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WILL BE A CLOSE VOTE.
THE COUNCIL DIVIDED ON THE
GROUND RENT QUESTION.
The Ground Reuters Threaten Politi
cal Death to the Supporters of the
Movement to Tax Them—A Lively
Fight Looked For in Council, and the
Mayor May Have the Deciding Vote.
Alderman Falllgant's Analysis of the
Question.
The question whether the ground rent
lots ere to be assessed for city taxes is to be
settled Dext Tuesday night. For once there
is common cause against the star chamber
caucus. Each side, confident of the popu
larity of its position, will demand an open
meeting of the council, so that the people
may know how they have voted.
The ground renters are stirred up, and
the decision of Corporation Attorney
Adams has set them to prophesying political
death to any one who votes to tax the
ground rent lots.
The “good faith’’ argument is used as an
excuse why the ground rent lots should not
be assessed, and it is understood that the
ground renters have engaged counsel to
present their side of the case, and that they
1 ave clerks at work among the old archives
of the city, upon which the dust of a
century has accumulated, searching for
data upon which to base their dissenting
opinions.
THE COUNCIL EVENLY DIVIDED.
It has also leaked out that a close vote is
expected in the council—both sides claim
ing that the question is likely to stand, on
the final vote, 6 to 6, and that the mayor
will have the casting vote. Both sides
claim the mayor.
The grouud renters in that part of the
city north of Liberty street claim that
they will be able to defeat any one for re
election who votes to tax the ground rent
lots; but those who favor taxing them say
that it is 871 lot holders against all the rest,
end if the city does not tax the ground rent
lota, the other property holders will refuse
to pay taxes, on the ground that the taxes
are not evenly assessed under the constitu
tion, and therefore cannot be collected.
The ground renters claim that if the coun
cil should decide to assess the lots for taxa
tion it will go into the courts, and will not
be settled for ten years, as some of the
owners are not citizens of the state, or for
that matter of the United States, and there
fore the case will have to be determined by
the United States supreme court.
THE NON-TAXING SIDE.
A member of council who will vote
against taxing the property said yesterday
that it is not the province of the city to
question its own action. If the city has ex
ceeded its autnority in excusing ground rent
lots from Daying municipal taxes, it should
not be the first to act on it
and repudiate its contract If there
is antagonism, he said, it should
come from parties outside, and not from
the city. The exemption from city taxa
tion was made in the early history of the
city to encourage aud devolop the growth
of the city, and now, when it may ao
pear to have been a bad bargain, the city
must stand by its bargain, whether strictly
legal or not.
Alderman Falligant, who hns precipitated
the issue, says that the “good faith” argu
ment won’t hold water. He quotes from
he constitution that all contracts in viola
tion of public policy are void, and he says
that contracts pretending to exempt
private property from taxation forever are
in violation of public policy. The city
marshal may have said as a faot that
ground rent lots were not taxed, but the
statement did not ch&uge the character of
that fact, which was a violation of the con
stitution, and is not a cloak to pin good
faith upon for the continuance of the
wrong. Good faith to the taxpayer re
quires that he should not be made to pay
another man’s taxes.
ALDERMAN FALLIGANT’o ARGUMENT.
The alderman illustrates the case as fol
lows:
Twenty years ago, A and B purchased
two city lots side by side at $l,OOO each. A
paid the entire $l,OOO down and got an ab
solute fee simple deed. B paid $2OO down,
owes the city $BOO balance of purchasing
money, on which he pays six or seven per
cent per annum interest, quarterly, semi
annually, or annually, and gets a condi
tional fee-simple deed, or a deed with a
mortgage incorporate therein to
secure the unpaid balauce of the purchase
money and interest. Now, he asks, who
pays the city the most interest or ground
rent thereafter, A or Bf The man who
owes the city the $BOO will say that healoue
is paying any ground rent. The city got
$l,OOO from A, and, having it in its own
possession, saves borrowing ihat much, gets
the use of it, which is equivalent to tbe
interest, or employs it in extinguishing
$l,OOO of its interest-bearing obligations, and
by these moans practically forever after
gets the interest thereon.
The city gets $2OO cash from B, on which
it similarly obtains the interest forever
after, as in the oase as A’s $l,OOO, and B
continues to pay the interest on the remain
ing $BOO of purchase money; so that the
city gets from B also the interest (or ground
rent) on $l,OOO (200-1-800) forever after the
date of sale.
If any man can see where the city gets
any more interest out of B that out of A,
Alderman Falligant says he can see more
than the Alderman can.
A PROBLEM IN FIGURES.
“But now,” he adds, "comes the ouriosity
of the manner in which the city has treated
the two purchasers. We will consider, for
example, that these two lots have advanced
in value at an average increase of $2OO per
annum, and that they are now worth $5,000
each, and that the rate of taxation has been
3 per cent, per annum. A has been taxed
as follows:
Valuation. Tax.
