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8 ITS FIRST YEAR'S WORK. THE Y. M. C. A. CELEBRATES ITS SECOND BIRTHDAY. The Anniversary Exercises at the Bap tist Church- Addresses by Revs. Christian and Rogan and Secretary Gordon-President Miller’s Annual Report. The Young Men's Christian Association celebrated its first anniversary Inst night. The exercises were in the Baptist churn h. The evening service in nearly all of the churches was omitted on account of the celebration nnd the church was crowded. Although it is yet young, the association has a strong organization, and it is doing au effective work The exercises wore very interesting. Rev. Dr. Holmes, pastor of the church, Rev. J. W. Rogan, of the First Presbyterian, and Rev. T. T. Christian, of Trinity church, occupied seats with President Miller. Dr. Holmes offered the opening prayer. Revs. Christian and Rogan spoke briefly of the association's work—what it has accomp lished, and the great field that lies before it. THK PUKSIDKXT’S KErORT. Tbe President’s report was a complete re view of the year's work. The association has been organized nearly a year and a half, but this was its flint anniversary celebra tion. Its rotul membership is 303—divided as follows: Active members Ml Associate members • I*B Sustaining members SO The gymnasium class has a membership of 85. Forty-two gospel meetings were held during the year, the average attendance in winter being (57, and in summer 40. Six young men united with the church through the association. The training class had an average attendance of six, and it aided very much in developing association work ers. In closing his report the Presi dent referred to the resignation of General Secretary Prater, who is now at Montgomery, Ala., and to the suc cessful work which he accomplished. He spokp also of his successor, Mr. Gordon, who has just arrived and taken charge of the association’s •'-I:. * ITS FINANCIAL NEEDS. Mr. Jam . Farie, Jr., submitted the Treasurer's report. The association is on a sound financial basis and is out of debt, thougb with a very small balance in the treasury. Mr Farie appealed to the asso ciation’s friends for support. He asked for $2. 400 to carry on the work another year, and although a comparatively small portion of that amount was raised, a large amount has been pledged. After the reports were all read President Miller introduced General Secretary Gor don, who spoke briefly in regard to associa tion work. He urged the co-operation of all Christian interests in beha'f of the young men whom the association is seeking to bring into thu Christian fo'd. The speeches were all brief and to the point. AN INTERESTING OCCASION. One of the features of the exercises w-as the singing by the Baptist church choir. Aside from the opening and closing liyms Mrs. Ida Waue sang the solo ‘'Not Half has Ever Been Told.” The te deuin. “Wo Praise thee, O God’' w-as sung by the quar tette, Mrs. Wade and Miss Gustin and Messrs. Readick and Frierson. The music was especially fine. At the close of the ex ercises a considerable sum was raised to carry on the association work. The annual business meeting w ill be held at the associa tion rooms at 8 o’clock to-morrow night, when anew board of directors and officers will be elected. REOPENED FOR WORSHIP. Service Resumed in the Independent Presbyterian Church. The Independent Prebsyterian church, which has been undergoing extensive im provement since early in the summer, was reopened for worship yes ten lay. There was no formal opening service. Dr. Bacon preached in the morning an appropriate sermon from the text “Neither in this tem ple cor at Jerusalem shall ye worship.” His subject was the 1 Kristian temple. The Oid Testament lesson v as from I. Kings vii., 51: “So was ended all the work that King Solo mon made for the house of the Isird. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father bad dedicated; even the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did he put among the treasure- in the house of the Lord.” The New Testament lesson was Hebrew s viii., touching upon Chris's min istry. The music by the choir, with Miss Coburn organist, was admirably rendered. The church w as well tilled at the morning service, bur, at night the congregation was small, owing to the Young Men’s Christian Association exercises at the Baptist church. One of the features of the evening service was the singing of the anthem, “Como Unto Me,” composed by Dr. Bacon, by a trio from tbe choir. Just at the opening of the service the electric lights in the church went out and the congregation sat in dark ness until the gas couid tic lighted. \ description of the improvements which the church Ims undergone, has already been given in the Morning News. The interior, although not vet complete, the organ not lieing in position, is one of the handsomest church interiors in the .South, The church will be open continously now for service. WILL NOT GO WITH THE SHIP. What Will be Done With the Crew of the Steamship Resolute? There was some discussion yesterday over the status of the crew of the Resolute since the decision of the Naval Court. Some are of the opinion that the crew cannot lie dis charged, anil that if the seamen stick to the ship she cannot take tiie