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6 ITEMS IX THREE STATES GEORGIA, FLoillilA AND SOUTH CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE. The Prospects of the Technological School—Thirty Acres of Land in Rad ishes at Marshailville A Wife’s Strange Premonition of an Accident to Her Husband. GEORGIA. The minerals of Forsyth county await development. The North Georgia Conference of the Methodist church meets at Marietta Wed nesday. Atlanta only pays $1 per thousand for gas. Savannah pays $2, less a discount of 10 per cent. Milledgeville is boasting of a negr o woman, the mother of grown children, who wears a lady’s No. 1 shoe. The John F. Lang Company, of Talla poosa, has de<nded to buy a SIO,OOO brick making machine and outfit. Rev. W. E. Epps, of Mount Airy, lias ac cepted the invitation of St. Paul’s parish in Albany to spend the winter there. Cuthbert Liberal: On aecount of short crops the farmers generally will commence work this year with less money, perhaps, than ever before. The public school debt of Forsyth county for the year 1887 amounts to $5,089.44, on which the school fund for the year pays 63>£ cents on the dollar. Very near a thousand obstructions have been removed from the rivers around Darien by the government snag-boat I Toccoa during the last month or two. Jacob Dennard, of Webster, while bring ing a wagon loaded with cotton down a hill near Mr. Parrott's, in Terrell, fell and the wagon passed over his leg, breaking it. Rev. W. J. Pirkle, of Cumming, planted five alif* a half acres in tobacco this year, and made 3,000 pounds, which be is selling readily at fifteen cents a pouud, being al lowed by law to sell SIOO worth at retuil. Mrs. D. T. Sawyer’s residence, six miles from Dawson, was totally destroyed by fire a few nights ago. An instfrance’of SSOO on the building will only partially cover the loss. All of the household effects were saved. John P. Dang, manager of the Talla poosa Malleable Iron Works, writes to the Tallapoosa Company, under date of. Nov. 25, that their company is already organized and that their works will soon bo com menced. Near Milledgeville, Thursday, James Gibson (colored), while hunting, accident ally shot his leg so badly that amputation was necessary. After shooting himself ho crawled through the woods for half a mile in search of assistance. At Milledgeville it has been rumored for several days that W. R. Morris & Cos., near there, were under financial embarrassment. Mr. Moms issued an accurate statement Thursday showing that the firm was in good condition. His assets are $35,000 and liabili ties near $15,000. The prospects for a good timber season iu Darien were never better. During the month of November there was measured at the public boom 7,000,000 feet of square aud scab lumber. Besides this several millions of lumber came down during the month from the up-country mills. Joe Williams, who resides in the Granger - ville district, pays more taxes than any other colored man in Macon county. He owns 800 acres of land, and is a hard-work ing, law-abiding old man. He says lie never had a lawsuit of any kind in hi’s life and lives peaceably with white and black. At Griffin Friday a paper was circlated among the bonnets men for the purpose of raising a sum of money to offer a reward for the de ection and arrest of the assailant of John McFarland, on Wednesday night last. One hundred and fifty dollai-s was raised in a short time and this reward will be offered. Mr. McFarland is still alive. So far, the indications are that Albany will have a very quiet city election next Monday. The withdrawal of Capt. J. T. Hester left Mayor Woolfolk without oppo sition, aud if there is any opposition to the Aldermanic ticket that has been announced it has been kept so very quiet that the Sews and Advertiser has not heard of it. Thirty acres are lieing planted iu radishes and other vegetables near Marshailville. They will be protected from cold when necessary. The same ground will be used for tomauies in tiio early spring for ship ping and canning purposes, as Mr. Van Tassel proposes to add a canning factory to his evaporating establishment, and "will have thirty acres in tomatoes for bis own use. Edwin Bates, the head of the Atlanta firm of Edwin Bates & Cos., and a man whose name has for years been a power in business circles throughout tbe entire coun try, died at his|home in Vermont last Sunday week and was buried on Wednesday. Mr, Bates had been ailing for two years, being afflicted with dropsy. He leaves a wife and two young children. Ho also had stores at Charleston, 8. C., and New York city. A young man by the name of Erastus Horme, who was in Dawson Monday, fon dled a moccasin siake as if it was a harm less pet, holding it in his hand and permit ting it to run up his arm and between his fingers, the snake in the meanwhile licking out its tongue, but not inflicting any dam age to the one who was so rash as to fondle so deadly a thing as a snake. The reptile was only captured the Saturday before. Alapaha Star: The Spool Cotton rail road, as it is called, may yet crystallize into a solid fact. The country through which it will pass is rich in soil and timber and clever people, and is kissed bv breezes as balmy in winter as ever fanned the brow of mariner on tropical seas, while the sum mer’s heat no sunstroke doth cast down. Sooner or later this road will be built, and the sooner the better for all concerned—and especially for Nashville. D. D. Patrick, who lives a few miles from Griffin, has a rooster of which he is very proud. Some time ago a hen came off the nest with a brood of little chicks, and ail went well until the hen was accidentally killed. The rooster’s heart was moved when he saw the orphan chicks roaming around the lvarnyard alonep and he immediately took them in charge. He scratches for them, hovers over them at night, clucks, and in every other way fills the mother hen’s place apparently