Newspaper Page Text
SEVER SHOT A YANKEE.
Es-Gov. Sayers Relates Some War
Experiences.
Too Much Exploitation of His Deeds
In the New Orleans Papers Made the
Confederate Officer Fear Butler
Would Hang Him—One Time When
He Was Really Frightened-Hard
Fighting With Gen. Canby’s Forces
In the Southwest—Why He Decided
Not to Shoot.
From the Chicago Times.
Kx Gov. Sayers, the new chief of the
appropriation committee, is a short, stout
personage, florid as to face, gray as to
hair and mustache. Gov. Sayers, how
ever, has escaped the bald spot, which is
such a success in the landscape garden
ing. adopted in reference to the heads of
siime other lawmakers.
The governor has had considerable war
experience. The other day, in recounting
some of the accidents which befall tho
soldier, he went on to say:
••The time when I was really frightened
during the war was down in Louisiana.
I was mighty young then. I was full of
ardor and enthusiasm, and was strongly
in for the side of the south. I came up
out of Texas with a company. One day
we captured a battery of six guns. They
were brass, and the most beautiful things
1 think I ever saw in my life, at least I
thought so then. They gave the battery
to me and I was as proud as a boy of a
pair of new boots. I put In most of my
spare time hauling it around and trying
to get into trouble with it. I took two
guns and waded and pushed through the
swamps and iriorasses to the Mississippi.
Here, after considerable lying in wait. I
managed to involve myself with a gun
boat. By a series of fortunate shots 1
sunk the boat.
“Most of her people got away, and af
terward appeared in New Orleans. At
that time Butler had possession. These
people gave a terrific account of their ex
perience, and told what a horrible crea
ture and utterly blood thirsty citizen I
was. They went on to say that I fired
into their gunboat after they had surren
dered. This was not true. I would not
he guiltv of any such outrage anyhow,
and aside from that I didn’t have the am
munition. However, their account of the
fight was published in the New Orleans
papers, then under control of Butler, and
1 was set forth in all sorts of disgraceful
colors in both the headlines and the arti
cles themselves.
GOT REAL TROUBLE AT LAST.
“Some time afterward I got into all the
trouble 1 needed. Even I was satisfied.
We got into a fight one afternoon. There
were about 12,000 men on the confederate
side and perhaps a thousand or two more
oa the federal. I was over on the right
of the battle. I was so successful that I
managed to attract the attention of six
yankee batteries all at once. And the
way they pumped shot and shell into me
certainly made the affair a very thrilling
episode in my career. Just to show you
how hard and close these yankees were
shooting 1 want to say that in forty min
utes they dismounted two of my guns and
killed or wounded at least forty-five of
my sixty-six men. You could plant corn
where my battery stood, it was so plowed
up and harrowed and raked by that can
nonading.
That was the time when I was so
frightened which I referred to in the be
ginning, I was standing near the No. 1
gun. A man by the name of Thompson
was aiding in reloading the piece. He
had Just stepped forward with the ram
mer when a shell tore his breast open,
anil he fell over on the gun like a wet
towel. I ordered another man to the
place, and he got there just in time to
catch a mirmie bullet through his mouth.
It came out back of his ear. This man
afterward got well, however. I ordered
the third man to the place, and something
seemed to reach down out of the atmos
phere—a piece of shell, Ireckon—and hit
him on the top of the head. I then took
the place myself. I had not been there
more than a minute when my leg seemed
to give way and I fell to the ground. I
could not tell what had happened,
though I remember thinking I
must be hurt. I could not
feel anything, and the question of what
was the matter was a mystery. Just at
this time a shot from the yankees blew
up my ammunition wagon. X had 2,000
rounds of ammunition in a big army
wagon about 100 feet to the rear of my
battery. This all went up at once, and it
is no profane expression to say it seemed
to me as if hell had broke loose in my
roar. It was a good thing, however, for
tho thick smoko, heavy as a blanket,
swept down over my battery and covered
it up. The yankees must have thought
they had blown us off the earth, for they
ceased firing. I still lay wondering what
was the matter with me. At last one of
my men came down and pulled me out to
one side.
What’s the matter, captain?’he said.
I don’t know,’ I replied. ‘I reckon
I'm hurt.’
COULDN’T FIND A SCRATCH.
