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“SMITTY” CARRIED A KNIFE.
VIRGINIA WILLIAMS' Rl: ASO A FOR
STABBING HKR PAH AMO I H.
The Carowr’a Jury Ihartri llcr
With lluritrr—Tlte M oilln 11 Trlr.
to Impliralr John I hUhiilm iai the
Klllinu —She Mtltl i hiaholm Tulil
Ilrr “JmlMy" IZnrt a Knife and
Gave llrr Hl* Knife to tut Him
At Itli.
The coroner's jury brought in a ver
dict of murder against Virginia Williams
for the killing of James Henry Smith in
Y’amacraw. an account of 'which was
given in the Morning News yesterday.
The inquest was begun at 3:30 o’clock
yesterday morning, and lasted until 5
o'clock. The verdict was arrived at very
shortly after the conclusion of the evi
dence. The jury was composed of three
white and three colored men.
The woman will he transferred to the,
jail this morning. She was put upon the
stand by the coroner and admitted the
killing, but claimed that Smith had struck
at her first with a knife. She did not In
tend to kill him when she struck at him,
she said.
The woman Is now trying to Implicate
John Chisholm, the main witness against
he*, as an accessory to her crime. She
claims that it was Chisholm s knife w ith
which she stabbed Smith, and that after
the stabbing she gave the knife back
to Chisholm, who followed her w hen she
ran. and asked for the knife. The knife
could hot be found unywhere by the po
lice. She had been Chisholm's mistress,
she said, before she took up with Smith.
She complained do Chisholm of Smith’s
refusal tw give her the pawn ticket for
her shoes which he had, and that he
had threatened her. Chisholm told her,
she said, that “Smitty” had a knife, and
lent her his knife.
Both the dead man and his mistress
were tough customers. ’’Smitty,” as they
call him, was a gambler in Bull alley and
on the canal hank. The Williams woman
was a dancer In Bud Lawson's and Tom
Golden's places, and is said to have been
especially good on Jigs. She is liable to
dance her nest Jig at the end of a rope.
The woman has several scars from knife
wounds about the head and arms. About
eighteen months ago she wus badly cut
up by Laura Harris, another dance house
character, in one of the dives. The Har
ris woman wgs convicted In the superior
court of assault and battery, and was
given a six months' sentence on the gang.
The several homicides which have oc
curred in Savannah recently have so ex
cited the minds of the public on this line
that naturally rumors of killing in every
direction are easy to be heard of. There
was a persistent rumor in circulation ail
of yesterday that an engineer had been
killed by a fireman on one of the river
boats.
A Morning News reporter first heard
It In the morning from a policeman who
had heard It from another policeman.
Every policeman who was met after that
had heard something about it. The re
port reached the barraegs and an inves
tigation was made, with the result that
nothing of the kind could be discovered.
Nevertheless, the rumor continued In cir
culation, and by afternoon had reached
Tybee and the suburban resort.
It was stated by some that the engineer
of the McCauley had been killed by the
fireman. Others had it that It was the
engineer of the Vigilant who had been
killed by a fireman, and some even went
so far as to give particulars,'stating that
the crime had been committed with a
hammer. Chief McDermott isaid last
night that nothing of the kind had oc
curred. The tug boat Forest City came
up the river in the afternoon. She left
the McCauley, which had taken the
schooner H. B. Kerhn to sea, at anchor in
the roads.
There was another rumor last night
that a negro inan had cut his throat in
u gambling game across the river. Noth
ing of the kind was reported to the po
lice, however.
w A\T To hear PATTmot.
The Meeting To-tluy to Invite Him
to Snvnnnuh.
Business men should not forget the
Meeting at the city exchange at noon to
day to consider the advisability of ex
tending an Invitation to Hon. Josiah Pat
terson of Tennessee to speak In Savan
nah upon the question of sound money.
Mr. J. S. Collins, one of the delegates
who attended the sound money convention
at Memphis, said yesterday that lie was
even more pleased with the address of
Congressman Patterson to the conven
tion than he was with that of Secretary
Carlisle. Mr. Patterson's exposition of the
subject, he said, was so clear and so
simple that oven a child could understand
it.
The majority of business men In Savan
nah. while favoring sound money as a
principle, will readily confess that they
do not pretend to understand the subject
In Its details. It would be a great advan
tage to all who favor sound money to be
able to listen to the views of a man so
thoroughly, acquainted with the subject
as Congressman ratterson, and the effect
would also be good upon those who are
wavering and in doubt on the subject .
MRS. JA\E LINDSAY OK AD.
Her Life Kmled nt Four Score and
Two Years.
Mrs. Jane Lindsay died at her resi
dence, No. $2 South Broad street, yes
terday morning.
