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REV. JOHN JASPER.
An Interview with This Noted Colored
Divine.
From the Richmond Dlxpatch.
There is no colored preacher in the world,
perhaps, more widely known than Rev.
John Jasper, pastor of the Sixth Mount
Zion Baptist church, of this city. This ven
erable man (who will be 75 years bid on the
anniversary of the country’s inde
pendence next month) lives in the
bosom of Jackson ward, at 1,112
North St. Janies street. Here it was that
“The-Sun-Do-Move” sermon, which gave
him such notoriety, was evolved. Here he
sits in his room, on the second floor,-and
studies his Bible and brushes the flies away
with a cat-o’-nine-tails, while seven of his
portraits (one marked John Jasper, D. D.),
look down from the walls of his chamber,
and his wife busies herself with household
duties on the floor below.
THREE WIVES.
The old man has been married three
times. He was born in Fluvanna, and
while in slavery (in 1838) he first married.
He and his wife both belonged to the
Peachy estate. “After my ole mistiss died,”
says he, “all the estase was divided up, and
I was taken one way and my wife another.”
In 1844 he was again married. During the
war he wedded his present wife. Jasper
has several children living and some dead.
He is also a grandfather and a great-grand
father.
HIS PASTORAL LIFE.
Parson Jasper says he he has been preach
ing since the first Sunday in February,
1840. From this time until the emancipa
tion of the slaves he preached around in
different counties for the benefit of different
people, who would pay his owners for the
time he was away. After the war his first
pastoral charge" was in' Petersburg. In
1867 he organized his present congregation,
with nine members, and for a long time
they worshipped in a stable on Brown’s
. island in the river. A bridge ran to the
' island from Richmond in those days. They
afterward secured a house at the corner of
Fourth and Cary streets, whence they re
moved to the structure (Duval, between St.
John and St. James), which has been pulled
down only in the past few weeks to make
place for anew and larger one. In old
times this was the Duval-Street (white)
Presbyterian church building.
HOW HE WAS CONVERTED.
The divine was asked who converted
him.
“God Almighty,” he quickly answered.
“I was converted just like Saul of Tarsus.
I was converted in the Capitol square
while the people were celebrating the Fourth
of July. I had an engagement that night to
go to see some girls, when all of a sudden a
deep impression fell upon my soul. I had
seen people die, apd I began to think about
that and other serious things. I went right
out of the square and went home and bun
dled myself up.”
“What do you mean by bundled your
self up?”
“\\ ell, I mean I left off my Sunday
clothes and put on my old clothes. When
Sunday came I put on the worse clothes I
had. In ’bout two weeks God converted me
and anointed me with the Holy Ghost, and
made me the Moses of my race, and said I
shouldn't be succeeded in my day, and I
should answer the infidel. The prophecy is
fulfilled. Moses led the children of Israel
forty years, and I have led my people forty
eight years already.
“Well, after I got-eonverted I wanted to
join the church. When I went before ’em
to be interrogated they asked me about my
conversion. I told ’em. Then they asked
me if I could read the. Bible. I told ’em no;
I hadn’t read the Bible. It was old man
Robert Spriggs asked me that. He’s
dead now. I fold him I hadn’t read the
Bible because I never had but seven months’
education, and that I stole from a New
York spelling book. I call it stealing be
cause slaves wasn’t allowed to learn. Well,
he asked me what I knew ’bout the Spirit of
God; how did I know I had it? I told ’em I
knew it, ’cause I felt it; that’s the way I
know it. Well, after they got through in
terrogating me I ioined the church and
went right to preaching, and I been preach
ing ever since. I didn’t have any education,
but I called on God for understanding and
Christian judgment, and He gave it to me.”
NO MANUSCRIPT.
“Do you ever write your sermons;”
, “I never wrote a sermon in my life. My
gift is a spiritual gift, and when I preach I
am led on by the spirit of God. My mind'
flies through the Bible like a flash or light
ning. Sometimes if I had six tongues I
could use ’em all at once. No trouble for
me to get doctrine. The spirit of God
brings me more doctrine than I ran speak.
I couldn’t, speak from manuscript anyway.
I’d forget it was on the Bible in front of me.
I haven’t decided yet what texts I will
preaph from to-morrow.”
“How many sermons do you preach a
day’”
“Two now. I’ve preached four a day.
And I’ve seen the time when I could a’
preached a sermon for every hour in the
day. My voice used to be so loud that you
could hear me from Shockoe Hill to Rock
ets.”
“How long have you been living in Rich
mond;”
'• “Since 1835,” answered the old preacher,
as he looked up over his octagon-eha]x 1
spectacles. “I ain’t been living in this
house but fifteen years.”
