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TO BEGIN PAVING SOON.
THE NEW PAVING COMPANY GET
TING THINGS IN SHAPE.
The Company Organized and Working
Under a Board of Trustees Until it
Can Secure a Charter— The Machinery-
Ordered and the Works to be Started
Up in Two Weeks—lts Savannah
Contract.
The Southern Vulcanite Paving Company
is the name of the new company whose
complete organization is delayed because a
charter of incorporation cannot be obtained
during the absence from the city of the
judge of the superior court, but the com
pany is formally organized, and a board of
trustees is temporarily serving until such
time as the charter can be obtained, after
which a complete organization will be ef
fected by the election of officers, etc. The
trustees now conducting the business of the
company are Mr. 1,. H. Scott of Now Vi'irk,
a director in the National Vulcanite Pav
ing Company, Mr. John C. Howland and
Mr. Wallace Cummiug.
THE COMPANY’S CAPITAL.
The company is composed principally of
solid business men in this city, and the capi
tal stock is understood to be $50,000, with
the privilege of increasing it to $500,000.
The company has the exclusive right for
the states of Georgia, Florida, Alabama,
Mississippi, Louisiana,Tennessee and thetwo
Carol mas, and it expects to push the busi
ness in all the principal cities of the eight
states mentioned.
The first work of the company will be to
complete the paving of Broughton street
from Abercorn to East Broad street, and
Liberty street on oach side of the
grass plat. Active operations are
already under way; the granite base
has been contracted for, and lias the nia
chinery for the plant. The work is to be
done under the personal superintendence of
Mr. J. V. W. Vandenburgh, who has had
eighteen or twenty years experience in
street paving, and who laid the first asphalt,
pavement put down in this country. Mr.
L. H. Hcott, one of the trustees has been in
the city for some days, but left yesterday
morning for the west to be abseut eight or
ten days.
TO BE READY IN TWO WEEKS.
Mr. Wallace Gumming, one of the trus
tees of the local company, and Bupt.
Vandenburgh, were interviewed yesterday
afternoon by a Morning News reporter
and from them it is learned that the
machinery is expected here in ten days or
two weeks, and can be put up in ten days
ready for ojieration. By tnat time the
granite will be here ready for crushing. It
will be furnished by the Southern Granite
Company and will come from tb* Lithonia
quarries, twenty-five miles from Atlanta.
The granite will be brought over the
Central railroad to the crusher, which is to
be located in what is now a wood-yard in
the Central yards, corner of Harris and
West Broad streets. Sheds will be put up
on the lot for the better protection of the
machinery.
Temporary buildings will be located on
the lot at the fork of Bryan street on the
Ogeechee canal, where the mixing of the
sand, tar distillate and asphalt will De done.
The tar distillate and Trinidad asphalt will
come by sea from the north, but it has not
yet been determined whether in steam or
sailing vessels. The material will begin to
arrive within a week. The sand used will
be the common Savannah river article.
A $20,000-PLANT.
The entire plant will cost from $15,000 Vo
$20,000, and ample capital will be available
to prosecute the work here and in any city
included in the territory controlled by the
southern company.
Mr. Vanderburgh says that the plant
while carry'ng out its'contract for street
paving in this city will give steady employ
ment to 100 men and several cayts, layiug
1,000 yards of the pavement daily. The
mixing of the top coat and Under will be
done on the Bryan street lot, and the finish
ing composition will be mixed and put on
in the street. The vuloaitte asphalt pave
ment seems to have given the best satisfac
tion, and it is now being laid at Indianapo
lis and other northern cities.
FROSTS IN THE COUNTRY.
The Cool Wave Gets in Its Work
Warmer Weather Coming.
Light frosts were reported all along the
Central rail load yesterday morning as far
down as Pooler, ten miles west of Savannah,
and a very light frost fell on some of the
high lands around the city. The tempera
ture did not get low enough, though, for a
killing frost.
The 000 l wave which has l>een moving over
the entire country since last week is slowly
jiassing off. The mean temperature at
Havannah yesterday was 69*, but 3° below
tbs average for fifteen years. The lowest
temperature recorded for the twenty-foil:-
hours ending at 6 o’clock last night
was 61° —a rise of 0* since
the last report. At 8 o’clock, when the last
observation was taken at the signal station,
mercury had risen to 72*.
The average lowest temperature of the
thirteen stations of the havannah district
of the ootton belt yesterday was 56*. Only
four districts reported a lower aver
age and they were Memphis, which re
ported 52*, and Wilmington, Little
Rek and Augusta 54'. The highest
temperature recorded at Havannah yester
day bus 83", and the highest for the Savan
nali district was 84*. Higher temperatures
were imported iast night ut all of the South
Atlantic, Florida jieulnsular and eastern
and western gulf states and in the Rio
Grande territory, and to-day will probably
be warmer here. The indications are:
Fair weather, cooler, oxcept in extreme
southern portion, stationary temperature,
northerly winds.
MET A VIOLENT DEATH.
A Longshoreman Falls Through the
Hatchway of the City of 3avannah.
B. J. Hines, a colored man of 25
years, fell intp the lower bold of
the steam.hip City of Havannah yes
terday morning, fracturing his skull,
death resulting shortly after he had been
taken to his home on West Broad, near
Pine. He was unconscious from the time
he received the lull until death ensued.
The deceased was a longshoreman en
gaged in loading lumber in the second bold,
and by a careless step was precipitated
headlong through the 1 atchwny, striking
the bottom of the lower hold on his I/cad.