Mrs. Lindsay and her husband, James
Lindsay, who was a victim of the yellow
fever of 1876, came to this country many
years ago from the north of Ireland and
settled in Michigan, afterwards went to
New York city, and came frem there t to
Savannah.
After the death of her husband Mrs.
Lindsay gave herself more to the work of
Charity. She was a devoted and consistent
member of the First Presbyterian church,
and she was noted for her kindness to
the poor. She was a liberal giver to all
■worthy causes. She died at the age of 82,
and will be missed by a large circle of
friends and acquaintance.
Four children survive her—Miss M. J.
Lindsay, Mr. W. J. Lindsay, Mrs. O. \V.
Allen and Mrs. C. S. Wood. The funeral
will take place this afternoon at 4:30
o'clock from the First Presbyterian
church.
Nearly every one needs a good tonic
at this season. Hood's Sarsaparilla is the
one true tonic and blood purifier.—ad.
The best schedule to Asheville and
Western North Carolina resorts Is via
Central railroad of Georgia.
Round trip tickets now on sale. Apply
to W. G. Brewer, City Ticket Agent, 19
Bull street.—ad.
A 35 1-3 Per Cent Discount Sale
Would not reduce competitors’ prices to
the low level made by Kohler, at 140
Broughton, oa the fine clothing and fur
nishings offering there. Big bargains in
light weight clothing.—ad.
AN OLD LANDMARK GONR.
The House at Hull nml llarmril
Street, an lllstorle Sirsrtare.
The old brick building at the northeast
corner of Barnard and Hull streets which
has just been demolished to make way
for four elegant and modern houses that
arc to be erected there was full of his
toric interest.
older residents of Savannah sometimes
speak of their fathers' having told them
about there being forests out In that
section, and many of thorn fell, them
selves. about having seen the swamp and
marshy land that used to cover that sec
tion of the city.
When this old structure was built It
was on the outskirts of the town, and was
one of about a dozen buildings built about
lhat time, the like of whh'h could not
tie found in any other city in this coun
try.
The house was built about 183(1 by Rob
ert Habersham, Esq., wno died back In
the later sixties. As an evidence of the
boom that was on In Savannah at that
time. Mi. William Neyle Habersham, son
of Mr. Robert Habersham, says his father
gave for the lot on which the house stood.
35,000, and then put up the building at a
cost of 130,000. During the panic of 182!
.Mr. Habersham sold both the house and
lot for $5,000, or just one-fifth of what the
property cost him three or four years
before.
In these days, however, there are more
people to buy real estate than there
were at that time, and in consequence
values are kept up better even during
a panic or period of depression. Shortly
after the property was sold by
Mr. Habersham It was owned
by a Mrs. Maxwell, who kept a
hoarding house there for a number of
years. Mrs. Maxwell sold it to Mr. Aaron
Champion. Mf. ' Habersham says, also,
that the house was at one time occupied
by the Berriens.
Savannah then had only fl.OOtl inhabitants
but an immense trade was being opened up
through the coming of settlers into the
state and the town, by reason of Its wa
ter routes along the coast and the Savan
nah, Ogecchoe and Altemaha rivers,
was growing rapidly. The building of the
railroad from Charleston to Augusta a
few years after, and even before that.
Charleston putting on steamers, then a
new means of travel and traffic. took the
wind out of little Savannah and property
went down. After Mr. Habersham sold
the house and lot he bought the building
on the west side of Orleans square now
known as the Haberstyanv house, which
was built by Mr. Noble Jones Bulloch, for
SB,OOO, a property that had cost Mr. Bul
loch $60.0(10.
It may not he going out of the way to
mention that from 1830 to 1830 the census
showed no Increase in the population of
Savannah. In 1831 the project of building
the Central railroad and other public im
provements started a revival In business
and the city again began to grow.
The old house Just demolished was a
type of the solid buildings erected In me
early part of the century, during the pe
riod from 1812 to 1830. when the Scarbo
rough house, now the West Broad street
colored school house, the Thomas house,
the Habersham and Savage houses, the
latter the one Just demolished, and so
called because It was occupied by the
Savage family for many years, the the
ater, the Chatham Academy, the old In
dependent Presbyterian church, the old
residence.at Perry and Drayton streets,
for a long time the Roman Catholic Epis
copal residence, and later the home of the
Little Sisters of the Poor, built by Samuel
Parkman, the Telfair mansion, now the
Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences,
the Gordon house, built by Associate Jus
tice Wayne of the I'nlted States supreme
court, at that time a judge of the supe
rior court of Chatham county and other
historic residences of old Savannah, which
are full of memories of three quarters of
a century ago, were built.
K. P. lIAVIB LOSKS A LEG.
He FeU VVliHe Trying to .lump on n
Moving Trnln nt Tyliee.
