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TO FIGHT niGHEIt RATES
LUMBER MEN TO GO BEFORE THE
RAILROAD COMMISSION.
The Rate to Go into Effect Next Week
Seventeen Par Cent. Higher Than
the Present Rate How the Present
Rate Was Fixed -Mill Men Say That
They Cannot Stand the Increase at
the Present Low Prices of Lumber.
The lumber men went up to Atlanta last
night in force with their attorneys, to ap
pear before the railroad commission to
morrow to try and get a revocation of the
order fixing an increased freight tariff for
the railroads on the transportation of tim
ber and lumber, which, it is announced,
will go into effect Oct. 1. The delcgati >u
was composed of Messrs. W. B. Stillwell,
T. I* Kinsey. J. J. McDonough, M. W.
Dixon, E. E. Foy, N. Frierson, and Sam B.
Adams, Esq., and F. G. du Biguon, Esq.
The lumlier men claim that the tariff rate
fixed by the commission is 17 per cent net
higher than the present tariff, and will be
so burdensome that it must have a very
discouraging effect n|>o:i an industry al
ready embarrassed by the low prices which
lumlier commands.
TIIE PRESENT TARIFF.
It is said that the railroads in 1883, when
they agreed Ul" 111 the present tariff rate,
did so with an understanding that when
lumber advanced in price there was to be a
corresponding advance in freights. The
lumber men say t hat lumber hasn’t been
lower for years than it is now, ami that the
railroads had the commission fix the Octo
ber tariff without notifying them of any
proposed change, and that it will cost the
mills thousauds of dollars additional at a
time when the lumber industry is depressed.
The roads, they claim, can afford to carry
lumber cheaper if anything, because the
prices of r .ilroad iron, lumber, timber and
other railroad material are cheaper than
when the present schedule was fixed. They
lielieve that whan these facts are brought to
the attention of the railroad commission
the order will l>e revoked and the present
schedule will be retained.
HOW IT WAS FIXED.
Mr. ,1. J. Dale gave a very interesting ac
count yesterday of how the present tariff
was fixed, shortly after the organization of
the railroad commission. When the com
mission was organized it sent out circulars
calling upon the railroads for a copy of
their freight tariff schedules, and the rail
roads were careful to send their schedule of
the freight tariff on lumber, which was in
operative at the time, as they were then
carrying lumber at from 30 per cent, to 40
per oent. less limn their schedule price.
Mr. Dale said that when the lumber men
beard of this they met and ap|)oitited a
committee to wait upon the railroads to see
if they could not effect an agreement, and
avoid antagonisms liefore the commission.
This committee was composed of Messrs.
Dale, Reppard and Bacon. The last named
gentleman waited on the officers of one of
the roads, and Messrs. 1 )ale aud Reppard on
the officials of the other road.
WENT BEFORE THE COMMISSION.
No compromise was effected, and then
the committee, with Juilge Tompkins aud
associate counsel, went before the commis
sipn, and when they had fully presented their
case the present tariff was the result,. Mr.
Dme sa.d that there was no compromise or
understanding then as to increasing the
tariff with the advance in lumber, and even
if there had been, Mr. Dale said that in his
twenty-five years’ experience in the lumber
business he had never known the prices to
he so depressed as now. He thinks it possi
ble that the lumbermen on the line of the
Brunswick and Western (then the Bruns
wick aud Albany) and on the line of the
East Tennessee. Virginia and Georgia road,
may have had some such understanding
as to an advance in freights with an ad
vance in the price of lumlier, a* they were
not liefore the commission, but he is satis
fied that no such understanding was had
then, as he was chairman of the committee
and gave the railroads a hard tussle. ”In
fact, said he, “to use a cracker phrase, we
whooped ’em out.”
THE ARGUMENT TO BE USED.
Mr. dußignon said last night, before leav
ing for Atlanta, that if such an arrange
ment had ever been understood between the
lumber men and the railroads that freights
were to advance with the advance in lum
hei, there would tw no difficulty iu showing
the commission that, instead of an advance
in the price of lumber, there has been a
sharp decline, and that lumber men cannot
afford to have freights advancod, especially
when it will add thousands of dollars to the
ex|*uisj of prosecuting an industry already
depressed. The delegation will be iu At
lanta the greater part of the week, expect
ing to tie before the commission to-morrow
and Wednesday, if not for a longer time.
QUARANTINING AGAINST SIN.
Rev. A. M. Wynn’s Sermon on the
Yellow Fever Epidemic.
"Except the Lord keep the city the watchman
waiteth but in vain.”
That was the text of Rev. A. M. Wynn’s
sermon at Wesley Monumental church last
night, “Our country press its a spectacle
altogether serious,” said the preacher, al
luding to the yellow fever outbreak, "and
it is our duty to assist our lellow-men in
as much as it is possible without endanger
ing our lives. Every possible step to pre
vent the spread of the scourge should be
taken aud the country relieved of the epi
demic."
Mr. Wynn spoke at length on the im
portance of strict quarantine as a means bv
which the city is to escajw the scourge, blit
he said after all the quarantine laws have
been carried out to the tetter, it
is left with God to keep Die city.
“If in his wisdom he sees fit to stay the
plague, it is itself an interdict—a perfect
quarantine." He spoke of the panic
stricken people fleeing the infected cities
aud towns and undergoing all man
ner of hardships to escape the plague.
"Men," he said, "haveleft their business and
families bars separated. Thousands upon
thousands of dollars have tieen expended in
the hope of stopping the disease. And
yet,” ho added, “there is a greater disease
an epidemic in which the mortality has
lw i greater by far than all others com
bined. a disease which has been among us
since the world began, and which is not
nbating. It is among nnd lias hold of us now.
