Georgia Historic Newspapers

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AFFAIRS OF THE COUNTY.
THE COMMISSIONERS’ OCTOBER
meeting.
The Asphalting of the Streets Around
the Court House Advocated The
Pest House Question A Protest
Against the Use of the Augusts and
the Louisville Road for a Street
Railway—A- Word for Judge Har
den-A Discussion of the Oyster
Law.
The October meeting of the county com
missioners yesterday was an interesting one.
Commissioners Walker, Estill, Smart, Mein
hard and Read were present.
On motion of Commissioner Estill the
county engineer was instructed to continue
the survey of the new Isle of Hope road to
the Parkersburg road.
Tax Collector McGowau through a letter
requested the commissioners to purchase
from him the new Herring safe in his office,
which he bought some time ago for the bet
ter protection of the county’s records. It
was referred to the county attorney to re
port upon the liability of the county for the
safe.
The asphalting of the streets around the
court house came up for discussion. Com
missioner Estill said he didn’t think the as
phalting of President street would be of any
material benefit to trie Lutheran church, aod
he favored the county paying two-tbi:ds of
the cost aud the city one-tbird, Regarding
the paving of the other streets, it would be
well to moke the same arrangement with
the city as that made by property owners,
but if necessary. Commissioner Estill fa
vored the county bearing all the expense
so as to make the court house
available for the purposes for which
it was built. Complaints are constantly
being made that the business of the courts
is being interfered with by the noise on
Drayton street, and the matter, he
thought, sh uld be attended to at once.
The commissioners favor the asphalting of
Drayton street from Broughton to South
Broad.
A COMMITTED TO CONFER WITH THE CITY.
Commissioner Estill moved that a com
mittee be appointed to take the matter into
consideration and confer with the city. The
motion was adopted, and Cuminlseioqers
Estill and Smart were appointed the com
mittee.
Commissioner Read reported that the
committee appointed to look after the secur
ing of a site for the county pest house had
been unable to find a suitable location. The
city had the only availa ie site. He asked
that the oommittee be continued.
Commissioner Estill expressed himself
plainly on the nest house question. He didn’t
think it equitable or right that the county
should be put to the expense of building -a
pest-house and paying pnyslcians and keep
ers simply because small-pox happened to
make its appearance in tm county mavbe
once in twenty-five years. He said he didn’t
think the course pursued by the city
authorities in the recent outbreak of the
disease lu charging the couuty so heavily
for Its patients was right. The
county and city, he believed, should be one
in such matters, and should work together
in harmony. It was putting the taxpayers to
a double cost, and Commissioner Estill
thought it rather a poor policy. He ventured
to say that every case of small-pox in tho
county outside of the oity could bo traced to
the city for its origin.
TO ARRANGE WITH THE CITY.
The committee was continued as re
quested b v Commissioner Read, and was
authorized t;> make terms with the oity if
possible for the joint use of the pest house.
County E igineer Thomas reported that
he had made the survey of tho Augusta
road as directed, to find out if certain
fences encroached, aud he bad discovered
that the r ad instead of being uniform had
n varied width. Before he oould give any
information to the board regarding the en
croachment, he ’aid, he will have to lock
over the deeds of the owners of property
abutting the road.
Janitor Donovan of the court house ap
plied for an increase of salary, giving as a
reason that he had to biro extra help during
the terms of court and winter months to
keep the building in proper condition. The
petition wa9 referred to the court house
committee for investigation.
A protest was read from Road Commis
sioner Bourquiu against the action of the
eouuty coiumbsioo-ra in allowing the Sub
urban and West End Kai way Company to
use tho Augusta aud the Louisville road
Commissioner Estill believed the road
commissioners bad a ngnt to be heard In
(bis matter.
Com miss oner Read coinci led with Com
missioner Estiil's vi-ws, and as the Subur
ban and West Kud company had not
signed the conditions imposed upon it by
the commisioners regarding the u-e of the
road, he moved that the pr. test be received
as information, and the railway authorities
be cited to show cause at the next meeting
why the agreement hadn’t been signed.
The motion was adopted.
A HINT FOR JUDO® HARDEN.
J udge Harden came in for a little atten
tion. Commissioner Read wanted to know
what right a judge, paid by the year, lias to
go off oil vacution and leave the jail full of
prisoners, whose espouses there are almost
double than when they are on the chain
gang. Some of these prisoners
may be innocent of the charges
against them and ' it is an injus
tice to them to be kept in jail for several
months without trial. Commissioner Real
thinks that there should be monthly sessions
of the city court, and it .is wrong for the
judge to be off on pleasure or attend lag to
private busine-s while the interests of the
comity are suffering.
Commissioner Estill brought to the at
tention of the board the necessity for lower
ing the floor of the hanging cell of the jail
to crder to carry on executions successfully.
He was authorized to go ahead and have
the work done.
THE OYSTER LAW.
The oyster law came in for its share of
discussion. Commissioner Estill expressed
himself that the law was one whioh fosters
a great monopoly in this section. The
poor people who bad been making their
living off oysterlng have been driven off
by the oyster laws. The result is that
oysters have gone up in price.
He disputed the survey of Ensign Drake as
being correct, and quoted a remark made
by the ensign himself that he had been so
hurried in the work that he didn’t know
whether ho had gotten all the beds into the
survey. Before any leases are
granted Commissioner Estill wants
the law thoroughly understood, and by bis
motion the clerk was ordered to procure a
certified copy of the bill, aud the county
attorney was requested to make a report
upon it at the next meeting of the biard.
