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TOO MANY GUNS CARRIED
A PLAN TO CHECK PROMISCUOUS
P-STOL HANDLING.
Assistant Chist of Po’.ice K Hour by
Wants a High L' cense At Ached to
tbe Business of Firearms and
a Permit System to Roarula e Their
Carrying-Tne Way it is Done in Now
York.
While the present legislature is iu the re
form business it might look ir.to ti e laws
governing the sale and carrying of firearms
and so change them as to throw better safe
guards around the lives of the people.
The laws on the subject are entirely too
lax. Any one, practically frora a ohild up,
can purchase the death-dealing weapons
without any restrictions. The result is that
numberless hip p okots in Savannah e >n
tain a “gun* 1 ’ This is particularl / true of
the colored element. The maj >rity of boys
from 14 to 15 upward have revolvers ready
for use on the slightest provocation.
‘•if murder and bloodshed is t> be pre
vented, then the carrying of pistols by irre
sponsible persons must be prevented,’
said a gentleman yesterday. “The present
law oa carrying concealed weapons is not
sufficient for the purpose. A stringent and
unbending law regulating the sale of fire
arms is what is wanted.”
A CHECK ON THE DEALERS.
The views of Assistant Chief of Police
Killourhy, au officer who has been connected
with the polioe force of Savannah over a
quarter of a century, are worthy of con
sideration. “T he habit of carrying pistols,”
said he, "is increasing steadily. Hardly a
day passes that negro prisoners are not
found with weapons. The only praotioal
way that I know of to check the evil is
for the legislature to pass a
high license law on dealors in
firearms and also a permit system for tho-e
who may wish to own them. Let the or
dinary or some other county official be
designated to grant purchase permits to re
sponsible persons only, and keep a registry
of their names, residences, places of husi
ness, etc. Compel the dealer also to fur
nish a list of names of purchasers so as to
prevent the sale to any but those having
the permits.
FIREARMS SOLD PROMISCUOUSLY.
**Tbo high license clause,” added Assistant
Chief Killourhy, “would stop every little
corner grocery from selling pistols, which is
now the custom to a large extent in Savan
nah. None but reputable firms could then
engage In the traffic, and irresponsible ne
groes and whites, ns a matter of course,
could not secure tho necessary purchase
permit from the registry official, he being
giveu power of discretion in the matter.”
The statement of the assistant chief of
police relative to corner grooerymen selling
pistols is true iu very many casei. Tho
shopkeepers don’t keep an expensive class
of goods, either. Their stock is gonornlly
of the inferior and moat dangerous sort. In
most instances tho weapons have been
Kwned to pay for whisky, and the store
eper sells them to others to get his money
back.
As Chatham county is one of the greatest
sufferers in the state from the concealed
weapon nuisance. It would be well for the
reform to coma through one of its repre
sentatives.
THE WAY IN NEW YORK.
In this connection the following from the
New York Times is of interest: "Among
the sources of income wliioh go to swell the
police honsiou fund is the mo .ey derived
from tue issue of pormits to carry revolvers.
It is rather a curious faot that one who de
sires to carry a pistol legally in this city
must contribute $2 50 per annum to the
support of polioe pensioners, and this was
made possible by the combined action of the
board of aldermen and the state legislature.
“In 1878 tho aldermen ordained that every
person except judges of the federal, state
and oity courts and officers of the general,
state and municipal governments author
ized by law to make arrests, and persona to
wtfcra permits should he issued bv the
superintendent of police, who shall have
ooucealed on hia person a pistol of any de
scription, ahull tie deemed guilty of a mis
demeanor, punishable by a line of $lO or ten
days’ imprisonment.
A LICENSE FOR $2 50.
"Thesepermit* werejsaued by the superin
tendent without fee, until, in 1884, the
legislature provided that the permits should
be issued for one your only, and that a fee
of $2 50 should be exacted for each. These
fees were to be paid into the police pension
fuud.
"This is the law at present in force, and
under its provisions the superintendent has
issued for this year over 600 permits. In
1890 there were 622 permits in force, and
$1,555 was turned into the treasury of the
pension fund from this source. The per
mits are held chiefly bv night watchmen,
collectors of money and agents of various
kinds, whose business calls them out at late
hours of the night, or wLo carry large
sums of money.
A HEAVY SUNDAY DOWNPOUR.
Yesterday’s Rainfall In Savannah Over
1W Inches.
Yesterday’s rainfall was one of the
heaviest here in some time, a fraotion over
1% inches having fallen from 2:30 o’clock to
5 o’olook. There was a steady downpour iu
that time, and many of the streets, par
ticularly Barnard, Aberoorn and Montgom
ery, looked like small-sized lakes. The
volume of water was too much for the
sewers to carry off and it backed out from
the cesspools into the street. The rain will
prove a great benefit to the Savannah
Electric rail way on account of unearthing
its Price street roadway, which has been
buried under several inches of sand for
many weeks.
South of the city the storm was very se
vere. At Isle of Hope and Montgomery the
wind blew a gale and the rainfall was
equally as great if not greater than it was
iu the city.
The storm was general in this section of
the state, nearly every point in the t-avnn
nab district of the signal service reporting a
heavy rainfall. Milieu reported 1.05 inches,
Quitman 1% and Americus 1 inch. It was
the same throughout the ootton region,
every district except Mobile reporting a
rainfall from a fraction to 1.01 inches.
IT 13 MUCH NEEDED.
A Sidewalk Wanted on President
Street From East Broad to Randolph.
In view of the great pedestrian travel to
aud from the Savannah and Atlantic rail
way it would be a matter of great conven
ience to the public if a sidewalk was laid on
the south side of President street from East
Broad to Randolph.
The present excuse for a sidewalk con.ists
mostly of cobblestones, broken bricks, old
•noes, bottlesand other obstructions, which
make walking after dark anything but a
pleasant task.
