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POWELL ON DUN'S MU.
THE STATE ONCE ANXIOUS TO SELL
FOR $1,000,000.
Ono Vote in the House All That Pre
vented the Sale $8,000,000 the
Price Put on the Property Seventeen
years Ago—The Funding Bill Passed.
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 28. In the Senate
fecv-day the Funding l>ill was read the third
time and passed.
Mr. DoJarnette introduced a bill provid
ing for the registration of voters in Morgan
county.
Mr. Jamas introduced a bill to amend the
act incorporating South Rome.
Discussion of the Dean bill was then re
sumed.
Mr. Northcutt of the Twenty-fifth, the
Atlanta district, made an argument against
the hiU.
Mr. Powell, of the Twenty-second, favor
ed the passage of the bill. He reviewed the
early history of the State road. He re
called the fnct that after fifty-throe miles of
the road had been built, at a cost of $3,000,-
000, the people got tired of it, and a prono
sit.ion was made in the Legislature to sell it
for $1,00,),000. It passed the Senate by
14 majority, hut was defeated in the House
by a majority of one. Seventeen years ago
there was another procuration introduced in
the Legislature to sell the road.and the price
fixed at $0,000,000. It would have been
better for the Stab*, better for the people,
and better forour financiers if the road hud
been sold for $7,000,000. He said this much
in reply to the expressions that the proposi
tion to sell the road was something new.
mr. Powell’s explanation.
Mr. Powell said the question was used
against him in his election that ho would lie
in favor of selling the State road. The
question was also not unknown in the Gor
don-Baeon campaign. It is no new ques
tion. The only question is whether the
road has paid as an investment, and whether
it is paying anything into the Treasury. The
Senator from the Thirty-sixth had not dealt
fairly with this question. Mr. Powell said
the financial reports demonstrate that this
road ought to pass out of the hands of the
State. He quoted some of the figures ns
to the value of the road, placing it at the
minimum figure of $8,500,000. It has for
the last forty years paid about per cent.,
while the State has paid in interest charges
8 and 10 per ccut. So the road has paid fir
st ate practically little or nothing on the in
vestment. Pending the completion of this
speech the Senate adjourned.
In the House.
In the House to-day the special order was
the bill introduced bv Mr. Denny, of Floyd
county, to amend, revise and consolidate
the common school laws of Georgia. The
bill was considered in committee of the
whole, and Mr. Denny made a four-and-a
half-hour speech explaining its provisions
and urging its passage.
When Mr. Denny finished, Mr. Stewart,
of Roefcdaie, moved that the committee re
port the bill hack, with a recommendation
against its passage.
Mr. Gordon, of Chatham,in a few forcible
remarks, opposed the motion, insisting on
the need of changes to make the school sys
tem more effective and the need of the
little additional money asked to make it so.
He said: Let amendments be made if de
sired, but do not in this summary way
cast away the industrious labor of months
devoted to the elevation of the character
end qualifications of teachers, for that is
the chief feature of the bill. He lielievisl
the people would cheerfully stand the ad
ditional expense. He moved that the com
mittee rise and report progress and ask leave
to sit again.
Mr. Stewart's motion prevailed, but when
the bill was reported it was recommitted to
the Committee on Education.
Mr. Kenan, of Baldwin, offered a resolu
tion empowering the sj>eciai committee to
visit and investigate tho lunatic asylum ■
and to employ a stenographer and clerk,
which, after some discussion, was agreed to.
Mr. McCord, of Richmond, presented a
memorial against the convict lease system,
which was referred to the Penitentiary
Committee.
The House then adjourned.
PABLO’S ENCAMPMENT.
Crowds of Visitors Watching the Evo
lutions of the Soldiery.
•Jacksonville, Fla., Aug. 28. Pablo
Beach to-day has been crowded with visi
tors watching the troops’ manoeuvres. This
evening the companies were reinforced by
the Pensacola and Milton Killes and the St.
Augustine Guards. The total number of
troops is estimated at 350.
All the society people of Jacksonville and
many towns in Florida are present, and the
week will Ik* u gala one.
The Board of Trade to-day sent a formal
invitation to President Cleveland to visit
Jacksonville.
Judge Loton Jones opened the Criminal
Court to-day. Nothing of importance was
done, and the time was spent in getting
cases readv.
Suwannee Goes for Prohibition.
Live Oak, Fla., Aug. 23.—The liquor
question was settled here to-day, the Pro
hibitionists carrying the day !>v a large
majority. Six districts give a majority of
806 for prohibition. Eight distnrts vet to
hear from will swell the majority to 500.
The day passed quietly. Both parties
exerted themselves to the utmost. Anvils
are booming, and the greatest rejoicing is
going on.
Capt. Richard Recovering
Starke, Fla., Aug. 23.—Capt. J. C.
Richard, who was shot Sunday morning bv
George Mtllen, is resting quietly, and will
probably recover, although the bull has not
been found, having entered the bones of the
face between tin* eyes, and ranged down
ward and toward the left ear, passing back
of the left eye, and perhups severing the
optic nerve, and consequently destroying
that organ.
Saw Mills Burnell
Crescent City, Fla., Any. 28.— The
Crescent City Saw Mills, owned by L. K.
Willis, were burned on Saturday night last.
The loss is estimated at #20,000, with no in
suranee. He will probably rebuild.
The dry weather still continues and orange
trees are suffering some.
ONLY FOUR YEARS OLD,
But His Being Several Milos from
Home Did Not Worry Him.
From the flmoldt/ii Engle.
“My name is Davy Roche and T winter
go home.” said a bright-looking little lad to
Sergt. Bropliy, as he entered the Seven
teent.h Precinct Police Station yesterday
afternoon about 4 o’clock. The child car
ried an uncovered basket in which was n
large louf of bread.
