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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-24
HAVOC BY THE FLAMES.
SEVENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS
IN ASHES.

Destructive Fire i'm Georgetown, 5. c.
Two Hundred and Fifty Bales of Cot
ton COnsumed-A List of the Sufferers
and the Losses Sustained - Narrow
Escapes of Steamers.
CHARLESTON, Feb. 23.-The Ne,os and
Courier has adYices of a serious fire
which occurred at Georgetown, S. c.. YES
terday afternoon, and which threatened
the northern part of the town with
destruction. 1t originated in cotton
landed from the steamer Merchant. The
warehouses, offices, the wharf of the Ac-
commodation line, the ice house, the
saloon and fixtures of I. w. Dickinson.
the store and warehouse of p. f. Braswell,
and the millinery store of Miss
II. E. Wesner are all DESTROYED.
The elegant mansion of David Resley.
with nearly all its contents, and the fine
dwellings of W. ID. Morgan, Mrs. Baum
and Mrs. FOrman, were also burned. The
losses and insurance are as follows
David Resley, loss $500, insurance
5000; p. f. Braswell, loss $4,000,
Insurance $4,000; W. d. Morgan,
loss $4,000, insurance $2,100;
Mrs. +. Baum, loss s.. 800. insurance
FAfNNNf wi D bOlitlttH4 IbbS PS.OoUs HO H.
surance; Miss T. Z. Wesner. loss on stock
$4,000, insurance $4,000; T. w. Dickinson,
loss $1,000, insurance ST, 100; b. A. Mum
nerlyn, loss $4,000; insurance $1,000. Two
hundred and fifty bales of cotton We're
burned valued at $4,000, insured. in
Charleston. Ralph Nesbitt lost 600 bushels
of seed rice, valued at $500; Mrs. Adele
p. Aston lost 30 tierces of rice, valued at
5000. Fifty tons of guanO, consigned to
different planters, was destroyed; loss
about $1,000. About 81 800 worth of mer-
chandise, sent by merchants to be shipped
up the river and stored in the warehouse,
was destroyed.
A heavy southwest wind, which was
blowing at the time, gave an impetus to
the flames, which the efforts of the fire.
men were pOwerless to control. The
steam fire engine is disabled, and the hand
engines alone are depended on. The
United States steamer Endeayor is doing
good service upon the burning wharf by
her force pump.
The steamers Merchant and Fearless
were lying at the wharf at the time and
barely escaped burning. The most of the
citizens were at a tournament, about six
miles from town. The entire loss will
ub
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-24
RAILROAD NOTES.
Connection with L. T., Va. & Georgia
system to Vote on a Sale

Connection with L. T., Va. & Georgia
system to Vote on a Sale.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 23.-The managers
of the Kentucky Central Railway have
negotiated bonds to the amount of 81, $780,
900, thus realizing enough to pay the
bonded Indebtedness due on MARCH 1, and
balance sufficient to complete the road
to connect with the Knoxville extension
of the East Tennessee, Virginia and Geor-
gia system.
The DirectGSs of the Cincinnati and
Baltimore Railway Company have called
a meeting of the stockholders for March
Goth, to vote on the contract for the sale
Ofthe road to the Cincinnati, Washington
and Baltimore Railway Company, accord
ing to the terms of agreement for reor-
ganizing the Marietta and Cincinnati
Railway COMPANY
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-24

William j. Coughlin. of Somerville,
Mass, says: SIN the fall of 1876, 1 was
taken with bleeding of lungs, followed by
a severe cough. In 1877 was admitted
to the Hospital. The doctors said 1 had a
hole in my lungs as big as a half dollar.
At one time report went around that /
was dead. l gave up hope, but a friend
told me of DR.. William Hall's Balsam for
the lungs. / got a bottle, when to nv
surprise, commenced to feel better, and
today feel better than for three years
past,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-24
ANOTHER COMET.

Discovered by Professors swift and
Brooks.
ROCHESTER, Feb. 23.-The first comet
Of the year was discovered tonight at SO
O'Clock by Director Swift, of the Warner
Observatory at Rochester, and Prof.
Brooks. of the Red House Observatory at
Phelps, y. Y, about two and One-half de-
grees north of the star Beta Pegasi, in the
constellation Pegasus. 1t has tail about
oEe-baIf degree long, ats motion as slow,
east. right ascension, about 22h. SON., de-
clinatiOn north about 29 degrees. Ihls
makes the eighth comet discovered by DIR.
Swift and the first one found in the new
Warner Observatory. The comet is a
bright telescope one, and promises to be
conspicuous.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-24
Business Failures for the Week.