The need of a sidewalk is obvious to any
one at all familiar with the locality, and
Aidermau Harmon couldn’t do a better
thing than have one put down at once.
CADETS RETURN HOME.
They Had a Fine Time in Savannah
and at Tybee.
The Sacred Heart Cadets of Augusta re
turned home last night after their week 8
iay at Tybee. They were escorted to the
depot by a large number of friends and left
amid cheers. The Cadets are delighted with
Savannah and her people in general, and
Tybee in particular. They had a fine time
during their week at the seashore, and went
back to Augusta improved in health and
ipirita.
Dunlap’g-fine hats and the Hopatoong sun
tets at LaFar’a.— Ad.
PRAYBKS OF THE METHOETST3.
The Becond Week in August Set Aside
for Devotions.
The college of bishops of the Methodist
Episcopal church south at its annual meet
ing in May determined to sat apart the
second week in August as u w. ek of prayer,
with proper humiliation before Alnngbtj
God for the baptism of the Holy Spirit
upon work both at home and in missionary
fields. The following programme will be
carried out: ,
Sunday Aug. ‘J Sermons on the baptism
of the Holy Spirit as a preparation for ser-
I vice
Monday, Aug. 10 Prayer for greatest
! spiritual power for all our .Teachers.
Tuesday, Aug. 11 -Prayer for more spirit
: unl-mliidedness and a higher estimate of
spiritual things fir all our people.
Wednesday, Aug. 12— Prayer for more
home religion, more family altars and
i greater fidelity to the religions needs of our
! hone.
Thursday, Aug. 13—Prayer for the
j y,uith of the church in our Sunday schools,
Epw nth leagues aud institutions of learn
ing. or who ought to beau 1 are not.
Friday, Aug. 14—Prayer f r our mission
aries, native helpers aud members in foreign
fields.
Saturday, Aug. 15—Prayer for our mis
sionary workers among the unevangelizod
iu our cities and on tho frontiers.
CAPSIZED IN VERNON HIVISR.
A Yr.cht Capsize) and Two People
Narrowly Escape Drowning.
The yacht Xenia, belonging to Mr. Rock
well, capsized in Vernon river, opposite
Kosodew plantation, during the heavy squall
between 2 and 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon.
Mr. Newell Turner disoovored the capsizod
boat os it was floating down stream abreast
of Montgomery. As it was ovi lent that
several persons were in t.ho w ater clinging
to the submerged boat, Mr. Turner put out
for them iu his naphtha launch and rescued
Charles Rockwell and Paul Pritchard from
their perilous position and tow 'd their yacht
ashore. Tho young men had been in the
water sums time, and had assistance not ar
rived very soon they would have perished.
LOCAL PERSONAL.
T. C. Sloven of Jesup is at tho Pulaski.
TV. J. Bell of Wadley is at the Pulaski.
J. C. Flynu of Macon is at the Screven.
J. 8. Horn of Macon is at the Sjrevon.
Harry Frank of Atlanta is at theHorevon.
I). R. Locke of Macon is at the Screven.
W. B. Deuse of Macon is at the Screven.
Dr. C. B. Carter of Columbus is at the
Pulaski.
J. H. Williams of Smithville is at the
Pulaski.
F. Adams of Jasper, Fla., Is at the
Soreveu.
W. A. Albright of Atlanta is at the
Screven.
Wallace Mastersou of Macon is at the
Screven.
Judge D. W. Roberts of Eastman is at
the Pulaski.
I* Geiger and family of Albany aro at
the Pulaski.
W. P, Grunshiug of Louisville, Ky,, is at
the De Soto.
H. D. Sohnckolford of Cincinnati is at
the De Soto.
Mr. and Mrs. E. Bullock of Graham are
at the Screven.
Tom H. M. Martin of Baltimore is a
guest of the De Soto.
Dr. Frank Z. Stockton of Atlanta is reg
istered at the Pulaski.
W. S. McArthur of Lumber City was at
the Pulaski yesterday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Sinolair of Jackson
ville are at the Pulaski.
Dr. H. Lindsley of St. Augustine, Fla., is
registered at the Pulaski.
J. Galina arrived last night from New
York on the Chattahoochee.
E. F. Oanghtio and W. 11. Pugh of Mont
gomery, Ala., are at the Pulaski.
Miss J. Papot arrived home on the Chat
tahoochee last night from New York.
Mrs. F. A. Einstein leaves for Detroit to
day via the Kansas City to New York.
Maj. T. D. Bertody returned home last
night on the Cuattahoooliee from New
Y (rk.
G. A. Hettrick and family were passen
gers on the Chattahoochee last night from
New York.
Mrs. David Robinson leaves for Boston
to-day on the Kansas City to be absent
until October.
Martin Cooley and family have gone
north. Thoy will spend some time in New
York mid will then go west.
0. R. Ashley, A. J. Strickland and Rev.
and Mrs. S. Rohrer were the Yaldostu ar
rivals at the Pulaski yesterday.
The condition of Mrs. Lotnel, who was
struck by lightning Saturday, is unchanged
anil thoro is not much hope entertained for
her recovery.
A number of representatives of the
Grand Army will leave this week to attend
tho Detroit encampment, among them
Washington McGuire and F. D. Bates.
CITY BREVITIES.
Thedelegates to the Grand Castle Knights
of the Golden Eagle, whtoh meets in Savan
nah this week, will begin arriving to-night.
The majority, however, will arrive bv to
morrow morning’s trains.
Thotms F. Gleason of the national
council of administration of the Grat and
Army of the Republic, has received a copy
of the unofficial proceedings of the twenty
fourth national eneampiuont at Boston last
August. The book is handsomely gotten
up. It oontains 295 pages and is illustrated
with fine portraits of the national depart
ment officers. It is made up priuoipally
from the newspaper reports of the national
convention with data furnished by mem
bers. It is bound iu cloth with gilt edges
and is a beautiful souvenir volume.
