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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-22

There is a good deal Of interest
felt as to President Cleveland's matrimo-
NAL Intentions. Miss Frances &. Folsom,
of Buffalo, Is the lady who is supposed to
be the coming BRIDE OF the White House.
She is the daughter of the former law
partner of Mr.. Cleveland, and is spoken
of as a lady of great brilliancy, and
one who would be an ornament
to the White House and to society as W ell.
fellow of IS, for as the President cele-
brated his birthday on Wednesday it is
hardly worth while to try and conceal his
age longer. Her age, if so delicate a SUBJ
ject may be touched upon, is probably
about half that Of the President. She is
spoken Of as very handsome, with black
hair and eyes, dark complexion, a hand
some face and faultless figure, a thorough
collegiate education, and experience
in society that would enable her
to do credit to herself as the bride
of the President.
1t is a curious fact that the White
House has been without a social
head, in the strict sense, about one
fourth of the time it has been occupied.
1t is, too, another curious fact, that this
is the first time for twelve years that there
has been a Vice Presidents wife in Wash
ingtOn. 1t has been so long since there
has been a Vice President with a wife
do about it, and Mrs. Hendricks, although
quite as busy as she desires, is probably
not as much so as will be the case when
she establishes receiving day, and her
rank as first lady in the land is recOg-
nized, as it must be when society stops to
think about it; provided it thinks Of it
before Mr.. Cleveland's marriage.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-22

can be classed as a monopoly he feels is
his especial victim, and he never fails
to whack at everything bearing this trade
mark, or in any way suspected Of being
in that line. He is gOod-natured, very
obliging personally, and can bear any
amount OF chatting upon subjects that
are sometimes very tender ones to some
people. He married a very pretty young
wife three or four years ago. He is him.
self probably as devoid of personal
beauty as any man in the Senate, and
he is sensible enough to know it. 1t is
a favOrite amusement OF some Senators,
when they catch Van Wyck in a cloak
room and all are feeling pretty gOOd-na-
tuTed, to chaff him about his pretty wife
and ugly self. Il wonder who that good
looking young lady was that saw on the
avenue with Van Wyck," one of them
will say to a neighbOr, in a tone he is
sure will reach Van Wyck's ears. sSThat
is Mrs. Van Wyck," the other Senator
will respond with a groan. ''Whatl that
pretty woman" will come from the first
speaker; ''well, l can't see how such a
pretty young woman should ever marry
such an ugly old codger as Van Wyck.''
Then there will be roar, and Van Wyck
will adjust his spectacles. grin a little,
run his hands through his gray hair to
make it look more like a p0rcupine's
quIlls, and get back on the first speaker.
with some keen retort. This, perhap s, will
make him wish he had said nothing. Van
Wyck is very proud of his wife and their
new baby, takes her everywhere he goes,
has built a handsome and costly home for
them here, and is a model husband in
everything but personal appearance.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-22
ATTACKED BY wEAsEL.s.

a Remarkable Experience OF a North
ern Pennsylvania Farmer.
CLEAN, March 18.-Delos Lante, an Elk
county farmer, has been annoyed greatly
this winter by weasels in his poultry
yard and houses, the bloodthirsty little
animals having killed his fowls by the
score, and deied all efforts to trap them.
On Saturday Mr.. Lante was walking
through stony field on his farm, and saw
weasel run into big heap of stones
piled loosely in the middle of the field. He
had walking stick, and, going to the
stone pile, began to thro down stones to
get at the weasel or scare it out. Pres
emily a weasel jumped out, and he struck
at it with his cane. 1t did not run away.
but sprang at Lante's throat-the spot
weasel instinctivelY tries to seize. The
farmer struck at it again and hit it, but it
returned gamely to the attack, and,
whether in answer to signal or not the
farmer does not know, Weasels began to
swarm out of the stone pile on all sides,
and in a second were springing upon
Lante, climbing nimbly up his clothes,
trying to reach his face. They bit him
with their sharp teeth, aud finding that
he would be unable to keep the savage
little bloOd-suckers from fastening their
teeth in his neck without help, he shook
them off as best he could and started at
the top of his speed for home. The wea-
sells followed him until he scaled the fence.
His hands were bleeding from a dozen
wounds, and if he had remained to fight
the weasels they would undoubtedly
have overpowered and killed him. In the
afternoon Mr.. Lante returned to the stone
pile with two men, two guns, and dog.
They routed out the weasels and killed
thirty-a colony which had been devas-
tating the entire nelghb orhOod for a year
and more.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-22
EX-SENATOR WILLIAMS.
He Wants to Go to Mexico as MInist,

