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CHARLESTON HAPPENINGS.
How the Earthquake Fund Was Dis
tributed The New Paper Othor
Matters.
Charleston, July 30. —Human nature is
Weak the world over, and human nature in
Charleston does not seem to he any weaker
or stronger than human nature in any other
city; yet it has been, and is about to lie,
subjected to a very severo stra u
As is well known. nearly
$809,000 was ih own into the lap o '
this stricken community when the awful
disaster of August last overwhelmed it. It
was the spontaneous offering of the world,
the touch of nature that makes the whole
world akin, and it saved Charleston fiviin
ruin and despair. It may readily be soon
that the distribution of the funds among
00,000 people in such a manner as to relieve
tho real cases of distress was
a very difficult and delicate
task from which any man might well shrink.
Still, somebody had to do it, and n number
of gentlemen were found who were willing
to undertake the work, and who did it ac
cording to their best lights, and did it well.
In order to bo perfectly fair and honest in
this distribution they were compelled to de
mand from applicants a good deal of infor
ination as to their circumstances. At this
there was much kicking, but the commit
tee, convinced that they wore right, were
firm.
Well, they finished their work and tit tho
last meeting of the Council submitted their
report, a very lull report which
was ordered to lie published. Thii
has brought on another complication.
The report shows that there were over 3,000
applicants for relief—counting those who
Rpp)i(*d for relief to re j stir real property
damaged by the earthquake. As to each of
these applicants the following facts arc
given: (1.) Assessed value ot applicants’
property. (2.) Encumbrances upon the
same. (3.) Number of persons dependent
upon applicant, for support. (4.) Amount
of money applied for. (5.) Amount
granted. It includes tho applications re
jected as well as those granted.
It will be readily soon that the persons
whose names appear in this rejMirt arc not
disposed to have their affairs published, and
it. is a natural feeling. On the ot her hand
there is a very general demand on tho part
of those whose names do not appear to have
the information published. It is said, for
instance, that there are beneficiaries on the
list who managed to hoodwink the commit
tee and get relief, to which they were not
entitled under the rule laid down liy
them. No one casts any imputation
on the committee who gave their time
freely and without price to the discharge of
a verv delicate and disagreeable duty, and
so public opinion is divided. Two thousand
jieople object to the publication of the re
port and 30,000 demand it. Tho City Coun
cil has ordered its publication, but an effort
will bo made to effect a compromise, the
plan suggested being its publication in a
modified pamphlet torni, instead of in tho
News ana Courier, the official organ of
Council.
a mystery cleared cp.
The subterranean mystery mentioned in
this corres[Kiudence last week is no longer a
mystery. The alleged noises were cause: 11 >y
r pit alligator which had cscajied from its
cage, ami found refuge in a sewer that ran
through the premises. Apropos of alligator
it may be mentioned that the alligator has
become quite the rage asa pet in Charleston.
This is a season of the year when
the uligator feels good and frisky. Some
times they take u trip down the river—the
upper waters of the Ashley and tho Cooper
being the homo of tho uligator—and fre
quently a 10-foot monster is seen sailing
around the burlier accompanied by a dozen
or more sharks who vainly seek to make a
meal of him. His tough hide, however, is
a protection, and alter going down to
Fort Sumter tho ’gator generally lands
on Mount Pleasant or on the citw,
Bhore. Sometimes he is shot by sportsment]
and sometimes ho succeeds in hiding out?,
Then for the next week or two the poopltty
in his vicinity lose their chickens and swear,
that the fowl thief is abroad, and set up#
nights with double-barrel shotguns wutoh-a
lug for the thief. The affair ends
with the slaughter of the ’gator. Quite a
number of young alligators, jn'ts, have
escaped recently, and are now hiding out in
the cellars and sewers. It was one of those
that frightened the negroes in Morris street
last week.
THE NEW PARER.
The new paper has materialized to tho ex
tent of having been christened. It is to be
called the Charleston Sun, and will, like its
namesake in New York, “shine for all’’—
that is if its promises are fulfilled. Mr. A
B. Williams, of the Greenville News, is to
be tho editor-in-chief; Mr. Ross A. Biiiith,
of city directory fame, is to bo business
manager, and Stanhope Barns, the
Augusta Chronicle's resident corres
ponded is to bo city editor. Mr. Sams
qualifications exhibited in iris contributions
to the Chronicle would iudlcuto consider
able ability in the “editorial” way. What
Mr. MoE)roe's especial position ou tlie paper
will lie is not yet definitely known, but it is
presumed from his numerous “cards” pub
lished recently, that he will write many
"pieces" for the Sun. There seems to be a
general desire in the community to give the
Nkii a chance to shine, but if it is like the
historic Irishman who was shipwrecked
upon a cannibal island to bo “agin the gov
ernment” on general principles, it will hard
ly survivo the municipal campaign.
AN INDUSTRIAL CAMPAIGN.
The first gun was fired here toduy of an
industrial fall campaign, which premises to
develop into something g< kxl for (’harlestou.
It is proposed to inaugurate a gala week in
October, when a cordial iuvitution will lx>
extended to the people of South Carolina
and Georgia, to come down und see the
ruins. The merchants have taken the mut
ter in band, and arrangements will bo
made to entertain our visitors in royal
style. There are just enough of the ruins
loft untouched to give to visitors an idea of
the force of an earthquake, while they will
at the same time see what Charleston pluck
has done to recuperate the losses entailed by
two awful disasters in one year.
There still scorns to lie some soreness
about the publication in this correspond
ence, June 19, of a paragraph in which it
was asserted that the gas company domi
nated the City Council. My attention has
been called to u sentence in that corres|xind
ence, which read: “The purse of the gas
octopus reaches the committee roams.” As
a matter of fact tho mistake was purely a
typographical one. “Arms,” anil iiot
“purse,” was intended. ’When I state that.