“There have- been lots of changes in
things since you came here, haven't there; - ’
ANCIENT RICHMOND.
“Yes, sir. When I first came hero, there
wasn’t over throe brick houses between
Twenty-first street and Rockets. There
was some few shanties on Main street. The
city was only laid off as far as Adams
street. West of that was nothing but woods.
Fourth street was the city limits. At sec
ond and Broad streets the old Brackett’s
tavern stood. Only in the pest forty-eight
years has there been a street from Church
Hill to Shockoe Hill. Just at Broad street
and Jail alley Broad street ended. Below
was tlio gully and the creek. The Danville
depot was a vacant lot. ’Bout a dozen
houses were built in Manchester. Near
Mayo's bridge vessels used to come up and
unload. Cary street was a muddy country
road—no houses on it at all. There wasn’t
no railroads here then. Main’s, bridge was
the only one 'cross the river. Trent's bridge
had stood where the Free bridge is now, but
it was washed away. Everybody had to
pay ‘lO lienee’ to go across the bridge. If
you didirt have but sc. you couldn’t go.”
A LARGE CONGREGATION.
“What’s the membership of your church
now?” asked the reporter, hauling the parson
in from the past to the present.
“Between 3,400 and 2,500. Anew reg
istration was begun some time ago, and
many members aid not come up. Some
have since repented and joined, but a good
mgny are out now.”
THE FAMOUS SERMON.
“How often have you preached your ser
mon on the rotationbf the sun;”
1 “About 100 times. I first preached it in
1878. Since then I have had offers from all
over tills country and from London, Paris,
and other places to go and preach it; but 1
lbfused ’em all, ’cause I didn't think it would
bo right to leave my people. One man
offered me 8400 to go" to London and preach
the sermon. He even said lie would pay ino
the money first, and that I wouldn’t nave to
walk a step between here and Europe, and
wouldn’t have to walk a step after I got
there.”
HOW IT CAME ABOUT.
“How did you happen to think of that
sermon?”
“Well, I preached that sermon from the
text, “Tho Lord is a man of war; the Lord
is His name,” which you will find to be tho
third verse of chapter xv. of Exodus.
In speaking about tho war lietwecn the
Aniorites and the children ot Israel I
brought in about Joshua, (after God gave
him pertain* ion) commanding the sun to
stand still upon Giboon and the moon to
stop in the Valley pf Ajalon, so that ho
Would havo enough time to win the Iwttle
before the sun went down. And then I
told my people if they had any difficulties
or things got in their way to go to God and
ass his assistance just a* Joshua did.”
“Are you in good health?”
“Yes, very good for an old man like me.
Soon after f fii-st delivered this sermon here
I went to Washington, Baltimore and Phila
delphia, and when I came back a great re
vival was going on, and one day I baptized
301 people without coming out of the water.
That laid me up for awhile. Never had but
three attacks of sickness in my life. Since
I was sick last December my appetite has
not been as good as it used to be. Yes, I’m
in mighty good health for an old man like
me,” and he wiped his spectacles as the re
porter departed.
THE NEW CHURCH.
The new church, when completed, will
cost between $15,000 and 816,000, and will
be a very fine structure. It will be made to
seat about twice as many or more than the
old edifice. A temporary place of worship
has been constructed on North First street,
which will be used until the new edifioe is
completed.
THE SIGHTLESS CADETS.
How the Blind Boys Marched and Went
Through the Manual of Arms.
From the Philadelphia Press.
Sixty boys in military uniform, whose
sightless eyes were blind to the sunlight
which trickled through the leaves of the
trees above their heads, and who could not
recognize the faces of the friends and kins
man who surrounded them, marched and
drilled yesterday in the grounds of the
Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruc
tion of the Blind, with the precision of
veterans.
The drilling of the cadets is a feature of
this institution, and it is an original fea
ture, to which there is none similar in this
country. The patience, the study and time
spent upon this branch of instruction
presents a reward in the improved bearing
of the little soldiers, and in the health which
the exercise gives them.
When the cadets marched from the gym
nasium to the playground it was almost im
possible to believe the miniature militiamen
were blind. Their shoulders were squared,
their heads erect, and their step was firm
and regular. The muzzles of their muskets
made an unwavering line of light, and the
red stripes on their blue trouser legs rose
and fell with the regularity of a machine.
It was the final full dress drill of the cadets,
and all of their 'friends and relations and
the friends of the institution were gathered
around the walls of the playground.
But the applause which saluted the cadets
as they filed past was the only knowledge
they had of the near presence of hundreds of
spectators. The left hand of each boy rest
ed, as he marched, on the left shoulder of
the one preceding him. The first boy in each
company could see.