to the satisfaction of the orphans. Wm. Wells, of Dawson, who had his leg amputated a few days ago, is getting better with strong hopes of his ultimate recovery. Dr. Hinkle, of Amerieus, assisted by Drs. Stapleton, of Bromwood, and Clark and Simpson, of Smithville, performed the op eration. Mr. Wells, some time ago, had his arm terribly lacerated by tbe saws of his gin. and strange to say, a sympathetic con nection took place between his arm and right leg, which necessitated the amputa tion of the latter, and which was success fully done. Perry Horne Journal: Judge H. M. Holtz claw informed us tbe other day that he has eaten fresh tomatoes, from his garden in Perry, overy day since the latter part of last May. Just before the first heavy frost this season the tomatoes then on tbe vines were gathered und placed in the cellar to ripen. We have eaten some of these, and they were decidedly good. Judge Holtzclaw fur ther informed us that he has a barrel or more of these tomatoes that he is saving to eat duriug Christmas week, and after. He is satisfied that they will ripen nicely. An Eastman writer says: “It may now lie put down as a certainty that there will bo another election held in this county on the prohibition question, and that, too, in the very- near future. The Antis here are very jubilant over the result in Atlanta and con fidently assert that Dodge will follow Ful ton county’s example. It is claimed that all, or nearly all, the negroee will vote for whisky, and that at least one-half of the while people will do likewise. The Prohibi- Uouisls say that they will win the light by a larger majority than they did before, and not half try. Be that as it may, there is fun ahea i and a heap of it. and the funniest kind of fun at that. ’ Sheriff Tinsley, of Columbus, went out to the plantation of Geerge McDaniel, Thurs day, to arrest Joe Padgit on ’the charge of assault and battery, and when near the house saw smoke and flame issuing from it. Hurrying on, ho arrived just in time to save the building. Padget’s family and a por tion of bis household goods were in the house at the time, but being angered at McDaniel, who owned the house, he set about to delib erately destroy it. The first effort failed by his wile putting out the fire, when he forced her to stand aside, and placing kindling in a comer poured on it glowing embers, which speedily caught, and in a few min utes more the house would have been in flames. Padget is in jail. The vote on “for the sue” and “against the sale” of intoxicating liquors in Talia ferro county, on Monday last, resulted in a majority of 195 in favor of the Antis. Be fore the result was declared by the Ordinary on last Tuesrlay, however, the Prohibi tionists, through their attorney, Horace M. Holden, filed a petition with the Ordinary to contest the election. The investigation of the matter was deferred by the Ordinary to last Thursday, when, after a lengthy dis cussion as to the groueds of contest, the Ordinary appointed next Wednesday at 10 o’clock as the day to enter into the in vest gation of the illegal votes cast at the election, which is one of the grounds of contest. Two years ago—just a week after the election in Atlanta —the barrooms in Mon roe were voted out. Without any opposition Thursday the citizens of the town, bv a good majority, elected a wet Council, and the bars will be brought back. The reasons for this change are tsvo: The high ad valorem tax necessary to run the town government, which is being resisted, influenced many voters; but the most important reason for the change in public sentiment was the fact that the bars were established just beyond the town limits, and were a great source of annoyance to the citizens living near them, and paid no taxes whatever to tiie town government. High license and restriction will be the purpose of the new Council Battt Noble, President of tho Woodstock Furnace Company, of Anniston, Ala., has been in Cedartown for the past few days trying to make contracts to secure a supply of iron ore from the Cedartown belt. The high rank and superior quality of iron made by the Cherokee Iron Company from these ores has attracted a great deal of attention from iron manufacturers. Mr. Noble knows as well as anyone what is requisite for iron making and he fully appreciates the supe riority of the ores from tho Cedartown sec tion. A company representing Birmingham capitalists have recently succeeded in ob taining a lease of some very valuable ore banks and are engaged in shipping large quantities of these ores to the Birmingham furnaces. Another furnace is needed in Cedartown to utilize the ores at home. Fort Gaines Star: In 1836 Fort Gaines was little more than an Indian fort. Early in the spring of that memorable year, while hostile Indians thronged this section, and liefore they were removed by Uncle Sam across the river above us, a party of the treacherous wretches stole up the then densely wooded line of the Town branch and passed on out to the Bluffton settle ment, w here they were met by soldiers and thrashed back to their reservation. Just where the Eufaula road crosses the Town branch a beautiful spring in those days bubbled from the ground and people in the vicinity did their washing there. On the day referred to above a lady was at the spring washing, when the red miscreant passed. They brutally murdered her, and. alter removing her scalp, left her body lying by the spring, her body pillow ed on the roots of a stately beech. Time has done its work. The Indians are gone, scenes have changed and the towering beech has long since gone to decay, aud only its worm-eaten stump remains to mark the spot where long veal's ago this sad tragedy of death occurred. A friend jxiinted us to the fatal spot aud gave us the above facts. Cuthbert Liberal: It appears from the figures in the grand jury’s report that the per cent of increase in the value of property given in for taxes by the colored