NEW YORK, Feb. 23.AThe business
failures reported to +. G.. Dun & Cos.
mercantile agency for the past week num-
Der 23O, against 254 the previous week.
OF these 6S occurred in the Western
States, "a in the Southern. So in the Mid
die, y in the New England, s on the Pa
ciHc coast and territories, in New York
city, and % in Canada and in the
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-24

The Lessing Association of Free Think
ers at Leipsic having offered prize OF
five hundred marks for the best essay
upon the ''moral laws based salely upon
unquestionable facts ia the natural ex-
nish guide for human action in the vari-
GUS relations of life" has now awarded
the prize to an instructor of philosophy
at the University of Berlin. The Judges
in this contest We're DR.. Herman Grimm,
DIR. Lasker. and Professor Scherer.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-24
A MEXICAN LOVE TRAGEDY,
Two Lovers Bind Themselves Together
and ,Iumn Into the River.

ana Jump into the River.
NEW YORK, Feb. pa special from
MatamOras, Mexico, says Louis Fernan-
dez and Carmen Lira, aged IS years, af-
ter binding their bodies together with a
rope this morning, sprang
into the Yara river and were
drowned. They had been keeping company
for some time. Last evening Fernandez
called on the parents of the girl to ask her
come with grief the pair determined to
end their lives as above described. Their
bodies were recovered an hour later. The
mother of the girl, after seeing the corpse
of her daughter as it was taken from the
river bound to that of Fernandez, also
sprang into the river and was drowned.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-24
The Tennessee Treasury Investigation.

NASHVILLE, Feb. 23.-The House of
Representatives to-day instructed the in
vestigating committee to inquire as to the
amount of the issue of Bank of Tennessee
notes in possession of eX-Treasurer Polk:
also, what disposition was made of the
fifty thousand dollars of United States
bonds in the Treasury during his admin
istration. The proposition of Polk's at
torney for a compromise will not be enter
tanned until the committee reports,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-24
Last year 2O4 men and ., 5G1 Women undt

Last year 2O4 men and 8, ,561 women under
twenty years of age we're married in New
York city. The proportions are changed
as the years increase. Between thirty-five
and forty the numbers stood $50 to 445;
between fifty and fifty-five, 150 to SO; be-
tween sixty and sixty-five, 45 TO s.; be-
tween sixty-fve and seventy, 10 to 2.
Fourteen men and no women married
after they were seventy, and one man be-
tween. eighty and ninety was reported as
having been mated. FOrty-fve men and
siXty-eight women refused to tell their
ages to the emissaries of the Bureau of
Vital Statistics. Eleven thousand and
eightv-five marriages, however, were re-
corded,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-24
= Placed i'm a Marble Urn.

ROME, Feb. 23.-At four O'Clock ON
Wednesday morning the heart and other
vital parts of the body of the late Pope
Plus TX. were removed with solemn cere-
monies from the crypt where they had
been deposited since his death, and placed
permanently in a marble urn, near the
tomb of the Stuarts.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-24
The Emperor and the Pope.

BERLIN, Feb. I23.-In the Landtag to-
day Her Won Gessler, Minister of Public
Instruction, said there would be a further
interchange of letters between the En-
peror and the Pope. The Pope,s last let
ter had been answered, but courtesy for
bade the publishing of the contents Of the
reply before the Pope received it
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-24

Gas of unprecedented cheapness is to be
made, if the promises of Chicago inyen.
tor are kept. His process of manufacture
is to use up all the usual by-products-
coke, gas tar, ammonia and fixed carbon
IN IN, Ine production Of gas. Nothing will
De leit bug a deliquescent Stag. Every
atom of hydrogen and carbon in the coal
VIII be turned into gas, Instead of ten or
twelve thousand feet of gas from ton of
coal, he viii obtain AZ, 900 feet. Test works
are 70 BE built at EIgin.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-24
The Ohio State MeteOrological Rnrear

The Ohio State Meteorological Bureau
has under Consideration a noval plan for
displaying weather signals for the benefit
of the farmers between Columbus and
Cleveland. Large signals of different
shapes and colors will be placed on each
side of the baggage ear of the passenger
trains of one of the railways 1eading to
Cleveland, so that, when the farmers un-
derstand the code, they can foretell the
probable state Of the weather for twenty
four or thirty-six hours.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-24
Officers Elected.