Commandant Maj. Harry W. King di
rected the battalion to “ground arms,” and
at the word every gun touched the ground
at the same moment. The cadets separated
and stood at two yards distance. Then at
the spoken command they went through a
calisthenic drill, clapping" their hands, rais
ing their arms and swinging them like so
many automatons worked by the same
piece of mechanism.
It was only when the boys bent over to
touch the ground with their finger tips that
there was any irregularity; then the differ
ence in height of the cadets made it impos
sible for the long-limbed boys to recover
themselves as quickly as did their younger
comrades. The guns were picked up and
the command was given, “Twos, threes and
fours, forward.” The ranks broke and there
was a scattered movement to the right, the
right hands and arms of the cadets held
their muskets firm and the left hands moved
anxiously in search of a companion’s shoul
der. By some instinct finer than sight
itself the moment the wandering fingers of
a cadet touched the person of a comrade he
seemed to know instantly that it was the
man he sought.
In a few seconds the battalion was formed
in dose ranks of two. As the ranks marched
and countermarched, broke and reformed,
the other inmates of the institution sat and
stood in groups around the walls, guessing
from the words of command what their
companions were doing. Among them was
a large., heavily built man, who sat with
one hand over his sightless eyes and with
the other clasped in both of those of a little
girl. She called him father, and as the drill
went on told him as graphically as a child
could what her black, pretty eyes saw be
fore her, and how and what the cadets were
doing.
At the conclusion of the drill Acting Prin
cipal Frank Battles called from the ranks
those of the boys who had won the nine gold
and bronze medals which different friends
of the institution have awarded annually to
the best soldiers of the battalion. It was a
pretty and pathetic picture the young sol
diers made as they stepped forward with
their faces flushed with pleasure and saluted
while the medals were pinned upon their
breasts. And it was still more pathetic to
see them when they had been led back to the
ranks nervously finger the new decorations
to read, if possible, their beauty through
their finger-tips.
HOODOOED.
A Wild-Eyed Story About the Antics
of a Farmer's Possessions.
A dispatch from Pittsburg, Pa, to the
Cincinnati Enquirer says: The sun is full
of fire, and there is blood on the face of the
moon, as Farmer Thomas McKee, of Wilk
ins township, in this county, seems to be
lieve. His home, two miles from the village
of Turtle Creek, has been the scene of some
mighty mysterious manifestations. McKee
is 60 years old, has lived in this vicinity
forty-five years and in his present home
twenty years. He is regarded as one of the
most reliable and reputable United Presby
terians in the country. He, his wife and’a
Kiniece aged 15, together with a
man. comprise the family. They tell
a remarkable story. Each of them |s ready
to swear that he or she knows nothing what
ever of the cause of certain appearances of
witchcraft which have for ten days made
their home pandemonium. Ten days ago the
trouble began. While all were away from
the house, and the doors and windows were
fastened, things were tinned topsv-turvy in
doors. The family subsequently found their
clock and other goods out in tho garden.
Each successive day things grew worse. Mrs.
McKee four days ago carried one of two cans
of cream up from the cellar through the only
possible egress, wont right buck for the other
and failea to find it. Going up-stairs again,
she proceeded to the door-yard and found
the can of creatn overturned and empty.
There was nobody to be found within three
fourths of a mile of the house. On Friday
of this week Mrs. McKee and a neighbor
were sitting in the house together. Looking
up to the wall, they saw that an old hat
upon a peg was in flames. They had no
sooner thrown it out than a towel on the
opposite side of the house began to
blaze, though no visible means of
ignition existed in tho house, and
Mr. McKee had in his pocket out
in the field every match upon the premises.
There had been a score or more of similar
unaccountable fires in the house. Hence
Mr. McKee’s precaution. Tliese manifesta
tions have nearly driven the family crazy.
They have moved things out of the house
and guarded the occupied rooms, but all to
no avail. The subject, has set tho com
munity by the ears. Nobody can have the
slightest doubt, except as to the cause. The
manifestations in a hundred forms are facta.
McKee f* not a supematuralist, yet he
doesn’t know what to expect next.
“The light that lies.
In woman’s eyes,”
Is a ray of heaven’s own brightness; but it
is, alas! often dimmed or quenched by some
wearing 'disease, perhaiis silently borne, but
taking F all comfort and enjoyment out of
life. That light of tho household can lie re
kindlod and made to glow with its natural
brightness. Dr. R V. Pierce’s “Favorite
Prescription” is a potent specific for most of
tho chronic weaknesses and diseases peculiar
to women.
THE MORNING" NEWS: THURSDAY. JUNE 9. 1887.
