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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-25
THE BRITISH EXPEDITION STARTS,
FORTY YEARS IN AN ASYLUM.
Death of an Old-Time Pennsylvania
Politician.

Death of an Old-Time Pennsylvania
Politician.
Samuel DOnaghy, once a weIl-knOwn
citizen of Pennsylvania, a prominent
Democratic politician during the Tippe-
canoe-and-Tyler-toO campaign of 1S40
and warm personal friend of Martin
Van Buren, and of James Buchanan, says
Wheeling W. Va. special to the New
York Times, died in the State Insane
Asylum at Weston Friday, aged so
years. Mr.. DOnaghy was well known all
over the State, among people who have
visited the asylum, as the most peculiar
and eccentric among the many un-
fortunate persons confined there.
and at times many interesting reminis
cences of bygOne events have been
CLEANED from him. Born in Harrisburg
Donaghy early removed to.Troy, where he
learned the trade of coach painting. Re
turning to his native State about 1925 he
plunged into politics, and in 1910 he went
to Missouri at the urgent request of his
party. where he made many speeches dur
ing the progress of the canvass. While
speaking at Jefferson City the platform
gave way and he received severe injuries.
He recovered after a long illness, but his
mind was affected, and he was sent to the
virginia asylum. at StauntOn. being
transferred to Weston on the completion
OF the asylum there. He counted among
his personal friends many of the most
noted men of the country at the time of
his misfortune, but he had long since been
forgotten by the masses.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-25
oGLETREE THE BOY sTEALER
In Jail for Criminal Assault on a
Woman.

There is in the county Jail Of Neshoba
county, Miss, says a jackson special to
the New York Times of Feb. 22d, man
with a strange history. Six months ago
he appeared in that county and attracted
attention from his solitary habits. He
only seemed to court the society of little
boys, several of whom told strange sto-
ries about him. One night the house of a
farmer, who was absent from home, was
entered by this man, who committed an
assault upon a lady who was there In the
darkness he escaped undetected. Search
was made by the inturiated inhabitants for
the criminal, when the recluse exhibited
greater signs of fear than were ever no.
ticed before. He was arrested and brought
before the injured woman, and from his
voice she identified him as the man who
had assaulted her On the way to the Jail
the Sheritf's posse met a party of Alabama
immigrants, one of whom, looking at the
prisoner. exclaimed: "Hello, Ogletree.
how came you here?" The prisoner hung
his head in shame and denied that his
name was Ogletree, but the whole Alaba-
ma party united in declaring his identity
with the famous boy stealer who for six
weeks kept the borders of Georgia and
Alabama In ferment over his deeds. He
was first heard of in Atlanta, where he
induced a newsboy named TiltOn to go
with him cut of the city. He cut off the
boys ears for the purpose, he said, of
identifying him in a crowd. A party of
men got on his trail in Paulding county,
but he took to the woods and escaped.
The man was next heard of in HaralsOn
county, Ga, where he approached the
farm house of Mr.. Buchanan, cOaXed
away two children and kept them tied out
in the woods for several davS visiting
them when it suited his pleasure. He
Joined in several of the searching parties
for the purpose of misleading them, and
finally, when he saw they were in the
neighbOrhOOd of where the children were,
he took an abrupt departure. BY this
time the county was getting stirred up,
He was next heard from near the junction
of the State lines of Alabama, Georgia
and Tennessee, where he enticed away a
9-year-Old boy named Joe Allen, white.
He was no more than day out when de-
tectives and relatives of the boy struck
the mans trail. From the Tennessee line
down the Georgia line to Newman, nearly
300 miles, through forest, over mountain
and across rivers the chase was kept up,
but he finally eluded his pursuers.
About three weeks from the date of the
first alarm wild looking man was seen
near a farm house in COWeta county tv-
ing a little boy to tree. The man went
up to the house and asked for food. While
standing on the door step a pursuing
party was observed coming in hot chase
Ogletree started across the field alone,
and the pursuers, glad to rescue the boy,
who was nearly dead with fright, fingered
with him. Qgletree escaped and was not
again heard from until he committed the
crime for which be is now in prison. His
trial will come off on March H.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-25
FIRE, DEATH AND PANIC.
TERRIBLE SCENES AT A NTICHT-
GAN CONFEDERATION.

