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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-20
ALL THE WAY TO WHIP HIM.
The Reason why an Infatuated Man
Travelled from FIOrid to New Jersey.
P..o.,, n. DIsJageyaIf, No.


KEYPORT, N. j., July 1S.-This pretty
Jersey village has been considerably agi-
tated for a week or more over a story in
which friendship betrayed, Southern
honor, and rawhide whip figure con-
spicuOusly.
There arrived in the village last We'd
nesday evening upon the Long Branch
express middle-aged man, who regis
tered at the Mansion house as Manning
4. Whitehurst, of Florida. After supper
he inquired IN careless way Tor Capt. r.
r. Sewall; asked the condition OF the Cap
tain's health, where he lived. etc. As it
was known TO everybody In KeypOrt that
Capt. Sewall had spent portion OF last
winter among the Florida orange groves,
he having brought back wOndrous ac-
counts of fights with furious
alligators in sluggish pools, and
OF choice adventures with dark
haired women. no one was surprised that
he should receive visitor from the South
Mr.. Whitehurst had no difficulty In find
ing a dozen persons who we're willing to
pilot him straight TO the Captains house.
But Mr. Whitehurst preferred to wait
until It was dark, and then paid visit to
a neighbOring harness shop, where he
purchased stout rawhide whip, at the
same time publicly announcing his inten-
tiOn of thrashing the Captain within an
inch OF his life.
Now the Captain is popular in the vii
lage, and when it became known that he
was TO be subject TO a horsewhip there
was an instantaneous uprising OF his
friends. Marshal Walling, the town pO-
liceman, was hurriedly summoned 10 the
harness shop, and the bloOdthirsty gentle
man from the South was placed under
arrest and hauled up before Justice Of
the Peace Warner, into whose ear was
poured the VISITORS tale OF wrong suffered
from the Captain. Capt. Sewall was sum-
mOned to the Justices office and a long
consultation was held, which resulted
finally in the peaceful departure OF the
man from Florida.
The iniuriated gentleman from Florida
declared that he intended 10 thrash Capt.
Sewall because while South he bought an
OK team from one Of Whitehursts neigh
bOrs which that individual had intended
for his own. This statement IS doubted,
however, aud the villagers believe that
the Captain has cut Whitehurst out in an
affair OF the heart.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-20

Columbia to the North Carolina line on
the Asheville road-are finer to the sight
than they have been at this time for seVe-
raj years past. Corn is particularly -four
ishing. Even beyond the mountains and
about the South Carolina colony of Flat
Rock, n. c.. the seasons have been extra
ordinarily propitious. Everywhere there
seems to have been sufficiencY OF rain.
The corn crop is already practically made,
and cotton will soon be out of danger.
There are now in the South Carolina
Methodist conference 1873 adult mission
ary societies, with BOA members: go iuve-
nile societies, with 1,6SS members-total
societies 2lS, with 4,766 members-liie
members Al, honorary life members 5.
honorary lite patron 1. In the last year
the WOman's Missionary Association of
the con ference had collected s., 1855 80, and
since its organization in December, 1878
the conference has contributed to the
work of saving the heather world
$21, 016 65, which is about one-ninth of the
amount contributed by the WOman's Mis-
sionary Society of the Southern church,
to wit, 1888, 428 "a.
The body OF man knocked off the
bridge of the Wilmington, Columbia and
Augusta railroad over the Wateree river,
on Monday last, was found Tuesday after
noon floating in the river about three
quarters of a mile below the bridge, by
railroad hands in charge OF Mr.. Jeffords.
who were searching the river for that pur-
pose, and was identified as Louis john
son, from Wedgeield, Sumter county.
From the evidence before the jury Of in-
quest it appears that Johnson was wait
ing for a companion, and had sat on
bridge and gone to sleep, and before the
train could be stopped he was struck and
Knocked into the river. He was seen to
move By two witnesses, but too late to
save himself. 1t was at first thought that
the man had been murdered and his body
placed on the track.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-20
Mr.. Jenkins, GIttterIne Eve.