‘Tut down your basket and come here to
me,” said tlie sergeant kindly. “Now,
where do you liveT
“At 57 Elm street,’’ was the prompt re
ply. “and I walked all the way up here.”
“What’a your father's name!”
“His name’s Dave, too.”
Davy was planted on a stool behind the
desk, where ny devoured a large pie which
had been sent lor by the sergeant. It was
nearly 6 o’clock when Davy's mother. wlw>
lino learned of the boy’s whereaoouts
through the police of the precinct in which
she lives, entered the station and reclaimed
the runaway.
“I sent film for a loaf of bread at 7
o'clock this morning,"explained Mrs. Roche,
“and have not seen him until now."
"How old is hef" iisled the sergeant.
“Onlv 4 years," whs tin- reply
“He'D get along,” said the officer, as the
W>v snd lii- L-sio t followed bis mother
A SNAKE IN HER BED.
| Kate Hennessey's Brave Deed When
Her Feet Touched a Rattler.
From tlie San b\anci*co Cail
John Hennessey is the father of a bloom
ing daughter of 15, who resides with him on
the ram'll, eleven miles south of Jnckson,
Amador county. The old gentleman was
iu town yesterday and wore a broad smile
on liis face. When tho clerk at a down
town hotel, where he stopped, introduced
him to a reporter, remarking at the same
time that he could probably give the scribe
some news from his section, Mr. Hennessey
srniied more than ever.
“And that’s just what I ran,” said he.
“Sure ami I’ve got the bravest girl that
there is, just about. I have heard much of
bold deeds, nut I guess Kate's is equal to
most any of them, fora little girl, too.
“Snakes bother us some in Amador. You
wouldn’t think that a mining country like
that would lie troubled with them much,
but it is, in places, and in rny vicinity more
than ever this year. There are some rat
tlers there, as well as a variety of others
that are not poisonous. At work on my
ranch last work I ran across two rattle
snakes and killed them.
“It was close to my cabin, and I tokl Kate
about it, and told her to keep an eyeoutfor
them, for they were vicious fellows, what I
had seen, anxious to bite, of good size, and
very ugly every way.
“1 am a widower, and have only one
other child, a lx>y 4 years old. Monday I
drove over to Jackson, cautioning Kate to
keep a good lookout that everything was
straight.
“when I was gone, as the day grew
warm, Kate spread a coverlet down on the
floor inside the door for the baby to play
on, and at length little Fred wandered out
into the garden to play and was about con
siderable with her on the outside.
“I was delayed in getting my horses shod
in Jackson that night for some heavy haul
ing 1 was going to do, and had to stay all
night.
"Kate waited a good while with supper
on the table for me, but finally gave it up
and concluded to go to bed. She had mean
while, some time before, taken the coverlet
from the floor and placed it on the foot of
the bed, and tucked Freddy away. So she
went to bed.
“Well, it must have been two hours after,
so she tolls me, when she was awakened by
a whirring sort of noise, as of a big grass
hopper. It sounded down at th** foot of the
bed. and Kate began to kick around vigor
ously to roust the grasshopjier, or whatever
it was, off.
“Blest if her foot didn’t collide with a
snake, and a rattlesnake at that! She recol
lected what 1 hud said, and knew what it
was instantly. In a second she had loaned
out of bed, and pulled the boy with her
Fred was howling some considerably by this
time, and I judge Kate was pretty well
scared herself. But she struck a light,
und then, reaching for the tongs, she
went prospecting for that snake und got
him.
“Well, she just roasted him in tho fire
place till he was done brown and dead. A
ripper, 1 should say' He was 2 feet long
ami almut as thick as a hlucksnake whip.
You see, he had got into the folds of the
Coverlet during the ilav and lieen flirted up
on th.* bed with it. Slightly disturbed, I sup
pose, by one of the children, ho had ut
tered his war cry and my daughter heard
him.
“But gracious me, I don’t know how one
or the other of them escaped being bitten.
Yes, Kate kept the roasted rattler for me
to see. Wasn't that a plucky deed, now?”
SIX QUARTS AT A DRAUGHT.
The Mighty Deed of a Yankee Skipper
—Great Drinkers of Rum.
FYum thv London Telprjraph.
Drinking is a sea eustom not yet dead—at
least if it is dead, the fault is not Jack’s.
But, even though the economical principles
of owners had suffered perpetuation of the
practice on shipboard, I question whether
the most bibulous of the present race of
sailors could carry it to the height to which
it was formerly raised I suppose the very
biggist drink on record is that related bv
I lam pier. He relates that there came oil
board his ship one Capt. Rawlins, the com
rnander of a small New England vessel,
along with a Mr. John Hooker. They were
asked into the cabin to drink, and a bowl
was made containing six quarts. “Mr.
Hooker being drunk to by Capt. Rawlins,
wfiio pledged Capt. Hudswell, and. having
the bowl in his hand, said that he was un
der an oath to drink but three draughts of
strong liquor a day, und putting the bowl
to his head, turned it off at one draught,
and so making himself drunk, disappointed
us of our expeetatations until wo had made
another bowl.”
Twelve pints to a swallow, without a sigh
between! But then hard drinking was the
custom, not on the privateers only, but of
the whole seafaring races of early times.