It is sin. Why are we not panic stricken
nnd fleeing it. Why are wo not working
and planning more earnestly, endeavoring
to stay its spread among our fsllowmeu (
Why are not we quarantining against it f’
The preacher admonished his hearers to
throw off their lethargy aud begin to cleau
their heart*, to use heavenly disinfectant*,
and word off sin. He spoke at length on
“quarantining sin," and the necessity of
having God in Die matter, before any good
can be aocomplished.
Death of P. W. McMahon.
R. W. McMahon died at the city hospital
yesterday afternoon of Bright’s disease. He
luul been at the hospital about a week. He
is a brother the well-known contractor, J,
J. McMahon. He was 55 years of age, and
leaves a wife and three children. His re
mains were taken to his residence on Hunt
ingdon street, three doors cast of Blast
Bi oad street, lost night. His funeral will
take place to-day.
The Y. M. C. Association.
4 The young men’s meeting yesterday was
a very int resting one The attendance was
fair. The singing, led by Prof. Steele, was
a special feature.
The social reception will take place this
evening at 8:!iu o’clock. The programme a*
published iu .Saturday's Morning Nk\v
will be carried out. The reception is free,
and gll members and friends arc ooi dially
invited to attend uuti bring their ludy
friends.
THE FRESHET RECEDING.
Cotton Coming In Lively on the Sa
vonnah River Steamers.
“The water is falling all the way down,”
said Capt. Fleetwood of the steamer Ad
j vanee, which arrived yesterday afternoon
; from Augusta. “The water is still on the
j rice fields,’’he added, “but it has got into
I banks up the river, and the twenty-six feet
' rise will not amount to much.”
j The Advance brought down about 350
! bales of cotton, principally compress cotton
! from Augusta, although she had some
bales of way cotton. The Ethel arrived
j yesterday from Cohen’s Bluff with about
I 373 bales, and her wharf sheds, with their
I heavy bales of cotton, looked business like.
One of the officers of the Advance says
that there has been great activity ia the
cotton patches since the fine weather set in,
nnd that the receipt swill continue right along
! now if unfavorable weather does not come.
I The staple brought down yesterday was not
\ discolored, and it looked as if it had been
picked before the rains. The greater part
l ot’ it is covered with new jute bagging,
although some of the compress cotton has
second-hand bagging for covers.
The present weak will I*, it is predicted,
a very busy one among cotton men, as the
receipts, both by rail and river, are ex
pected lo bo very large. Three steamers
are iu quarantine, waiting to come ap for
cargoes, and four sailing vessels are under
going quarantine.
STRUCK BY A PUSHER.
A Colored Sexagonanan Has an Arm
Mangled at Teynac’s Bridge.
Samuel Fee man (colored) was struck by a
pusher engine on the Savannah, Florida a id
was Western railway yesterday afternoon
and knocked down, sustaining a compound
fracture of the loft forearm. The injured
min was brought to Dr. Duncan’s office,
where the fracture was reduced. Dr. Dun
can said that it is a very bad fracture. The
two large bones of the arm be! ween the el
bow and the wrist are broken and the
smaller bones and tissues are mushed. The
doctor told Freeman, who is over GO years
of age, that it is a bad fracture, and that
while lie will try to save the arm, it is a
three or four mouths' job, the man’s age
being against him. An aiubiiluiice was de
tailed from the barracks, and Freeman,who
preferred to go home for nursing instead of
the hospital, was removed to his Itome on
Mr. Teyuiic’s place, south of the citv.
Freeman said ,that he was noar Teynac’s
bridge, and he thought that he was far
enough off of the track at the time of the
accident. He was watching a train goinir
in another direction, and did not hear the
approach of the pusher until it struck him
umwarst lie was suffering greatly, and
complained of pain iu his left hip, but Dr.
Duncan said that it was only a light bruise.
FLEECING THE VERDANTS.
Merchants About the Market Have a
Grievance to be Remedied.
Complaints are numerous among the
merchants iu the ueighlmrhood of the mar
ket, for a square each way, of colored run
ners and loafers interfering with the retail
trade, nnd at the same time robbing the
colored people from the country. A peti
tion, it is said, will be presented to the city
council asking that these drummers lie
watched by the police, arrested and pun
ished.
A merchant informed the Morning News
yesterday that they boldly enter a store and
drag the unsophisticated countryman out
and talk him into going elsewhere, and
often plunder him so that he won’t have a
cent in bis pocket to return home. The
merchant said that he had loaned a coun
tryman, robbed in this way, the money to
pay his passage out of the city, and he told
of another who, coming in early in the
muruing, lay dowu in his produce cart,
went to sleep, and when he awoke, he found
that his pocket had been out out bodily and
carried off with money and contents.
It is said that these hangers on about
market square watch the steamboats aud
railway depots, and they know a country
man as soon os they lay eyes on him. If
they can pitot him into any of the low grog
shops, of those often partners in the system
of plunder, they rob their victim of his last
dollar.
Saturday morning a countryman had his
valise carried off before his eyes, and only
when the law was threatened against the
place from where the valise was taken did
the victim get any satisfaction. An hour
later ttie valise wus returned to a magis
trate’s office for the owner.
Those sneak thieves and street drummers
are shrewd and plausible m their dealings
with the rustics, and insolent to any one wtio
interferes with their vocation. They are
idle and vicious, frequenting the lowest
haunts when not on the sesut of a viotim or
when they do liot have one in their net.
The merchants say they propose to appeal
to the council to have the gang broken up.
TO GO AFTER BOLAND.
Officers McDermott and Quinn to
Leave for Allendale To-Day.
