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D i AND ABOUT THE CITY.
UOHT SHOWERS FALL.
June an Exceptional Month In Every
Way Bo Far.
For the last five or six days the barometer
has remained persistently high along the
South Atlantic coast, which has kept the
weather comparatively cool and
partly cloudy, and has prevented
much rain falling in this section
of the country. So far the temper
ature has only been once above 90* tnis
month, while during the corresponding
month last year it was 16 times above 90".
The weather reports to the signal service
last night showed a pretty rapid fall in the
barometer, especially west of Mississippi,
where it has fallen to 29.74 at Santa Fe,
29.64 at Fort Buford and 29.76 inches at St.
Vincent. The storm is moving northeast
ward.
Moderate rains fell throughout the cotton
region, except at the Montgomery and
Vicksburg districts. The heaviest averages
reported were: Little Rock district (thirteen
stations), .58 of an inch: Memphis ififteen
stations), .60 of an inch. In the Sa
vannah district a few stations re
ported rain, and Savannah itself bad a
little shower late in the afternoon, amount
ing to .04 of an inch, and during the night
.10 of an inch. The prospects are cloudy
weather and probably showers Jduring the
early forenoon to-day, followed by clearing
weather in the afternoon, southerly winds.
It will be comparatively cool to-day, but
hotter weather may be expected to-morrow
and Wedueeday.
GOING BACK TO AUGUSTA.
A Heavy Hitter Who Has 00 Days
More to Serve on the Gang.
Edward Turner, who escaped from the
Augusta chain-gang and was arrested by
Detective Wetherhom last week, will bo
taken back to Augusta this morning by
Jailer Collins, an order for turning over
the prisonor having been given to the jail
authorities last night by Justice Naughtin.
Jailer Collins said last night to n Morn
ing Nwb reporter that Turner has but
about three months to serve. Turner
bought a base ball bat and knocked another
colored man senseless with it, the assault
growing out of a personal grievance which
Turner would not suffer to go unpunished.
Mr. Collins says he is satisfied Turner would
have stayed and worked his time out, but
he had heard that an effort was being made
to indict him for the assault, and he got
frightened and availed himself of the first
opportunity to escape.
Turner’s identity here was betrayed by a
darkey he knocked down with a blow of
his fist for grabbing a coin from a colored
woman and making off with it, and whan
the informer taunted him over the arrest
by Detective Wetberhorn, Turner arose
from his seat in Justice Naughtin's offloa,
and planting a well directed blow in the
mouth of the taunter, sent him down with
teeth to mend, after which he coolly said:
“Now lie ready to go back to Augusta.”
Asa heavy hitter he ranks with “Ice Cream
Jim” and John T. Bullivan.
HE FANCIED SPOONS TOG
The Young Gold Medal Thief Deals In
Silverware as Well.
W. E. Travis, the young man who stole
the Savannah Cadets’ prize drill medal from
R. W. Farr on Saturday, and after ham
mering it out of shape sold it for old gold,
has evidently had his band in the business
before.
Pawnbroker Muhlburg, who bought the
medal from Travis, not knowing what it
was at the time, said yesterday that he
bought two solid silver table spoons and
two solid silver forks from Travis early last
■week. Muhlburg says that he has no doubt
that the silver was stolen, although he had
no suspicions at the time that it was.
As soon as he saw the Savannah Cadets’
inscription on the medal which Travis sold
him Satuiday, Mr. Muhlberg took the
medal to Justice Naughtin’s office and
placed the matter in Detective Wether
horn’s hands.
AN ALLEGED RIOTER.
’‘Boots,” the 'Gator, Arrested for Talcing
Officer Cronin’s Pistol Nov. 29.
Charles Green, known as the “’Gator,”
and also as “Boots,” a colored man with an
unenviable record in the local annals of
Yamacraw, was arrosled yesterday after
noon by Officer Thomas Morgan, and
lodged in ihe barracks on a charge of
taking Officer Cronin’s pistol from that
officer when the latter was knocked down
bj the Yamacraw rioters on Nov. 29 last.
Green left the city about the time of the
riot, and after six months’ absence felt safe
in returning to his old haunts.
It will be alleged against Green that he
was one of the ringleaders in the murderous
assault upon Officer Cronin, and when the
latter was knocked down and beaten into a
state of insensibility, that Green seized the
officer’s revolver and mads off with it.
A BRIDGE DISABLED.
Th St. Augustine Creek “Draw” Out
of Working Order.
The center pin of the Tybee railroad
bridge, over St. Augustine creek, is bent
and it will have to be taken out aud anew
casting made for the cog. No vessels can
pass through until Wednesday morning in
consequence.
The morning Tybee train was delayed
■yesterday, but trains passed through all
right during the day. At C o’clock last
night two coaches of the incoming train
jumped the track in front of the Ocean
house at Tybee, and the train scheduled to
arrive here after 7 o’clock was abandoned.
No passengers were hurt and but little
damage resulted. The track was clear by
10 o’clock last night, when the up train
arrived.
CITY BREVITIES,
The fuel oil for the garbage crematory Is
expected to arrive to-day.
The Hibernian Society will hold its quar
terly meeting at the Guards’ headquarters
to-night.
