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Onion Culture in the South.
While just as fine crops of onions can
be grown in the South as in New England,
the southern grower labors under the dis
advantage of not being able to preserve
them after making them as the New
England grower can. With us the crop
planted in February or March, whether
with seeds or sets, matures in midsummer,
and it is very difficult to preserve the
onions from rotting after they are har
vested. If the southern grower had
plenty of dry cellar storage and grew the
crop from the seed from as late planting
as it is possible to make and yet make a
good crop, it might be possible with
proper care to preserve the onions up to
and through the winter. We know of no
tests extensive enough to be of any value
to determine this question satisfactorily.
It is one for southern experiment stations
to make a thorough test of, and we hope
several of them will undertake a solution
of it.
The most that we have ever done
toward testing the preservation of the
onion through the autumn season was by
braiding a limited quantity and hanging
them up in lofts. In some instances the
onions kept perfectly, in others they
rotted badly. It depends considerably
upou the variety, and the character the
weather at and about harvest time,
whether they are kept more or less per
fectly.
By far, the greater bulk of onions
grown in the south are raised from sets,
either planted out late in the fall or just
after the severe weather of the winter is
over, from the middle of January to the
middle of February. Onions so grown
are not good keepers, and are not, as a rule,
planted with the expectation of being
preserved, but are intended for use in a
green state mostly. Some few good house
wives manage to preserve for a short
period such as are not used by the time
they are matured, but the bulk of these
garden plantings are consumed in the
period from April to August. Usually
onions are out of season the rest of the
year in the southern gardens, though
most of them will contain their little
patch (or row) of “shallots'’ for frying or
seasoning purposes. ’
Except for home use or supplying the
local market with green onions during
the spring and early summer, we should
never grow onions from planting the sets.
The bulk of the crop we would grow from
the seeds, sowing them in February or
March, just as we would for a crop of
beets, ora fair part of the crop can be
made by raising plants in seed beds, just
as we would for cabbage or peppers and
setting out. the plants as soon as they get
large enough, or the proper time arrives,
in using plants instead of sets, you have
the advantage of knowing just what va
riety of onions you are using, which will
not be the case with sets unless you grew
them yourself. Success hinges to a con
siderable extent upon the variety used,
and some onion sets are raised from a poor
quality of seed, and oftentimes from a va
nity very poorly suited to our climate
These sets will shoot to seed instead of
making bulbs, and the consequence will
be a perfect failure, or very nearly such.
A long experience has taught us how
great the risk may be with sets of uncer
tain parentage, and the market gardener
or trucker must be very careful in respect
to this matter, else he may be sorely dis
appointed at the outcome. This risk can
be avoided by purchasing fresh seeds of a
good strain of some of the varieties that
we have mentioned, from some reputable
grower. An acre of highly enriched soil,
that has been properly prepared, may be
made to produce anywhere from 200 to
iii or 1100 bushels of onions under this
plan of transplanting the plants of some
of the Italian mammoth onions.
If the rows are 2 feet apart, and a plant
at every tj inches in the row, it would re
quire 4:1,200 plants for an acre, and it
needs that each onion averages s ounces,
t° have this number of plants make, a
crop of 400 bushels. It is quite possible
to make them average 16 ounces on rich
soil that is adapted to the onion.
Growing' Asparagus.
I wish to surt an asparagus bed. Will
J'ou please tell me tho best variety and
now 1 should go about it to have it as
S"un as possible! Can I grow it from the
•seed or had ] better buy the roots ' Tell
juo wliat kind of fertilizer it would be
best to use; What would be the cost of
starting one-eighth of an acre? Is aspar
agus a profitable crop to grow near a
town (,f f;,(XK) or 7,000 jiopulation?
, oula it be shipped to New York or Bos
ton. Where could I get plants?
In l * l< T e is nothing easier than establish
“*ea “ed or plant of asparagus if one goes
ai it right and is willing to meet the re
quirements. Asparagus can he started
b.'an,v one from the seeds, but as it re
quires at least three years to establish it
*" it can be used from the seeds it is
iiuch better to buy one or two year old
"its and plant them. There are a good
ian,v persons who make it a business to
t ro ''7>ie roots to sell to others and we
ould always advise starting with the
oots. They can be had for $3 to $5
“Jhousand.
