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PART TWO.
\'A GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
m:\\?* of the two states toi.ij
IN PARAGRAPHS.
M( .i, \rcused of Stealing Church
Yoqoltted—Building Boom on n<
Fit .*• rnlil—All Atlanta Hotel Pro
prietor Dead—New Fourth Class
postmaster* in Georgia. ,
GEORGIA.
I, W Dimmick. proprietor of the Hotel
Arlington, at Atlanta, died Sunday night,
atier a week’s illness.
Fourth-class postmasters were appoint
ed Monday as follows: Malvern. Eraan
n.l county, Joseph VV. Kuleh; Univeter,
imokee county, D. A. Bynum.
Superintendent Welsh states that there
is more building being done at Fitzgerald
at present than at any previous time.
Tn re are more than a hundred good resi
d nces in course of construction inside the
, itv limits alone. Many who have been
living in shacks for two years are now
l, U i ,iing good-sized houses of eight and ten
I -ms. The new churches which are be
ing built are good-sized, comfortable look
int buildings, and are progressing rapid
)v The Fitzgerald Board of Trade has
i,-n reorganized and T. 3. Price elected
l>r. sldent, and H. G, Taylor secretary.
Two white men and a negro parson were
arraigned before Judge E. H. Orr at At
lanta Monday on the charge of stealing a
church. Mrs. Nannie Marcus, who lives
at 33 Windsor street, was the accuser.
After hearing evidence for more than two
hours, the Judge decided that no case had
Ken made out and dismissed the three
warrants. Mrs. Marcus claimed she
bought a lot in Tampa about four years
avo. which had a two-room house on it. A
couple of years after buying it she went
to inspect it and found the house missing.
Only a few timbers were left to show
where it had s-.ood. The building had been
used as a meeting place of Rev. Vaughn's
congregation, anti upon investigation she
concluded that the parspn, with the aid of
Smith and York, had torn down the edi
fice, carried it to Smith’s lot and used the
lumber in the erection of a barn. The
testimony, however, showed that the
house was blown down in a terrific wind
storm, and that the only lumber Smith
got from the place was some he had loaned
the Sandy Hill Protestant African Meth
odist congregation to aid them in building
pews and a pulpit.
FLORIDA.
Mrs. Catharine Lopez, a widow, of
Jacksonville, was burned to death Mon
day by the explosion of a lamp which she
was carrying.
The Georgia Southern and Florida depot
ni Sampson City was destroyed by fire
early Thursday morning. The fire was dis
covered about 4:30 o’clock, and the huiltß
ing was quickly consumed, .together with
5291 worth of freight.
Anew suit was instituted in the Circuit
Court at Jacksonville Monday by the Erie
Pity Iron Works of Erie, Pa., against the
city of Jacksonville for $3,048.22, with inter
est from Nov. 30 last. This is a suit for
electric light plant boilers^
Several car loads of drain pipes have
been delivered at Jupiter by the Florida
Last Coast Railway. They are to be plac
* and around the piles at the Jupiter bridge,
to protect them from the destructive tor
redo. The pipes will be filled with cement,
v\ hich will considerably help to strengthen
tlx* railroad bridge.
A. E. Pabor, secretary and manager.,of
tlie Editorial Resort and Home at Inter
lachen, passed through Jacksonville Mon.
• lay en route far home. He attended the
meeting ol the board of control of the
Editoria and of the executive committee
of the National Editorial Association, held
in Chicago on the 14th inst. After sub
ni.tting his first semi-annual report, show
ing the properties donated, the subscrip
tions paid in and the need of finances io
make certain needed improvements, the
executive committee decided ii had no
p aver to levy an assessment, and the mat
ter was laid over until the next meeting
of the national association, to be held in
Denver next September. After the ad
journment of the committee the board of
control held a meeting and voted author!.
* y to th e president and secretary to ar
range for a loan to carry on the enter
-1 fiso until the Denver meeting, when, it is
< pec ted, the Resort and Home will be
1' -t on a sound financial basis.
POLITIC S IN GEOHGIA.
Same .lone* nml llei-tier Now the
Theme of the lb itorial*.
Atlanta Constitution: Anyhow, we wel
come Mr. Jones into the arena. If he is
"•* outspoken as he usually ip, the fur will
and we shall have a campaign as at
tractive in many of its aspects as a cir
cus. t suall.v the sinners sit silent under
Mr. Jones’ home thrusts, each one flat
ering h'mself that its the other fellow
who is the victim. But in a political cam
paign the other fellow has the privilege
of talking hack, so that we confidently ex
r*-ct, before the season is over, to see the
English language improved and orna
mented by some new forms and combina
tions of choice Georgia dialect.
