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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-27
Surface Wells.

The last number of Science contains a
very interesting article on "City Wells,
IL is an article that deserves the careful
consideration Of the authorities Of cities,
and IL ought to be read by those who do
not believe that surface wells In cities are
source Of disease. IL shows pretty
clearly that it is impossible TO prevent the
impurities from cesspOols and other
sources from finding their way into these
wells.
The water OF city surface wells has
been examined so often, and almost
always with the same result, that il Is
useless, apparently, to direct public at
tention again to the fact that it is dam
gerous TO use it for drinking or cooking
purposes.
The statement is made in the article in
Science that in 1852 there were 3l6 surface
wells I'm Brooklyn, N. ", and that OF the
whole number only Il furnished water
that was tit for human consumption. An
examination of the wells OF Baltimore a
few years ago showed that the water they
contained was wholly unfit for drinking
purposes. There was one spring In that
city, the water OF which had peculiar
color and odor. 10 was regarded as n
mineral spring, and was fenced in and
treated as such. An investigation by an
oyer-curious person showed that il was
connected with a cesspool which gave the
water its peculiar color and taste. IL was,
OF course, quickly abandoned.
Persons m good health may use the
water from city surface wells long time
without receiving any injury, but those
who are not strong enough 10 throw Oh
the poison are certain 10 suffer from its
effects. The poison manifests itself gem
orally I'm slow feyers, which finally develop
into serious and fatal diseases. Their il
no question but that many outbreaks OF
typhoid fever have been traced 10 impure
water and 70 is regarded as certain that
during epidemios those who drink surface
well water are more liable 10 be attacked
by the prevailing disease than those who
DO not.
Because surface well water looks pure
nlehy people cannot be made 20 believe
that It isn't pure. Actual ANALYSIS. how
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-27
BRIGHT BITS.

A GREAT many men get their fingers burned
with base ball matches.-Bostoa BWdget.
SPEECH Is certainly silver at the telegraph
othce-ten words for Understandable
journal.
A NEWSPAPER FOLDER has been invented
called IN cucumber, because 1t doubles 'cm
p.'-R Trd:b on fHdeDcndsnt
Po7 MAY Gays that he wishes he could iu-
duce his wife 10 try the early closing move
ment on her mOuth.-Burlfngt0n Free Press.
j. WARREN KEIFER threatens to make his
reappearance in Ohio politics this year. Will
somebody please pass the cocaine p Chicago
Ne90s
4 RADICAL WRITER says that sliced cucum-
bers will remove freckles. So they Will.
Freckled people are just as liable to fatal dis
eases as BUrL,not0n Free Press.
IT is said that 10 per cent more corsets are
sou IN winter than In summer. The long
winter evenings, with the gas turned down to
appease the metre, are hard on cOrsets.-
BNrltnGton Free Press.
A MOSQUITO in a mans ear is not pleasant
thlng to experience, but IL is better than to
have his black-haired wife find tress of
golden hair tangled in the top button of the
coat which her husband wore to lodge last
pight.-FaU RtUer dDance.
THE advent of the green apple season is
marked by the usual announcement Of 500
radio cases of cholera" At this time of year
location of his stomach without reference TO
an anatomical chart Boston Globe.
AN EXCHANGE has a column headed HBicy-
Gle Melange." Nearly every learner INDUCES
In several bicycle melanges before he gets so
he can ride well. There was one in front Of
the SIN Office nOtlong ago, in which the W heel
had decidedly the best Of it. No bones broken.
-Pscb's Sun.
"Now, darling, viii you grant me one favor
before go?" yes, George, WILL she said,
dropping her eyeiashes and getting her lips in
shape. what is the favor ! can grant you?''
"Only little song at the piano, love. I am
afraid there IS a dog outside waiting for me,
and want to scare hifaa away - PhjlddeL-
ptia OGH. -t
1T is almost impossible to keep up with the
times in these agonizinR days. The newest
wrinkle in aesthetic circles is for young lady
to artistically decorate miniature trunk,
Ostensibly for collars and cuffs, with scenes
from noted summer resorts, and forward by
messenger boy to her best young man. If the
trunk ever gets there it will signify. "Isn't il
an appropriate season for a wedding trlp?''
If the bait is successful the young man s tailor
gets an order for some new and very nice
Clothes Hartford Posi-.
CONGRATULATIONS FRIEND--"Just arrived
from the continent ehg You are looking
remarkably well. How long were you in
Parisg'
Returned tourist About SIX weeks -
How did you manage? You can't talk
French"
"Oh, gestures went a great way. Some
times s1etched what wanted"
"Made drawing Of 1t, Ell? And you were
always UNDERSTOOD
''Well. not always. Once I made a drawing
of Il mushroom. now. what do you think The
waiter brought meg The idiot brought me an
umbrella. -Ph3lddeIpbid can.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-27

