk—“ Refusing God,” by the pas
tor.
Song—“ Jesus is Calling.'’
Talk—“ Almost Persuaded,” by the
pastor.
Song—“ Almost Persuaded.”
Prayer.
Song—“ Blessed Assurance.”
Benediction,
Grand Opening
Of spring millinery and pattern bats
selected by the best artists of New
York. For beauty and cheapness they
cannot be excelled; will be found at
Mrs. Earle’s. Ladies are respectfully
invited to see for themselves
REVENUE
RAIDERS.
United States Officials Seize
Still’s and Much Moon
shine Whiskey.
MEN PURSUED MANY MILES
Over the Wild Virginia Hills—Brought to
Bay, the Moonshiners Fight
Desperately.
Round Head, Va , March 27.—Fif
teen United States revenue officers
swooped down on a nest of moonshin
ers near here last night, aDd destroyed
thirty-one stills and thousands of gal
lons of “mountain dew” that had never
seen a government gauger.
When the raid was made the distil
lers were so taken by surprise and so
completely overpowered that they
took to the woods in a panic. The of
ficers gave ebase and followed live of
the moonshiners for several miles
over the mountain ranges.
Finally the fugitives turned and
showed fight. The conflict was a des
perate one, and when the smoke had
cleared away, it was found that three
of the officers and four out of the five
moonshiners were on the ground. Two
of the latter were fatally wounded and
canno* long survive.
CHANCERY COURT'.
Bu-y Week For Colonel Meader, the
Master Appointed By Judge Sweat.
Col. R. P. Meader, sitting as a mas
ter in chancery, will hold a session
with the lawyers each day this week,
The cases to be heard by him a e
those of Smith vs. Ward, the big tur
pentine land suit; the intervention of
Hobbs & Tucker in the case of S.
Mayer vs. the National Bank of Bruns
wick; and Raeburn & Verrell, ofLiv
erpool, vs. the Florida Phosphate Ex
port Cos.
Colonel Meader will be kept busy
during the entire week in hearing
these cases.
Coal Oil Johnnie Soap at the Down
ing Company.
SWARTHY SMUGGLERS.
Some of the Werneth Hall’s Coolies
Startf and a Clothing Bu.-iaess.
Tippo Benlie, Rahamandra, Sikh
Rigs and Nana Veda form an enter
prising quartette of Hindoos on board
the British steamship Werneth Hall.
They have a fine eye for business in
addition to other qualities.
Yesterday afternoon the four coolies
came ashore and proceeded to dispose
of English-made clothing to the negro
citizens. They sold cheaply and found
ready customers. The goods, how
ever, were smuggled, and Customs In
spector Deming put a stop to the traf
fic by seizing the goods. He secured
several articles, coats, pantaloons, etc.
The coolies, it appears, have been
carrying on the business steadily since
coming into port. One of them was
noticed on the streets the other day
who wore five or six coats, regardless
of the warm weather. This is their
method of carrying their goods about
on the lookout for customers.
TRILBY MONDAY.
Du Maurier’s Great Play to Be Seen
Here Then,
DuMaurier’s famous play, “Trilby,”
with all its magnificent scenery, cos
tumes, music and stage garniture, to
gether with A. M. Palmer’s great dra
matic company, which made it so pop
ular in New York and Boston, will
visit our city Monday night. “Tril
by” is a strange, weird, powerful and
intensely interesting play, admirably
acted at every point, beautifully
staged and received the greatest pos
sible enthusiasm everywhere. Never
have audiences been more demonstrat
ive at the end of a play, and never was
it watched with more intense interest
in the development of a dramatic story.
THE LI.vTENEK.
Some of the Things That Are Over
heard in a Brunswick Day.
He was a venerable and well-sea
soned specimen. He bad just re
turned from a lazy, loitering trip
through the West Ind es in the big
liner Ohio, and at the moment under
consideration was calmly expounding
his theory of life in the reading room
of the Oglethorpe.
“Take the average young man o r the
day,” said he. “What is his ideal of
life? Ask him and he will tell you
that he means to make money. He is
mistaken, His conception of his ul
timate aim in life is of the vaguest. He
thinks he wants mouey. He is wrong.
Wliat he really wants is the good
of it as he goes along. The two things
are, unfortunately, incompatible; a
man cannot eat his cake and have it.
That he can accomplish that miracle
is one of the illusions of youth. I hat'
none; I fared hard and hoped. There
fore, lam now my own master, I go
where 1 like and enjoy life.”
The quiet man on the opposite side
of the glowing fireplace made a sound
in bis throat expressive of dissent.
The idea of a man enjoying life when,
like the last speaker, he had arrivedat
the doubtful age of 60, with something
suspiciously like dyspepsia, and more
than a suspicion of chronic bronchitis
in bis thin voice, was evidently pre
posterous to a gentleraag whose views
of life were as rosy as his broad bland
countenance. Whatever he thought,
this is what he said :
“You talk of ‘the illusions’ of youth!
