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FURNITURE IN' FLAMES.
M. BOLEY & SON’S BROUGHTON
STREET STORKS BURNED.
Sixty Thousand Dollars of Stock a
Total Loss The Building Gutted—
Boley & eon’s Insurance $40,000,
and the Eulldlng Insured for $ 12,000.
B. M. Garfunkel’s Clothing Stock
Damaged by Water—McGlllia <Ss Bus
tin’s Close Call—Both Firm’s Fully
Covered by Insurance The Total
Loss by the Fire Close to SIOO,OOO.
M. Boley & Son’s wholesale and retail
furniture establishment, No. ISO and 190
Broughton Street, was burned last night.
The firm’s total loss is SOO.OUO, covered by
$40,000 insurance. The firm occupied
three stores at the northwest cor
ner of Broughton and Jefferson streets,
with the exception of the
first floor of one store, which
was occupied by B. M. Garfunkel. The
third floor, where the Are started, was the
packing and shipping department The
second floor was the warerooms, and the
first floor was occupied as offices and ware
rooms.
The fire broke out a few minutes after 9
o’clock in the packing department on the
third floor, on the Jefferson street side, aud
burned fiercely and with great rapidity.
TUB FIRE’S FIERCE WORK.
The firemen fought the fire
at odds on account of the
high wind, which drove the flames and
smoke into their faces. In ten minutes
after the fire started ten streams were play
ing upon the building, but they were unable
to check the fire, which ate its way from
where it started across the entire building
to the heavy brick wall of the Sonets build
ing, adjoining on the west, where it was
stopped.
The wind carried dense volumes of smoke
downward aud westward into Congress
street lane and Broughton street as far
west as West Broad street, and men, women
and children had to run to get
out of the hot and stifling smoke,
in which an object ten feet
distant could not be seen. Many would
have removed their household effects, and
some had begun the work, but were com
pelled to close their doors and run for their
lives. For a time it was impossible to stand
anywhere between West Broad and Jeffer
son, between Congress street lane and
Bronghton street lane west of Jefferson
street.
The volume of smoke was not dispelled
until the roof of the Boley building fell in,
when the heat was so intense that it was
smoko-consuming, and the wind lifted the
cloud and carried it off.
THE STREETS THRONGED.
The crowds who witnessed the fire were
principally on Broughton street east of
Jefferson, and on Jefferson south of Brough
ton. The Georgia Hussars were in their
drill room when the fire broke out, and at
once reported for police duty, and aided in
keeping the crowds back from the ropes.
The heat was so intense in Jefferson street
that the firemen were driven from their
ladders. The walls began to bulge before
the fire had burned through the top floor,
and a portion of the east wall fell with a
loud crash. The aerial ladder, which had
been erected on the Jefferson street side,
was in too dangerous a place for the hose
men to work, and in the intense heat they
were unable to face the fire. Just beforo the
heavy cornice fell the ladder was removed
to Broughton street, and two streams were
played from it
THE AERIAL’S DANGER.
Several times the ladder was enveloped
in the dense smoke, and once the wood work
caught fire and the men were driven down,
but they quickly" had it in position again.
Chief Fueler directed the men, and during
the hight of the fire he had five streams
playing from the roofs of the buildings
north of Congress street lane upon the
flames and four streams from Broughton
street One stream was kept continually
on the JefTerson street side.
The occupants of Congress street lane
tenements removed their furniture, and
Broughton street west of Montgomery, and
Montgomery from Congress to State street,
was filled with household goods and the
stock from McGillis & Rustin’s store and
the furniture of the houses on Broughton
street weßt of the burning buildings.
Although the fire burned with great
fierceness, the mass of material it had to
feed upon, and the fact that it was hemmed
by the streams from the engines, kept ft
from spreading rapidly, and it was nearly
two hours before it ate its way through the
top floor to the warerooms on the sec
ond floor. Several times the
flames shot down the elevator
shaft at the northeast corner of the build
ing to the basement, but the firemen were
on the watch and before the fire could get
headway below it was extinguised.
THE LOWER FLOOR SAVED.
At midnight the secoud story had been
gutted, but the llremeu were confident of
keeping the first story intact. The flames
ate their way under the roof of the Sinets
building, but “the chemical” was located
in the lane north of the Dullding with lines
of hose running to the roof, and the flames
were kept in check.
At 1 o’clock this morning the fire was
entirely under control, although the firemen
had all the engines at work.
The origin of the fire is a mvstery. When
the alarm sounded H. M. Boley and two
employes were in the office on the
first floor. A young man ran to the
door and told Mr. Boley that the building
was on fire. Mr. Boley started upstairs,
but the smoke forced him back. The fire
was breaking through the roof of the build
ing when he got on the street. M. Boley,
the senior member of the firm, is in Ohio,
and he was wired at Cincinnati. Mr. H. M.
Boley said that no fire was in any part of the
building yesterday, except on the third floor
where the workmen were repairing some
furniture, A glue kettle was heated, but it
was incased by an iron protector, rendering
it almost impossible for a spark to get out.
MAY HAVE BEEN SPONTANEOUS.
