Georgia Historic Newspapers

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808 NORTON IN .JAIL.
THE SLAYER OP THE BIRDS SUR
RENDERS TO PI-'E TIFF RON AN.
Norton's Story o: i.ia Life Since the
July Tragedy—He was Studying Den
tistry in San Francisco When He
Received the News of His Indictment
in Effingham County and Started at
Once for Home- He is f ilent About
the Killing.
Robert G. Norton, Jr., the slayer of the
Bird bovs in Effingham county, on July 17
last, surrendered to Sheriff Ronan night
before last.
There was not a more surprised man in
Savannah than Sheriff Ronan, when on
answering the jail bell after 11 o’clock, he
tound himself confronted by Norton, who
announced bis intention of giving himself
up. Norton was accompanied by his
father, Dr. R. G. Norton,a id Cecil Berrien,
an intimate frie: and of the Norton family.
A Morning News reporter saw Norton
in his ceil last night. IS hile he is much
thinner than before the murder was com
mitted, Norton said he was e joying excel
lent health, and that his worn appearance
was das to a severe attack of malarial fever
about a month ago. Norton positively de
clined to aiscuss l.is crime, saying that he
was guilty of nothing, and was satisfied
that after a fair trial he would come out
ail rigiit.
SILENT ABOUT THE MURKER.
To au inquiry by the reporter if he in
tended to convey, by saving that he was
not guilty of any crime, the idea that he
had killed the Bird boys in self-defense.
Norton seemed much annoyed, and an
swered: "I have nothing to say one way or
a* other, except as I said before, I am guilt
less of crime.”
Norton, however, was willing enough to
talk of everything that lias transpired re
gar ding himself since the crime was com
mitted.
“I staid in Effingham,” he said, "for a
month after the trouble, and slept in my
house on th farm every night. After that
I went west to California, and took scour e
in dentistry' at the University of California
in San Francisco. As soon rs I learned
that I had been indicted for the murder of
the Birds 1 start and for home, with the in
tention of surrendering myself to the au
thorities here, feeling that the people’s
minds had become settled, and that I would
be given a fair showing.
THE RETURN HOME.
“I arrived in the city Sunday night, and
went at once to the house of a friend, and,
after stopping there a while, wont to niv
father’s and sent for mv attorney, Judge
Adams. After consulting with him, I
came to the jail, accompanied by my
father and Mr. Berrien, and surrendered to
Sheriff Ronan.
“As soon as Judge Falligant returns, my
counsel will make application for bail, and
I hope to have the same granted.”
Any allusion to the murder was adroitly
avoided by Norton, and he was very care
ful not to commit himself.
Noi t>n has quite a genteel appearance,
and no one who did not know the facts
would accuse him of the great crime with
which be s;ands charged. Although he said
he was only 23 rears of age, a person
would take him to tie much older. He spoke
in a slow, measured tone, as if ha were
weighing every word uttered.
When asked if he intended to apply for a
change of venue, Norton said that the mat
ter was entirely with his counsel, and he
had nothing to do with it.
NORTON’S FATHER TALKS.
Dr. R. G. Norton said last night to a
Morning News reporter: "Yes, Bob has
com., back and has given himself up fur
tri U, just ok he intended doing all the lime.
He would have given himself up just after
the killing occurred hod not the people in
Effingham county been so excitod over the
affair that it would have been uusafe for
him to have done so. It is almost certaiu
that ho would have been killed or someone
else would. He stayed some time in
Effingham county after the affair,
an 1 his whereabout* were known to bis
friends. Ho did just what was best ia
coming back here and giving himself up.
I have evidence that wdl show that the
Birds went there with the intention of
forcing him to give back the mule, whether
be was willing or not, and that they etatod
w hat they intended doing to parties while
on their way there. I can also prove that
Bob’s life was in danger In Effingham
county after the shooting."
YOUNG NORTON’S COUNSEL.
Dr. Norton said his son’s counsel are
Denmark, Adams & Adams. J. G. & D. H.
Clark and H. E. W ilson. Capt. Clark and
Judge Adams were In consultation with
Norton at the jail yesterday. The case will
come op for trial at the next term of Ef
fingham superior court, which convenes the
second Monday in May.
HAD HI3 LEG BROKEN.
Policeman Leach the Victim of a Negro
Truckman's Recklessness.
Yesterday afternoon about 2:30 o’clock
Officer Fred I-each, of the Ocean Steamship
Company’s police force, had his right leg
broken below the knee by a bale of cot
ton.
Officer Leach was on duty at the bridge
crossing at Wadley street, and was reading
an order for cotton, when two negro truck
men came racing down the walk. As they
reached the policeman the bale of cotton
on the truck next him toppled over through
the carelessness of the truckman, and
caught the officer's right leg, jamming it
against the wall of the wharf office.
Officer Leach fell to the walk, and the
negro, hurriedly righting the bale of cotton,
proceeded on his way as if nothing had
happened. Several employes ran to the
aid of the unfortunate policeman and car
ried him into the office.
The police barracks was telephoned of the
accident, and the ambulance was dis
patched to the wharf and the injured
officer was placed in it and
carried to his home, at Wheaton and
Reynolds streets, where Dr. Elliott, surgeon
of the company, attended him. The doctor
found the right leg broken below the knee,
and set the injured member.
