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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-10
The English Chartreuse.
London World.

The Carthusian Monastery, which
covers ten acres OF ground, and which
has been in course of construction for
the last four years in Sussex, gives
promise of early completion. The
original building bought by the order is
a gaunt flint house, suggestive of luna
tic asylum, and here some eight or nine
brothers reside, who have been told
off from the Grand Chartreuse to superin-
tend the works. The entrance hall does
temporary duty as chapel, and has
already acquired the air-or rather want
of air-indispensible to sanctity. Wax
figures of St. Bruno, St. John the
Baptist, and st. Hugh, of Lincoln,
Ito whom the new monastery will be
dedicated) preside over the several altars.
The monks wear long cassocks of thick
white flannel, with hoods drawn over
their clean shaven heads. They take the
usual vows of poverty, chastity and
obedience, and observe the rules of 81
lence and solitude The lay brothers
have cells, but the brother proper, who
has given over his substance to the order,
and ranks in the world which he has
renounced as a gentleman" enjoys
solitary abode consisting of two
small rooms with cellars below The
entrance doors open from the cloisters,
and by the side of each hangs primi-
tive bell-rope, which is rung every two
hours of the night to call the monks to
midnight mathis. The windows, which
are on the outside of the cloistered
squares, overlook an expanse of country
too inviting not to draw human sigh
from even the most pious breast Be
yond their own nine hundred acres of
land their footsteps must never wander,
and under the Sussex sod their bodies
must remain. There is positively nothing
to relieve the monotony of their austere
existence-no politics, no schools like the
Jesuits, no comfortable food; the one
meal day, which is served at 10 a. m,
consisting of vegetable soup and bread,
with thin wine, or, perhaps, in this
country, beer, the only approach to flesh
being the moor-fowl, which is generally
allowed on maigre days in Catholic coun-
tries. Part of the magnificent chapel
will be open to strangers; and through
this door they hope and expect to gain
converts. Next year we shall hear of
great opening ceremony, after which it
will be closed upon some 300 or 400 souls
and against all further inspection, Off
cial and otherwise. All this asceticism
within pleasant drive of festive Bright
on and within an hour by rail of wicked,
gay London.
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JOHNNY SKAE'S BIG CHANCE.
Worth SO. O.OOO.OO Two Years Ago,
To-day Working for a Good Liv-
Carson city appeal.

A little more than two years since
Johnny Skae, whom everybody knows
would visit Carson several times q
month, and as he passed down the street
from the railroad depot, with an inde-
pendent swagger, and more independ-
ent look in his eye, men would envious-
ly gaze after him and express their con-
victions that he would soon outstrip any
single member of the Bonanza firm in
the possession of millions. This was
when Sierra Nevada and Union were
selling at from $3.50 to $500 per share
and Skae was supposed TO hold
go, 900 shares of the stock of those
two mines. At that period he would
have had no difficulty in realizing $10,-
600, 600 in cool GOLD coin for his stock !;
but no, he was ambitious, and desired
no longer to play second fiddle even to
such colossal financial power as the
Bonanza firm. He fancied that the
prospective dividends Of the Sierra Ne
vada and Union Consolidated mines
would be greater by tenfold than those
paid by the California and Consolidated
Virginia mines. Johnny was oversan-
guine; he imagined himself hundred
millionaire, whose millions were safely
deposited in the bowels of the earth. OF
that he felt certain.
In the meantime he entertained his
friends in regal style. He invited them
from San Francisco to participate in
prineely fish and champagne banquets,
which were spread near the reservoir of
the Virginia and Gold Hill Water Works,
from which the luscious trout were taken,
and in various other ways extended his
hospitality to friends in such a manner
that they privately called him "Prince
John" Inthe midst of this, however,
he did one prudent thing, and that. was
in settling $250,000 in bonds upon his
wife. Believing that the stock of the
mines OF which he was so heavy holder
was sure to reach at least 81 900 per
share, he hypothecated the same to the
Nevada Bank, and purchased several
thousand shares on margin. Soon
thereafter the market crashed, and it
was not long before his stocks were
quoted at $50 and $50 per share. OF
course that nearly ruined Skae; but be-
ing a man of nerve and desirous of re-
trieving his lost opportunity, he kept on
dabbling in stocks which at one time
might have placed him in an enviably
independent position, until he lost all that
he had saved from the first blow: and it
is even said that the $3.50, 900 which ne
settled upon his wife went the way of
the rest. Now Johnny Skae is in
Arizona, in place of living in luxury and
superlative elegance, seeking a bonanza,
which he probably will never find. 1t is
only once in a lifetime that one man in
a million is so enchantlngly smiled upon
by Fortune as Johnny Skae was two
and half years ago.
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WoNDERs OF NEW MExICo.-

