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VOL. 11. NO. 67.
AT THE THEATER.
_ Tlj Citizens’ CH il My Tlicre
To-niglil in Fill Force.
THE CONFERENCE COMMITTEE’S
PROPOSITION TO BE SUBMITTED.
A First District Democrat Suggests
Details for a District Primary Mr.
Whatley Favors the Conference
Proposition Racy Review of the
Situation by Frank Weldon in Sun
day’s Constitution- Chairman Charl
ton Wool-Gathered.
The Citizens’ Club will meet to-night.
The meeting will beat the Theater -not at
Turner hall as heretofore—and the hour 8:30
o'clock.
The meeting will be the most important in
the history of the organization. As such it
should call nut the largest attendance.
The principal business of ti e evening is the
consideration ot a proposition for re-submit
ting, on different lines, tn the democracy, at a
general primary election to be held at the
court house on July 10 next, the selection ol
25 county democratic executive committee
men, the selection of delegates to the guber
natorial, congressional and senatorial conven
tions and the nomination of legislative
candidates for Chatham county.
To secure a fair expression of the Club on a
proposition so unexpected should call out
every member of the Club who can possibly
attend, so that it may be intelligently con
sidered in all its details, a: d either rejected or
amended in such a manner that a full and fair
expression of the democracy may be obtained
and the odium of party disloyalty be placed
where it shall properly belong.
Whatever may be the outcome of to-night’s
meeting ol the Club, every member should
attend prepared to vote intelligently so that
he may have no nom to complain thereafter
of the action of the Club on a subject in which
all of its members are vitally interested.
Remember that the meeting is to-night and
that it is to be at the theater, and at 8:30
o'clock.
When tile roll of the Citizens’ Club is called
to-night let every member be present to
answer to his name.
FAVORS DISTRICT PRIMARIES
The Inillvtdualltj of the (Itj anti Country Dis
tricts Shonlil Not be Abolltliett.
Editor Daily ‘Dispatch:— l am doubtful of
the sincerity of the Tammany organization
in its protestations of desiring party har
mony. I have confidence that public senti
ment in the community is for harmony and
against divided counsels in the democratic
party of Chatham county, and while. 1 in
common with nine-tenths of the democrats
of the First district, am willing to make con
cessions for the sake of allaying factional
strife, I am not willing to make an abject
surrender, as the reforms which the Citizen .’
Club aim at require that no vital thing shall
be surrendered to put oil the day for much
needed reforms:
When I say that 1 doubt the sincerity of
Tammany’s desire for party harmony, I base
that doubt upon its action in my district,
when in Elbert square, on the night of the
mass meeting, less than 100 members of the
Tammany organization were present and re
fused to act with fully 690 democrats of the
district, and wdio sought to d.prive the latter
of their rights by the farce c.f electing their
so-called district committecm- n, their runup
chairman hastening to the Fourth district and
reporting to the Tammany leaders then upon
the stand that they had earned the First dis
trict.
But a truce to this, and now what should
be the object of democrats? It should be as
far as possible to have the fullest and fairest
expression ot all the democrats of the county
as to whom they desire to invest with the
patty’s management and control for the next
two years.
There should be no lessening of the privi
leges extended the city and country districts,
and the proposition submitted at the third
district meeting at the theater on last Friday
night is not broad enough, is not clear
enough, and robs the districts of their
individuality, besides exacting from
the country districts a visit from remote
parts of the county in order to have a voice at
the primaries.
I submit that something like the following
will be much fairer and would remove many
of the objections that stand in the way of
party harmony:
Let a general primary election be held
within the next 10 days in the' different city
and county districts,at which two representa
tives of each faction shall act as judges,together
with one of the two justices of each district
who in case of a disagreement should have
the deciding vote in passing upon the quali
fications of the applicant and who shall be
empowered to administer an oath when
necessary. If the state of Georgia can afford
to trust its magistrates as judges of elections,
certainly the democracy can afford to trust
one in each of the districts at the primary
election.
Let these meetings be at a central
point in each district, the polls to
be open from 6 o’clock p. in. to 9 o’clock p.
m. thus affording an opportunity for every
democrat to avail himselfof the opportunity
to vote.
That a committee of two from each
faction shall be empowered to have printed
their respective tickets which shall be uni
form in size, in quality of paper and in type
not distinguishable by any printed design or
marked in any way. Such tickets to be had
at the polls and at such other places as may
be designated by representatives of the two
factions.
That no person shall be permitted to solicit
votes for either ticket within two blocks of the
voting place, and as fast as electois shall have I
cast their ballot they shall retire from the
vicinity of the polls.
