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GEORGIA AND FLORIDA
KSWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.
JLnother Btep Made in the Trenton
Boom—A Bice Mill on the S&tllla
Laid In Ashes—Homicide at Moultrie.
A Oin House Burned in Colquitt
County.
GEORGIA.
The erection of the electric light plant at
thomaavilie has been completed.
A burglar entered the residence of Dr. J.
T. Culpepper at Thomasville, Tuesday night,
And secured S2OO worth < f valuables.
The bank building at Vienna is finished,
except the vault, which is delayed on ac
count of the non-arrival of the safe.
Trenton is to have a planing mill ami
sash, door and blind, factory. Kremer &
Graves of Fort Payne, Ala., are the pro
prietor*.
Friday afternoon the gin house of E. T.
Kenny, about two miles from Dawsou, was
destr yed, together with eleven bales of
cotton, by Are.
Cochran’s new paper, the Pulaski fit
corder, has made its first appearance in a
neat Issue of eight page well filled with good
reading matter.
At Thomasville, Monday, S. L. Hayes
qualified as administrator on the estate of
the late S. Alexander Smith. His bond was
fixed at $300,000.
The Thomasville Times is printing a very
newsy local page now Editor Triplott and
his thrifty little city have good reason to
be proud of their paper.
Dr. E. 8. Lyndon, chairman of the dein>
cratic executive committee, has printed a
card recommending a primary election for
the city officers of Athens.
The farmers’ alliance held a meeting at
Marietta a few days agn and agreed not to
sell any cotton during the month of October
unless they obtained 10;,, cents for it.
A negro from Webster county, at the fire
at Dawson last Wednesday, while assisting
in moving a bale of cot on, foil backward
from the cotton yard platform across tho
railroad track, breaking two ribs and
spraining a wrist.
iASt Monday, Hillman, the electric health
resort, was sold at public outcry, by agree
ment of the owners, .lames A. Benson of
Washington bid it in for (3,000. The sale
took place at Hillrnau. There are 150 acres
of land in the property.
At Brunswick, Tuesday night, some
trifling characters raided Littlefield & Co.’s
lighter and hoister, and, after stealing all
the tools they could fi id, deliberately cut
up tho ropes, thus destroying what they
could not use themselves.
Miles Monk of Colquitt county had bis
gin house, engine press and screw and two
1 siles of cotton in the seed, thrash, eto.,
burned Thursday night. Tho fire was the
work of au mcendiury, and the Joss was
about SI,BOO, with no insurance.
There is no bagging of any kind in Mari
etta. Merchants, to avoid a threatened
boyoott, refused to order or sell jute, and
they have only placed orders for cotton t ag
giug for allia ce men, as ordered. A num
ber of farmers find it hard to get bugging
of any kind.
Summerville Gazette ; The SaVaknah
News is one of the oldest and most reliable
papers in the state; thoroughly democratic,
and fully up to the times. Its pages de
voted to items of news from Georgia, Flor
ida, and Mouth Carolina, is ul ways especially
interesting.
The trial of J. J. Patter sm of Atlanta
for assault with intent to mu' der. which was
interrupted Tuesday by the refusal of his
wife to testify against him, was resumed
Wednesday, and on the testimony of other
witnesses ne was convicted and sentenced
to ten years’ imprisonment.
A negro named James Love, while work
ing at the gin of J. P. Heard near Vienna
on Tuesday of last week, got his right arm
in the gin. Four gashes were cut from his
wrist to his elbow, terribly lacerating the
flesh and exposing the bones, muscles, arte
ries and nerves of his arm.
On Sunday evening as a negro woman
named Charlotte, who lives on James Orr’s
place in Wilkes county, was going to church
in a wagon, the mules ran away aud she
jumped out, breaking both of' her arms.
The arms were broken between the wrists
and elbow. The woman was about fill years
old.
Allen McArthur, a well-known and pros
perous farmer of Montgomery cou ty, was
thrown from his buggy, Wednesday, aud
killed. Mr. McArthur was a prominent
Mason. He serve iin 1834 and 1885 as state
senator from the Fifteenth district. The
fatal accident occurred near Scotland, Tel
fair county.
Geu. A. E. Stevenson, late First Assist
ant Postmaster General under President
Cleveland, was in Americus Wednesday.
Gen. Stevenson is a resident of Illinois, and
is In the south for the purpose of booming
the city of Chicago as a site for the world’s
fair in 1892. The general and Maj. Gless
ner of Americus are old friend*
The Augusta dummy lino, or Richmond
county belt line, recently chartered by the
legislature, has been formally organized by
the elect! >u of the following officers: Presi
dent, Charles A. Robbe; secretary. James
XT. Jackson; treasurer, P. G. Durum;
directors, Messrs. Robbe, Jackson, Durum,
Thomas, Murray, and Eugene Connor.
Dooly Vindicator: Henry Chambers, the
negro that was found' guilty of man
slaughter at the last term of the court aud
sentenced to five years, but was grauted a
new trial aud let out under SSOO, is in limbo
again. On las; Friday night the woman he
lives with in Cordele tailed in some manner
to do his bidding, and Henry deliberately
proceeded to take her life.
The gin house, engine, cotton gin, press,
cane mill, etc., and about lit een bales of
cotton, belonging to Hon. Tom Mclntyre,
Jr., on bis lanton place, about eighteen
miles, from Thowasvilie, was destroyed by
fire on Monday night. The fire was com
municated to the gin house by spark* ignit
ing the thrash surrounding the engine
bouse. There wi no insurance, and the
loss was about $2,000.
The rice mill and barn of James F. King
of Satilla has been destroyed by tire. The
flames originated on the roof from
a spafk from the smokestack. Tlie
entire mill and tnaeni erv, to
gether with about 1,600 bushels of rice,
were destroyed. The mill, etc., was tne
property of J. F. King, aud the rice was
owned by the hands, wli > had sub-rentod
of the Messrs. Lang & Bro., they to pav flo
per acre in rice for rent. There is no in
surance.
The executive committee of the North
east Georgia fair at Athens have decided
to offer $25 in go:d to the couple that will
get married at the fair grounds on Alliance
day in cotton bagging clothes. It is confi
dently believed that a couple can be found
who will show their thorough apprccia t _>n
of the farmers’ fight on the juts trust to
come out attired in the cloth in which the
farmers’ interests are all centered, and ou
Alliance day he joined together in the holy
ties of wedlock.
