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WILD RUSH OF THE WINDS.
Several Vessels Wrecked in the Vicin
ity of Key West.
No Estimate of the Lose of Life or
Damage to Property Possible at
Present—The East Coast Weathers
the Storm Without Lobb of Life, and
With Less Damage to Property Than
in Last Year’s Blow.
Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 29.—Wire com
munication has been restored to all por
tions of Florida visited by the storm and
by Monday all damage to the railroads
will have been repaired and trains will be
running on schedule.
Dispatches to the Times-Union to-night
from Titusville, Jupiter and other east
coast points where the storm was sup
posed to have been most severe, state
that no lives were lost and that the dam
age to property is not as great as in the
•form of last year.
To-night tho Times-Union received a
special cablegram from Key West, which
is the first news from that city since last
Sunday. The cablegram to the Times-
Union is as follows: “Key West, Fla.,
Sept. 29.—The wind commenced blowing
on Sunday afternoon about 4:30 o’clock,
and continued until Tuesday night, blow
ing hardest at between 11 and 12 o’clock
Tuesday, when its velocity registered 102
miles an hour.
GREAT DESTRUCTION TO SHIPPING.
“There was great destruction to shipping
along the islands. The wreckage extends
from Dry Tortugas to Cape Florida.
“No estimate of the loss of life or of
damage to property can be made at pre
sent., Six men have been picked up and
brought into this port since Wednesday
two of them severely bruised.
“The French barkentine Cambrone,
from Jamaica, loaded with logwood, was
driven within 100 yards of the shore. The
crew was taken off by the Key West
Wrecking Company.
“The schooner Lilly White is supposed
to be lost, having left Punta Rassa Sun
day night. On Monday night she was
seen off the northwest light house in com
pany with the schooner Hero, which has
since come into port dismasted.
“The French bark Mariello, lying in
the harbor, was capsized.
A BUILDING BLOWN DOWN.
“The large building of E. H. Gate, on
the south beach, was blown down and
part of the roof of the United States na
val department was blown off.
“The crack yacht Sophia was wrecked
off Talhunobes on Monday afternoon
about 3p. m., and is being repaired pre
paratory to being brought to this city.
“There is a large vessel bottom up at
Turtle harbor, name unknown.
“The German bark Nada, from New
Orleans to Lisbon, laden with flour and
staves, stranded on Long Key bank and
is a total loss. The wreckers are saving
the cargg.
“All the bath houses along the water
front are washed away, and many orna
mental trees uprooted. Otherwise, little
damage was done to the city.”
TUB BIG HOTELS ALL EIGHT.
St. Augustine, Fla., Sept. 29.—Trains
are running south to Palatka. The wires
are repair*! and all messages are sent
Dispatchls received frd&t Titusville'
state that comparatively little damage
was done other than to the wires along
the Indian river by the storm.
A train went to West Palm beach
Thursday morning, returning Friday to
Espanola, tho seventh station south of
Palatka. A washout north of this point
of three miles will be repaired by Mon
day.
No serious damage was done at West
Palm Beach hotel, Royal Poinciana or
Lake Worth.
The wires are still down between here
and Jacksonville, but they will be in
Working order Monday.
SWEPT BY THE SEAS.
Bev. Thomas Dixon Has a Startling
Experience on Cobb’s Island.
Washington, Sept. 29.—A special from
Cape Charles, Va., says: “Tho storm
has abated in this section to some ex
tent. The wind blew from the north
east a regular hurricane for three days
and three nights unceasingly. The
waters have receded and steamers will
resume their regular trips between here
and Norfolk. The first tidings received
here from Cobb’s Island about 6 o’clock
last night, when Rev. Thomas Dixon,
who is summering on the Island with his
family from New York, managed to get
over to the main land. He said: ‘We
have been living right in the Atlantic
ocean for the past three days. The storm
•broke on us last Tuesday night late, and
for three days and three nights the wind
blew a regular hurricane from the north
east. Wednesday and Thursday the wind
seemed to increase, and the entire island
was submerged in three feet of water,
carrying away fences,* outhouses and
threatening destruction to all who were
living on the island. Rev. Dixon says
that by actual measurement 200 feet of
Cobb's Island and beach were washed
away by the enormous waves that lashed
the shore, and that the inhabitants state
it to be the most violent storm they have
had for twenty years. All vegetation and
some pigs were destroyed. No lives were
lost. The water went down to its normal
condition yesterday morning.”