Mr. E. P. Davis, a well-known young
man employed at the office of Agent R. G.
Trezevant on the Central railroad wharves,
met with a serious and painful accident
about 7:30 o'clock last night as the Tybee
train was leaving the Island.
He went down with one or two friends
on the afternoon train, and was standing
on the platform in the rear of the Hotel
Tybee, waiting to fakb the up-eomlng
train. One of bis friends with him
jumped on the train as it came up to the
platform without waiting for It to stop.
Mr. Davis thought to do likewise and
reached out for the railing on the other
und of the car as It came along.
The train moves rather rapidly up to
the platform and stops by the means of
air brakes. Davis caught the railing with
one band, but missed the other hold and
fell down between the platform and the
railroad track. A crowd was standing
around at the time, and Charley Von-
Camp, who was nearby, caught hold of
his arm to pull him out of the way
of the car wheels. This undoubtedly
aaved Davis' life, though Ills right leg
was caught under the wheel amt almost
severed Just above the ankle.
Davis was taken upon the platform un
til a stretcher could be brought. l>r. K.
H. Nichols was called to attend him 'and
administered opiates to relieve the pain
until he could lie brought to the city for
treatment. Davis retained his conscious
ness, and though the wound was a very
painful one, he stood it well.
The train was held until the Injury
could be temporarily fixed, when he w;ls
brougjit up to the city and taken to the
Savannah hospital for treatment. The
opinion last night was that he would lose
his leg t*>tween the ankle and the knee.
His effort to get on the moving train seems
to have been the clluse of the accident.
Davis is about 24 years old. He Is from
Montgomery, Ala., and has been in this
city about two years In the employment
of the Central railroad, first in the billing
office and later on the wharves.
MASTERS MAY' ESCAPE VET.
Chief McDermott linn Done All He
Could to Get Him.
Chief McDermott dirt not reply to the
telegram of Chief Brenning of San Diego,
Cal., yesterday in reference to Masters,
the International Migration Society’s de
faulting agent, under arrest at that place.
He made no reply because of lack of In
formation. The letter from President
Flummer of the Migration Society referred
to in his-telegram, did not arrive and so
Chief McDermott does not know what tile
society is willing to do in the way of bring
ing Masters back.
He will not know until this afternoon
whether the county is willing to pay the
expense of bringing him baek here. Chief
McDermott is beginning to regret now
that he took any steps to secure Masters'
arrest, as If Masters is not brought baek
here he fears It will put him in a bad light
with the police officials who brought about
his arrest.
Solicitor General Fraser said yesterday
that he would address a communication
to-day to the chairman of the county com
missioners. requesting him to bring the
matter to the Immediate attention of the
board.
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1895.
BANKERS TO MEET BY THE SEA
miMMiL ISIS I K* Til RK niftCl'ftS
KIJ AT RK I AS WICK.
f lt* (icoruia Hunker*’ A RRoeiu t ion
to Re Held THU Week—lt Wn
Held In *a%aninuh Fast %*ar—Tli**
IMufe Hank u*t lon Prominent
Among the Untlrrn to Re
ed— ( Home Financial l(eolutioiiM
peeled.
The fourth annual convention of the
! Gtorjna Hanker?’ Association will bo hell
at Brunswick Wednesday and Thursday
I of thl6 week, and it Is expected that sev-
I eral of Savannah’s prominent bankers
mill attend.
The convention last year was hold in
this city at the L>e Soto, and was attended
! by banking men from all parts of the
* state. These meetings are being given
! increased attention every year, and es
pecially at this time on account of the
. important financial Issues which are oon
j fronting the country.
The convention will meet In the city
i hall at Brunswick and will be called to
; order at 9 o'clock Wednesday morning by
President T. B. Neal of Atlanta. The
itmmlttee has prepared an excellent in
vitation and programme for the meeting,
and there will no doubt be an Interest
ing discussion of the financial questions
which are now attracting so much atten
tion.
The address of welcome will be made
by Mr. W. E. Kay, a prominent attorney
of Brunswick, to which the response will
be made by Air. L. C. Hayne. President
Neal's annunl message will no doubt
touch on the questions of finance, anj
this will be followed by the report of the
executive council, to be made by Chair
man John A. Davis of Albany. The re
ports of Treasurer Cabaniss and Secre
tary Hlllyer will then be heard, after
which will come an address.on “Intem
perance In the Bank” by Mr. John H.
Reynolds.
The subject of what will no doubt be
an interesting paper by Mr. H. W. Iteed,
will be “Some past financial systems and
lessons gleaned therefrom,” after which
Mr. G. Gtinby Jordan of Columbus will
discuss the question, “Are we ready for
state bank issues?” Mr. Jordan will be
remembered as having made one of the
strongest and most important addresses
delivered on the occasion of the meeting
of the convention here last June.
