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THE BRUNSWICK TIMES.
VOLUME 8, NO. 126.
Several Thousand Copies of The Times Midsummer Issue Will Be Distributed to Visitors at the Nashville Exposition.
TILLMAN TALKS
ABOUT TEE TRUSTS.
Redhot Tirade From the Mouthy-
Senator Enlivens the
Session.
BOTH PARTIES UNDER A CLOUR.
The South Carolina Man Introduces a Res
olution Inquiring Into the
Sugar Deals.
Washington, May 2S.—Senator Till
man, of South Carolina, today intro
duced a resolution in the senate for
the appointment of a special commit
tee of live senators to inquire into the
recent reports of speculation by the
senators in sugar stock.
The resolution recites that one man
is serving a sentence in jail and that
another was yesterday acquitted on a
technicality and provides for the con
ducting of investigations of all ques
tions that shall be pertinent.
Senator Frye promptly referred the
resolutions to the committee on con
tingent expenses. Senator Tillman
was allowed to speak on the subject by
unanimous consent. Senator Tillman
made a sensational speech. He said
the democratic members of the finance
committee were under a cloud and the
republican members of the finance
committee were now under suspicion.
One party was as deep in the mud as
the other in the mire.
Senator Tillman, said the present
tariff bill was made in the rooms of
the Arlington hotel, with close con
nection by telephone and telegraph
with New York and in close touch
with the sugar trust magnates.
He said Chapman was in jail, which
had been turned into a club, while the
great magnate had gone free on a
technicality, and closed with the dec
laration that the senate should either
prove the correspondents liars or
prove the senators corrupt and then
turn them out.
Senator Aldrich replied to Senator
Tillman. He denied that any person
connected with the sugar trust had
anything to do with making the sugar
schedule.
Carraway Arrested.
Charleston, May 28.—Prof. Carra
way, the hypnotist, was arrested on
the stage at the Academy of Music.
The hypnotist put a subject in a trance
in defiance of an order of the chief of
police, prohibiting it. Carraway and
the subject are both at the barracks,
the hypnotist refusing to wake up the
sleeping man, and the chief declaring
that he will keep them in jail until
this is done.
He Gets Ten Years.
Indianapolis, Ind., May 28 —John F.
Johnson, late president and acting
cashier of the State National bank of
Logansport, was sentenced to ten
years in the Ohio state penitentiary
this morning by Judge Baker of the
United States court for the district of
Indiana.
Mrs. Hanson Dead.
Macon, May 28.—Mrs. H. C. Hanson,
wife of the manager of the Telegraph,
died this afternoon. She leaves a hus
band and five children.
Remains Go to Albany.
The body of Henry Morgan, colored,
arrived from Memphis yesterday morn
ing. The wife of the dead man came
also yesterday morning from Philadel
phia, and the dead and the living met
at the depot, where there was a sorrow
ful scene. The funeral sermon was
preached here yesterday and the re
mains taken to Albany for interment.
Morgan was known all over the Plant
System and was liked by all, having
been porter in President Plant’s prl
"’ov p S r. President H. B. Plant paid
a tribute of respect to his dead servant
by giving free transportation for the
remains and the relatives. |
THAT WARM HARBOR DEBATE.
What Was Said in Council Thursday Night
Touching the Pilots, Etc.
At Thursday night’s council meeting
a very lively debate occurred between
Col. Harry F. Dunwody and Col. J. W.
Bennet, the subject being the new har
bor ordinance drafted by the former
and recently published in Tiie Times.
The ordinance came up for third
reading and passage Thursday night.
On motion Colonel Bennet, who ap
peared for the pilots, was heard on the
ordinance. Colonel Bennet claimed
that the ordinance provided for the
payment to the harbormaster of fees
which should, in right and justice, go
to the pilots. He also claimed that the
ordinance was in conflict with the state
law in some of its provisions. He said
that the pilots, exposed to hardships
and compelled to do extraordinary
hard work, should be given their due,
and hoped that council would not visit
upon them any injustice.