The Railroad Loan Association will hold
its 70th monthly meeting to-night, at No.
114 Brvan street.
The subscriptions to the f nnd for the Sa
vannah, Americus and Montgomery road
were consolidated Saturday evening' by the
committee. It has not yet reached $28,000.
The St. Nicholas-Safford collision will oc
cupy the attention of the United States in
spectors of hulls to-day. Having reviewed
the evidence, they will make up their find
ing to be forwarded to the department.
There were 195 failures in the United
States reported to Bradstreet's last week,
against 201 in the preceding week, and 212,
146. 179 and 197 in the corresponding weeks
of 1888,1887, 1886 and 1885 respectively.
A small sailboat fouled her sail yesterday
in the river at the foot of Barnard street
and capsized, dumping two colored boyß in
the stream. They were rescued by the fer
ryman. The boat drifted up tbe river with
the tide for a short distance aud sunk.
The best wild goose plums which have
come into this market this year are those
from Dr. J. B. Read’s place, Brampton.
They are very large and sweet. Indeed,
there is no more delicious fruit at this sea
son of the year. Dr. Read has a great
variety of fruit at Brampton, the quality
of which is the best.
It is said that alligators are numerous
along the city front under the wharves.
The boys amused themselves chunking some
good sized ones yesterday at the foot of
Whitaker street. It is thought thev are
attracted so near the city by the dead fish
throwu from fishing sloops and the nim|
matter discharged from the sewers.
GRASS IN THE SQUARK&
The City Beautifying Ita Streets and
Lawns.
The experiment 1* being tried of making
Greene square green in fact as well aa in
name. The square has been graded, the
walks laid with gas house lime and asphalt
surface, and Alderman Harmon, chajpman
of the street and lane committee, is having
it sodded, the soil having been previously
fertilized from the sweepings of the asphalt
pavements.
If the grass does well, Alderman Harmon
proposes to extend the sodding to other
squares, with a view to making them what
they were intended to be, ornamental!
Hitherto many of them have been
but little better than patches of
barren sand, not graded, and which, in wet
weather, were filled with pools of water not
only in the square proper, but in the walks,
and in dry aud windy weather the sand and
dust precluded them from being the resorts
for which they were intended, for an after
noon outing for children.
The grass in Greene square is being
watered from a neighboring hydrant as it
is sodded, and it will be watered regularly
so that the roots will get a firm hold, aud as
it is the joint grass it is believed that the
square can soon be as green as Johnsoa
square.
Hpeaking of the marginal borders on
Liberty street Alderman Harmon says that
they cannot be beautified by sowing grass
in them. It does not do so well. It is con
templated in the fall to fertilize them with
the Liberty street sweepings, and thens >d
them. The border in front of Dr. Read’s
residence, which was sodded, and well wa
tered, shows that sodding is the proper way
to got a good stand of grass, as the growth
is rank in front of Dr. Read’s premises.
With a good stand of grass on Liberty
street next year, and in the public squares.
Savannah will deserve even greater praise
as a beautiful city. The unsightly pumps
having been removed from the squares, it
has been suggested that the old turnstiles
ought to go next.
Hpeaking of sodding at this season of the
year being experimental, a gentleman said
yesterday that is not an experiment. All
it wants after sodding it a little care and to
be well watered in the 000 l of the morn
ing and evening. He cited “Menelas
park” in front of the cotton exchange,
where the grass is green and healthy, and it
was transplanted when the weather was dry
and hot, aud the dry weather has not re
tarded its growth in the least. He argued
that the joint grass only wants a start, and,
being one of the healthiest native grasses, It
is hard to kill out This has been Mr. Men
elas’ experience with it, and his writings on
the subject has done much to bring it into
prominent notice and popular favor. It ap
pears to lie peculiarly adapted to the sanily
soil of the squares, but must be transplanted
to obtain the best results.
THE VEGETABLE MOVEMENT,
The Potato Crop About All Marketed
—The Peach Rush.
The early potato crop was pretty much
all forwarded to tho northern market last
week, aud shipments will be light the rest
of the season. The prices were well main
tained to the close of the season, and truck
formers made big money on their potatoes
this year. The crop stood the drought bet
ter than any other product of the farm, and
would have been much larger had it not
been for the continued cold and wet weather
after early planting, the stand not being so
good as usual.
The Norfolk and Wilmington crop is now
beginning to reach the northern markets,
and before the close of the week potatoes
will be very likely to suffer from declining
prices.
A few beans were shipped from Savannah
last week, but the beau crop has about been
harvested, and only small successive plant
ings for the local market have been put in.
The shipments of cucumbers wore rather
heavy last week and the market broke,
goiug down as low as 50 cents a crate, which
does not pay for shipping. The crop is
light, owing to the drought, but the North
Carolina and Virginia “cukes” are going
forward and the bottom has dropped out of
prices.
The heaviest shipments for tho past week
have been shipments of peaches. Hurling
& Cos. 's berry refrigerators on the Ocean
steamship vessels have boeu leased by fruit
men from the north, who are shipping by
every steamer. They are also shipping
heavily by rail. Six carloads were shipped
Saturday, three of which were in refrigera
tor cars.