The petition of the projectors of the town
of West End to have a road opened across
the Central to the Louisville road was re
ferred to tho road committee.
Several applications for county aid were
favorably passed upon aud bills to the
amount of $4,144 cashed for payment.
A Small Fire.
The fire department was called out yes
terday morning shortly after 9 o’clock by
an alarm from box No. (13, at Burroughs
and Wald burg streets. The fire was iu a
bouse in Bolton street lane near West Broad
street, owned by George B. Lewis, the col
ored porter at Frank Sc Co’*. It wot con
fined to bts daughter’! bedroom, and urnad
all her wearing apparel and the lied. The
damage to the house was slight. The fir# is
•and to hare started from itkiMits
playing with matches The loss is about sso.
f. If. Utckey, 1308 Main street, Lynch
burg, Vs., writes: “I was broke out all
over with • rn, aud toy har was falling
ojlt After using a few bottle* of Bo ante
Blood Balm my hair quit failing out, and
•U the sores got well * -Ad.
BLUN IS CHAMPION.
He Wins Ten Straight Games of
Eill'.arde.
On account of the inclemency of the
weather the attendance at the Catbolio
Library Association’s billiard and pool
tournament last night was comparatively
small.
The billiard and second class pool contests
were brought to a close, but there are still
eight games to be played in the first Glass
pool contest.
Henry Blun, Jr., is now the champion
billiard player of the association, having
won ten straight games. R. J. McHugh,
who was the suco-ssful contestant at the
twopreceiiug tournaments won eight out
of the games played. Blun, as the winner
of the billiard contest, was given a hand
some cuff aud collar box, and will also wear
the association’s medal fur a year.
The second prize, a flue box of cigars
went to McHugh, and John O. Gorman was
awarded a box of cigars for making the
longest run. His be3t score was 31 points.
J. H. S!roues loads in the first class pool
contest, having won seven out of eight
games, with F. K. Williams, who hat lost
t wo and won five, a close second.
The prize in the second cla'-s pool contest
was captured by C. F. Pritchard, wao
played a much stronger game than on the
preceding night, and winning seven out of
nine games played.
Morrissey was not present last night and
all his games wero declared forfeited. R.
Werner Bagwell and Joseph J. Gleason tied
for second place, each winning five and
losing four games. The prize in tno first
class pool contest was an elegant scarf-pin.
In the second class a handsome shaving
glass. The score in the first contest is os
follows:
IKoa. Lott,
J. H. Stronss 7 l
F. K. Williams B 7
W. J Kohoe 4 7
H. Jackson 3 4
J. F. Moriarty. 2 B
C. Dixon l is
The contest in this class will be finished
touight.
MORE CAR ROBBERS CAUGHT.
Detectives Wetherhorn and Baecb
Run Down Two Car Thieves.
Running car robbers to oover is becoming
a common occurrence with Detectives
Wetherhorn and Basch. Two more colured
operators have been captured and are no nr
in jail.
Day before yesterday the deteotivos met a
negro named John Jackson going about the
streets with a package of towels, socks,
handkerchiefs and other small articles.
They stopped aud questioned him
as to where he had se
cured the goods, and the fright
ened manner in which the fellow
tried to evade the questions convinced the
officers that he was a thief. They hand
cuffed him and carried him to Justice
Naughtin’s office.
After considerable questioning, Jackson
said he was an employe of Lovell’s brick
yard, aud lived til a house near that place.
There Detectives Wetherhorn aud Basch
went. They forced au entrance, aud found
a cose of goods, the cover of which iiad been
taken Off. There were eighteen bolts of
calicos and dress goods, lambrequins,
towels, socks, handkerchiefs, etc., by the
dozen.
A horse and wagon was secured aud the
stuff brought to Justice Naughtiu’s office.
Wheu Jackson saw the goods he weakened
and made a full confession. He said that
himself und David Bates had st de 1 the box
from an outward-bound Central freight car
Monday night last. The car was standing
on the “Y”, aud they broke the seal and
rolled the oox out. Jackson also said that
he and Bates had broken into a car one
night last week aud Btulen several boxes of
fine shoes.
Bates was caught yesterday, and he made
a full confession, substantiating what
Jackson hud said. Justice Naugbtin com
mitted both men to jail to await trial at the
December term of the city court.
Detoctive Wetherhorn and Basch have
caught nearly a dozen car robbers in the
last few weeks.
BUSIN4SS Of TH£ SUUTH BOUND.
The New Fioad Opening Up With a
Rush.
General Freight and Passenger Agent J.
F. Babbitt of the South Biund railroad sai l
yesterday that the South Bound will be
completed to Columbia by Oct. 25.
“The South Bound expects to do a large
business from its local stations to the Co
lumbia fair, which opens Nov. 9,” said Mr.
Babbitt, “The fair has beeu ex
tensively adve tised along the road by
Columbia people owiug to its being new
territory.”
“How is the country opening up along
the road?" Mr. Babbitt was asked.
“Splendidly," was the reply. “Newsaw
mills are locating almost every day, and the
towns are building up right along. The
South Bound runs through a splendid tira
ier belt, and its lumber and naval stores
territory is uuequaled.