■ He tore open my coat. I had on a
white shirt, and, bar powder stains, it
seemed all right. There was no blood on
it at any rate. I had on high cavalry
' nuts, I lifted up one foot and told him
te puli off the boot. It came off, and
there didn’t seem to be anything the mat
ter.
It was then that I began to get stam-
P' M. j wondered if I had actually
“' ■• lin the sight of two armies. The
t! 1 Perspiration broke out over me as I
reti. rtei that I was certainly disgraced,
aim that the next move would be the res
tgn at ion of my commission and the turn
ing over of my saber. I felt mighty weak
f.h'ut it, but I had one last chance. I
it. >dup my right foot and told him to
l ull off the boot. As I lifted it up about
a quart of blood ran out of it. I never
if.’, so delighted about anything in my
j 1 would not take gold for that
a The bullet had gone clear
Im :gh my ankle, and it makes consid
e> il'le difference with my getting around
ev en now.
I'hat night It started to rain. They
mm taken me into one of the negro shan-
We had been fighting on a sugar
'a!'e plantation, and there was a lot of
:[■' s, ‘ miserable huts scattered about, tnd
had turned them into hospitals for
. , wounded. Our surgeon came around
j*; - : : °ok a look at my leg, then went out
“• hud a pow-wow with another doctor.
" Pen he came back he said:
Joe, 1 11 have to cut your leg off.’ I
'.jsed up in a minute and said:
111 be cashiered if you will. lam
u young to go through life on one leg,
aim l am going to keep it.’
'Veil,’ he said,‘there is no time to
,‘ k 1 will do my best with it and fix it
or you. But we will have to leave
■ i here. We have the worst of it, and
re got to get out to-night, and there is
■ o way to take you.’
i ,course. I vigorously objected to be
. '' ft behind. I began to re me ml at
y “'articles in the Now Orleans papers.
. “I had a terrific opinion of Butler,
had heard that blood was his daily
: ■ and all sorts of stories had come to
his cruelties in New Orleans I had
■ übt that if he ever got hold of me
round out that I was the man who
; * that gunboat, and the hero of all
~ hlo, id -curdling articles, he would
1 ng me up In a minute. I made up my
w,. l " two things right there. They
y ’ re not going to cut my log off, and they
!' '“‘l going to leave me behind for
UUu ' to praciioe on.
PREFERRED MISERY TO BUTLER.
“I told the doctor that he had got to
get one of those sugarcane carts, a nig
ger, and a mule, and after that I would
take care of myself. There were a lot of
these rough, two-wheeled carts around,
and after some time we found a nigger
and a mule who were willing to make the
trip. They hitched up and I was loaded
in. It was dark then and raining, and as
the doctor left me he gave me a bottle of
morphine and showed me how to take it.
That night, and the next day, and tho
next night, I lived on morphine. When I
at last got to Shreveport my ankle was
about as large around as any part of my
body. However, I got well. I went back
to Texas, and after staying awhile I found
I could stand it to sit in a saddle, and I
started out again. Wheii 1 got back to
my battery I got orders about the same
time which took me off with the cam
paign into New Mexico. We loft Texas
with 3,800 men, and to show you what
that campaign meant, what with not
know ing the country and being without
water and food a great deal of the time;
what between fighting Gen. Canby any
time he could And us, or we him, at the
end of nine months we came back into
Texas with less than 900 men.
“Once I remember, we intercepted a
dispatch from Canby, sent from Fort
Craig in to Fort Union. We were about
midway between these places. We cap
tured the courier, and I recall one sen
tence in Canby's dispatch, which was,
after referring to our movement;
“ ‘We will dig the potatoes when they
are ripe.’
“Then I did not clearly realize that we
were the potatoes. Yes, Canby’s men
were great fighters. I remember one
fight in Colorado which we had with
them, and it seems to me now- as 1 look
back at the work they did that he must
have recruited them in hell.
NEVER WOUNDED A TANKEE.
“No, I have no knowledge that I ever
personally even wounded a yankee, let
alone killing him outright. Of course. I
ordered my batteries to fire and death
must have certainly resulted, but person
ally I do not recall an instance when I
ever left my- mark on a man. The only
opportunity I recall was an occasion when
I was carrying a dispatch from one part
of the field to another. When the yankees
went into the battle they threw off their
knapsacks, and they still lay there in a
long windrow which reached for a quar
ter of a mile. The fight had swept away
from this line of knapsacks and blankets,
and while carrying the dispatch I found
myself cantering along this row of war
bric-a-brac. As t was riding alond, a big
yankee suddenly sprang to his feet. He
had been lying among the knapsacks. As
he jumped up he snapped his gun at me.
