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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-14
THE ERLANGER SYNDICATE
Continues TO Swell Its POssessIO ms
and Increase Ats VIII
Bid for the Cincinnati Southern,
and If Successful Build a Depot at
Chattanooga.
Chattanooga Times.


Mr.. Fred. Wolfe, financial agent oil
the Erlanger Syndicate, was in the city
for few hours yesterday. The Time,
learned from him that he completed the
negotiation for the purchase of the
Memphis, Holly Springs and Selma
Railroad, an incompleted line extending
from Memphis to Selma, 80 miles OF
which are already built out of Memphis,
50 miles graded, and the rest will be fin
iShed at once.
The great import of this purchase can
readily be seen at a glance on the map.
A road now extends from Selma TO Al
bany, which if not already, will soon be
owned by the syndicate; they recently
purchased the road from Albany to
Brunswick, which, with their acquisi
tions noted above, will give an uninter
rupted line from Memphis to the sea.
Mr.. Wolfe left yesterday afternoon foI
New Orleans, where he will meet Mr..
John Scott, general manager of the syn
dictate, and they will take formal posses
sion of the Spanish Fort Railway, re-
Gently purchased by them as their en-.
trance into New Orleans for the New
Orleans and Northeastern Railway, the
road now in course of construction by
them from Meridian to New Orleans.
The grand scheme of this gigantic
syndicate is now rapidly developing, and
already their lines terminate at New Or
leans, Shreveport, Vicksburg. Meridian,
Memphis and Brunswick, with the head
and centre at Chattanooga; it is now one
of the most formidable systems in the
South, and is steadily gaining in in.
tiuence and power.
Mr.. Wolfe informs the Times that the
changers will be strong bidders for the
lease of the Cincinnati Southern Rail.
way, and in the event they are success
full, Chattanooga will become their
central operating point between Cincin
natl, Brunswick, New Orleans and
Shreveport, and magnificent depot will
be erected by them on their grounds
near their freight depot.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-14
A Novel Smuggling Device.

Washington Special 10 CHICAGO Tribune.
A novel device in smuggling has re-
Gently come to the notice of Colonel
Alexander, the Fifth Auditor of the
Treasury Some time ago a vessel laden
with lumber somewhere in Texas was
dispatched to one of the Mexican Gulf
ports, but for some reason she could not
make her destination, and discharged
her cargo upon the beach some sixteen
miles distant After time the Ameri-
can Consul, or some one acting for him,
evidently not well informed of the affairs
of the vessels owners, sold the lumber
on their account and sent the money to
the Treasury Department. The lumber
was sent by its purchaser to saw mill,
and the first log was placed in position TO
be cut into boards. The saw had pene.
trated only few inches whent here be-
gan TO appear upon its teeth shreds OF
clothing, and finally became fast aud
refused to move further. Investigation
disclosed the fact that the log had been
made hollow by boring, aud had been
filed with clothing and other dutiable
material and then plugged up. The YES
sci was seized by the Mexican Govern.
ment, but being worm eaten and worth
less was abandoned, the Captain making
his escape. The question before the
Treasury is in regard to the disposition
of the proceeds of the sale of the lumber.
1t is claimed by the owners of the vessel,
and also by the crew. who aver that they
were not paid for their services.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-14

Railroading on the Pacific coast is not
all fun. A locomotive engineer who is
running from Los Angeles to Yuma, two
hundred and fifty miles, writes to his
friends in Newburyport: 1T is a very
hard division to run on, the heat Is SO
severe during the summer. Over. one
hundred miles of the road is over dry,
sandy desert, without drop of water or
living green thing, and such sand
storms as we do have 1t makes it very
disagreeable. For over fifty miles the
road is below the sea level; one place is
260 feet below, and is the hottest place
on the road; the glass stands sometime
at 100 degrees, and will average all sum-
mer 10 degrees" For this he is paid
at the rate at 81 20 a day. Conductors
get 800 to $110 month.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-14

The agricultural products of New Zea
land are getting TO be worth considering
by statisticians. A correspondent of an
English paper reports the products Of
the single province of Canterbury for
1880 from 3s9. 729 acres under cultiva-
ton at 5.461, 400 bushels of wheat,
7,776 275 of oats. 1.124,2S1 of barley,
and 81, 466 tons of potatoes. There ale
about 10000 600 sheep in all New Zea-
land. The New Zealauders have of late
years changed the character of their
diet, but still they must have a great
deal of stuff to export. Thus the can
nibal islands are falling into the line OF
the worlds march.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-14
Mrs. Garfield's Fund.