“The South Bound will give the people
along its line a grand excursion to Savan
nah early in November. If the merchants
wish they can send out invitations to tue
merchants and plauters along the line of
the road to meat them at a reception at the
cotton exehaugo or any other place that
might he selected.”
Owiug to the failure of the agent to
properly report the daily receipts
of the South Bound, the state
ment of receipts as published daily
iu the Morsi.no News has failed to show
the amount of the business done by the
road. It has been bringing in between 200
and 300 bales of cotton and a large amount
of naval stores daily for the last few days.
W, P. Epperson of Augusta who was
recently appointed trainmaster of the
South Bound arrived in the c.ty yesterday
and is now installed at tho company’s office
on West Broad street.
THE NEW WATER WORKS.
Tbe Work Well Ucd r Way on Styles
Avenue.
Consulting Engineer Johnson of Chicago,
who is in charge of the work of providing
the city with anew system of water works,
arrived iu the city last night from Memphis
after an absence of about seven weeks.
Mr. Johnson said that the work is pro
gressing very satisfactorily at 'be wells on
Styles avenue. Five wells hnve-*lroady
been sunk. Tbe work of boring wells will
continue until a sufficient supply of water
has been secured.
Mr. Johnson added that the firm which
received the contract for the conduit will
begin w irk ehortly, aud the piping for the
lorce main which is uow being c ist at Bir
mingham should begin to arrive next
month.
Mr. Johnson thinks if everything pro
gresses favorably that Savannah will have
its new waterworks system complete lu
about a year.
New Telephone Stations.
The following new telephones have been
added to the exchange:
No. 44k, South Bound railroad.
No. SiJO, Karger IL, residence.
No. 524. Reodauf W. K.
No. 548. Sctiroeder D., residence.
No. 550, Hartfeldur Bros.
No. 158, First Volunteer Regiment
Armory.
No. 480, Tynan J. W , residence.
No. 551, Roestguol C. P.
No. 493, 1 tonal J amts, rusldauoe.
No. 107, Aeebem >or Fred H.
I hills and triers of 111 rre yours Mending
cured t>> Mlimiuons I4i Hryulolor —4 visi
ble*, HtlklwHsue, l plou >lllr, H>. Ad
Artiste' Materials, all kurus, at M. T. Taj
to r 135 York street. Ad.
Abbot's Eml Inkimi Uuru Paint cares all
corns, bunion* and warts Ad
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1891.
OCTOBER WBDDINQB BEGUN.
Mr. Werner S. Byck Marries* Miss
Eva Cohen—A Brilliant Event.
Mr. Werner S. Byck and Miss Eva Cohen
wero marriod yesterday afternoon at 5
o’clock at the residence of the bride’s parents,
Chippewa square.
The wedding took place in the presence of
the immediate relatives of the bride and
groom and a few intimate friends.
The handsome parlors were brilliantly il
luminated and potted plants aud ferns were
tastily ranged around the walls. The
canopy, covered with satin and bung with
lace, trimmed with ivy and set off with
large handsome ferns on each side, was
erected against the south wall of the par
lor.
The wedding party entered to the strains
of Mendelssohn’s march played by Prof.
Leon’s orchestra. Mr. David Byck and
Miss Nellie Cohen led the procession, fol
lowed by Mr. Charles S. Byck and Miss
Henrietta Byck, Mr. Levi E. Byck and Mrs.
Jacob Cojjen. The groom and his mother
catno next with Gertie and Stella Cohen as
maids of honor, and then the bride and her
father.
Rev. I. P. Mendes, rabbi of Mickva
Israel, met the bride and groom under the
canopy and performed the beautiful and
impressive marriage cermony of the Hebrew
faith.
The bride looked o' l arming. She wore a
satin de Lyons en train dress, trimmed in
point aud duchess lace and marquis tins.
Bho wore a veil caught with diamonds, and
carried a bouquet of bride roses.
Miss Nellie Cohen, sister of the bride,'was
becomingly attired in point de alcon over
white silk and carried inarschel neil roses.
Miss Henrietta Byck, sister of the groom,
wore an elegant costume of white silk and
silk gauze and carried white roses.
Tbo maids o’ honor. Gertie und Stella
Cohen, wore drawn surah dresses and car
ried bouquets of La France ruses.
Mrs. Jacob Cohen, mother of the bride,
was attired In a fail.e silk en train dress,
and Mrs. H. E. Byck, mother of the groom,
wore a costume of black crepe de chine.
After receiving the congratulations of
their relatives and friends, Mr. and Mrs.
Byck led the way down-stairs, where an
elaborate wedding supper was served.
A reception was held at the De Soto at
9 o’olock. The bauquet hall was used for
the purpose, and with its brilliant illumina
tion and elegant decorations it had the ap
pearance of a beautiful garden. Fur several
hours the happy bride and groom received
the congratulations and well wishes of hun
dreds of friends. The costumes of the
ladies were of an elaborate character.
Mr. aud Mrs. Byck received numerous
handsome and valuable presents, among
which were several checks fur large sums.
They will leave to-day for an extended
bridal tour of the north and west, visiting
Washington, New York, Philadelphia,
Pittsburg, Chicago. Buffalo, Niagara Falls
and other places of interest.
The groom is one of the most popular
young business men of Savannah, sonior
partner of the firm of Byck Bros., proprie
tors of the Globe shoe store. The bride is
well known. She is the handsome and ac
complished daughter of Mr. Jacob Cohen.
Bevill— Price.