several Lives Reported Lost but Only
One Body Yet Recoverable Fatal
Leap for Life from a Third Story
Four Fatally Injured-Fires Else
where
JACKSON, MICH, Feb. PA dlsas-
trous fire broke out here this morning and
| destroyed the Union Hotel, block occu-
pied by the Union Hotel, the Union Hall
Theatre, Waldron s Curtis drug store,
the Jackson Savings Bank, c. NJ. ElliotHs
grocery store, and n. II. Eckler's saloon,
together with five frame buildings. The
block was owned by d. b. Hubbard & Co.
The loss will exceed $4,000.
THE CASUALTY LIST.
Several lives are reported to have been
lost but as yet only one body, that of
Charles Cornell, crippled soldier, has
been recovered. -Four other persons were
so severely injured that they will die.
James Hernes, of Cleveland. in at
tempting TO jump from third-story win
dow, struck the telegraph wires and was
WhirIed around in such a manner as to
strike on his head and shoulders on the
pavement.
FIERCE FLAMES AMONG THE CEDARs.
GALVESTON, Feb. PA special from
Temple under date of the 23d inst. saws,
"A tremendous fire is raging among the
cedars at the falls on Leon river, and un g
less there is fall of rain soon the greater
part of the timber in that section will be
destroyed"
FURNITURE MANUFACTORY BURNED.
kEENE, n. H., Feb. 24.-The Ashuelot
mills, owned by Gov. Hale, burned last
nlght with a quantity Of manufactured
furniture. The loss is 100000. Seventy
tlve hands are thrown out of work.
STORE AND A SALOON BrrRNFp
GALVESTON, Feb. PA special from
COrsieana says: "MallOry & Aliens
clothlng store and a saloon adjoining
were destroyed by fire this morning. Two
other building were badly damaged. The
total loss is $4,000. Mallory Il Aliens
loss is $25, 900.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-25
\ STORY or THE OHIO FLOOD
How a Mother Saved Her Children by
Clinging for Three Hours to a Tree.

How Mother Saved Her Children by
Ciinging for Three Hours to Tree.
Captain Dick Morrow, of the steamer
Nesbit, says the st. Louis Globe Demo
erat, reports the drowning Of a man and
child in Indian creek, just above Clifton.
and the miraculous escape of a woman
and two children. 4 man and his wife
and four children had started in a canoe
to make their way out of the high water
caught by the overflow of Indian creek
uD the Tennessee, when, in passing down
the creek. the canoe struck a tree and
threw all ofthe occupants into the water
The current was very swift. and the
father and one child were soon swept be-
meath, but the mother caught two of the
children and saved them and herself. In
falling from the boat the woman was
thrown against a small tree and around
this she wrapped her arms, with child
in each hand, and saved her life and two
children, one babe and the other only a
year or two old.
AS she chung 70 the tree she cried Justify
for help, and fortunately vas heard by
some parties, who rescued her, though
she was not lifted from the water for two
hours and half after her periIous posi-
ti0n was discovered. The woman was
saved just in time, as she could have held
on to the tree but few minutes longer,
her strength being about gone.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-25
BLAINE's CHANCES.
"What are Blaine,s chances .,
SOUTH AMERICAN NOTES.

The Rebellion in Peru-Assassination
I'm BuenOs Ayres-An Argentine For
ger.
Eighty Montoneros, says a Panama
telegram of the goth inst, occupy the
capital of the Peruvian province of Yam
yos. They are committing many atroci-
ties, Several citizens have been assas-
sinated. The Montoneros also occupv
Canete.
The Ndctondl, of Lima, states that Puca
has withdrawn his troops from Salayerrv
and Pacasmayo, and is concentrating
them at TrujillO. He has issued an ad-
dress to the citizens of Trujillo and the
province of Libertad, proclaiming him.
self political chief Of the northern depart.
ments. He denies the report of his defeat
at LlOllon, saying that the proof of his
success is his occupation OF TruiillO.
A dispatch from Valparaiso says that a
collision occurred W ednesday between the
Santiago express and a freight train.
Three persons were killed and several in
jured.
At public meeting held in the Teatro
Nacional, Buenos Ayres, resolution
was unanimously adopted declaring
that political assassination ought to be
considered as murder and punished like
that crime;
The Argentine forger Lamotte was ap-
pretended Tuesday night at Ell Tigre. In
addition to the losses of the Buenos Ayres
Provincial Bank, the Banco Nacional
loses over $4,000 by Lamotte's forgeries.
The governments of Nicaragua and
Costa Rica have made satisfactory ar
rangements for the payment of Costa
Rican cablegrams via Nicaragua. They
have also arranged for the better mainten-
ance Of the Costa Rican land lines.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-25
FLOODS OF THE FUTURE.
What the Forest Denuding Process ha
Done and viii DO-The Ohio Flood