When the Presidents life was tremb-
ling in the balance the announcement
that the New York Chamber of Com
merce had subscribed $3.50, 600 for the
benefit of his wife and family sent a
thrill of pleasure throughout the coun,
try. All felt the nobility of the gift, and
few urged the Improperly of its accept.
ance. 1t transpires, however, that the
money has not been raised, and
various cities are called on to
make up the deficiency. The
matter is badly managed, and is placing
Mrs. Garfield in a false position. The
first proposal was proper, and:..had the
amount been raised Immediately she
could have accepted it. Now she can
hardly do so, since she is held up in the
light of mendicant. which she is not.
Should the President die, no doubt the
people would give her a million, if she
would accept it, which it is probable
that she might hesitate to do, as she
would not be at all impoverished.
The President is in no i'm
mediate danger, and if he were he
would know that the people would see
that his family did not want. The
fund" hunt puts his wife on a level
with Grant, and is unseemly and insult
ing. The motives that prompted it were
cOmmendable, but the pursuit of the
balance is cheap aud unworthy of the
men who conceived the project II
they cannot give the full amount lei
them offer what they have on hand, and
if Mrs. Garfield sees proper to accept il
well and good. The hat passing should
stop at once.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-14

BradstreetS Weekly Circular gives the
failures throughout the country during
the past week at 40, striking contrast
with the number for the previous week,
which was lis. The former were dis
tributed as follows: New England States,
H.. Middle States, Is; South
ern States, 6; Western States,
II; California and the Pacific coast
States, 1; Canada and the Provinces, f.
the average failures during the past two
months and half have been 80 per
week. BrGdstreet's also says that adj
vices from the leading trade centres do
not indicate material change in the gen.
eral trade and industrial situation. The
combination of the recent shocking &C.
cuuence at Washington with the aver
age incidents of the 4th of July holiday
have had the effect of reducing the vol.
ume of business. With the exception
of the drought in Texas, the condition
of crops in the South appears to be
favorable In the Western and North
western grain growing States the reports
are also of a favorable character.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-14

Since the census was taken in June,
1880, very nearlya million immigrants
have landed in the United States. In
New York alone during the fist six
months Of 1881 the arrivals numbered
24O, 600. They are nearly all bound fol
the West, and do not produce an appre
ciable effect on the labor markets of the
Atlantic coast The new corners are OF
the self-supporting class, and on the vir.
gin land of the West will soon be pro
ducers Of breadstuffs for export to the
Old World.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-14

The New York Sun says; "In the
long record Of attempts on the lives of
public persOnages. the most perfect
analogue to the crime of Guitesu seems
10 be the assassination Of Spencer Perez
val, the head Of the British Ministry, in
1909. The real executive chief of the
United Kingdom is, of course. the Prime
Minister, and, like our President, he
may be said to incarnate the deliberate
wiz Of the nation, though his representa-.
tive character was by no means so per-
feet before the first reform bill as it is
now. But it is a curious fact that
Perceval, like Mr.. Garfield, was shot by 8
disappointed office-seeker, one Belling
ham, an English trader, who alleged
some injury at the hands Of the Russian
Government. and who scCms to have be-
come half cfszed by his failure to
~c redress from the British Minis
tr,.'
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-14

The communication of General E. p.
Alexander, addressed to the editor of the
Philadelphia Press, which we reproduce
in our columns, will be found interest
ing. General Alexander, now First Vice
President Of the Louisville and Nash
vile Railroad Company, was a cadet at
West Point when General Lee was SH-
perintendent Of the Academy, and served
on his staff as Chief of Ordnance of the
Army of Northern Virginia from the
time that he succeeded General Johnston
until just before the battle of FrederIcks-
burg, when he was promoted to the
command Of a battalion of artillery.
The close personal relations between the
two Generals are shown in the converse
ton which the survivor now recalls.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-14