Cerro Gordo Williams, of Kentucky,
wants the Mexican mission. Naturally
the interests of the ex-senator and Gen.
Preston, of the same State, who wants
the SpaHis mission. clash, for it is not
probable that two missions will be given
to one State. Williams is a tall man,
with grizzly gray mOustache setting off
a flOrid complexion and a regular featured
face. He is celebrated for wearing a
number Of curly brown wigs of various
lengths to simulate the appearance of
having his hair cut and the growth of the
weeks of the month. He is a very up
right, honorable man and is very fond of
hOrsG-racing and agriculture. He prob
ably knows more about the blue grass re-
gion and Its capacity for raising horses
and men than any one else
in Kentucky. He related a story the
other day of how one of his old
name of Cerro GOrdO. He was intro
duced to this constituent during a can
vass. The constituent was painting a
barn. His hands were daubed with red
paint. He was tall, powerful man,
with enormous hands. When the Sena-
tor was introduced the constituent burst
out with shout of rapture, "Well, we'll;
is it so this is Sarah Gordon Williams"
AS he said this he brought his hand down
on the Senator's new broadcloth coat, and
left free-hand sketch in red of his great
palm on the right shoulder of the Senator.
swell, how do you do, Sarah Gordon?'
he kept repeating, and each time he ut
tered this ejaculation he would bring his
hand down again until the Senator's coat
was completely ruined.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-22
ANECDOTE OF BRUCE.
How the ColOred Register Met an Old
Acquaintance.

Acquaintance.
Blanche K. Bruce, whose signature as
Register of the Treasury now graces
every national bank bill, says Ben:
Perley Poore, was very popular
while he was in the Senate, although
he is of African descent. Unobtrusive,
attentive to business and modest, he con-
quered the prejudices against his race and
was treated with marked courtesy by his
associates. One day, after he had been
Senator for two years or more, Senator
Bogy, the aristocratic descendant of one
of the old French families of St. Louis,
took a seat by his side, saying: " Mr..
Bruce, have bill here L want you to
vote for. 1t is one in which l have a
great personal interest. 1t has nothing
political in it. Look at it and tell me
what you think"
Bruce laughed, as he said: Senator
Bogy, l hope we shall arrange this more
satisfactorily than our last business
transaction" "Our last business trans
action? What do you mean?' "Don't
you remember meeting me before my
coming to the Senator" "MOst decided
ly, no." 81 think l can refresh your
memory, Senator. Some twenty years
ago you were one day running down
owe street in a hurry to catch
steamer. You were carrying very heavy
valise. The day was very hot. Don't
you remember the colored boy who came
up and offered to carry the valise down
to the levee for quarter? You ran along
with the boy. Soon the wharf-boat dock
was reached. The boat was just swinging
out. You ran and jumped on board. You
called for the valise. The colOred boy
put the valise behind his back and called
for his quarter. You hunted, fished out a
quarter and tossed it ashore; but the gap
was too wide to toss the valise. The
Captain had to stop the boat and back up
before you could get your valise. Do you
remember that?' Gwen, should say
do" 81 was that colored boy."
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-22
HER SEX CHANGED.
A Supposed Girl MetamOrphOsed Into q
RnV

Boy.
A subject, apparently young girl Of
10, says Mondays Philadelphia Record,
appeared for clinical operation at Jeffer-
son Medical College short time ago.
The patient wore short dresses, looked
like young school miss and had the
manners of a girl. The trouble with tine
patient was an inability to retain secre-
lions of the kidneys. DR.. w. II. Pancoast
made an examination and discovered two
exceedingly interesting facts: First, that
his subject was not, as the parents had
always supposed, a girl, but boy, and
that he had been born minus a bladder.
DIR. Pancoast explained all this to the
class before which the operation was per-
formed, and then proceeded to supply an
artificial bladder, a surgical feat tiEst ac-
cOmplished by DR.. PancOast's father
many years ago, and now not an uncom-
mon operation. The parents of the sup
posed girl, now transformed into hand
some boy, at first refused to credit the
facts related by the Doctor and would not
keep the subject in boys attire, dressed
in which the Professor had returned him
to them. A further operation was made
at the request of the parents. This was
done last week and so fully developed
other organs that doubt was no longer
possible. Now, in addition to this meta
morphosis, the lad has been given boys
name in exchange for the female one,
with which he was christened. Prof.
PancOast has recently also had another
case of somewhat the same nature, al
though not quite so interesting, the sub
ject being boy of years, who had al
ways been supposed to be girl. The
operation in each case was about the
same and both patients have recovered.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-22
CONaTCNrEG

