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ANOTHER GREAT TRADE.
FIRST CARGO OF PHOSPHATE TO
BB SHIPPED FROM SAVANNAH.
The Bark Gler to Baffin Loading 700
Tons of Florida Rock Next Week
for Darsten Dock, Liverpool -Savan
nah the Probable Shipping; Point for
the Florida Phosphate—Wharves to
be Built aDd Facilities to be Pro
vided for the Trade.
The first full cargo of phosphate ever ex
ported from Savannah and the first cargo
of Florida phosphate to be exported will he
shipped from this port about April 1 by the
Marion Phosphate Company, composed of
Savannah men. The bark Gler, owned in
Savannah, her managing owner, J. B.
Duckworth, being also interested in the
Marion Phosphate Company, has been
chartered for the cargo.
The vessel will begin to load next week a
cargo of 700 tons of SO per cent, bone
phosphate of lime,at the Savannah, Florida
ond Western wharves, for Darsten dock,
Liverpool. Five hundred tons of the cargo
have already arrived, and it is of a very
fine quality. It has attracted a great deal
of interest, and hundreds have visited the
sheds to examine the much talked of phos
phate.
A BIG THING FOR SAVANNAH.
George J. Baldwin of this city, president
of the Marion Phosphate Company, when a
Morning News reporter called on him
yesterday morning, was almost on the point
of declining to be interviewed. “The peo
ple," he said, “will begin to think that I
am trying to keep our business before them,
and that is a position we do not want to be
placed in.”
“But this is a matter of nublio interest,
and the beginning of anew industry at this
port, and the people of Savannah have
more than an idle curiosity about it.’
Mr. Baldwin replied that this is no doubt
true, as the initial shipment toon to be
made will beau incident in the history of
Florida phosphate.
TO EXPORT FROM SAVANNAH.
No permanent arrangements have yet
been made at any port for exporting the
product of the company’s phosphate fields
in Florida, but wharf facilities have
tietn furnished by the Savannah, Florida
and W *-stem railroad for the half dozen or
more initial cargoes which they expect to
ship the present season, and he added that
if satisfactory arrangement* for rail
freights can be effected Savannah wili be
the pent of export for the product of their
mines.
It is expected, Mr. Baldwin gays, that the
next cargo will be sent to Hamburg as soon
as another vessel can be chartered, as the
Gler has been chartered only for the first
exportation. It is the intention of the com
pany- to mine 250 tons a week of the 80 per
cent, bone phosphate until such time as the
improved equipments for mining the phos
phate more extensively are provided.
TO HANDLE THE HOCK.
Mr. Baldwin says that the company has
contracted for buildings at the mines to dry
the phosphate, in which improved condition
it will be exported hereafter.
The demand for the Florida phosphate is
steadily increasing, but until the works are
prepared to mine and prepare it for ship
ping more expeditiously, exportations will
necessarily be small compared with what
may be expected next year. The Dunnel
lon Company will also export Florida
phosphate, but it is not known what port
will be selected, and it has been suggested
that the board of trade and cotton exchange
take some action inviting the other com
pany to investigate the shipping facilities
of Savannah, with a view of having all the
Florida phosphates go from this port.
TO BUILD PHOSPHATE WHARVES.
If the Marion Phosphate Company finds it
practicable to make Savannah its perma
nent point of export improved facilities will
be employed in transferring the phosphate
from tho cars to the vessel, and to provide
against interruptions in the regular sched
ule of the phosphate trains as high as 1,500
tons of phosphate will be kept on hand in
bins and sheds constructed lor that pur
pose.
Phosphate exports on a large scale will
require close connections with vessels by
phosphate trains run on a regular schedule,
so mat as little delay as possible in loading
vessels will be experienced. The demand
abroad will be very large, and the industry
wiil be one whose importance can ha- dly be
approximated.
A GREAT TRADE IN PROSPECT.
It will employ largo numbers of men at
the mines, increase the traffic of the roads,
and be a leading factor in the commerce
and shipping of Savannah, which is con
ceded to bo the most practical and only
natural point of export.
The only phosphate rock ever exported
from Savannah has been broken cargoes of
South Carolina rock in ballast, whereas the
Florida phosphate will require in the near
.uture sailing and steam vessels of the
.argest tonnage, whose entire cargoes wili be
exported to the United Kingdom and con
tinental and Asiatic ports, at all of whica
points the less valuable Carolina rock has
heretofore found a market.
EXCITED BY RIOT RUMORS.
A Story from Ridgeland, 8. 0., That
Caused a Stir for Awhile.
Rumor* of a riot at Ridgeland, thirty
seven miles from Savannah, on the Charles
ton and Savannah railroad, created some
excitement yesterday afternoon. A Bay
street firm received a telegram from its
agent at Ridgeland saying thnt there was
trouble thero, and that arms and ammuni
tion would probahly bo needed. The rumors
seem, however, to have been exaggerated.
A Ridgeland special to the Morning
News says; “Tho reported riot at Boyd’s
landing, near this place, seems to have been
only au altercation between a white man
and a negro, caused, perhaps, from a too
free use of bad whisky. It was thought bv
some that it might to-day assume a serious
shape, but the matter has been brought
before a trial justice, and, upon tho confes
sion of the white man to striking the only
blow with his fist, he was fined $3 and oosts.
Ail is now quiet.”
The conductor and passengers of the
Charleston train whioh arrived last night
reported no disturbance and everything
quiet when the train passed Ridgeland.
