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WILL BE A RUSHING FIGHT
Jack Dempsey Says His Tilt With
McCarthy Will Be to a Finish.
He Left Last Night for New Orleans
Full of Hope and "With the Hearty
Good Wishes of Many Savannah
Friends—What He Has Been Doing
At Tybee for the Last Five Weeks.
He Will Return to Savannah After
This Fight and Go in Training for
Another Bout.
Jack Dempsey, the nonpareil, the mid
dleweight champion, who holds the belt
for the many contests in which he has en
gaged, came up from Tybee Island yester
day and took the Central train at 8:45 |
last night for New Orlfia'ns. via Atlanta.
Dempsey looked the picture of hearty ,
good health when he arrived in the city. |
His countenance was rosy, the uumistak
able color produced by health and sun '
combined. His chest was weli expanded, i
and he appeared much more stout and i
muscular than he did five weeks ago,
when he began his work on the Tybee
beach.
Dempsey left Savannah to meet Billy i
McCarthy, followed by the good will and
wishes of the many friends he has made
since he has been in the city. If he does
not win the twenty round battle it will
not be for a lack of earnest encourage
ment and hearty good will that he has
had here.
TALKS LITTLE ABOUT THE FIGHT.
“Are you ready to meet McCarthy!” he
was asked by a representative of the
Mousing News who met him at the train.
“I don’t think I’ll fail to show up when
the time comes,” he replied. “I have
given the matter little thought, to tell you
the truth, and in fact have said little
about it except when someone else men
tioned the fight to me. You ask me if I
have any confidence of my own success in
the contest. Isn't that confidence
enough?”
It is true that Dempsey says very little
about his coming fight with McCarthy,
and those who know him best and have
been closest to him since he began his
work at Tybee, remark upon the fact that
he has had little or nothing to say about
the encounter.
HAS BEEN DOING GOOD WORK.
“So you have been doing your own
training!” he was asked.
“Yes.” he replied, "I do my own train
ing. I don t have any trainers, but 1 like
to have a few men around me to make
good, cheerful company, to rub me down
Froperly, and men 1 can spar with when
want to do that kind of work.”
“What kind of work have you been do
ing on Tybee!”
“Oh, everything. I don’t take much
advice with regard to training, but devote
my attention to what 1 like and what I
think will do me the most good. Tybee
is a good place to train and it has almost
every convenience for the purpose. Dur
ing the five weeks 1 have been there I
think 1 have worked three or four men
half to death. I did everything I wanted
to do just so it was work. X have been
fishing, swimming, runuing, punching
the bag. sparring with the hoys, using
the dumb bells and the swinging rings,
and in fact doing anything that would
build me up and get me in shape.
WORKS AS HE PLEASES.
“I have been working from four to
eight hours a day,” he said, in response
to another question, “depending on the
condition of tho weather. Some days it
was too hot to do much work, and I have
seen the time when a couple of hours good
work in the sun there would take off sev
eral pounds of flesh.
“About eating aDd drinking I have been
very much as 1 have about my training. I
have eaten anything that was good and
wholesome, beef, mutton, lamb, chicken,
ealvesfoot Jelly, and occasionally drank a
bottle of Bass, ale. If X want a glass of
ale or a drink of anything else I take it.
If I want one 1 take one, and if I want
two or three Ido the same thing. lam
all right as long as I am careful, as X have
been, not to take too much. Too much
water is as bad as too much of anything
else to drink.”
WILL WEIGH 142 POUNDS.
“At what weight will you enter the
ring?”
“I will weigh Just about 142 pounds. I
weigh now with my clothes 154 1 ~ and I
make an allowance of eight pounds for
rlotheß. I will take off the balance by
light work beforo the time comes.”
“Do you expect to do any other work?”
“Oh, yos, 1 shall do some light work
going down, and also after my arrival in
New Orleans. I will reach New Orleans
Tuesday morning about 7 o’clock, and
will do some 100 yard sprints, use the one
pound bells for an hour at a time, and per
haps punch tho bag lor half an hour or so.
Wednesday morning, tho day of the tight,
I will run a hundred-yard dash and then
have a good rub down. After a rest I
will take about the same exercise, per
haps, with some other little work of live
or ten minutes at a time.”
“Have you any information as to what
will be McCarthy’s weight?”
“Yes. I think he will boa little heavier
than I am. lam told he will weigh about
154 pounds in the ping.”
MAY BE A RUSHING FIGHT.