Ido not suppose it had a cap on it. At
any- event it did not go off. and at that
he threw down the gun and started to
run. I was on a good horse and so easily
rode up to him as he fled. I had my six
shooter in my hand and could have shot
him fifty times. I called on him to halt.
He only ran away the faster. I suppose
for a dozen times as I cantered along—l
was within ten feet of him—l fairly made
up my mind to shoot him. Each time,
however, I reflected that shooting this
one particnlar yankee could not cut any
material figure in the general outcome of
the war, so each time I gave it up. At
last, as long as he would not pay any- at
tention to my orders to halt, and as I
could not bother with prisoners and
didn’t want to shoot him anyhow, and my
dispatches to deliver besides, I told him
to run on ; that he was headed north any
how and it was all right. I then turned
my' horse off to the left and went on with
my dispatches.”
“And didn’t you shoot him?” inquired
the governor’s wife, who was listening
with rapt attention.
“No,” said the governor, with a quiet
laugh, “I let him go. And as he seemed
to be as young as 1 was I reckon may bo
he is living yet.”
“I am so glad you didn’t shoot him,
Joe,” replied his wife, with a sigh of evi
dent relief. -‘I thought for awhile you
had killed him.”
Safety From a Periodic Scourge.
Do you want to be insured, dweller In a ma
larious region, against the periodical scourge
which threatens to assail you in the form of
chills and fever or some of the forms of
miasma-born disease? It goes without say
ing. that you do. Then. Instead of using
quinine or other alkaloid and mineral drugs,
which merely relieve and are always detri
mental to general health, seek aid where it is
always forthcoming—from the thorough pre
ventive and remedy, Hostetter’s Stomach
Bitters, which, in regions where malaria is far
more violent and prevalent than it is on this
continent. eradUates it completely from the
system. Biliousness, dyspepsia, constipation,
kidney and nervous complaints, neuralgia
and rheumatism are among the maladies to
which the national tonic and corrective is
adapted. Physicians everywhere know its
genuine worth.—ad.
THE ANTICS OF A LIVE LOBSTER.
It Makes Annie Ward Tiffany Indig
nant and Claws Her.
From the Philadelphia Record.
New Haven, Conn., Oct. 9.—Annie
Ward Tiffany and her company were pas
sengers on the 4 o’clock express from New
York yesterday afternoon. Miss Tiffany
and the ladies of the company were
seated in the center of the car. Just be
hind Miss Tiffany was a mild-looking
young man with a basket, which 1 looked
as if it might contain fruit.
Soon after the train started Miss Tif
fany was seen to give the youth rather
indignant looks and later she called one
of the gentlemen of the company and
whispered to him. He at once, spoke to
the .mild-looking young man and re
quested him to keep his feet to himself.
A blank look came over the mild-iook
ing youth’s face, and he demanded an ex
planation. Just then Miss May Warren
jumped up and left her seat hurriedly,
and little Jessie Bertram gave a scream
and said something had bitten her foot
off.
The mild youth then examined his bas
ket and it was empty. A further search
discovered in a corner, under the water
cooler, a large live lobster with a piece of
shoe string in one claw and a piece of silk
hose in the other.
The mild youth explained that he was
taking the lobster home with him, and
that it bad escaped from the basket.
The Yellow Jacket Skirt Dance.
From the Chicago Herald.
Oakland, 111., Sept. 23.—Shep Florer’s
sorghum factory, live miles west of this
city, is daily visited by people who desire
to see his new process of making sor
ghum. Around tne cane of all factories
are yellow jackets which swarm in the
storeroom of ttie factory to suck the mo
lasses that falls on the floor.
This morning among the visitors to the
factory was Miss Lida Evans of near
Hindsboro, and Misses Eunice Zellar and
Ethel Moore, who are attending St.