Policeman Leach said he suffered great
pain until the arrival of the doctor, and it
is likely that he will be confined to his bed
for several weeks.
The habit of racing on the wharf became
such a dangerous nuisance some time ago
that orders were issued to the police to pre
vent it. and it is only occasionally that such
things happen now, and unfortunately for
Officer Leach he was the first victim. The
negro is unknown to the policeman, and
w as not arrested.
IMPORTED JUTE BUTT3.
No Drawback of Duty on Importations
After Oct. 8 Unless Proven.
The treasury department, in its last cir
cular to tho collectors of customs, decides
that inasmuch as jute butts imported on or
after Oct, 0, 1890, are exempt from duty
no drawback can be allowodou bagging ex
ported after that date, and claimed to have
t.eon manufactured from jute butts im
ported under the old tariff, unless such
claim is fully supported by the proofs of
importation prescribed in tho regulations
01 J uno 3, 1885. The provisions of para
graph 2of tho circular of June 22, 1889
dupe using with the production of such
pr.ofs, are revoked.
You Take No Risk
In buying Hood’s Sarsaparilla, for it is
everywhere recognized as the standard
building-up medicine and blood purifier It
has won it* wav to the front by its own in
trinsic merit, und has the largcßt sale of auv
preparation of its kind. Any honest drug
gist will confirm tis statement. If vou
decide to take Hood's Sarsaparilla do not, be
induced to buy anything else instead. Be
sure to get Hood’s.—Aiic.
BEAUIY AT THE BALL.
The Hebrew Benevolent Society’s Ball
a Brilliant Affair.
The am ual ball of the Young Ladies
Hebrew Benevolent Society, which took
place at Masonic hall last night, was a big
success. About 125 couples, the large ma
jority of whom were young people, at
tended, Image’s orchestra furnished the
music. Daueing liegan at D o’cl.ck and
continued nutil 3 o'clock.
The largo ball room on the second floor
of the hall presented a lieautlful eight when
the floor was filled with the dancers, the
rich costumes of the ladies glaring in the
brilliant light.
Amongst the numerous handsomely eos
tuumed ladies were Miss Amelia Boley,
Miss Mayer of New York, Misses Fannie
anii Dollie Dub, Miss Matilda
Goodman, Misses Mamie and Lily
Belig, Mrs. Henry Levy, Miss Celia Stern,
Mrs. Joe Ferst, Misses Maud and Magnes
Loewentbal, Mies Bertha Rothschild, Miss
Rose Blatshek and Miss Eva Cohen.
The dehutantos were Miss Idly Einstein,
ornaments.liam .nds, pink faille,demi-train,
pink satin slippers.
Miss Etta Periinski. mons-se-line embroid
ered in silver, ornaments pearls.
Miss Doliie Dub, white si k trimmed In
ducbe. ee lace, lilies of the valley, ornaments
diam mds.
Miss Hattie Asher of Griffin, white silk,
feather trimming and silk rosettes, gray
slippers.
Miss Bertha Nussbaum of Macon, w'hite
silk, under dotted tulle, caught with white
ro-ebuds.
Miss Cohen of New York, white silk,
feather trimming, ornaments pearls.
Mias Mattie Heiuis, white satin, striped
tulle over white satin, feather trimming.
Kiss Ida Boley, white mull, embroidered
in silver, feather trimming, ornaments
pearls.
Miss Mayer of New York, white faille,
fed! her trimming.
Mias Piatahek, white china silk, rose
trimmed, ornaments pearls.
The success of the affair was largely due
to the work of the committers, which were
as follows:
Ladies—Misses Mamie Selig, Amelia
Boley, Lily Einstein, Ida Raiser, Ophelia
Stern, Magnes Loewenthal.
Gentlemon—Sig Bius wanger, B. H. Liv
ingston, M. Dryfus, J. S. Einstein, Duvalle
Sternberger, Henry Strauss.
At 13:30 o'clock an elegant supper was
served, provided by Fried & Hicks and per
sonally superintended by Mr. Hicks. The
bail netted quite a handsome sum to the
society.
THE COLORED CATHOLIC FAIR.
A Lively Scene in the Fair Room of St.
Benedict’s Church.
The fair for the benefit of Bt. Benedict’s
colored Catholic church opened last night
with flattering prospects. It is being hold
in the basement of the church, which has
been tnstily decorated with bunting and
plants for the occasion.
At 8 o’clock the church choir sang a
chorus of Mallard's mass, after which
Father William, pastor of the Sacred Heart
church, in a few well-cho9enian i appropriate
remarks, deolaredthe fair open for business.
There was a big crowd in attend
ance, and plenty of money seamed
to tie changing from (the pockets of
the visitors to the fair treasury. The fair
is under tho management jot A. E. Robin
son, who is ably assisted bj largo numbers
of the congregation.
There are live tables anil a refreshment
booth. Ali the tables are!filled with choice
and tempting articles, ana under the man
agement of the femalel members of the
church. The choir table pas a magnificent
portrait of Father Meiclior, which will he
disposed of during the fur.