Mr. J. W. Cabaniss Is down for an ad
dress on a similar line, his subject being
"Is the repeal of the 10 per cent, tax on
state bank circulation desirable?" The
state bank question Is attracting consid
erable attention from the Georgia finan
ciers. and the convention will no doubt
attract some attention on this account.
It will be remembered thut the delegates
from Savannah to the sound money con
vention at Memphis agitated the state
bank question and tried to have a strong
resolution on the subject passed.
After the first day’s work of the con
vention the members of the association
w'lll be tendered a drive over the system
of shell roads around Brunswick by the
clearing house association of that city.
The second day's session will begin
Thursday at 10 o’clock In the morning,
and will open with a general discussion
and miscellaneous business. Whatever
resolutions on the financial questions that
may be offered will be considered at this
time. There ts little doubt that the Geor
gia hankers will discuss the financial is
sues and adopt some resolutions In that
connection. The Savannah bankers are
of the opinion that the resolutions will be
strong ones, and right In line with
sound money Ideas.
The concluding business of the session
will ho the selection of the next place of
meeting, and the election of officers for
the coming year. The executive council
will hold a meeting immediately after ad
journment to discuss its business for the
coming year. In the afternoon the
Brunswick Clearing House Association
will tender to the members and guests of
tho association an excursion around the
harbor, and In the evening a banquet will
be held at the Bt. Simons hotel, on St.
Simons Island.
The convention Is viewed with some Im
portance by the bankers of Savannah.
Especially Is this the case on account of
the agitation of financial questions all
over the country, and any action by the
convention will be given more attention
than would otherwise be the case.
WILL HAVE TO DO WITHOUT PRAY
ERS.
\o More Religious Services In the
Police Ilarrncks.
Sirs. Richard Webb did not hold rellji
ous services at the police lockup yester
day. A rule was recently adopted by the
police committee that no one shall be al
lowed admission in the lockup except
attorneys and newspaper reporters.
This is to put a stop to the constant
stream of relatives, friends and chance
acquaintances who have worried the po
lice officials no little by continued re
quests to see prisoners confined in the
station house. No exception was made
In favor of those bound on religious mis
sions or anybody else, even attorneys
and reporters are required to get special
permission from the officer in charge at
the barracks on the occasion of each visit.
Mrs. Webb called at the barracks at 4
o'clock as usual for the purpose of holding
religious services with the prisoners. She
was disappointed when Informed of the
new rule and endeavored to prevail upon
■ Chief McDermott to make an exception
in her favor, but the chief was inexorable.
“The rule is a necessary one,” said
Chief McDermott, in speaking with a
Morning News reporter. “The only place
in which services can be held is in the
corridor fronting the cells and by Sun
day afternoon this is crowdeej-with ih°
arrests which have been made since Sat
urday morning, drunken and half-naked
prisoners of both sexes. There is danger
of a general escape of the prisoners en
such occasions, as the turnkey has fre
quently to lock and unlock the door to
the corridor. If we had any place in
which such services could be convenient
ly held it would be a different thing, but
we haven't.”
In the opinion of the police officials the
religous serviced in the lockup are of
very little benefit to prisoners, most of
whom are of the case-hardened vari
ety.
THE DRAINAGE OF TYIIEE.
The Convicts Have Been There Too
Months Already.
The work on the Tybee Island drainage
is progressing very favorably, though it
is taking much longer to do the work
than was first supposed would be the
case.
The property owners on the island asked
for ft force of 25 convicts for one month.
Gang No. 2 was sent down, and has now
been at work on the drainage for two
months. It is likely that it will be kept
there another month before the necessary
work is completed.
There are now twenty-nine men in the
camp, and the work done appears so far
to have been quite effective. Many of th
pools of stagnant water have been drained
off, and the island is said to be In a more
healthy condition than it has been in
some time.
Cl YLEK SW AMP'S MONSTERS.
Gigantic lien.t nntl Reptile* That
Once Inhabited It.
The finding of the molar tooth of a mas
todon or some such antediluvian animal in
the Blandford canal in EstUl park has led
to considerable speculation among those
who have a geological turn, and the fur
tlfer digging of the canal will, no doabt,
be watched with interest to see If any
other parts of the animals of aeons of ages
ago are unearthed.