“Do you think you can whip him as well
as you did in San Francisco four years
ago ?” was asked.
“I have no idea what the result will be,
and as i said, 1 give it very little thought.
It took twenty eight rounds to do it then.
I know I have got a ■ good man to go
against, but I don’t feel uneasy. This is
advertised us a twenty rouud contest, but
1 think it will be a tight to the finish, it
will be, if he is going to make a rushing
fight of it, as he asserts he is, and at that
rate it may not take tweuty rounds
to finish it, but I will meet him
at it. Neither of us could stand up lor
twenty rounds in a rushing light, aud if
he starts out with that idea I think it
will take less than twenty rounds to de
cide who is the victor. I think 1 can
rush as well as he can, or I can make a
good attempt at it. Unuer these circum
stances 1 think a twenty round fight can
practically he considered a light to tho
finish.”
HE WILL RETURN TO SAVANNAH.
“It is reported that you will return to
Savannah after the fight,” said the re
porter.
"Yes, I expect to come right back and
go in training again at Tybee. It is as
satisfactory a place as I have ever found.
My idea is to tram for a tight with an
other man whom 1 have long wanted to
meet. 1 will not say who it is yet. ns
there is a [>ossibiliiy that I may not tie
successful in this contest, but win or lose,
1 will make an attempt to meet him. if i
should lose 1 wont let that be any excuse
for him, for I will taunt him into a match
If I can’t get him into it in any other
way.” and Dempsey smiled as lie spoke of
possibilities with a look that seemed to
indicate that he believed there was less
of chance about it than he wanted it to
appear he believed.
Dempsey took with him Jim Brown and
one of the other men he has had with him
ut Tybee, for company. He is satisfied
with his condition, and those with him
are confident that victory wid be bis. He
will appear beforo the Auditorium Club
Wednesday night, and will fight McCar
“'•V twenty rounds for a nurse of $2,000
As Dempsey says, though, tho probability
• the light will he to a finish.
SEEKING RECREATION.
Large Crowds Visited Tybea and
Thunderbolt Yesterday Afternoon.
Yesterday was a gala day with the re
sorts. Being about the last of the Tybee
season, a good crowd took in the beach
during tlie afternoon. Most of those who
t fora surf bath as thi re
are few other attractions at the beach
now, and the places of resort on the island
look somewhat lonesome except on Sun
day or a holiday.
To-day being l-abor day it is likely that
quite a crowd will go down to tho island,
and this will probably wind up the season
so far as Tybee is concerned as a summer
resort. Thunderbolt, too, did a large
day’s business, in fact it was one of the
largest of the season. The Thunderbolt
resorts were all well filled, and the street
ear lines from all parts of the city did a
good business.
During the greater part of the after
noon most ail the cars were crowded to
such an extent that it was a hard matter
to get a seat. One car up to 7 o’clock last
night had carried 1,100 people, and if they
all did as well the reduced fare must be a
paying business for the railroads. It goes
to show the Savannah people will turn
out for a little excursion trip
when they are given advantages
of a low fare. The aver
age visitor to Thunderbolt banks on get
ting through with about a quarter, which
means car fare and three beers, or in
lieu of the latter one drink or a lunch.
The bluff was covered, with pc.qile, and
the day was a very pleasant one at Sa
vannah’s nearby resort. The weather
was all that could be looked for, the
breeze was refreshing, and everybody
seemed to have a good time.
WAITING FOR THE NEXT MOVE.
The Street Railway Fiyht to Take a
New Turn Soon.
The result of the attempt to put the
Electric Railway Company in the hands
of a receiver was generally discussed yes
terday. There were no now develop
ments in the fight.
Both President Collins and Director
Wrenn of Nashville had little to say.
Mr. Collins said he is not done with Mr.
Harrimau yet, however, and that tho
public may expect more spicy develop
ments in the near future. As
Mr. IXarriman has assumed the
bill of the Sloss Iron and Coal Company
and the Palmer Hardware Company
against tho Electric railway. Mr. Collins
said that lie would have them to pay. as
he had no intention of paying them at the
present time. From this it would seem
that Mr. Harrimau is paying rather high
for his little fun with the Electric rail
way. Besides the SI,OOO of accounts
against the Electric railway, which he
has contracted to pay, there is the check
for $2,500 denosited as guarantee for the
fulfillment of contract in the bond deal
which,in all likelihood, he will have to pay.
