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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-16
COneY Island Races.

COMFY ISLAND, September 15.-At the
Coney Island Jockey Club race course to-
day the weather was cool, the racing good,
and the track in splendid condition.
The first race, for two-year-olds. three
quarters of a mile, Volusia won by half a
length, Flight second, Chickadee third.
Time 1:17H.
The second race, for three-year r-olds and
upwards, one and quarter miles, Warfeld
won by four lengths, Sir Hugh second, Fair
Count third. Time 2:10%.
The third race, handicap sweepstakes,
one and one-half miles, Irish King won by
four lengths, Sly Dance second, Bounce
third. Time 2:39H.
The fourth race, handicap sweepstakes,
heats Of one mile and furlong. The first
heat Gabriel won by head, Mary Anderson
second, Col. Sprague third; time 1854. The
second heat Gabriel won, and the race, by a
length and half, Mary Anderson second,
Col Sprsgue third; time 1885.
The fifth race, a steeplechase, short
course, Ingomar won by eight lengths,
Woodcock second, Joe Hunt third. Time
5.0S
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-16
Florida Affairs,

Mr.. Malony, Of Key West, shipped last week
several fine punches of his dates to the Agri-
cultural Department at Washington.
Large quantities Of young shad are reported
in the St Johns river.
Mr.. J. R. G. Pratt, late of the Palatka Herald,
has taken a position in a Charleston grocery
store. 1t did not take him long to find out that
the road of a Florida journalist was a rough
and Improbable one.
While Mr.. VIM. Boulman, Of Pensacola, was
cutting wood on Saturday evening last, he
made miss-lick and chopped off two of his
toes.
Pensacola Gazette "Mr. Jasper s. Con
zalez, Secretary Of the Beard of Health. re-
ports that the health at quarantine station is
excelient-not a case OF any kind of sickness" D."
Pensacola Gazette: "Just as we go to press
news reaches US that Mr. W. L. Witch, of this
city, and Mr.. A. J. Brown, of Millview. we're
both considerably bruised in a 'run-of' on the
South and North Railroad yesterday. We are
glad their injuries are not serious"
Jacksonville Union: mail messenger service
has been established at Nashua, Putnam coun-
ty, from steamboat landing, route 1907, as
often as required post office has been estab-
lished at Joppa. Alachua county, and one at
Poplar, Suwannee county. Changes in the
star schedule: Sumterville to Leesburg, semi
weekly service, Mondays and Saturdays; Bron-
son 10 Eranklanu every MONDAY; Iampa 10
Barlow, leave Tampa Mondays, Wednesdays
and Fridays, leave Barlow, Tuesdays, Thurs
days and Saturdays The post Office at MaIlard,
Sumter county, has been discontinued. All
mail for that place now goes to Sumterville.
Semi eekly service has been established be-
tween Euchreana and Freeport, the days desig-
mated being Tuesdays and Thursdays"
Under the head OF new dodge" the Jack
sonville Union says: ''Some of the colored la
borers at one of our saw mills adopted a new
method Of obtaining an increase OF salary,
and on last Saturday afternoon they carried
their new plan into effect. 1t is the custom at
the mill to place the salaries of the various en-
ployes in envelopes upon which the name of
the man who is to receive the money is writ
ten. and at o'clock the men form in line and
present themselves at the office window where.
on giving their names, the envelope containing
the money and name given is selected and
handed over. On last Saturday after
noon three of the colored gentry who
were receiving small wages arranged
to enter the line some distance ahead
of three other persons who they knew received
a much larger salary, and on reaching the pay
masters window gave the name of those par
ties. drew their money and left the mill AS
the column moved slowly they had ample time
to get away before their dodge was discov-
cred. Their plan proved successful, and from
last accounts they have not been heard of -
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-16
THE STAR ROUTE CASES.
A General Understanding That the
Trials Will Go On.
Washin0ton Post