First year .$l,OOO $ 20
Second year 1,200 24
Third year 1,100 28
Fourth year .. 1,000 32
Fifth year 1.800 36
Sixth year 2,000 10
Seventh year v 2.200 41
Eighth year 2,100 18
Ninth year y.eoo 62
Tenth year 2,800 28
Eleventh year 3,000 80
Twelfth year 8.200 PI
Thirteenth year. 3.400 6S
Fourteenth year 3.800 ?2
Fifteenth year. 3,800 78
Sixteenth year 1,100 b'o
Seventeenth year 4,200 81
Eighteenth year 4.100 88
Nineteenth year 4,600 92
Twentieth year 4,800 90
Twenty-first year 5,000 100
81,200
Without counting the accruiug interest on
these payments of taxes by <\, it will be
seen at onoe, according to Aldermau Falli
gant’s figuring, that by the twenty-one
years of assessments A has paid the city
$2OO more than the original cost of hie lot,
and paid the interest on $l,OOO also during
that period, because the city has his $1,000;
■whilst B has paid the city but $3OO
of his purchee money, and piys the
interest ou the remaining $BOO as ground
rent, making an interest on $l,OOO in all—
is let off from $1,260 of taxes, and yet has a
$5,000 lot, just as much his property, ex
cepting that he owes the city $BOO on it, as
is A’s $5,000 lot his property. These inter
esting differences are shown with more
perspicuity where a longer time has elapsed
since the original tale, or a greater increase
iu value has taken place.
ANOTHER SIDE OF THE QUESTION.
There is still another and graver wrong,
Alderman Falligant says, perpetrated under
the beguiling sophistry of "good faitn.”
“We will say that C purchased a lot from
the oity 100 years ago at $5OO, paying $lOO
down and continuing thenceforward to pay
5 per cent, interest aunually on the remain
ing $4OO. Tne lot has been gradually ad
*n va^ua until it is now worth
11 tbe original prioe at
which It wan sold was the basis
of exempt; n from taxation,
which ia one of the claims made by the e
parties, then tbe exemption of ssoo of its
value would fully meet the so-called "good
faith” requirements. The original pur
chaser. or his heirs or successors, however,
have sold the lot to anew partr ,t $lO,OOO.
The city did not get this $lO,OOO the owner
of tbe lot got, and 1 cannot, by tbe ex
tremert stretch of “faith,” discover any
even moral obligation on the part of the
city to exempt from taxation the $0,500 of
the value of the lot which the seller of the
lot k tas a personal profit, and which the
buyer bolds as his own.
It is fair to assume, the alderman says,
that such a lot has been worth an average
value of S3,tXX) during the 100 years. Ths
tax h which the city should have gotten
(luring that time at It* per cent, would
have been $4,.500, and tins being paid at an
annual average, tbe interest on these pay
ments would be equal to fifty years’ use of
$4,500, which, at 0 per cent., would be
$270 per annum for fifty years, or $13,500 ia
gross.
THE LOSS TO THE PEOPLE.
Adding the $13,500 of accumulated Inter
est to the $4,5000f taxes which should have
been paid during tbe 100 years, you are pre
sented with the startling exhibit that, by not
performing: its duty according to justice, the
city council of Savannah has caused the
people of Savannah to lose on a single lot
such as I have described, in the 100 years,
the enormous amount of $lB,OOO, aud oil
which they have never received but $lOO of
tbe purchase money.
The 100 payments of $2O would be $2,000;
50 years’ interest on $2,000 at 6 per cent,
would be $0 000; the two together would bo
$B,OOO. This is the beuelit the city has
actually received. But if the city hud ob
tained both taxa* and interest (or grouud
rent!, to which it was entitled, the combined
benefit would have been $lB,OOO-1-8,000,
or $20,000, of which, as I have above shown,
$lB,OOO was lost. This system of calcula
tion will apply pro rata as to length of
time aud amount of exemption to every
similar lot in the city.
“Now let us examine as to what the city
has test iu tbe last fifty years, not counting
what It lost prior to that time. It is fair
aud reasonable to assume that this class of
property has averaged $1,000,000 in value
during that period, and that at an averaze
annual tax of IL£ per cent., the
tax would have been $15,000 per
annum, or $750,000 in the aggre
gate. But it must be recollected that
$15,000 per annum means that the city
would have enjoyed an additional benefit
of 25 years interest on the whole stun,
which at 7 per cent would have been
equal to $52,500 per annum, or $1,312,500
for twenty-five years, which, when the
$750,000 is added, makes a clear loss to the
city treasury of $2,062,500 within fifty
years.”
There is still another view to take of this
matter from Alderman Falligant’s stand
point. The $750,000 or more which by the
countenance of consecutive councils ha not
been collected from those who ought to have
paid it. has been unlawfully wrested in ex
cess from those who were made to pay their
own shares also, and would have been worth,
with its interest accumulations, to those
from whom it was thus wrested, the enor
mous sum of $2,062,500.
A OUT-THROAT GAME.
Gamblers Chase a Victim Into the
Woods and Rob Him.
Justice McDermott recovered $l3 yos tor
day from a negro, who said that the money
belonged to Joe Johnston, who lives at
Station No. 2, on the Central railroad.
The negro said that the money had been
given him by another, who,
with other colored people, forced
Johnston to give it up. He told the magis
trate that Johnston was gambling in
Coopershop lane with a crowd of negroes,
and they cheated him. Johnston dropped
on to their game, and when he lost he
picked the money up, and, putting it in his
pocket, walked out of the place. The
crowd followed him, and one of them
jumped out of the door and shouted, “Dat
man killed er man; ketch ’im.”
The people on the streets ran after John
ston aud the country negro ran for bis life.
The crowd chased him two miles out of the
city and finally headed hltn olf on the canal,
south west of the city.
