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CRM] IT 1 BRIDGE!
Two People Killed and Thirty
Wounded.
A STEAMER TORS TO PIECES.
The St. Nicholas Rushes Into a
Closed Draw.
THE LIGHTS MISUNDERSTOOD
A Colored Excursion’* Fatal
Ending.
THE WOUNDED CARED FOR.
An Investigation of the
Disaster to be Held.
SCENES ON THE STEAMER
The steamer St. Nicholas ran into the
Tyfeee railroad drawbridge over St. Augus
tine creek a few minutes after 9 o’clock
last night, carrying away the forward deck
of the steamer up to house, killing
two persons and injuring thirty
others, some of them it is believed fatally.
The St. Nicholas left Savannah, accord
ing to the statement of Lemuel Wade, a
committeeman in charge of the excursion,
at 8:15 o’clock, and, according to the state
ment of C'npt. Boulineau, at 8:30 o’clock.
She had on board 500 colored excursionists
bound for Bruuswfck to attend the Mount
Olive Association of the Baptist church
which is couvened there*. The ex
cursion was under the auspices of the First
African Baptist church. Wado said there
were 000 tickets printed, but ab >ut 100 wore
left unsold, and the excursionists numbered
about 500. They wore principally womeu.
The saloon deck was crowded, and when
the crash came there was a panic, the sound
of crunching timbers and the cries of the
injured beggaring description.
THE FATAL CRASH.
One of the passengers described it as an
awful moment. He said that when the
cry came to clear the deck and go aft, ho
cried out to his wife to ruu aft, for Uod’s
sake, and he started to run after her.
but the crowd was so densely parked to
gether that he couldn’t make his escape,
and crouched behind a heavy upright, and
the deck crashed in around him. He
crawled out from the debris.
Nancy Grant, one of the injured, said
that she heard Capt. Boulineau, who was
at the wheel, tell the passengers to get oft
the deck as the boat was going to strike,
but the jam prevented her from making
her escape, and she was knocked down
among the debris, and didn’t know how
she managed to get out.
When the beat lay to, the work of re
moving the injured was begun by the boat’s
crew and the committee iu charge of the
excursion. The tirst brought out was
Emma Foreman. Sue was carried aft iu
the saloon deck and was laid ou a bench.
She was unconscious and died in
five minutes afterward. She lived in
Yamacraw, and worked in the Habersham
rjce mills. An unknown colored woman,
whom no one was able to identify, was
brought out and laid on the same benoh.
She was unconscious, and died ten miuutes
after she was removed from the debris.
SCENES ON THE BOAT.
Piteous cries, moans, and prayers were
kept up while repairs wero being made to
the rudder, and the boat hoaded about and
started for Savannah. On the way the
injured were taken out from under the de
molished deck and carried into the cabins.
When the boat reached its lauding at the
foot of Lineolu street, at the Inland Steam
boat Company’s wharf, at 11 o’clock,
the passengers had become quiet.
A Morning News reporter and the
wharf watchman were the only persons on
the wharf when the St. Nicholas came
alongside. She was badly smashed
up, and before all the lines
were made fast some of the
passengers leaped from the vessel to the
slip, and such expressions were common as
‘T’ve got enough of that kind of excur
sion.”
The Morning News reporters were first
to board the boat, and with difficulty made
their way through the packed vessel to get
the names and character of the injuries of
the wounded. In a few minutes
the physicians and police were on the
wharf, and in half an hour the wharf was
impassable from the crowd of cjlored peo
ple who came pouring down under the bluff
from all parts of the city, and the stream
of visitors was kept up until the dead and
wounded had been removed.
TOOK CHARGE OF THE DEAD.
Coroner Dixon took charge of the two
dead bodies and will hold an inquest to-dav.
There were eries from some who learned of
injuries to friends, and the wailing was
kept up until the last person had been re
moved from the boat.
There was considerable difficulty and de
lay iu getting vehicles for tho wounded pas
sengers, and some of them were compelmd
to hobble along as best they could. The
police ambulance was kept busy, and
drivers for improvised ambulances wero
secured, and in this way the injured were
removed. At 1 o’alock this morning the
last one had been taken from the steamer.
The list of killed and injured so far as could
be obtained last night is as follows:
KILLED.
Emma Foreman.
Unknown young colored woman.
THE INJURED.
Moggie Harri-;, No. 39Y East Boundary
street. Painful injuries about the head and
face, and sbcuidor snrained.
Annie Thomas. No. 22 Wheaton street.
Bruised about the le ad and face.
Rosa Blunt, injuries to h*-ndami shoulder.
Lives on the Waters r< ad.
Magdalene Gilbert, Waters r ad. Right
side bruised and left arm broken.
Phillis Mdledge, West Boundary and
Oiive streets. Left hand crushed and
fi gers split open. Painful injuries to her
side. Her daughter Emma was slightly
bruised.
Ophelia Bessley, 144% East Broad. I.eft
shoulder dislocated.
Am.a England. No. .TOY Purse street.
Serious bruises about the body, and slight
bruis ‘s air.u the liead and ilnibs,
Mary Bluff, No. *5 Williams street.
Slight bruises oti head, side aud hand.