New ORLEANS, Feb. 23.-At the third
days session Of the Mississippi Valley
Horticultural Society the following Off
GERS were elected for the ensuing year:
Parker Earle, of Illinois, President; S. H.
NOwlin, of Arkansas, Vice President;
VIM. II. Ragan, of Indiana, Secretary; J.
C. Evans, of Missouri, Treasurer. Stand
ing committees We're also appointed.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-24
No ResnIf Yo4

DETROIT, Feb. 23.-The first ballot in
the Legislature for United States Senator
to-day resulted as follows: Chamberlain
Palmer 81, Willis II, Crosby 10, Stock
bridge II, Withey 4, Ferry s.. Stout .,
Hannah 2, Lathrop 1.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-24

If you want to be healthy. How can Won
If your teeth refuse to do their work? Get
them put in order by skillful dentists, and
use sozodont to keep them right. Soz0-
don't is the best preparation for the teeth.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-24
king Alfonso as am lArbiter.

MADRID, Feb. 23.-King Alfonso will
accept the proposal which has been made
to him to act as arbiter between Colon pa
and Venezuela on the question of their
respective boundaries.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-24

BERLIN, Feb. 23.-The first installment
amounting to 1000 marks) of the money
subscribed in Germany was sent to the
United States to-day in aid of the suffer-
ers by the floods in the Ohio valley.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-24
Death of an Editor.

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 23.-Chas. Bleton.
a native of France and a graduate of st.
Cyr, formerly an officer in the French
army, and for the past two years editor of
the New Orleans Bee, died yesterday of
pneumonia, aged 81.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-24

C. Williams, Savannah, Ca, says; Il
have been taking Browns Iron Bitters
for blood diseases, and have been relieved
bY it.p
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-24

J. j.. Daniel, Mcintosh, Ga, says;
Browns Iron Bftters cured nv sister OF
dyspepsia and general debility
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-24
Death of DR. CbadbooTDe.

NEW YORK, Feb. 23.-Dr. Paul A.
Chadbourne, President of the Massachu-
sets Agricultural College and ex-Presi-
dent of Williams College, died to-day.
Why Has White Rose on Golden Tyre
been adopted as a trade mark by j. & E,
Atkinson? Because their Toilet Prepa-
rations have become SO popular that they
are extensively counterfeited,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-24
Empty Syrun Barrels For Sail.

000 SELECTED SYRUP BARRFrs 6 49,.
OVV for cash. Address - one~p
kENNER, TIBBs & EAKIx.
Atlanta, Ca.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-07-07
TELEGRAPHIC JOTTINGs.

The Count De Chambord yesterday re- ceived extreme unction. His condition has not changed since the last reports.
 The funeral of the late Bishop McMullen of the Catholic diocese of Davenport, Ia, took place yesterday at that place.
 Lyman B. Sleeper, an old citizen of Frank lin Falls, N. H., committed suicide by drown- ing yesterday morning from despondency on account of terrible cancerous difficulties.
 A gang of burglars descended on Montpe- Her, Vt., Thursday night: Six residences were entered and about $500 and a number of gold watches and other property secured.
 George Taylor, of Wollaston, Mass, aged fifty three, committed suicide yesterday fore noon by hanging from 8 beam in his coal of fee on Hancock street. Cause mental de- pression, 8 result of continued ill health.
 John Gone, colored. was hanged yesterday at Houston, Texas, for feloniously assaulting a white woman about year ago. The execu- ton was private, the galIows being erected in the tower of the jail building.
 Base ball yesterday: At Detroit. Detroits 8, Buffalos O; at Chicago, Clevelands 3, Chi cagos 2; at Philadelphia, Bostons 13, Phila- delphias 6; at Cincinnati, Oincinnatis B, Baltimores O.; at St. Louis, St. Louis f, Ale ghanys l.
 Metal Exchange at New York yesterday, this being the full number of the second catch arranged to be admitted under the increased initiation fees. A third party will be admit ted in a fortnight at still further advanced fee,
Morning journal and courier., 1883-07-07
NEW ENGLAND.
Vermont.
Ely on the Verge of Eruption.

Ely on the Verge of Eruption.
 ELY, July 6.-The feeling to-day reminds one of a volcano ready to burst. Twenty four hundred dollars have been offered to pay such miners as wish to go away, but the mob refuse, saying it would take too many spokes from their wheel. They will not let the men take it. Nineteen thousand dollars are due the miners. The rumor is believed to be true that the Governor has ordered troops to be ready at Bradford.
 ESSEX JUNCTION, July 6.-The Kingsley Guards of Rutland county, Captain Kinsmsn commanding, arrived at 6:45 p. m. and with Governor Barstow and Adjutant General Peck and Colonel W. L.. Greenleaf of the First regiment started on a special train for Ely and here were joined by forty men of the Barstow Grays of St. Albans.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-07-07
NEW YORK.

