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.MUST BE TAXED ALIKE.
THE SUPREME DECIDES AGAINST
CITY IN THE WEED CASE.
The Tax Ordinance of 1889 Held to
he Inequitable and Unjust—All Prop
erty Must be Taxed at the Same
Rate Per Cent—The Clause of the
Constitution as to the Rate of Tax
ation Not All Eorrowed from the
Pennsylvania Instrument.
The supreme court decided yesterday that
the city tax ordinance of 18s9 is unconsti
tutional for the reason that it is not within
the power of the city to classify property
and put a different rate per cent, of taxa
tion upon different species of property, but
that all property, whether real or personal,
must be taxed at a uniform rate jier cent.
This follows exactly in the line of the
supreme court’s decision in the Verdery
case, but it was thought by some that the
supreme court would put a different con
struction upon that clause of the constitu-
tion under which the city claimed the right
to tlx a different rate per cent, of taxation
on different species of property, after the
depositions of Messrs, Guerard and I-awtou,
members of the constitutional convention,
to the effect that the language ws bor
rowed from the Pennsylvania instrument
for the purpose of enabling municipalities
o discriminate m the manner of the tax or
dinance of 1889 and in all tax ordinances
of the city since the adoption of the consti
tution.
INEQUITABLE AND UNJUST.
The supreme court, however, sticks to its
position, and declares that the tax of 1889
by reason of the discrimination is in its
opinion “inequitable and unjust.’’
The case. Joseph D. Weed et al vs. the
mayor and aldermen of the city of Savau
nao, was what might be called
an accommodation suit, and one
which the plaintiff would have
preferred to Lave lost. It was necessary to
have the issue settled before fixing the rate
of taxation for 1890, and as the first quarter
of taxes would tw due April 1 no time was
to be lost. Mr. Weed, who had paid the
first three quarters of taxes on the prop
erty consented to be the plaintiff in the suit,
and refused to pay the taxes for
the last quarter, whereupon City Marshal
Wade levied an execution, and the case
went to the supremo court on a motion to
enjoin the city marshal from enforcing the
execution, and alleging the unconstitution
aiity of the ordinance on the ground
that it did not provide for a
uniform rate per cent, of taxation
on all classes of property. The court
below expressed the opinion that the ordi
nance was in compliance with the meaning
of the constitution and in line with the au
thorities, many of which were cited, but,
yielding to the decision of the supreme
court, judge Falligant granted the injunc
tion, and the city took the case up on a
short writ of error, and the decision of the
court below was affirmed.
COUNCIL MUST YIELD THE POINT.
The decision will now compel the council
to fix a uniform rate of taxation on real
and personal property, and it is said that
the rate will not exceed I>£ per cent., and
possibly may be as low as I }£ per cent
This will beau increase on personal prop
erty and a decrease on realty, which was
taxed per cent, last year. The full text
of the decision has not yet been received,
but the following specla'l dispatch to the
Morning News gives the main points in
the decision:
The supreme court to-day affirmed the
decision of the lower court in the case of
Joseph D. Weed et al. vs. the mayor and
aldermen of Savannah. The court hold as
unconstitutional the ordinance taxing dif
ferently different kinds of property, but the
question as to whether or not an injunction
was the proper remedy to resist the collei
tion of taxes by execution under such an
ordinance was neither argued nor decided.
It was contended by the city that the
municipal authorities had the power to
classify subjects of taxation under the con
stitution and to impose one rate on realty
and another upon other kinds of property;
and, further, that the clause in the constitu
tion of Georgia governing the question was
copied from that of Pennsylvania, and that
the Georgia courts should follow the con
struction adopted by the Pennsylvania
courts.
NOT ALL BORROWED FROM PENNSYLVANIA.
Justice Simmons announced the opinion
that if the whole clause had been borrowod
from thence, such a construction would bo
bludmg, but the language of the Georgia
constitution on the subject is not wholly
taken from thence, but, on the contrary
qualifying words had been introduced ren
dering the meaning entirely different in in
serting "ad valorem on all property subject
to be taxed.” It wag intended by the
framers of the Georgia constitution that
there should be no classification of property
warranting different rates of taxation.
“Everything,” says the justice, "to which
legislative power extends may be the sub
ject of taxation, whether it be person or
property or possession, or franchise, or
privilege, or occupation, or rights. We
think the clausa refers to subjeots of taxa
tion other than property, and means that
if one kind of business, privilege, fran
chise or right etc., is taxed, the tax
should be uniform upou all of
that class—for instance, if liquor dealers
draymen, butchers, lawyers, etc., are taxed’
the tax shall bo uniform as to ail persons
engaged in any one of those occupations,
though it may be the same for all occupa
tions. The legislature or municipal authori
ties may classify all subjects of taxation
and make the tax uniform on each class. ’
ALL PROPERTY MUST BE TAXED ALIKE.
“Property is not the only subject of tax
ation. The authorities mav tax one class
and exempt another, but when they do tax
a particular cla-s tho rate must be uniform
as to all of that class. W hen they come to
deal with property a different rule pre
vails. If property is taxed, all of it must
be taxed except that exempted in the con
stitution. The legislature or municipal au
thorities can make no exemption as to
property. It must bo taxed, and taxed
according to its value.