Coronor Dixon wits notified, <j, after
viewing the body, made an investigation of
all the facts connected with the esse, but
did not think it noe ssarv to impanel a jury
for an inquest under the circumstances.
Hines leavesa wife but no children.
INSPECTING THE CAMPS.
The County Commiaeloi.-.ers Take a
Look at the Convicts.
The county commissioners made an iu
, spectiou yesterday of convict camp No. I,
at the county farm. The premises were
found to be in excellent condition und tins
prisoners in good health, there being only
one couvict in the hospital. Orders were
issged lor the fitting up of houses for the
winter, and also for 1 uilding a large burn
for tne storage ot the crops raised on the
platm.
'i lr# artesian well has been sunk to a
depth of 330 feet, but there is so far no flow
of water above the surface. The work will
bo continued, and it is cx|>ected that a good
wutcr supply will yet be obtained from the
well. The <*' ials, ditenes and drains in toe
locality inspected were found to be in gisd
condition, i ousiderdble damage, however,
i-t constantly being don* to them by cattle
that roam at hn‘g > over the county, break
ing dowa-the banksAud filling upd.be cuts.
THROUGH THE CITY.
Items Gathered Here and There by the
News Reporters.
There is a vacancy at St. Joseph’s In
firmary, and young Corcov.ch win probably
be taken there to-day.
A meeting of the democratic county
executive committee will be hold at the
court house Friday night.
Night Supt. Collat, of the cotton seed oil
mill, whose leg was severely cut a few
days since, is improving, and will soon be
out.
Thomas P. Cain, who has been confined
at St. Joseph's Infirmary from a wound he
received in a cutting affray, is considered
out of danger.
Tho only arrest by the police for the
twenty-four hours ending at midnight, was
that of Irene Handley, who was picked up
on rho street drunk and was lodged in the
barracks.
The recent effort to get the Hpanish ves
sels out of quarantine was ini ffoetual. Tho
sanitary commission think it bed that they
sthould stay a while longer, both steamships
and tho sailing vessels.
Kit Rountree (colored) was in Magistrate
Russell’s court yestorday on a charge of
assault and battery on Ca ry Bmith
(colored). After an examination, he was
released on bond. The difficulty occurred
in Coopershop lane.
The board of trade will remove from/ts
present rooms to the postofflee buili/ing
next week, and will occupy the fl >or for
merly occupied by tho Southern Telegraph
Company, next to the old cot ton ex'/iange
fronting the Bay, and running thrytigts to
Bay lane.
Hon. George 11. Morgan of Effingham
county reports that in a 6-aere patch of the
finest prospective cotton the caterpillars
struck it and riddled it, eating the tender
bolls, so that there will b no top cotton.
He estimates a loss of one-third of the He'd
by reason of the insectivorous visitation.
The fire ongilies Nos. 2 and 4 were busy
yesterday from 9 o’clock in the morning
until 4 o’clock in the afternoon pumping
the water out of the collar of the Parsons
building at the comer of Pries and Liberty
street - . Over 20,(NX> gallons were pumped
out. The Cellar has been ordered filled up,
and work will begin to-day. It will be
filled up by Saturday. This will lie n ser
ious loss to the builder, as over *2,000 has
been expended in putting the cellar in Its
present condition.
Mrs. Roone, who lives on Bay street near
Farm, was run overby a buggy at the
corner of Broughton and Barnard streets
Wednesday afternoon, receiving painful
bruises aliout the head, ami suffering the
loss of some of her teeth. She was con
veyed to her home by a passing wagon and
surgical aid called in. The buggy was Mr.
Mark A. Barie’s, and the accident, vjhs ap
parently unavoidable. Mr. Barie accom
panied the injured woman to her home to
see that she had proper care and attention.
DAVIDSON DISCHARGED
Magistrates Think Tony Wilson Got
No More Than He Deserved.
Ge rgc A. Davidson, the colored special
constable who shot Tony Wilson at Thun
derbolt while attempting to effect ths latter’s
arrest, had a preliminary examination
yesterday afternoon at Justice Molina’s
office before a tiench of magistrates, con
sisting of Justices Mathpws, Molina
and Bheftall, Justice Mathews presiding,
sud after hearing the testimony for the
State, the prisoner was discharged. The
'date was represented by Acting Solicitor
General W. W. Eraser, and the defendant
by Messrs. W. G. Chailton and James
Atkina.
William Grant testified that he saw Offi
cers Hunter and Davidson attempt the ar
rest of Tony Wilson; that the latter refused
to surrender and that Davidson then fh-ed
three shots, one of which struck Wilson,
who fell, and that Davidson was about to
shoot again when Hunter interfered and
prevented it.
Jack Code, who k’ith his wife had started
home, saw the closing part of the affray.
He says he was attracted by the two pistol
shots, and when he got up to tho scene of
the fight he heard another shot, and then
Wilson ran away. Witness saw Hunter
pick up a knife from where Wilson had
been lying down.
Marcus Hunter, tho constable, testified
that he and Davidson wont to arrest Wilson
on two warrants; one for assault with in
tent to murder, and the other for plain as
sault. Witness, knowing Tony, went up
aud askod him to go witn him. Tony re
fused and drew a knife. Davidson asked
Wilson not to make a fuss. Wilson replied
that he would not go and cut at Davidson.
Then Davidson shot. All the witnes ex
testified to the dangerous character of
Wilson, and Tony himself admitted that
he had his open knife in his band aud
hld it threateningly uutil the shots were
find by Davidson, but that he was trying
to get away, knowing the warrants were
against him.
THE TYBEB RAILWAY.