Mary’s College, but were ou a visit to
Miss Evans. They had not walked live
feet until one of the girls stepped on some
yellow jackets and they resented by
stinging the girl. She was nearly frantic,
and attempted to get rid of them by
grabbing her dress and lifting it up and
down in a rapid manner. The other
girls rushed to her rescue, but it was not
more thau a minute until they, too, were
engaged in dancing around and lifting
their skirts up and down in a manner that
would have disconcerted any professional
skirt dancer, all the time screaming at
the top of their voices. Hearing the
screams the hands who were working iu
the upper part of the factory started to
go to the storeroom, but Mr I lorer met
them half way and drove the gang back
Florer then returned to the storeroom,
where the girls were still continuing
their impromptu dance, and bustled them
out of door*.
THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1803.
Official Record for the Morning News.
Local forecast for Savannah and vicinity
till midnight. Oct. 13. 1893: Rata, followed
by clearing Friday; cooler Friday night; high
winds and north to northeast gales along the
coast, moderating Friday; winds becoming
westerly.
Official forecast for Georgia: Heavy rain
dn the coast, rain followed by fair In the In
terior; northeast backing to northwest gales.
Comparison of mean temperature at Savan
nah. Oh., on Oct. 12. 1893. with the normal
for the dayj
Departure Total
Temperatcrb. from the departure
-i normal. since
Normal. Mean. -|-or Jan 1,1893.
69 67 —2 -87
Comparative rainfall statement:
'Departure Total
Amount from the departure
Normal. for normal lDOt)
Oct. 12, '93 -|-or Jan. 1,1K93.
.13 1.51 | 1.38 -1-9.34
Maximum tomperature, 88°; minimum tem
perature. 66°.
The height of the Savannah river at Au
gusta at Ba. m. (75th Meridian time) yester
day was 6.3 feet, a fall of 0.1 feet during the
preceding twenty-four hours.
The Cotton Bulletin for 24 hours ending 6
p. in.. Oct. 12, 1893, 75th Meridian time.
Districts. Average.
names Mox ’ Mln - Rnln '
NAMES. sta Tem Teln {all
Atlanta. 10 56 T
Augusta 11 76 58 08
Charleston, 4 74 66 . 75
Galveston 20 80 52 . 00
Little Rook 12 70 48 .15
Memphis 12 76 50 .15
Mobile 10 82 52 00
Montgomery 7 80 54 .00
New Orleans 11 78 60 .00
Savannah 13 76 63 .18
Vickburg 7 80 58 . 00
Wilmington. 10 72 00 _O7
stations or Max. Mln. Kaln
savannah district Tem. Tem. fall.
Albany 76 60 . 00
Alapaha 78 64 .04
Americus 78 00 . 00
Balnbrldge 80 60 . 00
Cordele. 78 62 . 00
Eastman 76 62 . 00
Fort Gaines 80 54 . 00
Gainesville, Fla... 74 66 . 50
MlUen , 74 64 . 32
Quitman 78 64 . 00
Savannah 63 66 .88
Thomasville 76 64 . 00
Waycross 76 66 59
Observations taken at the same moment of
timeat ail stations for the Morning News:
Savannah. Oct. 12. 8 p. m.. city time.
Rainfall
-i Velocity...
a
£ Direction..
Temperature..
NAME
OF
Stations.
Boston 58 SW 12 .00 Clear
New York city... 60 S 6 .00 Clear
Philadelphia 60 S B 8 00 Pt ly cloudy
Washington city. 62 N E 0 Oo Cloudy
Norfolk... 66 E 12 00 Ptly cloudy
Hatteras 74 E 20 .00 Cloudy
Wilmington 70 NE 24 .22 Raining
Charlotte 64 NE 18 T Raining
Charleston 70 N E|4B 1.80 Raining
Atlanta 60'NElo .00 Cloudy
Augusta 66 N E io .18 Raining
SAVANNAH 67 N E 36 1.51 Heavy rain
Jacksonville 68 NW 30 1.96 Raining
Titusville 1
Jupiter
Key West Linesd’n
Tampa
Pensacola
Mobile 74 NW L .00 Clear
Montgomery 74 N E 6 .00 Pt’ly cloudy
Meridian 64 NW 6 .00 Cloudy
Vicksburg 60 NW 8 .00 Clear
New Orleans 72 NW 12 OO Clear
Fort Smith 50 NW 6 ooj Cloudy
Galveston 72 N 20 OOClear
Corpus Cnrls.l... 74 NW L OO Clear
Palestine 64 NW L OOClear
Memphis 50 W 8 ,16iClear
Nashville 74 S 8 .00 Pt'iv cloudy
Knoxville 66 N E 6 .OOiClear
Indianapolis 74 E 6 OO Clear
Cincinnati 72 E 6 OOClear
Pittsburg 68 a E 10 .OOiClear
Buffalo 72 S E 8 OOiClear
Cleveland 72 SE 12 OO Clear
Detroit 60 S E 8 OO Clear
Chicago 52 NE 24 .00 1 Foggy
Marquette 42 N 6 OOCloudy
St. Paul 50 NW L OO Cloudy
Davenport 60 N 10 T Clear
St. Louis 52 W 18 I.lß|Rainlng
KansasClty 50 N 6 06jCloudy
Omaha 54 NW L OOiClear
North Platte 86 S 6 OOiClear
DodgeClty 54 NE L OOjClear
Bismarck 48 W L T (Cloudy
P. H. Smyth,
Observer Weather Bureau.