The recent conversation between the
President and Postmaster General James,
at the formers bedside at Long Branch,
concerning the saving through the cur
tailment of the star routes, has given
rise to comment. The fact that Colonel
William A. Cook has been spending
some days at Long Branch also, and
that Colonel George Fl. Bliss, of New
York, and Benjamin FL. Brewster, of
Philadelphia, have been appointed to
assist him in prosecuting the cases, re-
vive the belief that there is to be no let
up in the prosecution of the cases. Col.
Cook was in Washington last Sunday
night He admitted the employment of
additional counsel and said better selec.
tons could not have been made. A great
deal of work had been performed, and
there was still great deal to do. The
Attorney General, he said, would not
take prominence in the prosecution of
the star route cases, though he would
be kept posted as to their progress. The
usage of the office held by the Attorney
General and the pressure of regular bust
ness upon his time would not permit him
to attend the trials regularly. Colonel
Cook added that the cases would be pre-
sented to the grand jury probably in
about three weeks; there would certainly
be no unnecessary delay in the prosecu-
ton.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-16
Differences Adjusted,

NASHVILLE, TENN, September 15.-At a
meeting of stockholders of the North Caro-
lima and st. Louis Railroad Company yes
terday semi-annual dividend Of three per
cent. was declared, payable on October 1st,
transfer books closing September 20. This
meeting was the contamination of an
agreement made In New York between the
majority and minority Of the stockholders
resulting in the election of three gentle
men to represent the minority of the stock
holders, the new directors being Henry
Earle, of New York, A. s. Colyar and Thos.
O'Connor, of Nashville. The pending suits
brought by the minority of the stockholders
were amicably adjusted and dismissed.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-16
KENTUCKY'S CROPS.
Report of the Commissioner of Ag-
r1culture.

LOUISVILLE, September 15.-The State
Commissioner of Agriculture, in his re-
port for August, just issued, says: "The
rains were in time to greatly benefit the late
corn. Reports from all quarters bear
more cheerful face, not only
as regards the late corn, but
the entire crop of the State. In most To-
calities where an early stand was obtained
pretty fair crops have been raised. Some
counties have suffered much more than
others. Indeed, in many of them the crop
approaches a total failure, while in
others fair crops have been
raised. The mountain counties
have been exempted in large degree from
the effects of the drought. There are fair
crops also in Garrard, Madison, Mercer,
Boyle, and along the waters of the Green
river and in some other localities. To sum
up the whole matter, the corn crop of the
State is nothing near so bad as
it looked to be some weeks since,
with the exception of some locali-
a marvellous change in the tobacco crop.
However, in any event, It cannot but be
light and inferior. So far the indications
are not favorable for large fall crop Of
grass. 1t is time enough yet, IL bless
ed with abundant rainfalls, for a full
crop to be grown. Complaint is gen.
eral that the clover sown last
spring succumbed to the drought. There
was not as much hemp sown this year as
last, and, of course, much of 1t was so
checked 10 it's growth by the drought that
it is below the average height. l have sell
dom seen finer or heavier lint"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-16
by EDXUND L. wHATLEY.

The following poem first appeared, we
believe, in the Field and Fireside, an able
literary journal published at Augusta, Geor-
ola. during the late war, and was written as
a New Years offering for that paper, by
Rev. E L. Whatley, its then literary editor,
and the father OF our fellow citizen, J. Law
ton Whatley, Esq. As It breathes in every
line the inspiration Of that evsntful time, it
will be read with interest:
A b.ppv New Year! come, I come!
With IN thunder Of cannon, the roll Of the
The whistle OF bullets. the shrieking of Shells
The Haunting Of banners the tolling Of bells,
The sacking OF cities, the plundering of farms
The profaEing OF churches. the clanklng OF
arms,
The carnage Of battle, the funeral pail.
Grim Mars and his imps holding high carnival
A happy New Year, All hail. all hail,
To the soldiers death-rattle, the widows wild
The orphans meek cry for clothing. for bread,
To the tear that is sAdrOpped for the loved and
the dead
To the bones which lie bleaching on glory s
red plain,
To the earth-mounds which cover the hosts of
the slain;
Let the rattle, the wall, the CRY and the tear,
The bones and the mounds NIL hgn 70 the
cheer
A happy New Year! Fresh tidings I bring!
or conflict defeat, and Of victory / sing;
OF the shrOud and the flag, the chaplet of fame,
OF heroes on marble who carve a name!
A vision Of carnage looms up to my sight;
The daylight is clouded-it turns into night,
A pale horse appears and flame in his breath
Woe. woe! to the world! His rider IS Death
4 happy New Year From the land peace is
taken:
For the field of fierce, strife is the home field
fOrsakens
Into swords beat the ploughshares, make
pruning hooks spears;
fears.
Drive on with the charge! on the bayonets
dash.
Give no heed to danger-spurn the rifles sharp
flash;
Crush bones-gush blOOd-fall heroes, fall
Overturn, Overturn, overturn ALI
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-16