Tho Knights Templar.
Grand Commander Howard of the
Knights Templar of Georgia has issued a
general order in reference to the annual
conclave of the grand oommandery, which
will be held in Rome, Wednesday, April,
16. Arrangements have been made with
the Southern Passenger Association for a
rate of 4 cents per mile for the round trip
for sir knights attending and ladies aooom
panylng them. Twenty-five or more
kuights, iu uniform, will obtain a rate of 1
P* r mil*. Arrangements have been
made for the entortalnment of knights and
*? e ladies accompanying them at the Arm
s-rong hotel, and at the Central and the
Kerne Hotels at spooiai rates. Sir William
1 lsrniog of Goorgia cotnmandery of Au
gusta will 4ohver the annual oration.
A Pretty Good Shot.
T. R. Hinley, living on tho Ogeochee,
brought into the city yesterday uiuo large
wild turkeys,all of which ho said be killed
.t ono shot of a breach loader. The turkeys
wore standing on eitbor side of a plank on
wh.oh "as corn. All of their h-ads were
together, end ono shot did the work.
Look out for counterfeits'. Buy the genuine
bsLaUou Oil, the great pam cure. 25 cents.
bmuia K. cured au attack of incipient
eousuuipHou with Ur. bull's Cough Byrup -
WILL BE BUILT BY FALL.
The South Bound to be Heady for Next
Reason's Traffic.
it is thought that the construction com
pany to build the South Bound railroad
will be fully rganized early in April—
proba’ ly the first week in the month—and
if s) an engineering force wiil be put on at
once to locate the line, it being the general
desire to complete the road, if possible, in
time to move the large cotton crop tributary
to the road.
The question was asked CoL Mike Brown
yester ;oy, who was the center of a group
talking Smith Bound, if tie road can be
finisheliu time for the fail traffic, and he
replied that he could see no reason why,
with prompt action, the road cannot be In
operation by that time. Col. Brown has'
had considerable experience iu railroad
building and railroading, and knows what
it means to hustie, something which will be
necessary in order to get the road in opera
tion next falh
The grading is said to be light between
Savannah and Barnwell, as far as the
line wiil be built at present, and the only
heavy bridging is across the Savannah
river at Sisters’ Ferry. To construct this
bridge it wiil be necessary first to get a
special act of congress authorizing the com
pany to bridge the river, but no difficulty is
apprehended in securing such legislation
promptly, and the matter has already been
given preliminary attention.
It is understood that when the question of
actual construction reaches the culminating
point where work begins it will be sug
gested that not less than two construction
corps be put to work, one at Barnwell and
the other at Savannah, and, if fouud prac
ticable, a third corps at the point where the
road will cross the Port Royal and Augusta
road, and it is argued that few lines of rail
way can be divided up into sections and
hurried through in construction as can
the South Bound, as, if necessary, it is prac
ticable to work south from Barnwell, north
and south from the crossing of the Port
Royal and Augusta, north and south from
the Savannah river, and northward from
Savannah.
The South Bound committee, composed of
B. A. Denmark and CoL Mike Brown, and
accompanied by Herman Myers, president
of the South Bound, is expected to leave for
the north not later than Monday night, and
it is expected that they will return the latter
part of the month, by which time all the
preliminary arrangements will have been so
far made a* to permit the organization of
the construction company at once, and then
look out for the sappers and miners.
BIX INDICTMENTS FOUND.
The Superior Court Grand Jury’e
Work.
The grand jury of the superior court met
yesterday afternoon, and after a session of
two hours brought in six indictments, as
follows:
Charles Barnwell, assault with intent to
murder. Barnwell is charged with stabbing
Frank Simson on March 9.
Son Philip, assault with intent to murder.
Philip is charged with stabbing Joseph Cos
tello on June 29 last.
James Mordecai, larceny from the house.
The indictment alleges that March 4 he en
tered the dwelling house of A. B. Laßoche
and stole a gold watch and chain, each of
the value of S4O.
Felix Mitchell, assault with intent to
murder. Mitchell is charged with having
stabbed William Mackey on Dec. 2 last.
William Mackey, assault with intent to
murder. The allegation of the indictment
is that on Feb. 25 last Mackey fired a pistol
at Joseph McCall.
Richard Gible, larceny after trust. This
indictment grows out of the malfeasance on
Feb. 10 last, fully detailed in the Morning
News at the time when Gibbs’ flight, and
the exciting pursuit and capture of the
refugee, followed closely upon the detection
of Gibbs’ method of pocketiug money en
trusted to him, os boss drayman, by Eck
man & Vetshurg; to pay freight bills at the
Ocean Steamship Company. Eckman &
Vetshurg are the prosecuting witnesses, and
the indictment alleges that Gibbs converted
to his own use $23 13 which Eckman &
Vetsburg had entrusted to him to pay
freight bills with.
RIVRRB DID RIGHT.
The Superior Court Jury Acquits Him
of A esault and Battery.
In the superior court yesterday afternoon
a jury acquitted Alfred Rivers (colored) of
the charge of assault and battery upon John
Maxwell in less than five minutes after
going to the jury room.
This was a second trial of the case, a
mistrial having once been declared. The
prosecuting witness failed to put in au ap
pearance yesterday. It appears that the
boss of the Belt Line street car stables
had left Rivers in charge of the premises,
instructing him to permit none of the “ex
tra” drivers to go in tho stables, and that
Maxwell, with a lighted cigarette, insisted
on disobeying orders, and when Maxwell
was being ejected he assaulted Rivers, who
used a broken ball bat on the trespasser,
and so effectually that he was glad to drop
his weapon and leave the premises, threat
ening revenge.
