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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-06

SAVANNAH MARKET.

OFFICE OF THE MORNING NEWS.
SAVANNAH. June 4, 1881, 4PM
CoTToN.-The market opened quiet and
steady. At noon the price of all grades was
advanced lice. The market closed unchanged
sales for the day, g bales. We quote:
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-06
MARKETS BY TELE PA.
NOON REPORT.
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FINANCIAL
PARIS. June 4, 200 D. m -Rentes, e6f s21kc
LONDON, June 4--Consols, 100 3-16 for money;
100 7-l6 for account. Erie. 50N.
200 p. m.-Erie, sos
SEw YORK, June 4.-Stocks opened fairly
steady. Money $685. per cent. EXCHANGE
long, 81 S514; short 81 IS. State bonds inactive.
Government bonds quiet but firm.
ccrToN.
LIVERPOOL. June 4-Cotton, the market is
closed. for the Whitsuntide holidays, until
Wednesday.
NEw YoRK, June 4-Cotton market opened
quiet but steady; sales 6l9 bales; middling up
lends, II Lice; middling Orleans. IL 5-l6e
Futures-Market opened steady, with sales
as follows: June 10 gle; July. II 00c: August,
II 05c; September, 10 Ole; October. 10 25c; No
vember, 10 lac.
PROVISIONS, GROCERIES, ETC.
New YORK, June 4-Flour opened dull and
heavy Wheat heavy and lower Corn dull
PoTk dull and weak at $15 6216. Lard firm at
10 971kc for steam rendered. spirits turpentine
37c. Rosin, 81 921 for strained. Freights I'M
changed.
BALTIzoRE, June 4-Flour opened firm;
Howard street and Western superfne. So 500
city mills superfine, SO 1924 90; ditto extra,
81 5015 CO.; family, sc 5007 90; Rio brands,
$6 6206 rs; Patapsco family, 81 25 Wheat
Southern quiet but steady; Western steady,
closing dull and weak; Southern red, 81 290
%; amber, 81 2501 20; No. Maryland, 81 -
OIL 20; No Western winter red the sDot,
81 30 2316; June delivery, 81 223401 20; July
delivery, 81 2l4O1 21ss; August delivery, 81 10
o. 1875; September delivery, 81 1901 1914.
Corn-Southern firmer: Western easier, closing
dull; 6outhern white e0c; yellow. nominally at
SIC.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-06
CLEARED SATURDAY.

ARRIVED UP FROM TYBEE YESTERDAY.
Bark COLUMBIA CNor), Nielsen. Malaga-Holst
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-06
Steamship saragossa, Hooper, Baltimore

Jas B West & Co.
Steamer Centennial. Ulmo. Satilla River and
way landings-J P Chase.
Steamer Carrie, Gibson, Augusta and way
landings-John T Robertson
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Shipping sntelIiaeHfe.
MINIATURE ALMANAc-THIs nAY-
MONDAY, June 6, 1881.
ARRIVED SATURDAY.
WE'D YESTERDAY.

Steamship City of Columbus, Fisher, New
York-G N Sorrel
Steamer City OF Bridgeton, Fitzgerald Flori-
da- N Hartman. Manager
ARRIVED YESTERDAY
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-06

Bed Bugs, Cockroaches, Ants, Moths
and Parasites Of all kinds.
The apparatus for generating the steam
is an ordinary nursery lamp, holding
half pint of the Medicated Fluid with
a tube at the top to direct the Medcated
Steam upon any point infested with in
sects. It is heated with small spirit
lamp beneath the boiler. For Dwellings,
Hotels, Steam Ships, Restaurants, ETC.,
nothing ever discovered equals this APP
pliance. 1t is harmless to human life;
is Inexpensive and simple in its use.
While most potent means for destroy
ing vermin. it is the best disinfectant
known and may be most efectually used
to prevent the spread of contagious dis
eases, such as Yellow Fever, Scarlet
Fever, Typhoid Fever, Diptheria, Small
Pox, &c. One trial is the best proof of
the great advantages of this over all
other appliances. For sale BY Druggists
and General Dealers.
j. G. SPENCER, Proprietor,
$50 Washington St., N. Y,
ap11-M, W&F6m
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fruit, Gtc.
DR.. GUM