damaged cotton, but must carry them back. Capt. Reavely, of the Resolute, says that what will bo done in the i:aae rests with the owners, who have been informed of what has occurred, but they have authority to discharge the crew ana hire another, in which case they must pay the discharged men their wages and give them transportation back to England. Shipping Commissioner Beckett says that the British law uiion that point is that when a crew is dis charged in a foreign port the owners must pay them three months wages. A percent age of the wages so paid goes to the English government, which furnishes transportation for the crew back to England. They must be returned to an English port, for the cap tains are required to account for every man who may ship with them, and in order to relieve himself of all responsibility l:e usually, when a crew is discharged, pays the three months' wages and turns them over to the British Consul, who gives him a clean receipt for them. The crew is still firm, and the men say they will not go in the ship. WITH AN ORDER FOR GETZE. The Quaker City Lover Taken Back to His Home by the Police. Hergt. T. W. Gardiner, of the Philadel phia police, arrived in the city yesterday with a letter to Chief of Police Anderson. He came for the purpose of taking to Phila delphia A. W. Getsee, who was arrested by order of his mother, when he hail set out to follow and wreak his vengeance upon one of the demi-monde who had deserted him. Getase was very much subdued ly his throe days in jail, and ho offered no resistance to returning without a requisition. In fact, he seemed anxious to go, because he wanted to get out of jail, and then, too, he was broke, and the vision of a place to sleep and three square meals a day was an irresistible allure ment when the Quaker City and his moth er's home were called to remembrance. He went back last night. THROUGH THE CITY. Items Gathered Hare and There by tbe New3 Reporters. There were thr o arrests lor disorderly conduct yesterday. There were “111 failures hi til** 1 nited States reported to llradstreel's last week, against 1!)5 in the preceding week, and 21(i, I t's;, Sts and doll in the corresponding weeks 188(5, 18S5, Iss4 and Iks:;. Numbei-s of people visited the ruins of Mr. J. A. G. Carson's new house yesterday. No clew has been obtained that will lead to the discovery of the fire's origin. That it was incendiary there is no doubt. There was a variety of weather yesterday. The day opened warm, clear and bright. By noon the sky had clouded up and it began to grow colder. By night mercury was down to tin cold wave point. The in dications for to day are slightly cooler, fol lowed by warmer, fair weather, nnd light to fresh northwesterly winds, brisk oil the coast. George E, Fownes, medallist, 184 Bark Row, New York, has sent to the Morning News samples of the “Cleveland” and “Jeff Davis" souvenir medals, which ho has been selling in Atlanta and Macon, and which lie projioses to sell in Charleston this week. The medallion on the Davis medal is the best likeness of Mr. Davis that has ever been made of that gentleman. Rev. S. H. Robertson preached to the three charitable societies of his congrega tion at St. Phillip’s African Methodist Epis copal church last night, the occasion being the annual gathering together of the ilium Iters of the societies, Rising Star Nos. 1,2 and J. The building was filled and the pas tor discoursed at length upon charity. At the conclusion the Kittrell Black Diamond Quartette, of North Carolina, sang sacred selections. THE NEW PAVING LAW. The City Considering What Streets it Will Improve First. The City Council Committee on Streets and Lanes, will submit a report this week recommending what streets shall lie paved first under the new law. The matter was brought before the Council at its last meet ing by Alderman Thomas, and was referred to the Street and Lane Committee to be re lioited upon at the earliest practicable mo ment. The paving of Congress street from Drayton to West Broad has already been decided upon, and this will lie the first work done. The streets which the Committee has lieeu considering are: River street, from West Broad Pi Water street; Wadley street, from River Pi Bay street, and Bay from Hav&n nah and Ogeeeheo canal to Wadley street: Liberty street, a width of thirty fisst. from Wheaton to West Broad; Anderson, from Drayton to Cemetery, a width of twenty feet; New Houston, from Drayton to Whit aker, a width of thirty feet: Broughton, from Abercorn P> East Broad. Some of these will probably lie paved with gravwacke or granite blocks and others with asphalt. The new law, which went into effect this month, authorizes the city to require the improvement, either for travel or drainage, of any street or lane, which by a two-thirds vote the Council may see fit to improve, and to assess two-thirds of tbe cost of the work on the real estate on each side of the street. It requires street railroads to pave the width of their track and two feet on each side. The frontage of intersecting streets, concerning which there was so much trouble under the old law, must be assessed as real estate abutting upon the improved street. The city is tbe owner of these intersections, and possessing the same rights as other real