Macon Telegj.iph: Sam Jones has the
public guessing, I, he really a candidate
r ->~ governor, or is his declaration to that
effect, one of his Jokes? If he is in earn
est, does he expect to run. as Seab Wright
hd, as the candidate of the Populists and
the prohibitionists, with anew plank in
opposition to the free- school system? Be
and remembered that Samuel is opposed to
our public schools. For several years. In
<n- public addresses, he has almost Inva
riably made it a point to attack the sys
tem'. it can hardly be his purpose, if he
i- in earnest, to enter the Democratic pri
maries. and contest for the Democratic
nomination, for he has declared the odd
time that he was not a Democrat.
Atlanta Journal: Mr. Berner's entry
Into the Gubernatorial campaign compli
cates the situation. It is not to be, as
everybody a week ago thought it would be,
o contest between Col. Candler and Judge
Atkinson, but we now have a third candi
date in the person of one of the ablest
men In the state, a man who has done
the Democratic party and Georgia noble
service and whom many of his fellow-citi
ztns would delight to see in the Gulterna
torial chair. The campaign is becoming
more Interesting as it progresses, and the
public may rest assured that no small part
CEI)r lUoming iXcws.
mr * *
in it will be taken by the Hon. Robert L.
Berner, of Monroe.
Augusta Chronicle: Bob Berner has
about taken the wind out of Judge Atkin
son s sails, and now Sam Jones waltzes In
and distracts public attention still further
from Atkinson's promised announcement.
Augusta Herald: Mayor Meldrim says
the published announcements that he
might become the South Georgia candidate
for Governor of Georgia are merely news
paper flatteries. He would make a good
one Just the same.
Macon Evening News: It Is probable
that Berner’s coup made it necessary for
Judge Atkinson to revise his card of an
nouncement.
Augusta Herald: 800 Berner will at
leasts contribute some eloquent speeches
to the campaign.
til YTON NEWS.
Wrmli liiirton'* Birthday Observed.
Other Matter* of lntere*t.
Guyton, Ga., Feb. 22.—The Guyton High
School celebrated Washington's birthday
wlth appropriate exercises. The princi
pal, Prof. L. J. Fowler, and his assistant,
Miss Emmie Bird, have had the pupils in
training for several days. There was a
large attendance of patrons and friends of
the school present. Prof. Fowler made a
few remarks, touching upon the observ
ance of the day, after which an interest
ing programme was rendered.
A large crowd of young people met at
the Baptist Church Sunday afternoon and
organized a union.
S. H. Morgan of the firm of Morgan &
Griner left here this morning for Bryan
county to begin the removal of a large
sawmill, known as the Kinsey mill, to a
point on the Ogeechee river, near.Meldrim.
Mr. Morgan purposes to get the mill loca
ted near the Georgia and Alabama Rail
road.
AFFAIRS AT DUBLIN.
Organization of the Cndets—Other
Matter* of Intere*t.
Dublin, Ga., Feb. 22.—The Dublin Cadets,
the new military company, have perfect
ed their organization by eleeling Mayer
L.’ O. Stubbs captain,. C. M. Tyson, first |
lieutenant, and T. V. -Sanders, second lieu
tenant. By-laws have been adopted an.l
weekly drills will be held on Friday
nights. It is the wish of all citizens hero
tfyat the advisory board will admit the
company to the state militia.
Mr. L. B. Lanier has sold his stock of
dry goods, etc., to Day & Simmons, who
have been dealers in clothing and shoes
heretofore. The buyers have moved into
the store occupied by Mr. Lanier.
The old school building has been moved
two blocks, to the head of Jefferson street,
and is being fitted up as fire headquarters.
MONSTERS AMONG THE KITES.
Sonic of Them Are a* Rig n* Houses
nml Will Curry Men.
From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
While science, through the efforts of
William A. Eddy, Gilbert T. Wooglom,
and others, has taken the kite and made
it perform wonders at an elevation of
about two miles until it has become a
valuable scientific instrument, the every
day kite has not been neglected by the
laity. A monster kite now being built by
W. H. Markle of South Bethlehem. Pa., is
as big as a two-story house. It is twenty
five feet high, twenty-four feet wide, and
triangular in shape. The sticks are ot
white pine, five and one-half by two
inches, tapering to one and one-half inches
at the extremities. At the angles are two
inch screw- eyes to which are attached the:
canvas sail corners. Mr. Markle hag
flown the kite only once, so far, and then
it began to carry him up with it, sup
porting him steadily while he climbed
down hand over hand.