They were educated to it by liberal doses of
grog. The allowance sometimes rose to a
pint of rum per man a day. In the French,
Spanish and Portuguese ships, and very
often in the Dutch, the sailors’ courage be
fore an action was nearly Invariably helped
with jacks of brandy, and the doses were
repeated while the fight proceeded, a bum
per being handl'd between the guns. The
man, frenzied by drink, would mix gun
powder with the spirits, supposing .that , thus
prepared, there was no better liquor for he
roes. I think it need not be doubted that
more actions were lost than gained by this
custom. How should a drunken gunner aim
his piece, and what mischief (save to one
another) could a mob of inebriated small
arms men do in the tops or along the qur.r
ter-deek? But if privateersmen could he
found able to swallow six quarts at a
draught, they had customs besides that of
drinking which must have tended to mnke
them desperately hardy-seasoned men. It.
was their practice to keep their ships clear,
so that flic dock was the only lie,l they hod
to lie upon. No hammocks were idlowed,
no chans or tables; they took their meals
upon the deck and lay upon It; preserving in
this direction, the old tradition of the buc
caneers, who denied themselves every
imaginable comfort ami convenience that
they might never be mistaken for anything
else than t he savage beasts they were.
Removing Old Landmarks.
Ftcm n New York Ist try
Asa rule Now York cares very little
about the post. Its soul is filled with the
present and its cares, and even the relics of
the past are rapidly and reckle-sly oblitera
t si to make room for the demands of trade
and s| km dilation. In tlie boginning of the
present century the block of land bounded
By Whitehall, State street and the Bowling
Green, was occupied by a stately dwelling
known as the Government House, which
had been erected by the city ut the time
when it expected to - remain the capital of
the country. It was never occupied for that
purpose, and was afterward use I for public
office! and a public hospital until it was
sdd by the city in 1815, to privute citizens
with the proviso that tho buildings erected
there should be of a uniform height, to tie
approved by the authorities of the city. A
block of red brick houses, surrounded by dor
mer windows, substantial in build and" com
fortable in aspect, were erected, with stables
in the rear. Here dwelt, when 1 was it boy,
Hteplien Whitney, who, next to John Jacob
Aster, was our wealthiest citizen, and other
local nobilities. A quarter of u century
ago they were made over iuto business
building!'., without having been changed in
their structure. Now the rage for lofty
office buildings has seized ujion the present
occupants, and they have asked the Aider
men for tne privilege of erecting new struc
tures on the lots that shall be “Suited to
modern ideas.” Of course, if they -nail
make it worth their while to the City Futli
ors (whose first question is always: “What
is it worth to you I’) the privilege will tin
accorded them. Yet 1 think that the men
of 1815 were in the right when they wished
that the Bowling Green should not lie over
shadowed, und that a distant glimpse of the
Battery and the bay, to suy nothing of the
blue sire's, should be caught from lower
R"on Ivvnv
TITE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1887.
lIKNWHO BORROW MONEY
WHAT A GROUP OF PHILOSOPHERS
SAY ABOUT THEM.
The Mon Who Borrow and the Men
Who Lend, They Both Fulfil their
Destiny—A Peculiar Fact Worthy of
an Explanation.
From the Washington Post.
A group of gentlemen were standing in
front of the counter at AVillard’s talking to
gether,and with the clerk behind the counter
aliout impostors, money borrowers, and
dead beats. All seemed to agree that there
was no season of the year when there were
not plenty of these around Washington,
and it was the general opinion that there
was no American citizen so poor in acquaint
ances as not to have made tho acquaintance
of at least ono. “One hundred,” the hotel
clerk suggested, believing from his own ex
perience that that was about the smallest
number of deadbeats encountered by any
man out of a prison cell. Th"y all reflected
a moment, and each admitted that he had
been “beat” over a hundred times, over a
hundred times lie had vowed that he would
never lend a dollar again, and over a liun
dred times ho had forgotten the good resolu
tion and given himself away anew to other
deadbeats. Another tiling, which was dis
covered on comparing notes, was that not
one in the group had ever borrowed a dollar
in his life.
“Which goes to show,” said the principal
interrogator, “that there are only two
classes of people—l sirrowere and lenders, or,
as they are sometimes called, deadbeats and
suckers. You must either he one or the
other or keep clear of both. There is no
reciprocity about it, no mutual accommoda
tion in it; tlie lender to-day is not the bor
rower to-morrow. Not at all. The bor
rower to-day is tho borrower to-morrow,
and next day and always.
The other fellow, without any effort
on his own part, has his affairs
shaped for him so that he is always con
fined to one branch of the business; lie is a
lender always, never gets a chance to !>or
row. and never falls into the habit of l>or
rowing. Friends are always coming to him
for money. They are always friends at that
stage of tlie game, but friends never again.
Either they drift out of sight ami are forgot
ten,or they are known afterward as sneaks,
arid skins and dead-beats. Every new dead
beat, presents himself in the character of a
friend.
HE CAN’T RESIST.
“The chronic lender, made so by constitu
tion, by circumstances and by habit, never
doubts a friend. He would bruise the
head of u fraud, fmt it so happens that no
amount of experience enables him to know a
fraud until after the act, and then the lutost
fraud lias drifted away in tile wake ef his
long line of predecessors. You look after
him at a distance, and swear that if you
hud only known the sort of fellow he was
you would have made it hot for him. But
you don’t think so unkindly of the other
h and, ho is waiting his opportunity to re
peat the old trick: your indignation
is all against the * fellow who has
got your money and gone. 110 is, perhaps,
not half as mean as the fellow
who hasn’t yet got your money, hut who
will soon get it. If you are naturally a
sucker, no amount of experience will teach
you how to refuse a loan. The most dis
reputable bum iri existence may strike you,
and you may be perfectly aware of his rep
utation, but still you will let him get the
best of you. If an impulse to refuse the
bait rise , in you, another impulse puts that
down ilium di.itoly, and with a generous stu
pid'seiitiment. a feeling that it would lie
mean to a fellow in need when you could
help him, you let your money go, even
though you say the next moment: 'Well,
that's a sneak und I’m a tool.’ It seems once
a lender always a lender.”
one consolation about it.