The tooth, a description of which has
been given by the Morning News, was
alone, which has led MaJ. Blandford
to the conclusion that it was lost In a com
bat between a couple of t{jose old-time
beasts, which might have been a mortal
one, for about a mile and a half further
up the canal, he found a short time ago
an enormous vertebra. It was only imper
fectly fossilized, but Its form was well re
tained. and it was more than eight Inches
across. This he has on exhibition at his
office. It is supiK—l that after the fight
in which his mast "lonic highness lost his
tooth further down the canal, he walked
up through tho swamp, and died therg
about 20,000 year ago, the single vertebra
being all that was left to tell the story.
It was in the latter part of the quarter
nary period, sometime after this memora
ble event that the mastodon came on and
took up his quarters In Cuyler swamp.
Scientists would say perhajis that It was
about 2,300 or 3,0(i years later. Rot mind
ing the addition of a few thousand years,
when It comes to estimating a geological
period. They cut a hole in the ground,
get out a cross section of the earth, and
how long ago the animal lived depends to
a certain extent on how far down they
find the fossil. Cuyler swamp being
nearly down to the sea level may be In
this way considered below the surface of
the earth as compared with higher alti
tudes. Along with the mastodon or about
that time arc said to have come the me
gatherium and the megalosaurus, the
pterodactylus, or living reptiles, a picture
of which the scientists have drawn al
though they have never found anything
but one or two bones that they couldn’t
do anything else with, so they decided It
must belong to a different animal from
those already discovered. With that sup
jtosltion at hand some bright scientist
went ahead and drew the picture. If he
has made a mistake he stands In no danger
of being corrected.
Cuyler swamp is a great place for birds,
and it 'must be that It had its share of the
ante-dlluvlan variety along with the ant
eating megatherium. Probably the tre
mendous iothyornls victor wltji his long
sharp teeth flourished there, and made a
sport of catching sharks for dainty bits,
when he was not on a hunt for bigger
game. There is no telling what may not
yet be found In the old swamp. It always
was considered a curious place, and It
may bo that some old fossilized animal as
yet unknown to science will be unearthed.
THE WORK AT THE THEATER.
Supt. Kessler Demonstrates That
Is Biot Afrntil of the Spooks.
The work of tearing out the old theater
ts progressing very favorably and It Is
expected that the property will be ready
In a day or two for the work of construc
tion to begin.
Supt. Gedrge Kessler has kept a force
of about twenty hands at work on the
dismantling during the last week, and
Architect Frank Cox Is expected down
wdthin a day or two to start the work of
construction off.
Supt. Kessler spends his nights in the
old building using the up stairs dressing
room on the Hull and Drayton street cor
ner. This is mentioned as a matter of in
terest, because Manager Johnson said
sometime ago that he had never been able
to get anyone to sleep In the building on
account of Its ghoulish reputation. He
said he tried time and again to get some
one to sleep there, but an effort was all he
ever got out 6f anyone. All of those who
had anything to do with the old building
persisted In the statement that It was
haunted, and none of them wanted to
stay there.
Every now and then an old programme
of some play which took place place at
the theater some fifteen, twenty or thlrty
years ago comes to light. In the season
of 1874-75 the programmes were published
In a small paper called “Every Evening.”
One of the programmes Is dated Thurs
day, Dec. 17, 1874, and glve9 on account
of the production of the “Marble Heart'”
by E. B. Brown's dramatic company. The
principal actor was J. 11. Huntley, but In
the entire list there are none of any par
ticular reputation to-day.
Those were days when traveling was not
as easy as it is now and a company usual
ly made from three day* to a week's stand
in a town. The other programme is In
the same publication dated Thursday, Feb.
4. 1875, and gives an account of Edwin
Adams' dramatization of Tennyson’s beau
tiful Enoch Arden, In which Adams was
the star. Beneath the cast of characters
is given a synopsis of the play. The Ev
ery Evening w as published at the office of
the Morning News.
i nK YEARS FOR KIWIVG AWAY.
A Convict Wiih n Record ns n Fugi
tive From the Gnus-
The case of Tom Young, who was sent
up from the city court for escaping from
the chain-gang, receiving a six months
addition to his former sentence, is inter
esting.
Young's original sentence was twelve
months, but he has already served nearly
live years on the gaqg for no other crime
than escaping. He was sent up from the
superior court in 1890 on conviction of lar
ceny from the house, tie escaped before
his sentence had expired, and was given
six months more. He escaped again and
pretty soon began getting twelve months
at a dtp for running away. He escaped
a few days ago from the gang which was
at work on Tybee Island, waa arrested
shortly afterwards, and given six months
more by Judge MacDonell.
Young’s term of twelve months for his
previous escape would have expired in
July, but it seems he was impatient and
could not wait for It. He* will conse
quently have the pleasure of spending six
months more on the gang, in addition to
his former sentence.
CITY BREVITIES.
The water will be shut off this morning
at 9 o'clock on Whitaker street from Hull
to Taylor street, for the purpose of tak
ing out hydrant. It will be off for a
short time.