“All property subject to taxation must
under the constitution,bo taxed ad valorem,
and if it must be taxed, and taxed accord
ing to its value, we cannot see how it can be
classified anew aud one rate put upon real
estate, a luwer rate on personal property
generally, and a still lower rate upon shares
in banks and banking association*.
If one man has a thousand dol
lars worth of personal property, another
a like amount of real estate, and a third so
much in shares of a banking company, the
property of each must bear the same ’rate
of taxation. This rule is equitable and just
to all parties, and the rule presoribed by
the ordinance of the city of Savannah is, in
our opinion, inequitable and unjust.”
Young Frank Molina’s Funeral.
The funeral of young F. N. Molina took
place yesftrday morning from his late home
on Liberty street. The funeral was largely
attended, and the large number of juvenile
mends who assembled showed the affection
and esieem in which they held him. Young
Molma was captain of the St Joseph Ca
dets, a juvenile military company, and the
members of the company are discussing the
pres utation of an appropriate memorial to
the bereaved family. The following acted
as pallbearers at the funeral: Thomas
Quinan, Thomas Steele, J. j. K-nnv Tonv
Y banes, H, H. Hollee, and Charles Mo’rdocai.
L>i®ci In Prussia.
Jacob Collman, a grain dealer of Colmar
iusmu, and father of Deputy Sheriff
Charles Collman of this city, died at his
yws Kub / • the age of 70
years. The information was received by
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SHOT AND BADLY WOUNDED.
A Colored Man Nearly Killed by a
White Tramp.
News reached the city yesterday of a
cruel shooting affray at Fido, on the Eden
extension of the Central railroad. A colored
brick mason, who was traveling througn
the country doing work, was shot twice in
the hand and shoulder by a tramp namel
Zeigler, who had t een lying around Fido
several days.
The tarts are these: The brick mason went
into J. G. Moore’s store"at the station and
bought a pecs of me 1 and exhibited $175,
which he said he was going to send to his
wife in North Carolina. Zeigler, who was
lying on a box in the corner,
overheird the remark and saw the
negro put the money in the bag. When he
went out, Zeigler followed him. When two
or three miles from the station he overtook
the brick mason, and demanded the
money. The negro refused to give it up,
whereupon Zeigler drew a revolver, a 88-
caliber, and shot him in the hand. The
negro dropped the valise and ran; the
tramp shot at him again, striking him In
the shoulder. Not content with this, he
fired twice more. Having done this, he
burst open the valise, and took the $175.
J he brick mason ran up to Conley, anew
station on the road, and reported the mat
ter to J. C. Edwards, a storekeeper at Con
ley. While he was talking about the shoot
ing the tramp walked up. The negro told
the merchant and several who were stand
ing around him that the tramp was the
man who shot him, and that he would give
any man who arrested him the $175. When
Zeigler got a glimpse of the bleeding negro
he ran down the road. A white man t amed
Caleb Rogers and Samuel Daniels (colored)
chased the tramp, but he fled into a swamp
and escaped.
The negro was treated by a physician In
the town arid was given a dace to stay
until he gets well. The officers went out
again in the night to hunt the tramp, but
he was not found. He came to Fido several
days ago, and refuses to do work and
lounges about the stores. He is of small
stature, with long hair, and very dirty.
CENTRALS NEW AUDITOR.
Milo S. Freeman Succeeds R. E. Mims.
Mr. Mims’ Long Service.
The resignation of Robert E. Miras,
auditor of receipts of the Central railroad,
was officially received by Controller Ed
ward Mclntyre yesterday, and Milo S. Free
man, auditor of the Southern Railway and
Steamship Association, has been appointed
as Mr. Mims’ successor.
Mr. Mims was connected with the Central
twentv-eight years. He went with the road
July, 1862, at Augusta, as ticket signer or
freight receiver. The next year he became
moil freight clerk, the duties of the position
being to collect on freights by passenger
trains. When the war closed he was
selected as agent to follow up the
line of road, and, as the track was
laid, installed new agents. The rails
were connected near station No. 13, and he
came to Savannah as ticket agent, from
which he became assistant treasurer. He
was then made receiving teller at the Cen
tral Railroad bank, afterward male treas
urer at Savaunah, then paymaster, and
lastly auditor of receipts. His first and
last positions only were free from the re
sponsibility of handling money; thu3, dur
ing twenty-five years of his connection with
the company, he has handled its funds.
In each position, from the freight clerk to
the present responsible position of auditor
of receipts, Sir. Mims has given entire sat
isfaction, and retires from the service of the
company with the good will and confidence
of officers and employes.
He resigned to engage in the manufact
ure of lumber, sash, blinds, doors, and all
classes of builders’ materials at Atlanta,
under flattering conditions as an equal part
ner with Walter a Bell, who has already
an excellent business, well and favorably
established, which will now, by this union,
secure additional advantages and ample
facilities.