An incident in the nature ola side play.
according TO an Atlanta corr espondent,
occurred friday afternoon az the Atlanta
base ball park, which recalls a piece OF
evidence used In the trial OF the Banks
county ku klux cases, and which went far
towards their conviction. The teams of
Judge Speer aud ex-Assistant United
States District Attorney Jenkins hap
pened to be standing near together, and
the horses. not aware, probably, Of the
strained relations existing between their
masters, Immediately struck up an ac-
quaintance. Jenkins horse was gray,
and Judge speer abruptly said TO bis
driver: sfThOmas, remove that gray
horse.D MIR. jenkins fixed Thomas with
his glittering eye, and remarked 10 him
quietly: III you touch that horse you'll
dnd out what that id Emory Speer has
done for YOU" No further developments
we're reported.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-20
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, JULY 20. 1885.

guard was badly used up by his
patients. This is not Ellis first similar
ohense. Some tour mouths ago he Went
10 sleep on the train, and white woman
iuhalc TOOK advantage of his snooze and
jumped out of the car window near nj adj
son, while the train was going at the rate
OF twenty-five miles per hour. The guard
was awakened, and inquired of the con-
ductor the whereabouts or his charge. He
qua not know. The train was stopped and
backed several miles, and search in the
darkness male tor the missing woman,
but she could not be found. Next day,
however, she was found a mile or two
from where it is supposed she jumped
from the train, unhurt. She was convey
ed to the asylum, and never even COM
planned of i'll effects of the perilous leap
she made.
Speaking Of the Jacksonville post office,
Representative Dougherty says that
despite Senator Call's backing of Mr..
Hull Mr.. Bisbee's chances are slightly
better than Mr.. HUBS. There is an old
time custom in Washington of allowing
the Senator to name the Postmaster in
the city or town in which he claims to
reside, and it is a hard matter to
overcome this custom. If Senator Call
was not backing Mr.. Hull so strongly,
there would be but little trouble in getting
the appointment for Mr.. Bisbee. As 1t is
there is bare possibility that both will
be dropped, and a new man taken up.
Capt. Solee, has made application, and
Madison Hartridge, in the event that
neither Mr.. Biabee or Mr.. Hull is ap-
pointed, will also become an applicant.
Col. Whitfield Walker has, Congressman
DougheDty says. been agreed upon for In
ternal Revenue Collector. There are four
applicants for the custom house collector
ship, but no one has been agreed upon as
vet
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-20
GEORGIA.

The crop outlook in Franklin county is
unusually good. Corn and cotton were
never more promising.
Two hundred aud ten carloads of mel
ons have been shipped from Quitman sta
tiOn during the past season. The short
age as compared with last year is about
70 carloads.
Peanuts never were so cheap as they
now are-the price per pound being from
3Ac. to DC. Last year prices were high,
and the result was a heavily increased
acreage and an overfiowing crop.
j. T. Hayes, of Thomas county, has 25
acres of cotton from waist TO shoulder
high, which he thinks will average from
one to two bales to the acre; also, 40 acres
OF corn which will make 80 bushels to
the acre. Crops generally in his neigh
borhOod are good.
Quitman Free Press: The watermelon
industry of South Georgia is about to be
ANONYMOUSLY strangled and killed in its
infancy, and what Is most singular in the
matter is that its murderers are those
most interested in its success. The rail-
road rates are sufficient to kill the bust.
ness so far as our Western shipments are
concerned, but when we have many dis
honest commission men, and other draw
backs to contend with there is little nope
of success. The rail- Dads and dishonest
commission men have gObbled up the
melon crop of 1885 as they did the crop of
1884.
FLORIDA.
Fort Meade reports the orange crop as
promising.
Orange trees are looking splendidly
about Tavares, and the crop will be large.
J. c.. Batten, of Clay county, has 229
punches of grapes on a 2-year old vine in
his vineyard.
A Tallahassee fruitgrower has engaged
100 young honey peach trees and 100 of
other choice varieties, which he will put
out next season.
Mr., Tillothon, of Mount Pleasant, has a
number of apple trees in full bearing. He
says the trees grow we'll upon his land,
and he will enlarge his orchard this fall.
Clay county cattle are now at their very
best, and beeves killed on the range will
compare favorably with the best Northern
and Western meats in taste and quality.
A huge lemon was recently picked at
Panasoffkee. 1t measured "a inches in
circumference one way, % inches the
other, and weighed 4 pounds and 13
ounces.
EX-Gov. Gleason predicts that the pine
apple crop of Florida will soon De more
important than the orange. From what
he has seen and learned lately, he is san
guine that his prediction will prove cor
rect. One of the best Things, he says,
about the pineapple crop is that the COM
mon scrub and palmetto lands of South
Florida seem just suited to it. Hummock
land is not adapted TO the growth, as II
produces too much plant and inferior
fruit, while the scrub land
produces just the reverse. Plants set out
last October were seen last week bearing
small fruit, and it has generally been con-
sidered that plant would not bear fruit
under eighteen months from the time ii
was first planted. Everybody engaged in
the growing of pineapples in Brevard and
Dade counties, he says, are much pleased
with this years yield, and some are more
hopeful of the future from this crop than
they are from that Of the orange.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-20
Undisputed Fact.