WONDERS OF NEW MEXICO. New
Mexico is perhaps the most noted coun-
try IN the world for research. The his
torian, the wealth seeker and the ''curi-
GUS" can here find rich field and reward
for their labor. The Abo and Gran
Quivira counties are perhaps the most
renowned in the Territory for research.
In the former there are evidences of great
volcanic eruptions which overwhelmed
cities and buried the inhabitants in ashes
and lava long ages ago. 1t is evident
that these people, who are perhaps older
than the Aztecs, were prosperous race,
with not little advance in civilization,
as the Abo ruins in the Manzana Noun.
tains indicate; also some indications of
fine art; rude figures and the images of
animals being found upon the interior of
the walls of the structure beneath the
debris. 1t is evident that this months.
toric race were seekers after minerals.
Mines are found with the timbers so rot
ten with age that great difficulty is ex-
perienced and danger incurred in going
down into the old shafts, where shafts
are formed. One especially was found
where human hands or lava or falling
leaves and dust had filled it level with
the earth. This was dug into, and at a
depth of twelve feet a man could. in
places, thrust his arm in up to the elbow
between the granite walls of the mine
and the earth which filed the old shaft.
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ROBIN REDBREAsT.

,r,.,r5 Welsh ueigl Dor over the way
-t.-t slowly cut in the sun OF spring.
,lttf f-.,rI her ears the locks OF gray
- listened 10 hear the robin sing.
-,-----f-77 uIsving al marbles. stopped,
l--rIlI 81 sport as boys viii be,
--.l-.'Ir Stone al the bird, who hOpped
F-5- b.aeh Is b5ugh III the apple tree.
NAV said tie Grandmother, have you not
,rvu7-r. bad hoy Of the fiery pit
And how drop by drop this merclful blrd
-arri-s the water that quenches it,
~. f-fe-, cool dew In his little bill
srIT+ ,ir fal on the souls Of sin
y--- ,..U s-e the marks on his red breast still
Oftr-s tLar scOrch as he drops II IN.
Bis poor Brou rluddyu' my breast burned
sfr-.H. 81 s5e-tly from limb to limb.
Very ieartl the heart cf oar Lord
F.le who uities tLe lost like him.
amen 90 I said to the beautiful myth,
SirzbIri Of God i1 my heart as well,
FafE good thought is a drop wherewlth
~ s51i and lessen tile fires of hell.
PRAYERS Of love Ike raindrOps fall,
Tears lf pity are cooling d W,
And 9s1r tl tine heart OF our l. ord are all
Who suffer ike him ia the good they do.
John q. Whit er.
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South Carolina Notes.

The farmers Of Anderson county are prepar-
ing for big crop of cotton this year.
Amelia Lyon, colored, was killed near
Triek'em last Friday evening by falling tree.
The supply of fertilizers sold in Anderson
this season Is considerably larger than ever
before.
Mr.. Dan. Hollands house, at Richardson
Vile. Edgefeld county, was burned on last
Friday.
The Chester and Lenoir Railroad have
secured the transfer of the right Of way
tn, ough the town Of Lincolnton, at cost OF
$3.50
The new bell for the Presbyterian Church
at Anderson is three feet high, thirty-eight
inches bread, weighs 1,075 pOunds-with
frame. pulIeys and yoke 1850 pounds-tone
a land cost, freight included. Ss0S 80
Captain w. II. BartIess, successful timber
dealer at Hampton. has perfected an arrange
meut with an immigration agent TO have Inn
migrants brought over.
over two thousand liens have already been
a,ed IN the Clerks office at Barnwell-
Mr.. W. Rodgers, proprietor OF the Mansion
House in Columbia, died about o'clock Satur-
day afternoon Of pneumonia.
Several citizens Of Pickens, who went West
during the fall and winter, have returned,
Satisfied that, taking health and other adVan'
tsr-es into consideration. this is a better coun-
try than Texas, and just as good as any
other. :.
Columbia is agitated over projects for Se
irprovement Of the water power IN the
nefghborhood with the view OF maklPPonel
capital great manufacturing centre: halter
D. II. Thompson, who has given ma dam
-.rars tle Consatee orqos % t1e an holss
h ecff command ntteen tnf.e lower AZ
~ sr sfsf tle Dro meat r = rnglrg of
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Weather IndlcatIonn.