Officer McDermott will leave this morn
ing for Allendale, 8. C., where he goes n
the hope of bringing back Frod Roland.
Roland is charged with burglary in South
Carolina ami there is doubt as to whether
tho South Carolina authorities will give
him up. Officer McDermott said yesterday
that ho has reason to bolieve that ho will He
able to get Roland. If lie is successful iu
his errand, he will return with his prisoner
tomorrow.
Policeman Quinn, who has assisted Officer
McDermott iu obtaining information as to
the whereabouts of Roland, will probably
accompany him to Allendale. Quinn is the
officer who, while attempting to arrest
Roland for theft, was shot at four times.
Roland did the shooting.
Corcivujh, the young man whom Roland
so brutally assaulted last Monday night. Is
still unconscious, and it is not expected that
he will recover. He will be moved to St.
Joseph’s Infirmary to-day.
UNDER A COOL WAVE.
Mercury Down to 08 Degrees Last
Night—The Predictions for To-Day.
Ths cool wave which struck Savannah
bight before last night is prevailing
throughout the entire cotton l>elt. Mercury
went down to GO* here yesterday, and the
highest that it went was 77*. When the
luai observation was taken at Die signal
station last night it was 70 , having crept
up 3* after ft o'clock in the afternoon.
Tne average lowest temperature for the ton
stations of tiie Ruvanimh cotton district wns
GB° and the average highest temperature
was 84". The nine stations of the Atlanta
district reported an average lowest temper
ature of 02’ and the highest was 7G*. The
New Orleans district reported GO . Wil
mington, N. C., reported 58".
The cool wave is general over the whole
country. The signal bureau’s predictions
for to-day are as follows: Threatening
weather and rain; slightly warmer, easterly
winds. ___________
A Quiet Sunday.
The police are trying to break up a prac
tice which has been notoriously common of
late—that of street walking by negro
women. Two street walkers were run iu
Saturday night aud another was picked up
last night. The practico of keep open sa
loons on Sunday is now pretty thoroug dy
broken up, the saloons being closed yester
day as generally as the Sunday previous.
There was a noticeable absence of drunken
men on the streets yesterd ly, and it is un
derstood that the enforcement of the Sunday
liquor law is directed more particularly to
that class of saloons where the ncgio-s have
lieen accustomed to congregating on Sun
day, Dili g up with liquoi ami bio k iditig
the sidewalk*. Up 1 1 1 u’c ock tins i. own
ing there was only onoar.es —an uou uiuilv
clean record for a Sunday nigut, a .a that
was not for di unkonuos*.
TITF, MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24. 1888.
SUNDAY AT THE BEACH.
Gathering Shells After the Storm How
the Oyster Roast was Enjoyed.
Yesterday was a pleasant day at Tybee,
and between 300 and 303 people enjoyed the
free oyster roast on the inland. During the
forenoon a heavy sea was on, and it was a
great sight. A northeaster was blowing
and the surf thundered on the beach, and
as far out as the eye could reach the white
crested waves lifted up and almost seeimxl
to touch the horizon where sea aud sky ap
peared to blend.
Eater in the afternoon, when the tide
was out nnd the ocean was calmer, the
beach wus industriously searched by young
and old for shells, many rare ones being
found. The air was pleasant and the day
enjoyable.
The ride down commanded a fine view of
the swollen waters of the freshet dis
charging into the sea. The track has not
been injured in the least by the storms or
flood. Bermuda grass seed, which was
sown along the track, lias grown nnd
spread so rapidly, that, in some places it
looks like a lawn, and thpre is an absence of
dust and sand, which is so disagreeable on
many roads. A vigorous hedge of sea
myrtle, a pretty evergreen, grows on the
north side of the track for miles, whose
deep root* and close foliage are a great
protection in times of extreme high water.
Among the passengers yesterday were
Gen. Young of Cartersville, well-known as
a confederate cavalry officer in command
of the cavalry forces in this section during
the war, and Capt. Postoll, receiver of the
East and West rail wav of Alabama. Capt.
J’ostell is the engineer who located the
Tybee railway. lie says that Tybee is the
only place where lie can find relief from hay
fever, and ho thinks that this time of the
year is the host season to spend on tile
island.
Hupt. Collins looked after the accommo
dation of the visitors to the island. Some
large iron doors were improvised as an
oven, which wero placed on brick columns,
and a lire of light pine wus started under t he
iron. Gunny bags full of line oy tors were
then emptied on the doors, and soon the
appetizing odor of the roasted bivalves told
that a treat was near at hand The chil
dren enjoyed the feast, and a happier group
was never seen than they composed.
A good joko is told at Capt. Postell’s ex
pense. The captain is very fond of fishing,
his favorite fishing place being on Die
piling under the bridge over Lazaretto
crock, where, with rod and reel, he is a
veritable Isaak Walton. The freshet has
driven the salt water and salt water fish
out to sea, so that the fish have not been
biting for a week, but on the captain's last
trip to Tybee he caught some very line fish,
among which was a flounder, his beau ideal
of mi esculent dish. When lie omne to
inquire for his flounder at table, his wife
artlessly replied that she had given the col
ored woman the flat li-h for cleaning the
others, thinking she had made a splendid
bargain, as she was not favorably impressed
with the looks of the flounder.
FIRE IN A COAL PILE.
Spontaneous Combustion Starts a
Blaze In Thomas’ Yard.
About 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon
Mock, the colored watchman at D. IE
Thomas' wood yard, at the foot of West
Broad street, discovered smoke coming up
from under one of th coal sheds, anil upon
examination he found that the coal was on
lira He locked the gates pud hastened to
Mr. Thomas’ residence to inform him of the
fire. Mr. Thornaa was away from home,
and the watchman returned to the
yard and informed Policeman Sheehan
of the fire, and an alarm was turned in
from box 4. The fire department re
siionded, and in half an hour the fire was
extinguished.