people of the coun ty in 1887 over that of IHB6 is nearly four teen times greater than that of the whites. The total amount of taxable property in 1887 is $1,984 ; 869. Increase over 1880, $19,- 050. The gain amounts here to about 1 per cent. The value of property as returned by the colored people iu the year 1887 is $74,- 833. Increase over 1880, $9,- 141 The gain in this is nearly 14 per cent. In other words, where $1 has been added to the wealth of tho whites, about sl4 have been added to that of the colored people, accord ing to tho valuations as given under oath to the Tax Receiver. Or it may be stated in this way: Where the whites with $1,904,- 709 have made $19,050, the colored people with only $05,092 have made $9,141. This calculation is made upon the presumption that the property of the negroes, as returned this year, was not included in the “amount of taxable property for 1887” ns reported by the grand jury. The figures, however, as we find them m the gene: al presentments, show that the total amount is $ i ,984,359. This fact very mate rially changes the results and nearly doubles the relative gains of the negroes. Out of tho total increase of $19,050 the colored peo ple are entitled to credit for $9,141, which reduces the rate of gains for the whites to a fraction over half of 1 per cent. The ratio of increase, therefore, as between the two rates is alxiut Ito 28. If the rate of gains among the whites had been equal to that among the blacks the amount of increase over 1880 would have been about $275,000. FLORIDA. There is some talk of an electric light plant in DeFuuiak. J. O. Fries, of Orlando, has been offered the position to grade the lands of the Florida Southern Railroad Company. J)r. R. J. Kendrick, of Anthony, while tiering an artesian well, struck, at eight feet, a seven-foot y?in of coal. Tho orange shipments from Bronson have been heavy the past few days, and good prices have been i>aid to the growers for the fruit. The house that was burned at Palatka Wednesday night was insured for S4OO, owl lias been occupied for more than thirty years. It is said that the Savannah, Florida and Western Railroad is anxious to secure an entrance to the Gulf through tho harbor of Cedar Keys. There were forty-six business licenses is sued at Jacksonville during the month of November, for which the State received $1,098 35 and the county $849 15. The fine of a chimney in tbe Catholic rectory at Palatka caught fire Wednesday night and large sparks were flying in all directions, but prompt action prevented any damage. The series of meetings that have been in progress at the Baptist church at Orlando for twelve days past were closed Wednes day evening Eleven persons have been taken into the church during the meetings. Capt. Parramore, Sheriff of Madison county, was awarded the reward of S2OO offered for the capture of the negro wife murderer, Charley Brown, of Jefferson county, and turned the money over to Wm. Coffee, for having made the capture. Gillott Bros, and Thomas Foster, of South Lake Weir, have sold to California parties three carloads of nursery orange* trees, bud ded with the celebrated Riverside Washing ton naval fruit,. The trees left Wednesday for Sacramento, accompanied bv Myron Gillett. One of St. Augustine’s drawbacks as a pleasure resort is the condition of its public thoroughfares, which are now in a worse shape than ever. Whenever a rain occurs the narrow streets are almost impassable. A strong effort will be made this winter to get a portion of the streets paved. St. Augustine lacks not only well paved streets! THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. DECEMBER 5, 1887. but wants more drives, and is likely soon to obtain them. Lakeland Cracker: A package of starch made from cassava root, has been sent us by Mrs. S. J. Moore, of 'Medulla, this county. It was made in the primitive way, viz.: in an ordinary cooking vessel, but in quality and appearance it equals the best Nortbemjgloss starch. We believe caf>-ava will eventually occupy a high place in Flor ida industries, and would advise our read ers to study up on it. At St. Augustine Wednesday, James Moore, a, colored boatman, started with James Hunnieutt, a young white lad, to go to the lighthouse. A perfect gale was blow ing at the time, and immediately upon leav ing the wharf tho small sail boat was cap sized, and both men were precipitated into tbe water. Hunnieutt swam ashore with great difficulty, and Moore was res cued by persons who had seen the boat cap size. A few davs ago an article appeared to the effect that H. M. Flagler would issue 50,000 , round trip tickets from tbe North to Bt. i Augustine, which would include five days board at the Ponce de Leon, and a rebate : upon arrival back in the North. This rumor has wide circulation in this city and [ State. A reporter, believing it unauthentic, called upon Mr. Seavey, the manager of the big hotel, and asked him if there was any truth in the report. He said he had seen the item, artd that it struck him as being ridiculous. He referred it to Mr. Flagler, who laughed at the idea. B. IV. Berry, of Centreville, in addition to his farming operations, is making ar rangements to run a dairy. At present he has only five cows, which yield forty pounds of butter )>er week. Ho will increase the number of milkers to sixteen, which will give him about 130 pounds of butter per week. Mr. Berry has standing orders from South Florida towns for all the butter lie can make at fortyjeents a pound. Rating the sixteen cows at'only eight pounds of butter each per week, his income would be ssl 20 per week, $2,062 40 for the year, or a revenue of $l6O 40 from each animal per year. Avery much astonished tramp was in Jasper a short time ago. He called at the house of a Jasper man who, to his great sur prise, welcomed him as cordially as if he had been an old and cherishes! friend. While the wanderer was taking a good wash the citizen kept urging