The local option stock law appears 10 De
working splendidly in the counties IN
which 1t has been adopted. The intense
opposition 10 it, which was at INST so
conspicuous among owners OF small
farms and laborers, has almost entirely
died out, and in very few, if any, OF
these counties could the old law
be again put in operation the
question Of reyerting TO the old
system was left to a vote Of those who
we're formerly "fence" men alone. Small
farmers have found out that they save
more in labor and cash, which would he
expended for fencing under the old SYSTEM
in proportion to their ability than their
wealthy neighbors do, and the laborers
have discoyered that those Of them who
wish 70 keep pigs or cows can obtain
better pastures from their employers and
have more milk and butter than they
could have when their stock was per
mitted TO run in the lanes and woods. 1t
is the almost invariable practice for en-
ployes to give free pasturage for the cattle
Of their employees, the employees generally
assisting in maintaining the pasture
fences and in removing portable fences in
their own time without extra charge,
though the landowner almost inyariable
furnishes the timber for rails or boards
and pays for making them.
One thing very noticeable in the no
fence counties is the great improvement
in cattle. The old piney-woods COWS are
being replaced with blooded Jerseys and
Attorneys and Durhams, and the cattle
are almost Invariably in better condition
than ever before known. While the num-
Der Of cattle has in some instances been
reduced, the aggregate value mas been in
creased. Many OF the towns in these
counties in which Northern butter was
formerly extensively sold are now stocked
with homemade butter and ship consider
able quantities of it TO the cities.
The old arguments for and against emo
fence law have long since been worn
threadbare. The knowledge of the prac-
teal operation of the law and its effects
on the farming and stockraising interests
ia what convinces. None but what are
known as grazing counties can much
longer afford to follow the old fence sys-
TEN. People in the ''fence" counties have
only to visit the ''no fence" counties and
make honest Investigations to be aroused
to a sense OF the folly of maintaining a
thousand dollars worth of fencing to
keep a hundred dollars worth of stock
out of their fields.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-27

Just now the outlook for good crops is
very promising tor this section of the
country 1t is believed that in nearly
every portion of Georgia they are even
better than ia Indicated by the last report
0fthe state Department Of Agriculture.
Most OF 1the dangers that beset crops
have been safely passed. The corn crop
may almost be considered as made, and if
the cotton escapes the worms it will soon
bedn thelsame condition.
Il is believed that the farmers of
Georgia have so learned to utilize labor
and conduct their operations that they
can make their crops at less expense than
has been possible at any time since the
war. They will in consequence doubtless
have fair profit left after they have
marketed their products, and paid such
bills as they have contracted, with ex-
captions, Of course, where parties have
bought supplies largely on credit at eX-
orbitant prices. 1t is generally believed
thatthe farmers Of Georgia have adhered
closer TO the cash system this year than
fors1aany years past, and that those who
have bought on credit have been more
than usually prudent and economical.
1t is almost impossible just now to form
any idea as to what the prices of the lead
Ing products of the country will be next
! autumn, but there is a hopeful feeling IN
that regard With good crops and fair
prices, and the people more than usually
free from debt and consequent embarrass-
! ment It seems that business in all de-
partments must be good. 1t is likely that
-inany people will this fall and winter be
able to make purchases that have been
long deferred from stern necessity.
1t is now time that business men should
get ready for the season and advertise
their business in the most profitable and
effective manner through the columns of
respectable and widely circulated news
papers. Experience has proved that this
kind of advertising is by far the best, and
! that other kinds are useful only as auxil-
iaries--never as substitutes.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-27
Painting a Church steepIe.