The loss is inconsiderable, and there will
be no claim made against the insurance
company. Spontaneous combustion, Mr.
Thomas thinks, is the cause of the fire. It
began in the center of a pile of several
hundred tons of soft coal, and near the
same spot where tire broke out three years
ago. The coal pfle will l> pulled down this
morning, and the coal will be scattered aud
dried.
WITH A BAG FULL OF CANDY.
Officer Morgan Gives a Young Thief
a Lively Chase.
Yesterday morning about 5:30 o’elock
Officer H. M. Morgan, who was standing at
Congress and Lincoln streets, saw a very
suspicious act, aud, concealing himself be
hind a tree, awaited developments. A negro
peeped out from Congress street lane and
Lincoln street, dodged bock, peeped out
again, and apparently thinking the coast
clear emerged from the lane with a heavy
sack thrown across bis shoulders, and walk
ing rapidly crossed to Broughton street.
The officer hurried down Congress street
lane, thence to Habersham, where he ex
pected he might cut the negro off, hut see
ing no sign of his man bo ran down to
Brougbtou street, where he discovered the
negro at No. 57 Broughton street, at the
door of Charles V. Brown, a colored shoe
maker, who keeps a confectionery store in
his cobbler’s shop. The negro was knocking
on Brown’s door, aud hud put the bag ou
the step.
As ttie officer walked west on Broughton
street the negro, whose kuock had not been
immediately answered, concluded it was
best not to wait, and taking his hat in his
hand ran like a quarter horse, leaving the
bag behiud. When the officer got in front
of Brown’s door, Brown was in the act of
opening it. When confronted with a bag
containing about seventy live pounds of
candy loft by the thief on his step, he dis
avowed any knowledge of whence it came
or by whom it had been left.
Otncor Morgan took the candy to the bar
racks, and later it was identified by Theo
dore Raderick of 93 Bull street, whose con
fectionery store wns broken into early in
the morning. Officer Morgan charge 1
Brown with knowing about the transaction.
Tne officer says that it has not been a great
while since Brown opened a very small con
fectionery store, the stock of which has in
creased very rapidly. The thief escaped,
but the officer thinks lie can recognize him,
and a close watch out will be kept for him.
He is very likely to he the same follow who
went through Cleveland's drug store some
time ago and Wing Lee’s laundry, both b
iug in that neighborhood.
There is a great deal of petty stealing
going on. the thieves having no difficulty
in finding a fence where the goods are
readily disposed of and where all marks are
carefully removed. “A raid ou these
fences,” said a detective yesterday, “would
have to be made mighty soon after a burg
lary to get the keeper of the fence dead to
rights, and even then they will hide an
article for mouths before exposing it for
sale.”
AT,THE THEATER TO-NIGHT.
George Wilson's Minstrels the Attrac
tion.
George Wilson’s minstrels will be the at
traction to-night and to-morrow night. Wil
son is said this year to be the ’’Barntim of big
minstrel shows." The company played in
Nashville two weeks ago before the third
largest audience that has ever been in tho
Vendom* Theater. The gross receipts fell
but a little short of $3,000. At the same
prices and with three performances only,
the American says that Lotta, who ha
ul ways led in receipts, must give Wil-ou tho
lead.
Tho innovation of white faces on the min
strel stage is one of Wilson’s new enter
prises. This innovation is hardly within
the line of minstrelsy, hut Wilson is making
ago of it. The sale of seats is an assurance
that the theater will be (lacked to-uight.
Special Sale.
Matlmshek Diatios, heretofore sold at
$395, temporarily reduced to $32.5, on pny
ptouts i jo cash and $2 "rokb. Bale
limited. LuDDtN A Bati.s S. 51. H.
SIFTINGS OF CITY NEWS.
LITTLE GOSSIP FROM THE STREET
AND SIDEWALK.
Dashes Here and Taero by the Nows
Reporters Yesterday’s Happenings
Told In Brief Paragraphs— Pickings at
Police Headquarters.
I>e Kalb lodge No. 9, I. O. O, F., meets
this evening.
There wero 178 failures iu the United
States reported to lirailx'recl'x last week,
against 121 in the preceding week, and 145,
150, 143 aud 30 i in the corresponding weeks
of INS 7, test), 1885 and 1384.
('apt. Fleetvvo sl of the steamer Advance,
sent to the Morning NfWs office yesterday
two large oyster shells with the petrified
oyster on the inside. Ho obtained them
from a bed tulle 800 yards wide uml about
one mile from the edge of tho river at
Griffin’s landing. The largest oyste •
measured 18 inches in length nnd the other
14 inches. The placo where they were
found is 350 miles from the nearest salt
water.
One of the barge load of oats which left
the city Saturday for Tybee did not get
out Saturday night, but lay at anchor iu
the South channel opposite Fort Pulaski
yesterday. The sea was too rough, anil it
is very likely that the o its may not lie
dumped before to-morrow without reliand
ling, as taking a lighter off Tybee bar in a
northeaster is rather a perilous undertak
ing.
The health officer’s report for last week
makes a very unusual showing. The total
mortality reported for the week was 11, 8 of
colored nnd only 3 white people. Of the
total number of deaths 7 wore of children
under 10 years old. The tinuual ratio p r
1,000 for the week was 5 for whites and 18
for colored. Last year, in the correspond
ing week, the mortality was 37, and the
yeer liefore it was 17. The causes of death
last week wero cholera infantum, liver
complaint, tiilious, malarial and congestive
fover and measles.