The St. Benedict's Society table is a small
grocery store, and is filled with caunod
goods, provisions, eta
The supper table is unf.er charge of the
several societies, and wf.s well patronized
last night. /
The fair will be continued for ten days,
and if lost night’s attendance is kept up
quite a neat sum will, ho doubt, be realized.
All the white friends of the church ure in
vited to attend.
BADIY USED UP.
James Connell Wounded In a Sunday
Nigffit Brawl.
James Connell, a white longshoreman,
was protty roughly handled Suudav night
about 8:30 o’clock at the corner of Price
and Bay streets by a bartender named Pat
Carney. Asa result Connell is confined to
St. Joseph’s Infirmary, suffering great pain
from six wounds about his head and face.
Tlie trouble is said to have begun in a
near by saloon, and Connell, who w<s
much the worse for liquor, became abusive
to Carney.
When Conr.ell left tbo barroom Carney is
said to have followed anil attacked him
with a decanter. He received three bad
wounds in the head, both lips were split,
several teeth knocked out, and his chin
was cut clear across.
Connell bled profusely aud was taken by
soveral of his companions to Dr, M. F.
Dunn’s office, where his wounds were
dressed. Over twenty stitches were re
quired, and the unfortunate man almost
fainted from weakness after the operation.
Dr. Dunn sent Connell to St. Joseph’s
Infirmary, where he is likely to remain some
time. While the wounds are very painful,
Dr. Dunn does not anticipate any serious
results. Carney was not arrested.
VESSELS FOUL AT SEA.
Two Schooners Collide off Martin's
Industry Light.
The fog lifted early yesterday morning
and tbo weather became clear again. It
enabled a portion of the fleet mentioned in
yesterday’s Morning News to go to sea,
and also disclosed quit# a fleet of vessels in
the roads and the river bound up.
Among them was the big four-masted
schooner Napoleon Boutcn and also the
schooner Mattie E. Eaton, with her jibboom
gone, and tho schooner Edward R. Emerson
with her spanker-boom carried away. Thov
were in collision Saturday. The Eaton was
riding at auehor to the eastward of Martin’s
industry lightship, when tho Emerson ran
into her. There was no fog at the time.
The two schooners fouled, and no other
damages were reported.
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, sho clung to Castoria
When sho had Children, sho gave them Castoria.
To Lay the Corner-Stone.
The cornep-stono of the New Houston
Street Methodist Episcopal church, at New
Houston and Jefferson streets, will be laid
at 4 o’clock this afternoon. A special re
union service will be held to-night, at which
there will be a re-union of tue church’s
former pastors, aud also of the church’s
membership. The evening service will bo
at, 8 o’clock.
Fair and Slightly Cooler.
Yesterday’s maximum temperature was
79°, the minimum was 65" aud the meau
was 16° abovo normal. This temperature
is unusually high for the season. There
was a brisk breeze yesterday, whioh drove
away the fog aid made the temperature
more bearable. “Fair aud slightly cooler”
is the prediction for to-day.
Simmon* Liver Regulator cured me of gen
eral debility and loos of appetite. Mrs. 15d
inuud Pit ton, Frankfort, I".— Ad.
THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18,1890.
TO PUT UP PACKAGE BOXES.
The Postofflce Department’s New
public Convenience.
The new postofflce package boxes will be
placed in position today. There are fifteen
in all, but only five will be put up to-day,
and the others as rapidly os business
requires. The boxes are made of wood,
covered with sheet iron, and are about four
feet by two feet, and painted a dark green.
The city council committee on streets
and lanes’ held a meeting yesterday, and
gave Postmaster Doyle authority to place
the boxes at whatever places he thought
proper.
The boxes will be placed at the following
points:
S uth west corner of Broughton and Whit
taker streets.
Southwest corner of South and East Broad
streets.
In front of Strong’s drug store, at Bull
street and Perry street lane.
Yongo’g drug store, corner Duffy and
W hltnker streets.
Kieffer’s drug store, corner West Broad
and Stewart streets.
Boxes will also be placed in the hotels if
they desire it. At present no boxes will be
put on Bay street, as the postofflce is con
venient t > all who have packcgos to mail.
In :he event, however, of the removal of
the postofflce to other quarters, boxes will
be put at convenient corners on that street.
Postmaster Doyla is considering the ad
viability of changing the h uir of closing
the mails on Sunday from 10:33 o’clock in
the morning to 3:30 o’clock in the afternoon,
and also to have mail collected from the
business section of the city by a carrier be
fore the closing hour. Under the present
arrangement if a business mau re
ceives a letter on Sunday morning
which requires immediate attention he does
not have sufficient time to answer it and get
to the postofflce before the closing hour.
Consequently the letter has to lie over until
Monday morning. Postmaster Doyle thinks
this oo much of a hardship, and proposes
to make the change ae soon as possible.
Another improvement to be made shortly
is the building of two neat little wagons,
shaped ns boxes, with covers, for the
collection of mails on long routes.
Iu the rear of the wagon is a
step similar to those on omnibuses, on which
the carriers will stand while driving, and
thereby obviate all trouble heretofore ex
perienced iu jumping in and out of a sulky
whenever tho contents of a letter box are to
be taken. This arrangement will also do
away with the mounted carriers.