“And then,” said another member of the
group, “comes in this consoling reflection,
that the fellow who is always willing to
lend is generally able to lend; tlie fellow who
is alway willing to borrow is not always so
well off. 8o there seems to ho something,
whatever it may lie, that always makes the
sucker more than even with the sneak. I
have often thought that after all, it is per
haps best to be tlie sucker. At all events,
there’s no use in kicking: some of us have
got to be suckers. Whatever is worth doing
is worth doing well.”
a remarkable fact.
“It's a remarkable fact,” said a Chicago
man, “that the handsomest, the most accom
plished and the most lovable follows I have
over met were dishonest. Some aro disbon
est in private affairs and as public officials
exact to a hair’s breadth. Others would
cut a hand off before they would cheat a
friend out of a cent, but aro utterly unscru
pulous with public money. New, there is
McGarigle, Van Pelt, Muck in and the entire
gang of Chicago boodlers, the nicest, the
cleverest fellows you could meet; the best
of friends to their friends; you couldn’t help
liking them, you know. There was not
a bank iu Chicago that wouldn’t have
trusted any of them with thousands.
Not ono of them was ever known to bor
row a dollar from a friend without paying
it liack. The soul of honor in personal re
lations, every one of them, but unmitigated
scoundrels hi regard to public money. That
reminds me, by the way,” suid the same
speaker, diverging and addressing himself
to the hotel clerk. “You know Brown thut
I introduced to you the other fclay? ‘Yes.’
Well, Brown is a first rate fellow. I know
him very well, und I think an immeuse (leal
of him, out I think I ought to say to you
that if he should ask you for any money I
would hardly lot him have it.”
“Why in blazes didn’t you tell me that !*-
foref" said the clerk, considerably roused,
“He borrowed S2O from me just last night ”
All laughed except the hotel clerk.
why the major is unhappy.
Then Maj. Peabody, whose large figure is
familiar in the lobby of the Ehbitt House,
struck in with some remarks u|hjii bis ex
perience as a money lender, but he sjiokc
irom a different standpoint. The Major,
like many another shrewd business man, lias
lent his money systematically and made
profit by it. But tilings are not running as
well with him as formerly. While n Re
publican presided at the White House nud
Republicans ruled the departments, and the
departments were manned by Republicans
almost exclusively, the Major djd a thriv
ing business among the department clerks
and other public servants. And he had
very little trouble in making his collec
tions then, for he had only to pre
sent the note bearing the borrower's
name, and the department would Collect it
for him. Now the major does not. enjoy
tlie same facilities, and he is more or less
vexed about it. The heads of departments
in the present administration exclude all
professional money-lenders from the gov
ernment buildings, and give them no hear
ing at all, no facilities to ply their trade on
government ground. They also refuse to
act as collecting agents tor the money-lend
ers iu those few cases where clerks who had
previously paid high rates of interest took
advantage of the change of administration
and didn't pay up. Now that the ad minis
tration stands between these and the major,
the major is somewhat wroth, and lie x|s*iids
a good deal of Ins time about, the lobby in
explaining that 1 lie Democrats are totally
iiiceiii|x?teiit to govern, and that the Re
publican party must lie reinstated.
A HOTEL CLERK’S EXPERIENCE.
Col. Frost, tlie clerk at Willard’s, has
been a money-lender to a certain extent, but
not lor profit. Every well regulated hotel
clerk advances small accommodations to tlie
guests of the hotel, and, of course, more or
less of these are dead losses. The number
of | s'iipic who Hang ulsiut a hotel lobby und
becoming sufficiently familiar to ask for a
small loan is entirely out ef pro|K>rtton to
the comparative!v s'maii number of hotel
guests proper. Willard's management is
very generous The fellow who is known
at all at Willurd's and cannot borrow a
five or ten dollar lull must bo in a very Iwei
wav. so tar as financial credit is concerned.
fe r the manager at Willard’s makes it a
point, of distributing some thousands of dol
lars every year among the deadbeats who
are not decent.
TfIEV TELL THEIR OWN STORY.
The conversation led Col. Frost to goto
the safe and pull out a number of little
tickets, on which wore written acknowledg
ments of loans and promises to pay on dates
mentioned. The collection is very peculiar
and a perusal of the tickets must make any
one laugh—anyone but the lender of tho
money. The 'acknowledgments are all so
cordial, the promises to )>ay are all so em
phatic, the dates are all so exactly fixed,
and tlie payments are all to bo made so
soon. Sometimes little statements of reve
nue are made to show clearly just how the
borrower can certainly pay on the par
ticular day mentioned. Sometimes the
loan is only for an hour or two, sometimes
for a day or two, hardly ever so long as a
week. Some are written in very shaky
hands, on account of intoxication; quite a
large number contain very solemn oaths,
und terrible imprecations; these, of course,
in order that there may lie no doubt about
prompt payment. One read as follows:
“Loan even fifty cents, nnd. as God is my
judge, I will return on Monday.” That, of
course, was written last year. Tho sub
scriber lias never yet returned, and the
hotel man's only prayer is that he never
may.
Tlie Savaanah Weekly News.
Sixteen Images.
For Saturday, Aug. 27, 1887.
READY THIS MORNING.
„ CONTENTS.
First Page— Waiting; Morning News Library
No. 26, “Nora of the Adfrondacks,” Chapters
xxxv, xxxvi, xxxvii, xxxviii, xxxix; A Trage
dian's Way; How Miss Lillian Smith, the Beau
ful Wild West Rifle Shot, Got Married; A Rat
Story, Funny and Singular.