SOME FACTS ABOUT CREOSOTE.
Col. Canady Telia How Wood la Pre
served in Water.
Col. W. P. Canady, of North Carolina,
Sergeant-at*Arms of the UniUxl States Sen
ate, besides being a politician, knows a great
deal about creosote and how it is made. The
Colonel is a tall,fine-looking man, as straight
as the pine tree of his State, and full of vim
and energy. He gave a New York Mail
and Express reporter some facts about creo
sote the other dav at the Fifth Avenue Ho
tel. He said: “Creosoting wood that has to
be used in damp places is the only method
to preserve it from the decaving effects of
water and the insidious attacks of the teredo
worm. Creosote is a general name applied
to the products obtained from the de
structive distillat ion of wool, coal and other
carbonaceous fuels, after the temperature
has risen above 200“ or 300° Fahrenheit.
The oil thus obtained is termed creosote oil,
and is an excellent preservative of wood.
The philosophy of its antiseptic and preserva
tive qualities is simple. The oil chokes up
the pores of the wood, making it solid and
preventing the further entrance of air,
moisture and life. No germinal life can exist
in wood thoroughly ereosoted, and the fatal
toredo worm dies from the effect of the oil.
You see the oil contains insoluble tar acids,
not only antiseptic in their nature, but also
possesses the power of calculating the
albuminous or fermenting elements of
green, sappy or unseasoned wood. How is
creosote made from pine? Well, heavily
rosined, fatty pine wood, subjected
to a heat of 300° to 760° Fahrenheit within
closed Iron cylinders, yields by distillation
and Condensation an excellent wood creosote
oil suitable for the preservation of wood.
When this oil is analyzed it is found to con
tain about 6 per cent, of tar acids, about 15
per cent, of the lighter oils, and at least 80
per cent, of the heavier oils, insoluble in
either fresh, brackish or salt water. Experi
ence shows that preservation of timber is
mqjbly due to those creosote oils which
require over 400° Fahrenheit for their
volatilization, and that the pure creo
sote, with less tar acids and less
light oils, gives the best results. Creosote
oil is forced into wood by means of
hydraulic pressure. The improvements
made upon the old charring processes are
very great. There is a carbonized process
which takes ordinary open-grained pine
timber and subjects it to a dry, radiant
heat, within suitable cylindrical surfaces, in
such, a manner as to drive out of the timber
most of its sap and albuminous matter, dry
ing the inside of the timber, charring its
outside and leaving the wood with its pores
wide open and in condition to be com
pletely filled with the oil. This process
does not render the timber brittle.
How much oil is required ? Sawed lumber
onlv requires eight pounds per cubic foot.
In logs used for piling twelve pounds of creo
sote oil per cubic foot is all that is necessary
for its preservation. During the manufac
ture of creosote oil a pyroligneous acid is
condensed in the still. This acid in its crude
and undiluted state is an excellent disinfec
tant. The progress made in creosoting tim -
ber within the past few years has been so
great it would be unfair to predict to what
extent it will be carried. Wood will lie made
more lasting than any building material.”
OLD HICKORY’S WAY.
A Reminiscence Showing the Pluck of
Jackson.
A Frankfort, Ky., dispatch to the Louis
ville Courier-Journal says: Judge Isaac J.
Faubes, the County Attorney, and a very
prominent citizen of Jackson county, is in
the city to-day. In a conversation with him
about his end of the State, he said:
“The Democratic party is constantly in
creasing in the mountains. During and
right alter the war the Cash Clay spirit
took hold of the people, but that is" gradu
ally disappearing. I voted for Martin Van
Buren when there were but eight Demo
crats in the county. Now out of a total of
about 1,300 votes the Republican party has
only 100 majority. Gen. Buckner and the
ticket will receive the full strength of the
party. There is no doubt of that. Speaking
of my county suggests that I heul the honor
of naming it. I was not a mem
ber of the Legislature, but the
members came to me, and when I
groposed the name of Jackson from Old
licKory as the name of the county, and Mc-
Kee, from Maj. William R. McKee, who fell
at Buena Vista, as the name of the county
seat, it took like a prairie fire and swept
through the assembly with a red-hot enthu
siasm. You see I knew Old Hickory person
ally. My father served under him at New
Orleans in 1814, when my eyes were first
opened at Jonesboro, East Tennessee. I’ve
seen the bushes many a time behind which
Russell Bean concealed himself when Jack
son compelled him to answer the summons
of the court. Bean did not like the appear
ance of his newly-bdm child, which he said
did not belong to him, and in his anger he
took a knife and slit its ear. He was in
dicted by the grand jury and a warrant
issued for his arrest. Gen. Jackson was
Judge then of that district, and when the'
Sheriff reported that he could not arrest the
prisoner unless he killed him in the attempt,
the Judge said: ’You haven’t summoned the
right kind of men to your aid.’ ‘Your
Honor.’ said the Sheriff, jocularly, ‘I sum
mon you.’ The Judge got otf the bench,
without saying another word, went home
and buckleil on his pistols, and proceeded
alone to a little hill, where Bean was
hilling. He oalled Bean and told him he
must obey the law. Bean said: ‘Oo way.