Another large kite has been built by
R. E. Ramsey, a cigar manufacturer of
Lebanon. Pa. It is eighteen feet by six
teen feet, and the top is ornamented with
gold stars and the lower part with red
and blue stripes. When he started it up
on a trial trip it ran away with him. anti
it took six men to hold it down.
A kite seventeen feet high and twelve
feet wide has been made by A. Andrews,
Arthur and Leon Bunnell, and Wallace
Cook of Terryvllle, Conn. It is covered
with fifty-four yards of canvas, and
weight fifty pounds, having a tail 124
feet long. It carries 2.0 W) feet of line,
and one day it dragged the boys, seated
in a light buggy, six miles down the road.
Fortune Labado of Nyaek, N. Y., has
made a folding kite on the umbrella plan,
offering gre-ai resistaneK and perfect star
bfiity. The'frame consists of toght ribs.
The tail is a cord with light canvas pock
ets, in which sand or pebbles are placed
for ballast.
Another large kite Is that of George
Thomson of Dudley Hill, Englafid. It has
a rib frame of ash. and is twenty-two feqf
high, fourteen feet wide, sixty-five fee}
in circumference, and weighs forty pounds.
Its tail is 125 feet long, and it takes four
men to fly It.
Remarkable Snlelile in a Rucker.
From the Daily News of London.
An inquest was held at Portsmouth Feb.
4 on the body of Henry Greay. an insur
ance agent, who was found dead the other
morning at his lodgings in Commercial
road with his head immersed in a bucket
of water, Mrs. Fowler, the landlady of
the that the deceased wor
rted a great deal about religion and had
taken part in a recent religious contro
\frsy. The following extraordinary let
ter, dated Wednesday night and signed by
the deceased, was found on a table near
the body.
"After waiting a long time for truth
to establish itself In me. and finding every
person, all hough admitting the injustice,
still lacking the courage to stand for the
truth, my spirits have sunk until I utter-*
despair, and as physically 1 feel unfit
ted for the battle of life and am weak an.l,
heartbroken. I am going to cut the cord.'
God wili Judge on that day. Therefore 1
have paid ill little outstanding accounts,
hut leave two weeks' tent besides, this
week, and £2 I owe to Mr. Gillham. who
has been a good friend to me. I am sorry
to do this here, as Mr. and Mrs. Fowlei
have been good friends to me.”
The writer went on to describe a Mr*.
Wood, who had nursed him. as his best
friend. Mrs. Wood, who lives at Wal
thamstow and was called as a witnes*,y
said the deceased in his letters to hsr
snowed himself to be almost "upside,
down” over religion. A verdict of suicide
while of unsound mind was returned.
SAVANNAH. GA.. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 211. ISOS.
GARDENING OVER A GEYSER.
Astonishing Growth of Vegetable*
111 Yellowstone Park Greenhouse.
Hrom the Pittsburg Dispatch
{Bother Nature has begun to experiment
with hot houses, and the very first one, as
well as. the only one in existence, is lo
cal; ff in Y’eilowstone park. A geyser fur
nishes gll that is needful to make tremen
dous growths, such as cucumliers ten feet
long, and the like. The hothouse, or green
house, as the gentleman who has charge
of it, W. P. Howe, terms it, is a model one
of its kind, although located away up in
the mountains of tire park. Nature furnish
es everything necessary to conduct it, ex
cept the building itself, giving heat, mois
ture and light.
If Mr. Howe wanted to compete at the
county fairs in the vegetable line,he would,
unless heavily handicapped, win all the
prizes. Such lettuce, cucumbers, radishes,
tomatoes -find other things to eat as the
firm of Nature & Howe grows are bigger
than the biggest fish story ever told. Al
most every one who has ever been to Yel
lowstone Park Hotel within the last year
will Temember the wonderful vegetables,
tjpr despite their size they are very deli
cate in flavor, although grown at an alti
tude of 7,400 feet, where Ice forms every
month all the year. Here Is what *Mr.
Howe’bays abdut it.
"Travelers who had been in every cli
mate on tbjs broad earth never before had
‘seen such a-sight. Lettuce, cucumbers, rad
ishes. tomatoes, mushrooms and the like
are growing wfth the greatest success. The
experiment is novel and very interesting;
the growing of vegetables over a hot
stream of water often interested tourists
more than the eruption of a geyser.
"After procuring permission from Capt.