It is rumored that several changes will
take place in the office force shortly.
THE RICK CROP.
The Damage Expected to be Fully as
Great as First Predicted.
That the rice crop of the Savannah river
will be considerably shorter and poorer in
quality this season, as compared with last,
seems to be no longer a matter of doubt.
The first rice threshed after September
proved to be of better quality than was
expected by the planters, and this gave rise
to a hope that tne damage by the rainy
spell had not been as great as was antici
pated. But as the threshing continued the
rioe became poorer, and soon proved that
the early predictions were correct.
What tho total damage will be cannot
be known, however, lor several weeks until
ail the rice is gathered aad threshed. Usu
ally at this time of the year the most of the
rice Ims been harvested and placed in tho
market, but the continued bad weather de
layed work to such an extent that some of
the planters have fully one-fourth of their
crops still in the field, and the heavy fogs
ana dews of the last few days have tondeato
further delay matters.
Tho longer the gathering of the crop Is
delayed now the groater will be the loss, as
the birds are flocking to the fields anti de
stroying the rice. One planter said yester
day that he was satisfied that at the end of
the season the recoipts at tho mills would
be far below what tney were last year.
STILL ANOTHER ONE.
Pompey Baxter's Capture of a Giant
“Rattler.”
Pompey Baxter (colored) was in town
yesterday with the stuffed skin of an im
mense rattlesnake, which he killed Satur
day near the six-mile house oil the Augusta
road. Baxter said he was walking along
with his gun on his shoulder,
when he almost stepped on the
snake, whioh was lying in coil. The snake
sprang bis rattle and Baxter made a good
jomp backward. He tired at the snake,
blowiug its head off. The body of the
snake, exhibited by Baxter, was over six
feet long, and, with the bead, it must have
been nearly seven feet long. It had six
rattles.
Attention! If you desire a fine head of
hair of a natural hue and free from dan
druff, Hall’s Hair renewer is the best and
sufest preparation to accomplish it—Ad.
CITY BB'-Virißß.
Clinton lodge, F. & A. M., will confer the
M. M. degree to-night.
Tho Liquor Dealers’ Association will
hold a meeting to-night.
Oglethorpe lodge of Odd Follows will hold
an important meeting to-night
The Confederate Veterans’ Association
will meet to-night in Armory hall.
The Savannah Branch, Order of the Iron
Hall will hold an important meeting to
night at Knights of Pythias Hall. Initia
tion will be conferred on a number of can
didates.
The chairman Sand clerk of the First
Bryan Baptist Church say that bun day’s
row at that church, reported in the
Morning News yesterday, did not take
place in the church, but on tho sidewalk.
A PaDer This? Comes to Grief.
Mr. H. C. Davis has been annoyed
lately by not finding the Morning News
in Its aecostumed place on the stoop of his
residence. Yesterday morning he discov
ered the cause in a young negro boy, Goorge
Roberts, whom he caught stealing the paper.
Mr. Davis turned the boy over to his grand
mother, the father being dead, and the
mother an invalid, and he received a severe
and well laid on Hogging, which will un
doubtedly serve as a reminder to leave the
newspapers alone. Roberts says lie was
one of a gang of six regularly engaged in
stealing papers from tho front doors, after
delivery had been made. Efforts will tie
made to bring the others of his party to a
similar punishment.
Why suffer with sick headache and bilious
ness when Simmon* Liver Regulator will
cure youl— Ad.
A Veteran Passes Away.
Zara Harvey, one of the pioneers of Ef
fingham county, residing near tho pro -
pective town of Meldriui, died at the heme
of his sister in Bryan county Saturday.
Mr. Harvey had been spending some time
iu Bryan, whither he had gone to consult
Dr. Williams iu reference to his case, aud
for a time he showed signs of improvement,
but this was only temporary. During the
war Mr. Harvey was a member of the Fifth
Georgia cavalry, and had the respect and
confidence of his officers and comrades in
the ranks. He leaves three sons and one
daughter to mourn his death. John B.
Harvey of the late firm of Harvey & Mock
of this city is one of tho survivors.
Inspected the Court House.
W. G. Preston, architect of the new
court house building, aud L. N. Evans,
constructor of the steam-heating apparatus,
are iu town, aud made a tour of inspection
of the court house yesterday.
The time for high priced linimehts 13 past. You
can buy Salvutiou Oil for only 25 cents.
The consumptive's sufferings are greatly
mitigated by Lr. Buff 's Cough Syrup.— Ad.
BIG WASTE OF WATER.
SUPT. MANNING’S FIGURES BEFORE
THE BANITARY ASSOCIATION.
Dr. LeHardy Takes Up the Sewerage
Question The Present System
Menacing the Health of the People-
The Need for a New System to Re
lieve the City of an Impending Dan
ger—Dr. LeHardy’s Views Approved
by the Association.
The Citizens’ Sanitary Association held
its quarterly meeting at the secretary’s
office last night.
Dr. LeHardy’s report on the sewerage
system was the feature of the meeting, and
was discussed with interest. The members
of the committee agreed that Dr. LeHardy’s
position was well taken, and indorsed the
report.