estate owners, mu t pay from the City Treasury its prorata of the cost of the work. Tuo law aLs i gives the city the authority to renew or repair any pavenient at the expense of the city nnd the owners of the real estate allotting oil the street and of the street railroads which may run through it, one-third of the ex pense to lie borne by tbe city and the other two-thirds by the property owners, the street railroad being required to renew or repair the width of its track and two feet o i each side. The principal point of difference between the old and new laws is the authority which the city has to improve whatever streets it sees fIL without asking the content of the projierty owners. Under the old law it was necessary for a majority of the property owners to petition Council before the work could be done. CHARLESTON’S GALA WEEK. The City by the Sea to Wear Holiday Clothes this Week. This is Charleston’s big week. The fall festival will open to-day. The railroads have been preparing for a rush of travel and Savannah will send a big delegation. Tho Charleston and Savannah Ba lway has made a special rate of $2 30 for the round trip. Tho people of Charleston promise no end of amusement. There will ho horse racing every day, and comic opera every night. This afternoon there will lie Chinese and Jajianose fireworks and boat and tub races, and at night a concert,aquatic sports, fireworks and processions. To-morrow the Citadel Cadets will parade, and at night there will be the grand Trades Display nnd torch light procession. On Wednesday t here will be excursions around the harbor, boat racing and glass ball shooting. At night there will lie fireworks jujain. On Thursday there will be sailing races in the harbor and glass ball shooting, and at night fireworks. On Friday the St. 1/iuis and Chicago base ball chilis will play. At night there will be the Venetian festival, with fancy and grotesque fireworks and the forts and other places in the harbor will be illuminated. There will also be excur sions to the phosphate works during the day. On Saturday there will be another base ball match, and boat racing between colored men from the city and adjacent islands. At night, there will be music on the Battery. All through the week the stores and resi dences of the people will be decorated, nnd at night they will be illuminated. Marion 8. Buckner Dead. Mix Marion S. Buckner died at his residence, No. 154 Hull street, at 9 o’ckick last even ing, from consumption. He was 28 years of age, a native of this city, and a son of the late Capt. Buckner. He leaves several brothers aud sisters to mourn his death. Ho was a young man of excellent habits and had a large circle of acquaintances. Change in Schedule. As will be seen by special noui e published elsewhere, the popular steamer St. Nicholas will, on and after to-day, leave her wharf, foot of Linci In street, at 4 I*, m. . city time, instead of ti p. m. , as heretofore. The steamer leaves on Mondays and Thursdays for Doboy, Darien, Brunswick and Fernandina, and freight will be received till 8:30 r. M. on days of sailing. Local Personal. Rev. Dr. Axsou, who has been confined by illness for some time is improving. Miss Daisy Bacon, daughter of Rev. Dr. li. YV. Bacon, has returned from an ex tended visit North. Mr. Donald Harper, of Rome, Ga., is on a visit to Savannah. He is a son of Col. Harper, of Rome, who owns one-third of Ossabaw Island, one of the large sea islands of this county, lying at the mouth of the Ogeechee river. Dr. John Murray Carnochan, one of the most eminent surgeons in this country, who died iu New York last week, was a native of Savannah. He was born here in 1817, and was descended from Israel Putnam. His father was a Scotchman, who was one of the wealthiest planters in Georgia. Offensive breath vanishes with the use of Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Roniedv. THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1887. THE JACKSON-SCOTT SUIT. Judge Emory Speer's Decision in an Interesting Casa. Judge Speer has banded down his decis ion upon the motion made by Gen. Henry R. Jackson, trustee, iu tbe suit brought against him by some of the heirs of William J. Scott. The case was reported in the Morning News last spring. In 1829, Scott, who was a wealthy Englishman, having business associations m Savannah, by bis w ill appointed Wayne Anderson trustee to carry out the following trust: To pay dur ng their lives the income of equal moieties of the testator’s estate to his two daughters, Elizabeth McKenzie and Kez.iab Scott Manson. These ilnughters were given under the trust the right to designate by their wilLs what individuals of their chil dren should take the absolute title to the inoities after their life estate had termin ated. The estate was very large and valuable, and Mr. Anderson assumed the trust. Shortly afterward the war broke out and he invested a largo portion of the funds in 1 ’onfederate securities which perished on his hands at the close of the war. Thereafter Jackson, Lawton & Basinger, of Savannah, filed a bill in the Circuit Court of the United States to recover from Mr. Ander son the money of the estate which had lieen so invested, and they recovered over $50,000 in money and large amounts of Cen