The Detroit Free Press says: This
event illustrates with striking emphasis
the progress that has been made in
American journalism during the last
half century. Here was President of
the United States shot Within Il few
minutes the fact and all the details of it
were known to the remotest corners of
the country. Adams and Jefferson died
July 4, 1896, and months elapsed before
the news reached the confines of the
country. This growth in journalism is
the companion Of growth in nearly every
material enterprise known in the United
States"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-14

So much reliance is placed upon steam
engines that modern steamships are ill
fitted to sail, and when their machinery
is disabled they can do scarcely anything
more than drift where winds and cur
rents take them. A comparison between
a full-rigged ship and an ocean steamer,
especially these fitted up mainly for
speed under steam, shows this at a
glance. and the story of the Vandalia
illustrates it by practical test She was
crippled about three hundred miles from
land, and took ten days TO get into port.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-14

The sealing operations about New
fOundlsnd have been very profitable the
past season. Twenty-seven steamers and
many sailing vessels were engaged, the
steamers making two trips each 10 the
ice foes, where the seals are taken, dur
ing the season which lasted from March
Is to May Is. The total number OF
seals captured by the steamers was 334,
513 young and old; the weight Of the
blubber and skins exceeded 5000 tons;
the approximate local value Of the steam
er catch being $3.50, 900.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-14

Judge Lawrence. Fist Comptroller Of
the Treasury, has decided that when a
party is by indictment in State court
charged with crime, and the case is re-
moved to a Circuit Court of the United
States, the costs thereafter incurred
therein are to be paid as in criminal
cases originally prosecuted in said Cir
cuit Court.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-14

The subsidy expenditures of the
province of Para, Brazil, during the
coming year, according to the budget,
will amount to a total of $611 200, viz
1901 200 to various navigation enter
prises, s2OO,OOO to a sugar manufacture
ing company, $4,000 on a contract for
supplying the city of Para with fish, and
$50. 600 for supplying it with fresh beef.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-14

According to the JOrRaI do RcceLfe, a
well known sugar estate of Pernambuco
effected the following results during the
harvest Of 1880 81. The capital employ
ed, including lands. machinery. etc,
was $13O,OOO The net results Of the
years operations amounted to So, 900,
and the expenses to $4,000, leaving a
profit of So. 900 tor the year. One item
in the expense account was the labor Of
the proprietor and his SOD, which was
valued at $4,000.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-14
The business Report.

A feature in the national financial stu
alton, of which much has been made, Is
relieved by an opinion of Attorney
General MacVeagh, which releases $780,
600. 600 of gold which was supposed TO
be necessarily held for legal tender re-
demptions. This puts an end to all the
talk that the supply of gold in the
Treasury will be unequal to the demand
shortly to be made upon it. While stock
speculation has been very moderate, the
business of the country has been steadily
and largely improving. Forty-three rail
roads are officially heard from for June,
and show an increase of 30.5 per cent.
over June of last year. OF these forty
three roads but five show a decrease,
while one shows an increase of SO per
cent. Despite the reported rate war, which
may or may not be all that is stated,
the railroads are evidently doing
a large business. Our export trade for
June falls behind last year, but the
earlier months show an advance. Cotton
has fallen off %, 900 bales in the month,
but in six months, from January to July,
it exceeds last year by over 600. 600 bales.
The export of -four in June exceeded the
same month last year by 20, 900 barrels,
but other breadstuffs show falling off.
1t is estimated that our exports of all
kinds for June have fallen off about
SO, 600, 900 as compared with last year,
but our imports have been equally re-
duced. The balance of trade for the six
months is decidedly in our favor. The
record, therefore, in this direction is en-
tirely agreeable and even fattering. If
the next six months shall show as well
all will be favorable to the prosperity of
the country.
1t is too early to speak definitely of the
grain crops. Rumors are current that
large harvests are being reaped in Eu-
rope, and that our crop prospects are
poor. While it is probable that Europe
will provide more than an average home
supply, it by no means follows that we
will have no market for our products.
Nor is it probable that we will have a
short crop. 1t may not be so large as
that of 1880, but probably will be
quite as large as that of 1879.
1t is now believed that the
cutting of rates on grain by the railroads
is less as against each other than as
against the water routes. These have
brought new factor in the grain trans
portation problem. The Mississippi river
route is the formidable competitor.
There is no doubt that, while the rail-
roads are meeting the low rates on this
route, they are doing good business in
general freights. Thus, all things con-
sidered, the country is in favorable
condition and goes into summer with
many elements of prosperity.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-14