Why Mr. Ainsworth Left Jesup.
Editor Morning News: The News is
usually fair and accurate in its state
ments ; but in your mention of the Jesup
ministers you do a grave injustice to at
least one. Rev. J. T. Ainsworth is the
pastor of the Methodist church there.
His wife is in very feeble health, and
when yellow fever was declared to be
there his physician urged him to remove
his family. This he did by taking them
about five miles from Jesup. He immedi
ately returned to Jesup; but while he was
out the quarantine orders were issued,
and the officers positively prohibited his
entering town again. His appeals
were of no avail, and he was thus
cut off from his flock. He was never
known to shirk a duty and any imputa
tion as to his leaving his post to avoid
danger is a most grievous wrong to a
brave, courageous and conscientious man,
and a devout and zealous Christian. What
ever other ministers did he was not re
creant to duty; and notwithstanding his
exclusion from his charge, he has spent
his time ministering to and comforting
his scattered and distressed fellow-citi
zens who are exiles from home. I trust
you will do him the Justice to exonerate
him from all unjust charges for leaving
Jesup. Very truly.
Ben McLendon.
Thomasville, Ga., Oct. 11.
A Cigar Factory to Move.
Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. 12.—The ElPer
fecto cigar factory in this city, which em
ploys fifty odd workmen, moves to Pa
latica next week to avail itself of a flat
tering offer on the part of that city’s cit
izens.
Gus de Smith—The days are getting shorter.
Dudely Canesucker —1 should say so. I get
up about 11 and have breakfast, and then I
have hardly time to play a few games of bil
liards before I have to dwess for dinner. It Is
a bwore. a bweastiy bwore, doncher know. -
Texas Siftings.
Perfect Baby Health
ought to
years to
come. When we see in children
tendencies to weakness, we know
they are missing the life of food
taken. This loss is overcome by
Scott’s Emulsion i
of Cod Liver Oil, with Hypophos
phites, a fat-food that builds up
appetite and produces flesh at a
rate that appears magical.
Almost as palatable as milk.
WOODBURY’S FACIAL SOAP
For the Skin. Scalp and Complexion.
The result of 20 years' experience treating
the Skin A book on Dermatology with each
cake. All druggists. Also Woodbury's An
tiseptic Shaving Sticks and Bars, Hair tonic,
and clean Skin treatment.
TALLAHASSEE TOPICB.
A Warning to Delinquent Taxpayers.
Notes About the People.
Tallahassee, Fla., Oct. 12.—Persons
whose taxes were certified to the state
for non-payment of tlie taxes for 1892,
and who have not redeemed tho same,
should do so at once, if they wish to avoid
the payment of the heavy penalty pro
scribed by the old law.
Chapter 4011, Laws of 1891, is still in
force, as far as the delinquent tax list
of 1892 is concerned, and it is made the
duty of the controller to publish said
list. This publication will be made on
Jan. 1 next, and all who desire to
escape the payment into the state treas
ury of the penalty of $2 on each certifi
cate, should take notice and govern
themselves accordingly.
Mrs. Henrietta Ora Ames died at her
residence on the 9th, aged about seventy
years.
Col. John S. Winthrop and his son,
Master Gilman, have gone to the Colum
bian exposition.
Contractor A. J. Fish is building a sub
stantial two-story brick store for George
H. Meginniss, 30x72 feet, fronting on Mc-
Carty street.
Dr. Theo. West of Marianna and W. L.
