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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-30
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS.
FoR JTsTICE OF TIE PEACE

To the voters Fourth g. NJ District, C
c.: l am a candidate for reelection fol
Justice of the Peace for your district a.
an election to be held Jan. 2, 1897, at No
10 Abercorn street, city of Savannah. and
Respectfully, SAMUEL REYNOLDS.
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MEETINGS,
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AUGUSTA q SAVANNAH RAILROAD
COMPANY.

Office of Augusta and Savannah Rail-
road Company, Savannah, Ca. Dec. 26,
stockholders of this Company, for the
purpose of electing a board OF directors
for the ensuing year, will he held on
Monday, Jan. 4. 1897, at u o'clock, noon.
at the Office of Hull & Lathrop Savan-
nan, Ga. JOSEPH D. WEED,
President.
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Baltimore, Nd, Dec. 29.-Col. William
Norris died to-day at his home at Brook
landville, Baltimore county. Col. Norris
was born seventy-six years ago. He was
graduated from Yale in the class of 40;
practiced law in New Orleans number
of years and went to California in 40.
While there he was appointed judge ad-
vocate of the Pacific squadron. When
the war broke out he returned to his ma
tive state and entered the confederate
service as captain, and was subsequently
made chief of the signal service. In 1865
Col Norris was made commissioner of ex-
change.
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DRY GOODS DEALERS FAIL.
Pressure OF Creditors and slow Coll
IectfOns the Cause.

Baltimore. Nd, Dec. III. snellbergor
& Son, leading retail dry goods merchants
% South Baltimore. made an assignment
to-day Their liabilities are 5000 and
their assets are about the same amount
Pressure Of creditors ana slow collections
caused the Suspension.
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10Y Bull srteet.

a new leaf about your laundry.
Send IT to us. We make the bosoms of
shirts white and stiff You won't have
TO kick for more starch in your collars
and cuffs. You won't find streaks of
blueng or dirt in them. We do IN
womens fine underwear in the most care
full manner.
SAVANNAH STEAM LAUNDRY CO.,
II West Congress Street.
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LUMBER FIRM CLOSES DOWN.

Over-Production and Failures Of
Banks Forced Suspension.
Seattle. Wash. Dec. 29.-The 3. T.. Stot-
son and Post Saw Mil Company closed
down its plant yesterday. throwing sew
enty men out Of employment. The heavy
over-production OF lumber. together with
the recent failures of eastern banks az
tecting a number Of western lumber firms,
caused the suspension.
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TO FIGHT THE REoEIVEasHIp.
The Georgia Road 10 stand by the
Atlanta and West Point.

Augusta, Ca, Dec. 29.-At a meeting Of
the directors Of the Georgia railroad held
here to-day it was determined to oppose
the application for receivership made
by stockholder owning FIVE shares m the
case Of the Atlanta and West Point Rail-
road Company.
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BENT WORKS. BURNEl0.
The Loss Estimated ut $4,000 ana
the Insurance only $4,000.

Junction City, O., Dec. 29-The bent
works and lumber yard Of Bringardner &
conkle, at this place. were completely
burned this morning. The loss is esti-
mated at $4,000. The insurance Is only
$1,000 The Newark fire department was
called, but came too late to render any
service. Fifty men are thrown out Of en-
ploVment
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
BIDS FOR REPAIRING WHARF Al
FOOT OF ABERCORN sTREET

CITY OF Savannah, Office Clerk of Conn
eli, December %. lS96-Bids will he recei,l-
ed at the office of clerk of council until 10
m, December Slst, 1896, for repairing tbe
wharf at the foot of Abercorn street ac-
eeording TO plans and specifications now on
file in the office Of the city engineer Pigs
20 be marked, Bid for Repairing Abero
corn Street Wharf" ANe'
The city reserves the right TO reiact 49,,
or all bids. ""y
BY order Of the Committee on Harbor
and Wharves. A. N. MANUCY.
Clerk of Council
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TYBEE sCHEDuLE-


CITY TIME
Leave savannah--Sundays 10 a. m. ana
2:3O y. m.
Leave Tybee-Sundays 1870 a. m. ana
As p. m.
On tuesdays 900 Leave Tybee at 400.
Thursdays and Saturdays leave Sava1.
nah 2:3O p. M; leave Tybee 4:45 D. m.
JOHN j. McDONOTTCTJ
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JEwELRY RAW TSsoLvENr.
Petition FILED for Dissolution ana n
Heceivership.