Mr. Freeman, who succeeds Mr. Mims,
has been auditor of receipts of the Southern
Railway and Steamship Association for
thirty years, and is an expert accountant.
He is a brother of George C. Freeman,
cashier of the Citizens Bank of this city.
MAY BE LOOKED INTO.
A Camp of Outlaws Reported Near
Southovor Junction.
Tho startling information has been
brought to a Morning News reporter that
there is a camp of outlaws in a swamp not
far from Southover junction, where mur
derers have taken refuge and defy arrest.
John J. McAleer, who claims to have dis
covered the retreat of the law breakers,
called to see Solicitor General Fraser yes
terday to communicate the result of his in
vestigations, but failed to see him.
McAleer says that the camp is peopled
by tramps, outlaws, murderers, and rene
gades, from this state and other states, and
that they have a masked battery in the
swamp. He says that, tho murderer Burke,
and Albert Morea, who killed his wife, are
in the oarnp, and that depredations far and
near are traceable to them aud their com
panions in crime. He says that no attempt
will be made to arrest them until suitable
rewards are offered, and then the detectives
who know the whereabouts of the refugees
cau and will effect their arrest. McAleer
says that Morea has threatened the lives of
three others, and when ho gratifies his ven
geance ho will then give himself up.
McAleer’s story is not credited about the
court house, where it is said of him that ho
is a monomauiac on the subject of detective
work, and imagines that he knows all the
movements of criminals at large, and espe
cially the doings and whereabouts of refu
gees from justice. McAleer says, however,
that it is no delusion, and that if a posse is
organized to explore the swamp he can pilot
it to the place of refuge, where the well
armed outlaws can be captured only by
strategy and courage.
The New Quarantine Station.
Health Officer Brunner visited the new
quarantine station yesterday to note the
progress of the work. About two-thirds of
the creosoted piling has been driven, aud
thetimber and lumber are being delivered
daily. Mr. Carmichael, who has charge of
the force, is vigorously pushing the work
forward. Ibe men have clean quarters,
and the artesian well is flowing 80013-, which
affords plenty of cure water, ami of the
fifteen or twenty men employed about the
work none are on the sick list.
The breezes from the open sea in view of
the new station are invigorating, and the
man work with a will, eat heartily aud
sleep soundly. City Engineer Winn will go
down next week on another tour of in
spection.
A Bad One to Manage.
Justice Eodrea had his hauds full on a
West Broad street car last night, with a
prisoner by the name of Hawkins, whom he
had arrested in the extended limits on the
charge of wife-beating. The prisoner, who
had been drinking, do lied that the woman
who had sworn out the warrant is his wife,
and he insisted that he should lie put off at
Duffy and West Broad street-. It required
some force to keen him in his seat, where
he refused to stay without the officer would
sit by him and talk to him, as he said ho
was lonesoino, and when Justi a Endres
complied with his request he took his arrest
good naturally enough. It is said ho made
tho neighborhood of Meld rim’s Row lively
for awhile at the time of the alleged as
sault.
Cigarettes at the Bat
The Hmokettes defeated the McOintyV in
a game of ball yesterday by a score of
5 to 4.
TV .ted by Time. K„r Bronchial Affections,
Coughs, etc., Hhowm’s Baoncual Tie unite
havs proved their efficacy by a test of uiahy
> ears. I’rioe 24 caul*. —Adv
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1890.'
THE B. T. A. CONVENTION.
Important Issues to Come Up at
Atlanta.
As the time for the annual convention of
the Southern Travelers’ Association, which
will be held in Atlanta the second week m
May, approaches interest in the questions
which will be brought up grows keener.
None of the branches are sleeping.
The location of the headquarters for the
r ext year has got to be settled. Savannah
has the headquarters now, and the charter
and constitution of the association provides
that t e headquarters may only be .i.oved
at an annual ounvention, by the consent of
ail the branches. For the present Savannah
is regarded as the head of the ass Elation.
The organization was perfected here, the
first officers were elected here, and the most
active workers for the promotion of the
ass coition live here.
But Atiauta wants the headquarters. It
is said that the holding of tne convention in
that city is with a view to locating the head
quarters there. Wmle the charter and the
constitution allow the headquarters to be
changed each year by the consent of all
branches, some of the members do not see
much wisdom in it. “If we expected to
have only Georgia branches of the Southern
Travelers’ Association the plan might do,”
said a member last night. “But,” he added,
“it is believed that several new branches
outside of the state will be formed at the
Atlanta convention. Then to shift the
headquarters nb ut, for instance, from
Savannah to Chattanooga or New Orleans,
would be enervating to the efforts of the
association’s workers in this section of the
country.”
it is time, it is claimed, that the associa
tion was selecting a permanent headquar
ters in Georgia. “It is coming to a point,”
a leading traveler said, “when the question
of establishing the headquarters in Georgia
should be paramount. Wrangling over
any one city only weakens the chances of
accomplishing this end.”
The most contention at the convention
will no doubt be upon the settlement of the
insurance headquarters. Savannah and
Atlanta both want it. The insurance feat
ure has not been definitely settled, but its
adoption by the convention is a
certainty. The board of directors, com
posed of President Newman and Messrs.
