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SALE OF THE STATE HOAD
MR. DEAN OPENS THE DEBATE ON
HIS BILE.
Many Reasons Given Why the Road
Should Be Sold at the Earliest Prac
ticable Moment The Appropriation
for the Asylum at Cave Springs Dis
cussed in the House.
Atlanta, Ga.. Aug. 17.—1n the Senate
to-day the special order was Air. Dean's bill
for the sale of the State road. Tho bill was
read.
Mr. Butt., of the Twenty-fourth district,
moved an amendment submitting the act to
the people, the vote to lie taken at the elec
tion of the next Legislature,
The opening argument for the bill was
made by Mr. Dean. His advocacy of the
sale of the road was bast-d on the idea that
the State should not own property and thus
compete with its own citizens, offering the
temptation to tho State to use its sovereign
power to obtain advantage over competi
tors, who have no such power. He also
argued that it is a bad business policy for a
State to own property and owe debts,
the interest on the debts amounting
to more than the rental derived from tho
road, when by a sale of the property tho
entire debt can be paid. Ho claimed that
the ownership and management of tho road
by the State was a disturbing element in
the politics of the State. Every political
campaign for the past forty years has been
burdened with discussions about this prop
erty, fraud and corruption being charged
time and again upon those in charge of it.
■Whether or not these charges were true
they were made repeatedly, and bad feel
ing and political acrimony was engendered.
I
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CONSUMED MUCH TIME.
The time of the Legislature has been taken
up, amounting to days and weeks, in dis
cussing the road and its management, and
its lease has not prevented either the bitter
ness in the campaign or the debates in the
General Assembly regarding the proposition
to submit the sale to a vote of the
people. He said the members of the General
Assembly' were elected to act for the
people, not to refer questions back to
the people. He said the constitution of 1877
directly authorized the sale by the General
Assembly, and that delay in the settlement
of the question under discussion until next
November would force upon the State the
very thing he was anxious to avoid, viz: a
forced sale or lease when no time could
be had to properly mature plans
Then the sale would have to be made in
such a short time before the lease expires
that in his opinion only a bad one would lie
made, and as there would lie no competition
the road would not bring half its value in
a sale or lease. Now a magnillccnt sum
could be obtained if the Slate
will begin in time and allow
purchasers the opportunity to
form companies with sufficient capital to
buy so large and expensive a property. The
Legislature will lx- held directly responsible
for the delay and consequent depression in
price. Again, the interest now being paid
on the bonded indebtedness of the State is
$887,000, and the rental amounts to $:>00,
000, a difference against the State of $587,-
000.
810 MONEY EXPECTED.
The price offered by purchasers, provided
the bill passes, will be more than $8,500,000,
the minimum price named in the bill. The
present plan of paying the debt of Georgia
will require eighty-five years to complete
it, and $42,000,000, principal and interest
will lie the amount required. It is true the
rental from the road will lx' some set off,
but it is nothing on the principal of the
debt, and who knows but thut the
road may boa financial wreck
long before the State's debt is mid, and in
that event the rental will .be stopped.
Again, as soon as this road is sold it becomes
subject, to the burdens of government and
the owners will pay taxes just the same as
other roads. Now the Btato receives as
taxes from the lessees the sum of SA3S. If
owned by others than the State the amount
of taxes will be annually about
ANSWERING OBJECTIONS.
Senator Dean then proceeded to notice
the objections to the sale of the road. The
first was that the bill recognized the claim
for betterments. Be denied this,and proved
by the reading of the bill that it contained
no such recognition. It would not bo well
for Oe >rgia to sell tho property until the
State hail an understanding with the leasees
about the betterments. lie said to do
lay the passage of tho bill for
that reason would be to encourage
the lessees to believe that tin'll
claim for betterments was valid. He argued
that the inventory furnished by the com
missioners at the time the lease was made is
the basis of settlement between the State of
Georgia and the lessees, and there can
be no other. This bill recognizes this
and no more, and does not presup
pose the payment of betterments. Bend
lug this argument tho Senate adjourned.
IN THK HOUSE.
In the House to-dav the privileges of the
floor were tendered the Agricultural Con
vsuuon delegates. The sjiecinl order wus
the I'esolution to appropriate $12,01)0 for the
completion of n new building, and for re-
i wiring and refurnishing the Deaf and
himb Asylum at Cave Springs. The report
of the finance Committee redncoil the
amount to $O,OOO. The hill was considered
in committee of the whole.
Mr. AVheeler, of Walker moved hi amend
by striking out $9,000 and substituting
$6,000.
jli-. Denny narrated the circumstances
under which the first appropriation fort in
new building was made and he progress
made toward its completion. He said the
building could not he utilized until a small
additional appropriation was made to com
plete it. Ho stated specifically the work for
which the appropriation was needed and the
necessity for it. He said the institution was
greatly crowded. In one room there were
thirty pupils. He insisted on the import
ance of the institution and the
duty of the .State to support
it. To provide properly for the enlarge
ment of the main building s<;,<XHi was
needed. Ho compared the appropriations
made for the deaf and dumb asylum and
those for the lunatic asylum und the asylum
for the blind, showing that the State had
been much more libera) towards the two
latter than towurd the former, und tlmtjtlie
cost per capita was much less in the former
than in either of the others.
ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY.
Mr. Stewart, of Itockdnle. explained why
committee t hought $9.000 sufficient. He
said that the appropriation was absolutely
necessary.
Mr. ( Giv, of Cobb, said that thej-e was
not u single dissenting vote in the Finance
Committee to the appropriation of $O,OOO.
After Bearing the statement of the princi
pal of the institute he insisted oil the neces
sity of making it, The sum of $3,000 was
Mated to complete the new building, and
$O,OOO for the repairing and enlargement of
the old building.
Mr. Harrell, of AVebster, said that the
comparison of expenses showed that there
was a vast deal of extravagance in conduct
ing some of the Stab- institutions.