Col. C. H. Gadsden, tho Superintendent of
tho Charleston and Savannah rail
way, is chairman of tho committe referred
to, it is almost useless to reiterate what I
have already written, tliut it was not the
writer’s intention to convey tho idea that
the committee has beon influenced by the
money of the gas company. If there is a
more honorable, upright public spiritei eit
zen in the community thnn Col. Gadsden,
this correspondent does not know him. The
influences llmt have enabled this huge gas
inonopolytokeepit* fangs on a long suffering
community is. as I have already said, iioliti
cal, and I cheerfully exempt Col. Gadsden
even from that influence because i know he
has no political ax to grind. He is simply,
however, one member of the committee.
Doatb of a Priest.
I’uTTHVILLE, Pa.. July 31.—Rev. Peter
A Gallagher, of St. Patrick’s Catholic
church, this city, died licit yesterday. The
remains will lx* taken to PiiilaJelphui for
interment Wednesday.
The Rooord at Key West.
Key West, July 81.—Four now coses
since yesterday und'no deaths is the fever
record. The record stands now; Total cases
to (lute 191. total deaths 43, total discharges
cured 90, sick now 58.
The tT#kcr (Pa.) homestead, one of tho old
est In Berks county, chaugod bands recently,
slid the old residents are reporting the tradhion
that In the otone wails of the barn and house
•iv iuuiotsid two bottles of whiakv uu old as the
lUMN.
DODGE’S DIGEST.
A Showing of Which the People Have
Good Reason to be Proud.
Eastman, Ga., July 31.-The sum total
of the tax returns of Dodge county for tho
year 1887 is $1,213,470, while the total re
turns for 188*1 amounted to $1,340.8(18. At
first glance these figures apparently indicate
a decrease of $37,389 in tho taxable property
of the county. A close inspection and
analysis of the tax digests, however, shows
that instead of a decrease there is in fact
a large increase in the value of tho taxable
projierty.
In 188 ii there was returned 385,084 acres of
land, valued at $408,703. This year 319,094
acres of land is returned, valued at 8405,-
410. This shows that 05,390 acres of land
h is not been rclu ned at all tics year, and if
this land was in the county in 1 sso, it must
be hero still. Then placing the same valua
tion upon this unreturned 05,390 acres as
the tax payers have placed upon the land
which is returned, gives $95,409, ami adding
this to the total returns of 1887, as above
stated, wo have $1,307,948, and deducting
from this amount the total returns of
1880, shows an increase of $58,080.
The returns ulso show that land is returned
at 35c, per acre more in 1887 than in 1880,
this being an increase of 30 per cent, in the
value of land. There is also an increase of
$7,238 in the value of town property, an in
crease of #7,435 in merchandise, an increase
ef #4,419 in household and kitchen furniture,
un increase of $20,090 in plantation tools,
library books, etc., mid an increase of #373
in corn, proviso ns. etc., held for sale. These
things show that there is a decided improve
ment in the condition of the peopfo and
an increase in all that goes to promote
human happiness. The items of property,
in which there is a decrease, consist ot those
tilings that people can best do without. For
instance there is a decrease in jewelry and a
very large decrease in the amount of debts,
anti if there is anything shown by the tax
returns of Dodge county this year upon
which tho people have good cause to con
gratulnto themselves it is that they arc rap
idly getting themselves out of debt, having
cut down their indebtedness $43,399 ill one
year.
WHEELMEN AND CENTRAL PARK.
Shall the Bicyclers bo Allowed in tho
Public Pleasure Grounds ?
New York, July 30.—Tho league of
American Wheelmen and the Now York
Park Commissioners are not o;i tho best of
tonus, although the wheelmen are willing
to bury the hatchet and smoko the pipe of
peace. The city officials seotn to imagine,
however, that the hatchet alroudy lias been
buried —in tho.skull of the disgruntled com
mission. Tho gentlemen who rule the public
pleasure grounds resented the efforts of tho
wheelmen to get thoir bicycles und tricycles
legally recognized us vehicles and bitterly
opposed the bill giving them that recogni
tion. Nobody else opposed it, and tho bill
became a law. The only objection to the
bill in tho minds of tho Commissioners was
that it seemed to curtail their powers as
rulers absolute of the paries and all who
visit them.
I he wheelmen, having no feeling against
these gentlemen, abstained from exercising
their new legal privileges and asked the
commissioners to make suitable regulations
of cycling in Central Park, courteously of
fering to send u committee to confer with
them. But the commissioners paid no at
tention to the offer and did not even answer
the letter in which it was made. To pro
tect themselves the wheelmen served a cer
tified copy of the now law upon the com
missioners, who would not even admit that
they know of its existence. Then, instead of
meeting the bicyclers in an amicable man
ner, tho commission referred tho law to the
Corporation Counsel, and when ho said the
law was all right they curtly announced
that the park was open to wheelmen,
wanted to suggest that
kp t - riding more than two abreast, and
m r _ rWJgorous practices should be proliib
‘m- ror tnf.i ( , r t j lat riders might not
usances of themselves and bring
“ .fit upon wheelman in general, but
“rAummissioners sulkily refused to listen
to them. A prominent wheelman says of
this action: "It look? as though the Com
missioners felt sore and wonted the bicyclers
to have free rein, in order that
some trouble may occur through reck
less or incompetent riding that will
give them an excuse for pointing to the
had results of the law. Tue wheelmen do
not want to antagonize the commission, and
the league will be foremost in prosecuting
any bicycler who violates any law of the
road, in tho park or elsewhere. The eoin
missionors would have added to thair dig
nity and commanded more respect i>v meet
ing the league’s officers courteously and
accepting their offer to suggest sonic salu
tary rules for the government of bicycling
in the park, instead of acting like
sulky schoolboys. Why, as soon as it was
known that the Governor had signed
tho bill the police were instructed to
rigidly enforce all the old ordinances
against velocipedes, and officers were sent
expressly to auoy bicyclers in Ihe vicinity
of the park. On Eighth avenue, outside
the park, there is u wide sidewalk hut little
frequented by pedestrians in the afternoon.
An instructor was in the habit of taking
pupils up there to teach them to balance
their machines. It annoyed nobody and
these pupils wore not in anv person’s way.