DRYING THEIR NETS.
Sleepy Fishermen Under the Bluff—
The Kind of Fish Caught.
“What are all these nets doing here?”
asked a Morning News reporter of a sun
browned man under the bluff at ttie foot of
Jefferson street, yesterday.
“Them linos! They are drving, and
they’ll need a deal of repairin’. Sturgeon’s
powerful hard oil ’em.”
There were no less than six or seven large
nets, with powder cans for buoys, and there
wore great rent" in tho nets, showing that
many a sturgeon had gone through the
line. On a floor beam that lay along the
wharf a white man lay with his face up
turned, sound asleep, while farther dowu
the piece of timber a colored lad of lti was ly
ing facedow n, oblivious of his surroundings.
All around colored fishermen were asleep
while their nets were drying.
“What kindot fish do you usually catch f”
was asked the only wakeful one of the
crowd, an intelligent looking fisherman.
“Principally shad aud sturgeon. Some
people think sturgeon is only fit for negroes
to cat, but [ tell you sturgeon is fine eating
nnd it is shipped in large quantities from
Savannah. Some of them attain a length
of five feet aud weigh from 100 to 150
pounds. Then we catch shad. Lots of
shod are shipped from here. Shad's bony,
but the meat is sweat.”
“You have uo idea how mauy fish are
consumed iu this market alone," said a
well informed Ashman. “Among fresh
water fish, sturgeon, shad, bream and cat*
are the principal fish, aud then a lot of salt
water fish is brought here, such as whiting,
sheepshead. trout, mullet, black fish and
snappers. It is most too early for snappers.
When it gets too cold down east ttie mack
erel boats casne down here and fish on the
snapper hanks for this market, ’the snap
pers are shipped north. Lots of turtles are
shipped in season, and terrapins nnd oysters
find a ready market, in the interior and in
the north. The fishing industry could be
more profitably conducted here and on a
larger scale, like it is on the gulf coast, if
people only thought so, for it is nearer to
the markets. It will be some day. for there
are more fish in the sea than were ever
caught out of it, and ti.-L men comedown
here now to try to get fish and to engage
oysters and terrapin ”
THE ROADd IN THE INTERIOR.
The Central Helping Them Repair
Their Bridges Alter the Freshet.
Headmaster Marvin of the Central rail
road will leave this morning with a bridge
gang for Wadley to start work on the
Louisville and Wadley railroad trestle
across the Ogeechee river. About 1,700 feet
of trcstling were washed away by the
freshet, and travel to Louisville has been
cut off for over two weeks. Mr. Marvin
thinks that the force will be able to con
struct another trestle in two weeks’ time.
Ttie loss to the road will be about $1,500.
The line is only ten mites long, and this
will be a heavy blow to it. The Wadley
ro.id to Rogers incurred a heavy loss by the
washouts. There are at least 3,000 feet of
trestle gone on that line. These lines are
great feeders of turpentine and lumber to
the Central railroad, and sinco they have
become impassable, the receipts of turpen
tine and lumber have falleu off consider
ably. Mr. Marvin said that within the
next three weeks, however, he expects to
have them all right, and the breaks re
paired.
ON RAIL AND CROSHTIS.
Local and General Gossip In Hallway
Circles.
Commissioner Slaughter, of the Southern
Railway and Steamship Association, has
issued the following circular to passenger
agents: “All summer tourists’ tickets, in
cluding round trip tickets, by wav of steam
ship lines to eastern cities, should be with
drawn from sale at ttie close of the business
day, Sept 31), 1888.” At that time the reg
ular summer season will be over, and on
that accoaut the sale of the tourists’ tickets
will be discontinued. The agents report the
past season as being one of the best ever
experienced.
Since the system of quarantine has become
so wide-spread, the .Savannah, Florida ami
Western railway has f >und it necessary to
inform the public that “purchasers of tickets
from this company, or its connections, are
notified tint they* arc sub ject to quarantine
regulations, including luniigulimi of bag
gage whan the passengers arc from ati in
fected ur suspected point, Quirautine lieing
stipulated daily without prcvioui notice we
cannot advise the public of their require
uienta. Passengers should inform them
selves fully before determining their routes
of travei._
ABOUT FOLKS YOU KNOW.
Savannahtane and Other People Who
come and Go.
E. S. Carter of Valdosta is at the Harnett.
M. Brash of Apalachicola, Fla., is at tho
Harnett.
O. H. Adams of Macon is registered at
the Harriett.
Morris Knapp of Sandersville is registered
at the Screven.
E. H. Crawley of Waycross is stopping
at the Screven.
G W. Wilkins of Beaufort is registered
at tho Screven.
C. W. Stegall of Thomasville is registered
at the Screven.
Koliert S. Rutledge of Charleston is stop
ping at the Screven.
A. A. Peeples, Jr., of Valdosta, is regis
tered at the Marshall.
Mrs. R. C. Register of Liberty county is
stopping at the Harnett.
Mm M. M. Coupe, - and sin, of Brighton,
S. C., are guests of the Marshall.
Capt. D. O. Purse left for Augusta last
night to luok after the damage.' to the
Molyneanx prop rty by the rvcsul flood, of
which estate he is toe lrus.ee. ,
WHAT MARKS GOOD NURSES.
Tbo Qualifications that Fit Them for
Successful Work.
“Hew are the Savannah nurses getting
on in Jacksonville'” a Morning News re
porter asked Dr. Duncan last night.
“I have heard no unfavorable reports,”
replied the doctor. He then ndded that,
when Dr. Mitchell made a requisition upon
him for nurses, he sent only those of known
intelligence who wo acclimated, and who
have themselves passed through au epi
demic and would not contract the fever.
