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TO PLEAD SELF-DEFENSE.
Williams Tells His Story of the Rill
ins* of Eliza Martin.
Ha Says the Woman Drew a Pistol
and Threatened to Shoot Him and
He Killed Her—Williams’ Wander
ing’s After the Murder-He Was
▲round Savannah Some Time and
Then Went to South Carolina and
Finally to Augusta.
Lawrence Williams, the slayer of Eliza
Martin, colored, in Savannah, on Dec. 8
last, is now behind the bars of Chatham
county jail. He arrived from Augusta
last night in charge of Detective Morgan.
The train was late, and it was after 8
o'clock when Detective Morgan arrived
at the jail with his prisoner. A Mousing
News reporter was in waiting when he
arrived. It is a rule at the jail that no
newspaper reporter shall bo allowed to
talk with a prisoner, unless the latter has
lirst stated his willingness to see him.
When Jailer Kinchley informed Will
iams that a Morning News reporter was
there and inquired if he wished to see
him. Williams replied very readily in the
affirmative. He is a tall, slender young
fellow, with blue eyes and dark auburn
hair. and is not the hard
looking customer he has been
pictured to be He has a slight growth of
beard at the chin, which appears to be re
cent. He had a downcast appearance,
but talked in a calm and unconcerned
manner. He was cautious and reserved
in his statements and appeared to desire
not to say anything that might prejudice
his case.
NOT ALL TRtTB.
“All these statements which have been
published in Augusta as coining from
me,” he said, "are not true. I aid not
say’ all the things that they rei>orted I
said. I had a short talk with a reporter
there, in which 1 acknowledged the kill
ing, but that was all."
Williams then made a statement of the
killing and the incidents that led up to it,
but not a very clear one. "This woman,”
he said, “had been dogging me
for months and worrying the life
out of me. I did not like her
and I don’t know how 1 came to get
mixed up with her. I had boon intimate
with her about a year and a half. She
was verv jealous and was continually
worrying me about other women and
making threats against me if I did not
stop going with them. She would come
up to me on the streets, and one day al
most pulled me off the street car on
which I was running. This caused me
to resign my position witli the railway
company, and I determined to leave the
city to get rid of her.”
SAYS HE WASN'T DRINKtNG.
It is not true that I was drinking or
that I made any threats against her, the
day I killed her. I had made threats
against her before in tho hope of frighten
ing her off. J had been around her house
more or less that day. When I went
there that evening she attacked
roe about having been somewhere else. I
denied it, and she got mad and drew a
pistol out of her stocking. I thought she
was about to shoot me and drew a knife
which I always carried with me and at
tacked her.’’
“I don't know how many times I struck
her or whore I struck her,” continued
Williams. ”1 left her in the room.
She dropped her pistol on the
floor when 1 attacked her and
I picked it up and carried it away with
me. It was a 3S-ealiber Richards & Car
rington revolver, and was the one found
on me when i surrendered to the police in
Augusta. When I examined it after I got
QUt of town 1 found that it had only three
cartridges in it."
•‘Whore did you go after leaving the
house?” Williams was asked.
"I went right out home after leaving
the house,” he replied. ‘‘l got 1 10 from
my mother, and only remained there a
few minutes. 1 started to go to
Charleston, and walked out to
Monteith, where I camped for
the night. The next morning 1 read the
account of the killing in the Morning
News, and stayed at Montioth until Sun
day night, wheu I came back to Savannah
on the Charleston and Savannah railroad.
I got here about !i o'clock iu the morning,
and walked all over the town, but met no
one I knew. 1 then went out home, where
1 remained until Tuesday night, when I
left, going to Spartanburg, S. C., w here I
spent most of the time.’’
WENT TO AUGUSTA.
“Were you in Augusta at any time be
fore you gave yourself up?” he was asked.
"1 was there for a short while, only one
day.” he replied.
“Did you go to Martha Martin’s house
in Augusta and shoot into the door be
cause she would not let you in?"
“No, I was not in Augusta w hen that
shooting was said to have taken place.”
“Where else did you go after leaving
Savannah ?”
"I went to Charleston once. I went
where I pleased, and traveled about on
the trains in open daylight. 1 did not try
to conceal myself. No one ever molested
me. aud I never heard of any officers or
detectives being after me. They did not
trouble me at all.”
“What made you give yourself up?’’
Williams was asked.
“1 thought it would bo the best thing to
do.” he said. “I wanted to have mv trial
and have it over with.”
From the manner in which Williams
spoke, he does not appear to have any
great apprehension as to the results of
his trial.
WII.L MAKE A DEFENSE.