This has been carried into the courts by
Mr. IXarriman by a temporary injunction
restraining Cashier Sullivan of the South
ern Bank from turning over the check.
The injunction has been set for a hearing
on Sept. 20, and is expected to prove fully
as interesting in its developments as the
hearing of the petition for a receiver. It
is not unlikely that a suit will be entered
against Mr. Harriman to compel the de
livery of the $15,000 of Electric railway
bonds claimed to have been sold by him
on the same day on which the sale of the
SIO,OOO of bonds was made, but which
claim Mr. Harrimau denies.
A LONG TERM BEFORE HIM.
A Negro Arrested for Attempted
Criminal Assault.
Frank Grate, colored, will come before
the recorder this morning on the charge
of attempted criminal assault. Grate is
pretty certain to be turned over to the
superior court with the prospect of a long
term in the penitentiary beforo him.
He owas arrested in the very
act, and it is difficult to see
how he can escape the law. Officers
York and Christian were on Orange street
in Yatnecraw lato Saturday night when
they heard a pistol shot not very far
away. They started out to investigate.
As they turned the corner into Mill street
they saw a uegro man throw a young
negro girl down in the street and attempt
to commit and assault upon her. Tho
girl struggled and screamed with all her
might.
The negro was in the hands of the of
ficers before he could accomplish his
purpose. Tlie girl, who appeared to
be about lti years old, gave her name as
Clementina Small. Grate was intoxi
cated.
ATTACKED IN A STREET OAR.
A Negro Attempts to Strike Judge
O’Byrne for a Reprimand.
Edward Monroe, colored, will be before
the recorder this morning on the charge
of attempting to strike Judge D. A.
O’Byrne. Judge O’Byrne boarded a City
and Suburban street car on Liberty
street bound for the market Sat
urday afternoon. Monroe got on shortly
after aud proceeded to squeeze
himself in beside a lady on a front
seat, although there was plenty of room
further back. Judge O'Byrne thought
tho negro was purposely crowding tho
lady and spoke to him about it. The ne
gro made an impertinent reply and Judge
O’Byrne ordered him to move his seat.
This tho negro refused to do and at
tempted to strike Judge O’B.srne The
car arriving at the market shortly after.
Judge O’Byrne called upon Policeman
Sam Davis to arrest Monroe, which the
officer did with a great deal of pleasure.
THE SEAGIRT MATCHES.
Sergt. Postell Made One of the Range
Officers for the Shoot.
The international rifle shoot of the mili
tary men gathered at Seagirt will begin
to-day and continue through next Satur
day. The Georgia boys arc on the ground
thirteen strong, and will enter a teum of
twelve in tho National liitie Association's
military match, which takes place to
morrow.
Altogether there are eighteen different
matches to he shot, and tho Georgia bo.vs
will have a hand in a good many of them.
First Sergeant J. C. Postell, who is in
command of the Georgia team, has been
made one of the range officers, and an offi
cial announcement of this appointment
has been made.
News has been received that the Geor
gia boys have been doing some excellent
work on tho Seagirt ranges, and it is ex
pected that their scores will show up
well when they come to the test.
An Attractive Little Book.
The Morning News has received a copy
of au attractive littlo book, “Pussy Wants
a Corner,” handsomely illustrated with a
series of views of the late world’s fair,
and containing a series of articles on the
pleasures of Held sports. The scenes from
tlie world's fair are accurate representa
tions of the state buildings, while tlie
other illustrations are in every instance
exact reproductions. Following the brief
historical sketches of each state, are the
complete game laws, as well as the laws
governing the provinces. The trap shooting
rules make the book a work which w ill be
appreciated and retained by every sjiorts
nian. The book is presented by Messrs. ,1.
M. Dixon A t 0., agents of the leadiug
sporting aud mining powders.
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1894.
HIS SIDE FILLED WITH SHOT
Cowardly Attempt to Assassinate Yonr.g
Kelly Adams at Gltnwood.
He Was Sitting in the Porch With a
Young Lady When the Shot Was
Fired —The Young Lady Escapes.
Bartow Clark, a Neighbor of Adams,
Arrested on Suspicion of the At
tempt and Murder.
A gentleman, who arrived in the city
from Gleuwood on the .Savannah, Amer
icus aud Montgomery railroad yesterday,
confirmed the report published in the
Morning News a day or two ago of the
shooting of Kelly Adams, a young white
man, living about two miles from Glen
wood, on Wednesday night.