WANTS IT WATCHED.
He offered an amendment requiring the
appropriation to tie expended uiidw the
supervision of the Governor, and no more
of it to tie used than was necessary.
Mr. Denny accepted this amendment.
The amendment of Mr. AV heeler was re
jected.
The committee's amendment was adopted.
Mr. Harrell's amendment was .also
adopted.
The i-oinmitfee rose and reported in favor
of the hill as amended and it was passed by
13*$ yens to 1 nay.
Mr. Ham’s bill prohibiting the sale of to
bacco and cigarettes to minor* was another
special order, but was referred to th" Com
mittee on the State of Republic
The following new I vis were introduce!:
by Mr. Huriey,of Ci uipbeli—To prohibit
the manufacture or sale of spirituous or
malt liquor in Campbell county.
Bv Mr. Perkins, of Burke —To authorize
the Town Council of Miller to levy a sjx*cial
tax for school purposes.
By Mr. Adams, of Elbert--To incorporate
the Cleveland Manufacturing and Improve
ment Company.
By Mr. Harrell, of Webster —A resolution
for the sale’ of ISO shares of the Georgia
Railroad Company held by the State
By Mr. McGehee, of Murray—To pay R.
E. Wilson, clerk of a railroad commission
during Gov. Bullock's administration so‘.lo.
By Mr. Olive, of Oglethorpe—To provide
for the additional supervision of railroads
in this State, etc.
By Mr. Smith, of Gwinnett —To incor
porato the Great North and South railway,
from Atlanta, by Lawrenceville, to the
South Carolina line.
By Mr. Morgan, of Pulaski —A resolution
for the relief of E. A. Pollock, Tax Collec
tor of Pulaski county.
By Mr. Bray, of Fulton —To amend an
act to incorporate the Pulton County Street
Railroad Company, so as to authorize it to
use steam or other power.
By Mr. Hollman, of Taylor—To prohibit
the running at largo of stock in a district
of Taylor county.
By Mr. Howell, of Fulton —To amend an
act to incorporate the Atlanta Insurance
Company, changing its name to the Atlanta
Banking Company, etc.
A FLEET THIEF.
He Outruns a Sheriff and Hie Deputy
With Handcuffs On.
Calhoun, Ga., Aug. 17. —Thursday even
ing Thomas Wilkerson, a 14-year-old negro
boy, stole $5B 10 and a silver watch from
H. A. Dorsey, who is selling whisky for
J. M. Ballew, just outside of town. The
boy I icing suspected of the theft, was closely
watched, and finally arrested and told that
he had stolen the money and watch. He
denied the charge, but Mr. Ballew told him
there was no use in denying it. “Just show
me where the money is and you may go.”
The boy led the way to an old stable near by
and told Ballew the money was buried there
by the comer of the stable. On examina
tion every cent of the money was found, but
no watch. Tho loy was put in jail
early this morning. The negro told
Sheriff McGinnis that if he would take him
up on the mountain near by ho would show
him where the watch was buried. .Sheriff
McGinnis handcuffed him, and accompanied
by Deputy (Sheriff Durham, took Tom up
the mountain. While searching for the
supposed burial place of the watch Tom
broke away and ran like a scares 1 rabbit,
pursued by McGinnis anil Durham. Mc-
Ginnis sexin came down the mountain put
ting and blowing, calling for help to catch
the uogro. The wexids for miles around
were searched but no tidings were re
ceived of the negro until the southbound
train urrivod this evening when Claud
Nesbitt with the negro in charge got off
here. Nesbitt says lie met the boy near
Resaca walking up the railroad track and
sex;ing the handcuffs he asked the* boy what
he was eloing witli them on. The Lxiy re
plied thut ho had found them and put them
on anil could not get them off. The boy is
in jail, but McGinnis lias not yet found the
watch.
FLORIDA’S THIRD BATTALION.
The Major Greatly Pleased With Its
Appearance.
Pensacola, Fla., Aug. 17.— The Escam
bia Rifles, of this city, and Santa Rosa
Rifles, of Milton, forming the Third liat
talion of tho Florida State troops, were
mustered in and drilled at Milton to-day
preparatory to the encampment of Florida
State troo]is at Pablo Beach, near Jackson
ville, Aug. 23.
Maj. W. F. Williams, battalion com
mander, was much pleased with the appear
ance and proficiency of the two crack com
panies of liis battalion, and West Florida
may Ihi justly proud of its soldier repre
sentatives at Pablo Beach.
Warren & Cos., fish dealers, of this city,
have received intelligence of tho safety of
tho smack Leonora, which was supposed
to have been lost in the recent gale. As
vet there is no news of the smack Charles
Henry, which lias now been out twenty
eight daj\, and there is every reason to be
lieve the unfortune crow of six men liuvo
found a watery grave The Charles Henry
was owned in New Orleans and Pensacola,
nnd was valued at $2,000. There is no in
surance.
Killed by the Cars.
Madison, Fla., Aug. 17. —Henry Mc-
Donnell (colored), a biakomau on a west
bound freight train, was run over while
uncoupling cars at. this place, this evening,
and instantly killed. The wheels passed en
tirely over liis hi sly and head. No fault
whatever attaches to the railroad company,
as he fell under the train, after being told
by the conductor not to go lietweeu tho
cars until the train hud stopped.
A Temperance Rally.
Aladison, Fla., Aug. 17.—A rousing
temperance mass meeting was held here
to-day. It was probably tho largest meet
ing of tlie kinil ever held in the State.
Groat enthusiasm was manifested. Stirring
speeches were made by Col. A. J. Russell, J.
C. Gallagher, D. W. Gilleslee und others.
A vigorous campaign lias been started,
which will lie pushed to victory for tem
perance at. the election, Sept. 13.
JOSEPH SMITH’S SON.