,l l shall get a lawyer,” lie said, "and
make as good a defense as possible. I
thought tile woman was going to shoot
me when 1 attacked her, and I acted in
self-defense. ”
■Williams said that he will not bo 20
years old until next September.
“I was born at Monteith near Savan
nah. in 1574," he said, “and have lived in
and near Savannah all ray life. I did car
penter work for a while until I got a
place on the Belt Line road. 1 worked there
until the strike last summer when 1 quit,
but afterwards went back to work. I
worked for the Electric railway for a
while after it bought the Belt Lino, but
quit because I had to go to work
at 4 o’clock in tho morning. I afterwards
got Mr. McFarland to put me back on. but
resigned a month before the killing, as I
intended to leave Savannah to get away
from that woman,” and Williams' state
ment last night is very similar to that pub
lished in the Augusta Herald of Saturday,
but, does not tally in all particulars
He is quoted as follows: “On the day
of the killing, Dec tsth, about 4 o'clock
in the afternoon, Eliza and I had a quar
rel. 1 then made up ray mind that I
would kill her. I stayed in tho house un
til about n o'clock and then taking
up a butcher knife that I carried
with mo, I walked up to her right side
while she was sitting on a chair 1 then
stabbed her iu the right breast, then in
the right side, aud the third blow must
have been as low down as the hip, and 1
struck with such force that the knife
must have penetrated a bone, for I was
unable to pull it out after making every
effort. She, in the meantime ran out,
pulling the door to I flrst went
to my mother's house in Sa
vannah and then went to a
station a little ways up the road, where I
read the account of the killing in the
Mousing New- the next morning. Then
1 returned to Savannah aud stayed there
four days. Since that day I have tH>en in
Charleston, buck to Savuuuah, iu Au
gusta twice and to Spartanburg and
North Carolina. From the latter place I
came to Augusta, where I surrendered
last night,”
He is also quoted as saying that he
wgnt to Martha Martin's house in
Aug-usta but did not try to kill her.
An indictment was found against Will
iams by the grand jury last month and
his trial will probably be set for the
March term of the supreme court.
COL. WAY’S RESIDENCE BURNED.
His House and Furniture at Beaulieu
Totally Destroyed.
The residence of Col. Charlton 11. Way,
at Beaulieu, burned at 5:3d o’clock yes
terday afternoon. It was still burning
when the Montgomery train left for Sa-’
vannah at 6 o’clock.
Col. and Mrs. Way have been spending
their winter partly in the cit.vand partly
at Beaulieu. They went out Saturday
afternoon and were there when the fire
occurred. The residence was one of the
handsomest on the salts. It was built
about eighteen or twenty years ago and
cost in the neighborhood of #13,000. It
was handsomely furnished, the furniture
including many rare pieces.
Col. Way had collected many valuable
pictures and works of art, all of which it
is supposed were burned.
The loss, in event the house and its con
tents were destroved. is estimated at be
tween #IO,OOO and $’30,000.
From the rapidity with which the house
burned it is not likely that anything was
saved. It was said by a gentleman at
Montgomery that there was a fair in
surance on the house and furniture, but
nothing could be definitely learned before
the traiu left.
The news of the fire was brought to the
city by the passengers on the incoming
Montgomery train, which left there at 0
o’clock. A number of gentlemen who
were at Montgomery, were about to go
over to Beaulieu to see if they could assist
in suving Col. Olmstead's house on the
lot adjoining Col. Way's, but a messenger
from Beaulieu brought word that it was
not in danger unless the wind shifted,
which was unlikely, and the passengers
came on to the city.
Col. Olmstead’s house is a short distance
north of Col. Way’s.
Col. Olmstead was notified of the fire
on the arrival of tha Montgomery train,
but could do nothing. The railroad em
ployes offered to bring the gentlemen who
volunteered to assist in guarding Col.
Olmstead’s house into the city at a late
hour if there was any danger to the
house, but they considered it useless
when the messenger arrived at Mont
gomery stating that there was no danger.
This is the second fire from which Col.
Way hus suffered during the last year.
Early in the summer or spring his house
and furniture were damaged by a fire
caused by the explosion of a lamp.
A COLD WAVE HERE.
Colder Weather Not a Prediction, But
an Actual Fact This Time.
There is no doubt whatever about it this
time, the cold wave is actually here. Ob
server Smyth received orders from Wash
ington yesterday morning to hoist the
cold weather signal as the temperature
would fall 20° or more by this
morning. The fact that the wave was
moving in this direction was fully estab
lished last night, as the temperature had
fallen some 15° or 30°.