Mr. Boley is inclined to believe that the
fire had its origin in spontaneous combus
tion. There were plenty of rags and var
nish oil heaped up in that part of the build
ing where the fire started.
Superintendent C.arke of the packing
department went through the building
after 6 o’clock to see that everything was
all right, and there was no smell of stnoke,
•o that the fire could not have been smould
ering.
The adjoining buildings on the north side
of Congress street lane and Turner hall, and
the buildings on the south side of Brough
ton street, were threatened by sparks and
bv the intense heat, but they were kept
from igniting by water from buckets and
from garden hose.
The Smets buildings, west of the build
ing occupied by Boley & Son, are not
seriously damaged.
THE LOSSES AND INSURANCE.
Boley & Son are insured for *40,000 in
companies represented by C. A. Reitze and
Haines & Daniel.
They carried a *OO,OOO stock of furniture,
which is practically a total loss. Boley &
Bon occupied the entire three floors iu the
corner building, the two floors over B. M.
8 ‘J ry and clothing estab
funW,‘l U ,A^ n u V?nv hr £® floor * between Gar
wnu 1 v d MeGll l Us & Rustin. The coiner
aulm' 1 !, 8 boion p d to the estate of Mrs. K.
McMahon, and was insured by Capt. John
£! p^ 86nti w K the ertate . tor *12,-
A?°" the r n Mutual ttnd Savannah
Fire and Marine Insurance Companies.
•uwinn 4 ’ Uarf Y r,kel ws insured for
valued at run™ C K dry *2 od * Bnd clothing
vaiuea at I JO,OOO. Lone of bis stock was
burned and it was damaged only by water.
The building dividing Garfunkel from
McGillis & Rustin U the propertvof Miss
P. H. Smets of New Jersey. H. J. Thotnas
eon is trustee. The building, which is not
badly damaged is insured in the Phuenix of
Hartford for $3,400, and in the Guardian of
London for $2,500. The rent is insured in
the Phu-nii of Hartford for SOOO.
The building occupied by McGillis &
Rustin is the property of Mis* K. A.
Uanahl and is slightly damaged. It is fully
insured.
McGillis Sc Rustin removed all the con
tents of the first floor and a good deal of the
furniture of the second floor. They were
insured for $6,000 on a $15,000 stock. *
The building occupied by Boley & Sou
was burned in 1818 and again in 1870. It
was each time rebuilt. The wails were,
however, not made new each time.
A good fire wall was built between the
McMahon and Smets property after tho fire
in 1870, and it prevented the tire last night
from making more headway under the west
ern wind than it did.
A Fire In the Suburbs.
Shortly after the alarm had been turned
in for the Boley fire Chief Puder was
informed of a fire in progress on the Thun
derbolt road, but he was unable to spare
any of the apparatus of the department
just at that time. The fire proved to be
one of the oil tanks of the Standard Oil
Company, which, together with its con
tents, was destroyed.
THE CLOSING EXERCISES.
The Cantata of Esther at Beacb Insti
tute Last Night.
Last night’s exercises closed the spring
term of Beach Institute. The feature of
the exercises was the rendering of the
“Cantata of Esther,” by alumni aud
normals of the school. Over sixty took part
in the cantata, and the stage effects were
fine. The principal characters acquitted
themselves admirably. The following is the
cast:
King Ahnsuerus Prof. S. B. Morse
Queen Esther Mrs. Mary J. liourke
Hainan . Mr. James Ferrebee
Zerlch Miss Anna F. Allen
Mordecai Mr. Charles Waters
Mordecai’s sister Miss Lulu Bell
Prophetess Miss M. A. Habersham
Harbnnah Mr. W. C. Jackson
Chamberlain Mr. W. M. Maxwell
Scribe ....Mr. P. A. Low
Queen's attendants ■! J?!* 8 rl ? Adams
( Miss .Sarah Brown
Hagai Mr. George Olliver
Queen's pages j
\ Mr! Albert Cooper 0
Ktmr'a ' Edward Robinson
Xing s pages -J WiU)am ]| otlstoun
Miss Holmes will resume her work at
Beach Institute Sept. 29.
There will be a class supper at the Insti
tute to-night.
THE RAILROAD BOOM.
Georgia Considered the Most Inviting
Field for Equipment Men.
Charles B. Wilkins, southern representa
tive of the New York Railway Equipment
Company, is at the Pulaski, drawn here by
the projected railways and rumors of new
railways.
Mr. Wilkins is the son of the late J. C.
Wilkins, a prominent planter of Liberty
county, and may be said to belong to a rail
road family. His brother, Hamilton Wil
kins, is general manager of the Handers
ville, Gibson aud Augusta road, and his
brother, J. C. Wilkins, is road master of the
Port Royal and Augusta.
Mr. Wilkins says that he knows of no
state in the union where there i9 a railroad
actively equal to that In Georgia, which he
considers the most inviting field at this
time, in the country, for rail
road equipment to visit. To a Morning
News reporter Mr. Wilkins said
that Georgia seems to be advancing in ma
terial progress more rapidly than any other
state, and the quickening Impulse of new
and extended lines of railway is felt in all
parts of the state. He predicts that Sa
vannah must necessarily grow rapidly, and
her commanding position on the coast must
attract netv linos of railway to seek a
terminus here.