The jury was charged by the court that
battery could be met br battery under cir
cumstances such as Rivers claimed to have
acted, aud let the prisoner go acquit,
BUPr. HEGHS’S SUCCESSOR.
It la H. R. Dill of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad.
H. R. Dill, late division superintendent
on the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, has
been appointed superintendent of the Cen
tral railway main stem to succeed Supt.
Hege. He was in Savannah yes
terday. His appointment takes effect April
1. Supt. Dill is an experienced
railroad man and has been connected with
a number of northern roads. He
was superintendent of the Huntington
division of the Chesapeake and Ohio,
with headquarters at Hinton, W. Ya.]
prior to accepting tbe main stem superin
tendency of the Central Mr. Hege’s resig
nation takes etfeot to-morrow. Supt. Dill
will be unable to make his arrangements to
come to the Central before Anrll 1, and
General Master of Transportation Starr
will manage the main stem for tbe next two
weeks.
WILL GO UP ANYWAY.
A Case That is Bound to Get on the
supreme Court Docket.
The litigation growing out of the
sale of the Wetter property seems
to have just begun in real
earnest, and there is a strong probability
that the case will yet find a place on the
supreme court dockut.
At the present term of the city court L D§
Laßoche & Son, the brokers who sold tho
property to Mr. J. C. Peck, obtained a ver
dict for SSOO from him for their
commission, aud exceptions have boon
fiisd by counsel for Mr. Peek to the ruling
of the court on account of alleged irregu
larity iu the proceedings, aud if tho motiou
for anew trial is not granted it is under
•too i that the case will bo taken up by Mr.
Peck, aud If anew trial bo granted, then the
plaintiff will tak* tho case up on a.i appeal
to the supreme court.
No Police Signal Boxes This Year.
Alderman Nichols, chairman of tiio
police committee, in an interview with
a Morning News reporter yesterday,
said that the police sig..al telegraph
system cannot be adopted this year,
us tho appropriation iu the budget for
fho department will not permit it. it might
liave been, iu> said, hud not the police force
been ii. creased, hut sinco this has boon dooa
this auxiliary to the department must go
over for another year.
Van Houien’s Cocoa—“ Once tided,
olwaye used.”— Adv.
THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1890.
READY TO BE DEDICATED.
The Wesley Monumental Congrega
tion Inspects tbe New Auditorium.
Wesley Munumental church was lighted
up last night for inspection. The audito
rium. in which the congregation will wor
ship in a short time, is nearing completion,
and. as announced in the Morning News
a day or two ago, the edifice will be dedi
cated Sunday morning, March 30.
The congregation was given an oppor
tunity to inspect the handsome church last
night and see it as it wiil be when it is ready
for services. AU of the interior furnishings
are not iu the church, but the pews were
placed for the purpose of inspection just as
they will be when the edifice is completed.
The pews were ash and made in Indiana.
They are very comfortable. The pulpit is
a marvel of workmanship, and decorates
tho western part of the auditorium. The
organ gallery is just above it, surrounded
by unique railings. The altar railing is of
richly carved ash, and adds much
to the beauty and grace of the
altar. The stained glass windows are
very handsome. The memorial window in
the eastern wall, opposite the pulpit, is very
attractive. Tbe busts of both Charles and
John Wesley are prominent in it, and on
either side of tbe busts are tablets bearing
the dates of birth and death of the Wesleys.
Immediately above the busts is a large
globe, upon which is inscribed the famous
saying of John Wesley, “The world is my
parish.”
The church was lighted last night by 100
gas lights. Nearly as many electric light
fixtures are connected on each chandelier
and the wall lights. Six drop lights are on
each side just over the gallery railing, and
three chandeliers are iu the center of the
church. The auditorium presented a beau
tiful appearance and a large number oalled
through the evening to inspect it.
About SOO,OOO has been spent on the
edifice. For the last sixteen years the con
gregation has been worshiping in its Sun
day school room, and there is an eagornoss
to get into the auditorium which is so
nearly completed.
Bishop Wilson of the Methodist church
south will preach the dedicatory sermon.
Bishop Wilson lives in Baltimore. He is
considered one of the ablest ministers in tho
southern Methodist church. Other minis
ters of the church have been invited to be
present at the dedication. Services will be
held on the day of the dedication as follows:
Eleven o’clock in the m rniug, 3 o’clock in
the afternoon and 7:30 o’clock at night.
The towers of the church will not be
completed now. In a short time, however,
the congregation hopes to have the church
stuccoed and the towers extended. A bell
will also be added.
AT THE OOURTa
Gossip Picked Up Here and There In
the Court Rooms.
In the mayor’s court yesterday morning,
Cuntsey Coleman (colomi) was fined $7 or
fifteen days for fast driving. The cases
were continued against Edward Davis,
charged with the laroeny of clothing, and
Annie Luchum, charged with the larceny
of a bed quilt. The parties are colored.
William Gordon (colored) charged with
stabbing Annie Hicks (colored) was turned
over to the city court. Henry Bailey
(colored) was fined $3 or five days for disor
derly conduct, and $7 or fifteen days for
striking Officer Welsh, who made the
arrest.
