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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-12
LOCAL PERSONAL.

E. j. Mckee of Valdosta is here.
j. S. Raine of Atlanta is in the city.
j. T. Grubbs of Guyton is in the city.
J. B. Floyd of Louisville is in the city.
w. F. Prioleau of Atlanta is in the city.
T. C. Williams, Jr., of Richmond is in
the city.
w. l. Turner of Hurtsboro, Ala, is in
the city.
H. B. Mellen of New Orleans came up to
the city.
A. G. Hit came down from Augusta
yesterday.
D. G. Fitch came down from Macon
yesterday.
c. H. Beckwith came in from Glenmore
yesterday.
Rev. j. B. R. Smith of Columbus, Ga, is
in the city.
W. C. Shearer of Wheaton came into the
city yesterday.
Col. William o. Donovan came in from
Wooley yesterday.
Il. H. Agar of Albany, Ga, came up to
Savannah yesterday.
John F. Evers of Atlanta came down to
Savannah yesterday.
j. J. Dale of Beaufort, s. g., came over
to the city yesterday.
Miss Mamie Simon and Miss Julia Nogel
have gone TO Atlanta.
Aug. F. Franklin and wife, of Brunswick,
are guests of the Marshall.
w. Z. Morgan and wife, of BrunswiC X,
came up to the city yesterday.
V. H. Kriegshaber left for Atlanta via
the Central railroad yesterday.
E. G. Wiener and J. w. Parker came
down from Rocky Ford yesterday.
II. w. Reid of Waycross came to Savau-
nah yesterday on railroad business.
Mrs. Levi Hege left for jacksonville last
night via the Savannah, Florida and West
ern railway.
S. M. Mathews and J. M. Thrasher of
Qaitman came up to Savannah yesterday
and spent the day.
Solomon Hirsch, living at No. 20S Hull
street, was serenaded by a party of his
friends last night on the occasion of his
2lst birthday. About thirty were in the
Sc renading party. Myers cornet band fur
nished the music. The party formed at the
Marshall house at O'Clock, and with the
band marched to the home of MIR. Hirsch.
The party was invited in and was hand
somely entertained Speeches were made
by A. Dryfus,F ~. Gazan and M. II. Raym.
Mr.. Hirsch responded in a neat speech.
thanking his friends for the kind remem-
brance. Mr.. Hirsch is city salesman for G..
Eckstein.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-12
CITY BREVITIES.

Monday, Oct. 81, is return day in the city
court for the November term.
The mayors docket up to / o'clock this
morning had the names of seven disorderly
persons entered on the calendar for to.dayis
court
The improvements contemplated in the
interior of Christ church, aud which it was
expected would be made this fall, have been
postponed until next summer The only
work to be done this year is the repairing
of the ceiling over the vestibGle, which is
now in progress.
Sparks from a burning chimney on a
frame building at Olive and Ann streets.
shortly before 10 o'clock yesterday morning
set fire to the root in half dozen places
but the tiremen extinguished the fire with
buckets of water. The damage will not
exceed S.. The property is owned by the
Ehlers estate, and the tenants are colored
people. The alarm was sent in by tele-
phone to headquarters, the engine reel and
truck responding. "I'hIs fire shows" sa ID
Chief Fireman Puder, 'the necessity of en-
forcing tho ordinance providing for the
sweeping of chimneys."
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-12
THE MENHADEN FISHERIES
How Fish Scrap is Obtained and What
It Is