Johnston backed up against a tree and
pulled out a revolver and said that he would
kill tho first man that touched him. Tho
crowd kept him backed against the tree for
several hours, when Johnston told them if
they would let him go he would give them
$2O. The crowd agreed, and he
planked down the $2O, which was divided
up. Thirteen dollors of the money was
given to one of the negroes to divide up
amongst the others, but when ho found that
Johnston had killed nobody he refused to
divido the money and sought the magis
trate. Justice McDermott took the money
and sent for Johnston. Johnston’s brother,
who works in Savannah, went out aftsr the
mau who gave up the money, and he is ex
peoted to be here this morning, when the
matter will bo looked Into further.
AT THHI POINT OP A GUN.
Deputy Sheriff Butler Bound His Pris
oners Won’t Escape.
William Friar (colored) was committed to
jail by Justico Waring Russell yesterday on
the charge of stealing chickens and turkeys
from Mrs. Gibbs’ place on the Ogeechee
road, Friar having been unable to give
bond for his appearance at the city court.
Deputy Sheriff William Butler (colored)
brought the prisonor in, and had him
guarded with a double-barreled shotgun,
loaded with buckshot. As be turned Friar
over to the justice he said: “’Souse me
jedge foh briugiu’ a gun into coht, as I
isn’t got any handcuffs. Dis is de wav I
stops 'em,” and ho was about to show the
court how he did it, in a most dramatic
way, when Justice Russell ordered him to
put his gun down. He set it up in a corner
of the court room, but he kept his weather
eve on the prisonor until he got his com
mitment, when, shouldering his shotgun,
he marched Friar to the jail.
THE RKDIBTRIOTING ACT.
The Bill to Divide the Fourth Militia
Dietrict Becomes a Law.
The governor having signed the bill pro
viding for a redistricting of the city, Mayor
Schwarz says that all that now remains is
for the city council to pass a resolution pro
viding for an extra box for the fourth dis
trict for municipal elections. The law does
not provide for increasing the districts at
county, state or national elections, but ap
plies only to elections for municipal officers,
and it the result of the last municipal elec
tion, adieu many residents of the fourth dis
trict unable, owing to the rush, to
cast their votes. The fourth district is to be
divided Into two districts, each of which is
to be provided with a box at the regular
polling place, so that all may vote.
A Receiver Appointed.
In the superior court yesterday John N.
Johnson was appointed receiver to seli the
damaged cotton at tho lower cotton press
at public or private sale, in bis discretion,
and he was required to give a bond of $5,000
acceptable to Clerk Carr. The Savannah
Cotton Press Association was allowed to
file a claim of SIOO for attorneys’ fees and
$lO3 for advertising the gate of cotton,
which are to be first ileus on the property
to be sold.
Eighty Thousand Bales Ahead.
Savannah pasted tbs half million bale
point yesterday. The total week’s receipts
were 56,089 bales. The receipts thus far
this season aro ahead of last by about 80,-
000 bales.
If you want to sse astonishing results try
Salvation Oil for neuralgia. Prtco 20 cents.
“Quack Nostrum" is a term not at all appli
eabie to Dr. Bull's Cough Smup.
TIIE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1889.
TO BEGIN WORK SOON.
The Contract for the Independent
Church to be Let Next Week.
Architect Preston arrived from Boston
yesterday to cloee the preliminary details for
the rebuilding of the Independent Presby
terian ahurch. He bad a conference with
the building committee in the afternoon,
and he said last night that he hopes to be
able to award the contract Ly the middle
of next week. He learned from the com
mittee that all the bids ars not in yet, but
that they will be probaby by Monday.
If they are he will be able to give oat the
contract so that work will begin immedi
ately.
It is the purpose of the building commit
tee to have the structure c&mplteii as early
next year as possible.
Tho plans and specifications drawn bv
Mr. Preston are for a building which will
approximate in cost between $125,000 and
$150,000. The architect was’asked where
the stone for the building would come from,
and he replied that lie did not kuow; that
matter will hare to be agreed upon with
the contractor. The stone out of which the
old church was built was transported
from a granite quarry ia Massa-
CQuaetts. There were no railroads
then, and the stone was rafted from near
the quarries to vessels for transportation.
Mr. Preston said that the new stone may
come from Massachusetts, or it may be pro
cured at tbe quarries in this stale.
The drawing of the plans for the church,
Mr. I’reston said, was an exceedingly difficult
work, not difficult becalm of the intricate
architecture, but because the data from
whicn he made the plans had to be obtained
fiom all sorts of source*. The data
was got from parties in several states. A
good deal of it was obtained from the Rhode
Island church. Mr. Preston said that he
could have drawn two plans of almost any
other styles of churches in the time that
was required to draw the plans for the
church here. The plans provide for an ex
act duplicate structure of that destroyed
last April.
After tho contract has been awarded, Mr.
Preston will retur i to Boston, but will
make periodical visits to Savannah to in
spect the work as it progresses. He expects
to be here about a week. Tne DeSolo is
under his supervision, as is the court house.
He will inspect both buildings before bo
leaves.
IN A MUDDLB AGAIN.
The City Having a Hard Time With
the Bay Btreet Extension.
The Bay street extension appears to be in
as much of a muddle since Mr. Exley signed
tho contract granting the right of way,
as it was before he signed it Under the
contract he will not permit “cutting” to
grade, and the county has stopped work be
cause it is required to fill without cutting.
It is claimed by Alderman Harmon,
chairman of the street and lane committee
of the council, that it would have been
better and cheaper to have condemned the
right of way in the first instance, as, under
the contract, it will be far inpre expensive to
conform to it in opening the extension. The
contract, he says, binds the city “to make
no cuts through the land of the said Exley,
hut will raise all low place) through wbieu
the said street shall pass.”