Every tissue of the bod)*, every bone
muscle and organ, is made stronger and
more healthful by the use of Hood's Sarsa
parilla.—Ad.
IS DEAD EARNEST.
A Saoriflss That Pas Never Been
Equaled.
We have oa our second floor a number of
articles that we must dispose of. They are
not odds and ends, “off goods,” or undesira
ble articles, but remain over from our fancy
goods sale of last winter, and are exactly
the things that every h usekeeper wauts
particularly when shecan get them at about
half price. We are going to clear them out
if anyb >dy wants them. They comprise in
part line china ware, bronzes, sta’ues, cande
labra, onyx and brnss stands, crockery,
bisques, glassware, fancy cups and saucers,’
smoking stands, etc., etc. Our second floor
must be cleared out, and prices have been
adjusted to that end.
— Ad, Stern-berg’s.
Elastic team drawers, gauze underwear in
variety, at LaFar’s.— Ad.
The Hotel Vedome, Forty-first street and
Broadway, New York, under its present
management, has won ver>- rapidly tbe
reputation of a leading family hotel, while
for transient guests its central location,
modern improvements aud general arrange
ments make it a most desirable resort.
Yachtiog caps, white, black and Blue, at
La Far's.— Ad.
Artists’ Ma rerials, all kinds, at M. T. Tay
lo’r 135 York street. —Ad.
Oconee White Sulphur Springs’ adver
tisement will be found classified under tbe
head of summer resorts m to-morrow's issue
of the Morning News.— Ad.
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, JULY 27, 1891.
THE BALLOT REFORM BILL
GILBERT’S MEAS
IRS) IR-ITTY SURE TO PASS.
The Bill to b 9 Reported by tfce Judi
ciary Committee of the House 1 h e
Week lts Provisions to Promote
Secrecy and Uniformity of the Billot,
Regulating: the AppJnta.entofE.ec
tion Managers and Fixing the Man
ner of Makin? Returns.
The Gilbert ballot reform bill, which is
now iu the hands of the judiciary commit
tee of the Houo of Representatives, and
which is expected to be reported favorably
and parsed this weefc, is meeting with gen
eral approval.
The full text of the bill was furnished the
Mokning News yesterday by Representa
tive Clifton, w ho is cue of its stanchest sup
porters. It is as follows ;
A Bill to Fr entitled an act to promote secrecy
of the ballot; to enforce uniformity of the
same; to provide for the appointment of
managers iu all public elections, aud to fix
the manner of making election returns.
Sscmox 1 lie It enacted by the general as
sembly, and it is hereby enacted by authority f
the same, that ail ballots cast in elections for
public office within this state shall be of uni
form size, color and style of type as fallows:
lu all municipal elections the ballot shall he
prescribed and approved by the city clerk; in
all other elections the ordinary of ♦•aeh county
shall prescribe the ballot to be used, widen
must be the Fa;ue quality and tint of I ai* r,
style of type, ami black ink in each precinct
of his res pec ti vo county.
Sbc. ‘J. Tho ballot shall contain no caption to
designate any political part}'. Whenever can
didates are not mimed for all the places on t..e
ballot the space snail be left mark, with only
the name of the office priote 1 thereon.
Sec. and. Whenever a proposed c institutional
amendment or other question is to be submitted
to the people of the sia.e for popular v<> e, the
secretary of state shall duly, and not less than
thirty days before election, certify the same to
the ordinary of each county, who snail require
the same printed on ail b illots to be used at
that election.
Thtt BALLOTS.
Sec. 4. All ballots to he used in municipal or
ot .er election shall be delivered to the city
cleric or ordinary of the respective city or county
at least five days prior to the election. City
cleric or ordinary, as the case may be. shall
have printed o stamped on the back of eaeh
ballot the indorsement, “Official ballot fr
and after the word “for" shall follow
the designation of the county or city for which
I the ballot is prepared, th * date of the election
and the name of tho ordinary or city clerk.
Bbc. 5. No manager of election shall deposit
in a ballot-box. or permit any other person to
deposit in a ballot-box on election day, any
ballot which is not properly indorsed.
Sec. 9. The ordinary of the various counties
in the sta'e shall, prior to an election, cause to
bo delivered to the managers of each of the
polling places wthin the r respective counties,
the proper number of ballots provided for the
use of the voters of said precinct at such elec
tion, and in al municipal elections this shall be
the fluty of tho city clerk.
Sec. 7. If from any cause the official ballots
shall not he ready for distribution at any polling
p.ace, or if the supply of ballots shall be ex
hausted before the polls are closed, unofficial
t*allots, printed or written, made as nearly as
possible in tue form of the official ballots, may
be U'fd. Whenever a candidate f->r any office,
whose name is printed on the official balb t,
shall have died, snail he or become ineligible, or
shall have withdrawn before election day,
voters may use unofficial ballots in vo'iog to
fill the office for which such deceased, ii.e igihle
or withdrawn candidate was nominated, and
the name of the deceased, ineligible or with
drawn candidate shall oe considered as having
been erased frora the official ballot; the name
of tho person voted for may bo written or
printed over or under the name of the de
ceased, ineligible or withdrawn candidate.
THE VOTING BOOTHS.