C. H. Addis u. Maple street, and works
for .Savannah Bank nd Trust Company.
Slight injuries to head, and serious injury
to shoulder, the sh uider blade broken.
Nancy Grant, ,Nu. 7 Mims street. Right
armed sprained.
Stephen Mabrey, an old man of 80, living
st the toll gate on the Thuuderbclt road.
Injuries about the bead, neck aud should
ers.
Mary Anderson, No. 54% Habersham
street. Bruised about back und hips.
Lucy R.oss, New Houston end Montgom
ery streets. Brunei internally: serious.
Sally Robinson, No. 236 Wa dburg street.
Left leg broken above knee aud internally
iniured.
Martha Winn, Bay street near East
Broad. Bruised about body and legs.
William Willis, No. 37 Harrison street.
Hurt in breast and bruised about the back.
Matilda Williams, New Hcustoa street
laso, between Whitaker and Bull streets.
Left wrist broken, internally injured and
bruised about arm, chest aud head aud eye
ruptured.
• Louisa Giles, No. 15% Charlton street.
Right hip broken and badly bruised about
the body.
Anna Garmany, No. 13% Charlton street.
Right leg ami ankle broken.
Phyllis Gadsden, Uitmersville. Bruised
about the head and chest.
Mary Lewis, No. 55% Reynolds street.
Badly bruised about the back.
Margaret Youmnns, No. 224 Waldburg
street. Chest crushed and severe abdomi
nal injuries.
Mary Holmeg, 88 State street. Ankle
sprained.
Matilda Willis, East Broad and Bay.
Left wrist broken.
Anna Jackson, Bast Broad, near Bolton
street Bruised about the bead and breast.
Lizzie Morel, Bay street, near East
Broad. Ai m sprained aud bruised about
the legs.
Denis MeLemon, No. 04 Liberty street.
Right hand aud bip bruised.
Alex Kgan (white), No. 60 Bryan street.
Bruised about hea l and chest.
Jones, Hall street, near Jefferson.
Right ribs broken.
Abram Burke, residence unknown.
Bruised about the head.
Lucy Ross was unconscious and will
probably die, her injuries being internal,
aud having sustained a concussion of the
brain. One or two others are badly iujured
and may die. Alexander Kgan was the
only white passenger on the steamer and he
was slightly injured about the head and
body. Drs. Dunn, Boyd, Wegefarth,
Nichols and Weichselbaum examined the
wounded and directed their removal.
STORIES OF THE PASSENGERS.
T e statement of passengers as to the
accident differ from that of Capt. Bouli
neau. Those passengers in a position to
form an adequate opinion as to how the
accident occurred say that the bridge tender
was waving the steamer back ami shouting
that the drawbridge was not open.
I*emuel Wade, one of the excursion
committee, slid that he has the
names of four men who were at the bow
on the forward promenade deck, and that
of the assistant in wheelhouse, to the effect
that a man on the bow culled to the captain
to lookout that the bridge was not open,
and the captain told tho man to go to
off the deck, that they had nothing to do
with it. The mail on the bridge kept
waving the steamer down, but she kept
going, striking the iron bridge ou the east
side of tho cross pier.
Capt. Boulineau, who was in command of
tho St. Nicholas, and who was at tho wheel
at the time of the collision, tolls a different
story. He said that the bridge is down in
the woods, in a dark place, and has always
been an obstruct! >n to navigation. The
boat, he said, had been stoamiug down slow
for a mile or more, and he plamly saw the
two red light* set on either side of the
bridge, indicating that tho draw was open,
and ho did not discover tho contrary until
he was within 300 feet of the bridge.
SAW THE DRAW CLOSBD.
Then he saw that the bridge was closed,
and he reversed the engines and backed the
b at, working her at full speed, but there
was a strong ebb tide, and when ho saw
that an accident was unavoidable he called
to the people to get off the forward
deck, and to go aft. Ho denied having
used any such language as was
attributed to him. The only thing he said
was for them to go aft, as the boat was
about to strike. It was but a shors time
before tho boat struck the bridge, about the
middle of the draw. Capt. Boulineau said
that he was at the wheel, and did
not see the bridge tender trying to wave
the steamer down until within 300 feet of
the bridge. When the cry came from the
bow that the boat was about to strike the
bridge he was backing the vessel on full
steam, and his reply was void of all pro
fanity, and merely one of urgent warning,
appealing to those in danger to go aft. The
vessel was then only going at the rate of
übout five miles an hour, including the ebb
tide, which w.-yj running out strong.
THE BRIDGE TENDER BLAMED.
W hen Capt. Boulineau lay the boat to,
he said that himself, John Southmead
the mate, and Raymond Noble the
pilot, who wus not on duty,
with some of tho excursionists, immediately
began to remove the injured from the
wreckage and carry them into the saloon.
After that he sent a message to Savannah
by the 8:10 train ou its way to Tybee,
which turned back after the accident,
asking that police, ambulances and
physicians meet the steamer when
she landed. After completing repairs to
the rudder he returned to the city. He said
that he is positive that the red lights were
displayed on either side of the drawbridge
which clearly indicated to his mind that tua
bridge tender is responsible for not placing
the lights in the proper position.