George S. Anderson, acting superintendent
of the park, I built the greenhouse over a
hot steaming hole in the ground. The wa
ter had a temperature of 165
degrees Fahrenheit. It proved
a great success. On Dec. 14, the
thermometer showed 35 degrees below zero,
Fahrenheit, yet in this little crude slab
house nature was caring for cucumbers,
onions, radishes and lettuce with a temper
ature of 65 degrees Fahrenheit, all in fine
shape. knowing nothing of the fierce blow
ing snow and wind outside.
"The greenhouse is 25 by 50 feet, with a
glass roof, covering it. The building faces
the east, with a front four feet high and
raised to the hight of eighteen feet at the
back. The heat is furnished from a run
ning stream flowing from a seven-inch
hole in the formation at the south end,
flowing north through the center of the
building. The water comes from the ground
at a temperature of 195 degrees Fahren
heit, which is about the boiling point at
this altitude. Five-foot beds surround the
building on the inside, except at the north
end, with a nine-foot bed in the center; all
the beds are raised from eighteen inches to
two feet for circulation and a place for the
mushrooms. An aisle runs around the
building between the beds.
"Often the temperature indicates nearly
109 degrees Fahrenheit without the wilt
ing of a single leaf of the plants. The re
,9OH thi* rapid growing- of vegetation
is wonderful The' beds are filled about
three feet deep with rich stable refuse,
mixed with one-third silicla formation,
found near by. The rich soil, the sun s
light, and the constant condensation of
the steam from the hot stream makes
such a perfect combination that vegeta
tion has to grow nigh; and day.
"What has been the result? The first
seeds were put into the ground on the
Ylh of July last year. Lettuce came up
dry seeds in two days, and cucum
bers in three days, and other vegetables
in like quick time. Good sized heads of
lettuce w r ere gathered in fifteen to eigh
teen days from the time of planting. In
twenty-eight days lettuce measured
twenty-two inches across, which was as
sweet and tender as any one ever put into
bis mouth. Often the condensation of the
steam would break down the larger leaves
by the weight of water upon them. Cu
cumber vines grew from twenty-five to
feet in length in less than sixty
days without being watered, except from
the moisture in the air.
"Roots hang down from the vines fif
teen to twenty inches long. The flower
ing on the various plants is exceptionally
great. On some of the cucumber vines
five full-sized cucumbers were gathered
from a single joint; often three were
grown. More brittle ones were never
gathered from the vines than those grown
in this novel greenhouse. Rhubarb, beets,
mushrooms, and other vegetables will
gc£w to great advantage* in this hot and
moist temperature. Many tropical fruits
could also be raised.
‘‘There is very little labor to be done af
ter the soil is properly fixed and the seed
je once in the ground. It is like press
ing the button and nature doing the rest.
‘There are no weeds, no insects, no stir
ring of the soil, only to gather in the
fruits and watch nature working in a har
nessed condition. The leaves and all tlie
plants show a very healthy condition and
fine color.
"Cucumber leaves measure seventeen
inches across. The growth of a gucum
luer iff very rapid after it is once started.
1 Many a time they measure about two
inches long and within twenty-four hours
increase an‘inch in length. Radishes
grow so rapidly that they often spilt."
The Eye* of Criminal*.
4 ’
From the London Chronicle.
A itolice court reporter writes: The re
port that James Hobbs of Liberator noto
riety has been%eleased from prison owing
to some disease of the eyes, will interest
those who saw him during the many timts
he was in the dock at Bow street. I was
among the many who watched him dur
ing the magisterial proceedings. I never
saw a cooler prisoner. He folded his
brawny arms on the dock rail immediate
ly he took his seat, and rested his chin
upon them. From that time until the gaol
er said, "This way, please,” his head did
not move an inch, his body did not stir,
and he did not change color whether the
evidence being given was for him or
against him. But those eyes of his at
tratted the attention of all seated in front
of him. They were never at rest. They
rolled, from left to right, from right to left,
'arid from counsel to witness and magis
-trate with marvelous rapidity. This pe
culiarity startled many spectator-, and
under the present circumstances it may lie
interesting to recall the fact that a well
known barrister was henrd to say in
The same correspondent writes: So far
as can lie ascertained. Prince, the murder
er of William Terriss, and Miss Kemp
shall. the actress, who shot a merchant
at Liverpool, are the only actor and act
ress who are at present confined in the
United Kingdom for murder. Singularly
enough Prince has a cast In his eye. and
Miss Kempeha.i suffers from a similar in
firmity.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
LOCAL AMI GENF.H AI. NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.
Mr*. DrrXcl-Vuu Rauseller'* Yacht
May Departed for St. Tlioinaa.