Second Page Senator Colquitt Addresses the
Interstate Farmers' Convention; A Fleet Thief;
A Cyclone at Athens; Milledgeville's Earth
quake; The legislature Considering the Sale of
the State Road; Colorado’s Outbreak;Cars Raze
a Building; Blaine Given a Boost by Pennsyl
vania Republicans; Stanford Replies to the
Railroad Comrnissiqners; Minor Telegraphic
News Items.
Third Page— The Legislature Considering the
Sale of the State Road; Florida’s Metropolis;
The Farmers' Convention; Saved by an Old
Aunty; Colorow's Campaign; Railroad Disasters
Epidemic All Over the Country: More About
Woolfolk; Seizure of the Sealers: Stanford s
Silence; A White Girl Stains Her Face to Marry
a Negro.
Fourth Page— A Steamer Burns at Sea; Tlie
Business of the Country Trembling iu the Bal
ance: Chicago's Corruption; Henry George for
Office; Outlawing the League; Improvement of
Southern Rivers and Harbors; Proud Pensacola;
Mrs. Cleveland at Marion; The State Road Sale
Bill Under Fire; Mangled by Gins; Two Very
Old Women; Engines Run Wild; How a Brass
Pin Brought Oood Luck.
Fifth Pace—The Secret of Lion-Taming:
$70,001 in Money and Bonds Found in a Dead
Beggar's Room: liow ?4iss Robins Won the
Man of Her Choice; How Tiny Dispose of the
Dead in Siam; A Kiss and a Kicking; Bill Nye's
Observations on Monkeys Divorced from Music;
Vilas in Disguise; How Wilkins Was Caught; A
Man Who Has Rescued Many from Watery
Graves; Cured by Faith.
Sixth Page -How the Young Man of Society
Contrives to Look Pretty and Portly ; Late Sum
mer Amusement*; Bombarded With Hail; Sta
ley's Last Letter; Georgia’s legislature; Jollity
at Jesup; Jacksonville Jottings; An Old Couple;
He Rose from the Dead; Rice on the Altamaha;
An Incident of the Freshet; A Bust of Mrs.
Cleveland.
Seventh Page— Agricultural Department:
Saving Money on Cotton Bales; Kelsey’s Plum;
Fall Chickens; Harvesting Tobacco; The Un
pardonable sin; Pecans in Florida; Household;
Farm and Stock Notes; PopularSeieuee. Facts
About Henry S. Ives and His Partners; In a
German (*ife; Rich Men of Janitors' Town;
Braddon at Home; Mexico's Aborigines;
A Gem Bonanza.
Eighth Page— Rev.Talmageon “Witnesses for
Christ": Starke Has a Sensation; A Fight for a
Bride; Scenes at Bathing Hours at Newport;
Know-Nothingiflin's Revival: Minister Hanna
Wants a Line of Steamers to Buenos Ayres;
Minor Telegraphic News Items.
Ninth Page— lTnrtington in a Huff,He Was Not
Forewarned of the Proclamation Decision; An
Indian Camp Raided. Peace or War Depends on
the Safety of a Squaw; Bald Knobbers Weaken,
Several Willing to Testify for the State; Augus
ta’s Scurvey (’amp; Gov. Gordon Decides
Against Bondurant & Joplin; Other News
Telegrams.
Tenth Page— The News in Qeorgia, Gathered
from Correspondents and Exchanges; South
Carolina Items; Georgia's Legislature; The
Asylum at Milledgeville Thoroughly Investi
gated; Columbus' Crack Shots; Gordon County's
Prohibition Fight.
Eleventh Page—Round About in Florida;
Ku-Klux in Florida; Spanish Ground peas; Sta
tistician Dodge on the Defensive; Toryism's
Last Bullet; Russia and Bulgaria; Human Mad
Dog; Great Darqage to Shipping Off North
Carolina; A Bank Cashier Flees; Shot by a
Woman.
Twelfth Page.— Editorial: Cotton Mills at
the South; Ives' Asset* and Liabilities; Henry
George's Party; The Proposed Board of Par
dons; Mr Davis and Prohibition. Money For
All; An Alligator Tackles a Bull; Brief Tele
graphic Summary: Genera! Railway News
Tiurternth Page \ Rapist Jailed; Drown
ing of Willie Fleetwood: Oatherwood Short in
His Accounts; Negroes Suffering for Food on
Account of the Crop Failure: MurdertHl on the
Ogeechee Road; Doings of Odd Fellows; Caught
in a Hurricane; A Florida Yachtsman Chal
lenges Savannah fora Race.
Fourteenth Page— A Balloon’s Awful Drop;
Pill Nye Challenges a Rural Editor in a Truly
Chivalrous Way; Big Stakos at Baccarat; That
Stranger in the Sky; A Cataleptic Recovering
From a Seven-Months' Trance; Comanche Pete's
Conversion: Pom Fedro and Victor Hugo.
Fifteenth Page How Arnlier is Carved;
“Darn a Wasp;" Explaining a Machine-Made
Ij/ingurtge; He Changed His Mind; To Encour
age Babies; Nancy Fat; The Father of Forty-
One Children Killed When 69 Years Old; A Sur
prising Reception; Current Comment; Bright
Bits; Personal; Items of Interest.
Sixteenth Page Commercial Review of the
W.*k; Powell on the I>ean Rill, the S?at Once
Anxious to sell for fl ,000,000; Other Na
Items; Advertisements.
Just the paper to send to your friends.
Single copies 5 cents.
For sale at Est ill's News Depot and at the of
fice, 3 Whitaker street.