The Trenton Timet announces that the
Morrison deal has been closed. Wednesday
Thomas Cuuimitigs received a telegram
from Dr. T. J. Lumkiu, who is now in Dos
ton, Mass., stating that the groat deal had
been closed, and that the new owners would
leave for Trenton yesterday. The pur
chase embraces 10,000 acres of iron Jaud
and 6,000 acres of coal land. The price paid
for it is 1500.000. The iutentiou of the com
pany is to erect all kinds of manufactories
as soon as the work can be doue. The com
pany’s capital stock is $5,000,000.
Jackson Argun: A few days ago a large
hog belonging to Leßoy Hardy of Stark,
while the family were all out of the house,
went into the house and after climbing
upon a feather bed pr cseded to tear t o
bed aud clothing into doll rags. Hi* bog
nip thought he h and found a beautiful play
house, and in his delight and playfulness
*• lhlojp up generally. When the
in mate* of the house came in the floors
were Utorahy covered with feathers, aud
the festive brute ran from the house looking
more like one of the feathered tribe than
a fat porker.
The annual session of the Christian church
of Georgia convened in Atlanta Wednes
day. The delegation is a large one. The
convention is composed of the leading min
isters of the church, and will be in session
several day* The opening exercises were
impressive and interesting. Addresses were
made by several delegates, while the intro
ductory service*, bv Rev. R. B. Omor of
Sylvauia, were very interesting. There
were representatives from all pa. ts of the
state, as veil as from other states. Wednes
day night Rev. I. J. Spencer of Richmond,
Va., delivered a splendid sermon at the
church.
At Taylor. Wednesday, the infant child
of Mr. and Mrs. Berry Arnold came to an
untimely death. Tho mother had stationed
hir babe upon a blanket in tire coon room,
and was engaged in preuariug dinner for
the family, when she lifted a kettle of boil
ing water off tho stove, taxing hold of the
handle without a cloth coveriug. She had
sc ireely removed the kettle from the stove
before the scorching pain became too great
for her to bear, and forced her to let the
kettle fall to the floor, tne contents covering
the child, which bad crawled, unnoticed, up
to where its mother was sfa iding nt the
stove. The little one lived but ashor. while.
James H. Gay was killed at Moultrie on
Monday. Gay wai under the influence of
liquor to some extent, aud, according to the
information of the Thomasville limes, wus
making demonstrations against James
Hady, who warned him to keep off, and
backed some distance to keep out of Gay’s
reach, rut having backed to M. M. Blan
ton’s store, as Gay advanced ou him in a
threatening attitude, Eady drove a knife
into him uear the collar-bone. Gay turned
and pulled, or endeavored to pull off his
coat, but fell and expired in a few minutes.
Sheriff Nelson was standing near by, and
Eady gave himself up and informed the
sheriff he considered himself under arrest.
Detective Shackleford arrived at Atlanta
Wednesday from Birmingham with Wade
Hampton Cox, a young white man whom
lie arrested in Birmingham Monday. Cox
is accused of ruining a young lady, whose
brother-in-law, A. P. Smith, came up from
Bryan oouutySunday to employ Shackleford
on the case. The story is that young Cox
was clerking at Johnson’s Island, S. C., at
the time he wronged the girl. Her family
insisted that he should make good his prom
ise of marriage, but Instead of doing so he
ran off. Arriving in Birmingham he wrote
a young lady in Brunswick to secure his
trunk aud have it shipned to him. She
complied with his request, aud it wan by
that means that Cox was captured. De
tective Shackleford and his prisoner left for
Bryan county Wednesday evening.
“F. S. T.” in Washington Chronicle. An
old book in my possession gives the follow
ing information concerning Georgia in 1790:
With its present northern and southern
boundaries, it extended from the Savannah
river to the Mississippi, and contained
twenty counties. Wilkes county ex
tended from near Augusta to the lino
of Franklin, and from the Savannah
to the line of Greene. According to
the census of 1790 the population was
01,500. Washington had a court house
aid jail, thirty four dwellings and an
academy whose funds amounted to £BOO
and had between sixty aud seventy
students. Wilkes exported about 8,000
hogsheads of tobacco aud no cotton,
as tho cotton gin was not invented. The
historian says that “within a mile and a half
of Washington is a medicinal spring which
rises from a hollow tree four or five feet in
length. The inside of the tree is covered
with a coat of matter an inch thick, and
the leaves arouud the spring are
incrusted with a substance as white
as snow. It is said to be a sovereigu remedy
for the scurvy, scrofulous disorders, con
sumptions, gouts, and every other disease
arising from humors in the blood, A per
son who had severe rheumatism in his arm,
having in the space of ten minutes drank
two quarts of the water, experienced a mo
mentary chill and was thrown into a per
spiration, which, in a few hours, left him
entirely free from pain and in perfect
healtlv”
FLORIDA.
J. A. Cowart is about to establish a tan
nery ten miles north wost of Maeeleuny.
Joliet, 111., has booked sixty tourists for
Daytona, who will spend the winter there.
Over 1,000 voters have registered in the
Sanford district and will vote ou the wet
and dry question on Oct. 17.
John T. and Joseph R. Dunn have pur
chased the stock of merchandise aud good
will of Silas Smith, in Palatka.
In a quarrel Monday, at. Orlando, about
money matters, Clint Speir was stabbed by
Ed. Stevens with a pair of shears.
The individual deposits in the First Na
tional Dank at Orlando, as shown by their
last statement, amount to $101,968 56.
Sanford Journal: A first-class real estate,
rental and collecting agency in our city
would pay the party having the busiuess in
charge.
The Orlando and Winter Park railroad is
having the bridges and trestle work along
the line of the road treated to a coat of
whitewash.
J. W. Wooding of Macclenny says he set
out ;>,OOO strawberry plants in September,
mid ho thinks he did not lose more than one
in a thousand.
The new market at St. Augustine will be
larger than first intended. Its width will
be 50 feet, and it will contain thirty-one
instead of sixteen stalls.
The Jacksonville Loan and Improvement
Company, which was organized last sum
mer with 500 shares, has had over 1,500 ad
ditional shares taken since that time.
The International Ocean Telegraph Com
pany has nearly completed setting out the
poles lietweeu Orlando and Winter Park,
aud will soon commence stringing the wire!