tra! railroad. Marine Bank and other stocks. Mr. Anderson was removed from tiie trusteeship and Gen. Jackson was appointed in his place. Bending thu litigation there appeared to be considerable unwillingness to sue Mr. Anderson on the partof some of the licneftciaries.one or more of them being reluc tant to hold Mr. Anderson liable for invest ments lost by the failure of tbe Southern Confederacy. Mrs. Roland Hill Gor don, who was Miss Manson, on her marriage with Capt. Gordon, of the British army, had executed a mar riage settlement in which she re linquished all right to her share of the es tate except the income for her life, and con veyed it to her children to be born of the marriage. Trustees were appointed under this marriage settlement, and they refused absolutely to joiii in the suit, but Mrs. Gordon, herself, joined individually, and, being divorced from her husband, she mar ried Col. Arthur Hare Vincent, command ing the Seventh Dragoon Guards of the British Army. The suit proceeded, and a decree was ren dered against Mr. Anderson for a very large sum, over SSO,U(K). which he paid to Gen. Jackson, the new trustee. The latter trans mitted by bills sterling on London, after de ducting Solicitor’s fees, the corpus of Mrs. Vincent’s moiety to her, omitting to con sider the marriage settlement by which she had surrendered this to her Gordon children. After a time she died, and t ie children have written to the trustee asking for their share, which would, if their claim is valid, amount to about one-fourth of the entire estate. This gave the trustee very great concern, as appeals by his letters set out in the answer, and he claims that he has been very badly treated. The bill before the court was not filed bv the Gordons, but by the Crombies through their next friend, Frank A. D. Hancock, of this city, they being infants. These legatees claim a distinct moiety of the estate under the will of Elizabeth McKenzie, who, it will be remembered, had the power to designate them as the absolute takers of her moiety after her death. They sued Gen. Jackson for their share, amounting to a very large sum, in fact one-half of the entire estate. Gen. Jackson’s answer aimed to show that he has been the victim of a conspiracy to compel him to pay the Gordons’ share twice and he insisted that the Crombies should not he allowed to proceed with their suit until all the claimants under the Gordon line shall be mode parties. In [Hissing upon mo motion Judge Speer said that the parties against whom the de fendant desired the decree were not within the jurisdiction of the court. The state ments of the answer, upon which is based the charge of a conspiracy entered into by Dr. and Mrs. McKenzie, Col. Arthur Hare Vincent and Mrs. Vincent, formerly Mis. Gordon, and her two children, and their re spective solicitors, to wrong the defendant and compel him to pay twice the shares of the Gordon children, are altogether incom mensurate with the gravity of the accusa tion. If, however, the averments of the answer were ample for such purpose, ic does not follow that a wrong inflicted upon the defendants by tho Gordons or McKen zies can equitably be compensated to him from the estate of the Crombies. THE SOUTHERN LEAGUE. The Fall Meeting to be Held at Nash ville To-Day. , The fall meeting of the Southern League will be held at Nashville to-day. Among the business to come up will be the consid eration of applications for admission next season, arrangements for continuing the league, and the settlement of disputed games. Perhaps the most important matter which the league will have to deal with will be the action of the New Orleans club in with drawing their team from Charleston last September. Savannah was made to pay a heavy fine for similar conduct last year, and it is claimed that the New Orleans club should lie made to forfeit its franchise or pay the fine provided in such cases. It is also probable that application for their franchise will be made by the Crescent club of the same city. CENTRAL’B NEW ROADMASTER. The Louisville and Nashville Contrib utes Another of Its Officials. C. E. Marvin recently Supervisor of Roadway on the Louisville aud Nash ville railroad, with headquarters at Henderson, Ky., has been apjiointed Headmaster of the Main Stem Di vision and branches of the Central to suc ceed IV. M. Stevens who resigned recently to go with President Raoul of the .Mexican National. The headquarters of the Road ma.ster will hereafter be Savannah instead of Macon. Mr. Marvin arrived here on Satnrdav, and at once assumed tne duties of his office. At Estill s. 