The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-18

the Ocean Steamship wharves are above
high water mark, and that the tidal wave
| of 1881 did not come over them. He says IL
is incorrect to say that the company noti-
fed the merchants to remove their goods
from the wharves on account OF the HOOD
for they consider the wharyes are high
enough to stand a much greater food, If not
backed up.
The wbarves of the Baltimore steamship
are lower than the Central wharves, there
being but ~ feet from the top OF the
wharves to the water. Merchants were
getting their freight ont yesterday on &C
count of the low lands filling up and the
fear of the wind backing the water over the
docks, and all depends on the wind as TO
whether any danger is to be apprehended to
accumulated freights on the river front in
sheds and in Easements.
ON THE oGEECHEE.
The heaviest part of the freshet in the
Ogeechee must have come upon the rice
fields Yesterday afternoon, but no additional
information was obtainable last night. At
Eden yesterday morning the water had
backed up in the village. DIR. j. X. Dean,
one of the most observing OF the older ciui-
zens, said that it is a very rare occurrence,
and had never happened but once in his
recollection. The water came in above
Sollee's place and ran down the out OF the
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the lower artesian we'll The Ogeechee is
three miles wide opposite MARROW. 1t crosses
the country and has backed up within
one fourth of mile of Hon. III. G. Wrights
residence. At Eden the water came up to
the ties on the railroad, but was reoeding
last night.
In the freshet of 1910 the waters of the
Savannah and OSeechee met above Bloom
iugdale, about the sixteen mile-post, and
81 t. 10 hs han
the fTeshet of 1910, but there is bettor drain
age, and the damage will not be SO great. nor
have the waters met as they did in the flood
forty-eight years ago.
BRIDGES IN DANGER.
Nothing has been learned of the fate of
the Elkin's landing bridge, which is unap
proachn lie and surrounded by miles Of
water.
1t is estimated that the loss to the rice
planters on the Ogaechee will be very
heavy, approximating $3.50 600, Us not one
fourth of the rice will be harvested, and
much of that, in the hurried manner which
characterized the enforced harvest in the
Savannah valley, will be inferior in quality.
Advices from the Altamaba are even
more discouraging The heaviest freshets
every known in the rice-growing valleys,
and spring tides meeting the floods as they
come upon the rice fields is the history of
oil
Reports from Augusta show heavy rains
and another rise in the river. The signal
Office reports a rise of feet inches for the
twenty-four hours ending at 3 o'clock p. m.
Yesterday. All the stations of the Sava1-
nab district reported rain yesterday, but
yesterday afternoon it cleared up here, and
last night was clear.
THE SITUATION IN THE COUNTRY.
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Capt j. B. Withers, of W. w. Chisholm
81 Co. who has just returned from a two
weeks business trip to Waycross, Dupont,
Quitman, Valdosta, Bainbridge and Thomas
Vile. The lowlands are flooded, and farm
ers arc forced to stand with their hands in
their pockets until the water subsidies. A
great deal OF cotton has fallen out on the
ground, and will be rotten by the time the
water goes down. Capt. Withers said that
he noticed on the large cotton
plantations, where the water has
been standing ever since the
freshet began, cotton sprouting in the bolls.
The farmers are blue over the situation.
Corn has been harvested, and there is, how
ever, but little damage to fodder. Peas,
sugar-cane and potatoes are not suffering
from the rains, and there promises to be a
large crop. Those farmers who have planted
but a small acreage of vegetables are only
in more deploraDle condition.
The turpentine operators are demoralized,
and there has been a falling off in the
September receipts compared with last year
of 5, coo barrels. They have been unable to
gather anything at all from the boxes"
since the rain began, and the stills, most of
them, are closing down until after the
freshe1.