That no office holder (other than a justice
<Xbe Wwpatcb.
of the peace) or a candidate for office, shall
serve as a judge of said election at the
primaries. 1
That only qualified registered white voters,
who are known to have voted in the past for
the democracy or will support its candidates
at the election' C take place this year and t
next year, shall be entitled to vote. ,
That no citizen offering to vote shall be re
quired to submit his tax receipt as evidence of '
registration, but if his name be found on the 1
official registration list, as publiahed in the
Savannah Press June 13, and is known to be in ,
sympathy with the democracy, shall be en- I
titled to vote without challenge. .
That those corresponding with the num- -
ber to be elected receiving the highest num
ber of votes cast for the executive commit- I
tee for each district shall be declared elected i
by the judges of election, and a majority of
judges signing the credentials shall' be 1
prima facie evidence of election; that the i
votes cast lor delegates at large, as well as :
those cast for district delegates shall be cer
tified to the present chairman, Hon. W.
G. Charlton, and the present county execu
tive committee of Chatham county, and '
they shall canvass the returns and officially :
declare the result as certified to them in all
the daily papers of Savannah within three
days after the primary elections shall have
taken place. In case of contest notice of
same must be presented within two days
from the time of the primary election. If
there’s not a quorum of the entire execu
tive committee of uncontested committeemen
then the present county chairman and county
executive committee sl;all decide such con
tests in their numerical order, beginning with
the First district until a quorum has been
obtained, when the' Id committee shall cease
to exist and the new executive committee
shall pass upon the remaining contests which
shall be taken up in their numerical order
beginning where the iate committee shall
have left off.
The new executive committee shall serve
until May 1, 1896, and until its successors
shall have been elected and qualified.
It shall be the duty of the county executive
committee to elect from among their number,
or from the party at large, a chairman, vice
chairman, secretary ami treasurer, and at any
time till a permanent or temporary vacancy in
either of tlrese offices or a vacancy’ in the
committee, and the vacancy occcasioned, if
that ot a district committeeman,shall be filled
from that district in which a vacancy has oc
curred : but the election of one of their num
ber as an officer shall not operate to create a
vacancy in the committee.
The chairman, by and with the consent ol
the executive committee, shall call such piim
ary elections lor'the nomination of legislative
candidates, and for the selection of delegates
to the slate, district and county conventions,
the calls to be at such times and places as the
executive committee shall direct, and all party
differences, grievances, i. ..tests of nomina
tions and contests ol executive committeemen,
shall be referred Io the executive committee,
and a decision of the majority of nil the com
mittee, after an impartial hearing, shall be ac
cepted as final.
The committee shall formulate such other
rules governing its own actions, and lor the
selection of county candidates, including
legislative candidates, and provide for the
tirfic and manner of selecting lire same, except
that they shall not at any lime call mass
meetings for such purpose, and the method
must always have in view the opportunity of
giving all the people the fullest opportunity
to have a voice in the selection of commettee
mcn, delegates and candidates.
The chairman shall preside over the meet
ings of the committee, which shall be gov
erned by parliamentary rules, and il he has
been selected from the paity at large outside
of the committee he shall vote only in case
of a “tie,” but if a member of the committee
proper, and its chairman, he will always be
entitled to vote upon any question that may
come before the committee.
Believing that bribery at elections and
privaries is debasing in character and often
leads to the subversion rd the popular wiil
it is hereby agreed that neither of the clubs
to this agreement will countenance the di
rect or indirect use of money to influence a
votei at a primary or at any general election
and that upon reasonable proof that there
has been a violation of this rule by any
member of the club, that club stands
pledged to expel the offending member or
members at the next ensuing meeting of the
club, and we pledge our word and honor to
assist in the prosecution, before the court -,
of any one purchasing or attempting to
purchase a vote or of any one, bartering or
attempting to barter his vote.
It is also agreed that each .md every candi
date for office at the fund', of the democracy
shall be required to announce, in the daily
papers of Savannah, in submitting himself as a
candidate for nomination or for election be
fore or after nomination, that lie will not di
rectly or indirectly himself use money to in
fluence a vote nor consent to the use of such
money by a friend or friends.
Tire above I submit can be objected to by
no democrat who desires that a fair expression
of the people may be ascertained, that such
complications as now exist may not arise in
the future, and that both the primary and the
general elections may be free fr»m the sus
picion of bribery and foul play.
First District Democrat.
Favors the Compromise.