him to come in and have breakfast, and when he finally sat down at the table he was treated with the most dis tinguished consideration and repeatedly urged to partako of the victuals. And the poor, footsore tourist was so dumbfounded by his royal reception that he lost his appetite to a great oxtent and could not eat what he really wanted to. At Washington Thursday Senator Pasco was asked his views on revenue reduction. He said: “Just in what way I think that ought to lie done I do not care to say at present. There are private interests in Florida, the owners of the Disston lauds in South Florida, for instance, who would like to see the duty kept up on sugar. Among tht orange growers there is, of course, a sentiment in favor of protecting American oranges against the European crop. A part of the surplus, I think, might be very well spent in making naval improvements. The dock yards at Pensacola, for example, which has one of the finest fronts in the United States, ought to be put in thorough working order.” Eustis Lake 'Region-. Jack Smith’s old roan hen has recently developed considera ble mercantile ability. The other day Jack heard some noise in the chicken yard and went down to investigate. In one corner of the yard the roan hen Bettie was standing by a match-box full of bugs. These she was peddling out to tne other fowls, a bug for four grains of corn. The big Dorking rooster, Jim, was standing by to see fair play. The way the count was made was laughable. The purchasing fowl would place a grain of corn by each of Bettie’s toes. Bettie would examine it critically rake it to one side and then pass out the oug. When Jack got there she only had two bugs left. The coi*i received would have filled a pint cup. Ocala Banner: Fruit growers arid those contemplating planting orange groves may theorize and speculate as much as they will about the proper distance and liumlier of trees on an acre, but the fact that the Rut ledge brothers, on the Withlacoochee river, near Panasoffkee lake, have a splendid bearing grove with about 500 trees to the acre, • scatter to the winds all fine spun theories about the distance. Tiie grove is a budded one, located in the woods without any fence protection, tbe limbs forming a perfect canopy, under which the cattle love to congregate during the long hot days of summer, and the only fertilizers the grove receives is the drop pings of the animals and cultivation, such as the hogs give it by rooting around in it. The trees are in perfect condition, growing vigorously and yielding yearly heavy crops of superior fruit. Gainesville Record: We learned in a conversation with T. V. Porter, Thursday, that the c mmictee appointed to visit the Railroad Commission at Tallahassee, had considered it best to defer the trip until after the rates, as established by that com mission, should go into effect,” which was Friday. He said it was best to give it a trial before condemning it. He also said tho effect of the interstate commerce law. unless modified, would cause all of the job bing trade to go to the seaport towns, as in land towns could not compete with the freight rates which were allowed to cities having water transportation. Mr. Porter took time by tiie forelock, and previous to the rates of the R diroad Commission taking effect, laid in a heavy stock of goods, and now has several vacant rooms, besides the Gardner & Eaton warehouse, filled with flour, grain, hay, etc., so he is prejiared for a siege oi several months, at least. We would regret to see Mr. Porter leave our city, but it is not improbable that such may be tho case if he is compelled to submit to rates which will not allow him to compote with Jacksonville and Savannah. SOUTH CAROLINA. The Journal and Review wants an opera house built at Aiken. One mill, at Rossville, in Chester county, this year made 2,568 gallons of syrup. It is said that J. M. Martin, in Anderson county, has fallen heir to a fortune of SIOO,- 000. Anew Methodist church was recently dedicated at Indian Fields, in Colleton county. The different fraternities of Florence have combined in the purchase of a cemetery for the burial of their members. The Rev. B. J. Guess, pastor of the Metho dist Church at Kingstreo this year, has been transferred to a church in Texas. Capt. Charles Carson ,of Edgefield, on 103 acres made an average yield of twenty-two and a half bushels of corn this year. A. M. Haton, of Branchville, has made this year 240 gallons of good syrup from three-quarters of an acre of ground. \V. G. Adams, a builder of Rock Hill, has paid $2,100 this year for doors, sash and blinds, for buildings that he has erected. The salaries of public school teachers iu Abbeville county are fixed at S2O for first grade, sls for second grade and $lO for third grade. The Anderson Journal is offering pre miums for the best compositions by school children of that county on subjects of local historical interest. A number of farmers from the neighbor hood of Westminster, Oconee county, have moved to Jefferson, Tex., iu hopes of better ing their condition. The Rev. Irving E. Lowry, pastor of the colored Methodist church of Aiken, is the author of a volume just published entitled “Consecrated Talent.” E. M. Jordan, of Mullin’s, in Marion county, this year made 100 gallons of syrup on a half acre of ground. This syrup 'sells readily at 50c. per gallon. A. L. Wallace, of York county, this year made 335 gallons of sorghum syrup on three acres of old field laud that would not have produced 300 pounds of cotton. The trustees of the Williamston High School iiave ordered a full equipment of patent seh)l desks for their handsome new school building recently completed. The town of Florence is anxious to bear the expense of erecting tin-public buildings of the proposed county of Florence, if that county is created by tho Legislature. Tho first fire in the history of Holly Hill occurred Tuesday. A store owned by W. D. Gillmore and occupied