The water works question was discussed
at length, particularly the need of better
water faciiitlee for some portions of the city,
tho need of larger water maius for a large
portion of the system, and the waste of
water.
THE WATER QUESTION.
Dr. George H. Stone presented some
figures secured from Superintendent of
Waterworks Manning as to the consump
tion of water in Savannah, showing un
doubted evidence of an immense waste.
On June 12; Superintendent Man li
ning, for the sake of experiment,
guagad the amount of water flowing from
the reservoir at S:3O o’clock in the after
noon, and found that 4,225 gallons were be
ing pumped into the city every minute.
June 13 was on Thursday. On the Sunday
following at 3:30 o’clock in the morning the
test was made again, and it was found that
3,498 gallons per minute were being pumped
into the city.
The first measure was taken during the
busy portion of the day. n hen, naturally,
tho demand for water was the heaviest.
The second was taken before daybreak,
when it would naturally be supposed that
the uso'of water would be very small, as
compared with the amount used iu the busy
portion of tho day.
AN IMMENSE WASTAGE.
A comparison of the tests showed a dif
ference of only 127 gallons per minute, or
that the city was using 3,498 gallons per
minute iu the most quiet portiou of the
night to 4,225 gallons per minute in the bu-y
portion of the Jay. The question wa6 what
became of those 3,498 gallons, as thero
could have been very little actual use of
water at that time of night, and the opin
ion of those present seemed to be that the
greater portion of it was wasted. Some of
the members went so far as to say that the
727 gallons difference represented the actual
amount of water used, and that the 3,498
gallons represented a waste of that aiasunt
for every miuute in the day.
5,000,000 GALLONS LOST A DAT.
This jwould make a waste of 5,378,120
gallons per day. Allowing a waste of 2,000
gallons per miuute would amount to 3,880,-
000 gallons.
In the above estimates were (Deluded,
however, the amount of water taken by the
“traps” at the street corners, in which a
certain amount of water is kept all the
time. It was asserted that water is going
to waste all over the city, despi’e the efforts
of the city to reduce the amount used.
The opinion of the association was that
the present water supply is amply sufficient
for the needs of the city if properly econo
mized, but that only the most stringent
measures on the part of the city council
will accomplish this. The sanitsry associa
tion is heartily in favor of the new water
works, however.
DR. LK HARDY’S REPORT.
Medical Director Le Hardy’s report,
showing that the existing sewers are a con
stant source of danger to tho people of Sa
vannah was as follows:
For more than 180 years the only method
used by the city authorities for getting rid of
stagnant water, left on thestreets at ter storm,
was, by running furrows with a plow or using
the (“voter" and his) shovel.
This method, of courss, could drain but a
small fraction of the large puddle* about the
city. Most of the water was absorbed, satu
rating the soil and exposing a moist surface to
the action of our tropical sun. This condition
of soil has always been prejudicial to health
aud productive of malarial diseases, here aud
elsewhere.
Before the inauguration of dry culture in 1818,
the mortality in bavaanah was something fear
fui. one person dying annually in every four
teen (14) inhabitants: and the city records show
that the death rate continued to bo large until
a system of doey drains had been established
inside and outside the city.
About twenty-five years ago one of our alder
men, l)r. James .1. Waring, who had resided in
the city of Washington and observed tho good
effect produced upon the healthfulness oft hat
city by deep soil drainage, prevailed
upon our council to institute a system of drains
from which the existing sewer system is the
outgrowth.
OOOD FOR THEIR PURPOSE.
These drains are admirably adapted for the
purpose of freeing the soil from water, beiug
large in size and built of porous brick. Their
effect has been to lower tho permanent water
level at least ten feet, exerting a remarkable
influence upon the health of our people and
preventing malaria! fevers. To physicians who
have practiced here for the last thirty or forty
years it is well known that this deep drainage
has reduced tho number ot oases of malarial
fevers to one where there were formerly fifty or
more. Indeed malarial fevers are now of rare
occurrence in Savannah
Through ignorance of the danger of such a
course, or from a false conception of public
economy, our city fathers have allowed these
storm water drains to be used to carry off
sewage, thus converting them into porous sew
ers and count-rarting to a great extent their
beneficial effects as drains.
The fecal matter aud solid portions of house
refuse oo talned in this sewage accumulate at
different places on the rough cricks, sometimes
Completely biooking up the sewer. The fluid
portions penetrate the brick wad and saturate
the soil around it with offensive matter, giving
out noisome gas.
DISEASE CAUSED BY SEWERS.
Typhoid and continued fevers formerly un
known here arc now steadily on the increase, as
well ns ull that clasr of maladies called filth
diseases. This is the result of the misuse of
storm-water drains for sewers.
The existence of an iinmense oloacum, filled
with putrafacatton and branching everywhere
underneath the city, is far more dangerous to
life thau the mere saturation of the soil with
rain water.
Wet soil may produce a large number of cases
of malarial fevers, but these are not, as a rule,
very fatal, while most of those diseases pro
duced by tilth -diphtheria, for instance—are
notoriously dangerous to life.
it is, however. In times of epidemic that foul
ami illy constructed sewers, as well as un
c.eaned privy vaults, do most of their deadly
worlc.
