Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-09-07

RAILROAD RUMBLINGS.
Bright Flashes of Intelligence from Near
and Afar.

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The steam schooner Louis Bucki is ex-
| pected at Jacksonville daily with cargo
| of iron for the Green Cove Springs and
| Melrose Railroad
| Five hundred and seventy-four car loads
| of lumber passed through Jesup last
month on the East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia Railroad.
| The st. Johns and Lake Eustis Rail-
| raid is having a number of new and SUBJ
| stantlal depot buildings constructed along
| the line of its road.
| The Orlando (Fla.) Reporter says that
| Mr.. w. II. Ammo has gone North to effect
| arrangements for the early building of the
| Favares, Orlando and Atlantic Railroad.
| A railroad meeting will be held at Stel-
| layille the 18th of this month. The object
of the meeting will be to discuss the build
ing of the Augusta, Gibson and Sanders
| vile Road.
The Cincinnati, Selma and Mobile bonds,
which formed part Of the assets of the
Doughty estate, have become valuable,
for the reason that this road will soon be
taken possession of by the Georgia Cen
trail, and the assets of Doughty thus made
valuable viii almost make good the over
issue of Cincinnati, New Orleans and
Texas Pacific stock, and remove that
much weight from the genuine stock.
The Pine Level Fla. ) Times states that
A. Z. Roberts, of Orlando, twas to begin
on the 10th to grade the railroad lands
from Ocala to Charlotte Harbor. He says
the road will run south down the Wash
ingtOn line to Charlotte Harbor, and the
| branch road from Kissimmee City to
Tampa will cross at Medulla, fifteen
| miles west of Barlow. The work will be
pushed through, and we need not suffer
any uneasiness about a road through
Pine Level at an early day.
The Vagrant Law.
Editor Morning NelcS: Your article on
the vagrant law was to the point and we'll
timed. Facts are stubborn things, and it
is time the vagrant law should be en-
| forced. The city Is filled full of negro
men and boys, and also girls and women,
who have no visible means of support.
Let drum beat and how soon there is a
crowd Of idle negroes, of all ages and
sex, following the drummer.
ANY one who will look at the crowd
will see in moment they have no visible
means of support, for if they did they
would be at work. To prevent vagrancy
and idleness is to enforce the law. Arrest
the Idlers on the streets and make them
show their means of support, If they have
any. A few arrests viii strike terror into
all the loating negroes in the city.
They are the Micawbers of our society,
waiting for something to turn up" to
give them job, but never taking job if
it is offered, unless the business suits.
AS an illustration, | offered several negro
boys fifty cents day to 90 into the coun-
try to pick cotton. Some did not know
how, and others would not think of leav-
ing the city. | merely did it for an ex-
pertinent.
1t is now time to enforce the vagrant
act, and it would be well for our Mayor to
give notice that negroes and whites, who
are known to have no business, seen
daily on the streets will be arrested and
made to show their means of support. 1t
did not take long to rid ourselves of
white tramps, and it will not take long to
free this community from negro tramps if
the law is enforced. The paupers who
daily beg on the streets are Migrants.
The way to prevent crime is to enforce
the law, and when there is an earnestness
displayed by those in authority the work
is half done.
The rising negro generation know
nothing of home discipline, nor have they
been taught the absolute Importance of
work. The little education they have re-
ceiyed has been more of a curse to them
than a benefit. At sixteen or before they
quit school, and then they become tritiing,
thriftless and Y3gabOndish. Look facts
in the face, and deal with them as facts.
| hate theory when facts give a direct
lie to it.
1--WE must not make a scarecrow of the law,
Setting it up to fear the birds Of prey,
And let it keep one shape, till custom make it
Their perch and not their terror
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