The temperature yesterday afternoon
at 4 o'clock was (SSL At that, time it
started rapidly down the tube, and by 8
o'clock it stood at 4°, a fall of 22° in four
hours At 10 o'clock it stood at 41°, and
was still gradually falling, “with a good
prospect,” says Observer Smyth, "of
reaching freezing point this morning.”
The center of the cold wave last night
was in Texas, with strong indications
that its crest would move eastward over
the Gulf states, causing continued
cold weather in this section Mon
day and Monday night. Brisk to
high winds are reported along the
Atlantic ssaboard and Gulf coast. The
maximum velocity of the wind at Hat
teras yesterday was forty-two miles per
hour, which was quite a strong gale. The
maximum velocity reached in Savannah
was thirty miles per hour.
The information signal was ordered
changed in the afternoon to storm north
west signals, and tho gale blowing im
mediately along the coast was what a
sailor might term a pretty swift nor’wes
ter The cold weather promises to bo of
longer duration than any of the winter.
SAYS PENSION THEM.
A Plea in Behalf of the Veterans of
the Folkston Campaign.
A well-known citizen of southwest
Georgia has facetiously put forward a
proposition which ho hopes will meet
with popular favor. He says he wants a
bill introduced in the next legislature
providing pensions for the veterans of tho
Folkston campaign, and he will urge
upon the senator and representatives
from his district the importance of intro
ducing such a bill. He says he has no
doubt but it will find many warm advo
cates both in the House and Senate. Ho
thinks they did noble work in keeping the
Corbett-Mitchell fight out of Georgia,
and he believes the move will meet with
popular favor.
Funeral of Mr. I. Dasher.
Tho funeral of the late I. Dasher took
place at the family residence, at Barnard
and Gaston streets, at 3 o’clock yesterday
! afternoon. Rev. Dr. Dripps, pastor of
i the Independent Presbyterian church,
read the funeral services. The floral
I offerings were numerous. The Savannah
Cadets, in citizen's dress under command
of Lieut. R. S. Moll, attended the funeral
; in a body, to pay their last tribute of
respect to their deceased honorary mem
ber. The pallbearers were K. \V. Cub
hedge, D. K. Saussy, Capt. J. F. Brooks,
! Clement Saussy, VV. L. Wakelee and
i Capt. H. M. Branch. The interment was
in Laurel Grove cemetery.
Col. T. W. Fleming Seriously 111.
Col. S. B. Spencer received a telegram
from Camilla yesterday, announcing the
| serious illness of his brother-in-law, Col.
j T. W. Fleming, a well-known and highly
honored citizen of Baker county. Col.
Fleming lived for a long time in Liberty
county, and was well known in Savannah,
where he has many friends and relatives'
The telegram announced that he ws not
expected to live, but Col. Spencer was un
able to leave yesterday. Col. Fleming is
about 7fi years of age. Ho succeeded
Hon. Reuben Jones, who died suddenly in
Atlanta, as senator from the Tenth dis
trict.
Alderman Charlton's Committee.
Alderman Charlton, who was recently
elected a member the board, will be ap
pointed by the mayor to the chairmanship
of the special committee on opening
streets, to succeed Alderman McMillan,
who has recently been appointed chair
mau of the water committee to succeed
Alderman Cann, resigned. Alderman
Charlton may also be appointed chairman
of one other committee.
Look to your interest. You can buy Halva
tiou Oil, the great pain-cure, for 25 cents —ad.
The Royal Fertilizer Company’s re
ceivers at Charleston. S. C., have de
termined to sell their whole stock of fer
tilizers in lots to suit purchasers at ad
vantageous prices.
This will afford an unprecedented op
portunity to buy fertilizers at advanta
g ous prices aud on advantageous terms,
—ad.
THE MORNIN G NEWS: MON DAI, FEBRUARY 5, 1894.
IT REOIIRES PROPHECY.
A Gift That the Registration Commis
sioa Seeds io Its Work.
The Commissioners Must Be Able to
Discern Who Will Be Conflicting
Political Interests Some Months in
j Advance of the Election—They Hava
Advertised for Suggestions as to
Who Consider Themselves Conflict
ing Political Interests—Will Have to
Appoint Two Registrars Who
Must Represent as Far as Possible
j All Conflicting Parties.
The registration commission which
will provide for the registration of voters
in the county elections, and which was cre
ated by act of the last legislature to con
sist of the judges of the superior and
i city courts and the judge of the ordi
d inary’s court, has organized. The mem
bers were called together for that pur
pose by Judge Falligant.
The registration of voters will begin
the first Monday in March, and will last
for three months. The two registrars
will have to be selected, therefore, some
time this month, as they will have to
open the books in the ordinary’s office
and begin business on that date.
