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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-16
THE RUSH OF WATERS.

LOuisiana's Richest Sugar Lands Over
flowed by tho Bursting of LeVee.
NEW ORLEANS, March 15.-The Grand
Levee, which was reported broken last
evening, is situated in Pointe Coupee
parish, few miles above Bayou Sara, ON
the west side of the river, protecting
what is probably the richest sugar pro-
ducing section of the State. The water
from this crevasse will overflow the
greater part of Pointe Coupee and West
Baton Rouge parishes and portions of
Iberville and Assumption, including the
Bayou Crosse Tete section, submerging
the Texas Pacific Railroad for many
miles. This leYee was built by the State
last year and cost $4,000 If the whole
levee is gone, as reported, volume of
water a mile wide and ten feet deep will
pour out Of the Mississippi at that point.
TRYING TO SAVE THE LEvEEs.
NEW ORLEANS, March IS, 2 A. MA
special from Bayou Sara SAYS:
''The crevasse at MOngauza on Grand
Levee, twelve miles above Bayon
Sara, is now 800 yards wide. The State
authorities hope to save the balance of
the levee by protecting the ends. A camp
of State laborers just in the rear of the
hrake was soon submerged, some $400
worth of provisions beiug destroyed"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-16
SATURDAY IN THE HOUSE.
The Post Office Appropriation Bill the
Subject of Discussion.

Subject of Discussion.
WASHINGTON, March 15.-The House
to-day in the absence of Speaker Carlisle
was called to order by MIR. Blackburn, of
Kentucky. The morning hour having
been dispensed with, the House, at 1925
O'Clock, went into committee of the whole,
with Mr.. Blount, of Georgia, in the chair,
on the post office appropriation bill, the
pending question being, on the motion
of Mr.. Horr, of Michigan, to strike out
the prOViso limiting the compensation
paid for mail transportation to land grant
roads to 80 per cent. of that allowed to
other roads.
Mr.. Holman, of Indiana, offered as
substitute for the motion an amendment
including within the 80 per cent. limita-
ton clause the Northern Pacific and the
Union Pacific systems, and providing
that no right now existing in favor of the
United States in regard to these roads
shall be deemed to be impaired or waived
by this action.
Mr.. HOlman's amendment was adopted
by vote of S5 to Sc. Mr.. Horr then
amended. The motion was lost by vote
Of 70 to 9S. After another attempt to
amend had been defeated the paragraph
was passed. The paragraph apprOpria-
ting for the star route seryi;e. 50 100000,
IoseuneI rtoir - VI'r Iesvssh u 91iVeus-
600 out of any uneXpended balance of the
apprOpriating for 1888, having been
reached, Mr.. Horr moved to strike out the
reapprOpriatiOn clause and to increase
the appropriation to $4,000 900. A long de-
bate ensued. This motion was also lost.
Many other amendments were offered but
severally voted down. AS it was growing
late, there was not much inclination to de-
bate propositions, and when Mr.. Horr
rose to discuss the pro forma amend
ment he was cried down by the Demo-
cratic side, and the Republican side re-
turned the compliment when Mr.. Town
shend rose to speak. When considera-
tion of the first section was completed it
became evident that the bill could not
be finished this evening and the commit
tee rose and the House adjourned.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-16
A sTUPENDoUs UNDERTAKING
Sixty-thrce Ships, 100000 Men ant
SEQ, 1000, 900 Frances Requirements il
TOnqnin

Sixty three Ships, 100000 Men and
SEQ, 200, 900 Frances Requirements in
TOnqnin.
LONDON, March 15,-A Paris cOrres-
pondent says: "The occupation Of Bac-
mini ends in nothing. The rainy season
begins in fortnight and will postpone
operations for six months. The Delta of
the Red river is handed over to pillage
and anarchy. The French Government
will shortly be compelled to ask for a
credit of 25,00O,000 francs and eventually
for 100,000,000 francs, which the Chamber
will certainly refuse. The expedition will
require SO ships and 100000 men. The
end to be gained is out of all proportion to
the outlay.
PARIS, March 15.-M. Waddington, the
French Ambassador at London, has tele-
graphed Prime Minister Ferry that Mar
quis Tseng, the Chinese Ambassador, has
asked Earl Granville, the English For
eign Secretary, to mediate between China
and France.
LIE Journal Des Debdts says: s'The
army has performed its task in TOnquin.
The time has now arrived for diplomacy"
Gen. MillOt telegraphs to Admiral
Peyron, Minister of Marine, that the
French captured at Bacninh one hun
dred pieces of artillery, including several
Krupp guns, large number of rifles, a
quantity of gunpOwder and the flags of
the Chinese Generals. The Senate to-day
adopted a resolution cOngratulating the
army in Tonquin on its success.
The Left intend to oppose the cOntinu-
ance of warlike operations in TonQuin.
They are opposed to further sacrifice of
men and expenditure of money.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-16
n COUNTERFEIT EXPOSED.
Showers Ofthe Queer Lay Trap to Catch
Southern Money Handlers.