The peach is the Alexander variety and
must be hurried to market, or it rots down
in the crate or basket. Tho peach growers
along the line of the Central have such a
stupendous crop that they do not know
what to do with the fruit, aud consignments
not going forward in refrigerators have not
commanded satisfactory prices. Good to
choice peaches, that is the very best, range
at from f 1 to #1 25 per crate in New York,
hut the market there, as here, has been
liberally supplied to the overstocking point.
The poach growers will not ship go
rapidly this week, but will try to do some
thing with the fruit at home. It is said
that they will have to kiln or sun dry a
large proportion of the orop to 9ave it.
THE BEAUFORT SIDE OF IT.
The Effect of Smalls' Appointment to
the Collectorship.
The colored republicans of Savannah are
getting all sorts of comfort out of ex-
Congressman Small’s appointment to the
Beaufort collectorship. A Beaufort dis
patch quotes Inteudeut Collins as saying that
it will have the effect of breaking up tne Re
publican party in the Beaufort district.
Heretofore there has been something of an
organized Republican party in South Caro
lina, but since such men as E. M. Brayton
have been ignored, the result must be in
evitable ruin. Mr. Brayton, Mr. Collins
says, is a man of character and intellect,
and has been the means of holding the
party together for soma years, so far as
congressional matters are concerned. He
further states that heretofore the Beaufort
district has been spoken of as a doubtful
republican district, but now it will never
elect another republican congressman. It
is a certainty for the democrats, for the
Republican party has been entirely broken
up, so far as congressional politics is con
cerned.
“The above is about the way that all of
‘de ole party’ express themselves about the
appointment of Smalls. Hundreds of col
ored people who have always voted the re
publican ticket, and could "not be induced
to vote any other, say they will hereafter
vote the democratic ticket rather than for
Smalls or his followers. The future will
tell."
SUNDAY BALL PLAYERS.
An Unlooked-for Battery in a Game
on the Old Fort Flats.
Some boys played a game of base ball
yesterday afternoon on the flats east of the*
Old Fort, the principal feature of the game
being the arrest of fourteen of the lads by
Officer Daniels, who caught them on a foul
bound and retired both sides to the bar
racks. Four of the youthful players made
a home run; the others gave bond for their
appearance in the mayor’s court this
morning.
One of the boys said last night that they
did not know they were violating an ordi
nance, aud he hoped that when the mayor
came to umpire the game this morning he
would remember that he was a boy himself
once and be easy on them.
The arrest of the lads was a ten days’
wonder to the “Old Fort” as they were
marched up town, and quite a crowd of
white and colored boys followed at a
respectful distance to see what would be
come of the prisoners. The boys were
speculating last night whether they will bo
let off with a reprimand or the usual fine of
sl, which has heretofore been assessed
against Sunday ball players.
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1889.
HOW JENKINS WAS CAUGHT.
The Robber of B. G. Simkins' Safe
Brought Back to Savannah.
Jerry Jenkins (colored) was lodged in the
jail in this city last night by Edward Col
lins, jailer of Augusta, who brought the
prisoner down on the Central road. Jen
kins admits having robbed the safe of his
employer, R. G. Simkins, ioe cream manu
facturer, last Wednesday night; but Jenkins
says he did not take as much as SIOO. He
says there were but S6O 62 in the safe, and
that he appropriated and went to Augusta
with his boodle.
Jailer Collins recovered $29 35 of the
stolen money, Jenkins having sl3 35 on his
person when arrested, and sl6 were recov
ered from Jenkins’ sweetheart, who was
keeping it for him. Jenkins told the jailer
where he could get the money. He had
left sl9 with his girl, but she had spent $3
of it Jenkins gave bis mother $3 50 to pay
her rent, but he did not give her any hint
that he came by the money improperly. He
says that a colored boy stole $5
from hlrn, and he gave a colored
man $3 75 for counting bis money for
him. Out of the amount stolen, Jenkins
bought a silver watch, for which he paid $7,
and a plated chain that cost $1 25 and he
bought as3 pair of shoes, besides a ticket
to Augusta, which accounts within a few
dollars of the amount stolen.
Jailor Collins gives an amusing account
of Jenkins’ capture, which was effected last
Friday night about midnight. When he
received the telegram telling him to shadow
Jenkins, he suspected that Jenkins would
bo found at his mother’s cabin, in the
suburbs of Augusta, about two miles and a
half from the city proper. Mr. Collins
visited the house, had a talk with Jenkins'
mother, who, not suspecting her son had
committed a crime, frankly told the officer
that her boy had come home, but was going
to leave for New Orleans, Collins, in an
off-hand way advised her to persuade Jerry
not to go, as work could easily be obtained
in Augusta. The officer noticed a valiso In
the room, which he suspected was Jerry's,
all packed for the trip, and as Jerry was
not then at home, after a few common-place
remarks the officer left. He put a colored
spotter to watch tho house and collar
Jerry when he returned for the valise, but
Jerry managed to got in the house and be
off with his valise without the spotter’s
seeing him. Collins and an assistant were
watching the road, however, and about
half an hour before midnight they saw a
man walking hurriedly along with a valise
m his hand. As he approached near the
hiding place of the offle rs, Jerry put his
valise down in the road and picked up a
brickbat to chunk a dog which was follow
ing him. The officers came from their
place of concealment and confronted him
as he was iu the act of picking uphissachel.