BINGERLY IN THE SADDLE.
fie Formally Accepts the Nomination
for Governor.
Philadelphia, Sept. 29.—The democratic
campaign in Pennsylvania was formally
opened this afternoon, when at the head
quarters of the state committee in the
Lafayette hotel the several candidates
were notified of their nomination. Rep
resentative democrats from all over
the state were present. Attorney
General W. IL Hensel, who by
reason of the fact that he
was permanent chairman of the late
democratic state convention, was chair
man of the committee on notification, in a
brief but effective speech notified the can
didates of their nomination. When Mr.
Hensel had concluded Mr. Singerly read
a letter of acceptance for himself and tho
other nominees.
A. LEHMAN DEAD.
Me Was the Hoad of the Largest Dry
Goods House in the South.
New York, Sept. 29.—A. Lehman of
New Orleans died in this city last even
ing. He was on the way home from Eu
rope. Mr. Ix'hman was the head of the
largest dry goods house in the south. He
was 00 years old, a native of Gomer
ahiem, Rhienpnlz, Germany. He went to
New Orleans forty years ago, a poor boy,
became a peddler and finally established
himself in the dry goods business, which
he built up until it was the largest in the
south. He was president of the Touro
infirmary, aftd prominent in all the Jew
ish charities of New Orleans.
DUTY ON IRON BEAMS.
An Important Decision Against the
Fedeial Government.
Boston, Sept. 29.—An important de
cision was rendered to-day by J udge Colt
in the United States circuit court against
the United States government. The case
was that of Joseph Birtwell against Col
lector Leverett Saltonstall, and has been
pending in this court for a number of
years. Tbe law points involved are the
same as in similar cases now pending in
circuit courts in many other states, and
this was a test case.
Birtwell is an importer of iron, and
some time ago imported into this country
iron beams, which were used in the con
struction of the new court house. The
poods were invoiced as “manufacturers of
iron,” upon which there is a lower rate of
duty than upon iron beams.
The collector classified them as “iron
beams,” and the higher rate of duty was
paid by Mr. Birtwell as he desired
to use the beams at once. Ten days after
this duty was paid he entered a
protest, but the government con
tends that the protest should
have been made at the time the duty was
paid. On this point hinges all the other
cases which have been brought against
the government to recover duties paid
under protest. It is estimated that the
amount involved in all the cases pending,
is about 125,000,000. The case will be ap
pealed.
CARLISLE’S CLERKS.
The Reorganization of the Force to Go
Into Effect To-morrow.
Washington, Sept. 29.—The reorganiza
tion of the olerieal force of the treasury
will go into effect Monday next. The
changes necessary to accomplish the re
sult were made to-day. No dismissals
were made to-day, but eighty-eight clerks
were dropped from the regular roll and
placed on the temporary roll at reduced
salaries under the appropriation to
bring up to date the work in
divisions of the treasury that are
behind. It is believed that
this work will continue about two months.
The forty-two dismissals made in the
treasury on Sept. 15 took effect to-day. A
net reduction of 143 people of all grades is
made in the reorganized clerical force,
but as vacancies occurring in the past
year have not been filled, only forty-two
dismissals had to be made to bring the
force to the reduction point provided by
congress. The efficient clerks of the
eighty-eight put on the temporary roll
may be provided for as vacancies occur
hereafter, as they can be reinstated
within a year.
SLAIN BY A LAWYER.
An Old Feud Ended by a Shot at a
Prize Drill at Piokens.