Adams was sitting on tho front porch
of his house picking a banjo, and a young
lady was sitting near him. His brother,
J. W. Adams, had just gone into the
house. Someone came up in the darkness
very close to the porch and discharged a
load of buckshot at the parties on the
porch. Ten buckshot took effect in Mr.
Adams' left arm, hand and side. His
hand was badly mangled, necessitating
the amputation of three fingers. One
buckshot was extracted from the muscle
of the upper arm, two from the lower
arm, one from the hand, one from the
shoulder and two from the left breast and
one from the forehead. It was very evi
dent that murder was intended.
The dastardly attempt at assassination
was a great surprise to all who know Mr.
Adams and they were at a loss to account
for tlie attack. Bartow Clark, a farmer
living not far distant from the Adamses,
was arrested on the sup|iosition that lie
had fired the shot intending it for John
W. Adams. The latter was charged with
an assault upon Clark's wife sometime
ago and left the state for Florida. Here
turned home recently, and as Clark had
threatened to kill him, this led to the
suspicion that he was the intending
assassin. Clark, however, proved an
alibi and was released. The good people
of that neighborhood are much worked
up over the affair.
TO-DAY IS LABOR DAY.
The Labor Organizations Will Parade
in Its Honor.
The parade of the labor organizations
will be the chief event of the observance
of Labor day in Savannah. The parade
will start from Liberty and Bull streets
at 8:30 o'clock this morning, aud will be
over the following route:
Down Bull to Broughton, on Broughton
to Jefferson, south to Liberty, west to
West Jiroad. north to Bay. eastjito Dray
ton, passing review of the mayor and
aldermen at the city exchange, to Brough
ton, to East Broad, to Liberty, Wheaton,
countermarch on the soutli side of Liberty
to Habersham, where the parade will halt
and the line will be dismissed by the
grand marshal.
in the parade will be the Workingmen's
Benevolent Association, the Working
men s Union Association, the Naval
Stores Association and the cotton stage
gangs, tlie three latter being colored or
ganizations.
President John Driscoll of the Work
ingmen’s Benevolent Association will be
grand marshal of the parade. He will
have one aide from each of the organi
zations in line. The organizations
will assemble promptly at 8 o’clock. The
Typographical union will head the line,
with the Blacksmiths’ union, the Boiler
makers’ union, the Tailors union, the un
organized laborers and the WorKingmen’s
Benevolent Association following in the
order named. There will be a brass band
at the head of the line and one at the
head of the longshoremen.
The day will be observed as a holiday.
The banks, exchanges and public offices
will be closed and many business houses
will close at noon and 2 o’clock to give
their employes a half holiday. Some
houses will be closed all day.
At the Tivoli park a programme of
amusements has been arranged and the
Forest City Wheelmen, colored, will hold
their fall meet and athletic sports at the
wheelmen's track this afternoon. The
programmes of all the amusements have
been arranged with a view to their being
in keeping with the day.
PREPARING FOR A BIG DINNER.
A Bright Outlook for a Large Season
of Tourist Travel Thi3 Winter.
Mr. W. J. Watson, who has just re
turned from an extended trip to the
north, where he visited Saratoga, the
Catskills and New York city, has been
looking around with a view to arranging
some new features for tho board of trade
dinner, which is to bo given at the Do
Soto next March. Mr. Watson says he
has some new and attractive features for
such an occasion, aud that this dinner
will be made the most elaborate and com
plete in detail that has ever been given in
Savannah.
Air. Watson has been looking into tho
matter of summer travel, and from his
observations while north, he says, he is
confident tho tourist season this fall will
bo one of the largest that has ever been
known. Everybody in tlie north, he
says, has been going to the summer re
sorts. and they will be ready to take in
Florida when the time comes around.
The times look brighter, ho says, and
money seems more plentiful. The change
for the better in the business situation,
he thinks, will have a great deal to do
with a Hood of travel to ibis section this
fall and winter. He said he had never
seen so many people at Saratoga before as
were there this season, and tlie resorts in
the Catskills, too, have been doing a
rushing business.
'I lie only thing Savannah needs, Mr.
Wilson says, to attract winter rcsortors
here, is a terminal excursion ticket. Ho
does not believe the roads would lose any
thing by putting on sale such a ticket, as
j most of the people who would come here
i would take a triii down to Florida anv
| how and would pay the local fare. He
j expects the season to open well early in
| November.
WILL SUPPORT LESTER.