But too very day after the bill was signed
a policeman was detailed to go there, drive
Hut boys away and threaten t hem with ar
rest. It is u pretty small piece of busi
ness.”
The wheelmen of the country will watch
the progress of this fight with interest, for
similar eases arc likely to oqgur anywhere
onil tho result will do for precedent.
The wheelman will want to hold a national
parade sometime and the Central Park will
not be a bad place to hold it in if they can
get there under a satisfactory arrangement.
Allen P. Kelly.
SWINTON’S COLLEGE DAYS.
Cheap Board and Tuition in the Olden
Days.
New York, July 30.—Every year, about
this season, or just after the closing of col
leges and seminaries for tho summer vaca
tions, the papers are apt to print accounts
of the expenses of tho festive students at
these institutions, telling us how cheaply a
thrifty youth can push his way through
them. We are told of the slight cost of
tuition, the low price of board and all that
sort of thing. I always look at these ac
counts every year as given in tin- papers
mid watch with interest the growth of ox
peoaMot thaw instltutkma, which, at the
more pretentious of them, have really
become alarming, i’erhajis the cheapest of
the collegiate institutions in this State
of which any account has got
into the pui>ors this year is St. Lawrence
University, near our northern border,
where tuition is #l5 per term and board can
he obtained for $3 50 ikt week. The rates
for students in the fiigber seminaries at
which rigid economy is practiced are just
atx>ut tin■ same as at St. Lawrence. Now
ttjefio prices doubtless seem very low, in
deed, to most, people in tills time of lavish
expenditure. When 1 noticed them a few
days ago I turned up an old trunk to look
for lulls of expenses that 1 had incurred
when I was u student in 1853 at Williston
Seminary, an institution which admitted
the rlvauiiip of only Phillip* Academy in
all New England, and at which students
were so well advanced iri Greek, Latin,
mathematici, etc., as to be tit for the sopho
more (•'.iHs in Yale College. I found my old
,'iooouuts —all receipted, bv the way—in the
dust-oovero 1 trunk in the garret, and I
liresume I uoy would raise u smile upon
the faces of the prodigal youths in such in
st.tutions to-day. M v bill for tuition in the
j branches referred to, by u very superior
I body of professors, for the fall term of 1852,
amounted to the sum of stl! And for this
wo \w re drilled daily in a style that ad
mitted ot no nonsense. My bill for rent of
furnished mom in the seminary und the
washing of lieddlug, etc., umouuted to the
•-fill .tun of 84 (Jfl for the term. And mv
TIIE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 1887.
bill for board proper during the term, which
scouts almost too preposterous to be given
otherwise than in its signed form, wus as fol
lows:
East Hamiton, Mass., Nov. 0, 1852.
John Rwinton. to Cold Water Club, Dr.
To 13 weeks board ut $1.04 813 52
Received Payment,
Chari.es White. Jii., for Club.
Think of that ye $3 50 a work boarders of
to-day tit like institutions! Think of the
bill for tuition, ye seminaries, who pay
seven or eight times as much nowadays!
Hu roly, those were goisl times fora young
aspirant for education, who did not happen
to lie glutted with filthy lucre.
•John Swinton.
THE ABOLII lON OF PERFUMES.
Tho 33 in the Form of Powder Are to be
Preferred.
New York, July 30, —It is a pleasure to
note that the indiscriminate use of perfumes
among members of the fair sex is rapidly
decreasing, and that the woman who
employes triple extracts with which to
sprinkle herself has boeome the exception
rather than the rule. Like everything else,
perfumes may lie legitimate or not accord
ing to circumstances. Delieatoodors, such as
violet, heliotrope or orris root, are always
permissible, just as patchouly and musk are
always to be shunned. In any event, per
fume in the shape of sachet powder is to be
preferred to liquid extracts, if we except
one or two English proprntions, notably one
manufactured in Canterbury by a once
Olmcure chemist. This suittky delightful
scent was first used by the Princessof Wales
and later by Mrs Langtry, until it finally
beonmo the rage. The chemist,' meanwhile,
hits made a fortune. custom
with fashionable wotnMMftTTo pour one or
two drops into their ears. Nobody now
adays ever thinks of putting perfume on a
handkerchief or rubbing it on one’s hands.
I,aces, underwear, ribbons, note paper,
gloves and all small articles of
dress are mode fragrant by large
sachet hags that are of a size
corresponding to the bureau or dressing
table drawers. These bags are composed of
silk and lined with raw cotton, upon which
the powder is spread. This, in addition to
a very moderate use of a faint suggestive ’
odor, such as the wood violet, for instance,
is all in the way of perfume, that is allow
able by n really refined woman. Parisian
dressmakers have a way of sending per
fumed gowns to their customers. A strange
feature connected with this fashion is the
fact that the odor remains forever. A
lady of this city having purchased n costume
whoso every fold breathed the most
delicious perfume, sent an order to Paris
for a sample of the scent employed. Tho
dressmaker forwarded to her bv express a
small bottle of ordinary looking sachet
powder. Accompanying it was a bill to the
amount of #4O. The lady' paid the money,
but sinco then has generally inquired the
price of things before ordering.
Clara Lanza.
MAKE JOURNALISTS OF THE GIRLS.
The Charming Crown Princeso of Ger
many Points About Her Dross.
Berlin, July 15. —The American press is
one of tho greatest of modern powers. The
sheet which is conned with to slight a con
ception of its enormous significance by our
citizens every clay in tho home circle, the
shop, t.l -• railroad car, tho hotel, reading
room, flees afar, 1 'from polo to [Mile, from
Indus to Peru.” The enterprise which has
rendered our newspapers the admiration of
the entire reading world has achieved the
miracle of making the name of those who
contribute to the American press familiar
to the literati of every land. How other
wise can I account for the fact that on my
recent presentation to her Imperial High
ness, the Crown Princess of Germany, that
great ltuly should have courteously asked
me if this was indeed Olive Logan, saying
slit' had hoard of me often and it filing that
kindliness of phrase which, I regret to say,
that modesty, which hat always curbed my
efforts, prevents my here recording? A
noble vocation is it to pen thoughts which
aredestined, by the force of favoring cir
cumstances, to wing their way from cottage
to palace, over mountain, over ocean, over
plain. I delight in my literary work, and
always have done so; and to the next
deputation of mothers who wait on me to
inquire of mo the stock question,'‘What
shall we do with our girlsiny reply will
certainly bo “Make journalists of them.”