He said the accident was an
unavoidable one so far as the
boat was concerned, as it was
dark, and deceived by the red lights on the
bridge, he was slowing down to pass
through. He laid the blame ou the bridge
tender for arranging the light to convoy
the impression that the bridge was open
when it was closed.
CAPT. USINA’S STATEMENT.
Capt. M. P. Usiua, who returned from
Florida yesterday morning, wsson the boat
with his so::,but was not iu command, Capt.
Boulineau having been in command since
Capt. Usina’s suspension a month ago. He
I had charge of the business of the boat and
‘ was acting as purser.
“I was below just before the accident oc
curred,” Capt. llsiua said, ‘‘and being
jammed iu the crowd ou tho lower deck
could see nothing. The boat was going
under one bell on account of the tide being
low. After crossing south channel she
struck the ground, but scraped over it. Bho
had tbe tide with her and no danger was
apprehended of her passing thq bridge if
the draw was up, auu there was’no need to
‘hook’ her up. The night was dark but not
thick. When we arrived within about 300
feet of the bridge 1 discovered thedangerand
rushed up from the lone:- deck to the saloon
deck intending to go up the ladder to the
pilot house, but found that the ladder had
beau taken down, and I was compelled to go
around through the saloon. At the same
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY; JULY 21, 1889.
time I called to Capt Boulineau to back
the boat up for all sne was worth. Ido not
know whether Capa Bou'meau heard me or
not, but I think he saw the danger as quick
as I did, for before I got to the pilot house I
heard the belis going to back, and she was
backing at the time she crashed into the
draw, the tide carrying her along,
however. There were very few persons
belo w on the main deck "under tne spot
where the timbers of the salo >n deck came
down, I do not think anybody was lost
overboard or jumped overboard,and if there
had been they would have been picked up,
as there was a man in a boat at the scene
of the accident and he would have rendered
assijrtance in case there was any need. We
did®! that could be done under the circum
stances aboard of the boat to care for the
injured and turned the saloon into a hos
pital.”
ALEXANDER EOAN'S STORY.
Alexander Egan, the only white passen
ger on the boat, was going to Brunswick.
He said; “We left the dock about 9 o’clock,
and about three-quarters of au hour later
the accident happened. I was below
on the main deck at the time,
but could see very little ahead.
I think, though, that we were about a m li
nb .ve the bridge when the whistle of the
steamer was blown, and she was then
slowed down, going with the tide. Very
shortly afterwar is I oould see a man swiug
a light on the bridge and could
hear his voice, but couldn’t make
out what he was saying. His
a lions appeared to toe as if he was trying
to stop the boat, or to flag her down as they
do a railroad train. There appeared to be
a tram on the bridge, but I was not certain.
I know after the wnistle blew once that it
did not blow again, and the crash came
without any intimatiou of the
danger. When the steamer went into
the draw I was forward of tae engine, aud
as the small timber or ginger-bread work
of the upper deck came down I ran for
ward to try and pull out a colored woman
from the debris, when a heavy timber came
down and struck me in the head and fell
longitudinally across my back and
right hip. The colored woman was
shortly afterward pulled from un
der the wreck but she only
lived ten minutes and s’ue remains unident
ified. At the time of the accident or just
previous to the crash l saw three men
sitting on the rail forward of the lower
dock. One of them was a young white
man and I think they must have gone over
board, for 1 don’t see how they could avoid
it. At all events I have not seen the young
white man since the accident and I don’t
think that he has been accounted for."
THK LIGHTS AT THE BRIDGE.
The Tybeu train which left tbe city at
8:50 o’clock was within a few hundred
yards of the bridge and was approaching it
when the Bt. Nicholas rounded the point
and turned into St. Augustine creek
from the south ohannel. The
engineer of the locomotive pulling the
train saw the bridge tender wave his
light to the steamer to slow down the
moment she rounded the point. This the
tender said he did, and be used effort to
show the steainor that the drawer was
closed, but her pilot appeared to pay no
attention to the signal until within a few
hundred feet ofßhe bridge, when it was
too late to avoid the collision. The steamer
went into the east drawer and struck the
bridge about twenty feet from the center
pin. The tram had come to a stop west of
tbo bridge and did not cross.
THE PASSENGERS ON THE TYBEE TRAIN.
The passengers were brought back to the
city, and seut down later, when they were
transferred and taken down to the island.
Tho 10:30 o’clock train from the island
was crowded, and when it arrived at the
bridge about one-half of the passengers
walued across aud waited for tho train,
which was on this side, to bring them to
town.
The rest returned to Tybee to spend the
night. All the places there were over
crowded. The bridge, Supt. Cobb
said, is not badly damaged. The
flag staff and some of the
timbers of the Bt. Nicholas are now lying
un the ties. The bridge will be repaired,
Supt. Cobb said, in time for the morning
trains to pass over, and there will be no
interruption to travel.
THS CITY’S SANITATION.
The Market Vault Case —Damage
About the City.
The report of Sanitary Inspector Des
verzers of the average quality of food
produce iu the market for the week euding
last night sh ws about the same average as
the preyious week.