Mrs. Dobbins was thrown out of the wagon
and received q terrible cash on the head over
the right eye about five inches long, cutting
clean to the skull; she also received another
cut about four inches long on the left side of the
head. She was carried home unconscious and
has remained so up TO the time we obtained
our information. She is 10 q precarious con-
dition. DR.. j. N. Moore is the attending ply
sician. The baby she had in her arms, she
pitched out into the road, and when it was
subsequently picked up, it was found to have
sustained no injury. Mr.. Dobbins escaped
with only few bruises"
Atlanta Post-AppedI: 'sThe presence of Ger
tain loan companies which are proposing to
place money on the farms Of our people calls
for a consideration of the question whether 1T
is best to borrow money or not. It is stated,
with good deal Of JUNCTION, that an opportu-
nifty Is offered to people to borrow money on
their real estate at eight per cent. il terest. No
mention is made Of the fees and expenses
charged, which, for the first year at least, run
the interest up TO from twelve to eighteen per
cent. Neither is the manner of making the
lender secure spoken of. These loan men are
bound TO secure every advantage, and hence
when they have an individuals money they
take deed to his real estate and give him a
title bond, so conditioned that when he pays
the loan, with interest, cost, etc, he will re-
ceive deed to his property. While this may
be very necessary step for the money lender
it leaves the borrower in very ugly situation.
If any accident shall happen to the borrower
his property will surely go 20 the lender and he
will be ruined"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-16
Mr.. James Interview with the Presi-
dent-His Own Account of 1t.
Neto York Tribune.


"It had been arranged that Secretary
Hunt and | should visit the President
yesterday, but when we arrived at his
cottage we found that he was asleep,
and, of course, we would not allow him
to be disturbed. This morning, how
ever, accompanied by Secretary VIM
dom, left the West End Hotel shortly
after o'clock, for Elberon Mr.. Window
had seen the President on Saturday; so,
when we reached the cottage, he did not
enter. Mrs. Garfield was in the sick
room when | entered it; no one else was
there during my visit. The appearance
of the President is much better than
expected. His eye is undimmed, his
voice is strong, and his grasp firm.
The President had been told that was
coming, and when / got to his bedside
he grasped my hand warmly. / was
anxious not to excite him and said:
"'Mr. President, | came to say good
morning, to say that everything is all
right in the department, and then to say
good bye
"'No, no; sit down, said the Presi.
dent, still holding my hand, and shaking
it warmly. How about the expenses Of
the department Are you still cutting
them down and is the department
running smoothly?'
Mr.. President, 1 replied, we have
advanced on the Chicago platform in the
Post Office Department, for we have
put civil service reform in force. No
appointments of any note are being
r.ade now. We only fill vacancies
caused by death and resignation, and I
don't see that the service is suffering in
consequence
'"The President smiled at my remark
and then asked:
"'How much has been saved on the
star routesY
"'About $1,5OO,0OO a year. I an
swered, and added, Attorney General
MacVeagh and myself are still at work
carrying out your Instructions
''The President replied, with smile,
That's all right; I'm glad to hear it,
and l bade him goodbye"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-16
ALMosT As coon al A DIXIE NOVEL.