Charleston, S. C , Sept. 29.—A special
to the News and Courier from Pickens,
S. C., says: “At Mount Carmel, ten miles
east of Pickens, J.W. Latham was fatally
shot by J. E. Childress, a lawyer of''
Pickens. Latham was shot at close
range in the right side, and lived only
three hours. Childress immediately
made his escape, came to Pickens and is
now in jail. Not a word was said before
the shooting. There was a crowd around
them. One witness stated that Latham
walked up and struek Childress with a
stick, and then Childress shot him with a
pistol. Latham fell, saying, ; He has
killed me. ’
“The hill was crowded with people and
the excitement at once was intense,
women and children screaming and faint
ing. - -
“The crowd had assembled to witness
a prize drill of the Pickens Guards. The
shooting broke the affair up.
“The cause of the trouble was said to
have been an old feud. The jail is
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MINERS TO BE RESCUED.
Four Men Given Up for Dead Found
Alive in a Colliery.
Scranton, Pa., Sept. 29.—A report has
been received here from the Northwest
colliery, near Carbondale, that the four
imprisoned miners, who were supposed to
have been crushed by a fall of rock
Thursday afternoon will be delivered
alive during the night.
A large lorce of rescuers have been at
work since the cave-in occurred and late
last evening they could detect a voice
from the chamber, where the men were
supposed to lie dead. At 6 o’clock this
evening, conversation could be carried on
and it was learned that all the prisoners
are alive and supplied with a quantity of
water, but are without food. The fall of
rock, extending over seventy feet in a
gangway, is the largest in the his
tory of this region, where imprisoned men
were finally rescued alive.
There is a scene of intense excitement
around the mouth of the mine where the
accident occurred. The families of the
entombed men can scarcely be restrained
from going into the colliery, so anxious
are they for the welfare of their relatives.
The men have now been in the colliery
forty-eight hours without food.
SLAIN IN HIS STORE.
A Man Loses His Life While Lying in
Wait for Thieves.
Washington, Sept. 29.—A dispatch
from Raliegh, N. C., says: “James Brown,
superintendent of the Ixmg Island cotton
mill, near Statesboro, missed articles
from his store, and Thursday night slept
in the store to catch the thief. Yester
day morning his daughter went to the
store, and found the door unlocked and
the body of her father lying on the floor
with a bullet hole in his head and evi
dences of a fearful struggle between
Brown and the thief, or thieves.”
Pope Leo and the Legitimatists/
Rome, Sept. 29. —The Courriere Di
Napoli says that the pope’s object in sum
moning Mgr. D’Hulst to Rome, is to in
struct him to inform the Due D’Orleans
that his holiness does not approve of a
legitimatist agitation in France.
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A JUDGE’S FAMILY IN PERIL
Three of Its Members Barely Missed
By Flying Bullets.
The Wife the Intended Target of the
First Missile—Her Daughter and
Then the Judge Have Narrow Es
capes—The Judge Unable to Conjec
ture Why Any One Should Want to
Kill Him.
Chicago, Sept. 29.—Judge Brentano of
the supreme court and his family have
apparently been marked out for assassi
nation, although the facts have been kept
quiet.
The first attempt was made to kill Mrs.
Brentano about 7 o’clock Wednesday
evening. She was standing in front of a
window in the kitchen when a shot was
fired, and the next instant a bullet came
crashihg through the pane of glass,
barely missing her. It went through the
outer screen and lodged in the wall oppo
site.
Thursday afternoon Judge Bsentano’s
daughter was playing in the back yard,
when another bullet crashed into the
rear of the house, coming evidently from
the same direction as the first.
THE JUDGE NARROWLY ESCAPES.
Last night Judge Brentano himself was
the one who came near being killed. He
was in the kitchen in front of the same
window before which his wife was stand
ing Wednesday evening. The third
bullet from the revolver of thi unknown
miscreant came through the window
pane about six inches from the hole made
by the first piece of lead. The bullet
missed Judge Brentano’s head by about
three inches and went into the wall close
to the first one. Judge Brentano cannot
imagine why these attempts should be
made to kill hirti or his wife and daughter.