1 lie rows should be four feet apart and
■e plants two feet apart in the row. For
acre it would take a little over S, (MX)
J-ants. An eighth of acre consequently
about *SO plants.
n , * s l * le best time to sot out the
the*' - 1 the y can be set very early in
'• spring, if you can got the roots near
■' r uD ? some southern grower the work
v i,., , a ° ne almost any time in the
der, hut ag f s 4l ,ite likely you will
, ' ®'o bu.V the roots from some northern
'T'.vou will hate to order before the
<uud freezes at the north (or Just after
nawsi Order the plants in October or
‘•‘H.v in November.
roceed at once to prepare the soil for
1 ting so you will be ready to set out as
L 1 il s t‘e.V are received. L'se as deep
aIJ ~ tt ® imssiblo. Flow and cross
,/ . 11, subsolling if possible. A small
I be deeply broken with a fork
a v , , ' Hiws at four feet, and, with
ur haiuip-d shovel, throw out the dirt
* W give a treucfa 15 or is inches wide
and 4or 5 inches deep. When the roots
come to hand, with a sharp knife prune
off all broken and braised rootlets, atid in
setting out in the trench spread the roots
evenly in every direction After rover
ing with an inch or so of soil sprinkle
over the roots freely with ground bone, a
double-handful to each hill or plant will
not tie too much. It will be better if
this bone is not uniformly fine, but eon
tains a good proportion of coarse bone,
ranging from the sire of an okra seed to a
grain of corn, or even larger, if it could
be had. This is not absolutely essential,
but it is helpful.
After the asparagus has been well
started, it can be and must bo manured
at least a little every two or three years
—top drainings of some good manure har
rowed in. A well-made and managed
bed will last for many years, and is a good
piece of property to any one who enjoys the
finest vegetable in the world.
It is rather a tedious crop to market,
but usually the vegetable sells for enough
to pay for all the trouble.
There are several varieties, all of which
are good—the Palmetto, Barr s Mammoth
and Conover’s Colossal. If well grown
roots are planted, and the manure and
cultivation what it should be, and giving
the roots the distance above mentioned,
all asparagus will be large and fine.
The Rogers nurseries at Morristown, N.
J., supply the roots at reasonable prices.
The Truth in a Nutshell.
It is not often that we find more wealth
in a small compass than is contained in a
nutshell, that of the Texas thin-shell
pecan.
Many, very many things in its favor
have been learned in the last three years
by one who has made them a study.
Some people in California are growing
the olive, which earns great wealth for
hundreds of years, but this tree can be
grown only in a climate and soil of limited
territory. Tho profits iu growing them
are almost fabulous, but are not exceeded
by the Texas thin-shell pecan, which can
be grown almost everywhere—in fact,
wherever the hickory or black walnut
thrives the pecan will, all being of same
family. It is only necessary to look at
California to see what the growth of
orchard products can do for a country.
From 1880 to 1893 the increase in ship
ments of fruits, nuts, etc., was 20,000 cars,
the grass yield for 1892 being valued at
$33,000,000.
The Texas thin-shell pecan contains
wealth for every one; easily grown at
small cost; no insect enemies, they earn
money at less cost than any other tree
growth, and rapidly advance the value of
land. Planting thirty-five feet apart
gives abundant room for the growth of
other products, the cultivation of which
benefits the pecan, making their product
clear gain. When a tree earns but $3,
that means over SIOO per acre, making the
earning value very great. This is a small
amount for the product of one tree when
ten years old. They go on increasing for
thirty years and bear continuously for
hundreds of years. By using dynamite
in preparing the ground for tho trees we
bring the pecan into profitable bearing in
six years from tho nut. It is a mistake to
transplant the pecan, for cutting the tap
root destroys the value of the tree as a
nut producer. It will make a good shade
tree transplanted, but they will not bear.
Plant only the nut where the tree is to
stand and you will meet with success.
They are easily grown and of long life.
It is rare that a dead pecan tree is ever
seen, even whore the groves are thickest.
Cultivation improves the quality as
well as the quantity, and such trees
should yield much more than do the trees
of wild growth. Costing but $3 per acre
to plant we have a 100 acre grove costiug
but S3OO, which will earn more money
when ten years old than many of the
banks of the country with SIOO,OOO capi
tal. Not only this, but no man can leuve
a better inheritance for his family, for it
is an annual income and a certainty
while other crops fall short. A 100 acre
pecan grove means abundance of means,
not only for the support of the family,
but education in the best schools in the
land for the children with all the travel
needed thrown in. Investigate this in
dustry and you wilffind more in it than
we have told you in this paper.
Hebbebt Post, Fort Worth, Tex.
Pecan Growing-.
Agricultural Editor Savannah News:
I am thinking of starting a small grove
of pecans this fall or winter. I come to
you for a little advice:
1. Would you buy trees and set out or
would you buy the nuts and plant them
when you wish the tree to grow?
2. If so what kind would you plant and
how many nuts would you plant in a hill
and how far apart?
8. How would you prepare the land and
what fertilizer would you use?
4. Do you think it would pay to give up
an acre or sorof good land to a grove?
u. How long would it bo before the
trees yielded as much as a bushel of nuts
to the tree!