Showers Ofthe Queer Lay Trap to Catch
Southern Money Handlers.
WASHINGTON March 15.-The secret
service division of the Treasury Depart
ment reports that it is believed that coun-
terfeiters are concerting measures to
simultaneously pass upon the public, es-
pecially in the cities of the South and West,
a counterfeit 500 silver certificate. A
sample of the same has just been received
at the office of the Secret Service division.
The issue is Of the Iseries of 1880, James
Gilfllan, Treasurer of the United States.
The paper is thick, greasy and
stiff. The note is One-elghth of
an inch shorter than the genuine. There
is no distributed fiber or parallel silk
threads in the paper as in the genuine.
The words "silVer certificate" appear
in panels twice in the upper border on the
face of the note. In the panel to the left
in the counterfeit the letters r, 7 and +
in the word "certifcate' are engraved
wrong side up. In the counterfeit there
are no periods dividing the initials in ''E.
X. Bruce (the Registers signature). On
the lower left corner the check letter e il
without an accompanying number, and
in the name "Gilfllan" only the first is
dotted. On the back of the note the word
'TaXes" is plainly spelled "Tares'
and the word 'engraved' is spelled
"Engravod." The color of the seal is
brick red. 1t should be yerging on brown.
The foregoing salient points, if carefully
noted, Will for the present protect the
public, while the note should not deceive
careful handlers of money, especially
when the geOmetric lathe work is 9X-
amined, yet among the hurried and case
less, because of its fair appearance, it may
work great damage.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-16

gether they gave the jng another examination,
when Mrs. McDanel's attention was attracted
TO It's great weight. An investigation showed
the presence of 1900 five dollar gold pieces.
making total OF $500. The mystery was
cleared up in a singular manner. McDanlel
grandfather was captain In the + loflaa war
II was known that he was wealthy Deiofe nc
left. On news of his death IN one OF lhe Datties
with the Indians, his heirs could hnd no trace
OF his money. The fact that years after ms
only grandson and heir should have lound ms
fortune is 4 singular incident. The nnulnS OF
this lug leads TO the hope that there may be
others. and the blowing of that field is watch
ed with interest.
The Franklin Register furnishes the follow
ing little sensation: In the month of July,
1872, there came to this country from Knox
Vile, Tenn. a neatly dressed, genteel look ing
young man. who, from his general appear
ance had evidently been reared in good So
ciety. He gave his name as @. w. Stafford,
and took up his abode in the settlement Of
Sewelfs schoOlhOuse. His appearance was
that OF gentleman, aud his polished manners
and gentecl department made him friends
with all whom he met. Mr.. George Stephen
son, an honest, unsuspeCtIng farmer living
near by, had q beWitching daughter with
loving heart and Of tender years, to whom he
was introduced. lie at once made love to the
young lady. and with the shrewdness that is
always practiced by that class of deceivers,
kept his mouth shut and vigorously pressed
hls suit until the 22d of sOct0ber, lS72, when
he was married to Miss Mary r.
stephenson, against the wishes of her
father. The old gentleman, realizing the
situation, took his daughter and sOn-in- law
in his house with him to make the best he
could out of their marriage and treated him
win all the ktnelnasz Of G. fetisor. M. atanOru
was natural genius and took up the watch
tinkcr's trade and did a number OF repair
Jobs on the time pieces of the settlement TO the
satisfaction of the owners. Things went on
this way until about the middle Of November,
when Mr.. stafford shOuldered a shotgun and
went down into the plantation on the river
duck hunting. Night came on and he did not
return, morning followed and he was still alb
sent. Next day there was thorough search
made for him on the river, the stream was
dragged for him, but in vain-he was nowhere
to be found. His whereabouts are still uB-
known, and where he came from and his real
name ,sOme say it was not StaffOrd) is a mys-
terry TO the people Of that settlement until
this day."
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-16
NOT GEN. PORTER.
A GraY-haired Man who Has BE.
mill L.. e.. IL. IL. u.