OFFICE CHIEF SIGNAL OBSERVER, WASH
day:
In the South Atlantic States, gener-
any IA4S weather, northwesterlY pos
sloiy veerlng 10 northeasterly winds on the
North CaroIina coast, generally lower tenn
perature and higher baroIneter.
In the Middle States, fair westher during
IhuTsday, northwesterly winds, stationary
or higher temperature, and rapidly rising
barometer.
In the East Gulf States, generally fair
weather, winds shifting by Thursday to
warmer southeasterly. lower barometer In
the western part.
In the West Gulf States, fair weather, fol-
lowed by increasing cloudiness and occa-
sional rain, southeast to southwest winds,
stationary or higher temperature, and
generally lower barometer.
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A withered and aged African, who
announced himself as Judge Thomas,
of Cadady," entered an Office near the
ferry dock yesterday morning, and said
he was collecting money to help the
Southern negroes emigrate to Liberia.
How many want to go?" asked the
man at the desk
"Well, sab, reckon on about 5000.
"When do you intend to start them?'
''Airly in the spring. sab. .
How much have you collected thus
far2"
"In de neyborhood OBJ sixty cents, as
nigh as kin reckon"
And il ! should give you nickel
that would be sixty-five cents.
''Yes, sab"
Would sixtY-five cents be of any
great help toward sending 5000 colored
people to Liberia?"
well, sab, it wouldn't go a great
ways when you come right down to de-
ackshul expenses, but / reckon dat il
would start a powerful thinkin', if il
was only handled right. ."-Free Press.
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memphiu Rrokers Alarmed,

MEMPHIS, TENN, March 9.-When the
first quotation from New York Of cotton
was posted on the blackboard of the Ten
nessee Brokers' Association this morning,
showing decline of sixteen points from
the closing quotations of last night, it was
announced that the business of the
association would be suspended. Con
siderable excitement followed, but
it subsided when operators were assured
that all contracts would be settled in full al
last nights closing quotations, which an
nouncement gave satisfaction. The associa.
tion has been in operation in Memphis since
September. 1t is reported that its losses
amount to $4,000, accrued principally by
the recent decline of prices of the staple.
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upper or Broad river half capable OF similar
improvement in the future. This saving, with
about hfteen per cent. deducted from his first
eStates INA @ fo9 fo6 the mills would make $3.50 GOO
or the whole system, instead Of 81, 5000 as
originally estimated. Several meetings have
been held to consider Colonel Thompson's sug-
gestions. and the active cooperation of South
Carolina capitalists is invited.
The peach crop around Yorkville will be al
most a total failure this year. In different sec
tlons of the county the buds were killed BY the
severity OF the weather during part of the
winter, the most serious damage having been
sustained month ago. Apples and other va
rieties OF fruit are also more or less injured.
Work on the Savannah Valley Railroad is
progressing satisfactorily The force of hands
moved by each hand is about fifteen cubic
yards day. The contractors have ordered
number Of carts. which will enable them to
make more rapid headway. An address has
been issued by the Executive Committee of the
Savannah Valley Railroad to delinquent tax
payers asking them to pay up their assess
ments, so that the work upon the line may be
vigorously prosecuted.
The sales of guano in Camden on last Fri
day amounted in value to s., ,280
There have been seventy-two conveYances of
real estate entered in the Auditors Office in
Camden since the lst Of January, 1881.
1t is estimated that at least $4,000 bushels of
rice were made last year on the West Wateree.
A cOIorod man named Henry Smith fell in
the fire in fit on Monday night, in Orange
burg, and was severely if not fatally burned.
A colored boy by the name of Tom Miller
was drowned last week in Stroman's creek, in
the fork, while running out RATS.
A considerable amount of the back school
debt has been wiped oHt under the Bidding act.
It Is thus that the Democrats are clearing away
the Radical school debt, besides running cur
rent expenses.
In the contest of Stolbran at Aiken, in the
hearing of which United States Commissioner
Aiken was engaged several days last week the
principal effort was to prove that at several Of
the precincts in Richland county the polls
were opened before six O'Clock that the super
visors were not permitted to look into the
boxes and that there were more votes in the
boxes than there were names on the poll lists.
Mr.. Devereux, the contractor for the granite
for the Charleston jetties, arrived in Column
bla Saturday. The branch road, from the South
Carolina Railroad to the penitentiary, has all
been graded, and Mr. Devereux is waiting for
the South Carolina Railroad to lay the track. He
states that he has been insured by Superin-
tendent Peck that this work will be begun very
shortly and only consume three or four days.
The steel crossing for the Charlotte. Columbia
and Augusta Railroad track is now being COM
pleted in the charleston shops. MIR. Devereux
hopes to make his first shipment Of granite
to Charleston in ten days. if not sooner
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f9ld winters.