What the Forest Denuding Process has
Done and viii DO-The Ohio Floods
will Grow Worse and Worse
MIR. Felix Oswald, of Cincinnati. writes
to the Enquirer of that city, showing, by
analogy and comparison, the cause of the
floods in the Ohio, and predicting that
they will grow worse each year unless the
present policy of destroying the forests of
the country is stopped. The effect of this
deforestatiOn, he said, can easily be
shown by very simple experiment.
Cover table with a thick stratum of
spOngy moss and pour on gallon of water.
The water VIII ooze through and trickle
down the table, but very slowly, and the
process of filtration will continue for a
long time; four hours after, the table will
still be dripping wet. Then remove
the moss and empty the same gallon-pot
on the centre of the table. This time the
deluge will pour down in a quick rush,
and four hours later the table will be az
dry as if nothing had happened. With the
same difference of result, a rain-shOwer
acts on wooded and treeless country
The forest, with its network of moss and
roots, absorbs nine-tenths of the moisture
and yields it only slowly in brooks and
perennial springs. A naked hill permits
it to pour down in rapid deluge, brooks
swell to torrents and rivers to seas: while
in the summer time those same rivers
shrink to shallow creeks; their head
waters in the treeless mountains have
run dry.
In Italy, where the forests were de-
stroyed years ago, the effect is very con-
splcuous. In consequence of the destruc-
tion of the woodlands in the mountainous
regions in which the river 70 rises, that
stream has wasted its own shores and
stripped the Southern Alps of 800, 900, ,OOO.-
600 cubic yards of earth and pebbles. i'm
pOverishing the land and filling its own
bed, so that while, formerly, a weeks rain
was requisite to flood the river valley. a
single thunder shower now frequently ac-
cOmplishes the same result.
If the def0restation OF the country in
which the PO rises produces this result.
what must be the effect of the destruction
Of forests in the mountainous regions
where the Ohio has its sources, a region
ten times as great?
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-25
A Living Death
Ci7eiRadti Commercial Gasetts.


A horrible discovery was made one
morning recently in a bOx-car on the G.
n. o. and T. p. Railway. The car wa,
what is known as boarding-car. used fol
section men, and had been side-tracked
for several weeks in the yard at Ludlow
Ky. 1t was locked, and an emplove baf
reason to open it, when he was nearly
overwhelmed by horrible stencil issuine
from the inside. Investigation discovered
a negro, who was still alive, but whose fee
and legs were literally decompOsed. Medi.
cal assistance was at once summoned
but a careful Investigation was for the
time impossible. The sufferer told the
following story: He had entered the caI
one night several weeks ago to sleep, and
While there was accidentally locked in
The weather was very cold, and he lroze
both legs, and thus lay for two whole
weeks in a CHASTITY condition, his legs
slowly Fotting away, and still he was un-
able to secure his release. He had chunk
OF meat which he gnawed at intervals.
and thus managed to keep himself alive,
The man was still conscious when found.
He was removed by train to Cincinnati
for treatment
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-25