Cincinnati. o. Dec. 2a.-A petition was
fled last evening by members Of the we'll
kno~n firm OF Duhme a CO.. jewelers., for
q dissolution and q receiver for the firm
they cay the company b. lua0lgeuf ana
anable 70 meet maturing debts.
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A mans n baby, emily older, big
ger and much ugi,er. Presents
reach the hearts of babies of all
ages. Whisk Brushes, erchangea-
bic handles, Shirts, Walking Canes,
Umbrellas, Handkerchief, Suspend
ers, Gloves, or a nice Hat Gre suita-
bic gifts for "maIe infants' OF Iarg-
er growth. In this line we have IA
handsome Christmas stock, and feel
that we can "pIease the Infants
you may wish to favor. We can fur
ntsh you a suitable present from soc
upwards. So give us a call, and see
what we have.
LA FAR,
Halter and Furnisher,
Ill
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BEFORE PURCHASING

A Typewriter see the Improved Reming-
ION Typewriter. No. g. II has no equal.
DE-4RING e. HULL.
Sole Dealers for Savannah,
Drayton street
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Boston, Mass. Dec. 29-Hon. Edward
Avery, for many years prominent in
democratic state politics, died this morn
ing.
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SPECIAL NOTICE

All bills against the British steamship AID.
erley must be presented at our ONCE before 70
O'Clock m. this day, or payment thereof will
be deparred. STRACHAN g. Co.
COnsignees
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DEATHS ICY HAND.
Six Men of Wide Reputation Gath
cred in by the Grim Reaper.

London, Dec. 29.-The death is announced
to-day of Admiral Sir Alexander Milne,
Bart G. C. B. and K. c. B. (civiD +. r. S. L.
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London, Dec. 29.-Joseph Won Wasielew-
ski, the violinist and historian, is dead.
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WOLF a CO.,
PHONE Ga

WOLF a CO.,
PHONE &C.,
CHOICE ROSES. CUT FLOWERS AND
FLORAL DESIGNS.
WEDDING BOUQUETS A SPECIALITY
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FOR HOARsENEss,

FOR HoARsENEss,
Lime Fruit Tablets. Frog in Your Throat
Horehound Tablets. cantrans Troches
Huy;er's Licorice Tablet. Gum Drops
Our gum drops are made from Gum Ara
bic. no glue or gelatine in their Compost
ton.
soLoMONs & CO.,
Bull Street Branch.
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Paris. Dec. e9.-M. Halanzier-D ufresnoy.
formerly director of the Paris opera, is
dead. He was born in 1919,
Joseph Barbot, the French tenor, died
here Yesterday.
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SPECIAL NOTICE.

bPbSAAh NVAa~ -.
Parties Indebted 90 US, won" :,
fer a great favor by making prom.
settlement, I'm order 90 assist :"
raise $4,000 ii a hurry TO pay n.
purchase price Of retirins
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AN ELEGANT HOUSE FOR RENT.

AN ELEGANT HOUSE FOR RENT.
The modern brick residence, with all
modern improvements. 1907 NEW number)
Whitaker street. between waldburg and
New Houston, facing the Park Extension.
Possession given Immediately Apply to
F. G. BELL,
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NOTICE.

All bills against the British steamship
Garlands must be presented at our once be
fore Y o'clock noon this day, Dec. 30, 1895 or
payment viii be deharred.
RICHARDSON & BARNARD Agon,.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
NOTICE TO SUPERIOR COURT PETIT
JURORS.

Petit Jurors are discharged until Thursday
morning next. 3lst instant.
BY order of His Honor Judge Falligant.
JAMES X. Z. CARR,
Clerk 6. C. G.. c.
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THE CHATHAM REAL ESTATE AND
IMPROVEMENT COMPANY.