The poison which gives rise to epidemic dis
eases is produced by plants; the emanations
arising from putfeliging fecal matter and house
refuse, in Bowers and privies, contain a large
quantity of ammonia and carbonic acid gas
—and these are die best nutriment for all
plants—including those producing disease.
Sewers, then, undar certain conditions, become
a rilus for the propogation of the germs of
disease, and the rjs which constantly arises
from them serves to/upread these germs even in
parts of the city remote from sewers, thus
causing on epidetn-ix
QCOO DRAnCAOE Atm PROSPERITY.
Bince the great oajfttnlty whicn decimated our
city in 187 C we l ave i ecu blessed with a period
of rest from epidemics, and that period has
been one of unexampled prosperity to us. The
city has extended as limits; dwelling houses
have been put up by the thousands, flno edifices
have' been erected, extensive railways have
been constructed in our stre ts, and every com
mercial and manufacturing interest has devel
oped with greater rrfiidity than at any time In
our history.
But bitter experience teaches us that the re
currence of an epidemic of yellow fever would
destroy all of this prosperity, bankrupt the
city, ad produce a general depression that
would last many years
Tlie epidemic of 1875 was very carefully inves
tigated by the state board of liealth and physi
cians of note, who all agree that the virulence
of the epidemic was much intensified by the
condition of our pri's' vaults, our sewers, ami
tbe Bilbo cnnal; whte Dr Woodhull of the
United States arra.'r, who made the most
thorough investigation at the time, believed
tha the disease owed its origin to local causes,
especially to those ju st. mentioned.
It is, therefore, inismibent upon those who
have tbe management- of our municipal aifairs
to see to it, na their moot important duty, that
these conditions, capaDli, in the judgment of
those competent to iwonounce an qpinion, of
BAKING POWDER.
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—TJ. S. Gov’t Report, Aug. 17, 1889.
ABSOLUTELY pure
producing or intensifying a yellow fever epi
demic be removed as soon as possible.
A WORK OP REVORJI.
Siuee its organization iu 188!, onr association
has devoted itie'.f zealously to procuring sanl
tary reform, and through its exertions much
good has benn accomplished. It has considered
tile* privy vault and sewer evils, and asked our
city government for radical improvements.
Our aldermen have t-alsud the matter over con
siderably. both in public and in private, have
asked for opinions from special engineers, have
sent their own engineer to study the systems of
sewers in other cities. They nave considered
plans, and may, perhaps, have adopted one.
Tnis shows very plainly that they fully appre
ciate the importance ami the necessity for a
separate systems of sewers, yet so far not one
step has len taken which promises relief ia
the near future.
It appearsto me that it iwnew high time for our
citizens in general to take up this matter, and,
fuily understanding its nearing upon onr future
prosperity, insist upon it that every alderman
elected to council shall pledge himself to push
vigorously forward the construction of a scion
tide and efficient system for house drainage and
for the removal of night soil.
In the formation of such a system the first
stsp should he to select a proper place for au
outlet, and to build a tower to that point into
which all the sewage of the-city should be con
ducted. That ever increasing nuisance. Bilbo
canal, should no longer be ternd as au outlet.
After these many years of Bilbo canal ex
perience, it is to be hoped that no one can be
found in Savannah who woald allow a sewer to
discharge its contents into a stream where
ther' can be a possibility of tho tides bringing
floating fecal matter back toths city.
LOCAL PERSONAL.
Mrs. J. F. Wheaton returned from the
north yesterday on the City of Augusta.
A. A. King of New York is at the Pu
laski.
E. M. McCann of Waycross is at the
Pulaski.
Will Sommer of Hemerrille is at the
Screven.
R, B. Butterloh of Ashburn Is at the
Screven.
Capt. E. McCall of Waycross is at #he
Marshall.
W. G. Bates and wife of Brooklyn are at
the Pulaski.
Frank M. Tobin of Chicago is a guest of
the Pulaski.
J. W. Preston of Augusta is registered at
the De Soto.
H. J. Sanders of Valdosta is a guest of
the Marshall.
J. E. W iddall of Philadelphia is a guest
of the De Soto.
William Graydenof Plainfield, N. J., is
at the De Soto.
James D. Dawson of Augusta is a guest
of the Screven.
W. A. Sheahan of St. Louis is registered
at the Screven.
James Love of Madlscn, Fla., is stopping
at the Marshall.
11. Harvey of Wilmington, Dol., is stop
ping at the Do Soto.
Georg© Nye, Jr., of Holyoke, Mass., is
stopping at the Pulaski.
H. T. Sinclair and wife of Ocala, Fla., are
registered at the Pulaski.
G. J. Hilton and J. L. Wilcox of Baxley
are guests of the Marshall.
M. F. Conally and D. J. McLeod of Sum
ner are stopping at the Screven.
Dr. W. S. Lawton and family returned
from tho north yesterday on the City of
Augusta.
John Fleming, .Jr., formerly with Lester
& Ravenel, but recently from Atlanta,
came down yesterday for a few days.
Another Loan Company.
A petition for the incorporation of the
Lafayette Loan Company was filed with
the clerk of the superior court yesterday.
The petitioners are J. P. W illiams, J. S.