In his regular weekly report to the com
mittee on public health, the inspector re
ported the market house as continuing in
an unsanitnry condition. He has placed
one white butcher on the information
a- oket for violation of the city ordinances
in having putrid meat iu his meat box in
tbe vault ou Monday last, the case referred
to iu the News of Tuesday. The case lms
been tried and was dismissed ou tbe grounds
stated in the Morning News a day or two
ago.
In reference to drainage, the inspector
reported that he had received a communi
cation from General Manager Belknap of
the Central railroad, in reference to the sug
gestions of tho inspector touching the
drainage of the burrow pits on the
soutli side of the Central railroad track op
posite those drained by the county com
missioners just above the junction of the
Augusta and Louisville roads, whicu
eviueed a ready disposition to re
spond favorably to the suggestions. The
inspector also reported that the Savannah.
Florida and Western railway had adopted
the pad system for tho privies in their
depot yard, thereby greatly improving the
sanitary condition of the yards as well as
of the district contiguous.
The inspector reported convict gangs Nos.
1 and 2 engaged in leveling back the earth
from tho bermes recently openod canals,
the first leveling back from" the Deßenne
canal and the other from toe Minis swamp
oanaL Gang No. 1 is also filling up the
abandoned portion of the old Deßenne
canal. He also reported the pond on the
Wagner (formerly the Mastic) farm as hav
ing been drained by the convict gang dur
during the past week; als > the ponds be
tween Horse Tavern and East Savannah.
THE FIREMEN’S FUNDS.
Tha Money in the Mayor’s Hands Up
to Last Night.
Mayor Schwarz gives the following state
ment of the firemen’s relief funds in the
mayor’s hands. The Wiehrs fund:
Previously acknowledged $ <qoo
Charlton & Jlackall sl3 50
W. N. Smith, half proceeds from
concert..— 12 50— 25 00
Total sati 00
Tha Goodsoa Fund—
Previously acknowledged 3 80 35
Charlton A llackall sl2 50
W. N. Smith, half proceeds from
concert 12 50
Cash 1 00— 26 00
Total $lO6 85
Fire in a Shoe Shop.
An exploding kerosene lamp in a shoe
maker’s shop on Broughton street, between
Habersham and Lincoln streets, set fire to
the place at 2.45 o’clock tins morning. The
firemen were called out and extinguished
tho fire before a great deal of damage was
done.
Vigor, vitality and a healthy appetite,
imparted by a little Angostura Bitters
every morning. Sole manufacturers, Dr.
J. G. B. Seigert & Sons. At all druggists.
Now is the time to buy your furniture at
Miller’s slaughter sale.
We have 110 old goods to work off all
ue v. Jackson, Metzger & Cos.
If you want furniture go to Miller’s.
ANXIOUS FOB THE NEW ROAD.
The Boutb Carolina People Want the
South Bound Built at Once.
E. A. Weil of Meinhard Bros. & Cos. has
returned from a visit to Blackville and
Barnwell, S. C., and in an interview with a
Morning News reporter yesterday Mr.
Weil expressed his surprise at the fertility
of the soil, and the prosperity of the people
01 that section, all of wnoni arc e: thusiastic
for tbe South Bound from Savannah to
Columbia.
The merchants and planters along tho
contemplated route are anxious to be put in
close rail connection w.th Savannah
for the ocean steamship facilities
this port offers, and the opportunity
which the road will offer the people to give
tnem a competing market for tn > exte sive
pro inets of one of the richest agricultural
societies of South Carolina, aud for the vast
acreage of timber and turpentine lands un-
Ue\eioped between Savannah and Barn
well. Besides, Mr. Weil said that tbe road
from Savannah to Columbia will put
Savannah and the towns from Savannah to
Columbia much cl-ser to the north, some
sav 190 miles nearer, while it will put the
southwestern portion of South Carolina
much nearer the state capital.
Mr. Weil is confident tnat the road will
be built, aud that it will be a paying in
vestment. fir, as he said, it is not like
taking a road through an undeveloped
country, but into a rich agricultural region,
where tho lands range in value from $25 to
SSO an acre. “The road will be a big thing
for Savannah,” he said. “It will he a mu
tual benefit to tho country there and to the
city here.” i
While in Barnwell, for four days, Mr.
Weil was the giest of CoL M ke Brown,
and a more hospitable home thau that pre
sided over by Col. aud Mrs. Brown, he said,
he has never seen, nor has he over met a
man who has his hands as full as
CoL Brown has. “Why he is in every
thing,” added Mr. Weil, “and I don’t see
how he can stand it. He is up by day
break and does not go to bed until nearly
midnight, and someone is always waiting
to see hi. n. I don’t see how one man can
manage such a varied business as Brown,
who is the moving spirit in tue South
Bound. He has the railroad running from
Barnwell to Blackville, is intere-ted in the
Barnwell bank, bus a big merchandise
store, has two plantations near Barnwell
and is Interested in one at Springfield,
has ah interest in a chalk quarry,
recently discovered, the chalk of which is to
be shipped or utilized to manufacture china
ware. I saw some of the ware made from
the product of this quarry, aud it was very
pretty. He has a cotton gin, and has or
ganized a cotton seed oil company, and left
last Wednesday for Charlotte, N. C., to
order the inaotunerv for tho mill, which is
to be ready for operation by Oct. 1, next.’ 1
Mr. Weil said rliat ha was driven by Col.