We have heard of them before. Sup
pose you now tell us of the disen
chantments of age? One is as real as
the other; and the boy who squanders
his money when he is ripe for enjoy
ment is no more p’tiable Ilian the old
man who has squandered his youth to
accumulate muney tie is.incapable of
enjoying. In the words of a man
greater than any who sits beneath
this roof—‘We should not compliment
a hungry man, who should refuse a
whole dinner and reserve'all bis appe
tite for the desert, before he knew
whether there was to be any desert or
not.’ But this, my friend, is what
you, by your own showing, have done.
Eggs should not be sat on until they
are stale, nor feasting deferred until
the appetite has gone. And when I
think of your case, and that of the
youth who tasted life when he was
hungry tor it, and, like you, was ab
stemious when he had to be. I feel
that you have played.but a sorry part
in life.”
ALONG THE BAY.
Items of Shipping and Genera! Har
bor News.
The American schooner Charles K.
Buckley arrived yesterday from New
York, to load lumber from the Yellow
Pine Cos. for New York.
The American schooner Sarah Pot
ter arrived yesterday from Provi
dence, to load from Ililton-Dodge
Lumber Cos.
The American schooner F. and T.
Lupton sailed yesterday for Norfolk
with a cargo of 15.570 crossties, valued
at SB,SOO, from F. D. Aiken.
The big bark Olivia was towed from
Torras’ wharf to St. Union mills yes
terday by the tugs U. Dart and Iris.
Among the recent sailings for
Brunswick are the schooner J. W.
Balano, Captain Wilson, from Boston;
schooner Nellie Floyd, from New
York, and the Norwegian bark Aim,
Captain Hogland, from Barbados.
A Slight Change.
The schedule of the Cumberland
Route has been slightly changed so as
to meet more fully the demands of the
traveling public. The steamer Gov
ernor Salford will leave Brunswick at
8 instead of 8 :30 a. m., leaving Jekyt
at 9, arriving at Fernandina at 12, and
leaving Fernandina, on the return
trip, at 2p. m. This change is effect
ive Apr'l 1.
All shoes, all toes, all prices in men’s
line shoes at Palmer’s.
PRICE, FIVE CENTS.
BARNESYILLE’S
BEAST.
He Outrages His Fifteen Year
Old Step-Daugh
ter.
SAFFORD’S SICKENING STORY.
The Victim Frightened Into Silence, Whne
the Criminal’s Love of Liquor
Losens His Tongue.
Griffin,Ga.,March 27. —A man named
W. R. Safford has been arrested at
Bartlesville on a charge that is likely
to land him on the gallows or put him
into tlie hands of a mob. He is charged
with having committed rape cn his*
own stepdauchf"*- "od tne s'or y is a
sickening record of r>v-
The outrage wa _„u. o
week ago, but the victim —who is but
15 years old—was persuaded to hold
her peace under threats of death.
Safford finally got drunk and while in
his cups told the whole story, which
came to the ears of the grand jury of
Pike county. Official action followed
and Safford was proir ptly indicted and
and placed in jail.
The people are deeply incensed
against the prisoner and threats of
inflicting summary vengence are
heard. Safford some years ago mar
ried a widow with four children, who
is highly respected in the community.
Our new springstock was selected in
person and you will be pleased when
you see them and hear the price.
Palmer.
WILL WALK A ROPE.
Coroner Jennings, Formerly a Circus
Athlete, Will Try Again.
There is a genuine treat in store for
the little ones of Brunswick.
Few people know that genial “Hal”
Jennings, the coroner, was, away back
in the misty days of his youth, a
tight-rope performer in a traveling
circus. Nevertheless, such was the
case, and the coroner frequently re
calls those days of the canvas canopy
and the sawdust ring, entertaining his
friends with anecdotes of his life at
that period.
A few days ago he was in a remin
iscent mood, and, in the course ol a
conversation on ihe topic of his ath
letic achievements, Mr. Jennings as
serted that he had no doubt he could
perform equally as well on a high rope
now as he did in the unforgotten days
of when he wore tights and thrilled
the hearts of thousands.
One of the gentlemen present pre
sumed to doubt the assertion. One
word brought on another, with the
final result that the coroner declared
that he would prove his claims by giv
ing a performance at an early date i;;
this city.
Mr. Jennings was seen by a Times
man on the subject yesterday, and he
was evidently very much in earnest.
“I intend to walk a rope stretched
across Newcastle street from the Kais
er building to the Wright building,”
he said. “I will do this not only to
prove my recent assertion but for the
entertainment of the children of
Brunswick, whom I have always de
lighted to please. I have tried myself
and find I am just as good at the busi
ness as I ever was.”
Mr. Jennings said he had not de
cided on the u. . -o,
but would choose it to suit u. aei
ness demands. “It will probably be
one day this week, but I will give the
press and public ample notice.”
Brunswick will await the unique
spectacle with interest.
An Old Landmark.
The roomy old Scarlett building, on
Fancy Bluff, which has been a Glynn
county landmark for many years, is
being gradually undermined %y the
washing away of the bluff on which it
stands.
Drink Carstair’s Monogram Whisky
at the Arcade.