He is not willing to say that he thinks
the shots were fired by a wonld-be as
sassin.
UNABLE TO EXPLAIN IT.
“It may be the work of some irrespon
sible person who is trying to make a
scare, or a careless marksman,” said he.
“I do not know of any enemies who would
like to kill me, or of any late official acts
I have done to incur the displeasure of
any set of men.” *
Judge Brentano has been on the su
perior court bench of Cook county for
bbout four years. He is the judge who
tried the Prendergast case, but does not
believe that his connection with that trial
has anything to do with the shooting.
Detectives are at work on the matter.
A PLEA FOR STATE RIGHTS.
Gov. Stone Opens the Democratic
Campaign in Missouri.
Carthage, Mo., Sept. 29.—Gov. William
J. Stone opened the democratic state
campaign in a speech here to-night. His
opening period was in defense of state
rights. He said: "The sovereignty of
the state is in peril. I protest against
the right assumed by the federal authori
ties of exercising police power in the
state of Missouri, or in any state of this
union.
“I yield to no living man on the point of
national patriotism; 1 yield to none in
fidelity to the republic, in devotion to the
union. But Jeffersonian democracy is the
very essence of a perfect union, and in
the application of its principles is to be
found the most substantial assurance of
national permanency.”
HOPPED ON BY HAWKE.
The Englishmen Defeat the Quaker
Cricketers Disastrously.
Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 29.—The re
sult of the second international cricket
match between Lord Hawke’s eleven and
tbe team representing All Philadelphia
ended in a disastrous defeat for the home
players, the Englishmen winning the
match by an inning and forty runs. The
Englishmen scored 211 runs yesterday in
their first inninngand the Philadelphians
made 107 in their first inning this morn
ing, and were compelled to follow on, and
were retired •in their second inning for
64, a grand total of but 171 in their two
innings.
ONLY ON A LABK.
Atlanta’s Missing Restaurant Cashier
Found in the City.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 29.—James Fuller,
the restaurant cashier who disappeared
Thursday night with a roll of money in
his pocket, and was thought to have met
with foul play, was found by city detec
tives in a room on Whitehall street. The
young man had merely been enjoying a
lark. A detail of city detectives bad
been scouring the city for him for two
days at the instance of his employers.
LYMAN STILL IN OFFICE.
The Commissioner Denies a Report
That He Has Resigned.
Washington, Sept. 29.—A report be
came current to-day that Civil Service
Commissioner Lyman had sent his resig-
I nation to the President. When asked
j about it, Mr. Lyman would not talk on
j the subject further than to say: “I have
not resigned, and have not said to any one
: that 1 had done so.”
Cotton’s Low Water Mark.
New York, Sept. 29.—0 n the cotton ex
change this morning both the October
and November cotton futures sold below
6 cents for the first time in the history of
I the exchange. "*
VETO POWER OF THE LORDS.
Roseberry Still Declines to Disclose
His Policy.
Distrust of the Premier’s Sincerity
Pervading the Radicals, Irish and
Whole Liberal Party Only a
Straightforward Declaration on the
House of Lords and Home Rule
Questions Can Save Him From Be
ing- Overthrown.
London, Sept. 29.—80th private appeals
and public warnings by the leaders of the
Irish party have failed to disturb the
reticence of the ministry with regard to
the policy they intend to pursue during
the coming session of parliament, and the
position of affairs political verges on a
great crisis. Lord Roseberry shirks in
every way bringing before the cabinet the
question of the government’s policy
with reference to the House of Lords,
fearing that dissensions will arise and
that the ministry will be disrupted
through the withdrawal of the members
opposed to the abolition of the veto power
of the peers. Since the retirement of Mr.
Gladstone, although the question of abol
ishing the veto power of the lords has
been in the fore front of the country’s
politics, it has not once been discussed by
the cabinet. Every section of the liberal
party is waiting with strained anxiety
for some ministerial declaration, while
Lord Roseberry urges them to be patient.