The Crown Princess in every way is a
charming woman. Her appearance is
youthful to such a degree that it is difficult
to remember that she is a grandmother.
She is one ol the greatest intellects of the
age. Her knowledge of languages is very
extensive, and her reading voluminous and
varied. Hho is of medium height, fair hair,
and plump but not stout, figure. On the
occasion when this future Empress rendered
her sister woman, the humble pen-worker.
Olive Logan, very proud and happy, her
imperial highness was dressed in an ex
quisite muslin gown of white, dotted w ith a
figure of flowers and leaves, and having
knots of green and pink ribbon bunched
here and there about alcoves, neck ami
corsage. Her bonnet was of crape, of the
lovely shade called Rose du llarri, and it
was tied under the chin with strings of
moss green tulle; white parasol, long
Swedish gloves, tan-colored, and a dainty
lace handkerchief completed tho costume,
which was os fresh and summerlike as it
was simple and refined. Olive Logan.
BURIED WITH BOTH RITES.
Chu Ming Has a Peculiar Funeral.
From the .Veto Tort- Times.
Chu Ming Mey Soo, a Christian China
man, died at the Presbyterian Hospital last
Wednesday of consumption, and was buried
yesterday in Evergreens Cemetery.
When Bret Harto placed it on record that,
“the heathen Chino t is peculiar,” he ex
pressed an unnecessary limitation. Chris
tianizing the “Chinee” does not deprive him
altogether of his innate peculiarities, as the
manner of Chu Ming tiey Soo’s funeral
well illustrates. The ceremonies wore
taken in hand by Chu Chow, a
cousin, who, upon consultation with the
brother und friends of the docoan vl, some
of them converted, but most of them still
lingering in "heathen blindness,” decided
that, as the Christian service was inade
quate in its provisions for the future state
of the departed, they would firs! permit the
Christian service to lie performed, and,
when that was well out of the way, supply
its imperfections and make their assurances
roganPaj the future doubly sure by cele
brating the Chinese ritual.
Accordingly they began their prepara
tions soon after Chu 800 died. A decant
deference to the sentiments of their
Christian friends require 1 them to proceed
secretly and most unostentatiously with
their native practices. Anxious that their
friend’s Ixidy should be in a respectable con
dition for transno tution to the Flowery
Kingdom some three years' hence, thev east
around for an emlmuner. The usual tern
i Kirary preservation of the body for burial,
liy placing it on ire, has never been sali -
fuctorv to them, and they determined to
have it kept as nearlv as |K>Mible intact.
Therefore, J'mbuhner Graham, who is also
sexton of the church where the de
ceased attended, was employed. He was
provided with a complete suit of new
clothes for the deceas'd, consisting of
bleached linen unierblouse und drawers,
ilurk blue cotton outer blouse nuti panta
loons, bleached linen stockings with felt
nolrs, felt shoes and black silk turban hat.
After the corpnc had becu arrayed in these
a well-worn silver 35e. piece was placed in
his mouth and a bunch of credentials in each
luind. Them* credentials w ere comp wed of
black paper with white inscriptions an I
white impor with black inscriptions, and
were bound with white silk narrow ribbons.
Tlie body, being thus satisfactorily pre
pared ami incased, was removed to the
East Fourteenth street iTesbytoriau
church Tuursday, mid yesterday morning
t he funeral services for a Christian were per
.form <l. th Rev K 11. Marline official
ing. There were several floral offerings,
among them a wreath of pond lilies, the i
gift ol tlie relatives of the deceased, and a
large floral heart from Miss Decker, teacher,
of the Monday night Chinese school at the
church. A brother of the deceased,
dressed ill all jiarticulars like him,
except that his blouse was block instead
of nine, and that he wore black ribbons
around his ankles, sat beside the coffin
with covered head as chief mourner during
tlie services at the church. Some seventy
live or eighty spectators were in attendance,
about a third of them being Chinees. After
this ceremony the body w-as removed by
lrearso to Evergreens Cemetery, the mourn
ers, all Chinese, following in carriages. At
the grave tlie party was met by another
party of Chinese, which was attended by an
express wagon, ill which were a large trunk
and several other articles. All stood quietly
by until the undertaker had finished the in
terment and jplaced the floral pieces on the
grave and had retired.
Then they began their jieeuliar ceremony.
First, the trunk was removed about ten
yards from the grave, and, being opened,
disclosed anew feather bed, a large red
woolen blanket, a patchwork quilt and a
complete suit of clothing. These were set
fire to and burned, piece bv piece, the trunk
forming the fireplace, and burning with tho
rest. After the bedding and clothing had
been thus reduced to ashes, Undertaker
Graham was called upon to smooth over
a level place at, the foot of
the grave about a yard square. Upon
this tho muster of ceremonies first
spread a large sheet of clean brown "'rap •
ping paper. Then a whole roast chicken, on
a china plate, was produced and placed upon
tho brown papyr sjiread, together with tour
China bowls that were now partly tilled
with wine, while part of a hottlo of wino
was poured over tho roast chicken. After
this six wax tapers were stuck iu the earth
on each side of the new-made mound,
several hunches of invocation papers were
sot fire to, and with these the tapers were
lighted. While these burned the relatives,
two cousins and a brother, related a rituul
in an almost inaudible voice.
This done a hole was dug in the side of the
grave at the foot and a live-quart tin kettle
full of cooked rice was deposited in it and
covered with a tin cover. While two Chi
namen were engaged in this, another burned
a pair of choiujffcks over the tapers. A
stone jug holding about five gallons, full of
some kin 1 of liquor, the character of which
the celebrants refused to impart, was now
deposited ■ n tho surface of the ground on
(in' opposite side of the spread from the rice.