Shipping tiling the Const Delated
by Foga—l,o%v Water on the I pper
Suvnniutli River—War Tax Levied
on \ casela Loading In Spain.
The steam yacht May left yesterday for
St. Thomas with the party who arrived
to take passage for the southern cruise
through the West Indies.
The steamers W. S. Cook and H. G.
Day, which left lust night for Augusta
and way landings, were compelled to leave
a large lot of freight on their wharves, on
account of the low water on the Upper
Savannah river.
The flags of the American vessels in port
were displayed yesterday In honor of
Washington's birthday. The steam yacht
May was conspicuously decorated with
about 109 attractive colors of yacht clubs
and code signals.
The schooner Davy Crockett, before re
ported wrecked at Shelburne, will be a to
tal loss. A large amount of material has
been saved from the wreek and will be
taken to Gloucester, Mass., and sold. The
vessel is owned by James Tarr & Bro. of
Gloucester, and was valued at $4,000, and
is Insured for about $3,400.
Toe Merchants and Miners' Transporta
tion Company's steamship Alleghany had
her flags at half-mast yestetglay in respect
to the memory of Capt. Monielius of the
steamship Berkshire, who died at Balti
more yesterday.
The steamship City of Augusta, from
New York,and Alleghany, from Boil lmor*\
which were expected to arrive night before
last, did not get here until yesterday after--
noon. They were delayed on account of the
dense fog, which h-ung over New York
harbor and Chespealte bay last Friday and
Saturday.
The thickest fog that has been repor'ed
in the Chesapeake bay for two years en
veloped land and water Sunday. At noon
a fleet pf outward and inward-bound'
steamers and sailing vessels had blocked
the channels front .a little to the south
ward of the meeting of the Craighill and
Cut-Off channels, while the steamer Dor
chester of the Merchants and Miners' Line
was hard aground. Tfie Dorchester was
subsequently floated Sunday night.
Purchases of steamers for the Pacific
coast trade still continues, and American
vessels with passenger accommodations
are in firm demand. While a number have
left there is still a large number fitting
oht. AIT ate intended for the rush to the
Klondike the coming spring. The steamer
State of Texas, recently sold, will load
coal at Baltimore this week for San Fran
cisco.
Vessel owners are warned that in char
tering vessels to Spain they are subject to
a war tax. J. H. Hamkn & Son of Port
land state that our of their .vessels from
Philadelphia- was recently obliged, before
she could clear Seville, to pay a war tax
0477 2 -10 cents per ton.
Savannah Almanac.
Sun rises to-day at 6:35 and sets at 5:53.
High water at Tybee to-day 9:30 a. m.
and 9:51 p. m. High tvater at Savannah
one hour later.
Phase* of the Moon for February.
Full moon, 6th, 0 hours and 24 minutes,
evening; last quarter, 13th, 6 hours and 35
minutes, everting; new moon, 20th, 1 hour
and 42 minutes, evening; first quarter, 28th,
5 hours and ,13 minutes, morning; moon in
apogee, Ist; moon in perigee, 17th.
ARRIVALS ANU DEPARTURES.
Ve**el* Arrived Yesterday.
. Bark Stfcfd (Nor), Gundersen, Port Na
tal; at Tybee,
Bark Kong Oscar II (Nor), Markussen,
from quarantine.—Master,
V easrl* Cleared Yesterday.
Schooner Carrie T. Balano, Hagerthy,
Boston.—C. W. Howard & Cos.
Yessel* Went to Sea Yesterday.
Steamship Ardrishaig (Br), Liverpool.
Steamship (Nacooehee, New York.
Steam yacht May, St. Thomas.
Schooner Carrie T. Balano, Boston.
Schooner Aaron Reppard, Philadelphia.
fllver Strainers Departed.
Steamer Cltfton, Strobhar, Beaufort.—
George V- Beach. Manager.
1-i. -G. Day, Haddon, Augusta
and way landings.—H. A. Ivy, Manager.
Steamer W. S. Cook, Garnett, Augusta
and way landings.—YV. T. Gibson, Man
ager. . ,
Shipping Memoranda.
Jacksonville." Fla., Fet>. 4k.— Hailed. t am
ship Comanche. Bennington, New York;
schooner Syanara, Finley, Bermuda.
Arrived, steamer George W. Clyde, Chi
chester, Boston.
Baltimore, Md.. Feb. 22.—Sailed, schoon
er AdcF Thackera, Charleston; H. S. Lan
fair, Jacksonville.