DROFESSOR of Elementary Gastronomy in
Il the Royal College Of Art and whose re-
cent achievement of eating twenty seven raw
doughnuts in twenty-seven seconds attracted
attention in this country, as well as in Europe,
has been visiting New York for the purpose of
making very careful and minute examination
Of the Egyptian obelisk and the result has
been far from gratifyin to the savants whose
translations have been accepted in whole or
partially. Many of the idols of wouId-be ex-
perts are shattered by the learned GUMDROP,
and admirers of the antique will certainly be
pleased with the final result. Among other
surprises thu Doctor positively affirms that
the Inscription on the starboard angle of
"Cheops' Tombstone is not
"ARE YOU GOING UP THE NILE THIS
EVENING".
mo! NOT THIS EVENING"
But is to the contrary, In fact, and large type
as follows;
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-06

" ~a me caption Instinct" the Hines
sra .l'i-eiie relates the fOlIowings In a mill
IS y. g summer duck has made nest in hol-
Ste 80 lWeuty feet above the water, in which
tgeeI. posted der eggs Last week the little
rrriIs apYeared, and then The question
l1rr...'5I tle Mother duck as 10 how to get her
~ 3 good frOm her exalted nest She was
ssfessl ny qogn from the hollow stump to the
hlca. M lS back again, as if measuring the dis
AN - 10 her ~ ard let il fan II struck the
q B,,sal ~ .7perfectly safe This she repeat
lslre-5 ne, Wllcle FIVE were 10 this way trans
- - ION thei eyre to the water, where
AnpWn their great Joy by q yocifer-
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-03-10
THE WAY PUBLIC MONEY GOES


The Democratic Congress de-
serves the thanks of the whole coun
try for aLolishiug the Freedmen 3
Bank Commission, which was estab
lished in 1874, by Republican
Congress, at a cost of nine thousand
dollars a year. There were three
commissioners. Two of them did
nothing, in the seven years, but sign
certain papers, and each paid the
other commissioner $500 a year for
personal attention to the business of
winding up that defunct bank. A
nice swindle of the people, was it
not I Think of it Two men, for
seven years, put their hands into the
public treasury, and took out $4,000
a year for doing nothing Seven
times $4,000 makes a big pile Of
money to be legally stolen from the
pockets of the people. Then the
other ''commissioner" got seven
times S4,00O-$28, 900, plus $685.,
OOO-$63, 900. The affairs of the
bank are, of course, still unsettled.
The Comptroller of the Treasury
will attend to il at once at an expense
of 81 900 a year.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-03-10
LIFE IN THE SOUTHWEST.

The history OF the long-pending
prosecution of Andrew T. Walker
and Jeff Black, for the murder of
Green Butler, in Galveston county,
Texas, in 1872, furnishes a not very
creditable commentary upon the ad
ministration of justice in that
State. Butler, who was stock
raiser and a popular man, was sit
ting on the piazza in front of bis
house after dusk. A party of horses
men rode up and asked for supper.
While the stock raiser was opening
the gate to let them in, one of the
party discharged rifle or pistol at
bin. The party then rode quickly
away. Butler retained consciousness
long enough to say that by the fash
of the powder he had recognized
Andrew T. Walker as the assassin,
and this was corroborated by the
testimony of a negro boy in the muir.
dered mans employ, who happened
to BE- riding by at the moment.
There seems indeed to have been no
doubt about Walkers guilt. He as
principal and Black as accessory
were indicted and brought to trial,
and both were promptly found guilty
by the jury. They appealed and
obtained new trial. Again they
were tried, again convicted, and
again new trial was ordered. This
process was repeated three times,
extending from first TO last over a
period of seven years. Then, on a
fourth trial, Black was arraigned
alone and acquitted, but be narrowly
escaped being shot down as he was
leaving the courtroom, and q san,
culinary fight in the streets between
bis friends and foes was with difficult
ty averted. Walker escaped gom
prison last month. That evene%ill,
it is thought, end the prosecution,
which seems to have exhausted the
energies of all concerned in it.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-03-10
CHURCH PRIDE AND STIFFNESS