The arrangements for the benefit of the de
parted Celestial was seemingly completed
with this, and the hulanco of tho ceremony
fiartook of the nature of personal honors to
dm. Another sheet of pajier was laid upon
the ground liefore tho spread of chicken and
witte, the brother and two cousins knelt
upon the paper, one of them sprinkled the
contents of two of the bowls upon the feast,
all threv: bowed themselves three times to
the earth, and upon the third time reverent
ly and slowly kissed the ground. This com
pleted the ceremony. Upon arising from
their knee3 they turned to undertaker
Graham and said, “That is all,” and turned
away. Having a bottle of wino left they
gave it to the undertaker's assistants.
While all this ceremony was in progress
four of the Chinamen present stood off at a
distance by themselves, taking no part in
the services. They, unlike the rest, were
dressed in the prevailing style in this coun
try and called themselves Christians. They
said the ceremony just performed was tho
kind prescribed by tlie Chinese custom for
men of the social couditon and rank of the
deceased who was a merchant.
Weather Indications.
Speciid indications for Georgia:
FAIR I oeal re ins, except fail- weather at
Icoast stations, winds generally
easterly, except southerly at coast
stations, stationary temperature.
Corin' in son ot mean tomneratura at Savan
nah. J uly 31, 1887, and the mean of same day for
fifteen years.
| Departure Total
Mean Tempcrati he from tho Deiiarturo
Mean Since
forlflyears .7my3l ’;r.. -|-or — Jan. 1,1837.
32.0 80 3 1.7 415.3
Comparative rainfall statement:
~ , , , i Departure! Total
Mean Daily Amount f rom the Departure
Amount i'* l ' . J'.’’ I Mean ! Since
lb Years. July3l or _ ] j an . j, 1887.
AT 0.00 | 0.17 I —1,685
Maximum. temperature 80 2 minimum tom
ppratun* rr> 5.
Tho height of the river at Augusta at
1:!!!! o’clock j>. m. yesterday (Augusta time)
was 34 5 feet—a riso of 20.5 during the post
twenty-four hours.
Cotton Region Bulletin for 24 hours end
ing tip. m., July 31, 1537, 75th Meridian
time.
Districts. | Average.
.. Max.! Min. liain
tious ITeinpiTemp! fall.
1. Wilmington 6 33 7? j ,20
2. Charleston 1 80 76 j .00
3. Augusta 11 88 72 .29
4. Savannah 0 84 72 i .80
5. Atlanta 10 82 72 .78
6. Montgomery 8 81 72 20
7. Mobile. 9 94 72 .03
8. New Orleans. 7 98 70 .00
9. Galveston 29 98 74 .01
10. Vicksburg [ 4 90 74 00
11. Little Rock iO 100 72 .04
12. Memphis ! 18 98 72 DO
Averages |
Observatious taken at the same moment
of time at all stations.
Savannah, July 31. 9:80 p. M.. city time.
Temperature.
Direction. $
VH< '-if y. P
Rainfall.
Name
or
Stations.
Portland ! 76i W j..|. Clear.
Boston I 70 Vt'J Cloudy.
Block Island . ‘ 72 ! W .11 Fair.
New York city . | lit W 04 cloudy.
Philadelphia 70S'V I .34 Raining.
Wasiiiuifton city 7(idW . Cloudy.
Norfolk , 76 6Wj (i (Hi Raining.
Charlotte | 74 8 E 0: 01 Cloudy.
Hatteras 701 S 01 Cloudy.
Wilmington 80 8 W 1 ..Cloudy.
Charleston 1 82 S 1 12! Fair.
Augusta 74 1
Savannah ! 70 8 ; ti Clear.
Jacksonville. j 82 8 j!8|.... (Cloudy.
Titusville 76 S E a . ... Clear.
Kcv West ! 82'S E ,| . Clear.
Atlanta 1 72 F. 121 20 Raining.
Pensacola 62 N K . i Cloudy.
Mobile 1 7s NW; 01 Cloudy.
Montgomery I 7tl N j.. 01 Cloudy.
Vicksburg .. 86 Clear.
New Orleans ! 82 8 E 6j....'Cloudy,
Bbreveport. M Clear.
Fort Smith Bu'S E 20 Cloudy.
t.ialvest,si , j 84 8 W Cl. Clear.
Corpus Christ! 82 8 K 12 .... Clear.
Palestine ; 6418 E Clear.
lirutvnesvllle i 8 1 8 8,. Clear.
WoGrande | BM' 8 IBt Clear.
Knoxville. 76 N F cjoudy.
Memphis 98 NW!...... Clear.
Nutdivllle ; sti El. . Clear.
Lmisvlllc. ...,| 88.8 El. j [Clear.
Indianapolis 84 N j Fair.
Cincinnati 1 IB N E 'Clear.
Pittsburg 76 W . 100 Clear.
liutltdo 74 N F ( Icar.
Cleveland 78 .. Clear.
Marquette 72 s W Fair.
Chicago 71 N F. clear.
I'ululh. ..... TO 8 I. .04 Raining.
St. Puttl TtlSWl.-l . Cl"ar.
Davenport 7l JC | Clear.
Cairo | 8; ; N. .1 clear.
St. Louis 88,NW: ... Clear.
Leavenworth.. 70 .. Fair.
Omaha 72 X 1 ...Cloudy.
Yankton - ! 78l Si.. ... . Clear.
r.lsnmrek 70j F. ..Clear.
Peadwoixl j 04 S W Pair.
Cheyenne • 08 8 W Clear.
North Platte ; ;2 8E . .j.. Clear
IVslge City .. 72 N ... OilClondy.
Santa Fe * N E .. i'ulr.
<i. N. Salishohy Sign tl Corps. U.S. Army.