A Story With Romantic Marks, But
Lacking Confirmation.
St. Louis, -Vug. 15.—The Qlobe-Democrat
prints a sensational story about the blood
successor of Joseph Smith, of the Mormon
church, that has the marks of a romjuice,
but lacks confirmation. Alsnit twenty-five
years ago the little town of Nauvoo, 111.,
the headquarters of the Mormon church of
the Mississippi valley, wus startled by a
story iu which Joseph Smith, in 1812, fig
ured as the lover of a dashing English mai
den of a wealthy family, believers in Mor
nionfsm, who were traveling in America.
The prophet wished to take the girl ns his
spiriiiuil wife, and she consented with the
condition that if she bore a son he in the
fullne-s of time should become the head of
the Mormon church. The child was born,
nnd, for fear of foul piny from other chil
dren of the Smith family, the mother and
child hastened to England, nnd there edu
cated the child in Cambridge University,
proper credentials having been given to
secure all rights.
The story is now being published bv I,e
Baron Ila\ inton, a man of note in the Mor
mon Church at Salt Lake City, for the pur
pose. it is thought, of injuring the prospects
i t the ambition* Smith of the present day,
and perhaps with tho intention of springing
the central figure of the story, who would
now be 45 years old, lief ore the church as a
claimant to the head.
Dr. George Hall, of St. Louis, and Mr.
Crawford, of Hancock, 111., claim to lie tho
only ones who know of the origin of the
story, and they pronounce it a myth. It is
reported that the story was concocted
twenty-five years ago in Dr. Hall's office, to
liis knowledge, but not by him He claims
to have ample evidence in liis possession to
prove the whnlo thing n myth.
Deaths in the Alps.
London, Aug. 17.—Four fatal accidents
to Alpine tourists are reported from Zu
rich, making eighteen deaths in the Alps
within a month.
Advice to Mothero.
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup should
always lx* used when children are cutting
teeth. It relieves the little suffer at once; it
produce! natural, quiet Jeep by relieving
the child from pain and tho little cherub
awakes as “bright as a button. *
It is very pleasant, to taste. It noothi the
child, softens the gums, allay* all pain, re
lieves wind, regulates the bnivc!s, and is the
best known remoiO ior diarrhoea, whether
arising from teething or otliar cause*
cent* a bottle. |
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1887.
ILL-LUCK SAVED HIS LIFE.
Talo of a Counterpart of the Famous
Robert Macaire.
From the Chieatjo Time a.
Olio evening in tho summer of IST2 I was
sitting in one of the manj- gardens which
Philadelphia at that time provided for the
comfort and entertainment of pooplc who
take their music with beer. My attention
was attracted to a man about (15 years old,
whose appearance was the nearest approach
te> the traditional make-up of Robert
Mai'aire that I hail ever seen off tho
stage, not omitting the blackened eye.
lie wandered about the gardep swing
ing an old umbrella in a nonchalant way
for some time, not exactly oblivious to the
strains of Behrens’ aelmirabto orchestra, hut
in a manner betokening satiety of every
thing commonplace, yet still evincing a
willingness to endure his surroundings in
elcfault of something more to his taste. I
wateheel his movements for awhile, and,
finally losing sight of him in the crowd, or
dered a “nightcap” and arose from my chair
to go home. As I did so I felt a gentle tap
on my shoulder, and a well-modulated voice
said:
“Excuse me. sir. Are you a believer in
the doctrine of predestination?”
The question, the man anil the manner
struck me as so excessively ridiculous that
I laughisi outright, but, recovering myself,
replied: “You mean, I suppose, to ask if I
believe that a man who was born to be
hanged can't jiossibly be drowned."
"Something like that, yes. I have a
theory that I wasn’t born to lie drowned,
but we won’t discuss the hanging.”
“We won’t discuss anything,” I said, “I’m
going.”
“My dear sir,” said the typical Robert
with a Chesterflelijian bow, accompanied by
a wide and graceful sweep of his umbrella,
“that is really' too bad. You should by all
means remain and hear my story, a story
without a moral. It isn’t a ghost story or a
fairy tale, but a true account of the only
niece of good luck I ever encountered in my'
life, and that came about through niv
losing all my money at faro; hadn’t a cent
left.”
Tho fellow’s evident sincerity impressed
me, and my' curiosity to hear his paradoxi
cal experience grow stronger as I gazed into
bis imperturbable countenance and re
pressed a laugh* I had been a sort of a
rounder for many years, and considered
myself invulnerable to assaults upon my
credulity, so I invited my companion to lie
seated, resumed my place at the table, or
dered some refreshments and told him of my
burning anxiety to lx* added to the list of
victims. Casting toward me a look of in
jured innocence at the suggestion of guilo
conveyed by my last remark. he composed
his countenance by' inserting a portion of it
into tho beer mug he held in his hand, and
began his story:
“I will not boro you with an account of
my early life, “said he, “further than to
say that I was born in ill luck. My father,
whose hopes during a few months prior to
my nativity had lieen set upon the pinnacle
of desire to bo parent to a daughter,
dently' fancied that I was solely responsible
for my sex, und could never tolerate me in
his presence. At the earliest moment that
I attained the age at which l would be re
ceived in a boarding school I was sent away
from home and kept away, in school and
out, until I was 18 years of age, when I re
ceived from my father the sum of S(MO and
a letter informing mo that I must from that
time forward shift for myself. I shifted.
The first thing I did was to lose the $BOO,
wuich feat I accomplished before leaving
the * school. I have alway's thought the
ja’iitor took it. but have never been uncer
tain of tho fact that 1 didn’t take it when I
left.