The commissioners are meeting with
some peculiar difficulties in the shape of
certain clauses in the act of the legisla
ture which they do not know Just ex
actly how to comply with.
NOT ENOUGH TO GO AROUND.
Under the law they are only allowed to
appoint two registrars, yet they are re
quired to give, if possible, all conflicting
political interests in tho county represen
tion among the registrars. If it turns
out that thero are three or four conflict
ing political interests, they will be in
somewhat of a quandary, to say the least,
as it is a hard matter to understand Just
how one man can represent more than
one political faction.
it is probable that the commissioners
will construo tho law to mean, however,
that the registrars to be appointed must
be men who will conscientiously and im
partially perform the duties intrusted to
them without regard to what pat $y or fac
tion they may favor.
But the most peculiar difficulty of all
with which the commission meets in con
struing the law is that its members must
be gifted somewhat with the powers of
prophecy. The elections referred to in
the statute are those for the general as
sembly and county officers, which take
place next fall.
AT A LOSS HOW TO ACT.
But the registration must take place
during the summer months and they
must determine, or so it seems at least,
what will be conflicting political interests
at that time. They will want to know
what peoide consider themselves reflect
ing conflicting political interests, and
they would no doubt be glad to receive
suggestions as to what special conflicting
political interests will be in the Held at
that time.
For this reason they have advertised
for suggestions as to who consider them
seh-es in that light, and though they have
not put it exactly that way, they have
asked for suggestions of names as to who
to appoint as registrars. Of course the
commission is not to be bound by any sug
gestions from any source, but it wants
the expressions and the ideas of repre
sentatives of all political factions so
called and from all sides as to who would
be acceptable appointees.
The notice to conflicting political
interests published by the commis
sion gives anybody the option of making
suggestions, to be handed in not later
than Feb. 10, when the commissioners
will probably hold another meeting and
name tho registrars. The commission
also has the power to fix the salaries of
the registrars, and they will be required
to have personal charge of the registra
tion books.
TO APPOINT IMPARTIAL MEN.
It will no doubt construe the law to
mean that two impartial registrars must
be appointed, as that seems the most rea
sonable construction. All persons who
want to vote in the elections mentioned
must present themselves for registration
to the registrars, between the first Mon
day in March and the first Monday in
June. On the latter date the books will
be closed. Every voter will have to fur
nish satisfactory evidence that he has
paid all taxes required of him since 1877,
aud under the law no voter who is unable
to do this will be allowed to register uutil
lie provides himself with such proof. It
is believed that this law will be strictly
enforced in all cases, and that no pre
sumption in favor of those who are gen
erally known to have paid their taxes
will be taken as evidence without the
certified proof from the tax collector.
In the meantime, it remains to be seen
who will come forward and announce
themselves outright as conflicting
political interests. The commission has
its duties to perform, and this informa
tion is wanted before it can act.
LEFT ON TYBEE.
A Party Went Down for the Day, But
Would Not Venture Back.
A party of about twenty-five, the guests
I of Mr. ana Mrs. Joseph Rosenheim, went
down to Tybee Island yesterday morning
on the steamer Bessie to spend the day.
The indications in the morning were that
the day would be a pleasant one and noth
ing 0.-curred to them about not being able
to get back to the city at night.
The weather began to get gradually
colder during the afternoon, and with it
1 caine a high wind, which was blowing
thirty miles an hour in the city, and which
must have been much higher in the
roads. The party failed to return at a late
hour, and the tug Cambria was about to
bo sent down the river in search of them
when news reached the city that they
were safe on the island and would remain
there for the night.
Mr. David Kosenheim came up on tho
Bessie with a reimrt that everybody in
the party was nil right, and all anxious
minds were set at rest. He said that the
weather was so bad there and the sea so
rough that the ladles were afraid to ven
ture back until the wind wcut down
somewhat. On that account they all de.
cided to remain at the Naylor house last
night aud will come up to the city to-day.
FOR WEAK NERVES.
Use Horsford’s Acid Phosphate.
It is particularly useful in making weak
nerves strong, as it contains necessary
elements of nutrition for the nervous s.vs
tom, obtained from natural sources.—ad
“There Are as Good Fish in the Sea as
Ever Were Caught.”
To My Customers and tho Public: You
can rest assured that I am just as fully
prepared to do my accustomed superior
work as eves I have obtained the ser
vices of the best horseshoer that
Savannah has ever produced. My special
ties are all kinds of vehicle bunding and
repairing
in future, however, my greatest spec
ialty will be horseshoeing in all its
branches. Thanking my numerous pa
trons for past favors. and hoping a con
tinuance of the same. I beg to remain,
yours obediently, T. A. Wahii,
prop. Forest City Wheelwright Works,
corner Bryan, West Broad and Olive
streets, Savannah, Ga.—ad.