Sec. 8. All officers, upon whom is imposed by
law the duty of designating polling places, shall
provide in tae i polling plac- designated by
them a sufficient number of voting booths or
compartments, and the expense of the same
shall be paid by the countv, and a guard rail
shall be so constructed and placed that only
such persons as are inside of said rail can ap
proach within six feet of the ballot boxes, an l
of such voting booths or compartments Tue
arrangement shall bo such that the voting
booths or compartments c m only be reached
by passing within said guard rail. They shall
be in plain view of the election officers, and
both they and tho billot-b >xes shall bo in pliin
view of those just outside the guard rail, i.ach
of said booths or compartments shall have four
sides inclosed. One side in front to open and
shut as a door swinging outward. Each side of
each booth or compartment snail be at least six
feet high, and the door shall extend to within
two feet of the floor. ICac/i booth or compart
ment shall beat least three feet square. No pur
son other than the election officers provideu by
law, and those admitted for the purpose
of voting as hereinafter provided, shall
bo permitted within said rail, except by
authority of the election officers to keep order
aud enforce the law, and except in th* contin
gency mentioned in tho first sentence of sect ion
18 of this act. The number of such voting
booths or compartments shall not be less than
one for every &V) voters who voted at the last
preceding election in the district. Tue officers
who are charged with tho duty of providing
booths or compartments shall also furnish for
each polling place, a ballot box which shall bo
large enough to properly receive and hold tho
ballots to ho cast for candidates for office in
conformity with tne provisions of this act.
TIIE DUTY or M.INAUBHS.
Sec, 9. ft shall be the duty of the managers
to deliver ballots to qualified voters, Kaon
qualified voter, before receiving his ballots from
the managers, shall announce bis name to the
election officers. His name shall lie noted and
numbered consecutively by the poll clerks with
the number upon the ballots delivered to him,
and in the order or the reipeeiiva appli
citions for ball, ts to the ballot clerks. The
ballot clerks shall thereupon deliver to t lie vot *i.
and tiie voter shall receive and take w.th him
into the booth or compartment one of each kind
of ballots which shall have been furnished Pa
use at such polling places. If the person so *p
plying Is not entitled to vote, no ballot shall lie
delivered to him. Any person may be etial
lenged. as now provided by law, when he shall
off :r his ballot to the manager. A
re i--enable number of challengers, representing
each political party, shall be permitted to re
main just outside tae guard rail where they can
plainly see what is done within the polling
place, except within said booths or compart
inents. Tne said polling place shall be so ar
ranged that every part thereof except inside of
said booths or compartments may be iu full
view of said challengers aud waichers. And
no ballots shall be delivered in any way other
than prescribed in this section.
Sec. 10. On receiving his ballots, the voter
shall forthwith, aud without leaving tbe in
closed space, rei ire alone to one of tbe voting
bootus or compartments so provided, and shall
select his ballot. After selecting bin ballot, ami
before leavin ; the voting booth or comnart
m nt, the voter shall fold all the ballots .ieliv
ere 1 to him In such a way that the contents of
the ballot shall be conceal'd, andshall lie p th*‘
same so fold, and until he has delivered the
sane to the election officers as in tins section
provided He shad then vote in the manner
provided by law forthwith and before leaving
the inclosed space, but before his vote shah
be received the vot. r s na.no and tne
number of his ballots shall be called out,
and the number shall correspond with tho
number noted against his name by the poll
clerks as hereinafter provided The manager
of election snail, without unfolding or discios
ing the contents of the ballot, deposit the same
in the ballot box The voter shad therouaua
deliver to the manager the ballots not voted b.
him, but folded in precisely the same manner
as the ballots voted, and the unvoted ballots
shall be deposited in a box which shall be pro
pared for tuat purpiose, and which shall be kept
locked until after the canvass of tho votes, bu
which shall be provided with an aiierture fur
depositing the ballots t! ereiti, and after the
votes east are all canvassed, ail the ballots
which were so deposited in -uch box "hail be
burned by tbe managers of election without an v
ex&mination of their conteuts.
OST.Y ON* PSHSON AT A TIM*. *
Skc. 11. Not more than one person shall be
permitted to occupy the same voting booth or
compartment at oue time, except as Drovid • I
lor in section 13 of this act, aud no person shall
remain in or occupy any such booth or oom
p.artmeut longer than three minutes. No pier
eon who has once voted, other than an election
otficer, shall be permitted to re-enter said in
closed space during the election, and no voter,
not such officer, shall be p ermitted to remain
in said inclosed space longer than is necessary
for him to procure, sele.’. and and posit his bai
lot, as hereinbefore provided. It shall be the
duty of the board of managers to see that the
provisions of this section are properly ob
served.
B*o 12. If any-voter spoils a ballot he may
obtain another full set. upon returning to the
managers the set of ballots contain! ig the
spoiled ballots. In obtaining a set of ballots t
replace the sp'oiled set the name of the voter
snail be given and the number noted, a record
of which must be kept by the managers.
S*c. 13. Any voter who, by reason of physical
and not mental disability, is unable to prepare
his ballot without assistance, shall be permitted
to briug with him to such booth or compart-
meet a person of his own selection, who rnay re
tire with such disabled voter to the booth or
compartment and asiist him in the selection of
the ballot No voter shall divulge to any one
within tne poling place the name of any can
didate for whom he int nds to vote, nor shall he
ask for or receive the assistance of any person
within tho polling place in the selection of his
ballot except as prescrib'd by ibis section. No
person who assists a voter in the preparation of
his ballot, as herein provided, shall in any man
ner request, or persuade, or induce, or Heec to
persuade or indu f such voter to v. to any par
ticular ticket, or for any [articular candidate
or candidates, cor shall such person reveal to
another the name of any candidate for whom
the voter ban vote 1, or anything that took place
while he was ousting such voter in preparing
said ballot for voting.
THE OFFICIAL BALLOT.
Sec. 14. No ballot that has not the printed
or stamped official indorsement shall be counted
except such as are voted in accordance with the
provision of sectioj 7of thi9 act. All ballots
that ar- 4 defective, in wnole or in part, shall be
marked preserved and filed.