The Company Embarraeaad and a Re
ceiver May be Asked For.
The e have beer/ rumors for several
weeks past of the Savannah and Tybee
Railway Company being in a bail strait,
and that a receiver had been, or was about
to be, asked for to tike charge of its affairs.
The regular aehedul es on the road were dis
continued about t*o weeks ago. Since then
Mr. J. J. McDonough has been operating
the road on his own account and for what
he could make out of it.
A gentleman. who is well acquainted
with the operations of the company, said to
a Morning' News reporter yesterday that
there is no truth in the , seport that the
bondholders have applted fora receiver to
tako charge of the affairs of the company.
He said, however, that there U a possibility
that it may be necessary to tiftke that step
unless something now unforeseen occurs.
The company has bven embarrassed ever
since the contractor failed to complete the
road. It was only partially completed, and
since it began running trains the road has
b?en kept up by the oirzotos lending the
eompauy their credit and advanc
ing money. It was thought
tkat this year’s business would
place the corporation in a condition to tine
over its financial difficulties, but the unsea
sonable spring weather and the fever senre
in August reduced the vi lume of business
to Bii h an extent, that evon with a liberal
contribution from the directors it failed tp
meet its obligations. The directors paid off
the employes for August, but they were not
willing to put their hands in their pockets
any further.
A large amount of the bonds is held in
New York, and it is probable that the
holders there will take action ns sopn as
they understand the condition of affairs
here. The phvsiuul condition of the rail
road is excelleut, and in the hands of
parties who have the meaus to oompleto it
and thoroughly equip it it will doubtless
prove a good Investment.
Tbe cars which were bought in by the
J. G. Brill Company on Wednesday have
been leaded to the Central railroad aiid will
be run on the Birmingham extension.
Nearly Knocked the Officer Down.
Officer Harvey arrested Ida Owens, Kittle
Malone and Thomas Sullivan yesterday
afternoon in Coopersbop lane on a charge
of larceny from QCto Voque, an employe in
a 1 iquor saloon at the west end of Bay sxreo:.
Til. prosecutor claimed that SB6 had been
taken from him. and $lO of the amount was
recovered by the arresting officer. After
the prisoners were lodged in jail and the
handcuffs taken off of Sullivan, he dealt
Officer Harvey a stinging blow In tbe fac,
whioh the officer returned. Guard Htrick
lund bad Hullivan placed In a cell. Hullivan
vi as slightly intoxioateil, and told Officer.
Harvey that he would meet him when he
was released.
S7O Saved
By purchasing at once ouo of those choice
Mathusbek Piunos at s32l—ss cush, $2
weekly, at Li pdkn & Bates S. M. H.
THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1888.
NOT YET BOTTLED.
Some of the Lnmbermen Called Back
to Atlanta Laat Night.
Messrs. T. L. Kinsey, J. J. McDonough,
George W. Haslairi and VV. B. Stillwell, of
the delegation of lumbermen who went to
Atlanta to co-operate With other lumber
men of the stajbj before the railroad com
mission to get.u, revocation of the freight
tariff increase/( lumber fixed by the com
mission, to go into effect next Monday, re
turned home yesterday, but Messrs. Mc-
Donough and Still wall were called back
again to Atlanta last night by telegram.
Mr. McDonough informed the Morning
Nbws before returning to Atlanta, that
fully 90 pir cent, of the lumber interests
are represented at the meeting, and that up
to the fAroe he left the Savauueh, Florida
and \Vestern railway was not represented
before the commission, while the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia was repre
sented, and Messrs. Whitehead and Shell
mail, of the Central, with their counsel, A.
K. Lawton, Jr., were there, making a vig
orous effort to prevent any change in the
order complained of. Mr. McDonough
to ink s the commission will hear further
from the lumber men to-dav. He cannot
account for the failure of the Savannah,
Florida and Western railway to be repre
sented. The commission inuy reach a con
clusion to-day, and possibly not until to
morrow. The Savannah lumbermen are
exi>ected home to-morrow morning.
An idea of the depression in the l inber mar
ket may best be gathered from an epitome of
the statement of Mr. Merritt W. Dixon be
fore the commission. Ho said the proposed
increase would affect his interests to the
extnt of about $22 a day; that the lumber
men have lately been selling lumber nearly
$2 less per 1,000 feet than they gut for it
in 1888. “Siuce 1838 the price has been
going down, and was never lower than at
present. The lumber business is not profit
able. The only way my firm manages to
get along at all is by doing a!i tho business
ourselves, avoiding the middlemen, and not
insuring, and trustingin Providence.” The
w itness guvs an account of about a dozen
failures, and said there had been morn fail
ures in this business than in any other.
“Are the railways amply compensated
under the present freight tariff!” asked Mr.
S. 11. Adams.
“1 can say from facts known to me that
the lumber men are at tho mercy of the rail
roads. In the watermelon season the rail
roads have no cars for us. In the cotton
season they cannot accommodate, in the
orange season, which comes a little later, it
is the same way, and then in the truck sea
son. a little later, they make the sure crv.
We may beg and plead and pray, but they
will not heed our cries. In the meantime,
wo lose sales and our business suffers. Then
we get desperate and threaten to come be
fore the commissioners. They then give us
some relief.”
Mr. Dixon insisted that the rates now in
existence could not lie increased without
causing the ruin of the men in the lumber
business; that even at the present rates the
lumbermen are losing money.
Before closing his statement Mr. Dixon
said he would willingly go out of the nusi
ness; that he would sell out to any of the
railway companies at 25 per cent, less than
the value of his property.