Per steamer Mary Morgan, from Fernan-
dlna-JnO Flannery Co. Epstein q Bro, j
Z Taylor, Butler & S, NJ Y Henderson, G KOl-
shorn & Bro, w W Gordon & Co, NJ Maelean,
Walter, T & Co, d Dancy, Woods & Co, J w
Perkins & Son, NJ Farley, Lee Roy Myers,
J Gardner, II Solomon. II Myers & Bros, Mrs
S Landershine care Z L Neidlinger, West &
G. / w Landershine.
Per Charleston and Savannah Railway.
March 2l-FOrdg Office. s, r & w Ry. T 7, HUI
ger b J Cubbedge Lowell & Son. Acosta &
K, Lee Roy Myers, + NJ Hull, w Lindsay.
Per Savannah. Florida and Western Kali
way. March 2l-Fordg Office, NJ Y Henderson,
W Hawkins, ID e Bacon b Co, r b Cassels.
7 Bond, W w Gordon & Co. E Cheatham,
j Gardner, W ID Simkins, j A Pearson, VIM
Carr. Abrahams & Co, Lilienthal & X,
& S, c Jones. Lee Roy Myers, Zoucks r,
Bendheim Bros & Co, Garnett, q Co, Geo
Jones, Einstein & L, w w Gordon & Co, L
Sternberg, Butler & S, p Prenty, NJ Maclean,
Co, Baldwin q Co, j Williams, E Roberts.
Per Central Railroad, March 20-Fordg Agt.
JnO Flannery Co. w w Gordon & Co. H NJ
Conner & Co, + NJ Farley, T p Bond, DR. ID
Cox. c L Camsack, Haines & S, Frank & Co,
II Sanders, Epstein Bro, NJ BOley & Son,
o Cohen & Co, II Solomon & Son, Allen & l.,
NJ Ferst & Co, ID C Bacon & Co, Wade & Co,
J p Germaine, A Morgan, est Jno Oliver, G H
KOneman. Thompson, Haynes & Z, Joyce
& ii, Telephone TX, VIM Rogers, ID j Ryan,
Ohlander Bros. Z II Carson, A Enrich & Bro,
NJ Heuu6rrOn, W IN none q 20 hdlkenS
Bros, McGrath & Co, II Kolshorn & Co, Mrs
X Power. \ Paulsen 4 Co, j B Reedy, G S
McAlpin, Bendheim Bros Co, l. Hartshorne,
Guckenheimer & Son, Epstein w, Moore
4 n, Weed & &, Rieser & S, Smith Bros Il Co,
II MYERS 4 Bros, Lee Roy Myers, G w & r Q
GOOlsby, Sarah Williams, SchWarZ, b
Chestnut, A Miller & CO,HOlcOmbe, G Co,
Jno NicOlsOn, II Fox. w o. Brien, o Hall,
j i Freeman, W l Miller, Baldwin & Co, j A
Livingston, Meinhard Bros 4 Co, BOgart 4 IL,
+ Cheatham, w e jackson, j z Williams,
Graham a II A Gheftall.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-22
Testing a New Dynamite Shell.

There was a preliminary trial at the
Washington Navy Yard last Tuesday of
the Snyder dynamite shell, using gun
powder as the prOjectile agent. The dis
tinctiYe feature of the Snyder system is
an elastic compressor, or buffer, inter-
posed between the base of the shell and
the powder charge, which takes up the
conclusion of the discharge and prevents
premature explosion of the dynamite
shell. The trial was under the au-
spices of the Senate Military Com
mittee. The gun used was
6-inch rifled bTeech-loading hOwitzer Of
the Moffatt pattern. The shell was loaded
with II pounds of explosive gelatine, con-
tanning 50 per cent. of pure nitrO-glyce-
rine. The firing charge was the maximum
that the gun would take, and was Of CON-
mon hexagonal powder. The projectile
struck the target, exploding with force
that completely shattered both target and
backing. The conclusion of the air in the
vicinity was such as to shatter window
glass in houses 400 yards from the target,
aud some of the fragments of the shell
were picked up nearly half mile away.
Further trials to test the effect of the pro-
jectile upon heavy targets will be made
during the current month.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-22