Sec. Ift. No person snail forge or falsely ma’ce
the official indorse cent of any ballot. Every
pensoQ violating this provision shall be guilty
of a felony and punished by iminisonment in
the penitentiary for not more than ten 3 ears
nor than two years.
Sbo. 16. Every public officer, upon whom any
duty is imposed by t s act. who violates his
raid duty, or who neglects or omits to perform
the same, shall be deemed guilty of a misde
meanor; and upon conviction thereof shall be
punished by imprisonment in the county jail fir
penitentiary for a term of not less than six
months and not more than three years, or by a
fine of not le*y than $26 > nor more than SB,OOO.
or by both such fine and imprisonment. Any
person having charge of official ballots
who shall destroy, conceal or sup
press them, except as in this act permitted,
s all bo guilty of a felony, and upon conviction
thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in
the state prison not less than one year nor more
than five year-. Any person who has under
taken to deliver official ballots to any
election manager, and neglects or refuses
to and > so, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by
imprisonment in the county jail for not less
than six in ntbs nor more than one year. Any
election officer who shall reveal to another per
son the name of any candidate for whom a voter
has voted, or wno !hall communicate to an
other his opinion, belief or impr ss on as to how
or for whom a voter ha* voted, shall be guilty
of a rntsdemoanor, and upon conviction thereof,
shall be punished by imprisonment in the
county jail for not less than six mouths nor
more than one year.
TO APPLY TO CITY AND TOWN ELECTIONS.
Sec. 17. The provision of V is act shall apply
to town and city elections, and all particulars
shall apply and wher *ver the word city clerk ap
pears it shall mean the clerk of council or alder
manic board of nai l city, and if any citv shall
have both, then it shall mean clerk of council.
£>kc 18. Tho ordinary of each county shall ap
point the election managers who snail serve in
all elections other than municipal, and In the
latter, said managers snail be appointed by the
mayor of the city f r which the election is ha J.
And all managers shall be such as are now
qualified by law to act
•Skc 19. Tho returns of all municipal elections
shall be made to the mayor and council or other
governing authority ci sue 1 municipality. All
other returns shall be made to the secretary of
state.
Sec. 20. This act shall take effect the first day
of January, 1892.
Bkg. *l. All laws and parts of laws in conflict
with this act snail be, aud the same arc, hereby
repealed.
Representative Clifton said that from
present indications ho hardly thinks there
•vill be a vote ngaii.st tho bill when it comes
back from the committee. Every member
of the legislative party which was here day
before yesterday expressed similar views.
DR. FAEUGANT’S STORY.
Be Telia One to Illustrate the Ground
Rent Fight.
Dr. Falligant was asked by a party of
friends yesterday what ho thought of At
torney Saussy’s intlmatio is of the next
stops ho would take in the legal battle on
the ground rent question. A merry twinkle
lit up the doctor’s features as ho said: “My
triend Suussy reminds me of a bny I once
met who had just come out of a fight. His
hair was bedraggled with mud, his clothes
were turn and rugged, his hands and faci
were bunged and scratched and his eyes
swollen until he couldn’t s-e straight. He
lay flat on his back striking his fists at ran
dom at the atmosphere. His plight excited
niv sympathies and I walked uu to him and
said: ‘M v lad, what is the matter V
" ‘l’m fightin'!’ he excitedly responded.
" ‘What are you fight nef’ 1 asked again.
"‘I fell you I’m figliti .’T be bluntly an
swered.
“ ‘Won’t yon tell me whv and what you
are fighting?’ I again asked in my tender -
est tones.
"‘I told you already I’m fightin! You
darned old fool! And I tell you again I’m
fightin’!’ And that was all I could get
out of him between bis groans and random
blows, and so I had to leave him to go on
lighting.”
Pj.BE TOBP.KL.
Good Hearted January Died to Ob:!; e
Uls Unloving but Faithful Alny.
After Me french of Julien tie Tu< tone
Father Tourel was an old farmer who was
never tired of doing good. When old mother
Bardoau died he paid her funeral expenses.
Her daughter Annette came to thank him.
dhe had no home; his house was large; 1.0
t Id her to stay there as long as she would.
"A good idea,” said the neighbors. Eater he
married her, and for flvo years tl,. y were
very happy together. That was before she
met Pierre Boulet, u handsome young man
f 2ti, vvh i came with his father t < the house
to dine once a week. Mhe loved her old hu
band, but tho feeling she had for Pierre was
of q ii;e another character—so wai his. Bhe
was loyal to Father Tourel, abd the young
man had a high sense of ho or. They knew
"hat was going on in each other’s heart,but
they never spoke of love when aioue.
Pierre found excuses to stay away from
tho dinners, Annette went out to avoid
meeting him when he came.
Btill the villagers began to talk, and the
tnalre, who was an old friend oi Tourel’s,
told bun about tho current g >ssip.
"Ah," said the former, "if yon only knew
how much I trust my wife.” Still he re
solved to wat 'll them. He was not long in
satisfying himself that the two adored ouch
other.
“They are in love. Good. Put how do
they lose! I will watch them a little while
longer.”
The go and man waited He sent for Pierre
on various pretexts, and arranged that he
should often be alone with Annette. Then
lie would enter brusquely and try to rea i
their eyes.
He listened at key hoi's. He followed
Pierre and Aunette. He used every means
o try to ascertain the real truth.
This laste i for six months.
It was a great consolation for him to
know that though the young people loved
ach other they w. uld rather die than de
ceive him.
He felt a great pity for the young girl
who was chained to an old man like himself
for life. Could she help having a heart! It
was only a daughter’s love she could feel for
him.
Why, what right had an old man to fight
against love aud youth, to keep two 1 ving
hearts a art from each other forever!
IBs day was nearly over, and Annette
had given him five years of happiness and
peace and devotion.
"Do you know that Father Tourel was
found dead this morning in bed!” said a
villager iu a market piece.