VERY GLOBE TO SSOO.
Savannah’s Fund to Aid the WaycroEL
Quarantine.
Up to last night Savannah’s fund to tfvi
Waycross in keeping up its quarantine
footed up $478. Capt. Crawley, who )/ad
charge of the subscriptions, left for home
yesterday. The lists, however, will remain
at the Morning News office, and at Mein
hard Bros. & Cos., No. 129 and 130 Ltyough
ton street, where subscriptions will be
reoeived. The following are the Lubscrip
tiODS up to date:
Melnhard Bros. A Cos 25 00
I. M. Frank 10 no
A, K. Altmayer A Cos 10 00
Lee Koy Myers A Cos 10 00
H. Myers & Bro lO 00
Herman Jr Kavton . 10 00
Cash 2 00
Cash 2 00
W. W. Gordon 50 00
A. Lefiler a 10 00
A. Ehrlich & Bro 10 00
U. W. Tiedeman ® V 10 (XI
8. Guckonheimer & Sou i 25 00
Ellis, Youug & Go / 15 00
J. P. Williams & Cos / 10 00
Peacock, Hunt & Cos * 20 00
Thomas West A Cos .., 5 00
I. Epstein A Bro, 10 CO
A. Einstein's Sons /.... 10 00
Einstein A Lehman j. 10 00
G. Eckstein A Cos / 10 00
Palmer Bi os 10 00
FerstACo 1 25 00
Watson A Powers / 600
J. Rosenhlm A Cos. / 5 00
Collat Bros / 5 00
E. Lovell's Bonn ...J. 10 00
M. Sternberg S 00
J. A. Douglass ACo ... 500
J. D. Weed < 10 IX)
M. Boiev & Son/. 500
A, J. Miller & (Jo "... 6 00
S. W. Branch 5 00
1). B. Lester. > 500
Orohan A Dopner 2 00
C. F. Grahui/i 2 00
B. H. Levy Jt Bro 5 00
Mohr Bros., 5 00
Eckman j/Vetsburg 5 (X)
A. Falk A Son 5 00
Stillwell, Vlillen & Cos ....... 10 00
Edward Karow : 10 00
Rufus E. Lester 10 0.1
Cash 8 00
Luddea A Bates 25 00
P. Tuhardy 8 (X)
11. L. Schreiner 5 UP
John Lyons A Cos 6 00
B. Dab 5 00
Riex® A Stern 5 00
Total $ 478 00
CUPID'S FALL HARVEST.
Mr. Harry B. Lemcke Weda Mlaa Sallle
E. Groan.
The wedding of Harry B. Lemcke and
Miss Sallie E. Green last night was very
i/ieasantly celebrated. The groom is an
energetic young man, employed in the post
office. The bride is a daughter of Mr. H.
Green, a prominent planter at Bister’s
Ferry. The oeremony took pla -e at 8
o’clock at the residence of Mrs.
Wakefield, No. 162 Bouth Broad street.
Rev. Father Bazin, pastor of St. Patrick’s
church, officiated. Thu bride, who is a
very pretty blonde, wore a cream dress of
faille Franoaise and a pretty bunch of La
France roses. Miss Amelia Walter was
bridesmaid and Dr. W. E. Gompi was the
groom’s host man. After the ceremony a
inception by Mrs. Wakefield was tendered
the couple. The presents wore numerous
andeoatly. Among the givers were Capt.
and Mrs. Hertry Blun, Mr. and Mrs. J. H.
Heltnkeu, Capt. and Mrs. George W.
Lamar, Dr. W. E. Uomrn hud Mrs. L. M.
Gomm, mother of the groom, and his sisters
of Youkew, N, Y. The future home of the
newly wedded couple will be at 162 South
Broad street.
At the Theater.
There was a good audienoe at the theater
last night to see‘-Dr. Joky 11 and Mr. Hyde.”
To these familiar with Stevenson's thrilling
story the play was a disappointment. Ho
much outside of the novelist's work has
boon introduced into the dramatized version
of his story, and so much that
belongs there was left out, that it is diffi
cult, without a considerable stretch of the
imagination to connect the play with the
novul. Tbe acting was little better than
the play itself. The audience was not
ofithusia-tic over either.
“Make Housekeepers of Your Girls" is the
Subject of an article In the October Ladies’
Home Journal and Practical Housekeeper, now
at the news-stands—six oents.
By tbe way. ft you S'-nd ten cent* in sliver or
stamps yon will gel four numbers. Including the
Thanksgiving apd Christmas numbers, both of
which are to lie extraordinary.
This magazine, which Is nearing a million sub
scriber*. show s w hat ean be done by numbers.
It costs no more to write (or a million than for
a few It costs but a little apiece for paper and
printing .nvl binding. Thecust Is In getting at
it und si vpittg bn ween. '
We are jhways at It ; uever stopping. Ladies’
Home JouiiSau, r.iiladeiphia.
ROLAND RUT IN JAIL.
THE ASSAILANT OF MANNIOO COR
QIVIOH BEHIND THE BARS.
Officer McDermott Brings His Pris
oner Out of South Carolina on a
Special Train—Roland’s Story of the
Robbery at Five Mile Bend—He Con
fesses to Eelng an Accomplice, But
Denies that He Struck Young Corci
vich.
Officer McDermott reached here with th#
negro Fred Roland yesterday afternoon.
He was met at the Central depot by Justioe
Endres and a deputy, and Roland was hat 1 J
cuffed and marched up West Broad street
to Bryan street and taken to Justice Endres’
office, where a commitment was made out,
and he was taken to jail.