I nderwrar anil Yrgllgfr Shirts
At Kohler's, 110 Broughton, have been
greatly reduced. All straw hats and chil
dren's suits at big discounts.—ad.
For Over Fifty Year*.
Mrs. Winslow'* Soothing Syrup has been
used for children teething. It soothes the
child, softens the gums, allays all pain,
cures wind colic, and is the best remedy for
diarrhoea. Twenty-five cents a bottle.—ad.
It will pay tourists to write to the Hotel
St. Stephen, 50 East Eleventh street, New
York, for prices during summer. New
management, liberal restaurant service.—
ad
Highest of all ia Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report
K°>a]
ABSOLUTELY PURE
QUEER DICKS IN THE LOCK-UP.
It RlOlfi PRISONERS THE POLICE
HAVE TO DEAL NVITU.
The "Reunlnr*" Take Life In the
Station Hone a* Retell > a* If They
Were nt Home—A Prisoner Who
Went Into Hl* Cell Dreaneal Like a
Nabob nnd *'ll me Out Like a Tramp.
••Crnppln” Unit Lost Him Hl*
Clothe*. .
Some of the customers which the police
take in hand are curiosities and furnish
considerable amusement to the detectives
and police officials.
While a Morning News reporter was at
the station house early yesterday morning
talking with the Williams woman, who had
just been brought In for the killing of her
lover, Henry Smith, another prisoner from
the scene of the murder was ushered Into
the lockup.
The newcomer was a stout, short, black
fellow and very stylishly dressed. He was
evidently well-known to several of the pris
oners who greeted him with various excla
mations, referring to his clothes, and one
asked him If he had been on Broughton
street In the afternoon. The newcomer
paid no attention to these remarks. The
first thing he did was to drop down at
the Williams woman’s cell and hold a
whispered conversation with her for a
minute or two, evidently giving her some
advice, and then he proceeded to make
himself comfortable.
Chief McDermott was asked about thfk
fellow yesterday.
"Why, that's Harry Bailey,” replied the.
chief. “We had him arrested last week
for stealing watches on the Beaufort ex
cursion. Grant Harris, who was sent up
for stealing the watches, claimed that he
got them from Bailey, but there was not
sufficient evidence to convict him. and he
was released. Harry made me laugh when
he came out. When we arrested him he
was decked out in style, straw hat, pink
shirt, check trousers, tan shoes and every
thing else. He came In here after being
released Saturday afternoon. He was
In his stocking feet, bareheaded, had oh
an old shirt and an old pair of pants. /
“ ‘Why, Harry,’ said I, ‘where's yqdr
clothes?’ 1 1
“ ‘Been crappln’,’ he said. ‘Boys won
’em all away from me over at the jail. I
come over here to beg you for that old
Just come over here to beg you for that old
The chief never goes back on an old
acquaintance, and he endeavored to ac
commodate Harry, but somebody else had
got the shoes, and Harry had to go with
out. Being an industrious youth, how
ever, he was not long In equipping himself
with new toggery, and when Officer Scully
met him at the scene of the murdel - after
midnight he was nearly as well equipped
as he was when arrested a few days be
fore. He had just sold a fine pair of shoes
t a shoemaker for 75 cents. Evidently
Saturday night had been a good one with
him.
Harry made a great mistake in expos
ing his poverty stricken condition at the
barracks earlier in the day, otherwise he
might not have been suspected of coming
by this new outfit feloniously. Officer
Scully sent him in, but unless some claim,
ant for his apparel turns up soon he will
get out of this scrape as easily as he did
the other.
"A couple of years ago I was out along
the docks early one morning looking for a
man I had a warrant for," said the chief,
“when I ran across Harry with a big
bundle under his arm.
“Hello. Harry, where you going with
that bundle?" I asked.
"Just taking It to a gentleman down to
de dock, boss.’
“Let's see what you got there.”
*‘l’s In a big hurry, boss.”
“Hurry nothing,” said I, “let’s see that
bundle. He had two dozen undershirts ip
It. He said he got them from a man who
had Just bought out a stock from another
party. I told him I would take them
there and see whether he was telling the
truth.
“ 'Tain't no use, boss,’ he said. 'He
don't know what he's got. He can't tell.’
“I took the undershirts to the party and
found that Harry had told the truth. The
man hart taken no Inventory of stock and
didn’t know whether the undershirts I had
recovered belonged to him or not. That’s
the sort of a slick worker Harry is. He
never came back after the undershirts,
though, and as they were, not very good
ones, I gave them away to the boys in the
neighborhood, who were not so particular
as to what they wore.”
W HAT THE "SO FEME" LAW MEANS
It Menna Hetler Drainage and Good
Health for the County.