Boners, Feb. 19.—Arrived, steamer Talis
man, Fernandina.
Br*men, Feb. 22.—'Arrived, steamer Md
tin. Savannah.
Port Royal, Feb. 22.—Arrived, eteatner
Eden (fall. Newcastle on-the-Tyne; 11. B.
Cousin*. Boston; Rio Grande, New York
and sailed for Brunswick.
Sailed, Bull River, schooner Edward G.
Hight, Boston.
C. C. YS’ehrum reported yesterday in er
ror, not ih yet.
Fernandina, Fid., Feb. 22. Sailed,
steamer Luleham I Br), Curtis, Rotterdam.
Apalachicola, Fla.. Feb. 22.—Entered,
lark Jafnhar (Nor), TMrgesen, Para;
schooner Helen G. Moseley, Holt. Galves
ton.
Cleared, schooner S. G Hart, McLean,
Boston.
Pensacola. Fla., Pei* 22.—Arrived, ship
Cochee (Rue), SJoroos, Cape Town.
Sailed, tug Echo, Flinti, Havana,
Charleston, ft *C„ Feb. 22.—Arrived,
schooner John H. Tlngue, Rhodes, Phi’.a
detpbta; bgrk Portland Lloyds, McLeod,
Iquique. -
Norfolk, Feb. 20.—Arrived, schooner Ida
L. Hull, Gubrieleen, New York, to load
coal for Savannah.
Notice to Mariner*.
Pilot charts and all hydrographic infor
mation will be furnished musters of ves
sels free of charge la United Bt.u.-s hy
drographic oifice in custom- house. Cap
tains are requested to call at the office.
Reports of wrecks and derelicts received
for transmission to the navy department.
The time ball on Cotton Exchange drops
12 m., 75th meridian time.
Washington, Feb. 20.—Notice Is given by
the light house board that on or about
March 7, IS9B, the fixed red lens lantern
light at Cubit Gap Post tight station, on
the southeaster.y skk* of Cubits Chip,
northeasterly bank of the Mississippi
river, will be moved 97 feet ESE from Us
present position and established on the top
of the fog bell tower. The hight of the
fooal plane of the light above mean high
water then be 40 feet instead of 35 IV -i.
No othe;- change will be made in tit*
light.
Steamer Passengers.
Passengers on steamship Nacooehee for
New York—W. E. Hall. H. C. Kufer and
wife. Edward I. Smith, F. R. Bennedict
and wife, C. It Bassett and wife, N. L.
Rape- Ge ami wife, J. Rape Ge and wife,
A. Cuthbert, Miss H. Woodbury, Miss II
S. Wright, Mr. Gillette, J. F. Cleveland,
O. F. Yates, J. Rawson, C, H. Keefer and
wife, Mrs. J. M. Singleton and child, R.
E. Lamia. Mrs. Hawley.
Coastwise Exports.
Per steamship Nacooehee for New York
--579 bales upland cotton, 15 bales domes
tics, 500 bbls cotton seed oil, 4 bids rosin.
22 cases cigars, op bales wool. 2 turtles,
33 bbls fish, 30 boxes fruit, 39 bbls vege
tab.es, 193 crates vegetables, 124 pkgs gen
eral mdse.
Per schooner Carrie T. Balano for Bos
ton —444,428 feet pitch pine lumber, of
which 344,428 feet by Coney, Eckstein tt
Cos. and 100,000 by J. J. Cummings.
Receipt* nl Railroad*.
Per Central of Georgia Railway, Fob.
22—3,508 bales cotton, 500 bbls oil. 50 tons
pig iron, 117 bales domestics, 418 pktrs
mdse, 39 ears lumber, 424 bbls rosin. 21
casks spirits turpentine, 2 cars hay, 1
car wood, 1 car coal.
Per Florida Central and Peninsular Rail
road, Feb. 22—202 lialt-s cotton. 427 bills
rosin, 215 bbls spirits turpentine, l cur
stock, 5 cars grain, 7 cars mdse, 1 car
plows, 1 car flour, 1 car furniture, l oar
grits, 1 car meal, 1 car iron, 2 cars cotton
seed oil, 1 car stills, 8 cars sewer pipe.
Per Georgia and Alabama Railway, Felt
22-78 bales cotton, 172 bbls rosin. 111 t asks
spirits turpentine, 26 cars lumber, 16 cars
mdse, 5 cars hay, 4 cars corn, 3 care oats,
2 ears oil, 1 ear flour, 1 car gilts.
ARTIFICIAL INDIGO.
One of India's IndtiNlrlc* Imperilled
by Recent Discoveries
From the New York Tribune.