Townsend and Freeman of Savannah,
Atwater, Collier and Roberson of Atlanta,
Isaacs of Macon, and Moses of Augusta,
hav > the matter in hand, and the board will
recommeud to the association the adoption
of a mutual accident insurance company, to
be operated by all the branches.
The capital stock the board
will _ recommend to be SIOO,OOO,
with $50,000 paid in as a reserve fund. The
company, it will be recommended, shall
have a president, who is a business man
outside of the association. The names uf
H. M. Comer of Savannah, 8. M. Inman of
Atlanta, C. H. Pbinizy of Augusta, and
Maj. J. F. Hansou of -Macon will be recom
mended as suitable names from which to
select a president. The headquaiters for
the insurance company will have to be per
manent in some city where a branch is
established.
Some oi the members of the association
are of the opinion that the headquarters for
the insurance company will be settled in
the city where the greatest amount of st >ck
is taken. As the stock will be subscribed
later, it is argued that the settlement of
headquarters will bo postponed until it is
ascertained where the largest amount r f
stock is held. If in Atlanta, it is argued
that Atlanta will be the headquarters.
A good many are not inclined to this
opinion. They favor establishing the head
quarters where the most advantages are to
result. If Savannah can show that it will
be more advantageous for the insurance
company, the headquarters should be placed
here, and the question should be settled in
convention. If Atlanta offers the greatast
inducements the headquarters should be
located there.
Tne insurance feature promises to be an
important part of the association, and each
branch is deeply interested in its success.
It will not be the purpose of any branch, a
member said last night, to make a fight for
headquarters, which will cripple the insur
ance project, but the matter of getting the
right headquarters is important, and it will
be treated as such. The Savannah branch
is anxious that the insurance stock, the ma
jority of it, should be taken here. This
will give it, most likely, the president and
probably the headquarters. A member
said that the enterprise is of very great im
portance to traveling men, and he predicted
that business men generally will see in it
inducements as a business venture, and be
liberal in their patronage. All traveling
men are looking forward to the settlement
of the matter with good headquarters, and
business men to conduct the new feature.
The next matter of importance wili be
the election of of officers. President New
man has proved a successful officer, and he
has worked untiringly for the building up
of the association. He has proven one of
the best organizers and harmonizers that
any association of the kind has ever had.
He has looked closely after the interests of
the association, amt with the mem
bers of every branch he is deserv
edly popular. Savannah would like
to see him succeed himself, and so far
no other name has been suggested. The
other officers are: First vice president
Henry L. Atwator of Atlanta: second vice
president, Jacob Burlthein of Jacksonville •
secretary and treasurer, P. H. Fr email of
Savannah.
The convention will be in session-two
days, and all the traveling man throughout
Georgia and adjoining states will he present.
New Orleans will be represented, as well as
Charleston, Jacksonville, Chattanooga, and
other points.
A DEATH TRAP IN THE STREET.
Firemen and Their Horses Might Have
Been Its Victims.
At 2:30 o’clock yesterday morning a
member of the editorial staff of the Morn
ing News discovered a rack used by a fruit
stand in the vicinity plscod across the cen
ter of Whitaker street, in a dark spot just
south of South Broad street lane. It could
not be seen ten feet away, and had a fire
alarm called the department along tho
street a bad and possibly fatal accident
would have been a certainty. The rack was
four or five feet high, and so heavy that it
was removed with difficulty.
Death of Clarence H. Hunting.
Clarence H. Hunting, of tho firm of E,
B. Hunting & Go., lumber merchants of
this city a id Baltimore, die ! at his home in
Baltimore yesterday morning after a long
illness from typhoid fever. Mr. Hunting
was well known among the lumber and mill
men of Savannah. T. J. Agnew, Savan
nah representative of the firm, left last
night for Baltimore to attend tho funeral,
whicn will take place to-morrow afternoon!
Some of the herbs in Hall’s Hair Renewer,
that wonderful preparation for restoring
the coloring and thickening the growth of
the hair, grow plentifully in New England
—Adv.
The Sunday Morning News
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Conner’s News Stand.
E. J. Kieffer’s Drug Store, corner West
Broad and Stewart streets.
T. A. Mullryno & Co.’s Drug Store, West
Broad and Waldburg streets.
Nt- {■ K. Yonge’s Drug Store, corner
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IX AX'D ABOUT THE CITY.
HOW THB LAW BEADS.
Tb 9 Justices of the Peace Btill Specu
lating XV hat to Do.
There is some sp cu'ation among the
justices of the peace as to the drift of
Solicitor General Fraser’s opinion with
reference to the authority of the justices to
call out the citizens to work streets which
may have been neglected for a period of
three months.
Justice Patterson has been delving among
the musty road laws of Georgia
enacted over fifty years ago, and
ha says that there is no
ground for the language employed in sec
tion €s2of the code, and that it is wholly
immaterial whether that section has or has
not been repealed, or whether it is or is not
in conflict with the consolidated roads laws
of Chatham county, which clearly provides
that the citizens of Savanuaa caunot be
subjected to road duty.