The report of the Dry Culture commit
tee to city council, dated Jan. 29,1824, and
published in the Savannah Republican of
July 4, 1824, furnishes unequivocal evi
dences of the beneficial Influence the dry
culture system and drainage exerted upon
the sanitary condition of the city after an
operation of three years. Previous to that
time the humidity of the atmosphere was
so great "that during the long flow upon
the rice a person, after being exposed for
a short time at night, could wring water
from his locks of hair hanging below his
hat. The average mortality of the white
population for the three last years of wet
culture, 1815, 1816, 1817, was one in 14.2,
whereas the average for the three years
of dry culture, 1821 ,1822, 1823, was one in
31.3.
The continued sanitary improvement,
and the resulting rise in the property of
the city is, therefore, to be ascribed to dry
culture and draihage, by which the hu
midity of our climate w-as reduced. The
county commissioners are now seeking to
perfect a system of drainage which will in
evitably be followed by similar results.
Moisture is greatest in the river valleys,
and cities located In them are the most
unhealthy, particularly those on the sea
coast. These suffer most frequently from
visitations of yellow fever. Savannah is
so situated, and, therefore, Chatham
county, above all others, requires per
fect drainage. Nothing should be per
mitted to hinder its realization, hence
away with the present fence law, with
Its roaming cattle, which destroy the
efficiency of the drains* Not one of the
six largest cities in Georgia, except Sa
vannah, is situated in a county still re
taining that pernicious law. Yellow fe
ver is an indigenious disease. It may
be brought here and remain sporadic, but
epidemics will only occur in wet and
warm seasons. In June of the year of
our last epidemic we had the enormous
rainfall of 18.8 (jhches, or nearly throe
times the normal precipitation. During
the twenty-four hours of June 14 we had
a fall of 4.16 inches, and It contijiuetf
above the normal during July. Had Chat
ham county been at that time already
blessed with the perfect system of drain
age contemplated by the county commis
sioners, A recommended by the county en
gineer, by means of which this deluge of
water could have been promptly
carried off it Is probable the city might
have escaped the loss of a thousand of
her citizens, and the other disastrous ef
fects of an epidemic. Immunity In the
future may be secured by perfect drain
age, and it Is of more importance than
quarantine.
The indifference of the average citizen
In the approaching election seems phenom
enal, I have been told. “Hav
ing no Interest either way, and
no fear of yellow fever. I am not going
to put myself to any trouble to register,
or to vote.” Or, in other words: “As I do
not think I shall be a victim myself, and
do not care enough for the city In which I
make a support, nor for her people, I shall
not exert myself In the least to promote
her prosperity, nor to save the lives of a
thousand of her citizens." A. Oemler.
RAIL AND CHOSSTIES.
Circular No. 247, Railroad Commission
of Georgia, appears elsewhere in this is
sue.
Receiver Comer of the Centißl will
attend the annual meeting of the South
ern Railway and Steamship Association
In New York to-morrow and Wednesday.
The train lunch arrangement, which has
long been a popular feature on §p*ie of
the English roads. Is being tried on some
western roads In this country. When
lunch time approaches a card Is distrib
uted, giving the passengers the choice cf
three lunches at different prices. Lunch
■No. 1 costs 75 cents and is as follows:
FPot of Boston baked beans, cold chicken,
'cold tongue, bread and butter, cofTee, pic
and cheese, celery. The portions served
are generous, and this lunch is quite suf
ficient for two. Lunch No. 2 costs 50
cehjji. ajjd consists of a pot of Boston
hakcd'bcans, tongue sandwich, ham sand
wich, pie and cheese, bread and butter,
coffee. Lunch No. 3 costs 35 cents, and
provides a ham sandwich, a tongue sand
wich, pie and coffee. When the passen
gers have indicated the kind of lunch
wanted, the attendant telegraphs the or
der to where the lunches are neatly
put up and placed on board the train.
•i
June 5 was the day set for commencing
the most daring and difficult engineering
work of the period, tha construction of
an electric railway to the summit of the
Jungfrau mountain, which pierces the
clouds at an elevation of 14,000 feet above
the sea. The line, which will be nearly
seyen and five-eighths miles in length, will
start at an elevation of 6,500 feet above
sea level, and will be largely bored through
solid rock, tho total length of tunnels
being five miles, one of these being nearly
two miles long. The cost of the road
is estimated at $1,600,000, and it is expected
that it will take five years to build It.
The annual meeting of the Southern
Railway and Steamship Association, which
will be held In New York Wednesday, will
be one of the most Important in Its history.
The chief work of the session will be the
framing of anew agreement. It Is believed
that the Seaboard Air Line will make ap
plication for admission to membership in
the association, and there is also a proba
bility that the Norfolk and Western Rail
road Company will also apply for member
ship.
