Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-04

| ready sank has last time. In few moments
=, - saot tctss surface as IT escaped from the
relaxing myers Of the dead boy. and tn re
was n1,-r'ng to Indicate tho Whereabouts of
tie Dody ia the yellow flood. The body was
recovered by drawiD9 on the water.
mr.. } G. Pitaer, who is now resting from
Use tclls and troubles of arly forty wears in
tae mercantile business, SAYS that he settled
at htheLs and opened business wnen it was
l-sIlall place and has passed through all the
paalcS, and has always geDt his name 10 the
tf9nt. arge Grms have gone down: hanks
prose, and financial troIbles Iave come but
the name OF }. G. Pi+ner was alw avs coed in
Ihe 'H4llAs. NJ Pitner lost over $l25OoOin notes
ara accom- Is before G war and since the
| war about $4,000, and to-day Is a rich man.
All the merchants who started in Athen.-
wmen I,i nc dld are either dead or dead broke.
IT IT. EfSNer IS nov a retired ne. chant and
ttheTe is nc fear of him going to the poor
| houac f0i vars to come
| Col simpson Fouche died at his residence
| az itome Thul-Aay. col. FOuche wa>born in
| WltScs county in 1906. He was a cla1s-mate
| OF Robert ToCmbs. attended the University
OF virginia at Charlottesville, and while there
| was invited by Thomas Je 1ersOn to visit
MN at his home, Monticello. He visited
9Ine,soh reg uentiy, and was an enthusiastic
aumlrer oil that great statesman Col Fouche
we a candidate for the Legislature while re-
sldlng IN TaIiaferrO county, his opp nent be-
! ing Alex. stephens, who was elected. In 1910
| t,ol Fouche removed to Barlow. and about
IoaO went to IOyd, where he has since re-
slac5 He was a delegate 10 the southern
clA1%TAtl0n4 Msilch met at Nashville, q few
! yEafs bef9re thu war and was a prominent
! me nbeI OF the Secession Cony l IN Of Geor-
ga. He taught school for mGhy years. and
| ass Tor some time editor of the Rome DaiJt
| Commercial.
John Mcpherson, fireman on B. b. Gray's
tram engine, was fouu dead near the
| railroad trick WillacoOclee, on Saturday.
morning. The result Of the Corcner's investi-
! ga on W; , that deceased came to his death
! the hands of some unknown peroon or 1er-
] WINS IL
| was una nv the railroad track. early in the
| rornlng, with his head upon the end of
cross-tie. The ack Of his head was badly
| crushed, and III cd, brains and 10. lions Of
| skuh were lyli { around. There was heavy
/ wound on tile side Of his head, apparently
| maue with an axe. 1t is thought that he was
| murdered and placed on the track. to create
| the impression that he was killed by the train.
suspicion rested upon two negroes-a man
ana a Slrl-and they were arrested, but they
were released for want of evidence to justify
| holding them. The young man was peaceable
| ana industrious, and the crime has caused
excitement and indignation in the cOmmu-
| MY. Further efforts will be made to detect
and punish the perpetrators of the crime.
The reception to be rendered by the Macon
Volunteers on Easter Monday at their armory,
to Miss Mamie Young, of PETERSBURG, Va,
| possesses more than an ordinary interest.
! During the war, when the Second Georgia
Battalion was fighting on the bloOdiest fields
OF virginia, and lis members sWelled the great
ranks of sick and wounded soldiers, the hos
pitfalls were not inviting. The surgeons and
physicians became callOus Of heart and their
sensbilitles were blunted by the constantly
recurring scenes. Tne good ladies of
! Petersburg from their own Npurses secured
q large building on BolingbrOke street,
and, supplying 1t with physicians from the
CITY, converted it into a hospital. As long as
it was possible to sustain such an institution
no soldier who wore the gray was ever turned
from its doors. Among those noble women
was Mrs. James T. Young. Not only was she
a ministerrg angel at the ladies hospital but
the doors of her own beautiful home were
opened wide to the sick and wounded SOL
-dlers. Among those who were so fortunate as
to find their way to her house were many
members of the Second Georgia Battalion.
| With a vivid recollection of the good deeds Of
| this lady, the Volunteers have intended that
| the reception to be rendered the worthy
daughter, who is now the guest or Mr.. and
Mrs. j. E. WellsgJr., as a slight recognition of
| those many acts of Kindness shown the COM
pany in those trying times.
The contracts have been signed and ar
| rangemcpts made for the immediate erection
| of four fire escapes with improved stand
| pipes at the Augusta Orphan Asylum. Chief
| Platt went before the trustees of the institu-
ton and pointed out to them a serious fact
/ which has heretofore escaped consideration,
namely, that should a fire occur in lower
story of the building at night. or even in the
dav, and advance SO far as to burn away the
staircase before it was discovered, there
would be 10 possible escape for the children
except to jump from the windows which OF
course would, IN most cases, prove as fatal as
the flames. When this was explained, and
the remedy set before them, the officers
! of the institution at once took steps to
| relieve the difficulty. and four escapes viii
be erected Immediately, together with stand
| pipes, under the supervision of Chief Engineer
| Platt. One viii be placed on either side Of
| the building and two in the rear. Two of
| these escapes will he regular stairways with
! a railing, and with balcony at each story,
| which the girls and small children can easily
| descend, and two viii be ladders with a bal
cony at each story. These escapes will eX-
tend from the ground to the roof and stand
| pipes will run along each. These stand pipes
| are out the size of the usual fire engine, and
! are to take the place Of hose. The pipe has a
/ Siamese coupling a few feet from the ground.
to which the hose from the engines
can be attached. This pipe extends
to the rooof of the building, and
there and at each story has out
let to which hose can be attached. The value
of the pipe is manifest. Should a fire &C ur
in the top story of the building, the engine
will connect with a short section of hose to
the Siamese coupling and a single section of
hose with the nozzle can be attached to the
pipe right at the burning story, and the fire
men can work on the flames without having
to haul 200 or 800 feet of heavy hose filed with
a strong water pressure up narrow ladder,
and run the risk of its getting away from
them or throwing them to the ground. This
Improvement Will cost about 81 100.