Various fines were assessed against half a
dozen other lesser offenders.
The jury in the Andrew Schroder case
night before last, in the superior court,
brought in a verdict of acquittal.
In the superior court yesterday Andrew
Marshall was found guilty of assault with
intent to murder, and was sentenced to ten
years in the penitentiary. It appeared
from the testimony that on Sept. 10 last
Marshall discharged a pistol at one Ollie
Gilmore.
David Porter was appointed a commer
cial notary publio by Judge Falligant yes
terday.
Two first verdiots in divoroe cases were
rendered in the superior court yesterday.
There will be no session of the city court
to-day.
In the superior court yesterday afternoon
tho traverse jurors were excused for the
rest of the week, one panel to appear
Monday morning and the other jurors
the following morning. The consideration
of criminal cases will be resumed on Tues
day next.
CITY BREVITIES.
The Pulaski house looks like an electric
beacon in its new dress of white paint.
The funeral services of the late Frank N.
Molina, whose death was announced in yes
terday’s Morning News, will bo held at
the cathedral at 10 o’clock this morning
and the interment at Laurel Grove.
The firemen were called out at 1 o’clock
yesterday afternoon by an alarm from box
No. 25, at the Savannah, Florida and
Western railway depot. Three bales of
cotton in the yard caught fire, presumably
from a spark from a locomotive. The fire
was extinguished before the engines
arrived.
A man whose name was not given called
at the city dispensary night before last
with a slight wound on the cheek, and
asked Keeper Cass to examine it and see if
there was a ball in the flesh. An examina
tion proved that it had been a glancing
shot, and without disclosing the particulars
of the shooting the stranger left.
The witnesses in the Bt. Nicholas case
who testified before the United States in
spector of hulls and boilers last summer are
about to be paid their witness fees, the
money for that purpose having been re
ceived at the custom house, where it was
learned yesterday the fees will be paid on
the presentation of the proper certificates
from the board of inspectors.
The sparring contest whioh will take place
at the theater on the night of the 18th will
be enlivened by a set to between “Jim”
Robinson of Brandford, Conn., and John
Savage of Quebec. Savage is the man
whom “Billie" Layton of Charleston failed
to knock out in eight rounds. Two weeks
after the contest at the theater the two pro
fessionals will contest.
A burning chicken coop in the rear of
Messrs. Scott & Davis’ house on Waidburg
street, between Barnard and Jefferson, at
tracted the attention lof Policeman Hall a
few minutes before 12 o’clock last night,
and he turned in an alarm from box No. 34*
at Barnard and Hall streets, calling out the
fire department. The chicken coop was
rear a fence, which took fire and threatened
the house adjoining. The fire was evi
dently the woik of an incendiary, who
wanted to burn tbe house. Mr. Davis was
awakened by the firing of a pistol in the
lane, and looking out of his window saw the
blaze.
The swimming pool being opened at
Liberty and Price streets by Maj. D. C.
Bacon will be completed inside of two
weeks. The artesian well is completed, and
the water mains from the city’ have been
taken from the pool. It is now supplied
from the new well. The pool is about sovea
feet deep, and will accomodate 100 people.
It is provided with floors which may be
raised or lowered to suit the bathers. Dressing
roomsaro being built around thepo l.aiid in
the southwest corner of the room a shower
bathroom will be built. The office will be
iu frout of tho pool, fronting on Liberty
street. Glass windows will be put in the
top of the house to give light. Stops will
be built down into the pool.
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Sirocco Too.
India and Ceylou Tea, the fashionable tea
of Europo. Each packet sealed and abso
lutely puro. Direct from our own gardens.
fiOe., 80c., and $1 per pound. Davidson &
Cos., 1436 Broadway, New York, l.ippmun
Bros., Agents, Lippinau Block, Savannah
At retail by VV. F. Reid and J. H. Furber
Adv.
Miss F. K. King, Franklin, Mass., says:
“I have found liradycrotine everything it
is advertised. It osrtaiuly cures headache."
—Adv.
QUEER FISH OF THE SEA.
CAPT, G. C. ECKMAN KNIGHTED
FOR HIS VALUA3LE WORK.
King Oscar of Norway Confers Upon
Him tbe Rank of Knight of tbe
Order of Warn for His Discoveries
and His Contributions to tbe Uni
versity of Upsala—A Wonderful
Collection of Animal and Marine
Life Scooped and Dredged from tbe
Bea— Georgia’s Waters Teem With
Rare Sea Life.
Few fishermen can boast of such a prize
as that worn by Capt. G. C. Eckman of the
Swedish bark Engelbrekt. It is a mark o f
tho Norwegian king’s favor, and confers
the rank of the knight of the Order of
Wasa upon Capt. Eckman.
Tbe decoration is a handsome one, star
shaped, enameled, and sot in precious stones,
with a pendant sheaf of grain and tbe
kingly crown, the decoration being reversi
ble, and is to bo worn on the left breast, at
tached by a green ribbon on all occasions
when in the presence of King Oscar IL,
who, in knighting Capt. Eckman, did
so as a mark of esteem for the valuable
contributions that he has made of land and
marine life to the Upsala university, and it
is said that the scientific fisherman is the
first active master of a sailing vessel who
has ever worn the jewel of knighthood of
the Order of Wasa.
The decoration was forwarded to the
consul general of Norway and Sweden at
Marseilles, where Capt. Eckman was inter
cepted and the jewel presented by tho min
ister in a most complimentary speech.