General, I don’t want to hurt you.’
‘Deliver yourself up to me at once,’ said
the General. Bean(said he would not, when
bang wont the pistol. The ball pnased
through Bean’s whiskers and grazed his
cheek and the scalp, just above the ear. He
cried out quickly: ‘Don’t shoot again,
General, I’m coming. ’ He was marched to
the jail by the General as a special bailiff’,
( who, when he had turned the prisoner over
to the jailer, got on the bench and opened
court to try the case. Subsequently the
prisoner was convicted, and as we had no
penitentiary in Tennessee at that time he
was ordered to be branded on the right
hand with the letter‘M.’ As soon as the
branding iron was applied and released, and
while the steam was still' arising from the
burnt flesh} the<prisoner put his hand to his
mouth and bit but a large mouthful of the
flesh, and said, ’There, now, take your
brand.’
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than can be bought elsewhere:
Raisins, Starch,
Nuts, Soap,
Figs, Clothes Pins,
Dates, Clothes Lines,
Dried Apples, Soda,
Dried Peaches, Olive Oil,
Tea, Toilet Soap,
Extracts, Pickles.
LEMONS BY THE BOX.
LEMONS BY THE HUNDRED.
LEMONS BY THE DOZEN.
Call and get prices before buying elsewhero.
K. POWER,
Comer Congress, Bull and Bt. Julian.
HAY.
CHOICE EASTERN HAY.
FANCY WESTERN HAY.
Cow Peas.
SPECKLED, BLACK EYE, CLAY and MIXED.
LEMONS.
FRESH STOCK MESSINA LEMONS.
CORN, OATS, BRAN. CORN EYES.
PEANUTS, ONIONS, ETC.
Close Prices on Car Lots of Hay and Grain.
169 BAY.
W.D. SIMKINS&CO.
HTO\ F.S.
LOVELL & UTTIMORE,
155 and 157 Congress St., Savannah, Ga.,
•jOSBEKH AND ItKT.tII.ERM OK
Hardware, Stoves and Ranges,
HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS, AGRI
CULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, EDGE
TOOLS, POCKET AND
TABLE CUTLERY,
HOLLOW A RE, WOODEN WARE, BASKETS,
JAPANNED AND PLANISHED WARE
ORJ N DSTON KS.WH KF.L BARROWS,
COTTON, SISA!. AND MA
NILLA ROPE, CA BT 4BjJtPS,
GUNS, SHELLS, CTC*
POORS, SASH, ETC.
W ill HIE
TO BUY
White Pine Doors,
Sash, Blinds, Mouldings, Etc.
IH AVE a very large and well assorted stock
of all sizes of the above (foods, which I am
now offering at VERY LOW PRICES, in con
nection with hit usual immense stock of Paints,
Oils, Railroad, Steamboat and Mill Supplies,
Lime, Plaster, Hair, Cement, Sewer Pipe, etc.
Call and get my pHees on above goods. Also
on Slate, Iron and Wooden Mantels, all styles
and prices.
Orates complete, or any separate pieces.
Agent for Fr. Beck &. Co.’s Plain and Decora
tive Wall Papers, etc.
NOTICE - House, Fresco and Sign Paint ing a
specialty.
ANDREW HANLEY.
PAINTS AND OILS.
LLOYD & ADAMS,
SUCCESSORS TO A. B. COLLIHB A 00.,
The Old Oliver Paiat and Oil House,
TXT'ILL keep a full line of Doors, Sash, Blinds
t' and Builders' Hardware, Pnlnts, Oils,
Steamboat and Mill Supplies, Lime, Plaster,
Cement, etc. Window Glass a specialty. All
sizes and kinds of Packing. A large lot of odd
size Sash, Doors and Blinds will be sold at a dis
count.
AT THE OLD STAND,
No. 5, Whitaker St., Savannah, Ga.
JOHN G 7 BUTLER,
'II7"HITE LEADS, COLORS, OILS, GLASS.
V> VARNISH, ETC.; READY MIXED
PAINTS; RAILROAD, STEAMER AND MILL
SUPPLIES, SASHES, DOORS, BLINDS AND
BUILDERS' HARDWARE Sole Agent for
GEORGIA LIME, CALCINED PLASTER, CE
MENT, HAIR ami LAND PLASTER.