“ What did he die of ?" asked another.
“They don't exactly kuow—perhaps an
apopietic sir ko.”
"Poor old man!”
“He leaves all his wealth to his wife, you
kuow.”
"That was right. A brave and honest
ttle woman. She was longing after young
Boulet. It was painful to see.”
"Bah! The year of mourning will soon
he over. They will marry, ebl”
“Sure . . . There you see the unhappi
ness of one in the happiness of another. No
doubt about it that time. It was a good
idea of Father Tourel’s all the same!”
Old newspapers— 2oo for 25 oents— at
business office. Morning News.—Ad.
Pictures in great variety and all priors.
A T. Taylor, 135 York street.—Ad.
BAKING POWDER.
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—U. S. Gov’t Report, Aug. 17, 1889.
Powder
ABSOU/FEDf PURE
RAIL AND CROSSTIE.
The railroad commissioners > f Kansas And
that the principal roads of that state which
carried seed grain and other supplies free to
destitute farmers last winter handled traffic
which in the aggregate would have been
charged $20,157 at regular rates.
On Aug. 23 the Arkansas separate coach
law will go into effect. This law requires
not a separate compartment, but a separate
coach for colored passengers, and as tho
colored travel in Arkansas only averages 4
per cent, it will operate as a heavy burden
on the railroad companies.
Frank Darlington, superintendent of tho
Indianapolis division of the Pennsylvania
lines, lias in his possession the first time
table of the Columbus, Piqua aud Indiana
road, issued Sept. 19, 1853. The dis
tance from Columbus to Urbana is forty
seven miles, and the fast passenger train was
three hours and thirty-five minutes making
the run. The distance is now daily covered
by several of the Pennsylvania trains in one
hour.
Railroad ru®n predict that within the next
three years a great deal of new railroad
building will be done in the southern states.
Most investments there are sail to pay well,
and considerable railroad building is now in
progress in the gulf states to develop rich
territory which capital will immediately
improve. The far west seems to have lost
its attractiveness for railroad enterprises,
and t e scone of building operations Is
gradually being transferred to the southern
and w estern states.
The Columbia Stale says there is a rumor
that another railroad, giving very import
ant connections, is leading toward Colum
bia and with a littio exertion, could be
secured.’ The road is the Ronaoke and
Southern, wiiich is coming southward and
wilisoon reach Winston, N. C. From there
it is believed that tho road will go to
Charlotte, 'i he project now is to get tho
road to seek its southern outlet in Columbia
by making a bee line between Columbia aud
Charlotte. The connection to be made is
with the South Bound road. It is suid that
Winnsboro has voted a largo sum aud other
towns intend to do likewise. If it is built it
will shorten the distance by thirty miles.
“The German East Africa Company has a
big scheme on its hands,” says the New
Y’ork Sun, "if the report is correct that it
has decided to s: end $15,000,000 In building
a railroad from Tanga to Karngwe. Tanga
is a littio seaport about fifty miles northwest
of Zanzibar, aud Karagwe is distant from
the starting p int about 625 miles. It is the
c untry of the good old King Rumanika,
olio so charmed both Speko and Stanley
that tiiey endued him with most of the vir
tues ami pictured his country as an African
paradise. The proposed railroad, by sort
ing from Tanga, will avoid the hard climb
up the Usagara mountains. It will and >ubt
iess run almost due west to Tabora, thecen
er of things in inner East Africa, and will
then strike north aud northwest to Victoria
Nyanza aud Karagwe, wnich is within 100
miles of the western boundary of Germany’s
possessions.”
Boston officials claiming to act in the in
terest of public health have asked for an
injunction to restrain the Boston street
railroads from running open cars into the
suburbun distric.s. The grounds for the in
junction are that :f open cars are allowed
to be run, people riding on them will,
through such exposure 10 the open air, he
iiuble to take o >ld aud thus invito an at
tack of the grip, and ailments of a like
kind. This leads the Mining
and Scientific Press to ask:
IVho are the people who suffer most
from maladiei of this kiud? Always “it
arouses” those who live in unveutilated
rooms, ride iu closed cars aud iu other ways
to protect i hanselves from the least
breath of air. The street gauiin, with his
bared throat, never has the grippe, nor are
outdoor laborers of any kind apt to suffor
from this or similar complaints. Wind
alone hui ts no one, if warmly dres-ed.
Tho passenger who, thus protected,
cannot in fair we-ther, ride on an
lien car, however strong the w ind, had
belter make a will and order a coffin.
The fact is, air starvation has killed more
of the human race than any other form of
famiue. Shutting out wnat is cake 1 a
draught lias delivered over to death more
victims than :war or pestilence. Through
lack of ventilation we deliberately convert
our homes and our schools, our courts nud
workshops, and even our places of amuse
ment and worship, into veritable "Black
Holes,” spending ..{ten a good deal of money
to thoroughly exclude the life-giving cle
ment.”
The iuarome court of North Carolina held
m the receut case of .Purcell vs. Richmond
and Danville Railroad Company, reported
:n the Railway and Corporation Law
Journal, that a railroad company commits
a tort and boc lines liable for j unitive
damages in willfully failing to stop for pas -
senders at a regular station, and canuot
escape liability on tne ground that there
was not sufficient room in the train if it ap
peared that by reasonable diligence it might
have providel extra cars. The court said:
“No regard for their own profits or om
venience will justify the corporation in hav
ing only sufficient cars for the ordi
nary amount of freight and travel, lea ving
the public to bear the iucouvenience and
loss when, on unusual occasions, the volume
of business may swell beyond the average.