CAPT. ECKMAN’S WORK.
Capt. Eckman has, for the past four years,
in bis merchant trading voyages collected
extensive specimens of laud and marine
life, principally the latter, and the Morn
ing News has on the occasion of Capt.
Eckman’s two last annual voyages to this
port, where he is au old trader, described
some of the valuable specimens that he had
collected for his alma mater, and for which
he has never asked and has steadfastly re
fused remuneration.
The researches of Capt. Eckman for
specimens of marine life have been made in
the waters of the Gulf, the Gulf stream, the
Caribbean sea, the North and South At
lantic oceans, the Hay of Biscay, the
Mediterranean, the Black sea, the German
ocean, and in the Baltic, and in the rivers
or arms of the sea at every port.
The Engelbrekt is now in port loading
lumber and cotton for Santandes, Spain.
Capt. Eckman left Umea, Sweden, in Oc
tober last, and after arriving at Marseilles
he forwarded to Upsala University some
eighty large and small bottles of surface
“scoopings,” principally of animalculse and
jelly fish, and the faculty, iu acknowledg
ing the receipt of them, say that there were
many rare specimens in the collection.
ODD FISH CAUGHT OFF TYBEE.
Capt. Eckman came into Tybee Roads
last week, seeking, and while at anchor
found many fine specimens of shell
and jelly fishes and the lower order
of the pennatula family and a col
lection of “sea feathers,” a marine
animal of a low order. Ho says that the
variety is a distinct one, very rare, and to
be found only on the east coast of North
America, at the mouths of rivers. The fish
is almost heart shaped, top incrusted with
small lime cells or pips, the under side a
dark pink color approaching to brown, and
with a stem which gives them the appear
ance of small mushrooms. They are found
embedded in the mud. He has about three
dozen of them, to wnich lie attaches great
value.
GEORGIA WATERS RICH IN SPECIMENS.
Capt. Eckman soys that he finds Georgia
waters prolific in rare specimens, and on
this trip he has secured some very fine
specimens of melanides, or small conical
and spiral shell life, both fresh and salt
water specimens, which he says are found
only iu Georgia waters. He lias one fine
specimen of jantheina fragilis takeu in
north latitude 27° 30', longitude went 28°,
a beautiful specimen and the only live one
he has ever secured. He has it preserved iu
alcohol and at a time when the animal had
come out of its shell to feed. The shell is
tinged with a delicate pink color.
The “scoopings” and deep dredgings on
the voyage over from Marseilles on Capt.
Eckman’s last voyage were made in the
Straits of Gibraltar, in the waters of the
West Indies, in the Gulf stream and Gulf, iu
the Atlantic and in Tybee roads and in the
harbor, and his collection now numbers
about eighty bottles, which are carefully
marked, aud in a idition a catalogue is kept
describing the species, tho date when taken
and the latitude and longitude where taken.
WHERE RARE FISH ARE CAUGHT.
The rarest and most valuable specimens
of marine life, Capt. Eckman says, are
fouud between 23° and 28° north latitude,
and 40“ to 80° longitude west. Many curi
ous specimens are to bo found from the
Gulf stream to Tybee, and he finds among
the Gulf weeds fine specim ns of shrimp,
crawfish, tape fish, small shellfish, and
specialties of pteropods. The Gulf weed,
Capt. Eckman says, fairly teems with
strange aud rare species of marine life, and
he has a bonneted crawfish which is a curi
osity, and is found in latitude 22° to 24°
north, and longitude 50* to 60“ west. His
collection of jelly fish is certainly a rare
one, and one of his specimens seen under
a microscope shows that it has swallowed a
smaller specimen, and the lutter has swal
lowed a small octopus, but the lens is not
powerful enough to reveal upou wtiat the
octopus had fed before it was swallowed. It
affords a fair exemplification of the truth
of the couplet that:
Big fleas have little fleas to bite ’em,
And these have less; aud so ad infinitum.
A VALUABLE COLLECTION.
Capt. Eckman, when he left here last
year, took with him in addition to his own
collections on the voyage over twenty-two
bottles of fresh and salt water col
lections made by Jacob Garduer
of this city, and the Upsala
faculty say that no less than twenty of
these specimens were never met
with before by them and are most valuable
acquisitions to the musjnm. From George
Noble Capt. Eckman secured about 1,500
specimens of caleoptera collected in Flor
ida, Georgia and the two Carolinas, and Up
sala never got a richer contributions of bugs,
beetles and insects as were embraced in Mr.
Noble’s collection. Capt. Eckman took
over an extensive collection of Georgia
snakes, eels, lampreys and bull frogs, and a
Texas horned frog which is the ouly speci
men of the kind in the Upsala museum.
BEAUTIFUL JELLY FISH.
In leaving port here his quick eye de
tected a school of very rare jelly fish, of a
golden yellow, in the wake of the vessel,
and, quickly casting his net, he captured
three; but he succeeded in perfectly conserv
ing only one, as nearly ali his alcohol had
been exhausted. Two he tried to save
in a weak solution of alcohol, aud
they failed to keep, but tho
third and finest he put in a tank
with snakes aud frogs, aud had tho pleasure
of delivering it in a perfect state of
preservation, to the delight of the faculty
at Upsala.
The persistent fisherman is very anxious
to get two specimens found only in the
rivers of Georgia, the bow fin or mud fish—
amia oalva, and a rare specimen of the
sturgeon known as the polyodon folium.