Several Of K. Il. Crowells painters COM
menced work on the First Congregational
church last week. The vane of the steeple is
to be taken down and the ball regilded Ten
years ago Mr.. CrUwell's men painted the
church. and one of them climbed the steeple
to paint that and take the bail and vane down
to be regided. The man had been a sailor,
and managed to rig kind Of a bOatsWain's
chair to the top of the steeple. He tried to
get the ball out, but failed, and il was decided
to let it remain and gid it in It's position. The
man made several attempts to work on the ball
during the day. but the wind blew 50 strongly
at the 1871 feet elevation that he was obliged
TO give it up. He finally, on June II, 1875,
having gone up the steeple in the early morn
ing. wnen the air WIS still and the neighbor-
hood wrapped in slumber. succeeded in finish
ing the job, with the aid of n carriage cover.
which he took up and mate into kind of
canopy top over the top of the steeple, which
protected him from the wind, and under
which he worked.
This man died some time ago, and a man
who worked with him then has now vOlun-
teered to do the work. On Saturday two lad
ders were dashed together which reached
from the roof OF the church to the small win .
dOws above the belfry. The painter, with a
rope about his waist. mounted the ladder, and
soon. gained f0OthOld upon the Delfry tower.
rightning rod runs TO the end of the steeple,
aud lis fastened at intervals of about three
feet. The man grasped the rod and began to
climb mp the steepe, step by stem, the rope
dangling behind him. The steeple narrows
toward the top, and near the summit the
lightning rod is 30 close that it is of little use
10 the climber The painter had with him
large screw eye, and, reachingup as far as he
could, screwed it into the steeple, and draw
ing himself mp by its aid fastened and rugged
his rope. He afterward, sitting astride the
glided ball, dashed a stud with a block and
rope on the end of the steeple, so that IT tow
cred several feet above the vane.
He has been up every day this week, at
tempting to get the vane out, but the wind
seems to blow a gale up there, and the work
Is abandoned for the present. IT is his inten-
ton to rig a chair, and commencing at the
turning himself as he goes. He does not seem
to think he is doing an extraordinary thing,
and from his seat, l9l feet above the ground,
probably takes an artists delight in the scene
beneath him, and looks down with acOrn su-
pTeme upon the timld creatures below who
have watched his ascent and labors on his
perch with bated breath and fast beating
hearts
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-27
An Unseutimental Anocdots.


A sensational story about Mr.. J. I. Case is
going the rounds of the press. 1t is something
about his kissing his wife whenever he wins
horse race. It Is all very beautiful and touch
ing. Over in Michigan there is an old sport Of
the name of Jake GOOdspeed. He was selling
pools at one of the country race tracks last
year when Mr.. Case put in his appearance.
How does it happen" asked GOOdspeed.
THAT you are buying pools against your own
horseY" $50 tell the truth" replied Case,
he is in bad form. and don't believe We
will put him through for all there is in him"
80, So said GOOdspeed, softly; "then I'll be
prepared" Accordingly be put about $400 in
fore the horses were called up Goodspeed no
ticed that one OF Cases heuchmen was buy
ng vei heavily on Case's horse. This struck
Go0dspeed as significant, and he posted off to
lind Case.
Look here" said he to Case. ''if there's
going to be any fine work want to know il, for
I've put about $500 into the box against your
horse, You tolQ me the horse wouldn't win,
yet now ina your man betting your money
on the horse; what is the meaning of all this
racket Mr.. Case hemmed aud bawed a
good deal. "Well, you see" said he. "that |
was worth to-day, but my wife seems deter
mined he shall win. She's up in the grand
stand crying and taking on so that I've made
up my mind to win the race if can"
Goodspeed hurried back TO the poolrOOm and
squared himself as best he could, 90 that he
lost very little on the race. hut IL was "A dread
fully narrow escape When Phailas and
Maxey Cobb met at Cleveland a fortnight ago
GOodspeed came across Case and asked him II
Phallas would trot to win "Ofcourse,' said
Case, "the race Is for blood" We'll" said
Goodspeed, "Ill step around to the poolroom
Il you'll promise not TO 90 near your wife till
the race is over
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-27
GRANT AND HIS Old COMRADES.
An Interesting Meeting Between Gen.
Grant and Gen. McLsws.