A Republican Politician Says Two-
Thirds of Colored Vote is for Him.
A leading colored politican said yes
tcrdu.y that Col. Lester would receive
the support of two-thirds of tho colored
voters iti tlie congressional election this
fall. A convention of the republicans of
tlie First district may be held in Savan
nah, Sept. 8, in wjjiich case an effort will
be made to secure the nomination made
by one of the party. W. 11. Pleasants is
chairman of tlie district committee, how
ever. and it is not certain that a conven
tion will bo held.
Hinesville’s Turn Out.
There will be a big democratic rally at
Hinesville to-morrow. The democrats of
Liberty and adjoining counties will turn
out iu force to hoar genuine democracy
expounded by Col. Lester and other able
advocates. Mr. I*. A. Stovall and Mr. T.
S. Morgan w ill lie among the speakers,
and Mr. W . W. Shepherd, tho i audidate
for senator from that district, is also to
speak.
It is important to keep the lircr and
kidneys in good condition. Hood's Sarsa
parilla is tlie remedy for invigorating
these organs.—ad.
JUST AN AVERAGE MONTH.
August Was About as Near Right as
it Was Possible for it to Be.
Last month was just about as near the
average in temperature and rainfall as it
is possible for one month to be like the
same month in another year for a quarter
of a century. That was what August
this year was.
The average temperature for August
for the last twenty-three years at Savan
nah is *o°. I-ast month's mean tempera
ture was 81°, 1“ above tho average. The
rainlall for August for twenty-three
years is 7.66 inches. Last month it was
7.28 inches, a fraction of an inch less than
the average. The highest that mercury
went was 99", on the 11th. The lowest
was 7% on the 18th. Notwithstanding
there were thirteen days that mercury
was above 90“. the temperature the rest
olyhe month was low enough to reduce
the mean to about the average.
The hot spell was between tho Bth and
the'XOth. During that time there was
only one day that the temperature did
not exceed 90% and but two days when it
did not go above 95°. The mean maxi
mum temperature for the entire month
was exactly 90°. The mean minimum
temperature was 72°, which reduced the
average considerably. Tlie mean tem
perature for August since 1871 is as fol
lows:
1871 79 1883 81
1879 80 1881 79
1878 80 1885 81
1874 79 1888 80
1875 7811887 80
1876 82 1888
1877 ..82 1889 78
1878 85! 1X9.1 79
1879 80 1891 80
1880 814892 81
1881 804893.. 79
1882 82|189l 81
There were twenty-one days during tho
month on which it rained. The average
rain for August since 1871 is as follows:
1871 18.13 188.3 9.28
1872 12 .31 1884 8 41
1873 5.45 1885 14 38
1871 6.58 1856 7 32
187.5 6.14|1887 1 89
1870 6 88 1888 7 83
1877 3 69.1889 7.7.0
1878 6 63 1890 2.80
1879 5 : 0 1891 11 54
1880 3.94 1992 3 36
18.81 9.6311893 12 59
1882 5.23 1891 7.28
The rainfall for the entire year is now
just aDout the average. Up to August 1
there was a considerable excess, owing to
tlie heavy rains during July. There is
still, however, an excess since Jan. 1 of
a fraction over % of an inch.
The prevailing direction of Jhe wind
was southwest. The total movement was
4,534 miles, and the highest velocity it
reached was Hs miles an hour on the 11th.
There is no indication of a change in
thei character of the weather prediction.
This can be established as a matter of
fact by a reference to the weather predic
tions for the last month, which with the
exception of the wind direction have all
read about alike. Local rains with slight
changes in temperature are predicted
again for to-day. The maximum tempera
ture yesterday was 8(5“ and the mimimum
72% making the mean 7'.% which is 1°
in excess of the normal. The ac
cumulated excess of heat since .Tan. 1 of
this year is 84° above the normal for that
time.
OYSTERS WILL BE PLENTIFUL.
The Product of the Southern Beds
Will Be Large This Year.
There is a tradition that the oyster
season opens in the fall with the first
month in which the letter “r” appears.
This is little more than a tradition, how
ever, as within the last few years oysters
are served in almost every month in the
year. In the summer they are taken from
the deep water beds in the colder waters
and are not so heartily relished as in the
fall, spring and winter.
in the south, or at least in this part of
it, September is about as warm a month
as July or August, aud thus is little more
of an oyster month than either of the lato
spring or summer months.