The captain will also take with him a few
specimens of the Georgia terrapin, which
the learned professors of Upsala may better
discuss in the consomme than over the
dissecting table.
INTERESTING IF NOT PRETTY.
Probably :he most repulsive looking
specimens Capt. Eckman has received on this
voyage are a bottle of Jamaica scorpions
aud a Jamaica “tli usand leg," or spool a of
tho canlipede. the fatal si lugs of which
■nuke one almost recoil from them, even
though the aioohol has rendered tboui harui-
less and glass separates them from tbe
touch.
The meet valuable specimen of Capt Eck
niatrs collectiou, however, is wbat he calls
his “Georgia Cracker," tbe captain's son.
born at this port 011 his la.t voyage, a
young navigator who has made the round
trip with Capt. and Mrs. Eckman, a bale,
hearty little sailor, whom the frozen shores
of the Baltic and tbe warm sun of the tropics
could not keep from being rosy-cheeked and
healthful.
LOCALPaBSONAIi.
A. T.Cole of Hoppsville is at the Screven.
M. L. Lively of Atlanta is at the Screven.
L. D. Chance of Munnerlyn is in the city.
G. D. Harwell of Atlanta is at the Scre
ven.
George M. Zeagler of Zeagler is in the
city.
Robert P. Paine of Darien Is at the De
Soto.
J. A. Larnard of Jacksonville is at the De
Soto.
Joseph T. Ross of Atlanta is at the De
Soto.
A. R. Lawton, Esq., left for Atlanta last
night.
George A. Croom of Waycross is at the
Pulaski.
VV. If. Sturges of Atlanta is at the
Pulaski.
W. O. Prentiss of Beaufort is at the
Screven.
M. C. Calloway of Atlanta is at the
Screven.
D. C- Ashley of Valdosta is at the
Screven.
S. P. Seskron of Nashville is at the
Screven.
John A. O’Connell of Boston is at the
Screven.
Col. William Donovan of Wadley is at
the Screven.
Miss Wisener of Apopka, Fla., is a guest
of the Pulaski.
Miss Mary M. Janot of Florence is a guest
of the Pulaski.
Miss M. Walker of New York is a guest
of the De Soto.
G. A. Sansen and wife of Boston are stop
ping at the De Soto.
Sidney B. Dixon and wife, of Detroit, are
guests of the Pulaski.
J. Brown, Jr., and wife of Boston are
guests of the De Soto.
D. C. Townsend of Greensboro, Ga., is
stopping at the Screven.
Rev. John N. Motto and wife, of Darien,
are guests of the Pulaski.
W. R. Adkins and wife, of New York,
are guests of the De Soto.
Mrs. Ocor W. Wood of Philadelphia is
registered at the De Soto.
John E. Lasher and wife, of New York,
are guests of the De Soto.
Mrs. B. F. Carson of Island Grove, Fla,
is a guest of the Manshall.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Platt of Waterford,
N. Y., are at the De Soto.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Park of New Lon
don are guests of the Pulaski.
R. F. Westcott and family, of New York,
are registered at the De Soto.
Mrs. Courtland Symmas and child, of
Brunswick, are at the Screven.
H. J. Lewis and T. S. Beardsley of Bruns
wick are guests of the De Soto.
William A. Montgomery and wife, of Chi
cago, are guests of the De Soto.
R. L. Calloway and wife, of Lexington,
Ga., are stopping at the De Soto.
William P. Clyde and Thomas Clyde, Jr.,
of New York, are at the De Soto.
Richard Hyde and William J. Hyde of
Brooklyn are guests of the De Soto.
Misses Jennie L. and Helen E. Denel of
New York are guests of the Pulaski
Horace W. Power and daughter, of
Cleveland, are guests of the Pulaski.
J. D. Harbison came up from Jesup yes
terday and registered at the Pulaski.
S. M. Barna came down from Atlanta
yesterday and stopped at the Pulaski.
J. T. Stone came down from Augusta
yesterday, and stopped at the Screven.
Mrs. William M. Robinson of Grand
Rapids, Mich., is a guest of the De Soto.
Alex F. Robertson and wife, of Staunton,
Va., are spending some time at the Pulaski.
R. S. Mower and W. Sidney Smith, of
South Carolina, are stopping at the Screven.
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Sylvester will leave
to-morrow on a few days’ trip through
Florida.
Mrs. S. C. Rowson, Mrs. G. Rowson and
Mrs. A. Catlin of New York are stopping at
the De Soto.
R. S. Morison and wife, Mrs. S. B. Mor
ison and Mrs. L. Strickland of Bangor, Me.,
are guests of the De Soto.
Col. Mike Brown, who has been in the
city for a couple of days on South Bound
mutters, returned to his home at Barnwell
a C., last night.
The following New Yorkers are guests of
the Screven: R. P. Yorkston, J. E. McCoy,
William S. Kirby, Nathaniel Roe, L. Henle
and B. F. Hailet.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Chapman and Miss
Chapman of Now London, Mrs. E. T. Reed
of Worcester, and Mrs. M. H. Weller of
Hartford are spending some time at the De
Soto.
J. C. Peck, construction superintendent
of the public building here, has been elected
president of the Atlanta Car Company’s
works, and he is making a tour through
adjoining states to get ideas. The company
was recently organized in Atlanta.