Diggins and P. T. Murphy of Jacksonville
are among the visitors to tho capital
city.
Mrs. W. D. WUsod came home this
week, accompanied by Mrs. Eleanor Bush
of Augusta, Ga., who will bo her guest
during the winter.
Hon. William A. Rawls, state chemist,
has returned from Chicago, where he
went to attend the congress of argricul
tural chemists.
Hon. S. J. Turnbull of Monticello came
to the capital yesterday.
Master John L Adams of' Wakulla and
Master William C. Bolton of Columbia,
S. C., entered the Seminary West of tlie
Suwannee on the 9th.
Mrs. C. C. Pearce and her daughter,
Miss Bessie, are home after an absence of
two years, during which Miss Bessie was
going to school at Edgehill, Va.
Coil. L. E. Roberson of Jasper, state at
torney for the fourth circuit, was at the
capital Monday.
Miss Lena Burkhardt has returned
from a summer outing on Long Island,
N. Y.
E. W. Clark and Miss Minnie Clark
have returned from New York, Chicago
and other points north and west.
I. Marcus came home this week from a
six weeks’ journey north and west, tak
ing in the world's fair in the meantime.
Miss Annie Roberts leaves this week
for Birmingham, Ala., where she will
take a course in the Southern Fomalo
University.
Col. T. A. Thompson, a prominent lum
berman of Saginaw, Mich., is at the St.
James.
Miss Edna Oliver returned to Nash
ville, Tenn., this week, where she will re
sume her studies in the Peabody Insti
tute.
As much has been said about that SSOO
Gov. Mitchell sent to the governor of
Alabama for the benefit of the Pensacola
refugees, perhaps it will be interesting to
the public to know that Gov. Jones nas
returned $464 90 and accepted vouchers
for the remaining $35 10.
Leon county nas been fortunate in
having competent and faithful county
commissioners for many years. Just as
soon as it was possible after the demo
crats came into power they began to out
down general expenses and reduce taxes,
and they are keeping it up year after year.
In 1889 the county tax rate was 15 V mills,
but for 1893 it was only 7 mills. In 1889
the valuation of property was $2,069,828
33, and the county taxes assessed $33,-
440 78, for 1893 tho valuation is $3,069,995
and the taxes $16,047 09, making a reduc
tion in county taxes within five years of
$17,398 69.
W. N. Shine, editor of tho Floridian, is
making a personal canvass of the city for
the Brunswick yellow fever sufferers, and
the ladies will probably give a festival
next week for the same worthy cause.
Councilman F. C. Gilmore is home from
a trip “down east” as for as the “Hub.”
State
or
Weather.
A PASTOR EXPLAINS.
Rev. Ainsworth Had no Intention of
Fleeing From Jesup.
Jesup. Ga., Oct. 12.—Editor Morning
News: I notice in the Mornino News,
statmentscondemning the Jusup preach
ers for leaving the people in their distress,
and as lam the only white preacher
living in Jesup, I wish to make an expla
nation and thereby correct any false im
pressions that may have bean made.
When the yellow fever was declared in
Jesup 1 was at Johnston station, where I
had gone to fill my appointment, and
could not reach home until Monday
noon. I never entertained an idea of
leaving the place, but Intmded to remain
and do everything in my power for the
people, but on Tuesday Surgeon Murray
returned to Jesup and declared several
new cases of yellow fever, assuring the
people that the disease was assuming the
form of an epidemic.
My family had intended to remain in
the place, but as the situation grew more
alarming I considered it my duty, in view
of my wife’s foeble health, to get them
away if possible.
I went to tho mayor, who assured me
that the only chance was to send them to
the country at once, as no one was then
allowed to leave on trains. I did every
thing in m.y power to get a conveyance to
take them to the house of a friend five
miles in the country, but there being no
livery stables in Jesup and but few teams,
I found it impossible to procure any kind
of conveyance until just before night, a
merchant kindly let me have his delivery
wagon, and I was compelled to drive it
myself.
I was sick snd not able to return for
several days, but soon as possible I went
back to the guards and pleaded for ad
mittance. I sent for the mayor, who
knew my intentions to return, and he
assured me that he had done all he could
to get mo back, but the government
officers remained immovable, and there
was no chance to get in. My earnest de
sire is to be with m.v people and to minis
ter to them in their affliction. I have
tried to discharge my duty fully, and hope
you will publish these facts in my Justiflca- !
tion. J. T. Ainkwortu,
Pastor M. E. Church, Jesup, Ga.