Brown over one of the plantations of the
latter where he saw some of tho finest corn
he had ever seen. The state, the county
and tbe agricultural bureau each offer a
cash premium for the greatest yield of
corn and of cotton to the acre, and
CoL Brown is trying for the corn prizes,
which aggregate about $590. His prize
cornfield has 17,000 stocks to the acre, and
looks as if it would be the banner cornfield,
although the competition is close, as other
farmers have line corn, aud oue planter In
that section made 2uQ bushels to the acre
last year.
Corn, Mr. Weil said, is mostly made, and
will be a large crop, and the outlook for
cotton is splendid. If no damage comes to
cotton the yield will he large and the quality
very fine. He said that he has never before
seen cotton so well fruited us over iu this
part of South Carolina.
Simon Brown of Blackville, the father of
Col. Mike Brown, lias much of the enter
prise which is characteristic of the son, and
the old gentleman stoutly maintained that
liis corn and cotton “is as good as Mike’s.”
The elder Brown believes in using the seed
from the cotton for fertilizer, and to a
man who came to rent some land from him
while Mr. Weil was present, the latter says
that the only proviso made in the rent con
tract was that no rnelous should be raised
on the laud and no ootion seed sold from
the land but turned under the soil.
Mr. Weil was so well pleased with the
prospects of Blackville that he took 250
shares in the national bank being organized
there and fcjnuou Brown took 350 shai os,
the two controlling the stock, although Mr.
Weil says ho uad no thought of that in sub
scribing so large an amount.
Alluding to the anxiety of tho people of
that section to get a road through to Sa
vannah, Mr. Weil says it has been costiug
$149 per car lor freight on melons to New
York from Barnwell, a sum too great to
encourage the melon industry, although it
is very large in that vicinity. With the con
nections to be made at Savannah and Colum
bia it is expected to reduce the freight
tariff at least $49 on the car. He says the
trade of Barnwell, Blackville, Newberry
and Columbia will be tributary to Savan
nah when the South Bound is buiit, and
Mr. W oil said that Savannah merchants, he
thinks, can also do business in Nortn Caro
lina. Of tbe buiidiug of the road Mr. Weil
entertains no doubt, and he predicts that its
stock will be a most profitablo invest
ment.
LOCAL PERSONAL.
Livingston Kenau, Esq., of Darien, was
in town yesterday.
R. B. Hillyard of Jacksonville was at the
Screven yesterday.
H. B. Cohen of Augusta was at the
Screven yesterday.
T. D. Rockwell, Esq., has returned from
a five weeks’ visit in Now York.
Miss Annie Manan left for New York
yesterday ou the City of Savannah.
Col. GeorgeS. Owens left last night via
the Central railroad for Clarkesville.
Rev. H. Schlenke of Columbus sailed on
the steamship City of Savannah for New
York,
Julian Schley left yesterday via the At
lantic Coast Line for New York and
Boston.
Senator dußignon and Representative
Reilly came dowu from Atlanta yesterday,
and will spend Sunday in the city.
Dr. John Ingalls of Macon, Ga., was a
passenger ou the steamship City of Sa
vannah which sailed yesterday for Now
York.
Mr. J. Sullivan Schley went north yes
terday on the New York steamer. He will
visit several qf the leading summer resorts
while abseut.
Dr. H. S. Colding has been appointed a
delegate from the Georgia State Dental So
ciety to the American Dental Association
which meets at Saratoga Springs, N. Y.,
Aug. 6.
Rudolph Ilering, the New York sanitary
engineer, arrived vesterday and was in con
sultation with Alderman Falligaat, City
Surveyor AVinu and Supt. Maiming of tbe
water works. Mr. Keriug went out to
Montgomery with Dr. Falligaut, as tho
guest of the latter, last evening and will
return to-morrow morning for a conference
with the council on matters pertaining to
drainage.
That Tired Feeling
Afflicts nearly every one iu the spring. The
system having become accustomed to the
bracing air of winter, is weakened by the
warm days of the changing season, and
readily yields to attacks of disease. Hood's
Sarsaparilla is just tuo medicine needed.
It tones and builds up every part of the
body, and also expels all impurities from
tbe blood. Try it this season.
Call and examine our white goods, it
■will pay you. Jackson, Metzger & Cos.
Another lot of those beautiful Dongola
Kid Oxfords that were admired so much
last season, now opened, price only $1 50 and
$2, at A. S. Nichols’, 128 Broughton street.
Full line of Ladies’ Tau Colored Oxfords
now opened at Nichols’.
THE SUPERIOR COURT CLERKS.
I
j Th Work of th Rome Convention—
The Clerks’ BUL
i J, K. P. Carr, clerk of the superior court,
returned yesterday morning from Rome
via Atlanta, having been in attendance at
the third annual convention of the superior
court clerks of the state, of which associa
tion he was elected president in spite of his
declination. He was placed in nomination
by J. H Beach of Brunswick, who seemed
to get everything he asked for, as in addi
tion to naming the president, he got the
fourth annual convention at Brunswick for
July 15 next on the assurance that if the
delegates didn’t find Brunswick the biggest
little town in the state he would pay all
expenses and throw in bathing suits free.