Mr. Gilbert Bevill and Miss Ida Prico
were married last night at 8 o’clock at the
residence of the bride’s brother. Robert
Price, No. Hall street. Rev. W. J.
Jones, pastor of the Duffy Stre.t Baptist
church, performed the ceremony. The
wedding was a quiet one, only a few friends
of the contracting parties being present.
A Wedding at Olivar.
An interesting event will occur at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Foy this even
ing In the marriage of their niece, Misi
Leonora Brinson, and Mr. John J. Rimes, a
prosperous young merchant of Oliver. A
small circle of near relatives and intimate
friends are tho recipients of the usual wed
ding missives, ana the affair is looked for
ward to with muob interest. Tho proverbial
hospitality of the Ed. Foy home and tho
popularity of the prospective bride, with
the many excellent qualities of the head
and heart of the groom, bespeak well for
the occasion.
IHS SAILORS’ PONDERT.
The Opening Entertainment of the
Season at the Port Society l oams.
The first concert of the season for the
sailors was given last night at the Port
Society’s rooms. The weather was bad but
the attendance was large and the rooms
were filled with sailors and their friends.
The concert, although impromptu, was an
admirable success. The opening song was
“ Our Jack’s Come Home To-day," by Mr.
Polkinghorne, which was received with
hearty applause. Mr. Richardson followed
with a clarionet solo. Then came a comica!
and capitally delivered recitation by Julian
de Bruyn Kops entitled “Socrates Mrooks.”
The piece that followed the recitation was
the familiar song “Sailing,” in the chorus
of which the sailors joined enthusiastically.
The most charming of the pieces sung were
the solos and duets of the Misses Berrien,
who were applauded a rain and again.
Calls were made for volunteer songs by
the sailors, and there was a quick response
by Mr. Johu Atkinson, who kept the
audience in laughter with bis a nusii.g
sailor ditty, “Betsey Jane," or some such
mythical peisouage, acted in a manner both
life-like and ludicrous.
Mr. Worth played an excellent solo on
the piauo. Two others of the sailors also
sang entertaining songs.
Altogether the concert wa3 both pleasant
and a success. Tiie Port Society deserves
encouragement from the citizens in its
efforts to asii-t the sailor to spend a pie i
sant evening now and then while so far
away from home.
FUNERAL OF DR. PUTTER.
The Dead Minister Laid to Rest in
Augusta.
Tbe funeral of Rev. Dr. Wyman H.
Potter took place from St. John’s church in
Augusta day before ye-terday. The re
mains were taken from Atlanta the night
before aud rested in the church.
The burial servioe was read by the Rev.
Messrs. Timmons and Caldwell, Assisted by
the Rev. Messrs. Walker, Haves, Yar
borough and Greiner. The remarks were
made by Dr. W. (V. Wadsworth. He spoke
feelingly of the character and flue traits
of tbe deceased, saying he had been
a man of “pouderous intellect”
and "just as the flower of nis
life had reached its fullest bloom, God had
gathered it before one petal should fall to
mar tho perfection of its beauty.” Dr.
Potter was tho tenth minister in the Metho
dist conference o * this state whose deutb
has bee i recorded this year.
The pall bearers were Judge W. L. Eve,
Capt. George Adam, Allan F. Pendleton,
C. L Di broil, B. F. Lowe, L. J. Miller aud
Charles Munuerlyn.
Memorial service are appointed to be
held all over tbe state.
RAIL AND CROS4TI £.
The Montgomery Advertiser says It is
now an avowed fact that Cecil Gabbett, tbe
lain general manager of the Central road,
will be connected with some northwestern
syetem of roads. Iti a private letter to a
friend in Moutg n.-ry the railroad reporter
of the Advertiser w*< Informed that Mr.
Gabbett had said as much as tbe above. He
aieo stated the! the railroads of the south
were consolidating very fast, and predicted
that at no distant day there would lie only
one big system. Mr. Gabbett is now at bis
New Y nrk home near Hague, with bis fam
ily with i,nn. TUo Advertiser Into It that
be ma in s.jO,(jiki on bi* recent trip to Mex
ico. IU we >t lb-re to inspect and appraise
* system of railr ads for a New York syndi
cate, which syndicate afterward i.oug it the
property on the report of Mr. Gabbett.
TsteMiuwusi tAsrr fttef ulelnr ter hoars
IfveMr. sue ye* will SeS II UUi*sWa - Ad■
WANTS HER MONEY BACK
ALDERMEN HAVE A LIVELY TALK
OVER MRS. W LSH’d LETTER.
The Finance Committee to Decide
Whether Her Fine for Violating the
Sunday Law Shall be Remitted.
The Mayor Authoriz’d to Spend
SIO,OCO on the Deep Water Move
ment-Alderman Meldrim’s Jteslgna
tlon Accepted—The Bicyllsts’ Pe
tition.
The city council held a short session last
night and transacted but little outside of
routine business. The members present
were Aldermen Harris, Cann, O’Brien,
Carson, Bailey, Harmon, McGuire and
Reid. There was considerable tilting, even
though there was not a rush of business.
The following petition from Mrs. Celia
■Walsh, fined SIOO by Mayor McDonough
for violating the Sunday law, caused the
most talk and maybe a little feeling:
Savannah, Oet 14, 1891.