Another agreement is considered harsh
and inipractiebale, it being stipulated that
they further agree not to place auy ditches
on either side of the said street, but “under”
or “covered” drains are to be put in the
place of tho ditches where necessary.
The provision in the contract for the city
to fence the street is thought to be severe,
as it is agreed that the city shall place a
good fence on both sides if the right of way
through the entire length of the proposed
extension through all of the lauds of Mr.
Exley, even though beyond the city limits,
the fence to be heart cedar posts" 6 inches
square, 2% feet in the ground and 5 feet
above the grouud, posts well packed and 8
feet apart. There shall not be le ;s than 5
good barbed wires stretched and secured to
the posts, with a tip plank of yellow heart
pine 1 inch by 4 inches, nailed to posts 5
feet from the ground.
Wheu Mr. Exley refused to sign the con
tract, vt was argued by Alderman Harmon
that condemnation would be better for the
city, and while it is understood that he has
ordered advertisements for proposals to do
the work under agreement and action of
council, the terms of the contract, he
thinks, are too rigid. He is favor of “cut
ting” as the only economic way to com
plete the extension.
The county commissioners appear to be
disgusted with the matter, and have sus
pended work, and until grades are estab
lished it is not probable that they will re
sume work.
AT TBB THEATER.
Hettla Bernard Chase Makes a Hit as
“The Little Coquette.”
Miss Hettie Bernard Chase played “Tim
Little Coquette” to a fine audience last
night. Miss Chase is a rollicking, dashing
sonbrette with a handsome face and form,
attractive as the country girl, the waiter
in the restaurant or when she was glitter
ing with diamonds in the last act.
Whether singing or dancing or picking the
ing the baugo, she is the same piquaiut
character.
The plav is purely American. The story
is new and is told in an off-hand mannor.
All of the characters are well taken.
Mr. Charles W. Chase was very clever in
his dude character, and did very artistic
work, and but few in the audience
knew he was tho same one
that took tbs character of “Aaron Flint,”
so completely was he disguised.
Hattie Price as the adventuress “Bybil
Bt. Clair” was as an adventuress should lie,
aud acted her part well. Miss Chase, was, of
course, the star, and she was a favorite
from the start.
A special matinee parformanco will be
given this afternoon and the concluding
performance will be to-night.
At the Y. M. O. Association,
The young men’s meeting will be held to
morrow afternoon at 5 o'clock at the asso
ciation rooms, Bull and Jones streets. All
young men will receive a warm welcome.
An architect has been engaged to prepare
plans for the new gymnasium. They will
bo completed early next week, and the con
tract will be immediately given out. A
complete outfit of new gymnasium ap
paratus will soon be ordered, aud when tho
building is completed aud the apparatus set
up the association will have as fine a
gymnasium as there is in tho state.
The week of prayer-meetings closed last
evening with an address by Rev. TANARUS, H.
Bleuus of the Chris tian churcn".
An Eminent Educator.
Savannah will have an opportunity to
morrow of hearing an interesting address
from one of the ablest men and most pro
gressive educators in the south. Dr.
Candler, president of Emory College, will
occupy the pulpit of Trinity church to
morrow morning. The services will begin
at 11 o’clock a. m. The doctor will have a
good deal to say about education and Emory
College.
The United States Courts.
It is learned that no more criminal cases
will be beard in the United States court for
the term after next Welntsdav, and there
fore many cases will go over for the term.
Bore Throat
1* particularly favorable to the contraction
of Diphtheria. Heed the warning, aud use
Darbys Prophylatic Fluid. It at once
allays the inflammation of the throat, sub
dues the pain and gives permanent relief.
It promptly and effectually destroys all
contagion ad diphtheritic germs. It is a
safeguard against Diphtheria, aud should
be used on the hrst symptoms of sore throat
as a gurgle.
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.
THE NEW COURT HOUSE.
The Walls Completed Up to the
Second Story,
The court house is beginning to loom up.
The walls are completed beyond the second
floor level, and Contracts. Miles & Bradt
are vigorously pushing the work. They
have no doubt that the building will be
turned over to the commissioners by Aug.
15. That is the contract.
The exterior walls, which are completed
up to the second story window sills, are
being run up to the third floor level. The
granite for the base of ihe building has
been put in and the stone for the steps is on
tbe site ready to be put in position. There
will be no more granite used in the build
ing. The rest of the stono to be used will
be sandstone. The large stones received a
short time ago have teen cut up and tbe
bio ks for the corners of the building have
been trade. The iron beams for the support
of the floors and for tne openings in the
brick walls have been received.
Tuere will be three vaults in the building;
the vaults for the clerk of the superior aud
city c Hurts and for the ordinary; the former
will be in the south astern corer of the
building, and in the center of the York
street front. The ordinary's vault will be
in the northeastern corner. The contract
ors say that the vaults are made very sub
stantially. The vault in the superior court
clerk’s office is 22x30, the city court clerk’s
vault is 22 feet square, and the ordinary’s
vault is 17x30 feet Ihe top of the vaults is
supported by iron beams 3 feet apart; be
tween these beams is brick laid in cement
mortar. Upon the brick will be
placsd railroad iron, a foot apart, leveled up
with concrete, and on the iron will be three
thickness of North river flagging stone.
The floors of the second story then come on
top.