Removal.
Tho Famous New York Clothing House
lias removed to 144 Congress, northeast eor
n r of Whitaker street.
Anew line of Gloria Umbrellas at Bol
singer’s, 24 Whitaker street.
Open-front Shirts a specialty at Pelsin
p-rv, 2i Whitakerstreet.
CNDEKTAK Eft.
W. D. DIXON,
UNDERTAKER
DEALER IN ALL KINDH OT
COFFINS AND CASKETS,
43 Hull street Residence Ml I.tlierty street.
SAVANNAH. HKOROIA-
DEATHS.
MOLONKY.—Died. John Moloney, of the
firm of Power A Moloney, on Aii£. SM, at 12:30
a. m. Burii*l 4:Bm p. at.
~~ F V N'K RAL HrVITATIO & .
WEIIRENBERO. -The friends and acquaint -
ance nf William A. AVehrenberg un<l family and
Charles Sei er and family are respect fully in
vited to attend the funeral of William A.
WEiuiENnERo from 'Tiis late residence. 96
Hrouphton street, at 4 o'clock THIS AFTER
NOON.
M EKTIXOS.
OOLDE > RI LE LODGE MO. 12, I. O. O. F.
A regular meeting of this Lodge will be held
THIS EVENING at ft o'clock.
Members of other lodges and visiting brothers
are invited to attend.
By order of FRF.D EINSFELD, N. G.
B. F. McCoy. Secretary.
GERMAN FRIENDLY SOCIETY.
The mernljers of this Society are requested to
meet THIS (\Wdnesdny) AFTERNOON at 3
o'clock at Turner Hall, to attend the funeral of
our deceased brother, W. Wkhrenijrro.
W. SCHEIIIING, President.
A. HsLUER, Secretary. _
SPECIAL NO i'IC KS.
IMPORTED PIANOS.
The first Piano was invented by a German.
The first Pianos used in this country were Hold
by Jacob Astor, a German. They were imported
from Europe long before a Piano factory was
established in the United States. To-day the
best and principal Piano makers in the United
States are Germans and their descendants.
Our country manufactures more Pianos than
all the rest of the world combined, for the
simple reason of the-great growth in its popula
tion. It is for this cause that our factories are
larger, being equipped with the best labor
saving machinery. There is no question that
American Pianos stand in the front rank of all
the makes in the world. It has been our re
peated experience while in Europe to hear
Piano-makers candidly admit that Steinwav &
Sons, New York, make the best and most artis
tic instruments in the world, and that the Euro
pean makers have adopted the
STEINWAY SYSTEM.
Steinway & Sons' Pianos were in such demand
that they established a factory in Hamburg
—the only American factory in Europe. This
is the bright side of our American Piano manu
facture. Unfortunately there is also a very dark
side, viz: The rascally and fraudulent imitation
and Stencil Piano business. There are makers
who manufacture what th*y call a Piano, but
what properly must bo styled a “rattle box.”
Unseasoned lumber for the cases, the poorest
stuff for the sounding boards, iron frames from
the cheapest iron, the iowest quality of felt,
leather and cloth for the hammers, in fact the
entire, a bogus affair. After that box receives a
few* coats of cheap varnish it deceives the pur
chaser unacquainted with the article. Outside
new% bright varnish; but oh, the inside! Like a
grave, flowers on the outside, decay underneath.
Generally these makers sell their boxes without
guarantee, selling only to dealers, preferring to
mark them with the dealer's name, or an}'name
the dealer may order to have on them—in
many cases a fancy name, or one in fraudulent
imitation of a genuine and well known maker.
We, knowing these swindles and frauds, had
either to become a party to it, by selling such
trash or quit the business. Happily, European
Pianos, honestly and conscientiously made by
old established house's, furnished us instruments
superior in quality and at a less price, on ac
count of cheapness of material and labor, good,
honest work and good material. Thes * are our
reasons for importing this season a larger
quantity, because they have given excellent
satisfaction, and purchasers stand ready to
testify to these facts. We claim to have studied
the Piano business thoroughly, and know’
whereof we speak.
We conduct our business on the good old ante
helium principles, and not on the principle ‘‘the
end sanctifies the means.”
In a few’ years my son will enter into our busi
ness, and he must and will find the same princi
ples of honesty and truth as are now taught
him by a firm a century old.
SCHREtNER'S MUSIC HOUSE.
We have to-da} T opened several new styles of
Imported Pianos, which are lovely in tone and
case. Please call; glad to show them, and with
pride, too.
SPECIAL NOTIC E.
A. S. COHEN will, between Sept. Ist and
15th, open a Shoe Store at No 139V£ Broughton
street. He will sacrifice his stock of Fancy
Goods and Notions so as to have these goods
sold by that time. Would advise the ladies to
c 11 early and secure bargains.
DENTA L NOTICE^
DR. RcTa C H
Will be out of the city until August 27th.
PARI# GREEN.
LONDON PURPLE,
PATENT WATER CANS,
AND—
FOUNTAIN PUMPS
For applying same.
A cheap and sure method of destroying cot
ton worms. Send orders or correspond with
WILLIAM M. BIRD A: CO.,
206 East Bay, Charleston S. C.
NOTICE fJTw UKK CON AIT MERE.
City of Savannah, \
Offick Clerk of Council, Aug. 20, lftsr. f
During the succeeding ten days, required to
mak * necessary repairs to thelurge pump at the
Water Works, the small pump will Ik* relied
upon to furnish our citisens witn water, and in
order to assist the Water Works Department in
maintaining as much pressure as possible,
water takers are reoimwted to desist from sprink
ling the streets, and are also earnestly requested
to confine their use of water to their actual ne
cessities.