The street was filled with colored people
who wore eager to get a giipuise of the no
torious Roland, and there was some excite
ment akpund the office when th* prisoner
was marched in. Roland is a big negro
and weighs not less than 200 pounds. He
has a bad countenance, aud is impudent in
conversation. Ho denies his guilt and lays
the deed on another colored man whose
name aud when a'oouts ho tfurnished the
officers. Roland was held iu South Caro
lina for stealing cotton, ytis brother-iu
luw is the prosecutor.
SHOT IN TRYING TO ESCAPE.
AY he i tho South Cn hi a authorities at
tempted to arrest R iland *id handcuff him,
he stoutly refined to be -wrested or hand
cuffed. One of the offic/rS drew a revolver
iu order to secure his iir/xmer iu case there
was any trouble and Roland seized the
officer, and m tlie cftempt to take the
weapon away from hi ti was shot in the
stomach. He affected great pain and the
officers become alarm/d let lie shoud die,
and they put him under a nurse. Roland
took advantage of tV'ir laxity, and being
but slightly wound si he ran away and
came to .Savanna.a His story is that the
authoritn s became frightened after shoot
ing him, a id, tiii/Kin* he was going to die
of his wound, t'i.,v made up a contribution
and out him off. He caoio to Savannah on
the night ot Sept. 15, and skulke I about the
suburbs of the city 1 1 escape being captured
for attempting to kill Policeman Quinn.
RolandV story of the robbery.
Rolands sb,ry ns to ttie assault ou young
Coreivich n ,and the robbery of the store at.
Five-niTte .Head is about us follows: On
Sunday hi* me* one of, bis old friends who
wax “stnyp/ied.” ills friend suggested the
robbery of the store. Roland refused to go
into it, ISut agi eed to take part of the plun
der. Ife says that the rob iery was com
mitted </ii the night, of Sept. 17, and im
medii//|ly after dividing the spoils he and
his t<f,t/iid separated. He .vent to Allendale
the following afternoon, and was arrested
there und loiged itijuil that nigh". This
stqfy is not to be believed, tho officers say.
Officer McDermott said that the South
Qi/olina people, when they learned of the
'.Time wirli which Roland was connected
li fre, uromised their assi-tance in getting
the case against him there uol pressed.
/Solicitor General W. T. Murphey, after a
thorough examination of the charge:, con
sented to nol pros the case, and gave orders
for Roland to be turned ovor to Officer
McDermott.
chartered a tra in.
For fear of Jboing detained, and that Ro
land would be advised to require requisition
papers before being brought to Savannah,
the officer got him out of t.Ue state ou a
chartered train and Landed in Augusta
without any trouble. The marshal of Al
lendale identified the slippers that were
found iu the store after the robbery was
committed as a pair which he had given
Roland. When the prisoner landed here he
was wearing anew pair of shoes. He was
lodged in jail last night to await trial in
the tiigher court.
In addition to the^robbery,Roland will bo
tried for a-sault with Intent to murder
Officer Quinn.
Officer McDermott will investigate the
robbery casb further to-day, and if there is
any truth in Roland’s story about another
man’s committing the robbery, a vigorous
effort will be made to capture the criminal.
ON HAlhi AND CROS3TI&
Local anl General Gossip in Railway
Circles.
Work has boon resumed on the western
extension of tbe Georgia Pacific in Missis
sippi and full forces of hands are now finish
ing the grading as rapidly as possible. The
recent floods in Mississippi damagixl th#
work considerably, and the swollen rivers
played havoc with the bridges. Of the 135
miles of roadbed, ninety miles have beeu
graded for the track to be laid. There are
yet forty-five miles of road to be graded.
The material to be used in connecting the
track is being shipped to Mississippi as rap
idly as possible.
The South Carolina Pi,ailway Company is
gradually dispensing with the bell and cord
on its passenger eugiuos-and coaches. In
stead of the bell in the cab of the engine,
connected with the p.ssenger coaches, serv
ing as a means tor signaling the engineer
by the conductor, a whistle is placed in the
call directly in front of the engineer’s seat,
and this is operated on the same system that
the air brakes are cant mile i. The whistle
is connected with the air reservoir, and
when t o conductor de6ircs to signal the
engineer he simply pres ics a button, which
is connected by the air pipes with the
whistle, and the signal is instantly given.
Tbe button and whistle are very sensitive,
so to speak, and tbe slightest touch of the
button will discharge the air into the
whistle, instantly giving the desired signal.
Birmingham is elated over the proposed
extension of the Savannah, Florida and
Western railway from Dainbridge to Birm
ingham. The distance from Bainbridge to
Birmingham is about 200 miles. If the ex
tension is built on au air line it would pass
through the following Alabama counties:
Henry, Barbour, Bullock, Macon. Elmore,
Coosa, Shelby and Jefferson. The principal
towns on this line are: Union Springs,
Clayton, Wetumpka and Columbiana.
The Age, in writing up the
new line, adds that already five
important systems center there and have a
firm foothold. They are the Louisville and
Nashville, owning and controlling over
2,000 miles of road; the Queen and Crescent,
controlling 1,158 miles of track; tne Rich
mond and Danville (Georgia Pacific), con
trolling about 2,000 miles of road; the
Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis
(Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham
division), controlling 1,200 miles of track:
aud last, but uot least, the Central railroad
of Georgia, controlling over 2,000 miles of
road. The following are the railroads now
seeking entrance Into Birmingham: Mobile
and Older, Controlling nearly 1,000 miles of
road; Plant system, owning 800 miles of
road and operating over 1,000 miles in
steamship lines; the Cincinnati and
Birmingham, tne Selma andCahaba valley,
the Binuiugham and Savannah Air-Litie,
the Memphis, Tuscaloosa and Atlantic, tbe
Mobile and Birmingham, aud numerous
other small roads.