Chemical experiment* which had in view
the production of artlflcial indigo, and
which, consequently, threatened to extin
guish a great East Indian industry, have
been In progress for years, but they have
only recently reached a stage where this
product can be obtained cheaply enough to
compete with the old article commercially.
There was a time when. In Central Ger
many, a large quantity of Indigo was man
ufactured from a home-grown plant. But
for some reason the indigo plant of East
India yielded a much larger proportion of
dye than this one, and after a century or
two, in spite of protective legislation and
the promises of European manufacturers
to use only the domestic indigo, the Ger
mans abandoned the further production of
the latter. It now looks as If East India
were about to experience a simlar fate. At
the present time her indigo industry yields
her several millions of dollars. She fur
nishes the calico printers of the whole
world with dye-stuff.
Chemistry has found It a much easier
task to take a substance apart than lo
put it together again. Countless essences
and extracts have been analyzed, and their
exact composition learned. Careful lists
have been made, showing the precise pro
portion in which the atoms of carbon,
hydrogen and oxygen go together in these
compounds. But when the chemist at
tempts to build up one of these substances
from Its elements he often discovers that
they won’t combine. Already several per
fumes of flowers have been exactly imi
tated by this method, and thirty years ago,
after forty-five years of experiment, a
cheap way of getting the coloring princi
ple of madder, a beautiful red dye, out of
coal lar was found.
Since that time It has not hern profitable
to raise the madder plant. The possibili
ty of man's putting together the ingredi
ents which nature employs In making the
essential part of indigo, and in precisely
the same proportions, was demonstrated
a long time ago. And "synthetic chemis
try" has since been studying the problem
of cheapening the process, so that It might
lie placed on a commercial basis.
A German house, the Badlsche Anttin
and Soda Fabrik, of Ludwigshafen-on-the-
Rhine, had within a few months placed on
the market an almost pure indigo blue ot
a price so very near that of the East In
dian article that a formidable competition
is at last threatened. It should be ob
served that the Indigo plant yields, in ad
dition to the blue principle (lndigo-tin) a
red dye. The manufacturing chemists
have thus far got only fh'* blue dye
Moreover, it is alleged that the system of
treating the East Indian plant now In
vogue does not extract all of either prin
ciple which exists 1 here. Improved meth
ods of manufacture may perhaps cheapen
the natural article a little more. It Is too
soon, therefore, to predict the complete
downfall of the Indigo business of the
East. But it Is certainly in greater peril
to-day than ever before.
—This Is how Kola is described by
Stuart Henry in "Hours With Famous
Parisians:" A busy man, no emotion,
no'ideals, no imagination. 410 poetry in his
personal* intercourse. He takes no per
sonal interest in you and does not expect
you to take any personal Interest in him.
He talks frankly and freely about every
thing, but in a secular way. He makes
iife seem to you merely a commercial ca
reer. Fiction for him is editions of lOO.WX)
francs a year. His magisterial and mag
nificent panoramas of descriptions, un
equaled for their kind, are all measured
off in his mind as so many rods of printed
matter at so much a rod. No personal
magnetism, no sentiment, no perfume, no
rose colors.'*
TO-DAY'S WEATHER FORECAST.
Forecast for Savannah and vicinity until
midnight Fib. 33, ISDS: Fair, slowly ris
ing temperature.
Weather from Washington—
For Georgia and South Garolina—Gener
ally fair; slowly rising tcmi>ernture; east
wind.
For Eastern and Western Florida—Gi n
erally fair; warmer; variable winds.
General conditions: I. gill snows have
occurred during the past twenty-four
hours in the Middle Atlantic and New Eng
land states, iho Ohio valley and the lake
region, but It has remained clear In all
Southern sections. At Bp. m. snow was
fulling ul Washington oily and Chicago
Higher temperature were reported from
all southeastern stations. Mild weather
is also noted throughout the Northern and
West.so states. Eight to fresh westerly
to northerly winds prevailed along the At
lantic coast.
Yesterday's Weather at Savannah-
Maximum temperature, sp. m.. 48 degrees
Minimum temperature, 7 a. in.. .39 degrees
Mean temperature 38 degrees
Normal tcmiieiature 53 degrees
Deficiency of temperature 17 degrees
Accumulated deficiency sin. i
Fel> 1 71 degrees
Accumulated excess since Jan.