“My first practical experience in shifting
for myself was confined to easy stages of
pedestrianism in search of employment,
which I obtained on tho third day after my
departure from the school in a carpenter’s
shoji. I had worked two hours carrying
lumlior to tho planing-bonch, when I fell
through a hole in the floor into tho cellar
ami broke ono of my legs. This episode
dulled the keen edge of my desire to learn
the carpenter's trade, and as soon as I was
able to travel I set out in quest of an easier,
or at least a safer, way of earning a living.
With varying success, and always getting
the worst of it in the long run, I turned my
hand to almost everything until the spring
of 1801, when the war broke out, I was at
that time enjoying one of the brief periods
of fair luck that commonly sucoeded
the violent and protracted paroxysms
of ill fortune to which I was sub
ject, Jand in requital of my services in
assisting to raise a volunteer company in re
sponse to President Lincoln’s call for 75,000
men I was commissioned a first lieutenant.
I then believed my star was in the ascend
ant, but there was in store for me, as I
speedily realized, worse luck than I had ever
before experienced. On the evening before
tho day fixed for our departure from tho
Ohio town, in which I was then living, I
called to say farewell to the only girl I hail
ever lieen able to induce to tolerate my at
tentions, and who had promised to marry
me. Fancy my feelings when I was in
formed by her brother, who met me at tho
il< Kir, that sho had married a feller from
Mansfield that morning and was at that mo
ment on her way to her now home. I rushed
away from the liquse with full determina
tion to die on the battle-field, but my ]x>r
vorse luck Interfered to prevent even that
one of my desires from arriving at consum
mation.
“On the following morning my company
starti si for Columbus to join the regiment
to which it was attached, and for awhile
war like enthusiasm took the place of dis
appointment and chagrin within my breast;
tmt the unfaithfulness of my sweetheart
was of too recent occurrence to enable me
to banish the pangs which seized me, and
my arrival at Columbus was signalized by
an unprecedented draft upon the alcoholic
resources of the town, resulting in my so
journ in tho guard-house and the loss of my
shoulder straps. 1 continued with the regi
ment as a private, however, having nothing
else to do, and living still strong in my de
sire to die a soldier's death, until the expire
tion of mv three months’ term of enlist
ment, when f re-enlisted for three y ears,
and served after a subsequent, enrollment,
each time in a different command, until the
close of the war, without receiving a
scratch.
“In 1865 I was discharged at Jackson,
Miss., and obtained employment in that
town, which, at that time it npjieared to me
the Almighty hail overlooked in the distri
bution of His bounty, and remained there
three months in the combined capacity of
salesman, porter ami principal and junior
assistant in the only clothing store in the
place. There I was rejoined by my hered
itary luck (I wasn’t Ixirn a girl you'll re
member), and for the heinous offense of
charging only $155 for a $l4 suit of clothes
I was summarily ejected from tho clothing
business just ns I was beginning to tielieve
that I had at last placed my feet firmly
upon the ladder of success.
‘•Remaining in Jackson only long enough
to imck my limited wardrobe iii an old
lashioncd carpet bag, I tixik a train in tho
Southern railroad of Mississippi for Vieks
liurg. At a place called Bovina, eight miles
from Vicksburg, the railroad bridge had
lieen destroyed during the war and peason
gers were transferred across tho big Black
river by stage, crossing that dirty little
bayou, neither big nor black, by means of a
pontoon bridge. Anew railroad bridge was
in com-se of construction, and, as I felt, like
stretching my legs and seeing the country,
1 walked across that in preference to the
pontoon bridge. Arriving at about
the middle oi the bridge I notion! a
plank projecting about ten feet from
tlie outer springpleoe, its inner end being
pushed some five or six feet under that stick
of timlier. I walked out to the end of it
and sat down, my legs swinging idly over
tlie water, mid my gaze directed to "every
point except the one 1 should have guarded.
As 1 sat down 1 noticed four negro laborers
ring under the weight of a piece .if
tunlier winch they were carrying to its
place in the structure, but bestowed no
lurhior attention upon than until I hoard
them immediately in my rear. I was alxmt
to look over my shoulder at them when
they dropped that stick of timber square on
the end of the plank I was sitting on, and
niy little carpet-bag und I shot about ten
feet into the air, parted company as
each described a curve and began
our descent, and disappeared beneath
the muddy waters of the Big Black. I
think I struck the wnter first; anyway. I’m
sure I got out first, since no authenticated
account of the rescue of the bag has ever
come to my notice. As I reached the bank,
covered from head to foot with mud, slime
and the sweepings of the pontoon bridge
above, those four darkies greeted me with a
chorus of laughter as indicative of enjoy
ment as any sound I ever heard,
and I started for the train on
tho Vicksburg side of the bridge on a dead
run, my speed being accelerated more by a
desire to escape the darkies’ mirth than to
retch the train, which, I may remark, I
didn’t catch by about ten car-lengths. Why
that place was calledßovinia tho Lord only
knows, unless, perhaps, because the man
who nmned it thought, as I did, that it wus
n bully place to get away from.
“There was now nothing left for me to do
but to walk to Vicksburg or wait six hours
for another train, and I wasn’t long in mak
ing up my mind to walk. The weather was
warm, and by the time I hml covered the
eight miles my clothes were dry, but heav
ens, how dirty! Tlie investment of $1
brought into requisition the services of a
stout negro lioy, and by dint of much rub
bing, brushing and scouring I was made to
look quite presentable. I then started for
the wharflxiat of the Atlantic and Missis
sippi Steamship Company at the foot of Clay
street so ascertain the time of depar
ture of the first boat for St. Louis and
was told that tlie steamer William
R. Carter would arrive from
New Orleans at about 8 o’cloek in tlie even
ing and leave about an hour later. It wus
then about 4 o’clock in the afternoon, and I
looked alxnrt for some way of killing time
until the Carter should arrive. I went into
the Prentiss House bar, got a drink and a
cigar, and, counting my money, found that
I had just $33. I sat down to enjoy my
cigar, when the idea struck me that it
wouldn’t lie a bad scheme to piny what
money I had above my steamboat fare
against the bank. Reflection and recollec
tion of the adverse results of most of my
former enterprises of a similar character
told me that it was a particularly
bad scheme, however, and for the
tiino I abandoned the project. I took a
walk up the hill and down again and tried
in every way I could think to rid myself of
the Idea of risking what little money I had,
hut something seemed to tell me that I
would win, and I finally yield(d to a power
I couldn’t resist and asked tile barkeeper of
the hotel where I could find a game. He di
rected me to ono a short distance front the
hotel, and in three bets I had reduced my
capital to an amount just sufficient to pay
my passage, without meals, to St. Louis. I
watched the remainder of the deal with
out playing until there was a single
‘turn’ left in the box, the fateful
‘something’ that had lured me into tho
place meanwhile urging me to resume, and
I yielded again. I put $5 on the ‘turn’ and
lost. I was then desperate, and in my en
deavor to quit even on my faro went broke.