Justice Patterson says that section 653
purports to have been founded on the law
passed in 1833 and approved Dec. 21 of that
year, as per the marginal note to section
652 referring to T. R. R. Cobb’s Digest, page
954, when in fact the language of the act
does not justify the language employed in
section 652 of the code.
Paragraph 53, page 954, of Cobb’s Digest
is as follows:
It shall be the duty of justices of tne peace
In any district comprehending an incorporated
town or village of this state to exercise the au
thority with which existing laws vest them, in
relation to roads and patrols, in ail cases within
such town or village, wherever the citizens of
the same snail fail to appoint cotuuiisuoners,
trustees or council to enforce such road and
patrol duty.
Justice Patterson said that he hr.d been
unable to procure a copy of the laws of
1833 for further eorr boration of his view
that the language of section 652 of the Code
is not warranted by the law of 1833.
A Morning News reporter secured a
copy of the acts of the general assembly of
the state of Georgia passed in Miiledgeville
at an annual session in November and
December oft Lat year, and herewith is
presented the title and act referred to, found
on page 304, as follows;
An it- t requiring justices of the peace in dis
tricts comprehending any town or village of
this state, to exercise, in certain cases, their
usual authority in relation to roads and
pntroia.
Be it enacted, etc., That it shall be the duty of
justices of the peace in any district compre
hending an incorporated town or village of this
state, to exercise the authority with which ex
isting laws invest them, in relation to roads
and patrols, in ail cases within such town or
village, _ whenever the citizens of the same
shall fail to appoint commissioners, trustees or
council to enforce such road and patrol duty.
TO LAY ASPHALT BLOCKS.
Bull Street to be Paved in Front of
the De Soto.
It is understood that the committee on
streets and lanes will recommend that Bull
and Harris streets, fronting the De Soto, be
paved with asphalt blocks, and it is learned
that the cost per square yard is something
less than street asphalt paving, and that for
this reason and because it may be easily re
moved for excavating for sewer, water and
gas pipe laying or repairs and is more dur
able than the sheet asphalt pavement it
will be recommended.
A portion of the street immediately in
front of the city exchange was laid with
the asphalt blocks some eight or nine years
ago, and one of the blocks was taken up a
few weeks ago and showed that less than an
inch of surface had been worn off under the
heavy hauling of cotton, naval stores, ma
chinery and merchandise over it for that
long period.
Tne asphalt blocks are composed of gran
ite and asphalt, and are one foot iu length
!>y four inches iu width and four inches in
thickness, and twenty-seven of them will
lav an area of one square yard. The blocks
are made in the north by a patented process.
THE PO&TOFFICE CLERKS’ BILL.
The Eight Hours’ Work and the Fifteen
Days’ Vacation Measures.
The post >£fico clerks are just nbw deeply
interested in the Ketchum bills before con
gress, defining tho hours of work aud grant
ing an annual vacation.
The bill provides that eight hours shall
constitute a day’s work for clerks in all
first, second, aud third-class postoffices, for
which they shall not receive loss than the
classified salary for a day’s work. If any
clerk is employed a greater number thaii
eight hours p-.r day he shall be paid for the
extra hours in proportion to his salary.
The bill granting leaves of absence to
clerks and employes in first, second, and
third-class offices provides that they shall
be allowed a vacation of not less than fifteen
days each year, after having been in the
service a full year, with full pay, and also
providing for the employment of substitu e
clerks to he paid at the rate of not less than
SOOO a year.
Both bills introduced by Representative
Ketchum have been passed to a second read
ing and referred to the committee oil p.st
offices aud post roads.
The clerks in the Savannah postoffice are
doing ail they can to push the bill, and thev
are confident that it will pass.
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Adv.
CITY BREVITIES.
Tho city counoil will meet next Wednes
day night, at which time apoeais against
the increase over the returns of appelauts on
“stock in trade” will be again brought up.
Joseph A. Roberts & Cos. cleared yester
day the schooner Maynard Sumner for St.
Jago de Cuba with 8,415 pieces pitch pine
lumber, measuring 229,754 feet, valued at
$3,281 09. Cargo by Waydeli & Cos.
Guido Michael, an Italian sailor on board
the steamship Andes, was arrested bv
Officer Thorpe night before last for painting
the vessel red, and was fined $7 or fifteen
days by the mayor yesterday morning.
Laura Cusbit and Victoria Houston, two
colored Harrison street termagants, were
before the mayor yesterday morning on a
charge of fighting, and Laura was fined 830
and thirty days, and Victoria $7 or fifteen
da>-s.
Interesting reports may be looked for
ward to at the meeting of the city council
next Wednesday night, at which tho city
engineer will submit his report for the
abandonment of the open Bilbo canal, and
the substitution of a closed system of drain
age, and Supt. Manning will present certain
data looking to the improvement of the
water works by conduit and reservoir.