A writer, whose name we do not
now recall, has the following very
truthful remarks bearing upon a
matter which is attracting no little
attention among Christian people:
"Iu every church there are certain
men who, by their long residence,
efficiency, wealth, learning, or social
position, have come to be recognized
as leaders. They fill the important
offices or are as influential as though
they did. Such men can add very
much to their power for good by
courtesy to those less honored -
to the obscure members of the
church, especially to the young and
those who we're once in better cir
cumstances than at present. A cour>
teous nod, q warm shake of the hand
at the church door, in che straet, or
at any casual meeting, from such
men, will build up church 10 Chris
tian unity and attract the people to
it more than eloquent preaching
where the leading spirits form little
aristocratic coterie. The real cause
of the decline of some important
churches is that the official pembers
are without genuine sympathy with
the majority of the congregation.
People begin to feel that they are
ignored then that they are not de-
sired; then they go elsewhere or
remain at home. A little thought.
fulness and brotherly kindness on
the part of the men aud women of
position and leadership would pre-
vent this. Think of it, ye who wish
the church to prosper, and all prac>
tice it."
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-03-10
DIFFERENCE.

A California Judge who heard a
plea of insanity made by man on
trial for counterfeltirg, very prompt
ly seutenced"the fellow 10 six years,
and regretted he could not increase
the time to much longer period.
The chances are that if the fellow
bad only committed murder that the
plea of insanity would have cleared
him. Courts and juries grow very
magnanimous when man is on trial
for murder, but put him ION the
country" charged with counterfeit
ing or theft and he is promptly given
the full benefit of the law. A Virs
GINA court once tried two persons,
on two consecutive days. One of
them had stolen hog, and the jury
gave him twelve years. The other
had only murdered his brother, and
he was given one year. Thus we
have wide distinction made be-
tween the two crimes of theft and
murder. Scarcely an individual of
any special Information but what can
mention cases bearing some resem'
blance to the one we have quoted.
1t is subject for the pscbychologist
to investigate, but the bones of the
iurists of hundred years ago rattle
in their resting places at recital of
this feature in the administration of
law to day.-AtlaMta Post.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-03-10
Virginia (Nev.) Enterprise.

Last Wednesday evening bur
glar made determined effort to en-
ter the house of VIM. Parker, who
works at the Savage, had been paid
off that day. 10 the evening he
went to his work as usual, and his
wife went out to call upon a neighbor,
leaving at the house her son Willie,
aged fourteen, and her little girl,
seven or eight years of age. Soon
after the mother lett, burglar came
to the rear door. and. inserting a
pair of nippers, got hold of the key
and began to turn it. The boy held
the key on the inside Presently he
found that the burglar was twisting
the key 10 his haud, aud getting a
pszltcldcr that happened to be with
in reach, he put it through the ring
of the key. The penholder was soon
broken, when the boy put the strong
est part of it through the key, and
whispered to his little sister to hold
it with all her might while he got
pistol. The pistol was five shooter,
and when the boy got back he shot
through the lower panel of the door,
and the burglar stampeded It is
thought that the shot took effect 10
one of the burglars leg The range
of the bullet was downward, and in
front of thu door is porch 10 which
it should have lodged if it did not
find lodgings in the fellows leg. The
boy first proposed getting ander the
table with pistol and shooting the
burglar as soon as his sister let him
come into the house, but the sister
objected to this arrangement. The
fellow knew the children had been
left in the house, and called to them,
threatening them if they did not open
the door.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-03-10
HOW TO KEEP YOUR FRIENDS.

10 the first place don't be too ex-
acting. If your friend doesn't come
to see you as often as you wish, or
if she is dilAtory about answering
your Isttsrs, don't make up your
mind at once that she has grown cold
or Indifferent, and above all, don't
overwhelm her with reproach. Rest
assured that there is no more certain
way of killing friendship than by
exactions and upbraidiugs.
1t is quite possibla that yonr friend
may have other duties and engage
ments whose performance employs
the very time you claim, and 10
stead of being neglected you are
only waiting your turn. Perhaps
she comes to you in her rare inter-
vals of leisure to be rested and cheer
ed and helped by your affection and
sympathy. Bot is she likely to find
cheer or comfort in your society ii
you meet her with doubts, with cold
ness, or with sense of inquiry, and
insist on how she has spent her time,
and whether she could not possibly
have come before Ia nine cases
out of ten she will go away telling
that she is injured by what you con-
slider election, and that your friend
ship 10 trouble rather than help.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-03-10
TEXAS WATER.