From an ZnterDieao aoitA Gen. He Ldacs, in the
Yeto York Times.
When the war was over Gen. McLaws retir-
cd to a farm in Efingham county, Ca, refusing
all participation in politics. 1t was not until
1876 that he visited Washington, when he call
ed at the White House. He no sooner sent in
his card to Gen. Grant than he heard the
President, who was at the time busily en-
gagged, call out to his secretary:
Don't let McLaws go; 7 want to see him.
"All at once" said Gen McIaws 81 saw a
changed look On the faces Of my companions
In waiting when they found there was one
among them whom the President was anxious
TO see. Meeting me on the doorstep, Gen.
Grant held out his hand ana said: i am de-
lighted to see my old army cOmrade. want
you TO dine with me, when we can dream over
the past
after dinner he led me into his private
room and directed the conversation 30 as 10
find out my personal condition He listened
10 my narrative with interest, and turning to
me he said:
McLaWs. would you take Office under an
old comrade2"
Taken aback by the question. at length
replied that was ready TO perform all the
duties Of American citizenship. i am sorry
you did not come TO see me BEFORE rejolned
the President; Il would have taken pleasure
In comforting Office upon you. My second
term OF the presidency Is now nearly ended,
but there has not been an n0ur or thnt time
in which / was not only willing but ANXIOUS
TO confer the offices upOu reputable citizens.
In this, however, | was foiled by the
politicians. The prejudices of the Northern
politicians were at work. but the great
hindrance was in the Southern Congress
men. They have always held alOof. treat
ed me az a stranger, and refused to give me
an opportunity TO befriend them For
Southern man to take Office under MT brought
him under suspicion at home In fact" con-
tlnued Gen. McLaws, Gen. GrantspOke with
the air of man who felt chagrned and dis
appointed at the manner in which the poiti-
clans had used sectional differences to further
to me: Go home and have nothing to DO with
the politicians, and leave your case with me,
and will take care of YOU had not much
more than reached home when | was nomi-
mated and confirmed FOR the Savannah post
office, which position held until few months
ago -
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-27

the recent exposures of the sales of
diseased cattle in Chicago are creating
considerable feeling throughout the
country. Those who are accustomed to
eating Chicago canned meats take es-
pecial interest in these exposures, and it
may well be imagined that the appetite of
the Chicagoans for neat is not as good as
it was before the exposures were made.
While it is doubtless true that few people
come to their death directly from the eat
ing OF diseased meat, it can not be doubted
that much sickness is caused thereby.
Probably some forms of diseased meat,
when properly prepared, are not actually
unwhOle5Ome, hut IL is not expected that
many people will eat such meat know
ingly. More or less diseased meat is sold
in every town and city where there is no
adequate system OF food inspection. 1t
seems that the inspection system IN
Chicago is only such in name, and that is
the case undoubtedly in many other
cities. Men who are either ignorant and
incompetent or capable OF being swerved
from duty by improper influences are fire.
quently employed as inspectors merely
because they can be obtained at low
salaries.
Not only should the authorities of every
city employ competent and reliable food
inspectors, and see that they do their duty,
but every purchaser OF meat should be
able to distinguish diseased meat from that
which is wholesome. Probably one-half
otthe people who 90 to market in our cities
are unable to tell goou meat from that
which is not good, and it is doubtless true
that the larger part of these persons hat
bItually buy their meat frem butchsrs
who are not over careful as to the quality
of their merchandise, and who offer extra
Inducements in the way of seemingly low
prices.
OF course, no reputable butcher would
sell diseased meat whether there are any
restraints laid on him by law or not, but
it is unfortunately true that there are
some butchers everywhere almost who
are void of principle, the fear of legal
punishment, and OF popular indignation.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-27
The Funeral of Russian Prince,


The remains Of Prince Paul Demidon, after
resting IN the villa Oh Pratolino during sew
eral months, lighted day and night by eDor-
nous candelabras. were sent from Florence
on June p by special train to Siberia, accom-
panied by the widow aud the pope of the fam
lly. The DemldOhs are immensely rich
Their ancestor. q blacksmith. was presented
with an iron mine and title of nobility by
Peter the Great, and bought property in the
Ural. on which were discovered extensive
mines OF copper, silver, and gold. Al the
same time as the corpse the monument was
forwarded for the tomb in siberia, executed
by me sculptor, Romanclli, ut an expense Of
i0,0l0f.
The road from Pratolino to Florence was
adorned with bowers, and the Pullman car
destined 20 receive the coffin was transformed
into richly ornamenied chapel. At Mimi
NOv gOr0d the coffin viii be transferred to -
boat and pass along Che rivers Volga and
Kama To Perna, whore IL will be sent by rail
10 laigul IN Siberia. There The operative
population who work IN the late Princes
mines will render the last honors 20 the de-
CgnRpd
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-27
The Crow nnd lhe H.re.
From ne netron Er.e pr1ss.