Ti e crop of oranges on the Markham
grove at Wekiva has been sold on the trees
at $1 25 per box. The grove this season
will yield between 18,000 and 20,000 boxes.
A. Faye of DeFuniak Springs will shortly
go to Norway, his native i ountry, whence
he will return with a large number of his
country people for settlement in West
Florida.
At a negro festival near Madison, whore
nicknames were applied freely. Wash
Haines shot and killed another darky for
calling his sister “Miss Hind.” The mur
derer escaped.
On Friday, Deputy Clerk Fitis purchased
the property of Mrs. A. M. Roseamond ou
Minnesota avenue, at DeLaud. It consists
of 2acres of orange grove with dwelling
house and barn.
The burglars who entered the stare of
M. Davis, at DeLand, were given an ex
amination ou Tuesday and remanded to jail
to await the action of the grand jury of the
spring term of court.
The improvements on the Stratton Ice
Works at Pensacola have advanced far
enough for the new twenty-ton machine to
go to work, and the first ice of its make
was “pulled” Tuesday.
The Florida Central and Feninsular Rail
road Company has contracted for the
building of GUO feet additional dock at
Fernaudina, aud work will be commenced
the latter part of this week.
At St. Augustine the curtains in J. W.
Estes’ window caught fire Monday night,
and but for the prompt action on the part’
of the clerks would have resulted in a seri
ous c mflagration. As it was, very little
damage was done.
Quite a number of counties have notified
li. F. Dillon, president of the Hub-Tropic il,
that they will send representatives to the
county commis-loners’ convention, to he
held in Jacksonville next Tuesday, to con
sult regarding the Hub-Tropical exposition.
George B. Hoyt, civil service r xaminer of
Washington, l>. C\, is in Jacksonville, anl.
In company with the loeal board, consisting
of Pos: master Mr Murray, Assistant post
master Sawyer and Registry < dork Dunk lee,
held au examination at G, A. K hall ys-
Iteiday of applications for departmental
posni ms and petition* in the rati *ay mail
•wrvice. Eighty partial were sxauuuod.
THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY. OCTOBER 11. 1889.
The crew of the bark Ormus, at Fernau
dina, having been brought before the
United States officers onaccargeof mutiny,
were told that tt.eir demand for a survey of
the vessel would be grained if they were
prepared to pay for the same. The demand
was withdrawn aud the crew resumed their
places on the bark. The Ormus sailed yes
terday, her officer having given bond in the
libel suit.
The monthly report of the Florida depart
ment of agriculture for September has just
been completed. It includes ail the princi
pal farm products of the state, and it may
be taken as a sure indication that crops
generally throughout the state will exceed
last year’s to a considerable degree, not
wit iistanding the fears that have prevailed
to the contrary on account of drought and
excessive rains.
Mr. Eidridge got out a warrant at Da
Land, Saturday night, against Benjamin
Prevatt of the Orange City Times tor libel.
Sheriff Stevenson served it, and Prevatt
counted out ssou in hard cash for his ap
pearance for examination. The first war
rant did not hold, and upon another bei: g
issued Prevatt waived examination and
gave bond for f.500, the case to come up
before next term of court.
Apalachioola Times: John M. Withrow
is back from a trip to St. Andrews. He
leaves In a few days for Chipley, where
the Alabama and Wait Florida Railroad
Company will establish their headquarters.
Mr. Withrow is confident that work will be
commenced on this road in a few days, and
pushed rapidly through to completion. He
says the company has secured ample means
to build the road, and that they do not in
tend to be slow about building it.
Sunday night as the passenger train
from River Junction, due at Pensacola at
10 o’clock, rounded the curve at Magnolia
Bluff a flange on one of the engine wheels
broke. Engineer Barclay immediately re
versed his engine, but was unable to pre
vent the engine from leaving the track.
Tue eugine fell toward the bay, the express
car was thrown against the embankment,
and the other cars remained on the track.
The engineer and fireman escaped without
serious injury. M ill Clerk Phelps, as his
car left the track, made a leap, and was
considerably shaken up. Several others re
ceived slight injuries. The accident caused
an hour’s delay in the trains.
Femandina Mews: “Au informal meet
ing of the city council was held Monday
night to consider a petition presented bv
adjoining property owners praying that
Maj. Duryee be forbidden to use other thau
coal for fuel, alleging danger to property.
The council instructed the acting mayor to
notify Maj. Duryee in accordance with the
petition, and the mill is not running. Maj.
Duryee is filling contracts for lumber for
ten cottages, aud considers it a hardship
ana injustice to lie stopped so suddenly
without time to change. He says he has
more thau complied with the requirements
of his permit He will apply tor permis
sion to burn cord wood, and says it is an
unjust discrimination to require him to use
coal while two other mills, one newspaper
office, and all the locomotives are allowed
to buru wood.
DeLaud Record : There was considerable
fun in court last week over the stealing and
killing of a steer. The case was the state
vs. Peter Stone and Asa Wingate. Tho in
dictment read “larceny of a cow,” and the
testimony brought before the court w as that
a cow had been stolen, killed and eaten by
the accused. The hide was also produced
in court. Messrs. Price and Miller were
for the defense, aud while admitting that a
lieust had been stolen ana billed by the
accused, claimed that the indictment
charged the offenders with stealing a cow,
but in reality the animal stolen was u steer.
This being proven, the jury could do noth
ing but say “not guilty, as charged in the
iudic meut.” In the statutes of the state
heifers are classed under six heads—calf,
cattle, cow, bull, steer, ox—but should an
other such case oome up, it is not probable
that the guilty parties will escape through
a technicality. The probable costs of the
case will be S2OO, and the law failed to do Its
work.
After the United States court had been
opened at Jacksonville, Wednesday, in due
order by Deputy Marshal Moody, Judge
C. M. Cooper made the following motion;
“Now comes O. K. Patton, aforesaid, and
assigns, as an additional ground of his
challenge of the array of graud jurors
s read upon the motion docket of Oct. 7,
that said graud jurors were not selected
w ithout regard to party affiliations as re
quired by the act of congress, but that the
act of congress was violated therein, as
manifested from the fact that nearly all of
said grand jurors are republicans, to-wit:
that of twenty-three drawn from the box
and included in the said venire, twenty
two are republicans and only one
is a member of the Democratic
party, as the said Paxton is informed
and believes, and offers to prove as the
court may direct.” Affidavits were also
filed by J. D. Tuten audT. Albert Jennings
of Hamilton county, aid by J. M. Fulch
and At. F. Brown of Columbia county to
the same effect, aud M. Hearn of Jackson
ville filed one relative to the republicanism
of Philip Walter, clerk of the court. After
argument the motion was overruled.