Mr. Carr said that alter a pleasant session
of two days, the retiring president, A. E.
Ross of Home, who declined a re-election,
gave a barbecue to the convention, in a
beautiful grove near his residence, tho bar
becue being attended by Judge Brannen,
the bar, the clergy, tbe members of the
medical profession, and the delegates to tho
convention and quite a number of ladies.
In all about 100 persons accepted the hospi
talities of Mr. Ross.
It was an old-fashioned barbecue, in
which roast kid, beef apd roast pig and
fowls were in plenty, with side courses of
all that the market afforded, aud some of
iha finest and largest melons raised in
Georgia, of a quality never seen in this
market. The county is a “dry county,” and
no wines or liqurs were on the board, but
there were some brandy peaches, and the
witty Beach of Brunswick, when he spied
them, set the table in a roar by asking to
have the “prohibition peaches” passed his
way. The dinner was an enjoyable one,
and the hospitable host will long be remem
bered by his well-pleased guests.
Tue real work of the convention. Mr.
Carr said, was the drafting of a bill to be
submitted to the legislature, and a commit
tee of eleven, one of which was President
Carr, was selected to go before the judiciary
committee and urge its passage. The com
mittee did so Tnursday night, and Mr. Carr
thinks the bill will be reported favorably.
The first section of the bill provides for
charging 15 cents por hundred words for
duplicate indexing of all recorded instru
ments, the legislature having passed a law
two years ago, requiring tue index to be
kept, but making no provision for compen
sation, and the clerks seek to obtain the
same compensation per hundred words for
indexing as is charged for recording Instru
ments of writing.
The second section provides that clerks of
the courts shall not file or docket where
plaintiff or complainant is a non-resident,
without a $lO deposit for costs, and such
additional deposit if the case be withdrawn
or dismissed, any overplus to be returned
by the clerk after final judgment. Mr.
Carr explains that, through failure in busi
ness by, or death of non-resident-, these fees
are lost, as often tho lawyers, who are now
liable, fail to collect them, and it is very
rarely that clerks feel like taking an order
against attorneys who are also court offi
cers.
Tno third section provides that clerks
shall not be required to file or docket any
bill for divorce until libelant deposits $lO
to cover costs of clerks and sheriffs, and a
further deposit, if necessary, at any stage
of the suit; but if it be withdrawn or dis
missed, or after final judgment a refunder
is to be made to libelant if there is any ex
cess. This, Mr. Carr says, will check the
growing evil of divorce, as the colored
people crowd the docket with divorce cases
aud never pay any costs, and in cities like
Atlanta and Augusta the average is from
7 1 to 109 cases yearly. All the clerks ask is
about one-half of the costs, to save them
from total loss.
Tiie fourth section provides that clerks of
the superior aud city courts shall not trans
mit to the supremo court, bills of excep
tions or transcripts of records until fees for
copying, certifying aud transmitting the
same have been paid, except iu cases
where inability oath is filed
with exceptions. Mr. Carr explains
that there is now 110 provision iu the law to
protect clerks from loss in this branch of
clerical work, and clerks often lose money
paid out for copying, aud he cites one case
where he lost $l9O for copying, certifying
and transmitting a case to the supremo
court where he paid SBO out of his pocket
for copying.
NEW TEACHERS APPOINTED.
Prof. J. M. Gannon to Return to Savan
nah—The Other Appointments.
The board of education held a meeting
yesterday afternoon, to receive the report
of the committee on examination of appli
cants for the position of instructor in
belles-lettres and the two assistaut teacher
ships in the high school.
Prof. J. M. Gannon, superintendent of
public schools of Americas and formerly
principal of St. Patrick’s school in this city,
was recommended to the position of in
structor of belles-lettres. Mr. C. fl.
Carson, Jr., . and Mrs. Wil
liam Harden were recommended
as assistant teachers. Mr. Carsou is a
graduate of the high school, and also of
Emory college. He is a son of C. H.
Carson of this city. Mrs. Harden is the wife
of William Harden, librarian of the Georgia
Historical Society, and is an accomplished
teacher, having recently taught in the
Oglethorpe seminary. Mr. Carson was
recently principal of the Social Circle
academy.
Ail of the appointments of the committee
were confirmed by the board, and will take
effect at the reopening of the schools on the
first Monday in October.
CITY BREVITIES,
Messrs. Jos. A. Roberts & Cos. cleared
yesterday the schooner Matilda Brooks for
the Cape de Verde islands with 11.686
pieces of pitch pine lumber, measuring 174,-
214 feet, valued at $0,285, and 2,*127 pieces
dressed boards, measuring 10,463 feet,
valued at $235, and 10 barrels of roin,
weighing 4,640 pounds, valued at $23. Total
valuation of cargo $2,523. Cargo by Messrs.
Stillwell, Milieu & Cos.
The Cadets struck camp at Tybee yester
day, and came up to the city last night.
The New Court House Contracts.
Tuere was a special meeting of the county
commissioners yesterday morning to con
sider certain matters submitted by the con
tractors for the new court house. The
chairman was instructed to communicate
with the architect on the subject.