1 degrees
Hain f a U Inch
Nnrm dl inch
Deficiency since Feb. 1 2.36 inches
Deficiency since Jan. 1 5.2 t; inches
Hi Vet Report.—The bight of the Savan
nah river at Augusta m 8 a. m. (75th me
ridian time) yesterday was it 5 feel, no
change during the preceding twenty-four
hours.
observations taken Feh. 22, ISftS, 8 m.,
■ 75ih meridian time, at the same moment
of time at ull stations, for tit. Morning
News:
Stations. ~~~ l-l-T. | *V. jßain
Boston, cloudy 3Jt | "t, | .m
New York city, cloudy ! 3si | t j .oj
Philadelphia, cloudy | 4h | 10 | ini
Washington city, snowing 32 | | T
Norfolk, cloudy | 36 | to | .oil
Hotteras. cloudy | 44 | 24 | .00
Wilmington, clear j 38 | 8 | (Nl
Charlotte, clear | 34 | I. | .IN)
Raleigh, clear ~..| 36 | I. | ,00
Charleston, clear | 44 | Jj | .00
Atlanta, clear | 31 | ,OO
Augusta, clear j 40 | 8 | .INI
Savannah, clear | 41 | I, j .00
Jacksonville, clear | 48 | L, | .Ul
Jupiter, clear | 56 | 8 | .00
Key West. pi. cloudy 62 | 10 | .00
Tampa, clear j 48 | E ( .00
Pensacola, clear | 40 | 10 | .00
Montgomery, clear | 46 j. 6 | .18)
Vicksburg, clear | 64 | E | .(X),
New Orleans, eiear | 54 | E | .(0
Galveston, clear | 58 j 6 | .00
Corpus Chrlstl, pt cloudy | *54 | 13 | .00
Palestine, clear j 6o j 6 | .00
Memphis, clear | 40 | 8 | .01
Cincinnati, cloudy | 28 | 6 | T
Pittsburg, clear | 26 | E | T
Buffalo, cloudy J 30 J 6 | .02
Detroit, cloudy [ 28 | 6 | T
Chicago, snowing 1 26 | 10 | .02
MarqtwKte, cloudy | 28 | L | .02
Bt. Paul; cloudy | 26 j D | .00
Davenport, clear j 26 | 8 | .00
St. 1 sells, pt. cloudy 38 j 6 | .00
Kansas City, clear | 44 | E | .00
-]-T, temperature; *V, velocity of wind.
J. M Sherter.
Observer Weather Bureau.
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PAGES 0 TO 10.
FLORIDA
AND THE
•‘THE LAND OF THE SKY,"
Asheville ?, Hot Springs,
Aiken and Augusta.
The winter season at these well-known anl
wonderful resorts Is now opening inJ tits
many improvements in hotel facilities and
railroad service will draw a larger number
and more enthusiastic pleasure aad heaUß
seekers than ever before
The .schedules and service of tas
SOUTHERN RAILWAY
to e*ch an 1 all of tlom will b unc.iualel
Hi New M in florin liui
WHY again be operated, commencing
January 17, 1888.
WINTER TOURIST TICKETS
at iow rates from and through Ohio River
Gateways go on sale Get 15 ISJ," Croat
other points .Nov. 1, 183'.
SIDE TRIPS
are made a feature by the Southern
Hallway. Tourists and all patrons of
the Southern Kaliway have most care
ful attention at the hands of Its many
represents lives, who are fully In
formed on all subjects incident to
travel.
S T. SHUTTER I’resident
J F. C. MYEKB, Vice President.
DIXIE OIL GO.
BUY
Anti-Monopoly
OILS,
And have the satisfaction of
knowing that the light you
read by is not of the kind
that would have made the
signers of the Declaration of
Independence blush.
DIXIE OIL CO.,
SAVANNAH, GA.
Patronize Home Industry.
Coal,Coke,Wood
A large supply of all
grades and sizes. Consult
us before making your pur
chases.
Just received a cargo of
Foundry and Domestic Coke,
nice and clean. Just tlje
thing for grates.
An enormous supply Do
mestic Lump Coal
Office and Yard Foot Lincoln Street
PHONE 68
C. li. DIXON & CO.
H B. Neal. F. P. Millahd.
lTcsldeat Vice President.
NEAL-MILLARD CO.
liayand Whitaker Streets.
Dealers In
Points. Oils onn lorniste
Steamboat and Mill Supplies,
Sash, Doors and Blinds,
Lime, Cement and Plaster,
—AND
BUILCERS’ HARDWARE.
SAVANNAH, GA.
CHOCOLATES I
FOR unso DAMNING fl j
COOKING. BAKING If | j>jit> \\fjOK >
Punty of Material and V f jj ll*. | J - j.
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