Editor Daily Dispatch: It is to be hoped
that the Citizens’ Club will ratify at their
meeting to-night the proposition agreed upon
last Friday night for a general primary on
July 10. This is in keeping with my sug
gestion offered in an article in The Dispatch
of last Wednesday, and is to my mind a fair
proposition for both sides. It is true that a
fuller vote could be brought out by having
the primary in the several districts, especially
in the country, but this is a matter to be over
come by diligent work and canvassing. If
each member of the Citizens’ Club wiil be
true to himself and to Iris cause success seems
to be certain. Let each member look to it
that he lays everything aside on the day ap
pointed, for but one hour, and every vote can
be cast. Victory here means victory all
along the line. it is folly to talk
about manipulation, fraud, etc. I would 'ike
to see anyone manipulate my vote or defraud
me out ol it, and I am sure 1 have no more
right to make this assertion than the humblest
registered member of the Citizens’ Club, who
is true to himself and the principles he pro
fesses. Let us ratify the agreement by all
means, and by a silent but sure ballot prove
our strength by our numbers. We want no
I llourish of trumpets in this matter. We want
a calm, peaceable election, a lair ballot and a
fair count. If we have the votes we should
not feai the results. G. 0. Whatley.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY. JUNE 18, 1894.
OUTNUMBERS THE TIGERS.
1
Frank Weldon tn the Constitution On the ;
Cbatlinin County Political situation. i
Mr. Frank Weldon of the Atlanta Constitu
tion, alter a review of the political situation
in Chatham county, furnishes the following '
racy resume of existing conditions in Sunday's ,
Constitution: |
Savannah, Ga., June 16—[Special.]— A
political fever ot a malignant type is epidemic in
this picturesque, overheated, monument-dotted
city. Everybody has it, and each case seems
worse than the other. Every man belongs to
a faction; halt tile ladies are partisans, and
the little tots are learning to lisp in political
numbers.
Walter G Charlton, the chairman of the
Democratic party in Chatham, declared the
other day, and there was pathos in the
statement, that there was not an unbiased,
unprejudiced man in the county to whom he
could turn for an impartial opinion.
No such state of affairs has existed here in
20 years and old citizens in the full posses
sion of all their faculties, assert that they
have never known the excitement over local
politics to approach the degree of intensity
which now prevails.
The democrats are divided into three
factions or clubs—the Citizens, Tammany
and the Democratic clubs. This trinity of
organizations is involved in such a bitter
warfare that the party is, truly, in much
danger. It is a triangular duel, if a bull is
allowable. The clubs are tearing and rend
ing each other. The whole city is in a
violent commotion. A turbulent spirit per
vades the people. Bitter personal feelings
have been aroused and sober-minded men
deplore the unfortunate condition of affairs.
And what is at the bottom of it all ?
Spoils offices, remote and meager in emol
uments.
The campaign is for control of municipal
and county offices, the elections for which do
not occur until January. Yet here in swelter
ing June the city is three months deep in the
contest. At no time has the gubernatorial
canvass been anything more than an incident
a sideshow of the main circus—a small boat
suspended from the davits of the larger craft.
RUSSELL AND ANTI-RUSSELL.
Reduced to its simplest analysis, the con
test is between the Russell and anti-Russell
tactions. It is safe to say that for fifty years
the Russells have been office holders. For
more than half of that time the. members of
the family have been political bosses in Sa
vannah. They have kept their following in
tact lor a greater length of time than has any
other faction with which lam familiar. War
ing Russell and his brother, Judge Philip M.
Russell, held offices continuously for forty
years. Perhaps one might be out for a term,
but if so the other was in. Their uniform
success ha> been due to organization. 1 hey
held their following together. Just alter the
war Waring Russel did his party, the cause
of law and order and the white population
valuable service. He is now comity treasurer
and his bitterest enemy has full faith in the
honest custodianship of the public funds.
Sometimes the Russells have dominated
both county and city politics at the same :
time. For some j ears past they have held
their own in county affairs, but their op
ponents controlled Hie city administration.
John J. McDonough, the present mayor, has
defeated two Russeh candidates in succession,
the lirst after a campaign of only 48 hours.
In the next elections the Russell element will
endeavor to defeat Mayor McDonough for
re-election, or whoever represents his fac
tion in the event he declines to run. Gapt.
John Dillon, receiver ol tax returns, is also
to be overthrown, if that can be done. But
John Dillon is a strong leader himself. He
has proved a match lor the opposition
many a time and has won more political
victories from his opponents in recent
years than they have won from him.
The Irish support Dillon and the Germans
stand by Russell. Savannah has a large
foreign-born population and in politics there
is marked clanishness. The native-born popu
lation divides. Sometimes it breaks even.
Then .in one year it will go largclv'to one
faction and the-next year perhaps it will go to
the other side.
THEIR COATS OF ARMS.
Tammany, of course, as would be sur
mised, is composed chiefly of members who
have a tender feeling for the Emerald Isle. The
tomahawk isTammany’s appiopriate emblem.
A big bludgeon seems the proper device for
the Citizens’ Club,inasmuch as it appears to be
the most formidable of the three organizations.
The backbone of this club is the Teuton and
Semitic citizenship, with a strong impiegna
tion of native blood.
A kid glove couchant is the perfectly fit
ting armorial bearing for the Democratic
Club. This organization is designated by its
opponents as “the kid glove crowd,” a term
of opprobium in those sections ot the city ad
jacent to the Ogeechee and Bilbo canals.