A resolution was passed confirming the
sale of the remaining jail lots, and also one
looking to the opening of the Bay street
road.
Don’t forget the odor of coffee beans or
Oi-.voe is not so agreeable as Atkinson’s deli
cueuflty scouted Violet, White Rose or Lavender
Oachous.
Wo are agents for the Pearl shirts, the
best in the market. Jackson, Metzger &
Cos.
Read Miller’s advertisement this morn
ing.
Children’s Shoes cheap as ever at Nichols’
128 Broughton.
De Soto rye whisky, a delighful blend of
mellow brands, only $4 a gallon. M. Larin's
Estate, sole proprietor. Telephone 54.
Knights of Labor, Attention.
The different assemblies of Knights of
Labor will hold a grand union meeting at
Bonaveuture grounds this afternoon, and
will participate ,in d-bate. A gentleman
from New Orleans will address them on an
important subject. Every knight should be
present.
Fine teas, coffees, best brands canned goods,
new Magnolia hams, and choice corn beef se
lected pieces, at M. Larin's Estate.
r'WHO SAY WATAHMILLIONS?"
The Growers Around Savannah and
their Crops.
The city is full of watermelons, and while
the daily shipments along the railroads are
detailed every morning in telegraphed re
ports to the Morning News the melon,
raisers of Chatham county want the people
to understand that they are in the melon
business themselves.
The Chatham county melon growers do
not plant the big, rcuud striped melon
because the.' say that while it attains a
large growth it has, to use the words of
Sam Dotson, “a big white core in it as thick
as your arm.” The Crawford variety is
principally planted in this county. It is a
longer melon than the up-country melon,
sweeter and with a thinner rind.
The melons raised in this coun’y are prin
cipally grown for the local niarxet, and
while a number of island melons are
brought to market in fishing sloops, bv far
the greater part of the fruit is raised on the
Augusta road around Mouteith, a small
town of about 100 population, on the
Charleston and Savannah railway, fourteen
mi.es from the citv. Teat section may be
called the me'ou Belt of Chatham county
as about 40J acres were planted ia nie.ons
this season.
The largest melon grower in this section
is Paul Kellar, who has a crop of 29 acres.
He bouts his melons to Savannah. Adam
and Lamar Kellar have 20 acres, Dan Zip
perer has 20, Zack Zipperer 15, Angus and
John Dotson 10 acres each, Joseph Helmey
8 acres and Samuel Dotsou and VV. P. Box
5 acres each, a total of 123 acres. There are
smailer patches on the Augusta road which
in the aggregate will run the melon acreage
of that sacti nn up to about 400 acres. The
Mouteith melon has the reputation of being
the most delicious to the taste of auy melon
grown in Georgia.
A Morning News reporter had the good
luck to corner the Dotson brothers, Samjiel,
Angus and John, at Hart Bros.’ store yes
terday, where melons were all the talk, and
the Dotsons are away up in all that pertains
to melon raising.
In the running conversation it was
learned that while the season has been a
fairly good one for melons, the long
drought in May and the first half of June
materially injured the crop, which would
Lave been a phenomenally large one had
there been occasional showers during the
period mentioned. As it is there is an aver
age of only two good melons to tbe vine,
when in seasons where there is neither
extremes of wet or dry weather the average
is three marketable melons to the vine. As
there are 450 viues to the acre, this would
make the average yield of an acre this year
900 melons. Bo that on this basis the melon
output in the Mouteith section this year
may be set down at 360,000 melons.
The melon season this year opened June
10, ten days later than last year. All the
products of the truck gardens and farms in
this aounty being from a week to ten days
later this year than last owing to cold
and continuous rains in tho spring.
The season will la&t to about Aug. 1,
although there are a few melons during the
month of August, but always inferior, and
prudeut people do not eat melons after Aug.
15 in this latitude, except what is known as
slip melons, or, to be more explicit, melons
grown in slip or caue patches, which are
said to be far superior to melons grown in
land devoted ouly to melon raising. These
are planted between June 1 and July 15.
Many will not uudei-stand what is meant
by a “slip patch,” and for that c ass of
readers it may be well to explain that a
slip patch is a sweet potato patch, the vinos
of which have been pruned the slips re
set, making the late sweet potato crop, and
melons planted among the slip vines appear
to thrive better than in the open melon
patch, and the meat is juicier and more de
licious.
The Dotson brothers say that the sweet
potato crop this year will be the largest
ever raised iu Georgia. The season has
been most favorable, and Angus Dotson
says he will get 300 bushels to the acre from
bis patch.
Every day fresh discoveries are made of
some choked sewer pipe, some clogged
drain. These evils cannot readily be over
come in our imperfect system of drainage,
but their dire consequences can be guarded
against by taking “Johnson’s Chill and
Fever Tonic.” It is a positive cure for all
fevers and is an unfailing appetizer. Price
50 cents. For sale by J. T. Bhuptriue & Bro.
An Exquisite Grand.