In twenty years time what would be
the yield from an acre of trees on ordi
nary soil if the trees were cultivated
for several years. X.
In reply to the foregoing we would say:
We would much prefer to start the
pecan trees from the seeds. Buy the pa
per shell pecans and plant four or five
seed in each hill and have the hills about
forty or fifty feet apart each way. Ma
nure those hills just as you would for
melons and plant fresh Pecan seeds about
two inches deep. If the seeds are fresh
everyone probably will come up. If they
do take out all but two, but leave at least
two to grow for one or two years. It may
be well to leave two as long as three
years, then thin them out to one, leaving
the strongest, healthiest of the two.
Then mature and mulch this one and con
tinue to plant some valuable crop on the
land for several years, managing, how
ever, to bring in some ameliorating crop
like peas or clover or vetch every year so
as to give the soil a full supply of vege
table matter.
Of course pecan trees are not going to
thrive on soil that is dstitute of vegetable
matter. The natural soil of pecan trees
is on bottom land that is rich in vegeta
ble matter.
We are aware that many claim that
transplanted trees (1 and 2 years old)
produce just as good results as those
grown from the nuts, but we cannot be
lieve that this is true. Even though we
may be mistaken in regard to this, you
cannot make a mistake in starting your
orchard or grove from the seeds. With
proper management they will grow right
off and bear just as early. It is well to re
member that land set in pecan trees can
be cultivated for a number of years in any
crop almost the same as if there was
nothing growing on the land.
Grass Growing in the South.
A Mississippi correspondent writes as
follows: "It is more of a wonder why so
many southern farmers should fail to
make farming tay than a few should suc
ceed. lam satisfied it is in'the man, aqd
not the business or the land. Possessing
a soil and a climate that makes it possi
ble to grow successfully so many crops of
different kinds that are profitable, we
can account for so much complaint upon
no other ground than incapacity to seize
a good thing when we see it. Cotton is
by no means essential to southern farm
ing; .yet. in connection with other things
it can always be made profitable if prop
erlp managed ((throughout. I have in a
small way experimented with various
crops, not one of which failed to be more
profitable than cotton. I have a .small
meadow, set in Bermuda grass, originally
containing twenty acres, but part of this
—about six acres -was condemned for
ievea purposes, leaving fourteen acres at
present In this meadow
In IX.'l dt was then SO acre* I sold *
tons of hay ol? this lot for which I re
ceived at the warehouse waou
luu -which amounted in gross to
THE MOHNINCt NEWS: MONDAY OCTOBER L\ I*o3
The entire expense am ted to $4 per ton 192 no
Netting ... MW.tto
Which is above 920 per acre. In 1862
from 1 • acres I saved 35 ton. which
sold at 912.hu on the place -gross
sales 94X7 h 0
Cost 93.60 per ton 122.80
Netting 9318.00
or about $22 50 per acre. This year I
have only mowed it once, obtaining about
ten tons, and will probably obtain eight
tons at the next mowing. The meadow
will be thoroughly plowed next spring,
and will give much letter results next
year. 1 nave always retained for my
own use from four to six tons, which are
not embraced in the above. I am confi
dent that on our rich alluvial soil Ber
muda can be made to yield four tons per
acre, and when there is a market at fair
prices nothing will pay better. Very lit
tle attention has been given to saving hay
here until last year and the present. Now
there are several large hay meadows in
this neighborhood, and vast quantities
of hay are being saved. Let us hope the
venture will bo profitable and encourage
others. When a farmer establishes a per
manent meadow, it is just as natural as
can be that his next move will be to
raise stock—and so it is proving here.
A few years ago there was not
a Jersey cow in Issaquena: to-day the.re
are quite a number. Things are coming
around all right. We are poor but proud,
and our pride has been so much mortified
by the dictatorial manner of merchants,
that we are tired of it and propose to
even up things a littie, and we will do it
before many months roll by. We are not
fools. We can see where we are being
swindled by all of those who handle our
cotton, but wo were slaves to debt. We
know very well that 7 cents is no price
for cotton, with a market likely to be
minus enough to supply the demand, and
we know that the crop of 1893 will go up,
up, up, just as soon as it is out of our
hands and credited on our accounts at 7
cents. Watch it and see. Well, there is
a way out of all this, and that is to get
nothing on credit. If you can't do so
now, resolve to get into condition to do so
in 1894, and do it. We get a little inferior
moat and pay 11cents for it, when we
can raise it for 3 cents. We pay $2.40 per
barrel for meal, when we ean grow the
corn to make it for 25 cents, and
everyhing else at the same or
greater rates. Its a shame to call
ourselves farmers, when actually we are
more consumers than fanners. I ean
move into a neighborhood of cotton
crcnks and get rich by selling to them
at a less price the very articles they are
purchasing in St. Louis. Well, it does
take considerable energy and close appli
cation and a thorough knowledge of the
markets to succeed with other crops: and
just there is the stumbling block. In this
section the planter does not work. Ho
scarcely superintends those who are sup
posed to be at work in his field. He is
sues rations and keeps the accounts with
his negro tenants. Perhaps he is at the
house in the shade, and I know tm ten
ants are under the shade trees. You see
1 understand it. I’ve been there, and
paid for my knowledge; and I am yet
paying for it. b.v hard work, 'to secure
what I missed or lost while I was there.