CITY BREVITIES,
The closing exercises of the Oglethorpe
Seminary will take place Monday night at
8:130 o’clock at the seminary.
The Forest City Gun Club’s sixth annual
shoot will take place on Hutchinson Island
June 4. The club will entertain its friends
in bandsome style. No one will will be
allowed on tbe grounds without a badge.
The two big grays which pull No. 3 (ire
engine have tieen named by the firemen, and
are now known as “Mountain Boy” and
“Sailor Prince.” The horses are groat pets
with the men, who speak of them as the
“Southern Grays.”
Three of the Savanuah delegation to the
undertakers’ convention at Columbus,
Capt. W. D. Dixon, J. A. Goette and J. K.
Henderson, returned yesterday. J. H. Fox,
vice president of the association, returned
night before last. The convention next
year will meet in Brunswick.
George Waltman, a young white man,
captured a cattle thief near the market yes
terday morning. A negro named “Mose”
stole a flno blooded calf, valued at *SO,
from H. W. Struck and sold it to William
Smallwood, a butcher at the market, for *S.
When tbe negro brought in tie calf Walt
man identified it as Mr. Struck’s property.
The negro took to his heels, pursued by
Waltman, who captured him on Congress
street and turned him over to the police.
He was lodged in jail to await the action of
the next grand jury.
TO INCREASE TEE WATER SUPPLY
The Lines Surveyed and Detail Draw
ings Ready for the Council.
Supt. James Manning of the water works
is taking great interest in the proposed im
provements to the present water works
system and in the new plant proposition.
Lines have been run and rights of way
obtained looking to tbe enlargement of
the old and the establishment of the new
water works system, and detail drawings
are ready to be submitted to the water com
mittee when its chairman, Alderman Mc-
Donough returns to the city.
Mayor Schwarz informed a Morning
News reporter yesterday that as soon as
Mr. McDonough returns io the city a m?et
ing of council will be called to take action
and get the proposed improvements u foot.
The New Ice Works.
Tbe Morning News received a 300-pound
block of ice yesterday, turned out by the
new Ice company, known as the Savanuah
Ice and Cold Storage Company. The plant
will begin to pump from its artesian well
to-day. The foundation walls of the cold
storage building have been laid on three
sides, and it is expected to have the build
ing ready for use by J uly 1. The ice was
being sold at 35 cents per 100 pounds yester
day at the factory.
The machinery of the plant was iu the
Central railroad yards on April 13, und it is
considered quick time to be manufacturing
ice in so short a time by the new plaut.
Funeral of John W. Wolfe.
The funeral of Mr. John W. Wolfe, who
died Wednesday morning, took place from
his late residence on Dully street yesterday
afternoon. Rev. Dr. W. S. Bowman, of the
Lutheran church, officiating. The deceased
was a member of the Savannah Cadets, who
attended the funeral in a body. The serv
ice was very solemn.
Van Houten’s Cocoa— Largest sale in
the world.—^dv.
Bradycrotiue cured headaches for John
Flannery, Savannah, Ga.— Adv.
Do not forget to-morrow (Saturday’s) spe
cial prices at Heidt’s, corner Congress and
Whitaker,— Adv.
TIIF. MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, MAY 30,1890.
FLOWERS FOR THE DEAD.
The Decoration Day Programme in
Savannah
To-day is Decoration day, a national holi
day. Its principal observance in Savannah
will be by W. 8. Hancock Post, Grand
Army of the Republic, which will hold me
morial services at Grove cemetery
at 0 o’clock this afternoon, conducted by
Acting Assistant Adjutant (General F. 8. B.
Gillespie, in the absence of the commander,
G. I. Taggert, who is on the sick list
Committees have been appointed to deoorate
the graves of union soldiers in the other
cemeteries, and every grave will be marked
by the little G. A. R. flag. The graves in
Bonaventure and the Cathedral cemetery
will be decorated by a committee, consist
ing of Comrades William Grav, J. L John
son and Emanuel de Christ. The ritualistic
exercises at Laurel Grove will be over the
grave of a deceased member of the de
partment of Massachusetts.
The principal graves to t e decorated are
these of Brig. Gen. J. M. Cuyler, Jones,
Wayne Cuyler, United States army engi
neering corps; W. C. Cuyler, brevet major
United States artillery; Charles E. Wake
field, Eighty-third New York infantry,
better known as the Fourteenth Brooklyn;
Christian Fisher, Company D, Fifth United
States artillery; John Davidson, commissary
sergeant United States army; Julius Die
man and J. H. Housel, Company D, Fifth
United States artillery; Adam Gunther,
Company H, Sixteenth United States in
fantry; Corporal C. C, Soran, Company E,
Third United States artillery, and John
Hoffman. v
Department Commander Porter, Adju
tant General Gleason and Department
Inspector C. A. Keith left last night for
Macon to take part in the exercises at An
dersonville, as announced in the Morning
News yesterday. United States Marshal
alter P. Corbett will join the Southern
Cadets, who will carry sixty men from
Macon this morning to Andersonville, to
fire the salute at the exercises there.