P. J. Higgins, who gathered a ripe water
melon from his garden in Jauuary, prom
ised at the time to contribute to the agri
cultural bureau of the Morning News on
St. Patrick’s Day some fine new potatoes,
and yesterday, tnree days before the limit
had expired, he brought in s me early ro e
potatoes of medium size. They would have
been of a more merchantable size, but the
tubers quit growing after the freeze. As it
is, the p dittoes are fully as large as first
shipments from Florida. Mr. Higgins tried
the experiment of planting under straw
in January, but sparks fr in a patsing loco
motive fired the si raw, go that the crop was
left in theopen, and northern tourists would
raise the windows of the vestibule trams at
Southover junction to look with curiosity
on Mr. Higgins’ potato patch in full bloom
iq the mouth of February—s mething that
was )u marked contrast with the snow and
ioa-Oover.Nl field* they bad left behind them
but a few hours before.
be Simple, fit always rtllraclullt 111 nil Ml.
iuua dlwrfrn u aluiiuous Liter itcgulaiur,—
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LOCAL P3RSONAU
J. S. Horn of Mac n is at the Screven.
M. Elkan of Brunswick is at the Screven.
W. W. Brooks of Rome is at the De Soto.
Rudolph Kraft of Staten Island is at the
De Soto.
B. G. Tarver of Jacksonville is at the
Pulaski.
M. V. Buchanan of Birmingham is at the
Pulaski.
X N. Curtis of Columbus is at the
Pulaski.
L. A. Smith of Excelsior is at the
Screven.
J. E. Foy of Rocky Ford is at the
Screven.
Thomas C. Peek of Richmond is at the
Screven.
Mrs. L. M. Blitch of Blitch is at the
Screven.
Mrs. A. Rider of Jersey City is a guest of
the Pulaski.
J. W. Adams of Augusta is registered at
the Screven.
George W. Dwelle of Waynesboro is at
the Screven.
Capt. John A. Phillips of Woods is at
the Screven.
Philip S. Harris and wife, of St. Paul, are
at the be Soto.
J. Slonson and wife of Hawkinsville are
at the Screven.
Miss M. Fricke of Yew Hampshire is a
guest of the Screven.
Edward Alcott and wife, of England, are
guests of the De Soto.
E. L. Taylor and wife, of New York, are
guests of tne De Soto.
H. P. Hatiaford and wife, of St. Louis, are
guests of the De Soto.
J. W. Oliif came in from Excelsior and
stopped at the Screven.
A. Gooshau and wife of Cincinnati are
stopping at the Screven.
S. A. Wheeler and wife, of Lexington,
Mass., are at the Pulaski.
H. B. Ogden and wife, of Brooklyn, are
registered at the De Soto.
W. H. Love came up from Tifton island
and stopped at the Screven.
Mrs. Chrissey and Mrs. Coffin of Astoria,
L. 1., are registered at the Pulaski.
W. L. Moore and Mrs. W. A. Moore of
Atlanta are guests of the De Soto.
Dr. H. L. Banshof and Mrs. Banshof of
Wisconsin are guests of the Pulaski.
James Y. Blitch came up from Valdosta
last night and stopped at the Screven.
F. W. McGovern and Miss M. Vanßerk
line of Louisville are guests of the De Soto.
Mrs. George H. Taylor and Arthur I.
Taylor of New York are guests of the De
Soto.
J. H. Herrick and wife and Mrs. C. L.
Warren of Clyde, 0., are guests of the De
Soto.
A. Dutenhofer and Mr. and Mrs. H. T.
Cutter of New York are guests of the De
Soto.
George Morris and wife and Currie Wig
gins, of Cleveland, are guests of the De
Soto.
Sirs. H. D. Fuller and child, and Mrs. P.
Jones of Worcester are stopping at the
Pulaski.
Mrs. L. F. Shortland and Mrs. M. D. Mc-
Graw of Brooklyn are stopping at the
Pulaski.
Mrs. E. Greene, Miss J. L. Greene and
Mrs. S. E. Bruce of Detroit are stopping at
the De Soto.
Mrs. Cecil Gab! ett and Mrs. Edward
Workman left for Montgomery yesterday
via the Central.
Hon. William Clifton is quite ill with the
grip. He was improving and ventured out
too soon, and yestorduy sulfered a relapse.
John S. Moore, Ruth Moore, Faith Moore,
Mrs. J. IL Aldrich, Mr. arid Mrs. F. T.
Adams and A. Hubbell of New York are
stopping at the De Soto.
Mrs. Vinal, Miss Knapp, Mrs. Hotchkins,
the Misses Hotchkins, Mrs. James Leods,
Miss L. A. Scuell and Miss L. M. Luvis of
New York are spending some time at the
De Soto.
Supt. Manning of the water works is con
valescent after a severe attack of the grip.
He was in his office for a short time yester
day, but upon the advice of friends returned
home, as be was manifestly too ill for duty.
Mr. and Mrs. Max Solomons gave a
pleasant little entertainment to about thirty
of their friends at the Screven House last
night. The parlors were prettily decorated
and music and dancing were the order of
the evening. A delightful little sapper was
served, and altogether the affair was a very
pleasant one.
ODD F3LLOW3 AT POOLER.
Chatham Lodge No. 46 Organized
with Twenty-three Members.
