Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-05-25

with an appreciative remembrance Of those
who were so brave and true, who accented
death itself for love Of home and country. /
hope to be present, 1t matters not when the
time or where the place Of meeting NAV be y
The Gainesville SOuthrOn has the follovinq.
deputy Collector NJ. Van Estes, showed rs
on Saturday very curious little pisce of me
chanism captured. or rather given M, - -,
ties in this city, by one Bill Simnson. a FSn
tured and notorious mOonshiner of Haber
sham county. The thing is made of conner
lat anu hOlloW; about IL inches wide and 9
lhches long, with kind Of scroll al the end
Iartnest from the mouth piece Bv placing
the 1ngers at each end of the scroll almost
any klnd OF shrlll whistle can be produced
lhat IN the night can be heard a mile away.
certain signals understood by the mOOnshin-
efs are given; one means to get up and dust .
one To pull out the still and skedaddle: an
other means stand your ground. we are COM
ing; etc. Bill can make this funny little cop
per machine june, and says the boys can talk
Dack 10 hlm with another one, like mOckIng
blrd. II Is our opinion Bill never would have
given this manipulated piece of copper awav.
but John BarleycOrn and our bows were too
many Tor hlm. Perhaps Bill will understand
what became OF H. an Estes IS as prOund of
it a. a school girl with her first bangs"
few days ago Comptroller General Wright
assessed the Brunswick and Albany Railroad
raising the amount returned very cOnsidera-
bly, ana making, says the Atlanta COHsfitu-
ton, a clear gain to the state of about eleven
hundred dollars. The road is not a very valu-
able property, but the Comptroller General
considered the return below what it should
have been, and assessed il accordingly. lie
also assessed the Georgia Pacific Road. The
road was returned at S674,J0O. Mr.. Wright
considered the return too low and assessed
the road AT 81 l62, 400, which is upon basis of
ten tnousand dollars per mile. exclusive
OF bridges, tresties, equipments, ETC. Mr.
Wright has also assessed the Pullman South
ern Car Company and the Pullman Palace
Car Company. The law provides that these
companies shall pay per cent. of their gross
earnings. The returns made by the Pullman
Ialace Car Company for the last quarter
were so low that the tax derived for that time
would have been only s. 6S The returns of
the Pullman Southern Company were a little
more, and the tax would have amounted to
about SIS. Mr.. Wright objected to the return,
but the company held that it was liable FOR
only that amount. The idea, under the ad-
vice OF Judge LOchrane, was that the State
was TO receive ! per cent.-nOt on the
gross receipts from the sale of berths
but from the part of the ticket con-
sumed in Georgia. In other words, a ticket
Is sold for three hundred miles. only one hun
dred Of the distance being within the state.
The company held that the State was to re-
ceIve per cent. of one third of the gross
amount. Mr.. Wright thinks the law is very
clearly the other way, and he has acted on
that idea. Being unable to procure facts
and figures. he took the returns of last year
and assessed the Pullman Southern Car Com
pany S7,456 95 for the quarter ending March
II, and the Pullman Palace Car Company
S5.la O3 for the same time. The tax is l
per cent. Of these amounts. The companies
are taxed under the act of 1877. Taxing rail
roads, Is, therefore, comparatively a new
source Of revenue.