Hon. Alexander Goodwin has been elected
mayor of Utica, N. Y. Mr. Goodwin is a
brother of Capt. L. L. Good win, Savan
nah’s popular city sheriff, and like him is a
native of this city. Another brother of
Capt. Goodwin is Hon. C. Ridgeley Good
win of Baltimore, who is a member of the
Maryland Senate. The last named gentle
man was in business in this city until about
ten or twelve years ago.
W. S. Chisholm, Jr., Esq., who has been
in Atlanta the last two or three davs in at
tendance at the supreme court, received the
following complimentary notice yesterday
by the Constitution: One of the ablest
speeches made during the present term of
the supreme court was that of Mr. W. S.
Chisholm, Jr., the junior member of the
firm of Chisholm, Erwin, dußignon &
Chisholm of Savannah. It was in the ease
of Robinson vs. the state. Robinson was
convicted of assault with intent to murder,
as being a participant in the Yamacraw
riot. Judge Adams, in refusing the motion
for anew trial, complimented the defend
ant’s counsel for his effort in behalf of bis
client, and at the conclusion of his speech,
yesterday, Mr. Chisholm received many
compliments from other attorneys.
Tho Standard.
"I regard Hood’s Sarsaparilla as having
passed above the grade of what are com
monly called patunt or proprietary medi
cines,” said a well-known physiciau recently.
“It is fully entitled to ba considered a
standard medicine, and has won this positioa
by its undoubted merit and by the many
remarkable cures it has effected. For an
alterative and tonic it has never been
equaled.”— Adv.
WHERE THEY BUY KITCHEN WARE
Every One Who la Posted About This
Line of Ware Ooes Straight to Lovell
& Lattimore’s.
These days, when the majority of people
oau hardly find things cheap enough for
them, it is an important thiug to know why
aud where they rai/i do tho best in buying.
Those who study this out well will soon
come to the conclusion that Messrs. Lovell
tit Latriroore must offer the greatest ad
vantages in their business for a number of
simple reason). They sell tneir goods in
both small mid liuge quantities, thereby
keeping clean toe i aud a knowledge of the
coiTect prices. Also, a long experience
touches which are the lient things to have
and what suits tho public’s wants. A desire
to mease is auoUußt strong inducement.
Adv,
AFTER THE MAGISTRATES.
Mr. Bourquin Presents Them Before
the Grand Jury.
It is not known what action, if any, the
grand jury will take on the declination of
the justices of the peace to meet and organ
ize as a board of road commissioners and
apportion the streets of the city to be worked
by calling out the citizens, as they were re
quested to do by Mr. Bourquin, chairman
of the county road commissioners.
Mr. Bourqutn, since the refusal of the
justices to act, has said that he would bring
their derelictions to the attention of tho
superior court grand jury at its first sitting
after the adverse decision of the magis
trates, and he was as good as good as his
word iand went before the grand jury yes
terday afternoon. What transpired in the
jury room is, of course, a court secret, as
no action was reported in open court.
It is understood, however, that the grand
jury will first ask a legal opinion from
Solicitor General Fraser before determining
what course may be legally pursued. The
solicitor general has evidently not expected
to be drawn iuto the muddle, and would
hardly have been prepared to advise fully
on short notice.
In a recent interview with Solicitor Gen
eral Fraser, a Morning News reporter
asked him for an opinion as to whether sec
tion 652 of the code is of force, as Mr. Bour
quin wants to apply it to repair the western
extension of Gwinnett street and that por
tion of the Louisville road lying within the
limits of the municipality, or whether the
consolidated road laws of Chatham county
enacted in 1876 voidod the section referred
to in so far as the city of Savannah is in
terested. Mr. Fraser frankly admitted that
he was not prepared to give a legal opinion
without a review of the matter and full
reference to the road laws, and that he was
not inclined to attempt, with the volume of
court work demanding his time and atten
tion, until the necessity should arise for
looking the matter up.
Mr. Bourquin having presented the mat
ter to the grand jury yesterday the question
now arises, will the grand jury indict the
derelicts next Wednesday, to which time it
was exoused last night by the court.
THE RIVER AND HARBOR
Happenings Along the Wharves and
Among the Shipping.
The United States steamer Wistaria,
Capt. Brown, arrived in port yesterday.
Capt. Brown is looking after the buoys
and lights in this section.
An unknown schooner-rigged yacht ar
rived in port yesterday aud is anchored on
the opposite side of the river, off West
Broad streets. She flies the flag of the New
York Yacht Club.
A number of marines and sailors arrived
here yesterday on the steamer Bellevue
from Port Royal, where the United States
ship Jamestown is anchored. It is said that
the Jamestown will remain at Port Royal
until April 1, when she will proceed ito
Hampton roads.
Chr. G. Dahl & Cos. cleared yesterday the
Norwegian bark Britannia for Rotterdam,
with 400 barrels of spirits turpentine, meas
uring 20,271 gallons, valued at $7,749 69, and
3,62 J barrels, weighing 1,700,255 pounds,
valued at $7,507 84. Total valuation of
cargo $15,257 53. Cargo by Messrs. Pater
son, Downing & Cos.
Resident, Not Traveling Opticians.
Drs. M. Schwab & Son inform the public that
they can correct any errors of refraction or
any impaired eyesight which can be corrected
or relieved by spectacles or eye glasses as well
as any one in this country. We have hundreds
of testimonials from the best citizens of Savan
nah and elsewhere, but never make use of any
testimonials in the newspapers, as our work
speaks for itself. We furtner state that should
any mistake occur it can easily be corrected, as
we are permanently located. Drs. M. Schwab &
Son, opticians, No. 23 Bull street. Savannah.