The colored people chartered the Bellevue,
St. Nicholas aud Crescent City for an ex
cursion to Beaufort last night, to partici
pate in the exercises of decorating the
graves in tho National cemetery. The
Crescent City is the only boat that went,
and the officers hardly expected to cross
Calls bogus sound last night or Broad river
to-day, and if they find the sea too rough
will put back for Savannah. The St.
Nicholas wouldn’t risk the passage, and the
officers of the Bellevue said the same, but
they wouldn’t have gone anyway, as a dis
patch was received yesterday announcing
the death of the owner of the vessel at
Charleston.
ORANGEBURG AFTER IT.
The South Bound Urged to Take In the
Live South Carolina Town.
The citizens of Orangeburg, 8. C., held a
meeting on May 23, and appointed a com
mittee consisting of Messrs. W. L. Glaze
and lliomas L. Raysor to communicate
with the authorities of the South Bound
railroad, with the view of ascertaining the
probable route of the road, aud to find out
what inducement the people of that city
would have to offer to induce the company
to include Orangeburg on its route.
A letter from the committee states that
the business men and citizens in general of
Orangeburg are anxious to secure tho South
Round, ana will do all in their power to get
it. Their city is on the line from Savannah
to Sumter, 8. C., and there is no point
between the two places that cau
offer a railroad anything like the
ad vantages that Orangeburg can. The com
mittee says that the people are anxious to
got railroad connection with Savannah and
the north, and the South Bound railroad will
give them those connections. The county
is one of the most fertile in the state, and
Orangeburg is a city of considerable com
mercial importance, and tho committee
claims that it would bo greatlv to the ad
vantage of Savannah to bring its new road
there.
The letter will doubtless receive careful
consideration from the board of directors
ot the Savannah Construction Company at
the weekly meeting next Tuesday.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the South Bound railroad will be held in
this city June 20.
A NEW TRIBE OF RED MEN.
Over One Hundred Pale Faceß Adopt
the War Paint.
Anew tribe of Red Men was organized
at Knights of Pythias Hall lust night, and
will be formally instituted next month by
Deputy Grand Sachem A. N. Manucy. The
new tribe starts off with 110 members, and
the following officers have been elected:
Prophet—C. F. M. Bernhardt.
Sachem—H. C. Bolton.
Senior Sagamore—William Schroder.
Junior Sagamore—John Sidney.
Chief of Records—J. C. Bernhardt.
Assistant of Records—W. B. Fulton.
Keeper of Wampum—B. B. Mmgledorff.
Right Sanuap -John F. Glass.
Left Sannap—William M. Tildeu.
First Warrior—C. C. Peter-no.
Second Warrior—J. H. Adams.
Third Warrior—VY. E. Durpey.
Fourth Warrior—Edward Greyson.
First Brave—J. R. Goodwin.
Second Brave—B. B. Stokes.
Third Brave—B. F. Parks.
Fourth Brave—W. C. Sweat.
Guard of Wigwam—R. C. Uartlilomas.
Guard of Forest—W. J. Nioll.
Pow-wow—D. W. Douglass.
Pow-wow —John W. Knight.
This is the second tribe of the order in
Savannah.
ARGUMENT BY THE HOUR.
The Macon and Brunswick Railroad
Bond bight Begun.
The case of Cunningham vs. the Macon
and Brunswick and tho East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia Railroad Companies
for *19,000 of the defaulting bonds of the
Macon and Brunswick road prior to the
time the state seized the road, was taken up
in the United {States circuit court yesterday
morning before Judge Don Pardee.
Charles N. West, Esq., loading counsel
for the bondholders, opened his argument
at 10:30 o’clock and spoke for four
hours, when a recess was taken
until 4 o’clock After the recess
Mr. West resumed his argument, and
spoke an hour and a half, when court ad
journed until 10 o’clock this morning, at
which time Robt. G. Erwin, Esq., counsel
for the railroads, will begin his argument,
which will occupy three hours in its deliv
ery. He will be followed bv Judge Mont
gomery of Augusta, of couusel for tho
bondholders. Judge Montgomery will
speak an hour and a half.
The burden of the argument of counsel
for the bondholders is that while the bond
holders could not proceed against tho state
for the defaulting principal aud interest of
tbe bonds of tbe Macon and Brunswick, as
soon as the road p issed into other hands
liability would lie, and the b mdholders
should recover. A long line of authorities
was cited in support of the argument.
Death of John A. Lavin.
John A. Lavin, son of the late Michael
Lavin. died yesterday morning at his home
on East Broad street, after an illness of sev
eral months from lung trouble. While
visiting in the west last winter he con
tracted pneumonia, which developed into
the fatal illness. Tbe deceased was 17
years old, aud was a bright and
popular young man. He was a member of
last year’s graduating class in tho high
school, and stood high among his class
mates. He was at the time of his illness
identified with his brother in the business
established by bis father. The funeral will
take place at 10 o’clock this morning at the
Cathedral of St. John the Baptist. A high
mass of requiem will be celebrated by Rev.
Father Caflerty. The interment will be in
the Cathedral cemetery.
IN’ AND ABOUT TIIE CITY.
TRIED TO FORCE THE DRAW.
The Crescent City’s Attempt to Open
the St. Augustine Creek Bridge.