The prospects point to a good oyster
season both in the south and in the oyster
waters further north. The beds around
Savannah, so far as they have been in
spected, are in good condition, and the
oysters promise to be plentiful
and of good quality. The Oernler
Oyster Company has a number of
beds in shallow water in Oyster creek
and elsewhere that will yield a large sup
ply. Its deep water beds, as is known,
are practically destroyed, or have become
non-productive by the dying out of tho
oysters. The Vernon Oyster Company’s
beds in the Vernon river are said to bo
tho best in this section, and will give a
large yield this year. The company was
organized two years ago, and this will be
the first year that the beds will have
been dredged. The supply is said to be
plentiful, from the observation of those
who have visited the beds and inspected
them. The company expects to market a
big crop later in the season.
in view of the interest that is taken
here in the oyster industry, anything in
regard to the condition of the northern
beds and the prospects for yields from
the Chesapeake and Delaware territory
is likely to be of interest. The only
thing the oystermen fear is that
like last winter the depression in trade
will close the oyster houses and stop
the sale among the working people. In
that case the price is likely to drop so low
that it will hardly pay to market them.
DIVISION NO. 4 ORGANIZED.
It Starts Off With Nearly Seventy
five Members—lts Officers.
Division No. 4 of the Ancient Order of
Hibernians was organized at. Hibernian
hall yesterday morning. The new divis
ion begins life with nearly seventy-five
members, and the prospects of having
a hundred members before the char
ter is closed, which will not be until
the expiration of thirty days. The new
division is composed of some tine material
and has a strong board of officers. The
officers are as follows:
President—J. J. Dillon.
Vice President—T. F. Gleason.
Recording Secretary—J. H. Gallahor.
Financial Secretary M. J. O’Leary.
Treasurer-N. J. Murphy.
The division was organized and the
officers installed by State President A. J.
Goulev of Augusta, assisted by County
Presidents P. M. Mulherin of Augusta
and T. ,1. O’Brien of Savannah. After
tin* installation of officers an address was
delivered by National President P. J.
O’Connor, explaining the aims and pur
poses of the order. Addresses were
also delivered by State President Gouley
and President Dillon and Vice-President
Gleason of the new division. Many of tho
members of the other divisions wore
present to see the liab.v division make its
start in life, and tlie occasion was a very
plousatit one.
tVhftn Baby was sick, we gars her Dastoria.
Milan she was a Child, she cried for (Astoria.
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria,
Buy a Lot on Eest Street.
I/)ts are well located, terms easy, and
prices cheap. .lobu L. Archer, US Bryan
street.— ad.
n Deinnilt tells mo he spends all his
time between Nee Voi-k and Pai
"Yes. He lives In Jersey, "—Elicit.
Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov’t Report
m&l Powder
Absolutely purs
NEWS OF THE SHIPS.
Maritime Matters of Local and Gen
eral Interest.
The Morning News shipping reports
show that there are thirteen steamships
and thirty-four sailing vessels cleared for
this port to arrive during September.
Eight of the steamships are chartered to
load cotton and one or more of the sailing
vessels will also take cargoes of cotton.
The shipping season is unusually late
this year on account of the lateness of
the cotton crop. Asa rule the work of
stowing cotton aboard ship is well under
way at this port by the middle of Sep
tember.
The Norwegian bark Augustina, Capt.
Larsen, ninety days from Danzic, ar
rived yesterday, in ballast, consigned to
Chr. G. Dahl & Cos. Th captain reports
having had head winds for the entire
three months of the passage.
The steamer Ethel, Capt. Carrol, from
Augusta, arrived yesterday, with a part
cargo of 127 bales of the new crop
cotton.
The British brig Romanoff has been
chartered to take a cargo of lumber and
r.avai stores from Savannah to Paysaudu.
The vessel was last reported having
sailed from Belfast, Aug. 1, for Chatham,
N. 8., for orders.
Thirty-four foreign sailing vessels have
sailed for this port and are due to arrive
during this month. The most of them
are chartered to take cargoes of naval
stores for Europe.
There is very little doing in coastwise
freights. There are only six schooners
up to arrive within the next ten days.
These will bring principally coal, and
load with lumber on return north of Hat
teras.
Two unknown foreign barks arrived at
Tybee yesterday afternoon, and will prob
ably come up to the city this morning.
Business in steam freights is reviving.