Tybes. March p, Z 80 % n-Passed up, schrs
Q Haskell, June Bright.
Passed out, steamship Juniata, bark DeO-
data NOR.
Waiting. bark Erna Ger.
Wind Sc, light; raining.
New York. March l7-Anchored at Staten
Island, schr Willis Shepard for Savannah;
brig Robert Dillon. Hawkins. Savannah for
Perth AmbOy; schr Charmer, DabOll, Savan-
nah for New York.
Eddystone, March lS-Passed, bark Vikin-
gen Nor, Anderson. Pensacola for Antwerp
GOthenburg, March l4-Sailed, bark Amici-
tia Nor, Angel Savannah.
st Vincent, { V. Feb 24-Sailed, barks India
for Pensacola; March LIST, Oscar Wende GER,
for do.
st Thomas, March 4-Sailed, barks Peter
Nor, Nielsen. Pensacola; 9Th, Capt Peter
Dahl Nor, Gundersen, DOboy; Emmanuel
lNOrl. RlbO. do; Slrene NOR, Bake, Pensa-
cola; 9TH, WOrmanvik Nor, MortenseD, do ;
Sth, in port, bark Annie McNairn (Brl, TOye,
from Brunswick, Ga, for Liverpool, waiting
instructions.
st augustine, March ls--sailed, schr Nat
Medor, Brunswick, Ga.
COosaw, S G, March I9-SaiIed, bark Holly
Bough (Brl, James, United Kingdom.
DarIen. Ca, March l9-Arrived, barks Hope
tBrl, Vaughan, Dakar; goth, Capt Peter Dahl
Nor, Gundersen, st Thomas; Emmanuel
Nor, RibO, do.
FernandIna, March l9-Arrived, schr Isaac
KerlIn, Steelman, New York.
Cleared, schr Lizzie Carr, Brown, Deme-
rara.
GEORGETOWN, ) Z. March t9-Sailed, schr
ThOs SiHnicksOn. Haron, Philadelphia.
Pensacola, March l9-Arrived. bark Luigi p
QtaD, Greece, MOntevideO; schr ID NJ An
thony. Chase, Galveston; 18th, bark Augusta
tSw), Ingvardsen. Wiener: 18th, schr Ii
HigginsOn, Fales, Havana.
Port Royal, S c. March I9-Arrived, steamer
Elphinstone (Br), DObsOn, New York.
Sailed. str Austerlitz (Brl, COwie, United
Kingdem.
Jacksonville, March lS-Cleared, schr Hat
tie + King, Kinds, st Thomas.
Kew West. Marcn I9-Arrived, strs Hutchin-
son. Baker. Havana for New Orleans; San
Marcos. Burrows. New York for Galveston
land both prOceeded).
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-22
RICE.
a ToIb for Vanderbilt

QUINCY, MASS, March 20.-McKenzie
& Patterson, granite dealers here, have
received a contract from William ii.
Vanderbilt, of New York, for the build
ing of a family tomb. The tomb which
was designed by Architect Richard III.
Hunt, of New York, will be Of the Roman
esque style, 100 by no feet on the ground
and 63 feet from the surface to the apex
Of the dOmes, of which there will be TWO.
The exposed portions of the structure
will be composed of Quincy granite, while
the vestlbule and catacOmbs will be built
Of marble and the arches and piers Of
limestone. The structure is to be erected
in the MOravian Cemetery, New DOrp,
Staten Island. 1t will require about s.
OO0,0 pounds Of granite, marble, and lime
stone combined to complete it. The cost
is estimated at $3.50, 900. The tomb is to
BE finished by December. This is the
most elaborate piece Of work ever con-
tracted for by Quincy parties. The firm
will have to add over 100 men to their
working force in order to prosecute the
work.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-22

Per steamer Mary Morgan, from Fernan-
dina-S0 bales cotton, bales hides, bdl dry
goods, \ beer Dbl, box hides, bbls cabba ge,
) rolls hides, boxes grape fruit.
Per Charleston and Savannah Railway,
March PISS boxes tobacco. car barrel mate
rial, los caddies tobacco, 25 boxes castings, 40
bags peanuts, and mdse.
Per Savannah. Florida and Western Rail-
way, March 2l-20 bales cotton. 81 cars lum-
Der, 372 bbs rOsIn, 80 bbls spirits turpentlne. ?
cars wood, :, 2JS boxes oranges, 9 bbls oranges,
2 cars wheels, 70 bbls cabbage, Is refrigerators
fruit, 200 crates cabbage, 90 crates vegetables,
81 SACKS rice, II sacks potatoes, % bales hides,
and mdse.
Per Central Railroad, March 2l-2l6 bales
cotton, 2l4 bbls rOsin, bbls spirits turDentine,
II cars pig iron, 13 cars lumber. cars stock,
car meal, car cotton seed meal, cars hay, l
corn p hf bbls beer, 1913 or bbls beer, IA bags
rice, Is bbls whisky, 10 hf bbls whisky, 3 bbls
glassware, SO bbls rice, Dbl oil. 80 bbls flour,
Is Inf bbls cider. so crates hams. Inf bbls paint,
lOj kegs white lead. 10 pkgs hOllOwware, 20
bales dOmestics. 30 pkgs furniture, II trunks,
IS boxes mdse, 9S boxes tobacco, l6 pkgs tubs,
III caddies tOuaccO. ID cases cigarettes. l iron
safe. box stationery, l box pictures, 8 bales
bags. keg soda, 0 bales hides, Is cases liquor.
l bale Irvine, boxes collins, rolls tin, y
cases eggs, cases shoes, 4 bags peas. cases
hats. bbls eggs. IA bales yarns, hid wax, l
Dbl wax, sewing machines, 10 bales sheeting,
IS bales drills, 20 bales waste.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-22