To the Hon, Mayor and Aldermen of the City
vf Savannah
Honored Sihs—l most humbly and respect
fully petition your honorable body to refund to
me, as I am necessitous, the money I was fined
for a breach of the liquor ordinance in February
last, as you have extended your clemency to
others. 1 promise to faithfully adhere In future
to the ordinances which your honorable board
bas and in future will make, and big you will
kindly and ebaritaoly erant my petition. Ko
spectfully and cravingly yours,
Mrs Cei.ta Walsh.
As soon as Clerk Rebarer finished reading
the petition Alderman Bailey moved that it
be laid on the table. No one seemed to have
the temerity to second the motion. Aider
man McGuire moved its reference to Aider
man O’Brien but, as in the previous motion,
no second was beard.
Alderman O’Brien was quite self-sacrific
ing ana said he was ready to serve the city
in any capacity.
NOT ANXIOUS TO TACKLE IT.
Mayor MoDonough nsko 1 for a motion or
second of some sort, aud Alderman Bailey
repeated his motion to lay on the table.
Still there was no second
The mayor leaned back in his chair and
shoved his ha ds in his trousers pockets.
The aidermen for four minutes looked at
each other in a smiling schoolboy fashion,
each waiting for the other to say some
thing, and all apparently diffident about
opening their mouths.
Finally Aldermau Carson spoke up and
sail that If Mrs. Walsn had intended the
letter for an appeal he would suggest that
Mayor McDouo gh return it to her with the
information that it was not in proper form.
Clerk Rebarer called ouention to the fact
that Mrs. Walsh bad practically pleaded
guilty both in the polios court and also in
her petition, and that she had not the right
of appeal.
Alderman Cann jokingly remarked that
pleading guilty migut not interfere with
the result of appeal, and then moved that
Mrs. Walsh’s petition h i referred to a special
committee consisting of Aldermen Harmon,
Myers and Carson.
A CHANCE FOR THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.
Alderman Harmon thought the finance
oommitte should be given consideration of
the petition. Alderman Carson replied
that the water oounnittee might lie allowed
un opportunity of d.splayiug itself in con
sidering such matters.
Alderman Cann guod-humoredly added
that as Mrs. Walsh had sai l in her petition
that she asked the return of her money on
the grounds that others had not paid fines,
he thought Aldermen Harmon, Myers and
Carson wore the proper gentlemen to know
the reason why ttie fines hadn’t been paid.
This brought a hut retort from Alderman
Harmon. “I don’t think any aldermun bas
the right to challenge the vote of auother,”
he said. "An alderman has a right to vote
as he—well, as he pleases.”
This remark caused considerable merri
ment, and It was several seconds before
order wa9 restored.
Mrs. Walsh’s petition was finally roferre 1
to the finance committee.
THg SIO,OOO, AUTHORIZED.
The iecommendation<of tho special meet
ing that the council ia regular meeting au
thorize the mayor to expand $10,1)00 for
furthering the deepening of the harbor
caused another li'ttle breeze.
Alderman Carson called for the yoas and
nays, and the result was as follows-
Yeas—Alderman Bailey, Harmon, McQuiro,
Reid. Harris, ("aim and O’Brien.
Nay—Alderman Carson.
Aldermen Carson and Cana had
a little tiff about the rea
sons for the negative vote but finally
they settled the matter by dropping reasons
out of sight.
The bavannah wheelmen petitioned the
council to grant them the use of the side
walks south of Liberty, east of Drayton
aud west of Jefferson streets wnen the
same are not used by pedestriaus. The bi
cyclists expressed a willingness to pay any
reasonable tax which the council might
impose, and quoted Providence, Rochester,
Buffalo, Toledo, Chicago, Newport, Utica,
Newark and Washington as cities which
grant the privileges prayed for by the local
wheelmen. The following resolutions ac
companied the potition:
THE WHEELMEN’S RESOLUTIONS.
Whereas. In the Mousing News of Sept. S’
there apixuro.l aa article cntiois.ng lb- reculess
bicycle ridiue of noma parties on the asphalt
pavement, making such riding dangerous to
pedestrians, especially at crossings, and calling
the attention of the authorities to the city ordi
nance prohibiting bicycles from being riiden
on the sidewalks, and,
Whereas, Alderman Bailey has introduced
in the city council an ordinance, making it oblig
atory on al. rid rs to use a bell and lamp at
night, sad belt to be rung at intervals of every
few seconds, and.
Whereas, We believe this trouble is brought
about by inexperienced rid. rs and non-members
of this club; and
Whereas, The said members of the Savan
nah Wheelmen, composed as it is representa
tive business men. heartily disapprove and dis
countenance all reckless riding among i;s mem
bers on the streets of Savannah, especially on
crowded thoroughfares and crc* sings, belt
Resolved. Xnat the club condemn careless
and reckless riding on tho thoroughfares of the
city, and that it use every menus in its power to
bring about more careful and discriminate
riding by ail wheelmen.
Resolved. That t also include iu the by-laws
of the club an article comp -drug all numbers
to use bell aud lamp while riding tit night.
Resolved further. That a copy of t lose reso
lutions be presented to the major and aldermen
of the city of Savannah.
The petition anil resolutions were received
as information aud Alderuian Bailey’s
ordinance, making it unlawful for any per
son to ride in tbe streets bicycle s, tricycles,
velocipedes or other similar road carriages
without a light and the ringing of a bell as
a signal upon approaching sttvet corners,
was adopted.