There didn’t seem to lie much of a prospect
of my getting out of tho town, or staying
in it either, for that matter; hut as you may
suppose, I was pretty well used to hard
luck and didn’t cry over spilled milk. I
went back to the hotel, which was situated
on the levee, and in due time saw the Wil
liam R. Carter swing away from the wharf
boat and make her way up the river with
out me. Having nothing else to do I walked
down to the wharflxiat, and sat looking into
the dark current of the Mississippi, specu
lating as to how I should bo able to stem
that current.
“About 10 o’clock a little boat called the
Evening Star came up the river, bound for
Memphis, and landed. I went on board and
found to my inexpressible delight an old
army acquaintance, a member of a fiy-by
night, minstrel party that had been “doing”
the small river towns. To him I explained
my plight, and I was overjoyed when he
agreed to lend me money enough to pay my
fare to Memphis on the doubtful security of
my word. Half an hour later wc startl'd,
and as we rounded Milliken’s bend we dis
covered a sheet of flame ahead that to river
men was a too well-known sight that a ves
sel was burning. There was a great clang
ingof Ix4ls, increased vehemence and puffing
of the exhaust pipes, and a deter
mined vigor in tlie song of the colored
firemen as they piled fuel into the furnaces,
and every effort was tient toward reaching
the burning wreck with the least possible
delay. We finally drew close enough to tho
blazing ixiat to discover that no living thing
could exist for a moment on board of her,
and devoted our efforts to keeping at a safe
distance from her whilo endeavoring to dis
cover and pick up survivors. Of tho pas
sengers and crew of the flame-devoured
steamer wo picked up thirty, many of them
badly burned, and ascertained that the
roaring column of flame before us was all
that remained of the William R. Carter,
the boat I did not take because I kst all my
money at a faro bank, and whoso noiler ex
ploded within loss than two hours after
leaving Vicksburg.
“A large number of the passengers and
crew of the ('arter were burned or drowned,
including Capt. Hurd, and, singularly
enough, on the same night in the Ohio river,
near Paducah, Ky., the steamer Missouri, of
the same line, exploded her boiler and
burned to tlie water’s edge, and among the
many persons lost was the captain, a brother
of the commander of the Carter. The
boilers in use on the steamers of that line
were of tho “tubular” pattern, which were
afterward condemned by the government
inspectors and their removal front the re
maining Ixiate of the fleet, enforced.
"If you are not now convinced that the
luckiest thing that ever happened to me
was brought about by what people com
monly regard as absence of luck I’ll treat—
that is to say I would if I had the price of
the drinks.
I had listened to the man’s story without
uttering a word except to remind the waiter
that our glass's needed replenishing, and as
lie recounted the circumstances of the loss
of the Carter, las implicitly believed in
the truth of his tale as I did in my own
existence, for I was a resident of Vicksburg
at tlie time. As I arose to go I slipped a
dollar into his hand from m.v very slender
purse and felt sorry that I wasn’t able to
give a stronger lift to a man who had
played life’s game in such
Horrible luck. I bade him gmxl
night and walked into the
street, stripping at the corner opposite the
gas-light to wait for a car. While standing
there my late companion and entertainer,
for whom l still felt most compassionately,
sauntered up to the corner upon which the
light was situated, uud, apparently not ob
serving me. called out: “lie)', Jim, another
sucker swallowed the old bait and gave up
tho case. He died hard, and bloody near
drowned me w ith brer. Let's go and get
something proper.” While my unlucky
friend was delivering himself of this speech.
"Jilu” emerged from the doorway around
the corner, where lie had been keeping vigii
while his partner “worked me for a ease,”
and the twain disappeared down the street,
heaving me to wish that the man who wasn't
born a girl had been sitting on the Carter’s
ixiiler when the bolts let go.
Mosquitoes Also Love the Girls.
From the Albany (On.) Keren and Advertiner.
The mosquito crop is never a total failure,
in this city, even in time of drought. Mos
quito nets arc essential to undisturbed sleep
at this season of the year, even ill ordinary
circumstances, but since the recent freshet
a hungry army of the buzzing little ]x>s;s
have made their appearance in such num
bers as to lx' troublesome even in the day
time. The dear plump winged girls who
wear tight sleeves and thin sleeves and
deeolette sleeves are the ones who suffer the
most from the ravages of this hungry army.
Tlfß scrub girl, whose duties are to rise with
l lie sun mid clean t he hotel office anil parlors on
top of Mount Washington, was for ten years a
toucher iu the puttin' schools in England She
isagi.Mi l imisiciau ami an excellent scholar in
the languages. French und I sit In IsKikuare her
constant ebumanfons when off duty.
SAVED BY AN OLD AUNTY.
With Her Brown Apron She Blagged
the Express on the Brink of a Chasm.