6 Whitaker Street, Savannah, Georgia
1865. CHRIST MURPHY, 18657“
House,' Sign and Ornamental Painting
17XICUTED NEATLY and with disixMeb.
lv Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Brushes, Window
Glasses, etc., etc. Estimates furnished on ap
plieat ton.
CORNER CONGRESS AND DRAYTON STS.,
Rear of Christ Church.
AGRICULTURAL 1M I’LEM ENT'S.
i Mil
Lawn Mowers, Three Sizes,
Ladies’ Garden Hoes,
Hand Plows, Hedge Shea ■
Pruninng Scissors and Knives,
Garden Trowels and Weeders,
Fountain Pumps,
Rubber Hose and Reels,
—FOR BALE BY
Palmer Bros
IIS and ISO Congress Street.
Mowing Machines
AND
HORSE HAY RAKES.
EDWARD LOVELL k SONS,
Corner State and Whitaker streets.
FURNISHING GOODS.
Look! Look!
JUST WHAT YOU NEED.
Gentlemen’s Fine Night Shirts For $1
Fine Jeans Drawers at 50c. per pair.
Gauze Undershirts, long or short sleeves, 50c.
White Lawn Bows, $1 jier dozen.
White Ties at 15c. per dozen; $1 50 per gross.
Fancy Percale Scarfs, 50c. per dozen.
4-in-hand Ties, wash goods. 91 perdozen.
White Duck Vests, from $1 to $2 -VI.
British Half Hose, seamless, 25c.
White Duck Helmets, Hammocks, White
Flannel Shirts and Hats for Yachting-
FINE SUMMER CLOTHING AND DRESS
SHIRTS MADE TO ORDER. We guarantee a
fit in every case.
Sole agenta for Dunlap's Fine Hats and Nasci
mento’s Comfortable Self Conforming Hats, no
comfortable to the head in hot weather. Beau
tiful Pearl Hats, and the new STIFF BRIM
MACKINAW HAT.
Sun Umbrellas, Gloria Cloth Umbrellas, never
cut like the silk will.
Buck-Hom Handle Walking Canes, Fancy Un
derwear, and anything needed by men for Sum
mer wear at
LaFar’s New Store,
•JO Bull street, Hamilton's Old Stand.
~fkvirT~
PEACHES!
Received in large quanti
ties daily. In packages to
suit all buyers.
For Sale Very Cheap
A. H, CHAMPION.
CONTRACTORS.
P. J. FALLON,
BUILDER AND CONTRACTOR,
22 DRAYTON STREET, SAVANNAH.
i ESTIMATES promptly furnished fur budding
J at any cla>.
GROUND RENTS.
ARREARS FOR GROW rIT;
Cttt Treasurer's Office, I !
Savannah, Ga., June Ist, 1887. (
THE following lots are in arrears to the dtj
for ground rents, of which lesseesare hereby
notified. CHAS. S. HARDEE,
City Treasurer.
BROWN WARD.
Lot No. 18, 2 qrs.; east one-half lot No. 94, 9
qrs.; lot No. 5(1, 2 qrs.
CALHOUN WARD.
Lot No. 8, 8 qrs.; lot No. 24, 2 qrs,; lot No. 28,
2 qrs.
CHARLTON WARD.
Lot No. 1, 2 qrs.; lot No. 18, 2 qrs.; northwest
one-eighth lot 28, 2 qrs. • northwest one-quarter
lot 21, 2 qrs.; north one-half lot No. 35, 2 qrs.:
lot No. 2. 2 qrs.; south on.-half lot No. 14, 24
qrs.; lot No. 19, 2 qrs,; south one half lot No. 23,
24 qrs.; lot No. 32, 2 qrs.; lot No. 38, 4 qrs.
CHATHAM WARD.
F,ast one-third lot 'To, 12, 2qrs ; lot No. 17, 8
qrs.; east one-thiril lot No. 25, 2 qrs.; lot No. 32,
2 qrs.; une-thlrd lot No. 87, 2 qrs.; west one-half
lot No. 15, 2 qrs.; lot No. 21, 2 qrs.; west one-half
lot No. 2.1, 2qrs.; two-sixths lot No. 33, 2 qrs.
COLUMBIA WARD.
I-of No. 10. 4 qrs.: south one-half lot No. 22. 2
qrs.; lot No. 38, 2 qrs.; east part lot No. 30, 9
qrs.
CRAWFORD WARD.