Savannah, Dec %, 1896.
The Board of Directors have this day
declared a dividend of one dollar and sew
enty-five cents $L75 per share on the
stock in both series of this company. same
to be paid on the 18th day of January next.
The books for transfer of stock will be
closed on the LIST day OF January.
NJ ]. SOLOMONS,
Secretary and Treasurer.
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Fatal Fire In Utica.

UTICA, N. Y, March 3.-The Gen.
nessee apartment house in this city
burned this morning. 1t was seven
stories high. The occupants number
ed 176, composing GO families. The
losses of these sixty families amount
to over 100000. The building was
worth $120, 900 and was insured to the
amount of $9U,OOO, and the property
of the tenants to the amount of S45,,
600. Four persons are known to have
lost their lives as the result of the fire
and it is feared that two other persons
and possible more, perished. The
names of the dead are: Mrs. Hugh
Hughes, 70 years of age, killed by
falling from the fourth story while
being lowered to the ground by a rope.
Mrs. George Wood, forty-five years OF
age, a niece of the late Governor
Seymour and her daughter, Mary, fif'
teen years of age, and Noble hopkins,
50 years of age. The bodies of the
three last named are in the ruins.
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For Free Silver.

WASHINGTON, March "A proml-
nent member of the executive COM
mittee OF the Bimetallio Democratic
National Convention, whose head
quarters are in this city, states that
the committee is confident that. the
free silver Democrats will control tho
Democratic National Convention by
decided majority. This committee,
he says, is actively and earnestly at
work, is organized in nearly every
State and Territory of the Union and
is in constant and regular correspond
ence with leading and influential sill.
YER Democrats in every section OF the
county. These reports show beyond
question, the committee claim, that
the mass of the Democratic party is in
favor of the free and unlimited coin.
age of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, and
that the silver sentiment is everywhere
growing in strength and earnestness,
its advocates daily becoming more
Jealous and aggressive.
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South Carolinians In Washington.

WASHINGTON, March 5.-A South
Carolina society, composed OF citizens
of the Palmetto State temporarily in
Washington, has been organized, with
the following officers: President,
General John B. Irwin; first vice pres,
ident, G. A. Douglass; second vice
president, JOHN g. Capers; secretary,
James M. Baker treasurer, Charles b.
Brice; executive committse-Thoma'
F. Brantly. Benjamin Martin, j. j.
Darlington, e. NJ. Rucker, ex-Con'
gresham J. J. Hempnill, D. Q. Roper
and w. M. Aiken. The South Caro-
lima Congressman were elected homo
rary members, and other applications
will be considered by the executive
committee. The society will meet on
the first Friday of each month and the
annual meeting will be held on May
23, the day on which South Caroline
ratified the Federal Constitution.
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mother have made full statements OF
the affair to the American consul,
which will be forwarded to Washing
ton.
Twelve bodies were left 10 the
streets for the inhabitants to bury.
One of them, that of milkman, was
shot on his cart while filling milk
cans in front of his house and after
wards pursued into the house and lin
ished The - bodies were buried in
the cemetery at Guatao. Five addi
tional bodies, identified by neighbors
as those of peaceable residents Guatao,
were found in a field near Punta Bra
va and said to have been taken prison
ers at Guato and afterward killed by
the soldiers. Fifteen prisoners were
compelled to walk to Mariana, hVe re
miles away and were so badly, bruised
and cut from blows received on Ine
way that they required medical atten.
dance upon arrival. Three physicians
from Punta Bravo and Marlano, VINO
are members of the Red Cross society,"
vent to Guatao to attend the wound
ed. They found the dead in the street,
but no wounded. Quintera, the
American prisoner, had his wound
dressed at Mariana. The arrival of
the troops with their prisoners late
Saturday night Marianao and the in
formation of what had occurred, ter.
rified the residents of the delightful
suburban town so that many came to
Habana. One of the volunteers, a
man named Edwardo Sanchez store
keeper of Marianao, openly boasted
that he had gone into a house and
killed a man IN bed.
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The Waters SubsIde.