Contractor Bradt said that this is done so
that in esse of fire the documents and
public moneys which may tie in the vaults
will he secured. The protection i3 sufficient
to bear up the entire weight of the structure
above the second floor level. No preten
tensions are made to make toe vaults
burglar proof. In order to do this it would
be necessary, he said, to line the inside
of the vaults with iron and
steel. The state treasurer’s office vault in
the state capitol is burglar proof. It is
lined with three thickuesses of iron and one
of steel, so that drilling is practically im
possible.
The contractors expect to have the build
ing under roof by February. Some pretty
terracotta designs have been put in the ex
terior wall on the different fronts, and
others have just been received which will
he placed in position shortly. A large terra
cotta scroll, beautifully designed in flowers
with “1880” on one end of it, will be placed
in the Bull street elevation between the
second and third story windows.
The corners of the tower at the north
western corner of the building fronting
Bull and President streets, wilt he of orna
mental terracotta work. There is an orna
mental tablet over the Bull street entrance
with “Chatham County Court House” in
raised letters. The structure was completed
up to the first floor level with red mortar,
but above the first floor level buff mortar
h-is been used. The Drayton street front
is getting its share of ornamentation. There
is a tablet on that side with “Chatham
County Court House” on it, and two beauti
fully designed corbels of terracotta have
just been put in position.
THE DiS BOTA ABOUT FINISHED.
Lessee Baker to Begin Furnishing
Next Week.
J. H. Baker, lessee of the Da Soto, is ex
pected in Savannah Tuesday to begin fur
nishing tho hotel. It was exjiected that he
would have been here yesterday, and Lew
man Bros., the contractors, pushed the
work in order to have the upper floors
ready to receive the furuituro. They com
pleted yesterday the floors over the first
floor. It alone is unfinished.
The hotel is £swopt clean from the
solariun down to the first floor. Every
plank, or board, or brick that may have
been left by the workmen was removed last
week, and the rooms were practically ready
to be furni-jhed when tho legislators in
spected them. The contractors receivod in
formation yosterday that Lessee Baker will
be ready Tuesday morning to begin work.
The mantels for all of the rooms have
arrived and have been put up.
The rooms arejjj neatly painted and
frescoed, and the doors, which were the
last to be completed, aro thoroughly dry.
The workmen are now busy furnishing the
dining room, drawingrooms, parlors, office,
reception rooms, etc., on the first floor,
which, Mr. Lewinnn said last night, will be
completed before Dec. 25.
Mr. Haverstraw, the froscoer, arrived
yesterday and began work, and Mr. Lewis,
who is putting in the steam heaters, has
nearly completed his work. The chimney
for the steam heaters throughout the build
ing will be finished to-day. It is on the
Drayton street side of the hotel.
The steps for the Liberty street entrance
were put up yesterday, and the the entrance
is now completed. Toe material is Italian
marble. The $1,300 mantle for the rotunda
is also of Italian marble. It is expected to
be here in two weeks.
BELIEVED TO BE A FARE.
The Story of the Eutawville Railroad
Extension to Savannah Discredited.
The story that the Eutawville (S. C.),
railroad is to be extended to Savannah, or
that the extension is a movement in the
interest or under the auspices of the Robin
son system is discredited by the South
Bound people. A Savannah gentlema i
said yesterday that until tho extension of
the Robmson systun is completed from
Cheraw, S. C., to Atueris, Ga., upon which
the work is now progressing, no further ex
tensions will bo projected. He says, how
ever, that the Robinson system, when it
des come Savannah ward, will make
satisfactory traffic arrangements with the
South Bound, with which it can connect at
Columbia, whore it is hoped that the South
Bound will be in dperation before the
Robinson system completes its extension to
Athens.
The gentleman, who claims to by
the card,says that he knows that the Robin
son system will not take any such a route
to get to Savannah as via Eutawville,
when a shorter route and through a more
productive section is open to this seaport
city, and lie further savs that he has roasous
for saying that until Athens is reached no
more railroad extensions will be projected
except by meeting the South Bound at
Columbia, if the South Bound does not
build its own extension northward from
Columbia to connect with the road pushing
from Cheraw to Athens.
ARCHBISHOP GROSS COMING.
Savannah’s Former Bishop to Arrive
Here Next Week.
Archbishop Gross of Oregon, formerly
bishop of the Roman Catholic see of Savan
nah, is expected in thia city next woek,
where he will spend several days among the
clergy aud laity, who hold him in pro
found respect ana reverence. Archbishop
Gross is on his return home from Rome,
where he spent several months. He at
tended the Baltimore centennial, and the
distinguished honor was accorded him of
preaching the opening sermon at the
assembling of the lay congress, in which
ceremonies attendant upon the occasion he
took a prominent part.
it is understood that the Catholio socie
ties of this city will take active stops to
give the archbishop a royal weloome to his
old home, and only await the announce
ment of the exact date of his visit to per
fect the programme.
Archbishop Gross is not only held in high
esteem by those of his own ecclesiastical
faith, but is deservedly popular with those
of all denominations, and bis visit hare will
he welqqued by (he public m
AT THE COURTS.
Burglar Russell Gets Four Years Id
tbe Ohio Penitentiary.
C. TV. Russell, convicted in tbe United
States court day before yesterday for
larceny and burglary in the daytime, was
sentenced to four years in tbe Ohio peni
tentiary by J udge Speer y3terdsy.
Out of the oa-e grew an animated ques
tion of privilegs in the court room yester
day morning. The counsel for Umbacb,
Mr. Richards, objected to the report
of the trial iu the Morning
News. District Attorney Erwin dis
claimed having furnished the information
upon which the report was based. Tbe
court took no action in the matter, saying
that he had nothing to do with the reports
of court proceedings ia the press, and could
not control them.