Guiteau, besides being member Of
the Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, from
1867 to 1869, was also a member of the
Bible-class taught By Superintendent
Hill at the Bethel Mr.. Hill says that
as soon as he learned Guiteau had shot
the President he took his picture down
from the wall, where it had hung in the
class room. Guiteau had borrowed
money from him, and did not return it.
He was in no wise eccentric when Hill
knew him.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-14

The statue of Robert Fulton, which
is to be placed by Pennsylvania in the
House Of Representatives at Washington
will be the work of Mr.. Howard Roberts
of Philadelphia. 1t represents Fulton
in the dress and with the surroundings
of a workingman, intent in studying a
small mechanical model held in the right
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-14

The duties received at the port of
Montreal for the fiscal year ending Both
ultimo were S7,O77, 793, an increase Of
81. s44 991 over 1880, 100000 over
1879, and exceeding the most prosperous
year Canada has ever previously known,
that Of 1s74-75, by 81, 100000. The re-
ceipts for last June were $40. 92S, an in
crease of % per cent. over the core
spending month of 1880.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-14

The Canadian, European, American
and Asiatic Cable Company. to which g
charter was grained at the last session of
Parliament, has completed its organiza-
ton. On the directorate are the Direc-
tors OF, the Bank of England. the Presi
dent of a well known German bank, and
a leading Australian banker. The Cana
dian end of this cable will land on Sable
Island. They will also establish tele-
graph communication with the West
Indies by laying cables 10 the Bermudas
and the Bahamas
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-14

Mr.. Dennis Grady, Of Cumberland
Nd, possesses a horseshoe which il
claimed to have been worn by the horse
John Brown rode over the bridge al
Harper's Ferry on his famous raid in
1859. The shoe is of peculiar pattern
and in the lower surface is wide, deer
groove, which is packed with tarred
rope. evidently intended to muffle the
noise of the horses footballs. Mr.. Grady
proposes to present his relic to the Smith
gonian Institution.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-14
JULY DRAWING.

Whole tickets, 81; Half Tickets, 81; "a Tickets,
$50; IS Tickets, 800.
Remit Money or Bank Draft In Letter. OF
send nv Exnress. DON'T SEND BY REGIS
TERED LETTER OR POST OFFICE ORDER
Orders of s. and upward, by Express. can De
sent at our expense. Address all order TO h. M.
BOARDIAN. Courier Journal Building, LOUIS
vile, KY, or T. ]. COMMERFORD, 800 Broad
way, New York
JNO. B. FERNANDEZ, Agent,
Cor. Bull and Broughton sts., Savannah, Ga.
ty4 Tus tn. S&w5w
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-14

Charles Brush, OF Cleveland, claims
to have still further improved upon the
plan of NJ. Faure for storing electrical
energy. Dir. Brush has gone to Paris to
investigate the mechanical application
Of Fanre's system.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-14
Mail Matters in FLORIDA.