Common carriers could not be held liable
for an unseen and extraordinary rusn of
business not within reasonal cal
culation, but when the additional
volume of travel or freight is
such as, with reas mable foresight, c >uld be
expected, it is the duty of the e mpany to
have the extra cars furnished. With the
mod rn facilities of telegraph and telephone
the occasion of an unusual number of pas
sengers or quantity of freight can be
promptly notified aad provided for. If this
is not done, it is gross and willful negli
gence, and the company should not be al
lowed to find its profit in a willful and reck
less disregard of the rights of the public
and of Its own duties. It may be that on
the whole testimony the defendant could
show sufficient matter of excuse, but the
plaintiff was entitled to have the phase of
the evidence set out in his prayer for in
struction presented to the jury. Taking
the evidence to be true, aud nothing else
appearing, he was entitled to recover puni
tive damages.”
Fine gloria and silk umbrellas, all sixes,
at LaFar’s.— Ad.
New Electric Railroad Company
will run the first car this day. All those
who anticipate trying the new cars should
call at Heldt’s and get pound of candy,
which is received fresh daily and sold lower
than elsewhere. Boracine is at your dis
posal at 25 cents per package. Congress
and Whitaker. — Ad.
For neuralgia,headaches Quickstop never
fails to cure in from fifteen to thirty min
utes; warranted, at Solomons & Cos., whole
sale druggists.— Ad.
Fine neckwear in crape, grenadine and
summer silks at LaFar’s.— Ad.
Bathing suits, gymnasium suits and shoes,
at LaFar’s.— Ad.
TWO BRAVE WOMEN.
Holding Down Land Claims With Only
a Herm’t and Indians for Neighbors.
from the Minneapolis Journal.
Two brave Minneapolis women and a
stout-hearted 16-year -old lad all alone in
the wilderness, with no neighbors but an
old hermit and a rum frenzied band of
ghost-dancing Chippewas—that was the
rather unusual state of affairs which Dr. J.
H. Sandberg, the government botanist, rau
across in his latest wanderings through the
wilds of Northern Minnesota. The women
were holding down valuable pine claims for
their husbands, and were “roughing it” in
all that the term implies. It is a wild pine
country, almost uninhabited by man, and
Sandberg’s surprise can bo imagined when
he found, on the further lake shore, two
Minneapolis matrons, one accompanied by
her 10-year-old boy, holding down claims
of 160 acres of pine lands each. The ladies
are Mrs. John R. Willman of 22 Fifth
street, N. E., and Mrs. Frauk Thomas, Mrs.
Willman’s neighbor. Mr. Willman is miller
in the Pillsbury A mill.
Last spring the men went to Lake Poke
gama and staked out their claims. Not
being able personally to occupy them for
the six months necessary before a title can
be secured, they left their wives as deputies,
with young Willman as guardian for them.
A couple of rough shanties were hastily
constructed, not far apart on the lake
shore, and rudely furnished. Here the
women and boy have l eon since spring,
and here they will remain till lata in the
fall. Dr. Sandberg found au <>ld hermit
who, until the advent of the Minneapolis
people, was the only human being within a
radius of ten miles. At the hermit’s house
he by accident met young Willman, who
promptly took him across the lake to his
mother’; cabin. The doctor’s surprise was
complete when ho saw the ladies and heard
their story.
The Indiars from Leech Lake reservation
spend a portion of each summer on the
snore of Lake Pokegama hunting and fish
ing. All the cou -try around the lake
formerly belonged to them, but was bought
by the government. The Indians in reality
have i o right at tho lake, but as they bad
always been peaceable and quiet and there
were no white people for them to annoy,
they were tolerated by the authorities.
Messrs. Willman and Thomas, it seems, re
mained at the lake several weeks, building
and furnishing the cabins and laying
in provisions. The Indians were camped
only a short distance from the shanties and
as loug as the men wore on tho ground
were as friendly and agreeable as could be
desired. The night following the departure
of the men for Minneapolis, however, tae
Indiaus inaugurated a ghost dance, and ail
got glori us’.y drunk. In a frenzied state
they visited the two cabins, flourishing and
reck less! j- discharging firearms, and notified
tho lone women to leave within three days
or be killed. At night they kept up their
orgies near the house, and their loud cries
effectually drove sleep from the squatters’
eyes.
l i the darkness the son put off iu a boat,
a;:d made his way first to the hermit’s
house and then to Grand Rapids, where he
to and his storv. The sheriff, a half breed,
collected a posse of citizens ana went to tho
cabins, where thav remained for almost a
week on guard, night and day, with Win
chester rifles. The Indians, in tho mean
time, had become sober, and the sight of
the armed men called them to their senses.
They hummy admitted their fault, pitifully
begged forgiveness, and faithfully prom
ised in the future to behave themselves and
not to molest Mrs. Williams and Mrs.
Thomas. With this understanding they
were permitted to remain aud were not or
dered buck to the reservation. Tile Indians
had a fi, al ghost dance the night the sheriff
and his men arrived, before they knew of
their arrival.
l.r. Sandberg remained as the guest of
the Minneapolis ladies during his two
weeks' stay, and o i his return was the first
one to b:i, g nows of their adventures to
Minneapolis. Their husbands, as mav be
imagined, were horror-stricken, and pre
pared :o leave for Lake Pokegama at once.
The doctor, however, assured them that all
danger was past, and they will defer their
trim
The feelings of the two women during the
Indian uprising can be better imagined than
described. The women think the danger is
over, and are resolved to stay until the six
months are up, having staid this long.
When they went to tho lake both were in
poor health, and tho "roughing it” has
worked wonders for them, much to the joy
of both families.
A Magnificent Picture.
It is indeed a magnificent picture that
the dwellers in Cyrus Field’s big building lu
New York have spread out b fore them,
writes a New York correspondent to the
Philadelphia Inguire.r. Beneath the
window is the emerald loveliness of Battery
Park, with old Castle Garden standing in
its midst, dismantled and tennntless. Down
at the point the gray walls of the barge
office lift themselves into the blue sky.