Larry Gantt, -replying to CORE
spondent, who is trying to defend
Texas and induce migration from
Georgia to that State, among other
things said this "Good water can
be got by digging q cistern,' says
Mr.. G, Now many Of our readers
don't know what cistern water is, so
we will enlighten them. 1t is rain
water caught in closed pools from
the drippings of house, and of
course in the summer gets hot and
Shiny. You have often to strain il
through the teeth to separate the
wiggle.tails. We would not live in
the Garden of Eden if they made us
drink cistern water. We had rtth
or live on half rations and imbibe Of
the limpid springs Of old Ogleshorpe
than to be a uabob in Texas and be
forced to drink dirty cistern water
This acknowledgement from Mr.
Griffith is enough to damn Denton
county in the eyes of any sensible
man."
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-03-10
Two years ago Postm aster G ener,

Two years ago Postmaster Gener>
al Key ruled that certain commercial
paper, partly written and partly
printed, should be transmitted by
the mails as third>class matter, but
the Attorney General has decided
that Mr.. Key had no lay for such a
ruling, and the Postmsster-G General,
it will be seen, has revoked the rule,
and full letter postage must be paid
on all such matter hereafter. 1t will
be pretty rough on business men, as
the order embraces uncompleted le>
gal papers, bills Of lading, invoices
and commercial paper generally.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-03-10

A Wisconsin legislator has devils :
ed plan for ascertaiuing whether
the women of that State really desire
to become invested with the privi-
leges of voting. He has introduced
a bill which authorizes and requires
women to vote at the next general
State election upon the question
whether they desire to have the elect ;
i've franchise conferred upon them,
and to assume the duties and obliga>
tions of male citizens. Neglectiug
to vote is to be punished By a fine
of not less than one hundred dollars
or Imprisonment for not more than
three months.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-03-10
Frank Robertson, a wealthy young

Frank Robertson, a wealthy young
planter of Wise county, Texas, mys
teriously disappeared three years ago
on the day set for bis marriage with
Jessie Bane became insane and is to-
day in an asylum. For three years
Robertsou's mother advertised far
and wide for her missing son and IL
nally doubled the offered reward
Two farmers living near BY then
confessed that young Robertson had
been hanged as q horse thief by q
bsnd of vigilsn,s and dug up his
body in a rsviue, where they had
buried him. Tbo lnothsr has begun
suit against all the parties implicated
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-03-10

Macon Telegraph ard Messenger !:
"Mr. Fl B. Davis drew off the water
from his carp pond on Friday even
ing to examine his fish. The carp
placed in there just year ago were
found to be sixteen inches in length
and to weigh two pounds. They
we're about an inch and half long
when placed in the pond. Those
obtained from the Commissioner q
few months since were found to have
increased only one third 10 size"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-03-10
Mrs. Armstrong, a young and

Mrs. Armstrong, a young and
charming widow with fortune Of
$4,000, was received toto the best
society Of Columbus, Ohio. She
married Hermann Ccrzillius, the
Treasurer ofthe county. Two weeks
after the wedding she YVES arrested
for the murder of her first husband,
whose father had for two years kept
detectives at work on the case, and
had at last discovered testimony
clearly duplicating her.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-03-10

The New York Sun says: ''There
is 9 popular Impression that stock
gamblers are raostly young men, to
whom years have not brought wis
dom 1t 10 NOT correct. The groups
which surround the indicators in the
thousand and more brokers offices
in and about Wall street are com
posed Of old fellows, many of whom
have already money enough to live
on, and who operate in stoke either
because they like the sport or be
cause they want q little more
money"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-03-10

Col. Tom Buford, the Kentucky
assassin of Judge Elliott, is still in a
unatic asylum, where be was sent
after his acquittal. The physicians
of the institution say that he
has a growing mental malady,
probably softenipg of the brain but
the Colonel himself says: "Lunatic,
the devil! I'm no lnnatic Your
own mind 10 not one whit better bal
auced than mine at this moment.
The plea of insanity in my case was
simply adopted to cover the great
crime of the courts. | wanted to try
the case upon it's merits. | made the
issue with my life in the balance.
aud | wonld have laughed at death
sentence. He looks robust and talks
correctly.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-03-10