I got tired of it, and I am s.ailing with my
back to those times, and if I fail to reach
the other shore, I shall never turn back;
and now you will pardon me for signing
myself Scorched.
The Farmer’s Honey Crop.
Why farmers do not try to have a few
stands of bees is surprising, when we con
sider the cost of keeping them, which is so
little. They may become a subject of in
teresting study, if one is so inclined, in ad
dition to the profit of having a delicious
article of food for the table. An lowa
correspondent says upon the subject that
if honey is a desirable article for food, or
a luxury worth sotting before our family
and friends, the question is, “How shall I
obtain it?” Shall the farmer whoownsthe
range over which bees forage, raise hogs,
and cattie, and grain for market, and with
the proceeds thereof buy his honey, or
raise a few bees himself and be independ
ent of the grocer or specialist in honey
production? Some argue that it is better
to leave the production of honey to the
specialist altogether. They say he can
produce it more cheaply than one who
has other business. It is also true that
the market gardener can raise cabbage
and strawberries more cheaply than the
farmer does. Shall he therefore leave the
growing of all garden truck to the specia
list , and buy his vegetables and fruit?
The main difficulty in both cases is. if the
farmer docs not produce them himself,
his family is very liable to go l without part
of the year.
I have noticed that those farmers who
think they cannot afford to"potter” with
a garden or bees, have few of the luxuries
which these furnish. Luxuries did I say?
Necessities, health, comfort and happi
ness count for anything in this world.
Honey is a luxury, but it is heathful and
nourishing. It is‘not neceessity ain the
usual sense of the word, nor is any other
sweet. Sugar is so generally used in this
country that we regard it as a necessity.
But it is not. J suppose there are millions
of people who scarcely taste sugar. And
there are thousands of families, largely
farmers, 100, in this country, who scarce
ly know the taste of honey. They do not
keep bees, and when they wish to gratify
the taste for sweet, buy sugar or glucose
syrup, because it is cheaper in price than
honey. But why shouldn't the farmer
produce his own honey ? Is it because of
the belief that greater skill and knowl
edge is required to make this business a
success than other departments of the
farm? If this is the prevalent notion I
wish to dispel it. It does require study
and some skill, but not more than to raise
good stock, or to grow good crops. If a
farmer raises nothing but scrub cattle
and bogs, and gets a good crop of cornonlj
when everything is favoraDle, he will
probably never have much honey to sell
and will doubtless conclude that “it's all
luck, anyhow.”
But if he knows a good cow from a
poor one. and knows how to raise the
good one; if he knows how to get a pood
crop of corn when many of his neighbors
have only nubbins, he can master all the
intricacies in bee-keeping without lying
awake nights, or infringing on his time in
harvest. I believo the person who gets
the most pleasure out of producing honey
is the one who does so in conjunction
with some other business. His whole soul
is not wrapped up in the one doliar-and
cent idea. It is chiefly produced for his
own table, or to give pleasure to his
friends. I wish, however, to caution the
reader, if he thinks seriously of getting
bees, to inquire of his locality is adapted
to the production of honey. Not every
prairie farm is an ideal bee paradise. If
1.0 linden grows within a mile or two, and
if whitfe clover is not plentiful enough to
yield a surplus. then two of
the chief sources of white honey
in the north are wanting. Still there
may be an abundance of other flowers for
a few colonies. Spauish-needle, heart’s
eave, the asters, and a great variety of
other wild flowers can be utilized and
made profitable if not too many colonies
are kept in one locality. If a person who
wishes to keep bees has had no experi
ence, he should not buy more than a
colony or two to start with. Spring is
the oest season to purchase. Buy as near
home as possible. Talk with someone
who has made the subject a study. Buy
a good book on bee-keeping, and after a
little, if the subject proves interesting,
subscribe for a bee-paper. You will grow
with the business naturally, furnish your
table with a dainty luxury that takes the
places of sauces, is always acceptable to
company, and at the same time the study
of the subject will prove to be both
pleasant and profitable.
Regularity In Feeding.
Regularity in attention of stock la the
mainspring of most good farmers’ success,
says the Southern Live Slock Journal.