by Lee Rast was burned. The stock was insured for S6OO. The steam gin of A. W. Heath, of Lan caster county, was recently burned, with all its contents. Loss $3,000, no insurance The fire is supposed to have been of incen diary origin. The average assessed value of land per acre in Laurens county is $4 44. Only fovir other counties in the State reach this amount, as follows: Anderson, Charleston, Chester and York. At Orangeburg Wednesday the Elliott Independent Hook and Ladder Company celebrated its seventeenth anniversary. The company having jiaid entirely for all its property—a fine t wo-story building, truck and full equipment—the members resolved to have a good time. An application for a patent for an im proved reversible mail catcher has been filed by J. M. Keith, of Greenville. Mr. Keith is route agent on the Greenville and Laurens road, aud finding the catchers now in use so Inconvenient he has invented one which is ready for use iu whichever direc tion the train may be running. The South Carolina Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, convened in its one hundred and second session in the Methodist church, at Spar tanburg, Wednesday, Bishop H. N. McTyeiie, of Nashville, Tenn., presiding. The communion of the Lord’s Supper was administered at the opening of the confer ence, when the entire body and visitors crowded to this annual sacred feast. Tbe delegates number 150. The acting Town Marshal of Clintonwood received a letter from Philadelphia a few days ago signed G, A. R. (probably mean ing Grand Army of the Republic) in which the most abusive epithets were applied, both to the Mar hal and to all Southern ladies. The occasion of such abuse was caused by the shooting of Henry Booth, Town Mar shal, by Joe Grant, a negro. The letter claimed that the Southern white people used means to intimidate the colored or Republi can vote. Tho people above Walhalla are consider ably exercised and alarmed at the cries of a veritable panther, which has been heard and seen for the past few days. It is said that the animal came into the yard of Ephraim Cobb on Monday night and gobbled up his little flee dog. and carried it off and eat it up The panther, as reported by some who have seen it, was as large as a half-grown cow. This is no doubt the same animal that attacked two gentlemen near Clayton, Ga., a few days ago. A reapportionment bill has been intro duced in the General Assembly. The tiasis of the proposed reapportionment of repre sensation is the census of 1880. The bill will not affect the numtier of Representatives from any county in the State more than one member either one way or the other, except in the county of Charleston, where it is pro posed to cut down the representation from twelve to eight, a loss of four members. The bill has been reported on unfavorably by the Judiciary Committee of both the Senate and House of Representatives. A declaration for the incorporation of the South Carolina French Colonization Com pany has been filed in the Secretary of State’sofflce. Mgr. Bouland,of Greenvilh, ana Messrs. R. A. Lynch, V. ade H. Man ning, F. W. McMaster and E. W. Seibels, of Columbia, are the incorporators. The purposes are the encouragement of immi gration, establishment of colonies, particu larly French colonies, in South Carolina, and to encourage grape and silk culture. Capital stock S2OO,IKK), with the privilege of increasing to $1,000,000 if necessary. The Baptist State Convention met in annual session at Sumter, Wednesday. Tiie following is a summary in part of the work done during the year: Number of mis sionareis employed in destitute fields over the State 58, sermons preached by mis sionaries of the board 2,600, miles traveled by missionaries in their labors 39,893, ad dresses on general subjects 234, expended on church buildings $0,20434, stations occupied 128, conversions 497, members received by letter 130, baptized into the church 235, churches built 9, Sunday schools organized 55. At Columbia last week the trial of James Parker Thompson, charged with robbing the mails while Postmaster at Camden, oc cupied two days of the United States Cir cuit Court. This case has been twice brought up in the District Court at Charleston and both times resulted in mistrials. It was then transferred to tho Circuit Court and was di- posed of Wednesday. The verdict was guilty upon tne first count or the violation of sec tion 3891, and not guilty as to the second count or the violation of section 5467. Just before the rendering of the verdict tbo de fendant disappeared from court. It is not believed, however, that he has run away. He was under bond for $409. The citizens of Columbia are making every effort to help the city by having some thing done about the canal The following petition was circulated Thursday and was almost unanimously signed bv the leading business men in Columbia: “To the Honor able .Senate and House of Representatives: We, tho undersigned citizens of Columbia, earnestly petition your honorable bodies to pass the bill for tho development of the canal presented by the Senator from Rich land : that a large majority of our people prefer to bond the oaual only for $200,000, and to require the trustees to secure only two sites lor the factories before issuing the lHinds these sites not to cost over SB,OOO each; that the largo majority of our people are opposed to the trustees purchasing the land below Gervais street, as it will increase the city tftx at. least SO,OOO a year ns ire than is contemplated in the bill now before the Legislature; that the rapid prosperity of Columbia demands prompt action in open ing the canal.” i> -7. The third annual iroeting of the South Carolina State Bar Association will be hold in this week, beginning on Wednesday. The opening address will be made bv Mr. William H. Barker, of Abbe ville, President of the ns oeiation. The first day’s session will be taken up in tho reading of reports and the election