The adoption of the programme re
cently proposed by the Duke of Devon
shire and Mr. Chamberlain, making their
complete absorption of the unionists by
the conservatives, the chief feature of
which was the revision of Mr. Chamber
lain’s scheme for Irish local government
to the extent of creating countyncouncils
with the central legislature located in
Dublin, is now doubtful. Lord Roseber
ry’s communications rather indicate that
until the cabinet shall be settled upon
the policy to be pursued regarding the
House of Lords, at the councils to be held
in November and December, no definite
pronouncement upon the subject ought to
be expected.
ROSEBERRY UNDER SUSPICION.
The feeling of distrust of the sincerity
of the premier is not now confined to the
radicals and Irish, but prevades the
whole of the Liberal party, and only a
straightforward declaration of policy on
the a House of Lords and home rule
questions can save him from being over
thrown.
In a letter recently written, Henry La
bouchere says he despairs of the govern
ment, and that he and the following with
him will in the future pursue an inde
pendent course.
William O’Brien, Justin McCarthy
and Timothy Healy have made declara
tions in which they notify the govern
ment that unless the government's atti
tude on the House of Lords question is
clearly defined at the opening of parlia
ment they will use their un
doubted power _ to bring a
dissolution. If Lord Roseberry de
cides to satisfy these demands be will
find it necessary to reconstruct the min
istry. expelling therefrom the element
hostile to the House of Lords reform.
Once the Irish leaders are made to feel
absolutely certain that a bill abolishing
the veto power of the lords will be intro
duced, it is understood that they will
allow the government to act at their dis
cretion as to the time of the measure’s
presentation to parliament.
Lord Roseterry has already promised
the Welsh tha first measure
to be considered at the coming session
shall be the bill for the disestablishment
of the church in Wales.
The conservatives, as soon as a bill de
priving the House of Lords of the power
of veto shall have been announced, will
adopt obstruction tactics on every meas
ure presented, and will continue on the
course until the House of Commons and
the public at large shall have had ample
opportunity to discuss in all its bearings
such a vital change.
GLADSTONE AND THE CUP.
Mr. Gladstone is out in a letter affirm
ing his adhesion to local option, though,
he says, he hoped further steps might
have been taken to cope with the fright
ful evils of drink. This letter from the
ex-premier has restored the equanimity
of the temperance party, the organs of
which advocated the issuance of an ulti
matum by the government on the subject.
ELECTION OP THE LORD MAYOR.
The London corporation, though gen
erally looked upon as the hotbed of in
trigue or corruption, usually hide their
rivalries over the spoils from the public
view, but the contest to-day over the
election of a lord mayor was too heated
to admit of concealment. Much recrimi
nation was indulged in by the contending
parties. According to regular rotation,
Sir Joseph Renal, representing the Al
dergate ward, ought to have been
elected to the lord mayorship. Sir Jo
seph for the past four years has been a
promoter and director of nine great com
panies, the united capital of which
reaches the sum of £3,302,065, and not one
of which paid a dividend. The shares of
these companies, too, were without quo
tations. Possibly Sir Joseph might have
slid into the lord maj’or's chair without a
scandal had it not been that he suffered
from the cbliquy attached to a succession
of his predecessors. Sir Joseph White
head, who was elected Jord mayor in 1890,
lies under the stigma of having been
engaged in disgraceful company promo
tions; Sir Henry Aaron Isaacs assisted
while in office to float two of the biggest
swindles known in modern times, and
Sir Joseph Savory in 1892 pledged him
self not to join any board during his
year's term as lord mayor. Within a few
weeks of the time when he was installed
in office, despite his pledges, he
became a director of a company
which obtained the contract for
lighting the city by electricity.
Sir Joseph Renal has written an open let
ter in which he protests that his connec
tion with the various companies of which
he is a promoter or director have resulted
in loss to him. A poll has been called for
with the purpose of obtaining the vote of
the entire guild electorate. The ballot
ing will take place on Oct. 3.
ISINGLASS’ BIG WINNINGS.