Chatham Lodge No. 46, I. O. O. F., was
organized night before last at Pooler. The
lodge starts out with a membership of
twenty-three. The following officers were
elected.
N. G. —Rev. J. G. Gilmore.
V. G.—Dr. W. X. Blakeuey.
Permanent and Recording Secretary— A.
J. Outersider.
Treasurer—J. B. Newton.
The lodge’s hall will be over the store of
B. Rothwall, and elegant quarters will bo
fitted up soon. The lodge was organized by
Deputy Grand Master Osborne, assisted by
David Porter, A. N. Mauuey, T. A. Askew
and Mr. Ward, coiuuosing thagrand lodge.
Among other Odd Fellows who went up
from Savannah to attend the organizing of
the new lodge were Messrs. Fawcett, Van
Berschot, JlcGillis, Poarson, Myerson, Gau
ahl and Sheppard.
Alter the business was transacted Noble
Grand Gilmore made a short speech and in
vited the members and visitors to a supper,
at which fi-h, hot coffee aid sweetmeats
were served.
If you use Brewer’s Lung Restorer in time
you cannot die from consumption.— Adv.
The Athletic Club’s Exhibition.
The Athletic Club is busy preparing for
the exhibition at the theater Tuesday night,
which is to bo the club's annual sparring
tournament. The club offers medals to the
winners in each of the four classes—ban
tam, feather, light and middle weight-
and in each class thero are to he four en
tries, who are training and sparring dili
gently under the instructions of Prof. G.
Myers, teacher of the club. Muon iuterest
is manifested by the friends of each con
testant 111 the result of of the tournament
and the principals themselves are very
earnest in their efforts to capture
the trophies. It is the intention
of the club that these meetings
shall be conducted with decorum aud pro
priety in all respects, and that ladies may at
tend with no fear of having their sensibili
ties shocked, but may fully enjoy the op
portunity to witness the agility, science and
strength that the exercise "demands. A
more healthtul, exhilarating and manly
sport than boxing cannot be had.
The windup of the evening
will bo between two professionals, “Jim”
Robinson and John Savage. The profes
sional instructor of Augusta, Prof. Layton,
attempted to knock out Savage in an eight
round tight, but failed to do so. Savage
weighs about 145 pounds, and is 5 feet 8
inches in hight. Robinson weighs 125
pounds, and has Savage’s hight. He is con
sidered a clever and hard hitter. Tickets
are on sale at Butler’s drug store.
Bond's Mills, Twiuos Cos., Ga.
Dear Sir—l have used Sauodine on my
stock aud have recommended it to my
neighbors. From my knowledge 0 f It I can
cheerfully recommend It as a valuable med
icine lor scratches, sores, etc., on horses
Respectfully, 8. J. Bund, M. D. —Adv.
Cornwell & Chlptnan have the famous
Boynton Furnace, Heaters, aud Ranges,
Dsuube aud Newport.— Adv,
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Absolutely Pure.
This powder Barer varies. A marvel of purity,
stevagth and wAolesomaness. More economical
than the ordinary kind*, and caunot be
aoid in competition with the multitude of low
task short weight aiom or phosphate powders.
Sold only in cans. Botal Baujm Postdu oo_
106 Wail street. New York.
UGLY CRITTERS TO DEAL WITH.
An Experience with Centipedes and
Tarantulas In New Mexico.
CoL Lee, immigrant agent of the treasury
department, returned to Savannah yester
day after a month’s absence at Richmond
and Wilmington.
In referring to the collections of Capt.
Eckman, as published in yesterday’s Morn
inu News, Col. Lee, in a conversation with
a group of interested listeners in the Pulhski,
said that Capt. Eckman ought to visit New
Mexico if he wants to gather curious
specimens of poisonous insects. Col.
Lee {related some unpleasant experiences
while stationed in New Mexico, where cen
tipedes and tarantulas ere numerous and
where every tree, leaf, shrub end blade of
grass has stings and prickles.
Speaking of the centipedes, Col. Lee says
they seem to have a keen scent for human
flesh, and when he retired nights he found
it necessary to dress from his neck to his
extremities in a close fitting rubber gar
ment to prevent the centipedes from getting
next to his skin. He says the centipede
will crawl over the flesh without harm
ing one, and it may be sud
denly brushed off and not inflict
an injury, but if the hand is brought down
upon it every one of its thousand legs will
sting the flesh, and from Ihe p iison dis
tilled the flesh will slough off to the bone.
Death follows the stings if an antidote is not
promptly applied,the natives usually havirg
salt near at haul, which is the remedy
used, or the wounds are cauterized at once.
The tarantula is a vicious and poisonous
spider of a large size, which is courageous,
and his teeth will penetrate a pair of leg
gius <ind reach the flesh, and his bite will
fatally poison and craze its victim if
a powerful antidote or cautery is not
speedily employed. Col. Lee says that on
one occasion his guide called his attention
to a black tailed i deer running madly in
their direction, and, with a face pale with
fright, said they must get themselves and
horses out of the way of the oncoming buck,
which was crazed from the bite of a deadly
tarantula.