Nele gork Hai lei ErchaAge
The auusuaI severity Of Inc winter Of
1881 naturally rec alls he remarkably
cold winters or the past Statistics show
that this season has beer steadily grow
ing milder for man. years There
seems to be no such winters now az
there were seventy or eighty years ago,
owing no doubt, 10 lb lg QOWu u
this c8uu Iy OF tne forest the
planting and growtA 0 and cities,
and the general deVelc 1i the lahQ.
prrins the segerteeui ei9 hteent0
/ centuries there were old world
some winter bitterly rable 10
Britain, iu 1864 tire Tas frozen
over 10 the depth 2ue inches,
and nearly a thc tae United
/ Kingdom peTished 2 the cold
was SO intense in SOU europe, es-
pecially in Austria thu wolves were
driven by huBger into Vienna, where
they attacked beasts Of burden. and even
human beings Three years later u-apy
persons were frozen t. death II vaflJus
parts of Germany. Ihe old winter. as
it was called for distinction, 0ccuued ia
1909, when all the rivers and lakes
in Europe were compactly frozen. and
even the sea several miles from shores.
and the earth itself from seven to eight
feet deep. Birds and beasts fell dead,
and thousands of men, women and chill
dren perished in their houses. Ii South
ern France nearly all the vineyards were
destroyed, and have not yet recovered
from the disaster. Tie Adriatic was
frozen, and much of the Mediterranean
in the neighborhood OF Genoa and Leg
horn, and the lemon and orange groves
were blighted in many parts Of Italy.
During 1715 persons crossed Die straits
from Copenhagen to the province of
Seuia Nuden) on the ice, and horses and
wagons likewise. Snow lay ten feet
deep in Spain and Portugal during 1740,
the Zuyder Zee was covered with ice
thick enough to bear % multitu1a OF peo-
pie, and, four years after snow meas
ured on q level twenty-tbree feet in
Portugal. In 1771 tn Eihe was frozen
to the bottom, and in 1713 tie Danube
showed ice below Vienna eight to ten
feet thick.
The winter of 1779 so was very severe
in the country. The bitter Geld began
in this middle of Novem 3er and con
tinued until the close OF February The
suns rays were not warn enough TO melt
the snow, which la ou NE ground
almost five months, 60 lbiok that il vas
very hard to get from place to place. an
ordinary bodies of wa on were lee bound.
Domestic fowls and viii turkeys perlshol
by thousands, also det and b1nal0 and
wolves and panthers, mainly fron lack
of their natural food. buried Under tbe
snow. The Northern and Western rivers
were fettered by the frost. and the Cum
berland was SO firmly frozen as Gr south
IS Nashville that emig ant train
securely over the rive The De
opposite Philadelphia contained
three or four feet, and Long Island 81
and the Chesapeake were frozen over
Scientific persons have declared that hot
and cold waves recur every eleven gears,
as in 1876, 1857 and 1868.
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THE NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.
Weak and Irregular ThrOughOut
the Bay.

New YORK, March 9.-The stock market
opened irregular, but in the main weak and
lower, and in the early dealing New JERSEY
Central fell off 21S per cent, while the gen.
eral list yielded a fraction. At the frat
board speculation was very dull, but a
frmer tone prevailed, which continued
throughout the afternoon up to the
second board, when the highest
figures of the day were touched. The ad-
vance ranged from { to 81 per cent, the
latter in New Jersey Central, Coal shares,
Western Union, Chicago, St. Louis and
N. Orleans, G. G. aad l. G. and Pacific Mail
being also prominent in the improvement
Subsequently the market became weak and
closed at reaction of from to q. The
decline was most marked In st. Paul, the
Coal stocks, Pacific Mail, Northwestern and
Iron Mountain. Transactions aggregated
345, 600 shares,
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ATLANTA AND CHARLOTTE AIR.
LINE.
The New Omcers-Net EARNINGS Of
the Road.