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Prom inent physicians use it and testify to its great value. Please read the following: “I used Scott’s Emulsion for an obstinate cough with hemorrhage, loss of appetite, emaciation, sleeplessness, etc. All of these have now’ left, and 1 believe your Emulsion has saved a case of well developed consump tion.” —T. J. Findlev, M. D., Lone Star, Tex. Weisliein will inaugurate the opening of his Baser, which takes place Saturday, by a special sale of Towels at 10c., worth 25c. Sale to last Saturday and Monday. ON RAIL AND CROSSTIE. Local and General Gossip in Railway Circles. The annual meeting of the stockholders of tho Port Royal and Augusta railroad will be held in Augusta to-morrow. Electricians say that tho main trouble with electric motive power on railways has been that the traction is not sufficient to overcome rain, frost or sand on the rails. A device to overcome this has now licen per fected. It consists of an ap[>aratus for in creasing the power when the motor is started or when it li[is. The contractors on the Columbus and Western railroad extension have, in the tunnel which they arc driving through the mountains, encountered a nard granite which retards their progress. They have penetrated the mountain over 1,200 feet, and the work movers steadily on. The total earnings of the Pullman Palace Car Company for the year ending July 81, as shown by the report submitted at the annual meeting last week, was $(5,440,931, and the disbursements $4,530,884. New contraets were concluded with seven rail road companies. Tho mileage added to the system was 8,804 miles, making the present mileage 81,348. There aro now 122 cars un der construction, which will cost $1,.50(5,884. It was decided to increase the capital stock 25 per cent. The extension of the East Alabama rail road is progressing as rapidly as the means at hand will permit. The trains now run to Stroud’s, live miles this side of Roanoke. In three weeks trains will lie running to Roanoke. The superintendent said, a few days ago, that it would lie built to Annis ton at once. The only difficulty now is the want of crossties. This road will strike the Georgia Pacific and (he East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia, thus giving travelers another route to Columbus. Mr. J. C. Carpenter, of Carpenter, Grant & Mundy, who started out last week to go over the route of tho Savannah, Dublin and Western Railway, with Messrs. Montgom ery, McFarlin, Wallace S. Watt, the com mittee representing the new consolidation, returned yesterday. He left the party at the end of tho graded section. Tin com niittee went on to Dublin, aud they will probably reach Macon Jo-morrow. All of the gentlemen expressed themselves surprised at the amount of work that has been done and its character. They will submit a re port as soon as they get over the entire route. The Cedar Key Ou.'f View says that the place has much to hope for from the sale of the Florida Railway and Navigation road which will take place on Nov. 7. ft is aid that the Savannah, Florida and Western, the Louisville and Nashville, and the Pied mont, Air Line will be bidders. The Florida Railwny and Navigation system would lie a desirable property toeitherof them, If the Louisville and Nashville gets it, the Savan nah, Florida air! Western will very likely build to Cedar Key from Branford. If the Piedmont Air Line becomes the owner, the same will be true, and if tbe Savannah, Florida and Western gets it, the Louisville and Nashville or Richmond Terminal will build to Cedar Key. The Financier reports a New York scalper in railroad tickets as using the fol lowing language to a reporter: “Time and again, when a certain big trunk linerailrord wanted money to show largo earnings be cause the active directors were long of stock and wanted the price sustained on the mar ket, has the passenger agent been required to fore* sale of tickets to increase gross receipts, and he has applied to n certain scalper 1 might name and handed him a block of stamped tick ets valued at SIO,OOO, or S2O, 000, or SIOO,OOO. These tickets would be bought outright by the scalper at from 10 to 25 per cent, under the regular rates, the scalper raising the money by putting the tick ets upas security in the banks. There are a dozen prominent banks in Boston, New York and Chicago which have loaned hundreds of thousands of dollars on railroad tickets. If we scalpers should tell all we know we could send half of the railroad officials to Canada, smash any and all pooling arrangements, knock the bottom out of some high priced investment stocks, and raise a bigger flurry in Wall street than did young Ives with the Baltimore and Ohio fiasco. As to the Wes tern roads, a lot of them are fly at the bus iness. ” HOUSE DRAINAGE. Dr. Duncan’s Ordinance With Regard to it Further Criticized. Editor Morning Sews: It is proper for me, in the opening of this article, to say in an explanatory way, that neither my first protest against the Duncan ordinance, nor what 1 shall herein say, were animated by any unkind feelings toward any member of Council—no one realizing more truly than I, that Council have, iu n somewhat blindfold manner, made a move in the right direction, but by a grievously wrong pathway. Their intentions were good, but their conclusions ill-advised and mistaken. The Duncan ordinance requires every one having a bathroom, or closet, or vault within 300 feet of a sewer to connect with the sewer bn March , 1889, “or the city” will make such connection for him, and collect the expease out of his property by levy, sale, etc. How the city can make a law affecting a lot within 300 feet of a sewer, and such a law bo constitutional, passes my compre hension. Laws to lie constitutional, must operate on all alike: but here we have a so called law for a lot within 300 feet of a sew er and not for a lot 490 or 500 feet from it. I should like to hear Mayor 1 ester's