The Savannah, Americus and Montgom
ery appears to be branching out all the
time. Its latest possessions, the Columbus
Southern and tjie Georgia Midland and
Gulf, are two Important connections. The
Columbus Southern extends from Alba
ny to Columbus, and in conjunction with
the Savannah. Americus and Montgomery
can be made a very valuable and paying
property. The Georgia Midland and Gulf
extends from Colufnbus to McDonough on
East Tennessee,,. Virginia and Georgia
'Griffin, pussing through the lat-
Thfre Is considerable Interest in the elec
tion for commissioner of the Southern
Railway and Steamship Association to
take place this week. Commissioner
Stahlman, it Is rutpored, 1 slikelv to have
opposition in Col. H. S. Haines, vice pres
ident of the Plant system.
The Herald.
The New York Herald of Sunday, Jupe
9, 1895, contains: A New Story by Arthur
Morrison entitled "The Lost Foreigner;”
Iu. e , IS9 I. Graduatlng Class of Princeton;
Shirley Dare on How to Be Beautiful and
HeaHhy; Bicycle Costumes In Children's
Dolls; all the news of the day. For sale
at Estill's News Depot, 21 Bull street
ad.
The Biexv York Sunday World.
The New York World of Sunday, June 9,
contains; Exploring the Garden of Eden
for Relics of Adam and Eve; Grand As
semblage of War Vessels of All Nations;
Donts for Bicyclists; A Machine to Meas
ure the Swiftness or Thought; Latest
Art Craze; all in the New Y’ork Sunday
YYorld. For sale at Estill's News Deoot
21*4 Bull street.—ad. ’
More Thau 25 Per Cent. Off
Of their present prices will be necessary
if others clothiers wish to equal our pres
ent low figures. All fine hats, suits and
furnishings reduced about 33V4 per cent nt
Kohler's, 140 Broughton.-ad.
N erj fine child, sir. I contrstiin*.
you. I don't hesitate to say
of the largest babies I have ever seen°-
"Make ft the largest, doctor '
—Brooklyn Life" affldavit edltor
Awarded
Highest Honors— World’s Fair
Da
BAKING
POWDtR
MOST PERFECT MADE.
A pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. Free
horn Ammonia, Alum or any other adulteiant,
40 YEARS THE STANDARD
Probabilities for Monday:' Show,
slight temperature changes; v *r.vi
winds. ’ r '*
■
MID SUMMER
DRGAN SALE.
HURRY UP-
If you want one of J
those superb Organs !
at Half Price.
They are going fast J
Fifty sold since May J
1. Buyers can't re- !
sist the Low Prices J
and extraordinary \
terms—
-50 CENTS-
Weekly buys one—
NOW.
LUDDEN & BATES j
*s*ssr
“Too
Thin.”
“It Won’t
Wash.”
“S’ang ’ expressions
of the past. Our
Washable BOYS’ SUITS
J n 1 EXTRA WASH
pants win wash,
hold their color and
look nice till worn out
and, being well made,
will wear well.
25 per cent. Discount on
SUITS for cash.
WASH PANTS, 4to 9,30 c,
10 to 15, 40c.
159 CONGRESS,
AfterSepL 1, inul 111 Bronghtoa.
One Million Dollars
Is the value of the plant of the Bergner
& Engel Brewing Company cf Philadel
phia, and their brewlngmaster receives s
salary of ten thousand dollars a year.
These facilities enable them to brew as
fine a beer as can be brewed anywhere,
and they do It.
They have twice been awarded the
Grand Prize at Paris. France, over Eu
ropean competitors.
We keep their beer, porter and ale ex
clusively on draught, and we deem their
products the finest in this city. You
should drink them for your health.
Call and get our prices on fine Bottled
YVhiskies, Gins, Brandies and Wines,
which wo sell in original packages cheap
er than anybody else.
CHAS. KOLSHORN & BRO.,
Pool, Reading and Lunch Room,
No. 170 BROUGHTON ST.
For Boys—*—'
Buy them some of
our fine qualities
nisi! sins.
Everybody is
pleased with
them except the
but she dent
kick much, as
they are easily
launderedThey
are neat and
durable and a
savingot money
flPPfl 8 SCHL
SEED peas;
AMm. ALL VARIETIES.
SKr TOUGH ON FLIES tfflf
For your poultry try MICA CBYSTAJ
UK IT, it aids digestion and otherwise id*
proves theip.
Hay, Grain, Bran and Feeds!“
T. J. DAVIS,
drain Dealer and Seedsman,
Phone, 5883. 156 Kay
Empty Molasses. Hogsheads
FOR SALE BY
c. M. GILBERT & CO.