of members. On the second day essays will be road by Gen. Edward MeCrady, of Charleston, James Aldrich, of Aiken. Knox Livingston, of Marlboro, Charles E. Spencer, of Yorkville, and R. D. Duncan, of Spartanburg. These essays will be discussed by the members df the association. On Thursday evening the annual address liefore the association will be delivered in the hall of the House of Representatives by the Hon. Joel Prentice Bishop, of Cam bridge, Mass. Subject: “The Common Law, as a system of reasoning: how and why essential to good government: what its perils, and how averted.” The annual dinner of the association will be given im mediately after tho delivery of the annual address. The third day’s session of the asso ciation meeting will bo taken up with the trainaction of unfinished business. The chances of life are thus set down: Out of every 1,000 men 25 of them die an nually. One-half those who are born die before they attain tho age of 7 years. The men able to liear arms form a fourth of the inhabitants of a country. More old men are found in elevated situations than in \ alleys und plains. The number of inhab itants of a city or county is renewed overy 30 years. The proportion between the deaths of women and those of men is .00 to 108. The probable duration of female lives is 00 years, bat after that period tho cal dilation is more favorable to them than to men. Phil ips’ Digestible Cocoa Is more delicious in taste and aroma, and, by the process it is prepared, is rendered more nourish ing and more easily digested than any other oiuoaiaUou of cocos or chocolate. .SHIPPING. OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMi’ANY FOR—- New York, Boston and Philadelphia. PASSAGE TO NEW VORK. CABIN S2O 00 EXCURSION 32 00 STEERAGE 10 0 PASSAGE TO BOSTON. CABIN S2O 00 EXCURSION 32 00 STEERAGE 10 00 FASSAGE TO PHILADELPHIA. (via New York* CABIN $22 50 EXCURSION 36 00 STEERAGE IS 50 THE magnificent steamships of these lines are appointed to sail as follows—standard time- TO NEW YORK. CITY OF AUGUSTA, Capt. J. W. Catharine, TUESDAY. Dec. 6, at 3:30 A. a. TALLAHASSEE. Capt. IV. H. Fisher, FRI DAY, Dec. 9, at 1:30 p. m. CHATTAHOOCHEE. Capt H. C. Daooett, SUNDAY, Dec. 11, at 2:30 p. m. NACOOCHEE, Capt F. Kempto.v, TUESDAY. Dec. 13, at 4:30 p. a. TO BOSTON. CITY OF MACON. Capt. H. C. Lewis, THURS DAY, Dec. 8, at 11:80 A. a. GATE (TTY, Capt. E. R. Tayi.or, THURSDAY, Dec. 15, at 6 p. a. TO PHILADELPHIA. [FOR FREIGHT ONLY. I JUNIATA, Capt. S. L. Askins, TUESDAY, Dec. 6. at 0 a. a. DESSOUG, Capt N. F. Howes, SUNDAY, Dec. 11, at 2:30 p. a. Through bills of lading given to Eastern and Northwestern points and to ports of the United Kingdom and the Continent. For freight or passage apply to C. G. ANDERSON, Agent, City Exchange Building. Merchants’ and Miners' Transportation Com’y. For Baltimore. CABIN sl2 50 SECOND CABIN 10 00 THE STEAMSHIPS of this Company are ap pointed to sail from Savannah for Balti more as follows—city time: GEO. APPOLD, Capt Fields, FRIDAY, Dec. 9, at 2 p. m. WM. CRANE, Capt. Billups, TUESDAY, Dec. 13, at 9 A. M. WM. LAWRENCE, Capt. Snow, FRIDAY. Dec. 16. at 8 A. m. GEO. APPOLD, Capt. Fields, TUESDAY, Dec. 20. at 10 A. M. And from Baltimore every WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY at 3 p. m. Through bills lading given to all points West, all the manufacturing towns in New England, and to ports of the United Kingdom and the Continent. JAS. B. WEST & CO., Agents, 114 Bay street. SKA. I SI, AN D IiOU m STEAMER ST. NICHOLAS, C’apt. M. P. USINA. /COMMENCING MONDAY, Oct. 31, will leave V ) Savannah from wharf foot of Lincoln street for DOBOY, DARIEN. BRUNSWICK and FERNANDINA, every MONDAY and THURSDAY at 4 P. M., feity time, con necting at Savannah with New York, Philadel phia, Boston and Baltimore steamers, at Fer namiina with rail for Jacksonville and all points in Florida, and at Brunswick with steamer for ran 11a river. Freight received till 3:30 p. m. on days of sail ing. Tickets on wharf and boat. C. WILLIAMS. Agent. PLANT STEAMSHIP LINE Tampa, Key West, Havana. SEMI-WEEKLY. SOUTHBOUND. Lv Tampa Monday and Thursday 9:30 p. m. Ar Key West Tuesday and Friday 4 p. m. Ar Havana Wednesday and Saturday 6 a. m. NORTHBOUND. Lv Havana Wednesday and Saturday noon. Lv Key West Wednesday and Saturday 10 p.ra. Ar Tampa Thursday and Sunday 6 p. m. Connecting at Tampa with West India Fast Train to and from Northern and Eastern cities. For stateroom accommodations apply to City Ticket Office S., F. & W. R’y, Jacksonville, or Agent Plant Steamship Line, Tampa. C. D. OWENS, ’frame Manager. H. S. HAINES, General Manager. May 1, For Charleston, Beapfort& Port Royal. CTE i.t.t pm, will leave Savannah every FRIDAY after noon at 3 o'clock, from wharf foot of Abcrcorn street. Rates as low as any other line. GKO. WATERHOUSE, Aqt.„ Beaufort. For Augusta and Way Landings. STEA MK R KA T IE, Capt. J. S. BEVILL, WILL leave EVERY WEDNESDAY at 10 o'clock a. m. (city time) for Augusta and way landings. All freights payable by shippers. JOHN LAWTON, Manager. Niederlandisch-Amerikanische Damp fschiff-fahrts-Geselischaft. Koeniglich - Msderla'ndische Post, Billige Route nach. und von Deutschland. Postdampfer aegeiu von New Y’ork und Holland jenen Sonuabend. I. Cajuete(ein/eineFalirt)sl2 I Esteurbillets SBO 2. ’’ “ 52 | “ 60 zwisch f.ndeck 10 den billigsten Freisco. GEN. AGENTUR: 23 South William street, New York. GEN. PASS AGENTUR: 18 ami 20 Broadway, New Y’ork. AGENTEN:—At Savannah, Ga.