A FATAL BLOW IN THE RING.
Rag Jim of Jacksonville Dies From
Lockjaw After a Fight.
Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. 12.—“ Rag Jim," I
died to-day from a blow received In a
boxing match a few weeks ago. The af
fair was largely attended by the sport
ing element. Jim went into: a six-round
imut with a smaller and very black man.
The fight seemed to be all Jim s way and
he danced around his man and laughed
at his futile attempts to hit him. Finally
the black man did land on Jim’s jaw and
Jim spit out two teeth For two weens
Jim has ridden on his rag cart with his
Jaw bandaged People who saw him
wondered why he did not utter
that weird and Inimitable cry, “Hags rags,
l buy rags, J buy rags,” that more rosern
bled the scream of a water turkey t han
of a human being la.ter on Jim sot
worse, and two or three days ago lockjaw
set la and lot died tbia mondag. ,
THE CURRENCY QUESTION.
Make the Government Furnish a
Market For State Bonds.
Editor Morning News: Many are tho
suggestions offered now for tho solution
of our financial troubles. But I have soeu
none which, to my mind, meets the emer
gencies of the present, or anticipates sim
ilar troubles which tho future may de
velop.
I have a suggestion which I think
worthy of consideration, which will not
only relieve the present financial strin
gency, but will furnish us a flexible cur
rency which will expand and contract ac
cording to the growth, necessities and
convenience of our progressive republic.
In the first place, a safe currency must
be based on a solid and tangible founda
tion in order to inspire universal confi
dence, In the next place, a country of
such vast proportions as ours, where the
agricultural and mining districts are
spread out so remotely from the great
centers of finance and imputation and the
transmission of money is correspondingly
slow, must have a larger circulating me
dium than a nation limited in territory
and compactly crowded, as Germany,
France or England. My idea of meeting
these requirements is simple and, at
least, plausible.
A large amount of our circulating me
dium is based on the bonded indebtedness
of the United States. This is considered
a safe and sound currency and moets all
the demands of trade and commerce in so
far as its present volume will allow.
The forty-four states of the union have
a total bonded indebtedness of $224,000,-
000 on which they pay an annual interest
of $10,000,000.
My proposition is for the state govern
ments to execute bonds to the amount of
their respective indebtedness to the
United States government, which shall
bear 1 per cent, interest per annum, and
that they call in every dollar poss Ale of
the bonds and pay thorn in national cur
rency received for the bonds.
The states have a right to settle their
bonds except where time stipulations are
expressly made, and in these instances,
arrangements may bo made to prepay
most of the bonds not yet due.
Tho currency thus Issued will be as
good as our national hank notes which
are secured by United States bonds. This
will increase our circulation to a very
large amount, which will of necessity
seek employment in tho legitimate chan
nels of trade. Besides this, It will save
the states over $7,000,000 per annum in
interest, will add approximately $2,000,000
per annum to our national revenues, all
of which is now annually taxed from our
people.
I do not believe that any private citizen
or corporation should be allowed to hold
any state, county or municipal bond.
All money should be issued by the gen
eral government, and never a cent by
private corporations. Instead of these
bonds being hawked on the market to bo
sold to whoever would buy, they should
always be hypothecated with the general
government at their face value at a nomi
nal interest. The saving in interest
alone to tax payers would be appalling in
itsproportions.
Then too, there are, no doubt, millions
of dollars of bonds now issued by corrupt
officials to furnish a safe and paying in
vestment to friends who are seeking se
curities of this character.
I also believe that every possible dollnr
of county and municipal bonds should be
called in and redeemed in the same man
ner by hypothecating them with tho gen
eral government..
if the government supplies the money,
I know of no rule of political economy or
law of equity why it should necessarily
have to go through the hands of finan
cial agents, brokers, or other corpora
tions before it reaches the people, for
whose sole and exclusive benefit it is in
tended.
There is now too little money in ex
istence, and our present system of distri
bution puts it so far from tho people that
it becomes a commodity instead of a me
dium of exchange which it is intended
to be.
The currency issued by tho government
under this system will not be a local
scrip. It will be a national currency,
equally available in all states and will
bear no local stamp or signature.
No state, county or city should be
loaned more than.a fixed and limited per
centage of the amount of its taxable prop
erty.