West one-half lots, 2 qrs.; north one-half lot
No. 21, 9qrs.: lot No. 88.2 qrs.; lot No. 35, 2
qrs.: lot No. 8, 14 qrs.: lot No. 29, 2 qrs.; lot No.
31, 2 qrs.; cast one-half lot No. 71, 2 qrs.
CRAWFORD WARD, EAST.
One half southwest part lot No. 1, 2 qrs.; por
tion lot No. 15, 10 qrs.
ELBERT WARD.
Lot No. 8, _2 qrs.; lot No. 27, 2 qrs.; lot No. 7.
20 qrs.; lot No. 10, 2 qrs.; east two-thirds lot No.
84, 2 qrs.
FORSYTH WARD,
Tt No. 1. 2 qrs.; lot No. 18, 2 qrs.; south one.
half lot No. 17. 2 qrs; lot No. 21. 2 qrs.; lot No. 2,
2 qrs.: north one half lot 17, 2 qrs.; lot No. 20, J
qrs.; lot No. 58, 2qrs.
FRANKLIN WARD.
Lot No. 25, 2 qrs.; west one-half lot No. 39, 4
qrs.
NEW FRANKLIN WARD.
East one-balf lot No. 1,2 qrs.; lot No. 8. 2 qrs.;
lot No. 17, 2 qrs.; north | art lot No. 7,2 qrs.; lo
west one-hair No. 14, 2 qrs.
GREENE WARD.
Lot No. 4, 2 qrs.; lot No. 20. 2 qrs.; lot No. 30,
2 qrs.; three-fourths lot No. 13, 2 qrs.; west one
balf lot No. 18, 2 qrs.; north one-half lot No. 22,
2 qrs,; south one half lot No. 40, 2 qrs.
■IACKSON WARD.
Went one-half lot No, 7, 2 qrs.; north one-halt
lot No. 21, 2 qrs,; lot No. 38, 8 qrs.; east one-half
lot No. 41,2 qrs.; west one-half lot No 40, 2 qrs.l
lot No. 4ti, 8 qrs.
JASPER WARD.
Lot No. 46, 2 qrs.; lot No. 47, 2 qrs.
LLOYD WARD.
West one third lot No. 44, 2 qrs.; east one-half
lot No. fi2. 34 qrs.; lot No. 52, 2 qrs.; north part
lot No. 58, 4 qrs.
LAFAYETTE WARD.
East one-half lot No. 1, 2 qrs.; west one-half
lot No 43, 2 qrs.: east two-thirds lot No. 40,3
qrs.; lot No. 44, (1 qrs,
LIBERTY WARD.
Lot No. 1, 2 qrs.; lot No. 8, 2 qrs.: lot No. 10, k
qrs ; lot No. 12, 2 qrs.; east one half lot No. 28, 3
qrs.; lot No 4, 2 qrs.: lot No. 9. 2 qrs.; lot No. 11,
2 qrs.; southeast part lot No. 24, 2 qrs.
MONTEREY WARD.
East one-half lot No. 2, 2 qrs.; lot No. 4, S
qrs.; west one fifth lot 11 and east one-fifth lot
12, 2 qrs.
PULASKI WARD.
I-ot No. 5, 2 qrs.; lot No. 9, 2 qrs.; lot No. 6, 9
qrs.
TROUP WARD.
Northeast part lot No. 5, 2 qrs.; west part lot
2ft. 4 qrs.; soul heast part lot No. 5, 2 qrs,; lot No,
17, 2 qrs.; west one-half lot No. 14, 10 qrs.
WARREN WARD.
Lot No. 2, 2 qrs.; east one-half lot No. 16, 9
qrs.; lot No. 8, 2 qrs.
WASHINGTON WARD.
South one-half lot No. 4, 2 qrs.; west one-half
lot No. 7, 2 qrs.: lot No. 8, 2 qrs.; northwest, one
fourth lot No. 19, (1 qrs,; west oue*hulf lot No. 15,
2 <irs.; lot. No. 5, 2qrs.; south two-thirds lot No.
9, 2 qrs.; east part lot No. 18, 2 qrs.: west one
half lot No. 80, 2 qrs.; east one-half lot No. 85, |
qrs.
WESLEY WARD.
Middle one-third lot No 3, 2 qis.; lot No. 18, 9
qrs.; west one-balf lot No. 5, 2 qrs.
SPRINGFIELD WARD.
Lot No. 1, 2qrs.; lot No. 3, 2 qrs.; lot No. 5, 1
qrs.; lot No. 89, 2 qrs.; lot No. 84. 2 qrs ; lot No.