SONS OF THE REVOLUTION.
The Annual Banquet at the Do Soto
To-night.
The annual meeting and banquet of the
Society of the Sons of the Revolution,
which will be held at the De Soto to
night, promises to be a most interesting
occasion. The meeting will be at 8
o'clock in the gentlemen's parlor. The
chief feature of the meeting will be the
election of officers for the ensuing year.
The dinner will lie served at 9 o'clock
sharp. Only four regular toasts have
been arranged for the occasion. They are
as follows:
"The Sons of the Revolution,” response
by Hon. Emory Speer, judge of tho
United States district court.
“The State of Georgia,” response by
Rev. L. C. Vass, D. D.
"The United States of America,” re
sponse by Hon. Pope Barrow.
“The Daughters of the Revolution," re
sponse by Hon. Robert Falligant, judge
of the superior court of the Eastern judi
cial circuit.
As usual, it is likely that a number of the
guests will be called upon for impromptu
speeches. Covers will be laid at the
table for forty guests, as that number
have signified their intention of being
present. Hon. Hugh V. Washington, of
Macon: Mr. H. M. Atkinson, of Atlanta;
William Clifton, Esq., and Dr. George
Troup Maxwell and Mr. David Elmore
Maxwell, of Jacksonville, non-resident
members of the society, are expected to
be present. It is said, upon good author
ity, that the wines which will be served
at the dinner will be the best ever sot
forth at a banquet in Savannah. They
were selected by Judge Harden, who is a
connoisseur in such matters, and who
was allowed full scope in the selection.
The champagne will be Kuinart. which
has never been drank in Savannah, and
was ordered especially for the occasion.
The Georgia Branch of the Society of
the Sons of the Revolution, which has its
headquarters in Savannah, now numbers
113 members scattered throughout the
state, the majority being residents of Sa
vannah. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, of
New York, is a member of the Georgia
branch, his mother having been a Miss
Bulloch, of this state, through whom he
obtained his right to membership by rev
olutionary descent. There are also other
residents of other states who are mem
bers of the Georgia society.
THE COURT OF ORDINARY.
The February Term to Convene This
Morning.
The court of ordinary will convene for
the February term this morning. The
following cases on the docket will be
ready for adjudication: Letters of ad
ministration to the following applicants:
Charles P. llossignol, upon estate of Sam
uel Cherry ;S. F. Dupon, upon estate of
Dr. S. F. Dupon; J. F. Brooks, county
administrator, upon estate of J. C. Hart
felder; J. F. Brooks, county administra
tor. upon estate of N. B. Roberts: Fran
cis S. Lathrop, upon estate of William G.
Guthrop; George T. Haywood, upon es
tate of Alfred Haywood ; James H. Johns
ton, upon estate of James Johnston, Jr
letters of guardianship to George T.
Cann upon the property of Viola Jones,
minor, and also letters to Anna S. Ried,
as guardian of Selma P. Ried et al.,
minors.
An order for leave to sell real estate
will be granted to’ Margaret Millon, ad
ministratrix of the estate of George R.
Millen, and also a similarorder to Andrew
M. Monroe, administrator of the estate of
Mary L. Burke.
Letters dismissory will be granted to
tho following persons: James Hooker,
executor of the will of Harry Roberts;
Thomas M. Fleetwood, executor of the
will of George S Fleetwood; Charles
Ellis, executor of the estate of Chester
Newell; Aaron Ferst, guardian of Leopold
Ferst.
Year’s support allowances will be
granted to Henrietta Urquhart, widow of
Hugh M. Urquhart; Elizabeth Murphy,
widow of J. J Murphy; Ruth M Falli
gaut, widow of Champion ,1. Falligant;
Amanda Jackson, widow of Richard Jack
son.
In the above cases caveats can be filed
before the opening of the court, in which
event, a time for hearing is fixed by
the ordinary.
The application of C. P. Rossignol for
letters of administration upon the estate
of Joseph M. Barron having been caveated,
the court will set a day for a hearing.
Besides the above, a number of minor
matters will be disposed of. There have
been no wills presented for probate at
this term of the court.
A DISTINGUISHED PARTY.
It Will be Here to Look at the Colored
College Sometime This Month.
About Feb. 27 or some time the latter
part of the month a distinguished party
will visit Savannah to take a look
at the Georgia State Industrial College
for the education of colored youth.