opinion on the constitutionality of this ordinance, iu relation to this point. The second grav e objection to the ordinance is that Council had no legal power or right to pass it, and in a legal sense it is utterly null android. The legislature of Georgia enacted a law empowering the Mayor and Aldermen to lay down a system of pipes for house drains, in lanes where ianes existed, and in streets or alleys where no lanes existed, and to charge the expense pro rata on the lots abutting the two side, of such lane, street or alley, the cross street intersections alone being chargeable to the city as a 1 icily. That is, the tni rtv feet oi such central lane pipe in South Broad lane, behind my resilience, is chargeable to me and my neighbor across the lane, whoso house fronts on Hull street. If there is any clause permitting tiio City Council to make me carry my drain pipe any further than to the central lane house drain liehind my iot I have never seen or heard of it. And I don’t think Council have either. Yet Council, in the Duncan ordinance, claims the right to force the lot owner to make a connection with a sewer 300 feet away (II instead of doing its own legal duty under tiie law and laying down the central lane piyie this3oo leet of distance and assessing each one’s shares or t wentieth part on each owner of 30 feet abutting. My third objection to the Duncan ordi nance is that, under appearance of doing something, it postpones to a distant day the doing of anything, and thus leaves the present system of abominations in fertile continuance of their deadly work. The or dinance puts off doing ‘ anything until March, 1889, and as spring then comes on, tho excuse will be given tiiut it won't do to “turn up the soil” in warm weather! So there will be another postponement until cold weather, or 1890, anil the word of promise held to our ears will be broken to our hopes. I do not wish to impute to Council such motives, but cer tainly the delay of three yeara already in thinking of beginning, and the further postponement of such beginning for two or three years more, justifies ms in ask ing Council what they really mean. oly fourth objection to the Duncan ordi nance is that the system continued by it would cost the lot owners a half million dollars and still be an abomination, whilst the system created and provided for by act or the Legislature, ana the only s stem the Mayor and Aldermen have any ‘ legal right to enforce, would scarcely cost one fourth as much, and would lie at the same time infinitely safer and more healthy. My fifth objection to the Duncan ordi nance is that it leaves out altogether any provision for flushing and cleansing the house drains, letting every man run on his own hook, tearing or breaking his neigh bor’s pipes in putting down his own; and we have no way of ascertaining the danger ous state of nifairs until the life of some member of our family pays the penalty of our negligence, and we are thus painfully forced to investigation. How often is the house drain laid lower in the soil than the larger surface sewer, into which it is sup possed to empty, so that, instead of the sewer serving as an escape pipe for the house drain, the sand washed from the streets into the surface sewer eddies into and chokes the house drain, so that its of fensive contents cannot escape, a prolific cause of much of the typhoid and typho maiarial disorders so freqently present, es pecially during the season just gone by. The following details will more fully exhibit the force of my objections to the Duncan ordinance Leaving the legal and constitu tional questions involved in the ordinance to the more careful study of the lawyers, I will take up and discuss the practical dif ferences between its operation and the operation of the system provided for by legislative enactment —which latter is the only ley a I system. The average expense of making house drain connections with the sewer is about 50c. per running foot for six-inch piping, or $l5O for a connection with a sewer 300 foot away from the 10t,525u ior one 500 feet away, and SSOO for one 1,000 l'eet away. If I am not mistaken there are some cases in the city where an expense near the latter figure lias been incurred by individual lot owners. Now, has Council any right to let such a state of affairs, such an enormous drain on the lot owner .exist? Has Council any right to leave its own duty unattended to, when by its performance the tax-payer or lot owner should lie able to obtain a better and safer house-drain connection for sls to S2O than he can now possibly obtain for SSO to SSOO. There are between Bull, Anderson, East Rroad and West Broad streets, perhaps 5,000 dwellings, perhaps 5,000 or more half or thirty feet lots. According to the Duncan ordinance, each one must have a sewer con nection and abolish its vault, each lot owner on his own hook, whether it costs SSO or $l5O. Where the short connection costs SSO and the longer one $l5O, the average for ten lots, thirty feet each, would be about SIOO to each lot. SI,OOO to a block, and $'.2,000 to a double block—every lot owner connect ing with the sewer , according to the lan guage of the Duncan ordinance. Twenty mto 5,000 goes 250 times; 505,000 houses at the same average expense for sewer connec