Titßitr is less show on Pike's Peak than usual
at this season, and It Is thought that It will all
nave disappeared by the middle of August.
fcllvor und Gold
Shirts are the a"kenw!edged favorites and le.id
ers II II lew, >l'* tveol*.
FUNERAL INVITATIONS.
CAMF.KONVThc friends of Mrs. and Mr. W.
J. Cameron and of Caroline Margaret Cameron
are respectfully invited to attend the funeral of
the latter from the late residence, Anderson
street, near Barnard, THIS AFTERNOON at 4
o’clock, city time.
MEETINGS.
Do KALB LODGE NO. i, I. O. O. F.
A regular meeting will he held THIS (Monday)
EVENING at 8 o’clock.
The Second Degree will he conferred.
Members of other Lodges and visiting brothers
are cordially invited to attend.
By order of H. W. RALL. N. G.
Jons K;li:v. Secretary.
GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
The regular monthly meeting of this society
will be held at Hodgson Ilall THIS EVENING
at eight (6) o’clock.
CHARLES N. WEST,
Recording Secretary.
SAVANNAH YACHT CLUB.
A meeting of the Club will be held THIS DAY
(Monday) at 12 o’clock at the offlce of the Secre
tary, to make arrangements for approaching
Cruise and other business. Captains of boats
intending to participate in Cruise will report.
WM. HONE, Commodore.
W. D. Johnston, Secretary.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
CHATHAM REAL ESTATE AND .
PROV EM EXT COMPAN Y.
Savannah, Ga., Aug. Ist, 1887.
The dividend of ONE DOLLAR and TWENTY
CENTS per share, declared by this Company
and payable on the Bth Inst., may be collected
on and after THIS DATE by stockholders wish
ing to pay their 20th installment, which will be
duo on the Bth inst. M. J. SOLOMONS,
Secrets ry ami Treasurer.
FOR SALE.
House and Lot in Walthourville, Ga.
Apply to
J. B. MALLARD,
Walthourville, Ga.
THE MORNING NEWS
STEAM PRINTING HOUSE,
3 Whitaker Street.
The Job Department of the Morning News,
embracing
JOB AND BOOK PRINTING,
LITHOGRAPHING AND ENGRAVING,
BOOK BINDING AND ACCOUNT BOOK
MANUFACTURING,
is the most complete in the South. It is thorough
ly equipped with the most improved machinery,
employs a largo force of competent workmen,
and carries a full stock of papers of all
descriptions.
These facilities enable the establishment to
execute orders for anything in tho above lines
at the shortest notice and the lowest prices con
sistent with good work. Corporations, mer
chants, manufacturers, mechanics and business
men generally, societies and committees, are
requested to get estimates from the MORNING
NEWS STEAM PRINTING HOUSE before send
ing their orders abroad. J. H. ESTILL.
RECEIVER’S NOTICE.
Bauberville, Fla., July 27th, 1887.
All parties holding claims against the firm of
BROWN & ODUM, of Barberville, Florida, are
hereby notified to send in same at once to me.
By order of tho court.
JOSEPH LICHTENSTINE, Receiver.
CONTRACTORS W ANTED.
Parties wishing to contract for the piling on
the Savannah, Dublin and Western railroad will
address JOHN A. A. WEST,
General Manager.
06 Bay street, Savannah, Ga.
NOTICE TO OWNERS OF DOGS.
City of Savannah, )
(Vffick Clerk of Cofncil, July 23, 1887. f
The collection of the dog tax having been ac
complished heretofore with considerable diifl
eulty, and the efforts made in this direction by
the city authorities having resulted in a partial
collection only, notice is hereby given that in
order to secure the payment of the tax on all
the dogs in the city, the authorities will pro
ceed, oh and after the first day of August, 1887,
to place on the information docket for trial in
the Police Court, all persons owning dogs who
have failed to make a return thereof as provided
by the tax ordinance tor 1887. Owners of dogs
are requested to come forward at once and pay
the tax. No further notice will be given.
By order of the Mayor.
Frank e. rebarer.
Clerk of Council.
ULMER’S LIVER CORRECTOR.
This vegetable preparation is invaluable for
the restoration of tone and strength to tho sys
tem. For Dyspepsia, Constipation and ether
ills, caused by a disordered liver, it cannot be
excelled. Highest prizes awardod, and in
dorsed by eminent medical men. Ask for Ul
mer's Liver Corrector and take no other. $1 00
a bottle. Freight paid to any address.
B. F. ULMER, M. D.,
Pharmacist, Savannah, Ga.
DR. IIE.XRY b FOLDING.
DENTIST,
Office corner Jones and Dravfon streets.
■ .... i ■ ■ .. ■ -
Oi l ICIAL.
OFFICIAL Mllll IT \RV REPORT
Of tlie City of Rntannah fur the Week End
ing Friday, July 8. I**7.
State
of
Weather.
irvuf: BlTcjtC)fd
Causes of Death. | °io *" iY>' deMO
Jm, F.J.M.J F.j M.l F. M.jF.
Bronchitis. | V.| 1
Bronchitis, uraH.... .... .1.. . 1 ... 1
Bronchitis. Chronic | 1 : ... ....
Cholera Infantum .I. ... i . ',...! *...
Congestion of brain. i 11, ...; 1; ,j I
Consumption, lungs 2 . J...
Convulsions, Infuntllc 1 ..j .. 1 ... 1... 1...
Dysentery I, ; I 11...l l ...
Heart disease I l ...'. ... |...1...1... ...
Inanition #[... j ...... |... I 3
Fever, mill. remittent ...I i| .. . ..1...] l
Fever, malarial typbo ...... 1.. . l ....
Fever, typhoid. It. .
i >ld aifc I'. .1... . ..U..
Tetanus . j...j ll . . .]! ..
Umlctlncd I |l. 2
Total 8 ) 4! S 2 116
a ' - .a.
RECAPITULATION.
Deaths In city Whitei, 10; blacks and cd-*
ore.l, 15; total. 25. Exclusive of still births,
whites, 2. l’rcmatnfc births—Blacks and col
ored, 1.