ALMOST AS COOP AS DINE NovEL.-At
Underhill, Vermont, last Friday night two
lads went up Mansfield Mountain trout fish
ing, and spent the night in q room on the
second floor of the halfway house, which
was otherwise empty. During the night
they were awakened by the sound of some
animal scrambling in at a lower window.
Then came sounds OF scratching and clat-
tering on the floor below, and then upon
the stairs. Thoroughly alarmed, and hav-
ing no weapons but pocket knives, the boys
now sprang up and drew their bed across
the door to bar the entrance. The creature
came to the door, and, after snutting ct the
cracks, endeavored to push 1t open. The
BOYS crowded the beadstead against the
door with all their might, but were In a way
to be overpowered when, finding their
voices, they shouted loudly at the intruder.
He took fright at the shouting and scuttled
down stairs and out at the window. The
morning light showed scratches on the door
aud window castings, and outside the win
dow the plain tracks of a bear in the soft
earth.-BoStoa Post.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-16
FIRE AND PANIC.
A Destructive COnfagatIon at Kan
sas city.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, September 15.-A fire
broke out In the main hall at the fair
grounds yesterday afternoon. The hall
was densely crowded, and panic ensued.
All efforts to quiet the terror-stricken peo-
pie were of no avail. and In their confusion
they rushed hither and thither, trampling
each other down, whiIe shrieks and groans
filed the afr. The fire spread rapidly, and
the main building with contents was soon
reduced to ashes. The flames leaped across
the avenue to Newspaper Row, quickly
swallowing up the building of the Times,
Journal and Mail. The flames next attacked
the grand stand, on which twelve thousand
people were seated watching the races, and
it was entirely consumed. No lives were lost
as far as known. The loss is put at fifty
thousand dollars.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-16
Mason TO be COurtmartfaIed.

NEW YORK, September 15.-Gen. Han
cock has received from Washington copy
of the charges and Specifications made
against Sergeant Mason, the artilleryman
who recently attempted to kill Charles J.
Guiteau. The charges are as follows:
First. Conduct prejudicial to good order
and military discipline, the specification be-
ing that Mason, while on duty as a guard,
discharged his musket without good cause.
Second. Attempting to shoot prisoner
without orders from his superior officer,
and at time when the prisoner was not at
tempting to escape.
1t has been decided to have the court mar
tial sit at Washington.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-16

INaToN, D. c., September 15.-Indications
for Friday:
In the South Atlantic States, cloudy
weather, with rain, southerly winds, station
arY or higher barometer and temperature.
In the Middle Atlantic States, cloudy,
rainy weather, southerly veering to,westerly
winds, lower barometer, stationary or higher
temperature.
In the East Gulf States, clearing weather,
preceded by rain, winds shifting to norther-
", higher barometer, stationary or lower
temperature.
In the West Gulf States, fair weather,
northerly winds, stationary or higher ba-
rometer and temperature.
In the Ohio valley and Tennessee, partly
cloudy or cloudy weather, with rain, variable
winds, shifting to colder northerly, higher
barometer.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-16
RED TAPE IN GREAT BRITAIN.
How a Guard Room Clock was @1r@
cumIocuted in the war OHce.
London Correspondence Philadelphia Tsls-
OraDh

London Correspondence Philadelphia Tsle-
graph.
A funny story is going the rounds
illustrative of the red tape policy OBJ
tanning in military circles 1t is such an
anecdote as would have delighted poor
Charles Dickens, and serves to remind
us that his account of the circumlocu-
tion Office, with its "how-not-to-do-it"
tactics, was not so overdrawn after all.
A guard room clock at Aldershot sud-
denly took it into its head to stop tick
ing, and requisition for its repair was
sent to the barrackmaster, who passed it
on to the ordnance storekeeper, from
whom it went, first to the Quartermaster
General, and then to the General COM
manding. who forwarded it to the Horse
Guards, whence it was relegated to the
War Office, where, after two or three
weeks delay, the required repairs were
was conveyed to the camp a question
arose as to under what vote the expense
estimated under $2-was to be charged,
each department positively declining to
be responsible for the amount. The
question was gnally referred to the Treas
ury, involving an important constitu-
tional principle, and after further delay
OF three months, it was settled that the
Barrack Department should bear the ex-
pense. But this was not an end of the all
important question. The correspond
ence was transferred to Aldershot, and,
after few weeks, a requisition for
transport was addressed to the command
ing officer of the military train, who
sent four-horse ammunition wagon,
under the escort of a Sergeant and eight
soldiers, to fetch the clock, which,
however, it turned out had been removed
soon after the original requisition had
been sent in. by some meddling ignora-
mus totally devoid of appreciation for
official routine. The correspondence
over this precious clock had lasted eight
months, and it is calculated that the post
age stamps and stationery, etc.,
alone used over the affair would
have paid for ten new clocks;
while, reckoning the time Of
the officials employed over the matter as
worth their usual rate of pay, it would
have been a saving to the country had
the AldershOt authorities erected clock
factory on purpose to repair the offend
ing timepiece. All this reads like one Of
Mark Twain's exuberant bursts of fancy,
or leaf out of one of Charles Dickens
novels, highly exaggerated; but it is all
sober fact, and such idiotic performances
on the part of grown men may well make
Englishmen wonder how the British
military organization would stand the
sudden strain put upon it by a foreign
invasion. Already the bitterly learned
lessons of the Crimea seem in danger of
being forgotten.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-16
Death of a BaIuImore Bonnparte,