tions would be mulcted in the sum of $500,- 000. It will be remembered that I am leaving out every property oast of East Broad, north of Bay, west of West Broad and south of Andersor. streets, and am confining myself to the section bounded north by Bay street, south by Anderson, east by East Broad, and west by West Broad street. It is very true that the Duncan ordinance does not propose to inflict this enormous expense on the lot owners nil at once, but only in detail. The aggregate, however, will lie the same in the end, and then we will have to pay more annn ally for repairs than the whole system ought to cost if property constructed. Now there arc between Bay and Gaston, East Broad and Liberty, six lanes, about 4,(XX) feet each in length. There are bo tween Liberty and Gaston, Tattnall and Price streets, four lanes, about 2,500 feet iu length each. There are between Ne.v Houston Anderson, West Broad and East Broad streets three lanes, about 4,000 feet each in length, and there are a number of fractional lengths of lanes east and west of the park and parade ground, west of Tatt nall street and east of Price, beyond Liberty street, if every portion was covered by a uniform plat, it would be found that SO,OOO running feet of drain pipe (the equivalent of twenty lanes of 4,000 runuiug feet each) would supply this territory. Now, if this pipe (12-inch) cau be put down at $1 a foot, that would be sso,ooo for the whole, about one-sixth of which would be chargeable to the city, and the bulk to the lot owners. Each lot owner paying for his share, or 5,000 lot owners paying about $07,000, makes the expense to each indi vidual lot owner about sl4. What lot owner escapes with that amount now for repairs t Lot us remember also that this system can be so readily flushed that one man can attend to the flushing for the entire city, and we will see more, not only of the economy of its cost, but of the economy < f its operation. Just figure what we will save in repairs alone! Home people in Savannah are ignorant enough to believe that the surface sewer system and house drainage system may be so intertwined as that each iu turn will serve the purposes of the other. Never was a graver mistake made. If the sand washed into the surface sewers from the streets were permitted to back up into the house drains, we should constantly have the latter choked up and their deadly gases driven back upon our houses. There is another serious general misappre hension concerning the grade or fall neces sary for a proper outflow of contents from the house drain. If there were no flush, the fall would be a very serious question; but with the driving power of a flush, a pipe run ning from West Broad to East Broad street, with a fall of five feet, can be scoured from end to end in five to ten minutes. Let any one stand in front of a stream coming from a hydrant, and he will get some idea of the forward pressure. Now, sir, taking the Duncan ordinance as its language necessarily implies, 1 have shown that its cost will not only he enor mous, but its work unsanitary, without the cleansing power of it flush, totally depend ent on the piddling streams oozing from bathrooms and closets, and subject to all manner of chokings and obstructions, ren dering it simply an ever-expanding death trap! On the other hand, I have shown that Council has the power to give us a compara tively healthy system, free from the serious objections involved in the application of the Duncan ordinance, at one-fifth the expense, and which will involve a minimum outlay for repairs. Which wiil Council adopt? ()ne is legal, the other illegal; one practical and economical, the other full of dangers and abominations, besides lieing enormously more expensive; one within our means anil conducive to our health, the other destruc tive to both. Again I say, which will Council adopt! Louis A. Falliuant. ‘Bucbu-Paioa.” Quick, complete cure, all annoying kid ney, bladder and urinary diseases. sl. At druggists. "Rough on Dirt.'* Ask for “Rough on Dirt.” A perfect washing powder found at last! A harmless extra fine Ai article, pure and clean, sweet ens, freshens, bleaches and whitens without slightest injury to finest fabric. Unequaled for fine linens and laces, general household, kitchen and laundry use. Softens water, saves labor and soap. Added to starch pre vents yellowing. 5c., 10c., 25c. at grocers Cable Street Cars. There was a rumor afloat a few days ago that this new street railway, which is to go to the Central railroad wharf and through the city, W'as to be run by cable, like the Chi cago street railway. This would probably cost more money in the start, but would prove more profitable in the long run, as so many more trips could be made in a day, and parties having important business to at tend to at. the Central railroad wharf, could get there in a very little time. Just the same at Appel & Sebaul’s, the One Price Clothiers; it takes you no time to get an outfit at their establishment, as every arti cle is marked in plain figures with the lowest price to all on same, thus saving an hour or two argument on the prioe, etc. Their plan of doing business is sufficient for those that are not judges of goods to buy with confidence, knowing their friends do not buy the same goods for less money, and those that are judges are invitod to call and inspect prices to couvtnoe themselves. Their fall and winter stock has been rece’ved, and are ready for inspection—l 63 Congress street, opposite tho market. Weather Indications. Special indications for Georgia: FAIR Slightly cooler, followed by w..ini _____ cr, fair weather, light to fresh north westerly winds, brisk on the coast. Comparison of mean temperature at Savan nah, Oct. 30 1887, and the meau of same day for fifteen years. _ Departure I Total Mean Temperature from the Departure Mean | Since for 15 years Oct. 30, ’B7. -or Jan. 1,1887. 