Go to filed the pigs at the same time every
morning, amt th \v will look for you at
that time
Feed iherowsat regular hours in the 1
evening, and they will come home at that |
hour
Fet'd and water the horst sand mulct ;
at the same time morning, noon and
night, and they will look for you as regu
larly as you look for the sun.
Feed regularly, and pigs will not lie
around and get mangy. If there is one
ugly, useless and worthless thing about
the place, it is a ecrubv, mangy pig. They
are lit for nothing. The worst thing a
farmer can do is to feed his hogs, or any
farm stock for that matter, out of time,
lings fed irregularly will not become fat.
They become indolent and lazy. They
seem to be afraid to get away from the
feed trough lest their kce|ter might feed
and they would miss their rations. Feed
ing swine at regular hours during the
day, regulates their digestion aud keeps
them thrifty. Feed them before their
usual hour and they loose their appetite
Feed thorn after their usual hour and
they eat too hurriedly. They do not
masticate their food, ana although their
rations may be increased, they ao not get
the nourishment from it that they get
from a moderate ration at regular hours
A person’s appetite is keen at regular
times during the day provided that per
son enjoys good health, and right then
that person can eat with relish and digest
his food. If a person eat between meals
and at all seasons of the day and night,
that person will never have a good appe
tite, nor a good digestion, and sickness or
disease is likely to follow. The same is
true of stock.
I know a man who feeds his pigs when
ever he goes to his pasture, let it be fifty
times a day. The result is the pigs begin
to squeal the moment they see their
keeper. They run around under his feet
and nearly trip him up in their scramble
to get the first morsel. It is no pleasure
to this friend to show his
swine. He has no control over
them. They will uot stand still
long enough for a visitor to see them. His
pigs are in good order, but they do not
look thrifty. Their hair is not sleek and
their eyes are not bright. Their ears
droop anil their tails hang like a mule's.
Thoy will lie down on your feet and you
can't make them move on. I know an
other farmer and stockman who feeds
rain or shine, at 5 o'clock iu the morning,
turns on pasture the rest of the day and
feeds at 8 o'clock of evening. This man's
hogs are long, trim, bright-eyed, thrifty
fellows. They tire gentle, but they do
not notice their master until the hour
for feeding comes. They know that they
have got to make their living, and all
that the master throws to them is so
much extra made.
Feeding often and irregularly coddles
stock and especially swine. It makes
them dependent instead of independennt.
Thoy seem to feel that their keejx r is on
hand to look out for them and all that
they have to do is to gobble up what no
throws to them.
It is 'an easy matter to niako hogs
lazy just in this way, and the sooner lar
mers and swine breeders realize that reg
ularity in feeding pigs is their main
spring of abundant returns, the more
prosperous will our country be. Feed
reguarly.
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OFFICIAL.
CITY GOVERNMENT.
Official Proceedings of Counoil.
Savannah, Ga., Sept. 19.1898.
An adjourned meeting of council was held
this day, Present, Hon. John J. McDonough,
mayor; Aldermen Bohan, Gann, Dixon, lol
liard. Haines, McMillan, Myers. O’Brien and
Screven.
PETITIONS.
Potltion of P. D. Baffin, calling attention to
danger to his property from theglving wav of
partition wall. Referred to committee on
streets and lanes.
A communication was received from the
board of sanitary commissioners asking city
council to frame an ordina .ee directing phy
sicians to notify the health officer of autop
sies held by them when contagious or infec
tious diseases make said autopsies necessary.
Received for information.
ORDINANCES.
Ordinances on their first reading and by
unanimous consent read a second time and
passed.
By Alderman Cann—
An oHDiNANi:k to require physicians to notify
the health officer of contemplated autopsies
in Certain cases.
Section 1. He it ordained by the mayor and
aldermen of the city of savannah in council
assemr led. That it is hereby made the duty of
physicians holding an autopsy in the city of
savannah for the purpose of ascertaining
whether any death in the city of Savannah
has resulted from any contagious or Infec
tious disease, to notify the health ortleerof the
city of Savannah of t he tin e and place for the
holding of the said autopsy so as to give the
s fid health officer an opportunity to be j r js
ent at the s l I autopsy: and anv physician
failing to comply with this ordinance shall be
subject upon conviction before the police
court of the city of Savannah, to a tine not
exceeding *lO l, or imprisonment not to exceed
thirty days, either or both in the discretion
of tlie court. ,
see. 2. Be it further ordained, That all or
dinances and parts of ordinances in conflict
with t its ordinance are here uy repealed.
By Aidernian Myers—
AN ordinance to provide for thn steeping
ashore of the crews of vessels in the port of.
Savannah.