Louisville, Ky., Aug. 15.—The Courier-
Journal says that, at about the hour of the
terrible railway disaster at Chatsworth,
Amanda Barker, an aged negress, was walk
ing along the track of the Cincinnati, Ham
ilton and Indianapolis road, near Wen wood,
Ind., on her way to a farmhouse, "where
she was to work during the day. She had
just passed the small station at Wen wood,
which is a lonely, dismal spot between In
dianapolis andConnersville, freijugnted only
occasionally by the farmers living around,
when, on turning a sharp curve in the road,
she was horrified to see, some distance ahead,
the smoldering remains of what had a short
while before been a stout, substantial bridge,
connecting embankments 650 feet apart and
spanning a chasm 95 feet deep. The bridge
had evidently beeu burning during the en
tire night, for the superstructure was en
tirely eaten away by the fire, and only a
few weak timbers and tho three stone piers
were left.
The old negress could not collect herself
for several moments, but it suddenly
dawned upon her that a train imssed that
point some time in the early morning. She
knew that it was a fast one and never
stopped at Wen wood. She turned her step
backward, intending to flag the train at the
station, but had gone scarcely 100 yards
when she heard tho shrill scream of the
whistle, as she thought, directly ahead of
her. It was tho east-bound lightning ex
press, due at Wenwood at 5:45 o’clock. She
tried as hard as she could to get around the
bend which obstructed the train from view,
all the time tearing and tugging away at an
old brown apron she wore, which she
wanted to use as a signal flag. Stumbling
and falling, she was kept back considerably,
but she Anally broke the apron strings,
which never seemed so tightly tied before,
and almost dropping to the earth with sheer
exhaustion, she rounded the bend, and saw
the train thundering down upon her, only a
few hundred feet away. The burning
bridge was about the same distance behind
her, and she knew that to'let the train pass
meant certain death to many on board.
Raising the flag high above her
head, she forgot her exhaustion, and waved
it frantically, standing in the middle of the
track, where her presence could not go un
noticed. For a while it seemed to her that
no one saw her, but she kept her position,
determined to stop the train or die on the
track.
At last the engineer saw her and reversed
his engine, bringing it to a standstill a few
yards in front of the old woman.
Leaning out of the cab window, and
thinking the negress drunk or crazy, he
called out: “Well, well, what is it?”
“For God's sake, mister,” she answered,
•‘don’t go any further. The bridge is burned
d.own, and it is right in front of you; in
deed it is.”
The trainmen had by this time been at
tracted to the front of the train by the stop
page at this out-of-the-way place, ami, from
the sincerity of the old woman, believed her
story. A number of them followed her
around the bend and there verified the truth
of her statement.
All of the passengers were around the
spot in a short while, and when they saw
how narrow their escape had been they
could scarcely speak.
A large purse was maijp up for their ben
efactress, but she positively refused to take
any money, and said she was too happy to
touch anything—that money would only
make her feel bad again. When everyone
on the train was congratulating themselves
on their escape, the old negress became so
happy that she burst into tears, and was so
joyful for awhile that she hugged several of
the ladies and gentlemen, and danced an
old-fashioned jig.
Weather Indications.
I - ] Special indications for Georgia:
FAIR Fair weather, south to west winds,
_____ slight changes in temperature.
Comparison of mean tekiperatu-a at Savan
nah. Aug. 17, 1887, and themean of same day for
fifteen years.
| Departure j Total
Mean Temperature j from the ! Departure
.—-- 1 ileau I Since
for 15 years Aug. 17, ’ST.i - or j Jan. 1,1887.
30 0 86.0 I 6.0 | 125.0
Comparative rainfall statement,:
Jlean Daily Amount j D e ™*i re
Amount for for \x an '
16 Years. Aug. 17, *B7. | Ij^WT.
.26 ! .00 1 .26 | 1.54
Maximum, temperature 08.0, minimum tem
perature 7.0
The height of the river at Augusta at
1:33 o’clock p. m. yesterday (Augusta time)
was 9 5 feet —a rise of 0.1 during the past
twenty-four hours.
Cotton Region Bulletin for 34 hours end
ing 6p. m., Aug. 17 18S7. 75th Meridian
time.
Districts. Average.
Max.) Min. Raiti
* lions Tem P Temp, faU.
1. Wilmington !0 00 70 j .0s
2. Charleston | 8 WC 72 .08
8. Augusta j 12 06 | 72 j .07
4. Savannah 13 90 I 74 ; .02
5. Atlanta i 13 92 I 72 ] 25
6. Montgomery I 9 91 , 72 03
7. Mobile t 8 96 72 ] .00
8. New Orleans : 14 i 34 70 \ .06
9. Galveston ! 21 96 74 ! .05
10. Vicksburg 1 5 9-1 76 j .00
11. Little Rock I 74 90 70 I 34
12. Memphis I IS, jBB 70 j .34
Averages I | .... | ....
Observations taken at tho semo moment
of time at all stations.
Savannah, Aug. 17, 9:36 p. city time.
i Temperature.
Direction. |
Velocity. ! c
Rainfall.
Kami
or
Stations.
Portland j 62 l 8 j Cloudy.
Bouton A'ij S Clear.
Block Island liiCSW Clear
New Vorlt city 14 * K ... I Clear.
Plillaflelphia > 71 & K Cloudy.
Detroit ; Of! N 1 .281 Raining.
Port tlufonl .. TO E Cloudy.
fit. Vincent 6t.| N 1 ... Clear.
Washington city 7-1 S 08 cloudy.
Norfolk 7r S E 8 . Cloudy.
Charlotte VO S 6 Oft Raining.
Hattenw WHS 12 .. |Clear.
Titusville Till W 6 Cloudy.
Wilmington so S Clear.
Charleston | HSiS W;..! Clear.
Augusta TONE. 1 .06 Cloudy.
Savannah , S4I 8 10 Clear.
Jacksonville . .. 82 s ...... near.
( edar keys 8t 8 W HI Fair.