Messrs. The Ludden Hates Southern
Music House, Savannah, Ga.:
Gentlemen—The Mozart Club unites
with me in returning thanks for the Piano
and Organ so kindly loaned on the occasion
of its concert on 27th uit. I would not feel
that I had discharged my whole duty did I
neglect to mention in a particular manner
tbe excellence of that superb Chickering
Grand. The reputation of the maker is too
well established to require more favorable
notico than the mere mention of his name.
Rut in the concerto, with orchestra by
Hummel, where tbe power of the in’stru
mect was so fully tested, I was so delighted
with its great volume and richness of tone
that I caauot resist this opportunity to offer
a word in its praise. My daughter, who
used it upon the occasion named, expressed
herself iu the following terms: “It is the
m at brilliant piano I have ever played
upon, and the action is simply perfect ”
Again thanking you for your generous
kindness, I remain, very truly, yours,
M. D. Coburn,
Director Mozart Club.
Savannah, Ga., July 1,1889.
We regard the piano above spoken of as
one of the finest examples of Messrs.
Chickering & Son’s unequaled skill, and
we shall be proud to place it in some Savan
nah home. L. & B. S. M. H.
Bilbo Canal, Cuyler Swamp, and hot
weather are leagued against the health of
our people. The rich escape to the moun
taius or the seacoast, but the less fortunate
can only escape fevers by using Johnson’s
Tome. Price 50 cents. A wonderful at>-
petizer. For sale by J. T. Shuptrine & Bro.
Yacht Hats for Gents and Boys now
opened at Nichols’, 128 Bronghton.
Miller’s slaughter sale now going on at 91
Bay street.
Free.
One week’s lessons in penmanship free
to the first forty applicants (iadies and
gentlemen) who call on Monday, July 22, at
(Savannah College of Business, 125 Congress
street. Our object is to show the publio
our entirely new and superior method of
teachi ig this much neglected “useful art.”
Nothing like it ever before known iu Savan
nah, H. J. Bucher, Penman.
Miller’s great slaughter saie of furniture
means bargains for buyers.
COAL AND AVOOIJ.
COAL & WOOD
Of AH Kinds and Grades.
Office: 1 Drayton St. Telephone 49,
DENIS J. MURPH Y.
IF YOIT wA.Vr
If you want a DAY BOOK MADE,
If you want a JOURNAL MADE
If you want a CASH BOOK MADK l
If you want a LEDGER MADE,
If you want a RECORD MADE, i
If you want a CHECK BOOK MADB
If you want LETTER HEADS. \
If you want NOTE HEADS, *,
If you want BILL HEADS, 1
If you want BUSINESS CARDS. )
—SEND YOUR ORDERS Tl>— I
Morning New. Steam Printing House,
Morning News Buildino, ’
$ Whitaker Street.
Our Fifth Clearance
Sale excels all itsprej
ecessors in attrac
tiveness and success
The variety of ias tril '
ments offered is very
great, prices for pp
anos ranging f ro J
SSO to $450. Organs
at your own
Many of the mos J
tempting bargain
have, of course, been
taken, but there are
still plenty of chances
for shrewd spot cash
buyers.
* * * * We have Always i R
our warerooms the largest stock
South of Chickerings, Withy,
sheks, Mason and Hamlin's,
Sterlings and other favorite
makes of Pianos and Organs
* * * 4*
mm
M .dfc M. M . I> EP AUTM'T L. A n.>
Everything intteMSTK
THiyATFST SONGS.
THE LATEST OPERETTAS
to - •m’T"MFTHMTTir"TIPO lIimHUUMg
THE LATEST BOOKS
THE LATEST FOLIOS
SEXORA GUITARS.
cx ■ ’t.'Ti
WAS III* URN GUITARS.
DOBSON BANJOS.
m^uiurmbmhim
PIZZD’ATTO RAN JOS.
BAV_STATE MANDOLINES,
PAGANINI STRINGS.
UNLVERSAi, ACrORDEONs.
STANDARD HARMONIC IS,
LUDDEN & BATES 8.11
M. & M. DEPARTMENT.
JVSPEKSKA SMITH. Manajer.
DRY GOODS.
Important Notice
TO
Buyers of Reliable Dry Mi
■tlllll
137 Broughton St.
Our ANNUAL SALE will be extended fortwu
weeks longer, during which time we will con
tinue to offer our entire stock at cost.
JUST RECEIVED,
$3,000 WORTH
OF
Lais’ Muslin Merisi
Made Entirely (tusking and all) on Lock-Stitfll
Machine, and Best Six-Cord Thread, t
Manufacturers’ Prices.
crohaxTdooneh
~ _ umbrellas.
Buyers’ Intelligence.
Slffl SHADES
and
UMBRELLA).
A RECENT inventory of these seasonaWj
goods enables us to offer the latest stuff
in Gloria Cloth, with select handles of oxiffl®
and sterliug silver, at low prices.
Jackson, Metzger & Cos.,
Successors to L DASHER & CO.
DAVIS BROS.
5,000 Choice Selections
Sheet Music
AT ONLY IOC. EACH.
4 PIECE* FOR
9 PIECES FOR
20 PIECES B OR *
Call and get one of the lists.
KNABE,
CONOVER,
HARRINGTON
PIANOS
STORY & CLARK,
KIMBALL „
ORGANS
Easy monthly installments. Liberal diK" O
for cash. _ /.
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