“Hello! Where are you goiug at this
time of night?” asked Collins.
"Ize just going to town,” said Jerry.
“What’s your name?” asked Collins.
“Ize named Jeemes.”
“Jim what?”
The darky hesitated awhile, looked up at
the sky, and then at the officer, and hesi
tatingly replied, “Jeemes Butler.”
“No, it’s not. I know you. You are
Jerry Jenkins,” said Collins.
“Oh, dat’s you, is it, boss? Well, dat’s a
fact, I’z Jerry.”
Jenkins was taken into oustody, and
Saturday all the money that could bo re
covered was hunted up by Jailer Collins.
Jenkins’ people are said to be rather
above the ordinary in character, and his
mother and sister have expressed a willing
ness to make personal sacrifices to get Jerry
out of trouble. It is understood that they
are willing to sell their organ to get the
money to make restitution if they by so
doing can get Jerry out of the trouble which
has overtaken him. Jenkins said to Jailer
Collins last night, “I wants you to stand by
me."
THE MEAT WE EAT.
The Way It is Handled on the Street
and in the Market.
With all tne vigilance exercised by the
inspector of the Citizens’ Sanitary Associa
tion, the market clerk and the police, there
are continual complaints about the condition
of the meat in transit to the market.
A lady who has been a great lover of
western meat chanced to see a couple of
wagon loads being hauled from the railroad
to tho market along West Broad street oue
day last week. It was windy and dusty,
aud there was no covering over the meat
except that in one wagon four colored men
rode in it, entirely covering it, but as
thore were but two men in tho second
wagon, the meat which they were sitting
ou was not so well protected from the sand
and dirt drifting in tne wind. The house
wife seemed to be as muoh disgusted with
the meat protected by the nauseating
method as that which had no protection
from dust.
Country carts bring meat in covered—
with flies and dirty to filthiness, and it is
not an uncommon sight for butchers'
wagons to briug in the dressed beef from
tho slaughter houses with no covering over
it, aud the exposure is kept up iu the mar
ket house. Meat is frequently taken
to the market at night, where it is
hung up in the open stalls until
the close of market hours the following
day. The flies roost on it, and speck it
almost ns much under the glare of the elec
tric light at night as they do in the day
time.
In many places meat is not exposed in the
market in this way, but is protected either
by light wire screens, closely woven, or
some Tight texture of gauze, and covered
up with coarse cauvas or oil cloth.in tran
sit to the market house. Many of the retail
meat markets iu other cities have doors and
windows protected by wire netting, and a
fly on the meat block is something never
seen by the customer. There is room for
improvement in the handling of meat in
the Savannah market
LOCAL PERSONAL.
S. C. Smith of Waycross is here.
S. B. Jackson of Atlanta is in the city.
Thomas Poole of Brunswick is in town.
C. McGarvey of Brunswick is in the city.
C. McP. Matthews of Charleston is in the
city.
John D. Baker of Jacksonville is in the
city.
a. H. Oulick came up from Bartow yes
terday.
E. L. Wheatley of Gainesville, Fla., is in
the city.
Thomas K. Boott of Anniston, Ala., is in
the city.
I. Marks of Charleston is spending the
day here.
B. Phinizy and Messrs. F. and D. Curry
of Augusta are in the city.
R. Elias of Charleston came over to Sa
vannah yesterday and spent the day here
and at Tybee.
Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Whitesides were
passengers on the steamer Tallahassee for
New York yesterday.
Mrs. Philip D. Daffin goes to Macon to
day to attend the commencement exercises
of Wesleyan Female College.
Capt. Henry Blun has been elected vice
president of Branch No. 38, Catholic Knights
of America, vice Martin Cooley, who re
signed.
Hon. P. E. Gleason, judge of the probate
court of Charleston, 8. C., was in the city
yesterday circulating among his friends in
Irish-American circles, the day being most
pleasantly spent amoDg t em, as they
showed him about the city and suburbs,
making him feel at home in the Forest City.
Why suffer longer from dyspepsia, indi
gestion, want of appetite, loss of strength,
lack of energy, malarial intermittent
fevers, etc? Brown’s Iron Bitters never
fail to cure these diseases. They act like a
charm on tha digestive organs, removing
all dvspeptic symptoms, such as belching,
heartburn, biliousness, etc. Remember, it
is the only iron preparation that will not
blacken the the teeth or give headache,
TWO WIVES, TWO HUSBANDS.
One Apiece is Not Enough for Daniel
Spellman and AdeUa Carroll.
Yesterday afternoon Trial Justice H. L P.
Bolder performed a pleasant duty by Joining in
wedlock Mr. Daniel Spellman of Ye masse* and
Miss Adeila Carroll of Wnmington, S. C. Ther
arrived in the city yesterday morning and left
tor Yamassee last night. This is the seoond
marriage ceremony Justice Bolger has per
formed since bis appointment.
The above item appeared in the Charles
ton Aries and Courier one day last week,
and it sent a sting of almost desperation to
the soul of a quiet, inoffensive little woman
in this city. Tnereby hangs a tale, a true
story of criminal desertion. Tne item that
commenced this article read wrong. Dan
iel Spellman was not of Yama-see, and Miss
AdeUa Carroll did not hail from Wilming
ton. They are both Savannah people.