Judge Cooper noted au exception to the
ruling of the court. To fill the vacancies
caused liy some jurors who had been ex
cused, Marshal Alizell presented the names
of saveral men, all but oue of wuom are
said to be republicans.
A few days ago Dr. R. P. Daniel of Jack
sonville, president of the state board of
health, was no ified that there were some
suspicious cases of fever at Key West, and
Monday last he dispatched Dr. J. Y. Porter,
state health officer, to investigate the mat
ter. Wednesday ho received a telegram
from Dr. Porter, stating that it was un
doubtedly yellow fever, but that the
authorities hoped to be able to control aud
stamp it out. Dr. Daniel thereupon wired
the different health officers at all exposed
places as follows: “Dr. Porter reports
cases of yellow fever at Key West, but
there is no need of apprehension, and pre
cautions have been taken to prevent unac
oliinated persons leaving the island.” “Uu
aeclimated" in this connection applies
to those who have not had yellow fever;
“acclimated” is meant to include those who
have had it. The policy of the state board
of health in “preveutiug uuacclimated peo
ple leaving the island" is a wise precaution,
lor after exposure to the iufe tion an unac
chmated person might develop the disease
even at a long distance from the place of
exposure; while in the case of an accli
mated person the chances of this would be
infinitesimally small, according to the
theories of quarantine In recent years.
There is every reason to 1 elieve that there
wiU be no spread of the disease in this in
stance, but that the next news will be that
the infection has been stamped out. Cases
of this kind never create any alarm in Key
West, especially late in the season.
Unjust Taxation.
It is unjust to tax the stomach with burthens
that it cannot bear. Many silly people thus
tyrannize that faithful servitor until it rebels
ami punishes them as they deserve. Dyspepsia
is usually the child of gastronomic foilv, but
whether this or the natural associate of the in
herent feebleness from childhood, it is surely
and pleasantly remedied with Husletter's
Stomach Bitters, the finest and most higtily
sanctioned gastric tonic in existence. Asa re
sult of the tone imparted to the stomach and
the increased activity of the digestive aud
assimilative action, insured by the persistent
use of this benign iuvigorant, general stamina
is augmented, the nerves strengthened and
tranquilized, and a tendency to iusomnia and
hypochondriasis defeated Biliousness, chills
and fever, rheumatism and kidney troubles are
conquered by I his admirable medicine.
Do you went a good, strong Market Bas
ket! All sizes at Straus- Bros.’, aud it will
pay you to pries our Groceries beiore pur
chasing elsewhere.
Loose Chow-Chow, Olives and Mixed
l’ickles, 'Hie largest stock of Baskets in
the city. Strsuss tiros.
At the Harnett House, Savannah, (Ja
you get all the comfort* of the high-priced
hotels, and save from $1 to $2 per day.
Try it aud be con v meed.—Boston Home
Journal.
EDISON A3 A TELEGRAPHER.
Mow the Inventor Appeared to a
Group of Operators Twenty Years
Ago, and How a Telegtapfi Company
Was Provoked Into Dispensing Witii
Hie Services.
From the Sew York Star.
A score of years ago a group of young
men, some of whom have been factors iu
shaping various events of this world since,
were lounging in the operating room of the
largest telegraph office in New England,
awaiting the time, near at hand, for the
appearance of the night relief, which would
carry on the duties of the office until the
morning. The day messages had almost
ceased to come, aud the lull in tne business,
common to ail stations just before the Siing
of half-rate telegrams and press matter,
had given a respite to the force, and they
were relating anecdotes and exchanging tne
gossip of the day.
This evening the talk was mainly on the
whereabout* of an operator who was on
his way from a Michigan city, aud from
whom nothing had been hear!
since the single message announcing
his departure. The weather had been bit
ter cold, a hugo snow storm had inter veiled,
still the delay was getting very unreasona
ble, and conjectures as to where he was
.were multiplying. At length the heavy
street door swung back, and with a quick
stride the young man in question walked
into the room. His appearance was worthy
of comment. A square-jawod young man
with a tall hat. whioh had apparently been
slept on, pushed back from a high forehead;
a head set forward, with good-sized feat
uref; a middle-sized form, dressed iu u
short frock, without overcoat, despite the
weather; a rumpled collar, minus necktie;
trousers ill-fitting and well-worn, and a pair
of ugly, coarse high-topped boots. The
whole appearance of tho man was nothing
short of a caricature. Those who saw him
carried for years afterward the picture im
pressed upon their minds, although after the
first words had dropped from his lips his ap
pearance was temporarily forgotten, the
impression instantly prevailing that here
was a man greatly unlike themselves.
The man, who was Thomas A. Edison,
confidently approached the group, spoke to
to a friend, and without introduction of
any sort was familiar with aIL
Where had he bee G Why, he tiad con
cluded to take a route that would carry
him a near to the North Pole as he could go,
had become snowed iu, and with his usual
improvidence, he had parted with his last
penny midway in ttie trip and had simply
had a time of it!
Now he was ready for work. The hardest
wire in the office was assigned to him, and,
tired as he was, he sat down amid the ad
miring glances of his newly found friends,
and hour after hour turned off copy,
unique in its way, tut showing his great
skill as an operator in those days.
Edison was a peculiar operator. His
copy was solid print. Every letter was
separate, and did not inoline at any angle.
His great speed in writing must have been
the result of long practice, tor it had
every eiement of slowness m it. His mem
ory was wonderful. In long, difficult code
messages he was often behind the trans
mitting operator ten or more words, a feat
considered very difficult, if not unparalleled,
in those days. Hour after hour he would
go along this way, never opening tho key,
sometimes ca sing the distant operator to
wonder whether the wire was all right, and
to ask the question, “Are you there:"
There he was, and again onward would
the messages go to Edison, no sign coming
from him that he was weary and doubtful
about any word. He was the acme of a
receiver.
Asa sender he was poor. He never could
master the art of smoothly manipulating a
key. The operator at the other end, in a
spirit of humor would often suggest to him
that if he would occasionally send with the
“other foot,” a great improvement would
be made.