The artist has sketched what appears to be
a lady’s glove, but that is all right. Jimmy
Foley, one of the pioneer members of Tam
many, was wont to speak with some disdain
of the “lilly-white-handcd” politicians of the
kid glove district. Tammany is an oath
bound organization. Its secrets are sacred.
Tammany was organized four or five years
ago by some of the workers in the Fourth
district of the city—that part known as the
“old fort," on the cast side. In the good old
days when everything was decided by
a mass meeting at the theater, the “old
fort” crowd generally determined the day
at the mass meetings. The Washington
square boys would go earlv and if thev could
not get in at the side doors or windows they
surrounded the front entrance to the house,
and when the doors were thrown open rushed
in and captured the seats in the pit. Noise
usually decided nominations, and the posses
sion of the pit meant the capture of the meet
ing. Jimmy Foley and Australian Kelly al
ways had some lusty -lunged sailors along,
and when they captured a meeting the nomin-
aliens were carried with terrific applause. <
When the Yamacraw contingent arrived first 1
and swayped the pit, the ‘bloody fourth” <
gang pre-empted the balcony. <
OPEN AID MEETINGS.
In an evil hour somebody declared that the ,
primary was the thing. There had been a de- ,
mand tor the Australian method of voting— ‘
not that of the Mr. Kelly alluded to above— (
but that was too radical a change. Last ,
Tusday night was the time for the election of ,
amew executive committee for the county. .
This committee controls to a large extent the (
party machinery. The Citizens’ Club and t
Tammany laid their plans te capture the new ,
committee. The Democratic Club was con
tent to get wbat it could in die rush. Instead
of primary by ballot in <:a h militia district,
it was agreed to hold m.s meetings and I
county polls. There are f< ur districts in the I
city, so there were to be io> r mass meetings. I
Each was to begin when ‘Big Duke," the 1
city fire bell, sounded, or as soon thereafter as 1
the meeting pleased. But no meeting was to
begin operations before the Jell rang. 1
The Citizens’ Club is especially strong in 1
the First and Seconddistric’s Tlie kid glove
district is the third, with the Second on its J
west and the Fourth on i>s east. It is said
that at the first tap of the irebell the Yarns- ;
craw or First district mee ing was formally •
opened, by the time the Second tap came 1
the nominations were made and caaried, and !
on the third tap Chairm\.i McErneny de- •
dared the meeting adjourned. The Tamma- 1
nyites had also held a meeting a few yards
away and they got through at the same time. ’
Then away both crowds rushed like Cap
Joyner and his departmen bursting out of '
the engine house on the first sound of alarm. 1
Both factions ran full tilt to the Second dis- 1
trict meeting, which wa: being held two
squares away. Tammany and the
citizens had held separate meetings ;
here, too. Both of these were 1
practically over and the facttons rushed on to 1
swoop down on the third and fourth district '
meetings. It was a good long rim to either 1
of those meeting places. The kid glove men '
met around the confederate monument in 1
the park extension. Many of them strolled 1
leisurely and when they arrived found that '
the tigers and the Citizens were contending 1
for the capture of this meeting. The utmost ’
confusion prevailed and it grew worse. After 1
a little time the fourth district meeting broke i
up and more than a thousand men came from 1
Troup square, at Habersham and Taylor
streets, to the park. B\ this time all the
meetings had massed around the confederate
monument. Randolph Anderson, the chair
man, had announced at th: outset that he in
tended to be perfectly fair in his rulings.
That did not suit any factum.
ALMOST A FREE FIGHT.
Fleming d illignon lead the Citiz.i- and
George W. Owens headed the ki gloves.
Tammany made common cause witlffthe be
gloved gentlemen and aj ainst the t .Dizons’,
or Russell element. S: ange to say, the
only lighting of the mg/Jt was done at Illis
meeting. Mr. dußignofrWid Mr. Owens had
the hottest sort of a controversy and every
body was looking for a general free light.
The only thing that prevented was the
solidity of the meeting. Men were packed ■
together so tightly that they could not raise i
their arms. Clothes were torn from men’s i
backs and those who were in the middle of i
the jam were mashed almost to a pulp Still :
they say it was a good-natured crowd. Capt. ;
McAlpin, who was standing on the edge of
pack, says that one man cam: 1 out, surveyed
himself and exclaimed:
“Well, I’ve got my coat sleeves left any
way.”
Capt. Dan Purse tells ol another emerging
from the jam with blood all over his face.
With a laugh and some profanity he remaiked:
“I believe that fellow must have hit me in the
mouth.’ ’
It was impossible to carry out the purposes
ol the meeting, and filially it was broken up
with the understanding that another should
be held at a later date iu the theater.
CLAIMED BY BOTH SIDES.
The next day everything was confusion.