rum tte Afttfott fytf A'ffohs
A Crow and a Hare met hy chance one day,
aud wore so well Pleased with each other that
10 WAS agreed 10 form a Partnership.
"IhC urst thing In ORDER" remarked the
Crow, 'i' To select Home, which WILL Of
course, belong 10 both Of n. Have you got
your eve on any particular TrecT'
Tree! echoed the Hare, "why, we want a
Burrow. Of course"
'Burrowl But / can't live In n Hole!n
And can't climb 'rreein
III you didn't intend 20 Consult my Wishes,
why did YOU Propose this Partnership"
And n you weren't ready 10 give way in
these little Matters. why accept my PrOpo-
salefn
They were Holly Disputing and Abusing
ca n other when the Fox came along, and be-
ing Appealed To for His Opinion, he said.
Moral: my friends, while YOU are both
wrong, You have etill exhibited rare Judg
mcnt. The Human Family alone are Fools
enough % Marry hrst aud Quarrel over their
likes and dislikes and Natures inc0ngruities
nfterward.p
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-27
Republican Bourbonism.

From the BROOKLYN Union (hu0.)
II may be as useful characteristic in
political leader rs in a General not 70 know
when he IS beaten, but it argues very little
capacity IN either not to know why victory
rests with the other side. A good many par
sons who are actually or nOminaly leaders in
the Republican party at the present time
seem To be afflicted with this lack OF precep-
ton. In spite OF the clOseness OF the ultimate
result, the presidential election of last fan was
an undeniable defect for the Republican
party, and 1t seems highly perverted kind
of ingenuity to set about dnding out not how
to remove the causes OF weakness but how to
make them more numerous. Yet the party
tactics in Ohio are open to that reprOach;
and they promise to become 80 IN Massachu-
sets.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-27
The "DinIcultyp Of tho Prablem.

fT"Hs me FhiAIdetlDhid Rec0Td ,Den'.l
The tronble with some Of our eminent
Democratic friends Is that they belong to
political generation which has never had the
dealing out OF the Federal Offices. All that
they nave had to do for the last twenty years
or 40 was to rsiure each aud every worker"
That the post Office or custom house should be
his y he insisted the party TO win a victory.
Now " mas won victory, and the workers"
want Ihelr promises cashcd; aud the states
men ma IT difficult TO give each man of the
great multitude all ave Of the l0aves and both
hshes without disappointing somebody. The
problem Is a difficult one, and 1t seems TO be
getting no easier very fast.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-27
INDEE TO new ADVERTISEMENTS
-oR RrNr-A sn1t Of Rooms.

For RENT-A SUIT Of Rooms.
MEETING-De Kalb Lodge No. q l. o. o. + F.
SPECIAL NoTICEs-To Depositors Savings
Department Savannah Bank and Trust Co.
STEAMSHIP SoHEDULE-Ocean steamship
Company.
To RAFPLE-Elegant Gold Watch.
FUNNY FISH, ETC.-At A. NJ. Il CIV, Vests.
iOTATOES-C. l.. Gilbert & Co.
LEGAL NOTICE-ApphcatiOn for EXemp-
zion of Personally.
ORGANS, PIANOS, Etc.-Ludden n Bates
hi usic House.
MEDICAL-BrOwn's Iron Bitters
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-27
CURRENT COMMENT.


UT F7E0 0VTtUFt V1U711Ts
Down at Ashury Park and Ocean Grove The
white folks are complaining because the
colored folks do not take a separate place for
bathing. The park aud the grove are some
distance north OF Mason and DiXou's line, but
the nature Of white. folks is mach the same.
no matter on which side OF the line they live.
Possibly the reader has observed this.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-27

A Mrs. Pozzoni, of st. Louis, proposes
20 give 500, 600 to found a home for the
families Of deceased Freemasons. She is
one OF the few women who sympathises
with the riders of the goat ta
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-27

Chandler says he will defend and vim
dictate his administration and Mr.. Roach's
transactions Herewith free Of charge.
Chandler Is liberal both towards himself
and his old partner.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-27

Mrs. Langtry has got the biggest and
best free advertisement of the season
Perhaps Sir George Chetwyn's assault on
Lord Lonsdale was made from a purely
business point of view after all.