SUMMARY.
Whites, i• ,! >rcc 1 H
Ages. &
M. IF. M iF. £
t’nder l year ] 8| i l i u
Between lan 12 years 1 I 2 4
Bet ween 2 ami 5 years ... I 1 1
Between .4 Audio years ... 1 . 2 24
Between 10 urn! 90 years l 1
lJet wedn 80 and 40 years 1 1 2 4
Bet ween fin ami 7i’ years J 1 l
Between Ttt utnl SO years 1 1
Total :l • ft|*
PoimlttUon—Whiles. 28,67.4; blacks and col
ored. 10.111; total. 45.760.
Annual ratio i>er I.d>t population for week—
Whites, 12.4; blocks and c-Aoiv I. 40.0.
i. ?. MfKAltl.AMt, M. D..
It,, til, i icii-cr.
INSURANCE STATEMENT.
STATEMENT OF TIIE
(Ifiiliiii Fire il life
ASSURANCE COMPANY,
OF LONDON, - - - ENGLAND.
FOR SIX MONTHS ENDING JUNE 30th.
1.887.
Amount of Capital Stock $10.000,000 00
Amount paid up in Cash 5,000,000 00
ASSETS.
Cash on hand, or deposited in bank
to credit of Company $ 303,691 36
Cash in hands of Agents, and in
course of transmission 39,537 28
Stocks and Bonds—U. S. Regis
tered 4 per cent, bonds 1,028,000 00
Interest due and accrued 8,000 00
Total $ 1,379,223 61
LIABILITIES.
Losses due and yet unpaid;’)
Losses resisted by’the Company; [ ~
Losses on w hich no action has j ® *’
been taken J
All other claims ugainst the Com
pany 8,143 78
Reserve—to reinsure outstanding
risks 488,268 31
Surplus of assets over liabili
ties for benefit of insured $ 835,781 24
INCOME.
Cash premiums received .$ 350,235 90
Interest money received 9,233 13
Total income $ 359,469 03
EXPENDITURES.
Losses paid .. .$ 210,063 95
Fees—Commissions and salaries to
officers and agents 108,696 65
Taxes paid 12,310 82
All other expenses 27,091 15
Total expenses $ 358,162 57
CTATE OF GEORGIA— County of Chatham.
O July 30th, 1887.—Personally appeared
before me HENRY T. BOTTK, Spe
cial Agent for the South, who, lie
ing duly sworn, says he is the chief off!
cer or agent of the Guardian Fire and Life As
surance Company residing iu said State, and
that the foregoing statement is true and correct
to the best of liis knowledge, information and
belief.
HENRY T. BOTTS,
' Special ’Agent for the South.
Sworn and subscribed to before me this 30th
day of July, 1887.
L. W. LANDERSHINE,
Notary Public. C. C. Ga.
GROCERIES.
l e ai oTSrsk
Cabbages,
Potatoes,
Onions.
30,000 bushels CORN, 15,000 bushels OATS,
HAY, BRAN. GRITS, MEAL,
STOCK FEED.
Grain and Hay in carload a specialty.
COW PEAS, all varieties.
RUST PROOF OATS.
Our STOCK FEED is prepared with great care
and is just the thing for Horses and Mules in
this weather. Try it.
T. P. BOND & CO.,
155 Bav
PEACHES!
Received in large quanti
ties daily. In packages to
suit all buyers.
For Sale Very Cheap
L H. CHAMPIOI.
3? O T OES.
Long Island Potatoes.
Onions, Cabbage.
Cow Peas.
Seed and Feed Peas.
Hay, Grain.
Bran, Eyes, Etc.
Get our prices on large lots of Grain and liny
before buying.
169 BAY ST,
W.D. SIMKINS&CO.
NEW CHEESE.
JUST RECEIVED AND FOR SALE BY
C. M. GILBERT & CO.
WHOLESALE GROCERS.
VIRGINIA BLACK PEAS.
NOW IS THE TIME TO PLANT.
FOB SALK BY
172 BAY STREET.
ELECTRIC BELTS.
Electric 1 •)< >l l Free.
r po INTRODI rf*; it arid obtain Agents wo will
lor the next sixty days give away, free f
charge, in each county in tho United ftbiUs n
limited number *f our Gcnmui Kiectn* GiJvuiiih
SuixMtsory Bi lls price, s.*>. A positive and un
failing cure for Nervous Debility. \’m ion-ele,
Kruisalotis. Impotence, Ktc. • ,; * rwwArd pal l
if every Bolt wo manufaefuro dtKM not giuiemuj
a gemiim* electric current. Addiv.is at iimii
KI.KFTKIC HKLT AUFNUV. I*. O. Box US,
Brooklyn* N. v.
l; 1Y RITM.
Imported Bay Rum,
A FINE ARTICLE,
AT STRONGS DRUG STORE,
Corner Bull and ivrry sir.*et la*re.
MERCHANTS, manufacturers, mechanic**,
4’4r) *■ • rations, and all others in 111*041 •>1
printing. lithogritpUing, uud bl ink Ixn'kw vi i
hav** their ordc.-H promptly lillud, m moder.tte
prioes, at the MORxfftG NiAVd PRINTING
lIOUSK. H V liit tiWer ntu. , t
SUMMER RESORTS.
OCEAN HOTEL;
TYBEE ISLAND, GA.
Sea bathing unsurpassed on Atlantic Coast.
Comfortable rooms. Faro the best the market
affords. GEO. D. HODGES,Proprietor.
The Sweet Water Park Hotel,
AT SALT SPRINGS, GA.,
IS NOW OPENED fur the reception of guests.
Rate of ln>ard from sl2 50 to $lB per
week. In archihftuial design, finish and
general appointments the Sweet Water
Park Hotel has few equals in the South. The
fame of the Halt Springs water as a euro
five agent of great value in the treatment of all
forms of dyspepsia and indigestion, blood, skin,
bladder and kidney diseases is now fully estate
fished. For all iubirmation. etc., address J. D.