The sporting public is agape over the
enormous amount of money won by Mr.
H. McCalmont’s 4-year-okL Isinglass.
Since the colt appeared on the turf his
winnings in stakes alone have reached
£56,935, beating the record of the Duke of
Portland’s horse Donovan, whose win
nings footed up £55,154. Mr. McCalmont
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RUSSIA TO DESERT FRANCE.
Advices received by great financial
houses in London are understood to con
firm the worst news regarding the condi
tion of the Czar of Russia. His majesty’s
condition is said to be hopeless, and his
death can be delayed but a few months.
The general opinion in this city coincides
with that expressed in Paris and Berlin,
to the effect that the accession to the
throne of the czarewitch will result in de
priving France of a friend.
Persons closely associated with the
czarewtich believe that when he ascends
the throne he will materially alter the
policy pursued by his father, and will cul
tivate cordial relations with Germany and
England and hold aloof from France. The
fluctuation in rentes during the week are
attributed to the impression that the
czar’s death would cause a tremendous
fall in prices.
_ Sir Henry Frederick Ponsonby, keeper
of the privy purse and private secretary
to her majesty, has tendered his resigna
tion of his office, pleading that he is in
infirm health. The queen hesitates to
accept his resignation.
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A PARNELLITE MANIFESTO.
The Other Factions of the Irish Par
liamentary Party Bitterly Attacked.
Dublin Sept. 29.—The independent, or
Parnellite, party has issued a manifesto,
in view of the anniversary of the death of
Charles Stewart Parnell, who died on
Oct. 6, 1891, bitterly attacking' the other
factions of the Irish parliamentary party,
saying: ‘‘The mass of the people
who went wrong last election have
been disillusionized. They are not likely
to remain long in the service of a govern
ment that confesses its inability to do
anything for Ireland, nor remain attached
to a parliamentary party conspicuous in
haying failed in the first essentials of
unity, discipline and independence, and
which has succeeded onlj' in hiring to
strangers those services which were
solemnly pledged to Ireland.
“A general election is a certainty in the
near future, and even were it the avowed
policy of the Irish allies of the govern
ment to continue the present moribund
ministry in office,they are too demoralized
and divided by deadly internal strife to
be useful to even their British paymas
ter. We may expect, therefore, before
the date of dissolution, individual appeals
to the constituencies from out of the
ranks of the Irish allies themselves.”
PLIGHT OF THE PIGTAILS.
China’s Emperor Attributes the De
feats to Incompetency
London, Sept. 29. —Advices from Shang
hai to the Central News says the emperor
attributes the recent defeats suffered by
the Chinese forces to incompetency and
corruption, and this fact has caused
almost a panic in the palace, and has ren
dered the position of affairs in China ex
tremely serious.
The correspondent of the Central New?
in Tokio telegraphs that the commander
I of the Japanese warship Naniwer, reports
that in company with the Akitsushima,
on Sept. 23, he made a search of the Gulf
of Tairenwan, in Manchooria, and found
stranded there tbeChinese cruiser Kwang-
Kai. Upon sighting the Japanese ships
entering the gulf, the Chinese aboard the
Kwang-Kai set the vessel on tire and fled.
ENGLAND TO SEND TROOPS.
The Duke of Cambridge, commander-in
chief of the British army, visited the war
office to-day. It is reported that tfaeduke
was making arrangements for the imme
diate dispatch of troops to Shanghai in
order to protect the British residents,
whose lives are said to be in danger from
the Chinese populace.
Hood’s Stopped the Doctor’s Bill.
“Every year I have had a doctor s bill
to pay, but last year I was advised to
take Hood’s Sarsaparilla, and I am
pleased to say that my doctor’s bill was
only $3, which I paid for Hood’s Sarsapa
rilla.” Mrs. S- F. Harrison, Monteith.
Ga.
Hood’s Pills are especially prepared to
1 be taken with Hood s Sarsaparilla.—ad.
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YOtTCAN
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ORDER BY MAIL and do as well as if on the spot.