Colonel Dunwody, who represented
the city in drafting the ordinance,was
heard by council in reply. Colonel
Dunwody said that he had made a spe
cial study of harbor regulations, in or
der to make it as strong as possible,
and stated his belief that it could not
be successfully assailed. He argued
the necessity of harbor policing and of
a harbormaster to attend to it, and
that the best way to collect the harbor
master’s remuneration was by fees
rather than taxes.
Mr. Dunwody made the statement
that in 1895 the fifteen pilots of this
port made $35,000, $9,000 of which went
for expenses and the balance of which
was clear profit. “They are the best
paid men in town,” said the attorney,
“and yet several of them made an at
tempt in the last legislature to make
their profits greater by limiting the
number.”
Colonel Dunwody alluded to the
charges of incompetency against Har
bormaster Keller, and cited that the
only instances of recent damage to
vessels in the harbor occurred while
the vessels were in charge of pilots.
He said the pilot commissioners, in
defiance of the body that elected them,
had created a harbor pilot, to cause
conflict with the legally deputized har
bormaster.
The ordinance is now with the har
bor committee of council, which was
instructed to advise with the attor
neys as to its legal status.
Where the Trouble Was.
During the session of superior
court yesterday, Judge Sweat had
much difficulty in making himself
heard by the jury, although his voice
was as full and round as usual. The
lawyers, and, in fact, all those who
were called upon to make public utter
ance during the session, experienced
the same difficulty. Everybody was
at a loss to discover the cause of such
an inexplicable state of affairs until it
was finally traced to John Lehman's
shirt, tne bosom of which was of such
riotous coloring that it would attract
a mad bull through a brick wall; and
it was the loudness thereof that caused
the acoustic confusion of the court.
Large Lumber Mill.
J. F. Maull, of Elmore, Ala., and J.
F. Anderson, of Birmingham, Ala.,
have spent several days past in the
city on important business. The
Times is reliably informed that they
were here for the purpose of purchas
ing, if possible, a large quantity of
saw-mill machinery from the big
Crispen island mill. Mr. Maull con
templates erecting a large mill on an
immense tract of timber land owned
by Mr. Anderson near Homerville.
Chicago Quotations.
Last nigLt’s
Wheat— close. Open. Close.
July . (ill 1-4 (ill 1-2 tis 7-8
September.... 05 OS 1-8 os 1-8
Corn—
July 28 :l-4 21! .'S-4 28 8-4
September.... 24 7-8 23 24 7-8
Oats—
July 17 1-2 17 1-2 17 3-8
September.... 17 1-2 17 5-8 17 5-8
Pork-
July 8(X) 8.00 8.02
September.... 8 02 8.03 8.05
Laril—
July 3.00 3.57 3.02
September.... 8.07 . 3.72 3 72
Sides—
July 4 32 4.32 4.37
September.... 4.35 4.37 4 07
BRUNSWICK, GA„ SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 29, 1897.
NORTBEN LAIS
ANOTBER COLONY.
Forty Thousand Acres of Land
Near Albany to Blossom
Asa Rose.
EMOVERNOR’S SPLENDID WORK.
A. City of a Thousand Inhabitants to Be
Located in the Centre of the Tract,
Surrounded By Farms.
Atlanta, Ga., May 28.—Ex-Governor
Northen, in carrying out his theory
for the practical solution of the agri
cultural problems of the south, has
just begun, with Messrs. F. C, Yance
of Louisville, Ky., and F. F. Putney
and L. E. Welch of Albany, this state,
the location of another colony upon
40,000 acres of land near Albany.
The lands now taken in hand will be
divided into farms, from ten to 100
acres, to be devoted to fruit, melons,
vegetables, grain, grasses and stock,
with one large city, covering 1,000
acres, in the center of the lands, to
gether with numbers of small commu
nities or villages, in which educa
tional as well as social advantages
may be had, while the farmers, at the
same time, live upon and cultivate the
farms.