28 1-2 Cents Per Day
Will buy one of those fine Mathushrk
Pianos, with stool, cover and two books.
Who cannot space that small sum to invosf
in an old reliable pianot $335—55 cash and
$2 weekly—an actual saving of S7O to every
purchaser. Ludden & Bates 8. M. H.
Just in at Shaffer’s, 110 Whitaker street,
150 pounds F.ue Toilet Soap. Eraser: ptious
compounded with cure, and night bell
answered at all hours. Ouiy Pure Drugs
used.
Special sale.
Malhusliek Pianos, heretofore sold at
$395, temporarily reduced to $823, on pay
ments of $5 cash and $3 weekly. Sale
limited. Lronny & Bates S. M. H.
ABOUT FOLKS YOU KNOW.
Savannahians and Other People Who
Come and 00.
Capt. P. O’Keiffe was in Macon yester
day.
C. Hohnstein of 'Waycross is at the Mar
sha!!.
J. U. Tippins of Altamaha is at the Mar
shall.
8. Steelman of Charleston is registered at ■
the Marshall
IF. A. Fraser of Mclntosh is stopping at
the Marshall.
It. H. Winston of Bartow is stopping at
the Marshall.
H. F. Moore of Hoppervilb Is stopping at
the Soreven house.
Dr. L. 11. Edwards of Springflold was in
the city yesterday.
M. L. Mims of Waynesboro is stopping at
the Marshall house.
R. F. Cassels of Mclntosh is registered at
the Marshall bouse.
B. Lucas of Hauso Creek, Ga., is otop
pitig at the Marshall.
R. L. Allen and wife of Montgomery are
guests at the Screven.
Miss Annie Lynah left for Mrs. Cary’s
school in, Baltimore, yesterday.
Dr. R. J. Nunn left for New York last
night, via the Atlantic Coast Line.
D. B. Woodruff, a protnin >nt architect ctf
Macon, is stopping at the Screven.
Hon. J. L. Warren was on the Bay yes
terday, after a week’s coi.ilnoment at
home.
Col. C. H. Qlmstead, who has been spend
ing a month with relatives in Chicago, has
returned.
George M. Brinson, a prominent citisen of
Stillmore, is in the city, registered at the
Screven.
Judge Amos Rakn of Springfield was
shaking hands wit i old friends In Savannah
yesterday.
Rev. H. S. Wingard, the well-known
Lutheran minister of Edlugbamcou ity,was
in the city yesterday.
General .Manager Haines, of the Savan
nah, Florida and Western railway, left for
New York last night.
Gen. E. P. Alexander and family arrived
from Spartanburg yesterday morning in
Gen. Alexander’s private car.
H. P. Richmond and wife and Miss Minnie
L Richmond were registered at the Hotel
Laniers, in Macon, yesterday.
The following Savannahiaus wore regis
tered at the Hotel Lanier, Macon, yester
day : L. T. and J. P. Doyle, Anbury Hull
and Newcomb Cohen.
Cant. W. D. Dixon and daughter. Miss
Carrie, returned yestenday on the Ethel,
after a pleasant visit of two weeks among
friends in South Carolina.
Cards are out for the marriage of Mr.
Ferdinand A. Weil, of Frank & Cos., and
Miss Helen Engel of Brooklyn, formerly of
this city, at the bride’s home, in Brooklyn,
next Tuesday, Oct. 2.
The family of Mr. F. D. Bloodworth,
after summering at Jasper, on the Marrietta
and North Georgia road, are now on their
way home, but have stopped at Guyton, as
guests of Dr. J. J. Lawrence, for a few days.
Col. A. M. Martin, an extensive planter of
South Carolina, passed through the city
yesterday en route to his home. He was ac
companied by his family. They have
beon spending the summer in the Catskills,
New York.
Mrs. Theodore Wells and family left lost
night for their future home in Savannah.
Macon will mis3 Mrs. Wells. We congrat
ulate Savannah on securing so sweet and
cultiva ed a voice and so excellent a lady.—
Vaifon Telegraph.
Mrs. W. F. Reid, wife of Alderman Reid,
returned last night from a three weeks’
visit among friends iu Nishville. Sue re
ports the Tennesseans wild with excitement
over the dread tnat yellow fever may ex
tend into that state.
Smtthvine Scintillations,
Prom the Smithvllle (Ga.) Newt.
The reason tjie milkman never cries over
spilf milk is became he knows there’s more
water whore that came from.
Blaine is going to bo defeated again this
year. It is surprising that this man will
run whether be is nominated or not I But
we are going to learn him a lesson this time
which will last hitn forever.
The proverb la tiiat people who live in
glass houses should never throw stopes. Of
course; they would fare better by getting
their neighbors with soft soap, but some of
them usS concentrated lie.
An exchange inform} us that candidates
are falling off the trees m its neighborhood.
Well, the e’a no telling where some of them
will get to next.
A poem has been sent us on a bunch of
flowers. We cannot uublish it, butcertainly
the best place for a poem is on a bunch of
flowers. Lot it stay there.
An exchange says it kpows a grocer who
is supposed to be the honostest man in the
world. He chases the flies off the beam
of his scales before he allows them to bal
ance.
How a Church Raised Money.
From the Summerville (Ga.) (Jatette.