Fine Clothing, Overcoats, Etc.
No one else in Georgia can near give you Our Quality
and Prices. J
Business, Dress and Wedding Suits, Uniform Suits,
Overcoats, Underwear, Neckwear, Hosiery, Hats, and
Furnishings.
Our Children and Boys’ Department
Doubled in extent this season. The biggest and finest
stock South to select from.
Children’s Knee Suits—4 to 14 years, $2.00, $2.75, $3.50
and up.
Boys’ Suits—l 4 to 18 years, $3.50, $4.00, $5.00 and up.
All prices, all styles, all sizes.
Sole agents for Dunlap’s Fine Hats.
We sell GOOD Clothing CHEAP. “Cheap” clothing
is the dearest you can buy. Order of the LEADERS.
159 Congress Street, Savannah, Ga.
B. H. LEVY & BRO.
’ IRON FOUNDERS. “
KEHOE’S WrYWORKS;
W Founders, Machinists, Boiler-
- f makers and Blacksmiths.
M Kfods of repair work promptly done, Great
reduction In price of
SUGAR MILLS AND PANS.
ESTIMATES PROMPTLY FURNISHED.
H Broughton Street, from Reynolds to Randolph Sts. Telephone
*“■ 368, Savannah, Ga
__ _ carriages. ,
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wLeader in Low Prises .
Vehicle and
Harness Line,
Call or write him for Prices and Catalogue. Bay and Montgomery Streets.
THE ORANGE SECTION. |
The Most Beautiful Part of the Start
of Florida.
Close Halations Between Savannah
and Florida A Lucky Editor.
Groves Owned by Rich Men—lm
provements Being Made by the Sa
vannah, Florida and Western.
Maitland, Fla., Sept. 28.—50 far as I
can judge this has been the wettest sum
mer known in Orange county for years.
With a slight intermission of about a
week we have had showers daily for over
three months, and of late the showers
frequently run into steady rains for whole
days or nights. Probably the severe
storm, which commenced Monday after
noon, will close our prolonged rainy sea
on, and then it may be three or four
months before we have another shower. ,
“a region of lakes.”
My first visit was made to Maitland
in March, 1879, and the above was the
heading to my descriptive letter of that
date to the Morning News. There was
no railroad In all South / Florida then,
and I rode over from Sanford, where the
steamers landed passengers from Jack
sonville, in a buggy with the late Dr.
Spence. On all sides were to be seen
lakes. In fact. Orange county
is fairly dotted with them. I
then designated this section as
the “garden spot” of Florida
for health, contentment and the ordinary
pursuits of life, and have become more
firmly fixed in this view after my recent
four year’s residence here in search of re
newed health. Ther are, I think, more
Georgians residing in this county than ,
any other in the state, and they are peo- '
pie of culture and means as a general ’
rule. We are safe here from epidemics,
disastrous storms, destructive frost
and dangerous overflows. About this
time a year we have a quite lively storm
and that ends it.
RAILROAD IMPROVEMENTS.
The track-layiug gang of the
South Florida division of the
Savannah. Florida and Western
railway is now at work here, re-
placing the mile or two gap of small rails
with <O-pound steel rails, and it reminds
me of my second visit here about a dozen
years ago, when a little narrow gauge
railroad extended from Sanford to Or
lando. The difference in the rails and lo
comotives then in use and those
of the present day is like
that of a monkey and an
elephant. The little locomotive then
used is still preserved at the shop in San
ford as an object worthy to be studied ip
connection with the wonderful railway
development in South Florida during the
past ten or fifteen years. And yet we
have demagogues in Florida who seek to
array the people—the “dear people”—
against railroads as dangerous things to
be allowed their freedom. But for rail- |
road enterprise South Florida would to
day be back nearly where it was when I
first saw it over fifteen years ago. '
SAVANNAH AND FLORIDA BUSINESS.