Ga.— Adv.
Tho Reasons Why Stein way Pianos
Are Superior to All Other Pianos.
The Steinway Pianos have been awarded
the first premium everywhere -when placed
in competion with those of other manufact
urers. Their "scales,” peculiarities of con
struction, aud various improvements are
imitated as closely as possible by all Ameri
can and nearly all European inanfacturers.
A large number of the latter publish that
their instruments are constructed on the
“ Steinwuy system.” Steintuay db Sons use
steel frames, and steel agraffes oast in their
own foundry, while all other manufacturers
use only common iron cast in different
foundries, not their own. Steinway Pianos
have moth and water-proof hammers, a
patent of their own, a patented overstrung
scale in the form of an open fan, a capo
d’astro bar of chilled Steiaway steel, a
steel hammer rail impervious to climatic
changes, The celebrated tone pulsator
giving their Pianos that remarkably sweet
singing and sustaining tone not found in
any other piano. They contain thirty-five
patented improvements not found in any
other instrument. Examine the inside o"f
any first-class piano, ask if its frame is
made of steel, if the agraffes are steel, if the
hammers are moth and water-proof , if tho
hammer rail upon which tho hammers red
is made of steel, not of wood affected by
changes of temperature. Ask to see the
tubular action frame, the patent overstrung
scale in the shape of au open fan. Several
owners of old Steinway Pianos have been
approached to exchange them for new,
cheap pianos. We have advised them
then, and do so now, never to exchange a
Steinway , no matter how old, for one of
those new, cheap, and almost unknown
pianos. Your old piano now is perhaps
better than the new piano w ill be in a year
or two. We have paid for the genuine
Steinway Piano, thirty years old, S2OO
cash, when we could have bought a new
“cheap” piano from SIOO to $125, which
sell from $250 to S3OO. A word to the wise
is sufficient.
Schreiner’s Music House.— Adv.
Cornwell & Chipman have the famous
Boynton Furnace, Heaters, and Ranges,
Danube and Newport.— Adv.
Dissatisfied Smokers
Can always be nursed into good humor
when supplied by their dealer with Hernan
Cortez Key West Cigars. At wholesale
only by Lee Roy Myers & Cos., 133 Bay
street, Savannah, Ga.— Adv.
Cornwell & Chipman invite carpenters to
call and examine their liue of Tools and
Hardware.— Adv.
•FURNITURE.
THE A. J. MILLER GO.
The Largest Line of
BABY CARRIAGES
Ever Shown in This City.
Sole Agents for the
SLEEPIIG COACH,
The Only Carriage Made Hav
ing a Reclining Seat.
Our Stock of Bedroom, Din
ing-Room and Parlor Furniture
Is complete, both as regards
Quality and Quantity.
TIIE A. J. MILLER CO.,
171 Broughton St , Savannah, Ga.
___ BAKING POWDER
mr
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POWDER !
Absolutely Pure.
Thlk powder waver wM-les. A marvel of new,
•old in competition with Si u*
short weight alum or phosphatepo?<W
LUDDEN A BATES 9. M. 11,
HIE STERLING PIAN(T
THESTERLING PIANO
THESTERLING PIANO
THE STERLING PIANO
have now represented
this Piano nearly three years
—long enough to fully test
ita quality. We have here
tofore said but little aboutit,
because we never strongly
indorse any Piano until we
have thoroughly tested it in
every possible way. We now
heartily recommend this in
strument to our patrons as
the very best at its price to
be had in America, and that
means IN THE WORLD.
S3OO is the price it
usually sells at.
$250 is our present
price, aud we sell it at
that figure on the
easiest possible terms,
$2 per week until
paid for.
LUDDEN & BATES S. 1L H.
DRY GOODS.
CROHi! MOOiEK
WILL EXHIBIT THE FOLLOWING SEA
SONABLE GOODS ON MONDAY:
New Cambric Edgings.
New Nainsook Edgings,
New Swiss Edgings,
New Colored Edgings.
New Nainsook Skirtings.
New Hemstitched Skirtings for Child*
ren.
New Chantilly Lace Skirting.
New Drape and Fish Nets.
New Torchon Laces.
New Extra Fine Smyrnan Laces in Sets,
New Van Dyke Point Laces.
NewVan Dyke Point Sets for Children,
New Normandy and Val Laces.
New Mull Caps and Ruchings.
New Imported and Domestic Sateens.
New Challies and Dress Ginghams.
New Black Dress Goods.
New Colored Dress Goods.
New Trimming Silks.
New Parasols in Gloria, Twilled, and
Puritan Silks, with Oxidized Gold
and Sterling Silver Mountings.
137 BROUGHTON ST.
COAL AND WOOD.
WOOD &COAL
OF ALL KINDS.
DENIS J. MURPHY,
TELEPHONE 4V.
Office 7, Drayton street. Citizens’ Bankßuildinjf
HARDWARE.
Oliver Chilled Plow.
BEST PLOW MADE. FOR SALE BY
J. D, WEED & CO,
GENERAL AGENTS,
DAVIS BROS
S3OO PIANO FOR $250
ON PAYMENTS of $2 down and
$1 per week until paid for. Join
Davis Bros.’ Piano Club No. 4.
DAVIS BROS,,
42,44,40, & 48 Bull St.
SAVANNAH, GA.