Not feeling very well, we did not attend
the party at Judge Hawkins’ last Friday
night. We have asked one or two who
were there to write it up, but they declined.
It was given to start a tund for building a
new Presbyterian church. The devices for
raising money were: Selling ice cream at
15 cents a saucer, pinning on a donkey’s tail
at 5 cents a trial, and a ‘ ‘Lever’s Retreat,"
where the disconsolate swain might pour
out his feelings, being charged only 1 cent
a minute for the time it to-k him to tell
,how bad be felt. These three methods
brought iu sl2 50. Thcjse who were there
tell us that it was the gayest event of the
season.
Taking Things Easy.
We are doing just that, because there are
yet plenty of people who will think twice
before they act once. We refer to the pur
chase of Pianos. We represent only such
instruments as have stood the fejrt of many
years, manufactured by men who have
gamed their well-earned reputation by
ouest and solid work, and giving their
custoraers full value in every instance.
Any agent of theirs who would try any
hocus pocut business and who cannot show
a clean bill of moral business health, would
not lx) tolerated by thsip a moment. We
therefore could not, if We wanted (and we
do not) eutor in any scheme which oan be
doubted, creticisod or would lower the
standard of their We con
tinue our legitimate business us we have
done the past thirty-live years. Our
instruments do not enter In competition
with those which can be to vnriad as to sail
at one price to-day and another U*-a)orrow
or noxt week; in tact we do mot reoognls#
any competition with tbs Btem way Pianos.
They still sell Uismsclvej,
Bchbein*r’s Music Houss.
Borne Facts About School Supplies
Next Monday, the first day of October,
the public schools of this city will open
tbeir doors to the thousands of children of
this community. Parents wiU be called
upon to oj>en their hearts and purses for the
purchase of books for their loved ones. One
of our leading firms, always awake to our
Kople’s interest, bought out in New Yorku
nsrupt stock of Hiatus, School Bags and
Book .Straps, and will sell there until the
supply is exhausted at unheard of low
prices. We will also soil all School Books
at Nsw York price*. Permits who desire to
buy for cash and save money will do wall
to soe Davis Ur. sand get their prices.
House and Lot
Can’t be included, but wo wIU save you S7O,
give you stool, cover, books and tune Ires
lor one year if yon purchase one of those
fine Matbuehok Ptanot before the offer ex
pires. SJAS —lB cash, tS waokly.
Luddbw 6 Bants 8. M. 11.
Weather Indications.
I 1 Special indications for Georgia:
fair Fair weather, cooler, except in ex-
I Itreme southern portion, stationary
1 temperature, northerly wiuds.
Oomoarlsnn of moan temperature at Savan
nah. Sept 57. 1880. and the mean of same
for flftown yoar*.
Departure Total
Maas Tsar* MTV as from the Departure
_ Mean fiinue
for 15 years Sept. 27, *BB -|- or Jan. 1,1888.
•** 69 . 8 127
Comparative raiuf&ll statement:
Sent 27 m
1# teara Sept. 27, 88. or _ Jan . 1888 l
.18 .00 .18 — 6 B
Marlin im temperature 82. 1; minimum tern
perature 61 1.
The height of the river at Augusta at
7:53 o'clock a. m. y eaten lav (Augusta time)
•ras 11.8 test — a (all of 1.8 during the past
twenty-four hours.
Cotton Region Bulletin for 24 hours end
ing Bp.ni., Sept. 27, 1888. 75th Meridian
time.
Districts. Avsraoi.
Max.l Min. Rain
‘ tloM. Tomp Temp| falLt
.-- - - J
Atlanta 11 80 66 j .00
Augusta 19 78 51 00
Charleston 7 82 58 .00
Galveston 19 a 68 .00
Little Rook. f 80 SI ,00
Memphis 16 72 52 .00
Mobile 7 80 66 .00
Montgomery 6 80 66 00
New Orleans 12 *6 56 .00
Savannah. 13 81 56 .00
Vicksburg * 80 S3 .00
Wilmington 10 80 54 .00
Averages
stations or ; Max.! Mia. lim
savannah district. Temp Tempi full.t
Alapaha 81 61 jOO
Albany Bl 50 .00
Mainbridge 83 55 . 00
Kastmas 83 65 .00
Fort Gaines 87 65 .00
Jesup 86 50 00
Live Oak 84 65 00
Millen 84 54 .00
Quitman 90 65 00
Savannah 83 61 .00
Smith villa 89 55 00
Thomasville 88 64 . 00
Waycross. 80 59 .00
Averages
•Tlndicates trace, finches and hundredth*.
Observation* taken at the aeune moment
of time.at all stations.
Bavajckah. Sept. ?, 6:36 a. city time.
Wind.
§ fill
h 5 a
Nun
OF
Btationa
Portland 58:8 W 6!.... Clear
805t0n...... 64 SW 14 Clear.
Bloek Island (MB W . Fair.
New York 64i W ft .. Fair.
Philadelphia 66 W 6| Cloudy.
Detroit ! 60 NW .. T* Clear.
Fort Buford 53 N E 0 ... Cloudy.
Bt. Vincent - 44 W j. Clear.
Washington city..! 62 N .0? Fair
Norfolk 70 S E 6 Clear.
Charlotte 68|8W .. .... iClear.
Batters* 7218 Wj 10 Clear.
Point Jupiter,Fla 78; 8 ~| (WjCloudy.
Titusville ?8 ! N Ei f .... Clear.
Wilmington - 70 8 W 6!.... IClear.
Charleeton 78-8 W .. Clear.
Augusta ..!
Bavansah 72j W 6 .... Clear.