ana Work OF relaylng will commence shortly
I On every side we notice some Improvement
going on and preparations being made for the
erection Of new buildings
The manufacture Of perfumes from Florida -
grown flowers bids fair to become an evfen-
sive industry IN the State. One firm al Jack
sonvllle Is already at work. 1t is reported
tnat gentleman from South Florida has pat
ented process for the utilization OF the
bloom OF the mangrove and the sapodilla, and
10 extract the sweet fragrance from the cas-
saya plant as well. This will come into com
petition with the firm in the more northern
portion Of the State, and as the South Florida
parties propose placing a large capital in the
business II Is barely possible that an unlocked
Tor competition in the manufacture of ex-
tracts VIII be the result.
Thursday night, while the steamer Chatta-
ho0chee was en- route from Sanford to Jack
sOnyille, a state-rOOm, OccHped by Messrs
SAKE and Seickle, was entered and the latter
gentleman robbed Of $3.50. Mr.. SAKE took the
preCautiOn TO fold up his vest on retiring and
place it under his head. and consequently lost
nothing. although IN the pockets of the vest
was a 1ne gold watch and $50. Mr.. Seickle
lald MS clothing on chair when retiring. in
the pockets OF which was $500 and check for
$50. The key to the room exhibited plainly
the marks Of pair Of burglars nippers
Where IT had been grasped from the outside
and turned until the door unlocked The
staIe-ro0m being near the wheel of the
steamer, the noise OF unlocking the door
could not have been heard bv the inmates
from the room during the night, but thought
ne was the passenger occupying it. No clue
10 the robbery has been found.
The CoHstitUtiOH's man about town saws:
MIR. II. b. Plant has been the developer of
FLORIDA, doing more than the English lords or
Eastern capitalists, with less style or display.
His boats ply the rivers, his roads run the
ridges, and he carries 80 per cent. of the fruit
crop. He has just bought steamer for the
cOastng trade TO the south Of Tampa, and
VIII put on a iast line of mail steamers be-
tween Tampa and Havana. A passenger NAV
then start from Havana and never leave the
boats or ears owned by this one line till he
reaches Norfolk. I doubt if there is a cleaner
or longer transportation property owned by
any man IN the world. As the head of the
southern Express Company he has relations
with almost every road in the country, and
many people think the first check given TO
Victor Newcomb's phenomenal career with
the Louisville and Nashville property came
from trying to throw the Southern Express
Company of his lines, and thus inviting the
opposition Of Plant. Plants wealth is not less
than SZ0,0JO,0O0 and perhaps twice as much.
lie j. very reticent and remarks that he had
been rich man long time before anybody
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-25
DELICATE LUNGED OYSTERS.
How the Fog Sets the BivaIyes Cough
ing and Sneezing


The report having been circulated, saws
the Philadelphia Times, that the recent
foggy weather had injured the oysters. a
reporter asked a Sansome street dealer il
it were true.
The fog made them weaker, Of course. y
was the answer. There's fog when the
air Is warmer than the water: so. when
the oysters come out of the cold water
INTO the warmer air it enfeebles them.v
The man behind the counter leaned his
white apron against it and shook his
oyster knife for emphasis as he said.
after his boss went OUT
''It5 all very well for him to talk; he's
interested; but some o. them oysters amt
got over cOughin' and sneezin' yet since
that muggy weather. Why, lection night
there came party in here to eat out a bet
and that big show oyster there, on ton o,
the pile, l thought she'd cough her shell
off. One of the party said, It's Scotch
snuff makes her cough but all the other
oysters began coughIn', too, and the party
went out. The little oysters have all got
the whoopin' cough and Group. They
make the worst noise. There's six old
ones died last night of pneumonia and,
give us less guff," said the proprietor.
who had returned
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-25
A Mexican Consul -GeneraIship.

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 24.-Late adyices from
the City Of Mexico are to the effect that
the Mexican Government cOntemplates
the establishment of COnsul-General,
ship in the Mississippi Valley, with head.
quarters at st. Louis or Chicago, and
that the name of John t. Cahill, the pres
ent Mexican Consul at this city, is favor
ably mentioned in connection with the DO.
sition.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-25
CONGRESS AND ITS WORK.
SOME OF THE THINGS 1T HAS
DONE AND WHAT 1T WILLDO.

PIeurO Pneumonia and Money for the
Middies Still on the Tapis-The Relief
of the Merchant Marine-The BANKING
Bill Ahead of the Senate.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24-Iu the House
of Representatives two important meas
ures, the pleuro-pneumonia bill and the
naval appropriation bill, discussion of
which was entered upon in committee ofthe
whole two or three weeks ago, still await
final action. One or both will, it is be-
lieved, be passed during the present week.
These measures out of the way, the bill
for the relief of American shipping. which
is next in point Of importance before the
committee Of the whole, may be taken up
for consideration. Only one of the thirteen
regular annual appropriation bills, the
military academy bill, has yet been acted
upon by the House. Several special ap-
preparation bills, namely, the Greely re-
lief bill, that for the relief of the flood
sufferers, the tobacco tax rebate bill and
the bill for the education of Indians have
been passed.
Among the important measures OF gen.
eral legislation acted upon by the House
are the bill providing for the forfeiture of
the land grants of the Texas Pacific and
several Southern roads, the Fitz John
Porter bill and the measures creating sew
eral new judicial districts.
During the week the Committee on
Foreign Affairs will report adversely on
Representative Brumm's resolution reIa-
tive to Mr.. Hewitt's visit TO Minister
West 1t is understood that Mr.. Hewitt
VIII make sta tement before the House
when the resolution is reported.
Hha fri L. 8 &l.. I II
extension OF the bonded whisky period
will make an effort to have that mea-
sure considered this week.
EulOgies in memory of the late ReDre-
sentative Haskell will be delivered Thurs
day.
The members of the Ways and Means
Committee say that they will have the
tariff bill prepared so that it may be re-
ported to the House within ten days.
IN THE SENATE.
In the Senate the bill to provide for the
construction of additional steel cruisers
for the navy has been made the special
order for Monday at O'Clock. Inasmuch.
however, as the banking bill was not dis
posed OF last week, the special order will
doubtless be set aside temporarily. It
was supposed that discussion of the
banking bill would be concluded
last Thursday, and it appeared
on adjournment that it had nearly run it's
course. 1t is not improbable. however.
that the effect of the rest of the three davs
may manifest itself in the renewal of ef-
forts to amend the measure, and that the
debate may run along for several davs.
Financial and economic discussions are
full OF destinations, for the Senators. and
rarely or never come to a close until by
unanimous consent the time is arbitrarily
liked in advance beyond which they shall
not extend.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-25