FROM THE WAY IN WHICH oURCLoTH-
ING HAS BEEN GOING OFF, THE FACT
CANNOT BE DISPUTED THAT OUR STORE
is THE PLACE FOR You TO GET YOUR
CLOTHING.
IT is NOT NECESSARY FOR Us TO SAY
WE HAVE REDUCED OUR PRICES, AS THE
PUBLIC KNOW WE ARE NOT FOLLOWERS,
BUT ALWAYS LEADERS. CLOTHING FOR
ALL-MEN, YOUTHS, BOYS AND CHILD
REN-AT THE VERY LOWEST PRICES.
HATS, LAUNDRIED AND UNLAUNDRIBD
SHIRTS, UNDERWEAR, NECKwEAR, FUR
NIsHING GOODS OF ALL KINDS.
UMBRELLAS FOR SUN Oh RAIN.
COME ON ALL YOU THAT ARE IN NEED
OF ANYTHING IN OUR LINE AND LET US
FIT YOU OUT AT ONCE.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-20
1853 BROUGHroN STREET.
Clothing and Furnishing Goods
Or
A. FALK 6 SON.

EIRST. They do the largest business, and
IL buying strictly for cash, consequently
can offer the customer greater inducements
than any other house.
Second. They are the oldest house in the
city, and their goods have always maintained
the highest standard as TO 1T, style and wear
ing qualities. 'l
Third. They give with every purchase
guarantee as follows: We guarantee these
goods as represented, aud that he price Is as
low as zane manufacture Is sold anywhere in
the United States. II not satisfactory and
returned within 10 days uDinjured, the full
amount cash paid will be refunded" So yOu
can buy suit, take IL home for your friends
TO judge, and II they don't like II, It can be
returned.
Fourth. All goods are marked in plain
figures, and they are strictly one Price. thus
a child can buy rs cheap as the most expert
judge Of Clothing.
The great success they have met with have
induced them 10 order freeh supplies, and
their stock Is still complete. The public are
most cordially invited TO examine for them
selves and be convinced.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-20
alteal an0 Baron.
BACON,

A RRIvING daily from the West Dry
Sailed, Long Clear sides, Smoked &. X. Sides.
Smoked Shoulders and al other cuts, which
Ofer &C the lowest market prloe.
FRED. NJ. HULL.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-20

KNOW TBYsELF. by reaning the "sci-
ence Of Life" the best medical work ever
published, for young and middle-agod men.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-20
ABRAHAMS & BIRNBAUM' $
CLOSING SALE

That we mean to close out this seasons
stock we intend TO let our prices convince you.
Here are few quotations:
One lot Black Alpaca Coats, former price
81, nOw$l.
One lot Black Alpaca Coats, former price
So, now 50.
One lot Black Alpaca Goats, very fine, for
mer price 81, now 81 so.
One lot Black Alpaca Coats still finer, for
mer price IS. now 80 80. warranted fast color
One lot CTeam-colored Pongee Caats, for
mer price &c. now 49,
A large lot Of Suits, broken sizes, comprising
all grades and styles. regular prices $40 to $25,
now reduced to one-half. This lot fills up
two large tables. and are of such varied as
sortmeut that everybody almost can get suited.
We are in earnestiB regard TO closing out
at a sacrifice, and kindly invite you to see for
yourself.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1885-03-06

Samuel Houser, a copper mine
owner of Montana, says that If silver
coinage stops the whole Western
country will be ruined. 1t will not
alone be the silver interest that will
be injured. Silver named with cop
per enables us 10 furnish copper at
the present low price without loss; if
silver were deprecated we could not
do that. So it is with lead. 1t would
also effect the gold production of the
country, and reduce it fully one-third.
There is at least $10,000,00O of gold
that is taken out with silver annually
Four-ffths of all the silver mines
would be obliged to stop, and not less
than SlOO,OOO,000 of business wouic
be destroyed. There is no, chance
that anything will be done about i
in Congress, but the discussion ha'
Knocked silver down to SIG per OF
from S1.10. 1t will go below 81 /
the coinage should be stopped.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1885-03-06