BOSTON, March 4.-With the subsi-
dence of the waters, which during Sun
day night, Monday and Tuesday, over
whelmed a greater part of New Eng
land, figures of losses sustained are
coming in, and from those received it
is apparent that the total damage in
the section will be considerably more
than 50, ,O00,0 900. This does not include
the wages of thousands of laboring
men through suspension of manufac-
turing and other industries. Six lives
have been lost. The main financial
loss is divided between the States OF
Maine, New Hamps hire and Mesa.
chusetts. Maine bears about one-half.
New Hampshire has been swept from
one end to another, and heavy losses
at Manchester and Dover will bring
the total in that State closely up to a
million dollars. Massachusetts. at
Lowell and Lawrence, and the Merri,
mac River Valley, suffers heavily, but
$3.50, 900 will cover what she loses.
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EIlerbe For Governor.

COLUMBIA, S. c., March 4.-Gen.
William H. Ellerbee of Marion is
candidate for Governor.
This announcement was made yes
terday by a member of the Colleton
delegation in the General Assembly,
who said he was authorized to speak
for General Ellerbe. This announce
ment was not unexpected, for The
Register several weeks ago contained
an interview with a Legislator, in
which he stated that if Governor Ev.
ans became a candidate to succeed
Hon. John L. N. Irby in the United
States Senate, General Ellerbe the ten
ant of the Executive Mansion. While
there has been no authoritative declar-
atien from Governor Evans or any OF
his friends as to his intentions, the an
nouncement of Ellerbes guhernatori'
al aspirations, coming from the source
whence it issues, is almost tantamount
to declaration of Evans Senatorial
candidacy, as it would be a waste OF
time and money for Ellerbe to run
for Governor if Evaus were seeking
re. election. General Ellerbe was one
of the original Reformers and did
much to bring about the triumph of
toe movement in 1890 when he became
Comptroller General, which office he
held four years, filling it to the entire
satisfaction of the taxpaying public,
of whose interests he was always 9
vigilant guardian. In 1894 General
ElIerbee was candidate for Governor,
canvassing the State and making Wig
orous speeches from the stump in ev-
cry county. Vixen John Gary Evans
defeated him for the Reform ''sugges.
ton" in the the Colleton primary, he
gracefully submitted and turned in
and helped Evans defeat DR.. Samps
Pope, the Independent candidate.
This conduct made him many friends,
especially among the supporters and
admirers of Evans, who vowed then
that if the charce ever came they
would make amends by supporting
him for Governor. The only other
openly avowed Democrotic guberna-
torial candidate at present is 20. r. B.
Watson, Senator from Edgeheld.
whose platform is opposition to State
support of institutions for higher edu-
cation. 1t may be that other candi-
dates will enter the Democratic pri-
mary. There was some talk yester-
day of the possibility of General Nc.
Laurin's entering the gubernatorial
race, but the general consensus of
opinion was that he would go back to
Congress, in which he has made a
particularly good record. Whoever
the Democrats name as their candidate
he will have to beat that chronic office
seeker, Samps Pope. who is reported
to be determined to play lone hand
once more.
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Killed by his Prisoner.

SpARTANBURG, March 4.-Another
bloody tragedy must be set down TO
the illicit sale of whiskey. DeputyJ.
D. Kirby was killed early yesterday
morning by a prisoner captured TOR
making blockade whiskey. On their
way 10 this city on Wednesday after
noon. Kirby, Miller, Brown and Kir-
by's two sons, Jim and Lloyd, all Uni
ted States marshals, left for a raid In
the upper part of this county: They
went to capture still operated by the
Dill brothers. The raid took place
this morning, and Joe Dill and his
SON John were arrested and 60 gallons
of whiskey captured. John Dill pro-
tested vigorously and he was over
nowered and handcuffed. After q
while he became quiet and the hand
cuffs were removed. The party start
ed for this place. On their way tney
stopped at Holly Springs to feed. Jim
and Lloyd Kirby went to a nearby
mill pond to hunt ducks. Deputy
MiI1er had gone ahead with the wa.
con. load of liquor. John Kirby and
Brown were in charge OF the prison
ers Kirby was in the act of getting
into the wagon when John Dill picked
ND the weapon and fred at Kirby.
The bullet went whistling into his
brain and the soul of Kirby took its
flight. Both of the prisoners made
their escape.
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Negro Fanatics,