In the party will be Dr. Gilman, presi
dent of John Hopkins University, chair
man of the Slater fund committee, and
one of the foremost educators in the
United States, Dr. J. L. M. Curry, of
Washington, who has charge of the Sla
ter fund. Gov. Northen and State School
Commissioner Bradwell. They will meet
Maj. P. W. Meldrim, chairman of the
board of trustees of the college, and will
take a look over the ground and examine
its facilities for the education and ad
vancement of the colored youth.
The trustees of the college have been
muking an effort for some time to get a
portion .of the Slater fund which was left
for the education of the colored race,
donated to this institution. There is lit
tle doubt that the institution is worthy
of any donation from this fund that
might be made, and Dr. Curry and Dr.
Gilman will find it so when they come.
Dr. Curry has contemplated a visit to
Savannah for some time with a view to
giving this college a part of the Slater
fund, provided it could be done consis
tently. and the institution will no doubt
heartily welcome his visit.
Dr. Bull s Cough Syrup is sold everywhere,
and it always cures coughs and colds.—ad.
A FUGITIVE CONVICT CAUGHT.
A Trusty Who Took Frenoh Leave
Back in Jail.
C J. Montgomery, a young white con
vict, who escaped about three years ago,
was captured early yesterday morning by
Constable Eady in Bull alley, near Lum
ber street. Montgomery was sentenced
to serve six months on the gang, but was
made a trusty, aud while on an errand
one day he forgot to return, and has
since been roaming in pastures new.
His travels have been brought to an
unexpected ending and he is now teinpor
rily stopping im Cell sat tho police bar
racks.
Montgomery showed a disinclination,
when questioned, to tell of iiis life since
he escaped, but will have an opportunity
to toll how and when he got away this
morning before the proper authorities.
Ke claims to be married, but his wife's
whereabouts are unknown.
On his way to the barracks he managed
with his hands cuffed, to destroy a note,
and refuses to say for whom it was in
tended. The man, while young in years,
seems to be old in crime. This is not the
first time it appears he has taken French
leave when sent to the gang. He is ap
parently well satisfied with his present
surroundings, having tired of being un
aimless wandjrer for three years.
Ferdinand Schioerea. an evangelist, who Is
meeting with great success in Brooklyn, was
before his conversion a popular member of a
minstrel company.
BAKING POWDER.
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report
Rrifol Baking
jaz&asa! ioWdCE
ABSOLUTELY PURE
LAND SEEKERS, COMING.
Excursion Rates Offered This Month
to Prospective Settlers.
They Will Be Brought to Georgia
and Alabama From All Points in
the West and Northwest—A Rate
of One Fare for the Round Trip
Promises to Bring a Large Number
of Them to This Section—The Cen
tral Railroad Passenger Department
Has Advertised Georgia Throughout
Those Seotions From Whioh the Set
tlers are Expected.
The rates for the land seeker’s excur
sions to the south have been promulgated
throughout the west, and next Thursday
the tickets fob the first of these monthly
excursions will go on sale.
The Morning News has already given
an account of what the excursions are to
be. The Southern Passenger Association
has made an arrangement by which rates
of one fare for the round trip have been
extended from many western points, to
points in Georgia, Alabama and Tennes
see. The objective points in tho south to
which the tickets are to be sold are
mainly on the lines of the Louisville and
Nashville and the Central railroads.
These excursions are .-to tako place
monthly, and tickets will be on sale Feb.
8, March 8 and April 9. The tickets are
limited to a continuous passage in each
direction with extreme limit returning to
twenty days from date of sale, thus giving
any prospector full time to examine into
the advantages of any locality and the
inducements it offers as a permanent
location.
THE SECTION WELL ADVERTISED.
General Passenger Agent Haile, of the
Central railroad, has not failed to set
forth the advantages of points in Georgia
and Alabama to those who may desire to
take advantage of the cheap rates
offered. He has had prepared about
10,000 circulars, setting forth briefly the
advantages of Georgia towns in a general
way, aud also giving a few brief lines of
the advantages of several Georgia towns
which are making rapid progress, and
which are easily susceptible of being
further built up.
These circulars he has had distributed
throughout points in the west, principally
in the small towns in Minnesota, lowa,
Illinois, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Indiana,
Ohio, Kansas and Missouri. They’ have
been put in the hands of the agents of the
lines at points in these states for dis
tribution among those who may desire
to seek homes or investments in the
south.
The excursions have been similarly
worked up by other lines which expect to
participate, and which will bring the
land seekers to points in other states.
THE ADVANTAGES OF THE SECTION.
In speaking of the advantages of Geor
gia in a general way, Mr. Haile says in
tho circular which he has had distrib
uted;
“The eyes of homeseekers have gradu
ally been turning from the vast expanses
of prairie aud table lands of tho north
west toward the fertile valleys and the
wealth-abounding mountain districts of
the sunny south.