A GraY-haired Man who Has Been
Daily Taken for Fitz John Porter.
During the time the Fitz John Porter
bill was up in the House, says Washing
ton special, an old gentleman with white
side-whskers, of military cut, and
flOrid face, occupied a prominent seat in
a reserved gallery every day of the dis
cussion and gave close attention to all
that was said. He was pointed out to a
number of newspaper correspondents.
and to many members of Congress on the
floor, as Gen. Porter himself number
of letters written to the press have de-
scribed in graphic form the appearance Of
Gen. Porter as spectator in the House
gallery during debate on his bill; how
closely he followed that debate. giving
attention equally to those who blamed
him and to those who praised him.
To-day the same old gentleman oc-
cupied a seat in the gallery of the Senate
while Gen. Logan. in new brOadcioth
and immaculate linen, and with his black
hair shaking about his swarthy face was
pouring hot shot into the front and flank
of Gen. Porter. Again the old gentleman
was pointed out as the man whose case
was being argued before the largest
audience of the session. A great many
gIdsSeS were ieNeleu on MN, ana great
many remarks made about how calmly
he seemed to bear the denuuciation being
heaped upon him on the floor. He sat in
the seat behind and very near Mrs. Logan.
who could have touched him with her
scarlet fan, which her husbands warmth
of utterance caused her to agitate at
times almost violently.
The joke is, Gen. Porter has not been in
attendance on the discussion in his case.
The old gentleman taken for him is a
civilian, who never ''drew a sabre or set
a squadron in the field.'
''PardOn me-" said a reporter at the
close of the days discussion in the
House, addressing the old gentleman in
the corridor. ''but bow did you like the
discussion, Gen. POrter?'
II am not Gen. Porter" he answered,
somewhat startled. my name is
Reynolds; but answering your question,
1 thought it was id dry"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-16
DIGNA's PRoRABLE CouRsE.
THE DROuGHT RROKEN.
Decline of the TurpenJl-4 Business
English Agents Hunting Big oleas-
manure of the Artesian Well-Oti4-r
4A'-~N~"~ . Interest.

English Agents Hunting Big nleaS-
manure of the Artesian Well-Otn-r
4'A'-eN~"~ . Interest.
C0TFesDo7de'eo- n syls a---ssf,a0 Neaos.
CAMILLA, March 1.-THE gre,,S Srongbt
is at last broken. More rain has fallen
within the last twenty-fonT hours than III
ten months previous. The rain came
gently, just as the farmers wanted it. The
wells, so long about dry, have filled. and
water is running in the sloughs. We are
having Il real winter scene.
The rains have put the farmers in ex-
cellent spirits. The gardens, the farms,
the fruit trees, the grass in the woods, are
all revived by the life-gIving waters.
Since the recent destructive cyclone it
is common to hear men speak of the pro-
priety of digging pits, as places of refuge.
And why not? People insure their houses
against cyclones. Why not look out for
their personal safety.
The turpentine business, so vast and eX-
tensive here, is on the decline. And when
these vast orchards are neglected, and the
trees not protected, the spring fires Will
leave them huge 'deadenings"-wO
even for farming purposes. During the
recent dry spell hundreds of acres of
these orchards were burnt.
Timber men, representatives OF English
firms, are securing the country up and
down the Flint, buying up the large trees,
having them hewed and RATED down the
river to Apalachicola, where the hewn
timbers are put aboard the ships for
England. Owners receive fifty cents
each for the trees on the ground.
The ladies from Ohio, wintering here,
have left, and expressed themselves
pleased with the balmy winter climate.
The artesian well gets worse off. In
deed, it is feared the case is incurable,
and will have to be abandoned. Mr.
Hefright, of ThOmasville, has been called
here for consultation, and his skill may
suggest remedy.
The sand pear trees are IN full bloom
and look beautiful indeed.
Many have planted their melons, and
the area will be larger than that of last
year.
People here are not talking politics
much. They favor the return of II. G..
Turner to Congress, and say that the peO-
pie of the Atlanta District ought to be
like us-Iet well enough al0ne-and keep
Nat hammond where he is.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-16
THE ROTHCHILDs' NUPTIAI.s.
The Intermarriage of the Members o
the Great Banking House.