Dr. Duncan does not think that “expert”
nurses are always the host; that it is not
best to have nurses who think they know
too much, but intelligent persons who,
while they may know what simple reme lies
to apply at first, such as orange leaf tea
and a mustard toot hath, will, as soon as a
physician is called iu, allow' him prescribe
for the patient, the nurse being valuable in
pr> portion to the ability of intelligently
follow ing out the physician’s directions.
Dr. Duncan was asked if any further
requi-ilions had been made upon him for
nurses, and he replied that Dr. Mitchell
wanted him to send twenty more whom he
could recommend. These, Dr. Dun
can said, he has boen unable to find, al
though lie has had many applications of
those who may have nursed one case, but
the applicants are in the main ignorant,
and are such us he cannot conscientiously
recommend. He thinks that there are
plenty such already at Jacksonville.
On being asked if he remembered Judge
\V. M. (iliu, tne Augusta septuagenarian,
who was hero in the epidemic of 1870, and
who has gone to Jacksonville, Dr. Duncan
said that lie rernemliered the old gray
bearded humanitarian well. “I thought
he was dead. He was with me in Memphis
during the epidemic there, and wont with
me to Tuscumbia. He is a good old soul,
and does a great deal of good. It is a mis
take to call him a ‘nurse’. What he does is
to hunt around and find those who have
not proper attention, medical or otherwise,
or who have been entirely overlooked, and
he has a knack of finding them. When
found, ho tells them whattodo, if they have
had no physician, and then he goes off ami
gets a physician, or if n nurse is required ho
has a nurse sent to them. If a family need
supplies Judge Olin will find it out auii have
it reported, and the want relieved. I do not
think he asks any pay for his services. He
is no mercenary. Possibly his expenses are
paid, and I think he often gets money, which
he distributes among those he thinks are
the most needy. He is a very old man, and
Ins long white beard gives him a very
venerable appearance. He has had the
fever, and knowing that he will not take it,
he goes everywhere during an epidemic and
has a nose for finding suffering where
others do not find it, and he is as indus
trious in haying it alleviated as he is in
finding it.”
Judge Olin has been in nearly all of
the epidemics in the south since 18110, and
his method has been the same in all—that
of seeking out and alleviating suffering,
consoling the sick, visiting them often to
see that they are not neglected, and co
operating in many ways with physicians
and relief committees.
COTTON CROP FIGURES.
The New York Cotton Exchange’s
Statement for 1887-'BB.
The New York cotton exchange has sent
out the official statement of the cotton crop
of the United States for the season of
1887-'BB, as made up by A. B. cSn-pperson,
statistician of the exchange.
The statement makes the crop the largest
ever grown in this oountry, aggregating
7,046,883 bales, being 527,248 bales larger
than the previous crop, and exceeding the
great crop of 1882-’B3 by 96,000 bales. It
shows several interesting facts; first, that
contrary to the opinion which prevailed
early ill the season, the average weight of
tho bales turns out to be
pounds heavier than last season;
the total receipts at the ports were 5,612,448
bales; the total net overland shipments to
northern mills and Canada were 1,001,261
hales, and the takings by southern mills
from the interior amounted t0433,124ba1e5.
The statistics of southern consumption
are from reports received direct from the
mills, and based upon coinp’ete returns
from fully 98 per cent, of the southern
spindles. The figures show an increase of
consumption, by southern mills, of 55,940
bales. For sea islands the average weight
of bales was 373.58 pouuds against 340.60
pounds the previous season.
Grand Freo Concert.
Everybody invited to attend the concert
by the Davis Bro.’s New Orchestra, under
the leadership of Prof. I. Leon, at our stores
Monday afternoon between 4 and 5 o’clock.
Fifteen elegant new Knabe Pianos on exhi
bition. Square, Upright aud Grand, in
ebony, rosewood mahogany and walnut
cases. Also ten Harrington Upright Pianos.
Let everybody be present.
Davis Bros.,
42, 44 aud 46 Bull street.
Musical Facts.
“It is a common idea among piano makers
that the individuality of a piano lies in the
scale, and that if you can only faithfully
copy a scale of a certain make, you can ab
solutely reproduce its identity. This idea
is entirely erroneous. There are plenty of
people who have tried to copy the Hteinway
system, and have ‘pricked off ’ the Stein
wav scale to a hair’s point, but they have
not been able to produce Steinway Pianos
for all that.” — American Musician.
Just what we said all along.
Schrei.xru’s Music House.
House and Lot
Can’t be included, but we will save you S7O,
give you stool, cover, boooks and tune free
for one year if you purchase one of those
fine Matlmshek Pianos before the offer ex
pires. $325 — $5 cash, $2 weekly.
Ludden & Bates S. M. H.
Tbs Best Time to Buy Valuables,
Tiiis is the dull season of the year. Title
information is not exclusive or from inspi
ration. Trade is pretty well as for as it
goo# —hut it doesn’t go far. Tho purchasing
power of a dollar now Is something surpris
ing, simply because there are more dollars
than t radii. In a word, we are uow inclined
to give a very large dollar's worth for 100
sente just to keep things moving. Within
the past few months we have added to oar
stock ii; various ways, new ideas, new con
ceits, new tricks and quips in jewelry, and
so on. We’vo got to keep up, you know,
with the strides of inventive aiid artistic
excellence. Our stock is werth looking
over, aud, as Intimated, we will sell very
close to move some of it. This is a good
time to renew household articles. Solid
Silver table ware, superb pin ted ware,
ornamental goods. For personal use or
adornment we offer a line par excellence ct
Indies’ fine Gold, Silver and Diamond
Jewolry, Ladies' Watches, Chairs and
Charms, Gent’s Watches ami Jewelry, etc.