There appears to be something radi-
cally wrong with the mails in Florida.
The delay is owing to the railroad
schedules. The matter is one which
should receive the attention of the post
office authorities. We would suggest
that the merchants in Middle and West
Florida write direct to the Post Office
Department at Washington representing
the present status of the mail service in
their section.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-14

The District Attorney has received a
letter addressed by George Francis Train
to "Citizen Assassin Guiteau, care War
den, Washington, d. c., in which Train
offers to become counsel for the assassin,
and to guarantee his acquittal. Numbers
of letters to Guiteau have been received,
most Of them apparently from idle per-
sons who make letter-wrIting pastime.
The District Attorney thinks that Gui-
teau is already breaking down morally.
and that his apparenu good spirits will
soon wilt and leave him in despair.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-14

The recent census shows that the total
population of the Austro- Hungarian EN-
pire last December was 81, 739, 407,
making an increase for the decade of
1925, $50, to which the Hungarian pro-
vinces contributed only 191, 306. The
annual rate Of increase during the last
five years has been more than one.third
higher IN Germany than in Austria. The
popula ion of Vienna is 726, 105.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-14

The twenty million chinchona trees
planted in Ceylon in 1880 are expected
to yield in six years ten million pounds
each year, but it is believed that the de-
mand will fully keep up with the supply,
so that prices viii not decline.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-14

A st. Petersburg correspondent writes
that in the latest budget of the Russian
empire the division allotted to the house
hold expenses of the late Gear includes
fifteen hundred roubles for providing
birch brooms (Ruthen Besen) for clean
ing the Winter Palace. Eliminating the
cost of each at the retail price in
st. Petersburg, he finds that no less than
eighteen thousand of these brooms have
been used every year for the Winter
Palace. Nearly fifty must have been
worn to the stump every day in the late
reign.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-14


The United States Government has re-
cognized the Calderon Government of
Peru, set up to make peace with Chill,
which has conquered the country, and
demands indemnity before retiring her
army from Peruvian soil. Calderon's
first and most dissgreeable duty has been
to raise the heavy indemnity levied by
the Chilians on Lima. The first con-
tribution demanded was S00,000 silver
dollars, which he has settled by the pay
.ment OF 5000, 900 paper soles, probably
a deprecated currency. 1t is hoped that
Chill will moderate her demands for in-
demnity In view of the poverty of Peru
She will probably demand the guano
islands, and in fact has already taken
possession of the Lobos Islands and sold
to the English market $4,000 tons at $35
per ton. Chill has just held her Presi-
Dental election, but the result has not
yet reached us. The leading candidate
was Don Domingo Santa Maria, who
represents the Liberal party and the adj
ministration. and is at present Judge,
a man of high character and long ex-
perience in public affairs.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-14

WE have purchased the CLUB STABLE,
w and are prepared TO furnish close enc
omen Carriages. Top and Eo-Top Buggies.
Personal attention given to boarding horses.
CONNECTED with Telephone Exchange.
je6-tf GLEASON q HARMON.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-14

Count Baworowski has left his fortune
of two million guldens about 81 ,0O0, 900
to the Austrian province of Galicia for
scientific articles and philanthroplc pur-
poses.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-14


NJ. BarthOlemy st. Hilaire, the French
Foreign Minister, delivered an address
two weeks ago at the Versailles Agri-
cultural show. He contrasted the re-
covery and general prosperity of France
with the depression of agriculture; told
the agriculturists that in that district
their system was so perfect that they
could not, like others, be exhorted to
improve their methods; urged them to
expect little from the State, yet admitted
that it might do something for them;
incidentally advised them to elect mode
rate men as Deputies; and urged them
to undergo the agricultural ordeal as
steadfastly as ten years ago they under
went the political ordeal. NJ. ST. uilaire
concluded as follows:
"Agriculturists of France be of good
hope, and just because you are now suf-
fering. the time ought not to be far dis
tant when, through the instability of all
things in this world you will surely, in
compensation for your trial, receive all
the goods things which are your due. y
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-14

Corporal punishment in the British
navy is not to be abolished during the
nressut session of Parliament, but the
Admiralty promises to prevent its abuse.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-14

RooKKREPER.-Cne that is competent ana
~ industrious is wanted in a commisS Sou
mouse in this city. Parties desiring such no.
care Morning News. i,J U tsh'
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-14

w AN]ED a steady man, competent 10
tha TAKE charge of stable, and understand
sne care of horses; must come we'll recon- ot,,,e
in fT1s "a Apply to HAYWOOD, GAGE q co