—JOSEPH COHEN & CO., and M. S. COSULICH & CO. fpO COUNTY OFFICERS. Books and Bianak 1 required by county officers for the use of the court*, or for office use. supplied to orderb? the MORNING NEWS PRINTING HOUSE, 3 Whi'ti-k." K7*4L Sa'oajuah. SHIPPING. Compagnie Generate Transatlantique —French Line to Havre. BETWEEN New York and Havre, from pier No. 42, N. R., foot of Morton street. Trav elers by this lino avoid both transit by English raihvay and the discomfort of crossing the Channel in a small boat. Special train leaving the Company's dock at Havrp direct for Paris on arrival of steamers. Baggage checked at New Y'ork through to Paris. LA GASCOGNE, Santelli, SATURDAY'. De cember 8, 7 A. M. LA BRETAGNE, deJouselin, SATURDAY, Deemher 10, 1 p. x. LA NORMANDIE, peKkrsAJUkc, SATUR DAY, December 17, 7 A. m. PRICE OF PASSAGE (including wine): TO HAVRE- First Cabin, Winter rate SIOO and $80; Second Cabin, S6O; Steerage from New Y’ork to Havre, $25; Steerage from New Y'ork to Paris, S2B 30: including wine, bedding and utensils. LOUIS DE BEBIAN, Agent, 3 Bowling Ureen, foot of Broadway, New York. Or J. C. SHAW, Esq., 20 Bull street, Messrs. WILDER & CO., 126 Bay street, Savannah Agents. RAILROADS. East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia R. R. GEORGIA DIVISION. The Quickest and Shortest Line BETWEEN Savannah & Atlanta. (COMMENCING Oct. 9. 18S7, the following \J Schedule will be in effect; EASTERN LINE. Fast Night Express. Express. Lv Savannah 7:06 am 1:30 pm 7:35 pm Ar Jesup 8:42 am 3:20 pm 9:55 pm LvJesup 3:85 pm 3:30 am Ar Brunswick 5:35 p m 6:00 a m LvJesup 8:50 am 11:07 om Ar Eastman 12:12 pm 2:00 am Ar Cochran 12:53 pm 2:37 am Ar Hawklnsvtlle. 2:oopm 11:45am Lv Hawkinsville.. 10:05 a m 5:25 am 11:15 am Ar Macon 2:20 pm 7:30 am am Lv Macon 2:25 pm 7:30 am 4:00 am Ar Atlanta 5:45 pm 11:00 am 7:20 am I.v Atlanta 6:00 pm 1:00pm 7:35 am Ar Rome 9:00. p m 4:10 p m 10:40 a m Ar Dalton 10:22 pm 5:30 pm 12:00 n n Ar Chattanooga 7:00 din 1 :85 p m Lv Chattanooga... 9:3oam 10:00pin Ar Knoxville 1:50 pm 2:00 am Ar Bristol 7:35 pm 6:20 am i... Ar Roanoke 2:15 a m 12:45 pm Ar Natural Bridge. 8:54a m 2:29pm Ar Waynesboro ... 6:2oam 4:2opm At Luray 7:50 am 6:43 pm Ar Shenando’ J’n.. 10:53 a m 9:35 p m Ar Hagerstown....ll:ss pm 10:30pm ........ Ar Harrisburg 8:30 pm 1:20 am Ar Philadelphia 6:50 pm 4:45 am Ar New York 9:35 pm 7:00 am Lv Hagerstown 12:50noon Ar Baltimore 3:45 pin Ar Philadelphia... 7:49 pm Ar New Y’ork 10:35 p m Lv Roanoke 2:2oam 12:30 noon Ar Lynchburg 4:30 am 2:45 pm Ar Washington 12:00noon 9:4opm Ar Baltimore 1:27 p m 11:85 p m Ar Philadelphia .. 3:47 pm 3:00 am Ar New Y'ork. ... 6:20 pm 6:20 am Lv Lynchburg 6:15 am 3:05 pm Ar Burkville 9:20 am 5:27 pm Ar Petersburg ll:10ain 7:lspm Ar Norfolk 2:25 pm 10:00 pm Via Memphis and Charleston K. K. Lv Chattanooga... 9:25 am 7:10 pm Ar Memphis 9:15 pm 6:10 ain Ar Little Rock 7:10 am 12:55 pm ' Via K. C., F. S. and G. Ri r. ~ Lv Memphis 10:30 am Ar Kansas City 7:40a in Via Cin. So. R’y. Lv Chattanooga... 5:00 a m 7:10 pm 9:00 am Ar. Louisville 6:42pm 6:3oam 6:lspm ArCincinnati 6:6opm 6:soam 6:42pm Ar Chicago 6:soam 6:50 pm 6:soam Ar St. Louis 6:soam 6:4opin 6:soam Train leaving Savaimah 7:35 p ra, arriving at Chattanooga 1:35 pns makes close connection with N. C. & S. L. for Sewanee, Monteagle, Nashville, St. Louis and Chicago. Train leaving Savannah at 7:06 a m. Macon at 2:25p m and Atlanta at 6:00 p m is fast train for the East, and goes directly via Cleveland, car rying tnrough sleeper to Cleveland, making close connection at Cleveland with train leaving Chattanooga at 10:00 p m. Pullmansleepers leave as follows: Brunswick at 6:40 a m for Cleveland. Rome at 4:10 p m for Washington via Lynchburg:Chattanooga at 10:00 p m for YVashington via Lynchburg; also one tor New Yortt via Shenandoah Valley, and at 9:30 a in for Washington via Lynchburg; Chatta nooga at 7:10 p m for Little Rock; Brunswick at 8:30 p m for Atlanta; Jacksonville at 7 p. m. for Cincinnati. B. W. WRENN, G. P. & T. A., Knoxville, Tenn. L. J. ELLIS, A. G. P. A., Atlanta. SUBURBAN RAILWAYS. City and Suburban Railway. Savannah, Ga., Nov. 5, 1887. ON and after MONDAY, November 7, the following schedule will be run on the Out side Line; LEAVE ARRIVE LEAVE ISLE| LEAVE CITY. CITY. OP HOPE. | MONTGOMERY 10:25 a. m.j 8:40 a. m. 8:15 a. m. 7:50 a. m. *47:00p.m.| 2:00p. m. 1:30p.m. 1:00p.m. Every Monday morning there will be a train for Montgomery at 7:00 a. in. Saturday and Sunday’s trains will be run leaving city at 3:25 p. m., and returning leave Montgomery at 5:00 p. in. and Isle of Hope at 5:30 p. m. •This train will be omitted Sundavs. tOn Saturdays this train leaves city at 7:30 p. m. J. H. JOHNSTON, President. Coast Line Railroad. SuLuploiAn Schedule. CATHEDRAL CEMETERY', BONAVENTURE AND THUNDERBOLT. The following schedule w ill be observed on and after MONDAY’, Oct. 8, 1887, week days. (See special schedule for Sunday.) Leave Savannah (city time), 7:10, 10:35, A. M.. 3:00, 4:00, *6:35 P. M. Leave Thunderbolt, 6:50, 8:00 A. m., 12:20, 4:00, t5:40 i>. m. Leave Bonaventure, 6:00*8:10 A. M., 12:30,4:10, 5:50 p. m. ♦Saturday night last car leaves city 7:15, in stead of 6:35 (Last car leaves Thunderbolt 5:40, instead of 6:20, as formerly. Take Broughton street care 25 minutes before departure of Suburban trains. R. E. COBB, Supt. COTTON SEED WANTED. 18 CENTS Per Bushel (sl2 per ton) paid for good dll SEED Delivered in Carload Lots at Southern Cotton Oil Cos. Hills —AT— SAVANNAH, GA., ATLANTA, GA., COLUMBUS, GA. Price subject to change unless notifled of ac ceptance for certain quantity to be shipped by a uture date. Address nearest mill as above. CONTRACTORS. P. J. FALLON, BUILDER AND CONTRACTOR, 22 DRAYTON STREET, SAVANNAH. 'P'STIMATF.S promptly furnished lor building *—/ at auyatUas. RAILROADS. SCU E JJ XJ L TF CENTRAL RAILROAD. O w ~, Savannah, Ga., Oct. 16, 18s 7 N and after tnis date Passenger Trains wilt run daUy unless marked t, which aredailv except Sunday. J* The standard time, by which these trains run. ib do miautea blower than Savannah city time* r l* No. 8. K’o ?~ J Lv Savamiah ArGuytou 8:07 am r'ia Pm ArMiOen ...Mm ILOSpm "'.l'.!" B:4spm Ar Augusta.. 11 :isam 6:45am. p ™ Ar Macon I:4opm B:2oam ....! Ar Atlanta—s:4o pm 7:15 am. * Ar Columbus.. 9:3s Dm 2:55 nm * Ar Montg’ry..7:2sam 7:13 pm !.'! * Ar Eufaula.. .4:37 am 4:10 pm . * Ar Albany... 