This arrangement will forever throttle
the congestion of money at the great
trade centers.
These bonds can be redeemed by the re
turn of the currency notes at any time
and interest stopped, but the government
can demand the interest in coin. This
will enable us to keep up our national
coin reserve and will tend to hoard our
gold in our national treasury, where it is
always available for the settlement of in
ternational trade balances; and every
community will contribute its quota in
this way toward stocking our treasury
with coin, so as toobviatethe future issue
of United States bonds to replenish our
depleted coffers.
There is ample opportunity for tho
moneyed man to employ his capital in min
ing, manufacturing and a multitude of in
dustries other than speculating upon the
public credit.
However wealthy or hODCsta man may
be, he has no moral right to “bull” or
“bear” the public credit for gain; for
it is ueither patriotic in the citizen nor
safe for the people at large to permit It
It may be argued that the plan is not
feasible, as it would be impracticable to
secure the co-operation of the forty-four
states. If congress will offer the oppor-'
tunity to each and all the states there aro
none which would not endeavor to refund
their debts and reduce their interest ac
counts. There would be uone to offer
their bonds in the open markets in future,
and it would enable those whoso papers
are falling due to redeem them without
discounting new obligations in a stringent
money market and entailing a heavy in
terest-bearing liability upon their posteri
ty. Ben McLendon.
Thomasville, Ga.
The
Naked
Eye
Can’t detect the microbes of disease,
and yet they exist by the million.
They permeate the system, pollute
the (flood and poison the vital organs.
Disease is the inevitable result.
RADAM’S
MICROBE KILLER
destroys every specie of microtie and
cure* every form of disease. It’s the
Latest and greatest discovery of sci
ence. No matter what form of dis
ease yon are suffering with it will
pey you to investigate. A 50-page
book of valuable information free.
The Wm. hadam Microbe Killer Cos.,
7 1-aUgktSL, tw lark CUy.
Aosst ran has as asm
SOLOMON A CO.
HOUSE FURNISHINGS.
BICYCLES AND REPAIRS.
Riding Season is Here.
Bicycles Want Overhauling
We have a first-class man sent to us by the Raleigh
Bicycle Company, and they write us no better can be
had. We do not keep him to make money off his services,
but simply as a matter of accommodation. We will do
your repairing 25 per cent, less than any one else can
afford to do it. All kinds of repairing done, no matter
how difficult.
The racing season is also on, so get in trim and let
us mount you on a first-class machine of our own pick
ing. Zimmerman, Wheeler, Banker, Bliss, Windier and
other celebrities will be here, and you will have to train
hard and ride fast to do it, and you can do so on either of
the following good wheels: COLUMBIA, RALEIGH,
PREMIER, or if these do not suit you let us know what
you want and we will get it for you.
LINDSAY&MORGAN
HEADQUARTERS FOR
Furniture, Carpets and Bicycles!
MACHINERY. CASTINGS. ETC.
kirrw^woßKs;
WM. KEHOE G* CO.,
Founders, Engineers, Machinists,
Boilermakers and Blacksmiths.
All kinds of repair work promptly done. Great reduc
tion in prices of
SUGAR MILLS AND PANS.
Estimates promptly furnished. Broughton street, from
Reynolds to Randolph sts. Telephone 268, Savannah, Ga.
GENTS’ FUHNISHING GOODS.
FALLBTYLEB READyT
WiAKEfUEUD
27 BULL STREET.
g- !'J.I 11 . 111 ■■■'■"■J" ■ J. . "Li 1 'J 1 - ", ■- .Jlg'J.F'J-l"" U— l J.JJL-L
WILUNERY^
GRAND OPENING
/\qp
KrouskofFs
TO-DAY.
MINERAL WATER*
LIVINGSTON'S PHARMACY.
u&wfit ucT
FINE CONFECTIONS.
HARmb A LITHIA X WJpifER.
SOLE AGENT
A Few Pain Hawk's Spectacles and other $2 50 goods now sailing at 75c per pair.
LIVINGSTONE PHARMACY, ’Phone 293. Congress A Bull Sts.
so - p W q ß|(9
THE SAVANWAN SOAP CO.
will uirr.
A Handsome Album of the Columbian Exposition
—ro>
mt.nr.Mi n> r Tur in omi't
189 BAY Si- 1 *
5
SOLE WENT