They have been opened to the great op
portunities which this section presents.
In order that they may view the “Prom
ised Land” low excursion rates have been
granted by the several railroad lines into
this section. Land seekers cannot fail to
see the advantage in moving to a partly
developed country rather than to a terri
tory separated by great distances from
the commercial centers, away from rail
roads and devoid of the comforts and con
veniences of civilized communities.
“The great resources of the south, in
agriculture, mining and for manufactur
ing purposes are limitless.”
After quoting Wendell Phillips on the
south and its many advantages, Mr.
Haile gives a few interesting facts and
figures about Georgia, its advantages in
railways and facilities for handling com
merce. and concludes with a few words
about Georgia towns.
The rates are not made to the large
business cities in Georgia as Atlanta, Sa
vannah. Augusta and others, on account
of the fact that the regular winter tourist
tickets are on sale to these points and
parties who desire to do so can take ad
vantage of them. On the back of the cir
cular is a map of the sectiou of the south
which the Central railroad and its auxil
iary lines traverse.
MUCH SUCCESS ANTICIPATED.
It is expected that these excursions will
meet with much success. Every effort
has been made to thoroughly advertise
them through the west and northwest,
but few reports have been received as to
how the people have taken the idea. The
rates are so low, however, that every
prospector who has a desire to secure a
southern home can take advantage of
them and come down and investigate for
himself. An arrangement will, of course,
bo made by which those who desire it
can see more than one immediate section
to which his ticket carries him.
Mr. Haile has had many inquiries from
people in the west about the south and
the advantages it affords, in answer to
which he has sent out a good deal of
printed matter as well as many personal
letters The idea is to build up prosperous
sectionsof the south whiclr may be made
more prosperous b.v new settlers and new
inhabitants. If the excursions meet with
the success that is anticipated for them
they will probably lie continued from
month to month, as connecting lines in
the north have agreed to make the same
rato for them, at the request of tho
Southern Passenger Association.
BAKING
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The only Pure Cream of Tartar Powder.—No Ammonia; No Alma,
Used in Millions of Homes—4o Years the Standard*
DESIGNS IN VALENTINES.
Cupids, Hearts, Garlands of Flowers
and Other Pretty Effects.
Though the time-honored lace-paper val
entines. with their little rhymes, are still
conspicuously displayed and will proba
bly have theirusualsale, the prettiest and
most tasteful designs this year are in the
form of cards, containing love's messages
in pictures and text. They are dainty
nnd artistic in coloring, like pretty water
color reproductions, and much ingenuity
is shown in some in making the picture
suggest the tender greeting which the
sender is supposed to be desirous of con
veying, while in others the safe middle
ground of friendship is all that is sug
gese and.
There are numerous chubby and dim
pled Cupids seen on the cards. One of
the valentines depicts the rosy-cheeked
little love-god standing on a cloud and in
dustriously pushing the earth through
space, while beneath are the words: “It’s
love that makes the world go round.”
On another card the terrestrial ball is
again shown, with two merry Cupids
standing at the antipodes, each bolding a
telephone tube connecting with the other
by a wire.
The heart is always a favorite design,
but this season it is brought out, in unu
sually pretty form. Two garlands of vio
lets outlining the heart-shape intertwine
and are accompanied by a lit
tle couplet about violets and
love, and roses and other flowers
form the design for similar tributes for
St. Valentine's day. On other cards are
portrayed esthetic young girls with
psycho knots and big puffed sleeves.
Among the most elaborate valentines are
handsome mouehoir cases and glove boxes
covered with silk or satin of delicate tints
and ornamented with painted flowers or
some Valentine’s day verse.
Flowers are growing in popularity for
valentines, and the indications are that
this season many a box of choice blossoms
will carry the message of the day. Some
of the florists.have prepared pretty boxes
tied with ribbons corresponding in tint
with the colors of the flowers for valen
tines, and in these will repose loose clus
ters of roses, hyacinths, lillies of the
valley or violets. St. Valentine’s day oc
curs Feb. 14.
GAMBLERS TAKEN IN.
A Half Dozen of Them Captured at a
Game.
A little game of “skin” was interrupted
yesterday afternoon in the “Ruffian
house ’ in Girard street lane by Constable
Eady, who arrested six negro gamblers
there. As early as 7 o’clock the cards
were being dealt, and had not the temper
ature suddenly dropped in the afternoon
the chances are they would not have been
disturbed
It apears that tho wife of the proprietor
was serving as a lookout on the steps and
everything went well until she began to
feel chilly, and begged tho men to let her
come in by the fire. This request was
made several times, but she was not al
lowed to enter the house, and was told to
keep her eyes opeD for the police.