11:05pm 2:55pm Train Ne. 9+ leaves Savannah 2:00 tx m • rives Guyton 2:55 p. m. 1 m,, ar- Passengers for Sylvanla, WHghtsvlUe Mil ledgeville andEatonton should take 7-lo’a m" train. ni. Passengers for pomaston, Carrollton, Perrv Fort Games, Talbotton, Buena Vista blaketi and Clayton should hike the 8:20 p. nTtrain * 7 r , No. 2, No. 4. Nq u ’ Lv Augusta. 12:10 pm 9:lopm 8 ' Lv Macon... lo:3s am 11:00pm ... Lv Atlanta.. 6:50 am 7:15 pm * LvColumbus 10:30 pm 12:15 pm * LvMontg ry. 7:25 pm 7:40 am Lv Eufaula.. 10: l: om 10:47am ... F v AlJmy.. 4:45am 11:55am Lv Millen — 2:28 pm 8:20 am S-OO am Ly Guyton.. 4:o3pm s:o7am 6-58 Ar Savannah 5:00 pm_ 6:15 am gioo tm Sa™!;!aM:Fm VeBG ' IytOn3:lop -“ 7a ™ ®®®P in P C*™ on all night trains between S*. vannah. Augusta, Macon and Atlanta, also Ma con ana Columbus. Train No. 8, leaving Savannah at 8:20 p m wdl stop regularly at Guyton, but at noother and Millei ° ff paiisei ‘ Kera between Savannah Train No 4 will stop on signal at stations he. tween Milieu and Savannah to take mj gers for Savannah “ Connections at Savannah with Savannah Florida Wester “ Railway for ail points ia Tickets for all points and sleeping car berth, on sale at City office, No. 20 Bull street and Depot Office 30 minutes before departure J each train, a 01 J. C. SHAW. E. T. CHARLTON, Ticket Agent. Gen. Pass. Agent. Savannah, Florida & Western Railwa^T [All trains on this road are run by Central Standard Time.] T™ E CARI) IN EFFECT NOV 13, 18W J. Passenger trains on this road will run dail. as follows: WEST INDIA FAST MATT., RKATI DOWN. __ i/i : !S am D V Savannah Ar 12:23 pm *P m Lv Jacksonville Lv 7:30a m 4:4opm Lv Sanford Lv I:lsam v.lOpmAr Tampa Lv 8:10pia PLANT STEAMSHIP LINE. Lv...Tampa....Ar Ar.. Key West..Lv grffl Wednes. and t , , I v-L ' p r^ Sat amf Ar---Havana...Lv “J PuUman buffet cars to and from New'York and Tainpa. NEW ORLEANS EXPRESS. 7:06 a m Lv Savannah Ar 7-58 n m ,^ a ™Lv jesu P :::p m Af Way cross Lv 6:06 p m 1 ra Ar Callahan Lv 2:42 and m noonAr Jacksonville Lv 2:00 and m - :,J 0 am Lv Jacksonville Ar 7:45 p m 10:10 am Lv Waycross Ar 4-40 n m H'tTj P m Lv Valdosta 2^ P ™ 12.34 pm Lv _Quitman Lv 2:28 p m 1.22 pm Ar .Thomasville Lv 1:45 pm 3:30 p m Ar Bainbridge Lv 11:25 a m 4:01 pm Ar .Chattadioochee~TTLvTT*3oam loillman buffet cars to and from Jacksonville t York, to and from Jacksonville and New Orleans via Pensacola. EAST FLORIDA EXPRESS. Lv. Savannah. Ar 12:23 pm l '® pni Lv Jesup Lv 10:54am 4.40 pm Ar Waycross. Lv 9:53 a m 7:45 pm Ar Jacksonville. ....Lv 7:Boam 4.10 p m Lv. . , Jacksonville Ar 9:45 am 7:20 pm Lv Waycross Ar~ 5:35 a m 8.30 pm Ar Dupont Lv 5:30 am 3:25 pm Lv Lake City Ar 10:45 r"ra 3:4opm Lv Gainesville Ar 10:30 a ra Bdißpm Lv Live Oak Ar 7:loam iJ!:£? p ' ra Lv —Duponti Ar 5:25am , S p m Ar MtomasvUle Lv 3:25 a m A'bany Lv I:2sam iuilman buffet cars t and from Jacksonville and St. Louis via Thomasville, Albany, Mont gomery and Nashville. ALBANY EXPRESa lA:*® pm Lv Savannah.. Ar 6:loam 10.tpmLv JesuD. Lv 3:lßam -:20 am Ar Atlanta Lv 7:06 p ra 12:40a mAr Waycross Lv 12:10a m f ; "^ ail \,Ar Jacksonville Lv 7:00 pm 1 :0b Pnr Lv Jacksonville Ar 7:25 am I:6sam Lv Waycross Ar 11:80pm 2:,k>a m Ar Dupont Lv 10:10 pm Ar Live Oak Lv - (bsspm 10.30 a m Ar Gainesville Lv 3:45 p m 10G5 a m Ar Lake City Lv 8:25 p m 2:55 a m Lv Dupont Ar Sk4sp n O-OO a Ar ThomasviUo Lv 7:00 pra 11:40am Ar Albany Lv 4:oopm Stops at all regular stations. Pullman sleeping ears to and from Jacksonville and Sa vannah. JESUP EXPRESS. 3:45 p m Lv Savannah; Ar 8:30 a rtj 6:10 p m Ar Jesup Lv 6:2a a Stops at all regular and tlag stations. CONNECTIONS. At Savannah for Charleston at 6:45 am, far rive Apgusta via Y emassee at 1:16 pm), 12:18 J 1 m a ml 8:23 pm: for Augusta and Atlanta at -:10 a m and 8:20 and m; with steamships for New York Sunday, Tuesday and Friday; for Boston Thursday: for Baltimore every fiftn day. At JESUP for Brunswick at 8:30 a m and 3:3S pm; for Macon and Atlanta 8;t0 a m and 11:07 p m. At WAYCROSS for Brunswick at 10:00a mand 5:06 p m. At CALLAHAN for Fernandinaat 2:47 pm; for Waldo, Cedar Key, Ocala, etc , at 11:27 am. At LIVE OAK for Madison, Tallahassee, eto.. at 10:58 a m and 7:30 p m. At GAINESVILLE for Ocala, Tavares, Brooks ville and Tampa at 10:65 a in. At ALBANY for Atlanta, Macon, Montgom cry, Mobile, New Orleans, Nashville, etc. At CHATTAHOOCHEE for Pensacola, Mobile, New Orleans at 4:14 p m. Tickets sold and sleeping car berths secured at BREN’S Ticket Office, and at the Passenger Station. WM. P. HARDEE, Gen. Pass. Agent. R. G. FLEMING Superintendent. Charleston & Savannah Railway Cos. /CONNECTIONS made at Savannah withSv V ' vannah, Florida and Western Railway. Trains leave and arrive at by stand ard time (90th meridian), which is 36 minutel slower than city time. NORTHWARD. No. 14* 66* 78* Lv Sav’h. .12:48 p m 6:46 a m 8:23 p M Ar Augusta 1:15 pm * Ar Beaufort 5:30 pin ...... 10:1 amt Ar P. Royal 7:4- p m 10:80 am - Ar Al’dale.. 7:40 p m 10:5-am. Af Chasten 5:20 p m 11:40a in 1:25a a SOUTHWARD. 33* 35* 27 Lv Cha'ston 7:30 a m 3:15 p m 3:4> a ID Lv Augusta 1:45 a Lv Al'aale.. 6: i a m 12:12 pm Lv I'. Royal. 7:00 a m 12:20 pm Lv Beaufort 7:12a m 12:33 p m .... Ar Sav’li.,.. 10: s- a m 6:34 p m 6:41 a ill •Daily between Savannah and Charleston. Train sm! 78 makes no connection with Pori Royal and Augusta Railway, and stops only m Riugelaud, Green l’und and Ravenel. J ram * ■ slops only at Y’emasseo and Green Pond, am ' coimects for Beaufort and Port Royal d* a for Allendale daily, except Sunday. Traius-2 and 66 connect from and for Beaufort and ror* K K-r ttekets, sleeping car reservations and aU other information apply to WM. Special Ticket Agent, 28 Bull street, and a. ( iiarieston and Savannah railway ticket omWN at Savannah, Florida and Western Railway depot. C. S. GADSDEN, Supt -F Ne 6, 1887 ~ KIESLING’S NURSERY, White Bluff Road. PLANTS, BOUQUETS, DESIGNS, CUT 1 FLOWERS furnished to order, lhave or tiers at DAVIS BROS.’, corner Bull and Yo suO-ls. Yd-.phone call 240.