The tarantula, Col. Lee says, will come
out of his subterranean retreat when
the morning sun begins to warm the
air, aud take a sun bath of an
hour or two in a bridlo path or open road,
where it can have both sand and sun to
warm it, and on the approach of any living
thing, large or small, it will raise itself up
on its long spider-like legs aud jump at the
object and bite it. The natives keep a wary
eye open forgthe tarantula in the day time,
aud at night if the centipede crawls over
their face or hands they are careful in wak
ing not to stir until it has crawled off.
With the utmost care they are freauentlv
bitten. H
Now, Give Attention
To the purification of your blood, for at no
season is the body so susceptible to the
benefits to be derived from a good medicine
as in March, April and May. Ho ld's Sarsa
parilla is the people’s favorite spring medi
cine. It 6tands unequaled for purifying
the blood, curing scrofula, salt rheum, etc.,
regulating the kidneys and liver, repairing
norve tissues, strengthening and invigorat
ing the whole body, as well as checking the
progress of acute and chronic diseases and
restoring the iifHicted parts to a natural
healthy condition. If you have never tried
Hood’s Sarsaparilla for your "spring medi
cine,” do so this season.— Adv.
The Growth of the Provident Fund
Society.
A policy in the Provident Fund Society,
of 280 Broadway, New York, is non
forfeitable by reason of temporary change
of occupation. Accidents occurring while
traveling for business or pleasure, or while
discharging the ordinary duties of life, are
considered by the society as entitling mem
bers to the weekly indemnity under which
they are insured. The society has grown
enormously in the past year, and its
methods are pronounced by insurance
ag nts to be admirable in everv respect.
Tiie annual statement which has just been
issued shows a gratifying increase in
business during the year 1889. The amount
of insurance in force at the present time
exceeds $20,000,000. Not a valid unpaid
claim remains on the books of the society,
aud it has never had a judgment or verdict
against it. Mr. A. N. Lockwood, the presi
uent of the Provident Fund Society, is a
well-known insurance expert whose able
and conservative management of the affairs
of the society have made it the most suc
cessful of accident insurance companies.
There is an opportunity for good agents to
represent this society in Savannah and
vicinity, an t applications can be made to
the president in New York for terms, etc.
—Adv.
Mr. J. Galloway,
The gentleman who erected the Gordon and
Jasper monuments on Bull street, has re
turned from a tour in Florida, and is now
at the Palmer house, and expects to return
to New York on Monday’s steamer. Adv.
Some Running Down.
If a clock “runs down,” we wind it up
and in a few seconds it is going along in its
steady rut, ticking—ticking—using up time.
But if the human system runs down we are
in great trouble, days, weeks, months and
even years are spent in vain attempts to set
it right. About this time an appeal to P.
P. P., the great vegetable blood corrector,
would be the sensible course to pursue, as it is
the only really sure restorer of lost vitality
For Rheumatism, Gout, Scrofula,
and all Ulcerous disoases, P. P. P. is incom
parable. It is a first-class tonic aud never
fails to cure. All druggists sell it. The in
gredients, Prickly Asb, Poke Root and Po
tassium, are a guarantee of its natural
medicinal properties.
A Shrewd Advertising Dodge.
You will frequently And in the columns
°f the daily papers paragraphs purporting
to be most entertaining morsels of news or
gossip, hut the final italicized “Mde" gives
It away as the shrewd idea of some progres
sive dealer to attract attentton to bis wares,
just as this is written tocouvey to your far
seeing mind the fact that M. Hrernberg &
Bro. are the leading jewelers and dealers in
precious t>iues, silverware, bronzes, valu
able art goods for decoration and nss. If
people could only la-gin at the other end of
all newspaper articles they might save a
little time, but they would lose u tleai of
vatuublv information. —Adv.
LCDDEH A, BATES 8. M. H .
THE STERLING PIANO
TBESTERLING PIANO
THE STERLING PIANO
THESTERLING PIANO
have now represented
this Piano nearly three years
—long enough to fully test
Its quality. We hare here
tofore said but little about it,
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, and we sell it at
that figure on the
easiest possible terms,
$2 per week until
paid for.
LUDDEN & BATES S. M. H.
DRY <1001)8. 3
MAN & DOOIER
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 Smymar, Laces in Sets.
New Van Dyke Point Laces.
New Van 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 Sliks, with Oxidized Gold
and Sterling Silver Mountings.
137 BROUGHTON ST.
FIDRNITURK.
TEE A. J. MILLER I
The Largest Line of
BABY CARRIAGES
Ever Shown in This City.
Sole Agents for the
SLEEPING 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.
THE A. J. MILLER CO.,
171 Broughton St., Savannah, Ga
1 '
COAL AND WOOD.
WOOD & COAL
OF ALL KINDS.
DENIS J. MURPHY,
TELEPHONE 48.
Office 7, Drayton street. Citizens* RankßulMlni?
HARDWARE.
Oliver Chilled Plow.
BEST PLOW MADE. FOR SALE BY
J. D. WEED & CO.,
GENERAL AGtjECJJTS,
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.