Beyond, the waters of the bay gleam and
dar.ee in the bright sunshiue, while at tba
right a huge, gray woman with uplifted
torch stands guard over the big ships pass
ing up and down. Uncle Rufus
Hatch gazes at it for a few
moments and then 1 return to the
charge. "To what do you attribute the
present financial depression?” “To the four
hundred.” “What do you mea?” “I
mean this. The four hundred came origin
ally for the people who made money during
the war—army contractors. We called
them “shoddy.” They had wealth and went
abroad to spend it and make a sensation.
The four hundred were distinguished by
that one peculiarity that they went abroad.
The four hundred have increased until
there is a small army of 40,000 peo
ple who have gone to Europe this year.
They are the cause of the gold shipments.
Tne gold suipments are the cause of the
financial depression. Fifty thousand for
this traveling season is deemed a moderate
estimate. Allowing for an average expen
diture of *1,500 per head, they will draw
$03,000,000 from this country. To this is to
be added the expenditures of say 50,0 0
Americans living abroad with some per
monence, which, at an annual average of
SI,OOO per head, is $.50,000,000, making an
aggregate of $110,000,000 to be drawn out of
the United States on that account, in addi
tion to the heavy adverse trade balances on
aocount of our imports. There should be
little wonder that in the immature con
dition of this year’s crops, planting for
some of them having scarcely begun, com
mercial bills of exotiange are unobtainable
the requisite amount and gold is forootl out,
in the proper and ordinary course of settle
ment, not by occasional jerks, but in a
steady stream. If we were carrying on a
foreign war, and maintaining an army of
50,000 soldiers abroad, and sending over
reinforcement of 50,000 we should not be so
much depleted.
FOR DYSPEPSIA,
Indigestion, and Stomach disorders, use
BROWN’S IRON BITTERS.
All dealers keep it, 51 per bottle. Genuine ha*
traue-mark and crushed red liacs on w rapper-
TALKS WITH PIANO BUYiR3.
No. 5.
If you have happened to read anv ot
these informal "talks” we have no doub#
you are convinced i y this time that it i
rather unsafe to risk tne investment of *. v _
eral hundred dollars in a piano without
knowing all about tbe instrument, or with,
out confidence iu tbe reputation of the
house you buy from. We have shown yon
bow <asy it is for the careless or ignora-i
--dealer to obtain a large price for a very i a .
ferior piano, because of the general ig' n
ance of buvors in regard to what consti
tutes fine tone quality aud good mechanical
cons'ruction.
But there is another way in which many
buyers lose their money, even when they
get fairly good instruments.
Stop and think a moment! Have you
any real idea as to the true value of a
piano! It’s money, market value? ot
course you have not. Are you aware that
tho prices printed iu the manufacturers*
catalogues are generally fictitious! And
do you know that hardly two dealers a-k
the same price for tbe same class of instru
ments?
Stop aud think what a temptation for the
denier to trade upon your ignorance, [f
you are not a close, shrewd buyer how ( > ajy
to add from $25 to $59 to the fair selling
price! Would you be any the wiser! No
Not until you found that your sharp. w e ii
posted neighbor had bought a piano ia
every respect like yours for fifty dollars
less than you paid. How would you feel
under such circumstances?
Twenty years ago—at the beginning of
the business of the L. & B. 8. M. H. it was
decided that, make or break, livo or die
survive or perish, tho house would have bus
ONE PRICE to every oustoruer, and the
rule has never been departed from.
There are not, we believe, three other
houses in the trado that do business on this
principle. It is a difficult plan to adhere to
but so unvarying is our belief in it3 pro.
priety that it is often found necessary to
refund overcharges made by inexperienced
agents of the house—and to break with
others who beoome over zealous in increas
ing profits in this manner.
Rest assured of one thing. If you buy a
piano from us you will pay us a fair profit
ami you will buv as low as can the best m-I
formed purchaser.
Ludden & Batss Southern Musta
House.
DRY OOl>. ~ 3
IllS THE II
Positively Only Two
Weeks Longer.
Last Announcement of Our
Grand Clearing-out Sum.
mer Sale.
For the next two weeks the balance of
our Summer Stock must go. We have no
place to hide them away, they must, conse
quently, be removed at any sacrifice—
prices no object—during these two weeks.
Come early and secure what you want.
Recolleot, we sell as we advertise.
CMHUIIOIEI
137 Broughton.
CLOTHING.
PRETTY
Soon fall stock will
begin to roll in.
THIS WEEK’S
PRICES
are room makers. “A wink
is as good as a nod,”etc.
COAL AND WOOD.
Alabama on Georgia, $1 Pkr Barrel.
Portland Cement,
$2 25 Per Barrel.
Calcined Piaster,
$1 50 Per Barrel.
DENIS J. MURPHY,
5 Drayton Street. Telephone 49.
COAL AND WOOD
OF ALL KINDS AND SIZES PROMPTLY
DELIVERED.
ID. JrL _ T±n_o=ozLaiS,
Xll Bay St, West Broad 3L Wh&rTsa,
Telephoto No. 69.
FIS Li AND UriTJUI
ESTABLISHED liZA.
M. M. Sullivan & Son,
Wholesale Fish and Oyster Dealers,
ISO Bryan st. and 152 Ray lane. Savannah, Qa
Fish order i for Punta Garda raoatwMt DM
tew SWjt aManrtcia.
BROESKi.
F. C. WYLLY,
STOCKS, BONDS AND REAL ESTATB
BROKER.
Strict Attention Given to AU Orders.
Loans Negotiated on Marketable Securities.
Correspondence Solicited.
iirim
(GERMAN SLICED BEANS.)
A Delicacy for Salads or a
Vegetable.
In Cans at $2 2~ Dozen.
A.M.&C.W. WEST