BILLINGS, Manager, Halt Springs, Ga.
S. G. HEALY & CO.,
PROPRIETORS,
SALT SPRING, NEAR AUSTELL, GEORGIA,
\ V T ATFU almost a specific for Dyspepsia, Kid-
IV ney Trouble and Cutaneous Diseases.
Orders for water and alt information addressed
to the firm at Austell, Ga.
THE COLUMBIAN,
SARATOGA SPRINGS.
TIIE FAVORITE HOTEL OF SAVANNAHIANS
Opens June 25th.
JAMES M. CASE, Proprietor.
X K\V YORK BOARD.
1 \ AND 1,707 Broadway, corner 54th.
• i 1 o) House kept by a Southern lady; loca
tion desiraH ■. Refers by permission to Col.
John Screven, Savannah.
rpilE WHITLOCK HOUSE, in Marietta, (ia.,
i combines privileges and conveniences of a
first-class hotel, and the comforts and pleasures
of a home. Capacity, about one hundred and
fifty guests. I urge, handsome, well furnished
rooms; best of beds: table good; large shaded
grounds, covered with blue grass; Lawn Tennis,
Croquet. Billiards and Bonding Alley, all frej
for guests. Prices more moderate tluin any
other house in Georgia for the accommodations.
51. g. WHITLOCK. Owner and Proprietor.
'T'HOUBAND ISLANDS.—Westminster Hotel,
I Westminster Park, Alexandria Bay, N. Y.—
“Unquestionably the finest location iu the
Thousund Islands. "—Harper's Magazine, Sept.,
1881. Send for descriptive pamphlet. 11. F.
INGLKHART, Proprietor.
EXCURSIONS.
international Steaiiisl)i| Cos. Line
—of—
“ Palace Steamers”
BETWEEN
Boston, Portland, East
port and St. John, N. 8.,
With Connections to all Parts of tha
Provinces.
• PORTLAND DAY LINE.
Steamers leave Commercial Wharf, Boston,
8:30 a. M , every Monday, Wednesday and Fri
day for Portland, making the trip in 7 hours,
affording excellent coast scenery.
KASTPOKT AND HT. JOHN LINE.
Steamers leave Boston 8:30 a. M.,and Portland
sp. m. every Monday, Wednesday and Friday
for Eastport and St. John.
HT. JOHN DIRECT LINE.
A steamer will leave Boston every Thursday
at 8 A M. for St. John direct.
ANNAPOLIS LINE.
A steamer will leave Boat on every Monday and
Thursday at Ba. M. for Annapolis N. S.,* con
necting fur Yarmouth, Digby, Halifax, etc.
J. B. COYLE, Jr., E. A. WALDRON,
Manager. Portland, Me. Gen. Pass. Agt.
CliailestoQ & SSavaimafilly.
I! IMMiitis!
Through Pullman Service.
/COMMENCING June 12th a through Pullman
V ) Buffet service will be rendered daily be
tween Savaunaii and Hot Springs, N. C., via
Spartanburg and Ashville.
Leave Savannah 12:26 pm
Leave Charleston 4:sopm
Leave Columbia 10:20 p in
Arrive Spartanburg 2:20 a m
Arrive Asheville 7:00 a m
Arrive Hot Springs 9:00 am
EXCURSION RATES.
To SPARTANBURG sl3 30
To ASHEVILLE 17 15
To HOT SPRINGS 17 15
Sleeping car reservations and tickets good
until Oct. 31st, 1887. can lie had at BREN'S
TICKET OFFICE, Bull street, and at depot.
E. P. McSWINEY,
Gen. Pass Agt.
HOTELS.
Fifth Avenue Hotel,
.MMUSON SQUARE, N. Y.
'jpHE largest, best appointed, and most liber
ally managed hotel in the city, with the most
central and delightful location.
* HITCHCOCK. DARLING & CO.
A. B. DARLING, formerly of the Battle I louso,
Mobile.
JIIHAM HITCHCOCK, formerly of the St.
Charles Hotel, New Orleans.
NEW HOTE L TOGNiT
(Formerly St. Mark's.)
Newnan Street, near Hay, Jacksonville, Fla.
WINTER AND SUMMER.
r IMIIS MOST central Houne in the city. Near
1 Post Office, Street Cars und all Ferries.
New and Elegant Furniture. Electric Bella*
Balks, Etc. £% ft) to iter day.
JOHN B TOdNI* Pfopriet >r.
DUB’S SCREVEN HOUSE.
rpms POPULAR Hotel Ik now provided with
1 a Passenger Elevator (the only one in th©
city') and has lw*n remodeled and newly fur
nished. Th<* proprietor, who by recent purchase
is also the ownor of the establishment, spar*
neither pains nor expense in the entertainment
of his guests. The patronage of Florida visit
ors is earnestly invited. Tho table of tb|)
1 Screven House ia supplied with every luxury
, the market* at homo or abroad can afford.
MARSHALL HOUSE,
SAVANNAH, - - GA.
(~1 EO. 11. HODGES, Proprietor. Formerly of
I lb*’ Metropolitan Hotel. New York, and tho
Grand Union, Saratoga Springs. Location cen
tral All parts of tho city and places of inter
est accessible by troot cars coustuntly par-cog
the doors. Special inducements to those visits
lng tho oity fo • justness or pleasure.
THE MORRISON HOUSE.
Ono of tiio Largest Boarding Houses ui tha
South.
\FFORDS pleasant South roon. good t*v\rd
with non* Artesian "Water, itt prices to suit
thus * w'.-ihmg table, regular or transient uecoin
mndatjoiifl. Northeast comer Broughton and
Drayton streetn, opiosite Marshall -
DKINTEH AND ISOOKISINDEK.
NICHOLS —JOB PRINTING.
NICHOLS— BINDING.
NICHOIS BLANK IiOOKS.
NICHOLS —GOOD WORK.
NICHOLS—FINE PAPER.
NICHOLS —LOW PRICES.
NICHOLS —Q.'U BAY STREW'