By order of the Mavor. pro tern.
Frank e. rebarer,
Clerk of Council.
[NOTICE TO WATCH-TAK-UUS.
OFFICE WATER WORKS, I
Savannah, Aug. 18, IKS7. f
There will be a reduced supply of water to
consumers for the next fen nr 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.
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 bo
excelled. Highest prizes awarded, and in
dorsed by eminent medical men. Ask for Ul
mer's Liver Corrector and take no other. 21 00
a bottle. Freight paid to any address.
B. F. ULMER, M. D„
Pharmacist, Savannah. Ga.
THE MORNIMO MCWs
STEA.M PRIVTIVG HOUSE,
3 Whitaker Street.
The Job Department of the Mornino 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,
employe a large force of competent workmen,
and carries a full stock of fiapers of all
descript lons.
These facilities enable the establishment to
execute orders for anything in the above lint's
at the shortcut notice and the lowest prices con
sistent with good work. Corporations, mer
chants, manufacturers, mechanics and business
men generally, societies nnd committees, are
requested to get estimates from the MORNING
NICWS STEAM PRINTING HOUSE liefore send
ing their orders shroud. .1 p ■ TILL.
INSURANCE.
A Great Financial Institution.
The New York Life Insurance Cos.
Record for 42 Years, 1845-1886
The new vork life insurance com
pany began business in 1315 on the purely
mutual plan, having neither capital stock nor
stockholders from the beginning.
Received from Policy-holders in
Premiums, in 42years, 18-10-1830. $159,525,913 92
Paid to Policy-hold
ers and their rep
resentatives, 1840-1886
1886 $96,714,644 67
Assets held as se
curity for Policy
holders, January 1,
1887 75.421,453 37
Total Amount paid
Policy-holders, and
now held as secu
rity for their con
tracts $172,138,098 04
Amount paid and held exceeds
amount received.. $ 12,610,179 12
Received from Inter
est, Rents, etc., in
42 years, 1815-1886.540,251,099 32
Death Losses paid in
42 years, 1845-1881) 36,678,744 66
Interest and Rents exceeded
Death Losses paid $ 3,572.354 66
Dividends paid in 42
years. 1845-1886 .. .$30,294,550 63
Legal Surplus over
Liabilities, under
State Law, Jan. 1,
1837 15,549,319 53
Amount saved Policy holders
from table rates $45,813,870 15
AN IDEAL LIFE INSURANCE CONTRACT.
The New York Life Insurance Company', 346
and 348 Broadway, New York, with cash assets
of over seventy-live million dollars, lias lately
perfected a Non-Forfeit able Five-Year Dividend
Policy, which provides for—
First. A surrender value in paid-up insurance
at any time after three years.
Second. A stufender value in cash at the end
of any five-year period after issue.
Third. An accumulated dividend in cash,
paid-up insurance, or annuity, at the end of
each five-year period.
Fourth. Freedom of action with respect to
occupation, residence and travel.
Fifth. Death Claims under these policies are
payable immediately upon the receipt, and ap
proval by the Com any, of the required proofs
of death, and with every Death Claim is paid a
Mortuary Dividend equal to fifty per cent, of
all premiums paid during the five-year jieriod
in whicli deatli occurs.
R. H. PLANT,
General Agent Ga., Fla. and Tenn., Macon, Ga
A. T. CHAPMAN,
Asst. Supt. of Agencies Ga., Fla. and Tenn.
J. F. BROOKS.
Local Agent, 185 and 137 Bay street.
CLOTHING.
CAUTION!
Unscrupulous dealers in woolen fabrics, seeking
to take advantage of the
Ever-Increasing Poplarilv
OF OUR
SANITARY
\RE putting upon the market spurious
articles, manufactured in imitation of Dr.
JAEGER'S Goods and Brand. All persons are,
therefore, warned against purchasing any of
fh“se goods unless stamped with our TRADE
MARK as exhibited on every garment manu
factured by us, with Dr. Jaeger's Photograph
and fac simile Signature.
A complete line of our goods can always be
had of our Agents.
A. Falk & Son,
SOLE AGE IN TS
FOR DR. JAEGER'S SANITARY WOOLEN CO.
ICE.
ICE !
Now is the time when every
body wants ICE, and we
want to sell it.
PRICES REASONABLE!
20 Tickets, good for 100 Pounds, 75c.
140 Tickets, good for 700 Pounds, $5.
200 Tickets, good for 1,000 Pounds, $7.
50 Pounds at one delivery 30c.
Lower prices to large buyers.
I C
Tacked for shipment at reduced rates. Careful
and polite service. Full and liberal weight.
KNICKERBOCKER ICE CO.
1-44- BAV ST.
FRUIT AND GROCERIES.
Z i: m o 2sTs .
Cabbages,
Potatoes,
Onions.
30,000 bushels COP,N, 15,093 bushels OATS
HAY. BRAN, GRITS, MEAL,
STOCK F EED.
Grain nnd Hay in carload a specialty.
C< iW PEAS. HII varieties.
RUST PROOF OATS.
Our STOCK FEED is prepared with great cam
anil is just the thing for Hordes and Mule* in
this weather. Try it.
T. P. BOND & CO.,
1")5 Bav Htrc^et.
FOR SALE.
FOE SALK
|>OSSEBSION given Dot Ist, that desirable
Residence southeast corner of Gaston and
Abercorti streets. F'or terms apply to HENRY
BLUN, Blun's Building.
COPARTNERSHIP NOTICES.