About $250,000 have already been
put into the development and $20,000
will be extended in locating the city,
villages and small farms.
Surveys begin early next month.
TWO NEW COTTAGES.
Joseph Pulitzer and David H. King Give Out
Contracts For Jekyl Homes.
Contracts have been given out for
the immediate erection of what will be
the two finest cottages on Jekyl Isl
and. One cottage will be for no less a
person than Joseph Pulitzer, proprie
tor ot the New York World, and the
other for David 11. King, a wealthy
New Yorker.
Mr. Pulitzer’s new cottage will be
his second investment on Jekyl, He
purchased last year the handsome
Furness manse and spent thousands
in altering it to suit his peculiar
tastes. But With characteristic dissat
isfaction with everything in general
except his newspaper, Mr. Pulitzer
decided that he wasn’t suited —that
there were too many windows on one
side, too few on another; that the
porte [coahere wasn’t artistic or the
stairways too narrow—whatever the
trouble, the World’s owner concluded
to have anew house built. It will
cost between $30,000 and SIO,OOO, and
will be in all respects the finest on the
island.
Mr. King’s cottage will be more
modest, but with a quiet elegance in
its architectural effect. It will cost
$25,000.
In addition to these new structures,
Mr. Frederic Baker has given out the
contract for the erection of a spacious
conservatory adjoining his cottage,
which will cost well up in the thous
ands.
Thus will some of the unused capi
tal of the millionaires find its way into
the channels of local trade and make
glad the hearts of many workmen.
To Beaufort.
For excursion to Beaufort, S. C., on
account of Decoration day, May 30,
1897, the Plant System will sell round
trip tickets from Brunswick to Bean
fort at the race of $3. Tickets on sale
May 30; limited to June 1.
Mayor Fendig.
Acting Mayor Albert Fendig is now
the head of the city government. He
presided in the police court yesterday,
and will exercise all the functions of
the mayoralty until the new mayor is
elected and qualified.
ALL THE DOCKETS
NOW ARE CLEARED,
At the Close of This Term Judge
Sweat Makes a Remarka
ble Announcement.
MISTRIAL RESULTED YESTERDAY.
Court Adjourns but Will Meet Again the First
Week in July—Cases
Tried.
“For the first time in many years,
and, perhaps, for the first time in the
history of this court,” said Judge
Sweat in discharging the grand jury
yesterday afternoon, “all the jury
cases, civil and criminal, which are on
the dockets, have been disposed of.”
It was a remarkable statement, the
like of which had probably never been
made before in Glynn superior court.
But it was a true one, as the records
of the court show.
Judge Sweat went on to say that
this excellent condition of affairs was
due largely to the creation of the city
court, which so greatly reduced the ex
penses of the higher tribunal.
The session which adjourned yester
day was one of the shortest on record,
occupying only ten days. Business
was done with dispatch and the com
missioners will appreciate this fact
when they come to pay the bills.
The cases disposed of yesterday were
as follows:
E. Liles, assault and battery, plea of
guilty.
George Hubbard, forgery, verdict of
guilty with recommendation to mercy.
J. C. S. Timberlake, misdemeanor,
indictment nol prossed.
Will Dart, robbery. Guilty with
recommendation to mercy.
The case of W. J. Hendrix, the
white man charged with stealing a
sack of grits from Jake Hopkins, re
sulted in a mistrial. The jury was out
nearly all day and could not agree. It
is said the jury stood ten for acquittal
to two for conviction. The wife of the
accused sat all day in court watching
the closed door of the jury room.
In the afternoon the grand jury re
ported its findings and was discharged
with the thanks of the court.