His spirit of invention was strong, even
in those days. One of his contrivances
proved a boomerang for himself, and was
far-reachiug in some rather disastrous re
sults.
In the Boston office was a “trick” which
to him was especially desirable. In those
days all the messages between America and
Europe passed ov r a single wire between
New York and St. John’s, N. F., with a
relay station at Plaister Cove. This long
stretch of circuit was very hard to maintain,
and the discipline was rigorous. In Boston,
the operator in charge was ordered to
give his undivided attention to it while on
duty.
Tuere were three reliefs, one of which
was from i o’clock to 8 o’clock in the morn
ing, during which time the traffic from
Loudon on account of the difference in
time was quite heavy. Edison in his thirst
for knowledge had found a rich mine iu the
Boston Public Library. It was full of rare
scie .tiflc books, and as he couid read Ger
man, French, Bpanisn mid Italian, he had
come to speud all his time poring over the
volumes obtainable in that iustitu ion. He
sought and obtained the morning hours on
the wire in question, but after a little he
found that sitting and looking at that wire
seven hours per day was irksome, and he
believed u inecessary. How to make it do
itsown watching was the problem. Before
5 o’clock a. m. the wire was idle as a rule,
but the discipline was so strict that each
station had to send in a signal every half
hour, indicating that everything was all
right.
Edison ingeniously rigged up a clock
work which would automatically throw
iu his signal at the end of each half hour,
and it worked like a cuarm. He then got
himself a rude bed, and his coming on duty
was more of a preparation for going to
sleep than anything else. For many weeks
this plan was a success, and Edison was
master of the situation, hut unfortunately
one night the wire itself gave out, and the
whole s heme fell flat. Every one in the
office save Edison had gone home. In
order to restore the circuit a wire between
Portlaud aud Boston had to be inserted,
and the clock was not adapted to that sort
of work.
Frantic calls (or Boston were made,
"cables” piled up in a congested mass, ar
bitrage brokers iu three capitals were wild,
and the whole financial wo id stood still,
while our wizard snored rhythmic nly, aud
perhaps dreamed at the time that those
three capitals and all the world reside
would heap honor after honor upon him,
and his fame would be sounded through
every laud.
For this Edison was ignominiouslv dis
charged, and his days at the key fairly
ended. He went out into the world dis
couraged, but it was the best thing that
ever happened to him, for his scattering
thoughts took shape, and marvelous prac
tical inventions came to the surface.
Edison cared little for money, ami was
generous to a fault. His salary iu those
da vs was SIOO per month, but rarely was
any money in his possession. A poor oper
ator came aloug one day, out of money and
out of work, and Edison took him home.
Shortly after another came along, and lie
was treated likewise. Edison was uncon
scious y creating an almhouse out of Ins
boarding place, i.ud his board bdl reached
the figure of #9O per month, Laving only
#lO for the miscellaneous wants of th. ee
persons. Mouth after mouth he earned this
burden uncomplainingly, until his charges
floated out of their difficulties.
XVhen experimenting upon the quadru
plex, the telegraph company gave him
carte blanche to draw upon it for necessary
expenses. Eight operators were assign’d
night after night to assist him, and when
the work was over it was the invariable
rule for Edison to take all the money ho had
iu tiis pocket to banquet the boys, relying
solely upon the generosity of the company
to replenish his empty exchequer the next
day.
Don’t fail to attend the Basket Bargain
Hale at blr.iiiaa Bros.’, at the same time ask
lor our special prices on Teas and Coffee*.
1 Mackerel, Codfish, Mmoked Herring, Bas
ket*, Bwtas and American Cheese, Baskets,
at Strauss bro*.’.
SHIPPING.
&STEAM COMPANY
FOR
New York, Boston aaJ Philadeipiiia.
PASSAGE TcTIfEW YORK.
CABIN #SO no
EXCURSION ............ SJ 00
STEERAGE 1000
PASSAGE TO BOSTON.
. ..S3O 00
EXCURSION 33 m
steirage
PASSAGE TO PHILADELPHIA.
iVia Nw Yoas.;
MfcUUuS ; JJ JJ
THE magnificent steamships 0 f these line*
are appointed to sad as foLhws— standard
tlma:
TO NEW YORK.
CITY OF AUGUSTA, Capt. J. W. Catharine,
FRIDAY', Oct. 11, at T a. h.
CHATTAHOOCHEE, Capt. 11. C. Daggett,
SATURDAY, Oct. 12, at 8 p. m.
NACOOCHEK, Capt. F. Kf.hpton, MONDAY,
Oct. 14, at 9 P. u.
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, Capt. C. S. Berg,
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 16, at 11 a. m.
TALLAHASSEE, Capt. W. H. Fisher, FRI
DAY, Oct. 18, at 1 p. m.
CITY OF SAVANNAH, Capt. F. Smith, SAT
URDAY, October 19, at 1:30 p. m.
TO BOSTON.
GATE CITY. Capt. C. D. Goootss, THURS
DAY, Oct. 17. at 11:30 a u.
CITY OF MACON. Capt. H. C. Lewis, THURS
DAY, Oct. 24, at 5 p. M.
TO PHILADELPHIA.
[FOR freight ONLT.i
DESBOUG, Capt. S. L. Abkins, FRIDAY', Oct.
18, at 1 P. m.
Through bills of lading given to Eastern anti
Northwestern points and to porta of the Uniter'
Kingdom and the Continent.
For freight or passage apply to
C. G. ANDERSON, Agent.
City Exchange Building.
Merchants’ a&d Miners’ Transportation Cob’7.
For Baltimore.
CABIN sl2 30
INTERMEDIATE 10 0J
CABIN TO WASHINGTON 14 45
CABIN TO PHILADELPHIA 16 (6
INTERMEDIATE TO PHILADELPHIA.. 12 76
THF. STE AMSHIPS of this Company are ap
pointed to sail from Savannah for Balti
mcre as follows—city time:
ALLEGHANY, Capt. D. P. W. Parker, FRI
DAY, October 11, at 6 p. m.
WM. CRANE, Capt, G. W. Bill ups, TUESDAY
Oct, 15, at 11 a. it.
BERKSHIRE, Capt. H. D. Foster, MONDAY,
Oct. 21. at 3:30 p. M.
WM. CRANE. Capt. G. W. Billups, SATUR
DAY, Oct. 26. at 7:30 a. m.