Deputy Clerk Gillespie seemed to bs
singled out as having given the informa
tion, but be was wholly innooent.
Urnbach and Russell were indicted for
Burglary and larceny of government prop
erty from Fort Oglethorpe. Mr. Richards
demurred in the Urnbach case, and the de
murrer I laving been overruled by Judge
Speer, .the case was expected to go to trial.
Lmbach’s counsel claimed “surprise” and
the case went over. When the Russell
ca=e was under trial Mr. Richards made
notes of tho testimony and carefully noted
the authorities which the counsel
for Rusceil drew out. This was
a matter of notice in the court room.
There was no intimation that Mr. Richards
obtained a continuance for the purpose of
availing himself of the advantages which
Russell’s trial would give him.
THE PENSION FRAUD GABES.
Solomon Washington on Trial In tho
United States Court.
In the United States court yesterday
morning Solomon Washington (colored),
was put upon trial for perjury alleged
against him in swearing falsely to the
identity of one Kate Glover (colored) for
the purpose of obtaining a pension for her.
The case was fully detailed in the Morn
ing News when it was before the United
States commissioners’ oourt. Washington
and otQor colored men c inspired to defraud
the government by obtaining a pension for
Kate Glover, widow of James Glovor, and
they went before Cob John H. Deveaux,
where the affidavits were made, another
woman personating Kate Glover, who
lives at Beaufort, aud who was ignorant of
toe matter, and whose remarriage, after
the death of her husband, debarred her
from obtaining a pension.
The pension on the fraudulent affidavit
and proofs was drawn for two or three
years, when the house of the counterfeit
Kate Glover was burned with the pension
certificate, and it was necessary to renew
it. Application was made upon fraudulent
representations, and the government sent
an agent to look into the case. By the
purest accident the agent learned that the
only original Kate Glover lived at Beau
fort, and was ignorant of the fact that a
pension had been paid for years in her
name to an alleged Kate Glover here.
The testimony of the government was in
troduced at yesterJay morning’s session of
the court, and a session was held last night,
in which a demurrer wa3 argued and over
ruled. Tho decision operates to admit cer
tain documentary evidence iu the shape of
affidavits. The further hearing of the case
will be resumed this morning.
New Telopnone Stations.
The following stations have been added
to tho Savannah Telephone Exchange;
No. 157—Dr. F. T. Liucoln.
No. 436—E. A. M. Schroeder.
No. 390—Solomons & Cos., Bull street.
No. 443—R. M. Detnere.
No. 402—F. Manning.
No. 310—W. Pringle Frost.
An Alliance Office Opened.
The farmers’ alliance clubs of Scriven
county have opened a branch office here in
Daffiu’s range on Bay street, between Lin
coln aud Habersham streets, for the trans
action of ; a cotton factorage business.
It is in charge of Mr. J. R. Cooper, and the
alliance farmers will ship to this point for
the purpose of having their cotton disposed
of under Mr. Cooper’s management.
Arabs at Law.
Magistrates Patterson, Sheftall and Mc-
Dermott heard the case yesterday against
J. Rohal and G. Rossens.two Arab peddlers,
for the recovery of $145 which was alleged
to have been stolen from A. Sllamas, an
other Arab. The evidence was insufficient
to oonvict the men, so the case was dis
missed.
RIVER AND HARBOR NOTES.
The bark Elba will be hauled out on
Willink’s marine railway to-day for a
general overhauling.
The United States snag boat Toccoa
arrived last night from up the river, where
she has been working on tho obstructions
and snags near Augusta.
The British steamship Harrogate was
cleared yesterday by A. Minis & Sons, for
Reval, with 4,401 bales of upland cotton,
weighing 2,148,062 pounds, and valued at
$207,500.
Tbe German brig Dr. AVitte was cleared
yesterday for Bristol, by A. R. Salas &
Cos., with 1,773 b.irrels of spirits turpentine,
measuring 9J,378 gallons and valued at
$39,450. Cargo by James Farie, Jr., Esq.
Messrs. Strachan & Cos. cleared yester
day tho British steamship Carlton, for Liv
erpool, with 4,453 bales of upland cotton,
weighing 1,909,470 pounds, valued at $220,-
300, and 997 bales of sea island cotton,
weighing 397,665 pounds, valued at $106,650.
Total valuation of cargo, $326,950.
Tho British steamship Athabasca was
cleared yesterday by Richardson & Bar
nard for Liverpool, with 6.067 bales of
upland cotton weighing 2,898,481 pounds,
valued at $261,668.48, and 50 bags of sea
island cotton weighing 20,543 pounds,
valued at $5,000. Total valuation of cargo
$266,668.
The schooner Gsn. Adalbert Amos, Capt.
Jameson, arrived here yesterday from New
York with a cargo of bulk phosphate. Tho
captain reports moderate weather.and when
off the Virginia capes passed through lots
of lumber wreckage, aiso picked up two
bales cotton uncompressed, and brought
them to this port.
CITY BREVITIES.
Henry Haskins, a sailor on the Norwegian
steamer Marie, was knocked down by a
bale of cotton falling on him yesterday and
his head was terribly cut lie fell on some
of the machinery. He was removed to Sa
vannah hospital, where his wounds were
promptly dressed.