Kev Went.... | ..J j..| ]
Atlanta 78; 8 8 Clear.
Pensacola 81 w 6 Clear.
.Mobile J 80 8 W 6.. Clear.
Montgomery 1 S 6, 'Clear
Vicksburg j Bft N\V j Clear.
New Orleans j Bft 8 W , ,j . Clear.
Shreveport I , .
Port Smith 80 N ...... Clear.
Galveston 82 8 W 10 Clear.
Corpus Chriatl HIS Eld Clear.
Palestine | Bft NW 6 Cloudy.
BrownesviUe WE Clear.
UioOramlo 76 8 E IS Clear.
Knoxville 78 8 W 06 Pair.
Memphis 58 W Clear.
Nashville V 8 f . Clear.
Indianapolis 6*o NW , 01 Clear.
Clneinnati 70 N S * Cloudy.
Pittsburg I V2SE 28 Pair.
Buffalo Its 8 .10 liaming.
Cleveland #8! E j 1.02 Raining.
Marquette (is W .10 Clear.
Chicago its Clear
Duluth 7*o W 01 Clear.
bt. Paul 72 W Clear.
Davenport 68 NW oi clear.
Cairo 78 NW 01 Cloudy.
St. Lout* 78 NW Clear
Leavenworth ... 74 Clear.
Omaha 74 N .. .. . Clear
Yunkton 74 Clear.
Bismarck 70fN E Clear.
Deadwood 64 SW Cloudy.
Cheyenne 36 p, 04 Cloudy.
North Platte 72 E Fair
Dodge City 78 S E Pair
Santa Fe 62 P. 16 Raining.
0. N. Salishuuy Signal Corns. U.S. Arrnv.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
NOTICE.
To Water-Works Hutlder* and Contractors.
Sealed proposals will lie received at the office
of t he Mayor of the city of Americas, Ga., until
12 m. the Ist day of September, 1887, for the fur
nishing of all the material, and doing all the
work necessary to complete a system of water
works for said city, according to plans and
specifications prepared for same.and which can
lie si-en at the City Council room in said city.
All bids must be accompanied by a certified
check for j 51,000 to secure good faith on part of
contractor. The city reserves the right to re
ject any and all bids.
The Montgomery Adi'ertiser, Enquirer Sun,
Mobile papers and Atlanta Const Hut ion please
copy and forward bill to
J. B. FELDER, Mayor,
Americas, Ga.
NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS.
Office of The Brush Electtiuc Light and I
Power Cos., Rooms 8 and o,Odd Fellows' Uall, r
Sa VANN AH. Ga., Aug. 18, 1887. )
The subscribers lo file stock of this company
are notified that the first-installment of 50 per
cent, is due and payable at this office.
A prompt response is necessary.
SAMUEL P. HAMILTON,
President and Treasurer.
NOTICE TO WATER-TAKERS.
OFFICE WATER WORKS, I
Savannah, Aug. 18, 1887. f
There will be a reduced supply of water to
consumers for the next ten or twelve days,
owing to the necessity of using the small engine
while connecting the larger pump ends to the
large engine.
A. N. MILLER, Superintendent.
NOTICE TO GAR CONSUMERS.
Office of Mitttal Gas Light Cos., )
Savannah, Ga.. Aug. 17, 1887 f
Mr. T. B. Catherwood is no longer in the ser
vice of this company. Consumers of gas are
notified that Mr. Catherwood has no authority
to collect bills or accounts.
HENRY BLUN, President.
BARE BALL TO-DAY.
AMATEURS
- vs. -
MONTGOMERYS,
—AT
BASE BALL PARK.
4:00 p. M.
Admission 25c. Ladies free.
NOTICE.
Neither the Captain nor Consignees of the
Swedish bark “Anna Maria,” Martenson, mas
ter, will be responsible for any debts contracted
by the crew of said vessel.
IIOLST & CO., Consignees.
Savannah, Ga., August IT, 18n7.
17 DOZEN FELT HATS,
Both stiff and soft, just opened and for sale
very low, at
JAUDON'S, 150 St. Julian Street.
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 large 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 the 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 bete*e send
ing their orders abroad. J. H. EBTILL.
OIL HENRY 8 COLDING,
DENTIST,
Office corner Jones and Drayton streets.
ULMER’S LIVER CORRECTOR.
This vegetable preparation is invaluable for
the restoration of tone and strength to the sys
tem. For Dyspepsia, Constipation and other
ills, caused by a disordered liver, it cannot be
excelled. Highest prizes awarded, 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.
NOTICE
Central Railroad Bank. )
Savannah, Ga., August 8, 1887. f
I am instructed by the Board of Directors to
notify the public that this bank is prepared to
do a general hanking business and solicits ac
counts. T. M. CUNNINGHAM,
Cashier.
PROPOSAL.-* WANTED.
Proposals for Paving.
City op Savannah, Oa., )
Office of the (tit Surveyor,
July 29th, Itt-C. i
PROPOSALS will be receive ! unlil WEDN’fcS-
I DAY, August 24th, at 8 o'clock i\ m ,
directed to Mr. F. K. Rcbaror. < lark of Council
of the city of Savannah, Ga., for the paving of
that portion of (’ongrens street in said city lying
between the east property line of West* Hroad
street and the west projierty line of Drayton
str*Nst ; also, that portion of Hull street in said
city lying between the south line of Congress
street and the north line of State street, being
n total area of about eight thousand square
yards.
The proposals may be for granite, grawacke
or asphalt blocks or for sheet asphalt. the speci
fications of which will be the same as given by
the Euglnecr Department of the District of Co
lumbia in their report tor 1&8H.
Any jiersou desirtng to bid upon the above
work, but use different specifications from those
enumerated above, may do so provided that a
copy of the Hfiecifications upon whiqh they bid
is enclosed with their bid.