Tammany and the Citizens both claim to
have carried everything in the city.
“Who got the best of it last night?” I asked
on the street the next morning
“We beat ’em out of sight,” was the. re
sponse.
“Who are we?”
“Tammany!”
I put the same question to the next man
who came along.
"Why, we won hands down.”
“Who are we?”
“The Citizens, ot course.”
And that is just the way information was
imparted. My own personal opinion, formed
on the testimony of probably a hundred
men, including about everything from a
sailor boarding house runner to a millionaire
cotton merchant, is that the Citizens out
numbered the tigers. The kid gloves are
strong numerically, as well as financially, but
it is hard to get them out in full strength.
There is no rerson why they should not have
run the Third district smoothly and in their
own way. But it was disorderly and a
gentleman informs me that early Wednes
day morning Forsyth park and the Park ex
tension were strewn with fragments of
clothing, and il is just possible that there
were numbers of human bodies lying
around on the grass, but he would not
vouch for this.
Tuesday night’s meetings disgusted the
best element in every faction. There was no
test of qualification of those voting. When
the voting was done by polling those fresent
as they filed by, the men at the head of the
line would run around and fall in at the tail
end, so it is charged.
The best solution is a primary in each dis
trict, using the registration list to limit the
balloting to qualified voters. On Wednesday
representatives of the different clubs met and
discussed the situation. Thursday they had
another meeting. Last night the Third dis
trict bad its adjourned mass meeting at the
theater, and all factions united in a request for
a primary. Chairman Charlton will cheer
fully order primaries if it appears that both
sides arc willing to repudiate Tuesday night’s
mass meetings.
A SLIGHT DIFFERENCE.
"Fulton does not have mass meetings in
squares, I believe,” Mr. Samuel B. Ad.uns re
marked to me.
“No; Fulton has square mass meetings,” I
informed him.
Elections in Chatham are not so pure as
the baking powders arc advertised to be.
Money is used every time, and plenty of it.
The market price of votes has run up in late
years, despite the hard times, from $2 t. sls.
The latter figure is a fancy price, and is hot
paid except for tlie ere ni of the voters.
’ Everybody knows it. Tde ‘ city papers have
drnounced it, the grand jury has investigated
the practices and returned nothing but gen
eral presentments. Next January when the
county and city elections occur money will
be freely spent, and the contests will be more
exciting than any ever held in Chatham. This
is the indication now. But the first step is to
get control of the county executive committee.
Ex-Senator Fleming G. dußignon is the
candidate of the Citizens’ Club for the chair
manship of the committee. Perhaps Mr.
Charlton, the present chairman, wili be sup
ported by the opposition. He has been
chairman for a number of years. Mr. Charl
ton is one of the ablest lawers at the Savan
nah bar.
PERSONNEL Os THE CLUBS.
Henry C Cunningham of the law firm of
Lawton &. Cunningham, is president of the
Democratic Campaign Club Among the
prominent members are John R. Dillon, D.
G. Purse, A. R. Lawton, Jr., J. 11. Estill, T. H.
McMillan, J. R Saussy, S. 11. Adams.
Tammany’s president is p. H. Gcaron.
Among the leading members are Major G. M.
Ryals, Mayor John J. McDonough, Aiderman
W. 11. Bohan, M. A. O’Byrne,P. J. O’Conner,
J. W. Mclntyre.
W. W. Osborne, one of Chatham’s repre
sentatives in the last legislature, is president
of the Citizens' Club, which asks no quarters
from the other two organizations. Some of
the promine: t members of the Citizens’ Chib
are Col. John Screven, W. W. Chisholm, Dr.
L. A. Falligant. F. G dußignon, E. A. Weil,
Waring Russell, J. J. I) olan, T. I). Rock
well
Mr. Osborne has the backing ot this strong
club for the state Senate from the First dis
trict. Mr. Doolan will probably be a candidate
tor the H ius'j and so will Mr. Rockwell.
Maj. P. W. Meldrim, who was a senator from
the First eight or ten years ago, may enter the
senatorial race. He is a partner of Col. Wil
liam Garrard, a brother ot Col. Louis Gairard
of Columbus. Messrs. Doolan and Osborne
worked up the Atkinson boom, and their club
is strongly lor him for governor. The other
clubs are fur Gen. Evans In the Citizens’ are
many old veterans who were with the general
in the war, and they are for him to the death.
Chatham never does act on state officers until
the canvass is well over. Just now the city
is suffeiing convulsions over the selection of
the executive committee and is not giving
itself much concern about the gubernatorial
race
A Knotty Question.
The politicians are talking again. The
latest thing is to the effect that several of
the districts will not agree to go into a
primary, general or otherwise, no matter
what the result will be to the party. Mr.
Charlton was seen this morning. He was
asked wh t wou'd be the result of such a
refusal. The chairman was at a loss to say
what it would be, but thought •’ it would be
a most serious state ol affairs, which would
tend to hurt the party more than anything
else.”