The Intermarriage of the Members of
the Great Banking House.
The recent death of Baroness Charlotte
de Rothchilds at London revives interest
in the history of the remarkable family to
which she belonged.
The deceased was a daughter of Baron
Never rra Sde, Sde Rothschild, one of the SOUS Of
bonkor family Of Koehof1he celebrated
settleo IN, Naples, where he presided over
the branch Uf the house established there
until his death n 1855. His daughter,
Charlotte, was marrieO on June Is, 1886,
to her cousin, the late BarUn Lionel Ma
than de ROthschIld, a son of Balo Nathan
Never de ROthschild, who was also one OF
the five sons of the founder OF the
family. The marriage was the outgrowth
of a design of Baron Nathan, who was at
the head of the London house of the
family, and who came to the conclusion
that, in order to peTpetuate their fame
and power. the ROthschilds should keep
their fortunes together and devote them
to the common cause. Accordingly, he
proposed that they should intermarry
among themselves, and form no marital
unions outside the family. He called a
council Of the heads of the house at Frank
fort, in 1886, and his views were duly ap-
proved.
Baron Lionel had five children Ny the
Baroness Charlotte, three sons ami two
daughters. The eldest son, Sir Nathan
Meyer, Baronet, who succeeded to the
BarOnage and to the headship Of the
family, was born NoYember 8, 1S40, mar
ried April II, 1867, Emma, daughter Of
Baron Charles ROthschud, and has several
children. He has been member of Par
liment for Aylesburv in the Liberal in
terest. The other brothers are
Charles Alfred, born July 20, 1912,
and Leopold, born November y,
1S45. The last named was married in
January, 1881, to Miss Perugia, of Trieste,
member of family of Jewish bankers
which stands almost as high in the East
as the Rothschilds in the West of Eu-
rope. The daughters Of the late Baroness
Charlotte are LeOnOra, married in 1857 to
her cousin, Baron AlphOnse, of Paris, and
Evelina, married in 1867 to her cousin,
Barren Ferdinand, of Frankfort. The Lon
don seat of this great family is at No. 14S
Piccadilly, the usual residence in Gun
nersbury Park. MiddleseX near London
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-16
WATCHING F0E CUBAN BANDITS
The Treasury Departments Precautions
Against Their Landing

Against Their Landing.
The Treasury Department has been in
formed that twenty-five Cuban banditti
have sailed from San Juan de Los Rem
edios in the brig Screamer, says a Wash
ington special to the Philadelphia Press,
destined for Boston, and Collector Worth
ingtOn has been notified to prevent their
landing il possible. instructions have
also been sent by the Treasury Depart
ment to the commanders of revenue
marine vessels cruising along the New
England and New Jersey coasts, to keep
ON the lookout for the Screamer, follow
her movements and render what assist
ance is necessary to Collector Worthing-
ton to prevent her landing.
The State Department officials are un-
communicative regarding the matter,
and the reasons for this unusual order of
the Treasury Department are unknown.
The United States is represented at San
Juan de Los Remedies by a commercial
agent, and it is presumed he reported the
departure of these alleged banditti to the
COnsul-General at Havana requesting the
United States to prevent their landing.
Section of the act Of March 3, 1915,
provides that it shall be unlawful for
aliens, who are undergoing sentence for
conviction in their own country of felOn-
ious crimes other than political, or grow
ing out of the results Of such political of
fenses, to immigrate into the United
States, and the Collector of the port at
which any vessel arriving with suoh OBJ
noxious persons on board can forbid their
leaving such vessels. Well-known cFImi-
mails, pauper lunatics, idiots, etc., can be
returned by the United States authorities
to the port from which they embarked.
1t is, probably, for this reason, that the
Collector at Boston has been warned
against the arrival of the Cuban banditti.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-16
RAILROAD RUMRLTNGs
Bright Flashes of Intelligence from
Near and Afar.

-Four trains per day run into LeesbuFg
on the Transit and Peninsular Road.
The necessity Of railroad connection
between GAINESVILLE and Dahlonega is
again being urged.
The bushes were cleared off the road
bed of the Transit and Peninsular Rail-
road along the shore Of Tavares Lake on
Monday. The grading Of the road is pro-
crossing rapidly.
The New York Commercial Chronicle
saws: sThe Ohio river is to be bridged at
Henderson, KY, a syndicate having taken
the $2,000,000 bonds Of the Henderson
Bridge Company, to provide the funds for
that purpose The Louisville and Nashville
Railroad Company, the Southeast and St..
Louis Railway Company, the Evansville
and Terre Haute Railroad Company, the
Peoria, Decatur and Evansville Railway
Compny and the Louisville,
Evansville and st. Louis Railway
Company have entered into traffic agree
ment with the Bridge Company for nine
ty-nine years. The traffic of the several
companies named, between the cities of
Henderson, KY, and Evansville, Ind,
which is now done by ferry transfer Of
ten miles, Will be greatly increased when
the bridge is completed, making the rail-
road connection continuous and direct
from st. Louis and Chicago to Nashville
and points south Of that city.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-16
A PANIC IN COFFEE.
'wO Failures Reported on Change and
100000 Bags Sold.