Judge Sweat announced that a spe
cial terra, probably requiring the ser
vices of a jury, would be held the first
week in July for the purpose of hear
ing and disposing of the big Downing
company insurance litigation.
The May term was then formally de
clared adjourned.
OVER FIVE HUNDRED.
The List of Subscriptions Received a Large
Addition Yesterday.
The amount raised for the Uniform
Rank encampment now foots up $544.
The committee is having splendid suc
cess.
The following is the list to date:
Previously acknowledged $475 (X)
Janies P Davenport 1(1 (xi
Pash 5 (X)
AT Putnam 5 00
Jos li Abrams 5 (X)
Dr .T A ltutts 5 00
Lewis Beach 5 oo
Mason T Scarlett 5 (X)
.1 L Mitchell & Son 5 (X)
Palmer Shoe Cos 3 00
P G Busbee 3 00
Cash 3 (X)
C MeGarvey 2 00
A 11 Baker. 2 no
K Y Roberts 2 (X)
C A McKarlane 2 oo
Dr H M Branham 2 oo
O M Go wen l oo
Ben Borehardt 1 oo
Misses Slater ] oo
H V Adderley j oo
P H Mabry ] oo
Total $544 oo
Back in Their Church.
The extensive repairs to the First
African Baptist church have been
completed, and tlie first services in the
renovated structure will be held on
Sunday, occupying the entire day.
from sa.m. to 8 :50 p. m. Rev. John
Williams, the pastor, requests the at
tendance of all the friends of the
church, both white and colored. New
chandeliers have been placed in the
church, gas and electric connections
made and a baptismal pool built.
GRAND JURY’S WORK.
The Leading Features of Their General Pre
sentments as Made Yesterday.
The grand jury’s presentments,
read by Clerk Fendig, of that body, in
the superior courtroom yesterday,
were briefer than the usual output of
such deliberations. They were tersely
phrased and went direct to the core of
the matters discussed.
The presentments gave a statement
of ihe county’s finances, of the collec
tion and expenditure of school funds,
deplored the necessity of curtailment
of school expenses and recommended
a special tax of one-tenth of one per
cent, to make up the deficiencies there
in. They also warmly commended
Superintendent Franklin, Principal
Colson and the teachers.
Of public buildings the grand jury
did not speak at all favorably. They
declared the jail badly in need of re
pairs, the old preparatory school build
ings unfit for use, the brick school
building leaking and its plumbing in
bad shape, and touched similarly on
the Risley school building.
The management and condition of
the convict camps and the convict
farm were eulogized, and minor re
pairs suggested to certain county
roads. Books of all officers were re
ported correctly kept. Dr. J. A. Butts,
county physician, and Superintendent
Lyles, of the convict force, received
special laudatory mention.
Resolutions were passed by the
grand jury indorsing the action of the
county commissioners in tearingdown
the old courthouse, and expressing thx
hope that they will soon supply the
county with the needed new structure.
The presentments closed with the
usual thanks to Judge Sweat, Solicitor
Bennet and the court officers.
PRAISES THE JURY.
A Citizen Calls Attention to the Good Work
Done at This Term.
Editor Times It was my pleasure
to be present in the court room on
yesterday when the grand jury
brought in the recommendations, and
as a citizen of Glynn county I felt
proud that the countv’s interests had
been in the hands of so intelligent and
altogether superior body of men. In
a residence of ten years I have not
seen a better representation of the
better class of our people. The find
ings as read had the ring of business
in them, and the recommendations, if
carried out, will show the betterment
of the county’s interest for years to
come. 1 could see a spirit of pleasure
over the features of the judge during
the reading, and his response that not
for years, certainly not since the term
of his occupancy of the bench, had the
dockets been in the condition they
were today, namely, every case, both
civil and criminal, had been tried and
that for the future the great draw
upon the treasury for jury duty had
materially ended. Altogether, there
was a red glow of congratulation upon
the faces of all present that such a
healthy condition of judicial affairs
exists in our dear old Glynn.