The man has a wife here, and
the woman has a husband here.
They went over to Charleston Sunday, a
week ago, together, ostensibly on an excur
sion trip, where, in truth, they went to get
married. They returned and remained iu
Savannah until Wednesday, when they left
the city and have not bee a heard of since.
In her quiet little home at No. 5 Walnut
street Mrs. Rosa Spellman, wife of Daniel
Spellman, told the story to a Mornixo
News reporter. An air of sadness pervaded
the room aa she related the circumstances
of her desertion. Her two babes lay sleep
ing on a lounge at her side, and her eyes
were red and tear-stained,
“He is my husband,” she said, in a sob.
“He was good to me, and we have lived
peacably together eleven years as husband
and wife. Why he treats me like he has,
God only knows. Sunday, a week ago, he
told me that Appel & Schaul had reduced
his wages from $75 to SSO aud that he
thought he could g -t more wages in Charles
ton. He said that an excursion party was
going over that day, and he was going over
to see if he could get any work. I did not
tell him not to go, because I believed he
would do what was best for me and my
t hildren. He had always done so and I
placed the utmost confidence in him. He
went over Sunder and did not get back
until Monday. He came home and told
me that he could not get any work.
Wednesday, he said that Mr. Gassman
received a telegram from a tailor in Oharlei
ton wanting a workman. My husband said
that he believed that he would go over. He
put me on the car to go to Tybee, and said
that if he did not come down at 6 o’clock
that I might know that he had gone to
Charleston. When I returned Wednesday
night about 11 o’clock he was gone, I sup
posed, to Charleston. I saw that he had
taken all his clothing, and his trunk.
His Knights of Pythias uniform
was gone and his sword was
missing. I thought strange of this, but I
was not alarmed and I waited for his re
turn. Friday morning one of my neighbors
came to my house and said that it was re
ported that my husband was married to
AdeUa Carroll, a marred woman whom he
employed to help him do work, at Appel &
Schaul’s. My friend advised me to go to
see Mr. Gassman, and when I did, I was
told that no such telegram as my husband
claimed had been received, and Mr. Gass
man said that ho had not seen my husband.
The announcement of the marriage was
shown me in the Charleston paper. I gave up
thou, because I knew he had deceived me.
He was married to this woman when he
came to the house Wednesday. ’’
Spellman’s friends read the account of
the marriage in the Charleston naper, and
tbe afternoon before he left the city Mr. S.
Bteinman met Spellman on Wait Broad
street and asked mm what it meant. Spell
man replied that he was not guilty. He
said that it was somebody else. Mr. Stein
man insisted that it was a queer coincidence
that parties of tbe same name should
meet at the same place at the same time.
Snellman grew indignant aud left. That
afternoon he left the city. It was after
putting his wife on the Tybee train aud
telling her that he thought of going to
Charleston, that he la supposed to have
taken the woman to whom he was married
Sunday and left the city. It is reported
that he was seen in Brunswick, and that he
purchased tickets at Brunswick for St.
Louis. The matter has been reported to
Solicitor General Fraser, and he is giving
the matter his attention.
Spellman came to Savannah four
years ago from New York, and worked a
short while at M. Levy’s. He then secured
employment at B. Brady’s, and remained
there over two years. For the last year he
has been tailor for Appel & Schaul. He
was a member of Teutonia lodge, Kuights
of Pythias. In his employ has been
the woman to whom it is alleged he
is married. She is the wife of a
seaman named Balcony. He ran on a
sail boat in and out of Savannah for a long
time, but several months ago he became
heir to a neat sum of money, and ha has
not been iu Savannah recently.
ECHOES FROM EFFINGHAM,
Sanitary Work at Guyton—Society
Goasip—The Growing Crops.
The county drainage committee, acting
with the town authorities of Guyton, has
done some good work recently. The con
tract was awarded to Mr. A. J. Futrell,
and he has had a large force at work. He
has been greatly favored by the dry spell,
not having to lose a day from rain since he
took the contract. Guytouians feel that
the money is well spent aud that Mr. Futrell
is carrying out bis contract faithfully aud
doing some good work. The Central rail
road will soon begin its part of the work,
aud as the road under its presout admin
istration has always shown a disposition
to co-operate with the town authorities, the
result will doubtless show up well,and some
hitherto unsightly places along the line of
the road near Guyton will be removed and
much valuable land reclaimed.
Guyton, like many other sections, is sadly
in need of rain. The drought is a severe one
and much damage has been done to the
growing crops. Oats are being harvested
and the yield is good, considering that the
drought struck this section rather early.
Rev. R. V. Omer of the Christian church
of Sylvama, preached to a good audience
in the Guyton hall yesterday afternoon.
Rev. Omer is a pleasing speaker, and never
fails to interest his audience.
Mr. C. P. Miller of A. J. Miller & Cos.,
with his family, and Mrs. Turner, have
moved up to Guyton for the summer, and
are occupying their summer home on
Springfield avenue.
Mr. Ben Eden and family have secured
quarters at Mrs. Mary Rahn'sat Guyton.