Two Failures Reported on Change and
100000 Bags Sold.
NEW YORK, March 15.-The Coffee Ex-
change was panicky to-day, and the
market dropped eighty-fve points below
last nights closing PRICES. The shorts
began covering them and the market
stiffened up somewhat. The sales were
bulletined at 10000 bags, but it is assert
ed outside that the transactions will
swell this to 100000 bags. The failure
was announced of Wolf & Seligsburgh at
the Coffee Exchange. They represented
Rio Janeiro and HaYre syndicates to bull
coffee. The small failure of C. Risley, Jr.,
who had failed once before, was also
reported. The liabilities OF the former
are considered very large, and the latter
as trifiing.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-16
Fast Living Ends in Suicide.

COLUMBIA, S. c., March ia special
from Greenville says: "Wm. I. Barrett,
agent Of the Mutual Reserve Fund Life
Association of New York, committed sui
eide here last night by taking ten grains
of morphine. His last words were: 1T
takes more courage to live than to die.'
Pecuniary embarrassment was the cause
of the deed. At one time Barrett pos
sessed an ample fortune, but squandered
it five years ago in fast living"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-16
NO oFEENSE TAKEN.
The Sub-C -Csmmittee on the Lasker Res
InfiOn Prenares its RenOrt

The -Csmmittee on the Lasker ResO-
luton Prepares its Report.
WASHINGTON, March 15.-The sub
committee of the House Committee on
Foreign Affairs to-day considered the
Lasker resolution and agreed upon a re-
port and resolutions concerning it. The
action of the subcommittee will be sub
mitted to the full committee Monday.
The resolutions as agreed upon state in
effect that the action of the House of Rep
resentatiYes was simply an expression of
sympathy with the German people in
their great loss and that the House has no
concern with those relations between the
legislative and executive branches of the
German government which prevented that
expression of sympathy from reaching the
body to which it was addressed.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-16
FREE TRADERS ATDINNER
CHEER UPON CHEER FOR
SPEAKER CARLISLE.

"a Revenue for Public Purposes" "a
Reformation Not a Revolution" 'An
End to Taxation for Public Expenses
Only" HIS MOttOes-A DistinE uish ed
Company Present.
NEW YORK, March 15.-Tbe sixth an
nual dinner Of the New Yokr Free Trade
some of the responses to toasts were as
follows:
Our Federal UniOn-JOhn G.. Carlisle.
Equity before the law. b. Vance.
The prospect of tariff reform, free trade
and better times-Dayid A. Wells.
Federal axation-Frank II. Hurd.
Our mercantile marine-Samuel 5. Cox.
Fallacies Of egislation-Prof. w. G..
Sumner.
The tables were full. Guests from va
riOus parts of the country had gathered
in the hope of hearing John G. Carlisle.
Speaker Of the House OF Representatives,
say something on the principle that gave
the club its name. The tables were beau
tifully decorated and music accompanied
he diners in their discussion of the menu.
I : r'1siflzy thQse present besides the speakers
were MantOu 1de-rble- Rz-+.ia4 AttSrnoyr
William G. Beecher, Gen. Christensen,
Professor II. W. Farnum, w. c. Floyd
Jones, Street Commissioner Coleman, Col.
b. A. Willis. Simon Stern, Wheeler III.
Peckham, Horace White, George Jones,
John L. Agnew, f. s. Jaffray and many
other known freC-traders. Before the dim
ner was completed letters of regret were
read from Senators Bayard, Pendleton
and Beck, of Kentucky, Charles Francis
Adams and Henry Ward Beecher.
THE WELCOME.
President Everett 2. Wheeler welcomed
the guests, especially Speaker Carlisle.
AS the Speakers name was mentioned the
House arose and cheered. The President
of the club referred to the resolution of
sympathy passed by the House of Repre-
sentatiyes on the death Of Lasker, the de-
termined opponent of a protective policy,
and said: I'VE are delighted to notice
that the whole country has united without
distinction of party in cOndemning the
action of the German Chancellor in re-
fusng to transmit this resolution to the
Reicbstag." He said that another en-
couraging fact is the report on the MOrri-
son bill. 1t is u step forward, and we
welcome it.
MR.. CARLISLE's SPEECH.
Mr.. Carlisle was the next speaker
When he arose every man in the room
stood up and cheered again and again.
Mr.. Carlisle made a speech that was evil
IDENTIFY prepared His reference to ''a
revenue for public purposes" elected en-
phatic concurrence. as did his declaration
that he was for "a reformation, not a
revolution" When Mr.. Carlisle concluded
by saying that he would cheerfully CO.
operate with any men to bring about the
end Of taxation for public expenses only,
the members of the club once more got on
their feet, waved their napkins and
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