All bids for grawacke, granite or asphalt
blocks must lx accompanied by a specimen of
tnc blocks intended to be iced.
Separate Mils will also be received for the fur
nishing and laying of about thirty-five hundred
running foct of curbstone, of either blue stone
or granite of the fallowing dimension,': four
inches broad, sixteen inches dtvp, and in iongt us
<>l not less than five feet. The curbing to be
dressed on the top ten inches from the top on
the front face and four inches from the top on
the rear face; to be perfectly straight arid
Bfiunre on the ends.
The right to reject any or all bids is reserved.
For further information address
J.deHAUYX KOPS, Jit., C. R.,
Acting City Surveyor.
State
or
IV BATHER,
Notice to Contractors.
r> IDS for the building of the extension of the
> Eufaula and ('layton railroad from Cl iyton
to Oiark, forty nulr- iinuv or less, will !• i-.
celved hy the undersigned, at his oflloo in So
vnimah, (n.. not later than .Vug. Hist 1887
Spooihculloiu. plans and profiles on file at Sa
vannaii, Ue. Right reserve l to reject a'*y or
nil bids. M. S. BELKNAP,
(ieneral Manager c. K K and H i o
OEALED PROPOSALS will bereceived at the
omee of the Custodian of the U. s. Custom
House nl Savannah, Georgia and opened at 13
m. of Ihe 23d day of August. 1887. tor relaying
pavement, repairing uud painting, in accordanoo
with specifications, in the above named building
Each proposal must he nccotuptmied by a eer
tilled cheek lor 5:1. made payable to the order
of the Treasurer of the United States. The right
to rejtvt any bids is reserve I. Th • ajiecifications
rau he seen, and any Information ohvined hy
applying to JOHN F WHPA I ON.
_____ Custodian.
lAWYF.RS, doctors, ministers, merchants,
j mechanics awl others having boon ~ uiaga
fine*, and otlier printed work lo ie> hound or '• >
bound can have such work done in the i*t *
of the hinder s art at Hie MOK.Ni.ati *. e„
BINDERY. 3 Whitaker street
EXCURSIONS.
Central Railroad of Georgia. )
General Passenger Department, >
Savannah, Aug. 15th, 18S7. }
EXCURSION
TO
Augusta, Ga.
$2 50 FOR THE ROUND TRIP.
I SAVING SAVANNAH at 8:20 p. m. on SAT-
J URDAY, AUG. 20th. Tickets good to re
turn on any passenger train until WEDNES
DAY, AUG. 24th inclusive.
Tickets will lie on sale at City Ticket Office,
20 Bull street, and at Depot.
J. C. SHAW, GEO. A. WHITEHEAD,
Ticket Agent. Gen, Pass. Agent.
SUMM EH RESORTS.
Ocean House
TYBEE ISLAND, GEORGIA.
SEA BATHING unsurpassed on the Atlantic
coast. Comfortable rooms, neatly fur
nished. Fare the best the market affords.
Bathing suits supplied. Terms moderate.
GEO. D. HODGES, Proprietor.
THE BRISTOL. '
A SELECT FAMILY HOUSE,
15 EAST HTH ST., NEAR STII AVE., N. Y.
Well furnished, superior table.
Ladies traveling alone or with children receive
careful attention. PRICES AS REASONABLE
AS A BOARDING HOUSE.
CENTRA L HOTEL,
. ROME, GEORGIA.
Ci APT AIN J. M. KINDRED, late of Calhoun.
t Georgia, and C. H. LEFTWICH, of Knox
ville, Tenn., Proprietors. Both commercial
travelers for years, and fully posted as to the
wants of th-- public. Come and see ns.
NEW YORK BOAREb *
ITGi- AND 1,707 Broadway, corner 54th.
. I V7v > House kept by a Southern lady: loca
tion desirable. Refers by permission to Col.
John Screven, Savannah.
rpHOUSAND ISLANDS.—Westminster Hotel,
1. Westminster Park. Alexandria Bay, N. Y.
“Unquestionably the finest location iu the
Thousand Islands.”— Harper's Magazine, Sept.,
1881. Pend for descriptive pamphlet. H. F.
INQLEHART, Proprietor. _
HOTELS.
NEW HOTEL TOGNI
(Formerly St. Mark’s.)
Newnan Street, near Bay, Jacksonville, Fla
WINTER AND SUMMER.
THE MOST central House in tho city. Near
Post Office, Street Cars aud all Ferries.
New und Elegant Furniture. Electric Bells,
Baths, Etc. $2 50 to §3 per day.
JOHN B. TOGNI, Proprieter.
MARSHALL HiiLSE,
SAVANNAH, - - GA. 7
EO. D. HODGES, Proprietor. Formerly of
V I the Metropolitan Hotel, New York, and the
Grand Union, Saratoga Springs. Location cen
tral. All parts of the city and places of inter
est accessible by street cars constantly passing
the doors. Special inducements to those visit
ing tho city fo: ausiness or pleasure.
DUB’S SCREVEN HOTJSR \
r I ''HIS POPULAR Hotel Is now provided with
J a Passenger Elevator (the only one in th®
city) and has been remodeled and newly fur
nished. The proprietor, who by recent purchase
is also the owner of the establishment, spare*
neither pains nor expense in the entertainment
of his guests. The fiatronage of Florida visit
ors is earnestly invited. Tho table of th®
Screven House is supplied with every luxury
that the markets at home or abroad can afford.
THE MORRISON HOUSE. _
One of the Largest Boarding Houses in the
South.
A FFORDS pleasant South rooms, good board
. Y w ith pure Artesian W’ater, at prices to suit
those wishing table, regular or transient accom
modations. Northeast corner Broughton and
Drayton streets, opposite Marshall House.
MLuLINKKY.
Platshek’s,
138 Broughton St
Positive Clearance Sale
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IN
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Those wishing to buy real, live bargains can
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