Bismarck Brittle, tho young man whose
accidental shooting was detailed in yester
day’s Morn ino News, was resting easy
last night, and it is now throught that only
one Auger will have to be amputated. The
surgeon in attendance thinks that only tbe
index finger of the right hand will have to
come off, although the young man will long
have to depend on others feeding him and
caring for him, as it will be two or three
mouths before he will have the use of his
bauds.
Sir Morell Mackenzie,
The physician to the late Emperor Jof
Germany, has written expressly for the
Youth's Companion a most valuable article
on “The Care of tho Voice in Youth.” A
similar artiole on "The Care of the Eyes in
Youth” has been prepared by the famous
oculist, Dr. D. B. St John Roosa.
We observe that J. N. Johnson, Esq., has
been appointed reoeiver in the matter of
the sale of the burnt cotton at the Lower
Compress warehouses. Uhls is the cotton
which has beeu adver tiseiLby J. McLaughlin
, & Sou.
BAKING POWDER.
&AkiH c
POWDER
Absolutely Pure.
This powder never varies. A. marvel of parity,
strength aad wßjieeomecess. More economical
than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be
sold In competition with the multitude of low
test, short weight alum or phosphate powders.
Sold only la cans Rotsi. Baxnia Potman Ou.,
106 Wall street. New York.
LOCAL PibRSON Ah.
Max Low of Brunswick is here.
J. H. Whitman of Brunswick is here.
R. L. Eason of Irwinton is in the city.
Lewis T. Goodrich of Augusta is here.
8. F. Miiier of Waycross is in the city.
P. C. Magnus of Atlanta is in the city.
P. S. Tatum of Abbeville is in the city.
J. W. Preston of Bartow is in the city.
J. W. W illiams of Saussv is in the city.
D. B. Overton of Brunswick is in the city.
Mrs. N. Smith of Atlanta is in the city.
W. B. Meyers of Blackville, S. C., is here.
Mrs. F. Gillen of Jacksonville is in the
city.
C. E. Taylor came iu from Willard yes
terday.
James Y. Biitch came in from Blitch yes
terday.
John T. Buckley of Scotland Neck, N. C.,
is in the city.
Charles H. Fennis came down from Au
gusta yesterday.
G. B. Letford of Belton, S. C., came over
to Savannah yesterday.
W. T. Miller and Phil Fogarty of Charles
ton came over to Savannah yesterday.
Mrs. J. B. Gamble and Mrs. J. S. Betts
of Tallahassee are at the Pulaski house.
P. G. Busbee and Miss Dora Smith o
Brunswick are guest* of the Marshall.
J. Rice Smith, Augusta, general man
ager of the Georgia Chemical Works, is in
the city.
Sol Blood worth went out last night on a
business trip through the western portion
of the state for C. L. Montague & Cos.
Vice-President and General Manager M.
J. O’Brien of the Southern Express Com
pany, and his private secretary, T. W.
Leary, of New York, are in the city. Mr.
O’Brien will remain here a few days, when
he will go to Florida.
Mrs. Ferrill, Mrs. Demere, and Mrs.
d’Antignac arrived home yesterday morn
ing from their summer trip north. Miss
Maud d’Antignac is visiting friends in New
York, and Miss Mary d’Antignac is visit
ing friends in Washington City.
J. H. Johnson of Long Branch, Tattnall
county, met with quite a serious loss yester
day. He was in town making purchases,
and was going from place to place, when
he missed a roll of money containing sllO.
He is under the impression that ho pulled
the roll out of his pocket when he took out
his watch. Mr. Johnson advertises his loss
in the Morning News.
Prof. King, tbe celebrated balloonist, ar
rived in the city yesterday from Charles
ton with his balloon. The professor is one
of the best knowii men in his profession,
having made over 300 successful ascensions,
the last oue being at Charleston during
“gala week” in that city. His ascensions
are like those soon in former years in this
city, the aeronaut and his companion going
up in the balloon, which sails out of sight.
If he can make suitable arrangements he
will maka an ascension in this city.
AV. R. I.eaken, who has been associated
with Chisholm & Erwin in the practice of
law for the last seven years, has retired
from the firm. Mr. Laaken is one of the
most prominent among the younger mem
bers of the Savannah par. He has opened
an office at No. 118 Bryan street. Mr.
Leakon’s association with Chisholm &
Erwin has brought him into prominence,
aud ho has already a large acquaintance,
not only in Savannah and in the estern
judicial circuit, but throughout this part of
the state
Ex-Senator tl. 11. Clifton of Tattnall
county and brother of Representative
William Clifton, was in the city yesterday.
Mr. Clifton is an extensive cotton planter,
stock raiser and timber and lumber dealer
on the line of the Eden extension, the com
pletion of which he says will develop that
country aud add largely to the trade of
Savannah. Mr. Clifton is a man quite
influential in politics in his county, and if a
strong man is not put up for governor in
this section he will support Hon. H. G.
Turner, with whom he served for four
years in the general assembly.
The Marshall House.
The Marshall house in this city is now
under the personal management of Mr. M.
L. Harnett. It is replete with all modern
improvements, electric bells, electric lights,
nnd nowlv furnished throughout. Rates
have been reduced to $2, $3 50 and $3 per
nay. M. 1,. Harnett & Cos.
Cape Fear Club, )
Wilmington. N. C., Nov. 5, 18S9. )
Messrs. Lee Hoy Myers Cos., 133 Hay
Street, Savannah, Ga.:
Dear Sirs—Replying to your favor of
30th ultimo, we are pleased to report that
the “Hernan Cortez” brand of cigars are
the “best sellers" we have in. stock, which
is a sufficient guarantee of their popularity.