Miss Hennie Edmondson, after a pleasant
visit to her mother at Aiken, S. C., has re
turned to her home in Guyton.
Miss Etta Lanier, who has been attending
the LaUrange Female College, has returned
to her home in Guyton to spend vacation.
AT THE COURTS.
The Programme for the Week in the
City and Superior Courts.
Judge Falligaut will hear a motion this
morning between the hours of 9 aud 10
o’olock for a supplemental decree in the
case of Rieser & Btern, original com
plainants, against Pearson & Spann. A
number of parties are complainants to the
original petition.
On to-morrow, Wednesday and Thursday
mornings, between the hours of 9 and 10
o’olock, motions for new trials will be heard
by Judge Falligaut in damage suits against
the Savannah, Florida and Western Rail
way Company.
There are six prisoners in the jail, under
indictment, awaiting trial at the present
term of the superior court. They are:
Patrick McEneuany, for the murder of
Frank Dobson, and committed by Coroner
Dixon; Peter Griffin, committed by Justice
McDermott for larce ly; John Maxwell,
Isaao DeLoach aud George Williams, the
three committed by Justice Russell for
j burglary, and John Walker, committed by
| Justice Sheftall for larceny from the house.
To-day is return day in the city court for
I the July term. The quarterly a>fd monthly
criminal dockets are for trial to-day and
the traverse jury will be in attendance.
The grand jury of the superior court will
convene at 4:30 o’clock to-morrow after
noon.
THE WARDROBE OF A BWBLL,
Gorgeous Raiment of a Rich Yount
Uan and What It Generally Coats.
From the Brooklyn Fogle.
The cost of turning a young man out
fashionably is not a whit less great than
that of arraying his froufrou sister. When
he opens his eyes in the morning that ex
pensive young gentleman slips one arm out
of bed and presses the electric button which
summons his val9t; the arm with which he
rings is clothed all m silk, for he has slum
bered m a suit of Indian pajamas, which
has cost him f75 and is one of the most
beautiful fabrics possible to imagine. He
has six of these at the same price
and of ail the colors of the rain
bow, cream, rose tendre, bleu ciel, pearl
white, lilac, sea water green and the palest
tones of lemon. Each one of them being
beautifully embroidered with trailing vines
on cuffs and collar, pocket and flap. The
valet brings him bis cocktail; after drinking
it he slips out of bed and into a pair of
Japanese slippers made of silk, with gold
embroidery upon the pointed toes. His
valet holds a coat of heavy black silk, lined
with pale blue, into which he thrusts his
arms and marches off to the dressing-room,
followed by his attendant, who has all the
shaving apparatus ready and who proceeds
to deftly remove the night’s growth of
beard. The coat that he wears for the cere
mony cost him $35, has a heavy oord about
the edge, and is fastened across the front
with silk frogs.
The next journey is to the bath room, and
here he finds a bath robe banging across the
chair, whiah be proceeds to put on after bis
mau has finished rubbing him down with
cologne and he wishes to return to his dress
ing room. There is a choice of some half
dozen of these bath robes, most of them be
ing of fine Turkish toweling, striped in deli
cate colors, bound around tue waist with a
cord, and costing slsapiece; but be also has
other handsomer ones of white flannel em
broidered with silk and lined with pink
lambs' fleece, and for these be pays SSO.
W hen he returns to the dressing room the
attendant has ready for him a complete
suit of silk. If the weather is very warm
these two pieces and the stockings are as
fine and as light as a cobweb, for which, in
colder weather, the valet substitutes others
of varying thickness, for he has all weights
up to the very heaviest, Next comes the
shirt, which is of linen throughout in every
part, he having returned in this to the ideas
of the swell men of fifty years ago, who
would on no account allow any portion of
this garment to be made of ootton. Thore
is a long row of shoes for him to choose
from, twenty or thirty pairs in all, and it
depends very much upon what he intends
to do as to which he will choose. If he
means to stay lounging in his room he will
slip the silk clad feet into a pair ot patent
leather slippers tied with a broad black rib
bon. If he is in the country and means to
play tennis after breakfast the shoes will
be of pig skin, somewhat pointed at the
toes, aud tied with very broad laces. There
are patent leather ties if he is going down
town to business, boots if he means to ride,
or if he contemplates morning calls his
shoes will be ot patent leather, and with
them he will wear snowy pique spats.
If he is in the country and means to play
tennis he will, after putting on his pig skin
shoes, over long, gray-ribbed; heavy silk
stockings, complete his costume with white
flannel knee breeches, white silk shirt and
pale gray coat; a waist sash of the same
shade of surah will be wound four times
around his waist, aud ho will crown
his locks with a little gray felt
tennis hat, for the very exclusive yrmng
man has revolted against the brilliancy
of the blazer and the berlbboned stra w hat.