All of these articles can be bought cheaper
now than when trade gets brisker. Some
body will get married next fall—buy the
presents you intend to give note. They
will keep, and you will save money.
M. Sternberg,
157 Broughton street.
28 1-2 Cents Per Day
Will buy one of those fine Mathushek
Pianos, with stool, cover and two books.
Who cannot spare that small sum to invest
iu an old reliable piano t $335 — $5 cash and
$2 weekly—un actual saving of S7O to every
purchaser. Ludden & Bates S. M. H.
Summer Tariff.
The adoption of a summer tariff at the
Harnett House, below what ha- heretofore
been the rule at that excellent hotel, is sure
I to be productive of satisfactory results, and
1 indicates the wisdom of the management.
Weather Indications.
Special indications for Georzia:
RAIN I threatening weather and rain,
___ lightly warmer, easterly winds.
For Eastern and Western Florida:
Threatening weather and rain, stationary
temperature, except m northern and west
ern portion, slight rise in temperature, east
erly voids.
Oo nrvr nn->r t*mr*jr*t’..ir® at Savan
nah. S*yt. 1883, and Uie mean of same day
for iftfweii year*.
Departure ! 'local
Mkaw TsmrcßATt'Ri from the Departure
Moan Sir*oe
for 15 year* Sept. 22.’© -I- or Jan. 1,188&
i JO J - a.95
Comparative rainfall eiateroent:
I Departure Total
Mean Dally Amount liw .
Amounl for Mean Sinop
10 5 ears Sept. 23, 38. j Qr _ Jan . ~7m
.18 j .00 —AB I--9 91
Maximum temperature 77.3; minimum tem
perature 67.9.
The height of tho river nt Augusta at
7:33 o'clock a. m. yesterday (Augusta time!
was 11.7 feet—a (allot 0.8 during the past
twentv-four hours.
Cotton Region Bulletin for 24 hours end
ing p. in.. Sept. 23, 1888. 75th Meridian
time.
District*. Average.
Max. Min. Raln-
U,IL. Temp Temp talLt
Atlanta 9 70 06 1.6-3
Augusta 11 78 66 .‘l4
(’harltjston 6 7K OS 00
Galveston 15 *4 70 14
Little Rock 1 78 66 .00
Memphis 1 78 66 .22
Mobile 5 JO 68 10
Montgomery a 74 60 .00
Nevr Orleans 3 M l 08 .07
Savannah 10 84 68 .01
Y T lck*burg 1 80 70 .01
Wilmington. 7 76 64 00
Averages
stations* or Max. Kam-
SA VANN AH DISTRICT. Telllp Temp fttll.t
Alapalia 6* t'B .09
Albany 84 69 .60
Bainbridge 8m 68 (H>
Kastman 84 64 .00
Fort Gaines
Jeeup 82 68 00
IJve Oak 85 69 .00
Millen 83 67 .00
Quit man
Savannah 77 G 8 00
Smithville .. 80 0 00
Thomasville 85 72 . 00
5V aycross
Averages
•Tlndicates trace, finches and hundredths.
Observation* token at the same moment
of time at all station*.
fUTAXMAJL Sept, fl, 0:96 a. n.. city time.
Temperature.
| Direction, j
i Velocity ! ?
j Rainfall
Nabs
or
BTATTONA
Portland I 54 NF. 6 Clear.
Boston 56 N K 10 T* Cloudy.
Block Island S?;N EB6 10:Cloudy.
New York oity—. 60 N 12 T* Cloudy.
Philadelphia 62 N E 8 Cloudy.
Detroit 64 8 ! 6 1 Cloudy.
Fort Buford 64 N'W |*T Clear.
SR. Vincent 70) 8 12 Cloudy.
Washington city.. 80! N j Clear.
Norfolk ‘>6 Ni 2. 04 Cloudy.
GkvsrioMe 62 N 6 . Cloudy.
Hattons . ... 68 NE2B . . Clear.
Point Jupiter, Fla 76 8 E .06 Clear.
Titusville 7 1 E 14 Cloudy.
Wilmington 66 N E 6 .... Clear.
Charleston 70 N E 12 Clear.
Augusta ........ 66 NW Clear.
Savannah 70 N 6 Clear.
Jacksonville 74 N E 6 . Clear.
Cedar Keys 74 N E 16 .... Clear.
Key wst 82' N 8 *T Clear.
Atlanta..... 62! E 12 . Cloudy.
Pensacola. 741 N 12 Cloudy.
Mobile .. 70| N j 6 12 Cloudy.
Montgomery ... 66— : . . i .96 Fair.
Vicksburg 68,N8 6 01 Cloudy.
Hew Orleans 66 8 E .74 Cloudy.
Shreveport 74INE 10[C!ear.
Fort Smith. 72 E Clear.
Galveston 78|NE|.. 02 Fair.
Palestine 76 N 1.. .01 Clear.
BrownesviUs. 72 8 E 290 Cloudy.
SioGrande 60 N .O'[Cloudy.
Uempnn 70; NE, . 02 Clear
Cincinnati 88 N 6 Clear.
Marquette M NW 04 Clear.
Chicago 60|N E,12 ...'Clear,
Duluth 58 N K .. . .. Clear.
St. Paul 6(1 E Fair.
St. Louis 68 N E 10|. . Clear.
Kansas City 70|N Ei...... Clear.
Bismarck TSi S I 6. ..[Fair.
1* dsnotes traoe of rainfall.
L A. Denson. Observer Signal Corps.