Yours respectfully,
Cape Fear Club,
C. B. Mallette, Superintendent.
Physicians do not hesitate to tell thoir
patients that Brewer’s Lung Restorer is
good for Lung troubles, as the ingredients
are simple and tho most effective.
John Lyons & Cos.
Aro receiving, per express, this morning,
another shipment of choice dressed turkeys.
Also Cape Cod cranberries and Kalamazoo
celery. Send orders early.
Atlanta, Ga., May 20, 1881.
Dear Sir —Sancdlne made a perfect cure
of a sore on my mare. Only a few applica
tions were made. It has wonderful healing
qualities. Yours truly, W. A. Huff.
Oak, Pine and Lightwood.
Have rsmoved my wood yard to corner
Gwinnett street and Savannah, Florida and
AVestera railway. Telephone 77. R. B. Cassels
Notice to Contractors ana Builders.
I have been appointed sole agent for tho sole
of the celebrated Chewacla Lhno. This lime has
ueen sold in this market for the last twenty
years, and i• eonoeded to have given better sat
isfaction than iuyj other lime. lam also agent
for JoUwjui Roaendaie Cement. KngUsh and
German Portland Cements, Calcined Plaster,
PUstarlng Hair, etc., which I can furnish in any
quantity aod oo short notice. I keep on hand the
larjreec stock In the south of White Pine Doors,
Sash, Klioda, Bonders' Hardware, Paints, Oils,
Glass. LubrloaUag Oils, Packings of all kinds, a
complete assortment of steamboat and mill
supplies. Get my prices before purchasing
alnswhore. Us terns t— ahm fully furnished.
LUPPICM <fc BATES 8. M. n.
‘‘.NOTHING SUCCEEDS
LIKE SUCCESS,"
AND success in selling
PIANOS and ORGANS
can only be based upon
excellent instruments at
reasonable and uniform
prices, together with f air
contracts and good faith i n
carrying out guarantees
That the strictly One
Price system of selling in
struments is appreciated is
well evidenced by the fact
that the great yearly increase
in our sales continues un
abated.
Sales of Pianos and Or
gans only for October,
1888, were $5,000
greater than for October
1887, and sales for October
this year $5,000 ahead
of 'BB.
If we can have the pleas
ure of selling you a Piano
or Organ rest assured you
shall not pay a hieh
price for a low or medium
grade instrument
Ludden & Bates
S. M. H.
DRY GOODS.
CfiOHAN & I OOlf
! 37 Broughton St.
JO YIN’S KID GLOVES.
We have just received our fall importations
of Jovin’s Celebrated Kid Gloves, for which wt
are sole agents in Savannah. AVe have them la
dressed and undressed, plain and stitched backs
—in blacks, tans, grays aud evening shade*.
C. P. A LA SIRENE CORSETS,
Extra long improved Sateen and Coothili
Jeans in three different qualities. Also a full
line of Thomson Glove-fitting R. & O.’s French
Woven and Miss Corsets in five different grade*
RIBBONS.
We have an immense stock of fine All-Silk
Gros Grain Ribbons in Ottoman and Satin
edges, in narrow, medium and wide widths iii
all the new tints at popular prices.
Children’s Caps.
AVo aro now showing a very handsome line of
children's Plush and Persian Embroidered Caps
in all the fashionable shades. Also a beautiful
line of AVhite Embroidered Cashmere Caps, a i
prices ranging from $1 to $3 each.
CROHAN&DDOiR
FUBNITURB AND CARPETS.
TEC IE
I. J. HILLER Cl.
HAVE RECEIVED A LOT OF GOODS AMONG
AVHICH ARE
50 Rattan Rockers, all sizes,
shapes and prices.
6 doz. Ring Towel Holders.
6 doz. “Latest” Hat Hooks, in
Oak, Walnut and Cherry at the
low price of 50 cents.
An Inspection of our elegant
FURNITURE warerooms is re
requested.
THE A J. SUM a,
171 BROUGHTON ST.
C OAL AND WOOD.
WOOD & GOAL
OF ALL KINDS.
DENIS J. MURPHY,
TELEPHONE 4D.
Office 7, Drayton street. Citizens* Banlrßufldiw?
■! - M ■■■■ I- I , ■ , , .
WHOLESALE GROCERS.
G. DAVIS & SON,
WHOLESALE GROCERS.
PROVISION, HAY, GRAIN AND FLOUR,
AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
A96 and 198 Bay Strowi. - g.ynnth. G*
DAVIS BROS,
.’ins arf Organs.
WJE have about thirty second hand Pi* n( *
VV and Organs, Just freshly worked over.
that we are offering at great bargains to make
room. Some of them are as good as new,
can be sold on regular rental terms until P*J“
for. We give a nice stool and cover with escs
instrument, and keep in tune for one year
Don’t forget that we are sole agents for tns
celebrated
KNABE,
CONOVER,
AND
HARRINGTON
pianos,
STORY & CLARK,
AND
KIMBALL
ORGANS. .
Sold on easy monthly installments or liber*
discount for cash. Our three tuners an<1 2\
pairers rushed with work, but want more.
us about your repair jobs. Tuning by exi .
rienced men singly or by the year.
W. E. GUERARD the 67th name drawn ra
Davis Bros.’ Piano Club No. 1.
DAVIS BROS.,
42,41.. 16 and 46 BULL STREET.