Since ’Arry has taken it up and wears it to
Coney Island and Ocean Grove nothing but
gray and similar quiet tints are permitted
in his costume upon the tennis court, If he
means to lounge in his room for an hour or
two to answer the many notes and letters
that come to him with his breakfast tray,
ho will dress himself up to the poiut of shirt
and trousers, and will then get into a brown
cashmere coat, lined with pale lemon
colored silk, or perhaps his favorite rose
color; the coat cost him anywhere from SSO
to $75. There are lots of velvet dressing
robes put away somewhere, but those are
for w inter use and too he ivy for this season
of the year. They cost all the way from
$75 to $l5O, and are very magnificent,
indeed, but are packed away for the sum
mer iu chests of perfumed cedar wood,
along with his furs and his winter clothes.
He is likely to spend a good part of his
lounging hour in unpacking, ’or rather
watching his valet unpack, a box just come
from the custom house which contains his
new colored evening coat, for when the
papers were full of the story of the beauti
ful ball in Paris given by Madame la Com
tesse de Kaisant, at which the men wore
colored coats, all the fashionable young
men in New York promptly cabled across
to the other side an order for similar ones.
This particular coat is a lovely shade of
rose color, lined with silk of the same. The
owner of it has a touch of Spanish
blood in his veins and he knows
how becoming rose oolor is to his
liale olive skin and black eves. It will not
be worn until he goes to Newport later in
the season, but, meantime, he puts it on to
try the effect and is mightily pleased there
with. With this coat he will wear the
black satin knee breeches and waistcoat,
silk stockings and buckled shoes, which he,
along with Bobby Hargous, Jack Furmaun
and Jack Astor wore to the Astor ball last
winter. The coat itself is cut like the
ordinary black evening coat, but has gilt
buttons, and with it he will wear a very
High white collar and a very broad white
tie, and it is probably the enthusiasm
created by this aurora colored garment
which has moved him to anew and sudden
burst of extravagance and the aforemen
tioned cablegram to his tailor with the
order for sixteen more new suits to coun
terbalance the perspective evening splen
dors.
BAIL. AND CROSSTIS.
The Columbus Enquirer-Sun has it that
the Central railroad is laying track at some
distance out from Columbus in order to
keep the Columbus Southern off its right of
way. The track is undoubtedly being laid,
the Enquirer-Sun says, as an engine and
cars left Columbus loaded with spikes and
cross-ties, rails and other materials. A full
force of hands is employed at the work, as
far as could be learned.
The last spike on the Georgia Pacific’s
western extension was driven Saturday at
Winona, Montgomery county, Mississippi,
thus giving the Richmond and Danville
svstem, of whioh the Georgia Pacific is a
p'art, a clear through route from Washing
ton city via Atlanta clear to Greenville,
Mist., and into Arkansas, as a branch road
from Greenville to Arkansas City has been
leased.
The April statement of the earnings of
the various railroads in South Carolina has
been issued by the railroad commissioners.
Net increase of all the roads over the same
mouth of last year, $53,917 62; total passen
ger earnings for the month, $186,289 72;
total freight earnings, $327,455 42. Barn
well railroad shows an increase of $165 72;
Charleston and Savannah, increase, $2,-
238 73; Charlotte. Columbia and Augusta,
increase, $2,398 28; Cherawaud Darlington,
increase, $293 08; Columbia and Greenville,
increase, $632 79; Georgia, Carolina and
Northern for April, $1,891 43; Green Pond,
Walter boro and Branch ville, decrease,
$45 84; Northeastern, decrease, $1,342 82;
Port Royal and Augusta, increase, $424 69;
South CaroKha, increase, $5,690 02; Wil
mington, Columbia and Augusta, increase,
$12,350 69.
A Ty pical Parent.— Little Jimmy visits
his father’s office, and after examining the
type-writing machine, observed to his
mother: “Say, marmer, whatdo they take
those to the theater for?”
“My boy,” replies his mother, “they do
not take them to the theater.”
“Well, it’s mighty funny, then. Pa was
tollin’ Mr. Me Noflies that he took his type
writer to the theater”—
“James,” said his father sternly, “I will
see- you in the stable this evening,”— Drake's
Muqasine.
THR GAME OF BILLIARDS.
George F. Bioeaon Telle How to
Play It.
{Copyright, 1889.)
New York, June 15.—50 high is billiards
held in the estimation ot almost all men
and many women that I do not need to
call more than general attention to it as a po
lite pastime. It certainly ranks as one of
the necessary accomplishments of a thor
ough gentleman, and as a sport it should,
in my mind, be placed at the head of all;
for chauce enters into it in the very least
degree;it requires head work of the most
exacting kind, firm muscles and good bodily
health, and skill that is developed only by
long and careful training. It is a game
that cultivates the gentlemanly qualities,
courtesy, fairness, even generosity. So sel
dom is a dispute, much less a quarrel, gen
erated at the table, that when, on rare oc
casions, high words are heard over a game
everybody concludes at once that the dis
putants have no business with the cue.
In the course of many years’ experience as
a billiard player, various questions have been
put to me about the game. I shall try to
give an answer to all of them at this time
and to anticipate some other questions
which might naturally be asked. In re
spect to learning the game so as to be able
to play it well, billiards is much like the
piano and other musical instruments. The
first lesson must be taken early in life and
practice must be unintermitteut as long as a
man is in the field. Few men ca i become good
performers on the piano or violin, as I un
derstand it, if they begin to play after ar
riving at mature yeirs. By that time the
fingers have become comparatively rigid,
and incapable of acquiring not rapid action,
but delicacy of touch, without which a per
formance on the piano can never rank high.