A good deal of interest is felt here in
the fight going on between eX-Secretary
Teller and Senator Van Wyck in the
Senate. They are managing to take more
of the time of the Senate than all the other
public business together. They whack
away at each other in their speeches on
the floor of the Senate, and seem to be
bitterly at war, yet their personal inter-
course is agreeable. 1t is no uncommon
thing to see them chatting together on
the floor of the Senate after the session is
over, and so far as can be seen with the
naked eye they are quite good friends. 1t
seems odd to see two men who stand up
in public and whack each other over the
head, calling hard names and insinuating
harder things, drop the quarrel at the
close of the days session, and
become as friendly as though
nothing had happened. Teller comes
back to the Senate much strength
ened by his four years ut the head Of the
Interior Department. II has been good
training for him, and he is remarkably
ready now in all matters pertaining to
details of public business, especially in
that department. He is going to prove
marked addition to the strength of the
Senate. His prompt, vigorous course in
not only answering all the charges of
VanWyck but standing squarely by
the administration of the past four
years, challenging the admiration
of many who doubt the correct
ness of the theories on which Re
issued the patents to the Backbone
Railroad" He is not man you would
pick out in a crowd Of people as an
ex-Cabinet officer, or one who could
attract so much attention or consume so
much of the Senate's time, as he does. He
is rather a quiet-looking man of, perhaps,
90, has dark hair and beard, but slight
" mixed with gray, with a semi-clerical
aspect and manner. His rather long
hair is always brushed straight back
from his forehead, on the Andrew Jack
son pattern In manner he is
quite agreeable, and as an orator
is above the average in the Senate.
His gestures are graceful and full of
energy, his voice good and his sentences
fairly we'll rounded. He dresses nea thy
in a dark business suit.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-22
EXPORTS.

Per steamship Juniata, for Philadelphia
bales upland cotton. 2oS bales dOmesucs and
yarns. 22S emptes, 10 bbis rice. los bbls rosin,
Isl bbls spirits turDentne, 30, I4l feet lum Der,
Is bales hides. 40 bales paper stock, u hhds
junk, 81 bbls oysters, 67l boxes oranges, 81 bbls
vegetables, 1916 crates vegetables. 43S cars pig
iron. Is pkgs mdse.
Per bark VIII " Case, for New YOrk-297, =
800 feet hewn timber, 35,347 feet p lumber
ID G Bacon y Co.
Per schr Bessie Morris, for WilmiL gtOn, Del
-25S, S37 feet p p lumber, 5,e5S feet cypress
lumber-D e Bacon q Co.
Per schr Nathaniel Lank, for Baltimore
2lS,474 feet climber, s,543 feet lumber-D c Ba-
con L Co.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-22
Army Appointments for Cleveland to
Make

WASHINGTON, March 18.-The present
administration will be very important
one for the army, owing to the number of
high rank vacancies which will occur
within the next four years, and which
President Cleveland will have to fill.
Brig. Gen. Augur, who is now in COM
mand of the Department of the Missouri,
will be retired in July, 1885; and in July,
1886, he will be followed by Major Gen.
Pope and Gen. John Newton, Chief OF
Engineers, and in August by Surgeon
General Murray. Two vacancies Will
occur in the list of Brigadier Generals.
When Gen. Pope is retired, Gen. Terry or
Gen. Howard will succeed him as Major
General, and in February, 1888, Gen.
Hancock will be retired, thus promoting
another Brigadier to be Major General,
and making a second vacancy in the
Brigadier list. Gen. Ferry is entitled to
the first Major Generalship vacated by
Gen. Pope's retirement, but Gen. Han
cocks successor will become the head Of
the army on the retirement of Gen. Sheri-
dan, ten years from now. Gen. Nelson A.
Miles will stand the best chance of get
ting it. He married the niece of Gen.
Sherman.