Section I. Be it ordained by the mayor and
alderman of the city of Savannah in council
assembled ad it Is horoby ordained by au
thority of tue same. That the crews of all ves
sels lying in tne Savannah river from August
Ist to Nov. Ist in every year shall sleep on
shore south of River street, and it is the
duty of the masters of all vessels to see that
this regulation is carried out by their re
spective crews.
ee. U Be it further ordained, 1 hat any per
son or persons violating any of the provisions
of this ordinance shall, on conviction before
the iMdiCiJ court, be lined a s: m not to exceed
one hundred dollars uIJU-OJ) or Imprison
ment not moie than thirty <3oi days, either or
both at the discretion of the officer presiding
in the police court,
Bee. 8. Be it further ordained. That all
ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict
with this be and the same are hereby re
pealed.
uf A derman Dixon—
AN ordinance, to prevent theonglnatlon and
circulation of false or unfounded reports
concerning the existence of yellow fever,
small pox cholera, or other contagious or
Infectious disease, in the city of Savannah.
Section 1. Be it ordained by the mayor and
aldermen of the city of Savannah, in council
assembled. That any person who shall orig
inate or circulate, in any way. in the city of
Savannah anv false, orunfonnded report con
cerning the existence of yellow fever, small
pox cholera, or other contagious or infect ous
disease, in the eltv of Savannah, shall, upon
conviction before the police court of the city
of Savannah e fined In a sum not to exceed
one hundred dollars or imprisoned not to ex
ceed thirty days, either or both In the dis
cretion of the court. , . _
sec 2 Be it further ordained, Tliat all or
dinances and parts of ordinances in conflict
with this ordinance arc hereDy repealed
Council adjourned.
F. E. REBARER.
Clerk of Council.
OITY GOVERNMENT.
Official Procaodinrs of Council.
Savannah, Ga., Sept 27, lwn.
Council met ibis evening at 8 o'clock.
Present. Hon John J McDonough mayor.
Alderman R. B Harris vie* chairman of
council, Aldermen Bohan. Cann. Dixon i-ol
li.Ml Haines McMillan O'Brien and.Nc revco
The minutes of mestiogs held Sept. 11th
and ISth were confirmed
ACOOCgTS.
The committee on accounts report that they
have examined and found correct, la
against the city amounting to *-4 #g7 jg, as psr
OFFICIAL.
accompanying schedule, and recommend that
the same tie passed for payment.
W M. BOHAN,
Acting Chairman Committee on Accounts.
The report of the committee was received
and the accounts, as per schedule annexed,
were passed for payment:
Board or Health—
Mrs. J. L. Mattox % 34 DO
Salaries officers and em
ployes 182 (10
Time of hands HO 00
John U. Butler 162 .V)
Cole Bros 6 00
Constitution Publishing Cos. 26 20
VV. D. Dixon 46 00
W. D. Dixon 22 36
R. J. Dukes 82 80
Ilayncs & Elton 8 M
K. J. Kteller 108 20
Masonic Temple Pharmacy 47 89
L. A McCarthy 1 60
If. V. Nottingham A Co— 60 01
Palmer Hardware Cos 20 85
W. A. Pigman 53 06
W. F. Reid 192 60
W. L. Richardson 39 73
O. T. Shaffer 42 00- *1.216 17
CITY CLOCKS—
Thens Bros 60 00— 80 00
city Court—
W. P. Halley * 600
W. P. Bailey CO 00
W. F. Blots 0 00
Fred Jenke 4 00
J. P. Rogers 4 00— 70 00
Crematories—
Central Railroad and Bank
ing Company 8 221 76
FretwellA Nichols I 10
McDonough A Ballantyne.. 38 40
John McGrath 31 70
Palmer Hardware Company 14 35
Slo.‘s Iron and Steel Com
pany 80 45 387 82
Dry culture—
Time of hands $ 32! 25
Time of hands 180 90
Time of hands 130 01
Time of hands 183 05
Time of hands 118 10
Time of hands 293 50
A. S. Hacon & Son 12 30
Henry Bryan 30 00
John G. Hutler 10 00
Luke Carson 30 00
W. P. Carmichael 100 00
Chatham Machine Bk Wks. 7 33
Haynes & Elton 8 51
W. S. Lawton 125 00
W. B. Mell & Cos 25
McDonough & Cos 88 07
E. W. O'Connor 70 60
T. F. O'Donnell 10 70