Grand Sale.
Mathushek Pianos, heretofore 3old at
$395, temporarily reduced to $325, on pay
ments of $5 cash and $2. Sale limited.
Ludden & Bates S. M. H.
At Hetill’a.
Savannah Daily Morning News.
“Eden," by Edgar Saltus (author of “The
Truth About Tristram Varick”); “Woman
the Stronger,” by W. J. Flagg; “What
Dreams May Come,” by Frank Lin; “Eros,”
by Laura Daintrey;“ Without Blemish,"by
Mrs. J. H. Walworth; “It Is the Law,” by
Thomas Edgar Wilson; “The Sisters,” by
George Ebers; “Diana Barrington,” by B.
M. C oker; "Richard Gable,” by S. Baring -
Gould: “The Maltese Cross,” (the Secret
Service Series); “The Countsy Gisela,” by
K. Marlitt; Popular Science Monthly for
October, London Weekly Times, Lippin
cott’s Magazine for October; Harper’s Mag
azine for October, Loudon Illustrated News,
Sporting South, Sporting Times, Sj ortiug
News, Sporting Life, Sportsman, New York
Weekly, Saturday Night, New York
Ledger, Fireside Companion, Family
Story Paper, Public Opinion, New
York Herald, World, Morning Journal,
Sun, Star, Press, Times, Graphic, Tribune,
Boston Herald, Boston Globe, Baltimore
Sun, Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati
Gazette, Philadelphia Dress, Philadelphia
Times, New Orleans Times-Democrat, At
lanta Constitution, Macon Telegraph, Au
gusta Chronicle, Charleston News and Cou
rier, Florida Times-Union. Chicago Times,
Louisville Courier-Journal.
S7O Saved
By purchasing at once one of those choice
Mathushek Pianos at sß2s—s6 cash, $2
weekly, at Ludden & Bates S. M. 11.
OFFICIAL MORTUARY REPORT
Of the City of Savannah for the Week End-
In. Friday, September 21, 1688.
Whites. | Bi’ks iCTd
CmiKAii of Death Over; Un I'Over I Un-
Cause* or Death. J 0 d#r • w der
M F M.!K. M K. M F
Cholera, infantum 1 ....... ..i.. .
Cirrhosis of Liver 1 .1.........
Convulsions |... j | 2
Fever, bilious 1 .' 1 j...
Fever, congest ive 1 . . .1...
Fever, malarial . j ...
Naeuiat emesis l, .
Measles 1 |
Total 1! I 1 : 3 : ~| 8 2
RECAPITULATION
Deaths in city—Whites. 8; blacks and col
ored, ; total, il. Still births—Blacks and
coin ed 1. Premature births-Blocks and col
ored. 1.
SUMMARY.
TAvhltatT. fiOoloredi H
Age*. j, 1
M. F. M F. i
Under 1 yoar 1 l 1 i 3
Uetweeu 2 and 5 years | 1; l 1 2
Between Sand 10year* l ~..1 i| ... 2
Retween 20 and 80 years I !|... 1
Between 50 and CO years l| 2 3
Total. 1
Annual ratio per 1,000 population (or week-
Whites, 6; blacks ami colored, IS.
W. F. UKL'NNKU M U . Health Officer.
HAVING ,",'VDi:k.
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Absolutely Pure.
Thto Powder never varlee. A marvel of Pijrlt>
Strength and WholeeomenH*. More enconomi,
cal than the ordinary kinds, and cannot, be soli
in competition with the multitude of low teat
uhort weight alum or phosphate powders. Soft
only in can*. Royal Baking Powder Cos. t joj
Wall street. New York-
LI’UDKN A HATES S. M. II 1
MATHI
PIANOS.
Upright Grand
liosewood and Ebonized
Cases, 7 a Octaves. Three
Strings throughout. Unique
Style Fall Board. Fancy Fret
work. Queen Anne Trusses.
Agraffe Scale. French Grand
Action.
Catalogue Price S7OO,
But Now, for a Limited Period
Onlv, at
g:tas,
$5 Cash, $2 Weekly,
LUDDEN & BATES
SOUTHERN MUSIC BOUSE
PLUMBEKS’ SUPPLIES, ETC.
Chandeliers,
BRACKETS,
Hall Lights
AND ALL KINDS OF
Gas Fixtures
OF MANY ARTIBTIC STYLES AND
DESIGNS, NOW FOB SALE BY
John Nicolson, Jr.,
30 and 32 Drayton St.
Stats
or
W EATHSB.
Just iwisitii!
A. J. Miller & Co.’s
lint Emporin
IS THE PLACE WHERE YOU CAN
SEE THE
LARGEST VARIETY
Of Furniture and Carpets in this City at Bar
gain Price*. Come! See!! and Buy 111
ij.li 4 ci
148, 150 and 152 Broqghton St
HAltim’AltK, ET C.
Articles For Domestic Usfl
Including Everything In
Stoves aud Kanges. House Furnishing
Goods, Brooms, Dusters, Woodenware,
Miscellaneous Hardware, Tools, Etc., Eta
Housekeepers, Carpenters, Merchants and
Farmer* are reminded of Our Immense
Variety.
Lovell & Lattimore,
SAVANNAH. (iA
PAINTS AND OQA
JOHN G. BUTLER
TAINTH; KAILHOAD, STEAMER WPIIWj
SUPPLIES, SASHES. IiOOMN, BUNDS AND
BUlU'Eld’ HARDWARE, miu Agwnt
I.ADD LIME, CALCINED PLANTER
MENT. HAIR aud LAND PLASTER.
140 Cong raw atn*-', and IJW St. Julian
Savaunab. Ua.