Capt. Josiah Pierson, master of the
American schooner d. K. Rawley, now in
port with a cargo of scrap fish for one of
the fertilizer factories. gave a MORNING
NEWS reporter quite an interesting descrip-
ton Of how the scrap is obtained. The fish
scrap Is the residue of the menhaden after
the OF! has been extracted, AID a single
menhaden is said to be equal to q shoveful
of barnyard manure, although the fish is
only from eight to fourteen incnes in length.
The business Of catching menhaden for
| its Oil and guano is one of the extensive
| proportions on the American coast, as the
fish are found from the British provinces to
New Jersey. The fishing season begins
about May |, and closes about Nov. 1, and
Capt. Plerson says that some of the vessels
engaged in the fisheries are of greater ton
mage than the schooner Rawley, a coast
trader.
The menhaden are used for bait by the
hShermen around Boston, and many of
them are sold for food as low as a cent
apiece, and the fish when fresh are said to
be an excellent pan fish.
The menhaden belongs to the herring
family, and is called by some fishermen
hard heads" by others "nose bunkers,"
but the most general name for them among
the fishermen of the New England coast is
''bogies," hence the oil extracted from the
fish is called ''bogie" oil and "bunkern oil,
the last designation being abbreviated from
''nossbu ker."
The menhaden when taken to the factory
are steamed, until half cooked, in large
steam vats, after which the fish are put
under heavy press and the oil forced out
IN troughs, which convey it to the oil vats
The fish are then ammoniated to preserve
them, and they are the loaded into vessels.
the fork and the shovel icing the imple-
Inents used for handling the mass. From
twenty to thirty tons OF menhaden will turn
out ton of the oil. 1t is used for leather
dressing principally, in rope-making, and
much of it is used to adulterate Iinsesd oil
In the proportion of one gallon Of bogie oil
to fifteen of linseed oil, and the
adulterated article sold for the pure linseed
oil. 10 the retail dealer the margin of
profit is small in handling this article for
painters, but to the manufacturers of the
oil there's millions in it.
Capt. Pierson brought his cargo from
Orient, on Long Island sound, where the
| menhaden industry has LED to the establish
rnent or large factories for extracting the
| oil and manuf curing fertilizers from the
| meat, or shipping it to other fertilizer
factories in different parts of the country,
| and Capt. Plerson says that he thinks there
| were at least 100, 900 tons of bogie meat on
| the wnarves when he was loadi e.
When the menhaden season closes, the
works on Long Island grind rock for fer
| tilizers, using the South Carolina phosphate
| rock in conjunction with the phosphate
rock from Peru
Capt. Pierson is an old ship-master we'll
known in these waters, and he brought his
hrst cargo of fish scrap to this port in 1870.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-12
FORGOT HIS B IDgs NAME.
A Colo red Lovers Short Memory
Causes Him Heap of Trouble.

A Colo red Lovers Short Memory
Causes Him Heap of Trouble.
Joseph Givens, colored man about so
years old, who halls from Belmont, settle
ment two and half or three miles from
the city, appears to be in bad luck in his
efforts to get wife. Day before yeste day
Givens visited the ordinary's office, and
with a courtesy and smile of satisfaction
informed Clerk Keilbach that ne wanted to
get license, as he desired to have Flaw
fully wife.
Clerk Keilbach, who is interested in seeing
the marriage licenses for 1889 exceed those
OF 1888, took down the license book, but
before entering upon the usual cues ions
OF age. name and consanguinity, asked Joe
If he had the money to pay the fee.
Joe took out some small change, and,
after counting it. found he was short TWEEN
ty-five cents. Clerk Keilbach informed Joe
that he must have the price of the license.
Den lie got ter hoof ct all de way back
to Belmont. is boss?n asked Joe.
Clerk Keilbach replied he supposed he
| would, unless he could run across friend
who would advance the deficiency. Joe
| turned and left the Office.
Yesterday he called upon Clerk Keilbach
again, and this time there was a merry
| twinkle in the old mans eyes as he said.
holding out the amount Of the fee, Now
| lie got it boss. You publishe up de papers,
and heahs de silver to pays for him.
Clerk Keilbach dipped the pen in the ink
and began to I'LL out the license, and when
| he came to fill in the name of the prospect
i've bride he asked Joe the name of his in
| tended.
"Yah, yah. She's name is Hagah," said
| Joe.
"Hagar, whatz asked the clerk.
"Hagah. OATS de name OBJ de 'ooman.
| OATS her name, boss"
"But what's her other name.n
Snow, you's got me agin, boss. done cole
| you de names Hagah. | 'clar eff l amt done
fohgot de udder name, boss. l is, fob a
fac"
"Well, can't issue a marriage license
witaout being acquainted with the names
of the contracting parties" said Keilbach.
| "Den lie got ter hoof it all de way back
to Belmount fob de udder name, is | boss 81
"Yes; 1 can't issue a license with
| out it." replied the clerk.
| With that Joe turned on his heel and as
he passed out the door he muttered some
thing about 'fotchen dat name on a piece
OBJ papah mex time, de buckra man so
'tickla bout who black man marry" The
persistent lover is expected to put in his
appearance at the ordinary's office to-day
if the disappointed bride remains in ma
rying humor after the two blunders Joe
| made in getting license
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-12
THE UPPER PRESS WORKING.
The Burned Wa ehouses Likely to be
Rebuilt hight Away