Funny Editors JOke-The Texas stft-
 fngs Mans Alleged Duel With a Sculp-
 tor-The Whole Affair Probably Q Stu
 ptd Hoax.
 NEW YORK, July 6.-The report that the little unpleasantness between MT. John Ar moy Knox of the Texas Siftings and MT. Dennis Bunsworth Sheahan, the sculptor, had eulminated in bloody duel upon the sands of Long Island, created ripple of ex- citement in the neighborhood of Union Square this morning. As early as half-past seven o'clock the friends of both parties were haunting the hotels in quest of inform ation. It was found that MT. Knox's bag gage was still in his room, that his bill had not been paid by Mr. A. M. Chase as report ed, and that he was expected to return to the hotel sometime during the day. Some of Knox's friends when questioned replied with a curious look that they .'guessed 1t was all right" and that it twas only one of John Knox's little jokes" In fact the general opinion seemed to prevail that no duel had been fought at all, and that the story of the mvsterious MT. Chase about the deliberate duel with mixed pistols on the coast of Far Rockaway, to which much valuable newspaper space IS devoted, was manufactured out of whole cloth. MT. Attix. Sheahsn's partner, ridiculed the whole atfair as an absurd invention. Mr. Knox, he said. had called yesterday at his office shortly after he had gone out, which would indicate that he Knox) was not on the sands at Far Rockavsy at the time when the duel was said to have taken place. Another reason, Mr. Attix said, for discrediting the duel story is that no one would consent to endanger his life by acting as seconds for either of the combatants. Several of the Texans friends thoueht that the only safe way in which the duel Gould be managed was to have the word IsFire" given by telephone from boat an- chored of shore beyond the range of the firearms of the principals.
 1t is now supposed that the whole affair was stirred up by MT. Knox in the interest of the Texas Siftings. Instead of fighting on Lone Island. the two fre.eaters are generally supposed to have been patronizing few of the places of refreshment in the neighbor- hood of MT. McDermott's house in Jersey City.
 Texas SiftinRs arrived in this city this even inc and registered at the Continental He was interviewed, but declined to either affirm or deny Che report of the duel having been fought to-day.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-07-07
Eather nIoCnrthr Dischargsd.

NEW YORK, July 6.-Rev. Father Flor ence McCarthy, who was accused of 8 crimi- nal assault by Kate Dixon, his servant, was to-day discharged by Justice Naeher of Brooklyn. The court said: 'sWe find that the alleged crime has not been committed and there is no probable cause to believe de- fendant guilty.'' The counter charge of theft made by the priest against the girl was also dismissed.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-07-07
Turkey.
The InsurrectIon In AIbania.

The 1nsurrecti0n In Albania.
 CoNsTANTINoPLE, July 6.-Information from Christian sources corroborates preced- ing dispatches throwing doubt on the state- ments of the Porte as to condition of affairs in Albania. The Catholic tribes have not on- ly not abandoned their fnsurrectionary meas- ures, but have angrily rejected the Sultan's proposals for amnesty and are vigorously prosecuting hostilities, hoping ultimately for independence.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-07-07
A Horrible Death for Laboror.

LEMoNF, July 6.-To- day while 8 large
 number of men were engaged in hoisting
 stone on an eight guy derrick in Walkers quarry three of the guys broke and the stone with the derrick fell with terrific force upon the workmen below. Mat Rogers and Dan Bloomginst were crushed to death. Dennis Rogers was fatally hurt. Seven others were
 seriously hurt. Walker, the proprietor, was within one foot of the spot where the stone fell.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-07-07
Michigan.
Shot Dead by n Woman

ShOG D0HU W w OMlWm.
 OTsEao, LAKE, July 6.-Alexander Perry, fifty years of age, attempted to enter the house of Amos Bidwell while the young wife of the latter was alone. He had visited the house earlier in the day, but had left, after making improper overtures to her. When Mrs. Bidwen observed him approaching a second time she warned him away. He fail ed to regard her warning and she shot him dead with Winchester rifle
Morning journal and courier., 1883-07-07

BEAUTY eGe GPeasS S0asi slin naSPSe BlaoESeads, Gs Pimples, Skin BIemiahes and Infantile Humors, use CUTIoURA SOAP, an exquisite SKIN BEAUTIFHR, and Toilet. Bath and Nursery Sanative.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-07-07
Rooms en suite and single with

fA PARTIES desiring the above will find pleass Ei1 ant home at 131 High street, corner Of Wall. l4 Also unfurnished roons with or withous board. Every modern conyenience. Only three min utea walk from the Gxeeu Best of references giye@ and Ieqzixed my12 t
Morning journal and courier., 1883-07-07
FIRE RECORD.