Nothing adds so much to the happi
ness of a people as a sense of honest
and intelligent administration of the
laws which govern them and to this
principle is due the thrift and pros
perity among all classes. Witness.
HIGH SCHOOL HONORS.
The Awards in the Graduating Class An
nounced Yesterday.
The graduating class of the Glynn
high school consists this year of five
charming and accomplished young
ladies. They are Misses Marie Lucile
Butts, Florence King Thiot, liisa Bon
nie Ross, Nellie Eleanore Galvin and
Daisy Deane Goldsmith.
Yesterday Superintendent Franklin
announced the honors in this class.
Miss Florence King Thiot wins the
first honor and Miss Rosa Bonnie Ross
the second. All made excellent rec
ords.
The commencement exercises will
be especially interesting this year,
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
DISSOLVED THE
RECEIVERSHIP.
Mr. Briesenick Wins His Case and
His Business is Now
Free.
BUT CANNOT DISPOSE OF PEOPERTY
Mrs. Briesenick Will Now Probably Enter
Suit Against Him—Case Appears In
terminable,
The result of the prolonged and im
portant Briesenick receivership case is
substantially a victory for Mr. Robert
E, Briesenick and bis able attorneys,
Judge Symmes and Messrs. Johnson
& Krauss.
Judge Sweat dissolved the receiver
ship and Mr. Briesenick can continue
his business uninterruptedly.
The decision, however, does not de
termine the main fact at issue—the real
ownership of the disputed property. It
enjoins Mr. Briesenick from disposing
of, mortgaging or otherwise oonveying
any of the real estate claimed by Mrs.
Elsa Briesenick to be the property of
the estate of Ernest Briesenick. Thia
provision, states the decision, is to
preserve the property pending a final
decree as to its liability to the judg
ment for alimony.
Mr. Briesenick, then, finds himself
in this position ; While he can conduct
his business as he pleases, he cannot
dispose of any of the real estate or use
it as collateral for a loan or other
benefit.
Mrs . Briesenick, the plaintiff, is left
by the decision in the same position
she occupied when the receivership
proceedings were instituted—with a.
judgment for alimony, but no imme
diate means of securing its payment.
Mrs. Briesenick, through her attor
neys, Messrs. Atkinson & Dunwody,
will probably next proceed through a
su>t, brought in superior court,against
R. E. Briesenick for the property
claimed by her. This will make a jury
case. The litigation, from the present
outlook, seems interminable.
Judge Sweat has not yet fixed the
compensation of Temporary Receiver
Lehman, who is, by the court’s order,
discharged. Mr. Briesenick will have
to pay all costs of the receivership.
Mr. Briesenick’s friends congratu
lated him generally last night on bia
escape from an unfortunate business
condition.
TRIED TO INDICT THEM.
A Sensational Story That Leaked Out of the
Grand Jury Room.
A sensational story has come out
from behind the closed doors of the
grand jury room, and was talked of
yesterday by the few who possessed
the information.
A determined attempt was made in
the grand jury, by a few members, to
seenre the indiccment of Messrs. J. S.
Wright, 11. H. Harvey and E. F.
Coney, the county commissioners of
Glynn, for malicious mischier, the
charge being based on the tearing
down of the old courthouse.
The attempt ingloriously failed. By
a large majority the indictments were
defeated, and by a similar majority the
grand jury passed resolutions com
mending the commissioners for wbat
they had done.
Honor Winners.
The Misses Gale’s school closed yes
terday after a very successful sesbiun.
On account of the illness of Dr. A. D.
Gale no closing exercises were held.
In the collegiate department Miss
Maye Berrie won highest honors for
the year and received an elegant gold
medal. In the grammar school Miss
Mary Lee Grovatt stood highest and
won a gold medal. Little Mias Thelma
Lomm was the winner of the highest
hours in the preparatory school and
also took a gold medal.