There are thirteen foreign steamships up
to arrive within the next two weeks, and
several others chartered, but not yet re
ported. One of these steamships will
load with naval stores: eight with cotton,
one or two with phosphate rock, aud the
others will arrive at Tybee for orders.
Orders have been issued from the cus
tom house, that no one will be allowed to
go on hoard of a vessel entering this port
from a foreign port, until the boarding
officer has first made his inspection of the
vessel. Frequent complaints have been
made, that runners for mercantile estab
lishments, stevedores, watchmen and
others crowd on board of the vessels be
fore the custom house officer has com
pleted his duties.
The Treasury department has issued a
circular to the collectors of customs stat
ing that in reference to the recent order
enforcing the readmeasurement of Nor
wegian vessels entering American ports,
only those vessels which have had their
certificates of admeasurment changed to
comply to the royal decree of the Nor
wegian government will be readmeasured.
Those holding the old certificates will be
allowed to enter as usual.
Among the recent improvements made
in the London West India docks is anew
entrance lock 480 feet long, with a uniform
deptli of thirty feet of water over the sills,
connecting the river with the basin, and
allowing the largest vessels which go up
the Thames to enter the docks. In letting
in the water a novel device is used to pre
vent cross currents. The water is ad
mitted through openings at the bottom of
the dock, covered by metal disks, as in a
bath.
The British government is testing a
new plan for signalling at sea. It con
sists merely of an ordinary gong fastened
to the bow of the ship below the water
line. This acts as a transmitter, and the
receivers are gongs of exactly similar
tone and rate of vibration, one on each
side of the ship below the water line. The
receiving gong will take up and repro
duce the sound of the sending gong from
a lang distance. Signals already have
been clearly transmitted ten miles.
The hydrographic office of the navy at
Washington, D. C., is in receipt of an
ocean current report that was thrown
overboard from the British steamship
Maine, ('apt. Borquet, Oct. 13, 1891, in
north latitude 48 40, west longitude 21 34,
a positition on the transatlantic steamer
routes about 4r>o miles southwest
from the coast of Ireland. It was found
Dy Mr. Hobert Gray on the eastern side
of Great lnagua island, Bahama, May 8,
1804. In this interval of thirty-one
months the bottle containing this report
most likely skirted the coast of Europe
and Africa, and then crossed the Atlantic
west in the equatorial current, drifting
about 5,000 miles.
During the past few years the Italian
merchant marine has been increased by
some very tine steel shins and barks,
which have been built in that country
under the stimulus of the subsidy which
that government grants builders and own
ers of merchant vessels. One of the lat
est of these vessels is the steel ship Aus
tralia which arrived at New York Aug.
24 from Baltimore. The Australia was
launched at Sestri Ponente, Italy, in May
last, and is classed 100 A. I. in Lloyds.
Her dimensions are: length 248 feet 8
inches, breadth of beam .'is feet 2 inches,
depth of hold 21 feet 7 iuches, and she
registers 1,640 tons net. Tne Australia
was towed from Baltimore by the Phila
delphia tug E. V. McCaulley. and the run
was made in the short time of fifty-four
hours. She will load on the lino for
Australia.
TO ABSUMK A PULPIT.
The First African Baptist Church’s
New Pastor.
The First African Baptist church,
worshipping at West Broad and Bolton
streets, extended a call last week to liev.
M. W. Gilbert, ex-president of the Flor
ida Baptist Academy of Jacksonville,
Fla., to become its pnstor. Although ho
was elected to the presidency of the
State University of ljiuisville, Ky., yet
he tins declined this fluttering olTer au l
has decided to accept the call to Savan
nah.
Kev. Gilbert is a graduate of Colgate
University of Hamilton, N. Y., in the
elass of 1887, with the degreo of A. 8.. be
iug the only colored student at that time
in that institution. During his sophomore
year ho won the first Kingsford pri-e in
oratory. He has been pastor at Nash
ville and Jacksonville, and %as been en
gaged iu the educational work hi Florida
lor three years. In 1830' his aluia
mater conferred upon him A. M.
He will be installed in his new postorate
to-morrow night. Nearly all of the col
ored Baptists ministers in the city will
take part in the services. The installa
tion sermon will be by Rev. J. J. Durham
of the Second Baptist church.
THE SKIDAWAY BRIDGE.
Why the Commissioners Will Not
Have it Built at Present.
It is pretty well settled that the con
templated bridge to Skidaway Island will
not be built.