1t seems curious, says the Buffalo
Truth, that the main reason given for
the reduction of wages, the stoppage
of workshops and factories, and the
consequent distress spread over the
land, is the superabundanco OF Great
ed wealth. Too much coal is put out,
and so coal operators quit producing
and reduce miners and other help to
misery. The farmers have grown too
much corn and wheat and pork, and
SO the army of the hungry is increas-
ed while the granaries are bursting
with breadstuffs and wheat is lower
than it has beea for twenty years.
Because the harvests have been mar
velous-such as to astonish the king
doms of The old world, starvation is
rampant in the land Never were the
rich so rich; never We're the poor SO
Door. The land overhows with riches
of every kind; the public treasury
holds a surplus beside which the
wealth of the Indies pales into insig-
nifcance, and yet thousands of men
are in enforced idleness.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1885-03-06
silver Money.

Thomas Jefferson is the author OF
our decimal system expressed in the
coinage Of gold and silver-by which
the silver dollar was made the unit Of
measure. The amount Of silver to be
used in a dollar was decided upon BY
taking the average weight and fine
ness of the Spanish dollar. In 1872
the first mint was established at Phil
adelphia, and coinage began in 1894
under the article of the Constitution
giving to Congress power "to coin
money and regulate the value there
off," The dollar authorized by Con-
gress under the act of April I'd, 1892,
contained 3714 grains of pure silver
or 416 grains Of standard silver which
contained 448 grains Of alloy. This
act fixed the relative value Of silver
to gold lis and the gold coin at IL
parts pure gold and one part alloy.
By the act of January 18th, 1887,
both gold and silver coins were made
900 fine, and established the silver
dollar at 4121 grains-but as the fine
ness had been increased the amount
of pure silver remained the same and
thus the ratio of silver to gold became
1898 to Very nearly. The silver
dollar had 415.5 grains and the gold
dollar had 25.S grains. At this time
France was coming at the ratio OF
154 to l and as our silver dollar con-
tanned 1898 to /, it left profit of
about per cent, as an Inducements
export our silver dollars to France
and SO many were exported that there
became a dearth Of silver coin, andinI
1858 Congress passed an act reducing
the amount of silver in the dollar to
1874 grains but made coinage free, and
this law was in force till 1878, when
the "gold bugs succeeded by stealth
in getting it abolished. From that
day to this they have fought against
the free coinage Of silver and in fact
against the coinage Of silver in any
way, and the conflict is not ended,
and it will not end till gold and silver
have equal rights under the law and
in favor of the party in power. Sill
YER is the peoples money.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1885-03-06

The Pope, in replying toan address
from operatives in Rome, traced the
evils affecting the working classes to
their abandonment of the principles
of religion, and to their submitting
themselves to the influence Of agita-
yers, who deceived them with vain
promises, and 9attered them by mag
nifying their rights and never abiding
to their duties. Nothing good could
arise from exciting the workingmen's
hatred of proprietors and the rich.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1885-03-06
A Call for More Legislation.
Idaho Reoister.