The St. Augustine oreok draw bridge on
the Savannah and Atlantic railway is
likely to again result in litigation. Night
before last the steamboat Crescent City, on
her way from Thunderbolt to Savannah,
wanted to go through, and the colored
bridge tender, David Jenkins, and bis
assistant, John Brown, refused to open the
draw until the train then coming from
Tybee bad passed, as the train was ap
proaching and Jenkins had orders not to
open the bridge within twenty minutes of
train time.
Capt. Charles E. Murray, master of the
Creeent City ordered his mate, Everett
Smith, and two colored deck bands to go on
the bridge and take the bar lever and open
the draw, and as they did not make much
progress he had the nose of his vessel work
ing under “one bell'’ to try to force the
draw open. The train rapidly approaching
the captain ordered the three men off
the bridge, and making fast to it waited
until the train passed e ver, when the bridge
tenders opened the draw aud let the steamer
through.
Capt. D. G. Puree, president of the rail
way, said to a Morning News reporter
that he has placed the matter in the hands
of Garrard & Meldrim, and he proposes to
have legal redress for the act of taking pos
session of the property of the railroad com
pany, and especially at a time
when the lives of the pas
sengers on the approaching train might
have been imperiled. As It was, he says, it
was necessary to get the rails in place, as
they had been displaced by the boat and
the bungling work of the men who had
been sent to open the draw. Some of the
turning gear and cords of the bridge
machinery were broken, and the bridge was
battered by the boat, his bridge tenders
report to him.
THE BRIDGE TENDERS’ STORY.
The tenders say that the boat whistled for
the bridge, and was waved back; and as the
boat continued to approach the bridge, and
the captain ordered tiie bridge to be opened,
he was told it could not be opened until the
train passed over, as it was then only three
fourths of a mile from Palmetto switch
and West of the switch making
its way toward the drawbridge.
The captain refused to stop but came ahead
and ordered three men off to open the
draw, and, as they could not open it, the
Crescent City pulled off from the bridge
and came ahead several times, striking the
western end to force it open, until the train
came nearer, when the captain called to the
men to thro w tho lever bar across the track,
so that if his boat could not get
though the train should not cross, but as
the train neared the bridge closer he told
the men to put the lever back where they
got it and get aboard tho boat, which had
then been made fast to the bridge. It is
also claimed by the bridge tenders that
Capt. Murray said: “If my boat was strong
enough i’ll be if I wouldn’t knock the
bridge down and go through,” and that he
added that he had been “in the habit of
hutting the bridges open op the St. Johns
river."
CAPT. MURRAY'S STATEMENT.
/the statement of Capt. Murray is that he
Vriis delayed from 0:30 to 7:05 o’clock before
he got through the bridge. As ho ap
proached the bridge he saw it was not open,
and he called out to open it. No attention
was paid to him.
When a little nearer he asked: “Aren’t
you going to open the bridge ?”
The bridge tender replied: “lam not
going to open it until the train goes
through.”
Capt. Murray said he asked, “What right
have you to keep the l oat waiting here
when the traiu Is not in sight? I can see to
Tybee Island, and no tram is coming."
1 lie bridge tender still refusing, the cap
tain said: “I’ll send some men to help yo u
open the bridge,” and immediately ordered
the mate and two deck hands to go on the
bridge ad help’open it, but the bridge ten
ders refused to show them how to unlock the
bridge and left the draw and went to the
Tybee side pier. The captain called out, he
says, to the bridge tenders,” Why don’t you
come and belli opeu the bridge?” and they
made no reply. Tho captain says that his
men then took the lever and twisted and
turned with it, but broke’ only one of the
cords trying to open the draw.
TRIED TO FORCE THE DRAW.
He then put the nose of the boat in the
bridge, as a wedge, coming ahead under
"one bell,” trying to force the bridge apart.
When he saw the train approaching he* told
the men to take the lever down and put if
where they got it, and come aboard the
borit,, He says bq didu’t couieahusd at the
bridge in ep’lisiou, and never said if he had
a big boat he would knock it dowo. He did
say' that “diawbcidges have been butted
optn before,”and considering it an obstruc
tion to navigation, he believed he hail a
right to remove it if he could. He denies
telling his men to obstruct the train by
leaving the lever on the track.
Capt. Murray ssys he knew nothing of
the schedules of the time, but had been de
layed before, and as steamboats have the
right of way on the St. Johns river, he saw
no reason why the same condition of
affairs should not exist here.
THE PILOT’S STORY.
Pilot George W. Rossignol corroborates
( ’apt. Murray’s statements. The pilot sa\ s:
“I am the man who talked about knocking
the bridge. I said ‘if I bad a boat big
enough and strong enough I would knock it
down and go through,’ and I wish to God I
had had cue such and 1 would have done it.”
Pilot Rossignol compiains that the Cres
cout City was detaiued fifteen minutes once
before, until a train passed over, and two
delays of fire minutes since have occurred.
Rossignol says that on the Passiae river in
Now Jersey, and the St. Johns river in
Floriiia, steamboats have the right of way,
and both he and Capt. Murray, who have
been steamboating together, say that they
consider that they did right iu trying to
force open the draw.