Wood, George W. Lamar, George W. Al
len, W. W. Chisholm, Gustave Fox and
George W. Owens. The capital stock is
naraod at $25,000, in shares of SIOO each.
They propose to carry on a loan and savings
business.
Thanksgiving at Tybee.
The Savannah and Atlantic railway has
announced a special schedule of trains for
Thanksgiving day. The fare will be 35
cents for tbo found trip to Tybee and re
turn. The following schedule of trains has
been fixed: Leave, Savannah 9:30 a. m.
and 2:30 and Op. in., and leave Tybee at
5:10 a. m. and 12:01 and 5 p. m.
Waiting for Their Arrival.
The detectives who arrested the safe
burglars Friday night are waiting to hear
from the parlies who offered tha SIOO
reward. They have heard nothing from
Gordon since the prisoners were carried
back there.
A Decline in Cotton.
The cotton market declined tjje. all
around yesterday. Tho weakness was due
to the lightness of the money market aud
the desire of a few holders to unload in an
ticipation of acceptances coming due to
day.
Tea ie Not Always Tea,
But Sirocco, so familiar to European
travelers as finer than aiy known here, has
a strength and flavor unequaled and its
purity is insured by sealed packages. Sole
growers are Davidson 6c Cos., 1436 Broad
way, New York. Savannah agents. Lipp
man Bros. Retail Depot, Livingston’s Phar
macy.—Adv.
P. B. Springer,
Solo Agent in Savannah for “Perfection
Creamery.”— Ad.
Perfection Creamery Butter.
Ask your grocer for it; best in market.—
Ad.
To Mothers.
For upward of fifty years “Mrs, Win
slow’s Soothing Syrup - ’ has been used by
millions of mothers for their children while
teething with never-faikng safety aud suc
c*s. it soothes tbo child, softens the gums,
allays ail pain, regulates the bowels, cures
wind colic, and is the best remedy for
diarrheea. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing
Syrup” is for sale by druggists in every
part of the world. Price 25 cents a bottle.
Adv.
Buy Only Perfection
Creamery Butter. Call on Springer, the
leader of fine Butter.—Ad.
Every "Mother
To relieve chafing, burning heat and all
skin eruptions, uses ana recommends Bora
cine Toilet and Nursery Powder. It is
highly perfumed, aud but 25 cents per pack
age. Sold by all druggists. Try it.— Ad.
Perfection the Leader.
Call on Springer; tha best butter on the
market.—Ad.
la tho “Bachelor" Girl Here?
I was thinking, a few days ago, on the
subject of Matrimony, and somehow or
other the conclusion came over me that
the girls are lot "marrying off” as rapidly
this season as in days gone by, and I am
surely afraid that we are about to have the
“bachelor girl” on our hands. Girls! let me
protest against this alarming depression in
tte matrimonial market. Stocks may go
down, securities may fluctuate, but any
tendency to single wretchedness can
not be condemned too strongly.
Stir up the young men. If they
are wavering, throw out an encouraging
sign. Besides, you don’t appreciate tee
many advantages that hinge on matrimony
that you are missing. I was looking through
Sternberg’s mammoth jewelry and art
palsce a day or two ago, and when my at
tention was called to tables and shelves and
showcases jammed with articles solely for
w edding presents, I wendered at the weak,
ness of the marriage spirit. Oh! girls, girls,
yon don’t know what you are losing, and
the sooner you get the y oung men "down
to business,” and the sooner they get to
Sternberg’s, the quicker all will be happy.
Socrates.
At Eatlll's.
Savannah Morning News, "An Old
Maid Kindled,” by Alan Dale (author of a
Marriage Below Zero); “Is This Your
Son, My Lord?’ by Helen H. Gardener;
"Pierre et Jean,” by Guy de Maupassant;
"On the Heights of Himalay,” hv A. Van
Der Nailleu, “Dashing Charlie, The Texan
Whirlwind,” by Ned Buntline; Demores',
Family Magazine for December, Leslie's
Popular Monthly (Christmas number)
for December, “Uevue de La
Mode” for December, New York
Herald, Tribune, World, Times, Journal of
Finance, Sun, Star, Boston Her
ald, Boston Globe, Baltimore Sun,
Philadelphia P*ess, Philadelphia Times.
Louisville Courier-Journal, ' Cincinnati
Enquirer, Cincinnati Commercial-Ga
jettu. New Orleans Times-Demoorat,
Memphis Avalanche, Washington Post,
Charleston News and Courier, Charleston
World, Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta
Journal, Jacksonville Tlmes-TJnion, Florida
Standard, Macon Telegraph, Augusta
Chronicle, Chicago Tribjme, Chicago
Times, New York Daily Sporting World,
Brunswick Times.—Ad.
To Housekeepers.
Jas. S. Silva, 140 Broughton street, is
closing out his retail stock of Crockery,
China, Glassware and Housefurntshings at
greatly reduced prices, to engage exclu
sively in the wholesale trade.
Now is your opportunity for bargains in
anything in ij* line.
fits importations have beon very heavy
this season, bnt new as well as old goods
must go to make room for a wholesale
stock. Call and see the large lino of Cham
ber Sets, Dinner Sets, Tea Sets, Lamps,
Cutlery, etc., and you will no doubt find
something to suit you at the prices offered.