Manufacturing Building Destroyed,
 ELG1N, July 6.-The building of the Ma. tional Mower company, occupied by Henry Chester, machinery; J. H. Gerry, late of Boston, clock manufacturer W. D. Nioh- oils of Boston, windmill machinery; J. H. Ella, flaming mill, and J. R. Boyle, scroll worker, was burned to the ground to-day. Loss $40, 900, insurance partial J. H. Ger " fell from ladder and broke his leg. The fire was incendiary.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-07-07
State Control of Hoosac TunneI

BOSTON, July 6.-Governsr Butler and council inspected the State railroad and Hoo sac Tunnel to-day and in a subsequent speech at Greenfield the Governor said that so far as he had power he would exert it to obtain consolidated line west and always preserve the States control of the tunnel to the effect that competition in through rates west should never cease,
Morning journal and courier., 1883-07-07
He Lost 1t In Bucket shops.

BOSTON, July 6.-Timothy Smith, aged fifty, cashier and clerk for three years of Moseley $ White, State street brokers, was arrested this morning for the embezzlsment of $17, 300 during the past year. He con- fesses andsays he lost the money in bucket shops. He was discharged years ago for embedding $5,ooO from Hawley, Folsom & Martin of Arch street, but being an able clerk was employed by Moseley & White. He is also said to have made away with &C., GOO left him in trust by friend. Smith has a wife and six children at Jamaica Plains and owns an elegant summer residence at South Scituate. His salary was $2, 900 g year.
 The criminal was held in $25, 900 for the Superior court.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-07-07
Tennessee.
A "a.U&H.- HR.,

A WeNIthy Mam's son.
 NASHVILLE, July GA man named James Byrnes, who came here recently from Louis vile, Ky, where his father resides, was to- day found dead in a well in West Nashville It is thought that he committed suicide, as his clothes were found near the well. He was mouIder at the Phillips Buttorf stoee factory, and was last seen on Wednesday morning. His father is said to be wealthy man and recently sent his son money and clothes.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-07-07
The Death ofRtrdie Pattersop.

NASHVILLE, July 6.-The ooroner's jury over the body of Birdie Patterson did not show whether it was murder or suicide. Cir cumstantial evidence, however, is strong against Boyd, who is in jail. A witness tes- tified that he threatened to kill Birdie some time ago before she should leave or take up with anyone else The verdict was death from unknown hands.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-07-07
Anxiety for . nIissins Yacht.

CHICAGO, July 6.-Great anxiety prevails among the members of the Chicago Yacht elub over the non-arrival of the flagship Cora, which is overdue from Milwaukee. The craft sailed from that city early Wednes- day morning and no tidings of her have been
 received. The Cora had on board Commo-
 dore Fl. E. Griswold, R. F. Fleming, O. T.
 Madsel, George Stiles and Dr. W. B. Blanch- ard. She was in charge of Captain Valance as sailing master and diligent inquiry at the
 life saving stations and tug offices today has failed to elicit information concerning the yacht.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-07-07
The Exploit. of an Aged Rascal.

BRooKLYN, July 6.-The police are search ing for Patrick Monaghan, man of sixty, who is accused of having enticed little girls into 8 den on Pacific street and communicst- ed to them vile disease The oldest of the children, Lizzie Farrel, is only ten years old. Her mother excited the nsighborhood and threatened to have Monaghan Iynched so that he escaped before the affair was known to the police. He will suffer violence if cap- tured in Sleepy Hollow neighborhood.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-07-07
Heavy Loss From a Collision.

CHICAGO, July GA United Press special from Port Hope, Canada, says two freight trains collided on the Grand Trunk railway a short distance from Port Hope station to- day Both locomotives and twelve cars were completely destroyed. All the train hands escaped injury except Brakeman Porter, who is probably fatally injured The loss is $2oO,- GOO,
Morning journal and courier., 1883-07-07
A sheriR Overcome by neat,

BROOKLYN, July 6.-sherif Al Daggett was overcome by heat this afternoon in the office of Counsellor Weinberg, on Fulton street Three physicians were summoned and by the use of restoratives succeeded in rallying him sufficiently to enable him to be removed in an ambulance to his home at 93 Bedford ave- nue. Williamsburg. His condition o-night is precarious