W 1 from Baltimore on the above named days
at 3 p. M-
Through bills lading given to all points West,
all the manufacturing towns of New England,
and to ports of the United Kingdom and the
Continent.
W. E. GUERARD, Agent,
102Vj Bay street.
SEAMAID ROPTE.
BOATS wiil leave Savannah from wharf foot
of Lincoln street for DOBnY, DARIEN,
BRUNSWICK and FERNANDINA eTery MON
DAY and THURSDAY at 6 p, m., connecting at
Savannah with New York, Philadelphia. Boston
and Baltimore steamer*, at Brunswick with
steamer for Satilla river, and at Fernandina by
rail with all points in Florida.
Freight received till 5:80 p. M. on days of sail
ing.
Tickets to be had at Gazan's Cigar Store, in
Pulaski House, and on board the boat.
C. WILLIAMS. Agent.
Compagnie Generale Transatlantiqua
—French Line to Havre.
BETWEEN New York and Havre, from pier
No. 42, N R, foot of Morton street. Trav
elers by this line avoid both transit by English
railway and the discomfort of crossing the
Channel in a small boat. Special train leaving
the Company's dock at Havre direct for Paris
on arrival of steamers, baggage checked at
New York through to Paris.
LA CHAMPAGNE, Boyek, SATURDAY, Oct.
12 7 a. H
LA BOURGOGNE, Fra.nqeul, SATURDAY,
Oct. 19, nook.
LA GASCOGNE. Santf.li.i. SATURDAY, Oct.
26, <i A. M.
PRICK OF PASSAGE nnciudmg wraen:
TO HAVRE-First Cabin. SIUO and JSO;
Second Cabin. ♦6O; Steerage from New York te
Havre, $26; Steerage from New York to Paris,
S2O; including wine, bedding and utensils.
A. FORGET. General Agent. 3 Bowling Green,
foot of Broadway, New York.
Or R. W. HUNT, Esq., 20 Bull street, Mkssb*.
WILDER £ CO., ISO Bay street. Savannah
Agents.
Plant Steamsnip Lane.
SEW I-WEEKLY.
Tampa, Key West and Havana
SOUTH-BOUND.
I.v Port Tampa Mondays and Thursdays lirSd
p. it
Ar Key West Tuesdays and Fridays 4 p. u
Ar Havana Wednesdays and Saturdays 9tk
NORTHBOUND.
I.v Havana Wednesdays and Saturdays 1 p. a.
Lv Key West Wednesdays and p. a
Ar Port Tampa Thursdays and Sundays3:3o
F K
Connecting at Port Tampa with West India
Fast Train to and from Northern and i .astern
cities. For stateroom accommodations, apply
to City Ticket Office, S., F. A W. R’y, Jackson
ville, or Agent Plant Steamship Line. Tampa.
C. D. OWENS, Traffic Manager.
H. S. HAINES. General Manager.
FISH AND OYSTERS.
ESTABLISHED ISiS.
M. M. SULLIVAN,
Whvienle fish and Outer Dealer,
150 bryan st. and 152 Bay lane. Savannah. Ga.
Fish orders for Pnnta Gorda received hers
have prompt attention.
\! ERCHANTh, manufacturers, niervtiaikia,
iVI corporation*, and all other* iu need of
(■rutting, lithographing, and blank books can
have their orders promptly filled, at moderate
prime, at tin- MORNING NEWS ITUNUNU
ROUSE. 8 Whitaker *UwL *
RATT.HOAIIS.
ji(m\'viLL& li mpa and kky Telly;™
the t ropjcal trunk lint-
SCHEDULES IN EFFECT MAY 20. 1389. Central Standard Tim. i'll,
qoiNGSQJJTH. G0~)R T „
12:30 pmiLv Savannah Ar, 127M~bb.~7rrur~ '
** UHMam 4:OOpmLv Jacksonville Ar 9-20 linTTnc, ::
10:00am I:l6pm s:3opm Ar Sl Augustine Lv "liSam OMtSm :i :50 p
3:50 nni, l:UJp:n ":3oain'Lv Jacksonville Ar! 6-30 am ia-j-H — —:__ :
• uJB pin, 2:48 pm 10:25 am Ar Falatka Lv 4 : li am loi
• • Orf'pm'.Ar Brooknvilla Lv; • ll:lua- 4
9-r pm 3:l2pm 11:40am Ar Seville Lv j'-OOnm' BuY* m ! -
11:06 pm 1:15 pm 12:55 Dm Ar DeLand. j, v ! b'.S an * P:r
11:50pm, 6:00 pm. I:2opm Ar Sanforl V.Lv iiii am
i 5:57 pm Ar Winter Park Lvlll-Stibm -
I 9:lopm, Ar Bartow Lv 6:15 n m : I j
Solid Trains between Jacksonville. St. Augustine, Sanford, Titusville imdTam^rT^,^^* 4
at Titusville with Indian River steamers for Roekledze, Melbourne. Jupiter and laE'w
at Port Tampa with Plant Steamship Line for Key West and Havana L“ka Worth, and
Pullman Buffet Sleeping Car* New York to Tampa without change, For mans ,
etc., address - ’ “UhSJules,
jj: F : J AgK. Geu. Manager. O. D, AOKERLY*. Gen. Pass. AA y n ,
Savannah, Florida and Western Railwav
WAY’eRO! SHORT LINE-TIME CARD IN EFFECT SEPT 1 1839
All Trairs on this Road are Run by Ckntral Standard Time
SCHEDULE Of thr. ugh trains to Florida and Southern Georgia, connecting with train. .
O points m the West ar.d Northwest: s trains for all
| No. 27. 1 No. 15. No. 5. No 11 No - 7s' Tv ——
From Savannah. | Daily, 1 Daily. Daily. To Savannah. Daily. | Daily.' nl'J.