Abiding to the high prices which
the Burke county farmers pay for
guano, the Waynesboro Herald says:
1--WE heard not long since one of the
shrewdest men of our county say
that the county was poorer than it
had been for ten years. We believe
it. No people whose reliance is
credit, and whose credit rests upon
the fact that their lands must be
pawned to get guano, can be said
to be prosperous. The necessity of
the dependency of the farmer by its
ruinous rates of interest and usary
eats up the substance of the land,
and the euano trade, is one way in
which our people are paying ruinous
interers."
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-03-10

The burning of the orphan asylum
at Scranton, Pa, is made most
hear,-rending horror by the death
of fifteen children 10 the hames-a
fearful slaughter Of the iuuocents ;
and yet it will be found that nobody
was to blame, not even the architect,
who failed to provide proper egress,
or the grand jury which neglected
its duty in its round of examination.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-03-10

The bashful young man who ask
ed lady if he "could see Der home, y
was much surprised TO hear her re-
ply, THAT he could go up and see
it if he wanted. to, but she didn't
think her father wanted to sell, and
then cooIly walked off With the man
of her choice.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-03-10
KILLED BY A MANIAC FATHER.

KILLED BY "A MANIAC FATHER.
Adam Hessler, with his wife and
pretty nine year old daughter Jen~
ME, have for eight years resided in
neat farmhouse near Hines Corners,
Pa, whence they moved from Rhode
Island. In September last a large
payment came due upon the place.
The funds realized from the sale of
grain and produce were found INSULT
Gent to pay one half of the debt.
Hessler thought that he would lose
bis home, and feared his family
would suffer. He become despon>
dent. On Friday morning his wife
went six miles to her brothers, in
the hope of getting assistance from
him. While she was gone Hessler
raved like mailman, and declared
that his daughter must be gotten out
of the way. He carried the fright
ened, crying child to a well at the
rear of the house, and, binding her
wrists together with "a piece of heavy
rope, thwew her in. She fell twens
ty, nice feet, striking upon the rocky
bottom with force that was fatal
An invalid lady neighbor saw the
proceedings, but could do nothing,
as she had not been able to leave her
room for twelve years. Hessler was
gone when his wife returned, and
nothing has been heard of him since.
1t is believed, that he wandered to
the mountain aud persisted in the
snow.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-03-10
Marietta. Ca, Nov. &c. 1880.
Legal Blanks on Hand.

Criminal Warrants, Land and Mort
gage Deeds, Justice Fifas and Summonses'
Waiver Notes, Summons of Garnishment,
Garnishment Affidavit and Bond, Affidavit
Bond and Attachment, Writ Declaration of
Notes and Accounts and other Legal Blanks
.or sale at the journal Office.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-03-10

A negro house on the place Mr..
j. M. Aiken, near GAINESVILLE, was
burned on the 1st, and a negro child
was burned to death. There were
four children in the house, but Mr..
Akin saw the FIRE and got there in
time to get three Of the children out,
but the oldest, four years old, was
burned go badly that it died in a
short time,
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-03-10

Henry Hill, the negro prisoner
who murdered Mr. Shelton, the jailer
at HartwelI, last week, has been
captured and is now 10 Jail If Judge
Lynch has not already disposed of
him.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-03-10

The two physicians a Westerly,
Rhode Island, having each declared
the other to be 40 ignorsmuS, have
agreed upon public competitive
examination, in which three other
doctors shall be umpires.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-03-10

REMARKABLE INSTANCE OF GRAFT
TUDE.-An old lady, ninety years of
age, very wealthy and full Of wit,
died recently at Fontainehleau, in
France Her will contained this
provision 81 leave to my physir
clan, whose enlightened care and
wise prescriptions have made me live
so long, and that is contained in the
old oakep chest il my boudoir The
KEY of the chest will be found under
the mattress of my bed" The heirs
we're much disturbed, for they FORE
saw q material diminution Of their
share of the property. The fortu-
nate and expectant physician at
length arrived. The notary deliver
ed to him the key of the chest 1t
was opened and found to contain
solely all the drugs and potions, still
intact, which the worthy physician
had given his patient for twenty
years back.