The Burned Wa ehOuSeS Likely to be
Rebuilt hight Away.
The Savannah Cotton Press Association
got the Upper press at the foot of jefferson
street in good working order yesterday,
and it will DE run day and night until the
close of the cotton shipping season. Ware
house room has been secured, so that no
interruption will follow, except In the
event Of accident, the press hav-
ing a capacity, by working double time, for
turning out as much compressed cotton as
the two burned presses working only dur
ing the day.
No final action has yet been taken to re-
build the plants destroyed. Supt Wade of
the Cotton Press Association said last night
that the matter is under consideration, but
it requires time to formulate the plans and
details II replacing the property.
No adjustments of Insurance have yet
been made j. S. Raine, OF the Pheaix of
Hartford, and W. +. Prioleau, of the Gen.
trail City, of Selma, and the Home, of New
York, are In the city, and other adjusting
agents. representing companies which
suffered loss, are expected to arrive TO day.
Adjustments are likely to be effected, how
ever, before the early part of next week
The Mogul engine, after sixty-three and
half hours OF steady pumping, was re-
heved at 6 O'Clock last night. Chief Puder
placed three extra men at the ruins with
lines of hose attached to fire plugs, to be
used in case fire should make its appearance
in the cotton and bagging in the ruins,
which the chief says is likely to occur at
any time within month if the cotton and
bagging is rot removed and scattered for
the more eff ctive work of drowning the
fire out. The fremen are worn out, and
they require rest, and to be at their engine
houses in C Sc fire should break out else
where in the city. The chief thinks that
the debris should be cleared out soon, as the
cotton, no matter how much water may
be pumped on it in its present shape, VIII
conceal smoldering fires that are haole to
blaze up at any time.
The chief made an examination of the
walls of the burned buildings yesterday, aud
he said last night that they we're built be-
fore the war, and were not calculated to pre-
vent the spread Of the fire from one build
ing to the other by reason of the manner in
which they were constructed, the timbers
of one building reaching over to the divid-
ing walls of another, and thus facilitating
the flames i'll their passage from one COM
partment to another.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-12
THE BETHEL CONCERTS.
The Port Society's Rooms Crowde,
Last NIGHT.

Last Night.
A delightful concert was given at the
Seamen's Bethel last night. Two hundred
and fifty officers and seamen were enter
tanned. Over fifty friends of the Bethel
were present. Among those who took part
in the CO cert were Chaplain Gilmore, Mrs.
Finney, Master c. s. Connerat, Profs.
Stew I'd, Smith, Schultze, and Messrs.
Richards, Walker, Ellington, and Miss
Lesesne. After the concert refreshments
were served, and the occasion was very en-
joyable for the sailors and for their friends.
The present rooms, Chaplain Gilmore
said, are entirely too small for the accom-
mediation of the crowds that attend the
concerts. He said that he wants a room
with seating capacity of 500 1t is under
stood that steps will be taken at once to
enlarge the present quarters by removing
the partition between the chapel and the
reading room.
Chapl lin Gilmore said that the rooms are
crowded every night. Between seventy
five and one hundred seamen and officers
visit the bethel daily. The chaplain is re-
ceiving new games and books for the read
ing room every day, and he hopes to make
II very attractive for seamen
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-12
Notice to Contractors and Builders

lhaYe been appointed sole agent for the sale
OF the celebrated Chewacla Lime. This lime has
been sold In this market for the last twenty
years and is conceded to have given better sat-
lsraction than any other lime. am also agent
for Holman Rosendale Cement, English and
German Portland CementS Calcined Plaster,
quantity aud on short notice. kesp on hand the
largest stock in tbs south OF White Pine Door
Sash, Blinds, Builders Hardware, Paints. OILS
Glass. Lnbrtcatng Ola, Packings of al kinds, a
complete Assortment Of stea nboat and mill
supplies Get my prices before purchasing
elsewhere. Estimates cheerfully furnished
ANDREW HAxI-xW
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-12
Before the Mayor.

In the mayors court yesterday morning
Nellie Fisher was flled s. or twenty days
for using offensive Language to an officer
while she was under tine influence of liquor.
Tom Johnson (colOred was fined So or
five days for stand lrig on his stoop and
making the air hideous with profane and
boisterous speech, in srired by frequent po-
tations.
Edward Mehrtens, while under the in
fiuence of liquor, fred pistol in the bar
room of the Marshall house night before
last He was fined 81 or five days in Jail In
the mayors court yes berday morning for
the otfeuse
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-12
John Robinson Coming.