L. Savannah 7:09 am 12:30 pm 8:15 pm L. Port Tampa 6-50 praT ~~T —I:
A. Jesup 8:38 am 2:42 pm 10:15 pm U Sanford 1:15 am 800 a,',, '
A. Waycross 9:15 am 4:oopm 1:05 am L. Jacksonville 7:ooam 115 pm i'-te""
A. Brunswick.via F..T 6:20 pm 6:00 am L. Chattahoochee 9 : 40m '-^Ph
A. Bmnsw’k.viaßAtW 12:15 pm 7:30 am L. Bainbridge 10-ir, TT -
A. Albany, via 8.4 W 2:00 pm I:lsam L. Monticello ms£s
A. Albany 12:00 n’n L. Tbomasvillf . . .’"i:." l}** 2£
A. Jacksonville 18:00 n’n 7:00 pm 8:80 am L. OainesvillA i pm
A.Banford s:oopm .... L. Live Oak I pni
A. Port Tampa 10:45pm L. Albany,viaß&W. 4:45am! ,: ®M
A. Live Oak 6:15 am L. Albany. ■ "olsn” •
A. Gainesville 10:00 am L Waycross 9:15 ain 495 nm itsT®
A. Thomasville I:3lpm 7:00 am L. Atlanta, via E. T .... 1 7 : Oo£m Lp 4 ®
A.Monticello 3:25 pm 10:15 am L. Jesup 10:28 ami 5 : 45 pm Van?*
A. Bainbridge 3:45 pm L. Macon, via E. T 10 9# ar, J£ 4la
A. Chattahoochee.... 1:04 pm L Brunsw'k.viaE.T 8-30 am! 11 :nri Pm
A. Macon, via E. T... 4:20 pm 7:15 am L. Brunsw'k.v B&W 6-50 am -:£, Pm
A. Atlanta, via E.T.. 7:35 pm 10:55 am L. Montgomery .... 7:30 pm :£?*
A. Montgomery ! j 7:38 am, 6:46 pm A. Savannah. 12:14 pin 7. ; pm MoJS
Jesup Express. No. 1. : | Jesup Express. I N0.~2T~ ~ •
L. Savannah 3:40 pm L. Jesup s:3oam
A. Jesup 6;3Q pni) A. Savannah 18:40 am
SLEEPING CAR SERVICETaND CONNECTIONfiT
Trains 14 an.i 27 has Pullman sleeping cars between New York. Jacksonville ami Porf Tamw.
Trains 73 lias Pullman sleepers between Now Y’ork and Jacksonville. Trains 5 and 27 couinwt
Jesup for Macon, Atlanta and the West. Train 15 connects at Waycross for Albany Montgomery'
New Orleans. Nashville, Evansville, Cincinnati and St. Louis. Through Pullman sleener xcll’
cross to St. Louis. Train No. 5 connects at Monticello for Tallahassee, arriving at 219 pm rJtIZ
leaving Tallahassee 8:57 a. m. connects at Monticello with train No. 78. Trains 5 and 6 earrv p,e?
man sleeper between Savannah and Jacksonville, and Savannah and Live Oak. ’ 1411
Tickets sold to all points and Luggage eneoked through: also sleeping car bertoT
secured at passenger stations and Bren’s Ticket Office, 22 Bull street. UIU
._K-__G. FLEMING. Buperinteudent, W. M. DAVIDSON. General Passenger Agent.
CENTRAL RAILROAD OP G-EORG-IA.
ONLY LINE RUNNING SOLID TRAINS SAVANNAH TO MACON AND ATLANTA
SCHEDULE IN EPPECT SEPT. STB. 1889 (.STANDARD TIME. WjTH MERIDIAN).
TO MACON, AUGUSTA AND ATLANTA
Lv Savannah. 6:loam 8:l0pm
Ar Macon. 1:20 p m 3:lsam
Ar Auguata 11:42a m 6:80a m
Ar Atlanta 5:45pm 7:ooam
TO ROME AND CHATTA. VIA ATLANTA.
Lv Savannah 6:40 a m 8:10 p m
Arßome.,.. li:3sam
Ar Chattanooga 11:40 pm 1:00 pm
TO BIRMINGHAM AND MEMPHIS.
Lv Savannah 810 pra 6:40 a m
Ar Columnus 7.-2 R am 6:15 pin
Ar Birmingham .. 3:00 pm 2:3oam
Ar Memphis 6:15 am 5:00 pm
8:10 p. m. train has sleeperto Birmingham.
tcTNEW ORLEANS VLA AXLANTA
Lv Savannah 0:40 a m
ArMontgomery 7:20a m
Dinner train lv. Sav’h 2:00 p. m. Returning, lv. Guyton 3:30 p. m.; ar. Sav’h 1-30 n m daiiv
Sunday exoepted. ‘ '
Millen accommodation (daily) lv. Milieu 5:00 a. m.: ar. Savannah 8:00 a m Returning
lv. Savannah 5:45 p. m.; ar. Millen 8:30 p. in. ' nS 3
Train leaving Savannah at 8:10 and. m. will stop regularly at Guyton to put off passengers
Passengers for Sylvania. Wrightsville, Milledgeville and Eatonton should take 6-40 a in train
for Carrollton, Ft Gaines. Talbotton. Buena Vista, Blakely, Claytou, take 8:10 and m train ' '
JOHN S. BORDLEY, T. A„ 19 Bull at CLYDE BOSTICK. T. P, A. E, T. CHARLTON G. P. A.
SUBURBAN RAILWAY'S.
mlilulßßAN RAILWAY.
LEAVE ARRIVE LEAVE LEAVE
CITY. CITY. ISLE OP HOPE. MONTOOMKRY
6:soam
10:25 am B:4oam 8:15 am 7:soam
3:25pm 8:00pm I:3spm 1:10pm
17:00pm 6:2opm 5:55pm s:3opra
•For Montgomery only. Passengers for Isle
of Hope go via Montgomery without extra
charge. And this train will be omitted on Sun
day morning.
tThis train leaves half hour later on Satur
day evening and will be oramitted on Sunday
evening. GEO. W. ALLEY Supt.
Sept. 21.
Coast Line Railroad
For Cathedral Cemetery, Bonaventure and
Thunderbolt. City Time. WEEK DAYS—
Trains leave Savanuah 7:15 and 10 a. m.. 8, 4:30
and 6:30 p. m. Leave Thunderbolt 6 and Ba.
m., 12:30. 3:45, 5:45 p. m.
Saturday night's last train out 7:15 p. u.
SUNDAYS leave Savannah 8, 9. 10 and 11 a.
M., 2. 3.4, 5, 6 and 7p. ti Leave Thunder
bolt 7:10, 8:30, 9:30 and 10:30 a. m.. 12:30,2:80.
3:30,4:30,5:80 and 6:30 p. m. Trains for city leave
Bonaventure five minutes after leaving Tnun
derbolt.