NOTH
NOTICE is hereby glv'ei that, the copartner
ship herulofoi. ext. ting between JOSEPH
D WEED and UE< >RoK n (UNWELL, un m
the firm style of WF.ED CuRNWK .1 ,is ihis
iluy dissolved by mutual enusont. Mr.’wEKD
is Hill hortaed to settle tbeatTuirsoi ,ai I Hnn.
mid will eotiHnue the hmiii*. i.unities., at the
sane- j lace. under the tire, name and style of
Joseph and. weed and company.
Savannah. Ga.. this 23d dry of Aniriist. 1887
EXCURSjOMB.
Charleston ISayamlßy.
Through Pullman Service.
/COMMENCING June 13|J| a through Pullman
V' Buffet service will Ijfc reader i daily be
tween Savannah and Him ajwiags, N. C., via
Spartanburg and Ash villa
Leave Savannah 12:26 pm
Leave Charleston 4:55 pm
Leave Columbia 10:20 p m
Arrive Spartanburg 2:2oam
Arrive Asheville 7:ooam
Arrive Hot Springs B:00am
EXCURSIOO* hates.
To SPARTANBURG * 013 30
To ASHEVILLE 17 15
To HOT SPRINGS .....k 17 lo
Sleeping car reservations and tickets good
until Oct. 31st, 1887, earn be had at BREN’S
TICKET OFFICE, liuil street, and at depot
E. P. McSWINEY,
Gen. Pass. Agt.
Cliarlsston aii Sami®
RAILWAY.
Summer Excursions
Commencing SUNDAY, MAY 15th, this Coro
pany will sell round trip tickets to
CHARLESTON, BEAUFORT AND
PORT ROTAL
By following Trains and at following Rates:
By train leaving Sundays only, at 6:45 a. m.: re
turning, leave Charleston at 3:35 p. m.. Port
Royal 3:30 aud Beaufort 3:45 p. u. same
day $1 00
By train leaving Sunday only at 6:45 a. m, ; re
turning, leave Charleston Monday morn
ing $2 06
By train leaving Saturday at 8:23 p. m. ; return
ing, leave Charleston Monday morning... $2 56
By train leaving Saturday at 12:26 p. m.: return
ing, leave Charleston Monday morning. $3 06
Tickets for sale at WM. BREN'S. Bull street
and at Depot. E. P. McSWINEY,
Gen. Pass. Agent.
SUMMER RESORTS.
Ocean I louse
TYBEE ISLAND, GEORGIA.
LEA BATHING unsurpassed on the Atlantic
to coast. Comfortable rooms, neatly fur
nished. Fare the best the market affords.
Bathing suits supplied. Terms moderate.
GEO. D. HODGES, Proprietor.
NEW YORK BOARD.
I l 7||‘ AND 1,707 Broadway, corner 54th.
I . 1 House kept by a Southern lady: loca
tion desirable. Refers by permission to Col.
John Screven, Savannah.
II THOUSAND ISLANDS.—Westminster Hotel,
I Westminster Park. Alexandria Baj, N. Y
“Unquestionably the finest location in the
Thousand Islands.”— Harper's Magazine, Sept.,
1881. Send for descriptive pamphlet. H. F.
INGLEHART, Proprietor,
HOTELS.
Fifth Avenue Hotel,
.'HIM SQUARE, N. Y.
r J-'HE 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 House,
.Mobile.
HIRAM HITCHCOCK, formerly of the St.
Charles Hotel. New' Orleans.
NEW HOTEL TOGNI,
(Formerly St. Mark's.)
Newnan Street, near Bay, Jacksonville, FW
WINTER AND SUMMER.
THE MOST central House in the city. Near
Post Office, Street Cars and all Ferries.
New and Elegant Furniture. Electric Bells,
Baths, Etc. $2 50 to $3 per dav.
JOHN B. TOGNI, Proprietor.
MARSHALL HOUSE,
SAVANNAH, - • GA.
( 5 EO. D. HODGES, Proprietor. Formerly of
V T 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 tlioso visit
ing the city fc • Justness or pleasure.
DUB'S SCREVEN HOUSE.
r I''HIS POPULAR Hotel Is now provided with
1 a Passenger Elevator (the only one in the
city > aiul has been remodeled and newly fur
nished. The proprietor, who by recent purchase
is also the owner of the establishment, spares
neither ]>ains nor expense in the entertainment
of his The patronage of Florida visit
ors is earnestly invited. The table of the
Screven House is supplied with every luxury
that the markets at home or abroad can afford.
THE MORRISON HOUSE.
One of the Largest Hoarding Houses in the
South.
\FFOTIDS pleasant South rooms, jarnod board
viirh pure Artesian Water, at prices to suit
t hoe wishing table, regular or transient accom
modation*. Northeast corner Broughton and
Drayton strut* m, opposite Marshall House.
TEA AM) COFFEE.
TEA!
\\ r E have just purchased and received a large
*v lot of s VMFLK TIiAK, mixed. I/ivers of
good mixed Tea can now enjoy tin* ixvst at same
price ordinary hat been tout. We offer the
same at only f*)e. pur pound; worth sl.
STRAUSS BROS,
22 AND BARNARD STREET.
Pickled Salmon.
Boneless Corn Beef.
Loose Chow Chow
Fresh assortment FANCY’ CRACKERS jus
received, at
STRAUSS BROS.’,
22 and 22H Bernard street.
COFFEE.
JAVA and RIO COFFEES at lowest market
prices.
STRAUSS BROS.,
92 AND 22'tj BARNARD STREET
MERCHANTS, manufacturer*, mechanic,
eorpnrji ions, and ud utbein in need of
printing, lithographing, ami l lank bnok* can
bare their unlen* promptly Hik’d, at nuxleraW
priori, at the MORNING NEWS PRINTING
HOUSE. 8 Whitaker street.