The John Robinson big show with its
four rings, three menageries and Roman
hippodrome, will exhibit in Savannah on
Oct %. Everybody knows John Robin
son. His show has always been the best,
and this years it is bigger and better than
ever. Over sixty monster cars are required
for its manipulation, and 100 men, women
and horses are employed. Nothing in the
line of equestriar,, acrobatic, gymnaStic
feats procurable but will be seen. The hip
podrome contains every variety of races,
and every animal known to natural history
is represented in the menagerie, and don't
forget that John Lowlow is the clown,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-12
CAUGHT ON A TRESTLE.
An Old Man Struck by a Charleston
Train.

al OAA NAhA OIL uCA ny u Ou8Tl6StOn
Train.
John Wilson, man over so years old,
was brought into the city last night on the
Charleston and Savannah train with
fractured ankle. He was knocked off the
track by the train. Wilson was on the
trestle at the Savannah river, and being
unable to get to the end of it before the
train overlook him, he swung off
at the side, and the engine
struck him and knocked him down.
He was removed from the depot to the Office
of DR.. Duncan, where his injuries were
dressed. He was atterward moved to the
Savannah hospital. He suffered a good
deal of pain from the wound. Wilson is
deaf, and did not hear the train. In crossing
the bridge he said that he looked back often
to see that no train was coming. DE saw
the train that knocked him off some time
before it reached him, and he ran as fast as
he could to get over the last trestle, but
seeing that the train was overtaking him.
he got off on one side aud held on to the
trestlinR until he was knocked OFF. He said
that he was on his way from Charleston to
Johnston, Ga, his home.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-12
AT THE THBATER.
Held By the Enemy" Before a Fine
Audience.

Held by the Enemy" was played before
good audience last night. The play is an
American drama founded upon incidents
OF the civil war. 1t is full of ex-
citing situations and is one Of
the plays which pleases all classes of people.
The author, in writing the piece, drew a
war picture than which few, and perhaps
none, stronger have ever been seen on the
stage. The company presenting it is good
one from first to last. Miss beagle, as
Rachel McCreery," acted the part intelli-
geItly and with an appreciation of its re-
quirements. Miss Hall was a charming
Susan" D. r. Young, as ''Col. PRESCOTT
played the part admirably w. H. Stuart,
as Surgeon Fielding, acted well, and J.
j. Farrell made an excellent special cor
respondent The company is made up
throughout OF artists. The play will be
repeated at matinee to-day aud again to-
night.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-12
RIVER AND HARBoa NOTES.

Strachan & Co. cleared yesterday the
British s eamship Florence for Liverpool
with 6,027 bales Of upland cotton, weighing
2, $685. pounds, valued at $2SS, 767, and
l21 bales of sea island cotton weighing
S,2S2 pounds, valued at $4,000. Total
valuation of cargo 1902, 767.
The Norwegian bark Ogir was cleared
yesterday by A. r. Salas a. Co. for London
with 2,6J5 barrels of spirits turpentine
measuring 1881 gallons, valued al
$50, 1886 rs; and SIG barrels of rosin, weigh
ing 245 900 pounds. valued at S2,O75. Total
valuation of cargo $6O,91l 76. Cargo by
MesSrs. Paterson, Downing & Co.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-12
KENT LOOMAN DEAD.
The Ogeechee River Shooting Ends
Fatally for Dan Browns Victim.

The Ogeechee River Shooting Ends
Fatally for Dan Browns Victim.
Kent Locman, the colored boy who was
shot Wednesday night of last week by Dan
Brown on McCloud Kings place, on the
Ogeechee, died at No. 240 Gwinnett street
yesterday afternoon, and an inquest will be
held some time to-day, as early as the wit
nesses can be got to town from the Ogee-
chez. DR.. Sheftall will make post-mortem
examination.
The story of the shooting as told by Kent
Looman, and the substance of which the
MORNING NEWS printed at the time of the
atfray, shows a recklessness on the part of
the boy, Dan Brown, if not a malicious in
tent. The Looman boy was staying with
the Brown family during the rice harvesi
and after supper on the night of the shoot
ing, Brown went to the neighborhood store
and purchasing some cartridges, loaded his
revolver, and on his return home fired one
load outside OF the house. On entering he
pol ted the weapon at viii Looman, a
brother of Kent, who was lying on the Fl DOR,
aud who told him not to point the pistol
toward him or he would hurt him.
Dan then turned the pistol on Kent, and
Kent, VINO was sitting by the fire, begged
him not to point the weapon at him, but no
heed was paid to the appeal. Dan fired the
weapon at short range, the ball from %
caliber pistol entering Kent's left breast,
and, passing almost entirely through the
body, fractured a rib in its passage. The
ball was taken out from the back, near the
spine. having, it is believed, passed through
one of the boys kidneys
The deceased was Ia years of age, and
Brown, who did the shooting, was two years
his senior. Brown says that the shooting
was accidental. He was arrested the day
| following the shooting, and was committed
to Jail by Justice McCloud King, on whose
| place the shooting was done, the Brown
family being tenants of Mr.. King.
The mother of Dan Brown tried to ge
her son to put the weapon away before tn,
shooting occurred, but he paid no attention
| to her.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-12
The Man About Town.