Palmer HardwareCo 70 92
W. S. Lawton 125 00— 1,919 09
Fees —
It. C. Kennedy I 150 00— 150 00
Fire department—
Geo. N. Nichols 8 2 00
P. Barrett 2 00
J. O. Butler 190
Dale, Dixon & Cos 20
Mrs. D. Delburg 10 35
C. H. Dixon & Cos 7 00
Fretwcll A Nichols 50
J. F. Furlong 22 88
Haynes & Elton 199 90
Haynes A Elton 1 92
A. Hanley 13 73
D. Hogan 1 43
W. Kehoe A Cos 1 00
McDonough A Cos 2 50
McDonough A Ballantyne . 98
P. McGlashan 78
Mutual Gas Light Company 20 00
Neidlinger A Rabun 5 75
P. O'Connor * 50
T. F. O'Donnell 3 20
Geo. W. Parish 8 75
W. B. Puder 150
W. F. Retd 22 75
Savannah Brewing Cos 15 00
Solomon A Cos 2 06
G. I. Taggart 14 00
D. R. Thomas 14 00
T. A Ward 4 38— 883 92
Harbor and Wharves—
M. Cooley I 20 09
R. C. Kennedy 5 00
Goo. N. Nk hols 3 00— 28 00
Hospitals-
Goorgla Infirmary 8 800 00
Savannah Hospital 300 00
St. Joseph's Infirmary 300 00— 900 00
Incidentals
Denmaik A Adams I 11 60
C. S. Richmond 43 09
Fret well A Nichols 12 46
Lindsay A Morgan 2 00
F K. Rcbarer c 60 flO
C. S Hardee 45 92 174 96
Laurel u nov* ckmxtert--
a. W. Alley 8 63 3*
Fretwell A Nichols !0
P, W. Moon *5 00
Tima of hands 20* 02— 825 46
Market-
John U. Butter....- I 2 90
11 U < aur 7 08
Aiexanuei Doyle * SO
OFFICIAL.
.tames MoLlntav 84 8U
J J Morris IP JS
Mutual Gas Light Cos 99
W F Raid > 7*
Rnbtder A Corbett ........ 28 98
Salaries officers and em
ployes 219 00- *l7 84
O. f'. M DKPARTMBKT—
Time of hands $ 237 63
John G. Butler 4 70
T J Hafts 2 14
j. f. Furlong.. .. 8 00
Haynes A Elton 11l 39
John Jeffrey 80 00
John McGrath 78 fit)
P. O'Connor is 80
W. F. Reid 5 80- 530 58
Opening Strhets
Central R. K A B. Cos 9 8 96
Gn Quincy Granite Cos 41 04 6O 00
I’AHKS AND SqUAItKS—
William lluggan 9 7 50
John G. Butler 13 20
Gustave Riesling 75 00
Palmer Hardware Cos 17 75 118 45
Polio* -
John G. Butler $ I 00
Brush Electrto L. A P. Cos.. 22 04
H Juchter 8 30
Gamewell Fire A. T. Cos 71 :0
Latter 4 Bon 7 II W
W B. McllACo I 85
Mutual lias 1,. Cos s 4S
P. MeGlasliun It 25
W. F. Held 1 75
Fred Schwarz. 22 50
Pay Roll August 4,788 62 4,941 23
I’BTNTING ANI> STATIONERY—
Fretwell A Nichols— $ 7 45
Fretwell A Nichols 22 93
Geo. N, Nichols 14 25
Geo N. Nichols 11 00
Morning News 197 88— 253 51
Public Buildings
Fenton Metallic Manufac
turing Cos 9 50 00— 50 00
CJUAHANTINE —
Dr. W. F. Brunner 9 5 00
M. D. Logan 13 00
John Lyons A Cos 10143
John Rourke A Son 256 00
McDonough A Cos. 294 14 — 888 57
SAl.Altl ns
Officers and employes $2,216 66 2,218 85
Paving—
Warren Seharrf Asphalt
Paving Cos $1,299 87— 1,299 87
SCAVBNGKB DBPAIITMBNT
Time of hands 9 521 61
P. Barrett 8 00
P. Barrett 7 25
E. E. Cheatham 100 00
J. F. Furlong 5 00
A. Hanley 3 00
Haynes A Elton 489 oo
Tom McDonnell 37 85
Mrs. M. Swell 50 00— 1,221 11
STRESTS AND Lanes—
Jan. Rosslter $ 6 00
H. Bartlett 614 28
Jno- G. Butler 14 20
Chatham Machine Brick
Works 37 00
Wm. H. Connerat 13 60
J. F. Emery 4 00
Richard Fogarty 69 75
Jas. F. Furlong 2 50
Andrew Hanley 13 15
Haynes A Elton 256 82
Jno. Jeffreys 18 75
Jno. McGrath 71 25
Neldllnger A Rabun 8 30
Dr. Norton 21 75
T. J. O’Brien 16 00
W. I. O'Brien 40 00
P. O'Connor 55 75
Palmer Hardware Cos 55 67
W. p'. Reid 12 50
Cyrus H. fyteadwell 10 50— 1,841 61
Water Works—
Amos Bourquln 9 600
George W. Allen A Cos 1 50
John P. Butler 2170
Owen Cash 2 70
Owen Cash 75
Central Railroad and Hank
ing Company .. 268 40
Central Railroad and Bank
ing Company 269 48
James F. Furlong 1 90
Monroe Grant 15 25
Andrew Hanley 6 20
Haynes A Elton 8 74
W. B. Moll A Cos 75
McDonough A Cos 43 20
McDonough A Ballantyne. 65 81
John McLean 30 00
Ocean Steamship Company 62
T. J. O’Brien 22 30
T. F. O’Donnell 13 93
Paltrer Hardware Company 18 oi
Pay roll 1,409 10
John O'Rourke A Son 37 63
Savannah Cotton Mills 13 37
Hloss Iron and Steel Com
pany 125 85
Standard Oil Company 25 07
J. D. Weed A Cos 36 82— 2,445 16
Water Works (Nkw>—