It is certainly the case in billiards. Deli
cacy and precision couut for more than
force, and delicacy can be acquired onlv
by beginning early. I should say as a gen
eral rule that one who desires to become a
good billiard player should begin at the
age of Id or 15. All the muscles are supple
at this time and the perceptive faculties
alert. It is essentially the teachable age.
One who begins earlier, that is at 7 or 8, as
is the case with musicians, is liable to learn
more by rote, and thus acquire a certain
mechanical proficiency which will be of
little value until by the exercise of percep
tion and judgment the player learns how to
treat a novel or difficult position on his
own responsibility.
Few boys probably hare any distinct
idea at 15 of making great experts of them
selves; and fewer parents would choose
such a career for their children. Not that
the calling of billiards is low in any sense,
but that the opportunities for good income
from It are not generally recognized. It is
looked upon properly enough as a pastime,
and yet combining so much mental and
physical science as it does, it is eminently
worthy of the study required to develop its
possibilities on the part of those naturally
qualified for the work. This brings up an
important point; not everybody, even by
the most patient discipline, can become
what I call a good player. There are cer
tain natural qualifications that must be
possessed by a billiard player, just as there
are special talents for commerce, literature
the law, or the arts. Without them a man
had better content himself with the fun of
the game moderately played, and in this he
will find plenty of rec reation, genuine pleas
ure, and, by choosing his antagonists prop
erly, a great deal of that emulation which
is the life of all games and pursuits. It is a
fact that beyond a certain point no player
can improve. This poiut varies with each
individual, but in the individual it is abso
lutely fixed. It is not always reached by
players, because not everybody knows how
to develop his natural qualifications to their
utmost; but when that has bnen done the
most persistent practice will add nothing to
his effectiveness.
The natural qualifications for billiards
may be set down as 1, a good eye, 2, steady
hand, 3, quick and accurate perception of
angles, 4, grace of movement. To these
should be added that element of success in
all undertakings, persistence. Without all
these a boy had better take to some other
game or business, for he can never develop
into anything better than a very moderate
player.* Anyone may learn tne game so
thoroughly that he can appreciate the finest
play, and evon see how a shot must be
made; but it is quite a different thing to
take a cue iu hand and execute the shot.
A mathematiciau might tell an expert play
er a volume of facts about the angles of
play, the direction a ball will take after
hitting a cushion at a given angle, the
amount and kind of force required to send
a ball from a given point to another and
make a given carom successfully; but it is a
thousand to one that the expert would
execute all the shots discussed while the
scieutist would fail on a simple carom.
Buppose, however, that a young man has
all the natural qualifications for playing,
then he must without fail keep his hand in
after once beginning. A good eye and a
steady hand must be trained,and an accurate
idea of angles must be developed until it
becomes second nature to select at once the
right spot on a cushion at what a ball must
strike after a carom. Grace of motion is
all important because no man can play ac
curately who plays awkwardly. The arm
must swing freely and naturally. It never
does to grasp the cue iu such a style that
you are conscious of the least tension of tue
muscles.
Amateurs who play pretty steadily for
several years without apparent improve
ment are probably ignorant of many de
tails in the game. They may not realize
just how certain oft recurring positions may
be best utilized. In such cases a great im
provement may be effected by taking a few
lessons from a professional. A profes
sional, it should pe understood, is not one
who merely plays the game for stakes, but
who makes his living out of the game.
That is, one who devotes his entire atten
tion to it. There are no first-class amateurs
in America. Mr. Orville Oddie of Brook
lyn, the amateur champion, is the nearest
approach to it. This may seem a startling
statement to the many who play every day
and who have among their personal friends
men who run more than a hundred in vail
play; but professionals generally will ad
mit that it is true. The reason probably
lies in the fact that few Americans devote
enough of persistent attention to the game;
but it is also a fact that Americans at e
naturally the best players in the world,
with Frenchmen second. Yet the French
have many first-class amateurs. The dif
ference lies in the fact that while Americans
learn more quickly, the French devote
themselves more assiduously to prac
tice.
To those who would play good billiards I
would say avoid pool. The nature of the
stroke in the two is so different that no one
can cultivate both kinds at once to the ad
vantage of either game. In pool the stab
stroke is most employed, while in billiards
there must be a long, swinging, graceful
motion.
The question of a comparison between
billiards and chess has been suggested to
me. I think no one will accuse me of un
derrating chess when I say that billiards is
the superior game. Strategic play is the con
trolling principle of chess, and it exercises
a man’s mind to the utmost; but every good
billard player knows that strategy also
enters to a large degree in his game, when he
seeks to play in suca a way that if he fails
to score, the balls will lie so that his oppo
nent will have the greatest possible difficul
ty in making a shot. No good game of
billiards was ever played without the most
concentrated attention on the part of the
player at every shot. It will be noted that
in billiards there are more shots in a game
than moves in chess; and in addition to all
the mental work employed, there is the
necessity- of perfect physicial execution.
The question doubtless comes down to the
individual tastes of men, but it seems to
me that a candid consideration of all the
elements that make up the games would
place billiards at the Head.
George F. Slqsson.
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