Alderman Bailey offered an ordinance,
which was read the (list time, granting the
use of the sidewalks prayed for by tbe
wheelmen.
THE EXTRA PAVING ORIMQtKD.
The ordinance to asphalt Bull street,from
Bay to Congress, and Bryan aud Bt. Julian
streets between Drayton and Whitaker
streets, was paced.
Tbe Ileal h and cemetery committee was
empowered to expend not deciding S!,2OU
for the rebuilding of the platforms mi l ap
proaches to the garbage cro.natory, re
cently burued.
Alderman Meldrim’s resign ition was
read in open meeting and accepted on
motion i { Alderman Harris, with regret.
It Mas decided j u caucus to wa S until the
Bast meeting of couucil to elect hi* euc
ci-eeor Alderman McGuire wanted the
names of the parties mentioned for the
position put in a ha;, and the first oue
drawn out to be selected. Alderman
< I'Brieu thought a oommitt-e shoa.d be ap
pointed to set -at a suitable men, but ell
action was defined until the next regular
meeting.
Tbe general op! lon is that Walter (J.
Charlton, Keq., r.ii be tbe man.
t were Three! si Ceegb, if wittered to
pregtwoe. often results lu an incurs vl - tt roe!
or lung trouble. “Hunts's HrontJUth Trudies '
give laUtM relief. Ad.
BAKING
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—U. S. Gov’t Report, Aug. 17, 1889.
ABSOLUTE Df PURE
SOME OTHER DS LAUGH tER.
This One Sues the Morning News for
$25,000 Libel.
Jasper DeLaughter, who formerly lived
in Valdosta and is now a citizen of Ala
bama, but who was supposed by the Val
dosta Times and the citizens of Valdosta to
be J. E. DeLaughter, who was arrested and
now occupies a cell in the Chatham county
jail for Central railroad car robbery
Friday Sept. 11, has en
tered suit in the United States
court against the Morning News, the
Atlanta Constitution and the Valdosta
Times tor #25,000 damages each for the
publication of the report to that effect.
Jasper DeLaughter, who brings the suit,
lived about tea years ago in Valdosta and
has since lived in various places in Georgia,
Florida and Alabama.
His exact place of residence at present is
not stated except that he is a citizen of
Alabama.
When the J. E. DeLaughter, now in
jail, obtained such widespread notoriety on
account of the train robbery, many people
in Valdosta concluded from the similarity
of names that it was the same DeLaughter
who formerly lived in Valdosta, and the
Valdosta Times wrote an account of the
young DeLaughter who had formerly lived
there. The account was not highly compli
mentary, and the opinion was expressed that
DeLaughter was just the stupid kind of cnap
to rob a train and then get caught at it.
The Times account was published in the
Mornino News and other papers. It was
afterward learned that Jasper DeLaughter,
who formerly lived in Valdosta, was an en
tirely different person from the train rob
ber, aid the statement was corrected in
both the Valdosta limes and the Mornino
News.
When Jasper DeLaughter, who is now a
citizen of Alabama, heard that the state
ment had been circulated that be was the
train robber, it appears he felt that he was
very much hurt, and was injured, in fact,
to the exteut of $50,000, for which amount
he is sueing.
In the notice of the suit against the
Mornino News the plaintiff declares that
be is well known in Georgia, Florida and
Alabama and that his business and charac
ter in those states have been
injured to the extent of $25,-
000. He declares that at the time of pub
lication of the objectionable article * ’the
defendant well knew that the party con
fined in the jail of Chatham county on a
charge of robbery was not named
Jasper DeLaughter and was not the
plaintiff.” It is difficult to see how this
assertion can be substantiated, as the Morn
ing News had never heard of Jasper De-
Laughter before, so far an known, and cer
tainly would not have published the state
ment if it had known it to be untrue. The
plaintiff will aiso endeavor to prove that
the article was" false and malioious:”
The following is the article which caused
the suit, whioh appeared in the Morning
News of Sept. 2b." The uncompli.iien tary
description given of DeLaughter may have
excited his indignation more than anything
else:
DeLauter, the leader of the robbers, lived
about ten years ago in Valdosta. The Times
says he is well remembered there. He went to
Valdosta from Florida and went to school at
the institute tor a short w ille. His mother,
who had married a man by the name of Draffln,
also lived a short while in Valdosta. Her hus
band .was a mechanic and worked somewhere
else
After he quit school Jasper engaged in
merchandizing. He occupied the lit tle wooden
store on the lot where Mr. Lineberger's two
brick stores now stand. He had a small stock
of groceries, but he was nut a success, aud soon
disappeared. When last heard from lie was in
Brunswick.
Jasper was a dull boy, but full of visionary
ideas. He always had in t)is pocket a dime
novel of the "Judge James” kind, an l often en
tertained the boys with wonderful plans and
escapades which he was going to play the hero
in when he grew up and went west. He was
the butt of the town, and the boys called him
"cow" because be was not considered bright.
He Invented perp-tual motion once, and at
another time invested in a S3 printing press and
started out to make a fortune. A gentleman
now interested in the Times, than a hoy, after
ward purchased the little press, and b ‘gaa his
experience with print.-r's ink.
jasper always fell in with the tramps, slight
of-hand performers and men of that kind and
character. A tramp once suggested that if
Jasper would buy some alcohol he would teach
him a fine trick. The boy went and get the
alcohol, and the tramp took it, walking in the
water bucket, diluted it with water and then
swallowed it.