P. Rvan ACo 9 99 45
W. H. Converse 300 00
C. O. Anderson, Jr 249 00
W. F. Chaplin 800 oo
W. F. Chaplin 74135
W. F. Chaplin 41 40
Chas. G. Anderson Jr 12 00
Chas. G. Anderson, Jr 25 00
Chas. A. Cox 8 20
Fretwell A Nichols 17 10
L. M. Germany 6 00
Monroe Grant 23 85
Wm . Kehoe A Cos 1,300 oo
Win. Kehoe A Cos 1118
Launey A Goebel 4 65
John Rourke A Son I 68
John Rourke A Son 78 97
J. P. White 1 20
Dale, Dixon A Cos 1,115 28— 4.831 27
Total *25,887 16
reports.
The committee on opening streets, to whom
was referred the application of Rossignol A
Mahn. agents for F. J. Puckert, offering to
sell the city, strip of land lying south of First
street lane north of line of Second street*
east of lot 5 and west of lot 1, Prendegast
ward, report that they do not think the party
has any title or right of any kind to the prop
erty named, and recommend that potltion be
rejected. W. G. Cann,
Acting Chairman Committee on Opening
Streets.
Report adopted.
The committee on finance, to whom was re
ferred the petition of Mary DeLyons, asking
to have amount paid by her to have horse re
leased from pound, refunded, her fence having
been I lown down during recent storm, report
favorably on same. W. G. Cann.
Acting Chairman Committee on Finance.
Report adopted.
The committee on opening streets, to whom
was referred the petition of C. H. Dorsett.
relative to opening East Broad street from
Anderson street to EstlU avenue, report fa
vorably on same. W. G. CANN,
Acting Chairman Committee on Opening
Streets.
Report adopted.
The committee on water, to whom was re
ferred the petition of the Savannah. Florida
and Western Railway Company relative to
difference in MU for coal, report favorably on
same. W. G. Cann,
Chairman Committee on Water.
Report adopted.
The committee on opening streets, to whom
was referred the petition of R. B. Reppard,
offering to sell the city four lots on Drayton
street extended, beg to report that they mads
Mr. Reppard what they considered a very
fair price, but he declined to accept.
W. G. Cann,
Acting Chairman Committee on Opening
Streets.
Report adopted.
The Joint committee on fire and streets and
lanes, to whom was referred the petition of
Gsorge H. Stone, for permission to repair
stoop to house on lot 37 Columbia ward, re
port favorably oo same. W. I. O'Brien,
Chairman Joint Committee.
Report adopted.
The committee on stroets and lanes, to
whom was referred the petition of Dr. B. S.
Purse for permission to make an area for two
steps to house on lot 11 Jackson ward, report
favorably on same W. I. O'Brien,
Chairman Committee on Streets and Lanes.
Report adopted.
The committee on finance, to whom was re
ferred. with power to act. the petition of S. M.
Chesnutt. asking that naval store Inspector’s
license for 1893 be transferred to J. F. Bliss,
beg leave to report that the petition has been
granted. Herman Myrrh.
Chairman Committee on Finance.
Report adopted
The, joint committee on health and cemetery
and finance, to whom was referred the petition
of m y T. Black for remuneration for damage
to house on account of disinfection ordered by
health authorities, report adversely on same.
K. B. Harris.
Chairman Joint Committee.
Report adopted.
The committee on health and cemetery, to
whom was referred the petition of Haven
Home, asking to be relieved from ihe payment
t amount charged for cleaning vaults on lot
25 Marshall ward, report adversely on saxne.
H 8 B. Harris,
Chairman Committee on Health and Ceme
tery
Report adopted.
The committee on health and cemetery, to
whom was referred the petition of Mrs.
Melina Hess asking to tie relieved of the pay
ment of bill for eleaning privy vault, report
ftvorbly on same R 11 Harris.
chairman Committee on Health and ca*t
tery.
Report adopted
[Continued on the (seventh Pag*.)
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