Mr. Charlton said that if the districts that
claimed to have elected a set of men refuse
to go into a primary he, nor no one else,
can force them to do it. He was of tlfe
opinion, however, that the only way out ot
the complicated condition of the present
situation would be for every man to assume
that he was elected, whether he was or not,
and resign. This would leave no committee
and would not preclude the same men from
running again, Mr. Charlton thought.
The Trial of Lizzie Halliday.
Monticello, N. Y., June 18.—[By Postal
Co.]- -The trial of Lizzie Halliday for the most
brutal murders in the history of the state be
gins to-day. It will take weeks to secure a
jury. The crimes for which she is to be tried
arc the murder of Paul Halliday and of the
McQuillan women, mother and daughter,
file bodies of all three were found hidden in
various parts of the Halliday grounds. Her
mind seems to wander con! inually, and ex
perts believe she is insane.
master Mechanics Meet.
Saratoga, June 18—[By Postal Co.]—-The
American Master Mechanics’ Association of
America convenes here to-day. Chauncey
M. Depew will deliver the address of
welcome.
NEBRASKA’S FREE MASONS.
Omaha, Nr.,:., June 18—[By Postal Co.] —
The Grand Lodge of Free Masons convenes
here to-day.
The McKnne Hearing.
Poughkeepsie, June 18.—[By Postal Co.]
she appeal from McKane’s conviction will
argued to-day. It will be heard by Justices
Brown and D/kman and a third justice to
sit in the place of Judge Cullen, who refuses
to sit because he heard a motion for a stay.
Lieut. Hawley filling (u Detroit.
Washington, June 18. —[By Postal Co.] —
Lieut. J. M. Hawley will be detached from
the Naval Academy to-day and become ex
ecutive officer of the Detroit in place of Lieut.
W. W. Kimball, who is given three months'
leave.
The Silva Embezzlement.
St. Louis, June 18.—[By Postal Co.]- -The
trial of Louis J. Silva, who is under indict
ment for embezzling SIOO,OOO from the Rain
water-Bradford Hat Company, is to begin to
day. The case has already been continued
tirrcc times.
That Mint Site Suit.
Philadelphia, June 18—[By Postal Co.] —A
jury has been chosen and the famous mint
site suit is to be called to-day before Judge
Butler in the federal.court.
The Eclectic School.
Niagara Falls, N. Y., June 18—[By Postal
Co.]—The National Eclectic Medical Associa
tion meets here io day, closing June 21.
Host anil Heallli to Mother mill Chilli
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup has been
used for over FIFTY YEARS by MILLIONS
of MOTHERS for their CHILDREN WHILE
TEETHING, with PERFECT" SUCCESS. It
SOOTHS the CHILD, SOFTENS the GUMS,
ALLAYS all PAIN; CURES WIND COLIC
and is the best remedy for DIARRHGiA
Sold by druggists in every part of the
world. Be sure and ask for ’’Mrs. Win
• slow’s Soothing Syrup,” and take no uthe,
kind. Twenty-five cents a bottle.
BUNKER HILL DAY.
ston mid Hartford Celebrate the Anniversary
of the (ireat Battle.
Hartford, Conn., June 18.—[By Postal Co.]
The chief military event here this summer is
the visit ot the Amoskeag Veterans of Man
chester, N. IL, and Hie Worcester Continen
tals of Worcester, the two commands coming
together as the guests of the Putnam Phalanx,
which in uniform, drill and manoeuvre pre
serves the appearance and tactics of the revo
lutionary troops, has annually recognized
Bunker Hill day since its organization 40 years
ago. This year June 17 came on Sunday, and
the celebration was postponed one day on
that account.
Ihe first observance of Bunker Hill day
by the Putnam Phalanx took place at the
loot ol Bunker Hill monument. Isaac W.
Stuart, the most brilliant of Connecticut
orators, was judge advocate of the battalion
at that time, and delivered a memorable ela
tion in honor of Connecticut men who
fought at Bunker Hill under Gen. Putnam.
Mr. Stuart was the idol of the command.
He was the owner of the famour Charter
Oak at the time of its destruction by a ter
rific storm here in 185(1, and was one of the
most enthusiastic supporters of the phalanx,
which was founded to preserve the war his
tory and spirit of Connecticut in the revo
lution.
The battalion is one of the most noted in
dependent military organizations in the
country, and has been composed from the
outset of leading business and professional
men in Northern Connecticut. It has made
extended excursions through the south,
visiting Atlanta and Richmond, while its
New York state and New England record in
this respect excels that of any other military
command in Connecticut. The plans for
receiving the Granite and Bay State bat
talions to-day have been arranged on
an elaborate scale. The two commands will
reach here at noon, and will parade under the
escort of the Putnam Phalanx and the Gov
ernor’s Foot Guard. During the afternoon the
Phalanx and guests wiil listen to a sermon to
be preached for the occasion in the First
Methodist church by the Rev. E L. Thorpe.