While he was running his little grocery two
boys in town walked in the store one night,
seized him in a playful mood, and 1 ourei syrup
all our his head and face, and then daubed him
with flour.
“We cite those incidents." the Times explains,
"to show that Jasper - —was the very boy
to attempt such a scheme as an express oar
robbery and to gat caught in the very first at
tempt.’’
DeLaughter’s lawyers are Wade &
Vaughan, an Alabama firm.
Tie Morning News has been published
forty one years aud has never had a libel
suit before.
LOCAL. PERSONAL.
W. H. Blltch of Blitcb is at the Screven.
J. P. Beckwith of Jacksonville is at the
De Soto.
C. M. McPhail of Atlanta is a guest of the
Screven.
D. E. Kicbardson of Sapelo la at the
Marshall.
A. E. Robinson of Louisville is a guest of
the Marshall.
John A. Cnmartia of Graham is a guest
of the Screven.
tV. F. Sullivan of Charleston is registered
at the Marshall.
tV. S. Practorious of Statesboro is rogis
tered at the Screven.
Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Lawton of Washing
ton, D. C., are guests of tne DeSoto.
Miss Minnie E. Doyle left for New York
yesterday on the City of Birmingh ira,
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Shuptrine left for the
north yesterday on the City of Birmlng
haul.
Jacob Hauers, Esq., was a passenger on
the City of Birmingham for New York yes
terday.
Miss Mary Hcheining and Mr. William
Scheihing of New York are vlsitlug their
unde. William Soheihing, at Price aud Har
ris streets.
The many friends of B. H. Levy will be
glad t > le&ru that he has recovered from his
two weeks' sickness and will shurtly be out
and himself again.
Mrs I. H. Hodge and children of the
.Southern hotel, W.txahacliie, Tex., arrived
In .Savannah a few days ago and are visit
ing M. T. ijuina i, Mrs. Hodges father.
They expect to remain until aoout Christ
mas.
When your blood is impoverished the
remedy It at hand. Take Ayer's Sarsapa
rilla. —Ad.
When You Oo to Florid*
■top t the Di val hotel, Jacksonville, a
eoty komttlik* hot*!, utrlctly firt-rtun.
I It* b**t /ocuftoa.
Ratos $i HU to *1 (D per day.
—All ti li. Pars, /•ruprietor.
BIGGEST RECEIPT3 KNOWN.
Cotton Pouring in at a Phenomenal
Bate.
Savannah’s cotton receipts this week have
been something phenomenal. If they con
tinue the remaining two days of tbs week
at the same rate as for the last four days
the receipts at the port for the week will be
greater than for any previous week in its
history. The receipts for the last four day’s
have been 53,559 bales. Yesterday’s receipts
were 12,909 bales, against 8,771 bales the
same day last year, a gain of 4,138 bales.
The total receipts at the port yesterday
were 58,083 bales, against 42,685 the same
day last year.
Efforts are being mads in Mexico to in
crease the production of cotton and to make
true the prediction in some of the govern
ment reports that Mexioo will one day
occupy a position among the first, if not
the first, of the world's cotton producers.
The government reports describe vast
tracts suitable to the growth of oot
t m: in fact it grows nearly everywhere in
Mexico. Tho host cotton lands are situated
lu the coast districts both on the Atlantic
and on the Pacific, and in a district in Cen
tral Mexico near Chihuahua. Ou the At
lantic coast the cotton lands extend from
the twenty-fourth degree parallel to Yuca
tan, the best leiug in Vera Cruz aud great
unoccupied tracts iu Tabasco and Cam
peche. Ou the Pacific coast the cotton
lauds extend from the twenty-ninth degree
parallel to Guatemala, the best lying in
Oajaca. The length of the fiber in M -xico
cotton is from an inch to an inch anti a
half, according to the kind. In ancient
times Mexico produced great quantities of
cotton, estimated at 165,000,000 pounds
annually, and during the late war con
siderable fortunes were made in its
cultivation; aud now that the
means of transportation are being
improved the country oan soon begin its
c mpetitio 1 for a share in the world’s pur
chases of cotton In the meantime vast
tracts of land are lying idle, but thev are
rapidly being taken up by concessions to
Europeans, and the Americans are not
getting their share, though a competition
controlled by foreigners is gradually grow
i: gup m Mexico; yet by taking up thse
lands that can be controlled and carried for
almost nothing, they could have a good
share in whatever was doing.
A GINSRALLY BAD DAY.
Gold Weather and Ruin Combined to
Make it to.
A oold drizzling rain male yesterday
afternoon and last night miserable. The
rainfall was not heavy during th 9 after
noon and amounted to only a fraction of
an inch. The hoavest rain was during the
night.
Rain was general yesterday throughout
the Savannah district. The following
heavy fails were reported: Eastman 2.13
inches, Quitman 2., Waycross 1.14 aud
Alapana and Thomasville nearly a quarter
of an inoh.
Cloudy weither continues along the At
lantic ooast, with rain falling along the
coast fro m Wilmingtiqj to Jacksonville.
Fair weather prevails in the eastern and
western Gulf states and west of the Missis
sippi
The maximum temperature at Savannah
yesterday was 69” and thd minimum 54°,
the mean temperature being 70” below the
normal for the day. The temperature has
risen in the eastern half of the cottoa belt,
and remained nearly stationary in the west
ern half.