56~0 j 55 0 ! —ll.O | - 542.0 Comparative rainfall statemovt: „ | Departure I Total Mean Daily Amount f rom the ■ Departure Amount fori for Mean j Since lb V cars. | Oct. .JO, 87.! or _ !, [an u IWi | 0? | -- 12 | -11.06 Maximum temperature 62. minimum tern perature 47 The height of the river at Augusta at 1:33 o’clock p. m. yesterday (Augusta time) was 8.8 feet—a tall of 1.5 during the past twenty-four hours. Cotton Region Bulletin for 34 hours end ing Op. m., Oct. SO 1887. 75th Meridian time. Districts. Average. V Max.! Min. Rain- N Temp Temp f *lL 1. Atlanta 10 <lO 40 | .18 2. Augusta 11 02 44 111 3. Charleston 0 64 00 j .04 4. Galveston 18 72 40 . .00 6. Little Rock 9 02 36 .00 6. Memphis 18 58 34 I .00 7. Mobile 8 00 43 j .00 8. Montgomery 5 02 40 ; .00 9. New Orleans 8 04 42 j .00 10. Savannah 12 64 50 j .02 11. Vicksburg 4 06 43 j T* 12. Wilmington 8 58 46 j2B Averages I i I • *T denotes trace of rainfall. Observations taken at the same moment of time at ail stations. Savannah. Oct. 30, 3:36 p. m.. city time. Temperature, i Direction. < z' Velocity. ? Rainfall. Name or Stations. Portland SUN 1.. I— | Cloudy. Boston 34 WV (Fair. Block Island 41N EL.I—; Fair. New York city ... tty X ..j (Cloidy. Philadelphia 36 v 1.. Clear. Detroit 31 W (Cloudy. Fort Buford 48 W j...... Clear. St. Vincent 48 Wl. ,| Clear. Washington city..; 31; N L.j Clear. Norfolk 50 NE 22 12 Cloudy. Charlotte 33 N I 8 .88 R fining. Hatteras Titusville 58| W | 8 >. leaf. Wilmington 52 X Eli —lCloudy. Charleston 48.XW 12; ...‘Cloudy. Augusta 41 N 2 .02 Cloudy. Savannah 48 XW 12 —d 'dy. Jacksonville 50 XW 8 ... Clear. Cedar Keys 48XW22(... Clear. Key West 74|XW 22 T* Fair. Atlanta 38.XW if Chur. Pensacola 46 \’W! Clear. Mobile.... 42 N j 8;.... Clear. Montgomery .... 40j X 10 ..(Clear. Vicksburg 40| X 1 | Clear. Now Orleans 48; N ;14 Clear. Shreveport 40 . ..(Clear. Fort Smith | 44jNWi (Clear. Galveston | 58 X 6 • l->nr. Corpus Christi M N Clear. Palestine 52 N 6... . .ear. BrowneaviUs 56 N . .... 'ear. RioGramle 58 X F iir. Knoxville 38 N Clear. Memphis 40 NWj. Clear. Nashville 36NiV( (Clear. Indianapolis 34: N I—'Clear. Cincinnati 36; j I Clear. Pittsburg 30 N I. —I clear. Buffalo aslßWl.. .... Clear. Cleveland 28 S ..! (clear. Marquette 40 XW Clear. Chicago 36 SW Clear. Duluth 44 SW Clear. St. Paul 40 | Fail'. Davenport 30 SW .. .... Clear. Cairo 40.X E ..; .Clear. St. Louis 40(5Wj..;.... Clear. Leavenworth... 46 S Clear. Omaha 54 SW- Clear. Yanktoir ! 50W ..!.. Clear. Bismarck I 50; W ’lear. Deadwood 41 W Clear. Cheyenne 44(NW .. .. (Clear. North Platte 48 W .( ... Clear. Dodge City 54 SW . (Clea-. Santa Fe | 46|NWi.,| (Clear. *T denotes trace of rainfall. G. N. Salisbury Signal Ccrps. BLOOD AND SKIN DISEASES. A Rare Opportunity Consultation, Ex amination and Advice Free of Charge. Dr. Whitehead has opened an office in Sa vannah, and offers to give a free consulta tion to all cases of rheumatism, scrofula, syphilis, old sores, skin eruptions, malarial poisons, and all conditions arising from an impure condition of the blood. Dr. Whitehead has made this class of dis eases a special study lor years, and has a remedy which he has used in thousands of cases with remarkable success. He has letters and certificates from responsible peo ple he has cured throughout the South. The doctor makes no ridiculous claim as to Indian secrets, or the Hoodoo medicine arts, lie simply offers his remedy as a com bination of the best known vegetable altera tives and tonics (Prickly-Ash, Poke-Root Queen’s Delight, Sarsaparilla, and Gentian) and that it contains that matchless blood purifier, the lodide of Potassium. If you have any blood disease call and see the doc tor and he will examine and prescribe for you free of charge. Dr. Whitehead has many valuable remedies he uses in the local treatment of old sores, ulcers, skin erup tions, etc., in connection with his Blood Purifier. Otiice in New Odd Fellows’ Building, corner State and Barnard streets. Office hours Ba. m. to 6p. m.; Sundays Ba. m. to 12 m. P. S.—Letters from a distance answered and ml vice given free of charge. Weather or Not. “Ob. w ill t his weather ever let up? Will winter come to us again?” We are having weather. This little ad vertisement may see various changes of weather before wo have a chance to write another. The weather may change, but our desires and intention to stand by the buyers of clothing are as unchangeable and fixed as the public building site or the price of gas. We have uo time, however, to ser monize. We must move our stock—not a hard task, though, for it moves itself. It can’t, stay with us. 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