Jacksonrtlle 74:8 E .. (dear.
OedarKeys 73;NWi ... Clear.
Key West 78 8 E 121 ,70| Cloudy.
Atlanta 70 W lOj Clear.
Pensacola 72 E j 8 Clear.
Mobile 74 N 6 .... Clear.
Montgomery ... 74 .... .. Clear.
Vicksburg 70 N )..| Clear.
New Orleans 78 WWiClear.
Shreveport .. 74 N F.j 6 Clear.
Fort Smith 64 N I e! Fair.
Galveston 78 9 .. ... Clear.
Palestine 72iN El. ...Clear,
Brownesviile. 74. N ].. | Clear.
iUoGranda 80| E I Clear.
Mempw* 62; N ! Clear.
Cincinnati 68 W 8 Cloudy.
Marquette 88INWI10 .14 Fair.
Chicago 601 W liO IClear.
Duluth 44•NW-..!... Fair.
Bt. Paul 43 W 0 .... Fair.
St. Louis 60NW 12 .... Clear.
Kansas City 84 SK 6:. . . Clear.
Bismarck 44|NW1..!....iFa1r.
T* denotes trace of rainfall.
L A. Dsmaom. Observer Signal Corps.
Grand Sale.
Mathushek Pianos, heretofore sold at
$393, temporarily reduoed to $323, on pay
ments of $5 cash and $2. Sale limited.
Ludden & Bates 8. M. H.
COLLECTING AGENCY.
A NEW GEORGIA ENTERPRISE.^
Leak's Collecting k Protective Agency of Ga.
HEADQUARTERS, GRIFFIN. GA.
OFFERS to resident and non-resident credit
ors s safe and prompt method of collecting
debts. Offers to furnish creditors, on applica
tion. the preseot standing of auy hr in in tee
State. This agency represents creditors
throughout the States to look after their out
standing accounts, to protect them in giving
credit, and to notify them when any of their
customers begin to get in a had shape. Its chief
ttekl of oixiration is directed to commercial
channels, and will confine its wordings solely to
this State. Tnis agency will furnish nn estimate
of the flnanolal standing and reliability of any
business Arm doing business in this State to
commercial travelers or snleummi representing
Arms who are our patrons. Being familiar
With the leading attorneys in Georgia, wo have
selected none except the leading and most re
liable attorneys in the different cities and towns,
and wo can assure our patrons that claims sent
to us will be Immediately placed In the hands of
attorneys able and reliable In every particular.
We shall publish a book annually containing
general Information, and the same will be fur
nished to our patrons. Sen 1 your claims to S
G. LEAK, aud correspond only with him at
headquarters, Griffin, Ga. Address
8. G. LEAK, Manager, Origin. Ga.
FURNITURB AND CABPETS.
list Sow is i lii!
A. J. Miller & Co.’s
Until Enpii
IS THE PI-ACE WHERE YOU CAN
BEE THE
LARGEST VARIETY
Of Furniture and Carpets in this City at Bar
gain Prices. Como 1 Bee! 1 and Buy!! I
AIM! 4 Cl,
148, 150 sod 152 Broughton St
MARTIN COOLEY,
Contractor and Builder,
SAVANNAH, OA.
PROPOSALS promptly submitted for Sewers,
Paving, Grading, I'ridge Building, Wharf
Building. Pile Driving, eta, etc.
f— CENTS A WEEK will have the
w J MORNING NEWS delivered at your
house EARLY EVERY MORN
BAKING FOWIJKR.
Absolutely Pure.
This Powder never varies. A marvel of Pam,
Strength and Whoiesomenss. More enconomti
cal than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be soil
in competition with the multitude of low test
short weight alum or phosphate powders Soil
only in cans. Koval llaiunu Powder Cos iJ
Wall street. New York.
LUDDEN .6 HATES S. 51. H
PIANOS.
Upright Grand
Rosewood and Ebonized
Cases, 7,t 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
Only, at
isctas,
$5 Cash, $2 Weekly,
LUDDEM BATES
SOUTHERN MUSIC HO®
Stats
of
WSATHSB.
PLUMBERS’ SUPPLIES, ETC.
Chandeliers,
BRACKETS,
Hal! Lights
AND ALL KINDS OF
Gas Fixtures
OF MANY ARTISTIC STYLES AND
DESIGNS, NOW FOR SALE BY
John Nicolson, Jr,,
30 and 32 Drayton St.
" steam'launiry7~
Empire Steam Laundry,
109 BROUGHTON ST.,
BETWEEN BULL AND DRAYTON STREETS.
C HILTS, COLLARS, CUFFS, UNDERWEAR.
O LACE CURTAINS, ’HOUSEHOLD AND
TABLE LINEN, eto., done up in flrst-olsJ*
style and at short notice.
ROXTBLT HATCH TO BIHOLB OBWTLEIIRJI.
TELEPHONE No. 90.
Work called for and delivered.
Cotton Mather and 0. V. Batten, Prop’n
PAINT.
SWEDISH PAINT
For covering tin roofs. Best and most durable.
Just imported. For sale by
J. D. WEED & CO.
DA VIS BROS.
School Books
AT NEW YORK PRICER
School Bags
Bought out a bankrupt stock in New
York, and can sill at retail for cash losi
than former wholossle prioes.
COVERED AND PLAIN SLATES
Cheaper than over before.
SCHOOL STRAPS
At prices that will astonish yon
SCHOOL SUPPLIES STRICTLY 6FOT
CASH.
DAVIS BROS.,
42, 44 and 46 Bull Street