The committee on roads and bridges
from the county commissioners has not
yet made up its report on the matter, but
the budget committee has not recom
mended any levy for the purpose along
the line suggested and recommended by
the grand jury, and it is safe to say that
this means there will be no favorable rec
ommendation and no bridge for the pres
ent at least.
The showing made to the effect that
the proi ert.y on the island paid the
county only about .*SO taxes a year has
undoubtedly had some effect, and the
general sentiment seems to be that the
expenditure for the purpose of building
the bridge is not warranted.
In his report on the matter, Maj. R. A.
Blanford. the county engineer, stated that
the principal thing to be considered in the
construction of such a bridge was the
wind pressure and the wave action. He
stated that he did not think a bridge
built after any of the plans submitted to
the commissioners would resist such a
storm as that of Aug. 27,1893.
The report on the building of the bridge
will, in all probability, be an adverse one.
LOCAL PERSONAL.
Capt. W. W. Williamson has returned
to the city.
Mrs. M. L. Boyd has gone to Dalton for
the balance of the summer.
Mr. J. S. Silva left for the north yester
day on the Kansas City.
Mr. T. Ballantyne left for the north
yesterday on the Kansas City.
Mr. B. M. Garfunkel left on the Kansas
City yesterday for New York.
Miss Kate Naughtin left for New York
yesterday on the Kansas City.
Capt. Brooks returned from the north
yesterday on the Chattahoochee.
Mr. E. R. McKethan has returned after
a mouth’s visit to Fayetteville. N. C.
Rev. F. H. Carson was a passenger on
the Chattahoochee from Boston yester
day.
Capt. E. P. Howell was a passenger on
the Kansas City for New York last
night.
Mr and Mrs A. N. Manucy and family
left for the north yesterday on the Kan
sas City.
Mr. G. W. Calvin, clerk of the United
States court at Augusta, is in the city for
a few days.
W. E. Bebnken of B. H. Levy & Bro.
is lying very ill at his residence, Henry
and Jefferson.
Mr. and Mrs, C. S. Connerat and fam
ily returned from the north yesterday on
the Chattahoochee.
CITY BREVITIES.
The Georgia Historical Society will
hold its September meeting to-night.
The Telfair Hospital, which has been
closed during the summer, will reopen to
morrow for the reception of patients.
New York Sunday World Features.
The New York Sunday World of Sept.
2 contains the following: The words and
music of tlie popular composer's latest
song Dear Louise, by the author of Sweet
Marie, written especially for the Sunday
World: Belles of the Summer Re
sorts, a striking page of the most beauti
ful girls at the various watering places
this season; attractive illustrations,
Sparkling Humor and colored cartoons.
All the news of the week. For sale at
Kstill's News Depot, Bull street,
—ad.
BALTIMORE PARK BURNED.
Grand Stand and Exposition Build- I
insrs Destroyed by Fire.
Baltimore, Md., Sept. 2.—The grand j
stand, exposition buildings and other ad
jacent buildings at Pimlico, Baltimore's
famous race track, were burned to-day.
The tire started in one end of the grand
stand and had gained considerable head
way before it was discovered. Several
fire engines repaired to the scene,
but were of little or no service—•
the huge wooden structure burning
like so much tinder. The destroyed prop
erty occupied nearly a quarter of a mile
and extended on either side of the grand
stand. The club house and stables are
some distance removed from the grand
stand, and were saved. The total loss is
estimated at $50,000 and is insured. The ''
origin of the fire is unknown.
Pimlico track is owned by the Mary
land State Agricultural Society and is by
them leased to the Pimlico Driving Club.
Immediate steps will be taken to re
place the burned buildings with more
modern structures.
SOMETHING OF A SENSATION.
An Augusta Priest Attacks Gambling
in Private Homes.
Augusta, Ga., Sept. 2.—Father Calla
han's sermon at Sacked Heart church
created something of a sensation to-day.
He attacked vigorously the sin of gam
bling and said he bad heard of private
gambling parties in certain private homes.
Teacher -What is the nearest approach to
nihilism in America?
Tommy—Alaska —Truth.
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CAN YOU SEE
The good bargains we are
offering you in Suits? If
you have not noticed them
call, by all means, and
do so. We have placed
amongst them a lot of
suits carried over from
last winter; some of them
sold for $lO and sl'2; all
down to the same nomi
nal figure to make room
for our fall and winter
goods.
APPEL & SGHAUL,
MERCHANT TAILORS,
Clothiers, Furnishers and Hatters.
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