Take Broughton street care twenty (20) min
utes before leaving time of trains.
A. G. DRAKE, Supt.
Savannah and Tybee Railroad.
SCHEDULE OF TRAINS (Standard Time).
Leave Savannah daily 9:30 2:30
Returning, leave Tvbee 12:00 5:30
Saturday train will leave at 7 P. M.
Family excursions every Tuesday and Friday
at reduced price.
R. E. COBB, Supt.
MACHINERY.
AlcDonoagh & Ballaotyne,
IRON POUNDERS,
Machine Boiler Makers and Blacksmiths,
MANUFACTURERS OF
STATIONARY AND PORTABLE ENGINES,
VERTICAL AND TOP RUNNING CORN
MILLS, SUGAR MILLS and PANS.
A GENTS for Aiert and Union Injectors, the
ix. simplest and most effective on the market;
Guilett light Draft Magnolia Cotton Gin, the
best in the market.
AU orders promptly attended to Send for
Price List.
FURNACES, ETC.
CORNWELL & CHIPMAN
ARE AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED
Boynton Furnaces,
Baltimore Heaters and Ranges,
156 CONGRESS ST.,
Three Doors East of Market.
TRUNKS.
Ar Mobile. ~ TTT—'
Ar New urleans "" a) p ®
TO NE V ORLEANS'VIA UNION BPRIN(iT
Savannah 6:4iam 8 ; i0n
Ar Columbus 6:15 p m 7:25 a n>
•* r Montgomery 11:35 an
Ar Mobile... 2*lJa m
ArNew Orleans 7-ooam
to n ewLkleans via ’
Lv Savannah 6:40a m 8:10 p iri,
Ar Eufaula 4:30a in 3:38 p n -
Ar Montgomery 7: Ji a ra 6:'io pnv
Ar Mobile. I:sspm 2:loam
Ar New Orleans 7:9opm 7:ooata
THROUGH TRAINS TO SAVANNAH *
Lv Augusta 12:20 pm 9:3o'p ni
J*v Atlanta 6:,50a m 7:05p -
I.v Macon.. 10:45am 11:15pm
Ar Savannah 5:40 p m 6:30 ata
sleeper cars on night trabig.
RAILROADS.
Florida Railwa/ and Nayigaiiaa Company?
IN EFFECT JANUARY 20, 1331.
(Central Standard time used.!
svm*As am., p mean* p. m.
Going South. /*-._ ..
No. 1 No. 7. No S K^
J ? : 2h r ‘. r Fernandina Ar 3:06p 'B°*
„ JwksonviUa emp
< .30p 12:20p " Callahan “ j nan rmi
9:10p 2:35p * Baldwin “ 12*-52n 5-%ia
10:23p 3:36p “ Starke “
ILOOp 4:08p Waldo Lvll 'S gi£?
”:a P 6'o7n " H T b r 9 :"S
4iYa 7 : m“
6-S Wildwood 8:00a 9:00
6 ; 4t0 B ; 2ffi, “ J £ osbur * “ 7:SOp
. Tavares “ 7:10a 7:00p
i?* u •, orlando Fv 6:00a 4:30p
“cept Sunday; 7 and 3
CEDAR KEY DIVISION.
£22 P .“ _ WttMo Arrive 10:38 aat
I'.T? .< Games villa " 940 -
.ig * .. Arredondo Leave 8:59 “
*:?* „ Archer “ 8:25 "
fiiil 4* a * Bronson “
8.30 Arrive Cedar Key " ■■
Tampa division
5:00 am Leave Wildwood Arrive 4:45 pt *
ii£ . „ s *- Catherine Leave 2:15 ••
.1 .. Lacoochee “ nan "
10 ; S “ A- £, ade
10.A Arrrva Plant City “ H.-oOaut,
WESTERN DIVISION.
,:30a m Leave JacksonviUe Arrive 3:2o put
2:2? - - 1:35 •'
U „ I*ke aty Leave 1:06 “
10 43 Live Oak “ *•
11:42 - “ Madison “ 3,15-.
“. Drifton “ io':10
.oli, „ Monticelle Arrive 10:30 '
e:?S .. f 6l^0 Leave 9:50 ‘
s'no <> Le .? VB Tallahassee Arrive 8:57 “
tob * ... Qtifncy Leave 8:00“
4.w Arrive River Junction “ 7:05a q
„ F- & J. BRANCH.
r-itSfiSi! Fernandina Ar 6:l0p 11:45*
4.15 p 8.40a Ar JacksonviUe Lv 4:45p 10:00
*i me carda folders, mans, rates anj
b. e. ***wti.v?£sr j ' “■ p *•
8. PENNINGTON. Trafllc Manager.
Charleston and Smnmh Railway.
Schedule in Effect May 12th, 1839.
r P leSI e ST e and arrive at Savannah by
A- btarulard Time, which is 38 minutes slowed
than city time.
NORTHWARD.
No. 66.* No. 14.* No. 7a* No.
I.v Sav., 6:45 am 12:39 pm 8:10 p m 3:i5 pm
ArßeuTttlO:l7 am
ArAU’dT'elo:2s a m
ArAug... 12:40pm
ArChar.. 12:10 pin 5:20 pm 1:25 a m 9:40 pm
SOUTHWARD.
No. 15.* No. 35.* No. 27.*
LvChar.. 7:2oam 3:10 p m 4:00a m -
LvAug 12:46 pm
Lv AU’dTets:3o am 1:56 pm *
Lvßeu’f’t 7:22am 2:oopm
Ar Sav .. 10:40 a m 7:00 p m 6:44 ara
•Daily. 7Daily except Sunday. {Sunday*
only.
Train No. 14 stops at ail stations betwem
Savannah and Y'emassee.
Train No. 78 stops only at Mouteitb, Haras*
ville. Kidgelana, Green Pond.
Trains Nos. 38 and 66 stop at all stations.
For tickets, Pullman oar reservations ant
other information, apply to W'M. BREN, Tick*.
Agent, 22 Bull street, and at depot.
K. p. McSWINEY, Gen. Pass. Ageo.
C. S. GADSDEN, Superintendent.
GRAIN, 11AY. ETC .
SEED BYE:
COTTON SEED MEAL,
Rust Proof Seed Oats,
OUR OWN COW FEED,
Corn, Oats and Hay-
T. J. DAVIS & CO-,
100 JJA.X bteusjbt.