44. 2 qrs,; lot No. 56, 4 qrs.; lot So. 2, 2 qrs.; lot
No. 4, 2 qrs., lot No. 6, 2 qrs ; lot No. 33, 2 qrs.:
lot No. 44. 2 qrs.; lot No. 49, 2 qrs.; lot No. 56, j
qrs.
All persons having interest in the above lot*
are hereby notified that If the amount* now
due are notpaid to the City Treasurer on or
before the 21st, inutnnt. I will on the morning of
the 23d Inst, proceed to re-enter according U>
law ROBERT J WADE,
City Marshal.
OFFICIAL..
QUARANTINE NOTICE.
Office Health Officer, i
Savannah. Ga.. May 1, 1887 |
From and after MAY Ist. 1887, the city ordi.
nanoo which specifies the Quarantine require
ments to be observed at the port of Savannah,
Georgia, for period of time (annually* from May
Ist to November Ist, will be most rigidly eu
forced.
Merchants and all other parties interested
will he supplied with printed copies of the Quar
anl iue (Irdinance ui>on application to office of
Health Officer.
From and after this date and until further no
tice all steamships and vessels from South
America, Central America, Mexico, West Indies,
Sicily, ports of Italy south of in dogs. North
latitude. and coast of Africa heweett
10 degs. North anil 14 deg*. South latitude,
direct or via American port will he sub
jected to clout* Quarantine and lie reaulred
to report at the Quarantine Station and l.e
treated as being from infected or suspected
ports or localities. Captains of these vessels
will have to remain at Quarantine Station until
their vessels are relieved.
All steamers and vessels from foreign ports
not included above, direct or via American
ports, whether seeking, chartered or otnerwise,
will lie required to remain in quarantine until
boarded and passed by the Quarantine itfficer;
Nnthrr the Captain* nor any one on board of
iuc.'i. vceieU will be allowed to come to the city
until tlu rete' le ai-e impeded and jiaeted by the
(Quarantine Officer.
As ports or hx-alities not herein rnumem“M
an- reported unhealthy to the Sanitary Authori
ties, Quarantine restrict ious araiust same will
he enforced without further publication.
The quarantine regulation requiring the Ai/ina
of the quarantine flag on vttetle unbjected to
Jetenti'm or inepertion will be riaidlu rn/orcxL
j. t. McFarland, m. and.. Healthoaasr.
ORDINANCE.
A* Ordinance toamend article LX. of the Ba>
vannah City Code, adopted Feb. I#, 1870, se aa
to require ail occupants of houses,
shopkeepers,grocers and tradesmen occupying
premises to which no yards are attached tc
keep within their premises a box or barrel o
sufficient siw, in which shall he deposited all
oiTal, filth, rubbish, dirt and other matter gen
erated in said premises, or to put such box os
barrel In the streets or lanes under condition*
prescribed herein.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor anti
Aldermen of the city of Savannah in Council
assembled, and it is hereby ordained by thm
authority of the same, That section 2 of saitT
article hi* amended so as to read as follows: The
owners, tenants or occupiers of houses having
yards or enclosures, and all occupants of houses,
all men luuits, shopkeepers, grocers and trade*
men occupying premises to which no yards ars
attached shall keep within their yards o
premises a box or barrel of sufficient size, ie
which shall be deposited all the offal, tilth, rub
btsb, dirt and other matter generated in said
building and enclosure, and the said tilth of every
description as aforesaid shall be placed in said
box or barrel, from the first day or April to the
first day of November, before the Lour of 7
o'clock a. m., and from the first day of November
(inclusive) to the last day of March (inclusive)
before the hour of 8 o’clock a. in., and such mat
ter so placed shall be dally removed (Sundays
excepted) by the SuperinteudeDt, to
such places two miles at least
without the city s shall be designated by the
Mayor or a majority of the Street and Lana
Committee. Atw it shall he unJawfuUor any
occupunt of a house, merchant, shopkeeper.
ftrocer or tradesman to sweep into or to deposit
n any street or lane of this city any )>aper,
trash, or rubbish of any kind whatsoever, nut
the same shall be kept in boxes or iwrrelsas
Uereinliefore provided, for removal by the scav
enger of the city. Ay person not having a yard
may put the bo:: or barrel containing toe offal,
rubbish etc., in the street or lane for removal
by the scavengar, provided the box or barrel so
put In the street or lane shall be of such char
acter and site as to securely keep the offal, rub
bish, etc., from getting into the street or lane.
And any person other than tlu* owner or scaven
ger Interfering with or troubling the box or bar
rel so put iu the street or laue shall be punished
on conviction thereof in the police court by fins
not exceeding 8100 or imprisonment not exceed
ing thirty days, either or both in the dtsereUwi
of officer presiding in said court.
Ordinance passed in Council June Ist, 1887.
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