San eyes an eye, and whether black or blue,
Is no great matter, SO its in request
Tis nonsense to dispute about hue;
The kindest, may be taken as the best"
Don Juan.
''The Man About Town has often wondered why
So many people wear spectacles. In his rambles
He meets them by the score; wee boys in knick-
erbockers,
School boys young men, girls and young ladies,
all
Seem to be usurping the once considered, sole
prerogative
OF our elders. 1 was in Sternberg & Bros lew
elry palace
A day or two ago, and the above subject was
recalled by the
Immense display there, of spectacles and eve
glasses in
Gold, silver, steel and tortoise frames They
told me that
They are making specially of these goods and
keep the
Finest lenses and frames, at prices far below
those charged
By exclusive opticians, giving equal satisfaction
'Fashion, that trim goddess. who is popularity
Regarded as being most at home in "womans
Proud domain, is at it again. This time she
DEGREES PRINCESS and MARQuISE finger rings as
The latest fad" for the aides. noticed them in
Greatest variety at Sternberg & Bros, daintily
set IN diamonds, rubleS, emeralds and
SapphlreS, glittering, gstening tempters, quite
Rich looking and at very reasonable prices
The Sternbergs say they are all the rage now.
You may not be able to find out in a
Fashionable jewelry store lCho is going
To get married, but you can get an accurate
Idea of the prospects of the matrimonial market
From the number of people one sees buying
Wedding presents for those in whose future
Nuptlal cares they are interested. Just
NOW Sternberg q Bros. is daily crowded with
such purchasers, and having the largest
And finest display of wedding presents in
The city, the rush and hustle In their
Handsome new quarters is not surprising.
TIE MAN ABOUT Town,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-12
THE BIGGEST WEEK YET.
THIS WEEKS COTTON RECEIPTS
so FAR, 6oI31 BALES.

The Receipts at All OF the Ports
Heavy and No Indications of Cotton
Being Held Back Galveston's Re-
ceipts 5000 Bales Less Than Sa-
vanuah's-Savannah' Exports over
$4,000 Bales - No Danger to the
Crop Now Except by Frost.
The receipts of cotton at thisport for the
week ending at l o'clock yesterday after
noon were 60. 13l bales, the biggest week of
the season. This is in excess of all pre-
dictions made last week.
There does not appear to be any indica-
ton that cotton is being held back, as the
receipts during the week were heavy at
New Orleans and Galveston, the two other
principal cotton ports of the United States.
The receipts at Galveston for the week i,di-
cate that the Texas crop is moving lively,
as the receipts are within 1875 bales of
Savannah's receipts.
The total exports Of cotton for the week
from Savannah were 43, 39S bales. with a
margin less than 5000 bales difference be-
tween the foreign and coastwise shipments,
%, 165 bales going to Great Britain and
20, 233 to United States ports, principally
to New York.
The bulk of the crop is pretty well har-
vested, and, if frosts do not affect the top
cotton, it will be gathered by the middle Of
next month. No reports of damage from
the cold weather and light frosts of the
present week have been received.
The event of greatest interest in cot
ton circles here during the week was the
burning of two of the congresses of the Sa-
vannah Cotton Press Association, but the
associations reserve press has been started
and will run day and night, so that while
the delay caused some embarrassment, it
is only temporary. 1t is expected that the
Central railroad presses will be in operation
in few days, SO that all the cotton coming
here will be DrnmntlY handled.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-12
Looking Up More Paving.

Capt. D. Torrey of the Warren Scharf
Asphalt Paving Company is in the city for
the purpose of inspecting the pavements
put down by his company. and to see if
there is any further WORT; to be done. 1t is
very probable that Capt. Torrey will be
invited to give an estims.te for paving Bull
street, as there is quite number of citizens
who are anxious TO have that street paved,
at least as far as the new hotel.