A QUESTION OF RIGHT OF WAY.
Capt. Murray addressed a letter to the
Secretary of War yesterday, inquiring
whether the railroads or the steamboats
have the right of way at St. Augustine
creek, aud reporting what course he had
pursued.
Capt. Murray say-s the Crescent City is
owned by Beaca & Miller of Crescent City,
Fla., and has been chartered for the season
by the Coast Line railroad. It was under
stood last night that President Johnston
will have a conference with President
Purse, to bridge over the matter and effect
a peaceable solution of the differences.
Capt. Purse savsthat the United States
courts have decided that the rights of way
over bridges are determined by the states,
and where railroads have been given the
right of way by their charters, and even in
tlie absence of a charter, tbe right of way is
conceded to railroads and can onlv be
changed by c mgressional enactment, and
that in tbe present instance he will insist
upon the rights of the railroad.
Coaßt Line’s New Superintendent.
James T. Lewis, stable boss of the City
and Suburban railway, stationed at Bat
tery park, was appointed by President
Johnston yesterday to the position of
superintendent of the Coast Line railway,
in place of A. G. Drake, with headquarters
at the Bolton street depot.
S. W. Mott, a conductor on the Whitaker
street line, has been promoted to the
vacaucy occasioned by Mr. Lewis’ pro
motion, aud went on duty at Battery park
last night.
Do You Want a Watch?
If you propose buying a lady or gentle
man’s Gold or Silver watch, plain or
mounted with precious stones, be sure to
call at M. Sternberg & Bro.’s. Immense
variety of styles aud priose,— Adv,
AT THE COURT&
Gossip Picked Up Here and There In
the Court Rooms.
An order of default was taken yesterday
in the libel case of the schooner Lillie 8.
Derby against the Francis D. Yarn all in the
U nited States circuit court, no clsim or
answer having been filed. The Yarnall has
gone to sea, leaving a defective bond in the
libel in admiralty, having sailed from
Brunswick before a second bond was de
manded of her, after it was found the first
one was defective. The suit grew out of a
collision here, and which was detailed in the
Morning News when the libel papers were
filed in the United States courts.
Kenty Myers (colored) was bound over to
the city court yesterday by Justice McDer
mott for beating his wife.
The session of the city court yesterday
was taken up by the damage suit of Faunie
C. Ford, a colored school teacner and seam
stress, against the City and Surbanban
Railway Company for SI,OOO. The plain
tiff was driving to the country, to her
school, and alleges that when near Battery
park the mules of a A Vest Broad street car,
unhitched and unattended, obstructed the
road, and one of tho mules kicked into one
of the wheels of the buggy, and, in its
struggles, overturned the buggy, and.throw
ing her out, inflicted serious injuries, in
capacitating her from pursuing her voca
tion as a seamstress, and for three weeks
preventing her from teaching school.
The case was given to the jury late in the
afernoon, and at about 9 o’clock last night
a sealed verdict was brought in. The
plaintiff is also plaintiff in the damage suits
against the steamer St. Nicholas, having
been one of the excursionists at the time of
the collision with the St. Augustine creek
drawbridge in July last. She was repre
sented in the city court yesterday by W. R.
Leaken and R. R. Richards, and the de
fendant railway company by Col. George
A. Mercer and Thomas S. Morgan, Jr.
The habeas corpus proceedings in the
Newton case will be again taken up in the
city court to-day. Solicitor General Fraser
has received a letter from W. Perry Mur
phy, district attorney of Roaufort, stating
that if one of the witnesses to the shooting
will go before a justice at Hardeeville and
swear out a warrant, a requisition will be
applied for. There seems to be no desire
upon the part of the wovnded man, Camp
bell, to prosecute Newton, and it turns out
that the woman whom it was thought had
been struck by a ball received no wound at
aIL
Stable Boss J. T. Lewis and Conductor
Remly of the City and Suburban Railway
Company’s West Broad street line will have
a preliminary examination before Justice
Sheftall at 4 o’clock this afternoon. Isaiah
Hall, a driver of one of the West Broad
street cars, swore out a warrant against
Mr. Lewis for shooting with intent to kill,
and against Remley for carrying concealed
weapons. It appears that Hall took on a
basket of ice on the front platform of his
car last Sunday afternoon and did
not pay the fare on it, and when
remonstrated with by the stable
boss became insulting and assumed a
threatening attitude with the handle of his
whip. Mr. Lewis having told him he would
dock Dim 25 cents, he called on Remly for a
weapon, and the conductor took a revolver
from his lamp box and handed it to him.
Flail in the meantime broke and ran, Lewis
firing three times at him, but ineffectually.
Hall has been cross-warranted.
LOCAL PERSONAL.
W. Howells of Atlanta is at tlie Screven.
W. J. O’Donahue of Augusta is at the
Marshall.
E. K. Marquis of Indianapolis, Ind., is at
the Pulaski.
J. F. Stone of Darien is autographed at
the Marshal!.
A. N. Sibley of Astabula, Fla., is regis
tered at tbe Marshall.
W. W. Montgomery of Augusta is regis
tered at the Screven.
C >l. R. B. Getman, Sr., of New York, is
stopping at the Pulaski.