The woman was not wrapped in furs,
and the cold wind blew all thoughts of
devotion out of her head, and giving way
to her indignation, sent word to Eady,
and gave the men away.
The red maria drove up. and the
gamblers were taken to the barracks,
where they dreamed of the skin game the
woman played them. Recorder Wilson
will attend to the sextette this morning.
CITY BREVITIES.
Dekalb lodge No. 9, I. O. O. F., meets
to-night.
William Mills, colored, was lodged In
the barracks last might by Detective
Humphreys, charged with the robbing of
J. E. Creamer’s grocery at Montgomery
and Harris streets on Saturday night.
Several guns and some provisions were
taken from the grocery by the thieves.
The taking of testimony with regard
to Savannah and Western railroad mat
ters, to be heard before Justice Jackson
May 1, will begin before Master in Chan
cery George W. Owens this morning at
11 o'clock. The hearing will be conducted
at the offices of the Centmal railroad, on
West Broad street. Mr. A. G. Smart,
the expert accountant, sen t here by the
Savannah and Western bondholders, has
been looking over the accounts since his
arrival here, and all matters involving
figures and any receipts and expenditures
will be referred to him. The testimony
will be mainly with regard to accounts,
and is expected to be rather dry and un
interesting.
LOCAL PERSONAL.
W. W. Snow, of New York, is at the
De Soto.
James D. Clarke, of New York, is at the
De Soto.
W. H. Whitney, Jr., of New York, is at
the De Soto.
E. B. Hunting, of Baltimore, is at the
De Soto.
B. L. Wyatt, of Atlanta, is at the
Pulaski.
C. W. Lamar, of Americus, is at the
Pulaski.
William O. Wadley, of Rogers, is at the
Pulaski.
Plasters.
If you are thinking about buying a
plaster, remember that you will place it
upon your body and cannot get a plaster
that will be too good for you.
Allcock’s Porous Plaster is the best
plaster made. Your druggist may have
some other plaster on his shelves which
he is anxious to get rid of, or else some
worthless imitation purchased at a low
price for the purpose of substitution. Do
not accept, his "Just as good” plea, insist
upon having the genuine. Allcock's
Porous Plaster has no equal.
Brandreth’s Pills can always be re
lied upon.—ad.
LUDDEN A BATES S. HI. H.
WEATHER PROBABILITIES
| DAY: Fair: colder Monday; t>rlsk •
norihwest to north winds, moderatC
day; warmer Tuesday.
MAKE"
NO
MISTAKE.
Don t jump at the conclusion that tfc|
Pianos we are offering on the very tlat4
payments of only
$lO Monthlu
Are cheap and inferior instruments "a.
installment system *>s Its abuse. *
true that thousands of very poor piano. ,!I
sold through installment plans; but, nevertbs
less, it would tea great mistake to concha*
that all pianos sold on easy terms are worm
less.
Strong houses often-in fact, almost aim™
—Sell High Grade Pianos on Installments. ”
-WE DO.-
Ten Dollars Monthly will buy as fine &al
costly a Piano as may he desired—at
hi l te
Hot dot
CI.OTH Nii.
Take
AN
EARLY
START
On our DISCOUNT SALE
of FINE CLOTHING,
OVERCOATS and UN
DERWEAR.
25 OFF FOR CASH.
--T-TT PANTING.
You Want Stationery
vie and Blank Books,
We hare the facilities
for supplying them.
Send Your Orders to
MORNING NEWS,
Savannah, Ga.
Lithographer*, Book and Job
•¥ Printers, and Blank Book
Manufacturers
clothing.
EASTER GOMES EARLY IHI3 SMI
Therefore you best call in
this week and make your
selection for your Easter
Suit in our Made to Order
Department.
APPEL & SCHAUL,
Merchant Tailors, Clothiers and
Haberdashers.
See Those DAM-A6ED Shirts at 95c.
_ CLCHH NG. ’
Discount on TT | rner LOW
all Clothing, J I I MA K Rtß
Hats and Fur- a a . prices This
nlshin goods |lg | 7 means a geld
in our store 111 I A (t o liar for
off of our for- „ „ U 00 2 ; 3c.
Percent -
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Menu your Orders ior
LITHOGRAPHING,
PRINTING ant!
BLANKS BOOKS,
■Bo the MO RHINO NEWS,
Savannah. <“•
100 CASES
OLD PEPPER WHISKY
1 be.vc secured the Savannah agency for
JAS. E PEPPER * OCX’S Distillery Bottied
Whisky, and am prepared to sell the trade l
distillery prices.
JAS. McGRATH
lk AND WHITAKER ST.