In the evening there will be a grand banquet
in honor of the visit at the Foot Guard Arm
ory Gov. Morris ol New 11-ven and staff,
ex-Gov. Morgan G. Buckeley, Mayor Brain
ard and ex-Mayor John G. Root will be
among the guests.
BOSTON CELEBRATES.
Boston, June 18.—[By Postal Co.]—Bos
ton and Charleston are en fete to-day cele
brating the ever-memorable battle of Bunker
Hill which occurred on June 17, 187(1. The
committee announce the military and civic
parades for this afternoon, starting promptly
at 2 o’clock. Willis W. Stover will be chief
marshal. The route is somewhat shorter
’ than usual, but covers the district pretty
thoroughly, and is as follows :
Formation in city square at 2 o’clock
p. m.; from City square to Main street, to
■ Sullivan square, countermarching to Main, to
Bunker Hiil, to Chelsea, to Adams, to Chest*
• nut, to the east and north sides of Monument
square, to Bartlett, to Elm, to High, to south
side of Monument square, to Warren, to Park,
to City square, where the procession will be
reviewed by the chief marshal and dismissed.
The route for the Carnival Association this
morning is completed. The parade will in
clude 13 foot features, eight floats and 10
bands. There will be four costumed staffs of
100 men each. ’I he features as usual will be
of a comical, historical and picturesque char
acter, and will be carried out by the local
1 organizations, with three visiting organiza
tions. The visiting organizations will be the
. Koobobees of South Boston,and the Warrens
of Roxbury, and the descendants of Revolu
tionary patriots from Stowe and Acton.
Banquets will be held by the City Guards
and the Charleston Cadets in their armories,
vb the veteran firemen in Monument hall and
by the Carnival Association to the members
of the city government at the Waverly House.
SPORTING NEWS.
Tire Utzslmmons-t hojnskl Eight To-Nlght-Bos
ton Handicap Games To-Day.
Boston, June 18.—[By Postal Co.]—Bob
Fitzsimmons and Joe Choynski arc to meet
in an eight-round bout at the Boston theater
this evening. It is understood that this match
was arranged in New York over four weeks
ago, but that it was kept quiet. The men
are great rivals, and there is scarcely a doubt
but thal they will come together on their
merits. The conditions of the match are not
exactly known, but it is stated by Davies that
the men will go eight rou .ds and tnat a de
cision upon the merits shown will be given.
Capt. Bill Daly has been agreed upon as the
referee. It seems a bit strange that the men
would refuse a SIO,OOO offer irom New Orleans
for a finish fight and go eight rounds rn Bos
, ton for the gate receipts.
BOSTON’S OPEN HANDICAP GAMES.
Boston, June 18.—[By Postal Co.]—The
Boston Athletic Association will hold a set
of open handicap games on the Irvington
Oval (Huntington avenue) to-day. The fol
lowing handicap events will be open to all
bona fide amateurs: 1 Hi yard dash, COO yard
run, one mile run, 120 yard high hurdle,
' running high jump,running broad jump,loo
yard dash, and 440 yard dash, the latter two
being scratch sot novices. Firstand second
prizes will be given in each event.
. CONNECTICUT’S BIG MEET.
Bridgeport, Conn., June 18.—[By Posta
Co.] —The state meet of the Connecticut
division of the League of American Wheel
j men, which the Bridgeport Wheel Club is to
1 entertain in this city to-day and to-morrow,
will be by (ar the biggest wheeling affair
that has ever taken place in the state.
: THROWN FROM HIS BUGGY.
t
; A Horse Takes Fright and Throws Its Driver
Out of the Vehicle.
Yesterday afternoon the horse of Mr. M.
Givovich, who was driving out East Broad
1 street, became frightened at some object near
the corner of Jones street and ran into a
post, throwing its driver out against the
stone curb. Mr. Givovich was thrown with
so much force that he sustained several in
i juries, which are very painful, causing him
; to be confined to his bed to-day.
His forehead was cut in two places and his
■ lip was also cut, giving it an ugly appearance
I to-day. The worst and most painful injury
, sustained was that on the chest. Mr. Givovich
'■ must have been thrown sgainst the edge of
the stone curb that extends along East Broad
: stieet, as his chest and shoulder are both cut
• and cause him much uneasiness when he
. coughs. The buggy was pretty well demol
ished.
PRICE 3 CENTS
POISONOUS BILBO.
Complaints Have ta Lodged Willi
Hie Saiitarj tari ipl 11,
PUBLIC SENTIMENT WILL SUSTAIN
PROMPT ACTION.