1t is fact which can be proven by a
single trial, that the flavor given to cakes,
puddings, creams and sauces by DR.. Prices
Special Flavoring Extracts, are as natu-
raj as the fruit from which they are made.
DR.. Prices for cream, cakes, etc, are as
much unlike, in delicate flavor and
strength, the cheap extracts, as can pos
sibly be imagined.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-25
German Americans in the Fatherland,

LONDON, Feb. PA report sent from
Berlin to the Paris lNorninq Ne,cS. that
haturalized German-Americans who re-
turn to Germany are subjected to military
duty, is pronounced to be absolutely un-
true. 1t is pointed out that it has been a
long, long time SINCE the United States
Government had cause to complain of
such treatment, which would be yiolas
tion of the treaties.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-25
Back Boys Quit Work

WoONsoCKET, H. l., Feb. 2l.-Back
boys, numbering thirty, struck at the
Blackstone Cotton Factory at Blackstone,
Mass, yesterday, on account Of a reduc-
tion in wages from 45 cents to 80 cents
per day. Their action caused the shut
ting down of the whole machinery, and
the throwing Of 500 Operatives out of en-
DlOVmpnt
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-25
Petersburg and Weldon Railroad

PETERsBURG, VA, Feb. 24.-It was
stated to-day with some degree of posi-
tiveness that the controlling interest in
the Petersburg and Weldon Railroad had
passed into the hands Of the Wilmington
and Weldon Railroad Company, and that
the latter road contemplated making City
Point, in this State, the Shipping port for
its freight. This win necessftate the con-
struction Of another branch road to City
Point. The Petersburg and Weldon Rail-
read IS slxty-four miles long and forms a
part of the Atlantic Coast Line.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-25
Onered RussIan GovernorshIp

ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 24.-The Czar
has offered Gen. Ignatieff the Ciyil GOV.
ernorship Of Turkestan with charge 81
the administration OF all of the Central
Asian provinces. =
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-25

PARIS, Feb. 24.-Ger. Millot, COM
mander OF the land forces in TOnquin, has
left three battaliOns at Sontay and three
against Bacninh with 1000 men.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-25

LONDON, Feb. 24.-The steamer Thorn
Holme, which arrived here ON the 22d
inst. from CoOsaw, 8. G.. had ner decks
swept on her passage, losing life boat
and Jolly boat.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-25

Mrs. j. w. johnson, Rome, Ca, says:
II used Browns Iron Bitters for indiges-
ton and derived much benefit"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-25

Occasional doses os DR.. Sanlords Liver
Inyigorator will keep the liver in good or
der. Sure,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-25
SUAKIM'S PERIL

1t is common talk in the Bazaar that Os-
man Digma will very soon make an attack
ON this place, in which event it is expected
that the black Inhabitants will declare
for FL Mahdi and massacre the European
inhabitants,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-25

rtber Freaks of the CyclOne-Hon. g.
Orr Again HonOred-No Conviets TO
AvorI, on Atlanta COntracts-K u Klux-
.m in sumter County-Ocala's Burnt
A,t-+rfcf fzeinp Rebuilt,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-25

Gen. Stephenson sent a telegram to
London to-day strongly urging that an
advance be made from Trinkitat. The
Marquis OF Harrington, Secretary of State
Tor War, in reply ordered an immediate
advance. He also asked that the Euro
peans killed at Teb be buried in a fitting
manner .