The relations between Georgia and
Florida have always been close and fra
ternal. In her early struggles, when op
pressed by political burdens aifd having
very limited means of transportation for
the development of her unsettled yet de
sirable regions, Florida found in Savan
nah and the Morning News steadfast
friends and ready helpers Now that
railroads permeate every section of the
state, and Jacksonville has grown to be
quite a metropolitan city and an
important seaport, it is hardly just for
political demagogues to cry out against
Savannah as an enemy to Florida because
of the net that her abundant facilities
for handling all kinds of products draws
a certain amount of business from this
state. Not many years ago large steam
ers—the City Point and the Dictator—
used to carry it direct from Palatka to
I Charleston. Now milch of it goes by rail
via Jacksonville and other points to Sa-
1 vannah, and simply a change from water
to rail and from Charleston to Savannah.
rich men’s orange groves.
During the past week the packing house
of Heard ana Ralls has been shipping
lemons from the famous Dommerich.
grove, formerly the property of Swt.
Swope of the South Florida railroad. It
suggests to me to note the fact that rich
men do not buy orange groves in Florida
simply for their own enjoyment. Mr.
Dommerich paid about $50,000 for this
grove and has already expended,
over that amount in an elegant
family residence and in an extensive
irrigating plant, etc. And then, like
George Vanderbilt with his North Caro
lina mansion and park, he is making
everything help reduce expenses. His
oranges and lemons, etc., go regularly to
market and are sold with even more
shrewdness than the poor man displays
in selling his crop. In fact, I am con
vinced that the rich man is about the
only one who really makes money out of
his grove—and yet he does not need it.
OVER IN ORLANDO.
A recent visit to Orlando gave me sev
eral surprises. Hon. H. H. Dickson,
formerly an Atlanta publisher and printer,
and his able assistant, A. W. Acree from
South Georgia, have added an orange
packing house to their other business.
This is the way enterprising Georgians
do in this state. Orlando will soon have
something to boast of—three banks on
three opposite corners. The first Na
tional Bank has bought the wooden build
ing on the cofner opposite the Orlando
Bank and will put up a brick banking
house. Then three of the four corners in
the heart of the city will be banking
houses, something that can be said of
very few cities of large size. Corners are
generally gobbled up by druggists and
whisky men who always have an eye to
! the best location for business. Orlando
is to be congratulated on this fine ex
ample of breaking the record in this re
spect.
It is always pleasant to chronicle the
success of a country editor from Geor
gia, who has come to Florida with his
family, especially when he is an humble,
earnest preacher of the gospel.
Rev. S. D. Smith of Dahlonega, Ga.,
came to Orlando a few years ago and took
a position on the Daily Record (now a
part of the Reporter), under
Editor Crabbe. The final collapse
of that journal left him somewhat
discouraged, yet he held on to his new
citizenship, and identified himself with
other enterprises until good luck “struck
him heavy” in a very simple, yet valu
able invention—the joining of several cans
to moveable pipes from the bottom of a
pan of boiling water, thereby steaming
the contents of the cans for sealing. This
little canning cooker is making Brother
Smith rich and happy, and he has lately
bought a fine residence for his family in
Orlando.
RUSSIA’S SICK EULEB.
Hie Majesty’s Breathing Extremely
Difficult and Painful.
Berlin, Sept. 29—The Cologne Gazette
says • “Sad news is received from Spala,
where the czar is sojourning. The inflam
mation of the kidneys, from which the
czar is suffering, has increased and his
majesty’s breathing is extremely difficult
and painful. Prof. Leyden, an eminent
physician of Berlin, who, it was an
nounced, would reach Spala early next
week, has already arrived there. Ho
advises that the czar be sent to Livadia,
Greece, as soon as possible.
DUPUY NOT TO RESIGN.
Poincarre Not to Become Francs’e
Premier Just Yet.
Paris, Sept. 29. —The Echo de Paris de
nies that there is any truth in the report
circulated by La Patrie and La Cocarde,
that Premier Dupuy is to resign immedi
ately, and that he is to be succeeded by
M. Raymond Poincarre, the minister es
finance.