Idaho Register.
1t seems to me, and in fact, to all
persons, who have acquainted them
selves with the truth of the matter,
that the time has arrived in the life
of our nation for some legislative
steps to be taken to prevent foreign
Nobleman acquiring such vast tracts
of our domain and the building up of
system that approaches that Of the
Feudal system Of Europe. 1t is dan
gerous to the institutions of freedom,
and rankles in the heart of free Amer
leans to see the immense tract Of our
fair country that is being acquired by
foreign autocracy who are not in ac-
cord with our democratic form of
government.
Let us look for an instant at the fig
ures, and see the number OF acres
Englishmen own in this country: Earl
of Dunmore, 100000. Sir Henry
Distoy, 100000. Phillip Marsh &
Co., 100000. Sir George Reed, q
100000. Duke Of Switzerland, AGO.
OOO-nineteen million four hundred
thousand acres, or 121,25o homes Of
100 acres each. Counting each home
with a family of five there would be
population of 606,250 souls.
Americans! are you asleep! if not,
what on earth is the matter with you?
Can you stand calmnly and see the
woke that has so long CALLED the neck
of Ireland, the yoke that has just
been fastened on the Egyptians,
bowed and locked on your necks?
The above figures are only tlthlng
Of our domain that has fallen into the
possession OF the rapacious grasp OF
European aristocrats.
There are now only 100000 farms
in the United States and they are in
possession Of fifty odd million PEG,
ple. Here I have shown that five
Englishmen-people who would sub
vert our form of Government in ar
instant if they could, people who DIES
pise the little American farmer witt
his 1GO acre homestead, come ovel
here and with one fell swoop gobblt
up 121,250 farms. / say and say i
plainly, that if some Legislative bar il
not interviewed to check this sly meth
cd of our conquest, that the duel
pond will be incarnadined, sure
enough.
There has been granted to railroad
and sold to English capitalists 3O4,
100000 acres of land according t.
Uncle Sans statement, which woult
make thirty-six states as large a
Massachusetts, sixty-eight states a
large as Connecticut, territory a
large as England, Ireland, Scotland
Wales, Prussia, Portugal and Hol
land, and the Salt Lake Tribune ad
yocates the lease for number 0
years at trifing sum or the out AM
out sale for few cents per acre, 0
4O0,00O,000 acres of the public dc
main to few cattle men. Of cours
under such an event the English nc
bleman would have the biggest slice
Put your shoulder against it, Amer
leans, and push against such a scheme
push steady and strong, and feel n
goneness until you overthrow the ne
farious scheme, and when any on
asks you if you feel like weakenin
answer in the classic language chal
acteristic of our citizens, "Damido.
DRIFTwooD.
The Pope, in replying to an addres
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-10-09
A BOAT BUILT IN ALASKA.
San Francisco Bulletin.


During this last winter on the Yuk-
on, Mr.. Fracist performed a task
which it will..b hard to fad equaled
in the history of mechanics. He built
boat and an engine with which to
propel it, having at his disposal only
the wood obtained in the vicinity, a
few lengths of gas pipe taken from
this city to be used in nining opera
tons, one or two files and a rachel,
with few wocd-cutting tools, With
such materials and tools he construct
ed propeller which carried him at
the rate of kuots an hour 200 M lies,
and which can now be seen In the ma
chinery department at the Mechanics
pavilion. where it was placed a few
days ago. The engine is composed
wholly of pieces of gaspipe, as one
can see by inspecting it. The cylin>
der is gaspipe, the rods and all from
work are gaspipe, except the propeller
aud its center. the former being beat
en- iron, and the latter iron nuts. 1t
as ingenious piece of mechanism
as was ever built and proved as effec-
tive as it is ingenious. He intended
to place the engine in a bark canoe,
but not being able to construct one
strong enough, he constructed q
wooden boat about fifteen feet long
in which he made the descent from the
Yukon to its mouth, and thence
round by sea to St. Michaels- During
this trip by sea he encountered storm
which made an old sea captain who
accom- panied him shed tears of alarm
as salt as the spray with which he was
deluged. B.t the little propeller
brought both safe to port, and was sub
sequently brought TO San Francisco by
Lieut.. Stoney.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-10-09
A Smart Trick,
New York Times.

1--WE are credited with all kinds of
sharp dealing by the public" said a
prominent broker the other day, but
the truth is that in nine cases out of
ten it is the public that sets its own
traps and rushes headlong into them.
There is probably no class of business
men that tell fewer wilful falsehoods
than the brokers. In almost every
instance where an unlucky Spectator
blames them for his losses they are
only repeating in good faith what
they have been told Twill not speak
of things and people here, but, if you
like, / will give you an instance in
which l was once blamed for a matter
in which was but an innocent tool. T"
He then narrated the following story {:
''Some years ago had an office in
Melbourne, Australia, and dealt in
mining stock, shares in that country
being divided into very small frac-
tons of the whole capital Among
my acquaintance was one Theobald
Thompson, the manager of the Jupi-
ter mines at Sandrust. He was an
old school fellow of mine and often
dropped in for chat when in town.
were sinking along the supposed line
of q rich quartz reef, bat none of them
had struck it. One day Thompson
came in to see me. He seemed rather
gloomy about the pospects of Jupiter.
but, as he was going away, he. said
with q peculiar look in his eye: Old
fellow, I want you to promise me that
you will not sell share of cur stock