ATLANTA, Ga, March 4.-The negro
Ascensionists who expect to be carried
up into Heaven on Friday morning
received a cablegram this morning
from London newspaper informing
them that the date of the ascension
had been postponed for seven years
and seven months. The Ascension
lists are greatly excited and declare
that they will 60 up any way and that
no London authorities can defer the
trip. The idea of the Ascensionists is
that a power which will come in a
whirlwind will lift them up into the
clouds, where they will reside for i've
years, when they expect 10 return to
earth. In the meantime, however,
they say that the earth will be burned
over and only the righteous will re-
main. The band of Ascensionists
number about 100 members here.
Their faith is strong. One of them
left home yesterday morning, locking
her two children up in the house. She
was so carried away with religious
fervor that she forgot to return home
and tonight the police broke into the
house and found the children nearly
starved. The members of the band
are giving away or selling all their
possessions. Most of them give their
chattels to friends, believing that they
will have no further use for house
hold articles. The leader of the band
is an ignorant negro named John
Smith. He has been holding nightly
meetings in the southeastern part of
the city for two months. The cable
gram was an advertisement for the
London paper.
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cumulated one dollar above actual

cumulated one dollar above actual
necessary commercial capital"
did not say he had not accumulat,
ed assets or stock, but that he had not
accumulated one dollar above actual
necessary commercial capital since
November 3d.
In his article in this mornings Reg
lister he says: But at that time" (viz
November Sd, 1885, "when $4,000
was drawn from my cash surplus, I
was in less time than it takes to write
it and by the stroke cf a pen placed in
the position of owing. in round num-
bers, $4,000 more for merchandise
and supplies than 1 had cash with
which to pay"
This admission from the Commls-
sioner, coupled with the fact that on
Thursday, February 9th, the special
dispensary account in the State Treas
ury was drawn down to $17 .23, proves
the absolute correctness of my state
ment.
I have written from the standpoint
of this Office alone. 1t takes actual
money-cash-not dispensary assets,
to pay claims against the State. I do
not think it prudent legislation to
count on such a contingency as the
$l93, 900 of dispensary assets in max
ing provision to raise supplies to run
the State government.
1t is well known that I have not
been prompted by prejudice against
the Commissioner or the dispensary
in what have written. I desired to
place myself on record and discharge
duty I owed to myself and the pub
lilo. w. T. @. BATES.
Columbia, March 5.
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Senator Assaulted.

RICHMOND, Va, March 4.-Senator
Flood entered the Senate Chamber
this morning, and walking up to Sena-
tor Flanagan, belabored him over t e
head with a cane, intlicting painful
but not dangerous wound. The as.
sault caused much excitement. Flood
was arrested and bailed. The assault
was provoked by the fact that Elan
agan, day or two ago, said on the
floor that Flood had falsified. The
condition of Senator Flanaga is not so
favorable tonight. His physicians
fear now that there. is conclusion OF
the brain. They say it cannot be de-
finitely known within the next twelve
hours what the result will be. He has
been delirious for some hours.
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Cuban Refugees Story.

PETERSBURG, Va, March ED.
ward Mccullough, a Cuban refugee OF
English birth and education, is strand
ed in this city, having made his way
here from Norfolk, at which city he
arrived on a sailing vessel yesterday.
He claims to have been an officer on
General Gomez's staff, and says he
was forced to flee from Cuba for hav-
ing shot and killed Col. Ciencious, a
Spanish officer, who had insulted his
fancee. The tragedy, he says, occur
red in a plantation in the Province OF
Mantanzas. Mccullough was captured
but escaped bygiving his guard $4,000
in Spanish gold.