J. Buekelaw and wife, of Ocala, Fla., are
stopping at the Screven.
J hn McDowell, Jr., of Sumner, Ga., was
at the Marshall yesterday.
O. A. V. Rose of Atlanta, Ga., registered
at the Marshall yesterday.
G. W. Hoyt and Howard Fairbrother of
New York are at the Pulaski.
J. B. Timberlake and C. A. Sickles and
wife, of Louisville, are at the Scroven.
George W. Chase and wife, of Belfast,
Me., registered at the Pulaski yesterday.
Frank E. Brosius, a Philadelphia com
mercial man, is stopping at the Marshall.
Rev. A. S. P. Dodge and wife, of St.
Simon, Ga., were at t e Pulaski yesterday.
A. H. Lockwood and wife and L. Lock
wood of Palatka, Fla., registered at the
Screven yesterday.
Mrs. A. E. Mitchell. Mrs. E. H. Potter,
Miss M. Parson aud E. H. Mitchell, of Au
gusta, are stopping at the Screven.
Mrs. E. A. Smith and children were pas
sengers on the steamship City of Macon,
which sailed yesterday for Boston.
C. Prince, E. W. Prince, Mrs. E. W.
Priuce and Miss Hattie Prince, of Thnuias
ton, Me., registered at the Screven yester
day.
The following party from St. Augustine
are utthe Pulaski: John T. Carr, Ward G.
Foster and wife. Miss Bello Brainard, Mrs.
N. Brainard, Master Arthur Brainard, Dr.
A. Anderson, and Dr. F. F. Smith.
Hon. W. U. Charlton, who, with his wife
and child, went to Darien, the former to
attend the Mclntosh superior court, was
compelled to remain there after adjourn
ment through the sickness of his child.
William Capers, Esq,, was iu the oity
yesterday. He will engage in the mercau
dise brokerage business as soon as he returns
from a trip to several northern cities, for
which places he left last evening. Mr. Capers
is the son of Maj. Henry D. Capers, a gentle
man well known in this state aud through
out the south. He is a native of Savannah.
AN EARLY MORNING SCRAP.
A Slugging Match Under the Electric
Light Between Strangers.
To cries of “murder” yesterday morning
between 3 and 4 o’clock, at State aud Whit
aker streets, a dozen windows were raised
and several nightcapped heads were
thrust out to witness a caniug. Two
white men were the principals. A
well-dressed young man accused a
seedy-looking individual of following him,
and, turning upon him, knocked down the
man who was following him with a cane
and then sailed in with his fist and gave
him a drubbing, while tho assaulted person
lustily cried murder. After several blows
had been inflicted the well-dressed man
walked away, aud the seedy-looking individ
ual picked up his hat and went in an
opposite direction, muttering maledictions
against his assailant. Twenty minutes
later a policeman came along, but all was
quiet. Although tbe assault had boen
inado under tbe full glare of a neighboring
electric lamp, the parties were not recog
nized by those who witnessed it from upper
windows.
SIROCCO TEA.
Selection, Inspection, Protection.
These explain its choice quality, special
curing, guaranteed strength aud purity.
Long known in Europe, and now obtainable
here. Davidson & Cos., 1436 Broad wav.
New York. Savaunah agents, Lippmau
Bros.—Adi’.
How’s Your Silver?
When you need solid sterling or fine
plated Silverware you will find at M. Stern
berg & Bro.’s the largest stock in Georgia
to select from at bottom prices.—Mdu.
Extra Inducements.
A present of a bat to everybody that buys
a suit this week, at "The Famous," 143
Broughton street.— Adv.
BACK FROM M'INTOSH.
A Lively Week for Lawyers Down at
Darien.
Judge Falligant and Solicitor General
Fraser returned from Darien yesterday
afternoon, the Mclntosh superior court
having adjourned for the term Wednesday
afternoon.
The criminal docket was qnite large, and
there was not a single acquittal among all
the cases tried.
Ella Fayson, the colored mistress of
Charles Reeves, who shot aud killed Theo
dore Gronwald, a Darien merchant, was
convicted of being accessory to the murder
before the fact, the jury fixing the penalty
at imprisonment for life. Her counsel, W.
A. Way, Esq., lias made a motion for a
new trial The woman is said to be a
comely looking mulatto about 25 years of
age.
William Smith (colored) was convicted of
manslaughter and sentenced to ten years in
the penitentiary.
Samuel Hazzard (colored) was found
guilty of assault with intent to murder, and
was given five years, and George Mclntosh
(colored) was given five years for a felony
of the same character.
The following, all colored, were found
guilty of misdemeanors: James Letson,
assault and battery, six months; Simon
Roberts, larceny from the house, six months;
Freeman Elverson, wife beating, six
mouths; Gibb Lemon, assault and battery,
three months; John Hammond, larceny
from the house, four months; Charles
Banks, firing a pistol in the public road, one
month; William Green, cruelty to animals,
three months; Ned and Allen Sharpe, tim
ber stealing, SSO each and costs, or six
months. They paid their fines. June Gor
don, larceny from the house, $25 or three
mouths. Gordon paid his flae.
Owing to the absence of Hon. R. E.