— Adv.
Wait for the assignees’ sale of Clothing,
to be held at 159 Broughton street.— Adv.
The Power of Hard Cash Right Down
on the spot.
The following telegram was received by
Appel & Schadl from the assignee of a well
known clothing house that, bad failed:
Do you wish to buy entire stock? If so, come
on at once.
On receipt of this our Mr. I. M. Appel left
for the north and has purchased for cash a
stock of clothing— consisting of Men’s
Youths’ and Boys Suits and Pants and
Overcoats—at a nominal figure, way below
their value.
These goods are arriving as fast as they
can be packed, and in a few days we will
dispose of them to the public at such prices
as will cause this sale to be long remem
bered.
Our long standing in the mercantile com
munity insures this as a bona fide sale.
laook out for the day of sale.
The balance of the Gents’ Furnishing
Goods of Milius & Co.’s stock will also be
offered at this sale. All goods sold for
cash. Very respectfully,
Appel & Bchaul.
r. N. —In the meantime remember we are
the leaders of Nobby Clo:h;ng, and One
Price, at the old stand, 163 Congress street
— Adv.
Oak, Pine and Lightwood
For sale by R. B. Cassells, corner Gwin
nett street and S. F., & W. Ry. Telephone
77. —Aar.
Wait for the assignees’ sale of Clothing,
to be held at 159 Broughton street.— Adv.
Milton, Fla.
This to certify that I have been afflicted with
Scrofula, or Blood Poison, for a number of
years. The beat physicians of Mobile and this
city said nothing could be done lor me I also
took a large quantity of , but found no re
lief in anything that I took. My limns were a
moss or ulcers, and when I was sent to a phy
sician in Mobile ray entire body was a mass of
sores. I had given up all hope, and as a last
resort tried P. p. P (Prickly Ash, poke Root
and Potasfium), and after using four botties
(small size) the sores have entirely disappeared
and my general health was never better than at
the present time, and people that know me
think it a wonderful cure. Respectfully.
—Adv. Eliza Todd.
Fine Etchings and Engravings just
opened. M. T. Taylor, 135 York street.—
Ada.
Copper Plate work a specialty. M. T.
Taylor, 185 York street.— Adv.
Wait for the assignees’ sale of Clothing,
to be held at 159 Broughton street.— Adv.
Ladies’ Fine Stationery. M. T. Taylor,
135 York street.— Adv.
Picture Frames and Molding*. New
goods, M. T. Taylor, 135 York street. —
Adv.
Oak, Pino and Lightwood
For sale by R. B. Cassells, corner Gwin
nett street aud 8., F. &W. Ry. Telephone
77, —Ado. *
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DRX GOODS.
CHOHAH 4 llffij
137 Broughton Street.
BiO SALE OF DRESS GOODS
We will place on sale on Monday and d„*,.
the weak four lots of Colored l)res““ *
the different grades they will amount Cato
hOO Pieces. It is unnecessary fur us to say tIS
these goods are bargain*. Yes. they arc
l ban bargains; it would cost moretosjfoS
yarn they are made from than the prim
THEM’ COME SEK T 1 AN I) EXAMINE
LOT NO. 1.
Double Folded Heavy Wool T-i-m
To select from you have fifteen different s : rtl
They have never been sold anywhere less to
3ic. We will sell them at 210. a yard
LOT NO. 2.
90 pieces Double Folded Flannel Sultlnn in
an Immense variety of shades. These
would be considered cheap in any house huh
world at 35c. we will close out this lut a'io a
Sic. a yard.
LOT NO. 3.
67 pieces Cashmere Omhr >. 37-inches wjd ii
plaid anu printed effects, handsome 0114 exclu*
sive designs, really worth 25c. W e are cuttin
them at 15c. a yard.
LOT NO. 4.
G3 pieces Double Width Cashmere and Pin™,
nal B-.irritte Kuitinga will bo sold thhwe=stt
12>*c. They are really worth 23c.
We ure continually repleni-ainr ourstcckof
finer grades of Dress Goods, and are addia
many' new and desirous shades exclusively our
own the prices of which will be found strictly
popular for the quality of the yoods. Trttn.
minga to match.
; Agents for .11 H'VIN'N FINE Kli" ,1/d'Ei
BUM & MI
COAL AND WOOD.
COAL, H Li
Cant ml Fla
DENIS J, MURPH V
Office 7 Diaytan Street
Telephone 49.
COAL AND WOOD
OF ALL KINDS AND SIZES PROMPTLY
DELIVERED.
3D. jR. Tlxoixias,
111 Bay St. West Broad St. Winn*
’ Telephone No. 69.
PORTLAND CEMENT.
fill Builders' Supplies.
RIVER SAND, Portland Cement, R’smjl']
Cement, Rockland Lime. Georgia I.™
styles Brick, Calcined Blaster, Nassau t
Roofing Paint, Roofinsr Paper.
Orders filled promptly in carload lotsara
at lowest prices. GEORGE SCHD .
Telephone No. 479. Broker, 1-6 Bryant
SILVER.
DAVIS BROS
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