New YORK, March "a meeting OF
stockholders and registered first mortgage
bondholdsrs of the Atlanta and Charlotte
Airline Railway Company was held this
afternoon in this city. The following board
of directors was elected for the ensuing
year: Eugene Kelly, VIM. H. Fogg, VIM. B.
Isham, Francis Smith, Richard Irwin. Jr
P. P. Dickinson, B. r. McAIpine, James n Hi'
Young, H. w. Sibley, Hiram SIbley, Skin
with Wilmer and R. A. Lancaster. The
directors subsequently elected the
following officers: President, Fl. W
sIbley; Secretary and Treasurer. q
II. Peirce, and General Manager
G. J. Foreacre. The annual report showed
that the gross earnings of the road dnring
the past year were 1851 ,6SS 43. an increasee
over last year of $l74, ,SS9 "a. The expenses
of the road last year were $6S2, ,I18 81 and
the net earnings amounted to $S19, $40 22.
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"Gath" says: "The tally sheet kept
by Senator Hamlin, one of the Senate
tellers, when footed up gave Hancock a
majority of thirty electoral votes. Not
being expert at figures, the Senator had
counted Vermont and several other Re-
publican States for Hancock. The other
tellers discovered the errors and substi-
tuted another sheet as the one from
which the official declaration was to be
rna1a
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Major General Sir George Pomeroy-
Colley, who was killed recently in South
Africa, entered the British armv as Ma
jor of the Third Infantry, and until a
year ago served almost exclusively in
India. For gallantry in Afghanistan he
was knighted with the orders of the
Bath and Star of India, and subseouent-
ly promoted to Major General.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-10

Hop Bitters, which are advertised in our
columns, are sure cure for ague, bilious
ness and kidney complaints. Those who
use them say they cannot be too highly re-
commended. Those afflicted should give
them fair trial, and will become thereby
enthusiastic in the praise of their curative
qualities. Portland Ad.
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Baltimore Conference M. E. Church
South.

HARRIsoNBURG, VA, March 9.-The
ninety-seventh session of the Baltimore An
nual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South convenes here to day. Bishop
III. N. McTyeire will preside. The conference
will consist of one hundred and seventy
seven preachers and number of lay dele
gates representing part of Baltimore city,
Maryland, the Valley of Virginia, South
western Virginia, and portion of Western
Virginia, embracing membership of &c, ,387.
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The drain upon the Pennsylvania State
Treasury has been so great that the ne
cessity has arisen for the diversion of
half the money that usually goes to the
sinking fund into the general revenue
fund. A bill having this object in view
has passed the Legislature. 1t will in.
crease the revenue in the general fund
about 300. 900.
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Chicago boasts that it is the only
city in this country with watch boxes.
These are very similar to fire alarms,
and summon the police in the same
manner. Each respectable citizen in
the neighborhood of one of these boxes
is supplied with key to it. and can,
therefore, summon policeman when,
ever he wishes to.
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MILWAUKEE, March 9.-In the Republican
caucus at Madison the forty fourth ballot
for United States Senator stood: Cameron
35; Keys, 10; Quarles, 19; Dixon, 10; scat
taring. 10.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-10

A reliable savings bank. One box OF DR..
TUFTS Pills win save you many dollars IN
Doctors bills. They win surely cure Chill
end Fever, DvsDepsia, Disordered Liver or
Bowels, Sick Headache, daun0ice oI Chronic
ConRa paaon, and sxpel every smpurity
from The evsteTn,
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Wholesnle Prnnsian Emigration.

LONDON, March 9.-The correspondent Of
the Times at Berlin comments on the great
increase In emigration to the United States,
and says: "Whole villages are described by
the local papers as migrating from Posen,
Prussia proper, and Schlesiwig."
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Series of fares I'm VIcksbure

VIcKsBURG, March "a fire last night
on Leve street, near the cotton compress,
destroyed two story frame building.
This makes the third fire within forty-eight
hours. Eleven buildings have been de-
stroyed. The loss is about SIC, 600; insur-
ance $1,000.
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In New York the landlords in many
cases have refused to rent their houses
to families having children, owing to
the fact that the cherubs are never salts.
fed unless they deface the walls. The
Herald recommends that the walls of
houses be lined with India rubber. but
even this will not do, as the New York
girls would be continually whiting out
hunks for chewing gum.