Lime and Carbolic Acid Valueless as
Disinfectants—To Inspect Its White
washed Banks, and Sluggish Flow.
The Members of the Sanitary
Board Should Inspect It From the
Shell Road to the River—A General
Demand to Make it a Closed _
Sewer.
The flood-gates in Bilbo canal must go,and
so. also, the periodical practice of cleaning
the canal and shoveling out its vile deposits
upon its high banks to fester in the sun.
Fine lime is scattered over this filth to disin
fect and deodorize it until the banks of the
canal look like a Hour barrel had been rolled
along its top wit i headjout. This innocent
amusement of the city’s dry culture gang
may quiet the fears of the ignorant and un
thinking, but informed people know it to be
farcical as an attempt to overcome the dam
aging effects of exposing the slimy contents
of the canal to the sun on its banks.
LIME AND CARBOLIC ACID VALULESS.
It is supposed to be quick lime that is ap
plied to the destruction of germ life in the
canal deposits thus thrown up from the bot
tom and sides of the bank. Any one familiar
with carbonate of lime knows how quickly it
is made slack by air or moisture, in which
state it has no value as a disinfectant or de
stroyer of germ life. Carbo ic acid is poured
into Hie aanal to purify it. As the bulk of its
conteats are in a state Jot constant change,
the dose ot carbolic must be continuous,
night and day, if there is any virtue in car
bolic acid tor a surface as great as this canal
offers for giving off poisonous gases to be
swept over the city and carried, first to the
humble cottages of the poor and then to
the lordlier mansions of the rich.
This cleaning process continues through the
year, summer and winter. Heaven knows
the diseasE-breeeding surface of the canal is
broad enough in itself without any increase
by adding the tops of its banks loaded with
its concentrated corruption in daposit to
yield up more poison for the breathing ol
our people. The canal is big enough, as a
matter of fact, to carry off the deposits of
100,000 closets more easily and less hurt
fully than it does from the deposits of 10,00 q
■ closets.
IT SHOULD BE CLOSED.
Construct it into a closed sewer and the
sluggish canal could be assisted by flushing
■ from water mains and kept clean and clear
from noxious ana disease-breeding deposits
1 at all times, and the most unsightly blot
' upon avannah’s boasted sewerage system
will no longer be disgusting to eye and re
volting to smell. Complaint against the
present mode of cleaning are now before the
the sanitary board and the public demands
1 that the sanitary board deal boldly with this
■ damnable canal cleaning practice.
Gentlemen do not be afraid to
act; public support is with you
you. Neither lime nor whitewash will veneer
to sight and smell the exhalation of this verit
able river ot death. If yon hesitate or doubt,
' do the inspecting of this locality yourself All
that has been said will be justified by a visit
to the snow -capped banks of this sluggish
canal. Don’t be content to view it from
Gwinnett street bridge; follow its banks
to the river. It is entitled to and should
have this close personal inspection
by every member of the sanitary
board. As the designated special guardians
in matters of municipal sanitation, it is your
duty to closely examine Bilbo canal Go
just after or while the dry culture gang are
putting the canal in so-called first-class sani
tary condition. Don’t go once, go often,
each time examine thoroughly, each for him
self, as each will be held to a separate and
also an aggregate responsibility should death
come from this disease center in our very
midst.
THE DANGER FROM WITHIN.
Thousands are spent every year to keep out
of our midst by land and water quarantine,
the diseases of our neighbors and foreign
countries, and yet year after year this hot bed
ot disease grows in dangerous proportions
without commanding a dollar for its remedy
or removal upon any sensible or practical
basis.
In heaven’s name how much longer is this
iniquity to be permitted to continue to men
ace the health of our people, rich and poor,
but more particularly the poor who cannot
get away in summer like their rich neigh
bors, but must battle out their lives here
year in and year out breathing the foul ex
halations of Bilbo canal from bottoms and
banks.
If the excuse be for cleaning out the canal
is that sand is washed in from its sides by
rain, then temporarily protect it this
washing by sheet piling its banks, but
don’t under any pretext expose any more of
its filth to the rays of our semi-tropical
summer sun.
Summer Gates to Delightful Resorts.
On June 1, the Western and Atlantic
railroad and the Nashville, Chattanooga and
St. Louis railway will put on sale cheap round
trip tickets to Marietta, Dalton, Ga., Lookout
Mountain, Estell Springs, Mont Eagle,
Sewanee, Tate Springs, Tenn., Asheville, N.
C., White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., and all
the summer resorts in Michigan, Wisconsin,
Colorado and Virginia. For circulars, maps,
rates and other information call on R. D.
Mann, ticket airent, No. 4 Kimball house, or
C. B. Walker, ticket agent, Union depot.
Write for list of Hotels and elegant boarding
: houses at Marietta, Acworth, Cartersville or
Dalton. C. E. Harman,
General Passenger Agent, Atlanta,Ga