Lester and T. P. Ravenel, the latter en
gaged in a case in the United States court
at Macon, the case of the city of Darien vs.
Strain was continued for the term.
THE RIVER AND HARBOR.
Happenings Among the Shipping and
Along the Wharves.
Chr. G. Dahl & Cos. cleared yesterday the
Belgian bark Brabant for Antwerp, with
2,888 barrels of spirits turpentine, measur
ing 147.413 gallons, valued at $51,984.
Cargo by James Farie, Jr.
The owner of the steamer Bellevue died
yesterday in Charleston. He was on a visit
here last week and was taken sick here last
Sunday and returned to Charleston. The
flag of the Bellevue was Hying at half mast
yesterday in respect to his memory.
Capt. Smith, of tho schooner John A.
Griffin, which arrived yesterday from
Bangor, Me., with a cargo of hay, reports
that oil May 22, about five miles south
southeast of Pollock Rip lightship he passed
the wreck apparently of a schooner of
about 500 tons. Tho deck was drifting
and some distance from the hull, which
was badly torn and was uearly bottom side
up. The wreck was in such a condition as
to endanger passing vessels, being in the
track of coasters.
A. W. Templeton Dead.
A. W. Templeton, a well-known rice
planter, died at 2 o’clook this morning from
consumption. The deceased was a member
of Solomon’s Lodge, F. and A. M., and the
Knights of Pythias. His funeral will take
place Sunday.
The Spring Medicine.
The popularity which Hood’s Sarsaparilla
has gained as aspring medicine is* won
derful. It possesses just those elements of
health-giving, blood-purifying and appetite
restoring which everybody seems to need at
this season. Do not continue in a dull, tired,
unsatisfactory condition when you may be
so much benefited by Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
It purifies the blood and makes the weak
strong.— Adv.
Muaical Collections.
National Vocal Folio, National Classic
Folio, Waltz Song Folio, Standard Vocal
Album, Vocal Caskot, Empress of Song,
Monarch of Song, Album of Sacred SoDgs,
Album of German Songs, National Duet
Folio, Waltz Folio; new song: “Annie
Rooney’s Sistor.” New music constantly
received. Agents for Steinway and Gabler
pianos.
Schreiner’s Music House.— Adv.
SWEET WATER PARK HOTEL.
The Famous Southern Watering Place,
Lithta springs, Ga., Open May 15.
Superb accommodations for ’OO guests. Ele
vation 1,300 feet above sea level, insuring cool
breezes. No malaria, mosquitos, or low grounds.
The wonderful Bowden Lithia and Bromine
Lithia Springs waters free to guests. Hot
Springs system of bathing. Seven hundred
feet or wide porches. Table, service, beds and
linen irreproachable. Lovely drives and sail
ing. Elegant ball-room anil first class orches
tra. Only twenty miles from Atlanta, fifty
initiates ride, three trains daily. Every room
lighted by electricity. Bark with fountains,
flowers and lawns, and ample shade. jISIMto
Sl£ per week. Booms with batli extra. Hand
somely illustrated pamphlet free upon applica
tion, or can be secured from our druggist.
Good livery for driving or saddle. The. gn at,
Piedmont Chautauqua, leading educational in
stitution of its kind in tho south, adjoining
hotel grounds, open .Inly and August
Adv. E. W. Marsh Sc Cos.. Proprietors.
Corns, Warts and Bunions
Removed quickly and surely by using Abbott’s
East Indian Corn Paint.— Adv.
Summer Clothinsr.
Warm weather is on us, and at "The
famous''’Now York clothing house you
will find summer clothing of every shade,
grade and variety, for men and boys at
most reasonable prices. Try "The Fa
mous" before you buy. 148 Broughton
street.— Aclv.
Bargains.
You may try, try and try and you will
not find anywhere good clothing as cheap
as at famous," and besides the low
est prices X give this week a straw hat with
every suit for a present. 148 Broughton
streets.—Adi).
Diamonds Are Not Luxuries.
While diamonds and other precious stones
are always good property M. Sternberg &
Bro.’s prices do not render them luxuries.
You are invited to visit their Jewelry
Palace and look around.— Adv.
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Wall street. New York.
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DRY GOODS.
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Notions, Hosiery, Laces,
DRAPE NETS,
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DRUGS AND MEDICINES.
The Boss Corn Varnish
CURES Coras, Warts and Bunions. No knife.
No cutting. No pain. Sure cure or no pay.
Sold by all druggists.
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THE OLD HOMESTEAD.
A MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
Contentsfor June, 1890.
Subscription, - - #1 n Year.
Single Copies, 100. Each.
To Liberia and Back.
The Devil’s Dyke; a legend.
Constantinople.
Asmund Thyrsklingurson.
To Mrs. J. P. Turner; a tribute.
Aftermath.
For All Who Die; poem.
The Polish Officer.
Cupid; poem.
Trailing a Bank Robber.
Editorial.
A Summer’s Dream.
The Immortal Dickens.
The Household, Kitchen, Farm.
Only; poem.
Through the Trees; a novel,
stanzas.
Music—Up Came McGinty; song.
The Newest Fashions; illustrated.
The Children’s Page.
Our Premium Record.
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