The excess in rainfall since Oct. 1 is X of
au iuch, aud the deficiency in temperature
50°.
CITY BREVITIES.
Savannah Lodge No. 52, K. of P., meets
to-night,
St. Andrew’s Society holds a regular
meeting to-night.
Regular communication of Solomon's
Lodge No. J, F. and A. M., to-night.
The Chatham Real Estate and Improve
ment Company will hold its annual meeting
at the Commercial Club’s rooms over But
lei’s pharmacy to-night.
The city water supply will be shut off at 9
o'clock this morning on Henry street, from
Whitaker to Abercorn streets, for the pur
pose of moving fire hydrants, and will be off
for a few hours.
Prof. R. E. Cobb is back ia the city with
his baud, after playing duriug tbe summer
at St. Simon Island aud Indian Springs.
The band will probably spend the next
summer at the same resorts. Prof. Cobb
has engaged with the Augusta exposition
as a soloist and will give two solos a day
during the twenty-eight days of the expo
sition. The band will open up for the sea
son at the De Soto about Dec. 1.
A COWBOY SERMON.
Some Practical Ideas on Religion from
a Rough Eider.
From the Champagne (Mont.) Herald.
“Lots of folks that would really like to do
right thiuk that servin’ the Lord moans
shoutin’ themselves hoarse praisin’ his
name. Now, I tell you how I look at that.
I’m workin for Jim here. Now, if I’d set
arouud the house here tellin’ what a good
feller Jim is, and Bingin’ songs to him, and
gettin’ up in tbe nights to serenade him
when he’d rather sleep, I’d be doin’ just like
lo:s of Christians do; but 1 wouldn’t suit
Jim and I’d get fired mighty quick.
“But when I buckle on my traps and rustle
among the hills and see tliat Jim’s herd is
all right and ain’t sufferin’ for water and
feed and bein’ run off the range and
branded by cow-thieves, then I’m servin’
Jim as he wants to be served. Aud if I was
rulin' for the Lord I’d believe it was his
wish that I’d ride out in tue ravines of dark
ness aud the hills of sin and keep his herd
from bein’ branded by the devil and run
off to where the feed was short and drinkin’
holes in the creek all dry, and no cedars
ond pines for Bhelter when the blizzards
come.
“I don’t seo bow I’d be helpin’ the Lord
out if I jest laid 'round the raucb eaten’ up
the grub I could git and gittin’ down on my
prayer bones and laffyln’ the Lord up and
askin’ for more.
“The Bible savs somethin’somewhere—l’ve
got the place marked with an ace of dia
monds—about how people serve the Lord by
feedin’ and waterin’ and lookin’ after tue
herd, and I think it would do lots of pa iple
god to read it over. When a critter has
had his moral natur' starved ever since lie
was a calf and been let run a human
maverick till tho devil took pity on him.
jest 'cause nobody she didn't look after him
and put his brand on him eo deep tnat even
in tue spring, when tho hair's longest and
it's no tr üble to toll to wlnsebeid be lie
longs to, shows mighty plain the', the ouw.
punchers of tho Lord has been buntin'
qtlery harder than they've been buntin'
souls.”
Old newpa pens—3oo for 35 cents—at
Lusineee olHoa. MoHxinu News. Ail.
Pictures lu great variety and ail price*
M. T. Taylor, U York street .—Ad.
NO USE TO ADVERTISE.
•
That’s what a wise man I
said in this newspaper last
week—at least he said *
’twas no use to advertise
unless you have something
WORTH ADVERTISING.
The last part of his re
mark revives our drooping
spirits. We may not know
how to tell the story in the
best language, but we wish
you would all remember
_A._That we’ve been twcn'y.one ye - rs
building up the biggest P<ano777
Organ trade inthe south. """"
s h ow VQ —
better instruments. ~
| C__That_no_other_house can givT^oT
| Suchjow^rices^or_cash L or such*
jtasy_tirne to pay in.
By the time you have
mastered this much of our
“alfabet,”if you don’t think
we’ve got something worth
advertising, come in and
say so. We will listen pa
tiently and convince you
positively—for your own
good—and a little bit for
our own profit, that the only
place to buy is at
LUDDEN & BATES S. M H.
DRI GOODS.
mm yin
4
Beg to announce to their
patrons and the public in gen
eral that in the selecting of
their FALL AND WINTER
STOCK this season they have
surpassed all former efforts.
We call special attention to
our stock of BLACK AND
COLORED DRESS GOODS,
SILKS, VELVETS, HOS
IERY, UNDERWEAR,
HOUSEKEEPING GOODS,
CHILDREN'S CAPSiu plush,
Surah and Wash Silks. Also
our new line of Jouvin’s Cele
brated KID GLOVES now
complete in all shades and
sizes.
137 Broughton St.
CLOTHING.
Have Just as Good Opportu
nity as Lay People,
CLERICAL SUITS,
AND PERFECT FITS AT
THAT,
ARE IN OUR LINE.
A. R. ALTMAYER & CO.
Hereafter this space
will be used for Alt
mayer’s Daily Bar
gains. Watch it!
COAL AND WOOD.
COAL AND WOOD
Of all kinds and aiies promptly delivered.
D. R. THOMAS,
111 Jlay St. West Broad St. Wharve*
TsLUriioKi No. B J. —i—t
NOODLES^
i Macaroni,
CEREALINI, at
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