BALTIMORE, September 15.-Mrs. Susan
Nav RonaCarte. widow of the late Jerome
Napoleon Bonaparte, died at her residence
in this city this morning of paralysis, with
which she was stricken about two
months ago. Mrs. Bonaparte was
daughter of Benjamin Williams, a
prominent merchant of Baltimore,
and formerly of Roxbury, Mass. She was
born in Baltimore and in November, 1926, she
married Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, who
was the only son of Jerome Napoleon,
brother of the Emperor Napoleon l., and
Elizabeth Patterson. She leaves two sons,
the eldest Col. Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte,
a graduate of West Point and who served
with DISTINCTION in the French army, and Mr..
C. ]. Bonaparte,a q well known lawyer Of
thfs cfty
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-16
THE GEORGIA PACIFIC.
How the DanvIIle Syndicate Ac.
quIred It-Current Talk Corrected.
Mem YORK ,Eo,.,,a.rlof Comnaerce.

Ne1o York Jo,tr1adIof Commerce.
Respecting the recent transactions
mentioned in the press of recent date,
by which the Richmond and Danville
Extension Company acquired certain
properties lately held by General Cor
don and associates, Major E. G. Gordon,
who is now in the city, says there is no
truth in the statement that they had re-
ceived $750,000 in cash and large
amount of the Richmond and Danville
Extension Company's stock in addition.
He (GordoD) partly owned several valu-
able railroad charters leading from At
lanta, Ga, to the Mississippi river, in
cluding fifty miles of graded roadbed,
together with over 100, 900 acres of valu-
able coal and iron lands in the great
Black Warrior coal fields of Alabama,
acquired at great cost to themselves, and
not for the small considerations indi.
Gated by the already published state
ments. In addition to these they had
secured large donations from cities,
towns and counties in Mis-
sissippi, and altogether they trans
ferred values several times larger than
the amount received by them from the
Richmond and Danville Extension Com
pany. They were proceeding to build
the line of the Georgia Pacific them
selves, but as the Richmond and Dan
vile system had determined also to press
a line westward from Atlanta to the Mis-
sissippi river, the Gordon party accepted
a proposition from the Richmond and
Danville Extension Company by which
their property was transferred to the
Richmond and nanville Extension Com
pany, the Gordons being allowed to
subscribe and pay for the stock of the
Richmond and Danville Company as all
other subscribers Major Gordon fur.
ther stated that the reason for subscrib-
ing to the Richmond and Danville Ex-
tension Company is from the conviction
that the building of the Georgia Pacific
in connection with the Danville Railroad
system will develop the richest iron and
coal region in the world, and make the
Georgia Pacific Railroad one OF The best
paying investments in the South.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-16


MARyIN's MAIL.-"Gen. B. @. Nor
ton" alias Thomas a. Marvin, in jail at
Richmond, Va, charged with forgery
and bigamy, under date of September 7.
addressed communication to Postmas-
ter General James requesting him to
issue an order to secure Morton his right
to the facilities of the mail the same as
TO any other citizen until such time as
he was legally deprived of the same by
legal process. Judge A. A. Freeman, As
sistant Attorney. General for the Post
Office Department, decided yesterday that
Morton's mail should be delivered to his
agent or attorney in Richmond, and that
he should haye the privileges he asks
for. The Judge of the Hastings Court
at Richmond had decided that Morton's
mail should be inspected.